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L.Lo-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C', SEPTEMBER 28,180VO.I-N.17 GRANDPA'8 BARN. Olt. a jolly old place is grandpa's barn, Where the doors stand open throughout the day, And the ooolng doves By in and out. And the ar is e ii eet with the fragrant hay; ,Where grain lies over the slippery floor, And the hons are busily looking around, And the sunbeams ihoker, now here, now there, And the breeze blows through with a merry sound; The swallows twtter and ohirp all day, With futtering wings, in the old brown '\eaves. And 1hekrobins shiinn the trees which lean TO bruNIQhe roof with their rustling It aves. 0 for the glad-vaqatIon time, When grandpa's iarn will echo the shout Of merry obildren, wi'ozam ai- play In the ntew-born freedwit ot school lot out, Such soaring of doves from their cosy nests. such hunting for eggs in th4 loft so Till the frightened hen, with a cackle shrill, Frim their hidden treasures are fain to fly. Oh', the dear old barn, so cool. so wide Its doors wi I open aginu eta long If o the Bunmer sunshine, the new-mown bay. And the merry ring of vacation song. For grandpa's barn is the jollit st place For frolio and fun on a samuer's day; And e'en old Time, as the years slip by, its memory never oan steal away. Margaret's Money. 'She has five thousand pounds," said the old man, "and she's a good girl. She'll be a catch for somebody." Then I thought lie looked at wic. "Why should lie look at me?" I thought. "I'm not a husband worth angling for, as he knows very well, this man who pays mue my small salary every week with his own hands. Still lie did look at me, and I answered with a word or two: 1 forget what now. "Yes," he said-talking with a meaning, too, looking at me evidently, to see how I took the news, "yes; and what do you suppose she does with it? las it locked up In my fire-proof safe in my fire-proof vault, don't use It in any way, don't get interest on it; locks it up as shie does her rings and pins and lets i t lie never touched. "I wonder you dont give her better ad vice," I said. "Give a woman advicel" he said. "Try it. However, I approve of this. Better keep her dowry locked up safe, than risk and lose it. My fire-proof safe and fire proof vault will hold her money-the money her husband is to have the day he marries her fast and safe." Then the old man trotted away to his own desk, and looked over it at me. ''I'm her guardian," lie said. "er father and I had qv:arrelled, you know. But when he died, he left her and her money in my care. A nice thing far an old bachelor to have, a youtig niece quar tored on him for lifel- I'll marry her off -1h00h .s f...ctu. I say, Fisher, come up and take tea with me to-night." He did mean iti He offered his niece aid her five thousand pounds to mel fle had never liked me either. "Shall I go?" I asked myself. "Why not? I mighit as well see the hef'ress. I was not a man to be bought by money, It she were a coarse, vulgar creature, like her * uncle; bua otherwise, why not see what she was made of? At least it could do no harm to take tea with old Simon Gilddings. I went homie with him that evening. I not.iced seine litt le changes in the parlor, * as though a lady's hands had been busy there; and in a moment more I saw, sit. ting in the shadow of the curtaIns, a girl dressed in deep mourning. "Margaret, Mr. Fisher; my niece, MIss Giddings, Tom," saId the o'.d man; and as I bowed, I saw a little velvet-headed crutch leaning against, the girl's chair. Bihe 'was .lame, then. Old Giddings thought this was an obstacle to her making a good matcL. So lie offered her to Tonm Fisher. "It won't do, old man,''' I thoughit. "I shouldn't mind a plain face so much, but a lame wife will never do for mec." Then something whispered faintly hts my ear, "Five thousand pounds!"' For the rest, Miss Giddings was fair and sweet-looking, and pleasant in her man nier. Bhte was a lady, too, which seemed odd for old Simon's niece, for lie was as vulgar as he was rich: and she sang to us after tea very sweetly. [ liked a girl with dash and color, but still her blue eyes and sweet smile haunted me a little after I went home. "She'i never quarrel with one," I thoughj;'"and a women worth five thousand pounds would be a catch, certaInly; but that erutol "I'll stay away from Old Simon's house for the future. *But he would not let me stay away; he kept on urging me to go home with him. There was Marion More. Perhaps she liked me a little. I admired her int(nsely; but she had no mioney, and I shoukldak her away from her snug home to soe poor sort of place if I married her.I should flad it hard work to feed and clothe her decently. This faIr, sweet Margaret was rIch; and as timo passed on, 1 buegan) to see her liking for me. And I sat ia thme oilce one day, three months from the time of my first-visit, wondering whether I could be quite sure that I should be good enough to the little thingi I meant to naarry for her * money, to keep her fronm knowing that there was nto actual tjove fo" hAer in nMy heat~ Simon Giddings reached my ears:-"Ton Fisher