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r We Shall Know.
When the mists have rolled in splendor,
From the valleys and the hills,
And the sunshine, warm and tender,
Falls in beauty on the rills,
Wo may read love's shining letter
In the rainbow of the spray ;
"We shall know each other better,
When the mists have cleared away,
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning of the morning,
When the mists hav^leared away.
If we err in human blindness,
A-.d forget that we are dust,
If we miss the law of kindness,
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Snowy wings of peace shall cover
All the pain that clouds our day,
When the weary watch is over,
And the mists has cleared away.
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning of the morning,
When the mists have cleared away.
When the silver mists have veiled us
From the faces of our own,
Oft we deem their love hath failed s,
And we tread our path alone ;
We should see them near and truly,
We should trust them day by day,
Neither love nor blame unduly,
If the mists were cleared away,
We shall know as we are knofrn,
Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning of the morning.
When the mists have cleared away.
When the mists have risen above us,
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As our father knows his own,
Face to face with those who lovo us,
Wc shall know as we are known,
Low beyond the Orient meadows
T Floats the golden fringe of day;
Heart to heart we hide the shadows,
Till the mists have cleared away.
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
When the day of light is Hairing,
And the mists have cleared away.
THE^EWEL CASE.
"I shall not be gone more than a week, I
Met a," said Mrs. Darkedale, 44 and of course I
foci that 1 can leave everything in your charge, j
without the least anxiety."
44 Of course you may, Mrs. Darkedale," &;i:l
Meta, a flush of gratified pride mantling her
cheek.
44 One favor, however, I mu*t ask," added
Mrs. Darkedale, 44 and hat is, that you will not
receive auy company during my absence."
She looked keenly (at At eta Gray.
The girl oolored deep scarlet.
441 suppose you mean the Fenleys," said
she, not without some constraint in her manU
ner : 441 do not expect to see them while you
r are gone."
44 Very well," returned Mrs. Darkedale ?
44 you are a good girl, Meta, and I think I may
trust you."
Mrs. Darkedale was the relict of an East
India merchant, who had left her widowed
and childless in the world about two years previously.
Meta Gray was a distant relative, who had
come to the Darkdale house, partly because
her cousin's widow had written her a cordial
invitation, and partly because she had nowhere
else to go.
She was a pretty, enthusiastic *young creature,
who had somewhat strange ideas of the
world, and who rather despised the promising
wholesale grocer whom Mrs. Darkedale had
selected as an eligible match for hertl>ecaase he
was a wholesale grocer.
44 Sugar and raisins are so vulgar," saidJMeta,
turning up her pretty little nose.
44 No more so than stocks and bonds," retorted
Mrs. Darkedale.
And, much to the good lady's vexation. Meta
persisted in selecting for her bosom friend a
dashing damsel, called Eudora Fenley, who
fitted dresses and trimmed bonnets in a strictly
private fashion, and had a poetical brother who
gave guitar lessons.
Meta Gray was not often obstinate, but this
was one of the few occasions on which Airs.
Darkedale got, as she herself phrased it,
44 thoroughly oat of patienoe with the child."
441 believe they have bewitched her," said
Mrs. Darkedale. 44 However, I'll say no more
about it. Perhaps the fancy will wear itself
out after awhile?and I've always heard that
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a name."
So Mrs. Darkedale went away to her friend's
eick bed, and left Meta Gr&v in possession,
with only Hannah, the maid, to share the
honors.
It was a novel and rather a pleasant respon*
nihility to order the dinner and decide on the
dessert; and, when that was settled, Meta weut
upstairs to '' tidy up " Mrs. Darkedale's room,
straighten the guipure lace coverlet and put
away the various articles that the good lady
had left scattered on chairs, sofa and dressing- j
table in her haste of preparation.
As Meta folded up a cashmere scarf something
dropped with a clink on the floor.
44 Mrs. Darkedale's keys !" she exclaimed,
aloud.
It was true.
The little bunch had somehow caught on
the fringe of the scarf and got jerked out of
the old lady's pocket, and she had gone off
without them.
Meta was still looking at them,and pondering
to herself Mrs. Darkedale's consternation at
discovering their loss, when there came a soft
tap at the door, and Miss Eudora Fen ley rustled
in, bringing with her a general impression of >
sparkling bugles and fluttering ribbons, and a
decided odor of patchouli.
44 Eudora 1" exc* aimed the girl
44 How you did start!" said Eudora, with an .
affected little giggle. 44 No, I jidn't ring, j
Hannah was cleaning the door-steps, and I just
slipped in and came straight up here, as I didn't
find you in the parlor. What's that you have in j
your hand? Keys ?"
44 Yes," said Meta, 44 Mrs. Darkedale's keys.
She has gone off and forgotten them. See?
here's the key of the china closet, and this big
one locks tile silver beaufftt, and here's the
wardrobe key, and the little one with the gilded
top belongs to the jewel-box."
44The jewel-box," said Eudora, with sparkling
eyes. 44 Oh, Meta, that will be the very
* thing ! I am going to a ball to-morrow night,
and I've a pink satin dress and wreath, and
a set of imitation jewels. Oh, if I could only
wear real ones, just this once. Only for one
evening, and Mrs. Darkedale would never know
it I've always heard that hers are such beauties
!"
