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The Beaufort Tribune.
VOL. 11.-NO. 2(5. BEAUFORT. S. U., MA Y IT. 187(5. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
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Parting.
4'8o far?so far!" Nay, (moot! nor distant
lands,
Nor breadth of waters oan avail to bar
My lovo from thee. Alas! 'tis over far,
To yearning hearts, the smallest place that
Btands
Beyond the oompaBS of outstretching hands ;
And never near?how oloso so e'er to each
True lovers be?if kisses may not reach
Across the distanco. Since barBh fate commands,
Darling, farewell! With tearful eyes I go,
Unknowing when the glad return shall be;
But I will think?to mitigate my woe?
How loving souls of time and tide are free ;
And oft, to greet thee, dearest, mine I know.
Exultant, willo'erleap the sundering sea!
THAT HOME-MADE ICE CREAM.
"Good gracious, mar!" said Angelica
Crauo to her overworked parent, at
nightfall of a memorable day?a day
that marked tho beginning of the young
squire's Christmas holidays at home, and
every miume ot it crammed and crowded
with labor for tho entertainment in
his honor at tho Crane homestead?
"good gracious! yon ain't going to
have some home-made cream, surely ?"
Tho young lady's nose, which was exceedingly
retrousse already, was perched
high in tho air with disdain. ' If there's
anything I c.in't abide," she said, " it's
frozen corn starch ; and that's all yon
can make of homo-made cream, any way
you lix it!"
"Hold your tongue, Angy," said her
mother; "you're tho most onfeeliu'
oreetur I ever see. You'd hev me harness
up tho team and drive away to
town aud pay out a mint of money,
when I kin jest us well hev it for nothin'.
Hain't we got a prime new freezer, and
orearu aud eggs and ice, without its costin'
a oeut ? What more do you want ?"
" A prime now freezer!" scornfully
echoed Augy. "You'll want half a
dozen of 'em !"
" Well, can't I borry 'cm?" said her
prudent parent.
"And who's going to hang over 'em I!"
siil the young lady, whose stay at
boardina Hnhanl l?ml t?,f Al
D ~ux/v vMiiuciavcu iuo
home dialect. " They need to be turned
and turned, and everybody's worn out.
It's nearly time to dress now, and you
want a little cooliu' off yourself. You're
as red as a beet."
" I'll stay if I can be of any servioe,"
said a voice in tlie doorway.
" Why, Sally," said Mrs. Crane,
"you'll want to run home and dress,
won't you ?"
"Oh, I'd rather not," said the voice,
this time trembli. g a little. " I don't
feel tit for any fun, Mrs. Crane. It
don't seem to mo I ever will again."
" I s'pose not, deary," said the farmer's
wife, with an expression of pity
mingled with relief. " It'll be dreadful
convenient to hev you stay, Sally, if you
kin. Tnere's a power to do yet, and
only one pair o* hands to do it. I s'pose
you wouldn't keer to go up in the parlor;
but the freezers'll be in the cellar,
and the hoater keeps it nice and warm
down there; and while you're a-makin'
luu cream, you Kin listen to the music,
and hoar the noise and all. It'll come
kind o* nice to yon that way, won't it,
Sally?"
" Good life, mar!" laughed the vivaoious
daughter; " is that what you call
nice ? It roiniuds m) ol the little hungry
boy who went to smell the steam
at the pastry cook's I"
"You don't know nothiu' about the
way Sally feels," said Mrs. Orane, "nor
I don't think you could if you tried. I
believe you'd dance and wliis'le about
before the grass took root over your
pappy's grave; but Sally loved hern,
pour child, and she can't help thinkin'
of the poor schoolmaster lyin' out there
in the snow, when here he was, only a
bit ago, as click and smart as anybody.
It's no kuowin' whose turn it'll be
next."
Whether the good woman had any
reason of her own for thus dwelling
upon a melancholy subject, it decided
poor little Sallv's aversion for Mir. ?
taking, and put t > flight tbo gay Angeltoa,
who was in uo humor for red eyes
and noses, whoa tbo young squire would
s ortly come, aud it behooved these features
to be at their best.
