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T1RI-WEEKLY EDI TION. WINNSBORO, S. INI ARCH 23, 1880. VL V-O 6 TO-DAY. The hours were bright in days that are no more, And pleaant life's strange way-. A rapture hung around the hills-a glory on the shore Yet Is aught changod to-day? Shone over bluer skies than these-o'or sweeter sang the birds, Or hsped the brooklot's lay or love, time tried, confosed its' tale with truer, geutler words Than t' esoe it breathes to-day? And crimson buds so fair, albeit they grow in early spring. And with its zephyrs play. That wh n the later Autumn's handaisief ripe rod rses bring, We'll wear them not to-day? Hopo then oing fondly to our breasts and like a Summor iriwnd, Elang to us on our way, but with the Winter fiolds-while strong and faithful to the end, Truth gives her hand to-day. That was at night-we oven slept an I dreamt illusiva dreams, so let thoml pass away; To thoso'who ,will, there's sweetest reAt and blies in theso full beams That light our lives to-day. The Terrible Tragedy. A burst of sacred music, from the care fully-trained choir, rolled up through the arches of the magnificent churcn where Fashion in many guises hold sway. Just as the hymn was about closing, a figure en tered through one of the small rear doors: hardly a fit person to mingle with the '"qual ity" all about her, you would have maid. A coarse, highly colored shawl Was wrapped about a petite and shrinking form; a piquant hait, lined with failed blue, crowned a head of curly, golden hair. 'Thoughi her garb was coarse, it seemed to set otT the wonderful beauty ot her fitce-the charatc terizing feature of which was a pair of large, blue eyes, which seemed to appeal and pray to whomsoever they gazed upoi. A (ry, hacking cough shook her sliivering form every now and then. As she took her seat in the pew, no 19rayer was murmured fromi her lips. Her whole attention, inuediately on entering that church, was directed to watching a couple directly in front of her-a dark man vho would have been strikingly handsome i. d it not been for the woln.sh glare in his black eyes and the sensual turn of his mouth -a woman who, rather overdressed, was nevertheless a fashionable beauty in the highest sense of the term. As the poor girl in the back pew looked with her great glittering orbs at the man as he bent toward the lovely lady at his side, it wail'easy to be seen that something more than common animated her in relation to him; the agony, Jealousy, rage, depicted oil her countenance, and the tear drin in her eyes, told a tale of wrong and wt The service was soon over; and amid a grand swell of solemn miisic ftom the great organ, the fashion devotees filed forth from the temple of worship. The poor girl was not seen by the man as he passed her pew; he was bending low over the grand lady with him. As soon as they were past, the girl came forth from her pew and crept out inniedi ately behind him. It was a dark, December night; large drops of rain were pattering down on the flag-stones about the church steps. The lady and gentleman evidently expected a carriage, for they stood in the vestibule some inoments before entering the street. At last he said: "I am afraid we will have to walk." She linked her arm in his, and, raising his umbrella, they started forth. The poor girl crept -on behind them slinking into the shadows cast by the street lamps whenever possible. Square after square was p)assedl, and still the small, shrmnking figure was there, al ways in the same relative position. Once, as she cropt under a street lamp, he looken back and seemed to recognize her-for lhe started and mu.ttered something to himself. The lady with him looked back several times, and at last said: "Howard, I am sure that woman behind us is following our footsteps; she has been following us since- we started from the church," "Oh, no, I thInk not," lie answvered, striving to speak carelessly. Another square was passed, and still the girl was there? Again the lady turned, and said to her escort: "I am sure she is following us." The man muttered somec unintelllgible reply, and nervously quickened his pace. It was but a short time ore they reached their destination. Ho rang the bell of a brown stone mansion. 'i ho door had but .just .closed on him when lie issued forth alone. The poor, girl was leaning against a tree, in the shadow, on the opposite side of the way, Hie evIdently saw her, but took no notice, and walked quickly down the street. She followed. When he came to a crQssing he came to the 51(de of the street she was on, just a few pages in front of her, Hie turned down a sido street, and soon slackened his pace and w'aited for the girl to come utj with him She was within a few pacesof him, whil he stopped short, put a cigar in his mouth, and struck a match against the .side of I dark factory-buildiing standing there; and then, just as she came, up to hinm, he turnec and cast the lighted match hii Jer face. 1 was the acticoa of' a brntop but' th'e laugi Which accompanied it Wad thiattot a humtar tiend-such a harsh, fiendish .enjoyment Was mingled with it. The0 girl shrunk back, .but ttered n< sound. "So you jade, this is the reward for al my kindne5ui" lie- hiIWdd forthl "After] furnished you, with. a