,Tifl-WEEKLY EDTIN W I1NNS.BORRO, S. C., 1F.EBRtUAR .18.VL -O 5
EDITI aO araonn r _.
AUTUMN.
.In Autumn, soo tho faded leaves
Sail slowly down upon tuo wind,
Loariug, like Death when lie bereaves,
'Tt'o living germ of Hop bohind.
"rTi Autumn, and the suit is dim.,
As if his liro wore uearly gone;
Tile breeze intons a soot ling hymn,
And all tho earth is still and Jono.
'Ti+ Autumn; over land and main
A vol of azuro haze is thrown,
As if the purest heaven again
Had claimed onr planet as its own,
And the blue vostments of the sky
For garniture of glory given;
For scarcely can the a raining ryo
'Toll which is earth or which is heaven.
'Only Joe.
"Yes; if it is only Joe." said Caroline
"he may comle in."
A boy of flfteen or sixlen years of air
shyly entered.
''te entranceway was the white dlro]
aurtain of a white tent pitched oiI the greet
mwn of Deersiheld. The interior, with
charmimgly transparent wliteness of wial
vail elrected by the noonday rays of the Au
gust stun, contained three pretty schoolgirls
busy with boxes of finery. A negro urs(
was opening on a T''urkish mat, tha: carpet
ed the tent ground a carton of gaily colore<
ribbons.
"Now, Joe," said Caroline, "we havi
let you in only on one condition, and tha
is, you don't tell, and yout don't lcok."
"T-:-t-two conditions," staitmered Joe
"'Well, keep them both," said Caroline
in her shrill, atnthoritative voice.
.Joe rested hiniself upon a camp chair it
an angle of the awning, with water colo:
sketch book in hand. Occasionally, as lii
pencil moved, ho glanced critically at the
girls, who had strecied theiselves in rap
itur"ous attitudes upon the ribbon heaped
rug, and who were by this tue too en
grossed with their morsels of finery to ob
serve the unobstrusive act.
"I'm going to Char!ie Evans' ball as th<
Enchantress," said Belle. "Never mind
if it is a child's ball."
"Dear me l I wish I didn't /uwe to hi
only a flower girl," sighed .Jane.
''I'm the (laughter of the Regiment,'
cried Caroline, striking a martial attitude
She mached up to Joe, andt(1 with a quici
motion tossed the cap from his head.
"tu(le boy you ire iii the Presence of la
(ies."
"I was for-for-hid-id-den to lo-look."
"Look now," said Coroline, "and keep
your eyes forever afterward shut."
Joe lifted to tie little teriagant hi:
bright, distant, but inquisitive eyes.
Then he returned to his work ; and Ca
rolhine, as she turned away, heard him soft
ly repeat her words, without any trace o
fatal stammer: 'Forever afterward shut."
The family at I)eerslield was rat her sin
gularly grouped. 'l'ie children of thi
house were of divided parenfaage. Belb
was the daughter of Deerstlel's present
owner. Jiuo was his orphan niece. Ca
roline, tlie only child of a widowed mother,
was destined to be heiress of Deerstleh
after the lifetime of her 'cousin Bellc'
father. Joe was the half-brother of Belk
by'her imother's forier marriage. I1 was
an orphan, possessed of a substantial patri
mony. The guardians of the four children
were the master of Deersfield and thi
mother of Caroline, who very harmoniously
ruled these incongruous eleitents given int
their eare by a strange fate. Belle and Jan<
were not dillicult to manage. Joe, a genth
lad, gifted with a wonderful talent foi
coloring to the lite, and afllictyd with i
stanmmering speech that made him reticen
of talk and shy of coilanionship, was de
voted almost to (lhe degree of solitude ii
his ceaseless application to his art. Caro
line was a tease and( a ronip, forever in dis
grace.
it was noe matter of surp)rise to Joe thai
on the morning after Charlie Evans' fanca
ball the (daughtcr of the llegiment was ii
solitary confinemnent as punishmnent of somi
iuinrdonabic act. She hailed Joe fron
her widdowv as lie crossed the lawn, 11o
tioning to him that she wvanted to let dowi
a basket for provisions, as she would no
and1( could not eat "drIy bread."
Joe had been her forager before; he:
slave lie always was. To say truth, h
lovedl this wild, naughty, self-assertiv
playmate of his with all the secret fervo
of a boy's heart. Caroline was aware o.
the hidden senitiment, and1( implosed upoi
the homage egregiously.
Joe, having satistied himself that (In
coast wais clear, receivedl the basket whicl
Caroline dropped from her window wvith
cord. Tfhe basket contained a three-cor
nered note.
DsAn .Jon: Its perfectly .shamii'ful thai
['ii locked up. I should starve if it weri
not for you. All I did wasi to go up) in th<
cupola last night with Charlie Evans to set
his caged eagle. Poor thing, it pines
And it was so nice; up there, we -staid am
hour. Manmna :was awfully angry. 8<
was lien, for I was engagedl two (lance,
with him, and misased them both. Oh, Joe
you ought to have been thiere I It was vers
p)oky ini you not to como1 hate, as you p)ro
ised.
iNell Niito send milned( veal if she ha
any-I think she muiist-and( plenity o
bread and butter (and someo brown suga
to sp)readl), and somne pickles, and a pleci
oIf coldi chicken, and anything else that I
ice. OAIuolisyn,
A <piick, sharp ilush ci0rsed Joe's fac.
as lie read this note, not hn dIsgust, a
one might imagine, at, the mndnape ))
tite of his fair goddess, but at the one seul
tenco of the note not marked emiphatical.
wi'th~ underlie "'Up in the cupola las
night..wit.h Charlie Evans."
