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'1IWEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORQ, S. C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1879. YOL 11.-NO. 101. NIGHT ON THE FARM. 'Tie dewfall on the lonely farm, The hlooks are gathered in the fold, The dusky air is soft as balm, The daisies hide their hearts of gold. Slow, drowsy, swinging bolls are hoard In pastures dewy, dark and dim, And in the door-yard trees a bird Thrills sleepily his evening hymn. The dlark blue deeps are full of stars One lone lamp on the hillside glooms, A mile away, is rod as Mars ; The night is sweet with faint perfumes. .kt bedtime in the quiet house, Up through the w[de. old rooms I go, Without a lamp; and not a mouse Is stirring. Loudly, to and fro The old clock tioks, and easterly The ancient windows open high ; Here the sun's kiss will waken me, With bird songs wolling up the sky. Nellie's Leap - Year Proposal "Really, Catharme, I do not wonder at Mary's surprise at your behavior. You forget that you are Frank's widow. You are too forward." I hesitated a moment, really anxious to keep my temper ; for I was Frank's wid':w, and the speaker was his mother. "Forward I" cried Mary. "Indeed, you would have been shocked, last night, mother. There was Mr. Vance urging her to sing, and she hanging back, as if she were a young, bashful girl ; and acting as if Herbert Halstead was lier old friend, when it was only as a married woman "Yes," interrupted Julia, "I think, mother, if you can't make Kate realize that she is a married woman, with a daughter nearly six years of age, you had better-" "Send me away,' I broke in, unable longer to control myself, "It's not the first time that hint has been thrown out; and, if it were not for little Nellie, poor child, I would go away.to earn my living at once. You drive me desperate. I declare I will marry again, and get rid of all this-" and then I burst into tears. "Marry again I How will you do it ? Oh, yes I A good joke I" cried Julia, with a shrug at my tears. "Don't you see, Mary, it's leap year I" and she laughed, dorisively. "Who'll you ask ?"-sneered Mary. "h1er bert Halstead ? Julia, -you'd better look out 1" "You may sneer," I cried, checking my tears: I was now thoroughly angry. "But I tell you, if no one would ask me to marry him, I believe I should ask Mr. Halstead, and-he'd have me I" I had fairly taken up their own weapons of personalities, which I scorned. The moment after, ashamed of myself, I ran to my room, to put on my bonnet and get out of the house. I looked in the glass, as I put the crape bonnet, with its widow's cap and heavy veil, on my head. I saw a face to which black was certainly becoming, though it was not a remarkably pretty face. It looked not more than twenty-ive, some said not more than twenty : but I was, really, a little over twenty-four. Married at eighteen to Frank Stevens, I had been a petted wife for four years, and now a widow for two. The thought of the happi ness of the four, and the loneliness of the two, as I looked at the face surrounded by crape, made the tears come again ; but I brushed them away, resolutely, and went out, knowing that a brisk walk would do me more good than anything else. I wen out without my darling, my insepa-abld companion, my little baby girl, Nellie. This alone showed how troubled I was. Truth to tell, I was too angry to trust my self with the little one, who might have asked to have our conversation explained, for she had been in time room at the time. I could only hope that, at five years old, a child did not understand me. Seen after I left, my mother-in-law and . her daughters went out for a drive. They invited Nellie to go ; but she, feeling, per haps, that they had not treated mammna wecll, refused. Soon the front door bell rang, and, lhke all children, Nellie must needs run to see who was there. She man aged to open the door herself, and there stood her prime favorite among the gentle men that visited the house, Mr. Halstead, or, as she had called him, since her baby hmaod, Uncle Herbert. lie had been her father's chum and dearest friend, and loved the child for Frank's sake. "Ladies home, Nell I" "I'm home," she said, "and I dess main ma '11 be in soon." "Very well. Lot's go in thme parlor, and have a chat." Nellie sat in hisi lap, discussing thme mer its of cocoanut cakes and sugar almonds a little while ; but suddenly, dropping her candies in her lap, she asked, "What's leap -leap-I fordot. Do you know what's it 9" "Leap?9 Leap frog ? Leap year ? Is that the word 1" "Yes. What is.it?" "Why, its a year when you ladies can ask the gentlemen to marr'y you. But you see, Nellie, you're tooyoung-or, wouldn't you ask me ?" "Oh, no Ii Wouldh 't ask you. IMam ma's going to ask g$dft. The young man niearly dropped l child, and then folded Ier olode to:him, lee(pr ihaps) he should fogt~~ ~am.', hat do you mean,dvlug lofed,&"Nowv thinkc, Nellie .Il dm' cbLe prbert anything'ake up." "Oh, no I Really, trdt~r bless me, sure's *alive-Isn't that whiat you say when you'se tr'ue i Wel" '-theolittle tot gave a long sigh, and:paused, Herbert hot daring to In terrupt her, lest she should see his aniety, aud, ininiature woman that she was, shonild refuse to satisfy hin. "Well l" she repeauted, "you see, they doene scold my mamma so they does. T day gilmrj ed'mk0 ynssmancry, and td.mrro1 ' 1g"(she would call yes' tcmd-uto-muortw,' le scolded, her ad,c~ueiJ0 } o4odJ ,ladd then tUY hUIO Was Td4~ a ford nnde 1a breat4 ha bdieigsomn yot9 4 al1~ is lear .Weab ~ 4UuV~IL .