The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, January 20, 1880, Image 1
TIl-WEEIKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JANUARY 20 1880. VOL. I.-NO. 9
I SOBO,S. C., A t A L 1 2, .
Oil TO BE READY.
Oh! to be ready when death shall come;
Oh! to be leady to hasten t.olio!
{ No oarthwaid olinging. no ling -rivg gazo,
No strife at parting, no sore ainazo;
No chains to sover that earth liath twincd.
No spell to to ospn that love would bind.
No flitting sha,dows to dim the i- .ht
Of theo angel pinions winiged for flight.
No oloud-:iko phantoms to fling a gloota
Tiwixt hoavon's bright portals, and e rth's da k
tolnb;
But sweetly, gently, to pass away,
From the world's di.a twilight into day.
To list tho music of angel lyres;
To catch the rapture of ,-oralh fires;
To lean in tru t on the Rlisen One,
'ill borne away to a fadeless throne.
Oh! to be ready when doath sha ll co(ne;
O ! to to ready to hasten home.
Redolette's Escape.
"It is further thml it. looks,'' said Itedo
lette.
'Not too far for us to climb," said the
sunny-faced boy wb^ held Itedoleette's
hand while he gazed )"s - tely n at the
mountain's greenwood l'hight. "We can
be there by sundown,, and ruu bacl before
it is dark."
"Well, then, I'll ask leave
"Ask leave? Are you not your own
mistress, lRedolette ?"
No; 1 must obey my husband," gravely
the little maid replied.
"Your husband I" cried Willie Locke.
S"Yes, he is here ini the house. I all ways
ask his leave when he is at home. I do it
in the beginining, because it will be so all
the rest of my life. I am learning, he says,
to be his wife."
"; ai, do you mean, ltedolette?" asked
the boy, dropping her hand and turning to
her with great earnestness, his eyes ablaze,
1.s cheeks flushed. "You do not-you
surely (o not mean Judge Iluut when you
say, 'mly husband?' Oh, you are not in
+. earnest ; you are teasing, you are joking;
4 you are not In earnest, lIedolette ?"
r '. in earnest, 1Y illie," the girl replied.
'')o not look so fierce. Are you a wolf ?
, Are you going to eat. me up'?'
" "' ''N), lie is the wolf,'' said Willie, indig
nattly.
"1 have alway been, his little wife,"said
ltedolette. "I was born so. 'Ever since
ltedolette was a baby,' lie says. 'she has
been mine.' lIe is my guardian. y dy.
ing fathr left me i his hands, and he takes
care -f me, and takes care of the money I
ami to have when I. am of age; but before
that, so at least. Aunt Rihoda declares, al
though I don't say so tuite-before that we
shall probably be married. There! Now,
Wtilie; l'Pl go and ask leave."
Without another word she ran up the
path at wh' s ;ott ;r terminus, was the garden
gate, where tl,cy had been standing while
they talked, and disappeared in the house.
She returned with smiles. "Judge lIlunt
has gone down to the village for.the evening
letters, and Auntie says we may go to
'Block Height' if we will hurry homie."
}. h lie offered to take his han(] again as they
went through the gate, but Willie drew
proudly back. She started inquiringly, but
still smiling. "Now, Willie," she said,
d'(lonl't spoil our dear, little time. Please
dotn't be cross.''
'I amt not cross," said Willie ; "I was
never less so In my life. But ['certainly
shall not take the hand of another man s
wife. You do not understand me, Redo
lette," said this man of eighteen to the baby
woman at his side, in a voice thrilling with
emotion and stinging with reproach.
",Ol, I (o,'' said ltedolette, deeply
shocked at his vehemcnce. "Indeed I do.
Willie. I understand you with all my
heart." They, had gone some paces down
the maiple-archedl road. before she spoke
againl, and1( dutring that tinie Willie had
taken the hand lie had rejected, and( niot
only that, but lie had transferred it from his
right hiand to0 his left, so that lie might en
circle with his fIrm arm heri little waist.
8.ae tutrned( o hinm fully her iinot ent, sweet
face--was thlere ever a face more swecet and
norec innlocenit?--and said. ''You atre the
only thing, Willie, In al1,the wvord, that I
(10 undi(erstand.'
''Oh, Iledolette I" skrhed WVillie, anmd lie
kissed her cheek.
Bhe broke away fromi hIm then, an(i they
had a race. Thley raced down the road to
the lane; raced til theolane to the p)asture
fceice; leaped over the fence, and this wit.h
ouIt any alppeal for assistance . from lRedo
lette, for she was a mlotutain miaid., and
free and agile as a bird; raced across the
uplanld miead.ow, ande. then Willie caught
tup. The ascenit began; It became steeper
and more stel5; thtey wecnt slowly and more
slow. Itugged the way was thlat looked so
smooth vIewed. from below. They climbed
wearily the steep) stonecs, stoppilng eccasionl
ally to take breath; ahd to look back with
elicious little lingerigs mit the picturedl
fields and woodl stretched at their feet, and
the zigzag village clinging to the rivei's
bank as5 for (dear life.
Before stindowni they reachecel the height.
They found a scat just. wide enough for
two In the crevice of the great square lock
thlat gave to this accessible hill-stummit,
perched anId prouder mountain heights,
its familiar name, "Block Icght." Flushl
dI and( excited., andi again cooled aind calm
d, they rested, wlhle behind themi the sun
ont dlowni, its orbs quite hidden by iter
9cinmg hills, an{ known only lit its fin~al
lparture by theN 4lftint fronm theO vall'ey
"No, ejolette, we must have a solemn
"Generly," said Redolette, with a dlel
ture yet coquettish accent, "I (10 net like
lemn talks. "
tively, "whether vou lIke them or. not;
dohlete--" Hie paused ; lie was goIng to*
y, "Redolette darling," but lie restrained
r the sake of solemnIty, hihs boyish
armth. "Redohettoe how old.are you?t"
Shefoled hior;hand'W inl'lter:lal aid
~kddonike a chilId at4ehoo oalled to.
dised beside her miouth. .* shllp
teeino fifth of next nmonth.
