nuI-WEEKLY IDJT ION. - W I1NNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 20, 1880.VLI.-.48 BY THE SEA. My blue-eyed pet, with goldon hair, is sitting on my knoo, And gazes eagerly afar, Acroes the beach, beyond the bar, Whero rolls the restless sea. She Puts her little hand in miner And laughs with childish gloo, To see the foaming billows splash, As on the shore they tlorcely dash, Thon glide back silently. But while she laughs so merrily, My heart is far away ; And, as 1 look upon the shore, Where loud and long the breakers roar, My sad sou .seems to say : "The sea is like a hun,an life ; It breaks upon the shoro Of time with a resistless might, And, when tijo goal is just in sight, Dies-to return no more. ."And all along the shore of Time, Full many a wreck doth lie; The pangs of many a mad carouse, Of blasted hopes and broken vows, Of happy days gone by." Yet, while I muse in mournful mood, . And gaze upon the sea, My blue-eyed pet with golden hair, Whose heart has never known a care, Whose voice is musio in the air, Still sits upon my knoe. Her head is resting on iny breast Her eyes in slumber doep ; Tio same rough sea, whose breakers roar, And madly, fiercely lash the shore, Has lulled my child to sleep. Mrs. Tere-biath's Birthday.. Mrs. Terebiath was sixty years old on the eighteenth of June. And Mrs. Terebiath had property to leave, which probably may"accqunt for' the 4evo-' tion of a'h rge circle of tlatitts; and their kind remembrances,. whenever the eight eenth of June came ardund, as well as for their cordial hatred of lite'Winiifred Leslie, whom the old lady had adopj6d out of, ani orphan asylum, and was "bringing up" after an erratic system, which comprised a great deal of scolding, hem-stitching, and stocking darning, and very little indul gence. But there are occasions in which even one as hapless and insignificant as Winifred Leslie was iade useful, and this was one of them. "Winny," said Captain Leofric Terobi ath, the old lady's nephew, you are a poor girl." "1Yes, Mr. Leofric," said Whiny, meekly. "Have you heard my aunt mention any particular articlo-aheni I-or gift, you know that she would fancy on her birtday, he ?" - "No, Mr. Leofric," said Winny, demure ly ; but she was telling old Doctor Duffer what a beautiful picture she saw last week at the Genutlex Gallery. She said if it idn't been for the price, she would have been tempted to buy it for her boudoir." "The Genutlex Gallery, eh ?" said the captain, pulling his long mustache. "You don't happen to remember the subject--oh, Winny?" "Yes, sir," said Winny. "t'was 'On the Juniata.' At. least that was what she said." "All right," said the captain. "I'll give, yn a quarter, W inny, the next time I have any change.". "Thianik you, Mr. Leofrlc," said Winny. Winny had scai-cely finished dusting her parlor, when in rustled Mrs. Forrester, Mrs. Trerebiath's cousin, once removed. '"My cousin Phonbe isn't in, Wipifred ?" "No, ma'am," said -Winny. "Oh," remarked Mrs. Forrester, with a git-stoppered smelling-bottle,*at her nose. "Winifred, I'm going to make a confidant of you. "Are you, mia'am," said Winny. Mrs. Forrester nodded. "I wanato make my cdtisln Phoe an acceptable birthday gift, Winifred," said she. "Now, can' you mention anything for * which she has lately expressed a wish? Thuis is quit e confIdentIal - between our selves, you kno r." " ~Oh, yes, ma'am," said Winny, with wie open llup ey s. ,"Thpre was a painting that alie &dX ifed'ai th J'enullex Gallery." "Not a word more14" said Mrs. Forrester, liftIng .he~ prhirose-7kidged fi ige . Na w, what as he n4ne?",. "ltwa a so no on'nthb Junta al Rtr, ma'amn. I heard her say-" "Yes," said Mrs. Foirester. "Exactly. Thlat is all, my good girl. I've a east-off alpaca dressaat home, thiat I'll tr'y and re member to give you some time." And Mrs. Forrestor rustled out of the room, leaving behind lier a strong odor of patchouli, While Winny's blue eyes laughed in unison wIth the sly dlimpl~i arouind'thd corners of her little rosebud off mog~th, Away posted CaptaIn Leofric, on the wings of -the street gqars, to thogenteyC Galley.'' There was the usual proportion there of lo9ypging gloIure-seekers,.'news-' paper crli(ha, saaing amateurs, r retty' girls an(i stout gentlemen; but through them all Captain Tiereblath made li way to the *spot where, on the crints'.n-draped wall, huing the picture chronicled in the' cata logute as "On the Juhllata." .m I Ihorror of horrors! iln the corner blinked a lhttle green tibket,,.Ob witifc (vas sbribed the fogr fatal letters-"old I" wipizrithefesadiof perpihltonAf1n, lif ' fo)reheSdkwith. a dtunbric pocket hndker 1heolo tht ,ain l -anothbid 1 phuncnAsr gentleman was eating his modest lunch of bread and cheese and old ale, at an antlg4o. table, which also contained a skull, two manikius and a plaster cast of Apollo, mi nus one arm. "i've taking a fancy to your painting of 'On the Juniata,'" said the captai-"at the GemlileX, you know." '6iuch olilged I'm sure," said Mr. Tinto, wiipig the froth of the ale from his fiery red, mustache; but,I sold it yesterday." 