But Sally fell to sobbing outright, not
giving a thought to the deleterious effect
of tears upon her beauty, although once
upon a time it was bright aud bonny
enough to ensnare the young squire
himself. Long ago, when he drew her
to school on his haudsomo sled, he made
many a stumble over the ice in looking
back upon tlio sweet face under its scarlet
hood, tho little choeks all aglow, and
the yellow curls wantoning about with
tho brisk wintry air. Sally's was always
the biggest apple from the finest tree in
the orchard; tho most luscious grapes
from tho grapery found their way to
Sally's desk; and iu the intervals of his
possessing a penknife young Master
It anthill loft no blunt pencil in Sally's
saohel.
When it became necessary that he
should be sent to a plaoo of instruction
oeuiting his station in life, and the tint
had gone forth that the dear old days at
the village sohool should become part
and parcel of tho past; when he must
bid good-bye to his romps in the nowmown
hay, his races with tho yon rig
colts in the teu-aore Held, his berrying
and picnicking, his coasting down the
glorious old hill; when he must part
with his dog Lanoer and his gun and his
pony?above all, with 8<dly?it was a
heartrending time. Whatever grown up
folks may think of these childish griefs,
they are as tough to bear as the heavier
ones that come later, and they leave
great ugly scare that are sometimes only /
half healod over.
When Will Randall cut Sally's name
nnd his own deep into the bark of the '
old walnut tree at the foot or the lano, ii
it seemed to him that the knifo went 1:
into his heart with every turn of the let- t
tera in her precious name. Tears rolled
out of his eyes in spite of his manly en- v
daavor to choke them down; as for Sally,
she had given way long ago, and, with j,
her snnbonnet tight down over ber face, 8
was watering the gray old moss at the 8
foot of tho tree with floods of childish n
woo. v
At last it was done; there were the j
initials linked togother deep in tho t
rugged bark; tho crimson light from j
tho western sky shono full upon each v
and all. Will put his kuife back in his ?
pocket with a click of determination, B
gulped back his tears at once and for the
last time, and taking Sally from the <
ground, he smoothed back her yellow c
locks, coaxing her into quiet with tho i,
solemn promiso of his loyalty henceforth y
and forever to the love between them, j
Ho declared that the names linked there
upon the tree should never be separated v
while life remained to him, and with ^
many a vow of fealty coined from tho {
books he had devoured among the lum- ?
ber in the garret, and simple plaiuts of a
love urougm up irom tlie depths of his p
littlo swelling heart, Will bade little ^
Sally good-tyo.
But alas for the inexorable decrees of ^
fate and fashion ! Seven long years had ^
I passed and gone since that last trysting j(
time, and although the two names were
still linked together upon the old walnut r
tree, the two little lovers had drifted far
apart.
Young Master Randall went from one j,
place of instruction to another till he
reached the summum bonnm of a veri- a
table college. Taking advantage of the j,
absence of their son and heir, the big ^
folks at the hall went abroad; the house s
was closed, and although many an apple
and bunch of grapes from the old place
reacnod Sally, with the rest of the villagers,
she never cared to taste these (|
lux jios from stranger hands. Will ^
spent his holidays away, nd Sally would y
not oven have heard the sound o-! his v
name had it not been for tho sojourn of ^
Augelica Crane at a boarding school ^
near the college. Perhaps Sally would f(
rather not have heard his name than ^
thus from the lips of Augelica, who e j,
bump of reverence was small, and who ^
htld he young squire pretty much as ^
she held everybody?important in tho
ratio that they contributed to her own a
pleasure. 0
The acr. sof Farmer Crane were broad g
and wide, and outnumbered by many a s
score those that belonged to the Randall b
fumily; it was whispered that even the o
goodliest property of the old squire was tl
heavily mortgaged to the shrewd and s
forehanded countryman, and that a v
match between Miss Angelica aud the ti
young squire would not be a bad thing t<
for the latter. On the other hand, these n
plain folks at the Orane homestead had b
spared no pains to show their willing- fl
ness to further whatever plaus wore 8
made for the joining of these two good- a
ly estates. R
Angelica herself liad confided to Sally j
that she had more strings to her bow j]
than one, but that she knew which she H
preferred, and had often tortured the H
poor little maiden, when during Angeli- b
ca's holidays they had spent a night or f]
two together, by reading her, among f,
other love letters, some productions 1
from the eloquent aud ardent pen of 0
Will ItaudaU, poor little Sally's peril- t
dious lover. Long after Angelica's curl f
papers had ceased to rattle upon the 1
pillow, the soft silken rings of Sally's
yellow hair were wet with tears of envv o
and girlish despair. * i
But as years went by, and old time ?
