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TR-WEEKLY EDITION. WyINNSBRORO, S. C. FEBRUARY 17, 1880. VOL. I.-NO.21. DEATH IN THE WOODS. oath in the wood th and a sont. of decay; oath and a horror that oroopi with the blood, d stiffuns the limb to clay; or the rains are heavy and slow, dthe leaves are bhruuken and wan, 'nd the winds are sAbbmg weary and low, d the life of the year is gono. eath in the wood th in its fold over old; oath-that I shudder'd an.1 sank where I stood, the touoh of a ban-1 eo cold t the touch of a hand so cold d the sight of a olay-whito face. or I saw the corao of the friend I loved. d a hush fell over the place. oath in the wood th and a saont of decay. oath and a h rror but half understood, ore blank as the doa I I lay; hat curse hung over the earth, at woo to the tribes of mon, hat we felt as a death what was mado Yor a bir.h, ha birth sinking death ward again! -oath in the wood - - he death-palo lips apart; eath in a whitenus that ourdled the blood, back to tho.very heart; The woador by her was form'd Who stands supreme in power, To show that life by the spirit comes, tihe gave us a soulless floweri Rachel's Shadow. Reuben Moffatt and Rezia, his wife, re ceived a triplet of white wedding cards from the hands of their daughter Rachel, and fell into a scrious chat over the bits of cardboard. George. Reynolds, the groom, was. discussed with positive knowledge gained by acquaintance with him from boy hood. Katie Maurice' the bride, was dis cussed with the speculative knowledge that characterizes remarks concerning stranger brides. Rachel Moffatt had left the room while George Reynolds was under discussion, and her mother's careful eye had observed that there was surprise, anger, almost tears in the girl's face. "I say, Reuben, " began the good man's wife, after Rachel had gone. "Yes," answered Reuben Moffatt, signi fying his readiness to hear what his vife had to say. "4I want to call your attention to our Rachel." "You needn't call very loud," was Reu ben Moffatt's answer. My attention goes a good deal that way, naturally." "To be sure, " answered Kezia Moffatt. "How could it be otherwise, and the father of such a girl as our iachel? 1 am sure I wonder that. a young man like George Rey. uolds should look farther than such a trim, handsome girl as Rachel is, and he - knows all about her housekeeping, too." "'Look further and fare worse.' I an old proverb, you know," said Reuben Moffatt, with anger in his eyes and tones. "I am sure I hope Rachel will get over it ind go to the party." "Get over it?" repented Reuben Moffatt. "You don't mean that Rachel -?" The old man paused and aurveyed'his wife criti cally. Kezia Moffatt nodded her head afllrma tively. "Oh, nonsense, Kezial" exclaimed the old man. "You feel unpleasant like be cause George Reynolds should prefer any other woman to our Rachel it'sny opinion that Rachel hadn't a thought of George Reynolds, cxcc)t-." A shadow fell on the porch, and the old man suddenly changed the subject of his remarks. The shadow that had fallen on the perch wvas Rachel Aloffatt's. It followed the young girl across the green fields where she *walked, magnifying hecr bonnet into an un shapely thing, and lengthening her slight figure Into exeedingly lank proportions. "WIch way, Miss Rachel? Are you - running away from your shadow?" asked a yonng man, stepping out from undlei-an oak tree that stood midway in the field. Rachel Moffatt gave a sudden glance at her shadow, and said wvith an effort, "We can't escape them any more than we casi our thoughts." "It's lucky for us that, they are harmless," answered the young man, with a smile. "I shouldn't think you would want to escape your thoughts, Miss Riochel, I'm sure 1 shouldn't. And if you've no objection, 1 will walk in your shadow, as you seem to be going my way." * Rachel Moffatt bowed, but the young man glancing into her face, saw that she accepted his company with resignation. * "I presume you have received George Reynolds' gards?" said the young man, after a pause. "Yes," Rachel ariswdred gravely. "They are very stylish," she added, with an effort. "Miss Maurice Is said to be wealthy," the young man continued. "Ah" Rachel exclaimed with a curl of her lips that was full of scorn. With a delicate, intuitive serLsO that would have done honor to, men In finer clothes and a loftier sphere, Walter Gilbbs changed the subject with the remark: "I have the book of yours that I borrowed, in mny pocket, Miss Rachel. There were scraps of paper in it, and some bits of faded flowers. I have them all, and return them, with the book." "Thanpk you, it did not signify," Rachel replied Indifferently. Bhe turned the ktaves of the blue and gilt volume with thle uneasy motion of rest less hands, and there dropped from them the gilded leaves and faded flowers. They. * ,ere &ll alike, mere bits of pInk coloring on a wooden stem-pink arot so deep as the color that glowed on Rachel Mofrat t's cheeks *at sight of the flowers. .., "It Is the Corls Canadenels. Judsa tree, her companion remarked, pieking up one of the fallen bits arnd pulling it to pieces. '"The Judas trepl" echoed Rachel Moffatt all her tenes full of scornful wonder, "Ye," 'the .yoong man said, answering the wonder in her tones. "In the spring it is a tree of promise with its rugged branches crowded full 'of, blossoms; but the blossoms die, and there i, -never fruit or beauty in fulfillment of