"Slxtteeni IAnd what do you know ?"
Reolette laughied. "I know tat,'t ,..
illie know that to. "Sweet si*tleW-Z
-test sixteeni I" lie saidl In his heart.
"IWetdVfds9q liii ( oDtS E
af R-'-,-- but I have not been the
three terius. Judg flHunt does.not be
o nsI)9Ui o gridjpstani7wXiamn
.ot hf ' nt
of the linen forward ad t wo threads back,
the regular sld-fashioned way. I sew anut
cook and bake."
"Bake !" repeated Willie indig n:Itly.
"Ora soetiies I fry. 1 depends ulpon
whether 'tis doughnuts or b re;l. I would
rat her fry than bake: it is more exciting."
"I should think so indeed. iy, ltriido
lette, these are the tortures of tile In<ptisi
tion for you. Fryt and bake ! ''hery might
a1s well roast you ut the Stake. Of course
these things have to be done. We n ust
have shirt bosoms and bread, and it is right
that you should learn how to do them, or
how to have them done ; but spend vonr
life at such tasks? t he ideal is absurd. We
might as well harness doves to drays, or
burn )rosebuds in our grates. Every work
has its own workers. My dear child, Ihere
aire two rules for practical life-irst, the
greater must not he sacritieeI to the less,
and second--'' Ilere Willie was going to
qIuote I)arlyle at lengtli, bit lie recollected
that he was talking to a girl, and he mnotli
fleld the grand sentences of thel philosopher
endling in, "Know wh:at thoul cans't work
at, into "And you should do Redolelte,
N% luit you enn do best. Now if you can
really do nothing better than stitch and
cook, then that 1s your work. But in this
age of the world you are not, forced ; you
can have choice, anlld you 1ust remlleliber
that we are living ian the time of sewing
machines and scientific cooks. There is no
need of inmmolation in-those departments of
labor. We are living in at time-" 'ilm ..
hesitated in the midst of his cio:lence,
ilurried by a little thing ; just the toutch of
his hand by Iledolette's--an acti o softly
done, but causing him to descend from his
speech to look into her face. He pau.sed
for a1 miomlent, enchanted by the serious
sweet gaze of her dark eyes fixed upon his.
But he recovered himsel f and w%( it on ;
")o you know what age of the worl(t you
belong to, Redolette ? Do you know that
you ire at citizen of Christendom? You
have no right to g. back to an age that you
were not born ill ; you have no riglt to
m11a1.rry 1a 12man who belongs exclusively to
that age, and avail yourself of nothing that
has occurred smnce in the great march of
Progress. You can g.) back if you desire
it. You are free; you live in a free land.
Butt If you do not desire it. if you feel that
tlr is something higher in you than a1 life
of drudgery, unlighted by liberty that
'lalkes drudgery (itvin"',' unlighted by love
-an11d, oh ! Itedolette, you (o not know
what you are relinquishing when you relin
quish the possibility of love-if you feel it
stir in your pulse that beats wit1 what is
highest and nearest true in the time we live
in, darling liedolette," (this t ilme theempha
sis was laid with sullicient, stress to com
pensate for the former restraint), "then I
would dlie a thousand deat hs nather than see
you met in these woods by a sellisl soul,
like ,Riding-hood by the wolf, and lured
into at thatched hlut, and 'enten up,' with no
caru to hear your poor innocent. cay of, '011
what big eyes yoa-ve got :' and 'Oh what
sharp teeth you've got I"
Willie was excited now. lIe, frightened
Redolette. She sprang up before him with
i low cry-a genuine cry of pain, like a
hurt child. A sudden pallor swept her
face ; the paleness as of a Womnl's pang
swept over her childish face.
Then Willie took her in hi; armas and
called her his precious love, and soothed
her with his tenderness, a1s lie had aroused
her with his wrath. And then an(1 there,
inl the mountain sdlitude, witnessed only by
lonely height and lonely earth and sky, lie
made her make one solen promise.
Not the promise that his heart burned to
have her make. For what lie wished so
ardently, that nothing "before or after"
could compare in ardor with that hour's
wish, was to make her promise to be his
wife. 'Te remined himself tht, hie had no
right to do this, lie was at young fellow
n yet graluated iro college; and141 ..fter'
his Seanor Year', just1 commeInc.ed, there 12ay
before 11im1 a1 course of professional study13,
and1( then the estaiblishinig of 11 h)iofession's~
pra'Ictie, for his p)arimonay wa'is by3 no m~eans
conunensur'ate with his wvants. II[e had( 1no
right to ask her yet.
He 01n13 mad1(1 her grant a pr'omise formi
ed1 disinlterestedly anld exclusively for her
good.
By this8 t imie the 8111 hald set. Shml1ows
m11ingled witihshadoews. The airgatheredl that
strsange pure~ cool tonle which sec1ns 14) blend
and ait tile same11 instant de3fine 111e pr'ecious
wodlnd seets. Tihe soft rustle of leatves
the twitter of sleepy birds, the fatint crash
ing sound1( of "'the lonIg rank bent" 2.s they
enlteredi the fields, the0 infiniteshnal thic yet
clear sound1( of the srtummer night rasped nloti
unmulllsically by the tiny sharp cries 2and(
beating 111mn of th1e 12sec0, wvorld- these
were4 tile vocaIl accompanimlents of the~
hlomeward way, for' Red(olette and1( Willie
hlardlly spoke. (Olaspinig eachi othier' hands(1
I,hey wvent diown the rocky' stepls, and( 21cross
the mleaidows 1boni1.
