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* r - - -z-r Th I-WEEK-JLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, . C., DECEMBER 2 1879 OL. I1L-NO 1!4 MY BIRD AND I. The day is young and I am young, The red-bird whistles to his mato; le e.ts the tender leaves a mong, I owing upaa the garden gate; le singe that life is always gay "A (lay so fair can nover die." . lau;h and cast my flowerseaway; We aro so happy, he 7. Deep wading throngh the yellow whoat. My shaves unbound within my hand. I sink, to rest my-tired feet, ' - And nionday heat brorie o'er th3 land; 1dThe red-bird falters in his song We fear the day will nover die The minutes drag the hours alon - We are do weary, he and I. I stand alone; my work is done; The bird lies dying at my feet; There's promiso in the stting sun; The evening air blows eoft and sweet. My blnded sheaven I lay aside ; The day is dead; I too must die. When stars come out at-eventido, We shall be resting, he and I. Susie's Gift. 'iThe days were growing dark for George Graham. Ils st'udious habits had resulted in an affection of the eyes that threatened to grow serious. This was his last term at school, and if he passed his examination creditably, ie was to have a place in Solomon Grant's store, with wages that would not only take care of himself, but greatly help his mother. 1ils mother was. a widow, and George's love for hor was a sort of passion of devo Iion. He was very fond of Susie Hale, but Suslo was only a nice girl to him-a dear, sweet, good girl, such as any fqllow would like; but his mother was the lady to whom was duo his love, his care, his uttermost duty. The plans he made in life were all for his mother sake. What if this growing dizziness about him was to increase until all was (lark? What if he must be no help to his mother, but only a burden on her forever.? Ills scholarship hud been so flue that his tutor hesitated to reprove his now continual failures; and Georgogald nothing of the increasing darkness around him to his mo ther, for he felt that it would break her heart ; nothing to teaoher or schoolmates, for it seemed to him that his grief would be nothing to them. Biut one afternoon the crisis came. No one who was present that (lay-not Uven the smallest child-1vill ever forget the look of wild despair t'hat swept over George Graham's face, or the gesture of helpless anguish with which he stretched out his hands, as if to seek anong them all some friend, as lie cried "God help me, I have becnging...bltu4.. and now I cannot see one figure in my book I" There was a silence after this, through which came no son(d but the audible beat Ing of George Graham's tortured, despairing heart. Then the master gent avay the others, for school hours . were nearly over, and tried his beat to comforthas stricken pupil. The words of the tdhcher entered his ears, but they did not reach his heart or kindle his hope. As soon as ho could he went away. Ile did not go straight home. Ilow could ie face his mother and tell her what he must tell her now? lie sat down on a bank a little removed from the road side, a bank which overhung a swift, deep yet narrow stream. An awful temptation came over him. To be sure to die would be to leave Ils mother to fight her battle of life alone; but also it would relieve her f rein tno heavy -burden lie must needs bo to her If he lived. The river rushing down there below in -vited him with its muirmurii. lie hent forward over the stream. Then he drewv back, for a longing came over him to go home first and see Is mother juist on1c more.. "Scc her! What am I talking about? D~o I not know I shall never see her again." And a girl's voice, soft and tenddr, an unle xpect ed voice, answered him "Yes, you will see her again. Surely you will sep her again 3" The hoy turned his face towards the sound. "HIowv d1id you come here, Susie Haile? lhe asked. "Don't belx angry, George,'' tihe genitle -voice entro-rted. "I waited' for you.I -could not go home till I h~ad told yotr how sorry I was, and tried to comfort y'ou. Yomt must take heart and try to lbe cured. I have known people who could not see at all,, 1o be ,helped, and why not you ? At least you Ilnmet ti'y." 'An evnimood00( was upotn leorge Graham. andt hie answered, harshly - "Where is the mnoney to come from, if youl please? It has been all mother could do just to live, and sh e han struggled on in the expectation of -my being able soon to help her. Bhe lhas no money for experi ments. 'I hcre is udothing for it but for ime to rest a (lead iveight upon her hands, or die.", "Youl believe in. God, George Graham, and you will not defy huim.. If li- means you-to bear this you will bear it like a man, andl not try-to get ri:f thiettrden. Jnst now, it sOOIn1s to me, ou ouglit to go hiotme.: WVoidd youfilke your miothers to. hear this from somelonfl else ?" lie rose slowly. - "You are rIght," lie salid, "and mdou Ar6 a good girl. Good bye, Suste." 