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- ! T- -I eB '---- --- .-. TRI-WEEKLY EDITION . WINNSBORO, S. C., JULY 8, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO. 82. BE OF GOOD CHEER. Though tangled hard life's knot may be, And wearily we rue it, The silent touch of Father Time Some day will surely undo it. Then, darling wait; Nothing in late In the light that shines forever. We faint at heart a friend Is gone; We ohate at the world's hareh dailling; We tremble at sorrows on every pide, At the myriad ways of killing. Yet Lay we all. If a sparrow fall, The Lord keepeth count forever. He keepeth count, we come, we go, We speculate, toil and falter : But the measure to each of weal or woe, God only can give or alter. He sendeth light, He sendeth night, And change goes on (orever. Why not take -life with cheerful trust, With faith iq th4 strength of weakness? The slenderest daisy roars its head With courage, yet with meekness. - A sunny face Rath holy grace, To woo the sun forever. For ever and ever, my darling, yes Goodness and love are undying; Only the troubles and cares of earth Are winged from the first for flying. Our way we plow In the furrow "now ;" But after the killing and growing, the sheaf; Soll for the root, but the sun for the loaf, And God keepoth watch forever. The Aunt's Will. An old woman,' long a sufferer, lay back on the cushions of an invalid's chair, while before her stood a young girl, whose face showed signs of sympathy with her suffer ing. "Aunt Jane, you're not comfortable." "Who told you I wasn't?" said the little shrivelled old lady, as she fairly glared at her niece. "I know you're not," said Edith, pa tiently. "Your chair wants to be raised a little more. Shal II-" "No, you shan't I Go and tell Ann to come here; she shall fix me comfortable." ' Edith rose to obey, walking out of the room with a perfectly calm face, and her head was as erect as ever. "Uniph," said Jane, looking after her, she's a smart one-she knows just whliht I want. Sometimes I think she means what she says-that she really loves me and wants to show it; but bah, what an old fool 1 am I she has the same smooth, slippery ways of her father. He could work his way Into anybody's heart; lie did into. my poor sister's and afterwards broke it. Edith can do the same-work her way Into any body's heart; but she won't into mine-she won't into mine I A penny of my money, any more than will keep her from utter starvation, she'll never handle. Ann shall be the fine lady, and Edith will have to work-work Is good enough for her father's daughter," said the old lady, shaking with Ire. Ann and Edith were orphan nieces of Jane, left to her care by two nisters. Edith's mother, before her marriage, was Jane's favorite sister; but she didn't marry to suit Jane, and to the latter lady's entire satisfaction, the favorite, but never-to-be forgiven husband, turned out to be a very bad man. He came to a sudden end himself, after sending his wife" to an early grave, and Aunt Jane took little Edith, to educate and make a lady of her, as her mother was be fore her,and then to leave her almost penny less, and send her. adrift on the world to do for herself because she was her father's daughter "What can I do fq,r you, aunty dear ?" "Don't you see anything that you can do for imc ?" said irritable Jane. "D)on't you sec 1 am ~not com ortableo? The back of my chair wants raislaig. Strange that she could see it I' Ann's pretty, wvax-doll face wore a very humble, grieved oxpression. "Aunt, my papa was not a sharper. If I have not Inherited a faculty fcr seeing ever thing so that I can play-my points, I can't help it. "There, there, child ; I know there is nothIng tricky about you. R~aise my chair, and then you may go." The very humble, grieved expression died out of Ann's face, and there was a sneer In the smile that flitted over it as sne stood behind Jane's chair. - Ann made b great show of affection for her at times, but Edith placed no value upon it, for she know just what it was worth; she knew that Ann was selfish, (10. ceitful, caring for nobody on earth but her * self Poor Edih loved her aunt, and craved her love in return. She never blamed Jangfor being preju diced against her; she only allowed herself to think how good the 01ld lady had been to 1hcr; she felt so grateful for her home and education. "Edith," said Jane, -when Edith~ re turned to the room, "I thought you said my chair was too low. I'm very uncomn fortablo since Ann raIsed it." And Jane fidget< dJ about. "It is raised just a trifle too high," said 'Edith. "Oh, of eourse; you think Ann never does anything righi," snapped Jane. While aunt Jane was talking, without asking her permission, Edith turned the screw of the chair half way, and placed the hard-to-be-pleased old lady at her ease. " Never a word against Ann," murmured Jane to herself and when Edith was leav ing the room, she called : "Edi1th." Edith turned quickly, for she detected a mildness in her aunt's tone that was never there before when she aihdressed lier., "Nothing; you may go," said Jane, .as if Ahe had bravely conquered hdi' better feelings. Ann was standing on the balcony when a splendId pair of horses wore drawn up at~ Ihe gate, and a -handsome young -'man handed Edith out of hus wagon. * He held her hand longer thtan ho ought to, Ann