Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I'~ I TIHE WORLD AS I FIND IT. They say the world's a weary place, Where tears are never dried, Where pleasr.res las like breath on glass, And only woes abide. It may be so-I cannot know Yet th a 1 dare not may, - My lot has had more glal than sad, And so it has to-day. They say that love's a eruel jost They tell of woman's p ilos That poison d ps in poutig lips, And death ii dinpled imiles. It nay be so-I cannot know Yst sure of ti is I am: Ono heart is found above the ground Whoso love is not a sham. They say that lifo's a bitter curso That hearts are made to aobe, That jest and song are gravely wrong, And health a vast mistake. It may be so-I cannot know But let t:.om talk their fill ; I 1 ko my lito and love my wife, And mean to dp so still. That Voice. A lay in Juno, 18C8, and one of the loveliest early summer days the world ever beheld--a cloudless sky,golden bright sun shime, soft, fragianU ir, joyously sweet songs of buds, -aint musical murmurs of brooks and plashing of fountains, delicate ly green grass, lingering violets and budding roses. On the lawn in front of the elegant man sion of Leon Fishback, Esq., a party of young people are playinar "Follow, follow, follow me''- a gamesoluewbat resembling (so their mothers ond grandmothers tell me) an old Pan called "Puss in the corn er," played a quarter of a century or more ago, only in "Follow, follow" the players, instead of beckoning to each other, beckon to a gioup of metallic bulls, around which stand in a circle, and be or she who proves to have most magnetic foi cc the balls fol low with a rush, while the remainder of the players rush as wildly in their efforts to secure the p lace left vacant by the fly lug one, At this moment the balls are rolling poll mell, helter skelter,- knocking against each other with a pleasant ringing sound, after a pretty, fair-headed inaiden, whose little leet, clad in slippers all gleaning witlh sil ver and gold, flash in the sunshine beneath her blue satin Turkish tiouserlets as she springs lightly over the greensward amid the exquisitely modulated laughter-no one shouts loudly in this refined twentieth century-of her merry compaiions. In thle back garden, on a green clover sweet grass-plat, stands a broad, deep bas ket of newly washed, snowy white linen, and a hanging-out machine, planted firmly in the middle of the plat, is Industriously raising and lowering its iwooden arne, grasping the various pieces in its wonder fully constructed hands, and hanging them upon the etout no ciothes-pins line, which is slowig ievolving around it, and to which they adhere without further trouble. In the dairy the rosy-checked dairy-maid is reading a love poem, while the auto matic mitker is mnliking the beautiful white cow that stands just outside the dooi; in the kitchen the cook is indolently rocking to and tro In a low rocking-chair, watch ing the "imagic-rolling. pin" roll out the pas'e for her pies, ready to stop its pendu lum-like movement the moment the crust is samcoth and thin enough; and a small servant boy, with his hands in his pockets, lounges against the wall in one corner near a tall stool, whistling soitly t0 himself as he waits until the pair of khoes the electric blacking-brush Is polishing thereon attain the proper degree of brilliancy and mirror likeness. 'fis is a prosperous place, this donisln of Leon Fishback, Esq., anud Leon Flish back himself is a tall, handsome,energetic, positive man of one- andthirty--a bache lor, who gives a hoAne to his widowed sister atnd her lour half-orphaned children, andi ini auturn is taken care of by her, with the * assistance of the old house-keeper-to tell the truth, wtith a great deal of assistance front the old house-keeper-as well as any b rother was titken care of by any sister. Still people, as people will--especially * people with grown-up single daughtars wondered that, he latt never married. It was not for want of opportunity he had done so-oh, no indeed I-for a dozen lovely girls, half a dozen more or less charming widows, and several, ladies of neither class, had, since his coining into the propert~y of his uncle ,and godfatiker, Leon Fishback, Sen., (whose ashes in a sol id gold casket stood in a sort of shrine, made of a hundred rare woods, in the south drawing-room), intimated to him, in every way that the shrinking sensitive .ness of womuanhiood would allow, their per feet willingness-nay, anxiety-to assume the r'ole o1 mistress of the Fishbiack man I sion. But Le on had walked calmly among themn, dispensimig hospitality, kind wordls and gracious smiles with the strictest im partiallity, distinguishing none by the slightest preterenice, until a few weeks be tore the beautiful Juine (lay when his yoting guests merrily called, "Follow-follow-fol low me," to their highly pohahed adimnrers on the closely shaven lawn. . ' Thieni caime to visit lis pister an old school friend, Laura Beardsley by name, who hiad been residing In a far distant State, but with whom the sister had kept * ~ up a warm coirrespondlence ever since they *p arted at, the college door the (liy on which S .hwas pub'licly hailed with loud accla 0., oi nation as "Mlistress of Arts." fieit,-c- bMjs Beardmley is a lovely woman ef lass, Exr. of ,"' -.