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Do thou Groat Liborty Inspire our Souls and make our lives in thy possession happy, or our Deaths Glorious in thy Just Dofonoe." BENNETTS VILLE. S. C.. FEBRUARY 9, 1887. NO. 9. l?eenuso or Theo. rd y lifo lion grown so dear to mo Uscnuse of thou I IVly maiden with tho oyes dem uro, And quiet, mouth and forehead pure. Joy makes a Bummor In my heart Hecauso thou art I The vory winda melodious ho Iteeauso of theo t Tho rose, is sweeter for thy sake, Tho waves in Koiter muslo break. On bright or wing tho swallows dart (teca ti MO thoa arti My ?ky is swept of shadows lreo HeaaUBQ of thee t Keri ow ami care have lost their sting, The blossoms glow, tho linnets sing, AM things in my delight have part lb causo tl on nrl I T i 1H FATAL QU AUREL. uj?ufc ( say you shall not." "And 1 say I will. Tho speakers were husband and wire. The iermor leaned on tho mantlc-picco und frowned angrily, looking down at, the latter as he spoke. The wife still sitting by the tea-table, for that meal bad just been finished, did not glance up as she answered, but went on talk ing to her lap-dog in terms of fond en dearment and feeding lt with sugar. Y esl they wero husband and wife, tioyen years b?foro Carrie Dayton, just IS, freshly freed from tho trammels of a boarding school, had launched forth into society with ahead full of roman tic ideas of love and marriage. There she luid met with Harry Aylmer. To her lie seemed almost a god, so far su perior lo all others that very speedily she. lound herself thinking more of him than any other admirer and listening with bealing pulses lo his tones,. And when ho met Carrie Dayton he felt thal bo had encountered his fate. To h i iii Ibero was something irresisti ble in lier bright freshness and beauty and in tho winning gayoty ot her art less ainnners. Then the polished mar ble of lier fair skin; tho golden curls I lin * fell around her shoulders: the bright blue eye, full of ?ightj-thoso all posessod rare attractions for this man, whose heart had been so long untouched. Dav after day found him at her side, puning forth every effort to make him self agreeable. 80 after a few brief inbhtha they wove married, and went forth lo I read life's journey together. They traveled for a while, and the young bride, delighted with the new aeches opened up beforo ber, was hard ly conscious of tho fact that his will, im: her wishes, guided and controlled all their movements. It was very sweet lo obey ont; she loved so fondly. At last tliey settled in 11 home of their own, rcph te with every comfort and luxury ami life began in earnest. New came the crisis. From early childhood Harry Aylmer had shown himself possessed of an ironTwill, stern and unyiehling. (Janie, too, had a ! will of her own. For the first few j months ol' marri ago it was very pleasant for her to have him will for her-and ' gracefully she yielded; but at length the reins were drawn too tight, the in ti-:.se selfishness of the husband been 11 io apparent even lo ('arrie, and thore be gan to grow up a spirit of rebellion on her pail, a desire lo judge for herself sometimes.and act accordingly. Mai lers grew from bad to worse. Thew pleasant little courtesies which M ive lo keep the love burning brightly 01, the domestic altar were by degrees utterly neglected, and the lamp of love grew dim. After tho lapso of three years, however, a beautiful babe lay on Ibo mother's bosom. Reconciliation ensued-not spoken, hut tacsitly agreed upon. Husband and wife seemed drawn together by this liftlo golden link, and while tho little angel gladden ed their home happiness remained. (hita bitter time came, which should have served lo 1111 ito thoso severed hearts more closely. Tho child sicken ed and jdiod. When tho stricken par ents bowed over their dead each inen laly resolved lo be all in all to each other, that no shadow should come between them; but tho lips Spoke not ol' tho resolve made in their own strength -piido kept them silent. As tho months passed on tho old spirit revived in each; and now, after a few years of wedded lifo, behold tho pair whom "God has joined together," living in almost constant enmity-each lien rt hardened and cold, never a loving word or caress, only Silence and up braiding. Mr. and Mrs. Aylmer bad been ask ed to an evening party, and both had expected to go. Rut tho husband had como home outof humor, Which ho pro ceeded to vent pu his wife, concluding by saying ha could not go lo tho party. Mrs. Aylmer, vexed at his maunoi' even moro than at his words, had replied, I ai fly, that she should go without him. ''Tho invital ion bas been accepted; wc hs vt* no good