'clt's quite a sottled thing, then?" said Captain Terebiath, with his lower jaw fall ing. "Oh, ycs--quite,'ng,(dcd tlietist. But if yo' card parliculionlabout It, 1 could make you a copy." - "The very thing!"said Captain Terebiath, smiting the table so vehemently, in his sat isfaction, that the skull, intended as the study for a picture to be called "Alas, poor Yoriek !" rolled off upon the floor. "llow soon can you get It ready ?" Mr. Tlutd hesitated. ''Would a month-" lie comienced. "A. month, man l Why don't you say a century at once. I must have it in a fort night, at the farthest !" shuted Captain Terebiath. "It will be a tight fit," said Mr. Tinto, reflectively ; "but if it is absolutely neces, NAr",. _r "It iA a matter of life and death !" reek lessly asserted the captain. "And what will you charge. Come now, you can'c expect a copy to be worth the full price of that origi nal," he added, insinuatingly. "Couldn't do It short of a hundred and fifty," said Mr. Tinto; and to this statement lie resolutely adhered, in spite of all remon strances. The captatin took counsel with hinself. A hundred and fifty dollars in ready money represented a great deal of cash ; but then Aunt Terebiath represented a great,de.al more. Yes, upon the whole, it was wgrth while to risk it, and so he ordered the pic ture. Scarcely had the captttin's joot steps died awAy ohthe stahciie wieu tlicy were suc ceeded by a great fluttering of silken flounces, and Mrs. Forrester sailed gracious ly into the little studio. "Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. -ahem 1-Dlr. Roland Tinto ?" she asked, putting a ponderous gold eyeglass to her viuasl optics. "Mly name is 'l'into, ma'am," confessed the astonished artist, beginning to wonder If, like Sir Walter Scott, he was destined to "wake up ant find himself famous." - "I wish to purchase your charming view in the Genuflex Gallery," said the lady. 'On the Juniata,' I believe you call it." "Madam," sail Mir,, Tinto, with a low bow. "I regr4t to lnform you that it is already sold." "Sold'?" echoed Mrs. Forrester. "Sold," nodded the artist, wishing in his secret heart that he had sketched a dozen views on the Juniata instead of only one, and marveling whence sprung all this popu larity. "Mi's. Forrester clasped her hands theatri cally. "What a pity !" she cried ; and I had so set my heart upon it." "Wouldn't acopy"-Mr. Tinto suggested. "A copy !" Mrs. Forrester wondered that -she had not thought of it before. "Oh, yes, a copy, by all means I But I 'wam'\ted It finished by the eighteenth of June, without fall." No sooner had she withdrawn hecr silken and satiriy presence from the studio, than Roland Tinto rushed out and engmged tile services of a pair of needy brother-artists, to hlpji him out with his double order." ''Art is looking up," quoth lie, "and ge nius is finding its true level at last." So that when the eighteenth of Julne dawned upon ihe'summer world, twvo pro digious, spcigbe were trundiled up Mf'. Tdebati'sfro'kSteps. A "John ,I' crIed the old lady to' her foot man, ."open tfiose Igpxes i the hall, and, tell me what they are." And John was yet unscrewing se.rews and( drawintraout nails, wvhen Mlrs. Forrester andl Captain Leofric appeared on the scene of action; but the words of congratulation were yet upon their lips, when tly sight of "A View on the Juniata," hanging In agay g d frgn o -the wall, ''oze the glib sen "Yes, my IIe~ars,'~ al the old lady, *"a birthday gift from my old. friend Doctor Duter-" ."Please, ma'am," spid John, staggering .11 undel' the weight f. sCaptain Leofrle's present, "'ere's another 'View on the Ju.. niaty,' wieres.ovgvelihat m9y.ghe, wvith Cap tain Terebiath's comipliments." DPear met" j1dthqpl.d lady. "P'ni sure I'm much obliged, but I've got one already. Claribel Forrester," turning sharply toward her cousin, wvho was evincing strong symplI torns of#~ysterIes, "what Is the mnatterivwhh you?" In thme meantime, John, who had momnen tarily disappeared, camne groaning In once more. "Please, ma'amn," said he, "'there's an othIer." "Another what?f" shrieked Mrs. Tete "Another 'View on the Juniaty,' mrn'am, with Mrs. Forrester's love, and maniy 'app)y returns.". v Andm difliflii thm%tBIp'Itird i&li#ne!j l"kitlVMV. TA''hhhth1 "what fools you all are! Do you suppose I'm go-, flgflagig>eture gallery?9" *WhIle Wliihy stood ,dem1urely smilhng be, hind Mrs. TorombIath's chair. '' h - - " d:li old lady, 4' ou n rio 9to tea,g-nigh it t " 'Charmed, I'm sure," said the captain. "And.I'll introduce you to Deacon Pen field," added Mrs. Tereblath. "I'm going N, to be married to him next week, and he has of two daughters out in Pennsylvania, and, if ne you don't object I'll send two of those great ti( awkward pictures out to them and keep the one that dear Doctor Duffer gave me-the c one out of the Genufiex Gallery." 