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" & ,* J *. 4. *? tffif JsP^ - '# .r ? ' I ./}f ' * & ? ""N VOLUMB II. The lluppy Home. ;. -? ? Our burden* are lightened That uiuny hand* boa,r And pleasure* are brightened That many heart* share, And tln? homo that is happiest, Brightest and boat, Is whore they ail labor, Aud where they all reet. ^ Where no careworn father The brunt of work bears, And no gray-haired ini>tlu>r 1h burdened with oarea; Whore no tired elder sister Is helper alone, Hut each one la busy Till all work la dona. Then mother baa lelaure To laugtf with her girls, She Bharee all her aerretB, They emooth her aoftcurl * And deck her with blossoms And fondly declare There never was mother So winsome and fair. y, * e And father Ib jolly; JI im stories and fun Aro thu lifo of the houuohoU. Jlo Iiah not a hoii Who (loos not think father Knows host and Is host; . And would not work doohls That ho might tako root. So, helping each other In labor or play, in happiness over The years pa"s away; For pleasures aro brightest That many hearts share, Ati.l hardens aro lightest That many hands hear. . . ' * * A I^VSIY CONCLUSION. *'* . ; 0 "Very proudfamily. these Helton?" said ? Frederick Hayi\es, .interrogatively, -as ho stretched himself on the grass near tho stream where fio^ud his friend^ George Lyle, had Uocp -fishing. * . V "Oh, yos, very proud?can't touch 'em with a forty -foot pole^^Maughod , George lyle. "Oil, you needn't laugh. know what's repotted in town abtVrgj v them is,true. Mbther d*tighter .'a aro as jgpnid as Lucifer. * "T^ it exactly, Fred. People from a^sttfifer can qj.wavs tell you about yourNieighbors than you know yourself. Hut >?what if the Heltons aro proud? That doesn't tako any froin the attractiou of Laura Helton." a *ell you she's* a beauty, Frod, and you inusl? . "\t go back to ^ town without an introduction." ,fb "Now, George?, I oame down here to fish, sho^t and have a good time with you, not to make love to your pretty girls, artd least of all to Princess Belton. No introduction for me, thank y#u. Not that I object particularly to being introduced to a pretty girl, but ytfu see 1 haven't read up my pedigree of late, neither have 1 my credentials with mo. The fact is, I never could find any uso for your grandees?your high-toned families, who will not proffer the tips of their fingers until they know who. your great-great-grandfather was." "Fred, you're prejudiced." "All right; we'll let it go at that," ?t* said F^ed, laughing. The morning after this conversation Fred Ilaynes, \tdio was fond of the saddle, probably because ho was handsome and dashing, and looked well in it, started for a cantor before breakfast. "Not very partial to riding out bofore breakfast in this part of the country," said Fred to himself, as ho rode about two miles without meeting anybody. But presently tho sound of horses' # hoofs coining tearing along a bypath ho was approaching fell upon - his ear. He reined back his horse , * and the next moment a young girl, splendidly mounted, dashed out on tho road, and on before him. ^ As she appeared, Fred caught sight of a bright, handso.no face; her figure was perfect, and she sat in her saddle like a born equestrionno. \ Fred was quite charmed by the * V young girl's appearance and gave a ^ freo rein to his horse once more. IIow ho managed to lose contm' , , . .. . over nis norse, or now tno norse mn aged to land him clear across ti road in an insensible condition, was' something Fred never could make out. unless it was that he was paying too much attention to the girl on hoforo him and too little to the spirited creature he was riding. iWhat had happened was painfully impressed on Fred's mind the minute he opened his eyes. He tried to move, but he groaned aloud with pain. Ilis shoulder and ankle were dislocated, ami what under Heaven was he to do here on this lonely road, where he might lay all day, perhaps, without seeing the face of a human boinff. ' % J ^ ' "BE TRUE Suddenly he thought ??f the young girl who wusbefore him on the road when he fell. Hid she see him fall, and riot turn back to render him any assistance? No, she did not look like a girl that would play the part of the 1 .evite of old. "Oh, you have recovered. 