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THE TRIBUNE. VOL. II.?NO. 19. BEAUFORT, S. ., MARCH 29. 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM. Watching. He loitered up through tho moadow, Hia foot in tho trailing swath ; He atoopod where the keen scythe's blade had passed. And plackod tho aftermath. And oh, love ! and ah, love! And what shall my Bad heart nay ? What bold prayer breathe by night, love, It dimd not breathe by day ? She sat by tho open window, Looking unto the west; And the son wont down, and the stare came up Beyond the gray hill'a crest. And oh, love ! and ah, love ! And when will hia footstepa fall ? The skiea are empty and barren, love, But Ood ia over all! A etep on the garden walk, A shadow under the stars, And the moon's first gleam slides sudden through Tho twilight's jealous bars. And oh, lo ve! and ah, love 1 And open love to me ! My heart ia knocking at thy door, Ah ! lift the latch and eeo ! Membranous Croup. A SKETCH BY " MARK TWAIN'1 "Well," said MoWilliams, "to go back to where 1 was before I digressed to explain to von how that frightful and incurable disease, meihbrauous croup, was ravaging the town and driving all mothers mad with terror, I called Mrs. McWilliams' attention to little Penelope, and said : " Darling, I wouldn't let that child bo chewing that pine stick if I were you." "Precious, where's tho harm in it?" said she, lint at the same time preparing to tako away the stick, for women can not receive oveu tlio most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it? that is, mariic-d women. Liove, it in notorious that pine is tho leaust nutritious wood that a child can eat." My wife's hand paused, in the act of taking the stick, and returned it to her lap. She bridled perceptibly, and tiaid 44 Hubby, you know batter than that. You know yon do. Doctors all say that the turpentine in pine wood is good for weak back and tho kidneys." 44 Ah ! I was under a misapprehension. I did not kuow that the child's kidneys and spine were affected, and that the family physician had recommended "? 44 Who said that tho child's spine and kidneys wero affected?" 44 My love, you intimated it." 44 The idea! I never intimated anything of the kind." 44 Why, my dear, it hasn't been two , minutes since you said"? 44 Bother what I said 1 I don't care what I did say. There isn't any harm in the child'H chewing a bit of pine stick if she wants to, und you kuow it perfectly well. Aud she shall chow it, too! So there, now 1" 4'Say no more, my deal. I now see the force of your roasoning, aud I v.ill go aud order two or three cords of the best pino wood to-day. No child of mine shall want while I "? 44 Oh, ploaso go tdong to your office and let me have some peace. A body can never make tho simplest remark but you must take it up and go to arguing ana arguing aua arguing, till you don't know what you are talking about, and you never do." ' Very well, it shall be as you say. But there is a want of logic in your last remark which "? 1 ? However, she was gone with a flourish i before I could finish, and had taken the ' child with her. That night at dinner she confronted me with a face as white as a sheet. 1 " Oh, Mortimer, there's auother ! Little Qoorgie Qordon is taken." " Membranous croup ?" '' Membranous croup." " Is there any hope for him ?" " None in the wide world. Oh, what is to become of us?" By-and-bye out nurse brought in our i Penelope to say good-night and offer the customary prayer a' the mother's knee. In the midst of " Now I lay me down to sleep," she g ive a slight cough. My i wife fell back liko one stricken with death. But the next moment she was up and running away with the activeness i which terror inspires. i She commanded that tho child's crib i be removed from the nursery to our bedroom; and she went along to see the order executed, title took me with her, of course. We got matters arranged | with ppecd. A cot bed was put iu my wife's dressing-room for tho nurse. But i now Mrs. Mo Williams said we wore too far away from the other baby, and what if be were to have the symptoms iu tho i night?and she blanched again, poor thing. We then restored the crib, and the nurse to the nursery, and put up a bed for ourselves in a room adjoining. i Presently, however, Mrs. MoWilliams said, suppose the baby should catch it from Penelope? This thought struck a new panic to her heart, and the tribo of us couldn't got the crib out of the nursery agafu fast enough to satisfy my wife, though alio assisted in her own person and well nigh pulled the crib to pieces in her front c hurry. Wo moved down stairs, but there was no place to stow tho nurse, aud Mrs. MoWilliams said the nurse's experience would bo an inestimable help. So wo were turned, bag and baggage, to our own bedrooms onoe more, and felt a great gladness, liko storm-buffeted birds that have found their nest again. Mrs. McWilliains sped to the nursery to see how things were going on there. She was back in a moment with a new dread. She said : " What can make the baby sleep so ?" I said : " Why, my darling, baby always sleeps like a graven image." " I know, I know; but there's something peculiar about his sleep now. Ho seems to breathe so regularly. Oh, this is dreadful !" "But, my dear, he always breathes regularly." "Oh, I know it, but there's something dreadful about it now. His nurse is too youug and inexperienced. Maria shall stay there with her, and be on hand if | anything happens." "That is a good idea; but who will help you ?" "You can help me all I want. I wouldn't allow anybody to do anything but myself, anyhow, at such a time as this." I said I would feel mean to lie abed aud sleep, and leave her to watch and toil over our little patient all the weary night. But she reconciled mo to it. So old Maria departed and took up her ancient quarters in the nursery. Penelope coughed'twice in her sleep. " Oh, why don't the doctor come ? Mortimer, this room is too warm. This room certainly too warm. Turn off the register?quick !" I shut it off, glanoing at the thermometer at the same time, and wondering to myself if seventy was too warm for n sick child. The coachman arrived from down town now with the news that onr physiciau was ill and confined to his bed. Mrs. Mo Williams turned a dead eye upon me, and said in a dead voice : " There is Providence in it. It is foreordained. Ho never was sick before. Never. We have not been living as we ought to live. Mortimer, time and time again I have told you so. Now you so3 the result. 0u? child will never get well. Be thankful if you can forgive yourself. I never can forgive myself." I said, without intent to hurt, but with heedless choice of words, that I could not see that we had been living such an abandoned life. 4 4 Mortimer! Do you want to bring tho judgment upon the baby, too ?" Then she began to cry, but suddenly exclaimed : 44 Tho doctor-must liavo sent medicines 1" I said: 44 Certainly ; they are hero. I was only Waiting for you to give me a chance." 44 Well, do give them to mo ! Don't yon know that every moment is precious now ? But what was the use in sending mediciues when he knows that the disease is incurable?" I said that while there was life there was hope. . 44 Hope ! Mortimer, yon know no more what you are talking about than the child unborn. If you would? As I live, the directions say give one teaspoonful once an hour ! Once an hour ?as if we hrd a whole year before us to save tho child in! Mortimer, please Lurry. Give tho poor, perishing thing a tablespoon ful, and try to be quick !" " Why, my dear, a tablespoonfnl might"? "Don't drivo mo frantic! * * * There, thero, there, my precious, my own ; it's nasty, bitter stuff, but it's good for Nelly?good for m other's precious darling; and it will make her well. Thero, there, there; put the little head on mamma's breast, and go to sleep, aud pretty soon? Oh, I know she can't, live till morning! Mortimer, a tablespoonfnl every half hour will? Oh, the child needs belladonna, too; I know she does?aud aconite. Get them, Mortimer. Now do .lot mo have my way. You know nothing about these matters." We now went to bed, placing the crib close to my wife's pillow. All this turmoil had worn upon me, and within two minutes I was something more than half asleep. Mrs. McWilliams roused me : " Darling, is that register turned on?" " No." " I thought as much. Please turn it on at onoe. This room is cold." I turned it cn, and presently fell asleep again. I was aroused oneo more. "Dea:ie, would yon mind moving tho crib to your side of the bed ? It is nearer the register." I moved it, but had a collision with j the rug and woko up tho child. I dozed i off onoe moro, while my wife quieted tho sufferer. Hut iu n little while thope ; words oame murmuring remotely Hiy?/iiirrV? fhn fnet nf mir rlrrm/jinnou ? '"{ > "* *"J v.. . " Mortimer, if we only bad some goose grease. Will yon ring ?" I climbed drearily out, and stepped od a cat, which responded with a protest, and would have got a convincing kick for it if a chair had not got it instead. "Now, Mortimer, why do you want to turn up the gas and wake up the child again f" "Because I want to see how much I am hurt, Caroline." " Woll, look at the chair, too. I have no doubt it is ruined. Poor cat, snpposo you had "? " Now I am not going to suppose anything about the cat. It never would have occurred if Maria had been allowed to remain horo and attend to these duties, which are in her line and are not in mine." " Now, Mortimer, I should think yon would be ashamed to make a remark like that. It is a pity if yon cannot do the few little things that I ask of you at snch an awful time as this, when our ohild "There, there; I will do anything you want. But I can't raise anybody with this bell. They're all gone to bed. Where is the goose grease ? " On the mantelpiece in the nursery. If you will step there and speak to Maria "? I brought the goose grease and went to sleep again. Onco moro I was called. "Mortimer, I so hato to disturb you, but the