reason for staying away; ?iud 1, for oho, intend to gol" "? J Ul J say you shall not," said tho husband, pushing Iiis chair angrily back from the tea table, standing up, taking a turn across tho door, and then going to tho maullo piece, where ho stood, as wo havo described, looking gloomily down on his wife. "And I say I will," was the retort, as the speaker turned away from Hie table, but retained her seat , and began to fondle her lap-dog. This was too much for tho husband. Tho cool Indif ference cut him to tho heart. With a sniolhdrcd oath he Hung himself out ol tho room, put on his hat in the hall and went off to his club. When the door was heard banging after him Mrs. Aylmer roso from her chair, an angry light in her eyes. "1 only half incant, it," .shesaul, "but now 1 will go. If he had only asked mo lo remain kindly; if ho said lid was sick, or even tired; if he had smiled on hiii I would have stayed at home. But 1 will n il be ordered." Never had she dressed willi more care. Never had sh o looked more beautiful flinn when she enlerered her barringo lo drive lo tho ball. After a couple of hours tho husband carno home, for by this timo bis anger was over, and he felt rather ashamed ol'himself. His rage returned, howev er, when he found that Mrs. Aylmer had renHy gone, for he had persuaded himself that after all she would remain. "How dare sho defy me thus?" ho j cried angrily. 13llt after a while carno calmer thoughts. His mind began to wander over past years. His heart yearned for the mother ol'his babe. Memory, with her busy lingers, had un locked (he chambers of his heart, and lier softening iulluonco was doing its work. The hour giew late, and he began to wonder why .she did not return. Opon big the door, ho looked into Ibo desert ed street. A strange dread stole ovei him, for nearer and nearer carno lin sound ol'wheels, driven rapidly. Hast ening down, as the carriage reached die door, he was confronted by a mai who sprang out, exclaiming breathless ly: "Mr. Aylmer, if you wish to sci your wife alive, come with me." Am forcing tho terror-Stricken husband in lo the vehiclo, they wero whirled away, Returning from the party, Carri? Aylmer sat alone in her carriage, no thinking of the gay scene she had left but of ber unhappy married lifo. Sin was laking lo herself much blame thai she bad not been moro submissive moro forbearing, and wondering i it were too lalo to undo the evil. Ten der thoughts ol' the husband, once S( dear, wore stealing into her heart. Sud denly there came the sound ol' inch run liing, the cry of "lire!" the whir of Hw engine, the rear and plunge of horses the ineffectual o Ho its of tho driver ti oh i roi them; then sho was thrown viol I i ly forward, and all was darkness. 1 When the repentant husband liai reached tin; side ol' his wife death lau scaled IHM- eyes. Some one bad litte* her fair form and homo it Alto tho near est house, but the vital spark had fled The, injury was internal, and not ; blemish bioko (he pure white surface o (he marble face. Carrie Aylmorjnovor looked lovel ie than now, when sho lay Ibero in he gala robes. Her dress of pale-blu silk, with its frost-work of lace am pearls, only made moro {pallid tho round ed form, lately so full of lifo and health She bad passed away without pam, am very placid was tho sweet face, fas growing cold in death. Words cannot picture that stron, man's agony. He Hung himself bosh! tho body, and bis voice'grow hoarse wit pleading for one moro look, one singh word of forgiveness. Alas! nono came Years afterwards a grave was dug b stranger hands in a far distant lam? Nou? Ibero know the lonely, broken hearted man whoso last resting place i was, had, when alive, borne tho nain of Harry Aylmer, and bad spent lil days evor since that terrible night i vain remorse for that fatal quarrel. Manipulating (be Mandolin. The mandolin is still driving out th banjo as tho reigning fashionable cn) rico in Now York. Tho only implen: ant feature about it lo tho learner ls Hi knlfc-bladc-liko sharpness of its lin wiro strings. Two pairs aro woun with German silver, and arc not e cruel as the others, but the unwoun four, hardly thicker than horsehair; seem to cut to tho bono tho finger em that press them down upon the frot: Of course that pain and troublo em when each linger of tho left hand is ti ped Svith a bony, callous spot, and or .must expect somo such trouble in foin ing a close acquaintance with ai) stringed instrument. When naturo lu provided that protection, tho mandoli player, if an oxport, can produco son pleasing effects by producing tho lon by percussion on tho strings over tl frots, instead of by strumming with bit of