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TIWELEDTO.WINNSBOR0j S. C.9, JULY 29, 1879.VO.7 "IN TBE LONG RUN." This old-fashioned saying, So lightly expressed, And so carelessly uttered, Is one of the best. Oh, pondur, young trifler, With young life begun, The deep earnest meaning Of "in the long run." For "in the long run," b9ys, Tho seed will spring up That was sown in the garden Or dropped in the cup. And, remember I no roses Will spring from the weed, And no beautiful fruit From unworthy seod. How many a stripling In trouble to-day, By YLotous living With com ados too gay With cbaracter shipwrecked And duties undone, Will be sorrows harvesting "In. the long run." And "in the long run," will The toiler fare best Who performs honest labor And takes honest rest. Who, contented and happy, Hastes not, in a day, Or a year, to heap riches That will pass away I The good and the evil That bide on the earth, The joy and the sorrow, The pain and the mirth. The batt'es undeeded, The viotories iron, Will yield what was sown lads, "In the long run." LETTIOE. A bitter day. Not a pleasant lay to travel on, by any moans; but then Lettice Mainwaring was one of the sort that makes the best of every thing. "It's a long journey over the hills, miss, said the wife of the landlord of the little one-story tavern that was perched on the crest of the highway, "and the snow's powerful deep." "I think a Winter landscape Is the pret tiest~ thing in the world," said Lettice, cheerily, as she wound her tur round and round her neck. "And old Stokes's stage Is awfully un comfortable," added the landlady. 'I like stage riding," asserted Letty. "You'll not get there till dark." "Oh, that is sooner than I expctcd." And Letty climbed up into the stage coach which stood creaking and groaning at the door, having just rumbled up from the next village, a miln or %n (Inwn the hill. One solitary passenger occupie tie op posite corner- --a tall, dark man, with a Span ish sort of complexion and clear, dark eyes, who wore an odd sort of olve-green cloak or'mantle, heavily trimmed with sable fur. Ie nodded briefly in reirn to Letty's smiling recognition. - Our little heroine would have talked with a polar bear, had a polar bear chanced to be her traveling companion. Lettice arranged her bags and her basket and her bonnet strings, and wondered so cretly how tar the tall man was going. "Can I be of any assistance to you ? courteously queried the gentleman, as Let ty searched in the straw at her feet for it dropped glove. "Thanks--uo," said Letty, coming up again with very red cheeks, and curls a lit tle disheveled. "Are you going all the way through ?" "As far as the Stage goes-yes." "Oh," said Miss Mainwaring; "so ai I." The gentleman nodded interrogatively and went back to his paper. "Cross thing," thought Letty, involun. tarily pouting her cherry lips. "Why can'l he talk and make himself agreeable?i Ani lhe knows very well that we are to be shuli up here together for eight long hours." But the wild landscape, as it flitted by, white, gleaming with snows, and darkly fringed with the waving boughs, was, afte all, nearly as good a study as the "humar facq divine." Letty soon forgot her temp)orary annoy ance and chagrin in the white, skeleton-liki wail of a deserted old paper mill, long since dlisused and fallen to iun. "I 'wonder if it is haunted ?" said she aloud. The stranger smiled and laid down li paper. "Do you believe in such things ?" h, asked.. Lettice Mainwarlng laughed and colored "Of course not. And yet-, Are yol much aequainted with this part of tha country?9" "I hmavo lived herecabouts a good deal." "Oh I then perhaaps you know Easterhani Hall?" .His face brightened. "Oh,.yes. You are going there ?" "Yes,. : I am going to be governess to th~ little childiren," said Lett'y, making haste ti enlighten hhimh as to -'her true position, L oudhr that he should fully comprehend tha she was no el4gant young lady coming t the Hall to miake,a visit, but a humble lit tie workirig *lrl, Wvho wiaR obliged to to steadfastly for the daily. bre%d she ate. "Indeed I" he said. .And Letty was vexed at herself for nc ticlng the'-polite indifference into which hi t4ne subsided. -". suppose it is a very fine old place, she went on. * 'Very--for those who fanc.y 'fine ,cl places.' To my taste they are apt to b oyerrun 'with rats, full of draughts and pk ttl)squely inconvenient." And haupted, perhaps ?" misohievousl 'put in Lettice, the roguish sparkles conmin back tier eyes. "86far as I know, Easterham JTall freefrom'apy suipernatural occupants." QL am sofry for t1ipt," said Letty. Hle arched 'hs eyles. "You would 1k sQhare your room wit Aghoet or:two t' >;' "1IK;but I d&hk 1 little tinge ofr Inance about'the pIl omething to sot above id bo'n4I*.e!t 