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. ........... TIRI-W EEKLY EDITION. . WINNSBORIO, S. C.9 UE1,18.ESALSE 8~ IN.PERILOUS WATERS. 'Bout ship ! 0 brother wariners I 'Tis needful we should floo For pleasura spreads her luring not Bonomath tbhis hungry soa. ''were death to us did we but pasi You ridge of creanay foam ; The-e, in a soa-cave, fathoms doop, 'ULhe mir, n makes her honmo. O'er lucent waves of golden green Soft breeze bear along To ears that will not be begullod 'rho wanton's duloot song. We scorn the glamour of her face, A flame with hot desire; No charm lies in her baleful look Of eyea that scorch like lire. Her kisus pall, her love is false So quick to seaward sail ; For kluder is the stress of waves, Less cruel is the galo. Tho heaven of our hope doth lio Hard by a brighter shoro ; There we may strike our tattered sails, A nd rest us evermore I Charity's Rewi rd. In the first cabin of the steamer bound to Quebec, they dined sumptuously, and lived a happy luxurious life. In the steerage -licaven have mercy I how they suffered I Millicent Day shivered to her very soul when she thought of it,and wondered often why such things should be, why sonic were so rich, and sonic were so poor; some so uttely alone, unloved, and neglected. Had she been able to act as she chose,there would have l)een a grand transformation scene that dirty steerage very soon, and tables covered witL choice dailties would have risen through the floor and snow-white linen, and fresh, soft couches would have taken tihe place of the rags, andi hard berths, and general shabbiness. But one girl,though she were a rich one, had little in her power on that desolate waste of waters. till, that little Millicent di('. She had in her posossion biscuits,and coiderves, and delicate dainties prepared for her own comfort, during the voyage;aud thinking that at the cabin table she had all sie needed, she played the Lady Bountiful with these small stores; choosing for her principal profteges an Italitin woman and her 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 va'n the captain declared that lie should forbid such dangerous work among the emigrants. Mlillicent had her own way. Once a day, at least, she penetrated into the Inferno be t ,w the comparative Paraalise of her own domain, and fed those poor parched lips with her dainties, and comforted the mother, when her youngest lay at death's door, with her iniocent sympathy. And the woman grew to love her, and the wan, but classical faces of the boys lit up 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 made 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. '-itemember that it is all that you can do, and my (dyimig curse upon you if you for get, it I" And wvith this fierce adjuration to her cimldr-en and~ al prayer that fell like liquid silver- ironm her lips for "the Signorinai," she partedl from Milliceni, who went to her beautiful home and her friends sadtdenedl andl sot tened by time scenes that sihe had witngssed, and remembiered theum a long, loing while. Shte had given the woman hie- addr-ess, but the poor woman did not come to lier. Whait fate befel her, Millicent, did not knowv; anid, In time, the muemomy of those well cut, classical fac es, ganit and mneagr-e from starvation,~ but with a sirange wild beauty about them neverthmeless, ceased to haunt, her-pe-rhaps because onte face hiad taken possessiomn of her fanicy, as one faice wvil, sooner or later-, of that of ever-y woman. Jo~hn Blair, a young engineer and~ archmi tect, had met hmer,antd looked into her eyes, had1( touchied her hand, had uittered .those subtle conipliments that wimn a woman's hemart so easily; amnd though lie was neither rich nior gremat, lie was the onte man of men to her. Six mionthis frocm the dafy of themr meet' inmg .Johnm Blair tand Milliemt, D~ay were miarried, anid a htappler p~air it wouild have hiuenm hmard to find. Th'ley yielded mutually to each oflier's wishes, amnd consequently grew to hmave to same desires, so that at last ino yllimng was miecessary. Only in one tihing did Millicent prove herself obstinte-othling could tempt her onm an ocean voyage. A visit, to is native Englanid ndt a tour in Emtope was John's antitclpatedl pleasurie; bitt hem- experientce in crossing time oceant had~ made her averse to its repettiomt. "Whethier I saw thmem or not, time faces of the steerage passengers would htaunt me," she salhl; ''and [ caninot enidure time lidea of setting root upon ait oceamn steamer again." So .John, who had ito wish to g~ alone, left time latter to the cure of tin , whio broughit thtem few sorrows and~ mi h~l joy, and~ now anid then laId uipon Mihll icent's breast a little token of his light; so that at last a boy'ahnuost as tall as herself callede~ Millicent mother, and the' nursery was tmusieal with-lit~to voices. TliN'~, braver and older, and more will 1 i e to slo anything to tuake John \s ilicent agreed to the European " laving the litle nns tn the ten. der care of grandmamnia, and grandpapa, the married lovers took their places in a great ocean palace, and loft land behind them, for awhile at least. "It might be," Millicent thought, as she remembered her darling