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EDI TIOY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MA Y 22, 1880. aJUVL IJImuA lT. On western Lille the day doeclinos, The sun nks low ben ath the pinoe,. And where the last ray I ngering shInes. 'Tie softly fading into night.. The tender gloaming, shado on shade, Comes darkling down, on glen and glade. What time, in beauty b-ight arrayed. The stars bloom into sight ; Then love takes up tho evening song, And memory, kindling varm and strong, Rocalls doad hopes in thickoning throng, AA pain's the past in mellow light. On eastern slopes the sunbeams wko, The soft rays, 1i 4hting lawn andslako, On kindling earth an I heaven break In radiance touoihed with morning-dow; The dawn's young beauties, fre4h and aweot, in blissful union move and moot. What time t o passing shadows Reet, Of n'ght depart from view. And love sings soft the matin song, And lip surveys on phitious strong, The future's bleasngs. rich and long. And paints their dawn with prescienco - true. Morning and noon andcst of qun, Through all the hours of 'day'that run,' Tho light from heaven, at dawn begun. 'lio waiting earth with beauty fills. And naturo smiles, in all her moods, Through lawi and laks and wildd and woods, What tines the heavenly lustre Hoods, And 0l1 her pu'sos thrills ; And love takes up her joyous song, And p and memory, true and strong, Present and past with raptures throng, And light which heaven's ownt love die till"! The Double Plot. "Never, v.'r. never!" exclaiied Georgia Abbott. What i pretty pleticre sihe made, as she stood up In the might of her pride and ' anger and relwateld the wordal Although I was hler- governess and campanion, and should have felt a keen pang of regret at heart at.sucih a display of temper, I found Imlyself instead admiring the queenly pose of her head, the full height to which she had drawn her well-rounded figure, and even the very way -her little foot was set. upon the graveled walk. 11er straw hat had fallen back from her face, and its whit'e stin ribbons Iay loosely about her bare neck, like bands'of silver; while the moon light stole over the golden-brown braids of her luxuriant hair tinging themn softly with its radiance. Should I speak to her, as was perhaps my duty, or like a true daughter of Eve,sit by my window and watch the closing of the little farce ? Alas! I was but a young governess, comparatively speaking,and the atcrn, practical. life of two years at Somner ville Ilouse had not quite rooted out the love of sentiment and romance that from early youth had known a welcome hoome with mc. So I did the latter-watched. "But, Georgie," spoke a voice, which I at once recognize( as belonging to my young cousin, Walter Marston, you appear like one insane. Will you listen to reasoRn." "Not from you, most assuredly 1" she re plied. "I hate you for the words yolt have spoken to me ! I hate you-asolutely hate you 1" There was about a monent's pause, dur ing which Walter retired a few paces, put ting on the air of a prince, while Georgie fretted out the ends of her blue sash with her slender white fingers. "'Very well,"'said Walter, tossing the brown hair, which thec damp evening air had made int o -soft ,brown rings, from his forehead Georgia bowed, "If I ami ill," said lie, ''and send for you-" "I'll never go to you, Walter Marston, never!" interrupted the young girl. "Very well," caime again from the lips of Walter, as he turned half reluctantly away. "Take tihis,if you please 1" cried Georgic; andi I coul see hei' drtaw hastily a golden circlet from -her finger. "And this," snatching from her nieck a golden cross ; "I -want nothing of yours about me I" "D~o not dare to thrust such paltry trifles in my face, Georgie Abbott, or even you may find that there. is a bound to my en -durance," said Walter. All the blood of the proud Maratons in * Walter's veiins was at once aroused by the quivering tone in which lie spoke, as lie tore the bjuubles from the young girl's * grasp andl gih4~d thetit ito~te Eduste with hIs foot, turning away from her without turther word or comment. T 'hero was something in his voice, some thing In his irin tread as he walked away * that r'ousecd into life memories that had slumbered for years witlhin my bosom. In vain I tried to crush.- themi back. into ob livion tas they camne upl before me ; but it was a uiseless task, .and, like a weary chil, I buried nay 'face in m'y hands and burst into tears. When y'oung, like Georgio Al). bott, for a cruel temnlier I had allowed the frohinioh i oti e .~i~ , the little'seeoeI~ ju ivtt ,1cs e d back into the present a far-past evening of my life! How the old yearning for love and tendernese sprang up anew within my ,heart, andl Went searcohingly out for a dear one whom I had 'taught'yt~fto'igak -upon as dead-forever (lead to me ! How I recalled looks, tones and words' that had been so long hushed in the chilly tomb of forgetfulness! And how I prayed to, Hleaven for sii'edgth. to '%alk 'flrnly,'.ardd without wavering, muy cruel way of thiouns, though my fept were torn and bleeding all the while t As I sat trying to soothe my perturbed thouughts baqk ,to the . quiet channel In which thiyyiee''ont to flow, '1 heard the quick step of Waltoardi[dston in the cor ridor that led to my room, and before I could wipe the tears fwtaktby. yees ho rapped Aqstily at my .dgor. ** - os~ "1 am co to bid yongood-ly,"e aR as 1 met bijn. "I shall start for home to morrow.' 