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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., NOVEMBER 11, 1880. ONLY A REART. It is not a stone that will bruise, my lord Nor Is it a serpent to sting, A thorn to rend, a sword to plere, Or any vile, poisonous thing. Only a heart, a woman's heart, Step on It i crush it i so ! Bravely done like a gentleman, Turn on your heel and go. Only a heart I what harn is don? Let it bleed in the dust and moan, Or stifle its anguish as best it may, Or stiffen, my lord, into stone. Only a heart I it was fresh and young, And tender and warm, I know; As pure as ths spirit of chastity, My lord ; and it loved you so I Dut nothing is lost: let it die, my lord, Let its doathe quick or slow ; Such hearts are as plenty as summer leav We find thom wherever we go. Only a heart I do not fear, toy lord, Nobody on earth in near Tro come to the cry of the woun4ed thing And God is too far to her. Kate's Adventure. I am Kate. Of course I can tell my own adventu a great deal better than any one can i them for me. That stands to nature. ] not a practiced writer, and I don't kn( how to produce what the fashionable o thors call "grand pen-affects," but I tbeht I can make -you understand how it w Ani that is all that is necessary: Leeman bad sprained his ankle-tha my brother--and he could not go to to' with the load of russet apples that was ready piled into barrels, and stood walti under the big red shed. "It's too bad !" said he. "Those risi apples are worth a deal at this time of yt -and we shall miss the market day I" "Can't you ask Neighbor Hutton to ta them'?" said my mother. "Neighbor Hutton is a deal too sharp practitioner for me," said Leeman. "I a hard thing to say about a neighbor; b I can't trust his honesty." "Mr. Hall?" "Hall would be casting It up it inmy fa( for the next six months, that I had ask a favor of him," said Leeman. "No, rather lose the apples than lose ny in( pendeuce. But it is too provoking that must needs have slipped on that piece orange-peel, now, of all times in the yet I have been saving up these apples all t winter with a special eye to this particul market day." "Leoman," said I, "I'll go." "Nonsense l" said Leeman. "But why not?" said I. "Old Pomp -a getle as a kitten, and I know every in o. the way." "But there are the Red Swamp woods that desolate stretch of three males, w never a house on either side of the wa except the deserted cabin where the negro hanged himself, twenty years ag( argued my mother. "Who cares for the Red Swamp woods said I, valiantly. I never was afraid frngs and whip-poor-wills, and i'm i going to begin now. Lil, will you go < and help me harnessed early in the moi ing, and-" 1Oh, I wish I was going too I Can' go, Kate?" cried Lil, my hoyden you sister, with her blue eyes glittering w tielight at the idea of anything unusual. "Stuffl" cried I, imperiously. "Of cou you can't. Hasn't Pomp a heavy load ( ough, without your ninety pounds of in chief loaded on? Besides you must si at home and take care of mother, and L man, and finish the chintz curtain for i big west chamber; for Colonel Hay n come at any time now." Colonel Ilay was our city boarder gentleman who had been recommended ia physician to try the fresh, pmne-sceni breezes of the Shawaugeenta mountai and whomi our rector had recommended the Icy Spring faime. We were not, rich, although mother Leeman had managed the farm econoi cally and well since father's death and weekly addition to our income would something worth considlerinig, The idea of a city boarder was v pleasant, too, and Icy Spring farm wva very lovely spot, although we selom lowed ourselves to tink of that. So, alter a little, I coaxed another a Leeman to consent, and the next morn Lil and I were up long before daybre harnessing old Pomp, and getting ready the day's journey. By the time the red, level light of rising sun touched old. Pomp's gray mn with radiance, I was driving through Red swamp, where the mnaple trees ft which it took its name were all aglow v crimson blossoms, and the thruselis robins called to one another with flute. .notes. . Well, I .managedl splendidly. I ka where I was going when I started. 1 a the six b~arrels of russets to the man kept the Park hotel for four dollars apai andi that was more than Lenan lhau anticipated. "Be careful -you don't get robbed, no said the man, as he watched me put bills into my little leather portmonnaie. "Robbed?" saidl 1, with a laugh "W who should rob me ?" "Oh, I don't know,'' said the landl< "There's always tramps andl buarg around. They're a crop that don't be! to any particular season of the year." ..As I turtned away-I did not mptico the time, but It icaane back to me a! wards, as things do come back, like a I dlen flash across the (lark shield of mn -a man who was lounginig on the a looked hard at me. , 1 colored a little and thbtigitto mys ''Well, lie will know me the next tinwi sc(a me," and then forgot all about it; I had mother's black bomnbazine to in and lill's spring hat to buy, anti some nor china to select, and tihe doctor's scription for Leemnaa to fill out at the a! gist's, so it was well on to seven whi turned old Pomnp's head hiotneward in suburbs of thme town, with a feeling of tion which was quite pardonable, y one considers nmy iiexperience~s hI: marketing