~~idJ1 kittens. Then he tried to coax Nellie back to the subject. "Oh, I fordet I" she said. "Only they made lmnna cry." Si "What did they say, darling? I'll give tL you a big doll--" hi "With real hair ?" ti "Yes, yes I Real hair and eyes, and--- rc oh, anything. But did they say 1 wanted III to marry-" Cr "They said mamma wasn't a girl, and ar she was old ; and mamma said-oh, there's st mamma. Mamma, didn't you ask Uncle iI Herbert to marry you? He wants to A know." to I had come in, looking for the child, and s: that was the speech I heard. I felt ready 'r to sink with mortification. "Kate, darling ; can't I hope you'll let w me ask I You must know that I hoped, when these" (touching my veil and black dress), "were put aside, that I could ask you to let me care for you. And from what I hear, I think Frank, even, would wish me to care for you, and at once. Come, at darling," as I hid my face in my hands. "You've asked me to marry you; and I must name the day ; and I say now, at tl1 once. Let's give them a good thorough JiU surprise. I can guess how they've treated SL you. Come, now, get ready this fairy, ht this blessed little darling that has brought me my happiness, and we'll go to your own minister." a I tried to refuse, but I was so weary of a living with my mother-in-law, that at last we three shpped out of the house ; and dear " Dr. 8-, who had baptized me, married me to Frank, and knew Herbert well, mar- it ried us. Y We drove back, and reached the front door, as the family wore returning. Julia, who would appropriate Herbert, stepped forward. "Good evening. Mr. Halstead. So youI met Kate on the steps ? Strange I" with a glance at me, as if I had planned to meet him. "Not at all, Miss Julin," said Herbert. "My wife and I just called in to receive your congratulations, and to leave little midget here for a few days." No tableau I have ever seen was half so comical as the one those three made. 1 ti really felt for Julia ; for I knew she cared ih for Herbert. She gained her self-posses sion quickly, however, and congratulated me, whispering, as the kissed me, "So you asked him ?" in My husband heard, and answered. "No, Miss Julia, she did not ask me. m Through other means, thank God, I learned the one I loved was unhappy ; and, as I had hoped, for more than a year past, to soon ask her to be my wife, I persuaded her to marry me at once. Leap year priv ileges are still open for those who choose to use thom." We are quite an old.married couple now; for three years have passed, but Herbert and I still often laugh over Nellie's leap- fe year proposal. at The liottest Place on Earth. _ lnC I have been to Ceylon, Calcutta, up the Nile to Cairo, and to the Sandwiches and m Brazil. At Ceylon, one summer, the tar- er red ropes hung like %t strings, and the ship sizzed like hot iron as she went through g the water. It's singular what a difference ! I therc is in. the offoct of heat in different e( climates. We were off Calcutta in Mid- ru * ugnmer, and the planks of the Gidfly were warped like barrel staves, and she took wa te li4e asponge. Wo throw overboard a valuable cargo of cotton and Sheflleld hard- it) ware, and towed her into port where we had her sheathed with Indian copper. We weiit, back to Liverpool and then sailed for Rio. Just across the line we struck a calm 'Vd laid by for eight of the hottest days I iu ever experienced. The heat was terrifIe. 'rhe'rpjes,kot so soft we could not fasten them, and they ran downVi to this decks and laid around like snakes." The copper grad ually melted from the sides and it raised a cloud of steam around the ship as it drop ped into the sea. The ship spruiig a leak, and meni worked at the pumps bare naked, andl you could alnost see the flesh disap pear from their bones. Finally we got ay light 'Norther' and went into Rio with a lot t of skeletons. -I have been where it is hot 51 mnesemates, or gentlemen-awful ht-but the alfiredest hottest weather I ever hauled W to in was St. Louis. I took a conttact there last Summner to pick up -sun-struck .Y p)eople off the streets. I went bankrupt in three (lays. . Why, they laid around thicker ~ than dleadi (lgs in Chicago durir.g the pois oning seasoii. I have seen flagstones bend dc dtouble, and whole blocks of pavement f twisted out of shape. Trhe fire-lugs were 1m red hot, andl thme water in 'em boiling. The siui wasn't more than a rod away, and look ed as red as a f'urnace mouth. TIhe air was mn all in a shinmmer, and the heat caine down with such force that you could not raise ho your hand. It was just as bad at night. Not a breath of air, and tihe heat crowded bo into the buildings and was packed into the streets. You couldn't get a breath. One night I went dowvn