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TR,' ,I-WEI EIIN - WINNSBORO, S. C., OCTOBIER 2, 18.VOL. IV.-NO.17 WHAT NATTER. - Whatmatter, friend, though you and I May sow, and bthrs gather ? We build, and othersoeotipy, Each laboring for the other. What though .'tou fr4 'nun (6 stni And men' fostget to flater k E - The noblest work our hands have done it God appie- e, what matte'r ? What-vn'atter ihouh we now in leari, And crops fail a the reaping ; What though the fruit oftpattem years Fast perish in our keeping ; - Upon our hoarded treasre, floode Arise and tempesta gather If faith beholds beyond tho olonils A gleart r sky, what matter ? What maittr thoumh 'out oastle- fall, And disappear whi'e building; Though strange handwriting on the wall Fame out amid the gilding; ThonL h very idol of the heart The lind of death may sba'tor; Thongh bores decay and friends depart If heaven I a curs, what matter P Mr. Russet at Saratoga. When the doctors recomeuded six weeks at Saratoga to Reuben Russet, they possi bly didn't think of Peinie Joyce. Doc tor's are apt to be men of one idea Mr. Rus set's digestive apparatus was certainly out. of order; but little MissJoyce's heart-that was quite another thing. Mr. Russet was a young theoligical stu dent, with pale brown hair, an intellectual face, and a slight stoop in the shoulders. Pennie Joyce was a fariner's rosy-checked daughter, the eldest of a large family of children, and one of those thrifty girls who understand the whole theory and practice of housekeeping from Alpha to Omega. To become a minister's wife was a visible promotion to her, and she exulted in it, in her quiet way. But to be separated from him for six ,whole weeks -that was a trial. "The time will soon pass, my love," said Reuben, in the slightly patronizing manner which he affected toward Pennie. "Yes, I know it will dear,'' said Pennie, valiantly tring to smile. "And 1 shall write-every day." "That will- be so good of youl" said Pen nie. "And really, you know, Pennie. a man whose mission is to reach the soul ought to have a little knowledge of human nature." "Yes, of course," assented the girl, "And where can one obtain it so well as at. one of these great human hives where the fashionable'world congregates?" "To be surel'" said Pennie. "I only wish you were going," lie added, affectionately. Pennie sighed softly, 'iOf course that Is out of the question," niald she. Farmer Joyce shook his head when he heard the dictum of the medical mal. "Saratogy, indeedl" said he. "I don't believe Saratogy is a bit better than our spring down by the Maple grove. I'd von ture Reub Russet'd be well enough if he'd go out and weed onions half an hour every morning; and besides, I've lecrd there's a lot of temptation at a place like Saratogy." "I dare say," said Ponnie, with mild superiority, "for some people. But Reuben la above that sort of thing." "Humphl" said Farmer Joyce. "I ain't so sure of that." "Father how can you" crie4 the indig nant girl, bristling up 111c a hen-canat y. "Human natur' is human natur',whether Its at Saratogy or any other place,'' stoutly iantained the farmer. Mr. Russet went to saratoga and took rooms at a fashionable boarding-house, near the Hathborn spring. He walked lip and down the elm-shaded paths withl twojlittle, devotional books, of a morning, listened to the band, and studied out telling sentences I ru possible sermons, in the afjernoon, and edged himself modestly late the glhttering halooms of the monster hotels at night, when the Glermnan was in fuil tardbr. "Merely to study mny fellow-creatures!" said Mr Russet, as lhe adjusted his eye glasses.* "Such a delightful studyt" said Miss (-usliington Gordon, who blazed with jewels, and wore long-trained Akirts, such as Mr. Russet never had beheld at 1(asp. herry Vale. MISS Giushington Gordon had the best room at the house, the largest wardrobe, and the most brilliant necklaces. Rumor called her a great heIress, and Mr. Russet found her very agreeable. She had big, purple-blue eyes, hair of the real Romaucgold, a complexion which was undeniable a work of art, and a soft, languid voice, whose syllables dropped ti-om her lips like globules of silver. "Life is such a vacuumi" said Miss Glush ington Gordon.:' "My experience exactly?" said the young theological stucient, who was fast losing his head. "At least," cerrected .the beauty. "I have always foundi it,so until now. But your grand grasp of sub~jects, your reiad ing of the book of existence has somehow awakened me to a new gense of things? " Mr, Rasnet grew red to thme very roots of his hair,with a pleasurable tingling. "I am but too proud," ho stammered, "If I have succeedecd In unraveling any pro blem which--" "Ohii" cried Miss GIushington Gordon, "have 1 said too much?' Pray, ipmy for give mny impulsIveness! I an the creature of emotion?" She put out a little, sparkling hand with bewitching frankness to the apectacied atui dent. Mr. Russet gave it .a'gentle presure, nd forgot to drop it again. That was the first dlay that lie omitted to write to little Penelope .Joyce, at the red farmhouse in Raspberry Vale. "Hhe won't be so foolish as to expect a letter every mail," ho said, a little tnn p~atiently. At the end of six weeks he came home. Pennie met hum at the railroad, with her dimpled lika put up for a kiss. "I may as well tell you, at once, Pen ule--" lhe began. But just then Deacon Oberne camne up, withithiat-vise-hiko hand-grip of lia, and tiere was no chance to say more until they parted at the croesstoeds, by the mill. "Perhaps It is just as well," saidi tihe theological student,to himself. ' PIll write to her that I haye changed kny muind' and en gaged myself to . Antoineite ;Gushington Goldon. 