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'RI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. CJULY 27, 1880. VOL. VYN0O 90 - ONGS Of THR 8OUL. Oh I the wonderful songs t- at never are sung With words of an outward token; But go sing ug themselves for aye In the soul In a langdago that never is spoken. Songs that are sweeter than poets o'er penned All their power and beauty excelling; With a melody purer and tenderer far Than the notes that their numbers aid swell. ing. Songs every true love sings to hisi love, B,rn of his deep-hidden feeling; duah as sing themselves low In the pure maiden's breast, For fear ot an outward- revqaling. Songs that the mother-heart siugs to tle babe In peaos on her bosom reolining ; That give opir t voice to her hopes and ies fear, Tender beyond al deffiig. Wild, thrilling songs, hat awake every chord When thi soul is exub aut with glhess ; 'Ihat sigh through its chambers like voices of night When they utter its burden and sadness; That br athe throngh the spirit with soft whis perig notee, Like winds over June roses sighing. When passion Is -stilled and peace reigns vithln, And the heart hushed and tranqual to lying. Suoh songs are sung through all the wide world. And never once known are the singers, But their mu -to is eobo. d from heart into heart, And its sueetnes* and power ever 1-ngers; And but for the singing of suoh voiceless - songs, In souls filled with hoping and longing, Oh I dreary indeed would be the dark road Earth's children are huraied:y thronginv. Po many the poets whose number are f6rmed 'a the unwritten language of spirit, Whilo few are the ones who in words the lips frame The power to exp-ese them inherit; And rare bf the voice that is perfectly tuned When we Xds are the outward token, But never a soul but can sweet music ipako in the language that never is spoken. At The Last Moment. It was a fine old room, and fitted up with all the luxury wealth could command. Its two occupants, a lovely girl and an eledrly man, noble In form, but dark and sinister in face,'stood together under the full blaze of the great antique lamp, swing. Ing above their heads. . They were discussing a long-disputed question. Mr. Oriell, flaming with passion at the girl's last words, burst out vehemently: "You are not bound to marry at my con mand, forsooth I Nevertheless, my indepen dent miss, yout are mine by a heavy in debtednesw. But tell me what you are, and who? You are called Veronica Vache; but what do you know of yourself beyond that? Answer me, if you can I *Have I not Leen the making of you? Did I not take you from the kennel, and transform you into what you are? You are accomplished whose money rendered you so? Miae, un grateful girl I You are beautiful in your silks, jewels and laces-whose money makes you that? Mine, and mine only I I did all this? Because the son I idolize set his boy Isli heart upon your baby loveliness, and In riper years crownel you with ho,ior by ' choosing you for his wife. Think you, then, I can be wheedled out of thie reward I claim? If so, think it no longer. If you have not already learned the truth, learn it now. My eon's will Is in; law. . Do you understand that I me!an you shall withi 01 without your consent, beomne hip wife ? 1i not, understand it r,ow, and drive froin yom silly head that beggarly secretary I dirove from my doors. [ shall choose your hus band, mid not you, who would to-clay be a beggar but for my generous protection. Herbert loves you--therefore Herbert's you shall be 1 To-morr'ow . ho comes to claim his bride; be ready for your bridal1I" 'There was a siniste- threat in thme oki man's eyes, as lie conclu:ledi, that sent am1 involuntary shIver through the girl's slendez frame. But a determination equal ta his owr marked both words and tone as she enlied, rdspectfully : "It is true that I am Indebted to you i all I possess of worldly good, and I am, Gou knows, truly and deeply thankful. My daily life stands witness to the sincerity of my words. You bade me cnll you father ; and I have striven to give you all a daugh' ter's duty ; but, as I have already deo clared, I will never become Herbert Or. rell's wife!i Dote on hin as you will, youi handsome, gifted son is naught but p)olished villain 1 I would rather die thai link my fate with his. Cast me off-let ine go out Into the world, and battle witI the poverty from which you have k'escuot me, or--" "Enough " thundered the old mahn; ") have made you mine, and mine you shiall remain, and my will do I M1y son shal have the bride of his choice!i Now go I " And striding to the door, ho flung .t wld~ open, adding, In deep, threatening toense, a~ Veronica passed into the hall: "Gol and remember'that for the insub o;dinate there are means. Our now homn here was chosen for its wildness.and lono,l ness. Remember that-and likewise, tha my eon and I are masters hero! i ow go' A swift change passed over the girli calm face as the door closed upon her, and It was with fleet foot and panting breati that she sped up the stairs and to heorcham her. "What can he mean ? What will h< do ?" she gasped, shudderingly, as she dropped Into a chair before the blaZing fire ''He Is deep and unscrupulous, I know Haeaven pnotect and help me!"4 Her head sunk despondinglyon her Ianud and the silent minutes dropped into houre before she stirred. At last she arose. "I will