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4%1 'TIWE YEDTO, INBOO . C TI-WEEKLY EDITION. W INNSBORO, S. C., JANUARY 4, 1881. VOL. IV.-NO. 159. IF THE WIND RIBE. An open sea, a gallant breeze, That driyos our little boat How fast each wave' about us floes; How fast the low olouds float I "We'll never see the morning skies, If the wind rise;" If the wind rise, We'll hear no noro, of earthly lies." The moon from time to time breaks out And a lers all the sea ; rhe billows tous the waves about, Tjo little boat oaps free. 9 We 11 uevei see our true lovo's eyes if the wind riso ;" If the wind rise, We'll waste no more our foolish sighs." he takes a dash of foam before, A dash 6f spray boind ; - Too wolilob waves about her roar, And gallop with the wind. We'll see no more the wocdland dyes. If the wind rise ;" If the wind rien. Wo'll bear the last of human cries." The sky seems bonding lower down, 'Aud swifter swoops the gale; Our o aft she shakes, from heel to crown, And dips her fragile sail. " We may forgive our onomies, If the wind riso ;" if the wiu'd rise, We'll sup this night in Paradise." Saved by Matches. A small foom, poorly furnished; a, pot of mignontette in the window; a girl at work at the table, sewing steadily. She would have been pretty if she had not been so poor. If she had been better fed, she would havd had a rosy check; if she had had freedom and less labor, she would have had dimples; if she had worn a dress of violet silk, instead of faded calico, it would have brought out the fairness of her skin and the golden hue of her hair. As it was, Alice Morne was pale, and pinched, and sad, with the sewing-girl's stoop of shoul diers, and the sewing-girl's heavy heart. .he iose suddenly and folded up her work-a child's garment, of line cambric, trimmed with dainty lace. She nade a package of it, donned her bonnet and shawl, and went out of her lodging-house. She threaded the commercial streets rapidly, and soon emerged onl the avenues of wealthy private residences. Here it was quieter. The dusk was gathering. Now and then a carriage rolled by. Oue or two stately houses were lighted foi re ceptions. Many more were somberly closed. Alice wont on, with her quiet, rapid step. She stopped at last before a house all in it blaze of light. Costly lace curtains con cealed the luxurious rooms within; the soft notes bf a piano caie softly upon the girl's ear. "The Tracys' give another pirty to niight," said Alice. Sie went into the area and rang thie bell. A servant, admitted her. She went in with her bundle. She caine out with a light step. The work had been approved, and she had been paid. A little dazzled with the scene she had just emerged from, she paused upon the pavement to count the money, "Give me a cent," said a little beggar boy starting somewhere out of the silent shadows. "What do you went it for?" asked Alice. "I'm hungry," answered the child. H1e was pale and pinched. "1Iere's a dime: I would give you more if' I could," she said.. The child took it eagerly. She p~assed on, with less than $2 to buy supper anid pay for a week's rent. She had more work. When it was fin ishied she canie the samne way in the dus1k. As she passed 'over the shkewaik g faint line of white attracted her attention. .There was a knob of biass, generally called ''bull's-eyes," in the paivemen~it. It is uisually inserted over a coal vault, and Is emoved to-adilt the coals. Th'lis one had not been adjusted with' ekactitudte, and at 1lie crevice appeaied a line of white. Alice stooped dowh and examined it. It was the edge of a folded paper. She drew it out wvith a -wild thought that it, might be0 some valuable check or dIraft. But it contained only a few \vords, wvritten hii p~eicil. "1 have watched for you constantly for a i cek. If you would save my life come I ack hero, and all night long place matches wrhero ,you found thuis paper. Y oushiall he rewarded with All you can ask. A PR18ssN.' Aliee closed the paper in her hand and slooked around bewildered. No one was to he seen. She looked down at the lump of dull glass, but it, was entirely opaque. Tihe bull's eye was iiot set, quite evenly in its place. :She totsched it with her' foot, hut could not move it. Aftdr waiting a inoment, gonfuised and In doubt, she'passed on, recolletfiig her errand. The area (door admitted her. The ser .vai,4 had a child in her arm, the daint~y 'lit,tle .thing for wvhbmi Alice mande gar "Mrs. Tracy said you was to come up to her chamber," said sho. "You know thie way." .ITheo lady whlom she met was not lovely; shie.was sallow and dark ; -very disagree ablie-lookng-chitching her cashmere gown iat tihe br-east, and turning lanpatiently to. w aid her little sewing-girl. "Why (did you n . :comie before? " she aked in a hoiiise voice, -with a slight Frenuch accent. '"The chiildl sho0dd have had that dlreiss to drive in to-day." "1 was sick yesterday ;1 could not Ifinish It," answered Alice, tiremulotis y. Madanie snatched theo package, tearbg it open, and~ letting the little embroidered mobe fall upon the bed. "'Well, here 1s youmr money," said she, oipening a velvet, purse. "Next time I will employ seie one wht will do0 as they promise." Allee turned away with a bursting heart -for the womian's words lileant starvation for her. She dared not raise her voice 1in replly ; she divined truly that the heart uin. der that rich robe wvas one of steo. As she passed down stairs,-sheo heard a low voice. It p-oceeCded from one of the rooms about, her, "Anid he ia twenty-one to-day 1" It said., "Yes; i Isl three vears since his mva terious disappearance," with a sucering laugh. The voices were stealthy. A door closed and shut them in. Alice passed down into the street. She walked fast, treading, unthinkingly, upon the bull's-eye, and went home. When site flung herself down to weep, she sid. denly felt the crumpled paper in her hand. What should site do? She lay thinking a lor.g tune. Site considered the strange ness of tile request, the possibility that it was not ineaut for her, the idea that it was a hoax, or written by some madman-for it was a man's hand writing. But the girl's heart was warn and true. The possibility that soe one was in trouible, and she might help them, was the thought that had tite most weight. Witt) no one to counsel or object, she obeyed it. SILe went to tile store and spent $1 of her precious money for matches. Site re ceived a large. package, containing thou sands of the little lucifers. The city clocks were striking nine as she reached the bull's-eye. The street was silent, the pavement de serted. As she bent down, some one tapped upon the bull's-eye. She slipped a sheet of matches into the crevice. It disap peared. She waited a few moments; the hand tapped for imore; she supplied them. As she waited again a pedestrian ap. .proached. She rose, and stepped back into the shadows until ie had passed; othei wise, she (lid not fear. The street was quiet, and she could see the stars twinkling in tbe clear sky. Hour after hour she supplied matches, at integvals of quarter hours. Occasional ly the rap came for a.2 earlier demand. But she could not see the hand. She only imagined it to be a man's. It was long past midnight. The city clocks were near triking two when her matches became exhausted. Sie had not been suffliciently supplied, she thought. Quite at a loss what she ought to (o she rose front her cramn)ed position, standing in doubt, wien a voice said. "Conie with mel" She started tn terror, for a man stood beside her; but the next words reassured her : "it is I whom you gave the mtatches to; do not be afraid, but take my arm and walk fast, I am not safe here," Alice could see only a tall form, and a pale face, the features of which she could not distinguish ; but the voice, though hur ried, was gently modulated, and the strang. er took her band with a grasp that was not unf leasaint. "You nust be tired; but this has been a good night's work for you, little girl," he said. "What did you want the matches for?" asked Alice, trembling. He had drawn her hand within his own, and she walked rapidly beside hint. ft was tle only way in which I could get tire," he answered. "The heat melteq the cement which inclosed the bull's eye in the wall of my prison, and I escaped through the cavity. It was larger than the one In the pavement. I have been a prisoner In my own house for three years." As they left the vicinity of the Tracy dwelling, he walked slower. "I was quite lieplesa," lie added. "I knew of no one to appeal to whom I could trust. But listening and waiting, as a man only listens and waits for freedom, I grew familiar with your step as it passed so often over the bull's eye and up the steps, and a week ago, when I heard your voice to that beggar-boy, I resolved to trust you. I knew your tread the instant that it toiched the curbstone, and I slipped the paper up the crevice. You saw it immedlately. The hour till you came passed heavily; you were my only hope. You are a brave, good child. Now, where is your home I Can I go there for a little rest before day light ?" "It is a poor place," said Alice, "but you are welcome." Daylightt was dawning whten shte revealed hter poverty-stricken little room to him. Hie flung himself into a chair and dropped his face oit his folded arms upon the table. Alice fancied that nto was praying, and moved about noiselessly, prepariing a little breakfast,. She did not realize that this imant was young a nd handsome, and it was not, perhaps, prop~rlety to have htim thtere. Site was only zealous, in hter pity, to serve himt, seeIng, by dayligt., how ill heo loked. JBmit 1)3y noon there were str-ange doings it thd little sewing-girl's roomt. She hatd bleen sett for a lawyer, the most, reniownedi antd popular one mn the city. antd hie came wvitht two othter gentlemen, so granid that lIttle Alico-was qdite awe-stricken. Finally, Mr-. Lionel Tiracy-that wats thte name of thte hero-wettt a way wit~h them, and site wats left alone with heri pover-ty and( her wonder. Only3 she was not quite so hellp less and~ distressed as she htad been, for o'ne of the gentlemten had smiled upon hter, and( left a few pieces of gold on her table'. But, the marvel was all over witht her, and1( thte gold was spent, and poverty and lab~or and~ eare had comte back, when, oine dlay, there was ma knock at the dloor, aind the lanidiady's lhttle girl said thtat a carriaee was standing for her, and a man in wait. lng said that site had betan sent for. W liat could site do butt obey thte sums. tuonsi wondering what fairy wotk it was -thtat htxutrious ridle--unttil she began to see thtrought