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TRIl-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. Go, AINR l'i29, 1879. VOL. 1II.-NO. 38. "I WILL BE TRUE." The fresh groen foliage trembled o'er A picture purely sweet, A blue-eyed maiden in the fore, Her lover at her feet. The brookles glietuored just below, And listened to their love ; . And suniner spread o'er all a glow R1eflecting heaven above. The maiden whispered 'I will be true, Her eyes voilod by her hair, lie answered, "By the heaven so blue I will be true, I swear." The lover sailed across the sea, low sad it was to part, l3ho whieipored "I'e'll be trne to me," But only to her heart. For houru eho'd gaze out o'er the main, And through lier veitis there thrilled A wealth of love akin to pain, Jlhr heart with hope was filled, The maiden whispered, "I'll be true," And snoothed her golden hair, "By endless sea, rhe heavens so blue, I will I I true I swear." The red sun setting o'er the snow, A sad life picture sees, The maldon weary is to go, . And tears are in the breeze. "Oh mother, whon he comes, pleaso say 'Ihat I forgive him all. And once more, darling, liston, prey, I hear our father's call, ' 3he dying murmured, 'I've been trues And will be happy there : Oh! mother, all is heavenly blue, - And'I am free from care." THE TWO MOTTOES. DY MAnY CLCIL. "Then out spake bravo lioratius, the captain of the gate, 'To overy man upon this earth death cometh soon or late; And how can man die bettor than facing fear ful odds, For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods ?'" So spalce the chosen orator at this first commenccenteit of the- new High School. But t he young orator was over powered by his desire to win laurels as a member of the first graduating class. Parents and grandparents who were Interested in thie exercises, grew rest less and excited, and one old lady seated oin the bench which skirted the gallery walls, rapped her fan vigorously on the shoulders of a yo ng man standing be fore her in the aisle, commanding hin to stand back,-he was so tall she could not scel Franklin Stark, for that was the young mal's name, complied po litely, but his hardened face wore an expression of more concern than amuse ment as he apologized to Matilda War ner im medlately behind him, for shut ting off her view of the stage. It pained him to be guilty of the smallest rude ness to a lady such as Matilda seemed to be. " It Is impossible," lie said, " for me to see much and conform to the old la dy's direction, but I have no right to make my neighbors suffer for that. Matilda could see better from where lie stood than from her present place. Wouldn't she change places?" But Matilda is even more a stranger to us than to Franklin Stark; and while the orator is glancing at his not,, of Lord Macauley, rather to recover from his embarrassment than to refresh his memory, we note her appearance. Notwithstanding the thoughtfulness of her face and the quietness of her man ner, It was that of a delicate girl 01 eighteen. She wore a neat calico suit, a collar tied with dIrab ribbon and a straw hat trinmmed with' drab; time cos tume relieved by a cluster of pink gera nlums worn at her belt. But it has ta ken longer to write this than for the orator to resume his really eloquent rendition of thu lay, than for Matildi timidly to accept thme proposed change. " It is hard for the teacher s," obsery ed Matilda in reply to some remark of Franklin's, " hard for them to induce the children to remember their istruo tions." " Iow do you know ?" lhe queried, " have you ever taught ?" " No, returned Matilda, " I haven't been to the public schools in flye years, arnd .1 haven't been anywvhere since I" " Well," responded her companion with conscious inpoi'tance, "I haven't been to thme public schools for a longer period. I attend the Seminary. Why don't you go somspewhere ?" he added, noting that Matilda sighed. "My father keeps a root, herb and flower store," answered Matilda. ".I attend the flowers and care for father." "'IThen how do you know about tihe troubles of 'toachers ?" "I suppose I feel for them because I intend to teach mysetf." " It will be hard for you to become one with what you are doing now," in terposed Franklin. "I don't like work. My father tells mec to go to college; but as I think the course difficult, I have given the idea up. Tihe same for study Ing medicine. I'll consult case in re gard to what I become. If I do not of lend my father, lie will make me a rich merchant hike himself. It is as well to take thme goods the gods provide an~d be thankful." " To me," Matilda replied, " nothing is sweeter than that which I earn by hard labor. I do not think you will aihoaye be satisfied with doing and bc ing that which is simply the easiest, but with that which is noblest andl best." Franklin was silent a long time aftem Matilda's earnest words; then he inquir od with apparent lightness whether her