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7a E W E E W.3 TfRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, .C., AGS ,18..VL V-O 3 THE BEARTHTONE, (ladIy now we gather 'round it For*the toiU1ag day Is d->ne, And the gray and solemn twilight Follows down the golden sun. Shadows lengti'en on the pavement, Stalk like-giants through the gloom, Wander past the dusky easement, Creep around the fire-lit rcom. Draw the curtains, close the shutters, Place the slippeys by the fire : Though the rude wind loudly mutters; What care we for wind-spritei ho e ? What care we for outward seemiug, Fickle Fortune's frown or smile, It around us Love is btaming ? Love can human ills beguilo. 'Neath the cottage-roof and palace, From the peasant to the king, All are quaffing from L;fo's obalice Bubbles that enehantpient br.ug. Ornt- s are glowig-mu o flowing From the lips we love the best,: O'tho joy. the bliss ol knowing There are tiearta.whereoh to rot Hearts that throb with eager gladness, Hearts that eoho to our own, Wnilo grim care a haunting sadne a Mingles ne'er in look or tono. Care may tread the halls of daylight, Badnes haunt the midnigbt hour, But the weird and wilehing twilight Brings the glowing hearth6ton's dower. Altar of our holiest feelings, Childhood's well-rememberod shriue, Spirit-yearning, soul-rovotiings, Wreaths immortal 'round thou twine! The Brass Button. On a 1ine evening in the summer of 1766 two young women, Maggie Armstrong and Eliza Wilson, nietat a roadside not far from the village of istington, about four miles from the town of White Haven. Both were known as good, religious girls. "The celebrated Mr. Wesley is in Whit ten---Whitehavenx-MNggie,"remarked Eli za, in an off hand sort of way, "and is to speak in the market, place to-morrow night. Will you go with me to hear hin T" "I will accoipiany you to Wiitten, Eizt,'' pro:uptly replied Maggie. I'Ive often wished to see the famed man; so, all being well, I'll get ready and go with you." IWeil you ask rIchard to come, Maggle? put in lza, witst chracteristic zeal ats they both lifted the palls onl their heads. "I Judge that he will follow when he finds t,hat I'm gone," qmetly responded Maggie, It need Carcely he oberved that the young lnrite re ed to was one who had or soie te past paid cerltin attentions to Maggle, or that liza Wilson wats an ardent MteChodist. baturday nighit camie, and amiong the many who were gathiered around the ctit Iu siastic little preacher were the two young women we have brought before the reader. rihey came with sen1tihnnts as divergent as postuibi in respect to the preacher and his preaching. They returned one in mind and heart. The result of this change in Maggie was that she was cold to Richard Brunskill on the way home, and unsympa thetic: from that hour lie was no more to her than any other youth. The first time he went to her home after that. night he was told his rate In a mild but tirm manner --adecision which lhe receivedI with any thing but complacent feelings. lBut summer had not long given place to winter before a change took place. A young * ~ man namedl Thomas Musgrove, who had re cently begun to use his gifts as an occa sional preacher amonig the Wesleyanis, arrestedl Maggie's attentioni. li e was a builder in a fair wtay of business on his own accont ; and( ats Aliss Armstrong had consi dereablo peisonal charms, her secret preferences for him were soon drawvn out, by his avowedi attachment to her; and before long it was well known by all the brotherhood andl others that these tw6 - young folks were likely ere long to become msan'and wife. Matters were in this condit1 lon when midl suinunter caine arotund(. Ii was againi the "'leafy mn'mith of JIune," when once more the fanmetd apostle of Methiodism ipaid his annual visit to Whitehaven, and every Methodist In D)istington Wvas overjoyed at the prospect of hearing his welcome voice on the following Saturday tnight in the market place. Among those who walked from D)istington to hear hhnti were Thiiomnas Musgrove and Margaret Armstrong. A small dog helonging to the fot imer aco companied them. Tlhe service (lid not last miuch over an houtr, as Mr. Wesley wvished1 to mcet the country oficials that lie might ak1( them b)y his couinsels. As Musgrove was one whose presence was requtired t this gathering, ndi as it was not certain howv long lie would lie dhetalined t hereat, lie desired Maggie to go home with the ethers, observing that, lie would not fail to givet her a call on his return anwl spend an hour or so with her. The (log Viper went with him. When ten o'clock arrivedl, Maiggie began to listen -for his foot fall, lut, it camne inot. She grew anxious; and as the linger of the clock rose towards eleven, she went to the door anid looked diown the( road(. Conchlidmng that T[homas had been dhetaiined against his will, she was about to re-enteinter the hiose andi go to bed, wvhen 'iper lmade( lis app)earanmce, whining disnmally. -Surp~risedl at .this, she spoke kindly to1 tide poor beast, and asked hhn where his moaster whts. Thie dog looked up in her face wit,h a scared, uneasy expressIon ; and in gazinig into his face she saw that he had somectihhig in hit mouth, "What have you got t,here. Viper" e' ho asked, holding out her hand for the article, which the sagacious creature laid in her p)alms. It was a piece of blue cloth with a brass button attached. he looked at it, wondering where the dog had got it and what it signified. At a glance she saw