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SE -B *. . ..E . TRI-W EEKLY EDI TION. WINNSB3ORO, S. C., JUNE~ 16, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. ' IN. PERILOUS WATERS. 'Bout ship I 0 brother mariners I 'Tie noodful we should floo For ploasuro spreads her luring not Beneath this hungry sea. 'rwere death to us did wo but pass You ridge of creanly foam ; The-e, in a sea-cave, fathoms doop, 'I no ar n makes her homo. O'er lucout waves of golden green Soft breezts bear along To ears that will not be beguited The wanton's duloot song. We scorn the glamour of her face, A flame with hot desire ; No charm lies in her baleful look Of eyed that scotch liko lIre. Her kisses pall, her lovo is false So quick to seaward sail ; For kinder is the stress of waves, Less cruel is the gale. 'Tho heaven of our hope doth lio Hard by a brighter shoro ; Thore we may strike our Lattered sa ils, And rest us overmoro I Charity's Rewilrd. In t lie first cabin of the steamer boud to Quebec, they dined sumptuously, and lived a happy luxurious life. In the steerage -leaven have mercy I how they suffered I Millicent Dty shivered to her very soul when she thought of it,aud wondered often why such things should be, why some were so rich, and some were so poor; om1e so ULteIly alone, unloved, antd neglected. Had she been able to act as she choae,there would have 1)0en a grand transformation scene that dirty steerage very soon, and tables covered with1 choice dalnties would have risen through the floor and snow-white linen, and fresh, soft couches would have taken the place of the rags, and hard berths, and general shabbiness. utt one girl,though she were a rich one, had little in her power on that desolate waste of waters. Still, that little Millicent dic'. She had it her posession biscuits,aud cowmerves, and delicate damnties prepared for her own comfort during the voyage;aud thinking that at the cabin table she had all she needed, she played the Lady Bountiful with these small stores; chooving for her principal proteges an Italiatn woman and ier gaunt children, who seemed to her to be the most wretched of them all, and to whom, speaking the language well, she could make herself understood. In vain her friends remonstrated; In van the captain declared that lie should forbid such dangerous work aanong the emigrants. Millicent had her own way. Once a day, at least, she penetrated into the Inferno be t w the comparative Parailise of her own douain, rind fed those poor parched lips with her daiuties, and comforted the mother, when her youngest lay at death's door, with-her innocent sympathy. And the woman grew to love her, and the wan, but classical faces of the boys lit tap when she approached. And when, with land in sight, the little heiress emptied her purse into the dark hand of the penniless steerage passenger, and mnade her, for the moment, rich and full of hope, she turned with severe earnestness to her eldest boy. "Never forget to pray to the Madonna for this beautiful Signorina I" she cried. "Itemenbr that it is all that you can dc, and my dyhaig curse upoa you if you for get, it I" And with this fierce adjuration to haer children anld a prayer that fell like liquid silver I romn her lips for "'the Slganorlina," siae parted from Millicent, who weant to her beautiful home anti her friend s. saddc encd and saottened by the scenies that she haud witngssed, ad aemlemibceed thiem a long, long while. She hiad given the woman heri address, but the poor woman di not come to her. Whalit fate hefel her, Milliceant (11( not, know; andit, in time, the amemoay of those well cuit classical fac es, gaunt and meagre from starvatilon, but with a strange wildi beauty abiout thiem neverthleless, ceased to haunt, her-perhaps because one0 fauce hiad tauken possession of her fancmy, as oane face will, sooner or later, of thaut of every Johna Blauir, a youang engineer and archi tect, had met hier,andt looked into hecr eyes, haud touched her hiand, hadt uttered .thlose saubtle compliments that wini a wvoman's haart s0 eausiy; and though he was ncathei rich nor great, lie was the one mana of mn to heCr. Six mioths fronm the dasy of their meet' ing Johna Blair and1 Millicent D~ay were married, anti a haappler p~air it wouldi have i~ala hrd to flndt. Theay yielded mutually to) each ofher's wishes, and conseqjuenatly grewv to have the saume desires, so that al last no ylding was niecessairy. Only 1n 0one thaig dhi( Millicent p~rove herself obstinute-naothing could( tempt het on ana ocean voyage. A visit to hais native Enagland andit a teut inl Emiope was John's anticipated plleasure; but, her experince in crossinag the ocear hiad mnade her averse to ats reptletltlon. "Whether I saw themi or nlot, the faucei of the steerage passengers wouald hiauai mel,"' she salid; ''and I caimnot eandutre thae Idea of settig foot uponi anl oceanm steame: agan." So John, who haad ano wish to galonec left thec latter to tile cuare of thn , wh<a brought them few sorrows aand mI f h joy and~ now and then laidh upon01 MIi icenat' brieas~t a little token of his ilight; so that a last a hmoy 'ahnost, as tail as herself caJllet Millicent mothler, anid the' nuarsery wai multsical witsh-litble voices. Ti' n), braver and older, and more will i evea to do anything to make Jol i~'1 llllcent agreed to the Europeai 4 " leaving the little ones to the ten der care of grandmanmma, and grandpapa, the married )overs Look their places in a great ocean palace, and left laid behind them, for awhile at least. "It might be," Millicent thought, as she remembered her darling babes with tears in her eyes--"miight be forever, if the sea were cruel." But the sea ivas kind. No storms arose. They crossed the Atlantic in safety, and traversed Europe with none but pleasti rable events until at last. they found them selves In Naples, and ready, one bright moruinim, to do, what all visitors to Naples must desire to do- namely, ascend lount Vesuvius. They mounted their borses, and led by a guide, ascended the iouitaini to a certain resting-place, where it is customary to die mount, and, leaving their steeds behind, trust to one's feet and the guide for further advancement. "Is heaven lovelier than this?" asked Millicent, clinging to her husband, and bursting, she hardly knew why,imto a flood of tears. But the guide did not leave them to their feast of beauty undisturbed. Ile Imade them do V, suvius properly; peep into the crater, possess themselves of a piece of lava, witness the process of cooking an egg in the hot sand, and go through with the rest of the formula. Then it seemed time to return;and John, glancing at his watch, counted the tine that lay between them and their inn at Naples, and they began their descent. Suddenly, at a spot where some large trees enlivened the desolation of the rough road, the guide paused and uttered a cry. Before them, risen as It seemed from tihe very ground,stood a group of ien-mough, savage-looking fellows, armed with guns, and wearing broad hats-who, without further parley, surrounded them and seiz ing the bridles of their liorses,and tying the hands of the trembling guide behind them, led them away over the rough roads in silence. John Blair was no coward; but to on deavor to resist such a force would have been sheer folly in a single man. Booty, as he reflected, was probaly their object, and his wife's safety was his first thought. Holding her hand in his, hecomforted her as well as possible;and fluidly, with a sink ing heart, obeyed the orders of one who seemed to be captain, and dismounted at the entrance of an old ruin, into which they were forced, but not over roughly, to enter. It was an ancient and dilapidated hall, with a fire burning at one end; and here their conductors left them for a while alone, fastening the door behind them. Then, and'then only, the poor guide fell to wringing his hands and weeping, and imploring the lady and gentleman to pay whatever ransom was required. Meanwhile, Milicent,overcome with ter ror, wepteupon her husbanai's breast, and lie found It impossible to comfort her. In deed, the savage aspect of the men, and the accounts that lie had heard of banditti outrages left lim but little hope. Then it was thht they heard the sound of returning feet without, and presently the unfastening of a door. A figure entered, and going to the fire, which had nearly smoulered out, flung on It seime dry woodl, which -instanitly kindled into a blaze, and biy its flame lit two torches, which were thrust into sconces pendant from the wall. By this welcome light they saw that it was that, of a wvomanm, whmo seemed to have brought some food for Ltem upon a sort of wvooden tray. She was old, aind gauint., anid beint; but her features had a strange beauty about them, neverthelcss, and~ awakened in Milli. cem.t's mindl a mieimory too vague and ide finIte for wVordls. She hiad seen the face before; it might he in sonme of those old pictures att Rome-that brown skin, those classicadalit, linies, that gaunt imngreness that seemed to blight what once had beeni beautiful. Yes, semewhiere -she remcim bered it. In another momnt the truth flashed upon her,as the woman knelt (downi to deposit the tray upon the floor. She uttered a little cry ; a shriller one responld edl to it, and tihe gaunt creature lay pros trate before lie r, kissing lier garments. "'It ms the Signorina I" she cried. And Milhcent knew the i~hian woman of the steerage, whomi she had succored so many years before. "Then it Is thus that Gliacomo returns a benell" cried the wonman. '-My nmahedic tions upon hhnmu I But he did not knowv youi-he did not rememberm ias I (do. Wait. llave iio fear I You are safe f" Then another nmemory d'uwnied upon Millicent; and, in the captain of those bandits, she knew the boy whose eyes lad beeni fixed upon her face when hisi mother bade him pray for hdr eterinally. In another moment lie was there, and Millicent, knew that they were safe. Bad as lie must have been, a bandit and aii out. law, this Italian had retained~ .his grati tudie. TIhie kindness of the young heiress to the wretched emigran~ts had not, been forgotten, and the man who had returned to his own land to lead a lawvless life had cherished hien memory fondly in his breast. ile fed them with the best lie had to give, and prayedi for them to thme saints and the Madonna; amid his own hand red with many a man's blood ledh them safely from his forest fastnesses to a spot where the lights from the city of Naples seemed to snumle a wecm hm -The wheat eOmp of 18$1 will be Capt. Renezfnki has written an inter Dating book oil "The last of the Anakim in the Land of Moab," in which he gives some particulars as to his studies of the in scription on the famous Moabite stone. In Aui,ust, 18018, the lRev. F. Kein, of the Church Missionary society, while in the Land of Moab, near