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TN8 TRI-W EEKLY EDITION. WINNSBO1RO, S. C., JUNE 30, 181PSALIIE 8~ AN OLD STORY. Fliserman John is bravo and strong None more bravo on the coast than he; Ile owns a cottage and flehing smack, As s-ug as ever need be; And what is truer tban I could wish, Fislerman John loves me. Often and often when day is gone, With smiling lips and eager eyes lIo comes to woo me. In every way That a man may try, ho tries To win mo-but that he can never (to, .Though he woo me till ho dio, Fisherman Jack Is a poor man Ie owns not a cottage nor fis-hing smack; But a winning voice and smilo is his, And a brow that is never black, Why should I break my heart to tell Blut I love fliherman Jack. IIe loso not me. but overy mght - Ilo site at the foot of Kato Mahon, Never a heart has sho for him, For she loves Fisherman John Who cares no more for love of hers Than the sea he sails upon. Often we wonder, do Kato and . That fate shou'd cross ts so cruelly, We think of the lovers we do not love, And dream of what life would be If only Fiisherman John loved her And Fisherman Jack loved me. Cointg . Up in a city garret, on a hot June day, a weary woman leaned back in her chair and pressed her flugers against the eyes tiat refused longer to see the stitches in shop-work over which she had toiled from day break till now, 4 o'clock in the after From the street far below her, a voice had only that moment soared upward, call lig "Si rawb rrecs! strawlierrees I Ripe, red strawberr.es 1" And, as if by magic, her thoughts turn ing backward and carried her to Deepdcne, the home of her youth, and to a certain lovely June lay In her sixteenth year when she had stood in the strawberry pas ture on the Blessing farm, with the red berries perfuming all the air, and said the words which severed her fate from that of Maurice Blessing, and made her life what itwias on this day, almost hopeless, and a ceaseless struggle for bread, won at the needle's point. How it all rose up before her I The green pastures sloping upward to the darker gr .en woods, whose tops seemed to t inch the deep blue sky, sloping down ward to the gray-stone wall, with the cold spring leaping out through the wooden tronah among its lower stones. And below the wall, "the thirty-acre nowing," spread like an immense emerald velvet carpet, with the two-story cream colored house lifting its plazzaed front at the extreme end, just where the shaded lane began, and led fron the Blessing tari out into the village road. Sihe, the poor orphan girl, had been of fered this comfortable home ; and she had refused it-for what ? For a dream of fame, which had left her toiling in this hot garret, while in the black trunk yonder the hook which was to have made her fortane, refused by one puhlisher after another,was lying, till she could find courage to thrust It into the fire. " Scarcely two years ago I ".she sighed, rocking herself to and fro. "And Maurice has sold1 the old farm and gone to Colorai dto; and I am here, lonely, djsappoinited, oldhbefore my time. Oh, if I could only live that (lay over again, and lbe as wise as I am nowv I For niow I know that, 1 love him-now, whlenm it is fc rever too late I" Siekening, wvith a sort of calenlure among those hot city streets, for one glimpse of her early home, .iester May rose,and wvent to thie desk where her worldly wealth was stored. By the closest economy shie had mnan agedl to lay aside a fcw d'ollairs, for the gloomy purpose of patying the e*xpensesof her own sickness and death, when the time should conme for .her to (lie among strani gers. From~ this sacred hoard she counted out a sufficient sum to take her to D~eepdene. "'I will stay only one day," she thought, " And I will work all the harder after i return, to make up the sum again. But, see D~eepdene, now that it is fairly in my nihnd, I must I And I wvill take one more look at the dear old farm befcre it is in the hands of strangers, and so altered that I shall not know it." Trho next day saw her on her way. Th le flye years of absence had been years of change to the little village. A railway whisked her across thme hill roadi fronm Tlerrington. Once she had made the journey in a yellow "stage,'" drawn by four- horses, with .Johni Colney, c ossest and most disagreeable of earthly stage drivers, on thme box. 'rhe village, too, was smartened and freshened up-fhew houses, new faces, a new Iron fence around the small oval park that graced the centre of thme towun; new names abovo thme gilded fronts of tile shops; a new set of giggling misses on their way to the new brown-stone academy, whieh stood where she himd once thought It an honor to attend the district schlool, In a plain, one-story structure of faded brick. No dloubt all these operations were f r the better; but they made her heart ache with' asense of loss unspeakable. And she turned Into the shaded lane that led only tothe Blessing farm, dreading to see the old farm desecrated by the stranger's hand. No; there It stood, as she had always known t-the very picture of home com fort the cnte of alu those mnodnst 1nynurkS that a well-to-do farmer, of all other men, may most easily command. But, although the dear old house was unchanged, its inmates were new and strange to her. A stout middle-aged man in a white summer