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TRIWEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 22, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO. 49. THE ENGINE. r Into the gloom of the deep, dark night t W,th panting breath and a startled scream; Swift as a bird in sudden flight Darts this creature of stool and steam. t Awful dangers are lerking nigh, D Itooks and chasms are near the track, t But straight by the light of its groat white eye, t It speeds thro' the shadows, donse and r black. r Terrible thoughts and iere desires Trouble its mad heart many an hour, Where burn and smoulder the hidden fires, Coupled ever with might and power. It hates, as the wild horse hates the roin, i The narrow track by vale and hill ; And shr eks with a cry of startled pain, And lon, is to fol.ow its own wild will. t Oh, what am I nut an engine shnd t With muscle and flesh by the hand of God, Speeding on thro' the dense, dark nigbt, Guided alone by the soul's white light ? Often and often my mad heart trios, And hates its way with a hitter bate, And longs to follow it; own desires. And leave the end in the hands of fate. 0, pondrous engine of steel and steam i 0, human engine of flesh and bono-- - Follow the white light's certain beam- 1 There l'es safety, and there alone. t The narrow track of fearless truth, Lit by the soul's great eye of light, 0. passionate heart of restless youth, Alone will carry you thro' the night. -- I An Indian Romnance. ._ s In the old times whea Cleveland was f very young, the settlers along the lake I shore had much more communication with t the aborigines than whites. Long rows of a canoes, instead of steamers were wont to lie along the shore where the Union Depot 1 now stands and the Yailroad runs, and the t traffic was in blankets, beads, venison and c furs, instead of wheat, iron, coal and. pe- c troleum. There were winding paths in- - stead of streets, and wigwams and log cabins were the business blocks and dwell ings. Natural foresis were the parks, and while there was no grand water works, the I Cuyahoga was uncontaminated by tile- y sewage. One bright afternoon in the autumn of c A. D. 18-, there Came into the village a l neat-appearing squaw, apparently 25 years ( of age, with a lithe, hnlf-breed boy of 10, r who either walked beside her or capered on t before. The little settlement was unusu- % ally active upon that day, and the October i sut-light rested upon a scene of surpassing 1 beauty. The lake and the landscape wore f silver and gold, and the skies were blue and I amber, and the Indians were gay in their a holiday attire of feathers and bright c blankets. The face of the young Indian woman I bore an expression of sad anxiety, that was r quite in contrast with the brightness around t her. She did not mingle with the crowds F of Indian,, but sat down near the entrance I to the principal trading house, and while surveying the motley scene, talked kiddly ) and soberly with those who spoke to her, I There was something in the appearance and demeanor of the Indians which showed that they regarded this as an important day. I Their gay attire, the almost complete ab- 1 sence of weapons among them, their coi parative silence toward thie whites, their I freedom and sportiveness among them- I selves, all went to teach the experienced I observer of Indian character that they - were moved by some uncommon though i undisciQsed purpose. After her arrival had ceased to attract attentibn the young squaw passed quietly into the store, the boy remaining outside playing with his red companions. As soon as she could do so unobserved, sihe strolled as if inadvertently, to the rear of the store, where, in partial concealment she caught: the trader's eye. Hie knew from her glancei that her signal must be heeded, As he contrived to come close to her site commut nicated to him the plot of the Indians. They . willl all pretend to go home to night ; but they will not go home. They will come back in the night. They want1 your goods. If you wvili give themn up, they will not kill you, if you fight they will kill you. I shall be wih y ou." Having said this, she sauntered slowly I out, with a fsce sadder than before, and resumed her former seat. Soon the boyI came near her, and she whispered to him t secretly. Ho went into the store, where a number of squawvs were pretending to I trade, and stood, as if by mere chance,< whero she who Bent him stood. T1he I trader, still busy, came close to him and< whispered the natmes of certain white ment of the village. The boy soon strolled out -to his play again, but somehow sport sesemed to take him near and into the shops of .the men whom the trader bad men- f tioned. He would give the obief trader's name secretly, With an intimation of danger< and then go wd'ndering on with his play. ing. His momentous little task was soon l accomplished, and the shouts of himself< and his flows were soozi echoing again In front of the store of the chief trader. Tihe sunbieams were nearly as level as * the lake, when the Indian woman, beck oning to her happy protege, began to loiter