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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JANUARY 8, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO. rg& PORTRAIT. Twd$.ye I,seo, w1 aoftest blue lidwollp. b't1ho6e.eheorf hui The bright carnation dies. A ringlet bore, A ringlet thero, An antique comb to keep them straight, A sweet and simple face, most fair Pressed on my heart is this portrait. PLODDING JIM. 'Jiti!i Diaun, do yott know .your lesson yet ?" The question, uttered in an irritated tone, same from a young man who had been reading a newspaper, waiting for the tardy boy of his class. "N-no, sirI db 't bolioee I do; u,itc," was the hceitati g*reply. . "Are you aware what time it i. ?" "One o'clock. sir," said young Dunn. le kae\v 'that Well dnough. Ied not his eyes lingered on the tardy hands of the old moon-faced clock, and thence gone ioving~ out througl} ",tle window. to whero the fields were sl ping 'in tip noonday haze? And thet} e was so $uigryI "Jim, come ffo. c* 't itnderstand what makes you so stupid I" said the mnas ter ; and taking the book, he proceeded to hastily review point.after pbint. "Do you understand thisf" he asked, "and this and that? ' Jim's brow lightened. le was mote ple4se seth iinsl ,ttp - things ,looke, clearer, trw a Opu t4 vaniehlld anc his hegry ' b thnk yb sir? f itado tho teachet 1mi6.: "You're very slow, Dunn; very slow. I don't think I ever saw a fellow just like you ; but I guess what you learn you learn." That was just it--what Jim Ddnn knew he knew thoroughly. "Well, if here isn't Jim, just at dinner is done! "'cried his sister Anne. "And every bit of the pudding gone," said Oscar, the next oldest brothprr. "L iuade sure youd stay all day." "Poor:boy1" Atahed his mothei; -ho al ways seens to 'be behind in everything. Ever since he was a baby. Ie has been slow.'! " Jim. sht down,: ho*Over, and ate the seraps. Nobodyeseomel to think that Toni would care. "I don't know what we shall do with that bo,y,' Dr. nr ftn said, when talk ing over thib p of their ohildren. Charlcy inclin i to th iAw, and Oscar *111 be a doctor; but what ability has Jim for anything ?" Hp is op slow and plodding, solittld atnbitidus, that I am discodraged when:I think of.his future. 'Poor, ht " -said llrs Dunn, half, sighing, half-laughing; l"lho is the blaclk sheep 0* 41te f niy. ae i was;a 1ttlo fellow, =I eiso tbn 1i a led+b like wisdom of his face. I never thought then that itwas dbulfhdes. 1H6" can't -hhlp it. His motions ate slow,fhis mind is tardy, but I hopo he will make his way in the world.'' Jim was the bpt of all: th fapity, but It did not scom,to hnger hirE at alh He kno'r he was slpw Charlay ennli n1y hrillinnt ly, sing a song with excellent effect, play any game well.. Oscar, his youngest brother, was famous for his compositions and his power of elo cution. All the rest excelled, outstripped him, and yet he' plodded on patiently, "Going to the theatre tp-nightt?" asked a well-dressed young man of Jim, as they left the store together, This was four years later, and Jim was one of the clerks in Dol man & Dolman's great establishment, and so slow and undemonstrative that the other' clerks were always chafllnghim. Ho thought for a mogent, rattled some loose coins that were in hi:p 9ket; and aid 1. :Ilavo you ever benu ?'' queried the other. Jim looked mt him inalhis usual ddliberat'o way;:and-roped: "No." "Then you don't know anything of life." "Then I don't want to," responded Jim. "By the way, where aro'you boarding?" asked his friend, pul.ling on a pair of very tight gloves. Jim never woro.gioves.' "At Glen's, in Ilblbrook 8treet," sai Jim. '-Oh, you'r. slow.'- Why that's 'way down'town." "That's why I bomrd there," said Jim. I only py four dollars a week. Good eve ning" "Tlhe meanest fellow I ever saw," mut tered Diok Dalton, as he planted his fancy' cane as.heavily as its fragilbty i'ou,d permit on the sidewalk. *:' Jim gained his boarding-house, a tall, iusty-looklng tenemeneht,. in the fourthm story of which wp his- oopi., It was a very des 01ate-loofdnig apartment, for, save in the coldest weather, Jim never had a fIre. 'I'herre were three shelves, full of excellent roo uist Iothg a loo ed ~1kb( wooden arm chair. Bits of pine, a few tools and a paper filled with saw-dust, kept them company. Of course Jm got fruga meals in this place, A widow and.. )dRugh4gr>kg the house, letting nearly~ a' the roofti to lodgers; but Jim's quiet ways and pleasant face had won an entrance to their hearts, anid they took him to their table for a small consideration. Jim ran up stairs as soon as ho reached .the house, -ie never ran up slairs in any i~ t wl 'vJetor No sooner had he seated himnself at the table and taken up a screwy, than om opo knoed at the door. At the low "'oe en"hi ldest brother presented hrmself, re h of 9ansppg "elJim, so these are your 10iodigo my boy," said.e young