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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. W INNSBOR1O, S. C., J UJNE 3, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO - KISSES OF SLEEP. p Wat shall I sing for the darling who lies I With the kisses of sleep on her innocent eyes; t Who sees in her dreamland the wonderful ai flowers Whose shadowless beauty has vanilshod from p oure Ah, fair little maidon, my wisdom is vain To choose the one path never hauntod by z pain; . Thy feet may be bruised, but in darkness or light The hand of the Shophord will lead thoo C, aright. he years of thy futuro ara safe In h4 It >ld Whose smiles, like the sunshino, his children onfold ; Go hido in his bosom, if troublis assail, Beouro in his keeping whose love cannot fail. Under False Colors. 'i'hey were making a railroad from a cer tain eliy to-no matter where. Suffice it f that it was somewhere in that boundless Out West," and it ran through a wild, w Indian-infested country, where fever and ague, and raids from the savages were un comfortably funiliar evils. Among the snall army of employes was John Marshall, a civil engineer, in charge of a section in one of the wikest portions of the line. But he was young, fresh from college, and hard work and terrors had no dang:s for hin. n John Marshall sat one (lay in the rude log h hut which constituted his "office." examin Ing plans, making out requisitions, etc., who a shadow across his paper caused him to look up. In the doorway stoo:l a boyish fellow of apparently eighteen or twenty with smooth face, fresh c miplexion, curly hair, and somewllal efleminate in form and figure. In response to Marshall's inquiring look, he said: "I have called upon you, air,( hoping to got work." "Well, we are full just now in the see lion,' was the discouraging reply. "What can you do?" "I--can write, keep ac-ounts, or do sonie thing of that kind better than anything that " "I see. You haven't been used to very T hard work, as your hands slow." "No, sir; but if you will only try me,. I am sure you will find me willing. I am very anxious to got work." s "But what sent you to this outlandish fc place to find it I" The young man colored, but made no all reply. s "Well," continued Marshall, "of course 1) that's your own affair, not mine. I can't o offer you anything in the way of work, be cause you don't seem qualified for severe manual labor. I want a clerk-an assistant - --bad enough; but the company wouldn't pay you if I should engage you." "That doesn't matter," said the young i applicant. "If you could only give me th board and lodging for a few months I would gladly stay." ro "Very well. On those terms 1 engage sb you. But what is your name?" yr ' Frank Burroughs, sir,." So Frank was engaged to assist Jon Marshall. and he soon proved himself a in valuable aid, FAlucated, quick, and ready, ho soon made hinself indispensable in vari ous ways. "Montoa passed, and that portion of the railroad drew near completion. In the to meantime Frank and John had become fast a friends. They were inseparable compan- T] ions, and a deeper than ordinary liking in seemed to have sprung up between them. "Frank,"said John Marehall one day, p1 "our section will be completed this week, and then our employment here will be at an end. What do you propose doing?' "I don't know," and the youth hung his head sorrowfully. r "As for mte," continmed John, "I am go- to ing home for a mouth's vacation; and I a should be more thtan pleased to have you go a with me. In fact I must insist upont it, for -In spite of your almost girlisht .ways-I should be last without your society." Frank remained silent, 'eemingly oppress4-. ed with a sorrow of some kind. "You don't seem it good epirits to-day, ~ said Johna, rallyingly. tc "No; I ant very sad indeed." i "Will you tell me why ?'' "It would involve a long Atory, and ali confession; onte that roqmires a sacrifice of t self respect to make.,," "But we are friends." "Yes, and I feel that you have a right to know. So listen with all the patience you11 can. Away down in one of the lonely val leys that dot our beautiful New York State, situated near thte head-waters of the Mo -hawk, there lived a few years ago a man named Lamport, with a family consstinug of wife and one child, a girl. Mr. Lam- hi port had once been a prominent merchant of New York; but meeting with heavy losses st in his business through wild speculations,a he had sold out, and with the remnant of his fortune had settled in the valley I have just mentioned. Hlero he resolved to begin he the world anew. Possessed of a wife who in sympathized with him in all his trials, he hi never despaired as many might have done. "But one child had blessed their union, little Fanny, at this time about eleven a years of age. In heor, all the parents' love b was centered. Mr. Lamport htad been at his new vocation about three years, and d was in a fair way to retrieve the losses he htad met with in his mercantile career. "The little valley was but a few miles in length, and but little more thtan a miie in width, surrounded on all sides by high mountains, thickly woodedh But few otherc fimilies had thteir residences in thte valley,.I The scaroity of neighbors, however, did not cause Mrs. Lamport to have any vain long. i m igs for the society in which site had been reared. Her natutre was not of