TIRI-WEEKIY EDITION W INNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 4 1880. VOL. IV.-NO. 47. RiEQUIlM OF LOVE. I 3ring withered Autun,n leaves, Vall everything that grieves, I build a funeral pyre above his headl eap there all golden promnise that deceives eauty that wins the heart ai,d t' ' bereaves, For love is dead. Not slowly did lie dio. A meteor from the sky lI not so swiftly as his ipirit lied. When. with regretful, half averted eye, He gave one little stnile, one little sigh, And so wai sped, Blut 0, not yet, not'yet Wopid my lost soul forget ow beautiful he was while he did live, c Or, when his eyes weru,duwy and lips wet, What kisses, tenderer than all regret, My love woul:l give. Strew roses on his breast, He loved the roses best, c o never cared for lilies or fo- snow. Let be this bitter end of his sweet quest ; Let be the pallid si!ono that is rest And lot all go ! What John Found. Recess was nearly over. The boys and iris were gatliered in the play-ground out ide of the log schoolhouse, but no play as going on. Most of the boys had their books in their hands, and were poring over them as if to make up for all the idle time of their lives; while the girls sat on the wood-pile whispering, and looking at' the boys with a kind af.awe.' The schoolhouse was uilt just outside of a mountain villiage in North Carolina. The boys were dressed in butternut or blue cloth, the eirls in a kind of linsey, all' of which their mothers had spun and woven. Outside of the fen'e was a gang of little negroes, whom the white children ordered about with an air of authority; There was a row of Fhiny black famcs at, the top of the fence. "Jorr'y look at mas' .WIll I I tink ho get itl"1 "Peshaw I g'long, you Victory . our Mas' Bob's twic't as good a scholar. See how he pokin' into dat book I " The others volunteered no opinion but shouted,-"Iooraty I which ob you a-gwine 1 to be the sojer? Mas' Bob Sevier he gwine I Cunnel Bob Sevier 1 Hooray I iNevef had there been such a day known in Uncle Job's school. Bob Sovier, a fair thin boy with round blue eyes, sat on the t steps turning over the leaves of his Histor am racr:e. lIe kne.v every word and lino; but he turned lent after leaf with his cold shaking fiogers. When the little negroes shouted for "Cunnel 3ob," he felt a lump in his throat, choking him. If he shoul:l not win I Bob had always been head boy in the school, but during the last month lie had .worked harder than ever: The cause was this: Judge Peters, whd' was now Congress nan ftom th .t distrlct, had paid a visit to the villiage a few weeks betore, and had dropped into the school' one morning and made the boys a little speech. '1 was a pupil here," lie said, "There is the very desk at which I sat. Uncle Job taught me pretty much all I know. My father could not afford to send me to college, 1 and 1 am sure neither can your fathers af ford to scud you there. But I want to give some boy here a chance such as I did not have. I have the appointment of a cadet to West Point, and I propose instcad of giving it to some rich man's son, that the boy in this school who passes the best ox animation a month fron now shall have it." This was the speech. * It had. made the boys as wild as if he had pu.it fire into their brains. Not a boy thore who did not see1 himself a colonel In full regimentals, pre ceded'by a brass band, riding up the streets of the villinge in triumph)l. They fell to studying, most of them for they were born In the .idles, laziest qjuarter of the United 8tates. They never had done * anything but lounge about the grassy street of the sunny, hilly highland hamlet, ls tening to the intemeonablo stories of the1 hunters who came in with pelt.ry, or play ig "Sixty-out," with little negroes' John Fremtoy, the shabbiest of them all, sat apart from the other boys, with his sls ter Louisa. "Now, Lou, just' hear -me this paIge;" and lie began, "Charlemagne, otherwise.- Charles the Great, wns the son of Pepin the Short, the first of thie Carlovingian--Carlovingian'. oh, what comes next ?" "Dynasty," promptedt Lou. "And what's the meaning of 'dynasty" l'd iketo kow)Such riibbish I I don't undestad a(vbnly a droning' voice now and then from he open wndows. At last there was a uush. Uncle Job was going to give his lc9lsiofl. he little' neg:'ogs,rpvded up the fthool iolioe stepa. Lou stood up - and thte\v her ulie) suu.bonnet off her head. She (lid ot know what she did. She was stilling vith sudden,. terrible heat. 1Ier strained eyes were on the door. ?resently she heard linclo Job's voice, in few brief words. But she could not iatch him. They sounded to her like 'John has won. John Fremoy." Suddenly there was a cheer inside. 