The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, September 07, 1880, Image 1

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in I lb EDITION. ~~~WINNSBORO, S. C, SEPTEMBER'7 80 O.I N o - RIFTING. DOWN STREAK; We are drifting down the stream, By the darkentlg willow shore, In a happy golden dream, - And my lover rows no more. He lots the old boat glide; he is sitting at my a side And saying that his heart Is mino 'Forever, evermore. How I row I under the stare j Flow, stream, by thy sandy bar i! Row I row I from shpre to shore; Love will last for evermore. But 'tis long and long ago And he is here no more; I do but sit and dream and dream beside the quiet shore. The old boat btil floatd on, as in the yeara agone, And -thy words are In mi heart, my !ove, Forever, evermore. A Lady After All. Lennox Ray sprang from the train, and hastened up the green lane to the wide, old fashioned farm house, carrying his valise in I lils hand. "I wonder if Fannie got my note, and Is waitingl Hallo 1" This last exclamation was drawn from e Ray's'llps by a cherry, which, coming from t above, somewhere, camue Into sudden con- a tact with Ills nose. j He looked up, and there, perched like a great bi'rd, upqu the limb of a huge old f cherry tree, and looking down oh him with t dancing eyes and brilliant cheeks, was a young girl. t "How do, Lennox V Conic up and have e sonie cherries !" was the mischievous greet- c ing. 'Nannle I Is it possible ?" exclaimed Lennox, severely. . r And while Ray looked on in stern disap- b proval.% the young witch swung herself lightly down. "Now, don't look so glum, Lennox, dear," she seid, slipping her little hands into It his, with a coaxing motion. "I know it's Tom-boyish to climb the cherry trees; but r then it's such fun." "fumne, you should have been a boy," b said Lennox. 14 "I wish I had I No, I don't, either; for then you wouldn't have fallen in love with ] me.' What made you, dear ?" with a fond glance and a caressing movement. . p SBcause you are so sweet, darling," an swered Ray, melted in spite of himself. "But I do wish, Nannie, you would leave off those hoydenish ways, and be more dig nified." n "Like Miss Ishamn I" asked Nanie. "Miss Isham is a very superior woman, I and it would not hurt you to copy her in sonte respects." - a The teari sprang into Nanile's eyes at his tone. They went Into the parlor, and Ray took a seat in the great arm chair. Nannie, giving her curls a toss backward, went and sat down. 0 "I wish you would put ip those lyaway curls and dress your hair as other young C ladies do," said Ray, "and see here, Nannic, I want to have a talk with yon. You know I love you; but in truth, my dear, my wife must have something of the elegance of re fined society. Your manners need polish, my dear. a "I came down to tell you that my sister Laura is making up a party to visit tile noted watering places, and she wishes youi to be one of the number." "Are you going ?" asked Nannie. "No; mny business wvill not allow it; but I sall see you several times. Will yoe "I don't want 1,0,go. P'd rather stay here in tile cPungry-.a'd clhu\b cherry trees every clay." l' - "Nainnie, 1 must mnsile upon,moro seif 'control," said he, coldly. "But don't send me away," she pleaded. "It Is for your good, Nannie, and you must be content to go. Will you ?" *Thle supper bell rang at that.instant, and r Nannie hastily answered : "Yes ; let me go, Lennox," and ran out of theoroom, and up stairs to her own chamn her. "Yes, Ill go, and Il teach you one les * son, Mr. Lennox Ray ; see if I don't." she i murmured." It was near the middle of Septellhber be- 1 fore Mr~. Ray, heated, dusty and weary, en-1 .tered the hotel where his sister's party was stopping. "Lennox, you hlere I" ak(1 sihe. "Yes. Wheore's Nannie ?" ' "She was oa the piazza, talking with a Frenoh count, a moment ago. Ah I. there she Is, by the -door." "Ah1"~ said Lennox, dropping Laura's hand, and making his way toward the .door. But it was difficult, even when lhe drew near, to see iin the stylish, stately lady, whose hair was put up ovem a monstrous chignon, and whose lustrous robes swept I the iloor for a yard, his own little g(annie of three months ago. Lennox strode up with scarce a glancenat the bowildeied dandy to whom she was chatting, and held out his hand with an eager exclamation: "Nannie I" She made a sweeping courtesy, and Jan - gukily extended the tips of her fingers; but not a muscle moved beyond what accorded with well-bred indifference. "Ah ; go'ad evenimg, Mr. Ray." "Oh. Nannie, are you'glad to see mue ?". said Lennox, teeling ,that his hseirt was ehillng within him, "Oh, to'.be euro, Mr. Ray; qm'o glad. Alio* tue to presen$ mpy friend, the Count de Beaurepaire. Mr. Ray, Monsieur" keeo hardly jdelgne a bow to the 1 enchman, and offered his arm to Nannie. "You will walk with me a little while Vo "Thanks--but the music is beginning, ,d I protuised to dance with hIr. Blair." "But afterwards ?" said 4eunox, the chill rowing colder. "But I am engaged to Mr. Thornton." "When then?" demauded Lennox, with jealous pang. "Really, my card is so full, U hardly otwiv. I will, however, try and spare you waltz somewhere." "Good heavens Nannie, what affectation Ithis ? Sh favored him with a well-bred