man. "Not much style, I mus "'. "Not'much ' diJjuin cheerful. "Have with a sk1eon niee upon the ivory cane, the kid gloves iudthe gold chain. "Oh, seso. Of deurs6 it has aVMif&. deal of moet furtish my office. ,a supper now and then, treat your compan ions, and frequent the theatre," said Jim. .'Oh, hang it! Your blood's water, Jim-; apd besides, your position Is differen from ilino. Things are bxpccted from'.me. I must go into societyy ,)3y-and-by I shall get a case that will pay me richly for all these sacrifices." "gi'ges.j" rgjpeated Jim, in a tone that made Charley a blood move faster, so that ho said to himself, with the addition of an oath. "The same old slow boy, with no more brains than an ox." "You are still at the machine, ] see,'" he said aloud, a nmotment after. f'Oh, yes; it costs next to nothing; and if it never suecceds, It gives me something to think about." ''You don't say that you ever think," was the sircastic response. "WAelI, now and then," was the slow re joinder. Charley rose, sauntered back and forth fpr a fqw momnents, and then stood still, his handsome face reddening. "I say, Jim, can't you lend me ten dol lars? I'm absolutely out of cash." ;"I"never lend,'.' said Jim. Charley's breatti grow short and quick. opiejnsujting speech was on the end of his tongue, for lie felt botli rage and con tempt; but Jim, rising quietly, went to a desk and lifted the lid. "If -five dollars will do you any good, you are welcome to them," he said. ;hey are all I have by me," "Jim, you're a good fellow I" gasped Ohmrley, his tongue yet hot with the words lie had intedded to say. Jim went once or twice to his brother's ofice, and did not like' it. "Why ahould the young lawyer spend a hundred dollars in pictures?" he asked hhnself indignantly; "and why does he keep the company of such men as 1 have met there ?" One lay Jim received a letter from his brother Oscar: DEAn OLD JIM:--I expect I shall have to leave college. Things are going wrong at home. ; I don't suppose any one has told you.. They seem to think you havo all you can do.to take gare of yourself ; and so you have, I suppose. Charley has been an aw ful weight upon father, and this ycar the crops have all failed, and father is disabled from work by rheumatism. I don't care much about myself; I only studied mnedi cino to please father, and should rather he almost anything else. .I think I could write for the new.spapers. Can't you get me a place in some store? and I could write evenings, and live with you. Think-it over, for I'm sure fattier is going to lose. all his property. Charley plays billiards, and I'm afraid cards. Write mc as soon as you can what cin be done for e. SJit; wrote in less than a week. Ills em. l)loyer wanted an under salesman. Then lie set himself to look carefully into his fa ther's affairs. Everything there was going to ruin. The farm was to ije sold; his father and mother were nearly heart-broken, and no one thought for A m2ment 9f looking to him. iut. nnvrrth ln1a a 1 ,1t.. i,.,.-- - -r_ pay the mortgage was quite impossible, qut lie hired some comfortable rooms in the old house where he stayed, sold what he could from the stock of the farm, had the necessary furniture brought to town, and inatalled his father and mother in a - com fortable, home.. The months passed. 'Tle old folk$ learned to depend upon him, and his sistei' found a situation as bookkeeper. One day a gentleman called upon Jim, and was invited into his room.. "You've bead at woi-k fifteen years on this machine, you say ?" remarked the gentlemen when he hdd examined it. . The speaker was a business man, whose favor was almost equal to a fortune. "Yes,-sir," said Jim, quietly; "I was always a plodder." "Well, you've plodded to some purpose," was the answer. "I am very sure there's moneoy enough in It to make you a rich man. SJim grew vcry red, and the room-seemed to go around for a moment. "Thank you," he made reply. "I should like to be rich for the sake of others. And so, eventually, pleading Jim won the race, and became the practical, efficient and prosperous man of the family. Chewing Gumn. Among the quiet lif,tle manufacturers of the country Is that of. chewing gum. Only one factory exists in New York city, and the few others are in New England, Now York Stato, Ohio, Illinios, and Tonnesse. T1he gum is sold by druggists, grocers and. confectioners in cities, 'and~ any country grocery that hasn't it is consider incomplete. Gum from spruce trees was exclusively used until,recestly, when it fqurid a rival Is gum m4stic, a swhite andl attr49fIve #rticle made fr n~ parellne, wich'id sw'eetened. Thme. consumption of thuis chewing gum in the U. S. is about thirty tons yearly; that of spruce gum somewhat less, and that of a gum made In Tennesse from balsam tolo, and, sold In ti'Sduth'ord Statea, about twentiy tens. Lately - a material has been used styled "rubber gum.'' It is from the sap of the sapotte tree of S3outh and Central Amefica. The sap like that of thme India rubber tree, has a milky look. The sap .was first hnm ported into the United States with a view of melting it with india rubber, in order to sfoua to b piabl an te% e chewed by South and Central American Indians, and found useful in allaying thirst4' 'Nzperimuents *e therefore made here hr' puryifying it for chewing, and with flngm1 success. It is tastless and has the merit pf YastpiglUege) tb.WI the (oE&giu*% MJich gm~re quickly dissolve and crumble in the mouth. 