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4' EI -. S . C . J N -. - - eh - - -TRL-W EEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. 0., JUNE 2, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. RAINY DAY8. The spring aay rose from her sleeping In the deep, dim caverns of miet, With the waiting world to be keeping Her brief and beautiful tryst.; But her eeet eyes opened weeping, Alythe sunshine her pale lips kissed, And thus she rose from her sleeping In tie lulaverns of eastern miet. The world had dreamed of the meeting From the first of the fartherest years; _Put her hand was cold to his greeting, And her cheeks were bitter with tears; Her voice was the wind repeating The pain of the heart that hears But the world was glad of the meeting To the last of the lingering years, For forth from her tears oame'flowers, And out of her grief delight, And the buds swelled inder the showers; The blossoms with sandals white, Climbed up to their forest bowers, From the broken seeds and night, But who could fc retell the flowers, Or see In the grief delight. Mrs. Marchell's Bound Girl. "I think I'll take that cne," % id Mrs. Marine Marchell, pointing with the end of her finger in one particular directicn. It was quite a little life-picture-the row of eager-eyed stirle, standing in the stuffy little reception-room of the orphan asylum at Bloomington, each one clad in her dingy gray stuid gown, with a green gingham bib apron, and hair cut close to the head-a style of coiffure which gave an undue pre dominance to the ears, and would have made the divine Venus di Milo herself look like a female pickpocket. Just behind them stood the matron, a fat old woman, with a crumpled white cap, and three distinct layers of chin, and a hungry dog, peeping in at the half open door, completed the tableaux. Deborah Dove, a stumpy girl of thirteen, with empurpled fingers and a blunt nose sighed deeply; Sarah Jackson's freckled countenance- fell. The others looked stol idly about them, indifferent as to Mrs. Marchell's preference or neglect; and a lit tle gray-eyed lassie at the end of the line who had been balancing herself uneasily on one foot, like a crane, started forward with a half-stifled cry of delight. "Phobe Locketti" cried the matron. "Phobe Lockett, if that's her name," said Mrs. Marchell, decidedly. - "Why, she's the smallest of the lot,' said the matron. And at her unconsidered words, poor lit tle Phobe winced and hung down her head, as if some rude hand had struck her, "Handsome is that handsome does," re turned Mrs. Marohell, didactically. "Put up her tlungs, please, Mrs. Jenks, and let the lady directress know that I have decided." As Plpbe Lockett rode away in the open farm-wagon, sitting beside Mrs. Marchell's simple figure, the farmer's wife looked down and caught the clear eyes looking timidly up into 1Frs, like wells of gray water. "Come," Mrs. Marchell, brusquely, "what are you thinking about?" "Please, ma'am," said Phcobe, I was wondering why on earth you chose me when Carolina Purple was so much prettier, and Deborah Dove a great deal taller and stronger." "Ilumph," said Mrs. Marcell. " I chose you because I like your looks. You're little but you're wiry; you aren't pretty as some ot those simpering girls, but you've an honest look in your face. That's why I hose you." 41'hank you, ma'am," said Phcebe, sim ply. And she rejoiced fervently in her inno cent little heart, in that she had escaped from the iron rule, scanty fare and dis tasteful drudgery ot the Bloomington Or phan Asylum at last. Mr. Marchell, a stout, good-humored farmer, with a shining bald head and a pair of iron-gray English side-whiskers, welcomed the little girl with a kindly pat on the head, and an admonition to "be sure and do her duty, and it would always be (lone by her." And Uharley Marchell, the only son, and heir of the red-brick farnmhouse, with its acres of golden wheat and emerald stretches of pasture-land, nicknamed her "M1iss Midget" on the spot. "Because you are such a stunted little affair," said lie. Phobe- Lockett .had 'net been "bound girl" at the Marcheli farmhouse for more than a few n-.onths, when one day, Mrs. Marchell came into the great airy "keep Ing-room," with a perturbed expression on -h"I thought I heard a fiddle somewhere," said'\. e. "Just what you (lid hear," said Charlcy, "It's I5'bnbe, up in the garret. "Ph ibe?" ejaculated Mrs. Marchell. "And jwhere on earth did 8/he get a fid "B rrowcd it from old Mr. Findley," said 'harley, laughing. ''You never saw a cie tiirinfl hnwitchegl after a fiddle as she is. "Nonsense," said Mrs. hkn'u ""1 sharply. " What business has a bouni girl with a fiddle, or with any sort of music, for that matter?" "It's no harm, wife-no harm," said the farmer, indulgently. "But it is harm," said Mrs. Marchiell. "And I mnefn to put a stop) to it." And Phocbe Lockett, seated Tlurk- fash ion on the floor of the old garret, with a tattered shawl wrapped around her shoulders, and the red, level light of the winter sunset weaving itself around her short auburn curls, was interrupted in hier musical reveries by the abrupt entrance of Mrs. Marchell. "Give me that fiddle?" said Mrs. Mar chell. "Ma'am?'' said Phiobe dropping the bow, in her amazement. "It's a silly waste of time," said