3 "S1o soon, Walter I How Is this ?" I asked, pilacing luit in iA chair. -*"Lthought -yoiur visit was to have ended in a very dif fdrer 4 manner." here longet,'? oereplied. "I am itot feel. lng very strong, yt, and a home atmos - phere is bettrthnayterfrni valid." ortnnayohrfra n t"In some cass though I shouldhad "I thiink n" ad e she has never loved me,' he answered,with a vehemence that quite startled me. It was useless for mte to try and conceal fromv Walter-my knowledge of his .quarrel with qeoigle; so I.told hinA as plabily and shapll)ly as I could what I knew of it,,beg King him to be led ,by a c'alm, cool Judg Mwent in the affair, rather than thefiorce, passlonate counselings of his meaner na. tire, which threatened to overydwer the g.ood. "'Bit Georgie does not love me," aid Ie. "'You ire mistaken, Walter ; she does love you, ' I replied. 'She lis been hasty, ven as you have beer ; 'but can you not pardon her as you hope to he pardoned ?" "Did you ever love ?" he asked, quickly, lixing his dark hazel eyed upon iy face, regardless of the question I had asked him. "And if so, would it have been possible for you .to allow such words to fall from your lips as fell from (eorgic's this eve ning?" "I havc.- loved, Walter," I said, in a luivering voice. "I loved 'fervently, and with all the strength of a warmu,pamssionte heart ; and more, I spoke just such ertiel words to the man I loved as Georgie ad Jiressed to you this evening. 'MNly words were like keen steel. They ran between his heart and mine, severing them forever. T'Iat is why my life is a sad and lonely one. Oh, let it be at lesson to you !" Tears shone in the dark eyes of Walter, imd with i rapid movement he wits by lly ilde With outstretched hands saing : "Oh, Eklsa I I have your secret at last. Elsa, dear cousin Elsa, you oice loved my brother Robert ! 'Do not shake your head I ain sure of it; and that is why youi are Imoplug your li'e away here, and why Robert stays away from home so long." "Do not speak of this, Walter," I said, -agerly clasping his hiaud. "If you have my regard for me do not speak of it to "Who i!" lie replied. "To him," I replied. "To 1Robert," said lie. I bowed my head. I 'It shall be as your wish;" lie answered, very thoughtfully. 'And now let tis talk of Georgie," said, imxious to tuirn the conversation Into a new hannel. "And what of her?" aked Waltergrow .ng chilly is an iceberg at the mero imen lon of her nme. "She loves you," I repeated. "That reminiis to be Seen," was the rstily-given reply. "And miay I prove it to you ?"I asked. Will you allow yourswelf to be convinced?" "If I can not help it, most certinly," was lhie answer. "And will you triist everything to me,'" iad do ias I bid you?" ' "Even as you wish, Miss Counselor," ic replied. "Then you may be as happy its you hoose, for I am certain of success," I aid. Walter shook his head moodily, but. 1 aw that there was a new light in 'his eye, md that in spite of his air of unbelief, lie cally trusted in what I had told him. And ho we parted. * * * * "I have a letter containing news from Walter Marston, written by a friend of lis," I said,'in a matterof-fact tone, to 3eorgle Abbott, as she lingereud by my side )me afteroon after lessons were over. "It a very sad, too-very said. But excuse nie, you wished to know something of your French lesson. How many pages did [ give you to translate ?" I looked up from my book as I asked he question. Georgie was clinging hold >f a chair, looking as pale as the muslin -obe she .wore. The pallor of her face 'rightened me, although I assumed an air >f easy indifference, and assured her that he next day's translation was exceedingly asy. ",Will you go up to my room with m ?" [ asked, rising and locking my desk. "No--no; do not go," shte half gasped ; 'tell me whit you know of Walter!" "Oh, of Walter I" said I. "Didii't I fin sh telling you about him ? Why, lie says, r rather his friend writes for him that if any of his friends at 8omnerville houise wish o see hiim, they must go to Cadlands at >nce. That is all.". "All I Miss IHerbert," she cried. "All ! [s it not enough, in heaven's name i When lid you receive the letter I" "Yesterday morning," I replied. "And are you not going to him I" she sked. "I fear I shall not be able to go," I re "And'cis thiis your boasted cousinly love mnd friendship for him ?" said Gleorgie ; "~this your sisterly tenderness, that con reals hzito Ice whlen lie is most in need of your sympathy and kindness? May I be lelivered from all such.'" "You are getting excited, Miss Abbot t," remarked. You are one of Mr. Mars on's friends--why do you not go to him?" But she did not give me an. answer, as, with curling hip, and cheeks like tlhe pale lles of the valley that hutng- upon lyr ~i4wonder wvh fl gign~ xt step ?" [ 'd1, melitaly, .