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4 Haroan 11 Rasohid. ■v iienrt w. LOKaraxxow. One day, Haroan A1 Raachid read 1 book therein the poet «aid : “ Whe vara the kinga, and where the rest Of me /> ■»to once the world possessed ? “They re gone with all their pomp and show, .They’re gone the way thou shall that go. " Oh! thou who ehoosest for thy share he'rorld, and what the world calls fair. (11 that it can give or lend ist death is at the end !'' ' chid bowed his head ; '.ii upon the page he read. —St. Nicholas Xtugariue. f V 0timcd iiogular Song. nas. “Songs of Singnlar- -Tvrmit, recently published A llowing specimen of alllt- iny Madeline! ilodinus midnight moans ; py melting music mean, monotones. lolin's mild minstrelsy, 1 music magazine, ’ my mind, n>y memory, | ag murmur ••Madeline,’' ^ ' masquerades, Kv • matrons mien, rnsjosUc maids, - .ess Msdeliue. ’enoe may make ,^;'-:<»sic mine ; l^fives m iy mistake, .merits much malign. tie's most mi-thfnl mood Jlfies my mind's machine ; fulness magnitude kes me mrrry, Madeline ! king ma's uiay machinate, jlng misses me misween ; If i''.' make many mate. . ^ ^—“ Madeline !" . pUiflr'.us melody. ..T mounts marine, •'oorhught—marry me, "i!—Madeline. VOI.. III. NO. 148. 01.0 HEM IKK. VOI.. VII. NO . 350.} aik: .NICE’S HAIR. i imlnlgo me iu this, Frod.” tiow I object to spending the in such an out-of-the-way place, r.- ip Next winter I must go to work la in good earnest; and I wanted a .e pleasant travel and recreation dur- the warm weather.” “Oh, nonsense! Berry says it’s splendid, and she ought to know, for she spent two months there with her aunt last summer. The nicest hotel in the world, with a shaded terrace that over looks a plea ant green. There are lovely walks and drives, too, and the dearest little lake, with a boat upon it. The village is perched upon top of a hill, and it’s such a cool, breezy place, with a fine view of the surrounding scenery.” “Stop and take breaMi, Norn!” ex claimed Fred, putting up his hands iu dismay. “Does Berry talk like that? If she does, 1 should decline going to the place, even if it were an elysium.” “ Oh, B rry would make a desert de lightful ! She was the dearest friend I had at school—a lovely little blonde, with such beautiful hair—long and heavy she arranges it so prettily! She was always the ITrsl to adopt the new styles at school.” “Probably her father was a hair dresser, and she assisted him when at home. ” “You fibber! Her father was a wealthy gentleman, when living; and Berry is an orphan, residing with her annt. It’s really romantic, the way she was named. Her mother had long, beautiful hair, like Berry’s, aud her hrsbaud, who admired it very much, used to call her ‘ Bereuice ’ sometimes for a pet uame. Soon after Berry’s birth, he died, and her mother ealled her Ber euice, because he loved the name. Berry used to look at her constellation, as she called it, every summer night, when the moon was not too bright. I never cared for it before, it is so dim ; bat now 1 always think about it when I’m looking at the stars. Come Fred, you are interested in her, I know. Be a good brother, aud promise me we’ll go, ' - I told Berry I was almost certain of “ Very well, Nora. If you are sure ou will be satisfied with the place, we *1 consider it settled.” F * O weeks later, Fred Lewis and his .'ora arrived at the hotel in the _• „ ge which Nora hud described uiting. Berry was imined:- ' id of their advent, and was to meet her friend. Fred, der, though he had heard her >o often, was not disappointed tyou think Berry is beautiful ?” "w of her brother, upon the first -ihty. Fred had half lost hie heart but thinking “discretion the rt of valor,” looked a little and answered: “Well, ye— T es ungt • ; “g on the “yes ”—“yes” “ rather.” “Yen know very well she is, but you won’t confess it, because I wish you to i; ke her,” said Nora, sharply. This was quite true, for Fred loved to tease his sister, though usually he was very indulgent. He was a noble-hearted fellow and very handsome, and Nora was really very fond of him. He met Berry almost constantly, for their two parlors wore adjoining, and both opening upon the terrace, aud he boob grew very fond of her society, though he still indulged his propensity to tease Nora about her. One eveuiug they were all sitting on •2ke terrace, enjoying the starlight and ♦be cool breeze. “ Your constellation is quite distinct to-night, Berry,” Nora said. “Yes,” returned Berry; “though usually it is scarcely brighter than the Milky Way.” Fred smiled, and gallantly quoted : “ behold The glistening ina/oof Berenice's hair ; Forty the stars, but such as seem to kiss The flowing tresses with a lambent flame.’ Aud Berry, feeling slightly flattered, was very decided in the opinion that Nora’s brother was a perfeet gentle man, aud could be very entertaining if he liked. The ardor of her imagination was somewhat dampened, however, upon the following afternoon. She was looking unusually charming in a dainty white mtgdin, her hair a wilderness of smooth aud soft curls. Fred admired her exceedingly, aud rendered himself so very agreeable that Nora was highly de lighted. Berry stepped into her own parlor a moment in pursuit of a book, aud Nora remarked : “ How beautifully Berry’s hair is arranged to-day !” “Yes,” returned Fred, provokingly cool, now the object of his admiration was absent. “Yellow hair is very ex pensive, I’m told. I wouldn’t wonder if ! the mass she has ou her head this after- i 1 noon cost twenty pounds.” Nora was about to cry: ‘ ‘ For shame 1” when a vision of Berry in the doorway checked her. She had returned unper- eeived, and stood half hesitating a mo- i meut. Then she advanced slowly, the ; soft white train of her dress rustling iu her wake, her face crimson, her eyes flashing, aud, in spite of her anger, a : suspicion of tears. ; “ I wouldn’t take a thousaud pounds for the hair I’m wearing to-day, Mr. Lewis !” she answered. Aud she was scarcely coquette enough ; to hide the pain iu her voice. Fred flushed hotly, aud he would have given almost anything to be able to re call his words. He rose to his feet, aud, bowing, said : “Miss Bereuice, I humbly beg your par don for my ill-natured i-emark. I only made it to tease Nora, for, of course, I had no idea—” j “ Apologize to Nora, then, not to me,” «he answered, quickly, and, turning, left the room. She crept away by herself, and sat down, feeling, in spite of her efforts to i conquer the sensation, hurt aud sore at | heart. It was nothing, she told herself ; she surely didn’t care what Mr. Lewis thought about her, or said, either. Aud then came a sigh, as she thought he did not care for her, or he could never have ridiculed her, in any way, even to his sister. Aud then, though she was not vain, she had always looked upon her hair as a sacred birthright bestowed by her dead mother, and had ever associated the beautiful constellation “Berenice” with thoughts of her mother iu heaven ; a childish fancy, but it clung to her as childish fancies will cling to us all. That night, before retiring, she braid ed her hair in two long braids, and in the morning she combed it out and left it flowing, only drawn away from her forehead, and banded by a blue ribbon. The braiding had made it wavy, and it fell in bright, heavy golden ripples, like a mantle of “cloth of gold,” far below her waist. Fred smiled, half triumph antly, when he saw it. “ I didn’t dream she cared half so much for me,” he thought. Berry observed his peculiar smile, and the wrath_appeared on her cheeks. 1f ^I yruCipr iT ¥*in hPitrt upon my sleeve?” she asked herself. And then she told herself, in a little comforting whisper: “Wait.” Not long afterward, Fred sat down to the table and began writing letters. Presently Berry came flying into the room. “ Nora !” she called, iu the softest little '•oiee in the world, whirling around ou one foot, and carelessly tossing aside her hair with her hand. Out flew the bright, golden ripples, and Fred’s pen went spinning along the carpet. “ Oh, pardon me!” she cried. “My new wig is a little troublesome to man age, yet I’ve no doubt but I shall be come accustomed to it iu time —and away she sped, leaving Fred to pick up his pen and resume his writing as best he might. This was more easily said thau done, for there was a zigzag mark over his letter, aud as the pen had fallen upon its point, it was bent nearly double. Vexed as he was, he leaned hack iu his chair and laughed heartily. “That was gracefully done, I’ll ac knowledge, ” he said. The afternoon was line, and Lady Eatou, Berry’s aunt, called them all upon the terrace, to view a distant moun tain, which showed very clearly, the air being very pure. Fred brought his tele scope, and gallantly held it while Berry peered through, with such a look of dis interested curiosity, one would suppose she bad no thought for anything this side of the mountain. “How pretty 1” she exclaimed, giving her head a sudden toss. Away flew a lock of hair, straight as an archer’s arrow, into Fred’s eyes. He nearly dropped the glass, and uttered an angry exclamation in sudden pain. “Excuse my carelessness,” she haul, piietly. “I had forgotten, for the mo ment, you were so near.” Fred went into the house and bathed his eyes in rather a reflective mood ; but when he again appeared. Berry seemed so entirely unconscious of having done anything wrong, and slut was so pretty and engaging iu manner throughout the evening, lie forgot his vexation, aud was as agreeable as possible. The next day she appeared witli her hair in the same style, and Fred, all the morning, was on the look-out for another hostile attack. None came, however. In the afternoon they went out to have a row upon the lake. After rowing awhile, Fred rested his arms and his oars at the ame time, under the pretense it was nicer to float slowly along. He took out a cigar and lighted it, saying lie must make the most of it, for it was his last. He asked for some music while he puffed away, aud the girls began a vocal duet. Iu the midst of the song Berry took off her hat, makiug au excuse to fan her self with it. As she drew the elastic cord suddenly from beneath it, out flew her shiniug hair like a glittering flag at the head of the boat, nud away went Fred’s “ last cigar ” into the water. “ That was too cruel !” he exclaimed ; but Berry sang on, her soft voice float ing so smoothly above Nora’s alto, tliat he swallowed his wrath, and sat with his eyes half shaded by his hat, for fear of another dash, and thinking she looked and sang like a siren of the sen. That evening he moved his chair h. a remote corner of the terrace, at a safe distance from Berry, and smoked his cigar in silence, glancing • meditatively toward the two girls, who sat near each other, engaged in lively conversation. “ I’m tired of this one-sided warfare !” ho said to himself, reflectively. “ Of course I take a lively