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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., FEBRUARY 5, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO.16.
THE RIVER OF LIFE.
The more we livo, more brief appear
Our hfo's sucoerding stages;
A day to childhoodl seems a year,
And years liko passing at;e.
The gladsome o rent of our youth.
Ero paseion yet disordors,
Steals lingering like a river smooth
Along its grassy borders.
But as the careworn choek grows wan,
And sorrow's shafts fly thicker,
Ye stars, that mea-lsured life to inn,
Why scom your courses quiokor?
When joys havo lost ihoir bloom and breath,
And life itslf is vapid.
Why, as we nour the Falls of Death,
Peel we its tide more rapid?
It may be strange, yet who would obango
Time's cour;-c to elower speoding,
When one by one our frioudls are gone
And left our bosom bleeding.
Heaven gives our years of fading stren gth
it,dennif) l g fleetness;
And those of youth, a soeming length
Proportioned to their sweetnesa.
CATIHERINE.
If you think the lovers 1 am going to tell
about were a pink and white girl, with
sweet eyes and fine hair, and a tall, hand
some fellow saying soft things to her, you
are greatly mistaken.
We had been at summer hotels, at the
seaside, and among the mountains, where
pert Irish girls, and sonietimesperter Yankee
ones, flaunted around the table in parti-col
ored costumes, and with hair frizzled and
pulled over their eyes, a la poodle.
We were tired of people, and wanted to
rest; so we Induced a farmer's wife to count
us among her family, and let us share their
fresh butter and sweet cream. These and
the strawberries, and the chickens, were all
very nice, but the most refreshing sight
there was a real genuine servant.
She was a middle-aged woman, with
horny hands, hair touched with gray, and
a patient, sad exp:ession in her eyes. Her
voice was low and pleasant, and her smile
very winning, although she was uncommon
ly plain, and bore marks of an encounter
with that destroyer of beauty -the small
pox.
Catherine-she answered to no such pet
name as "Katy," or "Kit ty"-always wore
a clean, well-starched print, with a frill of
the same at the neck; a checked apron, tied
with tape around her wtaist, and her hair
was always combed smoothly over her fore
head. She was one of those rare women
who can get up a dinner, and then, as if by
magic, put herself in perfect order to serve
at table.
Catherine was doing d 'uble duty at this
time.. The boy, whose duty it was to milk
seven cows and feed two hundred hens,
had gone home, ill, and ats the men were all
busy in the harvest-fields, his work came on
her. The farmer had gone down to New
York to get another man, and was expected
home the next day.
That evening, we went out to see Cath
erine milk, and, as we stood beside her and
the delicate buff-colored Jersey cow she was
milking, we fell into conversation with
her.
She told us she was well acquainted with
her work, having been a farm-servant in
"Hengland." She thought work lighter
and wages better here than there, and re
marked:
"If servants were willing to be like ser
vants here, and pot be always struggling to
look like ladies, they might lay by a good
bit for a sick day, or for old age,'"
I said that it was cheering to meet one
who was contented with her lot; upon
which she heaved a deep sigh, and I saw
that It was the same ol story-"an aching
void,'' If no deeper soj;rowv.
She did not look up, nor court smypathy,
but I could not bellp saying:
"I suppose you left your parents behind,
and your brothers and sisters?"
"No; my parents (lied when I wore a bit
of a child. 3hy bi-other died ten year-s
ago."
"Well, one sighs for the very green earth
of his native land,'' I said.
"Oh, well, I don't know about that,
ma'am; I never think of that. It's just a-s
grecen and sweet her-e. God's earth Is about
the same all over;" and again there was a
deep, deep sigh.
We followed Catherine s she bore the
shining pals into the dairy, and there we
met the lady of the farm-i.
Yes, we mean just that, for she was a
lady as well as a farmer's wife. She met
Catherine with a smile, and said;
"Be patient one more milking, Catherine.
The master's coming to-mnorrow with a man
who will be twice the help to you Joe was?"
Catherine smiled and replied: "I'm not
a-wear-y, and neither am I impatient,
ma'ami."
We left the l?rick-fbored dairy, and as
we pas.sed itito the: slttim4-room, I said to
the lady, "Thai womah has sonme great sor
row.",
"Oh, no; only perhaps a little "omesick
for b.old Hengland ;' " was the reply. "She
has hias been with me two years, and has.
never spoken of any trouble.
"I have had my suspicions, however,"
she added, "that shi'right have a husband
somewhere, although sha passes for an old
maid. The worthy man. in our cottage,
who has a nice home and ;omeo money,
wanted to marry her, last winter, to secure
a good mother for- his boys. But she .said,
'No. that she 'ad no' eart foinminn.a a
When the open wagon came up from the
depot, about sunset next day, wd all went
to the kitohen.door;to welcome . '"the mati
Carine td ithe dorway, the pic
ture of neattiese, ~h as dressed ia, one
of her "~Hengiishe Au1"I hzch goods
s1ried ebwslip ,11% setri o ,had of re.
freshing lilac color4
I complimented her dress, and her high
topped comb, and her: broad:nullin(Oo114r,
wlyshesl,e,dynd rplied:
'*eI' ete all,*were
irig'up thia lftetnobn; 1 ed:t a it Nto
pdeasoiydu, 1vhoJlie spokh s kind temheo.'
