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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MAY 10, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. COMING AND GOING. Hoarding and heaping-hoarding and heap ing And now there are ligf'ts and garlands gay, For a babe is born in the house to-day, And hie blue eyes are sleeping; And close by the eredle the father stands, And thinls of his acres of well-sown lands. And of when the two little-dimpled hands Will be strong enough for reaping. Budding and blooming-buddng and bloom Ing And the winds are playing like tiutoes on the hills, And the stones are beaten like drums in the rills, And the birds in clouds are coming: And song and fragra. co float In the breezo; And all the blossoms of all the trees Are edged with fringes of golden boos Buoking and humming-sucking and hum ming, Walling and weeping-walling and weepiug! And now the lights li the houses are low, And now the roses have ceased to glow, And the women watch ara keeping; And close by the coffin the father stands And; bitterly moaning, wrings his hands, And barren of pleasure are all his lands, For the babe wakes not from slooping. Blighting and blowing-blighting and blow ing And the stonos in the rivulet silent lie, And the winds in the fading woodlands cry, And the birds in olou Is are going, And the dandelion hides his gold. And their blue little tintts the violets fold, And the air is gray with snowing, do life keeps coming and going. The Two Wills. It has been a busy day with me. I had been working hard, getting up evidence in a railway accident case, and was putting up my papers with a sigh of relief. Anoth er forty minutes and I should be at home; but just as I was Lying up the last bundic of papere, the office boy put his head in at the door and dispelled the tempting vis iLn. "A woman to see you, if you please, sir. She won't give her name. Bays she's a stranger" "Stranger I" I repeated. "What is she like? Is she a common person?" "Not exactly, sir," said the lad, "A lady?" I asked. Arthur paused, as if considering, and then, with a look of intelligence, as much as to say lie had hit the nail on the head this time, he answered: "Well, sir, she's a sort of betwixt and between." "Vot a bad definition, Arthur. Ask the 'betwixt and between' up stairs." A tall, middle-aged woman entered and , _.ook the seat I placed for her. My visitor produced from her pocket a large envelope, from which she drew a piece of paper. This she handed to me, explaining in a hard, monotonous voice, thiutsho had been sent to me by her master Mr. Robert Bramleigh, of Coleman street, who was dangerously ill-in fact, was not expected to live many hours. The paper, she said, had been written by his direction and signed by him for his will that after. noon. Fearing lest it should not be in a proper fornt, he had desired her to take it to the nearest lawyer and have one pre pared according to the law. I unfolded the paper and read as follows; "In the name of Gtd, Amon, I leave my buody to the ground and my a ul to Almigi.t #.tod who, gave it. Now, this is the will of me Robert, 3ramahigh, of 339 Coloman street. I g.ve and leave all my hotuses, lands, money and ev rything that I have, to Hauah UOur ion, my housekeeper,aa, a reward for her long and l aithful services. Signed i y mo~on Tues. day, Liccembor 32th 1808 ''toniEniT L'RAMrLEIGH, '"Witne-se-James Lnrnas,Marbaret eiins." I examined the writing carefully. The signature, "Rcbert LBramleigh," wi as weak and sliaky. Th~e will Itself was written in a masculnno looking hand of singular de cision and boldness. T1he characters were large an~t well formed. The document showvn to me wvas how ever, sufficlent to give ilannah Churton all Mr. Bramleigh's property. .Nw. I am always particular about wills: I think they are too serious to be settled in a hurry. I never will allow achicnt to ex ecute one until I am convinced that its pur pmort Is perfectly understood. "You are Mrs. Churton, I presume?" I asked. "I am," she replied,looking me unflinch imgly in the face. Somehow 1 felt suspicious that things were not so fair as they should be. I queos tionied her rather closely, but the only ad mission I obtalued from he r was 'that she haJ written the will, but that it was itt her master's dictation. 1 offered to propare a more formal document, but before doing so, I declared that it was necessary that I should see Mr. Bramleigh. 1 named the omission of the appointment of an execu tor. Th'lis seemed rather to nonplus her. Sne asked whether she could not be namedi as an-executrix. Theb more aversion site shtowedi to my seeIng her master, the more convincedl 1 felt, that something was wrong; and~ seeing I was not to be miovedl from my purpose, she at last gave In, proposing however, that I should accompany her back, as she greatly feared it wvould be too late If left till morning. A cab soon took us to 889 Coleman street. It was a large, gloomiy, old-fash ioned house, with a spacious entrance hall. I was taken into the dinling-roomn andl ask. ed to wait while 1Mr. Bramleigh wais being ptrepared for my visit, T1he lurniture was old and very massive, Some very ha~nd some oil paintings graced the walls. I amt very fond of pictures, so, raising the lamp, I