on the levee and found a gang of niggors with snow shovels throw lng the heat into the river in great chunks. w I dropped off and swam across, andi camne m to Chicago. I have voyaged to a good er many places-never downm below with Old W Nick-but I don't believe thme place can be 1i a hotter place than St. Louis. .hi An Inter-Ocean Oanal Invention. - at pl The Moline, Ill., Diapatoh prints an at .accouut of a new invention b)yAdolphi Tool- sa: nor of that place, having for its object, ths fik transportation of ships across thme COentral cc Aniericani Isthmus. It contenmplates the ni coristruction of what may be termed a dry flu 'catial, in' fdrm of a letter V, but having a fo narrow, flat bass, Vhlehr with the sides, Is fr constructed of masonry and lined with steel fti with ,laer of rubber between, This ca- 'w nal le owidth sufficient to receive the larg- dl eat less, ,a'e at eachi end of the rotite di a16pt6444 ly into the sea. in'this canal or sI! b,hanelCis wesdt he ella a movable dry.- tbm docky contructMd of steel, built In sections er conmrming. p shape of the channiel, and tm qu tp 0 th a~ and sides uppna muii- yv titutte of a similpr In pitlneipal tm 'tos the %)kafWfi~)o.O tliese rollers the tm #lan dlafor i8,000.0 The6 movable pm doeleidto bO su*kundef? tho water ; .the el yesse , ,e tgpeppd td it w ~ra y 0 hre r. enge at I Not Much of a Talker. r Here is one of Anha Dickinson's stories : t: )ceding over the Michigan Central one of lb e beings who nust express himself or die, j ving watched me fume over my window y 1 I had at last conquered the catch and t ceived a mouthful of fresh air, abandoned D s seat on the opposite side of the car, o ossed and planted himself in front of me p Ld the partly opened sash. Presently he -f, rred, shrugged his shoulders, turned up g a coat collar, and remarked, "It's chilly." c 9 the announcement was apparently made t creation generally, I felt no call to re- e ond. Dissatisfied at the silence lie faced hi >und and inquired : s "Would you like to have me shut the i indow ?" t ''No," said I. "I wouldn't." t For a space silence. a "Did you want that window open ?" 6 "I did," responded I, "and I do." a "Tain't so warm over here as it is by the 1< >ve."I r A. pause. I: "I said 'twasn't so warm here as over to c e stove whero I was a-setting. You'd e at better let me shove that down, ",-per- y asively, and stretching out a brawny a nd. F "No." c "But I tell you the cold comes in lively," n1 rveying the crack, half filled by the mag. y inc stuffed into it, leaving open a mere v ruse-hole. "I'm not as comfortable as I ii is over by the stove." c "Why don't you go back then ?" I char- t: ibly suggested. "It wasn't necessary for a mn to come here, to begin with." h Another charge. A fresh charge. a ''I say, ain't you cold?" "No. "You haven't got anything the matter i th your lungs? ' * "No." "Throat all right ?" d "Yes." a A cessation of hostilities. Truce soon a oken. "I say, hadn't you better let me put t wn that window ?" d "No." . I A breathing space, a vigorous hitch to 5 e coat-collar, a longer look toward the li ry dragon of iron and coal. h1 '"And you ain't afraid?" t "No!" m "ll-h-hm---you call yourself strong- r inded, now don't you?" c "I would be sorry to call myself weak- e inded." . "Speak. Don't you?" "Yes."a "Make lectures ?" d "Yes." a "Get paid pretty well ?" t "Yes." 1 "Ever talk any ?" V 'Yes," h "You don't say ? D'ye mind telling a v low whether you speak more'n one word t a time?" 0' I "That depends upon circumstances," ju- i ially pronounced. "At present I prefer r t to talk at all." V At which he stared, pondered, looked at v 3, at the air-hole, rubbed his side-whisk- tl 3, pondered again for enlightment-got it. tl "Meaing me ? Oh, you needn't apolo- a ae. I can take a hint as well as another u low. I never put in where I ain't want- b , not If I know it. No. . . . Where in ight you hang out your shingle ?- c, "I said where might your home be ?" ti "Philadelphia." 0 "Philadelphia. You don't see much of c I reckon ?" q "No." h "Old folks living ?" k Silence. "I said I hoped your pa was lively yet," minuatingly. "No."b "You don't mean to say lie's dead?" t A nod-In despair. I "Sho I Well I It's natural. Peoplea > die. Ma to home ?" "Yes."u "Ever travel round wvith you ?" a "No." "N'ever? And she ain't afraidi to have ~ u travel round alone ? No?i I reckon I en, you're a chip of the old block. GJot n, op to her, has she ?" I am too busy about the much discussed d andow to mak. reply. "f asked whether your ma was like )ms llas she got go to her ?" I am not yet done with the window and t y dumbness. . "Well, we'll let the old lady drop. You a n't like my talking about her, I reckon-.V m the color of your face. Got a temper d ven't you ?" "Yes." "I thought so. Got it from your pa org "Got It from being compelled to see and or such people as you." I defined,. More rumiination, side-whisker again rub- t d, situation faced boldly silence. Work for Nimble Finger. In many old country houses there "are s de seats to bedroom windows. These i iy be utilized by being covered with n shions either of crash, bege or