"Trhank you, Catherine. Jeree odtnes
the wagon. See what a great muscular.
felwtemaster lhas brout1',
'I'ho Inaster gave th9r1i ,.6i o~
haY4iiacRVWho waf doxt d et 6~14
bade anditli to take l'f at~' gah1~ id '
~ b~ M 7nS thedi hdralked into
feel at home before you go to your room.
Catherine 1"
Catherine had fled; and the man, who
had caught a glimpse of her, stood looking
al the door through which she had vanish
od, his eyes and mouth wide open.
"Cat,herine, come now and give your
countryman a good supper!" called the
farmer.
In a moment she appeared in the door
way, as pale as marble; and the great, good
looking, middle-aged man made a bound
for her, and caught her in his arms, and
showered kisses-which sounded like the
report of patent pop-guns-on her pale
face.
lie then held her off at arm's length and
cried :
"is it ye, indeed, Catherine, that I thought
(lead, found by a mericle?"
"o Timothy!" gasped Catherine, "I'd
long thought ye dead in iaustralila!"
"I never set foot on it, sinner as I was to
tell ye I was goin'."
Here we all withdrew from what should
be a strictly private conference.
That night Catherine taliped at my door;
and, when admitted, she said, with a cour
tesy:
"I couldn't let ye sleep, ma'am, till I'd
explainel, lest ye might think me 'in on
modest girl that a stranger would dare be
kissing.
"Timothy and me were 'trothed to each
other at 'ome, and for four years we were
struggling to lay up a bit to come to H1am
erica with. I was by natur' a bit sad, and
'e was the merriest lad in the town. 'E
would tease me at times, telling me 'e'd
found a fairer nor me, and would marry
her, and so used to fret me.
"But we'd always inake up, and 'e'd say'o
wouldn't change me for any girl in the land.
But 'e'd soon be hat it again.
" 'E tried It once to hoften. 'E came in,
sayim' 'e was goin' hoff to Haustralin, and
wouldn't. be back for ten years, and hid me
farewell. I couldn't hear the mortification,
and I made up my mind to leave Heng
land.
"When night came, I put my box in the
wagoner's 'ande, and -went to Liverpool,
and took ship for 'ere. I halways thought
'im in Haustralla, and 'e thought me crazed
or dead when I was not to be found. But
'e's suffered enough, poor dear lad.
"A 'e, thou'gh such long years ha' gone
by, 'e a never loved another, and 'is 'cart Is
just brealcin' wi' gratitude to God for bring
ing 'im safe to me. " 'E's promised, ,sol
ein as an oath, never to tease me more,
and I've pledged me never to be a silly loon,
but a wise, sensible woman, worthy to be
'is wife. I've asked leave of the mistress
to go to the minister with 'hn to-morrow ;
and the master 'imself offered to drive us
'hover in 'is best wagon.'
"But you have no wedding dress," I
said.
"0 dear lady, if I 'ad a thousand o' 'em,
I'd throw them all aside and wear the cow
slip gown that Timothy gave mo at the
fair 1"
The next evenng, we had a wedding
supper In the dining-room; and we all
waited on Catherine and Timothy. - We
gave them wedding-presents, and wished
them -joy, and made them the happiest
couple in town.
The Sensitlvo Plans.
The idea of subjecting this remarkable
plant to the action of anmsthetics was na
tural, and several experiments of the kind
are recorded, the plant having been placed
in vapors of ether or chloroform. Recently,
Mr. Arloing has made some interesting
observations of the effects of chlora, chlo
roform, and ether presented for absorption
at the roots. The pots were sprinkled with
aqueous solutions of these substances, then
covered to prevent escape of the vapors.
After absorption of chloroform or ether,
one notes primary and secondary effects;
the former are phlenlomfena of excitation si
millar to those arising from mechanical irri
tation, andl complarable to those In animals
wvhen anousthetized. Thiey occur'sucessively
froml the bottom to the top of the stem. In
thirty to sixty minutes the conimon petioles
(or leaf- stems) straighten andkthe leaflets
separate, beginning from the top of the
stem; but the plant is nnw found to have
lost its sensibility. The secondary effects
consists of elimination of the aniesthetic.
The sensibility often (toes not return, for
one andl a-half or two hours. .Ohloral does
not act anresthetically on the sensitive
plant.- These observations afforded M.
Arloing an opportunity of ascertaining ve
locity of liquids in the stem and branchesof
plants under strictly physiological condi
tions whereas past experiments-on the sub
ject have been made with withered or mu
tilated planits. If the leaves are in good
state, the common petioles bend down sud
denly and successively from below upwards
in the plant as the absorbed chloroform
reaches~them. Hence, knowing the di
mensions of the plant the velocity
of the chioroformized water In
the stem and primary potioles can be easily
calculated. Within the stem, the velocity
is nwodifiesl by the state of the tissues and
folitige, the temperature, &c.; it was found
in.difI!reit cases, at the rate of 0.00 met
res, 2.22 metres, 2.40 metres, and 5.76
metres per hour. , The velocity increases
from t.he base to the top of the stem In the
ratio of 1 to 1.25 or 1.50, and It ise-one and
a half times or twice as great In the petioles
as in the stein. The time of absorption by
the roots was found-to val-y( o two to
six and a half mizjutes.
