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- 4 TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., NOVEMBER 4. 1880. VOL. IV.-NO. 33 MEW -saw."I ... ~Zhaeui Uffl 161FIN, Over the fields. by'wlnding way$, afi We wander on together, fo; Under the flashng asure skies, wl In a hush of August weather. ty Round about xis. afar and near, en We hear t4e loost humming, ce And the asters starring the lonely pa1th Ve - ' Laugh out to see us coming. UE ca Bird songs out of the sunlit oak c Fall rippling through the siadow, a Like a spear of flamo the cardiual flower gj Bums bright along the meadow. ed Into our hearts the blithe wind bloys, th Its own free gladness giving, an And all things laugh in the happy earth For the pure, sweet joy of living, 'I heft ofa Heart, Miss Illione Howell site on the top step 'y of thp black porch df the Pebble House, In gazing out upon the rIver-blue as the sky b above it, and almost as bright-which ch flows gently by at the foot of the garden. 0 Everything looks bright and beautiful tit this warm, pleasant, fragrant October day. The garden walks formed of many small m glittering stones, encircle the beds of au- w4 tumn flowers and plots of feathery grass St like broad gray ribbons thickly strewed ta with precious gems, and the little summer an and bathhouses, built of some dark wood, rii and incrusted with more brillant pebbles, nc gleam and glow through the trees at the CO water's edge, as the homes of the diamond ab gnomes must gleam and glow in the heart of the dark brown earth. Nor does the sheen and glitter end with them, for the w4 Pebble. House. itself is decorated around each window and door-imbedded in some mysterious manner in the frames-with rot many colored stones, each one sparkling fin bravely In pygmy mimicry of the setting i; sun. ai But loveliest of all' things that adorn this mi wongderful October day-lovelierthan flash- gli Ing riqer, gleaming sunshine, steeped peb- lac bles, flaming gladiolas, and bee-loved tour- at o-clocks-is the lady, young and fair, with gold brown hair; large blue-gray eyes, pale ca oval face, and sweet, small mouth, leaning back against one of the pillars of the Pob- he ble House porch, thq red foliage of the ga Virginia creeper that enrobes it drooping *pr over her beautiful head. There is a ten tul der, dreamy look In her large eyes, and a soft smile about her pretty curved lips, as she sits there so motionless, gazing out up- att on the river. One can see that she is at wandering in dreambind; but, alas! she is h doomed to be rudely recalled to earth again. "Kleptomania indeed!" says a loud girl ish voice near her, and Miss Ada' Warden tb a ilttle brunette -with magnificent black eyes and heavy black eyebrows, comes sud- ga denly out on the porch, arm in arm with hO her mseparable friend Linda Lees, whose eyes are as blue as Ada's are black, and whose eyebrows are the faintest shadows of those belonging to her friend. Why do they never call it that when the-the-" lot "Kleptomaniac," drawls Linda, sinking th Into an easy chair, and clasping her pretty ful hands above her head with a generous yawn At that seems to indicate her weariness of the 'w subject. "Oh, thanka"continues Ada, In the same cl loud voice, swinging her broad-brimmed it, hat carelessly toand fro-"kleptomaniac to be sure-happens to'be a poor wretch who u steals a loaf of bread or something of that ou sort" "Don't look at me, Ada dear," Miss to Howell begs, in tones that would have de lighted Shakspeare himself; "I'm sure I col don't know," and she yawns too, but such he a cunning little yawn, as though a red rose- ag bud had suddenly made up his mind to g unfold into the smallest of red roses. ed "Well, upon my word," exclaims Ada, as Indignantly, looking from one of her of frIends to the other, "you both appear to be in- remarkable - spirits this afternoon. I can't stand it. I must run away in search sai of some one less boistercus. No, I won't A either, for here comes Herbert Moore, my an< cousin of cousins, attended, prince of good bal fellows as he Is, by slaves bearing Iced tel sherbets and cakes of dew and honey-thiat is lemonade and macaroons. GIrls ain't Mr you glad I've got such a duck of a cousin, fad and that I coaxed* him to spend his vaca tion here instead of at Newport? And now tru for his opinion on the subject." "What subject?" asks Herbert Moore. of And then, without waiting for an answer, an he turns to the lovely faoe inwreathed thi wIth the vine leaves, and says, '"May I sit at your- feet, Miss Howell? I've been ~ roaming, and I'm deu-beg pardon-aw- be fully tired." "Wouldn't you rest bettor In a chair?" a and she leans forward, with a bright smIle ha on her lips and in hifr eyes. "Not at all, thank you," seating himself a step or two below the lady. "Mrs. Sherwood," begins Ada, between two bites of macaroon. "Oh, that affair of the diamond brace- ret let-- or tmg?" says the young man. " 'het, do youi believe In the kleptoma nia? drawls Linda from her easy chair. thi "That's th6 way they explai It, Adla pa goes on. fBhe has been an innocent picker up of costly trifles since her childhood, her fo, fatlier sat first, and then ier husband, re funding. )hut Mr. Brown, the jeweler, wi with a heart as hard as his diamonds, threatened prosecution and only cosisented to compromise on condition that he should go be allowed to warn his brethren of gems and gold. And so it all came out. Oh po dear,- what a shocking thing, especially wheni one remembers that the-the-'- do "Kleptomaniac," Linda again lazily aug. geats. boa "More thanks, Linda love-that the kleptomaniac came near being. ine of one's wi intimate friends. Do say something, 1Hcr bert." 