- stimmiers, lookim1g at land, dlecealse~t, evh ma.9, with an exception. sell on the 4th dayt "lNiet, an exceptionally fore the Courit House id .ydJonally graceful boiro,- one0 huindired shfaou havrinining wa3 5. the "C. C. & A. R. R. t'omt lbe rd ishas Leon And that the above-mnentic 'ly unmnm wvas being sold for thie purand dro'If since p1 'ing te rond therieof ,a 0pi his taut note given by the subscr'ihuh, asid ' ? d to, to Janmes Mi. 11u Lland, the stochr her 1w ing transferred by J. HI. C. to J. gLtea herlu as collateral seccurity foir paymen,,ma.m sid niote: mc T1his is to notify the said A. vhilch cd Dlotuglass and all others interested, nesms cjn that may hereafter- become so, that n me<t legal authority can existi in the said A S. Donglass to make such sale or trans 'JUS for said collateral now. Nor- can any such -autfhority nowv be' conferred or 7""" 01 him at the pr'esent time tinder exlsth Le""o" circurn)tanlces. That he is not o .lf'erent ki one of the conspirator~s who gepr~ ovrnenw tt - brm'iation. Si S ubscrjb rev illed f~e ~ .uAL. - - I'e U ion, says. "Hod much Iell'a'iA fik "her d .sister Teresa-that is, when Terdsa was pi only sixteen!" - - . "Is she I" asks Mr. FlsIbapk. d "Why, don't you remember?" says'the Ii lady. .- - "I do not," replies Mr. Flshback,awith i emphasis. Miss Laur makes two interrogation poits of her silken eyebrows, opens her 1 mouth to speak, thiuks better of it, closes 'd her red lips firmly,and turns to the window i again as the Follow-follow-follotrs-me-ers o stop playing and gather in group, with e their tyes fixed upon a small aerial car, a gayly decorated with flags, which is gently swaying between heaven and * earth, as it r slowly descends toward the lawn. In a - few moments it touches the ground, and f a handsome young fellow l6aps out, t and is greeted with many exclamations of I pleasure and. surprise. "Your brother Reginald," says Miss Beardsley. "o soon returned from Lon don? Why, he only started a few days ago." "Yes; flying ship American Eagle fastest of the Air Line. I heard of her ar- b rival just after breakfast this morning, when it was shouted by the telephone at the station below." t "Thirty miles away!" g "Oh I that's nathinig. We expect to be i able to hear news from a hundred miles I away before many years are past," a "M1ay I not be In the innediate vicini- d ty when that news is shouted I" says the lady, with ar involuntary movement of c her prettr white hands towards her pretty y, rose-tipped ears, for 1 should expect to be d deaf for evermore. "Never fear, my dear-I mean Nliss a Beardsley. Such a misfortune as that V shall never occur, though you should c chance to be at the very side of the shouter. a EFdison is fit this moment perfecting aii'iti- n strument that begins to deliver its mes- v sages in a moaerately loud voice, which increases in volume as it is carried forward, d until it reaches the most distant point it is intended to reach, thus maintaining an y even toine all along the route. How glorious all these Edisonian inventions are!" lie con tued, with a glow of euthusiasm,-" anzl what humdrum times our anceitors must i have had without them I Why, they are the very life of the age. There's the phono- o graph, for instance-but I beg pardon; you ti are looking bored. I cannot expect you to take as much interest in these scientific n subjects as 1. Is not Reginald coming a this way?" "ie is not,"answers Mliss Laura,demure- P ly "he is still holding Belia's hand, and h4 totally ignoring all other welcoming hands 1< extendeu to himn." "AhI the old, old story that is ever p new I" quotes Mr. Fishback, as he peeps over the shoulders of his fair guest at the new arrival, and then, suddenly rising and confronting her, he exclaims, "You must tU have heard that story very, very often, Laura--forgive my calling you so, but you used to permit it in the days we went blackberrying together some ten years a ago; and forgive me again, but, upon q my word, I cannot help asking you, im pelled as I am by some mysterious power. y Why have you never married ?" ( A blush rises to her cheek, but she looks up in his calmly, and replits: "I don't re member the blackberry episodes, and I have remained unmairied because I vowed n when a young la(y never to marry unless n convinced that I was the first and only love of the nman whose wife I became." "Laura, I have never loved another." "6r. FishbacA,you forget my old friend Teresa, the sister of the girl to whom your brother Reginald is now making love on the 1 lawn." h "Good heavens I Laura, how mistaken ti you are I" .L "T was with her you looked for blackber- il ries. I never knew you to find any-not c with rme, Sir." 5 "Laura, how blind you were!i I sought r liar society only to be near you. I declare, e upon my word and honor, I lingered by l her side for hours in the hope that you V would join us for a moment or two dturing ti the time, and when you did, in that mo ment or two was concentrated the joy of fl the whole day. You were so proud, so P cold, so reserved, I did not