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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., OCTOBER 23, 1880 VOL. I.-NO.128. "AUOUST." I saw hr travorsing the world In the firast flushes of the morning; Her bodie wOs of woven gold, And golden was her whole adorning , With lightsome toot she wandered down Thro' sunlit spot, and dim receses, And on her brows a regal crown Shone dim above her golden tresses. I saw her through the meadow ways At dewy even home returning, What time the sun's declining rays Upon her coronet were burning The winds In admiration hushed Their veaper carols in her honior; And, overhead, the apples blushed Tuat front their branches looked upon he Along the road, as daylight waned, The cattle drew the laden wagons With thirsty lips the reapers drained The harvest brew from wide noutheJ flagon And when athwart t'er jeweled dome Low rode the silver moon thereafter, The chorus of the Harvest Rome hang underneath the farm house rafter. Mrs Blyster's Romance, Mrs. Sims' boarding school was a hlg building and it stood on a hill. My rooi was In Its third story and I had often a looking out over the city from its "sirhtly windows (as Peggy the maid called them The hill was nearly conical in shape ari terraced on two sides, my side being one u them. At the foot of the hill ran a broad handsome street, and on a prominent co: ner of this street, in plain sight from m windows, stood a large, rambling old mar slon, about which we girls had wove many a romance. We wondered who live there. Ladies and gentlemen promenade through its pleasant grounds: carrlage rolled up to its wide gateway many time every day; professional-looking gentlenie went in and out of it. What could it be One day I found out. There was great excitement that day in Mrs. Simi boarding school. I had been feeling ill fo some days. My head ached and my tongu was (ry and hot. The doctor said at )aI that I had the scarlet fever and must be re moved at once. "Better take her home, he said. "She isn't fairly sick yet." "Homel" groaned Mrs Sims; 'Doctoi she lives in Indial" "Good Graclousl" said the doctor, an he scratched his head thoughtfully. A last he said: "I have it! Here's Dr. Dol by's hospital right down here-just th place for her." So I was wrapped up an driven to "Dr. Dolby's Hospital," whic proved to be no other than the dear rami ling, romantic old house which, with it wildly overgrown but delightful schrut bery, had so long been the object of ou speculations. They put me bed to In a large,quiet roonr The open tire looked wonderfully pleasant A quaint, old-fashioned tea service, wit cherubs and gillyflowers and various oth< incongruous designs on it in blue, sa appetizingly on the round table at my bec side. Three or four easy-chairs were mir gled among the others, and in one of then after I was nicely "tucked up," and read to go to sleep, I behold - yawnin already and casting wishful eyes towar her own white cot near by-my buxo nurse, Mrs. Blyster, who had been er gaged expressly for me. How fat and good-natured she looked And how the white cot creaked when sh finally sought reposel The next morning I was worse, and fc several days I tossed in delirium and pain but by a week more the fever began t abate and Mrs. Blyster said reassuringly: "You hain't dead yet, miss and what more you haiu't a goin' to be-not wit Sarah Blyster to see to yel" Then goo Sarah Blyster gave me a motherly kiss o my forehead, fumbled over my alread painfully tucked In bed clothing in an a tempt to express still more lorcibly he affectionate zeal for my welfare, and am down with a sort of good natured grunt the back window. I closed my eyes arid was just about fal Ing asleep when I was roused by a hali suppressed sob. "What's the matter?'- I said, falntiy. '12 see happy Mrs. Blyster sobbing and I tears was too much for me. "She's dead, miss; the woman 't livesi the little house back. They're a hevi her funeral this blessed minute." "A friend of yours?" I was hnpresse almost to tears miyself by Sarah Blyster' manner. "Law, no?'' said the lady, starting u and assuming her own radicant countenant again. "And what I'm a whining aroun here and giving you the blues for, I'm sure I don'tknow. Cheer up,Sarahi Blyste1 cheer. upl" I -smiled faintly and soon droopesi o into the nap whichi Mrs Blyster's sob ha interrupted. A day or two after Mrs. Blyster wm "snivelin," as she expressed it, again b the back window. I was stronger an better now, and asked, cheerfully: "biot another funeral I hope Mrs. Bly: ter?" "No," sAid that worthy lady, still unabl to attain her wonted serenity; "but there a boy-her boy, I s'pose--workln' muce inside, and he- and lie-lie's a shakim out her clo'es and a-foldln' enm up, and does seem 'a If some o' the female relativi oughter be a-helpin' of 'cm" Surely it did. There was a considerab pathos in thme way of stating It, in spite the female relatives," which only' showc that Mrs. Blyster had mingled much I scenes of woe herself and knew how th( ought to be conducted. "I wouldn't look that way," I said sootl Ingly; "try the other window." "I did," said Mrs Blyster, "but my eyi would go that way somehow-cverythlr shows so plaiin from here. There wias black alpaca, as good as mnow. I see h< out In It the very (lay I come here to tal care of you, She took sick the very no: day, I reckon, for I see her curtain wi down and the dloctor there, and~ now think