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rll-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 14, 1881. THE PATH ACROSS TilE FIELDS. The.autumn wo da are gold and brown, The autumi winds are chill, And the purple flue of summer Hia faded from the hill. 0 autumn loaves, fall th:ok and fast; 0 autumn winds blow free, And speed the bitter months along '. hat ke op my love from me. The trey are bleak and bare, t to lake With crispy frost is curled, And the white sleep of the winter Has fallen on the world. o winter sun in winter sky, Sink swiftly in the sea, An I hasto to drown the gloomy days That hide my love from me. The asphodel and violet Are peeping through the plain, And the flamo of golden crocus la@ lit the land again. O bud and blos-om, quicken fast, Uedeck the barren tree, And bring the spring, for with the spring My love comes baok to me. 'Ihe Factory Girl. It was a little studio, quite at the top of the house. Upon the easel that occupied the post of honor in the middle of the room, a large piece of canvas glowed with the soft tints of a spring landscape, and Frank Seymour stood before it, pallet in hand, his large brown eyes dreamy with a sort of inspiration. In a comfortable easy chair by the door sat a plump, rosy, little female, in a lace cap, with a plenty of narrow white ribbons fluttering from it, and a silvergray poplin dress-Mrs. Seymour, in fact, our artiBI's mother, who has just conic up from the basement 'to see how Frank was getting along.' 'Here, mother,' said the young maD, with an enthusiastic sparkle in his eyes, just see the way the sunset light touches the topmost branches of the old apple tree, I like the brown, subdued gold of that tint; it somehow reminds me of Grace Teller's hair.' Mrs. Seymour moved a little uneasily in her chair. $Yes, it's very pretty; but it strikes me, Frank, you are lately discovering a good many similitudes between Miss Teller and your pictures.' SFrank laughed good humoredly. 'Well, mother; she is pretty.' 'Yes, I don't deny that she's pretty enough.' 'Now, mother, what's the meaning of thut ambiguous tone ?' demanded the young artist, pleasantly. 'What have you discov ered about Miss Grace Teller that imn't charming and womianly and lovely ?' 'Frank, do you know who she is I' Yes, I know that she is a remarkably pretty girl with a voice that sounds exactly like the low, soft ripple of the little rivulet whero I used to play when I was a boy.' 'Nonsense,' said Mrs. Beymour, sharply. 'Well, then, if your are not satisfied with my iescription of her as she is, would you like to know what site wit ou i Mrs. Seymour looked puzzled. 'Mother, I think one day she will be my wife.' 'Frank I Frank I are you crazy 'Not that I know of,' said Mr. Seymour, composedly, squeezing a little deep blue on his pallet out of a dainty tin tube, and mixing it thoughtfully. 'We know so little about her,' thought Mrs. beymour. 'To be sure she is visiting Mary Etton, and Mary belongs to a very good family, if she does live in half a house and takes in fine embroidery for a living. But then she has no style at all compared with Cynthia Parker. Cynthia always did fancy our Frank. Then, morover, she has live or six tliousand dollars of her own. But, dear me, a young man in love is the most headstrong creature alive.' Mrs. Seymour musned awhaile longer, and then put on her mouse colored silt bonnet and gray shawl, and1( set out upon01 a tour of investigation. ''ll flid out scomething abotit Miss Tellcr, or PIll know the reason why,' thought the indefatigable widow. 31iss G~race Teller was at home, helping Mary Elton in an elaborate piece of fine embroidery. TIhe room where the two girls sat wvas very plain, carpeted with the cheapest ingrain, and curtained with very ordinary pink and white chintz, yet it looked snug and~ cheery, for the fat tblack -bird was chitrping noisily in the wi4glow, and a stand of mignonette and velvet blossomed p~ansies gave a dehighitful tint to this pretty picture of everydiay life. Mary Elton was pate, thin, and not at all pretty ; there was a tremulous sweetness about her mouth that seemned to whisper that she miirht have been dlifferenit under different circumstances. Grace Teller was a lovely blonde, wi hth large bltue eyes, rose leaf skitn, antd hair whose lumiinous gold fell over her forehead like an aureole. As Mrs. Seymour enteredi a deeper shade of pink stole over Grace's beautiful cheek, but otherwise sihe was calnm and1( self-possessed, aind readily parried the old ladies interrogatories. 'Very'warm ti morning,' said the old lady, fanning herself. 'Do they have as warmt weather where you caime from, Miss Teller ?' "I believe it is very sultry in Fact ory Ville,' said Grace, comptlosedly taking an other needlefull of white silk. 'Factoryville? Is that your native place? Perhaps then yeou know Mr. Par ker-Cynthtia P a r's father-who is superintendent in ,.e great calico nmlls there?' 'Very welhl, I have oftent seen him.' 'Are yotu acquainteid with (Jynthia P' 'No--I believe Miss Parker sp~ends miost of her timne in thIs city.' "rhat,'s very trute,' said Mrs. Seymour, sagely. 