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*.'*t^*v.~jK t, , V* s. v The Beaufort Tribune. VOL. II.?NO. 40. BEAUFORT, S. C., AUGUST 23, 1876. $1.50 PER \NNUM. An Afterthought. Wo folt the grass flow round onr foot In currents cool and palpitant; The chony blooms above hung Bwoet, Through rifts in whioh, with horn aslant, And olear as ico, wo saw the moon Swim in the sou's bright wake at noon. She w-s so young bIio knew not love, But b!nsh?d for joy, as flowers do When winds blow warm. It was enough To boat a min's heart through and through To soe her oyos and feel tliem lure His own to plungo iu deeps so pure. I oou'd not frame a phrase whereof The import might in tender way Make her heart's fountain gently move; Somehow my words were all astray; Savo those to name the simplest thought Tho cunning of my tongue was naught. Oh, blundering clod! Oh, timid sot! To lot life's crowning crisis paeB ? To bo a king and know it not! The sharded insect in the graqs Had hotter nerve and clearer brain! Bat who can call time back again 7 The Defense of Philadelphia. 1 wonder, says James Parton, in the , Ledger, if the people of Philadelphia, j in these centennial times, recall the stir- j ring scenes which took place on their j river Delaware a hundred years ago, ( when Dr. Franklin, civilian as he was, j was superintending the river defenses of , the city. The old man was then in his ; seventieth year, but the youngest sol- ! dier in Philadelphia was not more zeal- } ous and alert than he in the active ser- ( vico of the country. , Nor was this t e first time that ho had ( taken the lead in fortifying Philadel- , phi a. Twenty-eight years before, when England was at war with France, and j tno Quakers of Pennsylvania were disinclined to take any measures toward the defense of the province, it wus the printer Franklin w ho roused the people to a sense of their danger; reminding them that a tingle privateer, armed with ten guns, could anchor opposite the city, and levy a contribution upon the inhabitants. Five miles below Philadelphia, near the junction of the Delaware and tSohuylkill, two island obstruct the channel and render the navigation, for u milo or two, slow aud difficult, lted Bank is the name of the opposite New Jersey shore. Franklin, who was a real water dog, the best swimmer in the province, and always fond of river excursions, knew well the spot, and fixed upon it for his defensive works. Cannons were bought; earthworks were thrown up; and/ in short, the front door of Philadelphia was closed against an approaching robber. During one of his visits to Boston a few years before, lie had been invited to the castle in Boston harbor to witness the exorcise of a club of artillerymen (morohants and mechanics of the town) who used to go once a wet k to the castle for a dav's . practice with the great guns. He after- , ward learned that the best engineers and artillerymen at the taking of Louisburg, in Cape Breton, were no other , than these same Boston shopkeepers , and tradesmen. j Suoh a club he now formed in Phila- , delphia, and they went down the river j every week to Red Bank and Mud island, where they learned to handle the , great guns. Franklin himself taking his j turn with the rest. During that war | Philadelphia was not molested, the mere | existence of the works at Red Bank suf- , fioing to deter the enemy's vossels from ] ascending the river. But now the very mistress of the so.is 1 was in arms aguiustthe thirteen colonies, ( extending along a ccmst two thousand t miles in extent, with scarcely a cannon ; available against an approaching eneuiy. j It was on the fifth of May, 1775, that ( Franklin lauded in Philadelphia, after < an absence of ten years in England, t chiefly spout in averting civil war. The ; news that greeted him was that hostili- ] ties iiad begun. The battle of Loxing- , ton was fought while he was crossing , tho sea. He felt that war was thou uu- ] avoidable, and he threw all the energies ( of his mind into the great work of or- \ ganizing measures for defense. t His Red Bank experiences of 1748 ; were ever fresh in his memory; and be- i ing now