University of South Carolina Libraries
TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MARCII 27, 1880. __ __ ___ _ __I .- N O . 38 THE OTHER WORLD. It lies around us like a oloud, A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May br,ng us there to be. It, gentle breezes fan our ohoek; Amid orir worldly cares .Its Rentle voicesiwhlspor love,' And mingle with our prayers. Sweet hearts around us throb and beat, Sweet helping bands are stirred, And palpitates the vell between With brealhings almost board. The silence- awful, sweet and calm They have no power to break; For mort il words at'o not for thom To utter or partake. So th n, no soft, so sweet th;y glide, So near to press they scow, 'Ihoy seem to lull us to our rent, And molt into our droam. And in the hu-sh of rest they bring 'Tie easy now to see, Iloh lovuly and bow sweol a pass The hour of death may be. To closo the eye. and close the oar, Wrapped li a trance of blies, And-goi.tly dream In loving arus, 'To swoon to that--fron this. Scaro. knowing if we wake or sleep, goatee asking where we are, To 'feel all evil siak away, All sorrow and all dare. Sweet i ouls around us! watch us still, Press nearer to our side, Into our thoughts into our prayers. With gentle hlping glide. Lot death between us be as naught, A dried and vanisked strean; .'cur joy be the re ality, L ur suffering life a dream. The Ourate's Valentine. A clerical prig !" said the eldest .Miss Grantly. "Something has vexed him," said the second. "He looks worried " "I know what," finished the thid ; "it would be great fun to send hini one." The three Misses Grantly put their heads together, in order probably to converse more in private. They need not have been frightened. Everybody was tired, and would have yawned, had such a luxury been admissible in the the Grantly draw Ing-room Tea parties are always slow; this one had been very slow, indeed, as Mrs. Grantly and the colonel. her husbind, would be ready to testify, when they had smiled their good-nights to the young friends who were staying Il their house. Amongst the.ir few guests had been the curate df the parish, the Rev. Wilfred Sol turn, balled by his Intimates, Will' and he lhad been this evening what the young ladles chose to designate "Crawley." in a general way he was rather a pet with them. HIe had nothing but his curacy, and he boasted sometimes of his own cleverness in making both ends meet, so that lie was not a dangerous man to know; and then he was of good family, and could Calk well, and was altogether a very useful creature, since he never interfered with more eligible individuals. But to-day something had evidently gone wrong with the curate;.*'e not only would not exert himself to be en tertaining, but, when he did speak, It was to put aside, with considerable contempt, - the subject on which the sisters were just then interested, namely, Valentines. "In fact," said the eldest sIster, "lhe left off to go and flirt with Bell Lindhurst. Any one could see that. "Are you sure it's Bell ?" said another. "thought it was Frances.'?. "Oh, either will do," said the oilher, * "since a man with a curacy can only firt, But 'it's Bell, of course. Well, he has spoilt our evening completely, and we owe hdm something. I wish I could think of a real good trick." "I know of something," said the young est Miiss Grantly, who was also the quiet est, and had a dad, plaintive way of. speak inlg. "But then he would never open a Valentine." * "Not if he. know It," said the oldest ; "b~t lie need not. What's your plan ?". 'there was a good deal of whispering, a *little laughing, and then a lull. "Yes, a large Ilue envolopo-ofllcial looking-aind l'vd got a seal with a Cupid on it, holding a letter on his arro,w; the poor stupid muan will never see that, and * one mnuft have the sign manual of a Valen tine abotit it; But then he knows all our' handwriting. I can manage a disguise for the .letter itself, -but my -disguises ., are cramped. If we had only a free, bold, natural address outside, lhe .would never suspect.'" - Thrlere's Bell and Franciig'''put inte plaintive little voice sadly, gthereupon her sasters applay1ded. "A pat dn the shnider:for that," said they. "Nd ho has never seen Bell's writ nhg, Flrepiky, won't dp~ it, she's starched ; but Ipeflwe'll see." The three young ladles moved forward slnitm)tneousy. * ain't it bedtime? I'll sure -you two p6g ohildren a(tlte t*death. Dah papa, asigep I You rude ni ide Tied coinel, of otrW 4 deated that he wahouldn'tzhave thought of st6h 96~o lnstjttitod . ~W*qa~*citeiWeaudlea di'g'o hiprdinto 1311ll~. to:4tsshe $~lie~$Powter a )y~r that Mr. Selturn was going to leave the parish, that she saw she had been the means of deceiving hi by a practical joke. Consequently ale determined to rectify it so far as she was able. She was still at the Grantlys, and Mr. Selturn was there on a visit. lie having been a few minutes alone In the drawing room, was startled by the appearance of Sir IHarry's niece from the conservatory door. "Air. Selturn," said the young lady. "I want to speak ~to you. I have-done a very bad thing," she was going to say. but checked herself.' "I have lent my assist anco to a practical,j)ke, a thing I detest as much as you can do. In the pretended let ter from my uncle; you should read Oakes with an H before it. There Is no such place as I know of, and my uncle lis only two livings .in his gift-Lindhurst Magna I Lindhlurst Parva. I directed theletter." "You !" was all the curate could get out. 