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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JUNE 4, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865 BETTER THAN ALL, A moderate share of wt alth is good, To oheor us on our way, For it ban frequently the power To malo December lay; And so is beauty, so ts health, Or genius at out call, But a happy, cheerful, loving heart Is botter still than all. A heart that gathers hope and faith From every springing ilower, That smiles alike at uiniry et, rm And gentlo summer shower. TI a, blesses Uod for every geod, Or t unshino great or small, Oh I a happy, loving, hopoful heart As better still than all, A heart that get' 01a hepo and faith From every springing flower, That smiles alike at wintry storm And gentle summer showor ; That blesses God for every good, Or sunshino groat or small, Oh! a Lappy, loving, hopeful heart Id better btih than all. A heart that by the ma.io notes Of music its beguiled; A heart that loves the pleasant f Ao Of every little ohild;. - That aidoth weakcuss .n distress And hearoth duty's cli; Lh I such a loving human heart isa better still than all, Gabriel Mercer. larion Hastings was the only daughter of a wealthy countryman, and at the age of eighteen she married agreeably to the wishes of her father, Captain Gabriel Mercer. It was not a love match, ou Marian's p-irt, at least, for all ier heart belonged to Lieutenant George St. John. St. John was poor, but his family was oni of the best in the county. His duties called him, with his regiment, to India. But before he went he met Marion in the gardens of her rather's est ate, and by the light of a waning June morn their part Ing took place. And It was such a parting as ony lovers mad N ith agony and despair can know. Marian was an obedient daughter-she had been brought tip In that stern old way which teaches that to the will of a parent a child must' sacrifice everything, and though young St. John would fain have taught her rebellion, and made her his bride before lie left her, she revolted in horror from the Idea of disobeying her father. So they parted. A little afterward she read his name among the killed in one of the skirmishes with the rebel Sepoys and, never doubting that the bulletin was correct, she lost, as I were, her hold in life, and became inert and sad and hopeless. At this tie It was that Gabriel Mercer urged his stilt. Her father commanded her to marry him. After his own (lark and terrible fashion Gabriel loved the young girl, but if she felt for him any sentiment at all It was one of quiet disgust. Still she married him, and from that time forth she was his slave. le had only to counand her and she obeyed. But shortly after miarriage hie sold his commission, an~l his wile learned with h->rror that lie had lost all his estate by gambling. However lie managed to get a Govern mient position. It was not a very important situation, but it, yielded hhni a decent Income, anid It placed In his hands at times large sumse of tihe public money. One night late in the winter lie brought home five thousand pounds, atnd deplosited the packet in the iron cliest. As he turned the key in the ponderons lock, lie remarked to hisa wvie: "' There are liye thiousandtt pouind's or the country's money. L. have to go away to morrow, and I shalh ride as far as G to.nghmt. I must leave the money here till I cotme biackc. It will be safe for nobody knows anything about It." "' Oh 1" cried his wIfe, "' (10 not go until you have disposed of it where It be'longs.'' "Nonsense I" exelanned her .husband impatiently. "it'll be all right, andl I shall be back in three days." lls patient, faded wife said no more, and at about 9 o'clock In the eveniig lie rode ott in the dlirectioni of G Marion was too ner vous to go to bedI. And shto and her one servant sat up in the kitchen. Nettlie was soon fast aslieep in her chair, but Marian's eyes were bright and feverish, and her cheeoki burned wIth a vivid crimeon, which blrouight back sonme of the old beauty to her face. 1Her eyes sent fascinated to rest on tihe brass key whieh hutng over the fire piace -the key which fitted the iron chesl. She was a stretly conscienitiotis woman, and she felt it her duity to guard this money entrusted to her keeping as she would have guatrdled her life. It was paist 0110 o'clock, whr'n the .list enmng woman hoard the tramp of hioises on the gravel road before the door, andi peeping through thme curtains she saw thiree mounted mon. They rapped loudly at the door, a'.kmg for adinittance, but Alarman dtenled thmeir reqluest. T1hey boat the (door from its hinges. Tihey wore three stalwart, fellows with masks over their faces. Marlan was brave, but she had nothin with which to defend herself. The leader of the bagddmne h money which her husbpud ]lad left In the house. She kept an Indignant silence. They told her they would shoot both herself and servant and burn the house over their dead bodies If she persisted in her obstinacy. The cold muzzle of a pistol pressed against her temple (id not daunt her, for she Indignantly refused to show theni where the money they sought was hidden. It was only a moment before they pounced upon the key above ti e tre place, and di ectly the Iron chest was unlocked and the money stowed about the persois of the