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RI-WEEKLY EDITION.- WINNSBORO, S. C., MARCI 8, 1881. -, .~' HOLD UP YOUR READ LIKE A MAN. . 1 the atoiny yinds should rustlq While you tread the world's highway Still against them bravely tussle, I ope and labor day by day, Falter not, no mrtter 1vhthir 'hereis sunshine, storm or calm, And in every kid of weather, Hold your head up like a man. If a brother should deceive you. And should act a traitor's part, Never let his treaqon grieve you, Jg along with'igbisome heart Foituno seldopi follows fawning, - oldness'is the only plan, Hoping for a better dawning. Hold your head up like a man: Earth, though o'er so rich atad mellow, Yields not for the worthiese drone, But the bold and honest fellow, He can shift and stand alone; Spurn the knave of overy nation, Always do the best you can, And no matter what your station, Hold your head up like a mai. Madeline. All the girls who wore leaving school carried with them anticipations of a gay winter, a round of parties, balls and oper as. Not so with Madline Dolannoy. The dying will of her father made her aunt's house he~r home, -for the 'years between 18 and 21; and if Madeline had been unwill ing to comply, she-would still have gone, so great was ker respect for her father's ieiory. Mrs. Chathard was an Invalid, and ier family consisted only of her son-a man over 30, and said to be eccentric-and the old family servi nto. Decidedly, not avery bd1liant prospec'for Madeline. - It was a sullen a1un day when Made line rode, for the first time, up the aveue leading to her aunt's house. She saw a gray sky, flying clouds, and a white beaoli on which the sea bbat heavily in, and stand Ig in the midst of a cluster of pines,-vas a low, massive building, that might have been a prF)o'n, and')os3ibly was a house. No one 'came to the door to welcome her. OhMrs hth4rd was in the library, and beg ge'd that Maddlintiwould come to her there. h',?Ve found her lying on the sofa, busy with 'some sort of Knitting-a sallow, dLheate, ,"she said,slinking back, as Wede linphowed a dispos tion to kiss her;I -n oue but orederick has kissed me for years. Don't commence'. I am a creature of hab ')it;* I don't like to be disturbid in any of may regula'r.labits. I only conic down to day on your account, and it has quite un n ved ime. I shall , not try it again. I iunst have perfect repose. Frederic comes - to see me morning and evening; that is as much as I can bear.". With tbqtg MadQline was waved off to "herroom, .wihre -inqanation sui>plantet a Ssirbng aes cry, sud curiosiq grfdual ly got the better of both. .. wasloilly, suhe'decided, on looking albout her, a pleas ant roozp, with crineon curtiins and furil ture, and a deep wihdow looking out on the sea. There was a bureau,. with a great many little drawers, and she pleased her self with arranging them mentally. There *) was a vase of flowers that spoke of a con servatory; she had seen that the library was well filled; a pretty piano occupied a recess in her room. "I shall pass my time very tolerably," thought Madolhe, resignedly. "I wonder what my cousi7 1s like?" Perhaps this last thought had some in fluence in her toilet,.elso why should ibe have braidLd her hair and put on her most becoming dress? It was hardly to be sup posed that.her charms would have much effect on the quiet parlor-maid who alone was in attendance. Madedine ate her suppecr with curling lip and a stormy brow.. ."He is a barbarianl I know I shall hate himi" was her 'Inward coinment. "lie must have known that I would be here. tie might havoebjen'civil. H~owever, I sh@1 do very wcelowitllout him!'' And, getting a book from the library g~ lelves, she sat herself down i-esolutely to -read. But, try as she wonld, hier thoughts wandered back to the p~leasant room where she used to sit with her gi'rl friends,. read ing and talking~ so differeont from this great, silent, hiandtomeo house. I an afraid the contrast was not too favorable, for, her pillow was wet with tearithiat night. A weok passed away. During that time Madeline saw Mrs.' Chathard-once--that was all. The rest of the time sheo passed msolitude, till ..Saturday evenings, when the prime 01(d housekeeper entered the par lor wvhere Madelie was sitting, work-bas kot In hiaid. "Mr.' Frcdericalp at lon6~ said shte, "and hMrs. Cha(gard~think it proper that I should sit in the roqm," with whichi'expla-. nation she walked over to the extreme end of the apaftmnent, a'ntI vanished behind the curtins of the bayhwindow. . Madeline curhdi Jyr lip' slightly ht these prudentialprepar t~na sy ent on with hier readin tryi on Ino iterdelf that her heart ah nctb*tig tat She'heard a quick' Inasguliko'bDe witiiotit in the Ihall, heard icome in the room and adivane to ward her, but did not raise her eyes till he stood diredtly before her$ She' had hard work to repress her surprise, he- was so lit tie like what she had iimaginied. Not 0old - --for if he was really thirty, lhe by no means looked his age--not tall, thin and sallow; on the contrary, small, though well formed, with an abundance of hair; large blue eyes tliat should have belpnged to a woman, so evenly arched were tha3 brows. so long Were the lasheb, so 'sbft, so alnmost suffering, their expression; clear-cut fca turos; 'teeth that showed' wnite a'ud even through his thick mustache; a gentle, qluiet, assured manner, neither austere nor frownmsh, as Madeline had imagined, but that of a gentleman and a man