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1RI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., SEPTEMBER 30, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO.118 _____________________'_____________________________ OMING BACK. Tbey say if our beloved dead lKould seek the old familiar place. Some stranger would be there instead, And they would fnd no welcome face. I cannot tell how it might be In other homes, but this I know Oould my loot darling oome to me. That she would never And it so. Oftilme the fowers have come and gonn, Ofttimes the winter winds have blown, The while her peaceful rest went on, And I have learned to live alone ; Have slowly learned from day to day, In all life's tasks to bear. my part; But whether grave or whether gay, I hide her memory iti my heart. Fond, faithful love has blessed my way, And friends are round me true and tried; They have their place, but herii to-day Is empty as the day she died. How would I spring with bated breath, And joy too deep for.word or sign, To take my darling home from death And once again to call her mine. I dare not dream the blissful dregm; It ils my heart with wild unrest; Where yonder cold, white marbles glenm She still must slumber. God knowi best. The Way To Win. Edward Stone stood impatiently upon the top step of Uncle Dan's btately real donce. There was not the faintest sign of life anywhere around-the whole front part of the house was cloqed and darkened; and having rung several times without eliciting any response, he was about to conclude there was no one witbin hearng, when a head was thrust out of the upper window. "Young man, go round to the side door." Considerably startled by this unexpected address, the young man obeyed. Upon the porch, brushing away the leaves that covered it, was a young girl of fifteen. She looked very pretty as she stood there, the bright autumnal sunshine falling on her round white arms and uncovered head. Setting down her broom, she ushered him Into a medium-sized, plainly-furnish ed room which gave no indication of the reputed wealth of its owner. The young man took a seat,'brushed a few flakes of dust from the lapel of his coat, ran his fingers through his carefully arranged locks, and thus delivered him self: "Tell your master that his nephew Ed ward Stone is here.,' A faint smile touched the iosy lips, and with a demure "yes, air" the girl vanish ed. A fe .v minutes later an elderly gentle Vman en.ered, with inteligent, strong iark ed fetaures, and a shrewd look in the eyes, which seemed to take the mental measure of his visitor at aglance. "Well sir what is your bu.iness with me?" "I am your nephew." "So my daughter told me. What do yod want?" "I was thinking of going into business, and thought I would come and talk It over with you, and ask you to give me a lift." "What better capital uo you want than you already havel A strong able-bodied young man wanting a liftl You ought to be ashampd-ef yrsv'" What have you - been-doigli" "4~ - _, . .. Edwards face flushed with anger at this unceremonious language, but feeling that he could not afford to quarrel with his wealthy relative, he gave no other indica tion of it. "Saved nothing from your salary, I sup pose?" No, it's only five hundred; niot more than enough for my expebses. ' "Hlumphl You are able to dress your self out of it, I perceive. 1 have known men to rear and educate a family on five hundred a year; and if you have been unable to save anything, you certainly are not able to go into business on your own accourat. When I was at your age my in come was less than three hundrea dollars, and I saved half of it. What is the business you wish to engage in?" "Stationery and books, Six hundred dollars will buy it, as the owner is obliged to sell; a rare chance. I don't ask you to give me the amount, only lend it; I will give you my note with interest." "Young*man. I have several such pa pers already. You can have all of them for flve dollars; and I warn you that it will proNe a p-'opr investment at that. I can give you some'1good advice, though, which It yom follow wii' bo worth a good many times the amount yo'-. asked. But you won't dolit." ' "flow do you know that," said' iar with a smile, who began to feel more at home with his eccentric relative. "I'd like to hear it any way" "Well, here it Is. Go hack to your place In the store, save three dollars a week from your salary, which you cari casIly do; learning the meantime all you possibly can In regard to the business you wish to pursue. At the end of four years you will have the capital you seek, with suflent experience and judgement to know how to use it. And, better still, It will be yours, earned by your own industry and self denial, andc worth more to you that ton times that amount got in any other way. 