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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., NOVEMBER 22, 1879. yot 1.No LOOK UP, NOT DOWN. Life, to some, is full of sorrow Half is real, half they borrow Full of rooks and full of ledges, Corners sharp and , utting odgs Though the Joy bells may be ringing, Not a song you'll bear them singin Seeing never makee them wise, Looking out from downcast eyes. All in va'n the st:u im shining, Waturd aparkilug, blossoms twining, They but see through these samo sorrowe, Sad to-day, and worso to-morrow Soo the clouds that must pass over Soo the woods among the el -vor; Everything and anything But the gold the sunb<ams bring. Drinking froin the bitte r fountain, Lo! yaur mole bill soma a mountain. Drops of dow and diops of rain Swell into the mighty main. All in vain the blessingai shower, And the mercies fall with power? Gathering cbaff yo tread ti. wheat, Rich and royal, 'neath your foot. Let it be so my neighbor, Look up, as you love and labor, Not for one alone woo's vials ; Every man has cares and trials. Joy and pain are linked together, Like the fair and cloudy weather. May we have, oh. lot us pray, Faith and patience for to-day. The Wife's Dream. A cozy, prettily-furnished sitting room, singing birds in gilded cages, a plumip An gora cat on the velvet rug before the fire, a wise-looking pug stretched lazily on tlie flowing shirts of a pretty woman's dress. Tlrily, a sweet, doiestic picture. But stop! Surely that is a frown between those pretty arched eye-brows, and the full swell of the under lip is very like a pout. And, its I live, there are two great tears on the long black lashes! And now she breaks out into a torrent of pettulent, impatient words: "The sanic tiresome things, day after day -first breakfast, then kiss Charley good-by, then dircctions to look for the six o'clock dinner, and after that the needle work-how I hate it I-or calls, inade or received, in which one is treated to a full account of Mrs. Blank's extravagances, of Miss iloni ton's flirtations, of that horrid 'olonel St. Cyr, 'so awfully fast, my dear, and so dis tressingly good looking.' How tired I am of it all! And there is Charley. Who would have believed lie could change so in so short a time ? He no longer cares for ball, theater or opera, but dons dressing gown, smoking cap and slippers directly after he has swallowed his dinner, lights that horrid meerschaun, and passes the evening behind a newspaper, enveloped in smoke clouds. 0, dear ! I wish I had not been in quite such a hurry to got married. 0, go away, Bijou I" and with her slippered foot she thrusts the teasing pug from her. A rap at the door, asid to her sharp "Come in," a servant appears, bringing a card. Madam looks, flushes, says "I will be down directly," and flies to her dressing room. brushes her lushed cheeks with a cooling powder-puff, pats the brown waves of her hair with two pretty dimpled hands, glances at herself in the glass, smiles, tind desicends to the drawing room. A tall, gentlemanly looking man rises and eies forward as she enters. "Urs. Thornton." That in ill lie .says, but the tone and manner are most impressive, and thrills through the heart of the wife as Charley's words and tonea used to before lie took to neglecting her for dressing-gowns, sleepy hollows and meerschaumns. Well, they talk of the weather, the last new opera, etc., etc. Conmnonplace stib.. jects eniough. But why shoul his eyes cause hers to waver and( dIroop, glad to shelter themselves behind the white lids? Why, at parting, is the little white hand so hastily wit~hdrawn~ from the close, warnm pressure of his ? Why, after lie lies gone, does she gaze so tenderly at the hand she had so hastily withd~rawn, raise it almost, to her lip)s, and then studdenly let it dirop at her sidhe? Why ? I can tell you that. She loves her htusband with her whole warm, passionate ,~hcart.- And for a year or more lias been living on husks, lie conaliders his whole duty done when the table is bounoti fuldly asuppliedl, tihe wife well-dressed, and hie (loes not waver' in his allegiance to lien. Possession has dhinmfed thte bright Itustre of lisa love, and so, the wife's heart is huni gry for It, and1( this old1 admirer', wvhom shio gladlly throw over for Charley, is welcome to-dlay for the sake of the ripple lie makes on this dead-sea monotony, down which site is slowly drifting. And hia eyes cause hors to dIroop, anid huis hand prnessure causes her heart to throb, because there Is love in the eyes and tenderness ini the hand pressure. She does not care one iota for ti Racy Rcmmlington. Still, alto has hungeredI so long, that this crust is not so unpalatable to her ais it would once have been. There, sir or madanm, you have the exp~lanlation. As for you, Mr'. Jones or Robmuson, ha there so much difference between your conduct amid this Charles Thornton of whjom I wrlte,that you can afford to pass5 the lesson by, as not appllicable to you? If so, Mrs. Jonies or Robinson Is to be congratulated. -ite is a hiappy womian, and God bless you, aIr, say I, .and I wish there were more like you. Now I ant not golng to tmako of thIs handsome Ray-Remmington a fiend incer nto. No, he was simply what would be termed a gentinaely goodl fellow ; which means lte was witty, generous, a war-m friend, nobody's enomy, and a little, just a little wveak, and impulsive enough to follow up his owni desIres and inclinations, recking little of the cost or consequences to hhinself or