its springtime promIse. There is but ope0 In tl e tila eit I kinow of, a t s a u de1ls den." n ember tig W~r Gibbp biecame, lyed her face with tell-tale blushes, and he tale they told was about George Rey iolds. Then he remembered how he had 'orced his company upon her, and his care ess words might have added to the trouble >f the girl he loved. At least she should be celieved from the annoyance of society, and wvith a sigh Ile remarked: "It was uncivil of me to join you, Miss iachel, when you came out to walk alone. I beg your pardon. And as I have an er and (own to the Widow Brown's, and am roing around that way, I will leave you tere."I "I would be glad to have your company," Rachel Moffatt felt constrained to say. "Thank you, but my errand is urgent," Walter Gibbs answtred. "Glad to have your company!" he muttered, as lie walked .way-"a pretty story that, and she wish ing me ten miles away from the moment 1 joined her! What a poor blind fool I have bedn. " The woman whose happiness George Rteynolds had trifled with so wantonly walked slowly toward her home *and sat down or- the little porch, watching the noon conic up. She overheard her father's words as lie talked to her mother. "There's as good fish in the sea as was aver caught. It's my opinion the man who gets our Rachel will find there is better than George Reynolds to be caught; and I am sure Rachel will find better fish than George Reynolds, if he (oes think lie is the biggest toad in the puddle." Over Rachel Moffatt's sad face flitted a smile that was almost merry. To think of oimparing Medbury to a puddle, and George Rleynolds' to the biggest toadi Then her thoughts wandered to herself. Did her father and mother- suspect her liking for George Reynolds? And Walter Gibbs had her face tattled to him of secrets that she fain would have kept? Henceforth she would wear a mask, and hide her secret in her heart. She went into the house and sat down by laip light. 11er mask was on, and she wondered if Mrs. Reynolds had made the fruit-cake for the reception, or whether they bought it at the bakery at, Medbury. Mrs. Moffatt thought that Mrs. Reynolds would make i'. She was such a hand to have everythin , done up in her kitchen. "Maybe," he added, "irs. Roynolds would like y.a r help in making lady cake, you know, Rachel. Supposing she should eixpress herself that way, what should I say to her?" Rachel's mask threatened to fall. To go into George Reynolds' home and help to prepare for the reception of his bride was a blow for which she was not prepared. Only a moment and the tottering mask was up. Certainly, if Mrs. Reynolds should ask my help I would go," Rachel answered. "I would be glad to go," she added a mo inent after, as If she was giving the mask a [hual securing touch. And so Rachel Moffatt found herself beat ng eggs and stirring butter and sugar in Mrs. Reynolds' kitchen, listening to the woman's garrulous chat. 'Lady cake it will be, I expect." she said, pausing in the midst of her culinary operations to watch the whites of eggs rising in a foam under iachel Moffatt's dexterous manipulations. "And I expect she's a very fine lady we're making it for; but it's a matter that I would like to go no further than between us two, that I'd been satisfied if George had picked mut a wife nearer home; 1 am sure I wouldn't have said a word if she who is making the cake and she who would eat the cake had been the same identical indi vidual." Rachel's mask shook a little, but she was a brave girl. "Oh, I'm sure George's wife will be a nice lady, and. I dare say we will all like her very much," she answered. -Rachel Moffatt's words were fully verri acd. George Reynolds' wife proved to be a very nice lady-a little delicate creature, all pink and white, whom It was lmp~ossible not to like, because she wvas thoroughly' amiable and lovely. "Who is that lady in white, wIth the pink [lowers in her hair?" asked the bride of the bridegroom, the eveuing of their reception, as Rachel Moffatt entered the room sonme what late. "She looks very lovely, but I shouldn't think she would like to wear lowers of Judas tree. Don't you know?" she asked, ainswerlng the Inquiring look of her husband. "That's the name of the tree that bears those pink flowers. I ami a great, botaniist; don't you kiiow that, nmy diarling?" The darling colored, seeing Rachel Mof ratt andI the pink flowers, and remembering 3ertain wordls uttered beneath the shadows of the pink branches. Rachel Moffatt was a study to another man at George Reynioldls' reception. Wal ter Gibbs' eyes followed her wherever she inoved, and he wvent home thinking of the mystery of womankood as it revealed It self in'Rachel Moffatt and pink flowers. The Judas tree had never bloomed bnt once when George Reynolds and his wife came to Mednury to live. "Gecorge don't get along so well as I could expset,"Squire Reynolds' said; and Mrs. Reynolds hinted to half a dozen neigh bors, hoping that it would go no further than between herself and the one with whom she talked, that George's wife was a well meaning, good-hearted little creature, but bless her hearti she didn't know the first thing about hiousekeeping, and she hadn't any knack at making the most of her moans. George Reynols' wife seat for Rachel Moffatt one day. "I would have dome down myself," she apologized, "but really I was naot able;" and Rachel looking into her fa'ce, saw that the pink had all faded out, leaving only