Meta turned pale an 1 red.
" Oh, Eudora, I dare not
"Where would be the harm?" boldly demanded
the milliner and dressmaker. "No
one would be injured, and 1should be so proud.
Mrs. Darkedale never wears the stones?a regular
old miser, she is. And you've always t id
me, Meta." with a sentimental accent, "that
you loved me."
"So I do," faltered poor Meta.
" And you won't grant me this ?ne favor?so
trifling a one, too? Oh, Meta, what wouldn't
I do for you?" -?
Slowly Meta unlocked the jewel case, a
square box of inlaid wood, which occupied one
of the shelves of Mrs. Darkedale's wardrobe.
"There can be no harm in looking at them, at
all events," thought she.
Mrs. Darkedale kept her costly and antiqne
set of jewelry iu a ruby velvet case, worn and
tarnL-hed by age, in one comer, and Meta had
but just taken up this case when old Hannah
knocked at the door.
Mfc "If vou please, miss," said she, "there's
a lady below who desires to see you immeA
diatelv."
Eudora held out bot i hands, pleadingly.
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"Only for one night, Meta," she urged. ]
"I'll be personally responsible. Dear Meta,
please."
Meta Gray hesitated in an agony of perplexity.
Hannah knocked again. ,
"She is in a hurry, miss, said Hannah.
" There, take them, ' cried Meta, pushing the
case into Eudora's hand, "and oh, be careful 1
of them ! I ought u t to let you have them, I | 1
know I ought not, but?yes, yes, Hannah, I am j I
coming 1" \
And, relocking the jewel-box and wardrobe, ,
she dropped the keys into her pocket and
hastened down stairs, followed by the exultant [ '
Eudora Fenley. <
The lady whose haste was so immediate ! |
? roved to be only a poor friend of the Darke- (
nloo and whpn kIip had taken ft reluctant leave
our poor little heroine found herself with abun- j 1
dant leisure to reflect over what she had done. ' <
" Oh, how wrong it was of ine !" she thought, \
with remorse and anguish. " But she will j
bring them back again to-morrow, and then I
will never, never let them -go out of my hands k
again."
Meanwhile, Miss Eudora Fenley, speeding ]
homeward, like an arrow out of a bow, found ?
herself checked at a street corner by the gentleman
who gavo guitar lessons and wore his (
hair curling down on his neck.
" Well,' said he, in a low, imperious voice, ,
"have you got it?" i1
"I have got no money." ! f
A smothered execration burst from between j
his hps, ' ]
"Hush," said Eudora, impatiently. "Do
hear me out. I said I had no money; neither
have I, but I've got better than that, Mrs. (
Darkediale's j ewels.'' t
She opened a fold in her dress just wide <
enough for him to perceive, in the depths of ]
her pocket, the tarnished red velvet case.
His face brightened.
"Good," he said, briefly; "you're clever. I
But don't go home. Our little plans are dis- 1
covered; the police are on the scent. I've got \
all the valuables, such as they are?and, with j
your windfall, we can go where we please." j
After this little insight into the private life i
and conversation of Mr. Oswald Fenley and 1
his accomplished siste^, our readers may readily t
conjecture that Miss Eudora did not return the f
next morning with Mrs. Darkedale's jewel j
case iu her hand.
Meta waited until toward night, making all 1
due allowance for Eudora Fenley's fatigue after 1
a night of merry making, and then, with throb- f
bing heart, and strange, vague fears besetting <
her brain, hurried to tbe private dressmaking ,
and millinery establishment.
But, to her dismay, the apartments wcro *
vacated, and "To let" stared her in the face
wafered on the panels of the door. j
"A bad lot, miss," said the landlady, in- j
dignaatly shaking her head ; " and if I'd any
idea of what they was like I'd a-let my rooms j
stand empty afore I'd a-rented 'em to them. ?
Why, miss, "the police was here yesterday, and c
it seems they're a well known confidence pair? 1
and me out of a qnarter's rent into the bar- ?
gain!" T
" But where have they gone ?" gasped Meta.
" That's what I'd like to know myself," said p
the landlady ; "and what the police means to s
find out, too." 1
Meta Gray went home with her heart feeling r
like lead within her.
For an instant she, too, felt almost inclined c
to follow the example of Miss Fenley and her ^
guitar playiDg brother, and disappear mystcri- p
oucly. j
For now how could she ever face Mrs. Darke- (
dale after this?" s
And Meta cried herself to sleep, not only 1
that night, but every night for a week. "I'm
afraid it don't agree with you to bo J
left alone, miss," said old Hannah, inquisitive- t
ly scanning ner young mistress ??u mm
tear swollen eyelids. " But there's one com- v
fort?Mrs. Darkedale will soon be home now."
"Yes," feebly assented Meta.
But she didn't appear to brighten up very I
much at the immediate prospect of this " com- a
fort" c
Mrs. Darkedale came at last. ,
"Why, Meta," said she, "what's the matter?
My poor child, you are as pale as a '
ghost; and you've been crying, too. Has any- t
thing happened ?" j
"Yes," said MeU, striving to brace herself
up for the confession which she knew must be
made. "You left your keys !" .
"I know it," aaici Mrs. Darkedale, quietly. *
"I missed them before I had been gone an e
hour." C
"And?and I lent your jewels to Eudora jFenley.
