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_Ih Ee _ eO S__ _, JLaib . TI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORtO, S. C., JUNE 24, 1879. VOL. IV.-NO. 10. DEATH'S HARVEST. Tnw field stands white in the reaper's sight, Teio sumter blessings fall On the ripened wheat and the blossoms sweet, And 1Ieaven stniles over it all., And the ioaper sings while the hot air rings With the rush of his sickle keen ; ''Oh. I reap and I bind whatever I find, And gather my s'.oaves at will. "Tho grain grows high, but what care I ? I walk with a giant's pa;o ; Mon shiver and cry as I hurry by And shrink from my tc+rrible face And the maid grows white with dumb afright At my kisses so d*np &nd obill, But my arms are bold. 'to havd and to hold,' And I gather any sheaves at will. "The breeze that roves through the c .o groves Is th.ok with a coming doom And they drink in death from the perft tod breath Of the fair magnolia bloom ; Where once, through a flood of tears and blood, I gathered my groody fli, I come again, and through woo and pain I garner fresh sheaves at will." Wise Lord of the harvest. stay his work ! Bid the cruel laborer cease ; Spare the little grain that shall yet remain, To ripen and fall in peaeo ; Lot our prayers and cries reach pitying skies, bid the fevered storm "be still ;" Touch the striolion land with Thy healing hand, For the reaper bides Thy will! Mrs. Gooch's Tongue. If Mrs. Gooch had been born deaf and dumb she might, have been a happier wo tunan. She often said so herself. The trouble that long tongue of hers had got. her into no one knew-no one could know but herself. No matter how important asecret was, it was impossible for her to keep it. And she did not even make a pretence of confiding only in her dearest friends, as some women do. She was as likely to pour her confidences into the bosom of the merest stranger. Even as a child she had done so. So that there could not be a family tiff, a question of economy, a bill overdue, or a little comfortable back-biting of friends in the domestic circle, but, all the worlh kne.w it at once. Tilly rmee-that was Mrs. Gooch's maiden name-told everything, and told it to everybody. After childhood had passed, and Tilly, being pretty, found herself the object of admiration in several quarters, it was ex actly the same. Tilly was "engaged" to flive different young mnct before Mr. Gooch came along, and her love affairs came to an unthnely end by reason of her chattering each time. Mr. (ooch, a wise, serious, silent man pirofited by the troubles of his predecessors, and wisely told Tilly nothing which he did not desire to have repeated.. Therefore, they came, at last, to their wedding-day, and the long-suffering parents, sisters, broth ers, and other relatives of long-tongued ''illy saw her transferred to another home with sensations of .relief. Nott that Tilly was not a good girl, but that the presence of a sort of private detective at the fire side was scarcely aigreeable. In her new abode Mrs. Gooch became comparatively harmless. She told all the news as before, but the small, proper house hold had no secrets whatever. Bills were regularly paid. The traditional mother-in law lived forty miles away. Mr, Gooch kept his business affairs strictly to himself, and was what old-fashioned people call "a good provider." Consequently, Mrs. Gooch found herself forced back on the delinquen cies of the laundress and the evil deeds of Bridget, the cook, for her conversation, and peace reigned in the household of the Gooeches. But, alas I upon an evil day Mir. Gooech had a falling out wvith his business neighbor,,Mr. Chubb, the grocer, who would persist in filling up the pavenient under Mr. Gooech's oflice windows with boxes, barrels, hags and ether articles in 1n0 way con nected with real estate. hIard words passed, and in his excitement Mr. Gooch told the facts to his wife. In the course of the niext (lay that wvell-meaning, but indiscreet, lady had spread the tale over the whole -town, not omitting the statement thait Mr. Gooch, in kicking a b)ox of tea from his premises, had put his foot through it, and was obliged to pay for the ten, which was gathiered up in the mean-while by several beggar boy3s and women andi cariiedl away. -Moreover, that lie had also split1 his boots in his effor'ts. Glooch's friends joked hhin ; his enenmies sneered. Gboch knew the grocer to lie ta cit.tyn andl retioeht. - Uls wife had betrayed him. That day he meditated. At tea thnem lie did( not return to his domicile as usual. IEight o'clock came; Tilnc, ten.. .Mrs. Gooch felt alarmed,' and. cried a 'little, but'tt lialf past ten tihe door opened and Gooch caine in. HQ wore a very solemn countenance, and mecrely nodded to her, and wvalked upi to tihe fire, whkere lhe stood wvarming hi hands. Never before in his wedded life had Mr. Gooech neglected the kiss of welcome.. Mrs. (Gooch looked at hhan in surprise, and having taken the ,tea 1p0t from1its warn lng place upon the hearth, sai softlys . "'You,re late, dear."