'Yes," replied Bell ; "but indeed knew thing of the contents. You never looked at the seal, or you would have known it was a-Valentine." She was gone as quickly as she had come. I don't know what were the curate's thoughts in the interval which he had .yet to pass, but the other guests were of the opilion that lie was growing into a moody, i taciturn sort of fellow. It. fell to his lot to take Bell Lindhurst in to dinner, and, as she put her fingers on his arin, lie con- I trived to touch them, and to say just two words, "Tiank you." They were all lie did say to her. H10 was very attentive to. his neighbor, on the other hand, anl 1- 1rted hiinself to ta)k, and talked well- better than usual, if poo. sible. -0 "6Selturn,"saild ihe Colonel once, "wihat-s this I hear about losing you ?" "No such luck," replied Will, siaking t his head. "I shall plague you for years, I I'm afraid ;" and then -he added, looliing across the table-"Miss Grantly, if you t w6re writing a business letter, 'hiat style of seal should you choose?" t Ile said it very quietly, but looked away from her directly, for lie saw that she was I crestfallen, and afraid lest the Colonel should take up the subject, and investigate i it; and Will (lid not bear malice. It was t punishment enough for her that her trick 8 had, so fair as she knew, proved a failure. t And strangely thinking of Bell Lynd- c hurst when lie got home, lie took out the unhappy Valentine, made a face at the seal, put the letter-the cramped disguise of which he could detect well enough now into the fire, and the envelop--nover Mindct where. It was February again, and .the- blinds were down over the rectory windows of Lindhurst Magna. There was -a little re gret in in village, not mudli. A. good q man had gone to his rest, but lie had been r feeble for years, and past'his work, so per- t haps it was as well. Up at the Hall.'In tihe snuggest of snug morning rooms, there was a young girl in a c riding habit, half kneeling, half crouching, I] beside an old man, who sat In a big chair, a a grumbling with a gouty foot. And the young girl looked very well in her habit, b with the color of .exercise on her cheek, .q and its light in her eye; and the baronet, as c lie igoke~d at her, thought Ce, and felt his t mo6uth twitch. "0oullp( "You Gipsy 1" lie said ;"oyuheldt to hoax the curate, ehi? WVell, I wouldn't e have believed it," and the baronet broke v ilnto a laugh, and bade her get on her hiope " and b)e off, remiembering that she was to bring her mother and sister to help hinm to 0 entertain George's lime new 'wife. c -On this fourteenth of February Mr. Sel- ' turn i.eceived no Valentines ; but lie had hardly. sat an hour over his unwritten sera mon when a cab stepped at the door, and c his landlady ushered in a visitor whom the I curate just knew by sight-an elderly gen- ~ tiemnan withi a lame foot. "Ilcan' t offer you Greenham-cum-Oakes," " said Sir Harry, whon the preliminaries were ,u over, "because I doti't know the plae; but ii Lindhurst Mlagna has just fallen vacant, as aI you will have seen by the. papiers ; that is, if you road -themi. I' have heard a good a deal about you, though I really dldig't know t therue was sutch a person last year wihen I y had the hiongr ,of rccplyi g-hoim I Yes, e Lindhurst Is, v'acaat,ian4 it isn't a bad a thing. Will yont have It '1". I Whatever the curate said in reply, Sir i HJarry didn't seem to be taking much notice, la for ho grumbled thie'wholo time in an under- I: tone about his lame toot, the badness of r the rauilwfty arrangemnhts,'andi keeping the ~ misQehle .cab horse in te cold. '" ry ,Well,". o lie-ak at last. It's set- a tied )je' ?lik de p~ Come and dine a wit~'~t'~ (d m ily party.. My soin t IIis m brother' W1tlow~ A7dbi ghters.