'l'hen he negroes took it up. "Bob Sevier l lunnel Bob! Hooray for Bob!" Lou sat downi. andcoired her face with her hands. 11er brother caine to her in a noment. "(let up and come along home! he said, oughly. She caught his arm and patted it. "Don't rou mind it, Johnny," 'blie said. "You in do lots of things Bob Sevier knows iothiti' about!" she ciled, fiercely. "No, Bob won it fair," lie said sturdily. ''n a 'dunce; 1 did'ut deserve it; that's he worst of it !" His face was colorless, even to the lips, >ut he showed his disappointment in no >ther way. Judge Peters came to the village the next lay, heard the report of the examinition, ient for Sevier, and promised him the up >oiutment. ie then went out to a farm vhich he owned near to Caleb Freuoy's, lohni's uncle. The boy crept over, towards night, to atch a gimnipse of the great man who might rhve made' himu happy for lite, but had not lone it. ie hung miserably about the >lace, until evening, and then set out heine varl. Coming to the edge of Creggy Creekjpst Vhere it turhs froin the nloitht'aih; he sat lown on the bank, and put his' hot feet u the water. To-moIToW he was to be ot to plowing with the negroes. "'It's all yer fnt for," his uncle said. 'You'd a a chance for West Point, and ye lidn't take it. So you kin kennel with he (larkeys for. the rest of yer life. i'll ced you no more." John sat moodily flinging pebbles into he water until the dusk came on, and an wl began hoot. Suddenly the boy stood up, trembling vitli excitement, holding a .stone in his mand up to the fast fading light. It shone vith a brilliant lustre, like a great drop of hew in the morning sun. As he moved it, t flashed, a blood-red star, In 'his dirty an. John had heard of ,the ruby which tad once bedin found in the next gorge. "It was worth thousans of doliprs ". lie obbed rather' 'an ap6ke. t1 leard Judge 'eters tell my uncle there was corundum in his farm, and a ruby is a kind of corun lum. I am rich for life!" He sat down, breathless, carefully rub ring the brilliant lump in his hand, as Uaddin might have done his lamp. What was West Point to this? Money, beautiful mouses, a glimpse of the world, an easy, nappy life for himself and Lou ! "Poor Lout I was so cross to her to-day I '1l go and tell her." Then he stopped as if somebody had truck him. The ruby was not his. lie vas on Judge Peters' land. The boy sat down again, and for one vhole hour the tempter strove with him. f there was one quality strong and (donm nant In Jolln Frenoy, it warn his honesty, lut this was a temptation such as seldom onies in thme way of any man.. The next morning Judge Peters was nounting his horse to go into the village, rhen a boy canie across the yard. Hie valked quickly, as if driven by some force >ehind. The judge waited, one'foot in tIhe tirrup. As long as John Fremoy lived, lie re nembered, ll.ke a suidden, terrible p.icture, lie glaring light on the little muddy yardi, he paringn,egro ,iyoholding .thie horse, he 1ortly, -kidd-b' krnd'ian- waiting his ipproach. When John reatched the Judge,' he stop ecd' and was silent. He had his little peech all ready, but lisa tonguo was stifl, md! his throat parched. ")Vell, my boy, what is tt" asked the udlge.. John thrust out his hiaid. "A ruby sir. it's worth a great ma~ny housand dollars. I founid it on y6Ar SJuidg Peters ook thm4 stone a'~xamin d i oari. 'mep'lNo turned John, mnd fokd at in as euh-tously.-+ "Why didn't you keep it, if it is worth o much?i" "I had' a mind to. But it's yours." He turned away'. "Stop, boyl Who 'are youl" "John Fremoy, sir." "Ohol, Uncle Job spoke of you to me. fou are uncommonly quick at figures, eld'' "If I am, I am a dunce at everythinr 1so. .If I had notaed, I Thight if'vo gone o West Point." t ogifilya on "Yes" lookm ingouhflya on 'Very well, Frenmoy; i'm very much >letised with honesty. Good.morning;' ind the judge rode abruptly away. lie rode diirect to Uncle Job's house and mas ololmeted with him' for an hour. 'The next day the village was electrified >y hearing that Judge Peters we Mding to ake John Frenmoy to Annapolis to pass an ixamination in the ,egh eers' dopprtment it the Naval Acaddth atid that Lou was e e. t to a hoo.1 in Raleigh by the same John Fremoy is now a middle-aged man, uneising high In his profession. lIe met fudge P?eters about a ycar ago, at his ala 9's h9uge--o .99 mgrrie4 aphgter In vt il4ind ls a happy wife and mother. h Of ter wdnddred, judge," ho aid, "whmf you befriended rnme as you did. - ot at 61ll sure tha I maceurato about the Carlovinglan dybhasty ar h r~i ttao t~( than good "'Yes." "May I look closely at it ?" The judge hesitated, then laughed, and gaveit to him. ;'"Why, It Is only colored quartzI'' ex 0laled EFremoy. ' es, but it