serge, Lleh may be worked over with flour doe or some Greek designs. Generally there i ,ngs from those cushions in front a i, ,lance,which can be converted into a shoe .g, a box plait of the material being placed | regular intervals on the valance, each h alt large enough to hold a pair of shoes, d each displaying eitherthe Greek honey- t| ckle, a monogram, or a conventional a iwer. It is certainly a pretty and useful b ntrrvance. Paper flowers are made so t turally that they are adapted now to the a wer boxes,wnich in many drawing rooms rm the bane of huge pier glasses, reaching am the ceiling, and so expensive to keep rnished with real blossedms throughout the inter. Music rolls are now inade the or nary shape, vIz., 18 inches long, 17 inches ep, with a pocket 9 inches deep just to p p the music in ; but the novelty is -that e material bsed ia crash, serge or flannel, it abroidered in outline with neutral tints, ii 0 desIgn classical figures .of men :and pment.ycal of music, or St. Cecilia at fI o organ; c~ardboardI rings covered with v e same materialer In for*m like a.table pkin ring, only largr, vIa,, 10 iigthes In 'y roumfeorence andt2 ines in depth; the ord"Music"i ld0nls letter. aind e owner'd '3VQbOan1 te edges of the 'm mg fiished o wi C Ulaseh fguesat present RlIh$ vor with, i-t a d~w) n h i re in velvet worked with arrasene, and the suit is most effective. A word as to immings for summer dresses, which nim le fingers might wrork with great advantage ist now. White sateen, (luck and heavy rashing materials are to be worn; and iese look best with embroidery worked in loravian cotton, either all white, or black, r red, or blue. Many of these are in reparation. The patterns chosen are those rmerly used for satin stitch embroidery, reatly enlarg'd, and then worlred with the otton in ordinary crewel stit .. This is te style of work that was in fhioi about ighty years ago, and on clear iuslin also i very effective. Some are i light blue iteen with a robing of this jclear white iuslin worked in thick cotton up the cen 3r of the skirt, tho fulness behig gathered it on each side, and formingi a drapery t the side. This same omlitoidery has een used on the creton waistcqat pockets ud cuffs of a long basqued ja et, and it toks uncommonly handsome. 1So does a ed scroll on a white duck dres4,madewith aniers and a princess train. Colored wool uibroidery on clear white mu 1in is most ffective, and many dresses will be trimmed rith strips of this lined and+ piped with ilk. A maize silk was drape4with maize muslin, the trimmings a scrolhof poppies, orn and leaves worked on strips of the iaize muslin, lined with silki and piped rith red and maize, a tuft of poppies and ,heat ears nestling in the lace cravat and i the soft silk and muslin trimmed straw ottage bonnet. For neckties and band 'immings, a good effect is p oduced by 3wing a fancy lace cordon flowerets, alf an inch deep, on to musli ; it makes n admirable border or insert i, and ap ears to be worked in satin stit . By the by, if you are in w 't of a new lea for window curtains, tr working a order of flowers in colored ewel wcols n white, or better still, on ' u muslin; raw the pattern on thick paper, color it, nd lay it beneath the muslin ; work it ightly and quickly, do not drag it, and ou will be rewarded for your pains. For te same purpose there are designs roughly arned in colored wool, such as caladium aves, bulrushes and leaves, birds, etc. [any people bestow particular pains on the wer portion of muslin curtains, which ave a dado like border. For this purpose te wool embroidery is specially to he com iended. Some old styles have also been wvived, such as an applique of plain or olored muslin on net in large bold patterns Eiged with a thick cord,which is sewn over r overcast, and not buttonholed; the net >Undation is visible between the pattern, ad the heart of the flowers is produced by arning in check patterns on the net. This )rt of work is pretty witi the design in rick muslin on a thin muslin foundation. arels are so general in drawing rooms here engravings and water colors accumu te, that it is the fashion to cover old ones 'ith velvet, adding ornamental silk tassels the top and to the lowest of the set of oles which support the ledge. The cover ag is not diffieult to manage. The velvet .quires tacking9first, and then sewing, here the stitches will be most invisible, 'ith fine but strong black thread. Where te holes are, cut the circle in four, saturate e Inside of the velvet with strong gum, ad press the pieces well down with the ooden pin. Squares of guipure d'art can 3 converted into white mats for the dress ig table or elsewhere by laying them on to rdboard covered with silk, and edging em with cord or a ruching, fastening bows the ribbon at the corners; another would wver the pincushion, and small ones on ailted satin would make a pretty bag for anging on the bed to hold watch, hand erchief, etc. Engraving Going. We remain as yet some little in doubt as the methods employed by old artists to nrfect these miracles of taste. We hiav. wowver, the absolute certainty that these ient masters were