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TIO-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., DECEMBER 2, 1880. VOL V-NO. 145 LOVE AT HOME. There Is beauty ull around, When there's love at home ; There is joy in every sound, When there's love at home. Peace and plenty here abide, Smiling sweet on every side. Time doth softly, sweetly glide. When there's love at boome. In the cottage there i joy, When there's love at home I Hate and envy ne'er annoy, When there's love at home. Ioses blossom 'neath our feet, All the earth's a garden swcet, Making life a bliss complete, When there's love at home. Kindly hcaven smiles above, When there'i love at homeo; Ali the earth In filled with love, When there's love at home. Sweeter vings the brooklet by, Bright-r boams the azure sky ; ,Oh, there's One who smiles on high; When there's love at home. Villainy Unmasked. The nature of my profession brings me in contact with every deecription of persof. I have formed through its agency many pleasant acqualutanceships, to which my memory often reverts with pleasure. Some years ago, I became acquainted with a Mr. Norval, a wealtiy merchant, who resided in West Fortieth street, 11e was a widnwer, and the only persons living with him were two in number, a niece and aonly son. Mary Norval, his niece, was a beautiful girl, about 20 yeai's of age when I first be came acquainted with her. She was tall, and gracefully formed. Her hair was dark brown, and her eyes a heavenly blue shrouded with long eyelashes, which gave a dreamy expression to her lovely, oval face. Her complexion was white as the driven snow, and her form was gracefully rounded. Her neck and shoulders might have served for a model for a sculptor, they were so exquisitively chiseled. When she moved it was with that undulating grace so charnung in the other sex. Such was Mary Norval when I first knew her. Had I not been married and possessed of the best wife in the world, she would have been just the woman I would have chosen for a wife, for her natural disposition, the cultivation of her mind, and the amiability of her character, fully equalled her pbysical beatuty. She had so won upon her uncle's heart that he loved her better than he did his own son. This, however, might be accounted for from the fact that Charles Norval was a ast dissipated young man. He had long ago exhausted his father's affection for him by a dissolute life and was only permitted by sufferance to be an inmate of his house. One day Mr. George Norval invited me to dine, with him, I accepted the invitation, and we passed a very agreeable hour to gether at the social meal. After dinner, being somewhat of an invalid, my host ex mused himself for an hour while he went to lie down. I amused myself in the mean. time examining some illustrated works placed on the drawing-room table. The apartment in which I was seated was only separated from an adjoining one by folding doors. I should have stated that Miss Norval had also excused herself, under the plea of having some letters to write. Left alone to my reflections, I fell into a reverie, which, I suppose ended in a doze, for I was suddenly awakened to conscious ness by the sound of voices in the adjoining apartment. The evening was somewhat advanced, aud consequently the noise in the strmet had almost entirely ceased. Owing to this fact I heard distinctly every word that was said. It was Mr. Norval's son Charles's voice that awakened me. "Mary, listen to me,'' he exclaimed with a peculiar thick utterance which showed I~hat he had been drInking: "you know 1 love you. Yes, dear girl, I adore the very ground you walk on. Your beauty is so trancgewient that you appear more like a fair creature of the braim than a human being" "flaves dona with your senseless conmpli mnents, Charles," returned Mary. "Why do you persecut# me so? I have already made known my decision to you. It is ir revocable." "Dear girl, do not Eay that. Oh, if y~iu did but know how deeply your image is engraven on my heartt My very thought is for you; every pulse of my heart beats for you- -angel-smile on Dme,, "Charles, you are intoxicated. How dare you express yourself to me in this manner?" "Dearest cousin, I adore you, and( by Iheaven, you shall be mninel" "I pity your condition, and I beg, sir, you will leave my presence." "Never, my charmin'g cousin, until you say that you love me. I wonld sell my soul for one kips from those ruby lips. I could sit all day and gaze wonderingly into those glorious orbs, Dearest-darling lovely Mary, be mine-be minel" ft was evident the young man was work lag himself into a passion of frenzy. "Mr. Norval, unless you leave the room I will call for assistanee.,' "No, you shall not. It is true that you have supplanted me in my father's love. It is true hat he has left you the bulk of is. fortune, while he has bestowed a misera bie pittance on me. Not content with having effected all this, you despise miy loye-but by the great heavens above us, you shall be mine!" I could hear the rustling of a silk dress, by which I knew that Mary had arisen from her chair, doubtless to ring the bell. "Mary, you shall not escape me thus," continued the young man. "I repeat it, you shall be mine. Dearest girl, come to mny heart-let me fold you to my breaist." A half