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fRIWEE ~YEDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 19, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. Tla9 AFTEnAT. The glamour of .the after-light Lay clear and fair along the sky, And inade the pathway very bright As home we wandered-thou and 1. The meadow-mists were lying low A shadow held the river side The watt r took the western glow. And peace, gray peace, spead far and wide. A sober heartedness was ours So still the earth, the sky so strange And we had given in su-iny hours Our youthful hearts their widest range, We lingered in the meadow-path Touched by the twilight's silent spell, While from the sun's fleet aftermath A subtle glory rose and fell. Dim, wistful, thoughts within us grow, Forebodings of the life to be, Till with a sudden thri we knew Time's touch of imm: rtality. For all the wonder and the awe, 1ar-widening within the west Semed with a mystic point to draw Our heart, into its kindly reet. Yet still It faded, faded fast, And night crept up the eastern slope But oor our lives a sirengoh had passed. And t f , us with a largi; hope. At Death's Door. 'Nothing but a private-a common pri vate l' vt would be in vain to attempt to por tray the Lady Macbethian scorn which curved proud Harriet Deane's lip as she spoac the sentence. John Hollis, albeit he was quite con scious of not deserving the keen edged con tempt, qualled becath it. 'But, Harriet-' 'hush ' said the imperious beauty, hold. ing up a warning finger, "I want to under stand this iatter. Gilbert Arnour was promoted to be second lieutenant, was he no0 IV 'Yes.' 'And you are his equal in all respects?' 'Yes.' 'Might you not also have slia-ed the honor he obtained ?' 'I might, I suppose,' said the young soldier, fixing his cain, dark eyes upon her fair, ilushed face, "if I had chosen to do so at the expense of poor Talbot, who earned his shoulder straps long ago. They should have been his by every right, months Since, but poverty and ob scurity are not the best place-winners. Either Gilbert Armour or I must stand aside to see a wronged man righted. le did not choose to sacriflce promotion to a scruple. I diu, harriet-was I wrong I' 'Oh, of course,'it's nothing to me,' re plied Miss Deaiie. 'Will you be good enough to hand ie that work basket?' John Hollis looked at the pretty creature around whom the love of his strong na ture had been entwined with a fervor rare enoughi m these matter-of-fact days, in wistful Peilplexity. Shining auburn hair, parted from a low, pearl pure brow, deep blue eyes, and a mouth whose intense ciimson was like the mside leaves of a rose--Harriet Deane was by no means disagreeable to look at. Hollis was quite aware of the fact. 'Harriet?' lie began. 'Excuse mle," said Miss Deane; "I um particularly busy counting these stitches please don't interrupt me.' Unversed as he was in the devious windings of femiine nature, he felt that this was intended for a dismissal. '1'l try again to-night,' lie mused, walk ing homeward. Tho clear January sky was jeweh d with f rosty stars stars, and the solemn oho church clock had just, chimed nine from its dim belfry, when lie entered the bright room,with its miossyv blue carpet and hang ngo of azure silk, and Parisian statuettes hidnby vases of vivid roses. It was not empty, however, as lie had Lieutenant Armour stood in time middlle his fine new shoulder straps, and patromz lug a dozen pretty girls. le nodded laughingly to Hlollis, an.1 went on with a sentence which his en ~ - trance had interrupted. 'Leap year-to be sure it is. And I may as well state at once .that P'm quite ' readly to receive any propositions you Sladies may have to make.' haino ne, h alfoustln. y 'We lli geeal s osene, diretI'ol of cosdasteb fasnakeevryaoownc tht isa thesibls. ounhin tsgra siphameo toharit'grs cheekpm and the ecyshnie, w en byetpor wmien lista. a ed n flow lonke atiMls st.Dler sh oe,wtagd dylfin srnthruhal istig nly.. ai Jh Hwlas' aoees byloe the a iecpion i~ He stteat -theelsh-oundtmg nimpulvices, toHarriet' eek wsandihe bler esd debacyo tii haird. GilbertnArHouriloungd onre wit soa wger thy blue sil urainshog swp ovrm,. hena trne toa ayouidowhebea. g po bueltle -arty-'---te, Misn ofmertLyo voies, he and layulv ondiseux. er yoursee t Den ai sdn undetod ater te Gilbert Adhrore Givneo me yofawr and take mel ortan swep t o ;van.n trane to aobay window.~ As ollis reed forasdty t wscpthe bustle and clnhe, MtseEth. stn l h W handgenlind hts thoer.sfu lac t'aNsone, sl~hi hiperid, ahe,''otil Gulbertand q rier of he me yora gie weanohr - Aollis tuned ayt sisfctlyin.wit liprad cenhe teea. hywa 'bi. to hewetio thtsoe h-uh arc' lahs-t AI dcn't wish to hear anything I' "IIarriet I' 'Hiow dare you call me Harriet, Lieu. tenant Armour ? Not another word !' .Bhe burst into tears again. Armour was undecided. 'Go,' said Harriet, "and never com near me again." That decided him. le was beginning to feel riled. She pointed to the door. Lieutenant Armour walked out with all the dignity lie could muster. Ho was not to be extinguished so easily, by this- fe nimne water-fall. 