8he di pot try to go with him; she fol l Ils mother met imn at the gaie./ When she took his hands In hidra the p~oo$ fellow felt that she knew all. She@ *aa very quiet and self controlled. "Your tutor has1 boen hjre,'" she said, "aind -lie has tdll Erne, My : drling, Mhy have you sat lip (e d kj /4und:sbut y.il miothoer out frot~ y e ~n yejg tr~ o' break your heart.'" Meanwhile, husie 11ale had full of an absorbing purpo. Someohow money Inust and shaou d be~ Shekn* k a a could not dispose eveii of her slender in cole. But would he not be persuaded to let her have enough of her- own money to accom. plish her desire? She asked hni, using ier utmost powor of persuasion to touch lils heart, but he ro fused with peremptory decision. Susie lad in the worlk- on9 treasure, a diamond Hag, which had ben her mother's, with a 4tone white and clear as a dewdrop. TI Is must, she know, be worth hundreds. t It was her owf. She had meant to keep It all her life for her mother's sake, but surely this great need of George Graham's justilled her iL partink with it. She had one friend in whose good faith t and judicious management she felt implielt confidence, and to him she sent lier mother's a ring, with the request that he would'sell it B as speedily and on as good terms as p9ssiblo, and retuit her the price of it in batik notes, and keep for her the secret that she had disposed of it. It was a week after George Grahain had Y given up1) hope, whln a most inexpected hope camte to him. A neighbor, golipg,by from the post ofllce handed in at the (lor a letter addressed to him.' Mrs. Graham opuned it. a "George," she cried, after a nionent. in y an eager, trembling voice, "hero are one hundred dollars, and this is the letter that comes with them- - r 'This money is from a true friend of George Graham s, and is to be applied to y taking him to an oculist, in the hope that a his sight may be restored. The giver with- U holds his name, both because he desires no thanks, and because lie wishes to make the a return of'the money impossible.' Si% l. from IHeasven itself," the mother i cried. "George, I feel in iny soul that 9 you are to be cured." The next day a mother and her blind " son sought rooms at a quiet little house in I the city, and the day after that they were 9 among the earliest patients of Doctor An- tI nesly. ( The first exanihation of George's eyes . was unpromising enough, and the doctor - wanted to see him daily. Y There were weary days and weeks that t followed. and it was curious that the mo ther was always hopeful, and the son 80 always despairing. Y At last it almost'irritated him to hear her 09 speak of hope to him, and one day he turn- g1 ed on her with the firit burst of passionate W impatience she had ever experienced from tr himl). it, "iMother," lie said, "for the love of Is Heaven do not talk to me as if it was a sure thing that I am going to see again. gr I want to think it doubtfu, almost impos sible. If you should make me expect a BC sure cure, and then it shouldn't come, don't TI you see that I should go mad I I thhik I e should dash my head against the wall. I A can only live by expecting nothing." til After that the mother held her peace, but whenever she went out of that darkened room those who saw her iparveled at the irlit of Jov in her PY"a ta -At -ast the time caine; the bandag was tic removed, there was just one wild cry "Mother, I see you I" and tren George lay at the doctor's feet, swooning in his l great joy. on It was weeks yet before he went home nu again, but the good news preceded himm, to . The mother wrote to Solomon Grant,. by Who had agreed still to Keep the place open an while awaiting the result of the experiment. lIl Solomon read the Jetter in full family t conclave. t He little knew how his niece longed to til snatch the paper from lits hand and read it for herself ; nor did he heed the tears that re swam in her dark eyes, tears of such deep, th unselfish joy as only a loving woman knows. h Another letter eame afterwards to tell al when the widow and her son were to re- th turn. of It was Susie who wvalked over early in 5i the afternoon, carrying with her a basket of all dainties for the travelers' supper. at Susie's black eyes danced, and her heartb sang within her as she set the table in the t little parlor and lighted a fire in the kitchen th stove, ready to make a fresh cup of tea he whenever the wiow aid( her sonl shouldb arrive er And at last the travelers caine, as at last overything does come, if we wait long a enough for it. di They had expected to find an empty hr house; they found instead warmth, and i brightness, and good cheer, and Busie Halo'.t H-ad George Graham grown through his thm trial into a man's percopltion of a girl's em charms, or had his eyes beeii hiolden before, 'I that hie should not see? I only know that that night, for the first g time i his life, it dawned upon him that i another woman might seome (lay diSpute with t his mother the empire of lisa heart. fri Butt. It was not untlifve years at terwards, le whieh Mr. Grant had taken him into part- in nership, and Mr. Grant's niece, Susie, had oh become his wife, that George Grahani over gueqsed from whose qeidpr bands had come theogiftiby moans of - hilohie had beeni re stored to hope and happiness. The Farmer, the Gunner, andl