Joe smlothered his jealous pang, bibei~
Nan, the cook; liberally, nid sent thelma
ket uip to Carolhie, so heatlly loaded tha
one ounce m~ore. woubl have broken .th
cord.
Manmma, from a recess of the liihrar
window, caught a glimisse of this transac
tion buht by the time she reached 'the thij
-story, unilockdd the door and confronted h~e
prisoner basket and contents had alike v*
. nishedl. Carolie's .lips ,wore extremnel
red1, [ilst otheryipo'there was no slin thu
ianythlng haid bee~n deovonrd d. .hie. sent
the window space breaking .bread lait
crumbs;t a (lock of wood birds, hovere
around her. .
"I cannot eat dry bread, mnamma," Si
said, "but my birds do; Iheyhdem' t
lovo It.1' ',
"CarrIe, Catrrio, what a girl ~ou arc?
Matid mamma)))f. Slhemnant. in1 .hn enp(qO
ful but her voice was not stern ; she was
viewing her dugllter in one of those win
ning traits that offset her hoiden ways.
Caroline, often unkind to people, to ani
mals was always kind. Every dumb
beast at )eerslield loved her, from the Al
derney Cow, wIiose arectionate face shile
stroked every morning, to the last little
golien-down chticlkeli of the white hen's
brood. Sie laid broken to saddle more than
one spirited coll, and her pa< k of pet dogs
numbered many of formidable breed--one
a bloodhound.
The rosy clieked, bright eyed Carrie was
an attractive creature as she sat mo the stin
light feeding the birds, which. answering
her (ill, spedl fromt the grove and alighted
fearlessly on her head, her hands and her
shoulders. Maniina's forgiveness was won
by the picture.
To Joe, looking from below, the vision
was even more pictiuresttue; the dormer
wiindov in the gray roof overhung with
vines of woodbine and wist 'ria. the dark
recess relieving the sunlight figure. the
smnililing tace welcoming the birds.
As years passe(l on, the three pretty
Sclhoolgirls beelnne wining young ladies.
Belle married first, then Jane, and now
a ('aoline was engfaged to be married, to
Charlie 1vans, in spite of the remonstrance
of iny of her friends, who know the
young man to be as uiprinciplcd in morals
as he was handsome in person.
Willfull Caroline answered to all remon
strance : "1 have loved him all my life; I
like him ; and I have promised to be his
wife."
On the day that this engagement was
announced, Joe sailed from America to
study in Italy his art.
There had been a stormy scene the night
before. When Caroline deliberately told
Joe that her hand was irrevocably proimsed
to his long-dreaded rival, Joe'm nnuish was
something too c'mnplete to be hidden ; its
intensity and force shocked Caroline. She
knew not what to say to this faithful lover
of years to alleviate his pain. She holdy
sprang to the defensive, and then to an ag
gressive c-urse. She sharply, almost coarse
ly, reproved him for having lavished his
heart upon one who could not by any pas
sibility return his affection.
They parted more in anger than in sor
row. Such was Caroline's caprice: and
Joe, renouncing all hopes of happiness,
tried to draw consolation from the sole re
flection: "I have my art."
One August night, a month before the
time fixed for Caroline's marriage, a mes
sage was brought to her from the village
that lay in the beautiful valley at the foot
of the rolling uplands of Deersfleld. Close
under the gateways there lived a youne
woman, who had been for several years
ecamst ress at "the mansion," and who,
gathering together all carnings, established
herself with her aged mother in the modest
cottage which she hoped to call home for a
happy lifetime. But ceaseless toil with
the needle told upon her strength, and she
had fallen a victim to consumption. ier
days were nearly numbered, and she had
sent the niessage to her "dear Miss Caro
line, who had always been so indulgent,''
to please to come soon as possible to re
veive it dying woman's request.
Caroline, although the hour was late,
said, "I will go att once." As was her inde
pendent way, she started forth on the er
rand nattended, and bidding her mothdr
"gooki night," added, ")o not be alarmed
if f remain until daybreak."
The moon was full, and the August night
was aln1ost as light as day. But (lay never
casts fi i tender, entrancing glances upon
its bt world as the. shining night give$ to
its spell-hound kitgdom.
Caroline'' pathway jay along a terrace
bordering i grovq of locust trees of great
height, and so foliaged that the arches of
their branches oj)ened a perspective that
seemed, this enbhanmted night, more like a
tenmle than a krove. Beyond this grove
lay (lie adjoining comiitry seat wvhero dwelt
Charlie Evans; and as Carolinme went slowly
along (lie path her gaze penetratedl the re
cesses of the great trees, as if to rest upon
Isomething dear' beyond. T'he dark eyes
grew soft with tender expression, her heart
was filled with the imaige of her lover, and
the voluptuous atmiosphlere of (lie p)eerless
night held senses and( sold in a\ccordl.
Below the terrace lay the 'fair map otf
widely spreading landscape ; bnut Caroline
had no thought for this scene, and did not
eveni glance at it until shea rached thie ato.
-Then she entered a- village lane, anid (lie
direamny look vanished from her face as she
coinsidered liar erranid.
T[he house sho- entered was a cottage so
built (lint Its porch had double entrances.
One of these openedl inito (lie dwelling of
(lie poor1 seamistress; tie other had been
ocipiedl since May by a mlaster wvorkman
in a factoty beyond (lie village, himself a
stranger' to (lie region, who brought with
him as hyousekeeper his.daughter, a girl of
unusunl beauty, a rustle quecen, a blonde
of that, vital temperament which gives to
youthfbhl health its most exp)resshve form.
