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IRI-WEEKLY EDITION- WINNSBORO, S. C., MAY 29, 1880. VOL IVNd THE SIAKE OF A HAND. Thore's a feoling that thrills you with joy or with pain, That Is felt In the shake of the hand, And records if aught but a thought you may gain When you faced to advoralty stand. How many whIlo.e hand, though seemingly . kind, Like an leiolo chills to the bone Not a shado of warm feeling within oan you find, Though appearance will greatly disown. Then give too the hand of a man with a heart That scorns to b soon in disguise; When -you shake it you fool it is honesty's part, And the rest can be read in iin eyes. There's othors from whom not a sigh will awake, Indifferent and ohill they remain, As if all emotion was bound to a stake, With its limit the length of a chain. And should you, through oourtesy, be thrown in their way, Wnero lvility makes a demand, Yo:a just feel the tip of their ulngora when they, As if stung, draw qIiokly the hand. While others you moet more inviting will ' atand, And exteud you their palm with a smile, And greet you quite hearty, at least with the hand, Though their eyes are away all the while. While some with a pleasure tlzat'a stamped on their face Will great you with truth in their eyes From the grasp of their hand It is easy to trace That there is not a shade of disguise. The Lost Children. In ia very mounitainots part of North Wales, close to the sea, lies a pleasant little Watering place, Pengwyn. The beauty of its locality is a great attraction for visi tors. It was a happy day for Harold and Lucy Chetwynd when the doctor advised a some what lengthened sojourn at, the seaside, af ter an illness which had attacked their mother In the spring and had left her in a weakened state of health. They went to Pongwyn in August, and Mrs. Uhetwynd was so benefited by the change front their inland home, that, Mr. Chetwynd decided to stay there far into the autumn; and thus it was that when Almost every other family had left, the Chetwynds still lin gered, and even when November arrived it found them enjoying the sea breezes. Harold Chetwynd was about nine years old; his aister was two years youngei. Mr. Chetwynd was a lawyer, and could only come to his family from Saturday to Mon day; Mr6. Chetwynd was not strong enough to walk uch; and as for nurse, her time was all taken up with the little six month's old baby. So it-was with bliss Townsend, the governess, I [arold and Lucy were al lowed to go. One afternoon in the beginning of No vember, the children started for one of their favorite ramibles on the shore. A little boy of about tenl or eleven years of age was standing on the stop of a baker's shop as they passed it on their way to the sea, and they heard the man who was serving in the shop say to him, "You can't have anymore men' on credit; you must either beg or borrow money to buy some." 'The child looked disappointed and ready to cry. lie pleaded with the shopman, but in vain. He spoke in English unlike many of the poor children who generally talked Welsh in that part. Harold was interested, and as the boy walked away, Ie said to Lucy "How unhappy the boy looks, and what ragged clothes lhe has got on! I think lhe must be very poor." "And perhaps lhe is huingry," said Lucy. "I wish the man had let himn have what he wanted." "Butt he had no money to pay for It," saidl Harold. "Suppose we give hinm some, Lucy ? I have got a whole shilling of my own." "And I have sixpeneel "exclaimed Lucy, joyfutlly pulling out a little purse from her pocket. "Do call him, Hiarold, and lot us give it to him.". The boy was soon recalledi, and( his de light at the cighteenpence put late his hand was quite great enough to reward his young benefactors, H~e told them hisa name was Johinnie Edwards, that hisgrandfather was a shepherd, and lived far away in a hut on the mountain, and that he dwelt with hinm and his grandmother, as both his parents were dead, and lie helped to look after tihe sheep; biut his grandfather- had been ill for over a fortnight, and they were so poor thatthey could scarcely get enough to eat. "I amn so glad we saw you,'' said Harold. "Now go in an'd buy the meal and some bread; look what nice loaves there are In the window." -TIhef cou'd not' resist the pleasure of waiting to see Johnnie come out with a radiant face, carrying a loaf uinder his *arm and a paper bag in his band contain ing oatmeal. M.e renewed has thanks, and hurried oif as fast as his burden would al low him, for his home wvas at a great dis tance. Chikdren who have known by experience how great is the pleasure of giving, will understand what I mean when I say that Harold and Lucy ran off to the shore with very happy hearts. T'heir governess usually left them much to themselves, so they wvandered on full of *liappIness (11i she was lost to their sight. flarold did not mind this however, and it was not till he founti they had unconscious ly wandered further titan they had over been before, that his mistake forced itself upon his mind. They werec upon a road, but whither it went or came from lie did not know. B'ut they still 'trudged bravely en for soie time, Lucy resisting her inclination to cry, but longing for