The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, April 07, 1881, Image 1

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I* - -ia.- - --..-- - - fRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 7, 1881. s IN THE WOODS. Here on tL-: soft, brown leaves I lie, Doep in the woodland shad6; No bit of landscape meets my eye, No-- t n blue gleam from sea or sky, Lglpse of sunlit gede I - Nough tree trunks, towering everywhere, Hold this broad canopy in air. Brown branobes spread rare penoilings, Keeping themselVes alooft And eson small leaf, that lightly swings, Its own bright bit of beauty brings To form the dainty root; And look whichever side I may, The silent arches strctoh away. No birds I no wind I Unotrtain sounds (ome faintly from afar I fancy when we leave earth's bounds, To walk no more its well known rounds, TLat thus, without a jar, The murmuas from this old, loved land Will echo on ihis heavenly atrand. How near God is! I seem to lie Within Ilis courts to-day No great white throne, exalted high, No glitter.ng pageant pasiing by, To fill me with dismay ; He walks in quiet through the land, Touching His works with loving hand. This tiny vine, close at my feet These modest tufts of moss, Are moulded into foi ms as neat. Finished in beauty as complete, As the tall trees that toss Their branches in the summer gale And stretoh long sha lows o'er the vale. 0, spirit of the woodland shado, You give me j >y to-day I Your beauties all my soul invade Your quiet on my heart is laid; Oh, live with mo, I pray I Let me still feel your aoothings when I troed the jarring walks of men. util's bacrifIce. Frank Gordon was lazily stretched upon a sol a in his sister's luxurious sitting room, an 'i.e two were dicissing a party given by Mirs. Hale the previous evening, in lion or of her . rother's recent arrival from Cali fornia, after six years' absence. "Lii." Frank sai, trying to speak Indif ferently, and failing almost lamentably, "I missed one face I fully expected to see last evening-Ruth Welliord's." "Ruth Welilford'a I" cried Mrs. Hale in accents of surprise. "Ruth at a party I But I forgot you have been away for six years. Why, Frank, she must have been it mere child then." "Bixteen, and the sweetest, fairest girl I over knew. We were always good friende, Lily, though we did not correspond, and i have carie d her lace and voice in my heart in many a weary hour." "I am sory.". ",tIN hy V You speak as if something dreadkul had occuried to her. She is not dead, and I have not heard of her marriage. What is it then, that aakes you cly out with amazenment at the suggestion of her presence at your party ?" "It is a long story, Frank." "You have all the morning to tell it." "N lieu you weint away, lRuth's uncle was stil alive ?" "Certainly.". "he (lieu in 1I-at same year. You say you ren.enber Ruth? Then you remem ber tlat she was nut only pretty. modest and ieimcd, but one of the nost generous ginls in or ithole circle of friendsi? She haw a haanohvnbe abovace from her uncle and she sPent it lively, dressing exquisite ly, and giving in cbarity or friendly gifts frequenuy." * Well " said Fiank, impatiently, as his sister l.aused, "Hecr uncle died, and left her the house he had lived in hor y'ears, and a clear In. ccmue o1 thaee tlho, samd dollars." Again Mars. haie paused, and then said sudouenly : "M edl, Frank, since she became rich in her own rilht, Ruth has beceme the slave of u-oniey, a thorough miser. "lmpoisrible I" "it is true the first thing she did was to rent the old house, lurintuie and all, to the Witings, who were glad enough to get it, for it) muhiLousts, 'with such grounda as that the has, aicecaice Lere. the moved htntel to tat nsieabie little cottage 'wLere old ilt reer lived so long, and there she lives 'with one ativanit, an oed woman, 'who was v ith her mother from girlhood, ticey stay. Iou know Mir. Welliti 'was ve t y a c tace nii ab~out R uth, aiid there is little krown ol Lar liue beloae the eanm6 here, a chuda oi live 3eas old. But she lives with .aarthn, the old aeisant, in that tiny cot.. tage, Iulnaled litm the old house, with the ljoolest ol the luiniture. She wears the ehaipeit, plainatat clothing, and dioes eviery stitc h ofi her own teew ng. bhe ael dc n's Aces out, but invariably walks, the chrirai,,e aid loraes being aented with the hcuse. Living oai the. meanest l are, she acitaally i ells the e xti a vegetables lroin her gaio en, (g8gs tand poultry." '1But 'why, Lil? h nat is the explana lion (aI tuchi a change?" ""A hat caln it he but pure avarice? She has rLot a livin-g relative an the 'world, atnd she noust tbe honaing up the money some wherie." c"i t is very etrange 1 I suppose I may "I cannot tell youi that. Sino shae pre htre to live atad diess lhke a paupler, her old 11:C050 L ave cea to Call upon her or to invite her to theit aeceptions, She will be a Cattch xx.e cony for a loitune hunter i she (oibtituts to lie a n.iser's le, but I in- agire )ou 'would pieler a less scrold soul evth i lib pculstor hadi niot one dollar to call her o'wn." "youa ale aight. I am rich enough to caice L othn g 10i a \vilc's c.o'er, but .t can not leatnze iitt~e Ruth boiotu, maiserly andi giaspiimg I li.tbt call onee, Lily. I-er I blai the caItin o1 aix long yets may be ii aettieu Ly the lecuht) 01 itch a change, Lt-t it 'will Ce a batea 'walking." '~i 31 Sou aove lu. to in.uion, Frank ?" 