toward the trail by which she camne; one heart how light, and tile other oh how I heavy I They.kopt the way until. well out; < of sight, then lIet it and took ,a circuitous course, stopping finally St aigwam upon I the shore about one mileo eastward from - Joby~. Motnwas the foremost trader in the village,.intelligent, Jrustworthiy,.aneI ti htiader among his feo.low settlex ; - so that when a waffling of danger with the sanc tion of his namie went round to a certain trusty few, there was a certainty of prompt andi effectuai response, At sundown the Indians began to de part, and by dusk n6t one remained. i theq village. As soon as darkness had gottfel ,tlte few who had been warned assembled in Morton's.store for cmlM(.ita not man' minutes before a rap was heard whobi oeptn readily reognized,as the.~ them W~ian of wheoni we havwe spmoken;, het dero radideitty ahe' had dat hn'rm any danners and many losses. Whd was #dmnitted e t Id ans' aica *-was h aer, t~,ion to imke a general at' * k:bfraIfnweenj,JWM t itch booty 'as suited them. Should he esist, they would kill him, if.necessary to lie accomplishment of their purpose. Word was instantly sent to such others s could b' trusted in an emergency, and vithiu an hour some 25 men who know lie use of gunpowder were assembled at lorton's all fully trmed, and with Mor on's stock of anmunition- to back them. 'hey decided to take their stand outside he building, and post sentinels In every di. ection 40 rods away. The woman was to utiro to a safe distance and remain so reted. Morton commanded. All being in readiness, they had not lonz o wait. Within an hour a sentinel came at with the tidings that a party, some wenty or thirty as nearly as he could udgo in the starlight, were approaching. ly a preconcerted signal the other senti els were called In, and the men deployed u such manner as to give an impression of tie largest possible numbers when a simul aneous fire should be delivered. It appears that the savages, thinking it n easy matter to rob a single man, had ot come in force, but had detailed a few raves for the purpose. On they came, vith their-stealthy tread, until their forms egan to be dipnly outlined. As they came rithin easy rang4; Motton estimated their umber to be Oot niorothan'twenty. When 11 was-ripe, DUorton'gave the word'ta fire. LB the twenty-five rifles, scattered in a long ne, blazed out upon them, they seemed to iink that an army of a thousand nen had pened fire. With one uuited horrible ell they fled to the woods, and no trader f that village was ever thereafter molested y them. The men had purposely aimed igh, as they desired rather to frighten ban injure thosa with whom they were ot at all tnxiogs to inaugurate a bloody eud. 'A* coipeqeoce up blood was lied andno serions illifeeling engendered. The Indian woman, who had proven so aithful a friend, was provided witlia home a the village. She was given a ruditnen ury English education, adopted the dress nd civilization, and stbsequently married lorton, who was in fact the father of the itle fellow who had followed his mother o the village on that eventful day. Some f her descendants still reside in Cleveland ; tiers are scattered elsewhere, Interetinmsr Facts. The tomb of Edward 1., Who (lied in 801. was opened Jari. 2, '1770, after 469 ears had elipsed. 'ill's body was almost erfect. Canute, the I.)ane, who crossed ver to England in 1017, was found 1779 y the workmen who repaired Winchester atiedral, where his body had reposed early 750 years, perfectly fresh. In 1569, brec Roman soldiers, fully equipped with iarlike implements, were dug out of peat i Ireland, where they had probable y lain ,500 years. Their bodies were perfectly resh and plunip. In the reign of James I. of Ilugland after the fall of the church t Astley, in Waiwickslire, there was taken ,ut the corpse of Thomas Gray, Mai quis f Dorset, who was buriedUte 10th of Octo >er, 1580, In the twenty-secondy ear of lien y VII.;'and although it had lain there seven y-eight years, the eyes, hair, flesh, nails nd joints remained as though it had been itu newly burled. Robert , Braybrook, vhp was consecr Ted Ilshop of; London In .331, and who died lni1404,:and wis bur ed in St. Paul's was taken out of his tomb fter the great fire in 1660, during the re )airs of he Cathedral, and, although lie tad lain there no less than 262 years, the )ody was found to be firm as to skin, hair, oints and nails. The Convent do St. Dom ngo, was lately demolished in search of he treasure- supposed to be concealed hire, and the body of Prince Rodriguez aken out, who had been buried in 1505, xactly as when placed 250 years before. Iis daughter, two and a half years of age, vaa lying at her faher's feet and was as per 'etly p)reserved as himself. A New Fpecies of Montkey. There-are now in the Alexandra Palace, London, six live specimens of a monkey tew to science, the macacus getunda a mative of the mountains of A byssinia, where t lives at an elevation of from 7000 to 1500 feet above the sed-level. One of these nonkeys is an adult male. It Is hairy over Ite wvhole of the body, with the