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4 g jett 996; TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JANUARY L 1881. VOL. I V.- --O 158) DREAMLAND. There is a laud unlinown to waking vlsion, That blooms.in beau, y rare; Swoot broi z is blow throughout its flolds ely slan, And stir its biosaoms fair. Tue sunlight bathes its purple-crested moun. - tains, . And deop in shady groves Whero plash and tricklo noeor failing foun tainis, The sleeping Ppirit roves, And fiide no traco of fallur', ein, er morrow In tho o enchanted ways ; No thought of yestorday or sure to-worrow, Of past er future daye. T cro all its failures prove but brave succesacs, And all its losses gains ; While love with ita wau br oding presenco blesses, And po foot peae attains. Tho loved onoas laid to rest with bitter woop ing, Stand forth with shining eyes The dear rememtored looks s3 sweotly keep ing, That griof, forgotten flios. All hopes of youth, all noblo aspira'tions To ful, fruilit.n come ; Tile rtruggling soul is frood from its tempta tions, Tie homeloss finds a home. Whatever in the hour of daily waking Most dear and distant sooms, Orows real and near, an almost hlivon mak tng Thht unseon world of dreams. The White Hand. It was nany centuries ago. In a guest chamber of a black frowning eastlo, rearing itself aitmost within the shad ow of the Bolhnerwald, sat two men. They at in diarkness, save a strange lurid glow fron a fitful flamo, darting, tongue like, fron the contor of a sort of a ohalIng, dish of iron, shaped to the ghastly form of a death's head. Both bent batcutly towards the tripod, on whiohi rested the ghastly dish, the younger, and more wicked looking of the two with a sing-song incantation,- as his breath mitn gled with the deadly perfume floating on the tongued flame. Presently the latter rose, his companion instantly following hi exainple. . lie looked half shrinkingly towards the shatdowy corners of the great chamber,and then back to the dish. "'ile spell works, my lord," lie mutter ed. - "Stir not I Speak not, whatever you may chance to see or hear I What it will be, I know not; but the shade conethI Bohold!" And evep as he spoke, a small lurid spark suddenly glowed on the floor among the disial shadows. It glowed, shivered, and swelled in height and breadth till it stood a quaking colunn of ghastly light. Gradually the colunn took form, and then quickly dissolving again Into a shapo less mass, it as quickly flashed Into millions of diamond-liko coruscations, from which suddenly gloomeld a ta'l, black, spectral figure, shadowy as the shadows them selves. In vain the necromancer's breathless comipaiion strove to discern a foature of the Friom the spectral formt issued a dleep se 'You have smnnmoned me-wvhat wouldI you?" s.lowly anti soleminly (fyieried the "anseredthe necromancer, T"'ow t o gather a soul-powver to pol lute, to dleatroy ?" "El'veni so, mastor. Even the becautIful Lcona's," returned the necromancer. "'The White Hand protects her." "'But thou art str-ong, master." e "The Wite H anid is stronger." ''Alas I amaster, what shall wve (10 !" A little pauise followedl the query, anid then the voiec returned: ''Love la alluring-allure by love, and~ Leonat may fii .' "But is there no spell1, master?'! "One! Listen int silence or you nlever will know. Take" - A shivering, (demoniac cry endled the sen 2' ~*- imtai, cif tIh6 bhielk shade cowered> fo' ihe~ floor, while above. it shone, henut iful and - shapely, a mnarlewhilte hand. Another shivering cry of mortal terror and( pain, and the spectral light and shape, with the flarble-white hani -disappeared. Th'le tongued flanie on- th \rlpod shot up wIldly for an instant, and tuoen died out, leaving nothing but the deepest darkness. A tremnendlous oath from the necromancer broke tlac horrible silence, as he groped for means to lIght a lamp. As its p~ale glow dlispelledl a few of the shadows, lie and huis companion slared into each other's ghastly faces with wild eyes. For a little they stood1 thns~, and'then the * necromancer hissed: "A moment more and I would have learnd the spell.. My lordl, thero Is a ter rible power against us. What say you?" T'io the end, to the endi Leona shall 'Se mine!" ''iut, my lord, the knowledge of the spell is lust-lost for ever." ~ "13y love, thben." "'It may fail, and( -then you are lost." As thes'e wor-ds wecre passionat ely uittered, a narrow panel was sof thy slipped In place In the opposite wall, and in the next, chamn her a tall grey-haired man, of most venera ble air, half tottered to the communicating chamber beyond. lieneam teu (ho.. Warmth, light and perfume perva'-ed its remotest corners, while In Its center sat a youthful maiden of marvellous beauty and grace. A soft,white, flewing robe, loosely corded at the waist, and a certain air of watchful expectancy, Proved that she was sitting up boyo; d her usual hour, with some pirpose in view. As the door opened, and the Princely old man entered, she started to her feet with a cry of alarm, and rushing forward, twined her arm about bln and led him to a seat. "MIy fatheri" she paiited, with filing eyes, "what is it? Irl yont- Le ma. Why are you so broken, so pale, and so sad, my father ?" "The sta'ri nover lie, my daught ier,"sighed the astrologer, for such he was. "'Al I" excilimed the maiden, a quick alarm in look and tone. "Even so. The stars spoke truly. It is Albrecht. Albrecht, the mighty necro. mancer." 