softened the bitterness of those holiday
stab3 by dealing others of a more vivid
and startling character, when cores and
griefs close at hand crowded about her
and hemmed her in, she became resigned
to this one among the rest, and even
talked with Angelica of her loves and
lovers with a coolness that astonished
herself. There became a less und less
grievous similarity in the description of
the young squire to that shy, sweet memory
of Sally's of long ago. Ho had now.
it uppeared, an incipient mustache, his
hands were white, he was more and more
" perfectly splendid " with every fresh
confidence; and this brilliant figure left
the old simple, tender likeness all to itself
in Sally's young heart, and it bocame
dead and buried like all the gldd
things of life, along with her father, the
schoolmaster, and the pale young moth
er she could just remember; and as she
turned the ice cream freezers that night
in the cellar of Farmer Crane, not one ]
thought of jealouH spite or envy of the t
fair Angelica came into her little head. \
She did listen to the music, and ^
heard the noise ubove, and it was " a i
sort of nice," as Mrs. Crane had said; ^
and as she turned and turned one freezer a
after another, Sally became interested t
enough in her work to forget more im- c
portant trials closo at hand. I
it made the soul of the farmer's wife ^
glad within her, when she went down to t
taste the oro&m, to flud it beginning to
be all that her fanoy painted. t
"It's prime," she said, smacking her i
lips and holding the spoon to Sally's \
prety month. " Jest taste it. and tell i ?
me if that ain't fur ahead of Towzer's e
stuff in town. It stauds to reason,
Sally ; there's real oream in that ar? ?
none o' yer nasty skimmin's! Now keep \
right on, dear; be jest as koerful as you
kin, 'cause now's the resky time when i
tho hull thing kin bo sp'iled by a mite t
o* keerlessnees. Jest turn and turn, c
dear, first one, then t'other, this a-way, t
and that a way. The idee of that peaky a
da'tor o' mine tellin' me only a minit ago c
she knowed it'd be lumpy and soft!
Lnd, Sally, bIio's the moBfc tmfeelin' "? hi
" It's only lior fun," said Sally. 01
"Fun!" echoed the vexed matron, ti
' Wa'al, it's a mean kind of fun, and z*
t'd sarvo her right if she came out the
ittle end o' the horn yet. But we'll ;
ake keer o' tbo cream, won't we, Sally?" j
"That we will, ma'am," said Sally, ; cj
rarmly.
