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4 4C - b -e -_ __-_ -s _ _ ._- _-_ TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JUNE 1, 1880- VOL.-IV.-NO._66. OLD AGE. I often think each tottering form That limps along in life's deoline, Once wore a heart as young, as warm, As full of idle thought as mino! And each hai had its dream of joy, His own unequalod pure romance, Commencing when the blushing boy First thrilled at lovely woman's glance. And each could toll hio talo of youth Would think its scenes of love evinco More passion, more unearthly truths, Than any tale before or since Yes, they could toll of tender days. At midnight penned in classic shados Of days morn bright than modern days, Of iaide more fair than modern maids. In Hard Straits. "Nine o'clock, sor, an' the hot wather, an' is it the rest of the bacon ye'd be after havin' for breakfast?" "Will it notye too much, Bridget ?" "Sorra a bit, sor." 'Very well." And with a half groan, I, Basil Hatha way, sprang out of bed, and proceeded to array myself in unexceptional costune trowsers, vest and frock-coat. My only ones, alas I an accommodating retative some twenty doors off had taken charge of shabbier garments, one by one, kindly ad vancing sundry moneys t0-rcon. Three of us were in the same plight-and school-fellows and old chums, now thrown together in manhood by the caprice of Dame Fortune, and fighting - shoulder to shoulder the great battle of life in the great city. As Idressed, pne of the t rio, Hal Trevour, came bofinding by three at a time up the worm-ea'ton stairs. He was fresh from morning lecture at the hospital, and hungry as a hunter, I thought with a shudder. I heard his cheer ful greeting of Jack H1ornsey, hard at work since daylight on "Coke on Little ton. "Well, old bookworm, ready for break fasti Wiere is the captain ?" "'The captain !" How the old title, be stowed, set me dreaming. 1 was roused by the dull 'thuds of a poker hanuneriug violently at the ittervening wall. "All right," I shouted. Ring for the bacon." In a minute there were three of us gaz Ing with rueful looks at the breakfast ar rangement. A loaf of stale bread, a piece of butter about the size of a walnut, and three tiny rashers, that either could have put oit of sight with case. "Is that all, Bridget ?" Every line of the girl's honest Irish face was eloquent with sympathy. ',Not a bit more, sor." Ifal laughed. "Turn out your pockets, lads. There is my last coin." And lie produced an exceedingly shimy sixpence. Jack, after much rummaging, showed a quantity of fluff and a brace button. I had three-pence half-penny in coppers. "Odd man out for the bacon," quoth Hal. "N6, divide it between you," said 1. ''A man has been rash enough to invite me to dinner. Iland over the loaf." Jack gave me one keen glance. I think ie suspected the 1p1 o falsehood. Hal bless the boy-was quite unconscious, as happy as though he had not a care. The frugal meal had just been disposed of when we heard a great puffing and blowing on the third floor. That had bu one possilhe nheaning--a credlitor. W'Vhiose turn ?" asked Jack, laconicaly. It was an ancient arrangement now that on the advent of a dun only one of us shiouldl receive him, the others being in the city-that Is, In the adjacent bedroom. ''Your own," cried Hal, as we decampad leaving the (door ajar to watch the course of events. "I wish you joy, Jack ; it is 01(d Blunderson, snorting like a gramp~us9,as j~,. j~ Old Bllundecrson was a general p~rovision .1] merchaunt, who, had let himself be beguiled into supply'Ingmsclaeugoduni his bills really frighatened mec. lie was the exception that proved that 01(d rule, "Laugh and grow lat ;" as crusty, ill-comiltiohmed a wretch as ever readh one particular portion tion of the Lord's Prayer backward'. A modern Fallstaff, mlinus theo wit, lie always -asconded slowly, retiung en each stair. We Svere safe for about fivo minutes, JacK emnployedl them in preparing for his reception, and wve watched the proceedlings with amused curiosity. The first was to produlce a huge .tobacco pouch, taking from it about half an ounce of tobacco. F'rem this he fillied a lonir clay pipe-Jack's merschiaumi had precedecd our clothes to the pawnb~roker's-deposiinmg the remainder carefully on the table. -"An alarming sacrifico l" mutrmured Jack shaking his head over it withI a re ~retful sigh.. 71he flekt mnov3 Wvas to grasp the fire shovel and tongs. "Weapons of offense," whispered ILiarry. "Ho ine(ditates assaui't and battery-" IHal sfoppedl abruptly ini slieer amaze ment., Jack avas deliberately removing live coals fronm the fire to the shovel, and lipon these lie swept his cherIshed tobacco, Tihen he placed the shovel upon the bot ~om ledges' of two chairs at the furiher corner of the room, threw himself Into the one nearest the fire, and comnplaenmtly -lighted his long elay. Of course the room filled last with smoke and a Ibioht pungent odor. *"Old Blunderson hates tobacco as a cer .~tein pdrsonage hates holy water I" grinned. "Bad policy, though, to irritate lhim," Jgr uwibled I.