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* . -P - FR - EEI- -I O ---- - - --- .... .... TR'II-W EEKLY EDI TION. WINNSBORO, S. C., FEBRUARY 1, 1881. VOL. IY.-NO. 171. THlE HUSI3ANIMANO Give fools their gold and knaves their power, Let fortune's bubbles rise and falli Who sows a fields or trains a flower. Or plants a tree, Is more than all. For he who blesses most is blest ; And God'and man shall own his worth, Who toils to leave an his bquest An added beauty to the eartb. And soon or late, to all that sow The time of harvest shall be given; The flower shall bloom, the fruit shall grow, If not on earth, at last in hoaven I Darkness and Dawn. Rome years ago, while making a brief so journ in the city of Baltimore, I set out one evening with a friend for a stroll through the city. We had visited several places of interest, and were on our return to our ho. tel, when in passing through a dark and narrow street, a female, closely mutlied in a coarse shawl-which, thrown over her head, was drawn around her face, so as to conceal all but her eyes--hurriedly crossed over front the opposite side of the way, and accosted us in the accents of deepair. "Gentlemen, for the love of 'God, give me moneyl My mother Is dying of hunger, and I have not wherewith to purchase a morsel of food!" We were both struck with the tone of hor voice, for though agitated by a feeling uf desperation, it had a peculiar sweetness, and her language was that of one both edu cated and refined. "Do not think me inquisitive," said my friend, in a kindly tone, as lie drew forth his purse, "I ask what misfortune has brought you to this for it Is clearly evi dent that you are no common applicant for charity." "Oh! no, sir-no!" sher aid, shrinking back into herself, as it were; "nove: asic ed for- charity before; and though1 I have not taken food for twolong dtjysg I would Booner perish than ask it for myself now; but I could not see her die, my suly friend -oh, Godi I could not see I er die' "Herel" said my ccinpanion, y lacing a sum In her hand which I un iediately doubled. She clutchid the money like umiser, and for a moment or two was condpletely over powered by her emotions./ Then, with choking effort, she gasped forth: "Thanks,gentlemen I y God in heaven bless y ou I" She turned away, ad took two or three 3 hasty steps, and thon stopping suddenly, V h she looked around, Aufd added F *cva',is -4'Y'P.nqk me yVhat misfortune brought it me to thisl I shall seem ungrateful if I re fuse to tell." "Never nind." said my friend; "the re cital will give you pain, and therefore con eider the (luestion unasked." Your noble generosity overpowers me, sirl" she rejoined, in a tremulous voice, -and my pride shall give way. If you hiie ..a few minutes to spare, come with me and yAi shall known all." " y," said I, "do not let us intrude upon) our sorrows, unless you think we can be pT further assistence. You are welcome t. the little we have given which should be tioubled if we had more to spare, but wo have no right to claih your secret in return." She buried her face in her shawl, and burst into tears. '"Alas!" she sobbed, "if all mankind were thus generous, how many a miserable beiag mnight be niade happy Come with me and heur my storyl I know I can trust you, and I shall rest easier to know I have convinced you I am no Impostor." We assured her that we did not for a moment doubt of her being tle victim of some terrible misfortune; but as we might be of further service to her, we would see her safely home, and she might then relate her story or niot, as shte should think proper. '"Follow me," she said, and set clf at a quick walk downr the street, we keepIng a respectfuli distanice behind, anid I for one felhng an unusuul curiosity to know some thing muore of her. At, the naext corner of the street was an oil lamp which threw out a dlim light; and * ~ t atndiing near it, in a listless altitude, we o)bserved a niman in the garb of a sailor, and evidhently just from lea. As our unknown p ~ goide drew near hinm, I noticed that she seemeduch ai~itgitatted; andi on coming up to) himl, to our surprise, and apparently his, she stoppied, and looked eagerly into) his face for a moment, aiid thon, with a wild cry, she suddenly threw out her arms, claspedl hun around te neck, and appearedi to swooni upoi his bareast. "'Seel" said any friend, ankmg an abrupt halt; '"we are duped--this is some trick that girl is an impostori'' "'implossiblel" returned I, unwilling to believe that such grief and mist ry as shte representedI cotauld be a base counterfeit. As I spoke, the sailor, as if in deep suir prise, partly unwoundi~ the arms of the tun knownt fronm his iiecle, raised her head, and ookedi, first curiously and thea wildly, inato her face, which we couild see, even fromt where we stood, was pale and benati fuil. IlThe next tmomenit lhe uttered a w ikd arims around her nmow lifelie form lie ex ' Ay Godll my G0(1! Aary! My Ghod!'' ,' l~i t seemted to be all that he could titter, as . rhefairly toi tered with lis foir burden and for a fewv moments we stood (dumlb with aia7.elnenit. '"What's thtis? what's the mieaning of this?'' lie now dematnded,lookintg fiercely at us. "WXell. if that is acting, it is the bmest I ever saw," muitteredl my coitpanion, as we habtenedi forward, anid gave at httrrted ac couint of all we knew of the matter. "Great Clod! is it p)ossible?" sai the man looking alternately at