The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, September 06, 1879, Image 1
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