an ambi- ~ tious turn, While hter fanily possessed health, and the wolf was kept from the * door, site would never complain, but would always be a loving and fItting help. it mate to her husband, Mr. Lamport was ec fully conscious of the treasure ho pos- ti sessed in'his wife and they were happy in- si deed. things went well for a time; and i then oalardity came. Both Mr. and Mrs. si Lamport suiddenly died, leaving Fanny ' alone, and alnost penniless. Paralyzed o with grif thte poor girl knew not- what to C do. The neighbors kindly came forward t: to aslt her and a hundred dollars in her I pocket, shE a't t.o a relate in New York c -a widow lady samed Plessley.; She was U tiot abhalidsed WoWnin she .wa* net par- t ti wrlas certainly over a 3rfectly understoodl her fascinations. Mrs. lessley possessed a most brilliant Intellect, >ice several languages, had read every ilng that was to be read, and could talk on iy subject in the world, from the most struc theological creed to the lightest rouette of the Black Crook dance. She as the most amusing woman It. New ork. 11er conversations was like the >rruscations of brilliant fireworks, so daz ing that it was alost ill)ossi)le to ana ze it; but those who had self-possession ictugh to close their eyes against the flash g light saw in her thoughtlessness and trelessness for the feelings of others, and thorough absence of heart in herself; she as as brilliant as a rainbow, but as cold. "Fanny was taken Into society, after ily a few mobths. by Mrs. Plessley, who ok every care to display whatever beauty accomplishment her young relative pos esed. Fanny soon nade her mind that rs. Plessley was using her for a specuai ve purpose, the desired end being a rich isband. While the window was not par enlarly anxious to exchange her freedom ,r the matriionlul yoke, she schemed to tinl for herself fortune and position by arrying Fanny advantogeously. The aited-for man came at last. lie was millionaire, and was infatmatcd with anny, and was sixty years old. The girl coiled from the proposed match with dis ist; the venerable suitor pleaded. Mrs. lessley commanded. Upon Fanny's re. taal, the widow ordered her to leave the )use, never to cuter again. With the re 'inder of the money she had orginally ought with her, and which she had kept, ,cause she had found no need to spend it, e went out into the world." Here the speaker hesitated as if loth to )011. "Is the story flnished?" asked John. "No." "Well, go oi, then. I should, of course; Le to know what became of Fanny." "Not knowing where to go or what to ,; but with a vague idea of getting work mewhere or somehow, she applied to microus warehouses and ihops, but she as in every instauce obliged to confess norance of the work in question. In mc places her good looks subjected her to suilt, and she went to bed at night in a cap lodging, thoroughly discouraged. ie next day she went through about the nie experience, with the same result. "If I were only a man,," she said to her If, 'I could get oi better; I would at least free from insull, and I could seek my rtne much more cImfort ably.' "'This set her thinking, and by morning e had resolved upon a novel masquerade. t :ry early she set out, and a short walk P ought her to a clothing warehouse She d tered. and thus addressed the shopman: r lave you ready-made suits for boys or ing men? " Yes," was the reply. "Picase show me Bom 1" "She selected a suit of clothes which she V aught would answer the purpose, had t Dm put in a bundle, and took them to her Y )ni: together with a cap which she ( ught on the way. Half an hour afterward t e looked in the mirror, and saw a smart l a'ug fellow of eighteen-bat with her Ir reaching to thme waist. A pair of scis- t rs, skilfully used, soon brought the hair 8 to a proper condition, and then she scarce- a knew herself. B "With the next train she started for the Cat, stopping at Buffalo where she ob- a ied a situation in a warehouse to ill a 1 uporary vacancy; but that job lasted only b ew weeks, and then she went to Chicago. v iere sie looked for work in vain until her q ney was almost exhausted, and she a and that being a man did not insure com ute success. tier slender and youthful pearanee debarred her from work of a V avy nature; and lighter sitaations, such t bookkeepers, clerks., etc,, were scarce. "At last, finding that starvation was her , ly prospect in Ihe city, Fanny resolved try the country. Bly chance shle reald In new'npaper of a railroad being in course co.-struction, ad so she camne here," "Came here I',ejaculated John Marshall. Ll'hen yell are--" "I ami Fanny Lamport," was tile lusihi g reply.C JIohnu stiarted hack .in amazement. H~e ~ is naturally a bashful -fellow, uniaccus. mned to female society; andl thme idea that 1had( been mloniths associating wvith a ug iadiy unawares was startling. Then ~ wvondered that lie hiad not suspected the sth before; that he had not more particu- ~ rly noticed his clerk's effeminacy, girl. ~ Li blushes, and piretty ways. And now 1 at ho thought of it, lie did not relish thme ca of parting with that same pretty clerk. A slience of seime length ensued at the ~ mnpletion of Iatmiy's story, broken finally t rJohn Marshall, C "I dlon't see," he said with some hestlta- ~ m, "that we need part just because you sve changed your sex; but then, you see, wouldn't be exactly proper for