-. By this time our enemy was in the door way gasping for breath, and shaking great hairy flst at Jack- by way of fillin the interval till speech returned. "You abandoned young profligate !" Jack removed his pipu, nodded an quietly resumed it. "Where are the other scamps?" "One gone for the doctor; the other and a jerk of the speaker's thumb towar the door behind which lie stood complete the sentence. Old l3lundersoni made two unwieldi steps toward us. Better not," said Jack. "IITyphold fever--bad case-contaglous, fibbed Jack between his pufTs. We saw old Blunderson's face turn ghastly green with fear. Still lie looke Incredulous ; we had played so many trick be fore. "Gammon !" he gasped at length. Jack rose slowly waliked to the cornei and produced the shovel. "Fumigating the room," said lie. "Bel tor have a pipe." And old Blunderson fairly turned an fled wili such celerity that lie gainil tih next floor in seconds instead of minutes. We were laughing at his discomflture when Bridget's head appeared at the domn "I thought I'd tell ye, gentlemen, ti mistress is just comn'. The saints purtec ye, for she has been rampagin' like a hay then all this blessed mornin'f" Our faces fell. 'Mrs. Callaghan, ou worthy landlady, was not a foe to be a readily dislolged,and her powers of invec tive were simply unrivaled. Hal was th only one who could soothe her, and I caie to the rescue. "My turn," lie said, with a look of comi disgust. "You fellows get Into my roon and clear out of the house as soon as she 1; seated. As we did, seeing Hal hand a chair (a we glided by) with the deepest of moce reverences, and an expression of extren devotion on his handsome features. "MaIk ing violent- love to the old beast I" as hI would have elegantly expressed it. It was evening of the same day-a dul November evening, much in harmony wit] my thoughts, as I leaned against the doo post of our house, and recalled the goo< old times when life was a merry farce fo its all. 1 had no heart to work. All that day had hawked my manuscripts from on publisher to another, vainly hoping to ge a loan upon them. My threepence half penny had been carefully invested at dirty cook shop, and I was glad to thin] there must have been just enough col meat to satisfy the boys at dinner and tea Presently I would go in and hunt fo a' y fragments that remained, for 1 wa (-esperately hungry. Through the fog came a slender femali figure disguisea in a waterproof. Shie di not notice me until quite abreast, when thi light fell upon her face. Then as shi gave one frightened glance, I saw twi things-how pale and beautiful It was, an( what a depth of misery lay in the startle< eyes. It was a low neighborhood In which w, lived, though separated by but a lonj alley from a fashionable West End stree -a dangerous locality for a young girl a that hour. I crossed the road in order t accompany her unobserved, and had hardi; done so ore I saw-her brought up by som man, looming unsteadily In the ndest. "'Come here, mmy pretty clear I" said lie She gave a faint scream and tried to alli by him, but the drunikeni wretchi caught lie: by the loose waterproof. In another see end lie measured his length on the nave meat ; but, strange to say, the girl san] down also insensible1, droping somethinj that looked like a Jewel case. My prostrate friend was relieving hil feelings by a round volley of obscene abuse .Not daring to await the arrival of a police man, .1 caught up lisa victim and her case aiid mad1(1 a hasty retreat. At the foot o the dilapidated stairs I huesitated. Shoul11 1 carry my fair burden into Mrs. Callag hian's little parlor ? The sight of Bridget Ir full flhgllt pursued by shrIll invcctive, de cided tihe p~oint. "Bridget," said I, this lady has faInted, Come and help me." "Ahi, isure, sor, poor dear 1" We carried the ftranger to thme commor aitting room, and essayed to biring lie round. Presently she opened her eyes and began to speak incoherently. "IDellrious," said I. It was a great *re lleve to hear Hal's sprInging step. lie gavy a low whistle of astenishment as he entered and felt the patient's pulse, while I gave brief explanation. "Feverish-very. She must be put t< bed at once, Where does she live ? "I have not an idea. Search her pock ets." But the search was fruitless. "Call a cab, and I will take her to ti hospital,'' suggested H arry. 1 looked at. the. flushed face and the bright beautiful eyes, and my heart gave great senseless thirob) of disapproval. "$o, we cannot'turn her away. Fetel a nurse, Hal, and she shall have my room You will take me in for a night or two ?" "Of course, old man," and Hal flew oft Then I thought of our landlady. "'Bridget," said I, "how about Mrs. Cal hahan i" "'I am the misthiress, sor I Sure, fl tel her you've got the fayer, an' devil a bi On se cme nigh ye." Oemore difhieulty remained, and tha the greatest-the money problem. Well my coat and vest might go. So for three days I patted about thm apartment -mi an old. tattered~ dresslug '- gown, being supposed to be down wil a fever; meanwhile the real patient hi g careful attention and strengthing