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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. -VINNSOROS. C., FEBRUAY21,1880..VOL.IV.-NO.23. MY BABES IN THE WOOD. Once, walking in tho forest wide, Two little dailings I espied. The leaves had not bogun to grow, And chill winds wanderod to and fro Yet strango I besido a giant tree Now sweetor faces could thero be 'Ihan those that looked up timidly, With teardrops in their deep blue eyes. While I looked down with glad surpriso. I thought of these two children swoot Whose story little folks repeat The poor, forlorn babes in the wood And then I spoke in kindly mood.: "Dear little darlings ! ol, how fair, All, all alono in this cold air I The night may bring us snow and frost: Toll me, my prottio, are you lost ?" They seemed to nestle closer then, And, though I gently spoke again, They gave no ansuer to my words, But were as muto as songless birds. I boro them homeward tenderly, And called my little ones to soo The pretty darlings 1 had found. Oh I how the morry shouts ra g round! Perhaps you may have Iuetsed my pot ? They wore the first spring violots. Seeing Better Days. The widow Minton had seen better days. How far back wasn't exactly certified; but she had seen them. Betterdays hung mouldi ly about, her, like the defacei shre(s of an tiquated embroidery. The sturdy gossips of the senside village, who went about Wilh their skirts tucked up and their bare brown arms ready and able for any work, looked askance at the widow Minton, with her pitful inagreness of as pect, her flickering black eye, and her trailing old gown. They nudged each other and said, "Better days-Lord save us!" But the widow tdid not trouble the neigh bors much, nor they her. A body who couldn't do a hearteomne hand's stirring was best left alone to her brooding, and the widow's smoky little cabin, solitarily apart on the seashore, was left pretty much to herself and her boy Toni. Tom was a sturdy, brown-faced lad, who picked up a living by doing jobs for theboat men, now and thein takin: a day for fish ing. Tom had probably never seen better days. The wviflow shook her head over him-so stupidi content, poor Tom! so beaming and good natured over begg-arli .ess and hopelessness. A tall, well-grown fellow, With baro feet, a torn straw list, and a red shirt, Tom took the world easily, looking with reverent eyes on his mother's by-gone gentility, but by no means seem ing to covet it for myself. The widow deiened it due to her past respectability to be seen at church of a Sunday evening, and you could Fee the two walkirg at twilight along the sand together, she with her clean handkerchief folded over her old hymn book and a certain doubtful hesitancy of gait, as if I leaven it self might be looking dowu criticall.y on her shabby black grown and rusty bonnet. As for Tom, patient Ton, lie went plodding slowly after her, with his smiling face whistling to himself is lie went. Always patient, always plodding, poor T'>m I PIt tienitly falling asleep during the sermon, and patiently listening, open-mouthed, to the closing hymn, his cart-less, bright face, contrasting so oddly with his mother's querulous and tear-worn visage, won for him the sobriquet of the window Minton's rainbow. The minister of the parish, mistaken soul, deemed it incumbent to made a call oil the widow; and, on charity bent, It is said lie unwarily offered to emp!cy or services in his hodsehold for a season. le deemed it his duty to rouse the old womni to activity. lie did rouse her-; and it is avetrred that lie neve- found time to call at the cabin again. Did ho take htemr for a commuon household drudge, or a low-field hand? She thanked God she had too munch spirit loft yet to putt herself uinder anybody's feet. lie hadnt't far to go to find scores of druidges and (diggers, but he might go farther beforeo he knew a lady wheni lie saw one. It might have been the afternoon after the good man's visit that the widow sat idly brooding at her cabin door, H[er eyes had a wandering, far--awvay look, and her face was keener and thinner than 'ever. Beyond the bluff wvliich sheolter-ed her cabin stretched a fair line of seacoast, the white sand gleaming silvery in the stun. Far off a group of bathers in bright dresses fi-o licked between shore and water. They camne from the great hotel down beyond: she couild almost catch the sotund of their voices as site sat slowly rocking in her door way. It was a quiet afternoon ; - the air wvas soft and soothing, and the wi dow's heart, s' full of bitterness, felt itself sweeten andl soften in the stillness. Tlhis part of the shore, sheltered by its over hanging rocks, was seldom disturbed by intruders, but presently the wvatcher's eye caught sight of a young girl splashing and frolicking in thme water just beyond the rocks. It was a pretty sight, thle rounded arms, the curving shoulders, the swvaying, floating figure. Anid perhaps the 01(1 wo man relalied wilth a sigh the thme when she was youing aial blithe too, and had as cheery a voice as that with whIch the fair swimmer hailed her companiohas In the distance. Gazing absently oni the smilhag scene, a reverie fell npon her, andi when site looked again, tihe young water-nymph had disap peared. She land probably swasm ashore behind the rocks, The -widow turned away, hugged her thin shawl over her shoulders, and thought that the sea winI