'p "The most charming girl- I ever met In my -life," Herbert -respondedi, gravely, - was a pickpocket." Miss Warden chokes with her lemonade, Miss Lees drops her hands from their fay- rk orite position above her head into her lap, with the echo of the word "pickpocket," al an~d Miss Howell looks down on the young man with a questioning look in her lovely wi eyes. "Tell us instantly, Herbert, that's a dar- sh 1'nag," gasps Ada, ant.1 Herbert obeys. "Last winter coming home to my lodg- a lng one6 bight, just after parting with my - old chum, George Cuthbort; Ada-" Miss Warden, with a toss of her curly head and a flush on her brown cheek, comn- th inanda, "Don't address yourself altogether to me,. air. It isn't polite.' co "Beg pardon," says Herbert, mischiev ously, "but for sorme reason or other 21 al- th tys think of you when I think of George. ell, I'd seen George off to Europe that eroon. after we had roomed together four years without quarreling once. I nder if that could be said of any k o woment Ee paused, but the audi 0 molntaining a ilgufied silence, pro. od&I with his story. "I naturally felt 0 ry lonely afte,, hh departure, and being t able to read, and in no humor to mak4 116; I determied to go to some place of g iuemnent. It was a cold night, and as ck Frost and I never had been on very endly terms, in oi'der to avoid a protract- a struggle with him, I selected the nearest d oatre, regardless as to what the perform ce was to be. It chanced that they were . iying a most dismal piece." . ( "What was it?" asks Ada. "Ada"--wlth great solemnity-"not for a world would I give any one, not even I. u, my gentle coz, a clue by which- d ell, I was just seated, when a m'ost love- a girl, followed by her escort-a young t in whose resemblance to her led me to leve him her brother--sank into the a air next me." "What did she look like?" slyly qucs- r ned Linda. fi "Miss Lees, I must repeat the remark I o %de to my cousin a moment ago. No p )rd or act of mine shall lead to the- ti imloo it to say she was lovely. The cur- ti a rose as soon as she had taken her seat, y d from that instant her attention was p reted upon the stage. I was pleased to gi 'tlce, however, she did not favor her r npanion with any gushing remarks t out the handsome- 'i '"TVho ?" from Ada. r "No matter, and that she did not b 'IVhat 7" from Linda. M "Ritlier a bunch of violets or a Jacques it ;e. But I was not so well pleased to al d that shb seemed totally unconscious of ej r proximity, although she did accept o 3rogramme from my hand, in an absent- at nded kind of way, without even a d ne in my direction, while the young p Ly on the other side peeped coquettishly w me." n "You conceited follow?" exclaimed his di -sin. w "8he did, upon my honor, from behind ti r fan, every few minutes, and at last, P ining confidence, from the angelic ex- a ssion of my countenance, no doubt, nao I kily offered me a chocolate caramel." 51 "Why Mr. Moorel" n "She did, Miss Less, and I took it and g it. She was about six, I should think. cI )wever, to go on with my story. In the ti Ird act, where "Rose Michel," M " The Two Orphans." 01 "Neither. Where there is some very pa- In tie business, my charming neighbor be- g a to weep, and reaching her' grey-kidded st ad down by her side, took. fron the A aket of my coat my handkerchief-the si t of that dozen of silk ones you brought P1 from Paris, Ada." II "Not really?" And what did you do?" ta "Nothing. Yes, I did. I laughed al- 5t itly and long, till the flirt of the fan and I chocolate caramel said to me, reproach - ly. 'Why do you laugh? It isn't funny. ai id I watched her at the end of the play p) ikhig away in the most dignified man- p r, after carefully putting my handker- t of in her polocoat, or whatever you call pocket. 'Twas all a mistake you may depend nu it, Herbert. . Last winter we wore pockets so-so--" '' n da healtates, and Linda as usual, comes b her apsistance: "In our back breadths." 1 'i-that she-I mean no doubt your In t skirt was intruding npon the arm of til chair. And did you ever meet her la hin?" b( '1I did. And she immediately possess- ti herself, in just a guileless a manner II she possessed herself my handkerchief, ci something belgnging to me, from my J at of view of infinmtely more valuable. Vw "There's George, and we promised to go tE ing with him. Come, Linda, " shouts sit La, grasping her laisy friend by the arm; al as they ran down the steps she shouts mk at her cousin, "if there's any more, f us this evening, H~erbert." a 'is there any more, Miss Howell?" asks ci Moore, rising and standing face to tC ae with the blushing girl.w 'Should there be more?" she asks In re- di "Yes. 'And she gave him her heart in place p! his own, and promised to be his true la Ifaithful wife? Do. you approve of fE t ending for my story." i 'That would be a happy conclusion, I'm 13 e," laughs illione. "I can think of no ti lcr one, Herbert." -in' &nd lie draws her little hand within his hi i, and they slowly saunter off toward the Jz py river. lo Prnoverbs, New agad Old. lever sacriflee safety to large expected b urns. lever make a loan on importunity. I Tever lend a borrowing friend more b in you are willing to lose if ho cannot e sever speculate deeper than you can af- di ' to lose if you lose at all. al e~ver borrow any money to speculate 'i h. a we no man anything. 