Dibon, was informed by an Arab that near by there was a black Basalt stone inscribed with ancient chara( ters. Upon going to the locality indicated lIe found lying among the ruins a stone about thico feet ten inches high, two feet broad and 141 inches thick, rounded at top and bottom, and containing thirty-four lines of inscription running across the stone. Mr. Klein at this tiluc did not appreciate the importance of tho discqvery, and he merely copied a few words frolin the stone. lie, however, took tmeasures to secure the stone for the Berlin museum, but made little progress with his negotiations. A few weeks afterward Capt. Warren, the agent of the Palestine Exploration fund. was informed of the existence of the stone, but he took no action in the matter, know ing that the Prussian consul was endeavor ing to secure it. . In the beginning of the following year Capt. Warren was ustonished to learn, as was also M. Clermont Uanneau, of the French consulate at Jerusalem, that no copy or "kqueze" of the inscription had been taken. Towards the close of the year 1859 the latter not only sent men to obtain quezes, who quarreled in the presence of the Arabs, but offered $375 for the stone, whereas X80 had already been promised by the Prussian government, and accepted by those who claimed the ownership of the stone. At this stage the gove-:nment of Nablus demanded the prize for itself, and the Moabites, exasperatied at his rapa city, "sooner than give it up put a fire under it and threw cold water on It, and so broke it, and then distributed the bits among the different families, - to be placed in the granaries and act as blessings upon the corn ; for they said that without the stone a blight would fall upon their crops." After immense trouble M. Clermont-Uan neau recovered some twenty of these frag ments, containg 613 letters, while several small pieces were acquired by the Palestine exploration fund. These fragments, when united, were found to contain 6609 words, out of a total of 1,100 which the complete stone must have contained. The greater part of the missing letters were recovered fr.>m the squezcs taken before the stone was broken by the ruthless Moabites, "so that only thirty-five words, fifteen half words and eighteen letters-less than one seventh of the whole-remain t-j be sup plied from conjecture." With reference to the characters engraved on tihe stone, the general opinion is that they are Phoanician, also called Samaritan, Such as were used by the Jews before the captivity. Dr. Uidsburg, who has ekecuted a translation of the inscriptions, says that these charac ters were common B. C. 700 to all the races of western Asia, an(1 were used i Nineveh, Plonicia, Jerusalem, Samaria, Mloab, Cilicia and Cyprus. With reference to the inscription on the stone itself, It may be stated that it records sonic remarkable aveuts in the reign of Mesha, King of Moab, who is mentioned in the second book of Kings (iii., 4, 5), and who had rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. Th'le irst part of the inscription narrates the cir unmstanices which led to the Stone being ?rected, while the second part relates to the public works undertaken by Mesha ifter lie had overcome his Jewish foes, and the third part celebrates his victory over ,he Edomiltes. The rendering of (!apt. Renczynski represents the result of '"nine rears' toil 'and labor." cOa. "Coca," the "beloved narcotic of the Peruviani Indian." was first named butani rially through the labors of Joseph de Jus sieu. The history of the most noted botan ist is a melancholy one, Hie left France in 1735, in the mremoirable expedition of M. La Condamine, and after M. La Condamine left South America, MI. J ussieu continuared his botanical researches, making numerous journeys oii foot, notably thocee to the chi chiona regions. Thei~ result of fifteen yecre labors were contained in certain cases of dried plants, etc., and a native' servant, at Buenos Ayrea. thinaking these cases contained money, stole themi, anid this loss had such an effect on poor J ussieu that he returned to Franec in 1771 dleprived of reasoin. TVhc Coca is the great source of comfort and enjoyment, to the Peruvian Indian. It Is to himi what, the kava-kava is to the South Sea Islander, the betel to the Iliindoo and Malary, aind tobacco to the rest of man kiind,but with this (difference it producs in vigorating etfects. T1he Peruvian Indian looks upon01 Coca with veneration. Ini the palmy days of the Uncas or Yucas, coca wvas sacritleed to the sun, the high priest, or 11mullac Uni chewed it duringr the ceremro ny,and before the arrival of tire Spaniar-ds, coca was used in lieu of money. After the Spanish conquest, much was (lone t~o prescribe its use, because as a council of bishops heiin 1569, saidl it was a ''useless and1( perniis leaf, andl on account, of the belief stated to 1)e entertained by the In dilans, that the habit of chewing cocoa gave them strength, wvhichr is -an Illusion of the devil." Coca, Indeed. fromr its p~opularity, beIng used by aibout eight millions of peo plo0, lhas always had a great commuercial im p~ortance, and one viCeroy, D~on F'rancisco) Toledo, issued ino less than sevenity ordli nances concerning coca in the space off four years (1570-1574). The coca plant is a scrub of four to six feet hIgh, with straight atund alternate branches andl leaves like those of the teai plant, and is cultivated at elevations