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fi'ffp L.? Pd>. C?t F?MqS% |,>jw V' '?? / .>'. ' ?:.;-C/'v*.^; ?. !~=^?:?-- ?? '...?? "V FRANK P- BEARD, Publisher. BE JXJQT AND FEAR NOT. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. a,- i. ? ., ,, A ,. : i VOL. XI. ? CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S, ?., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1883. NO. 2. Till) PEOPLE'S PAPKll. . ' " Tfyg*"" . ' ruaHBIULP AT fiMIPBH. I. C. FRANK P. BEARD. Publisher To CormipoKdento. AUcouitnuiUcatlon# for tlila pnixsr should l>o ?? eoraptiiled by tUo imiue of tlio nutbor, Hot nccw nrlljr for publication, but m nn ovlJetioo of good faithon tUo vi?Tt of th? writer. Wrltooulyoa on? ?idoof tho pftJXT. Ilo i?.?rtkul.n ly carcful In fftvlng amnm aud 4?t*? t?? U?vo th* letters pUlu awl dla ? v'1. ?.*/? The Gazette Job Printing Office ? ? *v if ?? t I? bkttku prepared than any other In ton, to execute lu th?i?eet*Ur*cttv* (tjr lea every deeerttr Hon of Job t'rfntlttjr. ?ucli m VnniiilileU, 1)1 U llMds Lvtttr *nd Note lleaulv I.?w RrlcfK, Posxcrs, Dodgers, Circular*, IU11U l'.KU. WvMiaf. VltftlnKwd AddnMsCfcrds, 1<u?1uom Curd* Label* 4k. Work ioue In lirouce, Hed, Blue ?na UUcv. Tlie public iuum icruoujber that tho beat Is ?lw?r> tUo chea|>ofct. Wcdo work (xt Cbarleston Price#, ?ud gunrnntc# entire satisfaction to our p*trou?. We keep constantly ou haud the Urgent stock o Papers and Curds lu towu. AUTUMN. The aster glow* the falling leaves beneath, Tbo golden-rod guama by tho hodgcrow v .brown, As though the (lying summer in the frott* king's toetli Hod hurled her gauntlet down. Bo when the shades of solemn silence sink Upon us, and wo reach life's latest bivath, The soul exultant bids, e'en on the gmve's black brink, '?*?? ? Do fiance unto death I 1 . ? ? I .1 We perish not. Tho mounting spirit towers In conscious Immortality sublime; And gains, beyond death's feeble, fleeting winter hours, Eternal summer time. UNOI.E ABEL. ? ?j.-ft-i ? It is proper, I boliovo, to symbolize a town by a young woman; but if Tarry town had over clio?en a presiding gen av''t must have taken theshapo of Abel Dowrcx. lie was Tarrytown lt seir. All the bigotry, the intolerable ?njl the kindly feeling of that mountain village, lived and moved in the lean figure of the old bachelor. The Towroxes were in Tarrytown at the beginning; and the beginning of Tarry town ran dimly ^back, we all vaguely felt, behind pre historic ages. ??Ve*matV>. if we had nover heard of him, would hav'o been held as a modo.n inter op:-r bos'do our old fain ifies. It was President Madison, think, who gave the po toUce to one of the Dowrexcs, and a member of the family had held the po?t ever sin- e. Uncle Abnl had brfen bur' postmaster .^orforty years. The one street of the vlilago ran, as everybody knows, down onesteep hill and up "another. The old Dowrex house, bedded in its orchard wad garden, stood in the bottom of the cup, in the very center of evorv S SIttIn9 . In his porch under the big sycaniore, ' tilted back in his hirkory chair, Abel could look ub either slope into tho front yard of every house in town. Whenever Squire Plunkett's wife, in the big housfe on the top of the hill,had chicken pio fqr dinner, she would hanga*redbandan,a handkerchief on the pump handle, which was the sign for Abel to oomo up. Everybody knew how fond he was of ohioken pie,' and everybody s^nt for him when that goo l Pennsylvania dish was on the table. TarrytoWn was a hospitable t lace.' It was the universal habit t "> lay one more cover than was' n*fetted* for every meal, "in case somobody should drop inand Ve^r pn?r< in on ea h otfier ince ?antly. Nobody was >o likely to roifce as the grave, baggy, nut-colored clothes, and his brown wlq pet, liko a thatch, atop of the wizened fa e, and nobody was more welcome. Hut when anybody was . in trouble, or "out of sorts^. and wanted h arten'ng, he was sure^to find his way down to the Dow rex house near to sunper-tlme. Cross ing the por *h you rome to Undo Abel in his warm, snug little office, seated with some old orony ovor the. Are* .His father had sat in that spl'fcba k chair, with it* > sheepskin cushion. Abel took it tho day the old squire ;Ul:d, r.aod ' ..then and there be the^ head of the family. A* back was the cherry wood case, with its twenty pigeon holes, in which, time out,of mind, a Dowrex had kept the letters of Tarty. -Xyfr'U/ ?;opMy a> the dock strdck six the tea-bell tinkled inside "Potty : Abel was used to say, "the ti -a bell has rung on the stroke of six.] 1 have brought sister Parah into toter thou?h 8,|e ia still inoHned to be giddy. These giris, you .. ?^?unt S'aral) was two years younger than AW. As the tea-bell rang ^ and ?tood on the threahul 1 With, "Conio brother," drop ping a "welcome courtesy to the inevi Ubfe "dropper-in." T&ere werenot many hints of giddiness in the frail ?? btoxtotm, white fewtoSfi rird?< :5SSbwed ?Ur grAttdmother8 *e The keeping-room behind the office was Aunt Sarah's ddtorfln, ' Tljere 2!8uJ nP 1)11488 ,ender Rnd scuttle (every Tump of coal in it *wbed and wiped before it was !ad mltted to that spotless retrskt). there were her geraniums In tho window, and her rocking-ohalr hnd Bible, and Jay's Devotions; and tl ere was the oozv table spread, and 4 sup such as no other pot ever btftod, and Hannah bringing in her famous griddle cakes from the kitchen. HlffltrthyrM ovgr?y ?HI tmS tdbu mistress, but she had been known as Dowrex's "bound giil" for ha* ? century. The dish of gossip waiting was as fine in quality ? the t?? Never had a black mark Wnleffcori the character of' any human beinf by to think of. They had never twenty ml'eu from hometthey nothing for books. The United ? Eng'and, Asia. >were In faet to only so many splatches of color the maps. The wor d was Twr* Indeed, heaven itsdf.to whlcl mother and so many nanUgy Plunkctte, Falrlamb* and Da< and having no knowledge of books or any science Or oraft, all of his enfargy an t largo tendernesi and sympathy went during h s whole life, t?