of *tho lie apologized easily eniough for the ap parent incivility: "Important business," t. utiuch-endirling 'scapegoat,' had ,de tained hp n-w was extremeI~ sorry. . But Mkdelino, who had no patience with his lame excuses, interrupted him sharplf: "Pray, sparo-youi' regrets, it is quite evi dent that your sorrow is of the dleepmest dye. Your countenance bespeaks it." Mr. Frederic opeiled his ejes wide andl sat down. Hitherto he hmad seemed unde . cidedldn'th'd quiestion. "8o, then, you are really offended y shwit afteha pi?'4 fashion. hia ( Wi rhl a e akj) J. 1 li th ath >- ( f.w-n tng at all?" demanded Madeline, still more ludignantly. "A few minutes ago I thought not. I intended to have gone through the neces. sary formalities, and after thAt, to have sat occasionally with you, by way of keeping you; in countenance; but nw I say yeal There is something original about you; it inay' be only a spark, a glimmer; but what. ever it .is, I will develop it." '" ou leave my individuality out ot a.c count, I think." "Not in the least. I count on it for my amusement." "Amusement! We share the same blodd, Mr. Chathard. 1.think you ,should know soniething of the will which Is among our heirlooms. I doubt if I shall choose to serve even a Chathard as amusement." " You will have no choice. You will go to church with me to morrow. You will see and be seen of all the magnates. They will forthwith call upon you; you will go to make a round of'dreary visits; you will go to solemn tea Ldrinkings; you will talk tp Capt. Fanway and Sir Peter Farquiutr, the two cligibles of the parish; and when you have alked over the weather, you will begin to idget, and wish yourself home with me Even a bear like me will prove more or dui'able than those unmitigated young men. You will talk with me, and, in the nature of things,. you will amuse me. You* cannot help yourself." "1 have other resources," answered Malteline, loftily. "I have arranged a dia matic course of study.' Mr. Chathard laughed. "Try it, my dear cousin, by all means. It is a most enchanting thing In the world -in prospect. Try it, I say .again; and remember, I shall be very happy . to aid you if any (lifliculty occurs-whichm, though it is to be presumed, is not possibleI." With winch he took iumseit on, leaving Made!ine, piqued and cunouis. She had ain'ple time, however, to recover herself, and proceed with her studies. It was three mortal weeks before lie presented himsell ,again. When he did come, it was in a ghostly fashion. She was bending over a book, and looking weary and strangely dis satislied. lie gave her a chair near him. "Talk!'' lie said imperatively. "I aim bored." . Madeline's hot blood leaped up in revolt. Words hovered on her lips, that, cool as hQ was, cauld not butliave placed an effee. tual-bai rier between thei. Something or rested them. A pained look was in his eye, anguish about his mouth, showing dimly through the mask of cynicism. A new ipulse possessed her. ."Cousin," she satd, gentle enough. -''Why should we be at war? We are of the same blod; and I think we are alike b 6ne thing at least -that we are both ione. Why goad each other with bitter words? Would it not be better to hel) each other? I don't ask nor offer any con fidence; only if there could be a lljing and a friendship between us, let it develop it. self. Let us not hinder it. A am so lone ly; and I think, if you would let ic, thia. u, U'JUVL 112% yoU. "I swore once," lie said, "never to trust mankind, still less womankind, again." ' Unsay the rash oath," she said eagerly. "It shuts you from all happiness and good ness." "How dare you ask ime? In whom shall I trust?" .4\ "In me?" '--. "A girl-a child, that doesn't know even the mcaning of things about her, much less her own heart?" "I know one thing; the truth that I feel within me. That never (lies, and never fails. Only try me, cousin. I long to do you good." "1 believe you do," lie said much sof tened. "I believe, with all of my inno cent fervor, you do wish it. I will trust till 1 see that you, too, are going to deceive me. Will you take the rcsponsibilit y?" Madeline hold out her hand, and so there was a truce between them. - Every night they studied and talked under the super vision of the prim housekeeper; anid at last ho feil into a way of taking a morning Waitc with her in time garden, pnd riding with lier to several parties. and( alwvays to church; and the neighborhood held up its hiands in astonishment. Months paissed away. Very . peaceful, happy ones they were. But one evening he failed to make lisa appearance. All the next day Madeline watched for him, but, in vain. "Heo has gone away," she thmouirht, with a keen pang, "'and1 did not, toll me." One week passed-two-three. 5ue pens grew unendurable. bhie ventured anm inquiry of the prim housekeep~er. "M1r. Frederic is not far away-he's ill." "Jill! Why was I not told? I will mgo and see him at oncol" "lie has the typhlus fever, Miss; and Firs. Chathiard ordered that you should on no account be0 admitted, for fear of the in fection." Madeline left the housekeeper withbout ,another v.'ord, and( went straight to 1Fred ,er 's room. She was not, very sure of its :lxil$y; for it was in the other wing of 'the hduse, a place where she had never venituredl. She was, however, exceedingly doubtful of the propriety of gaing in at all; but if lie should die without her, would propriety console her? She wenit in treim bling, lie wvas alone *and awake, lHe turned towards lher, hollow, reproachful eyes. "Are you better?" was the first ques tion. "Yes; bmut why have you left me alone so long? I thought that you eared for "I do, 1 do! I never know. I waitedh andl wondere'd, and grew sick at heart. No one told me, and to-diay 1 asked. Iwa too proud to (10 it before. I thought 'you had gone away, after the old fashion,with out telling me. Thon they saId I musn't come to you for fear- of the infection." "There is (hanger! (Go away at once!" "I will not. WVhy shiouki I not shig-e (danger with you! All the. orders in the world sban't dive me from youl'' ,lie turned toward her with "'~ an mationl, seizing her hand, looked.M'. 