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2. BmiceM k>t'«r| ABU C'MDauniCf- tion* tn be |>ub i>h(d >bou)<i be writleu on aeperkte ubeeU. *nd tlx* o! j et o'eech cUariy indieutd by aecrMry note when rcquirt(1. ‘ ^ ; 8. Articles for publication chould be written in a cVar, legible hand, and on only one side of ihe i>» g j . % 4* All ebsnne in advertiirments mutt resell ii - o . F.iday. » f. )£J.- A TIOT'tt LOT KB. “ Whec I »m big I will marry Kitty*!? !• Bnt Kitty Klapped ma ami ran away, l _ M la. a. . . - * .. Knd, .while I wrpt for mytolf, in*pity I made i i up my mind I would marry May. “ Kor May waa gent a and May waa tender. Yet lightly ahe put my offer by; “lam engaged to Georgia Bender— Perbape I’ll take you If he chould die.” By and by I met Jennie Blatchall; Jennie waa thirteen and I was ten; I used to cafry her books and sachel, Cf And made np my mind to marry Jen. But Jennie, her reign ya« quickly over, And Kata, my cousin, liaaama my fata; I said: “ I’ll propose, Hke a brave, true lover, .1 As «oon aa ever I graduate.” Alee I whan I took out my e'ean diploma, The darting girl-was shout to start ‘Os beT wedding trip with young Will de Roma,.. Agdneone.knew of my broken heart! A* one-and-twenty again k>va found me, But the angel face and the meek blue ayes, And the threads of the golden hair that loved ma, Want fading back into paradise! - Hark ! into the bowse to. Kata and Harry, W. th about and i .Ands^rtlnemhadgaasnltgamj la wife and mother within wiy 1 -Mery Ainft D» r«rm J FK A YD LlMCOLfT. Being at Point Lookout, M<L, 8. Tay lor Suit, once the Ariel of the gold-room in Now fork, inter n Maryland planter, told tliis recollection: " Tlirru lived tear me in Prince Oaonre's countr, at Upper Marlborough, a cousin and favorito of Own. Robert E. Lee, named John F. Lea. He waa Judge Advocate of the United Htab* anny, and, when the war broke out. wae aluurd enoogb to reesgn tide plea* and Ihe rank of Major to go to iho Ctmfi’derayv. Mv tnUmate rela- twww with him led' me to know 0.4. R Y. lev. slightly. At the cloaa uf th« »*r. aliuut A|«ll 12, 1IM5, I made a vwtt I” lilrhinond, Vn, with the United Mat.-a Mar»laai at Waakingtsm, Ward H. I/iBeat. On Metarday night 1 w. i.t to hie ruan. at Urn MtnUwomi Hartri. and luund him ly , J ii»*| unail iha be cmhlnat Ml am Ihatk Wi'fg me*> I itevanee, um! ftanliy he nud ; 'lam gotug ntf tn Urn m«*Mag las Waehiu iVwi. IVforw I gw I wtU nen you.' Ha u»- lan- 1 again, and, filled With the might <4 •neb inf rmatum. whsrh was known la Iwt (ew M Rirhmn ■ad. I thonght 4 wrtad.1 piaUfjr me tn eadlu ag cm Oan. Lew. who lm4anumlAj|||j w toobadiwr, and waa at hh iNaUlag. 1 FVre I wae teM tMil (ten. lew waa aba at to attend religion* Mfiire. bnt wool d be at homo alweit l.’>» nrlariu I callrd again, and bv rv.- trod tee cordially, ami teqatrod per- te'uUfly Aw varus m friesnls, placre and ami Maryland. I finally said to ham: " * Ora. Lae I h eve a pteea of nrivat* niliwmatiiin which I came here to giw yen. air. Tbe 1Y» aiilent of the Uaitrd ftnealn. waa aaroam- nsted night Wtete laet to Washfegtott adty/ ** He tnrued stkJdetdy, hia lace bnuirt 1 ut half tamed toward ma befute, and hoked into my taua with aa nytmmkm I a!tall never forget. Ha looked me thr nigh mxl through. ‘ Ornnml,'aaid I. ‘UtaMennkv n.; doubt uf it The President's Mamlut!, fol. launon, told ma of it, and it -haa If. a fully oouftmed in cipher nnwaag. s to the military anlkoriUea. What dc yog think about it, Grn. Lea f * *' He miaed hm head and cUik, aasuiu- tug a piMitive exprewaioo, and exclaima d. " *4Jlie Bguth has lost her best friend!' " Before' 1 came away I remarked : 'General, I would lika to have ronr opinion aa to who is the