University of South Carolina Libraries
RI-W -io I-E_K__D'TI- WINNSBORO, S. C., SEPTEMBER 23, 1880 OLD AND YOUN(. "ey sooA grow 014 who grope for gold . i tohe bought and sold- . - -iefo ef "do In darkened f,idORd up their pelf, Cankered and Oruqted o'er with mould, For them their youth Itself is old. They ne'er grow old who gather gold Where 8p4ing awakes and floweis unfold; Where ouns arise in joyous skies, And. fill the soul within theirtyes For them have the immorials sung; For them old age itself is young HEART'S EASE. Ho , 'be breath of even, i'th ?a of the rain; How blest is tei- 'eaven, On brow and brain Iopt 0, h9art that was hoar and asis. And fever'd with many fears, Pow soften'd thy pain and passion. in rain of tears I Despised_and_4eject.., % StR The glittering myriads of December'i' stars were shining in the dark blue above. The keen frosty air was calm, with not even enough breeze in it to lift the little flossy rings of dark hair that lay so carelessly on Mabel Vawn's forehead. Her lips were - slightly parted, her pretty little scarlet shawled head bent slightly in an attitude of eager attention-attention to what John Howland was saying to her the last night of her stay at home. It was in keeping with his reserve of nature, his unselflahness, that now, at the very last, he did not seek to fetter the girl with promises-that he was satisfied simply to assure her of his love for her. Mabel, listening with vague delight and girlish pride, wondered whether it was simply satisfaction she experienced to real ize that her dear old friend loved her, or whether the sweet, strange, curious feeline was love. Of his love for her there could he no possible doubt. Every syllable 3f lise dec laration, sW intense, yet quiet; so thorough ly unselfish, yet eager and true, bore its own impress of truth oad tenderness. "But I don't want you to promise yourself to me. my darling, much as I love you, much as I want you for my own. It would be happl ness to me to know that you went forth into the world as my betrothed wife-the - next sweetest Joy to knowing you really were my wife-but for your sake, Mabel darling, I will ask no promise from you until you have seen other men who will no doubt offer you much more, except love, than I can -men and their lives between whom and me and the life that I offer you, 3ou will be called upon to choose. If I did not love you so well, I could not with stand the temptation to seek to bind you; but I love you so much that I will be fair with you, and wait for my answer until you are sure that you love me alone, beyoud all."$ She listened, awed by his grave yet im passionate words. Yes, it was best that they should wait, until she had tasted the fascinating world that would open on the morrow-only, standing alone with him under the solemn, silent stars, Mabel felt sure that the coming years would make no difference. His low, rapid tones went on, and lie suddenly took her in his arms and kissed her. "My darling, come back to me as you leavoe-come back to put your hand in iitie and ook in my eyes and say, in an swer to th undying love you see there, come w&O or how you will-say to nie, 'Yours, 9urs always and ever, rather than all the woi'4 else I" And holdin4her one instant so near his throbbing heat. that its pulsations almost startled her, Malkl took and gave her fare well kiss under th brilliant December stars that to-morrow nght would shine on him, lonely, waiting-on iAr, treading the rose strewn path that woh' open to her. It was like fairy-lan'Il to thO,enrap)tured girl, that entrancing succession'of dissipa tions and delights called "society." All her beauty expanded into a danger-ously glorious attractiveness of captivating charms that set society wild-masculine society. Her A.unt Helen, the aristocratic bi rs. Philip Florestan, was bewildbred by the girl's exquisite tact, grace and beauty. Wherever Mabel had learned her elegance, ease, careless emnpt'eesement that had made her country friends a little afraid of her, that made strangers regard her as prud aind reserved, that perfectly dlelightedi Mrs. Florestan--that august lady could not * imagine. She only saw for herself that her - brother's child, brought p~p to assist in the manifold and mental duties of a large house hold, where the fdllest of plenty did( not grn n ?"if lady of culture and elegance. True, it needed several leesons to teach Mabel a better style in which to sing her songs, in which to improve her touch on the piano, boforo she could manage her train, and toy withI her fan and bow pre cIsely the angle a la mode. And only several lessons, and then, after a month of strict privacy, (luring which time Mrs F'lorestan had made for Mabie a wardrobe regardlless of expense and gave out myste rious hu,ts of the beauty for whose sake she was sending out her cards for a grand en tertainmient-thmen, on the momentous night of Mrs. Philip Florestan's ball, the gates opened wide for Mabel's eager feet, and she arose in the social sky a star of the first A Iuortnight later, she and Alex!s Wyllard met and then the actualities of life began for Iabel Vaa"n. Heretofore the romanncu 1ha( been pure and simple ; now, with Mr. Wyllard's hanidsome facee, earnest eyes, c'ourtly manner and delightful tones meet ing her so ofton, she ret lize.d that a new * element had been introu-:ied into her chal ice of nectar. ileretofore she hadl alnost laughed to herself at the idea of anything, * any one, coming