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VOL. XI 1 1, PRISMATIC -f-r: BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S t C , JUNE 26,1890. > m* * Tlirre^sj ttdt a Hpht in the leadea Rkies, Tlie world is wrapped in rain; Thd color angel haa sbiit his eyna. And the sun is asleep again; But Marguerite by the window stands— Enraptured eyes of blue Are traveling far into fairylands As she looks a prism through. i turn to smile on the eager ciy'ld. And old dreams rise again; S know what colors run rich and wild •:^r the blurred, wet window pauo; A rainbow glory floods the air And jewels the ashen hue;'' flow many of us, like the baby there. Have looked a prism through! Oh I fairy prism that, life bestows! (.And breaks too soon, aims!) . Oh! lovely vision tbat throbs and glows Through youth's enchanted glass! • Oh* how will it bo when the prism falls, ; And gone is the gold and lluef When the cold, cold voioo of the reat oalis, l And the sw«g*t dreaius com* aut truof ■We all bavo visions—vve all look through 7“ A prism that falls and breaks Ahul focthBdreams tliat co ne not Iruo And the soul that flglit said, fin<I then Jib*cahunotw, %iilch had htvd a groater fa, u cii)atl<ui for me Uuu> been so roiuarkable, deccrtcd liim, but ever. Itdayei about the enrs and trains only fora minute. [as. I had in my boyhood, i almost “What caused the accident?” he feared tlicy would order me away from asked. 4 Do they know.tlie.yard. THE LAW ON THREATS., .; Alabama* human wonder. Ctil wlien Tune's glass falls from our haads’' Tlie spirit s unveiled view M ay find lost lights in loftier lands, f if duly thmiream comes true! ' “Margaret Lluat Brishane, “yes,” the doctof 1 replied; and he told of the little land slide y^hich tho englxieer had seen almost in time, but not quite, and the engine had run into with barely enough force to jar the lmin its length. “We Suppose,” he added, “t baby on uiust have been shak en b(4AveeintAVo,earsTn some way.” “Will it hurt tne to talk?” Dorsey asked. f . 4 o,” thcvcToetcr answered. ‘'And my brain is entirely clear?” ‘‘Certainly," the doctor replied, won dorina a little. »—‘‘Then let nie tell you a frrcat dcal. I had a fondness always Tor all ears and trains. The earliest, the pleasant est rcasollaction I Inivo iriT the noise ol die Coupling: of carafes they were made mto trains in the yards. No music was ever strsweet to me as that. 1 used to “My business went to nothing just ftoen* Perhaps my neglect hurt it, bat I think not. At all events 1 gave it up. Thoi 1 secimd a place as br;ikeiuan without much trouble.” 1 'Was that pleasant?” the doctor asked. It was c;is&r to interrupt Dor sey now. - ~r- f i “Vos. to me," he answered; “but still I was glad when I \vas {>rumotedVas 1 was through the various grades to be u , conductor." ►“I!.is there lu'en no chance f<;r further promotion in all t iu'se years?” “Oh. ves: but l have never wanted to Irene my train 1 HE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RE* SULTS Or FEAR ESTABLISHED. ■ - •-C.ib • v . ■ ' ^ : '■ ' ' " r ' A Person Who Creates a State of Appro- hriMimt Rcfijionslblo for tlie Iijnries That May flesutt- Sample Case De.- Reribcd. * ' ' : ' •- A Man Who Ure* Tflthoui Feellog Hungry, Thlraty or Sleepy. “Do .Von s»>e that man?" said a well known physjclaf) to a reporter, id the same time pointing out Mr. 8. W. Behnnan, who i« engaged at Mn T. P. Leak's undertaking ekbihlishinenL The repofter looked at? the gentlemati hi- dimted, and asked his quertioncr what te^^ricaflebe^reDord Jus- there was peculiar about him. The tice Coleridge and Justices Mathew, physician replied that Mr. Behrman Ca ve, D.iyjnid .Smith, in order to escape was a phenomenon, and had a very In* from tlie violence of her husband, who toresting history; that he was a man to had used threats to his wife amount- whom water wjih in t n necessity, ing threats ag;d;rt her life, the Hearing this, the reporter ealk^jt on wife got out of a window, and in so doing fell'to the ground and broke her leg. The huhband v.'^s convicted of having v illfallv and malicious If inflicted Lord After a long while. 1 grievous La'Htiiy harm on his wife. | - yly-j sleeping 1 (Ydendge gala: “I am of opinion that applied cam." —— *^' 77 ^—7 - | fho <’omk‘tion in this cn v e tn correct, Porm wlifle m TTT r spoke. The doc and that the sentence should be afflnuedr tor, keciily observe Tit, thought tbat Dor The principle semis to me tojw laid soy had more to teitt but he waited pa quite Tally in The Queen against spend all the time 1 could watching the* tiently. Martin. 