us antd the fuir crea .ture in his arnms, and clasping his forehead as if to collect lisascattered senses, "Mary! " Ite cotntinuied, at short Intervals; "'my wife! may dear wife! And mty miother too starvinal" Hie continued to repeat these expressionis like one overpowered by some terrible shock, anid who knew not what lie was saying; while we stood looking on, too much atonislhed to tinmk of offering hinm any assistance. At length, with a sort of gurghig gasp, the poor creature opened her eyes; and looking wildly and fondly into the manly face o( him who supported her, site Imur mnured: "Charles! Charles! is this you? In life in death-or in a dream?" I pass over the widd! frantie, passionate exclamations on both sides, as eaeh began' to realize the truth-the one that he had found a loving wife in the depths of mis. cry-the other that she had regained a fnnd husband at a moment of all others when she most needed his aid, counsel, love and support. "Come," whispered my friend, touching my arm, "let us withdraw; their meeting should be sacred from the intrusion of strangers." Though deeply curious to know some thing of their history, I silently acquiesced lu his proposal; and quietly departing, re turned to our hotel, musing upon the un certainties, vicissitudes and romance of life. Two days after, as I was siting on the piazza of the hotel I saw the a lor passing along the street, and curiosit prompted mie to address hini.. The moment lie saw ic lie cane bounding up,grasped my hand, and burst into tears. 'God bless youl" he exclaimed in a chok ing voice; "God bless you and yotar friendi and so says Mary. I've been hunting you all over the city, sir, but feared I'd never see you again. Here, let ine pay you back your money and will you be so kind, sir, as to accept these two rings for yourself and friend?" I took the money-for I saw if I did not lie would feel very much hurt; but fearing his circumstances might not justify him m making a present of so much value, I at teumpted to decline the rings. It was of no use-he would take no denial-and so I re luctantly accepted them, thanking him in behalf of my friend, who was absent. I then drew from him his story, which I will give in a few words. lie and his wile were both natives of a snall village on the Ohesapeake, and h-Ad often played together as children. Ills own father was In good circums ances. but sub sequently lost his property and died soon after, leaving hiimaelf and mother to strug gle along as best they might. Among those believed to be friends in prosperity, but who forsook them in ad versity, was the father of his present wife; but though change of fortune separated the youth and maiden, it only increased an at tachment which had bdguu in childhood. For years, however, they did not meet; amid during that titie the narrator became a sailor, and acquired sufficient means to purchase i cottage for his mother, leaving a small balanceon mortgage, which his next voyage was to clear olf. While at home he and his Mary again met, and discovering a mutual passion and knowing her parents would not consent to the union, but were most anxious to ally her to a wealthy sui tor, they took advantage of the opportum ty, and were privately warried. Charles Delaine, for such was lils naine, then took leave of lils wife, and shipped for a whaling voyage, intending it should be his last cruise. While absent, his wife's parents, discovering the secret of her -imar riage, disowned and drove liar forth, and she took refuge with his mothet. Together the widowed mother and wife struggled along, both anxiously looking for the return of their only friend; but lie came not at the time expected, the mortgage was foreclosed, the property sold, and, almost penniless, they repaired to Baltimore, hop Ing to be able tp maitain themselves by the needle. I need not Orolong the story-it Is aii old tale. kickness and misfortune followed them; they failed to procure sutlicieni work for their iecessities, and on the night when tie wife appeealed to us, they were in a starving condition. Charles had just returned from his cruise; and at the very nioient when his Alary so unexpectedly met him, lie was thinking of home, which lie expected to reach the next day. lIe had been prudent; the voyage had been more than usually profitable, and his share, lie said, woul(l enable him to start in business. "Come what will," he concluded, "I'll never leave my dear mother and Alary again whiewe live. They're happy now, thank God, an it shall be the aim of my life to keep thiemi so." lie ur'ged me to come and see him and lia now happy family, and bring mmy friend; and then invokiing uponi us the blessings of heaven, lie wrung may hand and turned quickly away to conceal the emotions lie cared inot to display. "Ahl such is life, in this world of sel fish and uniselfish humanity," mused 1, as I watchied his retreatinug footsteps, till a turn in a street concealed himi from may view. We liever niet again. About, Quicksilver. QO of the most curious properties of qiuicksilver Is its capability of dissolving or of forming anmalgame with other metals. A sheet of gold loll dirohpped into quicksil ver disappears alnost as qmickly as a snow flake when it drops hito water. It has the power of separating or of readily dissolving those refractory metals which are not act cc upoii by our miost powerful acids. The gold and~ silver niiners pour it into