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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL Published Every Tuesday. At camden; s. a, DY TRANTHAH A ALEXANDER. -*? SUBSCRIPTION RATES. [In Advance.) Ouo Year 12 I 0 Six Months 1 25 DR. T. BERWICK LEGARE, DENTIST, GRADUATE OF THE BALTIMORE COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGERY. OFFICE?PEKALB HOUSE. Eutrance'ou Broad Street m^n"TRANTHAM. VY ixi< . Attorney at Law, CAMDEN, S. C. jggP'Officc over the store of Mrs. II. Crosby, in the building of Robt. Man, Esq. Entrance on Broad street. May 24-ly. J. D. DUNLAP, TRIAL JUSTICE, BIIOAD STREET, CAMDEN, SO. CA. og^. Business entrusted to his care will receive prompt attention juncTtf. J. T. HAY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND Trial Justice Office over store of Messrs. Bourn Bros. Special attention given to the collection ft claims. J. W. DEPASS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND Trial Justice. * Bjiihoss jf all kinJi prompt'./tr^icbtel. W. L. DEPASS. T. n. CLARKE. DkPASS & CLARKE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CAMDKN, S. 0. Win practice la all the State and Federal Coma. novstf I J. D. K EN > EDV. P. II. NELSON KENNEDY A NELSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CAMDEN, S. C. Office formelj occupied by Judge J. E. Kershaw. hotJSui FREDERICK J. HAY, Architect and Builder, CAMDEN, S. C., Will furnish plans anJ estimates for all kinds of buildings. Contracts taken at moderate figures, and promptly and carefully attended to. Oiders left at the Comdex oiiixal office will receive immediate altentiou. March ltf JOHN C. WOLST, * PLAIN, ORNAMENTAL, j aflu SIGN PAINTER, Paper Hanger $ Glazier, CAMDEN, S. C. iept-3^12iu Be Sure to Stop at the Latham House, CAHDEN, S. . (Traxsuxt Hoard, $2.00 ?-kr daT.) :o: mp'.e acconnuo Jul ions. Tables supplied with the best the Markets afford. Eve- , tj atteation paid to the comfort of Guests. B&~Coonected with the house is a first I class Bar, which is located separately from the hou>e, and orderly kept. tare onvcyatices supplied to quests on liberal terms, either for city or country use. feb > ly J*. B. LATHAM, Proprietor. TloTToTh TToiiqa.1 H<l*v CAMDEX, S. C. 31HS. A. M. RODGER*, PROPRIETRESS. Regular aiiJ Transient Board furnished upon accommodating terms. September 30. W. H. ELLIS Begs leave to inform his friends and the I put-lie generally that he is now receiving a large and complete stock of WINES, . LIQUORS, SEGARS. TOBACCO, Which lie proposes to ^11 at LOW PRICES FOR THE CASH,: Lower than the same good* can be "old ; for in Cainden, prices ranging from $1.75 to $0 per gallon. 1'ersous wishing to pur- j chase will do well to call and examine his stock before purchasing elsewhere. oct23-tf Jingling and Tie*. 12 QQQ Yard# bagging, 6U0 Bundles TIES, For sals low by oct23tf 'BACH BROS. Need Rye, For sals, in quantities to suit, ty if BALM BROS. I VOLUME XXXVI. NATURE S SOLITUDE. On the margin of a streamlet. Ebbing downward from tue liill, All alone I sat and listened As the waters danced and glistened In the ceaseless moving rill. Like a fairy incantation Frrm the wildwood harps abound, Played the zephyrs there, attended By the clarion tones, and blended With the waters ringing sound. Till, methought, the fabled spirits, From the fern-copse came and danced On the mossy bank before me, Underneath, around, and o'er me, Frolicked, capered, sang, and pranced. But I shook the fancy from nie. Day-dream, wood sprites tied away, And returned the scenes around me? Daily scenes of life which bound me Through the ever active day. Here I ftun i a solemn solace For the heait in dreary mood, So, when e'er I stop to ponder, Let me to the green batik wander Midst ihj silvau solitude. To the margin of the streamlet, Ebbing downward tnrougu ineraio, Pure and crystal, glad and clear, Winding, murmuring, singing ever Willi a voice that ne'er can fail. TEN YEARS AGO. BV JOAXX D. WHITE. Ten years ago, business called rae to a town which we will call Exruouth. I was staying with an old college friend; and, as we ta'ked over our college pranks, and the friends of those days, I asked; "What hus become of Fred Hinder* ron ? He used to be a wilu boy in days of yore." ' Oh," answered my fri'-ud, whose nauio was Harper; "Fred has settled down, and owns a house, a nica little wife aud three pretty children." I gave