Mrs. Mlarcheli, "besides beIng sinful." "But," pleaded Phocbe, "I've done all .imywiorki'' "No matter whether you have or not," saidi Mrs. Marchell. "There's always your patchwork to do, and 'Blair's Scr mnons' to readl, beside the weekly paper. Give me that fiddle, I say " Poor Phcebe gave it up, trying hard to choke down the tears and sobs. Old Moses IFindley, the village violinist, who ofilated at dances, weddings and merry-makings in general, and filled up the interstices of his time with thn making and mending of shoes, looked fairly as tounded when Mrs. Marchell bounded into his seven-by-nine shop, and flung the musi cal instrument on the work-bench. "EhI " said old Moses adjusting his spec tacles on the bridge of his nose. "There's your old fiddle," said Mrs. Marchell, "and I wish, after this, you'd be kind enough to keep it at home, and not go putti'g nonsense into my- bound girl's hoadi" "But it ain't nonsense," said old Moses. "She's got a capital idea or music, Phcobe has;--" "Nonsensel" said Mrs. Marchell.' "And a very deceht voice, if only -it was cultivated." "Pshawl" cried Mrs. Marchell, and she flounced out of the shop in a rage. But if Mrs. Marchell was the child's temporal mistress, music was her spiritual one. Poebe Lockett went quietly about her work, in the years that followed, but she could -not forget. the divine strains which the well-rosined bow had drawn out of the antique violin, in the red glow of the winter sunset, that January after noon, in the garret. Mrs. Marchell had done up her froiit hair in papers, assumed her gray flannel dressing-gown, when, chancing to look out of the north kitchen window, she saw, or thought she saw the glimmer of a light in the top window of the barn. "I can't hav been mistaken." said Mrs. Marchell; "it ain't the time o' year for dre-flies, and will.o-the-wisps don't go dancing and twinkling round our barn. It's tramois-that's what it is.' "Fiddlestickel" said Mr. Marchell, sleep ily, from the exact centre of a downy feather pillow. "There was two men asked for a drink of milk, at the buttery door, just about dusk," added the lady, "and I didn't much like their looks at the time." "It's all right, I date say," yawned Mr. afarchell. "Well," cried the farmeress, energet loally, "'if you don't go into it, I will." And flinging her husband's shaggy over ,oat around her, and taking the lantern im )no hand, she started for the barn. She was right. There was a dim tallow. .andle burning in the barn-chamber, and by its flickering light, Phibe Lockett was 3usy practicing on the violin, from some sheets of torn aund well-thumbed music. ' She started up with a cry at. the appari tion of Mrs. Marchell in the doorway-an Dvening spectre, with a shaggy overc:at and a dark lantern. "Ung:Rateful girl?" tragically cried out Nirs. Marchell; "how dared yoa to dis obey me?,' "I meant no harm," faltered poor Pho be. "I hired the violin from the village music store, with the dollar Mr. Marchell gave me for finding his gold spectacles, and Mrs. Musard gave me the music; and I came out here of a night, so that the noise shouldn't disturb you." "Phobe," said Mrs. Marcelhl "what a goose you arel Why don't you stick to your needle, and your rolliug-pin, and your scrubbing-brush, as other girls do? How do you ever expect to find bread in the strings of a fiddle?" Phoebe hung down her head, and said nothing m reply. "We may as well break the charm at once," said Mrs. Marchell, "i'll take you to the concert at Bloomington to-morrow night. They tell me there's to be a girl violinist there, as plays like playing; and if that don't cure you of your silly ambi tion, I don't know what will." Phobe Lockett crimsoned to the very roots of the hair. "i-I can't go I" said she. "That is, not with you. I promised Mrs. Musard to go to her house; but perhaps she will take me. The Musards are all going to the concert." "It don't matter how you go," said Mrs Marchell, "nor with whom so loug as you see real excellence and learn the folly of your silly aspirations." "But," falteredi Pho~be, "wihy shouldn't I be a good player some time, too?" '"Why shouln't the sky fall, and we all catch larks?" contemptuously retorted Mrs. Marchell. "As for you, the best thing you can do is to go into the house and go to bed as fast ne possible," -And crestfallen Phobe obeyed. Mrs, Marcholl dIressed herself in her best black silk, to. go to the Bloomington concert, the next evening. "For I suppose it will be something very fine," said she. "Where's my eg'e glasses, Charley? I must take them along, if I expect to see anything, for I do declare I'm getting blinder every (lay. "I expect, mother," Charley hind an swered, with a little laugh, "you'll see a lot of things to surprise you." TVhe concert had proved an unusually great attraction in the neighborhod, and the hall was crowded when the Marchell party arrived, so that Mrs. Marchiell wvas forced to be content with a campstool' as the very back of the room. "Dear, dearl! how provoking this isI" saidl thme old lady. "And Charley didn't find the eye-glasses after all. I shan't see a thinigi" "But you can hear," said Charley. "lHush-sh-~shi" said his mother. "Isn't that the violinist-a pretty, light-eomplex ioned girl, in white, with roses in her here ~ ~do hope Phoibe