walked around thte room, slowly iiispecting them. On the right of the fire pllace I came upon a picture with its face turned to the wall, I turued the picture; it, was the portrait of a young aind very beauitiful gi i a dark riding habit. Hear lng footsteps outside the door, I ;restored the picture to the position in which I found it, and( as I did so, I saw written at the '4o:tomt of the framie, "Magdalen Biram leigh." ine footsteps I heahrd were those of the housemaid, who had eqpie to announce that Mr. Jiramleigh was ready to see mue I followed her up stairs, and was ushered into a large, comfortable looking bed oom. A cheerful fire burned in the grate. Fac ing it was a large four post bedstead, hung with white curtainh, and at the bead of the bed Mrs. *hurton was sitting, with a simall table in front of her, du which was placed an inkstand and some paper. She pulled back the curtain, and I saw an old man propped up by pillows. Turning to Mrs. Churton, I told her that she need not wait. "Yes, go-go, Hannah I" cried the sick man, and I fancied that I could detect an eagerness in his voice, as if lie desired her absence iather than her presence. As Mrs. Churton left the room I caught I sight of the reflection of her face in the glass over the chinney piece, and I do not think she would have scowled quite as niuch had she known that I was looking. I began by asking Mr. Bramleigh what were his wishes in regard to his will. In 1 low tones lie to'd me that he desired to leave everything to Hannah Churton, his 1 housekeeper, as a reward for her long and I faithful services. I spoke gravely to the ok1 man, although without much hopts of success, but at last. J I got him1 to confess that he had no inten- N tion of making his housekeeper his sole < heiress until she had herself broached the I subject to him. I proposed to Mr. Bram- i leigh that lie should leave his property to i sone one on whom lie could rely. in trust for his daughter. My argument prevailed. Lie assented, and I prepared a will accord ingly. The old man requested that his medical man, Dr. Ramsey, should be non mated as my co trustee, and that an annu ity of fifty pounds should be paid to Han nah Churton for life. I Ringing the bell, I requested Mrs. Chur ton to suunnion James Burns an I Margaret Sims, the two servants who had witnessed U the first will. As soon as they were in the room I gave Mr. Bramleigh a pen, and 0 placing the docunient before him, I said distinctly, so all might hear: - "This which I have read to you is your I final will, and you request James Butns and Margaret Siis to witness your execu tiI of it?" "It is-I do," he solemnly said, as with feeble fingers he wrote his name. The Iwo awe-stricKen domestics then n added theirs, and I think their hands shook < more than the testator's. Hannah Chur- a ton was a silent spectator of the whole of this, but I could not see her face, as she I stood in the background, out of the light of a the lamp. Before allowing any one to leave the i rooi I placed the will in a large envelope. < Fastening it with wax, I impressed it with o Mr. Bramleigh's monogram and crest with it a seal that was on the tray of the inkstand. U The old man watched me closely, and when a I finished he said. "Keep it -" till it is wanted." On our way down stairs Dr. Ramsey told 3 me that his patient was rapidly sinking, t and that lie doubted whether he would live v another twenty-four hours. Taking him into the dinmng-rbom aind shutting the door, I told him of my suspi- I cions of the housekeeper and that I felt r afraid of leaving Mr. Bramileigh alone with r her all night. le agreed with me, and promised to send his assistant to watel' with k me till moining when, if Mr. Brainleigh v was living, he would, on his own responsi- a biuity, place a trustworthy nurse in his c charge. The housekeeper opened the door I to let us out. "It's all right, Mrs. Churton," I mali- v ciously said, as the doctor wished her good v night. "I am quite satisfied now. The h will will be in my keepIng. By-the-by," I added, looking her sharply in the face, s had you not better let your master's friends know of the danger he is in?" f She mumbled somet hing in reply but I t could not catch what it was. I stayed. D talking upon different subjects. to while a away the time until the arrival of Dr. v Ramsey's servant. She seemed very much v astonished and rather displeased when Dr. 'I Ramsuy returned with the assistat. ( In one's experience or mankind we 11f1d it Is impulossible to he too clever. Mrs. [ Hannah Cburton was very clever, but she t commnittedi great mistakes. The first was E in consulting a lawyer. The will drawn by her-for so it really had been-might I have been upset on the ground of unctue I influence. I say "might havo been" for I there is nthing so hard to prove as undue ( iluence. Thle other great point against I her was the ousting of a child in favor of a i stranger. Mr. lBramleigh (lied the next morning at ten o'%lock. Soon after I had left lhe be- i came unconscious, in - which state lie re- I! mnained ti-1 shortly before his death, wvhen there. was a rally. Openiing his eyes with r an eager look, as if lie missed something, be threw one arm outside oi the coverlet, I andl cried, "Magdalen, Maglial