'ThIis dlrighter, Matg Merritt, became the
yn llage belle.
'As Caioline enitered (lie porch (lie Mer
mitts portion of the cottage was quite still
and1( dark. On (lie other sie (lie lattic
was thrown open upon a gardean crowded
withI fragrant p)lants and a faint light
gheamned out. Thme light was burning in
(lie chamber, where, after a word wi thie
siniking suilerer, and the niothior enfeebled
with grief, Caroline (determhined to remain
SaIl night.
BIefore midnight the purpose for which
the mistress of Deerefleld shad been sum
m noned was .duly confldegl to her car; and
-t,hint sleep fell on thie suffeorer, and1( Caroline
having dismissed (lie aiged wat,chem', was
alone. She turned the lamp lowv, and drew
her chair by the wIndow, where (lie per
fume of (lie garden floatedl In, the mingled
br eathI of' entiimlton and rose.* For years
after: that night the scent of those precious
flowerse seill a thrill to CarrIe's heart and a
pallor to-hior hIps like tho poisomn of deadly
p)lanits,
Near mMivniglit, wvhen pil was stIll save
the imAidsn)er )hent 'hummIng lin the
-trees, and the'dissifit Vippling of. (lie brook,
r' apbroaching voIces 1ero liekid.
. :Two people were c6ming along thpieinb
towadlie . cottage. Wdikds inistinct at
t ik't~ grow clqogr as. Lhey1 cafjie near. Thley
- wvrolo s ,30}od
"O ~ lihe, fI ye iot for tlhat I
: i 4wgiig xE bi. you wo'ld go
swth m16; * W6ud'ly tthe far Wqat to
. 0alltormola, doui ivul a quecen, Mae
N h (li ugC()eJ1ttnal now world.
1would go together to-n1orronv yes,~
"To-m-orrow, dear boy, if it were not.
for that."
"And when you know so well that I (10
not love her : that I never have loved her;
that it is a made match ; a marriage for
money I Oh. Mag, how can you be so un
reasonable?"
''But she loves you," said the woman's
voice, now close at Caroline's ear, under
the roof of the porch.
"Yes, she loves me ; there's the rub.
That rather hurts a fellow ; he doesn't
want to be hard on a girl who loves him,
and has loved hin all his life. But then,
you see, I cannot return her affection-the
kind of affections she wants. And she's a
spirited creature, Mag ; ought I to marry
her as I feel now ? If it hadn't been for
you, you witch, I might have coie to care
for her in time. But. Mag. I'm a changed
man now; 1 know what love is; I dread
my marriage like a funeral."
A pausc-a litt'- rustling pause. 'T'lien
a whisper unheard ; a louder whisper dis
tinet: 'Oh, Mag, my darling, say yes.''
"I cannot, CharIhe, with that, woman's
image before me. It would haunt us till
our dying-"
Caroline heard no more. When next a
sound reached her, it was the sound, of
the work-a-day world. A market wagon
had broken near the lane, and the harsh
voice of the driver was wreaking upon his
horses the anger roused by the disaster.
Tle moon had set ; it was nearly (lay.
There is nothing so desolate as the break
ing of daylight upon a new and over
whehning grief. Night has a wing of its
own to fold about the sorrowful ; but the
tearful eyes, the crushed spirits, shrink
from the brazen gaze, the undaunted front,
of day.
Caroline before noon sent a letter to
Charlie Evans that made himt a free man :
Something tells me ")at I cannot possibly
be your wife. I am sorry that circun
stanes have so shaped themselves, but I aitm
compelled to withdraw my promise. Do
not see me. I shall refuse an interview.
When a year has passed, and we meet
again-if we meet again-let us meet as
friends CAUol.\s.
Charlie Evans used his freedom. le
obtained, by not strictly honorable means,
a sutlicient sum of moncy to venture for
tune seeking to California. He was mar
ried to Mag Merritt on his way to the
West ; and his friends, indignant at the
runaway match, bitterly blamed Caroiino.
Caroline bitterly blamed herself, but
never for any act toward Charlie, Evans.
1Her thoughts flew to her faithful lover
whom she had mercilessly trifled with, and
dismissed at last cruelly. She felt now
what pangs she had inflicted upon
earnest-hearted Joe. She, who was so
quickly alive to all animal wants, who re
ally sulIered sympathetically with the pain
and aches, the toils and hungers, of (u11mb
creatures, had never given one sigh of
compassion to the pangs equally dumb, but
infinitely keener-the aches, the hungers,
the overburdened sighs, of that silent
angel, the human soul. She had no patience
with the shrieking victims of the ''slings
and arrows of outrageous fortune." She
had laughed to scorn "the pangs of unre
quited love." Now she would give years
of hqr life to cafl back the past, and be a
kinder girl to her faith tul friend. Since
their parting she lcard but seldom from Joe,
and after her uncle's death the unfreuuent
tidings altogether ceased. Now she wrote
to Bo:le, who lved abroad, to send her
some word of "her old friend."
Belle wrote saying she was ashamed to
confess how ignorant she was, but the last
she heard Joe was making a furor with his
wonderful paint ings ; he had settled himself
in Rome, and she believed* had married
the daughter of an American consul at one
of the Mediterranean norts.
Misfortune followed Caroline. By a se
ries of culpable mismanagemnents by people
in trust Caroline's inheritance was lest.
Before she had enjoyed for three yei;s the
possession of her b,eloved Decrsfield that
nolIe p)lace was offered at public sakc.
