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TIRI-WEEKLY EDITION. W INNSBORO, S. C., MAY 20, 1879. VOl. . 7 THE INCH BEFORE THE SAW. Only fromn day to day The lifo of a wiiho man runs What matter if soapons far away Have gloom or have d, ublo sunt,? To climb the unreal patli We stray frotu tho ioadway here, We swim the rivera - f wra I And tunnuol the hills of fear. Our foot on the torrent's brink, Oir eyes on the cloud afar, Wo fear the thing we think instoai or the thizigs th.t, are. Liko a tido our work -hould rise, Each later wayo the best ; To day is a king In d sguiso. To-day is the apocial tott. Like a sawyer's work. in life The present iakeA the i.tw, And the only Iiold.for strife In the inch hofore the #aw. Two "Iimortelles." How differently the prizes of fame are distributed ! A Leonidas falls at Thermo pyie, and the. world rings with the deed forever. A Naoluheon ravages half of Eu rope, and because lie is a conluerer is exal ted, by his ivorshipers, into a demni-god. On the other hand, 4'mc sailor or soldier, or other-obscure 4ero in the ranks, dies at the post of duty, in a straight even more desperate, and yet is never heard of' again. We were talking of tis the other night at dinner, when Colonel Markham said: "4Apropos of that, I have been to.day, to lay a wreath on the grave of one of that class. With your permission, I will tell his story. "Charley Benson," he began, 'had been im my regiment, and was so faithful and true, that, when the war was over 1 exerted muyself to get him work. lie was only a private, remember, the son of a poor, lull farner ; with very little education. The best I could do for him was to get him a position as engineer on the Sweetwater railroad, to run one of the locomotives. lie gave such .sat ist'act ion, wits al ways so reliable, that Ie soon got it promise of advancement. On. this he determined to miiarry. lie had long been engaged to at good girl, the (angihter of a mechanic in our employ, but they were both poor. "'You see, colonel,' he said to me, one day, when I met him at the depot, and slopped to ask kim how lie was getting ni, 'it's at serious thing, this taking the respon sihility of marrying. Besides, Nellie is a girl above the ordinary kind ; she was linl imhed at the Normal school ; and I should like to surround her with some of the reline maeims of life. I don't want. to live every thimr coarse iand rough about lier, ais a very poor ian must, no imatter how muencli Ie loves his wife. That's the reason we've put it off. But, now, thanks to your good word-l'm to have a raise. This is my last trip, as perhaps you know. "le raised his hand to his head, in the old military salute. . 'You may feel perfeet ly safe,' lie said, 'for even if I didn't know you were on botird, I should do my dnty, no imatter what came of it.'' "'The words were spoken as if of cotise, and without any annecessary eiphalsis ; but 1 hey asstmed an iniportance subseiuently, and 1 can never forget them. I think 1 sec thema now, lookiiig its he looked when lie uttered them, his figure drawn fip to its full height, his hand at his cap, his cheeks slightly flushed, his eyes gleiaming like an eagle's. 'Suddenily the eyes softened, and a smile stole over his face. 'Excuse nie, please,' he said ; 'but, there's Nellie, God bless her, conie to see mc oil l I nmiust shake hands with her before we start, and there's just tine.' "'it. was a b~rightl, sunishiny fauce, that tof a young woman of about twenty, thmat I saw welcome him ; handsomle, everybody wotuld have said it was ; but, there was a look of couirage, and1( high resolve ; soul anti intel lect were both there. "I could niot act as on the parting, so I turned away, and songht a seat ini the cars. "'I found an old friendl on the train, Gen eral Powell, after wc had run about twenty miles or so, and discussed business and politics, I proposed a smoke. 'Thmey all know me on this line,' I sid, 'and we il go luto tihe-baggage car, whiere we'll be alone. "I exchanged a wVordl or two with the baggage-master, asking after his family, as .I always did, and then took a set near' the front of the car, so its to get, thme air from thieopen door, for the day was sultry atnd warm. The coal and( water tank wams just ahead of its, and beyond that the locomo tive, for wve were atthie front of time train. I couhti see the tall, so'dierly figure of Chlar iey, as lie stood at, his post1, wvith his haind on the rail, and beside himi, his assistant, looking like Cyclops, begrhumed withi dust adtd smobke." "Trhe *weetwater road as you know, rWtB. through a very Icmturesqlue region, Wrinding, for the most part, by the banks of the Sweetwater itself ; frequently terraced al6tig -low hills ; with, .hiere and there a tunnel ; and, 'what is more to the point of my story, innumerable cuirves. We were rattling and suirging on, when, sudd~enly, I daiV, net far ahead, a puff of smoke around a rocky curve, -anid direetly afterwards, an e &~press train caine rushing into sight, headh ifig for us,:-at full speed. *"Thei pecular shriek which Is tihe signal \toF iown brakes,' was instantaneous from bothi" trains; bitt 'I saiv, at once, that it wogl'beusbles; the velocity~of each was tedistance so small,' that collisioni rtymils a horanid the express at a o:of [btty, the two together miaking a ,speedoaf seventy mailes an hour ; it wia shold crash Into each other. "I started to my feet, not with any inten tion of flighltr, but with a sort of Instinct *,that, sio I was to die, I would tie standl ..ing4. .I havo been in ,twenty battles, as you all know ; desperate ones most of them., have had'shot and shell falling ab~out me