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sJ I VOL. XIII. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1885. NO. 3. Carpe l)lem, I will bo inorry In my self-dec?lvlng: Leave rao to dreams,though bitter bo tbo wak ing; I Vnow?1 know tho danger In tho distance. The clouds that gather now will soon bo break ing. 1 will bo happy. though tho far horlion Ho dark wltn clouds, whllo lightnings Hash their warning; Still will 1 lovo tho summer sunshlno bettor? Kciaombor uioro tho brightness of tho uioru* In*. I Do roses grow less perfect In their l>oauty Hocauso tnolr petals fall and fade tomorrow? glial! I not smile and sing to-day, forgetting, Though smiles may turn to bltterost toars of sorrow? Let mo bo happy, Ufo Is hard and gloomy: Its sweetest pleasures grudgingly are given? 8o stern, at kindest, that wo needs must cher ish Bach brief reminder of our ruined heaven. ? Helen Hawlhoriio, In Tho Cottage Hearth, Beyond These Voices. Doad lovo, I leave tuoe In tho morning gray, Hhunnlng tho heavens, wan and uilsty sinllo; Not e'en Its brighter coining can beriiUo My lingering woe. Lovo turns to theo alway In passionate hunger. Memory will not stray From thoo and all thy radiant loveliness. Wilt thou not waken to one last caross That 1 may coaBo my sorrow to bow ray? Farewell, farowel], unheeded horo 1 yoarn From thoughts of oarth my vision to ostrango. God doth not hood] Mail tnockfl ut iny despair, And tlowor-fllled hands teiupt uio away toturu, Yot blindly wooplng 1 can ncvor chango? Lovo guards thy tomb aud bids mo worship tnoro. ?0. B. Ilurgln In Dotrolt Kroc Press. SMITH'S WIFE. "Mrs. Smith, 1 am astonishod at you." Now, this was not by any moans an assertion sui gonoris. In fact, accord ing to his own statomont, John Smith was "astonishod" at his wifo at least onco a day on an avorago. Mrs. Smith was nsod to it. Sho was a tall, slight woman, scarco ly more than a child iu ybars, with shining brown hair, largo dark oyos, and chooks tbat had boon as pink as soa-Hholls (n tho days of hor happy maitlon lifo. Thoy woro whito and wastod now?a circumstanco that might Iiurhaps bo oasily accounted for by tbo ittlo oabo on hor lap aud tho 2-year old olf who was tottoring about tho room in aimloss pursuit of kittons, sun beams, and other baby dolights. "Thingc aro all at sixos and sovons," wont on Mr. Smith, tying his cravat boforo tho mirror and viciously twist ing it into a knot. "Coal wastod, but tor thrown into tho Boap-gruaso jar, dish-towols takon for Btovo-cloths, and my third-boat pants sold to a doal or iu tlnwaro for a funnol aud two pio plattors! I novor hoard anything so outragoouB In my lifo." "But, my dear," mookly intorposod tho much-onduring wifo, "wo noodod tho tlnwaro, and you had not worn tho garmouts for a yoar. Thoy woro full of moths." "Thoro It is again," said Mr. Smith. "Tho moths would novor havo got into *om if you had taken proper precau tions. 1 novor hoard of a moth in my mothor's tlmo. And now you aro act ually asking pormispion to visit your brothor up tho Hudson." "I havo not boon away from homo boforo sinco wo woro married, John," pitoously pleadod Mrs. Smith. "I feol almost worn out, and I think tho Obaugo ?roul<*do mo good." - [ masonTo Excursion last wook, tho trout-lishing oxpodition Into tho Cats kills a fortnight sinco, tho racos at Joromo Park, and Iho drives to Higii Bridgo with Parkor, liotls, ami Frisboo iu an open barouche, all within tbo month. But sho said nothing oxcopt: "It don't cost much to go, John. And I'll only stay away a wook. Do lot mo go! Tho doctor says the fresh air might help baby along with bis tooth, and lilllo Johnny is drooping this hot weather." "Woll," sail! Mr. Smith, as ungra ciously as possiblo, "1 suppose you'll havo to go. Fivo dollars at loast it will cost nut, and altogether our ox pousos aro ruiuous this year. Soo how Goorgiana Trot tor manages for hor husband. I don't supposo It costs them half to livo that it doos us. I might havo marriod Goorgiana Trottor ?onoo. I almost wish 1 bad." It was on Mrs. Smith's lips to uttor: "So do I!" But sho looked at tbo lit tlo ohildron and was silont. "Yos," wont on Mr. Smith; "I sup poso you must go. Only, for pity's stiko, don't got into tho habit of run ? Tunning all tbo timo. I noodn't sond up anything from tho bnlchor's, I sup posoP I shall dino down-town, and thoro'11 bo ouough loft on tho cold knuoklo of youtordny's ham for you!" Mrs. Smith abstalnod from rotulnd ln/* hor husband tliat ho had himself br akfastod on tbo remains of tbo ham. Sho only Higbod and was silent "It's his way," she thought. "Ho moans woll enough. And I supposo nil mon aro so. Only I wish ho had klssod mo good-by!" Woman nature all ovor! Sho could do without hor dinner conlontod, oat Ing a orust of broad in stond, but hor hoart yoarnod hungrily for thoomittod oaress, tho ignorou word of tondornoss. Poor Mrs. John Smith! How tho stroug-mlndod of hor sex would havo pitiouand dosplsod her! No light! no Urol It was dreary onough on that chill August evening, as Mr. Smith scrowod tlio night-key into tho iatoh and gropod his way in tho hnll. Ho sat down in Iho bay-win dow and starod about the vacant room. Thoro was his wifo's work-lmsket on tho tahlo, hor little rocking-chair stand ing vaoant bosido It, wliilo Johnny's forgotton rattlo lay on tbo lloor ol?? by. "It s deuced lonoly," inutterod Mr. Smith, with something of a shiver. "I hope Jonny won't stay long." And as ho lighted bin cigar and -whifTod away a guilty roiiso of bis own shortcoming* came upon him. "It must liavo boon rather a stupid lifo for hor horo, poor littlo thing!" thought ho. "I might havo oomo homo oarly to koop her company a great many times when 1 ?1 ulti t. She bad to sow a great ileal for thn chil dren. I wish 1 had bought her a sow ing tnaohlno when sho askod for iL Allison usod to bring up fruits and flowors for his wife every evening. I wondor I novor thought of It for Jenny. And, now I come to relloot upon tho matter, Jonny has grown thin and palo Of Into." Ho moved his ohalr uneasily and omlttod a thread of blue, sploy smoke from his lips vory much ns if ho woro not enjoying It particularly. ??I supposo thoy aro at Bilberry farm bjr this tlms," said ho to himsnlf. "I supposo the vounkors aro In ImmI snd Jonny is sitting out on tho pisxza, list ening t6 tho whlppoor wills. I've almost a mind to go out thoro to-morrow oron ing, "and talc? somo peaohos and