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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. -----.--- - ~WINNSBORO, S.- C., MARCH 10, 1881ESALIHD1 LIVE FOR SOMETRING. Live for somothing. bo not idle Loot about thee for employ; Sit not down to useless dreaming - Labor is the sweetest joy. Folded hands are ever weary, Belfsh hearts aro never gay, Life for thoo hatfi majy duties Activo be, then, while you may. Soatter blessings in the pathway I Gentlo worde and oboor.ng smiles Botter are than gold or silver With their grief-oreating wiles, A- the pleasant sunshino falleth, Ever on the grateful earth, So let sympathy and kindness Gladden well the darkened hearth. Hearts there are oppressed and weary ; Drop the tears of sympathy. Whisper words of hope and comfort, Give, and thy reward shall bo Joy unto the soul returning, From this perfect fountain head; Frooly, as thou freely givost, Shall the grateful light be shed. Two Elovements. In a large, square,old-fashioned house such as our fathers used to build when so ldity was more sought after than utility lived Philip Mason and his sister Esther. Pailip had reached the mature age of 40, and Esther was close to him. Still, each had pursued a solitary pathway through life, seeking no companionshilf save that of to other till there was reason to believe that they would continueto follow the same course till in the fulness of time they were gathered into the family tomb-the recep tacle of many generations -of the ,Mason family. There was more reason to think so, since they took care to commend an unmarried life, not only by exaniple but by precep. "1'4o," said Philip, when assailed on this subjbct by a match-making lady; "marry mig may be very good for some people, but I could not bear to have my habits broken in upon, and my whole h'use turned top. sy-turvy by the introduction of a wife!" But by-and-by, when yon grow older, you will feel the need of a wife, more than at present." ".No," said Philip, conclusively, "I havo a sister who is devoted to me, and while she lives I shall need no other." As for Miss Esther, she often declared that she would never make a slave of her self for any man liviug. If other women were foolish enough to give up their mde pendence, and tie themselves to a man, for no other earthly purpose than to burden themselves with cares and toils fiom morn. inir till night, she was sure she had no ob jection. For her own part she was wiser. 11er brother and she had always .lived to gether peaceably and happily, and she did not think she could make any change for the bettar. Of course, It was insinuated, by those whose opinion differed widely fron Mido I Jsther's that in adopting this opinion ste was only making a virtue of necessiLy, and that it was best to be contented with one's I lot, provided there were no chance of im proving it. But Esther did not hear these remarks,and so was not disturbed by them.' I bhe continued to live in the old house with I her brother. They kept no domestic, since Hsther rather plumed herself on her house keeping qualities, and there was really but little to do. do, as her brother was usually absent during the day, she was left for the most part to the companionship of her own thoughts, unless sonie neighbor chanced to call in-a thing, by the way, of rather rare occuirence, since most of tim neighbors hwii large Lamilies of their own, which necessa rily conned them at, home. Early one alternoon just after Esthor Mason had completed her task of clearing away the dinnmer dlishi.8 and stor.ing thenm away 'in the cupboard after a thorough 4 washing, she was startled- by a rap at the door. Somcwhat surprised by a caller at this uusual hour, she answered the summons. ahe was a little apprehensive that it, was a neighbor wvho had of late proved very tioubiesome from her habit of borrowing aiticles, and owing, it, is to be presumed,to a habitual lorgetluiness, neglectig to re turn them. ".I hope," she mused, "that if -it is Mrs. Bailey~sne will be wanting to borrow some thig that I have not got." . heopened thme door; but no Mrs. Bailey pesented herself to her expecting gaze-a gentleraan of forly-tive, carefully, nay cle gantly dressed, stood before her. "I beg your pardon for intruding, ma dame," said he, as he noticed Esther's look 01 surprise; "but cain you direct me to the house of the late Mr. WV ellilect? I have heard ts for sale, and from the description I hav'e iieard of at, juidge it, will suit, me." "'it is the next house on the left, sir," answered Esther, who had, had time, while the genthleman was speaking,to examiino his app~earanice, whIch did knot fail to impress, haer favorably, "TIhank you for the Information. I trust you will p~ardon men for.tho trouble I have occausionedI you," replied the gentleman, bowing. ".Not th lheatst trouble in the world," re p~liedl Esther, a little fluttered by a defer ence to which she had not been accustom ed. Two days afterward Esther heard that Mr. Wellieet's estate had beeni purchasedi by a