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VOLUME XXXVI.
THE LOVE THAT LASTS.
Let others sing in the melting way
Of beauty's power and prime,
[ sing of the love that lasts for r.ye,
And never is touched by lime,
k'our holiday love is a shallop trim,
That becomes the tempest's prey ;
[lut age, nor sorrow, nor care can dim
The love that lasts foi aye.
Through pine and hemlock whistles the
storm.
The roof-tree rocks below.
3ut never before so cozy and warm
Has our cottage seemed as now.
Cever before the old hearthstone
So gleamed, like an niter's ray :
{ever before have your soft eyes shone
With the love tlint will last for aye.
leaped to the windows the snow is drawn
And as wide as the eyesight lifts :
iarden, and hedge, and lane, and lawn
Are buried in shining drifts.
Jut the slorui may scutter and pile tliej
snow
Till hid is the light of day,
t never can darken the eyes that glow
With the love that will last for aye.
il-- . ? - : 1.? ttt. tiiAiintflina lifl.n I
. y uir iiirii]>iivv ucmimjc. k?v h?wuu?miuU vmuv .
Almost blocked up with snow,
fhe-n'Mjie coach, fighting ith war, I trace, I
With lumbering course and slow.
wonder, dear it" its passengers,
Shawled and muffled in every way,
'an guess of our joy as within us stirs
The love that will last fornye.
inow-bound arc we, by the wintry storm;
From the greet world forced apart;
5ut here in our cottage so cozy and warm !
What a world of the human heart!
'ho mttrmurer Care; in his corner cowers, j
And we hug the hearthstones gay;
lunah for the joy that forever is ours
In the love that will Inst for aye!
BLANCHE'S HOUSE HUNT-:
ING.
" Tran;p, I ranip, tramp ! Tray Mis.j
delliek, is a regiment marching over !
his house, or has a private trad asylum ;
ukrn possession of it ? It would be a
elirf to my min i to know the worst." |
Mr Setup oniu* Sivcrtou stood erect
nd bristling, in the middle of the fii?or,!
u a gorgeous scarlet and mavonn-dress- [
ug gown, slippers wttli spaniel's heads j
ti.t.midercu on them, and light e^esi
littering with indiptiatioo. Mrs. Mcl-j
ick, his landlady, quaked before his;
lance
' I'm sure. Mr. Sivcrfon, I'ui very ;
orry. and I can only hope no offense J
nil b? ink* ii wlien none is intended,
nit when there's a 'To Let' on th^
iousc, the law demands that it should
e showed to nil as is decent and civilpoken.
b.tween 'he hours of twelve !
nd lour. Hut, Mr. Siverton?"
' Hi.use hunters, eh?" snarled Mr.
>? tuprouius. "1 wish I had the selling
of tlicni. Hut I tell you what,
Irs. Mellick, admit one of them mollis
room at vour peril, uia'am ! Do you
ear ? 1 am not a wild beast in a iuelagerie,
to be exhibited to every oue alio
ias a permit fiotn the landlord, and I
ron't stand il ! Do you hear ma'am ? ]
ron't stand it!"
And Mrs. Mellick fled from the pres- j
ucc of her best boarder, so to speak,
outed to the death."
'It's dreadful tryinjr," said the uitck i
,r.d Qiuch enduring woman to Eliza
Vno, her freckled neiee, '-but there's i
l.t..ucifl<r?lip's to be married in a
'Ill" _
i w mouth*. I pity his wife.
'I don't," said Kliza Ann. "lie's
rood enough ifyu manage him a little;
itid lie pays his way like a prince ! I'm
lire, I'll be Surry when lie's pone!
Hark ! There goes the do -r-bell apain."
"It's more of them lormentinp house
lunters," proaned Mrs. Mellick. "You
:o this time, Kliza Ann. and for the
ifc of you. don't let tlicin go near Mr
Mvertou's room !"
And Kliza Ann, only staying for a
noinent to sec if the fcow of blue ribbon
n her saucy tresses was straight, huri?d
to answer the tinkling summons.