-sayIn4jthe house, you ( kInow ; no'strage tsI leok he and t 0 i' Ned 0'tt~6tdbring his girls. ~ -1 Catch th'e' n,. Mr. Selturn; ; and mind, its~W re time in start Ing, and belid ratinus. inero's only-half a mileos walk rom Lindihtrststa- r ~tion, and you'll have anmple time ,io 'dress. I We'll give you- a bed." i don't know what heegmes of Mr. 801 turn's.sermon, Perhaps ho finished it e-o t f9rginatttedi.Atiaey rate>he did 'estoh / the tw6 o'clock train, and ho had the hondi ~~r::~ 4 *,nm,gsh,t GKrTMi e ie nd .G It her to the opposite side of the table. It d not rest there long. lie was a sharp fello enough, except in the matter of Valentine and he saw that his lively neighbor w: watching his movements. During til whole of the evening, therefore, he on spoke once to Bell Lindiurst, and th< only a brief sentence, "I have you to than for it." So that. Miss Grantly, thinking it overo the way honie, said, peevishly, "I can't iII derstand it. If there is anything betwe them, they make love like crowned heads, Tro which the plaintive s9ter added, -wil a little mournful nalice. "lie need not onI flirt now, you know. He isn't a poor cura any longer. I'm afraid you'll miss hin CIs." Will's chance came in the early mnornimi when he found Bell stepping out of tLi breakfast room window to the lawn. "Bell," said the curate, standing befo ier, "will you conie with Ime to Lindhur Nlagna ?" I don't know what Bell Lindliirst ougli .o have said, nor indeed wit was her firs impulse ; but chancing to catch sight of hi race, she perceived that lie was, in spite < ils abruptness, quite as much in what I Ialled a "state" as the most exactingyoun ady could desire. So she said, as steadil is she could : "Yes if you want Inc." "I do want you," said lie. "That Is jus he word. I have had no sun pictire o ron, you know ; but I have ,worn your fac Imy heart over since you came to in iat day and saved me from making vqdse simpleton of myself than I wa iready. I know then that I had don vhat poor curptes should not do-I hai 'allen in love. I do want you. Give im ,our hal(, Bell, in token." She put her hand within his arm anim hey walked on, and it does u6t very macl iatter about the rest of the conversation 3ut wheni the Baronet tapped at the windov o announce that lie wanted his breakfast nd they went lip to him, lie looked a hem and began to grnimble a little. "Don't scold uncle," said Bill. "It can' e helped now." 'Can't it ? said- he. "Aind so this is th< ay you walt is it ?" Then lie turned t< lie curate. "I suppose I must wish' you 11 that's proper, eh ? Be good to her. Al lila springs from just writing the address n a-hoax I Valentines are not such bad fings, after all, *are they, Mr. Selturn ?" Dr. Jessopp of London, receitly diecliret 0 eawth*gi,untly- agure or a man, WhOih ugaged in wril ing in a friend's library a ight. Dr.. Wilks, . of Gray's Hospital, ,ondon,'Orltes as follows in relatiQn to th< iatter: ;!,Putting aside the supposition of trick,:,.Jhe, story resolves itself iito the uestioit whether the appearance of the ian beside 14m (Dr. Jessopp) was objec ve or subjective. Under ordinary circum. aices,. when we see an object the latter is interial." and forms an image on the re Ua; this is meftally known through a per aptive partof the brain; the mere retinal nage is not enough to constitute vision, a pictures are constantly painted upon the ,tina whic.u are never discerned. Now It ; possible for this perceptive part of the rain to be thrown Into an active conditior ilte independeit of the normal stimulus onducted to Itfrom the retina, and under lese circumstances the person app)arently lee an object, which by the law of oui ature,- is projected by himn a certain dis. mece before the eye. This is commnor nough in fevers and in delbrium tremens, rhere patients see people and animalh round thenm whose reality is such that th< iemory of these becomes a p)art of the ex erience or their future lives. In mental erangemnents these hallucinations are alsa omnion, anid patients see objects and hieai olces which have no external existence. o it is ini our dreamis, from which we may e suddenly roused by a great noise wherc illis still around, the auditory perceptive entre of -the brain having 'been abner ially excitedl. In nornial conditions tie gight of an object implies the p)ainting oi on the retina, as the hearing a noise im lies the, vibration of the drum of .the ear. f sight 'and hiearig 6ccur withmout4these ormnal excitants of the nerves, the brai inst .have been stinulated from wIthin, nmd the inp: elsons are abnormal and sub mctivo. 'At the present t.imii we ihaive nlc nowledge thet anything ini the likeness of ghost or anything that lies not a material asia can excite an image on their retina, rhoreas we.do know that under abrormai onditions the braini may be stimulated sc a te produce a vIsual-imnpressioni indhepen. ent of any such image on the retina. Tin robabihties are then lm'mensely in .favoi f the appearance which the dloctor saw eing subjective rather than objective. W< ave only to suppose that those very coim. ion abriormnal .conditlons of brain wicle: re observed in bad health may occur undem xceptional cireutnlatances in an otherwis< ealthy organ, to account for the occasional ppeadtice of ghosts. Thle probabilitim re. also -in favor of this view from., othe: onsideratiops. First, there Become no rca on why the spirits of another world shiouli rirr midolaht for. their visits,- btit the rea o arp.4op js why,'wpe hohlf enbjuri rant of indivl..alit sliown by this patiio L iipel 6?h'Qoxd'ac is atppeararcioabecd. 