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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JUNE 24, 1880. GOOD-NIGHT WI8E9. a di r and A blessing on my babes to-night, I A blessing on tkeir mother; en A blessing on my kismen light, fro Each loving friend and brother. gIal A blessing on the toilors rest; lost The over-worn and weary I the The doolate and comfortless, alo1 To whom the sarth is dreary. wit A blessing on the lad. to-night; by A blessing on the hoary; wi The maiden olad in beauty bright, cro, 'I he young man in his glory. A blessing on my follow race, tie Of every olimO and nation; tai May they partake his saving grace bl Who died for our salvation. of Seel If any man have wrought me wrong; Still blessIngs.bo upon him; bov blay I in lovo to him be strong, A li Till olarity have won him. bay Thy blessm4s on me, from of old. pal My Godl I,cannot number; nat I wrap me in thy ample fold, tle And eink in trustful slumber. we gra blu SHIPWRECKED. wit less Thi It was one of those bright and beauti- On ful days in the month of October, when old the Summer, with his fervid heat, seems loth to up( leave us, and lingers yet for a few days, un- nes tit his forces are gradually lessened by the sinl cooling winds of Autunn. 1 At some distance from the business witi haunts of the thriving city of San 'Fran- ens, e1sco, whicl borders upoi the bay of the the same name, with her thousands of strug- berl gling humanity, may be seen the beautiful as t grounds and green parks of Captain Will- offi him Woodwane, a rich and retired sea cap- whi tain, low After spending many years upon the Iur briny deep, he determined to give up hiscali into Ing, as lie was now rich, dispose of his Ves- whi sels, and enjoy these hard-earned pleaQures lari i his mellow old age. Having lost his ens. wife, a beautiful and acconiplished woman, 1% some eight years before, lie was now left int# with only one to comfort him in his do- ing, clining yefirs. to s Alaud was the only living child, and was 7 a purfet image of her mother, now passed drii from earthly view, with eyes of a dark leu( brown that one could never look into and sea never be able to sound their depths ; hair of V dark chestnut, that flowed in sunny ringlets Ing about a fair and classic brow, and a form fro, and face that might well be envied by wl inany a fair one. of a Capt. Frederick Goodwin was a young she and accomplished seaman, having not yet as t reached the age of twenty-flve; but from ma the serious brow and streaks of gray in those locks, you would suppose him to be dun fully tel years older. With eyes of that ove peculiar gray that at once show strength and Ubo determnation of character, dark and curl ing hai. shading a broad and expansive V forehead, giving evidence of intellect; com bine with these a firm and expressive mouth aga and chin, broad shoulders, well developed Witt form, and standing full six feet in height, str lie was indeed fit to be the guardian of the ho human freight placed under his charge. wic Such were the young people of whom I rolh shall write. and During Capt. Goodwin's short visit in wil that city, having seen Miss Woodwane at a 1 private reception, le was pleased and at nu once captivated. It was plainly a case of d love at lirat sIght. And the object of this b pa..Ssion I How was it with her? She hea saw this noble looking stranger, and was at out once pleased with his bearing. After an introduction, given by their kind host, they are were left to chat together until the evening T had flnally worn away, and it was time to grat depart. By this time these two young peco- she 1)1e had become the best of friends, and a fron' cordlial invitation was extended to the cap- T lain from both the young lady and her Fri1 fat.her to call on the following Wednesday ing afternoon. It was of course accepted. whil lie continued his calls for sonme time, and until at last it was whispered th.rough shom society's circles that Miss AMaud Wood wane A and Captain Fred Goodwin were engaged. the It was a cool and yet leasant (lay inii October. The birda in the groves wore irim singing their farewell songs to Summer, unti but in the beautiful parks of Captain 'Wood-, wvane they seemed to carol their sweetest songs ; for a great event was about to hap- sea pen. tsea One of the most brilliant marriages that shre had ever been heardl of this side of the con tinent was to take place cre many hours t passed. Everyone seemed to he astir with ' renewed energy in the mansion upon the wer< lill. T1he invita ions to this grand event line, were beautifully gotten up, and all who T~ wer-e fortunate enongh to receive one wei e wer: expecting something grand ; in tis they Thi were not disappointed, for the rich and bras~ generous old gentleman had1( prelpared sump., selv tuously for the occasion, and lie was noted tini for the grandl dinners and othier entertain- Thet ments that took place und(er his hospitable ing roof. wiltli Trhe guests at last arrived, and( at four tern o'clock the bridal p)arty enteredl the spacious. prey p)arlors that, were filled with many friends, hIad They were a handsome couple. The cere- rigg mnony over, they left the parental roof, and, a lai -withu many friends, wvent upon the tiny war steam yacht "Victor," the private boat of thier Captain Wtoodwanio. All paid a short visit, l to the large and elegant steamship of Cap- and lain Goodwin, which for a tiue was to be 0 the home of the bride. inobl Gaily decked