babes with tears in her eyes-''might be forever, if tle sea were cruel." But the sea vas kind. No storms arose. '"hey crossed the Atlantic In safety, and traversed Europe with none but pleast rable events until at last they found them selves in Naples. and ready, one bright morning, to do, what all visitors to Naples nust desire to do- namely, ascend Mount Vesuvius. They mounted their horses, and led by a gmido, ascended the mountain to a certain resting.place, where it is customary to dis mount, and, leaving their steeds behind, trust to one's feet and the guide for further advancement. "Is heaven lovelier than ilus?" asked Millicent, clinging to her husband, and bursting, she hardly knew why,ino a flood of tears. But the guide did not leave them to their feast of beauty undisturbed. Ile manl them do Vt suvius properly; peep into the crater, possess themselves of a piece of lava, witness the process of cooking an egg In the hot sand, nud] go through with the rest of the formula. Then it seemed time to return;and John, glancing at his watch, counted the ihn 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 tle rough road, the guide paused and uttered a cry. Before them, risen as It seemed from the very ground,siood a group of men--rough, savage-looking fellows, armed with guns, and wearing broad hats-who, without further parley, surrounded them and seiz ing the bridles of their horaes,anud 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 m his, he comforted her as well as possible;and finlly, with a sink. lng heart, obeyed the orders of one who seemed to be captain, and dismounted at the entrance of an old ruin, into which hey were forced, but not over roughly, to anter. It was an ancient ani dilapidated hall, with a fire burning at one end; and here heir conductors left them for a while lone, fastening the door behind them. Then, and'then only, the poor guide fell ,o wringing his hands and weeping, and nploring the lady and gentleman to pay wLatever ransom was required. Meanwhile, Millicent,overcome with ter or, wept-upon her husban's breast, and me found it impossible to comfort her. In Iced, the savage aspect of the men, and ;he accounts that he had heard of banditt.i iutrages left him but little hope. Then It was thht they heard the sound f returning feet without, and presently ,le unfastening of a door. A figure entered, and going to the fire, vhIch had nearly smoulered out, flung on .t some (lry wvood, which -instantly kindled mto a blaze, and by its Ilame lit two torches, hhich wvere thrust into sconces penidant froii the wall. By this welcome light they saw thast it as that, of a woman, w~ho seenmed to have ~rought sonme food for them upon a sort of boodeni (ray. She was old, and1( gaunt, andl bent; but ecr features had a strange be'auty about, ~hem, nevertheleas, and awakened in Milli ~ett's ind~ a memory too vague and inde bite for wordls. She had1( seen the face Lcfore; it might be in some of those 0old )lctures at Rome-that brown skin, those classical out lines, that gaunt miegreness ~hat seemed to blight what on1ce had beeni beauti ful. Yes, semewhere she remcm. bcredl it. In another momnt, the truth !ashed upon hier,as the woman knelt (town Lo dleposit the tray upon (lie floor. She Lttered a little cry ; a shsriller one respond -d to it, and the gaunt creature lay piros ~rate before lie r, kissing her garments. "It is (lie Signorina I"' she crledl. And Milhucent know the Itmtdian woman -f the steerage, whomi she hasd succored so niany years before. "Then it is thus that Gilacomno returns a >eneilth" cried the woman. '-My maluedic Lions upon him I But lhe did not know -ou-lie did not, rememnber a~s I do. Walt. Iave ino fear I You are safe I" Then another memory dlawnied upon dillilcont; and, In (lie captain of those bandits, she kiiew (lie boy whose eyes lad beens lixed upon her face when hi~ niothier bude him pray for hsr eternally. In another moment lie was there, and dilllcenut knew that they were safe. Bad as he must have been, a baniht, and an out. aw, thsis Italian had retalned l.ims grati The kindness of (lie young heiress to (lie wretched emigrants had i et been forgotten, and (lie man who-had rejurned to his owa and to leadl a lawless ?ife had chserishsed her memuory fondly in his breast. le fed them wIth (lhe best lie had to give, and ,rayedl for them to (lie saints and (lie dadonna; and~ his own hand redl withI many a man's blood led1 thbem safely from dsi forest fastnesses to a spot where (lie lights from (lie cIty of Naples seemed to nuile a woecopse to them. -The wheat orop of 1881 w19' be nbor$, Capt. lRenezVnskl has written an inter esting book on "The last of the Anakin In the Land of Moul," in which lie gives soie particulars as to his stu(ieCs of the in scriptioi on the famous Moabite stone. In Autust, 1868, the Rev. F. Klein, of the Church Missionary society, while in the Land of Moab, near Dibon, was informed by an Atab that near by there was a black Basalt stone inscribed with ancient charac ters. Upon going to the locality indicated lie found lying anig the ruins a stone about thiee feet ten Inches high, two feet broad und 14 k inches thick, rounded at top aid bottom, aund centainuing thirty-four hnes of inscription running across the stone. .' '(lein at this time did not appreciate artance of the disctvery, and he - !cd a few words froin the stong. 