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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. --RIWEEKL EDIION.WINNSBORO, S. C., JULY 8, 1879 L1m _ _ _ _ V O L l WnN O 16. u== as race. 13e not swift to take offenco ; Let it pass I Anger is a foo to sense :0 Let it pass I Brood not darkly o'er a wrong Which wi I disappear ere long ; Iather sing this cheery song Let it pass Let it pass I Strife corrodes the purest mind Let it pass I As the unre,arded wind, Let it pass I Any vulgar souls that live May condemn without reprieve 'Tis the noble who forgive. Let it pass I Let it pass ! Echo not an angry word ; Let it pass I Think how often you have erred ; Let it pass I Since our joys must, pass away, Like the dewdrops on the spray, Wherefore should our sorrows stay I ' Let them pass I Let them pass I If for good you've taken ili, Let it pass ! Oh ! be kind and gont e still Let it ias I Time at last makes all things straight Let us not resent, but wait, And our triumph shall be great Lot it pass ! Let it pass ! Bid your anger to depart, Let it pass I Lay these homely worts to heart, '-Let it pass !" Follow not the giddy throng ; Better to be wronged than wrong Therufore sing the cheery song Let it pass I Lt it pass t The Smith of Augsburg. There is so much meaning in some of the old German popular legends, that we could construct a moral tale on the hints frequent .y afforded, as will be seen from the follow ing, picked up at random, and given as shnple as possible: Three. hundred years ago there lived at Augsburg a lad named Willabald, appren tice to a smith, whose diligence and indus try obtiined him the approval and regard of his master, while his good nature and obliging disposition caused him to be a favorite with all who knew him. His master, in truth, so highly estimated his skillfulness and excellent workmanship, that when the boy became a man he offered to make him his partner, and, moreover, hinted that lie was not displeased at the young man's friendship with his daughter. enfaKeetWuflMEav t*b ie yt dugI lass, was quite free from any feelings of love for her. He replied to all her advances with distant though profound respect, and the reason of his coldness was apparent : In the small house opposite lived Dame Martha, a respectable widow, with a grand daughter of uncommon loveliness, about sixteen years of age. The sweet face of the young Ellen had qnite captivated the heart of Willabald; and when he saw her through the window or the open door, heatly dressed, sitting at the spinning wlhcel, or heard liar clear voice warbling hymns he thought there could be no happi ness so great as that of calling her his own. Ellen was her grandmother's darling and the delight of her eyes, and the old woman seldom suffered her to stir from her sight, so that there was no opportunity for the youth to declare the passion with which the fair girl had inspired him. For a long time did Willabald wish, though in vain, for some pretense for a visit to their dwelling; and fortune at length favored him. One day when the e made the ground so slippery as to be dangerous to an intirm person, lie saw Dame Martha comning out of church alone. He hastened to offer her the assistance of his arm, .and conduct her home. She in vited him to enter, for she thought to her helf that eonly a very worthy young man would be so courteously attentive to an aged dame. Bhe offered him also a horn of beer, which the pretty llen presented with her own hands. Who was now happier than Willabald?i From this day lie was one of Dame Mar l: tha's most frequent visitors, and .was al ways received with a welcome. In process of time' he made bold to lay open his heart * to the old woman, and ask perimssion to make love to her granddaughter. "My dear young friend, 'was her reply, "I have the highest esteem fpr you, and indeed, could never wish for Ellen a better husband than yourself. I believe she loves you, too, as much as -becomes a young maiden;. but you have not yet sufficent for the support of a wife. I cani give my lIttle girl nothing except a good stock of, clothing as her portion, and it is not the part of pru deuce to commence life by falling into debt. Save from your wages a decent sum that will be enough for a beginning, then conie and receive your bride with my bles Wilabad was almost besidehimself with1 joy. He had now an object for labor and frugait, and lie redoubled his industry, layn bycarefully all he earned, Eller assse him, for she was much attached t< him, aind spun more briskiy than ever, noii that Bhe was permitted to add her smnaI savings to her' lover's store. The hoveri met less frequently, but their time passe< pl.iail,for they were both incessant occupe,with hope to animate the'il Ever Suday Willabald went over, to Dam M3rta's, and 'told her how much he hs oarned 'and saved the precedlu qeek Thus the weeks passed, and cgteel I ,nmonthe rolled by, and the young smit witl naned himself master of live anm l tis time Dame Martha fill Il *o~~ ough, which rendered hier al mOst ~6lp.M-4least quite unable to*o acot'iz~ th)er custom. The doto1ip .?and saida longad * J~cdhstreets