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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., AUG IST 14, 1879. VOL. 1I1.-NO. 84. A PRAIRIE RIDE. Across the prairie, towards the west, We rode at day's declining ; What radiant pictures we beheld. In heavenly other shining I How blends the purple, rosy light And melts into the golden. Across the azure, crimson bars. Like some escutcheon golden. The prairie seems a grassy lake Where countless Islets cluster; Groen sumao clumps, that wear not yet The autumn's scarlet luster. Across the billows swift we float, Across the flower-dooked grasses. While "Bob White" and his frightened mate Hide till the wonder passes. The varied tints of budding leaves. The long, cool shadow lying Acroa the grass, weird shapes of cloud Before the breezes flying ; The plaintive call of whip-poor-will, The mourning dove's complaining, The doleful tale the "katy-did" Repeats, no answer gaining; Each sight, each sound our souls possess With sense of summer's being ; And Nature weprs her choicest dress For those with eyes for seeing ! The splendor fades, the amber pales To neutral tint uncertain, And swiftly, fold on fold, descends The evening's somber curtain. But still our good steeds gallop on O'er phloxes and verbenas; The quiet holds us like a charm, No word is said between us. Sweet stars above, sweet flowers beneath, Shine in the twilight faintly. While rising in the dusky East The moon grows white and saintly. We turn our horses' heads for home, Beneath the wind's cool kisses; Will life or earth o'er yield again A joy as pure as this in P The Lost Found, $he saw David gazing intently at her hand. The color flashed into lier cheek; the hand was whirled on its back, and the fingers trembled In haste on the palm. "Whose ring are you wearing now?" She answered lightly, trying to disarm his disapproval: "It's not an engagement ring."$ But the brother's grave face did not relax. "It belongs to Mollie Bond, one of the girls." "I have asked you not to wear borrowed ornaments," said David. "Your own sense of propriety should keep you from It To me it is unseemly-vulgar indeed. You force me to use strong words. Wearing borrowed finery-" "I have to wear borrowed finery, if I wear.any," Edith said hotly. " You never bought me a piece of jewelry In your life." "Why haven't I 1 " asked David, with a slight twitching at the corners of the mou th. Edith cast down her eyes to hide the shame in them, and answered, with a soft ened voice, " Because you could not afford It." How mean it was to taunt David, the patlent, steadfast soul, that from boyheod had taken the battle-brunt of life. "Then why not acquiesce in the fact that you- cannot have such things, at least for the present I Why will you saciifice your self-respect, and really demean your self, by incurring obligatlons ?" " But you don't know how hard it ia to see all the other girls with rings, and watches, and chatelaines, while you arc as plain as a lead pencil, without even~ an iory tip." "Do you think I don't know it's hardi Do you think I have not suffered to be poor and to see you poor?" Edith wondered If 'he had really suffered he seemed always so self-contained. "You surely would not choose rings and necklaces to the thorough course of music you are having." "I didn't really want- to put on the ring, but Mollie Bond Insisted that I should. She put it on with a wish. I believe she does it to show off her rings. She's always wishing her rings on somebody's fingers." "Well, I wish her t-inge off your fin gers," he said quietly. "Well, don't scold any more, Davy, and I will never allow-another girl to put a ring on my finger, though I can't see what harm can come off it." "Can't you see that you might lose the ringi At the best, it pains me and shames me to see you in borrowed plumage." He was six years older than Edith, and, since the father's and mother's death, he had eared for her, worked for her, over looking her education, keeping a lovIng watch ever her conduct, standing, indeed, as well as he conceived, in the stead of father and mother to her. Edith doubtless missed her mother's care and a mother's sympathy, and she may have felt at times that David's pure and con selentiois nature made him exacting, .but he was faithful "ae/the suit, moon and stars put together." she used to say. A few evenings aft'er their conversation, J~dith's 'music teacher, Prof. PIpp, gave a parlor concert. Each pupil had permission to invite one friend. "Of course I must invite Davill," Edith th~lthoping in her heart that hie would d~hethe invitation,' so that she might in Harvey. But David did not dec B0 had a piano solo. As this was an n~4,E~Ith gienced with complacent AA4.~t~otid;l~ flashings starlike, on ~ lHarvey-invited by one Us.