1 5 ihto her facem, and said, ."My httlealrnest~iy~ 11 reallhy believe that ydu' love Adarling, fah'" - 1e as I 'do And fri'th t mfomnt. of docter's h1ysc; qrnd amne - house is gay enough un'te th17t' su pervigon oftthe youhg Mr s. FrediosU erio Cliathard. or ~ Ms rd vho w' seey to' or queos - aere $f FOREm some ga'~ on the ' killed 11l wearing no them, aind t t; seL iy must have d ~h Sob Co' #" A Female Iron Mask. On'thd banks of the .Marne, close by tle village of It., and about three.quarters of an hour distant from Paris, stands the cha. teau of the Marquis of R. It is a very grand old chateau, built at a tine when every country residefice was a fortress, and tourists travel thither .from afar to admire its turrets and its donjon, and its portcul ,lis and, above all, its armory, which is said to contain the finest private collection of offensive and defeiisive weapons in France. There hangs, the authentic suit of armor %1orn by Francis 1, at Marignan, and a no less authentic buckler brought back by one of the noble owner's ancostors from Pales tine, where once it had been carried by Saladin. There, too, is Lo be seen the "glaive of justice" before whieh fell the head of the count of Montmorency-Boutte' ville, with illustrious cuissards and cele brated bra8sard8 and daggers and rapiers aid cimetarseach with its especial history. But the gems df the gallery are the hel iets,of which there are specimens of every shape and epoch, from the humble inorion of the reitre to the plumed and gilded casque of tLe knight. In fact,helmets are the particular hobby of the marquis; who is, or rather was, prouder of his collection than of anything else in the world, until he took unto himself a wife, when, so long as the novelty of the situation, lasted, she ussuned the first place in his affections. But the Marchioness, who was a restless lit tle Parisienne, did not like the village of R., nor the chateau of Rt. She found the neighbors dlull, and saw no nore charms in the Sunday evening's game of whist with the notary, the cure, tand her husba.d. Time hung heavily on her hands; she had nothing to do, and so looked about her for some distraction, as she was as much out of place in that gloomy old castle as would be a canary bird inside of a cannon. She found it naturally; most people do find what, they want if they seek diligently and are aided by the devil, as she was, for the distractor appeared in the form of Mr. T. P., the son of an eminient Parisian doctor, who has a vilia in the environs. All through the sununer their flirtations went on nicely, if wickedly, but, as usual, the pitcher went to the well once too often. One of the servants considerately informed his niaster of Madame's "'carryings-on," and when Monsieur came in unexpectedly upon the turtle (loves last Wednesday even ing lie was not-left in any doubt; Air. T. 11. jumped out of the window and was not shot after; the lady dropped upon her knees afid asked for mercy. "Madame," said M. de R., with a calmness minore terrible than would have been an explosion of wrath, "Ibe good enough to get up and ac company me." "But this costume." she ventured to protest. "Is perfectly approlri ate," was the reply and, like another statue of the commander, he led the way to the armory. "It is all over with me," thought the Alarchionaes, "he means to cut my head off," but they passed by the "glaive ofusetic and never stppg until thu prologue. On Thursday morning as the milk-carts came in at the Grenoelle gate of the fortifications, their drivers were aston ished to see a female sitting on the pave ment clad only in a chemise, but withti her head surmounted byI an iron casque from which floated an immense plume of ostrich feathers. Who was she, whence camne she what was the meaning of tlis strange ac coutirenent? 'All those questions were ask ed, first by the milkmen and then by the police agents who conveyed her to the nearest guard-house. The answers Camtle but were inau'dible; from behind that low ered visor her voice sounded like the bark of a little dog at the bottom of a copper kettle with Its cover on. At last somebody thought that perhaps she.inight be able to write her story, which, as my readers may have supposed, is a continuation of the ro .enade in the R. armory. Trhen a lock smith was sent for, bur he could do nothing towaird ridding her of her cumberson head gear, the secret spring of whose fastenIngs is only knowvn to the marquis hims~elf. A dispatch was p~ostedi of! to, R., hut the mnar quis had left-for two years, said the stew ardl, and without giving an',; address. ex cept that of his banker in Paris, who has not been told yet whither lie is to direct his correspondence. 