that it did not belong to any garment i that her betrothed had on that night, and I so far she was at ease. But on watching Viper she saw that he became disturbed and anxious, for he ran about the house a and to the door, looking earnestly at her v tie while, as though he wished her to go with hin somewhere. Excited and perplexed, she awoke her r father and told him the circumstances. At d daybreak Armstrong aroused a neighbor, and telling him what he know and feared, t the pair set off on the road to WhItehaven, preceded by Viper. They had not gone above a mile when the (log, leaving the tj high road, nado foe an unused stone quarry s a little off tie highway, and standing on 6 an eminence which flanked the quarry, set up a loud and dismal howl. They now looked around and saw the b object of their search stiff, cold, and a covered with blood, his clothes nearly torn h from his body, lying near by. It was I evident that poor young Musgrove had been murdered. He had been attacked a from behind by some one who had used a ti heavy blunt implement, by a blow from U which he had been knocked down, and f then dragged into the quarry and dis patched, the poor dog having doubtless 0 beeni a helpless witness of the tragedy. d The murder produced a (leep and wide- t I spread sen'eation. Many peroons were sus-V pected of having committed the deed, t4 among whom was Richard Brunskill. But v as the murdered man had not been seen in a his company on that fatal Saturday night 1 -as indeed Brunskill proved that lie had left. the town alone-and others te8tilled tj that Musgrove did not leave the town until k 'ong afterwards, Richard was allowed to C remain at large ; and the crime was laiki at the door of "some person or persons1 un il known," and left to take rank with un- C discovered crimes. b It will be remembered that when the I (tog Viper entered Arimsrong's house on 0 the night of the murder he had a piece of 11 blue cloth, with a brama button attached, j in his mouth, and which lie laid i Mag gio's hand. This girl put in her purse, a more with a view of knowing where to find 0 it, if want ed, than for any other assignable reason. . Twelve months had passed, when busl- V ness drew her and her father to the town d of Whitehaven. As usual it was oii Satur- a day night, the pay-time of colliers and 9 others. As they were crossing a little F bridge whom should they confront, as , they reached the othei aide, but itchard ti Brunslill, who was about to step on the ti planks I The eyes of Miss Armstrong and J his met in one stern and earnest gaze ; but while they were hesitating as to what course each should take, their attention ' was arrested by something that 'was going 0 on at their feet. Viper was growling with 9 all his might, his eyes ready to leap from their sockets, and the hair on his back standing up like the teeth of a comb. pull Ig at Brunskill's trouser leg, evidently for the purpose of arresting his progrcss. In t a moment MaggIe's misty suRp ICIons were confirmed, that the slayer of her intended f husband stood before her. She remember ed the piee" of cloth i her pocket. Look at his coat, she saw that it was blue in color ;and( thec buttons in front, made ofr brs, were . the same in size and p)atterni I as thme one on the piece in her pocket. Stepping behind him, and looking at thme wvaist of his coat, she saw th'ut a piece of cloth hadl been torn out, and( another piece awkwardly inserted in its place and bear ing a biuttonm not like thme others. Not a shade of dloub)t now lingered iln her mind ; the I proof which she had in lier purse, with time action of the dlog, convinced her that she was right. So, seizing him by the collar of his coat, and looking him steadily in the face, she exclamedi in a loud voice, "Richard Brunskill, you are thme murderer of Thomas Musgrove I Bee, the (log accuses you ; and1( this iiceC of cloth too rises ump as a witness against you 1" Saying which, she took the rag from its keeping-place and1( held1( it up to his gaze. BIrunskill shook like an aspen-leaf. Is face became ashen pale ; andh fallhng back-t wardas into the arms of one of the many who hadI by tiiis time gathered together, lie saidi, "God won't let me escapel I am gmity of the death of Thomas Musgrove I I am willing to die'l" A constabhle, attriacted by what was going on in thme neigkblorhiood, drew nmear just as the wvrethed mani had~ utteredI those words, and took him ito custody. Afierwards lie wias triedi aind condemnnett. Brumnskill made a fuhi confeessioni of his crime before lis execution, lie saidi that wheii lie got to kno1w that Musgrove had ganmed the pla1ce that he oncme believed lie hiad In Ma lrgar-et Armstrong's affections, and1( seeiing no thiaince of supplanting him, a deeprooted hatred was begotten within hun ; but he neover felt temptedi to take his life till the night. of the niurder, andl then resolved that the (Ieed should be0 effectedi ini the old1 quarry. On reachinig It lie 1hid behiindl the stone stoolp of thme gateway that led thereto, andi in a short time lie hea-d the footfall of his unsmuspeting victim. Taking a deep) drnink of rum andl grasp)ing the hedge stake with which lhe had armed himself as soon as the young foltow reached the spot where lie was hid, lie sp)rang ump and killed him by a blow on the back of his head, aifter which lhe dragged hIm into tihe quarry. The (log lie saidl was alnmost wild with rage, but he'was not aware until afterwards that a plee of his coat had been torn