/ his neighbors. Tha mero fact that all of thefr injer ot.wo with the, outside world ea no through him gave him a judge's love letters in that. One every Monday, though postage was ten cents then, ills* Katherlne Di*, down In lJently, was the lady, mother Of Henry Uassett, I remember the first letter Iro wilt- t> Ids oousln 6u*y, 1 a* ho ma rhuh Tut I lie told raa all about it when nobody In Tarrytown suspeoioned a thing. ' Ab^l,' bo says, giving mo the letter privately, 4 wish me good luckt' Well, he hart it. Tut! the Tetters I've stamped and put in the bag and threw an old shoe after, so to speak! Folks mostly tell me what they're writing about when it is of importance." > That was quite true. Oddly enough all of the boys and girls in love affairs made a confident of the ugly, lewigged baohelor, and when there was sickness or trouble in any house, the first mes senger sent for was Undo Abel. ! M D'ye see that box ? Number nine? There was a queer lett?r in that onco. The widow Falrlamb's Zack ran off to eea, left a note sayln' ho ha I g >ne to embark on the brig Victory, Haines, master. She was a sickly little body, and Zack was all she had, so nobody had the heart to tell hor It was a good riddance. But we thought it. lie was a lazy dog, Zack. Sho got a map and sho wrote to every seaport where American ships would put in, directed to 'Unite.l States Brig Victory, Haines, master,' begving him to come home. I encouraged her, though I knowed it was of no us^. But it kept hor alive, you see. I 'gave her that box, number nine, and I says, 'As suro as a letter comes I'll put it there,' says I. Sho como every mail day, and would look away* again without a word. So Sister Sarah and tho neigh bors they heard of it and they fell into the habit of putting a trifle in, a pound of ten, or a bunch of sage or balm or a pie, or the like. So it went on for Ave years, and that poor soul ha l sent out hundreds of letters. I reckon most of .her earn ings went in postage. When one dny Sam drove up in the buggy with tho mall, who should got out of it but Zack, bi? and fat, and a goatee on his chin. He hndn't been to sea at. all, but had gone down to Alleghany county and set to work rafting to Orleans and bad a streak of luck.. ' I've as pretty a farm and house at McKeerport as you'd wish to see,'he said, 'and I've oome home for mother !' So I to'dhim about the box. ' There she comes,' I said, and nothing would suit him but he must go insido and hide. Zack al ways was a cra*.y> joking follow. And when she looked in tho box there was | his red face staring out at hor. That," Abel would fay, taking off his wig to rub his shining pate, " was as pleasant a day as I ever enjoyoii After they were gono Foa Hl'platook thebox." " One of the Hippies went astray I think V" somebody ventured Hwtrev?rybo<ly In Tarrytown know, thatk>when Joo- Illpply to^Jc to dripk; ij^anfl was tinned 'oufr'pf doa/S^ by a titfufed foo/bf ^ool? hjji father, 4ld Abfel followed the jboy and found iitift' In the swamp,1 carried him homo and nursel him back to life. More than that, he and Sarah kopt Joe for four months in tin ir house, main taining so strict a watch over him day and night that ho could not get a drop of liquor. Everybody knew, too, the sacrifice which It must have boon to the orderly^ dainty old people to bring this wjor, drunkard; wttU his filthy habits to tnr ir heartfi. Bbt the result was that Joe was cured anl actually became the "fino pithy man" in whom Abel exulted. When tho war broke out half a dozen young Fairlamb) and Bassetts wont down to Philadelphia to join tho Iffdrtfcefcn army: I am afraid that was Unolo Abel's only dear idea of tho matter. lie eared nothing for slavory, or Stato rights, or politics, or anything else so far outside of TarrytQwn. H&utlRtYohly meant w him Charlie Plunkett, who thirty years ago had gone to Texas, and the squire's cousin Jane, who had taught and mat rled in Georgia. That the boys should tafajftp ? In the second winter the women of Tarrytown JTiado up^sqme boxoa of comforts for r tho boys," blankets, mittens; jellies Irad every kind of cake' When they were all ready a town meeting was held, and it wap decided J&tft sdmebbdy mult go with theboxes to/Qeirgetpwji, vyhere they were in Btfmp. ^With one accord Unole Abel was named as tho proper messenger " It would seem like Tartytown itself coming, to those poor fellows," the widow Bassett said, sobbing. So Abel went, and the town met to gether once a week to read his letters, Whili tisuitilly coverod twenty pages of letterpress and were full or details oustodlnn*, and they never tired of reading them to all who came, or talk ing them over line by lina r' tfThe regiment was ordered to Vir ginia, but Abel remained in Washing ton. Month after month passed, and yet he did not come home. .Every week brought a letter, cheerful, evfen Sinning to tease Aunt Sarah about 16 frisky propensities which Unole Abel had developed at this late day, Ister of the Presbyterian Ohurch at Tarrytown." It was from the surgeon of a hospital in Washing ton, and stated that three months before an old, man by the name of threatened to end fatally. He endured agonies of pain, and the surgeon had dlsoovered Ujat he Intended to remain 'there and die in order to spare his Sister tho sight of his sutterthg. uThfcrfc is only one ehanoe fn a huntlrwl of ro oovery, and that depends on earefi.l fort ^*TA Wneoefcary' the hospital being only a temporary one intended for wounded soldiers In transitu. Dow rex refused to give me his sister's ad dress, and I am forced to direct as 1 have done." Never