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...is . IN; I Mw RI'I 4 TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JULY 6, 1880. VOL. IV-NO81 AGR~ All the strong spolls of passion slowly breali ing. 0 Its ohains undone, A troubled sloop that dreams Io peaceful wak ing, A haven won. A fire burnt out to the last dead ember, Left black and cold; A flory August unto still September Yielding her gold. 4 dawn serene, the windy midnight over, The darkness past, Now, with no olouds or mists the day to cover, The day at last. Thou hast thy prayed-for peao. 0 soul, and quiet From noleo and strife. Now yearn for over for the noise and riot That made thy life. Clean-Washed. "Mamma, listen 1 1 heard a groan I" and little Helen .awthorne sprang from her low seat by the warm fireside, the rich glow deepening on her fair check, and a sudden excitement leaping Into the dark gray eyes. "Nonsense, dear," answered the mother, after a moment's silence. "It was your imagination. My little girl is fanoiful to night," and she bent to stroke back the thickly clustering curls from the low, white brow, as she impressed a fond, lov ing kiss upon it. It was a pretty picture on which the fire light danced and flickered-the warm, lux urious room, with the tall, elegant woman in its midst, and the little, daintily-dressed child by her side. Without the wind swept by, hurling great chunks of snow on its wilngs, and dashing through the bare, leafless branches of the trees. The child shuddered as she listened to its moan. "I am quite sure I heard it, mamma Suppose any one were out on such a night. It would be dreadful. Let me open the door a moment-just a moment." And, without waiting for the refusal trembling on her mother's lips, she darted forward and threw open the great outside door. In another instant, the bell sent a sharp peal through the house, for on the very threshold lay a prostrate body, already half buried in the snow. Five minutes later, and the lad had been carried to a sofa, and restoratives and stimulants passed down his throat. "Will he live, manmma? Do you think he will live?" But, in answer to her question, the lids slowly lifted themselves, and the great black eyes rested wonderingly on the child's face, bending so anxiously over him. Had the death he thought so near indeed overtaken him, and was this heaven lie had reached ? lie feared to waken from his dream, and find himself again homeless and starving and cold. With a long-drawn sigh lie closed is eyes, only to find the fascinatiou of' the present overcome him, and impel hini to atgain gaze upon his marvelous surround ings. But his wonder only deepened whenthe reality was brought home to hlmv-when lie discovergd that It was life, not death, and earth, not heaven, and that he was not to be driven out again into the cold and bitter night. Through its long, silent hours lie lay mo tionless in this warm resting-place, pictur ing, in the darkness, the child's face, until it became stereotyped both on heart and brain. The next day lie told lia story. fle was a poor lad, orphaned and friendless. "They discharged inc from my last place," ho said, "because I carried a book about with me, and the boss said it would teach me to dream Instead of work. I was only trying to learn something mn my idle imutes, though I couldn't find much time, andl I didn't take my employer's. How ever, lie was a hard man to dheal with, and I had to go. I started West. Tme little money I had gave out. The storm over took me. .1 struggled on as best I could, un til I grew faiint, and sick. Somewhere in the distance I saw a light. I1 struggled towardl it. You know the rest. Now I am strong and wvell again, the storm is over, and I can only thank you In a few poor words for your generous kindness, and( go my way." "Papa will be home this afternoon," an swvered thie child. "Hie is the owner of all the mills here. If you would like, I will ask him to give you a place ; and there is a school at night for the hands, where you can study, too." "If I would like I" It was all lie said, but little- iIclen Ilaw thorne needled no other words. She knew that a great, lump In his throat hiad choked his further uuctranice, and that lie had tuirnedi away ashamed, to hide the tears. The next week saw her promise fulfilled, and Alex Vernon stood once more a man among min. Hie found ai place In the night school, too. Nor diii his young patroness forget hhn, In somec way shme discovered the books lie neded, anid heen them to biam, until he grew to associate her wvith every good thing of his new life. One morning thie sent, for hIm. "I am going to Europe with nmamnma, Alex," she said, "to be gone for a great mmany years. Whenm 1 conic back, I hope to fInd you a ma)n-i-perhaps papa's overseer, I wantedl to tell you that If you wished my books from the library I would leave this key with you, and you might, come up and get them." Tme sun was streaming lull on her face and thme gold of hicr-hair, as she spoke, but to the boy, listemiig, a dark mist sc.emed to roll between I hem. She was going away for years-she who had savcdI hinm fronm death, or worse thanm death. Tfhe next minute she felt just a little hurt, as, without a single word of thanks, lie abruptly took thie key and hastened froni her p)resence. She could unot know that lie wvent ouit to throw hhnaself, face dlownwardl, oni the iround(, and sob out.llke a very child in lis jieart's bitterness. Seven long years passed swiftly by, and Alex Vernion had re.achied lisa twenty-fifth winter. 