the whiteness of the pro vlouis year. "You Bee, dear," she went on with a winning franknes's, '.' wasn't brought up to anything' useffil, and the housekeepIng don't go right, and George and I have moved out, thinking that we wouild manage better, and ltwould be better for the baby. I remember what beauti funl lady cake you made for our reception, and the praises that were in everybody's nmouth about your cooking. And now, nmy dear Miss Moffatt, would you mind sh'owing me a little, and see if I can't learn to manage better,. and make George's home more corp1 fortable? I thought I woald ratier ask a young person like yon than Georg'e's niother even.' And so Rachel Moffatt found herself in George Reynolds' kitchen, instructing the child wife In the mystory of cooking, and trying'to impart to her some of her "rare knack," as the people, called it, SOne day ae she cameo out of the little gate and took her wa' tonard ther own home, a gentleman p aedhom9 hiorseback. Look ing up, she BsW " 'hlWm' h i full board and good figure; .A .ittnger, she thbought him, until henhoefid1tg azi.~oimed, "You are not running from your shadow again, Miss Rachel?' Aid tihe stranger was no other than Walter Gibbs. Rachel laughed this time wit hout effort. se "They were harmles things, as you said," be she replied; and then she inquired kindly tu after his health and stay at Medlitry. cli "I presume strangers occup'y the cottage ai yonder?" Walter Gibbs remarked, pointing Mi to the cottage Rachel h)ad just left. th "George Reynolds lives there," Rachel anll answered. ."1 have been up to assist Katq tir -Mrs. Raynolds-in canning fruit. N Rachel Molfatt's face did not color or a let feature change. Either her mask was all perfectly worn, or that look had ceased to i be a mask. tih Walter Gibbs, during his stay in Med- ra bury fell into his old habit of walking in an Rachel Moffatt's shadow. Looking into fr< her faco as on that evening a year before, tai lie missed the resignation it had worn then, h( for it was real pleasure. he One day lie sought her with a strange Pt nervousness and abstraction in his manner. Al Rachel was very grave, too, and Walter be Gibbs saw that she h.d been weeping. lie hc looked into her face with the tender solici- tri tude that only men who love, and women G< who have been loved know; and iachel ex- (il plained hastily. Did lie not know? Had Im lie not heard? George Reynolds' wife died se suddenly that morning with heart disease. Ill Walter Gibbs went home with the ner- Im vous abstraction all gone from his manner, th and a hard endurance in its stead. George NI Reynolds was free now, free to win Rachel or Moffatt if lie could, and she who loved him iii once was free to accept him. "I couldn't hi be satisfied with a doubtful love," he said; til "I will wait." tht He waited until the Judas tree was in ra blossom again, and then ie. went to Med- th bury. oil "It's waiting on Rachel MOTatt, George Be Reynolds is," one of the Mledburv gossips hc told hm; "and his wife not under tle sod ru a year yet! They were old schoolmates, in and knew each other from childhood, and ik we used to think it would make a match th before lie married that little helpless city U: girl, and I haven't any doubt i m y mind 1; but It will make a match now. George i Reynolds is going to have a party next -ta week, and that lie will show what way the at wind is blowing. all Walter Gib's went to George Reynolds' Y, tea-drinking. le said to his mother lie i; would not miss it for a fortune. Rach lic Moffatt was there, walking now and then thi with George Reyr;olds, and talking with mi him ever and anon, but then it was Rachel's w1 habit to be kind to every one who came in cl her way. Late in the evening Walter Gibbs 81) missed her froni the parlor. le looked Y, around for George Reynolds, but he, too, i was gone. "The M1edbury gossip was Y4 right," lie thought. 'The tea-party is show- ar mag which way the wind is blowing." le an walked to the window and looked 'out, de- Ci scrying Rachel Moffatt's iluttering garments 1Il down a winding path. George Reyinolks ev was by her side, and the way they took was of towards the south. Away off to the north in the Judas-tree--stretched out its pink )1 branches in the mooe-light. "The winds cli sets unfavorable," Walter Gibbs said, with be a sigh. tm Half an hour later George Reynolds Y, passed Walter im.the hall. His brow was tN clouded and his lips worked nervously. is: "le looks like one on whom the north wind w has blown," Walter Gibbs thought and went. inl in pursuit of Rachel Mofratt. of He found her standing in the moonlight, at her long shadow reflecting from her figure 7. the branch of a Judas tree she held in her ta hand. Ile approached her and stood where h< her shadow fell. lei: "Rachel," lie said, with all his heart in his voice, "I should like to walk in your shadow kenceforth, if you are going that way." Rachel Moffatt looked up with startled eyes into the face above her; the pink low-- is) ers with their fatal significance fell from her lie hand, and the irregular out linss of two con it fused shadows, never henceforth to be parted thi lay upon the green sward. In the frost~s of cC the following winter the Judas tree died, tl and the place thereof knew it no more. Turtle and Elephant. l One damp afternoon the turtle caine wad- 0 dling out into the big room to borrow a l little sand to lay lisa eggs in. "'My friend," cC the