80 stands the affair nowu, aind there is no reason to anticipate its speedy termInation. -The victim is fed on liqluiids through a tube passed between the lbars of the helmet, am.dI gets just enough air to avoid suffocation; but can she endure the torture until hern lord relents? The steel is so marvelously temipered that, It turns the edge of every tool so far tricdl upon it, and theo unlucky heroine of this extraordituary but p~ositively veracious lis tory is not likely to derive much consola tion from the inscription found uponU the piece of armor, from which it, appears that it is one of the chef8 d'wauwc of the cele brated Florentine armorer Galotti, made by him expressly for Alphonso d'Este,the fourth husband of the notorious Liucrezia Bhorgia. Truth and Oandor. A gentleman who has an office in .New York wvas recently waiting In front of 8t.. Pail's for a few minutes when lie was approached by a mendicant', whosse lace andi fIgure he know well,Theman canme to a deadl halt before him without speakmng,and the gentleman finally said: "Four weeks apgo you askecd me for money to hellp you to get to Buffalo." '"1 (1id sir, but the climate there ldi't agree with me and 1 returned." "Three weeks ago you aked mec for aid( to help bury your dead wife," continued the gentleman. ''That's so; andl 1 burled her accordling to programmne. Poor 01(1 soull 8he is now at, rest." .. ."Tiwo) wq - "1 asked imc for ahns to hellp you ago yoa rent." YO ake out, you g ae h burder't I paid the rent . u hae th off01 miy piind.''icelt ey/eek'agolIgaveo.you. .ick b o up yed Eget medicine for y~wl *i youid; and lie is " htnetw excuise have yo i,o ot' *dtim'e'to didh~teii ceifts out of me, "~Nonio- whmatgver," 'was $bo solemn sans wer. "To toll you the truth, I am stu P Dd for aj .xcuse, thoughi I do needi a hi' ti Dbange. "I igigilt.glve it to you' for your truithi. !ulness,', suggested tii genitlemthan, 4 *"Tmnt's so, -it's a *wond4r I didn't think ,f that. Thanks, sirr I'm gia21to find one awhb appreciates trttiandfat~ddr." --Thie.p~opan crop oi Texas just gath ered Is unjranadaiitaa A -- A Duel witiu Ittmns. A remarkable duel has just taken place which forits novelty and fearful termina Lion has set the Parisians agog. rwo brothers, Auguste and Andre Berni, the former aged lorty. the latter thirty-three, both employed hf the great glass manufac tory at St. Denis, became enamored of Adele Vergerl, sa cook at La Villette. Adele Vergeri Ia described as a woman of plain, s1iple habits, one who had, by dint of hard work and economy, managed to save a few hundred francs. In appearance Adele Is but a hupmble representative of France, but she Is modest and retiring, and not given to resorting to balls and theatres. She formed the acquaintance of the broth era at a baptism. Both, it appears from the first, began paying her attentions. Adele Vergeri received the visits of the brothers with much sang froid. To her it was anausing to see first one, then the other, come puflng and blowing in his de site to be first to greet hvr. Neither would give in to the other, and Adele had to escort them both out, as neither would leave the other alone with her. So terri ble became the Jealously between the brothers that they would not spean with each other. It had, however, to be settled at last, as Adele Vergeri threatened that unless their courtship ceased to be mixed with hatred she would have to ask the brothers to desist fronm calling upon her. The brot-hers met. They had parted with Adele Vergeri, and both confronted each other in one of the gient wine shops of the Saint Denis quarters, so appropriately called by Zola "Assommtoir." They glared at each other, and their friendssaw atonce that trouble was brewing. They' finally motioned to each other to withdraw to a table. They spoke low, but excitedily ; they smoked quickly, and the lue smoke of lheir pipes was hot. "A duel Yes, a duel l' This was distincily heard, and then the brothers becioneti to Jules emnri and Alfred Poulier, friends of theirs, They had decided upon fighting a duel, but not with swords or pistols. It was to be a duel to the death. Two bottles of rum, brought from the cellars of Jacques Barbier's As somnmoir de 6aint Denis, were put on the table. Two tumblers were set beside the bottles, and thlen this contract was made by the brothers in the presence of 'witnes Bes: "It gas agreed between the brothers Au guste and Anldre Berni to drink ruin until either is unable to drink any more. The first who succumbs will consider himself beaten, and surrender all claims to Adele Vergeri." The contract was signed, the bottles tapped, and tumnblers filled. At first "the men drank slowly, but as the liquor began to excite their brains they fairly poired t (own their throats. At the iath glass Auguste, the younger of the brothers, gave a yell of pain and sank sen seless to the floor. Andre Berni then arose, and, with a smile on his face, turned to leave. Hardly had lie reached the door of the cabaret wheni he threw up his hands 'riedfo'tbe hospiin . lie )k.. -died siortly after reaching it of concussion of the brain and -paralysis of the heart. Aigustie Berni, crazed by the rum he drank, recovering from his fainting fit, ran madly through the streets, and has not been seen since. Adele Vergeri, the humble cook of Sa Villete, when she heard of the death of Andre and t e dissappearanco of Auguste, merely shrugged her shoulders Anger. The Emperor Nerva died of a violent excess of anger against a senator who had offended him. Valentiman, the first Ronian emperor of that time, while