suit, with a broad brimmed hat and a cigar, sat on the steps of the piazza, reading a newspaper. A fa_ slonably dressed lady, some years his ju. ior, swung in a hammock upon the lawn, lost in a novel. Several children, in broad-brinuned hats and brown Holland blouses, were making the lives of two nurges a burden to them, further down the lawn. among the elm trees, where a swing had hung from time immemorial. "City" was stamped on every face and figure that she saw. Had Maurice sold the place to some re tired merchant, who would over-ornament and disfigure it in the modern villa style? "If one could live their lives over after they grow older. and are taugat by expc. rience what Is best for themil" thought Iester In her sadness, once more. She wnuld-have gone up to the house and ask leave to rest and look around if it had remained in the care of old Farmer Willian.s and his wife. the tenants of the upper farm. But she could not face these prosperous, happy "city people," who loo ked at her with their cold curious eyes,and wndered almost audibly, "what she cuuld want," even if they did not absolutely mistake her ror a "tramp." "I wish I could have gone through the strawberry-pasture once moi-e," she thought, as she turned back towaid the railway station, tired, hungry and unrefreshed. At the foot of the lane a gentleman, in a summer suit of silver-gray, stood leaning up against the bars, with his straw hat drawn over his eyes so far that lie failed to see the stranger's silent approach. "Will you let iC pass, if .you pleasel" said Hester, at last, after waiting sonic mioments. He wheeled round, as if she had struck him, and stured doubtfully in her face. She uttered a great cry. "Mauricel Alauricel I heard that you had -old the farm and gone to Coloradol'" "iesteri Can this be you?" he answer cd: "Is your husband with you, Hester?" "My husband?" "Why, yesl I heard that you were married very soon after you wont to the city." "You heard wrong, Mauricel I have not bep marod. 1, nuver cvu "But why did you go, then, Hester? Why did you leave Decpaene? Why did you refuse to marry me, if-if there was no one else in the way?" Poor Ilesterl She thought of the hot garret, of the dream of fame that never had been realized of the unlucky book that was lying in the black trunk, of the little burial hoard so hardly carned and saved. The tears came quickly to her eyes, ob scuring the honest, handsome face on which he gazed. "'Don't cry, Hester," said Maurice Bless ing, taking her hand. "And tell me why you (1(diiot imarry me. (lear?" "Because I was a fool!" sobbed H-ester. "Is the folly ended?" asked Mauirice, hiding a simle as lie bent over her. ''Can not you give me a (dill'erenit answver now, h~ester? If you cani, we wdml be just the happiest pair on earth, here on the dear old'farm.'' "fhnt you sold it,and wenit to0 C >lorado,' saidl Iester, wonderingly. "At least I heard so." "I was a fool,- too, Ihester; for I wvent to Colorado, anid was quite ready to sell. But amy brother-in-lIa w, fromi the city, persuiadied nme to rent it to huim foi- one year tLiili Ihad time to thmink the miatter over. When i camne to may senses-althioughm I had not forgotten you, diarling--I was veiny glad that, the pioor old1 place was mine still, and1( 1 camie back, s0ome six weeks ago, to see it. My sister and( iieir husband and family go back to the city next week, stop~pinig at the imountainis on their way. 1 shall be left alone, wvitli good Mrs. Elil llams for my housekeeper,amid her huband as headi hired man-- just as I was before. liester, won't you take pity on me, and come and share my hionme? I have never cairedi for any one but you." I (do not know im what wordls Ilester answered him. But I see ler (iaiiy in t~he cream- colored farm-house, time very modlel of an active, bustling, goodi tempmered far mer's wife. A RI porteod Wonidermfumi Discovery. A great dilscovery has beeni made on the Mojave desert, which scems1 dlestimned to revolutionize viticulture ini Southern Cali fornia. It, has beenm found that grape cuttings imeerted in the trunks of the cacti on time desertedl ground~ thii lye as vigorously as in cultivated land. T1his fact~ is of great iimiportancee to theo people. By the usc of a chisel a iman .can plant a large vineyardi in a dlay, and thle vind so planted will climb the cactus and growv luxuriously without cultivation or irrigation. Th'le dry, hot @andls of the dlesert will afford a flne place for drying raisins. In aidditlon to grapes, it has been proved that melons, cucumbers, and tomatoes will grow from cat ts stock, so that the desefl zmay soon bloom as the rose. It is not expected that It will be pos sible for the Italian Antartie expedi tion to star t before 1883. In the mean time it Is Intended that Lieut. Hove, the originator oz the scheme, should make a preliminary voyage in a Whaler to the Southern seas RuOw Tney AM4e0 TsamNsewes an mn Nnrtit-Stummor Exurskoma up tihe ilutidmn. The lIt ox-President Tioias A. Scott, of the Pennsylvania t uilroad, did much to build up this great thoroughfare, and by 'hat means to extend, foster and encourage the trade of the whole country. To this work was added that of catering for the amusement and entertainnent of the peo. ple-travelers and tourits-and lines are opened in all directions by which they