elephant said, "yours is a vecry hard- e ac "'Yes," the turtle rephedl, "but while tl there's life there's soup." CS Th'le elephant was greatly astonished, for ai lie didnm't know the turtle was given to that Si sort of things at all, and'all the other anl male grinned, beccause, you see, it wasn'tf often the elephant met anybody in the mc-m nagerie wvho could talk to him, "Well," said lie, after a pause5, "it's a h good thing your back is so broad." "Yes, it is," replied the turtle, "because pr there is no telling what may comb) of it." The animals cheered softly and the ele- " plhant looked amaz/edl.p "Well, old go-as-you-please," lie saidl fi presently. "yeou pay1 as you go, don't you?" "Oh, yes," the turtle saidl, "'I have to W shell out every once in a wvhiile. How's hides ?" he asked cheerfully.H "Oh, they're easy," the elephant saidl, "a little loose, maybe, but nlothing to worry l over. "I louse-moving busines keeps upl, I reckon ?" b "Yes, yes," the turtle said, "nothing s rushing particularly, biut I'm in and out all day. Nothing unusual in shawl straps, Is t there ?" 'rie animals cheered at this delicate allu- 01 slon to the trunk business, and for the first time In his life the elephant looked as though lie was going to lose his temper, but It ho rallied and said: 1 "Oh, no, much the same as usual; 'just a a kindi of hand-to-mouth business. By tile eli way, didn't I see your father's old overcoat to up in front of the restaurant, yesterday ?" 'A "I guess you did," said thle turtle, ''le wasn't the kind of a man to die and make tl no sign. Going down into the billiard-.W room pretty soon?" ii The elephant said "no, thiey'd have t excuse him, but If they'd wait till the hyena. camne along he'd have some native wine with them." And then the tiuftle said "all right, he'd drop in about dusk." Anil) the menagerie went to supper that nmght. with the greatest enthusiasm. But the ole- bl1) pliant, was very quiet, and only spoke once, of a~ that was to ask the ost rich where he.s suposed the-turtle grew to be so cute? el An the foolhsh bird of the desert tossed an! a iron hiolt-head down Its (broat anid replied:1 p~ "Picked it up, Z reckop."g And then, childro .the'.elephant grfnned p and said there seemned an epidemie In the .th menagerie, and leaned up against the centred e p*e eand weattobed. Faset allroad 'I railn. 'e "ligitning train" on t Paris-Mar lies L110 makes the distance of 539 miles tweei the two cities in fifteen hours and enty-one minutes, the averdge speed, in iding stoppages, being thirty-flve miles hour. 'Tie express train dn the Lelirter iilwny runs from Berlin td Cologne at rate of thirty-seven and ote-half miles hour, including stops, making the en e distance of 364 miles in nine hours and enly-six minutes. The Seottish mail ves Euston Square at 8.50 in the evening d reaches Edinburg at 6.45 the next )rning. The distance is 40t miles, the ic In nine hours and fifty minutes, the .c of speet, including stopi, forty-one d one-forth-miles an hour. - The express >m King's (toss runs to Edinburg, a dis ice of 3971,miles, in nine I d one-nalf urs, or at a rate of forty-two miles an ur including stops. The fast train from ddington to Plymouth, 'ind the Irish til from London to Holyhead, average tween forty-one and forty-two miles an ur, or about the same a, tie Scottish ims. The fastest short disance trains in rmany are, that which runs from Span i to Stendal, fifty-seven and one-half les without stopping, in one hour and veiteen minutes, sr at the rate of forty e miles an hour, and theOexpress, which ikes the distance of eighty-eight and ree-tourth miles, between Berlin and iidgeburg in two hours and seven minutes at the rate of forty-two miles an hour, cluding two stops. In England a much ier rate of speed is attained on short dis. ices. . The Great Western trains run rough from London to Swindon at the *e of fifty-three miles an hour, making a entire distance of seventy-seven and e-quarter miles in one hour and twenty ven minutes, while nearly fifty miles anl ir is made by the special express which us from London to Watitham, 105 miles two hours ind 11ive minutes. ThiS is ubtless a much bigher rate o! speed than a usual schedule time on roads in the lited States. The Washington Limited preqs leaves New York at 10 A. M. and iches Washington at 4 P. AM. The (lie ice, 2:30 miles, is made in six hours, or a rate of thirty-eight and one-third miles hour, including stops. Between New )rk aind Philadelphia but two stops are ide; the rate of speed Is forty mriles an fir. The Boston express, which leaves city at 11 A. M., runs to Boston, 233 les, in seven hours and eleven minutes, uich is about thirty-two miles na hour, in iding the six stops that are made. Tie acial mail and express trai'n on the New >rk Central and Hudson River Road kkes the distance at night between New >rk and Albany, 143 miles, in four hours d five nunutes, or nearly thirty-six miles hour. Only one stop is made. The icinnati express on the Pennsylvania iiiroad leaves New York at six in the vining and reaches Pittsburg, a distance 444 miles, at 8.30 on the following morn , and Cincinnati, 757 miles, at eight P. . of the same day. " The rate of speed, In iding stops, is about thirty miles ain hour tween New York and Pittsbnrg, and enty-niuc miles an hour between New )rk and Cincinnati. The distance be een Harrisburg and Pittsburg, 249 miles 'un in seven hours and