11ehen J.awthiorne's last woi(1ds hd been to .im a prophesy, for she was now on lie" homeward way, and lie had attaincd the rosition of head overseer of the Works, "My little girl made the beat seleetion, aftez all." Mr. IlawthornnwanMd atn- say on receiving congratulations on the oflici ency of his young aid. Occasionally he would read him a scrap or kind message from his daughter's letters, but Alex received them all in silence. le had lost the little golden-haired child for ever. She would return a woman, grown cold, haughty and proud, perhaps, refusing to. cast even a smile across the vast social gulf yawning between them. One morning-lie had boon absent a few days on business- he returned to find a difficult piece of machinery about to be ad justed in one of the mills which required his superintendence. Directing the inca, -he saw that not only his eye but his hand could do better work than the others, and so, seizIng a workman's blouse hanging near, he slipped it on, and in another mo mont had his shoulder to the wheel. A half-hour later, soiled and begrimed, ho heard the rustle of a silken dress, and the silvery ripple of a woman's laugh. He glanced up quickly. A gay party were passing through the works, with one among them seeming a princess surrounded by her followers The gold still flecked her j hair, and the dark lashes swept the cheek of purest ivory. Time had but' made her more beautiful. She glanced idly, indifferently, among the little groupe of men, of which lie formed one. "I see no one here I recognize," she said in the old, sweet, soft voice, and passed On. She had come home, then, during his ab sence. le had seen her. The seven years' waiting *ere over. What had they brought? The machinc y slipped into its place, but Alex Vernon, with a stranire palor upon his face, went out silently from the mills. Not, as once before, to find relief in tt-ars. :Ie was a man now. le only knew that something was bursting within him-a bit ter disappointment, to which he could give no name, but could only bring out into the air and sunshine, lest it stifle him. .bar out into the open country lie walked, with great strides, knowing neither fatigue nor consciousness that it was unnatural that le should not tire. , Suddenly, on the road behind him, caie a horse's quick hoofs. He stepped aside for it to pass, but the rider drew reign at his side. "It is Alex," said a sweet voice, close in his car; "I know that I am not mistaken." And, as in a dream, lie saw held out to him a tiny gauntleted hand. He looked at his own. Not even had he washed away the traces of his recent toil. le would soil by his touch even her glove, although the fair whiteness of her skin was thereby pro tected. She saw the hesitation, and drew back. t "Am I wrongl" she questioned In a c little hurt surprise. "I thought you would I be glad to see ine." C "Pardon me!" he answered; "my hands are stained.,' "Oh l" she said. Then, after a mo nent's pause, she said: "When you haLve washed them clean, come and see me." A nd, cutting her horse with her silver handled whip, she dashed past him out of sight. The next week he was invited to (line at t her father's table. Mr. Hawthorne would t accept no excuse.I "It is in our country an honor to be a t self-made man. I have no guest of whom 1 I shall be more proud." But when lie entered the elegantly-ap- I pointed drawing-roonis, Miss Hawthorne gave him simply a courteous bow of recog- I nition, and made no effort to approach him. Once or twice during the meal lie found her eyes fastened on his face, as he was drawn on to speak on this or that topic, as it was presented, while one and another mingled in the discussion, deferring in his opinions as to those of a man who under stood himself. t The ice once broken, he met her often, but never once had their hands touched. le was admitted even into her circle now. lie went onily that lie might see her, listen to her voice. With her, lie never forgot the cold1 night, the diriving snow, thme senseless, inani niate form she had brought back to life, and light, and( consciousness, iIe gave 110 name either to his pain or his exquisite happi ness of being near her. Hie was in the maelstrom ; let it toss him where it would. 'I he summer came, and on its wvings it brought the whisper that Miss IIawthornie .vas to be married in the autumn. The (day he heard It lie went out, as once before, to walk (ff the shari) pang that made his former pain seem nothing. Was i it fate that, as he turned Into a p)ath loading i through the woods, lie dlescriedl adiead the slight, willowy, graceful form he knew but s too wvelI ?( She was coming toward him. In another umute they must meet ; but even in that t minute something caine between them. 'here was a sudldeni rustling in the bushes. lIe heard a low cry from her lips, as a hirge dog sp)rang inito the path, his blood-shot t eyes and frothing lips betraying his mad- r 11ess. The creature sprang toward her but the man was quicker. IIe had thrown him self betweeni them anmd grasp)ed the (log hlrmly by the throat. "Run for your life!I" lie samidi, feelinig hiis strength could( not hold out long against such 0od(s ; but, to his uitter ,anmazemnent she stood still.