their machines holdmng the powdered gQd bear ing quartz, aiid although no human eye can dletect a trace of the precious substance, s3 line are the particles, yet the hiQuill mietal will hunt them out, and incorporate it lnte its mass. Bly subsequent dhiethmation it yieldis it mt > the hands of thme mhliers, in a state of virgin purity. beveral years ago, while lecturing before a class of ladies on chemistry we had occasion to purify somie (quicksilver by forcing it through shiamols lether. rTe scrap remiainedi on the table after the lecture,ymnd an 01ld lady, thinking it would be very nike to wrap her gold spec tacles in, acecordlingly appropriateut it to this purpose. Th'le niext morninig she camne to us in great alarm, stating that the gold had maysteriously (ilsappeared, and nothing was lift ini thme parcel but, the ghmsses. tiure enough, the metal remaininig ha the pores of the leather had amalgamnaled with the gold, andh entirely deastroyed the spectacles. It was a mystery which we iiever could explain to her satisfaction. Jtisovting Odors. G round mustairdh, mlb'.ed with a little water, is an excellent agent for cleaninmg the hands after hlandliing odiorous subhstan ces, such as cod-liver oil, musk,vaherianic acidl and its salts. Beale pans amid, vessels maiy also be readily freed from odhor by thme same method. In the case of almionds and niustard, the developmenmt of ethereal oil, undler the influenice of water, may perhaps be ar. aditional help to destroy foreign odors. The smell of carbolic acId may be renmoval by rubbing the hands with (lamp fiaxsced meal, aund cod-liver oIl bottles may be cleansed with a lhttle of the same, or olive oil. A man must becomne wise at his ownl ax nenan. Juttang a Boy'g Haur. There is no use in toohngarout it. When a boy's hair has become long and bleached and scraggy and full of burrs and feathers it is time to cut it and the inevitable must be faced. 'fThe boy doesn't want it cut of course. No one ever had a speaking acquaintance with a boy who thought that the time had arrived when he could part with enough hair to stuff a sofa pillow. They must be co erced, and kind words and broad pronses are thrown away. Coercion is the only method. I let my boys run about so long and then when I get a spare haff day I play barber. There Is no appeal f rom my decision. When I come out flat-footed I carry my point or dietrying. "Yonng man, you can get ready to have your hair cut." "Next week?" "No, sir-nowl" "With a buzz-saw?" "Yes, if the shears won't do it." "Won't you draw blood?" "I may have to." "If you won't cut my hair, I'll bring in auff wood and coal to last all winter, and I won't ask for a light when I go to bedi" "Come out here and make meAdyl" I never take any chances on a boy. I have an old chair bolted to the floor, and than 1 bolt the boy to the chair. I fix hin so that he cin move neither hand nor foot, put a soft-gag In his mouth to prevent a neighborhood alarm, and begin work. The first step towards cutting a boy's hair is to put in ten minutes' hard work with a curry-comb. If he hasn't been running loose over two or three years this tool will be found spullcient to rake out the snarls, buttons amn articles previously mentioned. A basket is placed behind the chair for them to drop into, and they can be deco rated with faucy pictures and made to serve as parlor ornaments. When a boy's hair is reao y for the satears brace your feet and shear away. Shear front, back, top and side without re ference to lines or angles. The object is to remove hair. There is no use of any conversation, not even when the shears find a piece of wire and refuse to cut it. 'rho boy wouldn't know how it got there if you asked him. le has had his head In closets, collars, garrets, barns, fence-cor ners, barrels, boxes and alt sorts of nooks, and such extra attachments are no surprise to him. No one should bc less than half an hour robbing an average boy of ais capillary sul stance. Any attempt to hurry the job will result in overloaking a lot of shingle nails, the missing screwdriver, or something which may damage his Sunday hat. My average is thirty-five minutes, and I have only two minutes left after being able to see that lie has a scalp. It then takes an additional ten minutes to look him over and identify him as the same boy I began on. Ills neck has grown longer, the size of ins ears increased, and the whole shape of the head Is altered. When I feel sure that it is my boy, and not the son of some neighbor who has skulked in on me, I brush him off with an old broom, crack his head three or four times, draw the bolts and remove the gag, and then hold the door open for him to shoot into the back yard. I am a loving father on all else, but when I cut a boy a hair I im a stern o'd Roinan of the first water. A Foarful Viuitor. The bane of the beautiful Island of Mar tinique Is a serpent called tne "iron lance." This reptile, with venomous taste, chooses the coolest and most delightful places in the garden for is retreat, and it is literal ly at the risk of one's life to lie down on the grass, or even take a rest in an arbor. The wounds ilicted by these serpents are very apt, to be fatal unless immtediately cared for. The whole island is infested with this dangeuous reptile, and it is said that on an average nearly eight hundred persons are bitten every year, of which number from sixty to seventy cases prove fatal, while many