a member of the oommittoe of \ safety, with the provinoo of P^uusyl vania almost unanimous for defenso be- { hind him, he determined to make thorough work of closing tho river. Besides ; beginning Fort Mifflin upon Mud island, < and strong works at Red Bank on the Jersey shore, both commanding the ohannel, he caused three rows of what were oalled vaisseaux de /rise to be \ sunk in tue ohannel. These were large | frames of timber filled with stones and sunk to tho bottom of the river, to which large beams barbed with iron were fastened, which were designed to extend above tho surfooe. Precisely how they were arranged I have never been able to discover, for all those AnorafiAna raovo A# noilrno ? wrw?WMUUD ??W?Vt VT? WUIDUl 1XU11CU UU 111 secrecy. The private letters of the time abound in allasions to Dr. Franklin's chevaux tie frise, as they were also callod, bat no one appears to have taken the trouble to give an exact aoconnt of them. In addition to these means of defense. Franklin caused the oonstruotion of a fleet of " galleys," which were vessels of considerable size, propelled by oars, and designed to oarry cannon, and to be filled with armed men. There were men (and Qenoral Washington appears to have been one of them) who had little faith in the Franklin galleys; but n'.most evory one so oins to have attached much iuil o'lanco to the vaixxcaux dc (rise. | In a letter to General Washington, Jo- j siah Quincy says, after describing a visit ( to the galleys : "I have as much confidence in them as you have." ] Which is, I suppose, equivalent to ] saying that neither of them had any < confidence at all. From the following ^ sentence, however, I concludo that j Quincy had much confidence in the ] sunken vessels : , " But tho people hero have made ma- < chines to be sunk in the channel of < Delaware river. Three rows of them \ are placed in tho river with timbers i barbed with iron. They are framos of < timber sunk with stone ; machines very j proper for our channel in the narrows ] (or Boston harbor)." < Franklin's energy was such, and he t was so vigorously seconded by tho people of Pennsylvania, that, in about four months after his lauding, the works near Bed Bank and several of the galleys were fit for service, and capable of pre- e sentiug an obstacle to an ascending fleet. ( As noon an two or throe nf the nmllAM t were finished, crews were selected from 1 the hundreds of volunteers pressing t their services upon the committee, and c every day the^ w. re out on tho river a practicing, their evolutions witnessed by t eager crowds upon the shore. e It is surprising how this philosopher I of three-score and ten worked that Bum- e mor. The committee of safety convened t at six o'clock every morning, and sat p till nearly nine. At nine Congress mot, c of which body he was the leading mem- c bcr, and it seldom adjourned for the g day until after four in tho afternoon, g In tho evening ho was experimenting c with saltpeter, a supply of which was p most sorely needed. Sometimes he was s con -ideriug tho I est form of pike ; at f another tho utility of bows and arrows ; 1 or he would bo devising financial plans, \ oorresponding with the friends of t Am riea in England, and doing the a th >usaul nameless things which a di- s renting mind must attend to at such a ji time. B On a fine day in September, 1775, the t sommittee of safety invited Congress d in 1 the Legislature of Pennsylvania to 'J make an excursion upon tho river in the c galleys, seven of which were then com- t pl> ted, the Washington, the Effingham, a tho Franklin, the Dickinson, the Otter, d tho Bulldog, and another whoso name s has not been recorded The gentlemen p embarked about ten in the mornin *, and c krtnoov fn Iiowa ? -1 UHIV> unu u UCU^UtlUl Willi J| lown the river, past tho place where the c three rows of barbed beams were get- t ting into position, conversing npon the a lighter topics which suggest themselves c when people are disposed to pit a are. c rhttir intention was to have gone down o is far as Fort Mifflin, but wind and tide b being unfavorable, they turned about ind rowed past the city, up as fur