nI" Th'le funeral took place on Satiurdlay, but 5 an engagemeni. preventedi mc from fol ow- < ing. Mrs. Chur.oni had wvrittenu me, re questing that I would attendl with the will, which still remained mi my possession,wihh the one dIrawn by her. I arrivedi at the houae a little after one o'clock, atnd was at onpe taken muto the dining-room, where 1 found D~r. Rlamsey, Mr. Rfobeson (a brother practitionier), ndi a handsome young fellow, who was intro. duncetd to mec as L entenant Maitland, the late Mr. Bramleigh's son-ia-law. Thle door opened, and a young lady en tered, it died not require any introdluctioni to tell me that she was the or iginal of the portrait, still with its face turnedh to the waill. Hecr face was very beauth ul, nlot withstanding its extreme paleness and tear swollen eyelidis. Mrs. Ctiurton had closely followed Mag dalce Maitland Into the room. Dr. Itamisey pehitely pulled forward chair for the hious keeper. 'raking it from himu with a cold "thank you," she hplaced it at the enid of the table, directly lacing inc. I was about to unseal the envelope con taining the will, when Lieutenant Maitland interrupted me. "One monment, if you please,'' lhe said, plaching his hand on my armi. "Before this will is read, I wish to say a few words. Mrs. Churton tells me Mr. Bramnlelgh has left her everything unconditionally. I simply wish to express my firm belief thatt Mr. hiramlcigh could only have been in dluced to make such a will by unfair and foul means. Although I have been the cause of au estrangement between father and daughter, 1 cannot think that he could so) forget his love for her as to strip her of oveything. It is my intention, for her sake to contest this will; and it is with thIs in view that I have requested my old friend Mr. Itobeson to be present to-day as, my legal adviser." I read the will very 'slowly and distinct ly, It was very short. Says one annuity of fifty pounds tqHannah Chutton for life, everything was left to Dr. Itamsey and mylself in trust for Magdalen Maitlandi, to je settled on her as we in our discretion dhould see fit. Astonishment is a mild word to express ;he feelngs of those present, nor will I at .eimpt to do so. My tale lies with Hannah Jhurton. Starting lo her feet, site pushed he chair fron her, and atretelii out her irm, gave utterance to a torrent of invec ive. Magdalen Maitland covered her cars with ier hands, to shut out the hard words. Her musband led her to the door, but Hannah ,hurton intercepted them. Tearing her t :ap from her head, she throw It on the ,round before the trightened girl. "Trample on it," she cried, in a frenzied roice. "Your father's victim has no right o wear it I" I must admit that site looked grandly ragic as site declaimed these fiery words. felt half sorry for the poor, defeated crea ure. Nine years have passed since then, and Irs. Maitland declares that there are "sil. or threads among the gold." The cares if a young family have somewhat marred ter good looks, but they will live again in ay little goddaughter, Magdalen, who 'romises to rival her mother in beauty. ,sic at It cudquartern. A tall woman, wearing a sun-bonnet, g ane into the office of the Galveston Chief a f Police recently, and, sitting down hard ii nt the end of bench, wiped 'her nose, bat- t ad her eyes a time or so at the Chief of a Vice, asked in a voice that reminded one t f sharpening a saw : I] "Be you the galoot what locks folks P " "I regret to say that I an occasionally 11 bhged to resort to such extreme measures v i h refractory persons.' "I know all that; but be you the ga yot?"1 "Yes, madam." t "Why didn't you say so when I asked ou?" "I did." "You are a liar, and if you don't treat a io like a lady I'll fold you up and sit o own on you," and she batted her eyes e :Ime more like a terrier. h "What do you want ?" asked the official, v >oking as if lie needed reinforcements right way, and plenty of them, d "1 want that dirty little whelp that h1 1arried my darter. I want to talk to him c n business, but he evades me. If I could a nly get a chance to caress him once morel" nd she breathed hard and gritted her a, ,eth until the official felt in his pocket for ' police whistle. n "What did lie do ?" "He told my darter that he would give n 20 acres of land, with a gold mine on it, f : anybody who would ampertate my jaw a ith a bootjack. Hle said my mouth was a ke the gate at the Fair Grounds." b "Ile meant, I suppose, it was never shut. don't see how he came to make any such idiculous comparison as that. Did you amonstrate N ith him ?" "You bet I did. I drawed him across itchen table by the hait with one hiand. rhile I basted him with a long-bandled killet, and you should have heard him aIling me 'mother darling' and ' pet;' but 'rovidence was aginame. Ilis ha'r gave ray and he lit out before I could reason rith him any more. Just as like as not y ie will never meet again," and she sighed y Cavily. a "Be calm, madame, do not excite your lf too much." "I am calm. I like to talk about these unily secrets. It calls up sacred recollec ions. It makes me think of my darter's rat husband. It was real fuu to remon- a trate with him. His ha'r didn't give. lIe ras game. le sassed back, but, Lord I a hut a time they had holding the inquest. 