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__ - anf -ir-Lb - TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. ., NOVEMBER 2, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO. 132. S FALLEN FLOWERS. One of te workers of the world Living tolled and toiling died; But others worked and the world went on, And Was not changed when he was gone A strong arm stricken, a wide sail furled, An4 only a few men sighed. One of the heroes of the world Fought to conquer, then fought to fail, And fell down slain in his b'ood-atained mail, And over his form they atop; His oau-e was lost and his banner furled, And only a woman wept. One of the singers among mankin.1 Sang healing songs from an o'erwrought heart ; But ere men lietenod, the graes and wind Were wasting the rest unsung like a wave; And now of his fame that will no'er depait. He has never heard in his grave. One of the women who only love, Loved ani gr:eved aid faded away Ah, me I are these gone to the lod above ? What more of each can I Fay P They are human flowers that flower and fall, This Is the song and the end of them all. A Domestic Tyrant. "If you marry Major flunter, you'll be trod on-take my word for it, Miss Amory." "Do you think so?" said the person ad dressed, quietly, looking up from the hand kerchief she was heuiming. "Think so? I know it. Don't you re member how his first wife faredi If there was ever anybody I pitied, she was that one. Poor thingl She didn't even (are to say her soul was her own. If she had a different husband, she would have lived till this time." "Very likely." "And yet, knowing all this, you are going to take her place?" "Major Hunter will find me a very dif ferent person from his first wife," said Miss Amory, composedly. "However, I don't wish to anticipate trouble, we will, if you please, dismiss the subject." This was not the first remonstrance which Miss Amory had received on the subject of her approaching marriage, but her mind appeared to be made up, ana she was now occupied in making preparations for the wedding. What had been said of Major Hunter and his first wife was quite true. He was a domestic tyrant and holding the female un derstanding in a very slight esteem, con sidering that the wife ought, in all respects to be subservient to her husband's will. His reason for niarryiug agaiu was partly this, that he found no housekeeper who would be sufficiently subservient to his whims and caprices. Having lost one after another, he came to the conclusion that he needed a wife, and soon resolved to tender his hand to Miss Amory. We will not analyze her motives for accepting his proposal. Probably, how ever, regard-for Mr. Hunter's three children, who resembled their mother rather than their father, weighed with her quite as much as any other motive. But, however, that might be, the mlarriage' took place, and after q brief jouiney, Miss Amory re turned as Mrs. Major lunter, to take the place of mistress of his household. Hitherto, Major Hunter had forborne "showing his hand." Now,.hawever, that their married life had iairly begun, he thought it high time to do so. "I have given Mrs. Hodges a week's warning," lie remarked, at the breakfast table, the morning after their return. Mrs. Hodges had been housekeeper and maid of all work, the entire duties of the establishment having developed upon her. "For what reason?" asked his wife com posedly. "Don't you feel satisfied with her?" "It is not that," said the Major, deliber ately. "Any difficulty about wages?" asked has wife unconcernedly. "No," said her husband, feeling a little embararased. The fact .is, Mrs. Hunter, there is'not very much work to (do in our small household; no more in fact, than one pair of hands can easily do. My first wife did all her own wvork." "Did she, indeed?" said No. 2, sipping her coffee. "Yes, that wit~h ease, although she was not a very strong woman." "she died young didn't she?" inquired her successor, tranquilly. "Why, yes," saidl Major Hunter, slowly, betraying a little embarrassment. "Yon' know life is uncertain." "Yes, so I have heard," reflumned his wife. Major Hunter was considerably puzzled by the matter-of-fact manner of his wife. Her cool, self-possesssion awed him a. little. If she had only stormed, lie would be better prepared to meet that emergency. ,In the course of the week," lhe proceeded, "you will undoubtedly get an idea of the couirse of your work, by observing Mrs. Hodges." "I dare say I might,'' saidl Mrs. Hunter. "Then I need say no more. This day week she leaves, and will resign the duties of the household into your hiandis." Major Hluiter took his hat, andI was about to leave the room when lie was ar rested by the simple address: "Mr. Hlunteri" "Well," said he, turning back. "It appears that you have been makine ,arrangements without consulting me." "Consulting you?" ."~ Yes.'' Major Hunter was astonished at isa wife's temerity. "Why should .[ consult you?" 