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. . PlIR.. ?.. i. . . ..'... . . . . . . . . . . . .2 RI-wEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, . C., JANUARY 13, 1880. VOL TV-N0 6 "Tl l! SWELLING SEA." The birds of tio north flow onward, 'rho lichen its odor shed; I ho crosceu moon was palo As a water-ly=edead Tora from its parent stein aud floating For wcokb ofl its- watery bed. T-io northern lights burned brightly The circle was broad and low. The rays wegliko w4irlqgpillars of tre With green and crimson g.ow. The dying man lay in ib hut 'Oh, whore shall we bury thee? bhall we bury thee on the mountain, Or under the swelling at a? "Shall we bury thee on the mountain In the ett rnal snow; Where the spirits of the mists shall dance While thou liost still below? "Or wilt thou be sunk in tie sea 'rho blue and the swelling tea? The birds of tho tempest shall whirl above, And tho seals play merrily." He mournfully smiled and whisporo low, '"in he sea, the swelling sea" THE BRIIDAL V: IL. A pretty dark-eyed girl bcgan t.o work it, whose lover was over the sea. She was a French girl, and camtne of a tamily of lace makers. "I'lLwork my own bridal veil in my lei sure time," she said. "So, when Walter comes to marry me, I shall be a gay .bride." But she never finished the veil. Walter caime too soon. She married her English lover-as poor as herself-and went with him to London; and the half-finished veil went along, carefully folded away at the bottom of a trunk, and, for the time being, I quite forgotten. - It may have been forgotten in earnest I during twelve years, for aught 1 know certainly y that long unnoticed. A lovel lit ,ten-year old girl was the fairy tha't , Qn r i i She lidi olden ' i. 'Oh, the charming lace !" she cried, clap ping her hands and (lancing delightedly, as Elise shook it out of the folds. '"Dear mamma, what is It ? W.k.nIt c i . a y ad why Is It but half done? Can I have it for a dress for my (loll, mamma?" The ;pretty dark-eyed matron laughed and shook her head, and half-sighed, as she pressed the delicate fabric to her lips. Then she told the child the history of its making. "But it shall- nob be hidden so long from the light again." site said, tenderly. "I will finish it, and when the time comes for my I Adele to be a bride, she will have a veil to be proud of." Again the little taper fingers toiled merri ly and busqlyoydr the' dllictt li}ce, atd fairy-like'fet'ni dil niassMsof gr'aceful ffov era grew steadily under thtem. Adele I wateited the pr.ogress of the work with the keenest Interest. "Mamma, teach me to work it," she said one (lay- "1y fingers are niuch finer and tinier than yours." After that sliQwul ingy er .little I work-basket to 4iet; iotlJcr side andAvork a veil for her doll. Th' facility with which she learned the graceful art was astonish ing. At the age of fifteen so perfect .was I she that Elise did not fear to let her take , part in the creation of the bridal veil itself, but they worked at it now and then as the fancy seize4, 4m. Louis 'Riviero was from Fyance, like Adele's mother-that had been a bou be tween them from the first-for Adele loved her nother's conntry for her mother's sake, t1-ough she herself was proud of being called Englisli, and she also loved the-young I Frenchman. Louis came of noble blood and was w,ell to-do, .ie lied,solno money-not enough to ilye upon iidle, liury, lint plenty to scure him a' fair start in' business life. Unwilli mg to enter upon this courqe in Paris, where lis noble relations would diot scruple to opposeihim',he had chosen London as thme I scene of his fututre efforts, and eibarked in business as a merchant there.1 The htappy weeks and mouths grew Into< years,. Adele was rtow seventeen; It was 'add' tmigrea and 'prnmihed tliat, when the -sprlng-timneceito e she sliottld be Riviere's bride. - "Wo mmst, finish 'the bridal veil," -e'ied. Jplis,. :cagerly. ." I tell yon, Mipneleur I Louis, no lady of your proud house everi wore a lace more exquisite and rich. Aht, I shall I not feel proud when .1 look at my beautiful child In her marriage robes, haid1 think of the poor peasant girl- of long ago whto tolled at the lace to earn .coarse bread 1 *so far. awaf over the. gea?".. - Louis turned quickly at these words, a IoIl of dlsppsmed surprise in his dark eyes. , Whtat peqagt girl, madatme I" he ques tionod, uneasily. "Miyself 1" 'he answered, hamppily, not marking tJiQok or the tone. "Whot, wqs 1 I bu g el@:a# Whm(n mg geh erouis $Ou g (6 Ve' arried ble,'the father~ of Adele?" lie answered nothing, and Ellse went *merrily chattering on; but Adele noted hisI suddenly downcast eyes and gloomy eyes, tihoughm she was far froi~ suspedoting: th'o cause of either. His haughty faiily piride had received a blow. "A lace-tmaker'i" he said to himself' "A peasant girl!i If I.had but known It!" All that night, and1 for days and 'nightsi afterward, the thmought of- his bride's humn-1 cdl s n "affected htis .temper; he became irritable, fretfutl, Impatient, sometinles to the very verge of inmpoliteness oven, above MW,iIe conceived an absurb but violent dislike to the bridal veil; eveuf'ng, in a moment or self-forgetyjgeg and whoa he