had such a thunderbolt de scended oh TatrrytOwn.' There was not a man In the town who would not gladly hsve set oft for Washington tnat vefy night; but a committee of five, headed bjr Squire Plunkett, Anally took the management of the affair on themselves, and a tually startei on this tremendous expedition by sun down. After they had gono a strange watting hush fell on tho village, wo understood for the Qrst time what a large fthnre old Abel had held in our lives. Tho o arsont boy In thi hamlet i teemed to appreolatethe sory of saMi* I flee brought in the letter, and to know v what illness And death among (strangers in the bare wards of an 1 army hospital would be to the old man whose life lay so deep rooted among his home and old neighbors. In the five days that passed before he came, every one of these old neighbors was busy In preparation for him. Every comfort which housekeepers In Tarrytawn had accumulated for gener ations was carried down to the Dow rex bouse, and without Aunt Sarah's knowledge a sum was raised suttioient to bring the most Bki Iful surgeon in Philadelphia up to meet him on his ar rival. Aunt Sarah, as the tension on her grew extreme, only became more quiet She moved about, gently ar ranging his ohalv, and the pips beside it for the thousandth time, saying: 44 Only let him get into his own chair and it will bo all right! It's homo Abel wants." When they carried him in and {riaced him on the old sheep-skin cusli on he looked at Sarah, then at the pigeon-holes, and then at the crowd of kind faces around hi.11, and nodded, closing his eye 1 with a smllo of un speakable content. " It's the first look of real life ho has given," said \ Squlro Plunkett ; " i shouldn't wonder if we kept him after all." We did keep him. Whether it was the skill of the great surgeon, or the care of the old neighbors, or the mere air of the home that cured him, I do not know. But at the end ol six. months he was going up and down the shady streets as bale and hearty as ever. But all this was twenty years ago. Abel and Aunt Sarah long ajo have "gone on'* to join their old friends, who live beyond tho silence. Since then 1 have seen the workings of Christianity in large communities and among people of culture and pow erful intellects. But whenever on Sunday i hear that canticle which tells of the "holy and humble men of heart who praise the Lord, and magnify Him forever," I go back to Ignorant old Abel Dowrex, and the ^revocable tie" with which he bound together the peo ple of his native village.?liebeooa Harding Dati8. A Story of Johns Hopkins. A writer in the Baltimoro American contradicts the oft-quoted story that the late Johns Hopkins (the Baltimore millionaire who founded the great uni versity in that c'.ty) Ant entered that city a friendless and penniless boy, and; quotes the following story of Mr. Hop kins' life given by, that philanthropist himself a' short time before his death: "Whjpn I svas a boy," said Mr.'Hop kins, "my uncle, Gerard T. Hopkins, often came to South' River to visit my Earents, and noticing I was an active oy on the farm asked my mother to let me come to Bnltimore to live with him, and said that he would bring me up a merchant. At seventeen I came, stayed in my uncle's store, who was a wholesale grocer and commission mer chant, and lived in hi* family. He was an eminent mnlster in the Society of Friends, arid whe?x I was but nine teen he was appointed to go Out to Ohio to the ilrst yeiirly meeting, to be hel l at Mount Mea'ant. My aunt accompanied him, with thre? others. They all traveled on horse, back, a great part of the way through a wilderness, with no other roads but Indian paths. But they returned, after an absen< e of several months in safety. Previo is to leaving, my uncle arranged his business affairs, and call ing roe to him said: " As thee ha* been faithful to my interests since thee has been with me, I am going to leave everything in thy hands. Hero are checks which I have sighed my name to; there are upward or five hundred of them. Thee will deposit the ihoney as it Is received, and thee will till up the cheoks which I leave thee. Buy the goods and do th& btat thee can.* I felt my responsibility to be very great. But on hi* return, on> looking over his affairs he Was surprised to tYud l had done much better than he had expeoted. I had increased his bUBinesfl cohfrlder bly, and it is w.th pride and pleasure I look ba k to that time and to the gieat confidence Uncle Gerard reppsed in me. I lived with my uncle until I was twenty-four years of age, and one day he took me aside and asked me if I would like to go in business for myself. I answered : " Yes; but. uncle, I ttave no capital. I have only #800, which 1 havd saved'up." He said: " That will make no differenoe: I will indorse Cor thoo, and this will SWe thee good credit, and in a short mo thee will make capital *, thee has been faithful in my interests, and I will start thee in business." So I took a warehouse near his, and, with in dorsements and assistance, the first year* sold 1200,0 >0 Wtyth of goods, and soon irtado the'capital which my uncle sa'd I would make. 1 su ^eetlo<l him in business* and realized largely, and often think of my early days, and like to talk of them sfrd IJ nele Gerard's kiftdness to me." An Opinion. There were eight or ten of them seatftd on the grocery steps as the stranger came up, and one of them led off with: "Yes, gentlemen, th!s village needs capital, and needs it bad." " That's so," added a second. " What we wanjt here is money." "Yflfc we wfcni capital to develop things," sigho.l A third. And so it went down the line until every one of the lot had expressed his opinion that capital'was wanted. The last man looked tip at the stranger, and added: "Don't it seem that way to you?" "It does, sir," wasthepiompt reply. " What would ba your opinion of the way capital ought to bo invests! hereV" "Well, my nlan would bn to lay out the first $5,000 in bar-soap, crash towels, barber's shears and kicking mao'ilno*," wad the twm reply, as he prepared for a run of hSlf a mile to the depot.