of from 5,000 to,06,000 feet above the level of the sea in thne warmi valleys of the endlterni slopes of the Andes. Here the only a! ternations of climrate Is from wet to (dry, frost is unknown, and it rains mtore or less every month of the year. The seeds are soni oin the surface of the soli as socn as the rainy season commences, aind tbegin te sprout in a fortnight, being carefully wateredl, andl protectedl fr-om the sun by ai thiatchied root. The following year th( seedlings are transplanted in a soil care. fully broken tip and freed fr-onm wveedts. TIh< ancient custom was to raise the plants ii terraces on the hillsides, but now planta tions on the level gruound are resorted to, al, though Indians aver that plants raised uin, the former conditions yield a much supe. rior quality of leaf. At the end of eighiteet imonthsg the first harvest Is ready, and thi picking of the leaves, performed by womret and children, Is very carefully proceedet with, so as not to injure the young and stil tender shoots. As soon as one crop o1 leaves is removed, if wnll watered, 'an',I thu ground carefully weeded, another crop I8 ready i about forty days. A plait coil tinues to yiekl for about forty years, and Dr. Poeppig gives the proit or a coca plan tatlon as about 45 per cent. Bach picker carries a piece of cloth,in which the leaves, plucked one by one, are placed. 'I'hese leaves aie then taken to the drying yard, formed of shite flags. Here the leaves are spread out in thin layers,and carefully dried in (lhe sun. Too much exposure to the sun spoils the flavor of the leaf, and if heaped too much together, the leaves ferment and -beconie fetid. As soon as dried, the leaves are packed in bags made of banana leaves, with an oildle covering of clothor packed tightly i large parcels of about 50 11, each. In the Sandia district of Caravaya; two varieties of coca are recognized, the Ypara and liatun Yunca, the latter having a lar ger leaf than the former. In Boliva, coca Is treated as a government monopoly, and the right is generally farmed out. In 1850, coca brought into that country's exchequer a sun of $200,000. The whole yield of coca in South Amierica is estimated at thirty millions of pounds. Coca soon deteriorates in keepig, Indians treat it ats valueless if kept longer than seven months. Such is tile faith in coca, that it is be lieved if a dying man can but taste a coca leaf wheii placed on his tongue, his future bliss is assured. No Indian is wit hout, his rcuspa or coca bag made of llama cloth, and three tines a day, sitting down, lie takes leaf by leaf and rolls them up in his mouth till lie forms a ball. Then applying a sniall quantity of powder consisting of carbonate of potash, made by burning the stalks of the quinoa plant, mixed with lime and water lie goes on his way rejoic ing. The use of coca is widely spreid. rhe shepherd on the'cold slopes of the Andes has but this and a little annize as his sole norishment, and the runo r messenger looks to it as his solace anid siup~poi t. As to the properties of coca, It seems very evi dent that it allows of a greater aiouit of fatigue, with a lesser aiounit of nourisi ment, and prevents diffliculty of respiration in ascending steep mouilftntam slopes. It has an agreeable and aromatic taste,acecomi panied by la slight irritation, which excites the 1low of saliva. When nde into a ten, in taste It is like that of green tea, and of. fectually prevenis drowsiness. Applied ex ternally as a poultice, it moderates rheu matic pains, brought on by exposure to colk and wet, and also'cures headache. Mr. Markman chewed coca leaf very frequently,and states that he found it to procluce an agreeable soothing feeling, that lie could eidure longer abstinence fron ficod with less inconvenience, and that when using it, lie could ascend precipitous mountain sides with lb feeling of lightness and elasticity, and without losing breath. lie also considers it the least. injurous of all other like substances, even when taken in excess, and at the same time, the most soothing and Invigorating. Travelhw iu Olden Times. A careful inspection of the vehicles of former flines leads us ta the conclusion that our forefathers were lined wiLh zine and copper-fastened--for nothing short of it could have withstood ti.i joltings and jarrings, the bouinings and binupings on tailed upon those who used any other method of locomotion except that which nature provides. The chariot in which General and Mrs. Washington went to Philadelphia upon his election to the Presi idency was no doubt an instrument of torture. To the discomforts of this rambling old carriage may bu added, for the General, the incessant wagging of Mrs. Washington's tongue, for it is a well-known fiet, that Martha was of a shrewish nature, and made no bones of g;iving the General her viewvs in a very forceble mnner. The miethodt of traveling whlich they pumrsued gave publicity to the fat ! that the General had1( a cuirtabin lecture . very night foi a a night, cap. in the course-of tlieir jour necy they arrangedl toI .apendl the nights at the houses of theo gentry scabttered along between Moumnt Vernon anid Plnladelphiia andl Mairtha wra often hecardl to nag her hor<t andc maiiser uni! t a loud snore an niounlced that the General was safe in the land of (reams from all wvorldily annoy. aiiccs. Th'ie chariot wv 's t he acknowvledged mark of aristocracy. A journey ini these (lays entailedt a retinue, soraewnit lafter the fol lowving order: 1. -Marster and Alissis in a carriage. 