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TRNI-WEEKLY EDITION- WNNSBORO, S. C., JULY 22 79 VOL. 11I.-NO. 74. -r , UY 89 "JUST SIXTY-TWO." "Just sixty-two I Thou trlim thy light, And get thy jewels all re-set 'Is past meridian, but bright, - And lacks one hour of aunsot yet. At sixty-two lie strong and true ; Clear off thy rust and shino anow. 'Tie yet high time-thy staff resume. And tight fresh battles for the truth ; For what is ago but youth's full bloom A riper, more transoondent youth ? A wedge of gold Is never old ; Streams broader grow as downward rolled. "At a xty-two life is begun ; At seventy-three begin once more. Fly swifter as you near the sun, And brighter shine at eighty-four ! At nnety-Ave shouldst thou arrive, Still wa.t on God, and work and thrive. "Keep thy looks wet with morning dow, And freely let thy graces flow ; For life well spent is ever new, And years annointed over grow. So work away, lie young for aye I From sunset breaking unto day." A Second Trial. It was Conunencement at G- College. The people were pouring into the church as I entered it, rather tardy. Finding the choice seats in the center of the audience room already taken, I pressed forward, look ing to the right and to the left for a vacan ey. On the very front row of seats I found one. Here u little girl moved along to make room for me, looking into my face with large gray eyes, whose brightness was soft ened by very long lashes. Her face was open and fresh as a newly-blown rose before sunrise. Agahi ind again I found my eyes turning to the rose-like face, and each time the gray eyes moved, half-smiling, to meet mine. Evidently the child was ready to "make up" with me. And when, with a bright smiile, she returned my dropped handkerchief, and' I said " 1'hink you!" we seemed fairly introduced. Other persons, coming into the seat, crowded inc quite close up against the little girl, so that we soon felt very well acquainted. "There's going to be a great crowd," she said to me. "Yes," I replied; "people always like to see how schoolboys are made iito ien." Her face beamed with pleasure and pride as she said: ''My brother's going to graduate; lie's going to speak; I've brought these flowers to throw to him." They were not greenhouse favorites; just old-fashioned domestic flowers, such as we associate with the dear grandmothers; "but," I thought, "they will seem sweet and beautiful to him for little sister's sake." "That is my brother," she went on, pointing with her nosegay. "The one with the light hair?" I asked. "Oh no," she said, smiling and shaking her head in innocent reproof; "not that homely one, with red hair; that handsome one with brown wavy hair. His eyes look brown, too; but they ain't--they are dark blue. There! he's got his hand up to his head now. You see him, don't you ?" In ari. eager way she looked from me to him, and from him to me, as if some Inpor tant fate depended upon my identifying her brother. "I see 11111," I said. "le's a very good looking brother." "Yes, lie is beautiful," she said, with artless delight; "and lie's so good, and lie studied so hard. le has taken care of me ever since mamma (lied. Here is his name on the programme. le Is not the valedic torian, but lie has an honor, for all that." I saw in the little creature's familiarity with these technical college terms that she had closely identified herself with her brother's studies, hopes and successes. "'He thought, at first," she continued, ''that lie.would write on the 'Romance of Monastic Life."' What a strange sound these long words hiad, whispered fronm her childish lips! Her interest In her brother's work had stamped themi on the chiild's memory, and to her they were ordinary things. "But then," she went oil, "lhe decided that lie would rather write on 'Historieal Parallels,' and lhe's got a real good oration, and he says it beautifully, lie said it to by great many times. I 'most know it byheart. Oh! it begins so pretty and so grand.' This is the way it begins," she ad (led, encouraged by the interest she must have, seen in my face: "'Amid the per mutations and cominations of the actors and the forces which make up the great kaleidoscope of hiistory- wec often find that a D)estiny's hand-" "Why, bless tile baby I" LIthought, look ing diown into her bright, proud face.I can't describe how very odd and elfishi it did( seem to have those sonorous words rol ling out of the smiling infantile mouth. The band striking up, put an end to0 the q uotation and to the conferences. As the exercises p)rogressedl, and aip proacheod nearer and nearer the effort on which all her, interest was coincentrated, my little friend biecamne excited andl restless. Hecr eyes grew larger and brighter, two deep-rod spots glowed on her checks. Shie touched-up the flowers, manifestly making the offering ready for the shrine. "Now, it's lis turn," she saidl, turning tc mec a face in which prIde amid delight and anxiety seemed about equally mingled. But when the overture was played through, and lisa name was called, the child seemed, Ina her eagerness, to forget me and all the carthi beside him. She rose to her feet and leaned forward for a better view of her be loved, as lie mounted on the speaker's stand. I knew by her deep breathing that her heari was throbbing ini her throat. I know, too, biy the way her brother camne up the stept and to the front that he was trenibling. Thue hande hung limp; his face was pallid, and the lips blue as with cold. I felt anjc ious. The child, too seoemed to discers tjtht 4hg4* irhbtdlU$vIth itl. Some' 'he iad f auo ntdv ace'Then a bo. 