line, and miy exceptionally success. TIhe sunsb~ine was warm andl still or highroad, and. Ifas rathier glad whe last, wecamne to the cool shadows el Ried swamp,.where the birds were all a in the noon-heats, and the sweetest of '( came floating up fr~m the tangled re of fern and qowalip on either aide 01 solitary, railted-In fence. All at once old Pomp gave a sidewise start--his ancient idea of shying-and then I saw a man. pale, dusty,-and tired-look ing, sitting on a fallen log, just outside the ga road. I felt sorry for him; I was like ba mother-who never would let the shabbiest u or meanest looking vagabond go past onr pns house without a draught of milk or a piece n of fresh-baked pie, or a slice of her famous ne home-made bread-cake--and without stop- 81 ping to think I drew In old Pojnp's rein. sh "Are you going towards lenox cross- n roads " said 1. 'Yes ! Then jump in; I,, I'm going in that direction, too, and I'll 111 give you a lift." rif Ile thanked me in a allent, drooping sort du of way, and seated himself on the board at be the back of the wagon, towards which I art pointed with the handle of my whip. an "You look IIl," said I. th "I am not ill," he said, with a smothered bet cough. "Only tired with my long walk' ch el I didn't know it was so far to Lenox." Ti "I suppose you are going for work ?' pa said I. "Deacon Brierley has a good an many ha.. % just now in his tobacco fac- kn tory." "No," said lie; "I am not going to lar work." sh I asked no more questions. I did not ov like the Idea of a man's shrouding himself idi in mystery in that sort of way; and, as I thi glanced around once more, a sudden rev- ev l'es elation came across me like a blaze of co, ell light. of m It was the same man who had eyed me do w so keenly on the steps of the Park hotel. is 6u- Then I remembered my mother's words bo ve of caution, Leeman's reiterated exhorta- mi s. tions, the landlord's friendly words of thi warning. of t t's And, In spite of all, I had deliberately ph vn thrust my silly head into the jaws of dan- geo al- ger. There was only one thing remaining sic ag for me to do-to get out of the scrape as an( well as I could. Th 4et I cast about in my mind how to do this ; wu ar and presently, with beating heart, I drop- cal ped a little paper parcel of blue ribbon into tht ke the road. art "Oh I'" I cried, checking up Pomp, "I've we a droppea my parcel. Would-would you to L's mind getting out after it" His Ut "Not in the least," said the stranger, YO and he climbed laboriously out of the o wagon. or :e, He had scarcely set his fCet on the ground a ed before I had laid the whip on old Pomp I'd with a will, and rattled away over the long Y. le- straight road at a pace that seemed posi I tively marvelous to me and Pomp both. fI So we left our passenger behind, in the tif - middle of the Red swamp. I could see ig ar0 him standing there, blank and astounded, pa air pdngthre the sole figure in the long perspective, as kii I ventured to look back; but I only whip- all, ped Pomp the harder, and never let him ma 'bate his pace until we were well out of the ow Uh Red swamp. by "I've out-generaled himu," bald I, to my- oh self, "and I've saved Leeman's twenty-four me dh dollars. I'm sorry about the blue ribbon; lie y but it was only a yard and a quarter, after leg 4d all, and I can trim bil's hat with something mi ),T (lse." lie They were delighted et my prowess wri ?i when I related my adventure at home. Lee- yo of man declared I was a capital little market- ad kot woman; mother shuddered at the idea of ut the desperate tramp alone with me in the n- tangled wilderness of the Red swamp; Lil declared that I was a heroine. I "Wasn't it a good idea for Kate to droV an ng the blue ribbon, and send him after it ?' na ith said she. TI "Kate was a goose ever to let him get tr rae into the wagon," said Leeman, knitting his ot mn- brow. ytf is- "Kate musn't go by herself such a long wj ay distance again," said mother. wi e- Ana I drank my cup of tea, and rested wa he myself, and went out afterward to see the 1In ay new brood of darling little yellow chicks, an which old Speckle had brought off the nest rei -a during my absence. e by I was on my knees in the hen-house, P< ed feeding them with scalded meal from the LC ne, palm of my hand, when I heard mother sh to calling me from the house. Ft "Kate I Kate I Come at once I 001- a ,id onel Hay has arrived." m ni-- "Colonel Hay ?" edl Who I started up, looking with blank dismay ra be at my calico dress and the meal stains on wi my hands. tie iry However, there was nothing for it but to 'ro a a obey the summons ; so I went up to the of ali- house. A sort of blur seemed to come be0 16 fore mny eyes as I entered the sitting room - |es end and heard mother saying: Iw] Lug "Colonel flay, this is my eldest daugh- M ak, ter, hate." Ft for And then the blur cleared away, and I leI knew the man I had twice befoie seen that of the day--the pale, tired traveler whom I had rc 111 so recklessly abandoned ma the middle of ha the the Ried swamp. - . ki 0om "I-I beg your pardlon, Colonel Hay 1"'' o ~Ii cried out immediately. "I thought you gi nd were a thief I" fe Ike The burst of laughter that followed from i oevery inaeof the room effectually scat- ol kl That was my adventure. And Colonel a vhio Hlay has long since forgiven me thaL nn w ~ce, kiud dlesertioni of him. In fact-tals is ci sell quite private and confidential, mind-we hI ,are to be married soon, and I am going di with him to Florida, to try-the effect of a 01 tho Southern climate on his health. Trhat Is at all. Isn't it enough? i l hy, _________A )rdi. InadIu Carpets. P lairs 'n ong An Agra jail carpet exhibited at Parii In tr 18718 was, as pointed out at the time, remark. 