ba nanas and things. It would bo a pleas ant surprise for Jonn)-, and hollo! Whftt'a that! A ring at tho bollP" Flinging his olgar Into tho unused Jgrfcte, Jtohn Smith shufttod along to wo door In hit slippers. "Ob?ft tolo^ram! Now, I wonder who should telegraph to me!" ?'Well," said tho shivering aud rain- I drcuchod mossougor, "p'raps you'd bettor open it and see. Anyway, 1'vo ! no c&ll to liaug around hero no long- i or!" And olY ho wont, whilo Mr. Smith carried his bull envelopo back to tho parlor light aud somewhat nervously toro it open. Cowi)uky, Aug. ?, To John Smith: Ittlilroad accident. Your wife is killed and your child dangerously hurt. Come hv the next train. Jakkd Mkkkimtu, M". D. Again aud again Mr. Smith's bo wilderod oyes roved over tho contents of this appalling missive before ho could fully comprehend its deadly meaning. "Dead! Killed!" ho muttered to him self. "My Jenny killed by a railroad accident!' Aud then, catching a railway guido from tho book-shelf, ho whirled over Its loaves with trembling hand. Tho next train did not leave tho terminus under an hour and a half! To him tho time seeuiod almost like eternity. How could ho onduro this awful agony of bouI for an hour and a half? "Perhaps they aro Sncorrcct," ho muttorod to himself, wiping tho boads of cold sweat from his brow. "I'ooplo can't always judgo oxactly in such a moment of dismay. Perhaps sho is only badly hurt, and I can nurso hor through it after all. My Jenny! my loving, patient, sweet-oyod wife!" A strong sob roso up in his throa* as if it would stranglo him. "No, no, sho is killed!" ho gasped, as his eye fell onco more on tho telegram. "Dead! and I novor can spoak to her again or toll her what a cruel, exacting bruto I havo boon! God knows I didn't mean it, anil now it's too late to maico any amends. Why didn't tho childrcu go too? How can I bring thorn up with out Jouny ?" His head drooped low on his quiver ing hands; a low, spasmodic groan burst from his palo lips. An hour and a half before lie could go to Jenny; half ru hour thon, beforo ho could look upon hor doad face; for Cowdroy was an insignificant way station aomo eight or ton milos up tho road. "If I could only livo my lifo ovor again!" ho cried aloud to tho baro walls, whilo light in his arms ho clasp od Jenny's lit11o work-basket, with its strips of unfinished hemming?all that was loft to him of tho fair, departed 1?rosonce. "If 1 could only spoak to lor just onco, and ask her forgiveness for a thousand things. Put, no?it in too Into?too late. And " Ho stopped abruptly. Tho sound of a hack driving hastily up to tho door, tho roitoratou jork of tho boll-wiro rousod him onco moro into reluctant action. "Johu! dear John!'' "Jouny, my wifo!" Ho stood, oalo and stupefied, staring at her as if she wero actually a ghost roturnod from tho regions of spaco and unroality. "Thero has boon a torriblo railroad accident!" said Jonny, hervoico faltor iug, as sho laid tho baby oil a sofa and took littlo Johnny lovingly on hor lap ?"a fow milos beyond Cowdroy. Tliroo orpeople woro killed, but, thank G^^Ba^Kiapod unWtirt. Of oourse, I to8?- Aud only^^ ./link, dfcL.-, thoro was a poor mothor killed, with hor littlo ha bo iu her arms, and her name was tho samo as mino?'Mrs. John Smith.' " Ho nointod ono trombling finger to tlu> toWram, which lay opon on tho table. Mrs. Smith road it with dilated eyes and palo face. "Oh! my love, what a fright you havo had! ' sho exclaimed. "And only to rolled, it might havo been mo!" Put it is not. Oh! thank heaven, my own darling wifo, it is not!" gasp ed tho husband, holding his recovered troasuro close to his heart. "And I havo yot timo to livo my lifo ovor again!" And from that hour John Smith was a changed man. I'o Jouny it seemed almost like millennium, but Mrs. CJeor giana Irottor turned up hor nose and stiid: "John Smith must bo in his dota<'o, sponding all his timo and monoy in carriages to the park, oxtra help, and lino clothos for that palo-facod wifo of his. John Smith always was a fool!" ? New i ork Daily TQtys. Title*. Yos, it is monoy that commands ro Hpoct in this country, spoaking gonor ally, writos n Now York correspondent. Wo roally earn scarcely anything for distinction of birth, flio worship of foreign aristocracy prostrates fow of us. Noblomon tourists command nt tontion from only an insignificant por tion of Now York. Tho hotels are full of titled travoiors, and they are not luintod much. "Tho sallow man loaning against tho post, I hoard a hotol clerk say to a f^uost, "is tho Marquis do Monclar, who las orossod tho Atlantio to bo tho T'fonoh oonsul at Quoboc. Tho man talking with hint is tho Visoount do Thury, on a trip around tho world. Ho is a Paris notable. Tho Spaniard ovor yonder, in tho oontor of a group of his oountrymon, is tho Marquis do Caatolfuorto. Tho chap who just asked mo to sond a packago to his room was Lord Henry i'aulet, of England." Tho rooipiont of this information was not dooply impressed. Ho scarcely followod with his glance the directions indicatod, and illd not deign a com ment on tho accumulation of aristo cracy. "l)o you soo tho rod-headed follow sitting on tho sofa?" said tho clerk. "Ho was a bell boy in this hotel ten yoars ago. Ho wont west, pitchod in to oattlo ranching, and has already mado his million. Now tho hoaror was alort. His oars soomod to quivor with the reception of tho words, and his eyeballs threatened to quit thoir socknts to get a closer viow of tho solf-onrichod individual. "Can't you manage to introduce mo?" ho asked eagerly. An hour later 1 saw him still deeply absorbed in con versation with the rod-haired man, whllo ho doubtless could't have identi fied ono of tho noblomon who had been pointod out. Wo hoar of a Hangor young man lately married who went West on his marriage tour and by way ftf Niagara Falls. Tho train stopi>od at tho falls and tho newly-married couple both got off tho oars to get a better viow of the falls and thoy both lingorod longer than tho stopping train aTlowod. I lie boll rang and tho young man. forget ting for tho timo that lie was married, mado a rush to got aboard and batoly roaohod tho platform on tho roar car. Ho did not fully roallr.o that ho was marrlod and had left his wife behind, so ho says, until ho had got tiftoon mllos away.?Jiangor (Me.) Commer cial. A CURIOUS CALCULATION. Tlio Kiul of tho World K>icurrd Out, and the I'ertod Klird at 1800. Tho following