and Adele were alone. '"If, Indeed, you love me, never work at in my presence, Adele; and If I. dared ask one special favor fol'yo/t shouldi be-" xHelpuseingdirlfdlieabgeldkterng She folded her work anid let bier fair hands fail on it In her lap ; one that thiode little barMlds were trem~b ,' dhe wg greati'~ risOd at this mat er ~ ~ ouI." Oud It be poe. - 1 icoe t "You ask a singular favor," she sal1, wvitlh forced quiotness. "Are you awate htit my de4ir mother worked this veil? The hot, Impulsive temper answered in stant3ly, without a Ihought ; "It is for that very reason that. I hate it." And then she understood him. This laughter of England"had been slow to mus pect or comprehend the pride of the French tristocrat, but she would not marry the iani who thought he Stooped to take her. She fohted up the veil, and gently but firmly said; 'You did not,know when first you sought no for a bride, that mammna was a lace worker in France, if you had, lerhaps you would not have loved ne. Since you have earned this fact you have regretted our en ,agement. ..You need not speak. I have cen i a change in you-I feel that it is so ! But there is no harm done," she went on with simple dignity, "since I have learned the truth before it is too late ; and so-" she lield out to him, a little trembling hand, which he took mechanically-"and so I will ;rant you the favor you covet, my friend. Your bride shall not wear my darling inother's bridal veil"-hero he kissed the band. and she drew It quickly away-''but hat is because I shall not be your bride." No need to dwell upon what followed. 1-Is prayers, his protestations-humble at lrst, then 'angry-his tears, that had no power in them to sap the strength of her resolution. They parted coldly at last -lovers stilll In heart, for love (lies not so asily, but outwardly seeming scarcely even friends. She stood proudly as he left the room; when the sound of the street door closing tfter him sttuek like a knell of hope to her roung, passionate heart, she flew to the window and watched himi out. of sight. -Go! Go!" she cried, dashing away the ears that blinded her. "Go fron my eyes, inteful tears, and let me see my love for the ast time ! My love ! my love ! And I have ost him!" She sank down, sobbing, Just then the 1ound of her mother's voice, singing merrily in old French.song in a room .above, came ;o her ears. Oneo more site dashed the tears tway. "Hle despised you,.my darling Maimina rou I No, no. I wdhlnever pardon him." Her parents questioned her in vain. She iad quarreled with Louis; that was all hey could-learn, And before a chance for econciliatlon came, Elise was smitten with nortal illness and died in three days, and &dcle, overwhelmed by the awful calamity, wvas prostrated with brain fever. At this juncture a summons came to [ouis from France, demanding his imie iiate presence thero Strange changes had 'aken place. Two of the three lives that iad stood between him and the titles and !states of the Marquis de Ia Riviere had >een suddenly swept away, and the third, a rail aund dcli<c4te hild lay dying. The irds ut Maiqdis, iuin4elf,;a feeble old nan, was also at the point of death, so they sent a haste to Louis, as the heir of the (lying ioblenan. The news bewildered him. His heart wolled with exultation and delight, but it sank again. Adele I Had lie not lost .dele ?. "I care not for rank or wealth un ess she shakes them I" cried his heart. "I ill go ajd,inpJord her pardon." IHe made the attempt' but in vain. le ought her father, and said a few words to tim, however, that- might have made all vell again had she ever heard them ; but she iever did. When her long and wasting iickness was over at last, and she began, lowly and feebly, to take hold on life, she Qund .herself an - orphan in ;very ttttth ! alter had followed Elise to a better worl . No even tlhen had she drained the cup of orrow to the dregs ; her fathei"s affairs had een terribly Involved; when all was set led, she was penniless. Poor Adlelce1 Truly might It be said that orrows "camne nuot single spies, but in bat allions." father, mothier, lover, home, all lone! What had life left to offer her but >atience and pain ? And Louis ? He would have written her mmediately upon his arrival im Paris, but hat ho felt so blIssfully sure that her father vould make all well. A fewv weeks later lhe lid write, inforinhig her fully of his strange y altered fortunes, and implormng her to ~aidon nd accept once more as her true over the Marquis de la Rivlete. And the lOttct' never reached her. The iouse.to. which it caine was empty and( d1e eorted, the lately happy home was brokeu ip, and.the little English girl, for whom a maband and title and fortune were waiting a sunny Wrane, was earning a sorrowful iing as a.lacemaker, Buch are some of the strauge 'rbversos of 'cal life, mlore wonderfnl than any fiction. So the Marqutis waited for an answer In ratn. Then pride rose up in arnms. "8he corns, me," lie thought. "EShe, a poor easant's chIld I I am punished for my ~olly."' Aiid lie resolved to drive her from his ieur%, hut af r many, iponths jils letter to 4elp was rb ekuIi@ to hftn, drowsed and re ,rossedI with srnge addeesses. It was a messenger of hope to hin. 