1 aui so glad," said a frank, girlish voice. And lookintr no. Fred beheld the O 1 ' girl of his thoughts. Tho train of her habit was thrown over her arm, and in her delicate white hands she carried a stone jug of water. She knelt down on the ground beside him, bending her bright, handsome face over him, as nIio said: "()h, I'm so glad!" "Thank you," murmured Fred, and ho forgot that ho had a shoulder and an ankle, "but I cannot understand how it is that I myself am in this condition." "You were thrown .from your horse," she said, dipping her hands in the water and bathing his brow. "1 think you are severely injuied." Yes, Fred thought so, too, for ho moved again, and the pain of his shoulder and ankle made him wince. "I believe my ankle is sprained," said Fred. "Then it must bo attended to without delay. Bolton Villa is not a gceiit'Wny from hero. 1 will go and report Trfcli nccident and Mrs. Helton will send Hie carriage " "No, Tjtank you, 1 would rather irofTrouble Mts. Helton. Is thero no other house near by 011 this road? 'Are we far from Mr. George Lyle? name is Fred ewe Tfaynes. 1 am best of Mr. Lyle." ' "Ah, indeed!" and the the young lady opencftl wide her beautiful brown eyes. "Mr. Lylo's is a considerable distance from here; but if you are satisfied to go to any house on the road, why not go to Helton's? I never heard of any of the family refusing assistance yet to any one in need of it." "I suppose they wouldn't turn awnv a supp'liant, at thoir door, but do you think the proud Miss Helton would do for 1110 what, you have done? ftaid Fred, earnestly, as he looked straight into the brown eyes bent so curiously upon him. "Yes, she would, if sho took a notion," and the girl laughed, as she took her handkerchief and wiped the dripping water from his brow. 441 shall never forget your kindness and the trouble you have given yourself on my account." "Now please don't mention the tstouble. Yoe^jpre in need of more nQuiufnunn flint* T non " ??! V...... * ^?... K"" J"'"* that, top, as I said before, without delay. Do 1 understand you to say that you refuse to go to the Bolton Villa on principle?" said thft girl' laughing as if her own words amused her. Fred nodded his head. "Then 1 will go to Granny My res' cottage, whom I got this water; it is just round the path, and tho boys, will come and help you. Once at. | tho cottage, you are all right," and j before Fred could make any reply i the girl was off. "I wonder who she is? I thought, she would tell mo her name when 1 told her mine. I'll ask her, when | she comes back," was Fron's mental comment. But tho young girl did not come hnck Tuff> afllliuurl llfl.io . * ? V/ MVIVTTUIV l/V/J D \JtllltVJ III- j stead, and helped him to the cottage. : She was waiting for him, though, I had the sofa ready for him to lie j down, ami when lie was settled comfortably, she despatched one of the boys for a doctor. "Now you must keep quiet, and if: v* 'have no objections I'll sit down hors , ' .ntil the doctor comes," said the the t ^'r'' 11 chair over to oie sw.a. Fred murmured something under n his breath about an angel, he said aloud: "It is a pleasure to liavo you near me; 1 forgot all about my pain." "Now don't be too compliments- j ry," and tlio brown eye? were fixed smilingly on his face. "May I ask the namo of my kind benefactress?" ^ Tho young girl colored to the roots of her wavy brown hair and shook her head. "You must ask noquostion to day," she said, and Kred saw at once that * ? 2 TO TOUE WOEE . COX WAV, S. she wished ?o keep her name frotn ! him. The doctor chiiio, attended to Fred i and coolv told him that he couldn't " leave the cottage for a week. j / "You hoard what tlio doctor said; t will von come and son mo again iv through the week?" said Fred ais ho i] hold the young girl's hand in his aw * | she wus about to depart. ^ "1 will come every day," she an- j swered frapkly. ; ti "Don't tell him who I am, granny," j ' was the warning the girl gave the : J. old woman who owned the cottage as . n i 1 [ she mounted her horse and flew t ! away. n "What is the yong lady's name?" ' asked Fred of the old woman the mo- . mont she appeared at his bedside. ( "If the young lady wants you to j know she'll tell you herself, answered the old woman in a tone that ' ..it r? i ?4: J .il'Yj.V M ail nil IIIUI l|llUOVIUIIIII^i r Fred wns mystified. All In; could , do was wonder who I ho girl could ho. 1 "Well, (his is a pretty state of af- ( fairs. So you've been trying your best to kill yourself," said the hearty i Toicn