'Because, I may iiot approve of them." "Mrs. Hunter," said'her husband, warm ly, "it is your duly to acquie'sce in what ever plans .I, as your husband, may see fi to form." "Indeed, I never took that view of time matter." "T'hen the sooner you take it the bet ter." "Do'I understand that you expect me to do all the work of your establishment?" "Yes, mnadam." "I believe you are a rich man, Major Hunter; is It not sof " "I am accountedi so," said hcr husband, complacently. "And are able to hire doimeasos assist ance?" "Yes, if it is needful." "Suppose 1 tell you that it is needful?'" "I should take the liberty to doubt It. "Very well, Major Hunter, since It has been forced upon me, I might as well toll you, first as last, my decision on this point. You offered me the position of a wife, not that of a maid-servant. On that under standing I accepted you. Yet If your cir cumstances ever become such as to require It, I shall not hesitate for a moment to con form myself to them. I only object to ass suming a burden Which from your own ac count, appears to be quite needless. I am quite willing to superintend ti e household arrangements, considering that a duty which my position devolves upon me." "I have listened to your statements, Mrs. Hunter," said her husband, somewhat excited, "and they are weak. They can't weigh with me." It is to be regretted," said Mrs. Hunter composedly. The first Mrs. Hunter better understood her duties as a wife. She never ventured to oppose my will. I met with a great loss when I lost her." "What was your loss was her gain," said number two, with a rather cuJous expres sion. The rather obtuse Major Hunter did not comprehend the poln' of this last remark. Accordogiy, he took no notice of it. "It Is quite needless," he said, "to dis cuss this matter further. This day week, Mrs. Hodges leaves us. I expect you to qualify yourself to assume her duties." Mrs Hunter smiled. "There Is nfthing like beginning right," said the Major, as he struck his cane on the sidewalk. If Mrs. Hunter married me with the idea of having an easy time, she is quite mistaken. If she expects to be a lazy, fine lady, she will find it difficult in my establishment. I don't intend to en courage female insubordination. I believe the man was made to govetn, the wife to obey. If more husbands had my Airmness, things would go on a little better in this workl. But it Isn't everybody that has my tact of governing." Meanwhile Mrs. Hunter left at home, summoned Mrs. Hodges. "So I hear my husband has given you a week's warning," "Yes ma'am." "And you are sorry to leave?" "Yes ma'am, for I don't know where to get another place, and I have to pay the board of my little boy out of my wages.'' "There's considerable work to be done in this house, isn't thmere?" "Yes, ma'am, a good deal. Then Mr. Hunter's so particular that he wants to have everything just so. That's why I'm sorry to go just as you come. I know you're easy to suit." "How do you know?" asked Mrs. Hunter, smiling. "I can see it by your face, ia'am. It looks so good-natured." "Do you know who Major Hunter ex pects to get to fill your place after you are gone?" "No, ma'am." "le thinks I can do all the work." "Whatt and you not used to work? It would make you sick in course of a week." "I think very likely it would.'t "Oh, I pity you ma'aml" "No occasion forthat, Mrs. Hodges. The fact.. Ws, I have not the slightest idea of doing the work." "You have'nt? And what wll the major say?" '1 really don't know. I know what I shall advise him to do." "Aud what Is that?" "To take you back again." "Oh, ma'am. you'll never stand out against him." "Bee if I don't. At any rate, you mustn't secure a place till you hear from me again." "No ma'ai." The week passed rawidly. "Mrs. Hodges.will leave us to-morrow," remarked Major Hunter, at the tea table. "You have decided upon It?"~ "Yes; so I announced to you a week pre viouis." "I thought It possible my objections might have weighed with you, and induced you to change your mind." "I never change my mind," said her husband, loftily. "I am inclined to think you will repent the exchange," said Mrs. Hunter, rising from the table. "'[hat Is an affair of mine." "I have very little experience as a cook." "You will learn. Employment will be a good thing for you." "Have you dismissed the gardener?" "Dismissed the gardener?" What made y'ou think of such a thing?" "I thought it might be a good thing for you to take his place." "Buch levity is unbecoming, Mrs. Hunter," said her husband, severely. The next morning Mrs. Hodges was paid up and sent off. At ten o'clock the marketing was sent up.' At two o'clock Major Hunter made his appearance. The dinner table was set, though with scarcely as much neatness as usual. Stll It was set, and by Mrs. Hunter. Her husband thought of this as a personal trimph on lis part. lie hardly felt so complacent when the dinner camne up. Trho beet was terribly over-dione, tihe potatoes were, on the other hand, not done enough. In short there was nothing tit to eat on the table. Tis Major Hunter angrily remarked. "I dlare say," said his wife, placidly, "I am not a very good cook." With lis appetite only half satisfied, Major Hunter was obliged to rise from the table. The next morning, breakfast was delay ed an hour, anid when it was ready, scarcely eatable. Major Hunter was quite out of humor, but in reply to his Indignant re monstrances, his wife coolly remarked: "You know, Mr. Hunter, I warned you that I was a very poor cook." For three days Major Hunter stood fire, but finding thmnas deteriorated rather thtan improved, sent for Mrs. Hedges on the fourth. Onie point gained, Mrs. Hodges