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TII-WEEKfY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., SEPTEM R 6, 1879. L THE MIRROR OF LIFE. Let us look in the glass for a moment, Lea u, brush off the mist from the faco The mirror of life that is broken When Death in our oar knolls the token To orumble in space. We must fall whether praying or pining, Whether fearing or mocking the blow, Bru:h the mist from the mirror, thou trom bling ; The grave is no place for dissembling Thor,, vaunting lies low. The eyes, hs they gaze to earth's glory, Poor into that mirror of pain Where the slain of our years lies all gory, Bent over by grim shadows hoary Recording each stain. Not a blot nor a blemish escapes them, The sIns of the lone and the crowd, The crime where we pandered or paltered, The dark things that lips never faltered There cry out aloud. Thcy are there, and no tempests can hido them ; They glow with accusing and shame, Tho' the years be all dead, they are living, 'Mid the silence thf'y or, for forgivng With direful acciaim. On the wrock-p!ank of life is there pardon When joy is worn hollow in sin? When the heart sees no I ght in the sparkle, Nor gloom whero the drowsy waves darkle O'er foeman and kin? Then brush the world's mist from the mirror While life in our bosom is sweet. And turn, with a love of the purest, i'or pathways the fairest and surest, The trace of our fot. Aunt Maggie's Story. Yes ; what your grandfather came to tell me, lassie, was that Paul Cardell was dead. lie was just 85. lHe'd lost sight and hear iug both, they say, and was glad to go. It's not so lad with me ; but I wouldn't mind going too. It stirred my memory to hear of Paul's death. I've loved a many in my life, but never any one as I did him. Ai I I'm not ashamed of it, lassie, if I am an old maid. le was just lovely. We met often, and for a while I thought he liked me pretty well. But soon I began to think I was mistaken. It makes a girl tremble to think that she may show a man who does not love her that she likes him over well. All that she can do is to wait. Alt I lassie, many a time the waiting is a weary thing, and the right one doesn't come, and the wrong one does, and even the wrong one scens better than none at all. I don't blame women for things that scent wrong often ; they haven't much chance to do right. It seems to me that Paul was my right one ; but he didn't court me, and I could not court hhi. And James Reeder, being a man, could do as he chose, and (id. IH loved me, and I loved Paul Cardell. God help us all. I think if we women had no hearts the world would be a merrier place, lassie. I put James Reeder off a while, and just kept my eye on Paul. I did not love him, and I did love Paul. Why couldn't I love the man that loved me Then said I to myself, "lie a sensible woman. It's better to marry a man who is fond of you, if he' doesn't seem perfection, than to waste your youth and your strength and your hope pining for one you are noth ing to." It's -prettier in a poem to do the last, but I wasn't so very young or so very beau tiful that the whole world wanted me, I guese'id what lifo would be when I was a lonely old maid, handed about like. a bad penny from Cousin Jack's to Uncle Ben's, and from Sister Hannah's to Sister Jane's. Not mucn wanted anywhere. Better try to make a man who loved me happy, and so learn to love him,. They say "love comes with the children"-somne who have tried it. I thought it all over before I went to bed one night, and I made up my mind that James Iteeder should have a "yes" when lie asked for it. Then I cried-oh I how I cried, lassie. "Oh, must I give you Up), Paul ?'' said I ; "and oh, must I give you up ?" and i knew I'd inever had him to give up or to keep. TIhe girls envied me my hmqie~ dash ing bba'. Bute often, wulking wjth him, gr rmi jn wilh 1dm, I'd pqq qii Uqrdell i1 la lihabby goqt, grid sqf to myqeif, "QVi, (g bp i4 me-J ust to b0 q man, and go a pctusting whqdi I chqqse, instead of taking whbat cgmen as though matrimony were ljk'e the 'grah> bag' at a church lair." I didn't wvqut money, nor srqc4 beanty as ,4ames Reeder hald alo much of. I wanted -well, ladie, I wqntedl Paul, and n' 0110 else ; though why he wras perfectioni to me, heaven only k~noivs, 1 do0 pt, a'44 iacyer What scomp4 a gr'eit deal tO me isn't lunc to tell. .There were p)icnic parties Wherp I met Pal4l, but *heoye lie let Jrimes parry me off when he pleased, an'd hover tried to step' betwecen us, At last 1Cli,ty Walsinghaim married, and( they gave lier'a great wedding party. They were rich, and did It in fjee atyle. Theoy had a fine honse and fine furniture, 51m( silver and chmna, guch a~s no one else had thereabout, And it was an