can reach prominent and romantic places of summer resort. Tihe plans hitherto pur sued will be ag'ain carried out this suminer by the officers and managers of the Penn sylvania Railroad, with such additions and annendments, as will acconinmodate the peo. ple to a still greater degree. Among the many lines of summer travel proj.cted by the Pennsylvania Railroad this summer, excursions up the romantic Hudson stand desorvodly preeminent. About the 25th of Juno, the superb steamer "ltichard Stock - ton" will be restored to the Ne Nburgh route. She is now being fitted up in a complete manner for the sumnmer service, and will be as popular this summer as she was in 1879. Captain Bloomsburg will be at the post of command; there will be a full and excellent band of music on board. The restaurant will be conducted on the basis of popular prices, and no intoxicating *drinks wiil be sold on board. These features of the ex, cursions cannot fail to connond them to the confidence and approval of tourists who wish safety, pleasure and profit com bined in one trip. The Stockton will run every day, including Sundays, at the low and popular rates of 1879. She will leave the Pennsylvania docks at Jersey City at 9 A. M., excepting Thursdays, when her leaving time will .be thirty minutes later. The Stockton will stop at Cozzen's Dock, West Point, in both directions, and passen. gers will have an hour and a half, at that point, to view the place and its objects of interest. She will also remain half an hour at New burgh, which is full of histori cal memorials. Jersey City will be reached at 6.30 P. M. At this point connections will be made with Brooklyn Annex boats, and the trains of the Pennsylvania Rail road.. From Jersey City and Brooklyn, the price for the round trip will be half a dollar, and children half that amount. This will be a delightful summer jaunt, and the price Is put on such a popular bas isas to enable all classes to visit and enjoy the picturesque and varied scenery of the Hudson river. 11aruatrahi le was splendid in his entertainments, unstinting in his presents to his courtiers and any one whom he had a momentary fancy 'o enrich; would pay for poems by the line in gold pieces, and shower jewels and precious stuffs upon those who accom phished the perilous success of pleasing fim. It is recorded of his Vizier, Yahya the Barmecide, that he used, whenever he went out, tW convey with him bags con taining . nearly a pound weight of silver colun .pllue Lu dlL iltguut amung poor pco pie no nugmi meet; anti tth ciipn's lavish muniilcence was not likely to be inferior to his Alinister's. Yet Ilaroun left in his Treasury the enormous sum of 900,000,000 dinars, or ?400,000,000, whence it omp pears that, fabulous as his expenditure was, his income was even more astounding. A comparatively small part of this, how ever, was honestly conie by. It was this good Caliph's customl,whenever lie found hiiself out of pocket, to call his faithful headsman and order in to "g- to such and such a person and tell him to send me so ninny thousand pieces of silver--or else cut off his head. Where lie removed a Governor, it was Haroun's practice to lay inunediate and'violent hands upon everything the de posed lieutenant posesied-and the labor ious extortions and peculations of years of mnfaious government pasesed ini a brief morng into, not the pockets of thme 01) pressed tax-payers, but the coffers of the head extortioner of the Empire, "'tfhe goodl Ilaroun Alr:,shid." lle asked1 no excuse for his high-handedl robberies ; lie wantedi the imoney, and that, was enmouidh. And this is our old friend of the ' 'Arabian Nights I The agreeable listener to the tales of the One--eyed Calenders proves to be a robber, a murderer, the slaugttherer of his kindred and( best friends, ia perjured traitor, a dIruinnard, and1( a debaucithee. In deced, to assoeiamte with hmimu was to livem with the Seven Decadly Sins in pecrson. Ilis onlly virtue was "Lulture"---and~ his intellectual graces only accentuate his want, of every noble quality o1 the heart. ie camne into an Emp~hire such as Alexa'nder might have eniviedl ; lie goverinedi it, inif am ously3, and( died in tihe muuist of rebellion anid disconmteint. lie was given such couni sel ore anid fritends as few Eastern monarchs ever possessed; lie tranmpled on them, inas sacred them, tortured themi, till no0 man wvoiuh trust hiim, and a slave watched his dleath -bedl. lie was a mnamn who might have accomph~lshedl aniythiing ; but, ruinedu by power, by thme monstrous p~osition in wich lie was placed, and by the bountdless Opportunities of gratIfying an unabrid led sensuality, lie accompllishied not hung. Th'ie brilliancy o1 his curt has made illn a type andi a mo:Iel in his writings of' his country men; but the age was not of his miaking and the glory was not his, Ile was thme pivot, upjon which the nmachiniery tutrned bt lie was not the motive, nor even thme regulating power. As in the ''Arabian .Nights," so in actual history, lie was not the pictuire, but, the frame, lie had the good fortune to be Caliph at Bagdad when time golden age of Mohammedan literature wvas in its first glory, and, lhke Lorenizo deC' Medhci, lhe de- ves to be remembered for his share lIn a f.Jat epoch. iaho Forgave Him. One day a beautIful woman was dIriving