with streamers and hunting, and and amid a salute from her guns, they in passed upon her (lecks, where, after a pleas- and ant hour of enjoyment, all departed for the to shore, and night setthedi down quietly over Wit the bay and city, final It was a bright and beautiful morning on V which ilie "Ocean BIrd" was to spreall her half white wings and sail for the distant port of mlan~ Liverpool. Now could be heard the merry wYon "heave-ho 1'' of the seamien, mingled with bras thme noise of the rattling chains, and the Hecr anchor slowly ascended from its muddy bed awei to its accustomed place. Flags wvere float. One ing to the breeze, the smoke poured out Witl black clouds, the water foamed and boiled han< as she slowly and majestically swung about, to tI setting her prow for the head of the bay. She was a floating palace--without, prob ably dark and gloomy to the eye; but within, all was brightness and gayity. She gin; was manned by as good and bold a crew p)ro as ever trod, a plank,. with a generous and sh ui noble-hearted captain, pod! How bright and beautiful were the waters Ti' as her sharp prow out through them, and the they were hurled aside hmy the graceful faill lines of her lhugo hull I first~ they were of a inu a bright greQn; gradually this deepened into atta %rker hue ; then they changed altogether , became a dark blue. lappy and light of heart were the pas. gers. They had caught some inspiration a this beautiful day, and were engaged merry songs and laughter. The city lually faded from sight, and at last was As they float6d smoothly along, the scene grew brighter and more beautiful ig the banks. Here was a farmhouse, li its several outbuildings, all surrounded large and shady trees, and the cattle celully grazing in the fields beyond, le overhead could be seen a flock of 6ys cawing continuously as they wheeled irclcs over the corn-fields. A forest in distance covering the sides of a moun , and oxtending away at last into the and empty air, while dotting the whole lie rippling surface of the bay could be i crafts of all nations. low a fishing smack passo:1 under her 7, bowling merrily along upon its course. irge schooner was moving slowly up the , towed along by a tiny tug. They were sing through the "Golden Gate," one of 1re s greatest and grandest freaks. Anon r were beyond the head of the bay, and e passing the lighthouse. The land .ually faded away into long banks of 3 clouds. t last they were in the calm Pacific, I her mild and balmy breezes, her cloud skies above the blue waters below. s gaylty continued from day to (lay. the morrow they expected to weather stormy cape. And night settled down n them, leaving all in.peace and happi , with nothing to disturb their calm nbers. 'he morning broke clear and beautiful, ii not a cloud to obscure the blue heav It was a warm and lovely day ; even most feeble had ventured from their ha to behold this beautiful scene. But he day wore on, a cloud was seen in the g. At first It was only a small, to spot; then another rose, to be fol ud by still another; they seemed to be rying together until they had combined one large and widely- extended mass, ch rolled along, blackening and en ing until it covered the whole heav breeze sprang up, lashing the waves frothy foain ; the white caps were ris now sinking. Few remained on deck eo the stori which threatened. he waves were tossing and tumbling, ing tne sleet and rain with great vio e against the deck and rigging. The grew more boisterous as the idght ad ued. At eight bells the wind was blow a hurricane. The ship plunged to and as she bravely breasted the angry ers. Now, as she rode upon the crest n enormous wave, bei stern sank, and seemed slipping backward, down-but so wave broko under her, she rushed Ily forward into the trough of the sea. lie trembled and quivered like some kb creature in agony, as the waves broke her, deluging her decks, and seeming it to engulf her. But she still rode n the crest of another. (hat was that ? A bell ? Yes, it sounded n I By some chance the Aongue of her ch-bell had become unfastened, and it ok her resounding sides with a dull and :w sound, startling everybody with its d and hollow clanging, as the ship d In the trough of the sea. Dolefully sadly it pealed out upon the waters, the chilling and almost human words, )ui Knoll! Your Knell I" filling the di of the passengers with horror and my. rhat was that dull roar? Was it iotthie , of the surf ? Tie man upon the loqk shouted Port ycur heln I For your life, or you lost I The breakers I The breakers I " on late! In another instant her keel ed the rocks, and with a fierce lunge struck. She quivered and trembled 1 bow to stern, hon the p)anic wvas fierce and wild ; ;htcned men, women and children rush madly here and there in their fear, le above all could be heard the wild roar beat of the surf upon a rock-bound 'e. bove the roar and din could be heard aoble shouts of conmmand. Keep the guns booming I Men, stand to the boats I Let no one of us enter 1 the women and children are safe I'' hen did they show their true and noble ts. The b->ats were lowered, but the was so wvild that they were, one after other, instantly swamped, and1 with eks and groans the poor wrelches sank ieir watery graves. he ship was sinking slowly. 1Her fires s oui-she had passed the last water lie remainmng passengers, aitrighted, 3 huddled together up)oni the upper (leek. waters had reached them. Some, !