room is still too cold for mo to try to apply this stuff. Would you mind lighting tho fire ? It is all ready to touch a match to." I dragged myself out and lit tho fire, and then sat down, disconsolate. " Mortimer, don't sit thero and catch your death of cold. Come to bed." As I was stepping in, she Baid: " But wait a moment. Please give tho child some more of the medicine." Which I did. It was a medicine which made a child more or less lively; so my wife made uso of its waking interval to strip it and grease it all over with the goose oil. I was soon asleep once more, but once moro I had to get up. "Mortimer, I feel a draught. I feel it distinctly. Thero is nothing so bad for this disease as a draught. Pleaso move the crib iu front of tho fire." I did it and collided with' the rug again, which I threw into the five. Mrs. McWilliams 6prang out of bed and rescued it, aud we had somo words. I had another trifliug interval of sleep aud thou got up, by request, aud constructed a flaxseed poultice. This was placed upou the child's breast and left there to do its healiug work. A wood tiro is not a permanent thiug. I got up every twenty minutes and renewed ours, and this gave Mrs. McWilliums an opportunity to shorten the times of giving the medicines by ten minutes, which was a great satisfaction to her. Now and then, between times, I reorganized the flaxseed poultices, and applied sinapisms and other blisters whore unoccupied places could be fouud upou the child. Well, toward morning the wood gave out, and my wife wanted | mc to go down cellar and get some more. I said: " My door, it is a laborious job, and the child must bo nearly warm enough, with her extra clothing. Now, mightn't we put on another layer of poultices aud "? I did not finish beoause I was interrupted. I lugged up wood from below for some little time, and then turned in and fell to snoring as only a man can whose soul is worn out. Last at bjoad daylight I felt a grip on my shoulder that brought me to my senses suddenly. My wife was glaring down on mo and gasping. As soon as she could command her tongue she said : " It is over ! All over ! The child's perspiring! What shall we do." " Mercy, how you terrify mo ! I don't know what we ought to do. Maybe if we scraped her and put her in the draft again"? "Oh, idiot! There is nota moment to lose. Go for the doctor. Go yourself. Tell him he must come, dead or alive." I dragged that poor sick man from his bed and brought him. He looked at tlio child and said she was not dying. Tbis was joy unspeakable to me, but it made my wife as if he had offered a personal affront. Then he said the child's cough was only caused by some trifling irritation or other in the throat. At t'.ds I thought my wife had a mind to show him the door. Now the doctor said he would mako the child cough harder and dislodge the trouble. J3o he gave Lu r something that sont her into a spasm of coughing, and presently up came a little wood splinter or so. " This child has no membranous croup," said he. "She has been chewing a bit of pine shingle or something of the kind, and got some little slivers in her throat. They won't do her any hurt." " No," said I. " I can well believe that. Indeed, the turpentine that is in them is very good for certain sorts cf diseases that are peculiar to children. My wife will tell you so." But she did not. She turned away in disdain, and left the room; and since that time there is one episode in our life which we never refer to. Hence the tide of our days flows by in deep and untroubled serenity. A Large Increase. It may be said that the population of England increased in the quarter of a century about twenty per cent.; that the peoplo living in 1874 were, on an average, at least twice as well oil as they weie in 1851; that they drank in 1874 twice as much tea and sugar as thoy did in 1851, and forty percent, morospirits, wine and boer; that they had saved twice as much and traveled nearlv five ! times as much; that, taking the increase of population into acconut, serions crime nad decreased by nearlv seventy per cent., pauperism by more tlran twenty-five per cent., while primary education had becomo six times as general. These are striking symptoms of material and social progress. That Rule. A yonng woman who seems to be opposed to girls being taught to sew, writes as follows to the Woman'h Journal : Some time since a gentleman of Ithaca said, in quite a company: "I mean to offor a prize for the best shirt made by the lady students of the univ<*nity. ' "If you do," I rejoined, impulsively, " I will offer an equal one for the best chemise made by a male student. It is a poor rule that won't work both ways." A BIG GAME. An Intrrcitlng Inrldrnl of I.llc on the mi? initlppi During (hp War. In the latter part of 'G4 I made a trip down the river. Thero came on board at Cairo a young paymaster who was on his way to pay a brigade of troops somewhere in the neighborhood of Vicksbnrg. It was very quiet on the boat, and on the tirst night