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-IIW E~yE II N WINNSJIORO, S. C., FEBRUARY 19, 1880. .O IV.-NO. 22. SOME DAY. You smooth the tangles from my hair With gentle touch and tenderest care. And count the years ore you shall mark Bright silver threads among the dark Smiling the while to hear me say, "You'll think of this again some day . Some dayl" I do not scorn the power of time, Nor count the years of fadoless prime; But no white gloams will ever ihlno Among these heavy looks of mine; Aye, laugh as gayly as you may, You'al think of this again some day Som day! Rome day I shall not fool as now, Your soft hand move along my brow; I shall not slight your light commands, And draw your tressos girough my hands; 1'"hall be silent and obey And you-you will not laugh some day- I B6omo day! I know how long your loving hands Will linger in these glosiy bands Wlen you shall weave my latest crown Of their thick masses, loug and brown; But you will see no touch of gray Adorn their shining length that day Bomo day! And while your tears are falling hot t Upon the lips which answer not, You'll take from these one treasured tress, And leave the rest to silentness 4inhmember tha't T 1)0 F t V'eey, "You'll think of thl again some day Home day!" Edith's Lover. 5 Coming out upon the terrace where they stood alone together in the June twilight, I V remeniber thinking what a handsome, noble looking couple they made, and how well it a was that mny mnistress had chosen Mr. Hollis for her future husband when so mny at- b tractive young gentlemen aspired to the honor of her hand. As I approached, Mr. Hollis was saying: "To-morrow is odr, wedding day, dear n Edith I To-morrow I I can scarcely realize 1 it. Ah, how proud and glad I am." J My lady looked up at this moment, her cheeks all aglow, her eyes shliiing with hap- ri piness. Hearing my step she said in her gentle way. 'Whit is it, Jennie ?" "A strange woman has presented herself a! at the kitchen door, madam. She asked for 1 jou and will not be denied. She does not d Ave in these parts, I think; her accent and n dress are both peculiar. Good gracious, there she comes now, and I left her on the d: kitchen stepI" My mistress looked in the direction indl- st cated and beheld a drooping, forlorn figure. bi slowly advancing from the rear of the house. o She changed color and drew back with a startled cry: bi "Mrs HFawirinAl.. . . 1.. The woman caime nearer and paused on ai the upper step, looking curiously about her. l "Forgive me for comin'," she said, in a low, broken voice. "It ain't right to be b troublin' one like you. But what could I Is d(o with him beggin' and. ploadin' and fret tin' himself ill? I hadn't the heart to refuse v his prayer, and-" ui "Hush I" My mistresadrew her strange p visitor hurriedly down the steps. . v Bhe was very pale and trembled with ex- a citement. t< "No more now-I cannot listen," said she, in a whisper. "If you have any errand p with ine come again by-and-by when I am t< alone." . U The woman sighed heavily. "Let me give you this note, ma'am--it's 81 from hiin, an' I'll trouble you no more. t] You'll read it, an' do all it asks, ma'am V" ]H she added, quite plaintively, as she thrust a h bit of crumpled papei- into my lady's hand. "Yes, yes. Now go-go at once!"' p "1 will, But don't disapp'iut him, ma'am; e don!t do it." a There was desperation in her voice and a looks-perhaps even menace-as she turned n1 and made her way with difficulty downm the path. h1 Mr. Hollis naturally made sonme injuiry as to the- strange visitor, but, at Miss Edith's ', solicitation,. he .dropped the subject, and soon afterward went away. About 10 o'clock that night my lady's bell summoned me to her chamber. I found her sitting with her wraps on and a bit of paper--the same the woman had given her-clenched in her hand. Hear face wore a sadder expression than I I had ever seen upon it beforc. "Jenny," she said, turning in her chair ' as I entered, "(d0 you know a place In thme village called Holme's Cott age ?" "Yes, ma'am." "Good. Gect your bonnet, I wish you to take me there. 1 wish to set out at once."1 ''But it is a long distance, madam ; if you must go, shall I not order the carriage ?" "I do not wvish this visit known to any one else in the houee, Jenny The servants - would think strange of it. You, I am sure, are discreet and faithful." We left the house by a side door, locking it and taking the key with us. Presently we reached Hlme's Cottage. It was a long, low building in the outskirts of the village, at some distance from any other dwelling. Since my knowledge of the house began, it had been occupied by the poorer class of tenants. "Some one I wish to see is here," she said, quietly. "Remain outside, Jenny, I shall not be long away." She entered without knocking and closed the door. The next instant I heard a glad cry within, then a burst of sobs. Suddenly Mr. Hollis confronted. me,- his facelito and convulsed in the moonlight. ' ' 1 me," he said in a husky whisper, "was it Edith, my promised wife, that went in at yonder door ?" I I could not sp~ak, bumt my looks answered him. *He dropped my hand and was turning away, when ni few agitated words. camne through the open Window : (Edt6, I knew you Wonid come! my pre cious darhidg,-my wife i You were