others result in nervous aiseases which are alniost as bad as death. A few years ago, when Prince Arthuir of England, visited this island(, a grand fctc was given in his honmor in tihe Jardine des I la ites. In the evening the grounds were buiantly illummnated, and thousands of people saunteredl through its cool anid shady avenues. A large number were bit ten by the "iron lance," anmd nmany of thenm never recovered i rom the effects of the poi son. Thme fondness of this terrible reptile for cool and shady places is a serious draw back on the pleasure of ramnbling through thme charming groves of Martmnique. A rest onm the grass under the shadow ot some spreading tree is always haunted by the dread of unseen dangers, aud one cannot even cross a field without exercising ex trenme caution. Thme Origin oit he H orso, When the white men took possession of this continent they founad no horses here. The horse-our horse- -came with the new settlers, and through him is now commnon over the whole continent. But the remais are found in a fossil state of mnany species of haees, showing that at one thne in the earth ' history they existed here. Profes sor Marsh has niade a good point in favor of gradunal evolution by showing how these fossil horses varied in their feet bone, and lie has collected specimens, which. seem like links running from time most simple to the most complex, the chief point being once tie horse hmad not a single large hoof as lie has nowadays. Professor CJope has recently dilscoveredl In Texas a breed of hogs with undivided hoofs, and this, it seems to us, ought to be taken as much a sign of "evolution" as Professor Marsh's horses. Th'iey are regardled as distinict spe cies, because their bones are distinct, but no oiie would think of calling these pigs a dlistinct species. It is thought that as thme world chiangedl in temperature andi other condiitions, thme species changed to suit, but thme climate has not changed to make the horse-footedl pig, nor Is thmere any sign that It will be auy better fitted to endure the struggle for life than the uneleni tlinmg that "spliideth the hoof andi chieweth not the cud," that so excited the ire of Moses. It seems that our men of science have scarce ly got "the hang of the tihing yet," as the mower says of the new scythe. -Tfhe foreign business of the Bos ton and Albany railroad now occeupies sheds amnd warehouses at thieEast Boston terminal covering 200,00J square feet, besides the grain elevator with a Ca paeltv of 1.000.000 huahels. Origin of ThankuglIng Day. Tle origin of the observance of Thanks. giving day, like many other interesting 1watters, is little understood by those who most would like to know of it. It is sup posed that the day was originally suggested by the Hebrew "Feast of the Tabernacles," which was held at the end of the year. The Protestant Episcopal prayer-book, which was ratified in 1789, recommends the first Thursday in N~vember as the proper day, except when msqme other one is appointed by the civil at thoritles. The last Thursday in the present month has of late years generally been selected. The first recorded observance of the f estival oc curred on October 3, 1575, when the good people of Leyden, in Holland, gave thanks for their deliverance from a siege. In 1608, when the pilgrim fathers were ex iled to Holland, they temporarily revived the occasion. In America the first known celebration was in 1021, shortly after the landing of the pilgrims, when Governor Bradford, according to history, "sent four men out fowling that the people might in a more special manner rejoice together." Ever since that tune Thaukegiving day has been generally observed in the Now Eng land States, the governor . pnnually Issuing the proclamations for tlhatV purpose, but it was not until 1088 that it became a recog nized annual custom. To go back a little in the recountal, a day in July, 1028, was appointed a day of fasting and prayer on account of drought, and it is recorded that rain came abundantly while the people were praying ; for this another day was appointed for thanksgiving, the same to be observed with religious exercises. In 1755 60 the Enahlsh Governors of New York also named days for the giving of thanks. During the Revolution, Thauksgiving day was a national institution, beiag annually ordered by Conirress. After 1784 there was no national observance until 1789, when, by request of Uongress, President George Washington recommended a day of thanksgiving for the adoption of the Constitution ; also in 1795, on account of the suppression of an insurrection. In April, 1815, President Madison followed the example of his illustrious predecessor. .aince that time the custom has annually been observed in an appropriate manner. In New York State the day of thanksgiv ing was not the subject of any serious thought from its chief executives until 1817, and ito adoption by the Southern States did not occur until several years later. Of all the festivals of the year, none is more eagerly enjoyed than Thanksgiv ing. Christmas, with all its hallowed memories; New Year, with all its enjoy ment, arad the Fourth of July, with all its blaze of glory, are festival days much en. joyed and long anticipated, yet we venture to say that in the homes of the devout tiller of the Eastern soil Thanksgiving day is ballowed and enjoyed in a quiet, happy. way as fully in extent as is either of the foregoing. This