- - Wall 8 r Jt The lat? John A, ftoebllng, the first englu or ofthe Brooklyn hrhlg*. haVing bean n na'lve of Mtilhansen, tn (Jer many, lhe> authorl.ia ! avo mtmtkl a Rtroc-t in his honor, nn I lt:i. o placet a hnUM fa' let ? ?* ring lih likomsA on tlw hi.?u.? 1 > wliidt ..o wt\i Ijom. . THE SIOUX SUN DANCE. f'Mftly (fee U|t Occrfrreare?HarrlUe Tor *ar?a lufllcloU Upon Taeuaoirea by the Devotee*. An army officer, a wltnoss to the great sun dance of the &oux at Rose bud agency, in Dakota, sends an affect ing description of tha tortures to the Chicago Times. The oamp this year near the agency, he siys, contained 10,000 Indians, and ma:le a circle five miles in circumference?a beautiful sight. In front of the tent, w here the sun-dancers were awaiting their or<'eal, lay a whitened buffaloskull on a bunch of wild sage. Inside the tepae was the sacred medicino pipe on some mysterious sticks. A scouting party was sent out to discover a suitable pole tor tl.e center of the dancing circle, aD " the next day the pole, a tall elm tree, was cut by an Indian maiden consecrated to this oftlce, Her Pipe, niece of Standing Bear. 8he is said to have cut thirteen poles, and will never marry. When it had been trimmed and placed in posi tion, there came the "charge on the pole," a thousand warriors on a thou sand horses, down from the hill, around the camp, reokless of limb, pell-mell, themselves and their hor es decked with green branohes, "Birnam wood came to Dunsinane." What rush of color, what life, what vigorous movement 1 These were the men who circled round Custer when he stood alone. Many are in saddles that be longed to that command. With the boughs they bring the pavilion is built around the pole, and by the following Sunday evening tho tali grass in the arena has been tramped smooth with much ceremony an I all is ready. Just as the full moon peeped over the eastern range of hills the dangers to the sun, llfteen in a 1, entered to fulfill their vbw. On their heads were wreaths of sweet grass or horns, over their chests depended representations | of the sun, and from their wrists hung totems. The singers commenced to howl and beat their drum. The dancers put to their lips th ? gooseborte whjstlfcs*trimmed; with the rare testlier of the " hiedi-iae* bird/' fond began to hop up and down. As long as they danced they were to whistle?and they j were to dan.'e until the next sundown. Some women, to supplement tho noisy music of the drum, commenced to " Hl-yl " in a shrill k y and beat a hide spread on the ground. There was not a light in tho inclosure. The pole, fluttering with banners, stood out In the moonlight. Near to its top was bound a fasca3 of willow twigs, which gave it resemblance to a cr >ss. The ffgure of a bulla o, cut from hide, j represented the sun, and above it dan- j gled the figure of an Indian, black on one side, white on tho other?tho bal j and the good spirit. All night the dancing never flagged^ While the moon was up their faces were turned j and their arms outstretched to it, and when Cheezes, the sun, came " like a warrior, robed and painted from his shining lodge of silver," they turned to it and pravtd earnestly. They faced It all day; If one shows signs of breaking down he is taken to tho shade for a moment an I given a pull at a pipe or a bit of wild sage to encourage saliva. The Indians look on indifferently and cat hard egg and boiled dog, which the squaws havo brought in dirty black kettles; outside the little Indian boys are playing tricks on eardi other. Aoout noon the medicine man com menced to paint the three dancers who were to be tied to the pole. Folio w-a Woman, the first to sniffer, was thrown on the ground, and the medicine man skiiLully made two incisions with a sharp knife over each breast, in tho vicinity of the peotoral muscles. Tho flesh was lifted, and a hardwood skewer thrust under and fastened by sinews to the rope which hung from the pole. Already weakened l>y the fifteen hours of exertion, of thirst, of hunger, he was to strain at the rope until he broke loose by tearing out his own flesh. He was magn llcently brave, and it did not take long. In five minutes he was d noing with the others its if nothing had happened, and the parasol then allowed him would have made him ridiculous had not the red blood been seen coursing down his body. Li\es-ln-the-Alr whs tho next. II& tore out one stick in ten mihutes, and Was then released from tearing outthe other by the gift of three ponies. Poor Bog had a dog's luck. The outs seemed to have been deeper On him. He Struggled and pulled, then gave tho rope slack and dahcfed about the polo until, suddenly jerking back, the flesh would stand out two or three lnohei from the breast. Tho s juaws, who came near to throw olothi s aud call* toes at his feet or on the rope as gifts to tho poor, turned away crying. Twenty minutes of this agony with out an cutory* A friend came up, and catohing the man around the waist, gave a tremendous pull. Even this did not break the stout integu ment, and it was not until half an hour had pavsed that the brave fellow fell back on the earth, pant ng and weak, two gteat wound* torn In his breast. One more exhibition remained. Yel low was cut in the shoulder, and a ?kewer inserted, from which a rope was passed around the head of ahorse. Tho animal was hit, and jumped, and thus the Instrument of torture was torn out. Sov'ernl men who did not tfanco had b;ts of flash cut from their arms; also some squaws, to make the amount nocefsnry from their