"Jest turn and turn, you know," said
he poor woman, and went up the cellar sr
tops, not knowing that destiny had fa
ome work of her own to do that night,
ml had ruthlessly chosen the farmer's bi
rife for the agent of her own discomfl- cl
ure. At the top of the steps she met
he young squire. He said that, like d<
he young woman in the ballad, ho was oi
reary of dancing, and proposed to have
ho old game of Copenhagen?and could ai
ho toll him where he eould get a rope ? ol
"Why, yes," said Mrs. Crane,
* there's one right down here in the rt
ellar. I'll git it, Will?that's right ; w
lev all the fun you kin ; you can't be
oung but once and down she went ai
i)to the collar again. fa
Now if she had only contented herself
rith getting the rope and handing it to ei
he young squire, who stood waiting at bi
he top of the steps, all would have been
roll. Ho had scarcely left Angelica's ol
ide the whole evening ; he had whis- is
ierod lots of pretty things in her ears ;
ie determined to tap no hand but hers tr
a the ring. If Mrs. Crane had only st
landed him the rope without a word I
iut she couldn't help it, poor woman ; tl
t was the fault of destiny, as I said bo ei
ore. Something compelled her to stand
ight at the foot of the stair's and wliis- j tc
ier : ! bi
" Keep right on, Sally dear?t rn and
urn, like a good little lass." j di
And she might better have spoken w
loud. Her whisper wasof that steutor- I
in desoTinf.inn flint it mil Sin ??? it I
I w""v *v ? *w j .
all swoop upon the car of the young j {*
quire, and presently he heard a sweet 1
) v voice in reply :
" Yes, ma'am, I'll attend to it nicely." i w
Ho went back with the rope, in a ' ai
azo. What was to bo turned and j di
lined, and who was the turner ? What
illy was it that owned that sweet low 1>1
oice ? and what sweet low voico owned
Iwt dear name of Sally ? Will Randall
ad been famous at school and college
ir solving problems; he never would, m
1 fact, leave one unsolved ; and present rc
j he slipped away from the rope, out of ^
he room, and made his way direct to
he cellar door. He opened it softly, ttl
losed it carefully behind him, and went
lowly down the steps. The bull'seye C)
f the furnace glared at him as if tho '
enius of fire within was bent upon some j
pree of his own one of these days; he
card a squeak, squeak, squeak, a little I 8*
ff in the dim distance, an 1 followed
lie mysterious noise, confident it had j
omething to do with that problem he |
ras bent npou solving. He walked on i 81
iptoe, passing many a eeal bin heaped
o the top with ooai; his locks brushed I
lany a ham und tongue and juicy bit of j 91
aeon; he saw many a hanging shelf !
llrtfl wif.li P.hflofmoa olioo?? it A* !
..?wv? If xyui 4UUU1UO VUOUi, lb nui Lllf LU I
often the heart of this young scion of
noble bnt impoverished house. The ;
queaking noise became more and move ' o
istinct. Ho turned the corner of a j ??
iresorve closet, and suddenly he stood ti
till, because ho couldn't go on; his feet ki
topped; his pulse almost ceased to heat; T
ie saw something that sent the blood i
lying to his heart?that perfidiously i m
ulse yet faithful heart. He saw the slim gi
ittlo figuro of a woman perched upon an : n
id broken hen-coop, her black dress : t<.
ucked up out of the water that escaped | is
rom half a dozen freezers around her; ! tc
ler little right hand turniug one freezer, j 01
icr little left hand turning another; her m
oft silky yellow hair all fluffed ahout b
ter pretty head?that yellow hair that is
yould match exactly with the exquisite j oj
olor cf the ono holding the place of j rt
lonor among all his locks of hair; her I cl
iweet lips parted with anxiety for tho I si
ate of tho cream, as they had. parted 1 tr
ong ago with a far deeper and warmer j ft
mxiety?those sweet, sweet lips ! Could b
t be? Oh, was it his own littly Sally? : I
lis one, only Sally, the pure idol of his j oi
joyish love ? Oh, what divine, rapturous
jroblom was this given him to solve ? | R
That pumping apparatus about his j
leart began to work again with a will, i E
He crept around the preserve chest, be- '
,woen the freezers, and putting one haud j S
lpon Sally's lips, with the other drew
ler close upon his heart. ai
" Hush, darling," ho whispered; " it ; hi
s I?Will?your own faithful Will.
}h, Sally ! Sally !" J G
Her little falling head ho caught in
ime, and kissed her fainting lips to life. 0
Ie said more in a minute to Sally than j
10 had whispered all the night above. E
Ie decided her fate and his own in the
winkling of an eye, and nnblnshingly
>elieved ho was but fulfilling all the | 1J
rows of long ago under tho walnut tree.