ocd..homne, every! thing any girl could wish, I find you dog ging mec roun~d .in i~ hiAslonD A prett return for my n a njity ,ffection.' S tered no g a9ti~ ~re ut words. ay ;n -to Ic - Howard, are y'ou not my hiusband ? D Onl think. ydi hate kfil&falWth6 wdman Il e, all that is hua, i glisiui e Iknarrg with thb, lay you wer er,? I* 4yb t that our marriage was a mere farce, gotten up for the occasion?" "So you have said before; but I believe that, before the Great Judge of all, we aire man and wife." ''Why don't you say it again--why don't you say it again?" he returned, in a Voice Zf suppressed passion, while his wolf. ish eyes glared with rage. "Come home with iime!" he cried, grasping her by the arm.I The girl made no reply, but followed him quietly. They turned up another side street, and were soon lost to view in the depths of the great city. It was to be the great wedding of the year -11oward S. Hiansom to Miss MNinnic Pord. It was to be in church in the even ing. Only a few select guests were to le present at the ceremony, though there wats to be a great reception at Mr. Ford's after ward. Every one was discussing the strange ness of having a ceremony in the evening, i church, and only a few guests present, but such was the wish of tle bride, anld her betrothed seemed very willingly to cosent. to it. The.misic of the noble organ was again pealing through the arches of the church, Only a few candles were lit about tihe clan col-the rest of the church was in darkness. It wias the wish of the bride, who wias not accustomed to have anything denied her. It was a lovely sight to see the ladies, in their snowy dresmes, marching up the Iisle with the ghostly shadows of the great church thrown upon them. Not a dozen in all, in eluding the gentlemen--yet n striking sight in the noble edifice. The little assemiNy was soon grouped about the chancel-rail; and the deep grave voice of the aged minister was heard re sounding through the empty church, and echoing through the wide range of deserted seats: " 'Into this holy estate these two persolns present conie now to be joined. If any man can show just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter hold his peace!' " I[is words had scarce ceased to resound through the empty church, when a white robed figure, heretofore tinseen, rose from a pew, mid-way back, stretched her arms imploringly to Heaven, like somo supplicia ting angel, and said, in a voice head dis finelly through the echoing church: "I am his wife! 1I1a, his wi-" The bloud gushed from her lips, and she fell forward across the pcw--udeadl it is an intensely cold nmght inl January; snow lies on the ground; the carriage wNhIeels grinding over it, sing a slow music of their own. The night express is flying over the frozen rails. Who is this sitting in the seat in the corner? Ioward Ransom! That man there! How a few hours have changed him! le throws %ip the window and' leans far out into (lie night. Fastor and faster flies the iron steed over the cold steel raits. Faster and faster-on, still on, with thunder and crashi-yet never fast enough to dealel the heart pangs of the wretched man who sees his past misdeeds rise up before him ias lie had never seen them till now. He at last closes the window and falls asleep in his seat. But not to rest. Like some dark phantasmagoria of the past, his crimes pass in vivid array before his ex cited mental vision. One can see, from the clutching of his hands and the twitch ings of tile muscles of his face the agony le is suffering. Hours have passed, Still grind, grind, -grind; still on, on Ilies the through express. 'I'he inan is awake again. He throws up the window. It. is almost morning. A faint light appears far otT on the ihorizon. Day is about breaking. The deathly cold breezes fan his fevered brow, and play wildly with his locks of curly black hair. But he does not seem to feel it: yet lie is trembling like a leaf. Sittinag there in the cool gloaming (of the breaking morn, let us lyope lie feels t,he -comline events, and is thinking of the days of early youth, when his soul was white and guiltless! TPhe train at last slows up. IIe goeb to the platform to disembark. ''Look out, sir!'' cries the brakeman, waringly. "It is too late. One wildl shriek from the passing express, and a man is twisted and groundl to atoms b)eneath the cruel wheels. *A gray-haired woman is gazing from thme porch of a beautiful count,ry-house down across a wide, sloping lawn, to where the sunset glows In crimson splendor. Minnic For<i Is an 01k1 woman, wvho has never re covered entirely from the excitement, of, her early years. Yet her life Is not entirely unblessed.. Hecr niecos and nephews neither think her sedate nor thoughtless, and every one looks (6 Aunt Minnie as t,he one to seek when In trouble of any kindl. Only those of riper years know of the terrible tragedy which defaced her once young and glowing life. A frican Modes of Ralutation. Modes of salutationi differ in'all parts of the world, and in some countries assume strange and grotesque forms, at -least what are so In our eyes. Most of tnm originate In 01(1 Ideas of vassalage, and are part of the honor paid to royalty and divinity. A lover kisses his hand-.to lis mistress as lie leaves her, without an Idea that