below Cairo the paymaster sp?nt a good deal of his time after supper walking up and down the saloon. There was also walking up and down the saloon a trim, square-shouldered man who seemed to be suffering from the same tediousness; and when they had met a few times the stranger smiled a little at the paymaster and said : " Dull." "Vory dull," said the paymaster. "Suppose we have a little game of draw," said the stranger. "Good idea," said the payma3ter, and they sat down and went at it. Both of them were playing merely to pass time, at last the paymaster was, and the other man seemed to be. Thoy had it one way and the other for an hour or i two, playing alxmt 85 for a top bet, and neither of them winning or losing much, but still gotting more and *noro interested. Finally oacli seemed to get a big hand, and thoy began betting heavy in i the most natural sort of way. The fire had been smoldering, you see, and it broke out apparently without their kuowing it. Neither of them seemed disposed to i lay dawn, and they kept on raising and raising till they were making betsof two, threo, five hundred dollars, and they ( got the pot up to about seven thousand. Then the stranger rested his eye on the ? paymaster for a moment, and made an < estimate of the amount of his pluck and < the probable size of his pile, and the result of his observations seemed to be a j belief that ho could bluff him or freeze i him out, for he threw his hand down on tho table, and leaned over and pulled a 1 bowio knife out of his boot, and drove i the point of it down through the cards i into tho table. Then he took a big wallet out of his breast pockot, and counted 1 out twenty-one five-huudred-dollar notes. Ho saw the paymaster's last bet < of five hundred, and then hauled a revolver off his liip, pushed the twenty I other bills into the pot, and said: I " I raise you ten thousand dollars." j The paymaster looked at the gambler : about two seconds. Then he beckoned to his colored boy, a bright young fel- i lun ?uu wuuiu uuvo giyeu his iliiihwar tho wink if bo bad ever happened to . look in bis direotioa, which bo hadu't. ( But be brightened up when be benrd tho ; word, and walked straight off for the i paymaster's stateroom. He disappeared I a moment, and soon showed up again, ( backing through tho door, dragging a ! truuk after him; and he came down the 1 saloon rolling that trunk along on its 1 end, just as handy as though he had I smashed baggage on a through line all ] his life. i The paymaster took a key out of his i vest pocket, threw up the lid of tho ] trunk, and took off a sheet of sole leath- i er that seemed to servo as a sort of binder for tho bundles of bills underneath. Ho took two big packages out of the end and laid them upon one side of the table. Then he began taking out the other bundles and stacking them up on the table in frontof him. Hekepttaking out and stacking up till he had built a big triangle-shaped pile, like two pairs of stairs meeting at the top and all tilled in solid underneath. Then he threw his hand down on the table and pulled a bowie knife out of Iris boot and spiked it down through the cards, and while tho handle was still shivering he handed the two bundles into the middle of the table and said : "I see your ton thousand dollars"? here he braced himself back against the pile and began moving it up to the table, continuing to talk all the while? "and I raise you a hnndred and seventyfive thousand 1" and then (he did it so quick that I couldn't see when it was done) he had a pistol off of each hip and was resting an elbow about half way up on each aide of the greenback stairs, both shooters coveriug tho gambler, and holding them very straight and steady, too. Sow, tho gambler was an older man and of much more experience than the paymaster, and under any sort qf ordi nary circumstances he could have j handled him ten to ono, and ho knew it, and had no thought of laying down even ' then, and ho seemed to revolvo the 1 thing in his mind for about a quarter of 1 a minute, and when ho had settled what 1 to do he looked up ready to act, but ono glance at t he joy master inndo him 1 change his mind; for ho could boo 1 shining through the young man's face ( all the accumulated unused grit of years, and a man with half an oyo could seo that he meant business. The gambler realized that fact. Ho < pulled his knife out of the table, stuck , his pistol into his pocket, and walked ofF , down the saloon, whistling " llosa Leo" , just as soft and pleasant as though he ; was going for u cigar after diunei. | Then the paymaster booted his knife ] and slung his shooters aud packed his ( trunk, putting in along with the rest the thirteen thousand odd of the gambler's , money ; and he didn't ploy any raoro , draw that trip. . J And I am told that he was so much t impressed l>y the rovclation to himself j of his own backlwne aud nervo that he made up his mind there was something ! better for him to do than wasting his j time iu gumonng, nun uo nasn t