't o nath 1l.at 1 tithed hier uncle to let ate Lle to inii her love in retuln. lie tola n e sit 'was ihi ba a neae Chuu lie old not wash hLt stuojts ittailupt'o, or h~er nlaid dntwhba thrn, but that, at I lovt d her on may letuin he wculd not oppose mny woo 5a. 1 'was i.ot a l iic 0ti ren, onuy pos truirng 'what 'was an tay meae for a Siraglc na, Co I L~cgminL in hia, decision. but the itrte I nasco vtas icor her, anu the Lhl~e c1 tax 3eaaa las Lern 'hat 01 ccii aug Lui c to hew her laee, nad nay ittue, ha su rearceay kncw 'what love meant. Well," and be sighed ,heavily, "I had bet ter have stayed here. I kept my secret, thinking she would be here last night to give me a welcome home; bnt you know now why my heart was not at your party, Lil, though I was glad to meet old friends." Mrs. Iale had no words to express her deep sympathy. She pressed her lips soft ly upon the handsome face, shadowed by her story, and Frank, returning the mute caress, rose and left the room. It was agony to wait now. Better to have the final wrench and go on his way again with out the lost hope, He nerved himself to see a slatteruly wcmnan in a squalid house, and by the time he reached the cottage to which Lily directud him, he would scarce ly have been surprised if he had met Ruth in rags, selling matches or bogging ounics. But the little cottage before wliich he paused, at last, thougn a suillciently strong contrast to the % eilord place where he had last seen Ruth, looked- cosy and hoie like. Tho garden was neatly kept, and well filled with late fall flowers. An old woman answ cred the knock, and ushered him into a tiny parlor,~ where the plain furniture, cheap carpets, and inexpensive ornaments were In exquisite order, and wheie a little cottage piano stood open in one corner. Bfore he had waited a mo ment, a little hgute in a prnt dress and a linen collar, with short, glossy curls, and a fair, sweet face came into the room. le torgot his sister, the painful story, everything but the fact. that Ruth was there. A graver, paler Ruth than the one he had kit, but the one woman in the world who could stir his heart to the core. "Ruth," he cried, springing forward, and then drawing back, for there was no welcome in the lace he loved, only a looklr of suppressed pain. "1tuth, ai e ) ou not glad to see me ?" he cried. "Glad," she murmured, and then the forced calmness broke down, and the tears rained down her checs. "Glad," she cried again. "0, Frank, I have lost every friend, and you will go too, when you know all." "I have heard-" he began. "You have heaid of my stinginess, my miserly habits-yes, I see you have, and yet you ale hie l" un*ecause I am sure you have some good reason for. your conduct. T'll me you ae not changed, Ruth ?" ".1-. scarcely know." "W Len we pu ted," he said, "you know the hop,, in nay heart, Ruth. Toll me now, if the love you promised me is mine." "it is all yours, Frank, but-" and she drew b ack from the embrace he would have given- "you may throw it away when you Lear mny heciet. I have hidden it 1im every OLc but you, but to-day I am lhced liom a bondage of six long 3eiars, and you have a right to hear what I shall conLee to no OLe Che. You will not be tray mny sorrowful rccict, Frank'' "Whateror trust you put in ine shall be sacred, Huti," he answeied gravely, awe.1 by a bolemnity upon her lace and in her voice. There was silence in tue little parlor for some moments before the low, sweet vice was heard again. Then steady, without laitering, Ru h told her story: "When you left me, Frank, a careless, happy child, the shadow of what I mast tell 3 ou now had not fallen acroms my life. I knew iat 1 was an orphan, and that my mother died away from her hone and friends. But I was still a mere Laby when Uncle Wellfaid came for me and took mie noine. They caled ibe Ruth VXellford, and I never thought of my right to the name till nmy uncle died. Upon his death bed he toI me the story of liy mother's lile. She was married against the wishes of her family to a nman whose only crime then was poverty. 11cr lather relused to own her, and htr brother, many years her teamor, was stern and bitter in his resent ment. "They were proud of th'2ir name, their p)osition, and their wealth, and ;,L never borgave their only daughter and sister that the lt them Ior a nan of obscure p~arent age and without means to support her as rkey had done. My father at that time, was clerk in a dry goods house in iNew Y oik, 'wih a small salary. "I woauld iiot 'aronag nmy mother; but my uncle saigi the grewv peevisn and soured by the contact wvith poveaty, and constantly Iretted lor the luxuries she had voluntarily iesigned. ..ly lather worshipped her. It naight have been his loving desire to gr'at ily her', or a sudden gleed for wealth, I eananot tell; but he forged his employer's check for twenty thousand diollais. My mother was too lhttle acquainted Wyith busi ness to question the suuden influx of mon.. ey ; but the crain was detected, my father arirested, tried and convicted, and sent to the state's prison for a termi of years. lie died there in six months; but my mother hatd alreadly preceeded him to the grave. "11cr last waish, her last appeal, wvas to my gzandfather aad uncle, beggiing them to paiy the money and clear my latber's namne. 