you to iy here with me, now that I know you're girl." Fanny was silent. She was thinking of c e bitterness of leaving the man she had i arned to love. The months she had spout c his society had b~eenI the happiest since0 mr parent's death. "Do you wish to leave me?" asked John. r "No, indeed," replied Fanny, quickly. Please do not make me go away, No >dy but you knows of myl sex." "I see but ome way for you to do as you sire." "Name it." "By marrying me." It was settled with a hug amnd a kiss. Jolln Marshall went hionme to spend his va ~tion, which resolved it self into a honey oon. When his friends ask him where found Is lovely wife, lie always replies at there Is a funny story connectedi witih as courtship; but Fanny blushes at this. >int, and ho never tolls the story. hinigen. Wngen, " fair Bingen on the Rhine,"' amortalized by Mrs. Norton's ballad, is edited with a population of seven ousand in1 thme guide books, but looks naller. We confess to a fooling of disap. aintmeont on looking at Ilngeni. A dirty okumg railroad frontp the towa and do roys all thle romance attached to the pllace. heir are many fairer towns farther clown a the Rhine, the rhapsodj of thle "Soldier f the Legian'" who " Jay ylng in Algiers." >the contrary notwithstanding. The rand scenery of the Rhine just begins to pen at this' pint; Ilelow Bingen, and uti we reac ( oblent;, tho mhountains >wer preciphitiusly on eitheir side and the iins of old'eastles beonid raidienumerou~s. ~pposite Birnsn, .In thy9 middle 'ttheI iY e A BlahopO of atto'a art0s"~o 97" 11ngood ttt op Probably there have been madder wone han this one was, but we have never seel ne near as mad its she seemed to be. Sh< vas going down a street, in Detroit, whoe t was raining, and she had an umbrella wo packages in yellow papers, and a shop >ing-bag. Oi the street there was I >ace where the sidewalk had been torn ul o allow -builders to haul out clay for a cul ar. The workmen had gone in somewher nit of the rain, and nobody had thought t( >ut (own any loose boards. The clay wai resh and sticky, and about four inchei leep. Sh1e hesitated, and looked back a hough be thought it would be wise to g< mack a block and go around the mutid, bill Wually concluded to go through it. Put ing her packages under her arns, aM bolding the umtirella firmly, she steppN 0oth feet into the clay. That was eas] inough, but when she undertook to reonv >ne foot the rubber shoe came of. Sht iegan to look mad then, ut she wias nol talf as mad as she got to be in a couple ol nillates. She tried to get her foot bacl. nto the rubber as it stuck in the mud, and ame near tipping over trying to bLlancei in one foot, but by jabbing her umibrell. nto tile mud she saved herself fron sittinq lown sideways. Then she got both eli et into the overshoes and tried to 8tep, 11e couldn't rescue those shoes to save heot ife. Then she looked around to see if any. aody was looking. She bent over am ook hold of one of the rubbcrs with het 11111d and finally coaxed it to come alonj vith her foot, but while she was doing hil >ne of her packages fell out from unde ter arm behind. Sie tried to turn arount u pick it up, but her rubbers laid becom astened in the yielding ciny, and they vould not move. At this point, shte begau o get mad. Her warn-colored hair 1111811 d fire, her eyes snapped, her face turned he color of a red wheelbarrow, andi sh( joked around for a man, to kill. It wat lie most awful sight ever witnessed b3 iortal man. For tully three inuliites sl tood there, aid then she took her foot oui if those rubbers, picked up the muddy hlings in her hards and waded ashore Cer eiecate gaiters going into the clay eieA' Ip to her shoe strings. When sile got oil L> the plank walk on Van Buren sreel, sh viped her feet off on the fence, and afte :ooking around for the1 author of her fun Dr a tow minlutes, she went away, looking ack at every step as though the fate of the erson who left that sidewalk open was aaled. It is said that a woman nhas beeu ,en for two nights walking up and down ie street, with a mountain niowitzr sirip ed to her back, looking vainly for giamei tat is out of season. Web, :the ad . glit to be nad. Mar'lo.e ciniscnce. The wonderful change which has takeu lace in navigation is shown by referenec > the condition of our commerce thirty ears ago. In 185 there were 318 shipE ill sailing veaolQ) rogQtrpd at the Ju. :m House of New York, belonging to that ort. The largest wis the Hlenry Clay, ,207 tons. The average was about 5U nis, and to Liese were added 90 barks, rhich are three-masted vessels of smaller ze. The largest of these was 4164 tons ad the smallest 160 tons. This entire cet has given place to stea) navigation, ad, considering le' immense Increase in ur commerce, it would seem hardly possl le that it could be performed by sailing essels. In 1810 the steamer British ,ueei visited New York and one of its pas mgers, by way of bravado, told his friends lat he would be home by a specifled time. 