thought, and the expression of lis faco, as lhe bent his head and said1 some thing in a. low voice to Edith, set Ann's heart beating wildly with jealousy. Ann was la love with Henry Jones, the gehtleman who had juust now driven away from the gate. Mr. Jones was a gentleman who made very frequent -visit, of late Ann attributed those frequent thuats to herself. but that look on lise face when he held Edith's hand just now, and the happy expresasion on Edith's face, there was no mistaklug it. "But, never wind, she'll never have him if I can help it," thought Ann, as she pre pared herself to meet Edith. "Mrs. Anson, now I'll give you prcof that what I've been telling you about Ann Is true I" cried old Lucy, Jane's house keeper and adviser, burstlig into the room. " Let me traw your chair over to the window. Lean your head out, a little; the girls are talking on the balcony below." "You are a deceitful creature, you are V" It was Ann speaking in angry tones, and Edith listening Intently. "You know you are deceiving Henry Jones; you are making him believe that aunt will do ha.dsomely by you; else he never would have proposed to you. Mrs. Horner told me that he dare not take any but a rich wife home to his lady mother." "Ann, I told him that you were aunt's favorite; that when she died you were to have everything, I nothing. le said that made no difference to him. I told him I knew better; that I kr.ew a poor wife would stand in the,way of his worldly prospects, and it was because I loved- him truly that I couldn't marry him. He wouldn't take that for my final answer, and oh, Ann, I fee iso happy I I never can be an. thing. to him perhaps but It Is so nice to have some one love me I Don't grudge me his love, Ann; you don't know how I prize it I You have had so much love. Aunt loves--" "Oh, who cares for aunt's love I The old thing is only living to torment me. If she were only dead. and I were only mis tress here, we would see who Henry Jones would want to marry I" "Oh, Ann, how can you speak so of aunt ? I love her, though she will not let me show it, for what she has done for me. How much more ought you to love her I Think how we might have been thrown on the world but for aunt's goodness." "Oh, that's what you're always preach ing, and much thank's aunt gives you for It. I never made any bones of saying she's an old nuisance, and she's going to leave in all her wealth!" A week after the above conversation aunt Jane lay breathing her last. "And you love aunt, don't you dearie ?" "You know I do, aunt. I wish I could be buried with you I" cried Ann, burying her face in her handkerchief. "Of course you love me-of course you wish you could be buried with me; I know you do I" and Jane's dying eyes fairly glis tened. "And you, Edith; what are you standing there so white and silent for I Why don't you make thne, like Ann I Why don't you tell me you love me I" "Oh, if you would only let me, aunt I" Edith moaned. "No, I won't let -you, for I know all about it; but you may come here and kiss me once." Edith bent over her aunt; ti old with ered arms were twisted around her neck, until she thought she was strangled. . "When I'm gone you'll understand this," murmured Jane; and with her arms about Edith, she expired. In duo time Jane's will was openedi and Ann, who had assumed command oi the house, had to step down. All that Jane was worth, with the ex eeption of a miserable hundred dollars a year for Ann, was left to Edith. Ann's feelings can better be understood than penned. Edith was happy; not in the wretched Ann's downfall, but because her aunt's will removed the barrier between herself and Henry Jones. Paid His B11 and Went. A young gentleman who Is very well known socially In Pittsburg, Pa., Is an In veterate practical joker. A few days ago, during a rain storm, he went Into a certain restaurant ini the afternoon and took a seat at a table. Tme waiter in charge of the table wvas a keen-witted, experienced fel low, and was thoroughly up to his business. Presenting the customer with a bill of fare, the waiter stood respectfully behind his chair to take thro expected order. The ydung gentleman leisurely looked over the list of edibles and drinkables. and then half turning around, lie said, drawl ingly : "Give me an umbrella and a dollar and a half I" The waiter stared at tire customer and then exclaimed: "Beg pardon, sir I What did you say you wanted ?" "Bring me an umbrella and a dollar and a half," was the nonchalant reply. A twInkle appearedI In the waiter's eyes, but lie merely bowed and sali: "Yes, sir. All rIght, sir I" A hurried conference took place between tire waiter and the proprietor, during wIch there was considerable snickering and grin ning. The custonmer sat perfectly quiet, with a grave, impassive look upon his face, which was not disturbed by thre return of the waiter with three silver half dollars on a platter, and a dingy, tattered old gingham umbrella, which he placed beside the guest's chair. "Anything else sir?" said the wait,er coolly. "Yes, bring me a cup of coffee." TUhe coffee arrived, was soon finished and then the waiter laid a chreck beside thre empty cup. On the check was written simply "2.55.'' Tire young gentleman looked at tire um brella, tried to count the nmnber of holes in it, but failed, glanrced at tire immovable. countenance of tire