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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION- WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 21, 1881- ESTABLISHED 186 BLIPPING AWAY. They are slipping away-those sweet swift years, Like a leaf on the current cast: With never a break in their rapid flow, We watch them as one by one they go Into the beautiful past. As silent and swift as a weaver's thread Or an arrow's flying gleam; As soft as the languorous breezes hid, That lift tio willow's long golden lid, And ripple the glassy stream. As light as the breath of the thistle down, As fond as a lover's dream: As pure as the Bush on the sea-shell's throat, As sweet as the wood-bird's wooing note, So tender and swees they seem. One after another we see them pass Down the dim lighted stair; We hear the sound of their steady tread In the steps of the centuries long since dead, As beautiful and as fair, Tlhere are only a few years loft to love; Shall we waste them in idle str.fo? Shall we trample the i under our own ruthless feet Those beautiful blossoms rare and sweet, By the dusty way of life? There are only a few sweet yeara--ah, let No envious taunts be heard : Make life's fair pattern of rare design, And fill. up the measure w th lovo's sweet wine, But nevr :'n angry word? Two Lively Beaux. "Oh, such a lovely face I" sighed Miss Amelia Hartwell. "Such eyes-such a mustache-really, I couldn't help it, Kitty. Oh, I really could not." "Yes, Amy; but suppose Miss Hess should find it out?" said Kitty. "Well, wcll, what could she do about It ?" said Amy. "Tell ma and get me scolded, and lose her situation. I should tell her about the governesses, and I think she'd keep quiet. A girl can't live with out any romance in life." "Only nobody ever introduced you to each other," said Kitty, "and my ma says that you can't tell what any one is If you haven't a proper introduction." "Yes, and then they introduce you to soein stiff old creature, and he pays you a little attention, and you marry. Kitty, I inoan to have my fun out. You can tell if you please, but-" "Oh, Amy," cried Kitty, "I'm no tell tale, It's oily for your good." Lr;#.V, ,,,1 .. u 1.- -- n itty fifteen and Amelia seventeen. Amelia had not as good a dispositioi as Kitty, and her mother was a mere fashion able woman, who kept the girl as much in the background as possible, lest she should make her look old. So Amy, as she liked to be called, being really grown, and yet treated like a child at home, took her af fairs Into her own hands, flirted with all the college boys, wrote notes to them, waved her handkerchief from the upper windows, and behaved disgracefully with out any one having an inkling of what was going on but serious little Kitty, who was too honorable to betray her cousin, and too young to know how terrible such conduct really was. 8ehool-boys and college stu dents were bad enough, but now there had come upon the scene quite a new person, a young mnan of five and twenty, whom no one know, but who, having managedi to scrape acquaintance with Miss Amy, deC ciared himselt an Enghusi nobleman, and spoke of great estates, of which, In uime, he wouldi be master. Amy s wallowed the whole story, and for weeks had taken long walks with him,hA accepted a ring, which she dared not wear whoen at home, and o onsidered herself engaged. All was going on delightfully, in her opinion, and poor Miss iless, the governess, was quite hoodwinked. Kitty, trembling little confidante ias she was, was quite In - terested in the affair, but felt herself guilty in keeping the story from her miother. But Amy had no such compunctions, Now a now scheme was on foot. Trho lover desired to pay Miss Amy an evening visit, and a time had boen selected wheni mamma and papa were to attend a wedding, and Miss Hiess away on a dutiful visit to her old German _grand-parents. "You may call, but you can't stay late, Theodore,"' Ay had said. '1'hat dragon of a governess, will be at home at half pamst Len.'" And Trheodoro had protesltedl thatli e would niot stay late, '1, shall bring a friend," lie said, "and he can be company for your cousin, siuce you Insist on having her with: you. We'll have a lovely eveniing.". Then hie sighed and looked "so lovely," as Amy declared to Kitty, who, flattered by the idea of the friend who was to "be attentive".to herself, felt it time to preach the little sermon above recorded, but with out effect. The visit was to be paid. Miss Amy was to receive her admnirer. Kitty was with lier, Miss less had temi porarily departed. Tlhe carriage hiad borne mamma andi papa to the scene of the wed - ding festivities.