singular and very cu rius calculation, bv which tho ap proaching end of tlio world is deter mined, has never before been rando known to tho public, writes a Water loo, Kan., correspondent of tlio Louis villo Courier-Journal, nnd inay bo of very great interest to thoso who have been studying the prophecies, or watching the progress of human events. Believe tho results or not, as wo may, nevertheless hero aro tho tiguros, which any road or can verify for hitusclf. If ihcso results aro hero correctly fore told, then the startling fact stares us in tho face that tho world is within lifteon years of its close. In t!.o fall of lsyy the final winding up is to take place. Hero are the calculations. Lot tlio reader carefully oxaiui.no thorn: To bogiu. Thcro aro sovoral impor tant prophetic periods mado known in the scriptures, and various dates, as well as significant numbers, sueh as tho groat period of '2,300 years men tioned by Daniel, tho period of 1.200 years, and tho period of 1,385 years. Besides these there aro in tho book of Revelation other poriods anil signifi cant numbers, such as the 1,200 yeari; tlio period of tlio woman's sujouru in the wilderness, 1,000 years tho period of Satan's being bound, and COG the number of beasts. Enoch's ago (8G5 years), who prophesied of tho sccotui advent among tho antediluvian sinners, i* also beyoud alt question a symbolic number. Perhaps, liko tho 305 days which comploto ono revolution of tho earth around the sun, making ono yoar, so his 305 years may be symbolic of tho great prophetic periods known as "days, ' ouo grand revolution of which is to comploto ono of time's groat years iiuil linish earth's career. "Seven" is also one of tlio significant numbers of scripture, and a "week of seven," or 7 times 7, still more so. The student of scripture wi'.l ivadiiy recall frcqr nt instances of this signiticaut ligui ? <, and especially the moro important ono of 7 times 7, or 40?the number of final completion, the finishing of all mys teries, tho winding up of earth's all'uirs. Very well. Now, take thoso figures, add them together, and seo what you gel: 2,300 years, Dan's great period for tho cloaiising of the sanctuary. 1.21)0 years, uieuMit ing the continu ance of tho "abomination of desola tion." 1,335 years, the period of "blossod uess" to tho saints. 1,260 years, the duration of tho wo man's sojourn in tho wildornoss. 1,000 years, tho binding of Satan. GGG yoars, tho number of tho "boast" who is to go into perdition. 3G5 years, tho symbolic ago of Knoch, the groat prophet of tho advent. 10 years, the number of final comple tion. Total 8,205 years. Now remember that beforo all tho catastrophes denounced on maukind as tho divine judgments against sin thoro were usually poriods of "waiting" bo foro tho judgment fell, so as to?afl;ord opportuuitu??( repentance and osotipu. mid thosc^B^. .jds multlUes of jlQ. ? , _ iro the conquest of Canaan, 40 yoarn;'and before tho fall of Nino vch, 40 days, denounced by tho pro phot Jonah. Now add together 120 yoars of Noah's warning beforo tho llood came, 40 years of Israel's warn ing beforo judgment fell on tho guilty Cauaauilcs, years that the witnesses laid unburied preparatory to resurrec tion, and thrco years during which tho owner of tho vineyard came seeking fruit and finding none, at the expira tion of wli ih period tho lig tree was to be cut down, and you have 1GGJ as tho sum. Now, to apply these mystic numbers and leai u their significance, iiuagino your life divided into the four periods of childhood, youth, manhood, and old age, so as to gel it in its coniplolonoss. lake your age in years, loaving oil months and days, add it to itsolf throo times (ono for each of thoso four periods), add to it tho mystic numbor 8,2(55 (tho sum of tho groat prophotic periods) in order to ascertain tho full sum of timo's revolutions, and divido tho amount of four (tho numbor of universal11y, because thoso calculations apply equally to every human being), subtract from the quotient tho other mystic number 1(50} (periods of warn i"g given to man beforo tho execution of final doom), and from tho remainder deduct tlio number of years you havo lived in this sublunary world, and you got the number 1,.H00 j. Now it matters not what a<ro you take, that of tho little child or tho old man, tho result is tho siiiiio, tho omni ons 1,809} alwaxs remains as tho ono fatal period when every human life is to close. But tho ono year in which every human career is to terminate and every life close must ho tho final )oar, tho winding up, the conclusion of all sublunary things, tho yoar of doom. A singular confirmation of this cal culation is to be found in tho fact that, according to an old Jowlsh tradition, tho world was created in tho fall of the year, of which the old feast of trum pets, occurring in Oetobor, was sup posed to be the memorial. And it would be natural to supposo that it would bo very appropriate for it to close its career on the completion of one of itn annual revolutions; in otho words, in the fall of tho joar. And so this remarkable calculation plainly in dicates. Tlio three-fourths singularly points out that fact. Iloneo, ft thoso conclusions are not orronoous, wo havo the startling prophecy before us that when earth reaches ono of hor groat j milestones on tho highway of time in October, 1800, a mighty hand will bo laid upon her and she will stop. Let the world look out for 1800. In 1X74 ('iarenco A. Portloy. who had lately gia>loat> d from West Point, married Alms Maugio Alexander, daughter of Dr. Alexander, a New York millionaire. Wlion tho wedding ceremony was over fie handed his roii in law an envelope containing #100,(XX) in government bonds. "Thank you," replied the gratified son-in-law; anil then ho asked, -But as wo are going away would it not bo hotter that you should keep the money till wo rotumP" "I'll do so," answered tho delightod father-in-law. nnd his half-choked words, "(?od bless yoe, my children I" were lost among the clatter of the do parting carriage and the valedictory shouts. Not long ago Mr. Alexander died without a will, and no mention was made of the +100,000, though his property was left to his daughter. A friendly suit has now been instituted to determine the ownership of the fl(K), 000, the wifo wanting her husband to have the mono v. i/ondon is the headquarters of tho pot dog trado of the world. The Confederal* Capital. Contrary