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I..-.--** ,- * I* TRI-WEK-T4jy EDffION. WINNSBORO, S. C' NOEMBER I, 1879. VOr..III-NM.B1R SEP'EMBER. The goldon-rod Is yo.ow The corn is turning brown The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bondinj down. The geutian's bluost fringoe Are ourling in the sun ; In du ty pods the milk'voed Its hidden silk has spun. The sodges flaunt their harvest, In every meadow nook ; AnI amtors by the brook-sido Mako astors in the brook. From dewy lanos at morning The grapos' swoot odors riso ; At noon the roads all flutter With yellow butter flies. By all those lovoly tokons Septembor days are here, With suuuer's Lest of weather, And autumn's bet of choor. But none of all this boauty Which floods the earth and air, Is unto me the seoret Wlioh makes September fair. 'Tis a thing whlch I romombor, To namo it thrills me yet One day of one SeptomLor I never can forget, A Pleasant Love. "I have got sone naows for you, Maggle," he said one day, about eighteen months after he had gained his Commlinissionl. Gu less what it Is." They were walking along the green lanes of Perlock, listening to the ceaseless mur mur of the sea, as, at intervals, they had walked and listened ever since they couldI remember, ait any rate, for she was six years younger than her former playfellow. "You are going to be promoted," she said. "Promoted, you little goose I No one ever gets promoted in the British army. Guess again." "Yo are going to marry anl heiress." There was a lum1p in ier throat ats she said it. "Wrong again. No inestimable young person with green eyes, a turn-up nose, musceptible heart and fifty thousand a year, lis turned up yet. But its something iearly as good. I'm ordered to China !" "Oh, Alle I"l she gasped, and burAt into tears. It was very foolish of her, but then sho was only sixteen, and had not yet ac quired the praiseworthy art of concealing her feelings. "Why, whatever are you crying for?" lie asked, 6nd kissed away her tears. He'd kissed her ever since she was five, and thought no more of it than if s11 had been his slster, or the cat, excepting perhaps that it was nicer-which it was, no doubt. "I shall only be away five years, at most and when I come back I'll bring you a pig tail, and an ivory tooth pick and a whole lot of things and-" 'Yes i she said, listenit.g attentively. "But then you'll be a young woman-I forgot-and 'out' and all that srt of thing, and won't condescend to speak to a poor Lieutenant ; you will have all the squires and fox hunters about the place at your feet." ''Oh no, indeed, I shan't Alic," she said eagerly. "But I tell you, you will. I believe you are a born little flirt, and I aliall come back and find-" But she burst ito tears again, and put up her pretty little hand as if to stop his teasing, which she could nut bear just then. It seemed so cruel of him to laugh and Joke,. when he was going away for five years. Ile did not seom !o care ti bit, and lie f could have broken hne heart on the spot, apdu would have gladly done so, andl thmrown tihe pices5 away so as never to be bothered I with it again. Th'len, seeing her mournful blue eyes, lie was merciful. "I believe I shall conme back and find you just as great a little darling as you are now, an~d if we've got any money we'll get mar rI ed anid live happy ever after, and If we haven't wec'Il get married and afarve ever aftei--unless, of course, the heiress turns up. "Ohi, I hope she won't !" said M~aggie, like a truthful little idiot. "Sh~lall you ever write to me, Alle, (dear ?" "Yes, of course I shah, and I shall ex .pect you to write back six pages crossad, aund all that sort of thing, you know." So Ahic Granger went to GChhna, and Maggie waited hopefully enoughl for a let ter, but six months p~assedl and none came. ''Perhaps it takes longer for a letter to get hero from China,." she thought, knowing as little about the mfeains of trjunsit and - the time It took as if the celes lali bity had been in the moon. But uC year passed afdl no0 letter caime. "Perhaps lie's ill, or its miscar-riegl "' she said, tearfully, hitf wondering If it- ould be possible that a Chinese heirossi had turned up andl that was the real reason of Alto's silence. "Two years past and never a word. "It's too bad," shie'said litterly, and wondered ruefullyr if he had nidirried a wife with a pig-tail.' And the days and the months wenit by, apd~age j ourneyedh into womanhood, but n& word or sign camne 'frot Ahic Granger, and at last she gave A '~himn up altogether. yer Maggie was'twenty yasold when her father died, and the creditors did pounce (down, anid she and her mother were sold out. Mrs. Dunlop was offered a homne i'n dn~on by a sister who was wvell off'.and I~ epered, anid it was thankfully ac cep . MIaggie was lnfnied ,ttant she lniset ofown1ilvibg, whI m being.pre elsy Mggi'sown optinion as wel Uin - tontion~ she adly~erthspd foy a eith tiqn as govern'ss. .Now )ituggb hidd a'i'ive idet Idea of tier own meflie; and (herefoiohIy askedl for 225 a year and ia eeno able home, so no less than f)ve answdra- li oe, English,' Prench, ml andfl~ the