it is a rem nant of what was once dlv.ne worship ; ad-ore is simply "to-mouth," raising the hand to the mouth; and Job, justifying himself, says that lie never did so 'tos the sun. In one p)art of Austialia, thme, more polite native strikes the attitude of a kanga roo and runs out his tongtue, as a sign that he ia glad 'to see you. in A frica, oznttie. western coast, one who mneets' a superior prostrates hifmself at full lengthi on the ground. Till recent. times, a Spanish letter enided by saying, at least, by the in.tials of tWo.wor'ds,. "Whose hands and feet I kiss," showing that such a custom was once deem e d proerand respectful. Some6 nations r ub: oss, ,some shuake hmmds, others ap - rokc back~ other on all fours. The Bato kas, an Afrldda ti'lbe, hiave Aeveral ways of rsaluthag.: 'J~t Who fmen oclasp, their hands, and u o'i * ; ii stoop and - clasp t ihips; but.when 5 hy } escfu, the > goumnd, .and( roll from sieto sidelslapping 3houtside of thelf-thtkh-ovyh% Kjdaboina r bha,". kloking out .titulSlYitit their logs B all the time. Dr. Lilngeone trie4 tZMo6p .this strange spectacle on several ooasis, Vbut th thought he deemd th4ir oome no fs ~.oughg.agd kep 4t mnore An Anvcent People. In 1876 Prof. Wiclhell discovered at Little Falls, Minnesota, a number of quartz chips which bore evidence of having been cut from the parent rock by the hand of man. lie therefore concluded that the quartz workers ilabited this country be fore the mound builders' race, as h found these chips in strata underlying the mound building period. lIe also Ixe the era of the quartz workers as that ending wilh the last glacial period. It is often disputed, how5ver, whether these quariz remains be Iong to a past glacial folk, or to co-glacial, inter-glacial or pre-glacial people, the ques tion being dillicult to decide because the remains found and noted by Prof.. Winchcll, which are surface deposits, are so scattered and irregular. At Little Falls also, there has been discovered quartz chips and im plements occupying regular strata In the earhli. The remains consist of hammers, implements, etc., both finished and tiifin ished, together with the chips struck off from the articles in the process of mnanu facture. The aterial of which they are composed is principally compact, lustrous (uIlartz, frequently mottled as if selected with an eye to the artistic beauty. The stratum is soie few inches in thickness, and lies in the soil a few feet. below tlhv sur face. The appeariances indicate that this wats once the site of a imanufactory of such quartz objects, and this idea is upheld by various considerations. Tiere are tools fomnd 4!u-0b ! w -! be usd '. Li anuiu facture of quartz articles, ad the nliole strattm is mixed with quartz chips which ii many cases appear stuck in the dirt just as they fell from the laud of the unknown. Unflnished implements are also found in more or less advanced stages of manuitfac Lure. It is not possible to fix the precise point occupied by these remains in the scale of the glacial epoch, until the drift features and surrounding formations of the locality shall be better understood than now. Still it is certain that the remains belong to it patheolithic people, that is, a people living before the end of the last glacial period, because dtey are deposited In a drift which is known to be of glacial origin. Tc hard pan upon which the quartz formations lie is probably of the first glacial period, and the quartz may belong to an inter glacial epoch. Prof. Winchell somewhere records the opinion that between the first and second epochs, a considerable interval of time may have elapsed, Utiring which forests may have flourished not unlike those now in possession of the soil. Should future researchs cor roborate this theory, it may be found that. the precise period in question is that in which Little Falls quartz workers peopled that part of the Mississippi valley. Ap pearances all indicate that these "rude quartz Implements" were finally submerged by a flood, gentle in its action, probably of long continuance and perhaps foreseen by the palhvolithic inen interested. The dis position of small, smooth, water-worn peh bles in the interstices of the stratum shows this, as likewise does the fact that collec tions of implemeitts'of onc sort are not un frequently met with, a portion of which will, perhaps, be unfinished and the re mainider completed. No such systematic arrangement of material would, of course, be possible had the quartz been strongly agitated by ice or powerful currents How She Was Saved. At Baden Baden, about twenty years ago, a Hungarian count, Christian W -, and his daughter came to pass the season. The young countess, charming and beauti ful, and heiress to a large fortune bequeath ed her by her mother, was soon surrounded by a host of admirers. She speedily be came captivated by one of the most worth less of her suitors, Carl M-, because .he had a handsome face, a'nd long, black, wavy han-, was gifted with a fascinating mnincr, diressedl with exquisite taste, dlancced xmarvelously, andl poss$essed rare powers as a singer-. Carl was a noted gambler and givexn to dissipatioxn, and Couxnt Christian became possessed of ixnformatioxn that thke young chevalier, had quxittedl Naples in gon