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-f, V. MA, F, - 0 '1-WEDE7LY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S.0,JULY 311 1880. *VL V-O 2 Tit 71WARS PABSING DT. The years are paesIng by I We watoh, s froi an open door, Their passage through Time's corridor; Each Sadow. in its fa ling, slope Across the grave of buried hopes ; The pulse of being slower beat. Through winter's snow, thrtO summer's heats, And faith and hope and love grow oold As we grow old-se we grow old I The year are passing by I .The years are passing by ! 7tie's teoord hth'uoh pages blurred I With haty deed, with bitter word ; Such sad mistakes mark'all life's years We moarce can read, because of tears; We 4" dead faces on the walls, We hear dead voioos in the lalis, We touch some lande on bended knee, We kiessome lipA %e oanno see The )ears are passing by I The years are Oasing by I They oarry with them as they go The rain, the sunshine and the snow; They leave behind the dritt of days Wherein each soul some penance pays; Some hopes we have, but not our own, Bome loves we cherisb, not aone ; And there are leaves and faded flowers That tel& sad tales in memory's hours. The years are p -sing by I The years are passing by I The sea of silence on our lips We closer pree. Time's usubra dips To deeper darkness down tae lane Through which we walk to hide our pain.. We smile and smile as one who bears A life untouched by grief or cares, Put when in solitude %s wait, We bow our head at sorrow's gate. The years are passing by I The years are passing by I Another joins the passiug band I Oh, is there not sojie other land Where compensaton for ali illt The measure of nifa's be.g 11lle? We wait the auswer, but in vain, The shadow faild, a sense of pain tests on us thei esoer we go -And whispers of the sod and snow. The years are passing by I 'Lady Blanche's Leap." "Now, remember, my daughter," said my father, as he carefully tucked me 'Into the corner of the close traveling carriage "remember my caution. It is all very well for you to preach against intemper ance and dissipation in the proper place, and to the proper person; but the Giange and its owner are neither. The old home a ead is a quiet, 4teady building, and your uncle long ago sorely repented himself of the evils you are so fond of crusading against. Poor Walt4tr Is not what he was . as a young man. In one day he passed from the careless life of a 'man of the world' into the true, humble Christian he Is now. So be careful, daughter, that hap haiard tongue of yours does not, uninten tionally, wound him." And then the carriage started away to. wardwhi't was to me. a new and undiscov ered country,"'even though it was but thirty miles distant from the quiet coun try town in which all My young hfr had been spent. It was a sudden thing, th's visit 1 was about to make; for years it had been brought up at certain Intervals, discussed, and then laid aside. And now, st last, I could scarcely rea lize that I was actually on my way to the much-talked-of "Urange," the lonely resl dence of my father's only brother, Lord Walter Shafton. The latter, himself, was no stranger to me, for of late years-since, as my father said, he had repented of the wild life he had hitherto led-his visits at' our lit tie parsonage had been of frequent occur rence. He was a tall, fine-looking man, of some fifty years of age, but so bent and sorrow ful,'his head and beard so white, that one ignorant of the truth would have supposed him to be, at least, ten years older. That there was a sad story connected with my uncle's sudden change of charac ter-some terrible gulf which had so aged him beyond his years-I had always sus pected; but, as my kind father seemned to shrink from the -subject whenever I ven tured to hint my curiosity, I never ques tioned him. My anxiety to penetrate the mystery. however, rather agumented than decreased, from the check thus put upon is; and I resolved that, before I left the 'Grange,' I would find some means of gratifying my curiosity. Fortune, fickle dame though Abe is, in this instance, at least, proved herself my friend, and in a few days after my arrival, a rare opportunity to attain my object was unexpectedly laid before me, without any effort of my own. Among my uncle's numerous servants was one who had lived in the family for many.years - during my grandfathter's life time in fact-and to this faithful old fel lower Lord Shafton confidcd my safety during the long rides I so delighted In, he himself being generally unable to bear the fatigue of my wild gallop across the,.coun try. One bright morning, however, I persuaded him to lay aside his books, and enjoy a quiet-ride with me, but fehtring that he might wish to return before I was ready, he told old Itobert to follow closely after us., It was, as I have .said a glorious day, and the exhilerating air and motion seemed to act upon my uncle's gloom hke a charm. He talked, even laughed, as we rambled along a road I had not yet explored; and, in fact, I had never betore seen him in such spirits. The one dark shadow of his life, what ever It might be, seemed, for the time, * forgotten, and 1 gave myself up . with de light to study my loved relative in his ne w character. "Look, uncle