nours] ment. The third day a notable event happene, it A high-class monthly sent L1e a guinea f< a contribution, aind requested a similar on I worked cheerfully after that tilf the ci - a18 came, and the nurse gleefully report< 1 that the young lady wais conscious, at I asking for her father. "May I see her ?" said I, eagerly. y "Dear, dear, no, sir. The exciteme would throw her back. Besides she miu not talk. Her father is Mr. Buliicn of -- st reet. Bullion, the great foreign banke What brought his daughter unattetide a into this vile side street? Time would e i plain, perhaps. Meanwhile Jack put < s his hat and departed in' (fhest 9f the gre banker. In an hour he was with us, his usu imposing air and magisterial demeanor 1( , in the agitation of the moment. Ite shot me warmnly by the hand. - "Your friend has explained all, M Hathaway. I am deeply grateful to yo I Where is my child ?" e The most renowned physician in tow was quickly summoned but in vain. M , Bullion begged liun to devise means to r move his daughter. At present she mu not leave her bed. In a few days, pe t haps, with returning strength, she migi . lie for two or three hours at a time oui sofa in our altfing-roon. Further chai r was Imperatively forbidden. D So Mr. Bullion, with many apoologic . begged that some of his daughter's favori e pictures, and a few chairs, etc., from i boudoir, might be brought; and we cou not refuse. A few hours transform< our bachelor den into a kind of fal i palace. 4 Mr. Bullion was naturally a constant vi Itor, and I had to receive him in tile ta 3 tered dressing gown. Twice he found n w writing with manuscripts littered aroun ' 'You are an author ?" he queried with . smile. 0 ''A would-be one." "Pray do not desist from writingon nya, I count. May I amuse myself for a tin with your papers ?" r le borrowed a bulky one at leaving . submit it, lie said, to a publisher he kneN r Next day I received a letter from a wel known firm, offering $250 for the col right and an additional $250 if a secot edition were called for. In my youth at t inexperience, it (lid not occur to me f months the money caie from the banke pocket. Of course I eagerly assented, and to( imy coat and vest out of pawa--not a di too soon, for Miss Bullion was pronounc< r convalescent, and that afternoon her fat cr's strong arms conveyed her from o room to the other. I lived In fairyland for a week till o guests departed. Sihe explained the visit our obscure street-it was to pawn jewel ftoj her brother's beneflt, a wild lad, who: excesses had driven him from home, at I who had recently been 'vriting her lott after letter, hinting at frightful conseque ces if she did not furnish him with mone "Mr. Ilathway," she said, "will you I my friend, and try to reclaim hin ?" t She put a transparent little hand in min I as she spoke, and I promised'. Incr friei -I would have promised her anything fI Ssuch a title. Then an eventful conversation took pla between me and the banker. "You have abandomied the idea af becor Sing a barrister, Mr. Hathway, and the pr r~ fession of amn author is a precarious on Unite it with another pursuit. YOU are .. good linguist, and I badly need a fore, Scorrespondent.' The hours and duties w be light enough ; east in your lot with n --I will take care you have no cause to r gret it.' I thought of my "friend,'' and consente The firm is Bullion & Hathaway now,tl junior partner having married the senio' 'daughter. Johni Hornsey Is thier lawye a man much respected in the professio llal Tlrevor is just beginning to maktle a stiri a fas'hionmable physician. A Vavo Mystery. While chasing a rabbit recently near Mai shall township, Ohio, a gentleman found hole at the base of a hill, and proceeded t make a search. IReaching In, lie graspe r something in his hand which proved to b the long bone of a human being. ils curi osity being now very much excited lie pre cured assistance, and began digging. Pet - ple flocked out from the village, and cam pouring in from the surrounding country as the news rapidly spiead. The localit Is but a short distance frorn the notorloti Bob AlcKimnie's 01ld headquarters, andi with in the range,of his once noted gang, nearl all of whonm are now in prison under lon sentences. In fact it was supposed tin . McKimnie was hid in one of the numeroi caves that exist in the eastern .parts/6f th county, after he had made his escape from jail about three years ago. A fter diggini some distance they camne to a; large :stn slab on edge, closing the mouth of a eaver Sabout tea by twelve foot square and si feet high. On the floor lay bones m larg number, some human, but the larger poi tion wore bones of dlifterent speceley ot ani mals. Some of them were in a good stat ot Dresortation, and could easily be name and classIfied, while others crumbledt (lust on being expoed to the air. Bloni of wildcats, of rabbits and dogs wore foundx while bones or sonme larger animal c 1il not be clasifed, though they arp suppose to belong to the larger species of wild ani mais, such as panthers, oatamo~unto, beas4 etc.