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. * TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S.C., DECEMBER MEMORY. A pen-to registor, a key That win is through so rot wards. Aro well aesigned to Xvmory By allegorio Datds. As aptly, also, might be given A peno I to her hand;, That, -oftening ohj ete, sometimes even Outati ilia the hearts demand. That smooths foregone distresa, the lines Of ,ingering easo subdue*. Long-vanishod happiness relines, And clothce in bribhter hues. Yet. like a to 1 of Fancy. worki Those 8pecres to dilate That startles Consolence, as ho luriks Wi.hin her lowly seat. 0 that our lives, which fleo so fast, In purl y woro such., That not an image of the palst Should fear that poncil's touoh! Itetirement Ihen might hourly look Upon a tothAling soo0e, Age steal to h.s allotted iook Cunl ented ami sor ne. With heart as calm as lakes that sleep. In frosty moonliaht glisteniug; Or mountain iliver, wher, ahioy creep Along a channel smooth an I det p. Tj their own far-off muranirs htoning. THE SISTER'S BEURET. Please don't, H arry, you hurt me." The dark, handsome face softened sudden ly, and Harry he:l' swl kissed the soft little fingers, crimsoi from his angery pressure. "Forgive me, Aetate. I did not know. How fierce I must seem to you. Tho truth s, I was beside myself. And you see that I have reason. Think of it. An arm that was mine cneircling that blender waist. It was enough to drive one frantic. I must have an explanation, or our engago mont Is at an end." "I cannot say moro than I have. Harry. I tell you again that your suspicions are cruel and unjus'-further than that I can notr If you do not trust me, it is best that we should part." "It Is as I thought. You are only too glad to be rid of the old love before you re ceive the now." le caught her fade between lia two hands and held it while he studied it, half angrily, half tenderly. - The girl bore his scrutiny for a moment bravely. Then the red lips began to quiver, and the eyes to fill with tears. - He suddenly kissed her. "That is ny farewell to love and Jaith. Good by to both." Then with long stridesho hastened away, as tkough afraid to trust himself to look back. Nettle watched him until out of sight; antithen, with n'long, sobbing sigh, she said: "It Is bettor thus. I could not keep my secret safe with that listrustf ul, passlonate nature ever on the watch. Oh, Charlie, Charlie, what am I suffering for you I" Harry, as he said went away from the place, not intending to return until lie had covercomo his great love. But nature proved too strong for his resolution. le was drawn back as though by i1 -isibl cords. lie wvas a young physician, and had been taken Into partnership wvith the oldest, and mfost skillful practitioner i the town. When he reached his house, after a few days absence, Dr. Liddell met him at the door. "You are just in time Harry. I have been called in haste to old Mrs. Steinburg's dying bed, and that poor girl at the hail is in too critIcal a state to be neglected. I will trust her to you." Harry's lips turned ashen pole. "Whom did you say ?" "Poor little Nettle Webster. It seems weeks instead of days that I've been attend lug her. She wae stricken dowvn suddenly with such a fearful type of brain fever that i've been there three or, four tines a day trying to keep lher from dying. It's near the crisis now." Harry waited to her no more.- He took his case of medicInes, and hastened to the hall. Au old servant mno% him at the door. She had evidently been watching for the doc tor's arrival. "How isMiss Webster to-day?"4 was H~ar ro's whispered question. "Quiet; She's stiil sleepiug lIke for the first time since she's been took, Sihe's al-. ways been a sayin' to herself, 'Innocent innocent I Oh, Harry, trust me 1' Then she'll ramble off about Charlie. I can't for the life of me toil who they is she means. It's.nmoet -likely soniO of themn stories she read* 1has got. into her head, and in her fever she thinks she's acting in 'em." Poor Hlarry I Well he knew what it meant. As lhe went tqhler bedside he felt as though he had killed her. There she lay, quietly.. But it was the - calm of exhaustion. -One short week only sInce lhe had seen her-but the rounded outlines had grown strangely sharp, and the luxuriant hair whioh msd clustered about her, temples in tendtiflikoenurs, had l7oon cut close to her -head.. ~1' fHe bent ove' ten' and listened. to hei breathing, eritIcally. Then he turned to the mitse - a'Do not let her be disturbed en any .ac 4" count. I will be in Ageln in the morning. with Nettie-his arm about her 'raist, and her -;es looking up with an expression on intense ipterest into his face. It was in i secluded nook in the rear of the Webster estate where few ever went. Harry not finding Nettle at the house had thought to find her there. and had gone in search of lier only to be torn by jealous rage at her supposed duplieity. lie said now : "Perhaps it will be well for-you to defer your visit, Miss Webster is now at the point of death.'' Aggrieved as Harry felt himself, he could not but feel sorry for the stranger. Ieatoo a ioment a though benumbed. Then ha said, huskily : "Miss Webster-Nettle (lying I I must see her. What I have to say in of great im portance. It will almost bring her loving spirit back to earth to hear it." The answer came cold and decisive: "To all appearances Miss Webster is be yo.id help- At any rate, all dependson ab solute quir t." "Oh, my little sister I I fear her tender heart has been overburdened with my trou bles." Harry caught his arm convulsively. "Did I hear aright? Is Miss Webster your sister?" "Yes, my darling, only sister. Though no one knows of it. I have been in trouble and all because I was taken for someone else. F->r the past four years I have been under a cloud of disgrace, though an inno. cent man. That is why my father bought this place. and removed from his old home. ie couldn't stand having the name con nected with a criminal, and he wasn't quito sure of my gtilt, neither was lie Confident of the truth of my denial ; so lie asked me to keep at a respectful distance from his new residence. Nettle, thank God, saved my faith In humanity. She never doubted me. To-day I came hither with a light heart, for all is cleared up. 1 have the dy ing deposition of the rascal who had kept out of the hands of justice, leaving me to suffer for his actions. Ti'st is why I said that my news might hasten Nettie's re covery. If she dies, the light will go out of my life. Dear, unselfish little sister." Harry's heart absolutely sang for joy at the thought that Nettie had been true and loyal to him as she had ~said, though through it all surged a wave of sorrow and remorse at his own cruelty. Ile caught the young man's hand and wrung it warmly. "You are the Charlie then about whomi she has been raving in her delirium ? You are right. As soon as she awakens her mind shall be put at rest about you, and," he thought to himself, "about one other fitstn,' unjust heing who does not deserve hat she should live to bless him with her forgiveness." The next morning he went again to her bedside. She had not come out of her heavy sluim her. so lie stationed himself by her to watch the turn of the disease. For several hours there was no cbange. Then she moved and opened her eyes, After a timle she seemed to comprehend that it was Harry. Then, with a look of intense pleading, she whispered: "Forgive " He stayed the words upon her lips with a iss. "It is all rIght, darlliig. I knew all. Your brother Charles is here--not only. innocentt, b~ut proven so. Now you need worry nto more. All you have to do is to get well and make us happy." With a sight of content the heavy eyes closed. The opiate had taken effect, and otnce more slumber had shut out the scenes ol the outer world. After this her recovery was rapid, and when, a few montihs after, the foad old fa titer gave hecr away at the alter to be loved and cherished at the hearthstone of anlother lie was not lef t alone-his son, restored on1ce mor0 e to lisa proper place among men, stood beside im~. Chaarlie Webster says that lis sister's un doubting conindence int his innocence at the time whien all others turned against him, was his salvation. lie mightt have lost all 1hope, and, in his hot anger at human Injustice, have really sunk into the ranks of crimitnal life. Hie did not know until long years after how near Nettle came to wrecking her ownt happiness. Then lie said: "ft .was just like you, Nettle. When we were both little children you always man agedl to bear the brunt of my isidoings.I roeember drubbing several boys among my schoolmates for nick naming you 'Nettle, tile Martyr." Harry, who was also a listener to Char lie's speeh, thtought how nearly that last trial had won for his darling the martyr's crown, and conslgned hinm to perpetual mourning for his unreesoning htarshiness and cruelty to her whom he loved better than life iself. The Colorada Desert. The Colorado Desort may be properly termed the Sahara of the Pacific coast. Upon a clear, full moonlight night tile tray eller may form seime idea of the sterility and lonoliness of tis Pacific Bahara. You are in the midst of ani ocean of finne, white sandc; not an elevation, hardly, nor a de cline of tefeeblest nuatute, resents itself; the mosquito, the theschal and the cacti, have einti rely disappeared, and not a bush nor a blade, of grass remains; no living thing, not cvn a bird nor an Insect 10 to be seen. A death-like stillness seems. to per., vade the scene, and an awful unbroken qtiL et prevalls. In) this: Tar4onars locality, it is spid, rain povet (lashend4; no dew eveor falls; no dollolous exhalations of the even itl over totlch the fey'ered face of nature, 3Qdwull 4nu ' g#s r the so rh lious., Drainago. What to (o with sink water and the s1op of the house in those hot days when fer ientation progresses at a two-forty pice is a puzzling question for farmers. Citie and hrge villages are provided wit soim JuIliC system of sewerage, but In the couti try every mau is expected to look out fo his own refuse, and those who do It intel ligently are few and far het ween. Mos farmers' wives throw their slops out o the (toor, where they lie and ferment, fill. ing the air with miatsma, anud satuntinl the earth with poison that slowly 1hi(s it way to the well and thence to the table 1rom1 many at kitchen sink at lead nipe con U Icts the (11811 water through the siding o n muse, whenice it lalls to the ground wit ill a foot or foot or two of the celhar will through which it percolates, a1.1 thus con. tamna'les the- iair both I mide aid outside o the honse. The privy (if the farm hous ia wont to be neglecied auo, so that, In stead of being a reservoir of fertility to the land, it is a n1 ance1, and more than ti ii a frui til so1.c3 of disease. 