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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MAY 31, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. THE LOOM OF LIFE. All day, all night,' I can hear the jar Of the loom of life, and near and far It thrills with its deep and muffled sound, As tireless the whoole go always round, Busily, ceaselessly, goes the loom, In the light of day and the midnight's gloom, And the wheels are turning early and late, And the wolf is wound in the warp of fate, Click, ollokI-there's a thread of love woven in ; Click, click I-another of wrong and sin; What a checkered thing this life will be When we see it unrolled in eternity I When shall this wonderful web be done? In a thousand years, perhaps, or one; Or to-morrow! Who kuowoth ? Not thou nor I; But the wheols turn on and the shuttles fly. Ah, sad-eyed weavers, the years are slow, But each one is nearer the end. I know % And soon the last tread shall be woven in God grant it be love instead of sin. Are we spinners of good in this life-wot say ? Do we fui nish the w( aver a thread each day ? It were better, 0 my friends, to sp.n A beautiful thread than a thread of sin. Terrence O'Larey's Story. When I was about ten years of age an Irish family moved into an old house in our neighborhood, and their pump being out of order, they solicited permission to get water from our cistern. This was readily granted, as Mrs. O'Larey was a neat and tidy woman. IHer husband, a red-headed, noisy little libenian, worked in the Clare mont carriage factory, at the upper village, in the building now known as the Monad noC Mill. He was a good workna%. and could turn out as many wheels as the best of them. By no means Ignorant of his ability and skill, he made hniself odi'>us to many in the shop by his frequent boasts and brags, in fact the men, after a while, christened him, "Braggy," much to his chagrin and annoyance. Somebody says "A bad name can be changed, but a nick-name never," and truly enough, for he always was called "Braggy" thereafter. He never outgrew the name, although lie lived till the factory changed hands half a dozen tiies, and was put to other uses. He would have had "Braggy" put on his tombstone, except that some old acquaintance remembered his given and proper name, - Ter rence. Braggy came morning, noon and night for water, and as he was full of chat, always having something to say. it was an easy matter to get acquainted with him. Morning and evening Ie had time to spend when lie came with nis water-pail, and being naturally polite, civil and respectful one could hardly h4* talking with hini. "A foine evening this," he began. "Yes, a pleasant night," says father. S yez all-wdi in the house?" "Quite well, thank you," father replied. "This noight remineis me ov aii advin ture that befill me when I was at home in the ould counthry. "What was that?" asked fatt or. "Will it's a lang time since, sir, for it's nigh fifteen years I've bin in Ameriky, and that was at laste four or five years before I lift there. I was suiniat of a lad, sur, and bi my faith, although I'm sayin' it-who shouldn't-there wasn't a boy ov me inches in that country as had anythin' to do wid me. I was niver quar relsome 1-arrin' I was put upon, or mal threated, sur; you may know that bi me conduct in the shop, for ov it was other.. wise ther'd be some broken heads among the spalpuns who gave me the name of Braggy." "Tien you don't like the name?" re marked father. "No, sir, I don't; but I belave it will follow ine to my grave, for aven my best friends call me by that; iverybody in fact -always excptiin' Mrs. O'Larey-Gold bless the dear woman. At this point Mrs. O'Larey caine around the corner of the old yellow store and says "Tirrince O'Larey, fot arc yez doing'? *Ilow lang (do ye sappose I'm goin' to wait for that wather?" "Ahi So it's the wather yez wanit? Will, here it in thin," says lie, handing her the pail full. "Now yez can stay as lang as ye like," says she; "an I'll wvarran't, ye'll be givin' thiim an' ear-ache wid that lang tongue ov you rs." "You were saying this eyening reimiinde~i 3 ou of an ad~venture," says lather. "Do tell it," I add~ed. "That I will wid y our lave." "Go ahead," says father. ''Will,.then, allow mec to mnfoi i you that among the first lhmgs a boy larnas in Ouild Ireland is to put, up his hands." "Put up his hands?" "'Yes, sur; I mean by that ames that, h le larns to box; larns the wake points ov his adversary; and at the sme time to rrotiet, his own; harns to lit a mian so that in case lie Is set upon lie can declir(d him. self widout. resartin' to knives and fire arms, as they do here sometimes." "You dlon't men they practice fight ing?" '-Only for the fun ov it, 'sur; there's niver a bit of harm in it, and yei- should see the boys goin' home from the fairs or * -frolics wid their black eves, ani' iattiin lhoody noses; all rejicin' an' kindly oike." -'"Pretty fun I should think," said father. 