home and her mtot.her, and the bright nursery fire, more ten site had ever done in all her life. She was~ beginning to get tired too, as well as col and wet. and it was also growing foggy and dark. Buddenly IHarold stopped. ''l say, .Ltoy," he said ini i tone of alarm, "we are not on the righmt path -we have got *"Don't you think mammna will be send log men te ook for. us everywhere ?" asked io~gveri g Ifoy, anxious to coinfort Yes, I ani sure 61 t1Itid Blt hdw will thanek aai -we .Ar. Luoy' he whispered, "let us kneel and sa prayer." And tiy kneeled side by side and si the Lord's Prayer, and then Harold ask God to pity them aud let them find the %v hiome. "Look there, Lucy," said Harold, they rose from their knees, "the fog is go for there is a bright star in the sky, an see Some'11 Others here and there peeping o Suppose we sit and rest a bit, and til walk on again; perhaps we may get wh we shall see the lights in the houses Pengwyn, and they would direct us." So they rested awhile. The prayer it brought comfort to their poor little hear Every moment it was growing dark Suddenly .bucy cried: "I see something moving there, 10< Hiarold!" And assuredly something lig colored and alive was within a few pa of them. Older and braver hearts tli theirs might have bent as fast. under I samne circumstances. Then caie the ple ant sound of a sheep's blent, to their gr relief and satisfaction. "It is only a sheep," exclaimed 1Iarol "I wish it would allow us the way hioni Perhaps we are near some shepherd't c tage, look, look Lucy-there is a 1ii over therel I think it conies from a wi. dow. lie was right. A hut was there anc candle was burning within which guid them to the door. J.iarold tapped loudl for poor Lucy's strength was quite fit ing. Voices spoke together inside, and t door was opened a little way by a bo who asked what they wanted. "We have lost our way oil the mounta and are very cold and tired. Please, ml we come in?" asked Harold. "Aye, that you may," said the bt "'WIly, it's you,' little master and mi; Come In, do." The boy had recognized Harold and Lu at once. le was the Johnie E dwards whom they had given. tile money to b bread and menat. When they entered exclaimed- t 'Granny, this is the little lady and ge tleman as gave me the moneyl" "Bless them, pretty creaturesl" said t old woman. ' .mie to the tire, dears, a waim yourselve.<. Why the little one is white and shivering, and her jacket is qul wet. Let me take it off,* pretty one, ai I'll wrap my Sunday shawl round you." This was almost as quickly done as sai Then simple refreshments were put oi t talehe and the children supped heartil flarold began relating their adventures I ere lie hv.d finished speaking, Lucy Ii fallen fast asleep on the old woman's lail Harold was now anxious to get to.Pengw3 to tell his mother of their safety, frI knew how terrified she must be. Johnnie at once offered to go down Pengwyn. Every inch of the road w well known to him. It made no differen whether it was day or night. Harold first proposed to go with him, but. then remembered Lucy might be frightened she woke up and'found hersolf witho him. So Johnnie set forth alone. Hie had not been long gone, however, b fore lie returned with two men, whom had met on the mountain searching for t children. Mri. Chetwynd was ill t greatest distress, they said, and had d< patched people in all directions to look I them. So Lucy was aroused from h sleep, her now dry jacket put on, an carefully wrapped in the old womai shawl, she willingly consented to one the men carrying her in his arms. Aft thanking the old people for their kidne and asking Johnnie to come next day see them, they started homeward. Ti was no fog now, and the stars sle bright. The clock struck nine as they entered I gate of their own home, where poor Mi C(hetwynd was wathing in the deep( distress. When they did not appear at t iusual hour, she had sent on tile shore look for them. Harold from Ils eri learnt a lesson never to be forgotten. had done what he knew to be wrong wandering away from his governess e trary to orders and in taking his little s ter Into danger, and lhe felt that for so: time at least he had forfeited his 'mothe confidence. Fortunately neithecr of th were the wvorse for their adventure. Whlen Johnnie came the following di Mrs. Chetwynd took care that lhe should turn home well laden with presents to grand parents. From that time they wv well cared for, and after their deoath the course of the next two years-John: was taken into Mr. Uhetwynd's service a page, from which lie rose to be in tt: a trusty personal servant to Harol wh he went to live abroad for some years on account of lils health. Mlules. Previous to 1'783 there were very f mules in this country, and those of such inferior ordferas to prejudice farmers agal them as unfit to complete with horses work uipon the road or farm. Conseque hy there were no jacks and tio disposition increase the stock. But Washington beca convinced that the introduction of m: generally among Southern planters wo prove to them a great blessing, as they less liable to disease, and longer lived, work upon shorter feed, and are much I liable to be injured than horses by carl servants. As soon as