4e siatisfied with a moderate rate to a nr -d tozdant. Ceep well insured and watch your co icy. t'ever consult a man on business who y] as not manage well his own-.t Avoid a second mortgage for a fresh. in. ti le that maketh haste to be rich is not ts overty is no bar to marriage if both am rties will work and save, aa The gods help those who help themselves ti men and women. God promises nothing to idleness. .t Aman must ask his wife if ho may be p Little coins, like drops of water, will fill b ucket. d A we sow in temporal affairs so shall s Ireap. .t hort settlements make long friend- t: Fortunes are made by long earnings and U oney easily gotten is soon spent. C Money earned is money valued. r It is easier to loosen up good property o an to re-establish it. - - ja In disoussing business disagreements keep r Les wisdom is required to make money c an to keep It secutely when made. Boienee let F'lour Manufascttre. Until recently it was believed that the dly thing to be sought for in the produc .n of a good article of flour was a more or as fine disintegration of the ktrnels of heat. As long as millers held to the the ry that grinding was all tlat was required, large percentage of the flour had its fu. itive powers greatly reduced by being ,ound to an impalpable dust. Science, r aid of the microscope, has shown that )really good bread can be made froin )ur-in which any large portion of the arch globules have been thus broken >wn. The rising of bread is due to the arch globules which remain whole, whilst to dust from the disentegrated ones, by ouring, impairs the lightness and sweet. 3as of the loaf. It is but recently that kese facts have Deen made known to nil rs, and since that time they have been Lscarding their old theories and machinery id devising improvements with the view > separating the starch globules, rather ian pulverizing them. Another import it advance in this industry consists of an aprovement in bolting inachines. Until cently the bran was separated from the 3ur by a powerful air blast, which blows I the Iight particles of bran. Considerable ower is requifed for this process, and al tough t is carried on in a closed room, tore is not only a great waste of the fin-.r irticles of flour, but the impalpable dust enetrates every part of the mill and oftea tves rise to destructive explosions. By a scent invention, electricity is made to ke the place of the air blast. Just over te wire bolt:ng cloth,, which has a rapid .ciprocal motion, a number of hard rub 3r cylinders are kepc slowly revolving and ibbing against strips of sheepskin, by 'hich a large amount of fractional electric yia evolved. -Then, as the middlings are eved by the reciprocal motion, the light bran comea to the top, whence, imstead being blown.away by an air blast, it is tractou to the electricallay charged cylin 3rs, as light substances are attracted to a lece of paper, or a stick of seahng wax hich has been smartly rubbed. The ro oval of the bran from the rollers, and its 'posit on one side, are readily affected, hile the flour is carried in another direc Dn. The separation is thus* made com tete, with very little loss of dust. Still 16ther device has been introduced, to re. ove from the wheat, before being ground, nall pieces of iron, which, despite the ut oat care, will find their way into the aln, working great injury to mll nan Linery. This trouble Is now remedied by ie use of -series of magnets, directly under hich all the grain is made to pass. These agnets readily catch all the stray pieces iron from the wire bands used in bind g; and they have also revealed the sin flar tact that, of the scraps of iron and eel which find their way into the au, fully one third are something be des the binding wire. They are of larger *oportions, of varying character, and uch more hurtful to the machinery than .e wire. Thus i; is that science is con antly coming to the aid of all the various dustries, lightening the labor of the orkmen, decreasing the cost of products, id in every way improving all the various ocesses which are involved in the im oved and constantly advancing civiliza m of the age. Whistling in tihe Mines. In 1840 there was a great mine di saster .ar CarbonIale, Pa. Several miners were iried in one of the Delaware and Hudson meal company's mines by a sudden cav g in of the roof. Although the cause of ,e caving was known - to have been a ck of proper support by pillars and tim irs, at least one old miner, a survivor of a disaster, still living here, has al ways aintained, and still maintain's, that it was uscd by a -'dare-devil miner," naied ick Richards, whistng in the mine while orking with his gang, against the pro sts of his comrades. Richards was a optical young Welshman, who ridiculed the superstitions of his fellow-workmen. itih the old1 miner mentioned above aiid teen others, lhe was working in the mine, mile from the entrance, on the day of tbe tastrophe. The mine was well known be scatily propped, and the miiners crc "robbing* it preparatory to its aban )nmfent. lie is described as having been merry fellow, fond of teasing his coim miens. On this occasion lhe suddenily Id down his pick, and announced to his Ilow workmen in thne chamber that lie tended to "whistle them up the 'Rigs o' arley."' The mimers were aghast at the ought of Richards thus deliberately flying the face of mrine luck, and they begged