And at tihe garden gate lie jissed 1her
''good nuight" and kissed her ''good-bye,"
for on the morr1'ow he .was to leave the
mloutiain~t fam, and1( she would not1 see 1him
agamil.
RIediolette hangered 02n the por1chl some1
thn,ep before she 'enteredl the house. She'
waItced( Willie's figure 'pass down the road
and1( disalppealr at tile river' turn ; then 81h0
thloughIt and( thox'ghit. And whienl sheo went
hito the lighteda reoom where Judge llunt sat
in his arm-chair readihng tile evening neOws,
Aunt RhlodaI looked up1 from her !'eedle
work to greet tihe child with 801me reproof
for -stayig so late, yet reproachl died'oil hecr
lips, such a etranige now leek was on fledo
lette's face.
"Sheo nover was the 8same1 girl,'' her aunt
said(, lonig afterward, when this evening
Was r0eembered1 as a part of the story of a
hlfc-"never tIle same)1 girl after that1 walk
to Bllock IIelghlt. Bult I never 50e1n her"
(Aun.t Jioda's gr4atmar had "grown 'rusiy
wIth her dlrudlging life)-"I never saw her
look so beautiful 11nd( p)roud-like as she0 did(
when the Jud(ge got up.from the chair aInd
was agoin' to give her a kiss. Shle dirow
back her head like a queen, and( - just. put
d'ut( her hand for Is liyd; and he started at
he~r astonIshed, ,momuent, and theti kissed
herf Oxgrtips. Ifledo1ette' said1 hon ~ou'vet
been imt)prudoplti; you'ye got chilled througha;
your litind l's as cold 'as Ice.' That was all~
hIe thought'-abouat it, but womien Is m1oro
keen tand I says to mhyself, that vet-y nin
nit.Y'ts, she's cauight a chlill, and she'st
caught a fev&r ; tile feYeor maty last or it
li@r '8 h fihtoiIMl6s'e$triperience
a night that, for its ve,ry distinction of (dark
.pesa and too ud1aing. r
coute e~ 'itne
M"4',..
lie ilide hei malll'e a i solemn pronm.e "for
her go->d.'
A night of storm, and wild itnd andin seemed
I'eeble elemlenits in comlpa-risonl with tile
cruel anl!;er, the passionate uphraiding and
pitiless threats that formed the actual dark
pre-eminence of the eventful night.
One bright seene Stood out in relef
against he stormy baekgrotund-tlhe open
ing of a door in answer to a faint, dlespair
ing knock ; it beaiming home roomi1, warmi1
with lire-light and gray with cheerful lamps;
kind voices, sympathy, encouralgemtent,
help. So every dlark niglt-even the dark
vst-has its frieid.
Ilefore the morning dained Redolette,
urged wit Ii all the gentle and firm aid of
which she had nee(, was speeding forth on
her journey that was to east into a higher
plane her whole future life. fly the time
nlight had glimiered uit) (lily liedolette
had made her escape.
Exaiuination week at. the famous girls'
school of N -- ha<( reachett its closing
act. ('onpositions were to be read in the
afternoon :prizes to he awarded ; and In
the eveninig i colhition wouli be spread at
half past It) in lie not spacious but. partieu
larly attractive grounds of the N
Seminary to end in gardeI party style, iti
a band of muusic and a merry tnce, the
arduous exercises of the week.
Intense interest gathers about. this closing
afternoon. Indeed, when one considers
how small a pat t of the grtat world the fe
male seminary of N , with all its
fame, it was wonderful how intense this
imterest became. One would say, who hap
pened to peep into the green room of the
composition readers, wuit-ing witIi cold
fright or with hectic agitation, each for hepr
turn to be called upon the stage, that the
result of this evening would be something
mtom1en1tous enough to cause an aberration
in the course of our planets, or, at the very
least, a trembling in its onward way.
The impression would not have been les
goned by reading the titles of the compo
sit ions: "Woman of our Century ;" "The
D.cad Past burying its Dead :" "'The Fut ure
of the American lRepublic"-a very fine
thing-and the winner of the first ' prize -
'Spiritual Tendencies of Astronomical lIe
search: " "Darwin Development h'leory
confronted with Argyle's Reign of Law -"
"Is Genius llereditary, and if so, from the
Paternal or the Maternal Side ? with Stat is
ties from Galton, carefully complied," and
so on, and so forth."
Very simple, after this array, came the
announcement given by the principal of the
seminary, "A Mountain Brook," by Miss
It. Kane.
Closing exercises had been lengthened
beyond their fixed time, and daylight was
departing as Miss Kane made her appear
ance from the green-room, composition in
hand. A 81d(1 wildow had to be opened to
give sullicient light, and through this open
ing game it rosy glow that a.most atoned
for the lack of florai tributes such as had
over-whelmed the entrance of every other
reader. Not it sinjkle flower was thrown to
welcome the coming of Miss It. Kane. "A
friendless girl," many of the audience
thought. But no one in the world is a
friend less girl, so the suddenly opened win
dow said; for the sunset glow poured in
and enshrined her feet, and illunineu her
garments, and crowned her young head
with flowers of light.
And in a timid but. clear voice the com
position was read. "A Mountain llrook,"
not scientific or crndite, but a theme of
tetion, and takiog as a smile of a useful
life thc trite figure of a river bearing from
its rocky solitude, through woods and
through Hield of grain, and over mill-wheel
and by the town, its ever-augmenling
stream of refreshing and compelling force.