Lockett is The violinist was greeted w *' "huso apllause which died away Iuto sile- as the delicious music rose upon the air, float ing uipwardl like the halos we see in a ncient pictures. Ii was a short capriccio and, weni ended, Mrs. Marchell was in tears. e "I never thought before that I car 'd s much for music," said she to Charley 'Bu such music as that/ Do you k nw Chiarley, it seemed to me exactly as f'm little-'baby that died twenty years ag as whispering in my earl Oh, if P, ihe could only hear tius!" The female violinist was certainlj the feature of the night. And at the cic so of the concert she was again and again c ailed before the curtain to receive the rapti ou plaudits of the Bloomington pub~lic. ru "Where's Phiebt?" salid Mrs. Marc hell, standing oa one of the benches to lo around her. "Has any one seenou Phobbo here?"ou "I have," said Charlcy, drily. " hl I take you to her?-here, in the little re o adljoining the stage." "But what ms she doing there?" .laid Mrs. Marchell, perplexedly. "Counting her. bouquets, I sp Charley said, with the same odd lui iaugh. And, -without further ceremony, g.. Marchell was* ushered into the presenceof the female violinist herself, all in white, with deep red roses glowing in her hair, and cheeks aflame with happy triumph. "Phoebel" ejaculated Mrs. Marehell, fairly out of breath with astonishment. "This is never-you " Phobe flew into Mrs. Marchell's arms. "Yes, dear, dear friend," she cried, "it isI" "Why didn't you tell me?" said the farmer's wife, reproachfully. "Because 1 was so afraid that my first appearance would be a failure," confessed Phwbe. "I suppose you will never come back to the farmhouse again?" said Mrs. Marchell. "Yes, I shalli" cried Phoebe. "I shall be your own Phoobo still, if only you'll let me practice in the garret, once in awhile." "You shall practice all over the house?" cried Mrs. Marehell. "Didn't I tell you, mother," said tri. umphant Charley, "that you'd see some. thing to surprise you? But you'll be still more surprised when-' "Charley, don't?" cried out Phobe, growing rosier than-ever. "You needn't," said Airs. Marchell, look ing brightly from one to the other. "1 can guess. "She's such a little darling, mother!" said the young man. And Phoebe threw both her arms around the elder woman's neck, and whispered softly: "follher!" Why 13111 Dates Didn't Marry. ''I say, Jim," said Ned Dalton, as he poked up the camp fire, "why didn't Bill Bates and Sue Parker get married. When I was at the Snake Creek protracted meet ing last spring, it sorter struck me that they wus goin' to run the same brand." "Well," said Jim Walker, as he pilloWed his head on a saddle, "that wus the general calkerlation, but it all got bustett up on ac-. count of'what happened at the fish frv the Jones' folks give down at ther Spanish Ca.np on the San Bernardo." "What, Bill Oldn't get on no hifalutin' brazoo, like he's allers doin', and stir up a row!" inquired Ned. ''No, it warn't that," repled Jim, ''but it might jest as well have been,- 'caune Bill Bates' predickerment would've knocked any courtin' match high'n'er kite. You seeall ther gals from Damon's Mound and up along Turkey Creek wer' at the fish-fry,and everybody was havin' 'er hog nsillin' time, but ther (lay was hot, and while Bill Bates wus dancin' with Sue Parker every set; so I as to keep her penned ip from the rest of bows, he got to sweatin' worser'n'er nigger 1 at 'or' lection. Bill knew when he got to sweatin' he wouldn't smell good enough to stay in company so lie asked two or three I fellers who was. loafin' 'round watin' fur the grub to be sot out, to go up the creek a piece and have a swim. They wis willin', and when they got to'er bend in ther creek a short distance from ther fish fry thoy commenced to shuck their clothes. Bill lie pulled off everything 'ceptin' his shirt, and then sot down on 'er log to-cool off. Thar wus 'or yaller jackets' nest in ther log, and ther bulge of Bill Bates' anatermy wus kivering the hole to the nest, and while Bill sot thar them yaller jacketts held 'er convenshun or suthin' of ther kind and 1 made up their minds that they wus going to raise the blockade. I guess everybody t knows that you don't have to spit in 'or yaller jacket's eye to make him mad,'cause ther insect is born mad and dies in ther same fix. While 13111 was roosting on ther log, scratchin' and 'or coolin' of himself, ther yaller jackets riz in their wrath and Bill he riz with 'em. They lifted him like a torpeder, and when he hit ther ground he was bleatin' loudor'n 'er bull calf, and 'or hundred yaller jackets was up under his shirt, spurrin' him in ther flanks, and nmakin' him buck over the ground like an unbroke stud. Hie clawed at his shirt and yelled to the boys to come and help him knock ther darn things off, but ther boys laid (Iowa behind logs and told him they warn't no durnett fools. Well, thor yaller jackets kept poppin' their spurs to him fulst on one aide, then on t'other, 'till Bill got sorter crazy, andt he skedaddled down the creek, headiu' square for the fish fry. Sue Parker, with 'or lot of other gals andi 'or parcel of galoots, wus up the road pickin' blackberries, whoa they suddenly hoard thor all firedest yellin' and snortin', and thor next instant thmar wus Bill Bates gal. 1opin' by 