- The servants were hay ing a comfortable supper in the kitchen,. aiid thie door bell rang. "No matter-I'll go, Bridget," called Amy over the balustrades, to the waitress, whio was delighted to run back to her sup .per and a few friends and cousins who had just (lropddtn; and the young lady of the house hocrse i admitted her callers. They eat -,d rather cautiously and with ninny glanc ap the stairs, which Amy attr earof her cruel parents. hei pwas attired In the latest at andwore large pin and many rIngs; but his friend was, it is to be confessed, rather shabby, and not over clean. "Miss Amy," said Theodore, with an air, "this is my friend Adolphus. A fine fellow, but under a cloud J rst now. Ills grandfather, the Earl, won't pay his club debts. However, he'll come round after a while. This Is Miss Kitty, Dolph." Dolph made a bow, and backed against the wall. "Come In," said Amy. . "Every one is out. Oh I Isn't this lovely ?" "Iheavenly I" said Theodore, looking at the bronze ornaments on the mantel and letting his gaze rove to small ornaments. "1o you are alone, eh ? How delicious I I say, this is a flue place. Not so flue as we are used to at home, but pretty good for America. Your father must be well off, Miss Amy " "Yes," said Amy, "1 believe he is." "Lots of silver, and all that P" said the nobleman. "You ought to see the plate at-at the castle." "Yes," said Amy. "The silver is all up stairs now, though. Ma locks it up when she goes out. There's a great closet between the rooms above. Bhe keeps her jewelry there. It is quite a nice place, for burglars wouldn't be apt to find the door If they didn't know it. It slides In, you know. Pa says it is better than a ftafe."1 "Why, it must be," said Theodoro; "how ingenious I There, sit down, and let us chat; or suppose you plny for us." "I'd rather talk," said Amy, sentiment ally. Meanwhile Kitty was growing very mis crable. The person introductd as Adol. phus was awkward and said litlek. 11e was not handsome like Theodore, and lie smelt of tobacco and whisky. Ills grand father, the Earl, must have been angry with him for some tine, she thought. She began to wish that something would hap. pen to break up the party, that they would at least go. Neither of them were gentle man, she felt assured. They stared around thenm oddly. Theodore arose and dropped the silk curtains over the windows. The men exchanged glances, Could not Amy see that something was wrong I ' At that moment Theodore pushed the door into the hall quite shut, and returned to Amy's side. As he did so he put his hand into his pocket, and took out a sponge. "Curious, isn't it ?" he saki. "I think a sponge is such a curious object. See the little cells." "I've got one, too," said Adolphus, huskily. "lave you ever seen such a ig one?" "It Is large, " said Amy. Kitty, who had been expecting some lose-.uaking, and was disappointed, only curled her lip; but the next moment both girls sat staring speechlessly at each other, each with a great sponge thrust Into their mouths. "Tie her to a chair, Dolph,"cried Theo dore, rapidly binding Amy's arms and ankles with a crd he took from his pocket. ' Now, young ladies, you are not going to be hurt. We'll just help oursiAves to the pretty things of value that can be carried off easy, and get the sliver out of the slid ing-closet above, and be off. Dont't try to scream-you can't. And don't kick-you'll only hurt yourselves. Day-day." Away they went up the softly -carpeted staicise. Amy heard the sound of open ing drawers aind doors overhead. Kmt.y thought she even heard the clink of silver. But they could neither movo nor cry out. In a few momne"' the two thieves accomp hishied their purpome and descended the stairs again, each with a bundle on lis back. "G od evening, young ladies," said Theodore. "We're sorry we must go, but pa might come home unexpectedly. By by." T~hey were off. The (loor clanged shut. TIhe servants at their little supper know nothing, and the two girls both nearly suf focated. Their slenider wvrists, cut by the~ cords that bound themi, remained fastened to their chairs. Glad were they when the good-hiumor ed voice of Miss Ihess was heard bidding some one good night on the doorstep, and when, bustling into the house, she threw up her hands with exclamations of horror, called for help, and as soon as p~ossiblo dragged the sponges from the mouths, cut the cordis that bound them, and asked for the terri ble story, which, with many tears -andl sobs, Amy told truthfully. There had been a heavy robbery-money, silver andl jewelry were gone. -Vainly papa strode the floor, scolding his daught er andl bewailing his "ducats." "I never thought English noblemen could do such things," sighed Amy. "No bod.y could think that, papa." "'English noblemen I" laughed the de tectivo, who had ap~peared upon the scene. "They were two English thieves, Mise,and this Is their regular dodge-making love to young ladles and then get'ing lot In. It has to be the servants in England, but the Amt ricani young ladles are such flirts, and so eathiy taken In, they've changed their plans." "I, at least, will not 1)0 50 ea'ily takeni in again, and I shall flirt no mznore," salo Amy. She kept her word. -in 1880 Corn anu waeat exported, $288,087,00); beef and pork, exported, $127,948,242; cotton In baies, exported, $2i2,000l,000; g,.ld and silver, produe, of 1880, $80,000,000; tobacco and its manuuactue, exported, $18,422,278; p~etroleumn, exported ,ror finaL year, $86,208,025. The mattock will make adeeper hole in ihn gru~and than luhtning. Agricultur-o an the Hol land. A recent writer says nothing can well exceed the desolateness of much of the Holy Laud. Treeless It is for 20 cr 30 iniles together. Forests whicit did exist 80 years ago-for Instance, on Mount Car mel and Mount Tabor-fast disappearing; rich plains of the finest garden soil asking to be cultivated. at beet but scratched up a few inches deep in patches, with no hedges or boundaries; mountain terraces, naturally or artificially formed, ready to