'Cynthia says there's no- societ~y worth having In Factoryville-only the girls that, werk in tho factory ; Clynthia 1s very genteel. But excuse mty curiosity, Miss Teller-how did you becomie acqtiain tedi with Mr. Pacr and not with lia daughter?' Grace cohered. 'Blusintess brattght mc in contact fre qutently with the genthemian of whoit yelu speak. H3it I never happened to meet his (laughter.' Mrs. Seymour gave a little start in her chaIr-she was beginning to see through the mystery. 'Peruhiaps you have something to do with the calico factoryt' 'I have,' said Grace, with a calm dIg nity,' 'A factory gIrl 1' gasped Mrs. Beymouar, growing red and white. 'Is there any disgracn In the title?' ql etly asked Grace, although her own cheeks were dyed crimson 'Disgrace? Oh, no-certainly not ;there's no harin In earning one's living In any I honorable way,' returned Mrs. Bet'nour absently. 'ie fact was. she was thaiking I In her inmost inind, 'What will Frank I say? and anticipating the flig of triumph ] she was about to wave ovem hun. '1 do not hesitate to confess,' went on I Grace, looking Mrs. Seymour full in the ] eyes, 'that to the calico factory I owe my i daily bread.' - o 'Very laudable, I'm sure,' said the old I lady, growing a little uneasy under the clear blue gaze, 'only-there are steps and gradations in all society, you know, and- I I am a little -uriprised to find you so inti mate with Miss Elton, whose tamily is---' 'Mary caie over to Grace's side, and stooped to kiss her cheek. 'My dearest friend-my most precious companion,' she murmured. '1 should be quite lost without her, Mrs. Seymour.' The old lady took her leave stifily, and did not ask Grace to return her call, although she extended an invitation to Mary, couched in the politest and most distant tertus. 'Frank I' she ejaculated, never once stopping to remove shawl or bonnet, and bursting into herson's studio ike an express messenger of life and death news, 'who do you suppose your paragon of a Miss Teller is?' 'The loveliest of her sex, returned Frank, briefly and comprehensively. 'A factory girl I' screamed the old lady I at the height of her lungs, -'a factory j girl . 'Well, what of that?' 'What of that? Frank Seymour, you 1 never mean to say that you would have r anything to say to a common factory girl I' k 'I should pronounce her a very uncomn mon factory girl,' said the young man, with I an aggravating calmness. 'FanK, don't jest with me,' pleaded ( the poor little mother, with tears in her I eyes. 'Tell me at once you will give up this fancy for a girl that is in no way equal 1 to you.' 'No-she is in no respect my equal,' returned Frank, withe reddening cheek and spai kling eye. 'But it is because she as in every respect my superior. Grace 3 Teller is one of the noblest women that ever breathed this terrestrial air, as well as one of the most beautiful. Mother, I love her, and she has promised to be my wife.' Mrs. Seymoursat down, limup, lifeless and despairing. 'Frank I Frank I I never thought to see my son marry a common factory girl.' And then a torrent of tears came to her relief, while Frank went on quietly touch- I ing up the scarlet foliage of a splendid old mnaple in the foreground of his picture. * * * * * * * 'So you are determined to marry me, t Frank, in spite of everything?' Grace Teller had been crying-the dew yet ou her eyelashes, and the unnatural ,amne in, and Mary Elton considerately ilipped out 'to look for a missing pat .ern.' 'I should think so,' said Frank, looking c idmiring down on the gold head that was itooping anong the pansies. t 'But your mother thinks me far below you in social position.' 'Social position be-ignored. What do [ care for social position, as long as my little Grace has consented to make the sun shine of my own home.' ' es, but Frank-' 'Well, but Grace ?' 'Do you really love me?' For an answer, lie took both tWe fair, delicate little hands in his, and looked steadily into her eyes. 'Frank,' sid Grace demurely, 'I'm afraid you will make a direadlfully strong walled, obstinate sort of a husband.' 'I shouldn't wond~er, Oracae.' And so thme gold twilight faded into a purple, softer than the shadow of Eastern naethmysts, and the stars came out, one by one, and atill Mary Elton didn't succeed i~n fhiding that pattern. * * * * * * Mrs. Bcymnour was the first guest to ar-j rave at, Mrs. Rtandlall's select soiree on the ttrst Wednesday eveninug in July--the fact< was, she wanted a chance to confIde her I griefs to Mrs. llnaidall's sy mpathetic ear. 'Crying? Yes, of course i have been crying, Mis. Randall ; I have done nothing but cry for a week.' 'Mercy on us!l' said ANrs. Randall, eleva ting her kid-gloved hanids, 'what is the matter ? I hope Frank isn't in any sort of troublet' 'My dear,' said the old1 lady in mysterI-. ous whispeirs, 'Frank has been entraipped, inveigled into the most dreadful entangle ment. Did you ever fancey that he, the mot oatios ar.dl particular of created beings, could be resolutely determined on imrryhtm-a factory gi?' Mrs. Randlall uttered an exclamation of hiorrified surprise, and at the sameo moment a party of guests were announced, amnong whom was Miss Grace Teoller, looking rather more lovely than usual. 