robbers. Then they ordered her to prepare them sonic supper. She went about it with a desperate behcthe rushing in her brain. A (lay or two before her husband had brought home lairge quantity of strych nine for poioning the rats, and this deadly drug she put into the coffee she 1:resented to her guests. They sat down to the table in high glee, cracking their coarse jokes, and having their loaded pistols beside their plates. Their masks they did not remove. Fortunately tor the success or Ma: ian's plan, the men were thirsly, aind drank greedily. " May God forgive mue!" she cried to herself. " le knows I am acting wholly from a sense of duty." The meal was not half over before one of the mien was qized with violent con vnlsions, and rolled on the floor in agony ; and in a few ioiments the three lay to gether in the agonies of death. At last the fearful stillness and rigidity of death crept over them, and Marlan rushed out. of the house to call assistance. Not far from her door she met a mount ed ofllcer. Bhe told her stor.y in a few disjointed words, and the officer leaped from his horse at. the sound of her voice, and hastened to give her a supporting arm. " Marian," said lie, "do you not know me?" She- uttered a piercing cry, and sank senseless at his feet. Lieutenant St. John, for it was none other than her old lover, lifted her up. He carried her in his arms to her house, and laid her on a lounge, while the servants busied themselves. in restoring her to consciousness. She sat ip at last, and saw that it was indeed St. John, alive and well, who stood before her. Assistance having been called, the officers of justice took the stolen money from the bodies of the robbers, and then stripped the masks from their faces. The last mask they removed, exposed to view the distorted, blackened countenance of Gabriel Mercer. Marian saw through the whole thihig at once. I1er husband's covetousness had become aroused by the possession of imoney, and lie had taken this method of stealing it, doubtless flattering hinself that the cunning fraud would never be discovered. Of course Marian Mercer was horrified when she knew that she had brought her miserable husband to his death. St. John took upon himself the business of caring for Marian, ie gave her into the hands of lis mother, who iiurset her through her long and dangerous illness, and won her love and grat itudle. And when again she rose to hieath andl strenght, St. .Joh'n led her t~o the altar, andi l.y loving kindness rendered her the happiest, of her swx, iloothm andl thea Lod 'rayor., When the elder Booth was residiing in Baltimore, a pious, uirbanie old1 gentlemani of that city, hearing of his wonderful power of elocution, one day invitedi him to dlininer, although always dleprecatinar the stage andi theatrical performaniices. A large conmpany salt dlown to the table. andu on re trning to the drawing room. one of t hem asked Booth, as a special favor to them all, to ropeat the L~ord's Prayer. ie signified his willhngness to gratify them, andi all eyes w re fixed uploni hun., Ie slowlyv and reverentially rose fromi ihis chair, trembling with the burden of two great conceptIons. lie had to realize the chiiracter, attributes and prasence of the. Almighty- Being he was about Ito address. ie was to trans form hhnsell! Ito a poor, sinning, stutm bhing, benighted , needly suppliceant, e.dierinug homage, asking bread, pardon, light and gidancee. Says one of the company who wvas present: "It, was wojidlerftul to watch t.he phlry of emotions that, convulsed his cuntcnance. Ie became dleadly lpale, and Ils eyes tuirined trembli ngly upward, were wvet wth tears, As yet lie hiad not spokeni a word. The silence could be felt ; it hid beCcomei abischitely p~alnful, until at last, ti'v al e'l was broken, as If by an electric shock, his ricn toned voice syhlabled forth :"Our Father Which art in Iheaven," etc., with a puhios and fervid solenity which thrilled all hearts. IeI finmshed ; thre silence con tmnuedl ; not a voIce was heard or a mnuscle movedi, until, from a r, mate corner of the room, a subdued sob was heard, and the o1ld gentleman (the hort) stepped forward wi'.h streaming C) es and tottering frame, seized Booth by ihie handl. "8ir," says lhe, in broken accents, "you have nfforded me a pleasure for wvhichi iiy whole future lire will feel grateful. 1 ami an old man, and] every dlay, from boyhdod to the present time, I have repeatedi the Lordi's Prayer; but I never hearud it before, never I" "You are right," replied Ilooth ; "to read that~ prayer as It should ho read, caused in- the sevet-est stu~ty iund labor for thIrty years, and I amr far from being sa'Isfled wit h any ri-ndering of that wondtrfial production. Net one pers in ten thoussand cornpre. hoes lw miu~ beauty, tenderness and grand rr can be cbldensed In ii space se small hr languaae o - The rlat, prayer itseufillen' wta truth of I ho Wreck In the year 1E41, the steamer Erie, was burned in Lake Erie. with a large amount of money on board. In the summer of 1853, twelve years after the burning, W. . Bishop built a derrick fifty feet high and placed it on the hull of the old steamer Madison and went to the scene of ithe wreck, whichi was sunk between Silver Creek and Dunkirk, but was gone but 48 hours when a storm arose and drove the