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TRI-WEEKLY EVTITION, INSBR,S C., 'JULY 22,1880.yL V-O8 WINNS.DuR. S V . VM D, Violet del'ate. sweet, Down in the deep of the wood, Mid in thy still retreat, Far from the sound of the streot, Man and his merelless mood : 1afe.from the storm and the heat, B1reath-ng of beauty and good Frarantly under thy bood, Violet. -Seaul ful maid disoreet. Where is e mate that is meet, Meet for thee-a.trive as he could Iet will I kneel at thy foot, Fearing another one should,, Violet. The Golden Talisman, "I cannot recoimend you, believinp you to be a thief, but I will be so merciful that I will let you depart. Uo at once." The voice and face were stern and un, yielding.. Geoffrey Baird knew that all the piteous appeals lie had made, the assertions of in. nocence he had frantically declared had fal. len upon ears not indeed deaf, but closed to him. "You have been very kind to me, Mr. H6yt," he said, his voice quivering with pain, "and I hope sonic day you will know that I had rather cut off my right hand than let it rob you." - Tnere was no reply, and the boy, for lie was only nineteen, walked slowly from the room, where lie had been accused of crime, condemned and punished in & brief half hour. He was a widow's only son, and very poor, but Abraham 1oyt had been very kind to him, employing hli In light labor about his extdnsive grounds, and trying him well, and allowing hin to read whatever he wished in lils library. And from the library a valuable watch and chain had been Btolen from a table drawer, when there was no one as far as could be ascertained, in the room but Geof frey Baird. Crushed, humiliated, alnost heart-broken the lad walked from the house across the wide garden, bright with summer bloom that seemed to mock-his misery. le had his hand upon the great Iron gate leading into the road, when lie heard his name called, in a clear, childish voice. "Jeff, Jeff I Oh, wait a moment 1" And then, turning his heavy eyes, lie saw a fairy of ten summers, a golden-haired darlink, dressed all in white, coming down the broad ~Walk with flying feet. Of all the treasures his employer pos sessed, Geoffrey knew this, his only child, was the dearest. Motherless from her birth, she had been her father's idol her whole petted life. "Jeff," she panted, coming to his side, "you must go away, papa says. but I know you never, never took the watch I Did you?" "No. Miss Daisy, I never took it." "I know it I I'm going. to find out who - did take it. And Jeff, you must take this."1 She opened her tiny white hand to show lying upon the pal a broad twenty-dollar geld piece. But the boy shrank back. ' Mb, no, Miss Daisy," lie said "I can no . But you must; It is my own, my very own. Aunt Louise gave it to me on my blithday. In the corner 1 scratched 'M. I, for Margaret Hoyt, with a pin, but I guess it won't hurt It. Please, please, dear Jeff, do take it." She pressed it into his reluctant hand and then throwing her arms around iis neck,* kissed him with her child lips, say. Ing: "I will find out who did take the watch, Jeff, anid then you will come back." Before lie could answert she was speeding back to the house, her flying curls out on the summer air that wafted to Geoffrey a Jast-: "Good-by, dear Jeff." With a heavy heart lie wvent homeward, to tell h's sorrow and disgrace. lie feared it woul'd alnmost kill lis mother, but after hearing him patiently, she said : "I had a letter from Albany this morn lng, Geoffrey, fromi my father's lawyers. T wenty-five years ago my father cast me off for marrying a poor man. H[e' died without forgiving me but to you he has left his fortune-nearly half a million in naoney -upon condition you take hia name when you, are of age. I have p)acked up your possessions, and we will go to Albany to. nl art !" The voice was sharp and imperative, andl Margaret Hoyt, lookedi up from the task of * teaching .Alice Brhstow her letters, to answer, burt before she spoke tire beautiful girl wire entered tire school-room said: "Marg~aret, I want you to come and show Elsie how to trim my dress for to. night. Everybody said you had rich ex Quisite taste before y'ourr father failed and died." The pale, patient face flushed a little at the cruel words, but Laura Biristow did not heed the pain she had given. Come now," she sai imipatiently; "I 'Wharton is coiming. It la the flest party since hie came from Europe. Ho has been vege. tating Jn Florence ever so) long, with a consumptive mother; burt shre died a year ago, anid after traveling awhile he lhas comre honme. Did you know him ?" "I never heard tire name. " "Come to think of it, lie left long before you caine," Alice's primer was put aside, and Miar. garet trecomnpanied Laura to tire room where her finery was being prepared for a brilliant part a few hiours later. *"Miss Hoyt," Miss lhristow said looking ump fromi the cloud of tulle runder her fin ge, "I wish you to come dlown to play, and I wish you to wear white lace ruffles asut a white flower or t,wo in your hair. Thait will not interfere with your mroiurniig, but you.whil look ai little less like a mutesat a tiea. To hear wias to obey. Mirs. JBristow was -a ist~aht connection of Mir. Hoyt's and when lie died leaving lis only child to pow orty theo lady impressed umponi stricken Das that she. ,ss lilaccd under~ an enormrous iveighit of qlglJ&gstion by beoing permuitted to be goveirness, 'hsidy's maid, general useful f actotumn in her'fatnuly~ But the soft violet eyes ha,d II>st nothdng . of their sweetness; thoegolden hair gathered anto a rich knot, was full of waves and * a-nglts,making tiny 'baby curls around 4~diote oyql 0hr, pale; faco, and the How It Strikes OEns. If you want to know a man for what h, is take him in a hot day. Most everyboA has a way of standing cold we4ther, bu when the sun jumps the mercury abov< eighty-five degrees human nature- become reckless. A citizen who waited in thi shade of the potoffice for a quarter of a1 hour yesterday had plenty'of proofs of this The first one who approached was a soIl4 business man, his hat on one side and hi coAt half off. The other day he was crazi on the subject of politics, but yesterda when asked how he liked the nomination he belched-out: "What in Texas have I got to do wit politics ? There's too much politics in thi country -too blasted muchl I wonder wha in blazes such weather as this was sent t us for !" The next man Is generally looked upoi as a meek and humble-minded citizen. H has been known to buy a dog rather thai see it killed, and he refuses to fish becaus he believes the hook hurts 'em. He cami along moppibg his brow and trying to ge away from a sticky undershirt, and wa pleasantly asked If the weather suited-him "See here, sir I" he began, as lie brisit up like a fighting dog, "I mind my owi business and desire other people to min( theirs I I never did strike a man yet, bu I want impudence from you or anyon else I' The next man was a lawyer. He wai asked if he could manage to keep cool, ani he turned into the shade, pulled, out hi handkerchief, and replied: "Attorney Black insulted me in opet court about a month ago, and though I dk( think I wouldn't pay any attention to it yet this hot wave has convinced me that I is my duty to slap his mouth on sight Have you seen him pass here ?" The next man has a local reputation as I jolly, good-hearted fellow, and men hav( known him for years without hearing hin speak a cross word. He toiled along it the hot sun with the perspiration runnins down his cheeks, and as he reached thi shade lie was accosted by a bootblack. H4 took off his hat, wiped his face and ther said: "I believe you are -the boy who cut m3 horses tall off, one night last week, and i1 you don't go away from me I'll do you i mortal injury I" There were several other instances goinj to, show that while cold brings out th( cheery in man's mature, heat parboils hii sentiment and hardens his better feelings. In cold weather men will hunt for a friend to drink with them. In summer they wil: sneak off alone and go into a saloon by the alley door. Not one man in a hundred wil refuse to sign a petition in the winter, bul when approached in the red-hot season the3 won't even listen to two of the twenty four reasons why they should sign. Thii mysterious change must have been forcibl3 felt by a leading citizen. who the other daj wrote a postal card saying: "In May I subscribed $25 to help buik a new church. If you come now I wil pay it. If you wait till after hot weathei sets in I'll repudiate the subscription am give you a chance to lick the snbscriber.' ie Rancling in California. This is a famous country for bees anc the making of honey, and at many a break, fast table in distant Europe to-day, th( walle is spread with the sweets that havt been filched from the hearts of a thousand California flowers. n the mouth of almosl every canon there is a bee ranch or apiary, whose owner grows indolent and prosper ous from the labors of his industrious sub jec,s. Here there is no long winter witi dearth of flowers, through whilceh the pa tient workers' must be nursed and fed in order that they may live until the opening of the next field season, These bee ranches are models of neatness and domestic com fort, and the profession of bee-keeping is rapidly becoming popular among persona of little physical strength or small financial capital, or both ; such as maiden ladies, broken down ministers, bachelor students, and those dilettante farmers who fancy that the royal road to oucolic happiness lies through- the flowery beds of a bee pasture. Thieir expenses are as light as those of a hermit in his cave, and what stores of honey are laid up are so much clear gamn, as the bees board themselves while they work, and work unceasingly for the pre paration of the winter, which never comes. When the hiyc is full, the cakes of comb are removed, the liquid is extracted fronm the cells, and the empty cups are replaced to be filled again and again. This eo. aomical process prevents a waste of labor and time in gathering of wax for the build ng of new bins irr the store-house. Walk ing out in the morning in the green brush wood of these canyons, you hear a loud and continuous buzzing of wings, and, al thoughi there may not be a flower in sight, Li is as ceaseless and strong as in a buck wheat patch or clover field at home. Thu humming of bees is nature's tenor voirce, as the roaring of the water is her be 'ort are cures for homesickness in * monotone even thoughi the authioa. berperfectly wild, as, indeed, many ire, In such. a country you cannv .. atterly lonesome and lost. The Chinese Wall. Mr. Unthank, an American engineer, hai been engaged lately making a survey for Chinese railwpy, during which lhe tool ameasurementgl in many p laces of the greal wall of China. He gives the height at eighteen teet, and the width on top fifteen. Every few hundred yards there Is a