waiter, put on Iris hat, seratched lisa chin meditatrvely,paid his bill and went out. New Miod of Obtainling bound Castings, Tire soundness of castings is very much impaired by blow-holes or hionoycombing, caused by the gas in the metal. A valuable process for expelling this gas lha boon de vised, that of exposing It to a vacuum, in a state of minurte subdivision. For this pur pose tire molten metal is run through per forations in a block of fire-clay, into a cylinder withinr which a vacuum Is main tained by means of an air-pump. By thus subdividing the metal and disch.a'-ging it In the form of metalilic rain, the gases are separated and drawn away. Tire mold for the recept on of tire molten metal may be placed within the cylinder or vessel in which tire vacuum is maintained. CGaRn ialics will kill lice on rose bushes withoita injufringj the plaits. I have tried it in many i nst.ances with great, success. It is right to bo contented wirh what we are. summer Exeursions via Fennsylvanla Ralroad. Summer excursions, long or short, are now necessities of American life. All classes Indulge In these relaxations from business during the Summer months. The rich extend the time to months the poor content themselves with a much shorter withdrawal from the stoie, the manufactury or the workshop. To fostgr and encourage this feeling, the various railroads of the country have inaugurated Summer excursions to the sea coast, the mountain top, the shady valley and the quiet rural sections of this great country. Foremost among the Summer -excursions looth for variety of location, the cheapness of fare, and abundance of natural scenery, are those gotten up. and managed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. All tastes can be gratified by these trips over the stem line of the Pennsylvania Road and its numer ous branches. Eight hours ride from Philadelphia brings the traveler to Altoona and Cresson Springs, in the Allegheny Mountains, and the famous Bedford Springs are reached by the Pennsylvania Railroad to Huntingdon, and thence by the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad to Bedford. Leaving the main line at Har risburg the route of the traveler leads north ward over the Northern Central and Erie Railroads to the mountain resorts of Ronovo and Kane, to Watkins' Glen, and the many pictursque localities in the vicinity of Beneca Lake, all reached from Philadel phia by express trains with luxurious Pull man palace cars. Delaware Water Gap, a most pictureque and delightful retreat from the heat of Summer is reached via Trenton and the Belvidere Division. of the Pennsylvania Road, which runs along the Delaware river, and presents a constantly changing panorama of enjoyable views by land and water. By leaving the main line, a hundred other points can be reached, where repose, comfort and health can be abtained by all classes. At the same time all the most popular and attractive sea-side resorts on the Jersey Coast can be readily and pleasantly reached by cars on the Pennsylvania Railroad. At the depot of the company, in West Philadelphia tour ists from inland localities will find cars In waiting to transfer them-at a cost of six cents-to the depot at the foot of Mar ket Street, from which point Cape May, Atlantie City, Beach Haven, and Seaside Park may all be reached within two hours and withott change of cars. The traveler continues his journey from the West Phila delphia depot to Sea Girt, Spring Lake, Ocean Grove, and Long Branch, all of which points are also reached in about the same time and without change of cars. In this way a vast extent of country, richly endowed with all natural charms and health giving properties, is opened to the enjoyment of persons of even moderate means. The excursion rates are most moderate, and cover such a period of time as will satisfy even the most exacting, and living accommodations, at all points, can be obtained in such shapes as to tit all pur ses. Thle Summer excursion programme of the Pennsylvania Rhilroad was never so extended, encircling and complete as for the summer of 1880, and no doubt the travel will be correspondingly enlarged. When a person can eujoy a Summer vaca tion on the mountain or by the ocean side, almost as cheap as living in the City, or in the Inlaud town, it is folly to tread the pearls of comfort and health under foot. This blessing the Pennsylvania Railroad puts within the reach of all by theirenter vrise and liberality. lonas for Five Minutes. Soon after the dinner hour a specimen tramp appeared at tie door of a house on John R. street, Detrdit, and before he could be ordered off the steps he began: "Sir, I am a tramp." "Yes, I see you are." "But I am not here to ask for either food, money or clothing. I have just had a bite, my clothes are good enough, and if I had money I should get drunk and be sent up." "WVelh, what do you waint 'i" "There are four tramps down the street, and I know they will call here. It Is now five years since 1 began to travel around. I suppose I have been called a loafer and a thief and a beat ten thousand times, and I have been shot at, clubbed, broomaticked and scalded times without number. Now I want a change." "W ell, all I ask Is that you will let me represent your house when those tramps conmc up." This was agreed to. Ho sat down on the steps, removed hig hat, lighted the stub of a cigar and wasareading a circular when the four fellows slouched up andi en tered the yard. 