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'TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JULY 17, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO.86. DAWN. b fi 0 whispering breath of the Morning! Float up from the languid South, And kiss the blossoms adorn ng The Earth with your scented mouth; Caress with your tender fin erd The bed where the lilies sleep ; Sigh where the violet lingers 1 And the sad-oyoil paneles woop: Awaken the rose from its dreamiug, Play with the daffodil's hair: Flit where in dow-Jropi streaming t The star-orowuod daisio stare. 0 breath of the breezy gloamng Swoop from the Eastern sky The clouds that the Night, in her roaming. Hath let o'er the rivers lie ; Snatoh from her shadowy garnentut 'he glogles of purple and red Scatter them over the mountais, To tell us the Night hath flod. O breeze of the Dawning tender I C Call up from its dreamless. rest, With your tale of the Morning's splendor, y Each bird from its moesy nest. l Fill up the woodlands and meadows With the music of swallow and thrush ; u Swep the gray mis's from the valleys; Loosen the streams with a rus'i. Then bookon with loving finger.4, It 0 breath of th, Summer sweet! J To the Dawn that so coyly lingers O'er the mount tine with laggard feet, She will come with her round cheek flush ing, To brighten the waiting world: And the sombre Nig t, at her blushing, Shall into dark void be hurled. Found in Egyp'. e There was nothing remarkable in Edgar c Hartland's starting out in the world. He was simply a bold, earnest and persevering t young man, who 'intended to make his life's visit to this world a fact worth re- c membering. t1 Young Hartland was twenty-two years 9 old when he finished his collegiate course, R in his preparation for which, as in all his h1 studies, his constant effort had been to make thorough work of whatever he at- h1 temiped to learn, and not simply to put his 0 real or 'Imaginary attainments to the best 0 use in making a sensation on public occa- V sions. C And now the young man was looking out t into the world for something to do. As b for the triangular professions-law, medl cine and divinity--theie were as lie thought, h1 too many already in them. le thought it would be dillicuit to wake a good use of fl his head or his hands, while obliged to be 14 using his elbows at the fa-ne time, in r crowding other poor fellows out of the m way. So lie concluded at last to take his M conipass, level, and measuring line, and go a West. It Forty years have passed since the events c to which the reader is now turning his at- v tention, occurred, and yet even then the c watchword: "To the West I to the Westl" 8' was an old, familiar and stirring appeal. i flartl-ind repaired to the land office and applied for an appointment as surveyor of 1i government lands. f "You are quite a young man," said the t] commissioner, "to be assigned to so arduous P1 and responsible a duty; and besides you g do not look as if your constitution could stand the fatigues and exposures of canp C life."1 tj "I was strong and healthy," said Hart. land , "when a boy, being accustomed to b spend a good deal of the tinie on the farm i with my father. He died about seven years v ago, and since then I have been studying 1 until lately. A few months in the open air P will bring me all right." . d "Well, my young friend," sald the coin- 0 missioner; "you appear to have the right spitrit, and a man who lias a soul in hint h can soon put a body around it. Your tee- V timonials as to character and attainments 9 aire good, and w~ e will give you a pilace in our corps of surveyors. It may be air o:ith ti or six weeks -before you will be ordered ii into service. In the meantimec, here is ad small book of instructions, wic~h it will 1)e a well for you to look over. Your salary dates from to-mcrrow, and you will receive t a remittance for outfit with your ordler to 1 report, which wvill 1h0 sent as soon as we t1 dietermuine where your services will be re- e qired. Here is your comnission. Where n shall I adidress you ?" hi The place namtedl was the home of his r mother, to which Edgar Hiartland hnme- v' diately repaired to bear the good news. 5 But to her it was also sad news for d she nowv realized that her beloved son musti soon leave ht6r for some distant field of a labor. . "I am ordlered to Egypt, miothier," said E Edgar, as hie opened and readl a letter from C the commissioner. But the alarming an- 5 niouncement was turned into a leasant and a gratifying surp)rise when the lady learned t thiat the Egypt referred to was nto further hb off than the western part of Illinois. f Every department of business has ways 5 'of its own ; anid the old sayinig, that "there I a tre tricks in all trades bitt ours," would be e nearer the truth if ours also were includ. i' ed1. * 'ro survey, map out and describe the public domains has been a work of enor- ~ miois (dimiensions; bitt Edgar Hlartland, and I the men who were with hin, soon discov ered that most of the maps with wvhiich they ~ were furnished, purporting to show old1 i surveys to be veritied andl traced, had1( been I 11ade1 by imaginary fildk-notes. 