8o great It its ducllity that a plebe: half an inch wide, after being heated Id' the mouth, can be stretched into a thread a. hun,dred feet long. Its conhump lon Is hoblikeomco, gequire that the 'siliv'd bp or u o'e stomach. teducing alts saar. /ong ato anxious to eot rid bf as etbe dsots A Mad Volrs ltavtgoes. During the month the peasents from the adjoining villiages had not collected togeth er at a fair which was held at the settlement of .Barvenkoff, district of Izume, Russia, and the'male portion of the assembly had dispersed to the drinking shops to make bargains and drink each other's heal'lis, leaving the women and children in charge of the carts. Suddenly there resounded through the square a heartrending shriek for'assistance, and then all was quiet. The peasants rushed out of the drinking booths into the street, and before they had time to collect their thoughts there ap>peared from bohind a building situated on the edge' of the square, an enormous wolf. Everybody rushed in great confusion to their carts, shouting, "Mad wolf l" ' Meantime the gigantic wolf, frothing at the mouth and with his tongue hanging out, made for the carts. A dreadful tumult occured. The horses: nd oxen dashed in all direbtions, but the majority, getting entangled, fell, overturning the carts, while the noise made by the pigs, sheep, geese, fowls, etc., added to the uproar and confusion. 'Tiie wolf when within a short distance of the first group of carts, turned round, sprang on to a woman who was running past, and in a moment she was prostrate on the ground, having lost her nose, scalp and the lower part of her face. The wolf then ran furth e and attacked a small lad of about seven years of age, but just at that time a pig rushed at the wolf and bit its tail. The wolf turned on his assailant, but not before It had bitten the boy's face and hand. Leaving the pig, the wolf ran down' the iain.street, attacked a wonian with a baby, then two boys about four years of age, and having bittea their heads through to the brain, rushed up the street, and after biting sevbral other persons, turned off upon the railroad. By this time a large crowd, headed by the village elder, and armed with whips, guns; scythes, etc., gave Chase to the terrible animal. They a amo up with the, wolf about one mile from the village, and a peasant, allowing it to approach him within about fifteen paces, shot the animal straight in its open jaw. Notwithstanding the wound ho had received, the wolf sprang up,ar d attacked the -peasant. The latter did not lose his presence of mind. and struck th4'animal with the butt end of his gun, which shattered at the blow, and the wolf seized the peasant by the side, but owing to te man wearing three coats his skin was only scratched. The courageouu man then flrmly gripped the animal with both hands. During this struggle between a man and a mad wolf the crowd which had come up hesitated through fear to attempt the rescue of their comrade. Fortunately a local pol ieoman galloped up. at this juncture, and drawing his revolver shot the wolf through the -lead. The wolf had bitten no less than twenty-two persons, ten of whom are in a dangerous state. The sufferers were isolated-from the rest of the inhabitants and medical mid was at once administered to them. It is reported that the wolf came from the settlement at Dovgeniktg (situate about eighteen miles frem Barvenkoff, where a mad ox had died and had been rngl dn a'iS aJ( e 1 Ihtgli , about. It Wasn't a nose-1liantkot." .She had brought that apread forty-one miles over a dirt road, and she was'so,sure ol' taking the first premium that she brought hpr a new back .comb and a pair of red stockings on the strength of it. When the momentous hour arrived, her spread was left out in the cold. The woman hadn't yet' recovered from her shock when along dame Andrew Whitcomb, picked up a cor ner of the spread, and called out. "Hey, old woman, how much for this hoss-blanket?" That was too much. The woman picked up a handy broom-handle and gave han.h several first premiums over the head. Andrew bascaped to the street, pulled off his coat, and he was daring the old lady an her bedspread to come on when a po ceman took him in charge. ::How mean it was of you to add Insult to injury!" exclaimed his honor as Andrew kicked the sawdust in front of tihe desk. "I thought~ it was a hoss-blanket-I really didi" persisted the prisoner. "I am afraid you have been drinking." "Your honor, I cannot tell a lie-yes, 'I had been dlrinking." "'What?" "WVater." "'Water--um? < Well 1 can't help it. If water affected you that way it won't change our prices here a bit. I should fine you $5."