stranger nanmed Bigelow. Bhae at once conjecturedl, and rightly, that this was her visitor. A few da135 elapsed, aind .Esthaer Mason received another visit from the gen tienman. "I have a favor to ask of you, Miss Ma son,"' he began (it seems lie lad ascertained h~er name). "1 atm aware that our slight acquaintance wvill hardly justify it, but, I 1trust time will remove this objection. You must know," lie added, smiling-"that I am a bachelor, dependeit iin inny respects upon nmy housekeeper, who thiough a good wom un in her way, I am afraid is not, reliable in matters of taste. As my furniture has atr rived, but hats not -yet been arranged would esteem it a real service 'if you give me your 0lopiin in sonic littl respecting its proper disposition riage is at the door ready over." "But," sai P'a - "I co not claii 1 shall prov spect than "I1 hay Mr. Bip' tied up' this compliment,'andshe made preparations to comply with her new visitor's request. It was not without a little consciousness of the singulailty of her position that Es ther found herself riding by the side of a gentleman with whom she had scarcely ex changed half a dozen words in the course of her life.---The distance, however, was but short, and she had little time f-,r reflec tion. On arriving at her place of d'dstina tion she found the chief part of the busi ness accomplished. The furniture, which, by the way, was new and handsome, had been arranged in the room after a fashion, but Esther was able to point out soveral changes for the better, with all of which Mr. Bigelow pro fessed himself delighted; he, moreover, asked her advice as to the proper place in which to hang several fine pictures that lie had picked up in the course of his European travels. This -was accorded with some hesitation. Mr. Bigelow would not be satisfied with out showing his new found acquaintance all over the house, from kitchen to garret. When all was completed he overpowered her with protestations of gratitude for her kind service, and landed her at her own door just Live minutes before her brother came in. Esther was rather glad of this, as she was a ,ittle suspicious that her broth er would consider her adventure rather a Quixotic one. To avoid comment, she did not even in form Philip that she had ever met Mr. Big elov. He took frequent opportunities to call upon her, on soine slight pretext or another, but it always chanced to be when her brother was absent. "I wonder," said Philip, carelessly, as he sat by the fire tone evening, ".whether Mr. Bigolow will not be looking out for a wife before long?" "I don't know," said Esther, and in her embarrassment dropping half a dozen stitches from the btocking she held in her hiand. "N1iXot that I approve of marriage-at least in my bown case," said Philip, not noticing this deioustration, "but it may be 1 different with Air. Bigelow. He has no sis ter to superintend his establishment. I don't know, Iiowever,whether there is any body likely to suit him in this village. Let nC see--there is Miss Preston; she might "No, I don't think she would suit him at ill," said Esther with a spirit which con derably 'surprised her brother. "8he inows very little about housekeeping." "Why, I thought you and Miss Preston ivere friends," said Phlip, a little puzzled. "Well, so we are," returned Esther in v ler usual tone; but I-I hardly think she t vould suit Mr. Bigelow." "Perhabs not," tie rejoined, and so the i ,onversation ended. From the conversation which we have t ecorded above the reader will obtain-some a neight into the character of Esther's feel- e ags toward Mr. Bigelow. She would inrdly confess it to herself; but, as a mat- b er of fact, her ideas ;of marriage had sif ered a material change within a brief It Meanwhile the gentleman continued his V risits. Oftentimes he would ask to see the led of flowerson which Esther rather prid- t id herself, and Eomnetimes he would peti ion for seed, being very fond of flowers, t Ls he said, and very anxious to introduce v heni ih Iiis own garden. On one of these occasions Mr. Bigelow, Lfter a htt:e visible embarrassment, said, e tesitatingly: "I would like to ask your advice, Miss l&sther, on a rather a delicate subject, and >ne of great importance to myself. There s one tiing I wish to secure to make my .stablishnent complete; but I hardly know t n what manner to ask for it." "What is it you refer to?" asked Esther, t rususpiciously. "A wife," was the significant reply. Instantly a crimson flushed Esther 's heeks. She did not trust herself to speak. "Need I say that you are the one. whom, :f all others, I would seek to place in that position?" Hie took her unresisting hand and kissed it wvith all the gallantry of a young lover. I "But what will my brother say?"'