'lie period designated for the entire trip ,as 32 days, three of which were spent in tat port. le astonllshed his friends by ecomplishing this purpose, but it present tC same thing could be done in one third as9 timle. Thei 1best linerls then took hardly11 lore Ilhanl a dozen of irst-class passengers, nd it, may be added that one of tile last ien of distinction to cross the Atlantic ini .118 manner was Washlington irvng. Whlen ppoinlted to tile m1ission1 at Madrid he~ wasi ivited by (Grinnell, Minturn & Co. to ac opt a stateroom in 011e of their best yes ls. H~e returnedl, however, in a steamer. Lmong the most popular of thle thle above ientloned packets was thle "'Dramatic .ine," controlled by Edwvard K. Collins. le hlad great histrionic taste, andl lhene aimed hIs shIps tile Garrick, the Sllions5, fie Shakespeare, and the Roscius. Colli aresaw the suIpremlacy of steam, and this ad hlim to create the "Collins Line,"whose 1l-fate has long been famlla.1 to the public. ,ooking back ' upon the above-mentioned cot of barks and ships, numbering miore tan 400, illis sad to thlink that all are out f exIstence, hlaving been either wrecked al ia or broken up for their material. Ilund as Baits. The subject of color blindness came u11 t a ferry-dock saloon, Deotrot,, thle othlel lay, and an old ox-captain offered to teos lie eyes of several sallogs present. lie got if his stool, laId down Is pipe, anmd be :an: "Now, boys, whlat is tile color of my~ .0se?" "White I" they replied In a chorus. I ras s red as a beet, but they were after rink. "Correct," saId the cap~tain. - "ThI onvinces me that your eyes are all right s to the color of white. Whlat Is th< air?' "Gray." "Correct agai, except the sandly spots "Yogll all pas on white andl gray, ha 111Is tihe color of thlat dog oult there ?" "Black." "So It Is. And the color of this5 chair I1 --what?"' "Red." "And of this?" "Blue." "And what Is my general appearance? l'hat is, If you saw me1 forty rods off hov1 would you describe me?" "As a perfect gentleman," was tile read eply. 'They thought thley h~ad himi then. H atarted for the bar, but halted ad finall aat down and had no more, to say for a lonl) en minutes. After they ha~d despaIred c lettiing any beer at is expense arnd wa bout to go out he suddenly saidi "Ahi boys, one more question. If real this crowd whlat w'ould be the colo >f the liquid?" "It would be the color of beer," the: iopefully shouted. "Blind as bate-Mworsoecase! er saw l ie muimbled, is he tokhis hand fromn hi foot, "It w6utId 1* ezu'tly the debit 4 enter. How Peat la Foramt. Vast regions of the globe, designated in the geographies as solid lmd, are covered b3 peat bogs. The table lands of the South American Cordilleras, the im mense plains of Siberia, about one-tenth of Ireland, large proportions of the surface of Scotland, Gemany, Norway, Jutland, the gorges of the Swiss Alps, and large tracts in this country are COYeed with the morasses which have been formed by peaty deposits. On many a low plain, on lofty table lands, in valleys and depressions iwhere water gathers and is held by the clay subsoil tor the solid rock, the forma tion of peat goes on. The surfaces of these silent waters are covered wit h a thin green filmn like it mere scum which, however, is plant life, minute confervie, that decays and silks, to be succeeded by another growth. These depositions going on, age after age, be!cone a Solid mass, and ulti mately are transformed into peat. Varieties of peat that to the unaided eye are but smooth, oily muck, become under the ii croscope, the remains of vegitation, min. ute morasses that flourished and tied through countless generations, and sank below the water that sustained amid nour ihted them while living. In time this gradual accumulation becomes at palpable mass. Particles of sand auni stones, the roots of adjacent plants killed by the slug. gish ivaers are held li the mass, which, a rising year by year, at length affords a foothold for water-fowi, and gradually reaches the surfaUCe, making a soil for aquatic plants. These In their turn con tribute tothe accretion, so that the mass consists of layers, more or less defined, of the renai -E conferviu, coarser vegeta tion, i , mid entire plants, ningled with sitid atid minerad substances. Theme changes are passive and unnoticed, but the water continues to accumuhite, saturating the entire mass, and at length becomes ag- t gn s:ivc, breaking through the treacherous surface and destroying tie vegetation that has obtained a foothold over the slinie. Sometime the imprisoned and generated gases burst through, sending forth streams of black liquid mud, which overwheln and destroy all vegetable life within their reach. These bogs are continually grow ing. Quietly, gradually, but irresistibly, t they spread, undermining forests ii som1e cases and sinking them out of sight. What are connonly known as salt narshes are a frequently ininiense beds of peat. The accumulation is very gradual, but the rank grains, rushes, and other aquatic vegeta- 1 tion which retain a precarious foothold die and decay and adid year by year to the mass. What was once a treacherous imorass, becomes iin tinie apparently solid land, and more advanced forms of vegeta- a tion siicceed; perhaps a forest. But the t marsh is still there, and below the root of the trees is a spongy bed of peal. Even beneath the shade of forests growing on solid ground peat is in process of forma tion. The folhige of the trees deposited B annually and the surface vailtinn 1.111t.h. au iln ranir lurnou id the impenotra ble shade decay and add layer after layer of soft, shimy substance, that in tinie be comes concreted peat. 