[ining a tudg..
A Thanlel has conme to judgment mn the
person. of Judge'Eldridge, of Memphis,
Trenn., wvho requires the oflcors of the Cir
cuit to be prompt in thelr1attendance under
penalty of fine. ..One day recently he was
late himsolf, anti business was,d of course,
suspended until he appeared. Heomounted
the be'nctwith thte stern aspect of -lBrutus.
C lark," he obserye, "you will please
Sah, enter up k'une against Judge Eldridge
for' abibnde withobti an exitet> This was
done amid breathless SIlence, butsooni after
ward Attorney:General Duval made'a most
eloque&t appgl 1rf4vor ;of remittih|g the
finQ He re.ferreQ tiotte r terms to the
un rinSi-ol tn dfJu e ldridg d
1#stibh.' henfollbWeti W. J. Rives, in
A spocij in *hieni higlo mnd path9 . were
*mAt: delicatelf Andlb~ieilouslyinto doid.
14thq 4oggencpnf iothl attorneys fell on
ston ear. Th Cout oserved that whilae
The Toaa Market of Parie.
By the Jardin des Plantes, in the old and
quaint quarter of St. Marcel, Paris, you
will find, every Wednesday morning, from
spring to autumn, a very curious market
place. From seven to nine A. ,M., your
attention is called to an open space of
ground, separated by a boarding from the
street by a noise like unto that which creets
the ears of tired Senators when the sun of
day is' meeting the twilight hour, and all
frogdom on the banks of the Washington
canal is chorously joyous and loud I1 We
approach this market place so full of simp
licity and sound. Young men in blue
blouses, black silk caps, pert faces, jaunty
airs, big finger rings, dandy buots, greasy
hair-parted down the muiddle-and prim
noustaches, are the venders. In one hand
they hold a little stick, and when the
sounds alluded to grow heathenish, whack!
goes the stick on the top of a barrel whence
these diabolical noises emanate, and silence
reigns. The toads are momentarily dunb.
We know there is a great deal of unlovable
sentiment arrayed against toads, yet toads
are full of love sentiment. A toad carries
all its young in a most loving and senti
mental manner, and why should not like
beget like, if there be any truth in the doe
trino of Aristotle? Much bad blood and
hnalignity is got up against toads. This
one of the young men in olouso tells me, in
a foppish, half-philosophical way. l3arrels
of toads! Think of it I Barrels packed like
barrels of potatoes ! "Selling at 2 francs,
40 to 6 francs a dozen, prine toadsl nice
toads!" Who buys them? Vegetable gar
deners. Why ? For the reason that toads
devour the insects that otherwise would de
vour the vegetables. Who devours the
toads? Contrary to some ideas-not the
French people. But toads are being sold
now, not devoured, and it is with the sel
ling we are interested. How do they vend
them ? Young man in blouse bares his arm
and thrusts his open hand into the slimy
swim and brings up two, three or four gym
nastic toads, wriggling and writhing. lie
points out their merits and delivers theuh in
a box by the dozen to the eager market
gardener who takes his choice and pays his
price. The buying and selling is done ex
peditiously and quietly. The license reve
nue to the Government is great, while the
profit to the venders is greater, arising from
this other peculiar Parisian baseness, the
selling of toads. I addressed inyself to one
of the merchants: 'Permit me to ask-if you
have been long in this business ?" 'Ncch
ant looks at me and laconically replies:
"Born in it 1" Then I resume and say, en
couragingly : "You know a good deal about
it ?" le looks at me again and replies:
"All !" I am uneasy as to his feelings,
therefore change the attack by asking :
"Does it pay well ?" He deigns not to look
at me now, but replies : "It, does!" "Do
you suifer much toss by death by packing
the toads all of a mass in a barrel l" "1. do
not I" "Is it expensive to cultivate them ?"
''It is I" "How do you care for them and
propagate them?'" "We don't care nuch,
and they propagate themselves l" "Where?"
"Marshes and rockeries 1" "Do you ever
feed them?" "Never l" "How do you
live?" "Pretty weil"l' "Have you a large
supply ?" "Too large I" 1 look upon him
as the concentrated assemblage of many
toads, and I leave him.
Trapping Rate,
Having lured to destruction, many old
Solomuons among rats I will detail my plan:
Take a pan nearly full of bran, set a small
steel trap without any bait, put a light wad
of tow or cotton under the psn of the trap,
which press down so it is just ready to
spring; put the trap In the bran, making a
place with the hand so that it may be below
the surface when level; lastily scatter a few
kernals of corn on the bran (pumpkin seeds
are better), and you are ready for your vie
tim. I hardly ever fail to fool some of
the ring-leaders in this way, while younger
oes are easily caught. If you cannot
thus circumvent that shy and cunning old
specimeri, 1 will give- you my plan with
stryehlnine, which is as swift with rats as
wit.h dogs. So much for the V\ isconsinl
rats. We cannot but think thlat the "old
Solomons'' out there are not half so wvise
or canning as some1 weO have encountered
at the East. Some years ago the rats made
bad havoc in onr cellar, and we resolved to
try the effleacy of the steel trap. It was
set in a large fiat vessel and well covered
and hidden wvith bran. We were more
cautious than the writer above, for we
used a large spoon to move the bran, fear
Ing tihe rats might smell the touchl of f in
gers and keep away. Mmall bits of cheese
were then dIropped over all p)arts of thle
covered trap. 'iThe next morning there
were tracks of rats all over the surface, ex
cept where the trap was buried; and the
cheese was all taken, except directly over
the Irap/ We were compelled to resort
to a more effectual trap, which proved suc
coiful-inl the shape of a fine old cat.