be planted with vines, as the German colony are doing at the foot of Mount Car mel; the villages nothing but mud-huts, dust, dirt and squalor; the inhabitants with scarce clothing enough for decency, their houses ovens; large tracts without a horse or cow, siep or dog; no pretense at roads, except from Jaffa to Jerusalem, and this like a cart-road over a ploughed field, the rest at best like sheep-walks on the Downs of Sussex, but for far the most part like the dry bed of the most rocky river, where, amid blocks of stone, each makes his way at a foot-pace as best he can, or on smooth, sloping rocks, or over loose stones thrown down from the old walls on either side, which no one offers a finger to remove; nothing upon wheels, not so much as a barrow, to be met with in a rie of over 300 miles. Everything is taxed: every Iruit-tree, so none nr w are planted; every cow or horse, etc.; every vegetable sold out of a private garden. Every eighth egg is not taxed, but taken by the government. In some places the taxes of the district are sold to the highest bidder. The farner is unable to sell a measure of his corn till all has been col lected into a heap and the tax collector has ret his sun upon it, from which there is no appeal. Double taxes are expected this year, because, after three years of scarceness, the harvest promises to be abundant. Nothing like a small farm hi-Juse is to be found'far or near. If there were, the owner is liable to have soldiers or revenue ollicers quartered upon him, to be boarded and lodged at his exprense. The towns are filthy in the extreme, none mui.re so than Jerusalem itself, where, how ever, taxes are levied froin every house for lighting and cleaning the streets, while a sprained ankle or a splash into a hole of blackest dirt is sure to be the result of a momentary carelessness. Nothing is done for the good or improvement of the people or the land by the government. Not only so, but every offer-and I heard of severat made by private individuals, or by coi panies -is at once refused, unless a bribe be first given to the authorities. This is a picture, I believe, in no way overdrawn of that land which was once "flowing with milk and honey." What might it, not be come again with fair usage and good gov ernmient? But there is no hope for Pales. tine while it remains in the hands of its present rulers. The writer goes on to show that the country ie worth little to the Turkish government, the entire revenue t 1jib jif(r 1- * h- * .. . .. t dollars a year under this wretched system of nisrul! an oppiession. He suggests that in the present condition of in finances, the porte might be glad to "sell out" for twenty or thirty millions of dol. lars in hard cash and that an internatioal company for tihe p :rchase and government of the country (a. er the pattern of the old East India company) would find such an investment, even of fifty millions, highly remunerative in the long run. A n-ercan tile crusade of that sort might accompiisii what no military one was ever able to achieve,-the rescue of the Holy Land from "the unspeakablo Turk," and its restoration to its ancient prospority. .tories of the 8ea. The delights of solitude have been fer. vidly extolhed by writers who took good care to keep) themselves within hail of the busy hunm of men ; buit Its iancied charms have soon p~alled upon unfortunates of a silent life, either by their own whim, the tryanny of others, or circumstances over which nobody had any control. Three weeks' experience of Crusocing sufficed to bring an unwilling solitarian to death's door, but lie was a imere lad, want ing three years ho be out of.his teens. T1hae youth's name was Lord. Getting separated fronm his messmnates while seeking wood aiid water on one of the GJalipagos Islands, he lost hinself in the forest.' Aftcr passing an uncomfortable night there, daylight, sawv Lordt roving in quest of what he might devour, and linding nothing save a big snake, unavailable for staying his appetite, and wvhen night came around again, lie wats still wandering In a maze of trees, weiiry with wialking, and faint for lack of food, fearing to sleep on th~e gronnd~ lest lie shou d intrudle on the privacy of sonic deadly serpent. Trhis diflcuht~y he surmotnted by climbing a very tall tree, amid roosting in its branches, unaware that, he had a fellow lodger in a big owl, until, on leaving his airy. chamber in thme morning, lie knocked the bird down, and turned the accidenit, by breakfasting upon the owl, without any further preparation than strippimg it of its feathers. Trhat night ILord was out of the wooId, but was not much better off, for, sleeping at tihe feet of a mountain, he was drenched wvih a rain, ai~d when nu ruing broke was in anytumig but, a condition ior climbing. Jlinib the miountain, howvever, lie did; fromi thme summit beholding the bay ini which his whaler had bee,', but was not. lie saw a brig there, but sac was imakinag her way out. Mladly lie dashed down the mountain sidle to gain the beach all too late, and becoming oblivious af his disap piinimeut by goinig off into a (lead faint. When lie recovered his senses hunger got the butter of despair, its pangs being none the less bitter from lthe knowledge that there was abundance of food ini the wateis washing his prison, and that lie had neither nook to bait