stare. "Pardon. I do not understand you." And taking the arm of her escort, she valked away. with.the air of an empress. Lennox sought his sister. "Laura, how have you changek Nanile q?'' he demanded. "Yes. - she is changed. Isn't -she per ct ?" "Perfect ? Rather too perfect to suit je,"growled Lennox. "To-morrow I shall sec more of Naume, be thought. But to-morrow and to-morrow and to iorrow, it was all the same, and that "cle ant Miss Irving," as they styled her, was Iways in demand, and poor Lennox,'from lie distance at which she kept him, looked nost hcart-broken varying b.tween wrath, Dalousy, pride and despair. "Nannie," salid he one morning, when he uund her a nionent alone, "how long is lits to last?" "I believe you wished me to come here improve my manners, Mr. Ray; to ac uire the elegance of society," she sait, oldly. "But, Nannie-" "Well, if you are not pleaserd with the .sult of your own advice, I am not to lame. You must excuse me now, Mr. tay, I am going to ride with the ucount de leaurepaire." And with a graceful gesture of adieu,she Ift him sick at heart. That afternoon Lennox walked unian ouncod into Laura's room. "I thought I'd drop in and say good-bye ofore you went down stairs," said he. "I ave to-night." "Indeed? Where are you going?" asked jaura. "Oh, I don't know I" was his savage re ly. "You can take a note to George for me?" "Yes, if you get it ready," said lie. "Very well-I will write it now.'' Laura left the room, and Lennox stood ioodily'at the window. Presently Nannle came in alia stood near Im. "Are you really going nway~?" she 3ked. "Yes, I am," was the short answer. "And won't you tell us where ?" "I don't know nyself-neither know nor are " he growled. Ihe slipped her hand in his arm, with the Id caressing movement he remembered so rell, and spoke gently, using his name for lie first time since lie came. "But, Lennox. dear, if you go away off -newhere, what shall I do ?" Ie turned suddenly and caught her to his teart. "Oh, Nannie, Nuinnle!" he cried, passion tely, "if you would only come back to me ad love inc-if I could recover my lost rcasure, I would not go anywhere. Oh, niy at love, is it too late ?" She laid her face down against hisshoul ri and asked: ''Lennox, (dear, tell me which you love est, the Nannie you used to know, or the sloniale young lady you found here ?" "Oh, Naumne, darling," lie cried, clasping or closer. "I wouldn't give one 'tass of our old brown curls for all the fashionable >uing ladles in the world." "The~n you will have to take your old lannie hack again, Lennox, dear." Anti Lennox, p)assiolnately clasping her to im, begged to be forgiven, and vowed lie onld niot exchange lis precious little wild ,se for all tine hoQt-housee plants in Christ The Small Boy's Rights. A Kansas jndge presents his view of thne Ights of small boys in tine following, which; orms a portion of his judicial decision:i S1verybody knoivs that by natune and y instinct boys love to ride, -and -ve to move by other means thnin their Wn locomotion. They will cling to tine and ends of moving wagons, ride upon .vings and swinging gates, slide upon cel ir doors and tine rails of staircases, pull leds up hill in ordier to ridoe dowvn upon hem on tine snow, and even pay to ride pom imitation horses and imitation char its swung around in a circle by means of morse p)ower. This last is very much like ding around in a circle upon a turntable. :Jow everybody, inowing tine nature and he instincts common to all boys, must act cordingly. No person has a right to cave, even on his land, dangerous mnachni erny calculated to attract and entice boys it, there to be injured, unless he first akes proper ateps to guard against all acce ent ; and any person whno thnu does leanve angerous machinery exzpo sed, writhnout first nrovliing against all danger, as guilty of negligence. Toys. Tine tables are turned. Not maay years go a large p9rtion of thne toys used by the hlidren of America canme from Eiuropo. lut now not only ate tine many inventions vhich have orIginated in our country ought by foreigners, but toys formerlyv inde abroad are manufactured more cheap r hi~o, and thne 01(d world biuys largely rrom the riew. Last year the export trade a toys was over $1,000O,000. American team toys and mechanical toys have rapid multi plied within a few years, and are ~xported in large quantities; so .also tin mud wooden toys, whieh mnucha excel Euro aea products in style, finish, and cheap ness, A Trumph ot Art. On the Peacock Island lb Potedai we find among the white marble statues an im age of Rachel, the celebrated French trage dienne, placed there in memory of her tri. umph over a monarch who had been by no means friendly disposed toward her. We mean Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, whose dislike to her had been caused by her Re publican sympathes and turbulent senl ments, which he abhorred. ard on.account of which he had prohibited her entrance in to Russia; he Is even known to have said that he wished never to set eyes on her. This iclement verdict of the powerful morarch was - no small stumbling block in -the great tragedienne's way, for Russia is a mine of gold, foreign artists and many a Rachel and Patti of our days might relate wonderful, iniost fabulous tales of costly