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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. - WINNSBORO, . C., JANUARY 22, 1881. VOL P.-NO. 167. A QUAKER GRAVEYARD. Four straglht brlok walls severely plain, A quiet city square surround; A level space of naneles grave*, The Quakers' burial ground. In gown of gray or coat of drab They trod the common ways of life, With passions hold In stornest leash, And hearts that know not strito. To you i meethig-house they fared, With thoughts as sobor as thoir spooh, To vololois prayer, to songless praiso, To hear the elders proach. Through julet length of days they came, With ocarco a change to this roposo; Of all life's loveliness they took The thorn without the rose. But in the porch and o'er the graves Glad rings the southward robin's glee; And sparrows fill tho autumn air With worry mutiny; \ihilo on the grave of drab and gray The red and gold of autumn lie, And wilful Nature deoks the sod in gentlest mookery. Bianca Correni. "Go away instantly, I say I Leave the place at once I We don't allow tramps around here o The speaker was a kindly, good-natured farmer's wife. Sie stood before the door of her little white cottage, nestled among the New Hampshire bis, and with a ges ture of Impatience ordered the old organ grinder and the little tambourine girl to leave her door. They turned to obey, when little [Harry Thorne spoke up: "Oh. mother, see the little girll How thin and hungry she looks! And, mother, she looks like Lillie." Mrs. Thorne turned quickly. How strange that she had not noticed it before. The little girl did surely look like 1her dead daughter. With tears in her eyes she drew U- - ihe ltle girl toward her. "What Is your name, my child?" she asked. "Blanca Corroni, madam." "Is she your child?" Mrs. Thorne next inquired of the organ-grinder, who was evidently in the last stages of consumption. "No," he said feebly. She is jusb a no body, without kith or kin, that I found in New York, and took her along for cou venleuce." The old man had halrdly finished this sentence when lie fell to the ground. Farmer Thorne arrived on the scene, lifted hinT up, but it was found that life was extinct. Wild was Bianca's grief on being told that Guido was dead. lie had been her only friend and protector from earliest re. membrance. The old man was buried by the town authorities, and then the question arose as to what was to be (one with the child. "She must be sent to the poorhouse,1' they said. "Must she go to the poorhouse, mother?" asked flarey. "I am afraid so, my boy." "Oh, mother, don't send her there! Keep her i Lillie's place I" Good Mis. Thorne turned to the little girl, whose large, beautiful eyes pleaded so eloquently for love and protection. She tlhought of her own little child in the cold an'] silent tomb, and the thought flashed across her ind that Providence had sent this one in her place. Harry seemed to read her thoughts. "Perhans God sent her, mother," he said. "The poor little girl hasn't any fa ther nor mother, and you havea't any little girl. Keep her, and let her be my little sister." Farmer Thiorne~entercd at this moment and Harry turnedl to him. 'rho farmer's large heart had already gone out to the lit tle stranger, and lhe decided at once to adopt her; and thus "in LIie'~s place" she was installed in the Thorne family. Years passed quietly a vay, and Blianca grew into a winsomae'miaden. Admirers she had many, but none were more devoted than her adopted brotJher. One winter a fair was given in the vil lage, and Bianca had in charge the flower table. A regular customer each night was a talldark gentleman, about 40 years old, who watched her every motion with an in tense gaze. The village folk were puzzled at this stranger. No one knew his name nor anything ooncerning him. Every night found him at the fair. At times ho would start impulsively toward Blianca's table, hesitate, then purchase a bouquet and leave the hail. Th'e village girls jested with BI anca about her unknown, and the young mien viewed him with jealous eyes. 'Tho last night of the fair was to be tile gala night, and a play was to be performed. Now it happened that the leading character of thme play was an Italian dancing girl, and the part was given to Blanca. The dark stranger was there as usual. lHe watchied the play with undisguised disgust until ilanca entered with her tambourdne -in heur hand. He started forwardI in great surprise. ihie sang a wild, plaintive mel ody, and began a fantastic dahoe. At this the stranger leaped to his feet with -a low cry. All eyes wore immediately turned in that direction, and lie fell back in his scat as white as marble, Eiarly the ncxt morning the Thornes were surprised by a visit from the stranger. ills words were abrupt and to the point. "Pardon my intrusion, sir and madam. I am an Italian composer, traveling for my hecalth1. At the fair last night I saw your daughter porfornm a wondlerful song and dance ; will you toll mo whore uiho learned T1ho farmer st ared at his wife, but neither spoke for a muoment. "Well, really,* sir," lie at length replied, "I can hardliy tell you that. Blanca danced that way and sang thait song wvhen ahe first camne to, us, which is nigh onto nine years ago." "Then shio is nlot your child ?" cried the sitranger in great oeitemenit. "Oh, nol I he is an