found it easier to maintain her rights when hi vaded mu other quarters. She perhaps, owed her success to the fact that she never trenched upon her husband's real prerogatives, bul, respeeted them as she claimed respect for her own. MajorlHunter standea very good chance of being cured of his taste for do nmestic tyranny through the independent stand taken by Mrs. Hunter Number Two. --Sir R->bert Jiodgson, Govenor of Prince Eidward's Island, is serlouwly i' A Vhtnese Iturlat-In Brooklyn. A funeral cortege that passed up Broad way, in Brooklyn, towards evergreen Cemetary, was regarded with curiosity and interest by hundreds of people on the sidewalk, and many of the gamins were overheard irreverently addressing the occu pants of the vehicles. The faces seen at the carriage windows were those of China men. A cousumptive Mongolian sat upon the hearse, throwing slips of rig paper Into the street. The hundsome walnut coffin seen through the glass doors of the hearse bore the name Lee Wan upon asliver plate. The deceased was a dealerin Chinese groce ties, a native of the Fl9wery Kingdom, but of late years a tenant at No. 4 Mott street. He died o% Tuesday, of heart disease. The procession, after turning through an avenue of beer saloons and marble-yards, entered Evergreens Cemetery at the same rapid pace that had been preserved all the way from the Broadway ferry. The grave was in what might be termed the German quater of the cemetery. After the Chinanien had alighted and gathered about the, narrow pit several stalwart Hibernian drivers re moved the coffin from the hearse and laid it upon the trestle over the grave, after which two German sextons lowered it. Some of the mourners then advanced and tossed in a few handfuls of earth, just as Christians do. Then began the curious part of the ceremony. Fagots of slow matches were bound together and planted in a basin of ashes and loose earth at the foot of the grave. On being ignited they sent up a fragrant smoke. Red cand'es richly decorated with figures in gold, blue and green were placed in a row near the fagots, and quickly burned down to the little stbks, on the end of which they were fastened. The dead .man's clothes, including a white shirt, somewhat the worse for wear, a freshly laundered collar and handkerchief, a blue silk.blonse and a straw hat were then rolled into a bundle and cremated near the grave, and the bright colored and gilded wrappings of the can dles and slow matches were added to - the burning heap. A cocoanut mat was then unrolled beside the grave, and the China men, coining up one-after another, took a formal leave of the departed. This was done by clasping the hands, lifting them to the chin, and letting them drop, repeating the operation three times. After this the mourners dropped upon their hands and knees upon the mat, and made a triple salaam, bowing their foreheads close to the earth. Tea was poured from a quaint little pot of blue and white porce lain into minute cups of egg-shell china, and each man, as he bade farewell to the dead, sprinkled a spoonful of the tea upon the ground. Three pans of rice, a boiled chicken and a plate of mutton we-e al lowed to stand before the grave for some time, that the dead man might refresh himself and prepare for his long journey. It is customary to leave tuese dishes beside the grave, but just before the cortege re turned a Chinaman, whom opium had bleached, bleared and sallowed into the the resemblance of a corpse, gave a sus picious glance at certain of the small boys who gathered about the place, and shuffled them back into a tea box whence he had taken them. Ciaars were passed arou'nd, and then the yellow faces were once more shut up in the the carriages, the drivers mounted to their seats, cracked their whips and the procession disappeared rapidly in the dust. Chestnut Culture. In some localities in Italy and Spain and in Eastern Europe and Western Asia the chestnut crop is equal in importance to the wheat crop in Ohio. Chestnut bread con stitutem the principal food of more than a hundred millions of people the healthiest, handsomest and most sinewey people in the world. It is estinated that the value of the Chestnut crop of Ohio is $60,000. It ought to be $20,000,000, and can be brought up to that figure within twenty years. The natural home of the chestnnt is a barren soil--waste land-thomuh it will gi ow and flourish on any soil in Ohi'). Chestnut trees one hundred feet in height and from three to seven feet in diameiter can yet be found on the hill tops nf South crn Ohio, growing in soil which cannot be made to produce five bushels of corn to the acre, and where oak, hickory and other trees are mere dwarfs. The chest nut hs a valuable timiber tree, and is of very rapid growth. Under favorable cir cumstances a bearing chestnut-tree twerty five feet in height can be grown from the seed in five years. The proper way is to plant the chestnut where it is desired that the tree shall grow. Like the hickory, the chestnut dees not take kindlly to transplant ing. Farmers in Central and Western Omno have tried the experiment of import ing chestnut trees in vain, and have ar rived at the conclusion that there is some thing in the soil which militates against the growth of the chestnut. That is a mistake. Any farmer