between her and John Jiowlandi. Heretofore she had never had but one thought regarding him, and( that was of her return to hii.,, just as heo had - 'sked, after hm, proud, triumphal progress ',hrough tempttions that could not alluire her from her loyally, her steady fath ; that she would come off victorious, and lay her laurel at her lover's feet and hid lhim take her; tender and it'ue. But-ah I these "buts,'' that so Warp our humanity inIto faults, errors and sins-sinc'e Alexis Wyl lard had crossed her path gradually had sh'e conic to fear lest her maarc'h among the booths of Vanity Fair would a,ot be so graadly disdainful and triumphant a,ter all. it Ms not muth.w6nder Mabel was fas I i ""sjY n'111 He had aiways been favorte women, and to Mabel, from .Mig his admirer, she grew to be eager for his coming, heartoick at his tarrying, jealous of his smiles on other women. It could mean but one thing-love for Alexis Wyllard, the deepest depths of misery for John Howland, the grand, great soul who had been so magnanimous, so trusting, who was so true. A month after the trio had met, Alexis Wyllard told her, in courtly, gentlemanly tones, with his pleasant, smiling eyes look ing at her pale, beautiful face, that she had in her power to make him the happiest in the world-would she be his wife? And Ma bel. standing there in the dusk of the dim lighted parlors, with luxury and elegance all around her, listening to the second pro posal of marriage that had been told to her girlish ears, could not help contrasting the last with the first-Alexis Wyllard's calm, passionless tones with John Howland's eager intensity, that swayed every power of her nature before his own strength. A aiduen trembling weakness came ever her in the silence that intervened between his question and her answer-a silence in which no voice told her that a week previously Mrs. Forestan had told Alexis Wyllard tha if he cared for. Na nntQd to in e '167er 'me so i or did any subtle feeling wa9rsts rt the strangeness of this caln, genttanianly offer, for all she mentally contrasted it with the fire and ard,)r of another. It never occurred to her that Alexis Wyllard did not love her for herself. She had not. the re motest idea of l'er golden value in his eyes; she only realizeu, with a thrill of excited delight, that for her would be forever gone the oka-tiie drudgery and fight with gen teel poverty over the epoch of turned dresses and darned gloves. For she fully comprehended, in that moment of waiting, that, after all. it had not been genuine out and-out love she had thought she felt for him She knew no'' that he had fascinated her, infatuated her, and yet-yet, in the very face of that knowledge, with almost a sob on her lips as she thought of John How land's face and voice as they looked that December night under the stars; as she re membered that farewell embrace and the fierce hot kiss he pressed on her quivering lips, she deliberately made up her mind that, as Alexis Wyllard's wife, she would continue in this revel of gayety and enjoy-. ment, which without she felt she would die of stagnation. And so she raised her dark eye and smiled, and drooped them beneath her white, blue-veined, silky. lashed lids again, and Alexis Wyllard was answered; and he kissed her lips and thanked her for her priceless gift to him. Twenty-four hours later, when the sparkle of a diamond engagement ring was so ne Ar and excitimg to her, while she was in the first flush of glory of realizing all that her future life would hold in the way of the worldly lights that, was sweet. as honey on her lips--twenty-four hours later when she was sitting alone in Mrs. Florestan's par lor, a servant showed John Howland, in all his glad heart in his eyes at sight of the girl lie loved, for a sight ot whom he had so famished that lie had to seek her, if only for a look on her sweet face. "Mabel, Mabel, don't blame me for coming; I could not stay away I I have only come for a glimpse of you, my darl ing." She grew white to the very lips. "John don't speak so-loud," she added, as if it were an after thought. "And and" -all the girl's wonderful courage uprose, and she determined to tell him at once his coming could avail him nothing-"John, you musn't call ime-suci names, for-it never can be. Look at this " She aimost thrust her engagement. ring in his face, her dark eyes wearing such a look of mingled woe, defiance, love, and brave recklessness. le glanced from the dianiont to her face with an expression so unnaturally quiet that its dead-white agony terrified her. ''Oh, John, don't i" His low, steady tones interrupted her as a keen blade separates flesh, and hurt her nearly as mortally. "Answer me this: Have I lost you ?" She coveredl her face with her icy hands, Hie saw her shiver from headi to foot. "Answer me. Mabel I " IIis authority coinnd{ed her as though she lin( b)een a way ward child arraigned in judgment. r '"Yes.'' She whispered it with a gasp ; she knew v now how she worshiped him, this lover who had turnied to judge. "And answer me this: Did you ever love me ?" ils voice qiulvered ; lie was one of those1 self-contained mn whlo suffer long and awfully before the world or the womanr they love knows of it. ''John I Oh, John l'' It was enough, She adlmitted the whole ' of her ambition, that all of ner weakness, in I that impulsive cry. Except that his face grew whiter, andl a deeper undertone of agoiiy crept into li t voice, lhe made no signi as