She onl y wanted to borrow them for
one night to go to a ball. I know I did wrong,
but she coaxed them from me before I knew n
what I was about And she lias disappeared ; a
and?and, Mrs. Darkedale, the jewels are gone ! r
Can you ever, ever forgive me? Will you ^
allow" me to work for you, like a servant, until .
I have made restitution ?"
And Meta sank on her knees at the old lady's 0
feet with streaming eyes and voice choked wi, h t
sobs. i
Mrs. Darkedale pat out her hand and stroked
the girl's hair kindly.
"My dear," said "she, "don't fret. There's
not so'much harm done after all. There would
have been if the jewels had been in their case,
but they were no*." 3
"Not in their case ?'' f
"No," said Mrs. Darkedale, "I took them o
out wishing to show them to a friend of mine.
I left the case because it was too cumbersome
to carry. They are now being reset." 8
Meta drew a long breath of relief. i:
Miss Feuley had been cheated of her booty, E
after all, then, and had disappeared with only a
an empty case. r
""But I was just as much to blame as if they *
had been in the casket," she uttered, sadly. t
"Why yes," said Mrs. Darkedale, "oclf y
your loss has not been quite so expensive a j,
one, and my jewels are safe. Now, Meta, lay
this to heart, and don't let's ever speak of it
again." : t
And at the end of the ?ear. when Meta Gray I a
married the young hero of the coffee and J 0
sugar trade. Mrs. Darkedale marked her esti- J
mation of Meta's character by giving her, as I
a wedding present, part of the jewels. o
" For she is a good girl," said Mrs. Darke- p
dale, "and she has chosen well and wisely."
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A Russian Hospital Train. 1.
The Empress of Russia's train, fitted j
for sanitary purposes, has carriages of
the American type, with a walk from 1
end to end. At each side is a double
row of beds, with spring supports to ease 1
joltings. The subsidiaries arc a mat- "
tress ou au elastic frame, two pillows, a 0
cloth below and a counterpane. Should 6
the invalid's head require to be raised,
there is an appliance there for that pur- (
pose ; if he cau use his hands a movable 1
shelf for the articles he may need is at *
his disposal. There are sixteen beds in (
each carriage. Attached to the train is
a cooking carriage, a provision room and <
two doctor's store rooms, with linen, 1
hut. bandages, etc. There are carriages 1
for the nurses, etc., and in some, instead 1
of beds are chairs which can be convert- ]
ed into beds or sofas. The Emperor, <
Empress and court inspected the traiu ]
a InW Uia notrn on/1 tn//l- nfirf in 1
UC1U1 11 1U1V lUV tiiavk twii v am
the vical service of p'ayer by which the <
event was accompanied.
Why They Acquitted Him. ?A French 1
lieutenant, aged twenty-oue, deserted to I
Geneva, in company with a beautiful ;
woman, who had already been married,
and had driveu her husband into a luna- 1
tic asylum. The lieutenant experienced 1
remorse for his flight, returned, and surrendered
himself. The court martial,
in consideration of his good record, and
the irresistible nature of the woman's
charms, acquitted him. " In the name
of the French people," said the president,
and here all the members of the
couucil touched their caps, "tie
prisoner is acquitted by a majority of
hve to two,"
!AU]
1ND PORT
BEAUFORT, S.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Stable Management.
It is no wonder that so many horses
ire prematurely made old, for any other
iniwal, under the same careless manage- I
ment, would soon show the bad effect of
want of care on the part of the owner, j
Of course it is necessary to know how
to treat a horse, from having first had
experience. Under indifferent treatment
the horse is liable to a variety of diseases,
but we cannot now give space to
in enumeration of them, nor to get into
letails, even, of stable management; the
most we can do being to point out some
if the errors, the most common ones,and
to endeavor to show how tliey can be
remedied.
We sometimes see plow boys,and men,
too, bring their horses in from a steady
half day's plowing and then bathe their
legs with cold water to cool them off.
This is a mistaken kindness, and is proluctive
of great harm. The same persons
would be very particular not to
oathe themselves while warm with perspiration
after a hard and steady mornug's
or afternoon's work, for they well
snow that the perspiration would be
checked too suddenly and sickness would
jnsue. The same would be the result,
though perhaps not immediately apparint,
with a horse treated similarly. Far
setter let the horse cool off gradually in
i place free from draughts, after which
pou can water him. This is rational
areatment, and does not tend to injure
:he animal, consequently is true kindiess.
Though often practiced, we most
leartily condemn the practice of waterng
horses intended for driving, immeliately
after eating, as it tends to loosen
he animal considerable, and consequenty
weaken him. We much prefer to
vater the horse before feeding, or else
et him stand in the stable some time
liter he has eaten his grain food before
jiving him water. This applies more
especially to driving horses than to work
lorses.
ofiil or>nfVipr ifpm insthere! Some
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persons think they are doing a kindness
:o a horse by giving him an extra feed
ust before driving, to make him drive
>etter. A horse thus treated not only
Irives worse, but io more apt to be hurt
>y a long and sharp drive when the
itomach is overloaded. Let man try
0 run a short distance or work hard right
iter a hearty meal, and then he will be
ible to appreciate the feelings of a horse.