nor bait. to boon, and must p~erforce, live as best lie inight upon berries and seal flesh. So thie dismal days dragged on, the only event, breaking their imonotonious misery being Lord's nearly conming to grief aito gether in grappling witn a great semh, roll ing into the sea with it, and scraimtiing out, alone as quickly as his weakness ali lowed. After thIs bout, ho contrived tc crawl up the mountain agum, and to lis joy descried a large sipl making for thme island. Trhe sight gave himi new strength, and lie managed to get, down to the beach lust as the ship entered the harbor. Soon a boat was lowered, and lie knew no more until his eyes opened upon a crowd of friendly faces, lie cried out, for wvater,and lie drank till he swooned again, when kindly armis carried him to the boat, and he was soon safe in the nara of the famous explorer of the seas, Captain Cook. Lord did not 1ind the Gallipagos Islands so much to his mind as did anIrishmatn, who let his ship depart without hin, and set up his rest on one of these volcanic islets; dwelling there for severi years in a hovel of his own building, living upon tortoises, seals and fish, washed' down with rui obtained from ships in exchange for the pota-os and pumpkins he buiid himself in raising. In 1818, an American Pallor was takon off a deso late rock in the South Seas by a boat's crew belonging to 11. A. 8. Queen Charlotte, whose attention had been drawn to the spot by the smoke of a seaweed tire. ie had, three years before, been left there with three compaulons, all of whom had quickly succumbed, whi'e he had lived on, sustaining life by fceaing upon the flesh of birds and drinking thei' blood. The find of the Queen Charlotte's men was not so surprising as that of the Flemish seaman Pickmian, when, in 1016 his ship grounded near a small island-rock between Scotland and Ireland. S-nie of his men going in search of eggs, came upon a black hairy creature, who by signs entreated them to come to close acquaintance and finding the strange object to be really a man, they took him on board with them to tll the skipper his story. It was a nialancholy one. He an( two others, occu pants of the passage boat between England and Ireland, had been captured and after wards cast off by a French privateer. [:aving nothing eatable save a little sugar aih thein, one 'of the three soon died ot s:atrvation, the others. lived to be driven on the island, where they built a hut out of what was left of the boat, and for six weeks lived upon the sea-mews, sea-dogs, eggs and water. Then the partners in misfortune parted conipany, one of then disappearing, leaving his forlorn friend in utter ignorance of his fate; lie could only surmise that lie had fallen into the sea while searching for eggs. Alonthe passed, and the poor fellow lost all hope o' deliver ance. Winter came and found him clottnes less. Compelled to keep within the hut for days together, he only kept starvation at bay by catching sea-mews, as hungry as himself, by baited sticks thrust through the openings in the hovel's walls. So lie kept himself alive, until the accidental advent of the Londin-bound Fleiuibh timber-ship released him from his dreary durance. It might be supposetI tmat a castaway would receive a brother unfortunate with open arms. It was not so with Pedro 8er rano, when he caught sight of a man float ing towards the island still bearing his name, of which he had been undistur'jed lord for nearly forty years. ie jumped to the conclusion that Satan had found him at last; while the 'newcomer was not a whit less horrified at seeing a creature as naked as Adam before the fall, With a board reaching to his watst, and a body covered with brietles. When both had rec'>vered I-in their frirht, errano. awakeniux to the duties Ot "oplusmaLy, piaceU ti> tDest food his ihmlted larder affixded before his uninvited guest. For a little while the pair lived amicably together, but only for a little while. Tuen they dissolved part nership, and avoided each o.ier; becom ing reconciled again to embark as friends on board a ship attracted to the island by their signal fire. Pedro reached 8pain, was presented to Uharles the Fifth, pensioned by that monarch, and passed the remainder of his days in ease and comfort at Panama. ILis companion, less fortunate, died on the voyage. Esquimnaux Vurpenry. The builder selects snow of the proper consistency by sounding a drift with a cane made for the purpose of reindeer horn, straightened by steaming, and worked dlowin to about hialfan Inch in diameter, w th a ferule of walrus tusk or the tooth of a bear on the bottom. By thrusting this into the snow lie can tell whether the layers dlclosited by successive winds are sep~araited by batnda of soft snow, wvhich would cause the b~ocks to break. When the snow is selb cted he digs a p~it to the d zi th c~f eigh t en inches or two feet, or about the length ol the snow block, lHe thea steps imo the pit and p~roceedls to Cut out the blocks by first cutting down at the ends of the pit, and theni at the bottom afterwards, cutting a little chianmnel about ain Inch or two deep, making the thickness of the p~roposed block. 