. in :luired Esther, wvhen she had founid voice I Lo speank.. "What should lie say? You arc your own nistress, surely." "Yes, but the is always ridiculhng the Idea of marriage, and I couldn't~veniture to tell him." "No need of it. Let's run awvay to New York and get married. You know," he acidei gail "we are both young and ro miantic, azt it would be quite in charac ter." Esther at first objected, but when she came to consider that in this way she would be'relieved of a great llportlon of the cim barrassmnent wvhich such a stop would nat urally'bring with it, she consented, and that daiy week was appointed for the de0 parture' bhe requiredt this time to make p~reparhtionis. Memanwhile, if Esther had not been so ex' elusively occupied with lier own affairs, she might have noticed that a change had come oyer Philip. le was ofteniabsent evenings, and when at home was more silent aiid ab stracted than his wont. TIhe former she readily attributad to the cause which lhe as signed--nanmely, a pressure of business. Thbe latter she (lid not observe, her miind being preoccupied. We, who are in the secret, may taxe the liberty of following him on one of his business calls. It was a iieat cottage, from whose front (loor (lang'. led an iniunenise knocker, that, Pnilip Ma son kniocked. The door was openied iiy the same Miss Preston, who, sonie months be fore, he thought, "mighi do0" for Mr. Bige low.. "Ghood evening, Maria,'' as lie entered. After a brief conversation about the weath er, the crops, and other standard top~ics, which, however trivial they amay seem, couhti hardly be dlispensed wih, lie began to show signs of cintarrassmnt, and~ final ly ejner gaged. "rhe onlytthing I think of," said the gentleman, after a brief pause "is that my sister Esther Is a decided enemy to marriage. and I hardly dare to tell her I am about to marry. If we could only get away and have the ceremony performed it would be pleas anter." "Suppose we go to New York," suggest ed the bride elect. "A good idea. We'll go. When can you be ready?" "Next Alonday morning." 8o next londay morning was agreed upon. It so happened that Esther was to start on Alonday afternoon for the same place, with the same purpose in view-but of this coincidence neither party were aware. The reader will please go forward a week. By this time the respective parties have reached New York, been united-in the holy bonds of matrimony, and are now legally liusband and wife. They ,,were located at liotels situated on the same street,and even )n the same side of the way, but were far Crom being aware of the propinquity. On the morning succeeding the two mar liages-for by a sugular chance they hap pened on the same day-31r. Bigelow and l5sther started out for a walk down the itreet. - It so happened that Philip and his kife were at the same moment walking up he street. . The natural consequences was ihat the two parties met. "leavens! my sister!" exclaimed Philip. "Mlerciful goodness! my brother!" re ,urned Esther. "What brings you here with Mr. Bige ow?" "Nay, how haupens it thatlyou are hero vith Miss Prestonya" "Miss Preston is now my wifel" "And Mir. Bigelow is now my husband!" "But I thougat you were opposed to natrimony?" "And I suppose you were equally so." "Aly friemis," interposed AMr. Bigelow, 'this is a day of surprises, but I trust Lof uch a nature that we shall all be made the Iapplier thereby. My regret, Mr. Mason, t robbing you of your houseleepcr is quite lissipated by the knowledge that you have o soon supplied her place." It gives us pleasure to state that neither 1hi lip nor his sister ever had occasion to m egret the double elopement. The Enaucipaton of Man. She looked just, like that kind of a woman I rhen she came into the sanctum, and all I lie seniors became instinctively very busy 3 nd so absorbed in their work that they did t ot see her, which left the youngest man a the staff 'an easy prey, for lie looked at lie visitor with a little nttural )olitcness, ad was even soft enough to offer her a . hair. "You are the editor?" she said, in a (leep, t ass voice. 'Ie tried to say "yes" so she could hear im1, while his Ciiuneaguv I" VAAU -OL"-"% '' -. amuro, for the < roman gave him dead away in a minute. "You are," she shouted. "Then listen ) me-look at me-what am I?" a The foolish youngest man looked at her a inidly and ventured to say, in a feeble oice, that she looked to be about forty 3v- . "Nuraling," she shrieked, "had you the oulful eyes of a frog man you could see I hining on my brow the rising light of a righter day." "Could I?" asked tie youngest man tim Ily. "Yes, you could!" the woman said in ones of0 unmeasurable scorn. "Now hear a ac; have you a-but I canqot bring myself o use the hateful expression In the style of aasculine possession--are you anybody's usbanid?" The youngest- man blushed bitterly and aid that he wasnt as yet, but he had some lopes--a "And you explect your-that is, you ox >et the won.an whose husband you will ae to support you?" The youu goat man blushed more keenly1 han before, and tremnbhngly admitted that to had some .expectations that-that-tht ho only daughter of his proposed father n-law if he might put it that way "Yah!" snarled the woman-"now let no tell you the day of women's emancipa ion is at laand. From this time we are roe, free, fr'ee. You must look for other 'aves to bend and cringe befoi'e your ma esties and wait upon you like slaves. You vili feel the change in your affairs since ye have burst our chains, and how will you; iye without the aid of women. 