interest in it, won dering what she will do next; and then she’s sure to act when I’m entirely off my guard. I believe I’ll surrender at once, and throw myself upon the mercy of the enemy !” Fortune seemed to favor him, for soon after Nora rose, and saying she promised to read aloud to Lady Eaton, she passed into the house. Berry was about to fol low her, but Fred came quickly forward. “Berenice,” be said, rather abruptly, “ will you never forgive me for that un lucky speech ?” She turned, almost coldly. “ To what speech do you refer, Mr. Lewis ? I was uot aware you were au orator.” “ You canuot help knowing what I meau!”he cried. “And you are still unforgiving, though I acknowledge it was both uugeutlemauly aud unkind.” She was silent for a moment, a hush seeming to hover over her, whether from anger or excess of emot ion, he could uot tell. “I agree with you,” she said, con cisely. Not a very encouraging remark, and he felt it, but was determined to have done with suspense. “ I wish to recall what I have said,’ he went on, hurriedly. “I’ll say you have the most beautiful hair in the world ; for you have, Berry. I’ll say you’re an augel; and I’ll say and do any thing you desire for the rest of my natu ral life, if you’ll only forgive me, and be—be my wife.” “ I’m not au angel,” she answered. “ And if you are worthy to be the hus band of an angel you are too good for _ »> me. She spoke in a cold, hard, unnatural tone of voice ; but Fred was too much excited to notice it. “If you will only love me dear, I’ll try to be worthy of yon,” he said, gently. Her lips were growing unsteady, and she sat her teeth hard together. “ Can’t make the attempt,” she said, at last. “ It would be impossible for me to learu to love you.” And she swept into the house. Fred began to walk the terrace hur riedly. “I don’t understand these women,” he said as thousands of men have said be fore him, and thousands more will say after him. A few moments later, Nora came run- ning out. —•- „ “What’s the matter, Fred?” she asked. “Hero you are looking like a thundercloud, aud Berry is in her room, crying as though her heart would break; and I can’t find out what afflicts her !” “ Berry crying?” echoed Fred, in as tonishment. “ Yes, indeed. Have you b«eu qnar-j reling ?” Fred was uuable to speak from amaze meut, and Nora began to suspect the| truth. “ I don’t see how it is with you two,” she continued. “ I know you love eaehl other, and yet you never agree upon any subject. ” Leaving Fred to ponder on her words, she went into the hotel to try aud com fort Berry ; aud she succeeded so well, that before many minutes had elapse the two girls came out together. Berry| was anxious to show Fred how indiffer ent she was, and the starlight told nc tales about the evidences of tears. “Come, Fred,” said Nora, “dont si musing by yourself ; it’s awfully dull this 1 evening.” So she gradually drew toera into con versation, and then withdrew to the op posite end of the terrace, making an ex cuse to listen to some siugiug in the ad jacent rooms; and Fred, without losing a moment of time, began the conversa tion where it left off before. “ Berry,” he said, softly, “cannot you see how wretched I am ? Do forgive me,” he entreated. “ Hush!” she exclaimed under her breath. “ Nora will hear what you are saying ”—her heart all iu a flutter. 4 Whatever you may think of what I have done aud said,” he continued, drop ping his voice for her sake, “ I love you dearly—dearly. And ”—here a little strategy crept in—“ it almost drives me wild to know you dislike mo so much.” “I—I didn’t say I disliked you !” and she seemed so troubled that Fred drew nearer, aud passed his hand caressingly over her flowing hair. “ But I know you do !” still clinging to artifice, since its use resulted favor ably—“I know by your manner. You call me Mr. Lewis, instead of Fred, aud you torment me without the slightest compunction. You swept your hair in my eyes yesterday, and almost blinded them. They pain me yet, sometimes.” This last was au awful story, and only told for effect; but he managed to look so miserable, that, woman-like, she be lieved every word. “ I’m sorry if I gave you so much pain, Mr.—Fred,” she said, in a contrite little whisper. His heart gave a bound. He leaued closer, very much in earnest now. “Take pity on me, dear,” he said, ex tending his hand. She still hesitated, half afraid; Nora came quickly forward, aud seizing Berry’s little hand, she placed it iu Fred’s eager palm, nud then left them together. “She heard us !” gasped Berry, droop ing her head until her face was hidden by the bright falling hair. Fred parted it, and smoothed it back gently with his disengaged hand, twin ing it tenderly around lus fingers, nud drawing her head to his breast. “ No matter, my darling,” he said. “ We won’t care if you only love me; and you must give me the right to call you mine, all mine, before the world very soon.” Y, OCTOBER 25, 1877. $2.00 per Annum, in Advance. e court of Louis XIV., in the house of princes aud nobility, and only for them, the dinner hour, or the time for the “table," was announced by the blowing of horns. They used to sit on benches—banes iu French—hence the word banquet. It was Henry III. who first introduced chairs. There were tables of silver aud gold. Wooden tables were simply covered with cloths, folded doubly and of homespun linen, made iu the houses of the bonrgeoise. They hung away down, serving as sub stitutes for napkins. The