exception. >f a pink patch, free fromi hair on the ihest, and a space aroundl the throat of the ame color. When the animals become an try or exeited, these pink patches turn >right red. The nostrils are high up from he upper jaw, .and the upper lip is so me >Ile that It is often turned up so as to show he whole of the upper teeth and gums. rite tail Is long and thick, and ends in a uit resembling somewhtat a lion's tall. The olor of the hair Is brown, except around lie breast whtero it Is gray. The bare part, if the chest shows two male Indicat.Ions of eats. The female has not such lo'ng hair .s the male, and on the bare spot in front mre two well-developed teats, Th'le young nonkey takes one in each hand and sucks rom both at once, While these animals ake rejeetedi all fruit , ,tlcy have eaten In i4n corpt and ggrass, pull ng It apart, and r AkingIt into little f>alls. ~In their habitat hiese monkeys sleep in caves, and in Lon Ion they sleep in a Irrge boyc,,tite.ols male emaining on guai d near the entr'anes. A Fren9h isoy's Treat. The rather of Eugene Sue, who was a mhysician, had beeh- presehted by his ex lied patients over all Europe with some holce exam*ipleiok 4h 'most celebrated vines. The Emperor of Austria, for ins ance, had contrIbuted Tokay ; the KICng of russia rard hock; Queen Christina of ipain first-class Alicante; Prince Metter dech gennitie cachet d'or, and so en. Tihe whole was kept in a large iron. ceupboard a the study of the learned physician, kagown is his Elzevir library. Unfortunattehy, the tIding place was discovbred1by Eugene Sue, hen a college Freshman, who procured a kheleton Ikey sad, iz copupany with, his: ~riends AdolphA'Addm,"Veron and others, procjided every night to the practical ana &i few samples. As they 'wr tfraid, however, lest the experiment should ic stopp.ed prematurely, they took care to :trink only one-half of the contents of each 'ot,e 1 .,nzt,ug pwlth,wpter and carofuli l t ie' h ~ ,o a o ieo rset-,his guets .to a bottle or two of his library, and the conmpanyl hol liquor wit a due sense of teantnnously felt that to ~~ ~ the~ WA 4 Strong Men. Among the Ureeks the successful athlete was crowned with laurels and loaded with wealth and honors. When Egenetus, ig the ninety-second Olympiad, triumphant in the games, entered Agrigentum, his native home, he was attended by an escort of three hundred chariots, each drawn by two white horses and followed by the populace, cheering and waving banners. Milo six times won the paln at both the Olympic and Pythian gaies. le is said to have run a mile with a four-year-old ox upon his shoulders, and afterward killed the animal with a blow of his fist, and ate the entire carcass in one (lay I So great was his muscular power that he would sometimes bind a cord round his head and break it by the swelling and pressure of the veins. An ordinary meal for Milo was twenty pounds of ment, as much bread and fifteen pints of wine. Polydanus of 'I'hes salonia was of prodigious strength and colossal height, and, it is said, alone and without weapons, he killed an enormous and enraged lion. One day, (it is so re corded) he seized a bull by one of Its hind feet and the animal only escaped by leav ing its hoof in the grasp of the athlete. The Roman Emperor Maximinus was up wards of eight feet in height, and, like Milo of Crotone, could squeeze to powder the hardest stone with his fingers and break the leg or jaw of a horoc by a kick. His wife's bracelet served him as a ring, and his everyday meal was sixty po',nds of meat and an amphora of wine. Topham, who was borh in London In 1710, was pusse sed of astonishing strength. His armpits, hol low in the case of ordinary men, were with him full of muscles and tendons. lie would take a bar of iron, with its two ends held in his hands, place the middle of the bar be hind the nap of his neck, and then bend the extremities by main force until they met together, and bend back the iron straight again. One night-, perceiving a watchman asleep in his box, he carried both the man and his sini to a great dis tance, and deposited them on the wall of a church yard. Owing to domestic troubles, he committed suicide in the prime' of life. The famous Scanderberg, king.of Albania, who was born im 1414, was a man of great stature and his feats in sword exercise has never been equaled. On one occasion, with a scimitar, he struck his antagonist such a terrible blow that Its tremendous foree cleaved him to'the waist. le Is said to have often cloven in two men who were clad In armor from head to foot. On one occasion the brother and nephew of a cer tain ]3allaban, who had been convicted of cruelties towards the Albanians, were brought to him, bound together. Trans ported with rage he cut them in two with one stroke of his weapon. Maurice, Count of Saxony, the hero of Fontenoy, inherited the physical vigor of his father, and Was especially noted for the surprising imuscu lar power or "grip" of his hands. On one occasion, needing a cork-screw, he twisted a lobg iron nail round into. the required shape with his fingers, and. with this ex temporized