'wildefi, struggling look euame into his face, thefn a heulpless look, anda then lie stood stating vatcamily, like a sdnihambilist, at t,he tItg 'audietice." The uioients of liil ainge Wivnt by, aiditIllhM stood as If Mikdoi. I saw how. It-Wad; i Unad beelraeietyWith stagd-frigt . AhlaAt little alstorl ? She ttoi. hl large disunWq ea eso~ nie, flI' g~tq ht, Tnssu jtci~al the funeral-like silence of the room broke the sweet, grave, child-voice: "'Amid the permutations and combina tions of the actors and the forces which make up the great kaleidoscope of history, we often find that a turn of Destiny's hand Everybody about us turned and looked. The breathless silence; the sweet, childish voice; the childish face; the long, unchild like words, produced a weird effect. But t'.e help had come too late; the un happy brother was already staggering in humiliation from the stage. The band quickly struck up, and waves of lively imu mie were rolled out to cover the defeat. I gave the little sister a glance in which I meant to show the intense sympathy I felt; but she did not see ie. lIlcr eyes, swimming with tears, were on her brother's face. 1 put my arm around her. She was too absorbed to heed Ilhe caress, and before I could appreciate her purpose, she was on her way to the shame-stricken young man sitting with a face like a statue's. When he saw her by his side, the set face relaxed, and a quick mist cane into his eyes. The young men got closer to gether, to make room for her. She sat down beside him, laid her flowers on his knee, and slipped her hand in his. I could not keep my eyes from her sweet, pitying face. I saw her whisper to him, he bending a little to catch her words. Later, I found out that she was asking him if he knew his "piece" now, and that lie answered yes. When the young man next on the list had spoken, and while the band was play ing, the child, to the brother's great sur prise, made her way up the stage steps, and pressed through the throng of professors and trustees and distinguished visitors up to the college president. "'if you please, sir," she said with a little curtesy, "will you and the trustees let my brother try again? lie knows his piece now." For a moment, the president stared at her through his gold-bowed spectacles, and then, appreciating the child's petition, he smiled on her, and went (lown and spoke to the young man who had failed. So it happened that when the band had ceased playing, it was briefly announced that Mr. would now deliver his ora tion-"Iistorical Parallels." "'Amid the permutations and comlbina tions of the actors and the forces which make up the great kaleidoscope of history .'" This the little sister whispered to him as lie rose to answer the s numons. A ripple of heightened and expectant interest passed over the audience, and then all -sat stonestill, as though fearing to breathe lest the speaker might again take fright. No danger! The hero in the youth was aroused. le went at his "piece" with a set purpose to.conquer, to redeem himself, and to bring the smile back into the child's tear-stained face. I watched the face dur ing the speaking. The wide eyes, the part ed lips, the whole rapt being said that the breathless audience was forgotten, that her spirit was moving with his. And when the address was ended with the ardent abandon of one who catches en thusiasm in the realization that lie is fight ing down a wrong judgment and conquer ing a syipathy, the effect was really thril ling. That dignified audience broke into rapturous applause; bouquets intended for the valedictorian rained like a tempest. And the child who had helped to save the day--that one beaming little face, in its pride and gladness, is something to be for ever remembered. Iociberge. The icebergs which come down from the North pole and lie in wait for vessels crossing their path find their grave in the Gulf stream. Northward and eastward runs this fierce current, yet below it is a stealthy polar current gliding ever south wvard, and( the mighty berg, whose bottom reaches many fathoms down, is seized b)y the lower current anid borne against the Gulf stream, until the heat of the upper current melts and disintegrates it, andl al lows it no longer to be a menace to the mariner--a siren Indeed, the very embodi ment of poetry and splendor, but treacher ons and remorseless as a fiend. Several times have I seenl icebergs at sea, gener ally looming saddenly, startling and ghost like out of a dank fog, but once robed In Imperial magnificance. It was the 4th of July, and the sky was without a cloud, but the air was cold and keen as winter, and( we knew what It meant. As the sun aroso the horlzdn was studded with glittering poinits like the.serried spears of a great host; here -and' there a loftier 11a88 flashed back the rays of the sun fromi some berg towering above the field ice. There was nothing to be done but to keep on our course, for we were near ly surrounded by the Ice; but we had a leading wind, a good, top-gallant breeze, and( felt our way without much difliculty through the broad channels. What love ly p)ale greens anid blues were revealed In the caverns of thme immense, cathedral- Ike icebergs into which the waves brake with a far-off, eerie boom, amnd how exquisi e was the roseate blush which the icy pin nacles assumed when kissed by the setting sun1 I The -full moon arose soon after and shone on the silvery bastions and