to tlio common boliof, thoro was no lack of provision* or dolicacios In liicbmoud at any timo during the war, but tbo prices measured by al leged dollars wore simply stupoudous. I uo not remember thai there was any actual sutt'ering among th?) people, al though food and driulc woro of conrso economically dealt with. I recollect also that there was a bread riot of so largo proportions as to call for the in tervention of the military, but the wo men. black apd white, who woro the chiof participants, wero of tho lowest class, r.nd were instigated uot by want so much us puro deviltry. It is a curious fuel that what aro call ed the lower classes farod bottor, as far | as provisions woro conocrned, than the oiliccholdcrs or wealthier citizens. The salaries of the otlico holders, both con- I federate and state, wero grossly inade quate to provide for their families, and the woalthicr citizens at tho outsot of tho war had invested, almost without exception, all their available means in tho 8 per cent bonds of the confederate government. Those who ownod slaves, by hiring them 01H obtained large re turns, for labor was in groat demand; but the trouble was that tiio confeder ate authorities conscriptod all ablo bodicd negroes as drivers of mulo teams, laborers on tho fortifications, etc., just as they conscripted able-bod ied whites for service in tho field, and the hire given to tlio masters was but a tithe of what could have boon procured iu open market. Talk about Washington being a city of bonrding-housos and restaurants, why it was not a circumstanco to tho confuderato capital. Nearly overy house, and especially of limited means, was filled with lodgors, and nearly overy other honso was an eatlug-houee. Tho pooror whites and blacks uuulo money hand ovor fist by cooking pro visions aud selling thom from stauds on the streots and at tho dopots to the hugo swarms of hungry pooplo who wero constantly ooinTng and going. Tlio population proper of Richmond was not a fourtn of tho rast crowd that daily and nightly congre gatod within its corporate limits. It was tho Mecca of the confederacy, and tho pilgrimugos mado thereto woro constant in their coming. OQicors aud soldiers, Jewish morchants, "ex empts," blockade-runners, refugees from Maryland and West Virginia aud fiom counties of tho State hold by the federals poured iu a steady stream into tho lap of tho city, and tho pooplo of tho city made thoir living, and. iudoed, it may bo said in many instances wax ed fat, in feeding and lodeing tho hun gry horde. Tiio homo guards, organizod to do fend tho capital, comprised all tho ollicialb in tho confederate and stato departments, and no man was exompt ! who wus able to lire u rillc from bo ! hind a breastwork. These hold uo drills, but marched in a body, with regular order, to tiio breastworks when tho alarm bell in tho oapitoi square rang forth tho warning poal of. the approach of tho enomy ? so strokos, 1 think.?Murray in Wuthitig*, ton licpublicun. '.'-"-sH xrnomlat, Btoixlmy into EngRlffi. Thoro tlioy ?ro beginning to guy the sacrod profossors of philosophy aiul tho groat miud? who try to fit 11 fo and its eccentricities and developments to thoorioa that only go a littlo way and harmonize beautifully with small things. Tho studios and principals of Herbert Sponccr have al ready boon jronily chatted, and boforo many years thoy will bo coming to tho conclusion that tho hateful agnosticism is a philosophical nolle prosoqul. The political economists havo got all mixed up long ago. 1 was onco a dilligent student of John Stuart Mill. I wont through his political oconouiy throo or four times, examined his principles of logic rigorously twico or throo timos* I investigated Adam Smith and llicar do, and all sorts of political econo mists. I havo roachod now but one conclusion with regard to capital and labor, that tho world is all unbalanood, and that tho stato of your finances, tho only subject political economists oan not roason upon, is tho pc/lnt upon which all philosophy of a praotioal kind turno. Thoro aro two kinds of peoplo in tho world gonorally spoaklng, pcoplo who havo monoy and pooplo who ha von't, and tho woak point in political oconomy lies right horo: that the first class h is all tho crodit as woll. You can live on a cash basis or on a crodit basis. Those who havo all tho cash havo all tho oredit, and thoro will never bo poace on oarth or good will toward mon until wo atrango matters ho that those who havo tho monoy must pay, and those who haven't oan livo on tick. This would appoar to bo a very simple arrangemont, but wo have not struck tho philosopher or po litical economist who oan ovoroomo tho objections to it on tho part of tho partios of tho first part?tho pooplo who own what everybody olso wants. ?.b'an Francisco Chronicle. Obuoxlmm Kntliualnsnu Says Kato Field, in her piquant way: It drivos mo wild to soo grown-up people, acousod of possessing common sonso, touching n subjoct .with kid glovos when they ought to roll up thoir slcovos and go in for hard work. This supinoncss brings many good idoas to nauglit. Thoy aro fod on promises and 6 o'clock toas. '[ daro not 'waits up on' I would' in a manner to mako Lady Maobotli use worao languago that sho did formerly. Want of oarnostnoss in tlio cause of this tepidity. Socioty moans chaflf. Enthusiasm is as ob noxious as tho plaguo. To bo nosscssod of an i<loa which you aro roady to do fond with blood and troasuro is to bo a nulaanoo. You aro worse than a crimi nal; you aro a born. To boro is to com mit unpardonahlo sin. Lot Stanley cross Africa and Jamos (Gordon Bon net tie the American flag to tho North l'olo, and both will ho fetod after thoy'vo accomplished thoir solf ap pointed tasks, because society natro nizos success in any form? but Ivjua tor and North l'olo must not bo men tioned in advunco. Columbus may dis cover America, but ho won't bo invited to dino out or to sit for liis photograph until ho returns homo alive. If he doesn't return it sorvos him right. Why wasn't ho content with one hem isphere? Why not woll enough alonoP In my privato opinion contont- j niont is a swinish snutiinont. To bo Ratified is to wallow in stagnation. Hut I keep this holiof to mysolf because I desire to liro peaceably with my neighbors. Mind you, this crltioism applies to what is called "society." The largest apple troo in the United Slatos is growing at Cheshire, Conn. It is HO fnet