away by the animal, nor did lie ever suspub~t that it had ever ~been foumnd and treasured up to be a witposs against him. Upon the Lady's Mind. Theie Is one thing that there should be a tw passed about, and that is these glass rult jars, with a top that screws on. It hould be made criminal offence, punish. ble with death or banishmen4 to Cheago, or a person to manufacture a fruit jar with top that screws on. Those jars look nice vhen the fruit is put up in them, and the ouse-wife feels as though she was repaid or all her perspiration over a hot stove, as he looks at the glass.jars of different ber les on the shelf In the cellar. The trouble oes not begin until she has company, and ,ecides to tap a littie of her choice fruit. Lfter the supper is well under way, she Blle the servant to unscrew the jar and pour lie fruit Into a dish. The girl -brings it ito the kitchen and proceeds to unscrew lie top. 'She works gently at first, then ets mad, wrenches at it, sprains her wrist, id begins to cry with her nose on the uder side of her apron, and skins her nose n the dried pancake -batter that is hidden , the folds of the apron. Then the little ousewife takes hold of the fruit can, milingly, and says she will show the girl ow to take off the top. She sits down on lie wood-box, takes the glass jar between or knees, runs out her tongue and twivsts. lut the cover does not twist. The cover caeis to feel as though it was placed there ) keep guard over that fruit, and it is as inmoveble as the Egyptian pyramids. The ttle lady works until she is red in the ice, and until her crimps all come down, ud then she sets it away to wait for the Id man to come home. He comes in tired, isgusted, and mad as a hornet, and when ie case is laid before him, he goes out in lie kitchen, pulls off his coat, and takes p the jar. He remarks that he is at a loss > know what women are made for, any ray. He says that they are all right to sit round and do crochet work, but when 1rategy, brain and muscle are required, Lien they can't get along without a man. [e tries to unscrew the cover, and his mimmb slips off and knocks the skin off the nuckle. lie breathes a silent prayer and ails for the 1erosene can and pours a little it in the crevice and lets it soak, and then e tries again and -awcars audibly. Then e calls for a tack hammer and taps the uver rently on one side, the glass jar reake, and the juice runs down his trousers ,g, on the table and all around. Enough f the fruit is saved for supper, and the old ian goes up the backstairs to tie his thumb p in a rag and change his pants. All come - the table smiling, as though nothing had appened, and the house-wife don't allow ny of the family to have any sauce for fear If getting broken glass in their stomachs, ut the "company" are provided for gener usly, andti all would be well only for a re .iark of a little boy who, when asked if ke ill have some more of the sauce, says "he on't want no strawberries pickled n kero Une." The smiling little hostess steals a knell of the sauce while they are discussing olitics, and believes she does smell kero oue, and she looks at the old man kind ol punky, then glances at the rag on his liumb and asks if there is no liniient in lie house. The preserving of fruit in glass ars is broken up in that house, and four ozen jura down in the cellar arc to lay Ipun the lady's mind till.she can get a iance to send them to a charity picnic. ,he glass jar fruit-can business is played ut, unless a Scheme can be invented to et the top off. Wanderimg IfHrry-Pickerm. The men who pick the israwberries in une and the raspberries in July, on the ludson river fruit farms, are composed of we classes-confirned tramps of all iationalities, and Germans who, from the orce of circumstances, have been compoll d to wander over the country, looking for nd obtaining a month's work where they ould find it. The reckless tramps, who 'don't care for anything or anybody," arely if ever work more than a day at a ime.. They beg or steal their food, and vhat money they earni is sp)ent in purchias nur alcohol, which they dilute and drink. Thiese men usually change their location very dlay, and the likelihood is that the ~overnimnt cares little wvhether or not they ~re enumerated in the census. The Ger.. nans ns a rule are hard-working but lhn >rovident fellows. Thief pick through the ntire season, in some instances for the ame produicer year after yehr. The Ger nans, the census-takers say, will not be nnmerated because they have noe real lence at any place in this country. A reporter talked with an intelligent fermnan picker at Marlborough. Trho >lcker spoke English fhently, and his tory presents the trampl problem In a new >hiase. 'The German alled to spoke for ilimself and fellows when lie saId: "We tre forever on the go. We know noe such >hace as home ini Ameorica, and many of us mover will. Nearly all of us were fairly ducated in Germany, and served aippren iceshmips as bookkeepers aind store cleriks. Uti of the fellows picking berries here came o this country soon after tie p)anic. Weo vere not ab)le to speak English, and eveni f wve could have (lone so there wereo no racancles. Al erchmants were dischiarginug netead of hiring help. After a timie our noney which we brought over with us was til usd up. Since then we have been ramping around year after year." "[[ave you a rogular route, or do you o where you think you can find work?" "'We have a regular beat. During the atter hart, of May a niumber of the men icre pick peCas in Burlington and Camden :ounties, in New Jersey. 