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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBO1O, S. C., AUGUST 21, 1879. IN SU010 DAYS. Still site the school house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it itill the sumaobs grow, And blackberry vinos are running. Within, the master's desk is seon, Deep scarred by raps official ; The warping floor, the battered seats, The Jack-knifo's carved initial. The charcoal frescoes on its wall Its door's worn sill, betraying The foot that, creeping slow to school, Went storming cut to playing! Long years ago, a winter's sun Shone over it at setting ; Lit up its western window panes, And low eaves' icy fretting. It touched the tangled golden ourls, And brown eyes full of gricving, Of one hIto still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving. For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled ; His cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled. Pushing with restless foot the snow To ri it and left, he lingered; As restlessly her tiny hands The blue-checked apron fingered. He saw her lift her eyes ; he felt The soft hand's light carossing, And heard the tremble of her voico, As if a fault confessing. I'm sorry that I spelt the word; I huto to go above you, Because"-the brown eyes lower fell "ecause, you soo, I love you I" Still memory to a gray-haired man That swot t child-faco is showing. Dear girl I the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing I He lives to learn. in life's hard school, How few wh , pass above him Lament their triumph, and his .oss Like her-because they love him. Only Flirting. I am) only flirting with him stunt," said Grace Burrows, lightly. "You're not afraid of our getting married, I suppose? Pshaw I The idea is ridiculousi" I am not afraid or concerned for you at all. You are very safe. Nor am I alarmed for any suffering you may inflict upon Mr. Leton, for he will richly deserve it all. I am anxious about onq who is worth more than both of you together-Helen Dene, his betrothed wife." Miss Burrows looking round quickly,and astonished. "Ills betrothed wife " she repeated sharply. "I was not aware of that." " I knew you were not ; and what honor or glory can you possibly derive from the conquest of a man who already belongs to arother?" The beauty's proud red lip curled with a scornful smile. "Another's 1" she repeated, contemptu ously. "Why, he would throw her over for me if I gave hhn the least encourage ment. le is completely infatuated." And,with an air of supreme Indifference, the petled belle and beauty swept from the room--at the same moment that one of the window curtains was pushed aside, and a lady stepped in from the balcony-a lady at sight of whom she who had been addressed as auntie rose to her feet and came forward with a little cry of distress. "You have heard our conversation*? Oh, Helen I" She took the new-comer's hand, and led. her, for she was trembling violently, to a seat; then, still tenderly holdig her hand, sat down beside her. " What can I say in excuse or apology for Grace ?" she began, anxiously ; but the other sto1ped her gently. " I have nothing to say to Grace in this matter, Mrs. Warren. But for him I feel contemp~t amid scorn unutterable? I am re solved upon my course, and nothing can change me t" .That night Charley Leton led his lovely partner, .flushed andl panting, from the waltz, to rest awhile in the cool, green, perfumed solitude of the conservatory. She saink,with languid grace, Into a seat, and Leton sank upon lisa knee beside her, and caught and pressed her wvhite hands to hisa lips. ''You knoiv," lhe murmured, low and earnestly-"you know hiow I love you I Oh, Grace, must it be all in vain?" She (d1( not answer him-sho did not draw her hands away. In her heart the falr coquette admired tis man. H~e had gone nearer than any other to touch her fickle, selfish heart. Anid he gazed upon the heaving bosom, the tearful eyes, and a thrill of triumph moved- lisa heart. WVas this the flirt against whom lie had been wai'ned-this soft, sweet, yilding girl?* " You could love me, Grace ?" lie whis pered ; and lils arm stole round her waist. "I-Have you the right to ask ?" she mur muredl. A faint and sudden rustling in the 'branches beside them-the magnolia blos soms stirred as if shaken by a summer wind, and some of their perfumed white .leaves fell into the fountain's basin-but the pair who sat there paid no heed. * "Yes!t" lie answered, firimly. "You, and yeu alone, possess my heart I It is true I thought I loved, Oh, how we may deceive ourseclves I You' have taught me how great was my mistake. For your sake, Gracie, I will ask her to set me free, I will implore her-" " It shahl not be necessary, sir I" Again thfe magnolia blossoms were stirred -were pushed aside, and Helen Dene stood before them. They started to their feet In confusion. " I am not hero by accident," said Miss Done, with a lofty scorn. "1I saw you lead this lady to the conservatory, and deemed it my right to know what my promised husband had to say to her. Well, I have *heard-and I am satisfied. Meanwhile I wish you both all happiness." A moment they stood, amnazedi at the spirit and beauty that flashed