first were made at Rheims, aud presented by the city to Charles VII., at his coronation. Later they used napkins at court made of velvet, with their coats of arms on them, and richly ornamented by precious stones. But those of liueu were also used. Forks were unknown up to the fourteenth century. They carried with them spoons and knives. A knife was called “ monk,” a fork a “nun,” because the husband managed the knife, and the wife the fork. At banquets they used to sit in couples, always man and wife together, and those who sat beside each other ate from one plate, aud drank out of one goblet. Wherever in Germany that fashion did not prevail there were sepa rate eating rooms for men and women. There was neither glass nor porcelain in use in the eleventh century. The vessels of the poorer classes were made of wood and tiu, and those of the wealthier of majolica aud Fayence. The nobility hod silver, silver gilt-plated or gold, which served more to feed the eye than for any practical use—simply to stand ou the sideboard, which was called buffet in the fifteenth and credence in the sixteenth century. At this time the State interferes with the domestic affairs of its subjects, prescribed the number of courses for the table and the expenses of their meals, the cut aud length of their clothes. At this time we find the luxury laws of the middle ages still prevailing to which new ones were added. Philip the Handsome forbade any one the use of golden or silver vessels who had not an income of £6,000, and ordered that at a common meal but one kind of soup and one dish should be served. On festive occasions one milk soup and two dishes. Louis XIII. or dained that at a banquet held not at home no more than 81 per head —or, rather, per stomach—is to be expended. An ordinance at Basle (1556) declares that a meal is to have no more than three shillings’ (about five cents—Tr.) worth of meat cr two baizen of fish per person. A law of the sixteenth century, iu Venice aud Ferrara, fixes a dress not to exceed the price of fifteen ducats, aud any orna ment for a woman not to cost more than fifty. Peasant women are forbidden by the law to wear silk, pearls, gold or silver. [ARK TWAIN’S MILITARY RECORD. poorest places, but according to the Rus sian ideas, the position of honor. Not far from the above church is Peter the Great's cottage. There the famous boat —made by himself—is shown, together with the now tattered sail. In the larger of the two rooms is the jeweled image which Peter had with him iu the decisive battle at Poltava, where he con quered the Swedes and established his greatness. The little apartment was bright with the light of many tapers placed there by those who have faith in the efficacy of the shrine to prosper their undertakings. Impartiality of American Bullets The cartridge manufactory at Bridge port, Connecticut, is supplying material for both the Russiau and Turkish armies, nud American bullets are hurled pro miscuously from both sides. The Bridgeport company manufactures from six to seven hundred thousand cartridges per day. They have supplied forty mil lions to Russia, seventy millions to Tur key, and have just received an order of eighty millions from the Italian govern ment, Two tons of powder are used each day, and other materials in like proportion. An inspecting officer for Russia aud Turkey were recently alike engaged side by side iu superintending the production of the cartridges for their respective governments. A Hornet.Proof Lad. The village of Fritztowu, Pa., has an anomalona character, known by the name of “ Tommy,” who is said to be insensible to the pain which usually at tends the sting of bees, yellow jackets, wasps and hornets. He can take the honey from bee-hives and bumble-bees’ nests, without either stupefying or de stroying the beos. He destroys all the hornets’ and yellow jackets’ nests that he cau find, and, although frequently covered by the insects which have alight ed upon him in swarms, he has never beeu known to flinch. Upon getting hold of a hornets’ nest he empties it by shaking the hornets out of the aperture. The United States, with a pop-iiao n less than that of Germany, has nun< miles of railroad thau Russia, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Great Britaiu, France and Italy combined, their totai mileage being 76,030, while ours is nearly fiO - 000 The Army Expense** of the Ureal American Jaker-A Humorous Effusion. {Speech at the Putnam Phalanx Banquet.) I wouldn’t have missed this for a great deal. I did not assemble at the hotel parlors to-day to be received by a com- j mittee as a mere civilian guest. No. I i assembled at the headquarters of the { Putnam Phalanx and insisted upon my 1 right to be guarded to this place as one of the military guests. (Applause and laughter.) For I, too, am a soldier. I am inured to war. I have a military history. I have been through a stirring campaign, and there is not even a men tion of it in any history of the United States or of the Southern Confederacy. (Laughter.) To such lengths can the envy and the malignity of the his torian go. I will unbosom myself here, where I cannot but find sympathy. I will tell you about it, aud appeal through you to justice. Iu the earliest summer days of the war I stepped out of Haimi- *bal, Mo., by uight (laughter) with a friend, and joined a detachment of the Confederate General Tom Harris’s army (I find myself in a great minority here). Up a gorge