Two ladi>-s. radiant in .spring bonnets
hat were ail narcissus buds and yellow
ibbon, and rustling in silk flounces
tood there?two ladies who put the
itcreotyped (,uestion :
' Is this house to let ?"
' Why, liianche Lfeauies!" cried1
Kliza Aim Mellick: ' is it possible that
[his is y< u
Miss liianchc lieamcs looked with
oujc ungrsciou-tjfss at tlie poor, shah
iyt hard worked little Kliza Ann. tialf
lispossod to forget that she had sat on
lie same bench with her at the ostab
isliiiicnt for young ladies, kept by
Vludatric 1'irclli 'in every day life Mrs.
Kurd I y ). ft r Blanche was dressed like
i young (jucen, and gloved and booted
o perfection, while a real India scarf
*:s !o' pod artistically across her slioul
! rs an 1 her black silk polonaise was
rimiind, : ti inch deep, with thread
ace.
4,Y?s," ha id Blanche, "it's me. I
tope-you are wed, Eliza Ann. Annr
jophic and 1 are looking; fur an e!i<>ib]i
' hidenrc. I suppose we can sec thin
me.
' Yes." raid Erza Ann. rather chilled
jy the frigid reception of her delinhte-i
vcogii:tion 'It's a very nice place.
My aunt, Mis. Mclin k keeps boarder*
litre:"
"Hoarder!" echoed Miss Beanies.
Irawin*: back the silken flounces, lest
hey should by an\ possibility come
in contact with tbe faded calico skirls!
if Kliza Ann, the plebeian. "IIow von
* I
"Oh, bir they're rjiiitc nice people !" !
uiid Eliza Vnn. iniHiakiujr the meaning
if Miss Blanche. "Very geentce!. I
insure you."
"I dare say." said Miss Blanche's!
Hint, in a patronizing, un-lliflous way
But deor Blanche is so fastidious, and
ju't about to he married you know "
"Married !" echoed Eliza Ann, stopping
short with the instinct no interest ,
hat iviry female shows on lie sutyvct
A iwnrewt/. I
CAM
Miss Blanche laid hold of the du<>r
handle of Mr. Si vert on'a room at ihis
uiomnt, and -rave it an energetic shake
l,Is this door locked?" demanded
she, sharply. "Why won't it open ?"
"Oli, please, don't." faltered Eliza
I Ann, ' it's one of our boarders, a very
| particular gentleman, and I'll tell yuu
all about the room, only he won't let
any body in."
"A pretty idea," said Blanche Beanies.
I icilt get in !" %
"But please, you mtisn't Blanche,
dear," pleaded poor Kliia Ann. "He's
such a nice gen'Ionian, I wouldn't offend
him for the world "
''Perhaps he duu't know," said Miss
Beanies, purposely elevatintr hrr voice,
"that we are looking with the intention
of buying."
"Ves," added Aunt Sophie, her own
voice rising a note or two higher, "my
neice is to be married to an old man as
rich as Cicasus, and we want a stylish
house for the ceremony It don't matter
what we pay, for he'll settle the
bills afterwards; Blanche is very fortu*
?? ? T mciirA mn M i.-s Melliek."
"And th?? best of it," addod Blanche,
with a hugh, "is that he is so old, it
won't be very long before he leaves me
a rich young widow."
"Oh, B'anchc !" cried out the horrified
Eliza Ann, ' how can you talk so,
when?"
Just at that moment the do^r of the
big second story room swung open, and
Mr. Scmpronius Siverton, in the red
and maroon dressing-robe, and the dog's
head slippers, stood bowing in the porta',
with a red fliuh upon his temples,
and a peculiar, mocking smile playing
around his lips.
"Walk in. ladies, walk in," said he.
"You are wtlcome io look at this room.
I don't allow it to be shown in general,
but you shall be an exception to the
rule, l'ray make no stranger of me."
"Mr. Siverton," stammered Aunt
Sophie, with a spasmodic attempt at a
smile.
"Seropronins!" faltered Blanche.