sequence of some scandi(alous adventure In which he had been implicated. Helen wvas so complIletely infatuated wvith Carl that 91h0 gave no heed to the advice, the prayers, or even thxe orders of her father. She would not believe the disgraceful at te cedlents of her wily lover. Th'le conditkons of affairs brought thme old Count, possessed of a rexn'airkable deOgree of firmness, to thxe deternimntion of originatIng somke plan whereby lie could effectually over-comne tihe p)erslstent efforts of Carl to secure his 'daughter-, as well as coxnec Hielexn that to save her from suck an unprincipled man was a dIeedl of paternal tenderness aknd care. The chIevaher hald continuedl adroitly In his work of enBsnaring the young heiress, and finally mn diret terms asked her to elope wvith him, lie wrote a note props sing a clandestine meetIng at an hour when hier father was In the habit of going,out to p)lay whist with some genitlemen of Ils ac quaintance, and In xt maxdo thme suggestion thatif she favored tile prop)osition she would wear in her belt a rose as a sign of consent. Count Chxristian, having Intercepted the letter, took tihe occasion soon after to ap proaeh Helen, andI aIsking her to go out with hlim, at the same time hlandilng her a flower, remarking :"put this in your belt as an ornament." She sinulingly obeyed. Inx course of thleir walk they met Carl, who bowed, and was overjoyed to notice that Helen had carri d out his requesta The Count conducted Is daughter to the residence of oiie of their acqumantances and requested her to wait until lhe called for lier. This done 110 returned to thte house lie oc cupied on thlp otstkirts of Baden. lie hxad sent away his Servanits and was alone. At the appohited-h'our Carl arrived anid .leaped Qyer-tpe, gardpu wall. FIndiug. tIhe door seorelyclIosed, ix0 entered the house threughl one of the window+s. WIth pleasurable excitement he hxasti ned towards Helen's apartmiets, but great was his astonish meat to find her father .armed with a brace of pistols. T1hie Count closed the door, and said to the miserable chevalier: - "Cai M-, I could kill you; I have the right,.to do so. You have ontered my house at nIght;. you have broken into it. [ could treat you as'a felon-nothling could be more.natural." "But, sir," said Carl, trembling, and in an almost inaudible tone; "I am not a rob ber." "Not a s'obber I" exclaimed Count (lhilh tIian. "What are you, tien? You -have, come.to steal my daughter, to steal an heir css and a fottuno. I hate your criminal letter. legali show yett no memy. if you refuse to obey pi I will slay you.". .' Wat Is fol w1l, sIr 1" "You mut leave . Badexi this instant; YOU must put at least 200 leagues betw'een it and you, and never como into the pres ence of my daughter. Fot your traveling expenses I will give you 20,000 francs." Carl endeavored to speak. "Silence!" said the Coupt, In a voice of thunder. "You must obey. In that ecec retary is the money; take ''." The chevalier ventured thn remark:, 'per mit me to decline your offet" Trhe false modesty of the Fouing mar was overcome by the inperlous.gesture of the old man. "But," said Carl, the segretary is lock ed." "Break the lock then," returned the Count, and with his uistol in his hand, he repeated: "Break it, or I'll blow yoty brains out." Carl obeyed. "It is well," said the dd gentleman, "those bank notes are yours llave you a pocketboik with anything i4entifying it as belonging to you?" "Yes." "Then let it fall in front d the secretary you have broken open." "What, ir!" "I must have proof to duvict you. I Iean to have all the evidenc6s of burglary. Robbery or death. Choose I Ai, I see your choice is made. Now.go before me. I do not quit you until you. are a league from Baden. I return late,: and enter no complaint against you till to&uorrow noon. Begone P'' Chevalier Carl could not resist the con pulsory order, and Count Christian's plan was carried out to the very letter. Tile affair create4 great noise and excitement. Ielen could no longer doubt as to Carl's real charactei, and it was not long before his image was banished from her heart, and that wits in due time surrendered to one of her cousins, at captain of an Anstiin cavalry regiment. Character in HiandwrIting. Robert Browning "writes as a poet should write." And lils manuscript is "thoroughly emblematic of his poetry." le punctuates carefully, and his words are neatly finished. 'Were his beautiful chiro graphy placed before us as that of a stranger we should at once Pronounce it not on ly that of a distinguished man, but also of one who.never did anything c*irelessly. Mr. Bryant's writing is severely censured. For a 3 oung clerk seeking a situation, "it might prove a recommendation," but for the poet who wrote the lines on June, "it is most disappointing." Late lin life it assumed "1a more manly and deided style," Out during the larger part of his career, '"it was siml ply horrible, and (lid nlQt intimate thei slightest scintillation of geulus." The letters sloping in different directions, the array of flourishes, and the looping of words on to each other give hi manuscript "an execrable appearance." Indeed, "these callIgraphical fanfardnades In a literary man are heart-rending qid cat. grave doubts on his genius. Finially, "there