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--EDITION. W tiB TRI-WEEKL EDTO.WINNSBORO, S C., NOVEMBER 6, 1880. VOL. IV.-NO. 134. WAITING FOR THE 00W8 TO 00E. The farm-house wears a modest mien, Th'a dormer windows quaint and brown; And through a tangled web of green Thespring-house roof gces sloping down; A fragrance on the air sweepi by, Of new'mnown bay, all wet with dew . And on the barn-roof, th atohed with r e, The pigeons softly light and coo. The lambs upon the upland play, The aunset spreada lie rose-red glare i The mountain ranges streloh away - Through dreamy paths of purple air. * Beside the baro, beyond the wood, Within the mellow twilight gloam, How oft, a barefoot boy, I stood, To wait unt I the cows came home ! The battle of my life I foqght, Far from the'scenes of boyhoed's timo Yet 6ven in my sleep I sourht To clasp a stronger hand than mine I I heard as:anl the thresher's flail, And well-remembered soUinds of home.. And w atched the evening sunlight pale While waiting for the cows to come. The Weaver of Ravdioe. It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first come to Raveloe, and at the end of fifteen years the Raveloc trien said just the same things about him as at the be ginning. He was subject to catalepsy and to the villagers there was something mys terious in these fits, as a fit was a stroke and it was not in the nature of a stroke to let a man stand on his legs like a horse between the shafta and then walk off as soon as you can say "Geel'' So had his way of life mysterious pecu liarities; he invited no coner to step across his door-sill, and lie never strolled into the village to drink a pint at the Rainbow, and he sought no man or woman, save tor the purposes of his calling or to supply himself with the necessaries of life. He had knowledge of herbs-and charms too they thought-and pqrhapshe was pos sessed of an evil spirit, so It was partly to this vague fear that Marner was in debted for protecting him from persecution, and still more that as linen-weaver, his handicraft made, him a highly welcome settler to the rich house-wives of the dis trict. There was only one imoortant addi tion which the years brought ; it was, that Master Marner had laid by a ine sight of money somewhere. His life had reduced itself to the mere functions of weaving and hoarding, But about Christmas of that 15th year a great change came over Marner's life, and his history became blent in a singular manner with the life of his neighbors. The greatest nian in lHaveloe, was Squire Cass. Of his two sons, Dinsey the second, the neighbor said It was no matter what became of him, a spitetul jeering fellow, whose taste for drinking, bettinir and swop ping might turn him out to be a sowing of something worse than wild oats. But It would be a pity if Mr.' Godfrey, the eldest, a f'ne, . open-laced, good-na tured young man, should take the same road as his brother which he seemed in clined to do of late. Godfrey was in Dunstan's power as he had secretly married a coarse beauty whose love of drink had made her an unfit companion for any one, and he lived in fear of his father learning the dreadful secret and turning him adrift, so Dunstan made constant demands on him for hush money. Driven to desperation by his profli gate brother he had given him permission to sell his favorite horse if lie would make no further demands on him. So Dunsty rode the horse to the races and before he had a chance to sell, killed the horse, and wont from the grounds in a druuken pennyless state. As lie was plodding home through the dark he saw a light in Marner's house. He knocked but no one answered,and in step ping in he found it vacant. Where could he be, leaving his supper a cooking and (he door unfastened. It was a dark, rainy night,and perhaps ho hald gone out for fuel and .fallen In the stone pits. 'I'hat was an interesting Idea to Dunstan. If the weaver was dead who had a right to his money? Who would know where his money was hidden? Who would know that anybody had come to take It away? He saw a place near the loom where the sand had finger' marks, he darted to it, lifted the bricks and found two leather bags. Ho hustened out of the house with the bags. The rain and darkness had got thicker, but ho was glad of it. Silas came soon alter, and after getting warm he thought he would put his beloveU guineas on the table before him, as It would be pleasant to see thenm as ho ate his un wonted feast. For joy is the best of wine, and Bilas'sguineas were agolden wine of that sort. The sight of the empty liole made his heart leap violently, but the belief that his gold was gone could not come at once. He had put his gold somewhere else, and then forgotten It. Ho turned his bed over, he looked in the brick oven. He felt once more all around the hole. He could see every object In' lis cottage -and his gold was not there. He put his trembling hands to hia head and gave a wild ringing scream, the cry of desolation. The cry lhad relieved him from the first maddening pressure. He tattered toward his loom, and got into the seat where he worked, instinct ively seeking tis as the strongest assur ance of reality. The Idea of a thief began to present itself. lie started from the loom to the door. He rushed out In the rain and made his way to the Inn. 