(er than the others, were trusting them cs upon01 spars and doors-with any g, so as to reach the wished-for shore. y felt the chilling waves gradually creep under their feet, hungrily reaching up their horrid jaws to grasp them, de Iinedi not to be cheated out of their .There were only five left--the sea claimed the rest. These clung to the lng with the tenacity of despair, and as 'go and mighty billow eame rolling to :1 them, as it reached them and swept from their hold uton its crest, with a despairing shriek two were swept away loot. uit of the two hundred souls upon this 0 ship1, only the mate, lashed to a gun, the captain and lisa wife were left. The :1, whistlIng through the broken masts cordlage, seemed to play the prelude their "M edding March to Heaven." hi a last dull boom, the ship sank to its resting-place. rhat was that upon the beach yonder, bunlled in the sand ? A spar and a hu figure? Yes, it was that of a man. A ian clung closely t> him. 'T.was the c commander and his beautiful bride. arms were about his neck, aind a sad1, ft smile upioni those pale, cold lips. of his hands still grasped the spar. h the other lhe held( her close. Together, I in hand, their spirits had ascended eo bridal feast. SScripture the drtinkard's style t.e in lawlessness, proceeds in un itableness, ends in misery ; and all up in that denomination of his gree. A son of Belial, icy who are Ignorantly devoted to mero ceremonIes of religion hiere m into thick darkness ;but they are till thicker gloom who are solely ohed to fruitless snnon1ations -. Hand Organ Music, "The popular taste just now seeems to run more to light and comic than to sorlot and sentimental music," said Mr. Taylor, America's only hand-organ maker, pressing down the ashes In his pipe bowl and medl tatively giving a twist to the nearest crank, which brought forth a protesting yowl from the Instrulnent. "But, of course, " he con tinued, "when they get their musical car goes by the hand-organ line, they have to take them mixed. We put up the tunes in assorted lots, as you may say. For spring styles just now, the principal choice seem to be selections from the 'Pirates of Pen zance,' Ed. Harrigan's airs, 'The Pitcher of Beer' and 'I he Jumping Jack;" airs from 'Fatinitiza,' and a variety of jigs, reels and waltzes. What are we doing from the 'Pirates?' Well, the opening chorus, the second chorus from the policemen, and the aria of the General's daughter. Published I Well, I believe sonic of the 'Pirates' music is published, but I'm not certain. It isn't necessary for us to wait until music is printed to get it on our cylinders. I can listen to a piece of music once and write it out afterward correctly, without it is terri bly complicated. But the 'Pirate' Is weak, viewed from the hand-organ standpoint. It lacks taking airs, melodies such as 'Pina fore' was rich in, chings that everybody gets to know and that the children sing. Ve had a great mush on 'Pinafore' airs last season, but now they are never called for. I only make organ barrels, or cylinders, to order, and the person ordering picks out for himself the tunes lie wants put on; so there is no regularity about the arrangment, and no two are alike. As I said the demand this year is lively for music more than ever before, but still there are sonic serious tunies that hang on well. 'Silver Threads Among the Gold' is one of them, and the 'Sweet By and By' will always be good in the West and through Connecticut. Some of Moody and Sankey's tunes are good to have in working the rural districts, particularly the sort of lively ones, such as 'Where is My Boy No-night?' and '1iold the Fort' is a good, steady stand-by. An operatic air, one from some old, good, standard opera is always well to throw in. "Negro minstrel airs are very seldom called for now. That sort of music seems to have in a great measure (lied out, and it's a pity, for some of the sweetest purely American music was written for the burnt cork brethern. I have a good deal to do putting In old country songs, German and Italian, generally, that people come and wibstle or sing to me for the purpose of getting them set up. But the popular fav orites, you may say, for the coming season, those which you will hear on more organs than any others, will be the 'Jumping Jack' and 'Pitcher of Beer.' "No, I don't. make a great many instruments. I can turn out about two a week, if- I want to, but the demand is limited, and n:os, of my work is in repairing and making new cyl imders. A cylinder with eight or nine tunes for hand organs cost from $32 to $40, and for parlor and side-show organs from $33 to $100, according to size. The score of instruments you see about you all belong to individual owners who are having some thing done to them. The large ones conic from the carousel sat Jones' Woods, Coney Island and some other places of summer resort. I don't hire out any organs, but there is an Italian on Baxter street who rents out a dozen or more during the sea son. I never triod that, but I did try once selling hand organs on the installment plan. It didn't pay. Organs are too light and handy to get away with.' It is not. known froim what country the rose first came, but it has been common froni the earliest period. The variety of this beautiful flower is influite, and the study of the various kinds forms one of the charm-4 of botanty. There are severail wild kinds in thme United States, among which are the prairie or Michigan rose, blooming in July, and from which sonic of the