who desires it can have a chestnut grove, or as many chest nut trees as he desires, by planting chest nuts. They should be planted before they become dry and shrivelled-within a week or two afther gathering, the sooner the bet ter. The chestnut should be about half buried in thei ground, and then covered with leaves or litter-barely covered, not buried or smothered. Twenty chestnuts should be planted for every tree desired ; for although every healthy chestnut will germinate, and is liable to produce a tree, provision should be made against moles, mice, chipmunks and other vermin. Of course, hogs should be excluded from the ground where chestnuts are planted. Standard Idvice. Would you keep your rosy complexion, ware thick soled shoes. Would you never be told a lie, do not ask personal questions. Would you retain the love of a friend, do not be selflshiy exacting. Would you respect yeurself, keep your heart and body clean. Would you enjoy quiet eontent, do away with airs and preonces, Would you sleep well and have a good appetite, attend to your buisness. Would you have good health, go out in the sunshine. lBickness is worse titan freckles. Would you have others to respect your opinions, hold and never disown them yourself. Would you have the respect of men, never permit yourself to indulge in vulgar conversation. Would you gain the confidence of busi ness men, do not try to support the style of your employer. Variety im the Daily wood. Though good wheat, or good beef, or good milk,may each furnish a perfect food, or contain all the elements needed to sup port life, it is not beat to depend upon any one article of food alone, except in the case of nursing babies, and then the mottier should have a suitable variety. To obtain a variety some housekeeperd only go a round of different kinds of paq and cake, all equally bad, perhaps; th ing that if the pantry Is well supplied with hesethings, little othercooking is necessary' Itis a great mistake. Cake and pie do not supply much actual food, and the. good material that 'is used in them is put into such shape that the stomach is wearied and worn otit by the effort to digest them. This accounts for much of the tiredness complained of by women and girls. They are half starved, because their food Is poor. The use of much poor trash called "dainties" (I don't abuse these things because I dislike them; I have "a sweet tooth," and know my own weakness well enough to understand the weaknesa of others? spoils the appetite for substantial food. rie stomach is feeble for lack of good material in the blood (mawle constantly of our food and air) to repair its waste, and it takes food unwillingly be cause it Is tired with overwork-overwork upon the concentrated conglomerations of rich cake and pastry. An error easily fal len into in such # case is to give 'up one thing after another because It "hurts" us, until the stomach becomes so weak it can hardly bear anything. It is slow starva tion. We must not only "cease to do evil," but must also "learn to do well,"-not only give up unwholesome food,,but eat plenty of that which Is wholesome. The proper variety is one made up of fruit,vege tables,grain and animal food, the latter con sisting of healthy meat, eggs, or milk in its various forms. With palatable graham or oatmeal preparations, especially where milk is freely used, meat is seldom craved or found to be necessary to high health and strength; but when starch, angar and fat preponderate, as In the common fare of white bread and butter, potatoes, cake, pie, and a little sauce, beef (especially steak) often seems an absolut' necessity to one who has to put forth strength. Coffee cannot possibly supply its place. It does not give strength, but only stimulates It, or calls it out making one feel strong while under its influence. Nourishing foods really strengthen us. You would hardly believe, until you try it, how heartily a plain and nourishing variety of food is enjoyed by those who live with reasonably simplicity. it is easier In every way. All feel much better and more good-natured, with no unreasonable cravings for confectionery, pickles or stimulants. It lightens the care of children wonderfully. It makes the cooking more simple and easy, and last, but not least, it saves the docto''s bills. A latent Alarm Bed. Mr. Washtub is the name of the gentle man who won't stop at an up.e6untry hotel again. It seems that the clerk had to get up very early in the morning, and finding difficulty in waking, built a patent alarm bed In accordance with plans given him by Mr. Edison, who once stopped at his house. The bed had a powerful clock work attachment, and at a set hour it would arouse any man who wasn't dead. The day after they had got the thing set up In the house there was a great rush of guests. and the clerk In order to accommo date Mr. Washtub gave up his bed to him. He also forgot to shut off the alarm, and the result was that about four o'clock in the morning Washtub was aroused by a most terrible'racket. He opened his eyes and sat hp in bed, and then he heard a voice, which came from a phonograph at tachment to the bed, exclaim: " You old mucker, pile out " If he had understood the tiing he would have hopped out of bed and shut off the alarm. But he didn't and thought it was