Walter!" I cried, sudden ly,.reining In my herse, "What a beauti full, shady little road that is to the right! Come, let's follow it!" IHe made no reply, and I glanced round at him. To my surprise, every trace of his late - eheerfulness was gone, and, instead, a dark, deep. shadow, had spread over his face-darker and more sorrowful than I had ever seen It before., "lInm tIed,".lie saiid, witit the thick, slow utterance of one who ' struggles to contro):son6gtt eniotion, "I amt tired. Go ong.if you:lIkq. itobert will accompany And then, without another word, hi struck his steed with his whip, afid wa far away before I could reply. I turned to look for old Robert; he we close at hand, gazing 'in the direction h waster had taken, and there w2s some thing so strange in the expression of hI (" as he sorrowfully shook his gr, he, that I.could not resist the impuls that prompted me to turn to him for a explanation of my uncle's abrupt movi ment.. "What Is the matter-do you knom Robert V" "Ah! yes, miss, I'm afraid I do," an swerod the faithful old man. "I don know how my lord came to take this road he's never been near it for years; not sinc He paused abruptly, as though consclot that he had touched upon a forildden sul ject. "Now," thought I, as we rode slowl forward on the shady road that had so al tracted me, "now to question this old ma or not, 'that is the question.' To father the mystery 1 have so longed to have clea1 ed up; or, because I can only do so by th aid qf an old servant, to -livot on with mi curiosity unFatisfied I Some people woul say it was derogatory. to my dignity t question a servant. So It would be, I b( liave, with an ordinary servant; but Roboi is almost like one of the famiy; he lived i it befo:e Uncle Walter was born. So will ask him to tell me this story about m Cousin Blanche's death, and her father' reformation, for I am certain the two ar -connected." And in a moment after, my. "hap-hazar tongue" was employed in eliciting the fCl lo,wing information from the by no mean unwilling old servitor: "It wasn't very long after you. wer born, Miss Shafton," he said, "that all am going to tell you happened. You wer too little to know anything about it, an( it's asad tale, that folks would rather for get than tell over again. Lady Blanch was my lord's only child, and he though all the world of her, and so did every on else; she was like a bright fairy in th house, always full of laugh, and always a happy. She looked very much like you bliss Shafton, and my lord see that as we: as I do; I know It from the way I've see him looking at you, when you did no know it. Well, the Earl of Grandon live. then in the Lig house you can see froin th balcony of the Grange, and his nephew Mr; Arthur Woodville, used often to com down there and hunt, and he'd stay fe weeks together. It was not very long be fore I began to see that something mor than the love of hunting brought him a often to his uncle's house, and pretty soo other people begau to think as I did. "Any one who saw Lady Blanche an Mr. Woodville together, would have sah that they were just made for one another and they thought so, too, themselves. "Now, the young gentleman, though h was the nephow of an earl, was poor hia self; and, as his uncle had plenty of sor of his own, it was very plan that he cout not expect anytning froi him. "Ahl if he had only been rich, thing aight have been so difterent nowl" "You know, Miss t3hafton, that my lor was not always-just-just what lie I now. He was a little wild in those days like most young noblemen, and he did nc want his only child to marry a poor man so he and Lady Blanche had some troubl about Mrs. Woodville. "My lord said that she should dismis him; and she declared she never would and that her father was unjust. Well well," continued old Robert, doubtfully his affection for his master struggling wit his own honest conviction; "maybe h was, just a little. But, then, my lor might have had reasons that no one knev about. But it did seem rather hard to par a young couple, who loved each other just because the gentleman was not rich Lady Blanche thought it was, anyhos and so shs kept on being just as kind s ever to Mr. Woodvilie. They often rod horseback together, and I always went too.. "My lord, you see, did not want to ol fend the earl, who was his friend, by foi bidden his nephew to come to the Grang< and so he had to let things go as the were. "One morning Lady Blanche told m to have her horse and mine ready, as Mi Woodville was coming to ride with her. "I brought the animals round to th door, and, as Mr. Woodville had not con yet, I tied them and went into the houst As I passed the drawing-room door, heard my. loid and Lady Blainche tall ing. "My lord was very angry-I could te that fromn lis loud voice--and Lady Blanch -was trying to calm him. "I went out to the front again, n waited with the horses; but oven there could hear my lord's passionate tones. "Mr. Woodville soon rode up, and Lad Blanch.e came out, looking very pale an distressed, jn spite of her efforts to soel gay. "My lord came out in the hali with he1 and I heard him say,too low for Mr. Woot vylle to hear: "Now, mark my words, Blanche; r when you come i-ack from this ride, yo cannot tell me you have