behind an old barn in Rail’s county, Colonel Rail swore ns in. He marie us swear to uphold the flag aud Constitution of the Uuited States, aud to destroy any other military organiza tions that we caught—doing the same thing. (Great laughter.) In other words, we were to repel invasion. Well, you see, this mixed us. We could not really tell which side we were on; but we went into camp aud left it to the god of battles—which was the custom in that day. I was made second lieutenant and chief mogul of a company of eleven men, who didn’t know anything about war—or anything. We had no captain. My friend, who was nineteen years old, six feet high, three feet wide aud some distance through, and just out of the in fant school, was made orderly sergeant. His name was Ben Tupper, aud he had a hard time. When he was mounted and on the march, he used to go to sleep and his horse would reach around and bite his leg, and then he would cry aud want to go home. The other men pes tered him a good deal, too. When they were dismounted they said they couldn’t march in double file with him, because his feet took up so much room. Oue night, when we were around the camp fire, a fellow on the outside of the circle, in the cold, said: “Ren Tupper, put diiwii that newspaper; it casts a shadow like a blanket.” Ren said; “I ain’t got any newspaper.” Then the other fellow said : “ Oh, I see, its your ear !” (Laughter.) We all slept in a corn-crib jon the corn, aud the rats were very thick. Ber Tapper hari been carefully and rigidly reared, and when he was ready for bed he would start to pray; and a rat would bite him ou the heel, and then he would sit up all night (laughter) and keep everybody awake. He was town bred, and did not seem to have any correct idea of military dis cipline. If I commanded him to shut up he would say: “ Who was your ser vant last year ?” One evening I ordered him to ride out on picket duty about three miles to the beginning of a prairie. Said he: “ What, in the night! and them blamed soldiers likely to be prowling around there any time.” So he would not go. Next morning I ordered him again. Said lie: “In the rain?” Ho didn’t go again. Next day I ordered him on picket duty once more. This time he looked hurt. Said he: “What! on Sunday ? You must be a blamed fool.” Picketing was impracticable, so I dropped it from my military system. We had a good enough time there at that barn, barring the rain and the rats aud the mosquitoes nud things. We lived on both parties impartially, and both parties hated us impartially. But oue day we heard that the invader was approaching, so we had to pack up aud move. Inside of twenty-four hours the invader was coming again; so we moved again. And next day he was after us once more. We didn’t like it much, but we moved (laughter) rather than to make trouble. This went on for a week or ten days, and we saw considerable scenery. Then Ben Tupper lost patience. He says: “War is uot what it’s cracked up to be. I’m going home if l eau’t ever get a chance to sit down a minute. Why do these people keep us a humping around so ? Blame their skins, do they think this is au excursion?” Some of the other town boys began to grumble. They complained that there was an in- sufficiencyof umbrellas, aud theu they complained that the Worcestershire sauce was out. Ihere was mutiny ami dis satisfaction all around, and, of course, here came the enemy pestering us again, two hours—more thau twohours—before breakfast, and nobody wanted to turn out at that hour. This was a little too much. The whole command felt in sulted. I detached oue of my aids, aud sent him to the brigadier, aud asked him to assign us a district where there wasn’t much bother going on. The history of our company was laid before him, out, instead of being touched by it, what did he do ? He sent us back an indiguaut message. He said: “ You have had a dozeu chances iuside of two weeks to capture the enemy, aud ho is still at large. (I knew that.) Stay where you are this time or I will court martial and hang the whole of you.” I submitted this brutal message to my battalion aud asked their advice. Said the orderly ser geant: “If Tom Harris wauts theeuemy let him come here and get him. 1 ■ haven’t got any use for my share. Who’s ! Tom Harris, any way, that’s putting ou j so many frills ? Why. I knew him whei ’ie wasn’t anjjflUTig but a bla -aph opeca^^^Gent 3 for us.” So then and there on the spot my brigade disbanded itself and tramped off home, with me at the tail end of it. We were the first men who went into the service in Missouri, and we were the first who went out of it anywhere. (Great laughter.) This, geutlemen, is the history of the part which my division took iu the great war, aud such is the military record of its commauder-in- chief. And this is the first time that the deeds of those eleven warriors have been brought officially to the notice of hu manity. Treasure these things in your hearts, and so shall the detected and truculent historians of this land be brought to shame and confusion. I ask you to revere the memory of the orderly sergeant aud those other neglected and forgotten heroes, my foot-sore and travel-stained paladins, who were first in war, first in peace, and were not idle during the interval that lay between. Japanese Cheap Labor. The ingenuity and persevereuce of 1 Japanese workmen have caused alarm in some of the manufacturing houses of Birmingham, where articles for the Japan trade arc made. A sufficient quantity of thCse articles is already made in Japan to cause European houses in that country to discontinue the im portation of them. The impossibility of competing with Japanese workmen is explained by a gentleman in Yokohama, writing to the Birmingham Posf .