A/adison ashore on the beach above the breakwater. The following year, 1854, Wellu and Gowan engagod Captain John Ledger to bulkd a derrick to raise the bull of the Erie, and herewith Is the captain's story of her ralsing:-" I built the derrieks aind plac d them on the schooner Alanolla, Captain Hindman, and the brig Boston, Captain McArthur. We got all fitted out and went into Lake Erie on the 15th day of June, the tug Hamilton Morton, Captain llefford, towing no. We reached the spot where the wreck was sunk, which was buoyed, and let go our anchor over it. John Tope, our diver, went (down and made a line fast to the wreck on the even. iog of the 16th. The next morning he went down again and was absent about 10 minutes when the inau in charge of the life and signal lines signaled him, but re ceived no answer. The life line'was in. mediately pulled up and when the face plate of the helnot was taken off blood gushed out in a large streanm. Poor Tope was stone dead. I had a wooden box made of rough boards, and the bodv was placed in It and taken to Silver Creek and thence by rail to Boston. The tug came to Buffalo and got John Green, another diver, and lie arrived on the 19th. When he was ready he went (own in the same armer and took with him a large chisel, hammer and an inch and one-half auger. With these tools he cut a square hole on the starboard and one on the' port side of the iceel and keelson forward, just abaft of the fqremast, and then rove a line and brought the end to the surface. By this line we hitched a three-quarter inch wire chain and sent down our inain purchase, which was fivefold of one and one-quarter inch wire chain. The running part was brought up on deck and through a svatch block and a luff upon luff to the capstan and hove taut. Then we commenced aft, about twenty-two feet from the stern, and cut the same size holes as forward, and had commenced to reeve our purchase, when a storm ar<,Ee and we had to leave the wreck. The tug had us in tow, but the line parted, and we were left at the nercy o1 the waves. We conunenced rolling and tossing in the trough of the sea and made terrible work. The guys parted the cross-spans of the after derrick and it fell and smashed in the cabin of the May. nolia, setting it on fire and injuring the cook. "Just as we extinguished the fire the forward derrick fell and both vessels came together with a crash and sea-sawed one another until they came near sinking. We got the topsail and standing jib on the Boston and the Jib on the Magnolla and squared away for Buffalo. When we got down in the bay we could not make the harbor, so we run (own the river to Tona wanda, and there made fast to the dock. After repairing damages we went to sea again, the same tug towing us. We ar rived at the wreck the 14th of July and conmmenced operations again, and this time we were successful. Our diver went d ,wn and made fast all the purchases, and when everything was ready we began to heave. In sixteen hours we had the hull afloat and started for Buffalo, we went under Point Abino and concluddd to take out all the money and valuables that were in her, as we were afraid that some of the express companies might undertake to seize the money. We came to anchor under the point and lay there forty-six days, all this time searching for the money. We re covered over 200 gold watches, but the works were useless; silver goblets and br-acclets, partly melted; :300 cook stoves. all broken to pieces; shot-gun and rifle barrels, all twisted out of shape, and over twenty-seven nail-kegs ot gold, silver, braisr, iron and copper all melted together. Theic contents of the kegs were sent, to the mint at Philadelphia Over $30,000 in gold and silver pieces, not mutilated, but as good as the day they were coinied, were take:1 out. Iluman bones were found in lienty forward about the heel of the nmast, and anso any amount of big nails which immiigraints gener-ally wear in their boots. After taiking out everything that. was of any valtie, we weie towedi to Buffalo and thes hull was pulled out on the ways and sawed to pieces. Between the outside lalnk anid the mcilng we found several hundred dloilars. TIhe !est part df the keel andl keelson, that whici wouldi split straight, was taken out andl made inlt() canes which sold for twenty-flye cents apiece. In searching the wireck [ found a young lady's gold ring with her i nit ials on it. I held It in my possession and1( adver tisedl it. An old gentleman camne to inc and said his daughter, who was lest on the steamer, had a ring so marked, anmd I hiand~ed it to him. His old1 gray locks shook and lie was overcome with glihef lie turned to ine andl said: My friend, here is a package of money which I plresent, to you for your kindness in advertising and saving for me a relic of my daughter.' Tils I (dechlied to take, as I knew I had dlone miy du~ty." The nueado I was the aickniowledgedl belle of Clinton, a small village' bordering on the Westerni wildlerness. I could outshoot any one, Oeen the old woodlsmen that thironiged our villag. My mother was kept In perpetual alarm biy my daring exploits ; In fact, as the (lid tralpers saidl, I was cut out for a back Woodlsman's wife. I hlad two lovers then; one was Harry Clever-ly and thme other Mark Ruthson. Iharry was a splendid