'ihey refusedt. After she died they took me home, and 1 never knew a want ; but they ign'osed anda icptiolated my father though nay uncle believed he dIed a truly pemient, uaan. "in miy uncle's desk, after his death I found the papems ielating to the forgem les, and nay poor mother's pausionaate appeal to him to play the money so wrongfully takenm. bihe took all the blanme upon hersclf, re penting, when too late, her repining dis content,, andi her extravagant expenditure of the stolen money. "hly lirst Imapuise was to yield to her pra. cer, even lot' so n:any years, and pay at once the amount of the lorg~ed check still In the banas of the firm who employed nay lather, but my uncle probably ka.cw what, I w6ul~d dlesinre, for lie so whlaed has nmoney to me that I can neier touch the principal. Fmank, with n~y n.othecr's letter be o me, I vowedl never to tp peui a (lOilar in luxtury, one cent niocre thaui the nierest, nccessitis of lite rtiied, until the aebt wits paid that hasunten l.er death bed. For six yeais I have sav ee all may income, aeaing to it, a po01 tion oh the rent, o1 thec houise nay uncle lelt, ie.O haive fared poorly, dressed lainly, and addd httle by littie to nay hoa.re by closest economy and care." "I'oor chila| I hat a ble I" "I ' as not, unihappiy. Martha knew all and was lar moice trand than sea vant, and i lien my in le gave mae up I thought of nay mother and was comifored." "liut you say y ou ar e lice, Ruth ?-' ".I sm face. I sent, 11,e money to the firm last neek, arnd to-day, onay to-day, I have receiveand distroyed the check, the last proof of my father's crime. The gen tleman wrote me such a letter, Frank, that I an sure they will always respect my se. cret." "Oh, If I had only been here Ruth, to give you a home and protection, to make your life happy by my love, while you saved your own means for your holy pur pose."' "It could not have been, Frank. I would have never burdened your life with my duty to the dead." "But now, Ruth? You are free now, and you will be mine I Mine to cherish and protecl Mine to guard from all want and all sorrow in the future." "FrankI Fraukt You forget!" .uth cried. her face deathly pale, her large dark eyes dilated with pain. "Irorget I" "I am not the happy child you left. I am called a miser, an avaricious, hard wo man, w 0se sordid souls looks for nothing beyond money. I am thrust out of society for my mean dress, and my old friends pass me by." "A good reason for one to hold you fast." "I am not even Ruth Wellford, Frank but Ruth Mayburn, the child of a detected forger, who died in state's prison. For answer he took her into his arms, folding her close, and looking into her earnest eyes with very loving, tender ones. "You are Ruth," he said, "truly not the careless child I left, but a woman to be honored for the noble sacrifice of six long years, You are the Ruth whom I love, and whose love I hold to be the croining blessing of my life. Take all other names out of your poor bruised heart, love, and let me print one there in their place, call ing you Ruth my wife." There was no explanation given even to Lily of the sacrifice.of Ruth's young life, bu, before Christmas theic was a wedding, ana in the Wellford place old friends once more gathered around the bride. Never could she entirely forget the long years of sorrow, but in her huiliand's love she finds her compensation for her sacrifice. Summer Tours of 1881 Already the notes of preparation for the Summer, awe being heard on every side. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will, during the coming season, present greatet facilities than ever for visitors to the many mountain and seaside resorts reached by it. All the advantages offered in previoussea sons in the way of excursion tickets, fast and frequent trains, Palace coaches, and splendid passengers equipment will be con. tinued and many improvements will be adued which will insure to passengers still greater comforts and conveniences. With its leateil and controlled lines, it reaches direct to all the popular watering places on the New Joe. oy coast; and all the famous mountain rLsorts of Pennsylvania, and no expense is spared to provide speed, safety, ant luxuilous accomodations for its pa. trons. Fast express trains will be run to Long Branch, Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, Ocean Beach, Spring Lake, Elberon, Deal Beach, Point Pleasant, Beach Haven, Long Beach, etc. A new branch now in courtc of construction will be finished to Sea tide 1 a.k, adding another delightful ocean resert to the already large number touched by the lines of this gi eat corpora. lion. On the West Jersey R-Lilroad, (which is