* “ Frugal as badgers, industrious as bees, the Japs undersell every labor market they enter and outdo every civilized artisan at his own trade. Any one who sees a Japanese carpenter at work, with his toes for a vise ami his thighs and stomach for a bench, has seen tools well used aud goods equal to European make turned out. They will, in fact, become formidable ou all kitds of Western manufactures. The Japanese are always ready to learn, and to outvie everything that the West does, and this they do with less food, less air, less clothing and less cooi fort than any civilized work man.” The writer further states that he was offered a large order for Bir mingham goods at a price at which he would lose about ten per cent.; yet a factory at Osaka took the order and made the goods. Robbers Foiled. While a freighting party was camped twelve miles south of Custer City, Da kota, they were visited by three men, who cooked dinner at the camp-fire and made themselves so agreeable that all of the frieghters except a young man named Myers gathered about them. Young Myers was suspicious and went to one of the wagous, where he got his shotgun and remained away from the party. During the conversation around the camp-fire one of the strangers admired a shot gun belonging to the freighters, and took it up to examine it. Suddenly he cocked and leveled it, stepped be tween the freighters and their arms, and ordered them to throw up their hands, saying they would take what money there was in the outfit. At this point young Myers stepped from behind the wagon and fired, striking the robber in the face and breast. The robber wheeled round and fired at young Myers and | missed him. The robber theu dropped i the gun aud ran, firing his revolver at the party. Oue of the freighters shot at him with a rifle ball, striking him in the arm. He fell and died soon after ward. The other robbers fled. Yield of the Pennsylvania Oil Wells. ! The following table will give the read er some idea of the vast amount of this j material (petroleum) which lias been ! yielded by the Pennsylvania oil regions alone from 1860 to 1876, inclusive : “CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLES.” Uhls, of | Uhls, of Venrs. 40 gals. \ Years. 40 gals. IStiO... SCO,000 | I860 ..4,210,720 18G1... 2.118.000 | 1870 ..5.673.195 1862... 3.056,000 | 1871 . .5,715,900 2,861.000 1 1872 ..6.531,675 1864... 1873 1865... ..2.407,000 j 1874 . .8,900.000 1868... 8.507.000 1845 ..8,830,902 1867... 3,347.000 | 1876 ..9.653,949 1868... 3.583,660 | The overage daily product of this region from the discovery of petroleum to January 1, 1876, has beeu nearly 12,000 barrels. The average daily pro duct in 1870, 1874, 1875 and 1876 has been about 33,000 barrels per day. This year there has been considerable in crease, the product for July aud August having averaged 39,000 barrels per day. A Way to Wet Rid of Borrowers. I A gentleman, whose place of business is not a thousand miles from the Mer chants’ Exchange, is annoyed, as many business men are, by impecunious indi viduals desiring small loans. He has iiduptcd the following method of dealing with them : He will listen amicably to the long preface to the request to “Just lend me live dollars for a few days?” and answer, “ certainly,” aud then, turning to a clerk, says : “James, we have five dollars to lend, have we uot ?” “ Yes, sir,” says well-traiued James. 1 “ Well, lend it to Mr. Beet.” “ It is not in, sir, you loaned it to Mr. Bummer day before yesterday.” “Ah, yes; so I did. Well, when it comes in lend it to Mr. Best ;” and bow ing to the borrower the merchant re sumes his business, and the needy one walks dejectedly out to try a more profit able place. —JUiston Commercial llul- fetin. The United States treasury a few days ago received advices from the agent of the United States depository at Tuc son, Arizona, acknowledging the receipt of a letter containing exchange on New York amounting to 8100,000, sent from the treasury to tlnu ag< • cyiu May last. Jlie mail rider b**:u;u die dispatches mrdi^Hty the linl ans en route. ?r was left, together with jtches, on the scene of ti e ^ages, It was found [forwarded, after of The Khedive ol K«ypl Offering to PrCMenl New York Cilv with One of Thene Two Aneient Itlonaments -- The Htory of the Obelisk*. (From the New York World.) We invite the attention of our rentiers to an event which is not merely of inter est in itself but opens the way to a pos sibility of the liveliest importance for New York. Nothing but a comparatively slight effort of public spirit here ie need ed to secure for our own metropolis an ornament fully equal to that which is uow on its way to Loudon eagerly ex pected by the whole British people. We are authorized to state that his highness, the Khedive of Egypt, has signified his willingness to present to the city of New York, upon a proper application being made to him, the noble obelisk seventy feet in height, which now stands “ soli tary and alone ” near the railway station of Ramlet, at Alexandria, i«s companion having been accepted by England, and provision made for its transportation thither by a public-spirited Scottish gentleman. And we