uy in the moca again, ehi Well, well, when a fellow it in love we excus laziness in him. There's my niece Mar. garet pouring the tea in the slop basin ant oversetting the milk at breakfast. "Mag, gle," says 1, "you're a thinking of som one, an't ye? She blustieI to her ears, You've managed to get into good graces It that quarter, Tom" "Do-you think so?" I said. "1 know so," said the old man. I oughtnrt to say so, you know, but I'n frank." I listened to hi, then two voices whis .pering to me: "You don't love her," said one. "Yet don't hate her," said the other. "Yot don't want a lame wife," said the first, "You do want five thousand pounds,' said the other. It would mike a man ol you. You c:ud go into business on youi own account. You'd cease to be a slave in this dingy office." "Five thousand pounds!" I said to myself. Then I started to my feet. "Mr. Giddings," I said, "would you b< wilhng to give your niece to me as my wife?" ils answer was frank. 'Tom Fisher, I'd give her to any decenl young man. A girl bothers me; I'm tired of the charge. Every one don't want v same wife. If you like her, take her, and on your wedding day, I'll hand th( fIve thousand pounds to you, and be rid of the charge. She'll say 'Yes,' don't fear. I'll tell her that you asked me to-night, and hurry on the wedding. I thought I heard the thump of a crutci in the church aisle as Ie spoke. I thought of the graceful step of Marion More. I turned faint, and sat down to my desk; but I we:t to old Simon's house that night, and saw Margaret. She looked as fair and happy as a child. I sat down by her and took her hand. "Are you going to say 'No,' Maggle?" ] said, and she lifted her innocent lips tc mine, and kissed me. "I'll be good tc her,"I said to myself. 'll be very, very good to her." But there was no lover's warmth In my heart; only a kind of gentle pity for th( girl who was to bring me five thousand L)ounds. We were engaged. Old Simon joked its coarsely, and seemed to exult over the affair. I might even have doubted of thc existence of the five thousand pounds, but that Maggie told me of them herself. "Uncle was keeping them for me to liv( on, when I was an old maid," she said. "fut you shall do what you choose witb the money when I belong to you. We'll buy a pretty house, shan't we dear, first of all, and live there all our lives; somewhere where we can have a garden?" So, after that, I never doubted, but clung to the idea as I could not if I had loved the girl. We were married in a fortnight. Uncle Simon and his old house-keeper alone were present. It had touched me a good deal when Margaret had whispered that she had rather not have a wedding party. "Fancy the bride limping up the aisle upon a crutch!" she said. "Let me be married with none to stare at me. You love me so I don't care about being lame any more, but- I'd-rather not be stared at.' 1 took lher I my arms and kissed hier then. "'I'll be good to her," I said, as the clergyman uttered his prayer,-'very, very good;'' and I wats saying it again wheni] at with my wvife 11 01(d Simon's parlor in lie twilight, and he coining in, lit the gas, an d stAo I t,winkling lia eyes at us malic lously. "So it'si over," he said, with his fiendish chuckle. "She's yours now for her five thousand poinds. I'm going to hand i os er to night. Ishall sleep better." 1 blushed with shame. "Not yet,'' ] saidl; "don't talk of money yet!" "No?"'said Simon. "But I wili though. I've got it lhere." And lie uel'ocked a side board which stood in the rooni, Fad brought out a small roll done up oddly enough ii brown paper. There it is," said lie, "there it Is! Look at it-count it. Five thousand plump-count it." lHe fairly grinned as lie spoke. She smiled. I saw something in his laugh that mnade me shudder. Without a word mere I walked to the table, opened the parcel and spread out the notes. There were five thousand pounds worth of them, reading the value on their faces, but they were the notes of the Diddleton and Blilkem Bankc, which had faiied years ago! I had been deceived.- The girl I had married was penniless! "Impostor!'' I yelled. Old Simon an swored with a roar of laughter. "Good joke;" he said. "i've done what I promised. You've g.t the nyve thousand; I didn't tell you what it was In. Of course such money is of no use to you, but 1 can't help that. Hat hal" " I think I should have given .blin a blow, but just then I heard Margaret scream.1 Idoked at her, E saw, as I had known before;,ghat sihe had no hand in the decop. tion. I saw an awful look In her eyes, a doubt of my -bye trembling on her lip. sawv her rise and fity. on her poor feet, andi stretch. her hands towards me. heard lier cry, "Thomes, I di'dnrot know;' and then--oh, thank God for it---ths love I had never felt before rushed. inb myI heart-a great, all-conqilering love.' I ran toher. I took herimy, a. ,1 gave her the first kIss of passiona; and now-born lovo, and I said, 'a try to la~pet.ettwith m,,tor you better than my soul." And all Margaret't money-the money i that had faded before me like fairy gold . could never have given me half the joy I that the wealth