burglars. So he lay down again and pulled the covers over hIs head, and the bed began to shake violently, and he thought it was an earthquake, and was terriliy scared. The bed shook so that he had to cling to the mattress to keep In, and finally the bed seemed to rise up right underhim, and he was hurled vIolently to the floor. He tried to rise, and just then the mattress came off upon him with great force andl floored him again. He had a terrible time getting out from under them,. and just as he dId so, a shower of ice water came upon himn, and then the slats of the bed began to whack at him, and as lie could see but little in the dim light of the room, he thought he must have gone to sleep in a threshing machine, and some one had started it. His yells finally brought the landlord, who stopped the machine, and tried to calm the terrified guest by ex plaining the thing to him. But the ex planation only made matters worse, for the victim lost two trains stopping over to lay ,for the clerk, who had found out what he had done, and kept out of the way. The Mango Triok. With certain Indian jugglers the "man go" trick is their most effective feat. A mango seed is produced, and a flower pot fillied with mould, and after a lot of cere many (in plain English, fuss), the seed Is put under the mould, and skveral coverings or basket. and cloths are placed* over the pot. Then there is more ceremony and ,fingering about tho covering basket, and the pot is shown with the mango leaves just sprouting up. Then It is covered over again, and more hocussing goes on, and the cover Is lifted up again, and the plqnt Is seen to have grown. The covering, hocus-. sing and opening go on, and the plant meanwhile having further grown and be came strong enough to bear fruit, the blossom to appear, the fruit to form, and finally the fruit to ripen, which Is then plucked off and given to be eaten. No~w we, for our part, cannot under. stand how any one cannot see through the performance. Nay, even when to a fel low-spectator, who once viewed this per formance, we explained the details of the trick after It was over, he would not be. lieve, but reckoned the affair wonderful, and even partaking of the supernatural. We can only attribute it to his having been so mystified as to have been actually mesmerized, though partaking of conscious ness. Thie real truth about this feat was that the green and ripe fruits, and overy branch and shoot that was exhibited, were actually there, just as much as the seed and the flowerpot-all in thme wrap. and fold. and baskete which formed the covering. W e were carefully watching the man's pro eeedin. and at that ime had maquired some knowledg of juggling tricks. As we were not allowed to touch the instruments of the exhibition after the particular per. formance began, the baskets, wraps, etc, could not he disturbed; but w'th our own eyes we saw the performer draw out the branches,ete, from the folds of the cloth, and noticed him sticking them into the pot beneath the covering, working away with his hands, and, as we thought, very clum sily. 'I he question may be asKed by a doubter of our account of the process, how about a green and a ripe fruit, as well as blossoms, being produced simultaneously, say at a period when there are no such thing; 'hat is,when they are out of season? This indeed, has been brought forward as a complete answer by those whose who be lieve in these jugglers. To answer this is not so dillicult, however, as it appears. India Is a vast continent, and from its southernmost limit on the It.dian ocean, where there is little difference between summer and winter, to its northern bound ary on the snowy kimalayas, there! is ex isting every variety of climate at any given time of the year. The mango flourishes equally in Ceylon and in the sub-Himala yan countricB. We have ourselves, in passing through the plains into upper Himalayas, in the course of successive weeks, seen the mango season just over on the plains- a little higher up mangoes were just in season; the fruits forming higher up still; the blossoms in full flush a couple of thousand feet higher; while higher still the blossoms had not yet made an appearance. With this fact are to be taken two others; the first, that Indian jugglers all belong to Dne masonic brotherhood, and are intia.ate communication with one another, all ever Dn the move; and the second, that even they will decline at times to perform this particular feat; that is, when they are not provided with the blossoms, green and ripe fruits. The seeds, shoots, etc., are always everywhere procurable. If there be still any other doubter, let us Dnly add that after the performance detail ed above we took the man aside (unwilling naturally to expose the man, and destroy the dredit by means of which he made his living) and asked him if it was not true hat Lae branches and fruits were all there in the wraps. The glance of our eye told bim that we knew every detail in the pro Dess, and had watched everything that he did, and so he confessed that what we said was the truth,andapologsmed by saying that he must make a living. Cookerv in Engiand. How many of our readers. even those who possess kitchen gardens,would think of cultivating the basella, the palm-kale, the burnet, the cardoon, the