are further able to say that the enterprising contractors who are conveying the English obelisk to its destination are prepared to agree to bring the companion monolith from Egypt to America and to erect it in any site which may be selected for it at a price not exceeding 8100,000, the whole risk of the enterprise being taken by them against a deposit of the sum agreed upon in tfie hands of some lead ing American banker. For nearly 2,000 years there have stood on the shores of the Levant two obelisks of rose-colored syenite, known as “ Cleo patra’s Needles.” Egyptologists tell us how these great monoliths, nearly sev enty feet high, were taken from the granite quarries of Syeue by the skillful workmen of antiquity aud conveyed thence to Karnac and Heliopolis. In order to move them, the stone was marked the whole length required, and metal wedges were driven into the line. Another plan, which showed wonderful ingenuity, was t > insert wedges of ex tremely dry wood and then to pour water upon them till they split aud displaced the stone. Pliny says that they were transported to the Nile with the aid of flat-bottomed boats specially prepared for that purpose. Sharpe says that they were placed in au erect position by cut ting a groove in the pedestal, in which the lower edge of the monolith might turn as if it were a hinge, the top of the obelisk being elevated by means of a mound of earth, the size of which was continually increased till the stone stood securely erect. From Heliopolis, where they stood before the entrance of the temple of the god Turn, or the Setting Sun, they were transported to Alexan dria during the reign of Tiberius, but bear their popular name because of a tradition that they were transported to Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra. A great deal of controversy has raged among the learned in regard to their meaning, but, notwithstanding all that has been said and written about them, as well as about other similar monu ments which still stand in Egypt, or have been transferred to Rome, Arles, Paris aud London, no absolute certainty as to their import has yet been reached. Pliny supposed them to bo symbols of the sun’s rays ; other writers have identified them with the Jaehin and Roaz of Sol- mon’s Temple at Jerusalem, apparently only because the obelisks were placed in pairs before the entrance of au Egyptian temple. They have been regarded as identical with the Hindu Liugam, aud a score of opinions, more or less reasou- able, have been advanced by speculative inquirers, but there is still quite as much difficulty in arriving at their true mean ing and origin as there is in interpreting the story of the round towers of Ireland, or, to compare small things with great, the origin of the Newport (R. I.) mill. Mr. Bonomi, who is a better authority thau most writers, inasmuch as he has spent a long period on the bauks of the Nile iu unwearied aud intelligent re search, says : “As regards the original sites of obelisks, it should be mentioned that there are none on the western bank of the river proper—the obelisk appear ing to be a decoration of the cities of the living, symbolized by the rising sun, as the pyramid is of those of the dead, symbolized by the setting of that lu minary.” Taken in connection with the fact that at Heliopolis the monoliths now known as Cleopatra’s Needles stood at the entrance of the temple of the Set- ring Sun, this explanation rather shows the difficulties surrounding the question of their meaning and origin than throws any decisive light on the subject. Nev ertheless, a study of the hieroglyphics with wide a the Needles are covered seems to confirm the view of Mr. Bonomi. These inscriptions generally describe the greatness, magnificence and glory of the monarch in whose reign they were erected. Ou the obelisk which will soon be erected iu Loudon appears the name of Thothmes III., the date of whose reign, according to Sir Gardner Wilkin son,is about the middle of the fourteenth century, before the Christian era, or some 3,300 years ago. Ou the other hand, and touching the theory that obelisks were raised for the living alone, it should be remarked that dwarf obelisk were employed in Egypt from the earli est times and were placed before the doors of sepulchres at least 4,000 years ago. Obelisks are squared columns, taperiug slightly from base to apex, the proportions of the base being one-tenth of the height of the shaft up to the foot of the pyramidian or pyramidal top, which in later times was sometimes cap- p< 1 with gold, iron or copper. It was <>! « bably during the twelfth dynasty of th< Egyptian kings that they ceased to be sepulchral adornments or symbols, uid were placed before the tomples. ‘' Your money is the safest, newspaper philosopher, “ wl don’t foggany.” Items ^^St. Louis depth of 3,800. A New Yorl clubbed his own br “ Well, how uneasj^^am, seat tween two tailors,” snW a self-impor fellow. “They suffer the greatest in convenience,” replied a gentleman, “having but one ‘goose’ between them.” A new way of c making a living is practiced in Brussels, Belgium. A man goes about with a cart containing four large tubs of dyeiug liquids^ Hn nounces that he will dy< instant, by plunging if into eithe vessels, giving it Mack, blue, greenj brown tinge, as may be desired. Eyes have they, but they see potatoes. Ears have they, but they hear not—corn stalks.