was echilly. Harki .What was that? Surely she heard a cry. No merry shout or ringing laugh this; it might bo the cry of a wild bird on its way to its mate. She couldn't have got beyond her depth, that young creature, surelyl But, hal what of It If she had? Dying youtng a bcdy gets quit of a deal of trouble. And-Yes surely, that was. a screamn.. The widow looked sharply out. Would Tom never comdo? The tide was rising, and and sor1ethinig certainly was .the matter. She called, she beckoned frantically to the bathers beyotd ; they seemed both blind and, deaf, No one, not one soul, at hand, andi that young thing, in peril of life I A minute she stood still, listening -a feeble old wvo mani with a haggard, scared faed, to whom no oie )vouqld gave dreame~d of looking for help.. "X can't stand this," she aid. "Seems I m~ight D~ill: that old a~w meygalf Tomi" she screamed with a yell- that held the con. centrated energy of ten years. But no Tom appeared. And it was the widowv herself, with those withered old hands that disdained the minister's kitchen work-it was the widow herself, who, straining, and with her gray hair Iluttering in the wind, unloosed the okd dugout from it: moorings, and trembling, unskilful, armed with a rude paddle, went spinning out diz zily over the water, It leaked, the olk scow ; it scorned the ibroken paddie and th heavy oars, but finally It came drifting ou blidly aId dizzily to the object of het search. A plump hand with a glittering ring upon it clutched the edge of the boat nearly upsetting it. A young, eager. face, with streaminig hair, looked upl) from the water, and gasp mig, shuddering, half drowied, and wholly seared, the young water-nymphli was pres ently aboard the old craft. "Oh, how frightened I was!" she cried. ''I felt sure I was losing all my strength. and would go to the bottom. Oh, yol good soul! yott dear soul! how ever di( you get to me in this water-logged craft?' "It has seen its best (lays, certain," sai the widow, tugging at, the oars. "You don't look able for such work, sai( the girl. "I. have seen better days," was the quie answer. And then-oh, sullicient reward of il her efforts 1-this real lady, this fair young girl with the soft hands and the pretty bathing dress, actually replied, "I thought so." "He1lre, give me an oar," sihe added, stil panting. "But, my dear soul, we'll neve1 he able to row dow to that point, where I left my clothes, and I can't walk to thc hotel ; I'm awful tired. Can't you put i< ashore at your place, and send word for mi down yonder ? " . The little dark cabin on the shore bright cned up with an unwonted lustre as the widow sheltcred hler young charge, an< changed her wet garments for some of hel "If my Tom would only come, I'd snct him for your things." "Oh, no matter I I'll wrap your shawl about me and walk down myself after l'vt rested a bit. I'm not hurt, you know, onily scared. Dear me, how I was scared! M3 Old nurse used to teach me not t.o scream but if 1 hadn't screalmed, ,wlere should : have been now, I wonder?4 Mrs. Miiton would gladly have parted with the last sie possessed, and goni shivering the rest of her (lays, to see hei worni-out gown donned so handsomely by the bright lassie. "They have seen betterdays, the clothes miss; and I'll not. deny that they've heci In good company in their time, but they'r not fit for a lady now." H1er companion laughed, a pretty, mis chievous laugh. She read the weakness o her rescuer, and treated it tenderly. * Whatever a lady has worn it fit for i lady to wear," sie said, and forthwitl -wrapped herself, smiling, inl the ol gra% shawl. - And at that moment Tom, with his re shirt gleaming in the setting sun, and string of fish on his shoulder, stood in th doorway. le stopped when lie saw the , gues standing upon the hearth stone, a brigh fire behind her, and the kettle boilinu cheerily. She nodded to him familiarly Tom thought lie must be dreaming. "'Tom and I ae acquainted." said she. "Are you?" responded the astonishe widow. "Yes," said the girl. "I've watchem Tom many a time walking along shore i1 his red shirt, and once he took ic ani father out rowing. Tom, your mother' savedl my life." "Saved your life I" echoed Tom, wh( never in all his life heard of his mother' doing anything before. 'l-oin. stupid and staring, was hurried of in search of the missing garments. Ana meawnile his mother betook herself t making a cup) of tea of her protegee.I was wonderful how a lIttle warmth c humman feeling h~ad roused this womant life and activity again. When Tom returried lade'r with variou articles of aplparel, the two were quietl sipping their tea together at the 01(d roun table. Hie did not return alone, however. F~ol lowing him came a tall gray-headled gentk man. "'Here's father I" cried the girl, sprmugin forwarid, "'Oh, father, this good lady hr saved muy life I" Lady I The widow Mhinton wanited t kiss the beautiful rosy lips that pronounice the words. ''Well, my (lear," saId the old .gentkc muau, goodl-humoredlly pinchinzg the phun31 check, "she has (lone It very thoroughl3 You certainly don't 1(ook very lnear decat julst no0w. Whereat the story, wvith duce enlargcmer and( variatIon, was told 1him1 wIth p prett pout. The father smiled, but also lie furtivel wip~ed away a tear. "Well, madam," said he, cour~teodsh3 "accept my cordial thanks for looking aftt my little madcap Belle. She's my onl child, you see, and as full of pranks ii any dozen1," Belle playfully put her hand1( over hi mouth. "1 wvon't have my character trt dcecd where they've been so good to me, she cried. "'And oh, father, isn't this beautiful place--suchi a vloew of the watel I mean to came down here every clay an (10 my sketching.'