01 t at able for the fine proportion of its border to Is ter- the center. The borders of modern OrIental ud- carpets are generally made too narrow. n. tory In the Mionaic floors of the Greeks and ci teps8 liomans, which were evidently suggested by 6 Oriental tapestry, the border was always 2' elf : remarkably broad, and in the oler Persian T lie carpets it is often a yard deep and more. ri for The singular excellence in design of the a~ itch Agra jail carpets is due'to tdir John sa din- 8trachey's influence. When visiting the tI pro- jail, many years ago, the zealous superin- e rug- tendeont triu~mphantly showed him some p mn I carpets he h'ad beetn manufacturing from tl the the vilest European designs. Sir John ti cla- asked him if they were all the patterns of lI !hien tihe kinds he possessed. "No ;not by any a tho ineans," replied the superintendent. "I .1 cood have ransacked all the factories hI England .: for their latest patterns." Sir John begged ri the that hie might see them all, and whion he t a at was at last satishled, that all had been il the brought out, he &dered them to be all hi ilent burned jn the heap as they lay before him, t dora and that for the future only native patterns E usses should be followed without deviation. TIhe I the Agra-jall carpets are, however still defe- 1 ive, in haony of coloring. Conscientious Workers. 'he tendency of our times is to disre rd old maxims. It is true, many of them, sed on the experience of other people der very different conditions, are not ap cable in our day. "Haste snakes wamte" y be true in the workshop, but the busi is man knows that "time is money," and pays to be in a hurry when the market ows signs of a change. The good old xim that "whatever is worth doing is rth doing well," is often forgotten. ,ht is good enough for him, or for the ney," is a poor excuse for a man to a c ce his good name, and still worse to in c him to acquire careless habits. It has 31 said that 9vhle American workmen better paid, better fed, better educated, I we may a.d, better behaved, than in those of any other country they can it the world in slighting their work and atlng their customers and employers. e shoemaker, who turns out one or two !rs of boots a week for a customer, takes honest pride in his work, and feels and owS that he Is to be held personally re mnsible for every stitch he put in. In a go factory, where the division of labor )uld make every man an expert in his n branch, the workman often loses his intity and responsibility. He knows a customer cannot fall back on him,how )r imperfect his work. If it Is only rered up so as to conceal it from the eye his foreman he is safe. Probably this is lug much t.o encourage careless work. It well known that ready-made clothing, fts, dresses, underclothing. everything de in large quantities, is far cheaper z custom work, but alas I it is very en not as good. There are many peo in every land who like to be humbug 1, while others have equally strong pas n for cheap wareswhether poor or good, I some one must supply this demand. c; producers of such goods employ poor rkmen at corresponding poor wages, be ise they must make their profits out of ar workmen. Five and ten cent stores lowerang the standard of production as If as the scale of wages. It never pays be a poor workman. If you are a young ,n, alhn to do honest work, and, althotugh ir present employer may not be willing pay you any more for a well-made coat a neatly-finished boot than he would for o'ch, don't be discouraged, If you are arpenter, maike the best joint you can;lf i are a machinist,see thas eve y bolt and ot is as firm as if your life depended on properly fulfilling its duties. How caro ly the aeronaut examines his balloon,the lit rope performer hia rope before he trusts .ife to it. Would a shipbuilder take sage on a vessel of his own building if ow that he had wilfully. neglected or hted any essential part ;f her hullI Yet ny a young mechanic has destroyed his n future and committed moral suicide sending forth a poor piece of woik. Tne I surgical protessor's caution to young dical students is not inapt here. Said "If you are ever called to set a broken , and your work is a failure, and the n becomes a cripple, you may be sure will conic limping along just at the ong time, when you are surrounded by ir clients anti friends. He is a walking rertisement of your incapacity." 0at. [n 1848, a French force landed at Tahiti I took possession of the island in the ne of Louis Phillippe, the citizen king. *e natives were nq, subdued without a aggle. The Frane4-Tahitlan war lasted ir years, and the last native stronghold ilded through the act of a native traitor, oguided the French through a forest trail ere they got in the rear of the native ,rriors. The natives in their stronghold, ding that their enemies were in front I rear of them, were compelled to sur ider after a long, heroic struggle to pro ye the independence of the island. Queen mare escaped to the four kingdoms, or wer Society islands, and insisted that i would not .