celerlac, chervil, Dorn-salad, lentil, ice-plant, parslane, Swiss chard, or water chestnut? Yet all these, together with others as unfamiliar, are given in a list, as under cultivation or used in France. Some mistresses also are be ginning to learn that the cookery which they may have met with even at the cheaper restaurants in France, or the establ.shments which imitate them in this country, is not the luxurious and expensive affair they Im agined it to be, but that as a matter of fact kood cookery is cheap cookery. We shall see this plainly enough if we compare, for example, the French method of making the pot-au-.feu, and the careful utilization of the liquor in which anything has been boiled which obtains in that country, with the waste that goes on in this country, even in many households which can ill af ford it. Poor people are, indeed, the greatest sinners in this way: they will boil a great deal of nutriment out of meat and then throw away the stock, when the ad dition of a few of the commonest vegeta bles growing in their gardens would make it into a pleasant and nourishing soup. There is, indeed, no more wasteful system ef cookery than the "plain roast and boiled," which has been the watchword of so many an E~nglish kitohen for years, and it is the fact that mist resses of households are gradually awaking to that truth which makes us hopeful for the future of Eng lish cookery. They are beginning to dis cover also wvhat M. Soyer said lie was so proud to show his friends, that things can be done cheaply and economically, whilst Lt is possible "to make a nice little dish almost out of nothing." For in many cases it is not so much the amount of meat or ether ingredients of a dish that makes it successful, but the manner in which It Is prepared. It wouild be, p~erhaps, going too far to affirm that good cookery would be an absolute safeguard against crime, and that the costermnot ger would never begin "jumping on hi, mother" had he just p-sr taken of filets de poulet atx truffes, rmuce supremoc, with a glass or two of Pomnard ; but there can be no doubt of the civilizing effects of well cooked food. There is no occasIon to gormandizo-to Imitate the Scotchiman, who, after stuffing himself with haggis, continued to eye the collapsed bag with grateful affection, told the waiter to behave kindly to it when re moved, and followed it out of the room with a silent benediction; nor that other hero mentioned by Byron, who, having heard that the bhds called kittiwakes were good whets, ate Bir of them, and complain ed that he was "no hungrier than when lie began." But a prudent man will, if it be possible, take heed as to whlat he eats and the proper preparation of his food; and though the dinner-boll be hardly the "toc sin of the soul" to him, he will hear it with pleasurable anticipations, and not be doomed to dissapomntment. Fiddle and Sin g. Years ago, before the contribution was taken up to the rythmnic time of operatic music, or the churches 'boasted more of their choirs than of their ministers, there was an earnest, able expounder of the gos pel holding lorth in one of the Presbyterian churches of Pittsburg, Pa. He believed in simple singing without the use of mnstru ments, and when after a long contest, the younger members of the church introduced a bass viol Into the choir, lie was deeply disturbed. In the church he said nothing, but night after night in the director's meet ings, and during the (lay time on the street, did he labor for the removal of what he termed "that fiddle," but without success. Each Sunday the notes of the instrument were heard, to the joy of the congregation and his own annoyance. At last finding persuasion useless, he arose one Sunday morning in his pulpit, and after the usual exercises, said, "Now we will fiddle and sing to the glory of God, the 100th hymn." There was no 'fiddling in that churcia for many a day after. btory of a Sea captain, Captain John Niven, of Thorntown, Indiana, is a grandson of Sir Hugh Niven, of England, but his older brother got the t patrimony, and John defiantly shipped be- 4 fore the mast. After many years he rose to be master of his vessel, the Ramsey, and U the famous missionary Ationiram Judson c went to India with him. Under his minis trations Niven was converted and baptized v in Rangoon, Hindoostan. Soon afterward the ship was struck by lightning and do-. stroycd. Niven made his escape to Eug land, where in 1846 he was entrusted with the ship Earl of Eglanton, built on the Earl's estate, and sent by him on her first voyage to the United States. He was beset by a terrible storm off Nantucket Island, and arter beating about all day and night in a dense fog, went ashore at Tom Never's Head. Two boats containing four men each were lowered. The captain or dered that they be not launched until they v saw how bad the breakers were, but they disobeyed him; and six of the eight men were lost. The islanders had now arrived. The breakers drowned their voices, but c they chalked on the tail board of a cart, "Stay aboard," and then; "Fling off an oar." The captain followed directions; the P oar, with a line tied to it, was cast off and caught with a fish dradl; and, by that means, d a cable was rigged from the mast head to the rocks, with a horse's hames on it, in which the