'Thei peas are >icked in half-bushel baskects, for whieh .he picker is p)aid fifteen cents. On iin tverage a good man can p)ick from teni to ,welve baskets a clay. We also pick straw >er'ries in New Jersey, andt are p)aidI by the iart-two( and a half cents." "W hat (10 you do after the strawberries save been gatherecd f " ''Tramp it upJ hero to the Hudson ri ver fruit f'armns. DJo I knoew where -l was .Jung, I I No, sir; somewhere betwech Ne\v Jersey and Ulster county. Tihie name of he village 6r town 1 can't toll. Nights we dept in barns. I can't say how many Gecr nans there were on the road between New York city, New Jersey and( the Hudson 'iver berry farms on Junie 1. There mighit Liave beeni 700 or 800, p)robab)ly more. l'hli. Germians that, are here did not sleep lights with the poormnasters, nor ask for unything to cat while tramipine along the road. We madec seome money picking Lberries, and bought what we wanted to eat it the stores in ,thme villages we passed through." "After the raspberries are p)ickted, about July 26, what do you do then ?" "Some make tracice for the hop farms around Utica. others go to Deawmare to pick peaches. Those who go to the hop country travel along slow, and by the time they reach there the hops *e ready to pick. When It is a good season for hops we can make and save some money. The hops are picked in boxes, and a man used to the business can earn seventy.five cents a day and his board. When hop-picking is about over, the latter part of September, a good many of the boys go back to Nlow Jersey to pick cranberries on the meadows in At lantic county, on the southern coast. The other hop-pickers go to Pennsylvania to husk corn. When corn-husking Is through it hW almost winter. Nearly all the fellows then go to Baltimore and hire on an oyster boat, or work as openers for the canning firms. When spring comes we fish for shad in the Susquehanna and Potomac rivers. At the close of shad fishing, peas are ready to pick in New Jersey." "Do the same tramp around, year after year, as you say they do?" "Yes: I've done It for six years. I am a bookkeeper, and can't find work. My appearance is against me. Who would want to hire me lor a bookkeeper I Out in the sun, in all kinds of weather; sleeping in barns and sheds makes a man rough and uncouth. What polish he ever possessed is soon rubbed off. If we had been taught a trade, or had been brought up on a farm, our condition would be different. A num ber of the pickers who were here two years ago are now employed in the iron works and coal mines in Lehigh and Berks counties, Pa. They have steady work, and receive from one dollar to a dollar and a half a day.. The men who are on the go year after year have no. home. They never vote, and have no stated occupation. At best it's a dog's life, but it's better than tramping around begging or stealing clothes and food. What clothes we have we buy, and what we cat we pay for. I never asked a man in my life for anything to eat." Itemaine of Gothic' Architecture. A most interesting discovery of a beau tiful vestige of Gothic artitecture, in excel lent preservation, has been made beneath the house at the southeast corner of Lead enhall, and directly opposite Aldgate pump, In London. The arches and vaults in the basement have hitherto been used as a storehouse for wood and other materials, but the extreme beauty of the architecture, particularly the sculpture and graimng, led to an investigation. After the most dili gent research, it was ascertained to be the remains of a chapel dedicated to St. Mich ael, and is designated by old listoilsus as "next Aldgate." It appears to be of very great antiquity, having been built by Nor man, prior of St. Katherine, of the Holy Trinity, in the reign of Uenry I. and his Queen Matilda of Boulogne about the year 1108, and is nearly 750 years old. The chapel consists of pillars and arches. Its length from north to south Is 48 feet, and its breadth from cast to west 16 feet. The Wals is constructed-wit oblong blocks of chalk, similar to those of Rochester Castle. The arches are of stone, the keys of which are beautifully sculptured with knots and other devices, and exbibit at a glance the skillful masonry of our ancestors. The chapel has been filled wiih soil and rubbhh nearly to the capital of the pillars. From the ground to the crown of the arches is 10 feet, and allowing the shafts to be bur led 16 feet, gives a height of 20 feet to the interior of the building. The iron hinges and the casements are still attached to the walls, from which circumstance it Is con jectured that the strticture originally stood on the surface, but that In subsequent years the ground outside was raised gradually until at last the relic of past ages was com pletely buried. At the southern extremity there is an appearance of an arched pas sage in the direction of St Katherine's Docks, the site of which the priory of St. Katherine's formerly occupied. The Brush-Turkey. A family of Australian birds, which are the most anomalous in all their habits, are the brush-turkeys, which we may look upon as supplying the place of the pheasant or grouse, and whose unique domestic economy is specially adlapted for the pecu liar conditions of Australian existence. The mother of a family of brush-turkeys is very far removed from the position of a domestic drudge, and enjoys complete immnunity from the slavery of incubation. Thei