is more valuable to inc than any jewel; for It gave mte an houe'it man for a friend. Trud by Wol v +s. Wolves have been unusually plenty in portions of Elk and McKeau counties, Pa. for some months, and many farmers have lost large numbers of sheep from these bold jniruders. Ileavy rewards were offered in some instances for the destruction of the animals and many exciting adventures are reported by those who engaged in the search. fin a wild part of lik county it is reported that a pack had repeatedly fAl lowed a stage and .the inhabitants were kept In a constant state of alarm for fear of being attacked at night by the ravenous beastR. Richard Davidson and Porter inith, of Jersey Shore, stimulated partly by the large reward and partly by a spirit of adventure, started cut on a grand wolf hunt recently. They procceced to Elk county by rail, accompanied by a boy about fourteen years of age, who insisted on going along. Leaving the cars at St. Mary's they proceeded to the haunts of the woles In the wilderness, where they had been attracted by the carcass of an ox which had died some (lays before. They traveled in a light wagon, drawn by two horses of little value, so that in case of disaster the loss would not be heavy. They had abundance of ammunition, two double-barreled rifles, previsions, ropes, axes, etc. Within a short distance of the hunting ground was an old deserted stable, which had been used by a crew of lumber tanon. 'rhe horses and wagon were left there in custody of the boy when they started for the hunting ground, each carry ing a pine board about .sixteen feet long, for the purpose of putting pl) a platform. They found two small trees, about twelve feet apart; where they erected a platform with the plank and rope about fifteen feet above the ground, and to each tree they fastened ropes to assist them up and (IowI. They then started in search of the wolves, leaving their guns on the platform, cau tiously watching each step of the way. Their pockets were tilled with assafatida, in order that the wolves might scent them. They had gone but. a siort distance when the wolves nmade their appearance, and they immediately retreated and ascended the platform, when the wolves were at the base of the trees in a few minutes. They selected four of the pack and shot them at once, when to their discomfiture, they dis covered that through an oversight they had left the ammunition at the stable, and they were without powder or ball. The pros pect was not cheering. Night was coming on and the cold was severe. They had but little room on the platform to move aro md, and at the foot of the trees a drove of wolves. which their imagination magnified into almost a legion, were making night hideous with their howlings and jumping up half way to the plat form. They secured themselves to the boards and trees by means of ropes, so that if overcome for want of sleep they might not fall If they should lose their balance. Davidson threw a small piece of meat, strongly seasoned with strychnine. among them, and soon had the satisfaction of seeing one of the umber struggling in the agonies of death. Soon after dark the pack was reinforced by three more hungry-looking devils, which had been attracted by the howlings. The night was spent on the platform and it was a night of terror, made all the gloomier by the yells of the infiriated beasts, mad dened by their ineffeetual attempts to reach the scaffold. Some time In the night a portion of themi left and the sharp crack of a revolver was p)roof that the boy's p)lace of refuge had been (discovered. About sun rise the remiaindler departed in the dircec tion of the carcass of the ox. Satisfied that they might risk coming dowvn, Smith con eluded that lie would (descend anTw England. travelling ini Texas for hils health, impaired by arduous clerical, duties, upon ar riving at one of the towns, went in search of tIme barber's shop for repairs and im provements. On , entering an establish ment of this kind, he observed a big double barrelled gun Ieanin~ against the wall. HlavinIg a coniltiOtI awe of fire-arm, lie haistijy Asked the- barber if tIhe gun were loaded. A half-shaved native, who ocen *pied the chair, turned around his lather beaten face and exclaimed: "Stranger 1 if you're iin an Ill-fired hurry, you'll flnd ,a six-shooter what Is.loaded in my coat.tal pocketi" This riecal snother story of an EudglIh tourI,st ,who proposed to. visit. Ark ans, ltnd asked a ci4izen If he ought to pro hId4l ef with:a revolver. "Wall," replt sh' itI&jd ifrhout tiot-Wat 0on ra jn &d ye alhout not Want one for everA# id4rnti A School for Nureo. There are three great training-schools for nurses in New York, at Bellevue, the Char ity and