1 .ver, took measures to secure the stonu ior the Berlin museum, but imade 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 beginmnig of the following year Capt. Warren was astonished to learn, as was also A1. Clermont Ganneau, of the French consulate at Jerusalem, that no copy or "squeze" of the inscription had been taken. Towards the close of the year 1859 the latter not only sent men to obtain .,quezes, who quarrelet 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:rnment of Nablus demanded the prize for it.self, and the Aloabites, exasperm?l at his raa. city, "sooner than give it lp )put a fire under it and threw cold water on it, and so broke it, and then distributed the bits among the different familles, - 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 Inunense trouble Ml. Clermont-Gan neau recovered some twenty of these frag ments, containg 613 letters, while several small pieces were acquired by the PalestineI exploration fund. These fragments, when united, were found to contain 669 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 squezs taken before the stone was broken by the ruthless Moabites, "so that only thirty-ftve wards, fifteen half words and eighteen letters-less than one- I seventh of the whole-remain ta be sup plied from conjecture." With reference to the characters engraved on the stone, the general opinion is that they are Phonician, 0 also called Samaritan, such as were used by the Jews before the captivity. Dr. Gidsburg, who has eecuted a translation of the iiscriptions, says that these charac ters were common 13. C. 700 to all the races of western Asia, and were used in Nineveh, Phonicia, Jerusalem, Samaria, Moab, Cilicia and Cyprus. With reference to the inscription on the stone itself, It may be stated that it records some remarkable events in the reign of Mesha, King of Moab, who is mentioned in the second book of Kings (lii., 4, 5), and who had rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. The first part of the inscription narrates the cir- i cuistaices which led to the stonie being erected, while the second part relates to the public works undertaken by Meshi after he had overcome his Jewish foes. atud the third part celebrates his victory over the Edomintes. Tie rendering of Capt. . Renczynski represents the result of "nine years' toil and labor." r ti "Coca," the "beloved narcotic of the fl Peruvian Indian." was first uaned botani- a cally through the labors of Joseph dle Jus- i sieu. Th'le history of the most notedl botan-. ist is a melancholy one, lie left France In g 1735, In the memnoraible expedition of M1. La Condamne, and after M1. La Condiamine a left, South Americai, h1. Jussieu continued n~ lisa botanical researches, making numerous t journeys on foot, notably those to the ciin- b chona regions. The result of lifteen yearg' a labors were conitaiined ini certain cas~e~ of k( driet latnts, etc., andl a native' servant, at, n Buenos Ayres. tthinkintg these cases contained kt money, stole t~hemh, and this loss hiad suci: a an effect on poor Jussieu that he returned to France in 1771 dep~rivedI of reason. <> Th'ie Coca is the great source of comfort e and enjoyment, to tie Peruvian Inidian. It h is to hinm what the kava-kava is to the South Sea Islander, the betel to the Ilindoo andl Malay, and tobacco to the rest of man- aL kind,but with this differenceit produtces in- v vigorating effects. The Peruviani Indiani looks uplonl coca with veneration. Ini the a palmuiy datys of the Uncas or Yucas, coca was stacrificed to the sun, the high priest 0r n iluillac Umau chewed It dulring the ceremno ny,and1 before the arrival ot the Spaniards, i cnca was ulsed itn lieu of money. After a the Spanish conquest, mucli was (done to p~rescrib~e Its uso, because as a council of d] bishops held in 1569, said it was a ''useless e andi pernlcious leaf, and on account of thei belief stated to be entertained by the In.. C dians, that the habit of chewing cocoa gave 1 them strength, which Is' an Illusion of the a dlevil." Coca, Indeed. from its popularity, beIng used by about eight millions of p~eo- ~ p)1e, hias always had a great commercial im- I p~ortance, andl one viceroy, D~on F'rancisco) Toledo, Issued no less thant seventy ordi-i nances concerning cocai In the space of fourt years (1570-1574). Thle coca plant Is a scrub of four to six ( feet high, with straight and talternte branches andl leaves like those of the tena plant, and is cultivated at clevatiotns of from 5,000 to,06,000 feet above the level of the sea mi the warm valleys of the ctaatern slopes of the Andes. Hero the only al ternations of climate Is from wet to drya frost Is unktiown, and it rains iiore or lessa I every month of the year. Thle seeds are sown on the surface of the soil as socn as I the rainy season comnunces, andl begini to I sprout In a fortnight, being carefuilly I wateredl, and protected from the sun by a thatched rool. Theli followIng year the seedlings are transplanted In a soil care-t fally broken uip and freed from