81 So Captain Tereblath and Mrs. Forrester El were checkmated, and Doctor Duffer's ar- all tistic investment was in vain. And no one In was pleased but Roland Tinto, and his im pecunious brother-artists. fi cc th A 'lii inost' A few rods back from tli water's edge at San Francisco, surrounded by a tangle of weeds, stands a curious edifice, about. seven El by nine feet and two feet high, constructed chiefly of strips of rusty tin torn from large ao coal-oil cans, with here and there a bit of board. The entrance to this abode is an aperture abou.t eighteen inches wide, run ning across one end, and peeping in, we see a few pieces of old straw matting and car pet. This is the last surviving relic of a number of snnilar edifices that dec orated the spot last Winter, and shel tered from twenty to thirty men during the an whole rainy season, whose mode of living fr( attracted much notice at the time. An im- tr pression seemts to prevail that these men th ;.haid adopted their singular life from choice, preferring to eke a scanty living from the n refuse of the dump piles to' applying them- to selves to any active work. Recently a re- tie porter visited the solitary structure among ha the dumps for the purpose of interviewing bo its occupant. He found a slender-looking ey n,uu, upwards of fifty years old, shabbily de dressed, with full grayish-brown beard, a clear blue eyes and intelligent face, who expressed himself in excellent language. W( It is said that he was a. Captain during the Mexican war, and he reluctantly acknowl- to edged it to be true, seeming very averse to th giving his name or any information by rt which his friends or family niight learn his where'hbdiltrnd iefuh'is'ances.' IIe gave a this history as follows: "I came to California from Boston in '49, attracied by the discovery of gold. 1Ik never learned any trade, for up to the time of I came out here it had never been necessary i for me to work. I went up in the moun tains to Sonora, and staid there most of the 80 time for twenty-four years. In the early dhys I did very well, never making a 'tei- t)o strike,' but very fair wages. Then times t grew duller and 1 thought I would come .down to the city, for it seemed as if any fri one ought to be able to make a living li where there is so much to do all the time. I got a few odd jobs of work at first, but no til steady job. My clothes kept getting an worse and worse, until finally I was ashamed to show myself to the few old friends I had here. The times' kept grow ing duller; work more scarce, and a little over a year ago I had no money, ho friends and was forced to come here, where I have ni been pretty-much ever since. Sometimes ai I get a little job of work-sawing wood or 11 something of the kind, and do a little bet- it ter for a time. San Francisco is a hard he place to get work. There is a good deal re doing, but too many to do it. And then ce the Chinese are everywhere and crowd da the white men out. sl " What was the general character of the .a I men who have been living on the dumps he the last eight months ?" Sc "There were men of all trades, farm la- pt borer', machinists, carpenters. Among be them there were, several who were evident- a ly first-class mechanics, who had been em- m ployed in some of the first-workshops East. pe 'hey had come here strangers, were unable sl to get work, got out of money and -had no se other place to go. Some of the men had ge famiiies back East, but when men come to vt that pass they don't like to talk about their lii lives. All were hiopinig for bet'ter times by T and by. cia " Where have these men gone .ow ?" thm "'Tho most of them have gone to the gt country and some of them have got work. h< Others have failed on account of the large a number of Chinese eilolyed on farms. 1 ta should have gone to the country myself but re I couldn't stand the work on a farm. I am to getting too old1 and broken for that." or " I suppose a good many men are brought F; downu to this on account of dIrink." ar' " Not so many as people think. Out of ed the twventy or thirty men who were heroesti last Winter iiot more than two or three cil were brought down by drink. Another -of thing-weo have beeni spoken of as hood- thm mn. On the contrary, the hoodlums are th are our greatest enemies. They delight in making raids on us and tearing down our houses. The hoodlums, like all outlaws, have plenty of ways of getting money, andh dlon't, need to come here. Sometimes when bm they have been committing depredations b4 they come (down ano sleep m the weeds." bi " What- kind of a time (10 you expect se next Winter ?" ia "HJ-ard1 to tell, sir. If times don't im- at prove I don't see swhamt