'tiinA.has'this gppa Ition:didduld thethd dmpendebita'situtpoi lie'observer, that wrhen the Iatter put kL oent. ythe n6vet oKem ar could havtaffepted a: real objecte doei Lot seem cleat, 1nor'6 Wfit could not bi bzell at from nAlferent poiniof view. I 0i94's4oy thtildeote1oo h aod him. d ~~ d A Mountain nide. w lie threw the driver a signal, the horse s, sprang away, and the work was begun o & ill'ing the contract to get to Delii In tw4 to hours, eighteen miles over a mountali road, only just a suspicion of nioonlight be Y hind the threatening.cWuds. and noe id of Iij n mud.. Four milds up, the mounta 1 for I k start, and the road Went creeping abou here and there, sometimes clinging to thi l hillside like a shelf, running away to hido in long stretche of forest, dodging sudden]3 out of sight around a projecting hill, doubling back upon itself in the most ac curate angles, as though it wats trying t( I get away and leave us utterly lost On tie y mountaii side, running along smoothly and o evenly on one track for a quarter of a inik and then suddenly swinging around and ' hurrying back nearly the whole distance; ii changing, restless, mischievous road thi , seemed to have forgotten that it started out e from Oneonta to reabh the mountain top, and was going to play hide-antd-seek with itself there on the mountain side forever, e and never go anywh 11e. But the lorse it. knew its ways, and a ils. tricks of turning and driving and climub ng, and clatter, clat. ter, clatter over thq . rocky places; and tramp, tramp, tramp,'where the chay was t heavy, and spllaish, sphsh, 8plash, where the s little pools covered the road keeping the f wandiering road always in sight and never a losing it., while the rocky glens and stately hillsides, and even the frowning forests laughed iaek in the cioes of the clatter Y ing hoofs as the chaseWent. on. And One onla? A dimple of light in the darkened valley, a cluster of brjIlints in a set of t jet, what a dreamn of beauty has the village f as. It too laughs at our hurry up the mon tain side, chasing (le way ward- road, a laughed until its dimples of light made the D night sparkle with niciriment. I hope I ivi'loften see Oneonta'again, but I will never a see it looking prettier Ihan it tooked that night. And now d ')ast we clihb the mountan top, and thi road, sobered down by its long climb- de tes to its task and 3 stretches away to Delit. No stop for any thing, the mettlesomeVhorses do not need ithe whip, and scarc ly need the, word. Nine miles out; as w drive up to a great roomy barn, a lanternflashes out and a'light buggy and two great.)orses drive out be side us. It is only the work of a second to transfer me and my baggage, the Inpa tient horses spring away, and the land scape began to fade away behind us again. Down the long hills a d up the grades we spin, the. big-shouldd( horses laughing at the hills with their feet; over the rum bling bridges, past twinkling lights in the farm houses, until at last the hills rise above us loftfor, grander, more beautiful and graceful in- outline; and we swept intQ Delhi, covered with the mud and exhilar I aling excitement. of the drive, just two hours from the time' we left Oneonta; it Is lively going. Bavim's ofgar iractories. Entering the cigar . iactory in Havana, one is at once struck by the admirable cool WIRTi passel; t,rougW -w .t"roug owI P although there are ov.er 300 men, women and boys at work, the air Is as ,fresh and cool as on a mountain top. On the ground floor Is a long warehouse, where over 2,000 bales of tobacco are stored. Besides this stock, the proprietor-has a warehouse in the city, where there are 3,000 bales. This is all tobacco of the crop of 1879, and, as the present crop is almost an entire failure, the manufacturers are making only enough cigats to fill their orders. They prefer to keep as much on hand as possible, expect ing higher prices very soon. The average value of a bale of tobacco is about $75. Some of the very findest kindh of wrappings cost as. much as $400 a bale. Insurance is very high. the rate being one and a half per cent upon the stock at the factory and one per cent upon that warehoused. At some factories the rate is even higher, on account of the wooden li'ning of the buildings. When the tobacco Is taken from the bales it is distributed to the pickers, who take the bundles, sort them, stretch the leaves, remove the strong fibre that runs down tihe middle of the leaf and place the leaves that are to serve as wmtppers. upon one side. For this wvork they receive ten cents gold for every ten bundles. The fillings, or pieces of leaf that are too small -for wrap pers, are then carried up to the second floor, wvhere they are spread out~ and separated into five different classes, according to the strength