old birds in the spring share the labor of col iectiing an enormous mass~of half-decayed leaves, rubbish and eaith, five feet high, andi sometimes forty-five feet in circuer once. As soon as the hot-bed, by the fer mentation of the -vegetalie matter, attains a beat, of about 89 (leg. Fahrenheit, the hen bird deposits her eggs, one after the other, in the centro. T1hey are very carefully ar ranged in a circle on their e3nds, and then covieed to a considerable -height with leaves and earth. Whenm hatched the young birds scratch their own way out, and are able at birth not only to run, but to fly suf hiciently well to eniable them to perch on high trees out of harm's way. ThIe mother, however, seems generally to hang about, the neighborhmoodl, and to assume at once the ( d mcation and( guidance of her family. t'he soltution of this extraordinary peculiar ity is, as Mr. W allace has pointed out, only to be found ini the peculiar condition of the openi regions of Australia, where prolonged dIroughts and scanty water supply entail a peoriodical scarcity of food. Th'le confhie, ment of the p)arents to one spot for t'he pur pose of Incubation might undier these cir cumstances leadl to starvation, and tihe con sequent (leath of the offspring; but with free power to roam time birds may easily flid subsistence, and thme young, fully (de veloped at b,irth, are at on1ce capale of p)rolonged and( extended journeys. P'ohsounous wamter C~olors. Thue singular etitement, appears in the (Chemiker Zeitung that, mn searching ito the causes of the death of a young engineer, there were found in the corpse remarkable quantities of arsenic, attributed to thi9 colors which the decased hadi been Ia the habit of using, --for, on analysis, it was found thmt a specimen of . sepia contained 2.08 per, cent of arsenlous acid, one of terra di sienna, 8.14 per~ cent, an(t one of redl brownm 3.15 per ceiit. The deceased engineer having been in the habit ot draw ing his brush, chuirgod with colors, through his lips, it Is thought not hmpossible' that the aisenical colors were absorbed by dec grecs in thme saliva. Further Iavestigatron Aft tho;dark colors of French make showed the following quantities of arsenic: Colored sepia 1.10 per cent, natural sepia 0.98 der cent, burnt sienna 1.76 and 2.23, Van Dyko brown,0.81, brown ochrme 0.52, sap green 0.82, bister 0.97. The Jiners. She was about forty-five years old, weli dressed had blaek hair, rather thin, and tinged With gray, and eyes in which gleam ad the fires of determination not to be easlly balked. Shle walked into Major Huav's oflice, and requested a private inter view, and having obtained It, and satisfied herself that the law students were not lis tening at a keyhole said slowly, solemenly and impressively: "I want adivorce." "What for I I supposed you had one of the best of husbands," said the Major. "I s'pose that's what ever ' thinks, but if they kndw what Ive' in ton years they'd wonder I hadn him Long ago. I ought to, but fo. ke of the young ones I've borne it ana said no thing. I've told him, though, what he might depend on,and now the time's come, I won't stand it, young ones or no young Dnes; I'll have a divorce, and if the neigh bors want to blab themselves hoarse about it they can, for I won't stand it another day."1 "But what's the inatter? Don't your husbaUd provide for you? Isn't he true to you V Don't he treat you kindly ?" pursued the lawyer. "We get victuals enough, and I don't know but. he's as true and kind as men in general, and h's never knocked none of as down. I wish he had, then I'd get him into jail, and know where lie was nights," retorted the woman. - "Then, what's your complaint against him ?" "Well,-if you must know, Ie's one of them plaguey jiners." 'A what I" "A jmer-one of them pesky fools that's always jiulug something. There can't no thing come along that's dark and sly and hidden,but he'll jine it. If anybody should get up a society to burn his house down, he'd jine it just as soon as he could get in, and if they had to pay to get in, he'd go all the suddener. We hadn't been married more'n two months before lie jined the Know-Nothin's. We lived on a farm then, and every Saturday rdight he'd come tear in' in before supper, grab a fistful of nut aakes,and go oil knawin' 'em,nnd that's the last I'd see of him till morning. Anvi every Dther night he rolls and tumble in his sleep, and holler, 'Put nione but Americans on guard-George Washington;' and on rainy Clays he'd go out Into the corn barn and lab at a picture of tfie Pope with an old bagnet that was there. I ought to put my foot down then; but lie fooled me so with bis lies about the Pope's coming to make all Yankee girls marry Irishmen, and to eat tip all the babies that warn't born with a ross on their foreheads, and I let him go Dn, and encouraged him in it. "Then lie jined the Masons. P'raps you know what them be, but I don't, 'cept they think they're the same kind of critters that built Bolomon's Temple, and took care of his eoncubiiies; and of all the darned- non sense and gab about worshipful mas and squares and compasses and sich, that we had in the house for the next six months, you never see the beat. And he's. never outgrowed it, nuther. What do you think of a m1an, Squire that'll dress hisself in a white aprun, 'bout big enough for a mon key's bib, and go mai cilug up and down, and making motions and talking the foolish eat lingo to a picture of George Washington Lu a green jacket, and