gems raining down upon them on the stage amid the enthusiastic cheers of an enchant ed audience. Therefore, Mademoiselle Rachel was highly pleased when, in the summer of 1852, she received an invitation to act be fore the court at Potsdam, where the Empe ror Nicholas was just then staying as the King Af Prussia's guest. The famous act res had been desired to recite several scenes from French plays, but neither In costume nor in company of other actors. .She there fore arrived attired in black, the most cost ly lace covering her beautiful arms and shoulders; but the gentleman who, by the King's orders, was at the station to receive her, expressed his doubts whether the royal and imperial party would not object to so melancholy and mournful an apparel: and on reaching the palace, the artist was kindly invited by the late Princess Charles (sister to the Empress Augusta, and wife of the Emperor's brbther) to wear a few gayer looking things of her own. Such an offer could not be refused, and Mademoiselle Racbel appeared in the gardens adorved with roses. On inquiring for the stage she was told that there was none erected, and that she was expected to stand on a grass plot in froid, of the seats of her noble audi ence. This demand roused her quick tom per, so that she was on the point of return ing to Berlin, when her official attendant, the above mentioned gentleman, paeifled her by remarking that she would be on the same level with the audience, that her art would prove thogreater for the want of any stage apparatus ; and that (last but not least) he reminded her of how much was at stake-an enormous honorarium and per haps the repeal of that fatal interdiction. After a moment's hesitation and a struggle with he self, Mademoiselle Rachel took her c ce. oac's arm, and suffered hiin to lead her to the spot destined for her performance. The evening was lovely; the moon, half hidden behind a group of poplars, threw her silvery light on the pond and- the gentle murmuring fountain. A few torches and lights illuminated the face of the artist, while the court sat in the shadow. Deep silence ensued upon her appearance-one could hear the crickets eirp-and then she .beggn her orations. The hiteners seemed spell bound ; that was not human Ppeecti, it was music dropping from her lips. She was determined to be irresistible; and she succeeded so well, that even the hitherto unfriendly Emperor himself, won by her art, rose from his seat when she had ended, and meeting hier half way, kissed her hand in presence of the asseibleti court, assur ing her that hencefurth she would be wel come In Russia. What were the praises, flatterles and congratulations of the others who weie crowding around the happy artist, com pared to the homage rendered to her by the mighty ruler of E uropo's vastest coun try, the monarch from whom a sign ordered thousands of his subjeets to be-or not to be. iThus was one of the greatest autocrats in Europe won over oy the acting and elo cution of-a woman I A Brav FIrena,a. Phelin.Toole, who was a brave fireman of St. Louis, lately lost his life at a fire In that city. Phielim gave the following ac count of the Sou.thern Hotel horror on tile night of April 11, 1877. Th'Ie narration reads thus : "I ain tiller-muan of the Skin ner escape, a post I have filled for four years and seven monthls. I don't know ex actly the.tiime tile alarm caime inm, but it was seone time after idnighlt, down stairs'. We went out of the house as usual, and, I think, mlade better time to the fire thlan we usually (10 and slopped in front of the grand entrance on the Walnut street side. I1 can't get off tihe truck till it stops, as the hind1( whleels aIre on a pivot and a /muan hats to steer it. Som1e unknown person took the fly-ladder ; that delayed us about a minute and a half--no mnore. We raised the ladder onl the Walnut street side, but thlere was no one to be savedl thtere, so we took her down and1( went round to the Fourthl street side. It is an ugly street--there is a double car track and that porch was in our way ; but we got 11er up in very quick time, and then I left my place and shinned up tile laddler. .1 told somebody to bring me a light line that was cill tip at the tiller and( thley brought it. Trho line had stops on it like we used at sea to send sails aloft, but tile stops were hardly rotten enouigh. Whlen I got to tile top of the fly-ladder 1 was still about five feet below the windlow in wichl the people were. I couldn't pass lip. Them e were four p)eop)le in tile window, all whhz sheets. I shlouted to one of them, "You pass 1m1 a sheet." "Whlat do you want wnth it?" said he. "Yeu pass it down and I'll save your lives," 8o I got the sheet and twisted it and wvent into the window whlere they were on it. I madle imy life preserver ,fst to tile centre-piece of tile windtow, I nmado fast to a Mr. Rteese and lowered him(1 down on the window-sill under me lie thloughlt I wanted to get him on tihe larider, but it would halve been impossible to do thlat. 