'Yes, sur; you have no idea in this * coun' hry of the ilhgant sport we have in Ireland. Hero, If two boys, or muen, have a bout at fisticuffs, they make a towni's talk ov It, and call thimi all -soit of names -black-guards, roumghs, and the like. At home, the viry blst ov thimi wvnd consider a little sparring as the tolnest ieetion in the worruld," "Curious taste," observed father. "Quoit right, sir. As I was sayn', Ihe art om self-defince, or bitter known as pu ilism, Is airly taught, ari' learnedl in my 0ould home, an ov course .they can't all ex il, any more than they can in miakin' wheehes, as I do0; but from .tin years of age I was that.. sliimart s'vwid astonmish yez. Many a time I have flogged Ivory boy in the school I attended. ' "How many boys?" I inqiredI," "Two besides maself,-Shiamus Ixrady and Billy O'Brien, an' mioighty folnc boys they wor' too; but as I wor sayin', they were no match for me. it soon began to be noIse(1 about that Tirrenco O'Larey was quolt the boy wid his flsts in that paut me. My nimble pifis, lang nack, good eye, an Illigant taste.for a fight, were too much for the boys, an' they wint home with the consate taken intoirly out ov thun. Will, sur. at wan time there wor two fairs in the adjinin' town, 4u' I wint to thim both; aht the fui I. had was be yant tillin'. It appeared that Shamus .Grady had carried the Intelligence before me, that Tirrauce O'Larey intended comin' to the fairs, an' he towld thlin that I was a broth of a boy, an' could alsily bate the bisr. of thim at a bout, or boxin' thrial. Wil), sur, yez will always find that whin a felly wants to put up his hands le will find somebody to accommodate hi? or in other words, if a man or boy is pea able, he flr.ds paccable people,-if he.is qiarrel some lie discovers plenty ov that kind ov folks, an' so it was wid me. - I was quoite elated from the fact; that I hadn't met my equal at that time. All day long 1 was at it, first wid Wiln and then wid another, until I was entire'y tired out. At home a good night's rest restored me, and after breakfast I started for~ the fair in the town beyond. The news of my conquests the bay before had gone before me, and my arrival was eagerly waited by the boys, all eager to try titles wid ine. Billy O'Brien went wid me that (lay, and it's a niercy that he did. 1 don't belave I wud be here this evenin' but for Billy's goin'. Will, sur, to iiy surprise entoirely, the very first boy that came forninst ic was too much for me. Ie beat down ily guard, puUched me in my nose, blacked (he two eyes ov me, loosened one ov my front teeth, and made it anythin' but agreeable for me. I was obliged to give it up. You must know that there was great rejoicin' among the boys, and especially wid those I had beaten the day before. Each ov thini was anxious to have another trial wid me, and do you belave it, stir, it was wid the utmost difli culty that I whipped ten or fifteen ov thim before time to start for home. Billy O'Brien says, as we came out ov the town: "Wouldn't we save a mile or so by going crosfelds?" "I replied that 'I had no objecticis,' an' we clambered over the style and were travelin' along toward home by the light of the full moon which came up airly that evenin,' when Billy says, " 'Fot is that I see beyout?" at the saime time lpointin' to somethin' beside the hedge not far away. "I turned my eyes in that direction, an' heaven help me, what d'ye think I saw? A wraith, or ghost as yez call thii in this counthry I It had lang white hair, big black eyes, and a full beard of white cov ered his breast, and when it started toward us the beard parted in the middle and flowed back over each shoulder. It was barelicaded and had almost a skeleton face. It was long ov limb and ligs. uich ligsl murtherl but they seemed like beau-Ioles. You can aisily see that it was a frightful affair for two poor boys in the noight time, away from the roads, and a moile perhaps frumn any human bein'. To make matters worse, a big cloud caie at that minit over the moon and darkness added to our tirror. Down we wint on our knees, fot we were well brought up boys, d'ye mind, and prayed to the holy mother to save us from the harm approachin'. It came near us until It saw us kneelin,' and thenit van ished into the shadow of the adjoinin' hedge. The moon caime out andi made light the dusty places, and we strained our eyes to the utmost, but no wraith was to be seen. Trembling we arose, and Billy say$, " 'Bad luck to us that we didn't kape in the highway; I'd give the tin shillings I have lift it we were there anyway.' "'Oh! nonsense,' says 1, 'I'm not afeared of him any more, now I've found the way to dispill him.' "'Oal murthieri" says Billy, 'fot do you 'spose ails that ould crathur to be lavin' his grave that way?" " 'I'm sure I don't know,' says I. '"The words hlad hardly lift my mouth beforc I felt somiethin' cold on the back uv my neck, an' turnm' my head I saw those awful eyes widm' a fut cv my facel 1 gave one scream, an' that was the last, I remember till I heard my old mother tell *n' the chiler' to kape quiet, anid be sure ulpt waken. me as I was havini' the first gdqdl shipo~ I had had for many a dlay. You sed what widi .he excitenjent of the two days, boxing, and the bating I received, I hiadi gone out ov my head, and Bitly O'Brien was the ladI that stuck to me till I reachedI home wildler than a March'hiare. A brain fever sat in, an' for a long time, I was p~rostraitc, anl' iiighi unito (lenth, an' Billy lie aften tokl.inm atther, that he had the biggest jobi gettin' mec homie thtt iver lie had. You may well laive it, for to take a crazy feily hoime for miles iacross fldhs, an' ho seein' ghosts all the way, an' ight in' ye, wuad be no ausy task.' ''how did it hapjpeni that O'Briin saw the wraith?" "Oht lie (ldin't see anythin' of thme kind, but saw that I wasm out (iv my head amil pulrtiud~ed so to pacify mec." "'Tiirince? 