given Artht Woodyille his dlismissql,. this home will b no'longer your t>me. Rememberi "I dropped a good way behind them,.a I always did, lust, keeping within cali. "I could see that they were talking ver earnestly, and ope Mr. Arthur pointed t the little chapel we were -passing-at t,here it now, just ahead of us, Miss $hal ton--but Lady Blanche shook her head. misdoubt that he was asking her to marr haim, then and there, and so end my lord opposition. "Ahi no one will ever know what the talked about!" "Thiey had just passed the chapel, who a deer burst from the- woods, and spraam across the road, just before them, and nm lady's horse-a wild tiihag' that she ougi never to have mounted--became perfectl frantic with the sudden fright. "She could not hokdiu, and ' before Ma Woodville could catchi the rein, he spran away doWn the road at a terrible pace. "The young gentleman, his face a white as a sheet, dashed after, -and I fo: lowed, full speed. "It was an awful place for a horse I get frightened, for, not half a mile ahdad the road comies to a sudden stop, on tl very br:ink of a cliff, withi th's sea roaria two h'undred feat below! We all thr< of us, thoQught of this; and my ladty trie to tumn her horse, but the animal was ma with fear, and minded her no more than fi. Mri Woodyill pushlid his owb horn e forward# and, just before the Arabiar a reached the Cliff, he managed to pass it and then turned his owji horse at ,thi s very end of the r Ad, so as to bompletelj s block it up. On came the Arabian, an( - instead of stopping, as we all thought hi a would, he came, full speed. iIght up agains y Mr. Woodville's horse I Oh! Miss dhat e tonI I shudder now, when I think of tha m terrible moment I Lody Blanche's Arabi i- an was a powerful animal, and the othe: staggered under the shock. The next in , tant, -1 saw both horses; with th6ir riders, go over the cliff together! How I got hom( to tell the tale I scarcely know. The t never-found the bodies--the sea swallowo : them up. "I was sick nearly to death for a monti after; and, wheo I got about again, m3 9 lord was like another man-kind and gen tie, and nearly heart-broken, just like hi is now. le has never spoken a harsh oi y angry word to any one since. ,- "He parted from Lady Blanche in an. i ger, you see, and he never forgets that i God bless him! Well, they wlil meet again, and thet 3 there will be n more anger betweer r them-nothing but lovel I "Here we are at the end of the road, now, Miss Shafton, and those bushes yon. - der are just on the brink of the cliff. Peo i ple call it, 'Lady Blanche's Leap.' Throoknorton Goes Shopping. Mr. Jasper Throckmorton, who live D out on Summer street, is the father o: ten children. The other morning Mr Throckmorton was just on the point 01 putting on his hat to start for the office when Mrs. Throckmorton called after hin from the kitchen. "Stop at Bodder's and tell him to com4 up and fix the water pipe, and get a bli tin dipper- and bring it with you thii noon. Don't tell them to send it, they'll ' forget It." 3 Mr. Thrmckmorton said he would, ain t then he put on his hat and started. As hq B reached the front door his eldest daughti B shouted from up-stairs: - ' "Pal pa! pal Go to Greenbaum d t3hroder's and ask Mr. Scott to give yot two yards and a half of brown satin, cul on the bias, to match the dress I got lasi t week, he'll know the kind. Bring it witl you. I don't want to wait for it." 0 And Mr. Throckmorton, pausing witb his hand on the door, said he'd get It, anc & then he sighed and opened the door. Jusi r then his oldest son shouted from the sitting - room: "Father, the man was up here twice 3 yesterday for the money for my now boat, and I just gave him a note to you, anc he'll call at the oice to-dlay for his money, and will give you a pair of oar locks and i dip net. Bring them up with you wher you come to dinner." Mr. Throckmorton kind of stifled i ' groan like, saying he would attend to it and then went out. As he passed dow1 the porch steps his second daughter leanec :1 out of the window and cried: "Oh, pal do 'stop at Parson's as yet a come to dinner, and tell them - to send i man to lay the new carpet when they senc I it up, and you get ten pounds of cottox a batting and bring it up with you, for w( ; want it right away and can't wait." t The parent paused with his hand on the ; gale-latch, and with a visible effort, us promised to - remember the cotton batting, and opened the gate. But th( s voice of his youngest son from the sid( yard caught his ear and held him for a mo. ment: "Pap ho, pap! Want ten cents to pa3 ii for a winder I broke In the schoolhouie, D and I can't go to Sunday schoot until I gel A a new hat and some shoes, and please can' v I have a quarter to go to the plc-nic I" t Mr. Tnrockmorton silently registered i flogging for the broken glass, a negatlv4 for the piC-nic, and he would get the booti ,and hiat. Then he turned to go, but as hi s passed down the street his six youngei B children came running after him. ,"Oh, pa! don't forget to Atop and see il the old umbrella's fixed, ma says." -"Stop at the dentist's and see when he -can fill my teeth." ,"Bring my shoe home from the shoe. V maker's." ' "Ma says be sure and tell the docto: a to come up