it, for thte carriage stopped at thte Trracy rmnsin. There had been great public excitement -the papers had been chtarged witht the dlevelopmtlent of the infamous plot in high life, w~hereby the' true'hiejr of a great for tune had been drugged, while ill, and cont cealed, and a story trumtped up) about his myisterious dIistappearantce ; bitt Alice, it her solitude, had known ntothting abouit it. Hecr p~ennds wentt for bread instead of news. But wvhen site stepped upont the~ threshhold, Lionel Tlracy, time restored mnas ter, miet her- with a tender coutriesy that took awvay all her featr, and made her feel like a little queen in the midst of the splen dor. "Have the rest all gone away ?" site asked, seeling nto one but new evants. antd a l'leasant woman who was tile htousekeper. "Yes; I am quite alonte, and shall 1)e, unless y'ou will comie and( live with mte," said( Mr. Lionel Tracy. "D~o you want a sewing-girlI" asked Alice, innocently. ".No ; 1 want: a wife,' Ite answered ; "otre whtom I can love with all my heart, as I do you, Alice. Will you come ?" lPid shte? Well, yes. And the public had another episode to excite them-thme famous Lionel T1racy's marriage. Alice grew charming witht happiness, and sihe was chronicled as a beauty when she be came hti e bride, Pirates of the Olmneso coast. Of all the dangers that beset the mariner, whether it be from storm, fire, or the hid (ten reef, none have such teriors for vessels trading in the Pacific Ocean as the pirates that infest the Chinese coast. With ordi nary skill and diligence the former dan gers may be guarded against, and it Is oeldom'that some one does not survive to tell the tale; but an attack by these pirates is conducted with such cunning, treachery, and skill that, if it is successful, it leaves a mystery far harder to bear than a known misfortune for those who watch and wait for the ship that never returns to port. Every year adds to the list of stately ves. sels and gallant crews that leave port for ever, and are eventually placed among the "missing " H1ow many of these are cap tured and destroyed on the China coast can never be known; their assailants show no mercy, and the ocean "tells no tales." Tie quaint junks that leave the Chinese ports at nighit-fall are to all appearances the peaceful traders that they profess to be; but if an unprotected vessel comes in view the scene changes as if by magic; deck-loads of merchandise are thrown into the holds and cannon take their place; the crews are marvelously re-inforced by men who have hidden below, and the former lazy coasters glide swiftly along, propelled not only by their sails, but by long and powerful oars. The dooied vessel is quickly surrounded by the pirates, and a cannonade soon brings her masts and yards crashing to the deck. Its crew mity de fend themselves as well as they can; but they are outnumbered fifty to one. Nearer close the pirates, who throw rockets and "jingals" that leave an unquenchable fire and a stupefying smell wherever they fall. The defense grows more feeble, and now, running alongside, the pirates board and slay all of the crew that may survive. By the busy hands of the plunderers the cargo is soon removed, a hole is boared under the waterline of the captured vessel, and as tile pirates sail away the scuttled vessel slowly sinks from view, and after weary months of waiting its name is placed on the list of "Missing." Exporilments In Preserving Wood, Here is a summary of some valuable cx periments which have been mnaae with preserving wood with different mineral solutions. The tests were made with rail way sleepers. Of pine sleepers impregnat ed with chloride of zinc, after twenty-one years of service, the proportion that had been renewed was thirty-one per cent ; of beech sleepers impregnated with creosote, after twenty-two years, forty.six per cent. had been renewed; of oak sleepers not Im pregnated, after seventeen years, forty-nine per cent. had been renewed ; of oak sleep ers treated with chloride of zinc, at the ex piration of seventeen years, 20'7 per cent. had been renewed. In all of these cases, the conditions to which the wood had been exposed were veryfavorable-the road-bed being a very good one, and permitting of excellent drainage. Test samples taken from sleepers that were allowed to remain at the expiration of the respective periods named, exhibited a perfectly sound cross section. The following ttat ement contains the results of a similar set of observations n)ado upon the Kaiser-Ferdinands Nord Haiload, viz. : According to these obser vations, $he proportion of renewals was, with oak sleepers (not treated) after twelre years' service 74.48 per cent; with oak sleepers, treated with chloride of zinc, after seven years, 3.29 per cent; with oak sleepers, inpregnated with creosote oil, after sixty years, 0.09 per cent; with pine sleepers, hnipregnated with chloride of zinc, after seven years of service, 4.46 per cent. The practice of the Kaiser-Fordii nands-Nord Railroad, since the year 1870, has been to employ only oak for sleepers, which are impregnated eithler withi cloride of zinc or with creosote oil. Sita in Food. Experiments recently made wIth the inorganic constituents of food showv that, although the salesto a great extent retained and used over, a certain amount, of the same is