1 thie4 sent his wife down, aiid lie shoved her out to the ladder, where she was caught and pulled on. by a fireman. Next I qpnt this light woman, Joanna llal pyin, down, and Mr. Rleese wanted to,catch h1er and shlove her over to thle laddcr like lie had dlone his wife, and I swore at him in a way that I oughitn't to hlave done. So 1he let go of her and I dropped 11cr down on to the porch below, whlere she was easily tak en off. I hauled up the rope' again and sent down tis girl Bulrke, a big, heavy woman. I thought she weighed two hundred on th'e andl of that line. Thie rope got foul of Rteese end his shleet. and so I says to myself: "Old gal, it ain't agoing to hurt you to drop thle rest of the way," so I let hea: go by tile run about four or five feet and she landed all rIght. Thea I got Rleese out to the ia.f deor and Barney McKeruana helped him down. - I untied my rope, took a slip bend about. the ceutro.nisne andt dtennnar dom. to the ladder and so to the ground. it was getting pretty hot and "ioky, but I did my best. Then we moved to another window and got two women and a man out the same way. Not a living soul was then to be seen. We saved everybody that showed their face, and so we got rmund to Elm stret. Nobody was in sight there, and so we went all round the hotel back to Fourth. ir. Lindsay called my attention to a man hanging in a window-Mr. Kennedy we found out it was. I went up, but we couldn't get the ladder into the window and I threw him the clack of my rope. "I'll jump." said lie. - ."No, dant it, don't jump," I cried. "Take plenty of slack and I'l save you ;" and I threw him more slack and twisted a round or two about the fly ladder, so that If he had to jump lie would have a chance for his life. I ran down and we got the truck nearer. We ran the truck into a shape that a truck never did work in this country, or any other, and never will again, though it did that time. It had nothing to support it ; so we threw her against the wall some distance below the window. I ran up-as far as it would go and told him to drop out of the window aud hang on by the sill. The glass was cracking in the window at this time. Then I took a firm hold of the ladder with my legs and feet, leaning out a little to get a good purchase, took hold of his feet with uiy liat ds and yelled "drbp," and down lie came. I fastened on to hitn, anti had a nice little tine for a minute or two. Le was very much excited, and we were hard set to get him off the ladder. I hadn't coiled up my rope when down coies that whole Fourth st-reet side. Tobacco Fertilizers. Next to stable manure we believe tobac co stems to be the best fertilizer for tobacco known. Castor pumace when-used it con. nection with manure gives a good leaf of (lark color and line texture. It is now gen erally conceded by all tobacco-growers that the leaf is more even in color when grown on the same ground year atfer year, like the onion, while a less amount of fertilizers can be used and about the saiue amount of leaf will be secured. At the bouth com mercial fertilizers are used almost exclu sively, while at the West when fertilizers are used at all the kind used Is the very best of barn-yard manure. In Wisconsin the largest growers In the btate use this kind of fertilizer for both coninon Wis consin and Spanish leaf. In Cuba, Peru vian guano is used largely as well as the manure of mules. In Oyria goats' dung is used, while in Japan only liquid manure is used, applying it to the roots of the plant in same manner as with the tea plant. In Ger many, Hussia and Holland fertilizers krom the sable are used. In Franc3 the entire system of culture Is under control of Gov ernment officials, and the prescribed amount of lertiizers to the acre is established by law, as well as the time of topping, suck ering and the number of leaves to be left on each, plant. The culture of tobacco in E, urope is controlled entiely by the Gov ernment in thirteen nations, and Is rapidly being brought to a high state of perfection. Manure must be in a soluble statE in order to induce a rapid growth, without which the leaf w ill be of little value. Tobacco Is the most rapid grower of all our field pro ducts. Green manure should not be ap plied In the spring, but in the fall may be spread or plowed under about twelve cords of stable nanure to the acre, or from forty to lifty ordinary cart-loads. Seed leaf or cigar tobacco requires richer soil than cut ting tobacco, but of late the Virginia and Kentucky tobacco-growers are using large quantities of stable or "cow-pen" manure. In the heavy tobacco country of Kentucky the planters are giving the subject of fertil. izers very much attention, and throughout the entire tobacco-growing section of the country the question Is being repeatedly asked, "How and what fertilIzers shall we use on tobacco?"' It may safely be affirm ed that the land can hardly be manured too highly, yet the query has been raised of late whether too nmuch manure to the a::re Is possible. The subject Is certainly a vital one0 and worthy of study and experiment. Tobacco grbwing is a science yet in its in fancy no doubt, since new sorts are being constantly originated anid new methods of culture adopted. Fertilizers must be0 usedl liberally, else it will do no good. to plant. From 1,b00 or 2,000 p)ounds t~o the acre Is the average yield in the New England andI Mi:ldle States, andi the seed leaf of those States is now considered the finest, grown in this country. A Game Bacy. It will be remnemberedi that the