lie went on, slowly, positively. "Yes, I see-I undlerstandl ; andl I thank God I am saved from making a woman my wife who could ever have been so false toic herself as you have been." She heard him leave tIme house ; she heardi some oiie in the room which was only separated from thee parlora by portieres of gold brown velvet. a She sat there several minutes, cold, suffer-c lng such dumb accuteness of anguish as she e never hind dreamed couldi con o uner-the pain only a woman who dallberately crushed her best emotion, wh.) has been coldhy scoriied, can feel. And then Mr. Alexis Wyllard came in, I slowly, gracefully, quietly, as hie always did, andl walked uip to her. And, had herc eyes not been covered with her cold lingers,c she would have seen the stern, contemptui-e ons look on lia handsome face-this gen- I tleman w,ho did not heaitate a inoment in proposing to marry her for her money value, but who-, ''Miss Yawn," he said, I pleasantly, dleeidedly. "I regret to be0 oh- I liged to tell you I was very awkwardly 1 situated a few minutes since, belig in the< next room while your visitor was here. Permit me to release you fronm your en-a gagement to me, simice, very evidently, I i do not possess your affection. If you I please, Miss Vawn, we will c<nsider our selves free from to-night" --T'he Empress Euigenio remnahtied alonte all night at the scene of her somn'a f dea1th. TFun boy who was kept out or' school f or orthography raid lie was1 spell-| bound. tutleating With Her 1. Miss Angelina Apem went rusticating last summer with her ina. They found board at a pleasant country homestead, where there was already quite a party. ilss Apem desired to make herself gener ally agreeable, and decided to cultivate the acquaintance of the grand mother of the household on the very first evening after their arrival. Accordingly after tea, when the boarders had assembled on the porch .tc enjoy a cool breeze, Miss Apem opened on the grandmother, who was busy with her knitting. "This is a very romantic situation," said the young lady, addressing the vererable imne. The latter looked at her inquiringly. "This is a very romande situation," repeated the young lady, in her sweetest tones and a little louder. The old lady said: "I am a little hard of hearing, please speak louder." "This Is a very romantic situation," again repeated Miss Apen in a higher key, colorlng slightly and looking a little em barrassed when she u,.w that she was attracting the attention of the assemblage. The old lady looked thoroughly puzzled and said ; "A le,,tle lo'ider, miss." The young lady reddened visiblv; three ent.eien'were looking a' her with quizzical expressions. and four ladies were taking it the situation with evident relish. Miss Apem gathered herself for the final strug gle, and concentrating all her power of speech, site shouted: "This is a very ro inantid situation " Three elderly gentlemen Jumped so sud denly as to throw their eye glasses from their noses. The house dog thought an army of tramps had invaded the premises and ran toward the gate barking savagely. bliss Apem's situation by this time was anything but romantic. She was blushing like a red, red rose. and the perspiration lad started from her forehead in such pr, rusion as to take the crinkle and frizzle all >ut of her hair. Her pleasant snile had -iven awayto a look of pained expectation. She watched the old lady nervously. Did hlie old lady hear this time? Would she inswer A Must Alis Apem again yell at ier? These were the questions that chased mch other swiftly through her throbbing brain. It was a ciitical moment. it womed ages to Miss Apem. All the acts -f her life came crowding up before her. 3he lived her entire life over again in an nstant of time. But see, the old lady's iyes brighten I She is about to speak. %Iias Apen listens: "Wall, I don't know 'bout its beln' very 1huimatic around here. I have lived nigh nto seventy years, an' I never hed a tech f pan off any kind except once when the rindle heifer kicked mie in the shin as I mis milkin' on 'er. I tied her tail around ier hind leg to keep her from whiskin' on t in my face. She got mad 'cause she .ouldn't whisk her tail and up and kicked Ike creation. I rulbed arniky on the snin tud I was all right in a day or two. But Jim Shaw, who lives over on the cross-road ie has complained of rhuinatiz a good iny years, off and on. It catches him in is back and in his knee jints and makes em stiff sometimes. Do you ever have the Iumatiz ?" By the time the old lady had finished liss Apent had fainted dead away, and iad to be carried to her room. The shock ,o hcr nervous system was too great. The )ld lady looked somewhat surprised, but etained her presence of mind and shouted o persons who were assisting Miss Apem . IIf she has got the rhumatiz bad co ic nd get my bottle of arinky." Night iII the Moon. At last, however, night sets in. Orate ally it conies after the sun has gathered il) his smiting rays and gone down to his est All at once we are plunged into -nnarative obscurity,for again there Is no wilight to stay the steps of departing day. ~.t one stride comles the dark. But look .ag up into the sky, we behold a vast orb, 'liich pours down a mliler andl more eneficent splendor than the great lord of he system. 