'ihinning or cut ting ol the trees allows the water to eva porate, and the peat becomes the compara tively dry fibrous substance we use as fuel.l PerilueF]. n una The owners of American petroleum de posits w.l before long have to encounter a considerable amount of opposition in view of the discoveries of this valuable oil on the Continent, and especially in Hanover and Russia. The beds in the latter country are t boundless, extending for a wide distance of V 1,500 miles, along the Caucus range, from tl the Caspian to the Black Sea. At the si present time, haowever, there are but two o districts in tils large area where any sys t) tenmatic efforts arc being made to obtain the c petroleum. One Is in thme valley of the 1, Kuban river (which flows into time Black f Sea), where two wells have been sunk by si a French conipany under the superinten- t] dence of an Amiercican imanager; this com - puny has a retinery at Tlaham. The otherp and1( imost p~rodhuctive dlistrict Is near' Baku, Ih on the Casplan Sea. M~any wells have y been sunk here to the dlepth of 300 feet, a having a daily yieild of 28,000 barrels of 1 crude petrolcemn. An extraiordlinary amount, of sand flows out with the oil, and is heap- r ed up near the orillce of thme wellsjp bauke o at least thirty feet high. 1Large refineries t exist at Baku, although the relined oil at present produced is not as good as thme American oIl.( ilabylon., The traveler who is fortunate enough to see Babylon in April cannot call it deso hate. T1'he dale groves and( gardens along the banks of thme Euphrates are then thinmgs of beauty ini their fresh spring verdure, and the plain itself is laid( down with crops. Irnigating canals cross it here and there, and give trouble to thme horsemen. No grass grows upon the mounds, and there are -lpatches of the level white with the nitre which is to be found here as in other parts of Mlesopolamnia; but time surface of the soil is on the whole green and~ pleasant to the eye. The glad waters of the river flow in the bright morning sunshmne, with paln ~ and mulberry hanging over its banks, drinkingin sap and life. Th'Ie great cIty, which counted its population by millions and filled the world with a renown not yet forgotten, hiss dIsappeared under thme dutst of 20 cenuies; but nature Is as fresh andl jocund as when Babylon was still unbuilt.I Uirds sing overhead In the pleasant, spring altr; btutterliies flutter abott in search of flowers, and balmy odors regale the sense. Tihe C'locks of Pamrtu. Paris Is getting the start of other capt tals as regards public clocks, the munici 'pality having contracted with the Pnetu- I i umatic Clock Company for the erection of a I number of clot~ks inm thec.principal thorough- I fares. Some of them have been set in I motion. Euch clock consist. oi two opaque a .glass dials, with a hollow spae between, I y' in whmich a gas-barmner is hit at night, so a g that the time can be soon by persons ap- 1 I preaching in either direction. The hands I s are removedl at an Interval of a minute by I means of pneumatie tubes, the air beIng I putmpedl in by a six-horse power engmne, r Obse.rvatory time is of course given, anti 4 the company offer to lay tubes to private I y' houses. The principle is that of an Auts- I trian Airm and it will have to compete I 'with the' ~eettio clocks at the htilway eta- I a tionms. 6n. objection will perhaps le I f takeil to it-- is. that it does It*t' indiest4 I 2 fraction of Iita ' . . 1 Marriage In Egypt. When an Egyptian wants a wife b1 lot allowed to visit the harems of riends to select one, for Mohammed >le men to see the face of any wor hey could marry--that is to sa8'. any iides their mothers or sisters. A man ierefore, obliged to employ a "1 khathic )r matenmaker, to find one for him, vhleic service, of course, she exp( I backsheLsh"--that is payment. Lhtathaenl, having found a girl, recomme ker to the man as exceedingly beauti m(d emniently suitable to hin. i,.' fat s then Waited Ui)U to ascertain at .ov ke requires, for all wives are I)Ui V sed hey were in patriarchal dayt WI lacob had no money to pay for Iachel erved her father for seven years as quivalet ; and when duped, was obli o served a second ltime to secure his pri Gen. xxix.) Fathers still refuse to g younger daughter in marriage before, hier shall have been married. 'J cople of* Armenia, in Asiatic Turk( orbid a younger son to marry before Ider, and this is likewise the law of lindoos. The price of a wife varies from billings to $1.500. The girl may not aore than live or six years old, but, wi ver her age. two;thirds of the dowry i I ne paid to her father mn the presence vitnesses. The father then or his rel: entive, says: "I betrothe thee, aughter," and the young man respon 'I accept of such betrothal.'" UnI mong the lower classes, the father expel he dower in the purchiase of dress ori ients or furniture for the bride, wh ever become the property of her husbai ;ven whent betrothcl, the intercourse lie parties is very restricted. The An vill not allow them to see each other, I lie Jews are not quite so stringent. 