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........ 1 35 Till-WEEKLY ]EDITION. WINNSBORO, . C., NOVEMNBERt 9, 180VO.I-N.15 irdine which heretofore had forbidden her neeting hin, whenshe heard behiwi her he quick step of the horse's hors. His Ider drew rein at her side. "So I am to find you at last," he said. is voice sounded the same as of old; the )right, cheery tone was unchanged. "Have yo'.i seen Lillie, lately?" she at ast found courage to ask. - "No," he answered, and then she saw he frown gather on his brow, and an ex >ression of pain comes about his lips. "I ice, as little of your cousin as possible now. fou know, Miss Loring, I am no longer a iubject of congratulation." "Yes, I know," she said. "1-" "Don't pity me," he interrupted; "Ican't wear that quite yet." "I did not mean to pity you," she re lied. "Oh, if Lillian had not spoken of the teart caught in thre rebound," she thought, when week af*ter week OscarDering would Ind his way to the rectory garden or the ectory parlor, to spend long hours with its air young mistress. She understood so well why hecamae, be !ause now and then Lillian's name drifted uto the idle talk, and because, as he grew tronger, he dared speak of her an- of the ove lie had borne her. It was a mingled )ain and pleasure to listen. If only she tad not learned her own heart the pain vould have been less. But she was do tined to-learn it more fatally, yet, as one norning strolling through the woods to ;ethcr, the sharp report of a hunter's gun lose beside them startled them both. The text instant her companion sank white and enseless on the sward beside her, while he affalghted hunter, whose misaimed harge had entered his arm, hastenen for vard. "Bring aqsk'ance quickly," exclaimed edith, while the raised the heavy head to ter lap: "Oscar, speak to me,"she moaned. "Oscarl Oscarl" Over and over again she repeated hig tame In the same accents of desparing love, tutil they had forced their way into the lie-pulses of his being and a-oused them o aclivity. .He opened his eyes in a half-wandering ook, as though delirium had overtaken Jim, At this instant the hunter returned with ssistance, and a half hour later the wound d . man had been br-ne ~to the rectory, the vound dressed, and the knowledge given hat it was merely a flesh wound, painful, mt not dangerous. Yet his recovery was tedious affair. He grew moody and abstracted. It gave im more time to think of Lillian ena his ass, Edith thought, even while she wcu Lered why his eyes followed her with such strange questioning look. Once she en. ered his room with some freshly cut flowers a her hand. "Whore shall I put them, Mr. Dering?" he inquired. "Mr. Dering?" he answered. "Did I tot once hear you call me Oscar, or was it sweet fancy wafted from dreamland?" Again the crimson tide dyed her face. "Don't l' she said, as though he had urt her, and hastened from the room bear ng with her the flowers, and it seemed to tim the light and sunshine. kiad he been blind all this time, and was just bdginm-g to see? A grand bali was to be given at Ames ourt. Lillian insisted that Edith should e present, and the invalid also was sum sonied to the feast. On the evening of Miss Ames's ball Ahe 'Icked up the paper sent down by the after eon mail from London. She was sudden. i' startled at seeing the name of the man to vhiom she so lately had been betrothed. It, was a published decision of the court laat owning to some disability, the title ould not descend to O)scar- Dering's cousin. He was, then, Lord Der-ing still. Fool llat she had been. But to-night, while lie till thought her in ignorance, she must win lim back. It was late wvhen he emtered the spacious rawing-roomus. "I have been waiting for you,'' she said, a her sweetest, lowest tones. "You honor me toogreatly, Miss Ames," e rep~liedl. "Lot us go Into the conservatory." she dded, " it is cooler there.". H~e offered her his airm. From a distant corner of the rooim Edith aw them.. "'I will not begrudge hinm atiy happiness," he said to herself. "Have you forgotten the last time we rere hero together, Mr. D~ering?' Lihlan ras asking at this moment. "No," hie answered gravely, looking into he beautiful faco beside mmta. "Can one ever retrieve d* mist ake," she sked, "when one finds it out?" "I don't know," lie replied. "ran one ause the rose, blighted in mid-summer, to boom again in the depths of winter?" She knew then what he meant. "We are dealing In similes;" shte exclaim d, "let its return to our guests." An hour later Oscar Derimg led Miss coring to the same spot. "I love you, Edith," lie said, "I thought tny hearr was dead when I met you. My arling, will you be my wife?" "Oh, Oscar, you are sure, sure of your elf?" "I have been made more sure to-night," .e answered. She was too happy to question his words v4 happy even to let Miss Ames's on ratulatonms sting her when sihe said: "A heart caiglit .in tao rebound. Did not tell you so." Too happy to be made happier when she marned tat on her wedding day she was a be inada Lady Ndi~ Drine. PERSEVERANGE. One step and then another, And the longest walk is ended; One stitch and then another, . And the largest rent is mended One brick upon another, And the Lighest wall In made ; One flake upon another, - And the deepest snow is laid. So the little ocral workers, My their slow and constant motion, Have built those pretty islands in the uistant dark-blue ocean, And the noblest undertakings Man's wisdom hath conceived, by oft-repeated effor& Have been patiently achieved. Then do not look disheartened On the ork you have to do, And may that such a mighty task X ou never 0A1n get through ; L-ut jubt endeavor day by day Anotner point to gain, Anid S.on tu mountain which you feared Wi I Irove to be a plain ! itome was not builded in- a day.' 