'What In Arkansas do you fellows want In my ya'rd?" "Suthin' to eat," was the humble re ply. "Something to cat. Wnmy you misera ble, thick robbed cadavers, go and earn it, then! Do you suppose I have nothinig to do but keep a free hotel for loafers ?" "Can't get work," mumbled the biggest of the lot. "Old you can't? Been looking all around. I suppose? Everybody got all the lie p lhe wants, eh ? Want to be cashiers and confidential advisers, don't you?" "Nobody gives us a show," growled the third man. "'That's it! That's your cue! Nobody will take you in with your old rags and dlirt and sore heels and wep over you, and. ask you please 1he good, and put you In the parlor bedroom and fed you on chicken brothi IIow awful it Is that you can't be put on ice andI laidi away where you won t melt!" "Will you a:lve us something ?" lupu. dlently demanded time fourth. "Wll I? You are just right 1. will! P'11 give you five seconds to get outside thme gate, and I'll toll you in addition that If I ever see you in this neighborhood again l'll tie you into hard knots and lure a sore eye.l dog to bite you to dheathi Git up and giti Move on-hurry-out with you!" They shuffled out as fait as they could, and when they had turinedl the corner thme tramp put on his hat, put out lis inch of cigar for another smoke ajnd said to the gentlemen: dn eagetfvr n "You have dn eagetfvr n I am grateful; I already feel bettor for the change, and I solemnly believe that if I could only have got an excuse to throw 'em over the fence I should have been ready to refoi-m and start out as a lecturer! Good by. I shall never forget your kind naOa . Raokenisackers. Scattered along the hillsides and in the valleys of Arkansas, hre atunerous wretch ed lit tIle hovels that afford a show of slielter to the indigenous population. Take a specimen. ibstanas perhaps six feet square, a rude hut of rough boards supposed to be placed in a vertiele position, and about the aine height on the highest side, blt nar rowing down sone two feet to the opposite aide. A few bouro!s laid carelessly across the upper edge from the roof. There is no door, no window, no chimney. An aper ture In the side of the huti which is partly concealed by a ragged, dirty quilt, is the means of ingress and egress. - Propped Up Ugainst the outside wall with sticks of wood is an old table sodden with dirt and warped by the weather. A gaunt gray cat sits leisurely lapping water from a pail that stands upon it. At a little dis tance two meagre yellow dogs are snapping and snarling over the contents of a rusty iron kettle that, recently having (lone ser vice in cooking the family dinner, is thus undergoing the cleansing process prepara tory to the next incal. In the sunshine, her bare, freckled arms skimbo, stands a woman. Her faded petticoat hangs in shreads about her thick bare ankles. Her loose un buttoned sacque only partly hides the slit ted waist beneath. As the long shadows fail on the grass beside her, she looks up, and pishing back her limp hun-bonnct, dis closes the sunken, yellow face, the matted hair and the dull, washed-out eyes of the female indigene. She is not 4roubled with diffidence any more than the more culti vated of her sex, and intimates her desire for conversalion by the qpestion: "Say, stranger, kin yo give me the time 'o day ?" The stranger gives her the time, and, emboldened by her iriendliness, essays a glance into the Interior. When his eyes grow accustomed to the din light emitted irom the chinks in the walls they discover the figure of a half-dressed man with ton seled hair, crouchiig upoti a heap of dirty rage which form the nuptial couch. He is chewing lazily, an occupation which he varies by a skillful frescoing of the oppo site wall with various designs in tonacco juice. One or two Police Gazettes pasted up on the wall come in for a share of the liquid accoration. A tin wach basin half full of dirty water sits on a broken-backed chair, and two or three nondescript gar ments hang upon the walls. This is liter ally all the cabin contains. I 'Do you live here ?" inquires the stran ger in a tone of incredulity. Tho man does not vouchsafe a reply. He is too deeply engaged in. inventing new fantastics in the decorating line. But the woman answers, nothing loth. "'This is just whar we uns dolive, stran ger." "But you haven't room to turn around., "Thar's a heap 'o room out doors, though," she says In a tone that admits of no controversy. That, subject being exhausted the stranger tried another. - "You haven't any clildern ?" "No; we had two, but 'pears tilke some thin' was the matter with 'em long from the first. Never was very peart. Reckon 'twas fits, or mebbe worms. Oot a power ot doctor's stuff for 'em, but 'peared like they couldn't live nohow. Children's mighty contrary mortals. Reckon its just as well they died; they wouldn't nver have been much 'count anyhow." "But what do you do for a litmng?" There was no sign of cultivation, not so much as a speer of grass nbqut the dwell. ing. "W1all, he hunts mostly. Sometimes he gets somethin' and sometimes lie doesn't. Some days I do right smart 'o washin' when I feel like it." "But couldn't' you get regular employ ment, you,. and earn enough to live more comfortably ?" "We live comfor'bly enough, and we ain't agoin' to work 'less we're a mind ter. We ain' niggahs, if we is pore." 