weeds5. Theli' anuciet custom was to raise the plants In terraces oti the hillsides, but now laniita-< tions on the level giond are resorted to,al though Indlians aver that plants raised un the fortmer conditions yield a much supe- I rior quality of leaf. At the end of eIghteen< imonthg the first harvest Is readly, atid the picking of the JAeaves, performed by women 4 and children, is very carefully proceeded with, so as not, to injure the younig and still I tender shoots. As soon as one crop of l6aves Is removed, if well watered, and the round carefully weeded, itiother crop 1 ready in about forty days. A plant con iinues to yield for about forty years, and Dr. Poeppig gives the prolit of a coca plan ation as about 45 per cent. Etch lpicker ,arries a piece of cloth,ln which the leaves, Alucked one by one, are placed. These eaves ate then taken to the drying yard, 'ormed of slite flags. Iere the leaves are tpread out in thin layers,aird carefully dried i the sun. Too much exposure to the sun poils the flavor of the leaf, and if heaped oo much together, the leaves ferment and Jecone fetid. As soon as dried, the leaves tre packed in bugs made of banana leaves, vitl an ouit!ide coverhig of clothor packed ightly in large parcels of about 50 lb mch. In the Sandia district of Caravaya; two iarieties of coca are recognized, the Ypara mtd liatun Yunca, the latter having a lar rer leaf than the former. in Boliva, coca Is treated as a rovermnient monopoly, and the right is ,enerally farmed out. In 1850, coca rought into that country's exchequer a umn of $200,000. The whole yield of coca n South America is estimated at thirty nillions of )ounds. Coca soon deteriorates n keeping, Indians treat it as valueless if Lept longer than seven months. Such is the faith in coca, that It is be ieve(I if a dying man can but taste a coca caf when placed on his tongue, his future )>iss is assured. No Indian is without his -uspa or coca bag made of llama cloth, atd three tines a day, sitting down, le akes leaf by leaf and rolls them up in his nouth till he forms a ball. Then applying small quantity of powder consisting of arbonate of potash, made by burning the talks of the quinoa plant, mixed with ine and water lie goes on his Wiay rejoic rig. The use of coca is widely spread. rhe ihepherd on the col .op of t', Andes ins but this and a little maize as his sole iorsisment, and the runni r messenger ooks to it as his solace and suppoi t. As to he properties of coca, it seems very evi lent that it allows of a greater aiount of atigue, with a lesser amouit of nourish nent, and prevents diftleiulty of respiration n ascending steep inotitan slopes. it ins an agreeable and aromatic taste,aecom >anied by a slight irritation, which excites he flow of saliva. When ilade into a ten, n taste It is like that of green tel, and ef ectually prevents drowsiness. Applie(l ex ernally as a poultice, it moderates rheu natic pains, brought on by expisure to .old and wet, and also'cures hadache. Mr. Markman chewed coca leaf very requently,aund states that he found it to roduce an agreeable soothing feeling, that e could endure longer abstinence from cod with less inconvenience, and that fhen using it, lie could ascend precipitous iountain sides with a feeling of lightness ud elasticity, and without losing breath. [e also considers it the leas!, injurous of I other like substances, even when taken I excess, and at the same time, the most iothiug and invigorating. Traveltnsr lu Olden Times. A careful inspection of the vehicles of inmer times leads us tb the conclusion iat our forefathers were lined with zine ad copper-fastened-for nothing short of could have withstood t,&, Joltings and irrings, the bouncings and bampings en uiled upon those who used any other iethod of locomotion except that which ature provides. The chariot in which leneral and Mrs. Washington went to 'hiladelphia upon his election to the Presi lency was no doubt an instrument f torture. To the discomforts of this inbling old carriage may bu added, for ie General, the incessant wagging of Mrs. Vashington's tongue, for it isia well-known Let, that Martha was of a shrewish'nature, ad1( made no bones of giving the General er views in a very forcible manner. TIhe iethod of traveling which they pursued ave p~ublicity to the fact that the General ad a curtain lecture every night for a night, cap. In tihe couirseof their jour ey they arranged to spend the nights at ie houses of the gentry sentteredi along etween Mount Verno n and luladelphLa 1(d Martha was often hieardl to nag her irci andic master unttil a1 loud snore ani Ountcedl that the General wvas safe in the .ini of drecams from all worldly annoy. aces. The chariot was Ithe ne'knowledgedl mark aristociacy. A jouirney in these day13s itailed a retimue, somewhat alter tihe fol awing order: 1. -Marster and Muissis in a carriage. 