~~ fol k thdier moodily rom th~e school-room. "Will she go to Walter alone-will her pride allow her to lo that 1" "A letter for you, Mtiss Iherbert," saidi Mr'sm-bbotbast that moment, cominlg sudt lenly upon mne. "1 have had it in miy ossession since this morning. My neg ct Is quite inlexousable, I am well aware." With an eagerness that I could not well locount..fom, 1 took, the letteris from her tand, and tuirnedh unceremoniously Into the ~oomn I hat) loft. The address on it was In he familiar handwritIng of Walter Mars ~on. Why did I trenlble to break thle Aeaml? With figers that seemed h9th to (do my bidding, I tore it open and read : "DE An E~SA : Come to Cadlande at once. [ have not tine now to explain, only to say' if you value the happiness of a. human wcart, or care to prolong for a few (days 3ne human life, comet Yohrs truly, a WALTrEn MARSTON." What did it mean ? Whose life could I proloig ;. whose happines 'insure l y going o Cadlandut Was it a little hoax of Wal Ier's I No, it could not be ; the note was ~O~3s jd mpatio for that, beside ~Ii frhIa oAt all like one of his. FldIE~ tuilied I No, that was not possIble, for but a few weeks before I had pe .told that he wiM in Italy.., J was in a aze' of doA~t tid 'Wondef, tooking about hloAainlyutor Abnlezhing that would throw thfl t ray6Ulight MupoIXthe mnystery. But the light did not 'appeArrsdg# I set myself rapidly about preparn5 for my aud. 4en departure, havw i r~t obtilhed leave 5absenoe from Me. El~rnua Qr .i plalined that as n'ost likely her daugl would wish to go, I could accoi)pany i All this whe, as I bustled hurriedly ab my chamber, I was conscious that the cupalt of the roon above my own N preparing to leave ione. I could 1h the moving of trunks, the hurried orders to the dispos:al of this thing and that, giv to her maid, and occasionally recogni the fleet step of Ueorgie Abbott,. as a spratig nervously up and dowsi the stal My suspicions that she was makipg ren for a visit to Cadlands were confirmed 1 yond a doubt, when the fly camne to ta me to the station, for the same carriage ia started her upon her journey. "It seenis you have changed yiour mi Miss Herbert," sie said haughtily to ie, "I have received iother letter -ini)C saw you," I reflied. "flow was lie?" she faltered. "In such a condition that my prescI was demanded there at once, " I repli, '1 could not treat the urgent request lig 1y, and so have left everything for the an Af complying with it." 'Heaven grant that 1 may not be I late!" murmeed Georgie, sinking back the seat beside Inc. "Oh, Miss I[erbe I am-so very, very miserable!" I drew the trembling form of the you 4irl olosetto ily side, anid hade her -be good cheer. Looking upon her pahl-. ft is sho leaned her fiad upon my shiou I condeined myself bitterly for the parl batt taken in the really cruel affair. Foi motment I resolved to confess it all to I Lrusting to her good sense and her wa love for Waiter for her forgiveness, but I thought of the strange, mystical letter I l received clieckett me, and I determined let the atl'air terminate as origini' Ilanned. It was very late that evening when arrIved at Lymnngton. The carriage v waiting for ts at the station, but only a vants were --Aith it to escort us. Ev moment the mystery grew mark incomp biensible to me. Whatcould it all nen Why, on entering Cadlands, were Georj ind I conducted formally to our rooms though we were entire strangers ? W lid the servants shake their heads silen when we asked for the invalid-for W ter Y Oh, it was very stranmge to me ! ia more inexplicable still was it when a servi Lmie up to our rooms to conduct us down linier-not to the dinning-hall,but a qui luxurous little nest of a room, that led- < Af the library. Vhat could it mean ? what (Id It mean ? When we entered I room we found two gentlemen apparen waiting to o'eive us. Into the arms >ne Georgie rushed very unceremonious "rying at the top of her voice, "Dear. d( Walter, you are alive-you are alive 1" The other smood looking earnestly a mnxiously at me, while a mingled tide toile, fear and unceitainty swept over i ioul. With a tottering, feeble step I wC orward, led by the quick, sunshiny sm hat broke gloriously over his face, wi he joy and thanksgiving of our lien went forth in these words: "l),bert I' 'Elsa I" That evenig's happiness I will pi wer, because I have a horror of depicti ieeuratelyi a love scene, more especially wo-fold one; as in this ease It proved !e. -The next, morning I attempted to i prove Walter for the letter lie had sent i hie day before; but. lie only laughed in rily at the mention of it, assuring me t ie was convimced beyond the possibility i dounut before lie wrote the letter, ti Robert's life and happiness were both in I ninent danger. And theh Georgio sho licr finger maiacingly toward me, a bade ie not to complain of other peop] rieception, while there was such a load guilt'upon your own shoulder. The double plot is to end in a doul wedding; id .before another nionth past the merry bells of Cadlands aire isher in the happy piorning. flrief inteii on Huannemrs and Etiquette. A lady who goes Into society with I shinple wishm to please and be pleased, gi 3rally suiccceds in both objects. She w wishes to lbe welcome In society, must a Linguishi in herself the desire of "showi aff.'' To dress In a more costly style th Lhe majority of. the coampany can afford, oot in keeping with the canons of gc aste or breeding; but to be indifferent :Iress is usuially a mark of excessive vani -as though oiie would say, "I am char lag enough without the aid of outws adornments." Thue usual forms of etique are the safeguards against hnpertinent and it is therefore best, in a miscellanc company, to observe them punctilious1 To be perfectly polite Is Is only necessa to 1)e perfectly considerate and just conformi to the golden rule-to render their