Since the day of her great sorrow Caroline
had met 1n0 trial like this. Indeed, her
heart tad flown to all that was dhear in her
country home as8 refuge fronm its bitter ine.
hiness.- Now this ref uge was gone.
Thel damy ot the sate, atter hatvmng ordered
the prep)aration of the house and grounds
with carie of every dletail, Caroline mounted
Iher favorite riding hor'se, and1( rode far off
Jnto the wcod paiths. She( retuirned alften
sunset, in thle twilight dusk.
Shme -knew as sihe entered thet house that,
all was over ;.site felt thtat the home was no
lontger hers. She felt, brayc' and1 spirited
as she was, that the wvorld to her, save that
'it held her mtothier, was a p)lace of drearest
Iexile.
She was mtet ini the hall by one of her
fathful servants, who seemed to have ben
weeping. "'Miss Carolihne." lie faltered,
"'the gentleman whlo hasi bought the house
is in thte parlor, and wishes to see you."
Carolinie had been arbnle-p)ale when this
message reached hter, but now theo blood
flashed to her cheeks. SIhe echecke'd a vio
lent exclamation. 'lier heart arose indig.
niant against this last dlemand upon her' on
dluranice. Site ionq(uereid hieractlf, anid said,
"'I will see him."
But the gentleman whlom she. founid in
the parlor .was not the dreaded stranger
who held her treasure, not the new
master of the house whose inimincal form
her fancy had already conjured. gNo; it
was an old1 friend, ant artist retturned fromi
abroad, bringing his laurels with him--an
artist who hand conme to tell Caroline that. all
his fame had been won by his devotion to
her image-a friend came to tell Caroimte
that time had not changed and no(ve-woulld
change the constancy of his hiedrt.
It was only Joe.
On the very next cday to the dayv of -her
(despair, hope dawned uIpon Caroline. Ti'ie
world became something tmore thtan a place
of dreary exile.
"And youl really bought Deersfield?'
. Yes; but on-only with your-your
money - the payment for your Image.
Carol Ino with the birds; CarolIne with the(
blood-hounds; 'Caroline mtanding in tIhe
field, with the wild dolta carleering towaird
her, only, as one la the plct.ure shows, to
IMy tile -trustful hoad. agnifidr shoulder,
TIhese pictures brought great prices. .Car'o
llne-CArrle, Deerafle11 la yoqrs."
"Ahid y6ui-you deAr, dear Jofi?"t.
was CarrIe wile statmmered now.
"I am yours, too., y oe)yqep
my dArlngh i ylve,m qqp
-AirIl o1 PJdnotori Theologei
$6mlaa aenit to ettoh stu'dent in
theSemddya efpf of "Or deWA 0J6a
The 14amo of Forfolts,
ITcE 'Vne ''O (JOOMASSIE.-A gentleman
who holds a silk pocket handkerchief in his
hand, passes round the company formed
into a circle, extended to its grqatest cir
cunference, and led by the pcrsoi paying
the forfeit. The gentleman holding the
handkerchief kisses all the ladies In turn,
and with an air of great deference and
politeness wipes the lips of his -guide, as
though he had received the kisses, while,
in fact, he remains an idle-specta or of the
scene, amid the merriment of the ;ompany.
Kitomxu -rnE CANDns'rIc.- hen or
dered to kiss the candlestick, yo' politely
request the lady to hold the cand a for you.
As soon as she has it in hand, yo kips her
under the supposition ihat she Is t o candle
stick.
J inE MAUIIAN's JoKi.-Tako wo balls,
one in each hand, and stretch tI pm astn
dler as far as you can; ask any o e of the
company present to lay a wager; that you
will not make both of the balls come into
whicht hand they anme, without bringing
your hands together. Some one will natu
rally say you cannot do It, and will take
your offer, when you have merely to place
one ball on the table, turn yours If round,
and take it up again with the otl r hand.
Uo, w You UAN.-''ell one ofl the coin
pany that you will so clasp his hands to
gether that he will be unable to leave the
room without unclasping them, undertak
ing that you will not confine his feet, nor
bind his body, nor in any way interfere
with his motion. This trick is performed
by clasping the person's hands around one
of the legs of a piano, or large table, or
other bulky article of furniture, too large
for tun to carly throngh the doorway.
THE RrEFuL KNIonT. --''e )pla er whose
forfeit is cried is so called. lie must take
a lighted candle in his hand, and select
some other player to be his squire, who
takes hold of his arm, and they then go
round to all the ladies in the coipany. It
is the squire's ollice to kiss the h'id of
each lady, and after each kiss to =vipe the
knight a mouth with a handkerchief, 'I'Ite
knight must carry the candle through the
penance, and preserve a grave countenance.
'iHE MAi-CF-ALL, Wo.iic.-Go to service,
apply to the party who holds the forfeit for
a situation, say a general servant. The
questions to be asked are i nnuncrable, but
should always be connected with sonic do
mestic occupation-"flow do you wash?"
""How do) you iroi?" "1low do you scrub
the room?" "'Ilow do you clean tlie boots
and shoes?" "llow de you truss a fowll"
''ho process must be minutely and tccu
rately performed as the questions are put,
and if t,he replies arc satisfactory, the for
feit must be given up.
THE A.MoND F rEAr.-(et three almonds
or any other eatihlhs, and having placed
them upon the table a shot t distance apart,
put a hat over each. Tell the company
that you will eat the three almonds, and,
having (lone so, will bring them under
whichever hat they please. Whenever you
have swailowed each separately, request
one of the spectators to polne out the hat
under which they shall be. When choice
has been made of one of the hats, put it
upon your head, and ask -tile company if
you have not fulfilled your promtiso. This
trick generally causes much laughter.