The tiLt comparison was treated with a
novel grace. And one thing was quite re
markable about the composition-a discrip)
tion ofthie scenery in wvhich the Mountain
Brook was su1pposedl to receive from high
suthority it.s mission through the thirsting
earth. This diseription was so vividly ac
Durate that any one familiar with any cer
tamn mountain locality wvould have
recognized at once that the '"Brook" sprang
to light under the fern-fannedl cavern of
Illock lleight.
No 011e among the audience, however,
was famiiliar with that part.icular nook of
upland scenery. No one, excepting a
handsome young man wvho had dIrawni to
himself during the afternoon the shyly ad
miring glances of very many of tho girls.
lie had becen restless, like the watcher who
impatient,ly awaits tlic striking of the hopr.
When Miss Kane entered ho became still
Imd satisfiedl, like the wvatcher when the
hour has struck.
''Redolette I She had fulfilled her prom
ise."
These two unspoken sentences expressed
the mtental implressionl, compilete. For to
this young man, through tihe five years, in
aluinlig his senIor year at college, Is lawi
study, his energetic establIshment of law
practice, "ltedolette" had been the embodi
mnt of all that is sweetest it a girl. And
she has fulfillect her promtise" referred not,
so muchl to the fact that this sweetest, girl
had1( kept her word to hinm as she had kept
her wordl to Tini-kept the promise of a
Lovely child to be the lovelIest womanti.
"Rtedohette I4 said Willie.
Thley htad entered 0one ot the arbors that
had been improvised of cedars to adorn thme
garden fete. ThIey had beent walking arm
In armi through the gr',unds for a long time;
for one of the earliest guests of t,he evening
tad been Willlie, and lhe had rushed Immie
liately to IRedolette's side, and had kept
her to himself all t,he evening. They chose
to walk in the garden rather than join it
the dantce, for they had so muchl to say.
And they had talked over their five years of
separation and Its leading events before
they went Into the arbor to rest.
The last thing IRedolette had said in the
walk was, "8o now, Willie, thanks to the
inspiring leader of my choice, I am ready
to take somie part, In the movement of my
time. My schooling here Is ended. My
little inheritance.is made secure. I am my
wn mistress now. I sitould like, if possI
ble, to do a little good it theo world ; and
the only questIon with met now Is, 'IIowv
'Aid Itere it,was tihat WiI)io wvithi a suid
uden mlovemtent di'eyr her Into the arbor, and
said, with subhi a'n'electric vlbra'tion in his
voice as made her heart senm for an Instant,
to.stop? to beat, "Iledoletto I'4
Something go far beyond the sltapI6 name
w's Ii 1ieg lg his vitaj #ftterance of It that
sh6 m a no response.
"i wo app4y," he said, "to guIde
4'i Mtighthace, let' me be your guide
etme t411 you, -iedaoletto, p(y3
ufdenhow yott can do the most
good hi the world --how T iim! }or. you can
do the lmost good."
lie paused, and Hedolctte. whose eyes
had been treimulously east down, lifted her
glance to his.
And before she had time to really look
to see all he meant-before she 11ad time to
let the question, "'Ilow ?" pass her beauti
ful red lips, he had seized her in his strong
armns, le had answered her Once, nde for
ever:
"As my wife."
- 1lninem ofraaunlght.'
In all houses withI a north fontt it is the
positive duty of families occupying themu to
transfer their living rooms to t he soutl side
of I he house during the winter mont Is. The
sun rises and sets (uring tit six cold months
of the year to the south of cast and west, so
that south rooms tire warmed up by rays of
the su1n more or less during the entire day.
'l'hose who have never experimented with
the difference will probably he surprised to
learn that there is a difference of fron five
to twenty-five degrees in the thermomel er
bet ween tile nort and south exposures,
live to teln degrees difference in t he morn
ing and aft.ernoon, and from twenty to
twenty-live degrees in the naiddle of the
day. 'I he glass in windows is non-con
ductor of atmospheric cold, while it is aln
assistance to the active tranimis.iom of tle
Sunll's rays of light and heat. Wherever the
sun1h's rays cain be enjoyed longest during a
winter's day is the desirable part of the
house for living purposes. I)ue at tention
to this fact will contriibuto (Ilorimously not
merely to the comfort, but. to the health, of
the women and children, who spend the
greater part of their time with'l do sin the
winter season. There is a vast iamount of
t1lk about ventilation and chanlge pf air as
necessary to good health; but the suppres
sion of the light and nephitic sewer gases
by affording proper avenues of escape, and
all ailmissionl of all the available sunlight,
are the two chief conditions to good health
in household life. In Farce, 1tuly ami
Germany, though the winter climates are
not nearly so severe as our own, the benefits
of sunlight ire understood better and cul
tivated more generally than aimonj us. The
comparative scarcity and costliness of fuel
in those countries havo led the people to
take advantage of the slln's heat to the
largest possible extent.. Tile natural warmth
of the sunll's rays should be still more cul
tivated in a cold climate like this, and my
change in a house necessary to the better
enjoyment thereof will save more in the
reduced consumption of fuel than it cin
possibly cost. The south exposure is not
only warmer, but less damp, andl([ in every
Way mtore coniducive to good health tha11
any other.
Two Drnk<s that lnOrning.
Tom Gains was what you call a swift
witness. When 1'o1 was for a fellow lie
was for him all over, and he was so friendly
and confiding the Judge didn't know
what to do with him. Last coirt Lawyer
Branhan put Tom uion the stand to prove
that a drinking man couldn't re
member what he did when he was drunk.
Thom had taken about two drais that
morning and was feeling splendid. Ile
swore straight out t'hat he couldn't.
The Judge didn't like that. lie didn't
like witnesses who wore so willing and
familiar, and so he put a few questions to
Tom from the bench.
"Mr. Gains, weren't you drunk yester
day ? [Sunday."]
"They say I was, your Ilonor."
"And you don't rememtiber it ?"
"It's sorter like a dream, your Honor
but I do rememler I was awfully sick last
night."