beforo eltthgt I whN cei'taui to dlie, thaft kore was nio hope whatever, as I felt, that "fter on6 quick look at the approaching sAilocomotife, thigt,'eVen In'that- single iustant, ii" see .ed-to.grow, fr6M its rap~id approach 'eI '4, the 'Me it had been at first,- I lance at .Charley,'anxipito see'h6w he, niI *h&&A d be tfi fir ib taik Wouk1 46 -hkdwti hed lihuuder' fire, ei'n singly, in a inarrow breach, than any'tlin eke 1 but it was even worse thai that; ther imight be one chance in teln thousand, there, of escape ; here there was none. I did iiot expect Charley to jump from his engine, as imay would have done. I knew he was too brave for I lit. Bit I did look for some sign of ellionou, though not exlct ly of fear. There wis none, however, except the tiglit eiling of the HIps, and the eagle-like look 1tha1t came into his eyes. I I is - cleek never paled. Not one eye lash <flivered. But that intense gaze did not leave the other locomotive for an instant. "All this pased ill i moment, iuicker, if possible, than a light ning hash. 'liat stern tightening of the lips, tha gleaInI of the eye, were the outward indications of the ciuick, compreliensive decision Ih came to ; for, in one moment, lie had reviewed the whole situat ioll, 1and in the suingle chance there Was4 for escape ; ihiiance I did not see, but which he( did. Eseape for t lle rest of us, however, but not for him. lie was doomed, in- any event ; lie realized that 1 perhaps we all were, but there wras a possi bility of saving the passenlgers; and it was his duty to do that, "come what might" to hillimelf, as lie said. "Do you 1tiderstan1d the exceplional bravery Of this? Napoleon Ilned to say, that very few m11en1 had four oclock cori a.g'e. lile meant by that, Ihat whaen 11en1 were roused from sleep, suiddenly, in he tray (lanVll, by a surprise, it took some time to get their wits about them ; they were dazed, they lost their presence of mind. Now this was even a more crneial trial. 1lere was a train off its time. nol. signaled, unex pectedly coming round a corner, not half a mile off, and, therefore, lit lie rate at. which both trains were going, with but thirty seconds left, not merely to determille what to do, if anything coild be (done, bilt to do it. Nine mn out of tell, yes! Iliity-11nm out of a hundred, -would have lost their presence of mind. Even most of those, who Illiglt have retaiied it, woouild have sacrificed that thirty seconds inl weiginlg the prhs and cons of the situation. .ltit Charley not only kept his nerves finn, 111and his intelilect cool, but reviewed iIe stale in affairs in i iolitalt, and decided as instanl taneoisly. 'Jump, back, Jin,' lie cried, addressing his attendant, but not even looking around, while his voice rose, stern and sharp, over the thimler of the two trains. 'Uncouple mile from the baggage car. Quick It's the only chance !' "It was tile oinly chance. Why had I not thought of it., If the locomotive and tender could be unfastened from the rest of the traill, the two former would dash for ward, with accelerated velocity, would be the first, to meet the shock of the collision ; wolld act as a buffer ; and would check, slightly, the speed; and thms, when the rest catle inl C on0tailct, would, perhalps, caluse but little loss of life, if any. It Was Leonidas .--0 himself hin1y4)the nass, but I.eoid Ilas alone, and Leomidas that might save the three hundred. " J im wits only an ordinary stoker, but. he 111(1 ilso been a soldier, where he had learned habits of implicit obedience. Ie said to ie, afterwards, that lie did not stop to think. 'To tell the truth, colonel,' were his words, 'I was too soared to-tikiilk u I did as I was told, hardly knowing I 11d it ; you saw me, you and General Powell, doni't you remember ; and how I un11coupled the baggage car just in time i' "I do remember. I behold it all again, as vividly as at tlhat- m11omlellt. I seem to hear the ( quick, sharp words of command, like nothing so milch as the crack of a rifle ; the 1 see Jim, black and begriinned, leap backwards, tug at a coupling; theni the loco'motive and tender dart, ahead, 118 if shot from at battery ; then Camle a wild thlid, the crash of iron, aind splitting of wood, two locomotives leaping up in the ilir a gush of fire, ain explosion that shook the earti." The colonel passed ils hand across his eyes, as if to shut. (out the sight, dre'w a1 dleep breath and1( went on1. "'in anloth~er second1( we were upon01 themt. At first, 1 thought tihat we, too, were lost. But aplart from the fact that the brakes had1( lit last, begun to telli, our Inmentum had1( been further dimiishled iby thie detaching of the tendel(r, and1( wheln we dalshled against the mass of ruin, thle shock w~as only snill cienit to throw us oll' our feet, and1( crush in the forward part of thei baggage car. There had been just timei for us8 to r'etreait to thie rear of the car, before the crash." The coionel resumed, more qjuietly, after ai liOmenCt. '-'Chairley was found, a few feet from (ho tragedy, 01n a ban11k, wvhere the force of the coilision had flung him. lie had died in nattely, hie wva~s not (lisfigured in the fitce at least. "'lie wvas buried lat the cemletery, where I went to-day. A few of us united to erect ai simple mlonumeni~it over himi, andii every y'ear I go.there and1( lay a wreath of immor I heard, afterwards, I may say inceiden) tally, that the nmonumnent lad been pult up alnost entirely at the colonel's expense. "A few of us" was his modest figure of "'And the poor girl who was to have miarried him?" said our hostess, with a sigli. "Life was over f-r iher," answered tie colonel. "Her's was one of