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L..IV.-N - zc 40 TIWE""YEITO.~ WINNSBORO.9.8. C, SEPTEMBR 2,-1 O LM IX-0 UrBUO. Is there an% thing on earth, Where the strongest are not strong, EIt so feeble in its bh th, Or so stire of death, as Song? Prailer blossom never grow, Pelted by the summer rain Lighter in-eot never flew % Searoely come ore gone again. I Ohildren, who chaste butterfiles, May Puroue It, to and fro ; LItle ma.de who sbch,.'Heigh-lfo I" May deplore it, when it dies ; Loftier deeJs to men belong Larger hfe than Song There Is nothing on the earth, * Where so many thinga are strong, H1alk so mighty in its birch, And so sure of life, as Song. Never pine on mounthin height So the thunder-bolt defles ; Never eagle in its flight Soars w4ti such undauiited o3es! Conquerors pull empires down, Think they will not be forgot; But it Song purdue them not, Time dpatroys their dark renown Nothing is remembered long But the Life et Song I Presence of Mind. I have always been celebrated for my presence of mind in emergencies. Grandfather used to say that he never had a girl who was not afraid of a mouse or a spider, and how mother's daughter ever came to be sd'brave he couldn't guess. That was before I married, and, of course, I have not become timid with advancing years. I am Mrs. Jasper Jackman; my hus band is, of courfe Mr. Jackman, and our place is known as Jackman's Nook. Nook, iLdeed I If there was a corner to the world, I should fancy it was put away in that, for it Is the most out-of-the-way lhabitation thatever existed. It is indeed. You can't see it until you are within fifty feet of it for the trees and the nasty rocks. "So romantict" people say. I call it miserably lonesome. Now you know I'm not the least bit nervous, but, having lived with fathe and mother and the rot all my life, I did not enjoy being shut up all alone like a-a-a -well, a hyena in a menagerie, while Mr. Juck:an attendcd to business in town; and I often thought if housebreakers were to make an attack upon the house, what should I do, a poor little woman, with no one to call upon ? for I count Bridget as a great cipher In every occasion of life that does not involve soap-suds. I told Jasper that, absolutely, If I had known what a place Jackian Nook was, I was not sure but that I should have thought twice before refusing; old Dr. Muligtawny, whose palatial rtsidence Is in Fi.th Avenue, New York Oity, as of course every body knows. However, after you have once said "yes" to the gentleman wh% pops the question to you, you may say "no" ever after to all other questions for all he cares, for he'll have his own way always. Mother-in-law Jackman having made Jasper promise that I must live always at the Nook was considered unanswerable; and, after all what could we do? No ohe would here or buy the place, and we had it on our hands, Of course, we lived there. I always knew that doing so would be the cause of my showing the presence o' mind for which I am celebrated in my own faily-if nowhere else. And so it came to pass. One stormy night in November, in the yeai 1863-it was the. 4th, I think, for baby was just one year old on the 1st, and there was some of the cake I had made for his "bressed little birity dirfday" still left in the pantry; and a cake of that size cer tainly never would last longer than that In our house. It was the' most unpleasant day I ever remember to have lived through. The ground wvas soaked. The bare branch es looked like so many skeltons, and the sky was the color Bridget's tin pans were when1IfIrst got down stairs this. time last year. In the city it would have been some fun to sit by the window and watch the folks .go past,loQ&Ad( like so many drowned rate, but a&a profwk (I should think it was a . .,1nee asnthing to be seen-abso . I ad nt a ookwhich I had not read, - and the note paper was out, for Jesper hadi forgotten to bring me some from the city, iad I had tinished all my sewing. I spent my time as best, I couldl; but, how I (lid wish that the regiment which was encamped about half a mile away, was ntear enough fur me to watch them drill if they (lid drill in such weather. i'd thought them too near before on account of firidget, whom I had caught a score of times talking to men in blue jackets at the gate, and wished thtemi off to the seat of war, or anywhere else,over and over again; b'ut that afternoon, what a relief they would1( have beent 1 I was the more lonely that Jasper had said that morning, "My dlear, if it rains as * it does now to-night, 1 shan't come home, butt will stop at your father's." And how - could I blame hiti in such weather ? let * it was dreadfully lonesome. If you are sociable with your servants they always presume upon it, asnd I1ao so love to talk. Of course I watched thte clouds with In terest; if it should prove lair at lasI,Jasper, , wouldi come home, atid If It. rained he wouldn't. Every now and then, there would be a P?retense of clearing off,and I began to hope for a pleasant sunset; but it was always a false pretenise, and at teatime it p)oured as though there were going to be a second flood. Biddy asked me, as It was so near the lludson whether It wasn't likely to be a risln', andi whether in that case "we wouldn't be drowned?" And Iad. "Yes." Ik was too bad, I know, butt it was really some amiusement on such a (lay to frlghtgn the stupid girl. I had my tea alone, and I do hate to have tea alone if any woman in the world hates it--and then 1 put baby to