due respect, courtesy, a~d attentic lI'o acquire elegance of manner, obser those who possess it, and divmne their s5 ret;. self-possession is half the battle good heart andl a little practice will do I rest. The most graceful thing a pers eein do in company, is to pay attention those who are least likely to have attenti -that Is, those whose friendship does: confer honor, nor their conversatIon pie ure. Affectation is the bane of social tercourse; all who wouldl really ples must avoi it entirely. No More Arsenio in il. An Oil City man took home some arse3 the other clay for rats. Hie openedi package on the table wh.re lie sat doY ad playedl in the white stuff with his f gers until his wife came clown. TlI w~ith a sad expression he said: "Deart ['ye got tired of living and have taken sol of this arsenic, and-' But his wife da ed opt so suddenly,and screamedlso 1pu that lie didn't finIsh $hie senternce. I fright caused hima so minch mherriment il wvhen the neighbors, whom hus 1wilfe calli came in ho was nearly douled up w~ lauighter. ''he *next niomnent they soeh tice azoplo rweho d dlu trc He spit thorn out and attempted to expla but a six-foot neighbor sat down on~ stomach and grabbed the man's nostrils tween his fingeys apd beforeo they let. 1 lip they had 'made him shidv hall sliaen raw eggs, a pint of whisly , a qu bf Soap-suds a'nd hal f-*dcozen othter rem diet. Tiher poired ,sQ ;nmph stuff down thmrodt In five ninutes' that It took him 11 A daytg thfow It up, and, he ,same ,ent tho stugle do holldw that'wherf his s slp pri theo b i o1Dlied 11~ ~-T'e %i f sto In i W~~i~a lY.~. um or ter Th IftotlaschIias of Itu*ssa. r. si mt The ' i)eiidoffs contrive to keep them- I< [c. selves before the public, asi a family of its n1 vas antecedents and resources easily can, if so to ar minded. The later members seem too have h as a love of notoriety, a fondness for creatinlg d< vn sensationti, which belongs to many rich tus- 1< ed sians who have been ennobled. It is thought tI he by a number of his acquiintacs that Paul A ra. Demidoff decided to sell the irt treasures ti dyin his San Donato villa, at loirence, in ol - order to make himself talked about. Indeed , ke it is hard to explain the ile on any other b, 1so ground, for the wildest capriceseldom takes bi so serious a form, artistically and financi- p4 ( ally speaking. The history of the h)emi- m doffs is singular and interesting. They are W j imnsely rich and occupy, as capitalists, cc mu h the same position In Itnesia that the ti itotlichilds do in western Europe.. The iI e founder of, the family,- Nikita Demidoff, w .( was a son of a serf at the tinte of 'eter the to ht. Great, and quitted his birthpltce in the gov- ai ke ernment of Toola to avoid bearing arms. ew lie became a blacksmith land armorer, fa 00 growing so famous hi the W ter capacity Im In that he acquired a vast, fortue. Peter hav- ly ri, ing favored him greatly, lie jestablished in ti 1699 for the government thiel#rst iron foun- hi ig dry In Siberia at Neviansk, iear the base (1e of of the Urat mountains. Th having serv- it ice ed as a model for many otier prosperous ar ler foundries i that region, thoeczar presented ed I to him with all its depende4cies, and also la It conferred a title on hhn. Nikita's son, sti er. Akimtl, employed a number of Germans to (I rin explore the rich mines of co)l)er, silver and eo he gold found in the valley of tle Irtish and qi ad the upper stretches of tihe Obi river. Ini to 1725 he erected at the foot of the Magnetic oi [y mountains a foundry namied Nischneitagi- gr lisk, which is to this day the largest in Sib- pi we cria. Wussia, sensible of the value of his se ras labors to the country bostowed (iIi im the to or- title of counsellor of state. Ills son, Pro- hi ,ry cope, founded at Moscow a commercial di re- school-afterward removed to St. Peters. b) L ? burg-for t lie education of the sons of cr zie tradeitnen. Paul, cousin of Procope, a is 1 manh of mind ahid energy, traveled widely fi liv in his youth, and devoted himiself to the oc n13 miatiurl sciences. le gave to the university te ai- of Moscow a museum of natural history, iud and founded (1803) the Demidoff museum pl mt at Yaroslavi. A nephew of Irocope, Count jai to Nicholas, distinguished himself as an aide sp Lt, in the war against the Turks; afterwards alh lut inarried Countess Stroganoff, and became In y, privy councilor and Imperial chamberlain. w lie Ile had a marked taste for art and science, (it Jy and conducted extensive mines with success. an of i 1812 lie raised a regiment, and fought ad y, aginst the French. He was; the father of of ar Anatole, who died at Baden-Baden ten pi years ago, and the uncle, if we mistake not, su id of f be present Paul, the collector of San p of Donator. While the Demidoffs have the ev ny Russian peculiarity we have mentioned, ca 'mt they have generally distinguished them- T Ie selves In a substantial and creditable way. sp. Ile They have had brains, taste and.energy, as is ts well as passion for munificence and display, n and have. first and last, done a deal of good m . ith their wealth. ...Vau'Denidorff is re- tI puted to be worth more thaii $50,000,000. di s 'I'hat a family of opulent. princess should at ng. spring. fron a, poor serf. and blacksmith bi a seems very unlike Russia as popularly ap- la to prolhended. P V_ St Lon of Appetite. Loss of