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TRI-WEKLY EDJITION W I NNSBORO, S. C., DECEMBlER 3.17. I - - - . . - ~ .. -. - - - - -- -. -.. - ________ ~ 4v n ~. , -. xrn A BEAUTIFIil WOMAN. in a little white houso, on a hillJido groen, Liveis a beautilul womnan as over was seon. In" the sixty-fivo ye-ars that bh livod, I may may, the's been growing more beautiful overy day. You do not belief it? Ask Susio, niy sihter, She's the very first porson titib over haid kins od her, And if she'd not nued fler by ni;ht and by day, Poor Suo would hive boon iin a very bad ways I can bring other witne-s-no whom you nmay 1aco 'T'hoy will tell you the sane-t hey %% oro in the same caise. "Has sho lovers?" Yes, surely! No lei-a than ole'von he has seven on earth,and four up in heaven ier hair is so boautiful-fadea and thin; Thoro are beautiftul nrinklos flom forehead and chin; Hor eyes are an cham ng as charming can be, When she lo6km o'er her glieses so fondly at me. And I know by her life, which has beautiful boon, She Is like the "king's daughtor---all glorious within." Ai, you've guesed who it its! It could be no other, I'm sure, than ny beautiful, darling: good mother. The Sutor of Selkirk. Once upon a time there hved in Selkirk a shoemaker, by the name of Rabble H[eck speckle, who was celebrated both for dex t erity in his trade, and for some other qual ifleation of a less profitable nature. tab lic wis ia thin, meagre-looking personage, with lank black hair, a cadaverous counten ance, and a long, flexible, secret-snelling nose. In short, Ie was the Paid Pry of the town. Not an old wife in the par'isl could bay a new scarlet rokelay without Rabbie knowing exactly within a groat of the co'st; the doctor could not, dine with the minister butRabbio could tellwhether sheep's-head or haggis formed the staple coammuodity of the repast; and it was evenl said that lie was acquainted with the grunt of every sow, and the cackle of every individual lien, in his neighborhood ; but this wants conthnma tion. His wife, Bridget, eldeaIvored( to coline his excursive fancy, and 1t ci hanin liu down to his awl, reminding lim it was all they lad to depend on ; but, her inter foence met with exa(tly that degree of at tention which husbands usually bestow on the advice tendered by their Ietter halves -that it, Rabbli informed her that she knew nothing of the matter, that her tunder standing required st'etching, and finally thatt s she presuned to meddle in his affair-Q, lie would be under the disagreeable neces sity of giving her a top-dressing. To secure the necessary leisure for his researches, 1abbie was in the habit of ris ing to his work long before the dawn ; and lie was one morning buisly engaged Putting tihe finishing stiches to a pair of shoes for the exciseman, when the door of is (twell ing, which lie thought was carefully fasten ed, was suddenly openlA, and a tall figure, envoloped in a large black cloak, and with a broad-brimmed liat (IwnM over his brows, stalked into the shop. Rabbie started at his visitor, wondering what could have oc casioned this early call, ald wondering still mnore that a stranger should have arrived in the town without his knowledge. "You'1re early afoot, sir, " quoth llabbie. "Lucky Wakerife's cock will no eraw for at good half hour yet." The stranger vouchsafed no reply ; but, taking up one of the shoes Rabbie hand just finished, deliberately put it oni, and took a turn through the roon to ascertain that it did not pinch his extremities. During these oper-ations Rablbie kept a watchful eye on hia customer. "HeT smells awfully o' yird,'" muttered Itabbie to himselt ; iane wvould 1)e ready to swear he had just cam frac the plough-tail. The stranger, who aplpeaired to 1be satisfied wvith the effect of the experiment, montion eI a d by Itabbic for the other shoe, and pulled out a pur1Ise for the purp~ose of paying for his purchase ; but Rlabbie's surp~rise nmy be conlceived1, when, on looking at thec pu1rse, lhe p~erceivedl it to be0 spotted with a kind of (eauthy mouki1(. "G udesake,'"thought11abb~lie, 'this queer mnan maun hae howkit that puriise out 'i the ground. I wonder wyhere lhe got it. Some folks say there ar'e bags o' siller buried near* By this time the strange'r had opened the hie's eyes widened ; but the stranger with an air of nochalance, tendered hinm a piece of gold, and made signs for the other- shoe. "'It's a thing morally impossibly," re sponded Rabble to this mute prioposal. "alr by token, that 1 hiac asgoodl as sworn to the exciseman to hiac them ready by (lay light, wvhich wIll be no long a coming" (the stranger here looked anxiously toward the windlow); "uad better, 1 tell you, to afront the king himself than the e'xciseman."' Thle stranger gave a loud stampl with lis shed foot, but, Rabbic stuck to his point, of fering, however, to have a pair ready for his new customer In twenty-four hours; and, as the stranger, jutstly enough perhiaps, reasoned that half a pair of shoes was of as little use as half a pair of scissors, lie found himself obliged to come to ternms, andt seating himself on Raibbie's three-legged stool, held out his leg' to the auter, Iwho, kneeling,down, tpok.thie foot of his taetturn customer on his knee, and proceedled to measure it. "iSomlethilng o' the splay, I think, sir," said Rabble, with