those natures that.can love but once." "It wvould fiave been ai profanation to have loved any one else, after a hero like that." "Yes!" Hie was silent for a momnent. "But she was one. that coulid not live without some object In life, so she, became a hlospital nurse, andl when the yellow fever broke out1 has} year, went do~wn1 Soth. She was one of the first to go, and," hesi tatingly "one of the first to (die, She died at Memn jhis." "Poor, poor thing!I" "When the frosts came, hier frlends had her brought North, and laid beside Char ,ley," stid the colonel. "And tihis year, ] .took out, ab I shall, always, -hereaufter, 'rwe IMThMoflT)Li.s." Olven Up by Doctora. "Isitposibe tatMr. Godfrey Is up rem~edyV" "I' assure you that it is true thMt he is -enthrely cured, anid with nothing. but Hop Bitters; and only ten days ago his doctors gave hIm up and said he must ( Iidj -4'! 'h' I~ reniarkablg I will gQ thip day an4 get gom~e for mty ppor George. I know hops are good.' FOn prosperit~y :-Look ip the Mletion ary Ouar Surpilus Savings. With successful return to specie pay mlenits at (1uest ionl which hals beeni coinn more and more into )rolllilcnice diurili the last live yeats, reqpiires to ie aiswered I low shall we invest our surpim capital For many years it wis qiite the fishioi for tll workingiian and wollial t 10t)1 upon the saviigs bianiks of the couti ry a Ahe chief hul wark aginist hard tiie.., aiu from i sixpence, uip, deposits could b made fit Interest secured. Blit lite long periol of depression, ai the lesson it has taugh, has chnliged al that. 'T'le vist mher of failires moiini the savings istitutions of tihe conitry, am the wrecks of little forunes that wer numberedI-C~ amlonig theo hjoardmsj,8 ha1vt shIow) 1ilo4 conceltisively that sote othe way in which surplus money could in safely invested, aind yet paty iln interest, is a necessity of the hotur. Witiout reverting to lhe tunpleiisait banking history of the patst ten years inl de tiliI, it is enollgh to say that it lias heei abunldantly proven that -no priviate instit u tion, of whatever 111me or chiIaCler, ca piay an interest oil deposits that are sibjec to cleck at sight. Nlonley, to pay 11 prolit mui1st lhe profitlily ilivested: .it this (ln not be done by savinigs banks, Where if is liable to bv enlled for atfiany miomentil. Il brief, it is impossible to loant lioney, alm itt the sante timnie keep it oa Ioil as th< recordls of all h lie defunlet aid HlsspeIde anking inistittiions show. 'T'lis fa(t 1111H come to he well uidertood, since th< ancial aigitaitionl first be'gan its career. What, then, shall we )do with our sirphu Ravings ? in England there is nll advantageotm opening for Ilivetmients inl lie Postal NaV ings, and in France there is a somewlini sinjiair institition, of which working men and1(1 Wom)I(ei hairgely avail themselves; hul ill tile Unlited States the nearest parallel i. Ie GJovernimient loan. What the depositol waints, primarily, is safety - aibsolut< slilety ; and this Ie secures in the Govern ment bond. The whole wealth of th< iatiol is pledged for pakylient. Tle htonor of our people is staked on their redemp tion. No private institution can compar< for a moment with the advantages offere( by the (G'overnment ini its boids. Th< e ople have ailrealy proved this, by tl Wa3' in whiich they lalve subscribed to th< Foir per Cents. -Triie, the amount of inl tereat is not lrge, as coltristed witi the rates offered by many savings- hanks, lilt it is certain, aind (te printcipill is safe, That Congress has done wisely in author izilig the pltting on the market. of bondI of.iamall denomi natioli is nlow Conceded, and it is in (his direction that our siuliults savings w%-ill gravitate. Long tncit Short Sireeltrs. LaNo a t o , ikvi.I mldier.i rrom habit, call sleelp when they will and Wiake when Ihey will. Captain iBiarelay, when performnin his w(oldelfll lent of walking 1,010 ilmiaile im als m11anY Consecutive hlrs, obtaineed such a ma10'stery over hims11elf tlhait ie fel asleep the mihite lie lay down. The fat culty Of renminiing aisleep for a length o Such was the caise with Quin, tle ce;rat ed player, who would slumb1I~tr for twenlty four hours successively ; Wi lizabel Orvin, who slept thiree-fourths of her life: with Elizabeth Perktins, who slept 1Ir : week or a fortniglit at a time; wih .il Nar Lyell, who did the same for successiv< wveeks; and With many others, more ir les remarkable. A plienomeon of an opposite character is solietines observed, for there are other inlividuals who clni sulbsist oil a surprisingly small portion -of sleep. Tih celebrated General Elliot was an instaiun< of tihis kind; lie iever slept more than foull hour out of the twenty-four. In all otie reslects he was sitrikinigly abstinent, hi: food consistinig whiolly of breadt, water ant vegetables. Ini a letter coniuuniicatedi t< Sir John Sinclair by John Gordon, Esq1. , Swine, mnent ion is miade of a 1)erson iinm( Jlohn Mackey, oif Skerry, wvho died ii St rathinave, in the year I179t7, aged ndinety one ; lhe onily slept on an average of fou1 hours in the tw~enty-four, and( wias a re miarkatile roibust andit healthy man. lFrede riek thle (Great, of Prussia, anad the illusti huts surgeonl, John llunter, only slept fiv< hours dlurinig the samie period. .The cele b rat ed French general, l 'ichegro, in formie Sir Gilbert Blaiine that during a whioli y3ear's camnpaignl, lie had not allowedi him self above oiie hour's sleep ini the t wventy four. Tenx Terilame Sconids. literally, the life (of young A rchib Fergus.wiis hanging, for ten terrihie see hns y a shiude tlareaud. Il wa vis a shoep hrlad,(dweing ini a valley near Dun bar, and familiar with every Imouintauin paitl and towcring ciff of that picturesqutie loeni lity. lIn one-of his hillside rambhles hi keen eye dliscovered signs8 of an eagle' cyrae upon01 ai urrlow edlge that jultted oul from the face of a steep- precipice. 