( ''You shall not (lie for me," she said. Then lie remembered that in his pocket .was a pistol, lie had carriedi fom p)rotectiOii,c .vnen at night lie had beeni intrusted with noney by the firm. He told her where to find It.t "'Hold hihn a mhmflte longer 1'' she said. The next, a sharp shot rang out on the1 air, his hands relaxedl, and the brute fell bleeding at his foot. iIe turnied towardi her. She was verg t m)ae, and1( the pistol had1( fallenu from her f hold, but her eyes were fixed on his hands. 1] le looked downi. For the first time lie t saw that they were bleeding.t "Are they wasihed( cleani ?" shie said(. 1: lie held thenm towardl her. "'Yes," he answered ; '"though I have 1, saved your life for another man. I, who a have dIaredl to love you."c She sp)oke 110 word, but lookinig a mo- r mnt in his eyes, she stooped and raised e first one then thme other to her lips. "There Is but 0110 man," then she said, "to whomi I will belong, and he It, is who c for liy sake washed lis hands in blood. e lex, it needed-thims to lay bare our souls one to the other." Then she burst Into bitter weeopinig, but 1 er tears fell on his breast.' -Trer is only one gradluate of Yale r College among the twenty-live carndi- r~ atea for' this year'g degree of B. D. ini fl the Yale diVinity school, Bummer Exeursions via Pennsylvania Italfroad. Summer excursions, long or short, are ow necessities of American life. All lasses indulge in these relaxations from iusiiess during the Suuner months. The Ieh extend the time to months the ioor content themselves with a much liorter withdrawal from the store, the nanufactury or the workshop. To foster md encourage this feeling, the various ailroads of the country have Inaugurated iuninor excursions to the sea coast, the nountain top, the shady valley. and the julet rural sections of this great country. ?oremost among the Summer excursions )oth for variety of location, the cleapness )f fare, and abundance of natural scenery, ire those gotten up and managed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. All tastes can be ;ratifled by these trips over the stein line >f the Pennsylvania Road and its numer )us branches. Eight honrs ride from Philadelphia brings the traveler to Altoona ind Cresson Springs, in the Allegheny Iountains, and the famous Bedford springs are reached by the Pennsylvania Lallroad to Huntingdon, and thence by the IIuntingdon and Broad Top Railroad to B3edford. Leaving the niain line at Har isburg the route of the traveler leads nortli ward over the Northern Central and Erio Railroads to the mountain resorts of Renoro md Kane, to Watkins' Glen, and the many pictursque localities in the vicinity of 3eneca Lake, all reached from Philadel [jhia by express trains with luxurious Pull inan palace cars. Delaware Water Gap, % most pictursque and delightful retreat rrum the heat of Summer is reached via 'Prenton and the Belvidere Division of the Pennsylvania loaO, which runs along the Delaware river, and presents a constantly ,hanging panorama of enjoyable views by land and water. By leaving the main line, %. hundred other points can be reached, where repose, comfort and health can be %btalned by all classes. At the same time ill the most popular and attractive sea-sido resorts on the Jersey Coast can be readily md pleasantly reached by cars on the Pennsylvamna Railroad. At the depot of he company, in West Philaddiphia tour sts from inland localities will find cars n waiting to transfer them-at a cost of iix cents-to the depot at the foot of Mar ce Street, f om which point Cape May, Atlantic City, feach Haven, and Seaside Park may all be reached within two hours ind without change of cars: The traveler .ontinues his journey from the West Phila lelphia depot to Sea Girt, Spring Lake, )cean Grove, and Long Branch, all of vhich points are also reached in about the nine tine and without change of cars. In his way a vast extent of country, richly indowcd -with all natural charms and kcalth giving properties, is opened to the Injoyment of persons of even moderate neans. The excursion rates are most noderate, and cover such a period of time a5 will satisfy even the most exacung, and iving accommodations, at all points, can )e obtained in such shapes as to fit all pir.. es. The Summer excursion prograinio >f the Pennsylvania Railroad was never so xtended, encircling and complete as for lie summer of 1880, and no doubt the ravel will be correspondingly enlarged. Vhen a person can enjoy a Summer vaca ion on the mountaim or by the ocean side, imiost as cheap as living in the City, or in he inland town, it is folly to tread the >earls of comfort and health under foot. ['his blessing the Pennsylvania Railroad mts within the reach of all by theireater. >rise and liberality. Ice in the Track of Xhips. Ice and icebergs appeared on the banks f Newfoundland earlier this season than sua. They are most commonly met in lie early part of the summer, after the ces ition of northerly gales, which drive them roi their location in the latter part of larch or April. The icebergs come chiefly romn Greenland, being formed by rivulets, tc. The vast ieodlelds seen upoin the banks ic brought thlere by the currentsof the sea ndi the wind. They com ae mostly from the oast of Labrador, and( are parts of the dids which arc tormed (luring the long ninter in the great bays and inlets of the labrador coast. Icebergs are continually hanging their line of floating, owing ill art to the breaking off of pileces of the up er mass and the melting away of the sub cerged portion. Tlhieir motion