sleep in her cradle in the sitting-room, and took my knitting, and was as comfortable as 1 could be0 under the clrcumstalnc(s, when I be thought me of the mernting's paper. I called Biddy to brfug it to me, and ashe camq,to tao at Ohce. "it's well-thought of miseus." she said, as she laid It in my lap. "U's yerseli wili be intherested widh the raldin.' Th'ier'A account. of the house-braain' in it,." * "Q What ?" I eJaeulated: and thangh I assure you Pm not the least nervous, my th heart was in my mouth fora, niomnbt. M "Of the house-breakiln', - and how the thaves in the wurreld got into Misther sa Dinsmore's houe, that's sittiated the same th as thin, neithboring nobody, and tuck al' it; they could lay their hands on,to say nothin br of half -murderla' the ould gentlemen. The to saints be abive us this night--" to .There it was, sure enough, headed. "A bold and outrageous attack upon the real- w deuce of Dr. Dinsmore 1" I read it through, in and then I said to myself: ht "Jerusha Jackman remember your pre- be sence of mind. Don t let it fall you in be cases of emergency. Should a housebreak. tir er take advantage of your solitudd, let him -of find you prepared." It was as tholigh w4 some invisible what's-his-name had ad- lei dressed me from the chimney. I answered, .fo "I will" and you can't imagine how bold 1 da grew at once. I rehearsed all that I should I do in case Biddy caine to me in the frl night saying, "Missus, there's some one In fn the cellar'"-all I should do if I found any wi body in the wardrobe when I retired, and I en had the satisfaction of feeling that I was no prepared. I might wake up to find the an spoons gone-I might be murdered in my mi bed; but it would not be unawares, and pr they would Lnscribe upon my tombstone these words: "She showed her presenge of mind to the last." I felt quite self-possess ed and happy, though I was certau-yes, morally certain-that something remark- in, 'ble would happen bef&e morning; that I th should be, as it were, weighed in the bal- th ance and not found wanting before the sun n arose. I did not feel like retiring early, ap and salby the fire until the clock struck an eleven. Tnen, just as the last stroke died o away, Biddy came down from her bedroom 00 like a red flannel ghost; with eyes and an mouth wide open, and something of im- of portance evidently on her mind. I put baby M, down in her cradle and arose, drawing my- on self up to my full height, and:'fpeling that p14 [ was the only one to be depe~6ied on in Ia this awful e.nergency. th "Bridget," said 1, "how many are they? In Is it one or more?" cei "Mum?" said Bridget." frc "The thieves I mean," said I. fal "Oh, it isn't thaves, mum," said Biddy. at "IT's only that thafe of a wind that's took ov the roof clane off the chicken-house, and sh ther's the wee bits tv chicks a stharvin 'to stc death wid cowd." on "And in this dreadful rain, too," said firi I. Bc "It's clared off fine," said Biddy, "and ei the moon's up." off So it actually was, and I began to feel las very brave.. an "We must go out and put them in the bel wood-house," said I. And so saying, I ha tucked baby up in his blankets, and wrap- thq ping a shawl over my head, went out int3 '17l the night ir. It had grown very cold, but trc it was clear, as Biddy had said, and we wC paddled round in the mud catching the 80 poor little chickens. We had them all at 'of last, except one, and we heard its little "Y voice 8wec, wee, ewee--soinewhere, and so of course could not be so heartless as to for- "a sake it. And at last there it was, tangled 1i up in some dead vines, and as cold as a wO lump of Ice. By the-time we gave it to alt its mother, - who was very glad to see in it, the clock struck twelve. Baby had been the alone three-quarters of an hour. the "Muzzer's darlingi sound asleep yet ?" till I said, as I went to the cradle. Merciful 7) powei s I shall I ever forget that moment?. thq Baby was not therel 01 In a nioment the truth flashed on my wl mind. Housebreakers had entered the dwelling in our absence, and stolen my 1e, treasure. Perhaps they were in the house 18 yet, or some of them. I felt the strength s of a tigress and, leaving Biddy howling res in the dinning-room, rushed UD stairs. w Sure enough, there was a light in my be bed-room, and I peeped in. The moment I did so, I felt I was powerless. The rob- n her whoe had stolen my baby was there,and Ne the terribly muddy boots of another Were l sticking from under the bed; and, oh, her- Ju rors I another had got into it, and had hid- - den, as he Imagined, under the quilts. -slo On my presene: oi nmiad depended the |dcr recover3' of my chbld anid my life. In .a 101 moment thee Ian flaishi.d upon mc. There wase but one (10Cr to the room, and the win dows were high and barred, for I had con templated time time when baby should be large enough to climb> up and lean out. olc Noiselessly and suddenly I drew that door lef to and locked It on the outside; then, with at, the k.:y in my hand, and treimbling like an ce' aspen leaf, I stole down stairs and cried to an Bridget. - . e "I've locked them in; they shall give my T baby hack; come with me I" and away I mc went across the garden and down the road mc to the first house. tre This was "Mulligan's Tavern," a very pri low place, indeed, shunned by all respect- tha able folke; but I knewv there were always men there who were afraid of nobody. Thme tai gi'eatest brutes would not ref use aid to a co woman at such a time. . ii As we came