'Oh tmy fat herl my father I" '"Albrecht. And to-night the spiit of evil hath stood In Invisible shape within these walls. You, and you only, Leona, can drive then forth." " ?" cried the inaiden, opening wide her f lovely blue eyes. "Ay, for you it is they seek to destroy. You know the White Hand protects our . house, and it will protect you-it has this night-but yet you must be tempted and t resist. My child, my child,you will be ter- 1 ribly tried. Prajy for help; for help you will l sorely -need. Th4e beautiful youth is the icked lord of Bohmerwald Castle, old ugly, and satanic; but changed in public by Al- I brech lt's powerful spell Iuto a being of prince like beauty and grace. Beware, my Leonal I Alh, seel 'T'lh While Ilaud!" Leona looked III) in a fearless but awed Silence. As she did so, the White Hand -slowly N poluted a thiger towards her, and a sweetly r iusical voice breathed sadly- . "10waret bewarel' - "You hear, my child," said the old as trologer, with anxious eyes and voice. "Nly father, rest thee in peace; I will obey. The astrologer kissed her brow with a sigh, and then blessing her, retired. C -The following morning rose cloudy and 8 cold, and the unwelcome guests piolonged F their stay, as the astrologer knew ton well they wotuld. - For a whie Leona was coldly tourteous; a but ere long the deadly fkelnations of the s old lord of Bohmcrwald began to to their work, and Leona secretly thought "It cannot be truo. Thie nobl&-youth, 1] with his beatihful smile, his heavenly eyes, a and great thoughts, must be what lie a seem i. C And the White Hand remained hidden, 9 though once Leona thought with a strange 1 pang that she heard a faint voice sighing In t far ol dying tones "Beware I Bewarel" But the wicked lord's dulcet tones were in her ears and she forgot it instantly. d The days passed on. The lord whispered ile final words of pas sion and entreaty. 1 "IFly with mue, my belovedi" lie whis pered. "Thy fatther will never consenit. Let us tble away to a sunny land and be for-a eveir happy."f And Leona allowed herself to b~e entreatedl -to be drawn to the breast of the wicked lordl, andl kissedl with hIs lips.t bhue consented. The night caine. Tlhe I hiour drew near. H ooded and cloaked, she waitedi the last 1 mfomnent. In tihe last moment she remenbered her forgotten prayers, ami half fearfully she lifted. tier eyes anid hiandis upwards. As the first words passed her tips, the White lland tremblea before tier.t "'Ah, he!p met'' sighed Leona. ''loesist or perish I". said the mnusical voice. And just then, the youth she loved ej ''Come, comoe ; my beloved, comne I" lie criedi. Leona gazed upon hiin with a face of an. guish, but she aighedi "Never! "cried the seeming youth in harshi tonies. "Neveri" repeated Leona, withl st rength ened will and firm voice. "Has! say you so?" shrieked Lhopid' lord, bounding towards lior in hii rage.. " Serve you your lover thus, 'faithless maiden ?" But a he dashed towards ther, tis youth fiil-seeming vanished, and lhe stood there, the satanic old lord of Bohmnerwald. "Too late, too late, my lord I" cried Al brecht, in terrified ton~eJ, as Leona, with a cry of horror, ddvered tier eyes. "Comne, if you woutld preserve your life one hour longer." And the bafled old1 tordi with a howl of rage, fled wildly after the necromancor,and Leona never hecardl of them again or rathier, she heard that the old lord was found dead. among the rooks of thie Bohmnerwatd two (lays later. . Industry need not wish. Would you be strong, conquer your self. A man's lIfe is an appendihx to his heart. Beauty-dIvinity taking outlnes a nd celor. Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves. Whoever is honest, generous, court cous and candid,is a~gdnueman,wheoth nr ha e dlanenit or unidar ned, rich or . i ho alwith or Auamalso, Early last spring was pubbehed from the R[IAl.'rH MONTI.Y an artie'e from the pen f Hubert T. Foote, b. V. B., on the care f animals, in which he took the position hbat horses and cattle should have shelter hat is as well provided with cleanliness and ent ilation as are our homes. The writer indertook to show that horses are subject o pretty much the same Ills as we are,and hat they nre nearly or quite as sensitive to Ill injurious It fluences. Since the new liscase has broken out among the horses of ur cities sowe of our metropolitan papers ave been calling attention to the same tubject which was so well presented by the ve'erinarlan,, Dr. Foote. The Now k ork IIrcalId hnely published a forcible article ipon the subject. It took the ground that I we would have healthy hores and cattle Ne must give them carefully prepared sta. >Ice and sheds which are free from all dis