do It," she whispered, "and thia very night, or it will be too late. They al sleep by this tOne, and I have no minutem to waste," she hastily added, as the little mantle clock softly tolled twelve. "If. I would escape, 1 must do so to-night." Her few prepaartions were hastily made, and she crept stealthily from the room. She paused a moment to listen, but pro. found silence reigned over the house, and her muflied boots gave no sound as she can tiously groped her way down stairs. At the bottom she stumbled over th< mat, catching her breath sharply in her ef. foi:t to preserve herself tront a fall. The noise was trilling, but, shiverinl with alarm, she paused a minute to listen. Thb silence continued unbroken, and she again groped'her way through the dense darkness. Once she paused again, confinedt that she heard a cat-like tread in the darknes, behind her. Then she wentstealthily on, asured thal it was only the product of her own excited imagination. She directed her steps to the back door, remembering that that fastened with a bolt, and consequently offered the possibility of a more quiet egress. Her nibling hand had just tarted the bolt, when there was a sudden quick rust in the darkness, and before she could move a fIlerce hand fell upon her outstretched arm. "So I" hissed Mr. O'rrell's voice. And the next instant, speechless with terror, she was caught in his strong arms, and borne back to her chamber. White as death she stood before him, as he released her. Ifis deep set eyes flashed angrily upon her beneath his gray eyebrows. But i said nothing--oly took her by the shoul der and hurried her rudely to the window. Throwing tack the heavy silken hang igs he opened the casement, and pointed below. It was a brilliant moonlight night; and there, pacing the lawn with sentinel, alert. ness, was one of the men-servants. ~Mr. Orrell closed the window in the same expressive silence. Then lie turned to her. "Four men have been detailed for that duty to.night," he said, signiffeantly. "Al: the doors will be left unlocked; try it agai: if you like." And with the worda, lie strode from the room. How.the night passed; Veronica nevei knew. But it did pass. The marriage was to take place at clever o'clock the next day. Herbert could not reach there till ten, and between ten and eleven there wonid be ain ple Lime for his preparation. A little before eleven Veronica was in her spotless bridal robes in the great drawing room. Mr. Orrell eyed her critically. "You look well-very well," lie said; "quite worthy your handsome bridegroom. But why he should be such a laggard, Is a mystery," he- concluded, a little uneally. And his pitiless eye left Veronica's beau tiful but dead-like face, and turned towari a dlistant wmndow. Almost at the same moment there was faint sound of distant wheels. "liia, at last, I" he cried. "And he comeci at a mad pace." Nearer and nearer the wheels came, uinti they stopped at the grand entrance. Trhere was a sound of hurrying feet anc subdued voices; and leaving the white-face< bi ide, the impatient father hurried to tin hall. *There lie met a ghastly spectacle. The dead body of his son, borne by th< worthy clergyman (who had accompanlet him) and several of the awed servants. "A terrible accident I" faltered th4 clergyman, in answver to the anguished gaze of the bereaved father. And without a word or gest.ure, the fathoi fell prone before them. When they raised him lie was dead. A year later, Veronica becan.e the happ3 wife of the beggarly secretary. Poisonous Water Colors. The singular statement appears in th< U/Ceker' Zdllung that, in searching int< the causes of the death of a young engineer, there were found in the corpse remarkabh quantities of arsenic, attributed to th< colors which the deceased had beeni ia th< habit of using,-for, on analysi, it waa found that a specimen of sepia containo& 2.08 poe cent of arsenlous acid, one ci terra di sienna 8.14 per cent, anu one oi red brown 8. 1 per cent. The dieceased engineer having been in the habit ot draw. lng his brush, charged with colors, through hih lips, it Is thought not impossible tha the arsenidal colors were absorbed by de greesin the saliva. Further investigatio, of thirk colors of FrenQh mqke shiowec thie following quantitios oftarsenic: Cohore< sepia 1.10 per cent, natural sepla- 0.98 dei cent, burnt 'ennra 1.76~ and 2.28, Va., Dyke brown 0.81, brown ochre 0.52, a greent 0.82, bister 0.87. Voices o Animas. Even in animals, there is marked char actor of Voices. I have observed that thi bravest and largest wild animals alway have deep voices;, and that they are gener alymeoius, full of *iusio, as it were rwhile the small fry, which would'tun fr6n a common our, have high, sharp voices The bravest hunt'o f of thie W*est have heavj tones as a rule, and I deduce from thi that the highest order of animals, thos< that wore brave and darmng, wore, also deej m voice, and that their Intonations neve jarred on the oar. Deep-toned men ar< Igenerally braver than those possessing 1igh voices. Sharp Eyell. A man has a sharper eye Ihan a dog, o a fox, or than any of the wild creatures but not so sharp an ear or - nose. But i the birds he finds his mat ch. How quickli the old turkey discovers the hawk, a neri speck against the sky, and how quickly th hawk discovers you if you happen to be se creted In the bushes, or behind the feic