also controlled by the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company) which reaches to Atlantic City and Cape May; many im proveients have been made, most promi nent of which are frequent long sidings, giving all the advaulages of a double tiack; the runnii of the trains by the system so succesful on the Pennsylvania Itailroad-and the placing of water tanks beLmeeen time thaeks enabling engines to take up water whIle in motion, thus allowing trains to run thrcugh without stopp)ae. A marked fe'mture of all these lines is ttie thorough construction of the roadbed, the smnooth~ running of thme trains, and the en tire freedom froem dust being particularly nc t..ble. For travel to the nmounta.ns, there will be found the usual high stand ardi of accoimodation, and those preferring a jaunt In tire country, a sojourn in the suaay valleys, or on the ihountain tops, will find ovety convenience for quick and enjoyable transit to Kane, IRenovo, Dela ware Water Gap, Altoona and Crossor Wvby bees wtura In the Dark, Every body knows what fresh honey Is -a clear, yeilowv syrup, without any trace of solid sugar in It. After straining, it gradually assumes a crystal appearance--it cancmes, as the saying is, and ultimately becomes a solid niass of sugar. It has been susp1ected that this change has boen duo to photographic actin, the same agent which aiters the moieculnr arranged of the iodine of silver on the excited collodion plates,. and determines the formation of camphor and iodmie crystals In a bottle, causing honey to assume a crystalline form. Mr. Schmeiber inclosed honey In well corked lasks, some of which kept ni perfect dark ness, while the others were exposed to the hight. .The result-has been that the per lion exposed to the light soon crystallizes. wvhhe that kept In the dark remains un changed. hlence, we see why the bees are so carefuli to obscure the glass windows which are sometimes placed in their hivcs. The exist.nes of the young depends on liquidity of the saccharine food presented and i light to them, were allowed access to this, in all probability it would prove fatal to the inmantes of the hive. liecent lfns in Etiqauette. "Say "good morning'' to the hostess, on leaving the room. "ho long, old girl" has gone out In the best society. ,lf there are 8sventy-flve or one hundred persons in the companiy, it is not necessary ior 3 ou to shake hands all around. Do not be In ,.aste to go down to dinner without waiting for a tardy guest, give him at least thirty minutes. You may have to get down on your hands and knmes andI crawl auound and Jeel for a lost collar but.. ton youuself, sonetime. Upon an intreouction to a young lady, umediately ask her age and the size of her slioes. Thils will put you on an easy con versational plane. in society, a note rcquires as prompt an answer as a spoken question. And in the banK it requires a great deal prom~pter one. Doe not thank an~y one who waits on you at the t'Ible. Locic i an and hungry, as though you wanted mere. Tio tilt back In your chair and drum idly (on your head with your fork as condemned In good somit A Telephione Emoliauge. Curiosity prompted .ene to step into a Telephone Exchange one night recently, and as I entered I. was greeted with the usual "hello," by a young man seated at one )f the boards. lie was not over eight teen or twenty years old. A slight ious tache adorned his upper lip; his hair was combed down over his fore. head in a bang style, and lie held a cigar between his teeth in away that is peculiar to all telephone boys. I did not answer the salute at lirst, thinking, probably, he was talking to a customer. But he smiled a telephonic smile, and said: . "Walk in, sir. Don't be afraid." I walked up to the board, and said: "I just thought I would drop in and see how you manage this business, and I hope you will not think me too inquisitive if I ask a few questions." "Oh, no, sir. Our business is to talk at all times, and to all sorts of persons, and we are only too glad when we can acconi modate any one in any way. Now, sir, anything you wish to know about this great invouition will be cheerfully made known to you. I felt somewhat relieved by the man. ner in which he spoke, and Immediately began a tour of inspection of the switch Loards,' transmitters, call bells, etc., W hen I got back to where he was seated, he pointed to a chair and bade ine sit down. "Can you explain the priicipals by which thetelephone conveys sound?'" I asked. "Yes sir." "Well, sir," said I, "I should like very much to be unlightened." lie motioned me to come to the board, to which a large humber of wires were attached. "i'his," he said, pointing to transmitter, "is what we speak through. It is simply an electro magnet, on which we place an iron disc, which is left free tu vibrations of this disc." "What is a disc ?" I asked. "The disc is the flat circular plate you see over the electric magnet." I saw that the young man evidently un derstood his business, and my inquiries took another direction. 