igrecable olors or poisons or malarious in luences. It further called attention to the 'act that cows provide a large share of the 'ood which is given to our children, and ret, that these useful anunals are often pro rided with only filthy abodes. Those who tave visited Coney Island the past suminmer vill remember the immense stuffed cow tanding in a pavilion, from which milk vas taken for those who were disposed to )atronize the novelty. Many seemed to hink, and quite correctly, that they would nuch rather take milk from a cleanly fount uIn of from a well polished milk-pan, than rom this efilgy. But if it was possible or the milk in this efligy to become con aminated by any impure matters set free >y a slowly decomposing cowskin, how nuch more reasonable it is to suppose that he milk in the udder of a living cow should >ecome injuriously affected and rendered 'bsolutely impure by the filthy food with vijch it is fed, and the filthy atmosphere ervading the ordinary cow stable, or, still nore, those inense stables wherein are ,ept hundreds of cows by those who far ish our citizens with an article which has cen improperly designated as swill milk I )onsidering how frequently our horses are .ffected by some new epideniic and how apidly pleuro pneumonia is extehding over he country would it not be well for all ho have the care of such domestic ani Inas to look wel Ito their creature couifoi ts, nd se ta it riu.,'their .<jwelling-places are C well ventilated and caicit for- a$s uu our Iwellings. The So uti Last Shot. It was 10 o'clock in the morning. The oney bees are darting over the prairle in earch of the sweet ll.>wers, butterflies float n lazy wings, and birds are singing their weetest songs. It Is a scene of deepeat eace. Away to the right is the Little Bear tange of mountains-to the left the prairie cean extends as lar as the eye can reach. 'on miles ahead is a grove of cottonwoods nil a spiing-behind the thirty half-naked avages on horseback. Here is a frontier scout as the pivot on rhich the scen..ry swings. On his' way rom fort to ort N ili Aespotches his triol s been stick by a sir party of I'awnees, nd they hiave hung to it since dark last Ight, following it across the levels and ver the swells at a slow but never-ending allop. They know that lie was a full hun. red miles from help, and they knew that is bloody scalp would add another to their rophies. "You're a rubbed out manl" said the cout as he looked back at dusk and saw bon coming at a slow gallop over lils trail. 'hey could not have overtaken ,hnn in a ash of two miles, but in a gallop of fifty licy would tire hint out. At an easy gallop of live miles an hour he mustang forged ahead through the long nd weary night, changing his pace only rhen the rider got down and ran beside him. Two nules behind him, riding thirty breast and .covering a front of half a inike, ollowed the imiplacablo foe, gainiing a little, mut ever contident. W'hen the sun caine up from his prairie med not a savag~e was missing. The scout uirnedi In his saddlhe and counted thema, ooked ahieadl for landmarks and coolly said; "You took the chances and you have lost, mut you will die game." Th'ie mustang was almost blown. For the ist half~ hour he lhad labored heavily, and mad alnost, been held up by the bits. "'Te grove would have been the samfe," aid the acout as lie drew upi andl dismnount dI. Thie Tndlans were two miles away. In en minutes thi y wouldt be withini rifle hot. "Good-bye, 01(1 pard-I must do it," said lie scout, as he took hold of the nunstang's eand and~ drew his knife across' the faithiul iqiune's thrioat.-. lie wanitedi a breast-work, aiid hem'o he ad it. TI wo mhmiites wvere time enough to ut bridle and saddle to pieces, and~ then lie nounted the body of his deoad friend anid alfy waited the app1)1oaich of the Indliadls No shout of triuph was senit across the. seoen a strange chase. Th'ley had suddenly lisapp~eared on his trail without a. sound, iceenmig to rise out of sonme fissure ini the lower-covered prairie. Not, once through ,he long night hand the scout heard fronm hemi except, as he dropped from the saddle nd p~laced his c ar to the ground. But for hei steady thudl thudl of the horges' feet me might, have ahnmost mnade himself believe ,hmt, ho was being puirsuied by shadows. ''Sixteen bullets im this Winchester amid dx ini the revolver," soliloqizedl the scout is thme Indians were within a niule. of the ipot 1)1( they mtean to rideo hin downm? lBacha rider was bent over his horse's neck, mud each horse kept the pace lie had for lours. "My scalp Is woth the scalp of ton In Jianoi" said the sceut as lie raised his rifle, "but, mebbolI can't get, over six or seven. Straight at hub rode the line of thirty redskins until ihe raised his rifle for a, shot.. l'hen the banil divided rIght andi~ left andi~ inclosedi hIm in a circle. Not a shout from mny tongue. it Imighit have been called a The line was out of rifle-shot at first, but, It gradually worked nearer and nearer, and at last, the report of the scent's ritle broke the stillness of