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r*5 CAMDEN,;S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 31 Bk T?mu> Tqnts Tefoher. p Jong bore, b?ui?let erlone dat ipw j In deevpbOM an' git do Ole fwimtar take anodder petleat Mr Urn jtmr d* B. a alphum-' ?7**ob jrourn nn'takeerco* top totter in de fus Mno ot do it am shaped? Tbos ?lk . Jam ?tandln' straight on It* blggot' wwhuthftW DatwhutI hoord yer twenty times dot rop-or-sonta or ,'s J la boro lottor abapod llko do /ou?hlt8 conil tbos for a little dla toot Don't jrer dodge turn Wbon Is try In* ter rem yor whut rop-e M?nt? Dsr nowl* Uko dat-nn dat-fura ray right May b?*o'twill bo'p ysrtor So* nu' ondor An* bmctimo reo-o-member turn things whut 0 ?UndVVor Box?tnlud yer I-Wot on yer .. juts dls here like do moon when hit oro Long orbout do futtl niffhts hit In do sky am A Wbon ycVioun't jcuBoly sco do footer* ob do > . man I How toll mo dat, nlfrrer?provided of yer Oen'tt^Ver dis-rc-mom-horef l'so got no . heart to 'ipliln ? Ad' *fwlbo things ter er nigger whuff laok ln; In do brain. j^eoo-mombordeot thing* j*r. Art?rT:nouncoddom for yorwld or good* )or Cnn'? I ton" yer, en' D aUn'a fer i my hands ob y srforeber?no w rebor'epeor ter git tier delegtoh* lUn'whenl trios tor odg-uroato I men doso days gits ter be oandy ?L^t'Uttle ,JUirn?H* en* mighty ?bailer But ?W??er born. nljrger, ef jrer don't oum Yor'N ntber bekio gront shako* in pulpit nor Bf yo?r don't Burn dom letter* an' 11)1 yor head Ycr*?Wnebor bo" no proaohor, nor guvernor, w. SDBflUt BVUL GENIUS* H?wm notwmnoh to blamo Alter . all, for ho loved her even against his will. Ho had striven, but in vain, to, banish the swootybUngfaoo, allframod : ?' In sunny halv, from hls:.knomory? > It K With whltf woofnl faoo, And eyes, sho cried out that ho had broken her heart V\ .. . Vlt wm cruel I'' she orfed, "it was un , you?earth was heaven for the bright summer past, and all the time another womy yoor promue^ imottot wo man woro your ruuii and had listened, totoro I ?w your faoo, b> j<mr row* oi "I novor loved tor." Vera 6t George paid; "you,and jou alono, are the ono paid; "you, and you alono, aro the ono V- lovo of my life. /Ton must bel love this, HI is^you must not thiuk mo a acoun '^AvisLelgh smilod halt-pitifully, half Oljr. w that would losson your right to the title I oannot see,1' she said quietly t ??it would be no worso, nor even as bad, to woo mo, whllo yon loved and wero engagod to another, than to win her wlthwords of love, make her jour promised wife, and then be false to your tows. It makes little differenoo which you love?nothing can exoose your aotion." ? . TOre's faoe flushed hotly, for he truthj but ieror over ?nor itself _n?r ? ^ whllo; but there was, if no exouse, at least some itenuatlon of his oonduot, 1\ Before he had ever even seen this :,M| Leigh,;; Sibyl Morodlth > his motharTi home to make byl' Morodith, the orphan daughter of nis mother's dearest friend ?a friend to whom she owed the ve*y ?Mot WoiUolf, wto bed wed tor m w;.p> /'V/ -.A y ft crown grfceshd 1 s i#?* wm ?o/ wvr they .&& * ion ?vTv r:yff ?ionato doapalr, and then ho oauffhthar She amlled bitterly. "Tou had mercy on mel" ?ho criod; then, suddenly: "Do you think I would rob a wife of hor husband/'tho brido of her bridegroom? Ob, shame that toy one oould humblo mo with tho thought!" He ploadod thon aa a man might plead for his very Hie, 'hut the only ?hook hor horvd. ' "You never loved me!M he cried pat slonatoly. "You can bollovo as you like,** the answered coldly; "And we had better part now forover." He longod to clasp her In his arms, his very soul cried out for one parting kiss, one never-to-bo-forgotton caross; but he felt he dare not, and with whito Mtface ho turned away. Once he turnod and looked back; she stood still whore ho had left her, her Wr young face still turned, towards him, porfootly calm now, though white and weary looking. "Sho novorlovod mo!" hoorlod again. "Nover loved hlml" Avis said to her self with a pitiful smile. "Ob, Heavon holp mo how much and how welll" ana then, her agony oonquering her, ?he Bank down upon her Vneos?sank and "Mooring, and knolt thoro till tho ovoning shadow* fell, and the palo moon oame out with her train of glittering atara; and then she roso white m death, and stole to her own room, only to sink down again, this time in'blessed unconsciousness. *?*??? A pretty little oottage set in a small garden that in summer was all bright, with flowers, but looked oold and dreary enough now*. Insido, howevor, thoro was light and .warmth enough, and on hor^Snees a woman, young and beautiful, clasping a child of three or four years old to hor broast, and standing at tho mantol* pleoe, a man, the oxprossion of whoso face at tho moment was perfootly un readable. It might bo lovo; it might be hate, or a mixture of both, that ffllod his hand some, dark, ovii eyes, as they rested on the woman. Suddenly he went over and put hi* bwtd on her shNmlder. ??This mbst end, Sibyl," ho said. "I cannot truat you. I feeljron will play me false in somo way, There is some thing In your mannor that I don'tliko." 1 he woman leaped^ to hor feet and "You cannot trust mef* shewed. "Would to Hoavon you oould not. . am, you have made me, and yetl lovedyononoe." The man s face grow dark. 'Loved me onoe? Then you do not lovo me nowPM * "No," aho pried, "only for hsr sake, whom I love better than my lifo, am I ?till your clave." The man's clasp tlghtenod on hor shoulder, and ho bent his head nearer to her faoe. 1*Thia Is the last gamo you will have nlavt mit If mn him. >1, ?eoigevs wife, and givo mo tho sum of five thousand a yoar, a#d I will give up all olalm to Esta, and nover trouble you or hor again. J ? ^??to kneeling there is Sibyl Moroditb, tho botrothod wifo of Voro Stv Goorgo. ? ? ? ? ? 