reproaching with great passion the deputies from the Quadi, a people of Germany, burst a blood vessel, and suddenly fell lifeless to the ground. "I have seen," said Tourtello, a French medical writer, ''two wvomen perish, the one in convulsions, at the cad of six hours, and the other sulrocatedh in two (lays, fromn giving themselves up to the transports of lury." Tihe celebrated John Hunter fell a sudiden vict im to a paroxysmn of this p~as sion. Mr. Ilunter, as is fanilliar to mledi cal readers, was a man of extraordinary geniuis, but thte sub~ject of violent auger, which, from the diet of early moral cul ture, lie had not learned to control. Suf fering (during his latter years under a comn plaint, of the heart, has existenice was in constaiit jeopardy from his ungovernable temper ; an1 lie had been acard to remark that "his life was in thte hands of any rascal who chose to annoy him." .Etngagedl one day in a unpleasant altercation with his cobeagues in. the board room at St. George's hospital, London, he was p)er emiptorily contradicted ; hte immediately ceased speaking, hutrriedi into atn adjoining ap' tment, and instantly fell (lead. Whenu the lut of anger Is of long continu anice, or 'eqtient recune'nce, it frequently hays the fountdat ion of seine most serious and1 lasting allietins; thus many eases of palsy, of epilepsy, of convulsions and of madness imay he tracd to violent anger and uingovernable temper. Dr. Ghood cites the case of ChiarhesjVL., of France, "who being violently mctensedi against the D uike of Bretagne, and burning with a spilrit of naalice mand revenge, could neither eat, drink nor sleep for mtany days together, and at length became furiously mad as Ite Was riding . on -horseback, dIrawing his sword and striking promiscutously every one whto aippioahmed hm. Trho disease fixed upon isa intellect, tad accomnpantied him to1 his death." lInaroads~ in the Btoay Land. As a part of tihe scheme for colonizamg the Hloly Land with Jews, it is proposed to bring. theo western terminus of the Etuphrates Valley Rallway (dowit front Alex andretta to liaifa. 'At Alexandretta the. greatest engineering dilllculty is encount crefi at once, itt climbing thme steep lills which inclose the hatrbor. In Palestine a similar dhillctu.ty presents itself it the pas sage of the Jordian Valley. '. ihe most fav orable estinmate 'of the grade Is as follows: Fronm laifa the lIne would follow the [Plain of Esdlraclon and rise to Its water shied graduallhy,only two hundred and~ fifty feet in fIfteen miles; bnt then, taking the wine passage of the Valley of Jezreeh to wardI the Jordlan,it would fall nine hundred feet In thte next fifteen miles. Thence, af ter crossing the river, it would have to .scend to the highlands of the ,Yarmuk, or 11 toromax, at the rate of one hundred feet ' ile and to the unbroken extenit of hre 1,housand feet 'in thirty miles. It would e~n be readIly carried to Damas sun and AJflPo Uhristinas in Mexico. A writer from Blexico said our Christ. muas festivities or "Posadas" ended with (hristmas eve. Then all devout Mexicans went to the midnight mass, and the 25th, which foreigners regard as the day to be commemorated, was celebiated by the dif ferent foreign tribes in lexico according to tile customs of their respective coun tries. The Posadas were unusually ani. mated this year. As those who have never visited Mexico may not comprehend the word, allow me to give a short descrip tion of these semil-relhglous festivals. 'ie idea is to represent the nine days' journey of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, when, by order of Cwsar, they went to Jerusalem to be taxed. and could not find lodgings on the route, but were forced to seek shelter im a stable in Bethlehem. These Posadas are held for nine nights, usually in tihe house of the eldest representative of a family: A landscape, representing a lonely road through a hilly cointry, made of mimic -rocks, trees, moss and sand, is arranged on a litter, wax figures of the Virgin on a mule, St. Joseph, staff ini hand, walking beside her, an angel guiding them, being placed on it, and this is borne by four young children. In rich fanihes those who carry the litter are dressed as angels, have wings of gauze, white satin dresses and slippers, and are attended by maids of honor carrying large wax candles in silver candlesticks. Next follow the musicians, and then come the elders of the family, the guests, children and servants from the head-nurse down to the scullion and stable-boy, each bearig a lighted taper and all chanting the "Litany to the Virgin Mlother;". the "Ora pro nobis" is sting by the musicians and male "pere grinos" (pilgrims.) This procession makes the tour of the house (passing through 1 ante-rooms; corridors, etc.) then a certain t mnnber (accompanied by half of the musi cantis) represent a family dwelling in Beth- i leaem, and entering a room lock the door, 1 and one man who personates St. Joseph ( knocks, asking for admission (lie sings his I part and ie accompanied by musicians), I stating "The night is dark and cold, the c wind blows fiercely and my wife is ex- < hausted by a long day's journey." The < chorus within harshly refuse the pilgrims ( admission. St. Joseph pleads pathetically. I but vainly. Finally he exclaihs: "Alas ! i Mary, the mother of the Messiah, has not a where to lay her head." At the mention of her name the ddors fly open, the pil- I gris airc welcomed with songs and many - tiemonstrations of respect, rockets are t fired, and the image of "the illustrious v one" Is removed from the litter and placed 1 under a canopy. There is usually in this t room a "'nacimienlo," oi ahar, on which a lb piced a representation of the birth of I Christ in the stable of Bethlehem ; some - s times other wax and pasteboard figures -f "the shepherds who watched their flocks I by night," the Wise Men of the East, etc., ( are beautifully arranged with green boughs a and colored tapers. After the guests and t connected with the advent. allh:sten dowir to the patio (court-yard), where a large < olla (an earthenware jar or vase covered U with tinsel, various colored papers or flow- I ors and ribbons) is suspended from a rope i and tilled with candies; a large circle is v formed around time olla, the children are b by turns blindfolded, led a short distance ( from the spot, then a stick is Oiven each. < One after the other attacks tie olla. and lie or she who breaks it Is the hero or I hcroine of the evening, but the scattered 2 sweets are left for the servants. Imme- t diately after this the family and visitors f retire to the dining-room, where bcnbons, a toys and little souvenirs of the evening are v distributed. As a crowning finale there is 1 dancing and music in, tihe parlor, while the ( servants amuse themselves in the court- t yard performing the Jarobe, tihe jota Am- t gouna or sne Intldian dances. The poor- t est family in Mexico manages to have i Posadas. Recently youur correspondent,t accomipaniedi by three friends, ascendedi to the roof of a building aiid, like Asmodsus, t looked diowni thence into the patio of an 1; udjoininig house, when the porter and por-. Lereises were having their Posadla. 'rhe r inajority of their guests were waiters and inusicians of the lower classes, but they mang thme Litany to the Virgin with thrill- t ing effect. Our party was, of course in vms blo, anti, lookinig upon these Mevicans fromi tihe height upon which we stood, the i starry heavens above us, the earnestness C af tihe percgrinos, or pilgrms, in their j ahant, miingling with recollections of home, 5> moved me that only the p~resencee of a ynileal Spaniard anti a light-hieadetd Ameri- s eanf girl p~revcet mei from kneeling to thank the Savior for the atonement lie minade for us. Strangers here term these Losatas ''puerile,'" "'ialf-barbarous," etc. 10venm the most rigitt Puritans or "Free lin kers" ofteni are movedi by the mic fi int the general effect. The,' neautifui OAn es 'Speaking of thme gates of Jerusalem, a 1 eoriespondenot says: Tratlition meitions I several that are now to be found-such as I the Old Gate, Ephraiin's Gate, the Valley (sate, the Prison Gate, the Fish Gate, and < olhers. At prescent there are buit four that, can be openied, although four others are dlistincetly seen walledi up. The gates now open are those of Jiaffa, of Damiascus, of I St. Stephen, andi of David-one in echcl of thme four walls. Theli Jaffa gate is north west of Mountain Zion, and is the usual eiitrance for p~ilgrimis from Uhristilan lands. It is comiposedl of tall towers or buttresses, evidemitly of great strengthn, and easily deC fended against aniteent mnodes of warfare. 1 The gates proper consist of two large fold lng dloors in oe of which as a wicket called '"the Neetdle's Eye," which is just large 4 enough to atdmit a camel without any load on its 'back, whence comies, I suppose, the scriptural adage about tihe diflculty of a camel gomig through the eye of a neetdle. I asketd whiat sigiicance the natives at - tachied to t his, and was gravely tokti that,) inasnauch as a camel canniot possibly pass through it while carryh g any portion of a hoadt, similarly a rich mn caiinot pass through the wicket of the heavenly Jerum salemi until lie has entirely unloaded him self of his richtes and other earthly bur (deus.' 'The three other gates are of similar con struiction, with strong turrets. But they arc all wonderfully striking to the eye, ini their quaint and now useles ponderous ness, albeit, conveying a profountd impres sion of the ancient strength of the city, and of tihe difficulty of its capture by Moslem or Crusader. Nowadays, one or two of our big guns would effect a breach In a few minutes, A Vessel Munk by a Uhale. The ship Esex, Capt. George Pollard, Jr., sailed from Nantuoket for the Pacific Ocean. In November, 1819, the mate's boat struck a whale, was damaged and obliged to return to the ship. The captain's and second mate's boats had fastened to anothier whale. The niate had repaired his boat and was about lowering it again when he observed a sperm whale about twenty rods from the ship. The whale at once made for the ship going about three miles an hour, the Essex sailing about the same rate. Scarcely had the mate given the order to the boy at the helm to put it hard up, when the whale, with greatly accelerated speed, struck the ship with his head just forward of the fore chains. "'he ship,'" says the mate, Mr. Owen Chase, from whose -ac mount this Is condensed, "brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck % rock, and tremibled for a few seconds like a leaf." The whale passed under the ves sel, scraping her keel as he went, came up ai the leeward side of hler, and lay oil tile surface of the water apparently stunned, l'or al out a moment. lie then started off o leeward. 