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.