2. Marster's "luy" on horseback, with aL led horse for Alarster 'to ride when lie wished to stretch his legs. 3. A wagon containing two hair trunks and M issis's maid. Th le rate of prlogressioni was abouit four mfi'es aii hour. 'The habit of (carryinig servanits eveni on neighborly visits, obtained in Virginia and Maryland u~ntil the iiboilition of slavery. A form of entertaIning, called ''speiiding the (liy,'' waus in fashion. This consistedl in going to a friend's house early in tihe morn ing, and1 staying unitil haite In the~ eveing, coinsuiming the inteorval iln a succession of meals. ilesides the visitors, the coachiimin and( horses, there wils usually a "miid." w~ho( sat on thle rack iochind th~e carriage, swinginig her legs in ecstatic delight at the~ prosp~ect, of "goinig abroadl." Chaises were the only two-seated vehicles in use, andl were something like a modern top) buggy, except that It had lbut two wheels. Consequently, going uip hill, the occupants were being spIlled out behiind, iad going down lill they wore splilled oul1 befoie. A KMatwr of Instory, In the year 1785, the St-ate of Frankih was formiid out of la portion (If .North (Caro hina, eiibraicinig the present, territory of the State of T1enniesse, and1( the Legislaituire 1 the aforesaid staite or Franklin paissedl the fc. Ilowilmg fee and1( slary bill :llis 10xcel lency the Governor, per anium, I ,00t0 deel skins ; Ills H onor the Chief .1 ustice, 50(t (leer skilns; the Secretary to Ills IExcellene.1 the G'.vernor, 600 raccooin skinms; thie Treasurer of the State, 4160 raccoomn skills: each coun~ty clerk, 100 beaver skinis; (lern of the House of Commlons, 200 raccoom skins; mfenmber of the Assemibly,'per diem thlree raccoon skmns; justices' fee for sign Iig a warrant, sne muskrat skin ; to th< constable for serving a warranit, onie mini11 skin. .Enacted into lb law the 28th day o October, 1789, ulnder thle great Lsial of th< State. T1hlis seemns to be a 'imattet o Ihistorical truth, just as tobacco was once made to answer the purpose of currency Ii Virginia. The Ulinion or 4eeds, in a very large niumber of cases the dif fusion of seeds is effected by anihn1als. To this class belong the fruits and berries. In them an outer liesly portion becomes pulpy, and generally sweet, inclosing the seeds. It is remarkable that such fruits, in order, doubtless to attract animals, are, like flow ers, brightly colored-as, for instance, the cherry, currant, apple, peach, plui, straw berry, raspberry and iany others. This color, moreover, is not present iti the un ripe fruit, but is rapidly developed at maturity. In such cases the actual seed is generally protected by a dense, sometimes almost stony, covering, so that it escapes digestion, while its germination is perhaps hastened by the icat of the animal's body. It. may be said that the skin < f apple and pear pip)s is comparatively soIt; bait then they are Imbedded In a stringy core, which is seldom eaten. These colored fruits form a considerable part of the food of monkeys In the tropical regions of the earth, and we can I think, hardly doubt that these ani mals are guided by the colors, just as we are, in selecting the ripe fruit. This has a curious bearing on an interesting question as to the power of distinguishing color possessed by our ancestors in bygone times. Magnus aiit Ueiger, relying on the well known fact that the ancient languages are poor in words for color, and that in the oldest books-as, for instance, in the Vedas, the Rendavesta, the Old Testainent, and the writings of Ilomer or lieaiod-though of course, the heavens are referred to over and over again, its blue color is never dwelt on, have argued that the ancients were very deficient in the power of distim guiehing colors, and especially blue. In our own cauntry Mr. ladstone i-ts lent the weight of his great authority to the same conclusion. For ny part I can not accept this view. There are it seems to mC,'vewy ,strong reasons against it, into whieh I enn- not, of coim se, now enter; anid thouigh I should rely mainly on other considerati.ns, tile colors of frtlits arv not, I think, without signilicance. If ionkley's and apels could distinguish thei, surely we may infer that even the most savage of imien could do so too. Zeu1xis would never have deceived the birds it lie hatd not, had a fair perception of color. In these instances of Colored fruits the fleshy edible part more or less surrounds the true seeds; in others the aet'il seeds themselves become edib'e. In tie former the edible part .serves as a temptation to animals; In the latter it Is stored i) for the use of the plants itself. When, therefore, the seeds themselves are edibe. they arV generally protected by more or less hard or bitter en velopes, for instance the horse-chestnut, beech, Spanish chestinut, walnut, &c. That these seeds aro used for food by squirrels and other animals is, howevet, by no mcans necessarily an evil to the plant, for the re suit is that they are often carried some distance and I hen dropped, or stored up and forgotten, so that in this way they get carried away from the parent tree. liunions or Holis, "Is it against the laws of this city to have corns on your feet?" Inquired Theo dore Rembo as lie found himself before the bar of justice, in Detroit. "No, sir, nor on the top of your head it