. "I am afraId," said the sire, sliaking hi head, "'that this good lady will have caum to wish she had thrown you overboard." "Oh, no, farther; she likes me, and like her. And I've fallen In love with Tro, long ago, you know." Tom blushed painfully. Somnethini strange and new stirred In his ind. Con plhments did not sweeten lis thoughts they did lis mother's, for Tonm had nevi seen better dlays, and felt as if he wesA bi lng made a jest of, A week passed, durIng whIch the yomzi girl strolled almost daily to the ' cabih When she was there Tom seldom entere the house. He had grown shy and sulky he set on the shore darkly brooding,< wpnt off silently to hIs fIshing. One morning Belle and her father depar ed. Belle' kissed the withered cheek< her friend, and that was all. For whs mention had been made of helping he spbstantially, the widow hatt drawn he: self sharply up, all the lady shining in hi eye. "I may have seen my best days," si said "put Ihaen't come to that ye And f I eede yreward, I've had now," Sie added, aS 110 felt the soft, 'lood mantling in the check that Helle had kissed. Long after the two had left, Tom went about with a cloud on his face, and in his ears were ringing those mocking words, "I'm'in love Witli T1'om." A disgust for his fishing life and for himself and for ill their miserable surrotimlings of proverty filled his heart With ia unwonted bitter less. "Mother," said he one day as he sat darkly broodiig over the hearth, ''you said you were a bori lady ; why didn't you make a gentleman of inC ?" "'I hadin't anly lIon1ey left when you1 caie," said the Widow, brielly. "Then it's money that makes people gentlemen and hiies ?" "I don't kniow, " Said the widow plizzled, "Ihey somehow mostly have. One day Toin came anid told her he was going to sea. There had bet a a in11 down looking for hands, Iiaid lie had taken Tom gladly, for Tom was a handy fellow at, al I most any kind of sea craft, aid would soo m11a1ke a good sean man. "And you must just bide here patiently till I collie back, mother ; for if there's better (ays amywhere, I sh1all bring 'eil Wilh me, be sure." After that the sea looked bluer an'd colder thaln ever, and the solitary woman lived a1 sort of a hermit's life. No cheery voice of gossiping neighbor lightened the dreary cabin, no children prattled about her ; and only Belle, thme bright, blithe hearted lassie, seemed to r member to cheeir her with a letter now and then. Belle was away now visiting some distant friends, but in her kindly heart site kept a corner, it seemed, for the poor old woman lWho had saved her life. Three years-four-passed away, and daily of a summer afternoon von might have seen the widow sitting in 'her doorway, eager and hollow-eyed, looking out for some possible ship that iight lie. Toi's. Toimi was not a good correspon dent, but occasionally up at the little post olice a wandering epistle waited her treml:ling hand. She was growing' very old and feeble now , but 'Tom was getting up in the world, Tom was first mate of his ship, Tom was a success. Tom was ia gentlemim, and oh, above all things, Tam was coming home I Not every one watches in vain, though we nmy not always be looking in the right direction. It was so wit I the widow. As she Sat one day, With strainiig eyes gazing on far-off sunlit sails and seeing how some of then hovered nearer and nearer, and some, alas! took wing farther and farther away, the doorway darkened sud denly ; ther caie rushing upon her, as from the clouds, a plump, dark-eyed, rosy checked lady, who flung herself into the arms of the watcher with a cry of joy. "Oi, mother !" she exclaimed, half sob ing, half laughing-"oh, mother! don't you know mc? Why, I'm Toni's wife, and I've brought the captain with me P "'Molher,'' said Captain Tom, that night, "you've seen better days, perhaps, but I ncver have." ''"For didn't I tell you,'' said Mrs. Tom, arehly, "that I was in love with l'oml ? And father owns half his ship, you know: so if Tom's captain, I'm second mate, you see. And we're going to take you away to where we found our better days." Tomnpits aid Ci. Tompits, a gentleman Onl returning froi Iudia with a fortune, fell desperately inl love with Cis, a young and handsome stewardess -n board a steamer. Without deliberat ion lie proposed to Cis, wts ccccl)t ed and married her. They set tip house keeping in splendid style and were soon surrounded by friends. Fronm having mninisteredto a high classof ladieson the steamer, Cis, by imitation, was able to She dressed elegantly, and as long as she he1ld her tongue in company no fault, was to lbe found with her Iitellectuial accomp t ishuments. Unfortunately, she could not frelinquishi her old habits. 