othters. lIe liad been very much in love with pretty Mrs. Thornton b eforoesheo became Mirs. Thornton-when alto was prettyLt Trenmame-and had tasked hter to chtange *her namec for tht of Reimnington. Bt pretty MIisS Treminel was very michi Iin love with some. one else, and a few months - thereafter made hter'self and that oilier Au - prenmely happy by going through a certai ceremomny at Grace. Chureh, resplendent ini white satin and Brussoe lace. And Ray lRemmington, withl aduli, gnawing pain at his heart, actec4 as groom's triahnimd ,there *was not, a tretupr in h1ityol egthpugh~ the brave face Was color)ess, wheni' hte egngratu lated bride a(Id grooin and wished thpm hon jilld met Mrs.'' ioita j ri~e enocO hter return frolifilicifouir bit #~~i a afs~t6.dt, and iteim~dd it dang~ lttl iwedt to *li thpre gaig int lovely eyes and at the dear, tender little mouth of his early love. But let us return to Mrs. Thornton. She stands. there in the center of that pretty room, with a white, white face, and a wild, frightened look li the sweet blue eyes, then bursting into a passionate flood of tears, throws herself on the nearest chair, drops her face in her hands, and her hands on the table before her. Five-ten-ifteen miin utes pass. The sobs grow fainter and fainter. At length silence reigns, save an occasional chirp fronm the canaries, and the ticking of the pretty French clock on the mantel. A rapll at the door arouses her and .laimes enters with a cluster of violets. There is no card-nothing to tell from whoni they came; but. she knows only too well. in the dear old datys, when she was Miss TLreinaine, two such clusters were left every diy at hr door. one bearing Hay Heinining toii's card, and the other Chias. Thornton's. flow long ago it seems and how clianged the violets are I As fragrant as of old, and its quiaintly pretty their (lear little faces all awry, but somehow they almost make her cry. And she likens then to little, tearful blue eyes, and kisses them tenderly, pity ingly, and then-thrusts theim hurriedly tom the opent (rawer of the table, closes it, and turns to meet her husband, whose step had announced his coinig. A moment later shie is excessively pro vokedi at herself for thrusting time violets out of sight. Why did she do it ? She could not have told youi. Perhaps she felt instinctively that her husband would hardly approve of her receiving even so trilling a gift as a wee bunch of violets from ins 11old rival, Hay Itemnilington. Well, the thing was done, and there was no help for it. Wero she now to take then from the drawer, Charley would certainly require an explanation as to how they got there, and surely it was a queer place in which to put pretty, fresh flowers. Better not say anything about them. And should she speak of Ray's visit? Yes; she would surely tell that-but not now-after dinner. Charley was always just a trifle inpatient-cross--wheni he was hungry. She would wait until after dinner. But before the dessert was brought in, while site was eating her salad, her husband asked to he excused. "'There was a most interesting article in the Eveningl Sj>outC on the Chinese ques tion, which he had conunenced In the om nibus on his way home, and become deeply interested in." And off he vent, and when the dainty cup custards, fragrant Mocha and luscious fruit were brought in there was a I rouble some lump in the white throat and a suspi cious moisture in the blue eyes of the wife, and the custard was trilled with for a io nient, and a spoonful or two of the Mocha swallowed, for were not the watchful eyes of "Jeems" upon her? And then she hastened from the room, her mind fully made up. She would go to Charley, tell him everything-Just how she missed the old caresset and delicate little attentions; how lonesome it was to sit there night after night gazing at time back of his newspaper, or at the top of his sleek brown head as it peeped above the top of his paper. She would tell him of Ray's visit and about the hidden flowers, and with tins resolve In her heart she opened the door of the sitting room. "Charley, dear,"-shc would not give herself a moment, for fear her courage might fail--"Charley, dear, will you put your paper aside for a moment? I wantl to tell you something." "Now, Lou, don't bother me; I never was more interested in my life. By jingo! this fellow writes well. Where's Lelia or Bijou? What is the use of your lhaving pets, if you never notice them ? Now sit (own, that's a gooct girl, and dress Lelia up in pink ribbon or something. You ought to be fond of that confounded cat; it cost etnoughi." How quickly the moisture leaves the blume eyes!I What a sudden, firm tightening there Is of the pretty red lips, and~ what a hard, cold heart this of hers had suddl~enly become! And the tempter whtisp~ered in her heart, "Not so would Ray Renunington have looked or spokein." And, remecmber ing the tendecr voice and the love In Ray's eyes, she feels a tenderness springing up In her heart for the owner of thte bold, black eyes, andt a glad though guilty pleasure in thme thoughts of the hidden violets. And Charles Thornton, Esq., returns to lis paper with a self-satistled air, which, by the way, is the expression geinerally to be found ott the masculine countenance when the owvner thtereof has beii making a most egregious ass of himself. An hour later lie throwvs dlown the ~Spouter, and asks what it Is sihe has to say to htim. "I really have forgotten. It wvas of no consequence." Take care, Charles Thorinton ? Your