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air, TRI-W EEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C, JULY 23, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. THE WORLD AR I FINDI IT. They say the world'd a weary place, Where tears are never dried, Where pleasures pass like breath on glss, And only woes abide. It May bb so-I cannot know Yet this I dare to say, My lot has had more glad than sad, And so It has to-day. They say that love's a cruel Jest; They tell of women's wiles That poison dips in pouting lips, And death in dimpled sinlles. It may be so-I cannot know Yet sure of this I am, One heart Is found above tie.groid, Whose love Is not a salitu. They say that life's a bitter curse That hearts are made to ache, That jest ai song are bravely wrong, And health a vast mistake. It may be so-I cannot know But let them talk- their fill; I like iny life, I love imy wife, And mean to do soqtlll. THE NEW DOCTOit. "I think I will try the new doctor." Esther Warren spoke in a faint lialf pleading tone, as if she expected to meet it storm of objections, but somewhat to her surrrise, her aunt Martha said: "II would if I were you." "Dr. Wyck, it would seem, has tried his utmost skill for the last five years," I sighed Esther, wearily, "and I get no botter. It may be Dr. Dun will know Of somo now remedy." "I will write to Dr. Dun iow," said I Miss Martha. "I will se Robert liar- i ness up to drive to the town." It was a very brief iote, merely re- i questing Dr. Dun to call upon Miss i Warren at his earliest convenience, yet Miss Martla's pen traveled very slowly i over the paper, and she kept her head to i one side, lest it tear drop should mar the uieat letters. Five years before there had been no brighter, stronger maiden in all Millville than Esther warren, only child of Bates Warren, who had mado an enormous for. tule in iron, and held Esther as the choicest of all this earth's treasures. At eighteen her father was killed and she seriously crippled in a railway col lision. Her hands and arms were strong as e ever, her brain clear, but her lower limbs were utterly without power. Heiress to immense wealth she was almost a prisoner in her splendid home, y subject to attacks of pain that prostrated her.for days, suffering intensely. f Books, needlework and . a feeble attempt at drawing helped to fill the timo; but it was not easy to bo patient, t and Esther was not yet perfectly saint like, although she tried to be submissive. Dr. Dui's practice was small, and t much of his time at his own control, but lie was an onthusiast in his proifemsion, and gladly took much of the old doctor's gratuitous practice off his hands.. He had coumo to Millvilhwis Dr. Wyck's assistaut, to tako his place when lie re tired, but the patients of the old doctor were a little shy of the new one. "A -yes!" said Dr. Wyck, reading Miss a tha's note. 'Little Essie War runI 8ad easor'ia the doctor entered. into a long a on of the case, sum ming up in thij.rde 'Utterly hopoloss! She may livo *47.irs, but she will I never ilkoL.In' It seemed toguerbert Dun when lie a entered the beauitiful room where Esther Warren spent her long making hours, Ii that life even with pain, must be0 pleas ant surrounded by such luxury, and the rare exquisite. beatuty of Esther's face, pale, it is trite, lhut delicately lovely, c was a jewel v~thy .ef exquisite setting., 'fli5iF Was a little' flush upon the inva- h hid's cheeks fis 'the new doctor took a chair beside hoY,~iflight of hope in her a large eyes that made his heart ache. It was not long before Esther Warren e under the grave p)rofessional mannier, s, felt the power of his sympathy, aiid ]F found herself expressing more freely a: than sh)e had ever before spoken the e: hope that filled her heart, fully satisfied sl when Dr. Dun said: "lIn a ease of such long standing I tI cannliot express an opiniionl at onice, Miss e, Warren; but depend on me to give my a muy most earniest study and card to it." al But if D~r. ,Dun could not restore c strength to Esther Warren 's cripplled ~ body13 it wasi not long beforie she felt her life flooded with a noew strange