not so cruel an to forsake me utterly." It wasia-mtn'savoice, but Mr. Hlollis seem edA4~ hgr' giple word only of those, it ".Wifel" ho echoed in a hollow tone, 4'Wife I And to-morrow was to have been ouir wedding day I" In spite of my terror and boWildermlent, I h~i thie presence of mind to grasp his arm~ ~44~l~n~utter aWg rom the house. "Wli~brin ao here?" I sternly de ~v og followed ?" was a i in t i ree tion to-night. Nay, not chance," lie added, with sudden vehemence, "but the provi dence of God." Then, before I could say a word in reply, he had freed himself from my grasp and was striding down the shadow-hunted stret. Ten minutes iter my mistress came out. She drew a deep breath as she clasped my arm. and I felt her tremble. "Come, Jenny, let us get away from here ulckly, I shall be glad to reach home igain-so glad." She looked so miserable and dispirited hait Ilhad not the courage to tell her what iad occwired outside the cottage while she ingered within. The next morning, while she was at break ast. and the mystical stir of the bridal reparations was going oii it the house, one >f the servants brought In a large package. 3ho cut the cords, and out fell a heap of etters-the pure, dainty letters she had vritten fron time to time to her lover--and lie few books and ke )pakes she had given I saw her stagger, turn pale and catch ier breath. Then she looked at me with a Pewildered air. "l---don't understand. Do you Jen y ?" The package and a brief note it contain d were Deane Hollis' farewell. My lady did not cry or faint. Flinging lie note away, she clapsed both hands to er forehead. "iy God I This is incomprehensible. Vhat-wlint-does lie mean ?" "I can tell you, Meu." And I did. When she knew that Mr. Ilollis had been t ilolme's Cottage the nIght before, and iat lie had overheard there, instead of Inking to the Iloor in sliamie and confusion, s I half expected, she sprang towards the oor with a smothered sob of joy. "Ol, heavcn i" she suid. "Come, Jenny, re have another mission to perform." "Where are you going?" I said, looking t her wonderingly. "Come and see. Heaven grant that we 0 not too late." Scarcely waiting for tier bonnet and iawl, she hurried me from the house. Presently we reached a handsome nian on-Mr. Hollis' country seat. A carriage ood before the door and some one was ist stepping into it. My lady screamed out at the sight and ished forward excitedly: "Oh, Deane, don't go i don't leave ile -at least until I have been given a chance > expkuln I You have misjudged me ; it Is tI a terrible mistake. Come with me to [olne's Cottage, do come. God knows I a not wish to keep any secrets from you; )t one." We all entered the carriage together and rove to Holne's Cottage. We we.ae imet on the threshold by the ane forlorn looking wonan who had 'ouight the note. She burst out sobbing i ir faces. "My son is dead," she cried. "le 'eatied his last soon after you went away t i' look at him I'm sure it would please im could lie but know." We entered the poor little room and stood ,side the couch on which the dead man y. The secret of Miss Edith's visit of the pre ots night was soon told : this rash, inpet :us man had allowed himself to tall des mrately In love with Miss EdJ, the pre lous summer, in spite of tie, diflerence id utter Ipossibility of his ever hoping > will a return of her affections. When lie realized that lie must die; a rey to consunllption, lie begged to be taken > the vicinity of my lady's home, that lie iight be near her at the last. lie hrtl had more or less delirium for me .days previous to his death, and while its was on him had really fancied that Miss dith was his wrfe, and spoke of her, in is rambling way, as such* "I could not despise his love, Deane, I itied him so," my lady said, her beautiful yes full of tears. "Do not blame me for seking to hide the truth ; it was for his Ike. It seemed cruel to expose his wveak ess. Will you forgive me ?" lHe echoed the word andi caught her to is heart "Forgive you I Oh, my darling, it is I rho need to be forgiven I". Got homelthinl2 Frisky. "Got something frisky 1" lie asked, as Le wvalked into a livery stable and called or a saddle horse ;'something that wvill >rance about lively and wake a fellow 'ut of his lethargy? I used to ride the rick mule in a circus, 'aln I reckon I can >ack anything that wears hair." They rooghut him out a calico-colored beast, vith a vicious eye, and he mounted it and lashed off. Before lie had gone twvo blocks lhe animal bucked, crashed through a high oard fence and plunged in~to a cellar, toss nig his rider over the top of an adjacent voodshed and landing hinm on the ragged mdge of a lawvnmower. They bore him home, traighitened him out, and three surgeons ~ame in and reduced his dislocations and hlistered himn up with raw beef. A fewv veeks later lie 'called at the stable and said f they had a gentle saw-horse wvith an af ectionate disposition, a bridle with a curb )it and nmartingales, and a saddle with two iorns and a erupper to it, lhe believed lhe would go up in the hay mow and gallop uround a lIttle where It was soft and It wouldn't hurt him if he went to sleep and rell off, as lie did the other day. tussianu Justice. A 'verdict highly characteristic of Rus sian justice was recently given in thle Dis trict