wife's Alrsti falsehood. Who is to blame for it ? and td what will it lend? Three months later, flay Remmington and Mrs. Thornton have met many times shmuce that sad (lay on which lie sent her the violets. They have lunched together, rode togetheil sapl attendedi mnatiees together, and to-night it Is arranged that she will leave her htusband's protection for that of Ray. is she happy at the thioutghtt of leaving her htusband's home? liappy? No! wrotehedly unhappy. .But that which seemed only a slight grievanco at, frst has become now an Amnhappiness too great to ,be born'.. SOf cd e She confided her sorrows to Rlay an ibs indlidationi was intense. "fhmat any 0one could so negleet her.! She, whom lie would have cherished so tenderly, and so forth ini the usual strain. Of course all this only made her lot seem the hardeor. And now shte is goIng to es cape fromt It all. Blut the treacherous little heart in her bosom, that she had thought so cold and dead to CJharley, now begis to plead for him. HOW hte haunted the corridor outside her bedroom'door thmat time when shewas so Ill and lie was .for~bidilen to eouter. And when at last alte was welle enough to 'seQ -htr, how shobked shd was'at the alteratib'n in the dear face.'* Wh'y, it was wvor~ air thin ,as her own'; and when shte first saw her own face In tihe glass, thie greatt hollow in thte pale cheeks he used to praise for -their plutmpness and bloom, and saw In the place' of the uxurlant browt' tresses he was a proud ~o the b6f''s h~ode of only browii hijr,! tu5 ,tjem h*1idf ;Weping oh her pillow, sobbing, how'could he--Qonld he lovelher now ho tenderly ho took her hn fiul that I hold you here on this heart,whero at one time I feared you would never rest again. I love you, my darling, for your self, your warm heaiit , your pure sou!, not for the bloom that can fade or the bonny brown tresses that are gone." Ah ! with a sudden sharp catching of the breath, could any other ina ever be the same to her as Charley ? 0! she must not think of this. What, on this anniversary of her nar ringe? No, she cannot take that. And her wedding ring! A braeelet Ie gave her! Yes, hat must be left with tIe res't. Oh I she haid not dreamed it would be Ho hard to part with the old love-tokens. Even the despised Lelia in caught up and kissed and crled over. And-what was she about to do? Yes, she wims actually going to kiss the little white tidy on the back of the sleepy-hollow where Charlie's ad rested every night while he read the Spoutr. When Charley returns to his deiserted home (he left for 'Wanhington that morn ing) wlit will he nay ? Will Ie e(nvre very ititieli ? lark! One-two-three-she counts the nine. Then the strokes Ccase. The hour has come, she starts for the door, stops, with her hand pressed to ler heart, gazes wildly aromnd, and dashes out blindly into the night. A tall form is stand ing at the foot of the steps-it is Itay. lie draws the little cold hand through his arm. They turn the corner, a carriage is waiting, the steps are down,the wife has entered. Ray is about to follow, when-ah! great heaven ! what is this? I1er husband stands there before him. There is the flash and report of ia pistol, and liny itemnington falls. She shrieks wildly, spriIgs fromt the carriage and-anake ! Yes, thank God !awaken to fld it all a dreani. She Is in her own (lar little sitting roomn. There is the dear old sleepy-hollow. and there is Lelia, the fluffy A ngora cat, on the rug before the fire. Bijou there, too, with his funny little goggled eyes, an1d funny little pink tongue lolling out, and-what in this? A card-Rity tenningtoi's. Sie renimbers now lie did call, and he had the impertinence to show by his look and tone that he still Cared for her. She rings the bell violently. ".James, in future, when Mr. enuniig tonl calls I amII not ait hiome." Undier Fre. For the first three days of Payne's fight. with the ute Indians, the situation was chliely horrible from the constant wounds and death struggles of the poor animals, which they could in no way protect from the Indian fire. "Every few minutes," says one, "you Leard the dying gurgle of a horse or a mule, and although we fasten ed them as securely as possible at night, their pangs were such that, they would ofl en break away after being hit, threatening the men's lives in the trenches. Oice it wound ed horse leaped in his agony light into the pit we hatt dug for the wounded, where Lieutenant Paddock and seven men were lying at the time. It was a miracle ahiost that he did nat trample them to death. As It was we all opened a terrific fire on 'hie bluffs, so as to make the Utes stop firing, and under cover of this fusi ade a lot of our boys jumped up and hauled the horse out of the trench. We had to watch out con tinually to give dangerously wounded horses and mules their quietus. If they got cav orting after receiving an Indian bullet, and we could see that they were maimed or fatally injured, tie soldiers would take alin and finish them. It was awfully hard once in a while. A friend of mine got three flesh wounds in trying to save his horse's life. Finally the horse was shot through one of his forelegs. Instead of writhing around like the others lie came hobbling up to time edge of the pit where Joe anid I were and looked dowvn at Joe. as If to say : 'Help mte, for God's sake l' Joe turned to ine and( said, says lie : 'You'll have to finish him, Ihank ; I can't do it ; by God, I can't!' I watched my ehanice as the horse turned, and put a ball In