1 hereJoiis cou 1 1 U Td that a man THE ACCIDENT. Within a few miles of its terminus the mi 1 n »ud passed thrun^li- a valley, nar ^ row, to be sure, hut of great and uuu- aual beauty.' The sides and crests of the surrounding hills were dotted witli’ the pretty cottages of bubnb.qi re si. but tite country war not yet so closely settled as to have lost all piefc- <th*87pierH*ss, and, Although tlie liousS r were maL tliey were simple, and, the lawns, though kept, weru still mi r disfigured by Lati/.en or cast i,*>>n statu- -•ry. JTho nciglitx'riibpd hail not yet reached that stage In its development .it.lmm.ks n esw imitl -aifw 1 uninteresting plans furni.dicd reuly trains made urn runl going. No novel ever pleased mo so. They, made me go through college, you know. 1 have never regrid ted it, hut then i wanted to be an etiginecr. That tecmeiTtlie only place worth having. — - “Then you vent abroiu! and 1 mar ri ed. —rf 1 otve e.lway^yo -rcgrrl ted t hat you never knew,Alary.” The dt'clor interrupted: “Ton must not tell me t!iK> if it w ill mstrcfs you." 1 “It does iK>t. I want t*> ttlFyoti; I ha\x* so iraiay Lnu s Wanted to tell you about her, and a Hr 11 Is LlLT~tii her now ns she ftsed to sit eomctiiuet wiUiTicr I lead u;n?m blue*<“.*•* l.u.k “Lifo Inta' gone very cvoiily and s’HOOth!;.' v. iMi 1 i:q I! bh fullv. ;ig m m.ne 81 ic !>ctdTatl!i in ine.” a little. my kcco and hci so truat And he e to n;nd carjamfen by eilterp big publisluTH.' NN>r had bs oocarfoual cliurehyarvl yet lost all sense of n «t and dpeuce. .Simple gravestones tlH»m weh*. but no pretentious tuohiimeuta. Buf eVcn here death slyly took Ills victim unaware* or s?<»od forth to tight boldly i«<r his own as be ph*;tyc<L . It w;u» here that miuiy years before John I)«*r*.*y hail marie for liinis.LT u tu *ie, and it was here Di;U hi w.tr now olMJUt to die. There bad been .-vn r.csidArit. It wa*. a very slight one, and its cause was al “Of Course," K.i ! the do.'tor, I« ■ i. l< *< >." “\’eSr>aml it gl.uldcui mo f think it w;^ Mat biT TPr-tlnn. -Hu rtriVit^g for. “Mar -of my I ive for the it etl it. asT 1. Uien, but «>nr fhyjt tiie lima, i cod 1 all night if I hap; You can set? tin* now ti :* r 7 V o. lo< in l w waa jealous a little railri'.,!. * t- ebvrty.- T - Vv;.s in. husiacK ■ 1. . > was * 1 -.**• I > ht^ir 4lie trail.s go In >enck to te awake. Ic »umO bow frour tlie night. Until last night," he repeated slow ly. . “Vvudl, what happened/then ?” the doctor aakatl ns 4Aoi^-y paused* “The train had I «\-n made up witlj Itht' sh«g- rs lityt. tiie engines 1 was staiirthig on Ttie platform widting for the startiikg s’/jnal lo be iriven. when sn Idenly h woman [ fissvd me. Some * 11 u i; g ab.m hcrrriNc ii Icrcd I mil umylxj—ufTnlefcd my attention; but bt'fore 1 could kook !Uore.cl *>»'|y at bet an engine behind moNviiistlcd sb.-Lrply and I turned to - '» what ’V 's tlie tcou bio. Liter, -nr i pa»«d her on tlie frain, her face yeented t. 1 t^rtraHtrange, far oiT n a *-rrl/i.vnce to some lundi.u ‘roeTrTTuI i I.udied at what l‘thought fotHUJi fancy. There were vcfj ejs’r, and I fetunasl who had cither take advgmtngeof dr had created n panic in artheatro, a’rl'had oiv strncfc<niT»asi.i'-o. and rendered it dilh- cult to get out of the theatre, in conse quence of which a mrnher of people were crushed, was answerable fur the conse quences of-wJei t he had done. Here the woman enm * by lier luFehief by getting out « frthe window, and in her fa’l broke her leg. Now that might have Iieen CHnsed*hy an act whidi was done mri- dentally or Aell’icrattdy. in which case the prisoner would hot. have been guilty* “It appenes trivu theca.se, Imwcver, that the prisoji.-r had threat«i»erl hi# wife more than once, aud tlvat on this ooca- sion 7 cai Mr. Behrman. and. .Ih ling cat that the tnform.iiron war tanTt^T. retained tlie following Interesting ir.f.'A iew with him; “I was Imrn in Rjga ivliicll Ls the capital rd LieHlape, a pjol-.tbatf (Svirion of Itiwsuv, eorreeponding to the wtateo of this country. I reaciied America in 1812, and setTjcd jx'ruianently in Texas, residing at dine rents points foreigirtcen years. When the war broke out 1 joined- the Third Ixiuiaiana regiment, ansi served mui Conh'derate soldier un-. til I was wounded 'and captured at the battle pf luka. m(m.~ I was kept a prisoner of war for several months and waJTparolod, after wliieh I returned to New Orleans, where I was when the war closed. 