of George Kyle, as he entered the cjottago about an hour after the accident. "George, I considered myself the luckiest, fellow alive," said Fred. "Because von wero'nt killed, I suppose," answered George. | "Because 1 wasn't killed. No. ! Because I've made the acquaintance i of one of the prettiest one of the I nioest girls in creation." j "Y^s, I know; she called at the house and told me all about it." "Who is she?" asked Fred, breathlessly. "Miss Helton." And George Lyle ! walked away whistling. j "Miis Helton!" cried Fred, and he ' 1 1 started up in a manner that, threatened ! dislocation ot* tlie shoulder tlic second time. \ lint George was merciful; ho stay- ? .od away and allowed Fred to ask ' himself a few questions.* "Miss Helton, before you sit down, , say that yon forgive my foolish talk of yesterday morning," said Fred, f. when his benefactress called to see hini, bright and early next morning. * Don't say anything about it," and , she placed her cool hand on his fe- f verish brow as she continued, sir*i 1 - r ingly: "You know 1 can't help bo- ( ing so very proud." ( When Fred recovered he didn't ^ think the Helton's too high-xonod to I visit, and the acquaintance that was formed in so romantic a manner en- * ded in a marriage. j A Mother's Device. A singular occurrence is discussed . t a groat dcnl in Komojust now. The son of tho millionaire Dollar, living there, intended'to' travel around the ' world. The young man's mother was very much troubled about her ^ only child leaving her and tried to secure a safe travelling companion for i him. Advertisements appeared dur- . ing several days in all tho principal papers, inviting young men who . wished to accept such a position to call at tho house. ()f the numberless candidates three were taken into 1 consideration, and they wcy;o invited to dinner, under the pretext of dis- . cussing the final arrangements. When they had passed a merry j time over dinner and tho desert was j served, tho lady of the house then suddenly threw herself on her knees I before her husband, crying out: "1 am a miserable wretch. Despair has made mo a murdress. The pino apple cream is poisoned. You have all all to dio." One of the young * mem began to lament his sad fate, I the second one remained sitting on | his chair like one turned to stone with fritrht. and the third ono ran to< the floor, calling odt: "Thoro is nn J antidote for every poison. I will ? run to tho doctor." The sign ore 1 stopped him on the threshold, saying: "The story is invented. 1 see you i have presence of mind. You shall accompany my dear child." Two old settlers tho other day I wero talking of tho length of time they had boon in Pino Hluff, Ark. The Hon. .1. M. Hudson said he had been on his placo at Locus cottage long enough to see a white mulberry tree, which ho had planted with his own hands, grow to tho thickness of I inroo ieoi. Judge isodago r^torre(J,f? to tho giant oak ho planted. .which ' had grown to three foot in diameter. s H __ I The highest price that over was ( {>aid for hock was paid the other day t >y an Ainorioan firm to Proxel liros. s in Frankfort on-tho-main.. Two hun- ^ dred^hottlos of Schloss Johnnnisberg, the'fastiof 1801 vintage, fetched 105 marks, or >25, per bottle. 41 V\ \ A-ISTID -2-OXT^S WOE THURSDAY, SKIHired i?> Howell. I Tho reference just now in the I*oHt n?l other papers t?> Henry \V. (.iru-1 ly hs editor of I lit* Atlanta t'onstifu- j ion loads ono to say something of j ho mau who is in fact editor of that vidoly known paper. At tho close ?f tho war Capt. lOvan 1'. Howell, a v>un?^ IIIIIII iii" nit. iwt'in v-uvi' vums Id, who had loft tho most of a batcry of artillery on tlio field, settled I n Atlanta to practice law. lie was | noro than usually successful, and ombined a little polities with his msinoss after tho manner of most Southern lawyers. Ho became a number of tho city government itnd ho solicitor general of his circuit, nd was also a State Senator. In 870 ho was a delegate to the St. amis Democratic Convention, where 10 was a member of tho committee mi resolutions and .an earnest suptor tor of Mr. Tildon. About the time of his return homo 10 made up his mind to givo up the aw and devote himself to journalism. The Atlanta Constitution was then 'iglit year^ old. It was founded in .StiS by Carey \V. Styles, who has ho reputation in Georgia of having tarted more papers and malting less mt of them than any other man in lie State. It. had successfully coin-1 icted with about a do/on dailies, inong tho most prominent being tlm I i/i ) <//</, which hud suspended under ho management of llenry W. (Jraly and Uuboritt A. Alston. In INTO t was owned hv W. A. Hemphill, its uisiness manager, and K. V. Clarke mil N. 1'. 