speclimen of an American backwoodhm-m, with a heart, as true as steel, and to liy Inexperi ened~ eye, lie was the very personification of manly excellence. Mark Ituthmson ~was contrary to 1hu in every respect. Handsome he was, but oin his face wore such .a hypocritical expres sion, that I actually dletestedl hin, Hie seemed awaie of. my dislike, and ar suming an air of Injured innocence, lhe pressedl his suit with the utmost ze-d. .One evening as I was riding out enjoy ing thme mountain scenery, I approached a little eminence on whIch there was a thick growth of undlerwood ias I passed It Mark hiuthson rode out end joined( me. Hie pressed his suit with his usual fervor, his hypocritical, face looking, If .possible, more his hand and heart. Hising in my Feat, I said: "Murk lluthson, no words can express the disgust I feel for you, and if you insult me again I will cowhide you, sir I" It would be impossible to depict the expressio-n of rage which swept over his face. "Jane Mannering, mark my woads, 1 will be revciiged." C isting upon him a look of unatterable contempt, I whipped my horse and soon lost sight of him. The rext day Mark Ruthson left the vil lage and went no one knew where. A year from that Harry Cleverly and I were mar ried, and with thc blessing of my mother, and the best wishes of my friends, we started for the Western wilderness. I will pass over a period of ten years, doning which a substantial log cabin had been built; rude though it was, love made it a little )alae3. Our' hearts were also gladdened by our little Eddie, the inage of his father, and a noble Jittle fellow. About this time we beard of the depre dations that the Indians were conunitting, by some passing stragglers, which filled us with a teinporary alarm. But our fears soon passed away, and we regarded the report as greatly exaggerated, or totally untrue. One evening Eddie returned froi his rambles, bringing with him a moccasin, which he said lie found in the woods. This filled me with alarm and uneasiness; I felt, a presentiment of coming danger. Next morning I mentioned iy fears to Hairy. But he only laughed at my terror, and playfully handing me a little revolver, bade me defend imyself like a inan, and went to the woods to his daily work. I slipped the revolver into my pocket play fully, but could not, entirely divest myself of my fears. For an hour I sat on my low rocKing chair, counting the moments as they flew, when my attention was attracted by noise on the opposite side of the room. Looking quickly around, so my dismay, I saw a dozen Indians, evidently just froin war, each bearing his bloody scalp. The fore most advanced, and appeared to be the chief of the party. He approached and would have laid rough hands on me, when my darling boy raised himself to his full height, his blue eyes flashing, and demand! ed what they meant by their intrusion, and how they dated -lay hands on his mother. The chiet paid no attention to hium, but bide his warriors bind us, which was quickly done, and after a few moments, the chiefs retired for consultations; when, seiziiig an opportunity, 1 scratched on the wall: "Harry, we are in the hands of the In dians." The chiefs returned, and we were soon borne with rapid, but noiseless steps, into depths of the wilderness. The chief who had bound us attracted my attention. I was sure 1 had seen him before, but where 1 could not say. Three days and three nights without stopping, we were borne away from our home, and the fourth we stopped in a small hollow, which I found strewed with bones and. skulls. While contemplatimg this scene with lirror, I looked up, and the In dian chief stood before me. With a sneer over his dark features, he said, in good English : "Though you have forgotten me, Jane Manmering, for so I will call you 1 have by no imelis forgotten you." "Who are you I" said I. "I aai Mark Ruthson," the chief replied, and in 'thdAd, -;i:ated features, I reieiii bered the hypocritica -bice of the consumi mate villain. There was no pily in his reveiiFeful. heart, and I read our doom in those hard teatiures. "1Do you see yoadr tree ?" said he, ii a quick, sharp tone. "liefore the night your boy will be bound to that tree, and his young scalp) will be clipped fromn his head b~y amy savage frienids; and you will remain and ini the morning share the samie fate I" Oh I hiowv quickly the (lay flew, arid the night applroachled ; antd just as twilight was setting in, a ruthless savage seized any boy roughly by the arms, anid bound him to a tree.. First lie waved a tomiahiawk over ius hieadi to frighten himi ; but the boy's blue eyes looked steadily at the savage in acorn, and his cheek never blanched. Enragedl at his scorn, the Indian raised lis toa.. hatwk for the last time. Instinctively any hand rested on liy revolver ; I felt sure of miy aim. 1 raisedl it slowly, andl pointed it at the heart of the savage andii fired. With a friehtfuil yell, he sprang into the air, and~ fell dead. Wai~ a sceamu~l of' rage the Indians rushed 111)on mel ; another fell b~y my revolver. Again I attamplted to fire,-bitt miy revolver snappiedh ; thirowing it away, I pireplared to (lie : and inst as the foremost, Indian waus aboueit to sink his kniife lito my bosomi, the sharp crack of a rIfle waus heard, and1 the Indian fell dead at mny feet, bathed