near I saw a light in one ofl' the windows, and I heard voices and loud tm laughter. It was no time for geremony, -wB so I burst the cheer open and ran 16i. There c were four mn playing cards, amid old Mrs. oh Mulligan behind the bar. .o "Oh I please excuse me," I cried; "but die do come right aways There are house- 1 breakers In my house, and they've stolen int my baby."lo "Stholo the b)aby?" cried old Mrs. Mul ligan. . "Ohs, do come," I Implored. "Ge, Pat," said the old woman; "never an mind the game. It's Missus Jackman; in! more betoken she's the next- neighbors to the us. Take ycr pistols an' away, wid ye, a boys. And Misaus, just take a drop o'scree- ni chin' hot whiskey to kape the life in ye." ny Of course I refused the latter offer, but In in a moment the men were on their feet, th and I felt lIke blessing: them-those half. bo savage creatures who had become my jiro- to tectors. of I don't know how we got to the house or Iln upstairs. I remember an awful tumult, a ma smell of gunpowder, oaths and shouts. tie Then there was a silence-then a loud tie laugh. - - cal "It's therue, boys?!" said old Mulligan's wi voice. "I know Misthor Jackmnan, an' wI it's himself. It's a great mistake-that's ja all. N "A siugular mistake to enter a man's ". house, and-endeavor to shoot him In his m, own bedl" said a voice I knew to be hny wI husband's; and at that I.rushed into the ro room. He was there, and go was the- baby, for i~ he held her in his arms; and therb, also, was Mulligan and his friends and tliefr pie- e~ tohs;'and half the furniture was birokeon the in~ stove upset. But as for the hoeuso tru w 9-1 began to se the truth. A ulligan was backlog out. "I'll lavp Mrs. Jackman toxplain," id, "Au' I':a proud I didn't kill i ough it's out of friendship I'd have dZ for if fer own wife top ye for a hou eaker, how would I know better? 'I p ;.the night till ye,an' I'll lave the la explain." Ali I I did really wish that the grou uld open and swallow me. You a V husband had -come home while we w4 inting up the chickens, and finding I by wide awake, had taken her u d and gone to sleep. And the ro% der the bed was his mu4dy boots. wi course. no feet In tfiem; and well th4 )re none, for they were riddled with bi holes. Mr. Mulligan had fired at the rtunately. When I thought of the aw nger Jasper and the baby had been went into strong hysterlcs at once, a ghtened Jasper so that he was glad rgive me when I came to myself. is a terrible mistake, and might ha ded seriously, of course; but I will a w and always, that it was Jasper's fau d that if he had been a housebreaker i ght; all have been thankful for my gre asence of mind. Prominent Events Since 1840. It is not too much to say that no grc rention which had not Its beginning a decade of 1840-1860 has appeared 3 past thirty years. In that period c rred the most signal development of t! plication of chemistry to manufactiu d agriculture; an enormous expansi commerce by means of railroads ai 3an steamships; the discovery of ethe d the perfection and diffusion of so the most preious contributions ev ide to the welfare of mankind. -In 18 ly 984 miles of railroad had been co 3ted in the United States; in 1840 thi d been nearly trebled (2,818;) in *18, 3y had been nearly quadrupled (8,70E 1885.Boston was connected with Wo ;ter,. and Baltimore with Washingtoi im Philadelphia the traveler could go i -ther West by rail than the Susquehani Coluthbia. In 1889, Ericsson broug! Br the' propeller to these hospitab )res. in' 1840 the Cunard Line of ocei amers was establighed, but fMr a tin ly "siide-wheelers" were tolerated. T1 at regular ship, the Britannia, reacht ston after a trip of fourteen days at ,ht hours. Morse's telegraph, after val era on both sides of the Atlantic, was i t subsidized by our own Governmea I in 1845 communication was openc 'ween Baltimore and Washington. "Wh Lh God wrought I" signalled Morse i ) capital to Alfred Vail at Baltimor e news diaVatches to the press "by ele -telegraph' or "by magnetic telegrap1 re meagre, while public patronage wi timid that the wits of the day made fu a delighted father in Baltimore, wE rired" the news of the birth of a gramn k to a postoffice official at the capitol a if the mail was too slow" at twent les an hour. In April, 1840, Goodyet a in- the debtors' prison (a lodgim riost as familiar to him as his own hon< Boston ; he had the year before foun i clue to the vulcanizing of rubber, bi i process was not reduced to a certaint 1844. At a'bout the same time (1841 the McCormick reaper was confirmir aindependence of the New World to ti I-as a granary. (As lat6 as 1830 8 Leat had been imported. into the Unite tes from Portugal and the Battic.) TI ving machine devised by Elias Howe I 18 was patented in 1840, but the in rtance of this invention was not full lized for more than a dozen years afte rd. The daguerreotype dates from 1831 I In 1840 the enterprising Mr. Pluni ran taking likenesses in Boston wit all success for'soie months. Five yea1 br his "galleries" were to be found I w York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Was] ton, and-even in Dubtique, Ia. Finall; ly 24, 1847, the patent was issued fi c's lightning press, with its "Imuprei n cylindier" (the type revolving oni sular bed) and a printing capacity 000 to 20,000 impressions per hour. Tihe nairs. l'he district known as the lHarz, is tI Hlercynian forest of which Uwcsar h. I. such -terrIfying accounts, strangely variance with its modest aspect.. rera an