towers of an iceberg sed:cely hialf. a mile from us, which was not less than 400 feet above tihe sea and nearly four times thme height of our owni masts. Next morning the polar fleet hind disappeared in the south erni boar4. and, on the whole, we were not sorry to part company with it. The FInent, Iiteino in Amrea. Flood, thie'Califori'na millionaire, is build ing what wlll, it is said, be the finest p)rl yate residence in America. The grounds include 1500 nerds on -San Francisco bay, comprising a natural park ready for im.. provements to any desired extent. The house fs 100 by 200 feet hi area, and re sembies a French chateau of the old sty le. Verandas surround it, and the roof is broken with niany. gables and two towers 140 feet igh~l. The ehatire exterIor is very ornate, Among the apartments amle several 'patlors, micl roeni, librktf 'and wine room, the latter being of umficimmon size. The din lng room is 100 -feet long, so that great dihu ners may be given In it ; most of it can -be shut off, leaving a room of .comparatively small size for ordinary. use.- Five :years will be cojunujid In compi~t t.hu and it. stirr4utidi &t.10n tdmp hfea a citf r idncof corrce ondytig "-Ah6r(ca ti o)~ - Otod oitny 'thq Il~O O diAt h~Abl~ birds Peter the tent. In pesonal appearanee P'eter was tall and robust, quick and nimble of foot, and dcx trous and rapid in all his movements. ills face was plump and round. llIs eyes were large and bright, with brown eyebrows. ils hair was short and curling and of a brownish color. Illis look was fleree and restless. Ills gait quick and swiugiilg. That supedline and satirical young lady, Wllhelmina, Margravmne of Baireuthm, de scribes him as tall and well-made. ' lis countenance, " she says, " is bemu iful, but. has something in It so rude and savage as to fill you with fear." When she saw him during his visit to Frederick William's Court in 1717, he was dressed like a sailor, in a frock without lace or ornament. A fine, noble, heroic face the portraits repre sent hhn as having: only his gross eating and deep drinking and low morals had im paired his majesty, and given it rather a sensual and fallen expression. From his youth lie had been subjected to a spasmodic affection of the nerves which always at tacked him in his hours of rage. It is said to have resulted from a fright lie received in early boyhood ; sonic Rebel soldiers forced their way into the convent where he was brought up, and flashed their naked swords round his head. 'Ihe spasms showed themselves by a contortion of the muscles of the neck and of his face. Dining at Berlin, Wilhelmina tells how such an at tack took place. " At table the Czar .vas placed beside the Queen," Wilhelmina's mother. '' There took himi a kind of con vulsion, something like Tic, or St. Vitus, which he seemed quite unable to control. lie got into contortions and gesticulated wildly ~ and brandished about his kni fe within a yard of the Queen's face, who, in great alarm, made several times as if to rise. The Czar begged her to retain her composure, ss he would not hurt her, and to)k her by the hand and grasped it so violently that she shrieked out in pain. The Czar laughed heartily, and added that she had not bones of so had a texture as his Catharine. After supper a grauvi ball was opened, which the Czar evaded, and, leaving the others to dance, walked alone homeward to Mon Bijou," at palace which Frederick William had placed at his dis posal, and in which the Czar and his suite made fearful havoc, almost breaking the thrifty King's heart. The sight of a bee tLie, It is alleged, had the effect of throwing him into such a fit, and the sight of a beau tiful young woman had the effect of taking him out of one. M. de Stachlin says that when the Czar was attacked the Empress was instantly sent for, and failing her, the first young woman that caine in the way was conducted to the Czar's apartment ; and, if she had been sent for, was intro duced with the formal announcement, "Peter Atexievitz, this Is [the person you desired to speak with." The soft voice and agreeable conversation and sweet pres ence of the charmer had such an effect on the Czar that instantly the convulsions ceased, and lie was himself again, his vis age calm, and his humor sweet. Tean fin iollmid. Tea in Holland is, like almost everything but water, of excellent quality, and is not converted into a beverage by the proprietors of tea gardens. Everyhody makes her own tea at Hague and Amsterdam, and even at Scheveningen. When Mynheer and his fa mily have taken their seats at one of the green tables closely packed under the trees round the orchestra, madame proceeds to make tea in the national machine known as time "theestoof." This is very unlike the English urn and teapot, and eqnally dissi nilar from the Russian samovar. The care ful waiter first brings what appears to be an iron pail, but is in reality a stove of prinitive construction, bottomed well with charcoal. On this is set the kettle of con mon life, boiling, and kept boiling by the charcoal underneath. Tea is brought in a caddy admapted to the size of thme party and a black earthenware teapot. Madam6~ pro ceeds to make tea, first asertaimnlng that the water boils, and when time first rouind is poured out removes thme 11(d of time kettle and puts tIme little black teapot in its p)lace. There is clearly an understaninag between tIhe cop)persmithi and the potter as to the size of teap)ots and kettle-lids, for the fit seems exact, and( thme tea Is kept hot, ais It needs to be in time open air. Thus, after time manner of the nursery rhyme, the fire begIns to boil time kettle, the kettle begins to warm the pot, thme p)ot begins to miake the tea, and the tea, presummably, begins to wvarnm its drinkers, for they seem happy enmough in a quiet, self-contained way. They are not listless, these Dutch drinkers of tea (shade of Van Dunk 1) but they can not be pronounced festive. Evidenmtly they are contented folk, well off in time world's goods and careful of them. 