'Who would ever have thought,' quoth the Lieutenant, as he walkad away, "that she was such a confounded little vixeul" * * * * * 'You night take off the upper arm here, without--' 'What's the use? lIe won't last out the day.' 'I'm not certain of that. Where's the other?' 'You want no ether. lIe is totally in sensible.' The words fell like meaningless jungles of sound on John lollis' ears as he lay, on a multitude of wounded and dying men, in a weather beaten shed. There was no volition-no understand ing of an ythlihing going on around him. All at once there canme a sharp, sudden pain, as the surgeon's knife cleft the arm; then followed insensibility. 'Tcn to one he'll die,' said the surgeon, as he wiped the glittering kiife. 'It's not worth while, Talbot, to bandage him so carefully. But John Hollis (lid not die, the surgeon to the contrary notwithstanding. * * * * * * The fresh breezeeddying fantastically in the wide, open hotel window, lifted the damp imasses of hair on John Hollis' wast ed forehead, as he sat in the chair beside casenient. and passed its cooling pressure around his burning temples. 'A common private-those were her very words,' he murniured, with a faint crimson spot burning on his wan' cheek, "and now crippled for life I Ah, it was well that I drew back when I heard her step in the corridor. h hy did they bring me here of all places in the world ? Must I drink the bitter cup of humiliation to the very dregs ? If I had died--never waking from that unconsciousness I But now a common private-With only one arm I lie laughed bitterly. 'Only t wenty-six, and weary of his life I' And the beautiful sunset grew din as lie gazed upon it. 'John 1' He turned round listlessly, without look ing up. 'Yes, mother; I can guess your thoughts -you are afraid I will take cold sitting so long in the draught.' A gentle band was placed on his own; he pressed it to his lips. "I must live, dear mother, for your sweet sake.' 'And my sake, too, dear John 1' John started-looked wildly around. A figure lie knew well was kneeling be Sidefhin. Harriet Dean's auburn hair, golden in the glowing sunset, had fallen over the arm of the chair where the fair liead had dropped. 'hlarriet I Not there, dearest- nt there. Let me raise you.' 'Ol, let me kneel here, John,' she cried, and, and-and-don't send me away from you, will you?' The sweet, pleading face,with its bright eyes sparkling through tears-what a new loveliness it had won to to John Hollis happy vision I Still he was determined. "Harriet," he said, with an effort "] cannot-will not-accept this sacrifice.' "Do you wish to kill me ?' she asked suddenly." "No-no I" 'Then you must consent to marry nme I' ills forehead foil on his shoulder;he was sick and dizzy with the flood-tide of hap. piness. She 'put her arms lovingly around his neck. 'You need not suppose, sir,' sir, sit saidl, with a pzetty diealance that. becamt her no less than the tearful humiliation oi a minute before, 'that I shkouldi have comt( courtin~g you, it you had'nt been sick anm if-and if-' 'Wellf' 'If it hadn't been Leap Year ?' Thlnars Maay Vnanugo. A flat footed, old-fashioned Western merchant, hailing from a country store In blichigaun, was buying stocK in New York recently, and the firm took advantage of the occasion to make inquiries concerning some of their customers aroundi-him. When they asked about Smith, of Cashville, lie replied : "'Smith 1 Yes, he's in trade yet, but lie's just miarried a second wife, and she's going through his 'wealh like saltpetre. He'll fali in less'n six months I" "Howv about Jones, of your town ?" "Jones ? Well, Joiies is pegging along after the old style, and lie's bought him a bicycle, and every body says he'll go to the wall in a year." "And Brown & Son-are they all right?' "Brown & Son I Well, they may keep M'ong till spring, but I doubt it. Okt Brownj has got so iiear-sightedl that he can't tell a sheep pelt from a coon skin, and. the boy is'diead stuck on a widow w(oman who neve, wears anything less than siX-dollar stock. ings." "But Davis is dloing a good tradoe, isn't ho ?" "Davis I Well, pooty fair, but he won't last. He rented the upper part of his store to a Chicago milliner, and she broke up Lwo families and canied a p~reacher. Every body3 blames Davis, and his sales last week only footedi up a pourit of saleratuis anid aewash hoar "r, -fou are rc, and, of cou ihe only customer out "Mle I Well, L.'mi you are all right ?" things may -change. I,, right just now, but three literary societies ak wile belongs te at church festivals, while l'N the big toai trotter andi learned to play old ughit a 2.40 ineedaift be surpilsed any tuns o You hear that I've been buset~ p i;[ wngt~ cellar ; so clean that ~.from garret Cb enough ,dry goods to 4 editors can't 11in(, *--pe a baby's nos0o8 That man livO~._ _ ch tirt ewd 4s Wleeo Wiho live. thei o mean ho always know,, Another Virginia Cave. A correspondent writes: A cave has re cently been discovered on Clear Fork, 01 the land. of Thomas Walker. Having heard of this cave, I, with sile others, determined to explore