right behtind lisa left ear nnd dropped him. That night we hauled hhni outside wvith the rest. There were sev eral pet dlogs In the camp, among them a beautiful greyhound belonging to Lieuten ant Cherry. "I used to let him out of my pit occasionally," says the leuteniant, ''to run downi to the water. One night lie came back with one of his paws shot off, it, torn ed out thtat lhe htad been fired on by onte of our own sentinels, who mistook him for a crawling Indian. There was nothing to dio but kill the poor 01(1 fellow to save him misery. One morning a soldier of Payne's cotmmand,*wounded in the arm and so Ill that Ito had had no apetito for two (lays, turned to a negro soldier close b~y him, saying: ''Here, pardl, stop shootin at them bluffs, and for the Lord's sake make mec a littlo coffee." Tlhe colored hero thuts ad dressed, whose niamie the narrattor couild not recall, answered not a word, but set to work. There was no coffee in the pit, but thtere was some in thte next one, which \vas tossedi over. Btit hm6w to make the flhe with out .wood, that was the qulestion. 'lThe col ored mant calculated the chances, made a break for the sutier's wagon, snatched a loose side of a provision box and came back with a bullet hole in the board, which was meat for hIs own b~ody. Tihecn hie made a fire ini a coriier of the pit and prepared the coffee for his p~atienit. The stler's wagon was a fair target, and the autler himself was lit in the leg whlile making an Incautious ap proach to It It had a limited supply of provisions, regulation htard tack and raw bacon and a little liquor, which wvas of great service to the wounded. Another vehileo which was on view here to-day, anid will doubtless be preserved at F'ort Steelo as a pet relie of recent history, is the ambulance taken down by Miajor Thornburghm. It stood out with the wagons, near the centre of the oval space occupied by the troops, and Is ventilated by some thirty bullet holes. Rankin, thme scout, got under It one day for' a nap and was awvak ened by a ball which struck one of spokes within two Inches of the top of hishead. some Curious Fdacts. If a musket ball be fired Into' the water it will itot only' ho rebound-but be flattened ; If fired through a pane of glass It will make a hole the size of theball Withotit cracking the glass; if thme glass be suspended by a thread it will: not even vibrate. Cork If sunilC 100, feet In the ocean, will riot rise, on seg6unt of tlie presareo91 thtc ater, In the Arctio regions, when, the thermontere is, below gero, persons egn. converse more than a n4Ihe dietdm Dr. Jhtniaoh d'e orts that ld beai'd ovt drd of a siA Sainke Stores' "Curiously enough," said Mr. Barry, "that story of the jiuige's reminded mo of a case that happened inny years ago iu my district in IndIa. I did not see the oc currence myself; but a man who did told me about it, and in fact the thing was per feetly well known. It took place at a din ner party or social gathering of some kmnd. A lady sit, (own to the piano, and had just begun to play, when some one chanced to look at the leg of the music stool on which she was seated, and perceived solie thing there. A closer inspection showed that. the moving object was a snake, one of a most venomous species. It had been closely coiled round the spiral leg of the stool; and when the poor lady uncnscious. ly seated herself in its vicinity, it had been disturbed. and immediately began to move. he was quickly warned of her great dan ger, and urged to sit perfectly still, which she very heroicly did, not stirring hand or foot, or uttering a cry. It must have been a ftrful trying ordeal for the poor thing, as there was no telling what course of ac tion the snake might pursue. However, in this case it never touched her at tall; but ifter curling round and rotind the music stool, for half a miniute or so, it dropped on the floor, and was killed before it could ef feet its escalpe." "low excessively unpletasant" saidi a youth; one of those, like llysel, new to Indian life and experiences. "Why, the horrid reptiles seen; to meet you it every turni is no place safe from thmi?" I Don't ;c alarmed, my dear sir,' replied the doclor, easily; "the siakes are not, so frequently ecountered atter ill--tle poi sonous ones at least. And though it is un happily the ease that thousands ot' people, chiefly natives, lose their lives Iy shakes, there are at the sane time nmbii erles in stances in which those who have been bit ten by the less d1ngerous species have re cover'eld, anid I fiact iufrceed litile or 110 tin casiness. There are plenty of harmless snakes, lat you are not tiue whilich are which for a time. The storis you have been heating are whit we ma1y call "'spec iil cases," Among the group that had formed on the deck was an India'm chuphain, who had been listening to all t hat had gone on, but had not hitherto hiken ny 11aCtive pIrt in it. "If you will allow me," he now observed "I will tell You a ver) curious and melan choly incident that happened on one ocea sion in a church where I was conducting the service. The windows and doors were of course all wide open. and through one of those open doors a cobra glided into the church. I did not notice it myself, but several of the congregation did, andl(] were not unreasonably much alnirmied. The beadle, a native, was fortunately on the aler't, and te managed to procure a tulwar, with which he cut ot the creature's head betoro it had time to (1o any mischief. Tranquility was restored, and the