upon them, and t me next she 'had turned and passed from their sight,. Grace caught at her companion's arm. 4Follow her I " she cried, eagerly. " Pacify her, I shall never hear the last of this from auntie.". And she also fled, leaving Leton standing there lili~ one bewildered. . le was free. Butt strangely contradic tory is the human heart. Never lpad Leton adImfred and valued Heolen Done so tirhly as in the hour In which he learned that she was lost to him. Sonic wild wish to return to his alle glance, some instinctivo conviction that his love for her was real love, and that his heart would crave for her through All the time to come, urged him to seek her and implore her pardon. But then Grace--sweet, ten der, chilish Grace-who had shown him so plainly that she loved him, too, and who had not Ihelen's strength of mind or soul could he abandon Grace? lie hesitated, and the chance was lost, for Helen left next morning. It was all for the best, he told himself. Helen would not break her heart for him like an ordinary woman; she had resources. She was a writer of considerable promise, earnest and ambitious in her pursuit of literary exeellence and fame ; doubtless she would be easily consoled. With something of pique and regret mingling in his exulta tion, he renewed his pursuit of Grace. JIe resolved to know his fate at once. So the next day he hastened his footsteps to the house. le sent up his card to Miss Burrows' rooms, aind waited for a summons to follow it. To his surprise, Mrs. Warren came down to him instead. " Grace begs to be excused to-day," she said, very gravely. "She has company, Rupert Walton-you have heard of him the railway millionaire. Grace has been engaged to him for six months past, and will marry him i the autumn." " And for this coquette I have lost Helen?" " Yes," said Mrs. Warren coldfy, "you have lost Ifeleu. Heaven gave you a pre clous pearl, and you flung it away for a stone. I loved Helen ; I can offer you no sympathy, Mr. Leton. You have merited your punishment." And, bowing coldly, she left him. And Helen Dene-what of her? Helen's work In the world saved her. She had a young brother dependent upon her exertions-had no time to sink down beneath a great despair. But all the same, the sweetness had gone from life-the mo tive had been stolen from her labor. Still sho toiled on, though no longer hopefully. And so threis years passed on. The boy of eighteen, over whose life she had watched with almoese a moth ,r's care, was twenty-one now, and had chosen his career, that of an artist. le had much talent, especially for por trait painting, and his exultation knew no bounds when lie got a portrait of his sister placed on view at the Academy. They went to the Academy one night at an hour when they could avoid the crowd. Right in front of Ralph's picture, and ap parently oblivious of all beside, sat a gen tieman who gazed on it with a troubled face and earnest, mournful eyes. " Reminds him of somebody lie knows,1 suppose," whispered Ralph to Helen. The stranger rose as Ralph approached, and seemed about to turn away. Then, changing his mind. he said, in an agitated voice' "A charming face, sir. I haven't a cata logue. I wish i knew the iady's name." "I can tell you," said Ralph. "Miss Helen Done, sir." An exclamation from the stranger startled him. "I was sure of it I Oh, Helen, Helen I Helen Dene still? Not married i" Ralph glanced at his sister, and her evi dent agitation bewildered him. The gen tieman addressed hin again. "Pardon me, sir-I surprise yo; I know; but the sight of that facel Young man, I loved her years ago-have never ceased to love her I I have sought for her every where in vain. Help me to find her, and my deat hless gratitude shall be yours I" Before Ralph could reply, there was a little sound behind them, the sound of a stifled cry--a fall. The stranger darted forward.. " Helen l"lie cried. " It is Helen her self I" 'lHe lifted her in his arms before Ralph could Interfere. "l Hen, my dar ling, have I found you at last ?" She opened her great dark eyes and fixed them on her lover's. She read his peni tence, his pain, and nestled to his bosom with a sob of joy. "Forgive me I " he whispered tenderly. Soft and thrilling Camne the gentle answver. "I had forgiven you long ago I" " And' Miss Burrowsi" asked Ralph, wvheni the story had been told him,and they sat together discussing their new happiness. " Pray, what became of her?9" Thme old wound, almost healed now, thrilled faljntly in len's heart, and even Leton's smile was somewhat grave. "She Is a wealthy widow," he answered, " and gave me sonmc flattering marks of favor only a few days ago. As great a co quette as 'ever, I suspect, but let us not speak of her. To her I owe the suffering of the last three years-to her and to my own weakness. I am wiser now. I know my own heart at last. Long ago I found out who was my trite hove. Yes, Helen, before you had gone from my sight I mourned the madness that had lost you I But I have found you again, to' part no more, beloved." " No mnore till death I " she whispered. Peculiar People. Most people, whatever their conditIon or race, are so hiomogeneous now-a-days, through long exposure to the same influen