A OhIld's Battle WVith an Eagle.
0. Wieland, Auditor of Lake county,
Minn., writes: "Recently, while lIttle Au
gust Burr, aged seven years, was playing
with his sisters-one five years old and tho
other three and one-half-near his father's
house, an enormous eagle pounce down
tipon them, throwIng thle .two girls -lo the
ground. It Immediately attacked the
younger one, grasping one of the child's
arms with the claws of one foot, while the
claws of the other foot were deeply buried
in the child's .face; and it attempted to
carry the child off, but was prevented by
her struggled.- Little August, seeing that
he could do nothing with his own:hands to
help his sister ran' quickly to the house,
got the butcher.knife, and came out and
hacked.away at the eagle's legs, cuttIng one
of tlieul severely near the f.oot, whereupon
the savage bird let go the little girl and gtt
Lacked the boy, knocking him over, tehring
his pantaloons, and giving hiin sonme
severe scratches. In the uiicantimo: tio
screams of the children brought out their
mother, wheroupon the eagle flew off to
the barn, on which he sat and looked' as
though he would like to renew the centeet,
sbould a' favorable opportuanity offer.
neighbor-wag called who shot the bird. It
a h~tfp I'elittle gl1bbdly erached,
btit not Sorioudly hiirt."
Did yott ever think of praising God
with yeur hammer and saw ? Perhiapa
sweeter echo in;the hrbes; of, heaven.
IA*ed 0te u thWork
noA ~ e o
The Now Ocean Cablo.
North Easthain, where t ho shore end of
the new cable has been laid, is near Prov
incetown, Cape Cod. From North East
ham the land lines of the American Union
'T'elegraph Company will atTurd transinis
sion to all points in the United States and
Canada. The Pouyer-Querter Coinpany is
composed miostly of French and American
stockholders, the former holding the bal
ance of power, and has a paid-up capital
of about '8,000,000, soon to be increased
by an additional amount of $2,000,000.
Its otlicers are practical men, experienced
in telegraphy and in the management of
telegraphic business with the outside world.
The cable was constructed by Siemon
Brothers, of England, who also built the
cable used by the Direct company. It is
considered heavier, stronger and moro
nearly perfect than any now used by other
companies. The process of its building is
especially adapted to secure those results.
A central wire of copper is surrounded by
ten copper wires, twisted, insturing abso
Inte conductivity in all weather. For insu
i:uiug purposes three envelopes of gutta
perch surround the wire, and outside of
the gutta percha is placed a wrapping of
mauilla hemp treated with Chatterton's
compound. An armor of steel wire for
protection is placed outside the hemp, the
wires composing the armor, being laid in a
peculiar manner, side by side, so that frac
tures seem almost impossible to occur.
Surrounding the armor is another covering
of manilla hemp, saturated with an anti
corrosive compound, which makes the as
surance doubly sure that the cable will be
always be ready for use. The cable ex
tends from Brest., France' to St. Pierre,
Miquelon, and from St. Pierre to North
Easthain. At its conp!etion the Faraday
will return to Brest, when another cable of
similar conestruction will be laid from Brest
to Land's, England, establlishing connection
with that c.-untry. The distance across is
only about two hundred miles, and, as the
water is shallow, the Ulectritians regard this
as an easy task. Next year the company
will lay still another cable from Land's End
to St. Pierre, thus establishing a double line
between this country and Europe. The
Faraday, which is well adapted to the lay
iug of ocean cables, was in t lie v ry centre
it the cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean,
but paid no attention to the unruly element,
keeping en about its business of cable lay
ng ju.t as if no.hing else was gol1 on.
'l'o secure a landing-place in the United
tates the conipany gave th United States
ovcrnm:nOtL a guarantee t'at the company
will not consolidate or amalgamate with
my other line, or combine therewith for
tho purpose of regulating rates.
A Married Widow.
It was just before the opening of the rail
way from 'Tagantog to Kharkof in 1809, and
[ was driving these dreary distances in aut
amn. For the first two days and nights
the weather was lovely, but on the third
morning, soon after sunrise, the sky became
covered with heavy, torn and jagged clouds;
a northerly wind arose,. and with thunder,
lightning, cold gtlc, and snow, the winter
burst on us as it yearly. breaks on Southern
Russia. In half an hour the rich, black,
rolling plains had become an ocean of inky
mud, and we reached the post station of
Donsli only to find the order, "Impossible
to proceed."