"How are you now, Mr. Gains ?"
"I am tolable well, I thank you Judge,
how (10 you do, youlrself ?" ad Tiomi bowed
humbly, for he thought the J udge wvas
kindly liiring after his health.
When the Sheriff had qieted the general
bilarity, the Judge stud: ''Mr. Gainls, y'ou
weie (drunk yesterday, which \vas Bunday.
N~ow, where (11( you find your wvhisky."
"'in the jug. .Judge,-right in the jug.''
"W~ell, sir, wvhere was the jug ?"
'"Under the fodder-stack, Judge; I al
ways keep It there, or In the shuck pen ;
and, If youir Io'nor ever passes thaiit way,
it's a free thmiig to--"
"Alr. Gains, you can retire, sIr. I be
loeve you are the same1 mlan who about
thIrty years ago testifled in this court house
that Jin Wilkins bit his own ear off.''
'"They say I did, Jiudge, t)nit you know
[ was dIrunk, and of course I don't remiem
ber It. Yout was defend(in' Jack Boozer for
biting Jim WVilkins' ear, and( y'ould me11
that In the scrimmage Jack shoved Jim upl
5gin the sharp edlge of the dloor cut it off;
buit you see, Judge,- I got dIrunk and forgot
what you told mie, and1( 1 'spose I did
swear that Wilkiins bit his ear off himnself ;
11nd It wasn5f't 8o un1reasona1(ble nmohowv, fGr
lie had1( the awfulest 1mouth0 that over wuas
seeddin't lie, Judge ?"
"Alr. Gains, I told you to sit dhown, sir.
Mir. Sheriff, give 11e the inmes of those
gentlemnen whio are so hilairious; I'll see If
I can't stop thoh mlerrimenit. Brothier
Biraham, plut up) your next wittness.''
Flugers ami Toes.
Th'le children of a family residig niear
il City, Pa., are aflhleted wIth ai cuIriouls
tad somiewhiat remarkable deformity. Tlhie
miothier of the0 cihildren Is ai plump, wecll
formed buxom dame of thirty-six, and the
father who was burled absut two years ago
was able-bodlied andl without the least phiy
sleal blemish. In short, both time fiathier
and moithier, were models of phy -ical sym
mnetry--soutnd, healthy anid hearty in every
respect; but strange to say, their progeny,
or at least the inajorIty of them, hlave eIth
Or sup)erliuous fingers or too) many31 toes.
There is nothing peculiar about the history
of the p)arenlts, and Investigation falls to
reveal ally tIcs of consanguinity existing
betweeni thlem The mlothIer Is thilrty-slx
years of age and has given birth to thIrteen
children, seven of whoma havo been blessed
--br eursedl-with eIther a superabundance
of toes or fingers. S3he hiss been a widow
for two years. Doctor Benton, who .re
cently performed an operation on one of
the chIldren, and again vIsIted .the family
and deprived another one of two toes,
taking one from each foot, whIch had
grown out back of the lIttle too. A boy
who had-an extra finger on each hand was
also deprived of the extra member, which
had( grown on eIther hand just back of the
little lingers.' lie hass oinly e9inmenced the
harvest, which wIll be coitiumic un~til the
requiremuents of natulre are coplied wIth,
by g!vibg each child the regaliIte numnber
of thod~e useful. members a n deprivIng
th' MM tfrlot ones,
As the train leaves the depot a young
man leans over the back of my seat and
asks inc what I paid for my ticket. I tell
him and he chuckles. lie bought a ticket
of a scalper and is at dollar and a half
ahead of the railroad company. Ile pities
tme because 1 do not know how to travel,
and 1 blush and feel cheap in the presence
of his superior sagacity. The Conductor
emnes alig. Ile punches my ticket with
a ready, timltestioning acceptance that
makes me an honest man, and I feel pro I.
lie takes the shrewd young man's ticket,
aul gazes at it with an awful scrutiny.
"Where are you going?" he asked the
yomtng milan.
The yoa-ing man gazes at him with the
unllinching glance of a citizen who knows
his rights aid tlhe railroad law.
"I am going to Imtianapolis,'' he said
defiantly,'' and that Iickel isgood until it is
us('d.
"t:ertainly," replied the conductor ap
parently greatly terrified by the young
muan's detlant attitude, "of course it is; but(
it's got to be used on it's own road, and as
this is a Wabaslh excursion ticket of last
summer, from Peru to Lafayette, you'll
have to get on a Wabash train and go to
lafayette to use it. Fare please."
And the young man read the ticket care
fully, and paid his fare, and planked down
the extra ten cents for having no ticket.
lie has gone into the smoking car now, and
has his head out of the window, but I can
hear him swearing with startling energy
and appalling grammar.
S0elini a Man oio,
I picked Sinunons up pretty near dead
drunk, and took him home. When I got,
to s house as I thought, I shook him a
bit and said, "Itre you are," "Itight"
said lie and gave a big banlg at the knocker.
Up went. i window. "Who's thert?"
screamed a woman. ''I brought the o(
man home,'' said 1. "All right," she said
and ceaw to the deor. She immediatcly
seized hold of Sinunons, and gave him such
al shaking that his teeth seemed to rattle in
his head. "Who atre you shaking of?"
says lie. ''Goodness gracious," cried the
woman, "that is not my husband's voice,"
I struck at match anid she found thet she
had been shaking the wrong man. "'ThIere''
said the womian furiously, '"i've been
sitt.ing up here expecting my husband home
drunk, and now I've, wasted my breath
oni a stranger." "Don't lie live here," said
I. ''No," said the woman, "he don't."
"Wlat, made you knock?" said I to Sim
mons, "Knock," said he. "You told me
to." "I thought you lived here," said 1.