ces, that it Is enlivening to hear of a people, even though they be savages, altogether different from the common. Thie natives of Botch-Tobago, an island in thme China Sea, are curious and peculiar in most respects. They 0xcited the wonder of a number of American naval officers, who recently visit ed them while surveying a rock east of the South Cape of Formosa. These aboriginals, who are of Malay stock, knew nothing of money, and could not be made to understand the object of Its use. They had never tasted tobacco or rum, nor had they any substi tutes for these. Nevertheless, the females liked anything and everything of an orna .mental or decorative character. They ad mired brass buttons, tin vessels or anything bright; freely gave goats or pigs for them, andi could not get enough for their delecta tion. Any shining object they were eager to obtain, and they would dive for a button or a coin If thrown into'the water, and often seize It while It was siniking. They played in the canoes abotut. the ship for hours, watching for the opportunity to dive for the (to them) precious trifles. Tihe natives are as primitive as they can-be. 'They weat only breach-clout.; they live on tarQ and yams; they have no other Ipnplemients thas axes, spears and knives, made of cerninoii i ron; but the females onlploy shells and thc beards of goats for ornament.. "It's the new governess, sir I" Old Winifred, who had occupied the posi tion of houst-keeper in Mr. Carrick's house hold for ti least a dozen years stood before the desk in her master's study, plaiting the borders of her apron with nervous, wrinkled fingers, and eyeing, not without awe, the half-completed sernion upon which he was engaged. Cleve Carrick laid down his pen and looked up in some surprise. . "The new governess, Winny? what of her?" said he. "I hope she is not ill?" "Well, si', not to say ill, exactly," hesi tated the old woman. " but sl& aint no ip petite ror her food, sir, and she pines." "-1 ii,. the boys are kind and considerate to her, Winay?" said Mlr. Currick. "That they are, slr. less their little hearts,"cried the old housekeeper. "And I know she loves 'em-as, indeed, how could she help it?" "Then what is the trouble?" "That's just what I don't know, sir" said Winny. "I must inquire into it, "said Mr. Carrick. 'That's just what I wish you would do, sir," and with that old Wnny curtsied her self out of the room. The Rev. Mr. Carrick pushed aside the heap of sermon Ipers, laid his pen on the rack, and went straightway into the little schoolroom, where Alary Neville was sitting poring over a child's exercise book--a tall, pale girl, with bronze-brown hair clustering In natural ripples over her forehead and great hazel eyes fringed with curling lashes She started nervously as her employer en tered. ''Miss Neville." said the clergyman kindly "you are not happy here?" Mary Neville shrank back like a fawn brought to bay. "No,"she cried wildly, " I am notl" "May I ask Why? For a second the girl was silent, while the pennons of white and red fluttered alternate ly in her cheek. "Are the children troublesome?" the young wtdower asked, kindly. "Is there anything that I can do to make your position here pleasanter?" Mary Neville rose to her feet and clasped her slender hands. "Yes," she cried out, wildly; " you can forgive me." "Forgive you, Miss Nevillel "repeated Mr. Carrick in surprise, "And for what?" "For deceiving you," said the governess. Oh Mr. Carrick, it has been on my con science ever since, especially since you have been so kind. They told you that I was a graduate of Mine. Lesiarde's school, but they never told you that I was brought up there as a charity pupil; that I washed dishes in the kitchcn and scrubbed floors in the gar ret to earn my tuition. I was only a servant there-a drudge-and when at last Mine. Leslarde discovered that I had a talent for music, and determined to educate me as a governess" "Stop!" sai(Mr. Carrick, half smiling, "is that all?" "Oh, sir, is it not enough? I have de UdYvaL yus, I 1j-yim ' "Nonsense," said Mr. Carrick; "you are a refined lady in manner and education. My boys love you dearly. You have not de ceived me, for I ask no questions as to your antecedents and desire no information. I am more than pleased with the success you have had in my children's education ; and now let us dismiss the subject from our minds forever." And as Mary Neville lifted her pleading, graceful eyes to the clergyman's face, he be came conscious all of a sudden that his boys' governess was a beauty. At the end of the month h came once more into the school-room. "Miss Neville," said lie, " I want to speak to you." Mary flushed and grew pale, after her old nervous fashion. "Have I done anything wrong, sir?" said shte, all In a tremble. "Yes," said the clergyman, smiling. "You have stolen my heart away. Nay, smiling Miss Neville, don't start so guiltily; you must be aware that you have been the sunshine of this house ever since you entered It. I am not a gallant young lover, like the knights of romance, but I am not an old man yet. Tell me, Miss Neville, do you think you can learn to love me?" But Miss Neville shook her head. "You are the parish clergyman," said