sihe's. deadl, and there's that alpat dress a remindin' thecml" And Mrs. lBly ter sobbed again. I had been sitting up for sonie im "I'll lie down, now, Mrs. Blyster," I sali hoping to divert the good creature from hi sorrowful reflections. And In arranghm my bed and getting the cherubs and gll;~ flowers set in order for iiy tea she forg the alpaca dress aiid its departed owne But only tempoarily, for, two or thr< days after, sitting solemnly and almo tearfully again by the window, she .begm in the tone which people use when tht are telling the "narticulars." "You jest ortersee them, miss,,'-for had utterly refused to glance in the dirt tion of the grief-stricken horse-, 'it's touchin' like. He's a siften' the ash now ,miss. She done it that first day come. She had on an old caliker-th give it to the woman next door afterwai and she then slcked up her kitchen and : on the alpaca and went out a-callin' somethin'. She seemed to think a lot her neighbors and they of her. I se th had a houseful at the funeral." "Mercy!" I exclaimed, quite out patience with Sarah Blyster's prying d position. "You shouldn't be looking in their windows, Mrs. Blyster; it io polite." "Humph!" said thegood soul, with sor ' spirit, "I ain't a-lookin' an at their wi dows. I see it all without lookin'; cal help seein', they're so close and low li1 and I've seen a sight o' trouble and deat ; and it ain't to me as it is to a giddy you thing like you," and with this "crushe Mrs Blyster went out to take my tray. The next diy the doctor sent her out take a walk and she came In radiant. "I went by the front of that little hons you know, where she died a fornit ag Jest as clean, you never seel Them ti men must a' scrubbed the steps and fro theirselves. An' such a nice rag carpet ( the front-room floor, an' the clock a ticki on the mantel-shelf. Myl it must be awf lonesome without her!" And Mrs. Blysti drew her face down dolefully. Ah, la Mrs. Blyster's heart was getti enlisted. The dear old house, if it w only a hospital. was not going to be wit out its romance after all. "He goes to his shop every morin'," sal Mrs Blyster, Irrelevantly, as she brighten up the fire a day or two later. "He? Who?" I asked stupidly. I Mrs. Blysmr started like a child caug at the cookies. 8 "I jest see that man over there," au I she nodded in the direction of the bac window. "I see him a splittin' some kn ling an' then a goin' off to his work. rayther guess lie's a carpenter, but meb! its a mason, or mebbe its a shoemaker." "Sure enough!" I rejoined, "But wh difference does it make to you, Mrs.Bly terg" "Law!" said Mrs. Blyster bridling; "yc haven't no interest in you fellow-ben'i Now here's a poor man, as likely a man a I've seen,this many a long day, gone an a-lost his wife-the deerest creetur to hi prob'ly in the world." And Mrs. Blyster voice choked up. And you haven't a inore sympathy with him than nothin' the world." There was an eloquence of reproach this whichquite silenced me-though feebly protested my innocence-and th r subject was dropped, r unday, however was the grand day ft . Mrs. Blyster's observation, for then ti "inexpressive he"-it was a real trial her that she did not know his name-w r at home all day. She speculated on li *t name a great deal. 4"There's a bearin' about his mien," sa - that lady with some sentiment." "1thi seems to sorter show he hain't got no con Snon name; now [ know he hain't got i name like Smith." I "I'm afraid we never shall know," Li said, soberly; "I'm getting well very fa - Mrs. Blyster." "Yes you be!" said the good soul, givir I me an affectionate hug. "I es you be; a a I'm glad enough if it do put me out of job. But likely the doctor'll get me he r again," , "Oh, yes!" I said; "but what do y< o think that man's name is now?" Mrs. Blyster returned to the subject wil 8 evident alacrity. "Likely 'taint nothin'like Perkins?" Al J said interrogatively. The Perkinses we Ll a great family, who lived near by in Y grand mansion. "ou know I haven't seen ham," I sari Shalf ashamed of drawing out the dear, o creature just for my own amusemen ,"Perhaps it might be Crippen." TI Crirpeu's lived further down the street ani though not so aristocratic as the Perkine -had cla~ims to consideration. "That just about suits him," said got Mrs. Blyster, with some enthusiasm. "M Crippen! That sounds quite like hilm. declare I'm asbamhed at my age, buit rair as 'tis I could really almost put on ar gums and go out. I feel so kinder anxiol to git hold of hia name," I couldn't help laughing. "Mrs. Bly ter,' I said, "I do hope you will kno somec day, and if I ever find out I'll t< e you." SSomething in my manner quite mjurt "ihe f'pose you think I'm silly," she sai( In a hurt way; "buit indeed lhe's a ye Snice man." d "I know he is, dear Mrs. Blyster," saidl penitently. 