Court of Cherson, ha Southern Russia, Three young collegians of respectable par entage stood arranged before that tribunal upon the charge of having at dlfferent times stolen from the master of the British mierchuanltmlan Beta, lying at anchor in Nichololoff Harbor, a golden watch and chain, a purse containing a sovereign, and a pair oft golden sleeve links. Tile pris onuers made full confession of their 'delin quency, but appealed with heart-rending sobs to the patrIotism of the Court for ex oneration from the legal consequences of their crime upon the grounds that "they had .proposed exercising a well merkod vengence upon the .wicked EnglIsh, who lied. inflicted so many wrongs upon Holy Rusisaa" Thus mycnvked, the luly returned a unanimous verdict of "not guilty,"%hich e,1abled1 'the judges to mulct the sBritish plaintiff in-aI1 thecosts of the eqtton, in. eluiding the expienses incurred by thqpat4 durillg tlide tentiou fi the. h trintl. Emufleau. (oid. Brown always declared that he would marry an heiress, but being next door to penniless himself, his friends did'nt quite believe hin, though he had never been known to tell an untruth. One evening at a political meeting lie made the acquaint ance of a great cotton lord, Sir Calico Twill, and happening to say "Itear, hear ! " in tihe right place several times whilst Sir Calico was speaking, the old gentleman took a fancy to him, and asked him homic to sip per. There lie met his host's daughter, a charming young lady with eight thousand a year, fell desperately in love with her, pop ping the question in the conservatory, and was referred to her papa. "Before I take time matter into considera tion," said Sir Calico, when Brown had stated his case, "you must answer me one question. What is your fortune?" "Well, I don't exactly know," 'answer cd Brown, being uncertain whether that was a three penny or four penny under his tobacco jar at hon; but let your daughter become my wife, and I promise site shall have endless gold." " Endless gold is rather an exaggeration, oh," remarked Sir Calico. "Scarcely in my case," said Brown, "as let my wife an11d I be as extravagant as we might, we should never be able to get through it." 'Are you telling ic the truth ?" "The truth, I swow.' "Then, take her, my boy," said Sir Cal ico, grasping Brown'A haind, 1and hmppy i am that my child has been saved from the clutches of rogues and fortune hunters." "Well, they were married, and drown made tihe money fly at such a rate that when his wife's milliner's bill came in lie wias obligd to confess himself stumped. Mrs. B. immediately sent for her pnpa. ''What's this?" said bir Calico. stumped ? What do you mean, sit ? Where's tl end less gold you promised, eh?" "I've kept my promise," answered Brown," "Kept your promise, and can't find the Luoncy to pay a paltry milliner's bill. Why ou-you-" "Calm yourself, old boy," interrupted Brown. "I promised to give your daugh ter endless gold, which bcth of us, we be as "xtravagant as we might, should never be ible to get through. Was it not so?" "I es, and you-" 'Don't fluster yourself now. I've kept ny promise." "Ilow?" "Why, I gave her a wedding ring--that's midless gold, isn't it ?" And, my dear," ided Brown, turning to his wife, 'do you hink that both of us could ever get through mything which only just fits one of those aper fingers?" Sir Calico looked as if lie was going to inve a fit, but a t imely remark of his daugh er's probably averted the catastrophe. . 'Well, papa," sie said, "there's still one hing in our favor. No one can say that m 'rand ni'ow Brown and his I vife, though they do have to manage on I ight thousaind a year, are the happiest I Ouuj1le in the two hemispheres. Mr. Phipps and the Hlon. A few weeks ago my nelLhbor, M'r. Phipps observed Iyellow fluid of some kind ssuing from the water-spout of the smoke 1euse. Upon examining it closely he as -ertained that it was the yolk of an egg. Por several successive days it continued to :lrip from the spout, and Mr. Phipps was perplexed about it. He had not noticed that the weathe r had been raining omelette, r that there was any particular quality in le shingles of tihe smoke-house roof that would be likely to induce them to indulge in a spontaneous production of custards. Ile determined to watch, and on the follow lug day he observed his Shanghai hen fly up to the roof of the smioke-iouse, settle right down over the aperture to the water. spout and lay an egg. Mr. Phipps had not thme remotest idea what to (do about it, so ho let the hen lay on for several (lays, while he thought of a plan for discouraging her from operating in that particular spot. One day, however, when he wvent out, he found the hen Bitting oin the top) of thme spout, manifestly with the impression that an earn est effort would enable her to hatch out thme eggs shte had dropped into the pipe. T1his seemed to Mr. Phipps so wildly un reasonable, that lie resolved to pievent the hen from engaging in such a delusive under taking. Accordingly, lhe tried to "shoe" her off of her nest. She looked blandly down at him, winked twice in a knowing way, and refused to budge. Mr. Phipps' friend, Rogers, who lives next (leer, climbed over the fence and ad~ vised hinm to get a ladder and pull1 thme hen off. Mr. Phipps dlid so, and