excreted. Consequently, when salts are withhteld from thle food, the whtole body, but, especially those parts actively chjantgm Ii-like blood anmd muiiscle-become gradlually poorer in salts and richer in al bumnen ; but, thou~gh the total quantity in the body is lCeend, the mixture of salts Im tile tissues and1( juices is umnchanlged. Th'le diminution of' salts ini tile muscles causes muscular exhaustion-and, in thle nierves, first excitability, and then paralysis of the nerve centres. It also appears, from these expemhnents, that the quiantity of salts really accessary in food is less titan has uisually beeni supplosed. I'oiisbing the Crockiry. A drummn~ler, who htad never (dined( any where but at a table d'itote, is invited to dine withl one otf his most important cus tomners-who is no end of a swell. Thue soup~ being removed and a clean plate placed before our dIrummner, lie in stinctively brushles its surface clean with his napkin. The host nods severely to the servant, who remioves the plate and subatitutes an other oae, whlichl is similarly wiped off and removed, and so on. At the sixth renewal the drummer says coundentially tc his neighbor: "8ay, (lees t: 01(1 steim-winder expect me to polish all his crockery for him?" A tadpole confined in darkness woul never become a frog; and an Infant deprived of Ileaven's free light will only grow into a shapeless Idiot, instead of a reasonable beings There is mn all places a marked differenice in thme hlealthliness of houses ac cordling to their aspeet in regard to the sun, and those are dlecidedhly tile healthiest, other things being equal, in which till the rooms are, (during som~e part of the (lay fully exposed to direct light. Epidemics attack inhabitants On the shlady eile of the street, and totally exempt those on the other side ; and even in epidlemics such as ague the morbid influence is often tihus partial in Its labors. -It costs $40,000,000 to pick the cot ton crop "f the country, -iThe S1outth Carolitta state library contains,28,000 yolumecs. -There are 14,052 more females than males in South Carolina. -Germany annually constime3m 7,800. 000 tons of rye; the staple food of the workinK classes being rye bradr. A Hailway In the Rocky Mountains. For miles the extension of the Denvo and Rio Grande Railroad from Conejoi westward to the San Juan County curvei among the hills, keeping sight of the plaini and catching frequent glimpses of the vil lage. Its lnumerable wimiings along thi brows of the hills seemed, n mere wan tonness, as loth to abandon so beautiful i region. Almost imperceptibly the foot hills changed into mountains t.nd the val leys deepened into canons, and windink around the point of one of the mountaint it found itself overlooking the pictures(I valley oi canon of Los Pinos creek. East ward was the rounded summit of the greal mountain of San Antonio; over the near ct height could be seen the top of Sierr Blanca, canopied with perpetual clouds in front were castellated crags; art-lik( monuments, and stupendous precipices Having allured the railroad into theh awful fastnesses, the mountains seemed de termined to bafle its further progress. Bti it was a strong hearted railway, and, although a little giddy, 1,000 feet abov the stream, it cuts its way through thl crags and among the monuments and bear onward foi miles up the valley. A pro. jecting point, too high for a cut and tot abrupt for a curve, was overcome by a tun nel. 'The track layers are now busy at work laying down the steel rail at a point a few mles below this tunnel. The grade is nearly completed for many miles fur. ther. From the present cud of the track for the next four or flive miles along the grade, the scenery is unsurpassed by any railroad scenery in North Amerlea. En. gineers who have traversed every mile of mountain railroad. in the Union, assert that it is the finest they have seen. Perched on the dizzy mountain side, at an altitude of 9,500 feet above the sea-greater than that of Veta pass-1,000 feet above the valley, with battlemented crags rising 500 or 600 feet above, the beholder is enrap tured with the view. At one point the canon narrows into an awful gorge, appa rently but a few yards wide and nearly 1,000 feet in depth, between almost per. pendicular wails of granite. Here a higi point of granite has to be tunneled, and im this tunnel the rock men are at work drill mg and liasting to complete the passage, which is now open to pedestrians. The frequent explosions of the blasts echo and re-echo among the mountains until they die away in the distance. Looking dowi the valley fron the tunnel, the scene y one never to be forgotten. The lofts precipices, the distant heights, the fantas tic monuments, the contrast of the rugged crags and the graceful curves of tho silvery stream beneath them, the dark green pine interspersed with poplar groves, bright yellow in their autumnal foliage, that crown the neighboring summits-height, depth, distance, and color-combine t< constitute a lam'scape that is destined to be painted by thousands of artists, reproduced again and again by photograph ora, and to a(iorn the %valla of iuuunierabe parlors and galleries of art. Beyond tht tunnel for a mile or more the scene is evei more picturesque, though of less extent. The traveler looks down into the gorge and sees