all-day party. Th'e wedding first, thou Dreakfast, and dinn noer, and a dance and supper, of courso, 1 was a bridesmaid, and Paul stood up with mec. ,After that, you know, It wais his place to be my beau all day. I thought of that and more. A word from him and I'd give James Reeder thre mitten. A word a look even. no~lue nhl r When I walrked it hrho i r kept thinking how it would seem to be tire bride. I looked prettier than she---I know I did. ~I was dark, and white became me. I had roses in my hair and pearls in . my ears. I did look pretty, lassie. You're not 5o prett,y, vain as you are. It's all gone at eighty-all gonn-all gone 1 What do- we live to be eIghty for?9 Lord forgive me gnd Paul.. Do you love any mnan, lassie?9 Just 5bpk, {Inwiia mgit Inln to you, YHPlatPfm1i ut4 gr hey grgw 5qbb beautis. DQ' ai ay Love is bl in~ L think Ire htge Qher'eyei thmqn anry one'else, aitd finds o aeit-p gio other pan. Oly my beagt . An the Dick; f,g * hpro iqat With'ir lltdJoig-c p}hglasse e. ~ bean~4rja4l ~lek " 0ef cyqt to-ngr5 M . I p ~OU ant a 6 ji i pnto1 imI was aJngr)r ai4 You didn'5 look away' to Ianith. 1Rfte breath, and the tone of his voice by he lie was very happy with Lucy Swall( they say. I haven't been. But It was 1 ter than marrying any one else, after A wasted life and a wasted heart, but, m( ng worse'. GIoo:i mght, lassie. Tan Ostrieies. These strange birds stalked at, head of the procession of domestic. a mals and appeared to be on most e cellent ternis with all of them. Oc tonally one would deviate to the riI or left of the track to peek a mouth of grass, but as soon as the droi would leave the road and shout at it wouled immediately fall into its prol place and march forward with the most deLmure gravity, as if to be gui of an infringement of rules was the 1 thing it would think of. Oitriches ways have an intensely stupid look, 1 they are not nearly such fools as t uninitiated would take them for; a although the most timid creatures the earth when in a state of nature, captivity or when domesticate(d, ti are bold and dangerous, more especla the males. Horse or rider indisuric nately they will attack, walking up the object of their indignation witi quiet, measured stride, never evinci for a moment the slightest t.vidence hostility-in fact, looking such foc that no one would imagine them cal ble of inimical ideas--when, with quick movement, (lone with gr strength and velocity, they raise tih foot and strike forward, the edges the toes being so sharp that they w cut your clothes the whole length of t stroke. As they are too v:luable to knocked on the head, perhaps you tu to run from them, but their speed such that an attempt thusto elude the is useless. The onl, plan then to pursued is to throw your self down a lie still on your face or back. 'ih cannot kick you in tht..e positions. t they will jump on you and trample over you. Whlie this operation is gol on you may give vent to your feelii and satisfy your self-esteem by besto lng upon them a fev reminders th two can play the same game. Flowers as Food. The number of flowers that are us as food is small; among these we m mention the artichoke, the undevelop flower heads of which furnish a mu prized dish. A thistle similar to t artichoke, occurs abundantly in Pate tine, and its undeveloped Qpower hea are brotght to the markets of Jerusale under the name of otrdi, and are mu< sought after as a vegetable. In mar parts of India the flowers of a sapot ceous tree form a really important ar ele of food. The blossoms are ve numerous and sucoulent, and are eate raw. They are also sun dried and sc in the bazars. A single tree affor from 200 to 400 pounds of the flowe The flowers of another species are el played in a similar manner by the ti tives of Mysore and Malabar; they a either dried and roasted and then eate or bruised and boiled to a jelly a: made into small balls to be traded i other food. The unopened flower bit of the caper bush, a creeping pla of Southern Europe, when pickled vInegar constitute the condime known as capers. It was knov' to the ancient Greeks,and the renown Phryne, at the first period of her rei dence in A thens,' was a dealer in capa Long pepper, wvhich in chenmictal cot positions and qiualities resem~bles bla pepper, and is used for the Mamne pi poses, consists of the immature spil, of flowers gathered arnd dIried In the sra A Miraculous Escap at Niagara Fall, A gentlemnan anid has wife tarrived 1 iagara Falls,. on the 1th of .4uly, - Tli were on thieir way from New Lond< (3onn., to their homei in Minnesota, atd(< yiated a~ little from their dirct routle in dert to visit the great falls. Arriving so la they concluded that, they would niot go t hotel, and Wyaited in the