I called for tea, and the samovar was
brought in by a line, upright, gray bearded
man, whom, from his black velvet tunic
and slashed sleeves, I took to be the post
master himself. lie was followed into the
room by a noble looking Cossack woman of
his own age, who said, "Little husband,
why don't you ask the little lord if hg will
eat a partridge 'nd a bit of bread? The
kurupatka is plump, and the day will be
long before his troika can be harnessed to
face'the storm." She smiled sweetly as she
spoke-he smiled lovingly upon her ; then
lie left us, looking lingeringly back.
"Your wife's in love with you still, and
you with her, postmaster," I said. "You
must have beaten her well wheun she was
young for her to love y >u so. How long is
it since you wvere marr'ed?"
"I am sixty," he replied ; "I wasmarried
at twventy-live, thirty-five years-five years
before I<iiedZ."
"What ?" saId I.
"Five years before my death. Is it pos
sible that you don't know my story ? You
must have come a long way off, for I have
heard that it is told even upon the Azof."
Anid, throwing his legs across a chair,
without more ado, lie spoke thus, I was
born in 1809 and can remembecr the return
from Paris of my father and unele-Cos
sacks ot the D)on. Th~lose were grand days,
when every Cossack wvas an olleer by birth,
and when the Hetmian Platot was King of
Europe, conqueror of the Tu~~rks and o)f the
French, and( friend and equal of thle White
Trsar., Now this Pectersburst Tsar saya that
we're no better than his Great I ussIan
slaves, and for many years my sabre and
long l)isto'ls have huing upon the wall uin
usedl; andl when 1 have worn my red band
ed cap and my red stripped breeches I've
always hId as much as I could of the stripe
In my boots, for I'm ashamed of it now;
and they're even going to take away our
privilege of the sup)ply of salt.
"In 1884, as a young postmaster--for my
father was dhead--with a good place atnd a
handsome heard, I was the best match In
the two church villages round. I could pick
my wife, ad I chose Olga,. that you saw
just now."
"There!" saId-I.
"Ah!I wait and( see. .Wait, little lord!
Don't be impatient ! Olga was as !ivolv
as she was good. You have seen her In her
sixtIeth year. IHer goodness. is what It
was; andI, though Imay be an unsafe udge,
hiet beauty, I thInk, is not.yet gone.'
He looked at ine... I .nodfled.
'W.e.0 were happy at first; but I wats
young. I felI the chain. I was faithful
toJet.as far as Womnen W6Vt,,but. not kind.
WVe had no children.
"One day, In 1889 she wa in low spirits
about me, and flung her arb3 upon a sud
den about my neck, with, 'De you really'
hove .me, lhttle John ?'
" 'Yo. know I do.'
" 'llut iiot as I love you.'
"T.tell yott what thoiglts-lashed in an
instabt through my mind wouild be-impossi
ble. .-Thiat whatM she saldt was true,., That
while I did love her In a .klv way, I was
bound to he (qr life, whie ir I would or
no. In alfit of *ld rage,I struck her one
shor ,esharp blow. Shle looked at;me, ;with
'deepatr'lnlher eyes; and wallied slowly Into.
qur therroo:; Iran Into the stable yard.,
7WWabef4%ia,"said I toitthe stay,
eoicJ 1eaqat, e.fr(Irlt with
I've found upon the floor. Quick I quick I
the best courier horses."
"In an instant they were ready. Merrily
jingled the belle in the crisp air. Paul took
the reins, and off I whirled. In twenty
hours I was at Kliarkof. To my friend the
starosta at the great Kharkof station, who
was equal in rank and pay to most post
masters themselves, I said, 'Do me a ser
vice,' little friend, as I would do one for
you. I am going to leave my wife to whom
.1 have been unkind, and am going to enlist
in the Guard. But I wish her to torget me,
and she must think ne dead. Write to her
in a week, and tell her I was taken with
the cholera and died. Beg her to forgive
me for my unkindness. Say that I was
grateful for her love; and that it was my.
last wish th it she should marry again, some
lad more worthy of her than myself. Mahe
interest to have the station continued to her
as postmistress. She was a priest's daughter,
and can write.
"We crossed ourselves; he swore; we
bowed to the image in the corner of the sta
b!e ; and in live minutes I was gone.'
"At the recruiting olice I enlisted for the
Empress's regiment of Cu!rassicrs of the
Guards as a fourteen years' volunteer, and
in a false name. I'd of course no papers,
but thcy nsk no questions, for I was a fine
recruit. My beard was shaved, my hair
was cut, and when I got to St. Petersburg,
and was 1.ed with my uniform and eagle
crowned hemlet, no one would have known
me. I rose to be sergeant and second rid
ing-master. From your padarojna I see
that. you are English.
"Now, in 1853, when I had served my
time, there were rumors of war in Turkey
against you, and tempting offers were made
to me to stop and i-drill the recruits. But 1
was wretched, and home-sickness drove meI
South; thcugh, if 1 found my wife dead or
married, again, I intended to kill myself."
"Petersburg is not a place for Cossacks
either. By brooding over the past, 1 had
become madly in love with my wife. It
was no use for me to tell myself that i. had
left her well off; that she was married
again and happy ; that she was fourty-four
and fat.; or else, perhaps, a scarecrow. I
was madly in love. 1 got my discharge
and pensiou papers, and started South. At
Khiarkof my friend was dead. What if she
too were dead?"