1 ought to have *wrjtten from lBaratoga, but omie dreads to send ,euch, a etter.n MU. Ru86et felt as if he had behaied verylnuch like a scouiidtel, now that he was -remove'd ftom the magnetic influence of, the. heiress and her jewels. tiq IBut ot course," he pleaded before the is tribunal of his own conscience, "a man de voted jto my professfon should select the o @phere 16 wlbe he cAn do the most good. t And with Antoinette's wealth and poeltion, ra I am morally certain of rapid advance in th thq world. 1 . But, somehow, the letter would not get to Itself written., To do a contemptible oa tio,^, h6e thiing to. confess 'It boldly to e one's tellow creatures, Is another. Two or three days passed, and still Reu- tn ben slinset could not bring himself to tell. or Pennie Joyce about the Saratoga heiress, i with the puvple-blue, eyes s1 d the low, te silve1-syllabled voltej, . of Pennie watched him, wistfully, no "He Is changed," she admitted to- her- fo qelf; "but of course I could hardly expect him always to he just the same. Only- PC on1-" Cto And the tears came Into Pennie's eyes, a she scarcely knew why, and she blamed til herself for being "such a foolish little goose. ri But one -sultry 1sismmer 'evening, Mr th Russet did forde-hinself to write the letter -a vague, mysterious sort of missive, con- tin taining only one plain fact-that he was be engaged to Miss Gushington Gordon. th And. as lie wrote it, he felt more and be more what a fatal mistake he had made Ia So givigig up Pennie Joyce's true, womanly al< heart for the artithcial smiles of the Sara- to toga, elle. tu - As he folded and sealed it, the land- tk lady's little boy handed in the evening in mail--two papers and a letter. rig A letter from one Ernest Valdez. whose hit acquaintance he had made at Saratoga- se an idle, gobd-humored young fellow, with th no harm in him, and a deal of latent It good. lt Mr. Valdez wrote: "We are progrssing much the same as tli ever. We drink the waters, we criticise Di the music, we watch for the incoming ro trains. By the way, you surely haven't tal forgotten that tall girl at your house, with ov the curious pansy-colored eyes and the ov ipagnificently-dyed heir? Miss Gushington W Gordon, you know? 'Well she has turned Tr out a humbug-an imposition-a stupen- TI dous fraud. It seems she is only a lady's- tir maid, the whole time, and she has been ab skillfully masquerading in her mistress' ws wardrobe, during the lady's absence at the Col sick-bed of a dying relation. ho "Mrs. Montague has come back; the 'daw in borrowed feathers' has been stripped of her gay plumage, and Miss wa Gushington Gordon, with her imitation coi diamonds, and second hand airs and graces has disappeared entirely from the arena. qu "Some say she his been arresi ed; others an declare that Mrs. Miontagde hae forgiven co her, on condition of her retirement to her ke native place, in an obscure English town. thi At all events. she has vanished from the far stage of action, and the places that knew of ber once now know her no more." ha Three or four closely-written pages of m<' gossip and clever satire followed, but Reul cal ben Russet never paused to glance at these In He sprang from his chair with an excla- fee nation of relitt. m< "That Providencel" lie exclaimed, "that I am no longer bound to false-hearted, col hollow pretenderl Little Pennie is worth 1101 ten thousand of her." lie tore up the letter of confession, and wa went straight to spend the evening at the Pu Joyce farmhouse, and innocent little Pen- lut nie never knew how nearly that season at " Saratoga had eost iir'her love'. - . on As for Reuben Russet, lie is a wiser if n014 sadder inai. And he wants no more sh< lessons in human nature. awl sic Early History of Minnesota. see cal The name Minnesota is an Indian name, Ion signifymng ."cloudy water." Minnesota is scl the thirty-second State in the Union. The it first European who set foot in Minnesota the was 'Louis Hlennepin, who in 1080, In a Ini company of .French fur-traders, ascended fom the Mississippi to the Falls of St. Anthony, bhi to which lie gave their name. In 1703 one this region was ceded to Great Britain, de and in 1766 was explored by Captain loc Jonathan Carver, a native of Connecticut. we In 1788 it was transferred .to the United thi< States, as part of the North west Territory, of In 1819 Fort Snelling was established. A fisI few years ago, as my mother was going yel from Minneapolis to Mankato, she met, apo lady who was over 'seventy years old, who li saidi her husband was 'one of the first sol diers sent to the fort. She, with four other ladies (wives of the soldiers), visited a their husbands that summer (1819), and int they were five weeks going from Prairie co du Cien to the fort, on flat-boats. In fom 1828 the first steamboat visited Minnesota. en: Between tise and 1830, a small colony of abi Swiss settled at Mendota, near St. Paul. In 1888 the Indian title to lands cast of the Mississippi was extinguished. In 18483 a settlement was commenced at Stillwater;' on March 