2. Marster's "bay" on horschiack, with led horse for' Marster to ride when he 'ished to stretch his legs. 3. A wvagon containing two hair trunks nd( Missis's mlaid. Th'le raic of progression was about four iiles ani hour. TPhe habit of carrying Servants even on eighborly visits, obtained In Virginia and Iarylaund unitil tihe abolition of slavery. A rmi of' entertaining, called "'spending the ay,'' wvas in fashion. This consisted In ning to a friend's house early In the morn ig, and staying until late in the evening, otisuninag the interval in a succession of icals. Jiesides the visitors, the coachman nd( hiorscs, thlere was usually a "' maiid.'' mihd sat on the rack behind tlie carriage, wmlginga her legs in ecstatic delight at the rospect of "going abroad." Chaises were the only two-seated vehicles a use, and1( were somecthing like a modern op huiggy, except that it had bitt two vheels. Consequently, going up hill, the edcupanits were being spilled out, behind, nd( going do~wn lill they were spilled outl efoi e. A Matwr of History. In the year 1785, the State of Franklin vaus formed (Jit of a portion of North Caro Ina, embilracinig the tpresent territory of the 4tate of TVenniesseu, and the Legislature of lie aforesaid state of Franklin passedl the cIlowinig fee and salary bill1: is 10xcei eney the Governor, per anum, 1,000 deer kins; Hils Hlonor the Chief .Justlce, 500 leer skins ; the Secretary to HIs hi0xcellency lie Governor, 500) raccoon skins; the ['reasuurer of the State, 450f raccoon skinus; ach county clerk, 300 heaver skins; Clerk< f the House of Commions, 200 raccoon kins; member of the Assemibly, 'per (lienm, bree raccoon skmns; justices' fce for sign. ng a warrant, one muskrat skin ; to the onstabl~e for serving a warrant, one mink kint. .Enacted Into a law thme 28th clay of )ctober, 1789, under the great seal of the Itate. This scebms to be 'a ' mattel of tistorical truth, just as tofacco was once ade to answer the purpose of ec~rrertcy in (irginia. The Dirmiion of Siedo. In a very large number of cases the dif fusion of seeds is effected by anuiuals. To this class belong the fruits and berries. In them al outer fleslhy portion beconIes pul py, 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, peitch, plum, straw berry, raspberry and many others. This color, moreover, is not present in the in 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 heat of the anmual's body. It may be said that the skin < f apple and pear pips is comparatively soft; but then they are imbedded in a stringy core, wInch is seldom eaten. These colored fruits form it considerable part of the food of monkeys in the tropical regions of the earth, and we can I think, hardly doubt hat these aii mals are guided by the colors, just as we %re, In selecting the ripo fruit. This has a curious bearing on an interesting question is to the power of distinguishing color possessed by our ancestors in bygone times. Magnus and Gieiger, relying on the well known fact that the ancient languages are poor in words for color, and that in the Adest books-as, for instance, In the Vedits, the lHendavesta,' the Old Testament, and ,he writings of Iloner or Ilesiod--though )f course, the heavens are referred to over Imd over again, its blue color is never Iwelt on, have argued that tei ancients were very deficient in the power of distin puiehing colors, and especially blue. III yur own eauntry Mr. Gladstone his lent .he weight of his great authority to the amie conclusion. For my part I can not tecept this view. There ire it seems to me,-ve!y strong reasons against it, into wiinh I can not, of com se, now enter; md though I should . ely mainly on other aonsiderations, the colors of iritits are not, I think, without signifleance. If mnk'y' Ind apes could distiiiguislh theI, surely we may infer that even the most savage of men could do so too. Zeuxis would never liave deceived the birds it lie had not hid a rair perception of color. In these instances >f colored fruits the fleshy edible part nore or less surrounds the true seeds; in >thers the actuid seeds themselves become -dibie. In the former the edible part ierves as a temptation to animals; in the latter it is stored up for the use of the piauts itself. When, therefore, the seeds hemselves are edible. they are generally )rotected by more or less hard or bitter en velopes, for instance the horse-chesinut, icecli, Spanish chestnut, walnut, &c. That hese seeds are used for food by squirrels lad other aninals is, howevei, by no means lecessarily an evil to the plant, for the re mit is that they are often carried some listance and then dropped, or stored up ind forgotten, so that in this way they get ,arried away from the parent tree. nunions or 1noul1. "Is It against the laws of this city to lave corns oi your feet?" inquired Theo lore Riembo ashe found himself before the mr of justice, in Detroit. "No, sir, nor on the top of your bead it you want 'em there. The city ordiianees >f Detroit and tie laws of Alichigan are very liberal on the subject of corns." "Well, sir, last night I was walking xlong one of our streets, hobbling because ny corns hurt ne so, wlien a fiend grabbed ne by the collar, called me a drunkard,and Iragged mie to a duingeon."' "'1ow awful mean in himd" sighed the ourt. "When I have corns can't I hobble if its nore convelllnt, thani walking?" "Certainly." "Well, corn~s was what ailedl me, andl I lemIiandl that the olcer aipologize to mec and hat I be set at liberty." "Le~t us listen to the ollcer's story