handled a card since. Lisbon, N. H., raises 100,000 bushels < of potatoes a year, which are oouverted t into starch. i A LESSON TO A DEBTOR. A <;ood Square Hit that waa Well Deserved. Says the Boston Commercial Bulletin: The following, with but slight variation, sufficient not to betray the identity of the parties, is the report of a recent actnal interview ; and the foroible truths expressed in the conclusion of the dialogue will doubtless be recognized as applicable to many similar cases of greater or lesser magnitude. A business man in difficulties calls, with a long face, on one of his principal creditors, and says : "Mr. Prompt, I find, owing to the pressuro of the times, I shall bo obliged to call a meeting of my creditors." "Indeed," said Prompt, "then you cannot meet your liabilities." Debtor?" I regret to say I cannot." Prompt?" Well, lot me see, how long have you been in business?" Debtor?" About eight years." Prompt?" How much capital did you have to start with ?" Debtor (proudly)?" I had only one tuousuiiu aouars, Bir, ana my Knowledge of the business, in which I was salesman." Prompt?"You were since married?" Debtor?" Yes." Prompt?" Wife any property ?" Debtor?" None at all ; I have done everything by my own unaided exertions." Prompt?" How much do you expect to be able to pay your creditors?" Debtor?" Well, I think I could get out for twenty cents on a dollar." Prompt?"How much would that leave you after you got your bankruptcy discharge ?" Debtor?" Well, if I could go right on with the old stock, I might realize a couple of thousand dollars, but the ireditors couldn't do so much with it." ' Prompt?" But how about your house in the suburbs ? That goes in with the assets, I suppose." Debtor?" Well, hardly. That's only 1 worth six or seven thousand dollars, and I settled that on my wife two years ago." Prompt?" H'm, hum ! Let mo see ; what are your liabilities ?" Debtor?" I should say, at a rough calculation, twenty thousand dollars." Prompt (iudiguautly)?"Why, oontoaand it, sir, it is just such men as you bliat have been cheating and are cheating honest men either through your rascality or accursed ignorance. You haven't been solvent, according to your own confession, the whole eight years you've been in trade, I'll be bound. Here yon acknowledge you started with only one thousand dollars of real capital; 1 you have your family living eight years, saved out a ?7,000 house, and after settling with your creditors will have i louble the capital you began with. 4n oli mno rnn liown wa 4- 4-** 1UU1I 4*0 J v? uu?o UU Xtl^ub VU UO Ui business for themselves, but should be 1 khe employees of those who have brains ] to guide them. I'll acoept no pro- I position, and only wish creditors, in?tendof ' setting on their feet' such shams , is you to compete with genuine busi- ( ness men, would send you back into the ranks where you belong." A Hundred Years Ago. A gentleman of the olden time, writing of the Maryland planter one hundred years ago, says: They shipped their awn tobacco?brought to a lauding in 1 stout hogsheads, with a revolving axle 1 driven through the middle, and dragged by a ptrong mule guided by a {rfantation i band, over what are still known as the i rolling roads. In return they reoeived i not only all kinds of necessaries for < their own consumption, but for supply- 1 iug the lesser planters and their servants. Of provisions they never had ] any lack. They raised their own mut- | ton and beef and pork; then there was , venison to be had in the forest, wild < ducks in abuudance in their season, Eisk and oysters in the estuaries of the bay and in the rivers that flowed into it. They led a life of independence in , ~ ? ?1 i. -3 It tt- ? * ill 11 vi UI UW?H UU tueir OWIJ states, surrounded by their servants, md dispensed to all comers a lavish hospitality. Their chief pleasnres were of the ruder sort. They had their horses ind hounds, and hunted and tlshcd; wore fond of races and cock fighting; aftcn drank freely, and sometimes gambled heavily. At Doughoregan manor saddle horses were regularly brought every summer morning and bitched under the trees in a picturesque, nervous group, and any one of the guests was free to take his choice, and gallop off over the hills either alone or with chosen companions. The custom is still kept up there. Ladies were Among the boldest of riders. It was the only mode of quick journeying. How to Make Mischief. Keep your eye on your neighbors. Like care of them. Do not let them stir without watching. They may do something wrong if you do. To bo sure yon never knew them to do anything very bad, but it may be on your account they have not. Perhaps if it had not been for your kind care they might have usgraoeu memseives long ago. xnen * Jo uot relax in your efforts to keep them I where they ought to be. Never mind * pour own business?that will take care ' jf itself. If yon find any symptoms of * my one passing out of the path of duty, * ;eil every one elso what you see, and be particular to see a great many. It is a s food way to circulate such things, thongh \ t .may not benefit yourself, or any one a >articnlarly. Do keep something a-going t ?silence is a dreadful thing. It is said ] ihere was silence in heaven for the spaoe i if half an hour. Do not let any suoh ] hing occur on earth. It would be too a nuch for this mundane sphere. 