8, 1849, Congress passed an act organizing $he Territory' of Minnesota, its Western boundary being the Missouri river. At this time the population was ci between 4,000 and 5,000, amci it was duly organized on the 1st of Juno following, In 1851, unmigrrqtion was. commenced in earnest ; and so rapid was the increase of population, that on February 26, 1859, go Congress passed an enabling act for its admission as a State. The provisions of the act were complied with, a constitution (under which the State is still governed) was passed anid, submitted to the people, Fa and members of Congress elected the following October; and on May 11, 1858, Minnesota was formally admitted into the Union. A Curious Faset. Bands of music are forbidden to liay on tel most of the large bridges of the world. A an constant succession of sound waves, especi ally such as come from the playing .of a good band,wililexcite the wires to vibration. go4 At first the vibrations are very slight,' but I 5 they will increase as the sound waves con tinue to conic. The principal reason why bands ate not allowed to play while cross- s(31 ing certain bridges, the suspension brldte' at Niagara, for instance, is~that if followed by processions of any kind they will keep gol ~top withn the inu8.ic, az)d'this aegular step art would cause the wires to vibrate.. At the' suspension bridge military companies are ndt allowed to to march across in regular tin step, but break ranuks. The regular trotting gart of a large dog across A suspenusion b lridge is more dangerous to a bricgge than th<~ a heavily loaded wagon drawn by a -team aw of large horses, (Gli Four Men Againt One Fish. Among the many and versatile attrae ins of the Maine cdast, swordfish catch Slie the most conspicuous. The business a large one, and many schooners and ops beat up and down the coast in search the monsters. The vessels differ from e ordinary ones in that on the bowsprit a ak is built called the pulpit, and in this e barpooner leans as he throws his lapon, a long, ironbarbed lance, attached which is a rope 200 feet long, the other d being tied to a barrel or keg, which Is rown over for the fish to tow until ho is ed out. Then the fishermen haul him board. This is the old style of sword hing. For three weeks, a party of four )n rusticated at Biddeford Pool, and en 'tained the visitors with marvelous feats strength and agility. One day, a sword herman appeared at the pool, and he was rwith hired by the party, with the special oviso that they should do all the har oning. They set sail. Lots were drawn, decidewho should be the first harpooner d the luck fell upon Charles Mettam, 3 tallest of the party. A plank was ,ged along the deck, and on the way to D grounds the new harpooner practiced a piece of a gaff-topsail boom, and every se he struck the bull's-eye.- They had en out about an hour, when the man in 3 foretop yelled out, "Fish on the port " and sure enough to the windward, nething like a knife was seen cutting t mng through the water. Mettain rushed the bow, where he slipped, but for sately fell astride the jibstay. This lit isimtake was rectified, and the harpooner C position, and In a moment the fish was ht ahead. "Wait till you are right over n," whispered the Captain. The looner* shot ahead, and in a moment more I iron shot into the back of the monster. was a dead shot. The monster rose at At five feet from the water, and shot ay n a cloud of foam. "Look out for " linel" yelled the Captain. Messrs. iffy and Lyman were mixed up in the Xe-.-the fornr losing the leg of his pan oons and the latter being almost hauled erboard by the rope that was running c er the side like lightning. "Get out the at," and over the dory went, manned by eifdwell, Duffy, Lyman and Mettani. Ley scorned the idea of letting the fish 3 out by .owing the keg, and took it 5ard the dory, her bow half under the ter was rushing along, heded' for the r tat of Spain, at rbout forty miles an tir. "Get to the windward," roared Duffy. d "Where is it?" responded Mettam, who a half drowned by the water that was ning in. b It was necessary to get somewhere right ick, and finally they all got on the stern b I tried to ball out; and here it was dis- 11 rered that Knox's hats leak. The fish ft the race up for an hour, going right f ough everything, leaving the schooner behind. But at length he showed signs giving out, and an attempt was made to il in the line. This started the sea- V nster again, and after a short heat he med down. The line was gotten vell hand, and at last they got within twenty t* t of the fish and he was seen to be a k inster. "Hold on," says Lyman, "don't let him ne any nearer," as the big fish gave i irish. a 'Pull him in," yelled Treadwell. who h 8 in the stern; but the fish had all ihe Ling on his side, and gave an angry Ni ige, and under went the gunwale and the c ter came pouring in. Off went the fish h se more. . 