is always low, andl accidents can rarely happen from liem to prudent, mariners. At tis season f tile year they are brought, down by the orthern windls. They float along the anks of Newfoundland, andl finally, strik mg the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream, Donl disappear. The0 movemenlt of a field f ice is accomipanied by nmchi crashing, ud( is often obscured by a dlense fog, brough which rise the tops5 of the bergs. )n two occasions during tile Arctic cruise f the .Juniata in tile Polish Search Expe lition, that, vessel barely escaped dlestruc ion by icebergs. One of these was in thme .'iddlle of July, 18713. D)urig a dense fog t mididay, of! Cape Farewell, Greenland, a immense berg wvas suddenly seen to 100om p out of the fog not more than a shipl's mngth directly ahead. Fortunately the easel was running at slow speed, and her ourse was quickly changed, andu she clearedl lie ice mountain by about oneC hiund(red feel.. In anlothier occasion, off Fiskernacs, in a ense fog, another very large berg wvas seen little on the port bow, and a ledlge of rocks a the starboard bow, not more than 600 act dlistant. Thme engines were stoppedc( nd( revers6d,and the vessel escapedl dlestruc ton by only a few feet. An oillcer of one i the vessels which encountered the great so fieldd and( bergs on tile Banks, and whose easel was closedl in for several hours, gave me following statement of lis observations > a reporter: "To the windward of us, >rming a lee shore, we saw a vast plain of ndulating-ice, in no wilse dlifferent from mat which we sometimes see in winter On lIc North River when the Hludson Is break ig up, except, in its extent. There was me same crackling andu grinding andl splash ig, but the Indefinite extent multiplied the >uds to a tremendous din, and with it ime a stranlge undertone acomplanitnent. 'he hummocks piled themselves up on tile mige of the floes in a set of rugged walls averal feet, in height. A great number of orgs, of shapes the most, simple ana mest ompllicatedl, of colors blue, white and arth-stained, were ent angled in this great eating field of ice. They ranged froml 50 , 150 feet in hleighit, and wvere of various mngthis. We could not hlelp being im ressed by time majesty of these ice imoun ulns. With bergs, floes and humumoek Iges the great mass ,looked like an ice ouind coast, on whlich we were soon firmly xed. These ice mountains frequently avolcd in onnosite diectioans from the wind and the surface ice,' which gave us a good index of a deep-sea current. Next was an ice bill at least 200 feet in height, Its face being 300 feet in length and irregu- fo Jar i shape. No one is capable of appreci. el ating the glorious variety of iceberg scen- ih -cry, unless he be an eye-witness. The gen- S eral color of a berg may be compared to it frosted silver, and when its fractures are hIl very extensive the exposed faces have a w very brilliant lustre. But the enjoyment ti of the glory of such scenery Is somewhat -nc modified when we consider its dangers. As ov the berg reaches warmer walers its sub- T merged mass is acted upon, anq as it grad- ar ually melts the berg becomes tob)-heavy and ar rolls over and breaks into a hundred pieces. Od First the Inclined face rises, then you hear TI a grinding noise, and then Its base has pe cracked with a sound like thunder. A gi rises and throws the wator up as from a us submarine explosion, and you next observe se a hundred smaller bergs form d from this at great mass After remaining fist for seve- ar ral hours we saw an open canarand headed po our ship toward it. As we moved on, con- It gratulating ourselves that we would soon nc be out, our canal suddenly grew narrower, or and we were jammed between two great fei Ice-fields. After being delayed in this way 1t for nearly forty-eight hours, we finally ox- H tricated our ship from its ice-bound po- jt sition, and in a few houre were in clear wi open water." Dr. Hayes mentions an ex- Pa perience in the ship United tates in 180, bc which nearly ended the expedition. ile yc weather was calm and the vessel making " very little headway in the ice. Being caught by the current the vessel was ed jammed ag-tiust an iceberg, the equilibriui w of which was disturbed, and it began to lean over toward the ship. The motion cn was slow and very alarming. A boat was lowered and a line taken to another ice- as perg, and the ship was hauled from her at dangerous position. Just as the stern was hia clear the ice-mountain toppled over, and great imasses of ice, loosened by the shock, rel fell into the sea, throwing up inunense it. volumes of water. A Foul Deed. dc lilt His Honor hung up his coat on its usual H1 peg, after first removing from one of the to tail pockets a parcel, containing a banana a ( and four figs, but, as lie reached to place his fy hat on the hook a startled expression came fl to his eyes. Retreating a step, and sur- te: veying his old armchair from several sides ac at once, his hair gradually worked up on M end, his eyes took on a glassy look, and he cc hoarsely whispered : "Who has done this an foul deed ?" Thereby hangs a tale. Bijah hi had been at work on that'chair for twelve H hours. In the goodness of his heart he had fri purchased 194 fancy pictures, a bottle of AIi mucilaige, and lie had gone into cerainics. Even while the Norwegian onions on his tef farm wanted water, and his two strawberry W plaits were calling on him to