first. lo aihead Mr. Bluecoat." "This mani," biegan the oflicer, "bumiiipedl ugainst, at, least a dbozen pedestrianis, fell igainst a wind(ow andut broke it, and was ying dhown on the cari track when I gaith ared him in. lie smelled so bad of whiskey vhen I brought hun in that, we had to bnrn ~olfre in tihe room." "'Wel "' queried the court as lhe turnled 0 the prisoner. "'I say it was corns." "Ho1w nmany have you got?"' '"Show 'em up. I hiaveii't seen a real ld- fashioned corn in ablout eighteen years.' "D~o you think I'm going to pull my loots of! before the crowdty I guess I've aot a little miodeuty left,'' '"Then I'll take care of it for you. hall exile you for t hirt~y days."' ''For what?" '"Corns and modesty, alias drunk sind lisorderhy. That's nil, iiy man,. and niow Ilease fall back and give sonme of the other mungry mortals a chance to say they have mumnions or bo0ls."' Do, Vnr Wourk Well. D~aniel Webster gives an account of au letty insurance case that was brought to hima when a young lawyer ini Portsmiouthi. Omnly Ssall amount was involved anid a twenty lhalar fee was all thatL was proiinised. Hie saw that, to dho his clients fuill justice, a journey to Bloston, to consult the Law Library, would be dlesirable. ie would lbe out, of pocket by such an expedition, and( for his tine lie would receive no adc0. (late compensation. A fter a little hesita thin, ho dleterimined to do his very best,, cost wvhiat it mighi. ie accordingly went to Blostoin, looked up the authorities, and gained~ the case. Years after this, Webster, then famous, wvas passing through Now York. An impjortanti isuiranco case was to be tried the (lay after his arival, and oneo of the counsel hand been suddenly takeni ill. Money wias nio object, and Webster was begged to'iinm his teriis and1( conduct the case. "I1 told them," raid Mr. Web ster, "'that it was preposterous to expect nmc to prepare a legal argument iat at few hours' notice. TIhiey insisted, however, that I shiould -look at the papers; and this, after some demur, I consenited to do. Well, it was my old twenty-dtollar case over agaIn, amid, its I never forget anyting, I hiadn all the authorities at my fingers' ends. The Court knew that 1 had no time to pre pare, and were astonished at the range oi my requihremelnts. So, you see, I was hiandsomiely paId both In fame and nmenoy for that journey to Boston; anid the moral Is that good work is rewvardcd In the end, though, to be sure, one's self-approval should be nonogh. A Mystilal Plant. innuan canuing and human credulity have dowered with mystery certain plants which are worthy of being consIdered the most beautiful and passive of creative ob. jects. One plant, at least, has been salu to utter shrieks in being torn from tihe earth, and to have avenged the violence by causing the death of hini who removed it. This plant was the niandragora of the poets--the mandrake of Scriptures-a species of the 8al1anue or nightshade tribe, the belief in whose qualities as a sedative or a charm was as old as the days of the childless Itachel. Indigenous t3 tihe East, where probably Its uses is an anodyne and soportile were early known to the initiated, it may be that, in order to enhance the wonder of its etrects and prevent the ex tirpation of the root by its too comion use, niraculous powers were imputed to it, and superstition hedged it around with fabled terrors. The evil reptitatlton of the plant precmiied it subsequently the naine of A tropa Xandrutra , by which our old est botamusts distinguish it-a naie bor rowed from the inost terrible of the Fates, Atropos, and sinice trainsforred to its rela tive, A f-topa Jhiladlona (d wale, or "deadly nightshade"). So potent and valuable were the nedical tises of the root, at a time when few atiodyes were known that the ancient, oiatins inade it the sub. Ject of a weird ritual, without N hich they would have deemed it inpious to have taken it front the earth. The operator stood with his back to the wid, drew three circles round the root with a point of a sword, poured a libation on the ground, and, turning to the west, began to dig it up. The root of the mandrake, a plant with a tap root, freqticitly forked, as we see that of the radish, and covered with librous rootlets, was easily conveitible into a grotesque likeness of the huinian form. In the timiie of I lenry ViII and E'lzabeth. little images made of mandrake roots, called (brunes were imported iii large -rutumb-. froni Gerimany, and found a ready sale in Englitcd. T'he fable of tle won drouts powers of them.vVgetable idols was easily accepted boy our supth"itiouts ainees. tors, and the peddlers who travu!,.d about from place to place with cases of IkemI drove a brisk trade. Sir Francis BacOLk had them in his inind's eye wlien we wrote, "Some platits there are, but rare, that have a mossy or downy root, and likewise that have a number of thread-like beards, as the mandrake, whereof 'witches and ihm postors make an ugly image, giving it the torni of a face at tod of the root, leaving those si ritigs to make a broad heard to the loot. It is to the credit of thle old herba lists, Gerard and Turner, that they both essayed, without, fear of consequenices, to