ill is own blood. Theli iiext moment the stalwart Iharry Cleverly leaped int'> the ring. All the savages 11ied bitt their chief, who rushed upon01 my husband, shiou'ing: "'Ila I hal h arry Cleverly, revenge at last 1 and poiitedl Las p)Istol, whneb mnissedl lire. Thle niext mnoment my husband's knIfe was in tihe reniegadle's heart. I larry had seen the lines which I wrote oni the wall, anid knew the fate of his wife and child. We were troubled no iore withi the Indians, for the next year old Tippean~oe, with the avenglbig iflemnen tunder his commainhnd, dirove away and cleared the forest of our dlusky foep. Exoe esses a n A ii ticulatmon. Let your eiocuitioni elass prmactce oin tne following sentences: TIih itter, blusterinig blast ble0w o'er the bounding biliow. Thle cautious cat conltrivedl to catch the crippled crow. D~eep in lie depths oif dar1k, danttk (dels, lie drew it dlefilhy dlown. Full- fledgred, fr omu fancy's fearful Ilight, he flutterimng fell. GIrim, gaunlt and1( gray, lie grasped thme grIzzly groomu. H e htustled harel to hurl the hiqavy hiero headlong hence.. The Jews for justIce join,anud jiadge anid jutry jeer. Low in Ilie level lands the long lank le >pards lay. TChe madly moanIng maim iiutchi mt. ery makes. Tlho bulinier os in . fortune must pro perly nus andl apply lala rnle. The Jewsharp. There is a small and aged two-story building in Ureenwich aveiue, Vow York, whose unpainted clapboards are brown aud weather-beaten. A few feet above the sidewalk is the picture of a gigantic Jews harp, and below it the name of John An drews. Going up a ricketty flight of stairs to the secon story, a Sun reporter entered the small front room, and there found John Andrews, maker of the Jews harps, surrounded by the implements of his art. For it is an art to make good harps, as Mr. Andrews will tell you. There are only two m'en in the United States, it is said, that canl make them, atid there ire those who say that Mr. Andrews him self is the only man who can be called lightly an artist in the business. lie is a smooth-faced, slender man, with keen gray eyes and gray hair that curls, upon his head, not all unlike the hair in the portralts of Lord Byron. "Jewsharps,' said Mr. Andrews, "Jews harps. Yes, sir; I know as nuch about item as any man in America, and more, I think, for 1 am the only maker in Amer ca. A least I have been for many years. But I am informed that there is a mian in Thir ty-sixth street that is doing something in it. I don't know who he is. My grand rather and my f ither were miakers of jews iarps in Belfast, and I and my two brot hers earned the trade as well in my father's ihop. My two brothers aire in 1lifast now inaking harps, and mny father is in Dublin; ut lie is an old man and doe% little at it, Ithough he has a shop. In 1862 1 came to -is city with my kit of tools. I found a -lear field for my work. There wis not ia iarp-maker in the'city or the country, nor was there much demand for hurps. It was slow work for some time. I rented a little shop in Varick street, and little by ittle began to get work. After a time I lad all that I coul do, and husiness con inued g(ood uiiil the pauc of 1873. 1 itayed in Varick street thirteen years, and ,hen moved to 83 Ninth aveuue. where I ftayed fourteen yeais. I'd be there now, robably, but the building was pulled d win ind 1 came here." What is the origin of the jewsharp?" "I can't tell you, sir," said the jewsharp nan. " I have never seenI a man th aL could. ,iy father had a small book on harps, but it didn't give that information. All that I know is that it has been a favorite instru nent in Ireland for many years. I remem ber long ago to have seen a famous painting ,)y Collins, representing an Irishman play tug the jewsharp. The best players that I have ever heard were Irishmen. In fact, ibout the only special customers I have are Irishmen. I mean those who order expen live harps." "What do you call expensive harps?'' "The most expensive I ever made I sold ror $5 a pair. Ierre a pair that I have just mtade for a spen~al customer, but they ire only worth $1 the pair." Mr. Andrews 'arefully unrollert a small package in which were two large jewsiarps. 11 placed )Oth to his lips witlh the tongues fachi g ach other, and, .holding one with each tand, struck the tongues with his lii tle lngers. The harps were in unison. That's the way they are played," said tl.e iarpimaker. "'The best players want a air of harps in unison. Then they play vitli their little figers. I can inake a hiar) i any key, tune two lrps in unison, and an't play a tiue to save me. LloV do I ,hange the key? Easy enough. - Either )y bouding the tongue or chatming the tits. Vou see these little ball of glass on the tips )f the tongues. I'll file one a little. See f g4ow listen." lie struck the harps. The me whose tip he.had filed was a quartur of t tone sharper thiqn the other. Then lie lied the other a bit, and they were again in niiay e s " "Easy enougih, you see,'' lie said. ''In ~act it's too easy to cihange the tone. B~end nug the tonguie does it, and when a p~layer strikes too hard he bends the tongue. lie iends it back perhaps a little too f ar, it's is bad as ever, only the other way. 