8o great i: the neglect of these thinags among the rutra population that citizens are beginning t( think that tie air and water of the cit~y an purer than in the country. There is n necessity for this state of thliigt. At a tri (iing expense--if the farm house is sitatet on some cle atilon, as It sh,>uld be-thl sink watter and all the refuse of tiae cham bers can be conveyed in an undergrnun< tile to a field and thus made to do service as a fertilizer. Iron is so cheap nowalayi thadt a three or four inch pipe i8 probahil ia economical a conduit for the refuse a can be had. Glazed eart' en pipe, howeva answers a good purpose. Ceiet pip and commnon clty tile are so rontgh tha they are liable to clog. There is nore o1 less grease in dihl-water, aid this is de posited as the water cools on the side of th dtU;D, t> dtii a iaall pipe will not allswe for a sink outlet. The drain can lie ma( of stone, but in this place it saould hN large, and cemented near tle house to pre vent the carth from becoming saturaite with poison. When the (train has reachle( a field which it is desired to fertilize, n( e6ment is required, and open ditches oi porous tile may convey the refuso lin differ entc directionis. In aill cases there shouk be a valve in the sink to prevent tile tnox ious gases from returning to pollie ti house. It is also a good plain to let th< overflow of tile cisternis rn into the sini drin. This will aid in keeping the drait clear, atd distributing the fertilizing ma. terbl in the fields. If any farnmnr tins located ills house S( low that the refuse cannot be carried to th< neighboring fields, he is to te pitied; still, if the soil is a dry, Sany(13' loam, I ho situtatiol is not desperate. A large siuk hole-sia or cghlt feet in diameter, according to th< size of the familly-cana be (lug at a sita. ble distanec from the house, wailed up or the sides and planked over on top, int( which the refuse can be conducted, whene it will be gradually absorbed by iho soil. If at any time the hole becomes filled witil solid matter, it can be sloveled out ab( composted with dry muck or earth ama Iado Into a valtaft,lo fortilir.cr. If ony on Is so nifortunate as to have built, inheritet or, purchased a house in a low, swampl spot where drainage is impossible, our aid vice is, that he should move it to a higher site, and if it is not worth iovi ng to buil< a new house and make firewood of the oh One. Grammntar ti ithyme. The annexed effusiot has been publishei from tiie to time during the past. twent; years, but the namie of tle author shouh not have bedn allowed to sink into oblivio.1 on the contrary, lie deserves immortality and the gratitude of generations yet ui born, for we have never met, with so comi plete a granmmar of thte English lanlgunig in so small a space. Old as well as younta shlould commit these 11ines to mem'tiory, fo b)y their aid it wiil tbe dlinicult, if not im possible, for thema to fall into eriois con cerninag parts of speech : A Three lIttle wordis yen often .ioo Are artilels a, an. atnd th~a. A non is tha amo of any thing, As school or gardein, ho p or sw.n.. HIL .Anject'ves show the kin I of nn. As great, small, pretty, white or brown. IV. Instead of nonus t' o proinouns andll Her head, his face, your arm, my hand. V. Verbs tell us somnetinag to b)a doneo. To read, count, laugh. ung, juaip or ralm. VI. How thuais are dono1 tihe advt rbs tell, As slowtly, quick'y, ill or well. Coanjuantions j .in the words together, As men and worn n. nina I or weattaa The proposItion stands beforo A noumn, as ina,'or thronlgh, tthe door. Th~e Interjection sho1w 4 surprise, As 01.1 how pretuy I all! how wIse l Thle whlole are cal od nih o part'- of sporoh, WVhich readIng, wr tin.-, spnkidng, teaob. yitant, a l'ttnt, a Nice Pot. An ingenious expedlienat was devIsedt save a p~ris( ner charged with robbery Inl thl Criminal Court at DublIn. The prinacipe thing thtat appeared in evidence againm hhn was a confession, alleged to hlave bee made by him1) at the police onlece, atnd tske downt in writing by a police officer. Tha documaent purportling to contain thd6 sell sacrificIng acknowletlgment was produce< by the olicer, and -tho following passag was reiad from1 it: "M angan said he never robbed bu twice." "Said it was Crawford." This it wvill be observed, lias no mark c puncttilon, but the mepinng attached t, It was, that "Manlgan said ho never robbed bu twice: Said it was Crawfor'd." Mr. O'Gormnan the. counsmel for tho prig oner, begged to look at theo paper. II perused it, and rather astonished the pene officer by asserting that so far from prov ing the msn's guIlt, it clearly establishe the nyain's inn eonce. "This," said the leafned gentlemnan, "I the fair andi obvous