suppressed scream now reached mny ears, and I heard the infatuated young man rush toward her. I thought it was high tIme to interfere. I ran to the fold. lag doors, threw~them wide open, and just saw the inebriate seize the shrinking girl in his grasp. When lie saw me he loosen. ed his hold, a demoniacal expression lighted up his features, and be hurrIed from the room, shaking his fist in my face as ho made his exit. I caught the fainting girl in my arms and conveyed her to a sofa, A few aimple restoratives restored her to e-maciousness, but it was some time before 1 could make her belfbve that the danger was past, I thought it my duty to acquaint Mr. Norval with the whole transaction, that nroner moans miaht ha adopted to pnevent a recurrence of this persecution. (1harles Norval was forbidden the house. About a month after this occurrence business took me to a southern city, where I was detain. ed a week. The very night I returned to New York, I reeelved a visit from Mr. M- , the famous attorney." "Brampton," said he, as he entered the room. "I have been here to see you a dozen times to-day. Thank God, you have come home at last!" "Why, what ia the matter, Mr. -?" "I am in great trouble, and I want you to help me out. You know Mr. Norval, I believet" "Certainly, I know him well-he Is a particular friend of mine; but why do you use the past tense?" "Are you aware that he ts dead?" "Dead Is it possible?" ", c he died yesterday." "Is there any suspicion connected with his death?" "None at all, he has been ailing for some time. Ile died of disease of the heart. A post-mortem examination has settled that question satisfactorily. You are aware, perhaps, that I was his lawyer, and you also know the terms on which he lived with his son. About three months ago Mr. Norval sent for me to make his will. As I have before said, he had been failing in health for some tUne past, and did not know how soon he might be called away from this earthly scene. "I drew up his will as he requested; by Its provisions Mary was made an heiress, a small.pension payable at certain Intervals being only left to his son. This will was properly signed and attested." "Excuse me for interrupting you," said I, "but was Mr. Charles Norval cognizant of the provisions of his father's will?" "Not that I am aware of, but now you come to mention it, I distinctly remember at the time of witnessing it, a sudden rustling was heard at one end of the apart ment, and a door that opened Into an ad joining room was heard to close, but no n)tice was taken of the circumstatices at the time." "Exastly, that must have been the young man who was listening, for I Lave reason to know that he was aware of the contents of his father's will." And I then reiatea the conversation I had overheard between Mary and Charles Nor yal. "This may be very important," said M--' as soon as I had concluded: "but let me conclude what I have to say. The will I had drawn up was confided to my care. 1 placed it in an en velope and locked it up in my private desk. The moment I heard of his death, I opened my desk and took out the envelope in which I had placed the will. Judge of my surprise and horror when I found it only contAined a blank sheet of paperl" "A blank sheet of paperi The will had been abstracted, then?" "Exactly. When I made the discovery I was completely thunderstruck. I could neither speak nor act. I sank down into a seat utterly prostrated both In body and mind. After a little time I somewhat re covered my faculties, and then began to turn over in my mind the best course for me to pursue under the circumstances. Fortunately I was alone." "Do you suspect anyone?" "I don't know whom to suspect. But from the conversation you have related to me, it is very probable that Charles Norval has somet hing to do with it. But stIll it Is utterly impossible that he could have ob. tained access to my private office and desk." d'I have three clerks, and they all enjoy my most implicit confidence. In the first place none of them knew the will was there. They have been with me many years, and I cannot entertain the slight est suspicion against them. Long initerconose with the world has taught me, however, to be cautious, and I dleter mined to keep my own counsel, so I have not mentioned the fact to them at all. I closed and locked my desk again, and went about my business as usual." "You did quite right. Did the desk show any evidence of having been looked into?" ."Not the least in the world. Whoever entered it, must have possessed a duplicate key." "And you have no reason to suspect your clerks since?" "No-when they entered 1 watched them narrowly, but could not detect any evidence of guilt in their manner. I then determined that I would apply to you, Birampton. I assure you I hiave eaten nothing since the fatal discovery. The thought that Mary Morval will be reduced to penury is horrible to me." "Leave the matter in my hands, I will do what I can. If the will is not already destroyed, I trust I shall be able to restore it to you." M-- took his leave, I then threw myself back in my easy chair and tortured my mund for some means to discover the missing will. I formed half a dozen dif ferent plans, but was at a loss to know which to adopt, for the case was involved in much difficulty. While I