she, " and I am only a poor girl. I am not wor thy of you, Mr. Carrick." "Suppose you let me be judge of that?" said Mr. Carrick, smiling fondly. "I could not let you sacrifice yourself to your own generosity," said Miss Neville. "You refuse mec then?" "I refuse youi" It was scarcely a week after this strange dialogue that a lawyer came to see Mr. Car rick's g->verness, accompanied by a bronzed anid bearded man of middle age, and after a long [aterviewv with these unusual visitants,' Miss iNeville knocked at her employer's study door. "Mr. Carrick," said sfie, with wvet eye lashes and cheeks erimsoned like the ripen ed side of a nectarine," do you know how It is that people sometimes live like a novel in this world?" "I don't undersand you, Miss Novi .i," lie replied. e"Because," she went hurriedly on, " I, seem to be transformed into a heroine of ro mance. My uncle has just come home from China-my uncle who has been lost to us all for twenty years, and lie is rich. Oh, Mr. Carrick, it all seems like a dream I" "My child, I congratulate you," said the clergyman, kindly pressing her hand. "I shall lose my boys' instructress, but you will gain a newer anid a broader life." But, as she turned away, there was a certain something in her wistful eyes that made the good man rack his brains to think if he had forgotten anything that he ought to have said, and on the brightt October morning when she drove away from the door in her uncle's carriage, with a little group of sympathizing friends and ac quaintances gathered around the doorstep, the same pleading look was in her eyes as her little hand1 lay in the good clergyman's grasp. "Good-by, Miss Nevihle," lhe said cor dially, "and God bless you I" And the parsonage seemed darker and more dreary than It ever had done before as he crossed it. thresh-,ld and saw Mary Neville's empty chair beside the school room desk. "God help met" he murmured to him self. "I loved her, and she is gone 1" Perhaps it was that sicliness prevailed in the parish just then, anid the. good man wore himself out with faithful vigils-per haps it might have been that he missed the sweet face and gentle nreanen of hi. children's governess; at all events, certain it was that the Rev. Mr. Carrick fell Ill of brain fever, and old Winifred treibled for the result. And in the lapses of delirium lie raved of Miss Neville night and day. In the first stages of his convalescence, when le was able to sit up, gaunt and pale, with pillows at his back and wine and nour ishing broths at his side, there came a soft tap at the door, and Miss Neville herself entered. h'lh clergyman stared, with a vague fear that he was sinking once more into the fever dreamsi of the past. But she laid her velvet-soft paln on his liie the cool touch of a snow-flake. "Do not look at me so strangely," said she ; "I have helped to nurse you through all your illness." "Then it was no vision of miy disordered brain," cried Mr. Carrick, "but your dear face bending over ie all the time ?" "Were you glad to see it?" said she, with ai soft, radiance brightening her face "Are you glad to see it ?" "My angel from heaven," said he. ten. (lerly closing his thin fingers over her hand, "if I could only keep you alwafs. " "I have come to stay with you always" she said, kneeling at the side of his chair ; "I have conie to be your wife; you asked tme once, but I was a poor g~rl then, with shadows laynig darkly over mny birth. They are all cleared away now-I am rich and independent, and my own mistress and, oh my dearest, I have loved you all along." The Rev. Mr. Carrick was not long in getting well after this. In fact old NN inifred declared that Miss Neville was the best medicine lie had taken. And the clergyman's young wife was the pride of all the parish, "An heiress," said old Winifred, "and a beauty; and only nineteen. Well, I always said as nothing in all the world could be 00 good for Rev. Mr. Carrick." Polonius' Advice to Ilis h4on. Grandfather Lickshingle started up froin a doze in his easy chair and remaaarkd: "1 And so you never hoard the advice that Polonius, an old chum of mine, gave to his son?" The family said no one had said any-. thing about Polonius, neither the son of Polonius. "Alh, very well then," said grandfather, "I-I'll tell you about 'ean. You see Polonius' son Charley-I think his name was Charley-was going to Europe on a i little splurge. Charley had engaged pas sage on a Cunard steamer, an' they were about to pull in the gang-plank. The boy had come back to kiss the hired girl good by. 'Yet here?' exclaimed lia father; 'aboard, aboard, for shame; the wind sets heavy in the shoulder of your sail, at,' if you don't look'out you'll get left. Here amy blessin's with you ; here's fifteen cents more for pocket money, an' these few pre. cepts in thy memory keep. Give thy thoughts no tongue, but allus take cold tonguo youroolf, -'" vnut an get it, cause its easy to digest an', Desiem, Ias uno ut those things that adanits of little or no culinary doctrin'. The friends tho hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel, for you don't know how soon you may want to borrow some money from 'em. Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but bein' in, an' you see no chance to get out, then, amy son, humap thyself. If thou canst get one In on thy opposer's stomach I'd have thee do it. If it be that thine adversary has a sore place, hit him on It. Throw sand In his eyes, and never lose an opportunity to seize him 'round the legs an' trip hii that lls heels may kick at heaven. Give every mani thine car, unless he be, like this one, thine opposer in a quarrel, who naturally would have an object in biting it off'n your head. Costly thy habits as purse can buy, for I'm blamed if I want to rain around an' pay your tailor bills any more, an' I file notice aow that I will veto 'enm from this time forth. This above all--to thaine own self be true; thaat is to say always keep a sharp lookout for Nutmber One, then it must fol 1cr as the night the day that a man must get up tolerably early if lie would get thec bulge on you. Farewell, my blessin' with thee goes ; and also be careful of yer amonecy, and sleep witha yer watch under yar piller.'". Mark Twain's Mlluskes. You see, the old mani was trying to learn inc to shoot blackbirdis aiad beasts that tore upl the young corn amid such thinags, so that I could be of some use about time farm, be cause I wasn't big enough to do much. My gun was a single barreled shot gun, and the old man carried an old Qaueen Anne amusket that weighed a ton, madle a report like a thunder clap and kicked like a mule. The 01ld man wvanted mie to shoot the 01(1 mus ket sonmetinmes, but 1 was afraid. One day, though, I got her down and took her to the hired man and asked hinm to lad her up, because it was out in the field. hirfam said : "Do you see those marks on thle stock an X and V, on each side of the qaucen 'a crowni Well, that means ten balls and fiye slugs-that's her load." " But how amucha powder?" " Oh," lie says, "'it donm't matter ; put In three or four handfuls." So I loaded her up that way, and It was an awful charge-I had sense enough to see that-and started out. I leveled her oni a good many blackbirds, but every time I wotit to pull the trigger I .shut amy eyes! and winked. I was afraid of her' kick. Towards sundown I fetched uap to the house, and there wvas the old matn waiting on thes porch. "Been out hunting, havey ? " " Yes, sir," says I. "What did you kill ?" " Didn't kill anything, sir.-dldn't shoot her off; was afraid she'd kick "-I knew blamed well shae would. "Gimme thiat gun I" the old man said,as mad as sin. And he took aim at a sapling on thme othaer side of the road, and I began to drop back out of danger. and thme next moment I heard the earthquake and saw the Queen Anne whirling end over end in the air, and the old man spinning arouand on one heel, with one leg up and both hands on his jaw, and the bark flying from the old sapling like there was a hail storm. The 0ld nman's shoulder was set back three inches hIs jaw turned black and blue, and lie ha to lay up .for a week. Oholera or nothing else can scare me the waylIwas Nared that time, ___________ -Out . of 436 missionarles in Chlina 810 of LhiOm ara woman) Soiljug a Mit 1in Waill Streot. Not many niontlis ago a man pretty well known on the Comstock went East to sell v mine lying in the Pyramid District. 1it land a map of the claim and its unidergroui( workings, ill done up Inicely In pink and due ink, and it was as line a piece o Iraughthig a one would wish to see. lit ook his maps, traps and saniples of ore tc New York and began to "lay for a cus onier.'i Presently he fell in with a wealthy Wall itreet mnaniipulator, who got hin o it string md wanted to get himi a custom i on com nission. "Now look here, old nan," said lie Wall streeter, "you are from Nevada, md probably a little green in the ways of lie street. 'oui will meet some awful harp men here, and you must manage to be trifle sharper or you can't do anything. ,et ie manage this thing, and give ie all can get over $10,0U for the mine." The Nevadian agreed, and the New korker took hin Into a room and began to pive himu some conildeitial advice. Il."Now her's the way to manage this hing. . Of course If you have a really good imne, it won't be at all out of the way to nake it look big. Now, take this map-it 9 a good map, but ain't big enough. I'll Pet an artist to put iII some extra ore bodies -just scatter 'emu through like pluns in ia )udding-and that'll half sell it. The buy 'r will be sure to discover those ore bodies fterwards, all the same." "This don't look to ile hardly to be quare," said the Nevadian with a deep re' igious expression. "I want to sell my mnie on its merits. I never sold a thing in niy life on false representations and i'm too >d to begin now." ".Now don't get riled, old fellow. You ire not supposed to know what I do. Give no the maps and the ore and let ie at tend o the business. You can't be too tricky vhen you sell a mine." After a considerable persuasion, tho mine >wner turned over his imaps and ore samples o the Wall streeter, and that astute opera or went on his way. iHe wias to get anl iasay of the Samples, and they showed up ,1.500 to the ton. This set the New York ,hap thinking, and he went back to his Ne rada friend and asked him how high the amples would run to the ton. ''Well, I hardly