towe: twenty-four feet square and from twenty t< forty.five feet high. The foundation of this immense wall Is solid granite. Thti wall goes for 1,800 miles over the moun tains, chasms and valleys. It was built t< keep out the Tlartars. Mr. Unthani brought back with him a.brick from thu wail, which is supposed to have been mnadi 200 years before Christ. In some placea the wall is built' smooth up against thi canyons or precipices, where there is sicer descent of one thousand feet. Smnai streams are arched over, but in the larges streams the wall is built to the water's edge, and a tower is built on each side. To cal. cuhate the time of building, or cost of thil wall, is beyond human skill. On the toj of the wall are breastworks or defenses facing in and out, so that the defendinj force can lttss from one tower .to the othie without being exposed to any enemy frorr either side. So far.as the,magimitulde of thi wall is concerned, it surpasses overything in ancient or modern time., of which there is any trace. It is said that the Pyramid of kd'pt are nothizig comred to . sensitive mouth was still expressive and lovely. 8he sighed a little as she put the soft white rufflo Into her back dress, and a few white flowers into her hair. It seems like forgetting poor father," she thought, but yet she knew her appear ance had been too gloomy for a festive occa sion. The guest were gathering, and Daisy had gone into a small sitting-room opposite the wide drawing-rooms to wait until she was summoned to sing and play. She had never been in society in Albany, and knew none of Mr. BristAw's friends, so she was graciously excused from taking any more active part in the social gathering than to amuse by her singing, or help wil ling feet along by playing dance music. She was turnini( over the leaves of a new magazine, quite sure of being uninterrupted when the door opened, and looking up she saw a strange gentleman. "Pardon me," he said, "I thodght this was the drawing-room." . Then, as she lifted her face, he sprang forward. "Daisy I Daisy I" he said, and not real izing the familiarity of the address,she rose to stretch out both hands, saying. "Jeff I Is it Jeff?" "It is Jeff," he answered, "or rather it is Willard Wharton.'' ,Then moving a chair near the one she had occupied, he told her of his grand father's legacy and the change of name. "Through good and ill, years of prosper ity and the temptation that assails all of us. I have carried a golden talisman, to keep my heart pure and true, that I might some day dare to bring it to your feet," Ihe said. And through a mist of happy tears she saw him open a large locket hanging to his watch chain. No minature face, no look of hair was there, but carefully set, a twenty-dollar gold piece, with 'H. M,' scratched with a pin in one corner. In the drawing rooni Mrs. Bristow won dered what detained our hero for the eye ning; but when he came in late she read nothing of the secret that was in tis happy eyes. Bhe saw his courteous attention to her governess, but attributed to the innate courtesy of the young millionaire, -and laisy sang as if inspired, and threw a shower of fantasies into her waltz galop music. But when Miss Hoyt was asked for in Mr. Wharton's calls, when the stylish turn out that was admired of all Albany stood. at the door for Miss Hoyt to drive, Mrs. Bristow grew savage. "You are too forward with strangers," she told Daisy. But Mr. Wharton is an old friend. I knew him when I was a little girl, and and we are to be married in the spring," said blushing Daisy. And considering Mr. Wharton's wealth and position, and his future wife's proba ble influence in society, Mrs. Bristow wise ly made the best of it, and Daisy' was pro vided with a trousseau and a wedding par ty, .for "Your great kindness to Allie," said Mrs. Bristow gracefully. Not until they had ben some days mar ried did Willard Wharton say one day car lessly. "By-the-by, Daisy, was that watch ever found ?" "Yes Felix was arrested six months af terward for stealing some of the plaLe, and In his trunk was the watch. Pana search ed faithfully for you, but you had vanished as if the earth had swallowed you." "I knew it would turn up somewhere," said Mr. Wharton, quietly, "and perhaps now it is just as well it was missed. If J had not left in disgrace, my darling might not have given me my golden talisman." owling Icaragua Monkeys.. Four howling monkeys from Nicaragua are now at the Zoological Garden at Phila delphia. .These animals have a reputation of being able to iniake more noise in pro portion to their size than any other aninal yet discovered, except perhaps the tree frog. in their native woods, just before sunrise, these howlers commence, and their dismal cries, it is said, can be heard for miles around. They are enabled to make this terrific noise by reason of a special de velopment of vocal organs. They are small animals and are generally fauna in South America. Those at the Garden are known as the 'Man'tled Jkowlers,' be cause of a line of gray hair around the back and sides, and are the most - northern cof several species. Trhey are the first which have ever been in the Garden, as they are scarce and hard to capture. Bie sides that, they are very delicate, ats was shown by thme fait that thie four which ar rived there are all that was left of fourteen which were sent from Nicaragua. To capture those fourteen little monkeys it took about eighteen men several hours, and necessitated the cutting down of about four acres of trees. A tribe or lot of the animals were observed in tite forest, and the method by which they were secured was briefly as follows : The men first sur rounded the tribe, so as to drive them as closely together as possible. Then an outside ring of trees were cut down;' the fall of which dr'ove the monkeys still closer to the centre. More trees were felled,until but a single clump of two or three trees wvere loft standing, and the monkeys were left shielter ed in their branches. Tihen one after another these trees were cut down- so that all the tribe had to take refuge in one tr'ee. The capture of a number of them was then a comparatively easy matter. The four little strangers-were placed -in one of the cages in the monkey house. 