is no beauty and nothing but comnionplaceniess about every specimen of Bryant's correspondence that has yet come under our ken." Car lyle's hand is not a very commendable one, altnough it is not conventional. - There is "too much evident effort at effect for it to pass current as pure inspiration." "Ec centric and spiteful-looking little flourishes dart about his manuscript in various odd ways." As for the autograph, "its crabbed look is not very significant of ani ability. Charles Dartwin's writing is so il legible that lie has certainly never carried out his idea of "Natural Selection and the Survival of time Fittest" in the choice of his letters. They are without form, and void." ihe only inference the author draws from then is "immense labor that allows of no leisure." Theophile Gautier's hand is "one of the most singular to be met with." Sometimes It was most exquisitely fine, again it wvas larger, after the manner of the sixteenth century, "but It was always beautiful aiid miost original." "The author of such a hand could never by aniy possi1 ble chance be an ordinary p)erson." In the paragraph on Gautier Edgar Poe is alluded to. as "the supieme prince of imanuscript." The introduction of postal cards lias de moralized Mr. Gladstone's handwrIting. Irevious to them, it was of the usual Par liamientary type-'"clear, und(emnonstrative and readable." It hiad, however, a chief defect -"uncertainty.' But since the postal Innovation It hiae "fallen ito chaos." Trho fac-simle which Salamanca gives us Is from a signature "prior to that hnmentabie descent." The writing of no Amecrican pleases Balamanca so miuch as that of Oliver Wendall Holmes. Like his verse it Is sometines old.-fashioned, but It has the polish of a man accustomed to good society, and IR inideed that of a gentleman." It indihcates "enough Independence to pre serve him from doing a shabby act, without any trace of those flourishes which betoken offensive egotism." As for Victor Hu~go's, no one could glance over It' "without arriv ing at the conclusIon, tliaut It was'the pro duction of ani illtstrious personage." Lo wvell's Is far more sightly thtan that of Long fellow's, and would pronostigate greater wealth of Imagination, and more terseness of style than Its author has yet given evi dence of. It is disfigured by no vainglo rious flourish, nor- affected strain ing after originality, but is juist what one would wish a poet's to be." (.eorge Band "indhited a more manly hand than did most of her manly compatriots. Her's was "a very legible and noble styles replete with frankness and originality.' Swinburno exercisee the presumed prerogatife of genius, and "writes a wretched hand." It hias much pieturesque vigor, but no beauty, and "gives one the Idea of having been writtein by a pen that, having served several generations of authors, its ownol' deemed it sacrilege ,to cut." Something of his originality ibighit be derived from it, "but nothing of the voluptuous beauty andi unparalleled music of its author's verse." M. Zola's 1s not very commflendlable. It possesses a few negative virtues-being legible and without flourlssh-but "it is not free from vice." Th'ere is "a general lack of elegamico and deficiency of artistic taste." The signature is "utterly preposterous." Loingfellow's hand is not very much to tpi atihior's taste. In the signature the flourishi of the "L" Is "very unsightly, while thie "HI" is "simply preposterotma for a man of genius--which the author of "jliawatba" undoubtedly is." There is lit ho natisral fluency abotit the hand; it is sI klied o'et with the pale cast of thought ard is' a maitfactulred style; niote signideanto 1e thof Art th.a the fleetness of TI ? 8@~ea ,fndt iWh I'p' ipa p era4oyfoso dict,~i gives very agh oft a,~ y}tC ter at all" There is in Texas an individualized set of inen called Cow - boys. They are knights of the plains, rough riders and rough fighters, who manage the immense droves of cattle on the plains, sleep in their saddles, are experts with the six-shooter, knife, lariat and whiskey bottle, and as de void of fear as they atre foreign to civihza tion and culture. They are rude children of nature, always equally on the look-out for a drink or fight, and when they dis cover, as they are sure to' discover, onl entering cities or railroad stations, that they are "Grey wolves, and its their night to howl I" a liveliness of an electric and dangerous character is very certain to fol low. They livo ont the prairies, taking seasons and chances as they come and go, and herd and drive the cattle of the anch eros to the inner western markets. They are not the typical romantic iigre lit pm lthe order of piping shepherds of the ear liest days,but of the modern wild-cat order, and when they come around the quieter el tizens are either very reserved or obsolete in to street presence. or heavily heeled. Their usual style of setting difllicut ies is, of course, with the bowie-knife or pistol ; but we find that civilization is it last growing upon them, and, as our friend Jim Breslin would remark, the eltete Idiocies of other days are passing away. lecently two of them quarreled on their way back from Colorado. They were returning front a cattle drive, aid, oddly enough. I1wy qumlr relled