These two practices are mistaken kindlesses,
but forgetting or neglecting to
over a horse well after a sharp drive, or
vlien he is warmed up from a long drive
ind then exposed to the chilling wind is
1 cruel neglect of a duty well known to
svery horseman. Yet how often do you
ee men do this and yet complain, ere
ong, that the horse does not wear well.
!t is a wonder that under such careless
reatment that they wear at all.
A very good thing for wo*k horses,
^hen they come in from the field covered
vith sweat, is to have them vigorously
nbbed down with dry, coarse wheat
traw. By the time they are well nibbed
lown they will be cool enough to be
ratered after which they can be fed on
isual grain food. This takes but little
ime and should be the duty of every
)lowman. In starting off for a drive,
specially for a long drive, do not start
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oolish persons do, but start off modrately,
even slowly; till the horse beomes
settled well, after which he will
>e capable of traveling better and faster,
eith less fatigue, than if started away on
. swinging trot, as is done by those who
.re not fit to have a horse; starting off
apidly just fresh from the stable, when
he animal is full of feed, has done more
o engender disease than perhaps any
ther thing and soon wears even a good
torse out very soon.?D. Z. Evans, jr.,
n Practical Farmer.
IteripeK.
Cure for Felon.?Take equal parts
f gum camphor, gum opium, castik ;
oap and brown sugar. Let a druggist i
trepare it, and apply a thick plaster ,
f it.
Fried Bread in Batter.?One table- j
poonful of sweet, light dough : make it j
nto a thin batter by one cup of sweet j
uilk ; add three or four eggs, one and j
, half cups flour, teaspoonfui of salt. :
lut light bread into thin slices, dip into \
his batter, and fry in hot lard. Sprinkle
rith powdered sugar and garnish with
ellv. if acreeable.
Ullicr lilll IllUVi ? VCj AAVUA U11UV UAOO
! which his disposition would have taken.
What a thing it is to be cheerful, and
to have cheerful people about one!
Life, except during the pressure of its
most terrible calamities, always has a
bright side, aud those who look at that
i side are far the wisest. Yet there are
[ excellent people who go about bowed
I under a weight of forebodings, who feel
sure the worst thing possible will happen
i ?who indeed make it mauife.it that in
i their opinion it has happened already.
~?%J J o Broiled
Lamb Chops.?These should !
>e cut not more than half an inch thick, j
nd broiled before the fire very close and
[nick. They will take from eight to ten ;
ainutes. Throw some pepper and salt I
iver, and serve very hot, with fried ;
>arsley around them.
Broiled Calves' Heart.?This should j
>e cut lengthwise, and not thicker than j
talf an inch; Broil with a piece of fat j
>r bacon ten minutes. Serve with a j
ittle currant jelly and butter in the dish !
mder the pieces of heart. Ox's, pig's,
amb's and sheep's heart may be cooked !
n the same way, also the livers, cut the
ame thickness, and broiled with bacon,
i little melted butter with catsup in it I
erring as a good sauce.
Lemon Pie.?One lemon, one egg, one j
racker, one cupful sugar, half cupful ;
vater, one spoonful salt, the juice of the ;
emon squeezed out, the pulp and cracker
ihopped together ; grate the rind.
Baked Cabbage.?Boil a firm white
jabbage for fifteen minutes, then change '
;he water for more that is boiling, and i
ooil until tender; drain and set aside j
;ill cold, then chop fine and add salt and |
pepper, one tablespoonful of butter, two
?ggs well beaten, three ta'olespoonfuls of
rich milk or cream ; mix well, and bake
in a buttered pudding dish iu a moderate
Dven till brown. Serve hot.
Bed Currant Jelly.?Strip the currants
from the stalks, and put them in a
preserving kettle ; mash them as they
set hot, and let them boil well for half
an hour; then turn them into a coarse
hair sieve, and let them drip into an
earthen dish ; when all through, without
squeezing, weigh the liquid, a pint for a
pound of sugar, and heat the sugar while
the liquid boils for ten minutes; then
stir in the sugar, and the jelly will set
as soon as the sugar is dissolved.
Where and How to Chum.
According to the Scientific Farmer
churning cream to make good butter is
not so simple a process as some may
think. It must be churned at the proper
time and at the proper temperature, and
FOR'
ROYAL C(
C., THURSDAY, .
the churn should be stopped as soon as
the cream has broken, but before the
butter has gathered in large balls. In
warm weather it is of great importance
to watch the process closely, and to
notice just, when this change is to take
place. At this time add enough cold
water (not ice) to reduce the temperature
of the mass to about fifty-six or fiftyeight
degrees, and then complete the
ohurning, which will be as soon as the
butter is in a granulated form, with particles
about the size of peas. Then draw
nfp fTio Vm ft/arm ilk and dish in cold water.
repeating the washing until the water
drawn off appears clear. Now, take out
a layer of butter into the tray, and
sprinkle on finely sifted salt, at the rate
of about an ounce of salt to the pound
(more or less, as consumers may wish).
Then take out another layer of butter
and salt as before. After the butter is
salted, set it away for about three hours
for it "to takesalt" and "harden the
grain." Now work it a little with a
wooden paddle, and set it away again
until next day, when it will need but
little working before preparing it for
market. By handling in this way you
will get a clean, bright article, with a
perfect or unbroken grain, which will
keep sweet whether consumed immediately
or packed down for future marketing.