31r. Chase imeindiately had the pumps rigged and set going. "At this hue tile vessel was beginning to settle by .le head, and the whale, about 100 yards >)a was thrashing the waiter violently with .118 tail, and opening and closing his jaws with great fury." Signals were niade for tie ctiptain and second iialte to return, the boats were being cleared away for launch ing when the innte was startled by the cry if t nian on the t'gallant forecastle, 'lere ie is-le is making for us again." The nate t urned, saw time whale about 100 rods lirectly ahead coming down, apparently, with twice as much speed ats before, and at hat noinent it appeared with teni-fold fury Lud vengeance in his aspect. A line of foam about a rod in width, unde with his tail, which lie continually hrashed from side to side, niarked his oD oming. Mr. Chase hoped by putting the lelni hard up, the vessel might cross the ine of the whale's approach, and the see nd shock be avoided, anl1d instantly gave ,rders to that ellect, but, scarcely had the ourse of the ship, alr-:ady sonew. it wiat rhogged, probably, been changed a single >oilt, when tile heaid of the whale crashed uto her bows, staving them completely In lirectly under the cat-hicad. The captai and second iate returned to iud the ship on her beani ends. Boats veielowered and piovisioned, and not more haln tenl minutes had elilsCd simlee the ihale first attacked the ship, before she ty full of water, her deckls scarcely above lie surface of the waves, and her crew broad on the ocean. The voyage in the ioats wits i long tediously sai one. The ecoind mate and seven of the crew died. )H the night of the 12th Of Jatnua1fy the tonta became separated. One and then an Aher of the miate's crew became enfeebled nd died. The body of the second unfor iaate was disilleIIbered, the flesh cut from avinig comrades. When the darkness of epair had settled upon their clouded, tot uing minds, the welcome cry of "Sail o I" was given. and the poor wrecks of uinanity still surviving in the miate's boat, rere picked up ou the 17th of February, y the English brig Indian, Ciapt. William rozier, and treated with a brotherly ten erness antd humanity. The captail's and second mate's boat upt together until the night of January 9, 182u. During the interval between tie leparatioln from the )ite and this tiie' jur men had died out of the two boats, ud their bodies furnished their comrades. rith their only food. The captaii's crew ecaec 4It last reduced to the alternative of rawing lots to see which should be killed ) furnish sust enance to the survivors. On he 23d of February, three ionths fiomn le time when they left their shattered hlip, Capt. Pollard and Chlarles ltamsldle, he1 sole survivors of the boat's crew, wer e icked upl by the shil D)auphin, of Nan .icket, Captain '4imuri Coflln. Thle third oat was niever heardl from. Tile three Ien left on D~ucie's Island were afterward escued. '11e nuer surviving inl the late's boat wasq three. Capt. Pollad never caredl to allude to the u'rrmble pri vations andl~ sufferings unidergono ni this occasion, anad would always aivoid efer-ence to It if possible. iiis next voy. ge wits as captain of thle 8sh11 Two Brothl rs, wha ich was lost on a coral reef in the 'aciflc wile tinder his command. For inany years Capt. Pollard was on the night ohice in Naintu'kee, having abandoned thle ,a. A issing IRaiiroad. When Cheyennie was at the zenmth of its lory, a sign of "General Ofihces of the Iheyenne, Pacific Slope and Sandwich Is. taid liailroad"' was hune, otut one morning viouit creatig the least surprise. If one ersoin had asked ianother where the depot >1 the saidi railroadl wias, there might have ieen some hesitation abotit answering, btt t was somne time after the~ sign was out slefore any special enqulliries began to be ande. Th'ien an Eastern man11 watlked an one dlay, carpet-b~ag ill hand, and said: '"1 suppse you connect ait, San Friinc~aco vith the regular steamer?" "W ell, yes; I supp~lose we shall," was lie hiesiating reply. ''Shall1? isn't your roadl through ye t?" "Well, not quiite." "'Do you take in Salt Lake?" "Salt, Lake? Yes. I think we d. "h~ow muclh for a ticke't?" "Well, I can't say exatctly, as we have 10one on sale jutst yect." "Can't I get at the dtepot?" "W~ell, I think not, we haivena't any lepot, yet." ''Can't I pay on the train?" "Well, you see, we have hio trains yet." "1 supp~0o I can walk on the track?" >ersisted the stranger. ''Well, I shi )id haive no ob'jection if we "id a track." "mo dlepot, no0 tickets, no trains, no0 racks-what sort of a railroad have you got anyhow?" "WXell, youl see, it's only oni paper thins ar, b~ut as soon as we can sell $8,000,000 vorth of stock we shall begin grading and -ushi btusiness right along. If you happen o be along when we get to golig we will mtt yotu through as low as low as any other esponsible route." The stranger stuck his hands into his >ockets, stared hairdt whistled softly, and lien walked out on tip-toe without another .