service proceted to its close, when Imiany of the congregat ion went to look at tle dead snake as it lay headless on the ground. Among them was a man who, in his curi osity to examine the reptile put his foot on the head and rolled it toward him; when lie instantly utttered a lot.d exclaiatioii and drew his foot away. By some means or other lie had contrived to set in action the muscuiar apparatus attached to the poi son fangs which had dartded violently for wird and struck him ont thefoot. All rem edies were useless; in half an hour the-poor fellow was a corpse, proving, with a Ven geance, the awful virulauce Qf the cobra da capello." This was our last iecdote. It was get ting late, darkness was setting in, and it was about time when the judge, the doc tor, and some of the otherswere in the liabit of turning in for a nightly rubber of wlist. An adjournment was made there fore, by miost, of the paty to the cabin, D~r. Beamaishi bringing up the rear wvith the chaplaint. "'Very curious incidlent that you have just related, Mr. Lane,'' Iheiard him say, as he dhecendled the stairs; "I mtust really make a nole of it.'" "YXes," calmly repliedl the chaplain, '"but neveri heless terribly Itruo." Dmith of ai Notl ttuantress. A female wvho was known in the Dela warc Vitlley, it New York, as the ''Female luniter of Long Eddy," died recenitly on a farm in Damnascus town ship. I her unme was Lucy Ainn Lobdell, and in 185S1, when only seventteen years of age, she wtas mar ried to Gecorgo Sliater, a raftsman. Before her matrriage she had acqumired wonderful skill: witht the rithe, both in htunting aind target shooting. Aftcir a ycar' of married life Slatetr deserted his wife and~ daughter, anid was inever hieaird of. 'Mr's. Slater's paretsa were poor', and1( she left heri bitby with them, In ordler to adopt the life of a hunter,-She donned tmaseuline' attiire, and1( fotr eIght y'ears roatmed the woodls of that section, occupying huts tlhat she erected for the purpose. Site only appecared at thte settlements to exchange sking anid game for anmnition and ineedled supplies. She wrote a book of thrillIng adventutres, aitd givin~g an account of lien sufferings from cold, hunger andi sickness, after returning to Long Eddy to recover aer health, which had1( broken dfown from the hardshIps antd exposture of her life as a hunter. She re corded the killing of 1118 (leer, 77 beatrs, one pantheir and1( mnttberless wild cats and foxes, After recovering her hlealth site again donlnedl her masculino garb, and went about thte country as -a muisic teacher. A yotung lady at Blethaity, l'onmsylvanlh, fell desperattely ina love with her, anad they were engaged to be married, when her sex was accidenitally dilscover'ed, andi site wias forcemd to fly, to escatpe a threatened coat of tar and feathers. After this she retutned to Long Eddy, p'ut on womoi's clothing, tand goeing agaIn sick, was admitted to tihe almehotte of which her chIld was ait inate. WSihle in tile almshouse shte became acquainted with another deserted wife named Wilson. They refused to be soparatedl, adl in 1869 they left together, anld for two' years they wore tnot hieardl from. In the Stamer of that yoear a couple cahln'g 'themselves thte liev. Josephi Israel Lobdell- and Wfe ap. peared in the mouintain villages of Monroe county, Pa. They live'd in caves anud cabins it the *oods, subsistung maInly on charity. 'They generally 'tjppoa'ed at the settlemt1Its'leddl'ii hbear, vbialftheoy'had tamed. Tho man claimed to be a prophet, and delivered harangues on religiois -sub4 jects. They' were finally recognized'as thte erryr an pPe uper0 of-Delhi. ii Slator was" inally' arr e and epenI. dverWa *eeks hi the n o Odmify ail 11er ?~i 6h- 'lon khu in the court records. It was cu' iel in clear and earnest Euglish, anid powerful in its argument. It was written with a pen made from a split stick, the ink being the Juice of poke berries. Lucy An: lohdell was released from jail. T whe w went to Damascus township, and in 1877 purehae.d. a farm, which they occupied anid worked together until a1 few days sin1ce1, nh lhell IAlle Alnn Slater. or Joseph Israel Lob !4-11. as h'e insisted onl being knownl, died afl'r a brief illness. She was nearly fifty yer rS ot a1ge. The daughter of Mrs. Shter N%:is aittopied I by a fariner in I )aniseus. Ia., a is in i 187 1 was a handsome and intelligent girl. 11, r history is checkered, like her 1uot her's with ill-fortiue. A young mian named K (lit was a suitor, but she rejected him. So n after she was on her way home one eveni ing in a thunder storm, whens she was seized by thlree men, one of whlom was supposed to be Kent, brutally treated and t brown into the Delaware river. She was washed upon an island, where she regained conscious ness. She was rescued by a1111111 living oI the opposite shore and taken to li. aous. Leaviig there thinking site woulI find her way home, she got 1st in the n sods, anid It was three days before she was found iane and nearly dead from h1uger. She fiinally recoveredi i her reason, an1d i. still ailiv~e. Vig ht wnl CIn~. Some timlie igo, a boy 11aoit lifteen yearIIs old, ia Ilepliew of Mr. I larrison's, 1a in mate of his family, at ILittle Rock Arkanis ats, weit )uit. to [te barn it) feed the horses. When he entered the loft, he discovered two large Cats 13ing Onl the straw aisleep. Boy like, lie took up a nidle of fodder, and creeping up, stnick both of theIll at one blow. There was something of a dissa pointmenit in t Ihe result. Th enIs, inst