1t is such a moon as wve errestrials cainnot boast, for it is not less han thirteen times as large and luminous L5 our own. There it hangs in the firma uent, without apparent change of place, L5 if "fixed In its everlasting seat." flat iot without change of vixrface. For this ~lobe is a paintedl panorama, and turning 'oundl mlajestically on its axis, presents its ceans andl conitinlents in grandl( successioi'. ~s Europe andl A frica, locking the Mc(di errancan in their embrace, roll away to he right, the stormy Atlantic offers its aters to view, then the two Americas, vith their huge forests and vast prairies ass under Inspection. Then the grand basin of the Pacific, lit up with island fires heets the gazer's eye, aind as this gllides ver* the scene the easternl rim of Asia, the pner portion of Australia, sail into sight. 'he Indlian ocean, and afterwardI the Ara dan sea spread themselves out in their sub hued splendor, and thius in four andi twenty hours, "the great rotundity we treadl" urns its pictured countenance to the moon, aad grandly repays the listening lunarians y repeating, to the best of its ability, the to y of its bikth. Nor is the sky less mar eons in another respect. F"or the absence fany atmospheric dliffusion of ihiht per nits the constellations to shine out with a istiuctness which is never paralleled on arthi. 'They glitter like diamond points et in a firmament of ebony. Stars andi lusters which we never see by the~ naked ye flock into vier, and crown t he heavens. "'he Wonderful AdaptabaMl.y of Paper. The adaptability of paper t</numelrous aportant and( widely-var.ed usisi wond(er iii. What other substance can be satistac >rily sub)stitutedl for wood, iron and suich ommon mlaterals, to t,he extent that paper an he? It Is impossible to find anything Iso wnichi, like p)aper, may be so different ' and dexterously prepared, as regards exibility, thinness, strength, dutrability, mnpervlousness to fire and water, etc., that t can 1)e readily made into pails, wash owls, (dishes, bricks, napkins, blankets, arrels, hounses, stoves, wearing apparel, urtains, bonnets, iiewspaper and writing heets, wrappers, carpets, coating for iron hips, fiowerpots, parchmiment slat,es, cover igs for the leads 0t peincils, jewelry, anterns, car-wheels, dies for stamping, ppers of slhoes, roofing and many other hing, it is this t endency on the pr rt of aper to take the place of everything else, o beconmoa unIversal substitute, moto speak, 'hichi leads to the conclusion that the aturo has a grand development in store for t, and that in the years to come its manu acture will hold a- magnificent position mmong the great industrial interests of the ord, ile Lying Witness. I will now narrato a case, showing upon what slight circumstances the verdict of a jury sometimes turns. I can not now recall the year, and my notes of the case were burned in the great fire of 1871. i think about the year 1846 my friend Bron son Murray, who then lived at Deer Park, La Salle County, sent for me to come to Ottawa and defend his hired man, who, killing a neighbor in a quarrel, had been indicted for murder. A. sudden quarrel had arisen, and the prisoner, seizing a hickory stake from his sled, had struck the deceased one hard blow on the head pro ducing death. I sat down to the trial, supposing I had a clear case of manslaughter, and one free fron ditilculty, and that the only question would be the extent of my client's impris onment. There was no controversy about the quarrel and the blow, and that death was the result. These facts having been proved, the prosecution call the officer who had arrested the prisoner. le was a large. muscular man, very lark and shister in his appearance, and as he took the stand I saw hin scowl at the prisoner, who was an Impulsive, passionate Irislunan, ini a way that startled me. I immediately aked the defendant if he had ever ha-.I any difficulty with the witness. "Yes," he replied ; "the witness hates me, and has threatened to have we hanged." After describing the arrest, the witness was asked: "Did you, on your way to the County Jail, have any conversation with the prisoner, in regard to the killing, and, If so, state what he said ?" Ile replied: "On our way, as we were riding across the prairie, I asked hin what made hini strike the deceased, and why lie struck so hard. Prisoner aswered, '-- him, I'm glad h'e is dead; I have long had a grudge against him, and I am - glad I have killed him.'" "Take the witness," said the State's Attorney, in the tone of a ian who had made out his case, and he had. The wit ness had supplied the proof to change the killing from manslaughter to imiurder, and unless I could beeak (town or contradict hi, my client was lost. 1r one,) those impulses which I can not, explain, but which all of us have often experienced, I felt that the witness had been swearing false. I knew it, but how could I make it manifest toj the jury ? The terrible con fession was made, as the witness said, when lie and the prisoner were alone uiponi the prairie, and therefore there was no possibility of contradiction. "'It is a lie, every word of it," whispered the prisoner. I knew it perfectly well; but, how to prove it? I began the cross examination without a plan ; at first putting a few questions quietly, and studying the man whom I had never before seen. After a few unimport ant questions, asked to gain time and try and make out what manner of in in lie was, I led han back to the confession. I asked him if lie was sire lie had repeated(i the exact words of the prisoner. ie replied, "I have told you the very words. I have not altered one of them." I