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TfRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., NOVEMBER 16, 1880. AW1ERU. Walled in with fire on either hand I wa'ked the lone y wood-road through I The maples dame above my head, \And spaces whence the wind has shed About my feet the living red Are filled with broken blue,. And crowding closealong the way The purple asters blossom free, In full profusion far and wide They All the path on every side, In loose confuaion multipik d To endleso harmony. The Autumn wood the aster know. The empty nest, t1e wind that grieves. The sunlight breaking tirough the shades. The Eqnirrel chattering overhead. The timid rabbit's lighter tread Among the rustling leaves. And still beside the shadowy glen She huldis the color of the skies ; Along the purpling wayside steep She hang* her fringes passing deep, And meadows drowned in happy sleep Are lit by starry e)s. B3eialled. Ho had nevei had any sisters, and know very little about women; but he thought, foolish fellow, that he knew everything and was invplnerable. . His "afflanced, Lucy Lorton,qdlet little ;hipg that she was, knew better. They had been engaged just a month, whepl Mab Devereux came to Rosehome. "Don't you think Mab pretty, Allen?" asked Lucy. "Not particularly." replied Mr. Allen Stopford. I"She hasn't a good figure and she never blushes. I like to see a woman blush." . , Lucy laughed a little. ghp had long wished that she could cure herself of her foolish habit of blushing. It was amusing to think that Allen liked It, and more amus ing to think that- he did not know Mab Devereix, wilh, her cool, cream-white face, hLr wonderful eyes and curled black lashes, was a little beauty, and invariably the belle of a company. But, like most men, his eye caught first the beauty of fair, rosy girls, and he was not yet tired of Lucy's pink-and snow complexion and rip plea of golden hair. "Allen thinks all womea like me; but I know I am different from many girls," she said. Then she asked Mab: "You have seen Mr. Stopford before? How do you like him, Mab?" Mab stood before the mirror, touching up the lovelocks about her forehead. Her reply was characteristic: "He would be pretty good-lookiug If he would color his mustache." Lucy laughed outright. The Idea of Allen, dear, simple soul, -with a dyed mus tache, or anything false and not genuine about himl She had loved him for just that, out of all the men she know. "Why don't you make him, Lu?" "What?" asked Lucy, coming back from c a moment's abstraction. "Color his mustache. %Why It's justgthe I tint of ground mustardi" "I don't think I could persuade Allen to 1 do that," answered Lucy, adjusting her little gold thimble and sitting down to her sewing, with a smile. Mab turned, and looked at her curi- q ously. "Isn't he very mach in love with you, Lu?" "Yes," answered Lucy, quietly-"more than he knows." C "Well," returned Mab, after a moment's puzseled thought, "I shouldn't think a man was very much In love with me if I couldn't persuade him to dye his mustache. Lucy knew it was of not much use to continue the conversation in that direction, and finished sewing on her trimming with out making any response. " it'.very pretty at Rosehome, Lu; but do you know what I am thinking?' "No." "That I shall perish for society." "Oh, your're spoiled, Mabi Can't you live a fortnight without young gentlemen to flatter and attend you?" "There are not any here, are there?" "Yes." "Who are they?" "I really'can't mention but two." "And they?" "One is the young man who comes out from the village to saw our wo'od and do chores. His name is Johnny Bottles." "Pahawi" "The other is my own and only brother, aged sir." "Mab went to the dressing-case, drenched her handkerchief in dologne, and came back to her seat. "Terrible dearth, isn't there?" she re marked, pathetically. "'But, thenyo have Mr., fopford and his mustache,". ''You might try your hand on hini,Miab -just to keep you in practice, you know, and alleviate the melancholy - of your stay at Rosehomne. - Mlab looked at her cousin a little curl.i ously again. "I believe you thInk I could not make him love me." "I ams(tre yocy couldinot," said Lucy. "I wonder if it wouild be worth whiie'to try?" mused Mfab, aloud, tapping her fan upon her rosy lips,and lookig thoughtfully from the window. : . - Alien was coining up the avenue, and4 she bowed to him, . -*. "You may if you choose," replied Lucy, with a little, vexed smle. She know that Mab would be likely to flirt with Allen in any case before the fort night was out. It was ,better to tage, it coolly. And then, as she had said, sho did not think it possible for a girl of hiab's call ber to make Allen 8topford love ber. Mab began dressing for dinner, and put some spiceepinks in her hair. Wlien at the table ehe tturned her dark braids toward Aln, ho 'saw them, arnd Involutitarily amuunured, with'an expression of pleasure: "Spie'pinks." ,, "Yes,"said Mfab, "I k'new you liked them." And then she looked tip in his face, and lie'saw that her eyes 'were pretty. - After dinner they went boating, and his natural eye for irrtistic e-ffects was gratified by bMab's sitding in the bow in a lialo blue4 dress, with a crimson scarf draped about her abotldes. . "Your -cousin is not