'Ihen come and see me again." **You'd rather have my nioney than ad vice, I dare say," added Mir. Stonre, as Edward arose to go; but we'll b)e better friends four years hence than if I let you have It . Bit down, nephew, the train you have to take won't leave.untIl six in the evening. You must stay to tea, I want you to see what a complete little house keeper I have, and make you acqu1ainted with her." "Pollyt" he called out, openmng the door into the lI) In p it obedience to this summons a rosy che kd, bright eyed girl tripped in. Thoneat prinit dress had been changed for a pretty muerino, but our hecro did not fail to recognize her, and his face flushed pain fully as lie did so, "Pol,yi" continued her father, "this is your cousin Edward. He leaves on the six o'clock train, and I want his short stay short stay as pleasant as possible." "aPolly i. my little housekeeper'" he added, "turning to his bephew. "I hire a woulanfor therough work,hnd she does all - die r'est, When ahe's eighteen she willhave all the servants she" want% but she amt serve her apprenticeship first. It may stand her In good stead; she may take 11 into her head to marry a poor man, as her mother did before her. Ehl my girl?" Mary's only reply to this was a smile and blush. Our hero was considerably embarassed by the recollection of the mis take he made, but the quietly cordial greet. log of his young hostess soon put him comparatively at rest. At her father's request-who was very fond of his daughter's accomplishmenti -Mary sang and played for her cousin, and his visit ended in singular contrast to the stormy way it commenced. Edward refused the five dollar note tendered to hIn at parting for his traveling expenses. The old man smiled as lie returned th( note to his pocketbook. "He's a sensible chap, after all," he re. marked to his daughter, as the door closed after the guest. "It's In him, if it only can be l'rought out. We shall see, we shall see." "A good deal for father to say," wa Mary's inward comment, who thought hez cousin the most agreeable young man she had ever met. Three years later Mr. Stone and hie daughter paused In front of a small but neat, pleasant-looking shop, on the plate glass door of which were the wordtt: "Edward Stone, Stationery and Book store." It t3oing to early in the day for custom ers, ti'ey found the proprietor alone, whose face flushed with pride and pleasure as he greeted them. "I got your card, nephew, said the old man with a cordial grasp of the hand, "and called around to see how you were getting on. I thought it was about time I gave you that little lift you asked me for three years ago. You don't look much as if you needed it though." ."Not At present, thank you, uncle,' was the cheerful response. Curiously enough it is the same business that I wanted to buy then. The man who took it had to borrow money to purchase it with, getting so much involved that he had to sell it at a sacrifice." "Just what you wanted to do." Edward smiled at the point made by his unceq. "It isn't what I have done, though I've saved four dollars a week from my salary for the last three years, and so, was not only able to pay the money down, but had fifty dollars besides." "Bravol my boy," cried the delighted old man, with another grasp of the hand that made our hero wince. I am proud of youl You're bound to succeed, I see, and without anybody's help. I told your cousin Polly that when she was eighteen I'd buy her a house in the city. and that she should -furnish it to suit herself, and have all the servants she wanted, and I've kept my word. Come around and see us whenever you can. You'll always find the latch string out." Edward did not fail to accept the invita tion so frankly extended-a. very pleasant intimacy growing up between the three during the twelve months that followed. Our hero's business graw and prospered until he began to think of removing to a larger place. His uncle had given him several liberal orders, as well as sent him a number of customers, but said nothing more about assisting him in any other way until Christmas eve. Entering the rooni where Edward and his daughter were sit. ting, he said: "I musn't delay any longer the little lift I promised you, nepliew, and which you have well earned." Edward glanced from the five thousand dollar check to the lovely face at his side, and then to that of the speaker. "You are very kind uncle-far kindej than I deserve-but-" "But what, lad? Speak out! would you prefer it in some other form?" Edward's fingers closed tenderly an strongly over the hand lie had taken i his. "Yes, uncle-in this." The old man looked keenly ii em one t< the other. "You are asking a good deal, nephew, Polly, have you been encouraging thii young man in his presumption." "I'm afraid I have, father," was the smiling response. "Then go. my. daughter. I give yoi into worthy ketping, at d if you make your husband's heart as happy as youn miother did mine during the few sheri years that she tarried by my side, he wil be blest indeed." Eitt In Regard to Lightning. It is never too soon to go In the hous when a storm is rising, When the cloud are fully charged with electricity they ar most dangerous, and the fluid obeys subtle attraction which acts at a great distance and in all directions. A womam told me of a bolt which .came down hel when the sun was shining over head. 1T. P. Willis writes of a young girl who was killed while passing under a telegraph wire, on the brow of a hill, while she was hurrying home before a storm. The sad accident at Morrisania, when two children were killed, should warn every mother that It is not safe to let children stay out of dooers the last minute before the storm falls. People should not be foolhardy about sitting on porches or by open win dows whether the storm is hard or not. Mild showers often carry