'lAnd l'm every bit Searnest, and I want you to promise to mal me some of that famnous toast of yours I night. Alas! I fear I shan't have mui more of lt"-for I was almost well. Ti kcleared good Mirs. Blyster's face In momnent, and she hastened to set ouat t) e cherubs and gilliflowers and ran to get t] Stoaster. T iwo dayslater I was to go. The bills we ~paid and the carriage was ordered, at tSarah Blyster and I were sitting before tl a~ pleasant fire having a farewell chat, whi sudenly in burst one or the maids. e "Mrs. Blyster," she said, in an agitati f voice, "the doctor wants you right awa d Tr here's a carpenter lives back here on ti n little back street and he's fell off a roe y Ohi it's awful. I saw him, and mebbo he get well and mebbo he won't." a- Mrs. Blyster's rosy face grew perceptib paler and her comfortable hand felt co as as it touched mine. g "It's him, miss. Mr. Crip-" si a checked herself, "buit likely that ain't ii ar name. And, miss, I do believe tiiere's e Providence in at, and here i'm a goina to fih ct ouit has name without a-havhn' to pa a oni my gums at all; but,mercy '' for she hi I suddenly realized that this was no time ~a ruminate. "I hope lie ain't a-goen' to di m- le ain't if good nursin' 'll a-save hi Good-bye, miss-yes i'll call up to Buns 3. sometimes. Bless your heart," and Mr I, Blyster was gone. rn 8o I went back to school. The fey g had net spread and everything was f- quiet and stupid as ever. 8ometimes ki t ters came, and I spent the vacation wi r. my mother's friends in a distant place. e forgot almost that I had ever had tI at scarlet fever or had been under the care n good, cflcient Mrs. Blyster. The fg y term begun and Thanksgiving was o upon us when Peggy entered my room ot I day and handed me a card upon which ws c- printed, "MAr. Sarah Blyster.'' so Then it all came back to me, and es rushed into the reception room to give tL ve good creature a loving embrace-whic ey quite upset her, and made her wipe hi d; kindly, susceptible eyes-and to ask, ti ut first thing: 'How's the carpenter that wc or hurt?" of Mrs. Blyster blushed violently, and sal y with a simper: "You haln't a forgot, sure's I live." of "Of course I haven't," 1 said, warml3 & "I take a great deal of interest in my fe: at low beings, in spite of your thinking it don't. low is he?" "Law, miss, he wan't hurt so awful bac ie still," raising her eyebrows and lookin 0. serious, "he was pretty sick for awblk k't and lie broke a leetle bone in his fool e: which makes hin rather lame." hi, "But what's his name?" I interrupted ig impatiently. r" "That's it said Mrs. Blyster, impres sively. "Wasn't it strange enough yo to should a-said Crippen? I knew 'twan't ni common name, and it ain't. It's Crimpto2 now don't that sound mostly like Crip pen?" "o a4t does. indeed," I said, trying to loo1 as amaed as I felt that I ought to. "Bu how did you get along?" i "Ohl" blushing again, "we got ilon a first-rate, and that's what I come to tell you Br We-that is-well, miss-I declare," an good Mrs. Blyster looked like a fifteen year-old girl with her first beau, "I con % a-expectin' to ask if you would do u the honor, you havin' a-known all th circumstances from the start, to-to" "To what?" I cried, as iflterested a Mrs. Blyster herself. "Well, if you must know-it's a pleasan room, you know, with the rag carpet an clock a tickin', and we're goin to be mat Sried there Thanksgivin' day. 'Taint bei d a year yet, but he needs rue, nein' lame k you know-and mebbe you'll come to th weddin'." - You may be sure that I went. he What Birds Hat. it - In a recent address William E Sandera the well known Canadian ornithologist u gave an account of some insectivorons bird that were worthy of encouragement. H, a said he had been engaged in the study o d birds for the last seven or eight years, an( n had examined the crops of probably abou 's 200; of the birds which were purely insecti o vorous,the most common was the large fan.i n ly of warblers, of which the yellow warble and the red start mostly took their food oi " the wing, but partially on the branches o I trees; of the birds which took their foot e exclusively on the wing were the fly-catch era, which include the king bird and th, or peewee; their food was chiefly flies. Moth e were numerously caught by nighthawks o and these together with the swallows hi s considered birds beneficial to the farmei . and fruitgrower. Of the birds which fec partly on the wing and partly on trees, th food of the yellow warbler consisted chiefl, d of larva and eggs of moths, which the. t took from the leaves of trees; the vir( ds an; - cuckoos were birds of the same class an similarly beneficial. The bluebird fet m nostly on Insects, though it might tak grain when its favorite diet was not obtain able. The insects devoured by the last described class of birds were mostly injuri ous to the orchardist and the farmer. Th nuthatch, which was a very common bird a stayed in these latitudes the year round '0 and lived almost entirely on insects an( their eggs, and chrysalides. The wood u peckers mostly took their food upon trees The redheaded variety were generally con h sidered a pest on account of their devour ing so much fruit, chiefly cherries and ap e pIes. The high holder woodpecker, thougl 'e it occasionally ate a few cherries, waa oi a the whole a bird which should be protected owing to the number of insects it devoured I, Tire harry and dlowny woodpeckers and tI d yellowbcllied varity were commonly, bu t. he believed unjustly, denominated tap suck to ers, and accused of destroying fruit and othme I, trees by extracting the sap fronm them. H< ,. had never seen trees injured by them, an< they were beneficial birds in his estima d thou. r. ~Of the birds which ate their food upom I the groundi there was first the thrushes, in y eluding thre robin, tire tawny thrush, th y brown thrush, and tire cat-bind. Fron is his examination of the mnaws of thre robbm he had very little to say in Its favor, a s. they were very desatructive to cherries an< w other fruits, and ate very