'I', Finch, its editors, and lad the 7'i/nes for its competitor. It vas a folio of twenty-eight or thirty wo columns, published daily except Hominy, had eight or ton columns of ids. week days and a few more on Mindav, and its circulation amounted: o 1,oOO or 1,800 on week days and 1,500 or so on Sunday. Its weekl\ an perhaps U,000 copies. While it was in this condition Japt. 1 fowell bought ( laarke's share ' mil with the help of llemphill and inch, undertook to build it up. The I ask was diflieult, requiring hard vork, good iminagement editorial ihility and money. Such debts as vore pressing woro paid olf, but so! ihort of money were they that ('apt. lowell wont to his father to make a aiso. The latter, having no faith in ' \tlanta nowspapers, declined hssik- 1 UI shall," said (Howell, "mort'noe the house you mivo my wife." "Do so," said the father, hut don't ,'ou come to me for unothei." The house was mortirn<rcd and the r"> O leht discharged, and from that time n ' orward no money was necessary to un the paper. ('apt. Howell is its alitor tQ-dny, and Mr. Hemphill coninues its business manager, and they wo own over half the paper, and vitho it them there never would have >eon what is now the Constitution. Since Howell has boon conneced with the Constitution he has been i State Senator for the second time, md a dolegate-at-largo to the Democratic conventions of 1870 and 1881. ['resident Cleveland tendered him an ippointment as consul to Manchoser, Kng., but he doclined it. Mr. Grady, in 1870, was doing rood work for the Xew Vorlc lTc.rdlil md other Northern papers. lie was jfTored by Capt. Howell a place on lie (1on#titi((no/t\s staff, which he accepted, retaining iiis outside papers. Kortunate speculations enabled him .o purchase an interest in the paper, .vhich has (frown to be about one'onrth. The remainder of the stock s mostly owned by John H. Innian. # ' >f Now York. While Mr. Grady's lervicos to tho paper liavo boon of ixcee ling groat value, it. is no rofleoion upon liim to sa" that the two Tien who liavo mado tho paper are Mvnn I*. Howell, its editor, and Wiliam A. Hemphill, its business man'gor. National Fanners* Congress. Gov. Richardson has appointed ho following delegates to represent South Carolina at tho tho National farmers' Congress to bo hold in Chicigo, Nov. 1st to 5th: Capt. John Ifi. Brownlee, Antro .'illo, Abbeville County; James ('allson, Callison, Kdgeiiolcl County; jroorgo R. Dean, Campton, Spartan-j >urg County; Joseph L. Keitt, Now>erry Courthouse; W. 11. Stewart, 'ort .Mill, York County; Ralph Nos>it. Waverly Mills, Georgetown ' unity; Johnson I lagood, Barnwell, Courthouse; W. A. Anorum, CamIon, Kershaw County; (). A. Bowon, J 'ondloton, Anderson County. Al-! creates J. I). M. Shaw, Iligh Point, ,a"urens County; S. .J. Ilook, Columns, (P. ().) Lexington County; I,. Williams, Greonvillo Courthouso;j ieorgo B. McCanls, Winnsboro', j 1.aVriiobb|.ip?nty; Dr. James It. Mas-] ey, ITuiicl/stor Courthouse; John S. lorlbock, Mount Pleasant, Berkoloy bounty; Maj. W. J. Gooding, Ilampon C. iurthouse; Dr. W.' VV: Andor- j on, State berg, Sumter County; J.i A'. Brunson, Kasley, Piokons County, j The cotton crop in the south is I 'the greatest over seen." I 3C .A.3ST3D ~X-OTJ-J=Z COT TEMBEJt 22, 1887. Idtemry Kuocoss. Kvorv litornry suoooss has its own history. Thoroau's beautiful hooks aro found in overy librKry where ho would have oared to have them; hut inoy wvro bo little appreciated when originally issued that at the end of the lirst year almost the wholo odition was returned t?