'em faster 'n'er scared cayote and try in' lisa level best to drag his oniy re mainim' garment over his head. The-gals weakened on thor fist glimpse and made 'er break for the bush, okreamin' and askin' what it was, kinder innocent, like, and thor fellers who was gallantin' 'em turned sorter red in the face and said they guessed somebody's horse broke loose somewhere up then creek and that they had better go up and help catch ther arermal. In no time the whole fish fry wus talkin' of Bill Bates' scanderlus actions, and Aunt Doro thy Briggs said it wus a burnin' shame, and ho oughiter be hung, but Widow Bulldack said his daddy wus tuk down with ther janders 'fore Bill wus born, and went crazy and she thought insanity wus in Bill's blood, considorin' as how she had often no ticed a kurious look in his eye. The thing was talked about all over the neighborhood and Bill writ to Sue Parker explamnin' as how it happened, but she said he was dis graced in the community and she-didn't waut nuthin' to do with him. Bill also hoard it talked around that her folks said they'd put the dogs on him if he ever come nigh the house again; and feelin' bad over it, he jmned Pete Jenning's herd, and went up the Kansas trail. 'fhiat's how Bill and Sue Parker didn't, marry." In devising a system for the thorough disinfection of vessels on board of which cases of smallpox had occurred, the Aus triani Governmenit, through its medical ex. perts, eorted to the hollowing method: Sulphur to the extenit of twelve grains per cubIc meter of the apace to be disinfected was first, burned in an earthenware vessel or basin, placed in the. centre of a mass of sandl to prevent all rIsk of fire; every arti cle of clothijig, all thme linen, etc., were hung across the cabin, the latter being then hermetically 'losed for three hours, and after ward ex posed1.to the strongest possible draughts of air for twelve hours; finally, the walls, floor, ceiling, etc.; vere washed with one kilogramm3 of lime, or ono.half a kilograinm.e of chloride of islac, to every hnmnredlite,.s oateran Sudden Ingenuity. There are times and occasions in th lives of most individuals when a suddej call is made for the exercise of readmes or Impromptu ingenuity, the importanc of which may be very great,and which en ables the possessor to make thi best o such means and appliances as may be a hand, no matter how unpromising or ap parently. inapplicable. A few years ago, an iron bridge of con siderable length, the weight being abou two hundred tons was constructed in the counltry, and erected in a remote part 01 Dermany. By some mishap, the br'dge when finished was found at some distanc4 'out' to one side, an error which the pro prietor insisted should be rectified. T< Lake down and roerect the bridge would bi simple ruin to the contractor. But Ne cessity is the mother of Invention, and s< It provea in this case. It was summer time, and the contractor proceeded to fini the amount of expanbion which was cause by the heat of the sun over the whob lengthpf the bridge. le next ascertalnec what contraction took rlace in the nighl by cooling. Armed with these data, h( thought it might be possible to bring thc bridge to its proper position in a few days, rhe bridge of course, in its ordinary con. Eiltion expan(ded from the centre, pushing its two ends outward, orl farther apart. and igain contracting towards the centre. Tak ing advantage of these cpnditions, one end was made fast in the morning and the bridge was forced to expand from that im movable point, instead of from the middle, is formerly. When the iron composing he bridge had expanded to Its full extent n the direction intended, that end was re eased, and the opposite end made fast.The ridge then contracted towards its true ?osition. Thus, whatever was gained by the day's expansion, was secured by the iubsequent contraction when the metal .ooled at night; and the process being re iewed (lay by day, the work was success ully accomplished. The walls of a large building in Paris were observed to be giving way by bulging )utwards; and the problem was to bring hem back to their vertical position. For his purpose a number of bars of iron hav ng screws and nuts on each end were let brough the opposite walls, and across the ntervening space between them. The iuts and screwed portion of the bars were )utside. The bars were no w heated by a mumber of lamps suspended below them intil they had expanded as much as possi )le, and the nut screwed up against the >utsides of the two oppposite walls. The amps were next removed;when the heated Jars in cooling gradually contracted in heir length, bringing the walls very gently, )ut with irresistible force, into their nor nal position. An old story is told in connection with lie expansion and contraction of materials i'ch may deserve a place here as an ill. istration in point. It has been. stated that vhen the Egyptian obelisk was being rected in the square in front of St. Peter's a Rome, in thu y uar 150 dudng the rcign >f Pope Sixtus V., it was first demonstra ed that ropes under severe tension con racted by the application of moisture.The >ccasion was made one of high festival. ['he architect and workman, and the other >bellsk also, received in state the benedic ion'ot the Pope, and high mass was