'Tirrincel" screiamed Mrs i. O'L~arey: "your suppiler's all coldi now. why dlon't you come home?" "I'im coimin'. Glood-nighit, to yez." "Good-niighmt,' we said, and wvent to bed to dIreami of boxing, fairs, ghosts and crazy folks. .A Nackel. In Galveston, there is no coini of a lower denomination thani a nickel ini circuilation. this is of course1, a great inconvenience, lVor instance, yesterdaiy two men quartieledi oni the aveniue. The bigger man of the two saidt to the smaller man: "Fo(r three cents I'll give you the coni foundest licking you evec go,, in your lie. T1he tttle nman looked wicked. Ie had his coat, off in less than a mimute. Then lie took out a nickel and tendered it to the otbei party, who sauid "'I said I'd lick you for three cents, and i'll (do it. That's five cents. Oiimmie thlree cents, aiid i'll fIx you so the Coroner will have to hire a hack to get enough of you together to hold an Inquest." ."You can keel) the change," sai time little fe how, edgiig uip. "I'm like thme country. I doni't wvant any .change. I stick to my propiosition. (limme three cents and I will destroy you." "Hecre Is flfteen cents. Suippose you lick me five tunmes, and then It will conme out even." "After i've licked you on1ce there wont be enough left for a (log to lick. I'm not golig to rob your widlow and~ orphans of twelve cents. Gimmiie three cents and the trouble can begin right now. It's not my fault -that there ore no copper cents its cir * nuatinn llioop light Along I A prominent Detroiter was toiling- ul: Wood ward avenue with his hat on the bach of his head and his handkerchief In lilt hind, when he was halted by a strangei who seemed to have shared the quarterk of the ground-hog for the last mnth o winter. "You live in the city, I take it ?" que ried the stranger. "Yes, sir.' "Are you posted on the weather ?" "1 presume so." "Do you think we'll have any n:ore sleighing this spring ?" "No, of course not." "Any show for any more blizzards ?" "I don't think so." "Is it your candid opinion that spring is here ?" "Why, yes." "May have one more snow storm, el I' "I don't think so. Everything indicates that spring is at hand. But why are you so interested in the weather ?" "Well, the case with Inc is just this. My partner and I travel through the country and meond timware and sell peppermint essence (luring the summer. lie's been down in the poor-house for the last month, and I've been scraping along on an income ol twenty-seven cents per day. If you ate a citizen of standing, and you seeni to be, and i( you know anything about the wea. ther, and you appear to, I'll drop a postal to my pard to com up and join me and we'll head for the country. Do you guar antee that it will snow like blazes in less than twenty-four hours ?" "No, sir I No, sir I No, sir I" shouted the indignant citizen as he started on. "You won't, eh ?" "No, sir I No, sir i" "Then, sir, it is plain that you meant to deceive me I But you can't do it-no, sir. I'll at once invest in two more snow shovels and another pair of nittens, and before night I'll have contracts to take care of O6O feet of the next blizzard I Let 'er come, sir-let 'or whoop right along I" A waeaternI Eartquake. The territory around Twin Lakes, Color ado, was recently traversed by a fearful vibration, and the people in that vicinity were thrown into the greatest consternation forea few hours. For weeks past the pros pectors and residents in that vicinity were much stirred up over the strange noises and evident concussions of some action be neath the earth's surface. Thunder seltom visits this latitude and the conclusion was settled upon that there was some strange subterranean action going on. Innumerable meetings were held among the miners, and not a few were frightened into leaving the place altogether. The culnination not by any means unexpected, and its results in one locality were most horrible. A geotle. man by the name of Phillip Uunn, canie fron Twin Lakes, where the earthquake was the absorbing topic of conversation. The disturbance occurred some eight or ten miles from the lake, and the tremor of tho Parth waseven felt there. Mr. (mm anys that the miners thronged into Twin Lakes on Sunday morning and swore that they would not live in the country where. they were to be visited with such confusion. In one place cspecially, where the mi. ners were wdrking the Steadfast lode, and were driving a tunnel in at the base of the mountain, so as to strike the main vein, 500 feet from the summit, the men were engaged in blasting, when suddenly th< rumbling and roaring c 1e, attended by . fearful shock that dislo ged the ore and sent at least a ton of it down upon twC workmen. For several seconds the vibra tions lasted, and when the mounl ains wer< once more composed, the frightened mer went to the rescue of the mncii, whom they thought dead. The ore had nearly close( up the tunnel, and the men went to worl vigorously to openi it up and look for thu dead TIhey worked wvithi unrelenting ef fort for half an hour, when the obstruction was removed, and going in, they fouiu the two inca beriously if not fatally injured. Une of them, whoe nam< Is Bob Adams, was unconscious wheia foundl, and he has no doubt a fracture o1 the skull. Three ribs were broken, ant( he also suffered internal injuries. His coim panion, a man by the name of 8edgwick, was badly bruised, and had his right leg broken above the knee. Both men wer< taken out aiid placed In the