to day and vaccinate the .baby." "Pap! Kin Igo swimnm' in Hawk-eye a krlck, to-night" e "Pal oh, pal gimme five cents to ride or .the street cars?i" I And MIr. I hrockmorton wont down towi -and amazed lFred Scott by telling him t< -cut off about thirteen feet of water pipe I on the bias, and ho asked Mr. Parsons t< e let him have eleving dozen skeins of cotter batting and senid him up a man wilth a tit d dipper; he told Dr. Cochran, the dentist 1 to come right up and fill the baby's teeth and begged the doctor to hurry right away y and put a half-sole on the schoolhous di window; and then he ran to the shoomak n or's and asked him if he had vaccinated hli little girl's shoe, and amazed the street cal , driver by asking him for a bath ticket, and -when the man came around with the oal locks and dip net he told him t65 take then , up and lay them in the front hall, the girl Swould show him where. And by threi r o'clock in the afternoon it had got arount a town that old Mr. Throckmorton wal dr inking as hard 'as ever again, and hadn' s drawn a sober breath all day. - set, est, L.ay. I "Father, does a hen set?f" - "No, my child, the best authorities ot I niditication now declares that the hei V ills." a "Do-you sit a chair f or company?" "Oh, no, sonny, you set a chair." y "Well-then-do you set a copy, er ei a copy." S "Why-I-I-I think I mnake a copy.' g "And the sun sets, does he?" y "Not at all-the sun sits." LI "Does a court set, father?" y "Oh, no1 you say of a coat that it sit. well or il.' ."Court, I said." g "Well, don't you snap me up I A cour sets, I guess." a "Does vinegar sot -or sit your teeth er -edge?" "Why-you ought to know that-it seti o 'em, 1 think, Joseph." "Does a flog set?Y" e "Well-that-depends-on what sort o: g a dog 'tis, Josle. But I am. sure you sol t beans poles and tunes," -"And wvhat do you lay, father? Doyot f lay on a bed, lay taxes, and Iay" a "Joseph,-ybu hear me? iYou go righ a ott agt ehop up songoto that brush." A Novel Chase. Recently a man on horseback crossed the bridge from the Kansas City side and when he had got across on to the apron used for the passage of vehticles and horsemen, just to the left of the railroad track, the horse became very much frightened at a passen ger train of the North ltssourI coming over P the trestle towards the bridge. He plunged and cavorted in such a manner that his rider dismounted, to hold him the more safely white the train was passing. But the horse, wild with terror at the sight of the iron monster rumbling along the track, broke away from his master and started back for the bridge. The gate between the apron and the bridge was closed, but the frantic animal felt it in him to jump the Missouri river at that moment rather than let that advancing devil on the track catch U him. le never paused in his career, but u) bouded over the gate like an Indian rubt'er equmne and entered the' bridge Just in front of the train. It was now a stern chase, but the horse itermined that it should not be a long one. He was firmly settled in 2 the opinion that the locomotive in his rear a had come west for the express purpose of 0 chewing him up and spitting him out, or more probable still-chucking him, bones, ,, hide and all into his iery bowels. The prospect made his hair stand on end, and he went across that bridge with his ears laid back and at such a speed as mocks couiparsion with any time ever made by man, beast or machine across that structure before. The bridge trembled under his clattering hoofs, the toll keepers were startled at the flying phenomenon, and the horse shot out at the mouth of the bridge and btopped at a good safe distance from a the train. where lie shed tears of joy at i what he devoutly believed to be the liar rowest escape ever made by a horse before. Meantime the rider of the beast made his way back across the bridge, breathing out remarks and opinions very forcible and picturesque, but not proper for publication. tie was ioud in his complaints that the train didn't stop when the disturbed equan imity of his horse first developed itselt, and abused the train men soundly for their gross disregard of his horse's rights. The episode was a novel and exciting one, and the horse will uever forget it. Improved team Uannal la. The late experiments in canal steamboats - bid fair to be a complete success. The 3 Baxter steamers were not sufficiently re 3 inunerdtive to continue the building of that uid of boat. They do not carry a suffl - cient load, owing to their build, and that Is made necessary by the form and arrange tment of the machinery and propelung power, the propeller being that form used by the tug iu ihtafialo. The new style, which a bids fair to pay handsomely, has as full a bow and stern as the ordinary first-class e canal boat. Tue propelling power Is radi ' cally different from the tug propeller. The wheet is eight, feet in diaU&eter and placed V closo to the stern; the boiler is upright, i wath a single engine, very compact mach - itry, taking up no more room than the stable ia inany boats, and enabling the boat to carry 7,500 bushels of corn and coal for the trip. With this cargo they run from Buffalo to New York In seven days on live and a half gross tons of coal, saving river and harbor towing. One re turnea from New York to Buffalo in one hour less than seven days, bringing one hundred and thirty tons of freight. 