cele. >rated in St. Peter's. But every attempt o move the pillar was unsuccessful. All lie horses that could be found, with all he applicances for lifting heavy weights >f that time, were put into requisition. And t was not until more than fifty unsuccess ul efforts had been made, that the huge nass rose from the ground. Meanwhile, lie great weight stretched the ropes so nuch, that when the pulley-blocks had eached their limit in lifting, the bottom of he obelisk had not reached the top of the eat prepared for it. At that moment a nan in the crowvd shouted : "Wet the opesl'' The experiment was tried; the 'opes shrunk,and the obelisk gradually and lowly rose to the required height, and vas successfully placed on its seat. Witch Womeon's Arta. Dame Bar bara Fischer lives in the wildi f Pennsylvamia. She is a witch woman. 3y far the most interestig feature of this ,lass of backwoods heahing art is that part hich pretends to work magic spells, ~harms, curses, conjurations, and bad luek ecnerally oni enemies and objects of hate. Persons in need of black-art aid of this kind ~ravel for miles to the " hex" who has the est reputation. She generally lives alone with her cats, her herbs, her cards, and ier "mysterious book." bl4ot far from Lan. 3aster, lives an old woman, who, a short time ago, had a score of men hunting gokl it midnight. The men were roputabli farmer's sons, and so great was their confl. Elnce in the old soothsayer's story of golc that they followed her directions witi great cure, and spent night after night o1 laborious wtak in secking for the supposet hidden treasure, but which never was found Men and women caine from near and fai rn every sort of mission to Dame Fischer. To a large circle of persons nso physician ii the land can render such cffectivo service. Hiusbands take their wives, and fathers their children, to have the 01(1 woman op erate on thorn for any ailment to wie] human flesh is heir. If a child is demented, blinid, dwarfed, or in any way unnaturall: afflicted, it is taken to the home of Dame Fischer for treatment. If a farmer has hii llorse stolen he consults the old woman and Implores her aid in recovering his los property. She will undertake to help hinr every time. It an incendiary fire takei place Dame Fischer is consulted. If thmere is trouble among the stock of any farme: the old woman will help him out. Shouk any farmer have had badi luck with hii crops or his cattle lie wilt seek the 014 woman's advice, and- liberally pay for al she tells him, because she is believed tc be a good woman. To catch a horse-thief and recover tm stole. animal it is necessary to search th< animal's stall, and find three hairs, cut then of equal length, knot them in the middle and burn them, lighting both ends at th sameo time. The hairs are to be burned or a. shovel at sunset near the stable, an< whichever way the two stubs point as the: burn is the (direction the thmi f took, Th< stub ends are then to be buried in the barn yard whore thie sun shines. 'There is little more nonsense of this kind which conl stitutes the receipt for recovering a stole: horse. The more 9011(d Pennsylvania far. mers, however, have organized mounteo horse-thief detective associations. 'To make a dry cow productive, to clarif, -1 milk, to increase crops, to prevent strokes of lightning, to keep off incendiaries 5 witches, evil-spirits, plagues, spooks, and other bad luck, charms of a similar charac ter are advised but all are different. To name the many absurd details of those so called charms It wduld be necessary to print the contents of an entire book such as these old women use. They are printed In the German language, and were brought from the old country, where they are handed down from family to family. They are seldom, if ever brought to the light of 3 day, and very few persons ever see them. Those " powwow" books are regarded as sacred things by the owners of them, and are stored away in secret and dark places, and are only read near midnight. Those who desire the aid of these old t women in the performance of evil work must be well acquainted, and must possess the confidenee of the old women. What transpires at the interviews is a dead secret. An old woman hears "the wish" of her customer, receives her fee, and the visitor departs. The old woman has assured her visitor that all will be well. She does nothing in his presence by which she can be brought into trouble, yet no particulars of the visit must ever be revealed. Bad luck forever is the penalty for any breach of faith. What orgies, incantations, spells, I conjuations, boils or stews she may after ward go through are all done at midnight, when no one is about. If a neighbor's 1 babe Is to be stunted in growth; if a rival's beauty is to fade away forever; if the bus. t iness of a competing merchant is to be I broken up; if a water power is to fail or a t spring to run dry; if bad luck is to take c any shape and be visited on any object of wrath or hate, the old woman's aid is in- 8 voked In all sincerity, with the absolute belief that the desired object will be C attained. To secure jealousy is one of the chief ob jects of many visitors,. and to effect this ' brings into play a number of unique but V most absurd practices. To separate man and wife, the hair of