'Well,' thought Mrs. Seymour, as her huostess htirricd away to welcome the new comers, 'will wvonders never ceasei Grace Teller at Mrs. Randall's soiree I But 1 sup~pose It's all on account of Mary Elton's uncle, the Judge. Here comes Mr. Parker and Cynthia-dear me, what a curious mixture oi'r American society is, how they will be shocked at meeting Grace Teller l' Inv'olunitarily she advanced a atop or two to witness thme umeetlig. Mr. Parker looked quite as mnuch astonished as she had ex p~ectedl, but somehow it was not just the kind of astonishmenit that was oii the pro. gram me. 'Missq Grace I you herei Why, when (lid you come fromn Fiactoryville ?' 'You are acquainted with Miss Teller ?' asked Mrs. Rndiall, with some surprire. 'Quite well ; in fact I have hadl thme mani ageinent of her p~ropertIy for some years. MIss Teller is the younig lady who owna thme extensive calico factories, from which otir village lakes Its namie.' 'Dear me,' ejaculated Mrs. Beymour, turning pale andi sinking clown on a divan aienr her. 'Why, they say the heiress of the l geiitlemian who owned the Factory ville properly Is the richest girl in the country.' 'Grace,' said Frank, gravely, an~l almost sternly, 'what does this mean P' The bluie eyes filled with tears as she clung closer to his armn. 'I can't help owninr the calico factories, Prank. Don't you lore me just as well a f I didn't?' 'My little deceiver. But why didn't you oil me?' 'Why should I tell you, Frank? It was o nice to leave the heiress behind and be )lain Grace Teller for awhile. And when saw how opposed your mother was to ur engagement, a spark of woman's will ulness rose up within me, and I resolved would maintain my incognito, come what night. Mirs. Seyniour,' she added, turn ng archly round and holding out her hand o the discomilted old lady, 'didn't I teol rou I owed my daily bread to the factory?' And poor Airs. beymour, fur once in her ife, was at a loss for an answer. A New Mazoppa. One of the boys at Lamar, Missouri, had been reading Byron's Mazeppa and he got hre or four of the boys in a barn down in he southwest part of the town and they -oncluded to play lazeppa, Front what ve can learn-not having been provided vith a complinientary-tLhe play % as rather nore startling than instructive. They got a cow and about forty feet of :lothes line and a number seven boy with ed hair and a freckled nose to do the la w-ppa part, while a gentle youth of twelve ir thereabout wrapped a sadd!e blanket ound his head and, as the jealous sheik, houted: "Bring forth the hoss." They "fotiched" ker. In truth, ste was a noble steed. A icifer of the muly breed, and wild-wild ,s seventeen kinds of Rocky Mountain Nihiau 11. Goats. They got her on the iarn floor and tied the boy on with the ope and turned her loose. She took in the ituation and seemed to realize that her redit as an actress was at stake. Her act ng was splendid, and brought down the Louse-by sections. Whenever she run iver one of the boys you could hear the ap ilause for four blocks. Although the audience all had parquette ,d pit tickets, they thought they could ook at the play better from the gallery, ud so th y shld up into the hay mow and ried to crawl out through the roof while he old cow was churning about fourteen ,cars growth out of Mlazeppa and bawling ike a steam callitpe, while blazeppa >assed Lhost of the tiie yelling like a pig ast in a fence. The play would probably have been in trogress yet but for the fact that the neigh orhood thought a cyclone was wrestling vith the barn, and rushed in and got the ow Up in a corner atd amputated the oy. The show wound up with that thrilling icce of music entitled "Sounds tromi loine," which was well played by an im rovised band of several parents, several oys and several leather straps. The boys ity that the music made by the straps was trilling in the extreme. Como on, Bill. An excited man rushed into a drug store nd exclaimed: "Oh my I Pma ruined I Give me ten unces of camiphire or whisky. Give me ULe whieky." H1e fell against the counter. His eyes olled back and his tongue hung out. "What ails you. main?" He drew back [is tongue, said "snake bite," and shot it ut again. "W hisky, snake bite." "How did you get, snake bit l" asked a hysician, taking hold of the nan's hand ad feeling his puise. The tongue went a and the words "foolin' with a rattle nake" came out, "Where did it bite you?" "Right here," he replied, exhibiting a malh hole on the back of his haud. "Where (lid you get, the snake ?" "Museum. Giniiuy seime whisky.'' "This hole wats made by a lead pencil." ''Lead pencil 1" * said t~he victinn, con emptuously ; "made by the iizen fangs fa colperhead." "'Thougnt it, was a rattlesnake ?" ''Didn't say it, wais a rattlesnake. Oh, 'am dying I D)ying in a civilized land. )ying ithmn forty miles of home. Tlo tuninit that Ihave traveled all over the snake ountrics, and then to conme back and be Lilled by a common'n blackl snake."' "Th -ughit, it, wais a copperhead ?" "Now, hire," said the man, untangling ils eyes and stiffening himauself, "'it den't, nake aniy dlifferencee what you thmik. I'm lying liomi the elfect of a snake bite. L'nat's about its much as you waiit, to kno w. i gallon of whisky will mave mny life. Am among human beings ?" Just, then a red-faced man stuck his headl nto the store, and yelled : "'Cime on, Bill. Them