in thme Strand, London, in a ve*ry low aii elegant coupe. Th'le street was blocked for a monieunt, and the noble lady putt her head out to urge her coalmian to drive on. Jiist att that instant, a stal wart, coal. heaver was passing by ont the sidewalk,and, finding himnelf face to face with her, foumd no other way to express his adImiirationi tihain to seize her face between his two hands ami kiss her, Th~e coal-heaver was arrested and taken bofore a miagistrate, where, as may be supposed, the lady de manmded lisa condign punfshmnent. "Well I what do 1 care for all tha nunishments in the world?" cried t~he culprit, ardently. "I've kissei the handsomest Woman in the three kingdoms I" Whereupon thme auger of the fair lady was a ppeased as if by a spell, and turning to the magistrate sihe said, coaxingly : "Oh, please let this poor man go; he I insane, onn e I," A Nasty Old Vow. They were a party of four coupleS com. ing over on the steamboat Nauecito, to San Francisco. and the prettiest girl of the gushers looked up at Mount Tiaatlpais and said: "Oh, that horrid, horrid mountain I I had the most frightful aidventure up there last summer you ever lieard of. It's a won. der my hair didn't turn white.'' "What on earth was it ?" chorussed the rest. "Well, you see, I was up there with a private pic-nic party, and I wandered off by myselr, about- a mile, picking flowers. After awhile I sat down to rest in a lonely canyon, and before long I heard a queer rustling sound in sonic bushes right be. hind ime. I knew' at oaice, somehow, that it was a grizzly." "Great Scott !" and you all alone l" shuddered her escort. "Not a soul within a pnile of mne. I was just paralyzed with terrbr. I didn't dare to stir, but inl a mninute.I heard the beast coming towardi me through the thicket." "Oh,if I'd only been there,"said a young man b: eathing very hard. "I knew it was no use to try and rin, and I had heard somniwhere that bears never touch dead people. 8o I just shut Iy eyes and held my breath." "1Gracious I" "Pretty soon the great brute walked tip close and began sniffing me all over. Oh, it was just terrible I" "Should have thought you would have fainted. ' "Ohi, I didn't dait to," said the heroine. "Just then, I suppose, the party rushed up and rescued you," - said the appalled audience. , "No, they didn't. Z Pretty soon I felt the great beast pUIling at the flowers in my hat, so I just got up and shooed the horrid thing away." "What, the grizzly.? "Oh I it wasn't a grizly. 1 twas a nasty cow. But just supp'ose ic had been a grizzly 1 " But. the audience refused to "suppose," and the party looked like a Quaker funeral until the boat struck the wharf. F'lying Mn. .zEthelmtur,a monk of Malniesbury in the eleventh century, as recorded by William, th clironicleinof his own house, made hinm self wings after the maniier of Dtedalus, took flight front the 'tp of a tower, flew, it is said, for the sp 4e of a furlong, and then fell and broke hi legs. The reason that lie gave for his fMilure, was that, be sides the wings tofly with, lie had omitted to add a tail to steady his course. He lived to see and to moralizoIn the comet of 1066; but lie could have hardly lived long enough for Wiliam of Malmesbury to have heard the story out of his own niolith. .tEthcl minr is not recorded to have done, or tried to do, anything else out of the coinmon way. Not so a Sicilian magician of the eighth century, who, if we may belevethe local h istoriani, mzelln, flew from innatin. inuplh to Cantaila. Hle is called by va rious names-;Diodorus, Heliodorus and others. Bit he was a wonderful personage altogether. To begin with he was one of the very small elites, like Lord George Gordon, who from Christians have turned Jews. 'Thien, strange trade for a Jew, he began the manufactuto of idols, and pop ular belief assigned to him the well known elephant carved ii lava, which is still to be seen at Catania. He turned men into beasts and did many other magic won ders, and when he flew it was not out of scientific speculation, like the' monk of Mahnesbury, but to escape froni a sen tence of death. But when he got home lie found a Bishop who could do greater won ders still, and lie was burned at last. Are aiiy of these stories suggested hy the cur ouis tendeiicy which not a few plel~t have to dlreamt that they are Ilymtg ? The feel. inig mi the dlream is mlost agreeablle, anti some onie mtay have been tenmpted to try to make it, a reality by (liy. Th'le tiile of Holiodorus is too much; but there is no thing incredible ini thie title of Athlelmanr save his hlying a wvhole furlong. Andi thbis is the kind of imipiovement which woukti be sure to get aidded to thie story in the time between iEthlelii ieer hiimielfI and the hhstorian who recounts the feat. OL'oricai icyclin~g. Rev. Arthuir Edwards, Edhitor of the North W estern ('histia Adle'ocato is go. ing abroai with the intention of seeing Englanud aind a portioin of France and Scot land as not, one visitiig American in a thousand sees those couintrics. lie is a biycyclist, and will use his bicycle to go from town to town. "'I began practiemig," said lhe aboutt six months ago, anid inow I ride dIown town every morning and home every night. When I conunntced~ I was nervous, couldn't, sleep, and didn't enjoy my food. Now I sleep nicely, have a