'ihe outlook now promAes to supersede mule and iiorte towing. The Belgian system e of cable towing will take that large num ber of boats now relying on the mule, and diever them promptly as consigued and in uuchi less tite aui cost than can be done 0 by the nule. ioth systeis are necessary for rapid movenient on the canal, and to e cheapen the transfer from the West to the t seaboard. 8teatu is sure to supersede ani C mal power on the canal, as everywhere 0 else. Tn'ze canal steamboats are at, last so t far perfoct.d .uc 1 Masuij a handsome pro 0 fit in running them, .And a large number Li will soon be at work on the canal, aanericana Crowa. B it is not generally known that crowsdonot ei go fnrther south than Washington during 0 the w nter. rThey congregate there by the millions, and have roosting-places within a three miles of the city. Early in the morn ing, in huge flocks, they course down the 5 Potomac, and late in the evening return to ai their roosts in the pine groves which lie El adjacent to the river. They follow the I- tide swamps whenever bared by the ebb Y tide and subsist upon the crabs and other 'water animal life which may be left ox e posed. But why they do not re main some ai twenty or tirty miles down the Potomac, t whore the pine groves are a hundred times more extens.ve than here, and whore ice e nevers forms, is unexplained. We have El gone near a roosting-place, of a few acres Sextent, aoout dusk, and were surprised to e note tihe immense number of these birds a clinging to the branches of the trees. They keep tup am incssant cawing all night long, and when disturbud, literally fill the air . with their confused masses and cries. , Whmen warm weather comes, they leave us, e and are as rarely seen here dluring the aiim Elmer as they are further north during the winter. The Canal neoat as a floane*. A few of the canal captains have little t houses and small patches of land along the canal where they Winter themselves, their B familhes and their stjck, and send their children to schiooht A large number of -them, however, live on their boats with o their wives and babies, from January to t December, and a hard time they have of it. One room and that as confined and close as o could be weli devised for kitchen, parlor, sitting room, library, and all the rest with t bunks ca: tailed off perhaps for a place to Li sleep-this is their hiome. . Love in a cot Li tage, and a very enmaIl cottage too, is one ,of the sweet poesibilities of men a and women's lives, but how many o%f the amen ities of lire do you think will find resting place among the Inmates of the cabin of a canal boat, or how many of the better traits e ia men's nature ad women's disposition , cen you believe will over ba therein de. I vo'loped ? Tmd humanitarians would do far better to turn men and women out wild in - the west to hewn down forests and build log houses, with all the chances of fever t and uague and death, than to shut them up f in these canal boats cabins and crush out p of thema every atom .of the best of their r natures. Yet I saw recently the wife of a r canal captain sitting at h'er cabiu door knit s ting a wo.sted:tiay in the moat brilliant colors. 11eals at Al "er. Shortly after arriving in Little Rock Joh Forrester was attracted by. a sign bearla the Inscription, "Meals at All Hours." Et tering the place and meeting the proprieto: he said: "You keep a tavern here, do you 1" "No. I keep a restaurant" "I don't know muoh about your ne names ; but you feed foli here, don you?" "Yei, sir." "oWell, I want to board here three dayi or I reckon until I get a J6(of somec kint I see your sign says 'meals at all hours You don't mean that, do ydu?" "Certainly I mean it. I'll board ye three days for $8." "And give me my meals at all hours ? "Yes, sir." "Here, take the $8. I never set myse up as a regular eater, but I'll buck agin yo for the next three days. I think that I ca stand her about that long. It's 11 o'cloct Give me something to eat."' . A meal was brought out and quickly di patched; and remarking that he would t back on time, Mr. Forrester! left. At I o'clock he came back and ate again. "Yo needn't stare at me," he said to one of ti waiters. - - "You are a regular boarder, are you I "The regularest one you've got. I don intend to miss a meal. I've got a chanc now to get even for bel' hungry many time." At one o'clock John came back, and r marked as he hung up his hat: "1'm o time, it's one o'clock. Fetch me authin' t eat." The waiter went, away mutterini and brought in a rather slim meal. "Look a here," said Jolin, "don't try t go back on your contract. I reckon yo did rather underate my ability, but I'm man." At two o'clock John came back and too a seat. The proprietor came in and aske what he wanted. "I want my dinner, supper or breakf ael just what you are a mind to call it." "You have already eaten here three tinic to day." "I knowv that." "Why do you come again " "Because its two o'clock." "It'is not supper time." "No, but Its two o'clock time." "I don't understand you, sir. What d you mean 1" "Your understanding may have been i