the New York Hospitals. At Bel levue, nine wards of the hospitals are as signed to the use of the school. The course t1 of training is a thorough one. Besides|I bedside instruction from the hou'se staff and lectures from the surgeons and physicians f on points connected with the care of the sick, lessons in bandaging and the cooking c of invalid fare are given, and constant practice in the nursing of turgical and med ical cases is kept up. The board, lodging 1 and washing of course is provided. Two years is the term of service, the first being g devoted to training and the second tp prac- v tical nursing, either as head nurses or as attendants to private cases outside the hos pital. Ten dollars a month is paid the tirsi , 1 and $16 the second year. Te ^harges for a oulside nursing go to the hospital, which is j always ready to furnish private invalids with nurses on reasonable terms. The Charity g lHospital school is under the authority of c the Commissioners of Charities and Correc tion. The instruction Is in special forms t of medical and surgical nursing, the term -of tuition the same as that at Bellevue, and k the pay ten and fifteen dollars a month, 4 with board and washing. Pupils must be over twenty and under thirty-five years old, and must present with their applications It for instruction ceitiicates of moral and physical soundness fromt a responsible citi- c, zen and a doctor. Services in the wards of a the hospital and the lying-in wards of the Maternity Hospital, and lectures on the sl various branches of nursing form the curri- r cultum. Frequent examinations are held t by the chief of staff of Charity Hospital. At the expiration of the second year, diplo- s mas are given to those qualified. "'Te samle course of practical instruction, cAteuding ; over the same length of time, is given at the New York Hospital. There are, too, tl elementary lessons in anatomy, physiology and hygiene. One month of each year e must be spent in the kitchen and one in the laundry. The instructions in the kitchen a consist of plain cooking -and all the varle- 1 ties of special diet, from gruels up.. That e in the laundry comprises plain and fancy t washing and ironing. Competent chiefs in each department act as tutors. At the end s of the first year a second class is formed, I and the nurses of the first class become 1 heads of the wards for next year. An ex- I amination and diploma end the term. 'The , classes are limited to twelve students each, of from twenty to thirty years old, in good f health and with a fair English education. Certificates of character are sJ in rule. Applications for admission to the New York ilospital school are made to the board. tj The lady Superintendent has charge of that department for Bellevue, and chief of staff of the Charity Hospital passes on applicants for that course whom, on approval, he turns over to the Board of Conumissioners for final indorsoment. Medical men speak in the h highest terms of these schools and their systems of instructions, and they are said e to have done incalculable good in raising a what was up to a few years ago a mere trade to the level of an honorable and use fiil business, or rather profession. t t The Wood Samaritan. g g Oberlin,. the, well-known philanthropist w of Steinthal, while yet a candidate for the 1 ministry, was travelling on the occasion from Strasbourg. It was in the winter d time. The ground was deeply covered d with snow and the roads were almost imi passable. lie had reached the middle of his journey and was among the mountains, but by that time was so exhausted that he d could stand up no longer. d He was rapidly freezing to death. Sleep began to overcome him; all power to resist had left him. He commended himself to God and yielded to what lie felt to be the sleep of death. He know not how long he I slept, but suddenly became conscious of t' some o'ne rousing him and waking him up. Before hinm stood a wagon driver In his blue blouse anid the wagon not far away. t Hie gave him a little wine and food and (lie ~ spirit of life returned, Hie then helped t htim on the wagon and brought him to the ~ next village. The r'escued man was pro- ' fuse in his thanks and offered money, which his benefactor refused. "It is only a duty to help one another." V said (te wagoner, "and it is the next thing to an insult to offer a reward for such a a aervice." "Then," replied Oberlin, '-at least tell C me your name, thtat 1 may have' you in thankful remembrance before God." "I see," said the wagoner, "that you are a minister of thie Gospel; please tell me the 8 namie of the Good Bamaritan."' "That," said Oberlin, "I cannot do, for it was not put on record." 