'rhcre are no peals of laughter, no flashing gestures, no demonstrativeness of any kind, amnd yet these Dutch folk are not sad. They are "gentle, yet nmot dull," happy, yet not boisterous-perhaps, nicely, modulated cheerfulness is the best term b)y which to indIcate their mental condition. Chatting quietly they advance to more aind more cups of teai, made fresh and fresh by time laidy p)resIding, far too good am housewife to have lavished her store of tea on thme first brewinig. She ap)peals to time caiddy and thme ever-boilimng kettle, and brews inter minable tea of excent strength andh flavor. F3red Archler. Fred Archer is time jokey who has ridden Parole to most of lis victories in England and time characteristics of his method of riding may be summed tip ini three words -patience, vigliance, courage, He is al ways ready and nearly always first at time starting post so as to secure time best place. He ohbeys tihe starter hnplicity and thus avoids Irritating that important fumnctionary, amnd never takes lisa eyes from time flag. He holds false starts and breaks away mere folly, thinkhi, It better to wait til lit was r'eally a "go,' and then lie is like a gray houd from the shaps. SInce the days when George Fordham, in Captaini Chrlestle's White jacket, made time souls of book malkerr .to shrivel withly them, no jockey hiM got bft like Fred' Archer. Instead of phling his horse's head off, as lie eyes the flag, lie leaves ft looe, ad when time aignal drops sends his horse along with a touch of the spur. This is verys, different from the h)mstling scramminmg style of; young jockeys wI,o. have been educatedef'ter.the manner of Joe Saxon. -It le salid that,whdnm old Joe was Jimmy Grimnepaw's iestgrjio Was potpotually inpressing the lad with tihe no. desait) for "gottlag off," Little Jimmy said Was aIwhyA getting lIned and sus pod as it was, 'QNever theethd. wasn the encouralring toeni adaoatIe fa an ominous flourish of i stout ash plant "if these gets suspended I'll give thee a holiday; init If thee don't get off I'll break ivery bone in thy Internal young skin!" Mat Dawson's method of teaching is quite the opposite of that of the sturdy old hero of the green and gold. No master in E:g land is more quickly and silently obeyed than Mat Dawson, who, without making the slighest assertion of authority, hais his little army of men and boys completely under control. Archer, during five yearis' apprenticeship, gave .no trouble. Appa rently impressed with the value of that im mortal north country proverb, which ought to be written in letters of gold over every racing stable and a good uimny less institu tions. "It's canny to say iowt," lie from childhood kept his eyes an(1 ears open 11.11 his mouth shut. lie has thus by degrees I ac<uiired every point of good riding, that of "finishing" well having eost him more time than all the others put together.. Ma ny of his best races have been won actually at the start, and more by his marvelous I quickness in seeing an -opening and his pluck in cranning his horse at. it. I1is fine hands also contribute greatly to his success. A proof of his dainty handling of a horse's mouth is that 'lie is never run away with. His head is as cool as his hand is liget and his heart stout. When he had seized an advantage at the start, in making a sharp turn or by driving his horse through an opening that nine riders out of ten would be afraid of, his clear head pre vents him from throwing it away. le has, however, with all his selfpossession 110 lack of earnestness. IIe is all jockey from the button of his cap to the tips of his spurs, and rides-as the backers of his mounts know-irrespective of the odds. Whether on a six-to-fsur or a twenty-to-one chance he equally strives to win. Across country he goes quite as well as on the flat, and should his present eight stone and five pounds exp:udse(d so as to put him out of count for the latter he will have a grand career before hitm as a steeple-chase rider. lie is frequently to be found at. Captain Machell's school for jumpers and private course, putting new horses to the business over hurdles, and in winter hunts regularly with the Valve of White 1 iorse or the Cotswold. At Melton, Lord Wilton, who has shown him much kindness, always find him a mount and takes great delight in the verve of his riding. In the flat-racing season he rides nearly every day in every week, and often and after a hard weeks works in th's country will run over to Paris to ride on Sunday and be in the saddle again at Newmarket on Monday. For the fatigue of railway traveling he has one un falling remedy, sleep; ani it may be added t.iat except when riding horses in trials lie is no early riser. Racing is afternoon work and hard work, often preceded or followed by a long railway journey and a jockey's morning is thus his only leisure time ex cept Sunday-that is if it be a Sunday on which there is no big race at Paris. It must of course be obvious to all who have given the subject a thought that