-. "Yes,"~ said Gooech. "Nothning unpleasant, 1 1hop)," said Mrs. "Deuced unpleasant," responded Glooch. "Ohmi whet lifit ?" said Mrs. Gooech steal ing up to her humsband andl putting her handi on his shoulder. . . .. "'That's a pecret," spaId Geechi. "Yori know what a long ltonmguo you huivo, Thilly.' "t h, I can't think of it wvithm famne'ss. G ne a cu of tea, Tilly. ~Deir I dear He'took his seat at the table, swallowet' the tes his wife poured out for him, and stare@t the wvall behind.her, with suck r hiorrogstricken look that she twice tuirnme to see'Wbat he could be could be lookiing ati on which deecgie Mr. Gooech remarked; "No .n11 therenothhi' tiherp, Tdily.' UN)( Goodh goue m#1 .? , it pos hile.thd~t frd(ooh hadgone madi ' Mrs Goobll attot feai'cd tict' ,kI 'w slyad; foi as son o b had swalloWed lisa supper hi retited withot aword. Mi-. 'd6olid'h' folloWdc43d~eZxam i but sleep did not visit her pillow. Mfr G obgroned aloud and iuttered hm~ "Oh, dear, dear, dear I" said Mr. Gooch. "l)o tell mne," said Mrs. Gooet. "You'll never tell ?" said Gooch, solemn ly in the darkness. "Oh, no, no," said Mrs. Gooch. "Well," said Mr. Gooch, "1 feel that 1 must unboson myself to some one. I've li lled Chubb." "What I" gasped Mlirs. Gooch. "I've killed Chubb, the grocer. That'a what kept me so late. Oh, dear !" "lie is mad," said poor Mrs. Gooch. "No, I'm not, Tilly I" said Mr. Gooch. "No, I'i not I Indeed I'm not I He camte into my offiee about that tea, you know ; and I got angry and we had words, and well, he'd brought his cheese-knife with hini, and when he called mhe at rascal 1 just Jabbed it into hini." "Oh I" shrieked irs. Gooch. "Well, there he was, dead, you know !" said Mr. (ooch, "and murder Is a hanging matter. So I felt I must hide it. I just stepped out and got a barrel-an empty po tato barrel. Ah I how often we'd quairreled atbouit it-and brought it into the ofilee, and let. down the blinds and tried to stuff hlm into it. But Chubb is fat--was fat, I inean --ind " "I shall- (lie I" noanued Mrs. Gooch. "Don't aake any noise, Tilly I" said Gooch, in an awful whisper, "I had to cut hii into chunks, like pork, you know, to get hin in." "Oh I Alh 1" moaned Tilly. "Then there was the floor to scrula, and sinking the barrel in the cistern, "said Gooch; "that old cistern that is never used, you know. It was dreadful. And Chubb's ghost standing just behind you all tea time. No wonder I'm not myself, Tilly." 'But he said no more. Tilly was i hys terics. Poor Tilly Gooch I She sat alone next day, after her husband had gone to his of fice, and felt that the world had been turned topsy-turvy. Here was a secret she must keep--a horrible secret that she dared not breathe to any one. Certainly it would kill her. Oh ! she must tell her mot her. I ier mother would know what depended on si lence. She would be true. And then, soiewhat comforted, Tilly put on her hat, tied a vail over her eyes, and "ran over" to the parential mansion. In just ten niutes after her entrance old Mrs. Since knew all about the. ilurder, and was shaking from head to foot, and ejacula ting wildly. "Oh! dear, they'll hang hin I Oh I dear, they'll hiang hni on the gallows! Oh! dear -what at dreadful thing I Oh I how wick ed ! Oh I poor Mr. Chubb I Oh I" At the sound of her mother's cries the eldest. sister of the family, Miss Maria Samee, rushed in, and demtanded explanation. "I can't tell ; I can't tell," sobbed Mrs. Smce. "Oh, Maria, you are my friend," sobbed Tilly. "You wouldn't betray us." And out caie the story again. Now, Maria Smee was nervous, and given to shrieking when terrified, and as soon ais she had heard the awful facts she began to ttter shriek after shriek, each shriller and more prolonged than the last. The win dows were open ;. neighbors heard and rushed in. The house was in comniotion. No one kne.w what had happenled, and some one sent for the family doctor. The doctor came. Hle was a wise, be nignant old gentleman, and he questioned Mrs. Gooch kindly. "Something has agi tated Mrs. Smeeand Miss Maria ?" he said. "Yes," said Mrs. Gooch. "And you are trembling, too," said the doctor. They wore alone ini a little room, whither he had led her to question