a prolonged whistle, then said,? "Pray how long since he treated himself to tender babies and helpmeet dear ?" "lie has Loen married turce years, and Us twins two years old and a fine boy of*six or seven months. But you mu.it rrn nnd thpm." Next evening we went to inakfr our'1 visit, and as we drew near Fred's home, I thought I had never seen a prettier pieture. It gave my bachelor heart a i slight twinge of jealousy. The houso was in the outskirts of the town?a cottage set back from the I sticct, with a garden in front, and a < brnad walk Jerfd'ng'to the entrance. There was a porch, overgrown with i honeysuckle and clematis. In the walk : was standing Henderson, with n crowing bahy in his arms, who was pulling his i father's hair and whiskers, and appear, ed to be in l.igh glee. J'y his side < was standing a little maiden with both artrs clasped around one of her fa- i ther's knees, lonkiog up at him with large brown eyes full of love. At the step of the porch, like a picture 1 framed in flowers, sat the mother, watching the group wi'li loving looks, her arm passed around the other twin, who stood by her side, now and then patting her mother's face, or smothering her with kisses. We stood there unobserved spectators for souic moments, and then advanced. As soon as Henderson saw us he come forward with outstretched hand, and & henrly welcome in face and , voic, as he exclaimed,? "Halloa, Tom ! Where in the world did you drop from ?" After a warm hand t.luke, he looked down on his two little ones, and askrd if I hud 'any incumbrances.' and his laujjh was a very proud and happy one as he led us to his pretty wife, whom he called his "Lily," with her little "Rose" clinging to her. * By and by the mother carrriod off her little ones, and wc three old friends were left walking about the garden and premises, where everything was the picture of neatness. I'resently Fred invited us into the house, and, when there, told his wife to pet us some refreshments, which she did, bringing cake, and delieious fruits from their own garden; while Henderson brought ? - i ?? i.i u ?r wine and branny, panumug muisrn .> both liquors pretty freely, ar.d j ressing them on his guests. I observed his wife easting anxious glances at him, but, beyond makiug him more pressing his hospitality, I did not sec that the win* had any ( fleet on him. Wo passed an hour or two in pleasant converse and thcu bade them goodMy friend and I walked in silence for some moments after leaving Mid then I asked,? "Is Fred at ail given to intemperance ?" "He was so at one time," said Harper, "but his good littlo wife exercises a restraining influence over 1 iin, and he will not, I hope, again fall into the same habits. You know his 'wild oats' at college were rtry wild." After a stay of a week at Kxmoutb. during which time I made frequent calls at Henderson's, whoso wife was not only pretty but well read, and eonversed well, making their house a pleasant place to visit, I wandered hither : and thither, traveling in foreign lands. | aud bearing nothing of my two friends and their families. Fix years el ipscd ere I again visited Ex mouth, and as I wandered around on the cveing of my artival. I found myself in t ho vicinity of my old Mend's bouse, and bent my steps towards it. I could not tut murk at once the chango in the appearanco of the place, The houso teemed not te Lire been painted linee I CAM had last seen it, the fences were dilapidated. the garden neglected and the vines strangling over the porch in untrimmed confusion. I knocked and a little girl about eight years of ago, one of the twins, I conjectured, opened tlio door, and when I asked for Mr. and Mrs Henderson, asked me with a grave, old-fashioned air, to "wulk in." Then, turning to a small urchin who was staring at mc with his father's big blue eyes, she said,? "Run, Ilarry, tell mauima a gentleman is here." An order obeyed as soon as he had seen my coat tails disappear in the room into which I was ushered. There I found the other twin walk* ing quickly about the room, and singing heartily to a sickly looking baby in her arms. She sat down when I entered, and began dancing the fretful child on her knee. I eoon found from her prattling that she was "Rosy," and that "Graeey" was cutting her teeth, and Susy was not able to come and take her, as mamma was busy. Presently "momma" came in, looking flushed and