it. Leaving Mr. A B. Shawer's and traveling several miles i an easterly direction, we reined up om: steeds at the r(sidence of Mr. Walker, where we provided ourselves with lights, matches, &c., necessary for the exploratior of such a huge, deep cavern, some other of the imnaediate vicinity accompanyinp us. We soon arrived at the entrance, which is about twelve feet in diameter. After descending fifty or sixty feet by means of a pole, which was at an angle ol sixty-five degrees, we found ourselves ir the iain cave. '.l he first thing which at. tracted our attention was a lot of bones, among which were some skulls, which ar( no doubt the remains of human bodic that were thrown into the cave by the In. dians or some other uncivilized class ol people in ancient times. After giving these a careful examination we moved about to examine the petrified snakes fishes and other plieromcna which we were not able to solve; so we left them with the mystery lingering on our minds. We sooi came to an entrance eading into a neatly furnished room embellished with a choic selection of natural ornaments far superior to any artificial work which we had eve beheld. ~ There was in it, a sullicient quan. tity of furniture to 1111 up the interior of a drawing room. From here we went to E more desolate part of the cave, where th< jagged, fantastic rocks looming up out of the darkness, seem to threaten danger. Here we spent a long time hallooing anc listening to our tones echoing and reecho. ing in the hidden caverns. We then pro ceeded onward, when suddenly we cam( to a high step-off, but not so steep but thal we could get down without much dillculty, When we got to the foot of the step-off W( found the cave to be much wider and w( could see as far as our lights permitted, Here we noticed a small hole in the bed oj the rocks, into which we dropped a stow and listened for several seconds, when al last we heard It drop with a loud splas. into a pool of water. We were now fully a mile from the entrance, and had beet walking two hours without reaching th< extremity of the cave. Becoming weary front walking and being oppressed with th< damp, heavy atmosphere, we decided t( return and were soon inhaling the pure al: frim without. All Mad. At a meeting of the Detroit Ladies' Be nevolent Society, held the other day,it wa resolved that a committee of four ladies b appointed to canvass for donations, and i the course or their perambulations thi committee dropped into Mr. Wixhani' office. He received them as a gentleinai should, and after the usual formalities on of them began: .I . "Alr. Wixham, we are asking aid for be nevolent purposes." "Alh, yes. Benevolence is a bump whicl should be cultivated. Are you looking afte poor folks?" "We ars." "Very proper-very proper. You al have children of your own?" Oh, yes." "All of them are well fed, well clothQ, and well cared for, are they ?" "Yes, sir." "That's very proper. I presume the! stockings are properly darned, buttons Ii their places, and they say their prayer when tl'ey go to bed? Am I correct " Tie women looked at each other in sly way, and then at him, and one of ther said; "We shall be happy for any contribu tion." "Yes'm, yes'm. You don't want thi contribuion for your own tamilles, elh ? "No. sir !" answered four voices in che rus. "Well, I am somewhat inclined to b( nevolence. Hardly a day passess that doii't (10 something for charity. Here's a old1 account of $26 against Mr.-. knew he's hardi up andi having a close timi to get along, and yesterday I canceled th One of the canvassers turned red, whit andI blue, and lookcd out of the windowi That was her husband, and Wixhani didn .know it. "And yesterday I found a poor, forlorr looking httle boy 'out here crying with hun ger and cold. Hie said nis name was Tom~ my-, and lie lived at 86--street. IH htadn't been wvashed or combed for a week andl I felt sad for him. I was going to iak him home and feed him, but nie slippe Another woman suddenly looked out c the window, and her pulse ran up to on hundred and twenty a minute, but Wiz hamn was as lnnocemit as a lamb of an knowledge that it was her boy. Some time age our correspondent chance to be visiting at a county seat in Virginia andl was courteously invited by the Cotm monwealthi's attorney to come inito th court room on the following nmornling, witi the assurance that a witness would testif In a murder case then pending. lie entoreI the court, ioom, and speedily after his at rivhl a wiltness was called, who advance to the standl with such a jaunty air of so] assurance, and who kissed the book witl such loud.soundinig confidence, that he wit sure this must be "his mnt." his judge mont was not incorrect. "'Mr. Williamson," naked the common wealth's attorney, ''do you know anythmin of the killing which took place at Robert son's store last mon h 1" "Know anything I" was the response "I were thar.". "ThIeti tell the Court and jury," said( th attorney, "what you .k now." TJhe~witness lalntedi hiself more firmt; on both feet, glancing around~ upon01 hi auditors, and thus delivered himself: ''Well you see, Mr. Rtobertson