-* "I'll pay, of course, but I tell you I thought that was a hess-blanket!" "Can't help what you thought; hand the money to the ClerIk." "I'll hand the money to the Clerk,.but I must insist that it,was a hoss-blanket!" "1 don't wan't any more talk. You'd better go." "I'll go, of course, but if that wasn't a hloss-banket, I never saw one." 'th,e Longevity of Icebergs. Icebergs are subjected to dismntegration in somewhat tihe same manner as' rocks. They are full of erevasses, Into which the water formed by melting penetrates; in winter this water freezes, and by its ex pansion all through'the glacier a rupture of thq mass ensues. "it is highly probable," lhe says, "that most of the icebergs afloat 'in winter are in such a condition that n; very slighi~ cause i8 snflic&ent to make them burst because of thyur state of Internal ten' slon. Every polar.travelier can tell how- a shot, the driving-In of an ice-igncbor, or any other sudaena vibration, has br-ought. abo,qi 'cittastrophes ;. cases have even occurred In' *hiolh theq sound of the' tso alone was euitiaiens. An' Icoborg 14 *lwayss aM un glegat edighborg1 So many. a'e 'thne causeg iWhich oteft desttoy icebetgs, that the author coneludes that "no berg exists tbfbli could *Ivihstand them inote than,tein yeara,'nd that commonly the life of'a,berg' isn shorter." However this may abe, doubtless the mutch aIrrgmr Aintarotlo ;b'r -lasty oneas mesat ti a thloim.t wichs warer exposed. hpdh Erixona ah rq one. 'ou m etfr thiwr 1*~ llse A (irl and a tear. About a month ago Mi#s Alice Corey, of New York city, caie to yisit her uncle, i German, who owns a si4all farm In the mountains, six miles northwest of lhmter's Range, Pa. Miss Coreyeis about sixteen years old, and her t arontt are well to do Her uncle has a daughterd Clara, also aged about sixteen years. Ileripther having but one son, Clara has for yvh s helped to do th< work on the farm, and sb.o has become at' expert shot with a ritle. .$he has a tnania for hunting, and freque}ly goes into th forest in search of game. : A few days ago Clara invited her cousin-g accompany her on a hunting expeditiop. 'I'hey started from the house shortlyfafter breakfast. Alice with u double-barrelled gun and Clara with a rifle. Afflr sco:" .ig the woods for several hourS gthout much suc. cess they visited "Dark Swamp." Thu swamp embraces several Iumdred acres, is donsoly wooded, and be are frequently seen there. The girls rc' ihcd the edge of the swamp at noon, and started into the thicket They had gone,but .a short dis tance when Miss Corey,- Who was walking a few yards behind lier cousin, heard 1 crackling noise in the' bu es a short dis. -tance back. Lookitg aro nd, se saw a large black bear coming to ard her.: Clar"i, who had frequently encouptered the. shag. gy monsters, called to her Erightened eous in to come to her. She then drew her rine to her shoulder and, taking deliberate aim at the animal, awaited until it came withih easy range, and then fired. The bear uttered a howl of pain, and fell bleeding. As Clara's ritle was a single-barrelled one, she seized the double-bar#elled gun from her cousin, and discharged biotl barrel- al the infuriated animal, in tl e hope of king it outright. But, with ti1 disappearanc< of the smoke from the gu tue bear was seen writhing, but not d d.. The bravo young woman then appro -ihed cautiously to within reaching distanc of the wcundel anihnal, and, taking from ,y* large leather belt encircling her waist ta bone-handled (leer knife, plunged It to.the hilt into the bear's neck: At this ni)pent the tlying monster gave a sudden hinge and fastened Its sharp claws Into the girl's skirts, pulling her down. Her frightened cousin rat about wildly and screamed at the top of her voice, but as the:e was no house withi1 two miles. her cries were not heard. She then returned to where Clara. was still struggling with the'anln)ai.l The bear still held the girl in his grasp, ut was rapidly growing weaker. The g rl was all th< tune using her knife with g od effect. Sht dealt the dying animal blow after blow un til it finally released its 11old and rolled over dead. Though very much exhausted and considerably scratched by the bear's claws, Clara, with the assistance of hei cousin, was soon able to walk. They marked the spot where the dead bear lay and then returned home. Clara's father and brother drove to the swqmp and brought the bear in, w4ch, when dressed, weighed 840 pounds. T4 q#kin-is to be sent to a New York taxlcermist to l)e stuffed, and I will be kept by thi 'youtg woman as a souvenir