'I he anOient pt overb teaches, Anu Nature, by her trees and flowers, ihe same aweet mermon preaches. Tuink not of far-off duties, Sbu& of duties which are near, And having OLoo bejun to work, ite o.ve to persevere. Cousin Edith. Lillian Ames stood leaning against the casement of an open window leading on to a sloping lawn, at whose base flowed a sunny, rippling stream of water. it was one of England's fairest daughters. Even at this moment, spite of the fact that t her brow is gathered in a frown, and the red, full lips are unmistakably pouting, her beauty is undeniable A few bold spirits had declar..d that there was little soul in the face; but the large hazel eyes.could melt or flash at will; the dark lashes shaded a cheek as white as Pa rian marble, with rarely even a touch of color upon its velvety surface; and the 1-the, gracetut tigure even unconsciously I assumed a now grace in each unsteady t poise, until one forgot- the question of soul in its perfect outward flesh and blood ta- I bernacle. Near her, reclining on a low easy chair, sat a young girl of about her own age. j At first glance the exquisite soul-loveliness e of her face paled in Miss Ames's brilliant I beauty, but there were more to love its pos- t sessor, and fewer to envy her. Something I like Imagination was in her voice, as she addressed her friend. "I cannot believe that you mean it, Lil- i Ilan," she said. "You have been engaged I to Oscar Derhig for a year, and how dan you say so carelessly that your engagement shall be broken-" "Beg pardoni" interrupted the other, in low, ironical tones, "I have not yet been engaged to Oscar Dering twenty-four hours. It was to Lord Oscar Dering I gave my pledge. "Oh, -but Lillian, because lie has lost title and estate must lie also lose the woman of his love? Thnk a minute. You surely will not give him up so easily? "Nonsense, Edithi I am 21-no longer a girl of an age to live up.>n sentimentalism, b-it to look upon every-day realities of life. W ion I engaged muys.-lf to -rd D r ag; I was the subject of congratulation among all my friends. Now that the cousin who was supposed to be dead crop)s into life in some remoute portion of the gl hbe, sand that Oscar insists upon renouncing the property in his behalf without even a struggle, I am n->t content to let the~se same congratulations lapse into pity." "Oh, Lillian, do you think anyone could I pity you for possessing so royal a gift as the love of such a man? Think better of it, dear; I know you care for him. Do not so lightly renounce young lhfe's happimess." "You plead his case eloquently, my dear. '! Really I did not know I possessed a rival in miy fair cousin. Perhaps a heart caught In the rebonnd-you know the rest, ur course, and can point the moral." "Lillian, you are cruel-crueli -I-" But the late speaker' had passed through the window out of hearing, and advanced -to meet a man qnickly approaching on the green sward, while the young girl left be hind fell back in her chair, the great tears a coursing down her cheeks, on which the crimson color signal flamed. It was as though some ruthless li-md lhad . snatched the veil from her own hieart, leav. lng exposed its most cherished secret-a s secret she had not known herself until now * betrayed by her shame. "I must leave this place. I cannot meet him again; I must go home. But, Oh how can ulie give him upt" *.' Edith Loring andi LillIan Ames were cousins, bnat the one was the daughter of a a clergyman whose rctonry was some ten miles distant froni Amos court, and one of C - the noblest estates ofi J2ngland, anid o chLillian was sal'heiress,.f ' The girls, however, had been closely united, more by the tie of friendship than- e cousinshaip, since the latter was a. uiistant bond, and Ames court was almost as much I Edith s home as her own. Now,-however, the homelier charms of the rectory wrere very grateful to her. Here ne noc'ould c pro io the discovery so now to herself-to trace the scarlet blush which. sebed' so * often to burn lien cheea,-until she wondered -that it dihi not leave its brand. -.l She had been home six weeks, and twice Osc~r Dering had driven over to~ ace the'r t but site had always denied herself .to himig on some household pretext, unif one mcro ho overtook her in the road., . She hafd boen busy with thoughts of him, woudering how ho had born9 hs ruptured 1 troth. and reproachingr hersuelf for the cow Two Trauedieo of Niagara. 