dare -to ap- L Proach you save throurgh your friend; c and-" -"And you did not br~ry yourself in se- r clusion for two years a fter she jilted you a and married Frank Hluntington ?"she asks, t~ as he pauses. c "Great hea'vens I how preposterous ! c Laura, 1 aWear-" But, as he is about to swear, enter a pro- t. cession of small nephews t'nd nieces and d attendant friends, the leader of which car- c ries and odd-looking box. "See, uncle!i" the brlghl-eyedl little fel- 'l low calls out as lie approaches. "I found C t hIs 01(1 phonograph on the top) shelf of r your closet, where I was looking for your ~ fish line to play horse with, and it talks like everythIng."s With this he begins to turn the metatl h crank, and a voice-a somewhat shrill C young voice, the voice of Teresa, sister of Bella-whilom friend of Laura Bcardsley ~ -begins to speak : "Yes, Leon, mny own, I will grant t your impassioned prayer, and breathe the t words you long to hear into this magi- 1 cal casket, andi then, when you are lonely ~ or incined to doubt me, jealous one, you can call them forth to bring back the smiles to your (lear face, and and joy to your dear heart. I clo return the love you so ardently avow, and I'wdll marry you when miamma gives her consent. Until c then no lips shall touch the lips made t saeret by your dss, no hand shall clasp the i hand that wears your lovely diamond ring. But, oh, Loon dear, try to like Laura at little for my sake. I know site is all thma02 you say she Is-affected, cold-hiearteMiG heughty,and dilsagreeable (I am just naunagua ty enough to be pleased when you tell aston her beauty, so much adlmiredi by o" mitid particularly Frank Iluntington, fadan lime utter inslgniticance beside that of ,gry, to t h little Teresa)--but, my Leon, tr/ ap- which to tolerate her, for, strange as ', lam In Ii pear to yot4, disliking her as ocloved. versa) ~quite fondit of her. Goodl-r' forest ,'g reami 01 your Tiessa." g, "ohin:o- many rofwpii! said Mir. Fish Oe ~troyed it long '0' ~- --I ncn its at'hedl It fromi t9",' thoug liy imone In erer. .eI~~ lhe angril ieo at did o a of the small lion af RE.these i& the rca hanr Ba .rn anetors dothio ppls, akeasshe quietly fainted bred j in het lifeth r l aded M. oun k-~'cleare ressing his unfortunate nephew and sup orting bliss Beardsley with one .hand, rhIe lie flung the tell-tale out of thew win bw, where It broke into a dozei pieces as touclied the ground with a shrill ear plitting shnek-"1'l apply the double aok-action self ctiig ipankig machine util you roar fot mercy." 'rho procession, considerably demoral :ed, started oir the double quick for the oor, and Mr. Fishback. looking upol the ianimate form he held in his arms, cited ut,as he struck his forehead with hisclinch d hand, "She will neverlcuev lo k at me gain V" But She did, and, what's more, she mar led him a month after. And -oh, the marvelous progress toward per Dct womanhood in this wonderful twen eth century I--although they have beon ian and wife for some twenty years, uhe as neve onco said to hin, "That voice !" Tight a a Caundie Mlould. I s'pose you have heard of Doctor Ames ury, hain't you I " I never have." j Well then I'll tell you. One day I met ie doctor over. to Simpkin's shop buying roceries. - It was awfully cold. I felt a te hoarse, and 1ny tongue was rather rry, so says 1, " My head feels a little choish like; what do you think I'd better Ui ') Bays he, "Friend S., the best thing you in do is to go straight home, and soak our feet and take a sweat, 'cause if you on't you ight have a fever." says I, "Doctor, I was just, thinking a 6veat would do me good, and now I guess il do it." So I went home and drank a up of tansy ten, and if I didn't sweat like peaver it's no matter. The next morning ky head was as clear as a bell, and I was '0li again. Well, a day or two afterwards I met the octor, and saye he: "Neighbor 6., I have a small bill against I looked at him, and says 1; " A bill I " and says he': "Yes,~a bill lor advice, you -know, at impkin's'shop, the other day." What do y ou think he chareed ? why. ie dollar for telling me to go home and 6kc a sweat. Well, doctor," says I (because I would Dt appeair small, you know "it's all right, ad Iu bar it in mind." Well, a fe. !hays alter, the doctor was ssing by my 4Oor in hIs chaise, and some ow or other oO' I the ivheels got a little oeee; so sa 3. "Doctor, , o u don't drive that lynch in in an inch the wheel might coie off." hays he: "Ihank you," and he drove in the pin. When I mit him again I presented hum ie bill. " ULio I what on earti is this ?" "Why, that's for advice." "Advice 1 for what?" says he. "IYhy, for driving in your wheel pin, id I have just charged you a dollar and a uirter." "Well, " says he, "the difference between our bill and mine is jiist twenty-flvo :nts." "That's all you owe me," says I. "Well, I'll bear it in mind," says he. But the doctor Is as tight as a candle told, and I guess he is liable to bear it in Lind. nathroosns. Bathrooms, or good conveniences for athing, ought to be found in every farm ouse; and yet It is an unlpleasant fact ,at they are often entirely lacking, and at a daily or semi-weekly "all over" bath