was a sitt in' in thi back part, of his store a-playin' of his fiddle not a thinkin' of hoem' stabbed, nor nnhithm of the kind, when In come Mr. Johnisora andi then and~ thar stabbed him ; thn ht guthtored a buing starter, .cleanedi out tht crowd, lipped the palin', andi cl'ared he Alf." 0~O~~ day Is worth three .to htim wh (.l kerythling in order. does 0,is crow1ned with all achievin .i perceives, and then performs. Boswho htave played maurbles mu: tiply on the lace of the earth. Farmers have learned that it take the best of'aoll to raise a martragn. A Turkish watch Tower. A little below Moldava the "Babakal rock rises froin the diead of the river, abou the middle of the stream; and standin, upoD its high platform is a Watch tower connected with which is also.a very sad le gend-but then you must remember thal it is only a legiend. At one tli'e-so thi story goes-a very handsome Turkish maiden, having run away with a gallan Hungarian kuight, was overtaken ant brought back by the Aga's Jiissaries,whi led her to the Babakal rock to be put ti death. 11er spirit was oftei aeen wander ing over the ruins of the pId tower an< leaping over the cataractse But stean navigation with other marksof progressivi civilization, have dissipated forever thes' silly Turkish stories. After passing thii rock the shorts close in agaittwith granitf cliffs on one side and lovely green hills 01 the other. On the right bank are seen tho beautiful ruins of Castle CIolumbaes-i Turkish, Gogerdschinik-which was thi key of the navigation of that section of thi Damube as far as the Iron Gate. The Iroi Gates of the Danube are not iron, but i continuation o' rocks and heavy bouluer that obstruct the channel by nearly closiun it in sonic places, causing powerful eddiei and immense whirlpools, that make it i diflicult and dang routspassage to navigate, Soon after leaving Colubacs the steame clears the first in the numerous rapidi which, as far as the Turn Severin, forn quite a series of natural impednients; an(] the high pointed rocks that loom up every where must be passed with great. caution, As soon as these rapids aro crossed and we have rounded a giant rock on the edge o a sharp pronnontory, the river expands un, til it forms quite an island sea-calin an( smooth-until you near the famous passago called "Greben." Then on both shore rise abruptly two tremendous walls of rock. with lofty peaks and preciphous inclines showing mighty cracks and rents hke tht cyclopean gunwales of a volcanic citadel. Hanging bolily over the water's edge, the3 seen ready to pounce upon the river an( gulp it up in one supreme, herculent draught. But our steamer is equal to thi task and runs through the narrow pas and cones out into broader water unharni ed and ready for another trial. A few mile further down the stream, on the left shore, we pass ircoulc, which appears to hav been one of the culminatigg points of Ito man domination in these parts, and direct ly after Trecule you reach the imposinj matrance of the Kasaim Pass- -t lie grandeb and most remarkable sight on the Danube, The stream here-as if driven by some tin accountable power-cramnped in a spatc o 3 about two hundred yards, rushes with i - violent roar of despair Into a natural pas 9sage, which resenbles a breach made h i giants through a wall of loity rocks, an for'nearly hhid'inilo it rolls its groaninj i waves over a granite bed two hundred fee deep bounding .and leaping, striking ani lashing tie obstructing enemy with it - mighty breakers and shnidmerhei- npray The comparative darkness, owing to thi i height of the hideous cills, which hem i1 r the narrow channel, and the nysteriou stillness, broken only by the convulsiv maan of the rushing stream, give atin a i pect of indescrible grandeur and frightfu beauty, and the whole scene is so impre sive that it can never be forgotten. A Oowboy's it1.I. r There is no circumstance under whic a cowboy will not sleep if not physicall s nuolested. Says a correspondent from tih far West. In the midst of a mountai storm, when the crashing thunder com< simultaneously with the glaring sheets c lightning, the cowboy sleeps peacefully; I a dry creek bed, with his head down grad he slumbers sweetly; in view of tarantulai a rattlesnakes and centipedes for bedfellowi lie closes his eyes arid dreams of a heave ~ of unlimited pltig tobacco and unstinte sleep. Gabriel's triunpet, would indc sound in vaiu when the tine came to cihec off a dirove of cowboys. Last1 spring I wa a dIriving 4,000 head of cattle over th 'Itocky Mountains by tihe Souith Wyomin a Pass, and a 'run'-the terror of catti e dlrivers-took place under circdimstancc which showed just, how sound is the slec e of a cowboy. I had fifteen boys-ia 'boa 'withr tire 'cow' prefix muay imean a 40 yet t' old mian-withr tie. It takes nearly tI many to start ai drove of 4,000 cattle, thoug - a half (dozen boys can take care of the drov - after the tbat week on thre road. By tiht -time the cattle know what is expected< Sthem, aind give us very little trouble. "W~ell, we'were campe)1d one night o the very summit of the mnountains. T1li