ead of running away, sprang at the hoy with a fury that startled him. Ilaving nothing with which to defend himself, the boy tuim bled around, while the cats srtalled, clawed aId bit him unmereitully. The boy's cries did not bring assistance, tind, of couirse, rea lizing the fact that it imight prove fatal to delay desperate efforts, the boy sprang to ward the ladder leaning against tihe rafters, and aseended to the roof of the house. The eats followed him, and, despite his ef'orts to keep them away, bit and clawed him frightfully. Realizing his bidder folly, he jumped down on the hay. The cats fol lowed him. By this time he was bleeding very freely, and his coat was almost, torn into threads. Seizing one of the cats by the hind legs, he attempted to bieat it. to death against the wall, but the animails turn ed around and began tearing his arm. Stinking the feline off, he r-ani to the ladder leading down. The animals followed him. Just as he reached the ladder, he discover ed a monkey-wrench lying on the floor. Seizing it, he turned, dealt the foremost cat a blow between the eyes, and before it could recover, mashed its head. The ofher animal was not rendered less ferocious by the death of its companion, but fought with fury. With a heavy blow the boy stret ch ed out the remaing feliie and heat out its brains. Catalting theni by the tails, he marched to the house to give an account of his battle. When lie entered the hotise, ragged, and bleeding from almost every inch of his body, holding two large eats by the tails, the astonishment of the uncle and terror of the aunt were what you might call, boundless. The boy huas been confined to his bed since the encounter, and hIs phy.. sicians says that his recovery is doubtf'ul, Flo wor Cultunro-The Geratulum. Among Idies who cultivate flowers, th e geranium has long been a deserved favorite; being found in almost every collection In the parlor, the garden or the greenhouse. We have thought, therefore, that some ac count of this flower and the best mode of managing it, would be atcceptable to our fair readers. G.eraniums will always he adired, eitheir for the agreeable fragrance of their foliage, or the splendor of their flowers; and when the great dlelicacy of their flowers, the brilliancy and( enie~lss variety of their colors, the finely p~encile'd lInes In sonme, and the cloudedi spots in others, as well as the great length of time which they continue to disp'lay their blos somsa, are taken into considerationi, they are -surpassed by but few flowers. The plants which have opened the greatest por' tion of their flower-buds, shiouhll be removed fromi the greenhouse or p~arlor to the gardten, or to some situation where they will be ex posedl to thme sun part of the (day. Th'le scarlet geraniums form a suporb show when In bloom. Nothing, Indeed, can exceed the beauty andh brilliance of a collection of dlwarf scarlet geranliums, either ini beds or' in po0ts; they enliven the balcony, the windIow, or the patrlor', all summerci. If remnovedt into a warmer conservatory in November, and a little water gIven to Iliemi until the miiddle of Deccember, when they commence growing, they will flower from January to Ap~rl. P'ropagation Is very easily effected by cuttings, requiriing only to be shifted from tine to time. Th'le young plants1 are very lIable to be attacked by the aphidlan, or green fly. The most cifctual cure us tobacco water. Ironi in Anien~t Entrand. In the reign of Edtward III. iron was so scarce that the pots, spits and- frying-pans of the royal kitchen were classed among the king's jewels. Up to the endl of the fifteenth centtury Englhslk iron ws niot only dear'er but inferIor to that manufactured on the continente. During the fifteenth cen tury the manufacture of iron began to be extensive In Bussex, where the ore and the imber for smeltIng it abounded, and iron umills soon became numerous In the country. The landed proprietors catered into the business eagerly, and not only were many ancient houses enriched- thereby. but sever al new men acquired wealth and founded families. In the forest pf Decan also, where Wood was plentiful, iron waus largely smelt ed, The land, however, soon became (de nudedi of trees in consequence of the ex clusive use of charcoal for smelting; pec ple became alarmed, and many edicts were fulminated restricting the mianufticture of Iron. Eventually the fooling became so strong that from the tIme of the Restoration the Iron manufacture of England rapIdly declined. Coal was known, but there was 4. prejudice against Its tise on account of Its supposed pestilentIal qualities. .Coal morcover, as then used, injurigglly affecte4 the qualIt of the ron, and it was not un" til the bgning of Ahe elghteenih centurft that tiro l rdai 'steps for .9vercbming the diffletiltf~ergioksn. *.!,'~0 sesseeenwoma ----ma ilow Uuariiios ire Bred. "Aild what }o you deal in whein wild animals are dull ?" askedi a reporter of Mr. Iteiehe. mese,"ad Mr. Reicho waved ble in1d to sigiliy what Seemtd from their thitter and their noise a million canaries. Eich bird was confiled s.parately Ill in lit tle wicker cage in tle forn of a cube, neasilmiinur about six inclies in all ways. 'fhese lilnell ilthe Wails of the large shop, isimg ii liers to) tle ceiliing, and ing ricides f)1' t)it rose at iiterviils fromi tie Iloor. "Tecatary bird is my staple," Mr: lwieie contiiued. "Froi August until Alay. these littie eratures Coine to me lit the' nate of 2.000 every week. When I Came to this eouitry, inl 1847, lthere was no trade in caiary hirds. just, as there was no trade inl tiowers. You could not bily a canary's enlge or seed to feed hii with in this city. These things had to .e sent for to Europe. 