> the author, who 'carried the hooks laboriously upstairs \vith the laughing announcement that ho was probable the only man in America with a library of 1,000 volumes all written by himself. Uider I laggard thinks he will try the doubtful experiment of weaving his Afri can experience into a book for boys, and thousands of copies, perhaps hundreds of thousands of "King Solomon's Mines" are sold immediately <piito as much to his own surprise as that of anybody else. Rayard Taylor, thirsting for the litt*rary life, eager for fame, but only for the fame that comes from doing really admirable work, labors slowly1 toilsomely, carfully, and achieves at last an enviable position for graceful, scholarly, patient literary effort. Sidney laiska leaps into the literary arena with his firsl book in his hand, so brilliant a ono that the erities only wonder whether he can ever rlo anything else as good. Miss Aleott is inspired to write "Little Women/' because, as she naively says herself, "the house needed shining." Miss Murfoo and Mrs. Harnett for years write short stories in obscure publications, unknown, unnoticed and unpraised, till the lonjr training and patient perseverance "tell" at last, and result finally in a splendid effort that the admiring world suppose to be their lirst. II. II., a brilliant society woman, not especially interested in literature, already in middle ago, writes suddenly a poem, is perfectly amazed on receiving *10 for it, pays hcrselt for the publication of iier first book, only to find herself in x few years acknowledged as the finest pootess in America, if indeed, as Mr. Kmerson said, we -may not leave olT the last syllable of "poetess." Charlotte lironto, with profound confidence in her own genius, encouraged by no one, discouraged by every publisher till the last, writes ".lane Lyric," to be one of the ifreatest novels of her generation. (Jeorgc Kliott, profoundly self distrustful, venturing into fiction only j at the urgent entreaty of Mr. Lewis, writes "Adam Uede," to be the ad- ! miration of the world, and perhaps never did any work finer of its kind i.,.. ii?i> I mini iiui Hint* i iiu riut iTUSt'OU SpolTord, a girl of 10, who had never boon out of America and hardly out of Newburyport, sits in her little room, with portfolio in her lap, and evolves from her inner consciousness and knowledge of books a storv of Parisian life, so faithful to tho local color of the brilliant city of the world that the editor of the Afhmtii' sends it back to law at first on the plea that it is singularly fine, but presumably a translation. When a book appears so perfect of its kind a "Hans llrinkor, or the Sil- ! ver Skates," the world is interested not merely in reading the book, but in knowing how it came to be written. It. maybe stated briefly that "Hans lirinkor" wns almost the first! literary effort, though not actually the first, of its author; that at. the time she wrote it she had never been in Holland at all; that like her dear and intimate friend II. II., she had passed her girlhood and earl v womanhood without a thought or desire for literary fame. Mail ami I'!xj>)'ens. 'I'm If i i? ?>" t lu> f lliiimwiu The life insurance men have to study all sorts of questions, and among them the question of strong drink. It is all "business" with them; they want to lind out who will live the longest, so they can see how much profit there will he in insuring t hoi r lives at regular rates. If they; live long the company gains by it; if they die early thw company looses money. This is how the matter has boon figured out: A total abstainer at twenty years I old has the chance of living until he is sixty-four. A total abstainer thirty years old has the chance of living until he is sixty-six and one-half. A total abstainer forty years old has the chance of living until ho is sixty-eight and three-fourths. A moderate drinker twenty years old has a chhnco of living until he is i t n thirty-live and one-half. A moderrto drinker thirty yours' old has a chance of living until ho is J forty-four and three-fourths A moderate drinker forty years old has a chance of living until hois' c.fi... i . -I 1 uiiv-uiiH ami two-mirus. Whoso cliimco would vou prefer to tak o ? Failure of an Old Hiitflisli Hank, London, Sept. 0.?Greonway, \ Smith & Greonway's bank, at Warwick, has failod. The bank has boon established for a century, and had I the highest reputation for soundness, i It is feared tlie failure will eauso i widespread ruin. ? TUSTTZE^-^TV' A Cure for Alcoholism. I was ono of those unfortunates! #-> It .....I...-...) i? mi 1 n ?n in i\ i i muu ^'.'11 mo to depredation. I vowed and strove long and "hard, but I soldom hold victory over liquor long. I hated drunkenness, but still I drank. When I left it off I felt a horrid want for something I must have or go distracted. I could neither eat, work, nor sleep. I entered a reformatory and prayed for strength; still I must drink. 