a truss on his stom ach i Ain't lie a loonvatick? Well, that's my Sam, au I've stooid it as long as I'm goin' to. "The next lunge the fool made was mte the Odd Fellows. I madu it warm for him when he came home . and told me he'd jined them; but he kinder picilled me by telling me that they had a sort of branch show that took in women, and he'd get me in- as soon ashe found out how to do it. Well, one night he come home and saidi i'd been prop)osed, and somebody had black balled me. Did it hisselt, of course. Didn't want me round knowing to his go ings on. Ok course lhe didn't, and 1 told him so. "I'hen lie jmned thme Sons of Malter. Didn't say nothing to me about it, but sneaked off one night, pretendlin' he'd got to set up with a sick Odd Fellow; and I'd never found it out, only, only lie camne home looking like a nma that had been through a threshing macliac, and I wouldn't do a thing for him till lie owned up. And so itA gone from bad to wus, and from wus to wusser, j_lin' this atnd thant and t'othmer, till lie's worship Minister of the Masons, and Goddess of Hope of time Odd Fellows, and Sword Swallower of the Finanigans, and Virgin Cores of the Grange, and Grand Mogul of the Sons of Indolence, andl Two-Edged Tromahlawk of the United Order of Black Men, andl Tlale-hiearer of the Mereiful Manikins, nd Skipper of the Guild of Caratrine Columubus,and Big Wiz ardl of the Arabian Nights, and Pledge Passer of the Reform Club, and Chief Buil ger of the Irish Machinists, and Pu'se keeper ct the order of Canadian Conscience, and double-Barreled Dictator, of thme Kights of the Brass Circles, and Stanmdard Bearer of the Royal Archnglos, andi Sub. lime Porte of Onion League, and Chamber, maid of thme Petrifled Pig-Stickers, and Celestial Chiprubs, and Puisant Potent age andi the Lord only knows what else. I've borne it and borne it,hopin' he'd get em all jinied after awhile, but 'tain't no use; and1 when he'd got into a new. one, and been nmadoe Grand Gu do of the Nights of IIorror, I toIld him I'di quit; and I will." Here the Major interruptedl, sayig: "Well, your hiusbajjd is pretty wvell lnitiatedl, that's a fact; but the court will lint dly call that good cause for a~ divorce. T1he most of the societies you mention art coimposedl of hionorab)le men, and have ex cellent reputations. iMany of t,hem, thougli called lodges, are relief associations am] mutual insurance companies, which, ii your hiusbad abould die, would take cart of you, andi would not see you suffer If you were sick." "Moe me suffer when I am sick I Tak( care ?f mue when lhe's dentti Well, I guesa not. I can take care of myself when he'a dieadi, and, if I can't I can get another, 'There's plent,y of 'em. And they needn'I bother thiemselvgi when i'm sick, either If I want to lie sick and suffer its none oi their b)usiness, especially after the suffering I've had when 1 ain't sick because of tholi carryin's on. And you needn't try an< make mec believe It's all right, either.J know what it is to lie with a man thma jifas so many lodges that lie don't neoe lodge at home, alfd signs lia name. '9 ours truely, Sam Smith,M. N. 1. 0. 0. F., K. 0. B., K, P., P. of H1., A. HI. I. I. P., KC of X., N. 0., L. E. T., HI. E. R. J. P., X Y. Z etc. A perilous Leap. A lady who was aocoinpanying the re mains of her husband from -Florida to her home in Akron, Ohio, jumped from a rap idly-moving express train recently just be fore she reached the end of' her journey. She was crazed with grief and a morbid ap prehension that she would be blamed by his iriends for having taken hin away to die. When the train left Cincinnati, she seemed to be calm, and the family phy siclan, who accompanied her thought she would sleep after so much exhaustion. Worn out with watching and anxiety he went to sleep himself in a berth opposite to her. When the train neared Akron, early in the morning, the physician arose, and, to his horror, found her berth empty, and the window open. Search was made all through the train, but she was nowhere to be found. When the train stopped the physicisn was ahnmost speechless. How could he give to the sorrowing friends the (lead body of Mr. Phillips, and tell them that his wife had committed suicide? The telegraph was used at once to get tidings of the inlssiu) woman, but it was several hours before any response came, and then it was announced then the woman was lying at a house In a little village some distance off the railroad, not far from Mansfield. A train was chartered and friends hastened to bring her home. They found her in bed, conscious, but almost exhausted. The people said that she knocked at their door a little while before daylight, and when they opened the door they found her all covered with mud, and unable to tell her name or anything about herself. She explained that after she went to her berth she could not sleep. She finally opened her window and looked out. It wastaining, aind feeling that she was rapidly approaching her home brought an indellnable dread and a powerful impulse to escape it. With this feeling she threw herself out of the window while the train was in full motion. She fortunately struck upon a sandbank, and was thus saved from immediate death, its well as from severe injury. The Piaroeen efrndlia. Te Parsees are the most energetic busi ness men among the nat.ives; they were first drawn here by the English more than a ceituiry ago, on aCcoIuit of their skill as ship builders, andsoon made Bombay the head-quarters of the