the morining. "Twenty-nine leftl"he .said1 as lie threw Cmt the eimphtyshiell. Not a shot cameo frum thme Indians ini re phy. Every warrior throw hinself On thme opposite side of his horse, andl the hardy ponies0 followed the circle ait a. steadly gal lop. "T'wenty-elght left!" said thioscouit aslie hIred again. No shout or shiot in reply, but t)ic circle wns goingnn narrnowe "Twenty-seven left!" Three of the horses in the ring were gal. loping without riders. "Twenty-six loft!" The-scout had fired coolly and delaber. ately, shooting every victim through the head. Hisrille had a longer range than those of the Indians, but now they were near enough to open In reply. "Twenly.flvo loft" ho saki as another savage fell into the grass with a wild scream of rage and pain. Five of the thirty were dead. o1w a yell runs around the oIrclo, and every horse turns his head towards the connon contro and charges the scout. "Puff? bang! putil 'bangi bang! bang!" Three horses weL.t (own and two more riders felt backwards from their saddles. "Twenty- thiee left!" counted the scout, as he dropped the gun and leveled his ro volver. They were upon hii, and tried- to rIde over him. "Puffl bang!" Puff! bang!" Five shots struck men or horses, and when the hamnner fell for the sixth time it sent the last bullet luto the brain of the scout. Ninle Indians were lying dead around the plivot, three more were wounded, and five to six horses were disabled. All this for a single scalp and the glory of shooting a,brave man's (lead body full of arrows. cutting off head, hands and feet, and LIhrick ing like demons as the blood spurted far over the rich green grass. When they rode away the body wag a shapeless mass. It would rest there during the day, and when night caie the wolves came sneaking from hidden ravines to de vour it to the last morsel and then light over the bloody grass. Plainting Oysters. Tho wise husbandman exerciaes a comn mendable judgment in the prosecution of his vocation, wouid ie reap large and profitable crops, the most Important ele nients in his forecasts being tine, place and method, and no question is of more importance to lilui than, 'How, when and where?" If this be the case with tillers of the soil, of how much greater import ance is a similar nicety of adjustment and method required by those who cultivate thge mighly depths of the sea, where un certainty plays so Important a part? In oyster planting, broad-sighted proprietors are acknowledging this and seize upon every device known to assist them, wheth er the product of their own research or the experience of others, while the conserva tive and independent planter who "takes no stock in new-fangled notions," goes on Os he alone elects, claiming a particular pre-einiuence and success In old time phil osophies. The planting season begins about the 10th of July and lasts until the latter paut of August, although the tine for commencing work should vary accord ing to the weathqr, a warm early spring allowing a much carlier start than a cold, backward season Successful growers pay particular attention to this condition which in ll LIpUaLZIIII. elenmeut to sUCUeeLUA %M ture. First of all, the ground to be plant ed Is thickly shelled. When it is ready for the reception of the seed, which is spread on from sailing vessels and steam ers, the men shoveling off from both sides at once. In culUng over stock for market, ihe cullings are spread over ground to be seeded at any tine of the year, and shell are spread on in tine for the spawning season. The spawn is moved hither and ttiither by the action of the tides, and re quires peculiar conditions in order to procure a good '"set;" the main feature being that it becomes properly attached to the ehelis, Without which the work of a whole season goes for nothing. What is loss to one, however, is often gain to antothier planter, thie spawn frequently float ing away to enrich neighboring grounds. in small lots owners frequently depend on the drifitngspawvn to seen down their beds, but tis p~enny-wise p~olicy is ntot a sale one, the only sure mletnod being the prop er distribuitton of seed over the ground. Tihe best ground is a hard or sticky bottoi wvhich prioduce better shaped shells and liner oysters, although the growth is slow er thtan on a muddy bottom, which pro duces a long, solter shell which is less marketable. In seeding newv ground about 2000 bushels of cullinigs are required to 15,000 bushels of shells, and 100 bushels of cleani oysters to 1,000 bushels of shells. Learning tihe Sky. It is a strange thing how litth in generail peoplie know about the sky. t 18 the part of creation in which nature as done mo~re for the sake of pleasing man. more for the sole andu evident putrpose otalking to hin and teaching him, thnn ii any other of her works, and it is just the >art In which we least attend to her. ~'here are not many of her othter works iii which seine more material or essential'putrpose than the mere g4e.ig~of man lastot ansiwered In every part of ilio~r orgaizatior ; bat every essential purpose of