'With them arrived a "black handed spider mon key." specunens of which have been. in tihe collection before. The name indicates just about 'what they look like. .They have black hands and long arms and legs. which make them resemble .a spider ,very - much. Texa :attle. Thme number of these, seem to be increas-~ ing astonishingly. The drive into the bordering States this year, was not.less than 800,000. The largest percentage of these were one and two.year-old past steers, wu ich are already contracted for in advance, at good prices, -with thme more northern ranch-men. Tfhe animals are said to be in extra-fine condition, and the drive began much earlier' this spring than ustual, as the mild past winter has been extra-favorable for the growth' of pasturage. .Ycarling steers commanded OI on the Merage;- two year-olds and cows $9, three-yitar-olds $10; beeves, $18.' Tho avermge Wor'th when market is reached, is etidfaedt $.11pe~r head, making $8,800,000 for 'the lot-aA goodly round sum for the Texas rach-then to realIze in) a single tear for tbh@I1oa Natural 8hstory-Modern. For hundreds of years the wise men of 3 the world vainly tried to find out what alli r gators were made for. Some supnosed t they were a parlor ornament on legs; others a contended that their mission was to tow * sawlogs up and down; and many persons firm1 believed that the reptile had no other aim in life than to get hold of a runaway Dutchman. We shall divide the alligator into several sections, In order to study its different points. The hea4 comes first. It r is one pa;t head and two parts mouth, this chap beidg the only living thng that can open his mouth as far as he wants to, and then have lots of spare mouth loft. The jaws are built on the sawmill principle. While one is working, the other is resting t and getting ready for a soft spap. No one ever experimented to see just how strong an alligator was in his jaws, but when they have been seen to crunch the ,end off a saw log, and bend a crow-bar don%blo, you may take it for granted that a small boy's shoul . der-blades wouldn't stop their teeth very a long. Their teeth are numerous and made on honor. They not only use them to pick up tender infants lost overboard, but to haul prosy old spotted cows off the river bank and put them beyond further pain and sor row. When an alligator gets a fair hold of you there Is only one thing to do-call for the police. In the head are the eyes. They could not grow in a better place to please the reptile. They are so set that he can see before and behind him, an4- there Is no danger of their getting blacked in a free fight. If the eyes took up more room there wouldn't be so much Douth; therefore the eyes am no larger thaf those of a dog. The legs of an alligator are short and stout, it not being supposed that he would ever par ticipate in a walking match. Ho uses them with equal facility on land or water, and but very few cork-legs have ever boon seen in use among them. It- might have been just as well had these reptiles been built on the principle of the camel or the giraffe, but we must not complain of Na ture's ways. The body and tail are cover ed with an extra roof to protect the alliga tor from hailstones and brick-bate, and It's no use to shoot beans at him from the top of a high bank. It has been asserted that a bullet cannot penetrate this thick skin, but if you ever get sight of one ot the gen try pop your bullet at him from any point of the compass. If they don't kill him they will certainly cause sorrowful thoughts, and perhaps lead to a resolution to reform. The tail is firmly fastened to the body, and is both ornamental and useful. The day may not be far distant when we shall walk down to the placid waters at evening-time to gave on a race of bob-tailed alligators, but just at present they have lots of use for these pieces of personal property. It is said that they can knock a man end over end with one sweep of the tail, but they are seldom mean enough to do it. Alliga tors eat most everything which comes in their way and make no complaints. No landlady would have the least rouble with t(hem. . Th. Uka.agh ohoraZ atiety, but prefer to put in any spare time they'have in r the company of such men as they can lay. hold of. Their habits are very regular; their conduct all that can be expected, and they stick to business till the pond dries up. As a general rule if you are up in a tree and the alligator Is in a pond he is not inellued to meddle with your affairs, but you can rouse his curiosity and his belliger ent disposition very quickly by dropping down and tryig to use him as a ferry boat. IIe no doubt gets along just as well as if lie had