'What is your opinion in regard to the future of the telephone ?" I aisked. "Well, sir, 1 regard it as one one of the greatest boons to nankind, and my iii pression is tuat the telephone is yet In its inlancy." "IDo you think it possible that the tele phone may in time take the place now held by the Morse telegraphic system?" "No, Sir,'" he said, alter a pause, "but I think the telephone will become a prac Leal ineans of intei -coinniuncation at greater Uistances than at present. I have an iuca that some day we will have tele phonic conmmunication with E urope. "Do you, indeed ?" "Now," said he, "I will relate to you a few of the phehomena that occured under Inly own OUOtVtin 1ce-tntly one of our boys answered a call Irom u pmient saloon, in the west part of the town. 'The customer, from all appearances, was under the infilence of liquor. His voice was Scarcely audible, anti the boy had a hard tune to find-out what lie wanted. Alter the lapse of, say lilteen Dih utes, the boy reelen from the inbtrument in a orunken stupor. Yes, sir, and he was a strictly Leiperate boy, too, and strange as it may appear, that ine cannot be used yet. Come here and listen." 1 put my ear to the receiver, and the hiccougus came clear and distinct. "The boy," continued the baperinten dent, "received an order for a telephone from a .ef and dumb man recently, and in plain unadulterated English ex pressed his gratitude for the glorious re sult. But," said lie, with a sigh, "the company is beginning to conlsder the problem of reducing expenses. They have ioceived a letter froni a piominent scientist in Calcutta, who has made a proposition, Which, if accepted, wall throw us operators out 01 empijloyznent. lie states that accord ing to his method the expenses of operatiig the ilnes will be reduced Ility per cent. It will be a bad day icr us if his propos: tion is accepted." "What is the preposition?'' I asked. "Parrots." "UWod day, sir," and I bowed myself out. Uoionei 8oton's Oharity, The colonel came ito the sanctum re cently, and after remarking that this was the greatest flood Oil City ever saw, plcked up an exchange, and was soon wcepin~g tears of sympathy over the sufferrings of a poor family In New York. "Just to think of it," said lhe, "they didn't have a thing to cat from Monday to Wednesday, and only one little chtunk of coal picked up on the railroad to keep them war m. Such suffering In ti rich country I a terrible. 1 wvonder if they wouild accept a little donation. Say a hundred dlollars. "Ccrtainly they would, colonel," said the editor, "andl be glad to get it."" "Y..u think It wouldn't hurt their fel ings to offer it te ilhem I" "It wouldn't hurt their feeling so much as starvation and cold hurt their bodies." "TIhat's so, that's so," said thle colonel. "I--I believe Ill send them a check for a hundred dollars." "it would be a kind act." -"Yes; you could spare Johnny, here, to run up to the house and get the money. andl then you can sendl it away In a let-. ter?'' "Yes." "Johnny, go up to my house and tell Mrs. Bolon to send me $100, at once. Ah I" continuedi the colonei, "charity makes a man's heart lighter." Then a sudden thought seemed to startle him, and jumping I romi his chair he rushed to the head of the stairs, and yelled after Johnny, "I1i there, Johnny, comec back. back. You needn't go. Why, (10 you know," turning to the editor, "I haven't got a hundred dollars-in the house, no, nor lty cents, either. tStrange, I didn't think of that bel ore; very strange." In a few niomrents atterwards, when the colonel left, lie was overh7eard asking Johiniiy for a loan of five cents until next week. -'The importations of foreign dry' goods Jor thet present months amnount to $lt0,128,480, which IS less by $5.,J, 306 than the im ports 01 the same tamt terials daring th sa ame month in i880' Discipline in the French A rny. General Clinchant, the present military governor of Paris, was terribly strict dur ing the German war, but popular all the vanie ; for he was known to be juet, and kind too when he could afford to be- so. Ilaving the command ot raw levies, inclined to be insubordinate, he resolved to show them promptly that lie was their master. Once lie issued a aStingent older against robbing fruit and vegetables from the fields and gardens of the peasants in the Loire Valley. A few days afterward a couple of Zonaves stole out of camp by mght and gathered a basketful of potatoes. These two soldiers happened to be veterans who had swrved in the Italian war, and they were brave fellows, much liked by their colonel ; but this only made their offense worse in the geijeral's eyes; "for," said lie, "if old soldiers set the example of disobedience, how can we expect tWhe young ones to obey ?" So the two Zouaves were shot. On an other occasion three young sol diers took it into their heads to go out of camp without leave on a sunday, in order to (ine with soeie friends m ho 'ived In the neighborhood. They returned in time for tattoo, thinking, probably, they had com mitted only a venial offence. They were shot tho next, morning. One more exam ple will show what stern justice has to be meted out where flogging is not available. General Clinchant had issued orders that on