rudtiqants of drawiug. Oie of theOse answersicatii6 frioin Wool wilch, and stated that ' Mrs.' Marshall re Q ukerq a gov9rad84 forhli' 4 Jftle gIrls. Mrs. Mlarshall was a stif.,necke4 sort of woman, tild- starod at poor~ little MjigYe. a# pretty as ever) through double * ieold n i d~~~' and - rwra llg ronMrs. who'g gy4Aristress of the. estab shnment, ~o Utttersoii hasd a strong w id h 0~~e~ "A u~ anlld she was righti for Maria was skinny, and thought herself sarcastic, and always said iiasty things to people who did not dare to say then back again. One eyning, when Maggic had beon about, a year at Woolwich, and she was sit ting alone in her school roo'n as uisual, for her pupils had Just said good night, and been delivered to the tender mercies of their nurse, Miss Patterson walked in very much dressed, and rather flushed and ex cited. 'Miss lhinlop, " she said, 'we shull have a lew friends this evening, and I know one or two of them like an iupromptu dance; will you be ready to come into the drawing ioom1 and play if we should want you ?" "I fear I cannot play dance music very well, I never keep time," said Maggie. "Yes, I feared so, and I thought I would come and tell you. so that you might prac tice for an hou1r or two till after (inner,' and she sailed out of the room, evidently considering the matter settled; and Miggio meekly proceeded to practice the "Mabel Waltz" and the "Flick and Flock Galop.11 Ti'n she put on her shabby black evening gown, and stuck a spray of white flowers in her golden hair, and waitedi patiently for the summi11ons, hoping she would wait in vam. It very soon came, and with a -roll of music under her arm, a flush on her in iocent, frightened face, and a scared, al most hunted, expression in her eyes, she descended and timidly opent tie dirawing romii door, and there Stood still for a mo ilient, staring inl astonishment at the scene before her. There sat. the heiress, With an aiger, pleased expression on her face, and leaning over her, talking and laughing, and imiore handsome tha over, and sunburnt and soldierly looking, was- Alic Granger. 'here was no mistaking him. The color ruslied to Maggie's face, as If to say a hur ried good bye, and then left it altogether. She recovered self-possession, however, anid walked Willi what she flattered herself was great dignity towards the piano. She felt rather than saw him raise his head and look at her, and the next moment he saw by her side. 'Maggie-my dear Maggie ! Why, fancy you beig here ; where did you come from ? I have been trying to find you out for lmonths." 4 I thought you"-and tho site did not know how to go on, so added, almost pit cously ; "I am the governess here." "Are you ! Oh, I see, then, that is the reason, I have not seen you before, I Sup pose." "'Do you really know Miss Dunlop ?" the heiress asked, coming ip, and speaking in her coolest manner. Maggie wjied sincerely she could sink liuto her shoes and bury herself. "Why of course I do; we have been play-fellows vcr since we were born haven't we, Maggie ?" And Maggie, feeling she was backed ill) answeredI bravely; "Yes.' ''Oh, indeed I how interesting-I" then turning to Mtaggl: "Will you be so trood as to begin a waltz, Miss Dunlop? This was to be our dance, I ,hink," to Alie, and she sailed of with him triumphantly. 110 caie to her directly after the dance was over. "'I went down to Perlock to try and find out where you had gone to," lie said, "but nobody knew." "'It didn't matter," she said, huskily, let ting her fingers wander vaguely over the keys to make believe she wasn't very much interested in what lie said. 'Yes, it did-it mattered a great deal. Wihy, I've got a box full of curiosities for you-clubs to light with, and a little heath en God or two, and a statue of Buddlia and all sorts of things. I told you I should bring you themi home. Do you livchere I mean Iii this house?" Ile said th'se last,woro1s under his breath, for the -heiress ciunii up, and tile next mlii uite lie was carried off to (lance with Mrs. Somebody at the othier end of the room, but not before Maggie had nodded a reply to him. Sooii after this iMiss Patterson camne ip to the pilano, and saying she wvish edl to play herself, and that Maggie 'looked tire I, dismnissed her .withoutt..beiig jible to g'et even aniothtr lobk at Alice The next morning, to Maggie's very great surprise, Miss Patterson came into the school room before thq chlkaren had as. semblledl. ''Misq Dunlois," she said, 81 l1lly, '"I should like to kniow whore you say you. met Mr.. Granger." '"At Perloek. His uncle live'd next door to miy mother, lie is a- very old friend, ind~eed-" "Th'lank you. I merely wished to in quiro, ,be~Qauge% so.eipo op mulst be0 ~awaothsti'f sk y one hn your posit ion to make herself remarkable b~y having long confidence talks with any gintleman who nidy visIf, iho hdus.7'' "I doii't know what you mieani, Miss Put.. terson I" Maggie said, indignantly. But Miss.Patterson had swept out of the room without deigning to reply. Then Maggie went into her own' ittle room, the one place al e-hade is ihe *orld entirely to hiersbitf, aiidried till, he- ieyee wvere red and~ her head~achedl. 