'I here lilas told his story under frequent questioning, as the mysterious charaetor of the robbery became evident. The slight suspicion with which his hearers at first listened to hIm, gradually melted ~jay before the convincing sinm simphci? of his distress. D~unsey Cass had never been heard from, and on Nc* Year's eve Squire Uass gave a large party. That night Godfrey's wife was walking with slow uncertain steps th'rough the snow-covered lanes of Riavelue, carrying-her chiild In her arms. Soop she. ll numb with cold and fatiguu, and then nothing but a. supreme immediate longing to lie doewn and and sleep. The comuplete torpor came at last ; the fingers lost their tension,- the arms uin. bent; thdn the little head tell away fromt the bosonm, and the blue eyes opened Wide on the cold starlight. Suddenly its eyes were caught by a bright gleaming light on the white ground ; in an; Instant the child had slipped on all fours and held out one little hand to catch the 'gleam. But the gleam could not be caught, and now the head w4s held up to see wher the cunning gleam cae from. It came.from a very bright place; and the little one, rising on its legs ran on to the open door of Silas Mar nor's cottage, and right up to the whrm hearth where dilas's coat lay oh the brick. to dry. The little one squatted down on the coat, and presently the warmth had a lulling efect, anu the litte golden head sank down on the old coat asleep,' But where was Silas Marner? He was in the cottage, but he did not see the child. He had gone to the door to look out, and put his right hand on the latch of the door to close it-but he did not close it; he was arrested by the invisible hand of catalepsy, and stood with wide Ibit sightless eyes, holding open his door, powerless to resist either the: good or evil that Might enter there. When Marner's sensibility returned he closed the door, and turning toward the hearth, where, to his blurred vision, it seemcd as if there were gold on the floor in front of the hearth., Goldl-his own gold-brought back as mysteriously as it had been taken away. He leaned forward at last, and stretched forth his hand, but Instead of the hard coin, his fingers encountered soft, warm curls. Could this be his little sister, come back to him in a dream? lie had a soft dreamy feeling that this child was somehow a message come to him from that far-off life. But there was a cry on the hearth, and Silas ted and soothed it. le found it had on wet shoes, which suggested to him that she must have come from out doors, so he raised the child and went to the door, and the little one cried nam my. Bending forward he could just dis cern narks made by the little feet, and lie followed their track to the furze bush, and there he found a human body, with the head sunk low in the furze. and half cov ered with the shaken snow. Silas knew that all the town was at the grand party at tae Squire's, so he carrIed the little one right there in search of the doctor. The doctor, Godfrey, and a few others, go to the stone pits, and then find that the woman is past help-dead. They urged Silas to part with the child, but he presses it to him and says: "No, no! I can't part with it. It's come to me-I've a right to keep it " It was a bright autumn Sunday, sixteen years after Silas Marner had found his new treasure on the hearth. The bells of old Raveloe church were ringing the cheerful peal which told that the morning service was ended. He called her Epple for his sister, and that morning as they walked home together, in low mur murming tones. Eppie talked to him. "Father, if I was be to married, ought I to be married with mother's ring?" "Why, Eppie, have you been a-thinking on it, "Only this last week' Father," said Eppie, ingenuously, "since Aaron talked to me about it," "And what did he say?" said Silas. "lie said he should like to be married because he is going on four and twenty and had got a good deal of gardening work, now Mr. Moot's given up." "And who is it as he's wanting to mar ry?" said Silas with rather a sad smile. "Why, me, to be sure, daddy," said Eppie, with dimpling laughter, kissing her father's check; "as if he'd wanted to marry anybody else.I "And you mean to have him, do you?" said Silas. "Yes, some time," said Eppie, "I don't know when." "Every body's married some time," Aaron says. "But I told him that wasn't true, for I said' "look at father-he's never been married." "My child," said Silas, "your father was a lone man till you was sent him." "But you'll never be a ]one man again, father," said Eppie tenderly. "That was what Aar6n said." "Ij could never think o' taking you away from lIaster Miarner,Eppie." "And," I said it'ud be no use if you did Aaron, and he wants us all to live together, so you needn't work and he'd be as good as a son to you. But I don't want any change. Only Aaron does want a change,and he made me cry a bit-only a bit-because he said I didn't care for him, [or if I cared for him, I should want us to married, as he did." "Eh, my blessed child," said Silas, "You are o'er young to be married. But I shall get older and helpless, and I sh'uld like to have you have somebody else beside me-somebody young and strong, as 'ud take care of yuu to the .end." "Then you would like me to be married, father?" "I'll not be the man to say no, Eppie, but will ask your godmothter. She'll wish the right thing by you and her son too." And the godmother wished it. In drainig the lands the alone pita were drained dry, and the skeleton of Dunston Case was found and all of Bilas Marner's gold, two hundred and sixty-fiye pounds. 