" 'Who keeps the Donski post station
now ?' I murmured, crossing myself the
while under my long cloak.
" 'The widow.'
" 'A widow that has kept it fourteen
years?'
"'rhe same.'
"In eighteen hours I was there. I recog
nised two of the old men, but they not inc.
I rushed into the house. She was at her
day book, writing, not changed; only gra
ver, and with silver in her black hair. 1y
own little Olga, in the best style of old days.
She did not turn to look at me, but threw
up her arms and fell forward on the table.
I rushed to her and felt her heart, with
mine, too, all but ceasing to beat. In a
moment she came to herself-our li ps press
ed together. That was in 1853. This is
1869. Sixteen years gone like a (lay. We
have made up for the past, little lord.
"But woild you believe it? That wretch
ed Government at Petersburg insists that I
am dead, and that the Donski station is kept
by a widow. Or else, they say, theelaas
sier riding-master must be dead, and with
him his pension. My widow accepts the
situation with a smile, for our neighbors all
know better than to believe the Government,
but she keeps the books, signs the receipts,
and pays the taxes. 1 draiv my pension in
my cuirassier name.
Some Little Things of Value.
If your coal fire is low, throw in a table
spoonful of salt, and it will help it very
much. A little ginger put into sausage
meat imp)roves *,he Ilavor. In icing cakes,
diip the knife Into co1(1 water, In boiling
meat for soup, use cold water to extract
the juices. If the meat is wanted for itself
alone, plunge It into the boiling water at
once. You can get a bottle or barrel of oil
off any carp)et or woolen stuff by applying
buckwvheat plentIfully. Never p)ut water
to such a grease-spot, or lhquid of ay kind.
Broil steak without salting. Salt draws
the juices in cooking; it is desIrable to
keep these, if possible. Cook over a hot
fire, turning frequently, Rearing bothm aides;
place oni a p)latter, salt and )pper to taste.
Beef having a tendency to be though, can
be made very palatable by stewing gently
for two hours with salt and popper, taking
abont a pint of the liqumor when half done,
and letting the rest boil Into tihe meat.
Brown the meat in the pot. After taking
up, make a gravy of the pint of liqnor
saved. A small pilece of charcoal in the
p)ot with boiling cabbage removes tIhe smell.
Clean oil cloths with milk and water ; a
brush and soap will ruin them. Tumblers
that have milk in them should nevem' he put
in hot water. A spoonful of stewedl toma
toes In the gravy of' either roasted or fried
meats is an improvement. Trhe skIn of a
boiled egg is the most eflicacious remedy
that can be applied to a.boil. Peel It care
fully, wet and apply to the part affected.
It will draw out the matter and relieve the
scorenems In a few hours
| :
Dog andj DonKtoy.
A singular encounter b)etween a dog and
a donkey has just occurred at Blackpool,
England. A retired gentleman, named
Weddinigton, owvned a flue young donkey
and a splendlid mastiff, The other day the
donkey'was grazing in a field, when the
dog rushed at It in a ferocious mnmer and
fastened on its nose. Th'ie donkey (lid not
decline the challenge, for It at once shook
the dog off,- bit it about the head and shout
de, trampled on It, and tossed it about,
The dtog again seized the donkey and a
crowd soon gathered, but all offparts to sep
arate the combatantsawero of no avail. The
dog repeatedly fastened on the donk'ey's
nose. Blood flosyed profusely from bdth
animals, and at the end of half an hour the
owner appeared upon the scene, and fresh
attempts were madeo to part thoem, but with
out success. A fter the fight had lasted half
an hour, the owner decIded to have the dog
shot, as it had by that time fastened with a
firm hold on ther donkey's riose. . A gun
was proettred and th6 seirvices of a. good
shot obtained. But so savage was the fight
that It was difficult to ishoot one animal
without killing the.ether. also. At last,.aim
was taken,jnid a-bullet:put~Into. the idog's
Iheadjand it dropped td tho-hrndt, TWhen
the smoke oleared away tho ldog-wes deadh
but the I.nfuriated-donlo lad- reiturned sto
enlty,the danktita eMl
A Doomed Family.
A few nights ago Edward Scannell,
shot and dangerously wounded Henry
Wilson, in a low grogery in New York. The
anile members of the family seem born to
misfortune. which is a mild word to ex
press what h.3, at tines, been tinged with
crime. In the fall election af' 1868 Flor
ence Scannell was a candidate for Assistant
Alderman. A few nights before the elect
tion he was in Thomas Donohue's saloon,
at Twenty-third street and Second avenue.
The place was crowded, an(1 much heated
dicussion on politics took place. hot words
led to blows - during the fracas some one
fired a pistol, The bullet lodged in Flor
ence Scnnnell's spine. After lingering for
a few days ho died in Bellevue Hospital.