'rThe lessod did hot prokross that mnorn lng.. Maggie was' th,inking of Alic, who was no daubt strolling ahiouth tile common listening to the band and making love to thb' heiress. Thle children Were-morm (than uisually stupid, too, and all the world seein Cd -upsi1do down, gnd .gli ,4s. ways; turned crooked. Sudd~enly, at about twelve o'clock just -wher),Maggie was in $tI onmkk~Iu of ex poundlhig its bbst"#1fd'~Uod 'the eceentrici ties of the F~rench grammner, there \vas a knock at th6 school-room door. " ' "Come iu," she said. 'Tle door opened, and there stood before lhe as~kbtd btefl fal Gran ger, and behind 1dm was a mnan--evideitly hIs servant-with a bog .on his shoulders. i oat tight you'd "Oh I What will 1I1ii.Marshall and Miss Patterson say 1" shifiii hiid6fistbrria tion. .)Iothbug' 16 goi foz{.the next half liossi or so, for I have julst seen .(iig:04afely| e their wvay to W'oolwich, and 'thougltt I should Jubt get a qgiet ehla(:d deafs,~ lie said, tiiig' to Q si you.off for tin lioun rrs,, yltl "Oh, Alie 1" she said in feax'andetiib "h ~ Ma e I" answared nil ~ing. fron "1IMouldn't help It, and you never wr'ote," she answered helplessly. "No, I 1 }ver write letters; don't know howL to spell well enough. But I have been hunting for you all over tLhr place, and never dreamned of finding you here. Now we'll unpack the box ; I had it opened be fore I came, so it's only fastened by a lock." "But, Alie, they'll never forgivo me." ''Never mind, it doesn't iaiter, because if you are good I'll take you away next week. Besides, they'll forgive me any thing. 1 sared the Colonel's life when he wiasin Ilong Kong-at least, so he says. 'There now, what do you think of these for fighting with ? (et themi at Java oi pur Pose for you;" and he held up a pair of heathenish-looking ciubs and brandished them over her head, and then proceeded to pull out the rest of the contents of the box and to decorate the school-roon with them. '"Thre's Mr. Buddha, and there's-why, what's $he mitter, Maggie ?" "6 Nothing, only you will got me into dreadful trouble-you will, indeed; Miss Patterson came in this morning and scolded ine for talking to yo'u last night. 7 "Never mind, she was only jealous," lie laughed. "Now tell me how soon you can leave here." "What for ?" she asked innocently. "Why, you haven't forgotten that we agreed to get married when I canm, back have you, you little coqiette ?" and he put his arm around her waist just as of old, and was not reproved. It was so very comfort abley she thought. "No; but you areengaged, are you not?" "Yes, of course I atm-to you." (Oh I 'but, Alic-" '"Oh, but., Maggie-' and then lie stop ped and kissed her, and nothing more could be said, for the door opelued, and there stood tle Colonel -and there stood Maria Patterson. "Miss Dunlop !" screamed Malin, horror struck. "1Mr. Granger!" said Mrs. Marshall, in astonislinient. "Iloity-toity 1" exclaimed the Colonel, "what does all this mean ?" "She must leave the house at once,"said the heiress. '")f courso, shio nmust," Mrs. Marsiall said. "I never heard of such a thing in my life." My dear Mrs. Marshall," said Alic, looking as if he were beginning a speech, "it is all ny fault. You told me, and so did tle Colonel, to consider your house muy house, and I have done so. Miss Dunlop here was a playfellow of mine once, and when I went away we were engaged, but somehow we lost sight of each other when there were a few t'housand miles between us, and it was tle happiest moment of my 'life to meet her again last night ; and so I took the liberty of calling on her this morn lig, and we were just arranging toget mar ried next week when you interrupted us." ' Quite right, quite right, my dear Gran ger," said the old Colonel, heartily, "you shall be marrieI from hero--" '"Oh, please let me go tomamma-do let mo go at once, " pleaded Maggie, finding her little tongue at last. "I think It would be miulh more satis factory if Miss Dunlop went back to her relations, " said the heiress sourly. So they all agreed, and that very after noon Maggie packed upi her modest belong ings and all the curiosities, and went to tle well off and bad tempered aunt. The had 'tempered aunt received her niece very graciously when she found she was going to marry well the following week. It is amazing how fond people are of rich relations, even though the riches concern them little personally. As for poor Mrs. Dunlop, she could have jinmiped for joy, only she was too old for such vio lent exercise. "Pray, miss, what are you laughing to yourself about ?" asked Alic the evening before their wedding day. "Nothing, Alic, only when you wecre away I usedi to think sometimes that per haps11 you'dl marry a Chinese heiress wilth pigtail." "T'he sort of thing you wvoukd thinik," lie saidl, grandly,"''"as It is, you see, I am go ing to mnrry a little girl without a pigtail, ando I, ami very happy, my darling-- are you?" "Very, very," she said ; and she was. Diving for Gold. The Hlussar Wrecking Company is agamn at work trying to recover [lie gold said to have been lost wilth the British