-as statading near the ies~uplbShd ould be sure to mark the 4, and wak waiting be ~ ~~O ~themusre before ~ Jj 0ly4~IptoahIng * ,,seec'the wounded way. At last there was a com plete breakdown, and Edith left the piano, her face blazing, her head reeling. The ring was forgotten; Len Harvey was forgotten. She thought of nothing, re membered nothing but David's disappoint ment, his grave face, his dlowncast eyes. She sat, possessed by her humiliation, until the next performer had left the piano amid rapturous applause. Then, with a throb of dismay, she rememnbered the ring. Of course It had fallen to the ground. What if it should be trodden upon I . When the concert was ended, Edith tried to avold David by mingling with the crowd. She saw him exchanging words with her teacher, and took the opportunity to dodge in and out among the people until the piano was reached. Stooping she has tily passed her hand over the carpet, under the piano, once, twice, three times. One and another person asked what she was searching for. ''Oh, something," said Edith. The pub lishing of the loss would reveal her to David. At length she heard a voice questioning which made her heart leap-her brother's voice. She sent a quick, startled glance to his calm face. She said the first thing that came Into her thought whlich would divet-t him. " My writing-desk key," she answered; but perhaps I did not bring it here," she added, getting to her feet. " I must take leave of Mrs. Pipp," she aid. hurrying away to tell her hostess of her loss. "I haven't time to look for it to-night. I will come around early in the morning and make a thorough search " Edith said. Mrs. Pipp promised that she would her self search for the ring aftei the guests had left the house. With this assurance, Edith was turning, with some feeling of relief, to rejoin her brother, when she perceived him by her side. Her heart jumped with a niw fear. How much had lie heard of what she had said? When they were In the street, and Edith felt David's warm hand get hold of hers, and felt hers tucked away under his arm, close to the warm heart, she was melted to contrition. "David," she said, with quick Iipet unosIty, "I told you a story about looking for my key. It is at home In the lock. I was looking for something else." "I knew you were," said David; but lie did not ask her what that something was. When they reached home, they went to the sitting-room. Edith turned Ui) the low birning lamp. There, in the full blaze, was her desk, and in the lock was the key. "Just suppose that I hadn't told David the truth I " was the thought that went flashing through her mind. Tne next morning, early, she left the house to go to MIrs. Pipp's to look for the ring. Bhe was hastening by Mollie Bond's dwelling without looking up, for she feared to meet Mollie. Just then she heard a win dow thrown tip. She had a feeling as if she were about to be shot at. "Ede," Mollie called ; "please let me have my ring. I'm going with mamma to lunch at Judge Hart's this morning, I want to wear it.' "I think it nicer not to wear diamonds at lunch," Edith said, trying to pass on. " But I want to wear It," Mollie persist ed. "Walt, I'll come down to the gate and get it." "I haven't it with mie. I'll bring it around before lunch-time," said Edith hur rying away. " Well, be sure you do," screamed Mol lie. " I'll never lend you another." "I just wish you wouldn't," thought Edith, with a mental pout. " We've looked all over the room for the ring," said Pipp. "And haven't you found it ? " Edith cried. "No, and I've hiad the carpet swept twice very carefully. I think the ring must have been picked up." " Let me look ; I know just where it must have fallen." Over and over, downi on her knees, with a solicitude piteous to see, Edith searched the floor ; felt under the piano ; felt along the edges of the carpet ; looked In all probable places, and as many improbable ones, as, for instance, in the mocking-bird's cage. At length, sick at heart, full of fear and dismay, she started for home, taking care not to return to Mollie Boad's house. The ring must have been pilcked uip by some one. She would advertise it In the evening paper. Stopping in the Gazette office, she prepared an advertisement, carefully word ed, so that a reader could not know who had lost the ring. That evening she was crocheting while David read the paper to nor. She had nerved herself to hear hinm read her adver tisement, yet when lie did conie to it the effect wvas like scaldine: water to heri face. " You would feel very unhappy," David commented, "if you had borrowed a ring and lost It." "Yes," she said, hiarly able to steady her voice, and turning quickly to hide1 the tears that would come to her eyes... " But this acivertissment will hardly ac complishi Its purpose," David said. " The fact that the person wiho picked uip the ring did not mention the fact to Mrs. Pipp shows an intention to keep it." At this Edith's heart sank within her. Abouit ailht o'clock thme door-bell rang. Edith jumped as at a musket-shot. She felt sure .it was Mollte who had come for the ring. Site rushed to the door, intent upon preventing an interview between her friend and David. The visitor was Mollie. "1I have come for my ring," she said. "I want to wear it to church to-morrow; I am going to 1be confirmed, you know." "Conic into the parlor," Edith stain nmered, fearing David would hear what was said. " No, I'll just take the ring, and will not stop." " Don't speak so loud." Edith implored, in a hoarse whisper. "I haven't the ring wIth me. It's-it's at-I left it at Mrs. Pipp's. I'm sorry." 