'hat was at Arkansas, before I moved to ialveston. There was some of his re tmin in one corner of the yard and a few tore remains hanging on the fence, and ia liere wvas right peart, of hlmu wrapped . round the axe handle. The jury knew | 1e, so they brought in a verdict of Justi- i able suicide or homicidle, or somiething - ke that. Anid now to think of this pesky, ! ttle worthless, spindie-shanited, goggle..- ti < yc~d whelp getting clear off, excep~tin~g a ew pounds of ha'r. I want you to find hn1 for me. X ou can know him by the rands I made on him with the hot, skillet, a Vanted to ampertate my jaw, the little ~ rassy whelp I S3aid my mouth was like a 0 ate, dhid lie I" Tihe otlicial said lie would hunt for hinm F nd let her know. As site wvent, out she 'atted her eyes significantly at the oficial ~ ndl remarked : "You had better find that prodigal C on, or thmar'll be music at these head uarters." Take Unre of the Matenca, In not hiing about the household does the njuniction tolhave "a place for everything" t equtire more strict enforcement, than the are of matches. What, are known as 'iparlor imatchies " light, the imost readily, ,nd are so n,uch miore damngerouis thanm the ommon matches as they are more coni- 1 'enieint. TPhe general stock should be kept n a tin box, which is not ',o be openedl or akeni from, except by the master or mis. d ress of the house. For each room where ( natches are used, there shou-id be a nmetal 1 na'.tchi-safe of some kind, and the matches t re to be kept hn that, and~ nowhere else. I t shouild be regarded as a serious offence 3 or a niatch to be, anywhere or for ever so hort a thnie, found " lyinig aroundi~ loose." I mn the kitchen and the bed-rooim, or wher- C ver else matches are in frequent, use it is I etter to have the matchi-safo lixed and a uiways in the samte pla5ce, so that it ctan be ~ ouind, if needs be, in the (lark. In taking ~ natehes fronm the la1'ger box to replemish he safes, let that always be (done by one t ierson, ad it will pay for that person to' ook over the mhdatches at the time, throw- C ing away all broken ontes, and where, as Is >fteni the case, two or more are stuck to- d gether by the explosive mixture, these A ihould be carefully, broken apart,, and uin- I ess two goodl matches are the result, rather .han to put into the safe one with too little a mid the other with a ragged excess of the nixture, throw both away. Also throw t nto the fire those matches that have two i )r three times an imuch of the mixture on I .he ends as they should have. Those, inmm Ightmng often explode anid scatter burning( particles in a dangerous 'nlanner. Ii, in I Lighting a ma'ch, day or nigh'( it breaks or f the explosive end egmeis off lIbput light ing, (10 nothing else until that % 'foiund, tud put into time fire, or wheret \ do no i liarm, in fact, treat matches, match3 -as if it were-as It realhly is, Bre arm, apable of dangerous mischief person I and property. Teach thoebhldre o care fully observe the same caution, Call To-Morrow. She was looking out of the window vhen he entered the yard, and she said to terself that he might ring the bell until he vas tired, for he didn't want to buy -any oap, and had nthing for tramps. IlIe aung and rang, and after the seventh or ighth peal she went to the door to bless hidm. 'This is the greatest piece of impudence ever saw,' she exclaimed, as she pulled lie door open. Ile smiled. le lifted his hat and smiled gain. le had poor clothes and a.hungry ook, but there was something captivating n his umile. 'Well ' she queried as she held the loor. 'My errand is a very pleasant one, and 'ot I feel somewhat embarrassed in nak. ug it known. 'If you ,have any bills to dollect, you aust call when my husband is in," she ob erved. "Bills, oh, no. Mladam, you have per Laps noticed in the papers that a book en itled, 'Prominent Women of Michigan is eoon to be pubbshed?" "I-i-y--s, I think so." "Well, it is to be illustrated with on ,ravings of 100 striking fares. Mty in tructions are not to look for beauty so iuch %s for narKed expression of deep bought. I was instructed to call here and sk you if you would permit the publishers o publish your wood cut In the forthcom ig boo?" 'Who could have sent you?' '1 dare not tell. Yours is to be pub shed on the first page, and only nine more rill be taken from the city " "And what's the charge?" "Nothing. If you want the book you rill have to pay $2 but are not asked to ike it." ''I can't see why they should have so ,cted me." "Beg pardon, ma'ani, but yours is a very 4riking face. it portrays an expre.,sion t strength of character 1 never saw gaalled. Many ladies have offered me as igh as $10 to put them in the book, but re cannot go outside of our selections." "I can't give you a decided answer to ay," she said, .fter thinking it over. 'Per aps my husband will object. You may all again to-morrow, and you will please ucept this for your trouble.'" 