beet of your ftpneraiaf* " He answered, still a little stunned oks I preoccupied: ** ‘A man I never aaw. A man named /orrest ’George A If red ’Pmcnsend. F- ; woontsK ru'Ks. irCooden pipes are now being usod in Switzerland to convey tho wateis of a tlicrmal minor;i' spring between Pfeffer and Bagaz. They are constructed of fir-woodgiade into otaves, and bound to- T gctlwr oy means of iron hoope. After . being carefullj,tarred both inside and otit, they are perfectly water-tight, and |X).shoss many advantages over metal piping. They are, of course, much lighter, and are insensible to changes of temperature, while their cost is only aliout 8 shillings per meter. It is inter esting to note that the New river water was first brought to London by means of wooden pipes formed by boring out free-tranks and joining them length by length. 8noh pipes have been exten sively used in America, and they are, under the beat enaditia—. serimatsi to last thirty yean.—Ftiglith paper. Stipulated. ’ ja TT*UfxFf?3tU / j No oomi&nnicAtion wll! be published - «... • VOL. IV. NO. .43 BARNWELL ,C, H. % C. THURSDAY. JUNE unless accompanied by tbe name and ad* ifws of the writer, not neoBesarlfr k» r publicatl in. but as a guaranty of good ^ : iJtp^rw; 4 ' —-r XHK RKADiyO HABIT. . . , , ■ ' . . ■ ■ • 1 ^ Charles Dudley Warner says, in the Chrirtian Union, that the extent of the rending habit is oyerestimated. Even in the United States, where thehabitof rein ing is most prevalent, few of the popu lation read a book. In support of his opinion, Mr. Warner brings out the fol lowing i ^--- Nearly everybody takes a daily snatch at the newspapers, at the summary of news or at the telegraph col am us, and the base-ball record, and occasionally perspns follow for days the columns de voted to some singular accident or enri- ous murder—even women have acquired the art of deftly skimming the cream off the mora&g jourmu^ebmpartdively few of the entire population, even tbs edu cated, read books. Unless a book by some good luck be comes s fashion, and is Recommended in conversation, few see it; the number of people who riginally seek out the read able book from their habit of craving is OUR JUVENILES. mountain height, Thsy are to be seen ' uow mb. vikcolu wab prkhidkut. ■f ■ -WfV ■*- ~ Mis (MM Maw.; A dear Utile D’ilJ cMnevklp^ii^ out ’ In tbe g'.ad new da; with a marry about; With dancing feet and (lying hair She aang with Joy in tbe morning air. u Don’t aing before breakfaat, you’ll cry before nifiht:” < What a croak, to darken tbe child'e delight I And tbe atupid old nurar, again and again. Repeated the ancient, dull refrain. . . ■ k" r, ■ • . .. ■ , The child pauaed, trying to underatand; But her eye* aaw tbe greet world ralnbow-apanned; Her light little feet hardly touched the earth, And h«r apul brimmed over with innocent aairtb. “Never naind—don’t iiat«n—0 aweet little maid I Make ture of your morning tong,” 1 aatd; “And if pain must.meet you, why, aU the more Be glad of the rapture that rame before ’ *" on most of the Pyrenees, they constltgjtjk j Lincoln was one of tbe most amiable whole Alps, they are reoogaized upon j of men. Mr. Chase was able, diatiu- thc Cancasus and OordiHena. ,. Hie wealth contained in mountains in 1 purest men who ever held olBce. There the shape of silver and gold ore and was an Assistant Treasurer at New York precious stonet has over been, like tbe j to be appointed, and Mr. Chase insisted magic thread of the labyrinth, leading j upon the choice of Maunsel B. Field, miners and geologists into the depths of who was then one of the Assistant Hoc their caverns. Formerly it was supposed retaries of the Treasury. The Presi- } dent wss not in favor of his appoint ment, and the issue was sharply made i by Mr. Chase that Field should be efiwen or he would resign hia great jd- fice. It was at a yj^imtjcal period of the war, and wli^tiM of TO BUY A MOMMIt. I .