exactly handsome, but there is somethting very, very attrac tive about her,"' said he to. Luoy. .The latter dipped her hand in the shining water and held her peace, which usader the circumstance., was as much as could be expected of her. I think. Thd next day Lucy invited a little party f friend from the village, and they made i picnic In the woods. Mab trimmed up her white dress with Dak leaves and strolled away from the rest, lown the leafy aisles of the woods, with the youngest and most agreeable man pres mt, who was Allen Stopford. They came back with some white water-lilies. Noliody had noticed their absence but Lucy. "You want a bit of color about you," she said, coolly, to Mab, and pinned a pink wild-rose on her left shoulder And now, day by day, Allen grew ab sent-minded, and was exceedingly alive to he presence or absence of Miss Devereux. [f she were absent, he must know where she was. If present he made incoherent replies to everybody else, and was like the needle to the magnet whatever the young Lady's movements were. If she lounged, he noticed that the sun ihone in her eyes, and closed a blind. If she sang, lie turned the leaves of her nusie; if she walked the piazza, he would arge that the rooms were close, and find a leat without. Once or twioe he caught himself up in seglecting Lucy and attending Mab, but he spell was too strong. The fasolnatiQn which this girl of a wan. on heart exerted he succumbed to almost mconsciously. And the siren smlled tmd smiled, and drew him on until their ame a feverish light in Lucy's blue eyes tad her cheek grew thin with the fear she ret repelled. Yes, it was dangerous for all three, this laying with edged tools. It was true that he love between Allen and herself was not ounded on a mere fancy, but in mutual ionfidence, esteem and a sweet congeni lity. If she had known it to be a fancy he would have no confidence In it. For three years they had known each bther wiell, and the tie had even grown tronger. She had often mused on this, nd, indeed, made it the strong point in ker acceptance of Allen Stopford. Bhe felt herself very young-but nine een-when called to decide this matter; he had long been motherless. From the lepths of her heart to the heights of her visdom she sounded herself before she re >lled to him, and the expression of her ace, at that moment, Allen never forgot. Cye to eye and heart to heart they had oledged each other, and no-could Allen orget I Apparently he had forgotten. She could ict accuse him of rudeness toward hereelf -that was impossible to his nature--or elfishness; but that he was drawn from Ler the most casual eye could see. And tab's fortqight had already lengthened. to bree weeks. "We'll have tea on the lawn to-night, aucy," said Aunt Lucretia, the house. :eper at Rosehome. "It is such a very rarm night, it will be pleasant." "As you please, aatie--it makes nodif erence to me. I shall take no tea; I have severe headache." Aunt Lucretia went indoors, but some ne else stood beside the hammock where jucy lay. She turned her head and looked ito Mab's mocking dark eyes. "Confess you are fretting yourself sick bout Mr. Stopford. Why don't yon send me home?" she asked. "Allen does not love you, Mab. He will Lever tell you that he does," .replied Lucy, tuickly, and with dignity, though there ras a sharp contraction of her delicate eatures. Mab saw, perhaps experienced, a pang of 'emorse-for she sincerely liked her gentle onsin; but she was lull of a wicked ex Ltation, so strong was her passion for iower. Bhe turned And strolled down the gravel ralk among the cyprus vines, flirting her ink fan, and Allen- saw and came from his eat In the avenue, with Sultan, his great owling hound, at his heels. When tea was served, he brought Lucy a upof the fragrant beverage and the cologne lask, asnd then was gone down the cypress walk with blab. The twllIght deepened; a whip poor will called ; the scent of flowers stole up rom the beds and from among the vines. iucy lay alone In the hammock, and a few ears, which she scorned, would have their way. She sat up, at last. Apparently Allen ,nd Mlab had left the garden; no one was a sight. Its recesses looked cool and lewy ; perhaps they would ease thme throb lung of her temples. She slhpped from the hammock, -and - vent down the piazza steps, one little white kitten 'following and rolling about Ler feet. The fireflies starred the cypress vines ; he birds twittered contentedly over their rune nests; sogne be.autiful evening bloom ng flowers filled the air with a heavenly weetness. 