a jockey at the height of his reputation must have a wardrobe like an actor, and a dresser to look after the multitudinous jackets, hoots, breeches and saddles. Fred Archer, with his income, might if lie were thoughtless, require such a person to attend on him alone, but it speaks well for his good sense and that of his intimate friend, Constable, that these admirable horsemen have a "jockey's vale" between them, and find themselves most efficiently "looked after." On the* "off" Sundays Archer is much at Heath House where lie is quite one of the family, and enjoys a cut of Mat Dawson's prime lamb and a glass of champagne as well if there were no such limit as eight, stone ten in the conditions of classic races. J. C. Removno tho Bunting. Among the most active dispensers of the bounties of the Pickwicks in New Orleans there is a handsomc brunette, by the name of J. C., who is a bachelor-lisa age is a ins crutable as that of a p)retty womantl. Two young and tidily atttired women confronted J. C. recently whilst he was distributing the beef tea at the club, and one of them, heavily veiled,dlsclosing one eye-a bright, cunning one--and, exteinding her soft, wvhite hand, gave him a printed slip of p)aper,r J. C., whose batchelordom is not at all due to a want of admiration for the "fair sex," receivedl the document with the impressment and courtesy of a youth of twenty Summer, and w~as about handing in return a bottle of p)rosaic beef tea.to the apl plicant. Upon looking over the paper, however, J. C. dliscovered that it wvas a re quisition for one bottle of brandy, one bot tle of sherry,a half bottle of champagne and a box of Vienna biscuits, sIgned by a Howard, and not at all within his provi dence to fill. Returning the paper, he said(:. "But, Miss, yout must have -another requisition?" After some hesitation the fair one anlswered, demurely, "Oh, yes," and produced another dlocumnent, which, upon examination, proved to be another requisi tion for one bottle of brandy, one bottle of sherry, a half bottle champagne and a box Vienna biscuits, si6.:d by a member of the Young Men's Christian Association. J. C. 's suspicious had becen aroused by this time, but in strict p)erformfance of his ofilial dum iles he seemedl determined to get a requisi tion for "beef tea." In a few seconds, at his bidding, it was forthcoming, written ini a neat, leible woman's hand, ando signed ostensibly by one of our well known 'phiy sielans. J. C. 's expectations were more than realized. The requisition called for two bottles of essence of beef and two hot ties of beef soup. "Miss" said lie, after drawing a long breath, and with a sacrill gious reference to the green veil that still kept concealed thre-quarters of the young woman's face, "will yout please remove that bunting?" As tho>ugh tn'e applicant had sailed before the mast for many years, she threw aside the mask and disclosed most fascinating features, staggering J. C., whose perpendicnlar wa only. m#nutained by the bottles of soup which lie hold in each hand and served him as a balance-pole to a tight rope, walker. J. C. has seen a great deal of the world--its felichbs~ mend deceptions his embarassnment was, therefore, only tno mentary. With a gentle boiy and bland smile said he to the fair sufferer, '!JBefore I cemply with this demand, will you please go and get me another rbqjIiisition for a dozen shell er p, a s1ieele.as sovwing machine and a set o.pt4rlor furniture,, and have thrown in, alg, oneQ 4thts pIneteen dollars china sets" Tih . 4 soon of the young wonian they.. ;w6e sljn do'n Can ptreet 'In segreit4 Jug9Merg o tesch tt ast figecs h~dfrudd-; ig the por n tive in Paninsylaa~ Thw "'ensan,t MiItonalro." Hy the imrder of Josef Weyer'at Szentes, Ilungary, the lmperor of Austria has lost one of his n call bleat and most noteworthy subjects-a peasant who was a much more curious character than ninety-nine out of a hundred peers nnd princes of the realn. Weyer was popularly known as the "peas ant millionaire." Sixty years ago he began life as a small iarmer. At the time of his death he enjoyed an income of 500,000 guI den, in spite of which he lived in a modest farm-house, dressed like a peasant, ate food which his wife cooked, and indulged in no luxury except horseback riding. ''he latter might be regarded as a neces sity thotigh. Like most 1lungarian farmers, he was an extensive cattle breeder, and his herds were scattered over miles of vast gra ring plains. lie counted his houses and farms, too, by the score, and up to the day of his death kept all of his vast possessions under his personal supervision. Many curious stories are told of the old farmer prince and his eccentric ways. Ile was a peasimt to the core in spite of his en anious wealth, mid looked it. At one time he bid at an auction sale of oxen, which, [c,.ording to 1iungarian fashion, were put ui) by yokes. There were 3100 yokes, and he old man bought the whole 100 beasts. 