K~rie depot um after 4 o'clock, when they started do town to see the~ sights. They strayed fi downI to the banik of the river just bel Wiltmer's mill. Here the gentleman tempted to bathe htis face, when lie suddt ly became dizzy and fell helplesaly into I boiling rapids, Thle soreaims of his w attracted the rittention of William Dint who was watering lisa horses near by. Di tied his horses to a tree and rushledi after I wotman, who was running toward the Ca ract H-ouse. Dinant say's 'hat lhe could ji distinmguish the form ofthe man in I rapids, and lhe told the terrified woman tl it was of no use to attemipts the rescue, tI lhe would certainly go over the falls. Tf wvoman ran through the gate leading to I little park between the Cataract House a the old Rilver Hotel, and hurried down bank to the raceway below. Dinan f hewed a motnent later, and his astonih mlent can hardly be imagined when lie sa the dripping stranger sitting on the steps the embrace of his weeping wife. At failing into the water thme gentleman~ si that ho hardly realized where lie was (or mnoment. Hie could not swim, bt struggled a4 best hic gogid to reaqp I shore. As ggod' incki 1pug he ;~ I Q nnig men Wq hurled agqinst the b h (19gierenolosing the raceway b ithqwtctr, where ho mia 4 oure a hl on the masonry, ani, zimt out upon terra frn;q. The mq~a~ s from deaith wqs little lesA thqm mrcq e go hqrdy realized t first the nfgi gf the danger he hr eentmed. Iho 1a seen the (Alle, iiud 1he P1104 4r. Whether.ho wau hiave beeni killed t peraityifheh 404carried ovr cataract, --The failures of farmers are beco ing alarmingly frequent in linglar In 1870 they numbered 929; In 18 254; in l8'0, 480; ha 1877, 577' -In '1$ 6; and in the first half ol1879,. fower than 814. Nay, was it to cry ? No need of that either. Cry for the young that have it all to live through. I am eighty. Sometimes he looked at me that morning as If he liked me. lie told me how my dress became me. Any man may do that, but it made me happy. I had not been so happy for months. After we camue kome from church there was the breakfast-and he beside me all the while-and then we all went into the garden. We sat under a great tree apart from the rest, and all of ai sudden he looked me straight In the eyes. "Miss Maggie," he said, "do you think - " Hut before 1 knew what lie wanted to know if I thought, some one came all in a hurry up the path and stopped beside me. It was James leeder. ''lere you are," said he, "Paul Cardell, Mrs. Walsingham wants you to drive Grandma Thompson over home. She isn't over well, and wants to go. I'll take care of Miss Maggie meanwhile." Paul got up. le gave me a look I couldn't understand, and after lie had gone a dozen steps lie came back and offered me his hand. "Good-bye, Miss Maggie," he said, and I heard his breath come short and fast ; "Good-bye," and away he went. And I and James Iteeder were left alone. It happened exactly as I knew it would. He asked me to be his wife before we had been together half an hour, and I said Oh ; now don't, lassie. It's all against the women in this world. It always \vill be. Let the strong-minded bodies do what they may. You can't alter the hearts we are born with, We are bought and solhi a good deal as Turkish girls are, after all. There is a kind of cold, pretty (loll that Is happy enough, but women who have hearts suffer-sufer at eighteen and eighty. I)on't I know. I've been both. And now I said to myself : "I will be content. I've made my own choice." I knew I hadn't all the while. "1I am to marry the richest man I know, and one they all call handsome. Madly in love with me too. What more do I want ?" It wouldn't do. I hid the fox in my bosom, but it gnawed ie all the while. "The sooner it Is over the better," I said and as if that was the way to have it over, I let James coax me to set the day very soon-six weeks fron that of our engage ment. There was a busy time at our house, you may guess. All miy things to make ini a hurry. 1 couldn't sit down to sew. I was like one wild. In a sort of fever all the time. They teased me. "In love," they said. So I was, lassie, but not with James Ieeder. So one day mother said to me : "You are the only idle one, Maggie, run over to Mrs Walsingham's and borrow the pattern of Kitty's traveling basque. It will Just fit you, and I want yours to be like it." I went, of course, and got the pattern of Mrs. Walsinghiam. She was a merry soul, and she would tease me. No one know why I blushed so. It wasn't for the reason they thought. We stood talking, and she a teasing, until all of a sudden she said : "And James isn't jealous any more, I hope?" "Jealous I" said I "Oh, ie was wild the day our Kitty was married," said she, "wild with