'The act + utal work wvhichi these maps p)rofessedl to recordl had never been donie. The rivers, 5 mnounitains, rocks, valleys and trees-min- e utecly described-black oak, redi beech, hickory, maple amid sycamore were not there' and ntever had been. The wooodland wvas I! an openi prairie ; and as for the mountains ~ andi rivers so carelully described in theo re- a p)orts, they had1( never been seen by the old. C est inhabitant. But those maps and rep)orts hmad beeni received andi paid( for a long time ' ago, andt the men who imade them had gone 1 to receive another rewardi. The only thing S the newv surveyers could (10 Ias to begin I their work amid go on with it exactly as if I those 01(1 maps had never becen made. VTe p)eople out there, coutntedi by thtoums andsl, anmd sometimes not countedi at all, f were scattered here, there andt everywhere, a timd kneow little or nothing in regard to the grounds on which the government rested its claims to thios3amids. As for the sur- f veying companies that were passing occa- t alonally through their fields, and( diriving I stakes near their cabins, they did not place g highi estimate on them, and occasionally I Oxprcssed( their want of confidence in them t y giving one or more of those men a cheap 4neral. 'Edgar Hartland and his companions soon iscovered that a cheap and easy way to et along with those settlers was to avail liemselves of their services and adopt their itanners and modes of living as far as they iuld. When invited to a husking, apple aring, or even a quilting, to be closed rith a break-down, they wore pretty cer uin to be there. "Ti1ere is to be an apple-bee at Tom Iluver's, to-night;" said Edgar Hartland ) his companions, among whom were half -dozen axemen and chainmen-young fel )ws gathered up there in the country. 'We are all invited." "And, of course, we will,all gol" was lie prom.)t and unanimous response. As for apple-paring and cutting, it. was oarcely anything more than an introduc >ry ceremony, resorted to for the purpose of lace-boring the old people and getting the ree use of the house for dancing. Before ib end of an hour the old lady told the oung people very pliinly that the apples icy were wasting were worth more than tic work they were doing, that they had otter remove the baskets and pans, clear p the rooms and go on with their dane ig. As for Edgar lartland, lie did not pare dozen apples that evening, nor did lie >in in the dancing. Formal introductions ad not been heard of in that Egypt, anti Ir. Hartland was therefore simply observ. ig the customs of the country, when, soon fter entering the room, lie approached a trange young lady and said: "I am much pleased to meet you here. ly name is Edgar Hartland." "And mine," was the frank reponse "is lara Ogden.' "We are expected to pare some of the pples, 1 suppose," said Edgar. "I will pare until I find a good one to at, and then divide it with you," said his :mpanion with a merry laugh. Half a 1Iozen were pared, cut, cored and irown into the tray before one just right ras found, the seeds of which were taken arefully out and used in telling their for ines. By these trifles those young stran era were opening the way for the conver ition ti at soon followed in regard to their omnes in New England. Mr. Hartland had paid only two visits to Is home during the four years he had been ut there, while Miss Ogden had been there uly three months, having come out with 1e Rev. Mr. Birdsell, a missionary, no wrpanied also by the young wife whom ie minister had been home to marry and ring out. "As for me," said Miss Ogden, "I came ere on a land speculation." Then she went on to relate that her kther, who had died two years before, had ft among his effects some old land war tmts, issued to soldiers for services in the ,ar of 1812. There were thirteen of these ,arrants, each entitling the holder to select ad receive eighty acres of government md. In settling the estate she had re ,ived those warrants as a part of her di isory portion, and had come out there in )mpany with her friends, hoping to find )me one who would select and locate the nds for her. That little service would be just in the ne of the work the young surveyor was .customed to do. lie would gladly select ie lands and obtain for her the full and )eciflc titles which she required from the Dvernment. l(r this service Miss Ogden would, of 3urse, be greatly obliged, and as soon as ils business was arranged would retnrn to er home. The people with whom she had ecn stopping, and whom she had never eard of until she cane there, had been cry kind to her, and she had suffered no iconveniences that would not be more than aid for by securing those lands, which her ear deceased father had left her the means f obtaining. On p)arting Mr. H-artland remarked that e wouldi call again within two or three reeks, and might, perhaps, be ready te re Ort. progress in the selection of the lands. Of -course not a word had passed between uoso young people suggestive of any spec LI or pcr:onal Interest in each other ; nor o well-bred persons talk of love, court liip, or marriage the first time they meet. "You arc in (danger of being killed;" was [io startling announcement that Edgar [artland heard from a friend two (lays alter dat interview with Miss Ogden. While onversing with the young lady he had oticed a repulsive loooking man, whom e had occasionally seen, and knew to be a ugh and coarse fellow, glaring at him ritih the fierceness of a tiger. llis manner semedl strange and unaccountable, but lie id not think best to make any allusion to .Nowv, however, he knew that the coarse, ut bold and daring