man-of-wvar [Hussar ninety-nIne years ago. This wvork was begun about thirty years ago, and for twenty-eight years it was prosecuted regu larly every season. -Last year nothmng wvas done, howvever, and [lie work [lisa year was begun very late in [lie season'. It is under the direction of Mr'. TPhomas Barnes, whlose brother is a diver and a practical wvrecker. The old Hlussar lies in very deep water, off Port Morris, N. Jl., a short distance belowv the Morrisanla gas works, and a schooner has been anchored on the spot for thie pur po3e of carrying on [te work. A -reportpr went out to the schooner recently and found Mr. Barnes, [lie diver, preparing to go be }ow. "Ybir Will. havg, to tvet jill I come up," he said ; *oI'dan't tallt *ith'fobir hun dred pounds weighit around mo." The brass helmet waAdthen-screwed to his breast plate, and lisa equipment complete, lie went down among [lie fishes to look for the gold. The Hussar-wae-backect,ogya hedgejetwee'n th~e place where she rioW lies andl the shore, and slid down [lis to a depth of seventy ilve feet-at low tide, her sterni'sinking deep Into thie mud and sand. It Is here thiegold Is suppos~ed to b,e. If oer bow and mudh of her ballast were removed in pgst years, and the skeletons and equipments' of fourtegg American, prisoners who were . drowhed when she went down hiavebeen recovered, Work was resumed on the .wreck re cently and IMr. Barnes lias brought to [lie surface .some interesting specimens showing [lhe'shIp's cmndition. The wood work is pretty near all gone; and even- the lkestand bbits are almost cateci away. Mr., Bar'neA recently renover&d a bit of bro dcI ud~wak.,' showing that heQ haa *isi164 i ' it'sstbom, and .ho Mps brop1~ 1$ w'thi hmn a clam which isidol 1tg 919e in ' tie shp's hold. The. treautre 'is generally 'est mated, at tibopt a million dollars, and it is now bel'ieved tlvdt fidU sad Mr Barnes as lie-cam 81t-tfl have been umt up th s season in Kent Uanada, export m the United States l4 An Old S0l1,i Col. John Frederick Vo Werder, aged ninefy nine years, is an limite of The Old Man's Iome, at Baltimore. Ile gives the following account of his lifeI "I was born on the 1st of January, 1780, in East Prussia, about ten iviles from the City of Berlin. A stronig liclination for a military life led me to entel the Prussian army In the year 1796 as an nsign. In the year 1800 1 was promoted tda Lieutenancy, and in 1806, when the war }etwcen France and Prussia broke out, I ws advanced to the rank of Captain. In qtp great battles of Jena and Auerstadt, s4 disastrous to Prussia, I was made a prisoner-of-war by the French. Bewitched by the brilliant generalslipl) of Napoleon 1, I entered ti *e French service as a captain in the Cavalry. It was in the yeus 1807-8 diat I fought in Spain, and while in Gralada, In 1808, married Senorita Mariana ( Uacia Velasquez, daughter of Alfonso Maril Velasquez, a grandec of the Kingdom. Eirly in 1801) I was promoted to a Colone4 y and ordered back to Germany to comn d ia retgiment in the campaign against At tria. I was In the great battles of Asperu, Eschingen, Wagram, and many other engagements of less importance. After thq battle of Wa gram, I was made first Alde-de-Camp to Gen. Murat, - Napoleon's I brother-in-law, who was afterward King of Naples and Commander-in-chief of theFrench cavalry. I attended the Wedding )f Napoleon to Maria Louisa, daughter of the Emiperor Francis of Austria, in 18:0. It was late Li i8i1 when I was ordesed to join the Grand Army of Invasion hito Russia, which started In the spring of 18;2. On account of Murat being ordered to. Italy, I was ip pointed First Aide-de-Cithp to Marshal Ney, who was Napoleon's "1 right-hand man " during that campaign. I took )art in the fight on the banks of the Moskwa, which opened the gates of Moscow, the an cient capital of the Empire. I entered the city with Napoleon in all his glory, and was quartered with his staff in the ancient Castle of the Kremlin until the city was set on fire and almost annihiihted by the Ris sians themselves. Then canmmenced that terrible retreat through amwand ice, alniost too awfful to remember, with an infuriated enemy at our backs. This retreat, as you know ended in the destru(tion of Napoleon's army. After the fearful battle on the banks of the River Heiesina, of my own regiment, 1,800 strong when we crossed the Russian frontier in the spring of 1812, only thirteen re-crossed it in the winter, and these were all woumded or sick from cold or utter destitutidi. I was myself twice wounded at Beresina, from which I still suffer occasionally. After my return I was laid up in a hospital for several months, and afterwards rejoined the Prussi an army with the rank of Coloiel, and fought in all the principal battles in 1818, entering France, and afterward Paris, in 1815 fought at Ligny and WaterlooQ and again entered the Capital of France. "It was in 1816 and 1817 that I obtained leave of absence and travelled with Col. Cominsky through Tukey, Egypt and Ab yasima, where 1 first net Lord Byron. I was with this celebrated personage for some time. In 1810'1 joIned tife secret