- There were also found some lai'g bodIes of charred weodeor charcoql. Os of these Is as lar'ge as an ordinary base burner stove. Olose search wa, made, Io metal orunainnts, but' none'ras found were dved 'a i i fo&n -h ' m e.apd.apclent tnrt Ccations. Bed miver Valley. d rhe Ied liver Valley North)oabout thret li- hundred miles long and lIfty, miles wide a flat irarle, extending n rthward fron Lake Travelse, in Minnesotd until it passeh )r by a gentle slope beneath thlwater of Lake Winnipeg. About thirty -miles north o: the southern and .higher extrouilty of the i- valley the lied iier comes meaniderlug; l Ad from the cast. It Is a sluggish stream, kd flowing In a ditch in the mid lie of the prairie, and is altogether inadeluate In size and force to have made thoivalley whici bears. Its name. When we seek an expla at nation of thii I vast alluvial ,plPip, we must at find a much larger body of water to accoun for Its formatiou,,. hand this is done by the thery which connects it with the greal Ilssissippi system. There are imany ndi cations that the whole drainage of this re ; gion was at one time southward. The val ey of the Mississippi, with its true line of )n continuation along the Minnesota, must at have formerly contained a vastly larget body of water than now flows through it This valley,' beginning at Big Stone Lake, at Is separated only by a slightobarrier fron k Lake Traverse. Now imagine that a few thQusand years ago the levelhof the conti. r. nent was a little different fro n what it Is now, a few hundred feet higher at th north, and lower at the soiuth, then this barrier would be overcome, and all the a. waters of the Winnipeg basin would flow r. southward through the lied River and e- Alinnesota Valley into the : Mississippi. at The present northward outlet through the Nelson River-would be stopped. Ther< r' would lie a mighty stream :draining th( Lt whole central region of the continent intc a the Gulf of Mexico. Now imagine, again, e that the continent is gradually depressed at the north and elevated at the south change which we know from observation s' is still continuing along the sea coast ; th tO result of such an oscillation will be to di. Dir minish the slope and velocity of the great [d southward river. It will have less ani d less power to cut its way through obstacles, It will be dammed by the granite ledges near Big Stone Lake. . It will, spread oul into a vast lake larger.than Superior and a- Michigan put together. The. Naters of thui i- lake will be shallow and muddy, and th< e deposit of alluvium very rapid. Ai th northwar1 del res lon co.atinues, the oillel toward the south will become more am a more feeble. It will degenerate Into a mere driblet. And at last the great body of water will cut a now channe northward Into Hudson Bay. The Nelsoi R River, with Its rocky channel and numer ous rapids, bears all the marks of an outle thus recently formed. to HiLbils of fleayer's A traveler in Georgia, recently met twc d beaver trappers from near Iome, in that d State. They have trapped for the varmuintm ir in Alabama, Florida and Tennessee, and on this trip hkve s t their traps on all th< streams from Romo dowu as far as the lower edge of Jackson county. They hac caught sixteen beaver in one week II 'y Jackson county alone. f hey caught five ,d one night and four another, weighing from b1. thirty to one hundred and ten pounds each. Ie Some of the finest skins were five feel wide. One of the men informed us that h< had been trapping beaveis for ten ye. ra, ir and found it quite profitable, and to possess to quite a charm for him, Ile uses a gun y which, he says, will draw a beaver more e than a mile. The same family, ie says, vwil use it for ten miles up and down a r Stream, and that the current report that a beaver will! cut, his ow x leg. off to Aet out of a trap is a mistake. He says a large V. beaver will cut a smaller one loose, but it e Is impossible for one to cut itself lo-se, thei neck joints being only threc-eights to one. half inch long. le packs the oest meat in 0' Qalt and sells it when he returns to Rome, .d wA;ere the people pay him ten cents a1 ar pound. .Re says a beaver always cuts at tree, corn stalk, or anything else they cut, eso it will fall toward a stream, and on< never cuts a bad ear of corn down, Hat sets out twenty traps at a time, and hat ai- caught, during is career as trap~per mort y. tihan six hundred beavers. Hie said thai e. his gun was Sc) attractive to beavers ilhat a ho would get the saime beaver: in atiothem trap the same night if lhe should get away. H le pius the traps in the water, chained tc a small pole, which floats on the wa or, and aO when the beavers get caught they light th< e. trap until they are drowned if it Catches a fore leg, but if it catches a hind -leg it runm Suder a log, and sometimes gets out on thet abank wil h float, trap, and all. Bleavert never eat fish, as is supposed by some, but rc at bark, roote, corn, wheat, oats, etc. Thet r, sweet gum is thr ic favorane. Trhey havt 1. four front teeth that are very strong, about San inch and a half long and one-half