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I , * lie iattt$et ??twl \ VOL. XXXVIII. CAMDEN, S. C., SEPTEMBER 11, 1879. NO. 8. Shr (Samdm SournaL PUBLISHED EVE BY THURSDAY ?AT? CAMDEN, S. C., ?BY? C. C. ALEXANDER, j HubHorlptlon Rates: , (lX ADVANCE.) One Year $2.08# Six Months 1,0# | Watering: the Hills. * lie v.atcreth :iie hill' frum II:s chambers."?Ps. civ., 13. Oh ! the rippling and the toaming, Falling not from dawn till gloaming, Where the rapids are descending, as for ages they have done; On each downward platlorm taking Just a moment's rest, then breaking Into sweet enchanting langhtcr at the gleeful triumph won; All the Intent echoes waking With the Inn ! Sweeping lroin their rocky portal, lb bod at once in light immortal, Bringing infinite rcvcalings from the silences profound; llow the little eddies whiten, And tho longer teaches brighten, As the showers ol brilliant dewtlrops on their slivery slopes rebound; Falling into gems that lighten All around. When the sunbeams come unbidden To behold the marvel hidden, All the waters take them captive, to adorn their raiment white; But the rainbow tells the wonder 01 the radiance lying under, And the sun in regal beauty stoops to claim his own by right, Till the ripples fall asunder? Lo>t in light ! Oa the brink the mosses glisten, And the grasses stop 10 listen To the never-ending music ol t'to waters Hitw'ltll'* !?V Overhead the elm-trees stately, In their hearts rejoicing greatly At the springs ot welcome coolness that beneath their strongholds lie, Spread their myriad leaves sedately "1;> the sky. When at night the stars assemble In the far blue heavens, anil tremble , At their own retlceted splendor, on the toirent , borne away, Then the laughing waves discover How the moon?eartTi's timid lover? Watches I t the perfect mirror they have ( broken in their piny; i Watches? with the stare above her? 'i iil the day. 5 ( Through nil seasons' varied phrases, S'.iii the waters speak their praises Ot the Tower tlmt sweeps them outward, in ' their tidiness to the deep; All their rush ami tutuuit guiding, | Tor each drop n path dividing, < Till in iar-od* breadths ot ocean each i*s des- 1 lined place shall keep, > And at i.'st. in c itui se.iisiding, Tail asleep. ^ ?.Mary Ilou-Us, ii> Sun fay .Magazine. ? ti JACK'S GREAT PERIL. <; I never sawstfeh a change in a man in 1 my life! When wo last met, Jack? '' well; I must not give his real name, con- I1 sideling what I am ^oing to relate, so ! I'll call him .lack Pailant?was, as he ? had ever been since I knew him. one of 1 the light est-hearted, cheeriest fellows in I1 the world, full of fun and up to every- 1 tiling, and as gentle and tender as a J woman, with, the courage of a lion. And now, what did I iir.d him? Even though * hut three months had elapsed, lie had ' become a grave, dejected, saddened man 1 ?in a word, hardly recognizable, either 0 mentally or phvsically. I was shocked. v and of course he saw that I was. lie v came to see m<\ indeed, the moment lie = heard I was in town, that I might learn i1 from his own cnout li what had happened, 1 instead of at second-hand. v Jack had always been more or less a * spoiled boy?only sons are alwavs more 1 or less spoiled?and having fost his mother when luite a child, it was not r wonuuriui Ul.it iu> puui uiu u?m iuaui' v much of liini. Hut lie hail taken tiie spoiling kind .y. ami beyond making him v perhaps :? little idle and thoughtless, it 1 had done liitu no harm. There was no t harm in ttu* fellow; he spent more money t than iie should, hut many young soldiers do that without coming to much m'ief o in the- long run. and his father, a soldier s before him. regarded the failing leniently, paid his bills and looked pleasant. Be- 1 yon<l adding that he was a rather short, a dapper little fellow. I need not say much i more about him; I have only to try and 1 put into coherent shape the strange and ) "* tragical business which had so fearfully I s altered him. _ I f lie was coming to town one autumn : ' evening fora few days' leave from Gun- !1 nersholt, where he was quartered. I can * SCO him as plainly as if I had been there, j fi springing into^ the tirst carriage that ! * offered n>om, without regard to who was 1 in it; for he was the least fastidious of 1 men, without the slightest particle of t ' hawluiw " pride and nonsense, or that ' sfand-off-i-huess of manner, too usual ' witli men in'lis position; ready to make \ k himself hannv wherever he was. or in : i ' whatever company. ) But it so happened, it appears, on this occasion that lie got into an empty carriage; at least he thought so, for it was ' twilight, and lie did not observe for the |' first moment the figure of a woman, !, seated in a further corner, dressed in 1 dark clothes and thickly veiled. The sudden discovery that he was not 1 alone rather startled him for a moment, ' and it may be, as he said, that the eve- 1 ning before having been a guest night at mess, his nerves were not quite up to their usual tone. Ke was not the lad, 1 however, to be long in such a situation ! without making some remark to his fellow-traveler, though in this ease an unusual hesitation to do so came over him, owing to her mysterious appearance and extreme stillness. The between-lights : of the carriage lamp and the evening sky pi'evented him from discerning details; but there she sat, perfectly rigid, and with not a vestige of her face visible, through the trneK niacx vail. " Ahem! aheml" lie said at bust, shifting one seat nearer to her and nearly opposite: "I hope T have not intruded on you; I thought