a kmowling air. No answer. "Where will L bring the shoon to when they'r'e ~lno t' asked Rabbib, anxious to Und out the domicile of his visitor. "I will call for thaem myself beforeo cock crowing," responded the stranger In a very "Hlout, sir," quothi Ralbbie, "I caunna let you hac the trouble Y coiming for (hems your ael; it will just b6 a pleasure for mo to call with thetin at your hiouso," "I have iny 'dotthts of that," repliedl the stranger, in the same peculiar mannler; and( at all events, my house would not hold us buoth, "it inun be a (looms sma' biggin," an sweredi Rabble; "1but 1noo that I hae ta'enu yOuri hionotir's mseasu re "iTake your. own I" retorted the stranger; Sand givinag Rabbie's a touch with hIs foot that hld hlim plrostrate, walked cooly out of This sud~len overturn of himselfan hi ':plans-for a few n omsents discomflted the .ii - seto :h t ickly gat hring u n lk his , hli rislied to the door, whieb le relacled Jlv as llncky Wkil(erife 8 cock protllimili It he dlawnv. itbbie flow down thle street , whiebc was terminated by the climchyard, but, saw only the moveless tomibs looking cold mid chill under Ohe gray light oft a wintier morn. ithbie hiclied his red lightcaip off Ilk brow, and .eratelied Ii's head with an11 lir of perplexity. "Weel," hie mutttered, ats he( retraiced his steps homewards. lhe is fooled Ime this timle, but Sorrow takke mne it 'm nuIo up1 wi' hllin the Iliorn." All (lily tabbie, to the iniexpre-Sible Sill prise of his wife, reinutined as constantly on his three-legged stool as if lie had lieen "'yirked'' there by some bro lier'of the era ift. For tile space of twenity four hours h1is lonl nOe Was iever seeni to throw its shldow across the threshold of the door ; and so ex traordiniry did Ilie event appear: that the neighbors, onle anid ill, agreed that it pre licted som1e prodigy ; but, whether it w"Is to take the shiape of a comet, which woult deluge thei with its liery tale, or whtler they were to be swallowed ip) by an earthIi quake, could by no means11be sctled to the satisfact ion of the parh'ties (oncerned. Meanwhile lIabhic diligently pursued his employment, tililt ding he conicerit of his neighbors. What mattered it to him, that Jenny Thrift's cow had calved, that the milnister's servant, withsomething in her upronl, had beeni seen to go ill twice to Lieky Wakerife's, that the laird's diiry maid had been observed stealing up the red loan in the gloainiig, hiat, the dru ilad gone through the town announcing tIhat i sheep was to be killed onf Friday ? The stianger alone swain before his eyes; and cow, dairy-maid, anld drum kicked the beam. It Vas late In the night when Iab bie had occomplislied his task,' and the-i placiig the shoes at his bedside, lie lay down in his clothes, and fell asleep; but the fear of not being sulliciently alert, for his new Customer induced him to rise it conisid erlible time ) before daybrelik. ie opened the door ai. .ooked into the street, but it was still so dark he could scarcely see i yard before his nose ; lie therefore retuirned into the house, muttering to himself: ''What the sorrow can keep him ?" when a voice at his elbow suddenly Said: "Where re iny shoes?" "Here, sir,'' said Rabbie, quite tr rns ported with joy ; "here they tire, right and tight, and muckle joy may ye lie in wear in' them, for it's better to wear Ahoon than shee:s, as the auld sayilig gangs." "Perhaps I may wear both," answered the stranger. "Gude save ust,'' 1u1110111 labbie, "do ye sleep il Your sloon ?" The stranger mainde no anIswer ; but laying piece of gold on the table, and taking up the shoes, 'walked out of the house. "Now's mily time," thouglt Rabbie to himself, as lie slipped after him. The stiranger paced slowly oil, and Itb bie carefully followed him ; the stranger turned up the street, ind the sutor kept close to his heels; "Odsake, where canl he Ibe galun?" thought Rabbie, as lie saw the stranger Wir into the churchyard ; "he's making to that grave in the corner ; now lie's sniniig still ; now lie's sitting down. Gudlesake ! what's come o' him ?" itabbie rubbed his eyes, looked round in al'. diree i011, but, lo aid behold ! the Stralge hiad "anlIisled ! "There's something no cmiany about this," thought the 11or; 'but I'll mark the placc at oiy rate;'" and Habbie, after thrusting his a'wi into the grave, hastily retuirned home. The news soon spread from hotue to house. and by the time the red-faced sunll stared down oil the town the inhabitals were all in conmnotion ; and, after having held sundry consultations, it was resolved mcm. con., to proceed in at body to the churchyard, and open the grave which was suspected of being suspicious. The whole pbopulation of the Kirk Wynd turnedutl on01 this service. Sutors, wives, childireni, all hurr'1ied pell-miell aftei' Rabbite, 'wh'lo led his mm'nios straight to tile grave at. which hiis mylsterious customer had1( dliiaeard, and where lie found his awl still sticking illn the pla1ce where he had left it. Inlinedhiatelv' all hands(1 wvent to wvork ;the gr'ave was openedc ; the lid was forced off the cofiln; and1( a corp~se wasi1 discovei'ed di'essed in the vestments of thc tomb, buit wvith a pair' of perfectly new shoes upon its long bony feet. At this drlealdful sight, the muiltitude fled in every3 direction, Lucky Wakerife leading