young mian, had beeni casting of his ability to woo, win and uarry Miss Ogden, wvho had spoken to him ivilly a few times. But his love demon trations had not yet been suffecently ag ressive to awaken in her mind a suspicion luat lie was preparing to lay siege to her cart and hand. Nowv, however, all the orces of his wild, uncultured mind were roused, and entirely unconscious of what ropriety and( declicacy required, lie was penhy boasting of his determination to larry the young lady, or rather. "that 'cr0 al"as lie called her. "As for that surveyor, he would put lhim nder the leaves if lie didn't move out of Is way." "Better go an' see the gal at once and ek her to marry you," was the advice Joe hlanson received from several of his coim anions. And Joe did. "1Really, Mr. Blanson, you surprise me," aid Miss Ogden. "I can not entertain an fier of marriage from you," "And I know," said the ambitious lover, 'just wvhiy you dlon't want me. You've ot your eyes on that follow, Hartland. I ced hhn makin up to you at the apple-bee, ndi If he comes near you again I'll lay him ut coldi" 'rho 1lerce and muirderous e xpression eithm which that threat was accompanied, roused in the mind of Miss Ogden serious pprehienslons for the young surveyor's afety ; and a message from her soon reached im, warning him of the danger impend ag. T1hue result was that Edgar Hartiand non called on Miss Ogdlen to allay her fears or lis safety, assurmg her that they were roundhless. "I will see," said lie, "JoeBllanson imme ately, in company with a couple of my riends1. I will tell him that I was simply alking with you about our old homes and ai regaird to some matter of business, and vilh tell him also that it is not honorable cor fair for him to be pressing his atten ions on you. I have beeni among these men a long time and know just how to deal with them. He will give you no further trouble; and as for his killing me, there Is not the least danger of it." Mr. Hartland did very soon quiet poor Joe Blanson, and he subsided entirely. But to control and subdue certain emotions that had been awakened in his own heart, was not so easily done. Tho'e quarter sections were cArefully selected and located, four of which, ad joining each other, took In some valuable inprovements that were paid for at satils factory prices. Meantimn Miss Cora Ogden concluded not to return just then to her old home in New England, a happier and much more desirable home ha ring been found out there in Egypt. Joe Blanson, strange as it may seem to the reader, was among the guests who were invited to the entertainment that followed the marriage of Edgar Hartland and Cora Ogden. Joe was there in ila best clothes, and behaved as well as he knew how. It is true he stood back in some unconspicuous position most of the time, for he could not keep out of his thoughts the remembrance of the foolish and wicked threat he had made. To one man, who knew how absurd and improper his conduct had been, he said: "I'd die now for lartland, sooner than PId kill him! 1 wasn't the man to be courtin' that gal; and lie is the right one to have her, But it was me that started him for her. If he had showed or talked fight the day lie come over to see me, I'd a killed him as sure as my name is Joe Blanson; but it took the nurderin' feelin' right out o' me when lie come to me on the square an' talked good common sense." rattys Swarin. One day Patty ran into the house with her yellow hair a-tumble, and her blue eyes sparkling with excitement. "Mother, 0 mother l" she cried, her little brown hands fluttering like the wings of a bird. " The bees are swarming.,' " Sure?" asked her mother, doubtfully. For, you see, Patty was the least bit in the world like the boy in the, fable who cried, "Wolf I volf I" when there was no wolf. Not that she mrant to be, 8o many bees would fly about making such a buz zing in the warm spring sunshine, that Patty was often quite certain that they were swarming when they hadn't any idea of it. "And that is why Patty's mother asked her, in that doubtful way, "Sure?" "Yes'ni," said Patty, neckly. Her mother stepped to the door. True enough, there was a roar like that of a very small water-fall in the air, and out over the bee-hives floated a little black cloud. "I do believe they are," she said. "But they're not all out yet, I guess, and will nuL begin tu 1ght fur anu 1ttle tilime. Run down to Mr. Jessop's, Patty, and tell your father-no, I'll go"-with a smile remembering that Patty had gone for her father once before when the bees were not swarming after all. "May I go out and watch 'em, mother ?" asked Patty, dancing heel and toe on the white kitchen floor. "Yes; put on Aunt Nabby's shaker and don't og too near." So Patty got into Aunt Nabby's big shaker-bonnet, which was so much too large that you could not see her lit tle round face, unless, feeling quite sure it was there, you stooped in; and the brown calico cape almost. reached the hien of her short skirts. Then Patty went out into the garden and sat down on a box by the cucumber bed. She watched the dancing . black swarm until her eyes grew heavy. The sun shone brightly, the west wind blew about her warm ana soft and fragrant. The buzzing of many bees grewv louder and louder, until it seemed to swallow up every other sound. Then the leg shaker began to droop, and that wvas all Patty knew until "Patty I Patty, child I