8o Aaron and Eppie enlarged thelr gardenl and made pretty their home as they did not wish to leave the stone pits, and Epple's own words tell the story of thehm united happy life. "Oh, father, what a pretty home ours is! I think nobody could be happier than we. De noat. Do not stare around the room. Do not take a dog or small child. Do not linger at the dinner hour. Do not lay aside the bonnet at a formal call. Do not fidget with your cane, hat or par. asol. Do not make a call of ceremony on a wel day. iDo not turn your back to one seated near you. D~o not touch the piano wunless invited t< do so. Do not handle ornaments or furniture Ir the room. Do not make a display of consulting youw watch. Do not go to the room of an invalhd, un less invited. Do not remove the gloves whsen making a formal call. Do not continue to stay any longer whes conversation begine to lag. Do not remain when you find the ladj on the point of going out. Do not mnake t~io firt cpil If you are I new corner in the neighborhood. Do not open or shut doors or windows om alter the arrangements of the room. Do notenter a room with out first knock ang and receing an Invitation to oome In. Do not resume your seat after havia arisen to go unless forimnnrtan?e ason. spare case Isaac Steele lives with his wife, son and daughter near Petrolla, Pa. fie is the owner of the once famous Steele oil farm, and Is very wealthy. Having no faith in banks, he has for years kept in a safe in his house between $80,000 and $100,000 in money. Two years ago three masked bur glars broke into Steele's house and at tempted to rob him. They had secured Steele and his wife, the son and daughter being away, when they were - alarmed by the sound of some one approaching the house and fled. Steele still persisted in keeping the large amount of money in his house, saying that he would rather take his chances with burglars than with banks or any investment, he knew of. The other night, at about midnight, three men broke Into Utee.o's house. They seized him and his wife, who fought cesperately. Mrs. Steele was knocked senseless by one of the men, all of whom more masked. The son appeared on the scene. One of the bur glars met him at the door of the room and leveling a revolver at his head compelled him to stand still. The daughter then en tered the room from another door. The room was lighted up during the encounter by a lamp left burning on the table by the old folks when they retired. Old Mr. Steele was still fighting desperately with the remnining two men when his daughter entered the room. She at once seized one of the men, and left her father to cope *ith the other. The robber whom the daughter had seized knocked her down, and kicked her until she was umconscious. She had torn the mask from his face, however, and recognized in him a noto rious character of the neighborhood named Jim. Jame. Old Mr, Steele had by this time been overcome, but had, in the strug gle with the burglar, snatched the cloth from. his face, and recognized . "Billy" McDonald, a man who had gained much notoriety in the neighborhaod as a pedes trian. The cries of the family and the noise made by the struggle in the room had alarmed a neighboring family, and two men hurried - to the 8teele residence. Their approach was heard by the burglars, and they fled from the house by the back door. The men followed theni, fir;i.- sev eral shots, but the desperadoes reached the woods in safety. On the next day Me.. Donald and James were found lurking about the vllage, and were arrested and lodged. in jail. it is not positively known who the third burglar is, but a well known resident of Petrolia, is suspected It is said that Steele intends to seek some other place of deposit for his spare cash' The Does uiser. At Dunajewee, in Russian Poland, a man died lately at the age of fifty-nine in consequence of the cold, and of thorough lack of functional vitality; in plain Eng lish, therefore, of trost and hunger. He was a character of the district, where he was spoken of as leading a most original, not to say selected life. For many years he had lived in a room whica was never heated, sleeping on a pallet of stolen stable straw on the floor. He subsisted almost exclusively on bread, which he went on foot several miles out of town to buy because he got it cheaper. He was, however, not a vegetarian. On Sunday. he ate meat. The meat wasliver, because, as he affirm ed, his circumstances would not admit of his purchasing anything more costly. Yet he never asked alms, though he accepted them when offered. He cooked his liver in a broken iron mortar, over a tire in a foundry sext to the house in which he lived. He never treated himself to a can die, wore no clothes that were not given him, and never spoke to anybody save when absolutely forced to do so. Nothing was known of him but that he was a Jew, with some relatives in the district. As lhe failed to leave his r ,om for some days, the neighbors called the police in. They found the old man dead. And the squalor in which he had peralied proved to be the scuirf covering a perfect, mint of treasure. ilidded about, the place were over half a million of rubles in gold and jewels, and as much more in paper. He had been an usurer of the most notorious character, un der another name, in a town twenty miles awa4y. It goes without saying that his re latives have shown up since his death. Life in Alfons,,s Palace. BeSn'rics of the line are found at all the exterior (lore and at the foot of the stair