happiness. (1 The hiour' that the new doctor spont I with lie every morning gladdened the 1) whole day. He was niot a conceitedl man, amnd Essie sceomied io hinm like a child, so that lie was blinid to the facet thant he was gaining the heart of the crippled heiress. So when Martha invited him to spend some chance evenings there lie went. ( Essie was to him a p)atienit; one who a called on his professionlal sle.ll frequently c to care the most agonisig sullerinig: andl 1 if hie could also make some of hier long, lonely hours any hiighiter lie gladly con tributed his liveliest talk, his hebi teller a songs, his imost courteounamnner to the p service. . 5 But lie never' thought she lovedl him ~ until Dr. Wyck answered his application for a month's holiday. "Spare you? Why, yes, I suppose I 3 ecan get along. Blut I ath afraid I have ti made a muddle of sending you to Esther a \Warren. Why didn't you tell mne that ~ you woro0 engaged?a "I Waited until I could offer Annie a home." 'C "Voi-youcouldn't break your en- f< gagdi4 t,- 1 suppose. You knowv you a) could l~ave Esther Warren and hetfor- P tuhfor asking." "I never thought of such a thing." a 'prhanna van hinl bettor cnside1r it. ni Now, do not imagine that EsBie has taken me intg her confidence." "She is as maidenly and modest as the Most fastidious lover could Wish," Con tinited the old doctor; "but I have known her and loved her since she was a baby, and I can read her heart. Poor hiuld." His sigh was echoed by Dr. Dni. "Will you believe me if I tell you that [ never dreamed of this?" he said, earn stly. "Miss Warren seemed to me set ipart by her suffering from earthly pan iions, and I should have as soon thqught :f loving a sainit." ''She is very rich." "Yes, I am glad she has every allevia ion money can give her," said Dr. Dun, lot appreciating the implied hint. "And Miss Leigh; Is she wealthy?" "Mly Annie? Bless you, no! But we tre not afraid. I shall continue to live tere for a few months, because Annie vill select and furnish a house so much ietter than I can; but it will be the iliest cottage." "Ve1* you can go," said the old dec or, "and take my best wishes for ytmr lippless." .But he said it in a dull, heavy tone, md his face was very grave when he -alled upon Esther. 'You must take me back for a month," ie said, as cheerfully as if his heart was lot like lead in his bosom. "My assist Lilt has gono 0 ay." Then he looked at Esther's fernery, as f his whole soul was absorbed in ferns, ad added: "le has gone home to he married. It s quite romantic. A long engagement, vith the wedding postponed by poverty mil both sides." He heard a quick, gasping breath, but lid not turn his head, as lie continued.: "What luck you have with your ferns. ily maidenhair will never grow as yours loes. Mrs. Wyck says that raising flow irs or ferns is a gift. She does not suc eed as you do," and so on, and so on, ntil a clear voice, low', sweet and per metly quiet, interrupted "Dr. Wyok, please come and sit here id tell nie about Dr. Dun." He told her all he know. "I feel very grateful to the doctor," ossie said, "for he has been more than :ind, and I should like to make his wife , wedding present. I hope we shall be riends." "I hope so," the doctor said." "He left her soon after, stopping in bie hall to..mutter: "I had rather face the worst surgical peration I ever performed than repeat liat. " But Essie made no moan. Even Martha could only guess her ain, and before the new doctor returned >Millvillo his patient was her swoot lacid self again. But at the station Dr. Dun and his appy wife found Robert, the coachman, riting with a carriage. "Miss Esther's compliments, doctor," e said, amid will you allow me to drive ou home?" It was bewildering to be drien to the rettiest of cotlages whichywas brilliantly ghted. A little ma~lid-seibfant openied the door, na( ushered the wvay to a drawing-room aintily furnished, where a niote was 11id conispicuously upon01 the table. "It was directed to "M~rs. Herbert pun," and begged the acceptanice of >ttage and conteiits from the "(dector's ratefuli patient, Esther Warrin." "Ours!"' the b~rldo cried. This pretty