'Cut the rope," shouted Duffy, as he iok the water out of his watch. lut they hung ono for an hour, the ord-fish fooling around the boat, occa nially making a slash at the bottom. it a ied about a month before that schooner a ight up with them, and it was a hard king crowd that climbed aboard the tooner andl threw the keg overboard, and s not yet dIeided wvhether they caught, fish, or the fish caught them. summing up the dlamages it was nd that Mr. Mettam had suffered a ck eye through the agency of some ,'s elbow mn the scufile. Mr. Duffy was ned out in a pair of one legged panta ne, wvhile Messrs. Lyman and Treadl LI had swallowed water enough to last mn over forty days.' However, the hands tihe vessel here took a hand, and the a was hoisted on boardi and found to be y large. It weighed eight, hundred r muds, and the saw was over five feet "Weii I.au Glad." l'he man who has returnedl from a trIp r a the country, for a couple of weeks, i nies back to the city fully realizing that i a week or so he will be complelledh to ~ lure a sort of squeezing process worked lF )ut as follows: "Ah! ha! been alway, I hear?" ( "Yes." "I lave a goodi time?" "Yes." hi 'Family go along?"' 'Yes." 'Ahi! that's too bad, IlInd a good tiume, o a Yes." bi 'Pick iup any lesh?''" "Yes." c 'Did, oh? Then you must have had a c xl time. Catch any fish?" 1 "No." - ti 'hlave any bites?" f 'No." h "Then you must have had a good time. mily return at the same time?" f 'Ahl So you didn't caitch any fish?" a "No."m 'Feel lixe going to work again, I sup- a 'Yes." 'Then you must have had a good time, 1 tI I you it helps a mian to jump out now a I then. Go hunting any?" . "Ys. "Did eh? Then you must have had a v i timse. Plenaty of flies and mosquitoes b tippose?' t Al! Well, how dad you enjoy your- d 'Oh, pretty well." . ui 'Did, oh? Then you must have had 'a hi >d time take It all around and you o glad you went?" j 'Yes." ,.I 'Well, that's good.' No you had a good 1i -Yes." 'Well, I'm glad. Good-bye. 1 always g uight you'd have a good time if you got si ay. Ill be in to see you some dnay. nm Ld you had a good time.' 1) The Fatal Black Bean. George Jones, father of the late Coun1 loannes, was an English chemist, who, ibout the year 1818 emigrated with hhi Nife and three children, of whom Ueorgo was the oldest, to this country. His brothei was but 4 years old, he only 0, and tis sis. or a baby in her mother's aris. The ves, el was an old sailing ship, fitted out afte he ordinary nethod of emigrant vessels I1 hose days, was a bad sea boat, and, meet, ng with terrible storms In the Atlantic we* iriven out of her course, and with diticul. y kept above water. When at last the veather moderated it was found that the orovisions, of which there had been an in uflicientquantity at the start, were running hort. Everybody was put on short allow, ace, but when at last, the ship was on her rect course for Boston, whither she was iound, a further reduction had to be made. rhis was soon again reduced, and at last here was no food left on board, and star. 'ation stared the crew and passengers in he face. Driven desperate by hunger, the rew putinied, and the Captain could only ecall them to their duty by agreeing that eans should be drawn fron a box, and the ne upon whom the black bean fell should le killed for food for the others. Officers, rew and passengers, women and children, verybody on board, were included in this orrible lottery, and with heavy hearts the antished emigrants came on deck to par Icipate. The beans were all wrapped in lieces of paper, and It was agreed that one of them should be opened until noon n the (lay of the drawing, so that, if uring the two hours that intervened, a hip or land were sighted, the doom of the rawer of the fatal black bean might be verted at the eleventh hour. The Captain ras the first man to put his (and into the eati box. lie drew It out, and unable to taster his anxiety to know his fate at once, e tore off the covering, and discovered a Fhite bean. lie was saved, and as the of cers, one by one, drew beans from the ox, tLiy followed the Captain's example, ulled off the paper, and showed white cans. Tile Prst man among the crew who amue down from the masthead, secured a rite bean, and resumed his lofty post. Iter the crew had all drawn, the black ean still remained in the tiox, and it 3emed clear that the victim was to be )und among the passengers. They drew y families, and comparatively few beans 3mained in the box when Mr. Jones with is wife and children, advanced to take leir chances. The father and mother row white beans, and then the little boy, leorge, was led to the box. lie scarcely amipreliended the full nature of the terri le ordeal he was undergoing, but le lunged his little hand in and drew out a can. His father hastily snatched it front iil, and was about*ro tear off the paper rhen the shout of "Land ashorel" came *om the masthead. Amid the tears, laugh. ,r and feeble cheers of those on board, Ir. Jones cast the bean into the sea, and ,ie future Count never knew whether it ras a white or black one. But the Jones uilly were not destined to escape un )athed from the lardships of that disas ous voyage. Before the land that the een eyes of the sailor at the masthead had iscerned far away was much nearer, the ttle eirl had died in her motlher's arms, of arvation. Soon afterward, the youngest )n, Richard, showed signs of failing Intel !ct, and before the passengers landed, he as violently insane. He recovered in >me measure after a few months, but the ount used to say that up to the time of Is death, lie was subject more or less to iental depression and mild lunacy, the re ilts of his sufferings during those elghty ve days. As for the eldest son, George, ho lived to be the Count Joannes, lie was uite blind when he went ashore at Boston, id six weeks elapsed before lie regained 5 