the sky might, as far as we know, to answered, If once In three days oi theoreabouts, a great, black, ugly rain cloud was broken up over the blue, and everyting wvell watered, and so left lueo again until the next -time, with per hiaps a tlun of morining and eveming mist, for dlow. Bunt, insteadl of this, there is not a moment of any (liy of our lives when nature (loes not produnce sceine after scene, pictiiie after pictuire, glory after glory, working still upon such exquisite andi con slant priniciples of the mtost pierfect beauty; that it is quite certain it Is all (10ne for us, intended for outr perp~etutal pleasuire by the Great, Being whio imado all, nil worlds. WedInmgs in Iorn~e. On the wedding day the bride and bride-groom are brought fiomn oppcste ends of the village to the spot where the core. muony Is to take place. Th'ley are made to sit on bars of Iron, that blessings ias lasting and1( health as vigorouts tnay atttendi the pair. A oigar aiid beetlelcaf, prepaulred with the ariea-nut, are unext put into thte handls of the bride andtu bride-groom. One of the priests then waves two fowls over the heads of the couple, aind In a long ad dIress to tihe Buoremie Being, Ealls diowin blessings up)on the p~air iandl implores that pence and1( happhiess attend time union. After the heads of the afianced have been knooked together, thtree or four times, the bridegroom puts the prep~ared sirn.leaf aind cigar into the mouth of tihe bride, while shte doees thme same to him, whom she thus acknowledges as her husbne, A Suocessful Woman Farner. bliss LinniE SoiIooNMAKER, whose career as a farmar, stock-raiser and school teacher has imade her notorious In Now York State, is a woman about thirty-eight years of ago, and affords a striking example of what a woman with a will of her o'vn can do to ward getting along in the word. Four teen years ago, at the death of her father, Johannes Schoonmaker, she inherited a large estate, consisting principally of farming property, heavily , encumbered with debt. It was the old homestead, and Miss Schoonmaker could not bear the idea of seeing It pass into the hands of strang ers, ail, determined that it should not. Althot Only twenty-four years old, and wi. n practical knowledge of life than .iary country lass, she as suied solecnargo of theestate, determined to clear it of debt. Having an old mother sixty-t wo years of age, a half sister, also helpless from old age, the two orphan children of a deceased brother, and a brother in the last stages of consumption to provide for, this made her task doubly hard. A little experience taught Miss Schoon maker that it was impossible to support her large family and keep up the interest aris ing from the heavy indebtedness of the es tate from the resources of the farm. She accordinginly began to devise some method of increasing her income, and decided upon school teaching. She was engaged to teach in her own neighborhood at the modest sum of eight dollars per month. In this, as in everything else, she showed remaika ble tact, and her salary in a short time was raised to forty dollars per month. Bhe has continued teaching ever since, over seeing and directing the work of her farm, night and morning, and during the sui nier vacations going into the harvest field with the farna hands to pitch on hay, rake, bind, etc. She hits carned froin teaching school over $3, 600, paid off the debt of the old homestead, and besides greatly imi proved the property. Besides teaching and raising corn and grain, shoe'has been an extensive stock raiser. As a farmer she has no superior in this section. Ilr wheat crop averaged this year forty-two bushel to the acre, tho largest yield in the county. In personal appearance Miss Schooniak er is tall, with a robust but comely form And a pleasing, intellige-t. Countenance. She is exceedingly kind-hearted and gen crous, and will spend her last cent f'or the bcnd-ait-of ineedy friend or acquaintance. A short time ago she learned that a brother in-law living in Pennsylvania was in des titute circumstances. bhe cent to him and ftu-id him helpless from an incura.Ile disease, with- a family depending upoa im. "Ben," she said, "what can I do for you T' "Nothiing, Libbie," was the reply. "You have your hands full already. We will have to go to the County-house, I suppose." "Never. Ben, as long as I live. Cone and enjoy the comforts of the old homestead with ine. I will keep you and your family as long as you live." Aliss Schoonmaker has had many sutorm for her hand, but, although naturally inclined to )n the ground that her husband might in ;hne object to being burdened with the upport of the old people and her helpless brother-in-law and his family, which might ause domestic troubles. Besides, she says ihc has enough to do now without having to support a husband, too, which she miight ilave to do if she were to marry. The MitIdinsug-stonse of England. As early as the age when Stonehenge was piled up, building-stone was selected [or special purposes, since the outer circle Af that prehistoi ii nonunent