high, spreads 1(H) feet, and yiolds from 76 to 110 bushels of ap plos per yoar on altornate sides of tho troo. ch Into fro THE TUSCA1 to It AS. ?tory of tho Tuscaroras is a >red one. Thoy wcro adoptod .!? Iroquois iu 1712. They cmno . ..North Carolina in 1708, where -?mad 16 towoB and 1.600 warriors. . i 'r existence thero was tho sarno as a Xhor *r">oa* ?iuo old story? ^gmohrnenu by tho whites, who r?0??d them of their lands, and when r?8? *nco followod long aud bloody P0*0' rr wars ensuod. Thoy burnt ono (,a ' 0D' 8Urv?y?r gonoral of North lua, who had marked some of 1 territory into lota for settlers, ?f-^oy jcapturod tho Gorman Haron do enriod, but roloased him after livo ?on his promiso that ho would ??ou ?y Dono of their lauds without ???!? ^on,ont- In 1713 invaders of their iorn tory capturod 800 Tuscaroras in a Lni ,n lho ^euse river. Thoso wero ! and j?pld as slavos into South m-T*: |ta?. Tho romoant migratod to York Rs others had previously Previous to this Tuscaroras, on of Soptombor, 1711, had killed rhltes on Albetuarlo sound. ho war of the Revolution most of > .Vt, ?qUoi? &dllorod lo lll? English, *T>apy of tho Tuscaroras and Ouoidas "?*"9 friendly to tho colonists. When Sullivan and Col. Gausovoort rffi? ; thoir dostructivo campaign a P*Jc i the Indians on tho routo to tho ''Mohawk castlo thoy wero treated rvu?]L0r?ry mar.k of friendship and hos In passing through tho Tusca . Oneida castles. Theso ollicors ordorod to spare tho Tusea and Oneidas. Such portions of ibos as had boon English allies 1 in canoos ou Onoida lako, Cdown tho Oswego river, and k along Lako Ontario to tho llrit lon at Fort Niagara. lu 1780 iroras camped on a mile square >m by tho Sonecas, which is a thoir prosent rosorvation. Tho % company subsequently gave A squaro miles, of which in _^_r* addod by purchase 4,329 &Aking the total of thoir rosor "*49 aoros. Tho United States itit paid for tho purchaso $13, jpart of tho trust funds hold nlted States on final adjust claims of tho Tuscaroras Carolina. Thus tho Tus oommoncod their settlement in .^.0 of Lowiston 17 years previous UlWvant of thoHollaud Land com * 19 or 20 years boforo tho imont of settlemonta thero by 'he Tuscaroras woro thus tho "lor* in this region, and tho 'gelations havo oxistod bo jind tho whites over sinoo. 1812 tho Tuscaroraa woro "ie Americans against tho it Pleasant family, of whom ' i-lhdyoblof tho Tusca kTproitilnont history in tho of tho old time. His grand Jl*\*'hig Indian," having boon j^riti^h afmy, and at idftglof Fort Niagara. ? Jth?latherof tho pros ?rly oxi SB "Tl fg untlf they, woarlod with swiiu came oil shore and wore caught ^dovoiirod. Whon tho wolvos \roro id out d ior becamo plenty. Hears , plonty in somo localities, and panthers woro occasionally killod here abouts. Bittern's white owls, ami flocks of swan woro seen about Niagara fulls and on the islands and in the marshes. Wild cranberries abounded, and thoro wero a groat number of beaver dams. Salmon throe feet long wero often takon in Eighteen Milo crook, near Lookport, and below tho falls of tho OakLoroliard. Tho "woods aro full" of It:(.iln stories and romances through out all this region of Niagara county. Th<| lands hereabout bolongod to tho original Holland purchaso. Tho first white child born on tho groat Holland ?""5h*8? was on the 19th of Juno, 1801 "a fino boy," as the records state. IIo was subsequently Col. Henry ?an?oui, of Clnrencr. In Ootobor, 1798, which was boforo lho Holland land purchaso, on tho prosont sito of Buffa lo, thoro wero but oight buildings, all log housos, of which Asa K:in.ioin oc ol,Pjod ono. IIo subsequently removed to Pino grovo, and was lho fathor of tho fino boy.1 A a la to an 180G thoro wero only 19 dwellings in HutVnlo.? /Imiaom vil/c (A'. Y.) Cor. Troy t.tulyct. Oregon Gold. Tho gold fovor iw breaking out again in Idaho, Montana, and Orogon. It is in tho nir and must havo a run. Mnn nro at work along tho Snakn rivor for 850 milos, and ovory day now fields aro oponod. Last wook a deposit was found in a clay bank at tlio mouth of Billings loy creek that is turning out from $10 to $100 a day ]-< i man with tho most primitivo f am of roc^or-appuratus. vVhilo Ihu in a singularly ricii streak, tho ground for Homo inilon back from tho rivor proapocts woil. At Silver City, Idaho territory, ono of tho oldest oampa on tho rucitic coast, minos abandonod yoars ago aro boing ro oponod with good rosults. Out of twonty-fivo minos and prospects in that locality thoro is not ono but that will pay largoly. Tho old Oro Kino is be ing put In shape for working, and It is estimated that tho yiold this season from the oxtonaiou of that niino alono will bo $100,000. It is workod by throo men with picks only. Largo nuggets of froo gold aro daily taken out of tho War Laglo and Florida mountains from tho pay streak*. The lodgos also average woll in gold and silver sulphur ets, asldo from tho froo gold. In Wa gontown, nine miles from Silver City, there is a low-grado quart/, lodge forty feet wide, running from $12 to $20 per ton. Tho building of tho Oregon Short line has afTordod a moans of roaohlng the Idaho and Oregon mountains, and I tho development from this timo on will I be rapid. The recent llnd near Hunt I ingtbn is a logitimato ono. This lield | in oiallod I'ino ('reek, and is in the sonttioast portion of Union county, Oregon. It was discovered about thirty I day# ago by placer prospectors, and is now a camp of over two hundred peo I)lo. j There is an extensive mineral >oltj 40 by 180 miles, stretching away into eastern Oregon, north and south along the Knako river, and from this belt $60,000,000 in gold has been taken by placor minora alone In tho past 20 years. This fine gold is supposed to bo ,?washed from the ledges in tho moun tains where tho now quartz fields havo boon located. ? Cincinnati Knquirtr. A Hoston statistician says that $ I will bny as much of tho necessaries of life to-diy ?s fl.60 in 187ft, $1.32 In 1866, 91 ctnta in 1846, and $1.19 in 1826. In other words tho purchasing power of ? I is 19 per cont greater than it wan in 1866. A dollar will bny more to-day than in most previous periods in tho history of tho nation. How ? Grout Military Hi-lory Was W rll (on. Oho day early in 13J;5 ho wont for a walk with Lord Lan^di'le, one of his intimate friends. over sumo lields wliioU aro uuw covered by iho mansions of lielsrravia. The convorsalion turned ou Southey's