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? > THE TRIBUNE. ? i - ~. * ' - _ . - * * V VOL. II.?NO. 17. BEAUFORT, S. C., MARCH 15, 1876. ? $1.50 PER ANNUM. *? i? i * .5 3 ' . , v-' ^ " 6ri the Threshold. Standing on the threshold, with her wakening % heartand mind, Standing on the threshold, with her childhood j > left behiud; The woman softnoss blending with the look of swcot Burpri-o For lifo au;l ail it* marvels that light the clear blii j eyes. < Standing on tho threshold, with light foot and fearless hand, As the youug knight by hie armor In a minster nave might stand ; The froah rod lip juBt touching youth's ruddy rapturous wine, The eager heart all brave, pure hope, oh, happy child of mine 1 I oould guard tho helpless infant that nestled in my arms ; I could Bave the nrattler'n onlHnn hn?S fmm petty baby harme; I, could brighten childhood'B gladneee, and c >mfort childhood's tears, But I cannot cross the tlireshold with the step of riper ycara. For hopes, and joys, and maiden dreams are waiting for her there, Where girlhood's fancies bud and bloom in April's golden air; And passionate love, and passionate grief, and passionate gladness lie Among the crimson flowers that spring as youth goes fluttering by. Ah! on those rosy pathways is no place for eobored feet, My tired eyes have naught of strength such fervid glow to meet; My voice is all too sad to sound amid the joyous notes Of tho musio that through charmed air for opening girlhood floats. Yot thorns amid the leaves may lark, and thunderclouds may lower, Arid death, or change, or falsehood blight the jasmino iu thy bower; May God avert the woe, my child; but, oh ! should tempest come, Remember, by tho threshold waits the patient 1~~ of home! GEN. JACK'S .DIAMOND. Pretty much everybody has heard of General Jack's penchant for diamonds, and a great many of us know the man himself, a sturdy character, sound and lirta on his feet as a horse block. It is said that those who want to come it over General Jack?no easy thing to do?always approach him on his diamond side. He takes it as a compliment to be asked to show his collection, and does show it. But he is a good judge of character for all. The story goes that some thieves conspired to rob him by i? u: 1 ~i : * piuuimg ujr uia picuaiuo jlu auuvrmg LL1H treasures. There were three of them? nobby English fellows?who oome over expressly to do the job, and thoroughly posted. Thoy made his acquaintance, and in duo course procured the invitation to see his diamonds. They claimed to be sporting men, ardent turfites, but connoisseurs in Buoh things. They came to Jack's house one forenoon in a coach, and he received them alone, opened his Bafo, displayed all his treasures, went into their history, etc. This," he said, "is my Golconda specimen?not ^ very large, but remarkable for its brillianoy and pure water. This is my Brazilian?it is a bit off color, a suspicion of a canary tinge "? Whack ! smack 1 thwack. You would, would youf" and with three successive blows of his fat white fist, his three English visitors were knocked down and put /tors du combat. It was a mere suspicion on his part?something he saw in the me i's faees, read in their eyes?but it saved his diamonds. He summoned aid, locked the safe, secured the men, and found them fully armed? pistols, burglar tools, handcuffs, rope, gag, chloroform, red pepper. He disarmed them, bundled them into the ooach, and gave them twenty-four hours r to leave the countrv. One day General Juck had a visitor, a man of forty years, with grizzled hair and a stoop in his shoulders?a pallid face, somewhat bloated from long indulgenoe in liquors. You don't know rao, General Jack?" said the man. The general was puzzled a good deal. "Hombro, I've soon you somewhere. Stop?I have itl Good Lord, Gary, what have you done to yourself ?" f * "It's fifteen years ago, general," said Cary, apologetically. "Only fifteen 1 Zounds! You were a handsome fellow then; I thought you fa were a genius. And your wife was ' lovely." " Don't mention the past?she's a wreck?six children to care for; and I am?what you see. I want you to do something for me, before the black dog devours mo." " Hombre, it's the drink that does it." "I want you to save me from the drink, general." " How came it, Gary ?" * It was the war, poverty, siokness, long struggles in adversity, long lassitudo t BUU 1UIW Ul spmul, UllBgnU, till