husbands less, or to satisfy vows of their own. The dancer* by this time were a shook ing sight, tottering about,' not able to stand erect* one qr two supported by friends, their whistles still clinging to their dry Hps, their movements slow, mechanical, spasmodic. Not one had failed in the ordeal, however, which ceased at sundown. Not one had cried out for relief or made a sign of dis tress. If he had he wotkld nave lost hla place among the warriors forever, been ranked with the women and by them dosplsed. A catalogue published by the Ger man Pomologtcal society enumerates 839 kinds of apples, 912 kinds of prars, 286 kinds of cherries, 289 . kinds of plums, 108 kinds of peaohea and thirty five kinds of apricots, , The consumption of tobaoce la the United States is said to be about ten times what It la In Great Britain. The Fro* Industry. The frog industry in this section is becoming one of no little iinportan e, and a small boy is a bloated bond* holder, for the time being, for his goods And a ready sale at the hotels and among private citizens, says the Laramie (Nev.) Boomerang. One who knows says the Lara i>ie plains ftog is the finest in the world. The flavor is preferable to that of tlio French product, and is far superior to those captured at Lake Pontchartrain. The clearness of the water in which they live in this section, - its freedom from the many animal poisons and tho ^mperaturo is said to produce the re sults as cltod above. Tho method of ,Preparing the frog for market is the only cruel feature connected with the industry, and should some member of the humane society devote as much time to cruelty to frogs as to prying mto a family muddle when a recalci trant boy is being punished, there I might bo some method devised reliev- j ing it of that one objectionable feature. Very few know how to pro pare a frog for market.- A writer in the Denver News thus describes the J "modus operandi." He says : "Tho frogger takes the animal's hind legs in his left hand, and a pair of formidable looking shears in the right; and before the animal knows what fate is in store for him his hind quarters aro am putated with a speed and ease that would do credit to an army surgeon." If tho frog was killed at this juncture no one could possibly object. But he is not. lie is allowed to get along the best he can on his fore legs, often hopping around for hours before yield ing up tho ghost Tho htnd quarters are then stripped of their skin, put in cold, clo ir water, and are ready for the table?either for breakfast, dinner, supper or luncheon. i Frogs are the best for the table in the fill1. They are then fat and sleek, and there is a peculiar and desirable flavor about them at that season not possessed at any other. In the spring they aro poor and not so palatable, but are, nevertheless, eaten. At this sea son they are quite desirable, and form a very clever side dish at any meal.-, j The lloeky mountain frog is not a remarkable loaper?ho is too fat and the altitude is against him. llut he makes a remarkably savory dish, and, as siiid before, ii becoming more popular than over in the West. Undo Nam's Mold and Silver. Uncle bam has a money-hcuso in Wa'.l street, New York, called the sub tiensury, which old King C rues us would have liked to visit. It contains at prt sent, in gold and silver coin, about one hundred and five millions of dol lars, all neatly packed in bags, or Stowed in bins, in vaults which aro supposed to be burglar-proof. In fact, they aro burglar-proof; else aomo gentlemen of the profession would have attempted tliem during tho last forty years. Thry aro deep down in the bowels of the earth, undor a build ing the most massive and solid in all America. The building was built as if lor eternity, covering the whole basement w.th arches as strong as a stone quarry. Down in that marvel ous und.rs'.ructure Uncle Sam keeps the bulk of his gold. Doors beyond doors of sol d steel proteot it, these se cured by locks that are wound up every night like so many elooks, which no key < f man enn open tiil they run down. The silver vault is a spacious under ground ha'l, forty-seven feet long, twenty eight feet wide and twelve feet high, divided into bins of various sizes. Here are nine hundreJ tons of silver c in, with thirty-three ml lions of dol lars. Tne gold is all kept in' bans, oach of which contains five thousand dollars, an.l tho bags are plied one upon the other in evon columns twelve bag* high. when the sub-treasyry bill was be fore Congress, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and the Whigs generally saw in it certain ruin of the republic. Since the system was adopted, how ever, the sub-treasury has received and paid 8>/nethii:g more than a billion and a-half of the public mon-y with out the loss ot a single dollar, and without disturbing the course of busi ness. A lady of great ability, Mrs. Lamb, ed'.tor the " Magazine of Amerloan History," has leen looking Into the vaults and oil'ces of the sub-treasury j recently, and she gives us a pleasing senso of its excellent and easy work* | ing. The sub-treasurer, however, has anything btit'an easy time. In one i day the office has paid eleven thousand ! p't i si on checks, averaging twenty-six dollars eah, and it 1s not uncommon for the treasurer to sign his namo three thousand times In one morning to bond and gold certificates.?Youths Companion. ? i. a? ? A Stem Brewing. "Charley has an awful disposition. He is selfish, little and cowardly. I don't know where he got Itsaid a fattier to his wife on North Tenth street the other day. "Nor I, either," said the wife. "He certalnlv didn't get these de fects from me, continued the father. " No, 1 don't think he did," said the mother. "In fact, I'm sure he didn't got them from you." "What makes ybu s> certain?" asked