something undreamed of by many so Illed civilized people who pride them ilves upon their neat habits. This really ~hglousa duty of keeping the whole hsody cean does not occur to them, and the neg cet of It is one of the numerous ways in hich busy, hard-working people abuse iemselvcs. Every villa, pretty country cottage and rat-class farni-house now has its well-ap rinted bathroom, and so may the little irce-coraered "shantle," or the log cabin f the pioneer, have its possibilities for athinag. If all can not command a special >omf with its ample tubs, showers, douches, nd convemient supplies of hot andl cold wa inr, all can have at least the seclusion of a loset, to-which it is easy to carry a basin f water and a sponge. A bit of a room might be built adjoining 10 kitchen, with a sliding or hinged win ow opening near the cook-stove, thus so uring warmth ini winter and bringing~ the c hot and cold water" within arm's reac'K 'hen, with the additiona of a bath-tut1 yen a large laundry tub, with a pj t ibber hose fixed in the bottom to "weis rater to the dirain, pegs for hany 9 din g nd( sponges, and a bz'acket, Janps, a tv )N.s-and that helter thar~ om good 0 ottie 'f ammonia-it is s o nough ior a king. Ma be had by t A very good shower - oim o strong ~ uspending a wanterivg e~fr to regulate l ook in the ceiigs - df a string; at ac showering bf' '. 1will be found al iched to the si .'. the portable onespi iost as satis?; -- .g shops. t >ld in house ' 'I and Main. no *1 s lni , sof Sardimia and Sicily, cr< '~%iries- of Italy, have suffered en< of their thoughtlessness in ex- saf tr agtheir forests. Two thousand pr< these lands were celebratedl for' 'onaderful productiveness, and were ter :o be the most beautiful in the wvorldl. ice 00 humboldt visited Venezuela, and to I nlformned by the natives living in Ar- (101 that they land noticed, with great hior Ishmnent, that a lake which lay in the rob le of the valley had decreased In vol- 5ue 3very year ; the cause clearly tracedl son falling of a great number of trees mio: a grew on the surroumndingamounitains. the igary periodical droughts are unl- Aft by attributed to the annihilation of deii e. In Uniro, Lowver Egypt, a great of a years ago, rain fell but seldom-only beh V' A . T,..-ears-but since the laun Molufllm ~re~ mi lag. trees have been set or planted ,. a ilt Is now that the country hsfo ~oflyrin day s In every year. th' e forgylan nd the heavily tim- lsudd States of the Union were frs watte adr Ln-fiall was greatly in exCand has been (thre ince so much oftehadearbe c i up. to Apropos to the Occasion. In the heavy stage edicu, as we roll out of Leadville, are seven '-nen. One is an army officer who has half a dozen scars to prove his bravery. Odt off from his com imnfsd, on the plains last summer, by a score of Indians,' he mutrenched himself and fought the band off!until help arrived Two of the 'others are desperadoes, who have killed their men. Three of tli others are stalwart miners, each armed with two revolvers, and they look as if they would prove ugly customers in a row. The seventh man might do some shoot -ing on a pinch. but lie hopes there will be no pinch. In the crowd are ten revolvers, to derringers, three. repeating ritles and four or live bowie knives, and there is per fect good feeling as, the.stage rolls along. It Is tacitly understood that the army cap tain Is to assume comipand in case the coach Is attacked, and that all are to keep cool and tire to kill. . It is 10 o'clock In 40e morning. The windows are down andtVi passengers are smoking and talking, and seeking for com-. fortable positions. The coach has just reached the top of a hiU! when every horse is suddenly pulled up. j. "if it's a b'ar we'll 'havo some f tin," growled one of the minors, as lie put his head out of the window. . "If it's a robber gin ine the fust pop at him I" whispered one of the desperadoes. No one could say what the trouble was when a wiry little chap:about five feet six inches tall, witn black eyes and hair, clean face and thin lips, appeared at the left-hand door with a cocked revolver in either hand, and said: 4% "G ents, I'm sorry tq disturb you, but i've got to make a raise this morning. Please leave your shooters and climb down here, one at a time I" I It wais sudden. It was so sudden that it took ten seconds to understand the drift of his remarks. Then every eye turned to the right-hand dor, and the two revolvers held (y a second robber were seen at the open window. It was a trap. The rats were caught, and would they fght? "uents, I'm growing a lecl impatient," continued the first robber, "and I want to see the procession begin to iiove P Let's see? The captaia was to lead us, and we were to be cool and fire to kill. But the captain was growing vhite around the mouth, and nobody had a weapon in hand. The rats were not going to light. One of the miners opened the dtor and de scended, and the other six humbly follo wed. The seven were drawn up in line across the road, and while the zobber held his shooter on the line, lie Coolly observed to his partner: "?Now, William, you remove the weap ons from the coach and thut search these gentlemen." As