inch thick. T1heir tails, with which they fight, and also use for trowels in making theh dens, are boiled, and make the very finesh oil, the oil fronm the tail of a common -sized beaver being worth from sixty cents to oe -dollar. aweet Williamn, e On one occasion said a Circus manager, .we were preparing for our promenade .through the streets, when a kind of "hang. .er-on" to our company, who, through his e invariable politeness of .manner, had beeni ,nicktiamed "8Iweet William," was deputed to ride a highly-trained black mare, one of a whose tricks corisisted in undoing her .girthis with her teeth and removing her y saddle. Sweet Willham was the- last to leave the stables the others hiavmjg passed t out before he had mounted. Suddenly a loud cries of "Murder I" were heard to pro. e coed rm the stable, and I shouted out as a I went toward the spot: "What's thie g matter? Who is it?" "It's me;" rep~lied e th'e agonizedt voice of Sweet WhIll a.. n "Make haste-the mare's got hold of any x tool" And sure enough 1 found the man e on the mare's back, writhing and twieting .about, lis face describIng thme most painful . contortions, and his toe in the mina'e's o mouth. The more lhe struggled, the harder tI she pulled at what, through some misad-. a venture, she mistook for the girdi-st raps. * P'erhaps, also, she mistook his shouts for the vociferous cheers of a pleased audience, El and thought It was "all right " and at it :1 again she went with redoubhedlkior. By -some means he must have made some , slight movement, which the mare thought e to bo her signal to perform thie'tri4i atnd e went to work accordingly. H.owevor, the -man was speedily released from~ his awk r ward pr~dicauient, and thp. ealade pro. ,cebdeddanitsi 'ays but it waar a long tione before the cincident itself gd$4t Ng6ite 1a godona(6ffcIlaugh. li cspysi e rt fwee tVill~iam A Rattuesnake Concert. "ralk about snakes," remarked an old frontiersnan in conversation a few evenings i ago, "there are more snakes in Arizona than ever existed in Ireland before good old St. Patrick camne along and gave them the grand bounce. Why, I have been every where; waded southern swamps when I would have to stop a mnute, with the water up to my chin, to allow a drove or school of water-moccasins or cotton-mouths to go by: up in the far northwest 'and British America I have lived like a fighting cock and to the queen's taste for weeks at a time on siake.steak, but I saw more rat snakes down in Arizona, last summer was a year ago than ever before in my life, all put together. Down there they don't go in pairs, clusters or droves, but in coldmns, just for the world like the children of Israel got up and tramped out of Egypt with Moses, and Aaron In the van, and Joseph, with his circus coat, bringing up the rear. I and a friend were over in the Tombstone county, among the hills on a prospdating expedition. There were rattlesnakes all around us, but they did not seem to be very savago. We would scare them up riding along, and they would sneak away front our track like coyotes. One day about 2 o'clock in the af ternoon we were taking a hill, and, as the ascent wai very sharp, our horses would stop every fewi minutes to blow. Long before we got to the siim mit we heard a strange noise, or rather jargon of noises, apparently on the other side, and if we had been shot the next minute we could not have told f rom whence it emanated. Why, it was worse than the average church choir. Well, we got to the top after a while, the noise increasing every step we took up. By the time we had got there it had become a little shopt of terrific, and looking down over the side we saw a sight that took the cake. On a little plateau of perhaps fifty yards dimensions, about seventy-five feet below us, was a regular rattlesnake reunion and concert. The ground and stones were just yellow with them, and if there was one there were at least ten thousand snakes in the gang. They were of all ages and sizes, and how they enjoyed themselves. The two oldest king-plus of the crowd were In the centre, and the other snakes were all gathered about them. Each and every snake had coiled himself up in such a man ner as to allow their tails and rattles good play, and they were rattling away as If for wages, and their wicked tongues were darting out and in, keeping up an acconi paniment to their tails. We looked at the I racket for about a minute, and then with an awful flourish the rattling stopped. The two old snakes reared their heads at least three feet off the ground, and looked all around over the field in a manner in dicative of a general on a battle-grouind. After serveyin4 the situation and apparent ly seeing that every member of the snake combination was ready for business, they sounded a note by way of tiing up, and the whole crowd commenced their concert again. It took them about ten minutes to finish one tune, and we must have watched them there through at least a lali dozon. After a while I got tired of the bqsiness, and rolled a rock 'down 14 the boiovd. This broke up the meeting without dcliy, and, as