a woman opposite in a color and complexion must first be obtained. C If the wife has dark hair, light hair must be secured, but never red hair. To work 1 a charm on any unfortunate and doomed couple, it must first be learned which of the e two was born nearest running water. That person must be operated upon. Something R that such -persons have worn some time C must be secured and burned. The hair t must be held in the smoke and then buried b under the eaves of their house. The name R of the person operated on is then written c on a piece of paper and buried anywhere In t a shadow cast by the moon. This absurd ' charm is supposed to have suilicient power t to separate man and wife. t There are several charms intended for e young lovers who have had quarrels and ( who desire to make up their differences; for the lass who wants to know whether her laddie is sincere; for the jealous girl, r envious of a friend; for the anxious lover t doubting his sweetheart and desiring to t make her love more binding, and for the v jealous young beau whose suit has not met C with favor. The witch-women have a supreme contempt for love-powder or love- 1 potion. They absolutely detest and ridicule - any such method of controling or securing the coveted love of men or women. Their chief reliance is the potency of the witch hazel, a tree that grows on the mountain. c side hereabouts. With its branches and v its blossoms rauch power Is said to be I wielded. The lass in love carries its leaves t in her bosom, and- she dreams with them d under her pillow. The powdered bark of I the hazel, its blossoms, sap, and root, all are employed for special and separate pur- I poses. Whatever practices are resorted to for I thc purpose of destroying beauty, wither- t ing forms, stunting growth, weakening I intellect, or bringing about mental or physical disaster, are never revealed. ThatI efforts are made to operate in this line of business is absolutely true. It is a common 4 thing In this section of the country to hear persons speaking of friends or acqualn- I l ances as being bewitched; and invariably I with such complaint is coupled the name 4 of one or the other of several old wItch-< women located in the mountains. It is 1 generally conceded, on 'the other hand, I that they do a great deal of good in aiding i the sick, which fact goes far to protect them from prosecution. 4 Old-time Dinner Mannera. In cating observe to let your hands be4 clean ; feed not with both your hands, nor4 keep your knife In your hand ; dip not your flngers in the sauce, nor lick them when you have done; wipe your mouth, an:l I keep your spoon clean. Gnaw not bones< nor handle (dogs, nor spjawl upon the I floor ; and If you have occas!on to sneeze or congh,take your hat or put your napkin - before your face. Drink not with your month full nor unwiped, nor so long till you are forced to breathe in the glass. Hie must have a care his hand be not first in the dish, unless he be desired to help his Ineighbors. If you be carv'd 'ts but civil I to accept wvhatever is offered, ptulling off your hat still when it is done by a superior. I T1o give anything off your plate to another to eat off though he is an inferIor, savo'rs of arrogance, much less an apple or a pear that hath been bit by you before. Have a care likewise of blowing froth from off a cup, or any dust from roastedi apple or toast ; for the proverb saith, 'There Is no wind, but there is some rain.' We are to 3 wipe our spoon every time we put it lute B the dish ; some people being so delicate, they will not eat after a man has eat with lii spoon and not wiped It. When dinner is going up to any nobleman's table where you are a stranger, or of interior quality, 3'tis civil andl good manners to be uncover'd. r lit so happens that you be alone together with a person of quality, and the candle is B to be snuffed, you must dolit with the snuf fers, not with yonr fingers, and that neatly andi quick, lest the person of honor be of )fended with the smell." 'The caloniatiior Inserost. A well-known actuary, has devised a very simple and ensiy remembered rule Sfor determining how long it will take a given sum of money to double itself at a I *ertain rate .V interest. DivIde the rate of Interest into seventy-two and the quo tient will be the number of years to within i a small fraction. Thus, at four per cent. i, interest, the answer Is eighteen years, - which is oniy one-quarter of a year too great, the exact time being about seventeen .and three quarter years. For six per cent., I it may be sai to be exact. This Is a good rule fom editors and other large capitailsts y in rememher. A Broker's Mistake. Shortly after the close of the war with Mexico many Bpanish and Mexican silver dollars found their way Into the United States, and were bought up by bankers and noney dealers all over the country. The price paid for them varied greatly, accqrd ing to the demand and supply and the con Jition of the pieces themselves, those In perfect preservation, of full weight and without holes or other defacement bringing nore than those not so well. preserved. rho persons having these coins for sale .arried themabout in all kinds of parcels, ising in their transportation handkerchiefs, paper packages, old stockings, tin cans, cettles and