11 summoned four or five of his youni11 compantionts, and, having provided them11 selves with a1 strong ropme, they proceedec to climib the mnounltaini with the purpose t, capture the eaglets. Tlo scale the pr0c1ic was impossible, but they, by a clrcuitou route, succeeded In reachIng the top (of it anad from the overhanginig brink they couli look dowvn upon01 the ledge belowv, wvhere th eagle lad built its iibat. TIh6 only way t reach this ledge was for one of the party t .be let dIown till its level wais reached; f the edge of .the rock fairly overhunag It base, aand there was not so1 much as a shru or crevice to wvhich to cling. Archibald, si the leader of the expeditIon, assumed th perIlous task of the descent; anid loopin one end 6f the rope so as to affordI huimsg)~ a scat, lie secured the other end around a ihnmense boulder and permilttedl himself be0 let diowni by the stronag hlmds of his conl panlons, who had performed thalt servki for him on many a similar expeditIon.I that way he had descended to within a fe' feet of the ledge, when lie heard the whlii of wings aind the, rush of heavy bodh thr'ough the air, and he knbi4that the plal ent birds weore hastening to thie rescue < their young. An 'eagle, mnahe or feniali knows no fear when its cyrio Is, attackei but-enters at once Into con bat wifh the ii truder. Archlbakq knew this well enoufgl and lhe had taken thel precaution to thiru his dirk Into lis gltdhe, -with Whiph be quite ablo td defend himself pgnijnst thiy ' riOus "onsinupght pi .the' fetuthered o Drawing the trusty weappli hie awtlIted ti attack and.,1(a40t long to watt; wl beramusof "rage (he. eggles, iunoed uj htfn. Pritecting lisee, s yb with the sleeve of his coarse shirt he rur rapid and well aimed blows at his winged assailants, and succeeded in thrusting the keen blade into the throat of one and into the bosom of the other, so that, after a few swoops, they abandoned the contest and chng, bleeding an(.-dying, to the ledge where there eaglets were waiting thei. Archibald sheathed his dagger; and look ing up, shouted to lisa friends, who had paised while the fliglt progressed, to con tiliue the decent. But, inl lookiig up1), a terrible sight was revealed to hin, for he perceivetd that, while thrusting at, the eag les, the keen etlge of his dagger had (lt the rope so that all the strAnds except one were severed. 'Tlie strain upon that single strand was such that he could see that it was yielding, partiig, about. to be snapped asunihder. lie grew faint inl expectation of being dashed to pieces oil t lie rocks a thouis and tleet below ; and in another seconil, he would have been so dashed to death, but tlat, liefore the second was over, and just as lie rope parled, he was lowered sutil cienil lo 1 be able to spring upon ihe ledge, which fortunaitely he istrnck and aInnII'X(ed to maintain his baulace there, although it affor.ded himl scarcely: a foothold. itow ever, his companions) aware of what had happened, speedily readjiisted the rope, lowei ed it to him) again, and le was Woon hauiled up in safety, not (vein forgettinbg, in his fright, to capturethe two eaglets and hear them wit Ii him triutimpliatly as me. inientons ot his advel ire. An I eigenionk 1n1-Trap. lHow is the eunning- little creature to be caught I The answer is simple; a mian's brain is bigger than a rat's; set your cun ning against his, and you will win. l lere is oine plan adopted by at gentlemaiint who had tried the usual traps in vain. In a store-rooni wia a barrel of nutize-flour, of which the rats were enormously tond, and their habit was to clinib up1 to a shell', run along it, leap down on tihe head and feast. Good. Our friend took another barrel, and of the head lie made a trap. lie took it out, and treating it as a globe, he made a wire North and South pole, which, when placed in corresponding holes in the cask, allowed the lid to spin rouid easily on its pi' ots, and return directly to its natural hiorizontil position. When realy this eask wias placed in the-stead of the filour cask, its head fixed firmly, and covered thickly with the sweet. Indian mi-al. h'l'e rats eate leaping down as usual, teasted, and went away. 'I'lis was kept upi) for a couple of nights, fresh )lour being placed on the head, and duly eaten. Then caim ie the Nemesis. Th'le next night that barrel was half-filled with water, the head glued and thickly sprinkled with flour, and then left loose, sWinging so easily that on tlie first. leaping down there was n slip and a scraible, fol lowed by a hollow splash, but the lid re suned its position, covering the drowning enemy, and placing itself ready to entirap the next. For months that trick succeeded well, four or five rats being taken each night, aid the place was at last cleared. LIit in a Snow Eliut. Profeassor L. Liuunlein, of Wisconsin, naturalist. of the Arctic expeditioin on board ing letterto> a frienil in Mi inif. ii St. Johns to Cuimberland Sound we encoun tered only), four terribfe gales making the pa -i lin fifteen days-going over the same *istanee in thirty-filve hours that took tis sixteen days last year, w'hen we were forly one days to our first harbor. When we left our winter harbor (July 7th, or more pro perly the 19th, as this was the dato.we fairly got underway) we took the ice and worked through two hundred and fifty miles of it. It was here that the schooner got jamned and sprung a leak thaxt closed after we got to itaIcior on the Grecenland coast, and re opened on tie 19th of October off Sable. As you know there was no expedlition to *meet us, so we had to go back again to Ciun bterland with ouir sixteen Esqluimnaux and thirty dogs, with all their accouterments. WeC11( had bt got fairly startedl when the w~ind sprung up from the southeast. It soon1 increalsedl to aL fair gale, anid kept in creasing. We were in close proxiimity to thu heavy hlafiln's Bay back (the heaviest ever known-no vessel got through), and dlriftling right into it. We lay hove to four days, andl wheni it cleared we found our selves in -the mouth of Exeter Sound, two hundred miles to t he westwardl of our course. 