several of the snakes were crushed to death', the others set 'up an awful rat tling, and crawled away to their respective dens. .I have been anion snakes all' my life, but that was the first snake concert I ever w tnessed." When to L'iant uarden Seeds. A greater difference of time is required in sowing seeds in the garden than in the field. There is no month ylt~j Qflt out of the groundn *hlbnhi tiW s;de some kind of vegetable may not 'be r) t~lably sjwn. The value of most vceoabs de pend on the time of sowing their seed. Mlany things raised in the garden are only seasonable a very short time. SpInach is not idemand 'aft'er lettuce Is h~dliciently large to eat, while lettuce loses its value vWhen green pens ap~pear. Radishes are wa~nted as early In the season as it .is possl bjQ tc produce them, but the appetite for the~m disappears after cucumbers become *3 plenty. An effort should accordingly be made to raise a crop of spinach, radishes, and lettuce as early In the season as pos sible. Among the other vegetaibles seeds that; should be sown very early in the sea son, a e those of cress, kale, endive and parsley, as they are wanted as soon as they can be produced. 'rho seeds of onionis, beets, carrots, parsnips, celery, cabbage and cauliflowers should also be sown early,. because it takes considerable time for the plants to niature. Onjion sets should also be put out as early dfs possible, as the ob ject of planting is to secur~e a crop in ad vance of that produced by planting seed. I; AI'heP 9v .Alk yarlotd~of .,ourds. shldi( I ilntery early. his a ootf plan to start them In beds or small bixes in the f -house, and to place the plants- with the t earlti about thenm in the ground where they I are to grow, when the weather becomesr sniliciently warm. Gound vies are highly ? ornamental as well as useful, and they are I worthy of a place in every garden and yard. TI'le'hall#'bt gourds are easily converted I into dippers, and dIrinking-cups and othier l useful articles, and am'o much in use in all ai parts of the flouthi. Gourd vines require I Somne nupport. 'They may be trained over I a treills so as to make a very flne appear anee, or be made to attach themselves to a strings, brush, of the Lramnches of trees. 2 rTe seeds of' neariy all other vines, as a pump~kins, squashes, ecuumbers, citrons, I and all kinds of melons, should be plantedi c qu1i.0 late in the season, There is nothing a galied by plantliug thonp in the open ggquad tiii the woulber is quido warm. 'Maeir f growth may be liasteno4l by planting the r seeds la lills and covering them wIth smiall t ooxes having glass on top. T1hie soil may a be moistened from time to time by remov- 5 lng the boxes. 'rho boxes protect, the t younmg plant from the cold -when they are C qitle sinahi, and fronm the insecsg that are 1i Very certaini to nmako their appearance a r little later ha the season. Thei young plants 5 .nay Je gradually hardened by removing i1 the boxes during warm days au~ by rp. a planing thea at night and oil th4 aproachi d of' cola rjtins and winds. .Nastuta , pep. e pers, okra, tomatoes, awecht oorn And' all- d aduds of icans should be planted quite late 5 tddsite. be a.i hMieet potato'plaats shotild 11 not be put,.in'the open groundc, Ia thia-lati- a tude, beforo the first of Jlie. As a rule S all vegetaiole having a. southern- orlatin i should be planted late. If planted. early the locolne stentedi an d never n ake a i 0ll Help You. al it Bill Smedley was resting his left foot on at h top of a beer-keg in front of a saloon in c< Butte City, Montauna Territory, the last di utie I saw him. On his bent left knee he d rested an elbow, thereby arranging his urin u 3o as to support his chin, which rested on to Ms hand. His clothes were well worn, ci iud here and there a rent. His hair stuck p: aut through a hole in the crown of his hat, ra while the great too of his right foot peeped ti forth, ruddy and cheerful, from his boot. p l'he Whiffs of smoke, drawn from a short, is black pipe, curled lazily from his lips. ti Ills eyes were half closed and dreamy. to Ills thoughts were in dreamland. Bill had li 3xperlenced the ups and d]owns of Western ti life; had been rich and poor by turns, and o was now very poor. lie had grown philo- fi iophic, and looked at things in a way dif- in [erent from'what he had in his youth, in when life's pathway smiled to him, and i soeied rose-garlaud. lii ''Hello, Bill! been looking for you," said it ,he tax-collector, coming ip. ei There was no reponse. lie repeated: di '"Bill, hello!" W "Well?" o, <g1rant to collect your tax.'' w 'Haint no property." )a "I mean y6ur i)oll-tax." w 'Don't own no pole." T 'A poll-tax is a tax on yourself, you nt (nlow. o "I ain't no property." "But the c-ninty court levied this tax on rou." "Didn't authorize 'ei to levy any tax mn me." "The law does, though." ti, "What if it does; s'poso I'm goin' ter )ay for breathin' the air ' "Still you are one of us you live here." "I didn't bring myself into the world." "You exerelse the privilegesof a citizen; Fou vote. p "Don't want to vote if you charge for p C "Don't you wantit voice in the seleetioli ci f olicers?" ei "'No; if there was no oficers you wouldn't be here consunin' my time.'' 