If the butter is soft and white, it
is from a lack of proper cooling before
churning and it may be hardened by
putting in about three times the usual
amount of salt, and working it a little
for two or three mornings.
A Queer Place of Concealment.
Adolph Girndt, a German banker, who
disappeared suddenly from his place of
business, 18 First street, New York,
and who was supposed to have left the
country, being a defaulter for $20,D00 or
830,000, was found concealed in a refrig '
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erator in nis resilience, at 1,0*0 xuuu
avenue, by Sergeant Webb, two weeks
after his disappearance. The officer was
led to suspect that Girndt was concealed
in the house by seeing a small boy come
from it with $50 or $100 bills to be
changed. When requested to sign an
agreement about some business he was
transacting respecting the wants of
Girdnt's horise. the little fellow wrote
" Adolph Girdnt." Girndt's house was
searched. When the lid of the refrigerator,
in which he was couched, was
raised, he held a knife, but a revolver
cowed him into submission. He was
taken to the One Hundred and Twentysixth
street police station and locked up.
Girdnt is a dark-haired man of about
forty, of middle height, with a furtive eye,
which rarely looks a person squarely iu
the face. He professed to transact all
kinds of business for customers under
power of attorney, to CQllect bequests or
any other funds in Germany, to procure
passports and passage tickets, to give his
services as a notary, to buy or sell bills
of exchange on Germany, and to receive
deposits on interest The indignation
against the man in First street and its
neighborhood is very great, and a number
of humble people are bereft through
his means of all the money they had. The
heaviest loser spoken of is a German
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collected $6,542 in Germany, and who
had left the money in his hands. One
young man left with him $1,000, sent as
a wedding present by his father. His
marriage has therefore been delayed.
Two or three other cases of the kind are
spoken of, in which the amounts involved
are smaller. Many sums lost are
less than $100, but several exceed $2,000.
A Double Suicide in a Cell.
At Rockwell, Texas, George W.
Garner was awaiting sentence for the
murder of the sheriff of the county.
His wife had been permitted for some
days to share his cell with him. On
the morning set for the execution the
sheriff, entering the cell at four o'clock,
found the woman dead and Garner at his
last gasp. His wife had composed herself
in bed, folded her hands over her
breast and placed a handkerchief over
her face. They both left letters explain-,
ing the cause and method of their death.
Mrs. Garner had smuggled morphine
into the jail in her mouth, the dose being
believed to be sufficient to destroy two
lives. On the night of their death a
dispute arose between them as to which
should take the larger dose. She took
it, but to make assurance doubly sure
her husband apparently strangled her,as
marks of violence were found upon her
throat and neck. Garner's death proceeded
from suffocation, as his nostrils
were found plugged with cotton, a handkerchief
in his mouth and the iron bail
of a bucket clasped so closely rouud his
neck as to be buried in tho skin. Nearly
3,000 people were balked of their desire
to see the execution. Mrs. Garner left
a letter saying that it was not through
her husband's persuasion that she gave
up life to follow him
"through those dark gates
That no man knows.'
Pearls of Thonght.
Fortune is like a market, where, many
times, if you wait, the price will fall.
If you have built castles in the air your
work not need be lost. That is where
they should be. Now put foundations
under them.
He that has not kuown adversity, is
but half acquainted with others or himself.
Constant success shows us but
: one side of the world.
Mental pleasures never cloy; uulike
those of the body, they are iucreased by
repetition, approved of by reflection anil
strengthened by enjoyment.
It is into the minute circumstances of
a man's conduct that we are to inquire
for his real character. In these he is
under the influence of his natural disposition,
and acts from himself ; while in his
i more open and important actions he may
: be drawn by public opinion, and many
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JULY 26, 1877.
A POOR MAX'S BIG BOXAXZA.
The Extraordinary Good Fortune of a
Poverty-stricken Miner?How the Sum
of Fifty Thousand Dollars was Netted
In Three Dnys<
The following gold discovery took
place in California within the last eight
weeks. It is a specimen of the unrecorded
" strikes " occurring from time
time in a country sometimes supposed
to be " worked out." Had the incident
happened in the Black Hills, it would
by this time have been told in ten thousand
papers. This story relating how a
fortune was made in three days near
Auburn, Placer county, is from the
Placer Herald:
The richest strike made in this coun1
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iry ior many yeura, uuu
as was ever made, we here have the
pleasure of recording. A. 0. Bell, commonly
called Pike Bell, who, with his
family, has resided for many years on
Bald Hill, a few miles north of Auburn,
as many know, is a dauntless prospector.
Though occasionally making a strike of
some considerable importance in the
past, he lias managed, like most modern
prospectors, to keep poor. Last winter
in particular he was in very straightened
circumstances, and having no money
and the merchants refusing to credit
him, he offered his only horse, worth
about $50, for $10, that he might buy
bread for his children, and failing in his
effort to sacrifice his horse, he pawned
the ring off his wife's finger to obtain
the necessaries of life. Day by day he
continued his searches for the glittering
treasure, and whether the passing day
had revealed a color or not his spirits
were always jubilant, apparently kept
up by the hope that seemed never to
desert him of doing better on the morrow.