the van, leaving Rabbic and a f'ew~ bold birothier's of the ci'aft to arranilige maittersi' as they plealsed with the per'ipatetic skelton. A council was held, and1( it wasil agreedl thait thie cofln should be firml11y nailed utp atnd conihttdl to the ear'th. Before (doing so, hiowever, Rabble propose'd d1enud1in~g his cuistomer' of his shoes, iemarking that he had no more need foi' them than a1 carit 1had for thiiee wheels. No objections were made(1 to th15 is'proposa, and1( Ra~bbie, therefore, quickly comning to the extremities, whipped t hem off in a trice. They thien (rove half ai hundred tenpenny nals into the lid of thle collin, and( having taken care to covei' the gr'ave wvith pre'tty thick (divots, the pa1rty' retui'ned to their separate p)lacs of abhode. Certaini qualns of conscience, howe ver, now arose in Rabble's mind1( as to thle pro pricty of diepriving the corpse of what 1had( bceen hionestly' bought and paid for. Ite could not help allowing that if the ghost w~ere troubled1 withl cold feet, a cir'cumlstlance b~y 1no means impr~iobab~le, lie miight natui'al ly wish to r'emedly the evil. But, at (lie same timie, considlering that the fact of his having mad1(e a pair of shoes foi' a defunct man wouldl be an everlasting blot, on the Hecckspeckl e escutcheon, and( reflecting also that his customer, being dead in law, could1 not ap~ply to any court for redress, ou' santor imnfully resolved to aibide 113 thme consc quences of his deed. Next morning, according to custom, hie rose long before dlay, and fell to his work, shiouting tile old song of tlpc "Butors of 8el kirk," at the very 'toliOf his voice. 'A short tine, however, bofore the dawnm, lisa wife, w~hio was in bed In the back room, remark cd, that in the very middle of his favorIte verse, hits voIce fell Ito a quaver; and then broke into a yell of terror ; and then she heard a noise as of persons struggling; amid then all was qiet as the grave. The good (lame immcdiately huddled on her clothes and ran into0 the shop, where she foundth three-legged stool broken in pieces, tile floor' strewed wvith bristles, the door wide open, anid Rabble away I Bridget rushed to (lie (loor, and there she Immediately discovered the marks of footsteps deoplprinted onl the ground., Anxiously tiraetJ ~lat, dn--and on-what was her huortov tQbd I that. they terminated in the church-yard, at tihe grave of Rabble's customer I The earth round the Igrave bore traces of having been the scone of some fearful si~ruggle, and peyerpl leeks -of lank black hair were ' scatter'ed -on'tho gra. II hlf distiafed, she ruslid I broligh Ili town to ee.nIItii1ielie the (racfull in telligence. A crowdtcollected, ani(d i ey sleedily rose to open the grave. Spades, Ilnckuxes, d m1111(attocks, wer. quickly put ini repisition ; the divots weC reiemoved the lid (t the c(olin wa oni(e(.- moe torn off; an1d there( Ilay itS ghalStly ennWith Is A.1es rephilced oil his fet, and Ilabbie's red ight-Cap (ittilhed in 1118 light hald ! 'The Iel Ipile, ill consternation, lied froim Ithe Ccrebyard; an md nothing furlther. has1 I Ianispirecd 1( tthrow anily additionial light uipon the meilancholy fate of the Stitor of Selkii'k. S'hili i ynch an(d Josep1h 'ender grass had at remarkable adventure at 111111ter's l'oint, Michigan. 'Tie florm er was blown from a liih brick chim ne. The latter had an almost irae1'i iulous ecape. 'ile ehiiney was -115 4'et. high, and tle two m1en1 werci Oil a sentilolding, PendertIra-liss Oil the tipper an1d Lynich below him. The winti Struck tle chimney with teridile force and the first seail'ulding began to sway back ani1d forth, cracking and straining. Plendergrass, seeing the danger, tiuge gcd the brick work of' the Chitiney. As the storin swayed the senifoIlh.g f roil its l'asteligligs, Lynch was iith'er tilnable to htail a secolre hold on the chimney or too i11ch11 colfuised to Ituke the attempt. St.ddenly the tipper part, of' the structure gave way with n erash, anild waR iiurled to the ground, Ia tangled m5ass of poles, pililks an1d piniiiteras. Lynch fell with tihe seaf fold, while Pendergrass, with a des perate effort, spriing upon the top of the chiinCy, anad wias left hiatiging on the narrow edge of brick, I IZ feet from the groond. Lynch's maigled 0body wis picked ip by Some o his fellow worklmun, and carried to the oilee of tile Collpany. *le w1as 1101, yet dead, I but lived for tiree hours. Pender grass in the meantime remained cling ing to the top of the Cimniiuiiey, while the istormll swirled aboit him, seiniiig to threaten tile overtIiow of the struc tu1re. lie sticeded in finding partial protection from the hurricane by crouching oi some pieces of plank that had beeni placed inside the mouth of the elilmney to laid in Its erection. lie says tlhit whenl he feit the scafiolding giving way uinder him, anlid sprang for the Chimney 011), he called to Lynch to follow him. Ly nch (made a desperate ellort to gain the Iop of the structure, but. lost I1s footing and tumbled head. long to thie bottol, striking in I1s descent every tier of the lower porrion o1' the seal'olding which did not fall. But inother ditiger beset PeI dergras-is. A fire had been a few itin utes before started iml (lhe funiace below to test tile drawing qualities of the new ehiiiney, and they almost smothered Peideirg1ass, who