the stream plunging in a succession ol snow-white cascades through narrow euti between the perpendicular rocks. Sibrian Fura. The Russian sable Inhabits the forest clad mountains of Siberia, a desolate, cold, inhospitable region. The animal is hunted during the winter and generally by exiles. There are various methods of taking the sable. Great numbers are shot with sinall bord rifles; others are trapped in steel and fall traps, and many taken in netE placed over their places of retreat, int( which they are tracked on the snow. Whi can picture to himiself, without shiuddlering, the case of the condemned sable hunteri 'le leaves with heavy heart the last thinly scattered habiitations which bordier the pa1th loss wilds; a sky of clouds and dlarkness ii ab~ove, bleak mountains and gloomiy foresti before hin; the recesses of the forests, the( deflles of the mountains must be traversed for these are the haunts of the sable. The cold1 is below zero, but the fur wvill priove the flir. Fatigue and colet exhauist him,~ a snow storm overtakes him, the waymarka aire lost or forgotteni. Provision fails, and too of ten lie wi:o p~romisedl to his expectant andt anxious friends a speedy return is seen no niore. Such Is sable hunting in Siberia, and~ such the hapless fate of meniy an exile, w~ho perishes in the pursuit of what only) adds(1 to tihe luxuries and superfluities of th( great and wealthy. The itsher is very shniilar to the pine marten in nil its habita, hut much larger. Its value or trade price in British Coluimbia is from two dollars andl fifty cents to three dollars per skin. The fishier hi full winter fur makes a far handsomer umff than the sable. The fur of the mink is vastly inferior to either the fisher or marten, being harsh, short andi glossy. The habits of thle anl nm, too, are entirely different. The mink closely resembles the otter in its mode of life, frequenting streams Inland, and rooks, small islanids and sheltered bays on the seacoast, it swiims with, great case and swiftness, captures fiah, eats mollusks, crab~s aind any marine animal that falls in its way. Oii the inland rivers it dives for andI catches great numbers of crayfish, that abtound in almost every stream east and west of the Cascades. Along the river banks the little heaps of creyflsh shells di rect the Indian to the whereabouts of the mink, which is generally caught with am steel trap, baited with fish. The trade price is about fifty cents per skin. The ermine of Northwest America is not worth much. The fur never grows long or becomes white enough in winater. TIhe Indians u~se it for ornamental piiiposes, and often wear the skins as a charm, or medi.. cine, as they term it. Theli best ornmme comes from Siberia, Norway andI Russia. The raccooni is widlely dlistrib~uted throughout North and Northwest Ameriica. Crafty and artful, his life is entirely 0on< of brigandago. The fur is not very vahia ble, hbeing principally used in making car riago rugs andi lining inferior cloaks aml coats on the European contin( at. A boul 520,000 skins are sent annually from the Hludseon flay Company's territories. The' are generally shot. Th'le three species of foxes tradled b~y the Hudson Bay Company are the red, th. cross, and the siver. The silver fox skini are very valuable, a good skin fetchinj readily from forty to fifty dollars; the re< fox is only worth about a twentieth e that sum. Country flouses in Ireland. No one can go into society asrepresented i the country houses of Ireland, says a Lou don paper, without being struck by the sin I gular absence of veneer which he will tin there. We do not mean those country houses inhabited by people who spend then season regularly in London, and who difTe - in no way from the magnates with theli houses in Yorkshire or Sussex, but th< bonwfldc Irish country houses, whose ow ners look upon Dublin as their metropoli and great shopping town, and consider at occasional month in London as an event t( be classed with the ramble in Swit zcrland o the tour in Italy. The visitor to one of these houses will find no sham-there It "no deception." IIis arrival will cause n< f flurry ; he will not be kept waiting in the drawingroom while the lady of the housi and the girls put finishing touches to thell ,beauty. It is ten to one that before lie ha succeeded in evoking a sound from the bel - probably broken-one of the young Ia dies will herself open the door, and with welcome beaming from her honest .rist gray eyes. at once insist on his feeing himself at home. There will he no faisi pride, no attempts to hide defects, or t< make ipl by brag for poverty. Itatlher wil run be extracted from the very deficiencies and the stranger will at once see that ther< is no danger of putting his hosts to confu sion by deinanding what is not to be hat. If there is but one inan servant, tIe lios will not complain of the illness or tempo. rary absence of a nythicialfootman ; if tl one maa servant is tipsy (a not uncommor occurrence in the land of John Ja'iieson), the hostess will not be the least ashamed of being detected assisting the naid to lay thI cloth and arrange the dinner table. zite Heart a a Mviathine. The heart is probably the most ellicient piece of pllysiCal apparitus known. From a purely mechanical point of view it is something line eight times its