adopted child, al though we love her as if she had been borni to us." "For Heaven's sake, tell mte all you know concerning her." Thus entreated, time farmer related the story. Whien lie had finished, the man grasped his handl, while the tears streamed clown his chec. "Mr. Thorne," lie sakti, "the girl Is my daughter. I can prove it," he said, notic ing the look of incredulity on the faces of i hoaroe. "Fifteen years ago, my hittle daughter, then a child of three years, was stolen from me. The song which she sang last night was a composition of my own, and I taught her the accompanying dance, When I arrived in this village, a few days ago, I was struck with the resemblance of thi girl to my wife, who has been dead many years. When I saw her perform ance I was satisfied that she was my child, as no one else in this world knows that song but myself. The name, too, is the same, Blanca Corren. Thank God, my daughter is found at last!" Groat was the excitement in .the village when it was known that Farmer Thorne's adopted daughter had found her father, and that he was a gentleman of wealth and distinction. It w'as a severe blow to the Thornes, however, for they had really learned to love this girl as if she were their oWn. Harry suffered the most; he know that in losing IManca lie had lost all he had to live for. The day of parting came. Signor Cor reni and his daughter were to sail for sunny Italy, and perhaps never to return. Harry stood with his mother and father on the piazza, taking leave of the travellers. The poor boy's eyes were filled with tears as Bianca took his hand to bid him farewell. "Don't look so sotomy, Harry dear!" she sobbed. "I shall surely come back some time-indeed I will-so don't weep, dear brother." The manly follow brushed away his tears and tried to smile. Then slipping a slender ring on her finger, lie said: "Keep it, dear, until you find another that loves you more than I do; then throw it away." A few more words lie said which brought the deep blushes to her cheeks; then the stage driver sounded his horn; Mrs. Thorne clasped her in her arms fo r a last farewell. her father lifted her into tho vehicle, and it rolled away. The farmer's family watched It out of sight, and when they re turned tc the house it seemed as though the last ray of sunlight had departed. Four years passed, and brought con tinued misfortune to -the Thornes. First their house was burned to the ground, the farmer lost his health, and finally died. It was found, on settling up his estate, that scarcely anything was left for the widow; and they finally went to New York, where they took apartments in a tenement house, and Harry found a clerkship in a dry goods house on a small salary. . For a while letters came regularly from Blanca; they spoke in glowing terms of her beautiful home, and of her father's great love for her. "And yet I am not happy, dear mother," she wrote. "I miss you all so muchl Papa gave me a magnill cent diamond necklace yesterday, but I would willingly give it for one day at the dear old farm again." After a time the letters came less fre quently, till now it was nearly a year since they had heard from her. It was Christmas eve, and Harry was hurrying home to spend the long evening with his beloved mother, when lie was overtaken by-1iis friena, Frea Crosby. "Just the fellow I want to see!" said the latter. "I have a couple of tickets to the opera to-night; you must come with me." "No, Fred, I cannot. I promised my dear old mother I'd be home early to-night," replied Harry, firmnily. "My dear boy, you must come with me I It may be your only chance to hear the new prima donna. They say she's divine. Everybody is raving about her. Surely you would not miss a chance to see Blanca Correnil" "Bianca Correni I" cried Harry in amazement. "Yes, the new prina donna, you know. Aud here we are, now. Come on, you shall see hern" Without a word more Harry suffered himself to be led into the opera house. As one in a dream he took his seat. Blanca Correni a prima donna ! What could it mean I He had not long to wait. The curtain arose, and revealed to his startled gaze lii anca.-his lanca-on the stage, and fairly ablaze with jewels. The house shook with the thunder of applause which greeted her. Harry devoured her features. Yes, it was lis own adopted sister, the little tatmbou rine-giri, now the idol of the public. "And thie poor farmer's son forgtefrvr" he thought, bitterly. gtefrvrI But lis heart gave a great throb as lie noticed on one slender finger a plain circlet of goldl; it was the ring he had given her when they parted; he knew it at once. "She wears it, although she has forgotten me, " he thought. "Magnificent creature, elh ?" said his friend, noticing his admiiration. "Not at all like the rest of themi-all paint and powder on the stage, and frightful to be hold wvhen you approach near enough to see through the disguise." At that moment Harry fancied lie caught the simger's eye. For a moment lie saw her start and gasp convulsively, but only for a moment; then she went right on with her dlelighitful music. He was right ; she bad seen and recog nized him. Just before tihe curtain fell on the last act Harry felt a lhght touch on his shoul der. Turning quickly, lie eaw a boy, who passed him a cardl, on which was written in a delicate hand, which he