about a woman. Far down near St. Antonio some dark-eyed maid, with all the mellow beauty, dashed throughout with the electric light-way above Eklison'i that 1lashes the soul of loveliness into Texas girls, held the hearts of both, and as they rode back, well filled with molney, head: aches and poor whisky, tie rivalry be tween themn broke through the barriers of self-control, and a quarrel ensued. Before either of the two hot-feaded young fellows could get the drop on t lie other their friends Intervened. A challenge followed. They were inhibitea from tie use of either knife or Pistol by their seconds, and latrilts were the weapons. It must have been a novel duel-more dramatic thai :ihe tilts of the knights of medieval timtes. The space and circuit wais measured ; both men leaped into tie saddle, each on his lithe, active and foot-sound mustang, with the lean coil of rope at hand and the end safely fixed abioiit the saddle's crupper ; th: word was given and the war Ieraii. The thin lashea whipped tlrougl tlhe air, cutting space like arrows; but one struck too far, the other closed about the o)poient's throat like a hangman's noose, and as the fortunate (ite list drew back his horse Uipon its haunches his antagonist was dragged from hin saddle to the ground. I1tappily, the lariat snapped, aud though seriously injured,the vanquished man was not killed. The duel over, the defeated returned to life, friendship was also restored, and the cow-boys continued on their homeward trip. ".et's1 Mash time V11i1la1n " A passenger train which left Lansine coming east recently had among Ltie pas sengers a plain-faced, sensible-lookitig girl about i wenty years of age, and a thin-waist. ed, sickly-looking young man a year or twc older. 'No one would have mistrusted that they were eloping had not the young man asked the conductor If there was a clergy. man on the train. There was none, and the young iman explained to the passengers around him that lie was in a bad fix. lie had come down from Bath Township in a buggy, and he was quite sure that the girl's father would take the other road down tc Chicago Junction. and there board the Lan sing train and raise a row. lie was not on a row, but yet lie loved tle girl, and they were bound to marry. If the ol man came alone lie thought lie could bluft him off, but If his twvo big sons came along the scales wvould be turned, IIe therefore wantted to know of a man wvearing a red woolen shirt atid coonskin cap) if lie would stand by him. "You bet I wvill I" was the hearty ro sponse. "I got my old1 gal by rusnning away wvith her, and I'll see you through this if I tiever (do atny more good I You wouldnt't be worth a cent in a frce fight, and now you go Into the baggage par andl 'let me ruin this affair alone. I want to be seated beside the gal when the old maun comes In." When the whistle blewv for the Junction, Coonskin changed places, andt as the cars halted he put his arms around Mary and took one of her hands in his. The old man atnd his two sons were on hand, an(d they p)iledI Into the car pull-mull. "Here she tsel" caled thie father, as he catught sIght of the girl, awld the three matde a rush. "Run away with my--!" began the old man, but when tie saw the stranger bo. side her lie checked himself. "Want anything of uis ?" asked Coonskin, as lhe looked up. "Who are you, sir ?" *"I'm going to be your son-in-law in less than ant hotr--eh I (darhing ?" lie gave Mary a squeeze and Mary look. ed happy. "Cotme along, Mary-eome right, homie with mu!" ordlered thie father ".Let's miash the villain I" ~added one of the sne. "Put a head on hihn-let me get at hunm" shouted the other. The father seized Mary and the somi seized Coonskin. Then a red shirt tower ed aloft, a lpaIr of big flits began workmnR with a "'pop I" "pop I" ana ias fast as the tric got up they mad(e for the- door. Coonskis followed, arms andl feet workitng like a trIp-hammer, and wvhen the train moved oil tho father sst on a box with a big wooler mitten held to his nose, one of the sont was pullinig loose teeth from lis. jaw, and the other boy was groping. his way to a 5lioW-b)ank. "Now, then," said Coonskin, as the ox. mutant lover returned, "resume' your seat, take her little hand In yours, and don'I calkerato you oWe mne anything." "Say, Tiomn," said the girl, "Pmn going to kiss himi for that!I" "All' rIght; ale." 4WelI,e just-as y'ou fdel," said Coonskin a ho' aetned the smack, "but I,want i distinctly nderstood around these' parts that when I see true love on its way fron LAnsing to HIioel to got spliced. I kin Iild 'all-the pursuing dads Id thie Btte of Miohi ganl 'essa was tlie ne of a little maiden who had the misfortune to be very ugly; indeed, her face was so repulsive that no one loved to look at her. "It is the face of a Medusa," said Carl, the young artist, who rooned across the waty. "Poor thing ! I should think she would want to bury herself," said the pretty landlady. Tessa knew only too well why they all shunned her, and her heart was consumed with hite and envy. "Why should others be beautiful and I so plin ?" she said, gaz ing enviously on the young faces that passed her window : and the more hate there was in her heart the more repulsive rrew her features. One day while wandering in the