tortoise-shell hold botweon tl fingers, as tho usual method is. IN A CAVIO Ol.' ?OI,l>. A nowUdoriitg Htory of Iiost Hichos Which Wore Bonrohod Voi" For Many Years. On tho northern bordier of tho groat National park, whore riso tho toworing peaks of thu Snow mountains, there has long lived a man known as "The Wanderer." This man has never Illili, in the many years he has been known to Hie hunters and trappers of the region, any settled habitation, but hus wandered backward and forward through tho Snow mountains, apparently ovoi' on ? tho search for something. Scattered through the mountains he bus several rude huts in which bo sojourned for a few days at a lime, only lo take up ilga in Hie weary cholo of his endless search. Hy the men of l ille and trap ho has long been considered crazy, and the I lillians of tho section have evidently thought tho same ol' him, and, with Hie well-known pity entertained by the red tribes for those mentally a filleted by tho Great Spirit, have never molested him in any way. From a hunter and trapper (d' the Snow mountains, who was ht Laramie a few days ago, Ibo scribo learned ol' the "Wanderer's" singular life and of his death, which took place sonic two months ago. The old man was found In one ol' his numerous halting places by a party ol hunters several days after his wander ings had ceased forever. An examination ol' tho papers on bis person showed that his bad been a madness full of method, and revealed a tale boforo which the story ol' Alt liaba and the robbers' cave pales into insignificance. Tho old man, whose name was ascertained to be Arthur Bethanny, though ho had probably not heard it called for ii score of years, came lo thc Snow mountains about twenty-live years ago in the prime, and vigor of a youthful manhood. A native of Pennsylvania, his youthful blood had been bred by accounts of the great West, and he had started for the new country, joining an exploring and bind ing party al.St. Louis, The parly pene trated into Wyoming, passed through the Big Horn basin, and in tho lalo fall ol' 1801 found themselves on the head waters of tho Clarke fork of thc Tollo w: stono. Following up tho Clarke fork they soon came upon tho cannon of tho stream, and, entering it, passed through and came out among tho mountains in tho conti lies of tho great National park. I [ere they inaugurated a ?rand hunt among tho mountain game they found so plentiful. One day llethanny wandered away from the party in pur suit of a hear ho had wounded, and followed tho trail into the Snow moun tains. Iii a deep and rocky gorge he ran his gamo lo earth, and saw him enter an opening in the. side of the gorge. On approaching the opening ho saw that it hi list lead into a cavern of considerable extent, and at oneo boldly I followed the game. Ile soon found the bear, just dead from its wounds. Hut where did ho lind il V In tho midst ol' a scene of dazzling splendor. The entire interior of the cavern was a j mass ol' virgin gold studded with dazzling gems. From seams overhead there eamo only a small amount ol'light, and in the seini-obsciirily tho gems gave forth luminous rays and tho pure oro Ulled tim cavern with a golden sheen. Scarcely aldo to belieyo the evidence of his senses, llethanny examined the precious stones of the cavern at first with fear and trembling, and Iben with tho wildest transports of joy. In tho narrow, rocky scams which traversed the golden mass of the cavern walls he recognized tho diamond's brilliant white, tho red llame of the ruby and the Hashes ol' beautiful bluish green peculiar lo tho turquoise. With head in a whirl and heart beating tumultuously, llethanny left the gorgeous cavern lo tell his comrades of his extraordinary discovery, for thora were enough riches there to make them all Rothschilds. But scarcely had ho otnergoil from tho cavern when he found himself enveloped in a suddon and whirling mountain snowstorm. In vain li? tried again to lind tho cavern outrance, and in his search bo must have wandered far away from the locality. All night tho storm raged, and when morning broke, cold and gray, he found that he was hopelessly lost. Tho snow covered tho ground to a depth of many Inches, and he could neither lind thc cavo nor his way back to his companions. To bo brief, he passed tho long winter amid tho deep mountain snows, and when spring carno at last ho renewed bis search for tho cavorn of gold and gems, and searched for it until tho day bo lay down to die, tinco months ago, -?