of the flav'or and the fineness of the leaf. Five shafts run dlown -to the floor beneath, and each shaft is fed with tobacco of a different class. Thelmse shaftr deposit the tobacco in the room where the cigar makers are *at work, and each man, when he wants more tobacco, takes a square piece of canvas about the size of a large pocket handkerchief to tihe attendanit, wvho fills It from the prdper shaft Besides these five -kinds of Allings there is a. still finer quality, composed of th3 pieces cut off the wrappers of the best cigars, and used to fill the cigars that are to command the higest pride mn the market. Meantime the wrappers are hand ed ovcr to skilful operators. who carefully sort them~ accoi u'.ng to their fineness and coltnr. This Is the mnost ifnportant part of the whole, process, as the profits -or cigar making depend upon the nicee jugdinent shown by the men who separate the wrap pers -and who give the cigar-makers the kind suited to their fillings..- Should a fine wrapper be used for an in(erior cigar it would be clear waste, and if a fine cIgar be Wrappedi in a rough leaf It.wonid be thrown out by the man Who sepiates the cigars: The roomn.in.which the cigar0 are inade is a large,' lofty apartment, with a stone -fle6r. The cigat-maker sit In rows at . benches, which aro divided off by lo. jiitlon#, to prevent the toba'ced or cIgars of two adjoin. ing makers, becoming nited.~ A -little board, black gylt1 tobacco juice, lies on the benchl. JJjion. thxl the .clgars re rolled. .Th9ecigam'maker takes fronvhaishep of fill Ings enough tobaccd to-mako4lg i. .!Ihid he-faeltons .ito shape, and ,t6 ,.talimng- a leaf from liii heap of wraupets, the *olds it carefully round the fillings, beginning at I the small end, trimming it with a 'Marp knife, and cutting 4~ saqgrooff h&o 4thor end. /]Me*nhbotakes asmnallpleeoSgrease, sneats it,oa.torappr,)d 4 e losos ,the 4imslier end:ofte o 1i.d [ eikr vlt9 e gi* toepn ,a twitlnthi ,otghs, ~ a4~tts.~ 1~tia.lythe w t uftC goes over these bundles ati( )Itys so Iluch per thousand for the cizars imide. Tho rate varies fiom $1 I to $42 per thousand, according to the size of the cigars and the excellence of the leaf. The best workmen are employed on the very linest kinds, and can make as many as seventy-flive cigars in the day. The rough and cheal) kinds are much more easy tomake, and a good folder can turn out over 200 cigars im eight hours. White men, negroes, and coolies aire em ployed in cigar-making, but white labor is found to be by far the most intelligent, and coolie labor the least so. Indend, thl coolies are mostly employed in opening the bundles and separating the fillings from tie wrap pers, and very few of them are al'owed to fold cigars. 'The cigar-makers, at least the white ones, are a thriftless, lazy set. A folder will work until he has enough money for his immediate wants. and then Ie will at once letve iis work until ie is driven back penniless. One young, good-looking folder, engaged -in i%iaking tile best kinds of eiglars, was pointed out by the proprietor as a curious example of this want of al)pli catiou. lie works hard during live daysof tile week, making at tidy stun of money. Every Saturday night lie visits at ready made clothes shop, buys a new stilt, anid early o -Sunday goes either to tile seitshlore or to the river, strips, bathes, and, on coin ing out, puts on his new suit. Uinving the old one, bought tile p,revious wek, on tile bank, he goes on a -spree which lasts ntil Iisi money is all spent, when h returns to work. Women are also employed in sort img ."b&, Wt ithy 1ire in a separate building, as it was found that the co-educa tion of the sexes does not work as well in a Cuban cigar factory a in the lotietic atmlos phere of a New England college.' They are of all colors, ranging from a pure white through every variety of cream id choco late up to a shiming black. They all mloke, generally the very strongest cigars. Unlike the clerk in the candy Store, who is Iowed to gorge hilself at first, fnid who never cares for the sweet treasures again, men and women in tobacco factories do not lose their taste for smoking.. 'Ihe manufacturers forbid smoking during work hours, for it ids racts tile attention, al( tile cigars are less carefully made. But the supply of sc.(1r1 is almost ullillted, aid every workman is allowed to carry away two or three. These cigais are made by boys who are only beginning, and whose productions are not gpod enough for market. When tile eigars are counted and the mak era p(1, the former are sent i) stairs and carefully sorted, first to remove the badly made ones and those with rough wrappers, and then to divide them, according to tile color of the leaf, intp coldrados RPdt ma 'duros. When this Is done they are ready to be placed in the boxes, which are made in a separate part-of the factory. The . boxes when filled, are placed uutter a ptess, and the cigar is then ready for sale. 1111kett's Marksmanaht,. At tile -lission Dolores, close to San Francisco, a Western lad. of twent cars c1 9? 