you want 'em there. The city ordinances of Detroit and the laws of Alichigan are very liberal on the subject of corns.'' "Well, sir, last night I was walking along one of our streets, hobbling because my coris hurt me so, wlien a fiend grabbed ie by the collar, called ine a drunkard,and dragged me to a dungeon." "flow awful mean in hiimii" sighed the court. "When I have corns can't I hobble if Its MOre convenient thall walkinmg" "Certainly." "'Well, corais was what ailed me, and I diemiandi that the oflilcer iipologize~ to mec and thait I be set att lIberty." "Le4t, us listeni to the ollcer's story first. "Tis muan,'' began t he ollicer, "'bumped against, at least a (dozen p~edestrians, tellI iigalinst a winidow and broke it, and1( was hymng dlown Oil the cari track when I gatlih credl him in. lie smielled so bad of whiskey wuhaen I brougiit him in that, we had to burni cotl'ee in the iooim." "'Well" queiiiriced the court as lie turnied to the prisoner. "'1 say it was cornis." "''o maV nuny have you got?'' '"Show 'emi up. I haven't seeni a real oldl-fashiionied corn in abiom eighteen years. "DJo you think I'm goinig to pull1 my hoots oil before the crowd'? I guess I've got a little moi~deaty left," '"Thlen i'll take care of it for you. shaill exile you bor thirmy days.'' '"For what?" '"Cormis and miodesty, adlias dIrunk and disordierly. 'Thiat.'s all, mny man, andlu no(w pilease fall back. and give somie of the other mumngry mnortamls a chiamice to say they have hiuiiions or boils." Do, Your' Woirk Well. D~aniel Webster gives an account of p~etiy insurance cause that was brougbt to hi when a young lawvyer in l'ortsmiouthi. Only a small amiouiit, was lnvolvedl and a twenty dlollar fee was all Lhat was proamisedl. H14 saw that,, to d1( ils clients full justice, a journey to Bo0ston, to consuilt t ho l,avi Library, would be desirale. lie wouhl lie out of pocket, by such an expedition, and( for his tane lie would receIve no ade quiate compnlLIsaitionl. After a little besita ion, lie determiiined to (10 his very best, cost what It, mighil. ile accordingly wenl to B3oston, looked uap the authorities, anm gined t.he case. Years after this, Webster Itheii famous, wvas paissinig through Nov York. An impiortant insuranco case wal to bem tr'ied the (liy after his arrival, an( on(21 of Lihe couiisei had beer~ suidcenly takci ill. Money was no object, and1( Webste was begged to'naame his terms and1( comhtic the cause. "'I told thieim," saidi Mr. Web Ister, "'thait it, was preposterouls to expec mec to preumaro a legal argument lit, a fev hours' notice. T1hey insisted, hiowever that I abiouild -look at, the papers; and this lifter some demur, I consented to dho. Well It was miy old1 tweiity-dollar case ove againi, anld, las I niever forget anything, -had all thme authorities at miy fingers' endsh The Court, kuiew that I had no tIme to pre I ipare, and were astonished lat the range c fmy requiremients. 8o, you see, I we 3 handomely p~aid both In fame and mqno; f for that Journey to Boston; and( the muora 3 is that good Work is rewardled In the end ti thugh, to be sure, one's seif-approve should be enongah. A Myftial Plant. 11umnan cunning and huiani credulil have dowered with mystery certaiu plait which are worthy of being considered ti most beautiful and passive or creative o Jeets. One plant, at least, has beeu sa to utter shricks in being toru from ti earth, and to have avenged the violence 1 causing the death of hili who removed i 'Tlls plant was the miandragora of ti poets-the mandrake of Scriptures species of the Salue or nightshade trib the belief in whose qualities as a sedati, or a charm was as old as tlie days of LI childless Iachel. Indigenous 0 tile Eas where probably Its uses as an anodyne ar soporiflc were early known to the imtiate4 it may be that, in order to enhance li wonder of its effects and prevent the e: tirpation of the root by its too commt use, miraculous powers were imputed I it, and superstition hedged it around wit fabled terrors. The evil reputation of tI plant procied it isubsequently the name A tropa Mandragor, by which our oh est botanlsts distingullh it-a name bo rowed from the most terrible of the Fate Atropos, and since transforred to its rel Live, Atropa Jicitedonna (dwale, "dileadlly nightshade"). So pote'lt all valiuable were the medical uses of the roo at a time when few ai'odyes were knowi that the ancient lomnans made it the sul ject of a weird ritual, without w hich the wouhi have deemed it impious to has taken it from the earth. The operat< stood with his back to the wind, dre three circles round the root with a poih of a sword, poured a libat ion on the groum and, turniig to the west, began l.4 dig up. The root of the mandrake, a plai withi a tap root, frequeuthy forked, as m see that of the radish, and covered wit fibrous rootlets, was easily conveitible tin a grotesque likeness of the human forn In tie lime of lienry Vill and Ehlizabetl little Images mnade of mandrake root called abrunes were imnported in iari -numbrj from Gerimay, and found a read sale in Engiand, . The fable of tile woi droms powers of them.,vxegetabie idols wi easily accepted by our sup6AititioIs aIeC tors, and the peddlers who travil aboM from place to place with cases of thel drove a brisk trade. Sir Francis Bact had them in his mind's eve when we wrot "Some plants there Are, but rare, that ha at mossy or downy root, and likewise thi have a number of thread-like beards, I the miandrake, whereof *witches and il1 postors make an ugly image, giving it tLI torm of a face at tod of the root, leavn those st rings to make a broad beard to tI toot. It is to the credit of the old herb lists, Gerard and Turner, that they boi essayed, without fear of consequences,, dig up atd examine for thenaelves tL dr(aded mandrake,and lost no time in pu liahiig the fallacy of the weird stories to of it. i aer the Snow. 