'She la(d not slighted, she had not scorned him; 3erhaps she had not.ceased to love. B9fore mnoiher day and night had passed, the Mar ininvs bh 'hls'way to London. Need I tell of his welcome there. When lid wealth and title fail tonfnd a wvarm one? r of the friends of former years wvhio flocked ;o claim acquaintance i Has no t prosperity dlways host of frIends? Butt none could ell hin of Adele, beyond the history of her. itter sorrows She, beIng poor had fallen -'nd ae th re -nonth's a -"~ id Ihad tjed to li1d ib h' had niieyj fluei*c, hoopest heart interest to aidL his search, and rct, in spite of all, lie failed. L/'&he Is dead," hie thought, with anguish. "I have come too late, it is In the grave hlat I shall find my darling. If it be so; Igle for her sake I" Bnt that was his lIeart's resolve ; uulsnspectedl by any onNm M[any a gay belle and brilliant beauty haid Iprced her nets to secure the splendid prild of a titled hiisbapd. HTald; -h ~as the;faireatandwelthihd6 of rI,t iar goldo hsiuiwW not;n bif,wr ir monr than the others'-the memory of an olden love. kl9never suspected that, however, made mure that ho was i11 her tol 3he arranged chai'ades, rleaux, lays, heart, was that of a bridal-need it be said that Louis was the bridegrooi, herself the bride ? "lie will speak now surely," sho thought, as sie blushed and trembled beside him, while the curtain came slowly down. "But, no, he only bowed as he led her from the platform; and then one of tho but tons of Ills coat caught In her bridal veil. . It has been said that "trities nake up the sumi of human happiness." It seemed so now, As the Marquis st.op ped to disengage the lace, suiddnly Ie ut tered a straiige cry. It was Adele's hridal veil "I borrowed it of a lace maker," Miss Hale eaid, in reply to his anxious question ing. "I had ordered one like it ; but her health Is bad, and she failed to have it flnished In time. So then I made her lend me this. She was quite unwilling, too,' she added, pouting, "just because it was her .mother's work. Such funeies for a poor person !" "A young girl ?" "Oh, no;- very thin and worn, and sad; with fine eyes, but too dull and pale to be called pretty. Bnt an exquisite lace-maker. I shall be glad to give you her address if you hnve any work for her." Yes, he had work for her-work that they would share together ; the blessed work of binding up an almost broken heart, of re storing love and happiness to both their lives. Miss Iale never received her veil-the Marquis claimed it. In its stead lie sent her a oomiplte set of laces that made her-in that regard, atleast -the envy of society ; and Louis iarried Adele. Pale and thin, and somewhat careworn still, was the bride of the Marquis on her wedding day, but to bis eyes-the eyes of faithful love-it was still the sweetest face in the whole world that smiled and wept beneath Elise's bridal veil. And ho kissed the old lace and blessed it, because through It lie had found her again. "1 lovl it now !" said he. "I prize it next to yourself, dearest; It shall be kept as a treasure always." And so it was. Many a fair and high born bride wore "the bridal veil of Iliviere" in years to come. It and its story passed through many generations of proud and happy wearers. But anong them all none were more truly blest than she who "through much suffering had attained to joy." The poor lace-maker. whose mother was a peasant girl, but who, for true love's sake and for love alone, was chosen from all other women to be Madame I Marquise de la Hiviere. Splendid oem. .A writer from Paris says; I have been favored wit)h the sight of one of the most famous jewels of the world-a stone that has. its history and its pedigree, and is celebrated In the annals of the noted genis of Europe. I have held in my hand and admired beneath the rays of the sunlight the finest sapphire that is. known to exist. This beautiful and well-nigh priceless stpnp combines in a singularly perfect de gree the leading qualifications of size, and shape, color and water. In form it is a flat oval being about two inches long by an inch and a-half wide. It is cut slightly en cebochon on top, and into a multitude of small facets beneath. Its hue is perfect, being a warm, lustrous Marie Louise blue, nqt so darkr as to show black beneath the gaslight but having all the velvety koftness and purity of . tint required in a really fine gem of this description. Its weight is 300 carats, and it belongs to a noble and vtealthy Russian family, in whose posses sion it, has been the last two centuries, and it has been placed by 'its owner 'in the hands of one.of the great diamond merch ants of Paris for safe keeping. One of the Rothschild family-has offered for it not less a sunm than $800,000, but the offer has been refused. I asked the courteous gentleman in whose care It lias been loft as to the ac tual value of- the stone. Hie told me that, as it was perfectly unique, no precise vaihi atin could lie set uponf It, but that he was incelined to estimate It ait somne $400,000. He lhe also showed me a striing of enor mous11 graduated pearls of extreme purity and tlneness (the center one was as large as a cherry), and