the carriage was empty. I may be disturbing you, I fear." He would say anything, in a random sort of way, to break the ice, as he called it. Xo answer. A long pause. "Very singular," he thought; and he moved to a seat exactly opposite to the figure, i making another commonplace observation. No response, or any movement. " Asleep, I suppose," he said to him- | self: and he sat quietly watching her, i while the train rattled on for a mile or j two. A station was reached and a stop- i cage made, with the usual ^ccompmij^j m %:i?3 of screech and whistling and siaiiM minp of doors, but without producing any change in the postilrc of the occupant of the opposite corner. The train again moved 011. "Can't be asleep," lie muttered. " What's the matter with her?" The window was shut close; he let it down with a tremendous clatter and bang, remarking that "he hoped, as the evening was line, the weather warm and the carriage close" (for he declared to me there was a peculiar odor hanging | about which struck him from the first) j " she would not object to a little air." j Still no reply. Then lie said "he feared she was* not well. Would she like him to pull the bell for the guard j and have the train stopped again?" Hut : nothing lie could say or do elicited any sign of life from her. Jack now became seriously uncomfortable and alarmed on her account, lie thought she could not be asleep, but had fainted. Suddenly it crossed his mind that she was dead. Night had now closed in, but as the last tinge of twilight faded from the sky the carriage lamn ir<>?no?l itc fllll llOWCT and rt-Yl'.-lled every object more plainly than hitherto, i Jack leaned toward the motionless j form. A lom: black veil, falling from a I close-fitting hat-like bonnet, enveloped i nearly the whole upper part of her ! figure; indeed, on close inspection, it hardly looked like an ordinary veil, but i more like a large thin, black silk hand- i kqjvhief. Her dress was of common 1 black stuff, much worn and frayed, from amid the folds of which appeared the i ends of a piece of rone that must have i been fastened round nor waist j and one } hand, encased in an old, ill-fitting black < glove, lay placidly on her lap. i Full of uncomfortable sensations, Jack t was r.bout to lift the veil, when, for the i first time, the figure moved; its hand ? stole slowly from underneath the folds of the dress, and the veil \rt\s gradually 1 lifted and thrown up over?tlic*head. i Involuntarily my friend shrank back ^ into the corner of his scat, for a face was | rcvcaied to him which 110 one could have j looked upon without a sense of awe. It ' was that of a woman somewhat past s middle age, thin, haggard and pale to a 1 degree which only death could parallel, t Hie features, finely chiseled and propor- F dom-d, showed that at one time there [' must have been supreme beauty, while. ' hough tin? iron-gray Hair loosed a attic " lishevcled and unkempt, 'he glance of s lie eye was steady, calm and determined. In this glance iay. chiefly, the awe in- li ipiring expression of the face, for, in ad- t iition to tlie penetrating look, there li i persistencey in it. and at the same time i fascination, quite terrible. It fixed e tself upon Jack from the first moment ti hat eye met eye, and for several minutes lot a word was spoken a either side, ij 'resent ly, however, lie tried to pull him- v iolf together, and to assume his usual h ight-hearted manner, which had thus V or a minute been ho strangely and unusu- li illy disturbed, and he said, briskly: n " I beg your pardon; I was afraid you o cere ill." tl She slightly bent her head, but spohi e< lot a word, nor withdrew her glance. li He felt more and more that it was g osting liim nn effort to be himself. Her a low, stealthy, albeit lady-like demeanor, si bled greatly to the effect already pro- si lured, and a curious sensation was grad- c lally creeping over him, that?impossi- a do as it might seem?that face was not il strange to him. Little as he, with his tl cmperament. was given to speculation w ir introspection, he found himself striv- t< ng to look back for some event or cir- ? umstance in his life which might give n dm a clew. Had he over dreamed of ii ueh a face, or had he seen it in childmod? lie was puzzled, affected, quite b tut out. And still tlie deep, penetrating h yes were fixed on iiis, piercing ;is it a: verc into his very soul. And the hands! tl vhat were they doing? Taking off the ti doves as with a set, deliberate purpose; !> nd the long, white, thin, almost claw- o ike fingers worked strangely and ner- w ously, slowly closing and opening upon ti he palm, as if preparing to grasp someliing. g; Again he strove to throw off the un- d cnnc.itinn it'll,/.) li?/l 0." rcpt over him. u "I can't stand this." lie thought; "I tl ras never so uncomfortable in all my ' ifc! I must do something, or say some- ti hing to put a stop to this, to make betake her eyes off me!" b lie moved abruptly to the further w orner of the carriage, and to the same e: ide on which the woman sat. tl " I'll try and dodge her in that way," 01 ic said to himself: "she shall not sit h ind glare at me in this fashion!" But she too immediately shifted her tl >mce, and, l'ising to her full height, vhich was very great, went over to the h cut exactly opposite to mm, never jui i me single seconil dropping her eyes from lis. He looked out of the window with j h i vague notion of getting out of the cur- j u 'iage; when suddenly, passing a little tl itation which he recognized, hut at which n he train did not stop, an idea struck e lim?an idea after his own