been a clam or an oyster, and don't you put faith in any historian who tries to make you believe that the reptile sighs for any change beyond that of diet. A Walrus Hunt. Three of these large animals were ob served on a piece of ice, their large, ungain ly forms stretched out, lazily enjoying their siesta. Volunteers were not wanting for the purpose of attempting their capture; but, as an indiscriminate attack would only lead to failure, it was determined to dis patch one of the whalo-boats, specially fit ted with a harpoon, gun and all the necessary implements and gear for securing these ani mals, in order to effect in a more organized and skilful manner the object we had in view. Great difficulty was experienced in approaching our prey, as the boat had to be hauled over loose fragments of ice, and pushed through a sludgy consistency of soft Ice, snow and water, In which the dars were useless; so that it was feared the un avoidable noise would disturb and frighten them away. At length, after much trouble and no little exertion, we succeeded in get ting within about eight yards, so sound was their repose, without exciting -the~ least suspicion in their minds that danger was lurking in their vicinity. At that distance, however, they evinced a degree of.restless ness, by lifting their shaggy heads and ut tering jerky spasmodic snorts, that showed us only too plainly a retreat was meditat ed. Selecting the largest of the three of his viCtims our harpooner carefully laid lisa gun. A moment of breathless. suspense followed, to be relieved by the report cf a gun, a roar of pain and rage, aind the disappearance in the water of the three walrusses, while the piece of ice,'on which I a moment before they had been reposmng, was covered with blood, convincing us that our shaft had taken effect. If any further proof was required in corroboration of this fact, a tugging at the line and the sudden moving of,the boat was sufficienti Lances Iand rifles were quickly seized; for these animals, when wounded and maddened by pain, are ugly and dangerous - customers, -and have frequently boon known to rip the planks out of a boat with their fornmidable tusks, and thus seriously endanger the lives Iof the crow. We had not long to wait; a disturbance in the water close alongside denoted that our victim was coming to the surface. An instant after, his bearded face, with every expression of Infuriated rage and demoniacal hate, his fiery eyes Iglaring with vengeance, appearede and was Imaiediately saluted with two or lhreoe rifle Ibullets. This warm reception served only to incense and irritate him, and he tried hard to wreak his vengeance on the boat; but his enemies were too powerful, and with the united aid of bullets and-lance thrusts, the unwielded beast was forced to succumb to the superior power of his human antagonists. Towing the great carcass back to thes ship, it was hauled on the floe and quickly finached. The bltibber and flesh were packed in barrels, making a very welcome addition to the small amount of food that we had on board for otr dogs. A MAN, was boasting that hi had an elevator in his hohse. "So be has " chimied his wifei; "and he keeps It in the cupboard, in a bottle," ANosssiinationof the Duke of nucklugha The duke now prepared to go out to I carriage, which was waiting at the doc and as he went through the hail, .still (< lowed by the French gentlemen, Uolot Friar whispered something in his ear. I turned to listen, and at the same moment knife was plunged into his heart and h there sticking. Plucking it out with t' **ord "Villain W4 he fell covered with bloo His servants, who caught him as he w falling, thought it was a stroke of app plexy, but the blood, both from the woui and from his mouth, quickly undeceivi them. Then an alarm was raised; sot ran to close the gates, and others rushi forth to spread the news. The Duchess Buckingham and her sister, the Countess. Anglesses, heard the noise in their chamb and ran into the gallery of the lobby, who they saw the duke lying in his gore. I was only in his sIx-and-thirtieth year. TI first suspicion fell upon the French, at they were in great danger from the duke people; but when a number of officers can rushing in, crying out, "Where is the v] lain I Where is the butcher ?" a mt stepped calmly forward, saying, "I am ti man-here I am I" He had quietly witl drawn into the kitchen as soon as he hi done the deed, and might have escaped h he so willed. Qn hearing him- avow ti murder the officers drew their swords, ax would have dispatched him, but were pri vented by the secretary Carleton, Sir Thi mas Morton, and others, who stood guai over him to the Governor's house. Ti assaBsin turned out to be John Felton, gentleman by birth and eaucation, wl had been a libutenant in the army durit the expedition to the Isle of Rhe. le he thrown up his commission because he coul not obtain the arrears of his pay, and ha seen another at the same. time promotc over his head. He had, therefore, mo likely, a personal grudge against the duki but had also been led on by religious fh natioim. le was a stout, dark, militar, looking man, from Suffolk; but, accordia to his own account, was first excited to tl deed by reading the remonstrance of t) Parliament aghinst the duke, when semed to him that that remonstrance wi a sufficient warrant for the act, and that U ridding the country of him he should rend4 a real service to it. He described himse as walking in