saw that lie was one of those who if lie once swore the horse was sixteen feet high would stick to it. I then asked hin to repeat the con fession, which lie did, and, as I expected, with variations, I then called his atten tion to the fact that sonie months had passed between the confession and the trial, and Lhen asked him why, if m his direct evidence lie had given the identical words, lie could not on the stand repeat them twice in the same way. lie thought it necessary to strengthen his statement, and lie said : "I wrote (own at the time what the prisoner said, so I might not forget it, and I have got the paper yet, and I have read it over to-day, and it is in the very words I first stated." I knew that lie was lying; I felt it, and I arose and asked hin sternly: "Where is the paper? Tell me instantly." '"In umy pocket," lie sah(d. "Produce it," sai I. I knew that lie hiad no such hpaper. lie turnedt pale ; the sweat rolledt daown his face. On my repecating may dlemandl for tihe pa p)er, he refused point blank. I repeatedi, "You have sworn you v.rote (down, at the the time, on paper, the state mient of whlat the prisoner said: that you brought that paper with you to Court; have read it over to-dlay, andl that you have it now in your pocket. Is this true .7 "'Yes. " said lie. folterim(ly. "'Theu," said i, ''will y'ou produice it and let inc see it ?" "No," said lie, "no lawyer shall sea my private papers." "Is there anything on the written pa per besides the meinoraiiin of what thia prisonier said ?" lnquired 1. "Yea on the same p)aper are private writ Ings which no man shall see." "'Hold the paper in your own hands, then so that I can sec and read only the muemiorandunm. Have you any objectilon to that ?" said I. "You shamll iiot see any of it," said lie. lIe was shiking (lecper andl deeper in the morass. "Very well," sid I. "Peihap)s you will allow the ,1ludge or the jury to see it, if you don't want ine to see it ?" "Nobody shall see it,'" said. lie. "ThImis has gone far -enough," said I. "You have no stelh p)aper, andl never hiad, and I nowv ask the Court to make an order that you p)roducee the paper or be commit tedl to jail until you produce it." Th'le Judge madie the ordher, and as the hour for dinner had come, adjourned. I knew that my client was saved; not by any skill of mine, but . by what I hiardly know how to characterize. But I think we 01(1 lawyers often see results which inidi eate that there hs something outsidle of our selves or aiiy known ageiiey, which some times leads to the triumph of truth and the protection of tie innocent. On-the coining ha of the Court the wit ness was forced to ackniow ledge that lie had no such paper, andh the State's Attoriioy 51aid: "1 will niot ask the jury to place any reliance upon this witness.'' ,A verdict of manslaughter and a short iuprisonmient was thme up)shot, of the trial. To Dril Glsas. The following directions arc giveni for drilling glass: Take a common drill, run a little fast.; (10 not press on, the weight of the drill is eniough. Dril from both sides, keeping the glass and dIrili wet with tur pontiac. lHe very careful when the two holes meet not to let the dn'll catch. After a hole Is made large enough for a small round file, file to the desired size, keeping the file and glass wet with turpentine. How the Cow Lost Her Tail People who have cows to soll take the to )(ing's cattle yards in Detrpit, on Mm day morning, and the people who want t buy cows go there to select their aniualh There is always a big crowd and an amount of chaffing. Cows of all colori ages, shapes and sizes are tied to the fences and the owner will take his oath that noth ing but a mortgage on his farm could hav Induced him to part with his favorite. The other Monday the sport .f the yar was a cow with a tall about a foot and half long. The weather was awful hc and the flies plenty, and she not oul worked that old stub for all it was wortl but made it pretty lively for lnseets wit her hind feet. "I see smiles and hear laughter," sat the owner as lie faced the cow, "but thi very bob-talled cow is worth any four it the yard. She don't look finished ou with that stumpy tall, but. here is anothe case wherein the inventive genius of mal can overcome the lost forces of nature." lie thereupon deftly affixed a small busl to her tail by means of a string, and th cow sent the flies sky-high at every rap. "And now how (id this cow lose he tail ?" continued the man as he hung hi. coat on the fence. "She didn't go slath ering around a nowing-mchine-oh, .no She didn't get it hung in the barn door not by a jugful. She didn't cut it off her self to spite the family, for she knows hov we all love her. Why, gentlemen, wheu I started with this cow this morning therc was in -re weeping and howling in th Town of Redford than I ever heard at any funeral. I tell ye, bob-talled cows no only have a place in the world's green pas tures, but also in the affections of the pubi lie. I've got to sell that cow to buy liver pads for my family, and I tell you I fee sad clean downi to ny boots. Excuse thesm tears, but that animal has got a strong hol on my affections, and we are a family tha' never conceal our real feelings." By this time everybody in the yard wav in the circle around him, and the imai wiped his eyes and said: "About her lost tail. Last week a stran ger come along looking for a cow whicli would give twenty quarts of milk at onc milking. I told hi he was my