the march no soldier was to climb into the ambulance-vans or store-wagons unless certitled lame or ill by the army surgeons. The reason of this order was that a number of lazy soldiers used always to swarim on to the wagons in order to get a lift instead of march ing One day a youngeter who was in perfe ct health clambered inside a van, and was discovered there by a ser geant, who ordered him to get out. The soldier alighted, but., determined to have his drive, lie slit open his boot and inflicted a slight cut on his loot to mnake believe that Ie had gone lame. A corporal saw him, and by-and-by the lad was reported for the double offense of disobedience and nahingeriug. When he had been court aitrtialed the general gave him a chance of his life by calling upon him to confess that the injury to his toot was self-intlicted; but the foouish fellow, thinking to save himself by a lie, maintained stoutly that Ie had gone lane by stepping on a flint. lie was accordingly handed over to the provost-marshal and shot. EdiLors. "What ferocious looking animal is thi s?" "This Is an editor." "Indeed I are they very dangerous ?" "Sometines. When cornered up, they have been known to bo quite combative, and again they have been known to go through a convenient back window. Gen craly they are mild and pas .ive." "Who-i'are they most dangerous ?'' "When intruded upon by a book agent who wants a forty-line local for a seventy five cent book, or by a poet with verses about gentle spring." "Are editors cross to each other ?" "Only when separated by several blocks of buildings." "Do they often have fearful combats with each other ?" "Occasionally, when they go out in op. posite directions and come upon each other by acci lent." "Are editors ever cowhided ?" "Sometimes the small ones are, but the big ones are very rarely moiested." " Do editors eat ?" "They do. It was formerly supposed they ate at long intervals and upon rare occasions, but it is now a well nuthenti cated fact that they cat a great deal when they can get It." "'What kind of feed (10 they like most?" "They are not very particuilar. W hile they won't, refuse quail on toast, fried crab or Roast turkey about Christinias time, they have beeii known to make a hearty repast off a dish of cold turnips andi consumptive herrmng." "Can they eat concert tickets ?" "We believe not. Some persons have gained this erroneous impression from falbe teaching in early life, but no authien. ticated instance of such a thing Is on record." "Do editors go free Into shows ?" "TIhey (10 when they give a dol!ar and a hall local for a twenity-lve cent ticket." "'Are all editors bald like thIs one ?" "No; only the married ones are bald. But act us8 pas on ; the editor des not like to be stared at." flow OmaIits woerc ance Patid. It is not a generally known historical fact that fromi 1777 to 1781 the territory nowv known as Tennessee formned a part of North Carolina, and that In 1785 the Teni nesseeans becoming dissatisfied with their government. orgamzredl a Stat e government under the name of '"Franklin," wIch was manintained for sonme years. T1hie State orgaiiization afterward disbanded, and~ T1errmtorial Tennessee was again anniexed to North Carolina. The following is amiong the laws passed by the Legislature of the State of Franklin. We copy it as founid in a speech by Danieh Webster on the cur rency in 1830. "Be It enacted by the Gencral Assembly of thme State of Franklin, and it is hereby enacted by thme authority of thme same :l'That from the first day of Januanry, 1 789, the salaries of tdhe oflk'Ials of this Common wealth be as follows to wit: "is Excellency the GJovernor, per an num, 1,000 decr skins. "lls Honor the Chief Justice, 500 deer skins. "The 8ecretary to Ills E~xcellency the Governor, 500 raccooii skins. "The I reasurer of the State, 450 rae coon skins. "~Each county clerkc, three hundred beaver skmns. "Clerk of the Ilouse of Commons, 200 raccoon skins. "Membter of the Assembly, per diem, three raccoon skins. "Justices' fee for aignig a warrant, one0 muskrat skin, "T1o the constable for serving a warrant, one mInk skin. "Enacted inao a law the 28th day of October, 1789, under the great seal of thme State." --Tho weight of the boll ol' Mosoow, the biggoe ojoit ever maid i, i sm siated to be 355r,772 pounds, its height Is 19 feet, amd is mecas ures around the rim 04 lenr, lickoiry nutI and Musto. "John Hall, you were very drunk last night," said his honor as a seud-off. 11 think not, sir," "Well, you have a right to differ. Officer, was this man drunk?" "Ile was, sir." "llow drunkV" "Well. he fell down four times in cross log the road, and the last time he settled down for a nap." "lThat's our case, Mr. Hall. Have you any defense ?" "i have, sir. I had not tasted any liquor of any sort all day long. Just be fore I met the officer I got choked, and that was what ailed me when he picked me ip." "Uhoked 7 What with?" 