Vs for Sally?shy, trembling Sally?she
vas in a rapture of bewilderment, of joy
ind bliss, that is seldom reaohed by mor te
nls, until suddenly the cellar door
ipened; then, indeed, tho crimson in
Jally's cheeks paled, the stentorian ' P
rliisper of Mrs. Crano was heard upon !
he steps:
" It must be jest right now. It's bin j tf
urnin', you know, long enough now; I ai
t bin set by, and Sally might jest as
veil as not hev a little fun. I lay n<
mything it's jest the primest stuff you
;ver see." S
"The cream is spoiled," whispered '
ially, her big, loving, tearful, happy eyes M
ipon Will's.
" Not a bit of it," said her com pan- Ir
on. And although that cream was oer- pi
aiiilv lumpy and a little soft, Wdl He- W
ilnred it the best he ever tasted, 01 would ! is
aste for the remainder of his life; aud : 01
is the cream was made for him, what > B
lid it matter? ; oi
Angelica, having plenty of strings to j ta
er bow, didn't mouru over it grievisly;
but poor Mrs. Crane from that
mo forward bought her cream at Towjr'e.
What is Worn.
Striped cambrio for the skirt with ;
locked for the polonaise, make very ef- 1
ictive suits.
Tics mado of silk thread in large, j
juare meshes, with fringed ends, are i
shionable.
Gray and blue aud light and dark
rown are the favorite combinations for
lildren's suits.
The fashionable skirt trimming is not
aeper than ten inches above the bottom
[ the dress.
The apron overskirt, with long bows
id ends in the back, is still seen at somo
f tho openings.
Hamburg and hand embroidered
lffles are both used for trimming ladies'
hite underskirts.
Bashes made of alternate rows of lace i
id ribbon, with deep lace ends, bid
ir to be popular.
White pique and Hamburg embroid- |
y are used in making kilt-plaited suits j
atli for girls and boys.
A nn>ft? - j- I
J-.v-nj iui u uuuu id uiaati i
: Valenciennes lace and insertion, and .
to bo worn over a silk dress.
Cream colored evening dresses are
immed with grasses, gray and gone to
>ed, mingled with red roses.
Purisian dressmakers are discarding
le cuirass; their latest snits are made
ther with basques or polonaises.
White batiste handkerchiefs, with ties
> match, have scolloped edges, em- j
roidered in navy blue or cardinal red. I
Parisian modistes are making all I
resses intended for midsummer wear 1
ith the corsage cut to show chemi- j
;ttes.
Dresses made in Paris, to be worn in
merica, are elaborately trimmed, but if
itt uded for European wear they are not.
Waterproofs, with sleeves, are made
ith a slit at the waist under the left
-m, thus enabling one to hold up the
ress.
The now French kilts for boys have a
rge pocket stitched on directly in
out, just below the belt, on the deep
ax plait.
The now thistle heading for fringe is !
ade of crimped silk thread, tied into
mud bunches, fastened on a narrow silk
pe.
Home of the new ruohiugs for necks
id sleeves are made of an outer row of
ishmere lace, and an inuer one of j
epe-lisse.
Sleeveless batiste lace polonaises, j
ther entiroly of lace, or lace and silk, ,
uttoned up the back, are worn over i
lk skirts and waists.
A new trimming for linen suits is a '
eading of linen lace about half an inch I
3ep, rounded on the edge, and brown j
lk fringe attached.
Dolmuns or sacks made of strong i
lack silk net, with applique work of !
islimere or silk, edged with a heavy j
inge, are among the latest styles.