sentiment of appreciation for the day Is, to a large .extent, shared in the West. Terrimei Euconiter. For an island twelve nules long and two wide, and inhabited by some seven hun dred people, Roanoke Island, Virginia, has been as loud a spot as any of the same nuim ber of square inches on the globe. it has been full of sensation fron the jump; and from the birthday of Virginia Dare, in 1586, to the bully fight on the 3d of December, in which birds, beasts ai women bore a hand, a period near unto three hundred years, it has seldom been without an (ye opener in the shape or a sensation. It has been the scene of bloody lights between hostile Indian tribes, and between civilized armies in hostile array. Savage and civilized relies of remote ages and mod ern convulsions are hidden beneath, or wave-washlied upon the surface of its gol. den sands. Indian forts and cairns and tumuii attest its hoary history. Abel's pet dog that sings in church meetings and the canary that praises itself in parrot English attest the attainments of its beasts and birds in polite accomplishments. Lewis Manni's sixty alligators, hatched and rearedl in a potato-house, attest the f ecundiity of its soil-or the fecundity of Lewis' imagina tion Trwo miles from the shore, at the p~oint at the gateway to Oregon, lie lus'iouis bivalves. Wild fowl of every name feed upon its grasses. Its men are the best spec iiiens of manhood; its wonmen of feminiine loveliness. But to our tale. On the 3d of December, at Roanoke is land, a soaring eagle, towering in its pride of might, turiied his proudt eyes from gaz ing at the suii upon the quiet yard of Wal ter Dough. A ilock of fit geese invited his eye and tempted his taste. The glance was father to the thought, and down he pouned, Th'ie feathers flew, the geese squawked, andl there was a sensation in the farm yard, and there was a dog there, too. A goose ilput dlown as a fool, but it is a vulgar error. A goose is a particularly snmart fellow. And so was the one the eagle struck in Walter Dough's yard. As soon as struck, thme goose ran under the house (which was some feet above te ground) withI the eagle fastened to her back, and the rest of the flock in hot pursuit. And there the fight grow fast and furious Forty biting and flopping geese on one side andi the king of birds on thme othier. Al though outnumbered, the eagle imaintadned kte fight and clung to his victhn. But soon another enemy presented him self-an enemy more terrible thian an army of geese-a bull-terrier dog-llttle, but full I of light, it wasn't fair, aind~ the (log had no natinal, belligerent rights in a combat between birds, but lie came with a bound. and the eagle had no time to settle iues tions of military ethics; so he threw him self on Is back (eagle fashion) to (do lis best1 in this hairdi tight between tooth and toenail. Theii dog madLa a lunge at the eagle's breast, and the eagle struck hiis claws (deek) into the dog's fore-shoulder. T1hie blow was shnultamneous on either side. Both blows told. Bu~t a terrier never, and aii eagle hmidly ever' says die. The onily witnesses of the dread comblat were the geese, who now stood off and looked on, anid Miss Martha Brothers, who was singing to her spinning jenny in the hioumse alone when the fight began, andl who m thie endl was to be the conquering hero, crown ed with the laurels of victory. The battle raged. Te'ethi gniashed, claws staved, eyes flashed. But eagles, like men, donten~d against 0(dd1 wvhen fighting against fate, andi so this eagle's groat heart saink witihin him, and turning tail upon his foe, lie sought safely in flight. lBut his retreat was slow and full of difficulty, for be~ had fifteen pounds of bull-terrler swinging be hind him. He reached the yard fence. With one desperate effort he sought to scat, it. He reached its topmost round. He bore a weight he could not further carry. There they stood, victor and' vanquished. Then it was that Miss Martha Brothers, the true hero of the fight, came to the front and won the palm of victory. Beizing a rail, with one fell swoop she came down with a crash upon the eagle's bead, and left him prostrate, struggling in the agonies of death, the victin of a combination too powerful to be resisted. Alas poor eagle! He mneasured nine feet between the tips of his out.stretched wings. The Bull Dog. A wealthy nobleman residing in the county had a magnificent and much valued bull mastiff. 'lis dog had been accused of sheep-killing. Though 'the gentleman refused to credit the accusation, tile evi dence of several was so incontrovertible that the dog, in accordance with the then si ret laws, was ordered to be shot. This order was given to one of the servants in presence of the dog, who was lying on the stoop, who responded to the affectionate fareweH of his master without making a sign. In the meantime, while the servant went for his gnn, the dog disappeared. When the servant returned from the sup posed shooting, the nobleman asked if it was all over; the servant merely replied, "The dog is out of the way." A year or two afterward, while the nobleman was returning from collecting his quartorly rents on a distant estate, accompanied by his steward or bailiff and his valet, the coach suddenly broke down in the midst of a desolate moor. They had passed no house for miles and the night was intensely dark. After waiting several minutes, the coachmnian suddenly cried out, "I