it became kno abroad that the ilkustrious Washington siredi to stock his Mount Vernon est with mules, the King of Spain sent hiln jack and two jennets from the royal stab and Lafayette sent another jack andj nets from the island of Malts. The I was of gray color, sixteen hands hl heavily made, and of sluggish nature. was named the Royal Gift. The ot was called the Knight of Malta; lie about as hlighi, lithe and fiery, even to f: city. The two sets of animals gave I the most favorable opportunity of mak hpproycments by cross breeding, the re of which was the favorite jack, Comipou because he partook of the best points both originals. The General bred lisa ble ed mares to these jacks, even taking tl from his stables for that purpose, and duced such superb mules that the comr was agog to breed some of the sort, they soon became quite common. 'I was the origi dt improved mules in Unmted States, and though over big~ years ago, there. are now some of the t) and fnurth generation of .Knight of II end Royal Gift to be foutd in VirgInia, the great benefits arising frois their .In duction to the ootty ard to ho sO6a u eiet-y oultivsto4edao~ In the South S tateL, aTlw acat solotnion.t id Alexander of Macedonia once entered li ed into a nieighboring ani wealthy province j ay of Africa. The Inhabitants caine forth to - meet him, and brought him their robesa sfilled wit, golden apples and fruits. lo "Eat this fruit among yoirselves I" said a Alexauder. "I have not collie to see your f it wealth, but to learn your custoims. ia u They then conducted him to the market. eI where their king adininstered justice. atI A citizen just then came toward him and ti ad "I bought of this man, oh, king, a Rack full of chaff, and have found In it a secret s- treasure. The chaff is inine, but not the, gold, and this mian will not take it again. e Coninand himn, oh, king. that ie receive ok, it, for it Is his own ! it it- And Nis antagonist, a citizen also of the C 0s plice, answered': 1 an "Thou fearest to retain anything n-t he justly ; and should not I also fear to re iR- Ceive sIuch a thing from thee ? I have sold sat hee the sack with all that was ii It. Keep d it, for it is thine. Cormnand him, oh, ki d- king!" .r C- The king Inquired of the first one if lie t- had a son. lie auswered : :h " Yes. n n- He Inquired of the other it he had a daughter : c a "Yes," was returned. to ad "Well, then," said the king, "you are Y, both just men; marry your children to tr Ii- each other and give them the discovered tit treasure as a marriage portion. That Is ti tie my decision." w y, Alexander was astonished when he heard this. be 11, "Have 1 judged unjustly," asked the i lay king of this remote country, "that thou th art thus astonished ?" ta Y. "Not at all," answered Alexander "but is! in our country they wouid have judged far otherwise." [Iy "And how then would they have a to jiuged ?" inquired the African king lv JY "Both parties would have lost their id lie heads," answered Alexander, "and their ga treasure would 4have fallen into the hands n1- of the king.'' " I Then the king clasped hil hiaii(s together, It ie and said : id 'Does the sun then shiie upon you ? I dIl And do the heavens still shower their rain ia tW Upon you ?" ta id Alexander replied, "Yes." "It must then be," continued ti le king, rj ". for the sake of the innocent beasts which li le live in your country-for upon such men V- no sii Mihould shine ai:l no rain liouli o it fall !'' y iri 1. 1tj Domlesti[Cated (111a1R, Jul le 8everal suniuers ago, a iman Iin Lancaster county, all., found the nestof a quail, con- wl to taining fifteen eggs. Determined to make thi as an atteipt to domesticate these birds he ce took them home and put them under a lien. at. lie made his first mistake at the very Outset, ,e by putting them under a Brahm to incu if bate. The size of the eggs and of the hen ut wf of conrRA. RlthNtAr disproportionat'.P Still she was fortunate enough to break " e- none of them, and in due time a family of tb hle fifteen of these attractive and lively birds iii Lie made their appearance. A grassy plot was ge ie selected for a nursery, and a pen sixteen C feet square was iade. This was made per. 10 or fectly tight at the ground and for somo Pr height abeve it, rendering escape hnpossi- di d, ble, at least until they acquired the use, Qf f I's their wings. But the mistake of selecting .C of a heavy lien to bring up these birds soon W er become manifest. One after another of the of ls, pretty things haid its life tramped out by W to the heavy feet of its foster motlier, until D" re only four of them remained. These grow 1 lie until they attained the full stature of adult I bob whites. They were released, and ran hle with chickens, flying here and there, bu! W 9. never leaving the premises for a greater di-' 'W ist tAnce than the chickens themselves One n lhe day the house cat, who was something of tli to an epicure, thought she would try qual', so iti or she ap~propriated one of them, leavmng the. at le once inmerouis family reduced to thrte. 