'ie taste for birds and flowers had to bo incilented, and it has been since that time. "They call them eanary birds, but they aire German birds The native canary does no4t 1111g. It was when the caniary was crosse( with the linnet and the lark and other song birds of Euon pe that the little maisician which we know as the canary catne to e.xist. These birds are all bred in Germanv. The inhabitants of the Itartz Mount inims supply the , eivilized world. 'There is not a cottage Ili ill thle region about Andreashuirg and the Broeken that is 1ot f0ll of t hem. SOMC Of the peSIits raise as mially its 0 in a year, but tle average Is perhis t wenty to a house. As -1Cu as $400, 00 goes to the inhabitants of (lie I a rtz Mountains for their canary birds every Year. They have bred theit forgen ertions, and fairs are held and prizes are olfered to Stiiuite (hIe briedlrs. "Tlese wicker cages," the fancier con tinued, holding up one slenderly andsimply constructed of soft white wood, "are minade by the peasants w ho breed the birds. The canary that coines to America is confliied to his cage for a space of about three weeks. I seid an order for several thou sand birds to my brother in (k'rmuany, Ile (irects a number of agents to coilet in the 1larz enough bir(1 to fill (lie order. The peisant has no general plae of sale. 'Ti. ageats go from cottage to cottage, buying in one 500 birds, and in another 700, and so on. I list ruct ions are given to send these birds to the port of shipment, to be there on Friday. On Saturday the ship sails. Men go with the birds to feed and care for thema. One man ean lake care of 1,250 birds, and I generally have two ienl going each way in the North GAerman ships every week. " Here Mr. Ruiche reques',ed one of his men to show how the birds fed. The man lifted in his left hand six or eight, littRIc cages that were fastened together in a line, anid with a knl of shovel, held in'his right, Wooped ill) a quantity of seed from a bucket at. his side, and with a single sweep seat(ered tie same through the bars aid into little cups arranged inside. With like skill and celerity water was poured into the cages from a cali such as is used In the fillhg of 1111i11p. "You see how One man1 call take care of 1,260 birds," Mlr. lieiche said. "With two sweeps of his hand le can feed and water eight birds, and yol only have to nultiply, Tie little fellows have to be us tendrly cared for as children. They are two weeks comiig from the lIartz Aiountains to New York, and they are never more .tiin two weeks, and generally not one week it the ship, so their period of close conlinement Is not very long. he cannot be kept i such (uarters, and whenever by any lcilcit 1 see that I am likely to be left with many on hand, I send them out 1111d at once sell theml by auction." coast, wvois. Next to the atiton of rain ando rivei's comeis the guawinag effect of coast waves. 'I'he waves thunder against the cliff, wich imocks its seemingly impotenit rage by dash51 iing it backwvard in a cloud of foamn and spray, but It, returns again aiid aigain to the charge until persistency wIns the day. '"hle east coast of England, whlih has for cenlturica been fast yilding to the attacks of tile Getrmtan Ocean, furnishes Sir C. byellI withl the majority of hIs illustrations in his interestIng chatet.rs utpon the actiobs of tides and currents. TIhat eminent geolo gist tells us how towns and( villages, mnarked by niames in old( maps1) nowv lie fathoms deep1 beneath (lie waves. In onie case, whicht catme under his notice, honses had withlin tile mnemory of living men stood utpon a clill' fifty feet highi, but In less than a half century hlouses and1( clill' were all engulfed, andl sea water deep enough to float a frigate' occupiied their site. As many as twelve churches, each further landward thaii thle last, have been built in one0 parish, anid all but one hatve been swallowed up by thle sea. -Chnrell-yards have consequently been destroyedl, In many places theo corpses and skeletons having been washed ouit or' thieir graves and floated away by tile tide. Sir C. LyelI himiself sawv haunan remaIns pro triniig from the cliff at Recutlvers, at Kent, In 1851. And he humorously alludes to a scene (8 .1A "ted by Biewick, wvhibb, 110 says, numer)Cou3 points( 0on that coast 'might have suggested ; thle graveyard of 'a ruinied abbey undermiined and isolated by the sea., with a broken tombstone in the foreground serving as at 1):och for the commnorants and bearing the inscription: "To perpetuate the memory of -"; onie whose very name was obliterated, and whose monument was to fail in the waves. And he aptly, thotlgli somewvhat sarcastically, suggests that such a tombstone would .be e, fit trIbute to the memory of "sohiOo ph1ilosopher" who had. taught "the permuanenicy of exIsting coni nents," thte "era of repose, or the "huipo. tence of mlodern causes." AOurtons Ultetrlial Fact. During the reign of Gares I, a coun~ry girl camne to London. in,search of a place as a servant maid1(, butt not sticceeding she hired herself to carry out Jeer fi-rma ware house, . and was one of tljose called tub women. 