near which he alights. I f.nd, I see almos without effort, nearly every bird withii sight in the field or wood I pass through ( flit of the wing, a flirt of the tali ar, enough, though the flickering leaves d4 ull conspire to hide them), and that wit] like ease the birds see me, though unques tionally the chances are immensely in thet favor. The eye sees what it has the mean of seeing, truly. You must have the bir< in your heart before you can find it in th< bush. The eye must have purpose an alin. No one ever yet found the walkini fern Who did not have the walking fern h his nind. Nevertheless, the habit of oli servation Is the habit of clear and decisiva gazing; not by a first casual glance, bu by a steady, deliberate aim of the eye ar the rare and characteristic things di8rover ed. You must look intently and hold youi eye firmly to the spot,, to see uore than d< the rank and file of mankind. The sharp shooter picks out his man and knows hin with fatal certainty from a stump, or i rock, or a cap on a pole. The phrenolog ists do well to locate not only form, color, weight, etc., in the region of the eye, bul a faculty which they call individuality that which separates, discriminates, at sees in every object its essential character, This Is just as necessary to the naturalist a. to the artist or the poet. The sharp ey4 notes specific points and differences-il seizes upon and preserves the individualit3 of the thing. Persons frequently describ to me some bird they have seen or hear and ask me to name it, but in most casei the bird might be any one of a dozen, oi else it Is totally unlike any bird found Ir this continient. They have either seCi falsely or else vaguely. Not so the farn youth who wrote me one Winter day thal he huad seed a single pair of strange birds which lie discribes as follows: "rhe3 were about the size of the 'chip pie,' th< tops of their heads were red, and the breas of the male was of the same color, whilh that of the female was much lighter; theij rumps were also faintly tinged with red If I have described them so that you woulk known them, please write me their names. There can be little doubt but the young ob server had seen a pair of red-polls,-a bir< related to the goldfinch, and that occasion ally comes down to us in the Winter fron the far north. Ano her time, the sami youth wrote that he had seen a strang4 bird, the color of a sparrow, that alighte< on fences and buildings aswell as upon thi ground, and that walked. This last fac showed the youth's discriminating eye an< settled the case. I knew it to be a specie of lark, and from the time, size, color, etc, the tit-lark. But how many persons woul have observed that the bird walked lnwteai of hopped. Leopold and Loulve. Their Royal Highnesses, Princess Louis and Prince Leopold, when recently in De troit en route for Chicago, a reporter say the most noticeable feature about the part was the entire absence of elaborate dresi Ing or any indication of royalty. The Prin cess was dressed in black, with a whit ruching about the neck. Her dess wa rather short, and so far as the casuai-obser ver could determine, her jewelry was con spicuous solely for its absence. She wore dark hat with a red facing in front, and oi her hands were what a woman in the Thir street depot characterized as "nothing bu cotton, as sure as you're born." The Prin cess Louise is not beau iful, butt apparenti; she is a woman with a happy dispositioi that shines out in what would be called b many a "real good face." Good she coi tainly looks, and when she smiles she conme near to passing for handsome, which alh undoubtedly is not. Of all the conspicuou ones in the party she seemed least affecte< by her position. Prince Leopoldl, who ha a less intelligent face than his sister, isi fair-skinned young man, who looks younge than he is--twenmy seven. ihe wau dresse< in a light suit, with the except.ion of hi small, round, bhoca hat. His dark hair ha a t,endcency to curl and is partedl very nea the middle. A light moustache and goate serve to relieve an extremely fair face which would be handsomeo but for a certal heaviness that robs it of any intcelc ual look it might have. Generally hi strikes one as belonging to that great rani of "extra harmissa,0' though he is crettitel with being studious. Ils walk is some thing terrible; It reminds one of t.he oli "'Urecmiin bend" gait, but is, if anything more nuncing, and, theriefore, more coical The Prince appears like an extremely aum able young main, however, and this hi probably is. A South Africanm Diamond Mino. From whatever direction one comes from the surrounding plain, the most prominer sight is the lofty range of sand mounds rising up from out the centre of the towi and overtopping everything. These ar composed of earth from the original thirteel surface acres of the Kinberly mine, an< thrown up from around the edge of th gradually deepened pit, just as the ant on smaller scaie piles up a circular rldg arounid its hole. By diamiond "mine" I Africa is meant a pipe of several acres su perficial area and unknown depth, runnini straight down through stratified layerrs c shuale. Each pipe, and there are 01)ly four is filled in to tihe level of the general sui face of the plain withi sand, tufa, and diamond-bearing breccia or soft rock. Th Kimberly pipe or nilne has now been ex caae oa depth of about two