huckle berry. That cow has done it time an< again, and she'll do it every day in th year. The stranger laughed, that kindel stung me, and I told him if she didn't pau out twenty full quarts of milk I'd cit of her tail. If she did, he was to give mi $50 for the cow. Ladies and gentlemen, I sot down and milked. I felt as sure o them $50 as I do of leaving tNisyard alive but alas I this is a vain world. Sile ha< got hold of somethlig wrong that day, aml all I could get out of her was nineteei quarts, one pint and one gill. I am a mai of imy word, and off went her tail. Now then, if there Is any person here who isn't dodrotted particular about that missing gill ot milk, let 'cm step forward, plank dowr $25, and take away the best cow whict ever pulled grass in Wayne county.,' Sappisire lunting am Snn. Five years ago a native hunter im Sian found sapphires in a renote and seclude( district. Some n en who were let into th( secret followed him into thle mines am brought back to Rangoon and Calcutta 1 number of very vAluable -stones. A rusl ensued from British Burmah, thousands o adventurers flocking to the mines, some t< find sudden fortune, but more to lose thelii lives from privation and jingle fever. The mines occur in the provinces of Battaim bong and Chantaboon. In his commercia report for 1879, the British consul at Bang. kok says that lte miners are very carein to conceal their gems while in Slain. Being anxious to show some of the gems to Admiral Coote, the consul called for speci. mens from some miners who had just re turnied from the (diggings. One miner r p)oorly clad and( miserable looking fellow, p)roduced a few small stones, and after s great deal of coaxing was induced, withi mnany p)recautions, to give a private vikw ol his great prize, which was a largo sapphirr in the rough, valuedl at *10,000. HIe wou dI not have shown tIs stone at all had lie not been on the point of leaving In a steamer Owing to the secrecy then observed b)y the possessors of valuable genis, it Is hu)osible to give any estimate of the total value of stones found, but tiiat individuals have made very large profits is certain. One man (dug out a storie which lhe offered for sale in Chantaboon at five-hunidred (101 lairs, but di not find( ai purchtaser. lie went with with it to IRangoon, whiere lie was offered $7500; bait having awokeoto the value of the stone, lie declined to sell andl took it to Calcutta, whlere lie eventually obinhed $15,000 for it. Now, howevei-, there ar~e ?'aniy experiencedl gem nierchanits estab llahend in thle nelgehorhood of the mines, andl somsthing like the real value of tie stones cain lbe obtainied biy the nilners on the spot. Trhe largest saplphiire hitherte found, se far as~ the consul knows, weighed 370 carats in the rough, alnd when cutI tutrnedi out 1ll canats of the finest water. The ruby, onyx, and jade are also found in the district, but. the quatlity of none of these is such as to make them very vahan ow *f aHol tand Stew, To (10 elfther piroperly, the food m'ust 1be immersed at the beginnling in actually boil ing water, and the water niust lie iallowedl to reach tI e be hng poin ima db o'y, and to boil for about five minutes. TIhe act,ion of the boiling water uplont the surface of either meat or vegetables is to hiarden it hIilit ly, just eniougha to p)revent the escape of eit her juices or minmeral salts. After the plot containing the food lies begun to b)oi1 the second( timte, it should be remnovedl to the side of the fire, andt allowved to elm mier uint il the food is donew. Tlhiis silmmer lng, or btowing, extracts all the nutritious qlualities of either meat or vegetables ; the p)ot should be0 kept closely covered unlfess for a momnent when it is necesasary to rais< thae cover in order to remiovo the scum. Th'le steam will condense upon the insidle of the cover, and( fall bac1k into the pot is drops of moisture, if the boiling is slow. D)o not thilni' that the rapidl boiling cooke faster titan the gentle process I recomimend,. After the pot once holls you cannot miako Its contents cook any faster if you have lire enougha uder it to run a stenir engine. So save your fuel and add it t< the fire little by little, to keep the pot boil. ing. Remember if you boil meat hiart an(i fast it will be tough and tasteless, and most of its goodness will go lip the chim ney, or out of the windo(w with the steam. -CLEAN oil.01l0th ni ?in milk and Wa ter; a bruh or soap will ruin hrt Doing Ner Best. A party of Dotroiters who were fishin - for brook trout on the Boyne river, an s camping on its banks, ran out of supplies, and an envoy was sent jut to beg, buy or r borrow something until an order sent to Traverse City could be filled. After a walk of two miles he reached a log house in the woods. A woman, flye children, three a dogs and a family of tame coons occupied the one single room in the house. The I furniture was all home-iade, the tableware consisted entirely of tin dishes, and only t one bed was visible. The envoy stated his ( errand, and the woman replid: ,"Flour I I reckon we ran out o' flour i yesterday, and we won't JIav6 any more till next week." I "Can you spare any coffee?" 