thme &irdu.Ic It 1i9i been gravely asserted by men whow iave given (ho subject serious and patient a study, that the locuset and grasshopper pests, N whIch, from time to time, devastate some ui of our Western States arid Territories, are due to the wholesale destruction of game birds eQf the Rocky Montains slopes and the Mississippi Valley. Prof. Riley, State s Entomologist of Missouri, declared that one grouse would in a season consume eggs and i harves of locusts enough if hatched out, to destroy the cfophs upomf6ne hundr&d. acres of land. These birds are the guards which a riature has set over the flds, and we nIghit as well poison the soil as to remove them t from their appointed work. And what thec g~s*1~eqW / rmer the beauti 'flPf~~ha~atf 16 (hi6 Etrn-_~ for It cmes In nm or proportioned to the a $6lds sown, and Jakes as the recompense h of its gtgtrdlanship of the young crops only the scattered graIns of the harvest. Evyen t< t~o~~la~ & pt, n~md favorh ~J4V~ t~/HaI~rpays the' ae ta ot all. T1he trees, the hedI~ the gonrihute athe vith smaller birds 4 buegr te atheiaido the 1%oriy of an4oba d wh h are s~ 11- ma th to 4sh U1h11 Art. "Weil". 1 cried eagerly. "You make that picture? "I didl" I exclaimed triumphantly. 'Henceforth the wife of your bosom do !otes her life to the divine -art. ta it not ino?" 'Very-very fine; but could you not Lave found a pleasanter subject than a hat le field? Although that group of Indians o the right there-" "Indians!" "Yes, In the corner. Very natural to be ure, but-" "Indians? Thdre are no Indlans. That a a group of tiecs just tinted with the Duch of Autumn's finger." "0, ye ! to be sure! I see. Surely, I in growing nearsighted. A graveyard Ucne. Very touchiig. And whose ionu ient is that in the centre ?' "Slonument ? Graveyard scene?" "Yes. But Is it not rather unusual to -e canimels grazing in a country church ard?" '.Cauels ? Whcre do you see camels P9 "Why, here. . I would not hive beIlw d you could have got them so natural. ,nd those five graves all in a. row. Quite family shuffled off the mortal coil. Bit ou are excited. This painting has been )o iuch for you." "It is too much for ine. That beautilul istic mill a monumoit I And camels I ou will kill me! TLey are cows! Don't ou see they are cows? And those graves ; you call them, are moss-covered rocks. ach ignorance I"' "I beg your pardon, it is my poor e'es, id [ see aright this time. That wind Ill Is just the thing, but don't you think it mould be nearer the mill ? It's just a sug -stIon, you know. I may be wrong." "cYou will make me desperate ? A in(miill i Tiat lovely chu tree a wind ii I Have you no touch of the divine mnius in your soul? Have I encouraged 1ts divine talent but to meet 'scorn and ear tm8 ?" - "My dear Absinthe, draw it mild. I ,n't know much about the divine art, but )u havo done-yes, I will say it-better an myself should under like circum nunce. It really is a marvel, but knowing little about It, it isn't strange if I mistook mir effort for a battle or even a graveyard en. It is a Swissacene-the Alps. These I aciers arq grand. But no; I must be rong again, for surely you wouldn't put tes and cows on icebergs. No, my dear s all very pretty, but I give it up. What ?" "Oh, you miserable wretch I I've a eat mind not to tell you. It's a beautiful w England farm scene. Any one ciuld I 3. I'll never paint another picture! lere !" And one stroke of the brush rmn my painting forever, and I marched ninidab grinily from the room, slamming a door. What is my one talent ? Measurenment or Distances. ees Waight1731"a" -lih recent inven nas in England. In this arrangement the ilance of any object is ascertained by aply reading off upon a scale marked the base of a right angled 'triangle the mnber of divisions which are equivalent the angle of two lines of sight denoted an index scale; the two sides of the tri gle-that is the perpendicular and the pothenuse-are the two lines of sight to 3 object, and the length of the base varies th the distance of the object observed at 3 apex of the triangle. The distance of 5 same is measured by the length of base juired to enable the line of sight to meet 3 object of the oblique line. Tho oblique ae of sight in the instrument is obtained mng a radius arm, the angle of which to a base raay be set at pleasure. The part the instrument forming the other line of Fht at right angles to the base has a ding action along the base, so as to ena he tihe latter to be lengthened or reduced, it is always at right angles to it. For e base, a space is divided of 6.282 inches us allowing thle decimal readings of thue agth of the base to be obtained-6.282 ing thle proportIon of circle circiunfer cc to radius. A scale Is provided by eans of which the radius arm may be set r oblique line of sight to the decimlal of legree. Thue process of reading off the stance of an object on the instrument Is' this wise: As the chord of are of an angle to the radius as 1 to 57.85, then if then e radius arm be 57.85 inches, it follows at for an angle of one degree it will be 0o inch out of perpendicular t'o the base. lio oblique line of sight being