as tho projection which had then the singular name of Point-no-Point. Daring the latter part of the voyage, t is John AdumB records, the converse- o fcion took a more serious turn. Mr. Ad- t ims went in the Bulldog, with Mr. Rit- c teahouse, Dr. Rush, and several other t persons of note, of whom he afterward a wrote: r " In the boat, on our return from ii Point no-Point, the principal topic of c conversation was independence. My x sentiments on this head wero no secret s In Congress from May, 1775. An inter i; cepted letter, early in 1775, had informed the world that I was for indo- e pcudonce. But 1 was left too much c ilone. The company in the boat ap- y peared to me then and over since to f bave invited me to be of their party that n they might all assure me, in that con ft- r i, 4i? -* L.. UXOI uiiuiuvi, tuub lurjr Hurt) OI my II mind. o The works in the river, and those c n: on the river's bank, went on as con- 1< binuously as the season would permit e ill that winter, and during the next year, ii 3? on after Dr. Franklin left for Franco s in 1776, there arrived from that country e % famous military engineer, named Du e Dondray, who had been engaged and v rent over by the American agent in Paris. Ho luid out the works in proper military fashion, and rendered the forts sapable of a serious defense against the onemy. But it was not, however, until ^ late in the following year, 1777, that tho fl strength of the position was put to the t best. General Howe had taken posses- I sion of Philadelphia; but as long as the c river was closed, he was cut off from his c supplies, and his capture of the city was c useless. The works kept a powerful British fl ret aud a numerous' British 6 army busy for two months. Count t Douop, at the head of a force of twelvo c hundred Hessians, summoned one of * the forts to surrender in the words once 4 familiar to all: i " Tho King of England orders his 1 rebellious subjects to lay down their t arms; and they are warned that if they * staud tho battle no quarters whatever win u<: given. < ' Wo ask no quarters," replied Gen- < eral Greene, " nor will wo give any." * The twelve hundred llossians were 1 then hurled upon the fort, without the 1 moans of crossing the moat, and with- 4 out ladders to scale the walls. Six bun- ' tired of them fell before the murderous > fire of the garrison; and among them 1 was Count Donop, whose grave may still 1 be scon on that Jersey shore. Mean- 1 wliilva number of British frigates were beaten off by Franklin's galleys. Renewing the attack next day, an English frigato was blown up by a hot shot from < a galley, and soon after a smaller vessel i of eighteen guns met the same fate. A i second time the British fleet retreated; ' and it was not until three hundred and I fifty-eight guns had bombarded the 1 works for six days and six nights, that < Fort Mercer was abandoned by its gar- i rison of three hnudred Maryland troops, i Franklin's galley fleet, which then con sisted of forty-seven vessels, escaped up the river in the night?all but seventeen, which were burned near the cAe- j vaux dc frise. y Some of the massive beams wero re- j moved with great labor, and soon the ( British fleet, with its interminable line f }f transports, lay at anchor in the Dela- j (vare opposite the city. But Franklin f ind his men did their work so well that many years passed before all the beams ind sunken vessels were got out of the j ihanni'l. Iu 178t, some ingenious mo- ? :hauic iu vented a machine which drew ^ diem, one after the other, from the deep ^ nud at the bottom of the river, to the jreut joy of nil who wero interested in lavigatiug the Rtieam. To day, another t Fort Mifflin, with forty-six great guns, fi guards the narrow channel at the point ^ (elected by Franklin 128 years ago. ^ - \ The Itomance of a Ten Dollar Bill. 1 The Albany Argus tells the following ? itory: A Colioes (N. Y.) man was re- n ?ntly sent to the poniteutiary iu de- ^ ault of ten dollars to pay bis tine. A lighly esteemed Trojan, feeling an inerest in the impecunious citizon, pro- c seeded to Albauy and paid the fine with k ten dollar bill to the deputy