recognized at once, "Will Mr. Thornie please follow this lit tle boy for the sake of an interview with Blanca?" Fred. Crosby must have thought his friend Insane, for lie sejzed his hat, and started after the boy without a word of ex Dlanation andl excuse. Arrivimg behtiind the scenes, he was ush ered into a pretty roomi and found himself face to face with Blianca. "Harry, my dear brother I" she criedi, rushing towardl him joyousl~y "Have you forgotten your little sisteri "Forg~otten you, Blianca i I think it Is you have forgotten mie. It is a year since we have reci ved a line from you," rephied H arry, reproachfully. "A year! Why, Harry, I wrote by every mail until we left Europe, and since arriv ing in Amernica papa has visited the 01ld All Isge home, btit lie could learn nothing of you. Oh, Harry, why did you hide your self fromi me ? But do tell me of my (dar ling miother; Is she well? Does she ever think of me?" she rattled on, not waiting for a reply. "Will she be glad to see me? Bay, Harry, wouldl she like me for a Christmas guest?" '-Poor Harry's face flushed. How could h'e tell this beautiful creature that they lived in three rooms In a tenement house? "We occupy small and humble quarters now, Blanca-madenoiselle," he stam mered. "If you could put up with us, -that is-she-" Bianca's merry voice interrupted th confused speech. "I'm well used to a humble life, Harry I have not forgotten the life your goo parents rescued me from. I am Blanc Thorne and a tambourine-girl still. dee I and she caught up a tambourine-girl whic .belonged to a ballet girl and beginning on of her wild dances which Harry admire when she was a child, danced into th arms of her father, who was just enterin the room, "Oh, papal" she cried, "I hav found Harry, and we are going to his hcus to spend Christmas, and it will be just sue a dear old Christmas, as we used to have a the farm I" She had her way, and the great prim donua spent her Christmas in the humbl tenement house, and assisted her hostess i her domestic duties. The two weeks that Bianca remained i1 the city she was a constant visitor at thi Thornes' house, and the day before she wa to leave for Europe again, she placed I Mrs. Thorne's hands a deed of their lo farm. She would hear no objection ne receive any thanks. "It is only a slight recompense for you great kindness, mother dear," she said. " shudder now, when I think what migh have happened me had it not been for you You will be glad to have the dear old hom agin, and when Harry marries it will be pretty place for his wife," she murmured in a scarcely audible voice. "My child. Harry will never marry now, was the reply. "Never marry, mother I Why not?" "Because he loves a lady so far abov him in life that he has not the courage t ask her hand in marriage." Bianca made no reply, though she knev by the dear mother'n tell-tale face who th the lady was. That night Harry attended their gues back to her hotel. "Why don't you get married, Harry? she asked him bluntly. The poor fclow flushed and theh paled "Your mother told me you loved a lad above you in the social scale," she contin ued, not noticing his embarrassment "Why don't you tell her of your love 'Nothing venture, 'iothihg have,' you know." Still no reply. "Harry," she whispered, slipping he hand in his, "I wear yotrr ring still. Dc you remember what you said when yoi put it on my finger 1 0 you stupid boy Can't you see that I love you?" And she turned to hide her face. But he caught her in his arnis, and th< sweet blushing face found a hiding-plac on his broad shoulder. "Blanca, my darling, precious one, is i true? Can you love me? Oh, say thosc sweet words once morel" She was sobbing now. "It is true. Oh, Harry, I know it wa bold and unmaldenly, but I couldn't thinl of losing you forever." ".Heaven bless you, my darling little wife I" he murmured, pressing her ye closer to his heart, and kissing her pas sionately. And here let us leave them in the full ness of their love. Insuicient Air. No matter how pertect are all other hy gienic conditions, good health cannot b maintained if the air supply is insufficient rhe purest air will become vitiated, result ing in disease, especially in consumption nl'ess there Is a constant means of supply When the mortaliy from all causes amonj the metropolitan police of London wa anly 00 In 1,000 that of the Foot Guard was 141 , from consumption alone. Thi barracks furnished the latter only one fourth as much air per man as Is allowe in prison cells. The armies of Europe generally are from simdlar causes, characterized by large mortality. During the Crimean war the rate In the English army was 23.2 pe: ::ent. of the total strength; that of thn F~rench 30; while in our civil war, witl its open-.air life, it was less than six. Camip rever may be almost banished by cleanil aess and fresh air. In 1760 Dr. Brockles by, having built a large shed as a hospital fo wounded soldieis, and the mortality prov ing wonderfully slight, though the treat utent was otherwise the same as elsewhere maid, "I candidly ascribe their formunati escape more to the benefit of a pure,keen al which they breathed therein every moment thian to nil the medicine they took." Thus, over a century ago, lhe stumbled on a lawi of hygiene now universally accepted by ex ports. No expense was spared in the erectio of a new