was thus en gaged, my eye foll upon a copy of the New York I1erald which lay on my desk. I mechanically took it up, without, how ever, intending to read it. My eyes rested on a column of advertisements. Suddenly they were arrested by the following, under the head of "Personal" "A strong will can overcome every ob stale. Eight o'clock to-night. Love and joy await youil" I started from my chair like one bereft of his sense.. A sentiment which I can never explain told me that I had found a clue. The mysterions advertisement seem ed to me as plain as daylight. "A strong wWl can overcome every obstacle." evi clently referred to the missing document. "Eight o'clock to-might,'' was the time aip pointed for a rendezvous. "Love and joy await you," meant that the place of mneet ing was to be Lovejoy's hotel." I was very much pleased with this dis. covery, for besides my wish to oblige M- - I really felt a great este~m for Mary Norval, while on the other hand I knew her cousin to be a worthless young man. I felt per fectly certain that hie was at the bottom of the conspiracy, and that he had in all probability briben one of M--'.s clerks. I almost fancied that ilhad the will again in my possession, and I pictured to myself M--'s joy at recovermng it again from my hands. My mind was immediately made up what to do. I determined that I would visit Lovejoy's hotel, and be present at the interview,". I sat ad watched the oloe ntilnthe hour should arrive. How slowly the time passedi At last the hour pointed to '.30. I rose up, put on my overcoat, and depart. ed on my errand. It was a bitter cold a winter's night. The snow was drifting k directly in my face, but still I preaed on. h I soon reached the hotel and entered one i of the private supper rooms. These rooms a as every frequenter of Lovejoy's knows, a are divided only by a thin partition from a each other, so that a conversation carried t on in the adjoining apartments, can, by a attentive listeners, be overheard. I or- L dered my supper, and while pretending to fI eat it, I kept my cars open. Some time t; passed and no sound reached me. At last h I heard the sound of a door shutting, and 0 one person entered the room on my right; A a few minutes more elapsed, and again V the door shut. The first person had been t, joined by another. I crept cautionsly up to the partition and fixed my oar to it, i "Mr. Norval," exclaimed a voice which a I did not recognize, "I am glad to see o you." 0 "And I assure you, Mr. Mills, I am t more pleased to see you. I saw your ad- P vertisement in to-day's ferald, and am i1 here in consequence." 11 "I know Mr. Mill a was M--'s confi- r dential clerk. The other speaker was of 1 course Charles Norval. b "Yes, I worded It as agreed," continued q the clerk. "I was almost afraid however, F you might have forgotten it, and feared it v would be too obscure. But it was neces- 11 vary, you know, to blind other's eyes, 1 "0. yes, I unterstand all about that. c When did you get hold of the precious documenty" , "Only yesterday. You know he had left the will In his private desk, and it was only by chance that 1 obtained the key. The moment I did so, I seized the docu ment, and put in its place a piece of blank t paper." "Do you think he has discovered the loss yet?" "Oh, no; I am certain he has not. I F have watched him well all day." "Well, then, now to business,"saidyoung 6 Norval "Iew much do you want for the 0 will?" "It is a very valuable paper, Mr. Nor. val," replied the villainous clerk. "I sup pose you know Its provisions?" "Oh, yes; I overheard At- read the paper after he had drawn It up. I know that father has left cousin Maryeverything. c while on me, his lawful heir, he has only d settled a miserable pension. When that document is burned, I will bring her haughty spirit down. She will cringe and V fawn on me then. But come, what am I to give you for it?" "You shall give me your note of hand for $5,000, payable when you come into the property." "Agreed-agreed Here, I will write V it on the spot." - I could hear them arranging some papers on the table. I cautiously left the apart ment, and crept noiselessly to the door of b the room where this worthy pair were seated. I applied my eye to the keyhole and saw that Norval was in the act of e writing a promissory note. This done, he i handed It to the clerk, who after exam ining it, placed it carefully in his pocket book. He then drew out the will and handed it to Norval. The latter eagerly y perused it, a smile of gratification over spreading his features. "Now," said he, "my fair cousin Mary, I you are in my power, and by heavens, I e will teach you how to love me. So, so, you h are a beggar now, and I am the wealthy y Mr. Norval. They say money can buy b anything. I will see if it cannot buy your y amiles. But I will not marry you; that idea has passed. To the fire, then, I com- t, wit the only thing between me and. my o rightful property. ,r f( So saying, he placed his hands on the e will in order to cast it into the flames, but td at that moment I burst into the room and h pinned the legal document to the table an with my hand. My motion was so rapid, g that the two conspirators must have thought *a that it was something supernatural. t "HoldI" I exclaimed in a loud voice; fc "your villainy is not yet perpetrated." t I shall never forget the look of haorror re vealed on the countenances of the two vii- ti amns. I quietly folded up the will and 5t transferred it to my pocket. R--'s al clerk rushed from the room, and from that day to this I have not seen him. I have y beard, however, that he is in Australia. Young Norval was completely crestfallen, Y and loft my presence without uttering a ti word. 