men slid safely ashore. Captain Niven I was the last man to leave the wreck, when l the hames broke and he was flung into the sea. The islanders at once formed a ilne b by holding hands and sprang into the S breakers after him, thus bringing him to land. when he heard that his six men t4 were lost, he was temporarily deranged t and jumped again into the boiling waters. Again they rescued him, and put him into custody. He was badly bruised, and was a long time recovering. The ship was a total loss. He returned to Great Britain, where his friends again fitted him out, and he started on a whaling voyage in the Pa cific. There again his vessel went topieces d in a simoom and he returned, disconsolate, to Nantucket. His seafaring reputation t was badly damaged. Indeed, it Is proba- I ble that the red letter of "bad luck" was set opposite his name in the records of the commercial marine of England, and that he could not have obtained another ship. At e any rate he resolved to face the sea no more, but to get as far from it as possible in some quiet town in the middle of the continent. So he started west on foot, with $2 in his pocket. Walking the tow path of the Erie Canal, a boatman hailed him pleas - antly with "Hellol you are too good-look- d ing a man to be walking the tow-path. 0 Jump aboard." The captain jumped r aboard, and made himself so useful in splicing ropes and putting things in shape 0 that he was gladly carried to Buffalo. There 11 he got a job to rig a sloop for the lake, and 1 received for it enough to take him to Cleve land. There he shovelled sand on a new b railroad at $1 a day, was promoted to the v charge of a gang at $1.25 a day, was ad- T vanced in the winter to be school-master, became a farmer by slow degrees, and is o now president of. the First National Bank b in Thorntown, Ind. He has a handsome V home known as "Chrome Hill," but he oc casionally visits Nantucket, and lives over e again his perils and his escapes. a --...0 - a Under the GuIllotine. On the morninj of the 8th of September, just at daybreak the murderer Menesclon c was executed at Paris. Acccrding to the 0 custom here he was kept in ignorance of the time fixed for his death until within a few moments of his execution. He had a passed the evening In company with two jailers, who had for some days been his t constant companions, in playing cards, ane it was feared that an unusually ;)oulntiful supper which was supplied to him, had aroused his suspicions, but it did 5 not, and at midnight he went to sleep. ,y Shortly before daybreak the govenor of the prison, with the priest and the execution or and his assistants, entered the corridor leading to the cell of tihe condemned. The ~ jailers, at a signal, opened the door of the e cell, and first awaking Menesclon, informed him that his last hour had come and admitted the priest. T[he latter remained with Menesclon f or ten mninutes' h The Governor, the executioner and his as sistants then entered. Mendescion was now in agony of fear, and it was with dif ficulty that the executioner and his assis tants made what is called the "toilet,,, eutting the hair of the prisoner short,t cutting off the collar of his shirt and binding i his hands behind him. This being done the convict was hurried through the corri don to a door 'which opened upon the square where the guillotine was ready to receive hinm. The scene at this moment was terribly sombre. The sun was just r rising, but its light was obscured by dense clouds, and at the moment the prison door opened a violent storm of thunder andr lightning broke forth. The condemned, at this instant, was overcome with terror, a and sank almost to the ground. The as sistants of the executioner had to drag hinm to the guillotine which had been erected a few paces from the portal of the prison, 1 and in a moment afterward the knife had ar fallen and all was over., Finger Rung. In earlier days medicinal qualities wore C I capable of removing , erfections of thea skin, though in later agesmu wo uld scorn to be more effectual in dovetoping imperfec tions of the temper; in those ages of easy faith a ring which had touche&. the skulls of the magi reposing in solemn splendor in the cathedral of Cologne, would secure the owner against the evil-eye, sudden death, t or accident, while that which 'bore the 1 name of one of those kings of the East, or a had been blessed by the sovereign on Good- e Friday, was a talisman, to which the most fastidious could niot nbject, against cramps. 