worried. She recogniacd me at oncc. though I should never have known this care worn, middle-aged womau to be *' " *?" ? liAtmo vntinir tna. IIIU puiiit; uj.'jrj jwM..p ?.M tron whom I had met only six summers before. Wo talked a Jit tie about uiy travels, and she spoke of her children, talking fast and uervouslv, aud avoid* ing, I thought, her husband's name. When I inquired for him she colored painfully, and said,? "He is out, but may soon come home " I saw something was wrong, and so, after an half hour's visit, Fred not re turning, I took my loavo. As I walked back to the towu, I saw Fred standiug, smoking, at the door of a liquor shop. He came out and shook hauds, then after talking awhile, invited me to "go in and have a glass of brandy." I declined. and, sojing that he had already been drinking, his oyes looking heavy and bloodshot, I left him with a sad heart at the chance in his once bright, open face. My friend Harper was absent, and, having nothing to keep me in Kxmouth, 1 left next day, and again heard nothing of Fred Henderson until business again called me to the eld town of Kxmouth. I was the guest of Harper, and, as we walked about, noting the improvements and changes which had taken place since I was there lour years previous, we passed the cot'ago where I had seen lleuderson amid his happy fan.ilj. I stopped, sayiug as I did b<>,? "Ah, f am glad to find the place look, ing so trim and cosy. I was afraid from rpprurunces last tiruj I was here, tlut Fred was going to the bad. Come, let us give him a call." Harper took my arm and walked rjuickly on, saying,? "No. Tom, you won't find Henderson ' there. Poor fellow ! His is a sad tale. You know how talented" ho was at college, bearing off prizes without seeming to study half ho hard as we -poor, dull wretches, and yet how jovial aud jolly i he was. After leaving college, and go-, ing through the course of law studies, ! lie was admitted to the bar; auJ came to Kxuiouth to practice. Here he fell in love with Alice Morton. Her parcuts | had but nuo objection to him ; that was ! hi? rntlirr nrisfrvulj loiliils li? w:is ' very fund of Alice, and for the love of, her would do almost anything; so, us just at that time there was a great tcur j ptranee movement, he became one of' the most zealous members of their society, and promiucnt in all mutters connected with it. lie was a powerful lecturer for so jouug a man, end never setucd weary of speaking on that subject. Alice encuuragrd him by her interest in the matter, uud by attending the public meetings. He seemed to bavc quite left off bis bud habits. His business waft flourishing, and be was considered a pood lawyer. So after a year's probation, tlicy were married, with a bright prospect of happiness. "For a time nil went on will; but, after a while, the novelty of being a tciiiricmiico orator Wore off. Old com panions offered him wine, ami jeered at liia refusal to drink it. When, for various reasons, the society was broken up, nud Kred, feeling himself at liberty agaio, fell into tho habit of taking a glass of wine or brandy wherever he u>eta friend; still his wife had influ** euee enough to keep him from excess. u When you saw him ten years ago he was doing a good business. Stnon after ho began to neglect it, and lion fell into debt. No one woul 1 trust important cases in (he hands id" an intemperate man. Then they had to give up the pretty cottage home and go to live with her father, lie still had his office, but very soon had to give that up also. Old friends, for old acquaintance sake, gave him some conveyancing l?u*iness, hut his mistakes were so frequent that tho papers woe useless. Now, what little he earns goes for drink. His wife and children are dependent on her father, who is an old man, ami poor himself. Sho suffered in silence so long, from anxiety and poverty, that her health is broken, and she is unable to do anything lor the support of herself and children, llis own mother, whose only child lie was, and who spent nearly all she had on his education, thinking that he in rctnrn would support her in her old nge. died a few years ago of u broken heart. Henderson avoids all his old ft lends, end his companions are men of the very lowest stamp " Silentiy I pondered on my friend's wasted talents, and on the curse which self-iudulgcnco brings on one's self and friends. Here was n ctnn, fitted by nuturo toidoln