jured by my surprising ability. I cain here with the understanding that I was t have my meals at all hours." "he contract has been adhered to; yo have come here irregularly." "No, air; I have come here regular. I was the agreement that 1 was to have meal every hour, and I am going to stan up to it if it packs my stomach as tight V a green watermelon. You. are trying t Impose on me because I iju from tn country. I have made arr"'gements wit a boy to wake mne up overvy, ur to-nighil and I'm comin' li6re to eat. That's n business now, and 'il act fair. with you an eat every time. Give me an oyster can coffee and some ball sassage. The proprietor handed the man $3 an required him to leave. A light ensue( and John was led away by the polic< When he completes his rock pile engag4 ment lie will sue the restaurant for daw ages. ____ __ The Sand 111ast. Among the wonderful and useful invei tions of the times is the sand-blast. Su[ pose you desire to letter a piece of marbi for a gravestone; you cover the stone wit a sheet of wax no thicker than a wafei then cut in the wax the name. Now pae it under the blast, and the wax will not b Injured at all, but the sand will cut lettei deep into the stone. Or, if you desir raised letters, a flawer or other emblem, ct: I the letters, flowers, etc., in wax and siI them upon a atone ; thena pass the ston under the blast, and the sand will cil away. Remove the wax, and you have th raised letters. Take a piece of Frenc plate-glass, say two feet by six, end cove it with fine lace; pass it under the blasi and not a thread of the lace will be ii jured, but the sand will cut deep Into Lh glass whenever it is not covered by thm lace. Now remove the lace and you hav every delicate ilgure raised upon the glasi In this way beautiful figures of all kind are cut in the glass, and at a small 02 pense. The workmen can hold their haind under the blast without any harm, eve when It Is rapidly cutting away the lhar stone, but they must look out for their i ger nails, for thecy wilhl be whittled awa quite speedily. If they put on steel thin bies to protect the nails it will do but Jitti good, for the sand will soon whittle t,hei away ; but if they wrap a piece of sol cotton around them they are safe. Ye will see at once the philosophy of it. Th'l sand whittles away and destroys any lhar substance, even, glass, but does not effe< substances that are softt and yielding, lik wax, cotton or fine lace, or even the huma hand. oir iia. ie'r--eps. At 11 o'clock the ether night a policc man on Beaubien street, DetroIt, cam upon a man pounding vigorously on thm door of a dwelling-houie, and he aske what he wanted there. Th le pounder wa pretty ,well set up. ieo descended th steps, went close up to the oflcer and softi whispered in ia ear: "It'p m *~ny own abode, and I w-war to get in.' "liut why don't you call out?i" asked th blue coat. "B-because I don't want to, g-give my~ self away. I want to get into the bous b-before the jawing commences. I wari my wife to think it's s-somebody else." "Well, go ahead, but don't arouse th neighbors." Trho ofler sauntered on, but in abou ten minutes he encoaunteredi the tipsy citize on the- other aide of the block. Tlhe ma was thoroughly drenched with cold watei and had lost his hat. "Hell didn't you get in ?" "N-not quite." "Couldn't awaken your wife, oh ?" "The t-trouble was," Whispered th man, as a big shiver galloped over hhir "the t-trouble was that sihe was awake al tho t-timei" "And she deluged you from a second story window I" "I'm not 'zaetly clear as to whether I was a thunder-shower or only a pitcher c w-water, and I thought I'd h-hunt youa u apd askc you if th-thunder .showers eve come in the night, and if lightning ove knocks a p-perfect gentleman ofthis ow: door.stona 9 ' suday at the uotet Des Iinvand. On a bright Sunday morning the writer and his traveling companion had taken an omnibus at St.- dulpice, Intending to get out at the Pont de Jena and then walk over to the other side of the Seine. On arriv ing at the PoiWt do l'Alma we noticed so much stir among the idlers on the quay that it seemed worth while to stop and learn the cause. We soon found that something of interest was drawing people in the direction of the Hotel des Invalides, where the First Napoleon sleeps, guarded by the tow surviving veterans of hisarniles, in one of the grandest resting-places pro vided for tao ashes of mortal man. Sup posing that the persons whom we saw strolling towards the graves were making a holiday vielt to the celebrated tomb, we decided to take the opportunity, as we were so near to see it also. To our disappoint ment, however, the tomb was not open to visitors at this time, and we were obliged to content ourselves with seeing what we could as we walked about the adjoining buildings and grounds. The Hotel des Invalides is an Imense building, or group of buildings, erected by the "Urand Monarque," Louis XLV., as an asylum for wounded soldiers. It is said to contain more than twenty courts, and has an imposing front on theesplanade of more than six hundred feet. The fam ous tomb of Napoleon is in the crypt of the church, beneath the dome. There, too, are the tombs of the Emperor's marshals, Bertrand and Deroc. The great