her, and Mrs. Gooch could not restrain her tongue. "Oh, doctor," said she "you wouldn't wonder if she knew all. Don't tell any one." And then and there she told hin all. Meanwhile the car of the "'up-stair's girl" wasB at thec keyhaole. "My dear', my13 dear, this is horarible 1" said( the doctor. "YOU can't exp)ect me to keel) a secret like that. Clompouand a mur decr I Be a sort of alccom)plicealfterthae fact! I can't I I canl't. Not is it wea'e my own Mirs. G4ooch screamned, and1( Biddy IIng germaaan left the keyhoe and1( rana to the po0 11ce olIce. Thecre she mlade a1 statemnat of tihe facts of the case. Chubb lad been anurdered. MIr. Gooch .murdered haimi. The grocer's remtalins were in a barrel in the 01(d clsterna behaind the real estate office. She had all the par1ticlars. Justice Spruce was an energetic aa. Inu haalf an1 hour11 two stout pol1iceamen weae onl thecir way to arrest Mr. Gooch1, whlo shortly was led through the streets toward the sta tilon, followed b)y a cr'owdl of boys, 'n stared1 at from tha .windowd. JustIce Sprdae was aan old friend of Odo0chi's. iIe ad(van~ced to meet haim. "Goocha," lie said, "I regr'et the part I've b)een obliged to talie ina tis affair. I hope It will prove a ridlicualous mnistatke. I hope)3 you did( net tell Mrs. Goocha tamt you1 haad lturdered Mr. Ciibb,.and that hais 'efiis wvere prekedl l a barrel In your elsterdl ?" * "'dId,. thlugh," said( Gooch. "I don't (dciy it. May I see iny wife In your pres ence before I anm sent to prlsqna ?" This privilege having beeaccorded, Mars. Goql ch ws genit for. :She arrlved in the cabli, a'enre wisp of nmisery ; fier lthiir dis hiovelledi, her collar' uanpinnaed, heor eyes and no0s0 swollen. With her.came allher reIa 'tives and'halfE the town. Gochl tdod before lhis miserable wife and3( looked atL her -with a queer epeso ona lis face'. eirsi "I Confided an awvful secret oar(whilchnum lif,e depiended, to your w)fely bosom1, Tlilly, ' li. sa(1 "andlogi bietraysi 11e." 'Qh,' my d.ea.ar,h 1 nli y;dear I" moaned Mrs. och. . !Si, didn't mneani to. Oh, plejise hang ma, Mir.'Spruce, It's my fault. L'etii-god .I did it1"Ohay oa, oh I" The ladios:of 'the Sine family wept, spec tatorssihook thei honds.' At 'thais -idisIipt somebody was heard saying': "L,et meo get througil folks (" iUtid in an istant more a hftiky fbrni abyigtred before tihe justiee, who stared at It in an astoishmaent. I jbtonN&1mp~k. from market," said tile n?eW;p.cr, ,oteerfully, aand I hear I'm muhrdiered an%f Jed, hiuto a tater barrel down Mr. GdOis cl'stern. - Now me amA Qqoeh did haave shine worde, but '1I hhaV' mwan enough to want him hung for Wu dorig me so long as I aia't mutdered, i4pr no aittemlpt been made.'3 Who las circlast ed thais'1here etoiy' Ho1w' do do, 3oocih t All rigit3-nd4."~' httbeutl1ing It, I beloid but I told n o'A~ daughter, " cried old Mrs. Smtee; but. Till put her hand under her husbatd's arm ai they went home together. "You won't publish the next secret conilde to you, will you, Tilly ?" asked M (ooh. Tilly said nothing. Findiag A Smugglers' Cave. New York Revenue officers hav long been con-vinced that aumong thl most active and successful of th smugglers of that place were .JmInte Levy, alias "Slheeuy Jim." Bill Law rence, sometimes called "Long Billy, on account of his hlei.ht; '1'homss Graham, Felix Dewey and James Wial rean. These men lounged around tih saloons on Staten Island in the daythm but at night were rarely seen. The were always well dressed. All ha plenty of money, and were gay an easy In their manner. '1'hey chatte familiarly and freely with the revenu Inspectors, but they always manage to cover their tracks effectually. '1'he have been see) pulling boats towar Stapleton, but were never caught. B the time the oflicers reached the laml Ing the smugglers' boat would b found empty and tied to a post beloi the old ferry landing. A discover near the water's edge on the land c the olal Staten island ferry company I Stapleton village, has evidently cleare up the mystery. William Salge, a Get man, while digging there last weet thrust his spade through an entangle ment of brushwood, and exiosed ti mouth of what seemied to be a cave I the uluf. Tle opening wits larg ciough '1o admit his body, and I crawled In and found himself in a nat row and winding passage. Althoug it was (lark, lie groped along for aboti sixty feet, t urning several abrupt coi ners, and at last entered a chambe about twelve feet square. lie saw tLui it, had been recently inhabited, as ther was a stove and cooking utensils an 1)111 ks arranged for sleeping. Saige a once reported the fact to Police Cal: taun Blake, and the latter made a thou ough examination of the cave. 11 found that owing to the winding pac sage no light in the chamber could b seen without. By the peculiar formsm tion of the embankment the cave we completely concealed. It was visite by scores of persons. It is the opinio: of the police that the cave has been tit ren(lezvous of the smugglers who'su( denly left their haunts about a n.ontl ago. Revenue Inspector 'rodd believe that the cave has been used for man years for hiding smuggled goods, an that hundreds of thousands of dollar worth of, silks. velvets, opium, drugc cigars and other dutlable goods hav been secreted there.