jealousy of Paul Cardell. le told me all about It,,' 'They are paired off together,' said he, 'and with a girl It Is the first who asks her. Paul is as much in love as I, and you have lost her to mc.' So Granny and I set our wits to work to help him. And we sent for Paul, as you know, and gave Jem his chance. Now say 'thank you,' Maggie, as he did." But I couldn't. I todk the pattern, and ran away. I ran until I came to the bridge, and then I stopped, looking down Into the water. "No, no," I kept saying to my self, "no, no; lie never cared anything about me. I gave him chance enough to speuak, and lie did not." And while I said it I heard a step upon the bridlge. I looked around-it was Paul Cardell. I couldn't move. I stood still and he caime up to me. I had not, seen hhn before sInce Kitty's weddhing p)arty, when he caime to say "goodl-bye." HIe held out, his hand. "How (10 you do, Miss Magie ?" said he. I didn't speak-I only bowed. "on~ are to 1)e marriedi very sqomg, I hear," lie said. NThey~ say o," I qlnawered. '.I hiope y'o1 may lic very happy,'' lie nal 'tJamnes Reeder Is a splendid fellow, andl as rich as he is handsome." And he caught his breath in a little sigh. "God bless yoiu, Mqggle." Hie had never culled me M lge before. iIe had, never looked za lhe did ten. I triedl to thank him, l.ht I -did,q't know whait I suaid. Su~ddemly 40e tools bo.th~ my i'I'd like you to know It. I wvas very fond of you, Maggie. I-I loved you, my deer. If Jqmes hiad,n't called me whemi he did thuat d,ay, I should have told yomu so, and had my 'No,' from you. I always felt afraid you liked .ames best. No wonder. It's better for youi-altgether botter, Only, quite as a past thig, I'm glad you know how I loved you. Better than my life, Naggie. I'm not going to pine to death, or make ani 1diot of myself. I shall marry. Lumoy Swvallow has promised to be my wife; She woulk, not care fur auchl love as I have not now to give ; andl she's very good1, and pretty, andl she shalt be happy. God bless you, and good-bye." lie took my hand and p)ut it to hIs lips and wont. Only for what he had said to'Lucy Swal low, I'd have called him back. But If they weore to be marrIed, better let matters stand as they were. I held myself ump by the brIdge rail until ho was out of sIght ; then I dropped, lIke one dead. I did net marry on the day set for me, for I was Ill of at fever then and not ex pected to live ; and afterward 1 knew my heart too well. 'I could not forgive James for cutting short the words that would h ave made Paul and me ha~piy (o life," en< I tpla him plqh nly thq~t I never poghi~ 19 1$ Lel4Igoy f4qlhcgw married, long yearus What a he ppy wo1nan to live thirty years with Xaul Cqrdelhi I umeyr marrie4-noyer, 'as 'you know. And qrmnes 11 eer nover did, either. WhemnI 9s six hp tt41d lirpther Dipk .m 11 Hp pie,when ,tqd hi 9mus gq. Anc4 he wAs very h~c~441p's they .*ild--a very #no mn~x b1I can r emio tier muc alout iiis eok A s1,y1 ee, i never foret Pht1 r .odr~ his ~oturo noQW, I kunow the fauh o lah .andthe perfnnie -of bna irt. Ilnging a Hammook. )W, let- Swinging In a hammiock Is the very till. luxury of repose. It is res;tful, just to th- think of it; and to pass by a clump of shade trees, or a vine curtained veran da, and watch the lazy swing of one of these aerial couches without envy is an the example of virtue that is not often iII- vouchsafed to one with gen3rous capag 1x ity for resting. The general idea is as- that hammocks are only for the wealthy, tht th "stylish," or -professional time ful killers. It Is a great mistake. Every rer well-to-do-farmer-every owner of a it cozy village home-every member of a >cr stay-at-home club who cominands a It spot big onough to swing one-shonid ty have a hammock. A very good one sst may be bought for $1.50 to $4, or as ti- much higher as you eoloose to go. It mut should be hung where'there is a good he afternoon shade, and' if intended in nd part for children's Use, so low that Oil small children can get into it by int the aid of a box or low stool, and over ey soft ground, so that the nutnerous tum blos that are probable will be harmless. al- If no other place is available, it may be to hung between the pillars of a shady a veranda, a place well enough for the ng older people who use it, but undesira of ble for children, on a0 ount of the lack of a soft turt, as well is for the noise a- which accompanies its use by the a youngsters. When ob'ildren only are at to use the hammoolk the manner of 3ir hanging is not important, but if pro of vided for the use of grown persons it ill should then be so suspended that the lie head will always be considerably higher be than the feet, and muoh-of the comfort rt' of one who uses