0 It is a bright clear day overhead, ono wook lator, and tho ioo is most tompting to those to whom skating is enjoyment, and the ioo la a bright scono of foil faces and brilliant ooatumos. Ono of tho skaters on tho ioo is Sibyl Moroditb, looking singularly beautiful in a skatlng-dross of navy-blue velvet, her Jetty ourls falling loosely down her baok, frona undor the little velvet oap, 2ret*' ho* tolng trimmed with sliver fox* ""wW, Ml Aria Leigh haa ohangod greatly alnoo her part!ng with Vero St. Gtotgo. Hers was not a naturo to love lightly, and ber heart oould never love again. The dream had been perilously sweet, but tho awakening was terribly cruel. The lovoly faoo is vory palo now. the sweet lips, half drooping? mmE*tS know no longor how to smile, anirthe know no longer how lTs%nVand*the roundness has loft hor cheeks. tor Her eyes turn now to a little dark oyod tflrl who is venturesome enough 10 * distance on the lee, then run baok again, eoeming to enjoy it With *ohil<Ts morrlmont. Suddenly a cry leavos Avia' i(n? & SSK&Ss ? jKI^Trt ^ * crash# ^Ww^uta*0M dl?f ?jhbjs*- ''i upper end. who rtf the bott^ulterfl ggSgESSaE than little ono if* there row a ory of E^he mosi oowardljf > little one and 11,u# Atktfr.t&i JO? JUYM ft womtt's pool M StiMl M ft ! child's lifo to-day, for the little oa?*u ) mine?mint; and if I am lost to all j oUver fooling, I lore her boUerthan my j ??I would not tell you, only that if it brings mo death, I am going to atone lor my pwt by my oonnssion, but be fore I go, answer me onco simple ques tion* ?po TOU love Vere St. George H !? Impelled by something in the dark eyes fixod upon her faoe, a faint' ??res" fell from Aria' lipstfand before she could frame another word, th? straager had loft tho room. Next day Voro St. George was standing in tho garden, when suddenly Sibyl stood bofore him, and somotbing in her faoe for tho mom ent made his heart stand stiU. "Sibyl," ho oried, "what is itf" > "It is this,1' she answorsd slowly, "that I am not Sibyl Meredith, bat fm impostor, for Slbyl-Merodlth sloeps in her grave under my name, and I am here under hers. I will tell yon all, then you can Judge me ? ? Before another word oonld leave her lips, ft pistol-shot rang out on the air. "He nas murdered met" she eriedar* "my husbandI" then fell forward at Vere's feet, her red blood dyeing the ground. Vero oarriod her into tho house, but she only lived ft few hours. "He?he was my evil genius!" she cried, before hor death, "but I am sor ry for it nil." And thon, after a panso, as the end drew near: "My child, my child! I have her safe.; He cannot find her, but you?you Ah, dare I ask you? Sne was the little one Avis Lei^h?your Avis?savod from drown know what was in her mind, and sent for the little one. It wfts brought to tho dying woman. She looked at Avis, whooftme with it. "When you ore his wile, you will bo kind to my little onef" "I gove it sooond birth," Avis sftid softly, "ft will never leave my care." A smile lit up the beautiful dork faoe, and clasping the ohild in her arms, she olosed her oyos on life forever. ? ' Whatever her sins had been, she died penitent* and her judgment is with God/ and wo cannot fathom Hismorey. Six months after, Avis and Vere were married, and though othor chlldron . blessed their home, Kite, tho dork-oyed ! little stranger, knows not but that oho is their ohild, and never will, God will hat beoame of hor father was never known for certain, but a man was shot in ft'gambling den six months af ter Vere's marriage, and on his breast was found * likeness of tho woman who woo callod Sibyl Morodith for ft while. His last words worst "She was my wife. I loved her in my own war, but I murdered her? shot her dead when sbo turned traitor fcWPkns." One thing was oertoin; no one ever sought Sits, and if they had it would have availed them nothing, for Vere and Avis had her legally, adopted, so she was safe, not only in love, but in law; and with gentle Avis we leave her. One Hundred ?nd Forty-PiTO. Situated on tho highest point of land,'| In Clermont county, Ohio, la the little town of Mulberry, formerly known aa JNowborry. The plaee is three mllea eaat of lallford, and la one of the old est In the oountry. Old "Unole John?' Long (oolored), who for the past twen ty yeara has lived In "Happy Hollow/* Is rogardod aa the oldest man In the oountry, if not in the world. 1 His wife. Maty Long, died in 1879, aged 110 yeara, and he la thirty yeara older than his wife, and la still living, whloh makes him 146 yeaira old. He has a grand daughter now living at Newberry, whoso name la Mrs. Harriet Tally* "Unole John" wad for 12ft yeara % slave, but always a house-servant in wealthy and prominent families. He waa in Alexandria, Va., at the timo Genv Braddook and Washington passed through on their way to tho French and Indian war, and ibis waa In 1750. He romembera John Randolph and his son Rdmund, afterward governor of the atate of Virginia, at hits master'# house near Gulpepper Court*House, Va. Thla was before the refolutldn. Hit also re members distinctly having often seen "Light Horse Harry" Lee and Gen. Lafayotte at tbo hospitable mansion of his master. MaJ. Qabe ;Long. 