d(d not quit the plaec where he crouched, from feai of being blown from the ellininey top by tle gale that howled over hi liead with lcreasiing violence, while tle fumlies irom the chimneiy almost took away his brenth. "I saw my danger," said Pendergr.a'.s, '"and gave ul) 111 hope of being resceld. But just then I saw aome len below me doing all they Could to relieve mile, 1.1nd mi1y heir't bounded with hope.'" Tihese were some1( sailors w 'hose iinmes could not be ascer' taIinedl. Tlhey courageously' volunteered to 43l imb the the cIIhimney, and1(, clam11 bering upj the frail poles and planks that11 reliiainled clinging to oneO side of' it, they succ'(eeded ineuiing Penlder gra.ss, who, his nevAus systeml haiv ing unldergrone a terrible strain, fainted ill tihe airms 0 Ils rescuers, Ile siull'r ed~ somewhlat fronm inIhalinlg gas and1( smlloke, but1 is r'ecoverinlg. The successful cuilt ivaition of these in pots depends(1 in a great mueasure on the rhIality of the soil uised for thle purp'lose. The bes~t comipost is made(1 upl of one- half good tihlrous l0oam1, the1( other hanlf of equal proprions111 of well-rotedl dhung aind leaf soil ; tile p)ots shoutld lie from11 live to six 111h11s inl diameter, and( (1eep1 and1( narr'low rathe than1111 shallowv and1 broad. in polling hiot tw~o-thirids of the( hulb shuouild be biuried, ana1( the1 so11illmust not.11 he ressedI too hairdt abouit the base of the bulb11, or1 iln tile act of rooting the Ilrbres will be unalble to. penetralte the soil, and1( the bulb gets forced ulpwa~rd. After lahnting, tihe plots( canU be p)inced~ in a cool, dr1y, datrk ellar, or out of door1s, on a spot somlewhiat screenied fromn wel, and1( if the 1pots be stood( on slates or tiltes, so muchel the better ; they shouk1i( have a thoroigh soaking of watter, then be cover ed with line ashues to the depth11 of from one0 to thruee inchles. If p~lanted ab)out te end~ of October tile bulb1s) will have made shoots ani inch long by the beginning of February, and1( they can thlen be taken to thn conserCi valor'y or' gr'enhouse, or wherever It is ini tendedC~ they shall1 flower. A little wvarmth and pllenlty of wvater wvill greatly assIst thle pr1oducl(t ion (of fhic sp)ikes of floweir. A Faous101 Wine. Tlhe miost famous Madeira ever kniown was the "1814 p~ipe." It was fished upl from the biottomi of tihe ehoeldt, atbove Flushing,. In .1814, having remahined there sin1c 17r8,in the timb~hers of a 81111 whlich had1( bcenI wrIcked ait the month of tile river In thamt year.i It wasso1ld by auIcion0 at, ant. wer'p, theC greater' portilon being secured for Louis XVLlI., who dispatcd an agent wvithi lmstructionls t~o secure It regardless of cost. Trha King (or the agent) presenltedl the French consul at Antwverp wvithi several ozoiens wvhich lie sold to tho Duc do Raguse. In 18539, afteir tile dcathi of the Duchesse (10 Raguse, four dozen r'em1aned in her cellar, and they wcre sold1 for somiethinlg over their weight In gohld to Baron Rothschild. 0On one ocasion, wvhen the Duchesse entertainedi Taglioni, several bottles were produced, tho hostess rightly considering that to be thought worthy of the preetous liuor was the greatest honor that could be paid to anty hrwdy. NI) Smiail D1ses. t had a gardner when I was till a yoItni manIl, anl Ohd solier, William Filay ; hit h1 d picked 1) Som1ehlow at great deal o very graphic langialge, which heIt( usel freel uponl the ordlinary occasions of life. lil emuoe 1Il an(d suid: "I'inI1 bad till over, inside and out, wan you to give m22e somlle1 physie. h'lley tel 1 ie you've got a medicine ciest, ad ia bookl ais belongs to it.'' "Well, sad1, di hv. it i you takey'' "Somle rhubarb-." "I'll look inl the book," I -said, "id sC< how ine. b. Now, the book Ias (I hav it still, viiii the chest---at least mly wi' hals, for I C1rCfully m1 ad 1101e' e a Cdd2i1 preseilt of both) at. tle beginnping a table 01 Joses, (llite an21 inexelsable anare, I think, lo simple people. It is construc)2 ted onl t lypothetical prilciple,--if Io 22nl adtht, it :Iramil, si IclI to othjeri aiges." ThIe hypo 1etical part escaped me; anlt aduit, 2a drai -r that's sixty graini-n1illety graim 1 all, I gott 11111f 11ee of at nlewpp1e', mut it on Ithe dining t(able, and mixed it upl). It l0oked at good deal. Hlt I said to mv. ;elf, "-Must be all right, hero's the hook; yils an adultt. tie was over seveit v. io I rang the bell. "Ilere's your physic ; I holpe it wvill pml rou aill right. " "I1 he to talke all ItIhat? "Yes, that's jllst whit te litok sv miall doses aire foolish t hingsm. "All right,' says he. h'lien 1 began to encourage himui, "Now, Iinltay, you're not very well; don't it)' tc to tin) work to-day; go home, keep your. elf warm'222, an11d tell your wife to mix it ul n1 somlle Warm1,111 water--not too mnuch waer; rou'll feel mucI better in the mlitorning. I dhoul, if I were 3ou1, take it lit one. "'All right," said he0. 