want to say," replied he Nevada Innocent, "I guffss them sam >Aes you've got now are good for 35 or 40 lollars a ton. Of course I just took an Lverage from the different, parts of the mine. don't believe in picked samples. Such rauds are bound to come out sooner or ater, and as I've got more mines to sell, I oncluded to act pretty square and get a ,ood reputation for business on the street. The New Yorker drew his conclusions and thought it would be a sharp thing to ake that mine in himself. "I've found a customer, old fellow," he aid, and eagerly drew a check for $10,000, >rofessing to have found a customer and nade a neat turn on commission. "Bring Long sonie more mines and let me sell 'cmi or you," he added. "You see I have fa :ilities which you have not. We'll go ound and fix up the deeds." -11a 41. * * nlinnl,, niffId,, it Ip, and remarked: "Now, I hope you've sold that mine on lie square and not got too much for it. Its vorth $10,00t as a fair speculation," The two men parted for good a couple of lays afterwards, and the New Yorker came >ut last week with experts to visit the rich >roperty lie hod so shrewdly acquired. Ar -lving at Pyramid lie asks for the Gold 1un Consolidated. "No sui a mine," was the reply he got -verywhere. "Great Ciesar I I've bought the claim and )aid $10,000 for it." "Got bit, sure." "A mian showed me a map. Here it is," mnd the New Yorker pulled out the map vhich he had received from the seller. A ,rowd of Pyramtiders gathered round and aughed upioriously. "T1hat's 01(d Sawyer's work. Oh, he's m smart onie." Just then old Sawyer, the foremost- citi ien of the dlistrict, amid as innocent an old nine-owner as the coast ever produced, me up and looked over the map. "It ain't Qorrecl, 01(d hoss," lie said, tad iressing the New Yorker. "Too many ore iodies p~ut in I" "But there's no shaft, no machinery, no nine I" roared the man from Wall street. "Well," replied Old Sawyer, reflectively, "I don't see how you can scour. The fel ows who bought it are the onies to kick. You got a handsome commission, you know. "But the samples run up to $1,5001" ''Salted." "I'm swindled!I" "D~on't you know you salid a man coul dn't be too tricky in selling a miine on Wall treet ?" inqluired Old Sawyer, and only ta ~ruie Christian, such as are rearedl in Pyra nid district, caln understand the feelings if pious elation whlichi Brother Sawyer ex. perlenced as the gentlemian from Wall street, accomupained b~y lia experts, drove furiously off for Roe, blasting the blossom ing sagebrush along the route with their fIery language. In the Water. Captain Boyton recently gave an exhibi. tion of his skill ini the wvater near Portland, Maine. The captaini is a strong, well-bul man ; his face is darkly taninedl, and ii Linged with red beneath the eycs, which art nearly closed while he is swimming. lii paddle is a strong instrument with a round handile in the center and stiff blades ori either end. At lis usual rate of working in still water lie makes f'-ur miles an hour, and seems to accomplish this with very lit tLe effort. After giving a short exhibition of the various methods of swhnnming witi or without a paddle, the captain commenec to collect sqattered beams and boards wicl: wore floating on thme water, and in an incredii bly short timie had constructed a substantial raft, Hie was attended by his little tender, "Baby Mine," a boat miade of metal, with: a close-fitting lid. Clambering upon hi raft, he illustrated his methods oj signalling with a flag, torch, rocket and horn, lie then commenced his propara tions for itunchi. Hauling his tender along. side, ho took from IL a fir4-.pot, shavings, bellows and matches, and having nad kidling wood of some stray pieces of boards soon had a brisk fire going. H1e then poured water from a canteen into a basin, which lie placed over the fire. Whil< this was boiling, he took his pole and weni fishing for something for his meal. Lean, lug quietly on his paddle ho waltpd patient ly for abite. -Boon he (ehtra nibble andbi a thoient hauled out a tuI1-~tu perch, Takng this to his raft he stoodd end proceeded to dress it. Javiung BIt f E FS. -Iouston, ITexas, has repudiated her Iblic debt, which amounted to $2,000, 000. -The A rnold print works at North Adarns, Mass., now make 125,000 yards of prints a day. -The receipts of the English . rail ways have been rapidly declining for six months. -The sugar crop of Cuba Is larger than that of last year by a hundred thousand pounds. -in twenty-eignt years New York has sent 48,000 friendless children to the West and found homes for them. -The fleece ot the common sheep will average less than onme-half in weIght to that of a Mer no or Cotswold. -Compulsory education is suggested for Wisconsin. Nearly oie-third of the school population went untaught last year. -The new City Directory of Boston for 1879 has just been publlished. It contains 131,971 names, against 93,000 In 1870. -The United States' imports of Cu ban productions are upward of $70,000, 000 per annum. while her exports to that island amount to but $15,000,000, -The average consumption of wheat for each individual of the poptilation of Great Britain is eight bushels per an num. -Between 187.1 and 1878, both