it depends upon a is proper observance of the fact. If you m have no more suitable place, suspend it be from the columns or a veranda. The nd hook which supports the head end should be six and a quarter feet from ut the floor, and that for the foot end three al and three quarters feet, and these pro portions should be observed wherever ngit may be hung, to secure the most de sirable curve for the ease of the occu pant. Another point to be observed; at the head end should be fastened to the hook by a rope less than a foot long just enough to properly attach it, while at the foot is a rope four and one-half ed feet long. Tiislgises the greatest free ty dom for swinging the lwer part of'the ad body, while the head moves but little. ah This is a point which cannot be ob ie served In a hammock for children, who s- think more of it as a swing than as a Is place [9[~nafoytabli repose. When m trees serve for supports, ample provis h ion should be made to prevent injury my to the bark, by means of stout canvas or a- heavy bagging between the ropes to which it Is suspended and the bark. ry If the hanging be so arranged that the in hammook can be taken in during long 1d storms it will last much longer. -s. "Gin in Mine." "Well, it's purty hot," answered a a- lake captain In one of the ferry dock re saloons, "but isn't nothing to the n, summer of 1836.- We had it at least id twenty degrees hotter than this right or along for six weeks. I was running the Mary Jane between Chicago and lit Buffalo then, and I've seen the ther ini mometer s'tand at 130 degrees in the "it middle of Lake Huron." rn' "That was awful,'" sighed one of the md sitters. 1 "Well, it was fairish, but wve didn't *'. Call it hot till wye got into the St. Clair a' river, and the mercury ran up to 150 cik degrees when hangIng against the wva ar ter-butt. The boys used up 728 palm es leaf fains on one trip) that year. (Jn n' one of our trips down ne were becalm ed for three days on L4ake huron. We got It there and no mistake," lit "Purty hot, eli ?" cy"Well, P'm an old mani, and I don't e-care to go to lying at this day, but Il tell you a fewv solemn facts. Every e sail on that schooner smnoked and a smouldered till they fell to pieces on til deck an d left us under bare poles I Yes, vnsir, we hadin't a rag, aloft as big as your hand, .lThat was just at sunrise in tile morning, and within an ~.hour we had to wvet dlown decks to pre lie vent them from burning. I1 went Ife down stairs to consult the thermometer h1A and it lay on the floor, all melted into a chunk of ghfrss and tin i Then I be agan to realise how hot it was, and I got stfrightened.," ho "What could you do?" mat "Well, not much. We had beguni to at rig lines over the lee side, so that all le could take to the water, when the top hsail 'yard came down and killed the lecook. Thle links in thme chain had melt ,ed right out I I never knew .a ease like ii. it since, but then the weather has cool iw ed off.greatiy since 1838." In "And about the cook ?" se "Nothing abotit hini, When we dpicked the body up to iheave it over board it had spread out into a mass about four feet square, and we hat! to he use shovels before we got through. He Ik- was a good young man aud ;a perfect 4k gentleman, and his mother .never a-blamed me in time least for scoop-shoy eg oIling his remalnA'6yer the rail, We po hinally rigged our linoes an4 got over ~a. board," 4 "Md it was much cooler 9" .t "Ah I young man, how. little you rea Sparters know of the great lakes spread Sout before you on the maps! -Cooleri Wh.Y, the minute we strtilt the -water we begam sciuirming )ike so many'eels. 1-. The lake was red ho. 4She water 'would have cooked an egg I ogii isinp uses. I was blistered f rorn heaitro no he41 in no time. Some daf Il wgIl take off my coat and vest and showr yon my back. Th'le tieshm was actually cooked ti a udepth of two inches, and for over tw< years time dlogs used to scenat cooke meat when I walked out, and follow me by dozens. Five surgeons fainted away in i heap at the sight of my left sloul. tier, and the only man I could get to dress my back was a butcher under sentence of death.'' "it umust have been terrible. How (lid you come out of the caihn Y" "Well, wimle I was sqiuirmning in the water a white sqiall struck the schooi, or and dowd she went. It was all over in a minute, aid air and water werc hotter than ever. I struck out for thc Canada shore, over a hundred miles away, knowing that it was sink 01 swim, but In half an hour I was safe.' "Picked ip?" "Well, no," replied the captain, as lie rcratched his leg, "I struck an ice. berg and climbed up into a cave near the top! I tell you it was a grateful change to me, and that's one reason I cannot