Implement opened a half dozen bottles or .wine. Another tiie, when stopping at a village blacksmith shop to have his horses shod, he picked up a nun ber of new horse shoes and with his hands snapped them in two as readily as it made of glass, nch to the surprise and disgust of the smith. If history is to be believed, Phayllus of Crotena could jump a distance of fifty-six feet. This exercise was prac ticed at the Olympic games and formed part of the course of the Pentathlon, Strutt, an English authority on games and amusements, speaks of a Yorkish jumnper named Ireland, whose powers were some thing marvelous. le was six feet high, and at the age of eighteen years leaped, without the aid of a spring-board over nine horses ranged side by side. He cleared a cord extended fourteen feet from the ground with a bounid, crushed a bladder suspended at a height of sixteen feet, and on another occasion lightly cleared a large wvagor covered wh an awning. Colonel Ironside, wvho lived in India, early in this century, relates that lie imet irr his travels an old, white-hecaded mian who with oe leap sprang over tire back of an enormours elephant flanked by six camels of tire largest breed. A curious French work, purblshred in Paris in 1745, entitled "The Trracts towardi the History of Wonders Per formed at Fairs," mentions an Englishman, whoe at tire fair of St. Germnai, in 1724, leaped over forty people without touching one of thenm. In our own day we are familiar withr many remarkable expositIons of strength and endurance. D)r. Wind ship, with the aid of straps, lifted a weight of 8,500 pounds, and with the little finger of,hiis right hand can raise ihis b dy a con siderable distance from the ground. Whant Sihe Hlad Lost. Sire was a Stalwart aggressive female, In rather strikIng personal contrast to her milk and wvater looking husband, amnd, as loon as sire had taken her seat, in tire car sire thrust her herad forward and b)eganr a care fuil scrutiny of tIre face of a lady on thre op posite side of thre car. She evidently ktnow, or thoughrt shne knrew, tire name of tire per son.she wvas staring at. Finally, unable to restrain herself airy longer, she asked: "Ain't you Mary Slawvson, that wias?f" Tire lady addressed replied that sire had formerly borne tire name given, through sIre had been married since.. "And don't your reirenmber me?i We used to Lve close by you, you know." "Oh,.yes; I remember you well." "Air, I thouightyou would. Well, i've lest my daughter Sarah since I know you.' "Indeed; I'm sorry to hear that." "Yes; and John-rou roemmber John well-re's lost a leg.' -"Th'lat fo 'very bad, I m sure." "Yesi; had.it sht:'s by thne cars; and my dad?g'hter Jade, lhe'sst her husband." "YAhat.is too bad." *"Yes;. and H-enry-your remember my son hienry-he's lost iIs place." "Thiat Is uu.rfortumnate, certainly." "Oh, it's real mean; and iPve lost ahlmost. all my teeth. nj n~ ce 14I'm dur6.!" o si ia PMgdt.now ones,; int, P've lost 'em, just the same; and my hurs banrd, Ihe's lost most of'hls hair." he Ji O t ahelade of he er had presaions, anad said nothing. 'heo 14dy whor hediata d irflint An.a A& 6, )na.e nog stories. A f'ow weeks ago, wljile several citizens of )etrolt were surrounding a hot stove in a Griswold strtet tob 'o store in came a stranger who had been, i a "big drunk." His eyes were red, his .ack all mud, his clothes ragged, and his eneral appearance was that of hardup and layed OUt 0(l soak er. One of the group *s telling a yarn about a hog, and he wal going on with his story when the old follow interrupted: "Scuse me, but I'm aU old soaker who wants to reform." I "Well, as I was saying," continued the story-teller after a glance at the man, "that hog was about forty ds away when I tirst saw him,. I got n gun ' "'Say," interrupted tl drunkard, "isn't there somebody here w o wants to help re form me?" "You go out !" replicA one of the men. "I won't do it I I'm" an old drunkard, and I want soutie one tb take me by the hand and hope I'll reforit." "Go on with the hog 4tory," put in one of the groulp. "You shan't do it I" ecclaimned the drunk ard. "I want some on@ to feel sad be cause I drink up all mylearnings and mis use my family. "No one here cares how much you drink or how soon you go under ground!" said O11e of the men. "You don't, eh? Don't any of you want to give mc advice?" "No, sir!" "Don't you feel sorry because I am de grading my brilliant intellect?" "Brilliant boahl You never knew any thing, anyhow!'" "Won't any man here pity my family?" "No, sir!" "Nor shed one tear over my degraded Condition?" "Not a shed! You'd better be going--we want to hear a hog story." "llad you rather hear a hog story than try and save me?" "You bet we hadt" "Well, now, you hard-hearted and sel tishminded old liars, I kuow I'm worth more than any hog, and I'll prove it, too! If you won't save me I'll save myself hanged if I don't! Yes, air. I'll keep sober from this day on, and I'll show you whether|l'm of n') more account than any of your hog stories or notl You needn't pity inc nor advise ine nor talk with me-I can run my own groceryl" And he did. A