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w )The Beaufort Tribune. J . ... i' ?!< #' ? ? / tl<l> . ' ** ^ ? ? 7 ; VOL. II.?NO. 30. BEAUFORT, S. C., JUNE 14, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM. <t The Black Eyed Rebel. A boy drove into tho city, his wagon loaded down With food to feed the people of the British governed town; And the little black eyed rebel, so canning and so sly, Was watching for his coming from the oorner of her eye. His face looked broad and honest, his hands wero brown and tongb, Tho olothcs he wore npon him were homespan, coarse, and rongh ; Bat one there was who watched him, who long time lingered nigh. And cast at him sweet glanoee from the oorner of her eye. He drove ap to the market, he waited in the line? His apples and potatoes wore freeh and fair and fine; Bat long and long he waited, and no one came to bay, Save the black eyed rebel, watohing from tho oorner of her eye. "Now who will buy my apples?" ho shouted, long and load; And " Who wants my petatoea ?" ho ropeated to tlie crowd ; Bat from all the people roond him came no word of a reply, Have the bla:k eyed rebel, anoweriDg from the corner of her eye. For alio krow that neath tho lining of tho coat be woro that day Woro long letters from the hnabanda and the fath'.ra far away, Who wore fighting for tho freedom that they meant to gain cr die ; And a tear like ailver glistened in the ccrner of her eye. But tho treasures? how to get them ? crept the question through her mind, aiuoe keen enemies were watching for what prizes they m'ght find ; And eho paused a while and pondered, with a prolty little sigh ; j Then resolve crept through her features, and a ehrewdnees fired her eye. So si e resolutely walked up to the wagon old and red ; " May I have a dozen applos for a kiss ?" she j sweo ly said ; Aud the brown face flushed to scarlet, for the boy was somewhat shy, And 1 o saw her laughing at him from the corner of her eye. " Y .11 may have them all for nothing, and more, if yon want," quoth he. "I will Lave them, my Rood fellow, hut can pay for them," said she. And she clambered on the wagon, minding not who all were by, With a laugh of reckless romping in tho corner of her eye. Olinging round his brawny nock, she clasped her fingers white and small, And then whispered: "Quick! the letters! thrust them undernoath my shawl! Carry back again this package, and be sure that you are spry !" And she sweotly smiled upon him from the corner of uoi bjo. Loud the motley crowd were laughing at the ruitugu, uuginuu irou, Anil tbo boy was cored and panting, and eo dashed be could not speak ; And: ''Mies, I have good apples," a bolder lad did cry; Bat ebe answered : " No, I thank you," from the oorner of her eye. With the news of loved ones absent to the dear friends they would greet, Bearobing them who hungered for tbem, swift she glided through the street. "There is nothing worth the doing that it does not pay to try," Thought the little black eyed rebel, with a twinkle in her eye. ? Will Carleton in Harper's. UNTIL DEATH DO US PART. A STORY FOR YOUNG WIVES. * Ob, auntie, I want to die now 1 What is life wol lh withont his love ?" The warm light of the fire shed its bright glow upon the soft, fair, troubled brow, the deep spiritual eyes, and per fectly formed ci imion lips of a beautiful young creature, as she threw herself into a cfiair, and addressed these words to a silver haired old lady at her side: " Hu?h, Mary, my poor ohild, you must uot speak thus. What is the trouble ? I havo long feared you and Oharles were not living happily, bnt I refrained from asking questions, fearing I might wound your feelings." " And so you would have done, Aunt Agnes, had you mentioned the subject a week ago; for, although I have been wretchedly miserable for the last six months, I would have gone to the 6take before I would havo admitted it; but now everybody knows it, and I have como to you for oomfort." And the young wife wept bitterly. " Everybody knows it I I do not understand you, my ohild. What has happened f" Wiping the tears from hereyep, pretty Mary Stan wood, tho bride of only a year, begun: " You know I have never pleasod Oharles in anything sinoe we went to housekeeping. I can't sew, I can't cook, nor do anything else; in a word, I am no housekeeper. And he has a perfect mania for a neatly