along the dius arm, will therefore meet at 57,85, e perpendicular line of sight with one ch base, and the object-at the apex of qtriangle-will be distant 57.85 inches om the observer, that is 57.85 times tile agth of the base line. The base line be g divided to scale, the distance of the iject may thus-be read off. latdn't Work It Iiight Thme ticket-Aeller at the Union Detroit Do it, has had apuother ,xperience in human iture, thlough he long ago made up his ind that he was familiar with all Sile idks and traits everf dinployed by tiose lie travel. Rtecently ho nuoted a middle. [ed husband and wife holding a close con , and pointing' his way, and after a time 1e man longed up and said t "I want to go to Niles." "Very' well." -'I 'spose I'll have to pay full fare," con nued the man, "but that old woman. youi e over there Is a foof and I'm taking .her 5ine to h'er frlen'ds. I 'uaos fools travel ir half-fare, don't they?' "No I we charge just as munch for a fool. anybody else. We hays only one price." "Well; that's kinder singular," mused me stranger. "They always let fools into reuses and bails and other shlows for half rico, and somletimes for nothing. Beems 14'fyouotmilit to lmmiv soi'pity on her." "I have pity on her, of course, but we ave only one rate." "Besides being a fool shid ha crazy spells, >o, couldn't she take advantagd of the muatlo adt and go foi half fate?' "Sheinuit pay full fare I" waq the doe dod answer. The woman had been skuiklug forriq bned froi to window, st'Woisp rln yinqulred : "Kin I go as-afin ~ ~i~1apa ho t &e 'r Iw~ht in anel One can% e9s6 in Everything. Ideals 6f excellewes, If not excellences themselves, -are so graduated as to fit the different orders of mind in which they take their riso. Gicatneso is not a positive qual ity; it lI- simply a relative attr'bute. The man who has hover succeeded in en snartng a single "speckled beauty" from some "tortuous stream" may truthfully boast of his emnent success in catching sculpins. o . The man who candot sing may yet have a voice peculiarly adpted to crying clame, oranges or charcoal. ; le who is no dan may - be good at hitch-and-kick or shi lXyi' The man who was' ot born to command, to set a squadron In tllo field, may surpass all hisacquaintances If the untiring devo tion h evices in the doloring of his nicer. schaum. T The boy who Is evyr at'tho foot of his class may still be an &pert in the formation and propulsion of spitialle. The lad who Is not-a pronounced success at arithmetic nuay be Ibimply excellent at mumble-peg and taw. The woman who 0 ot make a loaf of bread may excel in th making of frills and furbelows. Sho who cannot pla4 the simplest air on the washboard may . ute the most diil cr it themes upon the ilanoforto. She who cannot da, a stocking may be the envy of her circle r her skill and tasto In worsted work, in 11 rying sky-blue dogs sto pink backgrounds. The mother who c ot command the re spect of her children , y yet be fawned upon by half a score 4 male bipeds without a spot on thr ir dainty neut or an idea in their heads. The son who never does a stroke of work at home may be stiperlitively active in the bowling alley or billiard room. The daughter who la too feeble to wash the dishes may dance Oil the emall hours of the night after having, been shopping all day. The girl who cannot sew may chew gum with tireless jaw. A great singer may not be able to smoke the mildest of cigars without turning pale. A general who has led armies on to vie tory may be surpqssed in profanity by the raggedest street-boy in the city. 'I lie hand that has penned the divinest poetry imay be clownishly awkward with the billiard cue. The man who is capable of organizing rind carrying forward gigantic business en terprises may be easily outdinq at caucus management by the shabbiest politician of hiis ward. The artist who gives birth to such ex cjulsite creations may not be able to tie his neck-cloth nearly so well as Augustus, who In his turn can do nothing else. To.ching at West Point. A West Point recitation, by the way, is omething unique. Whe9n a visitor makes MoW "?iirffou feel z cadet rises va ntered your first freshmian so*i6ty, whlere he walls were lined with your tender iiti itors. This severe military carriage is re axed at a sign from the instructor, and the -ecitation goes on. The teaching is un loubtedly the most thorough in the country f not in the world. The reason will proba uly be found in the fact that not only are he cadets held to a strict accountability for he work they go over, but in addition to hat the assistant iustructors are also strict y responsible to the professors in charge of ,heir department. Thus a professor of nathematics will have one hour's instruc ion with his class during the forenoon, and ,he remainder of the timo lie devotes to in ipecting the work of his assistant professors vho are instructing other sections in the iame subject. As th.re are only nine men n a section, it will be readily seen that no me can escape. The fact that a professor s known to mako the rounds of the section 'oomis is a guaranty to the cadet that no in. lustie