-eturn to Tahiti unt il the each abandoned it. The Vahine Aru, roaminent chiefess, finally induced Po ire to change her mind. She was restor to her throne, uinder a French protecto e, andI, with a brief intermission, during iclh her son Toamatoa was king, contin d to reign, a venerable speciamen of the fal barbarian. Pomare died on the 17'th iep)tem -or, 1877. Bihe had reigned since 22, a pericd of fiffty-five years. She was eceeded by Prince Arnane, her eldest son, 1o was married ia 1874 to the Princess arau. This marriage was the result of 'each intrigue, and under tie sway the and hias been practically a dependency France, like the adjacent island of Mo i. .The French, 6fter conquering Tahiti, d made an attempt to reduce the four ngdoma to submission. Under the lead a Scotchman, however, the natives be uled1 the French into ambush, and made mi-ful havoc in their ranks. Then an neracan adventurer named Jordan, a sort forerunner of Steinberger, get up a home to annex the group to the United ates. He began by marrying a native >aman of rank, ended by suslamm~ag a ushing defeat, and barely escaping with * life. ils wife swam out to sea in the irknes of night, with the heroic filibuster a her back, and then they took a canoe ad made their way to a neighboring la nd. Five years ago Mr. Atwater, the mnerican consu a the four kiangdomns, arried tihe Prince a a Moetia, sister to the rincess Marau. These complications are )W straightened out by ,the new Frencd eaty, which, it Is supposed, embraces nol aly Tahiti, but the entire group of is gds. The Society islands, as the group is umed, lie about 18 degrees south of thc luater, and have altogether an area 01 16 square miles, and a population of aboul ),000, all but '2,000 of whom are natives wo-thirds of the entire population art sidonts of Tahiti. Seen from a vease >proacinig the huarbor of Papelte, Taht ems ai vision of thait beauty which stirre< Ie hearts of the old jaavlgators, and made ron the steady-going pen of Captain C'ol octical. The ciocoanut trees rise agains ae sky, and orange groves are seen, thmough 10 orange is not hero an indigenous plant verything looks quiet, cool and pleasant a if here at last were the possibility of Itopia where one, might live at ease fa ,om, the ngaddenmng crowd, and carini othaing for the outside world. Papelte ic capital of the protectorate, is situate4 the north western part of Tahiti, ani as a large and recure. harbor, accessibl ships of every size. It hati streete nanm d after those of Paris, its little thops, an B smnall trade with the nieighboring islandi ut ats native inhabitants, though ever oa howa Qhat they ar ?eDag AWSy the manner of "natives" when white men visit them, retain many of their old char acteristics. When Cook visited them ma. ny years ago they were accustomed to sac rifice human beings, and had some other customs not in accord with European views of propriety, the most objection ible of which have long since dissapeared. Their complexion Is dark-darker than that of Spauiards--and the men are lighter than the women. They are of Malay blood, but in their faces show none of the malign ferocity of the parent stock. They are a lighthearted and cheerful race, civil and even courteous to strangers, the men often sple l id athletes the women quiet and la zy. Tho aloe and vanilla bloonm side'by side with the hibiscus and pandanus, the l me, orange u banana, and all Is pretty and picturesque as possible. Most of tne in habitants have been sufficiently well in structed to enable them to read and write. In general the Tahitian women go bare head and barefoot. They are often be witchingly beautiful, and in every way so charming that the name given to the island, Nouvelle-Cythere, is readily understanable. It was by the ancient Cythera that Venus Aphrodite is fabled to have sprung from the sea-a mythes which probably means that the worship of the lovely goddess was introduced on the iPland by some maritime people who had come to i's shore. Tahiti is divided into two parts, Tahiti proper and the peninsula of Talarapu, both nearly circular. The soll is stony and intractable on the mountain tops, and on the interme diate space stetching down toward the plains often argillaceous: in recompense, howt ver, it Is luxuriously productive in the valleys, and a ong the line of the sea-ooast. A line of coral reefs entirely su:round the island, with here and there breaks which are said to have been formed by the invasion of water from the streams which in cascades fall down the mountains and into the ocean. The group is of volcanic origin, and elemen tal disturbances of that nature are yet com mon. In 1878 two of the smaller islands of the group, Raitaa and Burraburra, were completely burst up, and a great number of people were dr )wncd. Hurricanes and waterspouts are also frequent. On the 7th of February of last year there was a hurri cane in which over one hundred persons. were killed and much property was de stroyed. So that this elysium of the south seas, described by Hermann Melville in his facinating books, "Typee"and "Omoo," as the most perfect spot on earth, has drawbacks as a place of residence. Bliood-B~ath. According