'oor man, his colfidlene ill me had li ilits. I tholghit n1o more about it uti lext morning; 1y Conscience w 1 6 qui nasy; I had done a wise aid kind thing: [ had made a good use of mj dar ioluhL2S gift. While I wts dressing i 1Ihw morn1tfing, I ooked out of the window, amd t1hre wm.4 Vinillay stan(liig Ibetween) mile a1( the ga.i' .len wall. Ile looked, So to speak, sha41 >wy, almost ghost iy ; the twall, ats it were, waits visible through him; u1t, as it wm laylight(, I wasn'it afralid. "H1ope you0['C better this o11no11ng; glad 0 think You Imust be, o You Would nol inve come u. l!p. "tWell," said Ie, "I be 21 trille beltter.' "All!'' I said, "I thougit so; 'uIt tr0o your physic, of course ?" "Why, dichn't youl tell mle to Ilake it:? l'll tell you till about it. I goes home 1< iy wilfe and says, "There, you m1ix tha up1); milld, not much Water.' Lord sake! 11e said. 'you1 be not going to take 111 that why. it. would kill at horse and 2 vow.' 'oul foolish Womn1141, hol .:uur tongie' li) 22 do a1s I bid you2. Mllstel s golt ook, and knows a sight. m1h, k. 01n y1. So she goes and mixes 12l il a s2op baIsiln m2(d briiigs it baCk Wit11 21 pn t111ing il Lthe middle."' At this part of his report I begat Im 1 v misgivilgs. Hie welnt ol : "I got him down--bitl it was 21 toug1 job-and goes to bell.' I draw at veil over what followed. I reeled about with laughter, 'truggling 14 look sympathetic, butl. my itsgivilgs in -relse(d. Ris exact, accoulnt of what ha befallen him durig the night 1 took dow just 218 it C1212e out of his 221moti. I sha1 be litppy I acoImllunllica.te ipv'inSsimu i.q rer/i to anybody who m2y like to comnplete tih tale. "Vel,"' I said, ats soon as I could stea(1 my voice, "go iito the kitehien and have Some nice waril breakfalst, an1d we'll se wha12t. is to be doe. iext." Half 22 hllliu later I was on the way 10 Oxford as '1 a 1 could( go, and2( wentt to my13 (1ear2 riend, D~r Wootton. InI the course8 of conIver'sation asked 12122 iln a kind( of careless wa~y abou01 rh1ubarn, 128 a gulide for anyv par11ohial pra2c( tice. "Well," he saidc, "1it'8 a fine0 me1dicine a1nd I give good (loses of it." "'Yes; whait is a good (lose." 'EIghteen grams11 is (quite' enough to anlybody." "Eighiteeni grain2s !" 82said, "'why, I gauv a1 man)2 sixty' yes5terday, and1( thirt~y of magneI1 lie opened Ils great eyes and2( said, '"I "Yes, ovemr seventy"' '"Thlen perha2ps lhe won't die. Gho homi as fast 21s you1 can2, and pour inI p~or'ter am2 port wine21." UmOnaps and1( FuIl. A 1healthly-looking spechnenC2 of the geniu tramp11 stepped( inito the police0 staltion 2222 21jimiiredl for the chIef of pollee. Chief Mung2e wa'is there, and( alsked whaltt waIs wan~ted. ".i wanit to get into the counity hlouse, said1 thle t2rmp. "(WhIat (10 y'ou wanlt to go 1.o the coun2t: bouse for ?" "Pv'e got to ! 1 aiint, got no0 place0 t4 stopl) "W~hy don1't you1 go to work, tad cari your1 living I' "I can't fInd no1. work'1, and1(, besides, I'ii *ick !" "Sick h You d1on't look sIck ! What' tile ma~ttter with you ?" "I have cramps m1 my legs somietimnos mighty baid cramp~l1s ini my legs.'' "Wecll, 11hat wonit prevenlt your workin "I cim2't find4 no work ; I've looked every whlere !" "That Is a lhkely story. There Is plolnt of woi'k for any 021e who wants it. I'll giv y'ou work. I want, som2e wood sa1wed." TIhe trampl's jaw drioppted as lie ve'nture to 1inquir1e :"WV-what kind of wood i4 it ?" "Iar w~2~4Iood," "What'l you give me to saw It ?"' "On1e dollar 1)er cord to saw It twIce." "And bopird ?" "'No, sir, not If I know mlyself-boar yonrself." "'1 iuplh," contemp~ltuiously respondIe the weary and heavy laden 5son of toll, 'a man02 can't earn lis board( a-sawIn' woo twice fur a dlollair a cord1." "Not If Ito boards at the Nicllet, hi you ar'e able to saw a cord per dlay, andcI' can get board at $2.50l to $8 per wveek.' "NIce bourd, for that1. B~ut I can't sa wood owin' to the cramps' mnliy legs, yc sc0, and)4 1 hatv0 fts, too" "What kind of Ats ?" *'"' dunno what kind the~y be, but I haa awvful had 'n." "Whten do you have 'era?" "Mostly In thn nIght tume." "Well, that won't interfere with your sawing wood. ' '"Yes, but my eramps! Och !" And a cramip seeied to take him In hisofft hind leg. ''intl's I thin 1113' man. Where are youl frolal ?" Well, I've liven down in the southern IaIt o' lie State, and ip north, and up in St. 'aIul, Jia' Ithey selit le here." "I'hey did ? kuit where is your home ?'' "lh ! (fe ling f(o , 'othier erap) mny home's lin New Yurk. "When did you leave New Yomk ?" "About twenty-four years ago! (ht Origh !" (Cramips in both legs.) "There, that'll (o. You'll get into no coutiy house here, and you want to skip oilt of this towni at a lively gait." The eramper looked itt the chlief in per feet astonishmlent, erammiled b)oth hands into his poc'kels, spIirted 1a stream of to. bacco .li1e clear across Loti-k-up illey, and "Well. I swow I this is an anlighty sinigu ir sort of at coutr~y if at man't ims cramps an1d fits can't get into lio conlility house (Ittrin' the winter ! 