consists of the Saracen boulders of die neighboring plain; but the Inner pillars are of diabese, aind have been brought fromn some unknown distance. During the middle ages, Uaen stone w as frequently imported for building churches or other important architct~ural works. Before t he Norman Conquest, how ever, most, E'nglish buildings were of wood, so ti at ''to timber a ninuster," not to bmid a chut ch, is the good early English expres sion of the chronicle. In chalk distiets, at a later date, broken flints were often enuployedl, a'nd they give a mneani appear ace to the abbey ruins and chuehes at Reading, as well as to most of the older edifices at Brighton. Oxford, however, omi the Gohite, is, happily, of good native or implortedi stone. in nmodern timtes London, stnding in the midst of the brick earth, hats tallen a victin to the miseries of stucco, until the Queen Anne revivalists have en deavored to restore an I P tluJ"o ju~l shret[iggg qw:tJund~edi liy excel lent, buildig'stone, hasw beeni able to (10 justice to its magnificent nat~ural situation, and Aberdeen hias elad ineif in the stern but not unattractive gray anid blue granite. T1o the Caen atone, the Bath stonie, and the P'ortlaaid stone we owe halt our cathedrals andl abbeys, whose delicate tracer'y could niever have been wrought In Rowley rag or~ Whin bill basalt. Tihe architecture of granite or hard limestone regions is, ofteni massive andt imposing, but it always lacks thme beauty of detailed sculpture or intri cate handicraft. Thle nmarble lattice-work of the Taj or the "'prentice's piliar" of loslyn Chapel are only paossible in a soft and pliiable material. Is it P'ossio? Old Barty Whtlard was a wheelwright by trade, and, though an excellent work man, was remnarkabie for his habit of pro crastinating. lie would promise and then break his engagement over and over agaiin with as little scruple and as manny "'post tively lasts" as a theatrical star. 1Having pledged his word to a very urgent, ens tomner, for thme thiirdi time, he would have his cart dloic by a certain day, Barty again failed to keep hIs engagement, and on the arrival of the owner' tae cart was still n finished. *'Well," says the customer "you have got my cart done by thIs inne, of course?" "'Yes,' said Bar y, "i hiau donel the work andt sulpposed it was qumte ready for you, when 1 discovered that, I mnade a mils take-a very unaccouintablo mistake-that wvill put mne bag a fortnight." "'Alh, mdileed; ' said the customer, "wa~ the trouble?" "Why, you see," said( Barty, with gi'av ity, aiid an air of extreme vexa tion, "'you see I have nmade a~'mstake-l inever made such a blunder before mi mny life-i have commaitted the ridiculous mils take of maiking both wheels for the same side; they ale both off wheels." "Is It possiblel" said the customer, who was thorongbly nmystlled, atnd allowed Biarty another fort nught to fnishtm cart Folities and retCoats. Every French ruler who has run down the road to ruin-and they are not a few who have (lone so-have had a woman on one side and a priest on the other, both pushing hin and asking him what he was afraid of when he winced at the sight of steops bristling below with an ugly look. Read the history of luckless Louis XVI. The poor man saw dangers thicken around him, he tried to conjure them he pointed them out to his pretty wife, karle Antoi nette, and to her good friend, Mie. Do Lanibelle, but both these ladies were of opinion that Ptormelouds always blow over if you take no notice of them. They had never heard of forked lightnings and thun derbolts, but had a good deal to say about Ajax, who armed with a single buckler, dared the elements to "coni on." Ajax must have been a lady's man. o supremely and good an opinian of t himself as he evinced could only have been developed by a long course of feminine adulation, interspersed with occasional t nagglngs when lie ventured to doubt t whther lihe could withstand Jove's thun. (er all by himself. For these fascinating v creatures-Queeis, Empresses, or she Presidents-all nag until they make a man's soul weary; and if, as was the case with Marie Autonette, they can get members of the Ohnrch militant to help then, their courageous spirit knows no obstacles. I Marie Antoinette had redlegged Cardinals around her, who brought encouraging let ters fro n the Pope, and these being brought before the timid Kiug at brdakfast time, convinced him that he could only hope to have Providence on his side if he struck a combative attitude. We know how all this ended, and we know how it fared with e another French monarch in our own times for listening to an attractive lady now at Chiselhurst. Bapoleon 111, had his doubts. about fighting the Prussians, but the Em a press Eugenie had none. When Mirhbla Leboouf, the War Minister, caie totell the imperial pair very frankly, as his duty commanded, that lie did not. think the French Army was ieady, Napoleon ner vously twisted his mustache; but the va- si liant Empics flushed up and asked whether n forsooth, a Marshal of France was not 0: ashamed of