'Then lie bends it, the other way, and the first Lhing lie knowa the tongue Is broken. What are my regular prices ? T1hey range from fifteen cents to $1.25 apiece, and( you aan't get, a gross any less tihan that. Tlhe hfference mn price is due to difference in alze and~ flmish. Some p~eople, you know, want the most eXpansive things always; want silver-plated rramnes and gold-tipped tongues. That's all foolishness. A shoe inaker's wvax for ai til) is quite its goodl as a bit of gold, Butt if a matn wiats gold 2'll give It to him andi chtarge him for It. Pou :idn't think jewsharps were so expensive? You probiably have im mtindl the toy COnt Cerns that youi lind in every toy store ami can buy for a centt apiece. L'hey tare tiot madite here, lbut in Glermatny antd 10ngland. litrmuinghtam turnns t hem out by the barrel fiul. I never imatke such harps. My aheapest hairp is the lifteen-cent otie, with Linuned frame, and I sell mtore of theta titan itny other kind. " "liw Is a jewsharp) madte?'" "if my fire wats not, out I'd shtow you while we are talking. 1 buy till my framtes. f'hey are cast of maitlleable tront ini iie malt ltable tronn~orks it Spuy'tan D~uyvii.I intake mty own paittents, and they caist themt to order. I used to Jorge tmy etwn frames, but that. takes too lontg. Whet I have a speelal order I sotmetimtes forge the framte. Still it, is a mtatter of expe~rknac, after till, stmd no tman withtou.t experienice catn make ai good htarp. I cant I alwatys make a good aite. If I have an order for a pair of mty best barps, I maitke four or live. All of thuemt will be good marketable harps, butt not till of them will be alike it totne anmI mQuantity of sound. Out of these I picek the otics I wasnt. Its like mnaking violins. No violin tmaker can tell whatt his instrutmenit will 1)e uit it is donte. It, may lbe just what heo wants. It taty be a comtparatitvu falhre." "Are there good jewshiarp players ini the city?" "I don't know of anty that you umigtht call really good players. Thlere aire tnitn who think they ame good, butt they tire not atiIsts No. I never knew of a pubtlilc playt3er. The jewsharpt is not, an instrumet exactly litted for public pltyintg, low many <do I maitke in a year? I can't tell you. I keel) ino accounuts. When I deliver a pair of htarps or a gross, 1 get my tmonuey or the ciutomier doesn't get the hatrps. sell buy wholesia to onily two or three houses. I will not sell to Tom, Dilck, andtu Iliarry. 'VT result Is that, people who watnt my hairps know where to get themi." Money and fame are the two thaingsa that mn work hardest for, and after death, one la worth to thubem luist about a much a the other, A Tough Time. A story told by Joseph Sterrette, of Big Lake, Dakota, who has just managed to break through the terrible snow blockade in that section of the country, gives only a fair Ptatement of the troubles bxperienced by the settlers of the Northwest during the severe Winter. Mr. Sterrette preempted 100 acres of farm land in Big Lake two years ago, and at once noved on it with his family and settled down. to work. At the end of one year he was in shape for farmihg, and had a comfortable cabin. Last year Ie harvested 60 acres of wheat, 25 bushels to the acre, and realized $1,200. lie hlau in a iquantity of fuel, and prepared for Winter, but it proved more severe than he or his neigibors had calculated. In fact Sterrelte's better preparation for the rigors of the season turned out to be the only means which prevented himself, fami ly and several neighbors from starving and freezing to death. In February he found it necesary to rescue the entire families ot two neighboring farmners,not so well housed fron perishing by cold, by taking them irto his own house. The cold wasso sLeady and so bitter that before the season was half over the fNel which lie had gathered to last un1itil Spring was all ConIsumeiC1d. Then lie and the men staying with hii went out and totk down the fences and out-houses and burned them. The heavy snow fall, which at this time blockaded the railroads, was piled in such drifts about. the house where Sterrette and iis neighbors were doniciled as to absolutely cut off aill com imiuniicaticn Witlh the outside World. The mercury fell lower than ever; the winds grew filercer, and the surrounding suiow caked uand solidilled. At this timie the ien dug their way-or raither nioed it-through the hlockade to the railway near by, and dug out, ties which they chopped up. took homile aind burned to cook their scanty food and save their wives and chhilren from frezing. Wheii the ties an1d telegraph poles that, could lie retched were colinied it was decided to dig through to the cabins of those sheltered in Sterrette's house and bread them hiy for fuel. This was done. The hitter cold still continuing, Sterrette's furniture was next sacrilleed even to the bedsa<i.s, t ruinks andic einldren's toys. While the cold imprisoned pioneers were luon this fast sumpply of fuel a cow.sultation wias held, and it was decided to make a desperate iattemipt to drive through the deadly llast on the crust for relief. John Decker agreed to go. A sleigh was pre pared and with five horses hitchead to it, Becker started. I, was a terrible under. taking, andi when the brave man left there were tears. frozen upon his cheeks. Becker persisted in taking a line shepherd dog. I le gave as lis reason: "I don't know what ny happien; I