* d An old horseman speaking Of tbfrKub- jeoksays: H you want to buy a bone, J i gnished. and, in my opinion, one of the jlan’t believe yonr own brother. Take T tmmmu. TsrwmvKT affair—A prize tighl I Jl -w A rxri ya } 1 ^ “O, lean and Borrow tr* ptiaty aabcgti • Stoma may be Utter and patt* be rough; But our tear* ahould fall like the dear Eirtfa’a •how era t - T’<at help to ripen the fruita and flowera. , to be an easy matter to reach these j dent wss riches. All that a man needed was what was called “luck” and the favor of the seizing Mich as the rolling away of a stone from he had but to mutter some magic words, creep into a dark passage, Government waa at its andflhtTlunmeii beneajHi. a ynbiUed roef j ko Mglit nMatter "to - very small. When a story beoomes the faahion, everybody reads it; but who is every body • Why, a novel ia aatd to have a "run" if 10,006 eopieaof it are pnb- lishcd for 40,000,000 |ns»j>1c. - Aud there are hooka that " everybody baa rand, and all the dewspapen talk of," which have not foT beywml the third <iv fourth thouaan.l. * * The late Hnmaal Bowles once told use <4 hia experw.oa H* hml wgjJUm h.- .-apital bnok on the far Weal at Um tun.* railway excitement, wImh tbe In * So gladden tbe day with your btiaaful eong;. Slugnt wbile job Biay, deer, aweet sod atroag! Make •nr* at your moment cf pure delight. No matter what trta’a may come baton night” -CWfa ThajrUr, .a W.de J <mU , o’ 4 any bn rand R, I fovget yet, he aaked, horn many daabaU A Imf a Uuk, and, M am tn to them, they wil wait tilt they r«a 4 <w get it beat tbe kbrery. will »• kaka- Amt m mammA.• iaSn thl »Beggar’s Opern^ (1727), eltere Folly IVerhoaa, 1 think it ia, spoaka at hef ’• pefaw." The aoakwa t-hangr fi.«a •* pops'* and " aMuoaso" to lather and mother am.mg the chMeea, which Iwgan alomt thirty to have been a reaction a cnehitn which had gradually crept ia among penugMof a lewer gradei. Aa anon aa cammoa people's chihlreu begonto say “papa” and **mamma" those of a higher class were taught to say "father” and "mother.” It Hr drew his breath with a gasping •oh, with a quavering voice he aang. bnt bis vutoa leaked oat and could not drama tbe aeeoaBimafafn among my high-chnrcli friends that I first noticed this adoption of " father" and "mother." One does not boo the d’&nectiau, but each is the feck WI.cn I waa young “ papa” and " mammaV were universal among what may lie called the middle and up|>er ranks of so ciety, and to this day " ladies of s cer tain age” still use tho words. King George III., about the year 1762, ad* drgHsrd his mother os "mamma;'' so I find in the " Grenville Memoirs.” But I do not think that Charlee IL, uni,-as ho was speaking in French, ever ad dressed Henrietta Maria by that endear ing name, and I feel tolerably sure that tlie Lady Elizabeth never called Henry VIIL “papa.” On the other hand I would observe that " papa” anjL^I mam ma” are fast being supplanted by the oldoriginal “father”and “mothor.” For ten, or perhaps for twenty, years last past, children in the upper and upper- middle classes have, so far as my obser vation goes, been taught to say “ father” Mountain Ft aAs. . When tho world was comparatively young, and poopla wwancontented with lagan da and myths ooroamiag tbe won ders of creation, just aa children Hke fain blcriea, it waa the common belief that mountains ware Um work of gods smb-gruii, who hurled them down from heaven, and allowed them to fait by chance, or else raised them aa mighty ptUara dretumd to bear the