John Scannell accused I)onohue of shooting
his brother, although the charge was not
made until several days afterwards, Noth
ing could be proved against Donohuo, and
the charge fell to the ground. lndeed, it
ws said at the time. and it is current
among polticians and sporting men, that
John Ycannell hinnself fired the shot, in.
tending to hit ano'her man. Be this as it
may, John Scannell professed to believe
that )onohue was his brother's murderer,
and then determined to slay him. Dono
huo was shot at once in First avenue, and
an endeavor was made to show that Scan
nell had mado the attempt to assassinate
him, but the evidence was not sufficient to
fasten the rine on him. All that could
be proved was that a man In disguise had
shot at )onohlue. "our years passed and
Donohue still lived, but Scannell had not
relinquished his purpose. Instead, his do
ternlination grew stronger with time, and
eventually consumed overy other desire : it
became i mania, which controlled his wa
king thoughts and dreaming hours. On the
eve of the Presidential election, in Novem
ber, 1872, the pool rooms in this city were
crowded by euger investors on the result.
One of the lost noted places at that time
was T. 13. Johuson's at Broadway and
Twenty-eight street, On the Saturday
preceding the day of election that placc
was literally pactccd. Standing near the
door was Thomas )onollue, with no thought
or care apparently for anything else than
investing his mnonoy in the election pools.
As l1e was turning to speak to a friend,
John Scannell went down the stairs and
saw him). Without warnin:t. ho rirew his
pistol, and pointing it at 1 'oiohuo., began
tiring, remarking, "I have yiu n,ow." Don
ohuc fell at the tirat fire, and Scannel thou
emptied the remaining shots in his pistol
into the body of the fallen man. Death
Onsued alnioat immediately, and Scanuell
was arrested and indicted for murder. On
his first trial he was sentenced to be huug :
the case was appealed, a new trial granted,
and by a jury of physicians Scannell was
declared incane. He was sent to the State
Asylum at Utica, and after a short contino
ment there, was released on a writ of habeas
corpus, the conrts which d"clared him in
sane then declaring hin sane. At the time
Donohue was shot Edward Seaunell was at
Fordhaml College. ]t; was the desire of the
family that he should be educated for the
priesthood. ills brother's crime barred
hl1n out from so amtbitious a calt ng, and
from that day ho changed from a morl
youth to a reckless man. When John
Seannell was released from the asylum he1
entered at once upon the life of a profess
ional sporting man. lHo became, and is
now part owner of a gambling saloon in
Barclay street and another near Thirtieth
and Broadway. In botlh of these places
his younger brother, Ed. Scannell, was
dealer for a fare game,
A Hot Waiter River.
The projector of the Sutro Tunnel is of
the opinion that the hot water which is so
tr>ublesome in the Comstock mines comes
from a depth of ten or fifteen thousand
feet, whlere the rocks are at a hligh temuper
ature ; also thlat there musit be some cou
nection between tile water of tile Comstock
lode and thlat of the boiling springs at
Steamboat, six or seven miles distant. One
of tihe great advantages of tIle tunnel is the
means .it alordls for draining tihe minels.
Thie tunnel discharges about twelve thou
sand ton of waiter every twventy-four hlours.
Tio lift tis water to tile surface would cost
not less thaa $3,000 a day. Some of the
water has a. temperature of 105 degress
where all tile water mingles; four miles0
froml the mouthu of 1110 tunlnell tihe tempera
ture ranges"from 180 dtegrees to 185 degrees.
If left to ilow through tile 01pen tunel this
water would so) 1111 the air with steamn as to
make tile tunnlel Inpassable. In flowing
the four miles through a tighIt flhnne made
of 8 inchl yellow pine, the water loses but
7 dlegress of hleat. At the mouth of the
tunnel tihe watcl is conductedi sixty feet
down a shlaft to a wheel In tile macilne shop,
wvhence it is carried oft by a tunnel eleven
hlundr'ed feet in length, which serves as a
tall race. From tis tulnnel tile water flows
a mile and a half to tihe Carson river. This
larg. flow of warm water is now used for
many purpose, tihe first to utilize It having
been boys who made small p)ondS to swim
In-pioneers, It may be, in establishinlg a
system of warm bathls, whIch may ultbinat
ely become a great sanitary resort. The
water can also be turned to account In heat
log hot houses and for irrigation. The
tunnel company have a farm of .ever a
thlousand acres which, when properly
watered, is very fertile. In course of time
thlero will probable be many acres of fruit
and vegetables under glass at.this point all
warmed and watered by tile tunnel water.
-The Alpane Hlorn.
The Alpine horn Is an Instrument made
of the bark of a cherry tree, and; like a
speoaking trump)et, is used to convey sounds
to a great distance, Whlen tito last rays of
tile sun gild tile suinit of the0 Alps, the
shepherd who inhabits the highest p ak, , of
these mountains takes his horsi, ' d4 cries
with aloud voice, "P'raised be tie Lord."
As soon as thle neighboring stiephlerds hear
him, they leave their huts, and-repeat,s these
words. The sounds are prolonged many
miIngtes, while tlAe echoes of the rooks re
peat the name o$ God. Imnaginatian can
not1 pictureanythilng morw aolemn or sub
linle.than suchla scenQ. Dutring the silence
that, succeeds, Ine shlepherds bend , their
knees, and pray in the open air, then re
pair to their huts .to ;rest. 'The sunlight
gilsling the~ tops of these stupendous moun,
tain, tipoP wlboh , theult of iInen
.sceelm. tO rept,. j1q, mttgifcen~t .pscener
$1 e ale r yel
FOOD FOR THIOUG'T.