'Then," ieplied the wagotner, "until you can tell me his name, permit mue to with- ~ hold mine." tl Boon he had driven out of sight, and f DOberlin never saw him again. . ECgrptf an Oat. Tlhe Egyptians are thie first people among whom we find notices.of the eat, It figures largely utpon the monuments as a domestic f pt-t, anSI was honored when dead. Comi- p cal stories are told by Herodotus of the anxiety to save the cats when a house t caught~ fire, and of the grief when one died. . The cat seems to have served as a retriever I'n fowling expeditions, and even In fishing. a It seems strange that no mention of (lhe cat e occurs in (lie Bible or In any Assyrian re cord. Even in India, Prof. Max Muller Is a quoted as saying that it was but recently known gs a domesic animal. Its Sanscrit I name ileimarjara, from a root meaning to d clean, from the creature's habit of licking i herself at her toilet. Her mousing habits t were well known to (lie Romans, and -even 1 to the Etruseans, as shown by antique gems e and even wall-paintings. The moijee-killer a domesticated among the Greek., called gale a described by Aristotle, and humorously re ferred to by Aristophanes in the "Peacy,"' has been shown by Professor IRollestoni to have been our white breasted nearten, (Marteefoina,) a different anmmal from the gale agra or iktis, which was larger, and a great lover of honey a. well as a 1 killer of birds. Mr. iloughton dwells upon the remiarkably scant occurrence In Latin 1 'writers of the word fdi or /ele., Cicero ~u.sig it but onCe, ad that when speaking I of Egpflan cat.s Ovid in a bingle passage, spao ;mythologieal/el. into which the sister of Pheobus was chage. De. sides thiecat, th9 Egyptians d *lae t he I9 n u l e sti l J 9 ~ a a The 1Dyotele. "Place the machine in front of you this vay," says the Professor. "Hold a handle a each hand, put your left foot on this ittle projection behind, shove the bycicle head autd then stand on your left foot, tting the machinc run till it stops." "Then I won't begin saddle riding at rat?" "How much accident insurance do you arry?" "None." "Well, then, I wouldn't if 1 were you. 'd approuth the saddie gradually." I placed both hands as directed: put my eet on the projection; shoved gently ahead rith the other foot and then stood up. The recollection I have of this incident is nat the numerous windows of the hall ide a sort of rapid torchlight procession round tme and then the lion and the lamb ty down together. "Ah, that was first -rate for a beginning," 1d the Professor, as he picked up the bi yele while I dusted myself off. "Oh, that was a good start, was it?" I lquired. "Yes; you kept on top. Now, many fel >ws let the machine tumble on them. .re you ready for the next round?" "Not quite. I lost a couple of buttons -while 1 look them up would you mind iking a run on the bicycle?" Then the Professor gave it a push, stood Li one foot and glided around the room 'ith an case and grace that was deligh ful. "No trouble at all," he remarked as he ood on one foot and glided around the >Om with an case and grace that was de ghtful. "No trouble at all," he remarked as he ood beside me again. "When you find Durself falling just give the wheel a turn 1 the direction you are going and it will be i right. Keep your eyes llxed on some ding ahead." I shoved the machine ahead and kept my res fixed at a window. 1 felt I was falling against the brick 'all. 1 turned the wheel in that direction. turned not wisely, but too well. As an igte swoops downward, so swooped my vo-wheeled demon toward the iron pillars. "Turn the wheel," shouted the Profes )r; but self-preservation is the first law of ature. I abandoned the wheel and wild clasped the pillar, as if it had been my mig lost brother while the bicycle left me, 'abbled and fell with a clatter on the floor. "First rate, good enough," said the Pro :ssor, rubbing his hands cheerfully, aq he 'ent to the assistance of the bicycle. "Was that a success, too?" I asked. "Oh, yes. Why, you went at least venty feet as straight as a line. But ou're too ambitious. If I were you I 'ould'nt try going around the posts just et for a while." "Well, now that you mention it-I won't. foulc you have the kindness to see if I ave bent that pillar any? I feel too scited and confused for a critical ex minautioh." "Oh the post is used to those affection to advances," said lie as I walked across te room to pick up my hat. Again I shoved the machine forward and azed ahead. We trundled along as if we rore made for each other until we had one about half the length of the room, rhen I stepped down and brought it to a landstill. "Oh, pshaw," cried the Professor, "why ldn't you keep it up? you were doing splen idly." "Pretty well done wasn't it?" "Well, of