'rie last argument was conclusive, and time visitor walked away sadder, but wiser from the interviewv after the woman's part ing thrust: "1 reckon you uins must be from the< no'thm ?" The charge was meekly admitted. "I might 'a knowed it," with an inde scribable inflection of contempt In her tone. "No'therners never was very smaart nohmow." Two Conmdrums. A young lady, when riding from lier father's country seat to a neighboring vil lage met a young man oii foot, who was carrying a jug. She at once reined in her horse, and asked him what lhe had in time jug. Looking up with a comical leer, lie simply winked one eye and smacked his lips, to indicate that it contained something goodl. The young lady supposing lhe meant alcohol, immediately began to talk temper ance. but lher auditor requested time privi lege of first asking her just one question. "What is it?"4 slid asked. "It is this," lie re-plied: "why Is my jug like your side-saddle?" She could not tell. "It is because it. holds a gal-on,'' said lie. '"What trifling I" exclaimed the imndig nant young lady, and then continued: "Young man, do you not perceive-" "Just one more question," interrupted lher auditor, "and then 1 am done. Why Is my jug like the assembly-room of a female seminary at roll call?' "I am sure I do not know," petulantly rep)lied time young lady. "Well, its because it is full o' lasses," said the ineorrigible auditor. 'rThe fair lecturer touched her spirited horse with the whip, and was soon out of hearing of the rude young man. conenled Trea,sure. Recently a thunderstorm of extraordinary severity swvept over the Mlark Biranden- I burg, in Ger-many, from Kanersdorf to Koepenick, and several house, in that dis- I trict were struck by lightning. Among themni was the parish church of Fuernsterwaldo, a I market town not very distant from Berlin, Strange to say, the electric fluid shatteredA thme altar of this venerable antiquity, and partly exposed a treasure burled theroun- I decr centuries ago by a l'russian prelate upon time oc4casiopn of a conflagration that 4 laid Fauernstenwalde in ashes, with a,1 view to providing the means of rebuilding' the town, should a shnllar calamity beftala it In time to come. This treasure, con- I sisting of golden and silver bars, has beein I rqmnoved from the place in which It has t been concealed for so many years and I deposited in the District State Exchiuer Officee, until the competent authorities shall decide whiqt is to be done with it. The Manatee. This creature is supposed to be the origi nal of the mermaid. It is indeed a curious animal. For eyes it has circular apertures which can neither remain wide open nor shut up tight, but are constantly contract ing and expanding, perhaps at the will of tihe manatee, though apparently of their own motion. For nose it has two holes with lids, and when it rises to the surface of the water for breath the lids open, and wheu It sinks again they shut. The earholes are too Bmall to be seen without keen search ing, and are s'nmply such holes as might be made anywl eri with a gimlet. For mouth it has an op ni ig with a flap over it, con venient as pr3venting things from going down its tb. oat when the owner Is not hun' gry, but sufficiently ugly to make the man atee the most -humble of creatures ; and humble, indeed, it looks. Having no legs, it stands on its tail, and to keep its balance has to bend time head forward and bow the body. In this attitude of helpless humility the strange thing stands motionless many minutes together, and then, with a ghost like dreadful solemiilty it begins slowly to stiffen and straighten its tall, and thus gradually arising into an erect posituro, thrusts its uiostrils above the surface. But only for an instant, for ore it seems to have had time to take a breath, the great body begins to sink back it into its dispondent position, and the small paddling paws drop motionless"mnd helpless as before. The de liberate sloth with which the mancuvre is executed has something of dignity in it, but otherwise the manatee is as ridiculous as It is helpless. The clumsy snout is con stantly twitching like a rabbit's, but the gesture that seems so appropriate in the nervous, vigilant little rodent is Iinica surably ludicrous in the huge monstrosity. The eyes, again, now contracting to a pil's point, now expanded full to gaze at you with expressionless pupil, seem to move by a mechanism beyond the creature's con trol. Voiceless and limbless, the bulky Detacean sways to and fro, the very em bodiment of stupid. feeble helplessness, a thing for shrimps to mock at and limpets to grow on. A carcase - of such proportions, 3uch an apalling contour, should, to satisfy Lsthetic requirements, possess some stu pendous villany of character; should con .eal under this inert mass of flesh sonic hideous criminal instinct. Yet this great 5hapeless being, this terror of tile deep sea, is the most innocent of created things. It lives on lettuce. In its wild state it browses flong the meadows of the ocean bed, crop ping the seaweed just as kine graze upon .he pastures of earth, inoffensive and socia ble, rallying as cattle do for mutual de rence against a common danger, placing hme calves in