see a hunk of ice aid a lemon without feeling grateful to the man who invented both-with a very little gill inl mine, if you pleise.'' First Guard Duty. The-first tour of guard duty at West Point was perfo.ilned by the late Mtjor General T. W. Shermman, on one of the most terrible nights I over witnessed. A stoim't of wind and rain arose soon af ter nightfall and raged during the greater part of the night with unabated fury, while frequent dashes of light ning disclosed the old forts and other picturesque strroundings of the point only to render it more appalling. Add to this frequent peals of thunder echo ing among the surrounding peaks as It the world was coming to an end, and you can form some idea of the scene that comes up so viviuly to my mem ory after the lapse of nearly half a con tury. In the midst of this terrible war of the elements it occurred to three of our cadets-one of them, perhaps, the corporal of the -guard-that this would be a favorable time to test the metal of the young "pleb" from Newport. I I shall never forget Shermman's appear ance as ie entered our ten' the next morning, his gun cut and scarred iii various placels, his clothes wet and dripping and covered with mud. Whithorn (also from Newport) and myself eagerly inquired for the cause of his plight, and were informed that there were three men or devils-lie did not know nor care which-kad ap proached his post in the midst of the storm, covered with "white sheets," and endeavored to pass without giving the countersign. One of them, armed with a musket and a fixed bayonet, at tempted to force hila way ; "but," said he, I stood my ground, and would have run him through, but for his superior skill in using the weapon." As soon as the young trio found that young Sher man meant busincs8, they disappeared under the cover of the darkness, leav ing him master of the situation, and I doubt not, have kept their defeat to this day a profound secret. The inch dent, however, is too good to be lost, and I now put It on record because I am probably the only living man,Whiit horn having (lied early, that knows anythidta about it; amid also because it gave unlmistakable promise of the brilliant career now a part of our na tional history. A Rule of Hlospitanty, True hospitality is a tihing that touches tihe heart and miever goes be yonid time circle of generous impulses. Entertainnment with the truly hospita ble mani means more thani the feeding of the body ; it means an interchange of soul gifts. Still It should have its lmaws, as all things good miust have laws to govern them. Th le oblhigmation to be hospitable is a sacred onme, ermphasized by every moral code knowvn to time world amid a prae tlcal outcome of time second great comn mamndmnemnt. There should never be a gimest in the house whose presence requires any con-~ siderable change 1mn the dlomiestie econo my. However much the circulmstamces of busimmess or mutual Interests may de mand in en' rtaiing a stranager, he should never oe takemn into the family circle unless he is kmiown to be wholly wvorthmy a place in that sanctumm sanc torum ,o social life ; but' when onice a man in admitted to the home fireside he should be treated as i time place had beenm his al ways. The fact of an invitation gIves neithi er hmost or guest right to be master of the othmer's time, and does not req uire even a temporary saeriice of one's en tire.Individutality or pursuits. A man should never be so much him self as when he entertains a f riend. To stay at a friend's house beyond thme period for which one is invited is to perpetrate a social robbery. To abide uninvited ini a friend's home isa s much a dismeanor as borrowing his coat wjthou,t his permission. It is debasing the ooin of friendship to mere dross'when a man attempts to make it pay hmis liotel bills. T510 'tD of-two men having the same e""lon and interests in.life lves to neithmer a social right to time ottier's bets anmd board. A traveling minister has no iohre right to go uninvited to a follow preacher's house than a traveling shop keeper or shoomaker ha6 to go uniWit ed to the h9use of his follow erail6tda. Mesi are ol'ained to thme rsisttry as preachers6 tQaclkors and pastors, a'nd s.ot a private hotel keenpe. She's All lIight. .l1. C. Shakespeare, at farmer, resid lng in the no.rthlwestern part of Texas, aend possibly a distant relative of the renowned bard of that wame, called on the Rev. J. Ii. Richey, at two o'clock, and said : "Parson, do you know all the ladies in Waco?" "No," replied Mr. Richey, "I don't know half of them.'' "Do you know a widow lady named Mrs. Ward, who is employed in the faintly of Dr. McGregor ?' "I have not," said Mr. Richey, "the honor of her acquaiitance; but