heart?a t< omic idea! He availed himself of it on a he instant, and assuming an ease which h loubtlcss sat ill upon him, and which lie tl ivas fir Irom feeling, lie pointed with his ji humb hack toward the station they had v ust passed, as he said mysteriously in a p lollow voice: v " Do you know that place?" v She seemed to answer in the afiirmuive by a slight inclination of the head us ii lefore. "Ah! you do. Good! Longraoor," s lie went on; "then I don't mind telling 1 con a secret." He paused. ("I'll d frighten Iter," he thought.) "Criminal lunatics." he said aloud; " I am one of e Hu m. I have just escaped from there!" i 1 le leaned forward, as if to impress her 1 with his words; she also bent forward until her lips almost touched his ear, as >, she hissed into it: \ "So have I!" With what had already gone before, 1 this put the finishing touch on Jack's i uneasiness of mind. It was not, as he said, the mere presence of the woman, or t the revelation which his .joke had eiic- t ited, which scared him, though the cir cumstanec in itself might be unpleasant enough. { "I should have faced it right away i from the first, as any man would h:.ive < done, had it not been for the re- < markablc inllucncejhcr face and look had upon me; that unaccountable feeling i that she was no stranger to me, it was, I that unnerved, and even appalled me." < Xo sooner had she uttered the words, "So have I," than Jack sprang to the cord communicating with the guard's van. for lie felt their truth, and saw in them a key to'the whole mystery. Iiut ere his hand had 'reached the cord, she had seized him round the waist with one arm as with the grip of a vise, and at the same instant he felt one of those terrible hands at his throat. L Every effort to release himself was Ffruitless; her strength seemed superhu man, and was as far beyond his as was her stature. Her face" glowered close down upon liisnow, still with the same fell expression. "The only thing I could have done," went on Jack, in describing the scene to me?and just here, he shall speak forhimself?"the only means by which I might perhaps have made her relax her hold would have been by aiming one or two tremendous blows with my right fist (which was at liberty) at her face. Ilad it been a man's, there would have been no hesitation; had it been indeed that of an ordinary woman, at such a pass I should not have hesitated to strike lier, to stun her, if I could, by any means: but that face, that I seemed to know so well, yet so mysteriously, I could not raise my hand against it, and, as mv arm swunc un with "the first im pulse to deal her :i blow, it fell helpless by my side. Vain were my efforts to get her hand away from my throat; there was a terrible swaying to and fro for a minute or two, I felt the grip of the long fingers tightening, and myself choking. Suddenly we fell, the whole carriage seemed to be falling?there was a fearful jerk or two, a strange upheaving of the floor, a tremendous rattle'and crash?I appeared to be thrown headlong to some great distance, and?all was darkness!" The termination of that deadly^trug;le was brought about in a manner as marvelous and unlookcd for as could well have been imagined. Some fifty souls, say, wore traveling in that train?all, save one, in apparent security. .Tack's life alone was in danger, when, lo! by one of those marvelous coincidences which do happen at times n the supreme moments of existence, he rescue came, hut at the cost of many i life, which but iust before would have :eemed worth treble the price of Jack's. At the very instant that his might i:ivc depended upon another tightening jrip or two from the hand of a maniac a rightful catastrophe occurred to the rain. The tire of an engine-wheel troke and half a dozen carriages were , mrlcd down a steep embankment. The ocne that succeeded is, unhappily, of . oo common an occurrence to need more 1 han a word of reference here. Seven laspongors were killed outright and loublc that number slightly or badly ' mrt, the remainder escaping, as by a 1 airacle, with nothing else than a severe ' haking. My friend was among the shaken. He iad been thrown clear of the debris on ; o a soft, grassy spot, half bank, half : lodge; emphatically, his life was saved! I5ut what followed it was that which ' aused the suffering?that wrought the ' L'lrible change i.\ Jack. In the darkness of that soft autumn i ight he strove, foremost among thore I irho had been spared, to render such elp as was possible to the less fortunate , i'hen the ollicial assistance came, and | res were set blazing to give light, al- : lost his first, care was to try .una seek t ut his dangerous fellow-traveler. In 10 confusion nobody was prepared, of jurse, to listen to Jack's account of T or, even had he been prepared then to ' ive it. She was not, evidertly, moving bout among the crowd ; he assured him- s If of that; hut supposing her, like him- ? If. to have eseaped injury (and he con- ?j hided that this was likely), might she i nt, with the stealth and cunning inei ental to her malady, be hiding, and he ? ius further eluding detention, become, rith her homicidal mania, as dangerous s > t tic community at large as some fierce 1 rihl animal would be? The thought ( lade him shudder; lie must lose no time i assuring himself of her fate. As soon as an approach to order could e evolved out of that awful chaos, lie ' ad convinced himself that she was not j mong the injured, Then lie turned to ; iedead. His eye fell upon several mu; j lated and motionless forms, which had . ecu laid in an ominous row at the foot f one part of the embankment. Hers as not among them; he could lind no nee of her. At length, as a sfckly dawn was be- ' I limns ramie me searcu easier, ne en eavored to discover the spot where the ' irriage he liad occupied had fallen, and 1 > retrace his steps (quite to the rear of le train, by the way)to the place where ' c toitnd himself lying after the catas- J ophe. IJy this time he had made known s riclly to some officials that a woman ( as missing who had been in the irriage with him, and one or two of 1 icm followed him in his quest. Pros- i ltly he realized pretty well where he < ad been thrown; he all hut identified ' ic spot. Then he scrambled through j ic hedge, and there, on the opposite de, on the sloping bank of a ditch, ho | eheld, lying quite still, her dark, un- , listakable form. lie ran forward, and, bending over or and looking down upon the marble, p-turned face, saw at a glance that mr.i wn.a notInner iPirnrernm about. her ' nw?those terrible eves wove closed for ver. Except for a slight wound on one 1 unple, whence a little blood had tric kled, ml the distorted but now rigidly closed : and, which had been so lately at his ; liroat, she looked :is calm and unin- : jred as if she were merely sleeping, i'hile death had restored for a brief : icrrod much of that beauty, the traces of L'liich had struck him when her vail vas first lifted. One of the surgeons here came hurryng up, in answer to summons. "Good heavens!" lie exclaimed; "here lie is, then, at last! Why, she must lave been in tho train. How on earth lid she manage it?" ' Wliii ic clioP'' .TmpIt Piirn. stly, with a strange return of the ol<i. nexplicablc sensation. "Who is she P l on appear to know her. Pray tell me." "Oh. one of our inmates; she got away resterday morning; no on? knows how vns the answer. "You are from Longmoor, then. How . ong has she been there? What is her lame?" "Oh, she has been there upward of wenty years, I believe; long before my ime," "And her name?" "upon my word, at this moment, I an hardly," went on the doctor, me hanically passing his fingers over one if the pulseless wrists before him. and ivit.li a calm hesitation which contrasted strongly with Jack's earnest, impetuous manner, "I can hardly remember. I think she was committed for the murder ?f her own little girl. It was a sad case, I know. Ah! her name; I have it," u-ont on tiie doctor suddenly; "her name was Pallanl?Rachel Pallant." Jack sprung from the kneeling posture in which he was as if he had been shot. Why, that was his own dead mother's name! But, pshaw! what of that? Well, it was rather a startling coincidence; that was all. Ay, but was it nil ? Indeed no! The nquest ledto a revelation. ^That inquiry fully explained what had been the nature of the influence which the weird, pale face and strange presence had hud upon my friend. The strong but subtle link, which no time or absence can quite sunder, existing between mother and son, had made * itself felt the instant those two sat face to face, for the.unhappy woman was indeed none other than Jack's own mother. He had never been told?in fact, it had been carefully kept from him. Why run the risk of clouding for life that bright and happy temperament? He was only four years old when the dreadful business happened... Hence he had scarcely known a mother's care; she was lost to him and to the world as completely as if she had died. Nay, death would have been a mercy by comparison, and it was generally assumed that she was dead; only a very few intimate friends knew the truth. The poor lady's mind had given way suddenly after the birth of a cliild, who i did not live. Within a week, the homicidal mania possessed her; by the i merest chance she had been prevented i from committing some frightful outrage upon her little hoy, my poor friend Jack; and restraint not having been put upon her in time?for her malady had hardly 1 been suspected,, so unlooked-for was its 1 appearance?she consummated her dead- 1 ly propensity upon her eldest child, a ( girl fifteen years of age?killed her, in a word, as she lay asleep. < And here, aftera lapse of twenty years, i was the climax and end of the tragedy, as 1 dreadful as anything that had gone lie- j fore. The order for release, when it came, ; brought with it as much suffering (to all i but one) as had the order for captivity. I No wonder that Jack 'was an altered l man. I have never seen a smile on his face since?though I trust that time, with its healing influence, may at least soften < the blow. { Thorenu's Thoughts. When we cease to sympathize with, ( and to be personally related to men, and ' begin to be universally, related, then we ] u e capable of inspiring others with the ' sentiment of love for us. 1 What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his op- : position to his instincts; in one direction ] pr another he strives to. live a super- !; natural life. Do you Know on wnat Dusnes a nttie ponce, faith and contentment grow? Go c i-berrying early and late after them. I Woe to him who wants a companion, r for he is unlit to be the companion even 1 >f himself. :i What does education often do? It ^ nakes a straight-cut ditch out of a ' free meandering brook. :l Cheap persons will stand upon cere- J. nony, because there is no other ground; j" >ut to the great of the earth we need no ' ntroduction, nor do they need any o us. * ^ That virtue we appreciate is as much | >ura aa nnofciicr'a. 30-inucli only j is we possess. t Make the most of your regrets; never <1 imother your sorrow, but tend and sherish it till it come to liave a separate ind integral interest. To regret deeply j d s to live a fast. By so doin? you will p )c astonished to find yourself restored s mce more to all your emoluments. 0 There is nowhere any apology for de;pondeney. Always there is life-while j ife lasts, which, rightly lived, implies a 'j uvine sausniccion. Whatever your sex or position, life is i battle in which you are to show your iluck, and woe be to the cowarcT iVhetlier passed on a bed of sickness or . n the tented field, it is ever the same air flag, and admits of no distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice md defeat. Men were born to succeed, lot to fail. Nothing is more saddening than an in jfectual and proud intercourse with || hose of whom we expect sympathy and fi neouragement. I repeatedly lind myself drawn toward certain persons but o be disappointed. No concessions which are not radical are the least satsfaction. By myself I can live and hrive, but in the society of incompatible friends I starve. To cultivate their society is to* cherish a sore which can j inly be healed by abandoning them. No fields are so barren to me :is the men from whom I expect everything but ;et nothing. In their neighborhood I jxperienee a painful yearning for society 3 which cannot be satisfied, for the hate is greater tlian tne love. i The blue sky is a distant reflection of the azure serenity that looks out from e under a human brow. The Family Hammer. There is one tiling no family pretends < to be without. This is a hammer. And yet there is nothing that goes to make c up the equipment of a domestic establishment that causes one-half as much t agony and profanity as a hammer. It is always an old hammer with a handle that is inclined to sliver, and always J bound to s!*'o. The face is as round as : a full moon, and as smooth as glass. When it strikes a nail full and square, t which it has been known to do, the act I ' will be found to result from a combina- j tion of pure accidents. I ( The family hammer is one of those j t rare articles wc never proiit by. When j < it glides off a nail head, and mashes flown a couple of lingers, we unhesitatingly de- | j posit it in the yard, and observe that we !, will never use it again. But the blooil , has hardly dried on the rag before we j ] are out of doors in search of that ham-1 rner, and ready to make another trial. . The result rarely varies, but we never j1 profit by it. The awful weapon goe^ on I ' knocking oft* our nails and mashing off !1 joints and s lipping off the handle, to the ]" confusion of the mantel ornaments and j breaking the commandments.and cutting i up an assortment of astounding and un- I fortunate antics without let or hin- ] dorance. And yet we put up with it, i and put the handle on again, and lay it , where it won't get lost, and do up our mutilated and smarting fingers, and if , the outrageous thing should happen to get lost we kick up a regular hullabaloo until it is found again. Talk about the tyrannizing influence ofa bad habit! It is not to be compared to the family hammer.? Young Scientist. The editor who can cause the names of two subscribers to be written down ' where only one was written before, is I creator than the man who invented the I patent inside system.?Quincy Modern Aryo. And the roan who invented the ; " patent inside system" enabled thous- i ands of editors to write down the names of two subscribers " where only one was j written -before.^ You'll xthave to ac-1 knowledge that fact after Dooley con j sidering it.?Monthly Union. / "W. TIMELY TOPICS. An article in the New York Sun says that Ilolyoke, Mass., is the great center of the paper trade of this country. The town contains 20,000 inhabitants, of whom 4,000 are employed in the seventeen large paper mills of the place. The capital invested in the paper trade at Ilolyoke is estimated at about $5,000,000, and tliere are annually produced about 36,500 tons of paper. The mills are run by water power. Henry Face killed the young man who had wronged his daughter, at Olerkenwell, England, and public sentiment favored him so strongly that a fund was raisea 10 support ms iamuy uunng uie year and a naif of imprisonment to which lie was sentenced. Ilis escape from a worse punishment was regarded us lucky, and lie went to prison in good spirits. But his daughter taunted him with being a murderer, and in consequence of that he hanged himself in his cell. An association, under the name of the "Jasper Monumental Association." has heen formed at Savannah, Ga., for the the purpose of erecting a monument to Sergeant Jasper, who "on the 9th day of Getobor, 1779, fell in the attack of the American forces on Savannah. The sergeant's exploit in leaping over the ramparts of l'ort Moultrie, Charleston harbor, during the hottest part of the British attack at that place, and fixiug vnew the tlag which had boon shot from its staff, will be remembered as one of die most stirring episodes of the Revolutionary war. A Missouri r'arracr has been tigurmg m the dauiags done by dogs in that mace. in uiirty-iwo counties iu.ouz iheop have been killed. He estimates die number of dogs in thirty-two coun;ies to be 46*2,000; that a hog-will thrive >n the food necessary to support an ible-bodied deg, and at the end of the fear weigh 200 pounds; therefore, if the 'ood for these 402,000 dogs was given to he hogs, it would make (J2,000,OtM) rounds of pork, worth at least six cents i pound, or $4,550,000?nearly twice the nilue of all the school-houses in the state, and more than twice the amount ised by the State for school purposes. The classification of a company at one >f