few insects--chic li fly coleoptera, and thren whcn it could no get fruit: the cat-bird was allied to tire robin d and like It was destructive to raspberries; thr tawny and brown thrushes were almocst ex ~, cJusively insectivorous. Thre food of thi .y blackbird family-which include tihe red winged blackbird, thre crow blackbird, thi i caw bird, the meadow lark and thre orloli in -consists largely of beetles and larva; thi e crew blackbird, however, lived almost eni o. tirely on grain; while thre caw bird, like thi rh European cuckoo, was decidedly injuriou is by laying its eggs in thre nests of other and a beneficial birds, whose young wore gener re ally starved to deathr, owing to thre greate e size and more clamorous appetite of tire in truding brood; thie red-winged blackbm re fed on larvar of beetles in the sprmng, bu td In thre fall it devoured grain. re About 25 per cent. &f the food of thi ma meadow lark consists of beetles and othe insects, tire remainder belug -vegetable food dbut of whrat kind hre had been unable to as certain. The Bathnurnre oriole was bonifi .cial to tire farmier, The sparrows wore al Spretty much grain feeders, through tire gra; bird or chipping sparrow fed largely on in sects. One variety, thre p~urple finch, de your-ed tire buids of trees, and was injuiriou yon that account. Tire indigo bird fet dmostly on the seed of grass and weed. The English sparrow feeds about equall, me on seeds and insects, but he lhad trot exani is ined their stomachs. It was doubtfu a whether its inmportation would prove a be d( netlt or an injury. Thre canary fed chileli; it on small seeds, but its young devouredi 1( good many insects, lie believed the hrous owi en fed entirely err isects and their lar B. vie, and like the blackcappedl tit, or chicka 4? dee, was entirely beneficial; the war wing sorcherry bird, was never injurious to fruit s- an~d the hutohrer bird was an enemy to th farmer by killing small insectiverous birds rr thre jay and hawk were injurious for tih s ame reason; the crow fed largely on grain I. -It Is said that in the Welsh lanr p guage an lurfidel book does not exist. >f -Trhe French revenue for 1880 1. 31 over $16,000,000 above the estimates. ie -T1exas settled as densely as Aes me York. would contain 22.00,00 pneoples course, Monsieur de Comte," he said, "It Is needless to tell you that these ladies do k not come to me themselves and seek for e husbands. When a lady has a large for a tune and is anxious to get married she has d no need of a matrimonial agent. It Is her friends, parents or guardians who come to nio-in nine cases out of ten without her ' knowledge-and, possessing influenoe over a her, offered the heiress to me, in consid. if eration of a fee arranged between us, of U course provided I can, among my clients, o find a suitable partner. The whole thing is perfectly simple, and the wife need e never to suspect anythlig. From names I have just mentioned you can see for your self that many of my clients, both male and female, belong to the best nobility of Europe, and in fact I think I can say with out vanity that I have had something directly or indirectly to do with most of the leading matrinonlal alliances which have taken place in France in the last 0 thirty years, although since the fall of the second empire business has become rather slack." What can be inore terrible than this I t Little does the Duchesse Fouille do Persil dream as she dashes out to the Bois de Boulogne that her only and well-beloved daughter l being bought and sold in a dingy little room near the Boulevard Pols sonniere by her dear, and intimate, though unscrupulous and impecunious friend, the Marquise H1uppe do la Deche. The duch esse has unbounded confidence in the mar. quise, and fias given her carte blanche to bring any of her friends to her house. and when the young Vicomte do la Poisse is introduced-a charming man, and one whose birth and title are above suspicion he meets with a most cordial reception. r The rest is soon done; the vicointe is t represented to the mother as being the very model of young men, madaie la marquise uses her influence in every conceivable and mconceivable way, and in nine cases out of ten the n a rlage coin off, madame )a 3 marquise, M. le vicointe, and the matrine nial agent all having a large pluim out of the pie, the mother and daughter never suspecting anything. More than three quarters of the marriages in France-and in the grande monde, mind you-are brought about in this way; for, apart from the professional matrinonial agents, m1ost of the abbes and cures add to their income by mixing in matrinmonial intrigues of this nature. As a matter of fact, indeed, the priests are the most powerful of all matrimonial 3 agents, for the family confessor exercises the greatest influence and is supposed to be above all snspicion. Who can wonder after this that so nmany marriages in France end in misery and separation, and that M. Naquet meets with suppor't when advoca 3 ting divorce? There is no remedy for this evil, for one cannot discover it, and in some instances both the bride and the bride groom are alike ignorant of the fact that their standing before the altar Is a matter of so many thousand franca in pocket to two or more of their most intniate and cherished friends I Let it not, moreover, be sup posed that we in England are free from this scourge; quite the contrary-there is as much ioney made in