good appetite, and it seems to meiaseif I had a new lease of life. TIhe Methodist .Ecunmnical Council mteets ini Lond~oni, September 7. andI it oc curr'ed to me1 that, instead of waiting until Llhe adj'ournmnent, and then lookintg about, I would take imy son Rtobert over with me and mnike a brief tour on the bicycle, as little can be seent from a car wmdtow," "hlow nuch does a bicycle coast ?" "Ahiout $125." "WXiii you take thiem with you?'' ''No. Th'ley iare to be made att Coventry, Englandl, and I sent off the order to day." ''When dlo you siu ?" "June 23." "'Where do you land1( ?" "At Glar g.w." "Di) you start otn your tour fronm there?" "Yes. We shalh go up to Lochi Lomond, east to Sterling, north to Dumndee anti St. Andrew, soulhI to Edenboro, visiting Mel rose Abbey iand Abbiotsford, and then take a zigzag course aceross, Eniglandl, visiting the chief cathiedral towns, iand taking the bes.'t roiads to Ji/mdon."*~ "Hi ow long a time1 will you spend lie tween Glasgow and Londlon ?" "hree or four weeks." "You will not travel so marny miles a dhay ?" "No; we will regulate the disetance ac cording to the places of itterest. We may go twenty itmies onie day and seventy-live the iteXt." " llyour travels end at London I" . N.Iexpect toremain there abiout four weeks. Then we wIll ride to South amtpton), cross to Havre, and go through Normanidy to Piris. Alter stopping t here two) weeks, we'llI to Dieppe, irecross the channel to Blrighitoi and return to London, going thence to Coventry from which point I shall slhip the bicycle home. "Will you carry any baggage ?" "The main portion will be sct from Glasvow to Lonlon, a small satchel kept a day or two ahead. We can carry about fifteen pounds each it a httle bag adapteil to the hicycle." ''Well, your trip is i novel one." "Novel in this country, but not in Eng land where there are hundreds of thousands of bicyclists; and the commercial travelere of the northwest are not better organized than tlicy, and (to not obtain better accom modations in the towns through which they pass. " "W on't you have to take 'pot luck ?" "No Indeed. There is in every town ii1 England fron one to live little waysid( 1nnP, wih ad proprieters cater to the biy cHists. They all have on a sign with theni the intials '1. T. C.,' which meanm 'IBicyclists' Touring Club'-an organiza tion which numbers from 5000 to 7000 members. I am one of them aind have ii book with the names of all the mus and of men who repair bicycles, so that I shall know where to eat and slee) or to get my bicycle mended in case of an accident. And if any one attempts to prosecute me while on the road, the influence and treasury of the club will be back of me. Bicycling i England has'restored the prosperity of the traditional mus that flourished in the (old stagecoach days. There Is a t imllar club In thiscoutry, which was started in May, 1880, and now has 1,500 members. "Why have you selected the bicycle as a means of locomotion?" "I take the trip, not for its novelty, but for the downright physical and mental benefit which are sure to follow. 1 under take it not a1s a matter of sport. 1 ridt the bicycle not as a pastlirie or toy, but ai a practical Ilode of conveyance which I have thoroughly tested to my entire satis faction. Several of the gravest and m1os responsible men in Chicago are learniny because of the beneflts to be derived. At I said, the exercise made a new man 01 Inc. While there may be a difference ol opinion about the dignity of riding oii i bicycle, I would ride it even if considered disgraceful, because of the positive physi cal benefit it is t0 mec every (lily of 11y life." The volcano Mina Loa, is situated o2 one of I Ie principal islainuds in the 2Sand - wich group. It has several craters, flC chief or largest among them being neat the summit, at an elevation of about thir teen thousand feet above sea level. Visi tors t* this remarkable locality agree in saying that the. many attempted descrip. tions of it fail generally to convey ill ade quate Idea of its picturesque and awful iagUificence. lin its quiescent period it is a vast burning, boiling, sulphurous pit, two to three miles in diameter, a lake of molten lava, whose smoking, bubbling, heaving surface is a thousand feet below the most accessible point for the spectator to stand. No traveler in this quarter of the world would think that lie had acquit ted himself in a creditable imannerwho had not undergone the nrtihuous, toilsome two day's scramble to this, probably, the Most sublime aind thriling'of the wonders of nature. Mauna Loa has of late years had a frequent succession of eruptions. T'he present one is the ninth on record during the past fifty years. They gener illy continue through a twelvemontlih, and when the er ruption is it its inost vigorous stage there is nothing on the face of the globe to rival it in the prodigious volume of its fiery splendors; a mighty and gor geous pyrotechnie display, beside which the grandest efforts of Vesuvius or 4tna or Ilecla would fade and be unnoticed. A colunn of flamne froi this crater Is told of, ai least, a mile In diameter and sev'en hun dred feet In height, irowing its pale I1 :ninaition Oin a1 dark niighit, over the whole islandt and for nilles outl, across the sur* rouzicing waters. TIhen, of a river of lava of a white