then Rogers saidl that if it was his lien lie would simply plug up the hole. Mr. Phipps drove a plug in the spout and dlescended. As soon as lie reached the ground the lien flew upl and began to try to hatch out the plu1g. Rogers said that, lie thought she might perhaps be seared off, so lie throw a piece of brick at her, but it. miussed the lien and~ went straight thi'ough P'hipps' (lining-room window. Then Rogers said that if he owned a lien like that he would stop her If lie had to blow her up with powdler. So Phipps got four ounces -of gunpbwder and p~ackedl it into the lower cud of the spout, anti Rogers touched it off with a match It merely flzz/led1 out, like s young volcan'o, and set fire to Phiipps' trouser leg. Rogers then said the powdet' oughtt to have been "tamped." So lie put another charge in the .spout, 'and then drove a white pine plug in, leaving a gimlet-hole for the slow match. The experiment was in a degree suc-. cessful. TIhere was a fearful. bang, and the next minute Phippe' eccentric chicken was sailing out toward the celestial constellations with a plug in her cla.ws. She wvent tip al most out of sight, and then'she camne down, down, (lown, and lighted squarely over the spout-hole, expressing, by a cackle or two, her surprise, but, on the whole, calnm and sweet-tempered, and as resolutely disposed as ever to give her attention strictly to busi ness. Rogers remarked that for a mere Shanghai ohtickoen she had real.gecnius. Ho said there was only one thing to do now, and that was to turn the garden hose on her. So Phippa got out the hose, and Rlogers took the pipe and 'pla&yed a-half~nch stream directly on the hien. .The hen peemed rather to enjoy it for e caokled e~Jle In a pleased way, anA 'Bogers tod pit sur tige water off w'hie lie ill i theroo to gdta better crack at her. 1I8, while RLC was jkoasg in theoladdef. holdinlg heo pipe against bis breast with one arim, Phipps, who mnust have Istliderstood him, suddenly turned tle Wiater on again, and the stream struck Rogers i the nostrils, nearly choking him, and causing him to let go his hold on tih ladder and fail to the grodind. Wheni he got il) he said that a man who, would own such at heln 11 that Was, inl W8 hipilnionl, 110 Oetter thia i pirate and a pagali, and so he got over the fence and went into the house. Phipps then went after him and apolo gized, and then he asked Rogers to lend him a shot-gun, so that he could kill tile chicken. Rogers agreed, and he climbed back over (he fence with the gun in his hand. Plpps took the gun and fired. lie missed lthe chicken and blew tile entire cu pola off the smoke-h<,use. Theii togers said hat there were some men who knew no more about firing a gun than a toi-cat knows about idolatry. 8o Rogers took the weapon, aimed carefully, and pulled the trigger. About one shot hilt. tle heln, and the remainder alruck a cow in an adjoining lot, exciting her so that she hooked at boy and threw .him over a five-rail fence. The hen flew upl) on top of Phipps' house and cackled as if she had laid 2()0 eggs at minue for the last quarter of an hour. Phipps proposed to fire at the lhen, bnt Rogers sar castically Intimated that if lie did lie would probably hit Mrs. Phipps, who was churn ing milk in the cellar. Then Phipips told Rogera to shoot, and Rogers did so, witi the result that lie missed thie chicken anid broke eight panes of glass in Phipps' garret window. Then Rogers said Phipps' must have spoiled thle gun 'by looling vith it, and lie climbed over the fence again and went home. Just as lie reached the house Phipps threw a stone at the lien, scaring her so that she flew down, knocking two pitchers and a teacup off the dresser, aid frightened the hired girl into hysterics. Rogers rushed in, grabbed the chicken, wrung Its neck, and went out to the fence. As lie tossed the carcase over to Phipps, lie said: "There'sthat indecent, in falous chicken of yours; you take it and keep it. And I give you notice that if you come fooling around here with any more such diabolical birds, hens or roosters, I'll blow your head off if I'm ]lung for it." Then lie went into the house, and Roeers nd Philips don't speak when they see each 'ther at imeeting. Onn12,uu ieggara. A trick of the London beggar is to get nito ait ominibus and tender the conductor inif fare at the end of tai Journey. There s sure to br a row, which attracts plenty if attention, and the beggar being detained )y the conductor, has an opportuunity for olling a moving story. The result Is that 10 has his fare paid and receives a contribu ion besides. As often as not the beggar nt this imstance, is a pickpocket or the friend >f pickpockets, and the scene is got ip at lh eid of tie ride either to attract atten ion fromt the light fingered doings that have ust Iake nlm n aw in 1 n $4i sanu,Iab ..' s alsoa favorite beggar-device for a youth mnd a girl to go out into a thoroughfare at a mlsy time. A suitable spot reached, there s a scuflle, the girl falls, and the lad runs may at the top of his speed. She rises lowling, gathers a crowd and relates, in a roice mich broken by sobs and tears, that he money had been brought in half an lhour xeforo by the mother as her (lay's earnings; mnd that she (the girl) had come out with it o purchase food for her little