fellows wouldn't !are if y'ou was swallowed by a boo ycon 'tructor." The tongue went back into the mouth, lie evidence of suf''ering passed away, andi he victim took up his hat and joinied his 30mpanton. The ?ianish F'rances of 1019, lIn the year 1468, the Chancellor of Scot. land, A ndrew Stuart, wits instruictedl by James lil- to negotiate a marriage between the youtng imnarch and the lirinces~s Mar garet, datughter of Christiian 1., King of Denmark. Christian I. wats the tounder of the illustriotus house o1 01 denburgh, whose descendants have ever since occu. pled the Danish throne. When the pre lminaries were arranged, the king's brotherin-law, a member ef- the powerful family of the Bloyds, was sent in a ship, in the autumnn of that year, to baing the princess to Scotlanmd, and in the spring of 1470 a Danish fleet, wits seen off thie Scot tish coast, bringing hoine the royal bride. Tlhie marriage wits solemnIzed on July 10, 1740. King Christian engagedl to bestow with his dlaughter sixty thousand Rhemish florins as a dower; btut owing to his being engaged in a war with Sweden, lie was uii able at that [tine to pay more than two th. usand, andl, by way of ledge, gave the Orkney andi afterward the Shetland Isles, which lie was never able to redeem, and conscquently those Islauids became lost, to the Danish crown. Th'le nuarriage was promoted by France, which anned at uni ting 8candinavia and1( Scotland In a leagtue against England. F'or this pturpose Louis Xl. effected a miarriago between hits daughter, the Prihncess Jeanne, and1( a younger son of the Danmsh King, Duke Hans. The princess afterwardl became the wife of t-he Duke of Orleans, better known a Louis X U. Grappilin_ for Valuiable. "Yes, sir. I'm a grappler and searcher for lost valuables, and though perhaps I shouldn't say it, no man about the harbor of New York is as sure of finding a ring, t watch, cane, body, billiard table, piano or any thing else that lies at the bottom of the river as I am. For why ? Simply be cause i'm the son of Henry Linesburg, who was for fifty years acknowledged to be the best wrecker, grappler and searcher in America. My father dug all the East River ferry slips; raised 36,000 bars of railroad Iron that was sunk off Whitnore's stores; recovered no end of anchors that were supposed to be lost; made $50 an hour for twenty hours at, a stretch by fish ing up eighty four iron plates, weighing 1,400 pounids.each, that were made for the first Iron monitor by Delanoter, and died lamented by many. lie had an ancient head, he had-an ancient head. i'm his V son." "Mr. Linesburg paused to get a light from the stove of his small shop in Tillary street, Brooklyn, where he was talking with the reporter, and then leaned back in his chair with the expression of a man who has thoroughly defined 1.is social status c and feels that it is unimpeachable. lie is a rather small, but smewy an([ tough in ap pearance, and ie speaks deliberately and quietly, and looks directly in the eye of a person when speaking. Not an old man by any means, but one whose life has been 1 one ot exposure and hard work from child hoo'd. "I've been in the professien of grapplin' 0 since I was a wee kid under my father, lie continued, "an' have been in the busi ness myself for twhty years. You've t heard of my skill. It aIn't skill so much1 as 'tis knowledge. You may think it strange, but I know every hole, crevice, rock or notch in the bottom of the East river fron Corlear's Hook to the Battery, a an' along the Hudson to Spuyten Duyvil a creek. If you drop a three-cent piece I' overboard I'll find it for you, likewise an anchor. "You must have brought some queer things to light in your tmn.e." "Must 11 True, I imust. I have. A good many years ago, Captain Jacobs, of the second precinct, notitled me to come an' see him. 'Linesburg,' lie sez, 'look for a stif.' 'A mystery,' sez 1. 'Ded a mystery,' ses he. I began next day at dawn, an' within three hours I found a coffee bag at the foot of Little street M Brooklyn. In the coffee bag was the right i leg and thigh of a woman. Ehe had been quartered, and I found one quarter. That b was all. It's a mystery yet, and I have no more idea of Its solution than a babe tin- i born. Nor do I know how Captain Jacobs r cane by the information that made 1.im set . me on the searcn. Thte other three-quarters were never found. They must have been tI burned or buried, for they were nowhere in the harbor." "M3ight "1 r "No, they mightn't le in the harbor, for I looked. That settles it. My father (now dead) once found a b6x of complete pigy'Ltgls In tleNgyItake niy word for it they were beauties. I never saw a more elegant and finished kit in my life. The find created a big excitement among f, tihe police at the time, as it was hr. ped thatli it would lead to the conviction of a gang LI of burglars that crossed the ferry the night t beforo. It didn't. It was only a mys tj tery." "I've picked up more women along the t( river than you carn shake a stick at. Look- si ing for a diamond ring that some lady had si dropped overboard, and "find sorme lady v that a ring had-or no-that won't twist ti exactly-but I've found an awful sight of- u females in this old harbor. They kinder p take to