01 More than twenty years ago *iiagara a witnessed a tragedy which, while of a heart rending character, was marked by an act of true heroism, seldom equalled in grandeur. Mr. Charles Addington. a t young man about twenty-three or twenty four years of age, was aillanced to Miss De c Forrest, both being residents of Buffalo. t One day a happy party, comprising Mrs. De Forrest, Miss Do Forrest . a younger daughter, Eva, a beauti ful child five or six years old and U "Charley" Addlngton, as his friends were accustomed to call him, visited the Falls. ri They crossed the bridge to Goat Island, and whlde resting under the trees. Little Eva strayed away from the group, and ap- f( proaching the bank of the narrow, but deep and swift stream that rushes between Goat Island and the small island lying between i it and the American rapids, was amusing t herself by casting sticks into the water and watching them as they were whirled swiftly away. Mrs. Do Forrest alarmed d for her child's safety, requested Charles Addington to go after her and bring her a back. Charley at once proceeded to the bank, and thinking to give the little ore a fright, approached her stealthily from be hind, and catching her under the arms, t held her over the stream. The startled child a threw up her little arms over her head, 1 and instantly she slipped through young Addington's hands and fell into the rapids. The realization of the horrible calamity k must have come home to Addington's brain with the rapidity of the lightning's ' flash. He saw his rash act had cost the P child's life-that only one desperate chance 8 of saving her remained--that the world 5 was at an end for him for him forever. Tear- it ing off his coat he rushed alnug the bank 1 until he had passed little Eva, who was a keeping afloat by her clothing; then a plunging in ahead of her, he seized the V childand desperately attempted to throw her b) up the bank. As he made the effort he U fell back in the rapids and was whirled over a the small fall that intervenes between the M American horseshoe falls. Little Eva ti struck the top of the bank, but all power had apparently gone trom her, and she a rolled back into the stream and was hurried 8 to her dreadful fate. The mother and sis. ii ter stood paralyzed with horror, while the It tragedy, almost instazitaneous in its action, passed before their eyes, leaving its dark f( cloud hanging over all their future lives. 8 Charles Addington had made a hero's 4 atonement for his thoughtless and reckless It act. His father-he was an only son was in the hlibit of visiting the falls once a week for years after the tragedy,. and he a would sit for hours gazing at the spot ' where his son and little Eva had met their 0 deaths. He became well known at the falls, N and there were many who believed that he t would one day voluntarily seek the same t fate that his son had courted. But his sad 0 pilgrimage had no such ending. c An accident with dramatic accompani- t ments occurred some years after the sad I event that cost Charlie addington and Eva a Do Forrest their lives. One morning soon t, after daybreak, the early risers at the falls discovered something moving on a huge f, old log or trunk of a tree which lor years had shown itself above the boiling rapids p on the American side, having become tl caught by and become firmly wedged into the rocks on its way toward' the falls. Looking downward from the bridge this log was and still is in full sight in Ilie fiercest part of the rapids, conalderably a nearer to the small island on the American side of Goat island than to the American shore. The moving object was soon found to be a man, and it was evident that his a boat had been carried over the falls during t< the night, while he himself had ni raculously been cast against the log,' by 0 which he had managed to stop his fearful rush toward death. Despatches N ere im' mediately sent to the coast life-saving a station, and Captain Dorr hastened to Niagara by a special train, carrying with al himi two metallic life-boats, and plans to save the man were concerted. But before the arrangements were completed the news had spread abroad, ana many thousands of a persons had reached the falls by special as trains. Goat island, the bridge, the Ameri can shore, the roofs and windows of all. the adjacent buildings and the branches of trees, were co~vered with anxious and horrn- g fled spectators. si The first attempt at rescue was by means o of a Francis metallic life-boat attached to ti a cable which was slacked off from the bridge opposite the log and guided by side 1 ropes. The boat had not got far from the h bridge when the fierce rapids seized it, a turned it round and rouno, and appeared- b to be endeavoring to crush its sides. 'I ho ir strong cable snapped like a whip cord, and o: the poor fellow who had been watching w~ the <ffoit mnade for lis rescue saw the boat k whirled past him and carriedl over the falls, t as if in naockery of lis would-be rescuers. al Considerable time was then consumed in h deliberating on a now planz, and it was pro- si posed to fasten a cable to some buildug oin al the American side, to carry it over to the TI island until it would sag near the log, and a then to rescue the man by means o1 a bas- y ket hung on the cable by rings, and to be let dIown and pulled in by means of smaller ropes. The material for this experliment ti could not be procured, so at last it was do cided to send down a strongly constructed h raft in the same manner as the life,-boat f, had .been launched, and if that reached the man in safety, to ease it over toward the d small island, from whence his rescue wouh~t be comparatively easy. The raft d was built, but it was four o'clock in the af- It ternoon before all was ready. The (liy had passed without the fight of tine being t< heeded. Trho excitement, was intense. al Men and women who had stoodl for hoursg b without food were painfully agitated. The it raft moved, it withstood bravely the wbid r. assaults of the angry rapids. It neared thme il log. The man stood up and waved his Ii arms. 