conic and rest ku their backs for an hour, he was pasting tb lions' heads on the legs of that chair and ed decorating each spindle with a paper zebra of or an alLator Whou ni aneialan lx- - stood back and said: "I've struck glory and re gorgeousness right between the eyes. His Di Honor will looK upon me with renewed th love, and the boys will come to me to get cil their theatrical poses." He had skulked i behind the door to give His I [onor a chance so to applaud and exclaim: "Who has done ra this foul deed r What mahlcious-minded, ag stoop-shouldered, bald-headed caitiff has th spoiled a chair which cost me $5 1 Where pr is that person named Bijah ?" The old in janitor came out of his seclusion. His face i was pale, his eyes looked over the desk in to the direction of Now Mexico, and lie shiam- hi bled along, instead of stepping out, like a horse. "Mr. Joy," said lis lHonor, as lie Fi looked down upon the shining pate, "take that comie almanac-that hideousness- "< that sample of double-dyed villainy, out of my sight and bring ie a wood-seated chairl to You are fixing your physical constitution re for the gallows, sir I" Bijahi made the ni change without a word or reply. Some te< folks can keep their jaws still and let their th hearts explode, iIe is one of tho sort, iIe sp was seen wiinig his eyes on time stovepipe SI in thme corridor, buit that was the only sign. ge re During the summer, wheni thunder. stornis arc most comnion, sp)ecial attention shiouhi be paid, particularly in exposed n" situations in the country places, to the con-. dition of the lightning rods. The main ba stem of a copper lightning conductor should ye never be less than one fourtenth of an inch .l diameter; this dimension is niot suflcient for a building more than eight feet high. ut Galvanized Iron. may be used Instead of copper, but then the diameter should be at least, double that of a copper rod. A galvanized iron rope conductor should never be less than eIght-tenths of an inch in di- eel ameter, a galvanizedt Iron strip should ho as four inches widie and onceeghthi of an ineh mi tAmdck. A lightning-rod must be continuous of and unbroken from end( to end. A rod pC nleed not be attached to a building by im insulated fastenings; metal clamps may be to safely employed, p)rovided thme rod be of by good conductIng cap)acity andh otherwIse ea: eflcient. Above, thme rod must terminate ak in muetal points, well projectedl inito the air; til there should be several of these points and fr< all perfectly sharp. The bottom of the eri condluctor must be carried (Iown into the a i moIst earth and bo connected with it by a cl.l surface-contact of large extent. All large da masses of metal in a bilding should he ut metalically conanectedl with the lightning- Sn rodi, except when they are liable to be oc- gi' cupiedl by people d4ring a thunder storm to --an iron balcony, for Instance. In such ii cases It is b)etter not to have the iron con. ro nectedi with the conductor, for there is some sic risk of persons standing on the balcony be fuarnis.hing a p)ath for the lIghtning to the ab rod. 'rTe rod ought to be tested every ca year to make sure that the continuity Is arI perfect, and the grotund connection satisfac- gil tory, eta a a aif Origin of nged Hamir. The fashion of wearing the hair "banged" ba Is munch more of English than of French Ci origini. A great many fashIons are set in m1 England now-a-days which are afterwar d thm adopted In Paris and there Iiproved; as, to for Instance, the "Dihrectolro" style of in bonnet now so popuilar here, and which ke was Introduced into Paris by the EnglIsh olh ladles during the summer of the exhibition, on two years ago. It has been an almost uni- an versal custom for years for EnglIsh chil. fu dren of both sexes to wear the hair'"banged" tu over the forehead, and the style is called m< by F"runch barbers "aux onfante WEldou- he ar.". nglish girls also wore the hair in kai this way, and it is spoken of in English thl novels-by Oulda, for instance-some time before it was adopted in Paris and became anm established fashion Fight or Flunk. During Justice Field's days in the Call ris Legislature the members, were littl( ic than walking arsenals. Two-thirds ol em carried either bowie-knives or pistols )ne flourished both weapons. When a ember entered the House he unstrapped a revolvers and laid them on his desk. I ,is done with as little concern as hanging a hat, and it excited neither surpris< ir comment. Thero was a hot debatc 'er the proposed impeachment of Judg irner. At the coclusion of Mr. Field'i gunient, B. F. Moore, of Tuolumne m80 to reply. Ileopened his drawer, cock his revolvers, and laid them on his desk. ion he launtefied himself on a sea of vitu. ration. Mr. Field was handled withoul >ves. The nost offensive epithets were ed, and the speaker openly declared him f responsible for his language at any time d place. Mr. Field answeredMr. Moore's guments, but made no allusion to his rsonal remarks. After the adjournment, wever, lie asked 8. A. Merritt to bear a to to Mr. Moore, demanding an apology satisfaction. Mr. Merritt refused, through ir of being disqualified for ofico. Mr. chardson, anothet member, also declined. %ppening Into the Senato Chamber, th< rist saw a stonecutter seated at a desk, Iting. le was David C. Broderick, esident of the State Senate. They were wing acquaintances. "Why, Judge, it don't look well,' said Broderick. fhat's the