told fine that the ncklace belonging to the noble Russian was comn posed of six similar strings of eqaal beauty and exceptional size. The great sapphire was mounted to be worn as a brooch, being surmounted with a large diamond of some twenty ca: ats weight. Its guardian informed me that the pendant belonging to this brooch was composcd of a large spear shaped sapphire, weighing sixty carats and set in diamonds. The whole collection of jewels belonmging to this one family is worth over $2,000,000. *?There is no such sapph)lire as that largest one," continued my informant, "even among the crown jewels of Russia. i furnished miyself two very fine onep to the Empress, each weighing six carats, but they do not compare with this magnificent gem4" The gentlemnan who spake was wvell qualified to give an obInion, as lie is one of the few diamondl merchants of the world, and is, moreover, a noted exbert. He It was whio was recently sent for by the Russian Government to go tb St. Petertburg to make a full estimate of the full value of the crown jewels, and\ lie furnishps whatever ornaments. in pre cl ous stones are purchased by the members of. the imperial famiily. Indian Glamblers. -The Indians have gay times gambling levery Sunday hifternoon upon the hill. The gamblig.Is done with bundle of sticks. The 'Indian; rango 'themselves in a oh5cld and keop up a continuouts chant as the game proceeds. The Iudlass of one tribe .pool their money against: that of another tribe, and then one of the number "casts the lot." The tics ar ofhard Wrood, about AIgb~t inchesin length,and about twice the thick ness of broom-straws. They~ are all white, 9*4994 one,'which has a black, stripe labbat an Inch 'wide around the center. The dealer places'b btlekcs behiii,d hh,i and divides Menn t*o sepaurtte .branches, .holding his hands closely about the centet. Th4n ~no of the 'opposite tribe tiles a g'uod Ams 'to 'which hand contains the black stick. 'rho sticks are themn scattered out on a long as LUfebthef .a. 0fails'to gutess rlgl~t dear hio de also frnisesthe vocal music, whieI h'rariably has a tin ac urspetsn'h have Who Eats ie ? "flow many pies do you use Im a day *' asked a reporter of Mr. I lenry N. Smith, of the Grand Hotel New York. "We don't use very many," he replied. ''If you want to learn something about the consumption of pie go to some hotel kept on the American plan. There they give away their pie; here we sell pie. You see when a mai sits downi at table d'hote he knows he has $1.50 to pay any way, anl(d he begins with three kinds of soup. Then he takes six or seven roasts. aund tinally tells the waiter to bring him a little of every thing there is. Of course he grets a piece of pie; maybe three pieces. Now, if he should order that way at our table, where we charge for each dish, it would break him all up. We use, perhaps, twenty-five or thirty a day. Maybe nine or ten mince pies and as many apple and one or two each of squash and lemon and cocoanut or some other kind. We vary the bill of fare each day, of course. At the Windsor Hotel the greatest inter est is felt in the subject of pies. Mr. Mel chior the steward, conducted the reporter through the kitchens, sampling choice pies In all directions and introducing him to chief cooks of various departments. Eugene Mehl, the clo f of the hotel, spoke emphati cally on the subject of copper and cleanli ness. '1)irt is poisonous wherever It is," lie said, "8land copper is deadly if you put any acid in it or let anything stand in it after it stops boiling. I remember twenty five years ago some people died after eating oysters at the Metropolitan. It wasall laid oil tile oysters and nobody found out what the polsis was or where it came from, but we knew in the kitchen. It was copper." It appeared on further conversation that about one hundred pies were eaten by the guests of the Windsor every day. Fifty apple pies are made every day the year around and fifty of some other kid, there being always two kinds on the bill of fare. Each pie is servered In four pieces. "How many people do you feed ?' "On an average, about four hundred," said Mr. Melchior. "'Tien everybody eats pie ? "Well, yes, pretty nearly everybody, al t1jough a few take two pieces. It averages about a portion to each guest, though." *At the Gilsey House about ten pies and a dozen tarts, or small pies, are used. They are cranberry, lemon, mince, pumpkin, squash, apple, peach and custard. At the H1offinan House the second clerk said: "Pies! pies? How many pies do we cat ? I don't know, really. Tracy, how many do you eat a day? Six ?" Tracy smiled. "We don'tuse many," said he. "Probably got more than six or eight. But Lord, you ought to see the size of 'em. They are big." At the Union Place Hotel Mr. Samuel Smith said their consumption varied ac cordis to who came in during the day. "Perhaps about titirty, but when sonic of the ple-eaters come in it runs up to -fifty.' At the Astor House over four, hundred pies are used daily and sometimes as many as five hundred, mostly at the lunch counter. At the Metropolitan seventy-five la the daily figure. At the Stiiteivant; where there Is a well-patronized lunch counter, 180 pies disappeared