William obeyed every victim was or dered to hold his bands abou his head. and whatevoer plunder was taken from his pockets was dropped into William's liat. Four gold watches, two daumond pins, a teleacope, a diamond ring, a gold bailge and $1,200 in cash chanked hands im ten minutes. Not a man had awbrd to say. The driver of the coach I !d not leave his seat and was not imerie -vith. When the last man had been plund red the gen feel Dick Tuvpinny ~on ed:'* - "You are the iilostL aece-t lot of men I ever robbed, and if times Veren't soblaszed hard, I would make each of you a present of $10. Now, then, climi back to your places and the coach wil ;o on." The crowd "clumb," au the vehicle re sunied its journey. Not a weapon or a time-piece or a dollar Id been saved. C Seven well-armed men hid been cleaned out by two and not a sbo fired or a wound given. Each man took ils seat without a word. Mile after niile fas passed in si lence, and finally the senPth man, the one who might fight on a ptmch, but didn't, plaintively suggested : "Can't some of' you gotlemen think of a few remarks which wold be apropos to the occasion ?" No one could, and LI silence was re newed. Alumana Treeo - IndIas. The scientifle mann .a wvhiich the na- b tive robbers in India p ire for their raids b shows a thorough kino .dge of the dan. gers of their calling, u'e the best guards 13 against them. W t l air dusky bodies, ' are least ob thery remove h'~Lir w clothes, ani is~e wizi o.i, and "I wihaig 'rpen, a kooni edlged knife w; wituspn their neck, creep and steal tb hkeseIc.voiselessly through the dark. vc lie ~ iected, their greasy and slip- gc ners's asis them in cluding capture, Ui pet lr rt zor bladedl knife dexterously set d'.ewrist of any detaining hand, lio *. Jhe most ingenious device to escape stia ~pture is that shown by the JBneel rob- hi rs. It often happens that a band of Axa ese robbers aire p)ursuecd by mounted aga Lglishmien, and, unable to reach the agle, find themselves about to be over. ken upion one of those open plains [lich haive been cleared by Ilhe the fly shelter in sight being the black- of: Led trunks or leafless brancties of small ear :es that have perished in the flames, up r men so skilled ia posturing this is bee alter enough. Quickly divesting them- cela yes of their scanty clothing, they ord itter them, with their plunder, Ia small car es over the liain, covering themn with nir rotund shields, so that they have the pearance of lumps of earth, andl attract or I attentian. Tnis accomplished, they itch up a few sticlis, throw their body hoeu o a contorted pqsition, anti stand or ' unch immulovable u til their unsuspicious hapi xmies have galloped b~y. When all Is to t1 a, they quickly pick up their spoll and sud ceed upon their Way. ' ['le R1ev. Dr. J. D. Woods gives an in- ides 3sting account of the~se marvelous mbii.n. o "Before the Einlish had become used hose mnanouvres a very luicrous inci- reac ,t occurred. An oflilcer, with a party of geni se, was chxismg a small body of.lineel bers, and was fast overtaking them. " idenly the robbers ran behind a rock or le such obstacle, which hid theln for a dent nent, and when the soldiers cane uip ", mnen land mysteriouisly dlisappearedl. 3r an unavalhng search, the ollicer or- to a ~d his mn to dismount beside a clinl > " orchecd and withered trees, and the dayw g v'ery hot, he look o0f his helmet anti u1)? git on a branch by which ho was stand. "I Th'le branch turned out to be the le go Ueel, who burst Into a scream ol ts liter, and fling the astonished oflicer to as I tround. 'Tne clump ol scorchedi trees na became mnetamoutrph~osed into men, o'clo he wi party dihpersed in dl.ffrent all o ~tions before the Englhshmen could re- lowe r from their sumprise, carrymng with to dl 'ithe officer's helmet by way of trophy." go ri Uuman Fiends. "Previous to the 21st of Aprl, 1878, there lived at a town called Norris, Ham tramck county, Mich., about six miles from the city of Detroit, two aged German farmers, both bachelors, Anthony Miller, one of the two, being reported quite wealthy. The name of the other could not be remembered, but was a sort of companion and helper of Anthony. Their house was quite removed from other habi tations and in rather a lonesome locality. On -the night mentioned (April 21, 1878) ive men came to their house and gained admission. They proceeded to rob the preiises, but the occupants attempted to resist, and In doing so were overpowered by the five. Miller was threatened with (leath if he did not disgorge his treasure. This he would not or could not do, and was brutally shot dead on the spot. Iis companion, who could scarcely speak En glish, was thoroughly frightened at the position in which he found himsel , and when the live men turned their attention to him he was speechless with horror. Tnoy asked him where the money was. He ti ied to make them understand that he had no knowledge of its whereabouts. They threatened him with all sorts of tortures if he did not tell, but the (lesired answer could not be given. The old man did not know himself. Then at consulation was held for a few moments. At the end of it they seemed dccidcd