years inclusive, 3.86j,000 persons were er loyed in British mines, and 9058 of then lost their lives. -The recent State censis shows that the population of Nebraska is about, 380, 400, or nearly 100 times greater than It was 25 years ago. -New towns are laid out in the oil region of McKean county, Pa., almost every week. No less than live were surveyed in the month of June. -The total contributions to the relief of the wives and children of the Glou cester, Mass., lost isherman amounts to $28,0b3. -The excess of exports over imports for the year ending Alay 31, 1879, was $209,709,876, and for the year ending May 31, 1878, $241,850,039. -Ilen ry Kig, colored, aged 73 years, residing at Sa lisbury, bid., claims the paternity of 41 children. The oldfst is 50 and the youngest Is two weeks old. -Lumber sh ipmetnts are gradually increasing at Lock Haven, Pa. The Repubican says that, up to June 25th, they wer 440,000 feet greater than at this time last year. -The Department of Agriculture re ports that the losses to sheep owners by the ravages of dogs reach one nil lion dollars annually In the mutton and wool actually destroyed. -The first two days of the sale of the late Mume. Musard's jewels at Paris, produced about $180,000. The sensa tion lot was a necklace of seven rows of pearls which brought $34,000. -The blossoms of the allantous tree - ..Z., 1 , *t. a "r Ifecnt)y Ar s.N S 'BLOYKP, i"t 1 county, Marylanti, lost sixty-one small ducks, it Is believed from this cause. -Mr. Henry, Inventor of the Martin -Henr rille barrel anid ammunition is vaiiy seeking for adequate renmun erattion from the British War OIce for the use of his patents by that Govern mnent. -Mrs. Judith Mitchell, a sprightly old woman in Ohio county, Ky., born in 1786, has six ohildren, 54 grand children, 116 great-grandelidren, and 10 grat-great-grandch ildren. All are living. -A statue of Marshal Von Moltke is to be erected in Cologne, the city of his birth, and the Firat ilurgomauster has olfered three prizes, of 1500, 1000 and 500 mat ks respectively, for the best models. -Trho King of Denmark Is suff'ering much from lii health. lie hats felt deeply tile loss of his last dau h lter, Thyra, Duchess of Cuinberlantd, and the incorporation by Prussia .df North Suhleswlg was also a trouble to him. -Gardener E. Sisson undertook late ly in ProvIdence, RI. I.. to make 100 pairs of India rubber boots in 100 con secutive hours, or forfeit $5,000. He periormed his task four uminutes before tile expiration of his time.. -Mechanics get $00 a day, and com mon laborers $15 a day, ini Buenos A yres. Bookkeepers get$20.000 a year, andl extra zeal as a maarger brings $75,000. The papeor dollar is worth tbree cents in gold. A loaf or bread costs $3. -A bar shot, supposed to have been thrown fronm one of' the English frigates which came up the Ponobscot river In 1814, has beeni found on the p~remnises of Jonathan Pitcher, inl Bangor, Maine, 'some thmree feet below the surface of the ground. -Miss Elizabeth Leibesberger, of Berks county, Pa., aged 02, is one of the wealthiest maiden ladies in that State. She owns sevem al large farms. She has silvery gaay hair, is neat and trim in appearance, andi, considering her great age, is quite active and alert. A wvooden doll whiich William Penn brought over from Englantidit a pre sent to one of his daughters is still cherished by a Washington family. It is known as Lotitma Penn, the name of tihe great Quaker's daughtor, and is a faded beauty, twelve incifes high, with out a joint lu jits body. --There is an eccentric tramp in Litchmfield county, Con'n., known as "the Iteatherman.' H~e lives in a cave In Rhoxbury during tihe winter, and at other seasons wanderas from town to town begging his way. Ils entire dress, hat included, consists of old boot legs tied together with' leather striogs, --France is a' large importer of' for eign stock.,. In 1877 she imported 185, 00black cattle, 1,500,000 sheep, and 120,000 pigs, all of which are examined in the frontler custom houseis j'veter inary surgons. TQ ,nain~~j tenec essary staff QI yet aff oyi ~sthe expense bcing.12.000f ffanes y hrya small tax isexited s)ea pf stokI~. .-Dbiri mg the tidh~og June Sorb 86 fl'* poe in 14'ow 4rr~Qt~ ii~s of 11, ly~ 84 . In o o1' r this operation he placed it over the fire and washing off his raft proceeded to spread his table, not even omitting a tiny call-bell. le then set forth his desert, cotisisting of oranges and watermelons. When every thing had been arranged to his satisfaction, and his fish was nicely browned, he con menced his repast and enjoyed his meal re clining at his ease. After dinner ho lit a cigar, and spreading a parachute over his head ; produced a ncwspaper and a fain. Having taken his ease in this way for a few minutes, he laid asido his umbrella and cigar and proceeded to exhibit his sailing apparatus. His first set of sails was sioop rigged with a mast some six feet high and he afterward put out a high lateen sail. These masts were inserted in a socket between the navigator's feet while his body corresponded to the hull of a vessel. The wind, however, was very liglt and this part of the exhibition was not so successful as others. Captain Boyton