fire-worshipping sect, which had been persecuted in its own home in Persia and more or less in other places. They often amass great wealth which they sometines spend in erecting hospitals, schools and other buildings of public utility, but their charities are always acnompanied by the figurative blowing of trumpets. Perhaps their peculiarity is the manner in which they dispose of the dead. On Malabar Hill there are live whitewashed structures of considerable diameter but. moderate height, and open to~the sky; they are poetically called the Towers of Silence. Within them is a circular grating contain ing three sets of troughs, radiating towards the center, the outer set for men, tihe next for wo.nein ani the third for children, while in the middle is a well or pit, the body being carried through a small Iron door by four bearers-the only persons al lowed entrance, and the clothes deposited in a smaller tower-is placed in one of time appointed troughs, and it is stud that in less than two hours the bone are left clean by a number of vultures, originally im ported for this purpose, and which never stray from the grounds; in a few days the bones are placed in the central pit. The Parseei lay great stress upon the alleged facts that by this method there is less chance of affecting the health of the liv ing, and that the rich and poor are on a perfect equality. S,idets ; or (r Funny Neighbors. They nmust be our ineghmbors, for we can find them almost everywvhere, .iindoors and out, upstairs and down, in air, on the wa ler ; yes, and under it too. It would be next to iunpossible to find a place where they are not at home, and it, would be nearly as difficult to find an insect so uni verally bated and despised as our common, harmless and peaceful spi er. And we are going to try to convince some of their ene mica that, nowhere have they a better', more curious or more useful friend and neighbor than this same fellow. If you were to choose some one kind of imnset, and make it the object, of exclusive study for a wvhile, we are sure you would grow ny,re and more convined that inothing could possibly be so wonderful as this particular insect. It makes no ditYerence howv coammon it may be-indeed the most abundant species are as often worth looking after as those we rarely see. We fancy, for instanc', 1 haut we might talk a long timie about that everyday nuIsance the house fly, andh end by discov ering that we really know very little about hin-might even learn that lie was no nuisance at all, but insteadl, one of our most faithful-servant,s. Let, us spend just a few minutes, then, on this exceedingly mode(lst and retiring friend of ours, the spider. Beforq we begin to handle him, we muot get entirely rid of the idea that lie Is goinig to kill us with his poisoni. 'To be sure hie isalprovidled with a supphly of poison, but that is only meant for the small fly lhe captures for diininer. Somnethines, when he is too roughly handled or plagued, ho may use his teeth, just, as we wouldi try our fists on some one who was tali lng too great liberties with us; hut lie ili not, waste the little that, he has on animals so much larger than hinself as we are. Tme poison manufactory is soniewhere back ini the throat, and when lie inserts lis teeth inito a yictim, the poison tiows dowii a fur rowV ini the teeth into the mouth. '"They say" that even the bite of the taraintula, that huge spider of the lSouth, is no worse thani the sling of a honey bee, notwithi standing thie wonderfuli stories of their bite prodiucing alnost iustant (heath. Just rememiber all this the next time a spidier takes a pronimnade across you, and instead of acting as if a tiger or irattlesniake were in the act of finishing yqu, pleck himt tip gently and examine him. My wordl for it, lie won't hurt you ini the least. Notice how lils nyouth coyers the whole of his face, only leaving a bit, af the fore head for his eyes. About all there is of lis mouth is what you can) easily see if the fellow you are holding is large enough. The hieavy, massive jaws, placedl as if hung from the upper part, of its face to swing together like two p)enduluims, are each fur nishied with only one 'tooth set at right angles, and with only those two teeth for weapons lie can fight his way through the wnrl1 pretty sucessafully. But then ha has eight eyes, ranged In a double row across is forehead, like small, shiny, black skylights, and with them he can see on every side. at once. Like nearly all in. sects, he has several jolited fingers In the vicinity of his mouth to help hold what he is eating. - His eight feet are wonderfully fitted to his wants, for you know he walks more on ropes than on boards, and he couldn't hold on unless his feet were the right shape. You can see with alens, this time, that each foot fias three claws, one smooth and curved, that answers the place of a thumb; and the other two are curved like a sickle and toothed like a saw, and shut against several siff, toothed hairs like the fingers of a hand. Thus lie can get fIrm hold of the web, and guide the thread while he is sptuping. But all this while we are passing by what Is the most curious part of this wonderful insect-the spinning apparatus. In the body of the spider the silk, or what afterward becomes the web, is fluid and transparent, like water. When It Is Qxposed to the air it hardens, just as you have sometimes drawn glue into long threads by drawing a glue brush slowly away from some object to which It has been