-Mississlppi has 108,000 voters, of whom 105:,U00 are neroea. Itatlway Bundfaog In 1880, There were seven thousand two lundred and seven miles of road laid in the United States during the past year, one-third more than in 1879, and nearly three times as great as the lie of now track laid, down in 1878. While in 1879 the buildink of rail ways absorbed $95,000,000 of capital, the new rads constructed in 1880 absorbed $145,000,000. It would appear ataglance at these figures that the country was to be congratulated upon the wonderful exten sion of our railway system, but the impor. tant question arises as to whether this Im Mense capital can be withdrawn from our trade and industries without effecting them seriously. lt is stated that the money in vested in these new roads is in many cases done for the purpose of building rival finds, Which must of necessity diminish the earn ings of roads already in operamlon and that by diverting even a portion of the traflic to the new road, costing say $20,000 a mile, the enterprise may be made profitable, but only by with-drawing the earnings from the road previously in operation and repre senting a stock and bond value of $I00,U00 per mile. Thus it the new road succeeds it can only do so at the cost of crippling its older rival, and this condition of attairs, it is said, obtains to a much greater extent than is generally 6upposed; and it is agreed that while the $146,000,000 invested in new railway enterprises during the year may prove prouitable to the Investorsit can only do so by interferng,at least for ydars, with the earnings of the competing ines, representiig a capital of $2'0,00 j,00O, to such an extent as to seriously affect the in terests of their stock and bondholders. In cases where the new hues penCUate into flelds that have not already been occupied, of course this argument does not hold go)d but it is also certain that in such eases nu profits are returned for years, and th'e capi tail is thus virtually withdrawn from all t.adIte industries, and emigration is also en couraiged to new sections of country where more eaipital is 'phpanted" it developing the resources. 01 the road built in 1880I mrie tham liat of it enters in direct coutpetition with iImel already in operation, wihil the relaider induces eiligration1 into new and far-of territory. Tie question arising, tlierefore, is whiathier we are not, building too many miles of railway -whether we can afford to luck up in new lines of road the ilineuse sum of f45,000,)0U a yeurt The subject is an important one and is just now exciting imore thian ordinary intetrest among capitalists all I'9er tie Vountry. It is truie that Imioney is cheap-cheaper in fact than ever known in the history of the United States--but it is hardly to be sup posed that it can continuiae so if suQ1i im niense drains are to be made ipoiln capita in thw Iin.re, ito Kutw she Di4. As I lie norning trai over the Detroit, Lansing and Northern pulled up at Howell the other day, a nice-looking old grahina of somei( assistance to her in get tig soated, im(d hlie presently asked "Going on a visit ?" "Yes, I'm going down to Plymouth to see my darter," she answered. "''Tiey've writ and writ for ie to come, but I thought I should never get started." "Left the old man at home I suppOse." "Yes, William thought he'd better stay ind sce to the things at home." "Did you have plenty of time to get ready?" "Oh, yes. I've beei gettin' ready' for two weeks." .'6ure you didn't forget anything?" "I know I didn't.. I packed thingi up mei at it ie, and I know they are till hiere. "And you left everything all right aronad 11 ie hoIse?" ''Your old umani knows where to thud the tea andl sugar and salt, does he?" "Yes. I took him through the buttery thie very last thing and~ pinted out to himn where ever-ything was." "'Well, now," continued the man, -"['ma rctatm that you overlooked something." "M.~ercy oni me I hut what di you mean?" she gasped. "Did you bring along your spectacles ' "Yes-here they are." ''Did you hang up a clean towel for him?'' ''And lput the dish cloth where he cain 11ind it?" "'Andl rolled uip his night shirt anid put it, under the pillow 1" "Yes." "'Andl was everythhig till righit aibout the cook-stove ?" "Marcy I marcy on mec I Stop these kyars this blessed mmnute I" she exclahned, as shio trIed to reach her feet. "'I just re member now that I put the knives and forks ini the oven t:> (try out and~ shut the door on 'em I fle'll never thInk to look in there, and he'll builkd up ai big fire and roast every handle off before I git to Ply miouthi." 'Suhe Yak. To the Kirghls lthe yak is as invaluamble as the reindeer to the laaplanmder, or, In an. other way, as thme cmunel to the Arab. Its milk is richer than that of the cow, andl Its hair is wovenI Into clothes and other fabrics. Where a man aan walk, a yak can be rid denl. It Is remarkably sure-footed;- like thme elephant, It has a wvonderful sagacity. in kniowiang what will bear its weight and in aivoidling hidden dlepths andechasms; antd when a piass or gorge becomes blocked by snow (provided It be not frozen) a score of yaks dIriven in frodt will make a highway. T'his strange creaturo frequents the moun taiin slopes and their level swuits. it needs no tendmng, and flids its food at all seasons. If the snow on the heights lies too deep for him to find the hiorbage, lie rolls himself (Iowan the slopes, and oats lis way up again, displacing the snow as he' ascendls. When arrIved at the top he per forms a second somersault down the slope, and displaces a secomid groove of snow as lie oats his way to the top again. The yak cannot boar a temocrature above frepaing, j anad in summer It loaves the haunts of men and ascends far tip the mountaIns to the "old Ice," above the imit of pempomal snow, Its calf being retained below, as a pledge for the mother's return, m~ whleh she never falls. -Lanoaster oani coass of 70 goesd sub stantial tobacco warehouses. *-. --In 1851 Wisoonsin had ten nflles ofi rairoada: now It hias3.183 miea..