9 "1 guess not. ie last coffee we had I run out on Christmas. If we get any next t week I'll spare somne." r "How about tel?' "Well, tea has been purty skeerce with us for the last two months, but Ben sad(i he k thought of gittim' some 'long this fall. If i you are around here when our tea comes, we'll divide with you." "You haven't any potatoes to spare, have I you?" "Well, now, you ought to have been last week for 'taters. I cooked the last Sunday. These 'ere (logs and children sot a heap on cold 'titers, and they go off like hot cakes. Ben is going to git some more 'long about Saturday." "Ilaven't you any provisions at all which you can spare?" asked the discouraged en voy. *.Well, now, I don't believe we have, but we are goin' to stock up 'long in the fall. I was telling Ben only last night that I'd got kinder tired of scroochin' along on Injun and 'lasses " 'I'll buy some of that It you cani spare K-it'for we haven't a bite of anything in Cainup." "No, I can't sell any. Fact is, we had the last for breakfast, and Ben won't get any more till Buturday night.'' "I'm sorry," sighed the man as lie turned away, "Yes, so'm I," she sighed In return. ''I seed your party down thar in camp t'other day, and' you look like honest folks. I'd be glad to spare you somethin' but I can't. If you men want to move yei camp up here and enjoy our society and use our smudge to drive away skeeters, we'll do our best to make it pleasant; but when you come (Iown to fodder we hain't nowhar'. I was telling Ben only last night that we'd be lucky if we got these (logs and coOnm through another winter !" nes.rvedi M'ats. In traveling, one meets with many sel fish people ; among them countless women who insist oil monopolizinm, two seats in a railway car under the pretense that oie of them is engaged by an attendant gentleman, supposedly in the smoking-car for a brief interval. We saw two women of this sort rightly served during a summer trip. For fifty miles they succeeded in warding off travelerh who sought the shady side of the car, and the seat in front of then was the convement receptacle of their baggage. Finally, however, an uncouth-lookhig indI vidual removed the baggage and turned the seat. The astonished ladies paied in their i conversation to each other and raised their hands as if in remontmunce, but it was too i late ; the thing was quietly and quickly I accomphshed, and the two foreigners who were seated there seemed to understand no i words or gostures. Public opinion in that i car, at least sided with them. On another I occasion, when our party entered a car, not I a seat was available. One person was I guarding four, others one and two; the aisle was uncomfrortably crowded. "This way said the conductor, ''room in the nalare car for t,hose who are standing." I Tlhe engaged seats were at a discount (plenty of room now), liut the conduictor insistedl thatI they should be retained by their occupants, andi all were made comfortable. "D)o as yout would be (lone by3,"' is a goodl rule when travelitg as elsewhere. A Ohap&~ter on Mliti iicds. A bald-headedl man Is refined, and lie ial.< ways shows lis skull-sure. It has never bieen dlecided( what ,iausest bald heads, but most people think it is dan'd rough. A goodi novel for bald( heads to readl "The Lost ileir." What (does a bald headed man say to lis I combi? We meet to part no more. Motto for a hiald head--Hare aind fur bare. Ilowever high a position a bald-headed f mian holds, lhe will never coimb-down In a the world. TIhe bald-headed man never (dyes. Advice to bald-headers-Join bhe Indi ans, whIo iare the 01n13 suiccessful hair rats. I era. What (lees every bald headed maon put I on lis headi( ? Ills lhat. You never saw a bald-.headedl man with I a low forehead.. Shakespeare says-T[here is a divinity 1 that shapes our einds. Bald men are the coolest hieadled miein in the world. 8ome bald men have heirs. A bsent. Mintd,ness, Near a large planing miH in the towna of< Rled Clay, there lives a faimily named Rose. Several (lays ago Mrs. Rose had oeccasioni to~ go to the mill, carrying her ten-months- I 01(1 child aloiig with her. While there the 1 little one fell iasleep, and( becommt rather burdensome, sIhe laid it ini a large box in tihe mill. After conceludinig her business t she left the mill, forgetting till about the I child, leaving it peacefully sleeping in thme I bottom of time bex ini the mIll. Some hours later she renmarked its absence, but, re-. mnembiering where she laid it, she thought she had told her hmusbanid to bring it home, and sihe felt no further uneasiness. At su1pper the father caiie, but no child. Shie anxiously asked him in regards to the child,. hut lie ditsclaimedl any knomwledg~e of its whereabouts. Upon telling him whiereshue had laid it, and where in all probability it was still lyiing, a sudden pallor overspread his face, aind it was with the greatest dill cuilty that he could tell her that a few ig.. utes before lie 1had emptied several bushels of meal in that self-same box, and ia all probability time child lhad long since died from suffocation. A doctor wa-s huirredly sent for, the box was sought, and in li' under time meal, lay the child, boreft of 4 1. sensibility. The doctor applied every known restorative, but at last accounts it still lay in a comatose state, with hardly a possibility of recovery, FOOD FOR THOUGHT. To clean furniture wash with warin soapsuds, quickly wipe dry, and then Iub with anl oily cloth. Science Is made for few men; but duty is the mistress of all men; they cannot be umn without it. Persecution is the black angel that dogs the church, the red horse that fol. lowi the white at the heels. The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. Ini this great theatre of