of her grr la" t^ qualis and 1'igeone. There is a physician in San FI ancisc, who Is an iconoclast in the bfoadest concep tion of the term. To shatter an idol, a time honored truism or a popular delusion gives the gentlehman as great. a. delight a the discovery of a new and hiteresting dis ease. To disprove an accepted article o: faith in religion, political econoiny or med icine he has been known to devote weeks 01 months of study,. and in some instance t< undergo actual saffering and deprivation, successes alone repaying . him for all his efforts and trouble. IHe is now engaged in disproving by actual demonstration thc popular belief that' a man cannot eat s qual a day for thirty consecutive days.A reporter recently calledi on the gentlemar to learn how the experiment ls progressing. Thb reporter found the doctor, wvho Is a hearty, healthful, rosy-faced Teuton,' in hii oflice on Kearney street.. "Well, doctor, how are the quail far Ing ?" "Not nearly as well as lanm, thank you.' "Hlow did you happen to enter lnto tha undertaking ? "Well, .I waa seated at a table with semi friends a few weeks ago, when the old sub ject of a.quail a day came up for (discus sion. All the gentlemen saving. pnysel supported thme theory. As a matter o course, wagers. were offered, th~at theo die could not ho sustained, and I accepted ttleem When I dikprovd a timing I sliways attempi to do it thoroughly. I wagered $800 thal I could eat one qual each day for thirt.) days, and after the wager had been se cepted proposed to do more. I am to en two quail and one pigeon a day for th~ speolfied time."'. "How long have you been engaged ii tihe task ?" "This is my Aifteenth dlay." "What .9gect has It had ,upon you ?" "1.(one whiatever, physically or mentally.' "Tell me qbout the arrangement of ti< diet.t' *1 eIat the two.guall for lunch at nOon, and the yigedn in the evQfing, for dinner, I am allowed tQ have them' cookeld In any manmer I plaae, but thue, far .have nol changed thiy'firt ordoi' to the copk. The quail I have served as a . ftleasseg tpth pigeo'n I havd fried'and sei'vecf*l(it a but. -ter gravy. 'A ethe inen 1with Weho'iI l nadi the wager'supply the game, V aint having rather happy time of It. It Is nonsense tc suppose that bird-meat- should havb ap more deleterious effe'ets on a perablP's phys. ical'condition thanmeat o'f any-other kid, 1mn poit of facti it is less harmdifut ias at article of regular diet,' behi* lighter ap<1 imore.'easily. digested. Why, when I finisi with this wager I will ogleri to. ;het ;$1,00( that I can.contlw theidletfor: .thirty daya hinoe, asyn .comtadenta hatmuble 0ne with some acvidenf)t, :wIll;win . The doctor geotainly doesno n 0 :par,suftOe :in)any, p1ge ip)4d an bo4y yet$Qowho mpl~,~ elm Qi #aytht h~critical imog ao Arr9' untf gt9 etpty or 0w0 yle, an at 'passed The resulr I looke fowr t4 wth imte 9~~, '1di'd tnl illI uh "hof ' fisr~ h le bo on' isitin ~ 13?hIm contntanl be ing hofa' iig*htbchi hidi not beet permitted to go ouIP in diff 4enthulee qutokIly ~ipd up tol agIiibleW i Vlurno Colored KiIs, A young man gets on the train and seats himself opposite me. lie wears flame-col ored kids and a poodle dog. Now, I do not object to a man wearing any kind or color of kids, anlt love of the angels, how I do hate a poodle (log. The young man 1olds the poodle in his lap1), smooths out the blue ribbon around his neck. placidly strokes his whiskers, and languidly stares at, me. As I look at them I notice how much they look alike. ' Father and son perhaps. As I think the thought, the dog snarls and barks an indignant denal. Presently the young man.- with a painful effort opens the conversation by saying: ''Whba's news?" I tell ijim the elections have all gone one way and he says: "IIaw." And presently adds: 'Wh o's 'eltcted?" I tell him Cornell Is elected in New York. "Ya-as," he says. "I've been in Noo Yawk. Cornell," he added, brightening up, "Cornell he's a college or something 'If that sort, ain't lie?" I explain to him as well as I can the difference between A'onzo B. and the ni versity at Ithaca. The young man looks painfully astonished upon learning they are not the same man. "Who runs 'gainst hin?" he asks. "Robinson." "A, ya-as," he says. "Know him. Runs a circus. Funniest thing 'f the kind you ever saw. Tent all striped. like-like -like liedtick, you know." Then he paused and rested himself, and presently sail: ''Wha' you writin'?" I told him I was getting up a little work for the paper that honored itaIf by secnr ing, at an immense annual outlay, my val uable though erratic, service. "Wha's it's name?" the young man ask ed feebly, at the same time fondling his dog. "The flawkoye," I told him, "for sale by all the news dealers, and only two dol lar' a year in advance. The best paper in America, and the finest advertising medium in the West; devoted to-" ''Ah ya-as," he said, brightening up, "and you're ti' feller they call 'Hawkeye?'"' I admitted that. sometimes people who didn't know my other name called me that. 