of love, given to and re ceived from her, gave me upon our bridal , day-gave me in all the first struggling years of our wedded life, and will give me, God grant it, until the endl Woodcock. Bogardus, in his work on "Field, Cover and Trap Shooting," says that to make a good bag of woodcock is a feat the sports man may well be proud of. To meet with success in woodcock shooting, one must L be an excellent snap shot and possess a tireless nerve and muscular organization. Besides, he must be familiar with the hab its of the bird. To an experienced eye, woodcock ground Is easily recognized. This dainty little bird Is an. epicurean in its habits, and a voracious feeder. The fat, angle and other worms which inhabit the rich, soft and wet ground, are consia ered by the woodcock as the most dainty morsels, and form Its sole diet Among the lowland and marshy places where the ground is soft and loamy, the woodcock loves to dwell. It is nocturnal in Its hab its, spending its nights In feasting, and then at the break of dawn retires to a favorite retreat among the willows or tan gled underbrush, and gently dreams the daylight hours away. it is a hard bird to find, and a sportsman without a staunch dog with a good nose, may almost tramp a on bird before it takes to its wings, and it is seldom seen until it flies. Occasionally the shari) eye of an experienced sportsman catches sight of a bird In its day retreat. The woodcock obtains its food by means of its long-pointed bill with which nature has furnished it, and on account of its resem blance to the suipe it is often mistaken for this bird by farmers who occasionally flush it while making tours through the marshy portions of their estates. The bird while searching fc.r food, probes his bill deep into the mucky spots where worns are plenty, and his sensitive prober soon de tects the presence ( f the wood. cock's tempting morsel. For hunting woodcock a dog is almost absolutely neces sary. Man does not like to penetrate the marshy places and spots overgrown with briart and tall weeds, where the bird is found, to raise him from his hiding place, and no' having the necessary olfactory re quisites to detect the presence of the bird by scent may walk within a step of nis in tended victim without flushing him. On account of its tender feet and hide, it is al most wicked to use a pointer In woodcock shooting among the marshes, though in hunting the bird late in the season among the corn fields, a staunch pointer Is used to good advantage. For general woodoock shooting the setter is much used. His coat of long hair and feathered feet protect him from the cutting swamp grass and poison ous briars, but the thoroughbred Sussex and St. Charles cockers are fast growing in pop ularity for cover shoo,ing. They ate merry and a ttive workers, and when properly broken and handled afford the sloter ex cellent sport. Generally speaking the woodcock is a hard bird to it. Josh Billings, in an ar ticle on birds, says of the woodcock that the first that is seen of the Ird is a 'whiz, and the last we see is a whirr." In shoot ing among the saplings the shooter must follow the dog and take his chances with snap shots. In low under rush and later In the season among the wn fields, some open shots are obtained. The unceitain flight of the woodcock as lie rises in his zig-zag flight tends to distract the aim of the shooter, and the success of the novice is very uncertain. P'erIig of the London atroeei. It has been calculated that the yearly average of persons killed by accidents ini the streets of London is greater than the annual total of persons massacred on all the railways of the United Kingdom. Du ring the last decade of the victims of tne thoroughfares the metropolis have reached an aggregate of 2195, while in 28, 071 cases more or less injuries have been infieted. These statistics are startling, and they signify in reality more than at, first appears. Only the known injuries are enumerated under the published cate gories. There is a considerable percentage of casualities wiuch does not find Its way into print, and when It Is said last year the killed and wounded in the London streets amounted to 234 and 8699 tespectively, it must be remembered that the estimate is reduced to a nmninmum. The allowance of unascert ained accients may' be calculated upon as that of undetected nmrders. Alarm ing as these figures seem, there is nothing surprising in them when one recollects what are the facts and what the perils of the case. A population of 4,000, 000; streets traversed by p)erpetual streams and blocked by constant congestions of trauflo-the number of vehicles o1 different kinds which daily pass up and down Ox ford streets 'Is computed at 11,891; tho ioighfares often abiurdly inadequate ft r the exigencies of the present day; foot passengers in swarms, frequently mndiffer - ent to all considerations of personal safety; drivers of every variety of caution and reckless,,ess-these are the chief features of the situation. Fair Play. Orace, when I was returnIng from treland (says Riowland 11111), 1 found myself an noyedi by the reprobate