''Glad I don't," said he. I suppose he
wis thinking of the shaking lie had. At
last 1 found where he did live, and got him
home. Mrs. Simmons was sitting up for
him. As soon as ever we knocked out she
caime. '-Oh?" said she, "'you're the wretch
that makes my poor husband drunk, are
you?", and she gave mec a slap in the
face. I've ne 'er seen a drunken mtn home
since.
Jhapaneso Noedlewoark1.
The beauties of Japanese needlework a
are, like tloso of other art workitg from
that wonderful land, -very far from being
rightly understood here by more than ai r
few ; and, though a wave of fashien has 1
swept numberless objects of Japanese art 1
into this country, their real merits are as e
yet but little appreciated. It must be re
membered that Japanese work, like our t
own, to be good, must conform to the rule r
of art.; and also that, without knowing the a
nature of the objects represented, we are r
tpt to call objects strange and barbarous v
which are iftenl conventioIal]isms and symh- I1
hols, icaningless to Is stuply l)ecause we
dto tot puossess the key. Iloere the caution,
ignist rash copyinig needs repetition. It<
is im great mueasuire ta unintelligent imita- I
tiian of the Japaniese that, we owe some of
t he extraordinary productions of the last t
few years. 'fhese showv only one, and1( that
ctnc of the least, impor'tant,of the character- a
istics of good art-orIginality ; and1( the only
emnotiotn they excite to the beholder Is the
not very elevated onue of amarzement.
'rho best specimuens of Japanuese needle
work ate the cloths usedl as covers for the
p)resenits giveni by personis paying visits of
u'ercinlony' ; these cloths are not given with
the p)resenits they cover, bult tire faunily
heirloomns, andic good sp)ecimeins are rarely
seen in this counttry. Tho wvhltc bir.ds oni
a black andl( satini ground, so ofteni met,
wit.h, arc dlone for the Atmerican martiket;
I.hey have niany muerits, but are far inferilor
to the work (done by the Japanecse for their
owni honor and dhelight. Somne raire pieces
we have seetn lately were excellent ; the
grountds are satini, of the (deep), soft blue1 of
a summer night, and the leading colors of
the emblroider'y are gold, pale-blue, and
white. Aniot,her piece we will describe Iin
detail as it gives aL good1 i.dca of Japanese
excellcince of (design and1 arrangetmeint. Th le
grounid is scarlet mcen ; of a birighit scar
let, yellow enough to hiarmuonlzo wit h the
gold that forms the p)ritncipal color in the I
embroidery. 'The subject is a long flight of |
storks, thue sacred bird-not less thatn eighty
of them are flying uplwaIrd in a zigzag line,
the atngles of which are very carefully stu
(lied, from tihe bottom to the top of the
picture. Most of these storks are ini white t
silk, the direction of the stiches giving
much of their. form ; they are p)icked out
with the black, an'd there is a little paloe
pinik or pale yellow-green in their beaks
and legs. A few of them, peorhaps one
fourth, are worked all ini gold, representing
the .birds in shadow, or seen againist, t,he
light, and these have little or no (detail.
Each bird is distinct, separately drawvn,
andl having hIs own expressioin, moudo of,
flight, aind position in the line. The rest
of the space Is filled by hiorlzontaul bars ofr
gold of varying widlthis, and groups of
fan-stitches also in goki; these seem toin
dicate the flat sunset clouds, and the tops'
of the (distant trees passed over by the
storks In their flight
We hiave specially described thIs p)icco
of needlowork because it so truely con-|1
forms to tihe rules of the art, and ex hibits'
the greatest richness, dlelicacy, and elabo..
ration withuin the strict limilts of needle..
work. TIhuere Is no shadIng, but the fornms:
of the storks are accurately expressed by
the directiomn of the stitches as well as by
'hoe color. Trho detail is abunidant where I
the storks are In lIght and is expressed by a
thme varied and managable silks. Thei
trutht that color anal detail are lost when I
object are seen against the light is recog-1
nizedi in the treatment of tho oden storks, 1
whtich sine in flat shapes of plain'gold. Any
attempt to give the varid eoloru Ad shapes
of the clouds would haeo inttfered with'
the etl'eet of the storks, which are the mto
tive of the whole, si) their horrizi,ntal
character and varying widthis arc the
truths chaosen for rupresenltatio,n. $u with
tle trees. at few fall-slitches just. express
their multitude. their routnded lines ralist
the sky, and lie way in which each tree
springs from its own centre ; other details,
such as color, shadow, vairihty, romuain s,
etc., are lunt the liiits of the niedlte
Work, and ure wisely let aIlone.
I)tider tho .IerT vo c"I,t I'.
Perhapls you will think it alost, ineredi
ble wheni I tell you that plants breathe !
IBt it is really so. The leaves answer the
sallle purpose as the lungs, and are just as
necessary to life, and, what is mtore, this
breathing goes on malostly in the dark. ihen
Plants are in the shaade they lake ont carbon,
thus improving the. air by its removal, and
making it better tited for anal life. The
microseope lows 11 thatt here atre at m11n1
ber of small openings in the under part of
the leaf, which help the plant to breathe,
atnd it would be as inilssille for these
functions in planas to cease for a moment
without their dying, as it would be for ani
ias to live without breatlhing. 1ou see,
then, thatt in the day timne, when we are
busy and require a large supply of air, these
little plants help to nuadke it of a better
rlit.lity, because, the molent suln shines
upon theim they exhale oxygen ; and at
ni ht., when we are sleeping, or resting
li 1iom our labors, and we need less oxygen,
the plants take in their supply-giving it
over again for the benefit of malm as he
walkes to new necessities- lhus, by the
removal of carbon and the renewal of oxy
gen, keeping the atmosphere in much
purer state. You have heard of the pollen
>f flowers, which the bec is so fond of
athering to make her wax ; look at it
ider the glass, you would not believe what.
r variety of structure it has ; some of the
prettiest are like little globes covered with
thistles. 'I'hen take down upon many kinds
f seeds, cit her on the top like i lit tle crown
>r ike wings I 1)o you know what this is
ill for? 1. is to protect it, or that, it may
loat anay land dlrop 1 more easily to Ilie spot.
where it is to spring Ip and grow. Yhat.