TEi Suol'KEpEa.-The person whose
forfeit is called must go round all the coi
pany, and acquaint them with the fact thate
lie is about to set ill) in business but, tunfor
tunately, being without capital, it will be
necessary, before lie can do so, to be sup
plied with goods on loan by his friends, in
order that he make a good lhow when lie
opens. lie can, if so mimde, expatiate in
an inflated manier on the bright plrospects
before him, and tell what an honor it will
be to help a friend In misfortune. Every
one must lend something to the shopkeeper;
the more absurd the article offered, the
greater will be the amusement created.
When lie 1111 gathered aJl together, lie miust'
take them and deposit thenm in a corner of
the room, and thus end his penance.
TI'2E BEooAn.--A penitence to be inficet edl
On gentlemen only. The penItent takes a
stalt, andl( approaches a lady. Hie falls on
his knees before her, and, thumping his
stalT on the grotund, Implores "'Charity."
Tlhe lady touched by the poor nian's distress
asks him-"Do y'ou want bread?"4 "D)o
you wuanit water?" "Do you want a pen
ny?" etc., etc. To all questions such as
these tihe beggar rep)lies by thumping his
staff on the ground Impatiently. At lenigth
the lady says, "Do you want a kiss!" At
these wvordls, the beggar jumps up and
kiases die lady.
It is not generally kniown that miany b)ats
are to a1 certain extent migratory in their
hlabits, p)erforminog journeys more or less
extended at the approach of wilnter, or
when, for any reason, their food suply
fails themi. W'e are told, however, by Dr.
Troucasari, of Villeveque, that thIs Is true
of several European species, and Mr. Dob
son, in his recent great work on thIs order,
quotes Ilutton as stating that onie of the
frugivorous bats, Ptcropodido (Oynmop.e
rusj, maryinatus), willl travel thirty or
forty mIles in a night and back again mn
aearch of food. These great powers of
flight would account In part for the very
wide distrIb)ution of this group throughout
the islands of the Pacific Ocean, In many
of which baits are the only indigenous main
nmals. But the fact that Atalaphga Grayl,
lihe only species reported from the Sandwich
Islands, belongs to an American type, Is
not to bo explained in thIs way, sInce these
Islands are distant from the AmerIcan coast
-nearly twenty-five hundred ile. Fossil
bats have been discovered In deposits 'of the
Tertiary age, but, as mIght be imngied,
from their small size anud the fraIlness of
theIr bones, not In any great num.ors.
F"romn the . cocese0 gypsum:of .Montmartre
(Juvier descrIbed Vos 8port/Ilo parteienni8,
amid two genera, Nycehorium and Nyctei
1est65, have been dhscovered in the Biridger
eeeo of the 1tocky, Mountains. . Those:
specimens, though fragnioidary and. incom
p)lete, indicate that tIhe bats are an old type
which was firmly esbblied in the Tertiary
and reached back vyry likely to Mesozoic
time. All the Chiroptera are most vora
cious feedot s, and, in coulntrs where'th6f~
abound, the fruit-eating bate do 'an enor-.
mous pmount of daimage, and are regArded
as nulAtnces,- fromR the injury (whIhIA ahoy.
cause to the 'orchiards. kiutton says; "In
Nlpsl' this ,bak (Qynoptdrue marg(pate)'
is a perfect pest,, fr'om -thO havod A~ 19sCes
sa'tong the rIpe 'peats"aidi gt#vses, MrT
Dobson trIed an egerijion4 'With n)dis
tores t at 14 ago~1J Ut~O
sayN,odi Ipt, 0~am
by e y~"tJ~t~u j~e~gv 'p
baaa. w li ttfi p s y0.ov
weighed exactly two ounces. 'eio anni
immediately, as if famished with hunge
fell upon thc fruit, seizing it between ti
thumbs and index fingbra, and took larg
lnouthfuls out of it, opening the mouth I
the fullest extent, with extreme voracity
In the space of three hours the whole friu
was consumed. Next morning the bat we
killed, and fund to weigh one ounce, ha
the weight of the food caten in three hourc
Indeed the animal when citing seemed I
be a kind of living mill, the food passin
from It almost as fast as devoured, antd a
parently unaltered, eating being performe
alone for the pleasure of eating." It use
to be thought that the vampire bat fed oni
upon human blood, but it has been show
by the investigations of .later travelers the
it is mainly frugivorous. Some bats 1iN
upon a mixed diet, feeding indiscriminate
ly upon insects, fruit., frogsand even smalh
bats; and our own southern, or leaf-nose
bat (Macrolus naterhounii) is In thi
class. Some, too, catch fish, nd eve
bathe in thie sea, swinuning with eas<
Th'lis group has, until within a short timn
been but little studied, owing mainly to th
ditliculty of investigating the habits of th
different species, all of them being noctur
nal In habit. Mr. I)obson's work, whic
filled a want long felt, describes about 40
species o[ bats, thus cuttinig off about 40
of the 800 names heretofore given by nats
ralists.
W0114sfu 1111Weoulth.