area of seventy miles by thiirta I divides Itself into the Upper and Lov Hlarz. Both have beauties of their owa o Upper Hlarz Is wilder, its ra-ck scener re wrotesque, its water-scooped vallea are sombre and p)recipitous; pines5 and I es clothe its mountain sides in thick do. The Lower Hlarz, en the othe id, is gentler and sol ter of aspeci ire are more fields and pastures; the dil it plains are visible, and furnish a ls ilined perspective; the hills are Ilowei :mnountaiaous chairacter less pronounce< r this a curious feature about the Hiar: Lt although its highest mountain, til ocken, is only 8,700 feet high, yet t11 ole region has a* remarkably Alpiri tractor as regards vegetation and meti logglcal phenomena. Indeed, ti lItt trlct has a character sui generis, undo1 mund, on thie ground, and overgrount d(ergroundl, because it is one of tile me, creating of...nsolved geological prol as; and for the lover of mineralogy san student of geology here is a fine field fit arking wvith the hammer. The niners alth of the Hiarz is proverbial, its gnome ci kobolds live in legendary lore; 11 nerals are desinated by Mr. Rtuskin 1 aristocrats of their genus. This quair Iter contends that there is rank amn aerals as among mien, and that yc nay recognize the high caste and bre< of these crystals, wherever you inc m, and know at once that they are Hai ni." Hie further adds: ' "If you wa, see the gracefulest and happiest caprica which dust is dapable, you must go ti3 rz, not that I over mean to go thei eself, because I WAnt to retain the romai foeling about the name." This romar feeling clings round what we hai lied Its overground characteristics; ti tch and -wild huntsmen aaociatior aich linger around Its name. Them ha the home of all the weirdest legends rth Germany,' time scene of Goethe Valpargls 19aoht," the home of cloti 'ths a storms. The lover of legent Il be meo almost seated here; evei ak, every bill, every prominent spot'h: story. -Qoo. W. Unitus, lias put $100,0001i ilh into a limited partnership formi Phijadodiphi5 for the m'anufacture <n itoh oases. . ly and SpIder-'te Tables Turned. he Australia' is the land ofeontrarlety in re, regard to animal and vegetable lie--uch ne as black swans, the duck-mole, fish which . is. climb trees,che.ries *,th stones outslde,and he veritable woode ' pjrs!-but one fact re. arding spiders and fe. is equally strange, for here there is ia fBy which catches ad spiders. He is a Iry, energetic, hard .looking customer longish and narrow; W color, literally amourning, and about he three-quarters of an.inch long; he builds a to clay nest for hl4larvae, generally Inside oer locks, under veranda leaves, or even In cracks of wood-work, and sometimes In r the folds of curtains or clothes. In one l case, while staying at a friends house , about twenty miles om Sidney, I left my l waterproof coat h nging., untouched for about four days, an on taking it down ad there were a neat u rly built In. one of the to folds, of about the site of one's Altte finger t and three or four Ia in length 'On ro ve placing the coat leaving It for another few days, and xamining it, the nest, was finished; i three' compartments, with one little W grub in each and fcr I at its food several iall green spideM, not I then absolutely d but apparently in a state of coma. Thes9 piders were evidently < taken out of the Ora orchard, as there were plenty of the e kind alive about < the trees; but recen , while up in the 1 at mountains, I watc one of the flies car in rying off a black h se-spider quite as big in as Iself; and during he course of the day t 0- saw him three sep to times, and on each 10 occasion with a Ia spider. I could not < CS find the nest; but t farmer tells me that s yn lie has occasional) one so, and found as c id twenty good-sized 6 ere of various kinds, f r ; all apparently dead, t not decayed, and I o generally five or si vaot the Ily. There br is also a large spider hich actually catches t small occasio 'y, and kills and de- f n- yours them! IIe is ke a wasp in color; f 'y body, shape and size a small hazel nut; t 15 legs long and wiry; d he also looks like a u ). hard-skinned custo The web is always t r- double, one about ha as large again as the a k other, and made of such a strong yellowish Q .0 fiber that, if acciden lly walking into it, s ia you feel a sensible toppage of your way c it for the moment. On bird-the wreck of le which I myself saw lft in the web-waa t in rather smaller than the English wren, and m ie the web was strong enough to stand all its t 10 strugqles, although a little broken here ind i: d there. As regards the size of some spiders, g Ld we have a fiat-bodied, gray-colored one t n here which builds no web, but lives under f it the bark of dead trees, behind boards, etc., v t, the body of which is about the size of a t d shilling and not much thicker, but the legs a It of which are quite as long as the fingers of f It an ordinary-sized hand, and the whole C 3. spread of the brute is about a hand's I breath. This is for the fullest sized ones; ii but the common run of them are five or : Ls six inches across, and the style in which o n they pounce upon and double up the small- ( 9 cockroaches is "a caution." d &- It Burial Place of a Viking. , . All over Norway there are mounds which k g are known to be .burial places. Now and I then one is opened, and the contents are d always interesting, but it costs a great deal, 1 so that it is only very gradually that these M tombs