><???? Tho Measurement, of tho Year. Tho length of tho ye is strictly ?JG5 days 5 hours '18 minutos 40 seconds and sovon tonths of a second-tho timo re quired for the involution of tho oarth round the sun. About 46 li. C., Julius Caesar, by tho help of Sosigines, an Alexandrian philosopher, caine to a tol erably clear understanding of tho length of a year, and decreed that evory fourth year fihould bo held to consist of 300 days for tho purposo of absorbing tho odd hours. By this rather clumsy ar rangement tho natural time foll behind tho reckoning, as, in reality, a day every fourth year is too much by lt minutes, 10 seconds, and three-tenths or a second, so it inevitably followed thai, thp beginning of tho year moved onward ahead of the point at winch it was in the days of Caesar. From the lime of tlic Council of Nice, in 328 A. I)., when the vernal equinox fell cor rectly on Hie 21st of March, Pope Greg ory found, in 1"?82 A. I)., that there bud been an over-reckoning lo the extent of lu days, and that tho vernal equinox fell on the 1 llb of March. To correct tho past error, lie decreed tiiat tho 5th of October of that year should bo reck oned as the Ipili, and, to koot) thc year right in future-tho overplus hoing 18 houini t>7 minutes .ind!'.) seconds ina century- he ordered that every centen nial year thal, could not ho divided by four (1700, 1800,1000, 2100, 2200) should not be bissextile, as it otherwise would lie-, thus, In short, dropping the extra day throb timi's every 400 years. While in Catholic countries Ibo ( i regor ian stylo was readily adopted, it was not so in Protestant nations. In Britain it was not adopted until 17.V2, by which lime the discrepancy between the .lillian und Gregorian periods amounted t J ll days. An act of parliment was passed dictating that the 3d of September should bo reckoned as the 14th, and that three of every four centennial years should be leap years: 1600 not hoing a leap year, thc new and old styles now dllTor twelve days, our 1st of January being equivalent to the 1.8th old style. In Russia alone of Christian countries is th? <dd stylo retained. The old stylo is still retained in tho Treasury accounts of Great Britain. In (dd times tho year was hold lo begin on tho 25th ot* March, and this usago or piece of an tiquity, is also still observed in the com putations of Ibo Chancellor of tho Brit ish J'jhxchouquer. So tho first day of the .il..,n\c;itl year ia tho otb of April, being "Old Lady Day." How to Cook Oysters. A lady who is famous for ber oyster cooking, and who has boen for years making a collection of choice recipes, contributes a few whoso excellence and novelty she can vouch for. A "mock mast" is easy and delicious. The liquor is first drained from tho meats and any chanco pieces of shell removed; Iben tho oysters aro placed in a frying pan and set upon tho lire, where, as fast as the liquor collects it, is drawn off. This process is continued until the oysters are clone brown, when they aro served hoi, with fresh butler. "billie pigs in blankets" aro made by first draining tho oysters and season ing willi salt and pepper, and then culling fat bacon into very thin slices and wrapping a big oyster in each slice, I fastening if willi a woodoo skewer-a toothpick is best. The frying-pan must bo heated well before the little pigs aro put in, and they must bo cooked long enough for tho bacon to crisp. They are to bo served immediately on toast cut into small pieces. Panned oysters are very nice ami are savory and digestiblo for invalids. Tho oysters must be drained and bits of Bhell removed. Thoy must then be put into a liol pan containing a tablespoon ful of butter, half a lovel teaspoonful of salt, and a little popper to a quart of meals, and cooked over a brisk Uro until they begin to curl, which wdll be in five minutes. Thoy can bc served hot on toast or eaten plain. A'more elaborate dish is an oyster loaf. Tako a stnlo loaf of bread and eut ont the heart of it with a sharp knife, being earoful not to break thc crust, Which must still keep tho form of the loaf. Break tho crumbs up very lino and dry them slowly in tho oven. When dried fry three teacupfuls of them in two tablespoonfuls of hot butter until thay aro brown and crisp. Put a quart of cream to boll, and when lt boils stir in tbreo spoonfuls of Hour which has been mixed with half a cup of cold milk. Cook this a low minutes and season with salt and pepper. It makes a rich eroam sauce, l'ut a layer of this Inside tho loaf, then a layer of oysters previously seasoned with salt and popper, thou another layer of sanco and ono of fried crumbs. Alternate thoso until tho loaf is full, having tho last layer a thick one of crumbs. Bako slowly half an hour andaorvo In ii folded napkin or a dish with sprigs of parsley. Iron pipe ls muoh stiffer for a glvon wolght than