house for monkeys in the Lon :Ion Zoological Garden, to make it as mucd is possible like an English gentleman' Irawing-room. These animals had beem wintered in England several years, ani were healthy on entering their new house But in one month fifty of the sixty weri dead, and the rest were dying, of con mumption. Tie whole trouble was tha thie room was not properly ventilated. Be fore 1886 the loss of horses in iFrance b2 :leath was from 180 to 197 per 1,000. En arged stables reduced the loss to sixty nght-nearly two-thirds. In England thi loss Is reduced to twenty; in Germany t4 afteen Let it not be forgotten that, wher ;he lack is not such as to produce fatal me. mIts, it may variously impair the health. A Lost Note. Ia 1740, a director of the Bank of Eng Land lost a ?30,000 bank note, which h was persuaded had falleza from the chim neypiece of his room into the fire. Th bank directors gave the loser a second bill upon his agreement to restore the fIrst bil shouki it ever be found, or pay the mone: if presented by any stranger. "Abou thirty years afterward," says Mr. Francis "the director having beeii long dead, an< bis heirs in possession of his forttune, an un known person, presented time lost bill a the bank, and demanded payment. It wai in vain that they mentioned to this persor the transaction by which that bill wa annulled; he woulid not listen to it; hi maintained that It had come to himi frot abroad, and Insisted upon immediate pay meat. Tme note was payable to bearer and the ?30,000 were paid hIm. The heir of the dhicctor would not listen to any de nmands of restitution; and the bank wa obliged to sustaIn the loss. It was discov ered afterward that an architect havin; purchmasedl the director's house, had take it down, in order to build another upo the same spot, had found the note in th, crevice of the chuney,and made his dia covery an engine for robbing the bank," - A Mtrange apan faeo. The Alnos, or ab( igines of the Island 0 of Yezo, Japan, are us described by Miss Bird, After the ye ow skins, the stiff horse hair, the feebi eyelids, he elongated eyes, the sloping eye rows, the flat noses, , the sunken checks, t e Mougohan features, the puny physique, e shaky walk of the men, the restricted t ter of the women, and the general imp ssion of degeneracy 1 conveyed by the app rance of the Japan e ese, the Alnos make very singular im. 9 pression. All but t> or three that I have 0 seen are the most fe cious-looking of say 0 ages, with a physiqu vigorous enough for 4 carrying out the iio ferocious intentions, I but as soon as they s eak the countenance brightens Into a smil as gentle as that of a a woman, something hich can never be 0 forgotten. * The me are about the middle 3 height, broad-chest(], broad-shouldered, 'thick-set,' very stro aly built, the arms I and legs short, thick and muscular, the U hands and feet largi. The bodies, and 8 especially the limbs, f many are covered I with short bristly ha . I have seen two t boys whose backs a covered with fur r as fine and soft as th of a cat. The heads and faces are very at king. The foreheads r are very high, broad nd prominent, and I at firs& sight give one the impression of an t unusual capacity for intellectual develop - ment; the ears are small and set low; 3 the noses are straliht, but short, and broad at the nostrils; the mouths are wide but well formed, and the lips rarely show a tendency to fulness. The neck is short, the cranium rounded, the cheek bones low, and the lower part of the face is small as compared with the upper, the peculiarity 3 called a 'jowl' being unknown. The eye ) brows are full, and form a straight line nearly across the face. The eyes are large, F tolerably deeply set and very beautiful, the 3 color a rich liquid brown, the expression sl gularly soft, and the eyelashes long, t y, and abundant. The skin has the Italian olive tint, but in most cases is thin, and light enough to show the changes of color in the cheek. The teeth are small, regular, and very white; the incisors and 'eye teeth' are not disproportionately large. - as is usually the case among the Japanese; there is no tendenoy toward prognathisni and the fold of integument which conceals the upper eyelids of the Japanese is never to be met with. The features, expression and aspect are European rather than Asiatic. "The 'ferocious savagery'of the appear I anco of the men is produced by a profusion of thick soft black hair,divided in the mid dle and falling in heavy masses nearly to the shoulders, Out of doors it is kept from falling over the face by a fillet round the brow. The beards are equally profuse, quite magnficent, and general wavy, and in the case of the old men they give a truly patriarebal and venerable aspect, in pite of the yellow tinge produced by smoke and want of cleanliness. The savage look pro duced by the masses of hair and beard, and the thick eyebrows, Is mitigated by - and is altogether oblitptated by the t exceeding sweetness of the smile, - which belongs in greater or less degree to all the rougher sex. I have measured the - height of thirty of the adult men of this village, and it ranges from five feet four inches to five feet six and a half inches. The circumlerence of the heads averages, 22,1 inches, and they arc, from ear to ear, thirteen inches. The average weight of Aino adult