Dm0 is our's!" Aiid a happy home it proved as well a a pretty one. Marthla had matdo it as attractive and Dampleto as possib~le, every room hand >mely furnished, and many trifles of ssie 's own work adding to its beauty, 'id the doctor acc(eptedl it with a most trnest resolution to pay her for it if' dill and kindness could ever do so. There is no more welcome visitor inll ie b~eautiful home of the criplpled heir is than Annie D~unn, and if the children the pretty cottage evor have a griev-1 ice, they are sure of sympathy and :)mfort from Essie, whoII stands in the Ilace of a guardian apgel in their hearts. But there has never come to Essin anmy ream of love since shle took Herbert 'un and~ his wife inito thle place of alove'd brotheor anid sister. Coneoy Island. Everyboudy has heard of this popu ir summerilO resort of the New York rs with its splendid hotels, the Man attani, the Brighton, amnd tho~ briental. It lies directly on the Ocean, nd( the pure sea air, safe hathing, aind xcllent music, make one forget tihe eats of summer. The Pennsylvania Rlail Lad Company, and the Iron Steamboat ompany of New Yorhlave entered into rraineents by whlich extra facilities re offered for reaching Coney Island,this opuilar~i summer resort. These palace teame~rs will connect with trains oil the enunsylvania Railroad at Jersey City, ad land p)assenger's at thle Iron Pier, onmey Island, direct, also at Bay Ridge, ~her'e coectionl is mlade with tihe New~ ork andu Sea Beach Railroad. Return 'ips wvill be mado(1 at such1 hours as will lord satisfaction to all visitors to tihe land1, anld 01nablo thlemi to iniake sure id closei comme(1tion~s with trains on tile ennuasylvania Rlailroad hiomieward b ound,1 1 'le time on this line between .Jersey1 ity aiid Conecy Isiaind wvill be aboult mryimiunutes. This will bo a safe eeily, and pleasant route from all cints to Coney Island. I'r does nr' aldrays follor tLihu a mut maIs sculiptor beca~luse ho chisels hisa taIlor out ' a 81m1 of clnthes.1 Molving a Tough Problem. One day Jack Marland, on 'going to 'the gallery of M. Lepage with one of his friends, found it occupied by a* young man well known as one of the best shots in Paris; and most assuredly he was a good shot. He performed all the feats which tradition assigns to the Chevalier St. George; he each time hit the bull's eye of the target at the usual distance, snunfed a candle with the ball, split a bullet against the edge of i knife, and drove a nail into a wall by striking the head directly in the center with his ball; and, in short, by a thousand feats of this nature proved himself worthy the name of i first-rate shot.. His amour propre was roused by the presence of Jack, W1hom1 the attendant, in presenting him with the pistol, quietly said was almost as good a shot as himself, but at each shot, instead of re ceiving from Jack the tribute of praise which he deserved, he heard Jack, in reply to the exclamation of astonishnient which proceeded fron all in the gallery, say "No doubt, that is i very good shot, but the result would be very different, I've a notiohi, if lie had a live man for his butt." This incessant calling inI ques tion of his powers as a duelist, for Jack had repeated his observation three times, at first astonished the "Utrcur," and end ed by annoying him; and, at length, turing round to Jack, and looking at him with an air half threatening, lie said: "'Forgive me, Mr. Englishman, but it ap pears tome that three times you have made an observation disparaging to my cour age; will you be kind enough to give mue some explanation of the meaning of your words?" ''My words," answered our friend, 'do not, I think, require any explanation; they are plain enough in my opinion." "Perhaps then, sir, you will be good enough to repeat them, in order that I may judge of the meaning which they will beai', and the object with which they have been spoken," was the reply of the Frenehman. 