A great head hag -great cares.
Forgetfulness is no apolo y.
Love is the crowning grace of the
Christian life.
The doctrine of the Atonement Is full
of the love of God.
People's intentions can only be deci
led from their conduct.
He keeps his road well er}ough who
Weta rid of bad company.
To openly offend virtue is toclandes.
tinely defend immorality.
By looking Into physical causes our
minds are opened and enlarged.
Happiness and unhappiness are qual
ities of mind, not of place or position.
Now abideth faith, hope, love, these
three, but the greatest of ttese is love I
You ahould consider your adversity
as absent when your senses are depar
Led.
Those gifts are ever the most aecep
tablowhleh the giver has made precious.
There wotld not be so natny open
mouthls if there were not so maniy open
Bars.
Glye, if thou canst, an alms; if not
iflurd, instead of that a sweet and gen
;le word.
The mind hath reason to remetn
jer that passions ought to be her vassals
for her wastors.
All virtue lies In a power of denying
>ur own desires when reason does not
tuthorize 11,hoin.
A emperor in his night cap will not
neot with hal' the respect of an un
,eror withi a crown.
Expression is of more consequence
;han shape--it will light up features
)therwise heavy.
Generalizt.ioaa and great self-eon.
Ott are always preptiring the most la
nentable mislaps.
People do not. retlet t.hat they may
on die. 11 they did their quarrels
vould qiickly terminate.
11unor, warm and all-enbracing s
.he sunshino, bathes its objects in a
eiI all nd.abiding light.
At IeSent let us remove what is bad;
vich miust always be done before gooia
,f any kind ann spring up.
Ordinary apprehension, or a correct
luw of humnan atlairs, lI the general
Icirlouom of 0. conIutOn onse.
Never neglect to perlui n the comi
uiasiou which the friend entrusted to
ou. You must not forget.
Men are often more guilty of treach
iry from weakiess of character than
'ron any settled design to betray,
The universo is but one great, city,
ul l of beloved ones, divino and huuan
y nature endeared to eawt other.
Perseyerlug mediocrity is much more
espectable, and of unspeakably more
sle than talented inconstancy,
There are mtany manifestations of
iod's love in nature and lir"ovidence,
but the greatest of all is in Christ his
Son.
Covetous inen need money least, yet
they most aa'ect it; but prodigals, who
nced it most, have the least regard for
it.
Let every man sweep thwesnow frot
before his own door and not busy
liisolf about the frost on his neigh
bor's tiles,
To be vain of what you have learned
Is the samae as to plume yourself on a
piece of game yoa have received from a
Ilunter.
There can be no surer way to success
than by, disolaiming all cotiidence in
Durselves, and roferriig the events of
thittgs to God with an impiceit cong
lence.
Suome parsons are chr9nically sour ;
rotn foul every time you meet them as
f you'd been eating lem.onea without
mngar ; they stamp a sowil on you In
aldo and out.
While it is imnpossible, even after
3onvrsioni, to live without sinning,
rot provision is made for tiae forgive
nesms of'our* daily sins, and thie washing
f the stins.
Charaeter alone .is Iintertal. Not
what we have, but what we are, is en
Ideas, as ranked uin4er names, are
~hose that, for the most payp, men roa
ion of wvithip tiaenigolvos, ,and always
hewhich they commul botwt
We c~an enjoyr fellowsabo witho
>nly by walking where h dwells. It
we would have the companionship of
rurc. trienda, we must, go in the samue
tociety in which they tuove.
Wh ,u we are out, of sympathy with
he you og. then we think our work in
bhla world la oydr. That is a sign that
hie heArt has beguni to 4ither-and
that is a drea d.ful kind of' old age..
Hie who' spefidsr is you'nger days in.
lissipat1on is paortgagiig 'himself to
liseaso and poverty, twg9 inexorable
uroditors, Whlit are certald to foreclose
at lasa and take possessiona of the pro.
inises.
It is easy in the *orld's opinion ; it
Is easy in solitudo to lhve~ after your
owvn; bt the gred~ md is ho, who ila
the midst ot' the crowd, lhaps with per
feet sweetne'ss tjlf indintience of aol- *
,When y9u doutbt betwek words use
the pIlinest, the commoiuosr, tho most
idiomatic. Esclied e Wordls as you
woIIld rouge; lave 'shnble rones as you
Wtndld native roses utl yPbIli cheek.
Theo best reo pefU go,pg throug h
life in 'an oxqnistte wn vih beaufu
manners, is to fool *ti' every body, no rj
meatter how ribh'or hbw poor, needs hall
the kiudness the? eai got from others
in this world.
If a man Wadte to be right and to do ~~N
somO good intde'wrl he must not O
discourageddlWidF"hae ld him~<
wvith 'the hMd it?#'.'4t 'bne time o
anothe r 16 'Who" t46du$lIshes uoh
for the cattse 6f truth i#iWte to find the
majority Agalhust hiim -'
W hon mzetisforth 1 to satt fl
diesent tradiln~z 'at.~
guhed totii~ 4t 00tfce
to wth (9