'Luoy dragged herself slowly along with Shalf guilty feeling that this beauty was o ittle to her. She was not in harmony rith its peace ; thme stillness irritated her. Suddenly it was broken ty voices, which tole gently' upon her ear...I Shme could see mo one, but she'resognized hihb's tones. "Then you do not hate me?" she sylla yle'd insinuatingly. ."Hate you? No. -l believe I love you. osare theo mrost.boWitchmi~ig girl!". Lucy felt the rustle of the cypress vines, mool and dewey, about her face. Bhe (did iot lyngw tha) .she had fallen. But the >thiers hear~I the crash, and blab called 'Luoyp' guiltily, and Allen came and -lifted he'litlo filud In lis strongarins. "My poor little gurll''lhe said. "what is he matter with you?" There is a fever at he village. D~o you suppose that she is 6ming deign ,wit~m t?" he asked Mlab. "Fevert-a contagos fever? Horrors!" ~ried Mlab ; and skipping down a side path), he flew up to her room, and began pack ng her trunk. Allen wds busy itith Lucy. Either ulie ad fainted, or 'falling upon thme hard ground had stunned her, or she was very ii. She was perfectly unconscious, and ier small white face hylug upon his arm' yas pitiful indeed. He gathered her up to his breast and car led her up to the house.. "There! ' cried Aunt Lucretla,starting up rem her seat at the doorway, "I tho~ughit he would fainti She has b~een miserable nough all 'daw. Take her right up to her 'orn, Allen, at the head of thd stairs, and 'will comie and pilt her, right to bed." Allen marched steadily uip the staircase, arefully carrying hme burdlen, and pushed pen a door. whiqh stood ajar. In, an in tant it was slammed In his iace. "Don't you bring her in hero with her her Id fever-don't you dare! i'an not going * exnose myself far anybhdy. I'm going right to Boston by the first train in tb morning." Allen Stopford's face changed Color vio lently, in the dusk. In spite of its harsi ness, he bad recognized Mab's voice. H was painfully confused, but not too mucl so to fInd another chamber, which he en tered and laid Lucy. gently down amon, the pillars of the white bed. Then for one little moment he laid hi cheek against that cold and colorless one If Lucy could have seen his eyes then, ah would not have doubted that she was des to him. "Here's eamphor, and ammonia, and cordial, and red lavend3rl" cried Aunt Lu cretia, bursting in; and she shan't stir of that bed till she is better!" Allen wandered alone around the garde till morning. He saw the light barn ou In Lucy's chamiy r. Johnny Bottles and the housemaid wer around the house, where, in the cool dawn he sat, immovably and moody, in a arbor. t3uddenly he saw the front doc opened. Mab, arrayed for traveling, issue forth, and wdnt down the road toward th station. "You can send my trunk by express,' she sa d to some one who closed the doo behind her. Did Allen start up and follow her? H had not the s.lighest inclination. He walte until it was a little later, and then walkei to the village and sent the doctor to visi Lucy. But Aunt Lucretia was doing all ths could be done for a wealiness induced b nervous prostration and sleeplessness. Th red lavender was all-sullicient. When Lucy came down again, ther seemed a new heaven and a new earti bab was gone. Allen had never been a tender, and she was too weak at first to d aught but succomb to a tenderness whic anticipated her every want. But by-anc bye they could talk together. "Mab's conduct was shameful," sal Allen. "You said you thought you loved he that pight, Allen?" "Well, if I did I was greatly mistaker I was beguiled," said Allen, wofully, wit a contemptous curl of his lips, either fi Mab or hinself. And Lucy, being a woman, forgave him Artificial Flowers. The first artifllcial flowers made were < ribbons of various colors, twisted togethe and fastened to wire stems. Those clums imitations, however, soon gave way I flowers made of feathers. Some'very pei feet specimens of feather flo Nero, made b the savages of South America, from th bright plumage of their birds, were dim played at the Centennial. The Italiar next manufactured flowers of silk cocooni which were very beautiful. But the pai is now, and has long been, given to t)h French, who perfected the present proca of making flowers of muslin and silk. I New York whole pieces of nalusook, Vi( toria lawn and cheaper muslins are coi verted into flowers. On the upper floor < the large Broadway houses the first step I taken. A number of thickness of clotl the thinnest pieviously starched, are place upon plates of lead, and the petals cut tt desired shape by dies. After this come the coloring, though some of the brightei colors, as cardinal, blue, etc., are painte on sheets stretched on frames previous t cutting. Of those which are not thus pre pared, each petal Is colored separately wit a brush. This, especially when severe tints are put on one petal, Isa nice process and requires much judgment. This wor is done entirely by men. On the floor below, the flowers are con structed and branched, At the first tabl a number of girls were seated; along th centre of the table was a gas-tube, out < which at short intervals issued jets flame. In those the girls placed smas gophering irons, with which they rapid! irened and pinchetd each leaf into the shiai required. At the next table long rows of girls wecl engaged in placing the petals and eel structing the perfect flowers. Much di ference was observable in their work, ars the reporter was informed that while son readily acquire the art, ethers are quite i capable, and some-never acquire it. At the. next table were the branchers, those who group and arrange the flowr, each with a sample branch before her. Somebody Drunk. Attached to the theatre of Philadelph along about 1840, was Charles Webb, an e: cellent actor and a man of' good principle although given to occasional excess: drinking. It was remarkable that wh< under-the influenceoof liquor this gent! man was rigidly exact and formal in' h deportment