will be done him by a young iustriuc ~or who for any reason many betray partia lity The professor Is sure to seek an ex planation -for any great difference between liis mark and that on a tutor's book when bho same man is under consideration, it is the curse of the marking system at our American colleges that a man is at the mercy of a young tutor who by his mark-book sits in judgment from which there is no appeal. Every college man knows how much in justice is done lay a few callow instructor~ who have perhaps forty men to hear at a tIme, who hear each man perhaps every other (lay, and must determine his stand by the two or three minutes he is on his feet. There are so many oppontunities for the dis honest student to impose on the tutor, 'and the tutor is so quick to suspect of laziness the man who is too honest to "pony" or hand in "sick-excuses," and,' moreover, the divisions are so large and the examinations so Infrequent, that the marking system, in my judgment, is fruitful of evil. No edu-, cational institutioni in this country hass prob ably so large a teaching force ini proporti'on to the studentseas West Point. At Yale andt Harvard the proportion is "about 1 to 10 ; at thme Mlilitary Academy it Is 1 to 5. At Yale a professor has sometimes 60 mon in a recitation-reom ; hereciehlasnine. Hiere the studient must learn; there he may. Here lie must Iearn so much and no ~more; there lie must learn a little les than so much, lbut maylearn a groat deal more. Up Pbpocatauet. When a stranger goes to Mlexico, every bqdy who hass evea: been there asks, "Are yop going to, climb Popocatapetl?" and the strangpr almost Iivaribly replies, "Cer tinly." He almost invariably changes his mind, Popocatapeti Is private property, owned by acresident of the 3Mexican capi tal. In our own country whore there are plenty of things .to get, nobody would take a volcano for a gift, but in liex$9, where there are so ftdw thingto own, thy ' snap up volcanoes as we would gold mines and bras qf owning them. There Is someothing not only unique but impressive in owning a volcan6. I wsa going down stairs in the Itdirbide hotel 'in Miexico one day witlh a netive;' when thed native pointed out a gen.' tleman comning up stairs, and said he was thd owsef- of the volcano Popocatepetl. I. raithe bixpected to see dire' belohing~ out of his iouwm and brim'stone oozlnt olit of his 'ears." Butitherb was bathing of the kind. Hiednanio"*ias Gtieril' Ochoa,"and :the gnlde'-book siys "heO 1s a potfeot gentle nia i" i4 itxrnet be'eqi 'If he-is, I should thinli ko w fa4 tart .ip his" ld Wot1 out; YS)a0 Whdi6 lot of staugr 16~67~ o~~~ihtheM 't06E ogaua is a volcano, and put it in all the geogra phies and advertise it all over the world. Gen. Ochoa who owns this defunct volcano is a very ordinary looking person, and no one, to look at him, would think that he pays his board bills from the income do rived from the sale of brimstone, but he does. Some of his oneiks say that ho ti under contract to supply an unmentionable country with brimstone, but this is hardly to be credited. Tohere are a good many rea sons why it is not worth while to climb Po pocatapetl. The first and foremost Is, sov eral women have climbed It, and where a woman can climb It Is no great feat for an American young man to go. In the see qnd place it is sixty miles from the capital which in Mexico ineans two days' journey over bad roads and in uncomfortable stages. On the upper part of the mountain the at mosphere is so rare that weak persons have frequently been attacked with hemorrage of the lungs, and some have died. The jour ney Is laborious one, and a good mile of the way, straight up hill Is through ashes and cinder a foot deep. Last, but not least, the journey is very Okpensive for stages, board, guides, and costumes. Postscript.--Tho game is not worth the powder. It is a gre'at satisfaction to see this mountain from a distance: to sit on the upper piazza of a hotel, with your feet on the railing and a good cigar, thinking, "So that is Popocata pet], is it? That is the mountain my old country schoolmaster used to say was the highest in Anierica, with a pronunciation eighteen degrees wide of the mark. And now there she is. Who'd ever have thought it in those old days of school house benches and wander-ng school atlases?" While you are looking at it, if you choose the right time of day-after the sun goes down--I. disappears before your cigar is finished. It is quite possible that the reader may have heard that there is no twpj light in the tropics-the sun goes and in a few minutes It is dark. The mountain grows dim and disappears like the school lay memories of Its unpronounced name. There is no fire and brimestene coining out of the crater, as there ought to be out of any genuine volcano; there is nothing but a dim spot in the distance to be seen only when the moon gets behind It and lights up its outiline. Almost any stranger looking at the mountain fron any elevation In the capital, will estimate that it In four or five miles away, unless he knows better, for it is sixty. The air is so clear there you can see a long