IillHli turned in. " I think I'm gone, general, but Margaret won't hear a word of it. She told me to come to see you and ask you to * help inc." "Whore is tho little woman, Mark?" He named a wretched tenement house. General Jack dmmmed on the table with his fat fingers a moment. " Not in want, I hope, Gary?" said he, at last. "Not quito, general; but the times # are hard; I can't get away, and there's no telling how long it will be before that oomes, too." " Como, let's go and seo her," said the general, and Gary, without a word, led the way to his poor lodgings. The general does not say muoh about the interview that ensued, but I know from other sources that the wife and children had a good supper that night. " Come to my office?down town, here's the number?to-morrow, at eleven. Mark, and I'll talk with you. Madam, I'll seo you again," and the general withdrew. "Seo hero, Mark," said the general, next day, "you're broke down. The little woman can't do anything with yon, and your own backbone's turned to injun rubber." "That is just about the conclusion I am coming to myself, general," said Cory, with pathetic sinoeritv. " I know better!" cried Jack, vehemently pounding the table with his fist ; " I mean to take you in hand now, and mnke a man of you !" "1 wish to Heaven you would! cried Cary. " I mean to! You're tho very fellow I've been looking for this year and moro. Yon're honest and capable?you know all about geology, minerology and all that sort of thing, don't you??if you don't you can learn?stop ! Listen ! You are up to my diamond passion? well, there's where I want you ! I want a man?an honest man?a capable man ?to go to South Africa for me, and find ran the biggest diamond there?a dozen of them, if you're so minded ! Will you go ? Stop ! I'll take care of the little woman if you do, and provide for her if yon don't come back. Tho sea voyage will give you a chance to taper off, drop the drink, build yourself up and all thut; when you get there you'll be all right again, and then you can use your brains in finding me that diamond. I'll pay you good wages, and all you find is mine. It is a bargain ? Strike hands on it if it is !" " If Margaret says yes, I'll go, general. And God bless yon, anyhow." " Come home to lunch with me then, and we'll ask her?she'll likely be there." Not only she, but ali the children were there, and in the newest of olothes, for Mrs. Jack had been at work too, and Mrs. Cary told h-sr husband, with tears in her eyes : "We needn't go back to that dream of horror any moro." So it was all settled in a few minutes. Gary's family were to have the cottage on the general's farm and an ample allowance, the eldest boy and girl to go to school, and Cary himself to go after tho big diamond. In a week Mark Cary sailod, with a chest full of books in which to study up the subject, and the littlo woman and her children were happy on the farm?happy, at least, as they could be with Cary away in quest of tho biff diamond. How did that quest fore?" I must let General Jack tell it in his own way, as ho takes the key of his safo from biB pocket, preparatory to opening it, and stands on the hearth before the grate, warming his stout calves, and emphasizing his narrative with gestures of the key. " Never was mistaken in a man in all my life before that 1 Made all my money by looking in people's faces to boo if I could trust 'em or no. And this here Mark Cary?well, there's half a million o' diamonds, great and small, in this here chest, let alone bonds, and I'd loft him here with the safe open and nobody else in the house, and gone off say to Europe or the Sandwich islands, perfectly easy. But, you see ?well there's suoh a thing perhaps as tempting people too far. Gary got along splendid at first. He wrote to his wife and me regular all along the voyage, anu wneii 110 got to tno uape ne aent a photograph that we might see how ho was spruced up. I could see the old curls was coming back to his hair, the old fire to his eyes, the old roundness to his cheek?and the little woman was more in love with him than ever. He went up country, and by-and-bye his letters begin to come regular again, and diamonds, too?small ones, but one or two good-size ones, so that in their sum they might be taken to be worth full as muoh money as I had put up for him. One day ho sends me a real brilliant two-carat fellow and simultaneous draws on mo for ?500, saying ho was going to anothor place in the hope to find a diamond worth the venturo. "After that no more from Mark Gary. More than a year went by, and not a word did I get from him, nor did his wife no more than me. The little woman was well nigh crazy, and as I had no good news for her, I didn't tell her any. 1 had written in a private way to a correspondent of mine at Natal, and hoard what I was afraid of?that Gary had All Asv ih.x lwwl .'4 I.,4 ^uun till iru iuo uuu ogmu?nuu it uut mo deep; but I never let on, not even to my own wife. No news?eighteen months and more went by, and not a single word from Gary. I kept out of the little woman's way all I could, but one stormy night she burst in upon my wife and me, as wild as she oonld be. ' General Jack,' she says, wringing her hands, but never shedding a tear, and turning on me a face I couldn't look at for the pity of it; 'General Jack, I cannot be a pensioner of your bounty any longer! You are the best man that ever lived and I'm the most wretched of women, but that's no reason why I should keep on imposing upon you.' 80 I says to ner: What's upf' for I was pretty suro now she had news of Mark, and nothing good. 'Have you hoard from Gary?' 'General Jaok,' she says, solemn like, 'I know my husband is deadl I know that he has been false to yon, and it killed him t It's killing me 1' I was struck all of a heap. Never mind, little woman, never mind 1' I was going ou to say, when my wife broke in. ' How | did you learn all this, Margaret!' she asked. 'In a dream, a dreadful, awful dream!' said the poor creature, and then she broke down, burst out crying, and couldn't say any more. So wo sets to work to console her the best way we could, but didn't make much headway at it. I told her I would be cruelly hurt if she didn't let me keep my promise to Mark, but her ,'ast word was she couldn't, daren't and wouldn't live on mo. i " Just then the front doorbell rang, and when William opened it, the raggedest buzzard of a man broke past him and came rushing into the sitting-room here where we were. He hadn't a whole stitch nor a clean stitch on him, that fellow hadn't ; his hair was long and i wild and his beard also ; his feet bare and his face would have won a premium for sharpness. All tho samo, that little woman knowed him as soon as he stopped at the door, turned white as a sheet, held her two hands together tight, and just sighed betweeu her sot teeth : 'Mark!' I thought she'd go over, but she was too true grit for that. He never . noticed her, nor nothing else. He came siraigm np to mo ana Kinu o steamea i his staggering feet by holding on to the table and looked mo in the facoand said, cool and calm liko, but in a monstrous thin, reedy voico : 4 General Jack, I've ; been a thief and a traitor, a sot and a vagabond, for more than a year"; but I have lived long enough to make you amends. Here's your diamond ; take it quickly, for I'm dying !' and ho put a bundle of rags about as big as your two fists in my hand, and went ovor just like he was shot I "The little woman gavo one cry, half joy, half terror, and had him in her arms next instant, his head in her lap and she smothering him with kisses, whilo my 1 wife, cool as a statue, turns to William 1 and says : 4 Have some soup made,' i and first thing I saw she had the brandy bottle and a spoon and was down ou her knees beside him. 4 He's just starved 1 to death, general, that's all,' says she. 1 And I wasn't nowhero in that ring, while < them women was bringing him round 1 with little doses of beef tea and brandy, I kisses and pattings, and calling him all 1 the loving names iu the dictionary. By- < aud-bye ho sits up. 4 Where is it ?' says 1 ho, aud makes me hand that parcel of { old rags out of nay pocket where I'd 1 slipped it in the hurry of the moment, ] and unwrap and unwrap until out there 1 shined?but alio ! thero are some things ^ you cannot describo ! * i 44 His story was that ho hadn't been i at the new place more than a week be- ] fore ho lighted on the big diamond? i kicked it up with his toe. Ho no sooner saw it than he knew it was a fortune for < him if he kept it. Then, he says, the 1 devil entered into him and tempted him, and he got on an all-fired rollicking i bust, and run away to India to sell tho 1 stone to a rich maharajah thero. But, c just as ho was concluding tho bargain ho i rau away again. Then he landed in