thirty-five minitcs; th three stops, or about thirty-three miles hour. The fast line to Chicago by way the Pennsylvania Road leaves New York nine A. M., and reaches Chicago at 20 on the fo'lowing evening. The dis ace is 912 miles, the time thirty-four urs and twenty minutes, the rateof speed is than twenty-seven miles an hour. An Old M96uonm'. They had a church fair down at Span itown near San Francisco,. which was 1(1 in a large grain warehouse just oppos the r-esidence of a cross old bacheclor, e irichest man in the plaice. As the re ipts were irather thin, on the secondi night a management secured the services of the ra1 amateur band to liven up matters. mis band consisted of two ilutes, a fiddle, aor-net, an accordeon and a brass driumi, a latter instr-ument being hammered with tra vigor- whencver- one of the other per emers went out for beer-. Trhey had suc aded in making about half the night hid us when a fear-fuli outci-y was heard ross the way, and, on the participanta rowing up the windows, they behckt the pit abst aforementioned in his night-gown, d swearing In a manner that miade the imday school teachcers shudder to hear. "What (do you people men by this in rni racket?" r-onared thle exasperated "WVhy-this--this is a fair," said thie ly wuho( ran the grab..bag. "Oh! it is, Is It ?" sneered the distuirbed riy. '"You call it fair to roh people0 of thehm tural rest b~y this sort of second..hand nd~emonium, do you? Well, what's tic i-i--c, oh ?" '"What's the what ?" asked the mana. r of Rebecca's weil - "Why, the fare-the admission fceel ow much to conic in and 1)0 swindled ?" "'The tickets are two bits," replied th< 13-, i-athe- shortly. '"Very well ; now talk quick, for this It siness. Ilow much have you taken Ir far?" "Nine dollais andl six hits," said th< ~asurncr. "And how munch longer doees your fi nud the public run?"' 'Thre-e nights." "Very well, that makes about $40-ca11 $50 In round numbel~rs. Bend round to, orrow and( I'll give you a check for thai noumt. WIll make it $75 I(.youshut ur op in ten minutes," and the old objecto innocent amusement slammed down th( Indcow and returned to bed. A fter wich the congregation corkeod uj e orchestra and dispersed. But they ar< >lng to give a musicale in the same build g next week. They say they've struell bonanza in that old party andl mean t< ork it to the b~edrock Advioo ithout Charge. WVhen you write er speak, do not use ushel of wor-ds to express a table spooufu thought. Better think twice before yet eak once. After; expressinmg a though early stop), even though 1t090'6e you a ighty effort to do so. It VW04hrgh accom ishiment to lodril how to atp when you mt through, 'I'he eftect; ontJ ltstener il e'asant, atid ytou illi gain fmore cre'di an by speaking longer, H thaut is ciea b afford to be short. He thM is not, ealm rdly affordt peakat lL. Ol'd Horweshoues. "I saw a funny sight in the street just now," said Mr. Patterson to his friend, Mr. Johnson, in the Fifth avenue hotel barber shop, New York, recently. "I met an elegantly dressed lady carrying in her hand an old horseshoe covered with mud. I pro sume she had just found it and was carrying it home for good luck." "Good luok'i" replied Mr. Johnson; "don't talk to me about old horseshoes and good luck. About a month ago, ily wife and I were returning from church one Sunday, when, in front of the new Roman Catholic church in Fiftieth street, a horse which was being driven at a lively gait, threw a shoe, and it went ringing along the pavement. 'Go get that shoe,' said my wife, 'and we will keep it for good luck.' I picked it up, ut terly ruining one of my gloves in doing so, as it was covered with mud. This I was going to wipe off on the curb, but my wife cried out; 'Oh, don't do that, for if you do you will wipe out all our luck.' So I lugged the old thing all the way home, and over the door we hung it, mud and all. In the morning I went (town to the store wonder ing what my first streak of good luck would be. Before night I hati a misunilerstand ing withl my employer-with whom I have been for several years-we both got hot, and the resilt was that ho gave me notice that, after the 1st of January, he would dis pense withl my services. - A few days after ward my wife went to do at little shopping, and lost her pocket-book containing all the money we had been saving for a long tine to spend for holiday presents and amuse ments. In fact, for about two weeks, everything seened to go against me, and I was in hot water all the time. Finally, I said to my wife one day, that I believed it was that confounded old horeshoe that was to blame for it all, and that I was bound to take it down and put it back in the street just where I found it, and so I did. The very next morning my employer sent for me to come and see him in his pri vate office. Ile said Ie hald been mistaken in the matiter about which we differed, Apologized for wliat lie had sald, hoped there would ble no lhard feelings about it and wound up by engaging me for another year at an increased salary. I went home that night feeling better natured than I had for weeks. I told my wife of my good luck, and then she took from her pocket a letter which she had that day received from her father, notifying her that he was going to send her a check for $500 for a Christ mas present. In fact, I havo have had only good luck since I threw away that old horseshoe. They may bring luck to some folks, but