brothers and isters who had not yet broken their fast; 2d now-as she takes care to ask-what i the world is sie to do? Here comens a )assion of weeping, and erc many minutes ;o by the half crown-that has never been ost-Is pretty sure to be made ip with in crest, This is a trick that may be prac iced every half hour with oeie slighlt change f locality. But it is necessary for the girl o have acquaintances within reach, who back her up) inl case any inquisitive or he levolen~t individuall should insist on accom panlying her home. Ihere, howecver, she lever has mluchl to dIreadl. Professional beggars have trusty acqumantancees ait hand1( in mos0t1 quarters. . And even were it other wise, thlere Is a Freemasonry among thec body wvhich enables all Its memibers to recognlize one anothler at sight; and there Is an espr'it du corps among thiem too, which Incites them to supplort one of themselves, althloughI a perfect stranger, through thlick and thinl, whlen called upon to do so. A kindred trick Is for the professional vagrant to light a canle some dirty eveniang and go p~okinmg about a guitter in search of-say a shilling. 'the coin Is ailways d~eribecd as the last of the searcher's store, and( wanting which lae or she wvill have to go without. food and lodging for the nIght. Anothler effective "dodge'' is for a very fechle-look ing hidividulal to crawl slowly along, in the nieighiborhood of 0one of the hospitals, to wvardls thle close of the hours appoinited for dispenseing medicines to out.door paltients, and1( then, trip~ping upi and1( fallIng heavily, to break a bottle of stuff on thle p~avemlent. Similarly, children arc tauight to excite compassion by yelling over broken vessels in tihe street and declaring at the 8same tIme that they dlare not no0W retu~rn home, as5 step-father aunt, and( step-mloter, or 50ome relatloon popularly und1(erstood to be tho In carnation of all unkindness to children, wold punish them terribly for the mishap. Shue Itenewed. .Not long ago a policeman In Detroit heard oaths and yells and the sound of con flct, In a house5 on hie best. As ho centeredl the yard a man and wvoman burst open the side door anld rolled down the steps in a heap, kicking and clawing with a right good will. "What is the trouble here?" asked the omeier, as lie pulled them apart. "There, I'm gladI you hlappened1 along I" exclained the man, as lie jumped up. "The old woman tanil me have hiad-a dispute for the last ten or fifteen years as to when ChrIstopher Columbus discovered America. Maybe you knew." ."It was in 1492," replied the officer. "Just the date I said-just the date I had I" cried the husband, as he datnced around. "Now then, old woman, will you give it up?~" "Never I' "Yeol wont?" "Not .an Inch I I saId 1400, and I had your nelC aross the edgo of the step I We agreed not 4t bite nor scratch, and I prefer to renew 6 conflict -rathler than take a stranger's fl ures I Come in the house I" The offi waited at the gate until hie heard t'wo iairs smashed down and a~dozen yells and: 10 resumed' his rouinds wIth s br~vig victin that' Columbus would n tliately two years ahead In that house. IlMtoic Stonles. The Traunstein, or "stone of betrothal, dates from the times of Odin. It is a hirg, hole i the rock of sufilcient dimensions fo a man to pass his hand through it and grasl another oil the opposite aide. lit (lie Ork neys, at Stennis, a village between Kirk Wall and Stromnliess, aiong the "standin stones of Stennis," there is a siumilar stone which is called the stone of Odin. Unti the inuddle of the last century this stom was the witness of betrothal, marringe vow, an(d olier solemni contracts, aind whosoevel violated the vow 'made to Odin" wat avoided as infamous. Clildren who wer( passell through (lie hole were supposed U< be insured against the palsy. The worc Traun signilies "eirothed." The pretty village of unden is situated at the lowei extremity of the lake, where the river Tram1 issues from it ind join.s Ihat of Omnunden., the two foiming one lake, which is calle<I sometimes by tle la ter name, at. others the Traunsee, originating perhaps in the union of the two streams. Stones have played a considerable part as seats of judgment inl pagan times, as In the stones of Stennis, of Stonelielge and of Avebury. Those in the Orkneys were originally a semicircle of taill upright, stones ot one side of a lake, and a similar group of circular pillars which stood fil the projecting promontory of the adjoin Ing lake. The stones were upwards of twenty feet high and of imiense size; he tween tle two lakes was a narrow neck of land, aind over this i curious bridge of rough tonesin is thrown into the form of a cause way. Besides (lie stones mentioned, there were the Logan stones, great bosses ot stones so cunningly fitted one upon another that if tle uler one were touched in a certain Spot with the figer it would move, but 110 strength of man could otherwiso move it. This was (lie trial stone, which could be iade to show a pers'um guilty or innocent, as best suited the pagan priests. Similar stones were remiarked by Pliny, A. 1). 