ta Whdtrm titunlay he went to visit her, and thought the air of the country even improved her beauty. One day as Willabald approached the house Ellen came to neet him, weeping. She sobbed bitterly as he drew near, and exclaimed: "Alh, Willabald, what a misfortune." "You know it then?" cried he, with faltering voice. "What--knoiv what ?" asked Ellen, quickly and eagerly. "That I have been robbed of my box of money," answered the youth, it a tone of anguish. I could find it nowhere this morning. Some one has stolen it. You see all your prudence and foresight have gone for nothing. "Alas?" replied Ellen, "then misfor tunes never cene single. Yesterday morn ing a rich gentleman cane to.our cottage. He asked for a drink of water, and, when I handed it to hin, looked at me earnestly, and asked if I would go with hini and be his wife: I answered him 'no;' but he re turned early this morning and demanded me of my grandmother. His name is Werner; he is a rich merchant from Ulm. Even now he is sitting In the room yonder with my grandmother, drinking wine and telling her of his houses and lands: while his servant, who stands by the chimney, confirms everything he says. But be conm forted, dear Willabald. Let grandmother say what she will, I will die rather than be faithless to you." Here Bame Martha came out of the house, and commanded Ellen to go in di rectly. The poor girl was forced to obey, and the old woman said. to Willabald: " Young man, I am come to say to you that I think it best you should come no more to my cottage. A rich man is a sui tor to my Ellen, and it Is my duty to do what is good for her. I say nothing of my infirm age. I could cheerfully hear hard ship; but I wish to see her surrounded hf comfort and riches. I put it to yourself what you offer the girl? Would you have her bind herself to proverty and toll now, when she may place herself in ease and affluence ?" "Well, well, Dame Ma-h'lra," cried Wil labald, half choking with emotion. "I say nothing of your conduct. If you choose to break an honest fellow's heart, and your own word also 't.ib all the same to me l" "But, Willabald," persisted the daie listen to me I" But the impetuous youth was already several paces off. She called after him, but the sound of her voice did not servo to check the mad speed at which lie rushed on. Despair drove him aid he slacked not his pace till lie found himself in the open fields, night gathering around him. It was darker night, however, in his own breast. He threw himself on the ground, and cursed himself and his destiny, for no tears would come to his relief. When he thought of 1 Ellen and her wretehedness, his heart was like to break. r Some lours must have passed unmarked in the indulgence of his grief. frt. - liomeWaru: kuter wana. ing TSut iur a Some time without being able to discover e the road, he found that he was in, a church- t yard. The tall spire of the churih was vi- i sible in relief against the drifting clouds. "There is the house where the people go t to pray," murmured the youth bitterly. "Have I not also prayed; have I not toiled, e have I not also denied myself? Have I not f striven to keep my, soul from - the taint of e sin. And what is my reWard? Ellen is lost to me. . Prayers will not give her back, 1 else I would pray-aye, to the fiend him- t self and promise to be his, so she would be t mine l" Scarcely had the distracted yopth uttered these wild words 'when-'a souid of shrill laughter near by startled him, arid, looking around, he saw a figure which he had no difficult in recognizing by the fiery eyes'and 1 Zamiel 1 ok as the fiend he had called upon. " I am here," cried the ttranger, in hoarse tones, " at your service and ready to yoml' bidding, asking only a small service in re turn." "What is thiat?" Willabald mustered, courage to say, though he trembled all over. " You are, as I happen to know," said the fiend, an excellent smith. 1 have a piece of work for you.' Follow me: I will take you to a spiot where lies buriedl one of my subjects. Your must make me an iron railing around his grave and in reward I will give you your bride. " If you have nothing more to ask I am content," replied the young man., "That is all," said the fiend; " but it is a harder task than you imagine. You have but one hour to work. At twelve you must begin,*and the railing must be com pleted by the time the clock strikes one. .If it is done, you' are free ; if not, you be long to me forever." W illabald paused an instant, but a flood of wild thoughts came rus'hing upon his brain, and the passionate desire to snatch iEllen from his rival overcome all his pru dence. He pledged himself to the unhal lowed contract, 'and he followed the fiend to a new-made grave. "To your work, my lad," he cried, and vanished. *At the same instant Willabald saw fire spring out of the ground beside hanp, and caught a glimpse of several bars of iron and the tools of his trade. The clock on the church tower struck twelve, and, starting, he betook himself to work. So diligenitly did he apply himself that the work grew rapidly.under his hand, the railing was al most finished. A single screw only wvas wanting to finish it, when the dull sound of the clock was beard stricking one and 'Willabald fell 'to the ground insensib e/ When his senses returned it was orning, the sun g waar sllininig, tIrghtly and(l he th'oughtial that had passed a id dreatn. But a sight of the railing n ly finished, pround the graye, anu ru ty,b,ar of' Iron lying t4 the gromted, coviced hlm of the reahlty. 