reading of the sen tence: "Mangfan aid ho tieoer robbedl Bu twice said /twas Crawford. Thi i tpro i n bsiIs iuo *~j~sd* m~heii. -4 ' ; TetrkIsh Cereinontid. Biairam wits colebratieil in C ngtantinople oil the 17th of Septonber' On the previotis afternoon a merry peal o iitillery aniounc. i ed that the tweutly-eiglht Ilaya or feast were over. The ships in the hirbor were instant 13 decked with ilais, an Smiles playEd onl tit fles of the true believer4, who, for getfutl for a while of the ladness of the times, deternineu on spending a nerry daiy on the morrow, and conu(Itently laid it a stock of shekers(sweet is) and various other en ables and gewgaw fineries. At early dawn the Sltni left his pailce at Yitiz aind went to the iiosI1ti tint lie ihiktash, and lot, asg is the wont otn this ocen;iioni, to the Old Sertiglio. After the 1h4ltan iad per formed hit devotieis 'ho returned to the Aeshikalns, Laiace to hold a reception. lie accordiingly took Is seat, on a spucis throne of gold in the apartment known as the "Throne Cbamber. 'liscihanberlains - and other houisehold otflcers stood in their gaudiest attire hehind him, while to the right andI(I left, in front, tuad at rigit mltttrles to the tlotne were rItnged tihe palace Iides de-cllps. To ile right of Ihe t hrone Stood Osa l ba, of Ptevait renoWni, hold(linig it alken cord proceeding frot the throne, which Ilie visitors kissed and put litp re verently to their forieals. Mutnir Efilendi, the Master of Ceremonies, stood in front of ithe Sultan, and its the Visitors ipproneled -ie vollid beld toward the ground and IHil thei wilh a graceful satlim. As soon as the Suiltan had oceuipied the throm, tile visitors enteled otie by one by a door to the I right of the Sultan, and, 4dvaning slowly, st~oicd fo) kiss the itkent eord, and then crossing their huntds to t heir breast, with dowlenst eyes, they withildrew, without turning their backs, and ,ook a position to the right of the lhronio. As visiteor after visitor did the same t sI-: tier ite was form ed, which, oil approchilng the end of tlie room, took a curve and swept round to the left. The first to be admiltled was Aridt' Pashia, the Grand Vizier: then cante Mathi motd Nedim, famous in the annals of Turkisi btankruptcy ; then Satet, Ninister of Finance; thien Khaireddin, late Grand Vizier; and then the other ftiiiionarisi of lthe Etmpire, and those who had the title of Bahh (Excellence), the Sulan standing to receive those wiose title wavsthat, of Miushir. The reception of the civil body over, his Majesty left the room, but retutrned shory 13, after to receive the ceclesitnsieal body. 'IThe ceremony wits in ai reszpeets the samne, ex cept that the hem of the Sultan's garment was kissed instead of the cord. The Suit an received hi& visittr3 withont uttering a word except two to the Grand \'izier, who ap peared not t0) have beard them. The silence of the reception was only broken by the I]mperial blind, which played lively nutsic all the while. By noon all wis over, the Sultan withdrew to his kio-k at Yildiz, I le Mtiftis responded to the InhTezzin's ell t prity r, and the Pashas sought the stillh.Cs of their country residences. Hlotel Clerts VindictedCl. "When I was your 'age," said Grand rather ito) m - --a I,-& the ullreliability of the newspape.s, "when I was at your age I iao the saime fault to find with the papers. I couldn't believe a word that was in 'em. For instance every day I read some screed about hotel clerks stickin' up their noses at poor but respect able people who were forced to stop with thetm. At that, time I was proprietor of the Fifth Avenue Ihotel, an' was runnil' it on the European plan-if you don't see whtat you want ask for it, no trouble to show good.', an' that sort of thing I didn't be lieve a word of what the papers writ about hotel clerks, all' was mighty mrye mine wa'nt that way. To satisfy lyself, how ever, all' windicate hotel cleiks every w-here, I put up a job on the newspapers. A smile lit up grand.itlicr's contenance at this stirring of tmemtory's embers, but it, quickly vanIshed, andl he went on: "I allus dressed in the height of fashion; .lbut I bjotrowedl a suit of clothes of John Jacob Astor, ain' disguished myself as a poor but honest person fromn the interior. -'"I hiad let some friends into the scret, an' thtey were present, to se0 hotel clerks vindicated an' a stingin' rebuke admiis tered to a scurrilous press."1 At this p~oint gratndfather chuckled audibly. "When all was ready I walked Into thei Fifth Avenue, carryin' an ordinary hookin' grip-sack, an' registered as John Crab applle, from Srined~unk. "'Nice day,' I salIa, as5 1 ornamented the register with liy stage naltnle. "~ 'Glad to hear It,' said the clar~k, as hie flxed his necktie at a lookin' glass in the offico.. "'What time kin I got a train to Ilunck ensack ?' I asked, for 1 knowecd that par ticular clerk was strong on time tables, and I wantedl to fetch him out ofore the invIted guests, who were sittint' aroundi takin' it, all In. lils reply knocked me cleat oiln lily pins, lie snidl, nevei' once takin' him self away fro:n tihe lookin' glass; "'See here-, imy bldl-hteadedl patriarch, you don't see no peCoplo sleepin' arounad -here on benches whth their valises between thielr'feet, do you? You don't see no man11 shovin' trunks around loaded wit h trunks, do youi You don't observe any little girls ruinnln' aroundlt with apples to sell, do you ? No, I reckon nlot? iThs Is no depot, dedt sir. if you tatke mec for a ticket-agent, a y baggagre-smasher or a brakeman you get a let. I rull a hotel, not tatmere railroad." 