hundre< and fifty feet. Mlost of the streets of tb town converge to It. We wailk to the edlg of rocks which surrounds it, called th "reefs," and before and beneath us extend an abyss--a huge oval-shaped caldron open full to the skies. Over Its edge lies slhcer descent of two hundred and it; feet ; across it, from side to side, a stretel of a thousand feet, or a fifth of a ii( Comning even as one does fromi the life an: stir of time town, the first look into the mini Is a fascinating and bewildering one. Lit tIe biy little the facts unfold and steal upo the attention. One talks to his neighbora to a deaf man, for a stead hum or roar Ill the air, chiefly made up of human voice and the whir of buckets ascendIng and de scending on their wire ropes. Ten thout and mnen are working below and around ui in the pit and around its edge. . All lasI nlalad sight, for t.here lano hurrowing ndi ground. Far below, little black pigni r mon-so they seem In the distance-ar moving about, but not singl ,r at random for closer observation shows .at they ar, working in groups, each gr94j upon a cer tain well-defined square " ch of sol earth, at which it is picki n nd delvilg or walking to and fro over Iii, rying litti - buckets of loosened soilt their mid sits or stands a white over- I or the mas I ter himself. Spreading ove 1he whole ex cavation or pit, caldron, pot or basin whichever conveys the cleare4t idea, like i spider's web on a dewy motning, run In numerable little white thr ds, so thej seem ts they glisten In the un. Follov r one such thread to our feet, nd it will bi found to be a shining wir rope, wori white with constant use. A.d here on thi edge or brim, called, as we know, thi I"reef," we find a scene of life and labo even more aninated than below. Al around, but chieily on two o poslte sides is erected a strong framew k of timbe called the "staging," estima to have cos $250,000. It is built in thr tiers, like i three-story house, and each tier is floore< to afford standing rooin for laborers. Firm ly set all along each tier of this staging ar hundreds of wooden wheels, about foui feet in diameter, with crank on each side to be turned by four Kaffirs. The iroi ropes run from every part of the circumfer ence, but d iffer greatly in length,--son extending vertically down the reef. somi far out into the centre of the mine, 11M others to varying intermediate distances but each to its own claim. Such a rope ii stretched from the bearings of each whee on the staging to its corresponding clain below, where it is made fast to a post fount firmly in the ground. Thus, a wheel, i wire rope and a "claim," be it only a six teenth, are inseparable, and equal in nium ber. On these wire ropes the "blue stuffI Is hauled in buckets by aid of the whidliass up out of the mine. Lawn Tennis Laws. The lovers of lawn tennis have for thli season made some new modifications of th< laws of the game which will not fail to adc to its interest. The revision of the- oh code has been made by direction of th( famous Engfish clubs, the Marylebone an( All England, and their sanction will go fai to secure a general adoption. Uniformity of practice, if it can be secured, is, o1 I course, desirable. The disposition of ama. teurs thus far seems decidedly favorable t( the innovations. The rule that excites thi I most discussion, perhaps, is this: "Eithei - player loses a stroke * * * if lie touch th< k net, or any of Its supports, while the ball ) is in play; or if he volley the ball before ii 3 has passed the net." Some objections ar I made to the aeverity of depriving the strikei 3 of his stroke when he has to pick up t t "short" ball on the reboundi and toucii I the net, either by the impetus with winc a lie has to run or by the proximity of th( , ball to the net. But ii cases of touchin1 I the net by body or racket in volleying th4 I penalty is by all considered just. The rul raises a new dilliculty for the umpire, whi will have to decide the nice questioi whether the ball has actually passed th, not at the moment of contact of the racke a with the ball. By further rules the heigh - of the net has been reduced to four feet a the posts, and the service line has beei r brought in one foot. The reason for low - ering the net at the posts (the hpliht o - three feet at the center being maintained) 0 Is that it gives the striker out more oppor 8 tunity of return to the side of the court, re mote from the server. To further equaliz - the game the power is given to the umpir I to direct the players to change sides at.. t, end of every game instead of set, if, in hi i opinion, "either side have a distinct ad t vantage, owing to sun, wind, or any othe - accidental cause." The position to be takei r by the server when delivering the servic I Is nmore accurately defined than In the tLrm L er code, and it is made a fault if he doe not stand as directed. Also it is statce s directly, in the former code on-y inferen Li tiaily, that it is a fault if theC bail is served 5 from the wvrong court. A fault dlelivere< before the striker-out is ready, coiimts fo a nothing;- but it does not cure a prevaou Ifault, as formerly. Anot her. amendmein iis inade in t.he case of a service whic) Itouches the net and dirop)s in the prope 5 court. This was previously a good ser vie a andl many were the heairtburnings whici r resulted in consequence of the delivery