190w conmes the part requiing pracie e to accomplish suc cessfulhy. The expert will, with a few t~hrusts of his kifie In just the right placer, split ol the snowblock and lirt it carefully out to await removal t.o its positioni en the wall. Tihe tyro will .alniost ineyitably break the block into two or t:,ree pieces, utterly unfit for tihe use of the builder. When t wo men are builiding an igloo onme cuts the blocks andi the other erects the wall. When sulliclent, blocks have been cut out to conuinence work with thme builder mnaika with his eye or perhaps draws a Liue watii his knife dlescribing thme circtumf rence of the buildinig, usually a circle about teni or twelve fiet in (diamleter. Th'le first row of blocks is then arranged, the bilockrs placed so as to incline lnward" and res mug against each other at the ends, thins afford ing miutual support. Wheni this row Is completed time builer cuts away the first and second blocks, slanting in from the ground upward, so that the second tier, resting upon the first row, can be con tinued on anid arounid spirally, and by gradually Increasing the inward slant a per fect dome is constructed of such at rengthi that, the buier cani lie fiat uploni the out sile while chiniking the interstices be tween the blocks. Th~e chinking is, how ever, usually done by women anti children ats the buildimg progresses, and aditionial protection atecured tromt the winds in very cold weather by baiiking up, wit~h at large snbow shovel, t~he sinow at the bause often being piled L<. the dephthi of three or four feet. This makes the igloo, peoi fectly im-. perviotis to thme weather. WVhen the house is compiLeted the budlders are walled in. Thlen asmnall hole about two feet squiare is cut, in time wall on the side awa) 'rom where the entrance is to be located si'd is used to pa a In the lamps and bed& hg. .It, is then walled up and the regular door cut about two feet .hIgh and niched at tho top. It would bring bad luor to carry the bedding into the Igloo by thie saine door it wotild be taken out. Before the door Is opened the bed Is constructed of snow. blocks, and made from one to three or four feet high, and occupies three.fourths of the entire space. Th'ie huigter the bed and the lower the door the warmeor the igloo will br. Ethel and lortimer. Very near us in the steamer Bristol, on the sound sat two people. le wore the face of a inim who shaves three tines a day, and that waite necktie had never seen the starlight before. There wa3 pearl powder oil the shoulder of his coat and a tender, dreamy look in her lovely eyes. They sat and looked up at the stars and they di'ln't care for any solitary thing, any nearer to this earth. "Mortimer," she muirinured softly, "Mortimer," hI name appeared to be Mortimer, though I couldn't. learn whether it was his front name or his after namne, "Mortimer, dear," she said, 'if we could only live apart from this buity and sordid, unsympathetic world, in one of you arlittering orbs of golden radiance, living apart from all else, only for each other, forgetting the base things of earthly life, the coarse greed of the world and its animal Instincts, that would be our heaven, would It not, dear?" And Mortimer, tie said that It would. "There, heart of my own," he said, and his voice trembled with earnestness, "Amy own darling Ethel, through all the soft cued radiance of the day and all the shim mering tendernese of night, our lives would pa-s away in an exalted atmosphere above the base born wants of earthly mortals and far beyond the chattering crowd that lives bat for to-day, our lives, reflued beyond the Commliloni ke---" And just then the man with the gong came out. Mortimer, he made a grab at EthAst's hand and a plunge for the cabin door. Ethel just gathered her skirts with her other hand, jumped clear over the back of her chair and after him, and away they went clattering down the ml'n, upset a chair, ran into a good, sweet old Qiaker lady and banged a bad word out of Ler before she had time to stop it, down the sta irs they rushed, collared a couple of chairs at the nearest tible, feed a waiter, and opened thei acti.)m without skirmishing. I ia; a tnm of e mse II muld an I an eari-born a)pe.ite myself, an I I wouldn't live in at star so long as I cokild find a good hotel in America, but long, long before I could get seats at the tatble for my family, Mortimer and E betl lod eaten two blue-fish, a little rare beef steak, some corai bread, a plate of hot cakes, two boiled eggs, and a bunch of onions, and the waiter had gone out to toast them sone cheese. We have during oir wanderings, niet several people wh:2 wanted to live in a star, where artlh born people with animal appetites coulidn't trouble tien, and we- always found the safest placo for an earth-born inan when tihe star-born. soul started for the dinner table, was behind a rock. Ditrust the aspiring moittil who lives In a plane 6o elevated that he requires the use of a telescope when 11e wauts to look down at the rest of us. And if he ever wants board at your humble table charge him $15 a week and feed aim lots of soup or you'll lose money on him. The Emprob, of Autnia, This titled lady is winning goiuen opinions for herself among the votaries of the chase down in Shrophshire, England. Whatever may be said or her taste in pur suing such a pastine, far away f rom home, andi at such an enormous expense to the tax payers of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, there seems to be* but one opinion as to