'There was, however, no trace .of the fire, and the,toola had disappearod.' Full of sh e-and repejitanlce, Willabald hastened to thmehureh pra more ear, neatly than he had over praye beforej foE the padnof hie great sin. Ijis heart was I igheafter praer but hte could not go Jhiotp wo tat d spdly h~ e ec -jy Whon lcu e t us-o udeystr S4yIllo eouomitheh Ane hgei~ tz,ttie gten where Ih'ht*e ti n dieturbed aLa/there .ldhi 'Wlad e 1& us 4bn heat on tetable yodr "Weep not. ,ny child, weep not-but pr pray for yv'tr lover; lhe Is in very gi . anger." She vanished before I co thank her; but I remembered her woi Willabald, and prayed for you all ni, long." The young man shuddered, but raised eyes upward In thankfulness. "Early this morning," continued maiden, '-came Herr Werner. I went < to meet him, and told him I would rat] die than beconie his wife. Ile was mt vexed, but without another word moun1 his horse and rode away, followed by servant. My grandmother was angry, I my conscience told me I had done rigl an.d now, that you return to me in safel Willabald, lani sure that I have the ble Ing of heaven. And the young smith felt the same asi rance when, a few days later, his box treasure was restored to him by his maste daughter, who, in a fit of jealousy or lo of mischief, had stolen it from him. Dal Martha could no longer withhold her cc cent, but before Willabald dared to clal Ellen as his bride, confessed his greac sin The lovers were married and lived ha pily, remembering their past troubles on as a warning against discontent, as a wa of submission to Providence. "Even if I had been suffered to peri then, would Willabald say, "my want faith would have deserved such a doom." But the railing round the grave was n the work of his hands; it was there befo he went to sleep in the churchyard.-H idea had been a dreamn, and so had bet Ellen's vision. Up In the World. Nathan Randall, of New York, and Lou Clenn, of Germany, recently ascende Gray's Peak, Colorado. As a usual thini this peak can only be ascended. for abot two months in the year, beginning on ti first of July, and then not without gret fatigue, no little risk, and great difficult Next to Sierra Blanca it is the highent pea on the American continent, being 14,84 feet above the level of the ocean. No ont unless it is Sulktau and George West, hi ever ventured up before the 4th of July o after the last of September. The mountai is a pile of crusted snow. The gulches, 5( 100, and, in some places, 200 feet deep, ar tilled with "the beautiful snow." From th base of the summit Is.a field'of it. At thi 3eason of the year there is no path whateve pen. Well, some one said that Randal mid Clemm, having tender-feet, could no iscend the mountain. 'rhey thought thej ould. Bets were offered ten to one thal hey couldn't. They concluded that the3 ould only fail, at. the worst, and so deter ninled to make a trial. They obtained t uide named Lane, and off they started foi he summit of Gray's Peak. It was a peri. Dus trip. Neither of theni would care t< epeat the experiment. They consumed ust fifteen hours in the journey to and from leorgetown, starting at 6 o'clock a,- mu. scent of the peak, and three and three uarter hours in making the descent. They hought at first that they would be able to olow the course of the old trail; but they iscovered, after proceeding a short distance, hat they could not do this. They were ompelled, to break boldly and defiantly cross "the ridges" and gulches, and i thu ollowed a path never before made. Tie now was just beginninig to melt. Thii vas worse than if It had been frozen hard, ?rogress, at times, seemed out of the ques ion. They were unable for miles to mak4 heir ponies useful. Upon the whole,. thei: onies seemed to have been a drawback the poor animals were constantly sinkinj hrough the crust of the snow to their be] les, and were, of course, plunging and ca vorting about. The riders were compelie to dismount, and then there was an appar ant contest between man and brute as t< which should do the greatest amount 0 plunging. Often the poor fellows woul< mink to their waists, and would only Pul Dut to sink again. This was the experiene going up, and that coming down wan mere ly a counterpart. The young men ofte: wished themselves. well out of the scrapi Their legs were bruised, black and blu from being struck against cragged, jagge rocks. The only relief they found wan i the ludicrous situations In which they wer placed, and In the two quart flasks of bom bon which they carried with them. TIl guide declared that none of this was lec when. Georgetown was reached. The greatest fear was-that of a snow-slide, an with the snow melting an it was, It was very great wonder that they did not el