'That same night I restored the " will to Mr. M-'s possession, and the 5 delight with which he received it was be- h yond all bounds. Mary Norval had no difilculty whatever, u in proving her right to the property; in it fact there was no one to dispute It. It ti was her desire that her cousin should not ' be0 prosecuted for the part he had taken in 'a the nefarious transaction. She increased h his allowance to double the amount thatn had been left him by hia father. He did e not live long, however, to enjoy it, for he I died of delirium tremens a year after his d father's death. Mary was soon after mar- c ried to a wealthy Bostonian. I had the pleasure to be at her wedding. $he is now a the mother of a happy family, and beloved by all who knew her In her new home. --was so well pleased wIth my share of the transaction that he becamie a staunch friend ot mine, and materially increased t< my business by recommending me to all 11 in want of the services of a good detective lI officer. -FIfteen factories In this country turn out 500 tens of glucose daily. : -Paris has 24 theatres and 100 con cert saloons. -Work has been begun on New York's $1,000,000 hotel.) -The timber (tf Clearfield Cu, Pa., Is trearly exhausted. -The quince crop of the state ls the largest grown for years. -The Pennsylvania railroad employs 14,709 persons.. -The actual dloce'se of London con tains 2,500,00;0 of people. -The augar crop of Cuba will be 20 per cent, less than last year. -Snow fell at MI. Washington, Vt., on the morning of September 28d. -A horse shoe manufacturer is mak ing a horse shoe of iron and heinp. -There are 200 miles of oyster beds on the gulf ooast of the Missisuippi. -Virginia has raised 1,550,000 btashels opeanputs this year and Tennessee 'A Poitd Rtesainder.. A party of adventurous lads, myself mong the number, were out for a glorious oliday. Each had his canvas bag across Is shoulder, and we stole along the stone rail yonder, and entered the woods be eath that group of chestnuts. Two of us cted as outposts on picket guard, and nother, young Teddy Shoopeggby name, he best climber In the village, did the haking. There were live busy pairs of ands beneath these trees, I can tell you, or each one of us fully realized the necessi y of making the most of his time, not nowing how soon the warning cry from ur outposts might put us all to headlong ight, for the alarm, "Turntr's coming!" ras enough to lift the hair of any boy In awn. But luck seemed to favor us on that day. Ve "cleaped out" six big chestnut-trees, nc then turned our attention to the hack rie. There was a splendid tall shell bark lobe by, with branches fairly loaded with lie white nuts in their open shucks. They rere all ready to drop, and when the shak 2g once commenced, the nuts came down ke a sower of hail, bounding from the ocks, rattling among the dry leaves, and eeplg up a clatter all around. We scram. led on all fours, and gathered them by uarts and quarts, There was no need of oking over the leaves for thei the ground ras covered with their bleach shells, all a plain sight. While busily engaged, we oticed an ominous lull among the branches verhead, "'at I 'sat I" whispered Shoopegg up bove; "I see old Turner on his white orse daown the road yonder." "Coming this way f" also in a whisper, rom below. "I dnno yit, but I jest guess you'd bet ir be gittin' reddy to log it, for lie's hitchin' is old nag 't the side o' the road. Yi, ir, I bleeve he's a-cummin.' Bhoopegg, ou'd better be gittin' aout 6' this," and he oninenced to drop hap.hazzard from his fty perch. In a moment, however, he semed to change his mind, and paused, nce more upon the watch. "Say, fellers," a again broke in as we were preparing for retreat, "he's gone off to 'rd the' cedars; e aln't cummin' this way at all." Ho he gain aspended into the tree-tap, and fin ibed his shaking in peace, and we our icking also. There was still another tree, rith elegant large auto, that we had all oncluded to "finish up on." It would not o to leave it. They were the largest and ilnest-shelled nuts in town, and there rere over a bushel In sight on the branch ips. *Shoopegg was up among them in ro minutes,and they were showered down a torrents as before. And what splendid erfect nuts they were! We bagged them rith eager hands, picked the ground all lean, and with jolly chuckles at our luck rre ..Just about thinking of starting for ome with our well-rounded sacks, when a hange came o'er the spirit of our dreams. 