league for the liberation of Greece and assisted Alexander Ypsylanti in organizing the Greek insurrection. I can talk G-ceek flu ently. I fought from 1820 to 1827 for this cause, until Greece was free. During that time I renewed my acquaintance with Lord Byron, and had frequent interviews with hiam until his death in the ruins -f Missolonghi. In 1828 1 entered the French army again, and was attached to the forces destined for the subjugation of Algiers, where I remained for nine years engaged in active service against Ab-del-Kader and I brahim Pasha", Bedouln Arabs. In the year 1837 I returned once more to Germany and spent part of the time until 1848. trav eling through France, Italy and Turkey. In the latter year I was forced to leave 1Germany for political reasons, and embark edI for the United States. It was in Octo ber of the year 1848 I landed in Baltimore with my wife and two sons and one daugh ter. We settled in West Virginia, where I established a nursery for flowers and choice plants, and we did wvell until 1852, when am great flood came and swept away every thing, leaving us almost in utter destitution. I then wvent to St. Louis, and in 1854 to South Carolina, wvhere it seemedl once more as If I should spend the rest of my clays In peace and ease, but the War broke out, wrecking our happiness and fortune. Ini 1862, my two sonis fell in the ranks of the Confederate army, and in 1864 death de privedi mec of my wife and daughter. After the War I went once more to the West, staying some time in Miissouri mand Iowa, but finding no rest. Afterward, .on the in vitation of a friend, I visited Florida, where I remained several years, until compelled to seek relief for my rapidly failing eye sight." Requiremeunts for House Drainage. .Every house drain should have an inlet for fresh air entering at a point inside the inain trap, and carried to a convenient lo cation out of doors, not too near wvin dows. [This pipe will relieve the smaller house traps from pressure occasioned by a descendIng column of water that would otherwise be likely to force thme seals of these traps. The air drawn through this inlet to the lower part of thie drainage sys tem, assists the circulation within the drains and is essential to insuire time diffusion of the gaises generated within them.], A trap shoutld be placed on every main drain to disconnect the house from the sower or cesspool. In iplaces Iliable to uin usual pressure from the sewer It should be a double trap, with vent from between tho two traps, running up full sitze abovye th'e roof; or, where the pressure from the se~cr is only occasional and the rigor of climate will permit, this 4ent may be carried to the sidewalk or area, at a safe distance from windows. .If tihe first trap is forced the gas can gain easier exit thuough this pipe than through the seond trap. Every tohfical soil or waste pipo should be extended' at alaett full size through thle r-ot. .N6 traphould be laced at the foot pf vertcu soil of es to i eocirculaibtm. Gfl~'jg'p~ac i tilsidk vont pipes 1~ikib b*~iI a sol o e d e to u~ t~t' ii bf~ i- b'4v. i~.t age of traps branching into it, and no pro teetion whe traps are on a horizontal pipi a distance from the vertical soil pipe.] Rain water leaders should not be used a soil pipes, and when connected with housi drains they should be made of cast iron i preference to galvanized sheet iron or tin, there being less -liability of corrosion Joints should be gas and water tight, t preclude possibility of drain air entering Open) windows. No safe waste should connect with an drain, but it should be carried down Inde pendently to a point where its discharg< would indicate the existence of a leak o any overflow above. No wasta from a refrigerator should b( connected with a drailn. Unless the water supply is ample, so tha it will rise to every part of a building, en. suring at all times the proper flushing o fixtures and traps, a cistern should be pro vide(l into which the water will rise at night, or into which it may be puiped. Said cistern should be large enough to hold anll amnple daily supply, be kept clean, cov. cred, and properly ventilated. The over. flow pipe from it should never be run int< any drainunde, any| cireumstancc8. Th< supply for drinking-water should not b( drawn from it, but from a direct supply, i. C., direct from the street main. Water closets should not be supplied di rectly from street pressure, or by a pipt from which branches ure taken for drinking water. Where the valve closets are pre. forred to those that are supplied from v HinalI cistern immnediately over them, thwil the supply should be taken to a storagi tank, from which it can be conveyed to th< valves on the closets, thereby ensuring ar c(uable prebssure, and securing more relia bility in their working. All drain pipes within a house should bc of -metal in preference to stonewar,owing to the liability of the latter to crack and the dilliculty of keeping the joints tight. It is best to run them along the cellar waill or ceiling with a good incline. They should never be hidden underground,as then leaks will not be