conduct of the captain and mate, who were both sadly given to the scandalous habit of swearing. First, the captain swore at the mate; then the mate swore at the captain; then .they swore at the wind, when I called out to them for fair play. "h3topi stop!" said I, "If you please gen tlemen, it Is my turn now." "Ah, what is your turn, pray?" said the captain. "At swearmng,'' I replied. Well, they waited and waited, until their patience was exhausted, and then wanted me to make haste and take my turn.I told them, however, that I had a right to take my own time, and swear at my own convenience. To this, the captain replied with a laugh, "Perhaps you don't mean to tak6 your turn?" "Pardon me captain," I answered, "but I do, a acon as I cau find the good of dIndid no hoar anter oath on the voy The Wooden Hat. Somewhere about the year 1780, a trav- ti oling mill-wright, footsore, and with the 0 broadest nortiern Doric accent, stopped at Soho, at the engine factory of Boulton & a Watt, and askeA for work. His aspect was a little better than one of beggary and poor looks, and Boulton had bidden him God speed to some other shop, when, as he y was turning away sorrowfully, Boulton suddenly called him back. "What kind of a hat's yon, ye have on 0 your head me mnin?" "'It's just tinmer, sir. "Timmer, me non; let's look at it. Where did ye get it?" "I just made it, sir, my alusel." "How did you make it?" "I just turned it in the lathte." "But it's oval, mon, and the lathie turns things round." t "A weell I just gar'd the lathie gang 0 anither gait, to please me, and I thocht to have a hat to keep out water, and I hadna' muckle siller to srare and I made me ane." By his inborn mechanism the man had Inyented an oval lathe, and made his hat, b and the hat made his fortune. Boulton was not the man to lose so valuable a help, a thus the after famous William Murdock- c the originator of locomotives and lighting by gas-took suit and service under Boul ton & Watt, and in 1784 made the first vehicle impelled by steam in England, ond with the very hands and brain-cunning that had prodtuced the "timmer hat." ai Breakinag A chain. 84 P "You will have to open the shop this p: morning, Lucia, and take care of it the u best you can," called my father from the I next room, "for my head is aching so that h [ shall be unable to leave my bed to-day." b I was quite a little girl then, not more Is than eleven years old, but as father and I tI were alone and there was no one else to per- vw form the task, I arose cheerfully, shivered I Into my clothes-for it was bitter cold and n quite early-a(I hastened down stairs. a1 Broom In hand for the purpose of sweep- ai Lug off the side sidewalk first, I proceeded p to throw open the front door, but only, to a draw back, with a faint cry of terror and N surprise. Oj Crouching behind the friendly shadow I of a large packing-box, standing at one ci side of the doorway, was a lad, apparently ji about twelve or fourteen, a pool, ragged ti creature, with hollow cheeks and a haunted a look in his dark-blue eyes that lived in my ti memory for many a day afterward. M "Please, plea8e, don't cry out, or callany ir onel" he entreated in a low, pleading voice. b "They'll surely take um again, and I don't a want to go back." a "Dou'% want to go back where?" Iasked, b grox ng courageous and tAking a step al nearer him. a For answer he pointed to a heavy ball %% and chain attached to one of his ankles. P In those days-for the time of which 1 write was long ago-it was customary to it attach a weight of some kind to the legs of 1i Lonvicts in order to prevent them from ri going very far in case they should attempt to escape; so I at once understood that he a had broken away from the town jail. n "I was arrested for stealing a meat-ple il and they treated me so bad at the jail," o, he said with a dry sob that went straight I> to my heart, "that-that-" Li "You i an away, poor boy! Come in, and h I'll hide you safely away." a: Together, and with much difflculty in pre- 1i venting the chain from rattling which a would betray his presence to my father, we succeeded in creeping down to the back al cellar. There I lpft him, well satisfljd e( with my morning's work. ti A little while after, I carried him a bowl ti of steaming coffee. and a slice of bread, I which lie swallowed to my great satisfac- si lion, with a decided relish. U "I say, sis," lie whispered, as I turned Ic to leave, "if Iliad htad a good strong file, it I could get this 'ore chain off, anid then i'd ai be all right." w "I will bring you not only a file, but a lit goodi sut of clothes that belonged to my si brother that's dead, and an old sod wig from al the garret, to) disguise you with,' I an- k, swered "on one conidition only." ci "What is it?" lie asked, eyIng me curious- as ly- hi "Only this, that you gIve me your it solemn p)romise never to steal again, ino hx matter how poor or hungry you may be, Ut and to try and become a good and respect- si able boy.'' na A flash of brightness, visiblo even in the ct dimi light that struggled through the narrow w~ cellar-w,indow, passed over his