'rie raft caime within lia reach, nm and he got on to it, ate thme food, drank a al small quantity of weak brandy and water hi that had been put aboard, and fastened al himself by the lashinigs' that had been pre- d pared and the intent of which lhe under- h stood. ~Then the raft was cautiously and d steadily moved toward the Island wiz the ti precious freight. TJ.he people shouted, and d many wrept fromi o9'erwrought ielhing, a Suddenly the raft came to a stand. The Ii rope was tauti it had caught in a rock. o To attempt to force it was to risk its part- h lag, and the fatal consegjuences could not c be misunderstood. T'he poor victhma si seemed to taike in the situation and to grow v desperate. lie unfastened thme lashings; v stood up, and made a sprIng from the raft 'i in the direction of the island, and was in r< it for the Island. e seemed to b, powerful swimmer, d thousands o ien.and women held t Ir breath in horrl ad suspense. He a red to near thi land in his desperate e orte. Then aros ac cry, "He's savedl la 's saved!" But suddenly those the bridge, whi yuld see more distinctly from their hoca on, became aware that the space betweea te island and the sw nner's head wa Idening There wao another dreadfu Loment of suspen se, a 'l then the unpity ig rapids seized their p y. and apparenti, aking sport of the efferts that had beei .sorted to to snatch hh1 front their grasp visted hin round and whirled him aloni utl they hurried him over the preelpien .9 the poor fellow went over a shigular el ict was observable. The vast body o Mling water curves over the edge of th I the falls like a hiuge wheel, and a ke bony- was shot forwird by the force o Me current, It seemed to leap completel; at of the water, the feet being visible Dfore it took the terrible plunge. Th eath-like silence that had fallen upon th owd was broken by a fearful cry tund mingling a wall, a howl and a shriel i one. Many strong men as well a romen fainted. They'had witnessed ; agedy more intense in itspainfulness tha iy drama cou!d present, and one not like to be soon forgotten. Powerrui Ocean steamhitlips. Twenty years ago the largest steamer nown (in this, as in all such comparisons Dglecting the Great Eastern, which was i rodigy of engineering skill) did not reac 50 feet in length, 45 feet in breadth, 3, 30 tons in tonnage, or 4,000 horse. powe adicated. We have before us at thi onient a liste- of 50 merchant steamer ailing in the year 1860, from Southanitoi ad other southeraports, which the larges essels then frequented,and the list include at 10 ships of more than 300 feet in length abe of whicn reached the linuts of sizi id power just giving, and the whole o hich belonged to two companies-viz. ie Royal Mail and the Peninsular an( riental. At the present moment we hav loat and at work the White Star Liners me of them 445 feet in length, 45 fee L breadth, and nearly 5,000 indicatec rse-power; the Inman Liners, compris ig such ships as the City of Berlin, 481 .et by 441 feet broad, and of about thi iMe steam power; the Orient,of 445 feet bj 3 feet, with engines developing 5,601 rse-power; tke Arizona, of about thi ime size, with still greater steam powe id eliced; and many other splendid ves .Is but little inferior to any of the fore oing. And these grand steamers-man f which react the quays of New Yor 'ith greater punctuality than raliwal ains reach the London suburbs from Vic >rla and Charing-cross, and would reac ar quays with equal punctuality if the: mld avoid the abominable sands that bal te Mersey-are the forerunners of stil arger and more powerful vessels noN aking shape upon the banks of the Clyd ad elsewhere. The Cuiea steel ship io Servia, now building by Messr, 'hompson, of Glasgow, is 500 feet by 5 et, with over 10,000 indicated horec ower, and will therefore, doubtlessa osess a speed considerably In advance a tat of the very fastest ship at presen 3loat in the mercantile marine. The In kan steamship City of Rome, uilding a on at Barrow, will be still larger, havinj length of 646 feet, a breadth of 52 feet gross registered tonnage of 8,000, and eai power nearly equal to that of th ervia. The Guion Line is to be increasei y ships of almost equal size and power ad the Allan Line is building otheis equa > the finaest of the White Star boats. Not 'ithatanding the number and magnitudi f the passenger steamers now ruimmng be veen America and this country, the trallb i so great that it has only been possible t, ecure accommnodationt by arranging pas ages many weeks, and oven months, i [Ivance, while the rapidly increasinj opulation and wealth of the Unitet lates and of