11er taste lay in scrubbing, sconring andi~ other menial of flcs* After a fest ivity she likdd to swepl the carpets, wash the glasses andl burnish the silver spoons. She we-nt whiskinig through the house with a duster, and was passionately attached to towels, of which she had collected enormous quantities. On one occasion a party of oflicers, who had been to dinner by invitation the p~revious day, called to leave-their cards, and to theit amazement, they found~ the elegant Mrs. Tomnpits in (deshiabille scouring the lobby floor. Theso proceedhings, which with a staff of (lomest ics, were wholly out of 1place, greatly (ilsconcerted Tomupits. lie recomnmendedl Cis to occupy herself withi -reading, or some fasionable amusemient. SBut Cis did not care for reading; could ;barely sign her name, andl hated to appear in fashiioniable society. The result of the miserable mnesalliance was open domestic hostilities. Tiompits ragedl in English, Persian and Hindi, Cis, who had a violent temper, stamped, scowled and raved like a 'French tragedy queen. To the accusation of Trompits that she was not thanikful for rwhat lie had done for her, Cis scornfully rretorted-: "I wonder what 1 shiouldl be 'thankful for 1 You cruelly took me away front a situation in which I was uisefnl, Shappy and respected. You have brought mue into a position where, with all its flue Sry, I am miserable, and expected to sit like a painted doll among people who spend their lives In Idleness and folly. 1 tell * you, 1 hate the wvhole concern, and should like to be back in the dear old steamer." SUsually, after such a tirade, CIs burst into Stears, and fled to her own apartment. A consideration for the interests of children is often the means of appeasing family (118 sensions. In the present Instance no such means were available. Cis had several children, but they all died shortly after chatenied parental consolations, uin tohasee by her losses, with no relatives tohe fanied rdons her, hebrooded on herfaniedwrogswas the victim~ of her own warped feelings anud an Imperfect sense of what was dutiful and proper. UI g-timately a curious kindof truce was effect ed. The pair lived separately ira the same house. Holding no sort of intercourse, they fretted, pined and died within a few months of each other. It was a dilstressing case of matrimonial infelicity, but was -what might not tinreasomdably have been expected. When gentlemen of fortune are r pleased to marry pretty bar maids or hand some stewardesses, they must not be Bur primed if they experience the fate' of the luckless Tompits, e --For every. 2650 of its inhatiltants. 1. Iasnison. Iowa, has a separate church It ediflee. n1 au't.d tr Flil. A man from South Arkansas stopped his vaigo iiear the edge of tle sidewalk, in ittle Rock, climbed down and eiitered an milertaker's establishunent. "Are yiou lie man that sells' coilis?" he tsked ats tle undertaker advanced to nmeet lim. "Y. A, sir, (-inl I do anything for yol?" "Yes, I cum in for a sort of business rnsactioi, uIt 1 reckon I'll have to (nter 110 pa rt icll lars ill order to muaie1 the thing !lear. MY father, the old mnii, wis a iiglly curious sor of a feller. Long hime ago lie Itiek ilito his head that lie was ;'ine to (lie, anld11 as he was a religious nn and ready for death, he thought the text best thing w%,ais to arrange tor his bur'ial, o lie made hinself a collin oiteni white t 321k skiunt liii. Wile war cuwn oil alld Ie(. vent. At Sliloh Ie got hilled ani never iceded his ollin. I've got it out iherte ini he wagon. Shall I bring it il ? "No, sir, I don't care to see it." "You see this is a groundl hog ease With ne. I had intended to keep the collin all niy life, because 1 thought a great deal of he old manl, an(d wouldn't have consented o part with it only for this reason: My ouse burned down night before last ( and mrined up imy fiddle. Te collin happened o be over at a neighbors, and of course vasn't blurned. This ieighbor found out hat the cofill held just six bushela of helled corn, and every tiie lie sells corn le horrows it. Now, you see, havin' lost iy fiddle I Aml) riined. I can't evel eat. Mien my wife died that fiddle kept e rom the expense of marryin' inrin. i've 2ot to have antther fiddle, and if you'll get nie a fiddle I'll give you the collii, Oh, le's a s'..uner, and will fit 111110 men out of en. She's perfectly clean, for corn don't irt a coifln. I put down Ieon inl her m1e year, but kept lier under I1e (Irip a oig time afterwards. Come, what do you() 1 "I don't Want your coillin." "I'll het you haven't got a collin in the iouse that will wear as well. (ive me a iddle, and take her. Iron hoop around he head, and three spikes at the foot; yanl't break it." "I have too many :it (and now." "And you'll always have 'en on hand iless you get the right, kind. Nothin' hort of a fiddle will get her. No banjos >r horns, nothin' but a fiddle. Speak out. I)o youi want the colln ? Iron hoop around lie head. )o you want, her ? Holds vater like a bucket. Don't leak a drop. ,it, anylody. Got more flne points than my colii ever brought to Litth. tock. )o oil want her ?" "Won't rail1e h'r of' for ine ?" "No." "Won't, take a ebance if I raille her >ff?" "No." "'Then, sir, I live no' syinpathy witll 'ou whatever. You don't appreciate a good thing. You haven't soul eniough to ;ee the beauties of mechanleial art. You Ilaven't senlse enough to tell a hickory stainp from a dogwood sapli)h." Th'lie collin will either be taken home or ailled off at a fair. Stand St.aight. "Stand straight, Joseph," said Justice Miurray to Joseph Yeager, who wias mak ing vigorous efforts to preserve his equili brium as he stood before the bill in Essex Market Court. "Stand straight, Joseph. ODlicer Brenan here says he found you rink and