dlon't stir for your life I" Th'lis was what called Patty out of dIreamland, 1her father's voice,'deep) and hoarse. At first she wondered where she was. There was a roar like distant thunder in her ears. "Don't move, P'atty dlear. Don't lift your head I" That was her mother. The words sounded to Patty a great way off, and there was a tremble in them and a sob at the last. What could it mean?i Patty was frightened, imt she was a brave little girl, and had always been taught to obey. So she sat, very still, with scarcely the quiver of an eyelid, and p)resently she felt the big shaker gently lifted from her head. "All right 1" said her father. And Patty looked up' with a little cry to to ace the shaker-Aunt Nabby's shaker, truly, but bigger than ever with that great cluster of moving, buzzing bees hanging to it-disappear within aii empty hive. Then Patty .aughied. "Did they light oii my head ?" she cried, jumping up., "What fun I" But her mother took the little girl in her arms aind carried her into the house, and cried over her. Mothers are such queer people. "Trhat shall be Patty's hive," said her father, coming In later ; adding, with a twinkle in lia eye, "1'vo heard of a bee in one's bonnet,but I never saw so many bees on a bonnet before." "Nor I," said Patty laughing still. "They shall make me some honey to pay for that." Inioubation of Soarlatina. In the transactions of the Clinical Society, the coniclusons of Dr. Murchison concern ing the incubation ueriod of scarlatina are thius presented. First, the duration of the incubation stage may be only a feiw hours ; second, probably In a large proportion of cases it does not exceed forty-eight hours; third, it very rarely exceeds seven days, -consequently, a person who lias been cx posed to scarlet fever and does not sicken after a week's quarantine may be pro nounced safe. Many facts show, lie thinks, that scarlatina has an Infecting power from the earlijest stage of the malady, although the comparative facility of preventing its spread in a school, when the first case is promptly isolated, points to tils power be mne mutch less (luring time first two cr three days than in the case of measlea; on the oilier hand, scariatina has tihe power of in fecting over a'period of many weeks,-no case, in fact, cami be regarded as safe until the expiration of the eirhth week. Courship In GreenIAnd. There is something exceedingly mel ancholy in the accounts whicl are given of the custom of courtship In Greenland. Generally women enter upon the blessed estate with more wilhnguessand less solici tude than men. The women.ef Greenland are an exception to this ruli. A Green lander, having fixed his affections upon some female, acquaints his parents with the state of his heart. They apply to the parents of the girl, and If the parents are thus far-agreed the next proceeding is to appoint two female negotiators whose duty is to broach the subject'to the young lady. This is a matter of great tact and delicacy. The lady ambassadors do not shock the young lady to whom they are sent by any sudden or abrupt av,-wa of the awful subject of their mission. Instead of doing this they launch out in praises of the gentleman who seeks her hand. They speak of the splendor of his house the, sumptuousness of is furniture, of his cour age and skill In catching seals, and other accomplishments. The lady, pretending to be affronted even at these remote hints, runs asnay, tearing the ringlets of hair as she retires, while the ambassadresses. hav ing got the consent of her parents, pursue her, take her by force t the house of her destined husband and there leave her. Compelled to remain there, she sits for days with dishevelled hair, silent and de jected, refusing every kind of sustenance, till at lust, if kind entreatiesdo not prevail, she is compelled by force, and even by blows, to submit to the detested union. in some cases the Greenland women faint at the proposals of marriage; in others they fly to the mountains and only return when compelled to do so by the hunger and cold. If one cuts off her hair it is a sign she is determined to resist to death. The Green land wife is the slave of her husband, doomed to a life of toil, drudgery and privation. Annette. All in the party excepting the guide and myself had gone to the neighboring camp. Uncle Ben and I were seated on a huze rock hollowed in the center which nature had provided as a fire -place for us; the flames were leaping high in the air, throw ing fantastic shadows on the 'trees; Uncle Ben sat busily mending a net, preparing for the next day's fishing, Isilently watched him, wondering whether any romance had fallen into his prosaic life. Uncouth and awkward 9.s he was, I felt attracted to him because of the mingled strength, shrewd ness and tenderness of his character. At last lie broke the silence by saying: "Well, if the wind don't change we shall get a good haul of fish to-morrow. Yes, a good haul, ma'ani." "Uncle Ben," I -asked, "have you al 'ways lived in Maine ?" "Yes, nigh upon fifty years, excepting "U.9 U4h.q749&% I -aa lix Califnrny, about ten years ago." "But why did you stay so short a time, and why did you go f Please tell me all about it." "Why there Isn't much to tell," lie an swered. "I was half sick; folks said there was nothing would cure me this way, but I should sartin sure get well in Californy. So I started, thinkin' I'd