the middle, while the bulls range themselves on the threatened quar ter. These are time herds which the poets fnake Proteus and the sea gods tend, tile larmless beeves with whom the sad Par tenope shared her sorrows. These are the actual realities that have given rise to so many a pretty fiction, the dead carcase from which have swarmed the bees. ''lie discovery is disappointing enough to those who cherish old-world fancies; but to science, time lazy, uncouth manatee Is a precious thing. Science, indeed, has sel diom had such a pleasing labor as the ex amination and identification of this animal, for, though so ludicrously simple in appear ince, the manatee is a veritable casket, of physiological wonders. It is the only crea ure known that has three eyelids to each eye and two iearts. In most of its points it bears a close aflinity to the elephant, but n other of equal importance it is unmnistak tbly a whale. Its "teeth," bones and skin tre all delightful studies to time naturalists, nd he is thankful, therefore, that the nanatee is what it is, and not the veritable normaid that less proRaic minds would iave it. Feeding tie Dead. A Chinaman was burled at Philadelphia, a 1875, and four times a year his surviving ountrymen there visit his grave to "1 eedi he dead." A recenmt visit of thmis kind is hus described: The first prehmninary was lie removin)g of all "Mehican" clothing. is they had come cinwralped in time flowving >lue dIrillinig gown and trousers and time lothm-soled shoes worn by all good Cinma mnen, ttme only article necessary to dlispenise vith was the hat. Thmey then uncoiled hmeir hong pigtails and carried their wvel' Ililed provision hmamp)er to time grave. Cere nony number one consisted of a sort of in rocation. In perfect time and drill tihe nourners lifted their arms from their sides o a horizontal position, then above thmeir leadis, when they chipped thmeir hiunds and ittered a hugh keyed grunt,. Th'lis wa.s lone several times. Tme chmef priest thmen >rodmiced ai package of sheets of tissue pa ier, about thr~ee inches square, each of vhich bore incriptions ini Chinese chmarac era. Trhese eachm were suipposmed to rep)re ent a sin committed against one of time nanmy deities of time Biuddhist faithi. Trhey vere burnmed, one by onme, each of time cele >rants takinig turns in lighting thmem. When lie last hmad been burned 'nother inroad uas made uiponm the hamper and a chicken mnire, excep)t as to its feathers. was brought mut ; also four cups andl saucers andi as nany plates, all of which were laid on a mapor tale-cloth placed elm the grass. A Lnife similar in shape to thmose used by Imoemakers speed(ily dissected time fowl, aiid fragmment was placedl on each lAhte. The ups were filled ouit of a large wicker hot he whmich containedi sonmothing like tea. )ranges were also produced, and time three lying Chinamnen wentsolemnly through time ormi of eating, time ghost p)resuimably keep ng timem conmpany. Th'le living baniqueters peediliy emp)tied their cups and disposed of lie oranges. Seemihngly arWakened to time act that their invielbie guest was not getting hroughm withm his share as rapidly, they >oured thme tea fromi his cup amid what re namned in thme bottle oni time feet o.f the grave. A bottle of saki, time Chinese whmis eoy, was also p)ouredi out, none of time liv nmg feasters partakinig of time liquor. 1 half (ldozen singu ar-lookingc little tapers> nountedl en bamboo sticks, were then stuck a thme mwel.ing turf of time grave and light ud. T1hese haud two p)rop)erties, smmoke and mmll. A 'west winid drove bothm into the aces of the spectators in such vohme that hmey beat a hasty retreat, and those who vitnessed the last rite were fortunate moughm to have found places outski.e the ine of the breeze. In time midst of time muoke anid stenchm the faithful Celestials vent throughm their last posturing, similar o that of invocation. Thmis done, they >acked ump time remains of their banqueot and he (dishies, and, leaving time tapers still burn ng on the grave, quitted the cemetery. -The Afghanm war has cost England O65,000,000 up to this-date, How to Cure a Cold. Mark Twain says the first time that I began to sneeze a friend told me to go anil is bathe my feet in hot water, and go to bed. 01 I did so. Shortly after, a friend told me to get up and take a cold shower bath. I er did that also. Within an hour another ar friend told me it was policy to feed a cold and starve a fever. I had both; I thought w it best to fill up for the cold, and let the iin fever starve awhile ; in a case of this kind I seldom do things by halves; I ate pretty oV heartily. I conferred my custom upon a in stranger who had just opened a restaurant on Cortlandt street, near the hotel, that so morning, paying him so much for a meal. Ile waited near me in respectful silence until I had finished feeding my cold, when at lie inquired whether people about New York were much afflicted with colds. I told him I thought they were. He then nq went out and took in his sign. I started up toward the office, and on the walk en countered another bosom friend, who told P1 me that a quart of salt water would come or as near curing a cold as anything in the world. I hardly thought I had -room for do it, but I tried It anyhow. The result was surprising. I. believe I throw up my whole interior. Now, as