appetite is of common occur eat once at the onset of many fevers, but. IX of usually It is a far more chronic complaint. hi lat Nothing is commoner than to - hear people ok say that they 'have no appetite," they "(do I A not care for anything," or that they "ha'e C the sight of food." It is often enough as ofsociated with a condition of debility and general Inaptitude for work. . It is by no me, means uncommon in those who are wor- MN is ried and anxious, and find it difficult to di to make both ends meet. People who devote TJ too much attention to the brandy bottle pn generally find meals rather a trouble than se otherwise ; breakfast, especially, is a difli- di culty. These individuals are generally gi he~ very dainty and fanciful, and when at home se ma- grumble at everything that Is set before h< ho them. They arc very fond of abusing the w ,x cook for what is in reality the morbid con- en ng dition of their own digestive organs. To- m an b~acco smokers, or, at all events, those who of is smoke in any quantity, are seldom great (i od performers with the knife 'and fork. To- re to bacco and opium and alcohol seem all to hii ty have the power of deadening the appetite. th m. People who tdke little or no out-dioor exer- 0f ,rdl cisc generally complain that they do not eat gi Lto well, and no wonder. If a nian wants a rl se good appetite, lie must earn it somehow or hti es other. Seime one may giy~e hinm his dini- th y, ncr, hut if hd is to enjoy it lie wIll lhave to th ry bring his own saucei ini the shape of an ap- ci .to petite, ha all Irregularity of meals is aiiother common a ,n. cause of loss of appetite. The stomach ap- he ye preciates regularity, and likes to have its di c. want attended to at the proper time. It is 9 -a curious how iii a well-regulated b~ody the Is he 'desire for food Is experienced day by day 0r on at efy the same. hlit .-We all know w to 'how' dreadfully .badsteMpfredinany people se o get if their dinner is only five minutes late. sc mtot Ills all very well to say that they are stu- ed as pid, and should not be put out about trifles, gi in- but it must be remembered that it is no of trifle to them, and that oven a slight delay at may give rise to a considerable amount of bodily discomfort. The stomach has been ri accustomed to receive supplies at certain fo regular intervals, amid, if it fails to receive u' iho them, Jt objects mnost eipphatically. j ,Noth- i ho ing is mere' likely to spoil th'e atppetite than y na, eating or drinking between meals. You hu ln. hear a man complaining- that lie cannot eat fe en- his dinner, and you find on inquiry that pl it, about an hour before lie had three or four re ne dozen oysters and seome bread and butter fl rt- 'and a pint of stout, "just to pull him to- Im Ily getheor.'' It may be thought that this is an, N [or exaggeration, but it ia not. We have seen' tI dat it, and we wIsh we liad not, for nothing a ed, can be more contemptible than a man who t11 -98~ g Y , ti. o people to 'wodine in the middle of the day, lunch m at. is a great mistake. Mlany people seem to H in, thiniR' that it would boa great hardship to at his go without food from 8:80 A. M. to 1 P. a be. Mi. They make a good breakfast directly st urn they get up : ham and eggs and all thue et- ii -a. coteras; and then at 1:1 A. Mi. they go in It art for bread and cheese and beer. '&Smuebody gi no- once ,said that, "lunch Is reflection on w his yout breakfast anda insul 'to your did.. (Q att nor," and it, is a pity that more people do gi of not bear this in mind. You can Hever ox- n 'Ito pect to have a good appetite unless you al- e a' low a good five hoturs to .elapse between as each of the chief meals of the day. Now a word or two about some of what 179 may be called the curioaitiet of appetite. 1 0 ~ ~ h~ h. mtat h~ 'urins, "he Is always eating'n-Ie is nev itisfied " If the boy Is strong and we rished, let him eat by all means, and < t be stupid enough to give ih anythir spoil his appeitq We do not, suppo: j has any worms, and oven It he hIas )es not matter very muich. They wi >t do any harm, and it is only fair tht icy should have a feast once in a whil: t all events, if they do give any troubli icre 18 never much difliculty in getting ri them, and we will speak of the differeu odes adopted for their expulsion by (n r. In diabetes mellitus, or sugary dit tes, there is often a most inordinitate a: tlte. Lt is no Joke In the case of a pra ain. Sometilmes they seem as if the ould eat almost any quantity, and w rtainly should not like to contract fi eam. Ilystotleal young ladies often ec bit the mot depraved apple les; the ill eat almost anything, from slate penci egg shells. Few people like cintders I article of diet, but they really seem I joy then. It is to be feared that thes icies are often fostered by clcourag eat ; at till events, the-y are less frequen; heard of aionj; the poor, who have no c means of gratifying thent, than .it th gher ranks of society. What is to b ne for los of appetite? In the first pilac hi essential to avoid, as far as possiblk y of the circumstances we have mentior I as causes of this complainit. lie regn r In your habits; got up early ; do ne v3 out late at niglit ; titko plenty of out or exercise ; have your bowels well ope 'cry morning ; (to not drink much tea ; , ite sure that you are not smoking to tel, and ar not taking more than yo