'Who. inakes your shirts now?" she added fierce-1 y. The youngest man nviserably said that a allor on J--street madle his.-] "I1'm," said the woman, somewhat dis ioncerted. ''Well, who washes 'em then?" lhe added triumphantly. "A Chinaman just west of If treot," the youngest man said, with a sopeful light in his eyes. "Proud worm, who cooks your victu.. The youngest man said truly that lie .lidn't know the name of the cook at his restaurant, but he was' a man about forty y'ears old, and round as a barrel wIth whiskers like the stuiling of a sofa. TIhe wvoman looked as though she was goiung to strike him. ''Well," she said, as one who wias lead ing a forlorn hope, "who makes up your bed and takes care of your room?" TIhie youngest man replied with an air of truth and frankness that lie roomed with a railroad conductor and an ex-Pullman sleeping-car. porter took care of thci- room. She paused when she reached the door, and turned- upon him with the face of a drowning maii who Is onily flyc feet away from a life buoy. "Miser'. Niependent," she cries, 'who sown s? >on the staff rose ' Latin tor Hug,. A widow who was going to leave Chi. cago, hold an auction of her household ef fects, and everything went at prompt sale until little but the bedstead was left. Just before this was put up some of the women went spying around, and discovered that it was infested by bed-bugs. This fact was noised around until It came to the ears of the auctioneer, who mounted his box and said: "Words cannot express the poignancy of my sorrow over the base canard which has been put in circulation In this crowd. I have sold goods in this town twenty-nine I mg years, and this is the first instance in which buge have been permitted to stop between mo and the purchliaing public. Ladies and gentlemen, if there is a bug in Dr about that bedstead I want to see him. I cannot and will 'ot believe there is. It would be a slander-a most foul slander on Lhe character of this widow who is about to remove to the 8tate of Ohio." Being invited to step down and view the bugs for himself, he made an inspection. 1 1'hey were there. They were galloping t in and out and up and down, and it was no iso to dispute the fact. "Ladies and gentlemen," said the auc ;ioneer, as he resumed his post, "I found Jugs. I don't exactly remeimember the Latin for them, but they ire there. And iow let me talk to you as'a friend. Bed F ugs were not made for gaudy show, nor vre they made for a life of case. It is a h aw of nature that they should inhabit bed. iteads. They can no more go out under b he barn and make a living than a dog can Jecome an eagle and float through space. V 'he aversion among you to this insect is ounded on false principles. ils bite carcely irritates the sleeper, but it cleanses a Lid purifles the blood. But for the bed Jugs of this country we should all have >oils and carbuncles. They keep down varts. They cause moles to disappear. live them a chance and they would remove orns without pain. The great-" "ifty cents?" called an old woman who emembered that she had a remedy at i'mDe. "Fifty cents! I am ofered fifty cents or a $10 bedstead, and as I was going to 0 ay, the great Napoleon alwayl asked for .ed with bugs in it. I atu offered fty ri ents and yet tiusar had his bugs. I am-" 'One dollar." "I am offered one dollar, and yet the ioets of Greece immortalized the insects efore you. The widow tells me that she as not had an ache or a pain since the first ug made his appearance. llow many of r4 'ou have read what Homer wrote about 0 hemi What was the fountain of Mozart's 81 L'welfth Mass? And yet .--" - 11 "Vwo dollars." J "And yet I hear only two dollars! Do a 'ou have headache? Are you afflicted vith giddiness? Do you have roaring in hie cars?" ti "Three dollars." lyJ:-,n home and get ny o no short chapter. What' tdU-' "Four dollars." "A II began to see that art and culture t, re not unknown to the audience. Did Llexandler the Great have bolts? Never; ot onel And why?" "Five dollars!" "I am bid five dollars. 1 would like to tuote a verse from a well-known Latin y oet, but time presses , and this bedstead is old for live dollars, cash on the nail." a ti TickIlngr His Nose. "Dis feller comes mit my saloon und a ;sks for peer, " began the witness as Samuel j ?eters btood before the bar of justice. 