The Best Vegetables to Plant.
tbcribner'a Monthly is printing a series ,
I timely and practical papers in its
Home and Society " department, en- j
tied " Rural Topics," by the wellnown
horticulturist, P. T. Quinn.
he following is from the May nuinoer:
April and May are the two busy
Louths in a well-managed vegetable
arden. Daring these mouths, the
iost important work of the season has
) be hurried through, for planting time
i short, and there are many small matsrs
that need prompt attention. First
f all is the selection of choice garden
jeds of recent growth, and such as will
0 found true to name. The surest way
1 to select from each year's crop a few
f the same to raise need from i
at, send to no mo responsible soed mer- I
iaut, and don't depend on the kind of j
;ook found in sma" boxes in the coun- '
y grocery Htores. Ah a matter of re rence
for those not familiar with the 1
est port of vegetable seeds and plants, j
append the following list, naming two !
r threo kinds of each to select from.
Dwarf Beans.?Early Valentine and i
efugee.
Pole Beans.?Large White Lima and j
[oiticultural Cranberry.
Beets?Dark Bed Egyptian and Long i
mooth Blood.
Cabbage.?Jersey Wakefield (early), i
id Piemium Flat Dntch and Drum- !
pad Savoy (late).
Cucumber.?White Spine and Long
reen.
Carrot. ? Bliss* Improved Long i
range.
Corn.?Moore's Early and Stowell's |
vergroen.
Cauliflower.?Early and Lato Erfurt. >
Celery.?Dwarf Incomparable and
ostou Market.
Egg Plant.?Improved Now York.
Lettuce.?Curled Silesia and Butter. !
Musk Melon.?Skillmau's Fine Net, I
id.
Water Melon.?Mountain Sweet.
Onions. --Wethersfield Bed and White j
ortngal.
Parsnips.?Long Smooth.
Peas.?Philadelphia ExtraEarly, Card's
First Crop, Champion of Eugland,
,,1 yitu:a~ ? *
in ii uii/u luurruwiuii.
Peppers.?Large Squash and Bull- 1
m
Radishes.?Turnip Scarlet, Long
earlot. and Whito Spanish.
Squash.?Summer Orookueck, Boston
[arrow, and Hubbard.
Tii this brief list will he found the
ading kiuus grown by market nnd
rivate gardeners near large cities.
Tith bush beans, peas, mid rndishe^, it
beat to repeat the sowings every two
three weeks, until the middle of June, i
y following thin plan, a fresh supply :
those sorts will keep eomiDg on for j
ble use until late in the season. 1
A Puzzled Hoarder.
It was late in the fall whon nr good
Mrs. Middlecrust went down to the market
and selected a tub of butter. She
always bought good butter. In fact, ahe
was determined that none of her boarders
should ever have just cause of oomplaint
against tho quality of her provisions.
" Madam," said tho market man, " I
would advise you to secure two tubs of
that butter. I shall have none better,
and butter will be sure to rise in price
through the winter."
Mrs. Middlecrust bought two tubs,
and on her way home she bethought
herself how she could contrive to make
that butter last through to spring. Ah t
a happy thought; she would toast the
biead for supper, and butter it herself.
Buttered toast was the thing.
Accordingly the good woman set out
upon her plan of saving. For tea the
loaves were nicely and evenly slioed,
gently browned before the fire, and very
genciy ana careiuuy battered. As her
boarders took their seats, she fancied
that one or two of them were looking
for tho butter, so she smilingly said:
" I havo buttered the bread myself,
gentlemen. As it was toasted, I thought
it would be nicer so."
Mr. Nipkins, a bald-headed bank
clerk, wearing spectacles, took a slioe of
the toasted bread, and examined it long
and critically.
"Mr. Nipkins, is anything the mattor
with your bread ?" asked the Landlady.
" No, no?nothing is the matter with
tho bread." And he turned it over and
submitted it to further examination.
"Mr. Nipkins," persisted the good
woman, growing red in the face, "if
nothing is the matter, wiry do you behave
in that manner ? I liko my boardex-s
to bo frank with me."
" My dear Mrs. Middlecrust," replied
Mr. Nipkins, looking up serenely, " I
will be frank. When I was a boy, if we
wished to express a state of extreme
mental obtuseness, we were wont to say
of the obtuse one, that ' he didn't know
which side his bread was buttered on.'