schooner Twilight broke her imoorings at, Atlanitic City anid drifted to sea with only a boy, Adolphius Parker, aboard, during~ a gale. The boy gives the following statement of his adventurous trip : He said when she first parted her moorings I thought I would run lier ashore, but she struck the wharf amid sheered off into thme stream. I then threw over a small kedge anchor, which dragged to the first buoy and there parted the cable. Noticing she was fast beIng drIven or. the b)ar, I hoisted sail to keep her off, Trhe surf boat put out to help me, but turned back. Meanwhile I tried to haul her close to t,he wind, after clearing the bar, in the hope of receiving assistanice, which did not come. I now found myself fast being driveii to sea, and I dIa not think the schooner would be able to stand the terrible waves wvhichi strdck her. The rigging was poor, sail torn, and the pros pect of her weathering the gale not very p)romIsingC. On Wednesday ni ght a heavy seai broke over tihe vessel and rolled me over theo wheel. The rigging and deck were covered with ice, and it was with dlhiculty I kept myself fromt freezing. On Tliiay I supposed I was near the Gnlf Streami. There wvas about a foot and a half of water in the hold( and a heavy sea rolling. The pumps gave out, -and I was forced to bail her out with a bucket. About four o'clock on Thursday afternoon the wind spranig up fresh from the uotithecast. I then headed wvest and about ton o'clock at night was hailed by a bark which cleared t,he schooner by only ten feet. The schooner's lights wont ou. and I took down the starboard light, rehit it and hung 'the signal light in the main rigging on the port side. On F'rlday morning I sighted land near Beach ilaven, and after beating about all day headed tip abreast Absecom Lighit. T[he sea was very rough, and falling to brIng the vessel into the inlet, and as the water was up to the cabin floor, I beached her on Little Brlgantinie D3ioals, where I was taken off, after hing keon without sleep for four days and thre~ nights." A Texas Horse Trade. There is a gentleman by the name ol Smith living in Galveston who keeps i kind of livery stable. Among other horsei in his custody was a flue bay horse belong ig to Jones. This) horse, In cavortinj about the stable yard, ran against a wagot and broke his leg. Smith was responsible All he had to do was to send for a police man, have the aninal sliot, and pay Jonei about $60, the value of the animal. SmitI notifled the policeman, and started out t see Jones, and inform him officially abou the accident. Now Smith is considerabb f a wag. Happening to.meet Brown, h4 asked if Brown did not want to buy v liorse. It had been the dream of Brown' life to sit behind a horse of his own an<l call out "g'langl" lie wanted a cheal horse and one that was safe, so that whet bmith put the question to hin Browin re plied : "May be so; If you have the righi kind of a horse. Is lie a steady, quiel 1orse?" "He is the qiletest horse you ever saw. "Won't bite or kick, and Is not likely t( run away?" - "If lie bites, kicks, or ruis away, I'll giv< you yotir money back." "Humnph," said Brown, "what are yot asking for the wonderful animal?" "I'll let you have him chiap. lie IF that tine bay horse Jones used to own. I'll tet you have him for $21. Give me $1 lown, and your note for $20 more, and it is a bargain. I haye no more use for the Norse, but I want money right off.". Brown thought to himself: "This Is- thi golden, opportunity. Smith has been tan poring with c tton futures, and is strapped, I'm sorry for him, but business is busliess, I'm not his guardian;" so he planked dowi the dollar and gave his note book for tht balance. If Brown was pleased with the trade, Rnith was still more so. 1re called to sov oral friends, and treated thd crowd witl the dollar, after which the procession re rormed and marched down to the stable tc see Brown's new purchase. When tlie got there the policeman had already -shoi the poor brute, and he looked like all hit really needed was an inquest. Browi looked very much that way himself. H( turned pale and then got red behind thi Dars. Then he smiled, but It was not i particularly healthy smile. Smith tried to lielp matters, and as soon as the crowd bad quit holding their a[1(te, lie said: "Now, Brown, I don't want you to tell anybody that I swindled you. I call on these gein tIe-nen to witness that VAe done the squar thing. This is Jones's bay horae, the Identi. Dal one I sold you. I guaranteed lie woukI not not bite nor kick, and you cannot pro roke him to run away. I think lie filt the bill. I want you to take him off oi I'll charge you for keeping him." "Boys," said Brown, 'don't give n< away, I know I am not the only fool on 3alveston Island. Let's go and hunt for a Juplicate and I will set 'em up," They strolled out and met Robinson "Look here, Mobinon, don't you wani a right gr.od horse at a bargaini II'V just bought Jones' fine bay horse. - 114 cost $60 originally, and lie Is in just th( tame condition lie was when I goi Aim."1 'Ohl''' said Robinson, 'Ithings are har ind horse feed is awful high. A high' slopplug horse, like Jones' bay, will cal his head off In no' time." "That's where you are fooling yourself, lie eats less titan any horse you ever saw. By t hunder, no hQrse can eat less than lit Dan." "Ain't he a little frisky?" - Brown shook his head and replied: "You are doing that horse Injustice. You .an tell by looking at him that lie Is nol cind of an animal I'll let you have hin for lust what I gave for - hni-$20-$1 down, mid your note, secured by such men aE llelidenhelmer. for the balance. i've got o have money." Robinson thought It was moan to lake ad vantage of Brown's distress, lint then II was not his lookout. 