The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, October 23, 1880, Image 1
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.