'The schools must be sup)orte(l. We nust educate the children." "If you do they won't work." "There arc other county expenses-pau- Y )ers, and so on. If you vere to (lie with 11t. means you would want us to bury S ''No, you needn't.." '"Why, you would sihell had to other I kin stan' it if they kin." - "I will levy on your property," said tile )fllcer, growing impatient; "I will hunt it ip." th "I'll help you; I want to see some of ly ny property.". 'Te oicer moved on rather abruptly, wiile Bill continued, as if musing: "Let them fellers have their way, an' u hev'd make life a burden. Want to assess ny existence; Want to charge me for en oyin' the bright sunshine; ask me to pay t or beholdin' the beautiful landscape; uharge. me for lookin' at the grass grow and he rose unfoldin'; charge me for watchn' he birds fly, an' one cloud chase t'other." The eyes continued to blink dreanily. 'he whilfs of s.noke reached i) in grace ull spirals toward the blue dome. 'I he oot-falls of the tax collectorgrew absenter m1d absenter. Tite Iril,1man ainiMd the Hear. An Irishman of Montana was working a c )lace mine a few miles from Bear Ouich, i n1d visited that place one day to get his oois sharpened. Just as lie was about to tart back, soie one told him that if he vould go home by way of Sour Kraut luicl he would not miss his way, and v'ouh&save several miles of wvl'kiug.--Pat tarted out, btaiter trave'ling several miles he sun was almost down, and lie had seen otiig that, looked iamiliar.---At last he at nade up lis mind that hie was lost, andI, to lb ire his own words, feared that he "would di >e robbeduand murthered entirely all alone." iVhile he was in this state of mind he spie~d at cimnamon bear on the side of the miouni-a aln, and was almuost ready to fall to the at ~round with fright. Recovering his self- to ossesslon a little, he said: "I thought in vouldn't dto to let the bear think I was i fraid of himn, and concluidedl I might iati- t aldate himt by making him think that "" here were several with mec. S', walking r5' little faster, I called out as loud as iver iIS ould, 'auiike I Oh I say, iake. htoukd on ill I catch up wid ye. and the 'rest o' the sa 'ye. When the bear heard that lie walk., to (i awvay aud sqid1Jot a word." . s T'he Turret siaer'.b I$tholongs to the genus tarantuda, and be as laurge ats tine tiger, b~ut qmute different rle icolor. The male is a soft velvety black, as rhile the female is grayish brown, or like p tded velvet. Site has a light gray spot on in op of the thorax, and on the abdomeun are ci] luree (lark brown longitudInal stripes alter ating with light gray. In young speel- Lu tens these markings are qmite distinct, but tht i (Ald ones the elors blend somewhiat. The dIr wo sexes do not differ in size, time male sti eing fully as large as the femalo. .'rTe odly is a trifle-more than an inch in lenigth, g id the le are Jarge and long, which gives iii quite a formhldable appearance, buit it is an ~erfectly harmiless. i have provisiona~yti amed It-tarantula tur'ricula, reserving w furtheci description. The name wvas sug- i ested from Its manner of building, it igs a burrow in the earth six or seven h ucifes .i depth,' but the uapper par( of its ee omnicile is entirely mlhike that of the tiger piuuer. This species build a little round y wer above its burrow. It procures sticks y roma one to two inehos in length, andi air- In anges them very symnmetrically one above sw oilher, laying theoi so as to make a live. , Ided wall. It. is usually a most contented t 1)0c1es in confdnement. .Early in July I1 ok a flne female, suruounded and almost overed with b~aby spiders about ready to '.ae the m6ther-the young can readily tn up the side of the jar andl~ escape. As a aon as they loft her, 1 removed the jar to e ty stuidy; I did:not take theonest with this p:dbr, as I wished to see what she would o with entirely nely surroundings. 'rThe srth In thte jer wgs about si,1 inchtes in opth, and -well pnsweo down. I gave her to di1s and m~ss to lput around the toy of or tubs. m3ia soon begatn to dig aburfow; ndR when it wad iot swo inlies ia depth, boe6citUalCe 4 ,6build au towrer above lt. M tadsdfa injf dagers and dl 1adeos i0i thte dge of her tuum.' She wrks 101 Phile insad~ h brr6W "olding the stick y it het ot-o~ 4nid it as arranged to yg Lit her; she then turns around and fastens with a strong web. She takes another ick and proceeds In the same way, and ntinues this until she has laid the foun tion of a five-sided wall. She now goes )wn to the bottom of her tube and brings ) a pellet of earth, which she places on p of the sticks; she goes all around a rcle of these Pellets, which she flattens by essing her body against thim, anil ar nges them in such a maimer as to cover ,e sticks on the inside. making the walls .rfectly round and silk-lined. Now she ready for more sticks, which she con aues to alternate with the pellets until the wer has reached the