1 Western Lore. A youth of Indiana, in lore with a girl in Minnesota, addresses her in this beautiful strain:] I just come down from the baok-ojre state? some pleasure for to find a handsome girl from minsplis Jnst salted to my mind. Her rosy cheeks and rolling eyes like arrows pearced my brent and they oalled her handsome olara the liley of the west. I oorted her for Jast three days, her lore I thought to gain to soon, to soon she slited me wliloh gare me grief and pain. she robbed me of my liberty and deprlrdB me of my rest bat still I lore my clara the liley of the weet. MY DREAM. I dreamp a dream the other night down by yon ehady grove i saw a ohap of high degree oonyeroing with my love. he sung he snng so merryly while I was soar opreet and he snng to lovely clara the liley of the west. I rushed np to my rival a dager in my hand I tore him from my true love and boldly bad him stand. being mad to desperation my dagger pearced his breet, and I was be trade by clara the liley of the west. Items of Interest. Daniel Murphy, of Tulare, CaL, has bought 9,000 square miles of land in Mexioo at two cents an aare. Frenoh sardine paokers are now putting up sprats, mackerel, and even more common species, for the American market. The question is asked, why newspapers will persist in abbreviating a son of temperance and making a 8. <). T. of him. Money is very scaroe in Howell oounty, Mo., and oows form the principal circulating medium. Galves are used to make ohonge with. The Earl of Shaftsbuzy said that if Loudon had not its four hundred city missionaries it would have to employ forty thousand more policemen. A survey of all the large merchant steamships has been made by the British government, with the view to their use as a part of tho royal navy in case of a foreign war. A Portsmouth baby which recently died was mourned by a father and mother, two grandfathers, and two grandmothers, three great grandfathers, and three great grandmothers. Daring the reign of the present czar Russia has gained square miles of territory and 22,540,000 souls in popuIq^ion. And reduoed the national debt by 50,000,000 roubles. A purchaser of a riverside property asked the real estate agent if the river didn't sometimes overflow its banks. "Well," responded he, " it isn't one of those sickly streams that are always oonfined to beds." Bad luck is a man with his hands in hiB pockets and his pipe in his month, looking on to see how it will come out. Good luck is a man of pluck with his sleeves rolled up and working to make it come out right. The Farmers' olub of the;American Institute have asked Congress to make the subject of tree culture and economy a standing branch of study in agricultural colleges receiving aid or support from bhe government. A Middletown compositor has calculated that in the course of a year's type setting the average compositor will pat ap more than 7,000,000 separate pieces, which, with their distribution, requires 15,000,000 motions of the hand. By the German census, taken Dec. 1, it appears that the population of Berlin has increased sinoe 1871 about 16.7 per cent.; Breslan, fifteen per cent.; Hamburg, 13.83 per oent.: Frankfort, thirteen per cent.; and Leipeic, eighteen per oent. A young woman looking for a situation was attracted by an advertisement for some one to do " light housework." Bhe called at the address given, and in :?j i - a.1 i:-Li l ? J it Siurtju wu?rw uio u^ub uuuw wuu uuu u iere was any way of getting on shore on Sundays. Thirty-three mines in Colorado have been opened to a depth of from one hundred to nine hundred feet sinoe 1859. Five of them were idle last year, but the rest produced ore valued at nearly $2,[)00,000. Since their dieoovery they have yielded 826,980,000. Pennsylvania court stenographers iiavo to take this oath : " You solemnly swear that the testimony that you take in ;his case shall be the truth, the whole irnth, and nothing but the truth." This vould seem to do away entirely with the lecessity of swearing witnesses. When the wind storm that reeentty levastated Tejon pass began there were 100,000 sheep feeding on the plains, houBonds of whioh were blown into the ?}lches and buried by the driving sand. ver 30,000 sheep were lost. On the iau Emido, cattle whioh took refuge in >ods of streams were in some places juried out of sight. Two brave men, having fought and ihaken hands, are the last men in the rorld to cherish small animosities gainst eaoli other. No point in any irnma is more heartily appreciated by an Snglish or Amerioanaudianoe than that n the " Lady of Lyons " where Colonel Oamaa remarks how mnoh he likes mother man after he has fought with lim.