'Vhen he has one glass lie tells me set 'enl b op again. Vhen he has two glasses he- t ras as dry as a prushi fence. He drinks ix glasses right (oit, und says I must sharge a t to decr sinking fund. 1 doan' know vat a uchi tinges mean, und I lock der door und nkes all ready for a light mit him ?" "And you had one ?' c "Vel, you can see how my nose is all a muated oop, und some plack on my eye, a, 11d( such a bad feelings in my ears. 1 Yas n aovher'o; yes I vas,--1 vas under der a able." "Who struck first ?" "'Vel, I gifs lhhn a shiendle tap oni der v lose to make him see dlot, he must pay ~ op." "You~i locked the door on himn and tapped h~ im on the nose ?' "Yaw." "Well, the prisoner is discharged and a 'ou may go home." "Vhnt 1 Doan't you send him up for ix months ?" "No, sIr." "Doan' I git some p~redection of der r aw ?" "Not when you lock the dloor on a man a md1( begin tickling his nose." e 'Vei, 1 nefer see I I might as vel close e >0p mny peesness uind tak~e poiso0n. bot, e >reaks me all dlown like a' chiild, und I etis dher old vomans (lot we moive p~ack to I fIilwaukee right off." Naiturai VIne4ga"-. - 1 While traveling through Texas, recently, heard of and~ visitedl the above resort of< ihe sick and aillicted. Sour lake is situate dt ni Ilardma comnsty, T1exas, nine miles fromin hie 'rexas and N'ew Orleans railroad. Itis< 3ertainly one of nature's freaks. On myt way (rein louston to Orange, I stopped 1 >Af at the nearest station and vIsited the< Lake. At, that time there were about, seven ILy-live visitors fromi diterenit p~arts of the I Umion stopping at the lake for their health, t using the water for~ bathing and (driniking. T'he ake is what . Idh call~& sirlzhedi pond, with bat,/ngj apartments around the c sides. TJho ~ater is sour, hence Its name ; a and gas !a .obg up through the ground f awut near t,'place, andi bubbling up t li' Iughi the water in the lake. .ly taking t empty fruit,-can with 011e endl out and a I hole punched In the other end, and c icking tihe open~ end in the mud nearc ~ke, gas will shoot out through the c 7 burn like a candle, If set oni fIre. & Wj.u lake are eight or ten springs, all I 4ferent class of water, but mcre or< -.They are numbered freom one tot Sme (drinik one and seine another, to their ailments. While I was< -anik Ni'o. :3, as I was a little In-. oc dyspeptic at the time, and 1 Suse No,. 8, and thought It helped tely. N'o. 8 is sour enough to \nde. There is a large Jiotel yabins on the promises. T1he kept but the unprovemnentas I enaerty being in litigation.] A Doctor's Mistake. At some of the more primitive Gerani mud Bohemian watering places a quaint old :ustom prevails, In virtue of which the esident medical or bath doctors take up heir stations every morning at a fixed ac ur, under particular trees, on the leading romienado of their respective Bado-Ort, so hat their patiots may make sure of find ng them for consultation or advice at a >articular timie and in a particular place. L good ncmmory for faces is a sine qua non o these sons of Esculapius, who in the icigut of the season frequently interview romn fifty to sixty ivalids apiece during hese receptions. Mistakes as to identity, towever, will occur, and sometimes result a singularly comical comnplications. He ently one of the most popular physicians ,t a crowded Bade Ort was visited under is tree by aln Anerican gentleman, a re cut arrival, who complained that the raters caused hiin such terrible headaches Liat lie thought he had better drop them nd depart to other cliies. The doctor nwilling thus promptly to lose his patient, )oked over him hastily and, perceiving int lie wore a fat sombrero, told him it ras not the waters that iade his head clie, but his unconscionably heavy hat." wiftly the American betook hin to the carest hatter, of whom he purchased ai ,raw fabric so light a3 to be all but im onderable, and went on drinking the I raters as before. His headaches, how- I ver, growing worse instead of leaving m, he again called upon the medical ad iser a few days later, and told him that is head was still so bad. that lie really iust try soei other cure. The doctor, !ithin the meantime had forgotten all about I is previous prescriptions, and was as re ictant as ever to let the patient depart, gain cast a comprehensive glance at him, ad espying the straw hat, exclaimed: "You cannot expect to be free from t eadache if you wear such preposterously ght head-covering. A nan of your age, I early bald, in this hot weather, must, pro ct his head from the sun's rays, by a I ,out, solid hatl" The American gazed at his interlocutor )r a few seconds in blank astonishment, 1en, after bowing profoundly, he sardoni- I ily replied: "Thank you, doctor; I am off to the milroad station I" turned on his heel and aparted. Littlo Jakio JOuos. Old Mrs. Jones borrowed Mrs. Brown's !cipe for making watermelon pickle the her day, and, being hard of hearing, as Le couldn't see to read very well, she got 1r grandson Jakie to read it for her. ,kie took the paper, like a dutiful child, id, holding it upside dewn, commenced: "r 'ake a green watermelon-" "Why, Jakic, ai't you mistaken? I kought the melon must be ripe." "Oh, what's the matter wid you I Gew rcr see a waternil cut Mo. as- ---t It* "u '" "But there ain't only two halves to any. ting.. I don't believe you are reading at, Jakie." "Well, I don't have to, anyhow, that's hat the resect says. - Then soak it in a ut clip-" "Oh, dear mel Ilow in the