daily. Florence, the pastry cook at the Grand Central, makes over fifty pies a day. At the Rossmore not more than twelve or fifteen pies a day are nicceE sary. The bill of fare is varied from day to day, cranberry, mince, apple, apple meringue; custard and cocoanut being the favorites. At Parker's, mince, apple, cran berry and cocoanut pies are sold, eight or ten a day being the total. At the St. Cloud pies are made'small, each custonjer getting a whole one. The daily consumption aver fges--mince, 8; apple, 8; lemon, 4; Washington, 4; squash,' 4, and about seven "'scattering." At the Coleman House there is a large variety but a small consumption. Of pumpkin, mince, apple, peach, strawv berry, custard, lenmon and cocoanut not more than ten or a dozen pies daily are eaten. At the Fifth Avenue seventy-five pies a day are used. At tihe St. Nicholas at least one hundred and fifty are sold daily. At the Brunswick one proprietor was out an(l time other was busy; but Mr. McCartney was Instructed to give all possible information. Mr. McCartney said that personally lie cared little for pie. When lie was a child lie spake as a child and ate as a child, but when lie became a man lie put away chlhd ish things, including pie. The patrons of the Brunswick cared vezy little for pie. Of course they called for some pie, but the principal demanJl was for fancy pastry, andl he showed thme reporter a bewildering dis play of the same. Freaks of a Monarch. The palaces on which8Sultan Abdul Azzi z and the ex-Khedive expended so many millions, luxurious as they are, have been surpassed even In modern times by tihe freaks of rulers still more excentrie. ils. tory has preserved the memory of the ice palace built by the Russian Empress Anne, who punished- several of her dainty cour tiers by compelling them-to pass the night in its great chamber of state, .where they weie almost frozen to death. The Czar Paul, grandfather of the present sovereign, constructed a room formed entirely of htige mirrors, where lie spent hours walking ,too andi fro in full . uniform--a singular taste. for the ugliest man. In Russia. One of the native princes of Java.cooled his palace by making a stream fall in a cascade: over the gateway, and the Indian deapot, Tippoo Sahib, placed beside his diriner tab}e a life size figure of a tiger devouring an EnglIsh officer, the roar of the beaist land thed shrieks of- his victim being imitated by hidden' ma chinery. The late King 'of Ouxdo kelit- in his country palace a large colldation of 'pet serpents, wieh9 hp is ild to .haaye more than once amused him*el by ldtting loose, with'fa'tdl. eftedtupdo, Ite 1peig.Hindus . How to .udge toe 'eather. The colofs ofi thme skyAt' differemt times are a wondprftul guida'nes N~ ot bbly does clear Weathmeb.pr.esage! fair Weather, but there are other tints which speak with cleatness' sad Accumofe.: !A bright' yellow sky in: thei evenilg indieates' a4Wdd; pale yellown wet1.'a, neutral 'tray 6btestltutce a~ favorable sign'in thoeiiorAingj an hhfavota. ble one in the evening. The clouds are full of mreaipg in theliselve.: "If the* are soft, undefined And' feathoryj'the woa'her will bor fine; if. tho. edges! are hgtd, slkrp and' definite Ik will. be' foub.' Generallyv speaku' ing, any deep, unusual hues betoken wind c mjIlleaore Quiet'Vjmt~ rt tinth daraweatherIl aiosw :those 411B ':oQ/ld A Mialtig (ldl< 1)olir. A young lady of Lambertville, New Jersey, has a dollar. with a monogram in seribed upon it, which has been the subject of a great leal of attention. It was attach ed to a bracelet by a chain. One eveuing in the latter part of February last, after a sleigh rilde, she missed it. 'T'le broken chain showed how it had disappeared. Seam ch was made, but it was of no avail. nllly an advertisement caught the eye of an habitual loafer about town. I e went to the house and said that he had found the dollar below the steps of the sleigh the morning after the ride and had spent it for whiskey att a saloon. 'The friends of the young lady determined to find the dollar if possible. 'rite saloon-keepcr reinembered receiving the money, but he had paid it to a butcher. The latter recollected paying it over to a drover in Trenton. The address to the drover was secured and a letter writ ten hiu, requesting a reply at once. It cane, with the infortation that he had purchased a ticket to Philadelphia with it the very day the Lambertville butcher gave it to him, and that the Trenton ticket agent had remarked about the monogram. '"'The search was continted. 'The agent remem bered the dolltr, and said h laid it aside for a few hours, but it was forwarded to the general olllc. i Philadelphia with the daily account. 