why do yout ask ?" "Well," said Mr. Shakespeare, "I don't know her either; never saw her in my life, but thinking as maybe you know all about her I thought I'd come and ask you. I'm thinking about marrying her.'' "I should think," remarked Air. Rlichey, "that you would refer the mat ter to the young lady herself." "I will, so I will," said Mr. Shake speare, "but not until I have first seen Dr. McGregor," and, so saying, he turned anid walked away. About three-quarters of an hour later in the daiy Mr. Shakespeare again stood in the presence of Mr. Richey. "I've seen )r. McGregor," said he, "and he says he has known the lady for sixteen years. and she's all right.'' Then exacting from Mr.Richey a prom ise that lie would wait in the ollice "a little while," Mr. S. walked otil, saying he would "call on the lady." And he did. "It's all right,parson," said he, on walking into Mr. Riuehey's oflice, less than an hour afterward. "I've seen the lady, and she says it's all right. Quick as I can get a pair of licenses I want you to go up and tie the knot." At twenty minutes past four o'clock M. C. Sh:'kespeare was married to irs. Nancy Ward, Rev. J. HI. Richey ollili ating, and the newly wedded pair left at once for their rural home. Mr. Shakespeare has a good farm and is well able to make his wife comfortable. Jlrs. Shakespeare is a good houskeeper and is otherwise well qualified to make a good wife. Two hours and twenty minutes, dating from the moment the would-be bridegroom's first inquiries were made, is, the precise time occupied in the accomplishment of this alliance. A Prohistorlc Fortification. There remains to this day the ruins of an ancient fortification about four teen miles from Tyroine, near Moshan non Creek, Ceiiro County,P'a. '1'he en tire site covers about two acres of ground, a portion of the outer walls, however, beiug entirely demolished. What seems now to havc been the inte rior of the vast masonry consists of a series of parapets. and faces of the om brasures running at various angles. The front of the parapets, and faces of the embrasures, are still covered with some kind of durable plaster or cement. This cement facing is of a rod color, about half an inch thick, and hard, al most as flint. Where it is broken the rock has crumbled away to the depth of several inches, and the top of the rooks is also worni away by time and the action of the elements, leaving the edges of the cement projet like flanges set perpendicular to the plane of thle rock. 'The age of tis old fortress is beyond all 'possibilty of computation. The composition of the cement is not known, but the building material Le longs to thatt class of rocks known among geologists as Mahoning sand stone. This formation, when found in plaea, caps the Clearfield and Centre County region. At the time of its de p)osit no huugnan being exlstea on the face of the ear.hi, nor until long periods thereafter. Large trees now stand on the old masonry, and these are but the successors of other generations of trees that dlecayed many centuries ago. A Dig Alligator Story. Mr. WV. WV. Ocaini, living in the neighborhood of Hluntsville, 'six miles raortheast of Lake City, Fia., has been troubled for years by the depre dations of a large alligator. His track as he made his way through the fields has been often seen, and the frequent dlisappearance of hogs occasioned this gentlemnan to make offers for his teeth. With the hope of destroying this pest, he put out bait andm poison several weeks ago. The bait was taken but still the alligator took in additional shotes. A large hook was obtained and baited, but'bait and book were taken, the hatter by gnawing the rope which hold it. Things were becoming des perate, and the recent dry weather fa vored 'Mrs Ocain. 'Recently, the alligator was trailed td his hole0, and finding it sinddy, it was coneitided that he had just sought retreat. A ne gro was sent in, but was immediatelyi seized by the leg, and witht difficulty was rescued badiy bitten.. However; the party succeeded in killing the alli gator,~ wh Ih zlseasured ten sind.a,half Cest,. 