'Oh, ya-as;" he said, "I know 8,ou." I flushed and bowed andl he went on. "I know you. heard of you often. Seen you play once. You)%-c the Injun chief in Buffalo Bill's phrty, ain't you?" Then he leaned back, exhausted. And I Well, I felt about as tit"ed as ho did. A Detective's Advenutiro. One pleasant evening recently two men were seated in a cosy little room not far from 't. Louis, engaged in conversation concerning crhninals. One was a detective connected(itl a Cleao aeny. "Well " the conversation, "I will toll you a peculiar little Incident that happened several years ago to a brother detective, which wl!l illus trate how luck sometimes assists us in ac complishing an object, which otherwiso might be unattainable. "Several years ago," he continued as he ejected a cloud of smoke from his mouth, "a noted forger was wanted very badly in Chicago where he had been indulging in such crookedness as rendered him liable to occupy the peni tentiary for a term of years if he were caught. The case was placed in Pinfcerton's hands and one of his men detailed to wof"k it up. He was fortunate enough to obtain a clew to the much wanted individual's whereabouts, and following it up he at length spotted his man at Toronto, Canada, wicih you kniow is on Lake Ontario. The detective throw himself in the way of tihe forger, becamie acquainted with hhn und(er an assumed name, and gradually ingratiated himself in his favor. Forgery nLot being an cxtradlitable offense it was impossible to make the arrest in Canada, so the detective wvas obliged to adopt another line of tactics. Hoe made known his intention of crossing over into the States, and the forger deter mined to go to thle boat to see him off. Once on b oardl, the detective kept im enl grossed in in.toresting conversation, and with such consummates tact did ho p lay his part that the crooked gentlenian did not notaco that tho boat had started, until it was far out, lnathe lake, for they had gone below to take a social glass at parting. When tihe fo: ger foundi the boat gradually receding from the Canada shlore, with no possibIlity of getting back immediately, lie fumied and swvoro for a time, but seeing that did not bettor matters in the least, cooled dowvn and( determined to make the hest qf a bad job. "As soon as that imaginary line in thme middle of the lake which divides the two countries had been passed, the detective revealed himself, and, clapping on the nip. poe, arrested his man. They arrived on thep other shore at length without adventure, anid, boarding the lightning express on the Lake Shore anid AUchiigan Southiern that night, they started on their journey. 'hero happened, to be a fewv perpons mn the car in which the two-sat. Th7e detective wes al lnost completely worn out from loss of sleep, afud, as It was a through train, lhe dotermin ed to obtain a.little Morphoe s. Placing the prisoner oxl.thQ irmier side of, the Qeat, o, so dlisposed'hi msehf nexct him that, he ipinained the slighest ;move would awake hing. Tho arrangements completed, ho. folk asleep in an easy state. of mind, loe does not know Aigw lopg,h, slept until ho ,awohip guddenly with a start, and found, to N$p ce ergrln that tho. f.orger was goneo,I~ it: l a ru~o of omg agepey that If a man is pont upon *toj tral of q epredstor, anid fails b,' bringIng, him bak h 959.6 ace on the force, so that yqtt ?Qys repu.tat en as well as hWposit,lon, 4 ~dcd upon hs; prom1pt, action.' Ito ,qlkydeeld4ed'upppu his 1111 of antlo~pc1 walig with assumed oprolqs,nee throih the. entire train, heoexatnin4 every noo p\ eprper that theisonee.l 190. Q :O~1 his return hie'was accosted ya braVeinan, who inquired: jt"ii dtto answeed htiQ atflme ~ 'h' said th br onian'h~ f theast station:where$ yoie e f o i going in the direction of this particular town to pass them. The conductor signaled It to stop, the detective got aboard, and in the course of an hour or so was standing in the lit:le villiage where hetlesired to be. It was a primitive Ohio hamlet, and the only alleged hotel it could boast of the most wretched description. The detective concluded that he could do nothing at that late hour and in his exhausted condition ; so he determined to obtain i little sleep and scour the country in the morning. With infinite difliculty-he succeeded in arousing tho sleepy landlord of the host lery. 