masculine brain, ascertained by measuremsot of Aino skulls, is 45.90 ounces avoirdupois, a brain weight said to excel that of all races, Hindoo and Mussulman, on the Indian plains, and that of the abori ginal races of India and Ceylon, and is only paralleled by that of the races of the Himalayas, the Siamese, and the Chinese Burmese. The Battle of the Snow Blails. Snow fell in such quantity along the Ried River of the North recently, that the level land around was covered to a depth of ten inches or more. While the flakes were yet flying, a river steniner, which was -bound up stream on her last trip for the seasoni, stopped at a landing on the western shore. - Shortly after the arrival of the steamer at -the landing somne of the passengers noticed a band of young indians playing in the snow a short distnce from a group of tents. The boys proved to be Cheyennes. They numbered twenty-seven, and were of all ages and sizes. When first seen they were "drinking" the flakes-running here and there with hands on their hips and open mouths upturned. A Cheyenne chief wile soon boasrded the steamer said that - the band was bound to a trading post and added that a Sioux band of seventy tents was in temporary camp two miles above. With the latter bit of Information In their minds, the passengers needed no explana tion when shortly afterwards they saw the ICheyenne boys dispersed by a volley of snowballs. Trho passengers understood that the volley was a challenge for a frolic from a number of Bioux boys whom they saw moving stealthily dlown the river bank. - In a moment the Cheyennes rallied, and for ten minutes there was a lively set to. White balls as big as a man's fist and -just as hard flew through the air and juvenile war cries madle the welkin ring. in this opening skirmish the opposing bands were twenty or thirty yards apart* so far, Indeed, that few of the boys were hit, Because they evidently knew how to dodge. It was like a game of "corner ball" at a country district school, the play ers ducking their heads and bounding aside whenever a missile would whizz past. - But as soon as the red lads became warimed to the sport, the distance quickly shortened. The snow disappeared fronm the skIrmish line as though melted by the hot breath of the sons of the plain, and the battle-ground was shifted to a point almost under tbe steamer's side. TIhe Sioux youths pressed hardei and harder. They were led by a tall, supple fellow, of fifteen or thereabouts, wvho hurled the balls with the (Orce of a grown warrior and the pre cision~ of an old artilleryman. IHis mocca sins 'vere in his way, and so, tearing them from his feet, lhe wrapped them In a hard, packing of snow, and sent them whistling Into the ranks of the enemy. This act kindled fire on the Sioux side, a dozen of the lads at once stripping to the waist, and running forward witn wild cries. - .it was clear enough that the hand-to hand attack had been expected, for a num her of Cheyennes who had held themselves in the rear of their party sprang forward and grappled with the Sioux. One of the Spassengers who stood on the steamer's . cabin says that he never saw a charge so completely mea. Evoy manux fmumd hs. Cheyenne as if the whole matter had been prearranged. No blows were struck but the wrestling was fierce and savagely heroic. The wrestlers were in a straight line, nor did the line waver. The Sioux grip was on the Cheyenne and the Chey enne clutch was about the shoulder of the Sioux. Some of the spectators on the steamer were so excited that they sprang ashore and ran toward the wrestlers, but they as quickly ran back again, those who were not wrestling peppering them with balls as a hint that there must be no inter ference. The wrestlers stood almost still for more than a quarter of an hour, every nerve strained to its utnost tension. Mean while, the b.iys who were not in the line, ceased t)ieir volleys and waited for the re suit. The tall leader of the Sioux had for his opponent a boy of about seventeen-a strong, wiry fellow, who once had wrestled with, thrown, and killed a full-grown bear. Down his ohest was a long, ugly sear, that had been cut by the bear's claws, and in the back of his neck was the imprint of the bear's teeth. The Iiov-Who-Killed-the B'ear swayed back and forth, straining with his greatest strength to weaken the Sioux lad's hold. Finding that this could not be done, he slackened his hold and the Sioux instantly backed away. This ap peared to be a signal to all the wrestlers, for they also let go and retired. After a short rest a volley thrown by the Cheyennes again brought on the battle. The lines now were not more than ten yards apart and the thud and bursting of the balls indicated that the close work was telling. The wild fusilade was succeeded by a clinching all around and such a rough and-tumble play the spectators never be lore saw. The Sioux leader seized a Chey enne lad by the shoulders and sent him headforeiost into the river. Loud cries went up from the Cheyennes, who ploinly regarded the act as one of foul play. Four Cheyennes, including the Boy-Who-Killed the-Bear, pinioned the Sioux leader's arms ant rubbed his head in the snow, filling his mouth, nostrila and ears. They then dragged him toward the river, but before they could give the toss that would send him into the stream, they