I give my experience ho only for thu benefit of those of your friends who are troubled with this distemiper, I feel that they will see the propriety of my cautioning them against such portions of It w as proved inelficlent with me : and acting W' upon this conviction I warn them against warm salt wator. It may be'a good enough ill remedy. but I think it is rather severe. If th I had another cold in the head, and there Ol was this course left me-to take either an earthquake or a quart of warn salt water, st I would take iy chances on the earthquake. so After this, everybody in. the hotel became all interested ; and I took all sorts of remedies -hot lemonade, cold lenonade, pepper- on tea, boneset, stewed Quaker, hoarhound l1 syrup, onions and loaf sugar, lemons and iN brown sugar, vinegar anut laudamnu, five ' bottles fir balsan, eight bottles cherry pec- hK toral, and ten bottles of Uncle Sain's reme- irc dy, but all without effect. Onie of the pre- It scriptions given by an old lady was-well, lif it was dreadful. She mixel i decoctioiI composed of molasses, catnip, peppermint, pa aquafortim, turpentine, kerosene, and vari- so ous other drugs, and instructed tie to take a bu wineglass of it, every fifteen minutes. I R never took but onie dose; that was enough. I had to take my bed, and remain there for tli two entire days. When I felt a little bet- fol ter, more things were reconimended. I Is was desperate, and willing to take anything. wt Plain gin was recommended, and then gin bi and molasses, and theza gim and onions. I took all three. I detected no particular re. mc sult, however, except that I had acquiredt a"U breath like a turkey-buzzard and had to sl change my boarding place. I had never re- rel fused to1 a remedy yet,aid it seenled poolr p1o- lie icy commence then; therefore I determined to take a slieet-bath, though I had no idea on what sort of an arraugenient it, was. It ilk was administered at midnight, and tihe In. weather was very frosty. My back and by breast were stripped; and a sheet (there ap- "I peared to be a thousand yards of it) soaked in ice-water was wound around me until I tie resembled a swab for a coluimblad. It Is wl a cruel experiment. When the chilly rag in( touches one's warm flesh, it makes im Ui4 start with i 8uldde violence, and gasp for v breath, just as men do in the death agony. It froze the marraw in my bones, and an stopped the beating of my heart. I thought Of my time had come. When I recovered WI from this, a friend ordered the application wI of a mustard plaster to my breast. . I be. of lieve that would have cured me effectually, Of if it had not been for young Clemens. lie When I Went to bed, I put tihe mustard - plaster where I could reach it When I should Oil be ready for it. But young Clemens got t<i hungry i the night and ate it up. I never Lili saw any child have such an appetite. I am nj confident that lie would have eaten me If I uJel hiad been healthy. Lii I see Diut Two. is "Billy Campbell," as lie is familiarly ou called, made miuch and saved little money, a ror lie had no idea of its value, lie in dorsed for everybody, andI if he went out i 4 into the street wIth a pocket full of Lih change lhe would return without a cent, an having given something to every bugger he met. One day, the shieriftf, in reply to Mr. prm Damnpbell's qIuestion. "What's the news ?" mii said, "Nothing new, sir, but this. I am pe0 iorry to say. I h)ad to sell out your house rnd lot for the dlebt you owed as security to l Nr. H1ill." "'Oh, that's nothing," answered Camp. we bell; "the plroperty is iiot lost; it has only its ehamnged hiandts." Mr. Campbell was ani easy going bache- an or, andi hmad the reputation of being one ma >f the most slovenly dressed lawyers in thme noi State. On one occasioni as lie was about qui leaving home to attend the legislature, his eor dlater informed himn that she had packed a tiozen new shirts in lia trunk. .3f "Now, brother," said shio, "(10 be more noi particular about your dress, and don't for- eVt get to put on a clean shirt, at least, twice a (aLu week. It Is very mortifying to have you L Sl go about looking so dirty." On his return home at the close of the die iession, she congratulated him upon his sof hearty appearance. ,or: "Whly, you have grown as fat as a pig," fLeI she remarked; "they must have fed you "re well at the capital I" ' "Yes, they take good care o' us," lie ro. io plied, "for they are always in want of some em L,ooking into her brother's trunk, and 40C llnding but two shirts, she called out: Lhe "Whore, brother, are all those now shirts hie [ gave you?" 'l "Don't you find them in the trunk ?" ve "No, i see but two." 