1 came to this city in 1877, and have resided here the greater por tion of the time since that yair. “As to my peculiarity on the subject of eating and drinking, I can sayThat I never experienced the sensation of SAVED" BY* A DOG. v ' » v **" *7'^ ■; _ cj tH»g “Ftan^l3••' ( 0 Cnln«» J'wvil Whrn Ihe l*»«-ty N Klarvli«4. We wi’ri* sit t lug con versing about ouf prospects, djskntiwirtg the probabHitlaa of our couriers rcaeliing some settle mrnt on this day, or the next, ami the time tliatit would taho them to rotdm; and they desh'ed t<fdenow whether, iu my previous African experience, I Imi. encountered unytliing Ho grievous a. tills. 7 ' , ■ -- v rt . a . -v. > ... “No, not ^piite so bud ns tliia"! re plied. “We liave sufleml. but not to such an extremity ns tin a Those ub/e days bn the way Into Bum were wretch ed. On bur flight from Bum hire We uertaiuiy sniTered much hungf’r, nml also while floating down the Congo to Trace its course our condition was nmcb to bo pitied; we have had a little of somet liing, and at least largehgggi, mad iM hoy (lie w),ere ore wei The ^ of mB tia.Hlmt, ul.oee the (mr.o-Ue, ,, MT (t i, m* bn' why (Tj! , „ (i „ nH ehouhl they bet (trow wetor u „|„. ^ef 0 f iuownw. frotu the rock ut 1WI. foHhe tl*ir«^- lhttre yjy* afa, cmH** “How long ! ing l\m musbud asked of a dupiK‘1 runs a shop otl Wi ‘ it was CiuUaJ Bbitc* about, four, he rcplttsU “but it was I miMi Iialf a «;ntUry buck.’* 1 “Dih;s the crimping of ti injhro ingrowth in a«y “Yes, very seriously, man hair is naturally oily, dicatcs a healthy growtlfc If: hair is placed under a powerful scope, it will ho found U> pi[M7 stem, that ri, a little tul etitire length. Through flows a current of oil. Now^ dainnied up, it lias the biading the stalk of a plant, sap is cut olf and decay ■Thsrrioee, in uiitiy iiine cases this. Ismtdlmt Of water wt* Isave «'tiou|^ andT?7 spare. Llijah wu» hd-lw mv<MS* nt the brook Cherith. but tlu're is not a raven in nil this forest.— {jhritf was, ministered unto byxmgeU. I wonder if any one will ininister unto usf ’ Just .then there wuan pound ae of A large bird whirring through the Fir. not obtain, which accounts Cor captions named.” “Do all your customers have mustaches curledt" £ . 7 j\ “Oh, no; it’s the middle aged young fellows who carry the When a man begins to wrinkle and hU knee joints begin to rattle Little Kandy, imw fox terrier, lifted up _^ ..... . . , iT ^ caros very ItUle for those liner a foot ami gazed inquiringly; we turned - , - 11 . <l l all . 14 i ♦, our heads to fee, end tliat seccnuf tlie bird dropped lieneath the jaws of Randy, Avho snapped at the prize and tifitd tt fostin a \ise as of iron. **There, boys,” I said, “truly ths IH'.rsnmd apjicamuco. “I>i tle‘ daielv polk'C oilicjlfl have a curl put into their whisk “Do theyf .Well 1 sliouhl th Tliciv are sonic very haudsomt who wear tlie uniform of the and when they gu on duty thay my n < :• iuu< few in the f!r-t ft r 1 bad made thy Hr-t trig. :Ti the <*>■ ry. Lac a ted myx4f op- , imrofs ti e aisle, from this wo- I th^u^hf it Grange th.d nltliourtli tint other pcv—n vr.i luul Kad^ theii U'rtlis made up she had rviTf but the pfifter was within ♦ reacli nod 1 did t.» it TtlFui man. being hungry, tiiirsty or sleepy. When he camo home drauk, und .used I cat, which is at the oftbnest only ] jrtsls are graelons. Tlie age of mimcht whUdi—amounted to- a threat opce a day. it Is tp^BUstain life and | is not past,”-and my rommdes were . «tnrr 4 »r» . a peart her life, raying. Til make you B ot to appease the craving of an appe 1 seen gazing in delighted surprise at tlie 1 80 that you enn t go to bcl: that sue, y iy j u n v lnt>;il insists of a little | bird, which was a fine fat guinea fowl. 1 .•W>u | li Wm .w...ar.ix.Lj l xm:.vuuhin-. gufc..hitiL ■ of pmpper j It was iitil hiiig 1 ts^frin^nThtyiTfro^i Ttm 4 7 77^' ^ uickel bread—a bread made of rye, wto< divided, and Kandy, its captor, had . . ground up with bnm. No bolting al J his lawful sham; and the little doggie j ‘ ** mtmmkm mBm all This Iwead 1 gyt from ItKbnna. 1 seemed to know that he luul grown have frequently gone without tasting esteem with all men, and we en, food of any kind whatever for from } pur prize each with his own feeling*. — the ** Tell, pi riofi low yonder. Lift me up a l Mary at tint hut 1 th * rr.'lnsvcksj .slit* grew u cd to the livrit*. and I ll. WUK S«». .1 imwt ridicuiom. John Dorw’y, tliccmi aftA*r a httle she pahl n* duetor of the khwping ear tniio. had f>he fumi Hir'd our been the only otic hurt, lie, however, although fntally InJuriN!, *u1T*t»**1 al imwt no [Kiin and wasentirvly eouscioiri of las surnHHtdiugs and e«>ridition. ll^ JituL, indei-d, stated his belief that he was nlMtut to «lie toriK before thu tl fact had been able to ascertain tlie