matter ?" "Well, I don't feel well." Field respond. "I don't scom to have a friend in the irld." . "What worr*es you?" inquired the stone. ter. The jurist gave the particulars of Moore's wault upon his character, and said that, all hazards, lie was determined to call n1 to account. "Well, I'll be your friend," Broderick, lied, "Write your note; I will deliver The jurist wrote the note at an adjoining sk, and Broderick placed it in Mooro's nids. The latter gentleman crawfished. said that he expected to be a candidate Congress, and that lie could not accept .hallenge, because that act would disquali him. "I have no objection to a street lit, however," he added. The stonecut. ' replied that a street fight was not ex. Lly the thing among gentlemen, but If )ore would do no better lie should be ac. minoiated. IHe iorthwith named tim< d place, and Moore promised to be oil id. le informed Broderick that th< m. Drury Baldwin would act as li end, and deliver a reply to the note of r. Field. On the next morning the stonecuttei ited the jurist's skill in the use of a pistol. ith a navy revolver Fild plumped a ot on a tree at, a distance ot thirty yards ree times out of five. Broderick express his satisfaction, and urged the necessity bringing the matter to a speedy issue, N Ing it Lu uil sue at once." Mr. Fleli 4ponded. Broderick (Imickly called npor rury Baldwin, and asked for a reply to a note. Baldwiln, replied that his prin >ll had made up his mind to drop th< itter. "''Then," said the atonoeitter, '"ea iin as the House meets, Mr. Field will C in his seat and repeat Moore's langu. C as to lia responsibility. H1e will state At respect for the dignity of the House ovonted him from replying to the attack the ternis that it deserved when it was ide, and, after detailing Moore's - refusal give him satisfaction, he will denouncc ii as liar and a cowai d." "Then,"said Drury Baldwin, "Judge old will be shot in his seat. "Inl that case," rejoined Broderick, Ithiers will be shot in their seats.'' At the opening of the House, Mr. Field >k his seat at. hi-s (lesk as usual. Brod 'ick was seated near hun, with eight or le piersonal friendus, all armed to the ~th and ready for any emergency. When 3 journal was readl both Field and Moore rang to their feet, and shouted, ''Mr. eaker I" ThIat ofilcer recognized "the ntlen-.an from Th'imei." and Mr. Field umed( his seat. Moore readl a written ology, full, amle and stisfactory. Broderick afterwardl befriended Mr. 01(d on miany oeccasions. Tlhey were stand. f at the bar of a hotel in San Francisco 18152, wheni lroderick saw a man throw ek his Spanish cloak andl level a revol r at his friend, In a twinkling lie fling nself between the twvo men, and puslhed 01(1 out of the room. TIhe~ prompt action dioubtledly saved his life. In a Coal Mtie. All about, Scranton, Pennsylvania, arc ittered coal-breakers, Immiense structures high as church steeples. Each coal nie has its breaker. There are twvo mlodes reaching the coal; one, by means of a rpend(iculair (descent, called a shaft, reach sometimes, through dlifferent coal strata a dlepthi of '300 feet or more; the, other, means of a slope, wvhichi by gradual and my gradie, reaches to the coal vein. The 'pa is supplied with means for raising coal cars filled with ilack (diamnond, )m the lowest vein to the machinery for ishing it, in one-half minute or less. At lope, the coal cars are drawn ump the in ned p)lanc. T1housandls of men are ihy toiling in these mmnes, awvay (down, dler the streets and filds and( swaps, all tin lamps worn upon01 their their caps, re the flickering light by which they see pick and and( brake the coal andi load It o the cars. It is first bhastedh 11ke a solid ,k, and theni biroken with p)ick--axO and dges for loading. The coal stratum is twceen two strata of thick rock, usually rmt five feet apart, so that the workmen mot stand( erect. Thick pillars of coal Sleft at proper intervals by mining en mcers to keep the roof from falling, and cets are regularly laid out, These streets, oontinuous, would enable one to go by ~se subterranean passages from Wilkes rre to Scranton andl from Scranton to rbondalel Th'le laden caris are drawn by mIes over a railroad track to Uhe mouth of mine to be0 lifted by immedbo engines the crusher. There are regular stables the mines for the mules where thley are pt sometimes until they are wora out and i. Tlhie mining of coal is very dbanger s, andl men are often killed by blasting d by the falling of the roof. A beauti sight it Is, to see a group of miners re -ning home after dusk, or early in the wrning with their burning lamps on thleir ads. But one accident has ever been own to happen to visitors, so careful are >se who have charge of the works. ---onoma county, Cal.,md 9,0 lions of wino in 1879,'m e80,0 The Overcoat Pocket. "My dear," said Ar. Spoopendyke, feel Iug up the chimney, "have you seen my gold collar button P" "I saw it the day you bought it," an swered hire. bpoopendyke, cheerily, "and I thought it very pretty. Why do you ask ? "'Cause I've lost the measly thing," re sponded Air. Spoopendyke, running the broom handle up into the cornice and shaking it as if it was a carpet. "You don't suppose It is up there, do you?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke. " Where did you leave It?" "Left it in my shirt. Where do you suppose I leave it, in the hash ?" and Air. Spoopendyke tossed over the things in his wife's writing desk and looked out of the window after it. " Where did you leave your shirt?