1 "1 was mad ats a wvet hen, but I waited t a spell. When he'got his neck-tie to rumn parallel with hits moustache lie turnied taround an' asked mel what I was after, an' a if I wvould niind removin' my carpet-sack .from the counter an' carryin' It out to the I stable, where it evidotitly balonged. a "ThIs w~as rubblin' your grandfather the wvrong way of the hia'r, but as I had gone t Into the chieme for the good of clet ks in genelal, .t naturally thonghtt I could standi it if they could. t "I said I would lIke to hatve a room, If ) it was all the same to hIm. "fle said lie would gIto me a room In I the cellar, only ihe was afeard I might sprout. "'Vpunlg man,' saId I, flarin' UP, 'I 'hey monoey to paty my way an' sleep In thme 3 bridaf chamiber, an' I don't propose to take no lip from any stack-up hotel clerk.' "'Whose a stuck-up hotel clerkt' ho I yelled, dancin' OUt of his litten der', an' puttum' up'his hands, Who's a stuck-up si hotel cletk B' I"I told bhim I wtas only jokin' an' was IwhIli' an' anxioils to take it'allback; but 110 Woitint ha~ve it. H-e danced 'roun' an' bobbcei an' dowh an' final lti4 a19 a a tord1b l~o on thE nos T oe that ?~a*k A 9 4 Ab WS ~ &Z .AL. %A W -_____V A that I an' that, ' an' I did as he recom mended. When I was beginnin' to get hiaAk it him hie struck tihe! bell, -m' seven porters sei.zed me an' litiled ime out oil the s reelt the clerk bringi' ip the rear, Im It were, with his box toed shoes. On the sidewalk a policemia collared lme, at)' I wats locked u) for thirly-six hours afore I could git at Chaince to explain things." Then it can hardly be said tat you sue ceeded in viidicating htliel clerks ag'ainst tite stlader of the press." "1%N indient'i' replied gi andfaher, moved :o prof.anity; Ian h11e ab(tililed off, itabbing tile loor spiteftilly with his cane. '1110 1 it h tot En1:g1i d. A low steps further on was the powerful instittilton Whose in iflience is felt inl flinat and( trade ill nyer the worbl-the Bank of Eiigtii. Bounded on ail i four sides by the street, all its windows prudentially open Into at ceit ral Court, and siince tite riots of 1781) it ha been occupied every night by at detachient of soldiers. Its busiiss ie quires a workitg force of tw'elve hundred men. Its hank not.es ire printed within the buildiing. The satinte i('ie is never paid out over its counter twice. The new bill tine, is issued this morning is retired as soonl its it retur,110, no matter if thle sante unit lr-s it in aigainm this afterno'na without it wrinkle, in it. it. is allowed to issue notes to th iamionniit. or fifteen millions pounis, on the secnrity of its standing loan of it much larger anutint to the governmett, which constittites a part, of the public debt. For every note issued above iiat-tit it hails a circuIatt ion of Over fory million pouilds-Lnmlliont of al e(lual ami1outint miust ne paid into it-., treasury, and must be kept. there tm' tie redemption of the note w tenl it. retutrins. T traveler on the Cn:itinent often finds its notest at prentim in gold. No note is issued of at ters ienoint) ati ion hian live pounds. Every note is numbered, and the naime of tile -t y to whoimi it is paiti out is carefully recordted. Tile prac tice of kteping a memoaiialum whIch will show from whomn Ie receives every bank i.>ic thlt, passes through his hands is com-. 1noin, also, with the painstaking Lonlon tratdes.inana. It proved at fortuiate thing for at f iend of iniiit oil Otne occasion. He hiad given Iis wife a ten pound note. Their little child got hold o1 tle porte-monnaie inid destro) d tie note, ats ily supposed, by throwiig it oil Ith open llr. There would have been n11 hope of realizing on a greetiback uiner such cireiustances. Buti. t'ily doll..rs wits w'ortl trying for. -The number of the note wits ascertained from the parties through whose hands it c tine to miy iiend, a sworn stUtement of the facts was tiltd it the bauk, and after a yei' or so had )aiSWA withiot, its having been prie sented 'or redemption the bauk paid over the money. The bank takes in an pays out, its goid coin by weigilt. ho0etiIes it sends out at setatled package and receives it angain hefore tie seat is broken, and yet de aucts quite it sum from the amotml it, which It paid it, out, to make good the loss, deteced uy tihe unerrin , scales, which oc curiled by the abrasion of the coins in trais puitattion. Wnenta 8 tiens tit Latnue. Tihe matnufacttre of wooden shoes in France is largely carried onl il the Depart ment of Lozere, atiel is concentratted around the cities of Mlende and Villefort. They were originally worn there only excepion ailly, but their us8 ias now beeome general in nearly tall the departments of France. They are worn by the country people in the Il.ik and forest, oil the road by atll