eharac- t«*r of Ids injuri*** or to form any opin ioq of the proTiable result. His in aist.uitio u;m>si this evtn annoyed tlie doctor. , ^ , * Dursc*>,** he wiid. “you umst not «|H'ak so. You lot* («h.» young to die, aii«l wo siiall save ytnt;" — As soon as could ' bo after the,neei dent Ik-rsoy had boon carried to n neighboring house, atul Dr. Irwin hsd l»ts*n sent for by mm on tho train who had known of the intimate friend-hip vrh>*h existed hetw’cen the two. This friendship was of earlier date than Dor soy's connoo^ion with tho raiimml. and \hat s«.'otu<*n to Dors**y's fellow em ployos, to have begun' alniobt ugo. before. , • - '■ wc wire verv 1 bap,] IV; but « ho i ■;M * tUT ' w rn ncrvmu > cnA rhrt t 1 ie fr equ*nt upjdi ;t?e ibingkr in fi j>k mo t u con j |Uer mv likirrr'tnr tht xvh irt 1 tho c« .*jn '* start! ■1 ! sere A? HI), C; iU-ed hy tie* ; mil rood. Sue f ci re dthat t « conk 1 li it ’ I n ?m» Mubcr v tk ; mv it POCItl^ to 11 to that * und-tlTaT her tujvu-ie be 1 lit f *r lUtVtl liix^ e! s\ inv the ■ii cht.* i die b 'tamo ext* X?** *J l (hf’.c *r«» the ‘.rtTcb sejiK* of wet ■ CCI?J i.IS 1 wi fh it, but 1 Ini i^ :1whJ [ bio wli irtof tho x vT.irti ■. AH ter f i while This oilier judge* gen :!y at her nn d w on hi i (lie i- atiHr-f I d xm id my eyes —it »: !eytx‘ 1 fill Law Ju amah XV ;U it and xvif!i the same he 's’* * S’. i(,j t. nit 1 trrt? m*r 11 1 ‘ r^.y i* very Ij^wvt-r* S*i pi nev or dvn iht*- 1 i >;*• 1 >yo. end hIk* SHv J mi’ Irtl Ri fftl i r ol :v ri) whl rtkC of till ’ -Ou tride of the p:< to !• ::v t!mt h< h.k s t ill to I .. 1 ’ V bet **TT> •I IK *. ((> •ir <xr '.viiivs r wuse • nuN* l. law. MS WHS of Uid dig Inert *La ui id l . . ' yrlit rt' eVC* it h ;icd. t! tiat r ioao t f USi iloil* vw’uer e h]K>keil again: she might L ad. 4-t may be t! lore w o thn ,t a ight.) A. 4 It,, ■m l i: jv ex vs tail Itrivv i rs. The dem li ' ! • col* inhtiut in ! eriaaniK r. rttl m.; •»* wi>t; inn t i:i foM i the ; fr *nt . jc*ke« hapd lampNins • ‘When the b: i by was bum a 1* »V a oi Wi icn '.she 1 r.d ’ YM'll I i!., not km >w, but * cd th upDdMiioii fro th«* r.iilb nd h, e: 11 Oil to L ive 1 been 5 rt-n ! Ihr *v was a 1 «. . . 1 h;u >py l iglltir e nntoNKou. hi the xrindow<-when>he was restrain***! by her tiau »l tor. TLc* pri.sd/ucr tt\rvarem*>l dnughtgr. who lot go, and h**r mother ItTs surest etl that supposing the t had truck his ♦laughter’s' Him -Arithont hnrttng her. but sttjE&t iently to caitso tv r 11 l { t gA. ftUd she h:vl lot h**r m<tther fail. c*a>kl aoy one doubt but tliat that would 1>* the saiat; thing as if ho had pusla-d her out liiurself? If a mnn rroat; s in mvJhor man's mind an immediate sense of dangi'r which c «u*t*s “Tik'h qx rs m n* try to ew'»|)C, and in m dtvhig ho injures himself, the person who cruatr* such a stare »*f mind is rwp avd- bie f«.r tile injuri' s which result. 1 thi;»k tlint in tliis cose Ultra was nhnndant evvlt^ice that there was a wniw* o? im- acts of the prisoner, s r •«nlti**l fr**m what f canvsl Irt ta do.” concurred. —Albany v>*ion, at lotwt, the lie* govja-1, is every- an<i slid more the cialious. saiva^tus, "St t ’ — 1 — ■— t enme witli hit mustache in ___ Joytal ( ^^ ou ^^riltci^ ’’•—Boetoti Qjpbet eight to sixteen days. —— “It It tho same with sleep. I am never sleepy, and when 1 do lie down it l* not btsuiusc I umst sleep, but heaunw 1 miict pa st tho time away. I cannot say bow long a period of time I havo gone | without sleep in this city, but 1 remain ber that once I went for seven montlis. in which 1 did not sleep cl together one I hour. ^ ft « “Now on the sahject of drinking water I can sny that for forty years I have not taken n glass of water, anti that never In my lifo did 1 liave a de j sin* to take a drink as you dor Lnevei drink water except to take it with med 1 icine, tutd tliat b the only way I have ever taken It in tlie last forty or forty * one years. “When I was in the army men all around me ou the march panted for Hoary M. Hlnnicy in Scribnerta An Old Rank Frviddcnt. Among the portraits In tlie private gallery of a well known citizen Is one of tften. Alexander McDougall, who was tho first president of Ibe bank of Ne# York. Gen. McDougnil took a very active part hi the events which led up to the llevolution, and (luring the strug gle Ids best energies were qjways at the services of Ills country. Ho was born in Hoot laud, on tlie rihuid of Islay, In ITHl. coming to thb cmmtrjr with his father m a boy. Tradilkat says, and Ilia enernles repeated It. tliat his first catling was that of a milkman's boy. Afterward he went to sea, rising until he came into eotumand. During the French and Indian war lie was captain matars a* Dr! of a privateer culled the Tiger, lie water and complained that fl»ey were ! left this occupation soon after, and ha- unable to keep up beORttite of Imngiw ; came a shipping merchant, being also or thirst, or liotli, but 1 plodded along known for his attention to public of * »n ncr.. . 