get health and work there, and by-and-by could send for my family. I had a long voyage, but every day I grow better, and by the time I got to Californy I was all right agin. Then I got a place on a ranch, earned my board and a little besides to send home; but I tell you I was downright lonesome, and mighty glad to get letters, but every time my woman wrote she wanted me to come right home to Maine. I was a planin' to send for her in a couple of years, when at last came three letters from folks in the village tellin' me if I didn't come home soon I shouldn't have any.wife, she was a frettin' and grievin' so, for fear she'd never see mne ag'in. Then she wrote if I'd only conmc back she'd be whIli' to live on potatoes, frozen at that. I tell you, that argimient fetched me, and I just packed up and started, and 1 iather guess she was some glad when she seed me a-comin' in at the door. "By the firelight I saw a tear on the old trapper's cheek. "Yes," he continued, "that's the only time I've been moved to quit home. I can't understand how some men can leave their women as they do. Even goin' out blue-berryih' I take twice ag'in as much comfort if my Annette is with me." There was something very pathetic in this plain man's love for his- wife,-his wife who was on the other side of the mountain fronm us, keeping, with her boys, the little farm during the summer months, while her husband guided the parties conm ing up into the Wilderness from the f ar away cities. The following day, as Uncle Ben had predicted, we did have a good "haul of fish;" but I noticed that every now and then he glanced toward an ominous cloud of smoke hanging over the mountain. "What is that, U.ncle Ben?i" I asked. "A fire in the woods. Miy little farm lies thereabouts, and if the wind changes I fear nothing can save it." ble said no more, but was gravely silent. I know nis heart was with Annette. At night the wind did change, but alasi in the wrong direction. We told him to leave us at once; we coulId stay alone that night, and he could return to us the next day. It needed no urging for him to step into hIs boat; lia sinewy arms sent itswifthly through the dlark waves, and in a moment was lost to view. We returned to our camp-fire,; but not to tell stories or to sing songs, as we usually did, but to watch the silent stars above, and to listen to the plash of the waves upon the sands. Our thoughts were with Annette, and the brave man going to her relief. Our guide did return the next day, but not alone; Annette was with him. Uncle Bien awkwardly but with tender, chivalric spIrits, helped his wife from the boat. "We have no home now, ma'am," he said, turning to me. Annette could not speak; she trembled, and sat down on the fallen trunk of a tree. "She is well-nigh used up," the guide continued, in a broken voice, "a-fightin' the flames. I got there jest in season, for she'd used up all her strength a-savin' the goods. Yes, mia'am, she saved nearly everything, and sent them by Jim down to the village, five miles away. We have left the children there at a neighbor's." Then lie added, with a touch of pride and love in his tone, "but 1 brought her along, for she wanted to be with me to.day, andl I thought you would be willin', -under the circumustances." "Willingl Of course we were willing. We drew her to the tent, and she laid down on tho,hemlock boughs to rest. I remained beside her a little while. Her face was strong, loving and beautiful, but deadly pale. I noticed that she did not breathe naturally, and spoke of it. "It Isiny heart, I fear. Will you call Bonjanin, pleasel" He came to tier, knelt by her side, took lier dear hand In his two strong palmns. We chafed her feet and hands, gave her brandy. What else could we do? Miles %way from any physician, we were help. less. Annette watched her husband with all lier wifely love and tenderness in her eyes. At last she gasped. "We-shall-be-nearer-than -- when -you-were-away, -dear. 1-shall-be ilways-near-you " We left them together in the tent, and iought the rocks on the bunch. When Aight came, Annette's strong, brave spirit tiad fled. In the twilight a broken-spirited man itole from the tent and went into the Forest. We know not what was there re realed to him, but when he returned we felt as if there, upon the mountain side ie had talket with God and been con forted. Early in the morning Annette was laid gently, reverently, in the boat. Once more Unc:e Ben took the. oars; and as the sun arose over the water, illuminating the sur face of the lake, touching the mountains with a rosy light, Annette, the loving and true, with a smile upon her scaled lips, was borne tenderly back to her little Mes. Trying to Drive ai Hon. Did you ever undertake to drive a hen anywhere? If not, then never say "Where there's a will there's a way," or "Ail things are possible to him who observes, " because you don't know anything about it. Driving a hen properly, and decorously, and successfully, requires more skill than capturing a herd of buffalo. The hen you want to drive is always a strong-minded hen. If she had been a woman she would have wanted the ballot long ago, and her husband would have had to keep quiet when she ' got set" on any hing. But being only a hen, all she can do is to cackle, and be contrary, and thwart you at every turn. If you want her to go in somewhere she'll be sure to want to go out, and vice