familiar with the dia iondl, and their best work was made by aimg this, the hardest of all substances, as tool. A splintered fragment of the dia oend served as a scrap)ing tool, anid they 'ore wecll acquainted with the drill. Pre storic man worked at the very commence ent of his existence. A Phoncean gem -a lion attacking a bull-shows how the rll was used. A number of circular do resslons are found I the gems, which ark tile extremities of thie, figures. This as done not only for thme sake of effect,but show the artist tihe hamit of his work as depth. After the holes were sunk, the ~tist united the various portions .pf his ork by scratching. Now the use of the lamond point or splinter fixed in a style or on socket, allowed a certain flexlbibility handling, which our modearn processes of mm-engraving do not permit. .To-day the ork is done by means of a minute retain ig disk of copperi wvhich is wetted with oil rld diamiond dust. On the least app)lica on of the substanico to be cut to tihe disk, is time disk awhaich bites into the stone. 'le difference In manipulation is, then,that i-day it is the stoneo which goes to the tool, and not, as in olden times, time tool to the one. It Is more convenient, then, in 979, to bring the cart to the horse, it can mw be readily understood why, in modern 'ork, tinie and labor being spared (the art ynception not entering for the presest Into le subject)- why this work of to-day Is iferior to the art which Is past. -~ 1Is utely a miechmanical process now, for a ro ating disk will no more draw lines which hve- feeling than will photographing pro moos paint pictures. It has been stated zat we are not acquainted with the meth is employed, by time glyptie artists. This icomes quite evident from this fact, that leir best work seems to have been both out id polished at one and the same time. o-day we have no tools, no substance, hieh will accomplish this double feat. Teach Your Bloys. Teach them that "Honesty is the best clicy. - Teach them that to wear patched olothes no disgrace, but to wear a "black eye," Teach. themi that -a true lady may be mnd- in calico 'quite as frequently as -in Teach then that one good, hQlieat tradle, en tifasttie is worth a dosed beggarly Teaol ha that, as .they ect te be hOft 0mq. ay, thy canneitOo)00o 'iearni a tc the weak asid helplO T~~ th.nl that a'commonn ~hoeduca -91Itha Wh ene, isthn Artotypes--Iow They are Made. The age of Invention in which we live requires that those who wish to be inform- a ed upon the various processes by which v pictures are indeimtely reproduced should v be ever on the alert, so quickly do new i methods supersede old ones. A history of d the photographic art from the days of Dag- t, uorre to the present would probably Interest r few people outside of the profession, as a those who are not in it are satisfied with i1 results and care little for the processes by i which the artist turns out a dozen or so of v likenesses after he has for a few minutes subjected the sitter to posing in front of a tl camera. This description has to do with tl a picture-the artotype-lu all respects J equal, and in many respects superior to a e photograph, with the printing of which, tl after the preparation of tbe plate, the sun, a which is so neeessaiy in other methods, has s, nothing to do. 'The negative of the photo- g graph is prepared with all the lights, as it they appear in the model, reversed. A s1 dark drapery appoars transparent, and the g face and light drapery opaque. From this n negative ordinary photographs are printed, ti but in the artotype process the print is s, taken upon a film of gelatine on thick g French plate glass, when by the action of the sun the gelatine is decomposed in thos I parts of the picture which appear light in It the negative and disappears upon being S< dipped in cold water. of course between it the light and dark are the half tones blend- It ing into the light upon the one hand and It the dark upon the other, so that the most la delicate tints in the model are fully pro- p served. After being immersed in water Si and thoroughly dried, the plate is ready to tl use. A press similar to that used in litho- 81 graphing, but much smaller, is used for 'I printing the artotype. The glass plate is b placed in position, and an ink roller, sup- 1 I plied with the finest lithographiag ink, is at passed over it. Now comies the most in teresting fact in the entire process, and that g upon which it depends for its success. rl The ink will adhere only to the glass 1 which rept-esents the darker shades of the n model, and leaves no traces upon the gela- cl tine, which is as hard as glass itself and is ti to reproduce the lights of the model. It fol- tl lows that in every part of the picture where hh the gelatine has been removed ever so h slightly, the ink adheres, resulting in an ex- n act copy of the subject. After the ink- Si roller follows the tinting roller, which c soltens the tone, a sheet of paper is laid (I upon the plate, pressure applied, and an 81 impression made which is in all respects the ih most faithful copy of the model which it is fl possiblo to