court, called the Court of Honor, into which we now pass, is a bare, open, quadrangular plaza, surrounded by an arc..de, on the inner walls of which are rude frescoes representing scenes from the early and in some resptcts legendary his tory of France. The quadrangle was at the time comparatively deserted, but knots of old warrior in their simple uniforms of blue were gathering at different points. Some were sitting in the sunshine on. the benches between the pillars of the arcade, perhaps recounting to one another for the thousandth time the story of Austerlitz and the Pyramide, of Moscow and Waterloo, and other chapters in the history of their eventful lives. Gray, stern, battle-scarred old fellows they were, Some, too, were drawn in little carriages, while others still were wheeling themselves about in old fashioned velocipedes. In a little white a drum-corps of boys, headed by an ancient-looking chief musi cian formed in front ot the chapel doors at the widdle of the side opposite the en trance gates of the court. Under the arches on the right a company of Invalides was drawn up in two ranks, all wearing white scarfs across the body and carrying non-comnissioned officers' swords and short lances with the- tri-color flying from each spear's head. At a s'gnal given the drums were beaten. After a prolongel roll there was silence for a moment, and then, at the word of command trom a fine looking old officer, these veterans of a hun dred battles marched or hobbled into church .to the sound of the drums beating their loudest thrqpgh the lofty ailes. Half way up the nave they halted, opened ranks and faced inward, and quickly aligning themselves on either side stood steadily at "carry arms." The officers then, two by two, all In gala dress and proceded by the gorgeously attired Suisse, with halberd in hand, marched in between the open ranks. They were a goodly company of men still, and conscious of their own grandeur and Importance. As they passed up to wards the chancel, the two arms of vet erans presented arms. In a few moments the commandant entered, and then all the officers took their seats in the space nearest the choir. A loud roll of the drums, and the officer in command gives the word "order arms." Then a fine military band strikes up, and after the stirring strains have ceased the tones of the organ at the end of the church are heard, at first soft and low, then, swelling lould and full, and at last gradually dying away. The priests In their gorgeous vestments are in their places be.. fore the altar, at either sIde of which-how strange the sighti-otands a soldier with lance upright. .Between the priest and the congregation, halberd still in hand, is seen the stately figure of the Suisse. The s'lemn prayers are offered up, and the air grows heavy with incense. And now the music has ceased, and every sound is hush ed as we reach the crowning point of the ceremony. 'rho priest is about to elevate the hoot. Suddenly tzae S3uisse strikes his staff fiercely upon the marble pavement. Tihe drums furIously beat a salute. Trho soldiers present arms, then come to the "carry," then ground their arms in a pecu lIar way and fall upon one knee supported by their pikes. A little bell rings once, twice, thrice, perfect silence, and all are bowed to the ground. Again the boll .rmgs, and we rIse. TIhe soldiers shoul der the arims, and the band breaks f orth again In victorious strains of ' martial muuio. After this an anthem is sung, and the priests retire frown the chancel. In a few momients the oficers rise, and, preceded by the Suisse, pass out in reverse order through the open ranks. 'rho company of veterans closes up, faces, and marches out with drums beating, the drum corps halt ing just without the doors. The lances ame left in the vebtibule on the way, and the speaclo is over. A few minutes later theofficers reviewed the company in the Cou. t of Honor. It was a singular sIght as the column passed stiffly in review with the music of the drumis to which the aged veterans could with difficulty keep step. I noticed several wooden 1ehe, or pins rather, among them; but the owners anji their comrades went through all the forms with precision, and were thLfn t.isnmised to their quarters. Whether what has been described Is still a regular Sunday observance at the tIotel des invaldes or not I do' not know. -But It was worth much to have seen it once, for it was very suggestive. One, cannot but feel, after seeing such a ceremony, that he has gained a new point of vIew, and becomes acquainted wIth a peculiar phase of State ,reiigion. Of the mental at titude of the men who took part in this service, it is of course difficult to say any thing. But If Mlacaulay's No.w Zealander or the Inhabitants of another . planet were to look In upon this singular combination of priestly devotion and military parade, might he not be excused for doi4bting whether the divihity thu* worshipEd ,is really the mild being whoili the Christians are w t styile. a- ripe of Peacoe, or. soe some god of wat of the people to whom Inoursoontesj *e give the pkme NEWN IN itlEF. -The rubho 'debt was decreased $10 000,000 during the mouth of .Moy. -Of the 813 parishes foi tting the diocese of Cologne, 179- at present are