10 ,was skinned a4jl ened,and; in hiio wqs found the hook, a larg pfg, and s(weral oth~er thiogs. Iavinf )eat fed so well it was thought a do g~e' to try allhgator ste&k, but this i+r'en touted by tha'stid estidi .th'i th4 tea midht be po*oun;J tq,~ MfTeR are 8,503800 Jewe Intile werid,#0d9Qyling to tikqlJpI.h )4eerd as complitatiolb BR IF S. -Nashville boasts of $300,000 worth of improvements in six mouths. ---The dividends paid in Boston In August aggregated $2,533,00s. -The soil on which timber is grown increases or deteriorates Its Value. -in Cambria county, Pa., butter sells at eight cents per pound.. -Senator Wade Ilamptori's leg still gives him a great deal of trouble. -London has a police force of 10,474 men. costing $6,250,000 tu maintain it. -A new direectory of Minpeapolis, 111 unesota,Indicates that the population of the city Is about 52,000. -The pensions grianted list year, from the English Civil List, Armounted to $1200. -Hir. Tennyson has been requested to write the inaugural ode for the Aus tralian International Exhibition. -The cotton mills of Columbus, Ga., consutue annually 18,250 bales of the staple. -in a Bombay cottopt factory ai man receives $8 it mntnnh, a woman $4, and a child $2.50. -Since the Crimean viar England has reduced her .national debt from ?900,000,00J to ?712.000,000. -Nearly 300 males of railroad haie been built in Califbrnla so far this year. -Split timber is more durable and stronger than that which Is hewn, from t..e continuity of the flbres. --Red ink is a solution of alum, col cred with Brazil wood, or an ammoni ual solution of eoohineal. i -The Pilliman palace.ears have been int-roduced on the Italian 'routes run ning from Brindlel and Bologna. -The crop of pineapples this season is estimated at double that of former years. -Ground has been broken for the Inonument to General Wayns, to be erected at Erie, Pa. -'Te RIgged Spho') Uniot'ef Lon Ion expends about $130,000 a year in flforts to elevate the lowest and poor est classes. -Meissonier will soon finish a por trait of the late Louis Napoleon, begun li 1870, but delayed by the war and the oxile. -Mrs, Mary Howitt has received froml the En glish Government a pen sion of $500, In consideration of her lit erary services. -The Pennsylvania Railroad Comp any have ordered the building of eight hundred freight cars and .tweraty pas senger cars at the Altoona shops. -The President begins work shortly after 9 o'clock in the morning. Ills son, Webb; sits on his left hand and his stenographer behind his chair, -In a thunderstorm In Appenzil, Switzerland a few days ago, a farmer and ten of his cows, one of whien h1e was milking, were killed by lightning. -The $500 won by Courtney the oth er (lay at Silver Lake has beeh presen ted by him to the widow.of a man who Iost. his life while in the sculler's em ploy. -Uhief Justlae Chase's grave at Oak IIiJ, near Washington, 1h marked slm ply by a block of gray granitei bearing only the re%rd of his birth apld death following I name. -The apple crop in Kent county, Md., promises to be much larger than usual, and it is expectetl that fifteen dis-. tilleries, producing 8,000 ga,llons of ap ple brandy, will be put in operation. -At a general Conference of the Af rican Methodist churches of New Eng land, recently held at New Bedford, re ports showed a membershIp of 1,317. rne denomination has twelve Sunday schools, contiing 855 schoiars. -For the sIx months erlding June 1lth, 1870, there were th irty? f'Alinres in Blostonl, withl liaiblities of $2,594,000, wilie for tile same- time last year there wvere 175 failures, with liabIlities of $6, 586,1523. -Tfhe famous solidi silver vase, two rind-a-half feet high, and eliborately fabricated, presen)ted by tbie:Whigs to IIenry Clay, in 1844, ia offeored for sale ait Boston, by the great nilan's grand mon. -DuarIng the firsi six mnonths of 1879, 52,894 cases of champagne were Impoa' ted, an Increase of 11,105; cases as coin psred wvith the. same moniths of 1878' 730,020 gallons adid 45,708 eases of French still wines -were' irnaported, an increase ot 204,560 gallons.m~ -Dean Stanley hlas.granmted a site for a mlemorlal of' thne latie Priiee Louis Napoleon in Westmi r,mter Abbey. It as in a recess in IIemry V [1,'s Chapei, near tihe spot where Croihw#ft's reinains lay rili they were disturbed. at4hle Rlestor.. atlin. . i C --A womien wo,rls ing. for.4 farmer near Detroit . Was fatiily -poiboned, re centl y, by washing a p)air dmf overalbs, whichI he had worn while putting Paris green on his potat{nes.;.The,woman had a cut or two ON her hands, ht which the poison penetratod. -The English WoeU4l li4sociation of Local Preache,' or 'aff in 1849, has paid;I.o the f*alek( thasifg'd, and for [leath ,",amon~g its own,.mi re, over $275,000. 'There is A'pro posl. to estab-. lish fraternal i''61&6tad%~j the Me thodist Local Ieacliers'smoiationr in this country,- . C w' -i..t has her i determlfdib theohool Board of Atlehm~ond Vag t all lady teachers in tl4 113bi ~1p ot that city Who thai a trIP -Ui 'their t'i'ris of servloeslfi th "Kjrbe in eligible to.tife poditionrotther, and pe nmppdby the -lu ,e" farmers o esand, library boke to t elliI i of i,000, In the Unmitedl Stat4s therenrare nearly , I,000 sgr cul with 68,000 2sigou0 r, 1~j~~ wa datobb,dNlIge8n S'4~rtifrlpni on-the:Intelligene f4ktnNpr6s&oi topeglipsp h Jo