1i lie was out of hit 'ead, why din't ho have the court appoli [dim a guardian ? 8o lie planiked dlown $1 tad gave the note, on tihe condition that tht [orse would go im a wagon. "You bot," remarked Brown, "he'll gc in a wagon. He won't go in anything else. Dome on, boys, let's spend this dollar." After they had wiped off their motuths, thme procession re-formed andi siarted Lto In spect the animal. Sure enough, three nig gers wvere lifting him into a wagon. "Thiere," said Brown, "I told you h< would go Into a wagon. D)on't say I swin. diled you. .-Ic will cat less than any horst you ever ownedl. Yom will save his valtim in horse feed In two weeks. Jast try, rnt see If lie Is not gentle. Tickle him i~ ith straw." Tihe spectators applauded. Rtobinsom looked like he ought to go along with hih horse to keep him In countenance. In conclusion, it Is whispered on thm strand among capitalists that, some of the motes have already passed into thme hands o inuccent holders, anid as soon as they man Lure, p)rotests will be in order. The Mptths of Pltants. "If you aire very thirsty," saidi 0old Mr. iiwlig, "and I was to pour a glass of wa ter on the to1) of your head, would you b< re-y grateful to me ?" "No," said Tonm, who was watering le geranlum, "I'd be mad I" "Well," said the old man, "you are noi creating your plant much better. It hani mouths, andi It likes to drink when it Im [hirst,y, but you don't pour the water mutt ts nmouths." "I don't know whore they are," sal I'omi, looking curiously at the bush. "Its loaves are full of earer little porel andl they are choked with dust," Mr. Ew Lij said. "Just put the nose again on th<i watering-pot and wash off time leaves." Tomi picked up the Dose, put it on tIm spout of thme pot and gave the bush a tho rough wetting. "It does look b)etter' lie saId. "IIat It any other mouths?" "Plenty more," said thme old man ; "onc at the endl of each rootlet. When you poul a stream of water around the stem of- thi plant, I think It must feel as you would I L put your drink on hour head." "Yes," said Tom, "see the fuschila. dlidn't water the leaves nor the ends of th< roots, I am sure.'' "And don't you see you are doing t same ting by that rhododendron I" sai< the irritabe old man. "Whoa you do any thing, boy, do it In the right w,ay 1" And hie took the watering pot hirnself and every mouth Iin each plant got a.goot drink that time, FedesSrianto Pecuiartties. No two of us walk alike. The hingts o our galts turn the same way, but with dif ferent results. The baby strikes a toddle because it hasn't strength enough to walk, but it has the underlying prlaciple of a natural walk, because it "toes in." "Toeing out" is a military article, invented for tho express purpose of'showing how much more man knew than the Lord did. The hippity hoppity skip and junp Is peculiarly the little girl's gait. Uneasy and restless the lutter-budget seems determined to wear the sole of her shoe and the soul of her mother out at the same time ; but she is the prettiest pieture of animation human ity can show. The dead run all out of breath is the small boy's galt. You can set down the boy who so far forgets himself as to walk as already in his dotage. Very old. Tle square heel and to is the gait af fected by professional pods on the sawdust track , but it is growing obsolete, thank our lucky stars. The bound to have it gait is a rapid straight forward stride, never turning to the right or left. The man who has it knocks over children, barks his shins against market baskets, and stubs his toes against every thing on the walk. But lie "gets there," and his coat, tall arrives about two iinutes later. There is the slow measured gait, tread, tread, tread, all day long. The man who carries the hod has this peculiarity down line. lie would iun to a tire in the same step, and get thero-possibly. Tho long lope, thirty-four inches to the step, with a sag of the knee joint and a vigorous swing of the arms, is that of the young man from Huraldom. lie gets the walk from going over rough ground and anybody that gets the best of hiii has got rough ground-to go over. The quick, sharp and spiteful gait with the little metalic heels ringing on the pave ment is the gait of the smart young miss with bright eyes and lots of vivacity. The young nman who intends to keep company with her for life must make up his mind to train to her step. She never will train to his. The everyday busiess gait. Going right along with your leet, and your thoughts in the oilco, store, Rhop, or wherever it is. You never know how far the walk is, nor how long It takes you to cover It. It i3 indefinite and frequently the only aid to good digestion. Take it easy, don't care a cent sort of a galt with cane twirling over his finger is typical of the man of the