'Liberality as well as strength of char .ter,' he chuckled as lie pocketed the bill. fery well; I will call at this hout to-mor )w. That was two weeks ago, but the wo kan is not expecting him. She has learned -om her husband that this is a cold world, ad that Gulhiver's Travels will be sent to i subscribers for the prominent women OOi. Trot 'em Forwai d. "What I want to see, said a Denver ian, as he alighted from the train at Lanhattu Deacl, ."Wila I want Wa see ; sonic of your boasted civilization. I n't much on the swell mywelf, but I ant to see some top-shelf society. hat's what I want. Now just parade our Astors and your Vanderbilts and our Jay Goulds and your Knickerbockers [id the other ancients right before my resence. Don't be any way skeered of ke. These clothes only cost 115 and i'm D way stuck up. I want to see some me. Cut mei a thick slice of high life. come a long piece to see the fashionables, nd if they're in condition just pull off the lankets and trot 'em forward." "is there anything I can do for you?" iked the inanager courteously, noticing ic crowd gathering, "itight you caa, stranger. I conic Lor'n a bushel of miles to see this climate, ad I want the attractions spread so I can icamine the layout. I can throw sonmc toniey myi3self, but whait l want to see in yle. Tell 'em not to hide on my account. ust walk some of the dignitaries up andl own before me a couple of times. 1 want see their poeints. Fetch mns out a couple fwelt matched high stoppers and give in their heads." 'ull the p~eople you see around you, sir, re first-class people. They move in our ighest circles ahd belono: to the aristo tacy,' explained the imanagcr. 'Are you giving it to me straight, art ner? All these fellows way-np)? Vhio's the philosopher with his breeches ucked in his socks ?' 'That Is a Yale young gentleman, come n a vacation.' 'I don't want that kind. Show mec a agh daddly, oneo of 'emi that gets theIr lame in the paper for going to whooping teddings, and is called the elighit. Pick .ie out sonme Astors. TIhat's the trout I'm brewing for.' '1 don't think anly of Mr. Astor's family re luere to-day. That stout gentleman 'itlh side whiskers belongs to one of the rst families in New York. lie is a very opular young man and leads In the Ger ian.' 'Ain't big enough. Haven't you got a ouple of head of Vanderbilts or a Jay lould or so any wheres ? You see, stranger, 've read about these fellows andl I'd lixe ) greet 'em with cordialhty. What I want tie wobble ns with the satin lined. Trhat ale iman andl the boss leg slinger in the )utch fandango ain't new. We see them onme when they string for tourists. -'m n to them, but whtat I want is the bal )ons, tihe soarers. Triow your pickaxe ndi see if the wash dlon't pan better dirt. trikes mec your reck don't assay p~retty tell this eveming. Where's time mob I" "'fTiese are the best people I know of >-day," said the mamnger in despair. 'Mr. VanderbIlt is not here, nor is Mr. lould." "Ain't yom got any Kmickerbockers on raught? Don't you keel) the best i'n lock ? You'd make out to starve in )enver if you wasin't Int fered withi, artner. When a mian throws hmself for hioteler in those part's he keeps the hign aned population right out In front and haredI upj behind. You do~n't seeml to have auch expersenco inm running a beef-a-la sode ranche. Just begun, haven't you ? f I was in your plauce I'd have them loulds and Knickerbockers and Vaunder ihits and Asters ranged right along the ront edge of the back stoop, spitting at a lhip for dirinks andl time first one that broke ravel would pay his bar bill or go home sar e-headed ; now, you hear me. What rou want, stranger, is enterprise. All rou've got is a shed and some water, and f your liquor ain't any better'n your judg. nent I'm going back dry." " You will find everything first-nlass here, I think," argued the manager. -"We aim--" " Just so, chief, but You don't hit. You ah1n too low. You've got room here to hold the biggest bug that ever straddled a blind, but there isn't a card out higher'n an eight spot, I reckon you play pool without the fifteen.'" " Would you like to try something ?" asken the man, anxious to dispe! the grin ning crowd. 'You might ftch me one, and these gen tleien a little tan bark, if it is good. I don't want any stock which the share hojders are responsible for the debts, but if you've got some liquid symphony in Q major I'll wrap up a cartridge with you, stranger.' 'Join me In the bar-room,' said the manager, norvously. 'Good stake off for a junction. Gentle men, ine and the engineer are going for the doxology. Will you jine us ?' They 'jined,' and the stranger ordered refreshments and left, despite the entreat ies of the gent.leniaa from Denver, that lie would 'introduce him to the ladies, such as they were, and lie would forego the top lifters until Ie (the manager) had run along the vein to the prospect of paying clean up.' SUrp~rluoetiIdins. The toper who stole and drank a bottle of whisky (as lie thought), and found it to be wine of ipecac, was one of the many thieves who swallow more than they can keep down. The experience of some cop per-colored robbers out West was about as miserable as his. An Idaho mining camp, intending to celebrate the glorious Fourth, ordered a heap of fireworks to be sent to them.