life It is per nitted to God and the angels to be spec tators, but all men must be actors. Four things tbat come not back-the broken arrow, the sped arrow, the past life, ant neglected opportunity. We blame inconstancy in women, but only when we are the victim. We find it charming if we are the object. Be thou ever so amiable and disinter ested, some hatchet-aced misanthrope will swear thou hast an axe to grind. It happens as with cages: the birda without despair to get In, and those within despair to get out-that is unar riage. It is a manifest testimony of a godly mind, when ordinary actions are done from a right principle and to a rig1st purpose. Nathre is no less artful than power ful; it attains its end while ic allows all things to act according to their con stitlition. The perfection of conversation is not to play a regilar sonata, but, like the AlOllan harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. If any lady who cultivates a rose in her apartments will plant an onion in the same pot, the fragance of the rose will be increased an hundred per cent. L[ife Is divided Into three terms: That which %% as, which ha, which will be. Let us learn froll the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live for the future. Pilde Is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advan tages; an-i envy feels not its own hap piiess, but when it may be compared with tile misery of others. Times of general calamity and con rusion have ever been productive of tho treatst minids. The purest ore comes froni the hottest furnace-the brightest flash from the darkest cloud. Three things should be thouglitof by the Christian every morning; his daily cross, his daily duty, and his daily p)rIvilege-how lie shall bear the one, perform the other, and enjoy the third. An Indian, having heard from a white wuan some stricture on zeal, re plied, " I dIon't know about having too uiuch z-al; but I think It is better that the pot, should boll over than not boll %t all." Dr. Payson, when Interrupted by Dalls in busy moments, or wlien he would not have deshled them, found relief in the thought, which lie often XI)Tessed, -'The man who wants me is Ihe ian I waint."' It is a Great Blessing, not often en oyed, for a poo,)Ie to have men equal 'o every crisis in their history, such as 'the children of Issacliar, that had mn lerstanding of the times to know wlikt 8raael ought to (10." The Great Moments of life are but nonients like the otherse Your doom a spoken In a word or two. A single ook from the eyes, a more pressure of' he hand niay decide it, or of the lips, hough they cannot speak. Contentment produces, in some mnea sure, all those effects which the alchie nist ustiually ascribe to what lie ca'ls he philosopher's stone, and if it doces iot bring riches, it does the same thing >y banishisng the desire for them. If' you fill a champagne glass two.. hirds full of water and then lay an mion on the teop of the glass, in a few lays delicate silvery spr ' uts will spring rein the lower pairt of the onion to.. v'ard the waIter, and the top of the mion will sprout out. To relieve neuralgia, take two large abiespoonfuls of cologne and two tesa peon f'ula of fine salt, mix them tog'ther n sa small bottle; every tinae you have Ln acuste afi'ection of the facial nerves, r neutralgia, simply breathe the fusmes n your nose ins the bottle, asnd you wvill iSurgeon says, "lie who climbs above lie cares of the wvorild and turns is aico to iss 00(1 has fouand the sunny 1(d0 of life. The world's side of' the nIll is chili and freezing to a spiritual nind, but the Lord's presem4ce gives a vanrmnth of Joy which turns winter ina 0 summer." Ammnonia, or as itis generallycalledl, pits of' hartshorn, dissolves grease and diet with great ease. For taking treaisy spots out of any fabric, use the imnionia neairly puriie, then lay whsl.e >lotting paper over the spot anad iron ihty. In wassinag lace, put about welve drsops in a pint of warm suid>. [or washing finger-.marks from leol.. nig-glasses or windows, put a few Irops of' anhmonla on a moist rag as4d nlake unick work of it. A teaspoonf'ul &vill asnd much to the refreshing effects >f the bath. It is also good for clean ng thea hair,-rinse off' the ammonia N vith clear water in every case. A nixture of' equal parts of ammonia anid slcohol will take out grease spotu and 'ed stains in blue and black cloths. It is intended that while we liye in hsis world wveshiould (10 its work,take an niterest li1 Its affairs, study its iessons, eve what is beautiful andl good in It, and hearnt to boar whiat is hard in it. onforma to its natural laws. And If' his is the plan, then of course ansothor vorld far more glorius, which we are o crnter hereafter and very soon, would tot be set right before us, wide opens and plainly visibtle. That would defeat lie plan ; it would distract us from the >resent scenie, fill us with oxuisted ex. ectatiofi, make us too impatiesnt to be ~onei frori$ here, or else to patient ini tayjng, knowing we should go so soon, ~ ' &c shbuld be unfitted for our work eote dnd'our enjoymenuts. This fine pardon of the wvor4d would n'ot be diuly ilied, and they .Wl0o are set to till vith. severe toil wo idt bq@ome idlers and weaklings, as dsige os lWren sa', upt to be who are born ty brilliant er' 4 >etatsons in life, assured of fortust iad all worldly blessi ng withoutap ffort. No, let that life be veiled Asit s, so that we may do ur part li Uii aeatti1y