the water, you know, and when I I find one I tow it gently to the dock and tic fi it fast, and then notiy the police. The in police take her to tihe rmorgue, site is buried ii in P~otter's field, aiiu there's an end of J it. Lord I what books and books of mys- il teries."b "hlow do you flid Fimailer articles?''" "Severai days aigo a wel-knowni merch- f< ant in Fuhtoii street, Brooklyn, named n Jewell, tell over the forward chain of a v Catharine ferry boat. As lie fell, his I watch, which was very valuable, jurmped c from his pocket, tire turquoise shell chin~r 1 broke, and the watch rolled into the rrver. r I went down to tire slI:p in a row boat and r d.nopped a pair cf longs twenty-six feet, r long into a hole I hiappenedl to know neanr n the end of the pier arid Iihed up tire watch, e clapped it itme sweet-oil, aind sent it backt to tire owneir. Th'le tongs are just like ai oyster grappilers, only finer, aiid I knewv I the tide swept hi avy articles into the holei when thre ebb sets in." A nnual P'roducotion of Fueol, The severity of the last winter, thre high price of soft coal, and the diflIculty of 0o) taiiiing it, have cauised tire farmers in tire E northrwestern States to use a laurge riumbier r of substances for fuel riot ordinrarily emi pic yed. In sonic parts of Minnesota stalks of hemp cut in pieces, h~ave been used in place of wood for feeding stoves. Thre Mennonite settlers In that and other States f have burned prairie hay ini furnaces especi- I ally construicted~ for its consumiption. In ~ sonic parts of Kiansas and Nebraska thre ~ leaves, stilks and heads of thre giant or i Russian sunflower have been employed for e fuel with excellent results. 'The leaves I contain rosin and tihe seeds arc iichr in oil. # These subpurances ignite readlily and pro- ~ duce a beaurtiful flame, in producinrg a ~ (cheerful fire on a cold winter night there I are few thrimes that equal the heads of tire ai sunfiower. Thle plants are cheaply raised and~ easily prepared for tire stove and grate. 'The ialies produced from tnem are very 1 ri in potashr, and are accordingly valua-C ble for soap making or for miainuring the . soil. In Iowa, it is said, more '~orni lhas I been used for fuech than during any winter I ninice tire State wars settled. Carefully con-: ducted experliments made In vat jous partsof, tire State show that, at tire present p~rice of i cornr arnd coal, there is a gain of 50 per cent. In burming tire lormner. Farmers who b~urn 1 corn save tire trouble of husking anrd tiheC cost of transporting it to market, and of I bringing back coal. Threre is a prejudice I in tire mInds of manny people against burn-C lng corn, as it, is valuarble for food for man and most of tire domestic anmmals. In Erng land there Is a sirrnilar prejudicee against the use of wood fce fuel, as timber is valtiablo I for building houses and constructing car riages, whtietire growing trees add to tire I beaty and healthfulness of tihe country. These considerations, however, are litely I to give way to those of an econiomic na tuiro. When corn is a dhteaper article of I fuel than coal, It is likely to be employed for cooking and heating pumponc A Ueiebrated Lock-Peaker. Jt was during the great world's fair of 851, as our readers will remember, that Ie lock controversy, as it has been called, lie d the pages of our scientific Journals ad set all the mechanicians in the king oin pondering upon the means of defying he skill of the professional violater. It as then that the celebrated American ex ert, A1r. Hobbs, made the memorable and ilarming d(claintin, that ill the locks vhich had hitherto been made in England idintted of being easily picked. Ine of these of perfect workmanship, and f the most, improved construction, was iown to Mr. ilobbs during a visit lie was kaking to a celebrated lock manufactory. ,A advantages were being descanted on s entire independence of a key or other parate instrunient-the length of tine it ould take to put it thr ough its millions Spetinutations-and the consequent utter "possibility of getting it open by any legitimate means-short of wrenching or twing its Parts asunder. As the conv er ition proceeded, Mr. Ilobbs was turning iv instrument abo ut, apparently in an un )ncerued manner, with his fingers, and in few minutes from the time he first had ossession of it, to the great amazement ud consternation of those who were sounid ig its praises, lie showed theim the lock pen in his heimd. If a miracle had hap. enct they could not have been more stonislied. From that moment all faith ias ihaken in the presuned impregnability f the permutating princile. The manner i which 1r. hobbs accol)plished this feat as ats ollowts:-Iie lirst applied pressure > the end of the bolt or central spindle, in ic direction tendi'ng to draw it out aind re ase the bow. For the piurpose of pickintg ic lock, it, is necessaty that a continuous ressure should be exci ted in this direction, ulliug, as it were, against the interior ob acles prisented to the withdrawal of the )ndle with its studs. To a clever maniipu tor like Mr. Hobbs, there would be no ifliculty in maintaining this gentle pres ire with the fingers of one hand, even 'hile curious eyes were watching his move kents; under