ght to in the way of stimulant. It is cat thing if you can dine in cheerful (risant society-the example of eatin oms to be alinot contagious. It is a: nikhting what a great deil of had cooker is to answer for in the way of exciting staste for food. The practioa of takin tiers before meals with the view of ii; easing the appetito is a common one. I undoubtedly a bad habit, but in certai ictional derangements of the stomach a casional gilt and bitters or sherry and hit ra may have its advantages. Probably the drug most frequently em oyed with the view of stimulating th det appetite is quinine. Two table oonsful of the tonic quinine mixtur ould be taken about half an hour befor eals, or two tablespoonful of quinine win ili (10 equally well. The infusion 0 iassia may also be used for this purpose id its cillicacy is greatly enhanced by th (itlion of three or four drops ot tinctur Ux vomica. NuX voIica Is one of th easantest blitlers we know, and will ofte ceod admirably, oven when given i ain water. Other tinctures and Infusion, iployed for a similar pqrpose are those o lumba, genttlan, chirette and cusparla e infusions should be given In two table oonful doses, while the dose of tincture a teasl)oojful In water. The tincture o Ix vomlica, It will be remembered, is uch more powerfui drug, and the dosc o is should not exceed eight drops. Th fIerent preparations of hop are useful, b ', we think, best tiken in the form c tter beer. Absinthe, or wormwood, I rgely employed. With many people; et ialiy those who are piedisposed to cor. Ipation, two or three tablespoonful o Pmlpound decoction of aloes will snecce tter than anything. For elderly peoplk psmn taken in five-grain doses half a aur before meals is useful. We nee irdly say that for patients who are ant c, or suffering from what is usually cal I "poorness of blood," iron is the remedy .Moutat Vernon. While every American has heard o ount Vernon. probably not one In a . hur c-dknows whence it derived the name le unfortunate duke of Monmouth had vate secretary named Vernon, a prmudet isible man of business, whto, after th ike's (death, found favor in influentir arters, and unider William IHI. becamn cretary of state, lie left a son, Edward rn 1084, wvho greatly against his father' shes, entered the navy, and serving wit rly distinction,.rose to the ranlk. of ad ral. In 1722 he was returned to the blus 'Jommons, and having In July .1731 ~clared there that Porto Bello might b ucedtc~ with six sail of the line, and that iwould stake Is life and reputation o esuccess of the expedition, he was sen fwith a squadron to do It, succeeded, an shis men $10,000, which bad julst at ed to pay hIs troops. On returning. homi received the thanks of both Houses an e freedom of the city of L12hdon., Frotr at time, however, his star declinled. A' pedition to Carhagena, mtade two year ~er, signally failed. Smnollett, at that thu naval surgeon, accompanied the fleet, an. s told the story of it in "Roderick Ran mi," where lhe compares Vernon and Oqn eatwortli, who demanded the auxilIlam ad force, to Oesar anld Pompey. "Th me," he says "would not brook a superior Iille the other was impatient of an equal t~hat between the pride of, one and the in hence o( another the enterprise milscarri " It was in the land force at Carthe ma that Lawrence Washington, George' ter brother by fourteen years, had served id apparently he esteemed Vernon, as h yve Is name to hils home on the Potomac d procured a mnidlshipmnan's appolntmer rGeorge, but hIs mother's interpositio timately prevented the boy's avallin naelf of it, albeltshe at first consented ernon popularity was so great that hisa ur cky expedition does not seem to have at ;ted it, and he was acinmally elected t riament for three places at onte onI hi turn. Probably, his known hostility t e government had much to do'with thu u1775 he was detailed to watch tn )rta sea in view of a movement, e me pretender's adherents. The next yer serious squabble arose between him an L> government, resulting in hIs producin mo pamphlets, which so exasperated tih ithoritles that by the king's express con Mid lie was strucek off the list of admiraa e died in 17l97, at his 'seat in lshifoll id wlthstaidhtlgbhis 'dIsgrace, a handsonv >nument to him was erected in Westmit er abbey. It was Vernon who brougi to uase thie custom o( mixing water wit ie ration of rum, which get the name 'og from his habit of wesring a grogam 'istcoat, andI hence his malckname of "O1 tog." Altogether, the nata who invent'e ~og, is burled in WIestini rabbey, Con inmonrated by Smollett, and gai'6 8 a Washington' home, muns; be regata4 no ordItiary peor'son. ..he"1' 6I~te t tai a ti 'h ork,( ofwhich t3ure o fes.'darz'y187,800, a 4 ifdu[~h o .er * poeeof a b A Firgt Wittor Senorita, 'About a yar ago, all Paris was talkinj Sabouit MNe. iXrtha (e Gonzalez, a Spanisli 10s11 menoritta of the first water, who came t< us one (lay from Cutile, lived ii pleudit 11style for a season, just long enough, in fact. to inake dupes and to disappear at the psy chological moment. She had a flue nam and a fine fortune, to judge by her equip ages. Her beauty was remarkable; sh t had a sumptuous upurtiment In the rue Lord Byron, and( she was a near relation to Dor Carlos. This relitibuship opened befor her the most carefully Lolted doors of th< Faubourg Saint-Germain. Then, too, sh< Y was a muartyr .for the good cause; she hac been driven out. of Spain - by a fulse am execrated government. - 8o the lady wa well received In France, ind her dupes wer< Snumerous. Her property had been sequos. trated, aind she had no money. An ecclesi fastic who had made no vows of, poverty pill his name to lifteen thousand francs' wortli of bills within three months ; he further pawned his gallery of pictures and gave the money to the uldy. Then, some complaint) t having been maide, Mne. Bertha GonzalC ? disappearedi as suddenly as she appeared, D taking wit hera brother who had protectel her during her stay in Paris. The ipolice failed to discover any traces of the fair lady. The other (lay a young lady, elegant and beautiful, and speaking the French cor rectly although she said that she was ad It alian, Iid a visit to the Commissaire de Police of the Q1artier (i Rottle. She said 11r n1am Was Mie. Olnevra de Piani, and that her chambermnd had robbed hdr of son e diamonds. The chambermaid dented the thargo, ind the Comtiissaire went to visit tile apartment of tile plaintiff in the Avenue Friedland. Afterhaving carefully but vainly searched the servant's room lie began to search her mistress's apartment. There he was struck with tho suporb col. lection of paintings that liied the walls. Suddenly ie noticed a Murillo of great value; he reflected a moment, and then he remembered that that picture had belonged to the priest whom we have mentioned above, and who lad pawned his pictures tc a broker recommended by the lady. The end of the history Is that MAie. do Piani Is Mne. de Gonzalez, and that she Is neither Italian nor Spanish. She was born at Bat. ignolles. The brother was a Pole, and I was not her brother. The lady Is now in prison, Hiuntgarlan Daico, The Iuingarian ball was crowded by the aristocracy of Vienna. Berks Lajos, of Buda 3 Peath, with his cblebrated gypsy orchestra, I furnished the music for that remarkable na I tional datce, the cpardee. It Is remarbably 4 shocking, but at the s110 tune nothing can r be more graceful, bewitching, passionate. -lThe maidens, in their pretty dresses, with - flowing sleeves, a bright-colored scarf around the shoulders and knotted above the t bodice of gayly embroidered velvet, whirl, 1 jump and fling themselves Into the arms of their partners, to be shaken and turned L from side to side, while the muslo inereases t in speed and their rosy lips, raised to breathe f more fiealy, very often get a good, old a fashioned "smack" from their lovers. I have frequented Vienna society of all kinds - for live years, but the csardes is worse than f the can-can I saw at Paris; but it is the national dance, and I1ungarians are very patriotic, and it may be wrong to critiolse an <imusemnataalRo..giscastje Emperor pleasure to wiV loss. Tile arclduchesses - are not taught the csarilas, buttihe eldest - daughter o the Emperor, G sela, learned it from observation merely.. Poor. hlid, she never danced very much, for no sooner was she free from her governess thaw she was f provided with a husband, her cousin Leo pold, PiIGc3 of Bavaria, 'a man lmore noted for his amiability than his beauty. After the engagement was announced three young friends of the ArciduchessR called unpon her to cxpress their cert moniouls congratula tions. With~hesagte eagerness with wihich shehadshon t'emher edlls in child h dod she showed thoem the phoctograph of huer flanlcee, asking, "Isn't he handsome ?" The young coulnteses Were so overpowered -by his extreme ugitness thiqt,they heositatedi fog a momcnt, blut one .of their number galined self-possession enonlgh' to reply, S"Yes, Your Highness, it IS a splendid pho tograph," and so it was. Mlany amusing stories are told of the young bride Gis8la, Soon after her marriage withl her Bavarian cousin sile was one day abisent frem tile family dinner-table, and refused to make hecr appearance. Tilie Prince went to seek her, bult, sile hlad shut hlerself in a clothles Spress and refused to~llsten tQ him until he promised she should have Austrmn knodel and mnehllies a kraut. Bhe wouldn't eat Bavarian dishes - - Who First Drew D~own the Lightning V TIhe 111story or hlitmtig conductors ex tends oyer but a brief period of time. It is Sordinarily dated from thi rnemorable even ieg when Benjamin 'Franklin, accampaniesl by his eldest son,.supceeded in the bp9,d ox. periment 'of drawing lightni g from thle clopida 4own the conductor a orded by-the wet string of .is silken kite. , I is r markable that Mr. Apdorsgri does t"ot refbr to that which converted the fj'at kal 'e into a the subsequent, success, amely, the wetting of tihe kite-string by the thunder-shower. t .But we cannot help ecoffessing a sort of 'sati 1 isfaction, on behalf of'the Old World. In i being taught to' antedate tis triurnph of -experimental sagacity though only by a few days, ig favor Q~ 4$primeesW madeol - atlte suest~on ofPpoibMDMhibrd. At . iyla-Ville, abut oig dn minlet a from Paris, on the road, to' PotoisejM. 