poor muen will do. dl Th'iere are'thousands of men in this city to- ci day living in a 'way that would surprise am people If they know It. In the Winter a di lot nmore crowd into tIhe city from the coun- 1 Liry, to. say. nothing of these all the while fl arriving from. the East. These are hard k: times, sir, and noe mistake." i -"Time Nixt Case." Ho*t juuce Wa dis'pensed in Toledo, a; quarter of a century ago, by the celebrated Charles O'Malley, JusticeoftePaenc the tiorthi side. ,oftnPecoi The fIr-st ease which came before ils Honror was' O'Donnell and others for dis turbance a,t a dance house on KinzIe street. Time.testimony .was gpne thmroumgI with ap. parenitly correctly, amnd tihe decision (of the Cooi't) was a fine amid costs. SO'Malley rose to is difguity, andl turning oh to' O'Donmell (and the. Other offender's), iT gaid to the .lirst one next lim:nti "Tiny hafo yoles uiy inbuey?" Tim says, "Nah." .s Trerence says, Iah. o'i~trih th WIId-hoknj you a .~,Ms Pty*t.,~X yIjur Hono" to W$1 thin Jho A Missing Man's Fate. Some time ago, th pple of Elleusville, 3w York, were excittd by the discovery a human skeleton in an old lead mine ar the village. For a long time the ques- i in of its identity remained unsolved, but ally, on slight circumstantial evidence, it is decided by a coroner's jury to be the mains of a young man named David ilth, who mysterioasly disappeared from lenville in 1866. Smith was last seen ve in February of that year. Ho had been charge of the telegraph office in that vil- : re, and was very popular with the people. s mother, a widow, lived in the town of tankaken. Ie was an only child. Many njectures were current as to his sudden d strange disappe rance, but gradually a circumstances ,as forgotten, though ien the matter w( discussed there were w who entertained -ny opinion other than it Smith had been: murdered. While at lenville, Smith formed an attachment for rowd of fast young men, and as the )liths went by he became a hard drinker, ending the most of his time in the village t r-room when off duty. In February, 60, a ball was given by one of the fi: mipanies, and Smith was present, the rse for liquor. He was about drunk ough to act like a simpleton, and talked :essantly, finally getting into a quarrel th a disreputable man who was present, d who, when kept by Smith's friends um blows, angrily said: "hIe'll find out it this ain't the end of this muss." After st night Smith was not seen again. His >ther expended much time and money in ) vain search for him, and when the skele i was found in the mine, she hastened ,re, and was firmly convinced that she 3 I at last unraveled the mystery of her y's disappearance. The jury out of pure upathy, it is thought, for Alrs. Suith, so :ded, having no stronger evidence than ialf-decayed pair of gaiters which it was 1 )ved were similar in style to those always r.n by Smith. But thete still remained 3 ich doubt in the minds of the people as 3 whether or not the skeleton was really j it of Smith, but this doubt is now all noved. Mr. McCracken, one of the pro etors of the mine where the bones were covered, found, recently, the diary of ith's buried in the mud at the bottom of shaft. It was partially destroyed, but !re is no doubt that it was the property Smith, entries appearing in it relative to life in Ellenvil'e up to within a few eks before his sudden dsip] e traice. veral of his letters were found in the )k. His mother has been given the diary, a nigh she needed no proof to strengthen r opinion that the skeleton was really that t her son. It is remembered by Smith's , mds that the man who quarreled with u, and who made coiZain threats, aIter rd left the place, was engaged for a short ie on the Delaware and Hludson canal, I afterward went to Now York. a W1iay She Missed tihe Boat.'l BhWe was to meet her adored one ol the to o'clock Oakland boat, San Francisco, J d it'wanted fifteen Minutes of the hour. ( ir hand was on the door to go out, when I1 itruck her that ie had forgotten to line i r left eyebrow. Rushing to the glass to J ttify this, she discovered a small red spot, 1 anmemorative of a departed pimple. A E b of lily-white settled that defect, and . was about to make afresh start, when >ackward glance assured her that her new C t was not as becoming as it should be. i she stopped just long enough to give it a t, nch over one ear and a "hyke" in the e ek. Then her "Recamier locks" wanted ittle arranging, and an inch of blonde f ist be pinned across her nose. Then she 1 rted her lips to see if her filled tooth swed very plainly, and that gtarted a most 3 luctive dimple m'pane cheek which sug- r ited 'a scrap of black court-plaster on its d ry verge to call attention to its dangers, :e a signboard on a thinly-frozen pond. t< men she tipped the glass and stuck ini the I rling tongs to hold it, and walked across I room with her head over hier,shouder to Sa back view, gave her drapery a twitch re and a pat there, tried to see how long itep she could take without bursting the yes, gave herself a little shake like a spar.