"But you were mistaken about two
little things," remorselessly went on the <
old gentleman. "I shan't settle any
little bills of your contracting?ueither
do I intend to leave Blanche there n
rich widow. To be my widow, it is
first necessa y to be my wife, my dear, j
_j T*? _ .1 J .*.
aii'i i ve niau^i'u my uiiiiu ?# cv?w u? j
that subject."
Anil with a flourish, Mr. Siverton
shut tlie door, and retreated once more
int<> privacy.
Mrs Peck and her niece. Miss Blames,
"tared at each other like two galvanized
females.
' It's all your fuult. Blanche/' Baid
Mrs. Peck, bursting into tears.
' You began it first, aunt !'* shrieked
Blanche, with all the premonitory symptoms
of hysterics; while poor Kliza Ann
rati to and fro, for camphor, sil-vo'atile
una burnt feathers, scarce Luowing what
to think or believe.
But wht n the peaceful twilight shad
ows settled over the chiuincy top#, all
was restored to (juiet agaiu, and Mr.
Sivcrw ti medi ated deeply.
"I'm well out o[' th'it scrap-'," said he
to hiuistlf; "it's a g<<od tiling I found
Miss Blanche out in time to spoil that
piece of fun about the young widow!
But there's the wedding suit ord red,
and the w< Jding ring, and I'd made up
my mind to marry tomilmly. Is that
you. bliza Ann f
"Yes, sir," meekly responded that j
faded young person. "I've brought your j
gruel, sir."
' Upon ray word, Kliza Ann," said
Mr. Siverlon, "you've learued to make
gruel exceedingly well; and you're a
gond girl, Kiiza Ann. Dia you ever
think nf luing married?"
"l)tar uie, sir, wliat a strange question
!" said Kliza Ann.
"I've a mind to marry you myself,
Kliza Ann,"said the old bachelor, abruptly.
"Oh, sir, I uint half good enough,"
said the lowly minded Kliza Ann.
"Yes, you arc!" said Mr. Sivertcn.
"Come here aud kiss me, my dear. After
all, you are very pretty when you
blush like that!"
And so Kliza Ann Mcllick married
lie rich old bachelor after all, and Miss
Blanche still remains Miss Blanche.
Necromancers of Old.
The raising of ghosts was a favorite
exploit <d the necromancers of old; the
fame of Torruiva; the Spanish magician,
has been immortalized in 1 >oii Quixote
The demons that the celebrated Italian,
Bcnvcnuto Cellini, describes as having
seen when he got within the conjurer's
circle, and which amazement magiiiticd
into several legions, are now believed
to have b-en merely figures produced
by a magic lantern; and their appearing
in an atmosphere ol perfume is accounted
for by the burning of odoriferous
woods, in older to dim the visions of
the snectators When the Kmneror
I
('liarJus was married to the Bavarian
Princess Sophia, in the city of Prague,
ihc father of the bride brought with
him a wagon load of magicians to assist
bin. in the festivities. Two of the chef
proficients in the part? Zytlio, the Bohemian
sweeter, and (Juion, the Bavarian?appeared
as rivals in an eztraor
ordiuary trial before an exalted assembly.
Alter superhuman efforts to as.
tonish, Zythu opened his jaws from ear
to ear, mid swallowed his companion
until his te< ih (uncle d lit- shoes, which
lie spat i ut b> cause ho said that tin y
had not h>en cleaned. The ailtiiiraiion
of the audience was sueceeded hy feelings
of honor, but Zytho calmed their
apprehensions by restoring the vanquish
d Guion in his perfect corporal
propurtiw s in life?tt lumuph of art
itotyijctt't* 1
[DEN, S. C., FEBRUARY
The Pirat o Fisherman.
The fish-market of Havana is said to
bo the finest structure of its kind in the
world. It also interests the traveler by
its romantic association with the story
of Marti, a reformed pirate and smuggler.
who built it and tl.e "Tacou Theater."
During the administration of Ta?
con, from 1834 to IS3S, piracy had
grown so bold in and about Cuba as to
defy the Spanish navy sent to suppress
the outlaw? Their leader was a man
named Marti, and for his person, dead
or al.ve, the Governor-General offered a
large rewi-rd.