recently published narra tive of tho I'cninsular war. Lord Lang dalo was greatly struck by Napier's ro luaiKS on the events of the struggle and the characters of the principal act ors. Suddenly lie asked him what he was thinking of doing. "Do you mean." replied Napier, "where am I going to difie? ' "No," said Lord Langdale; "what are \ow thinking of turning to as an occupation?" Then ho urged hiiu to turn to literature. The article on Jomini proved th.it he could write. He must not waste his life in mere amusement. Why shotiKl ho not write a history of the war lnni solf? Ou returning home Napier told his wife what Lord Langdale had said, and added that ho himself felt doubtful whether ho was clever euough to write properly such a book as a history ol tho war. Hut she, believing firmly ill her husband, encouraged him to try. For several nights ho lay awake think ing over the matter. At List his scru ples wero overcome by the thought that ho might be able al least to vmdi I cato the calumniated memory of Moore; and he resolved to make the attempt. Thoso of his acquaintances who did not really know hun were sur prised to hear of h i j intention, and tc marked that being comparatively a young man, ho was presumptuous to think thai I10 could write such a his tory. Having formed his resolve lie lost 110 time 111 proceeding to cxccuto | it. First of ail, ho called upon the | l)ukc of Wellington and asked him for ! tho loan of his papers. Tho Duke re plied that ho had himself thought of j writing a plain, didactic history of the war, which should be published after j his death. Till then ii would bo i 111- 1 possible to make known the whole truth without giving pain to many worthy olliccrs, whose only fault had boon dullness. For these reasons lie told Napier that ho could not lend him his private papers; but lie intrusted him with a number of important docu ments, and gave him authority to ob tain from tho (.iuartcrmasli-r-tienera!, Sir (ioorgo Murray, all his orders of movements. Of his own accord lie promised to answ er any uutMions as to matters of fact which Napier might wish to ask him in tho course of liis work. Murray, however, refused lo lot Napier havo tho orders of move ments, stating that ho reserved them for a history which lie himself intended to write. After taking these prelimi nary steps Napier went to l'aris lo col lect materials for tho French side, lie walked about tho streets, exploring tiio contents of tho bookstalls, and bought every book that seemed likely to be of any use to him. He also went regular ly to tho Depot do la Guerre and made copious extracts froui the documents which woro stored 011 its shelves. O11 nlurning to England he look up his abode for a tiiuo at Strathliohlsaye for fbone of consulting the. Duke, -"it, with,. >yhoiftyw}Je?Hn received information from olllcors whoT had served on tiio stalV of Ney and Masscna. lie also collected an im mense mass of letters and journals from British olliccrs. ? The SalMm. Ucvicui. An Aiiirrlcnn Marri -.t; Among tho various lriIs <>( A<i none are so rich or well divs?i <1 :i< the Armenians, says tins (llasgow Ihrti'il. To them belongs childly the nierehan diso of precious stones, which tin v ex port to Constiinlinople. The Ai nuMii-in fjirl whose mat l ingo is' to be dcM-ribed mil delicato lluwers of cm.< sii.il bine painted all over her me ; and bre: .-?!; iier oyobrows were ?1 \ ? ? I "iack, :t:.? I ;h. tips of her lingers and ? .m> i>; a ini-jut orange. Slto woro on <? i it h ind \ iu ablo rings sot with pin ions ?-:?? i? <? -. and round her ii"c:k a ?nnr; ol v<> y liuo turquoises; h-T si. i:l was one <?! the finest spun silk, Ik r j.inkft and trousers of cashmere of a I?ri511 coior. Tho priest and his doacui an nod, me latter bringing a bag t'oniainiui: tic sacerdotal garments, in whnh !..>? priest arrayed himself, placing ,? in h i ornamented with precious stones oi> his hoad, and a collar of metal, <>n which tho twelve apostlns were repre sented in bas-relief, round his neck. Ho began by blessing a soil of tem porary altar in the middle of the neon; tho mother of the. bride look her i?\ i. e hand, and, leading her forward, site bowed at tho feet of her future hus band to show that .she acknowledged him as lord and master. Tlie pi c -1, placing their hands in each other, pro noun cod a prayer and then diew ineir heads togother until they touched thr> e timoR, while with his light hand he mnilo a motion as if blessing tlicni. A second timo their hands were joined, and the bridegroom was asked: "Will you bo her husband?" "I will," be answorod, raising at tho saniu time the veil of tho bride, in token that slio was now his, and letting it fall again. 1 lie priest thon took two wreaths of (low ers, ornamented with a quantity of hanging gold threads, from the hands of I ho doacon, put them on tho ho.ids of tho married couple, changiii'' them throo times from one he.id to tho ot her, repeating each time, "l unite yon and bind vou one to another - live in peace.1' A I/Il>oi t y-1<ovIhjj Italian. Corncobi was an ll:ili:wi MMilptor, who caino to tlio United Stutto jht potuato tlio likonoe? of o:ir Kcvolu I ??>n ary chiefs nnd sages, uml tluu to i?l<> 11 - tify his own nntim with the infant re public. His built of Washington, Jay, Alexander Hamilton, (ieorgo Clinton, and others, are now, a** morn portraits, above nil prion to thi-? nation, nnd they hnvo besides it classic graeoahout Hiimo wlilch ontitlos tho artist to tio con temptiblo rank as u statuary, lie had a grand design of a national monument winch ho uaod to show to )ii<i visitors, and which ho wished congress to em ploy him to execute in marble or bronzo. Of course they did not do so, nnd, as it happened, hn was much nnoro usefully om)doyed for the nation in modeling the busts of our great mon. Hut the nation was not i ipo for statuary a dozen busts exhausted tho patronage of tho country and non gross wnii too busy with dollar* and cents, fixing tho revenue laws nnd funding the debt, to think of his grand allegorical monument. ('eraoehi could not live upon liberty alonn, much as he loved it, and when the French revolu tion took a very decided character he went to Franco and pliuignd into poli ties. Some years after ho returned to Homo, where ho was unfortunately killed in an insurrnctlon or popular tumult, growing out of tho universal revolutionary spirit of thoso timos.? lien: /'erley I'oore. ;tl! \ ti.s> way. .1 Dcc.iy inn \Vo..?l It is p*ucrnl!y ;;v}!n ..0j ? ? cimty of largo ?jiia111111o^ <-f U e wood is daujjoro.u* to heal;j,?.r. 0 villi? II CO as to V 11;i- si mi:: v. and I moans ditiuito, nor have u o but more or io-s probable ti to how disease i> produced i:i ... - Yellow fever, typhoid fever, an I rious forms of inalar.al fuvi r have attributed to tins cause not t^it ?,?t ting wood is >;i: posfil to i.