other circumstances a bent )ring would best answer the purpose. The indie being thus acted upon, the interior uds, if the mechanism of the lock were mSolutely perfect, >vould ill be pressing Jually uponi the sidea of the rings; but it its t that time. practically impossible, ven if its importance had been foreseen, 'hich it was not, to make a lock with such Ktreme accuracy and nicety in its fitting arts as that donic of the rings should not ind more than othet. Mr. Hlobbs then it cautiously and delicately which of the ngs was tihtest, by which lie knew that ic of the studs was pressing against it. ,e then turned that ring very gently round util lie felt the stud slightly junmp into te transverse gioove. Leaving it, care lily there he felt for the next tightest ug. and repeated the operation, and thus y turns, aided by a most delicate sense of uch, lie got the transverse grooves all igether in a line, and the spiudle came it. The Three Flowers. Near the city of Rome, in Italy, not far om1 the church of St. Paul, upon the iver Tiber, there is the old monastery of ie "Three Flowers." In consequence of ic new laws upon ecclesiastical property e monastery was appropriated by the alian government, but rented out again > the Trappists, a CathoUc order of very ,rict observance, who had settled at the )ot about twelve years previously, and rerc engaged in pursuits most useful to ic country. The monastery is situated pon the borders of the Campagna, that estiferous district as yet uvredeemed by ic agriculturist. There reigned, there re, in the place, the malaria of the eighborhood, which rendcred it, uninbaii' able (luring tihe hot season,-that is, in uly and August,-whichi time the former ihabitiants or the mloniastery hiad always ecn comp3elcl to spend in the city of ome. The Trappists did not like taking >reed holidays in that manner, buit comn enced planting the eucalyptus tree in cry large numbers, and, strange to szy, ie tree overpoweredl the malaria, the air ontinued good for breathing in summer me, andi the TIrappists are now able to 3nmain in their residenice all the year >undi~. Tihat, excellent result ledi to the uising of the question whether it, would ot, be possib e to get, ril of all the malaria f the Camxipagna b~y raising plantat ions of ic enc'tlyptus tree all over thatt most vain ble groun~d in the miost fertile region of taly., ind in thait wity gaini room for an Inmiense pop~ulationl of agriculturists. in rder to carry out that idea, if poQssiblec, ie italian government now furnirh these ioneer Trapp~lists with laboring hanids 'omt the state's prisons, anid the mioniks ow go) on extending their eucaliyptuis roves from their monastery through the igionis ot the Uamnpagna. Theo Kisaisag Giame. A coresp~ond(ent gives thtis account of a retty game of cards now fashionable in 'ails. Tihe participants were young laii, nd gentlemen who sat in equal numbers n either side of tihe table. The cardls rere (dealt, to each, and one handi~, as ini uchre, settled the wager. TIhe wager iayedl for in this game. is that the lady or endemnan who gets the ace of hearts and~ an take a trick with it, or beat it with nothier card, has the op~tioni to kiss any tidy or gentleman he or shemnay select. If lady is the winner of the successful trick, his op~tion n.ay be used ornot as she elect, .nd~ generally she does waive her right; ut if a gentleman holds the lucky card, of otirse lie invariably exercises his right. 'lhe result, was that a gentlemian when lhe eld the ace of hearts wits sure to get it massed; if a ladly held it she almost always ad it, taken. it was ite a studly to watch with what perfect sang froid the gentleman toodl up) to receive thme stake he had womn, ndi with what consuimmate grace the lady ment, her head to one sidle so t.hat her lucky pponent across the table should receive is full pound of flesh; not to mention the itter indhilference of bath to the presence mf friends or strangers sitting around, I do ot know how the players felt, buit thec atchinig of a few hands played was stili ient to satisfy mec that it, was bitt a poor amne after all. llow it came about. 1 do0 ot know, but I saw one genitleman winm ix games in rapid succession and kiss the amie lady many times. That destroyed di interest I had up to that point takea in he game. it satistied mie that it was a plame itn which t.he cards could be so man pulatedi that a poor play13er or ai beginner iould have very little chanen. A Dying Man's Vision, John Pope, pupil of Couture, associate of the New York National Academy, one of the founders of the Artists' Fund So. ciety, and an enthusiast in his profession, died at his home in Fourth avenue, New 1 ork, recently, bel eving that at last, after forty years of labor, he had found the se. cret of perfected art. A man more thor oughly enraptured with his calling never lived. Ie paint d while daylight. lasted, and then spent tle evening producing the crayon drawingsso much admired in the exhibitionii at the Academy of Design. Though as a portrait pitinter he excelled, the drean of his life was to producestrong figure pictures, in which the background of landscape would forni as effectiv e a part as the figures themselves. This was his ruling