'He re* moved to Chris tiancounty.nKontuoky,' in the faU of 1796, at the time John Adams waa rtinning on the federal ticket against Thomas Joflerson, anti federal. He was married to hlsseoond wife, Mary White, in the year 1797, his first wife having boon dead but two jfeara. Ho lived with hit teoond wife eighty years, she dying in June, 1879, Med 110 years, ana waa buried in Green Lawn oemetery at this plaoo., She Often toldhor granddaughter, Har riet Tally, that when "Unole John" married her she waa only a little girl and ho waa an old man. Unole John i waa in Naahville, Tenn., a hired slave,, working wheh Geto. Jaokaoa started for "Jew Orleans in 1841. : He waa never mbllely-whipped, and Waa sold but Jnee, coming down aa property from father to son, from son to grandson/ and then to partners- Ho has never used tobnooo in his life, and has always taken a dram oocaftlonally of v good whisky, but Waa never drank. He haf a round, well-bala&oed head, an < lent disposition, and sleep* In a . vontllatod log housed Bit diet been eorn-bfead and milk. In itaV-? he Is of horoalean mold, and hta tho oonrtly manners of ihe Old, Dominion. He has nevor been on exhibition, but states that he has accepted a proposi tion from Cinoinnatl to appear in a museum in Jane.?Cincinnati Newt Journal BloodWiSm There waa a large hawk that made It hisVusInuBs to oome and take off one of my small chloken* each day, and on iMMkrlng myohlokens give the well known alarm a few daya ago, I ran out only to see the hawk fly up with a oblek in his clawa, elosely pursued by my game rooster whloh. when the hawk bed lit, fell upon him, tearing out and making the feathera fly at ] suoh a rate 1 could neither see kawfc or ohlcktn, when a moment later the hawk fell to the ground dead, being ?irred through the heart. When okan eer's triumphant notes were heard Was crowing over the body of hit len victim, at least 196 feet from the Mind, in tho top of a yellow pine, ?ttl which he flew to the ground, Hap ped his wings, crowed, and walked off J with an ,air of satisfaction. Kantmafl JVmes. There is one fofioisT in a great Kng Uaia^Xin i^diltln h? mV it oRtino a lot^r^ro^lTf^m0^10-' explaining that ho h*d sent ,to show its author how nttteb mm | .Wat appreciated In the provlnoea. Time's Changes. I fixed rnyselt ud went oak tco?t Kip Vau Winkle picnic and farewell moonlight oxouraioa home. 'X bollovo that Blp Van Winkle, howevor, confin ed himself to hunting mostly with an old musket that was on the retired I bit when Sip took hit sleepy- drink on the Catskills. If ho ooold Lave gone fish ng with me last week over the old trail, digging anglo worm/v at tho same old plaoe whore f loft the spado stink ing in tho grim soil twenty years ago if w? could have waded down the Kin nlokinnick together with high rubbor boots oiv and got nibbles and bites at the same placo, and . found the same I old farmera with nearly a quarter of a century added to their lives and glist nlng la their hair, we would have had fas no doubt on that day, and a head ache on the day following. .This af fords mo an opportunity to say that trout oaa be caught suooessfully with a corkscrew. I havo tried. I've about decided that tho main reason why so many large lios are told about the number of trout oaught all over* tho country Is that at *he moment the sportsman pulls his gamo out of the water, ho labors under some kind ofatv ptical illusion by reason of which ho sees about nine trout where he ought, to see only ono. I wish I had as many dollar* as I have soakod deceased, angle worms in , that samo beautiful Klnnioklnnicfc] There was a little stream mado into it ] that we called Xidd's creek., It is still thoro. This stream rdns across Xidd's farm, and Tidd twenty yeara^hjwft wouldn't allow anybody to fish in the crook. I can stiU remember how his large hand used to fool as he. oaught mo by the nape of tho nook aqd throw me over the fence with my auutteur fishing tackle and a willow "stringer" With ' elevta* dried, stiff-trout, on it. Last week I thought I would txyTldd'e creek again. It was always * good plaoo to fish, and I felt the same old excitement, with just enough vague forebodings In It to makolt pleasant. Still, I had grown a foot or so since I usod to fish there, and perhaps I ooold return the < ^ old gentleman over his own fence and thon hiss in his own e^r "ll-o v-o-n-g-ot 11 " I had got pretty well across the "lower forty" and had alout doolded that Tidd had been gathered to his fathers when I saw huh coming with his head up like a stoer in the earn. Tidd Is a blacksmith by trade, and he has an arm with hair on it that looks like* Jumbo's hind: leg. ifolt tho same old desire to olimb the fence and bo alone. I didn't kpow exactly how .to work it Then I fememberod how people had remarked that I had ohang ed very much in twenty years, and that for a homely boy I had grown to be a remarkably plotureique-looklng mam I trusted to Tidd's failing eye- ] sight and said: : "How are you?" Ho said: "How areyonP" That did not answer my question, but I didn't mind a little thing like that. Then he said: "I s'posod that every pesky fool in this country knew I don't allow fishing on my land." '?"That may bo," says I, "but I ain't fishing on your land. I always fish In a damp plaoe If I can. Moreover, how do I know this Is your land?. Carrying the argument still furthor, and admit ting that overy pesky fool knows that you didn't permit fishlag . hero, I am not going to po call ed i} pesky fool with Impunity, unloss you dor it ovor my dead body." He stopped about ten rods away and I beoamo more fearless. "I don't know who you are," said I, as I took off my ooat and