vaults of the wkire. Ttm Titans, who were nut (pale, threw duwn all the mountains of TV- •afy in order to tme them again fnrbwdd- mg up the ram parts roand Otympua An.Ahev story Is that a giantrea of Itm X.wtl. load filkil bar apron with little htlk nwl •trqtped than aft 7- attUi Iroaitba oftberand of the * of crystals and diamonds; lia needed Imt to stoop and gather the rubies be neath his feet Not by chance and magic do the miners of our day roach the rich veins <4 minerals. . Study and hard work are behind all the en gineering a kiU which penetrates oar mountains. When the summer ia hare, and yon go forth vritli marry hearts and stout staves to climb some "Beddlebaek 1 ’or "Mount Tom/ just stop and think of all tbe wonderful things which happen to make a mountain ; and, aa you glance up ite wooded aides, and sea the clouds resting jrorak It waa Bceretarisa no man's word for it Tour eye is yonr market. Don’t buy a horse in harness. Unhitch him ami take everything off but the halter, and lead him around. If he | has a corn,-or is stiff, dr has any other (ailing, you can ace it. Let him go by himself a little ways, and if be staves right into anything you may know h«V stoqs blind. So matter boir epareod bright his eyes arc he can't see any aipre than a bat. Back him np, too.. Soma horses show their weakness or other. - - upon its summit,or behold ww pwrptw Imre of evening gathering about Ma ma- . " ^ I j vatic form, remember " tbe isde it fc dr then, and especially to lose the service of him who had originated aud carried out our systems of credit and banking. Bnt the issue waa made, and the Presi dent would not retreat nor surrender his grant function of appointing power: The resignation waa accepted, and the Brat knowledge the Senate had of the change waa the appointment of David , Tod, of Ohio, for Secretary of the Tree*, ury. The Senate ami country were sa loon, led—frightened—for the critis, taking the weighty mattera uf war aud credit into the ease, waa nano The notulnatioo of Tod was referved to that hotly by 4 a A wun failure—A deoeaaad bank* rapt. ’ A’Mwcjib Wwnr <■ a man lika fttlm^-hrc When he refleafw. m«m 4 rr*t<o *».? A N*r that many ak anxious to get' Tub weight of ttm world—About twelre ounces to the pound, ws jmdttt * -t l ' * *—*•»**-. mw mo. WSWN. *■ *V*“ *-*--• mom •fw EvEarmisa — T tbalwaf when tl^ey don’t in any.’|,4raa K tpaA0ai ! «3iickens have to •haB^ l^ako w np»*r4-Vi.’< -attw fa** But be fts smart as you can, and you'll get caught sometimes. Even an expert gets stuck. A horse may look ever ui nice, and go smile in a minute, and yet have fits for instance. There isn’t a lit.* man could tall it till something hap pens. Or ha may hhve a weak back. Give him the whip and off he goes for a mile or two; then, all of a sudden hi •its down on the rand. After a ram ho gets np and starts again, bnt ha i down for good, and nothing bnl a der rick could i Do von know wbaft n dnaamy 1st Well, hi tell yon. He’s a boras that 'I know anything. His A a way* and pretty aeon ha wm )ere am Tkach**—" What does it mean to say i that aperspn takes fha palm F* Bhy-t.*-1 “ It means that ha takes tha cake/ Whs* a man is . kjees'*one, be reminds ns of' M M -1/ae i wvturj ciove, "Tnw Uthe kind that I don’t Uka," of monntama appear by ever Um level ground has rolled down to any enormona extent In addition to external causes which cha’iga pli into m. am tain a, alow tranafonnationa in tba interior of Um earth are also being ac complished. bringing about vast exon- vationa. Those hard-working men who, liammer in hand, go (or many years among the mountains in order to study their form and struct are, observe in the lower beds of marino formation, which