cabin, when p~hysiciain was sent for at once. Adanu will very likely die from his interna wounds, while Sedgwick will be criplied for life. The meni said that at the time of the shock the two injured men wvere furthei in the tunnel thtan the remnaindter of' them anid thiat they thought the mine was closinj ii' upon them. and rushed out alnost deal. cet by the tremendous report that fol lowed. An O1d inito, He was a tall, slim man, with a hooke< nose and little twinklIng eyes. The 0(10 of rum was very per'ceptillO in the atmes p~here atround~ him, andl could lhe realize ot tihe eapital invested in tnat blossom on hih niose lhe might purchase a corner' lot or MichIgan avenue, D~etroit. The ear was full when lie got in at the Madison slicel bridge, and several ladies were standing, although some of the seats were occupici by men, Hie crowded through the aisle, begging everybody's patrdoin, antl bracc< himself with his back against the froni do'.r. There was a good-natured look 01 his face, when lie would occa~ionally forge himself, but lhe seemed to realize lisa con (dition, and asumed~ an air of determirte seriousnosse when lhe caught any one look lag at him. H~e first musisted1 thmat a wvel dressed, mlodlest looking lady should chang places with himi, and rest herself by heani Ing against the dloor. But she decline< with blushes. -"If I wvere occupying a seat, ma'am, lie satid, in a loud( tone, "'I wouki offer I to you echeerfully ; yes, ma'am, cheer fully." ''You are very kind," she replied softly and tuirned her head away, for it was laui that the fumns of liqluor almost mnade lie; gag. Some of the min who were assistlnj In hotling the seats dIown, all at once bc. gatn to lhe very much occupiedh in gazing out of the wimndows, and two young fellows in the corner engaged ia an iabsrbing con ve'rsation. "It seems to meo," conitmutcd the oh pickle, speaking as if to himself, "It seem; to nme that young men are not so polite a they used( to be." A tImId-looking young man in the corne here arose andh offereLd hIs seat to a lady blushing as If lie hatt been detected In heinous crime. "1 am giad., sir," continued the spnknci "to see that you are an exception, an honor able exception, Sir." The young man began to look very fool. ish, and went out upon the rear platform, a stumbling over the gouty feet of an old 8 gentleman who had sat opposite, and S whose eyes ghired with homicidal fury. 1" "Most men, nowadays-1 beg your par- P! don, ma'am-(to a lady whose bonnet he t crushed when staggering under a lurch of T the car). "Most men, nowadays, hang to a sent as if they were clamped on to it, and poor tired ladles staiii helplessly in a the aisles, excent when a good-looking one II gets into a car, and then somebody always a gives her a seat. Its the homely women d who always have to stand." CIE "No gentleman will keep his seat i a car while ladies are standing. It is always q safe-" b The old gentleman with the gouty feet 91 here looked up and & d savagely : n "It is always safe to mind your own 0 business I" At this the two young men who had a been engaged in the absorbing conversa tion left their seats and pulled the bell- si strap. b "Was I addrossin' my remarks to you, sir ?" asited the old pickle. 9l "I don't know, and I don't care a -. _ 0 You inund your business, and I'll mind V mine." "I intended no offense, sir ; particularly not to you, sir. When a man gets to be as b old at fat as you are, sir, he is not ex pected to be as gallant as when lie \vas r young and active." "I told you to miind your business, and 0 1'd mindui mino. I don't want no words ti with you. You're drunk and don't know a what you're talking about." ti "I'm drunk, a-n I " and he gave a leer b that was intended to express irony. "I am b sober enough to know an old hog when I see one." At this the young girl with the bangs giggled outright, and the infuriated ol( goUtlemian with the gouty legs yelled : "Conductor ! conductor ! t'his man here I is drunk and insulting." The conductor entered the evir and led Y the old pickle out to the platform, where . the soliloquy ws finished, to the infinite i amusement, of a number of passengers. R A Savory Meat. Squatting in the centre of various piles i of delicacies sits the vendor, in India. And curious are these sweets. Ailky creaniand coarse brown sugar are their chief ingre- b (ients. No attempt is imade at decorationis. In fact the natives would not appreciate S anything which savored of dellcacy. His cookery is always strong. Ilorid garlic, r greasy ,gni, or clarified butter - condi- u ments at which the European would sick en-are the choicest of their culinary efforts. L The quantity of sweets a strong man con- i sumes borders on the marvelous. The c' reason is of easy account. A liindoo, by c his religion, is fVrbidden to eat meat, and b the most nourishing food they can obtain is saccharine matter. A sweetmeat called ''jwiabi" !a in high oatuWn. ThilA ik ilade in imitation of a hollow coil of rope and filled with treacle. A mouthful to a tender stomach is provocative of cholera or bilious ness for at least a month. But the English schoolboy has been known to compete W with the Ilindoo in such gastronomic feats; t for one boy has been known at, a ,a-ting to eat twelve solid pounds. The doctors c prophesied of hui imnediate death, but lie smiled sickly and thought. a glass of milk would set him all right. in all great native feasts confectionery takes an