distance. It is so clear a Mexi can will see a flive-cent piece two miles off, an( go for it. Ills Pretty Inatan NurNe. J ust beyond the Moosic river, a few miles northeas; of Scranton. In the primi tive village of Salem, there lives a centena rian whose history reads like a page plucked fron one-of the Leatherstocking romances. Abraham Johnson Is now 100 years old lhale, hearty, unimpaired in intellect, and gifted with a remarkable memnory. His failly6,y1i'tW chmmWd1h1 im the -year 3, near Lake Champlain. Ilis father was a Revolutionary soldier, at a short timo before General Burgoyne's snrrender, October 13, 1777. Abraham Johnson was Captain of a company of Oneida Indians in 1814, under General Macomb, who com. manded at Plattsburgh in the absence of General Izard. le refers with great pride to the battle of Plattsburgh, and shows two wounds which lie recelied on that occa sion. One of them Is a bayonet thrust be low the knee, and the other a sword cut on the neck. le says that after lie was cut down by a gigantic "11coat" another thrust a bayonet through his leg to ascer tain if lie were dead. He says lie boro the punishment rather than suffer the indigni ty of being taken prisoner, anri was accor dingly left for dead. The Indians carried their bleeding and battle-scarred command er to their village, whlere lhe wars nursed and cared for by Oneida, the beautiful daughter of an Indian chief, whose gentle care soon restored him to strength and health. But while she healed his bodily wounds, she inflicted one still deeper on thle warrior's hleart, and lhe fell desperately in love with her. She eventually meturned his affection, and they were married after peace had been restored between the United States and Great Britain. Tfhey made their home in Sussex county, 19. J.,'where the dark eyed daughter of the forest taught her hulsband how to earn a livelihood by basket making. A daughter was born to them and they named her Afartha. She is at present kinown as Mirs. Ellsworth, and lives in Mandison towvnshlip, Lackawana county, Pa. As years went by Abraham Johnson's Indian wife began to pine for her old home and the rude associations of her childhood. She gradually failed in health, and finally, in response to her repeated longings for her people, her husband carried her back to the Oneidas, where she died and was buried as became the daughter of an Indian chief. Little Marthla found a home and shelter for a time with an uncle in Bussex county, but when she grew up she joined the Onel da Indians, and lived among her mother's kindred, where she married a man with th untromantio name of Brown. After hi death, she married Eilsworth, her. presen husband, 'and returned to civilization. She Is ars proud of her princely ancestors as if they bore the proud name of the Piantage nets, or possessed the high and haugnty spirit of the Tudors, Since the loss of his Indian wife, Abraham Johnson has remain ed single. Hie still talks of General Jack son to tile day of his death. Although en .titled to a pension for hlis soldierly services in the defence of the flag, lie does not re ceive a penny, and is permitted to remain a charge on Salem township. ie is probably one of the'oldest men in Pennsyl vani a. A Rtace wAh Thumbs en their Feet. Mr4 Tresnlett, the Brittehl Consul at Sal-i gon, In his report this- year, mnention as a remarkable peculiarity of the natives of the country, that they have the great ,toe ot each~ kpt separated from the others, like the thumb of the hansl, and it can be used. In piuch the sapie manner, though 2mot tol the same extent. This distinctiyo mark of an Annt mite is not, .4owever, usually seen in the v cinity of Salgon, but Is now confi ned to t116 inhabitants of the moro northern section of te emipire, where the race .has renmaied ndr'istinet. This peculiarity la th eann f9 the native .netp for the ace; race that the ime and p. ebliaityae of rata itiquity is ehown by ~lo iptip n (qnese annals .830 0. 0,. Cleanung eds and Pillows. Two little children were almost simaul. tancously attacked with canker rash in its worst form. There had . been no cases in the vicinity for years, and they had been kept entirely at home for the whole winter, so there was no possibility of their having taken the disease from any exposure to contagion. It was a mysterious Provi dence, the clergyman said, when lie was called to perform the burial service. Af terward It was ascertained that the mother had bought a feather bed of a peddler a few weeks before and used it on the trun dle-bed for her little ones to make them a comfortable nest for the cold weather. Upon further investigation it was discov ered that the peddler had bought it at a house some twenty-five miles a*ay, and that two children had been sick and died of scarlatina upon the same bed the year before. The bed had been laid away in an open chamber till the family sold out their place to move away, and they sold the bed to a traveling peddler for a trifling sum, thus distributing sickness and death through a distant town, for the disease spread in every direction and became a regular epidemic. Had that