8 in Thuese remained around the house, associ- t in- ating with the chickens on the most fra- P9 Is- ternal terms, carrying the Intimacy so far gi ne as to roost close by them in an old apple P~ r's tree near the house. Unfortunately, how- si am ever, the cold weather of witer brought a cl covey of wild birds to the barn, and these, i ycoming Into friendly relations with the trio gi .of tame oQnes, hiadi such a sedluctive power ni usupon them that, whenm the strangers went " re away ini the spring tiiey car'ried with them o in two out of the three remaining birds. This a Sleft but a single one on the premises. This r as one conitinuied to roost with the lieus In the ~ ne barn-yard and roost with them ini the trees p until June, when, no doubt, the promptings cl onof nature so wroughit upon the companion- li 01less bird that it was inmpeltedi to leave the b; hospitable home where nearly a year of Its t life had been spent, and seek the compan ionship of its kind in the fields. So ended d the experiment. ,i ow - - ---ee----- -. an The Elephant. in Elephants travel In herds aiid in strict ~ at. Indian file. When a calf is born the herd a to remains with the mother two days; the Y sine calf Is then able to travel, and can cross 'i les rivers and climb hills with the assistance ild of its damn. Elephants are said to swim ire better than any other land animals, and nd Mr. Sanderson relates'that a batch of soy ess enty-nine which lie sent from Dacca to b ess Barrackpur had the Ganges and several of p wa Its large tidal branches to cross. "In the ~ Ile- longest swim they were six hours without 0 ate touching bottom. After a rest on a sand- P a bank they compileted the swim mn three i es, more. Not one was lost. Mr. Sanderson s en- observes that the remains of an elephant ' lrst that had died a natural death, are scarcely 0 ghi, ever met with. Hie has never'seen remains f He himsel f; and never met any one amongst ~ her the jungle tribes or professional elephant P vas hunters who had rthne so except at a time r ro- when murrain vi.4Ited the forest. "Bones," ' tim lie wites, "wouhdnot decay for some Syears, 8 ing and teeth and tusks would survife for some1i mitl time ; yet not a single pair of ivorles'.ad" ad, ever, as far as I-know, been fonnd Ira thai in Mysore jungles during the time I have' , od- known them."' The wi iter cau give no ex oso planatiob of this fitot. H ow long 'the wild 'r ro- elephant lives is uncertain ; but Mr Sander .try son thmk's it attains to at lekst 150 years. md Much exaggeration Is current with regard 'his to the atidai's hbight ;. the largesit seen by the the writer measured nine feet ten inches I htf at the ehbulder, and g'et'ihthve been r iurd stories of Indian elephants measuring fro~m j alta hMdfitdeeif to 'twith'tyr febtT high. Tile I and round an elephant's foot is said to be his! tro.- hefght, 14ld genherally thib'f@mb*urenmnt la ~t po xc.The prce of elephants has grpa~y $ J~l i 4 the 'o rn- , ment~O''~~ oropm-tda a~'g.g, biishieits, enablu.ur governient to ( in good ani nals at 1 reasonable cost. A upiallt, we are told; wvhiclh costs the g( ment $200 to c4ture, would cost ast $750 in the mar*et. 'Vithe difliculti elephant-catching are of course grea id there is nothing more interesting in t ay than a sportsuian's account of I 'st success in Mysore, when, after inf1n bor and many failures, he sticceeded Lpturing fifty-three elephants. "I oft ink," Mr. Sanderspi writes, "of the re re of that moment. An hour of such N Md and high exciteiment as elephant catt g is surely worth a-lifetimne of uneventi niline in towns. Sore disappoitintment I en undergone by myself and men. Ma dious days and nights had we labor aInst discotraging' incidents and hat ips. But all was forgotten inthe sicc< that moment.'' There wts Still mu rk to be done, for'the beasts driven lin o enclosure had to be secured with t 111p of tameuC CCpihaints, and fifty-three wI ephants cannot be hobbled without sor iger. "During the trying process in t ieddah several amusing imcidents ocer d. Active follows would constantly crc on foot with ropes, or other things th 3re required, and at first they were per clously chased by the wild ones. T r, made for the protection of the tai lphants, and it was considered creditai do this with asilittle hurry as circuista s would admiit. The arena formed a ce of attraction to the on-lookers, as V. eatre of a Spanlbh bull-light may do; ar e men who showed the greatest coolne u-re loudly applauded. The elephani wever, soon gave up lpursuing when thi caine accustomed to seeing people. Tj ld ones did not attemlpt to interfere wi a men when they gained the shelter of tlI ine elephants. On one occasion a friem the forest departmnent who was riding < e of our elephants, was swept off, as wi the niahout, by an overhanging creep ion their elephant was dragging a capti ross the kheddah. Ilaving but a confusi a of the pcInts of the compass when thi ined their logs, they rushed toward ii arost elephant for protection. It wias ry line aninial, but, unfortunately, a wi e which they mistook for a friend. TI -piant was rather startled, and did n <o so prompt an advantage of their ml <o as it inight have done. They meal tile made sonic remarkably good it le t ird the gate of the enclosure, which the tched In safety." On another occasi( .. 