'Oh, wel), it doesn't matter said Mol lie. ."I'll run around to Mrs. iEipp's and get It. I don't mind the walk at all." She 'tirned and was almost gone before Edith could arrest her. "Wait a moment," Edith said ; "I (lid not fipish telling. F-I--I dropped the ring On the floor, tconcert night, and codd iot find It ; but-" "Why Edith I' Bfut i've advertisedl it, and miaybe-" " The ring coet a hundred doliars i" ;' if Ishotild 'have to rlace itt.? thtuhin i tertr;r "We ul .e'r $~~I~4~FE4dollars ftNUoJ~j ~ O~~dtt 1ave that rinhur tfo anY. " Maybe I Shall hear from It to-ior row. "My brother that's gone to sea gave it to me," continued Mollie, "and he may be dead. We haven't heard from hin for a year." " What (lid you put It on my finger for?" Edith cried, bursting Into tears. "You'd no business to lend me a valuable ring that you prized. It was mean In you, and I will never forgive you for it. Perhaps I shall never find the ring, and then I could never be happy again. I wish I were dead this minute I " "Why, don't go on so," said Mollie, moved by Edith's wordS. "I don't care so much about the ring as all that. My brother did give it to me to remember him by, but I have plenty of other things I can remember him by. As for the worth of the ring, I don't mind that. Pa's wells have run oil enough while we have been talking to buy a ring like that for every finger I have got on my hands. But I gess inia'll mi-Ae a fuss. You know she was taught to be very economical when she was a girl and so she's stingy, and can't bear to lose any thing; so) guess she'll make you pay for it. But I'm not going to be angry with you. I can't ever forget the hard rpaces in algebra you've helped me over. D'..'t cry any more." On ner way to school, Monday morning, Edith stopped at the Gazette building. In a dispirited way she climbed the Ulirty steps to thd office. She opened the door and stood without speaking. There was no eagerness, no hope in her face-not even a question upon her lips. '' Well," said the editor, running his [lin ger and thumb into his vest pocket, "I've got the ring. It was picked up by a young man at Prof. Pipp's concert." Edith suddenly clutched at her veil to get it over her face, snatched the ring, and hurried. away crying. What a bulrden had dropped from her heart! The relief of that moment she will never forget. The dreadful matter had come to such a pleasant ending. Mollie and Mrs. Pipp could be pledged to secrecy, and David need never be wounded by learning that she had broken her promise and had been hid Ing something from hiin. This was the happy thought that kept coming to her mind all through that school (lay. But when she went, home at night and me*, the level glance of David's frank, honest eyes, her conscience stung her un speakably. " I'm a. mean and wicked as I can be I she exclained with sudden impetuosity. " I horrowed a diamond ring to wear to the concert ; it was worth a hundred dollars, and I lost it, and it was that I was looking for after the concert, and I put that adver tisement-in the paper. I just hid every thing from you, you darling, good, hon est--" " Well, there, that will do," said David, ready'to smile. '- You might have saved yourself much suffering if you had confilded your trouble to me at the start.. I knew all about It, for I saw you take the ring from your finger, saw it drop on the floor, and then I picked it up." " And you answered the advertisemient ?" Edith cried. "Yes; I didn't want to force your confi den1cc. I felt that you would tell mIe, and I'm not going to lecture you. There Is no need of my pointing out, the lessons, is there? " "No," said Edith. " They have been burned into my heart. Shall I tell them to you? I iust not break good promises; I must not tell stories, or try to keel) a guilty secret from one to whom I oN'e so much. Don't I ktiow the lesson " I think you do," said David. A Duck Hiunt in an Indian Cantoe. The country around Fort Ripley, Minn., Is full of lakes of various sizes, and the Indians, soldiers and settlers are fond of going to thleni to fish -and hunt ducks. Nearly op~posite Fort, Ripley is a small stream, called by the Indians "No-ka-se be," whlich connects a beautiful lake with the Mississippi River. One day Gen. Hunt said he would like to go to that lake for ducks; so Eddie's papa got out his skiff and canoe; and with guns and ammunition and a soldier to help row the skiff, they started up the No-ka-se-be In the skiff, tow ing the canoe behind It. Tall weeds and grass, and wild rice, grew high and thlick on the sides of the stream, and som,' tinics across It ; so thlat to manage the skiff and canoe wvas no easy matter. However, they got to thle lake at last, and rowed out to the middle of It, where it 'was thoughlt best that E'ddle's papa should take the canoe and go In one direction, leaving Gen. Hunt and the soldier In the skiff, to seek their game In another direction. Trho canoe was made of birch-hark. It was about twelve feet long, and not more than thirty Inches wide at the widest part, and so frail and light that great care was required to avoid capsizing It. The soldiers used to say that Indians parted their hair in the middle so thlat they would not upset their canoe by having too much hair on one side ; but tis was onily one of the soldiler's jokes. Well, Eddie's papa took oft his boots, and placed them, wilth his