kept house, a well set table, a well oooked dinner, and a tidy wifo. I know, auntie, it All seems very foolish to you, but it is a great trial to me. I have tried, and I can't learn; per- st< haps I would have made more progress to if Charley had acted differently, but do wheu I make an effort he never praises ca me for it, and if I fail, ho ridicules me th until I have just given up trying, and mi have loft thiugs to Jane, who, you know, ha is a very indifferent servant. Yesterday morning the steak was burnt, tho coffee in was muddy; to-day the bread was heavy, B< the eggs overdone, the beef raw. Char- on ley flow into a passion and said a great ca many nnkind things as ho arose from afl his nntasted breakfast. And when I sh cried, and said I wished I was at home sti with mamma, ho said he wished so too ex ?and many things I oonl 1 not repeat." qv And Mary Stanwood's voice completely yc broke down. co Soothing her gently, Mrs. Allen, Che m good aunt, who had known and loved m the spoiled ehild from her babyhood, a'] said : ' Mary, how deeply I sympathize th with you is moro than I con express." 80 Uli, auntie, 1 have not told yon the worst pet. When Charley left home he went straight to Annie Glenn and spent ?1' several honrs there, and he does this very often. She has won his love from me; this is the true reason of our nn- aE happiness. I have oomo to tell you Bll this, and to tell you I am going home to w, mamma." * eJ And the sorrowing young wife wept ce bitterly. " Mary, you know I am your friend; ipj and i:' what I am going to say to you 8j] wonuds you, it is yet for your own good. gt You have done wrong, my child. I ad- ^ mit Charles, knowing your tender rear- gv ing as the only child of wealthy parents, W( should not have been so exacting; but flt ho has been accustomed to the superior cu housekeeping and good management of ^ a domestic mother and industrious sis- jj,, tors, and he doubtless attributes much ^ of your errors in making his home com- wj fortable to indifferenoo on your part, jj. Ho does not understand your difficul- ev tios, nor does he deem your efforts ^ praiseworthy, bocauso ho has been in tho habit of seeing others make them as a matter of duty. As for his visits to Q. Annio Glenn, I can, I think, explain ^ them. Mrs. Glenn is a good house- f0 keeper and a splendid cook; Annie, ca a bright, intelligent girl, who does not grow cross over her household labors. So, if Charles sometimes drops in there to partake of the delioiously prepared little meal, and chat with the friend of ai his childhood, in her bright, pleasant tj, little parlor, over tho last new book, it is not surprising." *' Ob, auntie, it may be true, but es Charles is cruel and unkind, and I am mi sick of it alL I am going borne to mamma; she won't want me to oook, di and sweep, and make a drudge of my- bu self." wi ' Hush, Mary; you do not know what lo you are snyiug, and surely you forget tbo vows so solemnly spoken just one year ago. It was until death do us part that lit you promised to be the wife of Charles m St an wood. Then it was not for health, nt happiness and sunshine you took those 01: vows, but ' for better, for worse and m now, my ohild, if the worse has come so m soon tc blight the orange blossoms, you of must bear it." ol " Ob, no, I cannot; I must go back to my old home?my dear home, where everybody loved me. I never want to m look upon Charley Stan wood's face an again," sobbed the homesick young bn wife. vc " Don't, Mary; don't speak those dc words," said the old lady, with white, trembling lips. * They are an echo iu my heart tnat sounds like a funeral dirge. And now, my dear niece, ere you take this important step of leaving your husband and your home, allow me to tell you something of the history of my *D own life?a chapter whose sad story has '? never been unfolded to the view of your brighter young life. P1 " Mary, I was about your age?seven- 7" teen?when I married Carlton Allen, the handsomest man in dllr town. Like ?