o a' services impossible of return owing to tli accident of the bails touiching the net e. Li passant. It is now ruled that such a set vice, If otherwise good, counts for nothingi 0 A notablo point in the code is the omissio: k of the alternative mode of scoring, via 1 racket scoring is entirely dismissed. Tonnl scoring lias been found to give so muce variety andl interest to the game, andl is not 'so generally adopted that very few wil -protest aginist tIs droppi'ig of the alterna tive nmethiod. Another p)oint that may bi 0 noted is in the plan of the serviLe-court Ia the three and four handed gaines. Ser vice-side-hines are drawn parallel to th side lies of the four-handed-court, ani four and a half feet from them, and this ii the area of the servlce.court is made th Ssame In the four handed as in the singi game. T1huis is by many considered an im a portant gain. Th'ie interest In this game i e increasing year by year in this country, an, a although the pastime may never take th :samne rank here that, it dioes in England, is doubtless destined to hold an imuportarl place in our round of recreations. A New Puzzio with Words. 'Students at the Boston Insititute of 'recl f nology have diesigned a rival to the Get puzzle, which is beginntng to excite cor - siderable interest about town. Given t,w a words of an equal number of let,ters, th~ B problem is to change one to the other b -altering one letter at a tine o1 the first a I as to mtake a legitimate English word, cotl B tinuing the alterations until the desited rt cs suit is attained. The conditions are Uhai B only one letter shall be altered to form c s novw word, arid that none but words whic .. can be found in English dictionaries sha a be used. Here are some examples of th yv changes. Ii East to West-East, vast, vest, West. .IBoot to Shtoe-Boot, soot, shot, Shoe. di Dog to Cat1-Dog, dig. fig, fit, fat, Cat. e Mfilk to Hash-Milk, mile, male, mfate - hate, hath, Hash. a Road to rail-Road; rood, root, cool a coat, copl, coil, toil, tail, Rail. s Soup *to Fish-8onp, soul, soil, foi 8 fowl, fool, foot, coot, cost, cast, fast, hIs a Fish, -The game is becoming quito popular I m, offices as well a8 in family circles and n fireside., and seems to furnishi instructic ir wihh amusemenc. CurIoUG Va*s of Sleop-WalkIng. One bright moonlight night I was on (leck, as was frequently my wotit, chatting with the lieutenant of the middle watch. It was nearly calm, the ship making little way through the water, and the moon's 3 light nearly as bright as day. We were t together leaning over the capstan, chatting away, when W-'suddenly exclaimed: "Looki ki-, at that sentry," and point ing to the quarter-dock marine who was i pacing slowly backward and forward on the lee-side of the deck. "Well, ' I replied, after watching him soinewhat inattentively as he passed once or twice on his regular beat, "what of him?" " Wny, don't you see lie is fast asleep f Take a good look at hlir, when he next passes." I did so, and found W-was right. The man, although pacing and turning r regularly, at the usual distance, was fast asleep, with his eyes closed. When next the iman passed, W-stepped quickly and noisely to his side, and pacing with hun, gently disengaged the bunch ot keys which was his special charge-being the keys of the spirit room, shell rooms, store rooms, etc.-fron the fingers of his left hand, to which they were suspended by a small chain; he then removed the bayonet, from ila other hand, and laid it and the keys on the capstan head. After letting him take another turn or two, W auddenly called. "Sentry!" ."-Siri" replied the man, instantly stop ping and facing around as lie camile to the *,attention.", "Why, you were fast asleep, sentry." "No, sir. ' "But, I say you were." "2o, sir; I assure you 1 was not." "You were not, eh ? Well, where are the keys I" Tihe nian instantly brought up his hand to show them, as lie suipposed, but to his groat confusion his hand was empty. "Where is your bayonet?" continued W-. 'rhe poor fellow brought forward his other hand, but that was empty also. But the puzzled look of astonishment he put on was more than we could stand; both burst out laughing, and when the keys and bayonet, was pointed out to him, lying on the capstan. the poor fellow was perfectly dumbfounded. W-was too merry over the Joke. however, to punish the man, and he escaped wit) a warning not to fall asleep again. 8entries and lookouts must be very lia ble to fall asleep fron the very nature of their monotonous pacing, and this may in sonic degree account for the facility with which sentries have at times been suiprised and secured befre they could give an alarm. In this instance, tihe most curious fact, I think, was the regularity with which the man continues to pace is dis tances and turn at tie right moment. 