Belgravia as at Sainte Clothilde. Ortdring John Adams Below. One of tile most successful of the com manders of the American navy during the revolution was Commodore Samuel Tucker, of Marblehead. ills biographer, with par donable pride in his; hero, claims that he "took more prizes, fought more sea-fights, and gained more victories, than, with a few exceptions, any naval hero of ' the age." The simple manners that then prevailed in Marblehead are illustrated by an anecdote C of the way Mr. Tucker's coninission as captain was presented to him. lie was chopping wood, one (lay, in his yard, with his sleeves rolled up, and a tar t pauilini hat slouching over his face. Sud 3 denly an ofilcer rode up to the gate, halted looking as if lie had made a mistake. S "I say, fellow," lie shouted, somewhat .roughly, to the wood-chopper, "I wish you would tell me if the Honorable Samuel Tucker lives about here l'' '"Honorable I Honorable I" answered Trucker ; "there is not a man of that name in Marblehead. He must be one of the Sfamily of Tuckers in Balem. I am the only - Bamnuel Tiucker there is here I" Bomething , about the young man sug lgested to the oflccr that the commission C which lie bore, appointing Samnuel Tucker - a captain in the American navy, belonged fr to the wood-chopper. .i Ie han'ded it to him, - andi returnad to Cambridlge. Captaim TIuckor always obeyed orders to -the letter, lie was ordIeredl to the Boston, which ship was assigned to carry John 3 Adams as envoy to France. One (lay, the t Boston, falling in with an armed English - merchantman, engaged her. Mr. Adams, -seizing a miuisket, took his place among the -marines andl when Uaptain Tucker ordered him to go helow, coiitinued at his post. S "Mr. Adamms," said the resolute Cap Stain, laying hold of the minister, and fore Sing him away, "1 am commanded by the 3continental congress to deliver you safe in France, and you must- go (Iowa below, -sir I" Mr. Adams obeyed andi left the d (eek. A Modiei Killer. ',The new Prussian (Jun is a repeating s gun, capalhe of firing twelve shots per twenty-tour seconds, after which it may r be used like any ordiniary gun of one shot. y This result has been obtained by a store -chamber holding cartridges made of sheet Ii ron, weighing 850 gramnmes and with a - capacity of eleven cartridges. This store ,chamber can be removed or inserted at will, - andi it, acts automatically when the store r' chamber Is openied or oven when it Is shut, 'no special movement being necessary. In , opening the stoeechianmber a cartridge it comes in; in closing another cartridge ;comes forward, so that it will fall into place d when the store-chamber Is again opened. I This store-chamnber can be0 adapted to any gun loading at the breechi, if the latter be dl provjjhed with acylindrical closing; and thus it repeating guns are obtained. It requires but fifteen secondls to refill the'store-chamn t her, when it may 1)e carrIed separately or -at once Inserted in the gun. In the latter t case it is applied to the cartridge chamber, a the weight coming, favorably, upon the n1 centre of gravity of the gume. 'The gun -does not lose any of its qualities of rapid g discharge by thuis addition. By means of this Invention one can be loading while l ring. It Is a curIous fact that the author d of this murderous improvement is Mr. y Loewe, a member of the progressionist party of PrussIa, and attached as such to the 'f "Legino Pacnal" rerils of Alpine Climblng. M. Gohrs, a gentleman from Grasburg, who recently proposed to make the ascent of the mountain from Grindolwald, was ac companied by the guides Itudi and Inabnitt. They passed the night in the hut on the Bergli, and set out next morning soon after 3 o clock. At 7 :80 they began the ascent of the upper part of the Jungfrau, in. tending to gain the summit by the Roththal Couloir, which is frequently swept by ava lanches. Their way lay up a steep slope of snow surmounted by a great wall or cor nice of ice, and traversed at its lower ex tremnity by a wide crevasse. The snow was deep and progress difficult, and when Inab mitt, who was in front-all the three being roped together-reached the ice-cornice, he struck the point of his axe into it on tha the might have a better purchase and the more effectually help the others. 8carcely had he done so when the cornice for a length of 20 metres came down with a run, strik ing and overturning At. Gohrs and Itudi, who were shot downward with tremen dous velocity, dragging after them Inab. nitt. and all three were hurled pellmell into the crevasse. Fortunately for them, it was partially filled with snow, which broke their fall, and M. Gohrs and RudI escaped with a few not very serious contu sions. Inabnitt, however, seemed badly hurt. Ile could not rise, and when his companions tried to help him up, he begged them to deslat, the least movement causing him excruciating agony. Their first thought was that they would all have to perish together, for two sound men could not, in common humanity, leave their wounded companion alone in that frightful solitude: yet to remain where they were was certain death. At length, resolving to make a last effort for life, they took In abnitt in their arms, and in spite of his cries succeeded in carrying him out of the crevasse. Then M. Gohre and Rudi placed the wounded men between them-in the most dangerous places one alone supported him while the other led the way-and in this