counter one. They remained on the pea but twenty minutes, for it was so cold thmer< although the sun was shining with grei brilliancy, that they could not remain longe The gentlemen are proud of their expe ence, but they do not want. a second dose Conversion of Food into Stimulants. TIhere is hardly any article of food general use which has, not somewhe been converted intog~ stimulant by. ti process of fermentation. What eli are whisky, rum, beer, etc., but fem mnened or digtflled 'iread, the breL corn divert froim itk legitimate uisc produce artificial s imulant ? Psoi toes, gar, honey, as wvell an grapt pl) ls, apples, cherries anid Innumer bIeother fruits, have thus been turn rom a hiessing into a curse. T Mdoors' of Barlary and Tripoli distill ardent spirit from the fruit of the di palm,: the Brasilians lrpm'the marr< of' the sago tree and from pineappi and eve?fthe poor berries that ,riana to. ripen on. the bankft .f, the Yomk have to furnish a poison for the inhi fislnts oft Alaska. 1'mlque, the natioi drink of Mexico, is deriv.ed from alam Va*iet' 9f, 'the0 aled p141 t the sap Whfich is 6011lee'ted' ahd rin'ented) buckskin sloughs into a torpid yello lab liqumor.Qf most vicious taste. e~ an fact, is nothing but coagulated is a 4 b the 11 pleted yIel'4s quase, the above mei ed Russian tonlo. Chica a whil Q i4ul'W 61fsk.PekMi h'Nided arom like coffee after meals, is prep,ared fr maise or Indian corn, mo~istene. r~ ny, Hudson Iay Trading rosts. 'eat The trading and uterior depot pwsts of the coipany are atrange, quaint-looking places, built according to a general plan. g They stand generally upon the second or lower band of sone mvigable river or lake, so as to be easily accessible to the boats the vhich annually visit theni with supplies. A trading post is in"ariably a square, in )ut closed by immense trees or pickets, one end ier sunk deeply in the grund, and placed close ici together. A platforsi, about the height of an ordinary man, is carried along the inner side of the square, so as to enable any one tt to peep over without danger from arrow or it; bullet. At the four corners are bastions, tY, octagonal in shape, plerced with embrasures as- to lead the Indians to believe in the exist ence of cannon, and intended to strike ter 1u_ ror into any red-skinned rebel bold enough r, to dispute the supremacy of the company. r s The entrance to the stockade ia closed by ve two massive gates, an inner and an outer ne one. In the center of the square stands the ' residence of the factor or trader in charge, 1 and of the upper class of employes, while - about its four sides, close to the stockade, - are ranged the tradingstore, the fur-room, Y the warehouses, servants' quarters, etc. It Beside the larger dwelling rises a tall flag staff, bearing the flag of the company, with Si Its strange device, "Pro pelle cutem" of skin for skin-and near by a bell tower, the tones from which mark the hours of labor ot and rest. In front of the gate lounge a few re half-breeds or Indians in taeselled cap and Is dirty white capote, or tattered blankets. A n band of horses graze in a distant meadow, while nearer by a few leather tepees or bark lodges, from the frilled poles of which the smoke curls lazily, Indicate the home of the aboriginal hanger-on. At one side of the is palisade a few rude crosses or wooden rail- t d ings, stained by rain and snow-drift, and ,, blown over by the tempest, mark the last C it resting-places of the dead. The trade-rooms I e at all the posts are arranged with strict re- ? t ference to the wants of the pecu:ar custom which they attract. From the hev 'y joists a k of the low ceiling depend twine, steel-traps, 2 tin kettles, frying-pans, etc. ; on various d , shelves are piled bales of cloth of all colors, 1 a capotes, blankets and caps; and in smaller e r divisions are placed files, aealping-knives. h a gun screws, flints, balls of twine, fire steels, c , canoe awls, and glass heads of all colors and " e sizes. Drawers in the counter contain nee- h e dies, pins, scissors, fish-hooks, thimbles and I s vernilion for painting canoes and faces. " r On the floor is strewn a variety of copper 0 I kettles, from half a pint to a gallon; and " t in one corner of the room stand a dozen n r trading-guns, and 'beside them a keg of tl t powder and a bag of shot. r In some of the trade-roonis a sinall space ti - Is railed off by thge counter near the door, "l behind which the, Indians stand to trade. h) - Sometimes they t ie confined to a separate of apartment, called(the Indian-room, adjoin- tc Ing that occupied by the traders, and busi- 111 ness is carried on irough a loop-hole coi- at municating betwe n the two. In R . - outside the picke Ye 8 A gh a long. narrow passage, only- 'a.,icient width to admit one Indian at a thne, and bent at a an acute angle near the window at which w the trader stands. This precaution is ren- Y dered necessary by the frantic desire which lo sometimes seizes upon the Indian to shoot the clerki which lie might easily do were n the passage straight. At most of the inte- j' i rior posts time moves slowly, and change is a' almost