1 have known other histances of sentries and others walking in their steep, though the end line not always ueen so picasant to the victims. In one case, fthe quarter.deck 3 sentry, in the middle of the night, crashed down the wardroom hatchway with nns ket and fixed I>ayonet, with a rattling that t started us all out of our cabins. Tihe fel low fell on his back upon-top of the mess table, but, not much the worse for his ex fploit. On another occasion a messenger boy paid us a visit in the night; lie fell - upon a chair, which lie smashed to pieces, ~ >ut the sleeper e.,caped unhurt. These can hardly be considered true cases of Bomniunbuhism, but show how mn1u may. comtin'v their occupations when over come by tileud. Nothing but seeing this ~ bayonet and the keys lying on the capstan r could have ever convinced the marine that lie had been sleeping; no mere assertion to that effect would ever had convinced him. Pernoverance and fleaith. IA man who inherits wealth may begin Iand wvorry through threescore and ten years r without any dlefinite ob)ject. In driving. s in fo,reIgn travel, in hunt.ng and fishing, in I club houses, and societ,y, hew may mnanage .i to pass away lisa time; but lie will hardly r be happy. It seems t,o be necessary to ,health thmat the powers of man may lbe Li trained uipon somie object and steadily 1held f there (lay after (day, year after year, while a vitalit.y lasts. Tihere may comae a time in 'old age wvhena the fund of vitalit,y wvill hiave -sunk so low that he can follow no consecu -tive labor without such a draught uiponm his a forces that slcep cannot restore them. >rTheni, and not before, lie should stop work. 5 But so long as a man hats a vitality to spare a upon work it must lie used, or it will be v' come a source of grievous, harassing is I content. Thle man will not know what to - do with himself; and( whmen lie has reached 0 such a p)oiat as that, lhe is uinconseiously 3 digging a grave for himself, and fashiofling - his own coilln. Life needls a steady chian B inel to run in-regular habits of work and *iof sleep. It, needs a steady, silmulating a aim-a tend toward something. An aim 0 less life can never be happy, or, for a long 0 period, healthy. Said a rich lady to a - gentleman st,ill haba. ing beyond his needs, a "Djn't stop;gkceep at it." Tlhec words that were in hieFheart, were: "If my husband a hadl not st.opp)ed, lie would he alive to-dlay." .t And what she thought was doubtless true. tA greater shock can hardly befall a mnan who hais been active than that which hie experiences when, hiavi ng relingished lis pursuits, hie finds unuisedl time and( unuisedl . vit ality hanging upon his idle haniids andi iimind. Thue current of his life is thus thoninto edidlies, or EettledI into a slug gish pool, and lie begins t> die. V Futngoid Origin of Whan~iping cougm. It Is worthy of note that the funguid origin of whooping congh, asserted some years since by hi. $vetzerichu, seems to be t confirmed by the researches of bl. Yachimar, iwho states that lie has founid certain lower orgarisms in time spittle of whooping cough patients--organIsms not met with in any 0other disease acc:>mpanied by cough and expectoration, Hie asserts, further, that the organisms in question are identical with those whIch, by their agglomeration, form the black pohunts on the skins of oranges and ~'the paring of certamn fruits, especially ap p)les. Thulis, b. Yschmar, by inoculating rabbits with this dlark matter, or even caus ing it to be inhaled by men, prodnced fits of coughing several dlays in duration, and ~'presenting In every respect the peculiar characterIstics of the convulsive whooping cough. a -The present British Parliament cnant,n ahnnt 180 haOn. Enls.mnalians. A Handy Man to Have Around. There was a looked of bowed care about the man, as though he had at some time sat down to meditate under a pile-driver. and had been suddenly disturbed by somne one starting up the machine. He walked into the counting-room of a morning paper, leaned his elbows on the counter, rested hie chin in his hands, looked soleinly at the clerk, and saild: "I understand the care of horse!-, young man; and when it comes t) landscape gardening, I can tell, you I ain't no slouch." "I can't see as that Interests me any," said the clerk, with a yawn that endanger ed his ear. "I don't run a livery-*table, nor I ain't a Park Commissioner." "i'm a handy man to have around the house," proceeded the intruder, with a snule that seemed painful. '1 can turn my hand to most anything, from building a I fence to keepIng the baby quiet." 4 "Nobody disputes you," remarked the 1 young man, drily. "I also understand prunning, and a good many people think I'm surer than I certainty Itself when it comes to graft- I ing."I "4Well, this ain't a nursery, old man i Antd we don't pay for the gas we don't burn. 8o you might as well close the con- I cert and meandor.1 "It might be mentioned that I know how < to milk, and for keeping a churn-dasher t busy Pin right on deck every tIme. Now you can just charge yodr mind with that. I I never dodge hard work, no matter what i shape it comes at ine in. All I ask is plenty I of it, and ncals regular. 