cultivated pink roses have descendedi. There is also the dwarf rose, so called, which blooms from May to July; the swami) rose, found usual ly in damp ground, and which blooms from June to September, and the early wild rose. ThIe Cherokee rose, much used! in the South ern States for hedges, was origlnallyr brought to this country from China. Among the cultivated roses, the red Fr-ench or Provence rose is fine and attractive. It wVas brought to France fromi Syria In the days of time Crusades. The familiar and luxuriant cabbage rose came from time Cau casus, and the Denmark rose from Damas cus. The p)oetical incas-rose was fIrst, brought to England front Holland; the y'el low rose from Persia. With us the rose is valuable,*for Its ordinary fragrance and beauty, but in the ECast it is a source of valuable manufacture, and is valued for' the perfumes or oil extracted f rom it. Th le ottar of iroses is an oil distilled from the petals or flower leaves oi roses, and is pro dluced ini Indlia and Tlurkey, some also be ing made In the South of France. It re.. quires 4000 pounds of rose leaves to make one pounad of ottar of roses, hence tIhe great cost of this article, very little, if anly, of which ever reaches this country in an uma dlulterated stato. Damask and musk ros are chiefly used for tihe production of their dlelighitful pecrfumel. A NoiHy Joke. A faithful night watchmnan in a Sacra nmento warehouse was recently mamde the victim of a plractical joke. Six alarm clocks were locked uip in the dirawers of six desks along the wall. They were so arranigedn that time first should begin the racket about 1 o'clock in the morning, and the others to chime in intervals of a half hour each. At thme app)ointed, time, as the wfttchuman was resting lisa feet upon the stove, the hereto fore noiseless little instrument in one of the dtrawers fairly turned itself loose with a noise resembling thme ringing of half a dozen door-be ls mingled with the roar of a steam engine. Thie startled watchman sprang to lis feet and mushe~d to the windows, hut, gazing out, could see nothing, and again taking lis scat, was beginninig to imagine lie had been mistaken, whenm clock No. 2 wvent through a like p)erformlance. This time the location was suspected, but the cause not understood. When No. 8 began there was new cause for wonder, as the noise had chainged from one dlesk to another. The matter now became too p)erplexmng for r'est, and No. 4 and No. 5 were listened toi with equal astonishment. When the last one had ended the night's entertainment the joke was seen: ExPERIMfENT shows that with Early Rose potatoes the smallost autount of seed in the hill yields the best aron Safety in Thunder Storms. The safest place in a thunder-storm is th interior of an ir6n building, or of a hous well provided with lightning rods. As t what meets the latter condition, it is sufl' clet to say that t4e application of lightninj rods is a matter demanding the exorcise o expert knowledge and judgment, and I telligent apprehension of the law of electric ity. Experience has shown that it is no safe to trust to an ignorant person the do cision as to the quantity and location o arrangement of lightning rods for an building what so ever. Under ordinary eir cuistances, in a house without any rods or with rods improperly adjusted, the safes position is a horizontal one, in the middl of a room, upon a feather bed elevate abovo the floor. Au iron bed-stead, how ever, furnishes a perfectly safe position, anl a wooden bedstead may be made a saf place of refuge by attaching metallic wire to the corner post, and connecting then all together by other wires running froii one to the other around the bed In thes circumstances, a discharge of lightning i provided with an easy path in any direc tion, either vertical or horizontal, a.d n injury can ensue to a person lying upon such a bedstead. Number hine anneali iron wire or a small copper or brass wir may be conveniently and effectually uset i tis way; or strips of sheet-metal ma, be tacked on. Nails, bell-wires, stove fun nels and other netils in buildings presen an interrupted path for lightning. It i especially dangerous therefore, to assume t position between two detached lines o masses of conducting matter. For exam. ple, a person has been killed by liglituin while seated in a chair with his head lean log against a bell knob; in another in stance, a man was killed by a discharge o hghtning, which passed from a socalle( lightning rod on the outside of the wall t< the quicksilver oil the back of the mirror in front of which lie was standing; thenc through hin into the floor, and to a stov( )I) in the next lower story. Position near windows, doors, and fire places are t< be avoided as particularly dangeroue. Ou of doors the safest position is flat uponi til ground, away from any tree or other cle vated object. Thoroughly wet clothing ii a partial conductor, and gives increase< security to the wearer. An umbrella witI an iron or steel shaft, having attached ti the handle d metallic chain or flexible wir cord long enough to trail upon the ground would protect the person carrying it Farmers might easily arm their wagons wit wires in a manner similar to that alread3 suggested for a bedstead, or they can fuasteL a wire on a long handled pitch fork or rake and then hold it vertically, with one end it the ground and thus secure protection. ThI interior of a barn containing new hay o grain, Is a very dangerous place