world can Du put a watermelon im a pint cup ?" "Well, I aint here to tell the whereases a(d howfores.' l'm just readin' the facts id you can put in the filosofee to suit your Late. After soakin the melon put it in it ilet and fry it fur five days." "1 wonder if Mrs. Brown sent me such re-upc as that P' said the old lady ; but ukic kept on: "Thea put the watermclon In a quart DWl and pour over it a gallon of vinegar, tking care not, to spill the vinegar---" "I'd just like to kiiow how yo cilan pour gallon into a quart bowl- without, spiling ny of it ;" but, Jakie continued: "Then sift a peek of pepper tharotagh a uilk strainer over the melon, and to one uip of butter and the white and yolk sand iclls of three eggs, and throw in the old cai that laid themi, and~ four sticks of cii amen drops and two tablespoonful of quli inc and run it, ,hroughi a coffee-mill and at it standl till it fernmnts, and then pult it, ina tin can and tie the can to adog's tail, this !ill stir It, up to the right Consistency-and .ien you can turn it oar in crocks and have ready for use. Serve It, cold mad spread on amince pice and it makes capital dessert, " nid Jakic slid oat, of the door and1( left the Id ladiy looking like a wrinkle on a momnu. ient. Adulteration in Foost. Th'le adlulteration of our food, drmk and iediclnes, which it is now-sought to pre 'cnt by 1ntional legislation, hans already ttained1 a su'rpassing magnitude. Experi necwarrants the belief that, if not chilc. ntly checked it will be much miore exten ive in the future than new. Tlhae work of dulteration is one of growth. It lieginas a a small way andi ends nowhere, In cof cc, for example; a third of a cenatuary ago t was adualterated wIth chilcory to thme ox enit of about two and a half pouns3 to the lumadred, From that point it grewv in a fewv 'cars to flly fifty perT cent. Th'len the :hicory itself' was subjected to adultera ion and now it is not hn possible to obtaina amplcs of ao-erslced coffee wich (toes not oatain more than twenty-five per cent of lie genuine article. Even the man who uays his coffee in thme berry is liable to rc e a villainous admixture of real ber los with othier stuff that has beecn mloldedI ate the true shape but contains none of thme rue material. Parties in thme tr-ado re iaiber when five per cenit. of adulltera kmJ- IlmpevJ)iw'as..ab'out a~s nluch ase was onsidered safe ; anad now thme 'bogus mouelnts, in t he worst cases, to inot far romni e tenths of the whole. And ini hese, as well as other cases too numerous [> aaention, viler stuhi as niow used as a~ sub. tituate than peole dmaredi to employ a~ thae utset. TIhaere is no limit to thec fraud ' lien nce it is started; de at least the linfit -is nly reached in the u Iter extinctiona o tihe enuine article. TI' it limit, has airc' dy cen touched in tih case of not ac hruge; it is nearly re hed in the mnanutc tre of artilclal hone and sugar anid I er are already far g nie In the proeces Ierioration. Bureh if, Is time to st , 'hie greed which wet d amass riches at e lak of causing discs and death to thoi sinds las land play en ugh. It lins becon~ question of self-pros -rvation to the gre nass of consumers.' ' hey must, die If tl3 udulterators be0 permi tedl to p~ly their -n ~arlous arts much Ion or. Let us call alt along the whole 11 to-and at once. The Studio ofa Taixidormist. In the window was perched a larg( brown eagle, with an unlucky little bird I its strong, sharp claws. "That eagle wat liot in En uglewood, about five weeks ago,' said the proprietor. "His extended wingE measure over six feet." Near the eagle a gray owl stare d out into the street, as if h had forgotten his natural dislike to day light. Ie held a mouso in his thin, hooked taloons. Suspended back of these was a but, with wings extended, over -twelve inches. Some wild ducks, which had been just received for stullinig, lay with their glossy green and black plumage carefully smoothed down. 'The skinls of some ducks and other birds lay arouind in various stages of preparation. The reporter gave a start as lie nearly stepped on a little white Sphitz log, curled on a mat near the door ; but lie, like his companion, wias only life-like, And past all "delight to bark and bite.'I Several glass cases were ranged about, the room, and contained hundreds of birds of slmost as many ditterent specied. Some wvere glistening in sheeny plumage of green, :ed and gold, with the shifting brilliancy > "changeable" silk. Others were quietly tressed little songsters. Some gray stluir el sat up on a show-case, as pert as if iII heir native woods. IHere, too, were inowy-feathered geese, and elligies of pet ,anaiies. Several heads of deers with their ritlers on were mounted to do duty as hat 'icks, and other deer were stufted entire. %. large sea-gull and a vicious. looking hawk Iwooped down from the ceiling. Near the loor hung a number of lovely white (loves vith out-stretclied wings. These were only a few of the things that, met the ,lance, as almost every kind of bird