are being investigated. When a h famous chieftain died it was the custom to d g build a burial chamber in his ship, and to Y bury with him his horses and his dogs, the t I harness, told and silver ornaments, etc. 0 e Then the ship was dragged up W some distance on the shore, surrounded a with moss, and buried in clay piled up a over it. In the mound we saw there were A - found the ship, about seventy feet long 0 (larger than any hitherto found) and the r bones of a man, three horses,and of several y h dogs. It was undoubtedly placed there a . in the ninth century, and after a thouand t n years of darkness has come to lIght once c more; but not for the first titne. There are ii signs of its having been opened and rifled of s rthe gold and silver ornaments which ought ( to have bcon found, and are not. But that a a was prohably not long after it was first n Splaced there, In spite of the years that it di has lain buried, there are traces of paint on k4 the outside, and its ornamentation conviuces e the antiquaries that rome Viking of great c importance had his last resting-place lhcre. t) io The nails with which the timbers are fast- tF ws ened show that It belonged to what is call. la it ed the first Iron age. It was curious to see v It how. sonme of the parts were dovetailed into e r, each other in just the samne way S they 1 ,. would be done t9.day. The ship is sup- e ,. posed to have carried 120 men, as that b y number of shields were found hanging t< ~s within the bulwarks, forming a defense 'to a r the men who rowed beneath. The prow t ur was very snarp, and must have cut the ti ur water beautifully, urged on by so n1iany y ,; rowers, adalso by the wind in its large e ;- sail, which was of woollen material. Round as the hero's bones were found the remains of e r, a silk mantle, which- niay have been t< I. brought from the farthest East. The rud- ti u, der, a lingo, oar-shaped thmng,was fastened 11 e to the vessel's side. Most of the articles hb *e found within the ship have been carefully e removed and placed in the museum con- II ,- nected with the university. The slap is ib e not yet wholly excavated, if possible to u -remove it, it will 1)0 taken to Christiana. c Lonag nt at NOON. STravelers aflirm,thlat the people of no d foreign country d:o as much of out door Ia. ~ I ilants of 'the . United States In all the countries about the Mediterranean sea a long session of rest for mhan and boast oc cums duiring the middle of the day In north tern Europe a shorter time is given to rest gat noon, because the temperature Is lower, ' and theo rays of the-sunlight fall-so as to ,produce a less injurious effect upon labor era. Still the time for rest is longer in this part of Europe tha~n in the United States aof America. With us there is no stopping ~ work for the sake of taking rest, at rioon. Lobanimas expended only to allow men and amasto take food and drink. As sooi as eating and drinking are finished work a in the open sun is resumed. W ithout doubt t we should lbe gainers both in the matter of Ia ahealth and wealth, if we gave a consider. 1 able time durin the middle of the day to . rest. More sickness occurs among the r afarmers immediately after haying and d harvesting than at any other season of the a is year, and the cause of it may be attributed,. In a groat majort of eases, to the expo- t sure to the heat ofthe sun when it is al- a niost directly over the head Qf the work itien engaged in the foeks, - d Rlosettf believes thait the temperature2 >f of t,he sun eannot be 1das thlan 20,000 a degrees Q. The TrampAbroad. One of the first persons we encountered in walkingup theutreet in Baden Baden was he Rev. Mr.-, an old friend from Atmerlea of -a refined and sensitive nature. RIs Companionship is genuine refreshment. We knlew he had been in Europe some time, but were not expecting to run across him. We were going up the street brimful of alk when a vigorous young fellow, with in open, Independent countenance, and a )rop of early down, slapped the clergyman )n the shoulder with his broad palm, and ang ont cheerily: "Americans, for two and k half, and the mone3tup i Hey ?" The clergyman winced, but replied mild y: "Yes. we are Americans.' "Lord love you, you can just bet that's what I am, every time: Put it there I" He held out his Sahara of a palm and the I.everend laid his diminutive hand In It, md got so cordial a shake that-we heard his ,love burst. "Say, didn't I put you up right ?" "Oh, yes.") "&h I I spotted -you for my kind the ninute I heard your clack. You been over tore long I" "About four months. Have you been 'ver long?" "Long? Well, I should say so I Going i two years, by geominy I Bay, are you iomesick f" - "No, I can't say that I am. Are you " "0, h-, yeal' [This, with inmense en huslasm.] The Reverend shrunk a little in his lothes. and we were aware, rather by in tinct than otherwise, that he was throwing ut signals of distress, but we did not inter ore or try to succor him, for we were quite appy. '1 lie young fellow hooked his arm into he Iteverend'swith the confiding and grate ul air of a waif who has been longing for a riend, and a symptithetic ear, and a chance D lisp once more the sweet aedents of the aother tongue-and then he linbered up he muscles of his mouth and turned him elf loose-and with such a relish I Some i f his- words were not Sunday school words, D we are obliged to put blanks where they . cour. "Yes, indeedy I If 1ain't an American ltere ain't no Americans, that's all. And rhen I heard you fellows gasslug away in [ie good old American language, I'm I It wasn't all I could do to keep from hug ing you I ' My tongue's all warped with t rying to curl it around these )rsaken,. wind-galled, nine-jointed German a rords here;. now, I tell you it's awful good t ) lay It over a Christian word once more nd kind of let the old taste soak In. I'm < rom Western New York. My name is I 1holly Adams. I'm a student, you know. I ecen hero going on two years. I'm learn ig to be a horse doctor.