solid iron. For a glvon outside diametor 'he Iron bar will boar ho most woigh' HOW PEMMICAN IS MADE. Two Ways of Preparing It for Uso as Food-"Kub-a-Boo" and ..Kousseau." Tho meat, cut in long (lakes from tho warm carcass of tho b?llalo ami dried in tho sun, is af forward beat?n into shreds by Hails upon a door of buffalo hide on tho open prairie. Thc hldo is then sewed into ii bag, tho meat jammed in, tho lop sowed up all but on? corner, into which more meat is browned, and then tho fat, which bas meanwhile boon tried, is poured in scalding hot, tilling every crevice. A species of cranberry is often ?ulded with tho meat. Tho whole forms a bolster shaped bag, as solid and as heavy ?ts slono, and tn this condition it robin j ns, perhaps for years, until eaton. Kach b;i<r weighs fruin 100 to 120 pounds. Ono who has tried il will not wonder that it was onco used in tho turmoils of tho contests between tho Northwest and Hudson Hay companies to form ti redoubt, armed with two swivel guns. Thjcro aro two ways of preparing tliis -ono called "rub-a-boo," when it is boiled in a great deal of water, and makes a soup-, the othor more favorito disli is "rousseau," when it is thrown into a frying i>an, fried in ?ls own fat, with the addition, perhaps, of a little, salt pork, aird mixed with a small amount of Hour or broken biscuit, lint sometimes, when philosophers arc hard put lo it, and forced to take their meal In Hie canoe, thc pemmican is cuten raw; chopped out of Ibo bag with ?i hatchet, and accompanied simply by tho biscuit, which has received tho sobriquet of "lied river granite. " These wonderful objects, as huge as sea bisca '. aro at least thrCa-quarlors of an inch i . thickness, and against them tho lint it.-.dist's geological hummer is always brought into requisition. lint the "infidel dish," as rousseau is termed, is by comparison with thc Others palatable, though it is even then impossible lo so disguise it ns lo avoid tho suggestion of tallow candles-, and this and tho leathery, or india rubber, structure of tho meat arc its elliot dis qualifications. Hut oven rosseau may lose its charms when taken as a steady diet tinco times a day for weeks, especially when it is served in ti frying lian, and, breakfast or dinner over, ono sccs tho re menants with tho beef or pork all hustled together in tho boiling kottle; tho biscuit, broken bannocks and unwashed cups placed iii tho bread bag; tho plates, knives and forks lossod into Hie meat dish; and all, combined in the ample folds ol' nh old bit of gunny cloth, which has served daily at once ?is dishcloth and tablecloth, thrown into tho canoe lo rest until tho next meal, when at last Billy linds timo to wash thc dishes-tho tablecloth never. Wells la logia. Wells arc naturally greatly prized in tho hot, arid parts of India, and many Hindoos earn great renown by making (hem where they aro much needed. .Some religious peoplo seek for merit in tho construction of large, wells in public Ihroughfurcs and other places for Ibo purpose of supplying travellers with waler. Very often peoplo uso thom for irrigating their holds. A largo well, built of st rong masonry, with a circular white smooth platform round if for people, to sit. on when they draw or drink water, costs from 2,000 to ,1,000 rupees. Even tho wants of tho bruto creation ure not overlooked by tho Hin doos. They made reservoirs of strong masonry, about live or six yards long and a yard Wido, adjoining a well, ai?d in the hot season these arc always kept lilied with willer. Returning fron? pas ture or from tho Ileitis in tho forenoon for repose, and retirinji at dusk for the night, -whole droves of cows, bullocks, buffaloes and goats slake their thirst hero. Land-owners and wealthy men vie with each other in constructing these wolls and reservoirs; and princes sometimes imitate tho cxamplo of their opulent subjects. Tho average cost of an ordinary well bas boon estimated to be about three or four hundred rupees. Of course it varies not only according to tho depth of water and kind of soil, but also to tho kind of labor employed. Somo peasants, who, with members of their own families mako wells them selves, have been known to have con structed them, especially where tho waler is near tho surface, at a trifling cost of 100 rupees each. Nevertheless, oven in th oso parts of tho country whero tho cost is very moderato, the wells aro insnlllclont. Wells havo been objects of great endearment with somo vil lagers. Not satisfied with wasting timo and money in tholr own and their chil dren's marriages and in thoso of idols and trees, thoy Bomotlmes marry wolls with great pomp and ceremony. In somo parts