geraniums were gathered from her fa. ther's pots, and being answered in the affirmative, asked whore they lived, as he wished to purchase rootlets fo.r him self. After the first interview, and not withstanding Matilda was some years oungr thani himself, Franklina oftn found hits way to the little shop, and upon Saturdays and Sundays continued to spend a portion of the time which would otherwise have lain heavy on his hands, for Franklin's nationality was Jewish ; yet beyond the observa tion of a few binding customs, his rell gious views were unfixed. Years passed thus; Franklin never entered college, but instead was taken into business with his fattier. Meanwhile Matilda was plodding diligently for higher im provement, and as teaching seemed to her the most desirable occupation within her reach, she attended aiid passed the preliminary examinations for appli. oants and entered upon the tedious round which we believe usually pre Cedes admissions to the teacher's rank in New York and other large cities. A full year passed without the least prospect of. success, but Matilda was courageous and decided to wait. At the end of that time Mr. Nathan Stark, Franklin's father, was appointed to the oflice of school commissioner, and the son had little difliculty in persuading his father to give the quiet, pleasing MatfI'da the first position at his disposal. Now Franklin's visits at the herb deal er's bec.ine longer, and often on Sun day- he accompanied Matilda and, he iat'"er to their retired place of worship. The truths, too, which fell from the minister's lips made an impression. Franklin eventually asked iis father's consent to a union with the young tea cher; and to this his falier, as much f'rom partiality to Matilda, as from dis like to a family disruption, reluctantly consented. But now that Franklin dc sired to kneel beside the aame altar, at which he was to be united to his bride, to accept a newer creed, MIr. Stark re gretted his pliancy. "1 If you had left the ancient faith after your marriage, the discredit would rest on yourself. I can allow no one living under my roof," said this Intel ligent Hebrew, " to be guilty of such opposition to my wishes." At the same time lie threatened to disinherit his son, unless the union was solemn ized according to the forms accepted by adherents to Judaism. " It is not so much that you seek for a new creed," he ad-led, " for in my opinion all rell glons are about the same. I simply be lieve in each adlheu ing to his own. Ours Is not really a reltglon,-'tis a denonmi. nation. Like all citizens, i am proud boing an American, and I, for one, am proud of belonging to the Jewish de nomination. It Is just this that I object to in my son. You attempt by this pro posed change to lose your nationality. Yet in the outside woiId you will still be looked upon as a Jew. After you have proselyteel to Christianity, you will be looked upon with suspicion; if you do not adhere to our rights you will be discarded by your brethren. Think twice before you make yourself, by your precipitation, a social unit-a no body." But Franklin had thought, and with Matilda's concurrence decided, what course to pursue. At the little church they so often attended, the young Jew knelt once to receive baptism, and once more with the hand of Matilda Warner clasped in his own. " It is hard," he said, as they passed away as man and wife, as the displeas ure of his family and the probable ruin of his financial hopes rose before him, " it is hard Matilda for me to bearn But I take pleasure in reviewing never. theless!I Do you not remember that commencement afternoon when you told me we should only be satisfled withI doing what is best-not what is easiest ?" "I remember," smiled Matilda, as the picture of her odd little self rose be fore her, "but I did not then suppose," she added gently, " that you would sac rifice so much to prove your belief in the principle. But time will show whether In the long run you are a ioser." And time (lid show. Contrary to their anticipations, Mr. Stark relented, and Frank-in through a happy and prosperous life had every reason to thank " the prude," as lhe often called Matilda, for that quiet talk at the com mencement, and for his happy aspira tion for all that was virtuous and noble. -Second Century. An Inteligens Hlorse. One dlay my brother was (out driving in the country, wvhen a stranger stop podt hm by exclaiming : "Hlallo I that used to be my horse I" "Guess not," repliled my brother, "I bought her at a livery stable and they told me she came from Boston." "H'm I what do you call her ?" the man asked. My brother answered that she was sold to him under the niame of "Pilnk." Said the Stranger : "LHot That isn't her name.". Then suddenly lie cried out sharply, "Nelly I' -Quick as a flash the mare pricked up her oars and looked around. Stepping in front of her, the man baid: "Nelly, shake hands." Up came the mnare's right hoof