'Move oil I" Anid lie imoved on, without a sign of a Cr11il), aitte'ring "I swow," aind s111 iliting tolincen juice accordingly. Fraseuelo, whoi all Spain las applauided for ten years, whom the prettiest women of all the Spanish provinces have in turn called Frasciuelito, died recentlly of a horn thrust. natirally received in tht exercise of his profession. FrIseueloi, among Spani ards, was a hero, and as Theodore de Han vii le said of Victor I lugo, lie had already bmeoni iimortal. ]fe will forever reminlin tll pr*'lia vp'j~adia of legends. I)uring his liletilme he was the Curiosity, above all ofthers, that his Collltlymeln showed to stran grs. and lie wits prouid of his distilnctiol. I Ic w bs lori ill Andalusia and it. the lge of tell years he went to work in tihe slaugh I er honumt's of Sevilie, where all the ma 11(ador8 begin their career, these slaughter houses beiig for them a sort of acmnlemy. At eighteen ie was eiltlged in the 'famous conpImlly of ElI Tato, who also died of a horn I lrist. A t first lie was i simple chu/o, that is to say, he vas charged with the duly ot' exciting the bul, by shaking a red hiid kerchief betfore his eve.s. Tlien he wis prointotul to the position of landcrillero Tle Illissioll of the /ualdcril/ero is to plant little javelinls ill tle shouih'ers of tie an11i mals. At this dangerous glime Frascielo wits wonlderfulIy expert. When the bull rushed ait him with lowered head, Ie step ped Ilily tI ween I lite animal's horns aind btnaided clean over him, planting his ban dcrillos while in the air. Or he Iwould await the alltack, leaning onl i long pole. VIheln tle lillimlal rushed lit him he would lealp over him, using the pole for support. The hull imighit break the ple, but Fras cuiello would lie sure to land oil his feet somlie live pslers from his former position, and1 sol einmly salute thle spaIltr01. It was by a unan31liimous vole that lie wats raised to le dignily of prima spada. (.)ne day at, St. Sebastian his ciief, Lagartijo, was wodmied and wats unable to contime the fight. 'Ihe crowd called for 1rascuelo to take his plaec. Fraseiielo picked ullp tIle swoId, ran lt tile bull, and classically planted tie weiapon in the back of the ani mal's neck. After that (ay lie killed over three hund1'ed bills in tie same manner, and wits oftenl wounded. The crowd worshiped him, unot Only for his skill and courage, but also for the singular richness of his costumills. lie thought nothing of tspending 84,000 for ini equipment, and, like i pretly woman who changes her dress for every hall. lie lever wore theo saille costume twice. Frascuelo left. a consider able fortune, and his heirs, moreover, will t find in hIs desks, fln ..imee collection of love letters, locks of hir, faded bouquets -iln line, a1 collection1 a like of which is not p)ossessed by anly living man,.l~not excepting even thle mlost alaul~ided of tenofrs. TheIi Vaintia Pimant. Of all orchids thle vanilla is the one0 mlost widlely kniowni ; its fruiit is dleservedly es teemied and 18 an1 impllortant ai'ticle of comi merice. Its valuable properties long ago brought thle vanilla intfo nmotice. The fruit allppears to have been first intrloducd Into Euirope in the beginning of the Sixteent~h Century. Th'le living plant was imfportedl into 10ngland, toward the end of the EIgh teenth Ceintury, by Miller; but we cannot withI cer'taily (let erine whlich one of the few species of vanlilla now known was thlen int roduced. Linnie, however, gave the name cpidendrrum vanilla to the plant which' had COmeI into his bhands, and1( which is sump posedl to have been Identical with that br'ouighlt by Miller. Several years later Swartz, on attentively studying the flower of thle vanlilla, observed notable dlifferences hetwenl it andle the flower of tile genuis pdn rm ; hie was thus ledl to consti tut a ewlenu, and1( epidendrumn vanilla nowy becomie van il/a aromnatica. Later GJrevllec bromght from Amer'ica some1 cut tings of a vanilla dfering from vanilla aromatica, esp~ecially in the size of tihe leaves; to thlis Andr'ews gave the name vanilla planifolia. This lalnt was brlought to Enlgland, thence to the miuseumn at Paris iln 1810, and1( lastly to Blelgum ; It Is the species whose fruit possesses thme - strongest perfume. Theo vanIlla throve hll greemnhouses, hut as It was sensitive to cold, anid dlild not fructify, and Its flowers posses sed no ornamental interest, Its culture was -very limited. For a lonmg thne the only fruIts which camne to Europe were from 'Mexico, or the Gulf of Mexico-the only 0poInts whlere the plant was cultivated on a ,large scale, and( where It s fructification ap peaircd to be Insured. It remained for later "experimnteis to add to the interest at tachling to thIs plant, while at the same time, Iin some1 degree, atugmenting the re sources of the colonles. At tIls time the imp11rssion muadelby certain recent researches on feeundlatlon in plants was stIll freshl, aind ithe questions of hybridatlon and crossIng wer'e closely studied. It has ever sinice been belIeved tha. thme fecundatlon of the vanIlla SIn MexIco arid the neighboring countrIes, where the plant fructifles normally, was b~roumght about by the agency of certaIn in itsects whlich hlitherto do not appear ever to u have been observed performIng this func. .tmonl. Thie hypothesis Is almost equivalent, " to a certamty, now that we AIcnow tile u' habits of tihe Ore~fde, epecially as re, gards reproduction. -The work of extending th 'Long lrancht pier 200 feet, further into the ocean wifll propably begin In Decenlbe. A P'ino County (hnii. The latstest sensat io il the ieighborlhooti of Milford, Pike Coiity, l'ennisvlvania. Fifty-two years ago at initi naied John (oble was found lying Ill in pool of blood oil the road leading fron Milford to Dilg man's Ferry. A large gash was found in lie side of his head, and it was suppoed that the old mnit had been iiurderetd and robbed. lie was buiried immediately after the Coroner's ill(lest, and In a few years entirely forgotten. About three