'There-were no accommoda tione,' lie said, in reply to the detective's, questions, 'unless he was willing to occupy the Ame room and bed with another man.' "The detective thought it was botter than sleeping out, so lie asked to be shown the room. lie had just unrobqd, and was about extinguishing the tallow dip, when some thing prompted himt to take a look at his bedfollow. Hie (lid so, and what was his supriso to find his whilom prisoner snuggled up in the bedeloths. Accustomed as he was to repressing his feelings upon all occasions, he could scarcely retrain ai joyful shout at his good fortune, and It was some-time be fore he recovered stillclent calmness to act with coolness. After much self-congratu lation he secured the forger's clothing to a piece of twine and supended them from the window. ' lie then resumed a portion of his own clothing, and hid the remainder, locked the door, and placed the key in his pocket, and getting into bed he placed his revolver in such a position that, although out of sight, it was within easy reach, and sank into a peaceful slumber. In the morning he was awakened by the sound of some one talking in the room, and peering cautiously around lie noticed the forger rummaging about, clothed only in an abbreviated under garment and endeavoring manfully to give proper vent to his feelings in choice but emphatic expletives. lis search for his clothing proving unavailing, he approached the hed opposite to Investigate. As he did so, 'click' went the revolver, and the detec tive stood revealed to his astonished gaze. ie started as If lie hail been struck, and before lie could recover from his astonish mont he was properly - handcuffed and at the detective's mercy. "lie was soon assisted Into his clothing; the next passing train was hailed and they arrived at their destination without further adventure." "What became of the forger?" inquired the' reporter, as the detective ' applied a lighted match to his cigar. - "Oh, lie was tried soon afterward," was the reply, "and the evidence against him was of such an overwhelming character that he was convicted and sent up for a long term," Napoloon's Parents. The family of I3onapartes were of pure Italian race; there was not a drop of French blood in any of them. Their ancestors had come from the inain-lantt in the early his tory of Corsica, and their nanes are found in the remote annals of Ajacclo. Carlo in his youth a young and romantic girl named Letizia Ramolino, who -followed him in his campaigns up to the moment of the birth of Napoleon.- It Is impossible to say how much the history of Europa owes to the high heart and Indomitable spit'I of thiA soldierly woman. She never relin quished her authority In her family. When all her children were princes and potentates, she was still - the severe, stern Madame Mere. The beauty and grace of Josephine B3auharnais never conquered her ; the sweet Tyrolese prettiness of Maria Louisa won from her only a sort of contemptuous indul gence. When her mighty son ruled the continent., she was the only human being whose chidings he regarded or endured. She was faithful in her rebukes while the sun shone, and when calamity eames, her indaunted spirit was still trite andl devoted to the fallen. 11cr provincial habits of economy stood- her in good stead *n her vigorotis 01d age; she was rich when tihe Emipire hiad passed away, and her grand children needed her aid. ft must have been' from her that Napoleon took his extraordi nary character, for Carlo Bonaparte, though a brave soldier and an ardent patriot in hia youth, was of an easy and genial temp)er, iclined to take the world -as lie found it, and not to insist too mnueh on having It go in his especial way. After the cause of Corsican liberty was lost by the success of the French arnms, lie accepted the situation without regret, ahd becoming Intmniate with the conquerors, lie placed as many of his family as possible on -the French pension list, Iils sons Napoleon and Louis were glvcen scholarships at Brienne arnd Auitun, and his eldcst daughter, Elise, entered theo royal institution at St. Cyr. While yet 19i the prime .of life, lie (lied' of .the .sanme' deadly disease which was to finish Napo leon's days at 8t. Helena: and the herole another, her responsibilIties becoming still' heavier by this blow, lived for eight years longer amid the c'nfusion and civil tumult which had become chronlo in Corsica ; and then, after the capture of the Island by the English In 1793, she made lier escape with her chilhdren to Marseilles, where she lived several years In great'penury.. Olear the KCitolhen. A famous nobleman. fonceo called on Abernethy with rdferencer to, anhi Inflamed eye.-- His lordship after waiting an houir for Abernethy to get through with a numi her of charity patients wvhiom he never - )off to attendl upon the highest nobleman, dea gait the conversatioti iby saying' '-"Doctor, .I wish you would examino thie oe; I feariso deadly.mischief is. at -worlg hero."- ,. '/z. "if you wi 1 sIt there 'In my pataent'W' chialr, aind le mnedo the -talking, I' will' son fiid out- -whait"s ot)le "mAtter i+ih 'A few sharp cfuostions antd the doctor 6drneltided the iterview with thd folloWIvi "'our diffRculty- Is hot where you tljnt4 it is, in your 'eyegbt'-pMuntlig il fn gor At thiepatient'stormods .stoma~che"i' th4ro%In youtr -ktchen; Of ooutse,' -when the kItohpa Is. oet of order1 theghrret And'. 