elicient ats he best steani engine. It may be de scribed mechanically as little more than it doublLe force punip furnished v ith two re servoirs and two pipes of outflow; am the main problem of its action is hydrody nainical, The left ventricle fins a capac ity of about three ounces; it beats 76 times a uminute; and the work done in overcom Ing the reslstance of the circulating systenm is equivalent to lifting the charge of blood a little short of 10 feet (9.923 ft.) Th average weiaht of the heart is a little under tell ounces (9.23 oz.) The (ai;y work of the left ventricle is, i round number, ninety foot-tons; adding the work of tit( right ventricle, the work of the entire or gan is nearly one hundred and twenty-flv foot-tons. The hourly work of the heart is accordingly equivalent to lifting itself twenty thousand feet an hour. An active mountain clinber can average 1,000 feel of ascent an hour, or one-twentieth tih. work of the heart. The prize All) engine, "Bavaria," lifted its own weight 2,700 feel an hour, thus demonstrating only one eighth the cifleicncy of the heart. Four elements have to be considered in estimat ing the heart's work : the statical pressure of the blood column equal to the animal's height, which has to be sustained; the force consumed in overc-ning the inertia of the blood vessels; the resistance offerec by the.capillary vessels; the friction in the h-art itself. This, in a state of health, is kept at its nininium by the lubricatet membrane of the pericardium. The jokes that have been cracked at th< farnier's expense on the employment of workmen rainy days, are not so very stale, and are only objectionable on the ground that it is mean to joke on facts. The wish of the old lady that it might rain nights and Sundays, so that the hired mieu could rest, w .as a merciful (desire. We rememb in our farm days of working for a maii who, if going awvay for a few days, left, or ders with the foreman that if it rained to<: hard to wvork in the fiel, to set the boyt Icutting butshies. We have seldonm known a farmer who hiiredi men by the month that did not hatve some filthy bmarni cellar tc clean out, or tough, knotty wood to be brok en to pieces, against a rainy day. Now, it nothing (ioes the farmier make a miore los lng misatake than in this way of treating hiiredl imen on rainy (days. There are cer tain chores that are necessarily delayed for such an occasion, such as getting the scaf folding ready for the hay, repairing the farini tools in the workshop-every farmer ought to have a workshop-setting out ilants, etc. Biut these may be so divided as to be only the chores of a rainy (day, for thie tired min should have the larger part of the dayt) to rest. It will pay ini a seasoti's work, as they will work with a will when things drive; they wvill be0 better natured, and have a espect for the man who thus treats them, which Is no little thinug. Then there are what tare termedi (du11 dayLs, whlen time farmer does not waint to cut grass or lioe, andl on such (lays there is enough for the lured men to dlo, and they should be put t >work. At tis time 01 tue year one of the most i uiportanit works for a duill (lay is hauling muck inito the b~arniyardl. On al most every farm may be found a muck bed, but it is oftetn unknowti to the farmer. lie should find it out and dIra'- upon0 it lavish. ly, as cloudy day work when oxen and mien can work easily. flaiullng muck iuto the yard for a day, now and then, is worth more than the best (lay's haying. Break up time knotty woodl in the early spring, clear out the barn cellar on a clear, cool day; bitt on rainy daysremiember the hired men are humiati. Vrenmaion of the4 Deatd. Exactly how to dlsp~ose of the ashes of time (lead in the maost satisfacfory mnanner, after cremiation Is accomplished, is still a question. Thie ancient practice was to dhe posit the ashes in a funeral urn, to be pre. served in a tombil or other sacred place. This is also thme modern custom. But if tombs are to be required then there is not much needI for cremation, as the corpse miay as weli be buried in the tomb without cre mation. A, recenlt American patent con sists int providing a purlor bust of the (d0 ceased, cut in marble, atid in making a Ihole In the back of the bust, wherein the ashes are to b~e deposited after cremation) o1 the body. A further imp~rovement, sug. gested by one of our lady correspondents, im to prepare a wet mixture of cements foi the artlicial stone or marble, andi sprinkh tihe ashes of the deceased into the mixture, which Is then to be east or prcssed into tie g formr of b~usts, statuettes or other objec~ts I In this way various miemliers of a faml) t might possess endur-ig portIons of tih< departed nno. Rocky Monutain Mack, Not long ago a crowd of men at the of flee of Judge Morrison, Kokomo, saw the cold, dead form of a man, roughly habitued in a suit of miner's clothes, with feet shod with the rudest boots, lying npon a rough pine bench, at the morgue. Crossed upon his breast were the tired hands that had driven the miner's pick through miles of the hardest rock, now stilled so reverently in the sunset that o'ershadows life. It was all that was left of Rocky Mountain Mack, the man who had crossed oceans and seas, whose career of half a century was check cred and dotted with a strange