'T'he receiver of the New Jersey receipts at PIhladelphia was next corresponded with. The beautiful mono gra:n had been noted, but the dollar had been deposited in the aank. His opinion was that. It could be obtained from the cashier. The cashier was communicated with. Ills attention had besn called to the initials on the back of the dollar by one of the clerks and he had instructed the clerk to place it aside for a few weeks. Unfor tunately, In the absence of tie clerk, a gen tlelman, desiring several hundred dollars in gold, preparatory to a California trip, had been furnished with the amount, and the little piece had in some way been mixed with that sum and gone westward. The gentleman's mnme was furnished, and a letter was sent to him. "The events sofar described took place in March, and the reinainder of the spring and all summer passed with no tidings from the lost bangle. A few days ago, however, there caine a letter from Detroit, written by the gentle man who had gone West, which said that. his health had been poor, so that instead of returning at once from California, as he proposed when lie started, he had stopped at Colorado Springs for the summer to recuperate. The letter relat ing the account .of Lite dollar had been delayed and nut for ward, so that he never received it until lie reached Chicago. lie said he had the dollar in his possession as the monogram attracted his nol.ice. The initials were t,hose of a yoiug friend of his, and kept. the coin on that account. Ilie promised to scnd the dollar as should be (irected. He was as good as his word,. and the littlogold piece Is back in Lambertville once, more." Hlaiquartern. The other lay a young gentleman who hts been enamored of one of the fairest daughters of Vest Monroe street, Chicago, but who has met. with scant courtesy from her parents, suddenly hit upon the great discovery that asking a girl's farther's con cent was an idle formality. "Iiy Jove I" he said, after thinking the matter over in all its various aspects, "it is the old wonan who is the power behind the throne. Once you get her on your side you are all right, andt besides, you are saved from any annoy ance by your mother-In-law, for she can't go and say to your wife: "If you had taken my advice,' or, 'I always told you so." By Jove, I'll go for the old woman." So, dress ing himself In his gay attire, the young man went up, and, after explaining matters to his sweetheart, inttced her to call down her mother. HeIr father had gone to D)es Moines ont business. "Well, sir," sat(d the old1 lady, with icy coldness, "what (10 yout wish to say to mie ?'' "come, madam," said the heroic youth, "to demand the htanld of your lovely dattghter in mtarriage." "'Demand a fIddlestick I" said the old1 lady, with asperity : "Amianda is too young to be miarried1 yet, and If she vrasn't, and there wasn't butt one0 husband In the world, and you were he, I would say "Na-aw I" D)r you understand that ?" "In a measure I apprehend your meani lag," said the young lov'er, while Amanda, wh'lo was listening behmind the foiding dlOOrs, whisp-ered to herself 'that ama was real moan, iand felt her heart sinik Into her slippers; "and I was prep)ar'et for' it. I hmad already seen your husband." "You had. oh?. Do you mean to say thait that chmuckle-heasded clanm 1had con sente--Y "No, nmadaum, not precisely. In fact, lhe said ho would be--a-hemmed first. Brut as.ini suchi matters as these it, Is alwvays best to deal wit,h- principals,,I thought, I would see you, although your husband said that whlen lie said "No,". awl put hsis foot down, that wvas, an end of, mnatte:s. In his houise. I wantedl to.jse allowed,to plead my care be-. fore yout, because theo syipathies of a beautiful aind clever wonman,st,ihI young in heart pis site Is in looks-but alas I heo told me it would dQ no good-tlist you were prejuidice againust me, andl If you favored my suit your hihnablest sollitlori could not mo'de him," "When did my husband.tell you all this? Was ho sober-quito soler ? ie piut -lisa foot down, indeed 1" "About modn on Ttesday~ aur4 I neve feen hmu more collected and rational. Imip deed, lhe was uriusually billd ityid liensive, ~inj when I told 'him of mlty desire to a lItrled, ho saidT~ "JJctter '1ot; if jpusiknow ithat's oed fora you-dofst. 'h dare say. iny de hiter Is very' baindkodie, am'd all thait kind of tiig bulkshet tmkes aflei' her ntuter. I am rehily- doIhggut a kihdness in refstsintg my 6osest." ' ' 'rThe snub-noged it'aitor1I" said the old ihdy, WAt'mmly;' '"well, flow, I watit yOfu to uniderstanid one- thing ; 1 arti 'the jfatria(ch' of I thiii'huouold,isnd whewr mf husband leaves mnb out of the calculation .16-is equI4 Malent to the ominission of thsestibtraliend, *dehoinater, quotient, -divisor, thiultiplier and -thes one you' carry. ' You understand "Yes'mn y but your huisbatid dbesn't, thinli " Well !whha lihe geth lback-I'll just'vnt in soremebt, humblest'solloitationsa-bolle a that ib I he calls ehthmand libitll uu .dedstand memu'Abct'I'l p,rov.ltu;to. &tands coJ,V1eher.~ Tsi. ldbh aftd lit 0o 661~~!