Some excitement is being created amon
the Mexican population of Phonix, Arizo
na, by the story of a Alexicanm who arrive'
last evening from the Reno mountains. 11
came into town under cover of darkness a
he was nearly naked. Ilis hands and fee
were torn and bloody, and his face wa
gashed in a fearful manner. IIis story wa
told with the air ot a man who had beei
terribly frightened and had not recoved
Willi a companion he started out prospect
ing about a month ago going up Salt river
They left the river when opposite Supersti
tioums Mountain. Their prospecting bega:
at this point1. WVhile elimibmg up th
mountain, in a little gully, through blac
sand, and dIown which a large stream o
water had evidently passed years ago, the;
were astonished to find that in this sanr
were large quantities of fine gold. In somi
places the sand was only about. half an incl
deep over the granite. Th'le gold in p)iceC
the size of a bean and smaller, was fonni
in little fisures :n the face of the bed rock
Very little washing was necessary, an
they found a spring of water which fur
nished them what they needed. ''hey ob
obtained, they think, about $600 worth i1
half a day's work. About 2 o'clock in th
afternoon they were surprised to see an In
dian woman coie to the lop of the gulcl
above the sp)ring and1( start to come dowvn
Upon seeing t,hem she ran back over the
hill. '.n less than ten minutes they wer(
surrounled by fifty or sixty savages. Th
indians were very small and st"emed to b
of a different nature than they had eve
seen in Arizona. The Mexicans were no
armed except with knives, and the survivo:
says they were almost instantly caugh
with lariats. The Indians took them ul
the mountains and put them In t
cave. They tortured and killed his comn
panion and his fate would have been tah
same but for his escape. He succeeded i1
getting away with only a few knife gashid
oq his face. They lost their gold with al
their outfit. The Ifdlans seemed to b
cave Vollers and were evidently excitc
over the lace being found by outsiders
Our report ''s limited knowledge of th
Spanish lanb age, makes it impossible ti
obtain all the articulars of the affair. Fo
the benefit of non-residents we will sa.
that Superstition Mountain derives its namt
from the fact that no white man has eve
been seen again who attempted its ascension
It is a traditloll among te Mexicans tha
large deposits of free gold are to be founi
In its gulches and1( ravines. It Is not knowl
wvhether there is any water there or not.
Bratn work and Skull Growth.
A writer thus sums up als follows the re
suits of some1 very int,erest-inmg measuremnt
of heads by two French physicians, Mlessrs
Lacassagic and Chliquet: Having the pa
tients, dloctors, attendants and officers o
the Val de Grace at their dlisposal thme3
nlu;amsured tIle heads of 100 doctors of med
iie; 1:33 soldiers who had received al
elementary Instruction, 90 soldiers wh<
co,uld neither read nor write, and 91 sol
diers who were prisonlers. Thte Iistrumenl
usedl was tIle samel wvhich hatters emplo:
In measuring tIhe heads of their cuistomers
and gives a very correct idea of thd pre
portions and dimensions of the heads il
quYestilon. Tho results were in favor of ti
dloctors. the frontal diameter was also mucd
more considerable than that of the soldiers
Nor are both halves of the head symmetri
cally dleveloped. In students thl
left frontal region Is moroe (level
oped than the right; In illiterate individual
the right occipital region Is larger than th
left. The auithors have derived tihe follow
lag conclusions from their experitnente
First, the hieads of studeilts who hay
worked muchl with their brains are muc1
ioro developed than those of illiterato in
dividmuls, or such as have allowed thlel
brains to remain inactive. 8second, In stu
dents the frontal region is moie develope
than the occipital, or, if thuere should., b
any difference in favor of the latter, it I
very small, whIle in illitterat'o peQple th
latter region is the largest.
rortunese Shops.
-In Portugal, shops ard -lighted from th
door', and hav'e no windows. The sign
for different trades are hlun'g out of thea
doorways. At one door for instance, yol
see a dozen strips of printed cottons tied t
a small stick, and fluttering like tile ribbon
on a tecruiting serjeaint's hat. T.his tell
you that & linen draper stande teedy maiid
iwith tape atid - cottons.' - - Farther on
a small bundle of fagots, a bunoh of onion.
a few roots of garlic, and two or three dan
,dies d'angle from another stick and' deot
a grocer.. A shoemaker's sign Is a bnnel
of ieather shreds; and -hattger's is-a painte#
hat.' 'A bitoli4r tide l a bundle of -oAipt;
sausage skins, or a rftd drawing of an o:
JMavlng his -horn sawed off,:-the saw aa burg
sit the man teho tsea It. Over a inilkman'
door ha ga orooked red icow. --k grm:
ilotghwbloh reseinbles a branchof arbuttis
,indicaio M inb shop, and iby the additlo
of sparig-of boxy tilegrji that sprit ar
'pid thr,u In oth6r ahopps yotj;e
b*aud uspded trQt*r#'little wUi~ ~t
eWrd8 IK4yU ##gO( andi . I~ris
'0;Zilie t in~'ft
iA .Cruel Telephone.
''he latest telephoile joke comes from
; Pino Bluff, Arkansas. In that city there is
oa prominent man. There are many promi
nent menl in Pine Bluf1, but this one is so
very prominent in a certain directiion; that
his name Is known along the crowded street
fand out in the furrowed glebe. It is almost
1unnecessary to call him Col. C. A man of
striking intelligence and profound reading,
lie has taken up a financial hobby. He
i knows so well that the United States gov
d ernment should adopt his theory, that he
would be willinit to bet his eternal existence
on it. Ile'll stop a man on the street and
hammer him with arguments, belabor him
with deep set expressions, and kick hiln
with "important Information" for, hours.
When he gets through, the victim Inds it
r some trouble to realize whether he has
joined a revived erganization of the Sons
of Malta, or has just had his gin-house
burned. Ilis ideas are too heavy for the
most o; men, and the time required for
hin to express them generally stops the
victim's wutch, because he is kept on the
squirm and dodge so long that he forgets to
wind it. It is to be hoped that these an
lo:atious are sufficiently explieit. Well,
the other day, Col. C. went into Ion. M.
