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