sight. A Ilay's Fishing and What we aught. "What can we do to-day, uncle ?" I turned at tile question and found my If facing two good-looking young fel ws, agedl about, eighteen and nineteen, 'li hlad arrived the night, before at my rmn, In Vinehmnd, New Jersey, to spend a 'eek's vacation. "Do!" I exclaimed, as I called their Ltention to the exquisite tinting of clouds Ithle eastern horizon, preparatory to the sing of the King of D~ay, on this most per. ,ct, miorning In early .July. "What say ou to a run cover to Blarniegat and a day's shing?" "Excellent!l" Capital!I" camne the lady responses; and the two students, esh from college, tossed their caps in tile ir in delighted anticip~at ion of the sport. hearty breakfast, well-packed basket of revisions [or the (lay, and we were off >r the rallroadl station, some half a mile Istant, just in time for tihe (down train to arnegat. A short, impatient. journey by rail rought us to our (dstination, where we rere not slow to (discover an 01(1 skIpper rithi lis tiiny yacht, wvho accomnmodated ur p~arty, and with all necessary acces >rles en board, we were soon1 afloat on tile osom of the broad Atlantic. We had retty good luck for a few hlours, but the Imief fascination wias the great variety of the itch and the curiousness of some of the vmg specimens (If tinny tribe drawn from ieir native element, which gaye occasion >r all the placatorial knowledge possessed y my young companions. lBut the sport begani to grow monotonous romn hauling In a long succession of porgies, lueish, flounders and weak fish, and was nly relieved when one of the boys landed douible catch. is 10oud exclamation of stonishiment called the attention of our Iptain to the line, but that old fisherman's uzzled sir was equal to our own. One of io fish thus landed on the deck was oiily n ordinary blue fish, but the other con sted, as nearly as we could see, of an normous cavern of a mouth, set all round 'ith rows of terrible fangs, the rest of the ody being dlispropor'tioniately small and perig ab~ruptly to a large wide tail: In let the whole fish except the mioulth, was Isgusttingly ugly, simy and mud-coiored, it all over with hardpointed knobs or >ines, In various stages of development; Ia eyes were vertically elongated, looking it alnmost at the top of lis head or upper w, and a pair of fan-like fimns, fastened to rg~e projections from the body, that looked ke stumpy arms. lie had caught the blue sh In his terrible mouth, and got into Iiflculty with tile extra hook, and as we ized lie rolled his wicked-looking eyes In ieming agony. Suddenly our .captain re emberred hearing of this speceds of II!ph 'lag cauth in the o~l country, anrd there called the wide-gab. Forthwith he enter taned is with a story he ha4 heard of one of the kind being taken with over fifty young herring in its stomach. B3ut here -one of otr amateur diseples of old Isaac Walton, after puzzling his not dull brain for some moments, recognized it fully, from descriptions he had read, as the great Angler of Lophius. W. then made a close and careful exa mination for comparlson with lchthyola gical treatises; and found dangling from all i its sides a sort of fringe of fleshy matter, the object of which (except to add to the hideousness of the most deformed creature) we could not possibly conjecture. Sprout ing out of the top of the head were. three long filaments, like minature flag-ptaffs,the foremost of which bore a thin streamer of flesh'(looking like pole, rod and line ready balted) The monster Is said to be a very slow swimmer, and would not be able to get a mouthful to eat, even with its enor mous mouth, if it had to outsWim its prey before catching it; but its method Is differ ent. Burying itself in the mud or sand at the bottom of the - water, it gently moves the long filament which serves as a fishing rod,and with the tempting- looking streamer which answers as a bait, quietly angles for its dinner. Some unwary fish, attracted by the delicate-looking morsel moving about, is enticed withn reach, when by a noiseless movement of its side arms or fins, the Lophius engulfs its prey in its huge mouth, as a mran would use a hand net. "This," exclaimed my nephew, "is cer tainly the angler of the naturalists' des. crilition; it answers exactly. In fact," he continued, "the whole fish is a mass of gristle and ituscles, and Is all organized with reference to,and for the sake solely of, the terrible nouth. So that this 1Ish would furnish the best type of greedIness and rapacity, in the whole book of Nature. The upper jaw is capable of some degree of protrusion, and in opening the moutlh the lower jaw is thrust forward insted of being lowered,and at the base of the upper jaw a sidelong motion is put In operation by which it appears possible that the Ang ler might be able to swallow a prey almost equal to its bulk, to which also the wide gullet can afford a passage, and the stomach a welcome; while the skin of the body is so bose as to allow any degree ot disten sion without inconvenience, and the sides contain no ribs that could offer any resis tance." Our specimen was just three feet long, and its breath across the widest expansion of the fine twenty-three inches; bat our captain persisted the specimens of the same tribe taken in European waters sometumes measures between five and six feet long. After this wonderful catch, the ordinary