in a thun der storm, and such building need lightninh rods of the iost complete and perfect des cription. Niauara in India. Colonel lsaig, in his account of his jour ney to discover the best road to Judgalpoo in the Bastor county, thus describes th falls of Indravati, which must, very near1 come up to those of Niagara: "The falli are certainly one of the grandest sights ii India, thouth from their inaccessible posi tion few will ever see them. The rive was in flood within ton feet (according tc the people on its banks) of its extrem height. About four miles above the fall (which ares mile above the village of Chitra kot.) the Indravati is joined by the Narnagi a river about thiree-fourths it size. 6"Thi united waters of the two, swollen by th heavy rains to a volume which I reckonet at about thirty million cubic yards per ho, descend perpendicularly a height of ninety four feet over a ledge of sand-stone rocks about five hundred yards in length, and slightly curved in at a place at one end, s< as to give the fall something of a horse shoe shiape. Thme rich coloring of the water, varying from a redhish brown at the cres of the falls to a brilliant ochre, where mor b)rokeni ini its descent, adids much to tih beauty of the siglht. The lower part, ol the fall is hidden by the clouds of spray and im damp weather, Iimedately aifter showecr, when the air is loaded with mois ture, these rise even higher than the cresi of the falls, fill the whole chasm b)elow, an< even hide tile country on the Opposite bni from view, disclosing only at intervals the final luhnge of the imnense mass of wate Into the gulf beneath ; the scene then be comes one of the wildest and grandest him aginab)le. liusiness, Maxtuma. Choose the kind of business you uinder stanid. Caplitah Is positively required in business even if you have real estate outside ant credit, ever so good. (One kind of business is as8 much ats mani cani manage successfully. liivest imeiits on the outside do not generally pay especially if you require the money in youi business. Buy cautiously andi juxst what you want and do not b)e persuaded to purchase whau you dio inot nleedi; if you do you wIll soau want what you can't buy. Insure youir stockc; hiiure your store insure your dwelling, if you have one. the rate is high it is only because the risi is Agent, anmd of course you should not tak< the risk yourself. A business that will no pay for insuriing will not, just.fy runinlg. 8ell to goad, responsible parties oiily Sell on a specified tifno, and when y'ou money is due demand It; (do not, let ti account stand wit hout note om interest, fo an indefinite period. Sell at a realsonab)le profit and never mis represent to effect ia sfa10. Live within youmr income; keep youl business to yourself; have p)athince, ani you will succeed. C'oimpetition is the life of trade, but I1 trying to run your competiLtors out, of buii iness, he careful you (10 not run yoursel ouit. A Ni~e i,innpr. A lady guest at a Baltimore hotel has wveek decided to have a nice little dinner al by herself, and here is what she called for servedin courses: Soup, baked shad stuired boiled mutton and caper sauce, chmickem with egg sauce, turkey with parsley sauce spring iamb and mint sauce, roast, veal stewed kidneys with champagne sauce chicken pie in country style, cold veal, colb mnutton, mashed potatoes, spinach, lettuce asparagus, cabbage, apple pie, rhubarb pie p)unich cake, sponge cake, baked tapioci puddIng, vanilla uce-cam, .English wal nute, crackers, rice snow-balls with cream apples. coffee. The Far West. Old Dr. Potts, of San Francisco, and wh< 3 is an enthusiast in his profession, Is th, I originator of the theory that much diseas is transmitted to human beings through eat ing the flesh of immature animals, such a4 calves, in the early spring. The doctoi - aitains that young animals, in thell . inexperience, eat greedily of certain nox ious weeds, and that the poison therobj r assimilated is transferred to the blood oi r the consumer of the animal's flesh. As thi assertion was disputed by some of his con temporary Ai. D.'s, Dr. Potts deteruine to make some useful experiments befor4 giving to the world his discovery. lie ac cordingly purchased a six-months' call one of the kind that appear to be built oi Sstilts-and, as the doctor had no back yar( to speak of, he had the brevet cow place iin the cellar, where Ie proposed to mix th< weeds mIquestion among its food for a fem days prior to its being converted into tes cutlets, so to speak. '1hie China boy waE bribed not to mention the calf's presence tC the other itembers of the household, who, it happened, had been absent while the quadruped was being secretly let dowil through the coal-hole by the butcher. Tc prevent its bleating the doctor had placed a Stout leather muzzle onl Its nose0. That ntight thle doctor was awaketted by Mlrs. Potts, who sat up In Ied and gaped inl a horror-stricken voice: "Uraciol heavensI Archibald, don't you hear titl sigular noise down stairs ?" Tlie calf had evidently gotten the muzzle about half off, and was making a peculiat sound, resembling a smal. foghorn tortured by remorse, but Old Potts stamniered out that he couldn't hear anything in particu lar. "Not ear anything, Dr. Potts? Are you deaf ? Just listen to that I It's per fectly blood-curdling." '"Perhaps it's rats, " hazarded the miser able physician. "Itats, Dr. Potta I Are you lusaue? Did you ever hear rats wailing like a lost soul