perceptible. In solime places it is cominon to paint pipes white so that any leakage will show itself to tihe most careles observer. All drains should be kept at all times free from deposiL ; and if this cannot b( effected without flushing, special flushing arrangements should be provided so as tc effectuaihy remove all foul matter fron th( house drains to the public sewers. All draiis should be laid in a straight line, with proper falls, and should be care fully jointed and made water tight. Nc rilght-aifgled junction should be allowed, except in the case of a drain discharging into a vertical shaft. No drain should be so constructed as tc pass under a dwelling-house, except wherc absolutely necessary ; and then it should b( constructed of cast-iron pipes, with lea( caulked joints laid so as to be readily ac cessible for inspection. and ventilated at each cvd. Whenever dampness of site exists it should be remedied by laying subsoil drains, which should pass not directly tc the sewer, but should have a suitable breal or disconnection. Water supply and drain pipes should b( concentrated as much as possible, and not scattered about a building. Horizonta pipes are objectionable. Plumbing fixtures should not be hidde behind walls and partitions, where thei1 condition is never apparent. They oughi properly to be open to view and so situate( that any leak would be readily detected. It is also well to have a plan of the plumb Ing of each house for the tenants or owncrj convenience and guidance in any emer, gency. In planning house drains they should b< got outside the walls of the house as quick ly as possible, so that there may be fem joints of. p)pe, and tie smallest chance o leakage from defects or accidents, takimg proper precautions in locating to guari against freezing. The Purple of the Ancients. Thie p~urpie ox tine ancients has lately beer studlied by Mr. Edward Schunck. Sun ming up the results of thme investigations o Recaumunr, Dutramnel, Bancroft and Cole re garding this dye, which was obtained fron various kids of shell-fish, he says: "It ii a secretion like pus found inia small whmitis) cyst under the sh1011, close to the head o: thme animal. This matter, when applied tc white linen and exposed to the light of the sun, changes from yellow, through ligh green, dark green and blue, to purplish red crimson, evolving meanwhile an odor of garlic or asafetida. Daylight Is so essential to this reaction that thle secretion, if kepi ini thme dark will preserve its original hut for years, Laut wvillI then change when ex posed to light. The alteration of color is not promoted by heat, and the transitior will go on in a vacuum or In the presenc( of hydrogen or nitrogen gas. Boap alkalici and most of the acids have no effect uipoi thme color finally produced, but nitric acic and chlorine will destroyr it." Mescmes A. and 0. Negri have lately obtained a red and blue colorIng substance from a species of murox. Mr. Schunck himself mad< many experiments with thme matter 'Laker from the shell-fish called Purpura lapillus, found at low water on the reeks' near Hat, ings, Englgnd. It changes from pale yel low to' purple, without being applied t< linen, If it is subjected to light,, and does sc even when boiling. Tihe chromogel can b< completely extracted by alcohol and eithei from the pounded cysts. Tihe golden solu Lion thus obtained becomes purple when ex. psed to light, and ultimately precipitate a granular and crystalline powder, insohubki In boiling benzol and >iling glacial. acetk acid, easily sd~uble In boiling aniline, and yielding a sul~Lmate of crystals of a metal lie luster, and aaving edges of a deep indi go-blue color. Ast ao author believes thai thme coloring matter belongs to an unknowr member of tihe indigo-blue group, he pt'o peoss to call it "punin." * "pgngnrr D er. , Two memtodu'are adopted by hunters ti get decr-"floamting" by night ahd driving with dogs by day. The fortner requirea sonm6 . slU'du ~td gooflni iknansuhip; tili latter, rioithe., DIt "fltid g" it ditk nigh1 is selected and Lhe ipeti~d~ ~oise lesslyr to 10x feedihg Wu~ncft deer, bhemd Ith b"ily"Fl'# i ht It ahuy edt - it4pt fofithd'iirnmet tth gl@# it h wae arx44116a iflcietij direbtsth tk$~~of hhifihe'dI 1afmt Iolh The Freaks of a Psychologist. Mr. Simpson Imagines he is quite an authority on psychology and other things of a scientific nature. lie frequently goes around to various places to display iii skill which is rather marvelous, to say the least. The other day he stepped Into q large grocery store, in which quiite a croid was congregated. - "Psychology is a term employed by the most recondite savants in their investiga tions of metaphysical phenoinena," roared Mr. Simpson, bringing his hand down pat riotically on the head of a flour barrel. The crowd laughed, at which denomistra tion the old man put on his spectacles and said: "Is there any one present who believes in psychology ?" "llow is it generally cooked, with egg sauce ?" "It isn't an edible," roared Mr. Sipson, wildly. "No, no," said another muan, "it ain't a vegetable, it's a chemical; a kind of yellow drug.11 "No, it