manner and with painful slowness they walked from 9 in the morning until 7 in the evening, at which hour they reached the hut on the Foulhorn. Many times dair ing this terrible journey Inabnitt, whose spino was seriously injured, begged of the others to leave him to his fate, but they brav ly persevered to the end. At 8 o'clock next morning Rudi set out in search of help and at 4 lie returned with four men and a chair. Inabnitt was then placed in the chair and a start made for the Eggeschhorn. The journey thither was almost more try ing than that of the day before, for therain fell in torrents, and M. Golirs, whose feet had been badly frozen in the hut, was al most as helpless as the wounded guide. They succeeded, however, in reaching the Eggeschhorn and eventulaly Grludol wald. Pleasant Life In Bengal. The daily life of the family is a series of pictures of Arcadian simplicity. At day break, when the crows begin to caw, the whole household Is astir. The two older brothers are off to the fields. while Gayarain is seeing after the cows. The women are busy in the huts and court-yards. Some times the men come home to their midday meal, and sometimes it is carried to them in the fields. At sunset the labors of the day are brought to a close. A mat is spread in the court-yard, and the men sit down cross-legged and smoke their bubble bubbles, at such times it is the joy of Ba dan's life to listen to the childish prattle of his little daughter Malati. Occasionally the mothers pay visits to their neighbors, or neighbors drop in and join in the smok ing. Ti conversation is nearly always the same-the weather, the bullocks, the crops and the cows; the plowing, harvesting, sowing or irrigating. But money is ever the burden of the talk ; rupees, annas, and leie; the zeinindar's rent ; the interest paid to the money-lender ; the cost, loss or pro. fit of every transaction connected with farm or household. The whole family is religious; indeed all Hindus are religious. They may be everythIng that is good or bad, but they are never wanting in fear of the gods. They are constantly uttering the sacred names, and they offer a portion of every meal to the gods of the earth, water and sky. They see deity in every tihing that exists, and omens of good or evil in everything that moves. If they moet a cow or a weddIng they rejoice over their good fortune; if they see a widow or a funeral, they are downi-heartcd at their ill luck. They engage in no business, or journey or transaction of any sort or kmnd, without a prayer to the goddess Lakshimi or an invocation to the elephanit-headed~ Ganesha. What a Voleano cant lo, Cotapaxi, in 1788, threw its fiery rockets 3,000 feet above the crater, wilie in 18i4 the blazing mass, struggling for an outlet, roared so that its awful voice was heard at a distance of more than 600O miles. In 1797 the crater at Tunguragua, one of the great peaks of the Andes, tiung out torrents of mud, which dammed up the rivers, openled new lakes, and, in valleys 1,000 feet wide, made deposits 800 feet deep. The stream from Vesuvius, which, in 1887, passed through Torre del Greco contained 83,000, 000 cubic feet of solid matter, and in 1793, when Terre (1e1 Greco was dlestroyedi a se coiid time, the mass of lava amounted to 45,000,000 cubic feet. In 1700 Aitna poured forth a flood whIch covered eighty four square miles of surface, and measured nearly 1,000,000,000 cubic feet. On this occasion the sand scoria formed the Monte Rlosimi, near b'liolosa, a cone of two miles in circumference, and 400 feet high. The stream thrown out by Aetna in 1810 was in motion at the rate of a yard a day for nine months after the eruption, and it is on re cord that the lava of the same mountain, af ter a terrible eruption, was not thorough ly cool and consolidated for ten years after the event. In the eruption of Vesuvius, A. D. 79, tihe scoria and ashes vomited forth far exceeded the entire bulk of the mountain ; whIle In 1060 iatna disgorged more than twenty times its own mass. Vesuvius has sent its ashes as far as Con stantinople, 8~yria and Egypt. It hurled stones eight pounds in weight to Pompeii, a distance of six miles, when similar masses were tossed up two thousand feet above the summit. Cotapaxi has projected a block of one hundred cubic yards Ia volume a distance of nine miles; and Bumbawa, in 1815, during the most terrific eruption on record, sent its ashes as far as Java, a distance of three hundred miles of surface, and out of a population of twelve thousand soul. only twenty esnaned. LU A Sad Mistake. Mr. John Biggs,a young man with brisk a and brisker loquacity, came to Little Roc several days ago, and, calling at th h Gazette office, asked for a situatiou as r reporter. "I'm lightning, he maid; "I uet 0 to be editor-in-chief of the Wormville LaE 1 tern. Oh but she was a darling pape d You ought to have seen how I pitched int a section boss for calling my half-brother fox-eyed liar. I skinned him. Now, you've got any important work that ye want done, I'm the man to do it. I used I report the Wormville City Council. stirred up one Alderman until he throw or of those old-fashiond brass kettles at mi That's the way to write. This quiet way c 9 doing things may take with religious paperi ' but with a newspaper they are no good ,dimply n. g. Do you want a matil' The young man seemed to have such : correct idea of the newspaper business the lie was employed, with a view of doin special work. A proviso was added to th agreement that Mr. Biggs was not to fet > agrieved, or to bring suit in case he wa "bounced" after a few days' trial. When Biggs stepped out on the stree there was an air of business about hir C that attracted the passer-by. lie walke t along with his note-book in hand, and wit his pencil between his fingers like a cigar "Yes,'said a man standing on the corner addressing an acquaintance, "that is a fin I boy left at Swanks." "Whati" said the reporter. Boy lef where?" 