werc ttacked in harum-scarui and helter-skelLer by the whole Sioux band. A trapper who under stood the CheyCnnes were shouting, "Drown him!" drown himl" and that the gesticulating grown warriors on the out skirts of the battle-field were screaming "fair pl)ayl" Whatever they may have been trying to say there certainly was a tremendous hubbub, in the midst of which the Sioux .cader broke from the grasp of his assailants and threw himself panting and perspiring into the arms of his fellows. At this turn in the battle the men of both the Sioux and the Cheyenne bands, who had been attracted to the scene by the ter rile yells, interfered and both parties shook hands and retired. The Cheyenne who had been thrown into the river did not seem to mind tue ducking, for he walked slowly'off with the others, laughing as lie went. And so ended the Battle of the Snow-balls. The Full Face Value. They have their stock exchange and mining board in the magio cities of the far West, and their own peculiar way of doing business. Buyers and stockholders, also, have their own peculiar ways, and these ways sometimes clash. A New Yorker was seated in an office in Gunnison City, Col., one day not long ago, when a a grizzly-looking old chap entered and asked if that was the place where they sold shares of the White Horse silver mine. Being assured he was in the office of the company he observed : "I've heard the White Horse spoken of as being a likely mine." "It certainly is. We took $10,000 worth of ore out in one day." "Phew I She must be Just old richness How many men have ye got to work ?" "Oh, about three hundred." "Have ye, thoughi Are the slicers go Ing off purty lively (" "Shares are selling like hot cakes and we have only a few left. Everyb~ody says the White Horse is a big investment." "What arc sheers worth to-day ?" "I will sell you at 95, though I know they will be worth their face value to-mor row." "No!I You don't really mean 95 ?" "I do." "Well, that's better, there's a hundred shares which you sold my pard yesterday for twenty dollars. I went over to the mine, found nothing but a h:>le and a (lead mule, and I toltil him I'd conic up and get his money back or do seome shooting I I'm tarnal glad to find them sheers has riz from 20 to 95. Trhat will give my pard his money back and buy mec a winter outfit be sides. Here's the sheers, and now let me see the color of your money I" "But, sir, we-" "Pass out the cash I" said the old man as he restedi the end of his shooter on the edge of the counter. The company had left lis revolver in his overcoat outside, and lie didn't believe the New Yorker would shoot for him. After a look around he began counting out the money with a bland snmde, and as he made the exchange lie said : "Certainly, sir-greatest of pleasure, sir. Borry you didn't hold them one day more and get the full face value 1" Carlottft'a Wea'rv Watohi Standing on the balconies of Miramar, where sight roams over a vast extent of the Adriatic sea, the vision of poor Carlotta In her madness arises terribly before the view. Here she kept her nightly vigils, despite the protestations of the Queen of Belgium, who endeavored to entice her from Mira mar with assurances that her husband would return no more, to whom she replied: "No, I will wait for Maximillian; he has abdicated the throne agd departed for Mexico. The passage from Vera Cruz will take a fortnight, and the voyage from Liverpool here, three more days, therefore, ho 'will be here in less than a week." On July 8th, 1867, the birth day anniversary of the Emiperor Maximil ian, she ordered the chateau to be draped with tlags and brilliantly illuminated, and as the inhabitants of Triesto heard o1 the sad death, they beheld at the same moment the arrangements for a miagnificent fete at the Castle of Miramam. On that day she went to the 1:ort and looked anxiously and long at the distant horizon that formed the vision's bounds, at times exclaiming, "1 will wait for hun sixty years!" And she Is waiting still, but not at Miramar; all places are now alike to her outward gaze, and the wisdom that veiled her reason in the midst of such overwhelming sorrow, surelv must not bo jucntioned.~ Chnese Women's Feet. The binding of the feet is not begun til the child has learnt to walk. The band ages are specially manufactured, and are about two inches wide and two yards long for the first year, five yards long for subse quent years. The end of the strip Is laid on the inside of the foot at the instep, then carried over the toes, under the foot, and round the heel, the toes being thus drawn toward and over the sole, while a bulge is produced on the instep, and a deep inden tation in the sole. Successive layers of bandages are used till the strip is all used, and the end is then sewn tightly down. The foot is so squeezed upward that, in walk ing, only the ball of the great toe touches the ground. After a month the foot is put in hot water to soak some time; then the bandage is carefully unwound, much dead cuticle coming off with it. Frequently, too one or two toes may even drop off, in which case the woman feels afterward re paid by having smaller and more delicate feet. Each time the bandage is taken off, the foot Is kneaded to make the joints more flexible, and is then bound up again as quickly as possible with fresh bandage, which