1 lived so for over twenty years; in that time I never abstained over throe months hand running. At length I was sent to the Mouse of Correction as a vagrant. If my family had boon provided for 1 would have preferred to remain there, out cf liquor ami temptation. Explaining my ulllictiou to a fob low-prisoner a man of much educa- j tion and experience he advised mo to mako a vinegar of ground quassa,! a half ounce stooped in a pint of vin egar, and to put about a small teaspoonful of it in a little water and drink it down every time the liquor tiiirst came upon me violently. I found it satisfied the cravings and suffused a fooling of stimulation and strength. When I was discharged I continued (his cure, preserved till the thirst was conquered. For two years I have not tasted liquor, and I have J no desire for it. Lately to try my) strength, I have handled and smelt whisky, but have no temptation to; take ik I give this for the consideration of the unfortunate, several of whom I know have recovered !>v the; same means which I no lonirer ro- i quiro to use. ( 'o/unclient Jloiut . f~ What Suit is (rooil Cor. \\ In.m i'i.ii iru?n \*i.nt- i.i.11.it* itu ; s,,w jvy ? ? spring ''leaning ndd .*i Ii111 *? copper** water ami salt to tlio whitewash. Sprinkling salt on tin* tops and at 1110 bottoms of garden walls is said to l<eop snails from climbing up and down. Kor relief from heartburn or dyspepsia, <1 liiiIc a littlo cold water in which has boon dissolved a teaspoonfill of salt. Ink stains on linen can be taken out if the stain is first washed in stronir salt and water and then sponged with lemon juice. I?\>r stains on the hands nothing is beter than a little salt, with enough lemon just to moisten it, rubbed on the . spots and then washed off in .clear water. In a basin of water, salt, of course, f.a. ?u_ i.. .. -1 limn n? inn ihmmhii; so never s<>ai\ fish with tho hUi11 side down, as the salt will fall to 111?> skin and remain tho.o. Tho very simple romody of comiiidii salt lias cured many eases of fever and ague. A toaspoonful taUen in water, and a toaspoonful deposited in each stocking, next to tho foot, as tho chill is coming on. This comprises the whole of the treatment. For weeds in pavements or gravel walks, make a strong brir.o of coarse salt and hoilidg water; put the brine in a sprinkling can and water th* woods innrourniiy, heing careful not to lot any of the brine get on the grass, or it will kill it too. If ft chimney or flue catch on fire, close all windows and doors first, then hang a blanket in front of the orate to exclude all air. Waiter should never he poured down the chiinnoy, as it spoils the carpets. Coarse salt thrown down the flue is much hotter. A Good Old Man. The other day I found myself walking behind an eldory man whoso shape of hat and it of coat indicated "a l/entleman of 1 ho old school." I noticed that his ,kets were rapacious, and that thoy bulged a good deal. The reason was soon apparent. As ho approached a couple of gamins who were playing in the gutter he abstracted from his coat tails two rosy cheeked apples, which he a?\ o to the two boys; and, as they started at him in astonishment, evidently wondering if their benefactor was simply a crank or if there was some concealed "do" in the transaction, lie pntto<l their heads witli liis cane, and |>assed on. I followed, hint, an ! 1?.--' fore he had gone a l)locl^ farlla r h?* stopped again and / dmifiistei'ed an i 'l / '' ! other apple to a Vlowp morse. Ii.s progress, in f;n;t, was a .continual in ; / henefaction, and vfhen I lost sioht of hi in ,*'4was refilling his pockets at a fruit stand, >nd talking pleasantly with the vender. /io.iton I1 out. "Do you think you will gnin your lawsuit ?" asked (I us do Smith of Col. Verger, who had been run over bv a * " 1 *' fire engine, and was suing1 tlio Cit\ of Austin for damages. "Yes, 1 think I'll come out ahead/' "Has your lawyer given you grounds to think so?" V "No, but 1 have given him grounds to think so. I've deeded lnm two on Austin avenue as a fee." Mountain is moving for the preservation of her forests. ' W;l % NUMBER 9. . . People Who are Talked About* Stephen A. Douglas is in tho east (in ? tour of the watering1 places. (ienoral Miles gets a $1,000 sword for cleaning out (ioronimo from tho grateful citizens of Arizona who