heat, five miiles broad. lowimg to ward the sea, distant sonic sevent y miilee, and1( at tiimes falling over pr-ecipjices in cas ciades of living fire. Othier things are re lated also1, fr'oii all of which it, would seem that, Manna Lou preseiits just, no(w iitt-rac tlins siuflcient to repay the trouble oIf a live thousand miles ocean voyage, even to uin ronimntic A mnericans who have the reaiite~i imians andl license. These islands ai-e eni tirely of volcanic origin anid formation. TIhey arose in ai night, a1s it were, out (of the dlepthis of the sea ; they are liable at aniy time, say the geologists, to sinkl in a ighit, like another Lost, Athantis, into whence they came. Trout ,a142 coOikreachll. No soonecr the thought than the rotd 1s put together. Tlhe finest giut bottom is attachied, a No. '7 hook thereto spliced,and a1 cockroach liglhtly impaled. Bly staindIng on the crown of a willow, somle l5 yards off, I could see the head (of my quiariry, though lie could scarcely see me by reaisoni of the natural exigencies o1 the laws gov. ornilng refractimon and reflection. Very quietly I let my bait dlowni ;n the waler, and1( paidl out the line line to within 3 feet or 4 feet of the nose of the trout. Now had1( arrIved the tine for finessmng. With the ultmlost, circuimispectioh, with a slow, fluent, gliding motion, the cockroach was lowered on--onl--on-till within a few inches of the fish's mo(uth. Then l with dtrew it, as If to take it entirely from the water. No inotice took lie. My heai t again failed mie, well nigh, ait least, for 1 1had( triedl by thIs tiiie persisiently for 80ome weeks to capture thIs lordly fIsh, and as eachi failure was added to its predecessor, my desire of p~ossessin natturally grew greater andi greater. hlowever, I very, very gently moved up~ a few yardls, and aainii watched the baIt dlown towardh the stolid fish. ThIs tune the cockroach had suink dbelper in the water, and1( with a sort of chuckle I watched it grad'ually app.-oach his m1uztzle in the same11 plane, and1( not as before, rather above. As it niearedI him1, to miy meixp~ressible joy, I saw bIs unmder lIp shuow as If it had, b~y some mechanical 1impuLlse connected with the bait, auito'niatI cailly miovedl. Nearer passedl the [bit on2 wardl, the jaw lowered yet., and1(, like a chlildl taking a sop, like an unfledged bird takinig a wormi, it passed behInd the plor tals of that pohished head, With suippress ed breath and1( palpitalting heart I coulntedl onle, two, three, four, five--then, with a side movement, I struck ; .not violcntly, but swiftly ;..not mightily, but strongly, Ye gods, lie was hooked, and out yardis i the stream lie spled I Of course lie was only landed after the ulsuatl interregnua'n of splendid struggling, and I becamie the hero of the hour in the possessIon of this spleu. did fish. A Taste of Maino Birch. 'lhe traveler and caiper-out In Maine, unless he penetrates its more northern por ion1s, has less reason to remember it as a pinc tree state than its a birch tree state. 'lhe white pine forests have melted away like snow in the spring and gone down streaii, leaving only patches here and there in the more remote and inaccessible parts. The portion of the tate I saw, the valley of the. Kennebec and the woods about Moxie lake, had been shorn of its piins timber more than forty years before, ai is now covered with a thick growth of spruce and cedar and various deciduous trees. But the birch abounds. Indeed, when the pine goes out the birch comes iI; the race of men suicceeds the race of giants. This tree has great stay-at. home virtues. Let the sombre, aspiring, mys terious pinc go; the birch has huenble everyday usmes. In Maine, the paper or caiwe birh is turneed to more account than) any dther tree. Uncle Nathan, our guide, said It was 1nnde especially for thecamper out ; yes, and for the woodman ani frontierman generally. It is a magazine, a furnishiuig st')re set up inI the wilderness, whose goods are free to every comer. -The whole equipmiletit of the camp lies folded in it, anld comes forth at the beck of the woodman's axe; tet, water proof roof, boat, camp itensils, buckets, cips, plhtes, spoons1, napkins, table-cloths, paper for letters or your journal, torches, candles, kindling wood and1 fuel. The canoe birch yields you its vestments with the utlost liberality. Ask for its coat and it gives you its waistcoat also. Its bark seeili wrapped aboit it layer upon layer, and comes off with gient case. Wo saw many rude structures and cabins shingled am sided with it, and hay stacks capped witli it. Near a maple sugar camp- there was a large pile of birch bark sap buckets-each bucket made of at plece of bark about\ a yard Square, folded II) ats a tiinian folds Ill) a sheet of tinI to inake a square vessel, the corners bent, around againat the sides and held by a wooden piin. When, one diy, we were overtaken by a shower in tiaveling through the woods, our guide quickly stripped large sheefs of the bark ft Iomi a near tree, auill we each had a perfect unibrella as if by magic. When the rain was over and we illoved Onl, t wrapped mnine about me like it large leather apron, and it shielded my clothes from the wet bushes. When we mine to Ia spring, Uncle Nathan would have a birch bark cit) ready before ally of us could get a tin one out of