imagine, The plate is imme- t< diately sponged off and dried off, and tI then the ink is applied and another a impression made as before. One plate will 8i last for p:inting from 800 to 1,000 inipres- in sions. After the hmpresion leaves the % plate nothing should be done with it. It d resimbles a crayon, and has all the sketchi- if ness and etching; but to satisfy the popu- ti lar. demand for glossiness, it is made to re- b semble a photograph by means of varnish. I b Jonah'e Tomb. g ph Mr. Ilornuzd Rassam has returned to 81 England, having completed his second As syrian expedition. He brings with hih a rich collection of objects which have been acquired during the year. The results of last journey are of a more varied character o than those of any expedition which has taken place since the early expedition con du'cted by Sir A. II. Layard. Commencing i on the mounds of Nineveh, Mr. Rassam Ih succeeded in exploring a site which was re h gaided as forbidden ground. This was the mound of - Nebby Yumns, the supposed tomb of the Prophet Jonah. In this mound c lhe discovered remains of palaces erected by v Lsdlarhadden and Sennacherib. ills labors on the mounds of Nineveh have resulted in p the discovery of a large number of Insrp tions, many of extreme interest. Pssig southward, he visited Ninrod, where lhe continued his labors in the Teample of Venus I This building, which lhe discov cred In his former expedition, was now thor- h oughly examined, and found to be a large openi temple, containing shrines of severala deities. There wvere also found a number of seats arranged In parallel rows, formingt a centre aisle from the chIef altar. The c plan now recovered seems to favor the Idea a of its having been a foram where relIgious and other councils wvere held. Th'le explor ations in Syria have dIscovered many monu menits. Mr. Rassamn extended his opera- a tions into fields untouched since the time ofs Sir A. HI. Layard's exp)eitionm, and lie was able to carry out a series of exlorations on C the moumnds of ancient Babylon. Here his discoveries have been most brilliant. In a mound hitherto untouched lhe discovered a palace of Nebuchadmezzar's, with rich en-r namolled columns, beams of italian wood, and every indication of having been a most splendid edifice. Ils excavations In the mound of tIhe Birs Nimroud, the site of the supposed Tower of Babel, has proved that t the destruction of this great edifIce was duo a not to lightning or hostile attack, but to aa volcanic eruption, which had torn and shat tered the edifice.h KaQir.C The name Kafir was unknown to thme P people now called by It; it was probai- ~ ably giveni to them by the Arabs, and means, I believe, infidel. A mong thenm- ft selves they have no commnon name to ti designate the race to which they belong M unless ic be Amaucu, or "the people." I) Tihe Kafirs ar'e supposed to be descend ants of certain superior races of negroes, evIdently wIth some mixture of Arab * blood In their veins. They seem at no p very distant period, to- have advanced u; from the interior of Africa, driving be- ~ fore them, or else exterminating, the native races, and especially the Hlotten- n tots and Bushmen. Finally, they set- o the4! on the southe.stern part of thme C continent. .FProm the Hottent4ts they borrowed the peoullar sound in their ' language oalled the "click." Proof of this Is afforded by the fact that this e onnd Is more comtnon and more pro- Ie riouanoed in the speech of the fa ontier tn fa(s, wvbo have come,more to dntact withlthe Hotteagtets, thasi it Is it he titterence of the Zuluis and leQusnas,' Thbe.Amako$ar4 supposed ato pave b~ orosspd th,Wa riyor and e6aquetd bteC I*ttn* ut go0 he b i A Minor's Luck. My bulldog, although an excellent watch id a good hunter, was anything but a ater-dog. When I forded a stream he rould fun around half a mile to avoid go ig into the water. Many a time I had to rag him behind me when I did not want D part company with him -i for.'ing a iver. As he was invaluable to me loth as watch at night and as a means of procur ig me pork, I was in the habit of giving im a sousing every morning when water ras available to preserve his health. One morning I took him by the nape of lie neck and dragged him to the edge of lic stream to give him his morning bath. nt as I reached the edge of the creek my yes eyes fell on something that gleamed in Iie water. I released the dog in an instant, ud he fled with a howl of relief. The 3mething I had seen gleaming was a nug et of gold as large as my two fists. It was a the exact form form of a bunch of grapes, tom, fruit and everything complete. I for ot all about the (log and his bath. A mo tent later I was wading up to the knees In ie little creek looking for more. An hour's earch resulted in my finding another nug et, a small one. I at once decided to ascend the creek, for was convinced that the ore had come from a source. I followed it up until it became > narrow and so shallow that I could scan s entire bed while walking along either of s banks. Although it ran through a gorge, had banks on both sides which rose gent to the sides of the gorge, leaving a wide ath. In places the gorge widened on one de or both, but generally on one side ; tat is to say, one side of the gorge as imed the form of a section of a circle. 