'VT brewer' observing. a ,good, looking girl In this low occupation; tobk her Into his family as a soatt.nd1 astera short time 'married her, .240i Alek while she was yet a young womat, legyit apr the bulk of his fortune. . o brewing was41rdppel1 r. fdew le commeriddto..tko yolmg womet a. a skilfut lawyer, to arrapge .he %xp ~' was gQIen sj AmKt~ lt quarriagotblero wieio~1~ so 6au ho 4ai*x qu oDs of -l1)~ N S13 IN BIPi" . -''he Ii rst palijtee of Ilolvrood was bulried by tile .Fugish In. 1547, after standing over 400 years. -The Valenltine ironl works 'tit IVil -lam1zllport., all., will soon sta't up, giv Inig (pll jioyn1t 1L to 100 men01. -t 1 astnimated tijat the tobanco crop of PelInnsylvania tIay reacll 60,000 cases, of which .15,000 will come from )ancas ter county. -Thli semi-aninal dividends payable In Bloston, in Octuber,tggregate $5,.108, 095. of whlet the naatioal banks py $1,200,000. -Swedtn imports annually about 1,000,00 tons ofcoul. The ylBId of tie * Swedish coal pits For 187 wag noout 90,000 tons. -Over 20,000 quiarti m ninhds have been recorded In Montana,- add some of the iountain ranges h;veuot yet been prospected. -Four of the principal labor unilons in England have spent $1,300,000 in the last year in exteiding relief to their mem11ers. -Two domesticated goa ts -which left 11arper's Ferry in1 1804 and took refuge on Maryland IIelgh ts, now tIlulber over three hundred descendants. -For superior education Germany hais 21 universities, with 1922 prol'essors and 20,282 students; 4311 of the latter ire iII the University of Berlin, -The UIversIty of Copeuthlagen, Denmnara, wcIhi wv ill celebrate its fourti centennial Juln0 1, 1880, reports 60 professors and 1250 students, of wioim 20 are female. -Less tian half the oflicers inI the stafl'o0 ofur army, or 231 out of 520, and about one-tiiird of those In the line, 597 out of 153-, are graduates of Wei Poi1t. - . -A joiNt stock company hlas been organized iII England, With it capital of $5,000,000 1i shares of $5 each, for the establ ishment of temperance houses all over the kingdom -In tile Southeri States the colored people Iavo 10,792 public schools, 27' IOrImal schools, high schools 23, uiil versltics 1nd colleges 12, scliools of theology 17, of law ', of iedicleb 3. --The extent of land under the dif forent crops in Oreat .Britain iIs as fol lows:--WIleat, 2,800,137 acres; barley, 2,607,103; oats, 2,056,575; potatoes, 510,842; hops, 67,715 -Tie length of the sewers in Phila delphia aggregates 330 imilps, Connec ted with whleh 4kr0 mord than 1000 mlilies of soll and waste lIipes, comllun-. loatiigwith iore than 40,000 dwellilngs. -Mr. do Lesseps is going- to A thens to study a )roJct of t canal acrUss te lsthimus of Corinth, between the gulfs of Salon lea and Corinth. The Cost Is estimaated at from $2,800,009 to $3,200, 000. -The Whole number pf Chinese who have etnigrated into tile Unlited, $tates d uring the last t wei ty-vd'yeai's Acaree ly exceeds 200,000, and it is said that fully one-ialf of these have returned to their native country, . . -Tie Temperance Alliance;of Loul siana assert that, in tILat State last year spirits worth $42,000,000 were drunk, or $2,000,000 Worth imore than~llb com bl'led Value of the sugar, cotton id rice crops of the State, -- *iegold current, st111 sets toward the United States.' From July 1st to September 2Gth the gold recolied at New York from Eu rope-exeeded that sentout,.by tie snug stum of $25,300.314. -There ar's said to be fully 200,000 beggars irampinig about the: Gerlmaln Empire, aId they are Ceillated to get as5 a msl'nlot 1ess than $18,(100,0O n alnu aliy iln llhoiey, witut conasldetilig thle value of 10ood and~ clothiinggiven'themn. .,DLuring tile past year the Arneriean BIble Soelety hmft prited 1)n average of. 1,000 copies a day.of its .ti nCent Testament, -and "sti. 111 aa, <eje1) upl wvithm itsioerder~s. About 500'coules of it~s twventy-flye cent Blble hgaVe beeni prinl ted daily, -Boston shipped. 1,70)5,798 eases of boots and sihoe for tile year epding~ July*10, 1879. Of these Chicago took 178,221 eases; St. Louis,- 117,U068' Newv *York,, 1 13'871 ; P'hiladelphia, 94,402, and~( (Gneinnallt,, 93i,450 cases--making a total of 05,831 cases. -A fatrmhGer attelted1 to cut 'Into a pre'limi pultlpkinl'at ai friir at Oounel (*rove, 1Kansas. :to get a few of the wes buit founId itlfmadO.of..woodi. It liaid taken01 n1nny prize9 at fairs -for Its \veight, 230 ploundk II Up s elrelaimfer ence, 7 foot. -There being but ibout $6,401000 of gold inl smaltler denom~inaltions8 than 20s no0w inl the Tireasuiry, the Philadelphia Milt ~will rengily itigt. of tihe forein gKold ito flye aktl ten (doliar k' dieces, Tn'fe 53~ and 103M noW being~ eoir d'y the Sanl F"rancisco Mint 'will beosen~ Eiast. -At a recefltauction sale of ostriohes in Cape land the tlow&Viprlce paid for aL pair wasI $000,-and tile highlesi. $1.425. Sin'de theO deCvelopment'ef osrlidh farm lag .jip anl .industryg thlv~.aluo 6f the birds Ihats ri l l ng og ,qi t bunch of choiee feathers yas lately sold at Port Elisfbeth'for $337 a pouhd. -In 1878, 2,/08 med ical'stilddnts wvCrs graduatedl tidmn'the 119 o olleges for the United Strates. .' As tho. atatistios' show thlat fim th17 ynigry ago1.av rgpt.50O peopfE1 'sIt one I physi~i 4, th~r 'i11ustb'N Unflstatsupjllyof dW 18O00 patients, wilo must ay~ the helfoasome ogn o*14070,Q00 a years, it. oi-der to al ow oeeigenotpr onggg2 gg$y.I' -g hg span~gmawhine whleh has very 8Ilt~ffidtbri r ,kiIh I.orke4 placed in the maochh1'f? and'Uhtbst nn fwinstan.smohwtithoniy .Wodt hqilr8 pa hs jtapd3g, yi 0otamas h airless' as,' dtid'bendfr tile Kihg orv of friAjh.t M i.t~i Of .ffI0 00 bt a~~.1