vest and piled them on my fish basket, eager for the fray. "You olaim to own this farm but it is my opinion that you are the hired man, puffed up with a little authority, 5fou can't order me off this ground till you show mo a duly cdHlfied abstract of title and then identity yourself. What Crotectlon does a gentleman have If he i to be kicked and cuffed about by every Tom, Diok and Harry olalming they own the whole State. Oct out! Avauntt If vou don't avaUnt pretty qulok, I'll kidnap you and sell you to a medical oollege." He stood in dumb amaaemeut a mo ment; then he said he would go and St his deed and his thotgun. I said otgnns suited me exactly, and told him to bring two of them loaded With giant, powder and barbed wlro. I would not livo always. I asked not to stay. - When he got behind the corn """ climbed the ferioe and fled with >tten gains, aoksmlth in his prime may llok the small boy, bnt twenty years ohangee their relattv# position*. Pos sibly Tidd could tea* up the ground With me now* but in ten more years, if X improve as fast as he faUs, I shall fish In the same ? old Slrearav. again*?** BUI Ufa in New York Mercury. ?ttv What. Allort Him* "What's the matter, fillpltyp" askod a frlond, as the person addrossed ap Eiod, with the impression of Ave r nails on eaoh jaw, and with his & cooling his head* that tttemblpd a half-nloked fowL -a* * If "Nothing much,"he answored trying Jo ainlle, "just merely iiiUlo domostfi dyolone." ??What oaUsed Itf" "Well you see, at breakfastmy Wife I asked me what 1 thought would be the hexf to beaten." I ?*Yes." ??And. 1 remarked that I thought my mothor-in-law was the next thing to because X didn't think my law would erer get Into heaven and oonnoquently she would be next thing to that plaoe. Then the air got* sorter tAngled m> With finger nalls, hair, and me,^eml Ji thought best to oomeoutftttd How to Oet of Beggar*. There are more waysef killing a dog than choking him to death with butter, and tbero are sovoral wnya of gottlng rid of beggars besides tolling them to St to HalTia*. When an unfortunate ?ndleaot applies to Qllhooly for aid* that philosopher oheerfnlly respondst ??Oh, oertalnly. Hare you ,got ehnnffe lor a dollar?" . v1. i - ? "In nlnoty-nlne oases put of a hun dred the mendloant repllos that he has not. ??I'm sorry, but l'ro not got anything In ease the beggs*' says Unit he has got ohange for a dollar, Qllhooly howls outi "Polloel Folloel" and dononnoee the unfortunate man as an Impostor for W?lngwhen he hits got hlspookets fall ofjtnontf, whloh Tio muJ||lfcvo Stole^'lifom/somebody, wheroupon tho: mendloant skips oft I , i - Ty j mreTBB * OF THK IAKES. Oaynga'B Bed of Crater*?A Sub terranean Rtver Between Superior , # udOnUfks yra'f'* ' ? ??If you are evor drownod iu Cayuga Lako, your frlonds need not go to the expense or trouble of dragging tho lake Joryour body, for they'd novor find it" -? This was tho choorful remark made a rosidont of Ithaca, who has a taste geological rosonrcli, and who has Iwgod It during the past fow yoars investigating tho bottom of Cayaga ??From all I havo boon ablo to dlsoov* said ho, "tho bottom of Cayuga c Is a sories of large openings and lties, many of them resembling the |tors of oxtinot volcanoes. Somo of jw are a hundred foot in diamotor, and are surroundod by raised rims, liko tho sides of' a milk pan. Those >tcrs, ns I believe they are, lio at Terent depths, or, rathor, aro of dlf ont heights. Tholr depth I havo tovor boon able to sound, although I lave lowered many hundrod feel of plumb lino into them. They are un doubtedly fathotaloss, and have bo come rocoptaolos of the bodipa of the hundreds of porsons who are known to Jiavo been drowned in tho lake during tho pastHalf century, and of tho un doubted thousands of peoplo killed in tho fierco. battles that wore frequently Waged on the shores of tho lako bo twoon hostile tribos of the *original poople' yoars beforo tho whlto man ap nearod on this oontinont . ^/'It was in Cayuga Lako that tho . wretch Bulloff lowerod tho bodies of his wife and child, inclosed in a chest, after. he had murderod them, twenty ~~~xs ago. The weeks that were spent dragging for the chest was time nwn away, for it-had sunk Into tho ith of one of thoso dead volcanoes, and, if it is not linking yet, is no doubt floating about in tne bottomless ths where, in the ages past, firo i smoko and ashes were tho domin it elements. -''?Within forty years between 200 and 300 persons havo been drowned in Cayuga Lake, to recover tho* remains of whom the grappling-iron and drag havo been used industriously, hut in Tain.' If it Were possible for ono to mako the rounds of tlv} lake's crater like bed, he would, bopnd doubt, en counter hideous charm (houses beyOnd number?caverns wh?.A thousands of grinning skeletons havo found tbqjr own sepuloher, subterranean oata combs without end. Water taken from a depth of 800 feet in Cayuga Lako?wlifoh must havo boon from ono Of these oavltles?is strongly oharged With sulphuretted hydrogen, nitrogen, Carbonlo aoid, and the oar bona tea of lime, potash, soda, and magnesia. Cayuga Lake has also a mysterious tidal motion. It is irrogular In its 00 ourronoo, but vory decided. The phenomenon has been known to appear :twioe a year, and then two years or more have olapsed between its poriods. Tho water frequently reoedes fifty feet Tho ebb is gradual, but the flood tide oomes in with considerable foroo and rapidity. This phenomenon is also notiood on Seneca Lake, whloh is dl vldod from Cayuga by the high Soneoa comity hills.. The