for him to take. "Now give us the other hand, Nelly," and she raised the left forefoot. '.Then said tihe smiling man: "TIhere I d'ye suippose that wvan't my horse ?" Froilt, S1,soo. " To sum It up, six long years of bed ridden sickness, costIng $200 per year, total, $1,200-all of this expense was stopped by three bottles Of Hop Bitters taken by my wife. She has done her own housework for a year since, with out the loss of a dr.y, and I want every body to know lit for their beneflit" A unster City Cocktail. A returned miner from the Black Hills arrived In Ubicago, recently and went to a saloon and asked for some of the best whisky in the house, and when it was served to hili spat it out with uuutterable loathing' and said, "I call ed for whisky young man, mebbe you didn't hear me?" The birkeeper said that lie had heard him and he had given him whisky..* The gentleman from Deadwood procceded with more dead ly calmness, tho' his hand instinctive ly sought his hip pocket. "I called for the best whisky in the house, young man ; inebbe you didn't catch the full signifleance of my language?" Now, many another barkeeper under linliar circunstancen would have resented the lnsinuation as to his liquor by pouring it into tile sink, and saying, "You don't know good whiiky when you see 6," or words to that ef'ect, or have offered the mnan $500 If ie could find as good whisky as that anywhere on the footstool, or in any manner not herein specified have had the man fron the Binck Hills to draw his revolver or hurl a chair through the mirror. But this barkeeper wias a man of quite anl other sort, ) he said, kindly : "I beg Your- pirdoil, Captain - so many people come arouln that don't know what N hisky Is, but I might have seen with half ali eye that you knew the dif'er once." So he urbanely but hurriedly mixed in a bottle some alcohol, kept for cleaning the mirror and spirits of turpentine and Jamaica ginger, and Perry Davis' painkiller, and when the Ptranger said "Yes" In ieply to his question whether lie liked some bitters In it., shook-half a gill of pepper sauce into a tumbler and pushed the bottle toward him. The stranger 1Illed a heaping tumbler and passed it off, anid when lie had recovered lils breath sid to the barkeeper, "Young man, that,'s the whisky. I haven't tasted nothing like that since I left Custer City two weeks ago. That's real genuine liquor kinder a cross between a circular saw and a wildcat. That takes hold quick and holds on long. Just you go to Deadwood and open a saloon with that whisky, and you might charge an ounce. a glass for it, and people wouldn't kick. So long; take this iII reinembrance of me,'' and pressing an $800 nugget upon the barkeeper, lie was gone. The Thin Man from Dayton. One morning recently, soon after the Eating stand on the Centi itl Market, Chica go, had been thrown open to the naw of the hungry public, and while Mrs. Ma gruder was telling a small boy that she could hold l) her hand and swear that she never used beans in her coffee, a stranger caie along and asked if lie could get a bite to eat. Mrs. Magruder las been on the market for many years, and she thinks shio knows a thing or two. She has flattered herself that she could tell to a bite just how much a customer could eat, and she has for years had an undisguised contempt for thin bodied, spare-faced men, who try to chew their coffee and mince their toast. This stranger was little better than a six-foot shadow. Ilis foreground consisted of a shirt collar and a mouth as big as a mince pie, and the perspective revealed nothing except two hollow eyes set below a thin line of sandy eyebrows. Ile re marked that lie had just arrived from Day ton, and was somewhat hungry, but want ed first to inquire how much his breakfast would cost 1h1im, as lhe was rather short of funds. "Oh I I suppose you may .be ablle to wor ry down six or seven cents' worth of provi sions and a cup of-coffee, she replied. "Suppose yon say tbwenty-flve cents for all I want to eat?" he said, asithie corners of Ils eyes began to twitch. Mrs. Magruder looked him over and mentally calculated that she would make just thirteen cents by the bargain, and shie rep~liedl: "'I must have my money in advance, you knowv." "Oh certainly-here It Is. Now, then, I may eat my fill for that quarter?" "She said that was the understanding, and winked at the wvoman in the next stall. The thin mani from D~ayton doubled up oii a stool, opened his mouth, and a fried saul sage went out of sight so quickly that tihe last end seemed to smoke. A fied cake followed, than a second sausage, anid after a gullp or two the man handed out his cup with the words: "That tastes like real coffee-gimme some more." While she was filling the ciup he got away with two hot biscuits and a slice of beef, and1 the coffee came just in time to wash down a hunk of min11ce pie. lie could use both arms and his mouth at once, and lie attendced strictly