* yourself, I was a spoilod child?the only girl in a family of ten children. I was 9? too young to understand the sncrcdncss P of marriage, or to appreciate the depth \D and strength Of the manly nature of my 10 husband; yet I loved him. He was vbry considerate, very indulgent, and I pre- J Burned upon his affeotion and goodness ?! uutil our home became very miserable, ?? and at length, alas I desolate. I had always followed my own wishes in all re- Q1 spects, and when I married I made no 9* change. One day we were to have a large dinner party. Carlton was not P w. ll, and I had arranged to have it with- m out consulting him. Amotu^he guests * was a gentleman to whom husband had a decided antipathy. Ho was too much of a gentleman to treat any guest with rudeness, but the next morning he fj! called me to him and told me never to invite that man into his house again. I P answered angrily. One word brought 10 ou auother, until I deolared my intention P of going home, saying to my husband, J as I left the room : ' I never wish to look upon your faoe again, Carlton Al- a" len.' And oh, my God ! I never did; for that night my noble, manly husband J?' wns killed by a violent fall from his horse. When they told at home, next , morning, of my bereavement, I fell 8 s -useless to tho floor, and for months I n( lay hovering between life and death. At length mv strength and youth tri- 00 mnphod, and I recovered to pass my lifo in a sorrowful atonement for the fo ly of an hour. Sinoithen, my child, qi 1 have never seen a young wife render v< her homo unhappy without groat grief hi to my heart." h When Mrs. Allen ceased speaking her ol niroo was sobbing very gently, and she di felt sure her end was accomplished, at oven l>eforo the penitent young wife at murmnred; sr " Oh, auntie, I thank you so for this >ry, which I know was so hard for you tell. I will go home at once, and I ' not think Charley will ever have ubg to complain of mo again. I feel at I can learn to keep house, and ike any and every sacrifioe for his , ppiuess." "Keep house," exclaimed Mrs. Allen, vo cheering tones, "of course you can. ?cause you can paint, draw, and play Pa i the piano, that is no reason why you nnot learn to manage your household "airs with prudence and neatness. You ' ould not want any one to say that the an ipid servants of the kitchen can th eel you. Surely, if they can ao- an lirA iha mvafarioa r\f nnnlrinrv ar\ /?an fix, >u. And new I am going to send my an ok to stay with you a month. But ind, you must not spoil her ; you must th anngo and see to everything yourself, p0 id assist her." ijB "Oh, dear, good auntie, how shall I an ank you?" exclaimed Mrs. Stanwood, wj emingly forgetful of all her trouble. 8j{ " By doing all you can for your husmd's comfort," solemnly replied the ^ d lady. r Two years had elapsed. In the pleas- th it little dining-room of the Stanwoods ch t the young wife of Charley Stan- to lod, upon whoso fair brow rested an oh pression of peace rarely seen. In the Fi nter of the room was spread a table corated with great tasto and beauty, jh ne damask cloth was snow white, the m Ivor and china were spotless, while ce >wers decorated the glasses and shaded iu, e pretty cakes and abundance of fr< rcetmeats prepared by Mary Stanaod's own hands. Her own toilet was altless, while the smoothly brushed fiu iris of the lovely child at her side told iU| at neatness and order ruled over this ippy household. Suddenly, where . e lady sat in the embrasure of the indow, a shadow fell athwart the sun- V jht, and, raising her bright love lit es, she saw the object for which she . id so long watched approaching. . "Mary!" She arose and sprung toward the .. . ien door, lifting her fair young face the speaker, while he stopped and * udly kissed her. The soft hand closed . 1 xessingly on his larger, darker palm, s ft lips were tremulous; her eyes, lovg#in their earnestness, looked up winugly. ' " Oh, you have come at last, Charley, id I have waited so long and so impa?nUv for you." cn "You have missed me, then ?" sjj "My heart misses you always, but RO pecially to-day, for you know it is the ft;, miversary of our wedding day." ftn " And are you happy on this onr wedng day, Mary ?" ha asked, counting qj ick to the dreary days when their jU] edded happiness came well nigh being pr 8t. " All my life is happiness." jj "Thank God ! And now, my perfect tie housekeeper, allow me to oompli- ^ ent this pretty table and elegant din- ( ;r. Mary, do you remember when you jj( loe thought it impossible to learn to jjU anage your household affairs in the vil anner I then unreasonably demanded m( my ohild wife? What, darling, ever tanged you so ? Who taught you to ' sep house ?" " Love," answered the proud young i atron, and with humbly bowed heads id grateful hearts the fond young hus- ^ md and the faithful wife renewed the >ws of fidelity, to be kept until "death ^ > us part."