surface of Seneca Lako Is sixty feet abovo that of Cayuga Xake, but I believe its bod is of the same remarkable charaotor. Seneoa Lake rises and falls as much as three feet during tho time of its tidal com motion, whloh is also irregular in its porlods. "I boliovo thoro is a subterranean river* running from Lako Superior, through Lakos Huron and Mionigan, under Lako Erie, and emptying into Lako Ontario. Thoro Is no other way in which to explain certain mysteries oonneoted with our great lakeB. The surface of Lako Suporlor is about 660 feet above tho tldo, whllo its bod is 260 foot below the tide level# Lake Huron's surfaoe is fifty feet below that of Su perior's, and its bod Is about on a levol with Superior's. The surfaoo of Lake Michigan Is 300 foot lowor than Lake Huron's, and its bed ia sunk a corres ponding distsnoo to the level of the tother two lakos. Lako Erio's surfaoe nearly as high as Lake Michigan's Ing 660 above the tide, but its bed is also above tide, being 860 feet higher than the ocoan level, consequently its bed is 260 foot higher than those or tine lakes aboye it Lake Ontario's surfaoo is the lowest of all tho groat lakes, being less than 600 feet abovo tide, but its bed is 280 feet below the ooean, or about the same level as Michigan, Huron, and Superior. So there is a Continuous fall from Lake Superior to Ontario, and all tho outlot that tho up per lakos have that is known Is the oompiratlvely insignlfioant Detroit Biv* or, That stream never can oare for all >f that great pressure tod volume ?ve, and tho thoory of an undeiy river such as I mentioned me most reasonable. All the St, Lawronoe fishes nto taken in evory one of the lakos but Lake Erie. Why? Because they follow the oourso of the subterranean stream/ passing 800 feet beneath the bottom1 or Lake Erie and ontor tho waters of the upper lakes. The great lakes above Lake Brie have an oooaslonal flux and reflux of tholr constantly moving down from tho lake, bottoms^. Thon the channels of; on tint aiSigfeayffjBgE' ^?8Sl ? *WOp- ^ naturally on watersj^bli Ob. what * fanny-looking thing to build busts onl" . ?*? thatlurt the olay* Hffil iontW' ? 111 LJHiL tho Gorman sculptor, Mr. MnnnWhlle* thoy gH?ed*#irfi wooden pedestal on the i whloh roue a stick the deal of tho hunt, with little branohe* it tho top to support the olay. Behind this worn tbtur or five piles ol load-oolored* damp-looking day. ' V? !v :/ i At last *r. Herb apponrnd, and, tolling up tho sleeves of his long gray blouse, ke dovo both band* Into the olflfrnd clapped a big chunk of it On the stiok. Another and another follow ed until he had formod a ftguro resem bling^ Images on whloh wlg-mak 6 ono in the audlenoo know Wl head was to be made out of the olay, The soulptor planed a small photo graph on the pedestal In front of him* and oooaslonally glanolng at it pro ooedod to form tho shape of the head and then tho faoo. First a lamp vu ?took on for the chin, and, with a few deft sweeps of the finger, stood oat % characteristic of firmness. Then came the forehead, and then sticking tho forefinger of each hand into the sides of the head and pressing them back with a peculiar wavering twist the ears came out as If by magic. At this every lady In the audlenoo applaudod, while tho gentlemen poundoa the floor with their walkiDg-stloks. Next tho nose appoatad, ana then the moustache and hair, and in twenty-three minutes from the time of starting Mr. Henry Bergh boamod unmistakably upon tho audl enoo. '?Ho has neror seen Mr. Bergh? simply.his picture," said Mr. Hollman, presidont of the Musoo to a Herald re porter. The audionco would not bo satisfied without another exhibition. . So the sculptor, after keenly soanning tho ladies present, solootod one and pro ceeded to chango tho figuro Into hor likeness. A big lamp of clay on tho head was drawn into a jaunty, wide brimmed hat, making Mr. Borgh ro somble a brigand rather than a human itarian. Tho mustache was wiped out a bunoh of flowers plaood on the breast* and with a fow other touohes tho pretty faoo of Miss Hollman, tho president's daughtor, was rooogniz nblo. Mr. Herb is tho hoad soulptor at tho Musoo, having boon thoro slnoo his ar rival in this country?two weeks ago. He is a graduato of tho art sohool at Leipslc, and first beoamo noted as a modeler by finishing a bust of Guitoau, comploto for oasting within twenty four hours. ino llest Filter. Th? Japanesouao a porous sandstone hollo wod in tho shape of an octg, through which the wator peroolatoa Into a rooeptaclo nndorneath; tho Egyptians resort to a similar dovioo; tho Spaniards use a porous earthen pot But tnoso and othor similar contrlv uncos oan .not bo thoroughly oloansod; after tho most thorough rinsing, somo impurities will remojn in tho poros of tho stone. Spongy iron and oarforal are open to tno iuno objoctlon: thoy will answer well for a short tlmo, but soon become contaminatod by polu tlon rotalned in thoir poros, Spongo, cloth, and folt, unloss oloanod ovory day or two with hot water, will do moro harm than good, and the avorago servant girl will not olean them or any other filter unloBs under tho oyo of ho'r miatrosa. - Tho various forms of filters that aro sorewod to tho fauoet havo only to bo hastily examined to bo discarded, as there is not sufflolont filtering material in them to be of much utility, and they very soon booomo foul and offensive. Buck savs, "Thoro is no material known, whioh oan bo induoed into the small spaoo of a tap-filter and aooomp lish any real purification of the wator which passes through