At last the lucky day came. It
was about three weeks ago, when hunting
over the hills he struck his pick into
a little mound which resembled somewhat
in appearance an ant hill, and to
liis delight he unearthed some pieces of
decomposed quartz, attached to which
were some colors of gold. Encouraged
at this prospect he began to sink on his
new lead, and was rewarded by finding
more or less gold at every stage of
descent. Last Saturday he had reached a
depth of about thirty feet, and had taken
out in sinking that far rock estimated to
n i iai ernn mu.
do worm adout $r,euu. iue twa. ucujg
extremely rotten, or what is called by
quartz miners decomposed, he had with
little effort pounded out in a mortar
enough to pay expenses as he progressed.
He had hired men to assist him in working
the mine, and on last Monday morning
they went to work as usual.
The gouge, as we would call it, as it is
too rotten to be properly called a ledge,
was discovered by noon to Jhave become
suddenly richer. In the afternoon
chunks of almost pure gold were taken
out, and the decomposed stuff that filled
the interstices between the rocks was so
rich in gold that Pike began to wash it
out with a pan. From three pans full
washed Monday afternoon he obtained
gold estimated to be worth between
$4,000 and $5,000. That evening he
came into town, and giving us a hint of
what he had got, invited us to go out
and see it. On Tuesday afternoon, in
compauv with Sheriff McCormick, we
visited the mine. We found Bell with a
pan of gold in his hands worth from one
thousand to fifteen hundred dollars,
which he assured us, all came from one
pan of dirt. " But," said he, "if you
don't believe it, I will wash another pan
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not accept a glass of cooling drink for i
himself and young lady each. The young I
man, supposing it was free, immediately j
took three glasses, one for himself, one
for liis lady love, and a third for another
lady friend who was seated near by.
When the glasses were emptied he returned
them,and thanked the young man
for his kindness, when to his horror he
was informed that the price of three
glasses of lemonade was thirty cents.
He had come unprepared for any such
drain upon his pocketbook, and, after
fumbling in his pockets for some time,
he brought to light a small amount of
nickel and handed them to the vender of
lemon juice, saying: "Here are twentysix
cents, which is all I have, and you
-n-;n lmro ^ naif, fnr the other four
Will UUTV ?v fTMAW - w* ? .
cents until your circus comes this way I
again."
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Cooking Fruit.
Raspberries may be cooked the same
as strawberries; be sure that they are
heated to a good boiling temperature :
if cooked too long they will be hard and
undesirable. One can hardly time the
cooking for others, because so ranch depends
upon the intensity of the fire ;'
a hot, steady fire as for ironing is the
best Fruit ought to cook quickly ; a
slow fire consumes time', renders the
fruit hard, and drives off in steam all the
delicate flavor which it is desirable to
preserve.
Blackberries should be canned the
same as raspberries.
Gooseberries and currants require
considerable sugar and more cooking. '
Gooseberries should be well done, so
that the skins may be tender, and they '
will admit of more than twice the'water [
that is used with strawberries,
and sliow you." We told hiintowash.
The pan was 6ent. down in the shaft and
soon returned filled with a mass of muddy,
rocky stuff that sparkled all over with
pieces of gold. This was washed out
and found to contain fully as much of
the precious metal, if not more, than
the one lie had just finished panning
when we arrived. It was really the
greatest sight we ever saw, and McCormick
who had mined in California in its
palmiest days, says it knocked the spots
off anything he ever saw except on one
particular occasion. Bell having convinced
us of the richness of his mine,
he took us to his house to show us the
proceeds of the previous days' panning
that we might be convinced of what he
had told us. The sight was more easily
imagined than realized. As we looked
j upon the pans of gold before us we
thought of Aladdin and his magic lamp,
and wondered whether the story had not
been suggested by some such reality as
was before us. On Wednesday evening
Mr. Bell (it is " Mr." now since he has
lots of gold?it was Pike before) was in
town again and he informed us that what
we saw was nothing; that he had taken
out $10,000 in three pans that day; that
he had taken out, all told, up to that
time, between $30,000 and $35,000, and
that he had an offer and was about to
sell for $20,000. When asked his notion
| for selling, he said he would get away
with about $50,000 and that was money
enough for him. To be sure it is a good
stake, and when we consider that it was
made in three days, it must be confessed
that the chances for making a
sudden fortune in California are not all
gone.
Our Foreign Grain Trade.
A committee of the Odessa (Russia)
Chamber of Commerce have made a report
on the increase of the American
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grain trade, to the detriment of that of
Russia. After quoting figures the committee
say:
" The above figures are in the highest
degree instructive. They show that we
have changed positions with the United
States. She has now our former place in
the English market, and we must be satisfiel
with quite a secondary position. Whut
they chiefly prove, however, is the regular
progressive movement of America.
We cannot therefore hope that a prosperous
harvest may turn the scale in our
favor and restore us to our former position
; but we must believe that the United
States will take a higher position among
the grain producers of the world.
"It is impossible to calculate the
amouut of grain which America will be
able to export, and which will render
her so completely the controller of the
London market that we shall be utterly
unable to compote with her. The cheapness
and fertility of her virgin soil, her
favorable climate, the high class of' her
agriculture,,the substitution of machiuery
for human labor, the spirit of enterprise
and the aptitude of the Americans
for organizations, are so many proofs
that our fears are well founded.''