passion in life, and as lie nearedt the end the pawsion grew stronger. As lie lav back on his pillows, very weak and ill with hemorrhage of tle lungs, his wire, whio with their two children, was watchis at his site, wias startled by his suddenly ris ing in bed and crying feverishly : "Quick I give ie my palette and brush. I must paint. Don't ittemapt to stop 1me' now, bor at last I see it all. I can to it now, or I have Just discovered the altt through the iulluenco of visions of exquis itely graduated music. it is plain as (lay at last." His wife, ularimed at his excitement, made a weak attempt to disstiade hini, but as opposition only increased his excite ment, and it was evident that Its end was very nmear, she humored Iuini. Ils paiimts, brushes and canvas were brought to himi ( aind his tearful relatives arranged the cov urimgs of the bed so that they would look more like the drapery of his studio. lie began his work with a haste amounting al mlost to frenzy. 'At last, at, last," he cried, "I have found tihe beauty which all iny life and :)ver all the world I have been struggling lie painted fa!.ter and faster, evidently I believmiig that tile canvas would snow the batauty that he conceived, alhhough it was I u truth a sad realization of the conception. it was late in the day when lie began his Jeath-bed picture. It grew darker and f larker aim he went on, and his sorrowing tamily sat around him powerless to ease ii- last ikoments. At last it grew so ditrk hat even lie in his excitement noticed it. "6Let us go to the studio," lie cried, suid lenly. "iNo, 110 ; not to-night. Wait until to unorrow. - t "We must go to the studio," lie ex. Jhiume(, imiaking an effort to rise to his feet. he tax upon his strength was too gIat ; vatlout another word lie fell back on his )illows dead. ihow Your wounas. The other day six men sat around a stove n a Detroit tobacco btore. There had eeii a long period of silence when one of Lhei rubbed his leg and remarked : ''That, old wound feels as if it was going -Oietsin.~~ I shall always reiember There was a slight stir around the stove, i(d a second man put his haind to his shoulder and observed: "And I shall not soon forget Brandy Station. Feels to-day as if tue lead was going to work out." The interest now was consideraily in creased, and the tl, J muan knocked the [ishes off his cigar and said: "Yes, those were two hard fights, but you ought to have been with Nelson fit eranklin. Lor', bu., wasn't I excited that lay I When these two fingers went with x grape-shot I never felt the pain I" The fourth miian growled out somiething ubout second Bull Hun and a sabre cut on the head, iand the fifth man felt of his left ud(o and said he shiouild always remember the lay of the ground at thme Yellow Tav erin. 'I lie sixth man was silent. The oilier five looked at him andI waitedl for himi to speak. b~ut, it was a long time be fore lie pointed to his empty sleeve and1( usked : "GUentlemuen, (do you knlow where I got that ?" Some1 men~ition1ed one battle and1( som1e another, bitt lhe shook his head stadly, and conItin~ued : "'Boys, let's be honest and own right up. I lost Imiy arma by a buzz sawv, and nowv we will begin on the left and give every one a chance to clear his consciencee. Now, then, show your wouiids." The live 1men1 leaned back in their chairs and smaokedl fast and ch~ewedi hurd, andi~ looked( at, each othier. and cacti one wished lie was in Texas, when a runaway horse hlew by and gave them a chanice to rush out and get clear ot the one-armed man, .it was a inarrower cscapie thtan any one of thiem had during the War. lypodericiil Inj etions or Elorphinem. A numiiber of persons more or less piromli nent in (different, walks of life have (lied withintia few months from the direct ef fect, it is said, of hiypodermic injections of morplhince. Most of thenm had1, alccordhing to repoIrts. begun thme iinjections ini ordler to relieve thiemselves of paili causedi by neu ralgia, rheumatism or some other distress ii.g disorder. Th'le effect was so pleasant, so delicious, 11ndeed(, that they were gra:hi ally seduced into such use of morphine when they had nio need of its use, and, sooni c'>mle~ltely yieldling to it, were dlestroyedh by it. Physicians say that this has growni to be0 far from uncoilmmoni among piersons of wealth and~ piositioni, paurticuilarly among woimn, whlo, alter having tried It a while, have not the strength to relinquish the de lightfuli anodyne. The effect of the mo:.phine under the skin is described as peculiarly uad woni dlerfully pleasanit. A dehlicius langtaor steals over the frame, the senses are wrap ped1 in a volupituocus waking dream, andi a most joyous coinschiusness of perfeci yet fasciating repose softly overiows the mhind. E'ven strong 1mn timd womlen) have freqiuently found it, hard to resist its al lurenments, andi have not been able to give iul the habit without arousing all their will. On this account sonie hysicianis will not administer or preecribe morphine undelr any circumstances, fearing tbc con seqluences to their p'itients. Not a few women of the finer typo have been wrecked by the habit, and many menm, p~rofession~ai and~ commercial, are steadily ruining thetm selves by its indulence. it