cases. We went uip a narrow, badly light ed stone staircase called "Escalers do las Dai mas," not, certainly, for its bad smells, highly suggestive of poor drainage, but because it leads to the apartments of the ladles of the roy al household. On reaching thme first landing one of the tall porters bowed to us and we found ourselves in a large gal lery, with glass windows looking on to thme courtyard below. At every turn or entrance of the gallery stood ahbalberduer of the guard. These picketed companies are the inner guard of the palace, and their chiefs are grandees and nobles, their sergeants oficers of captain's rann. We passed them and made for the Jhapel Royal. It is a snmali chapel, very simple In its architecture, and has no benches or chairs except those re served for the canons gnd priests of the chapter'royal. At the bottomi of the chap el, facing the alter, are galleries, where the King and the royal family, with their house holds, remain auring mass that is said for them every Sunday generally at 11, and every week day as early as seven in the morning. Our visit continued through the gallerys until we reached the hall of Col umns. This no~ble hail, with its stucco and marble columns, is only used on state occa sIons, such as banquets on birthdays or fete days of umembers of the royal family. Th'irough the long suit of apartments, hiung with pictures of value, we reached the throne room, . and admiired theat splendid apartment, with its many windows on the Plaza do Armas and velvet panels -and tapestry. Illere we found sentries and were told that we were at the door of the royal autechamber. King Aifonso's and Queen Christina's apartiments are in the corner of the palace which looks on the two squares of "Orlente"and "'rmas." TIheo King's own room is handsoiiisey furnidhedo, aiid the ta bles, the bureau or work table, are profuse ly providdd with books, newspapers, reviews anid other proofs of lls Mlajesty's active and inquiring spirit. Down a passage and by a staircase we paused to the Entresal looking towards the Plaza do Orhente. An antechamber for guards and servants was very well fted up, and led to the rooms tit. ted up for Sonora do Tacon, the second, but really the effective governess of the royal infant's household, as the anrunal chief of this household is Duo Media do L Torres, a grandee and man. Senora i Tacon was the govern of King Alftn twenty.three long y g. She is assist in her duties by an En head-nurse, wl was employed in the f Ily of the Dukes Fernan Nunes. The we nurses are provid with rooms next to th of the Senora, Tacon, and are two ne healthy looki Pasiega peasant wom n, twenty-one ai twenty three years old. The rooms of t royal heir are simply fu ilshed, and the sol chairs and armchairs are covered wi French cretonne of a teat, simple desig The curtains are of the same stuff, and t only contrast is form by the splend cradles that the two yal grandmottu have given their gran child. The Que Isabella and Arohduch Isabella have oape little fortunes on lace d embroideries I these cradles, one ma to the shape of landau carriage and th other like a bo There Is also In a corer the cradle t served for King Alto --. The marvel these quarters of the r al babe Is the Is ette. This layette w made after Engli patterns, an important detail, as the babl of this country are kept swaddled up tight and allowed no freedoni for their lower lin at least until they are six months old. T layette had, however, to be made of Spani stuff by Castilian hands, as national pri could not bear the ideathat a Prince of A91 rias would be clad in foreign underclothir 8ome French and Belgian embroideries the mostexquisite patterns are to be seen this layette, and it tillswell nigh six lar wardrobes. As one of our guides was exi tiating on the splendor of these preparatioi we had to make a hasty retreat before t approach of Queen Isabella. Her Majeo was decending from the apartments a occupies on the first floor of the palace, a which was ceded to her by the Princess Asturias. There is, it seems, a certs amount of jealousy, or, rather, rivalry, I tween the two royal grandmothers. Qiie Isabella resolutely asserts her right as a calls it, to be godmother of her grandchi though at court every onie thinks the Ai trian Archdutchess ought to be preferrt both as being a foreigner and mother of t Q ieen. However, Isabella II. does r brook any departure from the attention a thinks are due to her as Queen Moth For instance she holds levees in the palai as if she was really a sovereign, and i chiefs and statesmen of the opposition i especially demonstrative in their attentk to her. True to her old inclinations, Que Isabella drove in a royal carriage, witu < riders and equert iea, to the bull-tight rece; ly, and when she appeared wearing i white lace mantilla that is the clasical c( tumefor such a place, Her Majesty waslow cheered by the people, and oven more by the lower classee.. How to Mi8. d a Flaby. First, a man must needs have one take care of. It isn't every one that fortunate enoughto have one, and when does his wife is always wanting to run 01 to the neighbor's only five minutes, and has to attend to the baby. Sometimes s caresses him; and oftener she says, ste: ly: "John, take good care of the child til return." You want to remonstrate, but ,ani pluck up courage while that awful femal eye is upon you; so you prudently refra and merely remark: "Don't stay long, my dear." She is scarcely out