'Tihe remarkable case of Elizabeth Wool cock, who was buried under the snow, especially striking. In the winter of 171 she was returnmn on horseback trom Car bridge (England) to her home i a neig) boring village, and having dismounted f< a few minutes the horse ran away fro her. At 7 o'clock on a winter evening si sat down under a thicket, cold, tired I disheartened. Snow came on; she was t( weak to rise, and the consequence w that by the inorning the snow had hea arouild her to a height of two feet abol her head as she sat. She had strengl enough to thrust a twig, with her handke chief at time top of it, through time sno1 to serve us a signal and to aduit a lit daylight. Torpor supervneo, and al knew little inore of what, passed arout her. Night succeeded day, and day aga broke, but there she remained, niotionile tad foodless. Not senseless, however, I< she could hear churchi bells and villas sounds-nay, even thle voice and1( conmve sationi of soie of her neighbors. Foi whole days she thus remained-one sing inch~l of smiulf Ibeinig her only substitumte f food ouring t his tinme, anmd Llhma even sl found had lost its pungency. On the liIfi (liy al thaw coimenced, and1( she sullern e reatly, but it ill withount being abile to e tiricte herself. It was not until the cigh day that the handkerchief was espied by villager, who with mantiy others, had loi bueen seeking for her. Stooping idowni: saidi: "'Are y'ou thiere', Eliziabethi Woodcock She had strength enough to reply13, fnii ly : "D~ear ,lohn Stittle, I kinow your vok F'or (God's sake help mec out.." She died about, half it year iafterwar Ithrough mnismmanagemenut' of frost-bi tt toes; but, It, wits fully atdmitted that no0 0r unless cased m snow, could have lived c of those eight. (lays and nights ini such laie withioutt food. C~,hning, Their linae. Thela legend runs that, the flue Norm Uhurchbof (Oodshaill, In the isle of Wigh was to have beein built in the valley, 1t time builders every motfning foumd time p1 Vious (lay's work, had been dlestroyed d ring thme night and the stones carriedl to) top) of the hill. Consiering tis as a I vine indhication where the holy structuj was to be built, they atccordingly reared omi that prominent sate, whiereo miles round it still forms a graceful a: beauiutifuil object. A si millar legond is lated with reference to the Chuarch of 8 Marie dut Castel, ini (Jucrney, where it currently reported that fairies where agents, while others assert it, was time work angels. Indeed It, would atlppear that imn dii gone by the ivislble beings, of whiatel natu1 rc they were who, according Li) trmn tioni, so) often intemferedl in the building Isome~ sacred edilice, generally selected I its s'te thme most iconvenienit 8spot,11and1 r infrequently a steep hill. TVhe (,hurch t Ilreeden ini Leicestershmire, for miaitan - staiids on a high hill, with thme village t its foot. T1ratdito', however, says i i' when thme sIte of ine church was first fla , upon1, a cenitraml spot ini the village v ,ehosenm. Tlhae foundations were, not om dug, but the~ builers coiumnened~ the r brie. IL was to lio purplose; for iall t1l I butilt, In the couarso of the dily was carr -awiay by (loves duiringr Lne night-tIme, a - skiluilihy bul't exactly in the samie imami Soin the hill where the chiarch stands. Ii 5 foun-der and workmon, awed and torrif Vby this extraordinary procedure, w afraid te bumild the church on its origi site, and agreed to finish tihe one begun The Flower Tracet. A prominent florist estimates that three Y hundred wagon loads of flowering plant& ts are brought to New York during the period Iof the- Spring trade, and that as much as $2, 000,000 Is spent every spring in New U York and Brooklyn for plants and flowers. Le Tie flowers cOme from all around New 'Y York. In New Jersey. Staten Island, - Long Island, and tie adjoining counties of W this State are vast flower and plant farms, a each of which represents a fortune to Its ?, owner. Over in Astoria one floriculturist 'C has over two acres of ground under glass, C and there are several others like him and tI many less extensive, but still very large growers. These raisers have each their special varieties and graftings and plants, ( and in addition to thier Now York trade, ship all over the country. lian Francisco, n Montreal, and Savannah are profitable 0o markets to them, and in every town and 1h city of the United States they have cus e0 tomers. In addition to these extensive f culturists, who raise the rarest and costliest exotic plants. as well as the commonplace market flowers, there are many smaller h ones, who raise flowers for the spring trade - and winter supply of the bouquet-makers >r almost exclusively. In addition to the big d flower and plant farms at Flatbush, Astoria, , Union Hill and Orange, there are niauy iminor ones scattered all over the suburbs, 'uand even in the city itself, One popular Y oie is in Fourteenth sLreet near Third ave tnue, and another