Canada make it certain tha ae interchaige of uagricultural 'produc id manufactured goods between theo: adl ourselves will go on increasing. A Dive ror Li fe, Just, below Kanahwa Falls, in West Vih Inia, Is an overhanging rock of immieni ze, jutting out about on: hundred fe, ver a seething whirlpool and it was one ie scene of a remarkable adventure. Thie Indians were in hot pursuit of Va ibber, a settler, and a man of distinctio a those early times, lie was hard presse nd all access to the river above and beio1 sing cut off, he was driven to the jumf~ ag rock, which proved to be the jumipin lI plaice for him. He stood on the rochk itlh full view of the enemy above and b( iw, who yelledl like (lemons at the cei intmy of his capture. Hie stood iup boldly' ad with lis rifle kept them at bay. A e stood there he looked across the rivei aw his friends-his wife and a babe in he rms-all helpless to render assistanc< 'hey stood as If petrified with terror an mazement. She cried at the top of he olce: "Leap Into theo river and meet me!" Laying her habe on the grasjs, shte seize, ie oarS and sprang into the -skiff aloma .5 she neared the middle of the river, hie usband saw the Indians comIng In ful once and yelling ilne (lemons. "Wife, Wife!" be screamed, "'mcoming rep dIowa a liti b;wer. With this he sprang from his crag ana rscenmded like an arrow Into the water tot foremost. Th'le wife rested on her oars a momnen see Ihim rise to the surface, the litti diff floated like cork, bobbing about on th aihing flood. It was an awful moment seemed an age to her. Would lie eve se? 11er earaiest gaze seemedl to penetrat to depth or the water, and she darte er boat further (town the stream, lHe ros ear lien, In a moment the boat was alon do of him, and she helped him to scranm he ito it amtid a shower of arrows an mntthiat the Indians poured into them. Th aring wife did not speak a word; lie usband was more dead than alive, and a ponded on her strength being masintaine iI they could reach the bank. 'This the Id, -just whore she had started, rigli !hiere the babo was hying, crowing an mtghing. Th'ie men pulled the skiff big n the land, and the wife slowly arose an elped to lIft Van Bibber to his feet. IH :suld not walk, but she lah', him down b< lde his babe, and then seating herself, 51 'opt wildly, just as any other woima !eould have done under ate cireumstancea 'hat babe Is now k grandfather and tha ck is nalhsd "Van lubber's Rook" to th Curlolu Sea IhLbabitants. There Is a continual warfare going on in the deep, a constant struggle for the 3 means of sustaining lite. The carniverous devour the vecetarlans, and the mud-eaters swallow both animal and vegetable forms; and this runs all the way down the scale, from the shark and the equally ravenous bluefish to the* least of the annielda. 1 These last, the sea-worms, are wary, but they cannot escape their enemies. If they r were to confne themselves to the bottom, I where they feed and where many of them grow to the length of a foot or two, they might in a measure escape, though they would still be a prey to the scup and - other fish that know how to dig for them; r but they love to swim, particularly at night 3 and in the breeding season, and then they 3 are snapped up in countless numbers. They f have almost every variety of forms and their structuie is marvelous-monsters with hooked Jaws at the end of a probos -is, 3 and withal, sides of bluest green that throw 3 off an infinite variety of irridescent hues. i Some of the sea-worms have scales, others & have soft bodies; some are sluggish and curl themselve up into balls when dis turbed, others are restless, particularly at 1 night; some are round, others fiat; some - build tubes of sand and cement, woven together till they make a colony of many hundred members; the tubes of others are soft and flexible, and some,when disturbed, 3 withdraw within their crooked calcareous , tubes and close the orifice with a plug. L One variety of the serpuhe lis three dark i red eyes; another has clusters of eyes on -eaclitentaclo. The amphifods were accoun r ted of no great value till it was shown by 3 the Fish Commission that these small crus i tacea furnish a vast amount of food for L both salt and fresh-water fishes. Indeed, there is not a creature that swims or crawls i that does not become the food of some other aniinal. Abeach flea is caught up bya scup or flounder; sumds make terrible havoc among young mackerel, and sharks and sting-rays fld something appetizing in i the gasteropod. But we have not room here to dwell on the attractions offered hy the invertebrate animals on this coast. The rocky shores I abound in varieties differing from the pro ducts of sandy and muddy bottoms, and the different zones have their peculiar forms of aninal and vegetable life, and one has only to sweep the water with a fine net, and drawing it through the sea weed, to gather an infinite variety of ani inal life, so minute and delicate in form as only to be seen with the aid of a glass. At - the laboratory of the Fish Commission, crabs not bigger than the head of a )in may be seen seen swinmiig in a shallow dish, tiny forms, almost transparent, but active and pugnacious when they meet each other. These