I wonderful contrivaw:e to increase vegeta
le life ! 'l'his is the reason tIh:t inl many a
wild and unfrequented spot we 1ind soite
times such a weilth of floral beauty.
You know that some kinds of nettles are
very thickly covered with prickles that
sting the flesh severely. W1ell, these
prickles under the microscope look very
imuch like the stings of animals---hollow,
m(d terniinating in a very sharp point willt
in opening at the enl, at the very bottom
>f this cavity is a tiny bag illed with asort
If liquid, which upon being t,ouched, is
lent through t his opening and, upon cit er
ng the flesh, produces Ile pain you have
ften felt, no donblt. Mosses of all kinds
ire very interesting to look at, and are as
perfect in their leaves as tihe largest. flower
rows ; some that grow on tie rocks are
wonderfully beaut i ful, yet t hey are so com
non, and without tlower, that they at tract.
lbut little attention and would seem alto
ether useless, but this is not the case.
[lore, as in everything created, Is inlinite
tvisdom and utility. The mosses shelter
m(d keep alive seeds and roots of planits,
vhich otherwise would die. 'I'hey give
oodf and shel: or to many birds, and t his is not
tlI; for in their very decay they supply
iourishunent to a new generation of plants
)y fertilizing the soil and improving their
:ondition. In extremely cold cliinates,
vhere every other species of vegetation
vould perish, upon the frozen carth and
ocks may be iound mosses of the richest.
reen. Ilomely and insignificant nud even
epulsive objects are often found, when ex
muined, to consist. of exqusite parts and to
o beautifully adapled to their proposed
nds, anl will excite m _o interest and
vondler than you can readlily imagine. On
very hand, in God's wvonderful- creation
n eveiry leaf, every flower, every living
hung-the Fatther's workm aship and thle
oanifestationm of I is love and1( power ate
leveloped, even in the most minute Ohlje(els
,s well as in those of greater mnagntiude.
A mnercant ile agency is not liable for a
oss toI a silbscrlher aciclig t11pon infIormait ion1
ollected by its agents iad commnunicated
43y themii to him under his writ ten Conltract
vith the agency shall iiot be responsible for
.ny loss caused 11y the' neglect oft any (of its
ervants, clerks attorneys andt empljoyes.
Jinder such a contract there is no liability
ni the part of the agen.cy for even gross
egligence In the collection and( commmuid
ation of informatio b(11y Its agents.
In the absence or fraud the maker (If ani
.ccommllodation note can not. set, tip want
f consideration tas a defenice atgainst a hold(
rn, with notice to whom It hias bieen p)ledIged
s c(lllttrat security for antecedlent dlebt
y the payee for whlose accommod(ationi It
mas imade.'
A check is genierally dlesigned for immie
late p)aymuent andl not for general clrculti
lonl. It Is the (duty3 of the holder to lpre
cnt It for p)aymient a5 soon1 as he reaisonabuly
ay, if lie (does not, ho peeps It at his own
lak.
Where a contract, provided for a loan of
naney, and1( gave a p)orJlOn of the proflts to
he leader as a compe)nsaton-/held that
he lender was not lIable as a paLrtner.
A p)artnor mlay without the consent of
lIs Co-partnler, execute aL chiattrol mortgage
an firm property to secure a partnership
lebt.
Abiout t,he uise of F~ire.
AccordIng to PlIy, flre was for a long
lime unknown to the Egyptians; aind whetn
L'hales, the celebrated astronomer, showed
t to themi, they were absolutely ini rapture.
['he Persians, , Phoniclans G.reeks and
overal other nations, acknowledge , that
heIr ancestors were without tIhe uase of
Ire, and the Chinese confess the same of
heir progenitors. Pluitarch and other an..
lent writers speak of nations who, at the
ime they wrote, ktow not of the use8 of
Ire or had just learned it. Facts of thec
amne kind are also attested iby several mlod
urn natIons. Theli inhabitants of the
l1arlan Islandl, which' were discovered in
5151, had no Idea of fire. Never was as
onlshmeint greater thiatn theIrs when they
aw it on tho desert Mitgellan in one of
heIr islands. At first they believed it was
emel kind of animal that fixed to and fed
ipon wood.- Trhe nhabltants of the Pils
ppilne end Canary Islands wer-e foimerly
qiually ignorant. Africa presoents, even
aour day,'tribes.ini this deplorable stato,
.~,~!e4ngoJioal plrioh costa Eng
NhVS IN 3t1IEF.
-It costs $:30,000 a year to keep St.
Peter's, at Htome, in repair.
--liss I,eeeh I:s' another American
lady who is to marry a nobleman. llev
brilegroomu is 1rinec Galltzin.
-Mrs. L'anny Kemble Butler, who
is 110W nearly seventy years old, looks
very niuch like Queen Victoria.
-in Vest r'n Aistralia a new tariff
has been proeilaincd, wlhleh, it Is ex
pected, will yield $1,000,000 per annum.
-A thousanld pounds of powder was
explod(ed in ia (luarry near 1Reading,Pa.,
lousening about, 30,000 tons of stone at
one blast.
-One thousand shingles, laid 4 In
ches to the weather, will cover 100
s(titre feet of surface, and u pounds of
natl: l'asten them.
-Gustave Dore, the artist, was born
in Alsaoe and is forty-eight years of
age. lie Is a brunette--dark-eyed,
bl'tek-hlaired and a bachelor.