41tielother auorme'In'411'h6hse.Tare li elW .o'be'oro"r-es'Aftotede joWall M 4 0N 1tE iN dd'ial ?pgrifida Q9 -of W(hI iton awiker #10 eu - 4h pu~ 11 hI FOOD FOR THOUrWrT Love, faith, patienee-tie threel es salitials to a happy life. , The truest end of life is to know ,4he life that nevter ends, Virtue is the%afest holmnef-the most secure defense. No rink can shield us 'rohi thlk ia partiallty of death. The power of eloquence Is Sometimes superior to military force. It ig in the power of the meanust ;to triumph over fallen greatness. A stroinq will does a man more good in this life than a lively hhngthation. Wisdom is a pedestal f-om w1ih1h'etn vy nor ntalice cannot,hurl the ocupant. As too long retirement weakens the mind, so too niuot compaiay dissipates it. It is sad -o see so many walk in the dark themselves who carry lanter'n; for others. lIe"who refuses justiee to the dfenbe less will make every concession to the powerftul. Mei' usually follow their wishes' till suffering compels them to follow their J.adgment. ; oue nourn more the slamne which sin brings than the sin which brings the shame. Truth and virtue can do' less in the world than their false, well-acted conn. terfeit ci do evil. Every saint is God's temple, and the whe carries his tenple abort him hnay go to pra.yer whean ie pleaseth. Most,.of their faults womeii owe Co Us, whila we are indebted to them for most of our better qualities. There is only one thing that is more terrihle. than to say a mean thiing, and .hit is to do one. It is all very well to be a pronisluig youth, but the hard part Is to keep yonr proise in atter life. Preserve the privacy of 'our house, marr age state. and heart, from rea tves anild all the world. Don't contlde your secrets to a per son of nouble lineage, because the old adage says that ''lool will tell." As sinas procwed they ever multiply like tigures in arit,metic, te-last stands for more than all that went before it. It is a fact of history that the a'u "est and noblest life oil God's green earth has been bora of the Christian fatith. Pleasure Is sometines only a chalhge ot pain. A man who has.got the gout feels first rate whien he gets down to rheanaatism. My advice is to consult, the lives of other men.as. e woutlai looking-glass, and froi thence fetch exatnples for our imitiation, Do not go to your hands to work, or to your feot to walk, oti to your head to tilak, before yon' have gope. to your knees to araty.. Veutako l4ssouis in ait, literatura-u tioaithd ,tlii s but tlit. ij1k a HeIss forgot ten. A poor relation 1s ike a lit P tle gout, ftor the of tenor he coimes tha.e 19g er lie stays, and by an1 b,11y ha will chbimie to stiy all the tine. When you-eai sly or a 'nta:t thatt his rejigion hats got hold of lle poekotbook, you .may baa reasonably,. pure thtit hi religion is the right kint A bad habit Is like a cn in that It has nine lives. And like at cat diiAd' you tmust- kill it nina tines :before jyou ,an be sure. that it is;deai. .Pat riiony- mpy be delned. L sqme thittg whiclh everyibody i iac to act. There is only one thing whloh' has greater chiarmS, and that is natriiAny. A greoat many itry-wrlter*4i1o hood the ilearket wtvhthehmi triaph,ooui!ge a large suma for the !r lagtpove), icjay wo'uh'l only' proanlse tilt it slionld be use last, a Iclh peopiid can hetter afford to beo religious thaat' oth re--for they' cant eo.npiel: theIr servante. to keep tbJQ fiets t' t.he uhiarch wval t 03y tIe ol~Oye4 keep (46 l'easts,, It Is a soinewhat sad fact "thlea 'ome peop)O le ia' higher 'polisha bnalhelr boots than on their waantner. '.10 their haeadhs were otnly iv!itre thei. et are how they' would shne.. If we would, have>weflnid, we must.think; if -We Vbtid hn~v&fgtth ful liea rts, we musf.a love t if we Would have strong spuseles, we t1mistapor. 'These ingludo.neArl,y aU t~'ag ls/vgua bIlib th tlihfe'. The ani who professes' tb b'lfleve thiat qvil s -only theaiiaider sideoet good, t,h.e da11k side of the mnoon, an,d pp3rly al COnsponena .part of human,IIt will. never haiot .t,he- 8atisf action lu %$'tg frofl'inlanmmatioat'r 6f the blaab 4' All' things 'mna't ' ohAhg4.0 'Frfnds must be torni asunder and swept along ,in ta-4o ,e rent- of .events, Zo, l9eac pthr qelon anti, perca ge o eur. 'anfd accident'we Whirl away0 ' Wye all love* plehsiure and'abhorisor row. .Joont wlll'ohoose acidy sky j an.d w,rgggh p.ath ; .ph41esqs avo thir good parte, ana 4hose w ~.~aly hddg for 'peace and' pitiSe IItry to fend out'and 1itfraetthon of hurrying . alonagt resentfully.Iehuwith ,forgyd 1gu13'A0y, ,, n,' & ly $8, at )a s,aajy OkKL9A One. i)ad nowgot b~d~~ k )i he plonged- withoutahIavid h ~'fatlepro- . phi oso hy,,teOlls usA!.~c.~, do iy g dimp-lAte;# R ai 1 otur:nijthatIby- tile sa(nb process. 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