superin- 0 endent of the penitentiary. The deputy j luperintoudont haudod tho ten dollar Q )ill over to a convict, whoso term had ixpired, and who was only waiting for ho customary donation to loi g term srisoncrs boforo leaving. The liberated y sonvict proceeded to the business part ?f Albauy and attempted to purchase ^ joods with tho money. The merchant, a 'lancing doubtfully at his convict garb, oilcludcd that he must be a willful j( >asscr of counterfeit money, and y traiglitway the freeman of an hour ouud himself again under lock and key. The for once unjustly accused ex-con- ? ict communicated by messenger with j( he deputy superintendent, who soou f ppeared and freed him. The deputy hortly after startled tho estimablo Tro- ^ an by appearing at his office and do- Cj aunding eleven dollars to make good f( ho suspected bid and his expenses. The ^ lemaud was suitably honored, and tho ?rojan received back the supposed C] ouuterfeit. A number of Troy experts w hen pronounced the bill perfectly good, ^ nd thd Trojan telegraphed to the leputy superintendent to return tho ^ urplus dollar paid for traveling ox- j enses. Here was an nufortunate exonviet persecuted, an estimable Tro- y au suspected and a zealous prison offiud put to a great deal of unnecessary j; rouble and some unnecessary expense, y 11 for tho reason that au Albany mor- ^ hsnt " jumped at conclusions " aud de- fi( ided that a ten dollar bill in tho hands ^ if a penitentiary guest must necessarily rj ie a counterfeit. g| Continental Officers. b Mr. Hcudder, in a recent work, tells bis fact, which lie says may bo rolied in as correct: Dr. Fayssoux, joining l(. ho army of Gen. Grecpe, in North Car- . ilina, called at the luff of Gen. Huger, tj ho second in command, and was refused ,d mission. The doctor insisted on his iglit to enter; the sentinel, in conform- ? ty to his orders, denied it. The niter- J ation was heard by tho general, who, ocognizing the voice of his friend, de- ^ iied that ho might be allowed to pass to the hut. "Pardon me, doctor," said the gen- ., rul, who lay on the ground, wrapped ^ ip in an old military cloak, "forgiving ' on so ungracious a reception ; but the not is. the chances of war havo robbed no of every comfort, and I contined nyself to solitude and an old cloak while ay washerwoman prepares for a futuro cession the only shirt I own." If an iflicer of distinguished rank, universally * oved and respected, for whose aocom- . nodation there was not an individnal a the service who would not have made aoriflces, was thus circumstanced, what aust have been the miseries of tho low- 11 ir grades, and wretchedness of tho pripato sentinels ? Babies' Legs. Bow legs and knock-knees, common li leformities, are said to arise from tho n fflicted one having been put on his or I ler feet too early in babyhood. But a b thysician thinks differently, and we v omrnond his statement to mothers who b lesire that their- babies shall bo physi- p lally upright: t rr _ ,ii_: a 1? n * - - - no aitriuuios me oow legs to a habit t loine youngsters delight in of rubbiDg i he sole of one foot against that of tho * >ther; some will go to sleep with their a oles pressed together. Thoy appear to d >u joy the contact only when the feet are t laked ; they do not attempt to make it c vhen they are socked or slippered. So d ho remedy is obvious, keep the baby's a wjles covered. t Knook-kneos the doctor asoribos to a i iiffbrcnt childish habit, that of sleeping t >n his side, with one knee tucked into the v lollow behind the other. He has found 3 hat whoro one leg has been bowed in- r vard more than another, the patient has 1 dways slept on one side, and the upper 3 nomber has boen that which has been ' nost deformed. Here the preventive is c <0 pad the iusides of tho knees, so as to j ceep them apart, and lot tho limbs grow 1 freely their own way. e A Heavy Weight. c In Weasel there is a restaurant keep sr, twenty-seven years old. measuring ' irnnnil t h A nraiaf fnnf ?- C ??? r *nd weigliiug over four hundred pounds. 