lha bighoit lUtiop, fallen :den, s. c., novembe fr.itn liis high estate?the companion of outcasts; his mother bn.keu lira:tod, and his wife and children more wretched than a widow and orphans. And yei how often do we hear intemperance inaJc the subject of a j Ac. Truly it is joking with death, butli to body and soul. DREAMS. What are they 7 Shadows passing through the mind in slcop ; shadows of tilings r'-al or unreal, seen or imagined, sometimes coming before us with pre" tcrnaturnl vividness, and again?showing a faint, blurred outline, like that of the phantom ship which is said to guide mariners safely to the harbor; " airy nothings" that vanish as (ho sleeper awakens, like mist before Auroras beams; bubbles to l?c dispelled by a touch, but showing tho rainbow's hues, and realizing for a moment ideal beauty. Dreams?the vehicle in which bur thoughts travel to that land where all wc imagine of tho fanciful, beautiful or sublime is realized ; land where shines " the light that never was on sea or land??ho land or dreams " Ureams are usually prouticeu t?y some external motive, which is communicated to the mind by means of the senses, and awakens a train of thought analogous in character to the cause by which it is produced. ^ Dr. Gregory ve lates that, having oc#*tnn to apply a hottlo of hot water t(J his feet upon retiring for the night, lie dreamed that he was making a journey to Mount Etna, and found the heat insufferable.. The action of the mjpfl is often wouderfully rapid in this state. The following is a remarkable instance: "A person who was suddenly aroused from sleep by a few drops of water sprinkled on his face, dreamed of the events of sn entire life, in which happiness and sorrow were mingled, and which finally terminated with an nltercntion upon the borders of an extensive lake, i-nto which his exasperated companion, after a severe struggle, succeeded in plunging him." Though nt times, while dreaming, the mind is perfectly clear nnd definite in its action, it more frequently works without any plan or distinctness, and, on awakening, our impressions, it we are able to recall them at all arc u mere masa of incongruities mingle 1 in hopeless confusion. There are notable exceptions, however; times when, in wak-? i i i i i .r ? ing, tne wnoie areata hikiius out. nviuru us uiorc distinctly than if wo had really witnessed the scenes portrayed. We read of instances where the hrain. when in this state, has retained the impros* s:ons received, and. on awakening, been able to preserve them. Coleridirc composed his poem of " Kubla Kalin " in a drc.im, of which the following is his account: Tn the summer of 1710, the author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm house hotweon Porleck and Linton, on the Exmonr conunes of Somerset and Devonshire. In consequence of a slight indisposition an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he foil asleep in his chair at tho moment ho was reading the following sentence, or words of the same substance. in Purchns's pilgrim : "Here the Knhn Kubla commanded a palace to bo built, and a stately gnrJcn thereunto, and thus ten miles of fertile ground were enclosed within a wall.'' Coletidge continued for nlout three hours apparently in a profound rleep, during which he had the mnst vivid imprtssiou that he had composed between two hundred nnd three hundred lines On , awakening he had so strict a rotneni I brancc of tlic whole that he seized ins pen and wrote down the lines which are ; still preserved. The earliest record* we have of dreams J of a prophetic character i? found i in the Scriptures and in the poems of | Homer. We all know of the beautiful I drram which catr.e to Jacob, when he ' saw the golden ladder 'caching frotrt i catth to heaven, gunrded by ho*ts of angels. Often in the Hiblc we find that ; dreams were used to foretell future J events* Many intelligent perrons believe that this power still remains. ' and some striking incidents aro rcj lated, vouched f<*Y hy authorities : whose verity we cannot question. In | this nineteenth century, however, the I spirit, of skepticism is too qydcly diffused In allow of this thcorj? gnining ] much credence. I So far. I liavo only touched on the dreams which come " when sleep has sealed the eyelids to repose." There ' are other dreams which arc more or less ! familiar to each one of us, and which w.i /vi II ?