upon a course and now a scene of fiendish cruelty was enact ed. The old man's hands were tied tightly together, then his feet, and he was laid upon the floor. Red hot coals from the stove were brought forward. Again the victim wa's asked to tell the secret of the hidden wealth. He could only cry out unintehigibly in his agony. His bare feet were held in contact wit the fire, and his mouth gagged to prevent his cries being hcard at ainy great distance from the Liouse. After a few applications the gag was removed and he was asked again to Lell. No answer came. The poor man's lips were burned again and again with the uoals held to them, while his head was im movable in' the strong tands of the rob lers. Whether they t1'6n left of their own accord or were frighened away by the ipproach of some one was not remember A!, but the dead man and his almost life less companion were left to the mercy of %ance. Dr. Chapin as a Worker. Like Theodore Parker, Chapinundoubt 2dly felt his vitality to be so immense that it could not be overtasked. Parker came f a long lived race, but he died of over work at flity. Chapin seemed made for infinite endurance, but he was shaken at SiXty, and lie died at sixty-six. Some years ago, in the height of his prospering lectur ing career, the Easy Chair met him at the Albany Railroad station in the early even ing of a winter day. 1le was snatching a "bite" and a cup of coffee, and as the bell rang, they hurried to the train, Chapin chr rying a lumbering bag and shawls, and laughing and joking as they climbed into the car. He had been out all the week, starting early Monday morning, after preaching twice on Sunday. He had lec !ured every evening during the week, trav ling dluiti'val ay. -.Up bofore light,"he aid gayly, "etat;gr tons of tough steaks nd bushels of cold app1!es, whizzing on in hese stifling cars, and turdt1ir out just in ime to awallow i cup of tea, antff to tue 2cture." It was tremendous work as nly the fully initiated know. But hea m a all a joke, and his swilt tongue flow hu lorously on from incident to incident, and resently began to discuss the new books nd the new articles in the magazines, vith sharp and just discrimination. 8ud enly the train stopped, evidently not at a tation. The night was cold an d stormy. 'resently the conductor passed, and Chapin sked to know the reason of the delay. 'he conductor replied that there was soaie erangement of the locomotive; and Cha in said, quietly, "This is bad business for man who has to preach at 11 o'clock to iorrow morning, andc whose sermon Is not egun." His companion remonstrated; - ut Chapius eyes twinkledl as he answered: Oh, you laymen know nothing about it. r p ui ng thme cotter's Satumday night, but ~ e minister's Saturday night is yet 'un ritten. .At least,'' he said, laughing, his one Is likely to be unwritten." It is past mlidnighit when the train reached ~ o city. "Good-night," cried the hearty ice. "Go home, and go to bed;- I'nm ing to work." The next time the Easy ~ air met the preachier it aked about that muon. "Ohi, thirt was all right. I wecnt - me, andl there was a bright fire in my ~ dy, and a brew of hot coffee, and I Anu- a ed that sermon just, as the sun rose."n d. the next mornmng probably lhe was off uin for aniother week of the same kind. The First, Wagon, I. citizen residing In the northern part of ac Detroit, who always orders his groceries pi ly In the morning, so that they can go ki by the first wagon out, but who has w n disapp~olnted a hundred times in re- at ring them before noon, made another pr er the other day, and said to the gre- cc 'Will these groceries go right up?" On, yes, unless the wagon breaks doawn, ecm lie horse is taken sick." t Wi'll they be at tihe house within an n They certainly will, unless something Ie pens to one of the clerks, or we have fou iarn out on an alarm of fire, or there Is a an lea death in the store." All right, though 1 haven't the least on you wvill get them ump there before mr 1.' $1' eon came andl the groceries had not It hed the house. At one o'clock thme .loman entered the store andl asked: ese ilthe wagon break dtown ?" 0111 orse taken sick, or anybody drop of dlid the le a, fire here, or anytinag hmappeni oni nlrk? his Lhen why didn't my groceries go wa stri will tell you," placldly reliled the kne r. "You hadn't been gone tea min. aft< when I was drawn on a jury, andl just In t was goimg out my head clerk an. cedl that he was to be married at ten k. We sell No. 1. goods-try to fill noti rdhers promptly--keep prices at the all. si notch. andl once In a while we have V mappomnt some one. Your order will the ht up by the first wagon. jwt - 'wo C~t The "naker's Dozen." Close by Market Street now Broadwaj lived and prospered a baker, the first mat that ever baked New Year cakes-in fact the inventor of them. The name of oui friend was Volckert Jan Pletersen Vai Amsterdam, commonly known as Baas, He was Dutch from his large feet to hib round bald head, and had no respect . foi any one or anything that was not Dutch, He was a regular attendant 'it the old Dutcl church, but, nevertlieless, In fear of beiun bewitched. His wife,Maritje, was economi cal even