100, who mentions one near llarposa, which '"might be moved with a finger," and Ptole my, A. D. 160. says, "the Gygorian rock could be moved with a stalk of Asphodel." The Logan stones in Cornwall ire well known. Astonishing virtues have been at tributed to small stones which have a natu ral hole lin them; these were termed "holy stones," and were sonietimes tied round the necks of cattle to charm away adders. "Perforated stones," says Daniel Wilson, in his "Arclituology of Scotland," ''must have once been very commnon in England and Scotland, as the Anglo-Saxons made laws to prevent Lie British people from pur suing old Pagan practices." Like the "'Traunstein," the nienautol, or holed stone in Cornwall, is celebrated for the cure of special diseases; those aillicted with scrof ula are cured, If drawn naked througi the mnen-au-tol, and then drawn oii the grass three times aaaist the sun. An Intlan FPIghtor. Jeremiah Austill. (ied recently in Clark Tecumseh in 1813. Captain Sam Dale, a man of immense size and personal strength, with a command of Clarke county men and a few Alississippi volunteers, started out upon aln expedition to disperse the Indians, who were prowling through Clarke and Aon roe counties. When tle expedition had crossed the Alabama, Captain Dale, Alr. Austill and ton other whites and a negro naned Cousar, being in the rear and not yet crossing, they were notifled that tle Indians were upon thei. They retreated to the riverside aind there saw approaching them r canoe containing eleven warriors. Two of the warriors swai ashore; one was kill ed and tle other escaped. Dale then man ied a canoe, and into it leaped Dale, Aus till and Smith and tle negro Caesar. The ipgro paddled out to meet the enemy, and placing his boat alongside of tle Indian Ca noo lie held the two together, aid the bat tle began. The .odds wvero ninie savages against (lie three whites. The chief haIled (lie whites with, "No'w for it, Big Sami I" and p~resented1 his gun at Austill breast Th'le youth struck at the chief w~it~h an oar. 'Tho blow was evaded and (lie rifle of (lie Indian came down upon Aust ill's head. Smith and Dale at thie same mnonient struick (Iown the chief with their rilles to (lie bottom of (lie caniae, dhtahmug his brains out. Dale's gun wvas broken from (lie stock, but lie still fought with the barrel. Recovering him self from (lie blowv of the chief, Austill (dis patched a seonid and a third Indian with lis clubbed rille. Snnth wvas sutcesful in laying twvo or miore Indians at (lie bottom of thie boat. Caesar ih lie canoes firmly, atnd (lie three whlites kept a foot in each ca noe while they dealt their fatal blows. An IndIan strnck Auslill with a wvar club, whIch felled him across the sides of the boats, and, while prostrate, another had raised lisa club to dlash out, his brains, when D~ale by a tinely blow biuriedl his rifle-barrel (leep mi (lie warrior's skull. Austill recovered his feet, wrested a club froml one of (lie savages and knocked hn io (lhe river. Not a word was spoken except (lie exclamtation of (lie chief at (lie beginning of (lie flght, aind a request from Caesar to Dade to use his bayonet and1( musket whIch Ihe hamnded hlim. Having laid all of (lie warriors low, thie three heroes wIth (lie aid of Caesar lifted up (lie bodies and threw them Into (lie river, amild (lie shiouts of applause from (lie com miand whiich had witnessed (lie battle from (lie bank. 'rho victors after (heir fiamous encounter, paddl~led away safely under a heavy fire from tho Indians oii the bank they had just left. It Takes Two. In tihe depths of a forest (here lived two foxes who never had a cross word with each other. One of (hem sai one day, in (lie politest fox language: "'Let's quarrel. ''Very well," said the other, "as you please, (lear friend; but how shall we set about it'?" "Oh, it cannot bie dlfmiult," said fox number one. "'1 wo-legged people fall out, why should not we ? $o (hey tried all sorts of ways, but It could not be done, because each would give way. At last number one brought two stones. "There," said he1 "you say they're yours, and I'll say they re mine, and we will quarrel, and fight, and scratch. Now I'll begin. -These stones are mine." "Very well," answered the other, gety, "you are welcome to them," "But we shall never quatrel at- this rate,' cried the other, jumping up and licking bie face. "You old simpleton, don't 'you knoi4 that it takes two to make a quarrel any day I" The Valley or Death. in the North-east corner of San iBernar dino county, lying par tly ill nyo collity, and by the newly surveyed line, partly also in the State of Nevada, is a region paralleled by few other spots on the face of the earth. We say the world is instinct with life. Here, if the phraseology may be pardoned, is a place instinct wit h1 death. A huge basin, whose rim is the ancient hills stricken with barrenness of eternal desola tion, whose bosom the blasted waste of the desert-treeless, shrubless, waterless, save a few bitter pools like the lyc of potash water; surrounded by mountains that tower thousaids of feet above the sea level, itself lying three thousand feet above the sea. it is a very "GOehenna"--a place of death and bones. Birds do not fly over it; ani inils do not enter it: vegetation Cannot ex ist in it. The broad sands absorb the heat the bare mountains reflect it, the unc'louded sunll daily adds to it. Niniety degrees in the shade (artificial heat, thir is no other) means winter; 