- The goods coul be brought to this city by women, boys and hucksters. The cave bol'hg withi a m!nute's walk of the ferry-boat, th goods could be easily removed in smal packages after nightfall. The polic filled ip the cave. -Inspector Todd be lioves that there are other similar cave along the shore between Quarantin and Fort Griswold. It is certain thti the Levy and Lawrence gang of smug glers has quit the village of Stapletor Legends of the Rose. Imn tihe mneighiborhood of Jerusalem a pleasanit valley, whIeh still bears Lih nanie of Solomon's Rose Garden, an where, according to a Mohammeda: umythm, a commpact was made betwee: time Wise Man and thme genmi of tim Mornilng Land, which wvas written nc 1mn blood like time bond betweem Faum and( Mephilstophmel es, mnor imn gall or lik our modern treatIes, but wvith saffro and rose-water upomi the petals c white roses. In' the Catholic TIyrol, Il time presemnt day, betrothed swamins am expected to carry a rose dlurinig tIh p)erlod of theIr be trothal, mas a warnimn Lo younmg mmal(dens of their engage stam$e. Roses have p)1 yed, and sti play, an immportanit p)art of' popuin usages ini mnany othmer parts of thi world1. In Germany youmng girls dec thmeir hair wlith white roses for thmel commirumaton, their entramco ito th wvorldi; and( when at time end of life career, time aged granmiliothier depari to lier eternal rest, a last gUft, imn th shape of a rose garland, is 1la(d upo her bier. A rose was figured on th rieadismans axe mat thme Vehmgerlh Many orders, fraterimities and( socetle hmave takemn time rose as their badgi The ''Rosicrucians' -may be imstane<4 'Tme Society of tihe Rose,' of Hlamnburj anm assooiationi of leurned ladles of tIl seventhm cemtury, is'a less knownm om amuple. It was divided into four see tions-thie "Roses, theo Lillies, the VIE lets, amnd tihe Piaks. Thme hmoly Medaru insttuted inm France time custom of !T. Rosier,' by whIeh In certain localitiea a money gift amnd orows of roses ai bestowed oni time devoutest, and moe iniduistrious ainal In time communs [I Sea*on 1 le Notes, Now is thme time to air.yoidr garden bed Turn with,a spade. To make sure of a big corn crop plal your feet in tIght boots.' . *If $fduii hops come out all right, skIps i jummnps"of joy will be in omrdem'; * ribs now begin to glitb thmeir wAy 01 of .thme gronnid in. soareh of"grub." If you are hungry, planit Boston bakt beans whe the6y will do thTe ~mot good. TheIr is considerable activity I.pi ou shmares, and many a bank whll be brbk6 1 them. 3 Oatmeal should b ewz iin pot of bo ti water;'stir well lef6o planting on t1 r 0'o 4entaigis 4orm no espy nn 6vthe eativybid. . y Who Began It? (1 "Aren't you two people ashamed of I yourselves?" asked the court as they r stood before the bar. "Sihe began it!'' replied the lman. "le began it!" replied the woman. "1 don't suppose I can ascertain whc began it," said his iIonor, but it seeul curious to 11e why husbands and wivel will quarrel." "She'd quarrel with an angel," said e the old man. "He'd pick a fight with the Bible !" sihe added. "Can't you two people live together s happily? Can't you put up with each other's faults and short-comings and e getalong without breaking furniture?" e "Well, she can't kick my boil l" V" growled John Jones. "Andi ie can't put his paws on my throat !" said his wife. "Now, then, if you will agree to go home and live in peace I'll suspend the sentence. If you won't agree, I'll put you where iron bars will divide you. What do you say ?" "Well, I suppose I'll have to try?" replied the old main, after a long pause. e "Yes, I 'spose I can live through an other month or two," added the wife, y as she tied her bonnet strings. "'Then go.' They went. She took his arm and they sailed out. in what seemed to be a happy mood, but as soon as they reached the walk she gave him a slap across the mouth r and a caf 'on the ear and went off on a gallop. Such is earth. He Could Say "No More." A beggar accosted us tire other even t ing. Ite said : "I havi a wife and seven children. I r. can say no more. We walked on. "I have been in this country for years. I can say no muore." t We walked on. "I have had iothlrg to e'tt for three days. I can say no more." We walked on. "I have lived on three rolls to-day three (holding up three fingers). I can say no more." We walked on. "I am alope in this great country, and I know nobody. 