at the ordinary rate of flow." The various oomplioated closod filters, filled with any material, whloh oan not be romovod for oleanslng, con demn themselves. No amount of! pumping water through them at differ ent angles, which is at all likely to be need, oan cleanse them of tho impuri ties that adhere to tho mass and in the Sores of tho filtering material used. arke, in his ' Manual of Practical Hygiene," says; "Filters, where the material is oemented up and oannot bo removed, ought to bo abandoned al together." The various metal filtors in whioh the water oomes in oontaot with mo tallio surfaces, cither Iron, lead, tinned iron, or eino, are objootionablo from their appreciable infiuenoe upon the water retained in them for any oon sidorablo time. Pure black tin is tho .least objootionablo of any of the metals. Tho aim of most filters is to remove Impurities from the water speedily?as rapidly as it escapes from tho faucet Experiment shows that effeotive Altera tion oan not be aooomplished in this itray, as the wator does not remain long enough in oontaot with the filter ing material used to beoome purified of muoh that might bo removed by slow Alteration or peroolatlon through the same applianoe. Of all the filtering materials menttoned it scorns to me that sand and oharooal are the two that aooompllsh the best result*?, and of thoso vogetable charcoal la the best.? Popular BcUnoe Monthly for June. *gald One Grow Unto His Matec* j| Some few years ago, while strolling ^h? woods, I observed a very ourioue action on the part of a flock of crows. I had sat down to rest under a low pine tree, whioh must have hidden me en* tlrely from any eye whloh might look down from above, and a fow minutes , later about fifty or sixty crows oame flying up and alighted on the branohes of a large oak tree whloh?the time being earty spring?had not yet put forth it* leavos. They had no more than alighted when they all broke Into vociferous oawlngs, all talking at onco, Mid making a tremendous uproar. In the midst of this row ono of tho birds, ajarge, glossy fellow, apparently one of the Oldest of the band; loft the gen eral oonoourse and flaw to tho topmost bough* where be porohed In silent and solemn state. Immodlatoly the Jar ffonlng of the rest began to lessen, fell Into scattered and In^lstJnot tnurmnrs, and finally ceased alugothcr, exactly M a company of human beings, whloh con versos while awaiting the coming of the lecturer, booomes gradually silent when the man who la expected arrives at last As soon as the noise of the rabble had ceased, the Moderator, or whatever elie he was, on the top of the tree began to tpeak, and jabbered i and croaked away for fully a mlnnto, bobbing his head about very inlmat ?dly, and adding emphasis tohte dls oourse by Oooaslonal movement of hit EEESSESs no 06^10(1) unci tno AUuiottQQ Doiowt Wno had remained In attentive and respect ful sllenoe during hi* exordium, broke OUt again into a hoarse and oonfused outcry, which was doubtless India* cusslon of some artrument or suggestioh that the lone speaker had advanoed. Then tne old crow In the tree top Again lifted up hit voioo and gave tho band another taste of his tongue, after whioh anothor gabbling talk look place, and then tho whole congregation aroso upon the?, wlhgs and Tlew rapidly away. I Would have given a great deaf to be able to follow thorn und sec what thoy did, and learn therefrom what the dieeusslon wee all about, That they seriously debated some plan of action l hate no doubt, but whether It was a campaign agdtast some obnox ious owls, a strategTo Vmovement upon fame farmer's corn-field, or a discus 4 Of I N A Proflldont*sno?atifu 1 Widow, Right in the heart of Nashville stands a lirgo, old-fashlonod homo stead oI dull-rod briok, its roof uro* j acting over the broad piazza, support od by great fluted pillars, and its gon eral as poet convoying an impression of severe stateliness in pleasing varlanoo with tho distorted would-be fasbionablo architecture In tho samo neighborhood. A long lawn stretohea In front of tho house, and its ploosant groen monotony is unbrokon savo by a plain and' mas bIvo tomb of white mar bio, whioh cv rlea Its own best epitaph in tho slmplo inscription of Jamos K. Polk. A ring at the boll brought to tho door a good-naturod colored girl, who took our oards to tho venerablo and venerated widow of Prcsldont Polk. A woman liko Mrs. Polk is a revela tion to tho boautlos of ojd ago. Gon tlo benevolence, broad-roaching chari ty, rlpo oxporienco and a cultivation of mind that oxtonds beyond - letters to mankind shine through hor conversa tion, and a roady momory, keon wit and a storo of rominisconcos illumino it Sixty yoars ago at tho time of hor marriago, Mrs. Polk was oonsiderod remarkable for hor boauty. aud twonty years aftor whoa alio presided at tho Whito Houso it was so fresh and unim paired as to attract groat admiration, and bo noted in tho public works and privato journals of distinguished for oignors. Time, of course, has stolon tho vivid coloring and cuivod outlinos of youth, but ho has not robbed hor of tho up right figuro and dignitiod carriago, and has loft brightness In hor oyos and vl? vaoity In hor voico, bosides londing an addod oharm to hor faultless man ner. Crownod with eighty yoars of honor she rose to roooivo us, and I am not asbamod to say that somothing like dimnoss oamo over my oyos at tho sight of this bravo widow who for noarly half a contury has livod happy in tho thought that ovory day as It passos brings hor ono nearer to hor bolovod