'I etrothals often continue' for years befi lie man demands lhi wife. Thus, "1 Sa am went idown and talked to the womai r espouiSed her, and "after a time Ie airned to take lier." Girls arie deianml t the age of ten an( between that and s ,en years, but after sixteen few men v ek them, and the dowry expected is tI roportionably low. Girls in Egypt are often mothers iurteen and grantimothers at twenty-sa nd in Persia they are said to be moth t eleven, grandmothers at twenty-fo nd past child-bearing at thirty. Whom 1an demands his betrothed a day Is fix 3r the nuptials, and for seven nights bef< e iii expected to give a feast, whilch, ho ver, is furnished by the guests themselv 'hus one sends coffee. another rice, anotl ligar, etc. The principal time of tl ontinued feast is the night before the cc ammmation. The conduct Is intrusted 1e " friend of the bridegroom.' (John| 9.) About the middle of this lay t ridre arives at the home and then returns lie harem, where she sits with her nioth isters, and female friends. At the thil r fourtlh watch of the night--three or f( an fcr amonot. the brWegroom, w as not seen his fair one, goes to t iosque to pray, accompanied by Imeshall r torches and lanterns, with music. Up is return lie Is introduced to his brit rith whom, having given her attendant resent to retire, lie is left alone, lie thi rows o1 her veil and for the first tiu 3es her face. If satisfied, he informs t romI1n outside, who Immediately expr< :eir joy by screaming " ziggareet," wiil i echoed by the women in the house, aI ien by those In the neighborhood. Saving the Crown. After the Empress' flight frotn Frai ie new government ordered that all t almables of the imperial family, Includi ,e crown, the regalia and the sword ate, should be deposited with the Ba r France. But a rumor soon got abro mat the Empfess' crown, together with t ilebrated regent diamond, has been seer r forwvarded to London to the care of tothischilds. A little later the gossi >si rmed that it had been sold by Dr. E~vai ie American dentist, andi that the p~rocet ad been alppliedl to the support of the El ress at Chiselhiurst. The trute account er light, and of the yaluables she to rlth her, has recently been pubhlih. ppears that when Prince Metternichi a cared at the Timileries, and bade the E ross hasten her dep~arture, she went i ledly into her bedroom, putt oni a bros materproof cloak, a round traveling h Dok a green p~arasol, began to collect reat haste all the mimnatures of the E eror, of her son, of lher sister, thei Duc sse d'Albe, andi of her niece, andl put the ato a lapis lazuli box, which, however, he haste ot her flight site was destined iave behind. "Make haste, madame cear cries; they are mountIng the shah hey are coming!"' cried M. Nigra. Prhi (Ietternmich went boldly into the bedro< 11(d took the Empress by the arm. Evi no had, more or less, lost their preset f inad. Th'le Empress left without taki ny money wvith tier, althouigh there v bout 40,000f. in the drawers, and Mars] raillant, wvho hiad had a thought of t nd bringing sonme rouleaux of gold w im, had, with the greatest diificuity, al ceded in entering thme palace by thte gate lie Rue de itivoli, arrivedl too late to gi hiem to the Empress. She was dirivenl he hotel of Dr. Evans, who suppledl I rith money. bhe was then puIt in i ands of Sir Johnt Burgoyne, who convej her across the Channel, and whien she ciot on British shores she was almost pc illess. in the subsequent arrangement ier affairs, after the Commune, many icr valuables, and among them the croi ere restored to tier. Thie nottomi Out. N4ow we have a story of Mr. Neff, iding near Alexandria, hiuntingdon coun an., who recently, b~y attempting to (dr vater, found hise well dry. On (descefei o investigate, it was related that he 'v astounded to dIscover that the b~ottomn 1 actually fallen out of the wel,and,ln shc heo well p~roved to be tihe entrance to ninense cave, st-retching miles and ml a every dilretion., Stalagmites and at actites of magnificent gorgeousness lx >eaulty amid variety to the otherwise ton Ike scene. Here andh there a flowl tream of water rippled over stoiiy be shihle thousands and thousands of bats ft ered theIr clammy wings, surprised at I mntrusion of man. Petrified sea-shells e muadred varieties strewed the floors rotruded from the strata. Among oil hings, it is said, valuable deposit. of ti allio os wore discovered, wt ob.with he rest of the hmngenIous tatiy e h nay prtotp and add m'uch tQthe ai oeillealth ihe 7nf , Secrets of the Sea. 1 is his Siioner or later the poles and Africa mu or- yield up their little mysteries to the organ zation and persistence of inodern explorF tian, and then there will be one thing oni i left to look for-a) spot of grouind larg I enough to he inhabited on wldch humanlt >r Ihs not its represientatives. The searc cts mnay not be hopeless, but certainly up I this date the most eccentric and indefatigi ils tie globe-trotters have failed to find an fucl ath place. The main, woman, or chilh hier i, this country of free schools who knov ry of even tihe existence of the Tristan D as Cunha islands caln scarcely be found ;. y( mii )st imaps show them. and inl som11e cyclh le pedias they are recognizable in the few line an about Tristan Da utinha rhere are thre red islaids in tihe group, Which lies in thi ze. Sout Atlantic ocean, about midway be IVe t ween A frica and America, and nearly on all line drawn from Buenos Ayers to Cap 'lie Town. It was on the largest of the grouli containing about forty sqtuare miles, thu the ship Mabel Clark, owned in this city the and sailing from Liverpoolilto Hong Kong was driven aishore by stress of weather tw 5 years next May daly; and111 nlow, Capt. East be of her imijesty's shilp) Comuis, has just rt at- ported his delivery of the presents sent b: at President I layes to tine islanders who suc of cored the crow. They are one hundred I1 numir, and ar chiefly descendatis of I ny certam Corporal Glass, who was one of 14 garrison placed on the island by Englani e when IBonaparte was imprisoned oil St kda lehena, fifteen hundred miles away. Tih it oliest inhabitant i19 Peter Green, a hln' h lierty man, in his 72d year, and the young iUt is his great-grand child, aged a fem of months. There have only been four death in thirteen years, nd nio death in infane: ut was ever known among them. 