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An Emperor's Courtship.
Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, in his rolnrne
just published in London, tells the conclusion
of Louis Napoleon's courtship.
It was at the New Year ball in 1853 that i
ns the company were passing to the supper-room
Mademoiselle de Montijo and '
Madam Fortonl, wife of the minister of
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public instruction, readied one 01 tuc
doors together, Madame Fortoul, mas- j
tered by that jealousy of the fortunate ]
lady which was general at court, rudely
rebuked Mademoiselle de Monti jo for |
attempting to take precedence of her. I
The young lady drew aside with great '
dignity before this affront, and when j
she entered the supper-room the pallor
and trouble in her face at once attracted (
the notice#f the emperor as she took her |
place at his majesty's table. In great <
anxiety he rose and passed behind her
chair to ask what had happened. " What 1
is the matter? Pray, tell me." Themarked
and sympathetic attention of the j
emperor drew all eyes upon the lady, J
who became covered with confusion. "I ]
implore you, sire, to leave me," she an- i
swered ; " everybody is looking at us."
Troubled and perplexed, the emperor i
took the earliest opportunity of renew- j
ing his inquiry. "I insist upon know- ;
ing. What is it?" "It is this, sire," ,
the lady now answered haughtily, the j
blood mantling her cheek, " I have been
insulted to-night,' and I will not expose <
myself to a second insult." "To-mor- <
row," said the emperor, in a low, kind j
voice, "nobody will dare to insult you ,
again." Returned home. Madam de \
Montijo and her daughter, their Spanish
blood thoroughly roused, made hasty i
preparations to leave Paris for Italy. On <
the morrow morning, however, the ]
mother received a letter from the em
peror, in which he formally asked the J
hand of Mademoiselle Eagenie de Montijo
in marriage ; and the ladies within a
I few days removed from tiieir apartments
to the Elysee, which was assigned to the
emperor's betrothed. Within a month (
Mademoiselle do Montijo sat on the ,
throne of the Tuileries beside Napoleon
III as the Empress Eugenie.
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Kit Burns the Rat Catcher.
It is said of the late Kit Burns, of
New York, that as a professional rat
catcher he was the first in America. It 1
is further alleged by those who profess
unequivocal knowledge of the matter,
that the deceased Kit had amassed much 1
money in the pursuit of his unique vocation.
He once made $500 out of one (
single job in the rat catching line. One
of the first restaurants on Broadway had
been so badly infested by rats that the 1
quantity of provisions consumed or destroyed
night and day was incredibly
large. The finest mousers were procured,
but they made no rnroad upon the 1
army of rodents. In fact, cat after cat
became demoralized, while the iats grew i
bolder, and frequently put them to
flight. Alone in the restaurant one
night, Kit surveyed the situation, and
declared it to be a desperate one. The
following night he set his huge cage
close to an advantageous aperture. A
small dim lamp on a shelf above him was 1
the only light in the place. He lay
above the great cage with the string of the
main trap in his hand. His object was to
catch the " king " rat, and then the work
was easy. They all followjlie king. Rat
after rat came to the cage, nibbled the
bait, and ran back to the hole. There
seemed to have been a perfect understanding
about the matter before his
majesty ventured forth. When he did
Kit knew him?for the king rat is
an enonndhs, shaggy specimen, with
great bristles growing out of his body*?
and down snapped the trap. Now the
rest were guideless, and wholly at the
mercy of the rat catcher. Kit then
fastened the king so as to secure his pres*
ence in the cage, and when the trap was
? 1 ?nf rofc
again ruiseu scures upuu otwco w*
filled the cage. It could hold no more;
but when the subjects found themselves
captured they fell upon the kiug and
nearly tore him to pieces. After that
Kit easily secured the rest of the varmints,
and was paid $500.
The Old Story at the Circus.
The Augusta (Me.) Journal tells it
again in this shape: A young man took
his sweetheart to the circus in Hnllowell.
After viewing with open mouth the wonders
of the menagerie, and making many
comments on the ferocity of the " graveyard
robbers," and the huge elephants,
the two proceeded to the main tent and
soon were oblivious to all save the wonderful
feats performed by the nimble
sons and daughters of the fing. Presently
a sleek-haired, smooth-voiced, innocent-looking
young man, bearing a
tray of lemonade, approached them and
inouired of the young man if he wduld
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Items of Interest.
There are fifty species of owls.
Tobacco was first brought to Europe In 1559.
The nutmeg tree bears fruit from ten yean
old to one hundred. s
Some black ostriches are seven feet high,
rheir speed is that of a horse*
Three men who went bear hunting in the South
Emeida mountains, California, killed three
grizzly bears, one of which weighed nine hundred
pounds. They had to shoot the largest
one from trees, intO which it had chased them.
At a Sunday-school, a teacher asked a little
boy if he knew what the expression " sowing
tares " meant " Courth I do," said he, pulling
a part of his trousers around in front, '*therea
a tare my ma sewed up; I tared it sliding down
bill.'
A paragraph is going the rounds stating that
the exact spot of Burgoyne's surrender a not
known. It is absolutely certain, however, that
when he did surrender he had the most woe
Burgoyne look of any man who was present on
that memorable occasion.