> (Inv .Iron 111 a "?droiIllS wllicll "V ??J ? ^ ^ come to us when wo are in full possession of all our faculties ; and oflen when our hands are busy with some common place task wo " weave a wob of fancies ; irr tlis train;" build n'r eastlcs whose turrets glow in all the splendor of co'or I which a summer sunset shows; paint pictures where Imagination is the artist, using hope, ambition, lovo?all that is glorious or noble?for the colors, nn<1 producing ?ucli a picture as it is impossible should ever be realized. Of those now grown old and looking back on the dreams of vouth. not one can say, 4'I have attained the reality." Tn all dreams there ore imperfect ions. The ensiles are nmro structures of sun" set clouds, whose beauty vanishes as tho day wanes. So it will be with many of us who arc building our castles?dreaming our d res ins. Hut at '.he last, the flaws in tho building may be made perfect, the dreamt realized, not perhaps just as wc plat,nod thcro, hut far moro gloriously. JR 13, 1877. A Hemarkablo Counterfeit. There is iu existence a remarkable counterfeit (.f the 1 SCO issue, of the 81,000 greenback. Of tLcse, seven bills i have been discovered by the secfct per- | vice officer*, but no clue lias as yet op- ] pearcd to the operators who made theui. ' These counterfeits are so good that in i one instance, when one of these bills 1 was at the office of redemption in 1 Washington, it came within an ace of 1 passing as genuine. Speculation is rife i u9 to who the engraver can be. It is i evident that lie is a man of higher tab i ent than any one now in the employ of 1 the government, for he has succeeded | without the aid of the perfect processes 1 of the government in making so perfect < a copy of the bill as to deceive all 1 the experts not specially warned with : regard to it. Whoever this person is, he seems well informed of tho move- t incnts of the Treasury. Recently the I department sent a warning circular j abroad, describing tho weak points of i .1 t Ml A .1 i.J* it. . i inc mil. -Anion*; inosc sraieo was me i fact that the flourish at the eti'l of Mr. * Chittenden's name was larger tlinn the i original, and that it bad the appearance * of a serpent's head. Shortly after this i the fifth bill, which was discovered in t Chicago, made its appearance, when it was found that the flourish had been picked out to conform to the original. The unknown engraver is a better work- , tnan than the famous Tom Ballard, now { in the penitentiary at Albany for the ] production of the S500 note that was ( received at the sub-treasury office of ( Jfcw York. The indications are that , ho works without associates, i?suing on- , ly one bill at a time ; that bis social ( standing is good; as his uican9 of get* , ting these into circulation must be by t mediums above suspicion, and in this . way is baffling every attempt to obtain , a clue to htin from his respectable as-o. , ciatcs. This is regarded as one of the | most difficult cases ever undertaken by < the government service. , Lost Sheep. Some of our city divines who have t been taking their vacation in the rural ] districts, where the humming of birds 1 and the bleating of lambs are heard, I rather than the clanging of strcft car j bells and the noise of the pavements, i will appreciate the following bit that < L 1 ? i f 1? comes 10 us dj late sieaiuer iroiu j laud : A curious inciJi?nt occurred i.i a f largc and well attended church in Clif- j ton on Suuday evening. The preach' I i er's subject was the "lost sheep." aud ' duiing tiia sermon it so happened that '. a real live "lost sheep" strayed from j ( Durham Downs closn bv, and got itself' i entangled in the iron railing that sur- j i rounds the church. Thus it was that [ < as the preacher made allusion to the < "lost sheep" of the parable, the real j | live sheep at the d or answered "Bah !" i in a very loud but piteous totie. i "Which of you," said the preacher, < "having an hundred sheep?" j "Bail! Bah !" replied the woolly cap- i live outside. | The audience, as it tmy be at once 1 perceived, were placed in a very cm- barrassing position, not to mention tho , poor preacher, especially when Le con*, j tinued : j i "For I have found the sboep," and | the creature at the door replied s'ill , i louder: i "Bah! Bah! Bah!" It Tho audience 8truf?i?led hard, and the I . , I preacher also. They managed not to : mar, and he