1 can say no o mo e." - We walked on. r "I cannot speak a word of English. I can say no more." y We walked on. 1 "I care sa.y &--, b..- the Young s Men's Christian Association. But let me tell you, you help no one. [ can say no more.' 1 We walked on. "You go to church every Sunday. But you will not help a poor manr. I can say no more." 1 We walked on. "I have Just arrived in this Country, and can find no work. [ can say no a more." e We walked on. "I am an honest maan. I tell you no lies. I can say no more." We walked on. "I sacrificed my life in the rebellion. I can say no more." We walked on. 5 Truo Grit. S A Methodist parson ini Nevada has Spubliciy declinred to abandon Johrn Chri namnanr. Tire Rev. Mr. Ger'ber went to Grass Valley iromr Sacramento, taking t with imn a Mongoliorn man-of-ali-work. STire memrbers of' tire lo.;k liked tihe e shepherd, but hated tihe shephrerd's Sdog, and it was not long before tihe ~board of stewards demanded the expuil Ssiorn of tihe Chinrarmanr. Th'ie mlirster assured threm that Johrn ihad lived with irhim a very long time, was a tolerable Christian, arid an exeeedingly good Sfellow, and threre was no reason why ihe shrould be discharged from service, r The stewards subsequently renewed Stire attack, and informed the parsoni k that they would rnot pay iris salary if hec r refused to dismiss the Celestial. Thec e reply was, "Coame to church next Sunr *day evening." Th'ie church was erowd ed on the evening ini questiorn ard thet Ssermnonr was awaited with breathless in. n terest. Tire pastor's rdforence to th e Ch inese questoar wase briet but ponrt' ed. "Tire steward'(s llave told me thai a unless I discharge the Chninamanr in my ,employ they will nio-longer be respon Ssrble for my salary. My wife hai learned to like John because he Is a egood Christian, thinks so muchr of us, and does his.work so faihfully. I nroi . anrswer you once for all that tire Cina. ~. man shall stay with*tns and I shall corn a tianue as pastor of this church until thr( a Conrferenrco sees flt'otherwihse to direci 3, rme, salary or no salary, starve or n< 'e starve ! I have never yet been intimida rt ted from what I consicter my duty as a 3. Christianr, and do niot propose to ba nlow I Brethren, it strikes me pretty forcibly tha't it would be. better for yor to follow tire religion taught in the BD. ble than thrat dealt out oan thre Sant t Lots in -Sanr Francisco." -Prejudice Ii .prejudIce, but grit Is also grit. Ther4 di was applause fromt #vry side of tin church, and when thopreao.aer left thi d congregartionl ateppet up to hin; an' said : ' arson, yett have partsken o hl amy ospitality ini $l.I PMq pirany a time y Reolettam late,h-aing hangs 9i 'the outgideo when yotegme that way SThere is a crust ibn my~ upboard -when eyour salary falls." - Conduct in case of Fire. Every householder should miake each person in his house acquainted with the best means of escape, whether the fire breaks out at the top or the bottom. Inmates at the first alarm should en deavor calmly to reflect what means or escape there are in the house. If in bed at the time, wrap themselves in a blanket or bedside carpe; open neither windows or doors more than necessary; shut every door after them. This is most important to observe. In the midst of smoke it is coinparatively clear toward the ground ; consequently progress through smoke can be made on the hands and knees. A silk hand kerchief, worsted stocking drawn over the face permits free breathing and ex cludes to a great extent the smoke fron the lungs. A wet sponge Is alike of fIcaeous. In the event of being una ble to escape either by the street door or the roof, the persors in danger should immediately make their way to the front window, taking care to close the door after them, and those who have charge of the household should ascertain that, every Individual is there assembled. Persons thus circum stanced are entreated not to precipitate themselves from the window while there remains the least possibility of as sistance. and even in the last extremity a plain rope is invaluable, or recourse may be had to Joining sheets or blankets together, fastened one end to the bedpost