a single charge, which falls with deadly effect. It may ori may not be safe to stay out : it is safe to be in the house with the windows and doors closed. The dry air in a house is a readier eondiuotor than the damp air out side, and any draught of air invites it. A hot fire in a chimney attracts it, so to speak, and it is prudent for those who would be sure of saifety to useO kerosene or gas stoves in summer, and avoid heating the chimneys of houses. People are very ignorant or reckless about liahtnliig. I have seen a girl of eighteen crying'-with tear of lightning, and running eveiy other moment to the window to see jf the storm was Dot abating, unconsciouAthat she was putting herself in dangey' If every one would hurry to shelterAs noon as a; storm cloud was coming, anddff they would shut the doors and wmid(iwe, and keep away from them afterwaijd, and from wires, stove pipes, mantfs heaters and mirrors, with their slivere backs, which carry electricity, and kdiep away from lightning rods and their vicinity, and from metal water -spouts, With godrods 'on their houses they milght dsmiss the fear of hightning from %helr minds, so far as it is a thing of reason and not imprsson. What 1rains Bring. Our best authors have, as a rule, ii very little money. Some of thein, Longfellow, Lowell and Holmes, have independence without work. Emerson Whittier live very simply and plainly, this fact explains why their earnings port them. Hawthorne was very p.or til lie had been appointed Consul at Ll pool; Poe was always in pecuniary disti and would have been pressed by circum ces had his habits been provident. ] Stowe made by "Uncle Tom's Cab which, in the same time, has had a Ia sale than any other work since the inver of printing, not much over $10,000, though her publishers got rich by the w renowned anti-slavery novel. The most capable and industrious litt teur can seldom earn more than $4,0( $5,000 a year at the extreme, while questionably clever, energetic fellowe obliged to content themselves with f $1,500 to $2.000. A glance at some of best known and most popular authors, dent in or near New York, will show the ink they use is far from golden. The ran William Cullen Bryant was moderc wealthy; but he had not grown so his poetry or by any of the works to w lie had lent his name, but which he had written. He owed his fortune to his pa ownership of the Evening Po8t for the 85 or 40 years. Worth probably $500, or $600,000 at the lowest, andgetting $ 000 to $60,000 per annum from all sout it may be doubted if his entire literary v would have yielded him $20,000. Bryt love of dollars is wholly disproportione his professional capacity to earn them. has been writing in his slow, dellbei painstaking and painagiving way foi years-ho did the "Thanatopsls" at 18, has never quite equalled it since-and at no time could he have got $4,00( or even $3,000 per annum by the dir. et of his pen. While the publisher has 1: pered the poet might have starved. Parke Godwin, Bryant's son-in-laI a brilliant littmratem' as well as journe and is pecuniarily independent. lie his independence, however, to his lnt( in the Evening Po8t-he has had no i nection with it, editorially or otherv for several years-not to his literary tal The books he has published have retui him a few thousands of dollars, and his tures in the past have helped out his luco but he would have been poor deprive what the Post has brought him. Bay ard Taylor was one of our most pop authors-his books of travel have ha very wide sale-and he has been roni ably diligent with his pen from early yoi As a lecturer he had been extremely pc lar-he cleared $10,000 year before lasi the lyceum-having made more as a le rer than as author. Ils reputation traveler and a describer of travels did please him, notwithstanding it has t profitable. His high anibition was poi and lie was a poet; but the great public garded him as a traveler. We doubt il "Life of Goethe," on which he was engi for years, and which is excellent, him for any part of Ilia great labor. a liberal astimate, if the times were v they have been, Taylor miglit Lave I worth $70,000 to $80,000, much 2f wl he obtained from dividends on his five sh of Tribune stock. Taylor drew a j nalistic salary of $5,000. - Richard Grant White may be consid a successful author. He has been be the public over a quarter of a century, his t3hakespeare has gained him the titi scholar on both sides of the sea. It is deniably the ablest work on the dram that has been produced by any Ameri and lie is a man of large and varied cult He studied law, and medicine after gri ating, not with a view to practicing, bul the sake of Increasing, his kuowlei Now, beyond fifty, lie literally win bread by contributing to the daily l and the magazines; he frequently w editorials for the T imes and JEveninag I notwithstanding lie holds a position u Custom House at $2,500 a year. George Wilihm Curtis, one of the da est and most polished writers in the Rec ic, and yet a strong and positive inteli has been for years engag~ed on the per cal publications of the Harper's. writes the political editorials of the We< the Editor's Easy Chair of the Mtont I and until recently wrote the discursive, gant essays which appeared in the Ba over the signature of "Old Bachelor." salary iroum the Harpers is $10,000 a 3 whichi is one of the largest paid in tihe< He had but $4,000 until 1869, when death of Henry J. Raymond, and the d of the TIimes to supply his place, lad its publishers to oiler Curtis $10,000. ti. declined to become editor of the 'It preferring to remain with the old firm. members heard of the offer, though through Curtis, and immediately adval his salary to the figure named--as mnuch doubt, from fear of losing himn as fro sense of generosity. Curtis is a natil Providence, 11. 