just escaped (by the skin of I his teeth) breaking down. 1 i . j Cathedral at Cologne. ( Of all Gothic buildings, the plan of < the cathedral at Cologno is the most t stupendous; even ruin as it is, it can- > not fail to excite surprise and admiru- i tion. The legend concerning its plan ' tuny not be known to every one. It is i related of the inventor of it. that in j despair of finding any plan sufficiently i great, he was walking one day by iho < river, sketching with his stick?pou the 1 sand, when lie finally hit upon one 1 which pleased him so tuuch that he exclaimed, ''This shall be the plnu." 4,I ! will show you one better than that," 1 said a voice behind him, and a certain I black gentleman, who figures in many s Ucrman legtuds stood by him, and i pulled from his pocket a roll containing < the present plan of the cathedral. The < architect, amazed at its grandeur, asked an explanation of every part. As he* L-tw.M, l,!b ?iiii! was to be mice of it, he occupied himself while the devil was explaining in committing its proportions carefully to memory. Having dono this, he remarked that it did not plen.se him. and lie would uot take it. The devil seeing through the chgat, exclaimed, in his rage: "You may build your cathedral according to this plan, but you shall never finish it." This prediction seems likely to be verified, for though it was commenced in 12IS, and continued for two hundred and fifty years, only the nave oud choir and one tower to half its proposed height lias been fiuislicJ. A r a recent sale of short horn cows in Hngland one unimal brought $22,000 That is a tremendous price, but it has its compensation. To he kicked in the stomach by a cow worth 822,000 must be accompanied by a variety of ennobliug sensations. Not every man can afford it. I A MONUMENT to Roger Williams was dedicated at Providence, R. I., the ceremonies including a Masonic procession, uu oration by Prof. J. L. Dimou, and the singing of nu origiaathymn by Mrs. S. II, Whitman. I mmgmgm ??rngggmm??mmmmmm * NUMBER 18 Tbe Grizzly Bear. The grizzly bear is the largest arjl most i'ormidable of the quadrupeds of 1 California. He is one of the most dan- I cernus animals to attack. There is ' much probability that when shot he will not bo killed outright. When ' merely wounded, he is ferocious. His I weight and strength are so great that < lie bears down all opposition before *' him, and he is very quick, bis speed in j running being nearly equal to that of' 1 the horse. In attacking a man, he usually rises on his hind legs, stiikes > his enemy with one of his powerful 1 lore paws, and then commences to bite him. If the man lies still with his face 1 J own, the bear will usually content ' himself with biting him for a while 1 lbout the arms and legs, and will then 1 nff a fi>w tiens and watch him. If I * :he man lies still, the bear will believe 1 liiin dead, and will soon get tired and ? ;o away. But let tho man move, and ' he bear is upon him again; let him 5 iglit, and lie will bo iu immcdiato danger of being lorn to piecos. About huif i dozen men on aD average are killed reariy in California by grizzly bears, ( ind as many more are cruelly mutiia- * : j Thoy Took Him In. AJoplin(Mo) man, while on his t vay home from Jcffersou City, fell into ( he hands of the wicked and covetous. | Lie wes on the way train, and aear him ( lat an innocent young man, iu whose j jyo there shoue only love for the human , race. Iu his hand he held three books, ( rery cheap looking books. The inno- ( rent young man reached into his pocket ( md took out a 810 bill, and laid it beweeu tho leaves of cue of the books j iud closed it up Uc tkcu turned to j he Joplin man, aud with a smile that } vas very childlike, told him he could iave the choice of the three books for {ti. Our friend from the hot! of lead . in i blackjack saw the edge of the 810 jill sticking out of the book, and he hought to himself, "That fellow ain't |' 1 ft ti r>n I.La 11 10 Sliaip illiur an. i 11 juat> mtt; uiik X iu." He paid bis SG, purchased the jook, aud, oh no, he wasn't made when ic found that instead of a 810 bill flicking from the end of tho book, the neek Icokiog fraud had cut about the ;ighth of an inch off the end of a bill ind pasted it to the cdee of a leaf. Lifo ha Hawaii. A traveler in Hawai writes as follows regarding the inland and its natives : ' The tnelou and kalo patches