weeks ago the stage-driver who carriesthe l'hiladelphin m1il - lietween Milford and the Delaware Wtter (ilap, while paislig the spot, where Goble was imirdered, maw an object clot hed in white start up1) from the grolill id wvalk in the road Just in front of the horses. The driver urged his team oil, but Ihe " 'ghost' still kept it little Iin advance. After trotting his htorses some1 distiaice, the (driver topped, inld as he dismiounted from Ile st age tihe ghost sank into the ground and disappeared. This was repeated two or three evenings, and the mail-carrier at. last. hecime alarmed and armed himself wit h a six-shooler. Since that time le his sti enk (ie ghost at It distunie several times, but lie has not shot at it. The mail carrier's niame is Searles, niid hI( told his story in Milford. where It spread like wildfire. Partlies were organized to search for the wittidering spirit, and ono party saw it at it short, distance. They tired several shots at the object, and it. disappear ed. A party of young ladies, accompanied by Cae gent0leman, a day or two ago visited the place where lie ghost is isially seen. About it Iuindred yairds from (he spot is anll ohl lesetrted house, antd 011( of thle young ladies, who Was more courageois than the rest, started to walk around this old house in search of (lie "'spook." When iiabout half way around tie building she heard a groan, and turning around, she saw, stand lig just behind her, an object about six feet tall, clothed in White. Shie screamed and fainted, bult, before (lie remainder of the party reached lier the "ghost" had vanished. The '"spirit" his since beenu seen twice, aml on each occsition it was pirsuied, but it always vanished after reaching a certain phic inl 1the woods. It 1 supposed ly many that. the ghost, is a man, dressed i) in a slteet to create a sensation. Others, who are more superst itlous, believes it is the spirit of John Coble, searching for his nmur derer. Whatever It is, it certainh ly suieaed ed(( in c)riatinig ai ( Cided sens4at ion. ib'riis of liosctitownIr. Have you paid the milk hil!. TheI coal is out Tie stove wits ixing. ly night-key is brokeni. That front door bell wire is loo1se ad the bell won't ring. (let some fresh meat. That cat hasn't had anything fresh for nearly t wo days, She won't, eat cooked mteat. The poker is broken. Get soile screw hooks for tIhe euilpho.ard. We miust buy a new clotmes line. Thle salt is out. Mem.: 1Mtrk'a last but ter was bad. Must. buy somewhere else. The iceman )ais "riz, and ie leives dreatifully small pieces it thal. Get sonc wire. Ditto oxalic acid. Ditto bug powder. Ditto a nutmnieg grater. Ditto some nutmegs. Shall we buy it new parlor Carpet? The old one's getting fided. Wan't a niew till siwpan. Tie teapot leaks. Send for furniture man and find out how ilmuch lie asks for re-covering the sofa. Bluy it new market basket. The old cat. has four kittens. low many shall we drown? We Suspect our1 hireul girl of stealing the tea. TIha~t last halt' pound Went ver'y quick. Schnapps, the grocir, wtill plersist ill giv ing us coffee which has1 lost its flavor. Change hinm. Soimehotty has stoleni the ash-box again. Fifth in three weeks. Glet a paper of carpet teeks. Mirs. D~oc borrowed 0our tack haunuier a month atgo, andl~ haa nme ver returned it. Our cniary bird is sick. Buy a hall of' twine. Ditto six smallscrews. The leeman foirgot us5 to.dayl). The cold meat and mil1k is spoiled1. The cat, persists in carryig her kittens all over the house, and1 won't stay in the nursery soapi box we fixed foir her. Get some1 naptha. TPhe wateor pIpe leaks again. Send Out of soap. Out of matches. Site wvants 8011e wvorstted thriee shadl~es darker than the last lot but 01ne, and1( one4 shade lighter than the last hot. All Pan. '"How large should y'ou say this~ puan, of whIch you speak, wvas?" "A four-quart pan, I should say." "What do you umean by a four-quart panl?" "'A pan that holds four quarts." "WIne or beer measure?" "Wine, no; beer, I guess Its beer, I wont be certain." "But you think it's beer. What Is the shape of a four-quart 1pan?" "Round." "Like a ball?" "No, like a-lIke ta barrol." "Round like a bairreh." "Well, is a four-quart pin tall oir shior't?" "Xt don't, make any dhifferenCe." "Xf a pan was four Inchtes across the bot tom and twelve inchtes ttall?" "It wouldn't be a pan at all. It wvould be a pall." "Then a pan can be a pall?" "Why, no." "But you just said so. WVas there a hole In this pain?" "Yes, a little hole." "In thte bottom or top?" "Of course thtete wasn't any ho10lein the top." '"Then how coutld anything lhe pioured into the p an?" "Oh, I forgo6. Th~e top Is all hole." "And the otom?"' "I alpan. "That will do, "You see, gentlemnen of the jury, the witness haes no idea of a f~ur-quart pan at all," and the jury having been awakedd by the aherif, miod off agafn in acqjidee eenge'. T I -'5A9J LL_ LI * 'k - -. 