and enunciation. Miss Ti wvas performing in the old Chestnut Stre< Theatre. The play was "The Gamester, Miss. Tree playing the devoted wife, Air Beverly-one of these performances whit few of her admirers can ever forges. M1 Webb was playing Stukely, the villain, at in one of the most interesting scenes, consequense of having taken too ivuch she ry at his dinner, he was somewhat obliviol ,f the language of the part. Miss Tr< gave him, as it is termed, "the word" se eral times, which Webb took up with so nmui politeness and formality as to render ti scene ridiculous, considering the stern v) lainy of the character and his hateful rolath to Mrs. Beverly. Finally, the audien, became aware of the true state of the csa and, as usual, in spite of their respect f the lady, hogan to titter, while some hisse Miss Tree was compelled at last to walk i the stage and take a seat, with her back Mr. Webb. By this time Webb had begs to feel how matters stood, and, a thorough polite man under any circumstances, was now overwhelmingly punctilious, am with assumed sobriety of tone, though hem tating in articulation -and rathier unstea< in his walk, he approached the footuiigh with a low bow and said: '-Ladies at gentlemen, I amn anxious to remove fro sour minds an evident misunderstandli concerning the true state of affairs existhi on this stage. I see-indeed I feel--I mm say I very sensibly realize the fact that y< perceive the fact that somebody here intox-4ntoxica--; that is, in plainer word drunki Now, ladies end gentlemen, alle me to say that justiee compels me. to assu you, for feat your ibipressions should lei you to an errozeous conclusion-to assu you, I say, that whoever is guilty of t~ unpardonabmlej impropriety I have allud to,.on the honor of a gentleman, belie me, the offending party la not, Miss ElI Tree." e Courting A Dootross. tri Miss Mary Fiynn was studying medicine thl and being courted at the same:time. Mr. etc Wiliam Budd was attending the latter part f0 of the business. One evening while they to were siting in the front parlor, Mr. Budd thl was thinking how he should manage to propose. Alis Flynn was explaiming certain c physiological facts to him. S "Do you know," she said, "that thous- d ands of persons are actually ignorant of the is r fact that they smell with their olfactory " r peauncle?" I "Millions of 'em," replied Mr. Budd. is And Aunt Mary wouldn't believe me is when I told her she couldn't wink with- a out a sphincter nmsclel" a "How unreasonable." ta "Why a person cannot kiss without a e sphincted"b "Indeed in hi "I know it is so." at as :*May Itry if I can?" o "Oh, 31r. Budd, it is too bad for you to make light of such subject." -Mr. Budd seized her hand and kissed it. She permitted it to remain in his grasp. ar "I didn't notice," he said, "whether % al r -a-what you call it?-a sphincter helped an me then or not. Let me try again?" Then lie tried, again, and while he held her hand she explained to him about the ki muscles of that portion of the human h t body. "It is remarkable how much you know t about such things," said Mr. Budd,- A "really wonderful. Now, for example, A what is the bone at the back of the head W called?" f "Why the occipital bone of course." b "And what are the names of the muscles di of the arm?" ar "The spiralis and the infra spiralis among others. "b "Well now let me show you what I a mean. When I put my lafra spiralis b d around your waist, so, it is your occipital (i bone that rests upon my shoulder blade, t In this way?" "My back hair primarily, but the occip- at ital bone of course, afterward. But oh, Mr. Budd; suppose pa should come In and at see us?" t r "Let him comel Who cares?" said Air. di Budd, boldly. "I think I'll exercise a d sphincter again and take a kiss.", h "Mr. Budd how cin you?" said Miss gi Flynn, after he had performed the feat. t "Don't call me Mr. Budd call me Wil If ie," he said, drawing her closer. "You r accept me, don't you? I know you do, in V darling. 0 "Willie," whispered Miss Flynn faint. I - ly. Y "What, Darling?" a e "I can hear your heart beat." a "It beats only for you, my angel." s "And it sounds to me out of order. w I, The venticular contraction is not uni- hi ft form." h 0 "Small wonder for that when its bursting Be | for joy." a "You must put yourself under treat ment for it. I will give you some medi cine." f "It's your own property, darling; do 1 'what you please with it. But somehow I the spincter operation is the one that strikes d me most favorably. Let us see how it e works again." ti a But why proceed The old, old story t was told again, and the-old, old perform d ance of the muscles of Mr. Budd's mouth 0 enacted again and again, and a wedding followed, of course. ic [ ' c it Haunts of Fur Trappers. til k At the beginning of November, when the animals have got their winter coats and fur al . is in season, the hunter prepares himself li for an excursion into the forest to lay out P D his trapping walk. He wears a large Ii f leather capote, very much overlapped in in if front and secured about tho waist by a 0 ii brilliant worsted sash, which protects his k y body from the cold. A thick fur cap covers sI l isa head, and blue cloth leggings encase his legs. Large mioccaalus, with two org e three pairs of blanket socks, clothe his feet, e ~. 