of sight when I luckless babo opens its eyes, and its molu also, and enits a yell which causes the 4 to bounce out of the door as if somethi had stungit. You timidly lift the chet and sing an operatic air; he does not i preciate it, and yells the louder. You 1 to bribe him with a bit of sugar; not a of use, he spits It out. You get wrat and shake him. fie stops a second, a you venture another, when good heave he sets up such a roar that the passers. look up in astonishment. You feel d perate; your hair standson end and the p spiration oozes out of every pore as: agonizing thought comes ever you, wi if the luckless child should have a fl! Ti try baby talk; but "litty, litty, lamnby" I no effect, for he stretches a if a red--I poker had ben laId upon-his spine, still lie yells. You are afraid the neihb hood will be alarmed, and give hn ya sold watch as a at resouirce,' just in ti to save your whiskers; though he thrt (down a handful of your cherished mn tache to take toe watch, and you tha fully find an easy chair to rest-your sch limbs, when down comes that costly wa on the floor, and the cause of all the trou breaks into an ear-splitting roar, and i set your teeth and prepare to admini personal chastisement, when in rushes happy woman known as your w 'snatches the long suffering child from y willing arms, and sitting down, stills It magic, while you gaze mournfully at remains of your watch and cherished m tache, and, muttering a. malediction babykind in general, and on the Image his father in particular, vow never to t; care of a baby again-until the next thi Irish Lase, It is in beautiful, delicate needlow< and in the making of lace of differ kinds, says a writer in the Argosy, that irish Sister. excel. .There are sov4 houses In the Bouth, each of which is fi ous for some special kind of manufacti Persons who are learned in such matl can tell instantly, on looking at a piece work, at what convent It was done. crochet made under the superintendenc Youghal nuns is exquisite, and so fine I it has, In many cases been mistaken other kinds of lace. I have heard of a I who purchased a quantity of what she lleved to be~ old Roman point, in italy a great expensec. On bringing it home, took it to her dressmaker In Dublin, gave it to h'er for a trimming for a dr with many, cautions against waste, with repeated orders not to cut It umn cessarily. 'I he womian smiled when heard the discolored work called anti point. Siho got a magnifying glass showed her customer that she had in roe bought irish crochet lae, which had t dipped in som6~ yellow' Iuld, in orde give it an appearance of great age. clever expert was, moreover, able to from what part of take country It had orn ally been procured. Some ladies arei fond of purchasing sleeves and collarn this beautiful workc, to wear at the ti 'd'hote when traveling on the continent it does not require what is teohinally tori doing up ; when soiled, simple waml and drying will restore it to its pres daintiness. Besides this, it is quite u jured by any ainount of pressing or or blng. fl* Obatned's situation. 1 A few years ago I took charge of the - -railroad in Texas, which at the time was in a bad condition. For several months 10 1 was kept very busy in trying to bring dorder out of chaos, And all my time had to be devoted to the affairs of the road. Dur e ng certain hours I had given orders that I was to be disurbed under no circumstances, and my clerk had instructions to admit no ene. One day during these hours the fol lowing incident occured. I was busy at my th desk when the door burst open,and a long, n lank, uncouth, cadaverous-looking Tuxan e stooL1 before me. His homespun pants were Id tucked inside of his dusty cowhide bouts, lra lite rough face looked as though it had an never seen a razor, and his long, uncombed nt hair streamed out from under a large som or brero down on his broad, wiry shoulders. a Ile marched straight up to my desk, and - without taking oil his hat, said in a gruff, at quick tone: of "is Smith luil' Y- I looked up in amazement and replied: sh "Yes, sir, that's my name." ID "Well, then, cast your eye on that." b said he, slapping a letter down before bme. he I picked it up and read it, and found it was a letter of imtroluction sayin g that the ,e bearer was a trustwo thy man who wanted U- nurk and asking that it be given him. g' . As I finished the letter, no again broke of out: "Well, Smith, what d'ye say ' Can in you give ine a i1sish I g I waited a moment and then sale: You ap a- pear to be quite a lorward young man, and you want a position. Now, sir, don't you think you, ould have stood a chance of get ty dhug a position if you were more polite in he your wanner ? If you had knockedeat the ,id door, and on beinir invited to enter had of coti in quietly, taken off your hut and in asked it Mr. dith was in, and had offered '0 this letter, asking with a polite now, 'Will on yo have t,.o kindness to look over this eettr' If you had clone so, young nan, dou't you think your position would have 1-en mnore lavorably received than your present action 't" he The young man looked at me a second lot and then turned and lett. A monut at at. he ter I heard a knock at the door. I said, r- "4oome in." Again the same younir man e, entered. Steppingiug softly he caame to 11e the desk, iado a most elaborate bow and re said, "have I the honor of addressing Mr. ns smith, the manager of the-- and en railroad?" I bowea "yes, air." ist Lie again bowed anu handed me a letter, a- asking me if I had leisure to look over it. he I took it, and again read it and looked ' up, saying, "Tl Is a very complimentary Iletter, 6ir. - , What can I do for youV 1 so Quick as a lash camne theresponse, "You may go to - 1" Le then turn.Id and left with a laugh. 