4anderson himself had a very narro -ape. While his elephant was facing ung tusker, and was therefore unable I Xtect his master from the attack, a wi nale rushed at him more than once, I ring his thigh severely, and would i ubt have killed him had not a spear strut r in the head at the critical momen ille a tame elephant rushing at the bea 3 next minute almost knocked her ove The Man of the Caverns. Prof. Dankins, of England, recent oka upon "The Manf .'-- 1 -- u sam tlat wn: um river-drift niem at a cave men were living in Britain, tI Ils and valleys of South of England pr lted the same outlines -9 they did n1o >uld we take our stand i,. those times c tooter's hill or on the Essex heights, at >k over the valley of the Thames in ti rection oi London, we Should see a den rest of oak, ash, and Scdtch fir, and tLi urse of tile Thaies marked by lines Ilows and alders. A few thin columni smoke rising over the tops of the tre auld mark the camping-place of pinmov in. In the forests wild boars, manimmot ,d rhinoceroses, wild horses, stags, at ish elks would mett'our eyes, and in 0 miner time countless herds of bisons, ill ose now ranging over the plains of .Nort .stern America. In the winter were va imbers of reindeer and a few muskshoee e most Artie of the manunalia in its ha In the rivers were otters and beaver id tihe explorer would ber startled by 11 ort of thle hippopotamus In the reaches, e Thiames near Brentford. Beasts 'ey also abounded, lions, leop~ards, hyene iz'zly bears, wolves, and foxes. If netrated to one of the camp fires i ould have seen thle river-drift hunt ipping or using some of those rude i lplements which lie burled in thle Load< avels along with the remains of the art ale which lie hunted. 'rie river-dri an, in the long course of ages, was sir edhed by time man df the caverns, like i hlunter, living on the same animals, at1 ore highly equipped for the battle of-hl I the course of time the cave man disa sared, the climate anid geography of ti untry became almiost what it is now, t] inter stage of civilization was euporsede f that of time, herdsman and the tiller 0e ground amid the manufacturer of t: colithic Age. From the Neolithic A >wn to the plresent -time the progress an hlad' been unbroken Iii Britain al urope, and thle 'present' condition of t uropean peooples was to be looked upon t0 result, of a gradual series'of changesI hich civilization succeeded civilizatie id race suc'ceeded race, "the old ord teiding place unto the new," becauset nv ordter was higher and nobler. The Finent itenildneee In America. Flood, theo California millionaire, mulding what will, it is,.said, be the tIn rivatei residence in America. The grour elude 1,500 acres on Baun Francisco hi )nprising a natural park ready for I rovement to any desired extent. 'I anso is 100 by'200 feet in area, and mmbles a French Ohateau of the old sty erndas surround it, and the roof is bre a with miay gables and two towers 1 et high~. 'Tho entire exterior is very ate. Among the apartments are sove arlors, music rooms, library and wi om, theo latter being of uncommon s he dining room is 100 feet long, so LI reat dinners may be gin6n in it; moot can be shlut off, leaving ar room of co 'oeaers'Ia b- enule ia dpie ie house and its surroundings. Mr. itk Iso~ contemlplates a . city residence of c ~apotidhuig naghifioencee About Ieligton. T1'o old Trexan rangers hiad just 1he11 bury a. neighbor, and were talking ab aligion, and one asked the other how pi eo thought It wats possible toil aan to Sthis. world, If h9 wqpd1 real &rneo&., * hWall," said the pther, .~fotively, bIInk of is man gqqp ' C't90Pte er1)31 odt for -h s~ (gore h( b-)- 'Iho Little Tin Box. About nine years ago a pro-ninent inanu V- facturer died in Cincinnati, leaving at widow and three children and an estat variously ectimated as worth $50,000 t $100,000, but in such shape the widow an 1a children could receive no imnediate grea 118 benefit. Two months ago she went to Cin to cinuti, when she learned that her husband' In estate had been entirely savallowed up, an " that there was no possibility that sla P- would ever get a cent therefrom. 'Th 'a- shock, although not wholly unexpected h1- was so great that the unfortunate lady wa ul stricken with paralysis, and the attack wa ad so severe that tor several days her lire hun 1y upon a thread. H1er life was spared, how Ld over, and discouraged, almost hopeless d- she returned to Detroit, where she sum M moned her eldest son, who had been livni "i in a town in Ontario, to assist her in ar to ranging for the hunble retirement whiel lie was to be supported by the charity of hei h( wealthier relatives. 1)uring the conversa ne tion between the mother and son, the lat ie ter asked her if she was certain that shi< ir- had found and examined the papers lefl ss by his dead father. The niother was abso at lutely certain that she had searched foi ti- and examined everything. Still the sor 40 suggested that they might again look ovei 10 hIs tather's Old ta unks and boxes, and th le search began. After carrying on the in. n- vestigation a long time, they cane upon i U- small tin box, whose hasp was held by v 10 bit of wood, and which had been kicke( ad about the attic from the time of the father'i 0s death. The box was again thrown asid( a, because it was thought to contain iotthing 33 but a lot of worthless insurance policies, 1e valuless receipts and notes, and the inspec. h tion continued until every nook and cornei 10 had been ransacked. Oin his way out of 'd the attic the son kicked the little tin box, n and picked it up, with the remark that het ill would "take it down stairs and look it over, ?r just for fun." Arriving at the family sit. fe ting-room, the son began overhauling the d contents of the box, while his mother re. 