j Australia, aud kept up his jollification i until he hadn't a red left; but all this i time he held on to the diamond, because i it was mine, not his. So one day he t makes up his mind to come home, and works bis passage across to California, and then, for fear lest he should again a be tempted, or get robbed, begs aud v borrows his way homo. Now, that I ? call pretty much of a temptation for a f poor mau to overcome; don't you ? r Look at the stone?it's worth $80,000 as s it's out, and that Mark Cary didn't t know he was going to get a penny for c it, outside his wages, as agreed on. But ? he brought her on, all safe ! It isn't 1 every man would do it?but the way I r got rich was by looking in men's faces and seeing if they're honest. And I c never was wrnnir in indciriir a man's ehaiucter in my life." c General Jack will not tell yon, what is r nevertheless the fact, that, after his v famous diamond was cut, he bad it ap- ( praised, and paid Mark Cary its value, t less tho advances made to him and his family. He will not tell you of Gary's t fine plantation and his fine prospocts? f of how ho is a temperate man, a good citizen and tho best of fathers and bus- f bands?made so by General Jack's min- c istry. But ho will show you the big t diamond, if you call upon him, with ex- t quisito pleasure, and relate to you with r much gusto such portions of its history <] as do not reflect too great credit upon v himself. An Editorial Training. " Let a man for a time become editor if ho wonld be thoroughly acquainted ? with men outside and inside, and . through and through," said Dr. Taylor ^ in a lecture before the Yalo divinity stu- . dents. This is very true, and when Dr. Taylor says that in early life ho was an editor, we get one of the reasons of his power and success as a preachor. Thero is no man who obtains such an insight into hnman character and the motives whioh govern men'sconduot as an editor ol a daily journal who is fitted for his f Elaco?that i8, ono who in capable of f oth observation anil reflection, who j preserves his independence and does j not let prejudioe disturb his analysis. We will add to what Dr. Taylor says, that training as reporters would be very useful to theological students.?Sun. No Danger, The Ohioago Tribune suggests as a < means of preventing panics in theaters \ and similar plaoes of public resort a i Slacard with the words " False Alarm, . [o Danger," whioh could address the i people through the eye when the tumult 1 would render audible speech impossible, i Such a placard was for many years a 1 regular part of the stage furniture of i the old Ohioago museum, and it was ] onoe or twice used with tho happiest i effect. ' NEURO MINSTRELSY. It* Firnt Htnrt In the Country? ftllnMrol Characteristics, etc., an Told by One of Them. A Aim correspondent interviewed ; Billy Bireli, of the San Francisco Min- j strels, on the subject of minstrelsy as it c was and is : The first troupe was called ^ the "Virginia Minstrels." Thore were j only four of them?Dan Emmett, baujo a player?he's on tho stago yet,. out iu ^ Chicago now; Dick Pelham?who weut ^ over to England, made a fortune, and a never camo back?bones; William Whitlock and Frank Brown. They were not ? tho first to appear blacked up on the stage you know. Thomas D. Rico,better known as "Daddy Rice," is called tho jj father of negro minstrelsy, but incorrect- n ly so. He was an actor and took negro parts iu plays, but he wasn't what we v would call a negro minstrel. " Jim Crow" made him famous?that and the v ' Virginia Mummy." The comic opera " Oh ! Hnsh 1" was written for liim by Judge Philips, I've been told. It was a H beautiful thing, just full of gems of songs. You remomber the " Coal Black 0 Rose ?"?well, that was one of them. " Dumbleton's Ethiopian Seranaders" was started by Major Dumbleton the ^ year after the Virginia Minstrels. After the Dumbleton's camo Goorge Cl Christy. Christy started in Buffalo. He had been in a circus before ho got up a troup of minstrels. From the start he was a great favorite, 8, and when his party came to New York g( in 1846 and opened in the Alhambra, they did an enormous business. Then, a iu 1847 or 1848, tho Buckley's started the Peedee Minstrels. -They made ^ splendid music, had a great deal of j wuour, auu wnen tney went over to JiitigLnud, fairly took the country by storm, fl1 is you may say. In 1844 I played first as