L. Jones' office, and had just begun to draw
himself up for a three hours' speech, when
Mr. Jones remarked:
"By the way, Colonel, have you ever
seen the telephone work?"
"No; and I don't believe you can hear
any better through that thumg than you can
through a cow's horn."
"'I've got one here, connected with Col.
Grace's office, and if you'll just put your
car here I'll show you. I |1 do the talking
t --you listen."
The parties took position, Col. C. incred
ulously, and Mr. Jones called:
"Col. Grace, are you there ?"
"Yes; is that you, Jones?"
"Yea; how (10 you feel?"
"I'm about worn out. That. man C. has
been around here this morning boreing me
to death with his financial business. I
guess I'll get rested, though, after a while."
Col. C. took his ear away, and remarked:
"If he'd only ;istened to me, he would
have been smarter in ten minutes more than
he ever was before in his lifel'
Killed by a Snake.
3 Lovell K. Smith, a prospLfous and n
i telligent farmer of Franklin, about six miles
from Norwich, Conn. is justly proud of his
I crops and stock-especially of a herd of
some twenty Alderney cows, mostly of his
ewn raising, and of a span large bay earri
i age horses that have taken. prizes at two
county fairs. About six months ago one of
- the most valuable of his cows became rest
less and fretful, goring and worrying other
cattle whenever near them, and filling the
air with doleful bellowings. She lost flesh
rapidly, and it was evident that herinternal
organs were much deranged. 11er breath
ing was difficult at times, and later was ac
companied by a strange gurgling sound.
11er appetite was generally ravenous ; and
- although she had the best of pasturage, an
t abundance of choice hay, and a liberal sup
> ply of gram, the suffering beast continued
i gradually to waste away. Her malady was
. a mystery. Tihe ordinary and extraordi
nary remedies were administered in vain.
1 No medicine or treatment that was suggest
3 ed produced any beneficial ef'ect ; and a
I few days ago, having become reduced to a
3 mere skeleton, the cow died. There being
i no skilled veterinarian in the neighborhood,
a regular examination into the causes of the
animal's sickness and death was not made;
but the mystery was soon solved. The skin
r was thought too valuable to be lost, and in
removing that Mr. Smith's employes found
3 between the skin and the flesh, on one side
of the cow's neck, a dead snake, eleven
inches long and three inches in circumfer
,ence, its head embedded in a mamss of coagu
I lated blood, which had evidently oozed from
a a lacerated artery ! The snake wvas of a
dark color, of the conmmon water species,
and its tongue was dlightly protrudmng from
its mouth. The Indications were that the
cow and the snake died about the same time.
It is conjectured that the snake wae taken
SInto the cow's stomach while she was drink
,lig, p)robably at night, from a small brook
-that flows through the p)asture; that It made
repeated efforts to escape from her stomach;
that. at length, unable to escape, It effected
-a lodgmient mn the glands of the throat, andi
eventually worked its way to thme spot in
which It was found.
Saved i.v n watcjh.
Wood Yantis, of Jiardtown, Kentucky,
is in possession of some interestig relics of
his grandfather, Jacob Yantis. who (lied In
1800. One is a silver watch, more than
one hundred years. old, which was brou.ghmt
to this country from Germany by his grand
father when he was quite a youna: mian. It
-is of almost spherical shape, of the "bull
Seye" pattern, and was made by William
Phumley, of London. This watch was for
a long while the only time-piece m the old
fort of Hlarrodsburg, and to It Mr. Yantis
. once owed his life. Hie had gone to the
:Blue Lick In company, It is said, with
Boone and others, for salt, and, having be
I come.Oseparated from his companions, was
. discovered and pursued by Indians. Find
Ing himself about to be overtaken by the
redskns, he drew out his watch, hastily
idetached tihe outer ease and drppped it to
a the ground, hoping Its brightness would at,
Stract the attention of his purstiers while he
a could mnako good lis escape. Such was the
fortunate, result of his stratagem, and- he
succeeded in reachIng the fort In safety.
Hie afterward had a'niew case madIe in Bal
timore.
The'flear as.Lio. Altar.
s A singular anedote ls-related in connc
ition wIth the plague in Norway. At the
> beginning of the fourteentha century It at
s tacked one district with snich severity as to
. entirely depopulate "thd country for miles
rbund. A bout two hundred years afterwards
at petdsant was one day hunmthig :a bear In
,that part.of the country. Having discharg
ed an arrow att thme animal, it missed its
m ark but,' flying onwards. attuck dahinst
sontething whicoh gave back a rmgink aoundl.
I Curious to discover what was -the cause of
r the sWaniger eircuvmstance, thehunter search
coed and fouind a .church hidden among thp
3 trees. . 'The ariow bad struck against- the
&' bel1t%f tihe: clock idthe church steeple. This
i A*as ithe aici6ntohtirchi of liedal, which had
,stood unignoun"g'elice 4h6 visitation of thd
i plague and. in,the -Iapse of. time a. large
a forat.id grown up a1id concealed the sac
I 'ied bul4nitfr'omtlthe e'sof men. 'The
humiter ~oe d the ohtUrehtiad slow the boat'
~ at E ho ime',1 *hci- it :Nad t4kei refugee
a Tli boeu a kI sIl preaervd iz tle ves
9r1bfthehb 'oii F'
NEW~1S IN RlitilW~.
--'h u umaub wias formally annexed
to the British crown in 1840,
--Fayette county, Pa., Is out of debt
and has $12,000 in the treasury.