minute animals at this r stage are not fully formed, 'out have a tall, which, when not in use, is drawn up I under the body. This appendge, like the r caudal one of the tadpole, disappears when D the creature has no further need of it. to of the young of the lobster; it has five feet, while the abdominal segments are flat t ned out into a tail fln. But perhaps thero - is no greater change in the growth of 'any of the orustacca, tnan that which charac f terizes the star-tish. Its larva seeis com t plete in itsell,and its movements are active before it presents any of the aspects of the parent fish. Even its temporary mouth ! does not remain the permanent mouth of the starfish. It is the starlish that Is the a great destroyer of oysters, and there is nothing more tenacious of life. Tear off I one of its lobes or arms another will grow in its place; tear off two, three-all of its I five arms, and it is able to reproduce them all. Curiosities of a Rfissouri Cave. About a year ago Mr. Strein bought a -tract of land one mile east of Westport, upon which was a wonderful spring of cool,pnire water, wich came bubbling from an un mense cave which has been explored 3,000 feet from its mouth. Soen after Mr. 8trein Ssecured the property he bethought him of Sraising brook trout, and Mr.Annmn, a well known fish-culturist ot Rochester, camne to Kansas City to see if the plan was a feasi .ble one. .Mr. Annin explored the cave; e and after making his way underground t about six hundred feet camne to a small ,e cataract about three feet high, over which the wvater fell. In about four hundred yard. Sanother waterfall was reached, b~ut at thin a point a persion has to crawl along, as the walls of the cave are very low, the ceiling being ragged and rough. About a year ago. when an investigation of the cave was first made, a lot of 01(1 Indian arrow heads of flint were discovered near the first waterfall, and~ It is saidl mn olden times the Indians used tis cave as a sepulchre for their dead before they wvere sent to the S"happy huntiing ground" In sup~port of tils theory it is kniown thant within thirty .yards of the mobith of the cave are the remains of an Indiani stone house, where not many years since dwelt a half breed r and his aged squaw. They were very reticeiit as to the use of the cave, but claimed that the water which came fromi it jhand certain emnative powers which theu "mealcino men" had dihscoveredl ages ago. r The people in the neighborhood have all iheard the stories, and the place has about it much of lnterest. Mr. Annin told Mr. .Strein that in his opinion the water in thc cave was well adapte d to raising fish, and on his return from Rochester lie sent out three thousand eggs taken from Caledonia creek, near his own home, which have beeri t hatched out successfuilly. A F'arrot in the Witness liox. r About six months ago a parrot b~elonging S to the Sisters of St. Bonifaco Convent dlis I appeared, and was recently found in the o posseslon of Pierre Mallet, who lives or g Lapoyrouse street, New Orleans. A (1e - mandh being made upon hhn1 lie refused tc .1 surrender the bird, claiming that he pur S chased it, and will not give it up unlesi r paid( an extravagant price. The Sistorn I have therefore instuted a suit in the 8econc~ .1 J 'istieds Court to recover their bird, wice: y they value at, one hundred dollars. Trh t psi-ot speaks Glerman fluently, and iti 1 cowners olaim that they will have no difl li eniiy in proving their propriety. Upon the tI trial the bird is to iM brought Into court t< e tell what lie knows about kidnapping. Ti -1 ird Is well known to the pup)Ils who at e tend school at the Convent, and it is sak( n that a test of indentification will consist ii .ihe bird's obedience to a certain dign know s *t only to its rightfril owner. The trIal o a this case promises to be both interestinj [and anmusing. Osborne Rouse, Osborne adjoins the estate of Norris Cas tie, where the Queen spent some time in childhood, and her selection of the place P in mature years was probably due to early inspressions. The Queen and Prince seem soon to have felt a desire for-what her 1 predecessors on the throne never had-a home of their very own. as opposed to an official home, and the private home of Os borne was soon supplemented by that of c Balmoral. It is scarcely probable that a radical House of Commons will bo content to vole much longer the great sum annually a demanded for maintaining royal pa'aces at a which the sovereign never resides. t Besides Bucidnghain Palace-where her residence now averages about ten days a year-the Queen has Kew, Hampton Court,1 Kensington. Busby Park, St. Jaiies, the white Lodge in Hichniond Park, Frogmore, 0 all at her disposal, should she please to oc cupy them, and all mainained at public cost, besides Holyrood in Scotland, where occasionally she has spet a few days. Ker.sington and Hampton Court are now given up in part to pensioners of position. 