boxes of all sizes and descrip ions. At the close of a rainy day, during which Mr. Drexel-then doing a very nodest business on Third street as a money md exchange broker-had beep a large iuyer of Mexican silver, and while he was ingaged in recounting his purchases pre ma'atory to settling his cash account, the loor of his banking house was suddenly >pened by a plainly dressed man, who ex ,laimed: "I only have one hundrea left; ho you want them ?" Mr. Drexel, without raising his head, re olied: "i'll give you fifty cents for theml" "No," said the man, "I've sold all the 'thers at seventy-five cents and only have hundred left I Mr. Drexel replied: " I have bought hem all day at sixty cents, and if yours ave no holes in them I will take them at he same price, and that Is the most you' an get for them." "I never saw any with holes in them," aid the man. Didn't you?" said Mr. Drexel. "Half f what we get are full of holes, where they ave been used as buttons." The man scratched his head a moment nd then said: "Very well; I'll bring tmem in right away." Five minutes afterward lie appeared with small tin kettle and walking up to the ounter said: "Where shall I put them?" " Pour them out here," said Mr. Drexel, adicating a particular spot on the counter. " I," can't said the seller, "they will all lip off on the floor I" Mr. Drexel without withdrawing his ttention from the counting of his pur hases of the day, called to lis son Frank ) " bring a tray." When a tray was rought it was found to have a large crack cross it, to which the'man strenuously bjected, saying: "'1hey will all fall Lirough." This nettled old Mr. Drexel, rho, in rather sharp words, told him "that ray has held thousands and thousands of tiem every day, and furthermore in per. mnptory terms, bade him " pour them out uick I" Accordingly the kettle was raised to the ivel of the counter and one hundred fat, flw oysters were poured into the cracked ray, much to the chagrin and disgust of lie banker and his son-the former of rhom exclaimed: "Why, those are ysters i" " Well," said the oysterman (who knew othing about Mexican silver,) "what the did you think they were I" Instinct of Insects and Birds. Let us examine the marvelous instinct f the solitary wasp in proviaing for the vorm that will Issue from her eggs after ier own death. Sie brings grubs-food hat, as a wasp, she never tasted-and eposits them over the eggs, ready for the arva she will never see. The life history f every insect exhibits Instincts of this erplexing description. Look at the in tinctive character of bees in their far Ighted provisions for the future. Witners he catterpillar, how at the proper time it elects - a suitable situation and spins for tself a silken cocoon. Marvelous instincts .r met with outside of the isect world; very httle bird Is its own skillful accou /eur. We once observed the self-delivery f the chicken. The prison wall is not urst in pieces by struggles. By a rcgular cries of strokes the shell Is cut in two hipped round in a perfect circle sonic istance from the large end, The bird has special instrument for this work-a hard, harp horn on the top of the upper nandible, which, being required for no >ther p)urpose, disappears in a few days. )bviously each individual .bird no more ecquires the art of breaking its way out han it furnishes itself with the little pick iammer. used in the operation; and it is juite clear that a bird could have never scaped fromi the egg without this instinct. Iow were eggs hatched bfore birds had equired the instinct to sit upon them? A owl that never before willingly shared a :rumb with a companion will now starve ecrself to feed her chickens, which she ails by a language she never before used -may have never heard-but which they rc born to understand. The Kroumir. The Kroumnir of Tunls-the nicun is plu al, although the cable p~ersists in calling hem the Krouimirs-aro divided like the ;reat Bioux family en this continent Into everal septs, each with Its hiead mian, and iumber altogether some 16,000 miatchilocke. l'o the south of them Is the territory of the takba, a kindred tribe, with 10,000 fight ng men, so that even If the dIsatraught bey oncludes that prudence Is the better part >f valor and keeps out of tlie fight, the In !aders have no easy task before them. The Croumir andl the Rakba inhabls a moun aimeus regIon full of innumerable fast messes, and are said to be even more cx >eiienced hill-fighters than the Afghans, rho led the British a costly dance for three rears. Italy Is the Russia of Tiuis, and if ho Kroumir make a sturdy fight of It thme adicala In the Italian chamber, backed by P'rince Bismiarck, whose polluy it ls to set he two countries by the ears,wull no doubt oe strong enough to force King hlumbert o side with them against France. MI. 3respi, the radhical leader, pointed out dur ng the ministerial crisis the other (lay that he French occupation of Tunis wedld.imi peril Italian interests In northernm Africa md threatoen Sicily; and it Is belIeved thiat LPremier Cairoli must yield to the popular gtationr for (direct intervention. Mean-. while, although M. 