touched. But. the spider often wants a throd In a hurry, and to expose the fluid more completely to the air, It is forced out through a great many hundred places at once, all these fine threads coming together before quite firm,.so they stick close to one another and make what we call a spider's thread. To be sure It Isn't very strong, but some one has calcu ated that it would take 4,000,000 of these smallest threa0s to make a rope as large as a luman hair. This thread Is used for a good many purposes catching gaiie, swinging, floating in the air, and for building it u es under water and rafts on top of the water. We haven't said anything yet about the stock of fine tooth combs and soft brushes he used for his toilet, and have left out other Interesting things besides. And all this is only trying to tell what the spider Is; what ho does is more strange still, bit we must leave that for each one to learn by usin eyes and tong5es. IL will pay to spend some Lime With them, too, since very little Is known about them as yet, and you can, by close watching, find out much that Isn't described in books. I think everybody will agree that they are a queer little folk, and neighborly little people too. On tM,e Amazan, From a book of recent exploration on the Amazon the impression received is not agreeable. The whole of that part of the South American continent which slopes to the watershed on the mnighty Amazou offers numerous and easy outlets to the ocean and no very diflicult access to the interior. For the fall of the rivers is gradual, and their flow generally sluggish, although the navigation is frequently in cumbered by snags and now and thou ob structed by rapids. Consequently there Is a vast extent of rich alluvial soil in bottom that might be very easily irrigated; and the banks in many place are closed wit i magnificent forests, which stretch to un known distanoes in the interior. But, Judging by the little that has been done al ready, it seems unlikely that these inmieuse resources will soon be turned to profitable account. All things taken into considera tion, there are greater inducenionts for speculative settlers along the course of the Lualaba, Congo, or Livingstone, whichever we may please to call it. The cl linate of the Amazon valleys, with their warm evaporation and scorching sunshine, ener vates inhabitants of every rae. As we have said, the people are fond enough of money, and ready to beg or sometimes steal; bu)' even the high wages and ample ratioik offered by the expedition could not tempt sturdy idlers in rags to a short burst of ex - ertion tempered by excitement. The whites and half castes herd together in settlementS scattered at immense intervals along the river banks, over the vast unreclahued wilderness. These t3wns and villages have a most wvoeb)egone aspect ; the slightly b)uilt houses of unseasoned timber have already the appearance of decay before thmey are well finished; and the townsfolk have so little,notion of tradle, or oif going beyond the comminunity to look for a market, that in the rare instances where they hayc neighbors within reach, one villare may be in actual want while mh r.s is a superabuni dance of produce In tihe other. Thue labmor difliculty senms to be almost insurmount able, unless it shoul be solved by a wnole sale immigration of Chlieseor coolies fromt the lIndies. The whites cannot work, andi the Indiians will not work. The latstersuip port themselves by the chase and by fishing, or by cultivating patches of ground that just sufhice for themselves. Moreover, .thaey are inclined to be trounlesome amnd aggrees sive. Hor160ea nd iHornu 'F~Trad. '1 he number of horses in the United States a estlnatedl at 8,000,000, illinois ranking first in number, New York next with over half a million, then Ohio, Mis soniri, Pennsylvania, Texas, Iowa, Indiana and iKeptucky. TPho number of horses in the New England States is estimnated at 500,000, Maine having the largest number, and Massaechusetts next. The farm or workhorses of Maine and Vermont are niotedi throughout the land. Tlhe farmer whlo breeds fiorses knows his own inmerests well enough to study the tastes of tiho com maunity, and Jo bireed up to them. Speed is, to lbe sure, only one of the many quaili t.ies which are essential to a goodl roagater, and size, style, action, temper, form, con stitutIon and enduring qualities arc equally Important inm makng a general estimate of the character of horses. Th'ie horses raised in Maoa are, generally 'speakhng, fiae specimns of the equine race. 8o are those iuported from Vernmint andl Canadat, the latter having qualitIes of their own quite distinct front the thorough New England animal. Thea wveight of a good roadster mnay vary from 950 to 1,000 pounds. For ordhinary purposes on time road andl for gcne ril work an old horse (ealer tells us 1,001) pounds Is heavy enough. A larger sized horse would nmot be found semviceab,lc in horse cars, omnibuses and htacks, and cer tainly not m the buggy or light carriage. A heavy horse will not, last so iong over the hard p)avemeantsof the elty as a medium sIzed one. Th'le practice now conforms to tis rule, we bolieve, as strangers especially will notice an all large cities (in t.he east at least) quick, tough horses for tne most kinds of work. A medlumn sized horse will range from 14j to 15j hands in height. Usa whit,e ol me,mn, IJUa with re d for wvall protectors back of the kitchenA table, and under the usooks wheopans, nte._ nare huang.