wan fea- at tures, and kneeling dIown before me, he ws caught one of my hands, and bending over it, s'ow y briathed the required pledge. tL Fur three days, during which time, i< fortunately for my project, my father kept ua his room, the poor fugitive ren'alned in lisa s<. clingy retreat. Then when night came on, TI and I well knew the one constable our town la boasted was snoring comfortab y between a his blankets, I softly opened the oack door, Ct and let John Ray as ho called himself, out m into the darkness.a Freed from his fetters, and arrayed in w the nice suit I had givenm hin, lie looked so respectable, oven handsome, that I felt be never would be recognized, and, that lhe might not want for readly cash to assist bim on his way I pressed a long treasured at gold piece of niy own in his hand, as we p)arted in sober silence in the shandowy-- or doorway. Trwelve years came andl went. Misfor- at tune meanwhile had visited us in several ways. ci One wintry night our little shop and all it contained, together with our household ai goods, was consumed by fire. Later my re father's eyesight failed him, and hoping to '1 better our condition, we mioved to N4ew it York. al But we seen found ouit that theo great si city was alreadiy over-crowded with work- L era, andl in a little while we bec.une tI poorer than we had ever been before. u Hearing one day that a wealthy gentle-- hi man, who was about to make a long jour ney, wanting a respectable person to care p, for lia house during lisa absence, I hastened to apply for the situation. e I found him at his offie-a handsome, kindly-featured mian, seeming but a few at years older than myself. bi "Have you references?" he asked, on bt ruy statinag my business. n I produced a written paper, which our good minister had given. mno before I left tU the home of my childhood. A flush of pleasure overspread his hand--I tome feathres as ho road it.P "You do not recognize mes, 1 see," lie sa remark&. Icertainly did ud6t, and said so. "And you must remember John Ray?" I shook my head. In the many troubles kat had come upon us, the memory of the )nvict boy I once assisted passed entirely way. "If rou have forgotten me, Lucia Sum ere,' he returned, taking a small shining )ld-plece from his watch chain, "perhaps :u may remember this, the coin you gave ie one dark night twelve years ago. I d no occasion to spend it then," he went 11, "for I found work almost immediately, nd, sluce, I have kept it as a talisman gainst temptation and a reminder of the roudse I made you." "And why did you never let me hear on you?" I asked. I wrote to you nnce, but received no re. ly, and two months ago, when I found tyself the junior member of the firm whom had served so long, I went to your town > look for you but you had gone no ae knew whither. John Ray, prosperous and happy, went 3 his intended journey, but not alone; >r we were married soon after, and I ac )mpanled him, and my father also, for to purpose of having his eyes attended to y a celebrated French doctor. When his sight was fully restored, we ine back to reside in the beautiful home bich had come to us all through my timely d in "Breaking a Chain." . 9 A Maine Farner and Fisherann. It was the islander who was both farmer id fisherman, as a person uniting in him if the two most ancient and honorable rofessions, that aroused in Middleton the incipal Interest. Such a one could not ke the trips of two to three weeks with ie seiners of the coast fleet; still less could ) go the long voyages of the banke. s, to the lys of L'Escaut and Chaleurs, to Green nd and even as sometimes happens, to le coast of Iceland, for fresh halibut, here they join the fleets of Northern 'rance, the Netherlands, and tho Scandi, vians. He must attend the lobster-traps; it weirs for herring, menhaden, alewives, Ad 1i ackerel; keep drag nets and trawls; erhaps, if lavorably located, make a specialty of supplyhig bait, to the fleet, hich, now that it must be kept iced, if ten in great straits for it. Between times 3 runs to she for a day or two in his it-boat, his "Ilai. ton boat," or his gger. * The cat boat, it appeared, was to better sailor, since the more canvas in single-sail, the closer into the wind; but 1o flampton boat-a miodilled pink stern, ithshouider-of-mutton saile on its small asts-was the "abler," that is to say, tter qualified to stand the exigencies of I sorts of weather. The jigger,however, snall schooner of perhaps lorty feet long i ten feet beam, with a considerable hold, Ad a cabin with four bunks, a table, and rusty sheet-ihon stove 1(r. ard, seemed the nust available for general ,avoes, whether for taking a haul of lish, smacking" a load of lobsters, wood, or e, or hawking a load of apples at retail oml port to port, where they were a trity. A professional "dragger" carried nearly 1nile ol nets. They were straight and it very deep. The fish was meshed in !eam by the gills. Thus by the regulation the size of mesh only picked fish need taken, while the great purse seines of to fleet take everthing, destroy at every aul a value nearly equal to what is saved, ad tend toward