'here was a fuspicious nclse in the shrub ery near by, and in a moment more we eard our doom, "Jest you look eeah. you boys,"exclaim d a high-pitched voice from the neighbor ig shrubbery, accompanied by the for E Deacon Turner, approaching at a brisk ace, hardly thirty feet away. "Don't eu think yeu've got jest about enufo' iem nuts?" Of course a wild panic ensued, in which 'e made for the bags and dear life, but urner was prepared and ready for the nergenoy,and raising a huge old shot-gun, 5 levelled it, and yelled, "Don't any on a stir nor move, or by Christopher I'll low the heads clean otl'n the hull pile on .. - I'd shoot ye quicker'n lightnin." And we believed him, for his aim was ue, and his whole expression was not that t a man who was triling. I never shall >rget the uncomfortable sensation that I Iperienceda as I looked into the' muzzle of iatdoubled-.barrelled shotgun, and saw both ammers fully raised too. And I can see ow the squint and the glaring eye that lanced along those barrels. There was a 'onderful persuasive power lurking in lose horizontal tubes; so I hastened to in >rm the deacon that we were "not going "Wa'al," he drawled,."it looked a lele mat way, I thort, a spell ago;" and ho ,Ill kept us in the field of his weapon, till length I exclaimed, in desperation "Point that gun in some other way, will ou 1" "Wa'al, nol /i'm not for pintin' it enny 'bar else jest yit-not until you've sot aem ar bags daown agin, jist whar ye got mm, every one on ye." The bags were peedily replaced, and he slowly lowered is gun. "Wa'al,naow,"he continued, as he came p in our ndaust, "this is putty biznlss,ain4'c I Bin havin' a putty lively sort o' time mu, I sh'd jedge from the looks o' these re bags. One--two--eix on 'em; an' I aow they must be nigh on ten two an' a aif bushel in every one on 'em. Wa'al, aow"--with hils peculiar drawl-"look sah:you're a putty ondustrious lot o' 4deve,, P'm bleat if ye ain't." But the eacon did all the talking, for his inan muvres were such asto render us speechless. Putty likely place teu cam "a-nuttin', ram it?" An Ineoxtinguishable Fa. Accounts have been published from time a time of the fire in the Keoly Run Cel ery, near S3heniandoalh, Pa. No one nows how it originated, but the general inpression seems to be that it was caused y spontaneous combustion. How to ox Inguish it is a problem diflicult to solve, wing to the mines being h igher than comn nunicating collerles, thereby making It mpossible to drown it out. A Pittsburg krm, Mlessrs. Campbell & Connelly, offered o smother the fames for about $26,000. L'hey proposed to do the work with car ohic acid gas and nitrogen. Miners and upermntendents advised the collhery own mrs to have nothing to do with so wild a cheme. The necessity of -doing some hing, and the confident assurances of the k'ittsburg firm, who offered to forfeit $50) i day for all the time that the fire should urn after thirty days from the date of their contract, caused the mine owners to accept the proposition. The gas men built a large lurnace arnd began operations. Bo far they have had no success. The part of the mine reached by the fire has been olosed up. It is estimated that the space enclosed will hold 12,00,000 cubic feet of gas. The Pittsburg firm declare that near ly halt that quantity is forced into it every twenty-four thours, but it has had no effect upon the flle. The firm hais already forfeited nearly $10,000 by the delay, and do not seem to know what. now tn do. One Way. How would I go to work to keep my children from reading sensational books? 4 The Oest way to answer this question is by 1 telling you what I have done. The other i evenig, coming Into the sitting room, I saw James reading a dime novel. At least I thought it looked like a dime novel. Moth er had her sewiug, Jennie was working on 4 an afghan, Tomithy was making a set of i jackstraws out of piece of red cedar. g "Let's have some reading aloud," said 1. 1 "James you seem to have got hold of an in- 4 teresting book, there; suppose you read it t aloud to us." James looked up with a flush i on his face. "I don't believe you would care for this," I said he. "It isn't much of a book." I "You're mighty interested in it," said 1 Tommy, "for a book that isn't much of a book, a "YesI come," seid Jennie, "let's have i some reading aloud. Why not James?" I "Mother wouldn't like this book," said I he. t "Why not?" said mother. I "Oh, you wouldn't, that's all," said t James. "It's just stuff." "If it isn't worth reading aloud It isn't I worth reading at all," said Jennie. I "That does not follow," said I, "by any f means. There are a good many books ' worth reading that are not worth reading aloud. But If James is too much interested I In his story to put it aside, the rest of us I will form a reading circle and got some- i thing that is worth reading aloud." "Oh. I don't care anythingabout it," said c James, "I wasjust reading to get through 1 the evening. If you have got- anytbing I better on hand let's by all means have it.' I With that he laid the book by with a shove c that sent it half-way across the table. "What shall it be?" said L . "How would it do to hegin a course of v history? There's our 'lume' in the book- r case. I don't believe that any one of us Il ever read It through. How would that 0 do1" I though to myself that probably none 8 f us ever would read it through, but I did e not say anything. I waited for some one I else to respond. i1 "I've got a jolly bookup stairs," said Tommiy. IsI - psar, sa "What is It?" I asked. e "David Crockett," said Tommy. ."I will t go and get It." With that, and before any I Df us could decide whether we wanted it or 11 not, Tommy was off up stairs. - He is as I tuck as a flash it everything. It proved to a be one of Mr. Jolin S. C. Abbot's Pioneer t md Patriot series. "What is there jolly about It V' said I to v rommy, when he had produced It. I "Why it's full of adventure-about a fel- D low that lived in a wilderness when the il country was new, and even Ohio was as v wild as an Indian-what do you call it? e "Resorvation," said Jennie. c "Yes, reservation," said Tommy. 