11r. Ha iictcop l perilous fashion, and one day on the occas lon of a dinner party, a special exhibition was to be had. The marksman was to cleave an apple on the youth's head at ten paces. Before the time came, however, an Ingenious gentlentifV, celebrated in thle East as well as the West for his,practical., jokes, bribed tile lad to go through a carefully re iearsed scene. le was provided witli a clot of blood colored paint, and Instructed to secrete this in Isa land just before the slow. At the report of the pistol lie was to spin around, clap the paint to his fore head as lie turned his back to Mr. Hackett, give a yell, vault high in the air an( fall to the ground. All this was actually an1d 1 carefully done in the presence.of five or six persons who had dined together. The ex pectation, of course, was that Mr. Hackett would be stricken withl remorse and hlor ror, and rush forward instantly to is wel tering victim, but when instead, tile marks man qulietly sat down where 110 stoodl, and, wvith is ownI peculiar smile, proceeded to Ilgiht a cigar, a tale was told thlat tile amused witnesses never forgot. Wilham Tell was less positive of hbis resuilts with his crossbow thlan Jolla [Hackett with his8 re volver. . six A1nesd. Some timle ago, in tile southlern part of Arkansas, an incident occurredd'vhlh will be sp)oken of upon01 the occasion of every election in that part of .the country. Upon tihe day of the noted event people in all tile I townshlips exhibited thleir interest by going early to the polls. Two very promlinlent men) in a certain county were candlidates for shleriff, andi their supp)1oters were so I equally divided that a great concern wa~s< felt. 'Bets wvere madei; fist fighlts were in- I auiguraited, in facet, everythling was enlgaged mn to make the election .interestin)g. I About 10 o'clock tile excitement liecal1n so, I great in one0 townlship that a ii.n wvas se - lected to rido over to tihe noxt township to see whlo was ahlead. The 'swiftest htorse was selcdted. Th'ie Iban sprang into tile saddle and dashed awvay. The rkjet was intently watched until out of sight. Thlen more. bets wer'e made as to wichi of the candidiates was ahead. More flst engage ments were inaugurated. Pinaily theo 1nan was seon) coming back. Ho had1( lost his ha *n i long hlair streamed out horizon tally. - llaI "six aheatdI Six hnd"he shouted, whlen wIthinl hearing'of tJte crowd. "Who's six ahleath" demanded several voices, "I'll be dinged if I know," said tihe than, chlec41ina his hprse, "but youi may bet yattr life that one of thleis six ahead," A ew' Del foney. A new Australlin dolice is $hlding Its, of a 00 tou ea Te i&ls,nd ski fthesQ anh als have long .ddit util1ked-A4th'sr'1 dnM~king sonp, the laittrfoi l icalir'i i1tho r484n$ de.artle tlon di ltnge~bfA hti gfvn c6dfiadddable~ i111u t1 0 tffo trdd. "t ttuej b thd%vasto of tododdaget~oned byf t11 h i tr'of Ao iitlousan of thoho Ynr~p who th bv fai '* Unaistible Earth-Crust. A writer from San Salvador, Central America, says on the evening of the 19th of December, a little after 8, we felt a slight trembling of our adobe house. The looking-glasses and pictures rattled slightly against the walls, and ever and anon a creaking sound like the rattle of a far-off thunder storm wouldi make Itself heard. The shocks continued all night, increasing gradually hour by hour. The oldest mha bitants, whose memories retaited the vivid Impressions causod by similar experiences, began to look anxious and scared. The trembling, rocking motion of staid old terra firma continued all the next (lay and the next. On the third day it grew so violent that the inhabitants, high and low, rich and poor, began to move out of the houses and pitch their 1,ents out of town. We did not understand why the natives who lived in bamboo huts should abandon these homes also, as we would not mnagine how the strongest earthquake could uproot these bamboo poles. By this time the pol)pilatioi had become panic-stricken. They ran bareheaded and barefooted about tle Btreets, hardly knowing enough to keep out of the way of falling bricks, but never neglecting t1o make ill kinds of possible and impossible vows to t heir patron saints. No body thought of sleeping. The ground rocked and swayed fearfully, so that on the fourth (lay there was not a house where there remained one square foot of plaster on the walls. Everything that could break 'id '"''"r; t1b... kept oi ,ulbling down and falling to pieces, as if some unseen haid was rutlilessly tearing down every thing that was not welded with liands of iron. The town was entirely deserted, ex cpt by those who were buried under the falling ruins. This kept on for over a week. On the 27th news was received that tile eardhuuake had absolitely demolished