'Y sumed her household duties. Suddenly the, 10 son came upon a package of oflicial-look a ing documents, and, opening them, dis id covered that they were railroad bonds to bonds of railroads high In Wall street quo Ot tations, and to all appearances worth their a- face value, which is $80,000. This discov I- ery was an overwhelming surprise, and 0- the thought that they were valuable was y news alnost too good to entertained for an n11 instant. The bonds were taken, however, w to Wim. B. Moran, who examined then, a and corresponded with the ollcials of the 0 railroads they represented, when the un d expected and gratifying news was learned i- that the bonds were only worth $30,000, 1o but that the interest on them since i86t( k had not been claimed or paid, and that the t, principal and interest amount to about $50, - t 00. Mr. Moran, as soon as lie gained r. the facts, communicated them to the over joyed widow, who Is now receiving the congratulations of relatives and friends over her happy rescue from poverty. This nursery, or Baunschule as it Is e called inI Hanover, is planted and kept up by the labor of all the corporators. As a general thing only two days out of fthe year are spent by each citizen, at connlliliile td work. In the fall a meeting of the corpo e rators is valled. and it is then decided when le and how much wood shalt be cut. The 11 imperial forester is at once notitled, and, in company with the village forester, goes through the part that is to be cut that 8 year and marks all trees under an inch in RI diameter, except those which, fron their Is line forn or good situation, seem likely te Id grow into good timber. These trees are I then divided as before, and each citizen cuta to and carries away his share. Then, for the 1- third and last tine, the forester goes through at the tract and imarks all the trees which seem to be hollow-hearted or to have stopped -growing. These are then divkted and call h lke the rest, with the exceptions thlat tic 10oaks are first stripped of their bark to be sold to tanners for the benefit of the comn ofmune, and that the teachaer and minlstei Sget none of this large wood, because, the peasants say, when a parsonage or a school ro house must be bult, it should be done, not or by the minister or teachler, but by3 the peo. at pie. The oak bark is often worth mor m than all the rest of the wvood of a forest. Ini starting pine forests the cones are plantedl thiickly in furrows, and after thle first, weed c- lng out are left untouched for ten years, al nwichl time alternate trees are cut. Thai process is repeated every live years, till aii -tile cnd ofthirty years all the trees are cut, P?- the successive cuttings being divided among 11 the corporators. 3(1 One Swallow Makles a E'ortune. of de A young lady traveling in the stage concli go from Riedville to the Yosemite, a week oi of two age, was suddenlly requested by one ol rad the passengers to conceal about her a largc tie solitaire dIamond ring, as some suspiocoom as characters were seenI ahead. The lattea yturned out to be hiighs aymen in good earn e st, and went through the passengers in thi( or most approved Vasquez style. After they) b~e had departed it was discovered .that th( young lady had swallowed the alamnond i her fright. On reachIng the next statior; the owner of the ring suggested an emetic, but the young lady had time to think il is over, and refused to take thie dose unalesi is she was first paid a hundred dollars salvage ds This was refused, and now the ring-owne yai following the fair swaillower around tha in- country, secretly sprInklinga picac isli e he food, and genlerally invenlting means to re .cover his property. H~e had hier arrested to ie, theft, but the judge dismissed the case, am k- the Idignant female has since tacked,9n aa 40 additional fifty dollars for storage. Thi >r stone is worth two thousand dollars, am ri the case is daily growing more interesting no and goodness knows whether the diamond 0, the lady1 or the origInal owner will comi aat out ahead. of The Boat Vehiceo so. An anecdote is told of a physiciani wha lng was called to a foreign famIly to prescrib od for a case of incipient consumption. IH yr- gave them a prescription for pills, an< wrote the direction: "One pill to be take three time. a day, in any convenient vei cle." 'The family looked In the dictionara to get at the mieaning of tihe prescriptio ied -They got on well until they got to the wor< yut vehicle. They found "cart, wagon, cat yus riage,, bug, wheelbarrow.'" After grsy get consideration they came to the conlueiQL "I rIde out, and while in he vehicle ho shouT' er. t1aflhb )DIKOf6 Thbnowed the advjce t ict- the iet~r n in a tow weeks the freshiat d ot4. 