coostitote the non-crystalline portion of the monutains, gigantic rents or fissures X.J era wre Mr. - rory popular el *• And yon mve it to me party that atrh a letter ha ** Tea, 1 did," replied Borah, as he felt of hie left ear to ere i futara fights, "hot I've bin in the last ton I guess the old woman berk lnW • [ tn Misaoori has put off writia* till next j *■ Kentweky. He pM^nd Let * go oat and taka awthin' 00 able to taO tha I hen, “ and "mother;” and “ papa” and “mam ma,” which are words of extreme ten derness to thbse of my generation, seem now to have sank into contempt as a "note” of social inferiority. —Notes and Queries. A ffi atihtician with mtuucal proclivi ties has been figuring on the number of operas written by-each of the comiMJaers. He finds that Donixetti taru.d out 66; Mcrcadanto, 60; Anberfid; ftossiw, »; Halvey, 32; the bothers Ricci, 37; Verdi, *7; PetreHi, 27; Moxart. U; Wegner. 11 extending thousands of yards in length. - — - MBH ■' i been Masses millions of yards thick have keen completely raised up again by thcHe shot’ks, or tmued as completely upside down, so that what was formerly theanr- faee has now become the bottom. And in this way have been revealed the crys talline I’liration, or folding, is also an important feature in the history of the earth. By this process, subjected ,to slow pressure, the rock, the day, the layers of sandstone, the veins of metal, have all lieen folded np like a pieoe of cloth, and the folds thus formed become mountains and valleys. • ' • One of the most interesting features in the study of mountains is the discov ery of fossils; by which the na accurately determines the age of'rocks. Millions of these remains of animal and vegetable life have been preserved. Of coarse the tissues of flesh and drops of blood or sap are gone, but in their stead wj particle* of atone wnien nave kept tfm form, and aomehimes even tha color, nf the creature destroyed. WHWu the thickness of these stones are shells of mollnska, disks, spherap, spines, eylin- ters in astounding Cum berm; we aee the skelatuM of fish with senlea, tbe wiag-el ^ to bring teara to our ayaa. JOB or TUB KABTU. TilO age of tho earth ia placed by at 500,000,000 at jean, by others 100,- 0*10,000 years ; and atill otbere, of later time, among them tha Duke of Argyle, place it at 10,000,000 years. None place it lower than 10,000,000, knowing what processes have Imcd gone through. Other planets go through the same proc ess. The reason that other planets dif fer so much from the earth ia, that they are in a so much earlier or later stage of existence. The earth most liecome old. Newton surmised, although he cenlil give no reason for it, that the earth would at one time lose all its water aud become perfectly dry. tiiuce then it lias been found that Newton was cor rect As the earth keeps cooling it will be come porous, ai^d great cavities will be formed in the interior which will take in the water. It is estimated that this process is now in progress, so far that the water diminishes at about tho rate of the thickness of a sheet of writing- each year. At this rate in 6,000,- 000 years the water will have sunk a mile, and in 15,000,000 years every tracs of water will have disappeared from th< face W the globe. “TB8 nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere are also di minishing all the time. It is in an in appreciable degree, bnt the time will fOHM whin the air will be an thin that no ereatorea w« know could breathe it | " Bested in a tavern located on a tarn- pike, he amused himself, one day, by locating tbe birthplaces of the travelers who alighted. «. "One traveler, getting off hie horse, aaked, ‘ Have you any oata ?’ " ‘ Tea,* answered the landlord. “ ‘Give my hone two quarto.’ "‘That man,’said the observer, 'is from Connecticut’- " ‘ Landlord,' said another traveler, ' give my horse four quarts of oato ’ " ‘ That man is from Mtosachtmetts,’ remarked the observer, i . " ‘ Have you oats, landlord V asked a third traveler. " * Yea. ’ " ‘Give my hoitft ds dtany oals as he ‘“That man is from Rhode Island.’ "Now/ said Mr. Hoxie, "I oome from the State where they give their horses all the oats they can eat" and live; the time will come when tbs world cannot rapport life. That will be the period of age, and then will corns . OREO OS'A LIQUOR LAW. To! take a drink in Oregon coats a man so indulging $5. 'The rum ia not worth that money, bnt the city requires a license costing that sum before a man can get any bitten at any hotel or sa loon. It is a penal offense for the pro prietors of those establishments to sell to any parson who ia not armed with such license. Srery i^t months the local pa pers publish tha names of all who have applied for such documents, and the publie thereby know wko are tbe drink A Tbe cat ia a it a-amw-eea him. He is covered with far, m filled with deceit fa toes*, ami abounds in cheek. I said that porr-puss. Me can outside of a canary in fnH then come and alt by yonr side and look up yon in Um fare with a audio that is "childlike and bland," cbnek full of penitence and canary. Canary (Alter mi mal do this? His fur is soft ami glow/, bnt what is this fur I cannot say. It so soft, however, bat whst it will break bricks. The cat is a smaller bird than tho mule. As a general thing tho cat can draw more than any other animal except a mustard plaster. "T have known him to draw iwq'bootjacks, scuttle <.f coal, two or throe charges out of a gun, two or throe swears out of a man, and two articles of bedroom furniture out of the third-story window. This can also be said of the average string band. In fact they are somewhat related, as the discoverer of the fiddles, listening to the music of the oat, cut him open to se« where the noise comes from, and thus laid the foundation for fiddle-strings. Cats and fiddles thus be*ome viol-in line. 1 would say something about the oat o’-nine-tails, but it ia a painful sub ject ; another reason ia I don’t know anything r.liout them. , have imagined I U> grateful U, a To. _ like and to order to derive (hem overcome, fn nine Cairo out of ten a learned spo eh is better than aa unlearned one. I. have always envied the memory of those who, without hen*, tat ion or pause, can deliver a act oration.- One of the greatest adepts of this art was Lord Beaconsfield, who,' although a Atpnt and ready impromptu speaker, • ‘-alt An xf LoNorannow remarked of Hawthonigq “ Ha was a shy man, and ssceedingly refined. If any one thought he wrote with ease be should have seen him as I bare, seated at A table with pen sad him, perfectly atill, not VlS&L^NN. On MM occasion ha often adopted it*. More than once h® haa handed meetings, and he haa then without the mistake of a word. I one-* tried to do this ; someone Imd-vplatnejl Ip iue a system of mnemonics, by means at which everytliiqg was to be rerntap- ’*red by kwating phrases in different comers of the room. Per five minutes I got on beautifully, but, when I had 11 ^hrned to thfi next, my key became confused, add. ignominioualy broke down. — J tiUi UAL xha? ftt. • M- rho STKF os tub othbb maw. I.One night * burly EngUshman, had the faculty of ei.ntnig Carlyle i fiwnzy by talking alxmt O’Connel!. culled on him, and, after a tittle talk s’ out the weather, at it they went It was hot and heavy and a fierce and mer okas control Tea pul a brief stop Jo it, but it CMyte put ber 4h4 ssi ttm EngtoAman’s, on