course.' "Well, I thought there was no use over oing a good thing. ''ho machine was just lying a list over towards that last post. I idn't wan't too conclude the thing too bruptly, you know." Thus endethi the first lesson. All next day I felt kind as if Ilhad been a a fight in which thme other party was vic >rious. It was a week before I climbcd mose stairs again. "Ah," said the Professor as I entered, "I iought you were discouraged. Since you rere up) here lact, that tall journahst-on me other paper, was here and would you elleve It, lie mastered the bicycle in half ai hour-yes, sir." "Oh, well, lie has an advanitage over te. lie can just put clown hia feet and let me tallest bicycle run fromi under him." "Yes, I know, but lie's not a man to take a advantage of any one. IIe went through Il the regulation tumbles withi as inuchi de islon as you did." "As I diui? I thought you sasid I did rat sate before?". "Oh, well, so youi did-so you did; on imbles you know. You tumble, don't oun" "Lead out your steed." "Yes, sir, he Went clear over the head of ie tallest machine we have-twice. Mag ificent fallst Last time he went simashm nrough that door carryIng everything be are hilm. You noticed we had new door, 'didn't you? But lie >de around every post in the ball before e quit." A new bicycle was now before mec. The thier one had been used up in tIhe interIm. "Try that one-foot busIness again." I tried it; and when lie lifted tIhe bicycle romn above me, I realized how much a erson can .forget in a week. "You shiould have turned the wheel in lie direction y ou were going to fall," lie aid in a tone of mild reproof. "What do you do when you know you re falling in three different directions?" I sked reproachfully. After being able to guide the machine round the room, standing on one foot, he next feat Is to get into the saddle. A eeling of utter hopelessness seizes the laring man who finds himself on this per Ious perch. But the secret of safety is to urn In the direction you are falling, and y and by you can run along with the byci Ie, step on the projection, amnd slip into the addle, while the apparently unconscious nachmino whirls around tIme room, Whenever you begin to feel the least oncelted about your exploit. thme malignant nachino gives a series.of mixed up wobbles hat bewilders you, while you frantically ujn the wheel right and left, and at least led yourself on the floor with the byeilol mealde you. And then another exsperating thing is be advent of the small boy. Just as you re all perspiration, with suspenders byolken, mutons missing, collar undone, tln vith the bicycle,, a small boy wit41 legs omes In, wheels out a maohinqh, s95i ke a bird on a porch, folds hi aras and 'hirls arpund the room wt 1y~ ancee at the-fraCas yoaeo p again will, perhaps stand in the saddle, or place his feet as high as his head on the handle of the machine, which acts all the while as if there was no such thing as the law of gravitation. How I did hate that talented little wretchi "Now," said the Professor, leading out the tallest machine he had, "get into the saddle here, while I hold the bycicle." I would have flatly refused if that boy had not been present. "Place youf' feet firmly on the treadles and work as if you were on the road. I will keep the machine from falling. ''Now don't let go of it." "Oh, I won't" So We started deliberately around the hall, 1 pumping away solemnly with my feet, while he walked rapidly hy my side, holding the untamed steed and keeping it perpcdicular. ''You can do it all'right now If you only think so," lie said on.the fifth round. "Well, I dori't think so, I cried. "You hang on to this machine, or I'll massacre you if I live after I get down." "I'll not let go unless you want me to," and thus reassured we went around the room eight times splendidly, although the smnall boy was grinning about something. The horrible thought nearly paralyzed me. Would he suddenly let go and leave me to liy fate? "I guess I'll get down now," I said tremulousli. "One more turn," said the Professor, cheerfully, and when we were half way round my worst fears were realized. "You're doing first rate; keep on," said the Professor as he coolly took his seat, leaving me on that mechanical Belzebub. "Help!" I screamed. "Somebody grab this machine!" But the small boy laughed aloud, and the Profesor callously said, "Uo on; go ahead." I drew up my feet, clutched the handles Convulsively, while my hair began to stand on end. The muchuno slowly stopped, then gently leaned over, with ie six feet from the ground, and while I shrieked for help that came not, down we caie with a clash like a hundred men in armor. "Perfidious villainl" I shouted,"throwing off my vest