rapid extinction of ihe Ih, as Middleton was told, besides having ruady reduced the average size. The trawl was another enghie of forimid )l0 havoc, against which there was equal >mpiaint. It Is the imethod in use among to bankers, except, on Ueorge's, wherj t tide runs too swift for anythiug but ly g to an anchor, and hand-lining over the Ut. Tho purse seine and the trawl are e twoInetnods of taking ih par exce nec. the fera er for the mackere', the Lter for all t hee. h ra of ga ea', sizet r. Wiat a itileton. saw a haawi, he round that it. as a long cord with hundreds of baited >oks 11xeti at intervals along it. It was ink so as to rest on the bottom, buoyeti both ends, anid left there. A trawler Jl>t great numbers or these lines' neatly 'eu in tubs, anmd set them one after ot.her. Aftier a sullicieat lapse of time, wean back to the lrst, and "underran" that, is drew up one end, passed it over a boat, taking olf the listh, and baitIng e hioolts anew, aud paid it out at one Cie as lie took it In at the other. The .athod pursued by the bankers was to rry twelve or fourteen dories, whien ore put, out when the fishing ground was rivedl at, with two men In each,provided ith t..bs of trawis am. discretion. It was the sun-cn.e'i salt-fish that was e larvorite artiele of diet in the islanders' )useholds, while very little account was ado of the fresh. Tkhae yotung people had mec merry customis of theIr own with it. hey repres.enteil that. If a certain p)articui rly sait strip in the centre cat ed the 'ean "l~ine," were eaten before going to d, the girl or the y oung man one was to arry would be indicatto by appearing in viin and handmng himn or her a glass of aiter. Sooene in a Nevada Oout-ltuoma. Billy Brown, a lad o1 ton, was put on the and and questioned. Trho court-"Did you ever take an Boy (positively)-"No, sir; I never took ything in my life." Mr. Hines (facetiously)-"Whati nlee TIhe spectators tittered, and the court, mad as a hornet, called them to order, marking: "I want mighty little of this 'nafore' business In my court." Just eni the daughter of the court, on the floor 'ove, wvas heard to disturb a piano and ng. ".Im called little Buttercup, dlear lit i Buttercup." Another laugh followed is Incident, and the court sent a constable > stairs to make the merry maiden stop ir vocal and iastrumental exercises. "Shut that girl off at once," was the urting injunction from the bench. The youthful wItness was finally allow. I to testify without being sworn. "You see," he began, "I heard a racket ad wont out. The woman was chuckin' Icks and cussin' like thunder, and the >ys was rtinnln' about the yard. The ght before I went down toWn," District Attorney-"Never mind about at." Witness-"Well I did go down town. can p rove it by' Pat.ey eveir there." To y)-"Didn't we go down town Pat Iere the room was called to order again,. d the lAor put off the stand. A Naval Horror. The Chillan transport Loa, purchased ait the commencement of the present war, was W blown up in Callao bay on the 8d of July. Ot The affair caused great excitement in Lima D and much gratification among the Peru- a vians. The plan was a diabolical one. w From the time the Clillan fleet had been II on the coast of Peru it has been noticed ti that the olicers and men were particularly n partial to fru:ts and vegetables, not being di always careful to distinguish between the rc market boat of a neutral merchant vessel Bt and the coasting boat of a Peruvian. This 94 fact impressed itself on a Peruvian officer, P and at last he hit on a plan to turn it to 8C sonie practical account. lie took an ordi- g nary fruit boat, put a torpedo in the bot- I tom and over this lie placed a false bottom tI resting on springs, kept down by the weight I of the cargo. lie then lo!ded It with a very choice assortment of camates, yucas, ellirinoyas, granadillas, fowls and turkeys, c green vegetables, etc., etc., and towmnLy it out towards the blockading squadron be fore daytight set it adrift. All day long rc that launch floated about, but the Chillans tt could not see it, until about live o'clock in " the evening, fearing it would fall Into neu- 't tral hands, a boat was sent out to bring it P1 back. The Loa was doing duty, and see Ing the boat from the shore muaking to- a wards the neutral vessel caught sight of the launch and at once turned towards it. lI Beeing this the boat from shore beat a hasty a retreat. The Loa lowered two boats to I bring in the prize, and it was brought gl alongside and the discharge at once com mnced. As the weight in the launoh was di diminished the machinery in connection i with the torpedoes was set free an(I in a moment three hundred pounds of dynamite ' were exploded and the Loa was almost P lifted out of the water. The effect, as described by those who were watching the f operation with breathless interest from the shore, was awful in the extreme. Every t house in Callno waw shaken to its founda tion and every Phl) in the bay shivered as though a feat ful earthquake had spent its w fury beneath them. The fated ship a) peared as enveloped in one mass of flame, which resolved