would rather bury Unrlo il nlay belly than him freeze to deaith.'' Sterrette aiiI his compianions becaine alarm edi when at the end of two days l.ekier (d not return, anl they started out, for him. They ha(d not gone far when they came across a hole ini a drift, where Becker had broken through. The man waus found curled u) ill tihe sleigh frozen dlead. His fa1thful log was lying huddled up agalist, his breast dead. The flye horses were standing life less on their feet, all frozen staif. The men carried Bteeker's body back, iade a collin or the sleigh, nailed tihie Loripse up inl it,and then reverenfly placed it. in the corn crib until the weathber should perimitof its burial. Soon after this, aul justi as Ihe lparty was onl the pomit of despair, the weathcr imod erated sufliciently to break the enow block 1adIc, iand Sterrette anid friends found relief. A neighboring family during this time hatil no other food than so1up) made fron an iox pelt, which happened to be In the house when the bloAkade began. Notwithstanding aill this, Mr. Sterrette says the people like tile country, and say they will stay and i the future be prepired for severe Winters. The hand is goodl, the soil is (deep black; mhost oi' ih settlers arc foeign~ers, anid the owvnershaip of tihe lantd is to theim do novel and so pirecious thbat they will not give it up. A 1tran~ge Final. TIhe odd est pla(ce of sepualtuire for the bones0 of a humian being probablhy ever con ecived hias juist been discovered near Spring illis, Inl Champaign county. Th'le facts are as followsa. A party of menm, consisting of Henry Seller and others, ct, down a large ain tree. 1t made two saw logs, each fourteen feet long.The logs ars now in the saw null. 01n101) of these, thirty feet from Ithe groundia, imibed-'led in the colad timnber, anad lookinag, from the rmngs airoundl~ it, as if it hadt been there for ages, was fomnda fthe thigh-bone of an aduilt human being, presumnably a Let it be borne in inda that this bone was in a solid log, thoiugh too short for a saw-log; that the timber all airounu it was green; no knot-holes or deadwood. How did( it get there ? When (discovered one of the men struick into it, wilh'ithe bit, of an axe. The axe broke, anid the piece as still firmly imbetlded in the bone. Of course speenlation is rife as to thle mysterious circumstances, and rumors of a murder connmuttedl many years ago, where all thec parts of the biody wvere diecoveredl b~at the head and1( one thiigh-hone, aret afllat. lie that as it mlay, the bone speaks for itself. Th'fe neigihborhmoodl has somieting of a repuitationm for occurrences of this kird. Beverai years ago a live frog frog being liberated fromi the heart of a large growing tree. Asa Ai bment-Ymaded lain, P'rofessor .Sylvester, the dlisf inguishledl mlathemlatician of Johans 110opkin's Univer sity, Is (described as one of the most ab~sent, minaledl of men. One (day lie set ouat ab sorbed in profound mieditation to go to his lecture roomi. Arrivedl at a plae wha.re thme gas piple was being taii up, he looked helplessly ait the ditch a moiment ; then, lnstead~ of stepping into thme street, andf go. lng airotund, lie quietly returned home. TIheo next miorning the sidewalk wvas still out of pla1c, and1( his cliiss had1( a secont holidlay. -On the thIrd mornig a plank hiad been lahd across the chasm, over which thle absent minded pro'afessor walkead and wa onCa his way rejoicing. Every siummer he goes to England, and 011e year lie hlad reached Philadql a lia on thme return, when lhe missed a paper on which Ite had written the restilt of cert aIn abstruso calculations. Tnrning uipomn hise track lie recrossed the ocean and hiad got as far as Lverpo>1, when heo found the missing doeam e it in his hiocket-book, where 1he had turned it over a score of times while on lis way to England In scaro of it. LucU and Omens, There Is scarcely any country in the world so blinded by superstition as India. The mind of a Hindoo Is tinctured to such an extent with the conviction of a super natural agency directing his every step, whether for good or for evil, that each moment almost of his life he looks for sonie omen indicating approval or disapproval of what be might at the tine be engaged in, or be about to engage in. No sooner is a son born than the Brahmin who is the family priest draws up his horoscope, as it able to announce whether the path in life of the child will be smooth and unruf. tie'l, or if he is destined to a ronigh and stormy future. When he has reached marri -geable age the Brahmins again ap pear on the scene and-- are asked to fix an auspicious day, nay, even the hour and the minute when the nuptial knot is to be tied; and should, through some mischance that partleular moment be allowed to pass -away without the ceremony taking place, the marriage has to be put off till some otter propitious day that is subsequenutly to be fixed upon, and which in some cases night not occur for a year or two. Even after his death a man cannot be secure from being inade a vhitim to oniens, for when that event (oes tappen the priests tire alt work to ascertain wheth r the day he died was favorable to his happiness hereafter or otherwise. Should a )(r ion about to undertake a joni ety or cominence any %york hear an other sneeze, he will conside( it