-A whole wagon-load was forwarded, and while on its way was captured one night by a band of Indians. They did not exactly Know what sort of property they had got hold of, and proceeded to investi gate. The chief thought the cannon crackers were cigars, and the little ones cigarettes, which articles lie bad sect' in use at various camps he had visited, and he distributed a lot around, and they all lighted up for a smoke, and in a moment a more surprised and puzzled set of Indians never got to. gether. The chief had a cannon cracker, and after the explosion it was three minutes before lie could get breath enough to yell, and then the wild shriek he gave could be heard a mile away. That ended the smok ing. Another brave fell off the top of the wagon with a big box of giant torpedoes and the crash that greeted him as lie alighted seared him so that he got up and ran off at break-neck speed. A squaw contrived to get a pin-wheel afire, and as she dropped it on the ground the natural tendency of the thing to whirl around made it go over the ground like a wheel of fire, sending out. a shower of sparks, and causing the affrighted lady to aumud away from it, with her eyes as "big as saucers" witlh terror. The pin-wheel got under the wagon and ignited it, and the Indians at first tried to extinguish the flames; but pretty soon a Roman eandle went off, and before the man who was hit by the first ball on the nose could clap his hand on the injured member another ball was thrown there and then a third. Then the rockets began to go off, and take the braves in the legs and ribs, and the different colored fibres threw first a red and then a blue light upon the scene. More pin-wheels got loose, and when a bravejumped to avoid a pin-wheel be got into the air just in time to be hit by a rocket, and almost every red man was more or less burned; and in ubout five minutes a crowd of the worst scared and most frantic Indi ans I ?ver saw was scurrying off in the dlarkness across the prairie, bellowing with pain and fear. And the next load of fire works sent through that region won't be meddled with by thioae Indians. Lutting Metal wvith hot, Air. Some time Ginee, it was aninoiinced flint Jacob Rleese, of Pittsburg, had succeeded in cuitting iron and steel by siniply revolv ing at a high rate of speed, a thin disc of steel, We are now in a position to give some aditionial details of his "fusing disc." Thle (ise is forty two inches in diamneter, scant thiree.sixteenthis of an inch thick, aiid smooth on its p~eriphiery. Itis maide of either wrought iron or soft steel, is nicely balanced and Is run at a velocity of 250,000 feet a ninute at its periphery. Mr. Reese holds that it is the impilact of the particles of air hurled with great velocity against objects hela neai- the peCriphiery of the disc that delt the fusion of stoel. A groove is instantly imeited in a roundi bar of steel held before the fusing (use, aiid thle steel dirops5 down in a fused metallic state. When the motion of the disc is stop~ped, it may be noted that the disc (lees not, touch the bar of steel, there being a space on each sidle and im front of It. TIhis Is proven by the fact that, while the (1180 is only three sixteenths of an Inch in thickness the groove in the steel Is five-sixteenths of an inch on each side anid one-eighth of an Inch in front of It. When the disc is '.n proper order, so that it has no lateral mnowm~ent, the ends o'f the bar melted through are smooth. It Is stated by Mr. Reese that the operation of the fusing disc differs froiin the "co1(1 saw" so wiely used for rails etc., in one imp~ortanit particular. The (dust fIromn the cold saw Is thrown away froita tihe latter as an oxide, while tihe fus ing (ise melts the metal. 11ow they (Ar ,W Tre es ou ,,no Prairie. D~uring~ the winter time cut 1outonwood role~. Iimming thern up and then si~g,-ig them Into pieces about one foot long. In the spring, as soon as the frost will permit plowIng, draw a deep furrow where the row of treces is wanted, lay In the pieces, using none less than t wo inches in dkime ter, as far apart as desired, turned a furrow on the pieces, then a third furrow as in plowing land, barrow a little-that, is all. TIhie trees will come up from the pieces and grow steadily and mulch faster titan cuttinigs or yening trees set out. They should when planted this way udver be cultivated, as they grow so swiftly and tall the first year or two that the wind will break seome of them off unless they have weeds as a protection. The piece of pole forms a root and possesses suflicient sap to make the trees grow, oven on high gravel soil, 1 have seen trees planted in this way live and thrive, though eaten off by the hoppars the firat. sasoan close to the aroand. Water Works of Ancient Rome. Of all the cities of the Greek and Mh man world, Rome was most abundantl provided with water, the importance ( which element, in its domestics and str. tary aspects, is now again after centuric of nGglect, beginning to be recognize(i r paramount amooir tht, physical conlitiot of urban life. We have, however, not y( quite learned to allow to water, as affect Ing the life, comfort and decencies of life the poeition which was accorded to do . at itone; but even to us it is luconceivabl how many great, cities of medieval ant eve modern ages could have existed and the have been considered as elegant and retlh ed abodes, with no artiicial, or at most in adequate, arrangements for the introduc tion and distribution of water amiong th people.