1'he auctioneer was a stranger, and when he miserable, shabby little granger who had )id so steadily wak pointed out to him, he maxed wroth. "Josef Weyer," lie said, "do you not anow that it iP f',rbidden by law to hoax a )mblic auctioneer ?" "Surely, sir, surely," was the reply. "The price of these oxen you have bid or must be paid down. Cash i do you un lerstaid ? (ash I' The old nian dived into the breast of his lingy Iolhnan, hauled out a ragged old blue milk handkerchief, and without a word ,ounted out a pile of 1,000 gulden notes, ,hat ma(de the auctioneer's mouth water. "It's a pity you have no more bullocks," ie said, as lie rolled the remaining notes up mnd stuffed them back into his breast ; "1 ,vas in hopes to be able to buy a thousand r s.' During the state of siege which succeed Ad the Ilungarian revolution an edict was mnacted forl'idding the peasants of the Theiss 'alley to use saddle horses without a spe sial permit from the military governor. One day some gens-d'armes overtook losef Weyer riding along some twenty miles roi Szentes, on his favorite horse and de nmnded his pass. "It is at home in mny house in Szentes," IC said. 'Imdeed I And how is it that you ven ure to affront the law by traveling. I am only visiting my estates." The gens-d'armens grinned. They fan ,led they had a 'prize in thisold beggar who vithi a sweep) of lia band clalimedC prop)rie orship of a dozen leagues of land. Per maps lie was even one of the dreaded revo utionists. At any rat", they arrested him, aughed ait his request to send to his house or his pass, and as the Judge was busy or lering insurgents off by batches to the fort css or the grave, he was locked up forsev ral days. Ife did not grumble, and true .o his busy instincts pottered around the ail doing light chores till a small ofliclal who knew hint found hi cleaning a wiii low, "Good IHeavens, Herr Weyer I" he ex ,laimled, ''what are you doing here?" "Don't you see, my son ? Cleaning the windows. The f/enr-d'armes arrested me ecause I had no pass." The man secured his release at once. A ihort time afterward, on the day of his mar -iage, a lawyer handed him the deeds of a 3ouifortable little farm and ten cows and xen. Old .Josef Weyer had not forgotten lie good turn he had done him. Weyer purchased his first farm from %otuit Steven Karoly, who let him have it m very easy terms, in view of his provert.y. Alarshmai IIaynani fined the Count a half inillion gulden for befriending Kossuthi, Ifter thme caiptuire of Ofen by the implerial roops. T1hie Count's .resources were badly ::rippled at the time, and his steward was ini despair at his inability to make up the imounit of the imposition, when a little old Ufnan, smelling raiikly of sour muilk, called >n him and stated that lie hind heard Count Steven wanted to borrow some money. "W ell, what business of yours is that?" "I thought I might help a little, sir. The Dount was a good friend to me once-God iless hhn h-and I would like to hellp himn if I could." The steward laughed heartily. "Whly, niy dear fellow, do you know liow muitch money thes Count neede ?" "Excuse me-no, sir." "Two hundred thlousand gulden. Do youi kiiow how much mnonjy that is ?" ''Look I look 1" muttered the old1 man, cratchiing lis ear. "Why, I haven't brought that much with me, to be sur." "I should fancy not." "Bumt here Is a hundred and eighty thou uand. I'll go home and lbring the rest in the moring" Josef Weyer was assassinated most bru tally by a drunken vagabond at a public honse in Szentes. The miscreant who was nad drunk, was shot (lead by the police in mlttempting to secure himi. The colossal fortune of the pleasaint millionaire will prob ably go to the State, as his wife Is dead, and he Is not knowii to have any heIrs. A Bloody Afrair. A bloody and brutal affair reconitly took place near Failey, in Platte county, Mo. Captain L anter. a School Trustee, attended a meeting of thme Hoard to wbich lie be longed; Tr"m Morgan, a young man 23 years old, was also in attendance. MorganI was known as one to 'hmom a word means a blow following It, and who needed but slight provocation to wreak summary ven geane~ uplon the offendIng ones. In the course of the,.meeting lie became inivolved ill a qumarrel withi Lanter, whom lie assault ed and( brutally pounded, so that lie Is now lying in a critical condition at lis home. 'lhe high standing of Captain Lanter pro duced considerable excitement, and a war rant wUs sworn out for Morgan's arrest, and p laced In the hands of Constable Ben Fu;l'eler, a young man seci'co the ago of Mgrgan, and Ii-aol UIeath. at Justice of the Poee, a man of advancq age, and who is regarded as a qu4@t, peabeable ctzn Bloth of heemen were pn friendly terms winh 6g an. Trhey proeeded, to Morgan's aboy o.~ On entern the rogm Ful your arrest, and it Isn't '&osr o make 5117 dsturbatth, but Just settle - the thing peacefully -and Scoolly'." gfrgen replied: ol' l rght,.boys o' aft frlends of min~ awta I will gow)hyou ec51* butt wouldn't' 1Wt fbd s',o. it6's n~w' abanta d(ner t nu' Pnt 4o * herses up and feed them ; come in, and Ihe old woman will get us somie dinner, and then we will go and see about this thing.' Morgan took his violin and played a few tunes for the entertainment of the visitors. lie then handed the -riolin to h'ulcher, saying: " len, you play a tune and I'Il (lance; there's nothing like a good shufih before I go." Fulcher took the violin and played and Morgan danced for a few mo ments. lie then stopped and said: "'lhatt Lanter; I'll kill him yet." Mr. Hleath, who was reading a newspaper, looked ip and said : "' Tom, you oughtn't to talk that way ; remember you are utier arrest, and such things will go hard with you. Morgan hastily exclaimed: " l)amnn you, are you going to lake it up? If you are, I'll kill yon too I " He raised a chair and rushed upon 1leath, who had risen to his feet, and struck him a terrible blow over the head and eyes, which stunned him and brought him to the floor. As Heath arose he struck him again, when Fulcher stepped forward and told him he muct stop. Turn ing like