a boy for Ned B, Underbill's fatiier, who was then a bo- K tanieal doctor in Troy. Nod Underbill w was in the troupe, too. We played a Q] jonsocutive engagement of one night. p Wo didn't run the risk of trying the temper of the public by a second performanoe. The old man gave me half a lollnr, I remember, and there was a ^ oad sixpenco in it, but I'd sooner have ft jiven $10 to plav than not to havo got Y( ;he chance, so I didn't mind the six- ^ pence. In 1846 I went on regularly, and lave been in tho business over since with generally good sucoess, and for a ^ inmber of yunr.s past with most excelleut fortune. Epli Horn started in Philadel- jg phia in 1845, and Backus in California n 1852. J,, ' Is the minstrel business a profitable duo yet, or has it, as some aver, seen its j0 jest days?" k( " There are more minstrel troupes w low?good ones?than there ever were icfore, and I beliovo they aro generally loiug well. As to whether there is fr noney in it or not, you may judge for ? yourself from our figures. We cleared ti while wa were r.t 585 Broadway $400,000 n seven years. I think that was doing ^ iretty well, and wo havo had no reason o eomnlain of anv chancre since." a ' How are performers paid?" " That depends upon the individual j iiul the demand for him. In a general ray you may say that singers get from ftI 540 to $75 per week, instrument per- w ormers $30 to $50; comedians, that is U] uen of general usefulness, about the < ame as the singers; end men, from $40 *1 o $50 all tho way up to $150 or $200, acordiug to their individual popularity. Jomo song and dance men, too, like Billy Emerson, get as big money as end uen." " Where do you got your burnt sork ?" k " Prepare it ourselves. Just burn the 0? sorks and pass the dust through a paiut nill to get it all tine and well mixed with j. pater, and then it is ready for use. ^ llmmpagne corks are tho best to use? nake the finest dust." " It is less injurious to tho skin than he white and red used by tho pale je acos of the drama, is it not?" " Not at all injurious. In fact, it is rnr?jl for tho skin. T have lrnown it to inre skin diseases. Just look at the old ninstrels and see how smooth and fresh Rj heir faces are. That is due in great ^ neasure to tho cork; pomething also no y louht to our frequent and thorough . vashings." To Arms. a About elevon o'clock one night there ^ vos a loud and boisterous kicking at the ? ront door of tho parlor in which tho P" overs wero sitting. . Tho girl said it was . lor infuriated brother who had sworn to ' till any one who visited her. The young nan very naturally hunted llTs hat and , nade his way out of a back window, and 1 ried tho metal of his heels across tho sommons. Tho raging brother tired five 11 lseless pistol shots after him and let 00 lim go. It was hardly likely that ho vould come back, but he did come the rery next night. He took out a five- , ihooter ainj laid it on a table by him, .. ind resumed his courting. Ho has been 1 doubled with that rough, raging ? brother no more. ' al Coughing. g The best method of easing a eongh is to resist it with all the force of will pos- is uble, until accumulation of phlegm becomes greater; then there is something bo cough against, and it oomes up very jr much easier and with half the coughing. A. great deal of hacking and hemming fc and coughing iu invalids is purely nerv- el ous, or the result of mere ' habit, as p is shown by the frequency with which it Hj occurs while the pationt is thinking y, about it, and its oomparativo rarity n, when he in so much engaged that there is no time to think, or when the attention is impelled in another direction. a SlIOTT'S K.VILROAD TRIP. | thnrlnx hla (Seat vrllh a Y?uac Lady, md Interviewed by itln. Mbolt. Mr. Shott hadn't been out of Detroit j n seven years, when, the other day, business called him to Chicago. Mrs. Shott wanted to go along, bnt he said hat timos were too hArd, he didn't want o have the bother of taking care of her, ,nd she was compelled to remain at toine. Ho reached home in the evenng, after an absence of two days, and h he sat eating his supper he observod: " I tell you it was a long ride, and I'm lad you didn't go." " Lonesome, was it ?" she asked. "It would have been fearful if I adn't had a young lady in the seat with le," ho repliod. "What! A young lady in the seat nth you 1" "That is?that is?you know the car ras crowded," ho said. " And you offered her half your seat?" "I?that is, she sat down there," he tammered. " Mrs. Shott's ears grew red and her yes snapped. "And so it was lonesome, was^itf rou didn't speak to her, I suppose ?" iquired the wife. " Why, I?I spoke onoe or twioe, of ourse. " Nice young lady, I suppose f" "Well, no, I can t say she was." " And thero you sat and looked your weetest, and I'll bet you passed yourjlf off as a single man." " I don't know as 1 did," he replied, 3 he drank his tea. "Did you iuform her that you were larriod and had three children ?" she emanded. 