I think I must be losing some of my
perceptive faculties. I find no fault*
with your provisions, dear madam; the
fault must be in me. I have lived and
eaten two-and-flfty years, and for the
first time in my life I find myself unable
to decide on which side my "oread
is buttered."
Mrs. Middlecrust left her boarders to
butter their own bread after that. j
Premature Last Words.
A writer to the Louisville CourierJournal
tells the following amusing
story : A single shot, followed by a
loud shriek, told ns that one of my best
men, Bradley, was hurt. He proclaimed
his agony with a loud voice, turned
over on bis back and commenced kicking
so vigoronsly that the surgeon had
difficulty in getting near him.
" Poor fellow!" said the doctor,
" shot in tho bladder. I am afraid it is
fatal."
" Oh, my God !" said Bradley, " am I
a dead man ?"
" Keep up your spirits, my boy.
Nover say die,'* said Capttin Johnson,
kneeling kindly over him.
" Doctor." asked the wnnrilod
dier, feebly, " will you write to my
mother that I died bravely, doing my
duty, with my face to the foe and that I
thought of her when I was dying ?"
" Yea," said the doctor, with dim eyes
and a husky voice, "I will write to her
and tell her, too "?
But suddenly springing to his feet,
with m indignant voice he said :
" Why, confound it, man, you're not
hurt a bit. It is only your canteen that
is shot. Get up, will you ?"
Bradley raised up slowly, felt himself
all over, aud with an exceedingly foolish
countenance crawled back to his position,
amid j,the uproarious laughter of the
wholo regiment.
For months after that, on the maroh,
in the camp, and sometimesin the night,
you might hear a voice in one direction
demanding :
' What Khali I tell your mother?"
aud perhaps half a dozen responses
would be heard, " Tell her I died with
ruy face to the foe," and then Bradley
would come out and search for tho man
who said it.
He seldom found him, but when he
did there was certaiu to be a fight.
The Copper Product of 1875. '
Copper mining in Lake Suporior has
proved to bo a profitable business. The
Northwestern Mining Journal publi.shea
a list of assessments and dividends
from which it appears that $9,870,000
have been assessed, $18,070,000 have
been divided, and there is in the treasuries
of nine mines $4,668,000. The total
profit, therefore, since 1844 has been
$12,868,000, if these figures are complete.
Mining in that region is however
in n peculiar condition, for one mine, the
Calumet and Heola, produced 86.6 per
oeut. of the copper mined in the district
in 1875. Tho total yield was 12,500
tons, and the principal mines contributed
as follows : Calumet and Hecla, 86.6
per cent.; Osceola, 4.8 per cent.; Allou
t-z, o.o per cone.; i* ran Klin, 29 per
cent.; Pewabio, 1 3 per cent.and Atlantic
a little less than one per cent. The
importance of the Calnmet and Heel*
mino may be aeon from the following
flgnresof the English copper prodnetion
in 1874. Great Britain in that year
smelted from home ores 5,240 tons, and
from foreign ores 20,956 tons of copper.
'(he Calnmet and Heda therefore proil
need twioe as mnch as all the mines in
Great Britain together.
A pocketbook too weak to stand a
loan most be in reduced oirenmrtanoes.
Items of Interest.
A combination lock?The marriage
ceremony.
Laziness travels so slow that poverty
soon overtakes him.
Times are called hard when lazy men
are obliged to work for a living.
Mr. James Qorden Bennett's wedding
is said to have been postponed one year.
The best oentennial notes a reporter
can pick up are hundred dollar bills.
A person can walk eighty-four miles
in the Oentennial buildings if he feels
likes it.
The ability to make money is a talent;
the ability to keep it is two ; the ability
to nse it wisely and well is ton. An
effort to save three oents will oost
a Hancock (Pa.) oounty man something
over a hundred dollars. He merely
used the same postage stamp twioe.
The editor of the Boston Poat heard a
very clever woman say : "I do not
wish anybody to do anything naughty,
bnt if they do, I want to know all about
it."