------thbese cople. They won't learn a fellow i his i wn language; they make him learn in t Werman; so before I could tackle the horse- a octoring I had to tackle this miserable I tnguage. First off, I thought it would t Ive me the botts, but I don't mind it now. I 've got It where the hair's short. Dontchu- a now, they made me learn Latin, too. ] row, between you and me, I wouldn't give a -for all the Latin that was ever jab- i ered; and the first thing I calculate to do I rhen I got througi,,Is to just sit down and 1 >rget it. 'Twon't take me long, and I t on't mind the time, anyvay. And I tell on what, the difference between school j aching over yonder' and school teaching r ver here-sho! We don't know anything < bout it I Here you've got to peg ana peg t nd peg and there ain't just any let-up c ad what you learn here, you've got to F now, dontchuknow--or else you'll have I no of those -spavined, spectacled, 1 *ng-boned, knock-kneed old professors in d our hair. I've been here, long enough, 't ad I'm getting blessed tired of it, inind I t ll you. The old iman wrote that he was t rining over in June, and that he'd take me a ome in August, whether I was done with I iy education or not, but durn him, he < idni't come; never said why ;just sent me t hamper of Sunday school books, and told i ic - to be good and hold on a while. I 1 on't ta%ko to Sunday school books, dont chiu I now-I don't hanker after them when I t iin get pie-but I read them, anyway, be- a iuse whatever the old man tells me to do', a mat's the thIng that I'm a-going to do, or r ~ar something, you know. I buckled in .r ud read all of those books, because lie c ranted me to; but that kind of thing don't 2 relte me. I like something hearty,. But e 'm awful homesick. i'm homesick from a tr-socket to crupper, and from crupper to tj o.ck-joint ; but it ain't any use. i've got v stay here ill the old man dIrops the rag a ad gives the word ; yes, sir, right here In h ils country I've got to linger e Il'the old man says corne/ and you bet amr bottom dollar, Johnny, it ain't just ias isy as It is for a cat to jump rope." At the end of this profane and cordial cpiosion lie fetched a prodigious "uehoogh4 ,, relieve lis lhngs andi make recognition of ie heat, and then he straightway 'divided b ito lis narrative again for "Johnny's" t: onefit, beginnning: "Well,- It ain't any use talk. ig, some of those old American words do ave a kind of a bully swing to them; a ian can e.xpress imsolf with 'em-a man an get at what he waiits to say, dontchu- c When we reached our hotel, and It memed that he was about to lose the levr ad, he showed so much sorrow, and egged so hard and so earnestly, that thei teverend's heart was not hard enough to e old out aigainst the pleadings-so he went way with .fhe parent-honoring student, ke a right Christian, and took supper with r~ in in lisa lodgings and sat in tlie surf-beat f his slang and profanity till near mid.' Ight, and then left him-left hinm pretty rell talked out, but grateful "clear down his frogs," as he expressed It. Tie toverend considered him rathier a rough em, but a gem, nevertheless. A Tall 3orae. New York is wonder'ing over a hiuge i pee1!ien of a horse which was brought to< aat e,ty recently from Ohio. The animal m of iraLive draft stock1 and his regl-tered < eight is eighty.one inches, or twenty hands I nd one inch, a foot taller than the average I man; and his weight is 2460 pounds. This I the largest horse of which there is record,i Ithough a great veterinary surgeon in New' cork once owned a horse nineteen hands I ad one Inch In height. Two horses were I bown at the Philadelphia centennial xhlbltion, that were nineteen hands and i ne Inch high, Wvhich were afterward pur i based by a brewer In that city, and Pope t 'Ius Ninth and a Hanoverian horse fancier ro n record a owning ahimals of equal I eight. Opening of the Nanta Fe Trail It was about the begining of this centu ry that it dawned upon our people that there were as good markets as well as cities'and people in and near this same Rio Grande Valley, and under Mexican rule. There is said to be in -the ancient palace at Santa Fe a Spanish document proving the existence of a trail in the last quarter of the eighteenth century from the Did French settlements in what is now Illinois to some of the towns in 2ew Mosi co. and from one of them-Abidutu-to Clalifornia. General Kearney is said to have dispatched a courierover the latter. But all efforts ofthe writer have failed to prove the authenticity, or secure proper .transla tions, of the document In question. Mr. GIregg, in his interesting book, The' Con merce of the Prairtes (now out of print), fron which much information could be i ,ollated, stated that a merchant of Kaskas ia named Morrison, heard, about-1804, hrough some trappers, of the stories which he Indians had told them of this ancient and, where Spanish pomp and civilization went hand and hand with royally high )rices of merchandise. He