ily wife and I doii't want any more horseshoes in ours, you bet." Allonso's B1ridal sted. From the Council Chamber in tile Palace at Madrid, we pass into the King's bed clianber, which is simply but richly furni shed. The walls ire hung with beautiful specimens of the Gobelin tapestry, but. the carpets ire of Spanish manufacture. An ex(iisitely carved walnut bedstead occu bies the centre of this room, which, like the royal household, is principally remark able for its elegant simplicity. Adjoining is a clambre (10 toilette with marble bath, washstiand, etc. A short corridor separates the apartments of the Queen from those of her royal spouse. Passing ilrough we en ter the cliamber a coucher, where is tile nupt ial couch, a gem of the Parisian up holsterer's art, richly carved and delight fully upliolstered in silk. It cost 50,000 francs. The interior of the domelike can opy is richly rplholstered in rose-colored siik, on which cunning hands have wrought flowers and devices with golden threads. The headboard is surmounted by an em broidered sh1ield, on vhich the initials of the spouse are wrought in gold. The shield is supported b~y two reclinng hlymphis, nude as8 Mother Eve in Paradise. As the work men had1( just unpackedl tis jewvel of a bed, It is imipossib~le at this present writing to give any furthler descrilition of its beauties. In addition, there is a ehambre (10 toilette, a declighltful salle de lecture, wvithl windIows opening on the Plaza do Oriente aiid on thle splendid terrace, whichl affords a -fine promienade, with a magificent view of this city and the mountains.- At present it is merely a stone roof, buit, under thle care of the Queen, will no doubt soon be turned into a lovely hanging garden, alI' Arabe. A private rccep~tion-room for ladies only, com p)'eCe the i oyatl apartimnt. A Queer Dinner Parlty. Michael Dunnn, a reformed conv.ct hias openedl aI iodginig house in New York and aI cueer partyslately took dinner at his board. Seatedi next to Mr. D~unn was Michael Mc Cann, aged twenty-one years, having no failher or mother, whlo broke into and r'd bed( Brown's shoe store in Rosevelt street, and served two years in State Prison for dloing so. lie is now employed as assis tant janitor in the Five Points House of Industry. In addition to serving a termh in State Prison lie gradulated from the Ihouse of Refuge and was in the Peniten tiary. Patrick Clarke, the second guest, hiad served a term of two years for burglary, raid is now employed in making woolen shalwls. James II. White, of Pittsburg, who. has spent seventeen years in prisons in .N4efvYork and Pennsylvania, was the fourth guest. lie was a burglar by profssion, but is now selling tweaty-five cent braces in thle streets. A German cooper, named William Vincent served seven years in. Sing Sing for stealinga watch from a drumaken man; a crime of whlich he declares himself inno. cent. H~e is now employed in a cooperage at Rted Rock Point and pays $8 board to the House of Industry every week. The youngest of the convicts was Josep~h Banker, aged seventeen years, who served two terms on Blackwell's Island for petty larcency, and ia noiv working hard in a Catherine street dry goods store for seventy-five cents a day. James Wilson, who is but, twenty six years old, has served one term of seven years in Bing Sing fo: burglary and has been in the penitentiary, He ls now~ engaged in knitting woolen shawls. Martin S. HIarris, forty-four years, who re-ved thlree years in Sing Sing for robbery, sat next in order. H~e will go to sea, a berth having been se cured for him by Mr. Dunn on an East In Idia ship. Charles Mcermott, a gray hair ed man, thirty-nine years old, sat next, lie served four terms in Sing Sing for burglary, his last term being two years. Hie will go to sea wvith Hartii. 'William'Todd, aged forty-four years, comnpleted the party. He has served terfli in Sing Sing, at Crow Hill and on Blackwell's f~an or larceney. At ptresent hes seliig6 comamitslon for a B46kmuian street bhiedh 'Xii 4dior roceed ed with the greatM 4qokruti an as.t close Mr. D)unit said to a reporter: "If you give an ex-convict a fair show in nine cases out of ten he will reform for no man who has ever been in a State Prison cares to go U there again. When a man comes here I teach him to knit woo!en shawls. They b sell for $5 each, but there is not any pro- I fit on them. They serve one purpose, to ot show whether or not the man wiants to b work. If he is lazy, good-for-nothing fel low I do not keep hun, but if he wants to work I try and procure employment for him. During the past year I have given shelter to 287 men and turned out twent- a eight because they were idle and lazy. 3 Places for sixteen men were obtained on the elevated railroad, twenty in different mer- 81 chants' oflices in 1hie city, fifteen in laundry s at Helieville, N. J., fifty were sent to sea and seventeen enlisted in the army. On an average the'support of each man costs $1,27 per week. They have clean beds, a hooks and papers to read and are kept out of bad comn y and harm's way. Captain Tynan and Detectives Titus and Carr oc casruinally coimie into and see us and leave something behind them. During the day- t tme I go through the city trying to sell shawls or get work for them. We hold no public services, for nothing so humiliates and renders desperate a man who has been. f in prison as to be exhibited to people whom he does not know. A a' An Aeronitit's Terrible Fnre. Prof Atchison, made an ascention from 0 Elwood, Illinois, on J uly 20. 