4t a Whil The Iron iearted Lover. In a .big crowd of excurslonlsts sitting on the City Hall, Chicago, steps for a rest, the other day, was a young man of excel. I lent length of legs, and a girl with sixteen t auburn curls hanging down - around her head.. Thpy had scarcely sottled them selves and locked figers when she cautious ly observed: "I 'spose they have soda-water In this town?" "I'spose," he replied, "but the last thing aforo we started I promised your mother not to let you drink any soda-water. It's the worst thing In the world to bring on consutiioln." 8he was quiet for a moment, and then, pointing to the left, remarked: "1 see that Barah is eating pea.nuts. I 'spose they have peanuts in this town?'' "Wall, yes,, but your mother cautioned me the last thing not to buy any peanuts for you. The shucks are apt to git into your windpipe. .'4he Queon of Holland was choked to death In tlq .way.'? Pretly soon a boy caine along wIth sonio fruit, and the young woman felt obliged to say: "'hem apples and pears look awful "Yes, they do," replied the prudent lov er, "but I promised your mother at the do pot, not to buy any fruit for you. Them apples look nice, but if $you git the tooth ache startejd on you, then the whole after noon is busted." hI'e young main had just commenced to take comfort again, when she Innocently remarked: "When I cane up here last summer with Jim, he bought me mnoro'n two pounds of candy." "Yes, and what was the result?" 'ho de manded. "You fell Jovn the c6llar that very week, and did'nt Jim have to light out last winter for bustin' in the school house door?" She had got down to water, and with considerable sarcasm in her voice she in quired: "I can have a drink of wator, can't II riother diin't say anything against that did sie?" "Wall, no, not exactly," he slowly re plied: "but she gin me an appealing look ias the cars moved off-same as to say that it ought to be kind o' warmish water, -If auy I Y.o sot here and I'll borrow a dip per somewhere. She 'sot," and it wias all of an hour and a half before lie again succeeded In getting his arm around her. "O'iantg Kate I. It was (lark in the depot at Rockland, N. Y. one day recently, when the evening train came in. An elderly farmer was back ed up against the partition, watching In open-mouthed womer the big pulling 'en gine, and the yellow-covered cars as Aley discharged their passengers, when a hand some young girl in a sealskin cloak dashed honcst granger' atIany breai,mrne a kiss upon his sunburned cheek, and ox clainmed:A "You dear old pa, I know you would be waiting for ie And how's mother, and how's Jennie, and how's John-and oh I I'm so glad to get back-and where's my trunk-and ol I pa, you take the check and let's hurry." The granger was old and kind of dried up, and lie had never known what it was to have a wife, much less a daughter. Ho mistrusted the young lady in the sealskin sack had made a mistake, but Instead of ] stammering and hemming and hawing, he came gallantly up to the scratch, and throwing both arms around the fair creature, lie made up his mind to be a father to her or die In the attempt. Imprinting a kiss like the report of a liatol on her cheek, he enithusitstically ejaculated: "Oh, ycr mnoth~r's well, an' John an, IHenry an' (smack) an Jane an' Busan (smack, smack.) an' Horace' an' B~elindy an Calvin (ejuack)- an' Joelmpa an Peter, (smack, smack,) oh, they'yo,'all ?puart an' hearty an' By the time the young lady's friends couild get to her, she had slid into a stony4 faint, amdd they had to'lug her home in a bmack, while the aged granger, as he finish ed the third round with her outraged young man, andl sauntered out of the depot, leay Ing him with a bad eye and ruptured coat, chuckled to himself: "The 01(1 muan's gettin' old an' stiff an' I cai-cleas hike, but when any young females I wants to play any games o'-copenhagen, they'll find him right to time, an' I shouldn't be s'prised if it rainedi 'fore nIne o'clock, (l'lang, Kate l'' The Cause of Londont Fog. Dr. f'rankland has lately concluded, an Iny'eslaion) into the cpiuse pf the' perfilst ey and Irritating bhiaradter of the Yogd wvhich affict the large towns of England, a subject which is rather opportuane just now. The fogs are not always a sign or damp ness, as they occur, In comparat vely dry air. Dr. Frankiand lggs poortained. that their persistency in a dry medium is duo te a coating of coal oil, derived from coal smoke, upon the surfaces of the minute particles of water iyhich, composp fog, the olcaginous coating effectually preventing the evaporation of tile water. The olea ginous liquids are dIschitrged into the at -imosphere In large quantitles during the combustion of bituminouis coal in fires.. Dr. F'rankland therefore concludes that by the substituti6n of smokaless coal, coke or gas, for bituminous coal, town fogs would case. Thlis would be a col summation devo'i to be, wished ; but considering the vested in terests which are concerned in the supply ing and using of bituminous coals, and the national preference for blazing Ores, the re formation is just as likely to come from thd adoption of sonme of the as yet undiscotered means of heating. But