unkno vn. To-day is the same as a 01 hundred years ago. The 1 at of goods or dered from England for this year has ex r actly the same items as that .of 1779. Strands, cotton, beads and trading guns are still the wants of the Indians, and are still " - traded for musquashi and beaver. The sys - tein of trade at the company's posts is en I tirely one of barter. Until recent years. c - money values were unknown; but this me- C a dium of exchange has gradually become t f familiar to the Indians, and the almighty t I dollar is rapidly asserting its supremacy in 0 .1 savagedom.a 0 Dragging for iine Drowned.t Mr. Peach, who follows dragging for the a drowned for a living was recently found in fl the Hell Gate Hotel, near Pier 7, East r d River, New York. lie is a tall, wiry man, S n with a shlrewd, intelligent face, Hie talked a e freely about lisa way of making a living. c . "I ran away from home when I was S 0 thIrteen years old," lie said, "and I've ' rbeen about here ever since. Never did r anything but grapple. Never got Into any scrapes or got arrested or locked uip In the STombs. I've kept right along in my way, - and when I've had a chance to pull a man kout alive or dead I've done it and took Snothing or whatever was given to mue. I tbuilt a boat alone when I was a boy, and r. began hooking up bodies then. Ihaven't ,~ drank a pint of liquor In twenty years, and of I own a house over in Brooklyn. No man, you see, can be a good grappler If he don't keep his head level. The tihing all depends on his judgment and delicate touch." Mr. Peach then explained his method of j,, finding a drowned person. To begin with, e he considers all the peculiarities that can be ascertained necessary, whether the person " whether h,swam, struggled, or made any r- efforts whatever to save himself, whether id he was light or heavy weight. When none to of these facts are known, the most that can a-. be done is to drag the river from poin, to *point with sweep lines and hooks. If, IS, hlowever, the place where the drowning cc -a- cured happens to be known, the first thluig od to determine is the condition of the tide at he the time. Then, on tihe recurrence of. a an like tide, a fresh cowhide-rolled together Lte and held by a line, is allowed to sink as it ,may. It will go down about the same as a man would ; and after experimenting with ?this hide three or four times, an expert 'M grappler can usually inake~ a very good 0. guess where the drowned body struck bot b.to..Apair of grappling Iren's are next tal used, and it Is with these that-Mr. Peach's ge long experience comes particularly into otplay.s When a body roaches the miwd It is usually held there by suction and the pres ur'f.the water, and after -this spot hs behhit up on the grappling irons rpmust be ese. .used tef-y carefully. It is-recessary to feel lik oft the body delicately until' the ankels' a're. 10 ?backed, by which It slhould be .dra'*n tp.' rst "Can I reall1 feel about the body with fu thegrspplerat' Mfr.'Pesolihed, repeating he' *eporter's esteiQW", 1shbi sh aylIcould. Tere bde dtdmen heres sabouteo who'll toll 1 % done . I im 'svr dIedlu a nd.~rtlio nlysthloigs om 19et aVastoll tEE buetwen.as *to do thRaswe botttoile the water, and he can't find anything ut less he happens to tunble over it, '1'ak< for instance, the Wcetfield ferryboat who it blew up in the slip at the Battery sove or eight years ago. The diver who wei down didn't get a single body, though I walked around on th'i bottom a da or two, while a couple of us grapplers too up right before him twenty-six bodies." In reply to the inquiry how many bodic he had taken out of the rivers it the las twenty-flve years, Mr. Peach said I couldn't tell. "You see, I never made an, account of my work. I haven's cared ti be heard of, or to get medals, or to get in to societies. When I find a body I jus pull it ashore, tie it to the dock, and notifj the Coronor. Sometimes I hear of it afer ward, and frequenttyI don't. People coni to me from all over the city to hunt uj drowned friends, and they give me whal they like-$100, $50, or $25. When Pres ton Ki,, the Collector of the Port, jumper off the Christopher street ferryboat several years ago, I was offered $1000 to find hhn. But he came up in the Atlantic Basin, and ill my work was thrown away. That'e lust the way it is half the time," he went )n. "A great many people that we look ror are never found. There must be hund reds of them that go out to the sea every year; people who fall off of excursion *arges in the summer, men and boys who ire drowned while in swimming, and irunken men who get asleep on the piers int roll off unbeknown to any one. If hey catch anywhere in going out., it's usu illy in the eddies off the Battery or in those t Bay Ridge. Sometimes on stormry uights we go out to the eddies and see if nything is in them. In the winter if a bo ly is floating round, It's almost to be found here at last in the slush and ice." i'requently in the winter bodies do not ome to the top until after two or three onths. In the summer the time is usually bout a week. The firing of cannen at the Tavy Yard and on Governor's Island some ines produces this effect. 