—Detroit Free Prestt. Arms have they, but they hug not — windmills. — Yonkers Gazette. Tongues have they, but they talk not— wagons. Poiif/hkeepsie Press. Legs have thev, but they walk not—tables.— Poughkeepsie News. Heads have they, but they thiuk uot—cabbages.—Hudson liegistcr. Hands have they, but they toil not—tramps.—Camden Post. Noses they have, but they smell not—pitchers. —N. Y. Express. Lips they have, but they kiss not—tulips.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Teeth have they, but they chew uot — bucksaws. — Detroit Free Press. Corns hav*. they, but yet are not good for succotash—elephants. No sense have they, yet paragraphers do they graduate- idiot asylums [N. B. We are not a paragrapher. ]—N. Y. Mail. There is nothing more indicative of re finement and a genuine culture in a family than bright, cheerful and taste fully decorated bedchambers, says an exchange. Tasteful decorations do not necessarily mean expeuse, aud it is pos sible to make a chamber look very pretty at a very small outlay. Indeed, in many instances, no outlay at all would be re quired beyond what would be incurred under any circumstances. The women of a family, especially, are apt to pass a good portion of their time in the bed chambers, and in some households the sleeping apartments are used alike for sewing rooms, sitting rooms and nurse ries. It is worth while to obtain all the iunocent pleasure we can in this life, and there can be no doubt that life is pleasanter if most of its hours are passed iu cheerful looking apartments. Thirty thousand people are engaged iu the oyster trade of Baltimore, and more than seven hundred schooner*- and pongies form its Chesapeake oyster fleet. Some experts will open twenty-five gal lons a day of oysters, earning twenty cents per gallon; men, women, girls, (mostly of German parentage) and boys, are engaged iu the packing aud shipping rooms where the measuring, washing, assorting and canning go on incessantly. In the raw business the oysters are first packed in air tight cans, which are in turn packed in sawdust nud ice for ship- meut—fifteen million cans of raw being shipped in a season. In addition twenty- five million cans of steamed oysters are shipped per season. The Tangier and Pocomoke Sounds’ oysters are the favorito brands. The State licenses were issued on Sept. 28, and on Oct. 1 the season was opened with enlarged prospects owing to European contracts. There died at Grand Rapids, Wis., a few days ago at the age of sixty-two, a French nobleman who was named Lord Francis Byron by his neighbors. "When he was twenty years old, on account of a love affair and family quarrel, he immi grated to the far West, and settled on the banks of the Mississippi. He erected the first mill ever built ou the Wisconsin river, hauling all his provisions aud ma chinery on ox teams through an un broken wilderness of three hundred miles. After floatiug down two or three fleets of lumber, aud demonstrating tha there was money to be marie iu the busi- uess, he built boats, aud, loading them with provisions, hired men enough to draw them up with ropes, to Grand Rapids, over rocks and eddies. When his success was fully assured, and he began to reap the reward of his early troubles, his family became reconciled to him, aud gave him au immense tract of land in Canada, to which he refused to move.preferring his home iu the pineries. ; Ho owned at the time of his death more ! than tliree hundred million feet of pine | timber, beside sawmills aud real estate ! and his property in Canada. Words of Wisdom. To great evils we submit; we resent j little provocations. There are men whose lives are. spent in willing one thing and desiring the opposite. The first book read and the last book laid aside by every child, is the conduct of its parents. The maid that loves goes out to sea on a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. We are too apt to bury our accounts along with our benefactor ; to enjoy the riumphs of others sis though they were the just property of ourselves. A man’s first difficulties begin when ho is able to do as he likes. So long as a man is struggling with obstacles, he has an excuse for failure or shortcoming, but when fortune removes them all, ami gives him the power of doing as he thinks best, then comes the trial. Woman’s Love. The other day an alleged horse thief was brought up for trial at Waco, Texas. The evidence against him was very strong, when his wife, a mere child, with tearful blue eyes and blushing cheeks, and the stamp of candor ou her innocent forehead, took the stand and testified that her husband had bought the horse from a man she had never seen but ouce, aud produced the bill of sale. The jury burst into tears and acquitted* him, aud locked iu each other's arms tljj devoted couple left court amid i Two hours later the discovery was mad that the wife had beeu schooled by on^ of the worst thieves in the prison, who hail written the bill of sale for her. A Polite Person. Miss Randolph, the exeat grand daughter of Thomas Jefferson, is at the head of a young lady’s school near Charlotte, Virginia. She has many anecdotes concerning her famous auees- try, and among these is the tale of a great aunt, who once remarked naively of her husband: “ Sure, he’s the politest man that ever lived ; he never even comet ,.Lo a room without looking fugh the key-hole first to know if welcome* 1 .” THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER r-N i— r-r— /-nto \A/umu IU AV ADDCAD OM TUC HI I \