much hnight be done if the gas companies were more on$sta prlsing. Apart from the inoonvenienet Sis waste of money to be using costly illumi nating gas for heating when ags equal effective for that purpsbut archaer. -could be obtained. Nor would it be !res. cquisite to have a double se% of mals as there are several. niethods by oih ioud ga cok be rendered illuninating at'g . otonand her latd ca lef 4r 1 i'dkin the hi smd e ta3 is BRIEFS. -Mr. William Thaw .Of 1 Ittgburg Pa., hais. 9lerod to gi'e ward buildink a Alotvim1?gathic P.I al in that itk. .. - : --iba,4h is lighted by fodrilld6tri . lamtps, which arq'suspended at a-height of' 100 feet. -Chicago papers are predicting that 1,000,000'strangerAiviillvisit that city this Summer. -An occentriciold Geor'glatiWillian Wilson, ,of Newton county, regently tiled leaving )is estate, wortl4J,00, to hils former slavors. -Queen Victorik was 'iiirrlpd to lPrince Albert, ot Saxe OdbutkIan the tenti of Februaly, in the year 1840. -'rhe city of Boston Is . askeuIto ap piapriate $35,000 f9r thi ceebratlon of Luh 250t l iversary q Its settlement. --G n. WIlfam K, Fuilior-hasgiven 110,003 to the City ofSeheinctady with which -to erect a building for town purposes. . ' , . i 1 -Bismarokeand Metternich, the two greatest German gatesnzen ( this entury, ard aflicted with very' large tized' hands. -For everyS 'tlibusabd' ibhabitants 'his country contains 2024 cattle, sheep nld swine. - In Europeai cotntries h1e average is only 110 . -A steamshilp compahy of Gen'oa has itarted a regular 'line of stoaniors be .ween that city auid the United- States or freight and emigrants. -In 1492 Cuba boro,thi namp Juana, n honor of Prince John, son of Fordi. iand .and Isabella, Cubd 'the origi ial Indian name of the IWand. -With ft newly-invented OTick" 'ifle a target ten feet square Waq hit at t distatyce of a mile, with tbirtnou out )f torty shots, at Stafford, Cbni. -rho gross eg ponditure ((9y five rears of the Gladstolio Government Nas ?358,000,000 ; for five.ydars of the resent Governmont-it 'is 4101,000,000. -The capital employed in railway indortoklugs in.Greot Britain and Ire and iW 4500,0 00,000. That employed in mineriea is ? 1,200,000.000, in Ge'imany, D200,000,000, and in France ?240,000,. )00. -The Hon. Trenor W. Park has ,ivq $1,000 for the purchase of books 'or the Free Library in Bennington vt. The library noW cOIns upward >f 3,000. -George Wright, the .faknotts base )all pl"yer, has announced in. a card hat he til not play base'bll this sea ;on, but will take chargo'of a'oston irioket club Instead. -To raise beef in Montand for ex >ortation to Englafid is L6rd' Dun nare's object, and Ifdie supeods he will ave doo more for bipqqelf and his onnty flilih most' bf ils order. -Tp Anlericap, war yossels in the Iled iterranan , are rIdiculed b3y the A~k el11 1apiui that tile be. StraIt of Gibraltsri or sink them at hort notice. -Now steel works are to be erected n Chicago at a cost,ineluding seventy ive acres of land, of $2,000,000. They 6re to bd completed within a year, and vill consist of four blast furiacqes, Ben enier converting works, ant- sieel rail nills. Thuy will Ompdy .W 30 men onstume 150,000 tirs of'ore yily anI urn out 90,000 tdns of rAils.: I -The Dome of the Troyllytechnio [nstitite's observatory is tydnty-nine poet in diameter, aud m pg( paper, educed by pressure to thr hargnes of voatid 'ne-dixtho$f.an 1 011 thick less. It weight Ia only deo-nth of ho usual material, and Itpalpst nicely -TLhe corn crop -of 1878 'for the initpl ptates,, removed Jn thq grain tione -213,785 tois of phospjo acid rom theo soil and 128,271 otnds of idtash. OW tis there"Wag etported 3,528 tons of phosphoric acid, and 8, .1 tons of potash. We export, about ilx and one-thirad poer cep.g orcr arop. ~.~ u ou -The Wrkmdn whO bored 'the St. iothard tunnel were i'nostiymItaliang, )aid at the rale 9f Aive and-siW~ollars a lay. Afazly lest tiii .lrq ,qr lives biroingi adeldents, I~u;A t th'r they :t od tifA h'eat and *oestfidthtened ni huantiling dynamite Ithan .thd Swiss and Qermans. For suc~oA rprises heyrte Clsse I next to h iQee --Augusta yletoria, the jetrpthed odi* Lrince -William of Geri ny,.tnd the' utre Empress of that'b ud r~ , is the 11ece oft that Princess. Henrietta of 3lesvig-Holstein who imarried- a Ger nan physician, plaIn .LIerr i Doolor E~smarch. The ohidren' of the good FIerr Dobtor wi thusi some day, be. till t'oispeak: abouttheir iCousins the Empress." :h 1p ,or Q -Peient,eyot e hfl al wvay, .receivyes' $40, 0 .p y'eaj; Col. Scott,' president lof 'sov'ena rif iroads, ~een general mansgets ohsrullways ii :he United . StaMS. wde 7J~es rtp rrom $10,00Q to $1 ngneral superintendents wit aAi'6 $7*0O o $1,000 yearly, dud a n of t.. 3Ars in the same rank *ho receive over )rdered that twevel ialstwelve. boys otthe Cheoie in'diah ',esidin~ in thb western coiaties 'fN'oath ao'7 lina, bo educated at the expenseo pvernm'en t at. the. AshvgiFia~t and the Weaverille Coll'ek, the lo be taught at Ashl'iIe 'nd'th~e mt .Weaverville- for the putipose * 9Sapln t8p t netgt ahr u 'l eh as i bi arch 'show'k not Irio~rad6i I$.f 102 ov'en the same month j'1 Itith M4t'eh 1$? lith the ,Qentral 'd Gelt16 dri&ediif hundwed Anos if