woods brooding norosely over her own misfor tune, witi io thought, of the beauty about her she camile suddenly uponl a dwarf, misshapen and difigured beyond anything she hund ever iingined in human form. For once site was happy ; she had found someone more ugly ttn herself, and a laugh, fiendish and cruel as a hy n's rang through the forcs. lit ile dwarf began to weep. "No wonder you weep," said Tessa, "with such a face and figure-" "Nay," said the dwarf sorrowfully, "I weep hecause I have found sor-e one more wretched 1han titnlf." And as the tears streamei from her eyes, her mottled skin grew white and soft ; and Tessa saw With amazement that the poor deformed creature was actually becoming beautiful. "What hias changed you so ?" she cried. "Am I changed ?" asked the dwarf, eagerly. "Am I beautiful again ?" "Yes, so beautiful that I hate you," answere(d Tessa, regardng her with aston ished antI envious eyes. "Nay, do not hate me," she entreated; "it was hate and envy that deformed me; it is pity that Ims broken the spell. Re joice with ile, and with all others Who are beautiful and happy, and pity those less fortiate tila yourself, and some time you may be freed from tile curse." As she spolke she vanished. Then Tessa went. to her house an:l pon dered the words she had heard. It was hard advive to follow, to rejoice in the beauty and happiness of those who scorned and shunned her, bitt she determined to make the effort. Hitherto she had spent her time in idle repining,ecaring only for herself, but now sho resolved to do some thing for the comfort of others, and renem bering i poor widow with a family of young children, living not far away, she set herself to fashioning warm mits and stockings for the little hands and feet. "Ugly as I am, I cnll create beaut.y for others," she said, as the pretty things grew under her fingers, and the thought made her glad. As time went on, all the poor and needy in the neighborhood learned to bless her, and she half forgot her own misery in try ing to relieve the misery of those about her. One day as she was entering her gate a beautiful child who was passing, slipped and fell. Once she would have felt a cruel delight in the child's mishap, hoping that the lovely features might be marred for life, but now she sprang to help her. "llow good you are," said the little one, putting uipl her lips for a kiss, when Tessa had bathed the bruised forehead and bound it tenderly With soft linen. "'And you are beautiful," sai( Tessa, re turning the kiss. "And so are vou," said the child, quickly, "as beautiful s11 my own m1am1ma." "AmI 1?" cried Tessa, turning with eager haste to the mirror, which for many a day she had kept closely veiled that she might not, see her own ugliness reflected, and lift ing the drapery, she beheld a fair, sweet face, with tendler, pitying eyes. Then Tlessa, gazing a moment to make sure that this glorified face was her own, went down on her knees and thanked God. n)eadwvood(. "D)eadwood," said the stranger, putting dIown his half- eaten slice of lenion pie and taking a long pull at the milk, "I went there wheii tIe first rush wvas made for the hills. Rather a rough crowd the first lot, you bet; more wholesome now. When I got there I was dead-broke--didn't have a dtollar, didn't have a revolver, which a man 'Il of ten needl out there worse'n a meal's vittles. I wvas prob'ly the only miain m the lills whuo did(n't carry a firearm, an' I was some lonesome, I tell you. 'rThe only weapoI)1 hed(-'m a blacksmith-was a rasp), a heavy file, you know, 'bout eighteen Inches long, whlich I carried down my back, the handle In easy reach just below my coat collar. Understand? Like the Arkan saw man carries his bowle knifo. I'm not axactly a temperance mai. I just don't drink an' don't meddle with any other tuan 's drinkm'-that's all. One day-I hedn't been in Deadwood mnore'n a week-I. was sittin' in a s'loon--only place a man kin set to see any society-wvhen feller come In, a reg'lar hustler, with his pan full and a quart over, lied,.a revolver on each aide of his belt an' looked vicious. Nothin' mean abouit hhn, though. Askt me to drink, 'Not any, thank yeou,' sez I. 'Not drink with mo I Mel luBll Feathergill I Whien I ask a tenderroot to drink I expet hun to prance right up an' no monkeyln'l You h-c-a-r mo I' "Well, whon his hand went down for his revolver, 1 whuipped out my old fie qui'cke'n fire 'ud scorch a feather an' wiped him one' right acrost the face. When lio fell I thought i'd killed him, an' te, s'Ioon Allin' up with bummers I. sorter skinned out, not knowin' what miglit .happen. Purty soon a chap inia red airt came up to mue. #sz he, 'You the maivs ke-arved Bell Feather gill ? 'Cos, of so b'e as you are, of you don't want ev'ry man In the hulls to plimb you, don't you try to hide youTself-the boys is askin' fur you now.' "It struck ime that my friend had the Idee, so I waltzed back and went up and down before that s'kmon forn! h three hours. 