6i othe comnmot strangely things are ordered in this world I am going to cast my lot among them." "How does that happon?" said the ge tleman. lie could not very well say lea in ordinary politeness, and yet Letty fe triumphantly that she had "drawn hi out." "They wrote to Madame Moligny, n old teacher, to select a governess qualitc to teach two little boys ; and madune kne that I wished for a situation, and so here am. I wonder how they will like me ?" "I hope you will like them," said tl gentleman, stifling a yawn. "That isn't the question," said Letty, in peratively. "Mr. Easterham is a dreadfl bear." "You are acquainted with him ?" "Oh, no ; only what I have heard," at swer %; Letty. "You are a neighbor ?" sai Letty, doubtfully. "Perhaps I have sai too much already." ie laughed with more animation tha she had yet seen in his manner. "Depend upon it, I shall not betray yc to Mr. Eastorhaim. So he is a bea Well, I have thought so sometimes m self." "But lie won't bite me if I am a goc girl and do my duty to the little ones; ail Ilhey tell me they are very nice boys," pe; 81sted Lettice. "They are very like their father, I bc nove. "'Oh," said Lettice, -laughing, "I ca tame young bears ; it Is only the full-grow specimen, with sharp teeth and long clawi I am afraid of. Only think," and a demure apprehensive expression came over Letty round, blooming countenance, "lie goes a round the house, all day long, and neve says a word to any one. "le must be a savage, indeed," observe the gentleman. "And Miss Electa Easterham, the ol maiden aunt who keeps house for him, la quarreled successively with every governei they have had," went, on Letty, patting he little foot on the rustling straw on the stag loor ; "but she shall not quarrel with inc I won't let her. I am too good-nature and too accustomed to humoring people more especially old ones. Madame Moligkn wrote me word that she disliked young an pretty governesses particularly. Now, I'il not young-not very yomg, you see." "No ?" I was twenty last week," said Letty' solemnly, "and I am not pretty enough t( disturb her mind.- I am only tolerably do cent-looking. Now, if iiadamno had select ed Olive Daytors, who used to be In th( same class with ine-she was a regula beauty, with great shady eyes, and a com plexion all pearls and roses-there woulk have been danger then." The stranger began to look interested. "Tell me more about your school," sak lie. "I have a sister whom I think o placing in some desirable institution, and : shou!d like to judge whether youe' Maudain Molign'y's would be a good home for her.' dened, nd her little tonigue was ooseiiea once. Her traveling companion was social an< chatty, and the time llcoted swiftly away "You are going ?" she cried, as at a lone ly glen inn, overshadowed with slive stemmed birches, a light chaise drawn b) two white horses was waiting. "I have reached the end of my journey, ie said, courteously touching his fur cap. "I had intended to keep on to the end o the route, but I see they have sent to im here. I wish you every success and happi ness in your new task of bear-taming." And, as the chaise rolled away, Lett; felt herself flushing deeply. "I'm afraid I have been talking to much," thought Letty ; "but what is a bodl to do, shut up all day long in a stage-coac with a conversable gentleman V" . And the rest of Miss Mainwaring's -jour ney was just a little tedious. It wvas dark when she arrived at Eastet ham Hall-a snowy, chill dusk which mad the glow of lights through scarlet morec curtains and paved hall, as seen through th half open door, most delightful and wel come. Miss Electa, a tall, prin old lady, i snowy cap ribbons and a brown satin dresm stood ready to welcome her. And just behind her Letty saw a ta gentleman, with two little boys clingin about him. "This is my nephew, Philip," the ol lady said. And Letty felt as if the blood in her vekt was turning to fire as she recognized h< traveling compantion of the day. "Do I look very much like a bear, Mib Mainwaring ?" he asked, laughing, as :slh stood tremblIng and tongue-tied, befoi him, "No ; doii't color. I promise ye to allow myself to become very t.amnal And you must itot cry, either," as tihe tea1 caime into Letty's eyes. "There's nothiui for you to cry for." "Why didn't you tell me Who you werel she asked piteously. ."Because you never asked mue.". JIetty resolved within he'rself that al would leave Easterham the very next da3 But she (lid not keep the resolution. At the year's end shte had neither qua 3 reled with Miss Electa nor Mr. Easterhan Sand the little boys thought Miss betty wi i perfection,. t So did their father. * "Letty," said he, "the year for which - ae eu is over." i "Ys, 'she responded, sof tly. "Will you stay another year?i Will y< stay