1 fcbe wuuM ;u < j:ip n r t'tth* i’ands the eng ine whist!o, ~ A —we caded her Mary, a>k me in hi r baby wa t ) see the trains.go. 1 an 1 when 1 c i tlie gr.’ ■en a nt tlu 1 she* grew < —sill* w »U' Ci s* nm 1 o? ‘del ul her eii | t > her, but tenipt.it ion verv stun* l v: to n very there tu nave tir« M l a cuiet!] j>).i©r I ! was 1 to come tajede 1 n T would. ;*ould sit, <i! the s.rtiuga hVgo on tl; hi fancy' h: eon 1:1 3 Wi* V Although Poney had been always franh and candid as a man well could f7ho werTX W in reference to aTffils*tat&r life, in * Dot* f*r jx’gard to his earlier past he was siugu Jurly n*tieonL Ann»og Ids fellows there had always been’considerable specular thin as to wlmt his youth had been. Home who had known of his intimacy , with Dr. Irwin, mid of Ids ability to in net ui>oti terms pf persionid eijuality t the^righ oilicials of the road, and of 1 their regard for him. bclieviHl that he had been an old collegedricnd of the • itor's, and that soiiijhaccidont of fate made him a working railroad man 1 while tho doctor Ifiul secured Ids prOfes* ! li S'd brts'/.e that J was calmed, and the j sioiL Otii(*rs loss charitable or with an * Je'Oiing 1 dia 1 su*icreel from all day le ft, unhnjapier experience of the world, and 1 ni °- 1 F^d tliat v? e Lvqd in tlie riocti Aid tin re d tell her of we koiuctimes w um go on t;.** (* rec, - 1Cven then atnl 1 w *t;ld no u*:'e tl:e'tr ;:u*, all It wHV/e.n* ,< p rt t V. T>-r"Trt rn could, but now iietnlke l »;{« n* * ! ; .. !y j “Oik.* ylay I was ill at e %.*. N'* | that I had to d.» : 'enie 1 w nr in whi! *. : l.only wanted to 1 e at hojin 1 ; 1 or.h I Wanted to feci t’.i *i;i nr ;r m<*, and safe. Bat, try as I w ml 1; ir wm I :te in the lorqf afternoon i ;*.* i •nuk! ge t n’-vay ! It was warm, but I Imrr'e l home t: fTontlo breeze met me. It was ;w Iwight, i beautiful <hiy, just sue!) a summer's<in> as this. It was s > pcaci'fnl, and the # . —V — 1 # * loaves so kianvl one nuother in tiic ! ,* j inriy ] “‘hi i a few mu sllt’C.’f i Si ircl. y fell a lot T of the guild s) uru . -I ki now 1 hro! ie the rn f xM, but it x\ u it, it Out, f. >r a mihute * i S'* ^ J x* V fell n lx is hecausi nd Ij fi >r I i 1 i*i iW u d that ik end ini day i ii- ♦HtV fv * 1 1 V \ er; T-hi. Oi ice' ui ium i I was rule t, ; t here ii m si , , v iyxl by t!:. • enrii XV • A - t - vks l ' uirfi 1 u;) a col i ■ ij 7j lux. ingf hrou* * * Ish-hu* l s ■ i C ir metou: 1 >, am 11 iiefi ! HttH)d t* U ac:tu‘ Iv-.. - ' Srrt-r tyU tHo r front cLs ’ —ft- is •r*r down to tin* very latent nc\v>p^u»*r s<jnib. would have ditfnoh htrtany imtiUntion t:<>t built upon very strong fomidatiortv Then? is, how ever, a quite snflich nt expkination, lioth of the ptrxistent vitality of the lawyer’s and of tho Ine^ssant attack# u;«on It h attacked, and open to attack, e it .is a human attempt at a rein- •r human defects, and partakes ire of tiiv very wwkneoa that it to aid; and it lives and pnis]>ora e^llidao \vt..kuesscs u. u.->t have without e'lp^wicnciug inoon venieiice from fit her.\ 1 remember when we evacuated Tujxdo, Mis*., Hie troops had a hard tuareh mid there waa much suffering‘from thirst. My command fair*. Ho wa* a Son of Liberty In 17(15, and ten y<*ar*i later was made the ewu- tiiander of one of the New York regi ments. Ho graa commissioned a brig mlier general in 177fl, being engaged hi halted a uliort time on the roadside, all the oonfiict* around New York. near a place where there waft a well. The soldiers broke for the well like piadiuen, while I stood by a fence lean (ntM>t) my gun. Gen. Fifer. who com maudKl tlie corps, rodo up and called out, ‘Beihtnan. why don’t you go to tlu* well and get waterT 1 replied that When Arnold betrayed hi* country, he was succeeded , hi the command of the post at West Point by Gen. McDougaH —Now York Telegram. ■ofr.'trr.b nLiX hiitj ;.hcrt.4 *■411^11 Isr— Hem hair h ia-1 fliU •*rl mi; *. « Marv V’ vam th if day. It Xv.a< Mary 1 hurried to' ware - her. ■* 44 Yv" 1th a 1 odk ( >f confide! ICO, U! id 1 ’ smile of wel< '."mo .* ilsnort. slu * tllrtK ‘■ll,' becke 11 ! 1!’.