or other furniturn. -This will enable one person to lower all the others separately, and the last may let himself down with comparatively' little risk. Select a window over the door way rather than over the area. 1)o not give vent to the tire by breaking in un necessarily from without, or if an in mate by opening the door or windows. Make a point of shutting every door after you as you go through the house. For this purpose doors enclosing the staircase are very useful. Upon dis covering yourself on fire, reflect that your greatest danger arises from draft to flames, and from their rising up ward. Throw yourself en the ground ahd roll over on the flame-if possible on the rug or loose drugget, whicht drag under you. The table cover, a man1's coat, anything of the kind at hand will serve your purpose. Scream for assistance, ring the bell, but do not run out of the room or remain in an upright position. Persons especially exposed to the risk of their dresses taking fire, should adopt the precaution in a weak solution of chloride of zinc, alum or tungstate of soda. Hunting In Luxurious Style. A car arrived at Bismark, D. '1., re ceutly that is worth noticing. It hail ed from Worcester, Massachusetts, and is the hunting palace car of Jerome Marble. He is a *wealthy gentleman, who has a mania for outdoor sport. For four years he has taken in the Northern Pacific country. his car was on exhibition at Ohe Centen nial, and Is considered a rare piece of workmanship, The fittings of the interior are his own. Mr. Marble's family accompany him, with.a few in vite.i guests. Thue car is a house in it-. self. It hams a tine drawing room, twenty-four feet long, which in turn is used for dinliig room and sleeping apartments. On thme Iloor is a velvet carpet, with several easy chairs and rockers, and an uprIght p)lano. The la dles amsuuse theinsplues as in any well regulated.mansion. There is a neat kit chien, with all the Improved machinery of that important apartment. There is an armory and coat room, the outside door has a door bell, and strangers are expected to notice it when they call. Under the car is a large coal anid Ice box. The rear latformn is fenced In for kitchen buckets and gamne. T1hiere is also a comnmon car for the dogs, boats, and other necessary articles not proper in an elegantly ap)polnted residence, The proprietor has a cont,ract with the railroad company that requires any train to couple on to his cgs' when lhe signals for the same. D)uJRs. ehickeins, geese and antelope have beeun their principal conquest. How Fnint Arrow leadw were Made. A young scientist in the Smithsoihian lustitute, named Cushing, has just made public thme diIscotery of the meth od employed in making the stone and volcanic glass arrow-heads, daggers, knives, axes and razors of the pre-his torne races. Up to this time this has been a great piroblem to all antiquarian students, biut no ijicory has ever been advanced showing buolh practical ne suits as Cushing's. Ho stsrted to solve the dimtilty by putting himself in the .identical position of the Astecs orMound liuilders-without anythuing to work with except sticks, various 'shaped stones such as he could find on time banks of any stream, and his hands. after 'making .some -rude itnple monts by chipping one finmt wvith an.. other, lhe discovered that no amount of chipping would prodmee surfices like 'be.st of those lie was tryinug to imitate. lIe therefore came to the conclusion that there was.another way of doing it, anil, by chance; cried pressure with the r boInt of.a stick, Instead of -iippig by bloeks of a stomi; when, presto I he, i. founid that he cold break stonie, flint and Qbaldian iti any shap~opphose. s hortly hie had, mnade pear4heads and daggers tha$ would cut. 1h.* razor, as g op4 i any lie had Io bini, hmlhl r hAd,been pioked dp Aj h FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Those who hope for no other life are dead even to this. We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions. 