bed, iminedi ately after the death of the first children, been washed thoroughly and soaked in wa ter with either a little carbolic acid or spir its of ammonia added to it, and then dried in the sun it would have been safe to be used by any one; but, as it was, it carried grief and desolation into many households. Of course, it was not a premditated wrong; it was a case of ignorance or carelessness. Diphtheria has been conveyed by useing beds in the same manner, and, if individ uals would only consider for a minute how much suffering might be prevented, they would be more careful. There is never an effect without a cause, but perhaps the cause may not be discovered till too late to prevent the evil. It is very little labor to cleanse pillows and beds, if (lone in a proper manner, and common sense will show that it is advisable to have it done t often, even if no sick person has lain upon them. A day's exposure to the hot sun turning over and shaking them up often Is a great benefit, and makes them sweeter as well as lightr. An occasional washing is a sure purifier. Carbolic acid, is a pow orful disinfectant, and it sweetens beds winch will accumulate a disagreeable odor if not thoroughly cleansed and aired. Pil lows can be washed without ripping so that Lhey will be delightfully renovated. Use scalding suds in a washtub to soak them well, and then pass through rinsing waters till the water is not colored at all. This is ill that is required unless they really smell badly. In that case, either carbolic acid I wr spirits of amnion a should be added to f rinsing water. Let them drain well and hen hang them where they will get air and 3 1nahine. Progress in Iceland. kuger 'l n 'wiuY ,A~uuiay ian- ourists are Avont to do, can hardly estimate the pro rress now making by the people of Iceland. ifany causes are contributig~g to this ad rancement beaides the new constitutional government. The purchases of horses for he English market have brought into the .ountry considerable suns of mony. The trowing demand for Icelandic codfish in ' ipain and the establishment of several fish >1l manufactories on the northern and West rn coasts have enchanced the number of >oats engaged in the coast fisheries, and lave, of course, tended to increase the na ;onal wealth. The farm products-sheep, ool and tallow-have Increased in quantity 1 md value in consequence of the introduc- i ion of better processes. There are like- c wise now may more elder-down establish nents than formerly, the down finding an a nereased sale in Russia. Until the pres mnt year there has also been a steadily grow.. ng hay crop, but the northern districts have mufeored this summer from droughts, Sal alon, which formerly was rarely sent from the country, has lately been largely export ed, although the season just closed was an uinfavorable one for this product also. As i result of all this, the habitations of the rarmer's and fishermen are rapidly becoming better-greatly to the improvement of the physical condition of their occupants. The aumber of houses of stone and timber built within the last six years is very consider able. Small towns are rising at various points on the northern and western fjords. Akureyri, the principal port on the north, [safjord on the northwest peninsula, Styk kisholm on the great Breldafjord, Skagi on Akrancs, a bustling hamlet of fisherman, and Reykavik, the capital, are fast becom ing important centers of Industry and trade. Fdairy Stories of the Rhine Outrivaulec. The Courier of Tiemneen, Algeria. de scribes an interesting discovery recently made at the cascades near that place. Some miners had blasted an 'enormous rock near the cascades, and, on the removal of the deb ris, found it had covered alarge openinginto a cave, thme floor of wvhichm was covered with water. Constructing a rude raft, and pro viding themselves with eandles, the work men sailed along this underground river, which, at a distumnce of sixty meters, was found to merge into a large lake of limpid water. The roof of the cavern was very high and covered with stalactites, the bril liant colors of which sparkled in the light of thme candles. Continuing their course, the workmen had at certain places to navi gate their craft between tbe stalactiteA, which, meeting siglagmites from the bed of thme lake, formed massive columns which looked as if they had been made expressly to sustain the enormous arches. Thus they reached the extremity of the lake, where they noticed a large channel extending southward. This is supposed to be a large fissure, whieh has beafled exploration hith erto at Bebdon. and wchih connects the cascades with that locality, and thus -with the mysterious sources of the Tefna. It is possible that here they have found an Im mense natural basin, supplied bypowerful sources, and sending a part of its wateta toward the lueke, white the rest goes to Sebdon.. 