'rho accumulation of these palaces has been P in a considerable decree due to the indi vidual caprice of various sovereigns. William III hated the splendid palace of v Whitehall, and was not sorry when tire ef faced the triumphs of Hlolbein una Inigo 1 Jones. Ite lived at Kensington, and occa sionally at Hampton Court. Anne lived at 0 Kensington and Windsor, as did the Geor ges up to and inclusive of George 11. George III and Charlotte lived at St. James, < Windsor and Kew until Buckinghani House was bought. George 111 also lived a great deal it r Frogmnore, in Windsor Park. For years he did not occupy Windsor Castle. George VI lived, after lie caie to the throne, at Buckingham Palace, Windsor, and the Pa vilion Brighton, and spent on thei then, probably,at a rough calculation, $7,500,000. William IV, not tit till a representa ive King lived chiefly at Windsor and Buck inghan palaces. So far as Windsor, Hampton Court, Busby and ilichmniond ae conmerned, their surroundings are entirely 0 C free to the public, who can ride and drive in nearly every part of their parks. Were, however, Kensington Palace, a plain brick building, covering several acres, razed and fine houses erected, the public would not suffer by the loss of a recreation ground, t and the public treasury would gain to the ' extent of a sum nearly covering all allow ances paid to the royal family, except that to the Queen. You Cant Skipt. "Is your name David Shaster ?" asked the court of a man nearly seven feet high who suddenly walked out on Bijah's arm. r "Iley?" replied the prisoner, as lie lean 0d forward. "Is your nanie David Shasteo?" - '"Hey?" "Ils- your- name - David - Shaster?" repoated the court with al his voice. "Yes, 1 suppose it is.., "You are charged with being drunk.'" "Iley?" "You tire charged with being drunk." "Hey?" "Drunkl'" yelled Bijah, with his mouth close to man's ear. . "Who'sdruuk? What have I got to dit with anybody being drunk?" "You were drunkl" shouted the court. "licy?". "You were drunk!" yelled Bijah. "Bet you $." replied the prisoner as he went down for the money. The officer in the case said lie found hiin lying under a sied, drunk and asleep and the court ieplied: "Well, I can't yell my head off to make him understand. I've busted my collar button and broken a suspender aIready, anmd I shall let hiin go. Prisoner you can go." '"Hey?" "You can skip." "Hey?" Bijahi turned him around and run him out and shut the door on him, but lhe p~ut his nose. aigainist the glass and shook the door and called out: "'Hey? il see if I haven't any rights!" Loyaiiy Nowardeud. The French Governient has just conm ferred the military medal upon a young woman employed in the telegraph "f11ce at Pithiviers during the war of 1870u. Upon the arrival of the German forces ini that town durinag the month of No vember, they at once, as was their wont,took possession of the telegraph of 11ce and relegated Mdlle. Dodu, the young woman in charge, to a room, and Mdie. D~odi managed to tap thiemi andi conivey the information to the sub-prepect. One day a telegram arrived from the P'russian staff at Orleans adldress edi to Prince Fredlerick Charles, informing him of the march of a French corps upotn G)ien, and suggesting the mnovemnents to be made in order to surround it. This tele grain she took to the sub-prefect who miadeO three copies of it for the commander of the French corps, sending each by a dlifferent messenger. T wo of the mossengers were killed, but the third arrived, and the in formation enabled the Frtench commander to make a timely retreat. Th'le Prussiaus did not as certain what had taken place un-| lu just before the armistice, but for which Mdmle. D~odu might have fared badly. Tinigs it Would beo Funny to See. A patent medicine that wasn't warranted a dead shot for anything, fromi corns~to consumpion. A rose without a thorn and a woman without a fault. A tarpaulin stout enough to keel) the rain from soaking through the backs of our milkman's cows. A poor plumber and a rich newspaper man. A man who can rap eternal smash out of his favorite bunion while mnaking a tight croquet and still keep the air brake on his tongue. I 'Iihe man who wasn't always able and willing to give an editor a few pointers in the newspaper buisiness. A doctor who hadn't believed all along that Tranner would come out all right. A bald headed man who never lost lis temper. A circus just to relieve the monotony. A chrome of the man who invented the dlance-called "thu racket." It iseasir osupprss thefirst desire than to atisfy all that foillow it. The Booking Stones. Scattered over certain portions of the ritish isles, and hero and there in other arts of the world, may be found masses of etacied rock, often of great size, poised nicely on a narrow base that they move and fro under very slight pressure, and nown in Great Britain by the name of 'logan" or "rocking" stones. In some ases the action of the wind alone is sudi Leut to sct them in motion. Formerly, these stones, from their pecu ar characteristics, were considered to be to work of human hands, and were classed inong "Druidic remains"-the common ellef being that they were connected with ie religious rites and ceremonies of the Iruids. One of the absurd beliefs was that if a ipposed culprit was brought to a rocking one, his guilt or innocence would be at ace proclaimed-if guilty, the stone would ibrate on his approach by unseen power; hile on the other hand his innocence 'auld be proved by its remaining station :y. An opposite belief was that the stone ould "rock" at the slightest touch of those ure at heart, but would withstand even. a lant's power when exerted by the guilty. 