her skill as a hunter of foxes and as a horsewoman. Her feats in hunt Ing three days in sumewtion immediatelv after traveling nea -1 1 000 miks, In clear ing stone wais, taking batit fences and long w;.ter jump% are allowed on all hands to be unprecedented. Her riaing has been comptared with that of the two acknowled ged greatest hors 3womiea In England, and they are nowtjei e.' For elegance of style, undaunted courage, beau tiful seat and light hunds, she has no rival. And sne is said to enter Into the sport w-t greater enthusiasm tllan any old fox-hunting squire in Leicstersire-the hleadquaurters of the sport. Her favorite horse is a lirdit hay full blood, who is said to have~ a tenmper of his own. On her first mount, when the cry of 'Tally hot Tally hol Uive awayt' was heard, the bay broke away at a tmaendous pace thbrough the crowd,seem Ingly overpowering its rider, but the em press soon provedl equal to the occasion. She quickly pulled him together and turned lumi around, giving him at thle samie tinie such an Introduction to whip and spur that lie has not i.t'empted any sindtr prauks simuce. Iher habit is of dlark blue, with trimilng of fur around the collair, aind it Is said to be rather 'culty sark' ini its longitude. She has a pocket in her Saddle for a fan, which, after asharp spin, she lakes out and uses fro~ly. Though of ligtt weight,weighming only nine stoine, her aiumcle and pow er of enduranice are some thmng remarkable. One day she rode ten hours over the most diflcult couty, with out pulling up. To keep uip this form she exercises oii a private course, going over lIve pair of gates, water jumps, etc., every day besides goig through a regular <o urso of gymnastics. Inl this way she inimamus a state of health which enables her to rIde lonig distances without fatigue. She brought ove'r with her ten liunters for her own use. Thirty-five more are provided for her suite and servants, as well as ten or twelve average horses, whilst the total number of her suite and servants Is no loss, I am tol, than eighty. Use o aort Word d Ex-Governor Seymour advocated the use of sbor t words at the Utica educational con vention tbe other day. . Among other ilgs lie saidl: 'I have always thloughlt that, on the trial of John F. Knapp, for murder, that the jury found him guilty, not because the proof was so stronig, for the judge thought It weak, but for ihe rca soni that Mr. Webster, put before thiem the scetie of the old1 man's dleath in a way so graphic that they took his speech for priof. Wuillam II. Maynai d, a very able man, wvhio stood hIgh in this county andl St ate, onice wrote out a spoeh for tile Fourth of July mi wvords of one syllable. Ills strength was very much duie to the fact, thaut InI thoug~ht and speech lie mlade It a rule to use am lc w words as he could, and those thatt were short, and clear. If lie had lived out Ils termi of three-sdoro years lie would have been known as one of the gocat men of our State. 1 do not mean to say, that the mere fact simply of the word being short, make it ok ar, but it, Is true that moat clear words are short, that most long words we get from other tongues, and the mass of mna do nlot know exactly what they moan, and 1. am not sure that scholars always get the same ideas from them." A Paolfio VoRnt Bandit. Not long ago Governor Perkins, of Call. fornia, Isaued a wat rant upon a requisition from the Government of Lower California, for the arrest of Clodimero Coto, and his incarceration upon the Mexican man-of war Democrata, to await departure4for Mexico. Cota was once an ambitious man of great influence in Lower California, and has had an adventurous career. lie is a nephew of General Emanuel Markes, of the Mexican army, is about 50 years of age, tail and well built and of handsome and intelligent appearance. His career as a bandit is perhaps due mainly to circum stances which cefeated his ambitious pro jects in alairs of Stato. lie aspired to. be Governor of Caiforna, which he proposed to govern its a provIce of his own. With this setame in view ho was a faithful fol lower of Lerdo and an uncompromising enemy of* DiaZ. Upon the accession of the latter to the Presidency of the Repub lie Io lost most of his followers and all hopes of success as a revolutionist, le refused to suriender, however, and became an outlaw. From this it was but a step to the lite of a bandit, and lie became a terror to the merchants and peaceable and wealthy people aill over Lower California. lie requentiy kidnapped wealthy persons and held them for ransom, after the mau ner of the Italian brigands, and pillaged a great many smll towns along the coast, relreating to the mountains when the oppo sition became too strong for him. His band, which six years ago numbeed about 200 men, by losses in his various predatory incursions and desertions became reduced, until about a month and a half agto, he disbanded this remnant and with two of his trusty lieutenants lied to San Francisco. A published sensational story which charges him with stealing and carrying away a wealthy Spanish lady to the moun tains is said by well-informed men to be untrue Ills operations have been directed principally against the wealthy and lie has many friends amiong the por peoplo. Al though lie mado a gleat deal of money in his raids he ilways scattered it witn a lavish