Great -Tunnel. The announcement that a project for a tunnel throush the Arlberg and a junction of the Austrian with the Swiss railway system has been laid before the Austrian Parliament causes great satisfaction in Switzerland. and has already had a favora ble effect on the prices of railway stoci The object of the proposed line is to shorten the distance between Western Aus tr'a and Eastern Switzerland, create a di rect traffic between the two countries, and render thoi independent of the South Ger man railways, over which it is now con ducted. A further- udnutage will be to enable the Austrian and Hungarian bread stuffs to compete In Switzerland and East ern France with corn coming from Russia by way of Genoa and the Gothard Railway. The new line is divided Into two sections the first running from Innsbruck to Lan deck, the second from Landeck to Bludenz. 'rho former will be seventy-two kilometres long, and it begun this year, as is proposed, may be completed before the end of 1882. It will pass along the right bank of thelnn. Its construction presents no extraordinary engineering difficulties ; the greatest gradi ent Is one in 110 and the sharpest curve makes a radius of 800 metres. ''he cost of this section is computed at 7,600,000 tlor Ins, equal to 105.5(10 florins per kilometre. The construction of the stretch between Landeck and Bludenz will be much more dificult, and costly. It will be a mountain line from first to last, in the valley of Rosauna the gradient is one in forty. Tile road will cross the valley of Panznau on a viaduct of three archles, each hlaving a span of sixt,y metres. 'Thei length of tis stretch is 54.75 .kilometres, the total estImated cost 11,784,000 florins, equivalent, to an outlay per kilometre of 216.1900 florins.' it is expected to be completed wIthin four years from the time of commluencemnenl. At St. Antoine, 555 metres above Landeck, will begin the great tunnel. The point fixed upon by tile Austrian Government for comimencing tils work is not the one that was chosen by G4en. Nording, who first surveyed the ground. Tile tunnel, hlad his schleme been adopted, would have been higher up the mountain, shorter, wide enough only for single rails, and t,herefore less expensive than the one finally fixed upon. Blut the Governent, believing that the Ariborg line will some day be one of the most important in Europe, have decided that it is expedient to provide every facility for a trailic. 'Pile gradients are to be as easy as possible, even though thle tunniel should be a little longer, and thle lines will be double-railed throughout its length. Norwegian's rain. In the slowness of tlleir trains the Nor wegians excel the Dutch, and yet the lat ter, for this merit or defect, according to the time, nerves and fancy of the individual traveler, may place themselves at the Ilead of othmer European countries. But here all comparison endcs, for whbile the Dutch po0s seas but a small territory sufiliently inter. sected by lines, Norway, with its great tract of country, has scarcely any railroads at all. Nor is it probable that she will ever be much better oft in this respect. The land is so thinly populated that railroads could never pay. From tile billy nature of the country their construction would cost much, while the people are poor. And lastly, the pre sent mnode of traveling is all they need. Time is of less consequence to the Nor we gians than to othler people, because they have less to do. 'They do not ruiSh throtugh life, as we do, for Instance,' giving to one day the work of six. T1hey breathe; the re ainder of thle civilized world is, for the meet part, breathless. If they huave p hund red miles to travel they can as well' devote a week toit as half 'a dozea hotirs;*or, if thley can not, thiey wisely stay at home. So that traveling In Norway as very much what it was in Eu xd a cetry ago. A itle, slowerAtid . r lis' derhmaps, now than thion,- for. pohr Norway will you conme across tihe fine sIght of a coach and fout.tearing tipJlI at4 Mpyn dale ateg proe speed.L The average rate of progres is about forQr miles an h9ir sud, do wihat ~u il, tmpg one Uup N~i sahlther, S e t much, l~ d,tIls Their r4lI 00u 6oparl piuo bot It's Too Much. One of the officials of Justice alley, De troit, was lately waited on by a man who said his name was Smith and who volun teered the further information that he .vas about to get married. The only stumbling block was the fact that lie would not agree to leave off drinking, lie had come to consult His Honor on that point and see what was advisable. "Well, I'd promise, I guess," replied the Justice. "It's a bad hault anyhow, und the s;oner you break it tile better. ' "Well, I guess I will," answered the mua and lie went out. In an hour he returned and said: "Wh'tt do you think? After I promised that, she wanted mue to promise to leave off chawin' tobacco!" "Well, 1'd do that, too," said Ill Honor. "It is another bad habit., and you'll feel all the better for breaking it." Smith went away again, and when he re turned lie looked twice as soleun as a frozent white-fish. "And now she