'Tihe great misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. Age that lesseim the enjoyment of life, increases our de ire oi living. Absennie destroys trilling intimaeies but it itvigorates strong ones. To the blessed eternity Itself there is no other handle than this instant. Let us search ourselves it the llrst place, and afterwards the world. If evil be said of thee, and it is true, correct it;. if it be a lie, laugh at t. IEmploymentt Is Nature's physielan, and Is essential to human hb,pl;'ness. No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. Flattery sits in the parlor when plain dealing is kicked out of doo- s. Show may be purchased, but happi ness is always a homie-made article. it lbs right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. The silence of a person who loves to praise is a censure suffielently severe. Those beings only are lit for solitude who like nobody, and are liked by no body. Be severe to yourselves and indul gent to others; you thus avoild all re soitneit. Good thoughts, like rose-leaves, give out at sweet perfume if laid up in the jar of memory. If you propose to serve God at all, have the mnanliness to begin Itie service ntow. Our d1issAtisfactiol with any other solution, is the blazing evidence of our iimmnortality. Streitgth of tind depends upon sobri ety, for this keeps reason unclouded by passion. No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respect able selfishness. Hluman life defined by a line is as uncomfortable as would be the human figure defined by a wire. Nothing Is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing is more contetmp tible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays It. Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of bhe b'ody,. they are increased by repetition, approved by refleetion and strengthened by enjoyment. The object of all ambition should be to be happy at home, It we are not hI.ppy there, we cannot be happy else where. Ignorance, when it Is voluntary, is criminal, and he may properly be charg ed with evil who refused to learn how lie might prevent it. All skill ought to be exerted for uni to others and ought to repay the kind ness that he has r.eco.ved. It Is from our hearts, and not from an outward source, that we draw the line which covers the web of our exis tence. Keep the head cool by temperance in all things, and the feet warm by actual exercise in the discharge of important duties-deeds of kindness. What commonly hinders us from showing the recesses of our heart to our friends is not the distruso we have of themn, but that we have of ourselves. Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples Is summary and effectual. No man is ever good for 'anything un til he has found two things--first, Se tiing to love, mand seoond, somethiing to The Infinite has sowed his name in time heaenms in burning stars, bumt in time earth HIe has sown ils name in tenm der flowers, Genius loves toil, impediment and p)over.ty ; for from these it gains Its strength, throws off' the shadows, and lifts its proud head to Immorality. Gentleness which belongs to irtue is to be carefully distinguished,from time meana spirit of cowards and time t aw~ninug assent of sycopnan ts, Pride is seldom delicate ; it will please itself wih very meani 'advantages; and enavy feels not its own happiness.; buit when it miay be conspared with. time misery of pthmers. 'Tears are tile gift which love bestowsa upon the imienory of the absent and( they. will a rail to keep the heart from samlfocatiom. Ilow many usef'ul hints are obtained by chlan(de, and ' how-often- thle mind, hlurried by her own ardor, to distaint viewvs, neglects time, truths that lie open before her. If you were as wiilIhgto bhas pleas mant, and as anxfatie'o pleas6ii' your own house, as you are in the company of youtr neighb9rs, you would have the hamppiest home in the 'world. When the' flowers are full ,of heaveni descended (lows they alwAys'htong their heads; bitt meon hold theirs the higher tihe more of the world they 'receive, getting prouder as $hey get full., 'Tis much easier to n peti with error tihan to flind truthl; 'error iM on the sur face, truth is hidden" in great debths; and the .wa to;:seelk does 'not appear to all the wo .d. . Times ~1general oalamnity and con ifusion h'EYe ever been produ9tive of the greatest niinds. ' Tlie puttet oee eones from the bottest furnaQe; the birightest flaShh from1 thme darliesti eloti,1 If we w idl have p*werful znds we must th n; 4f WOWti hP!O 4 fuh hedrfte, Wemi4'1v;i Wmd imave s$ k ie4~~ we' i~ ~~o These Inclii e all theti yaltAbh itt e, SNever -has one pekon fQto et ehis stand the inote4' I'Iu $ito use frorm i,hence outIf.- n V ht 6o a1r$t he found that the "flaking,'' which he calls his process, on the old arrow-head left grooves that all turned one way. IIe produced a like result by turning his stick the easiest way from right to left. lie therefore concludes that the prehlstories were right-handed people like ourselves. This conclusion 18 re inforced by the fact that occasionally an arrow head is found that has flakes running from left to right, showing a left-handed person. The mportance of the discovery Is that it shows the prehistorics to have been able to do this thing without the use of iron or bronze, a th'ng long doubted. A Bravo Hoosier Girl. Living in a plain cottage situated be tween two farms on the main settle ment near l'ortville, about seven miles front Olean, Indiana, is It young womt in named May Iangdon. 