incapable of taking care of your self in Grand street.." "Your hionor, I took the pledge ---" "What !" "I took the pledge, your honor, for one year," and then Joseph fell over, and when lie hauled himself up lie continued: "I kept it for one y'ear "And New Year's too?" "Yes sir, and~ I just wanted to see howv it tastedi again. Now, (10 let ime go this time, and( 1 wvon't drink aigain. " '"Can't do it," said( his honor, as lie filled out a1 commlfitmlent. "'Oh, (do, your hmonor', i'll take the pledge nowv for another year," and( he made an1 tat temlpt to get at the des'k. "'Joseph," saidI the magistrate, "'you rc mlemblher the story of the mouse that, fell into the beer vat. It is old1, but the lessona is alwvays new." .Joseph listened while the magisirate recited. "A 1mo0use fell into a heer vat one dlay. A cat was looking over the vat, and( the struggling mlouse saidl: "if you will take 111 onit of hero I'll allow you to cat 111." ''Good," said( the cat, as shte puit in her paw and1( pulled0 out the lIttle mouse. Feeling itself safe on the floor, the mouse shook it scaf and ran awvay. "'Come back," cried the cat, "you2 promlised1 to :et me eat you if I pulled you out." "i dlid," said thme mouse; ''but then I was in lInuor." Five days, JTosephi, and1( then we wvill see about the pledge." (jreasing Onch~ai Whoobug. A curious episode1, too good1 to keep, oc curredl the other evenling during a sess20on of a village counlell which illustrates that the favorite theme of temperance is not embodied iln the virtues of the village (lads. It was this: The council having allowed a certainl oficeial's bill of $24, sent him a note as follows: "Mr. -, we are about to adjourn; wvhere Is the beer?" T1o which the official answered Onl the sa111 shIp of papor : "Keep still; I am feeding Stewart." No sooner was this receivedl than the fol lowing was returnedl to the oflicial: "Too thIn. Beer is what we want." ThIs had the desired effect, and the foamn ing beverage wvas waltzed into the presence of the astonished counceil. Angel. IDon4' Chow Tobacco.. A Methodist minister, the Rev. Mr. HI--, was a good mlan, but rough In his ways, and( very fond of chewing tobacco. One day lie was cauight In a shower In Illhnois, and going to a rude cabIn near by, he knocked at the door. A sharp-lookIng old dame answered his summons, lie ask ed for shelter. "I don't know you," she replied, suispi clously.. "Remember the Scriptures," :saId the dominle. , '-Be snot forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." "You beeddt say that," quickly return ed the other ; "no angel would come down here with a big quid of tobacoo in his mouth!' A Duel With titchten,. The principals inl the unique affair it, ol1orado were United ta itt es Senator )pencter, of Alabama, then quite a1 Stripling, id C P. II ill, Ia mnn of ierut IIelII streIgt II mi overbearing disposition fr i Texas. )pencer went to Colorado from lown inl 859, where he had forimerly been clerk of' he Statei Senate, and hie elahnmed aind niow t lains to be the discoverer of silver in that ;tle. This, as i matter of falI, was th I ause of the proposed (duel, which was O ilwa()mIg l setllers as ite "Tomia zawvk Duel." 'I'he story gotig the routitd low is to I lie effet. that a'ter tile itei nand heir secomids had reached thlie lighting round lall received a let Iter frot his nother stating a lappy neeting with ! ,pencer's mother, ant that then and there lie second passed Ihe le lt I eto Spenicer, ai t lie two cobihatiits slo:)k hands and quit. 1 Mhis statement is cint irtely at viriince with A lie facts. I lhll's Illother an1id Spencer's ever met each other-the former lived in 'exas, the latter in Jelfersoin county, N.' t'. A gent lemn highly co~nneet ed in A'ilobile ity and residing tllr, atnd Who was with peiicer ini this dilletilty, is well its thotigh lie late war with him as an othicer of Ile At Alabama Loyal Cavalry, gives in stilh tance the followinig details of' the singuliar ccurrence: As stated, the contiltion wis s to who really discovered silver in Co- I )rado, the diseovery beiig known telien as he "Quduary lode." At a public meet- j ig the lie wis passed, an1d speicuer heing A lie challenged party, choose hiatchliets us 1 lie weapons, kiowing ltall to be a superior S hot, as also 1111101 superior inl strenlgih t1td i tature. That the two niei were in earnest s 3 fully proveni, as Mr. Spencer's friend ( c-day has the will lie made on the iiglt I efore the duiel was to take placte. The I oniditionsof ile d(l were that they should tanid teui feet apart, and it tle Wori' egini the contest iml a kiid of "go as you tlease" way. The location of the battle vas in the "Illue Itiver district," neatr Bre- i kenridge, atd tile time fixed upon was < unrise. When Hlall discovere( ilint ithe tripling meant light, there was some veakceting observale*. lie raised t lie ob ectiotn that the hatchet was a barbarous I vCpont, to vhicht Spencer replied that the t >ractice of dueling was i barbarous one at. I, >est a1nd le intended to make this tight ts 1 tarbitrous ats possible. Spenver's practice ( vith thie hatchet had made him an expert f n its use, lie being able to sink it iito a ! apling of six incies in dtineter wit1t tin rring aim it ten paces. I Us Illn of battiC vas to await I Iall's lttack, laid ir the latter t brew his hatchet lie was to attIpt to I lodge it, and if siccessful close