with me always, Letty ?" -And so, within the yellow shine of a wedding ring, Letty found herself a pri oner forever at Eastorhami Hall. * Eftfets of Perfume on Realth. An Italian professor has made somie vol agreeable medicinial researches, resulting: y the discovery that vegetable .perfumes e: ( ercise a positively healthful influence< the atmosphere, converting its oxygen In a Qzone, find increasing its oxydizing infi once. The essences found to develop t1 largest. quantity of ozone are those cherry, laurel, clover, lavender, mint, jnr ii per, leos,op, fennel and bergamot,, the that giye it in smaller quantities are snha ~- nutmeg and thyi. The flowers of tl it narcisu, hyvapinth, migtionetee, hell -. tr6phe i(nd ily'of the valley develop ese0 in: closed ve#sels. F' lOoes dest ituto pruedo not deoelop it ahdic those whi' m bae btsligh p~~~ oe .It In anm qattes. oaoi fotAce4ts t Grappling a Grizzly. Mr. Rogers recently went squirrel hun - ting near Calaveras, California. In his walk he cale upon a monster grizzly bear. i When discovered the bear was not over twenty feet distant-a space that Rogers had not the remotest desire to diminish. Y Man and beast discovered each other's pro 8ence at the same instance. Rogers is a re solute map, a splendid marksman and well I inured to the dangers and experiences of backwoods life; but, as with a full know LO ledge of the characteristics of the ferocious animal facing him, he realized his situation, - hope died away in his breast. For a mo il mont he stood irresolute. Ilis first impulse was to run ; but his better judgment told him that if he did so, and should be pursued by the grizzle, escape would be impossible, d and that he would be taken at a disadvan d tage lin the struggle which must invitably follow. Dreadful as was the alternative of n facing his terrible enemy, it was his only hope, and Rogers firmly resolved to stand u his ground, and if the worst come to the - worst, to at least sell his life as dearly as possible. There was a chance that the grizzly might not attack him If he retained d a bold attitude, but whatever hopes Rogers a builded upon that foundation were speedily dispelled by the bear giving a low growl, dropping his mutton and advancing toward him. The hunter's heart leaped to his throat as the threatened struggle became n an unavoidable certainty, and the agonizing " thought that its result might leave his wife 5 a widow and his children fatherless nearly unmanned him. The weakness was but 8 ion:1entary, and then with every muscle and nerve in his body drawn to their ut r inost tension, the man, awaited the onset of the beast with as much coolness as though his life were not at stake in the unequal contest. As the grizzly slowly came to wards him and had got within a distance of 8 about fifteen steps, Rogers drew his rifle to 8 his shoulder, and with a steady aim planted r a bullet in the bear's breast, just inside the 3 point of the right shoulder. The aninal was hit hard, but no sixty-to-the-pound I bullet ever stopped a grizzly. Throwing aside the now useless rifle, and drawing his knife, Rogers braced himself for the d death struggle. As the shaggy monster reared upon Its haunches, its great, black convex head towering two feet above Ro gers, the latter involuntary threw up his left arm like a pugilist on guard. The bear seized the arn in its month, and throwing its great paws over the shoulders of the hunEer, hugged him in an embrace so cruel that his eyes seemed starting from their sockets, and the blood gushed from his nostrils. Rogers' right arm was free and he drove the long, keen blade of his knife to the hilt in the side of the grizzly, close to the shoulder. The blade reached a vital point, inflicting a fatal wound, but its Inimediate effect was only to increase the grizzly's ferocity. It hugged Rogers the closer, its long, sharp, clisel-pointed claws. Tearing gaping wounds in the unfortunate bones of the left arm were crunched and ground to powder in the vise-like jaws of his terrible antagonist. Wild with the ago nies of his wounds, Rogers plied his knife with the energy of desperation, driving it again into the vitals of the bear, literally carving it alive, while the latter, with claws and teeth lacerated its human foe in the most frightful manner. It was, inded, a struggle to the death. Rogers, weak from the loss of blood and half delirious from pain, now fought more intution than any - thing else, having only a vague conscious ness that his life depended upon putting an end to that of the bear. The terrible wounds of the grizzly were also commenc ) ing to tell upon its vitality. Rogers' senses wem not so dulled but that he could distin 1 guish that the grizzly was gradually relax ing its hold, and the ray of hope the know . ledge afforded stimulated him to renewed exertions with his knife. The bear endea - voring to support itself despite its cruel a wounds, wavered for an Instant and thlen 1 withl a low moan thmat sounded almost hlu man in its expression of pain and dispair, . the huge monster toppled over, dragging. tihe man withl it, the latter falling partially a underneath. Summoning all his remaining strength, -Rogers plunged his knife into the grizzly's abdomen, tihe hot life blood and Iviscera spouting full in his face. The bear relinquishled its hlolds, and Rogers, torn, lacerated and bleeding, crawled far enough away to escape being rent to pieces by tile terrible death struggle of tihe grizzly. Al Sthlough victorious Rogers' condition was rcritical in the extreme, lie was a mile and ra half away from home, so weak and faint that 11e could scarcely stand, and in danger a of bleeding to death before 11e could reach e help. Ils left arm hlung crushled and lifeless at his side, his left scapula and clavicle were ibroken, tile blood trickled from thle terribile wounds -In his back, and is legs were lito 'rally furrowed by tihe cro""~ zieaws of tile bear's Ilind feet. Conscious that he must soon hlave help.or perish, he summoned all is resolution and staggered along in the direction of home, more dead than alive, a trail of blood marking his footsteps. HIe 0 managed to reach a spring in sighmt of his -house, when is endurance at last gave way, and lie fell in a dead faint by the ~- water's edge. Fortunately he was soon I, alter discovered by Is son, a lad of some LB twelve years, who immediately gave the alarm. Rogers was taken home and his wounds temporarily dressed. His left I arm, literally -mangled and torn to shreds, has been amputaled at the shloulder. is loft clavicle and scapula were fractur~ed, ui and the three lower ribs on thle right side broken. The flesh and muscles on his back a are so tron and abraded that tile vertebrs 5- are actually visible in places, while, as be fore stated, his lower limbs are literally seamed and furrowed. A Man ilth a Iemnory. y "Buck'' English, is said to possess the 'a best memory of any man in the State Call C~ forniai. He has been knowO to listen to "sernions preached from the pulpit, requir o' ing thiree-qularters of an hour for their do Slivery and then go out of church and ro ne.jemms wer for word from be a.gining to end. Whlen dloing this after di vine sermon one Sunday, in Middletown .a few mlouth ago, tile clergyman heard him Sand could distinguish no dlifferene between 10the wQrda used.lyy. "Buck" and those of .his e.sermoa, 'and he theronr turned td his SWritten discoinrae, and aaEnlishp gead with tbe iterateon, thie diyine trcdthe lines of his written psermon and doo red there w&i nodtYotfe . ' A ChinObe 10 Factory. The Imperial ti manufactory ofT China is located wi In fifteen miles of Pekin. In this fact ry all the yellow ti tiles and bricks req rod for Imperial il buildings are made, is 1130 large iiml- F bors of green, blue ind other colored fc tiles for various oriimetital purposes. P TIho material used I a hard blue shale w nearly as hard as sla . 'ls is allowed8 to lie iII leaps fo 501110 time. It is ol then ground to po" or by granite roll- 1 era, on a stone ft r, thirty to forty II feet in diatieter. '4e powder Is then. al stored in heaps and akei to the works ti as required. For rdlnary work the g powder Is mixed \witii a proper t W proportion of . watbr and moulded I Into large bricks, %jhleh are laid out tr to dry for sone houis, after which they h< are dealt with by th imowelers. When d< bricks are to have a inouHing qpj them, h1 say forcopig a wall, Liheplan of oper ations is as follows: Tjo pleces of wood, each out to the shape of the a, moulding, are placed upright on a slab. tc Tihe clay brick is placed letween thom, T and two mnen run the mouldings rough- 0) ly along with chisels. Ilov then ap ply stealght edges to testthe accuracy cl of their work, and finally rub the edges II with moulds somewnat in the same gi way as plasterers make moildings at at home. Tie brick is. ther passed to a ti1 third man who cuts any necessary holes tI in it, and to a fourth, who trims it oil and repairs any defect. Tie more or namental tiles and bricks representing w fabulous animals, etc., are first roughly I1 moulded, and afterwards finished oir pi with tools exactly similar to those used W for modeling in clay in Europe. All c) the bricks and tiles are baked in ovens and then, after having the glaze put, O of are baked a second time. All the work p, done at this manufactory appears to be b< first-rate, and the number of people employed when they are busy is about n 5,000. The Two Murphy's. A good story is told of tihe Irish coim- h edian Joe Murphy. It wjis durin.g