wants me to promise to stop swearing!'' he gasped as lie foll into a chair. "Is she a n!ce woman?" asked His llonor. ";She is." "And you truly love her ?" "1 do." "Well, then I'd stop swearing. It is a senseless habit anyhow, and you lose noth. big by promising." The man concluded to promise and de parted quite happy, but when he once more returned after an interview with the bride elect he was mad. "There won't be no niamarage," he an nounced, as he sat down and pounded the table. "Why? What now ?" "What now? Why, when I promised to stop drinking, quit chawin' and leave off swearing she said I must promise to clean up, shave up and go to church with her' "And you won't flu it? ' "Judge," replied Smith, after a struggle with his mental agitation, "do you suppose I'm going to change myself over to a gentleman just for the sake of marrying a forty-year-old-widow with a mole on her chin? Never I You can go home I There won't be any splicing to do, and from this time out I'll drink and chaw and swear around four times worse than ever I It's too much-it's the last straw on the camel's back I The Porcol,nin Iteglmont. A paper has lately been discovered in the State archives of Saxony which contains some curious particulars concerning the corps long known in the Prussian service as the " porcelain regiment," and from which the present First Dragoons and the Third, Fourth and Fifth Regiments of Cuirassiers claim to have sprung. Accord ing to tradition, the regiment was bought by King Frederick Williamn of Prussia from the King of Poland for some costly porce lain vases, and the document lately found in the Saxon archives show that substan tially the tradition was correct. King Frederick William, it appears, possessed a number of very beautiful and precious specimens of porcelain, and an attempt was made by King August 11 of Poland, who was also Elector of Saxony, to purchase some of these through an agent in Berlin. King Frederick William -declined to sell any of his porcelain; but King August, knowing his royal brother's passion for sol diers, offered him 000 dragoons, without horses, arms, equipments or oflicers, in ex change for certain pieces. The negotia tions were carried on by Privy Councillor vov Marachall on behalf of Prussia, and by Lieutenant General von Scumettau for Kibng August, and ended in the transfer of the 600 dragoons to the King of Prussia, and of a number of the vases in the first place to Dresden, were some wvhere added to the royal collection of china, and othiers wore placed in the Johann Museum, whore they are still distinguished as the " dragoon vases." The mna were valued at twenty thalers each, and the whole regiment con sequently at 12,000 thalers: while the por celain given in exchange for themi was con sidered to be worth considerably more, though it had been purchased by the de ceased King Frederick 1 for a smaller sum. Two Jtenmrhiuble Friends. There came into B3odle, Colorado, not long ago, a man who is a living evidence of an astonishing freak of nature. There Is an episode In his history of the most as tounding and phenominal kind. This mnar. goes by the name of John Jarboe, th'ough his real name is George Roberts. Upon this change of name hangs a most wonder fnml tale. Many may think the story about to be related a mere fancy sketch, but its truth can be substantiated by a number of reputable men In Bodie and in Nevada. To begin: In a small town In Western Illinois there lived a wealthy family by the name of Jarboc. Its members consiated o,f thme fatherr mother, three daughters and one son, christened John. H-ard by lived a Mrs. Roberta, a widow in reduced circumstances with an only son, named Georgo, who wasm about thme same ago as young Jarboc. John Jarboe and( George Roberts grew up to. gether, went to the same school, shiaredl each other's piocket money and were the closest of bosom friends. A short time be fore the war broke out thme elder Jarboo died. About.tho time Fort Sumter wvas bombarded, young Jaiboe, thon a lad of sixteen sum meors, took his share of his fathom's estate andl went to the wilds of Colorado. At Denver lie oponed a saloon and did a thiriv lag business for years. Young ltoberls answered the first call for volunteers, and wont South with oneo of the first regiments of the Illinois troops. lie served through the war andl came horne at its close a tall, hiandsome yo.uth, but with his head -pr'e maturely bald. It inust here be remarked that John Jarboe had veryv dark featores and an abundance of straight, dark haIr, while young Roberts was a fair-haired, blue-eyed and ruddy-cheeked. blonde. Shortly after Roberts' return, from the war lhe received a letter from Jarboe, inviting him out to the growing City of Denver. ltoberts went, and for many years the two friends were -inseparable. T1hey lived at Denver, Central City, Golden,' Blackhawk,7 and other places' in Colorado, and aiways together. About '1978 they came Wet~ to 1al.And now comioq thme strange part of the story. Somne five years aothe two whre; Q~zanting Q~~4 i $inghamn Canon, ory imt,lghut, 09.