of m not to chi-se the good luck spirit away. :e laughed at their fears, and with clear, ud notes made the chamber ring with IhIt rely Scotch air. Not conteum with that, .ys the old miner, shuddering at this late ry over the sacreligious temerity of the erry Welshiman, he rattled off a jig knowin ir the miners an the "Devil Amoiig the 'ailors," and ended by telling the good Lck spirit to "take a dance to that, and blowed -to it." None of the miners mld speak for some time. Some of them led to go to work again, but the fear of easter was so strong upon them that they I made preparations to quilt the mine. lie old miner who recalls this iiicident ys that lie had a brother and a son work. ig in another mine, and he made up his aind to go to them, tell them of Jack lchard's foolhardiness, warn them of its msequences, and escape with thienm from 1e mine.' Jack Richards could not con nc any of thema of the childishness of teir intended course. Suddenly, while they were gathering up eir tools, a noise like the sound of die. tat thunder came ta the earn of the agita. d miners. They knew too well what the und presaged The roof was "working," ad a cave-in threatened. The minors mrned to Jack and charged him with bring. ig disaster upon them' by hIs defiance of ie good luck spirit of the mine. Jack re lied that-if the roof was fallitig, it was acause of insufficient support, and, not ocause of his whistling, and knowing the anger that encompassed them all, lie couin ihed his comrades to lose no time in "get. ng atop." Bunt before they could take to first step towardi reaching the stirfaco a 3cond shock ran thirobugh the mine. -This me it was like a clap of thunder near thme mrth. It was foll wed by a crash that auld be made out by the falling masses of >ck and coal from the roof, and by a gust f wind that hurled the miners aghinut the hggedl walls of their chamber. Then the tine fell in all about themn, and the seven 34n miners and the car-horse wore impris tied behind a wall of fallen coal sand rock, a a space n )t more than torty foet square. Their lights were extiukuished, and the was not a match in the party. With dea awaiting them in one f Its worst for: they cursed Jack lich 9, and one of t miners tried to find m in the dark brainhim with a pick. To ascertain who: or auy of the gang had been killed by t fatlling coal the name each one was ca cd by one of the min ra. All respond but Jack Richards. 1e was found de half buried beneath the wall of rock a coal. The miners gavp themselves up despair, as they did not dream it was pc sible for any aid to reach them from wil out, and to dig their way through a mi of rocky debris was a task they knew w hopeless. Among the imprisoned mine was a young man named Boyden. Ile w a son of Alexander Bbyden, the super tendeit of the mine, aind, like his lathi was a man of great nern$ and courage. I encouraged his imperiled companions wI the assurance that the air in the mi would not. be poisoned by the gasses for least two days, and that as long as t horse's body lasted they need not starv He said that his father would leave not ing undone to rescue all who were shut the mine,- and that, medhtimnc, they thet selves could aid his efforts by digging c to meet him. Only three picks could found, the others being buried beneath t coal. With these the then went to we with a will. Those who had no pie worked with their hands in digging in the barrier between them and their frc doi. The body of poor Jack Richar was uncovered and laid tenderly in a sa place in the chamber. . The horse seen understand the terror of the situation, a1 gave voice to frequent piteous neighs. The men worked for hours, many them working the flesh from their fiuge in tloe sharp coal. bome of them lost i heart, and throw themselves upon t damp floor of their underground pris and bewailed their fate. Suddenly a ray light broke through a small opening in t wail. Then a lantern was pushed throug followed by a man's head. The man cri out: "Is there a man hero that is alive i A glad shout from the miiters was the r ply. The man pulled himself through tl opening into the chamber. It was Ale ander Boyden, the superintendent. Ti niners took him up in their arms, we tears of joy, and kissed the man who: they believed had come to deliver then Mr. Boyden had found his way to the sp where the miners were imprisoned I crawling along a narrow passage that hi been left in the falling coal and rock by t) lodging of roof timbers all along the wa It required a struggle for hours to mal the perilous jowneyl Be did not expect find one man alive in the chamber, I great desire being to rescue the body his son, if possible, and save it from belt devoured by rats. He soon had tue mi era in readiness to follow bin back towa the mouth of the mine. Jie took tl dead body of Jack Richards on his ba and lead the way, and two hours afte ward the miners were in the arms of wive parents and sweethearts on top. Richar had no relatives but a crippled s'ater, w: was dying with consumption. Bhe di the next day. The brother and son of t narrator of this tragical incident and twel other miners were never found. Three da after the fall, mine boss Hosie, who h been in a distant part of the mine wh the roof caved in, emerged from its deptl worn away to a skeleton. With his pl lie had dug his way for more than a i through an almost solid wall, without taste of food or a drop of water to strong en and sustain him. This mine tragedy forms one of the ft orite narratives of the old inhers of t. region, and, after relating it to inquiri visitors, they never fail to warn them i to whistle if they intend going down in nine. 