height of two and a kif Inches above her burrow. I soie ines gave her bits of green moss an 'inch two in length, which she would-use by stening them to a stick with web. This akes the wall on the outside fringed with oss. If she is not in a mood for build g, and I otter her a stick, she takes it in ir mandibles, and I with her fore-feet gives a quick blow, often sending it with force kough to hit the jar; and when she is gging and bringing up pellets of earth ich she does not wish to use in her tow , she throws them from the top of the alls with suilclient force to make them ud a foot or more from the burrow, If it ere not for the intervention of the glass. liis uccounted for the fact that I could vor lind any fresh earth near the burrows these spiders. The Signs of Springe. "Spring is comniitc," said the fat p assoen r, "see the seed onions in the baskets at e grocer's door. Tihat is a sure harbinger spring." "Yes," saki the cross passenger, "and )u can smell it in the air.' "Spring, you mIean," queried thc sad tssenger, -or the onion?" "Atid the roads are drying up,'' hastily it in the tall thin passenger, fearing a allisioni, "and tihe rarimersi atre accordingly Marging lmore for hay, on the pretext o a ort crop.' "And the hens begin to wear an inde mident, shan't-if-I-don't-want-to look," id the man on the wooa-box, "as though ey knew their value at this time of the mr." ''And you can smell the dreadful odor of Lrden fires," said the tall, than passenger, where people are burning old shoes and )a-brush and bones and dead vnes and ke thing and another, in the balny even "Oh, yes," we all chorused, "spring is ght here, it isn't far away; everything dicates its proximity." "It will be here oefore sundown," said e man on the wood-box, enthusiastieal "See," exclaimed the sad passenger, "al ady has the young man shed his winter ster." "And Lent is over," shouted the man ith the sample case. "Green leaves are peeping out through .e withered grass," said the sad passen -r. "And there is a nameless charm of April the suinshine," said the fat passenger. "'And it's snowing, " croaked the woman ho talks base. We all looked out the windows. She as right. That woman, I have ouwerved, !mra.ly Is right. She has not, I an 'free admit, a pleasant voice, but shd-usutially I1s the truth with it. Of course, aftel! ht r ,pi essing remark, rendered still more un keerfulptay its confirmation, there was no ore talk about spring. So we sailed onl sociable silence, and after a short stop some unimportant place, tae naime of hich has escaped me, turned out wander g prows toward Gallon. An Obstinate Hey Overcome. Whent Admiral Farragut was a lieutent .t of the receiving ship Alert, he estab lhed a school for the boys, many of whomi d not know their letters. One boy refused to learn. When remon rated with, he replied that lhe,had run ray from home to escape going to school, d that he could not and wvouldgol, leprna readl and write. "Well," saidl Farraguit, "ft will cost you Lich less to learn your letters than to let Gin alone. For, if you don't report your If to the school every day, and dori't do 'ur best to learn while there, I will pun you until you do.'' The boy continued obstinate in hha' refut l, and the lieutenant whipped hin. Hie k the whipping withut crying and 1(d, with an oath, that he would nol learn mingle latter. For several days whipping heowed whippmng, without subdulng the y's obduracy. TIhen the lieutenant, dletermined not to beaten by a boy of $fteen, tried what licule would do. . ol made the boy so llamed of himself that ho took .to the uiner and learned rapidly. In twelve mths lie read, wrote, and was smart ini >hering. Seveni or eight years passe.d awaf, and nutenant Farragut had forgotten all about 3 Ob)stinlate boy. But one day a well nssed young man stopped him in the 'cot, called him by name, and warmldy asped lis hand. "You dlon't recogniize me," lie said, ace the lieutenant's puzzled look ; "t I amore Indebted to you thtan to any one in a world. Don't you romeenber the boy oe gave you so mutch trouble on bcar'd a Alert ?" "Oh, yes, very well; but I shoukmi ijever Ye recognized him In you. I wvoukr'l ike I ear your story." "i can tell it li a few wvords," said the ung mnan. "I left the navy after a few yages, andi shlippedl. on board of an Ehast dilan. Trhe captain died and the chief ite was taken sick.' I was'a gobd arikh atlcian, thanics to yeou, and thme mtei had ighit me navigation; so I could work the p's course. The mate died, but just be e lis death lhe sailed the men aft aand re ested thetm to obey me s their coin mudek. I carried the ship Into biy ifork, d the owners,maklng me a handsome pres I, sent mne out as mate of another ship. soon as there waa a .vacaacy I weejndde - captain, and am~ now in tha Ohligldgga "Well," said'tho lieutenant, "I am'nfga.1 hear of your suocess, dnid plat you prdi I by the little lastrudiob y6W ececd VIut," he added, with a'dini e "I thik u are as much Indebted t~ o trNtse 'position, You weree te rmz~d t to irn, ad t was doetrmidie4 th 1 lxhd. Wasn t aoieo W lieM4ub' byo