the "blue-ribbon" ex Clteniont and Joe was Journeying to a ia small town in the vicility of Pitts- in burg. As tile train steamed into the ol depot It was boarded by lalf a dozen PI men, who, after a htirried conference t with the conductor, approached tile comedian with beaming faces. "Mr. Murphy, I believe,"said the n spokesman, hat in hand. 64 "Delighten . -ice, sir," replied J--: v a committee appointed to take you ll 1 charge," and they fairly dragged the [tstonlised Joe from the car, placed B him in a carriage, and they were ft whirled swiftly away. *a "God bless us," thought the expo- F nent of Irish peculiarities. "This is. a] very kind. Never was in this town U before. A man's reputation does travel and that's a fact." In a short time they reaclied the hotel and the committee having placed Joe in the best parlor suite, prepared to de- o part. ")Ve will call for you after supper, f, Mr. Murphy," said tile spokesman. "One moment, geitlemen," cried St. Joseph, as lie pulled the bell-cord vigorously, waiter, drinks for tile party." "Drinks I" shIrleked the conolave in a chuorus. "Mr. Murphy, are you ( mad ?". "Mad ?" echoed Joe, "not a bit of It. d Nkme your beveragps, gentlemen." bi "Oh, tis is terrible backsliding," said one. "Francis Alurphly ordering r< "Francis Murphy," repeated tile per pliexed Joe. "I'ml Jo. Murphly the a comedian." Tihey saw It all, and rushed wildly from the room in search of tile temiper- e anice apostle, wvho was even tilen toilng a painfully from th% depot onl foot, "tot- y ing" a hluge carpet bag. Both of tile Murphy's drew large q audiences that night. usili, blue Enagineer. The little steamer was passing Riverside. Above the foliage on the illside stands two a buildings, one of gray stone, whichl looks like a castle, thle othler standing in thle back ground, an oblong and red brick structure. TIhe former was Edwin Forrest's Castle, tile latter is Mount St. Vincent's Seminary. It Ii was to theOse buildings thlat tile old conduc tor called the attention of tile group assem1 bled on deck. "You will remember," ho said, "thlat it was hna this castle that Forrest a sought rest and relaxation in Is own pecu liar way. It was his abode in tile summer months, and his favorite exorcise whIule at a the castle was horseback riding, lie wast accustomed, so he informed me, to rise at six o'clock in the morn(ng, from late spring till early in tile fall, to bathle in tile thud son, wiich lie did in this curious manner. Hie would divest himself of all his clothling 1 save a pair of tighlts, and mour *ung one of his most powerful horses, plurige into the river, ride up and down, somIetimels going nearly across thle river, and would conltinueI the feat until tile hlorse became exhlausted." "Many a chilly morning in October, 1 when I was in charge of an early train, theo t attention of my passeng~ers would be attrac ted by this novel sight.' . "It was in the fall of '50," he continued, after a pause, "when Forrest nearly met hie death. He was then to attempt a new role in the Old Bowery Theater. I have forgotten the role and the name of the I play, hut he told me that he spontAnuch I time ila te study. During the earlier hours< of the day it was his hlabit to stroll bver the Castle grounds absorded in jh study of this ne0w chaater. At 11 oks he would board my train and gQ $9 t 9ci for e h an~. lie would froeqife i rid on the oliewith Bill1 Jenning% fall, stalwarti tolo,w~*had seen m ien the pal. ore hzibttne heldeable in ~ an~~*~tingsof th~ oegne, which as announced to appear at the Bowery heater. I had Intended to see him that ght, in his new role. Our train had been !layed some0 time up the river, waiting for ie express going north to pass. We were r(een minutes behind time at Riverdale. orrest, who always waited on the plat irm, was nowhere to be seen. I was in itient to be off, and asked 11111 to blow the histle and ring the bell fiercely. Ile did o. Still Forrest did not show up. 11o ay have remained in the city last night, gone down on an earlier train, I thought. owever, I became uneasy, but the train ust go ahead, and at last I shouted, "All. )oard." We were obliged to make up lost me in going to the depot, and we had )me along probably half a mile when a irious signal of down breaks was given. I ent to the forward car and saw the brake. an put on the brakes. I looked down the ack for the cause, and, with a thrill of )rror, saw a man on it. With head bowed wi and hands clasped behind his back, was plunged in deep thought. I was ire it was Forrest. le was walking dowg i track uncouscious of danger. 