itself Into dense clouds of h black smoke. When this cleared awiy she n seemed not to h%ve suffered; but suddenly ri she was observed to sink at the stern, while her bows went high in the air, and the Loa ci diappeared forever. gt at A Dissertation on Thumbhs. The female thumb Is said to be an un portant index of the female character, IA Women with large thumbs are held 1-y phrenologists, physiognomists &c., to be sc more than ordinary intelligent-what are II called senbible women-while women with small thumbs are regarded as romantic. al According to certain authors, who profess to have been observ-rs, a woman's hand is more indicative of her character than her a face, as the latter is to a certain extent un der the control of temporary emotions or of d the will, whereas the former is a fact which - exists for anyone who understands it to proflt by. Uonsequently a few hints about the proper reading of a woman's hand may ri be very useful to some of our readers, i especially marriedi men, and men contemp- 8t lating nuatrimony. Wonieu with square hands and small thumbs are said to make g od housewifes, and gentie wive:. These h( sort of wonien will make any man happy di who is fortunate enough to win one of them. li They are not at all romantic but they are what is better-thoroughly domestic, s women with very large thumbs have a toni per of their own, and generally a long a tongue. There is a hint in this to a lovey. t Let him, the first time he seizes hold of his it nustress' hand, examine, under some pro- t text or another, her thumb; and If it be 0 large let him make up his mind that as soon as he becomes a iiarried man lhe will have rc to be a good boy, or else there will be the ar very deuce to pay. Again if a young mania fInds that his lady-love has a large f paIn, with conae-shapled fingers and a small thumb, let him thank his stars-for In that C catse she, is susceptible to tenderness, readily at flattered, easily talked into or ouit of any- a thing, and can be a readily managed piartneri.li But if she is a woman with a square hand, a well proportioned and a tolerably developedi a thumb, why, then, she is either one of two d distinct classes of women-she is either ad practical female who will stand no non-t sense, or sIte is a designing female ; shme is one who cannot be duped, or a woman who ~ will dupe him. co A sad liating-P'into. fo Hall, in Austria, is a bathing-place fam ous for its iodine bath which is strongly re commended to those affected with sorofu-i lous d!seases. The fearful ravaiges of these disaases meet one at every turn--here a ini livid wretch, wrapped up and beiing drawn eri about ln a wheeled chair ; there some one gI, painfully supporting himself eon a crutch ; pi sadly Bitting under this .tree a woman, her ti head and face wrapped up, amansof scrofula, mi and many equally hoathromo sights. Nuamer- th eus are the suicides which here take place, ani for people put off coming tall hope is gone, fa and when they fInd it too late go to some y quiet corner and send a baullet through their on heads But the saddest of sad sights is the of children, of whom there are many suffering t,o in silence or crying with pain. No romp- of ing here, no shouts of pleasure, no games cx In the flektle, no rosy checks and sunburnt bu legs, but crooked limbs and suppurating tha wounds, a heritage from their parents- ha Th'ie little patients sit sadl andl downcast or oil walk quietly by their nu'rscs. Many of TI them suflfer iromi eye dIsease, and are led in about blindfolded. Hall is quito a modern tic "Bad," f.r although the sprmngs have flowed sai for ages--as records show-they were, un- foi til forty years ago, only used by peasants ret in the neighborhood. The waters are very powerful, and many a casuc dcspcratus has found a new lease of life through their agency; but they are limited in quantity, for their flow, alth3ugh regular, is incon- ris siderable. Hall can thius never become a an large "Bad," and could not siupply the to wants of more than 2,000 invalhds. About Pr half the number are they ntow. I ascor- fri tained on inquiry that one E~nglishmnan was ha taking the waters-they are bathed in and aei drank-and this gentleman andI an Amer.- trc can are the only two "Anglo-Saxons" who ed have been there for the 'last- four years. do Strange to say, the most numerous cern- Pr muality~ of foreigners Is that of the Russians, wi of,whom theke are many first-rate families. he Of the good Austriane and Hunararanus one " meets ln Hall somie of the Mone, Oodld an the stoned of thisanii.t haplin snaarkthey cit Out of Repair- But Thor*. Our cow was bought from sixty miles vay and appropriately enough she took eer-age passage in a steamer to get to etroit. The wharf is about a quarter of mile from the house and I stood there ith two or thyee of my neighbors who Ld kindly offered to help me home with ae cow. As the steamer rounded too, I >tieed that the cow had the whole lower -ok to herself and that there were guy pes from every tie-able portion of her to ationary articles on board. The passen -rs on the upper deck had a pleased ex