'while hugo mittens, extendsing to the el- o . bows, complete the costume. A small axe d is stuck in his belt, serving to balance a a e large hunting knife and fire bag which ii . hang from the other side. His pack Is pro- 1, pared In the following manner : Euling n >r his blanket double, lie places in it a lump p of peminican, sufficient for five or six-days' a consumption, a tin kettle and cup, and .if he be rich, some steel straps, and a little ~ tea and salt. The blanket is thnte at the four corners, and slung over hsbc ia by a band across the chest. A gun and r. ammunition complete his equipment. s, T1ying on a pair of snow shoes, the trap. .n per now starts alone into the gloomy woods, in trudging silently forward ; for the hunter t s.. or trapper can never lighten his solitude. is by whistling or a song. Hie leads a dose a late, solitary, and .ilangerous life. To be et a.one in the wildest solitudes of unknown Swastes demands a courage of no ordinary ~. kind. His keen eye scans every mark ~h upon the snow for the tracks ho seeks; ; .and he reads the aigns left behind as easily d and truly as if he had been personally a present and seen the passing of the animal. r- When ho finds the footprints of a marten, is or fisher, ho unslings his pack, and sets to I ie work to cstruct his deadfall, or wooden t: ,. trap, in the following fashion: .t :h flaying cut dlown a number of saplings, a se he divides them into staaes of about a yard d l.. in length, which are driven into the ground t >n so as to form a paisade, in tihe shape of t se .half an oval, cut transversely. Across the ai a, entrance to this little enclosure, 'which Is d r of a length to admit about two-thirds of . the animal's body, and too narrow to allow a pof its fairly enterIng and turning round, a I ~o short log as laid. A tree of considerable i n ,size is next felled, stripped of its branches, 's y and so laid that it rests upon the log at the r ie entrance in a parallel direction. Th'Ie bait, c dc generally a bit of tough dried meat, or of< i. partridge or squirrel, is placed on the po'ltt c y of a sharp stick. 'Tills Is projected hori- c ts zontally into the enclosure, and on the I d outer end of It rests another short stick, a mn placed perpendicularly, which supports the g large tree laid across the entrance. Thle ig top of the trap is then covered with bark ( ~y and branches, so that the only means of u access to the bait is by the opening between t Is the propped-up log and the log beneath. s, When the bait is seized the tree falla upon c w the animal and crushes it to death. An ox- 1 re pert, trapper will make from forty to fifty td of these traps in a day, and frequently ox- s re tends his line of them over a distance of c ie ten or fifteen miles. ~d Between those deadfalls, wherever a re favorable place presents itself, are placed z ,the steel traps with which the larger fur l y eariar animals are Caught. 'lan stool I p resembles the ordinary rat trap except it it.l larger. and has two springs in. ad of one. In the large traps, used for Kee, wolves, beaver, and lynx, these have be made so powerful that it requires all D strength of a strong man to set them. key are placed in the snow and carefully vered over; fragments of meat are then ittered about, and the place smoothed wn, so as to leave no trace. To the trap attached a chain, with a ring at the free tremity, through which a short stake is ased. When an animal is caught he rrles off the trap for a short distance, but soon brought up by the stake getting tangled in the trees and fallen timber, d is seldom ab'e to travel any great dis iice before being discovered by the trap r. The wolf or fox is generally caught the leg, as he digs in the snow for the Iden morsels, and sometimesby two legs once. The hunter prefers latter method, then there Is not the slightest poseibility the animal cscaping. When foxes are ught by a leg they often bite it off close the trap and escape on the other three. ie stump heals over and becomes covered th hair in a very short' time. Wolves a often so sagacious that they will scrape round a trap, let it be ever so well set, d after eating the bait walk off unhurt. hen the trappei discovers a case of this ad he places two traps close together; Alle the wolf sorapes at one he may per ps get his foot in the other. In trapping the beaver the steel trap Is Lch used, but it Is set in a different way. long the edge of a shallow lake or stream, aere the points of a few rushes or sedges ipear above the surface, are seen a num r of small earthy mounds, In the inune ate vicinity of which the trees and bushes e cut and barked In many places, some them cut down. This is a colony of avers. In the warm months this spot is lively stirring place, as tue beavers are en employed in cutting down trees and ishes for the purpose of .repairing their ma and supplying thoir store-houses. 