a good or bad omen, according as the latter has sneezed once or twice. If once only, he will delay his departure for a few minutes or put ol his work till sone ohiertine. So strongly and so generally is thisbelieved in that often serious consequences follow on ai person sneezing inoppartunely. Servants have been known to be dismissed by their nasters, couitiers to be doirived of the fa vor of primces, for having been inadvertent. ly the iedlium through whom an unlucky o nen wus displayed. The screeching (it an owl is believed to portend (heath. So thoroughly are the people convince.1 of this that no sooner are its dismal notes heard than quite a cominiotion is created and it often happens that at dead of night the whole village turns out to drive away this bird of i1l omen. Great care is also taken not to mention the name of a chilt in the night, for fear an owl should hear it, the popular belief being that it would in that case repeat the name every might, aid the child, in consequence, would pine 'tway and dIe. The scratching of the palm of the hand is believed to )roguoaticate that the pdrson will receive some monov, while the scratching of the sole of the foot indicates that a long journey will have to be underhaken. To hear the word "mon key" early in the morning is considered very unlucky, and evils of every descrip. tiont are looked forward to as likely to happen during the (ay. And yet a monkey is one of the sacred animals of the Ilindoos. At Benares thousands of theimi are allowed to live in gardens spec 'iiy set apart for them, and are fed by all classes of people, who in so doing con sider they aire performing an act of great charily and devotion. The snake is never mentioned lat night, the popular belief be. ing that it is stare to make its appearance if is namo be ittered. If there is occa sion to speak about it the word reptile is Iued instead. There exists a superstitiotns belief, that should credit be given for the first article sold in the morning, that day's bu iness will be attended with great loss. 10ven if the piirchaser be his best customer, the shioepkeeper will either ask him to cone again or to buy a trilling article and pay cash for it, thus eniabling the person to perori his first cash transactions. Af ter a person has taken off his shoes, should one fall over another it is believed to be an omen th -t, the person Is about to t''avei. Should lie really meditate a journey he a!. lows thne shoes to remain in thit position; II not, lie puts them 5 ratight and -.s Tijposedi thus to preCVenit his joum'ney. A person meeting a severe loss or getting into some trouble is often known to attribute his maisfortune to havig seen some uinlucky face in the morning, stuch as that of an oilman or a man of notoriously hbad char acter, or one who has some bodily deform ity. A person blin~d of one eye as consid credl exceptionally unlucky, and is gener ally avoided by all ini the mbormnag or when a journey is about to be umndeitaken. Amony: uther bad onmens may lbe mientionedl a snake or a jacikall crossing onie's path ; trearing a person cry when you tire going any where ; the cawing of a crow and1( the crying of a kite; a cat crossing one's path, and1( the seeing an emipty pitcher. It is strange as compilared with the bad there arc few good omnn. Among these may be mentionmed the foliowing: The meet ing of a dead body beig carned away and no one0 cryIng with it; seeing a pitcher' attached to it or a lirahmnin carrying a jug of wvater from the Ganges; a lizard creep ing up one's body; hearing a bride cry when shte is leaving her parents and going to live with her hitsband; hearing the bell of the temple strike or a trumpet sounid when one is setting ocut on a journey ; a crow perchmed on a deaud body floating down the river, andic a fox cIr"4Rint one's path. Siai'UOC 45 ,eleaauc,11. Th~e importance or til adeoquatd supply of this val.ible ~ medcne-uilninec-always onl hand1(, ind~eendenit, of inlterrup~tion from wars, revolution, and short sigeated legisla mion in South America, cannot be over esimal ed. Many an English magistrate and 1imnglsh soldier has owo.m his life to quinine. In lengal it is familhiar to the natives as "qulnyan," and wve have rarely found the smallest olijection made to it Oil the score of caste when-dispensed by English hands. A plentiful supply of the anadulteratedi ariole, might, be the nmeans of checking, im sonie measure, the ravages of the epidiemic un'w known as the Burdwin fever. Tio Englishmen 'sent to punish Looshafs or Nagas on the Eastera frontier, anid to spiortsmlen and explorers as a prophylactic, quIinine is as essential a part of their equip ment ats a water-proof coverint or a single poled tont,. Witethier quimine will ever lie masnuftac tutred on such an extensive and protitable scale as to take the place of opun in China may faiirly be doubted. But the very last report, from India shows that the plainta tio is of the Government are thilving ; thmat a large dIlstrtbution. of p!ants to the public is stIll going on ; that the crop raised in thle Nellgherries alone was 114,000 pounds, some of whish was exported to England, and that, after dhue provision for establish4 monts, collectIon, buildings, roads and re pair, there was a clear net profit on .he transaction of sonie ?35,000,