'rimeoval Alan. In a recent speech Prof Dawkius gen alizing from thme distrlbution of the anin remais found in the early tertiary perio !onludi~ed that Europe was then joined Africa. The evideiice found in thme mi pliocene period of the existence of the rh drift, hunter in France, Italy, Spain, Grceel North Africa and also in India, brought 1 in his opmion, face to face in that pern with the primitive condition of human cu ture on which1 In all prehability, all p: gress land been based. The absence geographical limitations already referred would account for tho freedom with whi tho hunter passed to and fro. Subsequei ly, in the cave-men lhe found the suece sore of the river-drift hunter-nmen of mu higher type. He gave of their habits t following hypothetical description: Th (ressed themselves in skins and wore glo: not unlike thiose worn at thme present tin Th'iey wore necklacee and armlets, a probably pierced their ears for the rc tion of ear-rings for ornamentation. Th used reed raddle, and indeed some of t practices of the present time nmight looked upon distinctly as being surviva The skins with wich they clothed thei selves tamey sewed together witk bone not los,and from what they left behind on-bor and pIeces of skin atid the liac it appear that were able to form a distinot idea of t creatures which they hunted, the represe lations thus left probably being the troph of the chase. They were fowlers a fishermen, and it was evident $rom the f ures of animals which had been dscover that thme hunters of these times had gr< facility In representing forms of anim on bone ; but their attempts at representi the human form were rude. They had a: left behind evidence of the art of sculptui Thley were ignorant of metals. They bi no domestic animals. Apparently thi were not in the habit of burying their dei We were not aware of what sort- of p1 sique they had, but there was reason to 1 hoeve they were most closely related to t Esqulmaux. They were wholly differe from the river-drIft muon. The river-di man was in a stqte of primeval savager the cave man was of a higher type, but his turn was wholly inferior t0 the farmi herdsman and merchant who followed hi We had this proof of the developemi of the human race In times before hist< began,and It occurred to him they I no reason for fixing any limit as to wha progress would end, lisa opmlon~ being ti man would go on Increasing in knowle< andl In improving in the arts of ci vilizati until In perhaps not a very renmote future would be as superior to the men of It as we wore teuperior to the early hunt and cave me n. Stick to one thing until it is dol and donme well, Tkhe tuan who eha two hares niot only loses one of the but is paretty u tre to loe te h e a.l re Gold In nfusteal Inatrument. th The use of gold in the construction IS, of musical Instruments, never yet tho he roughly Investigated, offers an Interesting to field for experiment. Four metals are h1- distinguished as being capable of being 11e hardened to spring temper, and in that state 11- possess more or less power of vibration. ed teel hardened by tempering Is used for Ad pianoforte strings. Brass Is hardened by id drawing down or flattening, but the elas, to ticity li not equal to steel. Nickel can 08- also be drawn or flattene, and possesses h- great springness, but no metal, either in 1Ie a pure state or nuxed with other metal, as equals gold, if combined with copper, eli. r ver or both, for ductility or of power of as vibration. A spiral spring made of tlf n- teen-carat gold-that is, fifteen parts of flue ir, gold to nine partsof copper drawn intoawire le -possesses more springiness. Many years th ago I superintended the manufacture of some no gold wire on this principle, as a string at. upon an ordinary pianoforte, and the results hie were marked Not only was the tonei V. considerably increased, but its quality ma k- terally improved. With the thinner and in shorter strings this was s' noticeable that 1- It is surprising the idea should not have ut suggested itself to others. Fifteen carat be wire drawn down at least six holes after Lie softening answers best. I have also sug. rk gested the use of gold for the vibrating ks tongue of the harmonium, concertina and to other Instruments of the kind. Sonic time C- ago I aslied an amateur zithern player to do try the effects of gold wire upon his intru fe ment and he has since assured me the in. id crease in tone is so remarkable that he has id substituted it for the steel springs with cemplete success. I think the idea one of that merits further inquiry. The expense rs (if advantages are to be gained) should not Ill deter those most interested in the matter. ie The harimoniun tongues are made so thin )n that little extra outlay would be requlred, of and with small loss, seeing that the old 10 gold ca be remolted. Let anyone take a li, disk of steel the size and thickness of a 3( sovereign, throw it upon a wooden table so as to make it ring, then take a sovereign e- and beat it in the sanie way. The first I' will have a dull sound, as if the metal x- were cracked, and the second a bright 10 metallic bell-ring. A still better test Is to pt throw a piece of steel band on the floor, i listen to the vibrations, then do the same - with a strip of gold of the same size