(? *.jf. lieiei.t to produce th :n. i i;t tii.r. specilie cause seem t > th, it.di and .11 ei ea>e w he.1 int roduced \s hei >? it .s pi v s oiit in I urge ju.miitii-j. It is .1 f K'l tn.it. ,:i ;k 11 ti:;i*?;? <.,f ;;1. stances. t ;.i? pi\'\a.ei.eo of sellou lexer in epidemic f >1:11 h is b?.M? :i o,>:;n eted xvith tin* pre.M nee of dee:i\liui.er in 01 be lieu tii p;ers and xx harxes, or of niassos Di rotting s:..;\;;ijH. ei.ips, s..,v. illlst, etc. I 1. i s w.ts tin* c isu 1:1 l':usi lii nee. li.dtliii r. e. N,".v \ ork Citx, ai;d N"ur 1 ??1 k. au.i tii.* presence of Vi.tten timbers or p. inking in p.;;nw-fe\er sh.ps has been i-.oV.| so ofi'en that In itially It Is tilt.'. . i,t to be something Ujote than a in. t ? en;:ie..!ciio\ t olieetioiis of damp and decaying sawdust have bei'ii in a mini;*. r of m stances charged with the production of malarial disease, and in .some* of the nortnwestern states ar.d e,p,e ailv in Michigan.the cv,Is from this cause have been tiie subject of discussion bv saui tai \ ollicials. l'ccaying wood pavem.-nts or .side walks have been suspec.ed of eruisiu-' malarial allcctions in Meinph s. ,n W ashington, and elsewhere. r.it.ion ;h the relation between cause ami <-il'.~it does not ap;car to have been ea-arl* established. \\ c do know, however, that f'reen wood contains a v- ry 0011s,dcrablc amount of albuminoid "matter, which :i (lords fooil to micro organisms wliien d< i d 111 pose it, producing phenomena ot putrefael ion and giving iiso to more or less otl'ensive odors. I'rof. Brewer, of New Haven, has re ported the results of a number of < xpe 1 imeiits on the results of soaking preen woods of Various kinds in cold water, and thus removing the albuminoid mat ters. 1 hat preen lumber contains some thing which greatly favors its decay, and which may be reniovod by loti" contituied soaking in water, was well known many \ears ago, and pave ri>o to the process of water seasoning, in \n1i'k*!i tin* plankrs were .sunk in lar?ro bodies of water and kept immersed for from si\ months to a Near, when thoy were raised, piled in tf,0 air. and thor oughly dried. 1-loot ing in 111 her thus treated is a littie liable to decay, for the simple reason Hint it contains little or nothing that is lit for the ni-ero or ganisms and fungi that came decay. 1 he a.bumiuoid uiaterial which mav bo thus extracted I10111 wood appears to support the life of various micro orga nisms which, so far us we know, are not directly or indirectly injurous to health. W e can only infer that it will also support the fife oi oilier organisms which may be injurious?the germs of specific disease?and coucludo that it is sullicient probable that this is tho case, to warrant Uto .aiyiyg of special The Unlucky Opal. "J he prejudice against opals may bo dying out, but a great many people still hold to tin; belief that they briii" bad luck,' said a jeweler the otlie? day. "I could tell you of a liule inci dent that occurred here that may make you wonder wi,ether some peop.e do not manage to pet themselves horn throe centuries too late. A man came here with a ring that had a beautiful opal sel in it, Mid told mi; lo take out tiie stone and let him see some other gem to put in its place. I asked him if lie was going to get rid of tho opal altogether, and ho said lie was goiiw to destroy il. 1 was rather surprised, and said: " 'Hon t do that; I'd give you for it.' "Ho declared that ho didn't waul money for it; that it had brought him nothing but bad luck since lie bought it; that he had failed in business and lost two of his children, and all. of course, 011 account of a little piece of slone. 1 wont over to that bench and took the opal out of its setting, and while looking at tho ring I laid' the gem on tho bench beside 1110. As miick as a Hash that man picked up a ham mer that was lying among tho tools and hit the stone a whack that smash ed il into a thousand pieces. There was nothing left. Then ho said 'There!' j,, n satisfied manner. It's too had. for the opal is one of the pret tiest gems in tho world." Xcto York, ?Sit/t. Ij('K llel'ore Wicket. Very young ladies, who enjoyed the doubtful privilege of having schoolboy brothers, were, sometimes permitted or compelled lo join in their games of cricket. So long as they reveled iu tho short skirts of infancy I ho experi ment, was fairly successful, but the crinoline of maimer year* in Imposed an impenetrable screen between the ball and Iho wickets, to the exaspera tion and despair of the bowler. (lal lantry 110 less than decorum foi b.tile the perpetu al verdict of "leg before." which, in strict justice, should often have cut short the fair cricketer's in ning. This seriously interfered with the success of feminine cricket, and occasionally such is the frank brutal ity of boyhood with harmonious re lations between the players. With the decline of this special" branch of sport the question >i>1 s i/vall^ imt itq practical interest. Hut it it to be fear ed that, the difficulty, so far ss it sur vives, 111111 lain insuperable until a rogeneral., i-.tirope shail imm to the idea of thai "bifurcation of nether fTai me 111u 1 ij in the opposite m??x which w 1 s tiie dream of a f in reformer m roM the All an ; je. / 1, ?,,/ ,n ,, ,, 1 ? 9- - A <? >1 I - | Mil 1 < foil I liskn w J111 I n I }?(% - in;;s "A n; jm? <! won |.m" rnil *'()( Y. W < > < * v 1 ? < 11 * * ?????? 1) | <. J ( 14; < > 1 r' M1 t {? ? ? I It IS so, P (1, ,| II,,.J vv. stock III e< III \ el s.|l I ,11 long before tlley cot 111 to |.| III! I lie ti Ml I race of t he phrase ' ,\ tone daw' Wonder" is said to be found .u 1 I n nicer. " I he adage '()l the t v, ? > e \ lis choose the. least," is found in ,1 l,r,rt f- riu m ih<i writings of < nvi<. I honi is a Kempn, who wiote in ine lificenih cenlnry, says: "1)1 t xv<? 