known ii this country Was represented, and the :ollecton ranged all the way fromi a beetle o a bear. Tie reporter began question ng. "What is your largest class of cus omters i" "A good many pcople send their dead )ets here to be mounted," replied the tax derarist. "A large share are canary birds, Md they send, too, dogs, cats, squirrels, abbits, even horses once in a while. Dur ing the autumn and winter, when the gaine aws give liberty to sportsnen, I get imaniy Ipcimens of gane to imouut. I presuie hey keep them as trophies. They are isually wild ducks, geese, partridges or leer. bomethnies they shoot an eagle, or big owl or hawk, anti these they are >retty sure to want stuffed. Owls make rery handsome birds when stuffed, as they ire pluiip, have plenty of compact plui ige and striking eyes." "I presume florists use ninny of those vhite doves?" said the reporter. "Oh, yes, I have a large order for them low. They perch then on floral designs or funerals. There is always t market for mre white birds." "Wht re do you get the brilliant colored nrds?" ."From South Ameilca mostly. They ida them down there. They cost differ nut nwrie norenniieu e f, to.-,-- al. "Are milliners using many of ther ow ?" asked the reporter, who was niot oested in the matter. "Not this year, as they are not the style, out last year I could sell all I could find vithout any trouble. Women mre very 4hangeable. Fur dealers have a good many iinials otuiled to serve as advertisements. handsomo black bear, tiger, or panither, htracts attention." A Roman1,11 %o L.f.. Jean Baptiste Charles Alphonse Cayron lu Cayle, a son of the Count Cayron (I Iayle, for many year the governor of the lotel des Invalhdes, Paris, recently, (ied it his residence, No. 2,067 Fifth avenue, .ew York. lie was the youngest and last urvivor of ine sons, all of whom were alhed or wotundled hn the servIce of France. Ils life wvas a romnillce. Its prominent in lidents were narratedi recently by his vidow. lHe was born at Paris, Oct. 18, 1828. At live years of age he was placedi ni the mnlitary school for olllcers', dtmns at, ,a Flechre, near Lamont. Manyv men nowv romiaent, ill France wereci Ilelowv stu lents. At the age of eighteeni lie joined a'. mnssar regiment andi~ remained in it for t v o fearrs. In 1848, alter leaving a ball, lie wYent with a number of companions to a evolutiiionary clumb. '[Ie "Marsellaise' was suggested and the whole party was irrestedl. Dur Caylec was trledl for reason, but family milutence saved him. lie was thenr transferred to Aica, andi nade a lietctlt ini a regunrent, of Spais. lie was in several camnpaignms tunder Glen. Negrier and St. Arnaud. Four brothers wvere in Africa with him. Thle other for were Already dead. At the outbreak of hre Crinean war he was ordleredl with his egimenit to Russia. H~e was at thre charre it, Inkerflan andl also at Balaklava,andt was >adly wounded at the battle of Alna. From ,Ins wound ho was always slightly anme. Hie was1 brevettedecaptain for ga[. antry, andi~ held the positioui of enisignr. Jearer to general (now Marshal MacMahon. Llie future seemedl bright, when an unfrort. mate affair ruiinedl all Iris prospects. 'Thlere vas much pliltcal fech~ng among the olhi. ~era of the French army, anid thme Orleanists tnd imperialists wore bitterly opposed to achi other. ThIis resulted in a series of even (duels, all on one (lay, and between hlamipions of tire rival factions. Four mna were killed outright mi these duels. D)u .ayle was an Orleamist and fough Renuede larrncea, who was saId to be the illegiti irate son of NaploleonJ HIl Marinesea was tilled,mad then began Du Catyle's trourbles. Llis promrotion was st~ohpped, men were assed~ over his head, and~ Iinally Ire was orced to resign. lie returned~ to Paris, and is he had a hline baisso voice Ire Btudledl ausic at the conservatory for three yeais ud became a pernsionaire of the opera. ie was also basso iu thre originral peorlorm-i uce o'f '"The Bohiemin Girl" at Rouren. le their went traveling in the East Indies with air opera cormpainy, wats aiway five rears, andl accumulated a fortune, which re sent to France. On Iris return he landed it, Marseilles and learned that, lie had lost, di lbut, 50,000 francs by tire fariluro of a >aniking house. With this money hre wen ,o lueiros Ayrcs and1( sta ted a theatre. It aiied, and Ire went, to New Orleans, where me passed many uinhapp~ly years. lie re .urned to France in 1809J, anrd came back o thiis~city~ias a basso, lie sang with the~ Hess rid Kellogg troupe, and ninny other comn >anic~s. ____________ CalifornIa snonds $3,000,000 a year sri her schools, and tue value of her school property Is $7,000,000 yet there are onily I00,000 attendants in the schools out of 150,000 of school age. NEWS IN BRIEF. -Arkansas stunds sixth in the list of fruit growing states. -'lio Crown of England is valued at X131.000 or $070,000. -A large aerolite fell in the suburbs of Erie the other night. --The diving bell was first used in Europe in the year 1500. -The banana