'We had driiftedl all -this tIme among hundreds of Iceblergs without' getting foul of any. The pCloor Esqutimaux were battened down In the hold alt this time, anid thirty wild dlogs running the dlecks. This was the 'heavlest gale we have encountered, and came wihnan ace of trippi~ng the schooner many113 tims. in sea swept everything off the (lecks andI one the house, hbut we only lost four do(g8. So muich, briefly, for the passage. My compa~tnlin andi I lived ini a -snow hut eight months on a small Island. No light bujt a tin box wit~h an oil burnier ill it, and burning seail oil. Our .allowance of fuel gave out t wo months bef'ore the cold cahe i. Our greatest cold was In Jian uary, 1t was fifty-two degrees, oi eighty twvo dhegrees below freezing point. Th'e mer Icury exposed hi a (d1sh froze solid, so as to he htandled like a chtp, at forty-tw'o degrees. Tlhc heaviest snow fell on ,June 5th, 61th and 7thm,.andt I wvalked ashore on the Ice on the 1441h of'Ji'dy. -On thed last dhy of April 1 undertbok a long journey with sonte Esqul maux n ith (log teamts, and while sleeping Salongsidelof the shed, thtirty-Ilve mileas fromi la1nd(, wIth a forty mile-north wind blowing r and a lenib1eratuireo f -forty-one degrees, I eIther froze or daugh~t cold i the first finger of mny left'Iuand,- whleh let't mec a criled~l( hand until the end of July, and I now have a muchb deformed and nearly useless finger. I froze 11ny nose tithes withot nutubler, even after I nmadec a thlek covering of some heavy cloth youlfr mother' glive tue for thd pttrpose. I sustitut~ted fine reindeer skin wvhlo tra vel inlg, .which answeredl better. One of the sailors froze a fodt.~Ao badly that he was Ilid11 up for set'en mionthis. ThIs was In November, while trying to take caire of a r tyhaile.' -I have n'ot been sIclk a driy since I left Now 1aondon/i ~y bunk i just alx feet long, ttdo and'om hhl f efeet' wide, And the same heIght. In this space I slept, worked andt studied.' In It- I kept three grips, all 'my clothes, bedding, forty-two~ hooks, pIpes, tohbacco and -a hundredt dther thIngs. Yoit shako your 1elul,1 w'ould s'y, ,if ytou q igiw qutaxd Innati ebn ithahgt t ledn hlt %(ho -fact. E. uterI p '0 lltlte daulmter' called o umpon' for a. tuasLggyde " The health of paaaoinn Palu all tph 4yort" n Bt se sdd iff dorreeted &'If# *entl 161 tN Not 1trfd"Wor'6 then k papaWould have hospktion'tsL" An Amenic Mine. A man, armed with a long iron hook, pulls open an irotn door, 1111( you gaze with awe into the ihmatesque heirt of a huge fur n)ace, the whit e-lot contents slowly t urnilng round, an1d over falling inl cas4catdes of vel lNw fire. It is fonid that at the works on Devon, 8lphtr in tihe pyrites is enough tc keep the furnace, when once heated, burn ing without other fuel. The products ? I lore it is, a white heap of several tols of it lying int an opent shed, where everybody passes by. It is sonething like finel lotin. One of tho men dips his thumb 111and inger loosely into tihe( white powder, puts a qlan tity ito the palm of his ottier lintid, and brings it to be looked at precisely as a mil ]er shows it samplo of flour, smoothing it with his foroinger. One expects every momnItCIL to See imt1 test it with his tolni' ; a child probably would, but tit nminer knows better. All this white heap is ar sonic. More than 2,41u.1 tons a year te sent out from this one mine, to be used mtatly in those brilliant Itodernt dyes by which our womien and children can (idazzle the uinie att ai cheap expense. Are they safe to Wear ? My chemistry books do not plainly sa1y yes or no. Iht in one hook I chanced to open, I finld 1t1 foillowiig re marks: "Arseiieus neid-white oxide of arsenic, or white arsenic. This subh1sinnCeo is of tit highest importance as beilng ithe frequent aigenit of criminial or -eeittntl poisoning. fTere ire few substances So much to be feared, it being alimos tasteless. It cll be iixed withi artic.les of food 114nI swtl lowed withIott discovery, an11d Itere is no practically ellicient anlidotc." This in ntocent looking white powder, (his potent, attl fatal sublotlance ..f which your clteIist mut not sll you a lose witlhout elnteriig your address inl it bthook, (if which three grains' welght. will kill a1 mat1n, wtas lyingt4 by one f thIe orditnary oad'14s Of tie tine, in tle opent sted, inl heaps breast -htigh I was assured tlat no kind of hmm11111 ever comes of ill this, save skin eruptions to tte work people, atdl these rarely, but it gave otto it siiver to se those white toiutds. "The lanted 11n114n1e." The time of m1y natrati've (lates; hack to the year 1870. Ile evets occurred in the city of Sprintgleld, ()hio. Situated i the very centre of ilth city wats at 111ans.on, old and lonely aispect, the( property of at Mr. Foos. It had been for several years unintitabited, whei striantge re ports begant to circulate. Persons who passed there at 'nidnight, and other itncan nly hours, oftenI I4aw strang1,e lightsg and1 heard stranger soids, until Ieople l lieved thatl it. Was haun111ted. A lenglt two yoig mcin of tit(- ltowi resolve(d to see whethtr it was haueilid or not, inld thu11s put. tite fears mnl gossipings of the i towi's peopl to an (rl. Accordingly they took ilt Iiteir ilarters at the mansion. About eight o'clock they lit t-heltr CatIes0, and male It eSCl4ve t n fortable to receive their ghtosily visitors. The clock struck ine, te, Vlevet, 111141 now Iearly twelve oelock, the ittie for g1hosts to appeir. 