im portant place. First, as the guests arrange themselves, is handed round in a silver tray the attar, a scent procured from the W rose. This is rubbed into the clothes of the gtsts. Then follow time pan and betel. This is the nut.of the areca pounded, and with lmnie enclosed in large, green, suc- C lent leaves. It. is an app~etizer, aind eaten just ini the same mnnuer as a Euiropeani would drink, just before dinner, sherry and bittrs. he asteis cW, utvithal pleas ant, andl thme lime brightly reddens the lipw. Thmis is greatly admired by the native. Th'ien follow rice, sugar iand milk, aind p~oundi upomi pound1( of the coars s lollyp;ops. N t a word is spok(en duinig the feast,. Eacti man is bent upon his imeal, and those who wish to highly honor their guest tie airoundl their stonmachi, before sittimir dowvn, a ten decr thnread. When tis breaks the gentle-I man thinks lie has satisfied his aippetite.a As when in oIlen timnes in Europe a lady thaught she pid~ a compilimlent to her hos't, when she said she had been so (drunk as to forget how she reached homne, so a native of a certain caste thin ks he is courtecous when he sa-ys the repast was so goodl as to cause severe indigestion. 1i. is not, an uncommon thmn; atter a grand least, for at least two or three people to dtie of over-gorging ; and then another feast, has to be given,at which, probably, some mocre die. Thus de.ith's sickle is not, p~ermfitted to rust. A sweet meat 5shop is a freqluented place, not only s by the young mnembhers of the conununity, a . ut by the sage and~ hoary. . But, nothing ean be bought, without wraingling. Though t. a man may buy a pound~ of the self-same v article for ten years running, lie would a each time try to redutce the price "d the I seller, kniowing t.uis pecuilarity, iaks double the real price. l Shatte Troee ini Pastuires. Whateverdifference of opilnion there s may be aminag farimiers as to the propriety f of having trees in pastuire fie1(ds as8 a resort c for cattle In very warm werther, no one cain (Iciy that the advantage they are to t. . animals in the midst of tire heated ternm, I beyond the dtamage the trees miay do the t land, is very considecrable. But it must be uinderstoodI that sonme trees (dO miore dam- , Iage to the ground than others, aiid these are wvell known to miost farm'ers, who will exercise their own judgement wh~enx select .ing them. The cherry Is confessedly one a of these, which, while iLt hurts the land I scarcely appreciably, is as fIne a tree for e shade as aiiy in the catalogue, and1( besides t affords a profit in fruit. Whlere will be c found a umore beautifuil shade-tree than the r Black-Eagle, E0lton, or D~owner's Late I cherry? They are hardy and1( goodl bear.. era, Then agaim hiere is the yellowv locust, ' a which is one of our most beautiful trees, I .though not generally so (dense in Its folage t as the cherry, which does iio perceptible r I injury fo the land, and the wood 01 which i a is valuable, hike the cherry, when there c a may ba occasion to remove them. These 1 facts show that there Is iio good reasom: I r why the cattle shoul5l he degprived of tis [ ,great, projection against, suinier heat on the t SI ground of damage to the land, whIch is I seriously done by the oak, the walnut, the ha .eb. and snmn othri The Tekkes as Soldiers. The Tekko is a man of war. lie is, as rule, a tall, well-built fellow. with a varthy face, beard as black as coal, dark, iaggy eyebrows, sinall, glistening black (cs, with i a sword held in his teeth and istols in either hand. It is counted a sin > leave his dead comrades behind him. he more he carries from the battle-fleld to more houris lie receives in paradise. ten lie (lashes himself upon the enemy id uses his sword till he is killed. Often a conceals lihuself in straw upon the field id deals deadly bullets all around. When iscovered and dragged out, though already >vered with wounds, lie starts up and Ohts till he is cut to earth. Ills martial ulitices were never so thoroughly tested r the Russians as on this very battle .ound of (look Tepe. Rarely were soldiers iore certain of success than those whom omakin had led to is walls in the autumn ' 1879. They had held a church parade id performed a mass in honor of General aizareff. They were full of spiirit and n, limpromptu. Russian airs, one of them :ing about tihe Tekkes and beginning Ai, you rascals; the Turks we have reshed, anm1d now we come to pay you it also. " The oflicers discussed their ans and saw themselves already in Mery. t the word of coimind they marched it ill fighting order, when a disp.itch wits ought from the stai that the Tekkes ere showing themselves. Shouts were ised, rifles were examined and revolvers aded. A troo1p of liorsemen bore down i then. Masses of Tekkes, many in white irbans or huge black busbies, and having Curved sword or double barrelled gun in eir hands, dashed wildly upon t lie iqtuare, it gave wsy before the artillery and flea ick to the desert. The Ruasians advanced the high walls before which they are ,hting to-day. In front of them was a iep fosse, defended by hosts of Tekkes. eyond were riflemen, aiming asivauily and ell. To the left were Cosmicks, the Le mountain battery being behind and ring at a distance of less than six hundred irds into the encampmient. The native omen eind children, oil camels, were try ig by two roads to get away iron the )il. Mein ran behind with children around ieir necks. The mothers threw them Iyes at the feet of fusiian horsemen and king the babies from their breasts begged teously that they might be spared. Their reams nande an awful medley with the ar of the canntont and crack of rifles. hey were turned back to the encampment. r order of the commander. Then the ourtli Battery signaled, tho trttiil)ts inmided the attack and the troops with leers in front, rushed on with cheers. he troops hurried pell mell to the batteries, ie enemy swarmed on the wall, the ima the minaret of the mosiue sutmmnoned ic faithful and the artillery poured volleys tO the aoul. 