- r wv after a shower, changed her four-but- .3 a gloves for six, sprinkled Lubin's latest I her handkerchief, stamped her little i ench heels once or twice to settle herself, 1: d, seizing hier parasol In the most approv- i style to show the lace to advantage, rted for the ferry, where a smiling o111- t xl, either In a lit of admiration or sarcasm,. I: ed her his glass with which to watch m s fast receding boat, already half across t obay- t What He Know of English. c I heard a funny story of a little Boston i >y the other day, which I think has never a en in print. ils father lhad amused i mself in teaching the bright little follow a veral.words and phrases in a number- of g nguages, so that ho had quite a reputation a a linguist. An Englishman of some note ned with the family one day, and the 1, lId was much Interested In watching hhn i dO listening to his conversation. After uner the guest took him on lia knee with f .0 remark : '-1 hear you know a great i any languauges tell mne hew many you y iow." " Oh, I knowv French,and Ger- t an and Italian and Spaushi, and that Is m I." " Bnt you know English ?" "No, 1 i >n't know English," lie answered with a )ry positive shake of the head. "yes, >u do, certainly," peorslsted the E~nglish- j an. " I tell you I do itotl' replied the tid almost lipatlent-y, very emphatical " My papa knowS Enilish,-'I s'pose, it l'only know t wo words in Enghsh I" And wvhat are they ?" "'Ouso an'i'oral" Sheo Know It. X., tiravelIng 'thrdgh Brittainy, asks an d woman who was peddling crosses and etlials at a church porch 'the price of a cr Ia trinket. 91fg It for your wifo or yomr sweet heart?" to asks. "For my sweetheart," replies X., not reelsely seeingthe drift of lier questIoh. "Ten franca." "Ten,ries-.phew I" says X., turn*g I 'Come back, come biack," cries tho old omngtako ita for. t,11oe. .Xo#'9'o beoen 'Ing to me, 9thiough, you have no *weet. 4 r u. If It had beedl for hot .fou'd pave It atM ne 4)l Wi)out' ~gard' flie I Carlo, Uood Dog. I left the cemetery and went down into ho woods. 1 could hear the noise of sbor, and through the trees I saw the axes leaming In the sunlight. The mosses >eeped brightly through the leaves under ny feet, and when I kicked the bark off of stump, a great brown spider rushed out o see who knocked. I sat down and vatched the wood-choppers, and talked to hem as they wrought. There were only hree idle creatures in the woods. I was ho biggest, the oldest, and the idlest of the hree. A chub of a boy, about six or even years old, was the next, and a black nd tan dog that had treed a squirrel, was he next. 1 was so pleased with the boy's die companionship that I paid him for it, nd advised him to stick to it, and never vork until he had to, and then, feeling the onnunity of sentiment for the dog, I went nd helped him bark at the squirrel. The ree vas about two hundred feet high. ['he dog would probably stand about hirteen inches from the ground. lie tried to limb that tree. Ile barked as though his hroat was all the rams' horns of Jericho. 1o was after that squirrel which was just s far-out of his reach as the clouds. And he squirrel wasn't paying any attention to he dog, and, indeed, didn't know what he vas barking at. I am not positive that it ad not gone off into another tree an hour go, and was away off in another part of lie woods, down near the county line. lo 1 patted the dog's head as I came away, nd said to him : '' Carlo, keep it up. It oems to do you a heap of good, and it oesn't bother the squirrel a particle. So eep it up. You never can climb the tree; ou will never catch the squirrel ; when he rants to come down he will come down nother way, and you will not see htini. io will live just as long and be just as appy with'our noise as without It. It oc - upies your mind and It doesn't distract is. And it shows a verb' human trait in on, Carlo. I have known men just like on; men who spent their lives in doing ast you are doing-barking at people who re out of their reach. Keep it up, Carlo, ood dog." The Now Gane. The dead-beat permits nothing to get head of himt except. a tuneral procession. ecently a seedy-genteel, who seemed to be reatly excited, rushed into a place on Voodward avenue, Detroit, and wildly in uired if they had a telephone there. Being nswered in the aflirmative, he rushed to ,ie instrument, threw his lint on the floor nd called out : "Hello 1 Central ofilce-for IIeaven's sake ello I hello ! hello '' "Is there a fire '' asked the merchant. "Fire! keep still-wait--oh! Heavens! rhy ton't t! ey anstt or me! Hello I Central Ilic I Ah I I have then ! Connect ime rith aub-otlice on Dufileld street-quick fo depends!" "Somebody dying ?" asked