'I said," answered Jack, with the most 1erfect .sy nfroid, "when I saw you hit the bull's-eye at every shot, that neither your hand nor. your eye would be so steady, if your pistol were pointed against the breast of a man in the place of a wooden partition." "And why, may I ask?" "Because," answered Jack, "It seems to me, that at the iomuent of pulling the trigger, and firing sit a man, the mind would be seized with a kind of emotion likely to unsteady the hand, and conse quently the aim." "You have fought many duels?" asked the Frenchman. 'Not one," said Jack. "Ah! rejoined the other with a slight Rneer, "then I am i4pt surprised that you supposo the possibility of a mn being alfrsid. under such circumstances." "Forgive me," said Jack, "you mnisun oerstood sme. I fancy that at the moment when one man is aLbout to kill another, lie may tremble from some other emotion than that of fear. "'Sirl I vcecr tremble," said the shot. "Possibly," replied Jack, with the itme composure; ''still I sun not sit ill mvinced, that sit twenty-five pae', that is, at the distancme it which you hit, the bull's-eye each time " 'Well, at twenty paces?" interrupted the other. "You would miss your man," was the 3ool reply. "'Sir, 1 assure you I should not, "ins 'ered the Frenchman. "Forgive me if I doubt your word," Mid Jack. "You mean then to give me the lie?" "'I merely assert the fact," replied our ~rienmd. '"A fsict, however, wvhich I think you w'ouki seaircely like to establish," said tho "rcte'ur." "WhVly not?" said Jack, looking steadi y' at his antsagonist. "B]y p~roxy, p~erhiaps?" ''By proxy, or ini my own person per ips, I care not which," ssaid Jsack. 1 war you, you would 1be somewhat 'ash." ''Not at aill," said Jack, for I merely ay whamt I thisnk; and, consequently, ny coniviction is that I shouh~l risk but ittle."'. "'Let us understsand each other," said he Frem insmn; ''you repeait to me a econid time, thast at twenty-five psices I hsould miss my man." ''You are mistaken, monssiuir'' said1 rsick; "'it appesars to me thsat this is the Ii time that I have said it.." "Psirbleu?" said thme French mnsn, now horoughly exalsperaited, ''this is too) niuch ; you wanst to isnsult mue.'' ''Think as you like, monsieur," said Jaek. "G(ood!" ssaid the other, ''your hour, sir?" "'Why niot now?" said Jack. '"Thel plaice,"' said thme other. ''We sire but five stepis from 'the Bois le Bologne," cried ,Jack. "'Your arsms, sir?" ''The pistol, of course," was Jack's sin swer, "w 'ae not about to fight a duel, miut to decide a pinht upon01 which we are it issue." The two young men eniteredl their ea iriolets, eanch aceomnpaniedl by a frienid, md drove towards the Bois de JBolognme. trrived at the app~ointed pilace, the see )sd(l wished to arrange the matter. Thijs iowever, was very dhifliult; Jaick's aid ersary required an apology, whilst Jack naintainsed thsat he owed hsisnone; uni ess lie hsiself was either killed or vounided; for unless this happened, lhe Jack) wvould not hsave beenm proved vronmg. Thme seconds spen1t a quarter of in hour in the attempt to dirlect a recons siliation, but in vains. They then wished n place the anitagonists at thirty pages romn each other; to this Jack would not ~onsent, observisng that- thme point in luestionm could nmot be correctly decided, f any difference were made between the ldstance no0w to be fixed1 and the dis *ance at which his antagosmst had hit the )mll's-eye ini the gallery. It was then >rop~osed that a Louis should be thirownm 'lp ini ordler to dlecidle who was to shoot Irst; this Jacok delared wvas totally un iecssary, that the * right to the first hot naturally belonged to his adversary, msd although the Frenchman wvas anxious hat Jack should take advantage of thia me chaisce, he was firm and carried his mnint The "garcon" of the shooting gallery had followed, and was. rendy Ct charge tile pistols, which he did witlh hi same measure, the same kind of powder, and the simo kind of ball a those usetl by the Frenchman in the gallery a shori tiMe beform. The pistols, too, were tih( aiame; thi-oilition alone Jack had im. posed, as a sine qua non. Tile antagon ists, placed at twonty-five paces from eacli other, recoived each his pistol; and the secodsll retired a fewi paces, in order t leave the coibatanto free to fire on o1 another, according to the stipulated ar rangemnut. Jack