'I'ie liussiais siniging songs, osed the six-foot fosse, and clambered I one another's backs to get into the ittery. At that moment there started oin the earth, as though by magic, thouis ids of desperate Tekkes. Time Russians ooking to the rear, they saw not a sigle serve behind them. Giving way to the ass of Tekkes, they fell back.. Fromt the alls the women threw s'ones and boiling iter upon them. The nomads, led by it soit of Nur Berdi K han lmwho leads them i-day, encountered the pick of the Can. vsian army. A hand-to-laid fight ensued. ot a soldier or ollicer remained unengaged. lie Russians fought desperately, using ie sabre and ievolver. A Sapper disarmted y two Tekkes, threw himself upon one, as dragged to the carth, and then only as killed t y the other. An ensign formed ring about, him of the noinads who tell nider his revolver, le 'was then nearly it to pieces. To the right of' him the mmtlander, bearing the flag of the Shervam giimeint,, was killed by a bullet, in the test. The Russian bamyoniets kept, the 'ekkes oil. Seinig this Lwo of the latter irew themselves agaiinst, the line and direw me bayonets towards their own bodies aind tue adlowed their comrades to slip)lin irough the brokcen formtation anid sabre the uiemny. Many flung themiselves uplont thme iountain battery. Eleven were killed it 'ont, f onte of the guns. llow the battle Iidedi nloody exactly kniows. The attack mg party was about I14,'A00 men ; thme ekkes 15,00)0. in, thbe evening all the ussnmns were gathered iinside the~ laage~r uid it, was found Ithat tltey had lost l161 ten kied aiid 272 wounded. Aimong the ekke slaina was a younger' brother of' Nur ordi K hait, andi the renowned warrior ar-iHairi. Tlhey hmad not given their yes in vaini. Before the cnd of the month me liuss:ians weie retracing thmer step)s iward the Gaspmn, im thme mood of' Napo :on's troops retaaitig front Moscowi. A NewV Wooui Indusittry. Thme manutfaelutre of thbread for crochet nd( sowing purpose~5s-hlia recenttly been tarted at the Any Cottoni Mill, neatr the wn of Norkoping, bii Lhe centre of Swe eni. 'The imanufacture hias arrivedf at such state of petrfectioni that it can produce at miuch lower price, thread of as finte qfual ,y as ''Clark's," and has from this circumi Lance b~een called thread ''a la~ Clarke."' tIs wounid in balls b~y mitchlincty either y hand or steama, which with thme labeliing, kes one minute twelve. secoiida, utad the 's are packed up in eairtib~oard boxes, :inerally ten in a box- Pleitly of omders rom all parts of Sweden have already omne In, but as thte works are not yet, in roper ordler there has hardly been time to fleet thtemt all. Time producitin gives fair romise of success, andi~ It is exfpectedl to e very important for home consumption. secoieraution or Nervotas Velochiy b~y (lho A translatitnm the ./ournl gf the ~'ranklin Insltiu/ says fliat Chauimveau ias lately und~ertaikein two dlistinict sets of xperiments. in the first, lie comnparedl mc velocity of transmission it thme nerves I thme laryngeal muscles (red volumntary muscles), and In those of time cervical posi On of time oesophlagis (red voinnulary), macles. In time second, the comnparisoni a extendled to the nerves of t he terinal ortioni of time oesophgus (pale involtun cry muscles), lie finds that in the nmotor erves of t me red iinvolunitary mutsiches, theO clocity o transinission of centailugal ex Itenment ms about, eight times less tihan in lie nerves o muscles whicht have ant Iden cal structu -, bitt which belong to the ortion of the 'isceular system that Is con rolled by the w I. Fortune is to e to. tered it tlie haina of nraat 'n Israelites in China. Dr. Martin gives an interesting account of his visit to the famnlies of descendants of Abraham and Jacob, who have for two thousand years lived in the city of K'ai fung-fu in.China. This colony of the old race was made known to the western world in the seventeenth century by the Jesuit missionaries, who contributed so largely to historic and geographical knowledge lin those days. They were heard from several times after that, but for more than a hin dred years no one from the western world had visited them, when Dr. Martin went there in 1806. Their present condition is such as to excite profound interest and Ponmiseration. 'The remurkable fact ap. pears that after preserving for twenty centuries the laws and rites of the liebrew religion, they are now presenting an instance unparalleled in the history of the Jews, of a people falling away fromthe faith, and rapidly becoming pagans and Moliamedans. 