and It density. Gold has been used for the OY strings of the virginal, witi what effect I id cannot say; everything depends on the 10 gold being alloyed and hardened by draw F- ing down to the desired condition, in We which it will stand nearly the same as to steel. is of A Poetic stwry. ig There is a quite singular tact ine onnec u. tion with Stiles' hill, in the town of South rd bury, Conn. known to the country residents ie living within sight of that eminence. Foir k six decades two tall elm trees stood side ir- by sidb, a little distance apart, upon the s, topmost point of the elevation; these trees Ie! were visible for many miles around, and Io from this fact they became noted land eid marks. More than sixty years ago two lie little girls were wont to pass over the ve summit of this hill daily, dIring ye the sniumer season, to drive their ad father's cows to pasture. They were en impressed by the sightly attributes of the is, elevation, and often tarried to gaze at the oh wide-spread landscape. One day they lIe conceived the idea of planting each a tree a upon the hill, which should be to h- them a reminder of their childhood days in the years to come. They put their idea .v- into effect, and two slender elm shoots is soon waved their green branches as sol ng itary sentinels in the open space round Lot about. Years passed by and the shoots a grew into tall, stalwart trees. The girls grew to womanhood and passed out of the parental home into the great, wide world. Occasionally they would meet one another and allude to the livinir reminders of 3r- youthful days, andi of ten they would visit ial the familiar hiauiits of their girlhood and( Is, would ait beneath the wide spreading to branches of the mlammoth elmis. About d- five years ago one of the girls died, an' eci aged lady of almost eighty. Bearcely 10, had the intelligence of her death reached is, the neighibcrhood of her youth than the od residlents observed that one of Lte old elms il- was dying. Its leaves wilted and( wIth '- ered as though scorched by naume, and~ of although midsummer yet the foliage fell to to the ground, leaving the naked, lifeless Dh b'ranches and stock looking dlesolate it- enough. Decay quickly followed in the & great tree, and duringr a high wind, one ch night the following winter, it fell to tihe hie earth. Th'le other girl, alt houghl an octo By genarlan, still lives, and the 01(1 eln 'es which she planted ,in heir fresh young e. girlhood still lives. But the people, to lil whom the above circumstanes- are known, p- watch it with interest, feeling that a sub. E"Y tie relationship exists between the two lie lives, and that the one will cease with the be0 other. le. ii. Clearing thec Wayv ror 1(1 Hickory. d- When President Jackson visited Hart es ford, Ct., in Juno, 1838, among the i-l od dents of the day, which provoked conasld he erable merriment at the expense of the ni- sufferers, was the following, related by a es gentleman who witnessed it: As the Presi id dent's party caime in sight M the crowd at g-. Skinner's Corner it was observed that three 3d men in a wagon wore riding abreast of at Jackson's carrlage, and while not designing urn to inutthe distinguishied visitors, their ag conduct was so boisterouis as to annoy them, so One of the assistant marshals requiested 0. them to full back, but lhe was answered by ad a fiat and profane refusal. General Pratt ey' then rode up and asked them to take themi. z. selves out of the way. Another blast of y- profanity and an emphatic negative greeted e- this request. General Pratt's eyes flashed hie ominously, lie was mounted on a fine, ant powerful horse, and ha'tlng uintil the wa ift gon containing the belligerents was a few y; yards away, the General put spurs to his in horse and charging upon the animal which ,r, was drawing the refractory three. H~e inl. came up at full gallop, his horse stricking int the other quarterlogly .on the foreshoulder ry with tremendous force. The horse was ad(- knocked down the embankment, the wagon ire inpset and partially wrecked, and the stub. tat born occupants h ound themselves sprawling go on the ground. Although the shock of the on collision was great, Pratt kept his seat as ho firmly as a rock, and the crowd cheered i80 him lustily. Old Hickory jiould not re rer press a emile at, the ludicrous scene as 'the three men took the .unexpected tumble. There was a good deal of the Jackson snap in the performance, and possibly the Presi wes dbt thought it he had boon in General mn, Pratt's place, "I wonid have done the same so. thing, by the Eternall" Manta. There are many strange physiological phenomena; such as, for instance, as what Is known as imitative and curiosity nianias, the one being an uncontrollable desire to do as we see others do, and the other an irresistible wIqh to see what oth era see. History records many instances of these manias. One of the most remarkable of the first occurred in Aix-la-Chapelle and other cities in 1374, when an assemblage of persons appeared who had " danced their way through Germany." It was es. timated, at one time, that there were 80r00 persons thus engaged. Its commencement was supposed to have been that a single in dividual, afflicted with some nervous dis ease, commenced danciig: others seeing him, in obedience to the desire, the mania, to act as others act, joined In the dance, which, in a short time, engaged the above extraordinary number of persons. In the same category may be