gun, shot-pouch, and powder-flask, in one end of the canoe; then lie carefully stepped Iito other end, sat down in the bot tomn of the canoe, and paddled off toward a little bay, whlere several large ducks were swImming about. For a while Eddie's papa kept the front end of tihe canoe towards the (lucks; for he knew that was the only safe way to shoot out of a canoe. After a while he( saw a fine large duck flying to wards him. Pointing his gun at the duck lie followed Its fliht as it drew nearer, un til the duick was in good range on one aide of the canoe, when, forgetting where he was, he fired--bang-and got a duck. But It was not the duck lhe was after ; for that duck flew away faster than over, while lie and his gun flew the other way.. The gun had kicked him over, and the canoe turned bottom up, letting gun, boots, powder-flask, shot-pouch and Eddie's papa go into the lake. Fortunately the water was' oniy waist deep at that point; so hle soon got the canoe right-side up, and balled the water out with his hat. . Thich he fished up the boots, gimn and other things, and put them in the canoe. An Indian couid have got Into the canoe from the water ; but Eddie's papa had to wade to the shore (pulling the canoe along with him), where, in a short time he was joined by Geni. Hiuut and the soldier, who had seen the acciderit. Tjat ended tht duck hunt' for that day; 'for hunting ducks in. wet 'clo isn't )nuch fun, especially whei he weat er ia ooo Netnege lhad mnice possess1 hirO~ opiootta ndan4IA . An Adirondack Adventure. Thc party consisted of seven men, all ex perienced in wood life, and members of the "Norway Foresters," as follows: Charles Hall, M. D., Hiram Austin, Walter Servis, Zenas Smith, and Willis Kelley, of Norway, and Jay Delevan and Gcorge 11. Worden, of Prospect. The party met and organized at the house of Ed. Wilkinson, at Wilmurt, and proceeded to the mouth of Indian river, which makes into the west branch of the West Canada creek, ab6ut fifteen miles above Ed. Wilkinsonl', on the cast slide. Here we went Into camp and staid until after dinner, when Smith's adventure com menced. Zenas Smith is rather below Imediunm height, sandy complexion, clear gray eyes, and, withal, a fine looking, frank, easy appearing young man of twenty-five years. Ile and myself were to take our rods and baskets and go to "Four Mile Stillwater," on the West branch, and if we found the fishing good, were to camp there and fish the next day, a distance of about filve miles from wliere we were. We left camp about 12 M., and kept along the creek trail for over a mile, when we came to the marked birch fMr the cut off saving about a mile's tramp from the bend of the creek. Taking, as we ul)posed tihe right direction, we traveled for three hours, and not reaching our destination concluded we had been bearing too Much west, so made a sharp turn to the right expecting to strike the stream in half an hour at most. While we were clambering along in this manner we were suddenly startled by the appear ance directly in front of us. and not more than twenty rods distait (if a large moose, probably eighteen hands high, or more, and making directly for us. In the same breath Smith caught ine by the shoulder and pointed to a tree near the moose, where I beheld the glittering eyes of a panther. The reader will remember that we were without arms or ammunition of any kind, the only offensive or defensive weapons we possessed being our pocket-knives. I con fess to being more- than frightened at the time, but seeing the coolness of Smith I de termined not to let him see my knees rattle. By this time the moose was upon us ; at a glance we knew he came for protection, but tihe huge panther still loomed upon us, but had stopped in his headlong course. '"Smith," said 1, 'how is this ?" "I believe we are all right," said Smith. "The moose has conic to us for protec tion, consequently he is not belligerent; the panther is undoubtedly cowed by our numbers, or dare not tackle a man. Let us build a fire and I will stay here while you go back to camp and bring the rille, and have one of the other boys come back with you. To this I demurred for a long time, bul.1 finally concluded to go, leaving all my traps -with Smith, to make the more rapid pro gress. This part of the story can be told I very shortly. I got lost, wandered until after dark, built a fire, slept some. got up next day and traveled till dark again, built a fire, and started, next morning an'd tramped until about 19 A. M., when I came to a stream, and following it down caine to Jock's Lakc outlet shanty, and from there went back to the Indian river shanty, where the first man to greet me wvas Smith, whom I supposed had been con verted into panther a meat before this time. I was nearly starved, but asked "Smith how was it f" "After you left," said Smith, "II got all the wood together I could and kept up the fire, the moose standing back a little, but keeping me between itself and the panther, which kept his position in the tree. We kept this up all night, the moose one side of me, the panther glaring with his eye balls of fire upon the other, and you may imagine I actedl mypart as middleman without getting very sleepy. About sun rise Thursday morning, the panther