Ttant look on their faces as if there was mething enjoyable ahead. When the Lngway plank was run out, the deck muds seemed reluctant to Interfere with io cow. The captain came down the r'ard stairs and shouted: "Let go her head line, slack up aft." "Aye, aye, sir," cried the sailors and the mnnd was obeyed. "Get a line out in front." One of the sailors took the original farm pe that was around her horns, and got on e dock. All the other lines were re oved, and as the cow began to look uadily at the follow out on the wharf, illing on the shore lie began to tremble, "Port her a little, and send her for'ard, Id the captain. "Port it is, sir," answered ove of the inds, as he approached the animal with club to induce her to port. Our cow Ml stood like a statub all the while, -Ing at the man on the wharf. Now she ade one wild wave of her horns in the rection Af the club person. He rapidly mbled over two barrels, and sprang bn a y goods box While the cow stood trl nphant over the club. A murmer of ap ,obation caie from the passengers, who ie perched up on accessible articles of ight. '';an I ba any service?" I mildly asked c cap)tamn. "Well, yes," said he. "If you could go 4 get a good serviceable coroner, you itil-I do us a favor, I think we'll need Moanwhile the passengers were showing >w the cow could easily be got out, but mne of them came dowdi to put their theo 3s into practice. "Make fast yuur head line," called the plain to the man on the wharf. He 6ve Lhe rope a couple of rapid turns oumd a projectirg timber. "Iow all hands aft," was the next com and and the boys gathered around in the ar of the cow. "All together now," was the cry, and a )zou nen gently shoved the reluctant cow oreiwards, while the wharf man shortened c rope around the timber. Our cow re lutoly planted her four hoofs down and ing back, but the combined force of the ow was too much for her, and she slid nug amid the cheers of tne passengers. iddenly she changed her mind, and made spring ts) the end of her rope. The wild appling of the pushers as they wenL )wn with the most astonishing unanint brought forth the heartfelt applause of e discriminating audience. By this ne the captain was on the upper deck aging the boat ahead, and I could see the issengers around hm coaxing him to %y and let them watch the cow sacrifice ose of us that were 1uft on the dock. One of my near neighbors, a big, power 1 young man, said that he would take mie the cow for me, that steamboat men d not understand how to treat cattle any. >w, and he proceeded to unwind the rope )in the timber. The wharf, however, emned to suit the cow exact4y, and she fused to budge. We tried to nhove her Dng as the steamboat men had done, but was too big a contr act. At last, one of e men brought a pitchfork, and while the pe man got ready for a tornado, he uclied up the cow. It was a brilliant ecess; Man and cow dIsappeared up the ad ini a whirlwind of dust. Everybody ang the route thought was a runaway; the DImen shrieked and the men climbed nces. We never expected to see eithe '' w or man again, lie, however, undez'> odi his businuiss. Hie let the infuriated hnmal drag him along until he reached the en gate, and then, with eiie wild bound, sprang ahead and gave the rope a turn ound the starboard gate post. The way at cow camne around was amazing. She 7 scribed a semi-circle very much quIcker anr Euclid could have done it. Bhe lay ere in a heap, panting and evIdently >nderlng how it all' camne about. "There's your cow," said my friend, vered with dust and triumph, as he closed is gale, flung the rope over her prostrate rm, "she may be somewhat out of repair Lt she's there." 'lhe inexhaustible usefulness of glycer. ' 3 has received another illustration by the~ action at the Kow Observatory of a reerine barometer. Trho advantages it ssses over mercury is that its indica ' >ns of minute atmospheric variations are r ro easily observable, and it is thought - . et for meteorological stations, collieries, di some ether such institutions, this- 4 allity would be of advantage. Glycerine ries an inch where mercury only variei e.tenth of an inch; but the mean height its column against the si' pressurie is onty-seven feet. A difiicut., in the use:\~1 glycerine occurred in the fact that Uth,~ posed surface freely absorbed moistur, t this has boen overcome by covring~ 3 surface exposed ini the olstern~ of ti".4j reoter with a layer of heavy petrosV#~ prepared especially for thep te barometer fixed at Kow has its.cI)" V a room below that where ta9 obse'~ ns are taken so as to obtain -the tid y Jength of column. About thre -" arths of a gallon of glycerie, coio I byv aniline, were reqnired to'fl ti{ Thme Urown Prau.e of German~ -~ rho Crown Prince of Get'many, 'lng at Kottbus.the otherd old aqqualn'auce in theorgw -thib greet him. To the surprise of ince went straight iup to hisha end, and shook him cord1Iily nd; then, turning to the wonderit nubly, in a clear, loud Voice said,~ --~ duco my drill-master to- you; tl ucated me." The objdet Of this monstration was moved tex tear. inco turned agin to hipi n ~i t)h hinde %r sorAmnuts -l