11er mother has been almost a helpless invalid for inany years. She hersel' has long suf fered with a terrible cancer on the up per part of her left arm. To cure this Dr to alleviate the torment of mind and body which it has caused, has been her constant thought, her ever-present care. The aid of competent physician, had been called in and every kind of treatment resorted to, but with no hopeful result. Expert medical men pronounced the case a hopeless one, imd the poor-girl was regarded by all imC by herself, as the doomed victim f the dreadful disease. A lady doc tor of reputed skill in the treatment of' Nu cer recently visited the suflerer but gave no word of encouragement. Af ter site had gone Mlary shed no tears, but resolved upon a desperate and dangerous expedient, and wlhene had resolved; speedily carried her de sign into execution. She ran a stout neeole beneath the cancer, drawing a thread through it. With this thread she tied the artery, using her teeth to lid her. She then took a sharp table knife and cut the cancer, which was of utnusual size, out of her arm. This ]one, she took the mass of quivering lesh which she had removed from her m, and without a word to any one, buried it In the rear of the cottage. So quietly had the girl gone through with the terrible operation that no one in the house was aware of it until soime Lime after. IIaving bound up and cov ured the terrible wound in lier arm, the went about her household as usual. Of course the result of this fearful piece of surgery is diflfcult to predict. Ill effects, and it is sincerely to be hoped that so much courage and endur ince will be rewarded by a complete ure. Inrds as a Protection. For the past two years I have been xperimenting somewhat, feeding the birds to proteot the fruit from insect lepredations. For the spring of 1876 we fed something over twenty-five bushels of oats, also keeping water for them to drink. '1'his last summer we fed probably one-third more oats, scat tering some each morning, also putting fresh water in the trough nearly every morning. Tihe quail, robin and.black bird tame the easiest. '1h.e dove raises several broods during the seaison : I frequently passed within two feet of' where '.he dove was settinugon her eggs without her flying away. The whip p)orwllsB used( to comae every evening to reed on the omts, at least they were ini thie apple trees over my ont box. I never allow a gun fired in the orchard if I can help it. The orchard Is about ano half mile from, the timber and I have frequently noticed when a gn was fired in the timber that the birds would come in flocks to the or Dhard. The birds ate and diestroyed1 from twent.y to thirty bushuelsof apples also seome cherries. The cat-bird, kha5g bird, robin and wvood-peeker are the most destructive. Now for thec advan tages: It is a pleasant thing to feed thenm and hear hund reds of them sing at once. The alple-wormi or eodiing moth as it is ealied, destroyedt near ly every apple tree ig some or eihards8 not two miles fromi me. .We raised and mnarketed some 3,000 bush ols of apples, and I dlon't think there was one b)ushel of wormy ones ini the lot. 'This r.-ill be read by many who bought apples of me, and they will bear wItness for the birds. I am. free to admit that two or three years is not time to give anything of.thuis kind a fair trial, as it may take, uder some eiroumstances a longer time to tame the birds. I hope that every fruit grower will give the birds a fair trial and see what advantage they are to him. A Singular Ilird. A strange bird which lives in China, call ed the fork-tailed parus, which is quito an acrobat. Hie is about as big as a robin, and lie has a red beak, orange-colored throat, green back, yellow legs,,blsek tail and red and-yellow wings. Nearly all the colors are in his dress, you .see, and lie is a gay fellow. But this bird:has a trick known!by no other birds that over, I heard of. -H turne somersaults I Not' only does. be dp this in his free life on.the trees, but also af ter ho is cauight and put into a cage. ,He just throws his head far backe, and -over he goes, touchhi' tite barB of the cage, aud alightng upo hs oeet on tihe fIpQr or,. theperh. Hewill 49 1,t over and over numL.or ,of times withpa estopping,f lou h he ploght it get i>4 4 laz~ e b lsau 41 adhyr