see a light." The valet was iminediattly do spatched to ascertain what the light de noted, and shortly ieturned with the an nouncenient that he had found a comfort able inn. The horses were removed from the carriage, and the party-the steward taking the gold, a large sum-proceeded to the inn where the nobleman was obse quiously welcomed by the landlord. As they were entering the door, the steward saw a huge bull mastiff stretched across the threshold and at once exclaimed: "Why, sir, that is Duke!" the name of the mastiff that had been condemned to be shot. "Oh, no l" said the nobleman ; "Duke was shot years ago." And, to satisfy the steward he called the (log by the fanullar name ; but the dog gave no sign of recognition. After partaking of a hearty meal, the land lord conducted the party to their rooms. As the nobleman passed through the hall, the mastiff, unperceived by the landlord, rushed up the stairs in advance, and they entered the room together. The steward was assigned the room adjoining, and the valet and coachman a room in another part of. the inn. When the nobleman had closed the door, lie placed his light on the stand, divested himself of his pistols, and, sitting down in a chcir, called the dog by the name with which he had been so familiar. The faithful animal at once ap proached, and by expressive signs proved that he was the long mourned Duke. The nobleman sat for a long while in* bewilder Ing conjectures as to how the (log hap pened to be there, and why his servant should have told him he was shot. At length lie understood, and was approach ing the bed, when the (log jumped upon it and refused with signs of violence to let hin lie down. The nobleman returned to his chair, and the dog resumed his position, at his feet. A second attempt was made to approach the bed, but with the stame ro sitt, the (log becoming more violent. This set the nobleman to thinking. He remem. bered the large amount of money lie hadI vith him ; lie took up his pistols to ox amine them, and found the priming had been removed from the pans. lie inine diately reprimed and cocked them, aind I laid thlem on the table ; then he took up the chair on wvhich he was sitting, a heavy oak one and threw it on the bedl, much to time apparent satisfaction of the dog; then took it off, and~ arranged the bolster in its lhace, and wvaitedl for what should follow. About fifteen minutes elapsed wihen he notied~ the bedstead begani to settle and continiuedl to settle gradiually until it had dlisappeared through a trap), in tihe floor. He sat opp)osite to the edge of the trap, and looking dlowni saw the landlord and his coachman, 01ne with a knife and the other withl a bludgeon, and a third person with them. The fiends disappointed in their object, and taking the word of the coach man that the pistoia were harmiless, startedi for the nobleman's room ; but he hiad aroused his steward andi was prepared. As I hey openedl the (door they were met by the noblemian and the dog. The latter seized tihe landlordl by tite throat, while the stewardl appeared on the spot just as the valet was coming to the aidi of is confeder ate. All three were severely bruised and left in charge of the steward andl the dog ; while the nobleman, as soon as it was day light, went t'or a magistrate, aind they we're duly committed, triedl, andl hung, after mlakinig a full confession of the plot. Without a Divorce, "Cap'n, I've got a thing that you might work uip," said a man to the chief of po. lice. "All right," replied the chief; "just conie iup into mly oficee." "'Now," he continued whenm lie had shut t he (loor', "go ahead." '"You, of course, know that when a man nimrries againi without a divorce lie can b~e p'ut into the penitentiary." "Yes." "Well, Uolonei Billungs never got a di voice.'' '"ie can be arrestedi then." "I1 dlon't want to sprmng questions of law at you, but if you will give meo a half pint of whisky ll Prove that lhe cannot be ar-' restedl accordling to law." "You say lie married again without get ting a dlivoree?" "Yes, sir." "Pirove thien thait lie hasi not violated the laiw anmd ill give you fillty cents." "Well, yon see some fifteen years ago, Billings nmarried a ladly ini Maine. After hvinig wit.h'hier awhile lie came to Little "if thut is thme ease, hie has violated time law.." 'No, lhe hmasni't." "Hlecause lis first wise died before lie iinrrietl again." "A h're, take your fifty cents, bult if you ever comle up) these stalrs again I'll throw you out the wlndlow." 'InnI white men didn't have a cdlor of a chane in t he walkingr match. Save the Older. "One thing is certain," said Mr. I-ath. away, emphatically, "forty gallons of cider won't keep while we're drinking it. There must be something to put in it to keep it from spoiling, and I've heard that mustard seed Is the article. "I agree with you," said Mr. Lefling well. "If you don't take care of it, the elder will sour, and I encline to the Idea that horse radish is the best. Put in horse radish and your cider will keep all win ter." "Lot me remark, gentlemen," said Mr. Anderson, laying down a chicken wing and wiping his moustache, "that raisins are what you want. Dump in plenty of raisins and you've got your cider where you want It. Think so, Mr. Sherwood?" "I can't say I do," rejoined Mr. Sher wood." "There Is no doubt that the cider will spoil unless you put in something, but what you want le borax. A pound of borax will