1 SVheu the landwehr was lately mustered 1 bo attend the artillery practioe no proper uniform could be found for this extraordinary man, and as he was absolutely 1 good for nothing so far as activity was t ooncerned, he was granted his dismissal y which he very willingly acoeptcd. t A boat's Fourth of July. The St. Louis Republican has the following: A goat proved himself on -he fourth to be as patriotic as anybody n St. Louis, at least ho mado as fine a lisplay of bunting as any houso on the itreot. Thero was a novolty about bis hunting, of course. The bunting on the itores down town Bhowed stripes frecently perpendicular, with a batch of itars in the corner, while the goat's hunting was strictly in a horizontal line, tnd the only stars connected therewith vere those observed suddenly by the various hunters. { The goat probably wouldn't have been j to patriotic but for the boys. He was , libbling the scant herbago beside the itreet on the morning of the fourth, | vhen he attracted tho attention of a ] jroup of the worst youngsters in the ( yard, and they resolved upon the bril- ( iant expedient of tying a bunch of i irackers to his tail, just to see what ho < rould do. They surrounded the troat. 1 ml, iifter infinite strategy and a final lesperato battle, captured him. Then nmo the task of attaching the bundle of nickers to the animal's tail, and a diffinlt task it proved. Goats iu general have no tail to speak if, and the Monroe street goat iu paricular is caudally deficient. His tail is nly an inch long, perfectly smooth, ud with an unwavering tendency to oiut toward the zenith. The boys tried or half an hour to fasten on the crackers without success, until one boy, who had earned to tie some kind of a sailor's not, accomplished the feat thoroughly nd satisfactorily. Then the crackers re re ignited and the boys formed a holjw square about the goat awaiting deelopments. At the first fizz of the burning crackrs tho animal leaped perpendicularly ve feet upward and came down stiff* :gged, casting at the same time a dreadilly interesting look over his shoulder t its roar. As the fizz changed into a aming sputter it leaped higher still and ime down more stiff legged than be>ro aud-tlien begun Rhying about sideays. The boy.j, previous to affixing the rackers, had taken tho goat into a yard ith a high board fence about it so that . couldn't get away, but they still retained iu a hollow square to observe 10 phenomena of tho occasion more iosely. Soon the first cracker exploded, and aen followed a frightful scene. The oat took in the situation fully, and then ecnmo a baneful Nemesis. With a rt engeful "bla-a-ab" and a rush he nocked a oornor boy out of that hollow quaro and a rod away, and then wheeld like lightning and charged again, 'he boys started for that fence in a wild tampede, but not ono of them reached jluo goat 8iiob aoout iiko a giaut . oomerang, ami every timo he struck a * oy that boy went to grass a total f rrcck. The crackers roared and flamed, ^ nd the gcat r< sembled a comet with a j ery tail, caroering through tho air, as t e bouuded from side to Bide and smoto c lie hapless boys. Before tho bunch of crackers was half j one every boy was down, and all afraid ^ a get up before tho raging boast, save 8 no boy who was lying close to the fence, j nd thought ho might get over before ] lio whirlwind would reach him. Ho j nule the attempt, but wasn't quick ? uougb, and dropped just in time to let ? uo goat pass over him with terrible ? arce and pass through the fence like a annon ball, carrying off a board as he ( rout. The boys rushed to the gnp thus ( lade, and saw a ball of fire far down tho f treet, going at tho rate of 1,000 miles i n hour, aud they saw no more goat on , tio fourth of July. On the next morn:ig, however, the animal was feeding f bout in his accustomed haunts, and j at for tho blackened stump of a tail ] nd a sinister gleam in his eye, no one rould have supposod that it had aided , i celebrating the oentennial fourth. J Marry and Settle Down. Dr. Dio Lewis having learned the , linimum quantity of food on which j ifo can be sustained, advises all young len to marry and settle down in life, j lis idea is that "until a man is married j is lifo is lacking in that