represent a certain amount 01 spasmodic iniustry, but in most other things the natives fake no thought for the inor* row. Why should they, indeed ? For kvhile tbey lie basking iu the sun, without care of the'rs, the cocoauut, the breadfruit, tho tarn, the guavo, the ba. nana and the delicious papaya, which is i compound of a ripe apricot and a fantaloupo melon, grow and ripen perpetually. Men and women are always i amusing ihea.sdvcs, the men with 6urf < bathing, the women with making gar- i lands, both sexes with riding, gossiping I mil singing. The people meet outside 1 ?acli other's houses all day long, aud sit t in picturesque groups ou their mats, 1 tinging, laughing, talking and quizzing I the foreigners, as if the primal curse had < sever fallen. A life without care and t i climate without asperities, mako up i ;he sunny side of native life." ' Cheap Railroads. One of the most efficient methods of s ncrcasiog the vuluc of farming lands < s the provision of uicans for the cheap i ranspurtution of products. The introluction of cheap narrow gauge roads is .here fore to be icgardcd as a step in the ight direction, provided said roads arc lot allowed to fall into the hands of peculators. We learn that the two ( oot gouge road between lliilerica and ' Bedford is malting good progress, and ' sill be soon finished. The passenger 1 ?ars now building at Laconia, N. H., ' trill bo a decided novelty, ss they will ' lintrn n row rtf single seats on ouch side. 1 " o - - 1 i'hc road is eight and a: half miles long, l'nd will cost about ?30,000, or less than ' ?G 000 per mile, being ouly one-eighth ' the cost of ordinary railways. In many sections of tho country the farmers night combine to own, or at least to : ontrol such a road.?New York Advo. 1 ite. ! i Musical Fish. , We read that there aro musical fish < n existence?fish actually singing. Not < he mermaids nor the sirens that the < >ld myth* tell about, whoso song was so > iwect that they lured people to destrue- I ion, but perhaps tho very facls upon | vhich those myths wero founded. In t ho inland of Ceylon there is a lake inhibited by theso musical Csh, tho song, f it can be called a song, not being one < lustaincd note like a bird's?but a 1 iuiltitude.of tiny, soft, street sounds, ( ach clear and distinct iu itself, some 1 ike tho vibrations of a wine-glass 1 vhen its riui is rubbed by a moistened j in per. In tho harbor of liombay another 1 ipccies of fish producing a sound like ' in /Koliun harp. Some fish make a grat- 1 ng or grunting or humming noise, but I lomo make very sweet pounds Fifty- f wo species out of the three thousand :hat are knowu are said to produce founds of some kind. Pr. L'odds is a female physician in 1 regular practice in St. Louis. She I wears trousers confined at the bottom 1 rather closely, a garment which is, nei" i ther coat nor cloak, and a hat which is I neither male nor female in character, but a compromise between the two. She takes sua baths, and lias immensely high fences lurroauding bar boon. - * - .. I t ^ * -y V *V, ' >3 j i ADVERTISING RATES Jjfcy Ordinary transient advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertion and 75ctsper square for each subsequent insertion. KQT Contracts ft r a period of three months or longer will be made willi advertisers at a liberal rate. JBfcjgrObituaries and Tributes of Respect will be Inserted free of charge, if they do net exceed sixty words in length. Other- s wise, they will be charged for at the rate of one cent per word. . % Transient advertisement* must be accompanied with thecal to are insertion, except in cases of regJlhr advertisers. Terrible Result of V^ar. Since the historic period, fonrteca thousand millions of human beings lavo [alien in the battles which man has waged against his fellow-creature, gun. [f this amazing, startling number of aien were to hold each other by the band at arms length they would extend )ver fourteen million five hundred and twenty-three thousand miles of ground, ind would encircle the globe on which ure dwell six hundred and eight times, fhe calculation will appear more striking when we state that, if only the foreingers of every one of that fourteen thousand millions of human being* vcre laid in n straight line, they wouid , -each more than six hundred miles befoud the moon; and that if a person rcrc to undertake to count the number it the rate of six