One dark night a man was watching
the sentinels pacing in front of the Governor's
palace, Havana. As they turned
their backs and separated for a moment,
the man sprang unobserved through
the entrance, lie passed up ine Droaa
stairs, saluted in an imperious style the
guard there stationed, and parsed into
(lie Governor-Generals room. The
Governor, engaged in writing, looked
up os the man coolly cast aside his
cloak, cxclaimiog,?
"Who enters unannounced ?"
'One who has information of the pirates."
"What of them ?" said Tacon, earnestly.
' One moment.?I must not sacrifice
myself."
"You have naught to fear, i'ven
if you he one of them, you will bo pardoned."
. I
"Will yon pardon and reward mo if
I reveal the lurking places of the pirates,
and deliver Marti into your own
hsnd> ?"
' J pledge you my word of honor,"
said Taeon.
"Your Kxccllcney, I am Marti."
The cool scoundrel then fntcred info
?r> nrntiimn./inl u-ifli fiir? I Inverti^r for i
the bet raja 1 of all the smugglers and
pirates. l iidcr his guidance, the Spani-h
vessels sailed to the outlaws' hiding
places, and captured those who were not j
slain.
When Marti returned to Havana, lie |
was offered the pardon, which he ac- i
ceptcd, the money which he declined.
In lieu of tha reward, he asked the i
monopoly of selling fish in Havana. It!
was granted, and he erected a mnguiti- j
cent f tone market. When he became'
master of enormous wealth, lie built a
theater and named it after the Cover- !
ncr-Oeneral who had pardoned the
scoundrel.
Masonic AssistanceMr
Tom Cole was tried before Its- ,
quire Elliot for the killing of Jauies
llced, which occurred last December. J
Then were a dozen or more State wit- j
ncsses, who gave such testimony that
th** magistrate did not deem it necessary i
to hear any witness for the defence and i
discharged the prisoner immediately. ;
The s'orv of the killing has been pub
~ * ~ *;
li.-U-d be lore, and it will be interesting
to give the circumstances as detailed by
the witnesses
It scouts Torn Cole and Jauies Reed
had a difficulty at the grocery on the
Horn Luke road, kept by a man named
Williams, only a few miles South of the
city Friends interfered and the affair
was quieted, Cole giving up his pi*tol.
Shortly afterward Reed commenced
quart cling again, and wouud up by j
grasping the 1 it offensive Cole by the I
throat ami drawing and raiding over his
head a huge bowie knife. Cole seized j
his hand and said. "1 aui your friend,'
don't cut inc." Agaiu bystanders interfered
and Reed started home; hut a
drunken brute of a friend cried out to
hitn, ' Jim, if you are a coward go home
and go to bed, but if you are a man show l
it, ami cut his liver out of him." Poor '
Reed was weak enough to listen to this
drunken advice and agaiu assaulted Cole,
doing his utmost to cut his throat. Cole I
could not stand this attack, unarmed as
he was, and it is said, he gave the Masonic
sign of dire distress. Suddenly two
pistol shots were heard and l'eed fell
dead. The ballets pierced the breast of
the unfurlnnate 111:111 and lie died almost
immediately. None of tlie witnesses
could say who fired the shot, and Cole's
iips were sealed on the matter. The
- - i? \t a*
theory of the Attorney, u. r. .u. i urner,
was that either some friend had
quickly handed a pistol to Cole and that
he had shot the man who w:in choking
lum and threatening his life, or that
sonic friend i if Cole's seeing his imminent
[) ril, had sent the threefold aggressor
to his long home. Cole was assured
that he was perfectly justifiable if he hud
done (hn kd'itig. hut no assuruuee couid
make him open his mou'h on the matter.
Jwjuiie Klliot >aid he saw no grounds
upon which to commit the accused, but
that he, ns a magistrate of the law, was
couipi lhd to take notice oft lie fact that
in the earlier part of the evening Cole
had a pistol, and he therefore hound
him over fur carrying conceded weapons.
Tho Horrors of Trichiniaals.