?Housekeeper. m - ca The Cost of Plumage. There is no lady deserving of the imo who could witness without a feel- rM g of horror the process of preparing r use the feathered beauties which rm such conspicuous ornaments in the eeent style of women's hats. If those 1111 bo wear such ornaments knew the an rtures to which these helpless little ro natures are subjected, and the heart88 cruelty with which the business is irried on, they would shrink from even direct complicity in it. Of course the ^y ipression prevails that all birds used -8 >r personal decoration are killed im- m) odiately when caught and prepared in ^y le ordinary way by tazidermiHts ; but jj, ^re is where the mistake is made. The wj rds are taken alive, and whilo living le skin is skillfully stripped from their nc livering, ghastly bodies. By this pro(ss it is claimed the feathers retain a j rmor hold upon the skin. Such is the ^ ethod by which all birds used in the t,r sooration of ladies' hats are prepared. au hink of the exquisite humming bird, yf ie blue bird, tho cardinal bird, the ar iole, and numberless others of beanti- ^1 il plumage, struggling beneath the ' life of the heartless operator ; think of lis, tender hearted ladies, as your ad- pa iring gaze rests on tho latest novelties 8C i fashion by which our city belles are up owned! Hundreds of thousands of irds of tho brightest plumage are liter- ex ly flayed alivo every year, and so long j0( i our ladies will consont to wear such W( namouts, just so long will this cruel j, asiuess continue. Tho Baroness Bur tte Oontts has placed herself at tho (j( sad of a movement in England do- ti_ 1 A. _ A . ? * A ^ lL^ 1 1_1 * i1 gnea wj pui an enu 10 me uriuiu ouei- jjj ?s, and it is to l>o hoped that the will j eet with cordial enconragemont and pj > operation on thia aide of the Atlantic. foi Keeping Accounts.?Women are wl niet and sweet tempered dnring the oa ?jr, but they keep accornt of their foi nsbands' sina and shortcomings, and ve a grand settlement when honso easing time comes. Dnring the few w< lys devoted to whitewash and soap it* id water they inflict the necessary mi nonnt of punishment and so start m poire again. ng Centennial Notes. Franco appropriates $40,000 to send schanics of every class to the Centen- ' *1. All French industries, inoluding riculture, will be represented in the legation. Tho Centennial commissioners are ry liberal with passes. Of the large ! lendauoo on tho first day only 76,216 : id their money, and since that time in number has run down to 10,000 and ,000. The non-paying attendants are now nounced as 12,000 in number among o oxhibitors and their assistants, 1,611 long the general officials, 225 among o judges, 100 more to the State boards, , d over 500 to the press. A pretty pavilion has been built by i o Portuguese government nearly op- i site the Pennsylvania educational : aiding. It is ono story high within d two without, and is surrounded by < de piazzas. The Portuguese eommismers have their offices here. There are two French restaurants on e grounds. One of them goes on tho inciple that nobody will be caught it the second time, and that it must nrpforn cat. nil t.Via mnnpv it. ann r?nt. nf ance customers who have been drawn it by its famous name. The other is iviously kept by an Americanized enclimau. The partial relief to visitors to the chibition which was given by the aboion of the rule requiring two fifty nt notes (or pieces) for two persons stead of one dollar, has been receded )m by the managers. They still insist >on the fifty cent fraction. They do is, they say, because of the greater sility in handling orowds and detectg counterfeits. The parade of the Knights Templars June will, if the programme and* omise of numbers in attendance is Ifilled, be the most gorgeous in the nals of Masonry. Some rate the numr'of expected Knights at more than enty thousand, exclusive of the Philalphia organizations. Minor visita>ns of military societies, press elubs, j., will greatly diversify the scone itil the great day on which Mr. Evarts to enliven it with his oration. New Turk Millionaires, The New York correspondent of the licago Tribune