to business. WVhen Mrs. Magruder had filled the third cup her smile had quite vanished. She saw that she wouldn't come ouit even without resort ing to strategy, amnd she began asking ques tions. The mani answered none of thlem except by a mournful shake of the head. Crash I crash! w ent his5 Jaws, and he reached out from the shloulder like clock work. Mrs. Magruder called lisa attention to a clog fight across the way, but he ate faster than ever. The bell strucek 0 anid she remarked that a big conflagration was rag ing at the Union depot, buit the man11 did not raise his eyes. When Mr. Margurder discovered that she )vas at laste six shillings behind she said that she was a "poor widow with five children to support." "How I do pity youl" replied the man as lie passed lis cup with one hand and raked In a biscuit with the other. TFheui Mr. Magruder told a story about a man droppig dead on tihe market the day beforo on account of overeating, but the man got away with two fried cakes and re lield: " Curious how 50ome folks will make hogs of thiemselves." At length Mrs. Margurder wanted to know 1how much longer lie could stand it, and thme thin man from Dayton gave her a. approaehful glance and aiiswercd: "Have I thus early fallen in with swind hers and falsifieraf " She let him go on for three or four min utes more, and than sha hintard that a do. tective wats prowling around there evi dently " spott ing" some one. " If he'll only give mite twenty-five minl utes to fiish my breakfast, lie can take me mid be hatiged!" answered the man, and his arms worked faster than ever. Mrs. Magruder was cornered. She laid his mt10on iey and asked him for the sake of her poor orphanis to move onl and leave her at least one fried cake as a pusiiess foun dcation. lie paused with his cupli held out for the seventh time, nd perhaps some thing inl her tearful lock reminded him of his poor dead mother, for he said: "Well, 1 am only hman, and I admit that my heart is tender. I do't like to break of in the middle of my breakfast, but I'll take the money and mnove on for your children's sake." lie got i), looking just as mluch like at lath as when hie sat down, aid when he was out of sight Mrs. 31agruder turned to the desolate ruins and groaned out: - "' take my solemn oath if $4 would make me good for this, and I iist tell my husband that I fitted out a schooner on trust!" Atmospheric Presure. One of the most remarkable inven (Ions of the times Is now being per fected and experimented upon by Al fred Wilkin. For several rmonths Mr. Wilkin has been trying to study out some more speedy and economical imietliod of elevating grain 1i bulk than any now in use. The results as already shown by his yet imperfect model, are astonlishlinlg, and promIse to work al most ia revolutiou In the grain-earry ing trade. The prinlipal dtic 1.0s ii this curious little machine is simnply that of atlmospleric )ressulre, or the exhaust process which has Iitely been applied with such wonderful sleess in the great Westinghouse almospher le brakes. The model which Mr. Wil kin has used so far Is a small air pump rather rudely constructed, yet answer ing for all plractical purposes at pres ent. Conn11e ted with the pum111p is a one Inch tin pipe, syphon shaped and at the elbow or top (some three feet above the pump) is a cylinder some what larger than the pipe and connect Ing both parts of it. Inside ot this Is a smaller perforated cylinder, while at. the lower end of it is a valve through which the grain drops out. Tne other arm of the syphon is extended down into the gral n pile. When the maelhine was first ready to be started some wheat, was put In a common envelope box to represent the car or vessel, and the grain was slicked ip at a rate that wits perfectly astonishing. As some one remarked, "At this rate the com plete machine would draw the nsidles out of at vessel In less than no time.'' This was making an elevation of about five feet, and some who viowed the re markable effects of the crude air pump reasoned that It would be possible to ralse grain only about thirty-two feet or as high a1s the air would sustain a column of water. But without argu ing the case, Mr. Wilkin quietly had a lot of sectional pipe madie and planting his machine in the third story of the custom house, forty feet from the ground had the satisfaction of seeing it take up the wheat and corn out of' the box placed on the ground as easily as the whirlwind would take up the dust from the dust from the road. The next step was to place the air puimp in the fourth story, over fIfty feet from the ground, where thle result was similar. The only drawbacks were the miechan leal defects in his ap~plIanlces. This settles the question about raising grain to great heights by atmospheric pree sure'. Th~e reelprocating pump will be su1plan~ted in practice by powerful blowers, which, wIth their contInuous actIon, wvill exhaust the air so rapidly the