which best doslops his mnnhood." Ho Rives "old laehelors " somo hard raps in a letter mblished lately, and then a Imini'-ters his rebuke to that olass who are anxious 1 0 see tho world before marrying : "SeeDg the world as tho young man does rho has to earn his liviug as he goeB , 1 >ug amounts to very little. What he loes see is nothing that holps him flght ha battlo of life more successfully. It roly keeps him in habits whioh are in lirect antagonism to a correct and happy md successful life, aud when he gets brough 'knocking about' he has uoth og to Rhow for tho mi-spent years save | bo habits which he mast overcome if ho rould make anything of himself. Do rou call that gam or loss ? So, young ( nau, tako the advice of a man who has < lept his eyes opened for moro years tbaa rou havo lived, probably; and don't knock around.' If you think I have rverdrawu the picture, look around rou, and out of the men you know seoot tbofe who havo * knocked around," ind sec if they do uot bear witness to ho truth of every assertion I havo iuado sonoeruing tho cla^s they represent, tre they men you envy ? I tell you, >oys, * knocking around' makes a man ;ood for nothing else, and I take it you lave a desire to be good for something li^her in life." Little Girl?"Oh, please, sir, I've wrought youi shirt 'ome, but mother svys she can't wash it no more, 'oos she tin obliged to paste it np agen the wall ind chuck soap suds at it it's so tender 1" The lleiresses or New York. Probably no city in the United State has bo many boautifnl and what clul mon call "eligible" heiresses as Not York, and. as we have written of th< rich widows and bachelors, some fact and particulars concerning the maiden rich und fancy free may be as readabli and interesting. It is not inappropriat to head the list with Miss Maroia Boose velt, although she is an orphan, he father, ex Judge Roosevelt, having die< two years ago, and her mother last win ter in Paris. The Roosevelts camo o good Knickerbocker stock, and were fo many yoirs conspicuous among th elite. Mrs. Roosevelt was a Miss Vai Ness, and hor father was minister U Spain. She was a beautiful and talenter Lady in her youngor days, and a groa ootertuiuer at the old Roosevelt mansioi 011 Broadway, near Thirteenth street A.t hor death she left her property raluod at $2,000,000, to Miss Marcia her only daughter, and, it is said, to th< hT/tltiuinn of lipr anna Tfin wniinrr lo/li inherits many of her distinguished mother's talents, and is almost as gener il a fuvorite. Miss Stevens, daughter of tho lab Dolonol Parau Stevens, of hotel fame, is h iross to a million odd, and reported 3Dgaged to an English nobleman. She is young, pretty and stylish, fond oi jocioty, horse racing, yachting, polo, 3tc. She spends some of her winters it Europe and her summers at Newport, where the Stevens cottage is opposite iho Ocean House. Mrs. Stevens was a Hiss lleed, of Boston, and her sister, who is completing her musical educatiot in Paris, is engaged to Mr. Moses H, 3rinuell, formerly collector of the port. Miss Weed, daughter of Thurlov Weed, will one day come into posses lion of many hundred thousands. She s a very clever and accomplished young ady, and acts as her father's secretary. IMioy live plaiuly, bnt handsomely and jomfortably, in a largo double house ot rwelfth street, just west of Fiftl ivonue. Miss Andrews,daughter of the late Lor ng Andrews, the millionaire, is destined o bo one of the richest ladies in Ameri :a, bor father's ostate being $5,000,000. iho is now in Europe with her mother, md their magniticent country seat al Newport has been rented to Mr. Haveneyer, the Austrian consul general al New York. Miss Andrews is not ye! lineteen years of age and very beauti ul. Miss Josephine Hoey is the danghtei \f Tr\lm TTaow Uouil Af A /lama iompany, whoso wife was once leading ady at Wallack's Theater. The young a:ly is possibly two and twenty years ol go, stylish, and the best "whip " at joug Branch, where the Hoeys have heir summer rosidence. She drives a >air of cream colored horses to a basket ;arriage, and is known to all the idhituca of the Branch. John Hoey >egan life