'Yith an apple." "Hlave you got it ?" "Yes, sir. Wthen the officer shook me, he shook the apple out of my gullet, and I put it in my pocket to bring and show you." lie thereunon pulled from his coat tall pocket a frozen greening, larger than a cuffee cup, and laid it on the desk. "Do you mean to tell me that you had that apple in your mouth ?" "Yes, sir. I was going to take a bite when it slipped down into my gullet, and if the officer hadn't given me a shake I might have sulfocated." "You can't get that apple into your mouth. No such a story w ill go down here." "bec here, Judge," and lie opened a mouth big enough to take In a quart bowl, tossed in the apple, rattled it around, and dropped it into his hand again with a smile of triumph. "You may go," said his Honor, after a long silence. " With such a mouth as that you'll eat more than you can earn in any prison. Take your frozen apple and go your way.' "T[hank you. I'd like to bring my brother in some day, and let you see his miouth. lie can hold a pint of hickory nuts and sing a song at the same time." Live Oak. A young man, prospecting for a South ern home, was in Tailahassee, and was de lighted with our little city, but hearing so much talk of Jacksonville, ho left for that place. ei ng qjuite tired and sleepy, he curled hiniself ip in a corner and was soon in a sound sleep from which lie did not awaken until next morning. Opening a window, he was soon enjoying the morn jug scenery, wiuch, strange to say, looked familiar. Soon they come in sight of a town, and, looking out, he saw a house which looked like the Capitol, so turning to a fellow-passenger he asked: "Are you acquainted with this town air ?" (Yes, ir ; this is my home." "'Will you tell me what building that is through the trees yonder " ''I'hat is our Capitol." "Capitol! Why, I thought the Uapito was at Tallahassee I" "And so it is; this is Tallahassee." "Whati Impossib ol I could not have traveled around the world in twelve hours. I leit Tallahasseo for Jacksonville last night, and have been traveling all ziighi long." "day, Cap, did you change cars at Live Oak V'' "No, I haven't changed at all." "Wetl then, you went down as far aU Live Oak, and, as you did not change cark you was hauled right backagain." This is the fact of the case, but otu friend is mixed yet. An Emperor's Jloke. The Czar Richiolas, of Russia, having been engageti in inispecting a Stteo peni. tentiiary in Oine of the provincial st-ats ci Governmient., and Look it into his head1( te question 80ome ot tihe convicts respecting the nature of the olfencees for ia hich theoy were suffering p'.mnishmment. "WVhat arc you1 here for?'' he asked of one. "I anm pr'isoner, falling on his knees; '"a Vietm:~ ol a false witnessi A church was robbed -a beadle knockedl on the head-the peas. ants caught hol of nie, and I know noth. ing about it." Turning to another, thms Czar ask~ed, "'And youf" ''False witnesi again, Imperial Alajesty. A peddler was done1 for ciose to my house. .1 never eveu dreamled of sttch a thing. "''"Anid you?" saidt lischola, to tihe third. "Shieer nmahce, dire. One of my neighbors conveyed a lot of forged notee into my pockets, and hid atway a lithographic stone in my bed,1 room. I aiimias innocent as an unborni babe."'I'The Emiperor, obviously bored by thete sticcessive l ratestiations of guiteness, cast his eye atong the line of pm isOneri until his eye fell upon a ragged, wretchei.. looking gyp~sy, whom lie beckoned for. ward with the wordls, "Of couirse, you,too, are hero on a false charge?" "INot a bit of it, your .lajesty," replied the Tlsigan; "it a all fair amid square as far as 1 am con.~ corned. I stole a pony from a tradesnman." "Stohe a pony, did 30tu?" said the Czar, with a liatugh, and taen addresng the G~ov et nor of the prison with well-assumed aterness, "I',irn that good-for-nothing rascal instanmtiy out of doors. I cannot al. low him~ to remain a minute longer in suchi honorable and virtuous company, lest, he pervert all 1these good, Innocent peoplel The Hlandkerchiief, Until the reign of the Empress Jasephint a handkerchtei was thought In France sc shocking an object that a lady would novei dare to use It before any one. TIhe wore was even carefully avoided In refIned con ver'sation. An actor who would have usedl a handkerchief on the stage, even In thc most teari ul moments of tue play, would have been mnost umnercitumly hsed. Bome time later, a translation of one of haks pear's lalys having boon acted, the word "handacichiei" was tused tor the first ihine on the sang, amlid cries of indignauaLl Iroml the nu'iience. it is questionable 11 French cleffanitca wo'tld car y haadker. chlefs to-uay if the wife of Napoleon 1. hiad nlot given thme signal for adopting them. Th'ae Emnpress Josephine, although really lovely, had ugly tee.h. Tlo conceal them, she was In the habit of carrying small baud kerchiefs adorned with costly lace, wainli she continually raised gracefully to her lips. Of course all the ladies of the Couri hollowed her exausplo, and hiandkerctiefE have rapidly become an Important and costly part of the femnhiaz toiet. NEWS IN BRIEF. -Thirtv thousand Grangers resiue in PnIsylivania. -The Lighnet average for London magazlines is $5 a pige. -The valroad bridge at St. L->ls earns about $40,000 par month. --The nail mills