laborers, ill tanneries, dye houses, fulling mills, chemical works, aid ill the mines, making an economical and iealthy foot covering. About, 1'700 hands are occupied in this de partment in the mantifacture of wooden *-hoes. A thousand of these are working only part of their timle ;abuout 500 atre oc cupliedl not moreC tan 100 dhays duarinlg the year, anld only 200 wvoik on wooden shoes as5 nmchl its 200 days annulally. Theli frst class mtake, durtting the winter' months, the commlnon wooden 81h0es, while the better ciarved and imore expeni~ve oneCs are* mauctredi' by priofessionlal woirkmen, sett led itt the small cities iabove named. the anial producetion of wooden 811008 amouints to taboutt 546,000) pairs, 276,000 being used( by the poputlationt of Lozere, anid 288,000 pairs areo made to soll else where. Th'le largest store: anad markets for thtese goods are in the cities of Satnt Ambhoise and1( Nimes. 'I heo expottion of wooden shioos reipresenited in 1877 a vathue of 2613,700 fi'ancis. Th'le tottal value of alli the maniufatciuread woodeit shaoes reaches r'ttrly the sum of one million frantes anmt ally. Hut cw s a lass 7 The oldest specimen of puire glass bear ingr any thting like a date, is a little monlIed lion's heaid, beatrinig the ntame of an Egvp than kitng of the eleventth dynasty, In the SladIo eollectiona at the Britisha mluseuml 'That Is to say, at a periodI whlich mtay be moderately laced as mloro thani 2001) years BI. (1., glass was not only made(1, btut mnade with a skdill whichi shows that the art was nothing new. 'The inventIon of glatzlng p)ottery whht a filmn or varnish of glass Is so Oht that among tho fragments whicha bear iscriptions of thte early Egyptian monarchy are beads, possibly of the first dynasty. Of thle later glass thtere are antiterous examples, such as a bead foundI at Tihiebes, wvhich las the namo6 of Queen ilatasoo or liashep, of thie eighteentia dyl nasty. Of theo samte period, are vases and goblets and many faig'nent'. It canniet be doubted thtat the story preserved by Pliny, whiceh~assigns the eaedit, of the inventon to the Plhonicians, is so far true, that these adventurous maerchants brought specimens to othier couinbics fronm Egypt. Dr. Schle mann found disks of glass In the excava. tiotns at Mycea, though Homer does not mention It as a substance known to hlm. hat the mtodern art of the glass blower was known long .before is certaIn fronm re. presentations among the pictures on the walls of a tomb at, Beni Hlassan, of the twelfth Egyptian dynasty ; but a mutch older picture, whIch probably represented ,thle sameo mtanufacture, Is among thec hnalf obliterated scenes In a chamber of the tomb of 'Thy, at Eakkars, and dates from the tIme of tho fith dyanasty, a time so remote that It is not possible, in spIte of the assid. uous researches of many Egyptologers, to gIve It date in years. Mlchnigani hats reni anid personial pr oper ty vailued att $030,00)0,000. -Thoro are nlo lwer than 800 young Atieeleans now #tudying I ariiin'uarls. M~iraynahet'has tied tup 00 hoay~ on te sefikit snalboveRad Tiho King atil the I'll'eliuifgtit. Who," s*aid King Freuerick of Prussia, at a fete at Potada.n, which had attracted an tinusually brilliant assemblage, "who Is that tall, b)Ony Old 111nan with a head so full of character?'' "'Sire, it is Dr. Gall, the famous pire lologist." "Ah, the phirenologist, eh? (onmnand him to dinie wih us to-morrow evening.'' Next evcving the King receivedI the doe tor affably, and they sat down to dinner with ai dozet other eoivives, till blazimg wIth d Icorattions and ilnifoims, but awk ward and constrained inl mainer and con versat ioll. "IDoctor," Said the King at the concstiion of the repast, "prity let us se' omething of your wonderful skill. Exai. ine these gmItlemen's lieads and tell me fratnky what you think of Iheir cIaracteOr and dispoitions from teil ilidicatiolis af forded by their cranial developlents." Gal rose 1111d felt thle head of his leigh bor on the right, a stout powerful 1111111 in a respletent uniform, who had been il dressed a "Gencal." "Speak frankly," said the King, sceing tha the phlrell0nologist seemed ('bIITrassd. 'llis Excellency," Said (.)all, "'must. he pa11siatly add.cled to tield Sports8 an1d exciting pleastires; lie has a decided fancy for-for the battle battle field and-" The King smiled and pointii. tile phre nologist to his ot her neightbor, a 8:11111. aler keen-eyed man in diplomiattic costume. "-This gentlemaon," said thw doctor, "is -hum11--an expert inl gymnasll.tic exercISes, all accomplished pedestriani; very neat in(] iraceful in aill operiat ion1s requiring manual dexterity---' "Elnoigh," said the King, rapping on I he table, and ats a score o so'diers enter d lie contiinued, to the Stupefaction of Dr. U ill. "Remove hese gentiemini to their cells. Allow tme to put in plain ljianguatiege what Youk were reluctant to say: The Gten'eral is a murderer uider sentenc2, and your neighbor is the most expert pickpocket and ou1t- . urse in all Prussia, who has eluded capt ure on innit:erable occasions. Exam ine your pockets." The doctor did s0 and found that lils handkerchief, purse, mtch aid snull'-box hIa disappeared. They