at tho lowest round of the adder, apd is now worth " all the way ip " from $750,000. Josephine is the >nly daughter. Mias Moller is a daughter of William iloller, the sugar rotiuer whom everybody thought rich until he failed about i j ear ago. She is very stylish and efVctive, and has been much admired in Paris and Vienna. The gossips say hex ather settled half a million on her years igo, and sho has always been regarded is an heiress by young men in search ol \ rich wife. Miss Lamont, daughter of the laU Dharles Lamont, who fell from the win low of his house on Fifth avenue ont maimer's night while the family was al VV -st Point, and was instantly killed, it with her mother at the West End, Long Branch. She is just of age, very hand' mine and fascinatincr. It is re nortec tint she is to be married in the fall, 0<r dot will be fully $250,000. Miss Astor and Miss Chandler, niece ind granddaughter of the late W. B, \stor, are both heiresses to large for tunc s. So is Miss Kernochan, daughter o: Mr. J. P. Kernochan, who lately pait 5112,000 cash for tho celebrated Barredi mansion on Madison avenue. Miss Smith, niece of Mrs. A. T Stewart, has a large estate settled upoi tier siuco the merchant prince's death, ?ud is now in Paris with Mrs. Stewart. Miss Barlow, daughter of 8. L. M, B.irlow, the Erie lawyer; Miss Cooper, granddaughter of Peter Cooper; Mist Brown, daughter of James Brown, o: Brown Brothers; Miss Bee, daughter ol Wm. H. Lee, and Mies Morgan, dangh Lor of ex-Governor Morgan, are all heir esses, and there are others whose namei at this writing we do not recall.?Ex chavyr.. Peat for Fuel In England, Whon the price of coal rose a shor time ago to an exorbitant height an at tempt was made to introduoe peat at fuel. This attempt has not been alto gotlier unsuccessful, and the preparin( of pent for fuel has, according to th< Scotsman, been renewed to a great ex t. nt. in PAftliahirn oQiuwnall*r l.w tUoa, * V..MUM..VJ MJ vuvro* farmers and crofters who oie far romovei from railway stations. In the glens an< hilly districts of the country peat cat ting has been extensively proseonte* tins season, and the weather has bee: all that oonld be desired for drying an< preparing the fuel. About half a oen tury ago, when smuggling was carrie< on in Perthshire on a largo scale, th illicit stills were always found to b placed in spots near to where a suppl; of poat could l?o easily procured. ] was customary not many years ago i several districts for children attendini school to carry a piooe of peat oIopi with thoir books daily for the school house and teacher's tires, but this prew tioe is not likely to be resumed. Servians in Camp. s The special correspondent of the Lon} d(\u Standard at Belgrade gives the folr lowing description of the Servians in 3 camp at Topehider: H Twenty minntes' walk from the hospiB tal is the beginning of a sloping plain, q and there lies the camp: The first view 0 of it was startling; the wildest dreams . of the most skillful arranger of masr qnerades never approached this varied 1 and lively picture. At the extreme left r were a number of oovered carts, drawn f by animals whieh in size resembled r dogs, when compared with our dray e horses. These carts were most of them a driven by boys, old men, or yonnggirls, 3 and contained the baggage of the divij sion; some of them had also casks of t rakieh (spirits), and a crowd of thirsty 1 militiamen surrounded these. The men, when not exercising in j companies, were either lying down or afanrlirtf* oKnnf ?n liffln nrrnnna All nf 3 them?almost without exception bej tween the age of forty and fifty?wore I the dress of the Servian peasants?a . short jacket of gray linen or coarse brown cloth, wide trousers reaching to 3 the knee, looking like a sack behind, some thick oolored material bound round '[ the leg from the knee downward, and , their foot enveloped in all sorts of rags, f thrust into sandala made of reddish ( brown nntanned leather, and bonnd by i straps?a very practical covering for the t feet, bnt often of ooloseal dimensions. 