-IiI 1763 the ancient province called
Iouisiana was sold by Fra..ce to Spain.
--The tower of Babel is supposed to
date some 2,247 years before Christ's
time.
-One flir In Reading, Pa., tanned
20,000 aheep, goat and calf aakilus last
year.
-Antioch was destroyed by an earth
quake about 115 years before the time
of Christ.
-At the destruction of Jerusalem,
A. D. 70, over 1,000,000 Jews were pu t
to the sn ord.
-The immigration for the year end
ing with November amounted to 1,310,
000 persons.
-Professor Eliot wishes to establish
a reti'ing annuity fund for the benefit
of Harvard professors.
-Victoria (Australia) had a short
supply of wheat last harvest, amount
ing to U57,000 bushels.
-The Chicago, Ailwaukee and St.
Paul company has the largest mileage
of any road in the world-2,363.
--A stock ranch and 300 head of cat
tle near Austin, Texas, are cared for
by a widow seventy years of age.
-According to the last census there
are 194 men in France over 100 years
old, and 2013 between 95 and 100.
-Senor Zamacona, the Spanish Min
ister at Waslhington, Is building a skat
ing rink In the rear of his residence.
--The total debt of Boston at the close
of this year will be$42,359,1i16.23, a de
crease during tne year of $9,720,624.
--Henry M. Stanley is now ascend
ing the Congo, bound once more for
the heart of At'riea by a different route.
-During July the exports of petro
leum were over 50,000,000 gallons, of
an aggregate value of over $4,250,000.
-Lord Derby is enormously rich,
having an income of $3,000,000, with
an estate constantly Increasing in value.
-'l'he deepest mine en the Paciflc
slope or in America is the Belcher,
which has at.tained a vertical depth of
3000 feet.
-Rowell has at length fixed on April
t as the date, and London or Manches
ter as the place, for the next Astley
belt walk.
--Benjamin Kirby, of Frostburg, Md.,
aged 94, has just been placedt on the
pension list. lie served in the navy
during the war of 1812.
-Two hundred flint arrow heads
were dug up on the farm of George W.
Moore, near Lumberton, N. J., on Ran
cocas creek, recently.
--The dispensary established by Mrs.
Tiburtuss in Berlin has receiaed 1,119
persons in one year. These are gener
ally women and children.
--A curious sight was presented at
Lagrange, Ga., last week. In the midst
of a snow storm might have been seen
green grass and the peach and pear trees
in bloom.
--Seventy-five boys from the New
York Chiliren's Ali Society have just
been supplied with homes among the
farmers of Nottoway county, Va.
--A butcher in York county, Pa.,
while cutting rounds from a slaughter
ed steer, recently found in the beef a
gold dollar, dated 1852.
--From the return ef the comparative
acreage under flax in Ireland in 1878
and 1870 shows that there was an in
creae last year of 16,187 acres.
- nlon. Samuel H. Hunt, of Sussex
county, N. J., has in hIs possession a
cop)y ot' thme sermon of' Rev .iUzaliOgden,
delivered before the Masonic Lodge of
Morristown, December 27th, 1774.
-Think of'what an agricultural fair
must be In Californma, with cabbs ges
flye feet in circumference, pumpkins
weighing a hundred pounds, cucum
bers a y au d long, and p)eachies and pears
-as lar;ge as your head.
-A merchant of Little Rock, Ark.,
the other day Indulged in a novel bit of
advertising. Frozen in the centre of a
block of ice weighing 400 pounds were
two large fishes, a varieoty of fruit and
a bfg advertisement of fresti oysters.
-It is not often that a man is killed
by a meteor. David Meisenthaler,
stockman, of Whi testone, Kansas, late
ly, while driving his cows to the barn
early in the morning, was struck by an
aerolite and instantly killed.
-Thie treasurer of the Monmiouth
(N. J.) Battle Monument Assoulation
rep)orts over $6,000 in cash on handi,
with some hundreds due an)d not col- .
looted. If ten thousand dlollars cannot
be collected a seven thousand monument
will be erected.
-Tihe uniform ol' the late Prince
Louis Napoleon is stated to have been
found at a kraal near Ulunt i, the whole
front of it having been pierced by asse
gals. TIhe. Zulu who actually inficted
the death-blow is said to have been
Ahango, who was subsequently killed
at Uluandi.
-The church of the small town of
Saventhem, in Beolgi u,m, ,possesses a
celebrated picture by Van Dyck, repre
senting a scene from the life of St.
Martin. Van Dyck has protrayed him
self s the saint, and his master, Sir
Poter Pauli Rubens, as one of the per
sonages in the scene.
-T1he Berlin papers describe a sleigh
lately presented bythe Prince of Hohen
zollern to his bride, a prihicess of the
house of.'-Turn and Sails, as a marvel of
costly beauty. The body is shaped
like a cookle-shel, and is of polished
ebony in laid with illver, and the cushi
ions are of theo richet velvet, adorned
with.silver bolls.
-Paris has now over.nine miles of
tubing laid.down;uuder the main thor-.
oughfares for the putrpose of unifying
the time of' all the public' clocks and
setting them all by obsertatory time.
These pnenmtioclocks will also be -'\
placed in pri, sea, apd in future
the tinme o 'be suipplied jutis
like kas '4 t
-i4Mi 'f'Orstpher Columi
bus ar sti I' ogekstatte." One of theta,
Don .KeIt 6Columb, gentleman of the
.rylc rsna the wedt
a o thnd Sl nif,The others
Porto R1c6, and hstpe
la Cerda, Marquis pfamatca, A~A