ripens in Florida dur. ing every month of the year. --The tobacco crop of Pennsylvania, this year, is worth $8,000,000. -630,000 cigars were made in Tloga and Potter counties last year. --The Princess of Wales has just passed her thirty-sixth birthday. --'he Roman emperor Maximinus was upward of eight feet in ielght. --The population of Missouri Is 2,168,8L4; that of Tennessee, 1,542,403. -P'resideit Hays has on hand 400 unanswered requests for his autograph. -The oldest monument in the worldI s i the Asinolean Museum at Ox -An attempt was recently made to 9-Rsassinate President Solomon, of Ilayti. -The wealth of James G. Fair, the new S:,nator from Nevada, is estimated at $12,000,000. --Roellf Von Baren, a poor Holian der, residing in New lavenu, has fallen heir to $33,000,000. --Hermnann, the magician, has in herited $27,000 from an uncle lately residing Il Germany. --Of 437 persons employed in the Government ofllces at Toronto, seven ty families sipply 168. -Eggs received at New York in 1880 amounted to 559,551 barrels, against 455,074 in 1870. -From November 15th to January 5th Cincinnati and Chicago have salt ed down 4,875,00) hogs. --ThIe national debt of England is held by about 23,000 persons; that of F'rance by about 4,000,000. -Shanghial Pierce, the cattle king of Jackson county, Texas, lately sold 7,000 cattle for $16 per head. -David Jones, a brewer died irn New York recently. He loft an estate valued at ten million dollars. -The Duke of Northumberland Is about to introduce the electric light in Aln wick Castle, his family seat. -The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher sav it lie has jist declined an offer of $3)0,000 to lecture for one year. -Dalrymyle, the great wheat far mer of Dakota, cleared $250,000 on 1I1s ISO crop. It! marketed 500,000 bush cis. -There ' are 15,000 professional thieves in London known to tho au tioritiCs. The police force number 12,. 000. since Watcrloo are equal In extent to ill the empire she hid previously In Europe. -M r. Braseey,% member of Parlinent far H1asting, England, has recently purchased 120,000 acres of land in Colorado. Vanderbilt is credited with an in coie of $10,000,000 per annum, Jay Gould with $5,000,000 and Russel Sige with 4,000,000. -Professor Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, Js expected in San Fran olseo this week on his way back from Australia 6o England. -The Christain Intelligencer iuts the expense incurred for seeking harley Ross at $00,000, and describes his father as etill at tae task, -SI, Nathaniel Rothschild has for the second time returned twenty per cent. of the half-yearly rents of his nuime-vuis Eunglish tenants. -TJ.lie painter, Manet, has in hand a grntC pi cture, rep~resenting the escape of Rn~chefort and his companions fro~m cap.tivity in New Caledonta. --T'he finest portrait extant of Oliver Cromwell is said to be that in the BaptIst College at Bristol, for which $2,625 hits been refused, -Texas has 230 counties, .0f which but 102 are organized. Tihere were only 117 organIzed in 1871, but they counlit On hiaylug 300 eventually. -A retirn issued by the German Postmaimster-Gener-al shows the number of post-cards used in Europe in the year 1878 to have been 342,000,000. -General Ord wvill be presented with a residence in San Antonio, Texas, "where his services in behalf of the front-ier are understood and appreci ated,' -Out of eight hundred and forty s'even ires in the city of Philadelphia, (luring the year 188J, one hundred and twenty-live were occasioned by the explosion of coal oil lamps. -The manuifacutre of agricultural iziilements has doubled within the last Len years. in 1850 this industry gave eniployment to 5,361 hands; this. year it gives employment to 40.030. -The Lake Superior iron mmine had an output of 1,975,062 tons last year and produced 48,5')2 tons of pig metal. Theii product of ore sinoea 18563 has been 15,380 ,132 tons, and of pig metal 790, 277 Lonis. -Mr. Obadiah Dawson, a farmer in IuLporte county, ind., -who died ,re cenitly, had lived 68 days on water alone, being unable to rceoive any solid food because of a cancer of the stoniach. -The State Secretary of the Illinols department of agriculture has issued a statellmnt showing that the col'n crop in that. tate for 1883 was 250,607,080, a dcrease compared with 1879 oi 55,216, 311 busheis. -UChicago is the only one, of the five largest cities in the United States, the others being N'ew York, Pilaii~delphia, Brooklyn and Boston, in which the males are in excess oi te females by the present census. -TL'ii cultivation of tea in india has greatly increased during the last Iif-e teen years. in 18tid the total produc Lion was not above 8,000,000 pounds, while thils year a crop of 40,00,000-to 415,000,000 pounds is expected. --rno Amnerican Consul at La: Ro chele, France, states that the brandy trade of Cognae is declining, for the price of wine us so high, owing to rge ravages5 01 pnlylioxera, tnat it does nlot pay to distil tine Juice of the grape 11nto nramiv.