iand and ainong the criminal classes was the beau ideal of a bandit chief. However, thMi reigning powers in Mexico and the business prtion of the 8,ate are very bter against him. People who art familiar with his standing in Lower Galifornia express the opinion that if he reaches there Ie will be speedily tried convicteu and sliot. Upon uelug tranR furred to thme Mexican an-of-war Cotam was recognized by the officers as the leader of wbat was known as the Marquez revolution in Lower California. in his bandit career, at te head of about 250 fifibusters and guerillaq, tom ishing towns, vliages and haciendas were burned and destroyed. Daring one raid on tue towi of LorLtto they tit d an old mnain to a tree and sonC of the gang are said to have out raged the three daughters of the helpless victim. Tlhe gang woas finally broken up, what was left of it, by a strong force of zovernment, troaos an i so.u of the sur vivors are said L 1IiomIc u. I&LU O a 12%4 prior to tuo departuro of tuoir leader ior ban Francisco. onotming fur t i way rravoimex. Recent decisions of state supreoi courts contain some points of interet to railway travelers and others. A railway company is liable for injuries to a person traveling on a 'shipper's pass," although such pass stipulates that the company shall not be liable for injuries done to the per son using it. The evidence of a person injured as to the amount of damages suostained by him is clearly incompetont. lie may describe his injuries, but it Is for a jury to determine the question of dam ages A rule prohibiting passenfors from l ilnig on the platform of a railway car Is a roasonable regulation;and one who violates It without somie reasonable excuse or ne cessity, cannot be said to be free Ironm negligence if the act contributos to his In jury. An individual is not a passenger af ter he has left a mioving train and is not entitled to the protection of the railway company. When one buys a ticket, of a railroad corporation he is ordinamihly a pas senger of tihe corporation for the time when ho reasonably andi properly starts fromt the ticket office or wah~iing moomn Ia the station to lake his seat in the car of the train, un til he has resched the station to which he Is entitled to be carried, and has had ani opportunity by sate and convenient moans to leauvo time train at the station. It Is the dimty of the corporation to furnish all the mneans mand neciss.mry emplloyes to gu ard passengers agaiist all injuries whli hui inn foresight nuiy prevent. A passenger heaving a moving train ceases to be a pamssengter, and to have the rights of a piasseniger, wl.e her lie leaves it when at ful speed bet ween stations, or has been car riuti past the platform of the station. lie amust, wait until the train conies to a full stop. A custom in 1,10 management or a dejot, yardi o1 a raul r) u d czmpany th1 it. is bwUung cars t~lb-rein it Is not the comipany's duty to have a brake msin of oth~er persmns on 0 mclh car or . group I if cars,separately in motion, to give warn uig to mmn at work hlu the yard, but, that tihe meni ini ouch cases must look out, for themselves, would not relhuve a brakeman actually In charge of a moving car, who should see It, approaching a workman upon the track, fromi the duty of stopping or warning him of its app~roach; and, there fore, thme company would not be relievod fmomi liability to such workmnan for any in jury thus catised. One of the most iateroling objects of. feredl to public inmpection at the Sydney International Exibition was a dwelling house exclusively made of paper and fur nishied throughout with articles manu factured from the same mnaterial. Walls roof, flooring, and stair-cases alike coi slsted of cai ton-pierro; the carpets and curtains, bed stads, lamups, sheets and counterpanes, towels, boot-j acks, baths, kitchen utensils, etc., were one and all preparations of paper imacho, 'is were the very stoves used ior iieaing the roomis, In which large lirea were kept hurinming daily thiroughout the duration ot to cxhim~ition. beveral baniquets were givo in the paper house by its owners to the/ coinmissioners, imiombers of tho press at d foreigners of distinction. All the platos and dishes, kuifes and forks, bdtties and drinking yessels, used at the entertainments wore fabricated entirely and solely of paper. hShould these paper buildings como into vogue they may be expected to superinduce some s-rikmg changes in the rates of fire insurance, at present calculated upon a basis of bricks and mortar The Presidents' Mother. After the Inauguration Mirs. Garfield, the Presidents' mother was taken directly to the White House by Mr. Webb Hayes, and installed at once In the apartment which she will occupy for the next few years, which had been previously arranged as it will remain. It is a large, square room on the south aide of the mansion, about midway In the wide hall that serves as a sort of sitting and reception room for the Preeident's family. Its three windows overlook the flower-gardens and lawn in the rear, the unfinished Washington mpnu uuent and ague-breeding "Kidwell Bot. toms" beyond, and the historic Potomac dividing the District from the Virginia hills. The room is a sunny one, made more cheerful by a bright Axminster car pet, and wi ndow drapings to correspond, and a wood fire in a wide old-fashioned grate with glittering brass andirons and fenders. There are appropriate mantel ornaments and little womanly trinkets scattered about, and two or three hand sonio Turkish rugs before the bed and sofas. Beside- the rocker where the old lady sits with her knitting, or muses upon the checkered career of "son Janes" Is a beautiful white Uearskin, with fur a finger long, upon which rests her feet. To have her home In the White House, the most honored figure witnin its walls, Is certainly a groat change from other days within her reeinubrance when, left a widew In straight oued ertrcumstances, she washed iiidcooked, and toiled and saved that her children night be educated. 