1 saw there was soir-etting in the man. I to followed him, called him back and gave is him a position. lie did his work well,and he has since been promoted, until he now oc rer cupies one of the most responsible and best he paying positions in my employ, Oiver Cromwell'* naseendansa. I I The last descendant of Cromwell in a direct male line, Mr. Oliver Cromwell of tot Cheshunt, a London attorney, died in u's 1821, and his daughter died in 1849, leav n, ing children and grandchildren who are salI living. - lothing Is more remarkable than the general mediocrity of Cromwell's he posterity. There are, of course, some dis th tingulehed exceptions. A race cannot be ,at !eckoned as altogether destitute of parts ng which has produced men like Sir. George ub. koruwell Lewis, the )ate earl of Claren tp. don, Mr. Charles Villers, Sir John Lub. ;ry bock land the present viceroy of India. bit But if we take into account the number of hy Cromwell's known descendants, the pio ud portion of noble or distinguished men List among tiem must be pronounced to be by singularly small. It is noteworthy, also, es- that for more than a hundred years aftei em- Cromwell's death not one of his descend. ~he ants had achieved distinction, except his mat son Henry, and that of those who have on subsequently achieved it, all, except Mr. as Vansittart, who was chancellor of the cx iot chequer, and became Lord Bexley, have ,d received the Cromwell-blood, -through the or- Franklandls, baronots, of Thiirkleby, York mur shire. These facts would lead us to infer noe that the talent which the descendants 0f wa the Protector have ini these cases exhibited] us- cannot be legitimately attributed to the ik- Cromawell blood. The surprising miedi. *ng Iocrity of the num'erous posterity of so ox. ch. traordinary a man constitutes for Mr. Gat. ble ton and other writers on heredity a diflm 'o. culty which cannot be easily reconcilced ter- with their hypothesis, aiid which, indeed, hie they have never attempted adequately tc fe, "deal with. Another circumstance whici ur may be mentioned in connection with thu by subject, is that when ominence has been the attained by any of the Protector's de us- scendants, it has been f(or the most part ii on the field or p)olities. One of them hai of been prime minister, the first Earl of ike Ripon, andl there are three who hold of11et no. under the present adininstration, n.amely: Earl Cowper, ihie Earl of Morley and th<n Marquis of Ripen. The lord-lieutenanc3 rk, of Ireland lias been four times held b2 ent descendants of the Protector; it has beem the held by his son Henry, by Lord Claren ral don, by Lord do Grey, and by Lord Cow uin- per. 'Tho vicissitudes of fortune whiicl re. the Cromwell family have suffered hay< era often been miade the subject of remark of in the fourth generation some of his de rhew svendants had become paupers and other of had intermarried with families of his op hat ponents. rThe Protector had no mor for energetic antagonists than the Earl o idy Rothes and the Earl of Clarendlon in thel be. several spheres, but the present represen at. tatives of both these earls are the Protee she tor's lineal descendants. Tnu Ooat of a Bioy. ad A clergnmn who has been discoursin ec- about boys has devoted considerable at she tention to the cost of these somewhat necem qiue sary indtviduals, and ho estimates the ew ad pense of bringing a good boy, with th lity ordinary advantages of city life, to the ag een of fifteen at about $5,000; these figure r 1o are doubled by the time the boy is of agt rihe if lie goes through college. A bad b6y tell arrived at thme age mentioned, costs full, pn- as muich, even If he has not been tocollege cry and time computation as the reverend gee of thcemnan forcibly suggests, does not includ ible the value of the mother's tears and father as gray hairs. Most men who have brough noed up boys will agree that the estimate is n. lng too high, and some of them will be oli dine servant enough to wonder if there is an; sin- other investment of equal magnitude thu um:- is made with a. much carelessness ani stupisdiy Japanese Diet. Fish and rice are the staple articles of Japanese diet, and without either of these the nation would find it hard to exist. The soil is fertile, and apparently vegetables grow well here. Sweet potatoes, ordinary potatoes, turmpe, carrots, squashes or pumpkins, egg-plants and peas are grown, but do not enter largely into the people's diet. Beans are an impiortant article, and from these is manufactured "tofee" or "fofe"-Iterally bean cheese-au article largely used by the poorer classes. Had ishes are also grown to some extent, and some varieties are very large and not un like beets. They are rather coarsein grain and texture, but not so much so as their size would indicate. The young bamboo is also eaton to some extent, and a variety of mushrooms are used in making sauces and relishes. A species of maize is raised, but it is very inferior to the American In dian corn, and Is not used to any great ex tent. Tomatoes have been introduced from the United States within the last few years, and are received with considerable favor. Cakes and unleavened