0 "What do you say, James,"saidJ; "will il you read aloud for us while I go to work r on the shoe box I am makig for mother?" h James said he would, an we then and t there inaugurated a readlug circle. We I have kept it up, so far, all winter, James b and I taking turns in reading aloud. and o the rest going on with their work. Tommy p Is quite expert with his knife, and he has ri begged off from the reading to go on with I bis carpentry. We follow "David Crock- e ett" with "Daniel Boone." and then took I up Mrs. Brassey's "Voyage Round the 1i World in the Yacht Sunbeam." We are c reading that with an atlas, and look up the v places In the atlas and Jennie sometimes t] looks them up further ip the cyclopedia, 'I and tells us more about them at the next IL reading. a And I haven't seen anything more of 1 James's dime navel. Aly way to keep our I boys from the bad litoraure is to overcome il evil with good,.t How can I find the time ? Well, I believe 8 that he that does not provide for his own ti family is worst than an infidel. And I n think that it is part of my duty to provide ti amy children with good books and good 1I company in reading them. And I will not c take so much work on my hands that I can ti not do sometaing for my own children. h The Temple of Marriage. A slice of bride-cake under my pillow gave occasion to the following dream: A spacious building was crowded with a va-a riety of persons; and upon Inquiry I was r told It was "the temple of marriage," and that every one, who had an Inclination to sacrifice to that deity, was Invited to ap proach .a large altar, which was covered with a great numbe.z of cakes of various shapes and sizes. Some were molded into the form of hearts; others into true-lover's knots; some were stuck about with sweet meats; some were stamped with coronets, or embellished with gittering toys. All wore allowed to choose for themselves, and Plutus and Cupid were busily emnployed in the distrIbution, A young couple advanced and, applying to Cupid, desired himn to reach the double heart pierced through with darts ; but just as thoy wore going to share it a crabbed old fellow broke the cake and obliged the girl to take the figure of a fine gentleman in gilt gingerbread. An old fellow of sixty came towards the altar and petitioned (.upid for a cake '>f the most elegant form and sweetest ingredients. The little god at first repulsed him,but after wards sold it to him for a large sum of money. An ancient lady came tottering I to the altar supported by a young fellow In a red coat with a stale cake, marked with the word Jointure, in golden capItals. : A rich, rusty bachelor then came bust- !I ling through the crowd, accompanied by a red-cheeked country girl of nineteen. They reached for the cakes marked Riches and Beauty. There now advanced a maiden lady who seized by the hand a young ensign of. the guards and carried him the to altar. She] seized a cake and divided it with hergallant,I but too late discovered that hor half was signed "Folly" and his share was marked "Aversion." A little pert miss ran briskly up to Cupid, a cake she must and would have. She had just stretched out her hand to receive one whomher mamma interposed,sent the child blubbering to school and carried the cake off herself. A woman, fantastically dressed then burst Into the temple. Size could get no favor of either Plutus or Cupid ; furious with rage she selzed upon the nearest vic tim, which happened to be myself. The The least caumb was disagreeable and awaked me, with the nauseous taste still In my mouth. The Lake of Gaiue, It is sometimes said that the Lake of allee Is very like Windermere.' I think ;hat the comparison must have originated with some traveleo- who holds the opinou )f a friend of mine, that all lakes are alike. 'o any one who has discovered the differ inces between one lake and another-der. nces at least as great as those between one nountain and another, and almost as great is those between one book, or one man and mother--the comparison could never have >curred. Of course, if any one thinks hat Loch Lomond is at all like Derwent vater, or Grasmere like Wastwater, he nay also think that the Lake of Galilee is ike Windermere. I know W indermere >retty well. I have seen it every month of be year except one, and hardly know In which month It Is most beautiful; I have eon it In most of -its moods as well as In nost of Its tenses-In storm and In sun hine; with snow on the surrounding tills; with the fresh bright green June on he meadows; with the splendid heights shout the head of the lake covered with lie rich browns and the gold and the amber if November, as with the robe of a king ; have seen it lying pale and white in the ight of the early morning, and looking Lngry and sullen under gathering clouds. he Lake of Galilee Is no more like Win lermere than Monmouth Is like Macedon. loth