keep that barrel of cider until spring. Each gentleman sustained his view with potent arguments, but the diniter was flu ished before any conclusion was arrived at, and the party separated. "'They can talk about their borax and raisins and horse radish until they're gray, " said Mr. Hathaway, as lie flopped out of I bed at daylight the next morning, "but I'll have my mustard seed in before they roll out;" and cautiously stepping down stairs, lhe extracted the bung and poured a liberal lose of the seeds Into the barrel. "That will keep," he muttered, "for six years," and diving the bung hoie, he went back to bed. "a's clear to my mind that Hathaway is trying to save that cider by faith, "mut tered Mr. Leflingwell an hour later as lie groped around for his cloths. "Mustard seed I" Why, lie might just as well pit In squash rind. I'm going to .fill that barrel with horse radish before lie's up and show him how to keep cider. Mustard iced I I'll head the subscription with five dollars to test his sanity." And Mr. Let lngwell shivered down to the cellar and cracked away with the hammer until the bung flew out like a bullet. "There!" he ejaculated, as lie pushed the horse rad ish in with his thumb, "that'll (o the business," and with chattering teeth he prowled back to his ioom. "One would think to hear those people talk that they'd been brought up in an archard," said Mr. Anderson to himself, as dte jabbed the right foot into the wrong I alipper. "Borax I Horse radish I Mustard What that cider wants is raisins, and that's what it's going to get." Upon which Mr. Anderson crept down into the cellar and innoculated the barrel with a couple of pounds of raisins. "It's beginning to spoil already," lie soliloquized, cycing the float ing seeds and radish suspiciously, without identifying them. "If I hadn't been light ning quidk we'd have been drinking vinegar by this time." and satisfied that lie had iaved the beverage he went back to the iheets. "What I'm afraid of," remarked Mr. Sherwood, as lie opened the door carefully, iud slipped down stairs. "What I'm Lf raid of is that those fellows will begin to Linker with that barrel before I can get there. If they can nianage to stick their foolishness in first, I'm gone, but if I can amnpty this borax before they're around there's so much cider saved. Mr. Slier wood belted away at the barrel umil the bung toppled out, and in went the borax. "That's the business," he observed with great satisfaction, as he replaced the bung. "It will teach those boys not to be so dog inatic with their remedies hereafter." "I don't believe that cider was very good in the first place," said Mr. Anderson, as lie pushed his glass from him that night it dinner. ''We got swiiled on that sider. ". think so," s-ild Mr. Sher wood. "'It lad a bad taste when we tapped It. It Isn't fit to dirinki now." "I'd head a subscription with live (101 tars to send that cider man to the peniten tiary," observed Mr L eflhigwell, severely. lt is not good cider. We co'uldn't'have p~ut .nyting In it to keep it. What do you hink, Hathaway?" "I had my suspicions of it from the hrst" said ~ Mr. Hathaway. "'it's 01(d itock, and 1 think we'd 'Jetter give It iway." And then there was silence and each gentleman wonidered if it, hadn't been bet ter to have let, the other gentemian try their various recip~es before zealously ad. mninistering his Own. A writer from Munich. Bavaria, says that between the two d visions of the graveyard is a large build ng at all times. A crowvd gathered in fro it of thenm at tracted my attention, n 1, jomning it, I be held a most singular anui startling sight. A few feet beyond the glass doors lay the dead Munich of the past dlay, with their feet toward the spectator and their heads slightly elevated. TIhieir faces were p~lamr ly visible in all the pallor of death. Be tween these corpses were extended wvere quite invisible in the p)rofuslin of flowers. All were dresseel not in the gloomy grave clothes of other counteries, but in a grace fuil garments associated -rather with life and pleasure than with the gloom of the grave. Tlhus thcro wvas nothing repulsive in the sight and yet, there wvas a p)ublicity about about it, which seemedi wanitin~g in delicacy. A little babe but, a few weeks 01(d was lying on one of the sarcophlagi p~rep~aredl for this last-service. It was cov.. cied with laces anid flowers aiid looked like a tiny maiirble statue, pale and white. Nothing could be mocre beaiutiful, and yet nothinmg could( be more lonely. It seemed almost, cruel that this dead could not have remained in its home, among those who lovedi it, best, until the moinm came for laying it, away forever in thme crowded graveyard. But at, Mumich the strange custom has existed for years of exposing the (lead thus publicly before burial, and all classes, rich and poor, must submit, to the rule. While the cuitomi to us seems repugnaiit, the surroundings are so beauti ful that, to those who are accustomed to it there is nothing grating to the feelings. In deedl, that fearful death watch, so dreary and sad a necessily when death visits an Ameclean family, is wholly avoided by this sy stem, for the dead lIe here awaiting buiriail in well.appohnted places In cempan ionship of the dead, and well p~rotcctedl;anmd watched. Friends have access at all hours to this apartment, of light and thowers, and in ease of suspenideth animiation amid return ing to conscIous