(9114Ir Q..O~ ht-thme rofggefrienIds #h1le asleep I ing b the. ne'l ihy f hours In a comatose state. The first lo r cover was Jarboe, but strange to relate, h first utterance was, "Did Jack (Jack w, the name George used to call Jarboe) g killed?" Those around the bed asked wl he meant, and he replied, "Jack Jarboe, courso." They told him he himself wi Jarboe, but he got angry and swore he Wi George Roberts. Seeing it was useless 1 argue with him his attendants dropped tI subject, thinking that he would recovi from his strange delusion in a few day Next day Roberts recovered conselousne and, singularly enough, inquired the fir thing, ''Is Ceorgo dead?" In vain the tried to perstade him that he was (leorf ltoberts; he insisted that he was John Ja bee. During their interim of insensibilil the two friends had completely change their identity. Thus Jarboe Insisted thi he was George Roberts, and Roberts t stoutly aflirined that he was John Jarboe Their friends and acquaintances thougl that they must be crazy for awhile, but was soon se, they were perfectly sau upon every other subject. It was no use t show their photographs taken before. li accident. Tlhcy could not account for t11 change in their respective appearance:, bi they remained perfectly positive of the identity After awhile it became a soi subject with them, and they would coi siler any allusions to it an insult. Thei was much talk of the affair' at the time, bi it finally died out as every thing eisc uoec At last the two friends went on It visit t their old home in Illinois. Roberts pr( sented himself to the mother and sisters & Jarboe as the son and brother, but his at vances were spurned. Jarboe went to Mr Roberts as her 'on, but she declined to .r ceive him as such. When she saw her so she fell on !iis neck, but he disengaged hin self and told her he was not her child. Th poor mother was nearly crazed with grit at this repulse. Mrs. Jarboe and h daughters saw the real Jarboe, and wante to simoth er him witi kisses aid embrace. bnt he kept them off, telling thema the were mistaken. Their sorrow and amttaz nent cannot he described. Our two friem held a consultation, and, conic luding thr their rchl.tires had gone daft, immediatel set out t'(r Nevada. They have been roan: ing around the various mining camps c Eastern Nevada ever since, most of the tint in company. Jurboe, who represents hin1 self as Roberts, was in Nye County, Neve 0a, someni months ago, and, as before state Roberts, who calls himself Jarboe, cam into lodie a short time since. This is on of the strangect cases on record, and is hard nut for scientists to crack. Indeed I Shall. About ten o' clock the other forenoon man got ofr the ferry-boat at Detroit loolk ing as if he expected to be grabbed b some one in waiting. No one trouble hun, however, and after hanging aroun for a while he called a citizen aside an said: "Stranger, I want to ask your candi opinion about a matter." "All right--go ahead." "Suppose that you were may wife?" "And that I should conie home lookin just as I do now?" ''Yes." "What would be your strongest Impret sioni? Give me your honest opinion." The citizen thus appealed to turned th man around, looked into his eyes, snutfe of his breath, and stood back and said: "Stranger, is your wife a lunatic or fool?" "No, sir." "Then you'd better wait at least to hours before you ao home, for you've bbe on a three days' drunk and she'll spot yo in a minutel I've gone home looking lift per cent, better than you do, and had whol handfuls of hair pulledI out of my head b< fore I could get my my overcoat off." "I shall ever remember this fsvor-it deed I shtalll" exclaimed the stranger, an lie started up the wharf to look for som secluded spot in which to kill time and g< the drunk out of lisa looks. "Let's Takte The Drink." A stuident applIed the other day to one< the District Courts in Ban Francisco, ft adtmisslon to practice, and an examinatic committee of oneo was appointed by tlh Judge to ascertain Is qualifications. TI examination began with: "D)o you smoke, sir?" "'I (do, sir." "IIave you a spare cigar?" "Yes." "Now, sitr, what Is the first duty of lawyer?" "To collect fees." "'Right; what is the second?" "To increase the number of his%cnts. "When does your position tow~ard you client change?" "When muaking a bill of cost." "Exiplain. " "We are then antagonistic. I assume thi character of plaintiff and lie becomes til dlefendant." "A suit once decided, how do you stan with the lawyer conducting the oth< aide?''" "Check by jowl." "Enough, sir; you ptromnise to beec'mme a ornament to your profession, and I wis you success. Now are you aware of tLi duty you owu me?" "Perfectly."' "Describe it." "It Is to invite you to drink." "But suppose I decline?" Candidte scratched lisa head. "The, Is no Instance of the kind on record in LI) books." "You are right; andi the confidence wIt whIch you make the assertion shows the you have read the law attentively. Let take the drink, and I'll slgn-your certificat< No Loss of Uonhldence. A Detroit grocer had a pajent morn drawer attached to his counter thle other de and It was no sooner in working