his knapsack, and I Whin.k water never tastes so sweet as from one of these bark clips. It is exactly tile thing. it just fits the mouth, and i, seemisto give new virtues to the water. It makes 1me( thi'Sty UOW when I think of it. III our camp at Moxie we made a large birch bark box to keep the bitter in ; andl([ the butter in this box, covered with some leafy boughs,. I think iiproved InI flavor day by day. Maine butter needs something to mollify and sweeten it a little, and I think birch bark will (1o it. III camp Uncle Nathan ofteni 1rank his tei aid coffee from a bark cu); the china closet in the bireh tree was al Ways hafidyf,"iid our vulgar tinware was generally a good deal nixed, and the kitchen maid not at all particular about washing. We ill tried tile oatmeal with the maple syrup in one of these dishes,and the stewed mountain cranberries, using a birch bark spoon, and never found service better. Uncle Nathan declared he could boil potatoes in a bai'rk kettle, and 1 did not doubt him. Instead or sen-ing our so0(l napkills anhd table spreads 1" the was hi, we rolled then u) ini. candles and Vrches, 111141 drew daily 111)011 0111' stores inl the forest for. iew olies. 'The rouite betwoeii Jhston and1( New York by waly (of NeIw l ~Veil had just been op~enled and( 1 was occupying a seat with Mr. Webster wvhen the' cars stop~ped at the latter city'. Mr i. Webster wais not qulite3 wecll, and, saying lie thought it wVoutil be prudett to take some1 briandy, askedl me to aiccompljany himl ini suec of it. We ac cord'(ingly enteired a bar-room niear the stat tion, and the ordler was giveni. Th'le at tenldanlt, wvithiout, lookinug at h's cust,Imeri, mnechi'nically tooIk a decanter from a shlfI belhind him and laIced it, inear someI glasses on the ('o~iiter. Julst, as Web~ster was ablouit to help himself, the bar-tender', hap peninig to look up, startedl, as if he imd1( sen a spirit, aniid cried " Stop) 1" with great vehemence, lie thben took the de, canter from Webster's hand; replaced it oni thle shelf freim whence it ciamle, aiid disap1 pearedi beneath the couniter. Rtising from thee depths1, lhe bore to tile surface anl old( fitshioned black bottle, which lie substitut ed foi' the decanter. Webster p~ouredi a smalll gmant ity into a glass, dran11k it off in great relish, and threw dlowin a half dol lar mn paymienlt. Th'le barkeepur b~egani to fumble inl a dirawer of silver, as if selecting some siinaller pieces for change, whereupon Webster waved his hand with (dignity, and with rich iand authiori tative toiies p~ro niouniced these wvordes: "'My goodt friend, let 1me( offer youl a piece (of advice. When - ever yeu give that good brandiy from tunder the counter, never take thme trouble t~o maike chanrge." As w~e turned to go out, the dealer14 lauced one hand uphonl the bar, threw hlimiself over It, and1( Caughit me by the arm. '"Tell iie who that man is !' lie cried1, with geuinie emnotionl. "lie is Daiiiei Webster,'' I anlswered"'. TIhe~ mail p~ausedi as if to find( wvords adhequate to con. theni exclannied1, hn a fervent, half-whisper: "'By heaven, sir, that man should lbe Free 1(dent1 of tihe United States.' 'Thie adhjura tionl was strongeir thunu I have written it, but it, Was inot ultteredi priofanely-t, was simpilly- lie eiiphlasis of ain overpowerinig coinvictionl. Fincis A bout, Sahara. Rt'cently D r. Lenz, who had just returin ed from an~ expedition across Sahar'a deosert to T1imnbuetoo, gave a lecture biefore tile Pais Geographlheal Mociety. D r. Lenzs de c,slively co1ndemuhs ats impracticable the pro ject of flooding, the Sahaera. The fresh~ water fosade, which are mlet with in many plarts, sho0w that tile Mahiara is nlot the b ot tom1 of ai dried upl sea. Trhe temperature is not neia-ly so hot as might, be expected ; wildi beasts arc rare, and thle most formiid able enemies to be met with are 111( Tlour aeg tnbes, who, according to rep~ort, have recenltly liassacredl the F~renchi sataran Expedition. On the whole, the impres-05 sion is conveyed tha~t the Sahara is not half as black as it has been paintedl, and1( that it is entitled to an apology from the entiro civilized worldt Tiho Nense of Smeil. An old author speaks of a monk at Prague, who, when anything was given him, distingulshet ,by smelling, its qualil ties, and to *hom it belonged, with as inuch certainty as the best-nosed dog. There is also on record an individual who could distinguish his own watch, from smelling, from that of other individuals. and could very readily detect with which hand any person opened the door of a room, by the smellleft on it by the brass handle. It was said of the above monk, that he could accurately distinguish, by this means, the virtuous from the vicious, and particularly the unchaste. He was much devoted to the study of natural phil osoply; and among other things lie had undertakeu to instruct mankind, with pre cepts, on the sense of smelling, like those we have on optics and acoustics, by dis tributing, into certain classes, a great num ber of smells, to all of which he- had given names; but an untimely death cut him off in the midst of these curious researches. The guides who accompany travelers i the route from Smyrna or Aleppo to Baby lon have no signs in the midst of the de sorts to know the places they are in; yet they distinguish