which was now split up the back, "prepare to die!" "Why didn't you keep on-" "Why didn't I keep on?" Why didn't you hang oni?" "1 mean why didn't you keep on- ." "Nobody could keep 'm a - falling wheel." "Keep on working the treadles. It was all your lack of confidence." "It was all my child-like confidence in you. Why did'nt you hang on?" "My dear and excited sir, for the last nine rounds 1 did not have a hand near the machmne. Ask the boy. You can ride all mright, only you had a touch of stage fright. You see it was a lack of confidence." ''Such was the case, and now I ride the bycicle. Detesting an Im,postor. While attending college, our frieind An derson filled up his vacation with school teaching, finding opportunity to keep the late summer term of the village school at Waterford. Things went on swimmingly. The location was pleasant, the s:hiolars were good-natured, and the pay was fair. At length, however, there came a hitch. One bright, haliny morning, the scholars found written upon the door of the school-house, in plain characters, "No SKm.E TO DA." The spelling was faulty, but the Informa tion conveyed was cheering, and away went the jubilant youngsters over the hills for a day's sport. On the following morning the teacher entered the school-room with a l portentous frown upon his brow. The no tice of the previous day, under the cover ] of \vhich more than half of his school hiad, stayed away, had been the work of an in p)ostor. And how was the Impostor to be dletectcd i A scrutiny of the sober, guile less faces before him satisfledl Anderson that ordinary inquiries would effect nmothing~, Gradually the frown disappeared, iand lie went on with the usual exercises as though nothing had happened out of the way. To wairds the close of the afternoon session, hie b)ade the scholars put away their booiks, and take their writing slates. Hlewould exercise them in writing sentences. Several simple sentences were given out and wvritten down. Finally lie gave them~ to write: "Goort boys lovc thirli school." When this had been written the teacher pr'oceeded to ex amine the slates. About -a- dozen of tIhe tow-headed urchins had submitted the result of their efforts, and had their bad] spelling corrected. biext came Peter Mac wash, a lad of twelve years, chubby and rugged. ils spelling was excelienit. It met the case In huand exactly. k-fe hind spelt school-"s-k-u-4c." Peter could not deny the charge thus cunningly fastened upon hin, He was the impostor. And as a reward for his caligraphi effort upon the school-house door, lie had a nice new birch en rod expenided upon his back. Wooden Ilunions. The meanest man lives in Fond dui Lac, and hIs name Is Captain Mangan. A few days ago a poor, unsophisticated corn doc tor struck that town and began a business career. lie was one of those innocent minded, unsuspicious corn doctors that stand on a dry-goods box on a street-corner with a lighted torch at night, and plead for suffering humanity and twenty-five cents. He lAad no idea there ,were base, designig men in the world, or ho -would have entered the ministry and tied to-lead them to better life. He wss a very beau tiful young man, and his conversational powers were rare and of a high order. In ia audience, one evening, was this Cap taIn Mangan we were tolling about, who .was all through the war-not lnathe comimis sary department-and got shot full of holes and maimed for life. The captain told the corn doctor that he had been agreat sufferer and money would be no object if he coukA get relief from a bunion that was dragging him down 't a premature grave. The young man came down off hir' dry-goods box, remarking that he didn't want any thing softer than that bunion, and Captain Mangan pulled 9$t his .boot and sock. There is no question but that the men who make artifIcial feet and legenowadays have got the thing down to a science. The corh doctor gave the foot a close examination ascloseas hs thought was necessary--and thems turned away liko one overthoipiedby aome great 6or*0w, se.eeorit grief whieh he cannot cofidaeAto others, but un*t4 l'y, tid o hI#ol bpon'ibl. te WA1i .BRIE 'S. --Aierlcan sweet potatoes and cran berries ire becoming popular in lAng lsl markets. --The furnace of asmelting works In Jersey City is to be run with tar as fuel, ins'ead of coal. -''he lEtna furnace at Rome, Ga., is turning out an average of 12 tons of pig iron per day. -The rollink-tuills of Chicago now inuploy over 3,000 men, and are run. niing night and day. --Mr. George W. Childs has a mania for clocks. lie has ten in his oflice and tlir;ty in his house. -Boots and shpes for dolls are turn ed out by one London house at the rate Af 1,000 pair a week. -Robert