9 "Who are youl" asked the man L "I am a reporter. I used to be editor in-chief of the Wormville Lantern. Tel B me about the mysterious boy." The man winked at his acquaintance an( t remarked: "Well, I reckon a reporte I should know everything. You see, last nigh a fine boy was left at the residence of Mr I Swanks. Mysterious, sir, very mysterious You'd better go around and see Mrs 3 dwanks After ascertaining the locality of th Swauks residence, the reporter hurriedj left. Arriving at the place he rang th bell and was admitted. "I'd like to see Mrs. Swanks," said th reporter to Mr. Swanks. "You can't see her." "Why, is she busy?" "Not so busy, perhaps, as indisposed r What Is your business, sirt" "I am a reporter, sir. I used to b editor-in-chief of the Wornville Lantern but hard luck has brought me down to th level of common news-hunter. I want t r see Mrs 8wanks in regard to that mystoriou boy." "What mysterious boy?" asked Mi Swanks, with warmth. "Now, here, Colonel, you needn't tra any little dodge on me. I used to be th editor-in-chief of the Worniville Lantern I know more about this affair than yo think I do. There's a mysterious baby it this house, and I'm going to see it. I'n going right in where your wife is and writ the thing up." rThe reporter attempted to pass into th next room, but was knocked down b, I Mr. Swanks. The noise brought out sov eral ladies, sufficiently advanced in age t be beyond the road-law requirements. Th ladies screamed. The reporter regaine his feet and made another dash for th door. The women caught him, while Mi Swanks kicked him, turned him around shoved him through the front door, an kicked him onto the fence. Mr. Bigg came back to the office and resigned. .1 said that if the ofilce could spare hun few pounds of type he would go out an re-establish the Wormville Lantern. A this time young Swanks laid in his HI cradle, staring at an exisLence so new t him, and, like Paul Dombey, squarin his aittle fists at the world. Buying a Bride. Under an assumed name my friend wer to the Paris residence of M. de F., th celebrated marriage broker, and hiavin .paid the preliminary fee of ?40, explaine that lie came on behalf of a cousin whi< although possessed of a handsome fortun and good title, was anxious to increase hi worldly goods by contracting a worldi marriage. My friend further asserted tha lie acted in his own name and withou the authority of his cousin, but that th consent of the latter, should anything at coptable be0 proposed, he oould answer for M. de F. at first demurred, and asserte that he was not in the habit of dealinj 'with less than at least one person directly it terested in a matrimonial project ; but nm friend's eloquence, not to speak of the thio sand franc note, at length prevalled, and th~ Sgreaiatrimonial agent unboson.ed hiii His terms were eight per centum on th .. dot, and this to be paid within the firn Syear after the clebratiun of the marriagt Of course my friend consented. Then Mi (1de F. explained that, should nothing d<C .finitely be decided on and the attempt faill no further expenses would be incurred, th a ?40 covering all. This pleased my frion istill 'more, for lie confessed to me that hi . feared lie should not be allowed to leave th r sanctum of the magician without partin .. with at least another fifty louis. These pre I ihninaries having passed off to the satisfaC t tion sofboth parties, M. do F. opened an i mense desk and took out from it a bulk a note-book, in which my friend solemnly a r leges were inscribed the name, age, fortuni disposition and social status of every heires . not only In France, but in Belgium. Aum . tria, Holland, Italy, England, and ever I other country in Europe. M. do F. airil explained that he dispised Amerioan hem, esses, as their fortunes could not be relic . upon. M. de F. read out his list, som( a what as follows: Four millions, orphar red hair, two-and-twenty, subject to epi lepsy, clever, butt strong minded ; propert all in real estate ; noble family, Belgian. ."Five millions, widow, very susceptibbi Sdark, may or may not have lovers.. bi . there is no scandal attached to her name French, good bourgeois family ; very ton i of titles, but pr efers men in the army ; wi , not marry a man under forty; ie :herself fivi andi-thlirty; property partly in railroa . shares and partly In French ;-overnmei stocks;" and so on ad infinitum. My friend was thun~derstruck, and e a first half believed that the list was pur4 ly an imaginary one and merely a ba y thrown out to attract hungry fish. Th doubt was, however, soon dispel led who M. do E., looking upon the matter as se' tled, calmly stated the name of the youn lady, my friend discovering to his astoi ishment thht he knew the family intimati ly, and that M. do F.'s intelligence an details were absolutely correct in evei particular. 