to a dark tradition, which is incidentally mentioned by Pliny, the an cient kiugsof Egypt used to bathe in human blood when they were seized with leprosy. A similar story is told of the Emperor Con stantine; but he seems to have been-re strained from employing this revolting remedy in consequence of a vision; and he is said to have been cured by baptism. No great weight can be attached to these ill authenticated stories; yet it is but too true that, both in ancient times and in the mid die ages, decided healing virtues for the cure of leprosy were supp I ed to exist in the blood of innocent children and virgins, and that occasion was given thereby for numberless cruelties. It is needless to re fer to the remoter traces of the belier in the expiatory or healing properties of pure blood-they ramify far, and pass into the most ancient times. Cures of leprous peo ple by the blood of animals, in employing which certain symbolic customs were ob served, are mentioned in the books of Moses; and it might not be difficult to dis cover similar forms amongst all nations. During the middle ages the delusion about the healing virtues of human blood, which must hav. had horrible effects in the plague of leprosy, received a check from the im pression that only the blood of those child ren and virgins would prove efficacious who offered them freely and voluntarily for a beloved sufferer. This idea Is par. ticularly exp~ressed in the touching story of "Poor Henry," which forms tihe subject of one of the most beautiful poems of the thirteenth century. A Buambian knight, who sits in the lap'of happiness, is seized with leprosy. In order to escape death, lie seeks through the word for help. The physicians of Montpelier can give him no assistance: he hastens to Salernum. Here one of the masters makes him acquainted with the apparently hopeless means of cure. Sad a~t heart, he returns home, and prepares himself to sorrow omit the remaIn der of his days in solitude. A girl of twelve years of ge, the daughter of a countryman, conceives a passion for the un fortunate knight, attends him affectionate ly, and, upon accidentally hearing of the free-will offering, cannot be dissuaded from her resolution to purchase th. recov ery of her master with her life. Both bet out for Salernum, but the catastrophe is not fatal: Henry gets rid of the leprosy, and rewards his generous benefactress with marriage._____________ tior Long Lost, Uncie. He was a man with bronzed features, stoop-shouldiers, and long hair, and as lie walked up Fifth street any one could have told that lhe made a-piie of money ini some far-off country, and hadi come home to live with his almost forgotten-relatives, Hie finally found the house he was looking for, knocked at the door, and that's the lasi the boys saw of him. The rest of th< story was afterwards told to a policemnar by Mrs. McCarthy. Said she: "I was washing me dishes when I heart a knock at the dour, and I 'an and openet it. It was a stranger on the step, and he smiled like a dm<k and axed me does Mr, McCarthy live here?' 'lie does.' says 1, antd then says h.c: "W as your maiden nami Mrs. O'Rasffertyt' 'It was,' says I, and a that lie began hugging and kissing t me and called out: 'I am your long-lost uncl< from Qucenstown' " "Well, that was very nice," romarke< the ofiledr. "Nice; was it! Oh, the sneaking villain I set him up to a warm breakfast, anm me eyes were full of tears, for I thought i had money be the thousands. After h< cleared the table ho borrowed a dolla uv me to telegerph to Ireland that he wa safe here, axed mec to land him me hun -band's Bunday hat, and the next I heard o him he was in the shtation for a vagrant and was no more me long-lost uncle thai you arel" "Is that so?" "That's the shining truth, nor; and thia1 of his kissing me on the nose and fairl i cracking me rib.! When 1 think of how tuk him for me long-lost umicle I fee) de I 1 culd kick the park foR00 dowh an rlather him wid thepikt" * A Collection of Pipet. Most men, and even some women, would find much to interest them In a unique col lection of pipes which is now on exhibition in Edinburgh. It is a collection of 6,000 pipes of all nations, the whole valued at ?8,000. The Interest of the collection to smokers is sufficiently obvious, and if non smokers should too hastily deternine that an assemblage of tools for burning tobacco had no interest to them, they would make a great mistake, for, besides its curiosities, the collection contains for those who can find it much information as to the artistic and mechanical developenent of the nations which smoke, and which of them do not. What a progress is involved, for instance in the passage from the English small-bowl ed clay pipe of 1600 to 1750 to specimens of blue Wedgwood or Worcestershire and Stafford ware, and which doubtless deserve their description as exquisite V Or, com paring nation with nation as well as pipe with pipe. what inference would not the student of anthropology, who had no other source of information, draw from two pipes, one rude, like those from Siberia; with stems made from thong-bound slips of wood, and the other fashioned as symmetrically as any statute Or, who considering the nature of its intended service, would hesi tate to say that pipes of gems and precious metals, like those from Central