of the Unitae States produce yearly about $1,000.000 kegs. -At Napi-Citv. C d., a single fIrm last fall made 180 000 gallons of wine. -Thters was 65 when lie c:mpleted ile ''Consulate ant ERnpire." --Ru rus hitch has sold his seat in thn New York Stock Exchange for $25,000. -Denver City is to be lightel by electric light, at a cost ot $14,000 per -I'he orgnizenli and unorgznized militia In the United States number 6,393,395. --li one fortnight last August nQr lv 20U cliuldren in various parts of England were sent to jail. -George Eliot left a nersonal estite valued at $200 000, exclusive of the property Il. her copyrights. -A city of L-)idon oilial estimeites the gross annital Income of that clt.'s charities at $22,500,000. -Chicago has 5,420 factories of diflerent kinds, e'lrfloying 125.000 per sons, of whom 17,000 are females. -Paris, in the course of Its history, has been besieged ton times. The fler's time In 50 B. U. and the last in 1870. -Tho gross innome derived from tobacco by the farmrs of the United States is about $22,000,000. -There 1-i talk of reurveving the boundary line between Now York an-1 Pennsylvania. -At a recent pounirv exhibition at the Crystal Palace, in England, there were 800 exhibitors,show)nig 3365 pens. The sum of $3.030,000 has been with drawn from the binks since the pas sago of the refunding bill. --Tho valuation of the United States is $32,000,000.000, the country standing third on the list of all the great nations. '-Mrs. M. t*. Kearney. of Eganville, Ontario, Cnada, has just given birth to her twentieth child. -Tho iirperslhave sold 80,000 copies of the Franklin Square edition of "Endymion.'' -Fifty-nine national banks were or gattized in 1880, eleven passed Into voluntary liqui ation, and three failed. -There are 1,000 people in Chicago who wear ilass eyes, one-third of the number being women. -The wheat crop of Ohio 14 worth $51,000,000, the corn crop $42,000,000, and te hay crop $2),000,00U. Cologne watur was lirqt so oeOllaq In 17U9, when an Italian citizen of Cologne uamed Johann Maria Farina prepared It. -South Carolina will put abent $25, 000,000 worth of cotton and $3.030,0J) worth of rice into the market this year. -Virginia has 4,851 nubIle schools, of which 205 are graded. in these schools 22-3,736 pupils are Instructed by 4.873 teachers. -During the year 189 there were deceased in the city of Bsrt 336 per sons who had attained the ago of 1iglity years or more. --A com pany of 'liiladelphia capital ists has boon formed to buy the ever glades of Florida and drain them for agricultural purposes. -The statIsteIs of M -ssachusetts show a mairrlage rate of 10 08 por 1,000 of population ; a birth rate of 21 7 per 1,000, and a death rate of 18 52.. --Amorican glassware to the amnount of $1,505 worth was exporlted to New South Wales In 1877; in 1878 to the amount of $8,735 worth. -CardInal Antonelli was very fond of canammry bIrds, and at one time had more thani 200 of then, which had been p~resentedt to him. -An address to Q-teen Viet'ria by the wvon'en of Canara, to be presen',ed to her next birthday, is being very gene rally signed at Montreal. -'-lThis le first season that actual icebnrgs have been seen Ia L ike ilhigan. Thiey huave been formed with a1 base below tihe water of fifteen feet In depth. -owa's total losses by fire in 1880 are reported at $1,180,100 against $2, 282,030 in 1879. Tfhe total losses to In' *uraneo comuptinita wore $636,300 In 1880, against $l,058,70 J in 1879. -aglioi.thme famuous ballet (lancer. is living in L-tndon, glvinig lossB)ns In dancing, and has had the chIldren of the Prinice ef Wales as her pupils. Fanny Elisler Is living in Austria. -it is computed that Great Britain derived an income of $200,000,0Oj a year Irom the private inve.nments of tier people in foreign countries, which 1 shen has $550,000,000 in American raiL roads. -Thue value of expor ts of provisions, tallow antd dairy products in January was $15,2I0,0J; January last year, $9,547,000. Value of exports of dairy prtst bor nine mnonths ended Janu ary 31st, $21,108,000; same time the previous year $14,U50,000. -An old farmer estlmate4 the pro ceeds of the 4.000 head of game wnich foll when last month the P'rmnoe of Wales visIted Lord Aveland at $2,250, destruclion of prodceo invaiyed 'in rearing and feedtig it at $50,000. -Th'le movement of grain from the westward has been unusually large tis year thus far. During the live weeks ending February Sth, the ship ments fromn tile Western ports amount ed to 8.818,256 bushels in 1880, and 7,03035 in 1819. -jnt p)assa~ge ever the straits of Macinao, Mmiu., Is to be made by rail road trainls on a po werful Iron steamer, capable of carrying eighteen ears at once, anid crushing its way through ic0 a foot thick. DurIIag tue season of thicker lee, tracks il be laid on the frozeni surlace. --[p 388J Corn and wheat exported, $288,087,uu:); beef and .pork, exported, $127,Ul43,z42; cottoni in bales, exported, *u2s2,000,000 ; gold amid silver, product of 1880, $ai0,000,000; tuaceo andI its mnaniuactue, expat'.ed, $18,422,278; petroleumn, exported,ror fiscal year, $36.2u8.625.