in on I fall; mut if the latter adopted tle utaetics laid out i >y Spencer, then lie would rely upon his I kill inl throwing the weapoti. It was duc I o the objection made by lall, oi the score I >f the hatchet being a harbarouas weapont, hat the du(iel Wals abandoned by lulal, vh1o son after imigrat(ed from those parts. Made at Motoiher-ilo-Law. A nice young man in Williamsburg, New I lork, was attempting to nmke i inothtier-int aw of it certain lady, who dlid, ntit see it >ecause her daughter wts good at all sorls S >f housework and saved the expense of iiring help, and the candidate for sont-iii aw, being sumnnarily boutnced, went under | he window of the girl one fhe moonlight | light and threw gravel at the Wimdow ui il tle iniden appeared in a imost, Juliet ike maniner, aid the coutple were proveed ig to have a good time, wlten the muzzle >f a junk-shop musket protruded from the lower window, and the eiraged paltreit at mnce Scooped in the lover, and had him before the police court the next mornig, wvheni the following scene was entneted to a Lielighted audience: "Jedge," said the mother of the heroine, "'that there cuss has been sparkitig of ty gal, whlen all the time shte' gott itnot her husband out in Illinois." ''1 ain't,'' fronm the gal. ''You is," fromu the muother. "'I ia't catrin'," said( the prisoner. ''She's my gal, and no Illiniois hutsbandc sin't a goin' to get her ''ept lie can lick me, whlichi i'll see him out tat lay-out anty time.' Tlhte Jtudge gravely adjusted a dintgy pair of spectacles and deliveredl himself thus: "It appears~ that the pairty' with the muis kct was the real assailanit, and therefore the prisoner Is dIischatrged." The nice young man and his girl wvent off together to be mnarried, and1( the enraged old1 lady, thus forcibly mtade a miothier-in law, wecnt home crying. There i3 hardly ainythting widlch imake~s a dinner more dainty andt appattizing ont a cold clay than a stalad which appears as a course by Itself among the suibstantial, somcevhat, greasy Winter dilshies, and reeals ithe toothsome grecery of Sutmer. Let tuce comes first, of course - niot lettuce served with a ready-made sauce of mustatrd and vinegar andic oil and sailt, butt lettuce dressed by the hostess on the table or by the wvaiter- at, the sideboard with simuple oil, salt, vinegar anid p~epper. lhaving in y'our saladbowvl entough delicate selected leaves of lettuce for four persons, lput into the salad-spoon a reasonable pinich of salt, and a dash of pepperC ; fIll the spoon to runining over witht the be~st fresh olive oil-poor oil ruis a salad. Mix the three ingredients In the spoon withl the salad-fork, p)our it about the salad. Th'Ien 11l1 up) the spoon agaIn with the oil, adding a few drops of lemon to It, or a half-teaspoonful of strong vinegar and be generouts with the oIl. Thletn pour these over the salad, and with the spoon and forkc toss lightly utntil the dress ing Is thoroutghly mixed with the heaves. It may seem absurd to many housekeepers that tliese partIcular d~irections should be given, but It must be said that not one wo man int a hiunmdredl it this country knews the simple secret of this French dressIng or cares to make it available. By adding a lIttle cold pickled salmon to the lettuce, or somne sardInes carofully boned and broken Into bits, you have a delicious fish salad for lunchteon ; It Is too f-lch for dinner which has other courses. For excellent potato said-which is one of the best of all salads -boll some good Irish potatoes and -set them on ice to get cold. Boil also a'pece of celery' root-unt celery stalk--and leave that to get cold.' (Cut the potatoes and celery root up in small, rather thin slices, add a few shreds of fresh white onion or not, as you prefer, anid prepare wit French dressing as above. Celery salad is nicer chopped thtan broken, and should be dressed 'pith Mayonnalse sauce.. The Mayonnaiso may also be used to dress the other 'salads. This is Mrs. Henderson's recipe: "Put the uncooked yolk of a egg nito a cold bowl; beat it with a silver fork; lien a(t two salt-Spoonfulls of sait aui'I one ilt-spoonlil. of 'miustard powder; work heini well a minute before adding the oil ; hlen mix in a little good oil, which must >e poured in very slowly (a few drops at tine) at first, alternal ed occalsionally with: low drops of vilegar. Inl proportions 11s le oil is used the sauoce should gailn con istancy. When it begins to have the ap >tarance of jelly, alternate a few drops of emilon-jiice with the oil, finish the sauce by dding i very little pinch of cayenne peppeIr il oI nm aund a half tenspoonfuls of' good 'illegar. 'By beating the egg i ilinute be ore adding the (oil, there is little danger >f the sauce CtirlInig ; yet if, by adtting too ich oil at first, it shold possibly (ulrdle, inmllit-diately interrupt the operaion. Pit lie yolk of (Win or two eggs oil another late ; beat them well; and add the curdled 4'yonmise by degrees, and finish by add hg m11ore (il, leiioni-jiuie, viniegiar, salt anid nyeiie according to tas1te. If lemons ire ot at at 1hand, nimy use vinegar ilInstead. xave out the cayenne if you prefer." Timl! Spin hug Hu nais. thie of he Imiost, familiar of leaping ro lents is ithe spring haas. of Cape (lerboa, omietimes called, fromi its hare-like ispect, he Cape leaping hare. It is a native of ouit hern A frica, and is found i consider ble numb11ers uipon O-he sich(-, of mountains, ihere it inloilits certain hurrows which it unnels for itself in the ground. It prefers iudy grouimt for the locality of its habita ion, and associates together ini great. profi ion in favorable spots, so that the earth is oipletely honeycombed with its burrows. leing a nocturnal animal, it ik rarely seen 3 daylight, scldom leaving its stronghold 4 long as the 8un is above the iorizon. 