'The per hle feel cliimael.e is probably the explanation 01 >o these facm. The connunity cultivat ill- Out twenty acres, potatoes being the chie ,, crop, land usually get ten or twelve bushel fron one of seed. They have five hundre< e i cale, live hundred sheep, and inty quanln xtiy of fowls. The little state is both or ,ill derly and contented, and Peter Green i en looked upon as the chief, although he (is claits all pretentions to power. Doubt less the fact that nearly a majority of thn X, population are related to lim-he had six teen childrun-accounts for the estimatioi in which lie is held. Capt. East recom a mended his son, Williain Green, for tit ei Albert medal, or the life-saving medal o ore the Royal lumni1ane society, and as hI kv- greatly (istinguished himself on the occa Sion of the Mabel Clark's wreck tine mattel er is one for somebody's attention i thi e country, also. Seie years ago the island - era begged som1e cats from a ship, which, to for some reason, stopped at Tristan Da 1 Cunha, but the perverse animals preferred It ralhiits and chickens to exclusive mice and to now they ruu wild all over the island r while the mice are greater pests than over. r( Ali the islanders wa, lnow is a clergyman. Ar The chaplain of the Conus christened fiv< in childred, who, doubtless, could have waite' 1 a Year or t wo loner for the ceremony, but ,, the case of expectant brides an brute tn gromns is hard indeed. Contemplativi e, persons without inordinate appetites foi a letters and newspapers, may not find its en picture unattractive, bit, the genius of thI ne age is all for restless competition, and most he penple will regard such a life as vegetatio M rather than existence, and will not cease to Ch wonder that human beings should, of thei: id own free will choose to embnalre it. No "Vag." cc In the Buffalo Police Court, recently, ie t here was a curious case involved in the oix Jg ainination of an tdian named Nicholak of Smith, from near Branford, Canada, am 'k a pretty looking young white matron witi id two simall chiliren, from the samie vicinIty. lie H1er name was Mirand PoL~ts, and1 she statet at- that her husaand left her some two monti lie ago. if- Tihe lInan, wvho is remarkably inteill 1s, gent, and a good-looking chap, perhiapn (d5 thirty-five years of age, with a Caucaslar i-, formed head and face, and an excellen of talker, accompanamiedl by the woman, arrive< ak at a hotel on Exchange street, and thne tw< 1t registeredi as husband and wife.' P- Thinking all was not right, the Iandlor< ii- notified the polie, when they were arrest. ir- edi. in On beling asked what was his purpose hi it, comiung here with this mnarriedi woman ami in tier little children, the Indian promply re hi- '"ro get married.'' 11) "Ildn't you know that woul be big in amy I-a states p~rison oflenise,"' his hono to diemandled. I"Bigamy don't frighten Indian,'' thi s 11noble red mtan responded. ce '"But suppose you fonid y'omnag)f in ti ry "For as nice a woman as that," poinkipr ce to thne piretty mantron with .the baby on lie ng 11ap, as mildly unconcerned as if overythin ras was perfectly serene, "I would take mna ta chances for a dozen penitentiaries." us "Why don't you marry a squaw ?" n "When I've got a chance to own as pret ic- ty a white wife as LthatI" again pointing ti in the young matron, with a ecute smiile of ad Ve muiration in lis black eyes, "Iundiani knov to too nuch for thant." or "D'ye know what I've a goodi mind to d< lie to you?" ed "Well, nol" set "80end you to the Workhouse as a vagi n- "I guess not," said Mr. hIndian,. with of still outer smile, "I own,a good farm ou of whore I live, with a good house on It, ant l 've plenty of money in my pocket. Wher< will your vag come in?" Thhis was a stumper, so Mirand Pott was called tup to see what she had to say re. When asked li sihe did not know what Ly, serious crine it was to marry a second timi aw while her husband was living,'she looke< ng as Innocent as a country girl sent out t< ras milk the cows, "and sali: ad "L~a me, 'Squtire, I didn't know as I rt,. mattered. Jobn he's up and left mio an< an lie never was much account anyhow.' les "Then you could stoop to marry a nigge al- Indian?" tnt "I don't know nothing about nigg ub. Indian, but lie's got a good place alreada ng provided, and so far as I've seen ho's is, good man, aind I'd a hosp rather have it- smart Indian that wold give me a gQO he plato to 1 is, .than A poor shpt# pg-a fa count wlilo tw~n' that rius away. nd "But didn't you Imnow if yom arq ier him it would bo a St~tes prison oftes66 " me- "Yes; 'Ia e It m be. all thought! oI~ uts ol~ IIO pe after,when~ eot ~ FOOD FOR THOUGHT. t The heart 18 a book which we ooght - not to tear in a hurry to got at its eon tents, y We cannot conquer fate and neces C slty; but we can yield to them In such Y a manner as to be greate than if we hl could. ; !.