'The great clock int St. Raphael 's church beganr to strike onev, Iwo, three, four, five, six, sevein, eight, nilne, 'n, eleven, /we/ce, aid then-No sooner d ell t tVnstliill "Ial they were left in darkte'ssm. After a few ll. alts a bright, ci rcIlart' light becae Visible near one of tiel walls, and whatt a terrible spectacle wts brought. to view! A man wits stretcied froma it tree witi a rope around his neck, while ta box lay it iis feet witlini teachi-le wa It elde. IIs distorted featulrltes and glaring eyes were plainly visible, while his tongic, black and swollen, hung it least hatlf a foot from his mouth I To complete the horrible picture, hundreds of demons were daicing around his contorted figure. Then followed a wild burst of latigiter and lihe appritiion vanished. The yotung men had1(1not expecled ii. W~hile this strange sceite wasI ettact.itng t.ecy sat stutpefled wihth feari, their hatir atutally stantdintg Ott ettd.* At length tiheitr horibile spell wits brokent, and withou. even stoppintg 1o snatch thteir hats, they fled thte htouse.--As thtey were fleeing along thel str'eet, tey rant rightt into thte armtt of' a tall, notseular' main, wh'lo see ing thteitr tffrighted conditioni, tightened htis grasp tipon them, and~ asked themti to ex platitn their fright. ''Tey totld him ailt. After thtey htad finished their stotry, thte detective (for' it wats no oter thtant I )eeec tive Johtn turitside, of New York, whto was visiting frIends Lhetre) tok1( thtemt "'I say3 ntothiing about it, butt wait itndt htope, and1( he woldl discover' theo miysterty if pos. sile. About two weeks aftetr thte detective re turntod htomte-so is ftriends thotughit. Int eourse of time the yountg men'i .dis covered thIat they couldl no loitger keep t he secret, andl( so they d1 iulged it. It raised a gr'eat exitemtent, of courlse, and the peop~le of Ithe city gav'e the place ti wide betht. Theo strange sounds and)1 sights were con tinued, uttttl thte peole bl2ieved withotut a dIoubIt thtat the htotuse wats hatunted. We will pass over a year'. One morrdng a ponne of police, hieadedl by a tall man in plain11 clofthes, appr'oatched the Foos mansion, untlocked thte door', andil passed1 it. In a few mnuttes theC sotund of pistol shtots was hteardl and1 then all was still. In a few inutes the posse emtergedl fron the hotuse, looking mtuch larger. WVhal could it meani Atnd now, little Ants, my narrative is al an end, and1( Detective iutrnside will fIislI the story. After I left the( two yountg mten, sai( Dietective Buraside atfterw~ards in tellittg th story, my mitndl was mtade upl-I would (ha cover the mystery. Accordingly, the nest evening, I p~roceed ed to the mansIon. It was a mere repetitiom of the story of thte young men, as far as tlu~ apparitloon. As sooni as thte clock struci twelve mty candle was blownu otut by a gus of' wind, I kniow, caused1 by the slammnint of doors. And whtat a terrible sightt mae my eyes, I shutdder nowv when I think of It so terribly rcaleit looked. Thtere In the same spot that .te younj man had described, I saw a young aum beauiful e1rl on heor kcnees. A form wva .bending over her, its hand clasped her lonj golen hair', while a keen, bloody knif Maa drawn *across, her fair, wvhite thuroat whtile torTen$sof crImson blood drippe upomi the 11o00, - I rega ned hy seIjpossesson enough t dra* 'pistol, 'ami, -aund fire. A wIl laugh folowed, an'd mny bullet' was hear~ rsIn. ?Hsihte aiscig-T to turn aroutd-I discovered the imiystery. It wats at gang of some sort. I was sure, and I was resolved to 'apture them. A few weeks after I Joined the gaig, lby meas kniown only to myself-it professio n1ati secret. Tllere were eouiterfeiters, turglars, and everything among them. I will not weary the readers witlh at deserip tion of the anerous burglaries they comn mitled, or of the various ways inl which t(-y natiufancttr<-d id "' 'ovett'd their (qu eer ' mneny, A fler staying with them for about a year, I resolved to break ulp the gang, for I had Iow am1ttple evidence to convict them. A ccordinagl-y, I ohitinled I e posS of police, and raided -ithe house. A fler a slight resistance they were captured. When they found ou who their captore was they threatented le with venigeance dire, if they ever estan i but they never did, for wntr was nacol one of themt blut had committedl enough ti ( oidein them for life. A few weeks after the ganag wer' sent Ito prisima I took opportility to slow solc visitors Ohe lihVse, iad exIublain he secret of the ghtIst. lit the roomta where the appari t ions appeared I showed them a secrel. lor, anaid behildi it was atnl atletov. ''lhis wis Ohe plice whe're tile robblaaers la11 I lid denl Ilatmselves every aight, atid, when tie eutaionas camine to see O ghoss, they fright ened them-111 away ly maniviats of at ma-i lan - tern. My title is done. A ii Hhtt (Ciaaeiag luta,a Among the quiet little manuaatafnttires of the (conllry is that of hiewiaig gum. OivI one factory exists in l'hila., Pa., and the few others ate inl New Eangland, New York, Ohio I Illinois and Tenanessee. The gumaa is sold by druggists, grocers and confeetioaaers inai cities, ad anay country graocery thla. la' I it. is coslidered inconpah-te. (41iumi from i sprtce trees was exelhisively used until re cently, whena it foind a rival inl giim matst ic 1, It wihite atd attractive ara'ticle miatde from i t1t11111arafin, which is sweelelled. The con stumaiptilon of this clewianggitn in thi United 8 Slatles is aboult thirly tolns yearly ; thlatl of I 8l iit'C gianua stoml ewhI liat less, aud t liat( of gum t maitt inl Tennaaesset' froma hatisatiat Ioli, atnid a sld in the Southernla Statles, about t wenty tons. I,2at cy at aill erial hains beei uised st yh-l I "rualhber gttaan. " It is flraoma the sap of' the I sapota' Itre of S Iuth 1entral A merica. 