says : Commodore mdorbilt is easily reached. Any one n get an interview with him who de-es it. H. B. Claflin, the great dry ods king, occupies a small office in 3 great establishment, and customers d clerks go in and ont while ho is ere with the ntmost freedom. Mr. aflin often confers with his clerks and aior partners at their desks, and is apoached by the firm's patrons as readily if he was one of the salsemen. Wm. Astor was another man always ready see any one who called upon him in s business offioe on Prince street. Commodore Garrison has an offioe on >wling Green, where his steamship sin ess has long been done, and, proled he has no person with him at the jment, can be seen for the asking. Jay Gould is always busy, but visitors taking their turn can see him at any ue. The leading bank presidents are acaaible to anybody who may call upon em. The heads of the dry goods firms of mold & Constable and Lord & Taylor n be seen at any time by sending in a rd or a nomo. Indeed, our busiest sn are real democrats, and as a cat ly look at a king, so may the humblost ,iz?n flpp.nrA an Anrlinnnn vritli fh? :hest without hindrance. The nearest kin to A. T. Stewart in e Tycoon business is James Gordon jnnett. Ho has a corps of watchmen d doorkeepers keeping off the rabble, d after passing three or four waitingoms he may be seen. Presence of Mind. " Dora" was being enacted in a estern city where the choice of actors not great, and Mary Morrison, on aking her exit to bring on her little illie, of four years, was shocked to id a lubberly boy of at least fourteen, 10 must go on, as no other was to be d. The Farmer Allen of the play was doubt equally shocked to see Mary ming upon the stage with a boy nearas big as herself. What was worse, e audience began to titter. But FarmAllen was equal to the emergency, d instead of asking " How old are >u, my little boy?" said: "How old e you, my strapping fellow?" probay hoping that the boy would have the od sense to give an ago more suitable his size. The boy, however, with inful fidelity to the book, and in a pulohral voice that mado the answer i the more preposterous, said : " Four five, grandpapa." " Forty-five 1" claimed the other, cheerfully ; "you ak it, my boy, you look it!" There is a laugh at the moment, but the av was saved from shin wreck. It was Id of a famous tragedian that at tho jse of an act in which ho had been the ominont character, a gooso's head was l'owu upon the stage by some one who d a spite against him. The tragedian eked it up, handed it to one of the hen. to toko away, and said, with per i;t nonchalanoe: " Tho gentloman 10 has thrown his head upon the stage n get it bock at the close of tho perrmauce." A Terrible Mistake.?Tho Leaven>rtli (Kan.) Times has tho following m : It is now certain that tho young an Callahan, who was hanged by a ob in Edwards county, a short time ;o, was entirely innocent A SUICIDE'S LETTER. The Pepllngt of llrrnnrd Ilnllry, who 8h*t IllBiHPlf In Ml. L??l> Becaune he wu Jilted. To TirE Pubijc: Would you like to know how a man fools who is about to commit suicide ? In the first place, he must feel so badly that no matter what is to come hereafter, it is more endurable than the present; and secondly, he must feel that, more endurable or not, bo cannot help the aot; that if even the futnre is worse than the present, the present is unendurable. I suppose medical men would like to kuow just the mental condition of one who can shuffle off this mortal coil. It is this: My nerves and senses are ns sound as they ever were. I can attend to business as efficiently, and as fully realize that the chief end of man is to gather ducats, as I ever oould. 1>ut I , can also realize that without my better half I am as a perfect engine without Bteam?useless. Doctors of divinity would doubtless like to know my moral and religious :.1 nr i * i __ il ' rm _ ^ uiuuh. iuy murai luea is tins; xiiat man should do his duty in spite of obstacles and consequences, and that so doing is the only thing which will bring the peace which passeth all understanding. I acknowledge that I was too weak so to do. In regard to my future state, my reason does not fully aooept that there is a future state of which we will be oonBcions. I believe in the immortality of the soul, or the life prinoiple, or whatever it is, as 1 believe in the immortality of a