isn't a yellow drug, or a purple drug, either. "Is it a new kind of overcoat?" inquired a puny man with weak eyes, who was drawing hard on a clay pipe. Mr. Simpson danced around like a wild man. lie finally inforned the crowd of the definition of the term, and begged some one to furnish him with a lock of hair, so that he could satisfy them of the soundness of the theory of psychology by giving tihem the characteristics of the prson upon whose head it originally grew. One man drew out a lock of hair and handed it over to the psychologist, who was dancing around in an ecstasy of glee, and acting like a harlequin. He laid it in the paln of his left hand, and, after look ing at it carefully for some time and niuk ing peculiar faces, said: '"'lie owner of this hair was amiable and gentle." "Correct!" yelled the doner of the hair, his face radiant with smiles ; "correct, that's my late wife, and you've struck it." "She wias fond of music ?" "You're right she was; she could liani mer more music out of a piano in ten min utes than you could listen to in an hour." "She was a most determined woman," mused.the psychologist as he turned the hair over several thies and looked wiser than ever. 'Indeed she was," responded the widow er, scratching his head, "when Mirandy made up her mind to a thing she wiould carry it through if it cost her life. Why whatever she made up her mind to .have anything, she always managed to l4ave it." "She was violent at times ?" 'She ian," replied the widower." "I am just one archipelago of scars. She used to wait behind the door for me at night,, and scale me with a broom." At this juncture the hair was ret.irned to the owner, and Mr. Simpson, highly elated at the favorable impression made by his remarks, said: "has any one in the crowd got some more hair I I want some one to try to stick me if possible, I was never stuck yet. Give me the whiskers of a mnusquito's, and I'll give its pronounced traits." At this mioment the puny man returned from the sidewalk, and remarked that he possessed some hair which lie would like the psychologist to work upon. "Let's have it? Let's have it I" scream ed Mr. Simpson in a burst of rapturous laughter; just hand over that there hair, and I'll tell you all about so fast that you'll have to pry your ears open to catch all the information." Then he took the hair, looked at Intently a monient, and said: "The owner of this hair was a m'an of great scholarship and research ; lie was par ticularly bright and was much liked by his cotenmporaries. lie was a man of groat forethought, ant his morality waA one of the features of the nineteenth ceitury, ie had a great nack of acquiring *ealth, and his generosity wvas a thing which wvas sub line, ie also had a wonderfully retentive miemory, and was very lovable aund sincere in his manner of dealing with pecople." "No lie wvasn't,'" yelled the puny man. "Wasn't he a good muanu" inquired Mr. Simpson. "No, he was not," caroled the attenuated in'dividual. "That hair came out of my horse's tall." Then there wvas a lively Scene, from which the psychologist flitted In .a manner that wvas as beautiful as it was anibiui"e. To keep Oranges. Dr. Ei. B. Miles, of Leesburg, Fil., writes that last- spring lie took eighteen sweet oranges cut fresh from the treej with the stems left on, and packed them away in dry Aand as follows : six wrapped in oiled paper, six in plftin tissue paper, and six In (direct contact with the sand, though so located as not to touoh each other. Nail ed on lid of the box and put away in a cool' place. On the 5th of August, 'just three months after, lie unpacked them and found all perfectly sound and good. At .the col lecting to p~ack, all the qranges were old on~es, having been hanging ripe on the tree for six or seven months, amid more liableito decay sooner than If just ripened. 89me were rusty and a little shrivelled, and others mottled. Taking cognizance of this last named item, as also of the season In which they were put up, not only adds value to the experiment, but Indeed renders It a more thorough test. It seenis one portion kept as well as another, but he conslders it best to put them bare into the sand, that'is withoat any wrapping. Severdf. times, and also.dmning our hottest Veather, when above ninety degrees Fahrehheit, he ested the sand with a thermometer and. found o temperature always eighity-one degrees see eral Inches below the surface. Now it"AfL pears somewhat sIngular that fruit, especi ally of such a pelishable nature as the orange, will keep so long and so well in queh a substance, and at a season- of such 'dl temperature. Yet the-truth of- Dr, statement cannot be questioned. 'The d0e-' tor was himself astonished at theoresult1 bu*b he 'attemptS to explaia the mystery as fop, ,lows: P The dry.sand allsorbs t,tie un -dant moisture an~d juice, of the rid,rei vents the .evaporatio~ofa lit eoetial oil, and comnpletel precludes the action 6f the ailr$ f ebdition~eoeMar'pyaWd-cotueter fg Sthe prberaticof-fnitanthe predentidu e o~~ff wellen Fe~ylai p'oua dd Alt M tet about 50,000 barrels mf oidk~Ir .i* I i,,yii~l ~ h~IdoeoA6 in the fj d! aluas tin of ,tri 'i t 187?