'he stream did not widen with it, but the ank did, and in such places it was covered 'ith rich verdure and occasional patches of rub. I pitched my tent on one of these spaces, thered some scrub and built a fire. The its were very numerous here-the rocks 'ore fairly swarming with them ; and the ioment I had pitched my tent they were limbing over and over it. like sanamen on te rigging of a man-of-war. Nothing but te fact that they had plenty of food to live non kept these vermin from attacking umian beings. Having eaten a hearty meal, I placed my (log on watch and de mended to the creek. On entering it I dis overed a vein of gold running in an oblique irection across the stream. I tried to pick >ie of it out, but at every stroke of the nplement the water splashed up in my ice. Some other plan must be resorted >. After surveying tho ground I came to io conclusion that I could with consider be labor change the direction of the ream by cutting a semi-circular chan cl through the plateau on which my tent ,as pitched. 1 had no sooner made this etermination than I set to work. The ibor was hard, but it was sweetened with to knowledge that there was a strong pro ability of its being well rewarded. When had succeeded in diverting the course of to stream I made an examinati(on of its ed. Instead of one I found three veis of old crossing it. I took out about six ounds' weight of the precious ore before mndoWnt. Mexico's Gauy lirigands. Spanning the river Antigua, at the mouth f which Cortez built his Vera Cruz, and ink his ships before beginning his march ito the Interior,stands the famous National ridge, better known perhaps, by its old ame of the King's Bridge, the neighbor ood of which has doubtless been the scene f more robberies than any other single spot i all this robber-haunted land. For the Duntry that Montezuma ruled and Cortez )nquered is the paradise of robbers. Every ariety of the craft thrives here from the etty thief who steals one's handkerchief, the dar~iing highwayman who miakes a ,voop) upon a coinvoy of dlollars and thinks tWe of a fierce fight with its escort. In very city in the land(, when darkness irouds the streets, the robber and ssoasin sues fronm his lair with knife, sword and saso. The broad glaro of day even Is not ways a protection. The press frequently Irects the attention of the authorities to ie boldness and frequency of the robberies )mmnitted at high noon. There is scarcely road in Mexico two miles from a city that not infested with bandits, andl the travel is generally obliged to go wecll armed. onest men who have anything to loose e alwvays careful how they walk the reets at night. lIn the City of Mexico ame years since a band of midnight robbers tIled Eusebadoes, from sebo, tallow, kept to whole city in a frenzy of fear, and plied ieir nefarious calling for long months be >re tairdy justice overtook them. They de ved their~ name from the habit of stripping ark naked and anointing themselves with i, making their seizure and retention al ost an impossibility. Down in the pur mus of the city, in the thIeves' resort, 1 am >Id the banker sits at the monte table with long Catalan knife, pointed as a needle id keen as a razor, and warns the eager owd that if any cavallero pretends to mis ~ke the b)ank for lise stake lhe will pin his and to the board. CrImes' which in any her country would form the subject of >miment for weeks here pass comparative unnoticed, and as often go wholly un unished. Innumerable are the stories of ibberles which one hears, some of them of trilling Interest and romantIc character. It Is niot so long ago as to have passed 'om memory that a consIderable town in e interior became the scene of a robbery hlichi has, In all essential characterIstics, sen repeated in other parts of the country. .s the inhatbitants of the place were about teir morning work a large band of horse ten rode into the plaza. Trhe party pro. mnted the usual appearance of Incensed atriots whose rIghts had been trampled pon by the temporary government, against 'blob they were about to issue a pronun amenito. So the to)wnsfolks simply rugged their shoulders and said It was sne of theIr affair. in less than a quarter lan hour, however, the aspect -of things rianged A line of pickets. -was U own bout the tow'n, preventing Ingu'oss or ted hile the dismouptd parties began aystee' atically to plu dythe place. Nothing icaped them ;4S to houses aand' stOr mnes all- alIke Idthe bandits,a and the I go continued'so loz)g as anything of vii ,niuined. .Theng~ ' ollecting theiI~ ot, fey:tnounfted anmd rdie o$! pI the iglW eder in whi*heyhad cons e d4 5e'andneJj1eo tIo~th y en miahis a h5TO~*A ert'Of & p9 ru Ia 4*in the FOOD FOR THOUGHT. It is better to suffer on the side of right than to reign on the side of the wrong. Sutcess which is the result of wrong doing, brings a curse with it. lie that waits for repentance waits for that which can not be had as long as it is waited for. (t is absurd for a man to wait. for that which he himself has to do. Do not allow thyself to' be carried away by anger. Angry words and scornful looks are sins. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness. Opposition to peace is a sin. The way to acquire lasting esteem is mot by the fewness of a writer's laults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both. The ordinary employment of artifice is the mark of a pretty mind; and it al most always happens that he who uses it to cover himself inone place ut;covers. himself in another. Preserve your consciedlco always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force it self into that tender part of thosoul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities. Capricious, wanton, bold and brutal lust is meanly selfish; when resisted cruel; and, like the blastof pestilential winds, taints the sweet bloom or na ture's fairest forms. lie that is found reasonable in one thing is concluded to be so in all; and to think or say otherwise is thought so unjust an affront and so senseless a censure that nobody ventures to do it. There are some trim hs in regard to which we are not warranted to ask the why. They shine in their own light; and we feel that we need na light; and we ask no light wherewith to see them. The pain which conscience gives ri mnan who has already done wrong is soon g ;t over. Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has jus tice 0eo.1u to accuse. Un'seltish and noble acts are the most raclient epochs in the biography of souls. When wrought in earliest youth they lie in the memory of age like the coral islands green and suany amnidst the melancholy waste of ocean. it is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solil t.ude to live after your own; but the great man is he, who, in the mnidst of the crowd, keeps within perfect sweet. ness the independence of solitude. As the reputation of books in raised, not by their freedom from deect, but Lte greatness of their beauties so should that of men be prized, not from their exemption from fault, but the size of t,hose virtues they arc possessed of. Contenttesnt prodluces, in some meas urt, ill those effects which the alehem Ist usually ascribes to wlat he calls the' philosopher's stone, and it it does not bring riches, It dloes the satne thing by banlahing the desire for them. One who is injured ought not to re turn the lujury, as the multitude think; for (-in no account can It be right to do injustice. Therefore. It is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however we may have suffered from him. Where men are the most sure and ar rogant they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passions, without that proper delib eration and suspense, wni?h, catn alone secure them from the grosaest absurdi ties. ' Pluck, not luck, put a man ahead in this world, and leaves a lot of persons at the foot of the ladder quarrelling over their p4'digrees, trying to sponge a pass out, of arme symp~athietio friend, or steal up under tile shadow of some self-.made mani., No enjoymnen t, however , inconsidera ble, is confined to the, present mgoment. A matn is thle hap)pier for life ird m aav lng miade once all agreeabi6.tour, or lived for any length or time with pleas lant, peole. or enjoyed any considerable interval of innocent pleasure. Not alone to know, but to act accor (ing to thly knowledge, is thy destina.. tion, proclaims the voice of my Inruost souil. Not for indolent contemnplationi anoe stu(y of thyself, nor for brooding over einotions of pity-no, for action wals given thice; thuy actions, and thj aetilns alone, determine thy worth. It is easy to pick holes ini other peo ple's work, but it is tar more profitable to (10 better work yourself. 1s. phiere a fool in tile world wvho cannot criticise I Those who can t, oeselves do good ser vice are bui; as onle'to a thousand com >ared to those whlo can.,sp faults in the Iaber of othelrs.. Klnil words cost nothing; t ey are easier ',o use thll ally other. They won't blister tile tongne nor aggrevate tile children or servants, 2eople who talk loud and threaten, u ge wveapons of weakness.' Kin..lnoss, flavoretd witih love, is tile tru;e principie for the home circle Or, indeed, elsewhere. 10 has been argued that the election of intemperate men to high, jtidicial or executive statianis fo Vrbouitet& In the Soriptures as in the followving verse I "It [s not-it is not fowkingsVo drinik wineO, nor p)rinces .Strong adritik, elest they forget the law rgp prevert the can o of the poor audd..n. .~ They who remember Io benefits be-' stowVed by 'parents at'd too grte~'ul to remlember theIr inuits. They-:*re, hap. py whol can) rettiry to fther ant I lPotti or the care thiey rem)eivo -froin thekn' in infan0cy still laap.ler they are $io cai return t hur semtafand cairessesis,aul, feel for thlem tihe satie, idve, they hai . received. Old agej guzn,og.demonmes secOil dhildhQod ; wiiy asoi44ajog dida p)ietV biconme parenial H e.~ itadments w wi 'keop~ u a6himii 4 nothing else Wil do Is teet4 P wi,1 rave yuV4n ai JeW alOmellit le Z ti o ewre *emd ,; faadoi then on th I'' Iinge~ do we