order thet his clerk tendered his restgnation. "You going to leave? Why, what's 11 matter?"o asked thb grocei'. "I don't want to stay whare a persona hi lost confidence in me.' "D& you riefer th this ndir till?" "Well you are -very foolish, I hiaves lost the lea4~ bit of coMddeIlae In your ho eaty, lAt I jhp u'' thaif ytoIL less oha~g t runo outside.Xonid FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Is is Observe good manners, At Pay your debts promptly. LO Yield not-to discouragement. ) Zealously labor for the right. Question not the veracity of a friend. Respect the counsel of your parents. , Watch carefully over your passions. r Sacrifice money rather than prinel i. ple. is Abuse is an indirect species of how it age. y 'Xtend to every one a kindly saluti e tion. lie that never thinks can never be y wise. d Use your leisure time for improve t mert. s Venture not upon the threshold of wrong. t No wise man ever yet wished to be it younger. e Self reliance Is quite distinct from o self-assurnuce. U Seek not to please the world, but your e ownl conscience. it Tonch not, taste not, handle not in , t -iating drinks. The heart ought to give charity when the hand cannot. S oevr learns to stand alone must learnn to fall alone. Youth should be patie'ht, because the future lies before it. f A - felon on the hand is wbrse than two il the pellitei'tiary. It is aa good thing to learn caution by the isforttu eo o there. I Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretiont. When a man is wrong and wont ad. f mit it, he always gets angry. r A man of numerous desires is of all i beings the uiost hidenendent. Kindness Ia tho ulden chain by twhiulc solty is bound together. lie who waits at the gates of by-and by enters at the gates of the never. " it is to live tw'ec when you can enjoy . the recollection of your former life. f Never trouble yourself with trilles, and soon all trouble will appear a tritle. - A swet temper is to the householid wihat sunshine is to trees and flowers. I Those who trample on the helpless e are disposed to cringe to the powerful. On the heel of folly treadeth shame; at the back of anget standeth remorse. It Is hard to respect old ago when we get sold on a venerable pair of chickens. Those "little bills" will not grow any smaller by tiling them away-unpaid. A scolding woman, like a train con ductor is pretty much always on the rail. Account him thy real friend who de sires thy good, rather than thy good will. Aets, looks, words, steps, from the alphabet by which you may spll char aRtOr. He that speaks the truth will flaid himself .in sufiliently dramatic situa tions. As thrashing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does uflilotion purify virtue. le that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others or with himself. It is better to accomplish perfeonty a very smalkamount than to half-do ten times as nmuch. Adversity does not take from us true a friends, is only dispels those who pre. a tend to be such. a There cannot bo a greater treachery y than first to raise a confidence, and e then deceive It. I-larsh-eonuisels have no effect: they are like hammers which are always re t-pulsed by the invil. d Pay as you go. A main of honor re B spects his word as ho does his bond. it Ask, but never beg. The flower which we do not pluck is Ste only one whdeh never loses its beauty or fragrance. Despair anil postponement are cow 'I ardice and defeat. Men .were born to ir succeed, not to fal., n Self-denial is the'most exalted pleas e ure, and tihe conquest of evil haps the e most glorious trIumph. T wo things command gWy,yeneration -thme starry universe around us, and the law of duty withIn. lmpolitenless is derived from two sources-ndigerence to thne divine and coentempt for'the humian. Most men take conviction from an ad versary ais chilldren do phiysie, with a ,struggle and a-shudder. tr Somre write, talk, and tink so much about vice and virtue, thlat thpy have no ime to practiee eitheqr. 'When a mnan dies mneij inqN iie what e he has left beW'thd hia n;'ankele inquire e what ho has Bont, before-h,im. a Many menx elaim.to be flemnin their d principles, wvhen, rQally, t.ley aire only ir obstinate inl their p)r.lgdiges.. They that will not becosQpeled. can not be helped0(. Itf joi 11d n'6L Iiisar rea n son, she will'rfp .yonr knukleli. ii A good deed' Is v,ever -lost pho who e sBows courtesy reaps friends4 mp, anId he who plants kiudness gather~s 197c. Whenever there is iclk9ness you may say Withl truth to him Who is charac terizeld by It, "Thotu shaitandeexcel." ~ Cheerfulness makes tihe mind clearer, 0 gives tone te the thoughts, atid adds .0 gracp and beauty tg t qog uane'* Words are go9dJ, but t eire ,i Sline hthing that'isevxn better. '1'id .best i t rnot t6 bed erIytalied by Worda. '.1%' B spirit In ewhicer we act istho 6hilt niat Venture not .jnto. t1e. ~onpahy Ot f t,ho$0 WIIQ... are infeeod wOh bc plague; no, not eyepythough hW y thinkest' thyself guardsd wish 4 'Y dote, * A great, libmy men die be ~eb mrpko'em bdthe time thy 6dlr 10 ndg that -t eir rich nelgb ~ti1 vere tei a Rlile !