bmead of various kinds are made from rice flour, and in the seaports bread made from Ibur un ported from California is beginning to be used by some of the natives. Of fruits, oranges, poaches, pears, plums, apricots, persimons, raspberries, mulberries, and currants are indigenous there, but none of them grow in great perfection, and most of them are quite inferior in qualtity. Ap ples and strawberries have been introduced to some extent from other countries, but although they can be grown there, do not seen to take kindly to the soil. The pears are round, mostly of a russet color, coarse ingraia. not sweet, and are a sort of cross between the apple and the pear. Various kinds of melois are largely grown, but these are very inferior to the English pro ductionof the saiici. The climate is moist, which keeps the vegetation constantly green and beautiful. The general impres sion which one gets in comig here is that Japan is a beautilul country, and that her inhabitants are makug great efforts to adopt what is best and m1ost. progressive among other nations. Where the Boulders Come From. All have seen the immense boulders called "lost rock" in some sections, scat. tered over the northern part of the United States, which have little or no resemblance to any mass of rock any where in the vicin ity, and have ierhaps asked the question: Where did they coie from? also t.,e heaps of sand, gravel, and cobble stones of varl ous sizes, which form many of our ridges, knolls, and hills. and which are totally un like any fixed rock near them, All these phenomena are attributed to a single cause, and that is the great sheet of ice which na ture stored up years ago without the neces sity of protecting it in an ice house. Ac cording to Agassiz, the sheet of ice extend ed in this country, as far south as South Carolina or Alabama, and was thick enough to cover all the mountains of the eastern part of North America, with the exception of Mount Washington. This peak projected, as a lone sentinel on that vast waste of ice, two or three ,hundred feet. In the latitude of northern Massa chuesetts, he conceives the ice to have been two and three miles thick. The boulders were all torn off by the advancing Ice sheet, from the projecting rocks over which it moved, and carried or pushed as "bottom drift," scratching and plowing the sur face over which they passed, and being scratched and polished themselves in re turn, till they were finally brought to rest by the melting of the ice. 'I hey were not carriedas fartiouth as the ice shecetextended, seldom bevond the parallel of forty degrees nerth. The native copper of Lake Superior was drifted four or five hundred miles south; and the pudding stones of lBox bury, Mass., were carried as far south as the island of Penikese. Died as a Kiug should. Mr. Macready was fond of telling the following story as lia experience of Amern can Independence, exemplinied in a Wes tern actor of the self-satisfied kind, "in time last act of ilamlet," said he, "I was very anxious to have the King, who was rather of a democratic turn of minud, to fall, when I stabbed him over the steps of the throne, and oii thme right hand side, with his feet to the left, in order that when 1 was to fall I should have the center of the stage to imyself, as benefitting the principal person age of the tradedy. No ob~jectioni was made to this request on the part of the ac tor; but at night, to my great surprise, lie wheeled directly round after receiving the sword thrust, andl deliberately fell in the middle of the scene, just on the snot where I was in the habit of dying. Well, as a dead man cannot move himself, and as there was no time for others to do it, the King's body remained in p~ossesslon of my place, and I was forced to find another situation, which I did, and finished the scene in the best way I could. "When I expostulated with his Majes ty for the liberty lie had taken lie coolly . replied: 'Mr. Macready, we Western peo ple know nothing about Kings exceptingt that they have an odd trIck of doing as they please; therefore, I thought, as I wats Klir ,I had a right to do whatever I--pleased; . and so, sir, I fell back upon my kingly a rights, from which, you perceive, sir, . there is no appeal.' "I retired," said Mr. 3 Macready, "to my dressing-room to have f a hearty laugh over what I felt more lik< r crying over a moment before." Willig to Give Way. On a Detroit street car a woman of ifty, made up to look about twenty-five, gel aboard at a crossing to find every seat oc -cupied. She stood for a moment,and ther selecting a poorly dressed maii about forty . five years of age, she observed: e "Are there no gentlemen on this car. e "Indeed, I dluntno," he replied, a 1h< s looked up and down. "If there haln't , and you are going clear through, fi'l huni , up one for you at the end of the hane" y There was an embarrassing silence fot , a noment, and a light broke in on him all -of sudden, and he rose and said: e "You can have this seat, madam. I s am alias perfectly willing to stand up an< t give my seat to anybody older than my t self." -That deelded~ her. She gave him fi loel y which he will not, forget to his dying day 4 and grabbing the strap, she refused to si i) down, even when five seodts had become vCannt NEWS IN BRIEF. -leifty million buahels is Minnesota's little contribution to the world's.wheat crop this year, --Competent authorities say th'.t the Raislar,1harvest Is the worst since the famllie