* ,ft , 1 0 Logic helps us to strip';offtlietoh't I- ward disguises of thiigs, and to. be Y hold and Judge of thein 91 (helj own I, nature. Wlien a Christian goes Into the world a because he sees it in his call, y'6t while lie feeih it also his cross, it will not hurt him. It is a strange desire to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power 0 over others, and to lose power over oes11' self. An act by. which we imake one friend and one enemy is ailosing game, be cause revenge Is a-much stronger pri'i cplpAe than gratitude. i - ) .Ahat w bich eachican: do best none but'his Maker can teach him. NonWan yet knew what' It Is nor'c'an tell that a person has exhibited it. Fualth builds a bitdge across thp. gulf of death, to break time shock blind Na ture cannot shun, and lands thou'klt smPothly oil the further shore. Tie business of life Is to go forward; lie who seeks evil in prospect meets it on the way; but lie who catches it by retrospection, turns back to find it. Man's value Is in proportion to whit he has courageously suffered, as the value of the steel blade is In.proportion to the tempering it has nndergone. There are some mail who are busy in idlencoss, and mank e the leisure of penen not only more troublesome, but even more wicked than the busIness of war. Alen trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of prncopts Is therefore slow and tediotts, whilst that of examuples is sitnmnary and efrectual. It is enly by labor that thought can be miade healthy' aid oily by thought that labor 'cen be made hdpby, and the two can not be separated with im phnity. l'he Grand old book 'of. Godi Istill stands; and this old earth, the more Its leaves are turned over and pondgred, the ifiore It will 8iistain and Ilustratu the sacred word. All useless misery is certain folly, ami lie that feols evil before they come amity be deservedly censured, yet surely to dread the futire is more reasonably than to lament the past. It is a fault 'Agfist politend6A o praise liII joderi ,el y in the, lpregnce of these whid re sliging or playito you upon an in strument, some other person who has these san taIlent'. Do not take it upon yourself to ad imois~hi comparative strangers on re ligious topics; the persons of their own in opposition to yours, and your over zeal may seem to them an impertinence. There is no trait in the human char ItRUVI au, pukadIail fur woni oa woo ao fIrmness of purpose. It Is wonderful to see what miracles a resolute and un yielding spirit will achieve In a short time. Large minds, like large pictures are seen best it a distance; this Is the rea son, to say nothing of envious motives, why we generally iidervalue our contemporaries, and over-rate thq an cientq. Make up your mind what you int'Ad to do. Sit. down and count the codt. Do not undertake more than -yott.ln perform. It is unwise to co pme 9e work that you are not able tg inish n11 due season. ' . 4 Tihe clearness and purity lbfe oe's mind is never better proved than Its dsovering its own faults at first yiew: as wben a stream shows the,.d rtat its bottom, it shows also time tranisparency oft the water. . Tlhe fruit of righiteousnesR 1 wealth and peae'rstrength andi honor ;"the fruit of umrighmteousness is pover ~ad anrhweaknmas au 1 *f not fare tdunided. .: t' ama A religion .thfat suapedsguwes day,4n the week amnd opens, uipm i p dnay, Is a sham. Tihis wIll!~ o .~ia second time and 1hibit~ of. 'jffF6J miore of this kind of *'businksA' Wn appears at first glance..wy A an~who makes hismoy epneof hIs health and his 1pr pays too much ; lhe who gets his mbfy by lucky hilts pamys too little. Jr'ho pays too much he cheats hlrneeltsvype pays 10o little hi e lieats mankind.,,. The darn ~q ~am umn siig 1nto~ the leav'eh dnu fr lre thdm foi he ne~qs sity of their fall; and tints ftxgenkit5y >6rdowbgas 46&k18 eliuserrouim>, us, de -tetchedbfrom'ogniteroneltyofi lfe by the gebsie iressiure of recQglAAorrow. The best thing-to gfte ydur uneniy is forgive'idas; to yonsitouoent., tol~r erance; to a frieuidy, youarahparb;s to your child, a goa~d example; 'tos a. t'athier, deference; to a m, es. ditet that will make her proud ~f~~; to yourelf, respect ; toall ragg~y -We need to chmange our stand td. Men must be honored ini proportio ito their virtue, and considered rloh by the measure of imtegrity. ife is so much wasted that it loses the divine idea, which is, .not. tire number 9f a man's ideas, but~ the ,9haraer of,41s lite. 10tlsour foly to betray tr duty our wisheos; il t were thus amnd tus with us we would servo God resd fly and~ cheerfully. Thou foo,there i 'no condition but grace can improve 'to' of some duty or other ;,it is th .3 i iness; and the blame of thifte o e ne retmust net ye oh~rged (upon Provie dence iWehe.1 &, woof : .J h As'Iipla ee'h elmi i'd9'a0nt of out-frieid.s, a h'alil it'tsmidtd!~ 505s0s 'i15 ap'ir eeiallg vimm*uJ) Wi~. fevsec oft ill-humor iii'ourse', it ean have no healing or soothtdg- iual itles for others. The ted k' .fit is only evil. The presence o~'f spirIt should never faij to remipd Usb$we are on tihe wrong -rpadctteg sno SThe stoutest- timber hi$Vfl .ltegiantreeks, wheret~e~. I4I Jopghar'd wntes m ~mt1 TU are mioat ully4v1~mi