1'e found out Bill Wasn't de i' was bad medicine, but it would- -~te' let down. Ptgt soon I adE my nman agheadin' for me. isf eiuad .ben patohed'up 'till It-looked lik the closiAg ot t dipl&y di ortail dry 6' gdetorO. Thr *as so 'ittre counte eoped that cI d~t u what as 4-id', o1 I ayhn Bit 14FS. --1 ot houe strawberris are 50 cen I NpIece at loston. -Last year Colorodo produced $2, 310.000 worth of coal. --The first horse railroad was builthi 1826-7. -Kerosene wag first used( for light lig purposes in 1826. -'ha irst use of' a locomotivo in this tounitry was in 1820. -Upward of 1,442 persons in the British empire enjoy hereditary titles. -There are 7.500 journals published [i the United States. -Virginia has now 2,491 echools, lit Atructing 108,074. -A Japanese geographical society Itas recently been fouided at Yedo. -The fences of the Uilted States liave cost about $2,000,000,000. -Arzona has produced a quality of -otton Cqual to the Sea Island cottonl from seed brought from China. -'Tle tifteen car manufacturing e' - :ablisheints In the country turned o. 17,350 cars in eleven months. -A New laven factory showered ipon the world 22,000,000 fish hooks 1ast year. -Out of the million of inhabitantsof New York cilty, it is calculated that )ily about 800,000 attend church on Sunlday. --A school teacher thinks that pupils )>ught to have a great hearty laugh ,very day. -The kingdom of Slam is to be con Iected with the telegraphic system of 'ie world. -There ae fifty-one furnaces In Ahe Lehigh Valley, Pa., with all an iual capacity 01 over 600,00U tolls of pig iiron. -The first experimellt, in 1767, with iron. raiIs for ia road wais made in K'ug and. --The coach i8 of French invention. in the reign of Frauncis 1. there were )1nly two in Paris. -In the 15th century, straw was ised to sleep on in the royal chambers f the English palaces. -Pis were first used in Englaind iin tho reign of llerlly Vill., previolsly to which ladies used wooden skewers. -St. Paittl's Catledral, Lom1lon, oc upiled thirty-seveii years in buIlding itid nost X1,000,000, raised ty a duty on Jol s. -The Chilian government Ias forced into the market $4,000,000 of paperl ci reicy, making $16,000,000 ottstandiing. -1'he Presbyteriian Church has 128, 228 communileants Ill the State of New York, with 1,042 minjisters. --he balincie of trade in favor of the United States for the last iseal vyar was no less than $269,000,000. -The Chicago and Northwesteru Railroad Is building a niew bridge over the Minnesota River that will be 2,000 feet long. -The seventieth birthday of Ole Bull was celebrated at his residence Ill Cam 4ridge, M1ass,, on Friday, 13th, by a surprise. -The New Orleans minit has turned mut 2,887,000 silver dollqrs and $60,000 worth of golol double eagles during the 3igit montis It has been ruiing. -It 1s estimated that 50,000 tin and women aire employed in Pliladelpliit In the manufacture of clothing, makilg 20,000,000 suits a year. Chicago lumber recelpts the past year have been greater by 25 per cent. and its shipiients by 1513 per ceit. than in my previous year. -Illinois farm products amounted to $200,000,000 last year, whilh is dou bie tile ploducet of all the geld anId sli ver mines 1in the United States. --Chlicago packed last year 5,100,000 hogs, being an Increase of' 10 per' cent. aver' 1878, and 75 per cent. over 1877. Over 10,000 men wvere enbployedI. --Thle Janunary dividends in Boston asgregate. $13,049.734, of whlichl tIle r'ailIroads pay $1,874,375, and manufac L,uring conmpanies $883,240. -Thell. packages of tomatoes puIt up iast year in the United States reached thie total of 19,988,000, of vthich New Jersey put up 5,592,000 cans. --Manu facturi ng clothing iln Chicago gives emp'.oymnent to :30,000 p)eop)le, and 1,10 value of' tile goods made is $15,000, 000. Tis ind ustry h as doubledi in four years. -During Januar'y, 1880, the mints coineud 902,000 gold p)ieces of a value of $7,067,500. They also coined 2,450,000 silver dlollars, 16,000 five cent pieces andl 5,820,000 cent pieces. -A musician, named Bruno, was killed by an electric shoc0k received from tihe appIar'atus for p)rodlucing the electric light at the Holte Theatre, Aston, Birmingham. -Queen Victoria hlas presenltedl $250 to Pivate George Dodd, of the British army, inl recognition of his gallantry in saving a ehtid from death under the, wheels of a tramn-ear in Dublin. -T1he Hudson Hlighlands and Cats kill Mount.ains contr'ibu ted 200,000 ever green trees andO 100,000 yardls Df ever green roping, which was sold in New York cIty during the holiday season. -Th'ie paln tings, soulptu11re, frescoes, etc., contained in the chutrchies under the supervision of' thle city of Paris ate valued at 6;116,339 francs, of wvhich 3, 891,094 francs is apportioned: to pinIt ings, 1,776,040 francs to sculpture, and 040,205 francs to stained glass. An Elnglishl Journalist hlas (liscovered that there are in France, at the present time 1,700 women of' letters 1 andi 2,150 women artists. T wo-thirds of the wri ters were born in the provinces Nor mandy, Brittany a nd the solith, wile twvo thirds of the artists were born In Paris. -There arc about 125- acres of straw berries planted hId Florida this season for the market. Thle yield i'anges from 4,000 to 6,000 quarts per acre. An aver age of aboutry,000 q'aarts per aore would inake the yIeld 725,006 quarts. The growers are negotiating with~ the Pior ida Despatchi Line for the movemntof the crop,t.f : -The preltminary" taxable vAlp., . tions of N~ew.York;r4al eMox lust compl6~ by t1he As i'. an inceae fQ e ~ h~0