A Youngstown (Ohio) dispatch to
the Cinciinia'i Enquirer says: "Sii
weeks ago Fied. Hciik, Sr , a laborer at
the Cirard Finiii.ee. killed a hog, and
from the head and other rough puts
made what is called 'wur.-t.' Of this
(tie entire lutnily, numbering five, ate
heartily in its law state. A fi w it ays
afterward Mrs. Fred llenk was taken
sick and d;cd on New Year's d.iy, the
fannly physician pronouncing toe dis
case tyjdins f-ver and rheuiiiatism
Their two ihldren, Kva and Frederick,
Ir. aged respectively five and ? ven
year?, were taken sick shortly befor
their mother Jicd, the symptoms being
ths same. Another physician wa?
culled in, and he pronounced tho dis?
?KfvtUw iWtr. W (rf
i i^iwiibiib i 11 ??mnmmmm?????
r 26, 1878.
week ])r. Lauterman, of this city, a
graduate of ihe University of Austria
at Vienna, was called. He immediately
declared the disease was trichina), other
physicians ridiculing his diagnosis.
Sunday Kva died and was huricJ.
'Yesterday Dr Lsuterman insisted
| on reexamining the pork in use by the
i family, and with the uaked eye white
1 bodies were discovered in the muscles,
while with the aid of a microscope the
! thread-like worm, wound up spirally,
' were found in countless numbers. To:
day a small portion of the muscle was
j taken from an arm of the dead girl by
i Dr. Lauterman, and. from calculations
j made by him. one cubic inch of ntusi
cle contains 100,000 trchinnc spirals
"The hoy Pre d was visited today!
; by an Enquirer correspondent, w' o
1 found him Ivir.i? in Lei on his back, i
?/ ~ 'I
! with his arms and his le?rs wonderfully :
i swollen and drawn out of shape by con- ;
traction of the muscles. On touching
tho muscles his pain became indescribable.
I (is physician says death is almost
inevitable. Mrs. Honk, si.-ter of!
Kred lJenk. Sr., who lives with him, !
was taken sick to-day. Dr. Dauterman
says that witiiin twenty four hours she
; will be prostrated with the terrible dis1
ease Ki nest Bonk, of this city nttcn.
; ded the l'uncal of Frederick on New '
Year's day and partook of the moat in,
use in the IJiuk family, and yo-tcrduy |
was prostrated with trichina?. Fork is
at a discount- here.
Never Marry a Man Who Drinks.
That writer who said that, said all in
a few words. It is a motto that every
girl might have written upon the wall
of the peaceful little chamber whore flic
dreams her tuaiden dreams, and often
makes up her mind to marry the ''dear,
good fellow" whose only fault is taking
a glass too much now and then, and re
lurui linn alter marriage.
It is :iil the umrn necessary that it
should be written there, because '.he
men who "drink are by no meaas the
worst tn-u in the world. W? know
the generous, warm-hearted men, men
oI intellect and nn-u of power, have
found the temptaiou too hard to witti-'
stand, and that many a mail, otherwise !
contemptible and wicked, has never had '
"a glass too much" in his life;although
it is also true that under tho influence
of liquor, men have done deeds the |
very though's of which would have j
Sickened their sober souls.
If only all men who were despicable
in all otlwr respects, there would be
little need or the warning; but, as it
is, let every girl remember it, let every
mother whisper it. Whatever his
charms or his natural virtues may be,
no woman can be happy with a drunkard.
And he who will not give up ;
drink for bis sweetheart's sake will '
never giro it up to please bis wife.
If anything eau check a man in his
career of dissipation, it will be the dread
rf losing the girl ho loves. Say. "You
shall never have tnc unless you forsake
the bottle." and you may conquer him. |
Failing in that, all your wifely tears
Would fail a'so. Don't marry him. '
Hotter weep over your dead hopes, and 1
go single to the grave, than suffer what
a drunkard makes his wile suffer. Never
marry a man who drinks?Mary Kylo
Dallas in New York Ledger.
Deserving Boy6.