two villages, containing, perhaps, a population of 1,000 each. These villages were situat ed about nine miles from San Salvador, near tile Lake of lloingo. Not a hut was left which might have Mheltered a single family. In Guatemala about twenty houses were laid low, among those the large build ing called the palaee, in the center of the park. After the 29th the shocks decreased in severity, although they still continued for a long while. The city of Guatemala lies between two extinct volcanoes, and i very near a lake, which iq also all extict crater. The old Indian traditions have t named it ihe "Valley of the iammock," t because It is always swinging. Santa Ana, I it city hardly-twenty leagues from Salvador, y Ia never moved, while San Salvador Is des troyed regularly every twenty years. The C ity hams always been rebuilt In tile same way, but this time Dr. Salvider, the Prest lent of the Republic, is intent upon re building on the American plan. There are .hree distinct motions or,kinds of shocks in he earthquakes which visit this region. rhe most, common one Is called the "tronm- rl )lor" and Is the wave motion, sinilar to lie one which In days hardly forgotten has viRited Californla. 'jef ~5~~ s~ moone are circular. The third and last is alled "ratumilo"; It feels as if the ground 11 ccelved a terrible blow, right frmn the ,entre of the earth upward, and Is the d nost destructive, and accordingly ,eared tj he most. Each manipulation is accoim- t >anled by its own peculiar noise. W. A. )oodyear, a surveyor in thl. employ of the lovernment, reported that the two villages nentionei above were desiroyed by ths 'remolina." Tie earth cracked and foam- bi ng water spurted out of the grouod. The 8i mtts and houses tumbled all one way, as if ti hey were mown down by an Imnense nII, Ickle. A peculiar effect of the shocks is k hat they drivd everything out of the 01 Prouud, even I)ie light bamboo poles which ft upport the thatched cottages of the natives, V visited three villages afterward, and found Si hat the at,nosphere was impregnated to a I rery high degree with sulp)hur. Th'ie earth- tr juake shocks Seen- to be confined to certain it larrow li.oits. In Port La Libertad, al- at hough thiey were felt, they worn not strong d; mnough, to crack even the plaster. This " >huce is only twenty miles from the centre hI >f the eartilquake region. The volcano at ti tfalko, where the shoeks were strongest, d mitted hluge volumnnes of steam, smoke and ti rolleys of rocks. There wvas hlowever, but tl small flow of lava. The averas;e number k >f shocks per hour during a.period of mnore hI han two weeks. was thlree, anid one day V vlhen they were most violent, there was a hi otal of ninety-three. No idea can be hi ormecd of the.loss of life whichl atteinded al le phenomenon.n -u Josh Billings ol arrigo.. R By awvl mens, Joe, get married, If yout amvo a fair show. Don't stand shivering n the banik, b)ut p)itolh rite In andI stickyour ~ ead undler and the shiver is over. ,Thr In't any more trick in getting marrIed than a hero is -in eatig pcanluts. Many a man u as stood.shiveting on the shore until the g4 ver ran omut. D)on't expect to marry an ngel ; they hiavm all beon picked up loug tI bgo. .Remember, Joe,- you ai't a saint v' ~ourself. Do'not marry for beauty etclu Ively ; beauty Is like Ice, awful slippery, andI hlaws dreadful easy. Don't marry for luv, either; luy is like a cooking: stove, gobd. t or nothing when the fuel glvea out. But 11 et tile mixture be somne beauty becomingly $( Ircssed, .with about $250 In 1hcr pocket, a p gud sf>eller, handy and neat In ecr hou1se ti >lenty of good sense, tuff, constituntior jn f >.y-laWs,,small feet, a light step; tadd to At *his~ sound teeth and a, warm heart. .'The k nixture will keep In any climates apd will U iot cvaporate. If the cork h1appents.tQ be V oft out the. strength ain't gone, Joe, . on'., B narry for pedigree.uniess it is backedl by a ank notes. Afaiiy *.wth notMing but ej >edigree generally, lacks. succes., .ii *Thi Dla %N d Regarding tho, $ matk-:en our. money, y omo thlink.that .the pti .ps~ sort cf a p S,!he Anerlapidollar,, y otlhers,2l el aken from the panist ~)tr, andtid t 1t tgnih tofound, of coourse, n nthe assocls. ii IiMos;ofdhapatishcollar.,.On thorvoye I >f thpanish d11le a~ itses )$rs 1590 Am4~i ~ 8 The Czar's NarTow Escape. - 4----_ On the 17th of ebruary the Czar was in his Winter Palace discussing the politics of the Balkan provIncesp the elections to the. Bulgarian Assembly, the. -loyalty of the Prince's subjects, the attempted compro mise between the two parties in -the State, wheu a servant qnounced that dinner was served. The Czar and his guests were so intent upon the subject of their convbsa Lion that the announcement wad disregarded. Shortly afterward the servatt returned. As he opened the door the Emnperor rose. At that instant a terrible explosion was head. 