sleeping-ground for the stock was in a i tio live-acre p~atchi of grass; all around wer Ssage-brush aind rocksof volcanic formatiom You undterstand that after cattle arc qutie ly settled at night on good sleeping-groun three or four area slowly ridie In a circe around~ thenm. This is done by relays< men in "'watches," the watch being cang edh at midnight. I have matny a time see I a cowboy on a bronchro, riding. rountd an ,roundi~ a drove at night, fast asleep ini i - saddle. (On-the night, in question I hmai u pemied to lbe standing the first watch mryselj iand had only two boys with mec. T1h night was Overcast and~ daurk, the few stari I whnich shone between tihe rifts of dirivini - c.oudis just serving to outline the niass .1 sleeping cattle. Tire air seleed surchar1 f ed with electricity, and though there ha ibeen no ligihtnitng, it was just, such a nigi s in which runs always occur. I have hear - tio end of scientific and practica.l explami tior. of runs or stampee-gtneraliy hb -men who never saw one ini their lives.] is well enouighr to say that someothng frigi -ens them, if you kiiow nothing about it an want to explain it; but that don't explai ;it, no way. "ThIey say that a coyote, or some othe prowling beast,, frightens one of a dIros atnd that, one infects the others with pani e' and~ the stampede begins. Well, it in so. If you have a dirove of 1,000 or 10, ,000, the panic affects every one of themni e exatrety the satie instant. It is somein ,lhardecr to account for titan by a prowllii 'coyote; anti because a run never occurs ca ,cepIt on such a night as I have- describe< e I le ave it to those who know all about a e miospheric influences and suich, to tell ju; - what it is. Atnyway, I was a little uineat that night, for one of the two boys watch with mue was only a tender-foot; ii o derstanrd A manr new to tire blusiness atl fresh f rom tire Eiast. 1t .was nearly .1 E o'clock, andti had just turtied may hrorse hieadl towards camp, which was about fift - yardls in thre rear of the sleeping ground,i nmake up the relief watch, whenr tire ri s comrmened. E~very one of that droved 4,000 cattle was on isa feet like n. fiash n at exactly the saime instant. With a rusl: like a whirlwind which levels a forest the. were off in the darkaess, the strong aim heavy ones in the lead, of course. Th< g rattling of horns and the thundering o hoofs was deafening. The effect it has oi a person who expeliences it for the flrst time was shown by the action of the ten der-foot. "lie turned his horse's tail toward th stampede, burled his spurs in his bronco'i i flank, and neyer stopped until lie was oul of hearing. le was crazier with frighi than the wildest steer in the drove. Well, - beeing $80,000 worth of stock running away from me, and having had thiteer years' experience. I naturally acted dif. ferent. By the specter starlight I coul see the cattle outlined as a black, rushing, clattering, thundering stream, rus hing wildly, and at each instant becoming wild. er, over the rocks and a stretch of sage brush. Mly horse was trained In the busi ness and knew what -was the trouble af well, and Just as scontoo, as I did I di( not have to guide hin. I followed alone by the side of the stampedeand soon over. took the leaders. It don't do to try and turn a run too quick. I kept by the sid( of the leaders and quartering on them, striking their ilanks and pushing gradually against them on the left, slowly turned the leaders slightly to the right. If that cm be dotie it as only a matter of time before the' line of cattle will 'mill' itself. The leaders only need be turned, the rest all blindly follow, By constantly keeping them turning to the right the leaders were swung clear around finally, and overtook the Jag-enid of the line. "There they were rushing around in a circle, the center of which soon closed up and they were milling'; that is, they had tormed a solid wheel and kept going round aund round themselves in the same space of ground. I tell you that cowboy and my sell did some tall riding around that 'mill to keep Wie outside stock from 11ying oIl at a tangent, as they will do sometimes. Lit. tie oy little they slowed down, and as soon ias we could make our voices heard we i quieted them by singing aud talking to Limi. Thtre is nothing which will bring it crazy steer to his senses as quick as the ha man voice, and if you can only sing a lit tle you can do the work all the quicker. The clashing and crashing of horns and the pouncing ol hoofs grew less and less deaf ening; one atter another would recognize our voices and slow down, until finally, al itast as suddenly as it had started, the run was at an end and the cattle as quiet and well-behaved as ever. In the morning the circle whMre the mill had IeeCn was as dt r void of vegetation as a dancing-hall. Thbe , sage-brush was ground to powder and the - giound looked exactly as though it had r teen prepared for a circus ring. Througli I the sage-brush where the stock had run a straignt siouth swath was cut as if by ti t, mowing maclince with a potato-digging at I tachnient. I started