with certainty- even at inidnight at what distance they ara fron Bal~ylon, by only smelling the nand. Per haps they judge of (he distance by the odor exhaled by the small plants or roots inter mixed with the saind. Physicians, in vie it iug the sick, even before they have seen thei, frequently forn opinions froni cer tain prognostios, such as the cadaverous smell that often betrays itself on entering the chlinibersof the nfillicted. It has long beeni supposed that (logs can foretell the death of a sick person, which they do by long continuous howling. An anonymous author says, "In this respecl, dogs are more sagacious than men, being attracted by the sniell of death, and often seeining, before the patient has expired, to demand their prey by a continued howling. A lady of iny acquaitance had i favorite .nionkey, and the mnkey, in return for tie kindness of his mistress, was so do votedly attached to her, that lie would searcely ever be induced to leave her. But hit! nice siell in discovering the approach of contaglious distempers wa; remarkable. The iensles became epidemical In the country; the lady fell sick of them; and what, is very remarkable, she was aban doned by her favorite monkey some days before there was any indIcation of her approaching illness. From all the cir cuistances, there could be but ltile doubt, but lie had a foreknowledge of this event by smell. No sooner, however, did she recover, than the monkey retur ,ed with the same fondness and famili rity which he used to manifest towards I be fore her malady. Bome time after ards, this lady had a sight fever,'but thout any appearance of malignity, and, hat Is curious the monkey continued w her as a constant companon. The pie ure which different individuals experiei e from vari ons odors often depends on an oquired taste; and we find this .in a greater or lesser de gree national. The Turk.s, Persians, and Arabians delight in the efiuvia of opium, which to European taste is nost disgust. Ing. The natives of continental Europe, whether malo or female, have long had a fondness for tobacco smoke, which, com paratively speaking, is little relished here by either sex. Some persons are delight ed with the smell of rose, while others cannot endure it. An Instance is recorded of a person who fainted whenever subjec, ed to the smell of celery, and another who took a headace whene ver she sat near a pine-apple at table. Some savage nations experience high gratiflcation at the smeli of assalmtida, which Europeans consider the most natiscous snell in nature. Colt: Feet, Very manny persons (10 no't properly care for their feet. T1hey use cotton stockings and thin shoes ini wiinter; somelltiines they sit, perhaps for hours, with their feet damp aind even wvet. Ii is not unifrequer~t for females to go about theIr household work half a day at a time with feet mnade-. quaiitely protectedt, while the cold currents of air cause a temperature forty dlegrees less near the floor than overhead. Bonme pecople become so habituated to cold feet as not to feel the "chill"-the long-con tinued cold having contracted the blood vessels and1( destroyed the propelr sensibili ty of thme iierves. Not a few persons go to bed in a cold room with the feet still cold, to have them yet further chilled by a cold bed. Now, the feet, sustain a close nervous relation to the rest of the body. llence it Is thiat the physician applies heat to the feet, to relieve a congestedi brani. Th le feet of one whose legs are paralyzed wihll kick when tickled, thiough the personi is not conscioius of the tickliing, nor, ex cep~t by sIght, even of the kIcking. Trhi.s, indicates, too, one of the reasons why a rusty nail in the foot, causes that fearf,il disease, lockjaw. Ghood health canniot be enmjoyedi unless the blood circulates warin and1( strong through the extremities. Moth ers should see to it that their children 's feet are well clad, and should, from t',me to time dlurhig the (liy, remove their. shoes to make sure that they are warm. They should further traiin themil to right u(10as and habits in this respiect. With all persons the rule In winter shoul be woolen stockinigs and tlhicksoled shoes,and rubbers in wet, weather. Extra somes, whether of cork, felt, or event thick past.e b~oardi may lie uised to great, advantage. Slippers or shloes that can he easily re muovedi should lie worn about the home. If the feet arc permanently cold from the shirinkaige of the blood vessels, this will tend to enlarge them againm. In such cases they shld~ be0 soaked every night for a tIme inl quite warmi water. A distingniishied phlysiclan who hiad spent, mnuch timo at quirntino, said that a personi whlose head was thoroughly washed every (lay, rarely took conta;ious diseaser, but where the hair was allowed to becoinie (dirty and m nattedl, it was .hiardily possle~l to ecapeI) inifectioni. Many people find speedly relief for sick headache by washibg the hair thoroughly in weak soda water. I have known severe cases almost wholly cured in ten minutes by this simple remedly. A friend finds it th~e greatest relief in cases of "rare coIls," the cold symptoms entirely leaving the eyes and nose after one thorough washing of the 'hair. Tho: head phould be thoroughly dIried afterwards, and not exposed to a, draught of air for a little while, . .