'Tlie sap like Ihal of Ithe India ruaaher trec, a hats a mtilky look. The gaim was first im- I ported ilnto fihe I'naited Stialtes with a view I of nmeha ing it with inlia rubber, in aorder to I proadlce a Cheaper article t han af lt litter. 11 wias foind to he unaapliable, andl therefore uaselss fior' that purpos'. It haid loang been athowed by Smuth and ('eral Ameriani In dianos, and fonid to i' usefil in allaiyiig thirst. I'xperimnaits wvecr therefore matle a here ia Itirifying it for chewinig, andtat with < linial sucess5. It is tlstlhess, and hats flt a whiela more quickly dissolve atd crIm'ble ian the IotIa. So gralt is its aiduetility ihiat at pie'e half an ine, aifter beiag heated i lte ilouth, can ha streted into at threadt a hunred feet long. Its consumption isabout it fifty touns at ye'nar. Chiniig grim does nlot, like toaceco, require that the saliva shall be expectorated; it does not-, lake 8iaoking 'x .--.... .-.-. . -' e a- su-, @ x ralhulndance of food, or drinak, Jtir Ifully overload the stoallch. Sh1uattlig lAIgst li Nevada. A clite is laid from the river-'a brink ip the steep iounaitaint to tle railroad, and, while we atre telling it, the monster logs are rushing, tlitialring, flying dwan the declivity. They come with the speed of at thunderbolt and somewhat of its roar. A track of fire fand asmtoke follows themt--fire stitick by their friction with the clitte logs.' ''lhey descend the 1,700 feet of the chute ini fouriteent seconids. it (doinag so they drop 70t0 feet p~epedicuilarly. Tlhey strike thae dleep) wa'ter of the poniid with a report that cain hae heatrd a mnile distatnt. Logs firedl front a catnnton could scarcely haive greater velocity than thecy hauve at the foot of the chute. Tlheir' aiveriage velocity is over onte hundrea'ad feet in, a secoand, thraouaghouat the ent Ira distatnce, 'atad at the instaant they Ileap fr'oam the mnouth thetir slpeed amust be flly3 2110 fe'et per scondl. A s.agar pino. log somtet iames weighas teat tons. 'W lint a mtis sile ! llow the water' is dashed into the *ala' I Like a granad plumae of dliamoauda and rai nbows, thle feathery spr'ay is buraied ito lie ar to thle height oif a htmndr'ed feet. 10 formts the grandt~est fouintain ever behiold. I low Ithe waters of the poind foanm anal seethe anud lash against the shor'e ! One log, haviang qptent its faorce lby its mad pluinge in to) the deep waters, haas Iloated so as to be at, r'ighit aigles with the pauth of the descend iang nionsters. The amouath of thec chute hs, periihtaps, fifteen feet aboive the suirface ot' the water'. A hutge log huirled fr'omu the chute clhealves the alar and alights oat the floatig log. Youa know howit a butllet glantcs, but call you imaagine a saw-log glaacng? Thel end~ strike~s withI a heavy shock, hbut glides qnickly panst for a short distaance, then a cash like the reverberationa of aitil Iery, the fatllinag log spriangs 150O feet verti cally hnto the aIr, and, wvitht a curve ik rocket, falls inuto thae pond sevet~y yards fromt the log at struck. TI ~u~a~olh oI tI o A geilntan fromt D~evonshire, goinag in toa the Morris wareroomus in Loandoan, not loang since, usked to see the book of draw laags fa'oam which amodels of fuarnitture mtay be selec c. Wheni It wuas placed before hhla~ 1'xeter mant tornted over the pages, saying lie wvantedi a anatei; nd, coiming at last uapoan the drawving of at exquilsite tharee-stor'led mantel with twisted sides, Iho saidh, carelessly: "Il like thant; wvhat will you make that for?" "I~ beg your pardon, sir,"' said the clerk, p~olitely, "we anever' execute anay order without knowing first the. proportions of thec room aand thec sutrrouindlngs. a" Proportions!" exclaimed thue Devonitan. "W~htat does that matter to you? I say I' wsant your conufoutnd neow-fangled chinney p)1ece, aind that's all about it. "We alw a conasider the surroundings, sIr, and what as to go on the shelves." "Go~ on the shelvestl" shouted theo wrath a ful customer,. "Shelhs are going on it, and waxwork under glass, and stuafed birds, and,--konfound your impudence, sir what, busIness'Is'it of youtrs, anyhowi Mg wife will put whtatever 'shelk'es 01nitt, br' ; and out he walked in lierce indlgnauitin - -TIsll 1- %t' to ilstrate Mr. Motils 1 idea.' He does not lateond~t solid ot work I slrnply o~ip it Is' the ~Ah~i"ut'ou a teoet bwiall ho93f ( uefulh. ' . a A Malte Cleopatra. Gresham is a good suhject to i)egiu a his ory with, for it has what is earlier than his ory-tradition and romance. The story of hew Grasshopper is a pretty one, only the mide hand of the antiquary sets it all aside ')y sternly proving that Giresham was no "oundling, but born in wealth. There are )lenty of tales left. How is it with this( It is gravely related in at work called "1,aw ,on's i listory of Banking" that the Spanish ;itltmhassador to the English ('ourt having xtolled the great riches of his King, the naster of the Indies, and of the grandees of