1o bark of willows is their chief food, d all the bushes In the vicinity are more less cut through by the persevering little imals. A beaver is a very difficult beast trap. The trapper knows at a glance e various marks of the animal; these scovered, the next thing Is to find out ow the beaver gets to his house, which is inerally in shallow water. Then a steel ap is sunk in the water, 'care being taKon at it shall not be more than twelve to urteen inches below the surface: this is me by either rolling in a log or building large stones. Immediately over the- trap the bait, made from the castor or mod - lne gland of the beaver, suspended from stick, so as to just clear the water. With long cord, and a log of light wood as a toy, to mark the position of the trap hen the beaver swims away, the trap is omplete. The poor little builder, per ips returning to his home and family, ents the tempting castor. Ue cannot ach it as he swims, so he feels about ith his hind legs for something to stand i; this, too, has been carefully placed for im. Putting down his feet to stretch up or the coveted morsel, lie suddenly finds ,melt clasped in an iron embracd; there no hope of escape. The log, revealing 0o hiding place, is seized by the trapper, e imprisoned beaver knocked on the iad, and the trap set again. Indian Marksmanship. Glass ball shooting and various other xhibitions of skillful manipulation of par r rides are attracting considerable atten Dn in Ban Francisco, particularly In the me of Otto, a son of Joseph, the Nez erces Chlif, The incidentals for the ieoting exhibition consisted of a triangu r wooden frame, at the apex of which a >ster, representing the figure of a man, Ld been pasted, a piece of glass about one .ch square, Inserted for an eye, and at the her corners of the trienugle a set of brass mobs were inserted in the frame. On either de, above and below, slanting iron plates ere fixed to cross bars, and numbers of ass balls hung at various distances from clh other. Tihe firt experimient consists blhndfold shoooting~. A nickel five-cent Lece was glued to the figure, and the 30o arg aarpshootor, blindfolded, turned aroumi various directions, and was finally placed a direct line of the object with a rifle inus a sight, and at a distace of somec venty-five feet. The first shot sent the tekel flying around the room, and on ex nination an indentation was found on its iry edge. The second test consisted of lacing a small piece of tinted paper on the tass used as an eye for the fijure, and men placing a large piece of card board in ontof and touching is so thait it was comn tetely hidden from view. The shooter as again blindfolded, and the fIrst shalt ired the glass, the bullet having passed irough the very center of the tinted p~aper, here were various ether tests, such as reaking three swinging balls by one shot nd breaking a ball placed Immediately ba mud the attendant, the ball, owing to pre lous contact with the brass knobs or iron hates, taking a circuitous co':rse. Quick on the Triggeor. "You will please observe," said old Mr. ambwell, as he led us through his school ie other day, "that the boys are required > display the utmost attention to quietness ad discipline, and in a short time become ivested of that most annoying disposition tease each other, in short, they soon set o clown in all the gravity of mature years, nder the wholesome system I have intro. uced." We at this moment arrived in front of iveral boys who were standing around a ucket of water, and one had just charged is mouth v. ith the contents of a tin cup, rhile the old gentleman vras stooping to ecover his pen from the floor, when an thor passing behind, snapped his fingei tuickly beneath the drinker's ear, and aused him by a sudden start to eject the ontents of his mouth over the pedagoguie's aId p ate. IStarting upright, with his hair nd faced dripping, the master shouted: "Who did that ?" The party unanimously cried out, "Jim Fun, sia." "Jim Gun, you rascal, what did you dc ltat for?" Jim, appalled at the 'mischief lie had one, muttered out that it was not his fault, ut that Tom Owens had saapped him. 'Ibis changed the direction of old Lamb. rell's wrath, and shaking his cane portent. usly over Owen's head, he aked. "Did you snap Gun?" The culprit' tremblig with fear~ mur mired: Yes, sir: I snappe Gin but I didn'i now ho was loaded-". The Hittites. The most remarkable of all Hittite monu ments are the sculptures at Eyuk, near 5 Bogabz Kenl, first discovered by HamiUton and since photographed by Perrot. Here a on the slope of a low hill are the remains tI of a palace, built not of limestone, like the other monuments of Asia Minor, but of N dark granite. Ruined as it is, sufficient Is 3i lei t to show that It was modeled on the plan of the palaces of Assyria. At its entrance are tj two huge Monoliths, with faces cerved into p the likeness of sphinxes. But the sphinxes, though inspired by the art of Egypt, are r4 proloundly different from the sphinxes of the valley of the Nile, and only their feet and faces are hewn out of the stone. One of the monoliths further bears upon it the $ same doubte eagle that is portrayed on the rocks of Petria; but this double eagle once 4 supported the figure of a god. The mon olitms were flanked by walls, one of which is still fairly preserved. Along it runs a line of sculptures which carry, each one of them, the impress of Hittite art. Here we may see the HiLtite warrior in his peculiar dress, the Hittite priest robed as he Is at a Bogathz Kcni. Elsewhere the building of r the palace itself is brought before our eyes, and the