the husband. " Hecauso you nave not lost any of your selflshnoss ot littleness that I can see/' Tableau, with indications of storm. --Pretzel's Weekly, A Remarkable Family. A. B. Fox, of Gowsnda, N. Y? is one of twelve children?six sons and six daughters. Their parents were married in 1816, and lived together sixty years. The first death thai ever occurred In the family was that of the f&ther, who died aged eighty. The mother died soon afterward. The twelve children are all married, and have six ohlldren each. Old Mr. Fox wa* six feet two Inches high, and weighed 250 pound*. Ills wife was six feet tall and weighed 200. Not one of their ohlldren is less than six fe?t tall, and the lightest one weighs 200 pounds. There are two years be tween their awe, the youngest being forty-four and the eldest sixty-six. The present French debt Is $5,000, 000,000, and the annual expenditure.) are about $1,000,000,000. HUM0I0U9 SKETCHES. " The trouble with you, young man,* said the o d doctor, who had bem called on for advloe, " you live alto gether too high." "No doubt I do," exclaimed the youth, 44 I live at the top of an eleven story apartment-house up near the park." The doctor prescribed a tonic to ele vate the young man's system.?New York H orld. 44 Banter," A young minister who succeeded an old worker in the promulgation of gospel to the people of a " wild and woolly" section of Arkansas, ap proached the old brother and asked: " What kind of people am I likely to meet?" "All kinds." "Any rough characters?" " Somo of them are pretty tough." 44 Suppose they insult me, what must I do?" " Sorter Bauter off us though your business called you away." "Suppose they follow me?" "Santer a little faster." 44 Suppose they cha^e me V" 44 Then santer like the deuce." 44 And if they catch me, what then ?*' 44 In that case I reckon you'd better wait till they get through with you, and then if you aro able you'd better santer."- -Arkansaw Traveler. Club* Have Chnnged. 4t Want a hundred dollars this morn ing?'' echoed the governor, as he wheeled uround on his twenty-year-old boh. 44 Why, sir, I gave you fifty only yesterday I 44 Yes, father, but belonging to a fashionable club is expensive, you know." "I don't know anything of the sort, sir I When I was a young man I be longed to the Apollo olub. It inoluded the cream of the city, and my expenses weren't $25 per year." 44 Yes, father, but clubs are run dif ferently now." "They are, eh? Well, I can't help that. If a lot of you fellows oan't hire a room over a tannery, put in six lamps, two dozen chairs, three fiddles and a checker-board, and enjoy your selves in a rational manner, as we did, you had better pass your evenings posting my books. Fashionable clubs ! Hundred dollars ! I'd like to see you get it!"?Wall /Street News. He Didn't Wnnt ttio Jng Htretcliod. A clay or two since a Norwich man carried a jug to a cash grocery to have it tilled with New Orleans molasses, lie was tin* ht>ad of a big amily, and had a large jug, hence he bought at the most favorable prices. Later in the day when ho called for it ho was surprised to learn that the price was nearly if 5. "IIow is this," asked the buyer, "has molasses gonoup?" "Oh, no," re,>116:1 the grocery man, " I am selling at the regular price." 11 Well, how much does that jug hold?" inquired the purchaser. "Six gallons," responded the seller. "I have tried time, time and aga n," said the owner of the jug, "to get flvo gallons of molasses into it, and could never do it. I had a* soon j>ay for six gallons of molasses as not, but I hate to h:?ve that jug stretched so." The grocery man said ho would let off a ga.lon in the price and call it square, and In that way the difference was settled.?Norwich, {Conn.) Bul letin A Fntlier>? Hoax. A clergyman, a widower, recently created qu te a sensation in his house hold, whi h consists of seven grown-up daughter.'). Toe reverend gentleman was absent, from home for a number of days, visiting in an adjoining county. The daughters received a letter from their father, which Btated that he had "married a widow with six sprightly ohildren," and that he might be ex pooled home at a certain time. The e..ect of Ihe news was a great shook to the happy family. The glr s, noted for their meekness and amiable tem peraments, seemid anot.ier set of beings; there was weeping and wail ing an I tearing of hair, and all manner of aattjhty things sad. The tidy house was neglocted, and when the day of arrival came the house was anything but inviting. At last the Uev. Mr.X. came, but he was alone. He greeted his daughters as usual, and as he viewed the neglected apartments there was a merry twinklo in his eye. The daughters were nervous and evidently anxious. At l&<)t the eldar mustered courage and asked : "Where is our mother y" "Ja heaven/' said the good man. 44 But where Is the widow with six children whom you married?'' "Why, 1 married her to another man, rrty dears/' he replied, highly delighted at the success of his Utile Joke. flaw Unele Jeff* Vuitf ? Dnd?. M How oould I cure a dude, young fellow f Well, I'll tell yer, so j?s yer can bcH the receipt. A ohap with suoh a receipt ought to make a pile ontin it. ' "Yer nee, my boy f An took a notion three or four years Hgo es farmin' wasn't good enough feriiim, so I give him a note on a ilaptist preacher for $400 and let him go. lie went to 'Frisco and struck the preacher and 'got the cash. Then he got some edu cation and went to oounter jumpin' and euin up to Oregon. 44 He was purtv steady and sensible, though I heard he was fine on dress, but 1 had no idea he hud got to be a dude. 44 Well, he got bounced for bein' good-lookin', he says, but I sneot it was bein' too sassy and la/.y, an' lie cum up to see the folks. 