of thelakes are long sheets of fresh vater lying among hills, but there the like tess ends. The form of the Lake of Gali. ie l familiar. Its eastern shore is border. d by a long line of steep hills, having a avel ridge. My Brst impression was that, vith the exception of a tain covering of rass which was too thin and too patchy to over the rocks, these hills were bare; but in looking more carefully I could see a few ushes of trees. The sides are broken vith occasional ravines. and down these avines 1 noticed strips of more vivid green, 2dicating the presence of mountain treams. On the northeast the hills are not so teep ; they slope up to high plains cover d with forests of oak; and beyond these i a range of loftier mountains. Far away i the north, Hermon rises grandly with its erpetual snows. The hills on the western ide are nuch less steep than those on the astern side. They are covered with grass o their very summits, which rise about ,200 feet, or perhaps more, above the ike. The water is said to be full of fish, ut there are only two rickety boats to be eon. They were so old and battered that tiey looked as If they might have been the ery boats which Peter left on the shore then he gave up fishing at the call of his laster. The Lake seemed to me to have iore of the awe of Christ's presence about than almost any of the sacred sites that re have seen. The very desolation deep nod the solemnity, and left the mind more oMpletely alone with Him. I remember ne curious illustration of the power which a sacred memories had over me. My avolver had been loaded some days, per aps some weeks before, and one or two of me chambers still had cartriages in them. wanted to discharge them, and I could ave fired over the lake without the chance f hurting anybody; but when I took the iscol in my hand I felt that to make a ade noise on those shores and among those tills would be as great an act of irrever uce as to make a rude noise in a church. u the time of our Lord the shores of the ike now so lonely, were densely populat d. It was in the cities, towns and villages rhich then surrounded these inland waters, tit most of is mighty 'works were done. 'he only.city which, so far as the Gospels lform us, our Lord never entered, still Lands. Tiberias was founded by Herod Lutipas when our Lord was still a youth in lazareth, and there are many remains of s ancient magnificence. BLut it walls and wers are mniserably dilapidated and the Lte which they enclose is much larger than le present population can cover. The iean little town--It contains about two Lousand inhabitants-looks like a shrivel. 3d kernel lying in a broken shell. The nly brightness and rehief come from the roes which rise here and there among the ouses. Rare Niephant. There are noy on exhibition in New (ork two peculr elephants brought from Lie mountains of the Malay penInsula, bout 800 miles from Singapore. They are otnarkable for their small size, being re pectively twemry-eight and thirty-six inches ill; and being covered with a thick coat of rietly hair or wool. They are supposed a be from five to seven years old. In size hey resemble the extinct elephant. of lalta, and in covering, those of Siberia. 'heir woolly coat is attributed to the cir umistance that they live high upon the riountains where the climate Is cold. The pecies appears to be all but unknown to aturalists, this pair being the first that tave survived the passage through the Leated low country to the coast and the ubsequent journey by sea. The sailors on he steamer which brought them named hem Prince and Sidney. They are do eribed as playful and harmless, and they ~eep their little trunks stretched out to trangers to be petted. They love to be cratchod on the under side of .the trunk lose to the mouth, and they hold their runks curled back over their heads as long a any onescratches them. Like elephants f larger growth, they keep up a swaying action, either sidewise or forward and 'akward. When a visitor lets one of the ite fellows take hIs hand hie delicately murls his proboscis around it and carries it ~ently to his mouth, Then he trumpets mis satisfaction. "Our Orava5.' 11ev. Dr. Wilson, in speaking of himself, a the pulpit, he always used the plural. Iis use of it on one occasion, was almost udiorous. There was no air, and the doc or seemed scarcely able to get his breath. at intervals, ho would twitch, with nerv ms excitement, at the huge white cravat with which it was the fashion at that time o encase the throat, but In vain; he could get no relief, At length he stopped at the and of a sentence, and in his quiet, low kmnedi manner said: "The congregatioil will please exc'xse us for a few minutes. Our wife has tied our cravat too tighi this morning." Bo saying, he do scended from his seat, a~nd with a quied composure which seemed almost to diveal the transaction of Its manifest mncogrul, fy,withdrew to alittlo room adjoining wher4 he had the troublesome article adjusted t< his satisfaction. NEWS IN BRIEF. -The bell or the Congregational Church at Newton, Ct.,ihas been used 112 years. -In 1878 the tax on armorial bear ings In England and Scotland pro duced $410,000. -The citizens of Lebanon, TIenn., have subscribed $30,000 toward the payment of the State debt. -The French sea fisheries were more