was hailed as a great blessing. Once, and so it, is, properly regulated ; but, like so many blessings, it may readily be converted into a curse. While the proper and juiciotis use of the drug is a great boon, Its abusive use is unt doubtedly equal to its friend, opium, ' .a- ?.A AA :4J.LJJ 10VI UeP BRIEFS. -Harriet Beecher Stowe is sixty. nine years old and her husband seven. ty-one. -Kansas now rivals Maine as a pro hibition State. The new law goes into eflect on.the first of May. -There are 1,700,000 Raptists in the United States, and only 260,000 In E'ngland. -The colored population of Arkan saq has inerenserd from 122,069 in 1870 to 210,022 In 1880. -There are thirty-eight agricultural 3olleges In the Untled States, 389 teaehers and 3,917 students. -Preedent Ei40ot says that in the nar future Harvard will have need of U3,000,000. -Vermont has 475,700 sheep. -There are 41,U churches in New york. -in a Boston Sunday School there s a class which contains fity Chinese youths. -The Pullman Company Is said to ,arn on each of its 474 cars about $100 t month. -The dividends paid by the Lake Siuperior mines during 1886 foot up to $3,055,000. -.Minnesota has appropriated $4, 00 in the last flye years to encourage ree pla.tiig. -Of the 050 members in the House if Commons, England andl Wtales have 85; Scotlaid 60, and Ireland 105. axteein steaiters and two hundred md three sailing vessels were lost In Jecimber. -Dead cattle by thousands, frozen o deata, are seen along the line of the Juliou Pacie. -A statue of Beethovei Is to be rcnted in Central Park, New York, oy the Philharmonic Society. -Mrs. J. J. Astor has sent 813 home esa childrein to taring III the West and >outth, at it expense of $11,500. -Tuie thread for glass cloth Is spun row a bar of ruolten glass at the raW i' 2000 yards iII It miat. -The shortage of pork in Chicago his year from what It was last it Is re >orted will be at least 100,000 barrels. -The consumption of coffee in this ountry last year was 300,000 bags less hani tue preceding year. -A wan has been offered $23,000 for lot In MiInmaapolis, Minnebota, that tc pireliased for $11. --Oe of the leading chemical manu aetories of Gernany employs six egular chemists, with salaries vary ig from $1,500 to $2,500 yearly. -Within the last ten rears the ilethodists of1 Cleveland, Ohio, have milt over tweu.y church edifices, at a oat of ever $300,000. -Last year the South raised 600, 00,000 jounds of tobacco, which ex ly 12,000,0U0 poun". - - _ -The salt t istrict of Saginaw, Mioh., las about ninety-Live companies at vork, with an annual capacity of ,600,000 bushels. -The State of New York has in Its varlous public schools, 1,183,705 pupils. 11 its comimon schools ic had ist year 19,730 teachers, of whom 22,738 are vomliea. A bill has been Introduced In the 'exas Legislature fining a man $200 nd six niomlis imprisonment for arrying ia pitol. -There are 2,800 shoemakers In bhicago. The average of wages is a I a day. In the making of a shoe here are sixty-fo~ur parts. -Louisiana has 95,451 white and 88, 24 colored voters oiluially registered. )z the wvhites 16.913 cannot write; of lie negrous 11,4J3 can write. -Now York has a police force of ,57'J mnen, but only 1,7(19 men are mvailable for night and 1,885 for day luty. --Lieutenant Schwvatka Is writing a >Ook abourt his Arctic experiences. He s a guest of' General ilancock on Goy urnor's Island. -Mrs. O~tretilld says that her hus 'anid may do as lie chooses about hav ug winis at state dilnnera, but' for her urivate houschold sue will Insist upon .00tii abstinence. -A cop~y of Gilbert Stuart's protrait >f Washington, now in the Boston thezze am, was presented to General Jarliel recently by the students of Jberlln College. -1t Is said that eighty-seven per .:ent of the Amerioa'1 emigrants who iave recently arrived at Paso del N or te, Mexico, are professional gain ulers -Mother Gonxzaira of St. Joseph's Drphani Asylum, Phladelphia, makes tud gevas awvay what most of the Jatlhojits of that city believe is a spoel Ic for smalalpox. -Trhe number of vessels belonging to, or bound to or from ports in the iated States, reported totally lost and iuisslig during tihe month of January, 1881. is 41. -ilhe two facts that America cond mu mew 90 per cent more ice water than ny ot~her nation, and has 75 per cent aore of Brliht/s disease have been put bogethie r. -Canada imported $~>0,000 worth'of 3hees~e twelvo years ago, but now she ixports $10,000,000 worth a year, and icr expurts of' butter and cheese are $4,000,000 larger than those of wheat. -Dr. Abraham Senseny began the practice of medicine an Cnainbersburg, L'enna., hn 1731, and bis son,'grandson and greargrandstn have continued the same practice in the same place ever -he Massachunsette Entitute of Trechinology at Boston hass an unusual upiihl in ox-Judge Grant, who' is near ly 70 years old and has a large lasv practice in lowa. Ho Is acquiring a anowledge of chemistry for use in rminling litigation. -Leo Xlil has serst the Sultan a spleandid anosaie table, as a token of good-will on the occasion of the ciova.. tion of Mgr, Hassoun to the Sacred College, and tno Suttan has returned thanks for this "proolods souvenir," which has been placed in his privato tainet.