dispatched one [a Lande, a French Canadian, on an ud enture to Santa Fe, and Mr. La Lande Aent thither with alacrity, but omitted the rifling formality of coming back again. lhe log huts of Kaskaskia knew him no neo; he lived Iii opulence in a one-story dobe house, wille the excellent Morri on. "Looked for the coming wht(ih might not bo;" 8 nd finally LaLande died.fr the odor of 8 anctity and was gathered to his fathers, vithout having rendered any account of ales, or made any reinittaince to his princi W.t e Four men, starting with their goods in d .812, and manfully pushing their way to lanta Fe3 returned only in 1821, haying leenihnprisoned during nearly all the in. ermediate time. The next year, however, narked the opening of the Santa Fe Trail, hat wonderful road, some eight hundred liles in length, rising so imperceptibly for hree quarters of this distance as to seem .bsolutely level, and without bridge from nd to end. There it stretched away to. yard the sunet haff a century ago, and here it stretches to-day, and what poet's a Iream, what prophetic vision ot the ardent atriot, steadfastly believing in the future t :reatness of his country, is commensurate vith either the romance or the reality . of he march over and beside it. during those ,fty years, of the pioneeer, the trader, the t oldier, the Free-State champion, the set- L [er, and the railroad engineer? The first traders carried their merchan iso on pack horses. or mules, and it was in k 824 that it was decided to use wagons, a uniber of which reached Santa Fe with t auch less difficulty than might have been xpected. The practicability of this method tl icing established, the trade began steadily 0 D increase, and in a few years a large 0 mount of capital was embarked therein. ts initial point was first Franklin, some at eno hundred and fifty miles west of St. b ,ouls; then Independence; then Westport- li 11 these towns being on the Missouri tU river, and thus easily reached during the cason-of navigation. Here were found I iotley crowds--traders, outfitters, dealers l4 a supplies of all kinds, tourists, invalids P oping to regain their health by a trip on ni lie plains, drivers, and "roughs" in abun-" ance, The covered wagons were drawn rst by horses, then by mules, then by both s .ules and oxen; and were carefully load d, Besides the merchaiidise, supplies for lie men were carried-say, bacon, flour, offee, sugar and a little salt, it being ex iected that enough buffaloes would be " Illed to furnish fresh meat. Starting off P i detached parties, the wagons would ren- u lezvous at Council Grove,.on a branch of lie Neosho River, twenty miles north of ti Lie present town of Emporia, and here an rganization would be effected for mntual " Id and protection during the long journey. r n such a caravan there would be, perhaps, ~ no hundred wagons, and a "captain of lie caravan"-would divide them into four 01 ivisions, with a lieutenant to each e Ivery indivdual in the caravan was comn elled to stand his watch at night, and L is guard must have presented a motley 0 esortmnent of clothing and arms. When I1 was ready, the start was made. Every W ight a holh- square and temporary cor ii were made with the wagons, and the amp fires lighted outside of this square. a:ross swam'ps, quagmires, and even riv rs, the teams were drIven, men being sentb head to make temporary bridges over the rat two, of bruish or sonig grass coverc(ia 'ith earth, and -sometimes, for crossing reams to fabricate "buffalo boats" of ides stretched over frames of p)oles, or i inpty wagon bodies. Not it Good Joke. A[fter All.s Life in Leauville is full of excitement h, yen for a barber. The other day a citi- si mn namedi Plug strolled lnt) a barber's a stblishiment whlere there were two chairs, oi oth full, and fourteen men waiting. if i acre is one tihing that Plug despises it is ir 'aiting aroundi while a lot of othier follows ft et shaved. fle figured on how to avoid , and espying a friend in one of the chairs -k e stepped up to him and spoke a few r< lords in a )ow tone. Suddoenly he became ai xcited. Addressed his friend lie cried: a 'Yotu third-rate, mule-whacker, 1'1l have 1 our gore I" And the friend yelled back, t( 'You greaser, I'll shoot you full of holes I" g '1 can sheet first," yelled the Plug, draw asg h's revolver. '"I'll let you see you g an't" roared the friend, leaping from the ( hair. By this time a scene of. wild ex- C lement was taking place. in the siiop. oa 'ho whole fourteen waiting customcas vere willy stfuggling to get out before I ho shooting began. The man in the other hair, without stopping to ipe the lather reon his face or remove the aproa about i im, leaped from the window upon thet cad of a policeman, who at once arrested tim for a madman. One of the barbers and bumped his head terribly and got his C south full of dust, crawling under a sofa, ,ad the other barber was promply conceal d behind a barrel in the closet. As soon s tihe shop was cleared the two friends eased threateninig each other, put up their iletols and a hearty laugh coaxed the bar eora to conme out and shave them. .PIug rnod to explain to the head barber that it a~ ras all a joke. "But," said tihe barber, si 'you're a fighting man.') "No," Bald ti *16g, "I am a regular coward and edtuldn't o ick a flea." "Then by tunfiet," yelled d he barber, "you've driven over. $5 worth, o f trade awray from me and I'Ll take the h value out of youir hide I" And he got In ovet'al lusty blows