1., well bred and well Lcated. liinoea Though the Gorman admirality has elded that every German man-of-war si in the future carry at. least one machi gun, emainly for use against attacking Pedo boats, though, of course, such weapon would be also well suited it multitude of other purposes for which lig guns are generally used in navy warfa the particular pattern or machine-gun to adopted has apparently not yet been d nitely selected. At Jeast two Gen establishment have designed and constru edi mna-hine-g~uns which have passed s aessfully through a series of prelininary tra and which, it is reported, will now be ti in competition with one atnothecr and w~ several foreign pieces, suchi -s the Nord felt and Hlotchkiss guns, the latter of wh has now boon adopted by thq navies France, Hiollanid, Greece, theo United 8tat Chili, the Argentine Republic, Russiaa D~emnark. Th'Ie machine..guns of Gern manufacture are some of them Krup and others from the Witteiier steel foi dry. The Krupp weapon is in form of revolving cannon, consisting of four barn twenty-seven~ inches long, with a calibre one inch. The projectile weighs half pound, while the charge consists of tij grammes, or very nearly two ounces powder, the whole cartridge, including case, weighing 855 gramimes, or tweo one-half ounces, while the total weight the gun itself is 889 pounds. The Witte, naval nitralleuse has also four barre anid, like the Krupp revolving cann< thirows a bullet weighing a trifle over eli ounces, while the charge consists of bevei grammes, er two and onae-hAlf ouances, nowdai Gloves. id SkIns with hair on were frequently a ae in the Middle Ages, as according to and passage of M useonians quoted by Casaub and they had been by the ancients. They -frequently month ed as having been w Oun- by husbaudeon u England. Casaul uer notes the circumstance that the rustics ver- our day made use of gloves. There res, nothing In that passagu to show that tan- ~ gnta as was speaking of this country: he may v in,', possibly have seen it in ]'rance. In E er land, at any rate, "the monastery of Bi r c allowed its servants 2 pence apiece glovo silver In autunm," (Peggo MiI orld Carr.,) and at a later date, in Lanohian account of the entertainment of Qu . Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle, 1575, 0 to rural bridegroom had "a pair of harv un. gloves as a sign of good husbandry," U1 I r the coronration of Petrarch at Rome re the "prince of poets," gloves of otter-a our were put on his hands, the satirical real- planation being given that the poet, I that the otter, lives byrapine. The modern lad vote glove of four-and-twenty buttons has had 6tely prototype, for in the fourteenth centuryi nobihty of France began to wear glo h1ch reaching to the elbow. These gloves wo not at times, like the more familiar stockin rtial which they must have much resembl last used as purses. Notwithstanding t: 000 length, It was always looked upon as dec 50 ous for the laity to take off their gloves ce church,where ecclesiastics alone might w rork them. The custom still obtains in I ,nrk Church of England at the Sacrame d to though it Is plain that it had not arisen He this connection in the frat instance, eli -ite In the Roman ritual the communicant d< 05 not handle the consecrated wafer. It w and perhaps, regarded as a proof and ey yet bol of clean hands, for to this day perso or sworn in our law courts are compelled use remove their glove. There is probab oros. too, some relation between this feelli and a curious 8axon law, which forbai Is the Judges to wear gloves while sitting st the bench. The gloves of the Judges we lis like those of the Bishops, a mark of th rest rank. The portraits of the Judges, paint rest by order of the Corporation of London, 10 the reign of Charles II, and hanging the courts of Guildhall, represent thi Ont. with friged and ev ' roidered gloves. lec- was probably not in reference to the Judi me- that a cant term for a bribe was a "pair Sgloves." When Sir Thomas More m Chancellor he happened to determine ular cause in favor of a lady named Croak d a who displayed her gratitude by sendi ark- Jlim a Now Year's gift of a pair of glov< ith- with forty angels in them. Sir Thon ' returned the money, with the following 1 p ter: "Mistress:--Since it were against go tu- inners to refuse your New Year's gift tu a am content to take your gloves, but as the lining, I utterly refuse it. eon tie The Alammocu. re hIs Merely the sight of a hammock hung ged a cool and shady place Is ,efreshing, it mid pears so comfortable aud Inviting. At. hammock is not a sign of Indolence, rhat some who think that they have no tme seen res', except in the night, may regard it; Hich is rather an index of good sense upon ares part of the owner who is aware #hat in :ur- busiest life there are minutes that can best