Immediate and can be af forded. FOOD FOR TIOUGIIT. The heart ought to give charity when the hand 0an not. One day is worth tir to him who (loes everything iI order. ' Worth begets in small minds envy ; In groat souls, emulation. Tie,sesret pleasure of a genqrus act Is the great mind's bribe. He who labors for mankind has al ready begun his Immortality. Ten per makes or mars more happl ne than any other quality. A great deal of pride obscures or blerlshes a thousand good qualities, Blushing is a suffusion--least seen in those who have the most occasion for it. Good nature and evenness of temper will give you an easy companion for life. The misfortune of happiness is sa tiety, and the happiness of misfortano Is hope. Never relate your misfortune, and never grieve over what you cannot prevent. Everybody is innocent in sonic corn ar of the mind, and has faith in some ;ling. He is not only idle who does uotiiig ut he is idle who aight be beoter 0m )loyed. We are more sociable, and get on xetter with people, by the heart than Ahe intellect. We cannot control the evil tongues )f others, but a good life enables us to 118)180 them. The youth who thinks the world his >yster, and opeis It forthwith, flncti 1o pearl therein. No place, no company, no age, 110 )erson, is tenrptation free. Lot no mali )oast Ctiat he Is free. 'L'o be sharp-sighlted Is connendable; Mt to be wittily wicked i to do the [e vil double service. Poverty often deprives a man of all pirit and virtue. It is hard for anl nrpty bag to stand upright, Circumstauces formu tile character; mt, like petrifying matters, they har len while they formn. To be able to bear provocation is an rguinent of great wisdom; and to for rive it, of a great mind. If tie disposition is good, the acts vill be so too, though h n~u may not )e able to do as he desires. If you wish for care, perplexity and nisery, be sellish In all things; tills Is he short road to trouble. Wlei one has no design but to speak haliu truth, he may say a great deat in i very narrow co.rpass. If a mran can be happy and contented ii ils own company, lie will generally we good coinpany for others. The filrst ingredient in conversation s truth, the next good sense, the third rood hu1mor, and the fourth wit. Sweet is the breath of praise when bivenr by those whose own high mlerk1t lainis the praise they give. This world is not our rest; we have iere rio continuing city. Liet us seek hi, "city that hath foundations." Nalture makes us poor when we want iecessaries, but custoim gives the namea )f p)verty to the Want of s'rperhialties. The time Ior reasoning is before we lave approached near enouh to tie 'orbidden fruit to look at it and ad rire. Thiie way to conquer men Is by their )usmeSS; catch but tile ruling foible ,f their hearts, and all their boasted rrrtues shrink before you. Throse who, without knrowvinug us, hrink or speak evil of 'is, do us no marm, It is rnot us they attack, but tire )laritom of their own imagination. It is wvell to have faith in every hing, butL you want to careofully ex, mine the Inside of' a chestnut before 'ou trust altogether to appearances. A religious life is not a tiring that wends itself hike a bright bubble on he river's surface. It is rather like he river itself, which widenis continru 0hy, anid is never so broad or deep ars vibere it rolls int~o the ocean of eter ity. Man often weeps in his sleep. When eo awakos hle scarce remembers that e hras shedl tears. 8o regard life, in hre second, thou wilt, rno longer know hrthoa hrast wept lfnahe ilra~~a~ Inlduction bring tire righlt path ~ ne'wledge, every man, whether I1 Cnows it or not, uses iinducrtion, more r less, by the mere fact of iris having u iman reason, arid knowing any thing It all. What a strange desperate notion it is >f men, when they have erred, that hlings are at tire worst, that nothing 3an be done to rescue them I whereas 11udas iscarror. might have done some hrhinrg bretter than hang hrimseif. Th'Iis evil fortune which attends ex. ,raordhiary men hiath bean imiputedi to livers causes that need not be set town when so obvious a one occurs, hat whienr a great genius appear's tihe luneces are all in counspiracy agalist The sihortest and surrest wauy to live wvitin honor in the worid is to be in ire lity what we wouldi appear to be ; arid, it we observe, we shall find that~ all miuman vi rtuecs increase C id strelnghitoni hieinselves by tire practice arid experi .11e0 of them. The life of every man is as tihe well. iprirng of a strenamr, whlose smiall begina lihngs are indeed plain to ail, biut whose sourse and destiniationi, as it wvind rrourgh tihe expanses of in finite years, )nuy the Oennriscient can disc.irn. Dioubtless good womren have, ore ~his, married bad men from thre very jest of motlves. Bumt few of us are sir gelie enough to dare such frighiui )ddis; low 01 urs are strong enrough to rave drowning men. We are fair mrore ilkely do drown with them, N4ature is very good to all hrer clild-1 ron, for as half the h ardshrips of thne world are imnaginary, shle fences men round with anm armor of hopes and do luiions to keep t rem from being hurt, or, at least, to soften tire pain, It, is to tire prosperlty or tire citizenr tind riot to tire dlemlands of the creditor jf tihe State, that the fIrst arid origir~at Lantk of ciyl Irsicety is pledged. Theu kialin of tire elt uzen is prior ini time,pma rusmount in title, and superior in equib