* O u. h" ic sprung t;p on tlu joydijly, and it ho danced there. Per moment I would have hide my or;'is. Then tlid ediock puzzled l>y tho reports wliieh reached them of tlie repeated refusal of Dorsey to take other positions higher and more j remunerative, believed that ho must have committed some crime, and was therefore cjireful not to expose himself to too bright a light. As a matter of fact, h£ atid the doc tor had Iieen classmates, but after their graduation they had lost sight of each .other for a few years while Dr. Irwin pursued his slu(|ies in various foreign hospital*. Upon fiis return from abroad be had heard of tlie death of Dorsey's wife and child. Ho had looked Dorsey up and expostulated with him upon liis -selection of a vocation. * But Dorsey was silent as to the reasons for his .choice and quietly persistent in his de termination not to change his work if he could help) it. - “ But a* frequently as he could Dorsey would visit the doctor and stay with him os* much as jxissible, and their \ country. I was glad to be alive aF all. ; Tlie sun was almost behind the western ; hills, and all that tide of tlie valley w a 1 in shadow, bat on our side it wauJigtoi 1 and everything was rarely beautiful ir the sunlight. The slanting rays made j our house brilliant and glorious in it; i color. . * “As I neared home Mary came to the door, and D could sea her wtdeouijap smile. Then, shading lier eyes with hot \ hand, sla* looked over toward t!io rail road, and in a minute screamed and ran rap Nil y from tho house. Alarmed and wondcrifig, 1 ran after her. tend r and laughed oven se ated to mo i l;i nnoT** licr in came" r- . As Dr. Irwin loaned over his old,. friend lie skoN -I a 1 i- \lo, bat.his glistened tdrang: ly. Had thg circuiu stanhaft. been otderwiso it may be lit would have bee; t tempt, d to disc ax- tlie matter with Dorsey and to-a.tte'j-.pt to C(*tivlnce him that he+ad been mis led by a m t>] ;• 11 a i i n c i > > a ti <; m A sit was. curious to trace tlu* unfailingse- Ih-i. il'N of .tlhi;,s a-idjea.'.. at .th<.. A^iaxi Themis. Not to qm Jo any older matter, however, a me(Ua?ral dog Latin rhyme emheuied this doctrine very t*-rs'dy. 1ft uad, Bonus jnristi Mr Ins t ihrUta; that is. “Agood lawyer, a had Cl*rirtinn.” Tue story of Saint Evona of BriH iay is to tk«uauie point. Tliis saint, it feeing was a LftWyer. and a j art am! devout one, too, or how could he have liecome a Raint? Perhaps it was because ho was not mr.eh of a lawyer! He went to Rome, so the legend says, and liesought his holiness the ixqie-to appouit a patron saint for tlie lawyers, who had none. The holy father replied that ho would be glad to ttceoiUmodjfte, i>ut unluckily nemo of the saints had been in the law business, nor any t>f the lawyers in the saint businc.sH, so that there was no St*»cp Tttlklng and tnftownfa. — • me wen ami gci waiwi 1 rejaieu mat A well known authority on the *ub- 1 1 was not thirsty, that 1 never drank of insomnia say* he has known he tided only to make him com fort abk : proper jiorson. Tiio go<xi Breton was for tlie little time remaining to him.— MeldciiuJ'co thingj in Mow York Epoch. Six Thousand Dotlnun. for Lunches, Six thousand dollars a year foi lunehcftl It scrips a largo .sutu to cx- [H-nd IhT midiLiy meals, and-%me can much troubled rrtrthis: but after a long 1 con i*dtatiou it was agrees! tliat he should j select n patron saint, by chance, by walk- | ing blindfolded thrice aroTiml the church ^ of 8t. John Lateran, and by then laying hold upon tho Irrst st atue he could a each, Whose original shouM bo the desired patron. This was done, and having Down acarocly conceive of one man, no mat i clutched a figure the good Saint Evona ter how wealthy, getting rid of so much- cried out in triumph, before he took off. money in* sac!) a way. It is not an in- bis bandage, “This is our saint; let him below on the track stood littlo Mary, divuluai, bat a banking house tbafrlo- •• b^. our patron.”. The wiinowse* ne\y her curls and all her pretty ribbons! votes so ihuch c.ish to eatable*—thatpl laughed, on which Saint Evona, opening fluttering in tho wind; Around the Henry Ohrws- ii Co., anti tho lunches hri eyt-s. <Tric*>verCd that he was hold- short curve came suddenly the fast ex- are eat^n bv the cmplfivcs of Hioestadh hist the image of the devil, pros- cldl(I,' iw tilt 1 lishmcnt. The fifty ck& daily cn- .-Tnrti.