workmen are represented ascend- a ing A ladder, or otherwise assisting In the I work. Elsewhere, again, Is a bull, mount ed on a sort of a pedestal, and drawn with J' the skill Lhat characterizes the delineation i Of the anuInat forms occurring among the Hittite characters, or, again, it is a must- A clan and a snake-charmet. Hard by is a 0 man leading a moukey, a picture welmight t think somewhat out of islace in so cold and northern a country. But, curiously enough, 0 it is with monkeys that the Assyrian monu- 8 imeuts associate the kinsmen of the Hittites, 5 who inhiabited those very regions. On the walls of the palace of Assur-natair-pal at V Ninirud or Calah, an attendant in peaked I boots ia leading a monkey, just as ie is at ( Eyuk, and following his lord, who wears the characteristre cap and shoes of the i Ilittite race. The black oelisk of Shal- I manester, the son of Assur-natair-pal, tells I us that lie too received apes and monkeys from the people of Muzrl, in Western i Armenia, and among the tribute-bearers d are some represented in the familiar Phry- e giun cap and tip-tilted shoes. It is thus that we now know how, at an age of which 1 history and tradition are alike silent, the 1 influence and art and writing of the Hittites 0 were making their way to the far West, carrying with them the elements of Ebst- ( era civilization. Tho two-fold road they a traveled over became at Bardes, which was 0 thus predestined to be the future center of power and civilizing influence throughout t the Western world. The interest which I envelops the rock-carving of Karabel is ac cordingly very great ; the fact that the on ward Hittite civilization was stayed only by the waters of the Agean is there en graved as it were, in stone. But this Is not the only interest that attaches to the sculp tures. Long before the days of Renouard or of Texier, the Ionic settlers In Lydia had gazed upon the sculpture and wondered whose it was. "The father of history," Herodotus himself guessed, though vaialy, at its origin. He tells us that "in Ionia are two figures carved on the rocks, one by t the road1 that leads from the Ephesian ter ritory to Phokma, the other by that which leads from Bardes to Smyrna; in each case a man Is sculptured three feet in height, the right hand armed with a spear and the left with a bow, and the rest of his cloth ing to match, for it is Egyptian and Ethiopic; and the sacred characters of Eiypt run carved across the breast from shoulder to shoulder, with this meaning: "I won this land witti my shoulders." A Royal Entertainment in Bavaria. King Louis, of Bavaria, who, no doubt, will be known in history under the name of the Solitary, has lately given an orIginal festival in honor of tire Crown Prince of AustrIa. It was, as usual, the night time1 that the royal lover of the moon chose to give in hris winter garden, an entertainment to hi, gruest. A method of lighting of the most ingenious character produced all the appearanse of a tropical sky. Luminous balloons, of all colors, gave a soft light to the entire garden, while an Immense star: shone in the midst of them like a sun. In a kiosk, richly decorated, a table was spread with exquisite viands, around which wvere seated the King, theCt-own Prince of Austria, and the I'rlncess Gisele and her husband. From thisspot thiecoutlook over a massof lites embrace the whole extent of the garden, at the extremity of which was a column sumr-1 nmountedi by a laurel, and standling in the midst of a fountain of sparkling water. Upon the sides, on the right and left, were paths ornamented with statues, inviting the guests into groves filled with musiciane. A feast given by LouIs of Bavaria without music wc-uld have Leen absolutely impossi ble. 'There was, therefore, scattered among the trees the quartet of Waiter, tire double quartet and the chorus of lime theater, and time band of tihe Second Regiment of Infant ry. All threse musical parties performed vigorously, white now and then a flood of electric light added to tihe enchantments, the fantastic character which comes from that kind of illumination. Two Booentrio Men. One day last week as a 0- street lawyer had just fnisahed tacking up a sign of "Shut tire door" where lie thought it would do tire most good, an oldish man, having a sour expressIon on his face, came up stairs. The instant ho saw the sign he said: "All bosh, sir-all bosh. I never pay any attention to such signs." "But other people do," replied thre law yer. -"Let 'em do so, then. I am just eccen tric enough to leave your door open when i go out.' And so ho did. He walked c ce or twice around the room, made a few in qurirics, and left the door wide open as he walked out. When he had reached the street a boy overtook him aud asked hrim to return to thre room on important business. He clImbed back up stairs, and the lawyer asked him: "Did you leave your gold-headed cane here?" "No, sir-here it is," replied the caller, as ho held it up. "Ahm so it is. I was .just eccentric enough to think that this poker was your gold-headed cane. Alt righte-no harm done-good bye!" When the atranger went down stairs he left the~ prints of hia heels on eveory sten. BRIEFS. -A pint of water converted into 'eam fills a space of about 1800 pints. -In the