gave a I terrific growl, sprang from the tree and I rapidly disappeared In the forest. While I wvas watching the panther I had not thought anything about the moose, and finally, when I turned my head, he was gone. I Immediately came to camp and found you gone. Somne wvent to look for you, somne wvent back with me, but we1 found no further trace of either the moose or panther." A Brace of Iheroes. Hector Blanefoic and Leonidas Hlornilint milhtia colonels both, were the two bravest men in Chineapin-at least we had their several words for it. The Blancfoles, so their latest scion told us, had fought under Charlemagne-the last fighting, Ned Preston used to say with a wink, any of them had been known to do. As for the Hlornflints, their family prowess dated so far back that It was lost in the midnight of time. When Col. Blancfoic paraded at. the head of lis men on training day', there was some thing so fierce andl terrible In his aspiect that Mars himself would have passed for a Hicksite Quaker by the side of him; aind still fiercer and more terrible, if possible, lonke'd Col. Hlornflint, his military rival. Nor was it alone on the Sibloy-tented field that the two chieftains were rivals. Both aspired to the hand of Lucy Hunter, 'Squire Hunter's pretty daughter, the hand somest girl, and the best match in thme county.4 The squire was a pionem settler who had grown up with the country, and was now in the decline of life, rich and well to oo Hie hmad fought the Indians In his youth, and the British in 1812, and If there was anything lie thoroughly detested It was a coward. An out-and-oumt honest, man hImself, it was past lisa comprehension that any one1 should set up a title to courage based on false pretonses, Accordingly he took the two colonels at their own estimate, firmly believing that both would cover themselves with glory the first opportunity that of fered. Ho would have been proud to ac cept either as a son-in-law, bumt was sorely puzzled to choose between thoem. Lucy was equally at a loss to toll which of thme two she despised the most. 'Thie truth is, she woulda't have given Ned Preston's lit tle finger for the pair of thm.. It was not in two such fiery natures long to bear rivalry without chafin, or to chafe In silence. They bmsekbit oele tother farl oimsly, and Ned Preston took precious good cjare that fither should rompain In ignor ancof the objurgations of the other. Their feelings were intenifld when they becaimo rivals, not alone In war. and love, butt in polities. .As oppositg cindltates for Co herbitterness fio~,so 1bounds. alstmlse they cameo. tih t-4 ld 4866 other's backs, of u'ebi ihe~7s~.90of 'while - uo the ~ndotoante ob, If not two of them, in the near ,iture. " Have yoi seenl illanefoie latelv ? " in uired Ned Preston, conidentially biltoni. ioling llorntlint oil the street corner. ''No; but I'll settle with him when I ->!" bristled up the other. "Take a friend's advice anl be on your ruard," returned Ned in a stage whisper. ' Blancfoic is In a fearful state. Ile has rmed himself with a bowie-knife as big as Ibroadsword. lie carries it down his lack, and it reaches from the nape of his eck to the seat of his pantaloons. He's en hunting you all day, and swears he'll iiakc 1h1ah of you on sight. 1lornlint's cheek blanched with anger, Is knees smote together with fury, and is teeth fairly chattered with passion as e0 exclaimed in at Voice treiulious witis vrath: "1 L-Ict tile (astardly Villain colie! I-Ii cady for him " Half an hour later a similar interview ok place on another street corner, tile artles, this time, being Ned Preston and :oi. Blauefoie. 'Colonel! " spoke the former, lowly and ioarsely. 'Well, sir? " Do you know Ilornilint's looking for Ou? " "I neither know nor care," swaggered le colonel, tnrning - trifle whiter, the ef ct, 110 doubt, of concentrated ire. "But he's got a pistol buckled o1 1ImIn," aild Ned-"a navy revolver so long that le muzzle sticks out an inch below his Oat tail, and hle vows 1 he'll make a sieve if your carcass the moment he lays eyes on The colonel's Indignation added another bade to his pallor. It was evident that. 's feclings were fast getting the better of dim. "If the scoundrel comes in my way Il iew hih to pieces finer than the prophet id Agag I " was the colonel'a fierce reply, 3, looking nervously over his shoulder, lie Iurried away. That afternoon Col. Hornflint took the ary stage (there were no railroads then) or a town a dozen miles off. I lalf an lour later Col. Blanofole took a private onveyance for the same place. Ned reston fell in with him just as he was tarting, said that urgent. business called ifin in tha saie direction, and offered, if lie colonel would take him in, to bear half ie expense. The colonel cieerfully consented ; and lie two set out at i brisk trot, the military rentleman taking the reins and, plying the -hip smartly, anxiously glancing back very time lIe heard tIe rattle of wheels enlind him. "'They're going away to fight I " wits in verybody's mouth; for the two sudden de )artures were soon known to every man, vonan and child in Chincapn. There is a ort of local omniscience in country vil ages, you know, which makes a secret a Imple unpossibility.. As Colonel Blancfoie and his companion Irove