London on Tower Hill, whe he saw a broad hunting knife on a ou ler's stall, and that it was suggested to hii instantly to buy it for this purpose. ) Portsmouth one of the royal chaplains wi sent to him in his dungeon, wheee lie la heavily ironed; but Felton, supposing tI chaplain sent to draw something from hii rather than for his consolation, said: "8 I shall be brief with you; I killed him f< the cause of God and my country." Ti chaplain, to mislead hini, told him whi was not true, that the surgeons gave ,ioj of his life; but Felton promptly replie "That is impossible I I had the power i forty men, assisted by him who guided n: band." On being removed In London tI people croWded to see him, showering blea ings upon him as the deliverer of his coui try, and one old woman at Kingston sak& "Now God bless thee, little David!" ical ing that he had killed Gollah. Got Even With 1hn. Mr. hetten was invited to a party i the house of a gilt edger, a large importly merchant in San Francisco, and attended ti same with his wife, as would any other ci pected guest. To his surprise, howeve he found the company sitting solemn) around as though in a concert hal, aU himself at once pressed to "play something by his host. The courteous Frenchima complied, and, in response to repeated r< quebts, continued to entertain the con pany for nearly two hours. When at Ia he was thorouihly -fatigued, supp1er wr announced, wvheroupon the host arose sin said: "You've got piano punching dow fine, Ketton, old fellow. Now If you' play those young folks a few quadrilk and polkas while the balance of us go dow to hash, I'll send up Martha Louise to re liove you presently ; 'or, if you like, yo can have something sent up, and eati right here on the piano. I first kinder cal culated to have engaged a couple of f1d diers, but the old lady said sihe thougi you wouldn't minia. I'll make it all rigI with you when you go." The astounde artist gazed at the speaker (who was wel known to have been a barkeeper in tht "good old days") for a few moments wa utterly dunibfounded ; then, controlin himself lie gravely turned his back and be gan playing dance music as requestec When the company had all assembled i he parlors, he raised lis voice and said 'Pray let some whiskey, lemons and stige be brought in." It was done. "Non then," said Mr. KCetten, fixing his eyes o3 the host-"now, then, mix up some cockt bails, my good fellow ; every man to hi Lrade." There was an awful silence, an' then the shoddycrat,with a ghastly attemla Lo- carry off the joke, prepared the drn md haiided it to the musician. 'Te latte :Irank the beverage critically. "You'r losing practice, my good man ; the fellos it the hotel bar does much better. There you may keep the change," and tossini hle almost asphyxiated millionare a hall lollar, lie put lis wife tinder his arm an walked out. JRalaing a Weaver Jojee was a tramp, and hiuqgry. Haj pening to pass one day in a village whor Lho women were wailing, he noticed th preparations for a funeral. In hopes < getting something to eat, Jojce said to th relatives : "Would thou have the dead r< stored to life 9" Then all the relativa said, "Yes, that would we." "Place me, said Jojee the tramp, "in the room next I the dead man. Bring me good cheer, a that I may propitiate tIhe reanimating aa gels. Most especially pat thmero a pct< the finest honey, three loaves of the white bread and a flaskc of the purest oil." That the relatives did. Jojee, the tram] bid them retire. Jojee, the tramp, the eat until his appetite was satisfied. Then I uttered many shrieks and howls. 'rho'rell tives w sited long and patiently, At lenghith Jojee called m the people "Tell me," asked Jojee, "what was tI exact calling of the deceased ?" "A weaver was ho by trade," the rell tives replied. "A weaver," cried Jojee, the tram) "Why did you not tell me so ? There honey and bread and oil wasted. Ilad I been a tinlker, a taller or a eobbler I mig1 bave brought the dead man to life-but wreaver I I never could do anything with weavert" Uk Solid Btlmulaston. In an apparent aneet of some kinds of 118 fertilizers, as salt and gypsum, on certain Ir, soils,there seems to be something like stim- n >- ulation, but the effect is on the soil rather Ae on the plant. Salt is a powerful solvent, 88 le and its beneficial effect Is often due, and ti a perhaps always, to its ability to make ft available the latent mineral fertility oF the bi lie soil. By the uso of salt, the insoluble t8 d. compounds of potash and phosphate may as be released and put in shape for the roots 01 o- of plants to take them up. Or it may be ei id that salt decomposes segetable matter and Ad releases ainmonia isome form available for tt io plant food. The crop may be Immensely III rd benefitted by a dressing of salt, and yet Df scarcely a particle of anything in the salt rc f itself may be found by analysis of tt er straw and grain. This however,-cannot be re called stinulating the crop, for the plants rt [0 grow as they were fed as truly as if the 1 to feeding had been a dressing blast of manure id instead of something to develop the latent 'a fertility of the soil. It might indeed be P te said that the soil was stimulated to produce I- ,more than It naturally would, and that in n time unless real manure were added, these is to stimulating fertilizers would cease to pro- g i- duce any effect. But when we look at the d subject in this light, we shall find that all flu d manures act as