7. Hthen explainaa his syste. "C NEWS IN BREF. -All signs go to show that the vaea tion days of 1880 are on the down grade. -Russia has 650,000 hereditary no bles and 380,000 whose titles expire with them. -Until the year 1776, cotton spin ning was performed by the hand-spin ning wheel. -A comnany with a capital of $25, 000,000 has been formed in Paris to buy land in Canada. -Up to July 15, there had been built in the United States this year 2,228 miles of railroad. -Capt. Dick King, of Waco, Texas, has just fenced his farm of 353,000 acres with 175 miles of wire. 00-[t is said from $15,000,000 to $20, 0,000 is invested in the telephone business in this country. -M. Victorien Sardou, is said to have already received $24,000 as thae proceeds of "Daniel Rochat." -Spitz Dogs were not allowed at Ocean Grove this summer. Policemen had orders to shoot them on sight. -The national cotton exchange of Americe, reports the total cotton for the year ending August 31, 1880, to be 5,760,161 bales. -The 1French revenue of $600,000,000 is said to be the largest ever received from a population of thirty-six mil lions. -To June 30, 263,720 Immigrants from abroad arrived at New York, against 94,224 the firat six months of 1879. -The Russian government has Avi. pointed M. Yadrintseff, of Omsk, to in vestigate and report upon the condition of the aboriginal tribes of Siberia. -Mr. David Sinton has donated $150,000 to found an art museum in Cincinnati, on condition that an equal amount be subscribed by others. -Michigan had 1,835,191 acres under wheat this year, against 1,001,710 acres last year. This crop was an average one, and the yield is estimated at rrom. 30,000,000 to 35,000,000. -There are 20,141 persons who hold registered United States four per cent. bonds. Of these 7,083 hold $500 each or less than that sum; and of these 6,687 are women. -Between 1855 and 1865 the Yose mite Valley had 1,022 vAiitors. In 1874 it had 2,711 and in 1879, 1,385. The average expenditure of each tourist is put at $600. -During the past fifteen months about 10,000,000 acres of government land were sold under the homestead la ws-a more than usually heavy amount. -The offlcial return gives the value of diamonds exported from the South African diamond fields in 1879 as $18, 428. 050, the value of those obtained in 1878, being $15,423,555. -Paul Boynton's next voyage will be from Fort Benton, on the upper waters of the Missouri, to St. L4ouis, a distance of almost 3000 miles. -TI'his year's yield of tea in India is estimated at 70,000,000 pounds nearly double that of 1878. Ten years ago it was under 14,000,000. -There are in Philadelphia 434 churches; In New York city, 354; and in Brooklyn, 2 .0. In no other Atmeri can city are there more than two hun dred. -Editor Thorn, of Notes and Queris has retired from the oflico of assistant librarian of the House of Lords, at'the age of 77, on a pension of $3,750 a year. -The farmers of Illinois marketed 1,984,294 hogs in 1879, and will sell about 2,193,000 during 1880. 'In 1878 there was a loss by disease of 530,000 hogs, valued at $1,500,000. -The value of the breadstufifs expor ted from seventeen different cities during the month of July was $20,803, 504; $19,558,046 from the same ports in~ July, 1879. -During the month of August 13, 300,000 bushels of grain were shipped from New York to Europe. The ship merits of September, it is belieyed, will reach 15,000,000 bushels. -Thie number of cattle killed per year in the United States Is 11.825,000, the meats from which amount to 4,088, 000 pounds, and their total value when~ killed for food Is $008,200,000.* -Ninety-one cities in the United States have a population of over 8,000, 000 or about one-sixth of the whole p~opulation, and this does not include cities wIth less than 30,000 population. --In 1800 the coin value of all the currency in the United States--gold. silver and paper-was *357,000,000. On the first of July, 1880, the coin value of the currency was $1,150,000, 000, an increase of $703,000,000. -A grand sham sea fight is soon to be fought at night by the German navy off the coast at Ru gen, in the presence of the Crown Prince, who attends by special command of his father, the Emperor. Electric lights are to Illuminate the sea for many miles. -Trhe prince of Wales rode all through a reyiew at Windsor the other day, in a heavy uniform, under a hot July sun ; got back to London to dine with Lord Rosslyn, and then went and danced at Mrs. Palmer's bail In Gros venor streets till 5.30 A. M. -Meissonier has bound himself to paint two panoramic pictures, "Paris during the War," and 'Paris during the Peace." The pictures are to be each eight metres long and five metres high, and they are to be finished at the end of 1882, The price is 1,500,000 francs. -The centre of population of the United States, according to the census of 1870, was in Clermont County, Ohio. It is certain the centre has been shifted North a ,d West, and that it is now in the State of Indiana, probably about on the line, and between Richmond and Indianapolis. -The receipts of the Neow York eanais from the opening of navigation last year to June 14,4mounted to $244, 095,69; from the opening of navigation this year to June 14, the receipts were $448,7Q7,07; showing an increase of $204,611,36. The canals opened this year, however, eigh'teen days earlier than last year. So taking the same period for both years, the following is the result: Ma 8 to June 14, 1879, #244,095,09; 1890, $879.766.77.