A. Laiuberton, President :leet of 1ehitgh University, Pa., is in fis tifty-sixth year. -Cruclileation, as a criminal punish inent, was very common four or five iundred years It. C. -The prospective bride of Ulysses S. 3rant, Jr.. Miss Flood, is to receive .2,500,000 as a wedding gift. -Prof. Tyndall has been delivering icientlile lectures to children at the Royal Institute, in London. --The'first building of the Egyptian yramids is supposed to have been .bout 1500 years before Christ. -Since 1809 the Paciflo Railroad has anded 472.811 passengers in San Fran :isco and brought away 280,803. -The English Wosleyans are getting ip a thanksgiving fund, to which no ess than $1,177,825 has been promised. -Mr. Cutler of the Nova Scotia Leg-' slature has been a member of that body or forty-two years, and is now 90 years >f age. -Alabama was originally a portion f Georgia. It was admitted Into the Union li 1820, with a population of 128,C00. -lowa had 2,100 granges with a nembership of 40,000 in 1872, but now here are but 200 societies and 5,000 raugcrs. -No wine was produced in France n the time 01 the Roman occupancy. t'ho art of making wine was produced rom India. -Excess in dress was restrained by aw in England under Edward IV., 105, and again in the reign of Eliza lethi in 1574. -One firm in Baltimore has made a ontract. for 800,000 tons of iron and ron ore, and another for 140,000 from ilnglisi ports. -Rome has abandoned the scheme of ta proposed World's Fair for 1882, as llilan proposes holding a great national "air in the same year. -America imported from Europe Last year 29,041s30 gallons of wine, an ncrease over the imnportation of 1878 of icarly 15,000,000 gallons. -Michigan University has 1,897 stu lents, the largest number of any Anerlcan college. Columbia pays its prof'+ssors the largestsalaries. -Thie Lake Shore and Michigan 3outhern Railroad Company has given )rders to increase thie wage4 and salar es of the 10,000 6iployes 5 per cent. -It Is estimated that there are 10,000 well-educated young men in Paris who, for want of more lucrative employ :eunt, accept a franc per day as copyiuts. -Tihe depositors in the Glasgow )Ank, which failed in 1877, wili,be paid n full, the amount of $45,000,000. I'hn 1,70'0 stocklijldors are personally iable. ---l3etweoi 6,000 and 7,000 seamans' Ibraries are kept on tihe water by the AmerIean Senaman's Friend Soolety, he number of volumes being over 100,000. -A stock company is being formed *n Rochester, with a eapltal of $100,000, o put down salt wells near Wyoming. l'en acres of land have been leased, and wo large sprIngs of fresh water. -Col. Wellesley, sea-in-law of Lord Augustus Loftus, who created a sean-. lallast year by,loping with a(danOeuses lias been dlrop)ped from the list o4 A..D. I.'s. to the Q.mcen. ~lHe is Colonel of ~he Coldstreami Guards. -Over 200,000 car loads of live and Iressed poultry are c.irried into Now York City yearly, and 25,000,000 dozen >f eggs to tihe same market. Accord *ng to best estimates the United States produce 9,000,000 of eggs annually. -Michigan is a good State to live in. Her dlebt is only $890,000, while there is $9C4,000O in tihe sinking fund to meet t. Another evidence of thrift Is the building of the State Capitol for $15 000 ess than the appropriation far builing -The largest cIties in the world have thme following population6: London, 3,500,000; ParIs, ~1,851,000; Vlhnna, 1,181,000: New York, without Brook lyn, 1,060,000; Berlin, 1,044,000; Can ton, 1,000,000; Shanhowfoo, 1,000,000; aind Slgafoc, 1,000. -In the reign of Louis XLV France had a population of 19,000,000, England 3,000,000, and Germany 19,000,000. In 1780 France had 26,000;060, England 12,080,000 and Germany 28,000 000. Under Napoleon I. France had 29,600, 300 anti Enmglanid 10,000,000. -The potato crop 'ot the country is sstlmstedl at 181,800,000 bushels. Com-. pared with 1878 there was an Increasse sf 8 per cent. in acreage, and the yield Is estimated by time Department of Ag rIculture atr08 bushels per acre, against 39 bushels lost year, and 91 i'n 1874. -There is a rumor that Hon. Eu gen.e Hale will be compelled to move permanently f romn his home In' Maine mhd take up hIs abode in the State sf MIchigan. T1he great estate left by j; Snator Chandler requiresconmstant et. Lontlon, and'Mr.lHaio will be. forced' , to devote all his time to it. -During 1879 the births In Nlome numbered 7,987 oif which 7,980 -were amo,2g tihe resident populatin, The rieatule among residents were 6//14~ Ot Dec. 31, 1879, the populationi nut 1ord 108,00. an increase of 49,080 A e since 1871 the popul4ttion has rs byv 84,470, mainiy.bv immagrai. -' " -The Vietoria, es Book for 18i8-9 ahy that InlV&t oria durded ,$ ea p *1G 8 :8