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke. " Where did I leave my shirt I Where do you suppose I left it I Where does a man generally leave his shirt? Mrs. Spoopen dyke. Think I left it in the ferry boat ? Got an idea I left it at prayer meeting, haven't you? Well, I didn't. I left it off, Mrs. Spooyendyke, there's where I left it. I left it off. Hear me?" And h1r. Spoo pendyke pulled the winter clothing out of the cedar chest that hadn't been unlocked for a month. " Where Is the shirt now ?" pe-sisted Mrs. Spoopendyke. " Where do you suppose It is? Where do you imagine it is? I'll tell you where it is, Mrs. Spoopendyke, it's gone to Bridgeport as a witness in a land suit. Idea I Ask a man where his shirt is I You know I haven't been out of the room since I came home last night and took it off," and Mr. Spoopendyko sailed down stairs and raked the fire out of the kitchen range, but didn't find the button. "lay be you lost it on the way home," suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke, as her hus band came up, hot and angry, and began to pull a stuffed canary to pleces, to see if the button had got inside. "Oh, yes ! Very likely! I stood up against a tree and lost it. Then I hid be hind a fence so I wouldn't see it. That's the way it was. If I only had your head, irs. Spoopendyke, I'd turn loose as a razor strop. I don't know anything sharper than you are," and Mr. Spoopen dyke got up in a chair and clut0bed a hand full of (lust off the top of the ward robe. "It must have fallen out," mused Mrs. Spoopendyke. " Oh I It must, ch I It must have fallen out I Well, I declare, I never thought of that, My impression was that it took a buggy and drove out, or a balloon and hoisted out," afil Mr. Spoopendyke crawled behind a bureau and commenced tearing up the carpet. "And if it fell out, it must be some where near where he loft his shirt. Now lie always throws his shirt on the lounge and the button is under that." A moment's search established the in fallibility of Airs. Spoopendyke's logic. "Oh, yesl Found it, didn't you?" panted Mr. Spoopendyke, as he bumped his head against the bureau and finally climbed to a perpendicular. "Perhaps you'll fix iy shirts so it won't fall out any more, and may be you'll have sense enough to mend that lounge, now it has made so much trouble.. If you only 'tended to the house as I do to my business, there'd never be any difficulty about losing a collar but ton." "It wasn't my fault- " began Airs. Spoopendyke. " Wasn't, eh i flave yo' found that coal bill you've been looking for since March?" "t Yes."1 "Have, eh ! Now, where (iid you put itl Where did you find it ?" " In your overcoat vocket." Sonae School Hlints. In the first place always treat a boy as if he was a prisoner under sentence. This wvill make him all the more anxious to go to school. A school teacher can be an 'old maid or an old bachelor, or any other person who knows nothing whatever of child nature. Tact Is never~ required in managing cil diren. Never attempt to teach a pupil anything not (lown in the books. It is a great deal better for a boy to understand that Redl Taye Creek rises in the northeastern p)art of nowhere and flows in a westerly direc tion until It empties into old Brown's mill pond that it ia for him to know how cotton is woven into cloth or how sugar is made. If a child infringes any of the red tape rules laid down for his government always go on the principle that lie is malicious and obstinate. A child can never (d0 anything by accident. The six hundred rules In force in the p)ublic schools need overhauling and( amend I ng to readl about as follows: Rule 1. If a child drops Is or her p)enedh on the floor cut off his or her right ear. Rule 2. If they happen to look off their books, cut off their ears and nail them on the wall as a solemn warning to other scholars. Rule 3. If a pupil whispers during school hours make hun hold a piece of red lint iron in his mouth while lie sings: Oh, yes, I love the teacher dear, Who is so good to me." Rule 4. If a pupil mi'sses two words in a spelling lesson too long for any man to commit to mnemory, ho must be punished. Either unjoint his arm or scalp him. Rule 5. If a pupil falls to give the exact length and breadth of the Fiji Islands send him up stairs to the Principal to be0 pounded. Rule 6. When a pupil fails to accom plish a certain number of examples in mathematics cut off his fingers with a hatchet. Hatchets for this purpose can be purchased at wholesale for about sixty cents apiece. Rule 7. Never let up on a pupil on ac count of any ailment. School children have no business to have headache, tooth ache, sore throat, chills, hoarseness or other complaints which grown people succumb to. If any of the family are ill and a p)upil is late, hold him responsible for the illness, and pound him accordingly. Rule 8. Open the school with prayer, and close it by sawing in two someo lad who could not toll the exports of the Canary Islands. With these few rules strictly enforced, and backed by teachers noted for, crabbed dispositions and ill-temper, there is no rea son why every ichool in the land should not be made to turn out intelligent, educa. ted men and1 women by the earload. NEWS IN BRIEF. --The collection of Chinese works in the Britishl Museum includes. 