were all returned to him next da1y, witli a complimentary letter from the King, and a Costly Aniull'-box bearing Frederick's portrait set in brill ianlits. Clay . am'l. A large manufactory or clay pipes is loctiled in Delroit, till the clay used is pur chased at B3altimore and costs from $410 to $100 per car load. It arrives at a factory in hard, dry imps. and must, ie thorougbly Soakedli it a big tub or tank before it is ready for use. I lie sift clay is then rolled an1d kneaded, and mixed together uitil it. forms a solid mass without ally lumps. Six men sit around at table witlh i lot of damp clay within eatsy reach. Grasping a lamp itm each hand the iworktman rolls it back atn, for.h oni the table, shaplig it with his hand until it resembles it pipe, tid thii ayiing it o1 Side untit il a t rty Iill of wet, embryo ipes hals been aecu:nuliated. The trav is tieln placeu out noorn in tile Sun to ( ry, and after an hour or two is brought inside by the Same worktiani, shoved iito till iron m(ould and pressed into Shape witli it (ick 11111 lit a level. 'I lie hole through the pipe is ma11de by hand with a piece of wire, well greased. Two wirls at an adjoining table receive the 1)ipes it this stage of their mn11 ufacture and scrap3 off the ridges and other imperfections left by the nmould. 'I he wet pipes are then- takull out of the shop tind pltced itn larre crocks or tubs of fire cly, called stguers. As fast ae the sag.;ers are filled they are pied o11 above ano:.her u. s.dc a bl-ek kin, and two or thc time? a week tle kiln is fired and stubjected to ii. tense h.. t, for several hou1rs until the pIs arec baked thoroughly u hute. -Ih Ite n i of cach pipe is thieii coated with a yellow mixture ot shellac, umicric and 01ther sub. stanmces to prevenat it fromt stickinig to the lips, tand thie pi pes are ready for shipmenut int boxes partilly filled with satwdlust,. A Stead~y wiorkmantil can1 roll anid mould Light grcas of 1)ip)s a (lay, andC is capable of mnak ing $1~0 or $I2 per' week, if lie attlends to lisa business. TIhe factory has a capaicity (If turning out 150) to 180 boxes pecr week, each box conttaming two gross of pipe)0. Every four or five weeks a Lonl car load o f claty is r'eceivedl from lBaltimtrA- Almost all clay pipes are stamplled with the letters TI. D)., bein~g the Initlis of Thlomats fDon. nel1l3, a famous mnanuftacturer of clay pipes8 in Scortmd, matny years ago, liis iamte is still plerpetuated by mainufactturcra of clay pip~es in Europo and Atnmrica. Mr. esmus 5*sa'M Cockatoo, Mr. Slawson is the possessor of a cocka too which is more ronmarkabie for the noise0 It makes than for anythling else. it's voice Is not exactly i ke a foghorn or a tugboat whistle; It Is worse. Everybody in thte neighuborhood Is threatening to fle legal papers for its inunediate detruction. Thlis Is alarrminlg M~r. Slawson very much, as Ito hats owned~ the Ird a long while, hiavinmg made(1 its aicquatantce several years aniterior o ineeting hIs wife. Consequentiy, lie re gard~s the bird with a sort of sentimiental vetieration, and1( evenl pretendls to regartd its vocal lucubrations with critical satis~tac tion, i10 was warned by a lawyo' for the seventh time that the uoird would have to be brought to ati 0:1( uless hisa voice could be miodilled. This, of coures, would be a diflcult thing to do, as the voice wvas full of dIabolical weirdness, esp~ecIally when dlirectedi against a stonowvall on a clear, cold dasy. Mrlt. Slawson is of the opinion that If thiat cocka eo's voIce could only be ma terializiedi it would certainly revolutIonIze the rat tall file market. About a week ago Mr. blawsotn thought Ito woutld expetrtnenlt with the cockatoo and1( ascartin if 1(8 saw edlge couldn't be abated In some way. At first lhe was at a loss wvhat to do, but foutid his way out of the dIlemma by surr'ounding thte cage by ARolian harps. As soon as the harps were fixed and the cyckatoo Jet off a broadsIe, Mr. Blawson was of the 4pinhon that Paradise was loose on the premises.' But the cockatoo dropped and felt sore at not hearing its voleo reverberate on the soul of the average mortal with its ous~o niary weirdness , consequent y- ,it reached out wilhm ts bill and bit off. stringseonough to make an aperture Auilcee69lly largefp9d s hecad to protrude through and leot9a shriek that br~ke a panoeof glass an' ut rn t waiggeragi - l at wvas repedfng od' the wlviCIW4'- sl ., ~ Thdi olau lhp ai~- X fr~ 8 a J~CSb'ti have the sameo effect; but it did no good. In the middle of the knight, when the Slawsons were wrapped in happy dreams, the cockatoo set u) a long, unearthly yell, which passed up the pip-s and filled all the rooms with a discord that awakened all hands and iet thei to believe the houqe had been entered by birglars. The CaUsd Of the noise :eing ascertained, the registers vere iimediately turned off and the cock atoo's notes went out of the chimney in such volume that the neighbors were all out with guns to quell the supposed riot. On the following (ay tie bird was taken from the 8 ove and replaced in his cage, his head being inserted ,nto a tin pipe forty feet long and running along tihe side of the house, it be ng supposed, as