~ bo VobIhIhd I'll see that you get them. Young man, embrace your betrothed bride. Bless you, my children, I want this thing settled once for all." It was hdmost too good to be true, and the lovers had to hug each other several times during the evening (which they pent on the same chair) to be sure it was not all a dream. Nevertheless the fair Amanda fc't several qualms and fears when she thought of her stern father's return, and the possibility that the game would be up then. But it wasn't. The old man got home from Des Moines late on Thursday night. lie slept on the sofa, and looked visibly older at breakfast the next morning, having a startled and pained expression In his eyes. When the meal was concluded he took his daughter aside and asked her if she was really sure that she loved the young man, and when she replied that he could gamble on It (or words to that effect). he said he could no longer withhold his consent-her happiness was more to him than the s[ictaele of vindicated authority. "Oh, pa, how good and kind you are 1" sobbed the beautiful g'rl, falling upon his neck. ''Amanda, my love," said the author of her being, "that's all right, and I do not bear your lover any malice, but I don't want you, my dear girl, to think that your pa is a three-ply, double-and-twist liar, for I never said anything of the sort. But it would do me no good to deny it; no, not if I sued him for perjury, and the jurors brought in a verdlict of guilty without leav ing the box ." Ain Ai:nerlean Itihdoriok Dhit. lthoderick Di, with variations, has been played in the northern Georgia mountains, Barrony, a "moonshiner" leader, who had set the revenue ofilcers at defiance, was surprised at night in his house. The of ficers waited until the family had gone to sleep and than surrounded the house and closed it on the insuspecting family. Bar rouy, though surprised while asleep, sirang from his bed and lied, clad only in his night clothes. Despite this light weight, he was overtnken by the deputies, over powered and tied. While the deputies were engaged with the people at the door, a daughter of tne prisoner, about 18 years of age, slippedi out of the back door, dressed only in the garment in which she had been sleeping, and made for the moun toin side with the swiftness of a young an tilope. She carried in. her hand a fox-horn. As soon as she reached the crest of the mountains she turned and "gave one blast upon her bugle horn," to summon her father's comrades to the rescue. As rapid ly as possibly the depuuty had his prisoner dressed, and forming his men into close order, moved off toward his wagons. le and his men were followed by the family of the prisoner, vhich was constantly rein forced by the arrival of mountaineers, aroused amid angry. By the time the de puties had gone a mile the threatening force behind had grown to 20 or 25 men.. When they had reached a long, narrow defile, the deputy in charge found that there was a large force of men in front of him, and that each side of the defile was held by sharp shooting monntaineers, who were hidden in the woods. lie, tberefore, began to par ley. The mountai icers demanded the re lease of Berrony. The deputy at first pro tested and refused, but he soon found there were 50 men opposed to him, with the ad vantages of position. At length the de. puty surrendered him, and he joined his friend's in the woods. Lomses by Fire. The statistics of' losses by fAre in the United States collected by and from insur ance agents show that, for the nine months endtng with September, the losses aggre gate over sixty-one millions of dollars. If proportlonate losses occur in tihe remaining three months ot the year, the aggregate will reach near eighty millions. But many losses occur which are not reported b)y In surance agents, so that the total aggregate loss for the year will probably be about one hundlred millions of dollars. This is tao annual tax in losses we pay for our p)resent methotis of building intimmable wooden and p)artly wooden buildings. In addition to those losses, which are abso. luteglestruction of wealth, we pay nearly as muchu more In Insurance, In taxation to snpport costly fire departments and appara tus in cities and towns, and in time rapid deterioration ia value of wooden and partly woodlen b)uildings, and, the expense of .con tinual repairIng, repainting, etc. If this enormous annual taxation andl loss caused by our excessive use of wood in buildings fire proof, time cost would not be much, if any, greater thman it now Is, while our buildings would acquire the great advan - tages of permnanenoy, solidity, and increased real value. However, as a reform in build ing methods is a slow process and not like ly to become general so long as our forests furnish ap~ abundance of cheap lumber, our exeBssive losses by fire should Induce at least aa improvement In the character of fire appartus in cities. At present the de mand is genei-ally for light rapidly; mova ble, steam,fire engines. eo rpain object seems to lIe to .get quic y to a fire, and p)ut it out before It becontes a large confia. gration. Tisl is a correct theory,,and it Is generally correct in practice. .But, when a fire does get fairly started,, so as to become ii poweyful conflagration, then the light steamers, especially where tpe build. lngs 'are tall and close toisether, prove Ia adeqnate.. . Therefore .