spent in comnfortab e repose. Even 3red the farm in midsummer theqe are half ho fore and quarter hours at noonday, or in and evening after the heat and work of the < 0 of is over, when the rest which an easy fiti un- hammock affords is just so much cl itist gain. Nothing that will give rest to can, weary body and at the same time dnv ure. the mind Is out of place lor the farm( idu- household. If there are children in for family, there Is nothing that can give th Ige. more amusement and comfort than a hr $ his mock. and the guests, whether of an h rss or a day, will not object to the pleas rites which it affords. Hammocks are not oat, pensive, at least they do not now cost the price that they once (lid, when they a imported and their use was less gene inti- Two or three dol,ars will now buy a v )ub- serviceable plain one ; those that are ela let, rately nmad< of course co'sting much me lodi- In hanging the hammock it should lie placed in the shade, either between i ekly trees up>n a lawn or up)on the piazza hi hig, by hooks or screw-eyes placed in ,ole- colums or posts. If more particularly zar, children It shoiuld be somewhat, lower t] His usual. For grown persong tl~e hook wil rear, supports the head end ihould be six I Dity. high at d that for the foot four feet ;1 the w:ll afford the most desirable position osire the occupant. The body of tne hamrn uiced should be nearer a he higher hook than 1 Cur- to the other, and this may be secured 'fee, using a thoater piece of rope on the h its end. Tihere has been iatroduced recca not a hammock hung to a portable frame ;1 iced frame holds up and occupies but very 1i a, no space wi:en not in use, Of cour e,: ua a most good things, the hammock may ro of abused-the comfortable re.st which it gi odu- may induce persons to remain too late of d ors, thus exposing them to the ch or damp air of the night, but thislIsnot fault of the hammock, andi no argurr ge. against Its more general Introduct,ion as ---of the wholesome comforts of the farn1 all dringthe hot months of summe or- I - aS a camipmeieting. a The a'n r a - Detroit are negotmal ght Two actors fro. white necktie. .rc, with a person in t.inger?"4 said the loat be "Who's the ma' efl, man. Gas charge of thearram man "A committee et- ments." i t the front of the hou Lie- "Weli, who's a >flie? We'd like to ala who's in the box '' led him." 'n mpreheond exal ith "I don't think 1 ., Dn- what-' 4ts in the left ick "We're after two s ? in parquet circle, D. H. ca' es, "Really, gentlemen 10' hv e ad "Oh), it's all right; e Vicker's an passes with Booth, and Mc l,evels p's --, you knowv John Ellsier, of t in- of coursec9" gno a "We want to get in D. H., you k i~ ole said the ether actor impatiently. sf . of "What may D). H. mean t" h ea a "Why, dead haeadh, of course; w/ rty pay to get in any show." 6u may t of "On, if you mean to go in, y/We che he seats where you please, free. .J ye nothing." of The actors looked amnr.zed. lpany ?" as ecr "How do you pay your con/ Is, the low comedian. 9term it lal n "Qar %opany, as you,' h 'tet fer r reward." H,and the lead y Urnd awa%: tuo guesa Into the Darkness. ied The ghost of a millionaire appears night 1he ly unto a widow and her daughter In the o sacredness of their own apartment in Ban are Francisco. When the spirit made its first yrn cull it attacked the furniture, tore down on the picture and groaned tor an hour, while of the mother's hair stood on end and the is daughter buried her face in the bedclothes. he After waiting during what seind an eter ry. nity for an interval of the disturbance, the lg. widow in fear and trembling struck a try match. Her amazement was unbounded. for Everything was as she had seen it at retir c, ing. The table that had apparently been 118 turning flip-flaps for several hours, was n standing in the middle of the *room with he the innocent expression it had worn when est she last saw it. Every chair wore its tidy on with the stiff dignity of a recruit on dress as parade, and seemed to resent the suspicion dn that it had been assisting in a supernatural Dx- high.jinks. Not a vase or picture was ke broken, notwithstanding the fact that the cB air had apparently been filled with frag its meants of pottery and tatters of canvas. ;he There was no slep for ' the family that Fes night, though the day broke without any r repetition of the strange disturbance. Pre g, cisely at 9 o'clock the next night the mys d, terious knock was heard again at the back olr door, and again the mysterious visitor in or- bare feet walked through the house. His in misery had apparently grown more acute, Dar for at every step he heaved a sigh and lie occasionally groaned so wofully that the 2t, widow, in the fulness of her womanly in commiseration was tempted to ask, "What ice is the matter with you?" The reply, it Is Ms alleged, came in the unmistakable voice of the departed millionaire, "Oh my soul M-' Oh! my soul!" The widow went to her ns Bishop and asked him to pray for her, but to he insinuated that she might be out of her ly head. When she wont hoie a fresh sur a prise awaited her. Her rosary beads, which de she had left hanging on her bed were gone. rn No one had entered the house during her re absence but her daughter, and the young re' lady denied all knowledge of the missing ad article. That