'I he sig-' fi did not arouse him. The train would trely reached him, and America's great ac r would be a mangled mass in a twinkling. lie thoughts of the sorrow that would be pressed by the people and the actors iflied through my now quickened brain. "It was then I saw Bill, the engineer, utch a huge billet of wood in his right mnd and go out upon the tender of the en ne. lie threw it with all his force straight Forrest's head. It struck him full on 0 right side, knocking him down and off e track. just as the train rushed by. I ought he was struck by the train, which opped about a hundred yards below here Forrest stood at the time when lie as struck by the billet of wood. The late oses 1-. Grinnell, who had witnessed a urt of the above scene from the rear car, as one of the lhfe to jump off. We all cpected to find Forrest's mangled body on ic track where lie was struck by the billet wood. Instead, the great tragedian waA Uting with his back against a telegraph )le, cooly tugging away at a damaged >ot."I "Are you hurt much, Ned I" Mr. Grin 11 anxiously inquired. "Not as muchi as this boot is," he ans cred, with an effort at a smile. "The cow-catcher had torn the sole off s boot and Injured his foot slightly. "What were you doing on the track, and ich a distance from the depot?" "I became impatient over the train's do y," lie replied, "and thought of saunter g down the track. It is bettor walking the track than the side road. My lin itience made me nervous, and I thought work it; off by "walking. I fell into (loop ought, and unconsciously walked along. ad I been left alone I would have walked to the city. 1 did not hear any signals, >r know of my danger until I found my if rolling on the ground. I could not con n1en 1 found that Forrest was not serious injured I again shouted, "All aboard," id the train started on its way to the city. fter reaching the depot, Forrest found out ill, the engineer, and thanked him kindly >r saving his life. Ile remembered Bill ibstantially afterward. Bill and I. saw orrest in the theater that night. ,Ile was )plauid after every act, and we were among iose who applauded the loudest. "I On'y Tuk Folvo Clts Worth." "Mary A. Cialley." She danced merrily up to the bench r the 'olice Court and exclaimed : "I'm here, Yer Honor, but It's no tilt o' moine that I am.'' "You seem to be remarkably bright nd lively this morning, Mrs. Clak "I kem of a folne, loively family 'or Worship." "Indeed ? But how Caine you to lie own on the street last.nigh t to slee p ?" "I was jusr, a little bit toired, Judge, arlrin', an' I sat down to eat a litt,le read an' milk.'' "Oh, now we'll be able to get at the aot of the trouble. The bread aiid dlik made you tipsy?" "Oh, no, Yer Wurshily, but I had "I thought so." "Yls sor. Sure in this warrum reather a woman needs a wee dhrap, n' I jlsth axed the man for foivo cints rorth o' beer afore I dhrank the brea.d n' ndlk, but faix It must have been a uart phin it affected me so." "I guess we'll have to try you on the reati and water plan. How will that 0?" "Och, Judlge, dlear, wumd ye murther dacint woman in couldl blood ?" "What is your business ?" "I'm a ,cook, sor, an' as good a wan 5 iver-' "Well, they want a good cook on the sland." "hBut I ain't sarchin' for a place." "Ten day13s, Mary." "An' is it tin days on .wather an' n--" "On regular rare." "Thiaink Yer Honor," and she skipped way, h umming joyously until she set led dlown behind her f avorite post in lie ten-day house. A Comely Brvunette. She wvas a comely squaw, and had ourchased the gaudiest pair of stock ngs to be found in the town. Her taste vas guidled by the same idea as the mutcher boy, wh'o was satisfied to have its eart painted any colo'r "so long as v was red," and her selection fell to hat hue. Striding out of the store. he monopolized the sidewalk as a iressing room, and aeon had the hosl try filled with solid flesh. Her feet were encased in.a p)air of' daiuty No. 7 mowhildes, and, as the fashion -reporter me it, the general touC ensemble'was 'avishing. The moat ludicrous part >f the performande was to watch her trossing and recrossing the .etieet, in variably taking in a mud.hole. in the iay and when she reaphied itshe naade a lisply that would have jgh;od the ~tt f St. Anthonmy' had he run to b~i valk full of lotangers ittaIu I diem. w(th qqte sa ravetit on her i11e ststei~ A Lone Widow. "Is this a lone widow with seven clil dren to support?" asked his Ilonor as Sarah M'Farlan smoothed down her calico apron before the desk. "Not quite, sir; I'm a poor lone chai beriaid on a ste"uboat and I got left," she replied. "Did the boat icave you, or you leave the boat ?" "It was sort o' both ways, sir. You see, sir, the boat she caie to the dock last even ing and I wanted to conime up town and see my sister." "I see nothing wrong in wanting to see your sister." "And my sister was glad to see mc, sir, and she had a new tea-pot and I drank some cold tea out of the spout." "That was well. 1 had rather drink cold tea that way than out of a silver gob let. I regret nothing more than that times have so changed that it is no longer fash ionable to drink water from the old fashion ed (in dippers." "Yes, sir, so do I, and then I started for the boat." "Yes, go on. "But 1 got dizzy, sir, and I guess I was sitting down on the walk when one of these gentlemen said it was too bad, and he brought me here till my head got easy." "Just so. And the boat was gone ?" "I think so, sir. Some boats wait for their dizzy clambermaids and some don't?" 