hihnself for doubting the might cl of his own soldierbI the Marshal stalkled- r< out red in the face, and upoa- reaching the b ante-chamber asked for a peu and sheet of 8i paper and wrote out his resignation, but at ri his juncture the Emperor supervened with M soothing words, and pointed out that Irdies n must be huiored. Tho Marshal hesitated 01 but at last gave in, because it is the nature is of a Frenchiman to let ladieshave theirown r< way. So to humor "Nladaine" an armyof g Frenchmen marched over the border, and 'i soon had to march b'ck again faster than < they went. Are these lessons written in e letters of flame oi the walls of the Elysee? t( Not they. There is a' lady in that palace is at this moment who wants to see a certain a' modern Bayard enulate the feats of Ajax, a Louis XVI. and Napoleon 1I., because ci her smiles and the Pope's benediction (sent g repeatedly by telegram) will guarantee d Y"%fli'ieiave always been active politi. inns in France. They did strange things n duiing the League, arming mni's hands c with daggers and promising kisses i re- tl ward for 4msassinatlon. One caused the Due (IGuise to be tripped up and stab bed; another urged on a monk to dispatch Henry IV. Under the Froude, again, the fair sex had-matters all to themselves, and achieved the great feat of setting five fac tions by the ears without letting them know what they were fighting about. When the great Revolution broke out a d amsel called Theroigne de Mericourt made herself conspicuous in getting persons of backward opinions prodded with spears, and helped up the steps of the guillotine. 8h1e was a file tyto of the dark-eyed fury who scatters slaughter abiout just for the fun of the thing, and she was one of the earliest promoters of that band of trico tcuses wvho used( to sit in the public gaii. ierics at the Convention, and in the Courts ~ of Justice, eiiliventng business by theIr loud screams in favor of bellicose motions, proscriptions, death sentences, and what not. Tihe legislators of those (lays usedi toa say that they would vote otherwise than b they did if it were not for the women, and the same renmark might be uittered by ninny . a 8enm,tor and Deputy in these tines, when ladies play 'io small part, in iluencing the dhivisioni lists, Eingiisli Ivy. - . - W use of En~iglish ivies for the purpose of deccoratiing living roomsais more exteiislve every year, and can not, be too highly re Coninend~ed. Being yery strong, they will i live through any treatment; but study their I pecuiaiiritics andl manifest willingness to gratify themi, and they will growv without t stint. Most houses are too hot for them, as ind~eedi they are for their owners. Neither C pilants nor peole shduld have the temper- C atuire over sixty-five degrees Faureinheit< 'rake care not to enfeeble your ivies by ox-. cessive watering or undue heat, aiid you will see t~acy will not seem to mind whether .I the attn shines on tiiem or not, cir ini whatC position or dhiretion you traini them. In- I (dced, so muchl wIll they (do themselves to muake a room charmmiig, that we would 1 rather have an uin!imitqd inumber to (raw 1 upon than anythiing else in nature or art. I D)o you wish the ugly, plaini doors, that shut off your tiny (ntry to your parlor I to 1be arched or curved like those in C thme drauwing-roomns of your richer neigh bors? Buy a couple of brackets such as I lamps for the burning of kerosene are sometimes placedl on, andl screw them in the side of thme dhoor. Put in each a lhant of English ivy, the longer the better; then train the plants over the top, against thme sides, indeed, any way your fancy dictates. You need not buy thme beautiful but costly pots the flower (healer will advise; the common glazed ones will answer every purpose, for, by lnacing in each two or three sprays of (Clisetum ivy, in a mnonth's time no vestige of the p~ot itself can be dis cernedl through their thick screen. The English ivy, growing over the ,walls of a building, inisteadl of promioting dampness, as most persons would suppose, is said to be a remedy for it; and it Is mnentonedi as a fact that ini a room where dlamlp had pro vaiheat for a length of time, the affected I parts iluside had become dry when ivy had grown tip to cover the opposite exterIor sidhe. Th'le close, overhangimg pend~anit leaves prevent thme rain or moisture from penetrating the wall. Beauty and utility In thIs ease go hand In hand. The brand of a regiment. is a pla-toon of itself, The Cedars of Lebanon. The cedars of Lebanon, once the glory if the earth, have become like a history of he past.. Time was when their wide preading branches, each forming a green lateau one above the other,'flourished In 1I their luxuriance and beauty on the far amed mountain of Lebanon. That was he time when tke monarch of Tyre--a ity then the queen of nations-sent thous aids of his workmen to fell cedars for the onstruction of the temple -at Jerusalem. Phose who would view the cedars of Leb non now, must be somewhat affected by he fewness of their number, and their do ay and desolation. A