the merchant. "Keep still-for your life, keep still I Lit sub.of1be I Connect me with No. -- ass avenue as soon as you can I hello I ello I Mary I Ali I it is her I Mary, your tother has been run oveoo by a street car on efferson avenue and will die I I'll bring er up In a carriage! Get everything ready! end James for the doctor -good-bye I" "Somebody hurt?" asked the merchant. "Somebody hurt ? No I Yes! I'm half razy ! I must .get a carriage. Ah I left iy wallet at the office down the river I I'll )I1 Mary-no, I'll ask you for $2 until I ome down after dinner!" The merchlant looked at the fellow for a 3w seconds and then walked to the tole hone. The sub-ofillce was saying: "Who was getting off that rigmarole to [ary, and who was Mary ? We don't con ect with No. - Cass avenue I If you on't stop your nonsense we'll cut you off !" The merchant turned to overhaul his cns mer, but shabby-genteel had slid. Per ape he took his poor mother up en a wheel arrow. Music and Aninl. A remarkable ihitanco of a toad's enjoy lent of music camne under my notice some ears since. I was on a visit with my huts andl and one of my daughters to my father, ,ho lived In the south of England. lie ad a very pretty garden and lawn; and It ins his delight Ia the evening to sit at his rawlug-room window while I played on ie Ilano and sang to hum. One evening e said to me; "My dear, lhere is a toadi nder the window. It lias been hero a hong me without moving. I believe iit Ia lis mning to your sInging." When I ceased playing the toad slowly rept away, but every evening when 1 sang, Le creature camne, took Its place under te inmdow and there remained. Oiio evening, t my father's request, I suddenly stopped to music, andi in a -few iinutes it went, way. We wantched It uiitil It reached the athi, whoa co.mneing apothmer song, it topped, listened and then slowly returned > Its place under the window. When I ift andl went home, there was no more usIc. Thue toad was never agaIn seeni. Somo years p>revious to my mnarrhlago my uthier lived In an old hall In the neighbor ood of one of our large towns. Thme m ounds were extensive. 1 was his delight havo a sort of model farm, which gave 1o many opportunities of studying the dif iemnt characters of the various animals pen It. Th'Ien I saw -the influience of music .pon many of them.. Th'Iere was a beauti uli horse the pride and delight of us all; nd like many others lie hind an unconquer ble dislike to be caught. Miy father had o traiedot him te obedienco that lie gave 'cry little trouble; a whistle and a wave f the hand, and Itobert, woul come quietly o be saddled, Butt If l.ft to our old gard er' Willy, ho wvould lead hhnii a chase, gen rally ending In defeat. One very hot uluer day I was sItting at work in the ar-den, whten Willy appeared streamiing vith perspiration. "What is the ir atter, Willy 9" '"Mat,ter enough, Miss. There's that tobert, tihe uncanny benst; he won't be aught all I can do or' say. i've give hin orni, and one of the best pears off the tree; mthe's too deob for mb-ho' snatched the eoar, kicked up hiA heels, and -off lie is, aughing at me at thme bottom of the neadow." .I was very sorroy for the old ian, but I lid not clearly see how to catch the ling ment. I could .well believ~ ,o wams1 Ii'h ri M'urpld f,icnd, for b6: a enouWi I,Milly, da 6 he will come up to the fence and hearken to you, for lhe Is always a-doing that, and maybe I can slip up behind and catch him." I went at once, not expecting my strata gem to succeed. But in a few minutes the saucy creature was standing listening while I play-d "Scots wha ha e wi' Wallace bled." The halter was soon round his neck; and he went away to be harnessed quite happy and contented. There was i great peculiarity about his taste for music. He n(ivor would stay to listen to a plaintive song. I soon observed this. If I played "Scots wha ha'e," he would listen well pleased. If I changed the measure and expression, playing the same air plaintively, as for instance in the "Land o' the Leal," he would toss his head and walk away, as if to say: "That is not my sort of music." Changing to some thing mar;ial, he would return, and listen to mile. In this respect he entirely lif'crel from a beautiful cow we had. She had an awful temper. Old Willy used to say: "She is the nmost contrariest beast under the sun." If she was in one of her ill-humors, it was with the greatest difficulty she could be milked. Sine never would go with the other cows at milking time. Nancy be milked with thenm I-that was a thing not to be thought of. She liked tile cook ; and when not too busy, cook would mlanage Miss Nancy. But if she were not very careful, up would go Nancy':; foot and over would go the milk can and its precious con tents. Wheni the cook milked her, it was always close to the fence, near the drawing room. If I were playing, she would stand perfectly still, yielding her milk without any trouble, and would remain so until L ceased. As long as I played llaintivii nusic--"The Land o' the heal," '"lIome, Sweet Iomie," "'Robin Adair," any sweet, tender air-she seemed entranced. I have tried her and changed to martial music, whereupon she invariably walked away. I could give many instances of a love for music in annuals. 