of 1873, -Mr Vanderbilt has purchased-$80 - 000 worth of oil painting since hia arrival in Eurepa. -The amount or butter now made In Iowa creamneries Is estimated'at50,000, 000 pounds per annnm. -The official records of the 'war, soon to be printed, will All ninety-six volumes of b00 pages each. -it is estimated hat Delware peach growers will make a profit of $1,500, 000 on their c:, p this year. -The yield of this year's sugar crop in Cuba has been about 545,40.) tons against 080,000 tons last 3ear. -Iowa has 305,000 pupils in her 10, 000 public schools, and a school fund of over $500,000 to draw upon, a -The total wheat crop or Illinois this year is over 50,520,000 bushels, the largest ever raised in the State. -The great Corlies engine of the centenilat exhibition now drives the mn :chilnery of the San Francisco mint. - 'l'ie Lucy furnace, of Pittsburg, tiriiei ont in one month 9,538 tons of fin ished steel rails, or about 1,000 miles. -The number of lives lost during rhe year of 1880 b v steamhoat acciden ts is estimated at 185 against 177 during the previous year. -The Pope has appropriated $60,000 for a compl. te and splendid edition of ct.e works of Sc. Thomas Aquinas, his lavorite philooepher. -The furthcomig report of the lii miols State Board of Agriculture will ,how thet winter wheat crop for 1880 to be 53,86,505 bushels. -Thie IlIlinois hog crop for the sea son of 1880 81 is estimated at 2.193,487 -head, an increase of 207,279 head over that of the last season. -Baltimore packs more oysters than any other clty iI the world, -fiteen 0 rins with a capital 01$2,338,300 being engaged in the business.. -The census taken last F-ibruary zhows that Denmark, Including the iaroe Liles, has 1,980 075 Inhabitants 1'en years ago the total was 1,784,741. -Outsanding 7:30 notes are coming into the treasnry department, and are redeemed In coln, with interest to 1869 when they were convertible into 5-26 bonds. -Th' Pope's new journal and organ, the Aurora, started at Rome, January 1, 1879, hta- reached a clrcul4ion of 6,000, a id Is now considered fipnly es tablished.*' -California promises a shipment -of 800,000 tons of wheat, equivalent to 27, 000,000 bushels, ift an Inter-oeanilo canal Is built, weather at janan~a or Nicaragua, -Texas is blessed with an abundant cotton crop, estimated at' 1,100,000 bales. In the north part of the State the average Is about three-fourtl~s of 'a bale to the acre. -Pennsylvania has expended tius far nearly $4.500 in supressing ploure p)enunonia, of which suth 2,o6o was paid for killing 150 animals infected with the disease. -Just outside of the city of Mecca, where Mahomet was born In the year 571, is pointed out the hill where it is aind, A oraiam went to offer up lssao, in the year 1871, before Christ. -Tobieco was first discovered at St. Domingo in the year 1490, and was ised freelv by the Spaniards, in Yuca tan, In 1520. It was introduced into Engnmind In 1 t65,by Sir John Hawkins. -The assesed polls In Virgina last year were 294,747, of which 182,002 were white anid 112.742 colored. The quailified voters were 123,000 -about 104,000 white and only 6h,000 colored. -Pawnbrokers first established, themselves in Italy, as regular traders, taking pledges and advancing money oni the same, in the year 1458, and soon~ after many came and set up- In Eng, land. -TIhe value of exports of petroleum and petroleum products during July last was $3,001,000; July last year $4,/ 238.000; for seven months ended July 31st, $17,303,000; mamne period last year $18,988,000. -Thelm United States nowv has ten times more acres of wheat than the United Is.ingdom; It has twice the number of horses of both England ant France, one-third more cattle, and four times more hoege tha-i both. -Beltish railroads grew from 15,145 in 1b669 to 17,090 last year, the capital iucreasing from $2,598.895,000 to $3, 585,000,000 in the same time, showing the sum liable for dividends increased twice as fast as the mileage. -The largest cotton n mill In the country hass just been opened at Willi imnto, Conn. 1t is only one story hiyh, but covers a space of 820 feet by 174, all of which is in a single room, lightied by 51 electrIc burners. -Tne exports of grain and grain in flour anid meal from the United Srtates for the 12 months cndinug August 81, reachmed theuenormous Ilgures of30(0, 325,000) bushels, of which 189,517,000 bushels were In wheat a, wheat in ilouri. -There arc only 40,000 Jaiws In all Enagland,andi only 60,000 id France ;buc in(.Germnany there aire 4i0,000 ini Gdr mani Austria twice as nmauy, iia Russia ove~r 2,000,0JO aud in. 1t im nia there are over 4c0,01 In aj bulation of 6,000,000. - -The census reports will show that, withiin the last four years, upwards of I1,760,000 Anmericanis have arrivod at the age os 21, anid will take p art In this approachiug olection.' This constitutes niearly 17 per cei.i. of the mocaL vose of' the counitry. -Fully thirty per cent, more grain and provIsions amas been moved through time New York State, casinis since thei r openinig this year tnan for the corros pomidinag perIod'of last year. This is regarded as a signi oft great business activity amid prosperity. -The fifteen cropi of cotton made ini the United States since the war exceeds the lilteen ante-war crops;i nearly 10, O900,000 bale's. WVhin thai sixteenth crop is added this .yopr'it. Will ma~ the excess more than l44,000,0040 hat~ The value of the lifteoeiara~ sinO.e war s as boen $4,000,000,0