- Even Paris, in some sort tht arblitreclcgantiarua of modern Europe until recently derived its supply of drin ing water fron tie beine, the grand rec plent of the sewerage of Pat is, and froi polluted by infiltration, and so late as 183 Parent Duchatelet published a work I which the water of the Seine was prove to be altogether inoffensive to the taste an, wholesome, because the foul matter cou tributed to its current by the superficial an< subterranean drainage of the city was no suhlicient in quinitity to affect. sensibly th taste, the limpidity, or the salubrity of its waters I The ancient Romans discriminated care fully between the waters of differen springs. What tests they enployed we Il general know as little as we know liei: rules for jqdging of the quality of stonc and other materials employudt in architect ure. After the geat natural division of water itito fresh and salt, the most obviou distinction was between cold and hol springs. 'Tlhe latter of thece was every where sought, and in all the wide domain of inperial itome, there is to be found scarcely a single spring aboye the ordinary temperature which is not eurrounded by the ruins of old costruction4 obviously de(tiglied for bathing. They also consid ered specific gravity of drinking-water it matter of much importance. A letter of Synesius to Iloyatia describes and recoim. mends an inatrumuent or testing thie weight of water. Thie was simply a graduated brazen tube, closed and weighted aL one end. This, of course, by the height at whici the tube stood in the fluid would answer for comparintg the gravity of dif. ferent, waters. Cheniistry had not yet taught naturai plhiiosop'hers that. water, even ill its simplest formi, is not aii elemen tal, but compound substance; they knew, however, that not only spring water, but even the pturest rainwater, contaim in suspension or in solution a variety of for eign ingredients. Much of the water introduced into Itont by aqueducts was employed for feetting fountains-the younger 'liny speaks of u ct d' beau-as well as for domestic usts; out the principal object of these construe tions was to supply 'water for batlintag, for which an enormous quantity was reqitred. 'ua" ** "'hourms subserved the pur poses of luxury as well as the nooau,-ij.i of life. Cast iron being scarcely known to the Romans, the ditribution of tt.c water from the reservoirs was Olrected by pipes of baked clay, and, where those were not apphiearle, of lead; aid it is singular that, though skillfui in eiasting bronze, the Honan founders wefe not yet able to cast lead pipe. The conduits of this ma111 torial ore iiatde from cast sheets, or rather plates, of leaud, wrapped around a muan drei at~d riveted or clamped at the oppo site edges. The plates being thicker tlUa modern rolled lead, the pipes were heavier, and accordingly the consumpij)tion of that metal was very great. Fron one single point of distrioution of an aqueduct thie Borgheso lamily took, in the sixteenth century, not, less than 40,000 p)Ounlds of lead p).pe. T'he citadel of' Alatri was sny plied with water carried across a dleep ria vine by an imnvertewl siphon of eart nern pipes, imibedded in concrete, to a height c1 iiore than *300t leet above the bottom oi the ravine, and, of couirse, under a pries sure ot fully ten atuimospheires. A4 i'ora~y i4tory. "On this (lay seventten years ago," re marked a New Yorker the oilier day, "1 shiippedi 1,000 barrels of rpoik to WVashing ton). I was an army contractor then, and wherever I heard cf a bamrrei of pork I wvent for it, and bought it at somec price. 1 re ilmmber this particular shipment because a ser.ouis imstako was iadie. "How?" "Well, I countedi the barrels at the dlepot myself, and there were only 990 wihen) there shotiuld have been an even thousand. Meni were readly to roll the barrels iit~o the freight cars, and to make my lnumbter good I took ten) barrels~of lard from a smock ready to ship1 to Baltimore. They mixed ini all right, and of couirse, I expected to pay for 'em. A whole daiy went, by before I saw the ownecr. These were stirring times, you m)ust remember, ie had found hiiin sell short, and he cribbed ten barrels, and hustled the shipment. away." "And who did the beef man erhi fronm." "Wecll, his beef was for thesoldlers, and he made(1 himse5(lf goodh by buying threc barrels of vinegar, two of crackers, andl stealing five barrels of app~les from a lot In the dlepot." '"And did it go any further?" "Yes. Thel most curious thing of a1: was that tho man I took the lard from suet the mian who stole the ap)ples, and go: judiginent against hIm for the worth of thn lardl, 'and nonie of the rest of us were out cent. street Esiqueotte in Me0xico, Tile ladies walk or ridoe in the streets &1 the City of Mexico as freely as hero, bti e very body goes to the Alemeda daily te ride if they are able to, or sit on the benchei as at the Bois do iBouhogne, ini Paris, ami see the others if they cannot ride them selves. It Is etiquette for gentlemen to ad mire and exclaiin openly, "What a beati ftl woman;" or, "Oh, you lovely eca ture," to any pretty woman he sees pass andi the women move on apparently uacon solous, but store up these "flowers," a they call them, to recount in the evening t their friends, anid really deemi them ver; precious acquisitions. T1hie Mezican ladle of the better class did not impress on party immensely by thleir beauty, but thn indians, men and womien were generall; a handsome race, intinitely more so thal our Northern aboririme. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Cultivate the habit of giving, but never give up. Give neither counsel nor salt until you are asked. We are never as happy nor as unhap. py as we fancy. No one wishes to be pitied on ac. count of his errors. Grief counts the seconds; happiness . forgets the hours. D Don 't become security for him who waits for the sheriff. If a word be worth one shbkel, si lence is worth two. Men speak of what they know,wom en of what pleases them. He who is never guilty of folly Is not so wise as he imagines. Prosperity unmaske the vices; ad versity reveals the virtues. Youth Is a blunder, manhood a struggle, and old age a regret. Justice is like glass whieh cannot be bent, but Is easily broken, Don't leave to memory what should . be written; It makes lawsuits. There never was yet a great man t unless through divine inspiration. An idiscreet man is like an uti sealed letter--every one can read it. Too much sensibility creates unhap piness, too Mu1ch inlsensibility ereates crime. There can be no better help againit our own sins than to help our neigh Ibor. Where there is mush pretension, much has borrowed. Nature never been pretends. Immoderate pleasures shorten the existence more than any remedies pro. long it. We must laugh before we are happy lest we should (ie witthout having laughod. lie who catinot command his thougnts must not hope to command his actions. ie who marries will ace much trou ble; but he who does not marry will see no joys. 'I'he mission ot religion Is not to de stroy the natural afiections, but to re gulate then. Things are s'ubborn and will be what they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be. Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed uoney, only reveal the poverty that compelled the loan. Truth Is the most powerful thing in the world, even flelon only pleases us by its resemblance to it. People do not need to know more about virtue, but rather to praetiee what they already know. Women are indebted to us for most of their faults; we are indebted to them for most of our merits. Look on slanderers as direct enemies to civil soeiety: as jesu ihu honer, lonetsy, or su anits without We live to learn, but death comes to thousands ere they hi.tve lnstered the alphabet of common sense. it is said that it i9 about as bird to hide your love as ItIs to hide a sneeze neither of them can be repre ised. Hundreds of young men w ito hour after hour thinking over what they might do If they only had the tine. The slightest sorrow for sin is sutll elent, if it produce amendment; th greatest Is insuielenit, If it do not. Have you discovered what a variety of little things nffoect the heart, aid how surely collectively they gain it? The bread of life is love; tue salt of life is work; the sweetness of life Is poetry, and the water of life Is faith. The begInning of faith is action ; and lie Only believes who struggles; not lie who merely thinks a question over. Take a true view of life; be proud Lhait you have work in the worl's bus~y 1)ath, and1( do it well and honora bly. Th'e greatier the dfftuiulty, tihe more glory In surmountinig it; skilful pilots gaini their reputation Irom storms and lie that deceives his neighbor with lies, Is unjust to him, and cheats him out of the truths to which he has a na Lural right. Noble princi ples and generous qrial ithes of mind and heart can no. be claimed as the birthright of' any one nlation or race. Tihere is not a more repulsive spec tacle than ani old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken hlim. Hie whoe makes a great fuss about do ing good will do very iit;Ioe; he who wisihes to be notioed when doing god will not do it long. I look upon Indolence as a Sort of suicide, for the man Ia ediolently de stroyed, though the appetite 01 the brute may survive. To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate anlothler's grief is to alleviateI or dispel your own. Neutrality in things good or evil Is both edious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indiff'erent nature, is safe andi comnmenidable. Noise are so seldom found alono,and are so soon tired of their own compa ny as those eoxcombs who are on the best terms w ith themselves. You must not splutter or be fussy over your work. T.he fussy follow cans waste time in his haste as well as thle dawdler in lis slow trifing. Enjoy the hiessings ol this day and the evils bear ptmntly and sweetly. For this day is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not born to mor row.* A weak mind sinki under prosperi ty, as well as under advereity. A. strong mind has twohighest tides when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon1. Honorable age is not that which Sstanldethl in length of time, nor that which is measured by number of years. But wisdom 1s th0 gray hair unto men an unspotted life is old age. r ruth is the bond of union and the p basis -of humanl happiness. Without Lithis virtue there is no reiance on lan guage, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths,