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\ VOL. XXXVIII. CAMDEN, S. C., SEPTEMBER 11, 1879. NO. 8.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.