A tramp who arose abruptly from the table
in the house of a judge in Michigan answered a
questior?with 44 No, I ain't sick, but Tm going
where I can get a decent breakfast" The
hospitable judge thinks he will let the next
tramp eat in the kitchen.
Public opinion in Germany is thus reflected
in a conversation between two good burghers of
Berlin, taken from a Berlin paper: first
Burgher?"80 we are likely to nave another
war with Franoe ?" Second Burgher?44 Let as
pray that they may thrash us, so that they may
be as poor as we are."
Texas has fifty wheat producing counties,
one-fifth of which, folly cultivated, would produce
86,000,000 bushels of grain. It has also
59,120,000 cotton yielding acres, which if taxed
to the extent of their productiveness, would
field 6,962,000 bales?more than the entire product
of the world.
The Pacific ocean covers 80,000,000 of square
miles; the Atlantic, 26,000,000; the Indian
ocean, 14,000.000; the Southern ocean to thirty
degrees is 25,000.000; the Northern ocean,
5,000,000; the Mediterranean, 1,000,000; the
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LSlacK sea, iiv,uw; wo imwv, ?,
tlie North sea, 160,000.
The Song that Soothed the Djing Pianist.
*
A death which has occasioned much
comment in Paris was that of the Conn- .
teas Potocki. She was a sister of
Madam de Beauveau and Count de Komar,
and also the devoted wife of the
old Count Potocki,, a grand seigneur
well known in Paris. She was not,
however, the mother of Count Gregory,
wjio was killed at the siege of Paris by a
small bombshell,* or of Count Meiloe.
The countess was a remarkable
woman; she consecrated her whole life
to art, and it is probable that had she
been poor instead of being the possessor
of millions, her name would have ranked
with those of Malibran and Sontag.
Her friendship for Chopin is well known,
and the musician at tnis time was not
then considered the master he is to-day.
In 1840 she heard that her beloved
friend and instructor was fatally ill, and
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sue at once prepttxcu w mwmm c
journey necessary to see him before he
should breathe his last
Weary with fatigue, she arrived at the*
bedside of the dying man. 'Alas I he
had already lost consciousness; the
stupor of death was upon him. She
knelt beside him and prayed for one last
look, one last word. After a- time the
dying man's eyes opened; he fixed on her
a long, earnest look. Finally, a light
came over his countenance, and at last
he recognized her. He smiled faintly
and murmured: "Sing, sing!"* Sadly
his noble visitor complied, and going to
the piano sang indeed with tears in her
voice. When she stopped^ the dying
man, whose face was fairly illuminated,
only said: "Sing! sing again!" And
she sang the music the master loved.
Could anything more touching be imagined
than the friends of the dying man
kneeling beside the bed of the dying musician,
while this noble dame, this great
artist, song with an inspired voice a
psalm of Marcello or cantiste of the Virgin
? Once again she stopped, and turning
his eyes toward her, the poet murmured:
"It is beautiful," and with
these last words the spirit left the body.
It is supposed that he was about thirty
years old at the time of his death, for he
had no record of his birth nor any date
to go by, except a watch given him by
Catalain, and on the case of which was
this inscription: " To the little pianist,
Chopin, at the age of ten years. "
A Great Institute.
Some statistics of the Cooper Union for
the Advancement of Science and Art, in
New York, as given in the eighteenth
annual report, will be of general interest
to our readers. The immediate object
of the CoopepUnion, which was founded
by Peter Codper about ^eighteen years
ago, is to teacn voung people some art of
self-support. For ~'tm8 purpose if has
established schools for telegraphy; photography;
mechanical, architectural and
artistic drawing; modeling in clay; engraving;
painting. In a bee "Night
School of Science H instructions is given
in mathematics and mechanics."' Organic
and analytic chemistry are taught, with
the use of an excellent laboratory. There
are also classes formed for oratory and
debate, with lectures in elocution and in
English literature. No lees than 3,276
were admitted to these various schools
and classes during the last year. All
instruction is entirely free. The public
has free access, also, to a large readingroom,
and to a library of nearly twenty
thousand volumes. The librarian reports
that 609,000 persons have visited
the reading-room during the post year.
There was 306 students admitted into the
Free Art School for Women during the
year; fifty-seven into the School of Telegraphy
and forty into the School of
Wood-Engraving?both for women. The
nnmber admitted to the various classes
? . n ? I .. n-li- 1 Ofifi
ill the rs'ignt ocnooi 01 ociemx? w?o AjUW
and 1,485 pnpQs availed themselves of
instruction in the School of Art. The
Saturday night lectures, given in the
large hull of the Cooper Union, have always
been attended by large audiences,
showing that the popular methods used
to diffuse knowledge are appreciated by
the masses. The following are some of
the subjects upon which lectures have
been given: " Going around the World,*
"The Operations at HelljGate," "The
Modern Locomotive," "Household Art,"
" Evolution," " Prison Reform," " The
Human Hand,"' 'The Model Sick-Room,"
"The Signal Service and the Law of
Stonns." This institution is doing a
great work, but hundreds of applicants
are refused every year for want of sufficient
accommodations. The resources
of the Cooper Union should be increased
and similar institutions should be multi*
plied throughout the country,
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