comming ling of iicidents, and across whose span the thrills and throbs, the hopes and fears of staid existence had worked their silent ebb and flow. McCormick was a miner in Ten lile, during the Rrim winter of 78-9, before a tree had been felled on the present site of Kokomo, and hero he has remained ever since, except some weeks ago, when he went to Granite and became also inter ested in some good claims. Starting from there a few days ago he had only Just left the stage when he dropped dead opposite t'he Clarendon hotel. The Coroner a jury rendered a verdict that the deceased came to his death from heart disease. Mr. Beemer, the well known business man of Robinson, in commenting on the death of this typical iner, said that he had known him years ago in the Ban Juan country, and was at one time in partnership with Im; that he was gentle as a woman, gen erous and charitable to a fault. lie nar rates that once when Rocky Mountain Mack and a companion were intoxicated they both became cunraged, and the former suddenly drew a pistol and inflicted a dan gerous wound. On becoming sober and being infornied what lie had done, he was in the nost abject sorrow, and reloading tlia pistol returned to the wounded man, saying as lie handed over the weapon, "Jim, I shot you, now you shoot me." Of course the wounded man recognizedl in him only the warmest friend, and peremptorily forbade him. McCormick was for many years a successful miner in Colorado and California. lie has at several different tines been worth halt a million to a million dollars and upwards, but the final reverse came, and he died in poverty. le ha been a frequeot visitor to mining flelds of South America ani the shores of New Zealand. lie had been a searcher for dia. monde it Australia, but came again to the rocky hills whose name he bore and wher his associates always rendered a warm greeting. His body hes interred in the Pot ter's field, but many there be who will re momber with kindly thought the wild and lonely career of Rocky Mountain Mack. A haurrowing Tall. Not long since a Texas man read in paper that if a string were tied lightly around the root of a miule's tail it would, in cases of colic, give the aninal instan relief. lie tried the remedy on one of his own muies, and the doctors say that the portion of the tail thus isolated was soon swelled up bigger than the mule. The Texas mani says the mule turned its hea and saw his monstrous tilland got alarino aid began to kick. T i drat kick drov the mule's tail away c u .chind, but th tail Immediately swun p a 4kand knocke the mule forward a litt~e-the tail was so heavy. 'i'lat made the mnoe inadder'z ever, and it kicked like fury. That only gave the tail more momentumn, and on Its return it knocked the mule about a rod. The mule looked around and didn't se anybody and kicked again. The tail was there as regular as a pendulun and it came back like a steamboat running a race. That time it lifted the mule over the barn-yard fence. lut the mule lit on its feet and struck out again-game as ever. The tail fairly laughed as it caught the mule on the haunches and dirove it down the lane a mile and a half at every whack, it looked like destruction to the mule as mule and~ tail disappeamred in time disatanee. B~ut after three or four hours, a returning cloud of dust was seen, and soon the mule emerged therefrom kicking as briskly as ever-but the tail was totally used up and gone. Not being able to offer aiiy more resistance, of course the mule kic.Ced him self back to the starting po'int. Thlis is not a campaign lie. A Chaiipter ou Bald Ihcem. A bald-headed man is refined, and he al ways shows lis skull-sure. It has never been decidled what causes bald heads, but mosat people thInk it is dan'd roug h. A goodl novel for bald heads to read "The Lost Heir." What does a bald-headled man say to his comb? We meet to part no more, Motto for am bald head-fBare andl fur bare. Hlowever highi a position a bald-headed mani holds1, lie will never comb-downl in the world. The bald-headed man never dyes. Advice to bald-heates-Join the in dians, who are the only successful hair raisers. What does every bald-headed man put upon his bend? l-[is hat. You never saw a bald-headed man with a low forehead. Shakespeare says: There is a divinity that shapes our endls. Bald men are the coolest-headed men in the world. S~omne bald men have heirs. Out, of nis Olutchos. There are two sisters hn Louisville, Kcy., famuous for their wit, and there is also in that favored town a gent loman, Col. "hhlaik," who for nearly two generations huas had the reputation of having courted every heiress in tihe neighborhood. One of thme sisters referred to said to the other several weeks ago: "if a million dollars were left to you, what is the first thming you wouldl dot" "I should fall upon my knees and pray tihe Lord to keep me out of Col. "Blank's" clutches." TIhiis was repeated to the Colonel, who waited for revenge. The other (day the witty young woman, leaniing on the rail lng of the piazza at Crab Orchard, saw the Colonel in the yard below. "Well, dear me , Colonel," she said,. "I meet you every where I go. Can't I go anywhere without seeing you?" "Yes, there is one place," calhnly re plied thme Colonel. "Where is it ? Let me go." "Welt, gro home." FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Love, thieves and fear make ghosts. There Is no true manhood without independence. Jove, knavery and necessity make men good orators. No one Ia ever fatigued after the ex ercisE of forbearance. Love without return is like a ques tion without an answer. Leisure is a beautiful garment but It will not do for constant wear. A woman's advice Is no great thing; but he's a fool that doesn't. take it. There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not re sisted. The highest reach of human. science is the scientific recognition of human ignorance. The man who can thank himself alone for the happiness he enjoys, Is I truly blest, Men seldom improve when they have no other models than themselves to copy after. Pretentious to youth always give to a woman a few more years than she really has. Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows. Love others well, but love thyself the most; give good for gvod, but not to thine own cost. Never does a man portray his own character so vividly as In his manner of portraying another's. Human nature Is so constituted that All see and Judge better in the affairs of others than In their own. Love one that does not love you, an swer one that does not call you, and you will run a fruitless race. indolence grows on us with sufferance It begins by tying us with silken threads, anti ends by fettering us with cart-ropes. . Reason Is the glory of human nature and one of the chief eminsuces where by we are raised above the beasts of this lower world. By holding a very little misery quite c10se to our eyes,we entirely lose sight of a great deal of comfort beyond which might be taken. You can't make your child love you by scolding and freezing all the time any more than you can hatch 4 bird by flinging your hat at it. - Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart, nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. From the remembrance of our faults we draw the most efiloacious counsels, and find the secret of that language which may make them understood by others. To spend too much time in studies i a sloth; to use them too much for orna ment is affectation ; to inake judgement wholly by their rules Is the humor of a scholar. Fontenelle daintily compliments the sex when he compares woman to clocks -"the latter serve to point one the hours, and the formeur to Lnake us for get them." A mediocrity of fortune,with gentle ness of mind, will preserve us froa Leur ani envy, which 18 a desirable condition, for no man wants power to do mischief. It is an error of the unlearned t suppose that the knowledge of boots Is of no account, and an error of scholars to think the-re Is no other knowledge WorthI haying. Cicero bestowed the higiest praiso :l the character lie aduureu when he saili that Cato embraced philosophy not ior the sake of disputing like a palhlo.. sopher', but of' ivying like one. if exaltation of the mind can only be produced by what is extraordinary, it is natural that it should be sligh~t in common situations, and~ pass entirely away by continued experience. Men's thoughts are mtuch according to tnelr Ineilnationx; their discourse antd speeches accordling to their learn. ang and infused opinions; but Sneir dieeds are after as tney have been ac :ustomed. T'o be always Intending to live a new life but never to iud time to set about al-this ia as If a nian should put clg' eating drinikIng and sleeplug irom one day und nuight to another, till he ia sturved anu1 destroyed. Thle aim of education should be rath er to teach us how to think titan what .o think-rather to Improve our minds so as to enable us to thuzi for ourselves, aa to load the memory wIth thus .houghts of othter menit. Are ye not to bear' one another. bur dens ? Are ye not to hid., each other's liate anid disgrace it the spirit of loye and kindnes y Nt only must you thin k evil, but alwabys kindness, nor' ilpeak evil, but al ways Kind words. Seneca said :--"Alexand ir had two Iriends, iLus anti Lyslmachus; the 01ne he exposed to a lion, thae other to ulisoli; he who was turned louse to the beast escaped, but UAItus was iaur Liered, for lie was turned .loose to anI .tngry man.'' You cannot make yourself better by Siply resolvIng to ce better at songe IAti or otner any more than a farmer cSan plow his field by simply turning It over in hIls mind. A good resolutin a is a tIne startIng point, bitt as a termi .ius it has iio vatue, Things that will wear are ntot to be natd cheap. Whether it be a fabric or a princile, If iL Is to onduro it must .coat soutetning. lIter, tinsel, brilli .ant coliring, may all co had wIthout : much expense; out, if we would have strengtuh firmness and permanence, we .uust pay for them. You umust hot splutter or be "fussy" aver your work. TheIi fussy fellow can waste tinme in his haste as well as the daiwdier in his slow tr~fing. kiave a guick eye and ready hand and a ,path. u heait , always. If y ou have an flour in which to do a hall'flour's Cask,1 t * sell tune for recreation. It is not the indolent or tV tlig worked, man that has the ocesar amount of Jeisure for the attal nigeaa :,Ome desirable local or generali o.jit -t is rather the, busy mant wIh y n careful ihusbaiquing of raotig fie whlich other less thaougbU? would waste can and does comparaoiy great and vaiulu ~~