'hese beliels, like many others connected rith so-called cromlechs and other re talus, are, however, exploded, and it is ow very generally agreed that rocking ,ones are not works of art, but the result. f naturl causes. There can be no doubt that in most cases ie "iockin"g property of ihese masses of one is entirely due to weathering; disin igration having been offected through Euintless ages by the action of wind and tin, and sometimes by sand blown by the rind upon the masses of jutting rock of hich they are composed. In some in ances, too, there is little doubt the super icuibent tnass has fallen er rolled from io rocks and heights above, and become celdentally poised on its present bed; and i oliers again they may have been depos ed in their position by glaciers or ice ergs. In all cases, however, we shall be ife in nttributing, in one way or other, icir formation to natural agency. At one f die meetings of the British association, tie theory was clearly demonstrated by Ir. Grove, who stated that by artificial at rition lie had himself made several minia Lre rocking-stones; "and thus ho showed ow by the action of the atmosphere on icir corners, niany large masses of rock, hieh aliving a tendency to disintegrate Into ubical or tabular blocks might gradually ccome 'unded into the rude spheroidal liaple generally presented by the logan." St.reet Acqualutanees. You know a great many people you are 't acquainted with. Your accustomed walks on the street ring you face to face with men, women nd children every day, who grow famil tr to you, but you know them not. Just about so far ironi the same corner very morning you meet the care-worn n, weighted with life's burdens, his ace wrinkled with the history of strug lea. You always feel like taking off your at to him and offering a sympathetic ord. The spruce young clerk, with one hun red anti twenty steps to the minute, lances at you sharply and whizzes by as the world wouldn't move till hegot here. The distressed-looking woman, with ale face, shabby-genteel dress and a bit f resolution expressed by her closed mouth, iresomely coics (own the walk. 11ur ace has moved you to pity every morniog or a year. What Is this little breeze comung? With netallic heel-plate clicking, clicking on the idewalk like the ringmg of aclog dancer's tel), jaunty hat to one side of her head, teat. cuztume, aud a fancy, piquant air? ileet her every day, but don't dare to peak 1,o her. T1his little toddling girl with bangs, pro ceted by n older brother, playing ont the idewalk with a hoop1 and dolly. A gleam ~f childhood's sunshinie that greets you heerily. Tihose two jolly fellows comIng, telling tories and laughting all the way to their vork. Light-hearted, because they were torn so. Y'ou feel like turning abut and tnving a laugh with them, but they are tnly street acquainitances. Thei~ "'grubbiog'" sort of men whom you utet every (lay carrying a pipe between heir teeth, rouind-i'houldered, and having ,haitgdog sort oh a gait, pecrfectly ind.it rent to everthing. It makes a man reel diue to see thorm. T1hie gray haired atnd muich-b~owed vote an, whose life is near adjourtnnt. You neet him on Saturday )normalg, only, 1loan in his staff, hils white locks streaming ha lie breeze; a pilcture which we all took tipon with reverence. These are but few typecs of the people te meet every day in trhe street ad know, mut are not acqualiitedl with, that, are as nuch a p~art of our every-day life as are ur (duties that addi so muchi to our pleasure Lad oppoitunity for study, andi~ mtore thaui ooks and newspapers. Othariemagssne. Ab~ove the ordinary height of a tian, hbarlenmagne wvas a giant in lisa stittue as n his mind1(; but t lie gracefuli and easy pro >ort ion of all his limbs spoke the combina ion of wonderful notivity with Immense itrengthl, atnd pleased white it astonished. illis coiuntenance wvas as striking as lhis flg. ire; andl his broad. high forehead, his keen tnd flashing eye, and bland, unwrinkled irow, offered a bright pictulre, wherein the pirit of physiognomty, natual in all mien, night trace the exp~resslon of a powerful mi eollect andl a benevolent heart. Gifted with t frame, the corporeal energ'os of which ~equired little or no relaxaltion, and which; sonsequtently, never clogged and hiamp)LredI IIs Intellect by fat igue, tUharlemaigne coukd 'hovote an Immiense portion of his time to nislness, and, without taking more thtan a rery small portion of sleep, could dedicate hle clear thoughts of an untiredl mind to time 'egulatlon of his kingdom, even while oth. 3r min were buried in repose. Hie was iccustomedi, we are told, to wake sp~onta Lecously, and rise from lis bed four' or live lanes in the course of each unight; and 5) ireat was his economy of moments, ihat ~he brief space he employed In putting on ,he simple gariments with wica ho -wile isually clothed, wias also cceu,,iedl ia hoar ng the reports of his Count of the Palace, r the pleadinugs ot v'arlous causes, winch lie decided at those timwes with as miuch alar wisdom a. If lIstenmng totiheua on tm judlgment seat.