Asia and Turkey, betoken a barbaric taste in comu. parison with the beautiful and comparative ly cheap bowls of Venitian gl-tss or Sevres chinaware, in which material goes for nothing and fitness and workmanship for all? We would not even inferentially lay that anythlug is good enough to burn to bacco in; on the contrary, jasper, agate, jade, and serpentine, or the silver used in Japan, and the polished precious stones used in Circassia, are none too good, but only a woman, a dandy, or a savage would use them to put fire in. Other national characteristies are expressed in these pipes. The Swiss and the Scandinavians carves theirs; bowls of painted porcelain are com mon in Germany; Russia sends soei stems "embroidered" with flowere, and an Amerl can Indian's pipe is decorated with scalps and woman's work in beads and porcupine quills. Among the cuiosities is a pipe which belonged to the Corporation of Co logne, and was smoked by "the ,iant' of their guild processions; one has a cluster of five bowls, but it does not appear how many are smoked at once; another has a bowl for each day in the week. In the Dutch case is a "bride-groom's pipe," a long clay dec oiated with gaudy ribbons, which i smok edonlyon the wedding day and its anniversa ries; there Is a tomahawk pipe and a Polynesian club pipe, which are equally useful in peace or war, and finally, there is the "biggest" pipe, of which the stem is 5 tet 8 Inches long, the (lhiensions of the bowl not being given. A suspicion arises that this is merely a show pipe, and so it is probable that a pipe ordered some two or three years ago by the Russian Court, Tyo skiewecs, from a maker in this city remains on the record as the biggest pipe intended for use. The block of nicerschatun from which it was cut weighed, when ready for the stem, just half a pound, and measured 91 inches from tihe outer edge to the joint. The steni was made from a single piece of clouded amber 81 inches long, and was joined to the bowl by a silver screw. The total length was 171 Inches, the weight was 14 ounces, and the cost only $200, as the bowl, though nicely shaped, was not carved at all. Tonbs Near Naples. Last June we were courteously invited by Baron Spinelli to pay a visit to his casino, near Cancello (a station within three quarters of an hour from Naples), which he had made into a museum for all the valuable objects lie has gathered from the crowded part of the metroplis of Suiersula .already excavated. Passing through fields rich in produce, and meadows crowded with young b~uffaloes and scented with sweet clover, we arrived at tire simlile old country house, which leans against an old imedhaoval tower. Ascending the broad staircase, lined with rows of amphorre, we enatered a suite of spacious rooms, fille d with cases and tables crowded with rare objects. It was dilicuilt to believe that such a quantity andl variety had been found in a piece of ground not more than about two acres In extent. We saw vases scara bel, ornaments for the neck, bracelets, rings, brooches on exactly the same princi plo as the modern safety-pin-thre sheath which guards the point being, however, very long-sonmc withr several endis of threads, upon which hung a few remaining herads, still adhering and various large or naments, the use of which It. has not yet been possible to ascertain. -BSome of thre most splendid are the things found In the most ancient graves. They consist of arti cles made of bronze, particularly personal ornament8. Tney are all of exquisite finish and workmanship, though very primitive in their figurative decoration- when it ex ceeds a mere straight or waving line. Seve ral bracdeots whieh aaron Spinelli caused to be polished shine with deep lustre like that of red gold,and still possess their elas ticity. Somec were found for the most part of pure gold. It seems as if tire aur-o ohateo so praised by Pliny and others had been rediscovered. In only one place has a similar metal been fouind, that is, in Corinth ; the celebrated mirror with tihe reprisentation of Korinthois and Leuikas is miade-. s made of thre same material. Th e apoearance of the b~racelets is, when in an oxldiewd condition, exactly similar to that of oxidized bronze, but the metal of the bracelets Is considerably heavier. In Naplea tihe dealers ha antiquities made a good busi ness by selling all that they possessed of a similar shape to thomse eager to have and wear such ornamats; but no one could change the nature of the common bronze, or give to objects of a different material the beautiful lustre and elasticity of those made of "lSpinelli's motal," as it has been called in Naples. Among other thingm taken from the tombs of the first period we Inoticed large pieces of amber, generally perforated. One beautiful vase, taken from one of the tufa tombs, was a GAreek lekythos, the lower part covered with a fine shlnmnl black glaze, the upper with a coat of ex. cessively fine white clay, upon .which fig. ures in outline were designed with exquist< delicacy. There is only one vase, found at Nola, which can compare with it-the celebrated vase with tire representation o. Anesldorus. Another vase which con. i tanned the ashes of some fatty substance L was from the inanufactory of Hioron,gr fr frst ofthat make dound witp two na iel 1nahAnn 1inanaoino that