1 4ill give another. I was sitting in the drawing room one even ing, singing to mnamm111a. It was at double room with folding doors. She was in one where there was a lmnp, in ily roomn, which was unlighted, tihe window was open, and close to the window was a stand of music. W1'hien I ceased playing I heard a peculiar sound, and was conscious there wits soiething in the room. I called for a light. There, sitting on the stand, wias a large white owl. lie looked far less sur prised than we did. In a minute or two he stepped quietly out of tIhe window, and flow away. After this we did not leave the lower sash of the window open; but the owl still caiie, and sat upon the stone out side, listening. 11aurl,iugers orSpring. The nap on seven-dollar utsters is worn off, and there is a neat fringe border on the bottom of trousers' legs. Boils hegin to look for a comfortable place on a man's system to locate, and suc ceed in finding it, in spite of all efforts to sit (lown on them). Liver pills and bitters are in active do mand, and "bad b o ,d" 'a purif'e 1. Then follows peace in the land. Ho.nely girls who have ira I a success ful season, buy' up their weddhig clothes and get married before summer. Fil tati 1ns begin. We always noticed that homely girls marry in the spring and pretty ones in the fall. The small boy grows superlatively saucy and refuses to take his sulphur and mno lasses unless he is rewarded by a nickel; this merely shows his financial acumen. liens that have been loafing about all winter "on their oars," when eggs were forty cents a dozen, show a disposition to glut the market at fifteen cents. Tihe housewife decides that two new car pets are neLded, and because she can't get thlem, pounds tile old ones to pieces out in thle back yard. Lettuce is in market, but on the top shlelf, where poor folks cat't reach it. Potatoes show a dIsposition to be frisky, andl young sp)rouIts are continually coming out. Fellows with shlabby overcoats leave thlem at hlome and bravely-shiver down the street in the chilly wind. Farmers bring in wrinkled and withered turnips aind palm them off for just dug, whlen you know they must have been picked from the trees before frost caime. 'rie oldest inhabitant begins Ils series of lies about planting peas in January and p)icking roses in March. Grocers wvork off thleir suirplis "brown Hlavana" as maple sugar, pure and unde fied. ThIis 'is not onIly a harbinger of spring, but an evidence of total depravity and a disposition to "sWeetenl" the ptub lie. "Great clearing out sales" spring u'p on every side, and youl can buy anything you doin't want at ridiculously low p)rices. The advance guard of the hIouse fly legion flutters Ils wings in tile butter, and (lies of chilhblains. Stockllhders in gas companies smile broadly as thley note the receipts of thle "heavy quarter," and there is great pover.. ty and gnashing of teeth among' gas eon s|pners. .The IJifterenco. Tlimo steak was col, the vegetable partly burned, tIle desert tiat and inslpiti, and Mrs. Hickenlooper was mad all through, as thle dinner hour passed by and her hulsband caime not. Presently the door-knob tulrnedi, and Mr. Hlickenlooper stanmpedi into tIle hlall. "I should think you mnighit be a little more prompt to your meals,'' snupped his wife as she glowered on him from the kitchen door. "Heare I've slaved andi siayved myself all the forenioon and now the diiner is all spoiled, just by your hazinless. If I coldnt Mr. Ilickenlooper hbld up his hland wvarn ingly, and his wvife stopped. "You put me In mind of something," he remarked. "Thial's what I was trying to do," she retorted somewhat sarcastically. "What was. itf' "Yoh remind gio of tho reee,scape of tile Czar 'o.f Russia," he explained as he hung up his coat. 'Hie was late to dner too, you rem'elabor," "Mibre's tu seh etohlm" "laI Mr, Hiekeni hM A Chinanan's Queue. Jim Grant, notwithstanding his Saxon name, is a full-fleclged celestial, minus a pigtail. How he lost the appendage forms quite a story. Jim Is in the laundry busi. ness in Williamsburg, and among his pat rons is the Widow Bridget McCracken. An arrangement existed between the wi dow and the Chinamen, by the terms of which she was to do his cooking and tidy. ing up around the kitchen and he was to wash and iron her clothing. How they kept their agreement was best told by them selves in Justice Kenna's Court, Williams burg, where the widow was arraigned on a charge of assault, made by the celestial. "After the first week." said the China man, in pigeon English, so often attemp ted to be described "Mrs. Murphce gave imec wholee lots of clothes to 'washee' and 'ironec,' more clothes than her own and her familee's'. She brought clothee from her 'sistee, cousin anO auntee.' [ Laughterj I say to her noce faireo bargain, 111(1 she tells me yes, she suee ie is I don't wantee law, and I said to meself, "I flxee you.' I give her things to co")kee and she don't cookee him." 