mallnufacturer's think, that an eight inch pipe will gIve all the pressure ask ed for by the Inventor. Poor Oharlotta New liome. Sonmc interesting historical recollections are associated with the chateau of Blouck outc, near Grlmberghe, lately purchased from Count de Beaufort by the King of the Belgians as a residence of the unhappy Empress Charlotte. Boukoute, as It should be pronounced, dates from the twelfth cen tury. At, that time it was a castle, strong ly fortified b~y the Dukes do Brabant to dle fond themselves against the Counts of Grhtnberghe. About 1336, Count Louis (de Male, who had difllcutlties, not onily with the English, blut with the French, took re fuge there. Recently the remnants of ar rows anid lances have been found on1 the estate, and they probably date from that periodl. Later, the castle was occupied 1)y Everard (Ie la Mark, brother of tihe Wild Boar of Ardennes, from whose hands It passed to the family of Aremnberg. In I1590 the Iiautevilles bought it, and tihe Beau forts, who have just sold it to King Leo pold, havo only owned it since 1830. It was formelly a very strong fortress, suir roundIed by flye moats, which protected each other, and were crossed by a bridge of extraordinary length. In 1660 the castle was still a large square, flanked- by five towers; but the latter, with -the moats, have now dilsappeared. The most ancient part of the structulre Is the dlonjon, which dlates from tihe twelfth century. It Is three stories In height, each being occupied by only one apartment. Thle adjacent wIng Was constructed to harmonize with the rest of the building. The interior is a veritable museum, which will remain In Its present state. In the dining-room thle chimney pice, whlich is very large, is surmlountcd by3 statues of Godfrey of Bouillon, Philhp the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, andI Godfrey the Bearded, who is supposed to have founded the manor. Near the prin cipal drawing room Is a small chapel dedi cated to. St. George. The stained-glass windows represent the Dukes of Burgundy the Emperor Maximilian I. Charlef . Philip II., Albert and Isabella. Tihe park contains over 800 acres. The work to pro pare the chateau to receive the Princess is being p~ushed forward rapidly, and Bihe will take up her residence there immedIately after the return of.- the King and Queen from England Measureig Daylight. It is greatly to be de!sired that a good and simpj)le method may be found of recording mid measuring with some uecuracy the var iations of daylight throughout the day. This would render the weather record more coiplete and it has anlt important special bearing on plant physiology. An attempt Af the kind has lately been made by a Ucr man, I lerr K reusler, who has had made for lhm, by Liebertz, In Honn, an apparatus with the following arrangement: It con ists of a drum flxed with its axis in the p)lane of the meridian, aind adjustalble so as to be at rignt angles to the sun's rays. This drum has its border divided into twen ly-four hours, twelve nooi and twelve mid night being in the meridian plane. A strip AII paler, sensitized with solution of bichro luate of potIssiimi and having diviSiOns which correspond to those on the drum, is placed round this. A second drum closely surrounds the first, and is turned by clock work (from which it can be detached) once in twenty-four hours, in the direction of the min's apparent course. The second drum has a slit for admitting light to the paper ; its width is such that any point on the pa per is exposed twenty seconds as the alit passes over. The whole apparatus is placed in the open air under an open glass bell jar. Its arrangement gives little trouble ; the paper stripl has merely to be placed In its right position at night or under artificial ihade (to avoid coloration), '.d the outer 1rum slid over and so attached to the rota ting axis (hat the "'insultation slit" is op posite the hour then present. The slit then begins to move round the inner drum corre 4pondingly to the sun's course. 'hie im pressed slip, when removed in the evening, may be "'fixed" by shortly dipping in water mid drying between blotting paper, or it may not, being quickly read ; it shows a mostly continuous succession of bands of various shades of black, or rather brown. o'or comparison, I lerr K reusler made a scale if 10 degrees of darkening, exposing strips f the paper a given time under different ingles of incidence of light. Bands of the experinental strip that appear homogeneous irc now measured with reference to breadth (minutes and seconds) and intensity, (by :'omparison with he scale), and the sum of the products of these quantities is taken as I. measure of the action of light rays falling m the instrument in a given time. The results are considered highly satisfactory. hitiujson's Unfortunate E.xperienoo. When I met Simpson one (lay after I had been absent from the city several months I