world. lie leads a life of leisure and wouldn't hurry him self. As a consequence lie grows fat, rheu matic and gouty and in later years walks with two canes and tremulous linbs. It doesn't pay to bunch your pleasure. The dinner gait, before and af ter, is mon tioned merely as afWording a remarkable contrast. It would hardly seemn possible that one pair of legs could perform so en tirely in opposition. The slow gait. For further particulars send a boy om an errand. The fumbling, hesitating gait braced up by a good hickory cane is what we are all coning to, if we live but our three score years and ten. It will be pleasant to "slow up," just before reachng the grave. The stroll. Just at twilight, conscious that the (lay's work is over, and that a sea son of rest is before you, to leisurely moan dter along III pleasant, paths, beneath the deepening shade of shapely trees, to listen to the hum of the busy world as it gradual ly dies away, to watch for the twinkle of the first star of evening, or may be catch a glimpso of the moon over the left shoulder; ah--thIs is the aRCI of peCdestrianism. If you don't believe it, offer her your arm to night and try it. TAhey WVanted to Live an the Stara. Very near us sat, t,wo young people. lie wore the face of a man who shaves three times a day, and that white necktie had never seeni the starlight before. There wvas pearl p)owdier on the shouldcr of his coat, and a tendecr, dreamy look in her ,lovely eyes. They sat, andi looked up at the stars, and they dIin't, care for any soli tary thig any nearer to t,his earth. "M~or iner," she imiumured softly, "Mortlmer" -is name appearedl to be Mortimner. though I couldn't learn whether it was his front name or his after namc-"Mortimer, dlear," she said, "if we couldi only live ap)art, fromi this busy and sordid, unsym pathetic world, in one of yon glittering orbs of goldeni ra(iiance, living apart from all else, only for each other, forgetting the b>ase things of earthly life, the coarse greed of t,he wvord and its animal mnstincts, that would be our heaven, would it niot, dear?'' Andl Mortimcr, lhe said that it would. "Tihero heart of my ownm," lhe said(, aind lia voice tremb)led with earnestness, "my own darling Ethel, through all the softened ra dliance of thme (lay and( all time shimmerIng tenderness of nigh't, our lives wonl:i pass away in an exaltedi atmnosphlere above time base-born wants of earthly mortals, and rar bi-yond the chattering crowd that lhves bumi for to-day, our~ lives, refined beyond thme comlioti ken And just then the man with the gong came out. Mortimer, lhe mnade a grab at Ethmel's hand and a p)luinge for the cabin door. Ethel jusat gathered her skirts with her other hand, ,u ulj e I ci ar over the back of her chair a.d after bin~i, and away they went, clattering down the cabin, upset a chair, ran into a good, sweet old Quaker lady, and banged a bad word out of her be fore she had time to stop it ; (down the stairs they rushed, collared a couplio of chair.- at the nearest table, feed a waiter, and opened thme campaign without skirm ishing. I am a man of coarse mold and an -earlthi-born appetite myself, and I wouldn't live in a star so gmg as I could find a good hotel in America; but long, long before I could get seats at the table for my faniely, Mortimer and Ethel had eaten two b uc. fish, a little rare beefsteak, some corn bread, a plate of hot cakes, two boiled eggs and a bunch of onions, and the waiter hatt gone out to toast them some cheese. Mora'. I have (luring my wanderIngs, met several people who wanted to live in at star, where earth-born people with human appetites couldn't~ trouble them, and I always found [tie safest place for an earth-born man when the star-born soul started for the dinner tabje was behind a large roek. DIstrust time Saspiring mortal who lives in a piano so ele I vated that ho requires the use of a telescope - when ho wants to look down at the rest of us. And If he over wants to board at your humle abl, harge him $15 a week and i edhmon lots of soup, or you'll lose money on hIm.4 Our Cows and thet Value. It is estimated that the nuiMber of milk cows in the United States is over 18,000, 000, requiring the.annual prodUct of 52,. 000,000 acres of land for feed, giving em ployment to 060,000 men, and requiring the labor of 860,600 men. Estimating the cows at $80 each, the horses $80, and land at $80 per acre, together with $200,000, 000 for agricultural and dAlry implements, and the total amoui)t Invested in the In dustry is $2,219,280,000. This is con. siderably more than- the amount invested in banking and the commercial and manu facturing interests of the country, which is $1,800,904,586. The cattle and horses will require two tons of hay annually or Its equivalent. If It is estimated that 5,000, 000 cows are fed with grain for winter dairying, and that If the horses eat daily six quarts of oats or corn during the year, they will consume 28,888,800 tons of hay, 84, 380,000 bushels of corn meal, 84,870,000 bushels of oat meal, 1,250,000 tons of bran, 30,000,000 bushels of corn, and $00,000, 000 bushels of oats, of a total value of $384,459,400. To this should be added the labor of 650,000 men at $20 per month, $156,000,000, making the annual value of $504,459,400, or