occupies the corner of fHouston and Iludson streets. Within a radius of thirty miles from the Uity Hall, t there is at least $10,000,000 invested in i the bush oes. To enumerate the varieties It of plants anud flowers sold in the spring i tratte this year vould require a census of 0 the globe in that line. The gardeners are It constantly adding foreign varieties to their 0 stocks, iid the garaens of India, China, - and the Sandwich Islands contribute to the I. store New Yorkers select from. The heaviest sales are, of course, in the cheaper N varieties of plants. The familhar roses, Y geraiulims. fuschias, heliotropes, pansies, I- daisies, hytdrangeas, laburnums, verbenas, Ls petinias, violete, carnations and niguon e' ettes are sold by the hundreds of thousands. it Ivies, passion flowers, and other vines have 1 an imineus sale too. Ferns, native and 9. tropical; strange grasses from the sun ainitten natural gardens of South America, eC an1d.orchids fromt thle mysterious forests of It the K@!tator swell the list. The catalogues Ls the flow% or men publish would put those of - m-mtly a liihnr'ry to shame, for size at least. e' A dealer said tllit the largest profit is made ng oil cheap plants, thG juniber of them sold iC is so great. The heavidr gains are made 1- by the owners of city greeidouses, w' 1 raise fine plants, and are able to'9tll t 0 without the intervention of middle , e The trade in flower and vegetable eea at this season almost rivals that I plants d d flowers. The flower seeds ar argely imported from France and 9 many, a few coming from England a Holland. The vegetable seeds, on the -ontrary, are grown in the New Englan States, New York, Canada, aid other a etions of the continent, and are exported so as to almost 9 balance the imports of flower seeds. Ameri van vegetable seeds are much better than those grown In Europe and produce better results. They ire popular abroad incon t i'equence. A Royal esting. The marriage of Crown Prince Rudolph 0 of Austria and Princess Stephanujof -eq. d gIm was most imposingly sole '* the church of St. Augustine, in VIldon hilMay the 10tIh. All hour before tij begi1. r- ning of the ceremony the church was densely crowded by a brilliant assembly. TIle streets were filled with people. At II o'clock the procession started froin the d palice and proceeded to the church, the arclidukes and foreign .rinces. n full un form walkng In followedby i-nce ,.Hundolphm in the tilrm of a major-general. e Emperor F'rancl Joseph came next having r on his right, time Kig of the Belgians, both hr eing in~ genlerais' unhtorms. Then came e thle bride with the Empliress or Austria and the Queen of the Belgians on either hand. SThe~ trainis o'f the three ladies were borne iiby the p~rinecipal hadies in waiting. Prin (cess Stephamie wore a miagmficent robe of cloth of sliver, wvithi a train elaborate in emibroide ry, orange blossoms arranged In a1 bunches looping uip the dress, andl a veil of B~rus.sels lace specially made for the occai e sion. imother, the queen, woeablue velvet diress, trinulnedl with lace, and the em cipressq wore a pale gray dress, trimmed with Brussels point lace. The trains 01f the foreign princesses and archduchesses were borne by pages and ladlies of the pat. 'iace. Another group of oficers completed the procession. A fanfare of trumpets sig 'inaled the arrival of the cortege at the schurch door, where it was received by Car u' dinal Von Schwarzenburg at the head of a his clergy. Tlhilr majesties took seats nuider a canopy over the throne. The bridal pair proceedled to their places before .the sanctuairy rails, where they offered a short, prayver. After a brief address from the cariinl the marriage ceremony was rin proceedled with. At tie moment wheni the It, rings were exch~imged, peals broke forth ut froni the bells ol' the city, and salvos of e- artillery wvere fIred. At the conclusion of ui- the ceremony a To D'eum was sng, after Lie which the llburg uhoir executed an old )i- Germaiin maichi. The newly married pair 10 accompanIed by the other imperial and it royal personages then returnied to the city or palace of Ilof burg. In commemoration of id the marriage Emperor Francis Joseph has -e- founded 22 scholarships at various schools ~e. and has given 100,000 florins for the free is admissioni of toil pupils to the establishment ' lie for the education of dasughters of officers. of lie has also granted complete or partial ys amnesty to 331 persons imnprisonedi for va er rious oltences. Me-51xi~o'. tr.u .,i10ataini, of One 01 the great ineiral wonders of or Mexico, and perliaps of the world, is the of, ironi mouilntain), in the imimediate vio~nity (iof Dumrango, in the state of D~urango. The Iron mounitain is nearly two mileos in length asind one mile wide, and abouat 700 feet a~ high. Above the surface, uncovered and in sight, it, shows about 200,000,000 tons ily of pure ore, readty to be shoveled or rolled, .without any cost of mining, into tihe fur a- nces erectedl at its base. Much of this eyore ranges from 70 to 90 per cent., and elsoir e is carrIed directly to the forge. It ad works very kindly, and easily assumas the ter form of steel. There is every reason to edbelieve ores of such rare superiority, when e subject to all our fnodern improvements hn La ironx making, ,*U, roduce iron ?bdue steel byl unsurpassed at' n the world, eithoe byin Swe~en, or !~siiiSpain, or England, or the United States.