placed the "biting nuns," who appeared in the convents of Germany, Holland and Rome in another century. This extended, imitative mania a arose simply from the act of one nun at tempting to bite a companion, and almost immediately the whole sisterhood com nienced biting each other. So in regard to the "mewing nuns." A nun in a convent initated the mewing of a cat. Other sisaers commenoed mew ing, until, finally, the whole sisterhood mewed in concert for hours at a thne. Something similar to this, about sixty years ago, took place in our own country. At a cam p-meeting held at Caneridge, Kentucky, a mani thought lie could best serve the Lord by climbing a tree and barking like a squirrel. In 'a short time the imitative mania seized upon others, and the trees upon the camp-ground were soon covered with mon barking in like 1 manner. The curiosity mania leads to I scenes, if not so ridiculous, quite as strange. A dszIpated gambler by the name of John Law, killed a man in a duel in London, I and escaped to Paris. The finances of France ware in a deranged condition. In a short tine lie became famous as the great financier who had extracted that country from her difliculties. Such was the curl osity to see him that is carriage -was sur rounded by thousands, so that a troop of horse had to clear the streets before lie could proceed. Whenever men or women become noted, no matter for what, there oxists in the public mind a curiosity to see them, and if there be an opportunity offer ed, it becomes a mania. Discovery of Salk and Satin. The discovery of silk is attributed to one of the wives of the Emperor of China, Hoang-ti, who reigned about two thousand ( years before the Christian era; and since 4 that time a special spot has .always been I allotted in the gardens of the Chinese royal palace to the cultivation of the mulberry I tree-called in Chinese the "golden tree" -and to the keeping of silk worms. The first silk di ess in history was made, not for a sovereign nor for a pretty woman, but for the monster in human shape, HIelloga balus. Persian monks, who canie to Constanti nople revealed to the Emperor Justinian the secret of the production of silk, and gave hin some silk worms. Fromi Greece the art passed into Italy at the end of the thirteenth century. When the Popes left Rome to settle at Avinton, France, they introduced into that country the secret which had been kept by the Italians; and Louis XI. established at Tours a manu factory of silk fabrics. Franiels I. founded t the Lyons silk works, which, to this day, ( have kept the first rank. Henry 1I., of France, wore the first pair of silk hose ever made, at the wedding of his sister. The word "satin" which in the original was I applied to all silk stuffs in general, has, since the mnst century, been used to desig- I nate only tissues which prevenit, a histred(l surface. The dliscovery of this p~ariculiar brilliant stuif was accidental. Octavio Mai, a silk-weaver, finidiing b~usinesa veryi dull, and not knowing what to iinvent to give a new impulse to the trade, was one day paciing to and fro before his loom. 1 Every time lie passed the machine, with no (definite object In view, lie pulledi little threads from the warp aind put themi to his a month, which soon after lie spat nut. Later on, hie found the little ball of silk ont the floor of his workshop, and was attract ed biy the brilliant appearance of the threads. lie repeated the exp~eriment and hby using certain mucilaginous preparations succcede in giving now lustre to his tis.. Bues. suoehing About Faa. K AN Si was the first lady who carried a fan. She lived in ages which are past, andl for the most part torgotten, and sho was the daughter of a Chinese Mandarin. Who ever saw a Mandari, oven on a tea chest, without his fani In China and Japan to this day every one hans a fan; and l there are fans of all sorts for everybody. The Japanese waves hi fan at you when he meet, you, by way of greeting, and the beggar who solicits for alms has the ex ceedingly small coin "made on purpose" for charity presented to him on the tip of the fan. In ancienit times, aniongst the Greeks and R~omanis, fans seem to have been enormous; they were generally made of feathers, andi carriedl by slaves over the heads of their masters andh mistresses, to protect thieni from the suin, or waved about I before thorn to stir the air. Catherine (10 Medicis caaried the first folding fan ever seen in France; and in the time of Louis the For~rteenthi the fan was a gorgeous thing, often covered with jewels, and worth a small fortune. In Eng. 1 hand they were the fashion in the time of Henry the Eighth. All hiis many wives carried them, andh doubtless wept behiind them. A fan set in diamonds was once gliyen to Queeni Elizabeth upon New-Year'si The Mexican feather faiis which Cortez had from Montezuma were marvels of beauty; and in Spain a large black fan is the favorite. It is said that the use of the fan is as caregfully taught ha that country as any other branch of education, and that by a well-known code of signals a Spanish lady can carry on a long conversation with any one especially an admirer. The Japanese criminal of rank is polite ly executed by means of a fan. On being. sentenced to death ho is presented with a fan, which he must receive with a low bow, and as he bows, presto I the execu tioner draws his swordl, atid cuts his head off, In fact, there is a fan fou every 0e neahin in Japan. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Love, undying, solid love, whose root is virtue, can no more die than 'virtue itself. A great many men who start out to reform the world leave themselves for the last job. 'o be ever active in laudable jur. suits is the distinguised character stic of men of merit. No man ever regretted that he was virtuous and honest in his youth, and keep away from idle comlantions, When children are little thy- make their parents' heads aobe, and when they grow up they make their hearts Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circum Itances, would have lain dormaqgt. lie who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he nust be forced to invent t*enty more o maintain that one. There is nothing more disg'aceful ;han that an old man should have no hing to produce, as a proof that Ie tas lived long, except hig years. To fill the sphere which 'rovid ince ippoints is true wisdom; to discharge rusts faithfully and live exalted ideas, fhat is the mission of good men. He who is false to the present duty ireaks a thread in the loom, and will lee the effect when the weaving of a ife time is-unraveled. Men, 'not having been able to oure leabih, misery and igiorance, have magined to make themselves happy by lot thinking of these thing-. Proud men never have friends ilther in prosperity, because they muow nobody, or in adversity, because hen nobody knows them. Charity toward the weakiress of hn. nan nature is a virtue which we de nand ii others, but which we find rery hard to practice ourselves, What we must do is to make the not tal possibities of life our ideal. It liw i human power not to constrhct the lodlike, but to recognize it, and thus am it. A superior capacity for busines.;ad more extensiVe knowledge, are steps )y which a new man often mounts to avor and outshines the rest of his con emporarles. . The fortunate man is he who, born >oor or nobody, works gradually up to vealth and consideration, and having Cot them, dies before he finds they vere not worth so much trouble. No trait of character is rarer, none nore admirable than a thoughtful in lependenco on the opinions of othera, ombined with a sensitive regard for he feelings of others. You ought not to ask odds of any one. ,Ike a blooded horse all you have a 'ight to demand is to be put even oh he whifletrees. After that show your nettle. llow few realize that the strata of ove and hate lie so close together that t takes but little to bring the latter Ippermost, when under the pressiro >f unkindness or injustice. Discontent is like egotism; an In tance in which a small idea will ride o death what was once a man, just as . lie elephant or the lion can be annoyed o madness by a little insect. The happiness of your life depen Is ipon the quality of your thoughts; lierefore, guard accordingly and take are that you entertain no nutions in uitable to virtue and unreasonable to iature. The niothor's yearning, that com iletest type of the life in another life, vhich is the essence of real human' ove, feels the presence of the cherish d child, even in the base, degraded lIan. Trho dealings of man and man, every rhere are a species of bluff, and lie v'ho wins, thiugh he sacrifices every cruple, is applauded by all-uceoss sing the standrad to judge by. The damps of autumn sink into time uaves andi prepare thern or the neces ity of their tall; and thus insensibly re we, as years close round us, de ached from our tenacity of life by time ~enitie pressure of recorded sorrow. Story-telling is subject to 'two una oadable defects, frequent repetition mid being sooni exhausted ; so th .t, vihoever values this gift in himself, mas need of a good inemory, and ought requenty to shift his company. No mani possesses real strength of nind if ho cannot, after having heardl 11l that others have to say, resolve nid firmly resolve what to do, and arry his resolution inito effect. Take Cunusel of others; niroilt by their ex morience and, wisdom; and above all ake counsel with hourself t make u pour mind what to do in the world, ntd-do it. In order that all may be taught to peak truth, it isnossary phat all like vise should learn to hear it; 'for no pecies of falsehood is more frequent han flattery, to which the coward is otrayed by Iea r, the dependent by in crest, the friend by tenderness. Those vhto are .neither servile nor timorous re yet ilesirous to bestow pleasure; ndl while unjust demands of praise ontinue to be made, tiere wilt always me some whom hope, fear, or kindness iill dispos to pay them. In tihe wonders and glories of the oewborn spring, God's voice is specil y heard calling upon mora to magnify nid praise Himo. The eye must be >linder than the mole :that falls to ec H-Im in His wisdom and goodness n each object of the gorgeous pano ama that stretches out illimitably on very side. The ear must be (loller han a .de*af adder's on, which the roi ,of gadness from alt nature fall eiv tiitspiring grateful recognition neroles so prodigally. Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to Wade far Into the Ioings of the Most 1ligh ; Whomb iithiough to know be .life, and joy to mak. mention of his name, yeP our mondest knowledge is to know that weo know him not aps inideed lie is, neither San we know him, and oqir safeilt eoe luence is our silence w4n a~ OoA fess without conftssion tht his aW'~'''~ lueXplicable, his greatnesA'4 our sapacity and rech IP is abot~al we upon 4arth; therefon It behoovo >br words to-be ward fow, '"~