'Mr. Peach, besides grappling for bodi:;, oes much for the marine insurance compa ies, and, in his time; has brought up ar dd variety of things from the rivers and arbor-ship loads of merchandise, an Iors, cannon, jewelry, suspicious bags ith hideous contents, a great many young ifauts, clothing enough to set up a Chat inn street dealer, and small articles too utuerous to mention. lie has also saved rer fifty horses from drowning, and more en, women and children than lie can re ember, all of which is well known along te East River front.. Of another gang of men, who lurk along e river from Greenpoint down, Mr. Peach ioke in no mild terms. They pretend to grapplers only to conceal the character thief. They watch for bodies In order rob them of whatever may- chance to be the pockets of their clothes, hovering ound the eddles and places where bodies e likely to lodge, the same as birds of in Plymnoun- .. boy and girl held a rope itbrot r alk, and accosted every one with, "wont >u jump, sir, before you go past?" A ntleman settles his hat firmly on his head, oked around to see that no one was near, easured the distance with a practiced eye, imped the flying rope with all the ease id accuracy of youth, and then marched t with a smile on his face. Not far be nd him was a popular Main street grocer, ho observed the performance, and at once nght the humor of the thing. He is bulky form and short In wind, but when the iquiry came, "wont you jump, sir?" lie plied, "Of course I will," and forthwith >read himself in the air with an abandon nat threatened to burst h.s coat, but which eared the rope, to the infinite delight of to children. The next was the critical st. She was young and shapely, bright f face and stylish of apparel, and she had dmrerd thre aerial flights of her predeces >rs. it was her turn, and to the honor of ie sex be it said she did not shirk the re ponsibility. The trail was picked up and rmly grasped, the body swayed for a mo ent in timle with thre rope, then a awing, flash of cardinal hose in the sunlight as lie swept through the air with thre greatest f ease, and she pursued her wiay without , misplaced ruffle to tell thre story of her aring. __________ Ills Pm'~itar Position. TIhe sight of a strong, nealthiy man loaf ng on Clifford street wvithn a snow-shovel on mis shiouiler was sufileient to attract tire rttention of every one whoe passed him, and o the inquiry as to whether he was search rig fo'r a job of shovellung snow lie replied: "I am, sir, but I h'anven't any luck in itriking work. It is pretty late for snow, suppose?" "Well, you can't look for more than . a oot of snow after thre middle of May, even a this country," said the othcr. "No, I suppose riot. If;we only bad ilve >r six inches I could make three or four lollars and get along somehow. As It is]I am placed ina a very-peculiair position." "How?" "W,hry, all tire ready capital I have in locked upin this thrirty-fivecent snow-shovel, and no snow to work on. If I had my money In a lawn-mower or house-plants oi garden seeds 1 might realize some ,profit, but now I don't know what I shall do," "Youi are not to blame if it doesn't arrow, You don't run thre weather.". "That's trne," slowly repiled the man, "but my position is peculiar, just tire same People won't give me credit for my hones intentions. I need work-P'm just hungr, for work, but you wait and see how folki use me." IIe knocked at thre door of a private lhous and a woman appeared. "Do you want the snow shoveled off you walk this morning?" politelf Inquired :tin stranger, as he held up his shovel. "No, sirl" was hqr emphratie reap nd& "ill do it very ceap,. madam." "No matter, you can't havd tire job ali snapped. . . "You see how it Is," observed tho.mam as he retumrned, to -thre *alk and leane against a shade tree with )eaves as big his hand. "My capital is locked up in th ibovel, anda no prospects of snow for s1 m~ontis ig~kerinig alh circumnstanea wpit ui d6IVane9O me ten een wa so ethn bh9rus~n8 flyetmes thi4ml97, -To 6zterminst 11G4 ft&NiioWls du the foWlb tborought *i$h' sipht 21' - Male and Fe,nale Liars. Baron IIuddleston, an English judge, has recently taken it upon himself to decide 1 that a woman can tell a lie better than at t aran. During the trial of a perjury case, 0 the counsel for the defence made use of the Y remark that a woman would say anything. Baron IIuddleston, in addre'sing the jury, observed that he could not go as far as the 8 council, but it was a well-known fact that a.wonan could tell a lie better than a man. L, It was a remarkable circumstance that when V a woman was determined to say that which a was untrue she (lid it a great deal better than a man. Whether it was that a man , was more conscious of his dignity was at Metaphysical question he could not answer but it was certamn that a woman -did tell a story much more logically and persevering ly than a man could. lie was glad that it was a question for the jury to say whether - the girl should be believed, for he himself l admitted his incapacity to guago the veraolty of a woman when she appeared in