'rTe clerk was growing fidgety and red in the face. lie pointed to the door andi nodded sideways with the air of a man who I had about, made up his mind to stand no imore foolishness. The man reclining on i the counter continued calin and undisturb ed. "In house-cleaning time I'm the handiest ( man you ever saw. I can beat a carpet " till you wouldn't know it, and at washing I windows and scouring up generally I won't I take a back seat f,.r anybody. In shoving I around heavy furniture and taiing down I stoves, I'm right at home ; and I also know i all about whitewashing, and can go over ai carpet without spilling a drop.11 "'Well, who said you couldn't ?" denand- I ed the clerk. "Olear out I We don't < want any more of your lingo, and we don't want, none of youri help. We never clean 1 house here. "I'm the most willing man you ever saw. Just put down that I'm always ready to t make myself useful, and that a good, steady job. with plcnty to do, is the one I want * to tie to. It dou't matter about the wages I -we'll never fall out on that head." t 'But, I tell you we don't want you I I We've got nothing in the world for you to I (10 here. " "Well-Lord bless you mian 1-who said 4 you had? I never asked you 'to give me 1 no job-did I?" "Well, that seems to be about the drift I of your gab, if I can understand plain I English," said the clerk, petulantly. "Glracious me-no4 I I never thought of such a thing. What i'm trying to come at I is, that I want you to write 'it down, and I to print what sort of goalin' I am in your paper." "Oi I I see I" said the clerk. "You want to advertise for a situation ?" "Yes; that's it, exactly. There's lots of folks, I s'pohe, worrying and fretting be. cause they can't get hold of just such a sort of man is I am. 11indy men are mighty scarce these times, sure's you live I c I s'po8s that had better go at the top, in j g,reat big letters; and where you say that I I in wlling, put it its loud as you have h room for. They'll always find me willing, whoever finds me-specially at. about, meal I times. You might, throw in that I have seven characters, and somc 01 '0mi as much as four years long. Horses is my prefer. en1ce ; but I'm nmot above dIriyin' a pair of mules, or shovelin'gmavel, iftnoting betteri' oll'ers. Fix it, all up se's someubody'll have to hire me, and I'll (divide the first mtonth's wages with you. P'ile it aill oni just, as strong as y'ou want to, andi ll b)ack it, up whien I get tihe job-ever'y word of it, I I ought to know how to work, I shocuid think -'m just out of the work houise from a twelve inOnthl's tiip. Hut I suppose that hadni't better' go in. If I had the chink to spare I'd pay13 extia, and have you slain it in l.o4try-bhumned if I wvouldn'i . But then, hold ! that nmigtht fetch me up in a place where they live oil style' and tooth icks, andl that, wouldn't, hartdly suit me now, just at first. I'd rather hiave t, chanice to fatten up a little. ~Make it plain and blunt, amid thiat'il strike the liversaI" Modeorn lrst taih l(gloeides. D)uring Louti Philippe's reign andl the four following years, attemplts were ir.ade upon the life of Queen Victoria by Oxford in 1840, and( by a workman named Francis in 1842 ; upon thme King of Prussia, Fro. de-riCk Willliam lV , in 1814, and again in 18b0 ; upon thme present Eumperor of' Gecr imany,thien military commanrder of Coblen,, in 1849); andl upon0 Isablelm, Queen of Spain, hii 1 852. None of these at teimpts suc.ceeded. Oxford, wilo shot at, Queein Victoria while she was passing on Gon stitution 11111, was cleadly a lutnatic, and consignmed t.o Bleulami as such. I-fe remained there about twenty-five years, and1( whilst In confinement showed himself lnvaiabuly rationmal, wvorking industriously as a1 car! penter, and expressing lia (deep re'morse whieneveir lie wuas questionedi ablout what termed hia "wicked piece of foolciry" O0 ford is still alive, but lie is residing ouit of England. Not so Francis, the carpenter, who assaulted the Queen in 1842,and made a large wale on her face. Th'Iis man died shlortly after lie had b)eeni lodlgedi in St. Luke's,Bethlehlem. lie was unq(uestionably muad. Nevertheless, after his offence, Par liament passed a bil1l enacting that, floggIng should be inflicted In future upon any one seeking to Inflict bodily harm upon the < Queen, or to threaten her. It was by vir- I tume of this act that the young fool O'Con nor, who leveled a p)istol at the Queen in 1869, was sentenced to be imprIsoned for a year, andi to receive twenty strokes with a birch. The Queen kindly remitted the whole punishmnent, and caused the boy to be supplied with funds thant lie might, emi-i grate to Australia. But withui less than a ye:ar after bie had been shipped oil to Bouth, amipton, O'Connor returned to E~ngIaQ(,and ; was found prowlng within tito pxecincts of Buckingham P1alaice at night, evidently with emvt, intent. Tis time he idas certifled to bei out of his mind, and was sent to an asylum,where hie remained under treatment four years. Ho is helleved now in h~e i~n: Bait Lake City. Valt Lake City, the Mormon capitol I Let us look at it. It lies deep in the valley -in a valley which Is 6000 feet above the evel of the sea. To the right, to the left, o the north, the south, the east, and the west-mountains! Lying in the midst of hem, the city. America has no other like t. Surveyed from the distance, it wears a listinctly Oriental appearance. So we of he far West, who have only dreamed of he East,inagine how Damascus may look. White houses shining anud rich masses of ;rcen foliage. A dome, a tower, a spire ,hat may answer for a minaret, deep gar lens, buildings with flat roofs, a faint mist f dust marking the line of a traveled itreet, a sky of more than Oriental softness Verhead, and an atmosphere so pure that o breathe it is a luxury,and to look through t is to gain such power of vision that the waks of the Wasatch Range, twenty miles tway, seem within the reach of the pedes rian who has five minutes to spare. In he city there are broad streets, covered with gravel. Upon each side, where the putter should