soil stimulants,'ihat is, they la to help to decompose aqd make available the fif d plant food already in the soil. When stable w - manure decomposes, its. carbonic acidt gas ,- helps to decompose the particles of soil is d with which it comes In contact. So, too, n( io in a still greater degree with the clover or 01 a grain herbago plowed under in June. The C1 o advantage of a well-worked summer fallow, g Is in exposing as much soil as possible so Pr d the Influences of nature to make its fertility to d more available. Yet there are many farmers m d who scout the idea of using concentrated dr d manures because they help to exhaust the it soil, but who think everything of the naked or 3, fallow whose effect is even worse, for the f I- concentrated manure really adds some ve r- fertility, while all that the crop takes from ti g the naked fallow has been get by coaxing eo the soil to part with more of its strength 60 v than it naturally would. ly it de Is Charles Lever. to y r A man named Nixon, at Dublin, had a w: If mule, whose services lie placed at the dis- Li a posal of his friends, but the mount was al- th L- ways accepted with misgivings, for the Ill n animal was the most vicious of her tribe. ,t The operation of grooming could only be i, a condudted with safety to life and limb by th y the restraint of an iron muzzle, and with fo e a fore log tied up. Bridling and saddling af n and mounting were managed from a loft r, above, and the animal was backed Into the pc >r open, air and not freed from restraint until a Di t0 clear stage was reached,where man and beast th It might try conclusions as to mastery. This ha 0 was no child's play, for the brate's nose , would seem to touch the ground, while Its co )f heels appeared high in the air. When en y these prelininaries were safely got through, so te there was usually peace for the rest of the - day; for, once fairly started, the animal ne seemed to like the work, and she was fleet, de sure-footed, had the activity of a cat, and ev - followed sport with the keenness of a dog. ch A pause, however, or a lull in the amuse nient was . always dangerous; she would have time to remember her vices, and re- de comnionco their practice. The movement, g was commonly stern foremost, the hind It legs flouriehing In advance in a manner i that meant mischief. In this fashion, on e one occasion, lever, being the rider, a on farm house was entered, such slight obsta- o r, 8es s chairs and tables being easily kicked to y aside. A "dresser," the pride of tne d family, with its furniture of crockery, was ta dislodged from its fastenings by these for- It. nidable heels, and fell to the ground, with Us plates and dishes, mugs and porringers, Of - scattered and shattered. Many were the do- be It vices that were tried, but failed, to secure eviction,whenthestrongmeasure ofigniting dI bushes of furze under and behind the ani- Yo a meal was resorted to. When lever emerged ou 1 from the smoke, still mounted he was hs 5 greeted with loud cheers; and, with the as-s 1 sent of a chorus of sponsors, the animal previously called Blazes was re-christened of LI "Knock-a-crockery," in memory of the lai tevout, 201 - ------a-----wI Good Preacher. 01( t lie was a brand new office boy, young, be prctty-facod, with golden ringlets and blue 1 eyes. Just such a boy as one would e imagine would be taken out of his trundle- all a bed in the middle of the night and traus- so Sported beyond the stars. The first day ho .. glanced over the library in the editorial .room, became acquainted with every- dii a body, knew all the printers, and co :went home in the evenn as happy and as d *r cheery as a sunbeam. Te next day hies *, appeared, leaned out of the back window, a expectorated on a bald-headed printer's .. pate, tied the cat up by the tail in the hall a,had four fights with another boy, l *i borrowed two dollars from an oocupant of t t the budhdinar, saying his fiithmer was dead, A Scollected his two day's pay from the cash- be r ier, hit the janitor with the broomtmek, 3 e pawned a coat belonging to a mom r ber of the editorial staff, wrenoh- m ,ed the knobs off the doors, upset of g the lee-cooler, pied three galleys of mi -. type, and mashed his finger in the small su d press. On the third day a note was g received saying: "Mi Mother do not want w I to work in such a dull place. She says I Would make Good picacher, so Do i, my re *finger is Better; gne fishim' Yours Till m Delih do Yank us.' us 0' Mar' Little Lsunb. W e Thie veritable "Mary (who) had a little (3 m- lamb whose fleece was wrhite as snow'' visit is ed the Old South Spinning Bee, Afass., re- ga " cently and told the ladies present the story * o of the lamb. When she.was nine years oldb 4) and was living on a farm, one morning she o I- went out into the barn where she foend twog f little lamb,', one of them nearly dead, So It she took it into the house and sat up all night nursing It. The next morning the th 3, lamb conid stand on its feet, and grew t n stronger every day. Owing to her loving me came the lamb became so attached to Mary TI - that it followed her about and one day to t school, where she hid it under her desk, so s . that the teacher .did not know it was in we ie school until Mary was called up to recite. * Then the lamb came out from its hiding L- place, and made the children laugh'and ja shout so that the teacher was obliged to to ~. turn it out. The poemn was writtenb a by is friend of