44 \V hett I got ter tho depot there was Y)an'l, but I hnrdly kni?w\l him. His pants was a kind of speckled s:<y blue, and were ns tight on him as the ftkinonafat hog; and his coat was about three sizes too small for ir.m, an' as tight M the pants, with the color of a yellow dog. lie had a fancy brass watch staged out with two chains on his vest; he had a stitT little hat, a little oane and a pair of gloves. He limped up to me in a pair of pinched lip shoes, hed out two Angers to shake, and snid: 4Aw, paw, aw'm 61 al to see yer, yer know.'. I got im in the wagon an qnlok as I oould, for fear the folks would think I was moving lunatics to the now asylum. Ho said suthiu' a >out the team loing very ancient an' tho wagon the co < r of the roa i an' the haim^nyof nature. Well, that feller slid round the house for more than a week, and went down town showln' oil lils clothe.", but ho wouldn't do no work. I thought I maybe ho would come to his senses I alter a bit, but he kept on just the i Ba ne. lie w< nt down to the wood lot with me and the boys to seo 4 Na- | ture in her wild brauty,' or something 1 of that sort, ono inurning, while wo got er load of wood. "I got him to give mo a lift with a log to chuck it in the wagon, but wlun he ought to have chucked ho lot lis end drop, and then that made my end sot quick onto my foot. When I was cussin' about my foot he dr iwled out suthin' about iti being too heavy, and grinned sidoways to the boys. I couldn't stand that and I went for him; 1 don't remember exactly how it went clear through, but in about IIvo minutes that ground was covered with rags, and silk handkerchiefs and pintod shoeB llko a tornado had been to work. His two-chained watch was hanging in a lot of oak sprouts, tho pup had run oil with his stiff hat and he was wiping his nose with his kid gloves, while strips of his pants hung ter his waist band like ribbons on a trick mule. The cano was broken to pieces over his b.ick, an' three or four switches besides. Oh, ho' felt better than ho had for four years, and we loaned him a buiralo hide to get homo in an* cum with tho wood. Ho laid abed for two days, an' then got in-ido a pair of overalls and a llannel shirt, put a pair of brogans outside his foot grabbed an ol 1 hat and went to work, I an* has worked as steady as a clock er ticken ever since."?San Fraiicisoo Wasp. Aphorisms of Oliver Wendell HoIihoh. Memory is a net. One rinds it full of fish when hetak.-s it from the brook, but a do/.en miles of water have run through ir without slicking. God bless all goo 1 women. To their soft hands and pitying hearts we must all come at last. J ut not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart it stems to be liko balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men n the sumo way?and the fools know it. 1 find the great tiling in this world is not so much whero we stand as in what direction we are moving. If the sense of the ridiculous is one side of an impressible nature.it is very well, but if that is all there is in a man he had better have been an apo and stood at the head of his profession at onco. Travelers change their guineas, not their characters. Thero are ttireo little wicks to tho lamp of a man's lite, brain, blood and breath. Press the brain a little, its 1 ght goes out followed by both tho others. Stop tho heart a ininuto and out g.es all throo of tho wicks,, Chok t the air out of tho lungs and presently tho fluid ceases to 8 ipply tho other centers of (lame, and all is soon stagna tion, cold and darkness. Thore are a good many roal miseries in life that wo c.innot help smiling at, but they aro tho smiles that mako wrinkles not dimples. Wo mu tluive a weak spot or two in a character before wo can ovo it much, l'oop ethat do not laugh or cry or take m iro of an) tiling than is ^ood for them, or uso anything but dictionary words, aro admirablo subject* for biographe-s. Hut we don't caro most for t ieso line pattern (lowers that p. ess best in tho horbapi-um. Faith always implies disbelief of a lesser fa t in favor of a greater. 1 would have a woman as true as dea h. At tho first real lie, which wor;<s from tho heart outward, she should be tenderly chlorafor.iiei into a better world, where she can have an angol for a governess and feed on strange fruits, which shall mako her all over again, oven to her bones and marrow. Why can't somebody give us a list of things which everybody thinks and nobody says, and anothor list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? The Oroom's Offer. There in r o end to tlio laughable stories that tho clergy teli a'>out tha queer marriage th.it thoy {solemnize, and the quoer fees which they receivo, or sometimes don't receivo. une of the lat: st of those Is t< Id by tho Hev. Dr. Hamuel R. Appleton, of Philadel phia, and is to the following effect: A young < ouple < a'h d on him not long ago and asned him to marry them, wnich ho did. The happy groom thon walkod reluctantly to him and aikod : " Doctor, how muoh li your fee?" "I havo no fixed price, tut generally receive $10," wai the answer. Tho bright tmllo of the trrootn seemed to leave him thon ; hut bracing i?luiB0lf, he paid: "You see, doctor, I am a little short at present, hut would like very much to pay y. u. I ain a'bird fanoier and urn importing a lot of educated parrots fr >m London. Now,' instead or paying you in easily suppose I present you with one of theso birds on their arrival ?" " I should he glad to have a parrot," admitted the doctor. "Well, It's agreed then. I will send you one In a few days; but havo you a caga to put the bird in?" "No, I have not How much does a < ago cost?" "Oh, you can got a good one for was .he reply. Dr. Applo ton hand d tho young man the amount required to buy the cage, and that was the last ho over flaw of tho groom, bride, parrot, cage, or tho |2.50. Mount Hood, in Washington