'ar "Possibly I may have sonme on me." v An examination disclosed that lie was i wearing six shirts, a f .01 which acecounted 'u [or his apparent imp)rovement in ileah. , , eat Feeding the Ntoracs. For fast drivIng, oats may he the best a~ food for horses; but we ho0ld to the old rashioned mode of feeding horses, which i was generally in vogue from forty to sixty .0, years ago, and is still so among a great ,y many p)bople. even livery stable-keepers; ,eg that is, regular feeds of bran and short cuti straw, mixed with a suflcient quantity of in' water to make it palatable, half a dozea at ears of corn peor horse daily, and plenty of tai good hey. Wehavo known whole stables men1 full of horses to keep in the most perfect r,ha health, and capable of doing the hardest ii'o work a horse can be put to, by this . mode lVoi of foedin;. . : . FOOD FOR THOUGHT. No principle is more noble, as there none more holy, than that of a true tedience. The necessities that exist are in gen al created by the superfluities that o enjoyed. It often happens that those of whom 3 speak least on earth are bestknown heaven. Unhappy is the man for whom his en mother has not made all other others venerable. Hop is like the wing of an angel, aring up to heaven and bearing our 'ayers to the throne of God. There is always hope In a man that tually and earnestly works. Whenever you find a man who has thing to do you will notice that he Is ual to the task. It is easy to run down the accom Ishments of your neighbor, but hard to run ahead of them. It Is a great deal better to do a kindly ed to a man when he is living than weep over him when he is dead. A clear conscience is like a corner Everybody would like to have it, t few are willing to pay the price. If we were all permitted to vut our rn valuation on ourselves there mId not bo a low priced man in the )rld. Phe man who acts on impulse will d himself when near the goal just roe paces behind the man who acts conviction. iiseries come unbidden and alwa a ky too long while joys must be ught for and when found are apt to p away unawares. [lere is a Y( rr serious question for r nioralists:-[r a man is as good as i word and hid word Is good for noth g how good is he? I'lie man who at the end of this life s a rceilpt in full of all dematids mkinen, will have more than an ordi ry amount of credit to begin the next 1 with. Knowledge can be acquired without in and application. It is trouble no, and like digging for pure water; t when once you come to the spring, 1i8es up to meet you. lhe beginning of hardships is liko first taste of bItter food-it seems a moment unbearable; yet, if there nothing else to satisfy our hunger, take another bite and find it possi to go on. flhatever facilitates our work is ire than an onion ; it is a cause of ceoss. This is one of those pleasing rprises which often happen to active Wiutions. Many things d)lllcult to iign prove easy to perform. Ve ought always to deal Justly, not ly with those who are just to us, but owise with those who endeavor to ture us; and this, too, for fear lest, rendering them evil for evil, we muld fall into the same vice. t [n lorming a Judgment, lay your irts void of foretakon opinions; else, Iintso-ver is done or said will be iasured or sald'by a wrong rule; like nm who have the Jaundt'4, to whom irything appeareth yellow. go language can express the power Li beauty and herismt And Majesty a mother's love. It shrinks not tcre man cowers, and grows stronge. tore man faints and over the wastes worldly fortunes sends the radiance its quenchless fidelity like.a star in woen. f thou desire to see thy child virtu i, let him not see his father's vices; m canst not rebuke that in children Lt they behold in thee- till reason be e, examples direct more than pre ats; such as thy behavior Is before children's faces, such commonly la irs behind their parents' backs. *Vhen doing what is right, the heart easy, anid becomes better every day ; wheni practicing deceit, the mind ore, and every day gets worse. .'hie only happiness in this world's t that is really worth the having, is happiness which springs up, free 1 unsought, by the wayside of duty. ome one, has said that sincerity is aking as we think, believiapg as we tend, acting as we profess, perfoi-m as we promise, and being ats we ap.. r. Ve often esteem in the world those o do not merit our esteem, and ne ct pecrsons -of true worth; but the rid is like the ocean--the pearl is in depth ; the sea-weed swims. Ie not diverted from your duty by r ide reflections the silly world may ke upon you, for their censures are in your power, and the.y conse nitly should not be any part of your cern. ,ook'on slanderers as direct enemies civil society, as persons wvithout ior, honesty, or humanity. 'Who.. r entertains you by pointing out the its of others, designis to serve you in milar manner. Lvert your gaze from the erosses of future, you see them without the ening, sustaining grace which ao ipatnies them when thiey roach you. all your off irts tend to bearing the 5s of the present moment. 'lie history of the world teaches us lcessoni with more impressive sol nity than this; that t1he only safe ird is a pure heart; $bat evii no nor takes possessmon of the heart n it fully commences the conquest of mind. 'hie most careful education in the rid can only direct for the time; it not change the inner current by ich we shape our course. We maust mnake or' mar ourselves by that self ication, that moral choice of good or I. which is the real individuality of h. V iatever instruction is reaped from '3 tory may be reaped from a nov(s mor, which' is thie history of the . cld for one day. It is the history' of t worild in whioh we now live, Etmd h whi>mh we a', d6insequnty mr corned than withi s~e whi h l1iate sod away, and~61~St in eiem nee, eim 'raise in the ri h'I~A k ight . & e, is a wonderfu hs I figh t the daiy life, an a 'seet s the ' ly task. It imploes ch a 0a seof apprehiiio amid re n ; tt6 lteniiri"de we are none o ustb