up to the tavern at their place of lestination, whom should they see on tile 'eranda but Squire Hunter and his daugh cr. Facing these with his back toward ie newcomers, was a gentleman of military iort, engaged in auimated conversation. Blanefoic hurried Ip the steps. "' Why, Squire, is tilhit you ?" lie cried, inastening forward, and clasping the ((old enltlemian's hand. Turning about to pay his respects to Acy, lie found himself face to face with hom do you suppose ? The moment of rengeance hild come! The hated Ilorntlint tood before hhn. For an instant-the briefest of instants heir eyes glared annihilation. Then back o back they wheeled, with heads down Ike a couple of scared buffaloes, and ran or dear life, neither doubting but his enc ly was In swift pursuit. Blancfole pitched, head( first, into thle quire's stomach, then clearing his prostrate vorshlip ait a bounmd, he0 tulrned~ a somlerset ver the westerni railing, into a neighboring uck-pond. Hlornflint's flighlt was tawards the East. leneathi his hlorizonital coat-skirts could be en the hluge revolver dancing like a piece f stovepipe tied to the tail of a frightened ur. Dashing thlroughl all obstacles, h~e anded in a ditch, wvelcomned by a.chorus of aelodlous bullfrogs. Quick as lIghtning Ned Preston was on1 lie scene, and picking up tile squire. "I hlope you're not hlurt," lie said. "Whlat thec-the mIschief does it mean? " miquired thle sqjuire. ''Yes, what does It meanI1 Ned ?" joied Ii Lulcy. Ned, as soon as 110 cotuld for laulghlug, xplained all. Tile two doughty champIons a seeking to avoid a meeting, had both olughit the same retreat, where, uinexpect iy encounterIng, a mutuial panic was tho onsequence. Neither of the colonels t~as sent to C'on ress, and neltlier married Lucy Hlunter, 'hlo became Mrs. Ned Preston not long fterwards. Thle Utilisation of Weeds1. Ralhph Waldo Emersoni has describled ~-eeds as laniuts whose use0 has not been hhscovered. TIoo often meni are con ent to call a pllanit a weed, and then roceed to extermInate it without islking any at tempt to 11lnd out Its pos ible uses. Anl Indian wvrIter, Mr. eorge W. Strettell, conaiders from his xperienice gained ini the Indian forests lenart..Ient that a large revenate might, en derived from such11 plants, especlally hose yumbling fibre-plants wvhich re humr care In enltivation, whleh grow a land utterly unisulted to any othler ~rops, and which yield fibre practical *y proved to be well ada pted to the aiufaceture of paper andl textile fa rics. le advocates the cultIvation at lrt, if neced be, experlmentaliy and or. small scale of severaldfernpat, nd1( esPeclalfrof one, h uorysgy nimca. The reof this plant has been )ronoumnced by papeor makers and'man ufactureis of tex tlie fabrics as excellent uid lhe shows- cotvicingly that after iowing for the fibre, tihe raw tnateral night be sold at such a price as to add ~onsiderably to thme imperial revenue. Text to the discovery of plants'yield.. ig products now In demand foiIndlus rial or muedical purposes, we maky rank no havention .of new uses for tho pro ueits of plants now (tonsidered useless. But a sainall potion ,of tbp10eale worldihaq y len mi:do Ii~ry $t 1An 0Ancd folptst ezof i aq isret rt tt~ oveh iS yet prvoftoO4 THE MILL MAY GRIND AGAIN. Down by the Clacking mill danced the water bright, Over pebbles, over aills, singing out of sight. 8'eady, swiftly onward, past wueadows and fair lea Never stepping, n ver failing till it reached the aCA ; And the proverb deep improssed mne, weaving fetters fast, "The mini will never giind again with wator that Is pimse5d." Long I mused upon the proverb, thought I could not be Thon I heard the cloudlets call the water from tho -onl. Softly ro_.o the vapors to their azuro homo Bailed with graceful beauty back, back from whence they colie, Soon the water fal.iig gently. 'stilled in velvet rain With the water onco gone by the mill may grind again. Take the lesson, thon, to heart, moments spent in vain Possibly may come to us like the velvet ran ; Golden hours vanished, loves slighted oice before May glow again with einison, blush as In days of yore. ariovo not o'er a wounded past, with its allont paiu With the water which has passed the mill may grind again. 'uttlaig on a onalir. At this tie of the year almost every man purchases some new style of Piccadil ly collar. As the heat has an alarming tendency to make the average collar wilt and look mean, he gets some with as mtiany p!y as aspossible. What lie wants is a collar about as thick as the wood which is used for making cigar boxes. lie succeeds after a diligent search in getting just what he needs, and in the evening, be fore calling on his fair one, le thinks lie will put on a new collar an'd a white neck tie. Ile goes to his roomi and selects a col lar, and buttons it. on behind ; then Ie fas tens one of the ends in front, and in doing so is compelled to look uip in the air like a chicken swallowing water, and to make facial gyrations which would bring him i fortune if lie could execute thei upon a pantonimic st age. A fter a sustained effort, which bring forth tears and perspiration, he manages to button tlie first end, and takes a breathing spell before essaying to fasten the second. IIe is in a stalc