1 vi s 1 ini le? < is always to |jo ClK ? %en i here nre probably 2./><Mi.i)'|i) sweat glands belonging to each human being, the object of (he exislence of this per spiratory system being lo remove Iho | excess of w a I <? r and noxious gases and to regulate Iho ternperatum of the ; body. I'ei spiral ion is always going on and under normal conditions it amounts to about two pints a day for each person. <?!.!' \ Nl N< JS. 11 ?? " hi* from sr.nstroko 1 u ? ? nge >>n iuo lop of lli?ir heads. S>: J <? : : H. i? n, of Georgia, pays i \\k'? o ; ?? I \rorlh of real i s'.alo. Pimco ! ('bancs. next to tho Ktiij i*; rv. - ?.v < i,) pv. richest man ::i (.? :???.. n.. 'J1' v ? 1 "> } " v in the cathedral :U ^'U,ul" '? to bo worth $1-', ght base-ball bauds pi Salt 1 here u. ro 7.1.1 leftdiatided men in tho 111i>?? in -.j iini:i. ;vi: of them ex pert s.ltijej".. 11"V\ 1-.t i... u?.\: i^t. writes slowly. It.' roqtr.ic, at nil t\so hours to lid tho Page of a tiia^a/.ne. 1 tie value of one vole was shown at a ti.e.'tu fit rtinn hi Melhitlio Couuty, 11 i., when :? law was 'ssed by exactly thsil majority. ' 1 iK'jipou-s of smut found in stnutiy gram are so small that 7..'>?)??,cK?0 can bo placcd s: le by side in tho spaco of ono m j n a re inch. A contractor ottered to buihl tho l.artholili pedestal for Sd'.'lM'OO. Tho committee how ever, wont on in its own way, ami the result is that the pedestal will cost about "*?' l<>t.i.h.iu. An oKl hots.- wnii the brand "l\ S." on lii" ll.it; \s i> pul.iug a bread cart about tho (. itv of Mexico. He was tak cn down there with >cott'? invtulor.% and has been earning his livin" ever since. ? An old log house standing near Hen ton Harbor, Mich., since the time tho morning' stars sang together, has been taken down and will be shipped to Chi cago, where it will form a part of a panorama. Mrs. Morgan, of New York, who died recently, had what was roputod to bo the second litie-i collection of orchids m the I'm led States.the host collection being that of the lion. Krastus Corn ing at Albany. In the Kast they close and darken their houses except at night, ami so keep cool. X'Ut the American housewife knows more about such matters than mere heathen who feed their girl babies to tho crocodiles. \\ oi ic in Russian factories is by a now law forbidden between 8 o'clock at night and 6 in tho morning. It was not out of regard tor the employes, but with a view to lessening overproduc tion, that this lias been done. Near t airo, 111., resides a man who claims to have discovered pure paint in large quantities on his farm. Ii is of several dillercnl colors?red, white, bine, and yellow?and "requires no preparing but to mix with oil, after which it is ready for use." Alabama's strongest man is J. II. ( lark, of Shirley, Covington County, ll is said that ho can tako a 260-pound anvil, and, by placing his thumb in tho unison hole, throw it oil'liko a luarblo, ^d to handle two stout men at a timo pa duijdVplay. Ho weighs about 250 .sa boiiig a penny. Tho passenger pays ? penny on entering, and, us each now district is reached, the conductor col lects another penny. Tho systoin is found to encourage short rides ? tho most piutiiuble to the companies. Miss Allele Field, in a communica tion made to the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, reports that the common earth worm, after its head has been cut <>IV, has the power of re generating the wtiole of the dismetn beied p.>ition. She recounts her ex periment-. with such minuteness of do tail as seems to show that error in her conclusions was impossible. New portraits of iho Tichborno claimant lire being exhibited in tho 1'Otidon shop windows, ami there is not the slightest suggestion of tho burly ' Sir Roger," with whose features somo do/.en years ago I he public were so fa miliar. Instead of the moon face,with the wrinklelc.sy cheeks fringed with whisker, nml I lie smooth, elaborately atranged hair, there is u countenanco seamed and lined, almost squaro in its contour, a heard and mustache some what ii regular in outline, and a head of hair lii Veiy reverse of smooth. '?corgi.ins Jiavjj.a jiovul y^icrtriiii nienl, wii:. n tiiey cail a "honey-gath ering." On ? in Irving County lately was alien !o.| \,y , ighty-live persons, and an account oi it says tho four trees being on ;? spot ijt?t much larger than three acres, it was not any troubln to move from one tree to another, and by -> o'clock every tree was cut mid re lieved ?,r ju sweet contents, of which there was an nbuii'lanee - so much so that everybody h id enough and plenty was left. I in: b -es were in a good humor and but \c;y lew were stun?'. Payment to ?.mgers has sometimes Inkon an odd form. WiienMlle. '/olio, n vocalist from t ii.? 1 ho it re Lyriquo at Paris, w as miking a pi ??.'?!-sioiiul tour round tho world some )<mis ago sho gave a concert in the Society Islands. Siie iigreeiI iu sin;; 11 air from "Nor ma ii ii < I a few ot le r s<?ii"s, and was to get n third of the icceipt.4. When counted the prima donna's share was found to consist ol three pigs, twenty three turkeys, f.?rty four chickens, .0, ? K.'i) cocoa r 11be,id ?? a quantity of bananas, lemons, an I or j n ces. In t!io I'ntish Home of Commons all the it ic n 11 ie i < keep then huts on, and it is cvi ii irii-giilar to a I Inns the Spoak ei uncoveied. I Ins ru!n gave rise to mi aniiMing scene (In oilier night. Mr. Courtney attempted lo address the Chan on a point of order. To do so in neeordarieo with the rules it was ii<!Ce# sary that he should speak seated and corered, but at the critical moment ho wis unable lo lind his hat, and on ad dressing the Speaker uncovered was met wilii laughter and loud cries of "Ordei! ' Mr. Courtney then borrow ed a hit from i\ member silting near, nml slated bi < pomf. Kither our young men are growing older or o n old men are growing ) onnger. I'.efore the war men of 10 nod t.? were not cl.nsed as young men in tins country. They were called mid die aged men. P>el now nothing is more common than to hear i\ man of "veti lo spoken of ns "a promising young lawyer" or "a young states man ' I here im a good reason for the change. I lie nvciage of human life ih lengI lie ning. and as the increasing re quiremenls of our civilization grow more complex a man of middIn ago will be considered young, if we measure him by bis knowledge and experience. I lie real young men of Ihe country are glad lo have in iheir ranks n wet of live.y ohl boys who claim to bo still enjoying Ihe freshness and vigor of youth. I, t us imitate Victor Hugo and make our youth do duty as an ov ercoat until we are grayhoadod.- At lanta Constitution.