of tho country wells aro worshipped, and votivo offerings aro often soon lvlncr near thom I>I;AI> MINGUS. isolation of This Class or English Toil o r.s. The pay of tho miner has had Hs pe* oulhirity. By tho fathom of ground worked, or hy tho ''bing" of lead pro duced, it was impossible to measure tho work dono by a company of miners very often, boneo the wages settlements woro not frequent, and there was a custom of paying a given weekly sum on ac count-a sum which had tho graphic narnu of "subsistence money." With settlements thus delayed, some of tho miners necessarily ran accounts long with tradesmen; and if the lead was found in less quantities than had been expected, and tho settlement yielded nothing to tho miner, the deb!, would perforce go on from limo to limo and cases have been known of men who lived long and died in debt, while others have been recorded in which unexpect ed mining success enabled a miner to clear off the debt of years-bis own, and even that of a father. The writer has been a shopkeeper in a mining vil lage received from a miner several pounds in clearance of a debt incurred years before by a stepfather, who had passed away from mines and debts. There is comparative isolation of Hie miners, owing to tho nature and tho location of thc work and that isolation has lcd to tho preservation of customs that havo passed away elsewhere and led to tho retention of dialects and localisms in speech. Modes of speech are quaint; olden words aro retained, and at limes peculiar methods of de scription ol' individuals needed where there are many scions of similarly named families; and in .some of the places of worship, especially when "sup plied" by local preachers, there aro in dications of the quaintness and of old customs. In places the choir is still aided by liddle and bassoon; the preach er will employ a dialect that puzzles tho unaccustomed to follow it, and tho sing ing has moro heart than melody. But in tho dales it is certain that much of tho religious lifo is due lo tho offorls, unwearied and unp.iid, of theso local preachers. In tho schools, too, often begun by tho proprietors of tho mines, thero aro tho indications of tho com parative poverty of some of the peoplo, of tho varying dialects, and of tho pat ient struggle in tho "hard tl ines" that so often fall on tho lead miners; for, of late, Spanish and American "cheap labor" have done much to ruin tho load trade by flooding this country with lead often rich in silver, and therefore pre ferred to that of our own dales. Demand l'or a Smaller Coin. There is a growing demand in Brook lyn, N. Y. for a smaller coin than tho cent. Tile little red coin has traveled west until it has reached tho shores of tho Pacific, whore it may bo sa id .to meot the brass cash of Cathay, amino smal ler coin is needed in tho west. But here a halt-cent would tend to prevent waste muong tho poorer people. Thus thero are plenty ol' toys which uro re tailed at 1 cent each which could bo, and would bo, profitably sohl at half a cent. Ono must buy an oven number of pounds of sugar and an even number of .some kind ol' goods, or loso half a cent. It will sound mean to somo peo ple to bear one complain of thc loss of half a cent, but tho old Scotch proverb about wilful waslo and woeful want can not bo ignored. "Tho standard coin of Franco is tho franc," said a Frenchman to mo, "and it is as big a coin as a dollar is here. That is be cause we have also tho centime-a fifth of your cont. It would mako America richer to givo tho peoplo a half-cent coin." Tin; Theatres ot'Berlin. Tho cost of tho royal theatres in Ber lin, including the opera-house, during tho last twelve months has reached tho sum ol' two and a half million marks. Tho Emperor's yearly contribution out of his privy purse is 150,000 marks; but in addition to this bo also pays the deficit, which is very considerable. Tho non-romunerativo portions of tho royal theatre system are tho opera and tho ballet. Tho legitimate stago always yields a handsome surplus. All tho members of tho royal family havo their boxes, for which they regularly pay tho duo annual rout, although some of them do not onco enlor tho theatres during tho season. For overy special imperial performance tho Emperor invariably pays the whole cost. These perform ances tako placo at tho visits of foroign princes to Berlin, great parades, and public celebrations. Tho failuro of tho opora to pay its way is due in a great part to tho tremendous wages of singing folk. Horr Niomann, tho tenor, has to appear for forty-eight ovonings during six months, and for each ovonlng ho baa an honorarium of 750 marks. This equals 36.000 marks a year,