* beneath tho feet of,Saint Michael the Archangel. The proceedings to ho and he was artyt dshed; and < 1 u r- ing the whole war the only thing that 1 ever craved wax cigarettes. “I have never enjoyed good health ! In tny life, mid though 1 have eoitsuit- ; ed many physicians in tills country and | in the old country. I have never found i one who coiild tell mo what was the matter with me or who could afford me relief. Wlmn 1 die I want Drs. Gas ton. Blue and Shelve and other physi cians tliey may desire to invite to make an examination of my body, my hearfcp liver and brain particuhirly, to find out j wliat derangement of the system pro- t duced tlw conditions which have ex isted all my life, that humanity may be | benefited by their investigations. I j have already selected my coffin, and when the et^l conies, I want to be laid ’away peacefully and quietly.” Mr. Behrman does not appear to be unhealthy. He is stoutly built and weiglis now about 160 pounds, though ho says he has at times weighed as much as IrC pounds. He has a fair education, the foundation for which was laid in the old country. He speaks four languages—Russian, French, Ger man and English. He is a great news paper reader, and keeps thoroughly in formed upon current affairs in Et*ope as well as in this country.—Montgom ery (Ala.) Journal. MR* Hi Of ■* Dr. Ur guard has raised the n* to whether a corpse which a very great depth is preserved iiitely or otherwise from pu According to his rr»w in the archives of the Biological ety of Paris, putrefaction duel not place in docompotable substancce milled to a pressure of <0U to musplieros. These flgu to s depth of 6,000 to 7,000 sea. From these axperiagK) not be concluded, eeOoriHnf to Kcgnani. liiut there is s total of putrefaction in the greater of the sea. Tlie curious “*b fishes dricovared iu the Chai end other expeditious appear after death, so tliat they are found ou the surface, though, rule, they go to pieces, ee the rounding pressure dimtui fore they reach the «u^ no proof that builiybial or ab micro organiMns do uot exist; so, tliey eouM cause tho corpsn of meu ns. well as in dead bodies of abysmal fishes, question is of sud yet greater biologies) interest, it is far from settled.—BnUsh Journal. New «M) SpreMUr for Bt+rmf I A difficulty experienced iu of oil in «t storm at sea is that spread on tho surface the wind b) it to leeward nud the effect is lost. 1 : numy pen^cmM, of .cll a^ aml. bqth ^Uhcully M no w m*xcs, hi perfect health who could not i device conrisiittir of hold tholr tongues When aalcep. TW* J ’ habit is duo to Indigestion or to cere bral irritability. Tho rertedy is an early meal before going to bed, taking half a pint of cold spflng Water before putting the head on the pillow, and always sleeping <m the right side—never on th «!i! back. In cane of preiimUire wakeful ness, A eopiottadrauglit of water usual ly reiuduces sleep. Tho topical appli cation of cold is a very harmless aud potent atwcrthef ic remedy ; In conetis- sion of tlie brein especially so. In tlie feverish delirium of tropical cl imp tea it acts like a charm and often produces A mortSJ* l*>mb. T,c* Utter is a nearly gl shell of ca^t iron fylled with oih Che side toward tlie muzzle as It in the loortur jts fn aperture by a hiyged cover, tittjivg tigii fastened with a sort td kUchu uU*h is so constructed tliat moiiar is discharged the the air rcieaMes it. But tho a in the shell is uot opfeueti strikes the water and sinks the surface. The shelf is so w< that as it sink& the dperturo is ^ most aiid tlie cover ia lifted hy pressure of oil upon it Ti " ^ sleep. An ox bladder or a light robU* well beneath tho air ball, filled with broken Ice, vtill of through thu waves ten soothe a restless patient, wlicn drugs 4 , (r ,^ t ,,. ‘ MW1 ,,.« _ are of no avail.- eiai Advert iser:^ patient, when drugs -New York (Jammer- waves, most oiTectual insults,— Commerciai Advertieer. press, and thq cliild, als sIiosaw the great engine bearing down upon In ? .and heard the startling whistle, waved lishmcnt. The* fifty clerks daily en gaged in recorcKng and unraveling tlj,c complicated transaetiotiaJiL tho bank- ing ami brokerage rooms of tins firm Klectrlclty »ud Irrigation. It is proposed to apply electricity to her .little hat as though in greeting. ’ “Another minute "and Mary would stop work about noon and repair to a early friendship hud grown and rijiened. ! have been in time. Her dress caught ■ neatly Utted up upartme;it In tlie rear in soniietixtngrtirslie stumbh.^l. and was i .of the. offlee- where thjey take -their lect a patron saint apjiear to have been j ^ ie itrigation of soine of the dry and stayed here.—The Galaxy. -it ought “ToniV^ Dorscy sald tcrthe doctor al .most upon Ills arrival, “I am glad tliey «ent for you, but you cannot do any- jtliinjg." ‘7 As time went on the doctor reluctanb ]y began to believe that Dorsey was right—that his recovery was impossible. Deeply as tlie doctor was grieved lie | continue nor did he urge him to stoj was annoyed, too, to feel tliat his skill “F. o. b.” *ixl “C. f. 1.’ These expressions, which have become she recovered liersell lunch. TJ^nen -employed in the va- ying on caught'little rious biauch offices of tho house are given lunch money, so that .the linn may not appear to bo partial, and the expenditure eaiily.reactms the amount naiuod, if it doet not indeed exceed it. —Now York Press. so del aye quickly, Mary in hcr aTms. nijd then to bo easy to tell it now.” For some little time Dorsey was si lent. The doctor did not ask him tc In value. - Land worthTrom §3 -qithc.asttai in irede, itavt* » well dehtwd- p^,. acm; without opportunity of significance. ‘r-.o. b. means ' free on . nonabla hone of irrigation, would board, and ‘*0. f. i.” stuids for sterile districts of California Vast areas, now barren and worthless, can thus bo made fertile and enormously enhance^.; Lsrouly by exercise tliat any faculty would be of tio avail to Jiis old friend. * “Why did yon follow such an in fernal business?” he asked, impaffimtly. “Don’t,Tom,” Dorsey replied. “Don’t call it tliat.” freight and insurance,” Accordingly a bill of goods.purchased \n New' Y'ork to lie shipped to Bust on “f. jq. b.” means that they are to be placed upon vessel or cal's, as the case may be, free of all sonabla hope of irrigation,, would com- nmnd $50 to $200 per acre when water is brought’ to tlienn The yielcls Would be far greater, the crops of liner quality and entirely independent of drought, oertaiu and sure, regardless of seasons,. *v wlion Dorsey began again: “For Mary it was over at once, but J A new method of ventilating railway 4 our child, held firmly in its dead moth*!-carriages and 1 preventing du»1ft from en- er's arms, lived a little while, t thinkuhe: fering xviih tlie air iihs lately appeared i .must have^Tieen hurt as 1 have been, in France. The more quickly tiio train She could speak, and when tliey uioves th charges up to that time:' if purchased i mi ' ! affording a perfectly reliable source “c. f. i.” tho seller mart pay the. insur ance and freight uaUTihe gucnL hrri\ j iirDJSRinr » - ■, - transmit the current to and &i*m *n«l Uncle Sam. ‘ana to bali “Was <Jbe oolyopaf’ Dorsey asked Tomts soMp i going witlTtho cant now. ’ he more Thev baya wy^y. of^ deciding ! ^ • - V - ^1. >. > • - ^ n* "***- ,_ ( —. motors, i thereby work pumps which will romc j water hitd nuitabio reaervolfo. —New York Telegram. llcapcct for One'* Own Power*. V/e should always be learners, gladly welcoming every help and resiiecting every personality^ But we should alio respect our own, and bear in mind that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing coni can come to us but through our to0 be stowed on that plot of ground which is given to us to till. To undervalue our own thought because It is ours, to de preciate our own powers or faculties because aotno one oWs are more vig oroiis, to shrink from doing what we can b<‘cnuw we think we can do so little, Is to Under our own development and the progress of the wqrhL For ik IMfc, strengthened, and only by eaeti one puttinghisshmildcr to thertshceitlmt the work! ipoves and hfimanity ad vances.—Now York IxyJger. o’ Duu't Land Poor. Whenever you are compelled to allow a field to remain imcultivuted for want of f imo or lalx>r it indicates tliat you of income. The plan suggested is have too jfluch land, and tliat it wifti pay you to sell a portioo U> order that your efforts may be devoted to a ore©.—Orange County Farmer. tfgl-f rcoeptarlo\riucho^ols . r . * e* a,- 1. -4. the lonqe; t wins the stmt, in thw comi- i a Ui.d relieve, it uT ^ after which it , rv , K)ti ure RK Into hot weter, r 4 j, ‘Tt may seem strahgu to you,” Dor-. goes through JAJkiXf ; thrai i»|d; there as long as r**sibitt! Doatey 1 t^y went ou shortly, “but the r*tibx«.d , e^teruig the qfturia^ | ftw result is the siujui^-Grcan Bs^, ronos-^i believe i va tually my teeth chatter. Smith—Then why don’t yon boy a | ’FN* Wnrt PaM. r ;r; '.-J &r - - “1 don’t know. “I was just Boy A gentleman wl from South Africa of the be.rt couutriea in profl table real estate “South Africa,” lie saya, 44 lUiivIug and beautiful ia doHliued U) lie tlie seat < progressive finglisii When 1 was tliere soi was surprised at the. ^I'ovcment# al pie, and th# imttftfal land. It U the place of away % few thousand them grow.”—Toronto — i, i.n‘i ii. > KffoeiM «:f An extremely ti| of the seriotqi i is found in tlie tromian i nick. An age works was Ihdl, and the ai phoid fever, «rUi up to 40, the yearl —Souitary