on Plug before tihe lat- h er cfatd offer to settle. And, somehow, i1 'lug dolt thinkr 4 was such a good joke b ttr all(:: FOOD FOR THOUO(,1 I A good resolut.on may flash, but it takes a year to k When a man gets the rheui4 his knees he knows the beauW-." without hinges. A- man must have a bad 'ln" Iimself not to be willing what hb really Is. Never be drawn halto a fauil rel. They re batWes which are rought without allies. There Is now and then a thini ;he more It is cut the longr.16 -a ditch, for ewample. But a few men can handle ah6 limney and say thefe is no P loie at the same titne. Help somebol worse oftl elf, anid you will fnd that yeu' or off than you fancled. It is easy to run down tle a >lishmnts of your neighbor, b,i1* ler to run ahead of them. The,wife who utilizs her hti' hoe-brush on-the cooking stove 6* he door to the divorce court. Any one thing in the creaclod I Lolent to demonstrate a Provide'e n humble and grateful mind. The label upon a bottle of agui r ly, requesting the patient tO.sk vell before using, is superiluous "That's what beats mn," as thb aid when he saw his father tak4 - kate strap down from its accus'omc'a An Ameriean would submit to ocked up in a railroad car Just 1of nough toeiable hini to kick the door own 1. The more a man knowd about utject the greater will be his cha rand sympathy with views difM'rl, rom his own. A great many men die beggari by qo nproving the time they spend 1shing that their rich neighbor heekels were theirs. "If I cant teach people to be good,,' an get them to come to Sunday-school nd then somebody else can teach them" id a little boy to himself. Men trust rather to their eyes than ielr ears; the effect of precepti s there- - 4 >re slow and tedious, while that of ex inple is summary and etffotual. Take all sorrows out of life, and you Lke away all richness, and depth, and 3nderness. Sorrow is the furnadg jat melts belfith. hearts together. There are some men who are busy In lioness, and make the leisure of peac ot only more troublesome, but eyet,: iore wicked than the business of war. Your disposition will be suitable to )at which you most frequently think u for the soul is fringed with the col rand complexion of its own thoughts. A superior capacity for business, and more extensive knowledge, ftre steps y which a new man often mounts to. wvor and outshines the rest of his con imperaries. Death opens the gate to fa.me, and juts the gate of envy alter it; it un. >oses the chain of the captive, and uts the bondmnan's task into another. an's hand. "Avarice in old age," says Cicero, Is foolish ; Jor what can be more ab 1rd than to increase our provisions for ie road the nearer we approach our urney's end?" How few realize that the strata or oye and hate lie so close together that takes but little to bring the latter up 3rmost,. when un, er the pressure of akindness or Injustice. Whenever it may be needed to men on anything to the disadvantage of iother, let it be done with truthful ass. tenderness, humility, and with collection of how much has been for veni you. Thiose who are litende'd to (10 any nimnent service for God are alwayH nptied of self, and led to see their u-n mness f'or the undertaking ; then they usLsimpIly in God's wVisdom amnd pow , and lie gets all the Glory, There are a great many people in the orld who are bound by the close tics blood to thle lmian who said that he id laidl up two shiingus, one for him if and one for the Lord, but that the 10 he had intended for the Lord, had en lost in an unfortuniate speculation. - As the sun does not wait for prayers ad incantation that he may rise, but lnes at once and is greetedI by all, so ailher wait thou for applause amid outs and eulogies that thou mnay'st well; but be a sp)ontaneous beeac *r, and thou shalt be beloved like tie If this be certain, that nie trade Is so id as none at all, nor any life so tire >me as that.wvhish is spent in con tinu visitlig and dissipat oau. To give all ie's time to other peop)le, and ne'ver serve any for one's self, is to be free appearance only, amnd a slave ini of . ot. *" Children, if you make a p)romis sep it. Nothing shows a person~ ata character more than little things; id even if the breaking of' your word ould not lead to seri us results, it will. sad to habit of neglect and carelessness yourself that you will always re Ilappiness is like manna; it is to be ithered in grains and enjoyed every ty. It will not keep; it canmnot' ,e ac imulated ; nor have we to go ot Ct' trselves or into remote places to gath it, since it' has rained ldown [roma saven at our very doors, or .rather, - ithin them. Ma~n has ana inward voice as well as 1 "inward eye," a voIce distinct frorn at of consclenuce. Iti is the compan n, if not "the bliss of solitude"; and oeugh hie sometimes employs it to de alve hImself, it gives hmim good coun- , I, perhaps, quite as often, calls him account, reproves him for having ift unsaid what he ought to have said , for havinag said, reprehends or'ap Poves, admonishes or encouratges.' Professor David Swing said, In speak ig of the "immense multitude of litw 'ary men, and statesmen, and judges, id lawyers, and physicians, who amnd apart from Church membership," mat "tne history of man is the history l ncreasin'glight. Yeaterday's wis am 18 to day's ignorance, T4he meni letters have always perceived this, - ave confessed and loved the fact. he Churqfhstoo often denied it and s ofted noitflblenimn pssaa, adaue re aried "by a thevifid orld,