dwellers of the briny deep seemed too ordinary to further intenest us, so, draw ing our lines, we bade the captain hoist sail, and for a couple of hours were borne along by a delightful fresh wind. our empty basket and the state of the water in the ice cooler, gave evidence that the inner man had been amiply satisfied. Tired and happy, heavily laden with large strings of fish, the result of our sport, we erossed the weather beaten hand of our skipper with the "siller bright,!' and, after a pleasant little car ride, reached the farm just as the shades of evening made the early suunner twilight most enJoyable, bearing with all the pride of the hero the singular captive, which had furmshed us with such 'a plea sant, proof of the "works of the Lord, und his wonders in the mighty deep."' lie Was Going to ienver. There is another fool who talks loud in the cars, and by the same weknow that the only time lie ever left home was when he went on a cheap excursion to Philadelphia and carried a lunch in his pocket, lie has the silver-fever, and is going to Denver. This fact lie announces as soon as the car starts by biddhtg good-bye to his friends, aiid telling themu in a voice like a hotel gong to write him all the news, and re miember lia p~ost-oflice will, be D~enver, Colorado. Hie goes at once to the newsboy, and while buying a five-cent cigar informs himn that he presumes he can't get as good cigars in Decnver as he can get here. Theli newsboy at once makes an estimate of his foolishness and says: "Going to D~envcr, are you?". "Oh, yes," is the responiso, as if it were an evervday occurrence for him to go them 4. And the nedsboy marks himi for a victim and plies him with pasmp~hlets and1( candies, applles and oranges, and reck. oneth up his profits that night at 10 per cent, advance over prevIous days. lie who Is going to Denver returneth to lis scat and informs the man in his rear that "plies of fortunes are to be made in Colorado." "Goig there?" asks the passenger, not for informatIon, for that has bceen given, but to test the young man's foolishness. "Oh, yes,' lie says. lHe leaned forward to thme man in the fr-'nt seat and says, "hlow far are you going?" "Pittsburgh. Ilow far are you?" "I'm going tolDenver." "You are." "Oh, yes." Th'Ie conductor comes along and takes his tIcket. "D~o I get a train throgh o Dnve assoon as I chiange?'" "Ys Gig oDne! "Ohi,yes." And the conductor winkethm andi the paisengers smile at, his conceit. Bunt the time of re joieing (omeoth when the passenger in the f'ront seat gets off and his place is taken b~y a main who Is not at all curious. To himn sayetii the young man for Denver: "Pleas ant weather," "Yes.,, "Probably it is cooler in D~enver?" '-Probably." "il find out In a few days." Nio answer. The young man feels ais if lisa importance wasn't re cognized andl makes another attempt: "I s'pose there is a pretty good chance to make a fortune in Colorado? '"I dlon't know." "Well, I'm goIng there to find out." Another silence, during which the passen.. gers look out ot the front window and smile. Tlhme young man draws a long breath and starts in again: ''Not many fellows who'd go so far from home andl depend on thieimseves for a living." Then silence be comes oppressive, but the young mn Is p~ersevering. lie leans over, taps thme man cn the shoulder, and says: "You'd better go along to Denver with me." Thea the passenger wakes up and lie says: "Thun-.. (der young muan; P've lived in Denver ten years!" And the passengers weep not: neither (10 they wall, but verily they feel that, theIr (lays are full of fun andl pleasure. AU rn uscular power, w hether of man or of other auiiials, may bus traced to the same source. Animals get theIr food eithier from plants. or irom other' animals that have fed upon) plants; and the plants owe their, exisence to the sun. Thie anaumsd ia a mamehiue, like the Steam-engine; the food whleh It oats is the fuel that keestenahn in a ertinn. ..cp h jcin Capture of Andre. The snallest.schoolboy knows that Bene. dict Arnold had made terms with Andre to strrender West Point to the British, and bad prepared despatches for the British commander in New York giving detailed information of the condition of affairs In the department that the traitor command ed. it was while returning to New York, as a private citizen on horseback that Andre was captured and the despatches found. The spy was eventually exectuted. A re porter having made inquiries a short time since among the old residents of the county has gleamed some inforia tion of an interesting character which had been handed down from their ances tors. FrorM Caleb Van Tassel of King's Bridge; Henry Romer of Pleasantville, and Alexand Van Wart of Tarrytown, the following history of the capture was ob tained: On the eventful day, Paulding, Williams, Van Wart, James Romer, John Yerks and Stephen Van Tassel were sent to guard the roads against cattle thieves. Paulding had been a prisoner for sevend iontlis in the British caa) and had es caped four days previously and was attired principally in British uniform, the rest be ing dressed in ordinary rural style. Pauld Ing and his two compainions stationed them solves on tho Albay foad and the other three took charge of the W.hite Plains road, which branched off the Albany road half a mile northward and led eastward, each party being stationed about half a mile from the forks of the two roads, and being in a straight line over half a mile apart. About ten o'clock in the 'norning, while Paulding and his companions were sitting on a rock, playing a game of cards known as "seven up," they saw Major Andre coming down the road. He stopped at the brook to water his horse, and Paulding's party approached him. Paulding, who was the spokesman, said; "Good morning, stranger. Which way are you going?" He thought lie h1 ad found'a cattle thIef, but when the man spoke like a gentleman and said he was going to White Plains 'on important business for Oetieral Arnold," Paulding's opinion was changed, and he quickly replied that lie guessed he had niissed his road. The mian n seemed to be a little confused, and Paulding sali, "Which patty (to you belong to?" "To your party,' said the ian. "llow do you know which party I be long to?" said Paulding. "I can tell by your dress," said the man. "I suppose, then, you belong to the lower party?" said Pauldng. "'Yes," s11(1 the man. "Then we must detain you," replied Paulding. "I cannot be detained," was the answer. "My business is urgent." "What business have you with the lower I party?" "Oh, I belong to the other party," the 1 man said, and exhibited a pass signed "B. 1 Arnold," requesting the safe passageof I "John Anderson on important business." Paulding and his party held a brief con. sultation on tile propriety of detaining hii and were in doubt. Andre, seeing this, started his horse forward and had gone about three rods when Paulding coiiand ed him to halt. The mian stopped and 1 beggel to he allowed to proceed, but Paulding said that as he was going toward I the lines of the lower party lie should take himi in custody. The atin then offered Paulding's party hi8gold watch, which was a curiosity to the ruralisis, to let him go. They refused the bribe. Then he oftered t to secure for Ieian any amount. of nmney they might nme if they would conceal L him and conunicate with such parties as c he directed and then liberate him upon re- i (,i)t of the ransom. This they declined I and ordered hin to dismount. Upoin 3 searching hh1n they found nothing and were C sonmewhiat, in dioubt, abouat their right to in terfere, wheni Pauldong cointanded him to take off his boots. Th'ie man thn turned i patle. In his stockings were found the a desp~at ches froini Arnol. "'My God," said( i P'auldiing, "hIe is a spy!" On making this t discovery they startedl for North Castle, s near White Plains. They wet to the forks of the road and~ turning into the Wite Plains road with their prlsoner they miet the Romer party, to whomi they imi p~arted the informnat,ion alreadly given. It a was agreedl between the six meon that Andre should be dlelivered to Colontel Jaimeson, at North CasLe. It was thten about noon and they stopped1 for dinner et the Landrinte place, antd Andre was placed in a room un der guard, and the room in thaut htouse, which is sti standing, is called "thme A ndre room.L" To Colonel Jaineson's camtp the1 prisoner and the evidence against hiim were delivered. Ills watch, horse and p~ersonal prioperty were all sold and their value di vidtd among the six men'i. Boon after An dre's arrival- he wrote a letter to Arnold, andl Colonel Jamiesonsemt a miesenger with at to the traitor, to Whom at was delivered, the 0o(1 tradlitions say, while he wvas eating uinner with General Washington, near Tlarrytown. Upon reading it,, Arnold hastily left thme table, saying lie had ima- y portant business "to attendl to over the river," ando (departed. Taking a small1 boat r be~ow Tarrytown andl rowing to tihe Baitish ~ iloop of war Vulture, he was never seen again in the Americani lines. TIheo trial and execution of Andre are well-knownr Iisoricaj facts. The JOarty Utising Delusion3. 5 For farmers and those who live In local- y Lies where people can retire at eight or nine ni feclock in the evening, the 01(d notion about c early rising is still appropriate. But lie g who is kept up untIl ten or eleven or twelve o'clock anid then rises at, ive or aix, a becautse of the teachings of somec old dittyg about "'early to rise,'' us commiiittlig a sini I against, his own soul. Trhere is not one g moan in ten thousand who can afford to do I1 without seven or eight hours' sleep. All t the stuff written about great men who d slept only three or four hours a nIght, is 5 apocryphal. They hiavo been p~ut upon such small allowances occasionally and a prospered; but no man over yet keptheal- ti thy In body andi mind for a number of c years with less than seven hours' sleep. If a you can get to bed early, then rIse early; p if you cannot got to bed till late, then rise ~ late. It may be as proper for one man tot rise at -eight,. as it ia for another to e rise at five. . Let the rousing bell he rung by at least thirty minutes before your pub- r lie appearance. Phys )ans say that a e sudden jumli out of b'd giyecs irregular 11 ototohepulses. It takes hOurs to I get over a too sudden rising. - . C The household tas keeps a baby cau e nalford to sell its alarms clock very chean. a FOOD FOR THOUGHT. How mad it Is to hope for content ment to our infinite soul, from the gifts of this extremely influite world. People who' can not hearnily love and hate will never command the first or know the clearing infiuende of the latter. When a man dies, people inquire what property lie ht.s left behind tiina. Angels will ask what good deeds lie has sent before him. Without a bel of in personal immor tality, religion surely ia like an arch resting on one pillar, I ke a bridge ending in an abyss. He who would amass virtues, leaving out the guardian virtue humility, i8 like a man who leaves a preclons dust exposed to the wipid Believe, and if thy falih be right, that insight which gradually trans. mutes faith Iuth knowledge will be the reward of thy belier. Nothing does so fool a man as extremne p sloi. This doth niake them tools a. 