Mehron of Hieron. It is the' one of its kind and epoch till now fou'n rsula, and It would be premature to dra-w .rom Its presence there any chronological slon. It might be that such a vase had come into the possession in later ages of one tar from the country of its manufac ture. A curious object was a cup with a cover ornamented with figures, Inside which was the remains of a balance in miniature; perhaps a toy. The arms and supports of the balance were of wood, well preserved; the plates were made of the two halves of a nut. The bracelets were always found In pairs, and generally st.ill encircling the bones of the skeleton. From the fact that fragments of linen may sometimes be seen adhering to the inner side of the ornaments, it may be inferred that when the corpse had been clothed in a kind of a long-sleeved shirt, the bracelets were put on outside, so as not to be hidden by the dress. They are mostly of a spiral shape, like a serpent, and often wind seve ral times around the arm. They are so olastic that they can be drawn out to a great length. Many rings are also spiral, and so long that they must almost have c3vered the finger, like the rings worn in such numbers by Neapolitan women. No arms of bronze were found at Suersula, and few of iron; several knives and dag gers, and perhaps some lance-heads. The objects from the oldest, and therefore most interesting period, give evidence of a peo ple little advanced in the art of design; yet well to do, and not only accustomed to adorn themselves with the metal ornaments brought them by Greek ships. but also to pride themselves on giving a rich trousseau to their dead on their departure from this world, and on omitting no prescribed relig ious rite. How strange it was, in that rural and lonely villa, to ponder on the remains of so distant an age. flow vividly they remind us that the fair country around Naples has been, ages and ages ago, peo pled, devastated and repeopled ; as rich in in native productions twenty-thrte centu ries ago as now-perhaps richer. Every step taken in the campagna felice is a step over graves. Trees a. a Check to Connlagrations. A Sacramento (Cal.) paper bears testi mony that in that city disastrous and wide spreak confilagrations have frequently been averted, almost solely through the agency of shade trees. The trees serve to prevent the passage of burning debris through the air-the embers of which would otherwise be blown from house to house and from block to block, being caught in the upper branches, and falling :hence harmlessly to the ground. In the summer trees act 'as screens between houses and blocks, moder ating the heat of fires, and interposing a barrier which is seldom passed by the flames. When we add to these very prac tical considerations the value of trees in breaking the force of the wind, enhancing the beauty of a city and offording a grate ful shade to pedestrians, it will be seen that trees, planted along city streets, pay for themselves many times over and in many different ways. A commuuty which actson the suggestions thus enforced notonly ministers to its estlietic tasts and promotes culture and the love of the beautiful, but erects a barrier against fires and checks the spicad of conflagrations in one of the simplest and moat conimon-sense ways con ceivable, lWanted his Hair Cut. As a stranger caine out of the Washing ton Hotel lie was accosted by a hard-fea turedswamper with long-flowing hair hang ing down over his shoulders and his pants so short that one could not help thinking his feet had been run too far through them. "Are you a Christian man?" asked the lean, lank and cadaverous swamper of the hotel guest. "Well I don't know," said the stranger, cycing the swamper with seome curiosity. it dlepends upon circumstances. "Could you lend a poor man a quarter?'t Th'le stranger looked at the questioner. lie wore low-quartered shoes, with no stockings. ils feet were very dirty, as well as his face and hands, and the poor man looked both hungry and thirsty. "What do you want with the quarter?" Inquired the hotel guest. "To get my hair cut," lie sid; "when it is so long it gets dirty." The stranger gave him a qnarter, andi when last seen, the swamper was wending lis way to the nearest bar-room, where lie, noe doubt, had hiis hair cut to his complete satisfaction. A Good Dog. A good (log belongs to William Morrison, a herder at Jenks' ranch, situated on the (Chadron creek, Nebraska, and ten miles from the nearest ranch. Recently Morri son was thrown from his horse, and sus tained a complicated fracture of the leg. He crawled across the bridge and over the prairie, a quarter mile or more, to the ranch and on arrivIng there w rote a note stating his condition and asking for help to reach the hospital at Fort Sheridan. He fast ing the noteto the dog'snceck,unticd the saga clous animal ,and pointed it toward Nelsoni's ranch. The dog went'straight toward the ranch end after traveling about eight miles, when lie was yet two mIles from Nelson's, iet a herder, who recognized the dog, stopped him, read the note, and went to the relief of Morrison. lie re.tied the note andi tihe dog went on to Nelson's. The herder rode post haste to Morrison's relief andl after making him as comfortable as possible conveyed him to the hospital at the fort. Morrison says that the last thing lie shall part with will be that dbog. -D1iary of a Dofllar. Found myseii yesesday morning in th< pocket of a man~ who had. promised to love, honor, protect and cherish me with all is might and main, And this morning where am I? Burst. broken. in a hundre& pieces. Lying disjecta membra, etc., ir grim saloon tills or dirty pockets. .But I anticipate. 