noticed that lie had a depress d look and that he wore a wig. I tsked him the reason for assuming a wIg, but lie said, "Never you mind" ind appeared to want to avoid the sub jet. When I reached my office I asked him in, aid I pressed iIin to tell me what was the matter. Finally lie con iented, and locking the door and pull ing down the window blind, he said "You know old Partridge, the Phre nologist ?" "Yes." "You know lie las ani awful pretty daughter, Sally.'' "Well, sir, I was In love with that Iirl, and I thought she loved me. And so, one (lay, I called at Partridge's place to kind of sound him to see if I stood any chance. And the old man yote know, lie was a little reserved, but lie told me that any man who wanted to get a favor from him could do so by lermittinghlim to shave off his hair and Lo maiip out his scalp. You know, he wanted a living subject to lecture from instead of a plaster bust." "Well, you see I was wild about his laughter, so like an Immortal Idiot I let him practice on me. IIe took oft' every haIr clean, and' then got a stick of caustie and laid out my scalp In tbwn Iota, wIth a picture in each reserva ion. Jusat look at that I Isn't it Infa incus ?"'* Simpson remioved lis wilg. Ila head looked like a gobular checker board with frescos of the most amiazlng and hide Gus character daubedh into each square. 'There was a prIze fight in progress upon lis b)ump of combativeness ; two black (loves that, lookedl like buzzards were bIlling upon01 hIs bunip of amative ness; a grimy angel, with parasols for winigs, stood on his venecration bumiip ; and on hiIs bump of ph1loe prmogenitlveniess -there was what ap p~earedl to be a comte picture of "'ten little Indians standig In a lIne.'' It was the moat startling spectacle I ever beheld, and I said to Simpson "Old fellow, I pity you I" "Pilty mel J lumph I Why, blame It, man, (10 you know that those fres coes will never come off'?' Carry 'em to my grave, just as they are. And then, you knowv PartrIdge wasn't satis fled with that. ie saId that mny bump of arquIsItiveness wvas a great (heal too small. And whapn I asked himn what lhe was going to (do about it, lhe said it must be a welled uip somehow. lIe said if lhe ever hiad a son-in-law it must be a man whose acquisitIveness was strong, So that fetched me, and I told him to go ahead, Ie first prop~osed sawing out a square iluch of mny sktull anid set (ling In a bump that would about meet his views; bait I was a little shy, you know, and( so lhe said hle could either cnp me like the main in Marryatt's nov el, or' else work me .up some . sort of a bump by hydraulic pressuro,'or suctIon, or something." '-Dd lie do It?" "Well, all I know is that I was kept In that office for four nIghts and three days with a bucket on any head, put there to hold tho machinery down; andl that I was so delerlous'most of the time that lhe had to strap me to a book case. When I came to, I found that ] hiad abunpover my oar as large as a four cent loat' of bread, and old P'art rIdge, you know, was standin~g there exclaiming, 'Splendid I Splendid I' and dlecoraiting It with a caricature In canis tto oft a miser grasping a hag of gnta I 11,' kIll that old Mlot, yet, It' I get a Chalice!" " You recovered, thottgil ?" "Yes; and the next day Partridge ah lie mist have a east ot' that noble bump at all hazzards. Said he wianted It to Ilist rate his 11111tal address be f'ore the I'lilosoph ical Society. So, like the Incredible ass that I am, I yielded. Hie put me down oil the sofa, plugged mly nose with andills, and then daubed some kind of white mud over my face. t stood it patletly tiiitll the sil i hardenied, anl theln the old man took the mold off. A bout inl hour lat ter he had a bust of' me, without hair, a-id with a bulge oi one side that looks like i cantalotipe skewered onl i witter melon. Ife has it. on his table now, with busts of' 11111rderrs, pi rates, pick (loekets itnId paI1 pers. " "You got Iis dau. ghter, though ?"1 I"That's what I wasi coming to. Af ter lie had 1lnislied the bust, I thought I'd done about enough, and so I asked him plumply If I could have her. And do you know what that beastly buca iCer said ? Actually rose up and said that Sally was engaged to Jim l)Dun eali, and that. the anniioulncemient would be made on Tuesday I Laid me right out, I That girl had gone back onl me, fair mad square I And so here I am. I bought. a wig anti went olf to hide ily misery.'' Then Simpson said gooI morning and left. It, struck me that his case was rather hard, taking it altogether, Grandpi 11rown's Brown Cow. To begin waltl, or, more literally, to end with, she had a short, tmnipy tail, with which she had a habit of making herself very dis agreeable in fly time. 11er age was coa siderably past that which is allotted to ani mals of her kind, one of her horns was straight, and the other Crunple(l, like that of the animal described in "The house that Jack built." She