husband. Wo all havo our little joko about widows, but it dios on tho lips when you sco ojio who, liko Mrs. Polk, exemplifies tho boauty of fidolity. Prom tho library of tho doad prosl dont aho can gazo upon. tho tomb that marks his rosting placo, and hi that samo llbrhry romain his hat, gloves and cano, jast whoro ho laid them when he camo homo for. tho last timo. Tho book ho was reading lios opon on tho tablo and tho papers of tho day bosido it. In sooioty, and fond of it, Mrs. Polk has yet novor accepted an invitation since hor husband's doath, though with gracofrtl 'hospitality and tact sho has recolvod on tho first day of oaoh yoar tho Tonnossoo logislaturo, wnich adjourns in a body to call upon her? and which, I am tol l, is tho highest complimont ovor paid by Stato authori ties to a lady?and tho civic, judicial and occlosiaslical bodies mako it a point to pay thoir respects to hor.? "Cress," in Cincinnati Enquirer. DiffloultlcH of Judging of Distauco. Placo a man and a dog sido by side at a distance of twenty foot, and any person with an oyo capablo of dis tinguishing thom will bo ablo to tell whioh 1b on tho right, whioh on tho loft. Tho oyo is not oasily doooivod as to position at right angles to tho lino of vision. Lot tho roan advance fivo foot; It iB easy to toll that tho dog is farther away than tho man. Noxt, placo tho man at a distance of 100 foot, tho dog at 106 foot; it is not so oasily deolded as before, although mistakes aro raro with a normal oyo. But at 500 and 600 foot, respectively, it is loss oasy, al though wo can still toll which is to tho right and which to tho loft. Tho images formod on the retina by tho samo objoot at different distances aro vory similar, differing only in sizo and distinctness. For this roason it is difficult to judgoof distances, roquiring much praotico. Refraction always changos the ap paront placo of an objoot, so that wo Boom to soo tho sun aftor it has gono below tho horizon. A moro striking but less froquont phonomonon of ro fraotion is that kuown as mirago. Ro fraotlon also affects tho color of an ob jeot. The media through which light passes has moro or loss offeot upon tho ray. In a fog objoots aro dimly soon, tho offoot rosombling that duo to dist ance; honco objoots look largor, for tho eyo judgos of tho bIzo of an objoot by multiplying tho sizo of tho imago or implrossion rooeived by tho squaro of tho distance, while tho latter is esti mated from the Indistinotnoss of tho objeot. In the fog tho apparont disfc knoo is lnoroasod, but tho oyo Intorprots It as due to the opposito oauso. On looking at tho photograph of a troe, a ohurolt, a monument, or a pyramid, it ia not possiblo to form a corfoot idea of i Its sizo unless a man or animal is seen In the samo view with whioh to com-! ^aro It. In naturo, ospooially on land, rive tho data on whioh to oalealato^ho llstanoe. Whoro nono intorvono, as In looking from poak to peak, tho eyo must aopend on distinotnoss, and whoro the air Is vory oloar and transparent, la In Colorado, distanoos soora loss than they are. If tho objeot is soon through transparent, but colored, media, the form remains truo, but tho ?olor? are ohangod. Hunting With Belled Dog*. H "I hunted with an Kngllshmnn in Miohigan, onoo, who put holla on hi* dogs whon he wont woodcock-hunting; When tho dogs got into tho thtok ooYort, )io oould traoo thoir oourso by tho sound of tho bells, and whonovor the tinkling oeased, he know they wore pointing birds. "Ho told mo that ono day ho wont out to a woodcock oorort with a boiled dog. and after following tho sound baok and forth and around and around tn tho tangled growth, suddenly the tinkling oeasod. Very muoh pleased, ho went to tho spot oxnootlng to flush a bird, but he oould And neithor his dogj nor any woodoook. tang and patiently ho tramped about tho spot, to no purpose. Then ho oallod his dog; it did not oome. Hero is a mystery. Couldjt bo possible that his dog had falloif dead in some dense dump of the oovertP Ho oallod until he was hoarse, and Anally went baok to camp tired and mystified. And thore lay his dog at tho door* dozing In tho inn. It hnd lost tho bell!"?A/rtt?r?0? Thompson, in 81. Nicholas for June. Commenting on a rocont iooture by Oscar Wildo, tho Pail Mall Uaneik ?aysi "Mr. Wlldo haa cloarly taken a good doal by his lecturing tour In America. For one thing, he has found tho tongue of an audible looturer; and for anothOfji ho has brought back a new sotting for many oxooiicnt old stories. Hu appropriation of our old friend, tho American who waa indig nant at being supplied with a oaat of Venus of 'llilo without th? arms, was a* amusing aa It waa andaelone." J.f / lini'i i !' 1 .1 V 1,1 r''< GLKANINQ8. ">'?? Last year'a statistics show thftt the v number of women who committed aui cido in Franco was ono-third morothan ia 1882. Tv Tho following ia a copy of a' notloo posted up in tho CounoU Bluffs polioe station: ?'No loafers allowed hero, ex oopt police." , ? .v,;; ? ; ?T^ho,WIOit rato of too Westoru o nicn Tolograph company at present ia 41 for ten words between Portland, Me., and San Francisco. Undor tho laws of Maine, a porson who procuroa a divorco cannot marry again without permission of tho court that granted tno decroe. Syria has ninety-five silk factories, whioh glvo employment to about 18,000 mon, boys and girls whoae dally wires rango from 8 to 27 couts. Qrapo oulturo in California ia rapid ly increasing, and it ia thought that at loast 6,000,000 vinos will bo plantod In* Los Angolcs county this apring. Ilonry W. Millor, of