1 was on the reserve foteo and laid by t< pay a bill. My comrade wab a fifty ceni piece who was expected to pay that day'i expenses. tsuddeny this comrade disappeared. Oi dit, he was borrowed, I camne next.] wetthus: For a cige' fite breakfast, 10c; fot glass of beer at 10 A. M., 5c.; for tQen glasses of beef for the crowd at 12 M, 20o. for soother oIf A(00; beobakigd0 for a shave, f4.or frtolt 10e.; fr fare, 200.; for 'nte glass of, beer, ,54 Vhhy. vnas t aoi M 11ain FOOD FOR TH2Q The man who studies only manages to keeplh reen. lations always tAke liber and frequently assistanoe. If man desires man ted by hope, but if he he becomes a slave. A man ean profess 90' fifty minutes than he t ..4 working hard for fiftyy The man who won't bell he can't understand is - h believe much, nor undO' io of either. If you sweep your - own I are clean you will have little tf med. cise those of your neighbor. f the All are bigots who limat sup. within the boundaries of t and knowledge. aga The most popular who let us see just r selves to make us wis tecret kindnesses d l are as beautiful as see t detestable. To be in le Godlike, as to be invisi fis bolbeal. When people have reS their eyes, or to look oul it is of little consequeno their eyes may be. There is in man a high love of happiness; he can happiness and insteAd ther sedness. d Whenever we palliate a or1 an' of the provocation which eommislon we aim a blow d the welfare of society. It may serve as a com our calamities and afilict that loses anything and It is a gainer by the los. We thirk the poorest w such a Sabbath as we need, the impression that all Chr given up the desire for it., There cannot be named a a suit or enterprise of huma-: which there is so little poO failure as in praying for sane I have read the Bible throu times. It is a book of all ethe lawyers, and I pity the man who not fnd in it a rich supply of thai, and rule for conduct. A swimmer becomes strong to. the tide.only by frequently bro' the big waves. If you practice li, in shallow water, your heart a suredly fall in the hour of high rel God walks with the slimple; al veal# Himself to the lo -the discloses His meaning to pur and he hides Ills grace from ous and proud. . C Those who openly confess f and cheerfully suffer for it. o a believing spirit, and a hol rs visible realities. I think the first virtue is 't the tongue; he approaches the gods Who knows how ' c even though lie is in the ri sil There is a great deal of ma country within us which be taken int account in an con of our gusts and storms. an3 Keep the head cool by clea. all things, and the feet w ennr exercise In the discharge duties-deeds of kindness. It is imperfection that com0104t, what Is imperfect. . The more we are, the more geotie and qua"t become towards the defects of Though the word and the spi s the main work, yet suf'ering so the door of the heart that word and the spirit have entrai A man need only cret hi~ with the same rigor that he reprehe~4 others and excuse others witit sameindlgene tatie showstbh Thee cn b nosurer way to a than by disclalming all confddp6 d ourselves, and referring the eV~ae~" things to God with an impholI ance. Wnat Solon saia of individual at no one could truly be called ha~ 'jI his life had terminated in .4. death, holds equally true of fam~~ There is nothing by which i. thoughs llfe more prolitted the just observations, the good opli$ an I the gentle eneouragement oa able and sensible women. No man be brave who considefg. to be the greatest evil of life; ndgi perate wibe considers pleasures the hlghestgood. - Worldly friendship is like our dow : while we w alk in sunsh4. sticks close to us, but the mome7* enter the shade It deserts us. Some people poses. good quil which are very serviceable to d but useless to themselves, like t dial on the front ot a house to a the neighbors and passengers. There are moments when by strange impulse we con tradict ou selves-fatal mnoments when a passion, like a lava stream, lay the work of all our lives. The footprints of a barbarian I sand prove the presence of a ma that saine atheist who denies the 4 tenee of a God of whose hand the w universe bears the impress. The sweetest, the mostoliaging a tion is of ten snakent - by tue slig breath 01. unkindness, as the del( rings and tendrils of the vine are iae b he f aintest air that blow~, Doni't let us rejoice in punishm4 even when the hands of G.od ato* fiet it. The best of us are butR wretches, just saved ifrom i&W wreck. Cana we feel anything Ia a we and pity when we see a e pussenger swallowed up by the wai. 0 God, thou hast given us a migt weapon1 and we have permittedi- : rust. 'ihouh ast given us that whic~ mighty as thyself, and we have let power lie dormant. Would it n Ivile crime if a man had - aney g 4 him which he would not oEf,0 hand which he wortld not lit~ foot that grew otiff beoaune'le: not use it!I And whati mtVidsw of ourselves when ~God ps~ us power. n .ya79t~'i~ # 11 0~