1879. 1 When the balloon wias inflated the Profes- CC son gave the word, and it was let loose rc from the earth, Dressed in pink tights, with green figured jacket covered with in spangles, bare arms and bare head, the hair el on the latter beingt black and curly, the ner- P onaut ascended, holding on with one hand, h1 and with the other waved an adieu to the crowd below. "It's the poorest ascension d that I ever made," said lie; "I can't do b much but I'll do the best 1 can." So say- fc ig, lie threw II his legs over the bar, and, t letting go his hands, hung downward, hanging by the kice-joint. The interest f and anxiety of the mulitude were next I heightenedi as lie hooked on a foot right I and left at. tie junction of the ropes with C the bar. and hung suis)eIded at full lentgth. The balloon ascension itself was as good as w could be desired, and so far the people had v all the sensation they could well stand. ti The poor, slender figure posturing thus in b mid air to amuse them, who shall say how tI it was with him mentally and bodily at this time? Catching again at tie bar, lie drop- hi ped his feet and hung for a second or two 1 by the right hand. The balloon was still go. 0 iug ill), and the Interest was painful to qi manny. The height attained at this time 0( was variously estimated at from 150 to 500 feet; 200 is perhaps a fair guess. The bal- g ldon Wis slowly drifting to tire southeast, tI and the aerounaut, while holding otn by one aR hand, made no further attempt to continue b the performance, but apparently opening i the hand that held the bar, with not the least attempt, to clutch with the other, he do immediately commenced to fall over the w railroad trackl For about thirty feet of de- r scent lie held his armas up 1s when lie let go, b and then lie conmienced to struggle with t his hands and feet. This was a mero in-. stinctive motion. Nothing that lie could do I would avert the terrible death await ing hin, I and with a violent thiumi) which could le s heard at the distance of the Catholic i church, two blocks off, lie struck the eart 1 north of the railroad track, just outside the ties, abouta yard from the rails. le ap pears to have struck on his right side, for, t on being taken u1p, his right thigh was i broken above the knee, and all thatt aide ex U tending back was bruised and blackened, but no blood came from the body. This w appalling death had a iaost painful effect upou the multitude of- spectators. Womie screamed and fainted. Children crled at the ti uinwonted spectable of a rmin falling head- P long through the air, and1( all we're struck ~ with a feeling of awe that anr event gotten 0 uph for p~ulic anunsemienit should end soe dhisasitrously. T Along The Rio Grandlo.b Coming south from Santa F e on the Rio U Gr~ande, writes a traveler, for the first 200) L iles one is never ouit of eight of towns andl villages. Tire system of Irrigation is hb thre most compllete and extensive ha c the United States, east of the Rocky Mouna- t ] taing, although half thre landl is not culti- dI vatedl. The larger portion of these towns n are of the ancienit iunhabitanits, or as we call c thiem Pueblo hIdians. Sonme are0 called Spanish or Mexican towns, and some arc r mrixedt. In every one of thema, small and p great, there is a Catholic church. Like the Li othrer edlices, It is of adlobe, anrd is marked 0 b~y Its larger size, and biy havinig a tower ni aind ono or more bells. Marny of tire fields P are fenced by hIgh wvalls of ablbe brick, arid sometimes of sod, somne of them ap- o parentl of great age. The whole valley n is line(I with irrigating ditches, and some times three of themn are found along side of 8 each other. These are under tihe control tl of Jocal ofilcers, who keep themn in repair, C and~ allot tire p)Ortion of water (1ue to each b when waster is searce, TJhe oldest Indian towins have a very efficient system of water S governmrent and tire SpanIard andl Anmeri- P can borrowed It from them. Tire people P cultivate wheat, oats, b~arley; Indian corn P Is extensively cultivated, lint, I should say. 2 not very suiccessfully, although I saw somet fine fiel of corn. They have patches of a potatoies, cabbages, breanis, onions, and, in fact most of tire vegetables usually culti- C vated, large patches of red pepper includied. I Vineyards are found all alotng thre valley, ~ and this is destined to be thre gr at wine ' producing region of thre United 8tates. a Tire Voutilaton Fionid. y E~ver sInce fresh air was invented hias thre earth been cursed with peeple who fancied ji themselves appoi nted to ladle out vast vol umnes, aerial cataracts, chilling torrents of j fresh air to nervous, timid, delicate peope, r who don't .want a pint or it. Thre ventiha- r tion idiot, whno has nrot seen him? Who has ~ net suffered at his ptiless hands? Who y has not longed to kill him? IIe haunts the e railway train, and makes hisi dwelling in la the church; hie goes to the theatre; lhe In vades your offiees; he tramples on the j sanctity of your home; anid5 wheiever lhe r goes and wherever he come., lhe brings t with him blast, from Greenland and theo- a rios from the storm caves of .Aolus. And t he sweeps down upon you, and your pee, and gottr tranquil home )ilse a tornado, and 140 ovrwhebs~s you with fresh ar uwtil yu a wap* toa~~ , flow