1:03 and 140 degeces, means sununer. The hot air grows hotter; waves tremble with heat, until nature goa(le(I witih ma1idniess, can11 en(ujrile no0 longer, and then the burning blast rouses itself rouses in its might; rouses as an angry blast, with a hoarse ominious roar; swent mile after mile on, ever on, over the broad reach of the desert, hearing in its black, whirling bosoml- -black as liidilight-dust, 8and, alkali and (lenth. Sonetinles murky cloids gather oil the mountains above; then there is a rush-a wai ning sigh of the winds -a low rumbling i the air; the hills quiv er, the earth trembles, and a torrent, half water, half mud, bounds from the hills, leaps into the desert, plowing chasms like river beds in tle loose sand. The clouds scatter, the sun comes again, the eternal thirst is net quenched. The raging river was only a dream. In the year 18-18 a party, of emigrants entered tihe basin. Day after day they toiled on, thirsting, dying. The pitiless mountain walled them in---no escape. One by one they dropped and died. A few abandoned everything, sealed the mountains and escaped. The others lie as they fell, dried to mummies-no birds even devour their flesh: no beasts to prey upon Oihem. Wagon tires unrusted, gun barrels bright, untarnished. Such is the place. Mile after mile sileci reigns, silence and death. The Toiten, When we sailed down the river from Tientsen we had a strange passenger on board. ic table-boy of one of the Eng lish merchants had risen with the self-help fil energy that characterizes the country, until le became a mandarin and comman der of one of the Chinese gun boats Atation ed inl tile river. lie, his two wives, an1d four children had lied within one week about a year before, and the geonancers having only now settled the lucky day, the collins were placed on board for burial at his lIative townl, a thousand miles away. The quondam table-boys was the largest of side the cabin (loor, and on top there was, ill a cage, a pure white cock with a mag nilcent cobli, at grave and stately bird that wis to be killed at tihe grave. As we steamed slowly down, three minuilte guns boomed, and a strain of the most mourntul andl( wild music floated into the night. We were passiig the dead mali's sli), and tile band lplayed its last adieus, for every honor wias paid, and a powerful mandarhi was to accompany tile body all the way. We saw little of him ; perhaps his with drawal wias from reserve-inlilly, I fear, from sea-sickness. But even wihen our numbei was increased by another manda rin of equal rank, who camtie on board with a family of sevell, colmlion nationality did not draw them together. Although one was an 01(l gentleman of seventy, they spent their days in their respective state-rooms (and, ala1s81 their nights also) fighting crick ets. A supp~lly of these insects traveled with themi, trlainedl as birds are trained for cock-flihts; It is said(1 that thley have even whlat resemble spurs, TIhe little wooden cages p~assedt in every daly, and as tile crealtures raise a mournful chirp or wvar whoop as they approach each other, a <,ry that, grows shriller as thle comlbat p)rogresses, and is followed by quick, fierce niotes of victory when one is slain, and1( as the men of ofllce protest ed that the noise lulled them to sleep, we had the Indescribable all-per vading smell of opium11 by dlay. andl the nlever-ceasing cay of the cricket by night. The Story of the i'artagan. An mitereatmng andl at the same time in structive romiance connected with the sub ject of cigars and tobacco is the history of a famous Cuban fanmily. In years gone by no cigar made in Cuba was more wide ly and~ falvorably known by lovers of the weed thlan thlose whiich camne from the fac tory of Jose Partaiga, thle elder. Theiler rep~utation was first-class, not only in this counitry but 1a180 among thle smnokers of thle old1 wvold. Their manufacturer amassed a colossal fortune from the business, and1( dy lng, left his son, the p~resenit Jose Partaga, over $3,000,000. The young man11 a spend thrift of the fIrst water, lived a wild, reck less life for years in all the European capi tals, throwing away Is patrimlonly with the lavish hand of an oriental prince, and finally returned to (Caba to find himself bankrupt and penmileas Soon after, ho0w even, by 0one of those most curious freaks of D~ame Fortune, lie won $250,000 in a lottery; this soon1 followed tile millions that hlad gone b~efore it. Thie factory was pur chalsedi by a stock comipany whlo employ. time ruined scion of Partagas in some1 capac ity, that his nlamie, the gacat trade mark, may still distinguish their wvares. Waitch me Gltde. in a vacant lot on Peterboro street, De troit, is a strip of ice about- a foot wide andI thirty feet long, and a lone boy wilth a pair of big skates was making himself 'be lieve that he was having heap~s of fnn. A passing ',pedlestrian couldn't see it ID thlat light, he leaned over the fence and called out: "Sonny, what are you doing?". ."Skating," ws tile reply as the young. ster cut a pigeon wing and got his breatti again. "Isn't that a pretty small spot to skatO on?" queried tile man. "Oh1, It Is plenty big enough to fall down oni" was the. cheerful answeir. ."Over seven boys bumped their noses here till they had to stay out of