the seaside hotels, by a child who nid not troubled herself to remember lames, has a great deal of significance. L"o her they we::e " tlie lady who whines, is if she were grrtng to cry;" " the lady vho talks about her headache;" "the ady who scolds the children for making i noise, and who plays the piano so eueli herself;" 44 the kind lady who peaks to all the strangers:" " the happv ady who draws pictures and lets us look iver her shoulder;" "the young man vho thinks he is handsome;" and "the toy who always offers to take you out in lis boat when, nobody else will take -oil." Truly, many things which arc bought to be hid by the wi3e and pruIcnt are revealed unto babes. faren princej soraetinvs starve to loath. Recently, the St. Petersburg lapers announced the death from sheer tarvation of Prince Serge Michaelovie i Jalitzin, employed as a censor of books, nd removed by "suorcme orders" to )dcssa, where lie took lodging in the louse of a carpenter, occupying a dark, amp room, of such limited dimensions hat his coflin could not be got into it. tn inquir elicited the fact that for nonths he had subsisted on dry bread, nth occasionally a morsel of cheese or n apple. He left no effects save the ags on him when lie died. His mother s a wealthy dame, resident in Moscow, vliere she owns several houses, a fine nansion surrounded by a park and a ishionable nunnery. Ilis wife?for the unfortunate nobleman was married? lastened from Moscow to attend the uneral, but was too late. Words of Wisdom. lie that gets out of debt grows rich. Light burdens long borne grow heavy. Open your mouth and purse cautiously Where the will is ready the feet are ight. Agreeable counsels arc rarely useful ounsc-ls. One triumphs over calumny only in corning it. Talking comes by nature; silence by mderstanding. It is only for innocence that solitude an have any charms. No man ever yet looked on the dark ide of life without finding it. Marnier is one oi tne greatest engine's >.f influence ever given to man. Flattery is a false coin which has cir ulation only through our vanity. Conscience is the voice of the soul; he passions are the voice of the body. Men seldom improve when they have 10 other models than themselves to copy ifter. We live to learn, but death comes to housands ere they have mastered the dphabct of common sense. Men spend their lives in helping up ;oloss- . piles of treasure, which stand at he end like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings. How many useful hints are obtained ly chance, and how oft* n the mind, hurried by her own arilor v.o distant views, leglects the truths that lie open before iier. Pride is seldom delicate; it will please Itself with very mean advantages; and nvy feel.- not its own happiness but IVJieil It Uia,) ue L-uui|Jiin.u v? nu lui j j{ ethers. A (Juccr House. An oecentri^ Englishman has recently built a house in the Quarter TivoH for I he residence of himself, his wife and eight children, which is the talk of all Paris. It is circular, and has neither door nor window externally. The approach to it is from the ground Hoor on to the roof by means of a ladder, which is moved up and down by machinery similar to that of a drawbridge. There is nnlv one tloor. and that contains eighteen apartments. more or less small in dimension, looking into the center, which is lighted from above by a glazed cupola. One stove for all these rooms is in the middle, and in summer its place is to be occupied by an exquisite parterre of tlowei-s. A circular balcony, open to all the apartments, surrounds this space. The motive for this oddity is, of course, only known to the author of it, but everybody can see that two points are gained by it?immunity from the teocos on doors and windows, and a perfect preventatire of any attempt at burglary. ?ARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD. Planting and Transplanting, The well-known three requisites for the germination of seeds, says the Country Gentleman, are heat, air and moisture, but iK>t light. In a cold soil tlicy remain dormant; if too dry, they will not sprout, and if buried deep and* compactly beyond the action of the air, no movement toward growth takes place. The small seeds of weeds often remain in the soil for years when turned under deep by the plow; when brought again to the surface, the new ana copious growth which at once takes place has led superficial observers to the erroneous notlnn tliof tlinv Itnvn anninff iin cn/mton_ ?UUU.,.,,UVJ .... .V, eously. Nursei-ymen somettmes keep poach stones dormant a year when the.v happen to have a surplus, by placing them two feet under the soil until needed. The depth for planting must depend largely on the size of the seed; ana the general rule has been given to bury them from three to five times as deep as their diameter. This rule will vary somewhat with ftie nature and condition of the soil. If heavy and moist, the depth should be less than in a light, dry and porous soil. In a moist, well-pulverized soil, most seeds, whether large or small, will grow if merely covered and kept moist: but this condition cannot be commonly continued, as a few dry and warm days will dry the surface of the soil and prevent the geimination of the seed. Hence the common practice to vary this rule with circumstances. Corn, planted early in the season when [ tne grouna is moist, wm grow ireeiy 11 buried only an inch deep; but under ordinary circumstances two inches will be better. It will find its way freely to the surface after many days when buried six inches below. Early in autumn, when winter wheat is sown or