last - fiscal year 15,000,000 3res of public lands were sold to set ore. -The total number of horses In orth Carolina Is 137,133, and of sheep 12,468. -Scientists says that oneatweltb of ie huni. brain is composed of phios. horus. -Now York has 90,000 school chdd m to educate whom one year costa 1,620.035. -Utah's mineral output from 1871 5wn to the close of 1879 is placed at 15,034.814. The number of optic nerve fibres is 38,000, and of retinal cones in each aman eye 3,360,000, -The gross Income derived from >bacco by the farmers of the United tates Is about $22,000,000. -rhe ShoshoneR and Bannooks have greed to give up 325.000 acres of the Bservations at Ross Fork. -The Agricultural Snhool for Girl t Rouen, France. has 300 pupli a, vary. ig in age from 8 to 18 years. -There are 0,000 fugitives from istice in Texas. 1.000 of whom have ad the misfortune to commit murder. -Those sixteen Indian girls of Mr. [oody's have been sent to him at Jay -ould's expense from the Indian terr >ry. -Iowa has 4.000 school districts 10 )9 schools, 21,000 teachers, 365,00d sholirs, and a school fund of over $3," )0,000. -Amasa Stone is the man who pro roses to give $500,000 to the Western 'eserve College if it is removed to leveland. -Duluth blast turnace, the only one it Minnesota, has gone into operation. t uses charcoal, and its annual capao 'y is 12,000 tonls. -According- to Professor Read of jondon the world, by geological evi once, has reached the mature age of 00,000,000 years. -Spain, with only 17,000,000 of in. iabitantn, turns out nearly twice as such wheat as does Italy with 28,000, 00 of inhabitants. -The latest ce inate of the acreage evoted to wheat In India is 18,000,000 gainst the outside estimate of 30,000,. 00 in the United States. -Estimating the entire grain crop of he U nited States at 480,000,000 bushels, )akota and Minnesota will produce mne-tenth of the amount. -From 1873 to May, 1880, it is. esti sated that 1,905 steam and sailing 'eAsels have been lost, and that 10,827 ersons perished in them. -The third and youngest daughter f General Rosecrans, took the black ,oil recently at the convent of the Jrsulines, St. Martins, Ohio. -The railroad up Vesuvius has done uch a flourishing business since it pening last spring that the value of he stock has increasod fifty per cent. -Donald Mackey, who died in Ianilton, Mass.. a few days ago, was he pioneer builder of clipper ships in his country. lie was 70 years of age. --Dueing the quarter ending with he 30th of Juue, 1880, 5,002 emigrants eft Hong Kong, China, for the United tates, of whom 7 were females and 44 )Oys. -Edward Cushman, the iephew and ielr of the late Charlotte Cushman, ias just erected a monument over the amented actress' grive in Mount Au >urn cenetary. -There are at present in this country ,053 national, 923 state, 630 savings, nd 2,578 private baniks. Of these, 263 ave been organized within the last welve months. -The total number of houses within he district of London water companies it the close of' 1870 was 573.702 being in increase of 81,787 houses since the dlose of the year 1872, -Messrs. Drexel and Chils, of Ph iladelphia, have bought a' large tract >r land at Wayne station on thie Penn. tylvannia railroad, preliminary to naking a town there.. -Thie finances of I'aiy are in a de lora ble condlition. Tihe treasury owes 5940,000,000 to a bank syndicate, be ides a number of other debts, and has .o pay annually $174,000,000 for inter ~st. -There is a piece of pine in the lBritish Museum supposed to be 4000 years old. It come from Thebes and~ it s of blood redl color, supposed to be saused by age or soane preser'ving ma :erial. -A boy only 11 years old has been senltenced to death at Culloden, Ga. His name is Clayton Hlillsman, he is black, sinti his crime was the very brutal mpr ler of an infant, whom he was set to watch, -Teresa Tua of Turin, a young girl of thirteen, bore oft' the first prize as a violinist at the Paris Conservatory last year. She has been offered $40,000 for s five year's tour through the United States. -The aggregate earnings of the rail roads of tihe United States have been computed by somebody with a head for figures, and he finds that they were over $529,000,000, or almost double the antire revenues of the government. It is estimated that the coal-ilelds of [ndia extent over an area oft 85,000 'quiare miles. Some of the seamis are 100, 120 and 160 feet thick. Dr. Odlel hiam believes th are are' not less'than 20,000,000,000 tons of coal in that em pire, . -Mr. R. H-. McDonald, of San Fran. olso, offers $100,000 toward an endow ment fund for a Christian Univeksity on condition that an equal sum shall be0 raised by the Baptist, Presbyteriann Episco pallan, Congregational- n Methodist denominations. a&,~ -The foreign imports received at New York during the week ending Sept 18th, amounted to $12,797,557, sigainst $8,143,151 the week previous, and $7,179,088 the coi-respondi og. Weeki last year. faugar, coffee, tea, hides al iron are the leadilng articles. M -There are 2,000,000 bee hives in t119 United States. Everyhive tyields, o4 ani -average, a, little, over t wenty t8 , pounds of honey, and 1i;ltas .w~ay live centea pdund. So taftr p1 ing for their own boatdo 1,spia~i~ us with a revenue of $8,0,ttq~