successful last year than the year be fore, to the extent of $221,625. -It Is estimated that seventy years and $1,000,000 will be required to cor plete the excavations at Pompeii. -A company with $100,000 capital has been organized to open a swim ming school in Boston next April. . -A white oak tree in Washington county, Pa., when sawed produced one thousand and eighty feet of lumber, -There are more than 10,000,000 car wheels in use ia the United States. The average life of a wheel is eight years. -Plus IX. prescribed in his will his burial place and that more thin $400 should be expended on the monument above it. -A new university has been founded in Liverpool, England. Subscriptions to the amount of $440,000 have been received. -Three hundred and two thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine per sons visited the Pittsburg Exposition this year. -The gold yield in New South Wales in 1878 was not one-tenth of that of twenty years ago. The yield of coal increases. -An International Sanitary Con gress will be held at Washington in January, 1881, under the auspices of Government. -Two an] a halt million of tropical oranges were received in the past six months at San Francisco from the French Islands of Tahiti. -An estate in Australia which for merly supported 80,000 sheep, has been abandoned on account of the devastation caused by the rabbits. -The Massachusetts Historical Sool ety has given $100 toward the erection of a monument in London over the un marked grave of Sir Walter Raleigh. -Jerusalem existed 700 years befere Rome was founded, 300 yeai s before the siege of Troy, and 500 years before the hanging gardens of Babylon were built. -The value of thA textile products produced in the United Kingdom is $775,000,000; United States, 420,000,000; France, $340,000,000, and Germany, $240,000,000. -The Baroness Burdett-Coutts' sis ter, Mrs. Clara Maria Money's son, have been allowed to use the surname Coutts in addition to and after Money and to bear the arms of Coutts. -Two American army officers, Lieu tenants Birnie and Bixby, have re ceived the Cross of the Legion of Honor at Paris, for assisting at the recent manoeuver of the French army. -There are now over 170,000 sheep in Laramie county, Wyoming, which is an increase of 35 per cent over last year. The clip of wool in that county for 1880 amounted 900,000 pounds. -Professor Watson, the astrondme, is ereouting an observatory, to cost $3000, at his own expense, at Madison, Wis. He proposes to search particularly for the inner-Mercurial planet Vulcan., -John WannamaKer, the rich mer chant of Philadelphia, Pa., is the super intendent of the largest Presbyterian Sunday-school in tne United States. containing more than 20,000 children. -The Marquis of Salisbury's brother Lord A. Cecl, has been appointed Loco. motive Superintendent of the Groat Eastern Railway. He has been in the engineering department of the Great Eastern Railway for some years. -The consumption of cotton has in creased in the South from 129,189 bales in 1878 to 221,387 bales in 1880. The capital invested in cotton manufactures in the South recieves larger profits than in the same line in the North. -Mr. Simon Cameron, who is a Presbyterian, has presented to a Lu theran congregation in Pennsylvania a house and land for a parsonage, as a memorial of his wife, Margaret BIrua Cameron, who was a devout Lutheran. -On Michaelmas day, Sept. 29, the Count do Chiambord was 60. it was his fiftieth birthday. on foreign soil. Last year 1,200 persons on his natal day dined off dishes boaring legitimist names. This year the celebration was more quiet. - -M. Lecard, who has been explor lng in Africa, has discovered on the banks of the Niger a plant which bears grapes, which he proposes to send to France to take the place of :the vines which are being devastated by the phylioxera. -A carrier pigeon belonging to John C. Haines, of Tom's River N. J, doew recently thie distance of ad miles in an air line in twenty-four minutes. Ten other pigeons released at the same mo ment reached' home a minute later than their leader. -Sir Henry Bessemer has taken out no less than 114 patents. The freedom of the City of Lonidon has just been conferred upon him. Before his steel process whs introduced into Sheffield, the entire make of steel was 61,000 tons a year; now it is 830,000 tons. -Great Britain and France consume each about the same qjuantity o1 wool-380,000,000 pounds a yar. Germany consumes about 105,00,000 pounds; United States, 250,00,000 pounds, and Russia, Austria and other conntries, 400,000,000 pounds. -The wool-clip of the world has in creased five times sinee 1830, when it was about 320,000,000 poundd in weight. In 1878, the latest year f or which there are complete figures, Europe produced 740,000,000; River Platte, 240,000,0.0; United S tates, 208,000,000; Australia, 850,000,000, and South Afr ica, 48,000, 000, waking a total of 1,580,000,000 pounds. -There were sent to the dead-letter office at Washington, during the fsacal year ended June 30th, 3,853,651 letterd and packages of which in round nurn bers 2,700,00 were sent from local post-ofios becaused unclaimed, 290, 000 were held for postage, 200,000 were misdirected, 80,000 bore fictitious ad dresses and oves 9,000 were not ad diressed at all,