Is drawn up more tightly. During the first year the pain is so intense that the sufferer can do nothing, and for about two years the foot aches continually, and is the seat of a pain which is like the prick ing of sharp needles. With continued rigorous binding the foot in two years be comes dead and ceases to ache, and the whole leg, from the knee downward, be couies shrunk, so as to be little more than skin and bone. When once formed, thq "golden lilies,"as the.Chinese lady calls her delicate little feet, can never recover their original shape. It is an error to suppose, as many do, that it is only the Upper Ten among the daughters of China that indulge in the luxury of 'golden lihes,' as it is ex tremely common among every class, even to the very poorest-notably the poor sew ing women one sees in every Chinese city and town, who can barely manage to hob ble from house to house seeking work. The pain endured while under the opera tion is s. severe and continuous that the poor girls never sleep for long perlxds with out the aid of strong narcotics, and then only but fitf.illy; and it is from this con. stant suffering that the peculiar sullen or stolid look so often seen on the woman's face is derived. Thle origin of this custom is involved in mystery to the Westerns. Some say that the strong-minded among the ladies wanted to interfere in politics, and that there is a general lking for visit ing, chattering, and gossip (and China wo men can chatter and gossip) both and all of which inclinations their lords desired and desire, to stop by crippling them. Only Fifty Years since ronnsyavania Pun ished Robbery by Death. Samuel llulett, whose death at an ad vanced age was reported, was one of the passengers in the mail.coach between Phil adelphia and Reading in 1830, when the horses were stopped and the passengers piuuo.u Vy urIisun, ruLti uuu rutte, whose arrest and trial and execution of Porter were causes of much public feeling at the time. The mail-coach was on its way to Reading, and had reached Turner's lane, a mile or two above the built-up por tion of the city, when the lead horses were suddenly brought to a stand and a pistol put to the head of the driver and one or more of the passengers to intimidate them and prevent resistance. Their money' and jewels were surrendered upon demland, and no violence was used. It was supposed that the bank messenger, William Miller, who held for many years the situation of bailiff in the United States District Court, would be in the coach, but lie had been unable to reach the White Swanj Hotel in time to take passage that morning. Por ter and Wilson were capturedI iI Philade phia, but Potete was arrested in Baltimore, and~ npon being brought on here consen ted to take the witness stand against, thme con federates. Samuel Hulett was a material witness, and Porter andl Wilson were con victed and sentencedl to be hiangedl. The robbery of the mail was then a capital of fense, when the lives of passengers or any one of them was put in jeopardy, as was dlone. Wilson was saved through the in tercession of influential friends, but, Porter expiated his crime upon the gallows, hay ing on the (lay of the execution rode upon his coflln from the Arch Street Prison to the hanging ground, iiot far from the Eastern Penitentiary. Potete, who hmad committedl a crime in Baltimore, was taken b~ack there andl served out a term of im prisonment. Wilson became an exemnplary citizen, and wvas living when last heard from a few years ago. An Ailderman's Great sorrow. There is an Alderman in Detroit who knows a bale of hay when lie sees it as well as any man livig. H~e was passing up Michigan avenue reeentiy, when lie came across a small group of friends. They had perhaps been waiting for him, know ing that he would pass that way about that hour. They were standinig near a bale of hay marked "210 pounds" and beside the bale stood a flatchested, shm-waisted, con sumptive-looking youth of twenty summers, who kept spitting on hIs hands and saying he would shoulder the bale or die In the attempt. "i've bet teii dollars that he can't," re marked one of the group to the.Alderman, as he come to a halt. "Why, lie must to a fooll" replied the officmal, as lie looked from the man to the hay. "I can't, eli ?" queried the consumptive. "You dlasni'tpuit $I0 that I can't shoulder this 'cre hay and carry it across the sitreet and back, Nothing but chain-lighting could have beat the movements of the Alderman In pulling out an "X" and placingit in tho hands of a stakeholder. When all was ready the comnsumiptive spit On his hands, shouldered the bale and took his walk. Trhe end of the Alderman's tongue was in sight, and his eyes could have been stepped on, as the (lying youth returned to the curb, dropped the bate and took the money "Lemme see that hay 1'' whispered the ofmical as consciousness finally returned. lie waiked up to the bale, gave it a heave, and it went roiling over. Then he picked it up and heaved it, got red clear back to the collar-button and walked off without a word. The consumptive was only half a day fixing up the sham bale with sticks and papers and a little hay, and $10 is good pay for half a day's work. --Vice Presldent-.eicot Arthur will, it is said, spend most of the winter in Washingrton BRIEFS. -A Hebrew Union College is to be