an infuriated denion upon his new opponent, he told him he would kill him, too, and rushed upon him. Fulcher drew his pistol, a small one of 32 calibre, and fired rapidly at Morgan three times, each time with terrible effect. The first shot took effect in the mouth, and passed near ly through the head ; the second in the right temple, tue latter nearly tearing off tho top of his head. IIe turned to run, exclaiming : " My God, I'm shot I " As he turned Fulcher fired two more shots, taking effect in Morgan's back. Morgan went out of the door, his young wife with him, and both fled across the field for near ly a quarter of a mile, his wife ahead of him. Near the home of his mother he fell. lie was taken to her house and died in a short time. Capt. Lanter, the first party assaulted by Morgan, was in a dan gerous condition when lust heardfrom, amid his second victim, Mr. Heath is also serious ly injured. The Lower Auius, It is pretty well known that the lower animals possess all the weaknesses, vanities and vices known to man. Indeed, they have the passion for dress even more devel oped--sometimes to the cost of their lives -than our fine ladies have. The cock is notoriously ambitious and tyranleal ; the hog as he grows old becomes a mere lout and sensualist, though the promise of his youth was of better things; the jackdow and monkey are full of mischief; the beau teous dove is quarrelsome, and even the penguin which sits on rocks in the Southern Pacific arrayed in a white apron and pre Len ling to be as neat as a pin, is foul beyond sonception. That they have a taste for al coholic liquors is known as a fact by scien tists. One of these selected for his subjects the quiet household of a cock which had never done him any harm, and in which there was no hereditary tendency toward the bottle. To the master of the household the tempter came at- first with ales and light wines, and gradually led him on, step by step, till at -last nothing would satisfy his raroused appetite but the strongest of liquors. The hens, too, took kindly to their potations, though not so eagerly as the cock did, and cre long that once happy home was a scene Df woe, disorder and irregularity. The comb and wattles of the father swelled and grew purple like a tippler's nose; his eyes became bloodshot; his whole being was changed; he quarrelled with his wives and beat them over the head with hila spurs,and in their turn the wives grew reckless, cross and dumpish, and neglected their broods. The old gentleman would go to roost at all odd hours of day and night, and presently fall from his perch. IIe would crow in the most absurd and unreasonable way; get his legs tangled together, flap one wing when he meant to flap both, refused his meals, and at last he fell a victim to the demon of rum b)y dyinag. It was a sadl enIding, but it sat Isfledt the demon of science that men nare not alone In their love for lntoxicanits. Floatinug Light, Besides the light-houses which warn tie sailor of danger and guIde him in lisa course amidst the darkness of night, there are along the Biritish coasts numerous float lng lights, or lIght-vessels in1 situations where the erection of a light-house Is im plossle, where there are banks or shoals perilous to ships but affording no founda tion for a building. These vessels ride at anchor in places that have been selected for themi, and which are as exactly marked on the charts as the posit'ons of the light houses. Most of them are stationed off the east coast of England from the mouth of the Hlumber southward; a few 0on other parts of the English coast, and on that of Ireland ; and two on the coast of Scotland. They are generally vessels of about one hundred and fifty tons, specially construct edi with a view to their riding safely at an ehior In exposed situations and during the moat severe storms, wIthout regardl to sail ing powers, of which they have no nieed; and it has been an extremely rare thing for then to be driven from their moorIngs or to experienice any disaster. The mariner countts umponi the guidance of their light In any Weather, as confidently as lhe does on that of a lighthouse built upon a rock. Pampas Orass. Few plants are more attractive for the lawn and form a more conspicuous feature than the Pampas grass (G/ynerium argen Icumn), and, since It is entirely at home in the lower South, one is at a loss to make out why It Is so rarely met with ; especially whoa one reflects that almost every South ern nurseryman lia it for sale, and that it is held at prices by no means high. The comparatively few who have it growing or their lawns or In their gardens arc 10oud In praising the beauty of its long, slender leaves, which-form bundles of sheaths at their base, and rise to the height' of six or eight feet, when they gracefully curve out* ward, giving the plant the appearance, at a distance, of 'a hemisphere of. beahztIfully curved lines. -Towards autumn when the leaves have attained their fuldevelopment, the flower stems appear from the centres oi the str6ngest'sheaths, shooting up perpen dicutlarhy three or four feet.abo th'e mass of foliage, and gradually unfolding a piume of elegant, feather-like flowery1 which ai first ar,eof'a silky whiteness, but assumue 's dalrker tInt as the sealson advances. 