drilled in, the soil is usually much drier than in cornplanting time, and for tikis reason, al- j though the seeds are smaller than grains j of corn, it should be placed at a depth of ' two inches. In a dry spring corn should be planted deeper than in a wet one, and | the old practice of pressing each hill with the hoe, when the work was done by hand, was useful when the soil was dry. When planting is done with a machine, a roller to follow the tube would be useful in dry weather. In a dry season, as the present has been in many places, much care is required to impart sufficient moisture to seeds when planted. If the particles of soil are dry. the small grains or lumps which compose it will touch the seed only at a few points, and the chauces for its germination will be small. Even if moistened by a shower, tiie water will be conveyed to the seed only at the few points of contact. It is better, therefore, to plant seed after a shower than before it, as the soil is rendered moist and yielding, and, pressing the whole surface of the seed a_ causes germination i? once. v-oi una principle, experience has shown that under common conditions seeds grow much better if planted after than before the rain. The exceptions are, when the soil has been so finely pulverized that it cases the seed well on all sides while yet dry; and when the rain is so copious tli.-tt itr tills with water for a sufficient time the interstices which surround the seed. The Hoac Bur Pent. Another bug has strangely increased in numbers, in the past two years, and it promises to be more troublesome than the enemy of the potato. The rose bug has come upon us in swarms, and it destroys not only our grape and peach crops, but our apples and plums, if unchecked. The best method of checking them it is desirable to learn, if there be any method. We have tried hand picking, whale oil soap, aij^ a variety o I agents, but our citorts nave been onjy partially successful. The white hellebore dust is the most effective destroyer, but it is expensive and troublesome to apnly. It occurred to us this year to take our grapevines from their supports and lay them close upon tbc ground j when in blossom. This course saved | our crop so far as the experiment was : tried, and we present the plan for the i benefit of grape growers everywhere. | The insect cannot or does not reach the ; blossom when the vines are in this position, and no injury results to the vines during inflorescence. As soon as the i fruit is formed, the danger is over, and j the vines may be raised and secured to ; the supports. This we regard as im-: portant information, and it should be 11 1. ? ,a I rememoereu. uur pvjtcu uu(j i.i?cu | this year by passing through the orchard j and jarring the trees by a blow with the i hand once or twice a day. The insects 1 are detached from the fruit and fall upon j the ground, and do not return to the i ruit until after a considerable period of I tinv. The better way is. to place a | sheet under the trees, catch the bugs and | estroy them in a pan of whale oil soap j suds.?Bcston Journal of Chemistry. Household Hints. Glass held level under water mav be i easily cut with a pair of shears or strong I | scissors. Cut a little at a time. Never wash raisins that are to be used j ! in sweet dishes. It will make the pud- j ; ding heavy. To clean them wipe them j I n ilvt' fAn'/ll | LMl 4* 111 J lUUti. In boiling eggs hard put them in boil-: ing water ten minutes and then put them in eold water; it will prevent the yolks ; from coloring black. To make macaroni tender, put it'toi cold water and bring it to a boil. Ii will then be much more tender than if put into hot water or stewed in milk. All milk vessels should, in their last | i rinsings, have boiling water or hot super- i | heated steam applied, as nothing short1 will destroy tnc putrefaction which is j abundant iii milk vessels not thoroughly ; cleansed. To take out tea stains, put the linen j in a kettle of eold water; rub the'staius i well with common eastile soap; put the j kettle on the side of the stove, to let the : water get gradually warm; wash it! thorouglily in warm soap suds; then rub j the stain again with soap, and boil; then | rinse. " * Single cream is cream that has stood j on tlio milk twelve hours, it is nest lor i tea or coffee. Double cream stands on its milk twenty-four hours, and cream for butter frequently stands forty-eight hours. Cream that is to be whipped should not be butter cream, lest in whipping it change to butter. Small holes in white walls can be easily repaired without sending for the mason. Equal parts of plaster of Paris and white sand?such as is used in most families for scouring purposes?mixed with water to a paste, applied immediately and smoothed with a knife or Hat ! piece of wood, will make the broken nlaceas good as new. As the mixture hardens very quickly, it is best to prepare but a small quantity at a time. ADVERTISING BATESl "tim. nq^^i^nra: 1 W?ek. m $ 1.001# 6.00 $ 8.00 $16.00 2 " 1.76| 7.50 12.26 20.00 8 " 3.60 9.00 26.36 >4.00 4 44 8 00 10.60 18 00 27.60 6 " 8.60 11.76 30.60 81.00 0 ? 4.C0 12 60 22.76 84.00 7 14 4 60 18.26 24.75 87oG 8 44 6.00 14.00 28.00 40 00 8 month*. 6.0S 17.00 8X00 60.80 4 44 .......... 