little remnant is eft, and the traveler gazes upon them vith a feeling akin to sadness. All through he middle ages, a visit to the cedars of iebanon was regarded by many persons in he light of a pilgrihndge. S3ome of the roes were thought to have been planted by [Ing Bolomon himself, and were looked pona as sacred relics. Indeed, the visitors )ok away so many pieces of wood from lie bark, of which *to' make croases and ther articles, that it was feared the trees rould be destroyed. The once magnitleent rove is but a speck on the mountain side. lany persons have taken it In the distance )r a wood of fir-trees. But on approach ig nearer, and taking a closer view, the dars res.umo somewhat of their ancient iajesty. The space they -cover is not lore than half a mile; but once amidst in, the .ieautiful fan-like branches bver. - ead, the esquisite green of the younger -ec0, and the colossal size of the older trees, lis the mind with interest and admiration. 'ho trees are fast disappearing from the ice of the carth. Each succeeding trav [er finds them fewer in number than his redecessor. There are now but, seven f the cedars remaining, which from their ;e and. experience, indieate that they had i existence iBiblo days. The Grass Tree. Among the anomalies ot Australia-4s ugular growth of the foreathat deviates as uch from a tree as '.-kaligaroo from the rdimary typr)in3sf gifnhnals, . although it is Oic't a tree. The grass tree grows in >cky places unfavorable for other vegeta Le productions. Absolute barrenness is a >ot where the plant flourishes best, appa Intly, though elements nust abound there kiwh are appropriate 'nourlshment. A. ass of grass looking fibers'gradually rises it of the ground, From day to day there an inerease of bulk and height very much sembhsng tn elevated tuft of long grass racefuIlly falling off front a central shaft. hose pendant threads are leaves. 'Very ion front the top of the pile a slendet alk shoots uip perpendicularly from four ten feet, terminating in a spike. That sought by natives for spears, being hard id somewhat elastio.' Within the pith Is 1 article of food.' In the rude and savage midition of the indigenous Australians the ass tree furnishes a. weapon of extraor inary usefulness for meeting the circum elt of detence against enemies, or for itending with ferocious anlimals, is at keir coinmand. Give tlU itaguies. A well-known laly artist, resident in Omlie, relates that while standinr one day mr the statue of the Appollo Belvidere, W suddenly became aware of the presence a country -woman. 'l.th now-coner was well-to- do-looking Aluerican woman, and troduced herself as Mrs. taggles, of - , Lissouri, and then asked: "is this the Apollo Belvidor?" Miss H---testilied to the identity of the 'ork anid tihe touil1st, thea said: "Considered a great statue?'' Th'le interrogatedi lady replied that it, was - tmrally thought to be one of the master Leces of the worldl. ''Manly beauty, and all 'that sort of amngI,' said the lady from the land of the ~ :tting sun, U "Yes," responded the now amazed rtist. "It is said to be one of the noe- I lest representations of the human frame." "Well," exclai3ned Mrs, itaggles, clos ig her Badieker, and~ wIth armis aklnmbo, V~ tking a last and earnest look at the mar ho, '.*'ve seen the Apollo Beividere ain < ., ve seen llaiil., a r Kenting Gars by Electricity. Thie new devised plan bya French engineer or heating railway cars appears to give ratisfactory results so far'. it crisists simu bly in the use for the foot-warmers of ace.. ite of sodha, a substance which lias consid rable latent heat, arid, diissolvbinat a cor tin temperature, absorbs a large quantity f heat, which becomes sensible *during rystalization in cooling. All that ia re Luired is to fill the ordilnary cases with a ulilliet amount of the acetate, close hemn, arid place them In a Stove at aboutr 00 degrees. The cooling of a ease ua ' harged arid heated takes from twelve to ifteen hours. Two wnarumers are thiereafer tkea from tire copartinents, aud placed in stove, where the crystals of sodla acetate .10 re-dissolved, and they are then readiy ' A or fresh use. Th'ie advantages claimedl for his sysoein ares No necesssityofcru, . ng warmers every two or three hour ? f maintaining numerous employes to end to them, adso economy in cost of hoe'. ag, ete. TableoiAtqmagje See that those about you arnlI, oforo you commenc~e eating yogi'~ Do not eat, soup from the tipI ide of the spoon. On passing your plate to be rLepte etdm~the knife and fork. Wipe the imouth before drinkinggN R{emove thre teaspoon from tihe(' ore driniing ltea or coffee. Use the knife only in cuttIng the ~j io not, raise It to the muouthi. JEat slowly, as eating rapily - iealthy. If you find anything unpleasanti' ood avoid calling the attention of o It. Close thme lips when chewing you Keep your elb)OWS off the table, When asked to help your neig . lot shove, but hand the plate 14 hi. Db riot turn your licati and staire lie room. if any one at the table makes a arke the least possible notice of it.K i