The Liondon correspondent of a Liverpool
paper understands that the reason
why the queen did not read her own
speech at the opening of Parliament was
that she is unable to read without glasses,
and it was thought that the sight of
the sovereign in spectacles would look a
little unmajestic.
The times are so dull that the policemen
are in desperation. In Richmond
one of the guards of the dty saw a map.
standing on the oorner, and went for
him. " I ain't done nothing," said the
man. " Neither have I,"* said the policeman,
"and I'll be turned out if I
don't do something."
A traveler was lately boasting of the
luxury of arriving at night, after a hard
day's journey, to partake of the enjoyment
of a well cut ham and the left leg
of a goose. " Pray, sir, what is the peculiar
luxury of a left legt" Sir, to
oonoeive its luxury, you must find that
it is the only leg tnat is left." ^
A St. Joseph man, one year married,
says that there is a great deal in the expression
of a back oomb to denote the
state of the domestio atmosphere. When
his wife's oomb nestles quietly in its
proper plaoe, all is well with him ; but
when it is lifted and leans forward he
says : " Look out for squalls."
A flat of seven or eight rooms on the
second floor, in a good looation in New
York city, cannot be had for lees than
from $1,500 to $2,000, while those on
the upper floors are held at proportionRlflrh
fimmoa T3I?*
fordf" facilities for a genteel "oome down"
for families who have been paying from
$4,000 to $8,000 rent in fashionable localities.
A gentleman who, three months ago,
borrowed $x0 from a capitalist, to whom
he gave as security a first mortgage un
his watch, went one Saturday to pay it ^
off, and was surprised rather than satisfisd
to learn that his bill was $29.16.
When he remonstrated with the capitalist
the latter replied: "Well,'the interest
looks high, bnt there are so many losses'
in this business."
Of the fifteen actually elected Presidents
of the United States, seveft had,
before their elevation, been in the Senate,
and of the three who became Presidents
throngh the death of the actual
officer, two had been Senators. Those
who had not been in the Senate were
Washington, the first Adams, Jefferson,
Madison, Polk, Taylor, Linooln, Grant,
and Vice-President Fillmore.
The Minister's Wife. .
The minister's wife, says the BaptUt
Magazine, ought to bo selected by a
committee of the church. She
be warranted never to havo headache or
neuralgia; she should have nerves'of wire
aud sinews of iron; she should never be
tired nor sleepy, and should be everybody's
cheerful drudge; she should be
cheerful, intellectual, pious, and domesticated
; she should be able to keep her
husband's house, darn His stockings,
make his shirts, oook his dinner, light
his fire, and oopv his sermons; she
should keep ud the style of a lady an
the wages of a day laborer, and always
be at leisure for "good works," and
ready to reoeive morning calls : she
should be secretary to the Band of Hope,
the Dorcas Society, and the Home Mission
; she should oondaet Bible classes
| and mothers' meeting; should make
| clothing for the poor and gruel for the
sick; and finally, she should be pleased
with everybody and everything, and
never desire any reward beyond the satisfaction
of having done her own duty
and other people's too.
Centennial Notes.
Machinery hall is 1,402 feet long and
360 feet wide. Cost, $792,000. .
The United States building oovota
two acres of ground, and ooat $62,000.
Memorial hall is 866 feet long and 210
feet wide. Oost, $1,600,000.
Horticultural hall is 388 feet long and
193 feet wide. Cost, $261,987.
Agricultural hall is 826 feet long and
540 feet wide. Coat, 9900,000.
The main bnilding is 1,880 feet long
and 464 feet wide. Goat, $1,600,000.
The annex to Memorial hall, covering
as mnoh gronnd as the whole of the
original structure, has been completed,
and transferred to the board of nnanoe
by the contractors.
There are thirteen places of entrauoe
to the exhibition grounds, representing
the old thirteen States. At each will be
a nnmber of gates, set apart for exhibitors,
pressmen, high political officials,
women and children, respectively.