1 "I don't remember, though I pre- J lme I did." " You presume you did 1 Well, I pre- i imo you didn't. I know just how you l it up there and pretended to be a rich idower, and took care of her sachels, j ad bought pop corn and illustrated pa- i ers ?or her !" ] Mr. Shott inquired if there was any j tore biscuit. ] "It's a nice operation your ooming ome and expecting to find hot biscuit ( tryou!" she went on. "Why didn't , au ask if that young lady could make ( iscuit ? Why didn't she come home to , *a with you f . "Nancy, don't be foolish," he ob- , irved. " Don't be foolish! Who is foolish f j [ore I was scrubbing around and bak- j ig and patching, and breaking my nek, and you were braced up in a seat . aside a young lady, stroking those yel- ] iw whiskers and talking about your ' r>nds and mortgages and your lonely j idower life." ' "I wasn't," ho replied. "Daniel, did that girl ride all the way om Chicago with you?" asked Mrs. bott, as she toyed with the handle of jo milk jng. "Did she? Lemmesee!" he mused, i ho helped himself to the butter. "You know she did!" shouted Mrs. bott. " If she got off at any of the stations uiuu't see her," he admitted. "And there yon sat and .sat, and rode id rode, and you paid out the money e need so much in the house for peauts, and pop corn, and juba paste, and icturo papers! Daniel, let me see your allet!" "My wallet ?" "Yes, sir, your wallet!" " What for, Nancy?" "I want to see your wallet!" "It's the same ono I always had." " You left home with twenty-six dolls, and I know exactly what the trip >st. Fare to Chicago and back, sevenon dollars. Hotel bill, two dollars, c 11 nllnnr nr?n <lnllar mnrfl fnr inpuli?ri- A Is, and now whore's that six dollars ?" r "I?I"?he stammered. "You what?" "I met Green down by the depot and lit him four dollars." "Daniel Shott, who is Green, and here does he live?" Daniel didn't reply. "Daniel Shott, you've lied to me!" io exclaimed. "You didn't want to ko me along owing to the hard times, ou said I'd bother you. If I'd been oug you d have growled four times a ilo about the bother and the expense, id thoro you went and bothered about young lady and squandered four dolrs on her, and here I've worn those d shoos seven months to save exsnse!" "I'll get you a now pair pretty soon," o replied. "You will, oh! When?" "Before the fourth of July, anyow." " You can squander four dollars on an nknown girl and make me wait four lonths for shoes, can Vou?" " What unknown girl f" "Daniel Shott"? And the milk pitcher came down on is head, she caught him by the neck- < e, and the oldest boy ran out doors and elled, "Fire!" Several of the neigh- 1 ors ran over, but Mrs. Shott met them < t tho door and said it was only a burn- t )g chimney. When they asked for Mr. < hott she remarked: j "Mr. Shott doesn't feel a bit well and < i oovered up on tho lounge!" { i Enterprise.?One day a young man 1 i a Kentucky town was invited with his 1 voetheart to attend a party, but un rtunately was not in possession of 1 rough money to defray expenses. To \ rovide it he killed a neighbor's dog, cinued it, and sold the hide to a ianird, realizing enough to supply his eed. The only place whero they never have slim attendance?the fat men s ball. The Ctom. Quaint though the construction be of the following poem, yet never has the story of the cross been told with more truthful simplicity: Blest they who seek, While in their youth With spirit meek. The way or truth. To them the sacred Scriptures now display Christ as the only true and living way; His precious blood ou Calvary waa given To make them heir* of endleea bliss in heaven. And e'en on earth the child of God can trace The glorious blessings of bis Savior's grace. For them he bore His Father's frown; For them Hs wore The thorny crown ; Nailed to the cross, Endured its pain. That His life's loss