of desperation now, for, unfortuilnately, lie hits but two hours since cut his nails Fo short that lie finds it utterly impossible to pinch the but tonhole around his collar-button, the inside portion of which occasionally grips him like a vis(e, aund causes him to pucker up his lips as though le had just eaten i a green persihinon, and to close one eye as though about to glance over a gun-barrel at a de camping cat. It is a terrible ordeal for him ; lie turns around oil lils heel, and sways his left arm to gIve Impetus to hIs short nails, but It is all in vain that collar seens more perverse an(] flxed in Its inten tions every moment ; and the man feels as though he would like to grasp the unbut toned end and with one effort yank himself off his feet.. lie iow grits his teeth and takes hrol with both hands ; and after a desperate encounter of three minutes the collar Is on. After a breathing spell, lie bends the ends over, and a sort of psycho logical rainbow enamels his features. The next thing on the programmie is to get. out a white necktie, which he does, and soonl has it around his neck and fastened In a bow, which lie thinks will find favor it the critical eyes of Angelina during the even Ing. By the time he has dolined his coat and has picked up. lils walking stick and silk hat to sally forth, lie happens to notice in tle glass that his cravat bow has p)er egrinated around to that portioni of his col lar located diretly uinder his left ear. Ini sit instant his coat and vest are off, and( lie puts (lie bOwv in place, andi takes a pin from lis bureau to fasten his necktie to his col lar it a manner which will make Its shift ing from a fixed p~ositioni an uitter hinpossl bility. So he cranes his neck forward for the operation. Th'le collar Is so thick (list (lie feat of penetratinig it with a pin Is no easy matter. This lie dliscovers5 after lie has made a few desperate but ineffectual hinges it vain. Every time lie presses his thiumb agailnst the pinhead lie imiagines It Is about to run up Into him aiid shoot out somewhere between lis wrist and knuckles; so lie puts the back of lisa brush handle be tween his thumb and( the pin, and, after havlug It slip off and( scratch hIs fingers several times, (lie pin Is finally forced through with a velocIty that carries it Into his neck. Then lie whimpers some, and grasps (te brush again to drive (lie pin from (lie insid1e to the outside of his collar, andl thus have everything fixed to his satisfac tIon. The pin then bends out of shape, and lie Is compelled to throw It on (lie floor and jump on It for revenge. Going to (lie cushion for another pin, lie dlisco'?ers there Ia not one in it ; so lie picks (lie beinded one lip off the floor and straightens it out with his teeth. Ini order to fasten thant necktie to lis collar without having (lie trouble he experienced in his first essay, he removes it from his neck and soon has (lie operation performed. ie (lien has to button it on his shirt again. After tugging at (lie back button for a few nimiutes, (liat valuable member flies off, andl wIth aii expression more forcible than elegant, lie comes to the conclusion thant he will be obliged to put on a clean shirt. All this (line Ito is boilIng away like a mental Vesuvius, and after he donts the fresh shirt, lie glides around to her house only to discover that thie objcct of his affectins is laid up with chills and ca't be seen. At this juncture lis feelings beggar descrIption, so (lie reader will please ciendevor to Imagine them. Canada B3111 was the prince of three card monte players, and lis great boast was that lie had beaten a minister. Cicago news paper reporters of the year 187T4 remember the excitement the city editors of the pa pers thero, except one, were thrown into by (lie exclusive publcation by that one of the story of a wellt-known mistera~ who became a victimi to "Canada ill's" wles obi a train on the Chicago, 1tock Island and Paoific railroad. ie had lost nearly a thousand dollars. Canmd4 13111did not beepthe ropit ~tion of-h~ving bgen theo mV togi dealer liu1 ps i tetof b6 skillful tor, 1 , T~ aid Grangers were filling the trains, homeward bound. 13111, .wearing cowhide boots and coarse clothes, got into the train just moving from the station and attracted attention by saying in a loud tone, "Well, no farmer has a show with railroads. They kill Ils stock and laugh at hin when he wants pay for it." "What's up ?" asked his clever capper, and Bill related: "I brought three head of Durham calves down here from Winnebago county and I got pre. miums on all of them. I was having then put on the cars to send hoine"-by thistime the attention of every Granger in the car was attracted- 'when the consarned fools let one of them treak a leg on the bridge from the cattle pen to the stock car, and they had to kill it to put it out of misery. I wouldn't have taken $200 for the calf, but the railroad tells me I was shipping at reduced rates and ain't got any claim." The conversation that ensued and the state ment. that 1ill had made put him on the best possible terms and in the confidence of all the Grangers, and so when he presently spread his overcoat and said first. "I'll sue the road, anyhow," and then, "I found this little game that'll