to saving the parings of her nails, and his ginger-bread babies were alwayi made in imitation of his children. It wa New-Year Eve, 1655, and Bass was in lih shop dealing out cakes for small pieces oi money, called wampum. He had taken at extra glass of rum in honor of St. Nicho. laus, when he heard a sharp rap, and in walked as ugly an old woman as ever ht had set his eyes on. "I want a dozen New-Years cookies," she screamed. "Vellh den, you needn't sheak so loud, replied Paas. "Duyvel I I ain't teaf, dlen, "I want a dozen," screamed the old wo man, ''and here Is only twelve." "Vell, den,und what do duyvel is dwyll but a dozen?" said the baker. "I tell you I want one more I" she shrieked. From this time on our baker's wife and himself were made miserable. Their money and cookies were taken away by invisible hands; their bread either rose out of sight or sank into the earth; their famous brick oven was torn down, and poor Baas pelted with his own bricks; Maritje became deal; Baas was black and biue from head to toe: and such a life as tie led was purgatory. Thrice the old woman appeared, and thrice was she seat to "do duyval." And at last in his agony, Bags betought himself of St. N4icholaus, who advised him, on hearing of his troutles, when he counted a dozen to count thirteen. "Py St. Johannesde Dooper, put St. Nicnolaus is a great plockhead P' thought Baas; and wLile he was thus thinking St. NicK had vanished, and in his stead was the old woman. "She repeated her demand for "one more, "and Baas, rememberi ug St. Nicholaus, acceded to her demand, when she exclaimed, "I.Lhe spell is broken, and henceforward a dozen is thirteen, and thirteen is a dozen." And taking a cooky with an elly of the good saint on it, she made BJaas swear that ever afterward twelve should be thirteen, as a type of the thirteen mighty States that shouid arise out of the ruins of the g.vernment of Vad erlandt. It is well knowv how terribly St. Nich olaus revenged himisell upon those who set th::mselves up against the venerable cus turns of their ancestors, and refused the humage to him to whose good ollices is was owing that this his favorite city hat surpassed all the others in beautiful dam seis, valorous young men, mincepies, olie kooks, and New-Year cookis. Keep hia eye Oven. The storm-doors around the post-office all open outwardly. This isn't for fear that a fire will occur and a rush ensue, but it is arranged that way to make a man mad. A man will go singing along the street, smil ing all over, and bragging to himself how good natured ho is, when he suddenly re memberes that lie must mail a letter. He Is only one man, but the other imentioned in the heading stands around to give ad vice. The first man runs up the steps and givee %he or a push. It is as solid -as a rock, and hiddnementum generally carries is knees and I pe against the hard wood. "Push I" yel'u the extra man, The other steps xqollows the advice, ut with no successful re u ts, and by thu ine hIs smile has faded, hisg~ 'ji ioin i'ins to work up, and there is indige ,o us tonos as he turns and asks : "* I "Is this blasted old post-ofice closed fo. he day 9" "Ono sir. I guess you will get in if on push hard enough. I presume the Inges are a little rusty. "' Then the man returns the charge. As a ule he puts hIs shoulder to the door, his saet slip back, and he comnes down in a racefal heap to be laughed at by all the oys. When he gete up hie feels as if lie auld lick any seven anen but before he has me to pick a fight the other advances and mys: "Mighty curious about that door, Ah| II ac--opens this way. You might have ushedl all day and not got in." ,.The one that goes is too mad to post In is letter. The one who stays out shakes I over and keeps his eye out for the 3xt. fl Took theg I'gg, Recently a game em poker weis played in private room In one of the hotels of Car n City, whIch wound up) In a decidedly cullar manner. About 9 o'clock a well 'own citizen of Geinoa was convavlalizing ith two professional sportinmf gentlemen Winston's bar, when one of the latter oposed a game of cards, which was ac pted by the two others. The party was n in a five-dollar-lumlt game of poker.1 >r a while the Ueooese layed in excel it luck, when the prop~osition was imado play without liniit, which was alsoI animously agreed upon. Thle two sport r men had entered into a contract to ace the countryman, and they dealt hinm ir jacks, the dealer took four queens, i I the third received four aces. The Ci .n fi'om uenoa, believing the game wasn the square, chipped $100 ; the "ace" j) ,n ''saw hIm," and "raisedl" another a' )0O; the dealer "saw" that and "raised" ,250. eI i.t this juncture of the game the Geno- at whose credit is A1, sent down to the ~ ce of the hotel for $500, which was at ~ e brought to him. At length a "show'' 0 cards was called for, and as the sports not want to lipress their victim with ' Idea that they were lafying hin falsely, t y, the man with the queens produced ~ hand. No sooner was this (lone titan tl victim, presumably knowing what lie about, whipped out a revolver, and ok the dealer over the head with it of eking hlim senseless. Then lie went of r