dig up itand examine for theiiselves the dlic'aded inaudrake,and lost no time In pub lishBig the fallacy of the weird stories told of it. Uielor (Ie Snow. The remarkable case of Elizabeth Wood. cock, who was buried under the snow, is especially striking. In the winter of 1799 she was returnin: on horseback trom Cain bridge (England) to her home i a ineigh boring village, and having dismounted for a few minutes the horse ran away froni her. At 7 o'clock on a winter evening she slt down under it thicket, cold, tired and disheartened. Snow caine on; she was too weak to rise, and the consequence was that, by the mnormnig the snow had heaped around he- to a heighit of two feet a)ove her head as site sat. She had strength enough to thrust a twig, with ther handker chief at the top of it, through the snow, to serve is a signal and to admit, a little daylight. Torpor sipervenee. and she knew little more of what passed around hier. N iglt succeeded day, and day again broke, but t~here she remainted, motionless and foodless. Not senseless, however, f or she could hear church bellIs and vil lage sounids-niay, even thle voice mand conver siat in of sonie of her neighbors. Fioumr whole days she thus remained-one single pinch of snulf being her only substitte for food dhurmtg t his time, and this evenm shte found had lost its ptungency. On thme fifth (liy a thaw commenced, and she suiffered cr eally, but still without, being able to ex tricate herself. It was not until the eighlth day that thme handkerchhef was espied by a villager, who with many others, had long becen seckinig for her. Stooping dlowni lie said: "Ate you there, Elizabeth Woodcock ?" She had strength enough to reply, finlt "Deacir John Stittle, I know your voice. F~or God's Salke help ime out." She (lied mabout half a year afterward, I hrouigh miismanagemnent' of frost-bitteni toes; butt It wams f ully udmitted thilt no onme, unless cased in snow, could have lived ot of those eight (lays and nights in such a tlace withountt food. Chanuging Tiheir 11ano. 'rhe legend runs that the fine Norman Churchmof Godshlill, in the Isle of Wight, was to have been built in the valley, but the builders every mnotning found the prc vlous (lay's work, had been dhestroyed dut ring the night and thle stones carrIed to tihe top) of the hili. Considering this as a Di vine indication where the holy structmie was to be btuill, they accordinigly rearedl it on that prominent site, whmeao for miles round it still forms a graceful amnd bieautifuil object. A simniliar legond is re lated withl reference to the Chuirch of Ste. Marie du Castel, in Gluersney, where It is currently reortedi that fairies whlere thme agents, while others assert it wits thie work of angels. Indeed It wvotmld appearfl that in (lays gonie by the invisible beings, of whmateve-r nature they were who, accordhing to tradi tion, so often interfered in the building of so)mei sacred edifice, genterally selected for its s'tc the most inconventient spot, and1( not infrequently a steep hill. fTe Church of Breedom in Leicestershmire, for instance, Atandisl on a high hill, wIth thme vllage as its foot. Trailtion, however, says that whmen the site of the church was first fixed upon, a central spot in the village was chosen. Th'ie fotundations were. not only dug, but the bumlders coimnencedl the fa-' brie. lt wvas to nto puirpose; for all they built in time course of the (liy was carried atway by (loves dutring tao ntight-thne, and skillllhy bue't exactly In the same imnner on the hill whore thie chutrch stands. Both foaunder and workmn, awed and terrified by tis extraordiary procedure, were afraId te build the church on its origInal site, amnd agreed to finish thle one begun by the doves. - Tito Flower Tratte. A prominent florist estimates that three hundred wagon loads of flowering plant& are brought to New York during the period of the Spring trade, and that as much as $2,000,000 is spent every spring in New York and Brooklyn for plants and flowers. l'he flowers come from all around New York. In New Jersey. Staten Island, Long Island, and the adjoining counties of this State are vast flower and plant farms, each of which represents a fortune to its owner. Over in Astoria one floriculturist las over two acres of ground under glass, and there are several others like him and many less extensive, but still very large growers. These raiseis have each their special varietica and graftings and plants, and in addition to thier New York trade, ship all over the country. 