We like boys to try to help thornselves
Ev? ry one ought to bo friend!y
to theui. The boys of energy and
ambition, who make a manly effort to j
do something for themselves, are the |
hope of the country. Let their anxious J
ears always catch words of encourage- j
merit and cheer, for such words, like :
a favoring breeze to the sails of a ship, j
help to hear thcin forward to the desti- ,
j nation they s? ek.
It is nut always as it should he in
! this respect. Many a heart has been i
! broken, many a young man of industry, j
| animated by honorable motives, h;^t
; been discouraged by the sour words..
I the harsh aud unjust remarks of some j
| unfeeling employer, or some relative
I who should have acted the part of a ,
I friend. The unthinking do not eon-'
1 - - ? ?I. !-l- ... I. '
j sidi r the Wetgtlt Willi which >mn amarks
sometimes i;t11 upon a sensitive
spirit, and how they may bruise and
, break it.
I If you can not do anything to aid
J and u-sist young men, you ought to ah- j
1 stain from throwing obstacles in their '
i way. Hut (an you not do something '
to help them iorward Vou can at i
1 h ast sty God-speed to them, and can j
say it feelingly from your heart. Vou i
! little know how much bouefit to boys I
' and young men encouraging counsel,
l given fitly and well timed, may be; and
j in the groat day of uccount. such words
! addressrtd to llnse in nc-d of them, your
need you may find reckoued among your !
! good (b eds,
j Then help the boys who try to help
i themselves. Vou can easily recall simple
word* of kindness addressed to your- j
self in childhood and youth, nrd you;
would now like to kiss the lips that
spoke them, though they may long since
; have been sealed with the silence of
I death and covered with the clods of the
| valley.
) The Chicago Tribi/ie relates the fol;
lowing pleading incident : As, at a
wedding in Hoy no avenue the other eve!
ning, they were gathered around the
1 happy couple (the bride was a widow)
! congratulating them, an over-sensitive
! friend hurst into tears and sobbed,
j -How glad I am her poor dear Arthur
is not aitve to sec this day ! It would
have bioketi his heart to set his wife
married to some one els**!" Then she
went into hysterics and was removed,
having cuit u gloom oyer the commabit/.
NUMBER 33
Gobing and Gobang.
Tlicro was an interesting case before I
Police Judge Wilson the other day. A
man bearii.tr the singular name of Goban^
was charged with committing an
assault and at the same time battering
. an individual answering to the rcmark'
able patronymic of Gobang. The names
i having such a striking similarity the
I Judge had some difficulty in establish*
ing which was which, and a stupid wit-:
ness in the case added considerably to 1
the confusion.
'Now tell me.' said the Judge, 'who)
was the aggressor in this case ?'
i Witness: 'Who's he V
Judge: 'Who's who?'
Witness: 'A. GrcssorV
Judge: [ mean ibe tnan who struck j
the first blow ?'
Witness: Gobing. He hit him, Go-!
bang?' (smiting his fists together to!
show how lie did it )
Judge: 'Did Gobang hit back ?'
\Vilnrs? '\Tn lir> rlidn'f. lilm in llin !
back ' j.
Judge : 'How did he hit him V
Witness: 'Ho hit him, Gobing I'j
(another fistic pantomime.) ji
Judge : 'Well, was that ail?'
Witness* 'All of Gobing?'
Judge : 'No. all of the fight.'
Witness: 'With Gobang?'
Judge : 'I'll Gobaogyou if you don't
answer my questions, properly. You j
ain't so stupid as you appear. Now '
commence and tell all you know about'
this figbt, or an officer will Gobing you 1
down stairs and lock you up.'
Witness: 'Well, your honor. I stood ij
talking with one of the men "
Judge: 'With Gobing?'
Witness: 'No, with Gobang; and the
other fellow cuaie up and hit '
Judge: 'Gobang?'