iu purgatory ?" "Well, not exactly like it," said the doc tor, soothingly, "but perhaps--" "I can't stand it a moment longer. I shall go wild if you don't go down and see what's the mtatier. It's my belief that burghrs are trying to murder Ah Wrong. "Well, my dear, if you insist I 't But Just-then there came a sudden jerk at the bell and a terrible hamnering at the front door. The doctor put up the window and beheld a delegation of about fifty half lressed neighbors with four police ollicers mI their midst. "Is lie dead yet ?" said onec of the crowd, as the doctor poked his head out. "Is who dead?" said *the latter much astoished. "'Why, your brother, down there in the cellar. Didn't you tell us your brother had made a big strike inl stocks, and was com ing to stay with you this week?" asked Didimnus, the doctor's iiext-(oor neighbor. "Why, yes I What of it V" "You cold-blooded villain. Do you sup pose no one heard you murdering him iI the cellar just now? By Jove, lie is nit dead yet-he's groiming still. Just lis ten!" "If you don't lenune In I'll bust the door down !" said one of the police. "Ohi, Archibald I to think you should trn out to be a Iurdereri " gasped .Mrs. Potts, going into hysterics. Old Potts was too mad to utter a word. le just walked down stairs in lils night cap, admitted the whole crowd, conducted It to the cellar stairs, handed the policemmi a candle, and told him to go ahead, lIe then went up stairs and awaited results. Of course the calf made a break for the light as soon as it saw it. The big oflicer holding it was upset by a terrible butt in the stomach, the candle went. out, and, amid the rattlinig of the coal and the uin.. earthly yells of the crowd, the cellar began to vomit forth haticss, grimy, and disgusted men. When they hiad all gone, Old Potts quiet ly dlescendled,. locked the house up again, tied a spong.e full of chloroformi round the calf's nose, resuscitated Mrs. P., and then returnedi gloomily to lis dreams of science. Thus enided one of the most int.eresting in-. clients of pioneer life in the far West. About Dinners. "A iian should, if lie (lie having accept ed an invitation to dinnier, leave lis execu tors in solemn charge to fill his place," said Sidney Smith in that vein of burlesque solemnit,y with which lis ample wit. draped nil trifles. And the absurdity contains a truth. D)inncrs are so carefully measured; they are so important to host and( hostess; they arc the results of so much care and thought, that every one is socially bound to remembler the engagement, and keep it wvit.hi punctualily. If illness or necessary ab)see from townV cause the invitee to regret, after having accepted, a note in the first person should inform the hostess at the earliest possible moment, that she may in. vite somiebody to fill the place. Invitations to dinners in New York, In the gay season, are sent out a fortnight in advaince, and should lhe answered quickly andl positively. Nover hint at any cumtingency, but gIve your hostess the simple assurance that yon wvill come or that you wvill not come. Nev er say that you "would come if so and so.'' Never attempt to give a dinner unless you are sure of your cook andi your waiter that, both are very good (unless you give your dinner a la Rlusse and order every thing fromi a restaurant. These are not the best dinners. The dishes are apt to be cold, greasy and ipoor unless you have the very becst, restaurant in the world at hand). Th'ie best dlinners are those given by excel lent housekeepers, whose domestic service Is p)erfect, who have a cook who is famous for indhivl(dual (1181e0 and with a waiter who is at home and who can call in, If lie needs thiem, somel imet to help him. The American habIt of luring the same waiters wvho have just servedl at a neighbor's house led to a very curious mistake from a foreign nobleoman. I ookinig at a well-known old black man, who usedh to servo at all the d iners, lie remarked: ''What a very singular resemblance the colored race boar to each oilier. Now I could swear I had seen your butler at every dinner I have eaten in New York." This hab)it of hiring a "set of retainer's" had niever' occurr-ed to the nobleman. "The little dinners" there fore, of eight or ten, cooked in the house, served by the servants of the family, simple and short dinners are the moat agreeable, the most flattering as attentions, and require, if given often, a far greater' care and ex penditure of thotight than the one splendid show dInner, How to Write WOU. We believe that the whole of our method is a mistake, and there is no single system of mecanique for writing, and that a child belonging to the educated classes would be taught much better and more easily if, after being once enabled to make and recognize written letters, it were let alone, and chid den or praised not for its method, but for the result. Let the boy hold his Pen as he likes, and write at the pace he likes hurry, of course, being discouraged-but insist, strenuously and persiteutly, that his copy shall be legible, shall be clean, and shall approach the good copy set before him, namely, a well-written letter, not a rubishy text on a single line, written as no body but a writing master ever (lid or ever will write till the world's end, le will make a muddle at first, but lie will soon make a passable Imitation of his copy, and ultimately develop a characteristic and strong hand, which may be good or bad, but will not be either meaningless, unde