9 Dailbard possessqcd a country hensq stangi ing dii a high'pl n, souid 400 feet: eji'v,he sea hovel. Here a woo en seaffoid g wais Serpeted, supporting an ilon rod eighty feet r long, and a little more than an inch thiek. At about five feet from the ground this rod was conn'eoted'wIth~ An electripal apparatus. (I Shortly after the stholq was l1xod, on May 10, 1752 (fiftysflyoe'days 'befor,6:the obe vation at Philadelphia) a thuinde--st6m 'dadfiborf. .M.4aalibard was' absent in Paris, e~ but he had lef( tize apara~tus in charge ots faithful sentineol, one of his servugnts, agold tsoldier, Ooi'ffler by nsme, with t$g instriub Itiozns. '&olfler presented to .tif e onductoI an iron key with the haddle~poungI En silk, asd lias thmqa the first huumq6? o whc drpw' down, . yto ~aivgcts 0opcqs b a r ia'fd* great oxpqrl mont a ~ el-eleel tricily ?b iA NEWS IN BRIeF. -Saint Patrick died about A. D. 500. -Dead woo(l' assessmnont is only $3,000 loss than before the tire. -Eich Iron ore and marble beds have been discovered near Talldega, Ala. -Senator Thurnian is liilted to two cigars a day slnce his recent IlIness. -Napoleon I .wis proclaimed !Cm peror of tho French iiatlo 4. D. 1804. -Major Roni's disinissail from the army has been approved by the Uabinet. -Novat Scotia Provilcial estimstesc $49J,2 10; estimated expediture, $480,. 791. --Jullas Cinsar was asshasinated by Brutus at Rome 41 years before Chriat's Lilme. -A boy in Kenny county, Texas, has killed forty-three bears the past winter, -The first gold mine in the United States was discovered in South Carolina In 1790. - .rance in 1878 had 936.000 births, of Whlich' 67,000 or about one In 10 were illegitimate. -Dan O'Leary, the pedestrian, Is now worth $00,0(0. He earned is all with his loge. -it is said that there will be more sugar caie planted in Alabama in 1880 than ever before. -Galileo was the first to observe and comment upon the fact of lee being lighter than water. -Louis Philippe's abdication took placeo In tie year 1848, the ioyal family escaping to Englald. -The late Leonard Case of Cleve land, left for a mchool of a)lfbd science, property valued ti $1,500,0 e -Silk-worm culture Is" 1pe of the palifhes of Louslana is site eful. it promises to be a prominent business. -The clty of Ottowa, Oanada, still complains of hard times. ,Therq are said to be 700 vacant tenements there. -There are 1,487 llied place iyhere "liquor is sold In Bliffitio, and 723 saloons where nothing but liquor is sold. -Georgia has 2I3,167 spindles run ning in her cotton mills, of ;which 54, 625 are at Columbus, and 44',448 at Au gusta. -There are nineteen bachelor farm ers in Walnut township, Pike county, Iowa, who are farming and dolng their o wn cocking. d -Forty-two thousand acres of min oral land in S.ott county, Va., have been purliaied by a company of North. ern capitalists. -The National Conference of Char ities w1,il met in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, June 29th, and continue in session four days. -The Amerlean Social Science Asso elation will hold its general. meeting in Saratoga from the 7th to the 11th of September next. , -The total population of Greece is 1,079,000 souls, against 1,457,000 in 1870. Tne Increase per annumin has according ly been 1.09 )nor cent. -Horatio C. King, of New'York, will deliver the alunini oration during Com mnilcement week. at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., In June. -The number or fires causing a loss of $100 and up ward In 1876'was 9,301. In 1879 it was 12,849, aliaverage of about one fire every forty minutes. -Mr. Jay Gould has purebased the magnificent white marble mansion of tile George Merritt estate, a short dis lance oith of' Tarrytown, N. Y., for $275,000.' -Mr. Parnell boasted at his late Cork neeting that he was th-e only for eigner who hiad ever boen. allowed to adldress thle American H19use of Repre -ivo. men in Altoona. Pa., claimn to have found an abandoned gbid mibo in tihe mountains along Mill Run. Copper -pieks andl other coppler~ tools were found in the mine. -rihe 'ruamor that the liimpress' En genie has made Prince Victor her heir is untrue. -Her Majesty's heir i8 tihe iDue d'A lbe, her nephe w, thie son of, her iontly sister. -From his investimnt o( $31,000,000 ini four per cent. bonds Mr. Vanderbilte derives anl income of four cents a see end, $2.40 a minute, $144 an hiour and $3,46 a dlay. -The heaviest eighteen-moilths-old builook, of which there Is 'any record, shlowed a live weight of V,600 linnds, and- yielded, when slauighteredy 945 pounds of beef. -Reducing all .the milk and cheese sold togethler wlah sbutr to a 4utter atanmiaird, the averas proue o f all the cows ill tile countrf~ Is les 'tan 70% jpouids per cow. "o . -During 1870 twentyinew asteroids were discovered, as against twyelvye in 38 8, so ata thereo/s nl e a ,I htest entiouragement t0.oetatw are odhling to tile end of thl 8t. 1 ' .-'4ho statlstloatis editiafe tnist the population o1 the countmly as shown by tite copiing census will be between 47, 00 ',000 and 48,000,000, 1r .a gaika of 9, 00,000 in the last ten y~r -Columbus, 8. C., hisseven print ing6ficee, gIVing etnp ?norilt to four ty-twuojearnofmn jl'Iters, besides th asual number of apprentices. There .ls alsq a bool-indervn A tbh olty, * ---RBemarkin g on the. fact thit the .Hartford Sicati g Ri n ' sed over five galinsa of castor oil r l 0nhg skates the p.istsettson, t he Danb~i ' y Newoe is thank ril that a nd w market for 'the stoff has opefnemAup. .i * -'yhle remains Qf- thesiat Gendril Jefferson C. a are t eth~e of S6dff 'Mol, a~nd his.wdow rintetdde c pro6t -a suitable " mspopumnpnt ove; them *a -4Tho. UnIted StateedIs 1a M~tore A~aoe-third of all R j aAn the 'n wpr ,The. procl2800o toziit4 61 0O s4 fltlofa $10O 000Dh