versa. You want to drive her most when she gets ut of the coop, and gets into your garden, to the total destruction of your pet bulbs, and roots, and seeds, and everything else. Dne smart, active hen will do more harm in one hour than a cow would in hal f a Jlay. A hen Is born with an instinct to get at the root of the matter, and she follows out her nature. When your lien gets out of confluement she makes straight for your choicest flower bed, and she stays there for an hour before you discover her. By that time she has dug out everything that you cared anything about, and has buried herself up all but her head, and there she lies in the sun with happiness and triumph in tier speaking countenance. IIow mad you are I You feel as if you could sever tier joints and make her into a pot-pie with a will-no matter if she is one of the trio that cost $10. You go for tier with energy, and scream out "sIhool" at her, and flourish your apron, and make wild gestures in tier direction, and call your husband, and the children, and the hired girl, to help drive her into her quarters. Now, it is never any use to call a man to help drive a hen. We are willing to admit that the lords of ereation can do quaiitities of things that the weaker sex cannot, byut there is one thing a man can never dlo--and th it is drive a lien. IIe'll break the rake-handlc, and get hung in the clothes-line, and lose his hat, and fall down over the croquet wickets, and burst off two or three of his Auspendler buttons, and the lion will fly up on the telp of the barn, or Lake refuge In the tallest tree on the premises, and there she will stay and( laugh at him until she is ready to come down. And all the nmen in creation cannot drive her down, for she knows that she has got things tier owni way. Your hen that you are going to dIrive generally cackles all the tine you are try ing to dirive tier. It gives tier courage, perhaps, to defy you. It is like the music of a nvartial band wvhen the troops are marching into battle. It is as insp)iring as the strains of "Yankee D)oodte" to the lien's ear. You try gentleness first. "'Shoe, biddy I shioo, biddy I shoe, thierel " and she plunges off mn the directlan con trary to the one you wish her to go) In; and( then you (draw oli your forces aiid execute a flank movement, and "pen'' her up, but presto I just as you think you have got tier, she squats and gives a scoot right out tinder your skirts, andl away she goes free as aIr. Then you get seome corn andl try aiid bruibe hier. Oh, no, she doesn't want aiiy corn, thank you. Bhe is above bribery. She doesn't take any stock in your "chicky I ciceky I chicky I " delivered in your most cajoling of voices. Mtill she cackles. All the roosters cackle, too, evidiently tickled with hier spunk. A few hens who are inot curiotus join in. All the neighbors will be lookiing out to see "what on earth are you making oem hens screech so for." Your husba d gets .a pole and makes a dive for that lien. Hle'll fIx her cackle for tier, lhe says; she'll go imto that hen-house or he'll know the reason I And by the time he has chiasedl her all over the premises, and torn his pants, and knocked a pIece of skin off his hiandl, and run over little Charley, lie does not find out the reason. it ia because she is not of a mind to go lnte that hen-ho.use. And lie says that hens are a nuisauice, andl that he'll kill the whole of 'em, and( he wishes there never haid been one mnvent ed. By this thne you arc tired of his help, andl you request him to go away and you'll drive that lhen. Trhien you begin, and the lien begins too. She flies over the fence, and up on~ a neigh. bor's woodshed, and (town into somebody's pig-pen, and the pig takes after bcr with a vim, and she fles out with a screeclg and runs uder the barn, and there she stays till night and then If you will leav'e open your hen-house door she will find her way thither, as meek and innocent looking as you please-for "chickens and curses come home to ront." Died on Duty. An interestingrelie is preserved In a glas case in the Coldstream Guards' orderly-root a. WLitehal', London. It hangs in a vcrj appropriate place- -namely, between th old colors which that famous corps carrie on the field of Waterloo, and consists o the head and neck of a goose, around whic Is a golden collar with the inscription "Jacob-Second Battalion Coldstrean Guards." Beneath it are the words "Died on Duty." Very few men noi serving in the regiment are conversan with the history of this devoted specimei of the feathered tribe, who, havlig onc volunteered to serve the state in the capa city of a sentry, never deserted his pos until the great commander, Death relieve him from duty. In 1838 a rebellion brok out in Canada, and two battalions of th guards were sent thither to assist in quell Jng it, the battalion already mentioned be ing one of them. Both corps occupied Lt citadel of Quebec, and in their turn sup plied the guards which were ordered to b mounted in different parts of the town an( neighborhood. Near one of these guardf was a farm yard which had suffered muel from the ravages of foxc--animals tha were at that period a great pest to th< colonists-and as the farm in question hat been suspected of being the meeting plac of the rebels, a chain of sentries was place( around it. One day the sentry, wliosi duty it was to watch the entrance of i farinm, had his attention