'lie natives, who set some valne oi its flesh like adiviitage of this habit, and being lire of iil(linig the spring halas at home dur tag the daytime, take iheir mensures ac ordingly. l'iacing a sentinel at time imioutl if IIIe burrow, they force the ilniate to vlluIltc the premises by pouring ia deliuge f water into the hole, and as it rushes into lie Opell air it is seized or struck down by he ready lind of the senlinel. Like the angaroos, the spring haus prefers rough ill rocky ground toi a smooth soil, 1nd Lisplays such wonderful agility as it, leaps roll slpot to spot, that it can halle 111111ost .ny fo by its inere power of juinping. At single leap this crenturo will compass a pace of twenty or thirty feet, 1111 is able o cont ilue theselext raordiniary bounds for great listance. 1t is rather a miiisciiev ins animal, as, like tle Como)n11 hare, it. s inl the habit of milaking ioct.urnail raids ipon thte Corn IleiS 1111d gardens, 1111d esen >ing safely to its subterranean burrow be ore siirise. With the( exception of shiorl r ears and tle elongated hinder hillibs, the ,pring lns is not 1111like our commiionl hlre. I'le fur is of dark fawn, or reddish-brown, lerceplily tinged with yellow on the upper marts, and faldi ng into grayish- whit (e beneat ih. in texturt it is very sinilar to that of lhe iare. 'h'tle tail is about. ats long 11s tle body, Ind is heavily covered with rather stiff hairs, whihvl, lit 1 lie est rcmIty, afie of a deep blact: me. Upon the tore legs there are live oes, which ire arimied with powerful claws, y lielils of which the animal diis its bir *ows, wiile the hiider feet are 13only furuish I withi f'our toes, each of wlichI is lipped hvith ii loio and railher shiarpply poitied A witchi In Ils unt. \e have SeenI a great del written and icard considerable said about the "Man in ,ho Iron Mask," ' and tle iani with i a "brick" in his hat, but while riding onl a Western railroad a short time since, we ictually beheld a man with a watch in his Iat-aye, in his hat-but not on tile inside If his hat-a pilain) silver watch set in his Itat front, about mhidw~ay between thle rim ind the crowvn, face ouitwardi, so that any3 'mle passing ill froint, of him could-tell the Lime of daiy. H~e was a middle-aiged muan, with lonbg hair-by the way, howv is it thait, idmost all eccentrice iniividllis wvear lonlg hair--even Samlson (lid until Delilah found Sir o1'(f shieairs-andio paid 1no apparent at tention to the numiieroius queer3 looks cast, it him. It getting noisedl about the train mt merous pe(rsoins from othier cars woiulod 1p1ss through the coach lie was in to see the muan with thle watch in his hat. At, last, one younig geint, with more assurance than dliscretioni venlturedl to as5k the pleuliar parlty thec reason whly he carried his watch in that proinienit position. Th'ie 01(d sport looked his questioner quizzically in the faice ando told hhnm it was an alarm watch, and1( cycry time it struck it lilt his head and1( remindedi hin tiiat it was time to take his micin~o, and iemarklng, "'It has just struck," puIlhed out a bottle of ''0ld rye" and took a goodl "swig," anud the young man11 r'etreatedl amidl the quiet mdiles of the adjaicenit plassengers, The Venitilation Flend. Ever air.ec fresh air was Invented has1 the earthI been cursed with p)eop~le who fancied themselves appointed to ladle out vast vol tumes, aerial cataracts, chilling torrents of firesh air to nervous, timid, delicate people who dlon't, want a pint of it. The ventila tion idiot, who has not seen him? Who hias not suffered at his pitiless hiantdsI Who has not longed to kill 1him1? H~e haunts the railw~ay-train, andl makes his dwelling in the church ; he goes to the theatre; lie in vades your offices; lie tramples on the sanctity of your home; ,and, wherever he goes and wherever lie conies, lie brmigs with him blasts from Greenland and theories from thme stormy caves of ARolus. And he sweeps dhown uiponi you, aiid -your peace, and your tranquil home like a toinado, and( lie overwhelms you with fresh air un tII you want to suffocate. How you (10 hate him, the man whose hobby is ventila tion. .Barbers' sIgns. In Europe the usual sign ulsed b~y barbers is not the striped pole, but one or more brsss discs or dishes, suspended over the street. The origin of the use of these dif ferent signs is not perhaps generally known. Until the time of Louis XIV, In France, and of George II., in EnglanA, the omle of barber and surgeon were united. .The slgn then used was the streaked pole, with tile basin suspended from it. Th'o formner was to represent. a bandaged woun4 and the latter the basin into 'which the blood flowed. The barbers, after their separa tion from- the surgical professIon, lippro. priated tlie sign, apparently without, ap. precitin'g the joke they wore playing upor themnselves, BIEFS. -Thrie price -f Merinio sleep Is b~om Ing In Verimont-$2,000 having been given for a single buck. - Harry Bretineinan, of Tipton, 1[itinitingdon county. Pennsylvania Is 14 years old, and weighs 201 pounds. -A convention of the trade and Is. bor unions of the State of New Jersey, was held at Trenton on January 0. -Mr. Algernon Surtorla, son-in-law of General Grant, arrived in New York fromu Euro)e Oil Jan. 11th. -The Rothischilds of Paris have given $50,000 to charitable objeots within the pjast two months. 