ipain, before Queen EIlizabeth, Sir Thomas reshain, who was present, told him that he Queen had subjects who at one meal !xpellded not only as much as the daily -evenues of the Kinr, but also of all th'e raiundees, and added : "This I will prove my day and lay you a heavy wager on it." ,o ('resliam outhragged the Spaniard in I!s own line. The Emubassador, bi'iing his hie, came uiawares to the mansion of SIr lhomas in IlishopEgat e, and dined witi mitim, when, finding only an ordinary meal, ie said : "Well, sir, you have lost vour itake. "Not at all," answered Sir Thomas, 'and Ithis you shall presently see." lie hen pulled a box from his pocket, and tak mmg out one of the largest and flrest Eastern 'carls, showed it to the Iabassador. After Oheli he ground it downi and drank the list inl a glss of wine to the health of the ueen, Ihis mistrems. "3'y Lord Enihassa or, " said Sir ''homaus, "you ktioir I have if.ten refused ?156,000 for this pearl. I lave lost or woo "' "I yield the wager as 1st, " said tile EImbassidor ; "and 1 do not hink there are four subjects in the world htit would do as much for their sovereign.'' jgend tracks the man. lere is one that vould do for a media-val saint, and also rolm |Lawson. It must he horne in minli hat the st 'et before the (G. rasshopper-t hat Six--was t i-n tased as I he hliours of ILon lon, which is not unlikely, Gresham, raditng to lie least Indies, by which he is eported to have made munch money, at one till. was dis-colicerted 1y3 the nol-arriv il or ome ships, wiielh, it is alleged, had cauitse"u lim nmehuc embarassmemnt.. While desponld ngly walking in Lomillard street, a sailor ame up to him and presented a letter vliich conveyed the joyful intelligence that wo of the slips had arrived, and, that the iox tihe hearer woul deliver contained some liamonds and pearls of great value its a ample of the riches the ships had brought sme. Perhaps it. wNs a large pearl out of his box or out of the two ships which Igured in the other tale. A fler getting the 'ood news on the bourse, (reshuama could do to ot her than'found, at his own) cost, anl xcalnuige, laying the first stole on .Jtine 7, 6661 ; and on Janiuary 27th it was opened >y Quee' Elizabeth. Tihe Queen's majesty, itended by her nobility, entered the'hourse m the south side, and after she had viewed very part. thereof, and seent a kind of in 1. #.-!. ..* .. ',t - - . vares in the city, site caused the smue )ouirse, by a herald a trumpet, to be0 pro 1laimed "''The Royal Exchange," and to be io called thenceforth and not otherwise, and1 lo it lias been. Why Flowers Turn to the Sun. Wiesner had presented to the Vienna tndemy a monograph upon heliotropism md geotropism in plants. After a histor cal sketch, the author treats on the lifhli %srv %f light on heliotropism, and shows hitl with iintt-Al'l intensity of light the itrength of the heliotropic elree tuicases 0 i ertalinii point, and beyond this polt leereases. The lower limit of light inten ity coiides with the lower limit of hello ropic effect for the stop)page of growth in ciigth, while the upper limit does not coin ide, or only occasionally coincides, with he upper limit of heliotropic effect for ;rowth in length. In the case of very sen utive hieliotropic planlts, the uipper limit of ight intensity for stoppage of growth ini ength lies higher, and i less sensitive )hints lowecr, than the upper ihnit for frowt~h in length. Hie next considers the 'elation between the refrangibility of rays md their heliotropic effect, and shows that. >ortions of very sensitive heliotropic plants, is Viciasativa, curves in all lights, 'even ini he ultra-red and uiltra-violet,'-except the ellow. Experience on the joint action of ioitropisim and geotropism are next dles ~rihed, and the author concludes that thu hleniomneon of heliotropisnm is duo to unie luna growth tupont uinequailly lighted sides 1 the pllant. - A Comiic~al icene. There was a comical scene at a railway ttation in I3irminghamm a fortnight ago. A young English couple had.bee'n in the habit >f meeting together on one of- thrplaitformns, in order to exchange words. of ,tender im port. 'They met, as some young ladles and gentlemcn have a way of doing, without thme knowledge of their parents or guardians, and an irascible aunt of the damsel, hearing :>f the clanidestine courtship, wont tiown to the station in a towering rage, determined to ferret out the whole matter, and chastise the offenders in a mannet' that they would not forget. The fond lovers cameltogetheri as uual and p'rmenaded over the well known and( to them alnmoet ,Qaaregground. hIut just when the young, man was appar ently breathing his tendel'est sentimnents into the willing car of the blushing ialSd, whack caine a gingham umbrella on the top of his hecad, and the ardent swaini had a narrow escape from npeasuring his length pp op the pavemenit. The old lady,'tgo$ co'ttent with assaplting the lover, turned tpoi( er niece, and servedl her in a similarnTuhnner, the ginigham being flourished vigorously for several mniutes, to the.. intqnse etmusemenmt of a crowd of spectators. .The Indians say that, after.the general stampede, Custer tried tp ral~ly.d hincme around him. He wave4I his pil in the. air and shot it off twilce to attf lei men. Two or thureO gathiered Aro 14d but as. the Indianas stil~conted~ (6 linee, one of the solers tried to. tun aw&dyt Custet' tired at-him and killed hip intlpn eeing - the, case quito hoppa, miapgather ing around from al i re vver on. himdeIf, pr ~~'~~iby hls own hand, . The #ndI4 s 9ythat they thin10this person was he~~~ was *a gpule4M ,the tact. R tsoner, ' but w he1 on91 killI the