Witness: 'No, this was Gobing that i<
came up and then it is was, Cubing !j
(fists smite together) and Gobang ! (an- j
other smite) first one and then the i
other, and then they cliuchrd and went j \
down, he on the top.' I
.J udfxc: 'Gobang?' h
Witness: 'No, uo, Cubing. Then |
the polic? came up, and your honor,1!
that is all I know about it.' I
Judge : 'And a very remarkable sto- 1
ry it is, too. Case dismissed. Gobingi;
and Gobang cau go.' j I
Witness: 'And whsre shall I go,' j
your honor V
Judge: 'Go-haug!'?CincinnatiSrl~
urdujy Xijht. 1
Killed for Being a Soceress.
Advices received -from British Co* ;
lunibin report a singular murder there
of an aged white woman by an Okana-'
gan chief named lied Berry. The old!
woman was the widow of James Grisdale,
one of the first while settlers in ,'
the Okanagan district. She was re-11
putcd to be wealthy, and was accounted 1
a soceress by the Indians around about, j
Several of lied Berry's horses had died i
of a murrain, some weeks ago, and the ,
medicine men of the Okanagaos held 1
that Mrs. Grisdale had afflicted them
with the disease. Red Berry at once
started for her abode, and finding her on
her knrcs at prayer, concluded that he
had caught her in the very act of ptac- 1
ti.*ing her black art, and with ouo blow
of a club da-bed her brains out. lie
men il)ioriU"u inc wnue winrn ncur
ly what ho had done, and asked them
lo reward him for ridding their flocks
and herds of an evil spirit. He was
arrested and taken to the jail at Okan-,
agan. lied Ilcrry. beyond doubt thought j
h? was doing the community a merito- j
rious service.
Tho Mississippi Monster.
The monster seen in the Mississippi;
river above Memphis a few months ago'
by the captain and crew of a tuwboat re-!
appealed the other day near island ninety j
five. This time the frightful creature
wus seen by some of the crew of a pro-'
ducc boat. The monster's body was
shaped like a snake's, his tail forked like
a fish's and his bid formed like a pcli- i
can's. His bill was about six feet long
and a flowing black uianestood nut from
his head, which was erected eight feet
above the water, as ho swam majestically
d"?n the stream. One twist of;
his forked tail knocked off the steering!
oar of the produce boat and sent the;
crew in terror to the hold. The ill:
starred craft now lies moored at Vicksliurg,
deserted by all the crew- but one |
man, the others believing that tho tnon-!
ster is lying in wait for this particular |
boat to sink it out of sight.
No Escape.
Every condition of life, ho it what it i
may, has hardsnips, haz-rds, pains. Wc i
fry to escape them; wc pine for a shel-j
tereil lot. lor a smoothc path, for cheer- I
in?i friends and unbroken success, Hut j
Providence ordains storms, disasters, ,
hostilitcs, suffering; and the great qu*s- |
tion whether we shall live to any pur-1
pose or not. whether we shall prow strong
in mind and heart, or be weak and pitia-'
ble. depends on nothing so much as on 1
our use of these adverse circumstance?, j
Difficulty is the element and resistance i
the true mark ol a man. Self-culture'
never noes on so fast as when embarrassed
circumstances, unexpected changes of
the times, or other forms of suffering, instend
of disheartening, throw us on our
inward resources, clear tip to us the great
purpose of life and inspire calni resolu-1
lion. Thus all conditions may be pressed
into the service of self-improvement.
It is said that at three years old we
love our mothers; at six our fathers; at,
ten our holidays; at sixteen dress; at j
twenty our awec'hoarts; at twenty-five;
our wives, at fori) our cuildrtu, tod lit.
Wily ourselves. *
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I JT
A Dangerous Present.
The Czar Kent to the Shah of Persia a
Krupp cun. The present was landed at
Knziii, on the Caspian Sea, but it took a
month's labor Ly a regiment of the Persian
army to get the cannon to TeheraD.
Arrived there, a day was appointed to
fire it. X' e court and almost the entire
population of the city assembled. Bang!
went the cannon, away scampered half
the multitude, and down tumbled the
minaret off one of the city gates, near
which the gun had been placed, But
there was nuothcr disaster. In an hours
time a messenger arrived from a village
five uiilcs away, and reported that its inhabitants
were bewailing the loss of
their mosque. The cannon ball from
the cannon had struck the building and
ruiocd ?t J ho Shah was so dismayed
by the effect that lie never permitted the
cannon to be fired off again.