*everya city sl;ould, hu4voja certain proportion of,betayy1gd ex tra powerful steniers, w6.h ex(tr%. tr9ng Pipo papable of delive tn4lqods or, wvater at, great heights, pprhialls h nmeo, strearns. If thead $ieavy onglues are slower in'getting to t 0, th4y will Qffen prove of theo greatest vjl9Vwhen they d6 'gt th'ere. * Afi6ve tim 1 ud. >Probably thd -largekt 'reek lb the&kho*n world "Is th'o soiuth '4fonie dtf-Yoinit. Staniib at the forktof'the l9pner' v'alloy, it' reais iteelt, ' olid -tock Joa' 0,000 feet alidth thekrblind." A Itib jwerful hand thath that 'of utho TPitft ha ' ut away the' esiterd'hhlf, l641n'g W alibepee~ Pmefp a' mile'ti-lielglit.' F ierield' ~l in ivoider at th6!spike'driverin~to th ryel bnyh hrdy uerit whob iadftf t)( dagln intho'it,bol e f tur tw ldpa BR[EFS. --Quakers wore publicly whipped for their religious professions irt boston In 1657. --Slvty thousand acres of fruit trees wore planted in Iowa during the past year. -Prof. B. F, Mudge thinks the anti quity of men cannot be less than 200,000 years. -George Elliot is now fifty-nine years old, and has earned $250,000 with her pen. -The value of church property of aM kinds l New York state is estimated at $117,010,000. --The cotton crop of America this year will be fully 500,000 bales more thain ever before. -Mr. James Russell Lowell's house Cambridge, $lass., has beet} rented for the winter by Ole Bull. -The brewers of Cincinnati propose to unite all interests in one great Cou pany, with a capital of $8,000,000. -The average salary of a certificated school-master in England is now *593; that of a school-mistress is $355. -R. Weber, the German chemist, has shown that vinegar will attack pure tin, as well as alloys of tin and lca,. --'When the United States becomes as densely populated as Holland, it will contain 837,433,019 inhabitants. -A cotton broker of Nev York claims that his commissions on one day's business recently amounted to over $7,000. -Charleston, S. C., has had its first fall of snow in ton years. hundreds of school ehildren had never seen snow before. -Every kind of leather of oak and sumac tannage is produced in CIncin nati, there being 30 tanning- establish monts there. -The sixty-five thousand dogs of St. Petersburg bring to the city treas ury $130,000 per year, $2 being the tax upon each dog. -Mr. Claude Bernard shows by ex periment that plants, like itnimals, may be placed under the influence of ether and chloroform. -Rev. George Randall, of Yancy county, N. C., has killed 575 groui hogs this season, and preached two sermons every Sunday. -Mexico was colonized Just one hun drad years before Massachusetts. IThe former was settled by Spanish knights, the latter by English Pilgrims. -The number of recruits to be levied next year for the Russian army has been fixed at 322,500-a larger quota than has been raised in war time. -On the surface of the earth but lit tle more than one-quarter is land, the rest being water, The area of the land surface is 5-1,000,000 square miles. -Aenry Lawa Selwyn, a full blood ed Sioux Indian and a son of a leading chief of the Yankton tribe, has been ordained pastor of the church at Yank ton. --General Sheridan, who was ill for two weeks witt a severe cold, border ing on pneumoia, has almost recover ed, and Is agan busy at his military headquarters. --The damage caused by fires in Rus sia in the month of August is comput ed at no less a sum than nearly $15,414, 000, Urkutsk alone havlag sul'ered to the amount of $11,744,000. -The exports of domestic provlions and tallow from the United States for the month of October, 1879, fogted up $7,886,027 in value, against $6,797,005 for the same month last year. -The Tihhorne claimant, as a pris oner. has asked the use of the .Bible Macaulry's History of Eniglandi, and GIbbon's History or Rome, but the au thorities harve denied his petitIon. -In spitlting open a log hiauled on land from the Susquehanna River at Marietta, Pa., three handsome bass, one weighing five pounds, were found In a cavity in the centre of the log. -Th'le new JPullman. pailace cars are very lutxurIous, costing oach $15,000. Ordinary p)assenger cars obst' $4,000; tirawing-room- ears, $8,000 i mall and b)aggage cars, $2,000; box cars $400. --T'he total production -of Thoney in Lhe United States .for some years past has average (thout 50 000,000 pounds innuLaly.' I~s estihiaea. that'th pro lluction tis 'ear will no6t1O1eo 25, )00,000 pounds. .. -' . -Austria has 1,380,623 horses ; 7,425, 212 oxen and,.oows; 5,056,808 sheep; 379,10h goats; 2,551,473 swine, and 013, 743 hives 'of bees. T1hesO''figures are from the latest stitistloi crpns just made public. -Indiana has the largeet sh offunrd of any s'tate-lh the Union.. 'nas $11, 300,000 It. school property and: $9,000, 3)00; in the St a~ Trppas.gry, a total of I.20,000,000, or 7?0 to .every philj at tending the'pubili schiodl. -'-Shiepbuiidini'f on' the Clyde was never.4o active as 'nowf 70 vesselB be ing on .the sto?I e in' the thmityrfive Id IA Odtb t hon 'meat lantle Oonpany is haiving Oight~ niew steoa,mets contructed. . -he grave of Rob Roys in.the lone ly ohtarchy* r4 at -3 h ie geot Land, is ma ed bye ai b?t a o$nwury od on whicli . itYe'ir tree crossed by a sW4tdi":&d-Ug e(ort ang 4-crown, but 'wlthout anyo'nemo. pr9p~ed ,~ bettpr niegioo -A Weddin "' rd' t Ths"Ma ohlde, He'., tl& te~ di. ht the bridegroomhs'age Was 71'm0 th baride's 6~Q* ..gt9 oepresent1in0liing of ithe'dight wes &8yea's old '~a. - .ltV ib now btiiidfM'Th'ar tiill afe J5,Q carriage'/manufactu'resIw the. nh~ a; e, whqppot lbsWi tipWhed.ef u 1Inle~II .-rheJ WoJmela spf9