the box. All this may be very dry in detail, but it recalls an incident. An interesting divorce trial was in progress In the early days of a western state, when a question of veracity arose fron a statement made by a lady wit ness. It touched the case in a vital part and ruin was inevitable unless the testimo ny of the witness could be overthrown. It was a delicate question to consider and sull more delicate to carry the purpose into exe cution. The idea of inpeaching a Iday was an outrage never before heard of in a western court. It was almost equal to strik ing a woman, and the rufllan who could have done that would have been torn limb from limb. But something had to be done and that immediately. So the counsel asked: t "Madam, are you sure your recollection > is correct in this matter ? May you not be t mistaken a" o ''It is just as I have told you." "You are sure you did not. dream it imgine iit, as it were ?" s "I amll sure that I have related the cir- l cuistance precisely as it occurred. There " could have been no mistake about it." d "Maldam," and great heads of perspira- r tionl stood out on the lawyer's brow as he d nerved himself for the monentous issue 1 ''madaml, do you always tell the truth ?" ti "I do, sir:" was the response, with a I snap and energy that made the interrogator a stir uneasily in his seat. a "Mbladan, one more question and I am a done : at your age, do you still conasider yourself beautiful ?" ti A breathless silence fell upon the court s room. A crowd of interested facet peered a at the woman with eager expectancy. It , was thr turning point in the trial. As the a question slowly and icily fell upon the wo - man 'a ear a shiver ran through her frame- tc her face. paled for an instaant and then flush- l ed hotly : .tl "At my age," she almlost. screamed. b1 "At ny age, you villian i I ank yet but a 4 girl." n iie."' A nnl flf4tvif an ho ur. enee of the situation a ter efeym d . vtnn. One of the wealthiest settlers InNow UaIY -o edonia is a gentleman froi Australia-we will call him Mr. Brown for short-who f6 went there some ten or twelve years ago with but a small capital, and has become enormously rich by raising cattle :for the ti markets of Noumea. Mr. Brown was on b his way through the bush from one of. )ris b outlying cattle stations to another, whOp he lost his way entirely; wandered about ti 1 , nightfall, and then came upon a large na- h tive village. here he was hospitably enter tained, well fed, and most- deferentially b treated by the great chief whose village it was-the chief Atal, I think, whom sone persons regard as the chief mrover and lead- t or of this year's revolt against the French. I Atal was all courtesy to his white guest, and 1 when nightt had fully come conducted htim2 hrimself in.itate to tire hut set apart for his nightt's repose. Fortuinap, Mr. lirown E was acquainted wrih tire istoms of tire country: arnd, among threm, knew the comn men method of putting ar enrd to travellers preparatory to feasting upon them. It is; as follows: Tire traveler isinadly received; nrothring occurs to shake his confidence in Iris host; Ire is allotted a cabin to hrimself to I sleep in. The native huts hrave usually but1 one opening, which serves as a door anda window bothr. When tire traveler is sup posed to be wecll settled it iris cabin, thist one entrance is set on lire. Being thnatched andl tmade altogether of lighrt wood, it burns 1 'very readily, and tire traveler is cooked as well ats killed.. Thren the~ feast begins. Being acquainted withr threse details of 1 New Caledonlan life, Mr. Brown knew tire cabin to whrich the yenerable Atal so cour teously led him might probably become for him both a tomb and a eooking-stove unless his wits could- save him. He entered tire cabin of tire chief,- meeting courtesy with courtesy, till they were both fairly withrin. Then Brown, in tire prime of life and ath letic, Atai old and innirm, tire Englishman knew hre was more titan a match for thre savage. He closed tihe dooer within tie hrut, planted iris back firmly against it, and sit ting thus with hris hand on iris revolver ad iris othrer weapons ostentatiously displayed, continuied his conversation with the chief. The aituation remained unchanged thrr6ughr out tire nighrt. A terrible night It was, no doubt, for thre Englishmnan, and almost- as bad for tIre old chrief, wire again and again requested permission to witdraw, .MP. Brown as frequently declaring he could not part withr lhim-he should net fecl safe ex cept in iris commpany. When 'daylight was 'fully come, Mr. Brown felt assured that Atai would not venture to allpw his people openly to attack an indivhl4ial eswell knowp a in tire settlements as himself, ag#4 bothi isu ing forth togethrep from tire hrut, hre gladly r' Accepted the escort 'et A inatiye, guride, and e safely ~ofld4 ,to tihe . . 