realize that their scalps are still on their heads. Harriet Beechor Stowo has Written a loiter to a friend denying that she is in poor health. She says that she is able to take a long walk every" day and feels strong and hopeful. ^ t'arl Scliurz, while slowly recovering from the injuries ho received from a fall some months ago, spends most of his time in playing chess with his daughter, reading, and writing. Ho is a lino piano-player, and often entertains his friends with exhibitions of his skill. fl',0 son of Joshua I', (biddings, the old Ohio Abolitioirst, lives at Jefforson, the county seat of Ashtabula county. He practices law and runs a farm, but lio takes very little interest in politics. The son of Hon Wade lives in tho same town. llg gives himself up to hor-ws ami lets p<?lities alone. < 'ornelius Vandorbilt is about *10 years of age and worth certainly *75,1 KM),OUl), perhaps $125,000,000. He is a tremendous worker, and bis friends fear he is iniurino his health ?# > n l>v liis assiduous attention to the details of his business. If seems strange to think of a man working himself siek when he already has a larger iueome than he can by any possibility / got rid of. Ilumaii nature is a queer thin". * ^ ' Chancellor.!. II. \ incont, of Chautauqua, has been presented with a pine gavel made from the famous signal tree which stood on the summit of Allatnona mountain, to which (ien. Sherman, from Kencsaw mountain, fiftt?oii miles away, signaled to Gen. Corse, over the heads of the Confederate troops, to hold his position until Federal re-enforcement* could arrive. The gavel came from Joseph M. Brown, a son of Senator Joseph 10. Brown I). (). Mills is bavin" a \<7,000 n 1 bronze door made for the tomb that ho is building at Tarrytown. It will be ei"ht feet S v by four feet six. . 41"* The style is 'cii imitation of the o.d fashioned oak doors, with a lattice work on top. The paneling, cross pieces and wood grooves are to be repeated in bronze, Three companion pieces are to be made as windows. They are 8x 1 feet and in bronze lattice work. Miss Kate Field is the first person who ever delivered a public lecture in Alaska. The subject of her discourse was entitled "An Kvoning with Dickons," a most inappropriate title, as the lecture began ot 11:80 A. M. It took place in a dance house in Juneau, and mining camp, and the largest town of the province. Miss Field had a large and attentive audience. I |er only remuneration H'iia n I'f dn Iif ll\unl/e o ?? ll'A .? . vi< v/1 t 1111 mc 1. VIIIIIM I Ml 11117 hotel, and a subscription to Ttu /'\we /'/v-.s'.v, tin* only paper in- Alaska. Miss Ivoso ICli/aheth Cleveland speaks in tho highest terms of her brother's wife. She thinks it wonderful that so young and inexperienced a woman should display such grace and dignity as the President's wifo. She made the remark recently that although Prances was only I years of age. the White j House was never presided over by a more wo' I manly mistress, or with a sweeter I grace and dignity. "Frances get[ her queenly carriage from her father, I said Miss Cleveland; "the shapely head, the gracefully curved neck, and the dignified bearing are till in| horded from him. Joseph Harrison, ??f Hnrloy, ladado, has just been notified from Washington that his claimed back pension since 1848. I'y temporarily waiving a heavier claim for entire disability resulting from a wound on the hond, .7 inflicted by a bowlder thrown from ; the roof of a house at the storming of the ('ity <?f Mexico, he has been allowed $12 per month, with 0 per cent, interest per annum, since 1848, a period of tlurty-nino years. Having served in the war of the rebellion as a lieutenant in the Second ' alifornia cavalry, ho ? xpects to got quite an additional sum. The allowance to him jo far will secure him ^ over $10,00(1, and when his other ' claims for increased pension are adjudicated he expects to receive $15,I 000.|',|?20,0(H) more. Deacon Well, my son, do you sue any cuange m your tat her since lie joined the cHuroh? Hoy You bet! Why, when ho used tor go gunnin' on Sunday he would t'row ins gun over his shoulder and walk ofT as large as life, niu caviV for any one; but Ja iJoaeon Now-? Hoy ?Why, ho hides the gun tinder his coat and sneaks out of the back way. ' Florida 'Claims to have extensive phosphate beds eouailling, if not sur! passing, those of South Carolina. Xr" yrjp .