cided or eligible. The boy's hand will alter, of course, very greatly as lie grows older. It may alter at eleven, because it is at that age that the range of the eye is fixed, and short sight betrays itself ; and it will alter at seventeen, because then the system of taking notes at lecture, which ruins most hands, will have cramped and temporarily 8poiled the writing, but the character will form itself again, and will never bit dell clent in clearness and decision. The idea that it is to be clear will have stamped itself, and confidence will not, have been destroyed by worrying little rules about attitude and angle afid slope, which the very irritation of the pupils ought to convince the teachers are, from some personal peculiarity, inap plicable. The lad will write, as he does anything else that he cares to (10, as well as lie can, aud with a certain efilciency and speed. Almost every letter he gets will give him some assistanice, and the master's remonstrance on his illegibility will be at tended,tolike any other caution given In the eurriculum. An A1114iritl-nal Opu,oum. The tree was a large one. Its bark wan smooth like glass. Cutting a notch in the bark, and embracing as much of the huge trunk as possible with his arms, the black fellow mount ed the height of thestep, then, standing with his too in the notch, with his tomahawk lie proceeded to cut another, about the height of h119 waist, which he also asceided, keepinme his body flat to the tree. Step by step lie gradully rose looking like a fly walking up a window-pane, until he reached the first, fork, nearly forty feet above the ground. A sudden twist enabled im to surmount this difficulty, after which lie walked among the branelies with the activity of a monkey. Selecting one with a hole in it, he dropped two or tirce small stones which he had carried u) with hiiiii down the hollow, listening intently as they rumbled down the pipe. They all stopped at a particular place. Descending to the spot Stick-intlie-mud cut into the hollow, and, inserting his iand, drew forth a lnrge opossum, its eyes blinking in the daylight. A few knocks tgainst the the tree deprived it of life, and throwing it down, its captor descended, grinning f rom ear to ear his appreciation of the white fellow's compli ments as to his dexterity. Blacks never move without a firestick; and soon the opossum, divested of its fur, was roating on a fire, emitting a most inviting odor un der the(. circumstances. It makem Stitk-in tle-miud, who has only lately despatched aln imIlneIse meal, hungry again; and John has some diliculty in perstuadinig hhn111 not to seize the half-roasted creature and bite out at piece. The black fellow looks aston ished; the prohibition is Iuite against the cmtons of his race; however, lie gives in, contenting himself by throwing time entrails on time fire for a amomlent, aid soon, to his guest's horror, Ie commenced dispatehlinai ya-rs of the scarcely warmed intestines, at lie conc.lusioni of which op)erationi his faice piresentedl a sicken ing sp)ectamcle. F'irty Cents' Worth. .Jaie Welch, a bold teamster, livinig in D)etroit, was sitting on his doorstep the other evemnmg when along came a stranger who picked upl something from the walk. "Was it a hlair pinl ye found at miy door ?" demanded Alr. Welch. "I never bend my blackc for less than fifty cents," was the reply, as the strangeir tossedl the cola ma the air. "It rolled from ine pocket, andl I'tm much obleeged that ye found it," said Jamie, as8 hie put on a smtilec. "You can't roll no0 fifty cenits ouIt of this chicken," was the answer, as the man moved on. AMr. Welch followed him, and argued and flattered, aind when that wouldn't (10, lie put his fIsts at work and hatnunered thme finder until lhe gave up the coin. When lhe returned homie andi( told lis wife she claimed half, and there was a family row which brought an oflicer and aii arrest. ''Where's tihe money ?" asked thme court, aftcr the story had beeni told. Th'le prisoner hiandled it over, anid after it had been inspected lisa honor said: "it's the worst counuterfeit I ever saw I" "What ! is she boarus ?"exclaimed Jamie. "Sh3le are. It's mnore than half lead." "And I was foot enough to have two fights anld get myself rui in for the sake of this old sham I" groaned the prisoner, as lie flung it on the floor "You were, and I must punish you." "Go ahead, juidge; l'm dleservinig of all you can pile on. I'm the biggest fool iiu America, and I might as well be in pirison as out l'' "I'll say ten dollars or sixty days." "That's little enough. le the perform. ance over ?" "'It is."~ "'So am I. I've no mloney, and so I shamli go up. If my v'ife comes crying around tell her I've hired out to a cIrcus as the big fool, and thlat I won't be home for two A Disc ovicny AnouTr CouN-An ox.. chainge tells of a man who p)lanlts, two or three weeks after the crop is planted, a new lill of corn every fifteenth row, each way. And this is the reason:s If' the weather becomes dry after the fill.. ing time,the ailk and tassels both become dry and dead. In this condition, if it should become setasonable, the silk re vives and renews its grow thi,but the las sels. do not recover. T'hen for want of pollen, the new silk is' unable to filli the offico for which it was designed. Theii pollen from tile repllanted corn is thetn ready to supply silk, and the filling is completed, iIe says nearly all the abor tive ears so common hun corn erops, are ca'sed by thes wantof pollen1, and lie has known ears to double their size ir~thmis Oling. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. A pound of care will not pay a pound of debt. Fortune can only take from us what she gave. Never expose your disappointment to the world. It you would make a thief honest, trust him. Never rejoice but when thou hast done well. A good book supplies the place of a companion. The simple flowers are sociable and benevolent. Anferl like rain, breaks upon what ever It falls. An evil conscienee Is always fearful and unquiet. Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not. None have less praise than those who hunt most after It. Content is better than money, and Just about as scarce. That glory is short which Is given and received from men. He will easily be content and at peace whose conscience is pure. Thou art not the more holy for being praised, nor the more worthless for be ing blamed. Every man, coming toan obscure old age, thinks he would have achieved wealth and distinction if It is ssveet to have friends you can trust, and convenient sometimes to have friends who are not afraid to trust you. He that thinks himself the happiest man as really so; but he who thinks himself the wisest man Is the greatest tool. That soldier can never answer it to God tnat hatLh not a good cause, and striketh not rather as a Justicer than as a soldier. Many times there comes a son that is aq good with a fork us his father was wili a rake; as great a spend-all as his ftlier was a get-all. Possibly the calandar of heaven hath a post-date to ours. Such it Is that as Uud seldom comes at our time; so he never fails at Ills own. .No matter how small sin may appear in the beginning, it touches, by way of conflict and opposition every attribute for the Divine Character. God Will so mortify the deeds of the body by Ills spirit, that sin shall not play King in us; the traveler shall not 00co11th man of the house. It was the speech of a learned man: If tnere be but one sigh comb from a gracious heart it fills the,ear of God, so that God hears nothing else. The happiest'man in the world is the one with Just wealth enough to keep limn in spirits, and Just children enough to make him industrious. We make the greater.part of the evil circumstances in which we are placed, anIId then we lit ourselves for those cir vumnstances by a process of degredation. Falschood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone, but whon blended-with wholesome in gredionts may be swallowed unper Lwived. It is the work of faith to wrap itself in the promises as made to us in par ticular; and unless faith be in Lis wayjicLuated, It is to comfort, as good its 110 falith. Thoreau once said: "There .is no where aity apology for despondency. Alway, there is live while life lasts, which, rightly lived, implies a divine satisfaction." 'Tis much easlersto meet with error than to ind truth ; error Is on the sur face, truth ia hidden in great depths; and the way to seek it does not appear to all the world. it Is our wisdom, by keeping a good conscience, i.e keep all clear between us and heaven, that we may have light f romi above, when clouds and darkness are around about us. Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for 1 riendshilp. A goodi portion of the tal ent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues. T'here is net a more restless fugitive upon01 the earth than lie that Is contInu tally p)ursnled by his own guilt; nor a worse vagabond thian he who ia at the beck of his own lusts. Darunkenness is a fair spoken devil, a plheasanit poison, a sweet sin, whicu ho that hiath in hIm huath not hImself, and whiich lie that runs into runs noti,nto a slugle sin, but Is wholly turned into sin To achieve independence, you must practice haabitual frugality, and while smnjoying the present. look out for the rainy day, andi think of the possibility 4f old age, which neeods to be provided for. No man can be in a proper frame of inlnd for the discovery and reception of truth who Is not utterly regardless of the question whether his being in a nijority or mInority will be the result r hIls investigatIons. At tihe day of Judgment we shall see 53n excellent harmony in this record of things; and all obscure passages shall be made as plain to us as if they were written with the most glltteoring sun beam upon a wall of crystal. W e ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise with those who endeavor to injure us; and this, too, for tear least, by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vIce. They who are fallen lowest remember the heights of virtue, honor and peace, whose shining they once belheld, and whose pinnacle they once almost touched. A nd are we net all in some sense and some degree fallen ? Warm your body by healthful exer else, not by cowering over a stove. Warm your spirit by performing inde pendently noble deeds, not by Ignobly seeking the sympathy of your fellows, who are no better than yourself.9 The word of the Lord abideth forever ; is convenant is sure~ His loVe is un changeable; His promises are immuta ble. Draw nigh unto Him in~ the full assurance -of faith, and your night of trouble wvili be turned ifito~joycus day. Seek earnestly the faith of full assur-. ance ; and as a means to it practice daily the faith of steady adherence. rove and obey God as faithfdlt .1 if you were absolutely cgrtahi o adoeptancoe at last, and you will sooI1 be c1ktalut of it here,