an average of $88.80 per cow. Accepting 12 cents per gallon as a basis for conmputing the vaLue of the milk pro% uc' aL d 446 gallons he average yield per ann1lu-&I (this being the average in sixteen States in 1'800),the 18,000,000 cows produce avinually 5,71i8,'000,000 gallons of rnilk.j 1 ori $695,760C,00. Aual3*is..ho,%s hat A puands of milk cun,ain the same kind ua amount of nutritloa as 1 pound of boneless beef. The total weight of the milk pro duct is 50,782,600,000 pounds, equal to 14,495,000,000 pounds of boneless beef. About 50 per cent of a fat steer is boneless meat, so that it will require 20,050,000 steers of 1,400 pounds weight to produce the same amount of nutrition as the annual milk product. Such fat steers would sell at $4.50 per cwt., or $(3 each-a total of $1,U030,000; deducting for hide 'and tallow, $260, 190,000, leaves the meat value $1,040,760,000. This gives the food value of the milk product In the United States annually. Willard, lu his "Prac tical Dairy Itusbandry," says that milk at 24 cents per gallon is equivalent in value to boneless beef at 9 cents per pound." It is f#lsc economy, therefcro, that suibstitut ed meat for milk as aii article of fool. The same authority (Willard) states that 50 per cent of thei milk is used in making cheese and butter, 41 per cent Is consumed in a liquid state. The Department of Agricul ture, 1877, estimates there are 1,000,000, 000 pounds of butter and 800,000,00U pounds of cheese mado annually in the United States. At 27 pounds of milk for 1 pound of butter, and 9j for 1 pound of cheese, the total amount of milk used would be 29,950,000,000, add 41 per cent gf the product for coustmnption, the total production is 50,752,825,000 pounds, with lina small fraction of I per cent of the estimate made. The cascine in the milk used for making butter, if utilized for cheese would produce annually 1,890,000,000 pounds,;and besides there 's aniu 41y run oil in the skimtued milk, buttermilk, and whey 200,000,000 pounds of milk sugar, which, if saved, would have a market value greater than the entire annual sugar crop of Cuba. A PiCkpooke, Suid. iecently a lady living at the upper part of East Broadway, N. Y. on her way home boarded an East Broadway one-horse car in front of Frankfort street, deposited her fare in the cash box hnd was then invited to take a seat by a man who moved to an other part of the car. The lady had with her a portfolio of large size, which she held on her lap after being seated. She had not ridden far before she felt something touching the right side of her dress, and looking (down saw a newspap)er was cover ing a portion of it. 11er suspicIons were aroused, as she had her gold watch and a ten-dollar note in her pocket on that side of the dress, and she at once felt for the vaiu. ables andi found them. She took thoem out of her pocket, and being convinced that the fellow alongside of her was a pickpocket, thouight she would have a little fun at his expense. She took tihe watch and wrapped( the ten-dollar note0 aroundi it, so that he could see it, and then putting the portfolio In such a way that the fellow could not see what she was doing, put the articles in her loft hand, and placed her right again in her p)ocket as if depositing the watch and money therer" The lady had in her pocket a cracker in a piece of pap)er. one left of a half a dlozen she had taken wvith her from home us a "snack," and, squaeozlng the paper around the hard cracker, she drew it up close to the entrance to the pocket and waitedi to see if the fish would bite. In a moment or two afterward sheofelt the news paper augain thrown carolcssly over her lai andl the (delicate touch on her dress as be fore, and then tihe fellow got up and pulled the stral) for the car to be stopped. lie got out, and, putting a hand In each of his overcoat p)ockets, marchied down East Broadway until ho canmo to a corner, aroumnd wvichi lie passed ont thme double quick to ex amino his booty. Thle ladly wondlers what the thief said when insteadl of a gold watch andl a ten dollar note lie found out that lie had-stolen a cracker and a pice of white paper. As the~ lady (lees nut care about thme loss, dletectives need not call on her to ascertain what she will give for the i.e. covory of the p)roperty. She does not wish to make any compromnise. The thief was a well foramed fellow, about five feet eight or nine inches hIgh, not stout, with a bad looking loft eye. s.lie had an accomplice, no doubt in the man who first got up in the ear and offered the lady the seat, as after the thief left the other son followed. Sad t ate or an uid nmaacor. The blessed baby had been howling mi the street cars for nine blocks, until every. bodly else in the car had escaped eicept a bald-headed old Galvostonian, who rubbed the top of his dome of thought, sooWIedI stamped, fumed, and gave othmer evidonces of being annoyed. - ,-, "I hope thme baby don't disturb. you1 sir," said the mother, pleasantly. "No, madam, it does notr" he saidsa ageijy grittIng his teeth.d u "am so glad. .I was afrai 16 Id.-.id4 tie toot-sy, wootey, yum, yunit yum I' "No, madam, it don't disturb me" 4 said still more sa;vagely. 'Aatte (ta fiddlesticks only distu*bs oifqhtho.d joining county. It h1a a idiot of m v block.