0, course the reader will understaiid thht Pain pas grass Is cultivated only fora ornain'ent and that, therefore, one or two tufts .is' all thilt a pesnwould be likofy to M*arnt. singlerlat*Iil soon form' a tuft. It kLh doti'# t anly point abtn'e th4 hintkitM1 I nial'rooted soori BRIEFS. --The population of Australia Is now 2,500,000, and the import and export trade Is ?70,000,000. -Four carrier pigeons flow from I-"arrisburg, Pa., to Hloboken, N. J., in 125 ininutes. )istance, 158 miles. -It is repot ted that President I[ayes will spendJ the summer months at his home in Fremont, Ohio. -The Howard Iron works of Center county, Pa., lost 1,000 cords of wood by mountain fires. -Chicago flies in May caused a loss of $110,403, of vhich about half was borne by ltsurance companies. -London has a shell mission, the shells being sent by children at the sea side for children in hospitals. -Ocean county, N. F., is the place to get wortleberries, of which $50,000 worth will be gathered this year. --It is estinatetd that the Log crop of Wisconsin this year will reach $1,035, feet against 1,075,000,000 last year, -Mr. Spurgeon has been presented with a testimonial ot more than $30,000 in honor of the twenty-flifth year of his work as a preacher. -The potato bugs in the western part of the State of Maine are, It Is said, making sad havoc with the potato vines. -There were 1,367 fires in the United States and Canada in April, 1879. The aggregate loss is $9,109,600. 'Tihe loss to insurance uompnties is $4,505,800. -Mr. John B. Gough has en ded his lecture tour in Great Britain, and is aboutt to return home. Ile has given 115 lectures there. -Isaac and David Seltzer, twin bro thers, have just celebrated their 83(i birthday in their Chester county (Pa.) home. --The Prince of Wales has reduced the rents of all his farmers in the Duchy of Cornwall twenty per centuin for three years. -Only 7,000,000 of the new silver dollars have gone into cireulation since the coinage began last year, while the treasuary holds $15,000,C00. -Forty-six thousand dollars' worth of lobsters were shipped from Halifax for the London market, one day last week, It being the first cargo. --During the month of May the United States Mints coined gold pieces valued at $2,878,550; 2,330,C00 silver dollars, and $4,708 in smaller coins. -The longest ,)1 pie root oi record has recently been dug up on a plantationi a few miles from Savannah, Ga. It was 102 feet long. -The total bonded debt of Now York city, less the sinking fund, on May 31, was $121,532,007.51, an increase of $2, 409,175,41 over the previous month. --The anti-tobacco Society of Paris has petitioned the authorities to pro hibit smoking in the streets and cafes by youths under sixteen years of age. -Hlartford, Conn., hias just had a grand jury whose average height was 6 feet1% inches, and avorage weight was 195 pounds. The tallest was 6 feet -1 Iiches. -The Germans, Italians, and French are preparing for extensive exhibits at the Mexican Exhibits In 1880, with a view of interrupting trade between the United States and Mlexico. -The exports of provisions to Europe are falling off very rapidly-the total (uring April being only about $8,500, 000, or $1,600,000 less than during the montn of April, 1878. -A piece of ordnance has been inan ufactured at Turin which throws a pro jectile weighing a ton, and requires500 pounds of powder for a charge. It is 34 feet long, 11111 has an 18-lnih calibre. -To the 120,000,000 quarts of,nnilk sent annually to New York there is ad dled 40,000,000 quarts of water, which, sold1 at teii cents a quart, brought $4, 000,000 per annum, or $12,000 per day. --In 1870 Colorado had a p)opulation of 30,864. Nowv it has grown to p50,000, or over six hiunidred per- cent. In nine years--a prop)ortion even greater than Kanasas. -Thue formation of a company to con struct a tide level Canial across the Isth muns of Darleni, has been begun by MI. De Lessops, and a subscription fore 400 - 000,000 francs wvill be immediately call ed for. -1t is stated that they are now, mak ing artificial ice down South at a cost of only seventy cents per ton. Onie faetory turns out ten tons daily in the form of blocks 2% feet long by ten in ches in thickntess. -Th le Pennsylvania railroadco:ipany hails beguan to plant Virginia crdepers oni the hillsides along their tracks. TIhe eff'ect It is thought, will add.to thie.beau ty of the scenery and tend to:prevent land slides. --T'he exports of wheat and Wvheat flour at its equivalent in grain'ti'bm all the United btates ports to all foreigni countries for the year ending ;1ecenm ber~ 81, 1878, as perthe ofilolali report of the gover nment, were equal to 134,309 - 066buhes, against 64,402,866 bushels in 1877. --Mrs. Zervlah Gould Mitchell, of North Abington, Mass., an 01(1d Indian 'vomnan who says that she is a-lin'eal de pcendant of Massasoit, hits pitched her tent on the bordere of Asiawompset Pond, in Lakoville, Massa, on th.e land of her forefathiers, wfi(h ho,Qlaims, and intends to pass the suithme ,there. -Up to the 17th of .May, nearly 7,000,000 francs ($1,400,000) hutib been sent to the 4rchbishop of Faris'as sub scriptions for thQ Ob ii aI of thoMacred IIeart, now beinig'b ubIn thtcity. TPhe subterraneais vanl'6f the ~cifice is nearly ftlshed, ahd'iis-diman~signs art aid to.surpass those of lnyo.existing --According.to statisticsJist. pblish ed, thiere were 18,788 young. ,~ stu dyin at the 20 Gernan' ua$ rsities during the winter emegdea' st/passed. Of these 2438 were ,studying .eology, 5100 law, and 8587 ..eidion O7being, i nseribed 19~ the Phil ooo ~Jau1ty, Their Ages' tangi for t19flft part from 19 to 2y6.V ' " -- ~~ln;th~'VA~18Mb tJeo wore 'recorc1Of 4I~t % IIe 61u acts or othr tou - ah re S ett