Terri tory, was recently ascended by a largo party. They reached an olovation of 12,650 fe t, whero they spent several hours. When above tho snow lln> the men constructed a sleigh, and treated the women to a Rummer sleigh ride. The crater was penetrate I a dtotance of 100 fe)t, There wai a ceas. le*s drip of water from thereof of the Ice encased entrance, cars d by a warm air ourrent coining from the ulnmber ing fires far below, from whence a loud hissing noise arose. A rock hurled dow* produced a deafening reverl>er ation. THB PRESCRIPTION. They were parting at the gate Man and maid Still ho tarried, although late, Longing uiuch to hoar liia fato, Yet to ask it luilf afraid. " If I only know," said he? " Only know." " Lot mo give advice," Said she, " Mako a confidant of mo; I can bo of help to you." " Ah I I know that," answered he, With a sigh. " Now I guess it all," cried she; " You are in love, I plainly see, And afraid to tell her?llo !' " You're a witch to guess bo well," Answerod he. " I would liko to liavo you toll How to mako a sick heart well; Kindly now prescribe for me." " Every heart will cure a heart," Now laughed she; " You must find another heart, Then your own will lose its smart? Try this oldon remedy." " Lot mo havo your heart," lie plead; " Nay !" she said; "I havonono." "No heart!" ho said; " Then I go uncomfortod? Mine a broken heart must bo ?" ?' It is yours!" and she lnughod low; " Don't you soef I prescribed it long ago, Seeing that you suffered so. W hat so blind as men can bo " Had I oidy known before," Whispered ho, " What a euro you had in store!" " You'd havo suffered all the more; Men nro foolish things," said she. / HUMOROUS. J Calf's head?That of a dude. Tho girl with a new umbrella wmi* stay in tho house whin ii rains.?JS'eu York Journal. A new color is known by tho poeti cal namo of "bleaihol mouse." W< venture it is a sort of rat-tan color.? Statesman, Even the sands of tho sea aro hardlj moro numerous than tho mtfft AVho thinks he can edit a uowspaper.? 1 Linkers (iazetle. Class in natural history. "Kmile,'' asks the teacher, "which animal at taches himself tho must to man?" Emi e, after much reflection?" Tho leech, sir I"?French Wit. A perpetual clock lias been in opera-' tion in Jirus^el-i l'ur eight mouths. There aro a great many ?? perpetual" things that will last just about that long. Hut tho great demand among tho young peop o of this ago ii not a clock that will run forever, out a ciock that will never get past 10 on a Sunday night.?11a rk< j,e. "Colonel," Mild un Arkansas Ji address ng a lawyer, "jou say that you're not ready to go on with this ca^o?" "Vis, sir." "What's the trouble?'' "Because I have done a great doal of mental wurk recently and am comp lied to rest my mind. " Want to re.st your mind, eh? Well, we'll put y> u on tho jury."?Traveler. A Western jury was just about to acquit a u.an chargul with murder, when tho foioman said: "That man Is my next dour no g bur. 1 don't be lieve ho ever kiilo.i aiybody, but ho plays an t-ccordlun on his trout step every night of his ;if The sy.i pa thi/.ing jurymen brought in a verdut of "Gul ty of murder in tho lirst de gree."?Philadelphia Nt ws. Light weight : " How much do you think I weigh?" asko.l a young swell who was visiting a b uff old da ryman. " NVel ," replied tho milk handler, "I o ml !n't exactly say ; 1 ut from t >o ex perience I have had with calves I should say that when you'ru weanod you might weigh almost as much na a box of cheese. The youth bellowed for his ma and was led home by tho hired man.?The I.airy. W| o ' 1 tin in s -miliar'* hen*,? W o bo. e i i b ofn n m tho nti'? et? > ho ireqi o it y nt homo ne noct? Who v?i 8 ? round i n pimoiiB floet? W. o tnki Bin ov? ry fr?o ' nch t ?out? Who dinon with poor iind th elit?? Wh > ft way* . o- e i <-n iref?h rnuat? \\iionovord i<xn- t? tft e a tie it? But tuwuyH t tft d-ui on hi t fo >t Whonovoi- ho nolh od t > cut? Who hh uM .t b > i?\ t that not te 1 it lo lii o ', wan t'.io hwo t Nnino, Mo?quit? ?Uvstvn Courier. Peonllar Well*. In Pol'c county, Nebraska, are many wells which oxulhlt peculiar phenom ena of intern,iltonco. They vary from 100 to 1.0 loet in de^th, and ebb and flow Irregularly. Tiio How Is accom panied by a roaring sound like that of the son, as though a distant wave were coming in, and at the name time a cur rent of air issues out of the mouth. The ebb is accompanied by a draft of air downward. The period of ebb and flow does not np.iear to depend upon heat or cold, upon the 'dHmpnfs< or dryness of tho atmosphere, upon the Reason of tho year, or upon tho time of day, but, on the other hand, scoiub to he in soino way eonneoted with tho direction of the wind. Tho farmors think that tho water-bearing level is identical with that of the wator of thePlattn river, which bounds on the north thoso eountios in which tho wells are situated. A lift go Pnrm. ? Holl Farming company's farm . hiiit to ho t' o largest In the worl I. It is in tho (Ju' A | p dlo valley, Mani toba, and is about ton miles S(|U iro. Tho capital is $(>000.0, of wh c i thir ty-live per cont. Ia< been expon led, and the stock l? held entirely in ('ana 'n and Englan I. Last fall, before the railroad reached tnore, tho c> mpany broke several hundred a res of land, j and added to it largely in tho spr.ng, [ now hav ng a growlr.g crop of l,i.0() acres of whoat and 1,800 of oats. The value of tho poultry consumed in the United 8tatos annua ly is o ti mated at $800 00 >,00 ), cr $o to ea h inhabitant. Tho v.iluo of the egg* "onsumod is set at $210,000,000, or $ol0,000.0(0 for poultry an I eggs to f;ether, or a out $ 0 por y< ar to each nhah tant. The nmrotr of e gs c n ?umod is est matol tob ? 0,000,000,00 >, or lbO eggs to each inhnh.tant, which would allow ore egg to ea h person Other dav.