Worcester, Mass., has, as approntlco and proprlo tor, occupiod his placo of busineaa as a tin and haidwaro doalor for sovonty yoars. Amonj tho inventions rooordod in tho Patent Ollleo is ono stylod a "lifo saving coffin." It is so arranged that any movomont by a person accidentally buriod alivo is rogistorod abovo ground. Ann Lowollyn, of Pottsvlllo, Pa., has a wooden leg. Hor lato husband had ono. Hor older son took ono to tho gravo witli him. Hor other boy and only child is stubbing around on ono. \V hen transplanting tho atrawborry, an oxport forbids tho romoval of tho runnors aud rocommonda tho loaving of six inehos of thorn attaohod Co eaoh sido of tho plant. Tho onda of theso ruunors aro to bo bontdown and buriod with tho roota. Plants thua troatod aro provldod with moana for drawing nourishment at onoo, aud will thrivo in adVerso conditions whioh provo*fatal to plants stripped of tholr runners. After driving a well to tho dopth of 170 foot at Trout, England, without got* ting wator, a firm of artesian woll on ginoers was consultod. A spot only a short distanoo from tho old holo was solootod aud an Immenso voin of water was struok at a dopth of 114 foot. Thoso partios aay that they havo a sci entiilo method of finding wator or min erals. "Thoro aro but fow housokeopors in Now Orlonu8," says tho i^cavutt^f'who daro demand ot>eulonoe from tholr ser vants. Their servants aro impudent to thom, positively rofuso to rocolvo any ordors or instructions; aro untruthful, dishonost. Tho mistross who has a good cook puts up with a hnndrod dis agi-ooabld or disgusting traits of char acter in tho oook rather than tako tho risk of 'going further to faro worso.' '* According to tho Chinoso, cask making hus boon known to thom for many thousand yoars. They labored, howovor, under this drawbaok: thoy did not know how to glvo the final touch by whioh tho lid la faatenod In? tho only mothod that struck, them as feasible boi?<r to placo a boy inside whllo tho ooopor tightonod tho hoops and se cured tho hoad in Its position. But how was tho boy to bo got outP This ro mainod an unsolved problom for 8,000 years. A novol feature in tho hotel lino of tho Now Orleans Exhibition will bo tho stoamshlp Great Eastorn. Major Burko has oltartorod it at Liverpool, and it ' will leavo somo time in Soptombor with a load of oxhlbits for the exhibition, and aftor tiioao havo beon landod tho vos8ol will bo moorod at tho oxhlbitlon wharf. It will bo thoroughly oloanod and will bo usod as a hotel, undo* t^ chargo of a skillful oatoror. It has fltato rooms and will bo looatod.Aln within tho oxhlbitlon grounds. Donvor has struok another bonanza, 100 foot undor ground. It does not )roato as much oxoitomont as tho Pis* * rah Mountain fraud, but tho Siokly lonizons of tho foothills stand , a show, >f being bonofited. It haa been shown by analysis that tho water from tho 900 foot voin of tho artosian well, which tho Bounty commissioners aro Sinking In tho jourthouso yard, possesses theaamO ' [ttoportloB as thoso of the famous Spi tvator in Gormany. It is impte " with oarbonato of iron, and 0 aold. It is ft 00 from all organ! ritlos, and contains, further,^ tho most famous qualities ouratlvo wators. Tno 1 wate: nt the rato of 2,100 Horn, but its prossuro shot It oan bo ralsod in a pipo to the af 120 foot abovo tho surface. main flow yiolds 9,000 gallons per and oan bo ralsod sovonty-one , foeM above tho surfaoe ot the earth.? JkH>{ , ver Newa. .V Hocopt yoars havo boon usually pro lifio In disoovorlos of the romains of tho prehlstorio inhabitants of England. An interesting discovery of this kind has lately been m?do in tho valley of the Ancnolmo, noar Brigg, in Lincolnshire. Somo laborers who woro oxoavating briok earth oamo upon a oorduroyroau at a depth of sevon foot below the aur- ? faoo. Above tiio road |s a stratum of six feet of olay, and upon the olay lion a layer of .peat. It is known that this poat has oooupled its present position considerably more than 1,000 years, a Roman road, which is still in good or der, orosslng it. Tho newly discovorod traok is formed of huge oaken beaias. whioh aro fastoned Into tho glacial drift bonoath by moans of oaken pinsi * and it is boliovod by geologist# who havo visltod the exoavation mat these ? timbers woro laid down at least 10,000 yoars ago. The track soems to .bo about a rnllo iu length, but whence it led and whaj was He uso jaro questions whioh aro soarooly likely i6 be solved* f Notw Bay Pto. What is more soul-sitrrlng than U i?o?min, who, boaton 011 every side, crowded into a oornor, fighting herof oally to rocover lost ground? who whon his logs fail him, fight his knees. Him who o*emi old Norse maxim: "Either 1 % way or muke one." ' It ItM boon will said that "success consists not In ntrei falling but in rising every time we fail." Push on. Friend* maydesort, the clouds of doubt and disoolIMjftfr ment, of sorrow and may hover roniid about, but there la no night witiiout its worn, no lane without ? turn. Tho world wants men, it U bound to roeornieo him who knows nol how to yield. Gain strongth front the words of that Spartan mothe*, uttered when her soA complain mt that Mi sword waa too shorty "Add a stop to It," the bravo woman rnpllod. Novnt envy those who have not, flgurattveti spooking, boon obliged to take In iheii ifgN calls to woather a squall. If you have been crfpplod. hasten to tho damage and fall Into qfae i You are the hotter for the expet Don't be troubled If softe poo"' you are not as strong as bef< Jour time and measure tiom. VanUv Vai"