0~ EF S -1n 1591 th, bIsinlcSs of cap-n111akiig was ruinied by the Conmmon wetri ng o01 hits, whilh tho 111nme into gelertil vogne. -There arinI California 150,000 go:1t 4. and in tihe Paufle territories 50,000, makiig a total of 200,000 on the Paci lie slope. -The earnings of '.Ie Milwaukee and St. Piaul Itailload for the third week of October was $292,000, ai lacrease of $10:1 7:11. - ManIiings of the Union Pacitle r-aIl road for the first, twenty-one days of October were $1 ,00:,1 .70, an increase ol' $172,185.70. -I Lon. H. M. Shronck, of Sonmerset, l'll.. IIasi bee( acquitted of using Illegal Imieans to Secure il election to the Leg islattu Ie. -The "Father" of the English House of Commons is Mr. Christopher Talbot. who has sat contintil ously for Glamor gauishire Since 1830. -During Octobe:' over 35, 300,000 pos tal carsl wereo sent fromn the lflyoke fiactory-the largest month's busliness ever done. -Tle thousand salmon fry from San Franelsco have been put Into the Mouse, at Bloriek, Holland,. and 20,000 more are. expected. -it is said that a very large number of the best, gold and silver mines li Mexico are passing into the hands of* Uniited States capitalists. -The Ongagement of Miss Stanton. youngest daugh tor of the lato Secretary Stanton, to Lieutenant Bush, of th'e Fit'th A rtillery, Is announced. -Ten tons of paper pulp have been shipped from Soledad, Los Angeles Couty, Cal., to NOW York city as nit experihent. it. is from at wild plant. -Tlie pen used by. Prince Bismarck inl the hotel at V ICenna wIWas sold for $50. Th11e inai who cut the Prilnce's h1a11r Is making a little fortiule out of lockets. -it is satild that the Etuperor of Rus sia purposes velebrit ing with great sioleliity the 25th iniversary of 1is accession to the throne. March 2d, 1880. -A.ccording to Smith's llistory,Po w hatrn the Inllzian cliof or Emperor, as Sanithi calls himn, had nor less than 100 wives, "of' w'ium a dozen young wo mnen werec filyOrit-es.1 -Amotig the new towlns on the line of the Noitheirn Paeilic, which have a womiising fuuture, i8 Sanborn, Barnes colinty, I.ikota, about 72 miles west o1' ilaargo, 11u(l 25 miles cast of .ames town. -Mr. l~ugene 11 11c, it Is thought, will b1e obliged to quit poliics for the present in or-der to take charge of' his late fheI'Ieu-inI-lw's large estate. Mr. I [iale is tIle son-in1-law of the late Sei 1or Clindicr. -'hie number of' foreign fi 1m enl giged in itcommerce in Clihia is 351, and the total l'o'eigl I)Oi)IIIILLOnl 3,814-. ''he poptillidoi of' the treaity porlts Is cssL mialC'(d at. .1,990,000. The A merican reslienta number 420. -hie iierchants of St. Louis have orgnlized a tuovement for the creotion of asipcioults an1(d pgomI'ilianient Exposition Bluilling, like those of Chiengo, Louis ville and Cinc1innati. It ia initended to flnishi it for next fall. -. compiny its been organized In Now York to build an elevated railroad fr'uon the 1eIIIsyilvaiia Railroad in Jr.'wy City to lioboken and Jersey City .eights Vith branches to Uion 11111 aid West Hoboken. -A relle of Burns has just been pIae ed in th KlImarnl1Ilock Mu110seuml. It is tih) (raItught, or chtecker-board which Vis u1se(1 by the joet and his brother Inl thei ouriuis of recreation wvhile they were enlgaged1 ia farming togetheor. -According to the lalstceens the po p)1uationt of' ( reeceo, w hich in 1870 was onliy i ,457,80-1, atnounts no0w to 1,679, 75(1. Th'le poplaltion of Athens has In creOasedl in the same period from 48,000 to 70,000,1and th at of' P'ir'aus from 11 ,000 to double. -It is possible that within lnye years per'or Williamii, Gor'tschiakofr and Em per'or A iexanider, will have passed away . All are 1in faibung health, and all, ex cept, Bis9marek and1( Alexander1, over' sevenlty years' of aigo. -Theb total nulmb~er of the Hebr'ew race0 to-daiy is atbouit whalt It was in the dalys oIf King D~ayzd, between (,000,000) 1and( 7.000,000. Thbere are' in Europe, accord'(ing to tihe latest statistical infor' matin, abhou t 5,000,000;1 i n Asia, 200, 000; itn Africa, over 80,000; in Ameori ca1, 1 r'omi 1,000,000 to 1,500,000. -Norfolk, Va., did an export busi ness last year of $10,000,000, and with heri cottoni returns 1now ranks as tihe so conid cottonl exporting port In the Uni ted btates. It is the first peanuit port ini the world, r'eceivinig the entire cr'op of Virginia, which Ia much01 larger thlan the gowths of Tlennessee and)1 North -n r'eturni for jokes layed upon01 others sonie one 111l0ed the overcoat, plocket of Mr. F'. P'. Guise, a young at torntey of Williamzsport, Pa., with steel lenis. A number of them' stuok In his hand, and( inl taking themi out several broke ofi'. 'The hand Is terribly swol 1011, and It 1s feared the consequenO1Ces may be fatal. -The late Walter Hastings, of Boa ton, 111 hadirected In his wvill- that the trustees lhe appoluts shall oreet .upon1 the gr'ounds of - Harvard Oollege .a building to cost not less thlan $200,000 and1( not, mlore than) $250,000, thIs build Ing to be called tile "W~alter Hastinga Hlail," in memory of his fathier, grand father and great-granldfather, all of whom graduated at Harvard Oollege. -A new Industry In Q alifornuia is flower farming, Mich is about to'bt initrodneeod into Sdtfta Barbara and Ala media coumntils for the .scents-to be ob tained '0fr the6 blossoms,. Roses will yIeldl there 2,000 pouilds .to. the acre, from tyhieh obseies~orth *875 oifn be. extracted ; oringe tro .3,000 pounids. value $250 ; violets, 1Ao pounds; worthi $800 i naalas, 000 poun , lrtha $450. -Dr. Spotswood of M e,i is ported to possess a sword hidhoi: beongd to Gerioral Wa 11lilpi~igId which the Geneoral hiimself g*i Court House, a. Sen 4 W d'. visited Wasil oh aK 'bto~t same sword as -*lJ~'t'i rping hit .t'eey