'St. illaire perslets in 'aying that the sole oject of the Tunis ox pedition is the chastisement of the insub )rdlnate tribes, the Paris papers eoenly de. ilaro that it nicans annexation; and this sloud, now; no bigger than a man's hand, nay burst any day andl lnvoloe Europe In a itruggle for supremacy in the Mediterra mean.; -Mexico has a debit of $05,000,000, which Rho will Boon be alto payn. NEWS (N BRLEF. -The fatuous destructivo eaithquake which occured at Lisbon was il the year 1472. -Bradstreet's estimates the total yield of the cotton crop of 1881 at 0,283,408 bales. -The gold coinage at the Philadel phia mint amounted to over $1,250,000 in March, 1881. -A granite monument is to be eroc ted on the spot in Mexico where Maxi milian was shot.' --Between 300 and 400 Iindoo fami lies In Belasore, India, have recently abjured heathenism. -No more live cent nickels Will be coined at present, the country having abAorbed all it will bear. -A French engineer proposses the construction of a railway viaduct across the English Channel. -Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has made a contract to sing twenty -nights In Paris, and receive $12,00. -In London there are said to be 100, 000 householders of Scotch blood, or a Scotch populatiou of 400,000. -New York . lights 402 miles of street, two and a halt miles of piers and sixty-one auree of parks. -Abram Johnson, a survivor of the war of 1812, died in Wayne county re cently at the age of 108 years. -The beautiful city of Florence Italy, was founded about a century before Christ's time on earth. --Ircland was first called the ETner. ald Isle-by Dr. W. Drennan, in his poem entitled "Erin'' (1754-1820). -The Ceylon Observer says that iI the island 35,000 acres are plantd in cinchona arid 10,000 acres in tea. -Plato was born April 5, 429 B. C and died peace ully among IleUds at, a wouding feast April.5, 318 B. C. -The conscience inoy sent to the chancellor of the Engish exchequer last year amounted to over $30,000. -Thirty-three thousand buffaloliides were sold at Miles Ulty. Montana, alone, during the past fIall and winter. -The State of Ohio has in its Capi tol 195 flags, 137 banners, and (35 mark ers, all prized relius to the Union sold iers, -An order has been Issued declar. iug postal cards unmat-able with aly_ tiing but the direction oil the address side. -some freight from Boston reached Madison, IV s , al ter be Ing torcy-seven days on the road owing to snow block. ades. -Egbert was the first Iing of all England, and William the Conquero was the first Norman Icing ol ue or .-The crowns of England and Scot. land were United in 16J3. The uilo, c - of Great Britain and Ireland was not until 1801. -The California 'Wl tago for 1880 is es8timated at over tenl and a lt nuiilioii gallons, by the State Viicultural con . missioners. --Toe deposits in the savings banks or Vermiont have Increased $662,745 Inl the past three- months, and am,4 t $10,292,407. ount to -Colonel Thomnas A. Scott lately bought, tit a sale in Northumberlald coUnty, I'Ouisylvalla~uCoc iae Is Uncle 1790n ,a clok made dy -Ten million of cattl tirc quually slaughtered inl this country to Supply the nome (demand for ea, woipl is valued at $4,000,000. -T e lateSa tor Carpanter.'s estate Is tivid to amlount to $61 0000- All this is in life insurance 1'O 1 ll whIh s in real este.except $ -A bo eloer the p~reciplce at clear diroD of 120 feet, anod was riven OUt of the Water unhurt. ia ae doThas e 01- 2burglar-les In Lon 1869 while It has decreasi or ner sicet in the rest of England. prcet -Thirty-four thousandpunso tobacco were raised On twe nd 8Oof Benat'r Cameron's farm inacro'nsyog vania. 1it sold for $5,000O. -The 811k industries in the Unie 340OperatIves who Were ald an aggregate of $9,107,s35 in wages,.a -Tr es caa oil )O aton of the number 9,373,105 were enroled1 in 1878 'ilhere we're In that year 271,1441 teach -Tue 1 lwin ~omiotv vorks, In an order from Mexico for w hunred locomotives. They will cte o~ -In the year i000 February will have but twenty-elght days, althtough a leap) year. T.Ihis phelnomenoiocr once onl In 200 years, and alay icu -Roughly comnutedi, about 100,000,. 000 of the worlu's inhabitantsspa En~iglish ; about 00,000,000 Gespeak abou t 50,000,000 French, ande aou 45,000,000 Spanish. -An international coniventioni of Hebrews from all portions of the wvorld will be held In i'arls, September 10tn, under the auspices ot the Aillanco israelite Universeile. -The Princa of Naples, Crown IPrinoj of .italy, is so sick and puny that it is feared lie wvill never ascend the throge of his father, Hils fathe'r' a:.d mother weore double first cousins. -Liverpool reports the arriyal of' 10,709 head of American cattle from Newv York, Boston, and Baltimore daring the past three months. Tlhe number lost On the p~assage was 1,115 head. -Millions of. bushels of wheat are lying unthrashed and in good condition i, the .Northwest, so that eveni In case oh a partial failure of the crop this sea son there ill be no special scarcity of the staple. -li'he iron and steel iadustries of the United States are 1.005 in number, with a capital of $220,971,884. P'enn sylvania leads off with nearly half tihe product of the country, Ohio taking second rank. The contract price for the Lee monu menit in New Orleans is $26,474. The contractor has already beeni paid, as the work wont on, $19,196, and there is $2,328 cash on hand or subscribed, leaving but $4,950 to be raised.