was an exceedingly iiervous creature. She would not submit to provocation with out proper resentment. Ii other words, whoever attempted to milk her had to be very gentle about it or Ie would find her heels flying in a very uncomfortable man ncr about his head. She gave an abundance of very rich milk, for which reason Grandpa lrown did not see fit to dispose of her, and so she remain ed ii his possession for many years. One Saibhat b1 afternoon Uncle James went out to do the milking. The flies were very thick in the barnyard, and, upon attempt ing to milk the brown cow, he found her very iiervous and uneasy. Ie had just succeeded in getting com fortably sented upon the milking stool, wheni "1 Old Brownie," as we were accustomed to call her, struck him a sharp blow in the eye with her stumpy tail. After rubbing his eyes a moment, Uncle James conmenced milkiig, but soon re ceived another rap that fairly made his head ring. "Sol" lie yelled Impatiently. The old cow bounded away to the other side of the yard. Uncle John stood by, an interested spec tator of the scene. "Don't be rough with her, Jim," he said. ''Rough I" exclaimed Uncle James, with an exhibition of muich feeling, "let her lilt you in the head with that old tail of her's and see how you'd feel." "Give ine the pail," said Uncle John, with anll air of one who knows what he is about ; "I'll milk her. I never have any trouble." - He took the pail from Uncle James'hand and approachled "Old Brownle," who p~rickedl upi her ears and regardIed himii ap p)rovingly. Unicle John seated hiinself upon the stool, pushied upl his coat sleeves, and conunencedl milkinig. "Trher~e," he said, "I have no trouble. It's the easiest thing in the wor-Confound your 01(1 brown hide I" The latter p~ortion of his spch~i wvas di. rectedl to the 01(1 cow, whlo struck him sav agely in the mouth with her restless, stumpy tail. Uncle ,James laughed. Uncle John p~roceeed with the milking. Another whack from the stumpy tail of "Old BrowvnIe." "Hold( on there," yelled Uncle John. The next moinent the milkpail was over tuirned, and Uncle Joh~n found himself sprawling upon03 the ground, while "Old Erowvne" stood regardilng hiim from an 01p p~osite corner of thle yardl with tan expression of pleased1 wonder. "Boys," shouted Grandpa Brown, who hiad beeni looking fronr the othler side of the barnyard gate, "why canl't you never lairn to be gentle." Hie op~enedl tile gate and( caime into the yard. "Fetch the stool nd pail here," lie said patiently; "I never have any trouble with her. So boss-so--so--so." Grandpa Brown p~ut himself resolutely to work ; "the milk begaun to flow andt stream into the huge tin pail1." "Whisk," went the stump~y tall, andl Grandpa Brown's Sunday hat went dancing across the yardl. "So boss-so--so-so," he said1, patiently. lie received another severe blow upon the nlose. "So,. so, so, lie said, soothingly. "Boys, you see it's just as I told you. Trhere's no0 trouble at all about mIlking this cow, if you only-So, so, so," he received another wvhack, on the top of lisa bald head, from her remarkable tail. "Yes," continued lie, "after this, do just as I do-soi" he suddenly shouted as that abbreviated tall knocked his false teeth half way across tile barnyard. A pair of heels were unexpectedly pre sented against him ; and lie found himself sprawling upon the ground with the milk from theo pail Btreaming over lis person. When hie arose lhe was a pitIful object to be 1h01(, lis Sunday clothes were ruined, his face was purple with p~assion. Seizing the thircc-legged stool, lie hurled it at "Old Brownie" with all his strength. It struck her squarely uponf the shoulder, and she was soon skipping about the yard upon three leg. "You old rip " s'ald Grandpa Brown, "you shall be soki to-morrow." And she0 was. --An old marritd cuplo live at Wes ton, Conn. T1hey are Mr. 7almon Sturges, whio Is 08 years of agei, and Ann, his wife, who is now in her 94th vear. BRIEFS. -Great Britain uses 500 tons of snujr per itinnim. -The Maine beet sugar company at Portlatnd has just finished refining the 180,000 pounids of sugar which it made lamt autuinn. -Jily 9 will henceforth be the Ser bian Fourth of July, as Prince Milan then issued a proclamation teclaring tihe iniependence of Serbia. -Mary Louisa Andre Grellier, a kins woman of Major Andre, recently died at Clapton, near London. Major Andre was a native of that place. -A return issued shows that the number of paupers In England and Wiales at the end of 1878 was 730,340, against 685,218 in the previous year. -The farmerA on tile line of one of the Canamdian railroads have sent a train of ten car loads of wood to Quebec for the poor of that city. The railroad carried it free. On New Year's Day 7,459,000 cards were malied at Paris, as compared with 5,080,000 in 1878. The card is enclosed in an envelop, to which is aflixed a ilve-centille statnp. --The amouni1t of last year's taxes still