* Sto th 4M 788 M b .1 X;I E F S . The barley er1 Qf IPopu;sylvagla Is the largest'ever harvestod. -The leon'es'tf a's'tposed mastodon ,bave been , un'i6rthq 4 in Wellsboro, 'l'oga dicqnty, Pa. 'he ottbn facto ps iII and r'ound Augusta', Ga., .use '$1,500,000 .worth of raw cottofl per anium. I -Aboub 120,000 pounds, of fish -were caught on one tide in the Great, Pond Indit, Long Branch, recently. -Cllutahsohtilh, a Nort4 Carolina In dian 111 f, 'died the 6th6r day, aged somewhere from 120 years up.' -A Murfredsborq, Tenn., negro 18 103 years old. lie has jut niearle1 his seventh wife; who is 32, -T.'he price at which (ouinod has sold the score of; 1ijnpw-opera,. ','Trlb.ut do Zoinora," ig sixid to e,$20,00Q -Mr. Jainee (orln ll.eip .ott paid $60 006 for fhe~ idanf ooks villa at Nevport. f -The hrfhor of -Me'lbou rne is to be improved' at a. cost inI'%Q,000,lso as to admit of ships-of- ay burden Goilming right up to the city. -The'Railroad 'Gazett ssys that.1,476 uiilhis of railroap, have bqen. made in the United States p fir, this- 'ear, agpinst 014 in 1875'. - -Nebriiska isf ffli'g ito and growing. A late onsu' sh'ows 1i population of 340,400, being an .increase of 203,417 since 187q. .,,, -The taxable ValInti i of~ roperty In Providelndo, IR. t. a$1, I , 1 ,700, a falling off of $1,500,000' 6ni lhst year. The tax raqe ia'$14 01J $1,000. -It is estipn e thilt tere were at Saratoga during 'the gdtnnir Just 'end ed 20,000 more vieltoisthain (luring any summer before4 s -The valtuatigu, pf 158 cities and towns in Massachsetts foi 1879 is $209, 8356608, as -coipar6d wih $30,432,367 last year. * I -Quail Imported. frorn Enrope last fall,.adcording to the Watsontown (Pa.) Herald, are multjplylug rapidlr in NorthL~niberland county. -Djring the twvenlkyears'fron 1857 to 1877, Russia gained in population by the excess of- arrivals over departures a total of 9,3Q,549 perspus. -In.hinety y sarg the number of post offices in theU iited States has increas ed fron 75 to'40,70. The number has doubled since 1852.--"' -Philadelphia registers 193,477voters. -There are-in India 1,200,000 Chris tia us, 'of which 1,000,000 are 200,000 are Protestants of.lI. donqpnations. --One of thp piost )yonderfuX results in .8peckilation ai the ap reciation of railroad stocks'Witii dheyear, the ag gregate InordAsd betng over $121,000,000. --Great Britain holds at present bonds not qxceenlug $130,090.9f United States bonds, anC Spnany, France, and the rest'of Europe abbut $0,00,000. -Since 1859 the average duration of life in Paris has inereased by 1% years. The mean annual mortality is, but 20 in 1,000, against 27 in 1,000 in New York. - -The American Iron Works, atPitts burg, Pa., are about to erect additional 'puddling. furnaces. They now "have seventy-five, seventy-two of them are being operated double turn. -The Rtev. NeNimian Hall's new church In London cost $320,600, all of which ercept $22,500 has been' -paid. The church has,4,225 mnembers, and car ries on much benevolent work. -John Mi Laird, editor of the Greensburg Argies, is.a vorait among tile editors of Penns yiyajnia. He has been conmjected with noweppes, in one wy' pn'ther fbr sixtyksx years. -Theta ar;e' pijrest 'onlyt"l'8 ves sels engaged in whuaTd'flshei'f, alt agai1st 688 In 1854.u Now Bedfortd,.Massd, still leads in the, \isigess., oulygty ypty-five of the vessp~1s eupip6ped no~ te ng from .that port. An hIlil:ols farindr astonished beca tur by goig ihto thdt place with a train of six wagonis, laden with 375 bushels. of Darley, and draivn, by a steam road loconiotive of hfs ow.n in vehtiofl -John Bright's' son, ' Mr. William Leatham'Bright, who is in this country, has had 'his I'pggnizgnges. forfeited at Salford Session'as tor neglecting to ap pear against a pmiisoner 'arrest'Ad for swindling. - -Wadgworth Rollins .is -on his way from. New.Y1:k to Ohuicago on a bley clq. ,b He ft ,the fermner place. on July 30 nddhesome time at Saratoga. Hei'nh ri im; as -the 'tilp Is for pleasure And udot a task. - E-Down' to the closo-of:1878, the Uni tedi States had-produced a total of 2, 145f5iet tonutf iesimer Steel Rails, In 1803, when-the States first imported -Bessemer SteelJ1ils~ftodi ithikibountry,, theiy paid qsapt th 5699 . o pur ton, --The oppesq py eceip 9$the Pat ent Office for fies yl'ear ending Julie 30th,"M dV1'b bentl aiA,' wa $189,405. 'This am'ount i s the largest in the h isto y of tas~ ofllQ0.mnith the exeep ton f 8P , v~p seatountedi -From ~pp ou~ s p )t over 17,000 cabi ' 1 'lf tI coun try for"Fr No"~1 ttid 'be'a low average to' es, mat6~ th at' these, passen gerp.spepl,41,99,apieeq iipiope, and t theanditureo $17,000, 4614 1fd" ~Oj~~6 "W6lH'~bbt~!doored toadh rs iri. th~ oolored aeshools here -atr, Ye..PKQqdedafor tiljy,six of t. se to f~is said thave niet -ifj.bi11 parents 'a'i% intallg"'grlt~ I f'ereat e.n the schoolsvi I .' a bz ,' * -. M~usaha~ihen n for ei9r47I aaroriaof8.wa 0, . Of 4hsei otax t womeni. 4h~J~., but u *bitaps and up 16 lb n -Cal.. # elhI, 454 4 8 abad, '1t3 818;'tN np44v 12 S0jPoona, 18B8884duflb a ~l 6lE8;Surat, 10 91te e9y 02Qi qan *$od~ ~ a .