'I bree or four hundred of then remain. Their synagogue, however, falling into decay, they themselves tore it down and made no effort to rebuild it. After this was gone they dropped all pine (ice of lebrew rites and ceremonies, began to imtermarry with pagans, lost all knowl edge of iebrew, retitinled, indeed, and still posse-s, a ei t r >ls of the law in a strange lorm of alphabet, which neither-they nor ordin ary liebrew scholars canl read, but have no knowledge of the contents of the maiuscripts, and have alost lost the tra ditions of their religion. Dr. Martin prophesies their total dis apperiace as a separate race unless western Hebrews shail send missionaries to them and unable them to rebuild their syna. gogues, of which now only remains a stone inscribed with the record of its erection about A. D. 1183, and a subsequent re erection. The last rabbi who coulk read the Icok of the Law died some sixty years ago. Up 1.0 that time this remiarkable colony which had come into China 2(0 o 300 years before the Christian era had, withi all the characteristics of their rave, preserved) their pure blood and the faith and ritual of their fathers. I h iomalnce or 3)f a 'wai'mp. During the Centennial year, amiong the hlinisinds who went through lie Centennial buildings oiie day in July was a tramp named George . As lie was passing down the steps4, alter an inqpection of lie building, he stumbled and fell, breaking his arm. A Cipitol ioliceiniii Picked hiin up, and after preparing a cot selnt for a surgeon, who set I lie m . This over, the tramp asked the privilege of setting around in the Capitol 'ark until he got strong enough to go about, again, saying he had 110 ilioney, land ( knew I hat labituld loungers were liable to fairest on charge f vagrancy. T'he desired privilege was granted ; and, it aldition, aiin arrangement was made by which lie was given a comfortable sleeping place in the building. The oflicer also Inanaged to bring ellough food froi his boarding-holise to supply hi1ii. In about two weeks the lringu gnVU jiouit:u omti tie would start. West. lie was exceedingly thankful for the kindiness sbown hiui by the oflicer, and said if lie ever got half a chance lie would endeavor to repay it. The trnip met a Ceintennmal touirant fraii 11lt, Lake City who happened to kiow his father. After talkinig, the tourist offered to take him West if lie wanted to Lro. 'I'le ofrer was accepted, and thle Cipjitol police nan, Authur Thomis, went to the depot with them ad bade them good-bye. Now let four years paws and the rest of the story comies in. Arthur Thomas, %1 ho was a Capitol pohiceiman in 1876, is now, aund haiis been for moie than a year, Secretary of Uta.I Territory, havimg been appointed by President Hayes on the reconuemlattion of a nuina er of leading men, Republicains andl Denmocrats. Sonie weekts simce a iman namiiedl George -, eteredl Mr. TIhomnas' olice in Salt Lake to ascertaim sonmething about the boundaries and survey of certain sections of in tneral lands. Th'ley recougni zedl each other andI had a long talk. Thew tramp had prFosperedl. Besidec having a wife, lie can dIraw and have hoiioredl lis check for $l00,000. Eveiylhing lie haus touichedu siice lie lhas been in the TPerrit )iry has turnedts into mioney one( waty or ianotherci. Thle e2x-policemanuu and1( the ex-tramip can be seen st rolingi or 'Irivm g about.~ ait Lake any afterioonm, and thie wives of each are equally ins parable. Opiumn SimokulIng in Uinass. Tlhe habit, of opium amok ing is c'ommnon all over China, biut it is in the West, in the comparatively unkn wa half of China west of the 10th mecridlian, t.hat It Is most pre valent. In soineC parts aft Weste'rn Hut Pei andt Easterni Szechiuen'it, is all but unriversal; there arie few aults in anmy station of lifte who (10 not, take an oceaiional whiff, and the very streets of the towns and1( villages reek with opium umnes. The practice is there indulged mn the iiost open mannecr, and no more stigmia or di'grace attaches to it tihan to smoking tobacco. Mr. Waters, 11cr Majesty's Consul at, Ichiang, made careful ingmiries last year into the origin of this priiclice, andi lie found that It had been lindulgedl in for several hundred years, long biefore either I he( presenit reigning dlynasty or foreigilnmerechants and their opium were ever direanmt of. 'The (2ustom,11 generations ago, passedi io the family Macru, and at fumneralst ini the West of China, among othrr gifts which are transnutltedl into the next world, b~y burning p~aper fac-similies of themn in this, for the solace of thme dep31artedI Is a complllte set of opmmiif smoking re qimites-- pIpe, lamp, nieedle, etc. Ily til * p~eople themselves the habit, so far froinu being regarded as a curse, is looked on as a sine qua inon for a Chinamant whlo wishes to make the best of bothi worlds. Tihe wi ole of the ophitmi consminied in the West is locally produced, antI Indian opium (1oes nt come higher up the Yangtsze than the dhistricts contiguous to the port of Ilankoiv, nor is It imported by any channoel Into West-rn Hui Pci Szechiienm, or the other p~rovinces of thme West. A bove and beyond the tnormious quantity thiere grown for local use, there Is a large tradle In thme drug, mostly contraband, fromi West to East. Indlin opiuni as consumedl In the provlinces adljacent to the treaty ports, andl, being ain expeiave article as comparedt withl native opiuim, is miostly smoked l.)y the well to-do classes. T[he coinmon peole m theso pro.. vincea smoke the natIve dIrug, whIch Is either grown on the borders of 1{lang Sut ana Ho N4an or Is smuggled overland from the West. All Western China, therefore, andl the lower classes in Eastern China smoke natIve-goirwn opium. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. The sweetest prospect Is that below, Into the errors of others. The builder of his fortune must pro per7y use and apply his rule. A n obstinate adherence to customs Is as turbulent a thing as Innovation. Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body. A mian may learn Infidelity from books and from men, but never froln natiro. Without content, we shall find it al most as difficult to please others as ourselves. They who err out of zeal, though they are not to. be approved, should yet be pitied, What the moral army needs just now Is more rank and Ille and fewer briga dier generals. . It is not wise to lose a friend to whom you can do a kindness, or from whom you cain take one. Very amiable and good natured are those people who can have their own way In everything, lie that does a base thliig in zeal for a Irlend, burns the gold thread that Lies their hearts together. The man Is voted a bore who persists in talking about himself when you wslh to talk about yourself. They are not the . greatest but only the ilttest instruments whlch perform business best and qutickest. To he wise by precept and wise by experience are contrary habits; the one sorts not with the other. u1ani Ind in the gross is a gpaping monster. that loves to be deceived, a ad has seldom been disappuiatel. Genuine modesty is the sense of im perCection common to the wise and good,Iuipossible to the foul atn I villain. The everlasting longing for some thing we have not, ought to satisfy us that there are great things In store for US. The world would be more happy, tiea mass of people in it just as wise, if they would whistle more and argue lesn. Low vIrtues gain the praise of the vulgar, ordinary ones astonish then, but of the highest they have no feel lie who Is wise will purstte some one desire; for he that affects not one thing above another, linds all flat and dis tasteful. It Is as important that we should have good books as that we should keep good company, as the one will make the other. Musie Is the only sensual gratific - ion whieh ten inay indulge in to ex cess without injury to their more or religious fuelinigs, Money and fame are the two things that men work hardest for, and after death, one is worth to them Jnist about as mu1ch10 -as tho ot~her. 1he (munrechee netweon neing per feet and .constantly trying to be so, Is the difelrenee between an angel in liea ven and a good man ou earth. There is nothing that strengthens a man's h ontosty so mtch as trusting him ; suspect litni, and you weaken his faith in himself and in everybody else. There Is nothing that has so much authority, and .is enttaled to so little, as custom. It rules all the fools with a rod of iron. and threatens even the wviso. Apparent evil so often turns out to )3 positive good, that we should be very slow to condemn an occurrence evenI though it seem) to have no cheer itul sitde. Learning without knowle ]go is but a bundio of prejudlice4; a number of inert miatter sot before the threshold of the understanding, to the exclusion of comnmon sense. Winter, whieh strips tihe leaves fromu around us, mnakesm its see the distanit re glens they formerly concealed ; so doe i o1ld age rob us of ourn enjoyments only to enlarge the prosp~ect of the eternity before u. It Is the temp~er of a blade that mst the the proof of a good sword, and not the gilding of the hilt or tihe richness of the scabbard ; so it Ia not his granl dour and~ possessions that make a main conaltderable, bait Intrinsic merIt, We should always (10 the best we can in the circumstances in which we are placedi, not idlly dreaming of' the great things we would~ (do If thev were difY' erent. Those who wouldt do muich elsewvhero acconmphli little anywhere. No one can safely say, "I will be oni miy guard for the critical moment of life, buit a will not slavo myself to death before it comes." Such men never detect the decisive periodi, anmd they would not be worthy of it If they Thle human heart is like a millstone in a miil; whein you put the wheat un der it, it, tiarils and( grinds and bruises tihe wheat 11nto flour. It you putt no0 wheat in, it still grinds on, but then it is itself It, grliuds, amnd slowly wvears a way. When erirme weighs heavily we threw k', at himzard, upon other heads; and when the truth gives it back again and we are comapelled to keep It, we thien reclaim it and1( try to tiike. ft a fit subject ior pride. This is the hust subtenauge of conscience-.ho last ovo tutioni of erlime. Who ever he may be, commend uq to the rmanm who has taken a delight iii eonveredng with antiquity; i'or,whuetu or Fortune has throwvn him iuto the luxurious pattlhs of the. great, or lae has te dignity of worth, beneath the low g:. etuage thatch, self comunioin hias ailled hhni to poetry.. Gentility i, neither in birth, man. nor fashion, but in tihe rindt. A high sense of honor, a determifiatk.s never to take a mean advantage of another', anl adherenuce to truthl, delicacy .andI pol~titenss towaris those wish whomn you have dealings, are the essential eharaoteristics of a gentleman. If a life be a battle, howv -madi must be he -who fails to armi himself for the contest I If life be a storm, how inia tuated Is ho who Bleepse while hils bar. quo is drlyoen amd~g uiiknoirn w4terg! if life is a pilgigtageO, how unwise is he who strays from the rignt. road,nor socks to returin till the twilight shia-. dows gather arOund iuis pathway -