9)4 potte nints; whree bij n4OftidO yt, thes. hom~ne b.conaido#'abiointerest. e he We0 rn cuI.Dwoneore. Of Iato, bldwit oVe,i' th ln come~ stors , cs of 'stin ',nwydisc cilx gmteg9 he far d hya'd6tl to t and more -nrtbmiff4OIOIA tiesgliftitheidrd amid heoam hb e wartSuden building, about the size of the Patent Office. It stood upon the bank of the Animas, in the San Juan country, and contained per ips flive hundred rooms. The roof and portions of the walls had fallen, but the part standing indicated a height of four stories. A number of the rooms were fair ly preserved, had small loop-hole windows, but no other doors.. The building had had doubtless been entered originally by means of ladders resting on niches, and drawn in after the occupants. . The floors were of cedar, each log as large around as a nan's head, the spaces filled neatly by smaller poles and twigs, covered by a car pet of cedar-bark. The ends of- the timber were bruised and frayed, as if spvered by a dull instrinit . In the vicinity. were stone hatchets, and saws made of ' sand-stone slivers, two feet long, work to a smooth edge. A few hundred yard$ from the building was a second large house in ruins, and between the two strongholds rows of small dwellings, built of cobble tones laid in adobe, and arranged albug streets, after the style of the village of to-day. The smaller houses were in a more advanced state 4rufn, on account pf theaound stones being more readily disintegrate4 by the ele ments than the heavy masonry. The streets and houses of this-dese ' bd town are nvergrown by juniper and ptdh-the ]at ter a dwarf wide-spreading pine which bears beneath the scles of its cones deli Alous and nutritious nuts. From the size of me (lead, as well as tlei livrdg, trees, and rom their position on 0,h j}lj of *rum >ling stone, Mr. Wilion concludes that a reat period of time has elapsed since the >uilding fell. How many hundred years hey stood after desertion before yielding to he inroads of time cannot be certainly mnown. The presence of sougd wood in he houses does not set aside their antiquity. n the dry, pure air of Southern Colerado, rood falily protected will last for centuries. n Asia cedar wood has been kept a thou and years, and in Egypt cedar is known to ave been in perfect preservation two thou and years after it left the forest. The ce are throughout the territories of the south rest do not rot, even in the groves. They le and stand erect, solid and sapless. The inds and whirling sands carve the dead 'ees into forms o fagtpstic beauty, drill oles through the ti-urke, and play at hide nd-go-seek in the ' erforated limbs until, !ter ages of resistance, they literally blow way in storms of fine, clean dust. On the lo San Juan, about twen y-fAvp miles dis it from the city of the Animas, Mr. Wil )n discovered the following evening a Inilar pile, looining solemnly in the twi ght near their cumping-place., The scene described was weirdw the:extreme. As u mo0011 arose,. the shadows o the phan 11n buildings were th'ayh ly across ie silvery plain. Th'Yblaae of camp fires, to tiny tents, the isegrookr the men in ckskin hunting garb, and the picketed ules,. made a strange picture, of the sum er's night, with back ground of moonlit sert and crumbling ruiris, on" whose ram tflf autI t$g t edars, lifting ithin the pie t lke sheeted ghosts tst. t f 4t4QWers of the nmrky ice took an added tay of; cheerfulness, ut those who sat nea" him. observed tat after he had eaten his portion his row corrugated.- Lnter, as he stood afore the parlor-fire, the Admiral said : " I lived once, gentlemen,-In a house rhich the boarders left in:a body. We ad one night for dinner roast duck. t was served .in rough, jagged pieces, ut we thought nothing of that; per aps the carving axe was dull, It wasj augh? That wa$ to be expected. aeteless? Of course. But when we ad nearly gnished it, old Commodore Gelotes Flnnerty held up a piece on the ad of a fork, and said: " Admiral." " Commodore." " Nails I" " And sure enough, gent(lemen, as hie Commodore turned that piece ef fuekc on his fork I s6* sticking through lie point or it three nails.' It was a. vooden decoy duek that we had eaten, ,ervet by the landlday becatife It was iheaper than the.ducki thattare sold in he poultry market. She hw&s safe in ier assumip1on thaBt we would not die. mver ini thie taste any.difference be weeni that and iany other ,ducks; we ind eate.n. from the pame table; but un bortuniateily she forgQp to pull out the sails. " It was too niuch for the old Commo lore. He went to his room, got out his old-fashuioned, sailigatoan~ mouthed earpet-bag that hie always carried, and began to stow his dunnage.: lils e;am ple was infectiOus.o , ithib halt an hiour.every bit of baggage:from trunk to gri-p 4ack w as out oi the house andl we were seekin~ for othbr feeding grounde. ..1, 'No, I doit($ mea to a, entlemen, thiat,the dhuek we hd forl ner to'night was a -Wooden ddri; 'i e(and - me, I saw no ntalls, but'-1" Among the~ fueop the South. African bush, oru of thh host f rmidablo is the 'nuf adder, so cnlled frdin habit of inl ting its head a'nd hck just forotrik. lag its prey. -Its mode of aokc a to thftwo back doswezanwstd o oith the two hiooked eeth thatpr ot om it5 up per jaw,. inflicting' A 4it which Is ahuost ihrariably fdtal.f itefondness for preying upon. mcc, 'which aro it cld6f food, frcqtenQy leadsai lni ,br~h~*so t)e coV o s