school, and one. fello struck on the back of his head th$1 io~ lng and holered soI16ud that weh dowp on'his stomatwI Watch n FOOD FOIi TIOUGIT. It Is In the power of the meanest to triumph over fallen greatness. Ilope softens sorrow, brightens plain surroundings and eases a hard lot. Know well your incomings, and your outgoings may be better regulated. Hope softens sorrow, brightens plain surroundings, and cases a hard lot. It 1s more profitable to look up our defects than to boast of our attainments. How few faults are there seen by us which we have not ourselves commit ted. Soie hearts, like evening primroses, open most beautifully in the shadow of lifi . . Passions are, perhaps, the stings without which, it is said, no holiney Is made. lie who puts bad construction upon a good act,.reveals his own wickedness at heart. lie who refuses justice to the defence less will make every concession to the p werful. in memory's mellowed light we be heati not tie thorns; we see only the beatitifil flowers. It is not what you have in your chest, but what, you have in your iart, that inakes you rich. Nature knows no pause In progress and development, and attawlies her curse to all iluaution. It is not wise to reject benenits when tey are offered; when you want them they may be reluned. It Is all very well to be a promising yot,h, butI the hard parf i6 to keep your promise In alter life. Let friendship creep-,. gently to a height; if it rusnes to i it way soon run itsell' out of breath. To be wise Is to feel that ill that is ear thly ia transient, an i. to experience m5istortuno is to becoie wise. All men look to hapi)iness in the tu ture. To every eye heaven and earth sen to cemibrace In the distance. There are soie persons ol whoni their taults sit well, and ottlers who are made ungraceful by their good quali ties. When bad men combine, the good must associate, else they will fall, on1e by one, at unipitied sacrifice hi a eon temaptible struggle. lWave nothing to (to with any man fin 4 pa1sion, for Iieu are net like iron to be wrought, out whe1 hot, or mouldd Ito any givel fori. The keenest abuse of our enemies will nob hurs us so much in the estita tiou of the discerning as the Injudicious praise of our friends. Aany a man has reached the summit of lame, and then looked down into the humble valley he came fron, and longed to be there again. Of this be certain, that no trade is so at visiting and dissipation. The business of life is to go forward. lie who sees evil in prospect meets It on the way; but he who catches it by retro. e cion turns back to find It. Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears: .he eirect of precepts is therefote slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual. There can be no surer way to success than by disclaiming all cotudence in ourselves, and referring the events of. things to (od with an implicit trust. Ideas, as ranked under names, are those that, for the most part, men rea soi of within themselves, ant always those which they commune about with others. Affectiol 1, like spring flowers, break through the frozen ground at last, and tihe heart, which seeks but for another heart to make it happy will never seek in vain. Ilumility Is a virtue ali preach, none prmactIce, and yet ever y body is content to hear. T'ie master thihks It good doctrine for his servant, the clergy for the laity. W hile it is impossible, even after con.. version, to live without -sinning, yet provision i3 miade for the forgiveness of our daiiy sluas, and the washing of the stalis, As they who for very slight sickness. take physic to repair their health, do rather Impair it, so they who for every trilie are cager to findicatte their char acter, (do rather weaken it. We can enjoy fellowship with God only by walking where he dwelle. If we would have the- companiotnship of pure friends, we must go in the same society In which they move. There mu~st be continual confession of siu. lie who has nothing to con less to God at the (day's close has no realiza tion of the holiness of God, or of the requirements of the dIvine law. Thelm violet in the shaidow of the decep woods is as lovely and fragrant and pireelous as the violet In the conserva tory of an dlucal palace. ;Real value is not to be measured by notoriety. it is easy in the world's opiion it ':t is easy in solitude to live after your ' own; but thes great man is lie, who In th. tnidst of the crowd, keeps with per fect s weetness the indepondence of sol. Itudo. The world is a looking-glass, and give back to every mnan the reflection I of his owu lace. Frown at it, and it will turn and look surly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and1it1la pleas anit, kind companion, .Falsehood is never so suecesful as ~C when she baits her hook with truth, No opinions so fatal to us as those tt tat : are not wholly wrong; as no watohes so elletually deceive the wearer.as thos6 that are sometimes right. A good consolence Is better than two witnesses. It will consume yourg giof - as the sun dissolves ice,. It is a spiu whetn you are thirsty,a stsff. iRedtyi4~ are weary: a screen when tfie s burns you, and a pillow In dah ite who is passionates and hast~t~t generalyhonest. It Is yourf okd.~l~< should . *Thto't# done Tiher is no joy Intsoi of t ~ngu tue OM