night, however, mother and in daughter, as they lay in bed with quivering in nerves heard their supernatural visitor tell m Ing the beads as if in prayer. This was too It much for the widow's patience, and hastily e striking a match and lighting the gas, she of searched for the missing treasure. There ,as was no trace of the beads or the mysterious a devotee, however, though the ladies could Dr, still hear the beads and the sound of bare ag feet moving slowly through the door and into the darkness. las at- Snow at Great Attitudes DMes Not Melt, od o The reason why snow at great elevations or does not melt but remains permanent, is owing to the fact that the lie-at received from the sun Is thrown off into the stellar space so rapidly by radiation and reflection that the sun fails to raise the temperature of the snow to the melting point; the snow in evaporates, but it does not melt. The ip- summits of the Himalayas, for example, A must receive more than ten times the as amount of heat necessary to melt all the for snow that falls on them notwitfstanding it which, the snow is not melted. And in hie spite of the strength of the sun and the dry ;he ness of the air at those altitudes, evapora be tion is sufticient to remove the snow. At on low elevations, where the snow-fall is urs probably greater and the aiount of heat ,h? even less than at the summits, the snow lay melts and disappears. This, I believe we ing must attribute to the influence of aqueous Dar vapor. At high elevations the air is dry 'he and allows the heat radiated from the snow 'Irt to pass into space; but at low elavations a r's very considerable portion of the heat radi Lhe ated from the snow is absorbed in passing em through the atmosphere. A considerable in- portion of the heat thus absorbed by the )ur vapor is radiated back on the snow, but ure the heat thus radiated, being of the same ex- quality as that which the snow itself radi the ates, is on this account absorbed by the crc snow. Little or non11 0r it is reflected like rah. that received from the sun. The conse. iry quence is that the heat thus absorbed acen bo- mulates in the snow till melting takes >re place. Were the aqueous vajyor possessed be by the atmosphere sufficiently diminished, .wo perpetual snow would cover our globe img down to the sea shore. It is true that the the air is warmer at the lower level than at the f.'r higher level and by contract with the snow ian must tend to melt it more at the former Ieh than at the latter position. But we must 'cot remember that the air is wanner mainly in his consequence of the inilumence of aquieous for vapor, and that were the quantity of vapor ck reduced to the amount in question the dif t ms ference of teniperature at theo two positions by would not be great. ead . tyNo Bumsinesse ytreet lisa ttle Mogador, a Moorish town of Morocco, ike presents few "tourist sights.'' But an Eng be hali writer describes a negative one, the ves nzon-appearance of business in the streets. out The windowless streets are all narrow, lily somne long and straight. P'rivate houses, the merchants' warehouses, hostelies, all are ent of one generic type, save those found in one blind alleys and slums. In buimess quarters er's there is little or no appearance of business. .A caravan of camels is seen b;ringing nmerchondiso from Timbuctoo; the proces sion, which moves slowly, gravely, with silent foot, heighteuing our sense of mys Ing tery, suddenly turns down a gateway scarcely widie enough to admit it, Into the lug central court of a warehouse, and Is otit of sight. We follow through the archway, to ge- find these ships of the deserted moored to the quay with freights of almonds, gums so ; ivory, gold dumst and ostrich feathers, which see might be of little value, for they are tied much as we tie up bundles of waste paper, ~tly letting the paper be its own covering. The outer feathers of the b)ales are broken and ide dirty. Imagine London with all its drays out of sight in invisible warehouse squarest F'uch is the condition of commerce in Mo son gador. These camel trains are the poetry mid of trade, a living link to patriarchal and ndl, miodern times. They have a look of imi monso sadness, as though willing to close, y,"' their long-enduring history. Steel Pliates. vern It is reported from Sheffield, England, that heavy orders are daily coining in from ake Scotch and East Coast ship-builders for rge light steel plates. The introduction of steel into ship-building is causing an Important and growing trade, to meet the requirements ke of which Sheffield manufacturers are intro ducing improved machinery in the large er mills. Ing -The estimated pppulation of Ohio by the newr constus is about 8 200,000-a gin of abou, %000O sinoe 1070. Money by Telephone. "Say, miss," said a rather hard looking customer to the young lady in charge of the central telephone office, one day last week, "say, miss, I'd like to talk with Mr. Joseph Snooks a moment.' The lady called Snooks and turned the Instrument over to the guest. "I1ello, hello I Mr. bnooks W Snooks answered, and in the ensuing col loquy the lady could- of course only hear the hard looking customer. "Snooks, old boy, I can't come up for that money to-day; I'm too busy." "Eh V" "No, can't get away." "I know, but I'm sorry; I've got to meet Brace