'Yes, you dirty baste." interrupted Mrs. Murphy, "yez give ie six mice. Yez ught to be (iriven to where yez comhe fron." [fLaughter, which was instantly 3mpprcssed J. The Court Inlstructed Mrs. Murphy to keep (quiet while Jinm was telling lils story. "'She letee the niece micee burnee," re sunmed Jim, "and I says to her, "Noce bargin, Mrs. Mlurphce, you bpruce my dia nier.' She say she would likee to burnee mee in stovee with the micee. I tellee her noce bargin, and she keepeo sistee, cm since, and auntee clothes, and I doe my tookee. She then runee at nice with big knifee and cuttee off my hairec. .Lookeo. Judge." (Jim called attention to lia scalp,' which lacked the tail). "She then throwee ice on street anti breakee things. She lawful womi'm, Judgee, and says she kill ilee." "Mirs. Murphy, what have you to say in inswer to what Jim says about you?" "I gave him no clothes to wash, Judge, but ily own famly's." ''Your family must be pretty large, ac 2(Xrding to the Chinaman's statement?" "iNu, Ju'dge, that's not the trouble; but when the nisty beast found that I wasn't 61he kind of a woman lie took ne for, he wanted to break his bargain, and gave me nice to clane and roast. I threw thom in his fave, and said, to clane them himself. lie Lid so, and I put them in the oven. They unk the place while they was in the oven, Amt I got thren and threw them out, and I un only sorry that I didn't throw the nasty baste himself after them." "Hut how about assaulting him and cut Ing off his pigtad ?" queried the court. ''I'm coming to that," replied the widow. "After I threw out the mice he picked them up and brought them in, and began to eat theth. That was more than I could stand; so I asked for my clothes and said I wanted no more of the bargain. le said he would not give ne the clothes until I paid for them with kisses if not money. [Laughter] Hie then put his arnis around me and tried to kiss me." "Moce, noce. I only trice to keepee her fromee me clothes, and put nice arinee aboutee her." "Oh, yez are cunning and sly enon%h, you lying Chinaman, ' exclaimed Mrs. MIurphy, indignantly." "Tell us about. the assault, Mrs. Mur phy," commanded the court. "When lie tried to kiss me I got my blood up. He caught me by the hair, and [ got his pigtail in me hand and cut it off sad throw it in the street. I only did it in self-defense." Roars of laughter followed Mrs. Murphy's last remark. He certainly could not have struck you with the pigtail," said the court. "No, but thie.basto had no uso for it." "1)ld lie succeed in kcissing you ?'' "No, Judge. "Mrs. Murphy, you must give bail In the sumn of one hundred d>llars to keep the peace for six months," said the court. Grape Culture. The (lay seems to be rapidly approaching when the far-famed vineyards of Southern IEurope will be rivaled if not excelled in ex Lent and production by those of tI4e United States. 'This branch of -agrlcult4re slates far back in the present centui'y, although it has had to contend against the invisiblo prejudice connected with the temperance movement. RIeniote as CalIfornia is, the fame of her vineyards and 'of her native wines has become well known, even in Europe; but most of the northern states of the Republic have now gone largely into grape culture, and the enterprise,. the in genuity, the intelligence and Industry of the New England people have attained conaid erable success in the improvement in~ the native variet,ies of the grape, and its propa gation far and wide over the Middle and Western States. Penheylyania, in her quiet way, lins nmade deolded progr'ess in, grape cult.ure, although scart-ely anybody' would suspect the fact. In Western New York the extensive vineyards constitute the most striking features of the' landscape, . while the Philadelphia markets are largely supplie~ with.fresh grapes from the vmne yardis 6! South Jersey. Deninition of the Inram. Tlhe human brain, ne.r iing to Profo sar ' Tyndall a defluition,'is the orgaized regtse ter of -infinitely numerous experiences re ceived during the evolution oc life ot rather during the evolution of,that serlegd6 . organism through' which the itmin o-'S ganisums has been reached; the offrecti ! the most unitorms and frequent of tie6' periences have been sti4osSltolf ki41tit4 edl, principal athd interest, an(i.hrwoe nounated to thmtt high intelligoc1"w 1o6 lies latent ih,theo brain oftheI ITtt moi4 6f bAin th tW-fm ?'tI hiapna that fut~i'~