'the workmen estimated the dis tance -underground ,tratersed bythenm at thmrep kiiometers, And the badtof the lakeMa two.: They brought out with Mhem a quantity of fishes, wi -c swarmed rqu~, the raft, an4 which wede found to be bliz eTimgir waosioutld examine tile whole word; pshitl ott find on~e 'Iher11'o happy as t4 hsve nothing tet 6Lwiebz foryl~t twesee thoitsands, w o bsul older a us tbr ~*pthing let t FOOD FOR TIIOUOIr. Words are to actions only the saw dust of the club of Hercules. Never affect to be witty or Jest so as to hurt the feelings of another. Making one's fortune in political life is gambling upon % series of ifs. I don't wonder that debt makes men crin inals. It hardens the heart. People must discuss something-it is the great preventative of insanity. When one's heart is full one is not apt to drop a plummet line Into it. Great souls hold firmly to heaven and lot the earth roll on beneath them. Low as the grave is, only faith can climb bigh enough to see beyond it. Never think worse of another on ac count of his differing from you in poli tics and religious subjects. Never ridicule sacred things or what others may esteem as such however ab surd they may appear. to you. Bodily en joyment depends upon good health, and health depends npon tem perance. The man who studies to be revenged only manages to keep his own woundi green. No evil Is insupportable but that which is accompanied with conscious ness o. wrong. When people's feelings have got a tleadly wound tihey can't be cured by favors. Knowledge will alvays predominato aver ignorance, as muan governs the ther animals. There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor. %annot find its way. She that has no one to loVe or trust, tas but little to hope. She wants the 7adical principle of happiness. Have you known how to take repose? Vou have done more than he who has aken ulties and empires. This is the present reward-of virtuous oniuct--that no unlucky consequence .an oblige us to regret it. Integrity without knowledge is weak md useless, and knowledge without in egrity is dangerous and dreadful. Of the uncertainties of our present tate, the most dreadful and alarming a the uncertain continuance of reason. That man who knows the world will lever be bashful, and that man who tnows himself will never be impudent. Let there be in necessary things inity, in everything charity, and thea hero need not be in everything uni 'ormity. Never resenz a supposed injury until rou know the views and motives of the ithor of it. And on no occasion ro ute it. Always take the part of an- absent .low. t A man should live with his superiors ,s he does wIth his fire-Lot too near est he burn; not too far off, lest he reeze. It Is not enough to believe whait y ou raintain; you must maintain what Sou believe, and 'maintain it because on believe it. There is in Christianity light enough or those who sincerely wish to see it, nd darkness enough to confound hose of an opposite disposition. Only they who carry sincerity to the igliest point, in whom there remains lot a single hair's breadth of hyyocrisy, an see the hidden springs of things. It requires a great deal of boldness nd a great deal of caution to make a Preat fortune, and when you have got t, it requIres ten times as much wit to teep it. A weak mind sinks under prosperity ,s wvell ac under adversity. A strong nind has two highest tides-when tihe noon is at thle fuli and when there is no noon. It is much easier to meet with error han to find truth. Error Is on the urf ace; truth is hidden-in great depths, aud the way to seek it does not appear o ail thle world. A superior capacity for busmness, and Smore extensive knowledge, are steps >ny which a newv mani often mounts to *avor and outahines the rest of his eon emporaries. TIhe mind is nourished at a chieap rate. ~either cold nor heat nor age itself man nterrupt thIs exercise. Gie, theore ore, all you can to a possession which imelorates even in its old age. Whatever comes out of despair can. iot benr the title of valor, which should me lifted up to suci a height that, hold ng all iLhings unmder itself, it should be ible to maintain its greatness even in he midst of miseries. 'The life of every man is as the well. iprink of a stream, whosle sinall begin. lings are indeed pain to all, but whiose course and destination, as it winc s through the expanses of infinite r'eam', only tihe Omniscient cab discern. Neith without 'works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop withl her colnpanions on earth, yet sile will never fly with them to heaven ; but when bos are joi ned together, then doth the notl mount up to eternal rest. Trho harp hola~ i its wires the posmi bilities of noblest chords; yet, if they 1 be not struck, they must hang dull and useless. So the mind is !~estedl with-a hlundired powers, that must be. smitten - by a hieavy hand to prove themselves , ' tile off'sprlhg of divinity. When you speaIe 6til of another you must le prepared to-haveoters speak evil m you. TIhei'e is at Buddhist p~roverb which says, "Re *hoindulges in en~ty is like one who thro Ws ashes to windward, which cornes baek to thme sameplace anid covoe him all Over."3 They .who can catch -at happiness on the bright surface of thing st - they can secure it, such ae it i, wt less risk and more cerr tal he in h yceup pearl 44 In Abe d oI;'~ tame I~