attracted by an un usual noise, and on looking toward th( spot whence it proceeded lie behold a tin, goose fleeing toward him, closely pursue< by a fox. His first impulse was to have i shot at the latter, but this would- havi alarnied the guard ant brought condigr punishment on himself for giving a falsi alarni. He was compelled, therefore, vi remain a silent spectator of the scene, !hili every step brought the reynard nearer t< his prey. In the height of its despair th poor bird ran its head and n(ek betweei the legs of the poor soldier in its frantic endeavor to reach the refuge wiich th( sentry-box could afford, and at the saic moment the wily fox made a desperat( grab l th goose, but too late, for ere hi could get a feather between his teeth, thc ready bayonet of the sentinel had passe< through his body. The poor goose, by wa of showing its gratitude to its preserver rubbed its head against his legs and madi other equally curions demonstrations of joy nor could it ever be prevailed upon to qui the spot, but walked up and down da) after day with each successive sentry thal was placed there until the battalion lef Canada, when the goose was brought away with it as a regimential pet to England. The most remarkable thing in connectioi with the story is that the goose in turc actually saved its preserver's life. Whethei the former knew that the sentry was the same man or not must of course forever re main a problem ; but it so happened that hi was on that particular post again about tw months afterward, wl.en a desperate at temipt was made to surprise and kill the un wary sentin(l. It was winter time, and, although it was a bright moonlight night the moon was hidden ever and anon by (i scudding clouds, which scemied to presagt an approaching storn,. In tfiese momients of darkness a sharp observer might hav noticed the shedows of several meon who unobserved by the somewhat droway semn tinel, werd endeavoring stealthily to ap proach the post where lie stood. Suddenly he heard, or thought he heard, a strange rustling sound, and, flinging his musket t< his shoulder, lie shouted loudly: '"Who goeF there " Not a sound save the echo of hiE own voice in the distance, and the sighing of the winter wind among the branches o: the trees which stood in the deserted farin yard, reaponded to the challenge. Several minutes elapsed, during which the soldlie marched up aind dow his loiely beat followed by the devoted goose, until, (deemning his alarm unwarrantedl, lhe agahi "stood at ease'" before the sentry-box. This was the enemy's opportunity, and the rebels were not long mn endeavoring t< profit by it. Closer and closer they stoh up toward the post. the thick snow whici: lay on the ground completely dleadenting the sound of tlieir footsteps. But just am two of their imunber, one on each side of the sentry-t)ox, weie preparing with up. lifted knife to spring uponl the unsusapect, ing man, the bird miade a grand( effort, ros< suddenly on Its wmngs, and swept aroumnt the sent,ry-box with tremendous force, flapping its wings right in the faces of the would-bc assassins. T1hiey were astounded andl rushed blindly for ward, but the sentry fully aroused to his dlanger, bayoneted oe and shot at the other ais lhe was running~ away. Meanwhile, the other conspiratorm aipproachelid to the assistance of their col. leagues; but the bird repeated its tactici and enabled the sentry to keel) them ait h)aj until the guard-whom the tiring of his musket had alarmed-came upon the soent and mrade them lIce for their lives. Whet this incident Leonime known poor ok(1 Jacol was the hero of t,he garrison, and the ollcers ,subscribed for and purchased the goldeni collar which the bird afterward wore until the day of his death. Jacot bore wvell the discomnforts of the voyage t< Encland on board a ship which was noted for its rickety condlitlon, and which wac within an ace of being lost in a tremendou storm that overtook her. On the arriva of the regiment in Londoni the bird resuine< lts 01(1 duties with the sentimels posted a t,he barrack gates amid it was exceedinglj anmisinig to watch its movemernts as ii walked proudly up and dlown with tIh sentry, or stood to "attention'' beside thc box when the latter was saluting a passing officer or guard. The feathered hero wai well fed and cared for, and a circular bath filled with water was always at its disposai Children were its especial favorites, at they used to bring the creature all kinds o food ; but Jacob would never tolerate an: liberties, except when In military parlance he was "standing easy." For many yeari Jacob seemed to bear a charmed life; biu lie was at length run over by a van in thi narrow gateway which formed the entrane to old P'ortmnan Street Barracks, and hat one cf his legs broken. Every effort whici kindness and skill could suggest was mad to save this extraordinary bird ; but it wa of no avail, and he died like a true Englisi soldier, at the post of duty, after a "son try-go'' of no less than twelve years. Th body of the bird was burled with a honors, where he died ; but his head wa preserved in a manner already described and can be seen by anybody who lia suficient influence with the offRcers or nor commissioned officers of the gallant reg meat concerned to obtain for them a pee mn the military sanctum at Whitehall, NEWS IN BREF. -Levy gets $500 a week for blowing his cornet. -The demand for heavy horses, not only for breeders, but for work, con tinues. -Twenty-three thousand quails trom England have been set at liberty in Pennsylvania. -The eldest son of Professor Alex ander Agassiz will enter Harvard Col lege this year. -The rice crop of South Carolina Is estimated at 43,000 tierces, and of Geor gia at 26,000 tierces. -Trhe New Jersey Fish Commission t era have deposited 5000 trout in the I Passaic and Saddle rivers. 