priestiless. -The H arvard Divinity School Fund for New Professorships reached the sum of $113,700. -A cave ot large dimensions has been discovered on Loyalsock creek, Lycom ing county, Pa. -Pennaylvania has forty-two filnt, tweniy-three window and thirteen bot tie glass factories. -The cost of passenger loeomotlves of ortinary size Is absout $12,000; heav ier cost as high as $20,0ou. -Only two cotton taetories are in operation In LouiSIana, both of which are located in New Orleans. -A vein of gold four inches thick, It is al'eged, has been opened in one of the streets (i Dieloneai, G,. -The estimated expens-es ot the Jer sey City Board of E-ineailon for the next school year are $237,550 -The Tidewater Pipe Line sprang a leak in Lycominsg county, Pa., the other day, and lost 1000 barrels of oil. -Col. Gordon is supposed to Intend taking comtuand of the ChInese troops, should war break out with Russia. -On the 19.h o June. 178t0, the (loath of Natiwnilel Green, M ejor-General of the Army of the Revolution occurred. -The cattle drive of Texis will be larger this year than for several years past, rnioutitinir to at least 300.000 head. - -A tract of fifty thouiand acres on the Northeri. Pacilic Raillronid has been hoight for a colony Iromn Bellast, Ire land. --rhe Hon. Rufuq W. Frost is the trustee of Wellesley College, Massa chusetts, who- has just established a new live-thoUsand-dollar scholarship there. -An Oaceola (Pa.) mill Is making three hundred thuiand shingles per month. and yet cannot keep - up with the orders. -The manufacture of papIe' from the iloe fibre in India, which was pat ented in England In 183S, Is now again suggested. -A manufactorv at Indianapolis turns out daily 100,000 ot the ijeat little wooden dishes In which butter is so generally sold. -.Maximilian, Emperor ot Mexico, was shot, along with two of bli Gen erals, thirteen years ago on the 19th of Juno. -Richard IIl. was proclaimed King June 20, 14 3. ie raised himself to the throne by a series of the most in human murde:'s. -A small olerry-wood cabinet made by Pre6ldent Lincoln dity years a o, and used by himl a- a desk, Is ownedTy a gentleman in Indiana. -The Prince of Waies used at Truro the other day the mallet with which Charles IF. laid the toundation stone of St. Ptul's Cathedral. --American exports to China for the years 1877 and 1878 were valued at nearly $7,000,000, and the increase In 1879 was rapid and heavy -James A. Garfield was born in Orange, Cuyahosa county, Ohio, No vember 19, 1831, and Is therefore 49 years old on his next birthday. -In the next fifteen years almost all the Rugsian ralroarla now in opera tion will undergo tile process of re demption and bocome Government property. -James VI. of Scotland and I. ot Ei.gland wa- born June 10, 1500. le caused the qgrave Sir Walter Raleigh to be put to d 0a for his sitessful expe ditions against the Spaniards. -John G. Powell, Ba., 01 Esat Fal 1owvtield, Chtester county, Pa., has liv d under every President of this country. Ho was born thirteen months before the expiration of Washington's first term. -It is said that America makes one third or the entire paper producntof the world. There are 027 mills in the countrj, rep)resentIng $103.000,000, emnploying 22,000 persons and paying $9,555,000 in wages every year. R-Train No. 4 of the Pennsylvania R diroad, consisting of a locomotive and two cen, scarted irom Philadel pia a.t 12.51 P. M., recently, and reached Jersey UJity at 2.94f P. M., mak ing ninety miles in ninety-three min utes. -Prince William, eldest son of the Prussian Crowyn Prince, has just been solemnlyK betrothed to Princess Vic toria. rho aged Emperor brought In the bride, and beamed with gratifica tion as hie presented Bismiarok and other guests to her. S-Mr. J ies Coigate, of New York, has givena $25,000 to t;he Madison UJni versit,y at Hamilton, N. Y. and a like amount to the Colgate Academy. ThIs makes $Q00,000 hie has given the Uni versity, and ho increased the: endow ment of the InstitutIon to $5000. --The M arquis of Ripon will be the g reatest peer la point of rank who ha ever filled the uifflee of Viceroy. No Knight of the Gurter has ever be fore served -tihe Crown in Indlia, and there has never before been a YIceroy of the rank of Cabinet Minister eIxcept Lord Canning. --The Countess Limbertini has ob tained a fresh hearing In her attempt to prove that she is tile legal heiress of tihe lawe Carditnal Anitonell. Tnue Su premne Court of Appeals had dismais-ed her case ont the ground that the oOlcial church registers or 8c. Vincenso de Anastaslo ac'counted for her iparentage. -Pincess L ntise was shoppIng in Chic igo. A lady approached her and said: "There it a lady present who was bo,rn within the dominion Qt yout mother, and she would like to s peMkto you." TLhe Princess shook ilaands yt the English wonman. After a.k conversatiu she turned to go, ae "Hiow lonely you mOst be to stay aWq~\4' from your country so long.", --Prince Gortschyikoff has iMot been Improved ln-appearance of the styvere suffering of tehe ptst for mnoaths. His once p.ldatatit and geniatl'feiiures are wan and emaciated, and hise ep, e ly sunk In their soketA, are'alS, hidden -by an Imtuenae par oft oles, Tnm,German Empss raous to,hlna4ghen li eai