established in Cincinnati. -Newark, N. J-, last year manufac. tured 100,000 kegs of beer. -Out of 7,450 pupils in Charleston public schools 6,444 are colored. -Mrs. Abraham Lincoln gets a Federal pension of $3,000 a year. -There are 5,419,055 bushels of grain held in the ice in the Erie Canal. -Queen Victoria danced several reels at a recent ball at Balmoral. -In the United States there are 532, 550 Freemasons in good standing. -The n all mills of the United States produce yearly about 4,000,000 kegs. James Gordon Bennett is reported to have contributed $25,000 to the Grant fund, -The first American city to light its streets wholly by electricty is Ogden, Utah. -During November the mintq coined $4,574,000 in gold and $2,300,000 in silver. -The total cost of the proponed Pana ma canal is estimated at 600,000,000 francs. --The champvagnqs of the vintage of 1880 will rival in quantity those of 1870 and 1808. -An Englishman recently trans planted a tree which weighed thirty five tons. -Madame Ristori has not retired from the stage; she is still acting, and In Scandinavia. . -Queen Victoria has Invited the Empress Eugenie to spend the winter with her at Windsor. -Chicago boasts of being the health lest city in the world, Its death-rate being 17.91 to the 1,000 Great Britain manufactured last year 1.545,500,000 gallons of beer, and the United States 330,300,000. -The care of Cetewayo and other Kafir chiefs will cost the British gov erment about $10,000 a year. -A very handsome monument will shortly be erected to the memory of Miss Neilson at a cost of $500. - The 11, 8. government has 700 light. houses in operation, and 850 small por table lights to be used on rivers. -Two cannons have been brought to Charleston, 8. C., which were ovidett ly used in the Revolutionary war. -Tho 0Wner of an eighteen acre Florida orange grove with three acres in bearing refuses to take $50,000 for It. -Tho pay and i'ieage of the em bers of the United States Senate and of the Representatives amounts to.$2,043, 000. -'he Empress of Austria has taken Ormond Castle, Kilkenny, for six weeks' hunting with the Kilkenny hounds, --The population of Berlin Is 1 118 - 000, a I I1U iUbb MLn II LI U e w ' orI City, though Berlin is several centur les the older. India has 8.011 miles of railroad in operatlon, 1,918 miles onily being nar row gauge, and opened -305 miles of new road last year. -New Zealand has now over 1,100 miles of railways, all built within about twelve years and all narrow gauge, or three feet six inches. -The first bank In the United States was the Bank of North America, char tered by congress, at the instance of Robert Morris, in 17S0. -The receipts of Booth's Theatre during the Bern hard t season of twenty four nights,closed Saturday, the 4th of Decembei, wera $98,000. -T1here has been an extraordinary incrense of suicide in Switzerland. In 1870 there were 540 suicides; in 1877, 590, in 1878, (142 and in 1879, 701. --The Edgar Trhomson Steel Works of Pennsylvania, have recently received orders for over 80,000 tons of steel rails, p~rinclJpally for new roads. -The Lancaster,Pa.,watoh factory is employing 181 hands, and will increase the number to 200 before ,1881. The pay roll amounts to $6,000 per month. -The Ne w Orleans Chiamber of Coin merce resolves that the Signal Service saved the crop for the sugar planters this year by its timely and accurate warnings. -Thie gifts of the late Samuel WiI listen to the Williston Seminary as Easthampton, Mass., will amount to $830,000 when the provisions of his will are fully carried out. -Th'ie losses by our three great fires were estimated as follows: In New York in 1835, about $20,000,000; in 1871, $100,000,000 , and in Boston in Novem ber 1872, $80,000,000. Iord Chief Justiee Campbell and hi uccessmor, Sir Alexander Cokburn, each (lied suddenly of a Saturday night * after retiring to bed and after having passed the day in judicial duties. -$21,804,763 wvere collected last year from 3,966,308 pounds of snuff and 172, 309,527 pounds or smoking and chew ing tobacco. $14,902,488 were raised from cigars, eheroots and cigarettes. New Orleans is now the fifth grain market east of the Rocky Mountains, being surpassed by- New York, Phila delphia, Baltimore and .toston. Boston has sh ipped 20,000,000 and Ne w Orleans 17,000,000 bushels this year. -[n 1876 more than one-half of the marriageable women in England and Wanles were spinsters. In 1850 five of our Egstern and Middle States had an excess of males, andl four an exco~s of females, ranging from 1 per cent, to 7 per cent, -Sir Richard Wallace, who had a coupon calling f~r $220,000 annually, used to be the largest creditor of Fraince, but now M. .Fnrtado drawsa million francs a quarter, which repre sents an Investment of $16,000,000 in the funds. -The amount of coal transported by the several carrying companies having ~ ofillees in Philadelpnia, is. reported up 9 to the lam of December of this year at 26,579,606 tons, against 27,870,758 tons to the same time last year, a decrease of 2,228,150 tons. -The thread for the glassecloth, now made at Ilttsburg, is drawn out of a molten bar by means of a rapidly re voiving wheel at the rate of 2,000yards~ a minute. The weaving is done on looms, about the same as with silk. TJ.he coloring is done with i1gInerals ' when the glass is originally ptged