about your affair." "But I'd jeopardize all your Interests. L positively can't come. Can you send the money down ?" "Down here." "I don't believe she'll do it, will she?" "No, I don't know her. She's a hand some girl with blue eyes and light hair.. Know her?" "I'll ask her about it. Wait, keep your car there, miss, Mr. Snooks wants to pay me four dollars, and says for you to let me have the money. I'll ask him again to make sure. Snooks, did you mean for this fine young lady to pay me and charge it to you?" "Don't hear you." "Yes, yes, all right. He says, miss, for you to take my receipt and let me have the cash. ^ You afe to put it i this telephone bill. All rifht, Snooks, good bye, see you to-nerrow,' and he hung the mouth piece on the hook. "Fine fellow, Snooks, he continued," looking pleabant at the inanageross. "I never heard of sending money by telephone, did you?" "No," responded the lady. "Perhaps you haven't the change handy " "T es," said she. "You'll trust Snooks, I presume." Ie went on in a faltering manner. "Certainly," she replied, "if he says to let you have it." "You don't think the telephone would lie, doyou?" "Assuredly not. I'll just ask Mr. Snooks." "Ne, no. He's a sensitive lnu; lie wouldn't like to have so much fuss over a small amount. Make it two dollars and I'll give a receipt on account." "I'll pay anything Mr. Snooks says. I'll call him." "6i(ather than bother hin-again, I'll make it a dollar. Give me a dollar-" "But I prefer to call hit." "Aiss," said the man, "don't go near the wire now. There's a cloud coming up. You're going to be struck with lightning. Iather than that, I'd take fifty cents, a qu irter." "Ohl I'm not afraid," and she ap proached the instrument. ' Keep away from that wire I " he howled, "don't call Snooks. IIe miglt be struck. If you don't care for yourself, have mercy on his family." l ou needn't pay the amount at all. I wouldn't risk Snooks for all the money in Brooklyn." "1 shall either call biooks or a police man,"' salid the girl firmly. "Make It a policeman and I'll go for him wnysolf," shouted the tramp. as lie jumped over the rail. And then she called Snooks, who had been swearing at his end of the wire In the hope of making some one hear him, and told him It was all right, she hadn't paid the money. Only One srink. A good-nature Orinswold street lawyer, in Detroit, left his office unoccupied for an hour about two o'clock the other afternoon, and some of the jokers in the block went in and bilt up a reusing hot lIre in his coal stove. Ho came back with his hat in lis hand and almost dead with the heat, and was met on the stairs by a lawyer, who said : "This is the hottest yet. The ther nmometer in my room marks 120 dlegrees." ''Don't scomn possible though IL's a scorch er,'' .led the~ other, as lie went to lia room. He threw down his hat, took off his coat and began fanning himself tbut the harder he fanned the hotter he grew. Two or three lawyers came in and spoke about how cool his room was comnpared to theirs, and were greatly puzzled to account for it. Several offers were made him to change rooms, and pretty so>n lie grew ashamed of appearing so overheated, and sat down to his table. In five minutes lis shirt collar feil fiat, and in ten ho hiadn't any starch In his shirt. Trho perspiration ran albout in oveiy direction, and he scoemed to be boiling, when one of his friends looked in and reimarkedl: "Ah! old1( boy, 1 envy you You've got the coolest roomi in the block." "Say," said the law yer as lie staggeredl over to the door, "I'm going home. I never felt so queer in all my life. 'While I know that the room is cool and airy, I'm so soaked and boiled that I can't lift a hand. One drink of brandy wouldn't act that way on a man, would 'it ?" "Th'lat's just it," whispered the other. "Brandy always acts that way, especially if you drink alone. You ought to have known better." "So I had--so I had. Don't say a word to tIme boys-I'll make it all right. I thought something must ail me. and I was a little afraid I was going to be sent for. I'm glad it's nothing serious I'll be back in about two hours." The Hutory "r tU,e Tomato. It Is a popular faluacy unit the luscious and health preserving tomato has its orIgin as an article of food in this country. But while there is some reraon to believe it was first found in Sout ii America, it was evidently cultivated centuries ago in Mexico and Peru. Dodoens the. Netherland herbalist, mentions the tomato as early as 1588 as a vegetable to be eaten with pep per, saht,and oil. It belongs to the night shade family and was used in cooking by the Malaya more thana a century and a half since, it is extensively raised in South ernm italy, and employed there asan acomn pament to niearly every dish, particularly to macaroni. IBut neither there nor any where else in Europe, is it commonly eaten, as it is here, separately and in quan titles. In England:it isasparingly produced, requiring a hot bed in the spring, and in consequence is high priced. T[he italians formtrly called it golden apple, and now call it love apple as it was once designated in this country. The appearance of the tomato on the table has greatly increased in Europe withm a few years, but in no land is it a regular dish--much as it is used for a sauce abroad-as in the United States, where