thousand per lmur, illowing nineteen hours to e day, and icven days to a week, it would occupy v -1 ? * J 1 ,nat person mree nunarca &au muxylix years. Qrowingr Old. ^ " Uow strangely our ideas of growing; )!d cliange as we get on in life! To tho girl in her teens the riper maiden of wenty-five Reoms quite aged. Twentytwo thinks thirty-Sve "an old thing." Thirty-five dreads forty, but congratu* atcs herself that there may still remain i ionic proUi.d to be posaessed in the fifecu years befote the ha'f century shall ie attained. Bat fifty docs notby any neaus give up the battle of life. It 'eels middle-aged and vigorous, and hints old age a long way in the fu;urc. Sixty remembers tho6? who havo lone great things at threescore; and me doubts if Parr, when he married at me hundred and tweuty, had at all ngun to feel himself an old man* [t is the the desire of life in us which nates us feel young so long. ""???1? ??? ? When the h^ad of a Bulgarian fiimly porccives that ho is about to die, he sends for the priest and begins to bar* rain with him about the co t of his fuicral. The moment he dies, r>!I the pots pans and kettles in the house arc turned upside down, to prevent his eon! aking refuge in any one of them, and great core is taten to preveut either nan or animal, especially a cat or dog, Irom stepping across his body, as jthcrwisc, lie would turn into a yam* pyre and be a continual nuisance to them and their neighbors. The body buried without any coffin, in a shaL !ow grave, and left thcro for three years, x inring which timo many oCenogs cr Ibod and wine are placed upon it. At die end of tlio third year, the bone* of :he dead man are dug up, carefully trashed, put ioto a linen lug, and laid before tho altar in tho village church; ir.d, after receiving the blessing of tho priest, are finally buried for good. . Wanted to Tramp it A good story is told of a country merchant who agreed to take .farmer's I )ats at forty cents a bushel if the latter I would let him tramp the measure when I ilied. The farmer agreed to it. Tho 1 Duyer paid for sixty bushels, and tho 1 text cay ho went after them. The 'armor filled the half-bushel, and then , :ho merchant got in and tramped them lown.- Whereupon the farmer poured .he compressed oats into the bag. Tho merchant protested, and demanded that he measure should be filled up after ramping. The farmer informed hini hat there was no agreement of that s ;orr, but that he might tramp down the )ats to his heart's content, after they ircre measured. % Tiie centennial of tho surrender of liurgnyne's army to Gates was cele. crated at Schuylervillc, N. Y., by the aying of a corner stone commemorative jf'the event. -Forty thousand people ?ollecte 1 to ffitucss the exercises, ana nilitary companies wero present from Hartford, Conn., Bennington, Vt., and liferent parts of Nov? York State. .\ddresses wcro delivered by ex-Cover* lor Horatio Seymour, George William Curtis, Hon. Lafayette S. Foster, and >thrrs, and an original poem by Alfred B^Street was recited. Sleep iu a cool room, in pure air, ind use plenty of water. -Remember, oo, that no one can have a cleanly akin k?*/J !* mf imawa 1 linn ill IVIIU UICtllllCB UdU UI1. i/Ub uiutv %? < ? >) in order to look veil, wake up mind md soul. When the mind is awako the lull, 6lrepy look passes away from the ?yes. I do not know that the brain expands, but it seems so. Think and -cad?not trashy novels, but books that lave something in thorn. Talk with 3coplc who know something, hear lec ur<s, and learn by them. Force of Habit.?If temptation be nice yielded to, the mind loses much of ts moral force?is weak where it has >nec given way. It is long before a irinciplo restored can become ns ono hat has never been moved. It is a? in he case of the mound or the rcrervoii^^^tt^^^ f this mound has ono place >roken, whatever care has been make the repaired part ns strong the probability is that, wuy again,.it will bo in that place. An Amherst (Mass.) farmer lately )ffered one of the young ladies who :eaches the public schools there a bushel of potatoes if she would wheel them home through the streets an hour when the greatest number oi stu* dents were taking their walks. He had them loaded on the wheelbarrow eady for her, aod she pluckily wheeled them home, telling him that when hiV had any more patotoes to dispose of it ^ that wty lo let her know, l . . . m.*Jr