the other end of tihe pipe was closed, that the din would exhaust itself wittiout making its influence felt on the community ; but time cockatoo blew the end out with a preliminary yell, mni ent succeeding ones through the pipe wi.lt ucl force that when Mr. Slawson, in walking before it, had his liat taken off. Alter thi a pipe was secured which was all hill of crooks and elbows, Mr. Slawson believing that. as time bird's voice reached a shari) turn it would be smashed to atoms; but this also failed, as the pipes only started tie horrible it a serpentine course, froin which it started from tihe end of the pipe like a whirlwind, and worked its way spirilly until it si)ent its force. Then the cage was rapped with a poker, and the solemn occupatnt threatened with all sorts of disaster, such as being drowned, shot, and taken to church; bui nothing seemett to produce the deilred effect. One day lost week onte of tihe girls by accident repealed t lite trom one of Dr. Holland's poeis and the bird turned sigularly pale. Tnis hamp)y (iscovery caused them to hang (he "Alarble Prophecy" where the bird could see it, to penterate With proper awe. On tlic following dity h6 died. "From lAtti to Cottar."p "A woma chooses for her profession the head of a iouschold. Let her not enter on it lightly. Properly viewed, it Is the most elevated of all professions. She has in her hands the welfare and direction of a few or imany people, but it is a work which cannot he neglected. It il her duty to see that her home is clean, airy, cheerful, happy, and its various econoinies attended to." ''A mistress snould go throtighher house every morning, praise where praiso is due, and ( .elly 11tnd fault with any carelessness or omission, thinking nothing beneath her notie, but with agentle authority which ittnits of tno quest iot. " -Do not live with a flue house over your licad and subsist it the baseient. Few peo bIle, out of your family, know or care how you live. Let your house, large or small, be kept for the benellt of those who live in it.. W artht atnd light are better than fline furi'tdture, and good beds better than fine be.1 eads." 'Live in your drawing roons; have books work, music, lire, all to make it the pleas antest place for the members ot tile family; a place for rest, comfort, conversation, with nothing too lnne to sit upon." "Curlahis are not for ornament, but use; open fire. It ia tihe best of luxuries, an or nament, and a cheerful compani6n." 'Early rising is desirable. I do not mean getting peopIle u) before dayllghtt, It is use less to begin the day by making every inem ber of the family uncomfortable. ' "The motler should set an example of bcinltg ieatutly and appropriately dressed. She will see no one during the day before whom she shiould desire to appear so well, or to be so attractive." " i'reat youtr servants wilth confidenco and consi:leratioin, and do not suspect them of doing wrong. l'hey nmust have tine to do their wash lg ad keel their clothes in order, or they cant.t be clean anid tidy. "Withotit whlolesome intervals of amuse mnent, untinterrttptedi work becomtes intoler able. Tihere are aid must be dlifferenesg in thme modes of enjoyment, hut there is a coam mon01 wvomtanhood." A Turtlo and~ sturgeoni Fghtt. C. S. S. Ihore, while fishinig recently in Flint River, Ga., was disturbed by thme coni tiualt failing of some heavy .blody in the water. After listening for so titn hto con clatded that so:ncthing tuntustual was going on, apd, seizing is gan, wvent forward to latvestigate. On the opposite sidle of the river heo saw a wvhlte object with a large datrk one at racekinig it. A boat beinghandy, lie bailed it, and expeditiously andi quietly pasmsed over. HeI strttck the bank about twelve feet above the cause of disturbance, seized his gun, and~ as thme boat swung around with thte stream fired at the. bead of tho datrk object. ie then dropped theo gun, and as thte boat dirif ted he lifted an Immense logger-heatd tutrtle Into it, after which he pulled in the othter object, which proved t be a large sturgeon. .Before ho could re. cross the river, the turtle, which- was only stttnned by the bird enot, recovered and showed fight. 'Ithe stlumtion was lively and iterosting. The boat was leaky, tihe -wa. ter' deep and swift, the turtle large, Strong, and determbited otn a fight. It adv'anced .' with open mouth, andi Cul's gun wvas empt, lie gave the boat all the impetus possible, stuck the paddle in the boast s moubh, drew a little penknlfc from his poeket and tried to cut Its throat. As theo tturtlo kept Its hol on the paddle, ho succeededi in this after several ef'orts. H~e then carried his prlse home, and fottnd that It weighed fifty dr ' sixty ponds. Thte sturgeon, hie .suppoed~ weighted thirty or forty. Never examgerato. Never point at another. Never betray a confidence. Never wantonly frighten others. Never leave home with mtnknd words, Never neglect, to call upon yogr friende. Never laugh at the misfortune of otheres Never give a promise thai yug o not ful. fill. " Never send a presont hop1igi' fou& fr Never speak muchi your oWttox 4 anees. Noyer fail to be piln4 o ~itli Never make your4tf thtn '~:~ owgtpy evr