11r stalwart son, who over thirty years ago grow so tall that she could walk under his outstretched aru without stooping, still defers to her slight est wish with the same obedience that he rendered when a boy. Hers has always been the post of honor at the General's table, and, no matter what distinguished guests are present, she is invariably served first. A sweeter picture has seldom been SeI than this little white-haLirod matron miade, whosu head barely reaches her son's elbow, when she came proudly forward, vith tears in her cyos, to be t4c first to to coivo him as ho entered the Executive Manstou, President of the United Smates, escorted thither by the graudest civil and military display that Washington has ever wit nossed. Slow it Foot to & reese. Jasper Parley, a Gatturaugus county far* mer, nearly frozo to death recently. When found he was insensible in the bottom of iils sleigh. lie was rubbed with anow and otherwise treated to revive the cirou-. laion. After a good deal of thorough manipulation and rubbing Porley was brought around, when a fes . doses of whis key suliced to rostore him to nearly his normal condition. ,He thanked his restor ers vsry heartily, and gave an account of his ilsfortuine, which affords soino inklig of the sensattons of people who freeze Lo death. When he felt no longer able to hold the reins with any grip he detormindd LU Ou laho1Lr in the drcA iouno unuLttL waU warmed. 1-lie tongue became still, theu his arms, sharp chills ran down his back, and finally it seomed us though his whole body was being oongealed, causing an almost jotal cessation of the heart'& action. Tiis condition of extrenio sufferlag aul debpoidency speedily gave place to a fuel. tug of grateful watnh, suff ising the sys tem anid ca:ising au exhilaratlng glow. By this timb he had reached a houso, but ho drove on, thinking that nothing was now to be feared. The sleigh, Instead of crawl lng.along at a snail's pace, appeared to glide through the air with great swiftuess, and the horses lairly flow like pigeons. A souse of exultation filled the Uattaraugus farmer's breast as he urged the horses to still greater speed, and the woods on either side were passed so quickly that they be came indistinguishable blaca lines. Then the sleigh belle sounded falnter and faluter, until the chimes disappeared In the dis lance, the farmer foil gradually iuto a del. clous slumber, which came near being the sleep that knows no waking, amnd lie knew no mioro until brought baciC to life under thes vigorous treatment. Danota. Granss king of Dakota, the proposed now drtate. fueo territory lies in the broad valley of tho MIssouri and that of tme ied RIver of the North. The Bhlaolc liills, with untold wealth, are partly within her western borders, while on the east are Iowit andl Minnesota, with their railroa Ia reaching after her abundaiat grain crops. Biesides gold and silver, coal is found ia the northern and western districts, and p~etroleum spring~s from the rocks in nmany plaices. The clImate presents less that is objectionable to the Eastern emigrant than either of the adjoining States. Its winters are mildler and its atmosphere is of the most remarkable saiubrity. Tae soil is a rich vegetable mould,- ranging fronm the most fertile alluvium in the bottom lauds-of which there are many thousands of acres along the' MisSouri and its tribu taries-to the more compact upland prairie, th~roughily wvell ardapted to the~ productIon of wheat and other grains. Oats, peas, barley, and such small grains attain the ripest perfection; but the great and crown ing wealth of Dakota, outranking gold, wheat, corn and all else, is her incompar able crap of grass. Thousands of square miles of her bottom lands yield two tons or more per acre per year at a single cut,. ting, wi e away north, in the ,R~ed River valley, four tons per year are secured by two cuttimgs. Fo'r stock raising, wool growing, and the production of root crops, Jiakota possesses unsurpacsed advantages. lt Was Alt Iight, Several peop~le were making purohases in a grocery store when an .ld man wlth a cane In one hand and a bundle in the other stood in the door and asked: "Did any of you drIve up here in a slelgh I" "Yes, I did," replied one. "W~as it an old white hoss ?" "And an old woman in the cutter ?" "Yes." "And can sheo manage the hos" "I guess she can." "Tnein it's all right," said the man of the cane and bundle. "The old hose has run away and the old woman is hanging to the dashboard and yellhng murder I with all her might, but if she can manage him there's no use of anybody getting excited over i6. Let me inquire what the price q osanberrles is od.