remaining uncollected at Fall River, MAss., is about $119,000. Many of these taxes are in quite large sums, and it is est imated that of the whole amount about $100,000 will be collected. -A number of shells received very recently by the British Field Artillery in A fghanistan, were found to be fliled with brick dust, instead of gunpowtl-ir. Just where the substitution was eflict ed is uinkiowi. --I'rof. Erasmus Wilson, F. R. S., has handed to Mr. John Dixon., C. E., a chequie for $50,000, in redemption of his munilicent pledge to pay him that sum11 on the erection of Cleopatra's Needle on the banks of the Thames in London. -Nathaniel Whitehouse, of Tufton borough, N. Ht., who is almost 98 years old, last whnter chopped and .hauled with his tOam his sumnier supply of wood. lie also takes the entire care of tell head of cattle. -A cock-pit was raided at Pittsburg one night last week, and two hundred incii and boys were arrested as partci pants. Six connelmen and one alder man, who were present, escaped. -All inquitive tramp picked up a signaling torpedo oni the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Coatesville, put It be tween his knees and hammered away with a stone. The torpedo exploded, severely -wounding him. -The total receipts into the British ExciheqIer from 1st April, 1878, to 1st February, 1879, amount to ?63,074,004. in the corresponding period of last year. Customs were ?16,794,000; Ex cise, ?22,039,000, against ?22,217,000; Post-oflie, ?4,108,000, against ?3,202, 000 -The National Library of France contains 2,000,000 printed books, and is the largest library in the world. Both the British Miseutm, London, and the Imperial Library at St Petersburg have over one million of volumes. The Roy al Library, Munich, comes next, with 900,000 volumes. -The flve leading English railways paid the great aggregate sum of ?101,507 ($507,535) during tile last half year for personal injuries and loss and damage of goods by accidents on their lines. Large as this sum I.s, it is smal. ler than the amount forthe correspond lig period last year. - -The battle flags of the Connecticut regiments will be remoyed froin the State Arsenal, at Hartford, to the new Capitol building as soon as practicable, a resolution having been passed by the State Legislature alltilorizing them to ' be kept at tihe Capitol hereafter. . -A pictulre of Donnybrook Fair, valued at $2000, was stolen about a . mnonlth ago froth the saloon of Tihomas Jones, On Market street, Ne wark, N. J., and( no0 clew to the thieves could be diis covered1. Last Sunday a police oficer found the missing picture wrapped up~ inl oilclotht andl carpet and hliddenl in an Oild sewer p)ipe. -Th le Holly system of heating housen withl steam sentL through street mains has just been established in Springfield, Mass,, whlere a gas comllpany has bought tlhe right. Sp)ringfiekd is the second city to try it, Lockport, N. Y., having been tihe first. -A milnor was ridhing up on an ele vator in a Nevada shaft. One of his hands(1 caught inl theO framework of the side, and he was loft dangling 1000 feet. from the bottoml. Ils plight was not discover-ed until tile elevator reached the surface wihout him, lie was so weak, after being rescued, -that he could( not stand. '-Michiganl University reports a faculity of 04 members, and 1372. stu dents. Of the latter, 441 aro in the literary or academi mdepartment, 829 In the miedical, and 400 in the law schools, Theil attendlance now is larger thlan at any former perIod in tile hlistory of tile University. -Mr. William E. Dodge, of New York, and others of his name, have called a conlvent ion of the Dodge family to nmeet in Salem on the 19th of next July. That will be tihe 250th anniver sary of tile ianding of Win. Dodge, of Salem. All tile Dodges in the country are invited. -In ordinary wintet' weather in Paris tile services of 2500 publieiy paid street sweepers are employed, with 2000 auxiliary hands at halt wages. Inl very bad weather 7000 sweepers, b.. 8s(des Inspctors an~d chiefs, are regd at a moments notice to ply their brooms in all tile streets of the city. They be gin at three in tile morning and end at four in the afternoon. Sometimes, hlowever, they work for twenty hours. -rThe annual report of the. Secretary of the Con necticut State Board of Edu cation has just been published. Proma it it appears that tihe amount expended for the public schools last year was. $1,509,150,85, beingA decreas4 of less than $4000,'whlile the amount! toceived from all sources was $1,609,168.81, or An increase of nearly $8000. There are 1637 publIco schools in the St*4o T1 increase in the 'attendatide 'of (I over thle year preceding WAS 14O' nulmber of pupils in J anuaryr 7~ 4 138,407.,. An ihidication of th~~t tory growth of th@ schoo s Oonneetiecut is th'9 feet that tea raised by to*tt6n for schoo' rtNA: 'ago was $628,181.19~ whfltb raised last yer wa *1, %, about double te anlQlWy a