Might be their gain. Then haste to choose That better part, Nor e'en daro refuse The Lord thy heart, ^ Lest He deolare, "I kn w yon not." And deep despair Should be your lot. Now look to Jesus who on Calvary died, And trust on Him who there was crucified. * Items of Interest. James Parton is fifty-four and his stepdaughter wife about forty. Parton was thirty-four when he married F^nny Fern, and she was forty-five. John A. Andrew Post 15, G. A. B. of Boston, voted to discontinue the oeremony of decorating the graves of their fallen comrades who lie buried at Mount Auburn. It is Baid that Professor Giefling, of Germany, has produced from ohenuoals influenced by a galvanic battery a perfect egg, which by artificial means he has hatched. The chick, he wevsr, has uo feathers. John Stevens, of Logansport, Ind., inherited an estate of $12,000 two years since and spent it in riotous living, and now sues the trustees for its value, alleging that he wasn't of age when the property was turned over to him. George Lord, of West Boxbury, died i few days ago. He got a piece of meat in his throat, and was in a fair way to shoke to death, when a doctor pulled it 3ut with his finger. Then a current of kir began to circulate between the skin ind flesh, puffing the man up even to his fingers and toes, and causing him intense pain. He soon died, after whiah his body resumed Ho aonul A New Bedford man and his wife we* t to a neighboring town to get the body of their dead daughter. They put the ooiElued corpse in their wagon and started tor home, where a funeral was to be held, but stopped at the first tavern and drank, rheir subsequent stops and drinks exictly equalled the number of other tavirus on the route, and five miles from ir\mn f^ntr vam on Arnnlr fViof fVtnv wuuj nvAu "V UAUUA vuav vuuj UiU lot notice the fall of the coffin from :he wagon. The body waa found lying 'ace downward in the road. A school of whales reoently entered ;he Dowry Voe of Shetland in pursuit of aerring ; they were numerous and ergo, and caused great commotion irnong the fishermen, a number of whom set out in boats to try and capture one ir more. But the whales showed fight, ind drove the fishermen back to the shore, capsizing one boat, the crew of svhich were saved with difficulty. After Importing themselves triumphantly in ;ho bay for a while the victorious whales noved off majestically. The Bog and the Baker. Sir Walter Scott tells us of one of his logs that it one day furiously attacked he baker and was with' great difficulty silled off. Bat as the dog observed the laker coming every day to leave bread or the family, he began to regard him n a favorable light, and in time the dog ind the baker became great friends. Jne day Sir Walter was telling somebody how the dog had attacked the jaker, and immediately he began the itory the dog skulked into the oorner of * he room, turned his face to the wall, lung down his ears and lowered his tail ind displayed every sign of being heartily ashamed of himself. But when Sir Walter came to the end of the story and laid : " But Tray didn'tbite the baker," he dog turned round in a moment, jumped and frisked about and was eviiently restored to his own good opinion, ro try the dog, Soott repeated the story in different tones of voice, and in the midst even of other conversation, but it was always the same. Directly he began, he dog crept into the corner, but when le came to " but Tray didn't bite the baker," he always capered back again in riumph. Labor in Life. It is important for each one to find his bwn appointed work in the world, that which he loves best, and can do bast, as ar as practicable; but it is folly to sit lown supinely and give way to despair ind lethargy because he imagines he bunht to oocudv a more prominent and important poet. Nine-tenths of the changes made under this delusion prove * bo be for the worse instead of the better, rhe character and capacity that fail of success in the one case fail jet move signally in the other. Fronde well aaya: " Yon cannot dream yonrself into a character?yon must hammer and forge yourself one;" and it is only by laying hold earnestly and vigorously of the work that lies nearest to us, and raising its valuo by putting into it all the vigor and energy, all the patienoe and fidelity* all the thought and ability we can command, that we have any nght to expect fraooess in any of its meanings.