you -o hn t tho a b*iesp hobby Is ventihl~~ NEWS IN BMUEM. -Stockings worth $70 are sliown Ill Uicago. --Thie Frankstown Iron mill at Pitts Irg, Pa., which was idle for a year or ore, resuined work on full time re nitly. -A hundred years ago the Moravlans Ii)tlzcd the first negro convert inDutch ulana. Now the mission has 23,301 embers. --An ordinary sized man, supposing s surface to be fourteenl square feet, Mtains the enormois pressure of 30, [0 pounds. -The city of London has the exelu ve right of loldiig a market within won miles of St. Pai's and of'collect Ig tolls for the same. -The extensive ironoore mines at mnielstown, Dauphin county, Pa., le soon to be put in running order, ter a long suspension. -At Millville, N. J., the factories 'e hampered for lack of glass blowers. t the window-glass factories the do and Is loud for more help. -Iron ore in the Ottawa district i sing taken to Ohio to be smelted, the !%y cents per toil duty on coal being tal to smelting in Canada. -The ofllcers of Christ Church lexandria, Va., are endeavoring to 11 the bible used by George Washi ng n. They want to pay it church debt. -The total number of recruits of the erman army for the year 1878-79 was 3,111), of whon 2,574, or 14 per cent. m1k neither write their names nor ad. -'The Franklin Woollen Mlls at Wil ington, Del., are very busy. The nyloyes are working overtime to sup ly the demands for their warps and Dslery. --Tito estimated receipts for the pro ace of the coal, metallic and salt mines 3longing to tihe Prussiani 1 overnment or the next fiscal year are rather more ain $12,000,000. -Mr. George F. Jenner, who was Ir sOie years an attachu of the British egation it Washington under Lord yons hIas been appolited English onstul-Guierxai to Cuba. -In Uper Alsace the cold has made olves and boars issue from their co rs. Tle former are prowling round ke villages near Mulhouse and several ars have been run over by railway ains. -Alore tian 20,000,000 of people in ibit the river system tributary to the .lsissippi Valley. 'ihe total producet r this huimse population, which re tires cheap transportation, is $1,500, 10 annually. -Ryc straw Is as valuable as the *'aini ill Pennsylvania int the maluf'ac ire of paper. With tho Increased ,reage of the season closed (3,500,000 ishels) the yield is not equal to the de and. -'The Eniylish Grenadier Guards are scribed its ordinary-sized young men iih light hair, blue eyes and very sy cheeks. They are said to resem Le young curatcs dressed ip in bob iled red coats. --It Is stated in a French paper that osa Bonheur has bouKit a magniflcent on from the Zoological Garden at Mar .llics for 5,000 francs, and Is painting s portrait in a picture intended for xt year's 81a1011. -Not only silk spinners from Mac esileld, Coventry, and other English owns have emigrated to Paterson, N. ., lately, but there are large additions om the French and Swiss silk centres. ver 1,000 operativeS have been added i1in tile year Just closing. -The receit pulbuhlsled - records of ork Castle, England, formerly a for ess, but now for a long timle tsedi as a rison, show that in 1019 Isabella 1B11 ngton, 32, was sentenlced to death for 'Lucifying her mother and otferi'ng a )ck and1( calf as a burnt sacrlice. -Th'le lhat factories ini Adamstown, a., are busier' nowv than they have een for yea~ts. Woolen goods have ivanced in price, and four factories ro kept running day anid nigilt to fill IC orders oil hand. About 59O opera >rs are employed in these factories. --The winter palace at St. Peters nirg has been recently protccd by a >ntinuous change of poilcemnen. Upon te rare occasions wh'len thle Emperor rives out lie islaIuroundled by a nu terous escort, aind the 11110 of route ia eared of' carriages anid horsemen. -The Carbon Iron Company at Per rville, Carbon county, Pa., are so ushed wvith work that they have got build another foundry, so as to turn Lit tihe work that is required at shlort otice. About 500 hlands wvill be em loyed whlen the foundry is complete. -Leo XIII has ordered the removal r the seats and screens of tihe 4ecu monical Conncil llall In St. Peter's. 'isitors wvill be ablA once more to see t. Peter's in Its ent ire vastness, for 1e screeninlg off' tile transep,.for the ouinell HallI detracted much from the eauty of thme .Basilloa.* -It is stated that inl the {Jnited tates on tihe simple ar..lele ot shoe egs and shoo-peggers thlere are 5761 atents, and there aro 2,000 of these atents oil machinery. One class of achines last year sewed, it is estima id, 45,000,000 pairs of shoes, and ano ber olass pegged 55,000,000 pairs. -The production of steel elteeted by treat Blritain last .year was 807,597 tolns. nI tihe same year the United States lade 732,228 tons of steel; Germany 10,000 tons; France, 140',000 tony;, elgium, 75,000 tons' bweden, 2000 >ns5, and Austria, 2b,000 tone. l'he ggregate stool producition of the world .'> ras thus someting over 2,000,000 tons inst year. * --A plan has been invented bye men or of the commissioners to let she ocean "~ ito Wesley Lake,'at Ocean Grbve N. ' ,,changing theo water att overystkte if ccessary. Hie claims the. Wp k will ot cost mere than $8,000 dc If the. Ian proves suecebeful, Oan G ove to} ay one-halt; if the 1la4i :W4ii Esun. i essful, he will bgar all itigd.;ponse * --Th'e fitjadelin Pennsyyae ast opened a yry dul d . rioes quot ,'a re iWith4 hose or teii. ~a' on about~eQ~ilaea' , aoooieonaas o