the man who held the four aces, and Ir anes of thunder Inquired: : 'What have you got? iShow up in tri O-hi, 0.hi," replied lie, "I ain't got ilng ; "I was only blufling ; that's in ho fith that the Genoese picked up all rie money on the table and walked off ai I I t, nn BRIEFS. -Richard 111, was killed at thre bat tle of Bosworth Field in the year 1485. -Ohevallear Kremer will be the new Austrian Anbassador to Washington. -The debt of Massaclitart-is $68, 512 927, 1 n increase of $781,370 over 1870. -Tie comet of 1812 is raj idly ap )roaching, and will soon make Itself visible. -The Territory of Alaska has about one inhabitant to every 1,000-Equare -miles. -Macon, Georgia, Is to have a $15, 000 brick building for public school purpo tes. -The total sumi reccommended by all the appropriation bills is $187,077, 000. --The Canadians propose to increase the duty on pork Iromr $2 to $4 pcr bar rel. -Seven States are visible from tihe summit of Roan Aountain in North Carolina. Minnesoto has appropalated $1590 in1 the last live years to encourago tree planting. -Somator Blaine is mentioned as owning $60,00 in bonds of the State of Maine. --Mr. Smart, tihe champion skater of England, has skated a mile In three minutes. -Tie amount of rent (Iu in New York every quarter is estimated at $120,UOO,000. -Fron 148 to Jan. 1, 1881, Galifor ila turneid out lII gold anIL silver $2, 139,258,000. -Tiere are 60,000 schools and ol leges In India, with an attendance of 90J,UO hoys and girls. -Tite Masonie fraternity, according to the IiLat figures, has 45,5U mnit bets In G(ermaLy. -Chicago uses 57,412,00) gallons of WaLer per day, or over 114 gations for each man, wouran and iid. -The city of London gives $10,000, 000 every year towartd the relief of dis tress, sulf'ering and poverty. -One hundred and lifty thousand acres of land in Mississippi have been said to a Scotcuh land company. .-Large cotton factorie.4 will be built this year at Vicksburg, New Orleans, Louieville and Uliarleston. -The public debt of Canada was in creased nine and a hall millions dutrilnC tire liscal year ending Jnne 3 1, 188., -Tie number of prilgrims who vis ied the saured shrines or Mecca last year is stated to haVu t:xeeeded 200,0t;0. -Col. Drake, the dlicoveier of petroLCum, will have a $15,0JO tlannu ment ereeed to Inis minrury at Titus ylle, Penn. -The gum on some letter envelopes is said to have seriously poisoned a physician in Orange counlty, N. Y., a few days ago. -An Indiana man hai built a n)lnla ture steamer twenty-five feet lonrg, in which he proposes to mauke a trip to New Orleans. -Trhere are between seven and eight hundred professional models in Paris, thirty-three of whom are Americans. They are every age, from children of six to men and women of sixty. -The sum of $145,000,000 was per mainently invested hi new railroads in th s eouutry last year. Tne Increaso in mileage was 7,207. -Thlere are only three ladies living whose husbands were Preside its of the United S&atee, Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tyler and Mrs. Lincoln. --L ciutenant Maurice O'Connel, of the Saxtieth Rifles, whio was killed fin the battle In the Tiransvaai reenntly was a grand nephrew of Dinl O'Connell. -In Germany, includling tire fr-ec (eabout elihty-ilve per en~r- , (Kla~~Pulationr any"' - - o 3300; i eerlin atri~comes under nie, 14.6 per cent. have icog, andfre.. $300 up to $1,500. icmsfo -While the area of land nd-gei oral cultivation In Great deftlr gen incereased diurinr te pa tn yeas 1694,000 acres, that In wast ensyear ereased( 501,000. whahsd -The Canadian ladie r tihr to get 100,000 sign es.~ aro trvang dress to be >resenture to o eir cta en her birtaynted to tng Vtheor-a Dontitued loyalty.an oetn hi le an annisi Ilnter of Paris r-e.. -- Viennta, $40o ary of$0,0 ;a $40,000; at St. j'eters atantinoplea Blerlhitn, $3,000 ; at l?ekur, $30,o00 ; at ladr-id evoi, $27,000. k,$3,0;a rh o Grai ci ai rotliers of Diko og :87 busirels of whletat. ieod3,o a said to hrave pai al c o' 37rl,000 len anid iarketitng loovlsr 100,000va ushecis at 75 copts a busrol for poft fks, involvyi :13,00 nlbs of' the) 9,000 of whtichr are of cast-i ro:. ~-Last year tire State oh Notti Cr 0 e o or nearly one P9111l(unds evr an, womatn and child in the coun try. -Tire registered tonage of' the Belit hemnpire nrow amlnits to 7,533,402 ws ntaince In3693 vesseis, in n et yea 1,766 hew vessels were buirt --The New York City rsn pn I tadoors last year to 30,825 per mas o i ntemzper-ate nrabits. Tire ph ations Iurisehdg~st 2,8 ardwonmen whro haaC unowhere else -n 1837 Chricago became a city itaim 1. Ogdein belsrt tire 1irs Tyn. 1re populationr was 4,170. tUntd States consii of 18i av t )ppullon ats 4,853, anl linere of 3in three years. -M. Andreas Hlofer, thre grandson the 'i'yreleanr patriot shrot fby order Napotean 1, has recently gonre mad >m atr excess aVe us0 01f tobaccoc. Mt ner has been a member of tire Aus - ani I'aruimencit for se veral years, A. "rubber--'eadled tack" hras been rented by a misguided mran. Every ly who fias sat. down In peace anid en in wrath knows that trhe hlead of selc is not tihe end whnichr needs lan . vetment with a rubber point,