'he Czar had taken Prince Alexander's arn and was walking to tjte d?.Rr. He stopped short at the Sound. Ile li ten disengagd his arm and, raised' iAt eyes td heaven kI gratitude. Neither spoke awbrd.' 'P Czar was perfectly calm, and an hour iat)r sat down quietly to dinner besido thd great gap in the floor... Tite Etnpres4 was amleep in her room and heard nothhig of the explosi n, and express >rders were Issued that site sh1d lie, left in ignorance of the event. Others do cribe the scene in the Winter Paldee after he0 explosion. As soon as the: news.got ibroad the corridors were filled with an ex lted crowd, each memimer of It giving iL liferent vdrsion of the affair. 'roIn all he priiate apartments potred t.16 4tie'a;n 'ou1rt Chamberlains, iII coats that gleamed vith rich gold embroideries, hurried down romtl the Hall of St. GCorge: a ,id an army ,f white-capped cooks deflied from1 thesub errnean kitchens. Court ladies, with weepilg trains and Aparkling jow6ls, 'is - ued fron their dressing rooims, 'and the vatctlinion, with their. wives and famiilies, aine from their huts upolt the. rgof. tound the stattie of Alexander gathered a nedley throng of officers in full unifot, naids of honlor, coachenio groom1s, scul ions ind hundreds of the inmates Qf,,the alace, WIose naines tire stpposed to .be egistered by the Milistr of the ltinial lotiselhold, but who are iI reality as little otice(d by him as the colonists who settle I lRusian foresti are noticed by the pro. rietor of. the estate. The irqt. pipulse o( 11 ti;ese people was to hasten.to offer heir ongratulatitls to tlte .1imperor. ' helr econd was to'retorn thanks for the preser. ation of the palace itself. In their eyes lie building Is sacredi 1 The gilt cross ont Ito culpola of tle private chapel, which sur. ived the fire of 18:17, symbolizes to thei lie blessing which , rests upon it.- -It was Lils feeling which animated the workmen y whose industry it rose again to its old lalgnilficelce. It was this feeling that iu8ed the humblest intjiks to bring their witributions to the oxpenses of reconstruo. on. The news that no danage had been Istaned by the heirlooms of the palace, iat the portraits was undisturbed, the inm Lrlal uniforms unsinged, the court joeWl ninjured, was received by. the imhates Ith extreme satisfaction. All along the ver side, between the Neva, and the alace, surged a mass of the populace, iii icepskins and furs,'and torches flashed to teyf li ilfento NwsIy 1iospot t6 rfer their congratulations, but the police id strict ordeqs to let no drovsky pass the ites, At early morning the Emperor .ove to the Kazan Church and returned anks to the Virgin for hisfifth preseria an f'rom death. A narbar's MISte. An amusing incident occurred In a.Utica irbor shop, which has creqted considerable iort at the expense of a clergyman frol e town of Annoville or'Ava. Ti66 domi a had a prtty full grothi of gre' whil )rs. He came to Utica for-the slgnktitres the leaing politIlans to an applJoat.on r a chaplaincy in a pu Jq inst4ton. rith mind bent on the subect of a . - tn, he entered ' barbers p, Yop the chair, and asked to have his Ohik ts imimed. The bai-ber was busihy'engi'ged talking:politics and1 evidently misun4er1 ood his patron's order. Hp~ toolk et his fe stuffs, and withi twenty minutes tht iskers of the demiie we-e blaekbr tau s coat. The odor of sulphur' dJd not give c 0 barber away, and remarking: that he d not wvant his hair dressed bie paid;for, e job and wertfl o'ut.. Wheq hreqlled at. e ofileo' of a United States o cmll who tew him well, lhe was not ioiize' arid id sonic it'ouble hi makibg'himselfknitvr [hen the oihiciali was satisfied he latughed >artiy andi remtarked to tihoeclergyn)apit~a a videtitly was entdeavoring to be3 od [e by (lying. .Thte Wdild~-bjh chaplab?'l' >t see the poiht f his hiihyicoloiVd jokd ittl the oftielah spoke plainilyt' T~Ie ulergy. ' an looked ila the mirror andi,forathe fitsc. mec saw how lie had aitpred ig apppae - T .e toqk thp aifair good naturedlyn~t1 et no time in returning to tle sht andl wving his face shaired clean. 'It tok hint me time to get ' acquainted-with his.wvife 0on htis return homne, butthe joke ;was too >od to keep, and hiJtirl9,nts qr If hte evqr hats an op iortunty., (ixja ire on.e. .. .~ There,le no odder, t1 erq is no,more -at active part pf Paris the~n t~~ uy ~1 f'rom Pont Royal to' Pon pefog uAh batnk of the riv'er. He,6 the ~ t of the wall wlhihe1sartsas(etfi 10 wharf (the latOr is fift'eene Ort'4tWgiy~ ot below the 'street) are bQxe&s1lejIt , towva:Obstoniel, you cadt a ~ ' abookldhioC1frrhkWun ,imes~ which you desire .ta ne ri:no of the ifost interetingutftba .l ~ -e on esseondAf~d aWOJ)a4 ~ qily the keeoppr. Az1ubMan9V our etrance,and he Tuzef*v i * t a surlyte tond ilegaot$h t you 'uants"' JIooa ten ll&l nuswish and shes -pieYs1 ayh~h zy, shp will 1ou ItOf 4,~W~"~1 tat you are not-w tdho$ hops on thesgnin to door "'e,?~4