-On the 10th of November Mount
Vesuvilus was coverctl with snow down
to its mdule. The projected railway
to its sumllt is not yet, inished.
--There are in the English language
20,500 noulls, -10 pionouns, 0,200 adjec
tives, 8,010 verbs, 69 interjections, &c.
In all, there are about 16,000 words.
--l1'ore leaving Vienna for Madrtid
the ArChldieliess Christina formally
renounedti all rights of succession for
liersel 'and her hleirs to the Austrian
Crown.'
-1 r, John 13. Clay, the only surviv
ing son of lenry Clay, lives at Lexin'r
toll, Ky., where he owns a file farm oi
two htutitred acres and many valuable
h orses.
-tipei without seeds are raised at
Morrisvillc, N. C., on the plantation of
Uapt.. J, A. Gray. The vine has been
known for light years, and never has
there been found a seed in any of the
frutit.
-At. the last censtis taken the popu
lation of Paris was 2,037,000; during
Li last ten years it has increased at
the rate 01 12,000 a year-a very modest
01ne collpared With that of London or
New York.
--Midame IAIng-'1'ang-1'ao, the wife
of the Chineso Minister to Germany, is
now oil her way to join her husband
at Berlin. She will be the first Asiatic
lady who hits been presented at the
Uermian Conrt.
-iln the )ereentage of average attlen
lantce lit school of her school population
aassachusetts stands first on the roll
ol States with a pereen tage ofA72.76 and
ioulsilana loweait withi an attendaance
of only 19.05.
-in New York city 150 persons kill
ed themselves in 1878. In Paris, the
nium ber was as average oi 646 suicides
for every one million o f inhabitaits.
i,doin, the same tiine, had the low
average of 00 'or every million.
-There are sixty-one natlonal banks
in 13oston, with an aggregate capital of
$52,250,000, ut $ttrpls118 earnIngs of
.$l2,637,514. In 1'hil idelphi there are
Lillrty-one, with i an aggregate capital
of $10,7J3,000, and Si' :plus of $7,440,000,
-The il iekory tree at Madison, N. J.,
whiclh, as a sapling, wir transplanted
on the inauguration, oe James Madison
as I'resldent of the United States for
Ilie second time, in 1831, is now a hand
some an1 thrifty tree over one huindred
feet high.
-Mrs. Webster, widow of the late
Colonel 1'letcher Webster and owner of
the l)ainel Webster homestead at
AMarsh1ild, Mass.,will erect nextspring
i new dwelling on the site of the old
farillouse that was burned, ant as
nuch like it as possible.
-The u8rplus inco of the Peabody
dtoliat,ion 1'iind Iln Lonidon, amlounits to
$100,000 anniually, and1( is Increasing.
It 38 Lo boe vote(d to inew buiblings for
working men01's dIwellings, and a large
block 11as .just beenl plannled iln .the
Glrosvenor' Road, Ptlleco.
--A livo toadl emibedded for fifty years
i the solid earIth, under' two large'flat
stonies, has just boen released at Gor
hlam, Ma., by workmen diggIng for a
fOundlatlon. The toad ermakedl but
could hot hiop. TIhle malisons cemented
him11 upI in the solid wvall.
-It, ia becoming a fashion in Europe
to travel in pri'vate railroad ears. The
liaroness N. die Rotlhschifld owns .one
that costL $20,000, andt the Coutess~~ g?o
tockat has orClered one at $25,000. These
vehie1es lire smnalier tihan American
ears, but are very elegant.
--Upon tie guairantee of a state
boun hIty of onie cent per pouand for theo
first 700,000 poun ds of beet sugar mnade
each season, a P'ortland, Me. company
halve )epended $50,000 in machinery,
anid disbursed 50,000 more amNonig the
f'armeora 1'or raisinig the beots.
--ThIe Sanidwieh Island alphabet has
12 letters ; the Burmese 21, the HIebrowv
Sy riae, Chaidee and SamarItan 220ea0h1
the French 23, the Greek 23, the Lati'n
25, tie German, Dultch ani(I English 20
eaich, the Spanish 27,' .he Arabilo28, 'tihe
P'ersian 32, tile Russian 41, the San
scrit 50, tihe Ethiopie 202.
-TIhe postal carrIers in the oithe~ of
the United States carried 800,000,000
p)ieces of mlall matter during the past
yeatr, being 339,000 to each carrier. I n
Ne w York 224,000,000 pieces wereills
tributed ; in P'hiiadelphia, 107,000,000;
ChIcago, 69,000,000; Boston, 45,0,O0;
St. Louis, 32,000,000; Cinoinnatj 21,.
000,000.
-A bronze statue of Colonel .G. B.
Armstrong, the orIgInator. andi first
general sulperinttenident of the' Railway
Postal system, is to be placed in the
Postal Department at *Washington.
Contribit.tons are so rapIdly accumu
lating that it Is thoulght ,that jhe con
tract for the statue may be idade at anl
early date.
-The Rev. Dr. Kirkus, rector of 6ne
of tile Protestant, Episcopal Ohurohos -
of Baltimore, havug repently asko .for
el'y'' from the congregation fo he
mnanufacture-of a newt coalmt,ni ser
vice, met with a respjhso e it shapd
ot a half bushel of silverlat a' ow'
elry. Among the t~Iinko. 'a a dia.
mondi ring valued 'M6$1100:~ -
-'ie shaift of(h$ Nudn 1Itj ef " Y~
nol at the foot of F'ifteenth streOt J
soy Uity Whiei Wa~s k11 Ic~ ijf~
depth a feW d\ aghh o
dry an' t tre
arid.di~o?tI s 4kI
on the~ n p~o.4
whc t
Wo1bi n'