'oh otherwige - are rot, and show thean to be fools that are not. Tempo.'al afflictions hide those eter nal ble-sings to which they lead, as tenporal eijoyments oftet) .over those sternal evils which they procure. You meet In this world with false inirth as often as false gravity; the grinning hypocrite is not a more un oninon character than the groaning ane. If thou art a vessel of go.ld and thy bkrother one of-wood,be not high minded. It is God that maketh thee to differ, and ;he more bounty lie shows the more umility le re'quires. The Wate fMilts on all creatures; .on aerb, bush and tree; and each drtiws ap to its own leaf and blossom aedor. ling to Its special kiled, , S falls -tle .Dii (lie aw on the mapy-hearted A, r! d. - -aproff red succor from heaven Poes past us, because we are not stand ng onl our watch-tower to catch the .ar oil indications of its appruach, an1d o fling open the gates of our heart for ts entrance. As boys should be educated with mnpgrance, so the first greatest lesson hat should be taught them is frugality. [t is by the exercise of this virtue alone hat they can ever expect to be useful nembers of society. Life's lessons are cut and carved on hibgs nannimate-seen in the leaf, and lower, painted on the landscape, chan ed in the inurmuring brook, heard in he viewless wind, revealed in a passing loud or ilitti ibdow. We are led ie belief of a future tate, not 'only by the wQaknesses, by he hopes and fears of human nature, mt by the noblest and best pr'neiples vhich belong to It, by the love of vir nu, and by the abhorrence of vice and nj teice. Whether perfect liminess would be >rocured by perfect good ness this world vill never allord an opportunity of' lec'ding. But uhis, at least, mkay be naDitaned, that we do not hlways find rialble happliness in proportioi to vis ble virtue. Religion Is the highest m1.oral author Ly in human roulety. j see in religion ot the mystery of the icarnation, but lie mystery of secial order. It con ects with heaven an idea of equality vhich prevents the massacre of the ich by tihe poor. E'very one is forwiard to complain of Ie prejuidices that nislead other men r purt (is, as if lie were tree and had one of his own. What is the cure? 4, oiher than this, that every mai holild let alone others' prejnidices and xamiie ll.; own. Tihcre is ini man's nature a secret int lination andl motion toward love of' 'there, which if it be not sp.'nt upon (1me1 One or few, doth naturally spreadl tselIf towvard miany, and maketh men ecome humiane andi charitable, as Is ccen soaietames in friars. T1o hear complaints is wearisome like to the wretched and happy,-for hio wvould cloud by adventitious grIef' lie short gleams of gayety whieh life Ilows us? Or who that is sti'ugglinig nider lis own evils will add to them lhe miseries of another? Trhose who have already all that they an er J.)y must enlarge thelrte-ires, le that built for use, till use is supplied lust begIn to build for vanity, and ex unid lis plaza to the utmnost power of lumnan performances, that hie may not oon be induced to form another wIsh. 'Tle art of spreading rumob s, ay be omnpared to the art of pin-mak'ing. 'oere is usually some truth whiona I 11 the wire; as this passes from hand e han I. one gives it a polish, another poinat, ohiers make and put ona the ead, and at last the pin is comipleted. Avaurice is a u ,iform and tractable lee. Other intellectual distetapers are ifferent in udainrent constituations 9( .atd; that whien soothes the pride of ne wvili effend the prida of another; ut to the favor of the covetous' there a ready way---bring money and othing is denied. He that lias munch to do will do some trong, and of that wrong mnst suffer lie coiasequcecs; and if it were pea ible that ne should alwaysa act rightly, et when, such numbers are to judtge of is conduct, the bad will censuare and batruct him by malevolence and the ood sometimes by mist ikes. A star Is beautiful; it afforda pleai. ye, not from what it is to do, or to lve, but simply by beIng what it is,, t benefits the heaveans; it, has con-, ruity with the mighty space in which d wells, 1t has repose; nbt force dia tarbs its eternal space. It has free. om; no obstruction lies between it nd infinity. A man may smoke, or d. ink, or take - nufi, till he is unable to pass away his Ime without it, not to mention how ur delight in any particular study,. rt, or science, rises and improves in , roportion to the aplIcation -which we estow upon it. ihus, what was . 4t ret an exercise, becomes at lelgth ani ntertalpmont. hociety ts like a lawn, where everya oughnese l sm9Dtth~edvepyy .bramjbles radicatted, aind where the eye is de Ig yAosmilgng verdgre of~aivol et'ate. He however, who woulbA ~tud aie' t *ildne a(1 yar.. yuspuneinit the foest, uast xp~lore the glen, m.est sta timei totrent' nad dare the precipice.