then showed the advantages of his dress for aquatic hunting. Taking a double-barreled, breech-loading shot gun he tischarged it in various posi tions with great rapidity. He loaded and fired twelve times, the whole operation oc cupying not over a minute. Besides the tender, ''Baby Mine" two other small boats were lying at anchor near the shore. Cap tain Bloyton now paddled rapidly up to the first of these, a small metalic boat named "A ddle." '[his he towed out sonic distance from the shore and took from it a snow white kitten decked with a blue ribbon. Stroking it gently with his hard, wet glove, the captain swam to.his raft and offered Ills pet the remnants of his luncheon. Leaving the trembling pisy' on the raft, Captain Boynton paddled ashore and taking a rope swam several hundred feet from the shore for the purpose of showing the utility of his suit in case of shipwreck. He next exhi bited his method of giving night signals, and using his cigar as a slow-match, dis-' charged several rockets and bombs. Ile then showed the floating powers of his suit by taking a well-grown boy on his chest and conveying him about the pond. The last feature of the exhibition was the' de struction of the second of the two rafts be fore mentioned. She was six feet or more in length and rigged as a brig. She bore the familiar name of "Pinafore." By plaring explosives about her she was blown to atoms, pieces being shot into the air higher than any of the rockets had risen. Captain Boyton shows that by this same method torpedoes can be at tached to any vessel without danger of discovery by those oil the ship, and claims that the rubber armor is destined to be an important instrument of ,naval warfare. "Freckles." "Your wife going to the country f" asked Green as he inet Brown. "I guoss not. I offered her $50 to get ready, but she declares rignt up and down that sheo won't go." "Have you worked the ill-health dodge?" "Well, I tried to; but sihe has gained thirteen pounds since last January, and never looked better than now." are relaxing 'g at gelneraly wiIns nLv well." "Can't do it. She sleeps like a brick, and her nerves were' never stronger." "And she doesau't want to see her mother ?" "11er mother is lead." "Digestion good ?" "Splendid. She eats everything, from a radish to lmburger cheese, and I can't talk change of diet to her." Green fell to musing, and by and by con tinued: - "Mr. Brown, you have been a good friend to inc." "Well, I hope go." "Yes, you have stood by me like a brother, and now I'll do you a favor. My wife left for 11cr mfothler's, to be gone ten weeks. I tried every (lodge I cold tink of, but sile was bound to stay hmomne. At last I hit it. She has freckles." "Ahm I Egad I So has ntmie." "Nothing but tile colutry air in June wili start freckles." "True-true. Peels 'em right off in from four to cighlt weeks, leaving time comn plexion as fair as a babe's, and without in jury to time muost (dehcate eye-brows." "You see-" "Mr. Green, I see it all. I shall never forget your kilndness. In less than as week my freckled wife will b)0 iln Berrien county, and you and I will stay out till two o'clock in tihe morning, and tilen go to my house and sleep in tile best bed withm Our boots oni Mr. Green, Lor' bless you-shlake I Any time you wanta favor you may rout mne up at midnight and command I" "A Hors A head." A party of young men traveling in Eu rope hmad among them a citIzen of our great rep~ublic who wvas so thloroughlly patriotic thmat lie could see no excellence inl anytinmg in the Old World as compared with Is ownl counltry. Mountains, waterfalls, churchles, mlonumnents, scenlery, and all other objects of interest were inferior to what the United States could show.. His companions be camne somewhat tired of hmis overweening boastfulness, and determined to "take him diown a peg." Tile p~arty spent a winter in Romel; and one evening, having all things prepared, they induced thleir Yankee friend to join a drinking bout, and so managed that they kept sober while ho got gloriously drunk. Thereupon thmey took him into the catacombs, laid him carefully down, with a candle withinl reachl, and retired a shlort distance out of sight to wait for tile devel opmlents. After a wvhile their friend roused up, hlaving slept off his first drunken stup gr, and, in a state of some astonishment, began endeavoring to locate himself, at the same time muttering: "W'eli--hio-thia's -little stilge. Wonner--hio---whlere I am, anyway." lHe got out his 'mnatch, lighted lisa .Candle, and begail to study is surround ings. On each side were shelves piled with grinning skulls agjd niches filled with skel etons, while all about wore piled legs, arms, ribs, anid vertebrss-a ghastly array and al together new to him. Hie nodded to the . skulls on one side wijh a drnken "'How do do-hiot" and on the other' with "How d'yo fe-anfwity I" took a look at his Swatch, and once mere at his surroundings, gton his feet, took off lisa hat, and hold ing it abovre his head,. remarked, IMud 'enoug for his (r rds to heaw: "'S all right 's-hio-all rgt. Morningofreir.. reotion, by-jg -1o Fi,'ei man on throun.-A M P. Uniled Nt1atee/ . -The Baron Riiot lilld' persoe eate foot4 un $G68.000.