be funny for the Winne bago folks, anyway," he hat no lack of Its tenlers and interested watchers, and after that is accoipllishcd the work of the three card nionte man Is easy. Human nature, rich with avarice, d6es the rest. Bill drew out his cards and proceeded to tell how he had won $850, after losing $00, "Just as easy," he went on, "as this. Now here's the money," and lie pulled out a pig-skin pocketbook tied up with twine, which he undid and exposed a pli of notes to the amount of several hundred dollars. "No discount on that; easier made-than turning a long furrow." Ills capper asked for ex planation and Bill told him all there was in it and lost forthwith $20 to his accomplice. By th'- t Ie half a dozen pocketbooks were out ;mo bets caie in freely. In half an hou. we train reached Tnlono, where pas sengers change for Chicago, and Bill, about $200 ahead, got up, remarking: "Well, gentlemen, I'm going to Chicago to see a lawyer about recovering for that calf. Good night." And before the astonished Grangers could realize the situation he had disappeared through the door. Half an hour afterward lie was seen on the north bound train, dressed in the height of fashion and looking like anything but the coarsely clad man on the Wabash road. It is said that Canada Bill made $100,000 during his career as a card thrower, but when he died, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, he left just enough of money to give hin a decent funeral. Like niany of his profession, lie found at the faro table his greatest pleasure, and his winnings went from hhi uuore easily than they came. l1o was a great player of draughts, and won much money that way. Of his early life not much Is known. Ile was born and lived for some years at Peeks- - kill, N. Y., on the Iludson river, just below Poughkeepale. ie was often arrested, but never staye( long in prison. After the war his field of operations was mostly on the Pacific railroad, weet of Omaha. Himself a man of daring and personal courage, he often had to face men more desperate than himself, but his presence of mind never de serted him, and when everythingelse failed he was as ready with a weapon as his ad versary. Ile never drank to excess and had no intimate friends. Some years ago he visited Philadelphia. It was in the days when faro flourished there and the strict or ders of the police had not substituted poker in private for faro in gambling rooms. Bill came with $5000 in his pocket. lie was the guest of a well-known Sanson street sporting man, and Bill remarked to his host; ",i'm only going to lose $500 a night, so I'll stay ten days." lilo went into a Ninth street room that evening and left the entire $5000 on the table in less than two hours. For a nionth or two lie onerated in that vi cinIty. Every week he would come back from his trip with $200 or $800, and at every visit lie left it all before the box. One night ho put out $700, and when it had gone lie turned in his chair and said to the owner of the house: "Lend me $100; l'm going to Chicago." lie sent the money back the next week, with a letter which read: "Much obliged for the mioney. Chicngo is goodl enough for Canada Bill." I A Boy's Lark. There wams a boy in Evanston, Illinois, namied D)aley. The boy had a dog, which he was accustomied to take with hi m-n his dlaily excursions to suburban pasture-fed to drive home the cows. Recently young Dalcy found, on lis way to the pasturi, something white and ruffled and mysterious. lie (11( not know wvhat it was, but it was too beautiful to throwv away, and the happy thought struck him that it might be intend ed as an ornamental portable awning for a dog So lhe called lis dog and tied the gay (device around~ its body just behind the fete legs. This held the wavy frills of the tournurc aloft like a canopy. Thus- ca parisoned the dlog pranced along gayly in front of his master to where the cows were quietly grazing in the field. Immediately there was wild commotion. The cows knew In a general way soinething about (logs, but an animal half dog and half bird with a towering banner of whalebones and. wire and( muslin floating in the samnger wvindl, was to them a new and terrifyng spectacle. Thiey eyed the approaching er ror a moment, 'then tossed their- hads, turned tall and broke in a wild stampe~le for town. The fratle herd burst from the end of the lane into the main road just a grave and serious ox-minister of thie go 1.e -whose sands of life had nearly run, etc. -came driving along. imr the cows heeded not. The dog with his phenomepal attachment waving up and 'dowi was e hind, and they cared for n6thing 14 fot. One Jumped across between the hottl end the vehicle, two others dashed againie wheels capsIzed the oldor into a dJitehdoll of mudy water, and4 loft the buggy a'.ad. lng on it beam ends with two wheels ,in the air. Thti the horse caught eigh4 ~of the dog-and rAn after the cews, Sn~ing the vehicle to atoms ande distfl butinl along abotut two miles of the publio h i way. The cows, reinforced .by the Iyo steed, carried the vill~ge like .an i~alu army, and such was the terrdiut) of the people that -they hav e ii64n little else but talk about It.. - The'~t4 ti craw~e4 ouofthe diteh and b with the bustle saw thiache ha oIdai