to say how a cow boj p could sleep; throughout that, run, through iut that excitement, the deafening 1us and danger, those cow.boys in camp slep I as they night if in a leather-bet in tax s Palace Hotel.'' - 'tho Ear Ache. I'he Jester's troubles begin to culninati at this point. The heavy cold, contraete some time ago, had never left him, and b3 the tinie the camels were feed at Warsaw, the appalling huarseness which has change( his silvery voice into a terrifying croak, Ii whiich makes all the children in the audi. Y ence cry, was supplemented by the ear L aclc. n1 "By George," said the fat passenger, 8 "you ought to know better than to hav f the ear-ache at your age. That's a boy'i complaint. Why dian't you get througl C with it, along with you- Ilrst teeth ?" 1, The stricken Jester only strode up ant ,down the room in (disnmal silence. n~ 'Put a not0 roasted onioni in your ear, Ii said the sad passenger, 'only one 3?' ti "Whar,''said the tall Lhin p~assenger k "only one." s 'It's a sure cure,' insisted the sad pus e senger. 'Yes,' said the cross passenger, 'it wit e3 hurt you s., that you canit't feel the ear s ache.' P 'Pour in somc halaudain.,' saidh the sat pas-tenger, 'won't cost you miuch to buy *r quart.' t'If you had a sack of salt to heat andc Ii hiang over your ear now, it wouild hell e~ yon,' said the passenger with the sandy *tgoatee. f Pour in some wariu sweet oIl,' saidi the tall, thin passenger 'and then calk your can nI up with raw cotton. I'll run out and gol e3 you a bale.' L- 'Go to the dentist's and have it pulled, e advised the mian'on the wood box. ', Thie Jester, holding on to his throbbiM, -ear, raid, in a hoarse Wone of countenane d -but it is not,. necessary to pa int what hi e said. Thlis is a family papuer, andI the tihing af that a man says, undelr the inspIration o ;- the ear-ache, had best be considered as re ii marks iniade under- the sacred secresyr an executive session. Btit, whein the pail 5 became unendurabile, ho sent, for Dr. Lami -bert, who helped hin out andl shaped bin .up so that lie could stanid it to lecture, Lu Anid then when evening was come, the a, groaning Jester Iilled his mouth witl g chilorat e of potash for his hoarseness, anc f stuffed his ocar full of cotton, and p~ut o1 - the cap and bells and creaked and coughet di and inwardly groaned and wiis as funny ai t, lhe knew how to be. td Tihen,at 1:50 A. M., we boarded the trali t- for Chicago. Y 'You arc merry, may lord,' said the sat t, passenger, as a sligh t man with an ear ful -of cotton scrambled, with the usual vigor d ous gyrations, into the customnary uppe nI berth. 'I am merry,' groaned the Jester. A r least it, soundled like "I aim merry,' witl e thme italic einphtasis on thme 'am.' tA Uflock Made of Dread. it Milan has a curIosity in a clock whici g is made entirely of bread. Th'le maker i g a P/eruivian, a native of Iindla, and lie ha devoted threce years of huis time to tI I. construction of tIs caricsaty. Hie wa t- very poor, andi being witout means t< it purchsee the necessary metal, deprive' Y hinself regularly of his daily bread, whlol nl he dlevotod to the conastruction of this cur I- rosity, eating the cruast and saving the sot d part for doing hIs work, lHe made use (I 21 certain salt to sodidify inis material, and '5 when thme varIous pieces were dry the, y were perfectly hard aiid insoluble to water .0 The clockisa of respectable sirze, and ge *n well. The case, which ms' also of hard )f ened broad, displays great talent in desli di and excuann. Washngton's Inaugurat ion. Washington had modestly requested j quiet entry into the city o1 New York, bu at Elizabethtown Point numcrousconcours ilmct him, and a splendid barge, manned b] 12 pilots uniformed in white, awaited hi embarkation. Other barges followed, an( others still with flying banners,and throug the KIllN mid u the broad and beautifu bay swept the grand nautical procession Music and song and booming cannon hailc the approaching chief. Colors flew fron every ship. save the Galveston; but and denly, as thm General's barge came abreast lher yards, too, were manned, flags anm signals streamed from every peak, and II guns thundered a salute. Thursday, the 30th (lay of April, wai appointed for the solemn ceremony of thi iniauguration. At two o'clock in the morn ing, pious souls in all the churches of th< city fervently invoked Ileaven's blessims upon the new President. At noon th< troops of the city paraded and at 12 o'elock Washington left his residence in a coaci: of state, accompanied by his Secretary an: his Aide. de-aip, preceded by tie troop and by the committees and heads of do. partmenti in carriages, and followed by tim Foreign M inisters aid a hoIag train ol citizens. Before reaching the hall where the Senate ad House of lepreseontatives were asseibled, Washington alighted from his carriage and passed calnly be tween the lines o! soldiery into the Semia Chamber, where John Adams, the inauigu rated Vice President, advanced and con. ducted him to the Chair of the State. Foi nll instant solemn silence reigned; theu Adams rose and said that all