3 A leathern girdle, or red shawl of great k length, is worn round the waist. Many have revolvers stuck in the former, fron. i whioh a number of straps hang down, , and to these are attached knives, tinder , for striking a light, and other articles r considered indispensable by theServi. sdh. Instead of a knapsack, they have , only the ordinary thick woolen sacks, so > often to be seen hanging on the backs ' of the horses; these had been well filled [ by the wives of the men with bread, i mutton, cheese, and plenty of onions i and leeks?the latter a choice delioaoy among the Servians, the dreadful odor . of which mokes the mehune? (inns) alI most uninhabitable to European trav. elers. Finally, every one had the national i drinking vessel hanging at bis side?a [ gourd hollowed out in the shape of two . cylinders united by a balL The gourd t bears a great deal of knocking about, is t light, and keeps the fluids it oontains . fresh. A few of the men were in European dress, exoept that sandals were r worn instead of boots, and there were j aiso nonmamans ana zungaris m long , shirts of ooarne linen, worn outside the ; trousers, and Bulgarians (Roumanians [ and Bulgarians oome from East Seryia) in thick woolen ooats, which years ago J had been white. The Gypsies were very t numerous, all in the Servian dress, but . easily to be reoognized by their dark | skins, the dozens of gold rings on their Angers, and the large families that surrounded them. The State supplies each , of the militiamen with a new gray mili) tary cloak of Austrian out, manufactured in that country; a blue cap, also oopied from the Austrians; an ammunition ' pouch, and another little one for percus. sion caps, both attached to a black strap ' round the waist; and an old Russian ( musket, with a three edged bayonet. A Chicago Wife. ^ Not long ago a married woman on Pine street, Chicago, asked her husband 5 for a new summer hat and suit, so that ' alio could make that hateful creature in J the next bloek see that there were other ' pt'oplo beside her ladyship that ooold 1 dress decently. Owing to the stringency ? of the money market he declined to fall ' in with her overtures. She did not I press the subject, but a few days after wnru blo unrnu iaj uio ntur, muu lcauiij^ her head softly on his shoulder, said : J "Darling, if you were to be hit on the head with a hammer, or something of the kind, so that it wouldn't kill yon, but hurt you a good deal and put yon out of your mind, wouldn't they make mo your guardian, and administrator I" "Very probably they would, pussy," he replied, fondling ber golden ourls, " but what a funny question for you to ask." " And then," she oontinued, apparently not having heard the latter * Siirt of his sentenoe, " and then I oould o all that I liked with things, and my name would be the same as yours at the bank and so on!" "Certainly, pet," he responded, and she, giving him an affeotionate embrace, hurried away. The thing somewhat perploxed him, but he dismissed it from his memory until very reoently, when he met a hardware dealer of his acquaintance, who said : "Tell your wife I sent her the biggest ham i -V 1 i L.i l\ J J: J mor we una, uut wuav ui uiuuuer uiu she want so large a hammer for ?" Then a oold sweat broke out all oyer 1 that yonng man, and hastening home, he ' told his wife he had just oolleoted a bad 9 debt, and here were $180 for her to get " that suit and hat with. And she kissed I him and said she wonld not take it all, 3 since times were so hard, and they must r make every cent go as far as they oould; 3 bnt he insisted that she should, and she * yielded like a dutiful wife, and when he J had gone out she took the hammer from ' behind the washstand, sent it baok to * the hardware store, and told them she fj wouldn't need it, bat to send her its ^ worth in self-sealing preserve jars, d e Oaxward Bathos.?The Rev. Mr. e Spooner (tenderly to eligible widow)? y " How beautifully emblematic is this t of the relations of man and wife. See n how the graoefnl ivy, womanlike, clings g for support to the stahtart oak. Ah, dear g madam, a husband's fond protection "? 1- Widow?" Andanppoain' thehoakis too 1-1 little and the hivy too big?what then Mr Spoontrt"