Bound to Oct Spliced. {
A well dressed negro applied to tho
judge of probate of Mobile for a marriage
license. He was a3kcd how old
his intended was, and unswered with
great animation i
'Just sixteen, judge?3wcet sixteen,
and do liundi-omcst girl in town/
The judge said lie could not do it, as
the law forbade him to issue a license
to any one under eighteen.
'Well, liolo on judge,' exclaimed the
man. I know dat dem girls am deceitful
and lie about detr age. She is nineteen
if a day/
'Will you swear to it V asked the
judge.
'Y?s, sah,' replied ho, and he did.
'And how oid are you?' said the judge.
The chap looked suspicious, and replied
cautiously ;
'Thirty-five,' and added, 'if Jat woi/t
do, judge, ' I've got more back.'
*
31ie Accommodated Him.
Easton (l'a.) Free I'rcss: We don't
waut a Moore Towusliip girl for a lung
tester. At a singing school up there
:he other night a young man was bragging
about the strength of his lungs, ^
xnd invited a girl in tlio company to hit
him iu the breast. She said she was
left-handed; had been washiug that day,'
ind was tired, and didn't feel very active,
but at his urgent request sho let
at him. When his frieads went to
pick him up lie said that hu thought he
would die easier lying down. lie b&d
lost all recollection of having any lungs
but the young wouian consoled him by
admitting that she didn't hit him as
hard us she might have, because she
rather liked him.
Death.
We shall come to the time when we
shall have but ten days left, eight days,
seven days, sis days, three day9, two
days, one day. And then hours; three
hours, two hours, one hour. Only
minutes arc now left; three seconds,
two seconds, one second. Gone ! Life's
chapter ended ! The books arc closed !
The pulse at rest! The feet through
witli the jourrmy ! The hands closed
from all work ! No word on the lip !
no breath on the nostril! All the muscles
arc stiil, the lungs stiil, the tongue
still, the nerves still, all still!. You
might put a speaking trumpet to the
ear, but could not break the deafness.
No motion ! No throb ! No life! Still!
Still! 0, doathly stillnes !
Lots
of Time LeftOn
the 31st of December, a uedes
triun of Brush street came across a boy
about thirteen years old, who was try*
ing to pet up a bloody battle between a
pout and a dog. Tho man halted and
said?
'Boy, what sort of way is that to end
the old year.''
'But the goat kin lick if he's a mind
to sail iu,' protested the boy.
'No matter if he can, you ought to
feel ashamed to end the year in this
manner.'
'What time is it.?'queried the lad.
Three o'clock,' was the answer.
Nine hours yet to repent in ! Go for
hiui Watch?stand up to him Billy 1'
veiled the young imp.?Detroit Fie*
Dress.
Marriages.
Last year 34.072 couples were united
in holy wedlock iu London, no fewer
than 29,001 of these b-ing solemnized
in the Established Church. In 26,2ti7
cases marriage was by bauns, the least
expensive mode. Of the 34.000 cele- j
brations, 27,339 were marriages of spin- 4
stcrs and bachelors; 2.017 widowers
again tempted fortune with spinsters,
while 1.759 betook themselves to widows
tor consolation. Widowers wore captured
in greater numbers than widows,
3,770 of those manly natures having
again submitted to blissful bondage,
while only 3,d'Jl> lemale relicts naa tne
nerve or the good fortune to follow their
example.
Art of Swimming.
Men are drowned by raising their arms
out of the water, the unbuoyed weight of
which depresses the head. Other auimils
have neither notion or ability to
act in a similar manner, and therefore
swim naturally. When a man falls into
the water he may move bis hands as he
pleases if he does not raise them out of
the water and his head will rise high
enough to allow him to breathe; and if
be will use his leg.* as in the aet of walking
up stairs his shoulders will rise also
These plain direct'ens are recommended
to the recollection of all who have not
learned to swim, a? they may be found
useful in preserving life.
An era unknown to wom?Q-*ih? mid*
die tge?>