bushel of ooal; that it may ohange its form so essentially as to be unoonsoious of having ever existed before, but that still, as the ooal, it is not destroyed, but simply changes its form. My hoart may speak differently to me, but even then loelieve that whatever is, is inevitable, as it must all nrooeed from one great original, and so must be in accordance with his will However, I shall probably know more about it in twenty-four hours than all the D. D.s living. I am not crazy. I know that the world is full of good and enjoyable things, and that they were put here for our good and benefit, and that we should strive and work to obtain them. But I am unable to care for them without the love of my darling. I wish to state that Miss is in no way responsible for my having loved her; that almost before she had ground for thinking that my feelings toward her were more tender than those of friendship, she informed me that her heart was another's, and that, while she esteemed and cared for me as a friend, I could be nothing more to her. But she was mistaken in that, and though I could not convince her of it while living, she will realize it when I sleep the deep that knows no waking. A sweet good night to all. APPENDIX, On the back of a sheet of note paper were the words: " Respect this.'* On the other side was written the following: "I wish to be buried just in the clothing in which I die. Do not move me irom wnere x am iouna, except to mj grave. " Bury me in a plain pine ooffin, and have me carried to my grave in a onehorse spring wagon. Do not let the total cost of my burial exoeed $5. As the lost request of a dying man, I conjure you to respect these instructions." A Dying Lover Married. An unusual marriage took place in Omaha, Neb., the parties thereto being Spencer Wright and Miss Bessie Roberts, daughter of United States Deputy Oolleoter John Roberts. The o remony took place at the house where the young man boarded, as he was too ill to bo removed elsewhere. The Rev. L. F. Britt, pastor of the First Methodist church, performed the ceremony. Mr. Wright has been failing in health very rapidly of late, and the physicians here having given him up, his father, who is u merchant tailor in New York city, arrived to take his son home to die of consumption. Miss Roberts, to whom young Wright has long been atliunced, decided to go East with her dying lover, and give him all the care and attention that her love could prompt in his dying hours, and the better to enable her to care for him, she decided to have tho marriage oeremony per formed before the journoy to New York was undertaken. While tho wedding wns sad in its attendant circumstanoes, it was lightened np with the great cheerfulness manifested by the bride in takiug up her labor of love. Advertising Patent Medicines. Advertisements of patent medicines furnish support to many so-called religious papers. Not a few of them wonld perish but for the aid they receive from modical quackery. Henoe the importance of the movement in the Baltimore conference to exolu.le these advertisements from the organs of the Methodist denomination. Of the quacks who thus advertise, there are somo whose medicines are injurious to the men, women, and children who use them; and we often see, in the so called religious papers, quack medicine advertisements which aro an outrage upon deocncv. If religion bo a matter of truth,*how can its organs fustnin themselves by such falsehoods? ?New York Shin. Ghbwtno Snuff.?The Enterprise (Miss ) Courier say a : The physioians of Ibis place are becoming seriously alarmed ovei the prevalent use of snuff among the ladies. The doctors say it is creating havoc with the Indies aijd d ^lroynig their offspring. That Little Lamb. Mary had a little lamb? We've heard it o'er and o'er, Until that little lamb become* A perfect little bore. Bo I propose to make a grave, And dig it deep and wide; That Mary's lamb and all its bards Bd buried aide by aide. Items of Interest. Kit Oarson had 10,000 hair-breadth esrapes, and then suffered the humiliation of dying at the heels of a Mexican mnlA The boy who started from home to walk to the Centennial is being pioked np hungry and repentant by polxoexnen in all parts of the country. That was a pretty oonoeit of a little three-year-old who, when gathering flowers and finding one with an unusually short