Mary's (the yeWv1 e-.Srl th 1e Josepha Hale,) soon fthe mbvW at to the school reoin. A a mridt A man years since ant Ile neat Soston. oi 'a Mhe ~ ght-in hotneo the ft. fi.06b of FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Some men have a talent for the ordi ary which makes them extraordinary. To tell a falsehood is like the out ot a bre; for though the wound may heal, le scar of it will remain. He who has no opinion of his own it depends upon the opinions ana stes of others, is a slave. Difficulties, by bracing the mind to rercome them, assist cheerfulness, as terclse assists digestion. Truth is the most powerful thing in le world, since fiction can only please I by Its resemblance to it. Every man throws on to his sur >undinge the sunshine or the shadow at exists in his own soul. We mount to heaven mostly on the kine of our cherished schemes, finding ir failures were successes. Hope is like the wing of an angel, aring up to heaven and bearing our ,ayers to the throne of God. The first ingredient in conservation truth, the next good sense, the third od humor, and the fourth wit. Fify years ago Stephenson ran lils 'at engine over iron rails in Eng ad. There are now one hundred and ty thousand miles of iron rails in the Drld. No flower can bloom In Paradise that not transplanted from Gethsemane; > one can taste of the fruit of the tree lire that has not tasted of the tree of lvary. If we are ever caught in a shower of osperity, remember we can find shel r with some neighbor, on whbm we Ight allow some of the superfluous ops to fall. Lot it be our business less to fight even to expose error, or to criticise ult, than to disclose and manifest rity and right. and to be the evolu ni we preach. Enjoy the blessing of this day, if God )ds them; and the evils bear patlent . For this day only is ours; we. are ad to yesterday, and we are not born to-morrow. Life is divided into three terms, that ich is, which was, which will be. t us learn from the past to profit by e present, and from the present to re for the future. Shakespeare makes Cassius say, "The ok has stricken threo," forgetful of e fact that clocks were not invented r more than eight hundred years ter Cassius was dead. The great secret of avoiding disap intment, is not to expect too much. )spair follows Immoderate hope, as ings fall hardest to the ground that ye been nearest to the sky. The selfish man's heart like a man's ffin, is just his own measure-long ough and broad enough to hold him If, with room for no one else. As they who, for every slight sick isa, take physic to repair their health, rather impair it, so they who for ery trifle are eager to vindicate their aracter, do rather weaken it. [t is not the strange sights that we all see in heaven that will so much light us; not the glitter and the Dry; not the diamonds and topaz; , it Is God: He is all and.in all. rhe peculiar odors of plants depend various volatile matters, which are ten so subtle as to be incapable of de tion by ordinary chemical means. We can easily manage if we will only co each day the burden appointed for But the load will be too heavy for if we add to its weight the burden to-morrow before we are called to ar it. Philip Brooks says to ministers: fever allow yourself to complain that ur congregation neglects you with t first asking yourself whiether you ye given them any reason wig thie3 ould attend to you." Mistakes are made even by the best men.* An English clergyman of the it century in an eloquent sermon ex le the goodness of the Creator in al Lys making the largest rivers flow iso by the most populous towns. rhey who are fallen lowest remem r the heights of virtue, lionor, and ace, whose shining they once be ld, and whose pinnacle they once nost touched. And are we not all in rae sense and some degree fallen. Perhaps we cannot practice a better icipline than by bridlhing or gaining atrol over cur tongues. If any one haa doubt as to the Importance of this icipline, let him read what St. James fs about it in the third chapter or his istle. ['he poor illiterate fellow could hard have made a better combination of inders than when he said, meaning at he had a Polyglot Bible with the ocrypha in it, that he had "just iugat a PEolywog Bible with Hy orysy in it. No righteous man would, in his right nd, be willing to make an exchange his smartest affications for a wicked m's prosperity, with all the circum ~nces attending. It cannot, there re, be bad with the righteous in the >rst condition. We cannot remove social evils nor liove great social wants by the very 3thods that have brought these upon .Communities, lIke individuals, est obey the laws which God has 'itten in our rnature. Society must ro first and last for It own mora adition. miappiness is like manna. It ia to be thered In the grains, and enjoyed ory day; it will not keep; it cannpt accumulated ; nor need we go out of rstelves, nor into remnote places to , ther It, since it has rained down from . avon, at our very doors, or rather 'Ks 'thin thema. ;' Persons who are constantly saying at they are free from prejudice are nerally more preojudicedfthan othera, ough they are not aware of te fact, aey are like the old lady who ciene at she was- open to conviotWi btit, aking her head, she added Ihae she uId just like to see the nuan who >uld convince her. A century ago' n American" travl'" g in Egypt gahr*d E01otiin ~ly ' ots fr4m the bnIM of thie ~~ ought them to h e'roote- w*s)v elle f4rmer, u