be, there Is a stream of pure ind delicious water hurling fiercely along vith the Ipetus gained at. the top of the 'win Peaks. The dwellings of stone, of vood, of adobe or sunburnt bricks, are far ipart, and enshrined among mighty trees. Riops, here and there, thrust themselves mt to the edge of the footway, and offer heir wares to the passars-by. It is a queer rowd that is thus tempted. Such a one Ls on no other street in this broad earth can aither. Here is a Mormon saint, a patri. Lrch with twelve wives, and so many chil Iren that he is compelled to rcfer to lis nemorandum-book for a list of them. stout, rugged, coarse in nature and in-fea ures, lie is of the' kind that found this ralley a wilderness,and transformed it into luscious garden. There is a Utah Indian, 4ad, perhaps in a stovepipe hat, a blanket ad buckskin breeches. He wears huge arrings, long straight hair,thick and black is midnight. Here is a Mexican, dashing long at break-neck speed upon a shagged >ony. lie wears a (rees as picturesque as hat of a Greek, and he Is as fine a horse nan as the Arabian Desert knows. There ;o two army ollicers, wearing blue coats, ad-looking as if they were in authority. PICey Iiie to the camp upon the hillside, roin whence the guns that they control tan level the city in a day. Gentile nminers, vith whiskers, broad hats, trowsers tucked n boots, and plistols thrust in belts, sang ,ering about in search of firewater. Mlor nion policemni, quiet, reserved, but keen a hounds, stand upon the corners. Huge vagons, drawn by six, eight and ten meles one lumbering down the street, bringing rom outlying settleients of the,suints the Ithes for the Prophet's storehouse. lur ying past them, dash graceful and elegant oleasuro carriages,such as Hyde Park ight w0 proud of. But where are the women ? )f mien there are enough. Now and then Gentile woman passes, but not often ; ad the Mornion women appear still less requently. It Is Orientalism in the ex renm Occident. There is the polygamy >f Turkey,with an approach to the custom vhich keeps the women under a vell. It Is strange city, a new city, born within th ast half century; a city of its own kiud city that is as striking as novel, as inter faing, as unprecedented to the view of the 0nerican who lives east of the Rocky iountains, as it Is to that of the citizen of ondon. Ailus Iteovem, the Tenor. The famous Englsh tenor, Sims Reeves, ontemplates retiring from his profession. Ls lie r'ttmt be nearly sixty years old, and u very rich, the wisdom of such a course Colis undeiiiable, though lie Is still with ut a rival in oratorio singing. About ifteen years ago his voice deteriorated onsidora-ly, but soon regained its power. t is an opn secret, amongst the profession liat lie is obliged to have all itis songs ransposedi a coup)le of tones lower than lie ised to sing them. Sinms Reeves was, uriously eiiough, both idlohized and hated y the English public. TIo accounit for hiis,it, inist be borne in minud that he never iould be depended on to fulili his engage nenta. Th'lis gave a atari to all sorts of tories sbout, lis bieig a coiifirmed dhrunk-~ ird. But. they were utterly untrue, as the act that, lie has retainedl lia voice to his )reisent, age coicl usi velyv i prca. The ruth is thaut his throat, was al wauys miost. lelicate ; a simple journey by rail was ofteni ,iullleent to make lham ''as hoarse as a~ 3rowv." In the height of sumnmer lie didi not hare Ito walkc across IHyde PariC wthout as niny wvraps aroundt his neck as au ordina.r v n'in would wear withi the therliioumeter lie tow zero. Reeves was a native of Woo! wich, and as a boy attracted the attention :>f the ohlicers of thig garrison by hisa musical talent. lie began his career as a baritone, und the reabregister of his voice was niot hiscoveredl for some tiume. Even in those early (lays lis throat was most susceptible to cold and fatigue, andi after any severe 3xert Ion lie waus liable to spit blood(. Much >f lis suibsequenit success was (lue to the 3aire taken of him by lisa wife, wvho saon heed( her own musical career for the sake )f looking aifter that of iier husband. She ook as much care of himt as a trainer does >f the favorite of the Derby, and (luring tears and1( years waited for himi behind tihe cenes wvith heef tea, gargles and other estoratives. The report about11 Reeves' iabits of intoxicat,ion arose fromt lis lena toss for beef tea. lie was accustoJmed to arry about with himii a pocketiflask of that mitIous but, Insi pid b)everage,aindi persons eeing him constantly interviewIng the lIttle bottle, jumped at the conclusion that t contained branidy. Wounld You. Would you keep your rosy compIlexiont, vear thick soled shoes. Would you enjoy quiet content, do awvay vithi airs and pretences. Would yen have others respect your >pinions, hold and never disown them your. Would you have good health, go out in lie sunshine. Sickness is worse than reckies. Would y:u respect yourself, keep your ieart and body oleaiu. Would you retain the love of a friend, do tot he seilshly exacting. Would you gain the confidence of busi less men, do not try to support the style of f'our employer. Would you never be told a 14lO Ao 'no tak personal questis. Would you sleep well - andi have a good tppottte attend to your business. Wouid you have -the respect '& nen, sover pernilt yourself to indulge ia vulgar -aeraton