3 Legend and history nreet about this little e hoop of gold, and enr' chi it with spell or I story, as the ancient jewelers beautified a it with elaborate chiasings and precious ~ stones, with skilful labor lavishedi upon y cameo and intaglio. ilowadays it has be come a somewhat matter of fact ornament; t rustic lovers no longer break it in haives as an assurance of constancy, ballad-mak- E ers no longer hang their rhyme upon it; I all the cunning of our improved civilization r cannot fashion us a ring like Solomon's, 4 which can seal the evil genius of the times 11 in a jar, and what goldsmith of to-day can' I warrant his ;ngs to render the purchaser I iuvisible,ur to appease the injured if thrown a into the sa? BRIEFP. -Detroit's population Is 110,027. -The total number of horses In North a rolina Is 187,133, and of sheep 582, 68. -To make a good solder for copper se ten parts of copper and nine parts f zinc. -Philadelphia Baptist oh roheshave rithin a year paid debts aggregating 101,000, -In southern Europe olive oil is now %rgely adulterated with the oil of cot En seed. -The late Do Witt C. West of Low ille, N. Y., loft an estate worth about 300,000. -Constant cutting off just below the urface of the ground will in time era lcate poison Ivy. -The demand for new Pennsylvania rheat tor shipment.as seed for Europe xceeds its supply. -Italy imported, during the first Ix months of the year, 250,000 tons of Dreals of all kinds. -0110 grape growers are getting mewhat discouraged owing to the revalence of the rot. -The father of Mrs. Tomb Thumb led lately at Middleboro, Mass. Ile ,as of medium stature. -The agricultural school for girls at 1ouen, France, has 300 pupils, varying i age from 8 to 18 years. -The gross income derived from to acco by the farmers of the United tates is about $22,000,000. - St. Louis now has sixty kindergar ins, as instructing 5201 children be ween the age of five and seven years. -General Trevino of the Mext %n Army,and his bride-formely Miss rd-Intend to live at San Luis Potosi. -Several of the expelled Frepoh Je ilts have been Invited by the Duke of rorfolk -to stay at his castle of Arun el. -The King of Siam has presented e Grand Ribbon of the WhiIto Ele hant to the President of the French tepublic. -Sir Evelyn Wood, who accompa led the Empress Eugenie to Zululand. ollected, while there, materials for a 7ork on the Zulu war. -The latest estimate of the acreage evoted to wheat In India Is 18,000,000, gainst the outside estimate of 36,000, 00 In the United States. -Victorien Sardou has bonght the nor which Charlotte Uo0 day opened in rder to enter the cabinet where Ma at was sitting in his bath. -The report of the National Bureau f Satistles shows that during the ionth of June there were 72,567 Im ilgrants arrived in this country. -The value of the timber destroyed y the recent forest fires in the south rest district of the province of New trunswick is estimated at $300,000. -One half pound of salt to the pound f butter In the rule of salting adopted y the makers of the celebrated butter rhich sells at a fancy price in Boston. -The American Baptists have two hurches in Stockholm, 1weden, and re about to form a third. "Here wts n increase of 200 membeis the past ear. -The Edwiin Forrest mansion, at the outhwest corner of Broa4 gnd Master treets. Philadelphia, hldi been pur hased by the managers of, the School f Debign for womon. ' I . -Ninety-one cities In this" country ave a population of over 8,00,000, or boutone-sixth of the whole population, nd this does not include cities with less lian 30,000 population. -Kansas is the geographical centre f the Umited States' 208 miles in width nd 404 miles in length, containing 2,000,000 acres, or is larger' than the rhole of New England. -Lewis Swift, of Rocheat'er, has re elvedh another gold medal, valued at bout $70) from the Imperial A'adamy of ciences at Vienna, for the2 'discovery f the comet 1879, No. 2. -General Walker has mae sha esti mite f the population of the Uiitted States eom the returns already received and e thinks there will be in the neigh orhood of 48,000,000 people. -No member of the Briitsh royal fa illy, except the children of the 'Queen nd of the Prince of Wales, are enmitled > be styled "royal hIghnesses," unless riey have been specially created so by ler Majesty. -Mr. Shiras, telegraphie engineer ar the 1nternational Telephone Comn any of New York, Is in Bucharest en eavoring to obtain a concession for ae establishment of a telephone buisi ess In that city. -The number of lioge slaughtered at levoland since March 1, was 178 8.1, early three timos the number wkich ave been slaughtered -In Cincinati In ame time, the 'number in the he latter city is 80,500. -A company to establish elevated aiways in Paris, upon the New York attern, Is being organized tinder the uperintendence of American capital.. its, and there are whispers of a simi ar scheme for London. -The tobacco and cranberry crops f Wisconsin are larger than ever thig ear. That State will receive about 1,000,000 for its tobacco and about half a much for its cranberries. Its wheat rep turned out well, and its corn crop* excellent. -There was a carrier-pIgeon race in aurope on July the 25. Foerty-sight lrdls strrted from Londlon.at 6 .'clock or Cologne. T1he winnmng bird reached lie Rhionish city at one second before 2 o'clock, or In five hours, 59 minutes nd 59 seconds after leaving the liritish apatal. -Jacob and Mary Dam pman, of St. ('ary's Warwick township, Chester ounty, were married on the 7th of Ju y, 1811, sixty-nine yeara ago, and they re still knocking abolut, en joyingj comn aratlvely good health, Mr. D~ampman ,ill be 90 on the 10th of November *ext, and Mrs. Dampinan was 87 0on hie 13th of September. -The anorease of crops of the United tates, in 1879, over those of the preced ng year, is reported by the Agrioultu al Deopartment to have amounted to 16,000,000, owing to the unusually eavy crops and the great increase of he area cultivated. A greater area than hat of 1870 is now under cultivation, - nd the premise for heavy crops Is so argoond.