3 -New Orleans boasts of blocks of ice with natural flowers frozen into them - at its own ice manufactories. -A Providence woman, admiring a bust in a shop window, stepped in to inquire who Terra Cotta was. -Pearl millet which has not gen erally succeded in Massachusetts is grown with good results in Kansas. -Rye straw is now extensively used in the manufacture of paper, and is worth as much as the best timothy hay. -Professor Huxley will deliver the inaugural address at the opening of the Science College at Birmingham on Oc tober 1. -One or more large sorgum sugar re fIneries are to be established in Minne sota, ready for working the crop of Iext fall. -ai'he British Mercantile Gasette re ports an increase of 049,200 acres in four years devoted to the culture of bee roots in France. -rhe Canadian Senate lately' reject ed, by 32 to 31, the bill legalizing mar riage with a deceased wife's sister. or a deceased brother's wife. -Stonewall Jackson's widow and her daughter, Miss Julia Jackson, unveiled a monument to Stonewall Jackson at Winchester, Va., on the 9th of June. -General Grant is reported to have sent to the Emperor of Japan several handsome horses, and the Eastern po tentate frequently uses them in his rides. -The will of Lewis, the Hoboken (N. Y.) miser, bequeathing $1,700,000 to the Government toward payment of the National debt, has been admitted to probate. -Minnesota fruit giowers are look. Ing to some varieties of apples in Rus ela with the hope of finding some that will endure the severity of the winter Iclimante. -It Is stated that there proje season in Ohio twenty-one new & thirteen of them narrow-Aauge 4the prospects are good that fifteen o em, will be built. -The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boa ton, w ill soon visit Europe, to be absent several months. lie wil go to Eng lan d with Dean Ilowson, of Chester, as lils compan loln. -Strauss, the musical composer and director, still lives in Paris. He is 74 loossessed of a competency. Strange to say, his ruling passion is not music, but brie-a-brac. -Alsop, the brewer, who has jnst secured a baronetcy, is discovered to be descended, on hils mother's side, from Itichard Plantagonet, father of Edward LV. and Richard 111. -InE ngland the marriage rate was lower in the last quarter of 1879 than in any since civil registration was es tablished in 1837. The birth rate was wis lower than i1n 1850. -M. Henri Say's new vacht, now being built in Maryland is to cost nearly $300,000. It is exp acd to reach a speed of eighiteen miles an hour, and it will be fnilahed in the witumn. -Ilorato Seymour, oi the 2d of JFune, which was lis sovr>ntieth birth uay, plan tedi two trees on his broth er's lawn, in Utica. Is Albany ad imirors sent hlim a handsome library clock. -Mrs. Polly *erome died in 1New L:mdon, Con11., recently, at the age of' 102 years anmd 5 n.onths. She was born in New London an~d has alwvays lived there, except a brief period during tile war of 1812. -Th'e Trennuessee Hisitorical Society has presented a gold-headed hinkocy cane ,to Clark Muis, an(I increasedl his declighlt by informing him thlat it is the first testimonial ever given to any man by the society. -Garhaldi, whlo Is.. in excellent health, is at p)resent repairing and en larging his liouse oni the island of Cap rera. 'The engegement is made in view of his recent marriage with the nurse of' his chIldren. -It is said that Goy. Andrew, of Connecticut1 has appointed a State de tcctive to imake a further effort to solve the mystery of the murder of Mary Stannard, for which the Rev. HI. H1. hIaydlen was trIed. -The rank of distinguilshed Generals In the late war at the time they were gradluated from West Point is offically given as follows: Sherman 0, Rosecrans 5, Gilmore 1, McPherson 1, Grant 21, Sheriden 34, Custer 34. -The 0o(1 car shops near Borden town, N. J., formerly occupied by the Caimden and Amboy Railroad Comn p'uny, have been leased, it is said, by partsa from Wilmington, Del, who intend starting a new ear manufactory. -What is said to be thme first pound of coff'ee raised in the United States has been grown by a Mrs. Atzeroth on her plantation on Indiana river, Flor ida. The plants were furnished by the Agricultural Department in Washing ton. -Great Britain and Ireland sent out 217,163 emigrants last year, against 147,603 in 1878, and received 53,073 Im migrants; 01,800 of last year's do partures camne to the United States, 17,053 wvent to Canada, and 40,968 to Australia. 'These changes in popula.. tion have an important sanitary bear ing. -In the Paterson (N. J.) Iron Works -there has lust been forged the heaviest a c f iron ever forged in that city. SItisa astrn frame for tihe steamer W . A. Shiotten, now being repaired in New York. It Is 22x37 feet, and weighs 5 eleven tons; iWith the rudder, it weighs -sixteen toins. It could not be taken -through the Erie tunnel, and was p drawn to Jersey city by fourteen~ horass