8an Francisco, Montreal, and Savannah are profitable markets to them, and in every town and city of the United States they have cus tomers. In addition to these extensive culturists, who raise the rarest and costliest exotic plants. as well as the commonplace market flowers, there are many smaller Dues, who raise flowers for the spring trade and winter supply of the bouquet-makers almost exclusively. In addition to the big llower and plant farms at Flatbush, Astoria, Union Hill and Orange, there are many ttuor ones scattered all over the suburbs, ind even in the city itself, One popular me is in Fourteenth street near Third ave me, and another occupies the corner of Hiouston and Hudson streets. Within a radius of thirty miles from the City Hall, hero is at least $10,000,000 invested In the bush 03s. To enumerate the varieties Af plants and flowers sold in the spring rade this year wvould require a census of the globe in that line. The gardeners are olonstantly adding foreign varieties to their Itocks, and the gar(iens of India, China, 1(d the Baudwich Islands contribute to the tore New Yorkers select from. The envielst sales are, of course, in the cheaper vanileties of plants. The familiar roses, retrainiims, fuschias, heliotropes, pansies, litisies, hydrangeas, laburmns, verbenas, )etunias. violets, carnations and nignon -ttes are sold by the hundreds of thousands. lvies, passion flowers, and other vines have in inmense sale too. Ferns, native and tropleal; strange grasses from the sun suiitten natural gardens of South America, indo.rchids from the mysterious forests of Lhe Eltnqtor swell the list. The catalogues the flow '; men publish would put those of m-m.Illy a libhrfvy to shame, for size at least. A dealer said jgt the largest profit is made oil cheap plants, tli-itumber of them sold is so great. The lieavij-. wains are made by the owners of city greenOUses, wl. raise filne plants, and are able to 3ell tr without the intervention of middihU.lZ The trade in flower and vegetable seeu. at this season almost rivals that In plants and flowers The flower seeds are largely imported from France and Germany, a few cominig from England and Holland. The vegetable seeds, on the contrary, are grown in the New Englanof States, Now York, Canada, alid other sections of the continent, and are exported so as to almost ba!ance the imports of flower seeds. Ameri ean vegetable seeds are much better than those grown in Europe and produce better results. They tire popular abroad iii con sequence. I II AL Royni n dlliira. The marriage of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and Princess Stcphanjof Bei gium was most imposingly solen -at the church of St. Augustine, in V1 on hMay the 10th. An hour before t e begin ing of the ceremony the churich was dlensely crowded by a brilliant assembly. T'hle streets were filled with people. At 11 ,elock the procession started from the palace and proceeded to the church, the irchdukes and forei gi princes. in 'ull unt formi walkmng in i ollowed by Prince iladl ~phl in the ml!rmn of a major-general. i'mtperor Francl3oseph came next having >nl his right the Kig of the Belgians, both being ill generals' unilformns. Then came the brmide with the Emlpress of Austria and the Queen of the Belgians on either hand. Thei trainls of the three ladies were borne by the p~ri ncipal ladies in waiting. Pri sess Stephanme wore a magniicent robe of alothi of silver, with a train elaborate in embroidcry, orange blossoms arranged Inl unches looping up the dress, and a veil of B~russels lae specially made for the occa sion. 1Her mother, the queen, wore a blue velvet dIress, trinuned with lace, and the empl~ress wore ai pale gray dress, trimmed with Brussels point lace. The trains of the foreign princesses and archduchesses were borne by pages and ladlies of tihe pal Ice. Another grou~p of olllcers completed tile procession. A fanfare of trumlpets sig naled tile arrival of the cortege at the hlulrch dfoor, where it was received by Car lnal Von Schwarzenburg at the head of his clergy. TIheir majesties took seats lidler a can1opy over the throne. The'* bridal pair p~roceedied to their places before thie sanctuatry rails, where they offered a short prayer. After a brief address from the cardinal the marriage ceremony was proceeded with. At the moment when the rings were exchlanged, peals broke forth froml tile bells of the city, and salvos of Irtillery wecre fired. At the conclusion of the ceremony a Te Deumn was sng, after which the Ilofburg choir executed an old Llermtan march. 'Thle newly married pair accomp~anied by the other imperial and royal personages then returned to the city palace of ilof burg, In comnmemlorationl of the marriage Emperor Francis Joseph has rouinded 22 scholarships at various secols ind has given 100,000 florins for the free udmilslon of ten pupils to the establishment ror the eduication of daughters of ofmeers. lie hlas also granlted complete or partial unlnesty to 331 persons imprisoned for va Fiouts ollences. One 01 the great mtineral wonders of Alexico, anid perhbaps of the world, Is the romn mountliain, iln the immnediate vie~nity >f fhirango, i tihe state of D~urango. The [roni mounltauin is nearly two miles in lengtlh md1( one mile wide, and about 700 feet ugh. Above the surface, uncovered and ii sight, it shows ab~out 200,000,000 tons >f pure ore, ready to be shoveled oi- rolled, without any cost of mining, into the fur iaices erectedl at its base. Much of this nre ranges from 70 to 110 per cent., and toir.e is carried directly to tile forge. 16 works very kindly, and easily assumes the [orm of steel. There is every reason to beliove ores of such rare superiority,' when tubject to all our tnodern imsprotopients ini ron making, ,W1~rodluce iron dn steel insurpassed ai4J n the world, either *n Swveden, or B~WnSpaim, or Englatid nr the United States.