stem, exclaimed that ho " found it sitting down." " J narrowly escaped being cut off with a shilling," said a solemn young man. " How did you escape it ?" asked a bystander. " My father had no shilling," was the solemn reply. A oonteinpory describing, a boat race, alludes to the "flashing of 10,000 eyes and the plaudits of twice as many fair bands." What a lot of one-eyed women there must hare been at that race 1 " Why is it, my dear sir," said Waffles' landlady to him the other day, " that you newspaper men never get rich ?" " I do not Know," was his reply, " exoept it is that dollars and sense do not always travel together." The Philadelphia Inquirer strongly urges the reduction of the price of admission to the Exposition from fifty to twenty-five cents, on the ground that the present charge will virtually close the doors against hundreds of thousands of workingmen and their families. The New Orleans Picayune says that the telegraph art has reached such perfection that long courtships have been maintained between persons hundreds of miles apart, and some lovesick telegraphist has eVtn invented a telegrapmo sign for love's flijst sweet kiss. A dean tooth does not decay. Acids and sour fruit always injure the teeth instantly ; sweets never do; without them children would die, henoe their insatiable instincts for sugar. If a tooth powder was never used the teeth would not be so white: but. kept per feotly clean, would last for life. The editor of a Western paper has medioal authority for stating that in some oases if liquid food be applied to the body, it will merely, by being absorbed, sustain life. The editor had a molasses jng forcibly applied to himself, and his head not only increased in siae. but it has been a sweet looking head ever since. While a barber of Niles, Mich., was shaving a customer the other day, he became tangled up in an epileptio spasm. After the customer had dost a slice off the neck and narrowly escaped a severance of the jugular vein, he modestly suggested that he would wait for "the next," as he never did like close shaving. Sandwich Islands Surf Bathing. Says a writer: It is very exciting, but the sea waa not very rough. The fcurf board is a rough plank shaped like a eoffln lid, about two feet broad and from six to nine feet long. The men, dressed only in malos, carrying their boards under their arms, waded out from the rooks on which the surf was breaking, and, pushing their boards before them, swam ont to the first line of breakers, and then, diving down, were seen no more till they reappeared as a number of black heads bobbing abont like oorks in the water. What they seek is a very high roller, on tbe top of whioh they leap from behind, diving faoo downward on their boards. As the waves speed on and the bottom strikes the ground the top breaks in a huge oomber. The swimmers appeared posing themselves on its highest edra by dexterous movements of their hands and feet, keeping just at the top of the curl, but always apparently coming down hill with a slanting motion. 80 they rode in majestioally, always just ahead of the breaker, carried shoreward byits mighty impulse at the rate of forty miles an hour, yet seeming to have a volition of their own, as the more daring riders knelt and even stood on their surf boards, waving their arms and uttering exultant cries. They were always apparently on the verge of ingulfment by the fleroe breaker whose towering white crest was ever above and just behind him; but just as one axpeoted to see them dashed to pieoes, they either waded quietly ashore, or, sliding off their boards, dived under the surf, taking ad vantage of the undertow, and were next seen far ont at sea, preparing far fresh exploits. The great art seems to be to mount the roller precisely at the right time, and to keep exactly on its crest just before it breaks. An Extensive Work. Should a ship canal be out across the Isthmus of llarien at its narrowest point, it would be thirty-two miles long, and would require a ship tunnel 126 feet high aud seven miles in length through solid rock. A vessel going from New York to San Francisco would save ten thousand miles of sailing, and could afford to pay a toll of ?8,000. In the one item of wages, a clipper ship of 1,500 tons burden Would save $2,000 at least. It is estimated that the work I would cost $100,000,000.