it is also pickled, preserved and FOOD FOR THOUGHT. There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explaia.. tion of our gusts and storms. The violet grows low, and covers itself with its own leaves, and yet of all flowers yields the most delicious smell. Such Is humility. We spend half. our lives in making mistakes, and waste the poor remain der In reflecting how easily we might have avoided them. It is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy ; it is the looking down with contempt upon those below them. A white garment- appears worse , ith slight soiling than do coloredgarments much soiled; so a little fault in a good man attracts more attention than great olences in a bad man. Let every youth set out with a fixed determination to engage in business for himself, and let him put his determin ation into practice as early in life as possible. The truest help we can render to an iffluted mnan is, not to take his burden froml him, but to call out his best strength, that he may be able to bear the burden. Life must be m asured by action, not by time; for a man may die old at thir ty, and young at eighty; nay, the one lives after death and the other perished belore lie died. 11; is difficult, I own, to blend and unite tranquility in accepting, and en- 4 ergy in using, the facts of life-but it is itot impossible; If it be, it is Impos si Ale to be happy. When we speak of obedience we r-hould always speak of faith first. Atith is the first and fundamental act of obedience. Faith Is the mainspring of obedience. Tho wor: that Is to tell in Heaven must be that which is done on purpose fur Heaven. The work that is done for earth goes down with us to our graves. Faith, like light, should over be sim pie and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every Mde and bend to every necessity of our brethren. 31oudy preached two hundred and seventy-five times in Baltimore and thon gave it up. The Marylanders thought themselves sufficiently recon striuted already. Mr. Spurgeon asserts that an old minister once said to him: "When L see a young man want to preach, I al ways feel a wish to take him by the throat and try to choke him off." We are persuaded that all men wunt the best thing there Is for them. I re Ilgion is the best thing, as we believe it is, as soon as they can use made to see and feel that fact they will live religi ously. "What is eternity T" was a question once asked at the Daaf and Dumb Insti tuIton at PAris, and this beautiful and striking answer was given by one of the pupils: "The lifetime of the Al milghty." t The heart will commonly govern the head; and It is certuin that any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men; there fore, the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. ' he greatest mistake Moses ever o mr mitted, in the opinion of the Rooheste Denocrat, was in not being present when the light went out. A little fore thought on his part in this respect would have saved thousands of ques tions. It isa great and glorious thing to be a self-made man, and partly because in very many cases it takes a vast respon sibility from the Lord(. The chief diffi culty with such people, however, is that they are ver y apt to worsbip their miakers. 4 Men or women who turn to Christ4 must bear in mind that they are break ing with their old master and enlistingd under a new leader. Conversion is ,;tj a revolutionary process. The noblest spirits are those which turn to heaven, not in the hour .f sor row, but in that of joy; like thi lark, they wait for the clouds to disperse that they may soar into their native element. Love may be likened to the sun un decr whose influence one plant elabora tes nutriment for man, and ainothor poison; and which while it draws up pestilence from the marsh and jungle, and sets the simnoom In motion over the desert, diffutses iight,life anid happiness over the healthy and cultivated regions of the earth. Tihey wito are wise unto salvation know feelingly when they have done best that their best works are worth nothing; but they who are conselius that they have lived i-tofiensively ndy have in that consciousness a reasonable ground of comfort. .:) You meet ian tnis world with false7 mi-th as often as with false gr'avity;* the grinning hypocrite is not a, mo d' uncommon character than, the.'a lag one. As much lignt d:ro comes from a heavy heart as f ~~ hollow cine, and from a full min4~ from ain empty head. 0 The farmer likes a field that %is with corn, not one that grows wtr' splondent pnppies; lihe likes grape Is pure grass, fit for the service f boast upon tihe hilhs, not that Whio~~ mixed with buttercups. 80 wher '' go to the sanotuary it Is not flowotBwEg . want, to be a bouquet of beau -V food to sustain our souls and atregi~4' us ior the toils and trIals of thew The Sabbath was nmade for'w made it for men in a certaint~ij~j state, beause they needed. t~1~ need, therefore, is daeply.14~4 hunan nature. Hie *ho ee withn it must be holy and a deed(iAnd he who, still unii--W' unspificuah, would ylet dispense - is a in n that would fain be his MaKen - After all, the coinmon huaai character wilL be toxid ~*r buted In muoh tho *amd jpU6I every wher-e, and in inoit p144 -h ~ wilt bo a spelnkling oif ta -l ones. .Evprywhere -~ 'ite An e d4et -- eris jje6 fl4.