20,000 volumes. -Nine-tenths of the emigrants from Canada to the United States go to man ufactut'Ing towns. -There are 31,031 blind persons in France, and provision Is made for the care of only 0,000. -In the height of the season aqueen bee lays from 2 000 to 3,000 eggs In twenty-four hou. -Louisiana was settled by the French and was purchased by the United States in 1803. -Two thousand coal ears, or nine thousand tons of coal, are received at Ilonesdale, Pa.,, daily. -The total product of precious metals on the Pacific coast since 1848 Is stated at $2,138,001,180. -Of the Chinese slaves in California 148,400 are owned by six companies living il San Francisco. -A Berlin inventor has produced a new kind of cloth, consisting princi pally or entirely of sponge. -It is estimated that the money paid for Texas cattle during the past five years amounts to $180,000,000. -Dromier has discoverd that bronze is rendered malleable by adding to it from t so 2 per cent., of mercury. -Magellan sailed round South Amer Ica, discovered the southwest passage, and circumnavigated the globe, In 1520. -Tie wheat crop of Australia har vested in January, 1880, was at first estimated at 500,000 tons, then at 400, 000 tons. -Te living inenbers of the English royal family, exclusive of the Queen, received down to 1877 $62,790,000 from the British treasury. -Florida gardeners get $500,000 this year from the early vegetables they have sent north, and next year will see the business increase. -Under the anspices of the King of the Belgians an establishment is to be formed in Eastern Africa lor the cul ure and training of elephants. -Vasco de Gama was a sort of sec ond Columbus. le sailed round the Cape of Good Hope and discovered a passage to India in tke year 1498. -No fewer than 87,000 officers and men of the French army, with 11,000, horses, sought refuge In Switzerland during the late Franco-German war. -Londeners who, six years ago, looked upon ice water as an unhealthy beverage, and stared when Americans ordered it, now find it Indispensible. -Andrew Stetson, of Dunbury, Mass., Is ninety- two years old, and steadily works at shoemaking In the shop he hasoccupied for seventy years. -Mrs. James Bradner, an eminent English teacher, has been appointed by the British Government to the high po sition of Inspectress of Schools for Madras. -Trhe report of the librarian of Con gress for last year shows that in 1870 only 5,600 copy-rights were issued In the Unired btates, while in 1879 over 19,000 were issued. -Nearly 1,000,000 cwt. of palm oil, valued at $7,500,000, is yearly exported from tho west coast of Africa to Eng land. It isl chielly used in candle-iak Ing and soap manufacture. -Colorado has 100,000 acres under Irrigation, and 50,000 more of hay land, much of which is irrigated. ,In 1879 the irrigated land produced $3,150,000 worth of cereals and other products. -The capacity of the largest Euro pean churclies is stated as follows: St. 1etcr's 54,000; Milan cathedral, 37,000; St. Paul's, 25,000; St. Sophia, 23,000' Notre Dame, 21,000 ; aind St. Mark's, 7000. -The products of the gold mines of. California last year, aggregated only $17,000,000 wvhIlst the agricultural atales p)roduced in that state during the same period, aggregated over $90, 000,000. -A Bishop of the Methiotist Episco pal Church receives $3,000 as salary, and $1,000 or $1,500 to pay the rental of a house, according to whether rents are moderate or high in the place where ho is located. -The Patterson Mills of New Jersey employ ten thousand hands, besides about three thousand who work at their own homes. The annual pro duction of these mills reaches the total of $14,000,000. -The United States had but 83,770 enlisted men engaged in the Mexican war, of whom 10,000 died in Mexico, 11,000-have been pensioned and 7,225 deserted, leaving 49,551 who came out of the war whole. -Earl Cowper, the new Viceroy of Irelandi, Is thme lineal descendant and heir-general of one of the ablest Lord Lieutenants Ireland ever had-James D)uke of Ormonde, thme cavalier states man and commander. -In France in the twelfth century, noblemen alone were permitted to have vanes on their houses; and at one time this privilege was only accorded to those who first planted their standard on thme walls of a town when stormed. -There will probably be no statue erected in \Vestminster Abbey to the memory of Napoleon IV. Dean Stan ley has admitted that lhe mistook a temporary outburst of sympathy In England for a permanent and settled state of feeling. -Breadstuff's to the valuse of $21,070, 115 were exported from this country in April, against $14i,168,030 for April, 1878. For tihe ten months ending A pril 30, last, time value of exported broadstuffs was $207,300,015, against $149,080,206 for the same period a year ago. -California averages higher rates for farm labor than any other State in the Union, viz.: $41 a month without board, and $2.75 a day for tranienmt. help in harvest time. South Carolina is said to pay the least, or on sn aver.. age of $0.83 peor month without board. Transient help is p aid for at the rate of 80 cents a day with~out board. -In 1877 Minnesota produced 30,093,. 90 bushels of wheat, and the yield per acre was 10.78 bushels. In 1878 -the product, with anicesdacreage, elto2,84,503 bushels, and the yied per acre to 12.50. The rettarns ror 1879 are not yet printed, but the total will. not be much more than 5400,0 00 bpebels, and the yield per a6re aQ~' miore thanI nn bushels.,