'Cold ten, el ? Well, people getting in toxicated on cold tea must face the music just the same as if it was on whiskey. It took four men to bring your body in here, and you woke up only about daybreak this morning." "Yes, sir, and I shall let all kinds of tea alone after this, now that I know how they affect Inc." "I was thinking of fining you flve dol lars," observed the court as lie scratched his head. "And I was thinking that I could take the train to Saginaw and catch the boat, and you'll never see me again--never I never I never I" she replied. Iils Honor looked straight at Bijal. Had the old man said wlt lie was aching to lie would have been suspended from duty and pay for thirty days. The danger passed over, and the dizzy chambermaid took a rapid gallop for the depot to catch the train. Not Too Brave. Many Frenchmen, it must be said and many foreigners, too-who live in Paris are far from conceding to M. de Cassagnac, the chivalrous character which is so generally attributed to him. Ie is not always the brave man, the beau gareon, the cavalier sans peur et sans reproach. There are many stories cir culating of times and occasions when his heart has failed him, of men nerves and skill hedared not encounter all which are more or less apocryphal. It Is said he is generally careful and quick to give the offeuse that he may choose his weapons. le is a superb swordsman. But le has fought duels with pistols. Yes, but at (istances which would be called absturd arud cow ardly in America. It Is related that while taking his coffee one evening at the ca.fe Holder on the Boulevard Italienis, a French ollcer who had great. reputation for courage, strength and skill in the sword exercise, passed along and deliberately stirred M. de Cassagnac's cup with the point of his walking stick. The latter quietly took the insult, said nothing, and with great nonchalance emptied the dregs on the floor and called a garcon for a new sup ply. No duel followved. It is said again there is one man in Paris of whom Cassagnac has a most careful consideration. He is a young doctor of medicine, a rising politician, an ox-s treme radical, an ambitions fellow who sp)ent some time in America, mnarried a rich wvife there, and now lives in a modest sort of style in the Mon tmnarte dIstrict of Paris, from which lhe is re turned by the p)opulace to the Chamber of Deputies. Hie is a man of excellent parts, cool-headed, pale and thin faced, cold eyedl, and a most remarkable left handed swordsman. His name is Clem enuceau. You may have noticed his name Irequently of late in the proceed ings of the French Congress. As a leadeor of the extreme Left it is not at. all improbable that seome day day soon ho may find himself pitted against M. do Cassagnac, of the extreme right Some say lie is slightly importunate for such a confiet. The same unreliable authority credits M. do Cassagnac with a strong desire to avoid sany such anm extremity.________ Small Expectations. A foreign Minister hero who represents well, say Patagonla--was called upon not long since by the guardian of an orphan lady to whom an attache of the Patagonian legation had offered his hand, his heart and his fortune. The guardian had evi dently heard some stories reflecting upon the young diplomat, and lhe questioned his superior officer concerning im, beginning with his reputation for temperance. "Yes," replied the Minister--from Pata gonia, be it understood-"he is temper'ate. 'le does not drink much. Heq cannot drink much, receiving as lie does only $40 a month salary." "it has been intimated to me that he gambles," suggested the guardian. "Yes," answered the Minister-froni Patagonia--"all young men play a little. But he does not p lay much. How can he, when his salary is only $40 a month I" The guardian, not at all gatis4e4 with these responses, ventured to ask a thir<l question about the young 'attaQhe a mforal character. "Ah I" replied the Minister--froni P'ata fonia-.-.")t isexellent. How, sir, oik m o,thi 9le b,as not & egn) to squainde I plii FOOD FOR THOUGHT. A man used to violsitudes Is not easily dejected. What cannot be repaired Is not to be regretted. Example is always more efficacious than precept. Few things are impossible to dili gence and skill. Earnestness of purpose can spring only from strong convictions. What's done we partially may com pute; but know not what's resisted. Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt of the eveni:g. The tear of sensibility is the most honorable characteristic of huianity. Exhaust every expedient and then it will be time to talk of impossibilities. Human life Is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and lit tie to be enjoyed. I shall long to see the miseries of the world, sin,ce the sight of them is nec ossary to happiness. The more quietly and peaceably we get, on, the better lor ourselves and our neighbors. Men resemble their God in nothing so much as when doing good to their fellow creatures. Knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other aninmals. Man believes that to be a lie which contradicts tle testimony of his own ignornuce. People are sooner reclaimed by the sidewind of surprise than by a down righ t admonition. Aflection endeavors to correct natu ral defects, and has the misfortune of always missing it. What you keep to you, you may change and mend; but words once spoken can never be recalled. The excesses of youth are drafts up. on old ago-payable with interest, about thirty years after death. Deeds always overbalance, and down right practice speaks more plainly than the fairest professiot. Uood counsels observed are chalis of grace, which, neglected, prove haltars to strangle undutiful children. Hearts are flowets; they remalu open to tie soft-falling dew, but shut up in the violent down-pour of rain. "Do come and see usV" sound- very well; hiir how mtulch heart is there In it in many cases? Those who have little are always ready to strike an average with those Who have much. The flower which we do not pluok is the only one which never loses its beauty or it4 fragrance. Scholars are closn awl frno-al nf.thllr for ornament, if they will notserve for use. Every man i8 a miserable sinner in church, but out of church it is unsafo to say much about it-except to a small 111011. What men term friendship is merely a partnership of reolprocal interests and an exchange of favors-in fact, it is but a trade in which self-love always expects to gatin something. flow beautiful is youth; a little moonslne, a few musical water drops, the strain of a song, and the young hearts experience poetry as It never could be Intrusted to paper. However wicked men may be, they do not dare to apuear openly the ene ies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her, either pretend to be lieve her false or attribute crimes to her. - T'here is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping, temptatIon ini using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow In losing them, an'I a bdtirden of account at last to be given tip concern, lug them. Let no man thInk lightly of evil, say' ing in his heart, it will not come nigh me. Let no man think lightly of good, rnyin g in his heart, it will not benefit me. Even by tihe falling of water drops a water-pot is filled. Many a true heart that would have come back like the dove to the ark, after the first transgression, has been frIghtened beyond recall by the angry look and menancing taunt-the savago charity of an unforgiving soul. You, willl confer the greatest benefits on your city, not by r sing its roofs, but by exalting its soull. For it Is bet ter that great souls should live in small habitattons than that abject slayes should burrow in great houses. It Is a fatal mIstake to suppose there camn be no aposta'ey from Christ, where we are not absolutely calle. .upon to 'renv is n"mn. or to buln ineense toe an idol. We deny our Lord whenever, aiketimat 1Lemas, we, througgr love of2 thisp present world, forsake the: coutrse of d uty, which Christ. ha plainly pointed out to us. We deniy4ur Lord wvhenever we lend the sanctionz of our. countenance, our praise, or Our sienne to measures or opinions which may be popular and fashionable, but which we ourselves believe to be sinful in .theme selves or tending to sin. We deny ouar Lord whenever We:.forsake a good mant in affiotlon and refus&t to give countenance, encouragemenit and sup pot t to those who, for 0od'S- sake and for the faithiful discharge of their duty, are exposed to persecution anid slander. It Is not enomtgh to b6 'dea4 unto the world. it Is not enough to be a corpse. You mtust be a ne y creation 1 Christ, Alive to evetr goiwork $oetlmes indolence is si shued f6i evto and the poor viOti is~ perseaO tled ittactivity is the highest;gpade. sing, "I a'n yesting bord,-t te, whedi the Matr.Is eryin l th4Il 'Go Wor to-day in They sing 'GIold the for opmmmad tle 'to 9gu n 6 the land" AqlvIt . out of rebehllo ahd Into the sklii hbinae selftito i