things wer< i readiness for the ceremony. In the cen. Ire of a lofty, open balcony, in front of the Senate Chamber, stood a crimson-:ovored table. OJiiis was placed a cushion of crimson velvet, und on the cushion lay U Bible, inaguiticently hound. Forth upon this balcony stepped, the cynosure of all eyes, the first President of the United States, the foremost patriot of his age. A joyoux and universal acclamation rent the air as Was hington advanced. Laying li hand upon his heart, he bowed thrice tc the assembled multitude, and then retired to an arm-chair near the table, Ile wa, plainly attired,in a full suit of (ark brown, with a steel-hilted sword, stockings Of white silk, and sho buckles of silver. IHE hair was powdered and worn in the quamt fashion of the day. For a little space per feet ktilliess reigned again. Then Wash ington rose and advainced once more. Standing in silence upon the balcony, Vice President Adams upon his right, ChanetLilor Livingston upon his left, at! Shetimn, lHamilton and Knox in the rear, Washington reverently laid his hand upor the open Bible, and the Cancellor slowi) read the oath. When it was finished, the President solemnly replied. "I swear-s< help me God I" and, stoopoiig, reverentl. kissed tihe sacred page. Livingston step ped forward, wived his hand and cried, "'Loing live George Washington, Presiden of th United Siates1" instantly a signa flag hlew fron the cupola of hail, artilierj thundered a general saute from the bat tory, ill lhe city bells rang forth a joyoum l'eal, and all the air was rent with the ac clamnat ions of the multitude. W asiniigtor bowed again, returned to the Senate Chaim ber, delivered his modest and moderate in augural in a (ee), but low ani1d slighitl tremulouis voice, and then proceeded o oi foolt to St. Pa2u1l's Church, where sail aisle prayers were read by tho 0hauplains o Cingress. Brilliant lireworks and illumi nations in the evening closed a day of sin cere and~uii iversal rejoicing. 1kov-11n Luiis Alloy. A Boston drummer was recently taking an order fromt a firm ini a Jersey town no a great ways fiomil New' York, and whec hie loft the store lie left behind him a moem orandumn book, a lot, of cardls, and1( a photo graph of a very good-looking lady. in tli course of an hour lhe returned with anxious step, ad said : ' Just, my careless way. I left may bool and a phioographl here. It is tihe phioto graph of my sister w~ho is dead, and 1)1z IIt very highly. Hlaven't seen it,hav Iyou ?" "YXes," repliedl the seninr iemuber of thi firam; "'I had it in my hand o'hen Mr. who lives in thme iiext town ablove, (droppe< ini on anm errandio. lie caught sight of thm p~hoto, and lie jumpujed two feet high an swore like ai trooper. lie recognized it a the picture of his wife I" "'No." gasped tile dIromneir. '"That's wvha t lie said. If you are i brothier-iun-law then his wife may be you sister. If you are0 not, and you can't mnak him believe that lisa wife and~ your slste were twins, you'd better have your shooteo readoy."' "'Woll, I never wvas worth a cent on ar gument, and I guess l 'Il cateh the nex trainl (out. It's miy sister, of course, bu while I was CI conymcing that olu jealous( p~atedl grandfather of the fact I might los a big sale down the road. Can't mIss ni sales these sharp tinies, you know. If keed (Iown this alley' will bring mae to th depoti" (lnorAl r~unam's Iuneln. Onm 01n0 occasion General Putnam ace p~te a challenge amid fixed the thne, and as hi antagonist ap~proached lie was greeted witl a shot from Putnam's gun a~t thirty rods As Putnam was reloading his picce hi adiversary apptroahced and saidl: 'What ar, you about to (do Is1 this the conduct c an American soldier and a man of hionori I'What am .I about to (10? was the, reply o - the General, 'A pretty question to puit ti r a man you intemnd to murder! I am abou to kill you, and it you do mnot fight In les a time than it takes 01(1 leath to huann 'VTory you are a gouie dlog.' Of course thi other turned arnd ran away. Thlc secom affair was with a B ritishi oficer who chal lemnged him11. Putnam acceptedl, rIxed thi time and place; and when the Englishmial ifound hmimi lie was seated near a barrel, ar a parently containingL powdier, smoking hi s pIpe. The General reqjuestedl him to taki a seat on time other side0 of the cask, ani a thmen act fire to a match commnicatil, Swith time contents of the barrel. Th officer looli ed at time burning fuse andI r( tired. As ne moved off time General said - 'You arc jmst as brave as I took you to h< this Is nothing but 'a barrel of omnion with a few grains of powder on the top, i< Itry you by; but you don't like the smell.' Activ.ty may comnit, some Injuries .but hndlOeO Is sture to do no good. m The mattock wIll make atleeper hol in tha ponn than lightning. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. The truly great man is as apt to for give as his power is able to revenge. He who knows but one thing, or one set of things, cannot be a wise man. A word to the wise is always suffi cient, but the trouble is so few are wie. To be popular is to be tudorsed in the to-day and forgotten ir the to mor row. Study books to know how things ought to be; study men to know how things are. The whisper of a beautiful woman can be heard farther than the loudest yell of duty. If you w ould never have a n evil deed spoken of in conneetion with you, don't do one. In memory's mellowed light, we be hold not the thorns; we see only the beautiful flowers. A man too busy to take care of his health Is like a inechanic too busy to take care of tis tools. A mian that keeps riches and enj oys then 1 ', is like an ass that carries gold i.. qats thistles. When a man speaks the truth you may count pretty surely that he pos seslje most other virtues. It is a great misfortune not to haye enough wit to speak well,or not enough Juidgmient t~o keep) silent. True friends visit us In prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they coie Without Invitatio I. "Look before you leap!" Bnt not always, for otten when one has taken time to look it is too late to leap. An old bachelor is a traveler on life's railroad, who has entirely failed to make the proper connections3. II is al ways better t' kojp out of a quarrel 14han to make i up ever so ami cably atler you have got into one. III the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our internal frame I8 uncov ered, dispoAihions hold the place of ao tiois. When is it dangerous to go to church? When the organist is drown ing the choir and a great gun of the pulpit is firing away at the congrega Lion. When you do not need help from any one then any one will help you; and when you do need help the world is somehow always looking the other WILY. No man ought to complain if the world measures him as he measueos others. To measure one with his own yardstick In y be hard, but it is also lair. We should often have reason to be ashamued of our most brilliant action i, If the world could see the motives from which Lhey spring. Motives are better than actions. Men drimt ito crime. O eylli they do more than they enctenmLate, and of good they contemplate i.oro than they da, A mani's fortune should be the rle for sparing and spending. E xtrava -ancn may be supporte 1, not j siluld, by a Ill eice. Age is beautiful and wonderfully at tractiive when In youth the soul wei - conversant with truth. Its glories abide in old age. MenIal pleasures never cloy; unlike - those or the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, aid strengthened by enjoyment. A ckild thinks the stars blo somn on the trees; when lie, climbi to the tree top, he taneles they cluster on the spire; lie finds, to reach them, he must leave the earth a nmd go to heaveni. Blessed is the man who has found his work ; let huimi ask no other bless ednoes. Know thy work, and do it; and work at it like Hercules. One monster thore is in the world, the Idle mans. The wise ones say there is nothinig so hard to bear as .prosperity; but most men would like to engage in some hard work of-that description .just to have a practical lillustratIon of tne ad age, Ter truelst help which one can ren derta mana, who has any of the lno toitabke burdens of life to carry, is not ttaehis burden oil, but to call out his beet s!,rength that te may be able to bear It. T 1hat was a bright little boy who Fspelled out time words of the text, "Pray without ceasing,"'and that con eluded not to show It to the minister because he thought hiis prayers were long enmoughi already. Alnis a dupable anImal, Quacks in meltdicaine, qutacks in religion, and Squacks ini poiitics know thmis, and not uptloni that knowledge. There is sear Scly an y one who may not, lIke a trout be imakenm by tickling. All men andi women are, as Shake pear e has said of them, merely players -when we see theum upon time stage of Lihe world ; that is when they are seen any where except in the freedom aiid unidressed intimacy of private life. TIhe hi story of thle world teaches no lessen witua more Impressive solemnity hiani this: that the only safeguard of a great intellect in a pure heart; thati ev~ilie sooner tiakes possessioni of the heart than folly commences the con ,quest of the mind, SIt Is a secret, well known to all Sgreat men, that, by conferring ati ob Sligation they do not always procure a Sfriend, but are certaIn of creating many enemies. T ihere is a signature of wisdom and Ipower Immpressed upon the works of (lou, which evidently disting'ilshes bihemif from the feeble imitationis of mmenm. Not only the splendor of the sunm -but the gilimmering Light of the glow Sworm, proclaims has glory. Garner up pleasant thsoughits in your 1mInd; ior pieasant thought make pleas aut liyes. Strive to see alt you can of tuOe good and time beaudinul, so t~hat bragnt, cheerful piosures may be fin pressed oni ummory's taolemA, and giv.e ' ou miateials of which to think sunnuy and lovely thoughts. Thero is nothing that makes life Ssweeter, nothing tnat gives one more oncouragement in the midst oi hard work, t han a loyal Iriendenip. it Is tis tot makes at a mseanniens unspeak abay base to put on te disgUines or f riendshmip In order the better to serve personal ends,