1-The cotton trade of Charleston, S. C., amounts to $20,000,000 a year, and the rice trade to $2,000,000. -The decline In gas stockin Eng land, on, account of tho electric light, it, is said, causes depression in Now York. --Large droves of antelope, herds of wild horses and flocks of ducks. goese, qnall, curlew, &c., abound in Concho county, Texas. -General Sherman had the pleasant Christmas gift of a fourth grandchild. llii daughter, Mrs. Fitch, has now two sots and two daughters. --The Illness of the Empress (of Rus sia is increasing. The chronic affee ion of her right lung has been aggra vated by an attack of pleurisy. -Chicago received 137,706,380 bush u'1s ol'grain during the past year,and clhtins that no other city in the world could have takeni care of Such a vast *juanitit-y. -Advances in the Iron and steel markets continue to be recorded. The year 1880 promisps toa much more ptrolltable one than 1870. --IL is estiated that the value of A merican agrIculturual products lin Uhme year 1879 amounted to two thousand mill ion [ ($2,000,000,000] of dollars. --A lite-like wax figure of Gambetta has been placed lin the sho w window of a New York tallor. A llgure of the late 1.rince Imperial I% soon to accom panmy it. --l n ithe third quar'er of 1878 174,893 people passed to France via Dover and Caiais. In the correspondlng quarter of 1878 70,68.-shaowing what exposi tions do for railroad companies. -lrincess Louise is having a clear ing Imiade in the woodi of Rideau Hall, aid a veritable backwoods shanty con structed upon it. It will be finished by the time she returns to Canada. --lown City cipitalists have sub scribed $50,000 to build glucose works In that city. Dubuque has also been investigating the matter and will prob ably build next year. --The statistics of the B iptist church In Pennsylvania for 1870 show the to til membershli to have been 64,845. which Is 1,250 i:ore than 1878. There are 592 laptist churches in the State. -The number of domestic cards smit, ultl frum tie uguny at, 1101yuko du1rhting tlo year wias 246,063,000, an in ereasu of 3f,S79,0w) over tWe bushiness of 1878, when thielnum ber wias 209,184, 000. -A company of citizens of Alle gheny County, Pa., are arranging for the erection of a large hoo factory at Mionongahela City, Pa. They willem ploy about 1,000 hands and expect to turn out 1,200 hoes a (lay. -The new beet sugar works at Riverside Station, Del., which com menced operations last week, are now rinning <hty and night. They have not been as busy as at present in a number of years. --Over 600 persons are employed in the lliomlngdale [N. J., rubber work andit Ifiten houses have been erected and1( thirty more ill soon be neces sary to nicet the demnd from the ex traordinary rush of busIness. -T1he total number of hogs packed thIs season in Chicago up to Jan. 10th was 1,415,000, being greater than for any precedIng year ump to the corres Ilonthnlg diate, except 1879, when It was nearly a quarter of a miillion greater. --The llolly Water Works Company of Lockport P.a., have Just contracted with thme Tide Water Oil Company of Pennsylvania to put up an oil pump and1 machinery, wvith a capacity of 6, C00 barrels in tiventy-f'our hours., 1 --Eiht hundred mliners of th'e Star and Cotten mInes at Ashland, Ky., are on a st~rike to compel the operators to accedle to the demands of the railroad section hands, who have been on a strIke for somnetimse past for more wages. -In the coops at a canning factory in Moorestowvn, N. J., are 2700 ghick ens and 600 turkeys, that will Adon bo dissected and encased in tin. Every day they consume twventy bushels o'f corn, forty quarts of pure milk, a large quantity of pork and two hundred and eIghty quarts of water. -At Mount Desert, Me., sea-gulls are caught alive In a unmque wvay. A stick is put through the tall of' a small fish, amid then it is left upon the seashore wvhere It can be seen by the birds. They thou seize and attempt to swal low it head ilrst, and succeed remark-, ably wvell untiL-they come to the stick, when a stop Is made. They cannot swvallow it further, and Itis equally impossible to raise it, and so they choke, strangle and fall over, when they are captured, -Mr. J. C. Flood distributed Christ mas gifts amounting to $6,000 among seven charitable assoehations In Baui Francisco. Hie sent $1,000 each to the Protestant Cathollc and Hebrew Or .phan Asyiums. -At the recent Dairy Fair in Lon. don an American milking pail attracted much niotice. 1t has a spout and strainer for the milk, and canniot be kioked over, because the milker sits on a seat to which is attached %he cover. --The report of the Bureau of 8Wa tisties shows an ekcess of' exports over Imports of merchan~ kse in~ o vember, 1870 of' $28.80000 Agai p $31,800,000 :1 ovember 1818. F orte eleven months ended Nov. SOh1~G $230,000,000, against $20,0~;6 o the same jierlod In 1878. -There are twentf l ~ 4 jd fixed breeds of. Eng~iI~h4 i* TJeeswater, ItneoAi xlI1y wold,1one y, ahta Dorse, Mok tii ISo