7.60 19.00 89 50 69 00 6 , 44 8.60 24.00 48.00 84.00 9 44 9 50 80.00 69 00 108.00 12 44 10.25 35.00 68 00 120.00 89* Truuient advertisement* mast bo aooom panied with the cash to insure insertion. The Owl's Matins. Behold the East with gates ajar, Through which the morning peeps. Hail, dawning light and fading star ! Awake the world that sleeps ! Sing heigh ho ! to whit, to whoo ! Fair Phcebus upward leaps. The glow-worui poles her amorous ligh t The flre-fly flickers dim. The god of day shuts out the night, And lights the ocean's rim. Sinsr heiffh ho ! to whit, to whoo ! The world awakes to him. In flaming glow his orbit see, # High o'er the mountain crest, Drips sparkling light Irotn out the sea And lights tho owlet's nest. Sing heigh ho ! to whit, to whoo ! I take my flight to rest. ?Christopher C. Merrill. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Hard money Is that which is hat'd to get.?Picayune. The letter D is trulv an old salt?has been following the C for years. James Liar and Henry Slander are two of the best citizens of Dubuque, Iowa There are said to be only four word in the English language ending in c-i-o-n. Wnatare they? During 1878 there were 187 miners killed and 602 injured in the Pennsylvania coal mines. We see a great deal about "spelling reform" in our exchanges. We don't think "reform " is very hard to spel1.? Norristown Herald. There is u man in this city so averse to being dunned for. his bills that he can't bear to see a crowd "collect" in the street.?Boston Gazette. The man who got into a barber-chair, pinned the newsuaper round his reck and began to roau tlie towel may justly be called absent-minded. A housein the Avenue deClichy, Paris, was lately struck by liehtning, winch first followed a water-pipe to the earth, and then reascended to tire fourth story. Look not upon the watermelon core when it is red, and tackle it not heartily just before going to bed. A word to the wise is "null' ced."? Cedar Rapids Republican. Kiinsaa it.-us nOW 55!) Churches, 69 of which arc Baptist, 59 Con<rregatfonali.st. 33 Lutheran, 22 Kpiseopal. 125 Methodist, 99 Presbpterian, and 15 United Presbyterian. The Railroad Gazelle says that John Iloughtaling, of Rochester, is the oldest railroad conductor in the United States. He has served forty-three years, and is now poor and disabled. . Sli! Don't give it away. We keep a t- .. iitinl. in it i.nnctnntlu nn nlir JlJlbll' *Y1LII iVSbll.rw j table. And we find that it adds much to lighten our editorial labors. It paste to keep it.?Yonkcrs SUttcaman. The editor of the Hastings (Minn.) ATew Era was attacked in his oliice, recently. by three masked men, but he escaped from their clutches and now gives notice that-iic wiil be prepared to receive company at all hours. A gentleman learned in the origin of social customs was asked the meaning of casting an old shoe after a newly-married couple as they shirt on the trip. He said, "To indicate that the chances of matrimony arc very slipper-}'." The small, mock-looking wife of Tom Cottrcll, a Missouri horse thief, followed him weeping out of a St. Joseph court room, after his trial and conviction, In the corridor she Hew at the sheriff like a tigress, threw him on the floor, and thus enabled the prisoner to mount a mule and escape. The weather was getting cool and the empress told Peter that lie had better get an additional grate while he was down town, but with his usual forgetfulness he came home without it, when his wife remarked, reproachfully: "Peter, the grate," and the cognomen stuck to him ever after.?Oriswold. "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods," There is r witchery in summer's kiss, There is a spell that charms our lend'rer moods When day brings on the twilight's benefice. There is a richness in t he morning chant Ol birds just wakened front a night's repose, There is 11 something in the onion plant That's uncongenial to the average nose. ? Yonkeis Uazcttc. The maddest newspapers of the present time are those which are published in the Austrian lunatic asylums. (Jon Iributions are received irom an uu- mniates who have Mlher hobbies or grievances. Those who are alllieted with any monomania whatevt r may explain their delusions and support their convictions bvargument and example. The logicemployed in an article of a recent issue by one gentleman to disprove the belief of another that his beard was of heather and required constant watering..was so faultless and incisive as to have done credit to a Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy. Alas! lie himself tirnily believed that his own nose was made of sugar, and to prevent its yetting wet, and consequently moiling away, always m drank through a straw.?Xci" York Tribune. A Russian Tragedy. A sanguinary tragedy has occurred in Russia, taking its rise from the recently inaugurated wholesale slaughtering of plague-infeetcd eattle. All the cattle in the'Czar's dominions are subjected to a strict veterinary elimination. Such as are plaguc-suspcctid, or as exhibit tendencies likely to expose them to danger of infection, are at on'-e ruthlessly slaughtered. The carcasses are burned f~ and the owners remunerated, unless they have striven to conceal the existence of the pest among their herds. One Ivan Borksoniyitch did. or is alleged to have done, this. The inspector, however, discovered that his cattle were diseased and came to slaughter them. Ivan refused to permit it unless he was paid. The inspeetor declined to sign the indemnification papers. A quarrel ensued. when Ivan assailed him with one of the sin lightering knives ana (i i.-ombowelod him nt the first l?!o\v. The murdered man's assistants fell on t lie assassin, and in the melee which followed three of them were very seriously injured. Horksomviteh wasfinely secured land looked up. Next morning-he was i found dead. He had broken a tile from j the porcelain stove which heated hi* cell I and cut his throat with it.