took none of the precautions usu. al with duellists: he attempted not t( shield ani' part of his body, by positioi or any other means; bit allowed hit arns to hang down at his side, presented his full front to his enemy, who scaicel knew what to make of this extraordinary conduct. He had fought several duels but it had never been his lot to seo mucl 8n1/roid in any olie of his aitagollist; lie felt as if howildered; and Jack's theor occurring to his mind, tended but little to reassure him; in short this celebrateod shot, who had never missed either hiii man or the bull's-eye of the target, be gan to doubt his own powers. Twice he rtised his pistol, and twice he lowered it again; this was of course contrary to all the laws of duelling; but, each tinm Jack ciontented himself with saying: "Take tille, monsieur! take time." A third tiue ho rpiised his arm, and feeling ashianed of himself, fired. It was a mo.. ienlt of the most Painful anxiety to the secolds; but, they were soon relieved, for Jack, the instant after tle pistol had been fired, turned to the right antid to the left, and m(ado %low how to the two friends, to show that lie was not wound ed, and then said, cooly, to his antagon. ist, "You, see, sir, I was right!" "You were," answered the Frenchian; "and now fire, in your turn." 'Not I," said Jack, picking up his hat, and ianding the pistol to the garcon; "what good would it do me to shoot at you?" "But sir," said him adversary, "you have ai right, and I caiot permit it to ho otherwise; besides I amti anxious to see how you shoot." "Let uts understand each other," said Jack. "I never said that I -would hit you; Isaid, .that y/ou would not 'hit me; you have not hit 111e; I was right; and now there is an end to the matter;" aid in spite of all the renionstrances and entreaties of the Frenchiman, Jack mounted his cab, and drovo off, ropeat ing to his friend, "I told you there was a mighty difference between firing at it (oll and firing at a man." Jack's mind was eased; Io had solved his problom, and found that he was not'a coward. Fred-Arcelr. Fred Archer, the man wilo rode the American horse Iroquois, to victory, at tile late Derby raco in England, was born oi January 11th, 1856. His family had always.bon famous for their powers of horsemanship, and his father was a well-known performer betwoon the flags, and as recently as 1858, or two years aff ter Fred was born, le rode and won the Liverpool Grand National upon Little Charley. Beforo Fred was ton years old lie showed that lie knew how to stick on a horso, and it wits resolvod that he should be brought up as a jockey. He was apprenticed to Matthew Dawson, of the 1Heath House, Newmarket, with whom he has remained ever since. At the early age of fourteen so thoroughly proficient had he become in the business that le was gi'ven amount onl Athol Daisy for the Nursery Handicap tit Clester field, which lie won on September 28, 1870, pirevious to which he had ridden 1md( ~won a match oni a poniy betlonging to Mrs. Willan Matthiew Daiwsoin, and3 ill conuiected with the~ Heath House .ttables recognizing that they had a ve.ry p~romuisinlg lighit-'weight iln Archor, gave him every chance p'Jssile, anid hlis first success in any great eviit was on Sail vanes for the Cesai-owichi in 1872, which h~e rodoe at 77 ponids. Inl this race lie shlowed a woinderful aniount of abiility, Loolness anid judgmieiit of pace, which foretold the brillint careor'ini store for him.-n During tihe remnainder-of that and the following seasons he (lid not ride, b)ut ini 1874 lie bieganl a series of birilliaint 10easons which at the end of 1880 sho0wed 1 totail of ito less thani 1,480 successful linints. As early as 1870 he had ail teidy won the confidence of Lord Fal liouith, anid ailthioighi his riding weight was little mere thanti 88 pouinds, h~e rode A~tlanltic for the 2,000 guineasuat 122 poiuids and1( won. Sincee then he has wo. i tihe classic events-the Derby ill 1877 with Silvio, in 1880 with Bend Or iad in L881 with Iroquii. With Jannette and Whieel of Fortuno lie took the Oaks ini 1878 and1( 1879. Silvio and Jannmetto in L877 and1( 1878 were his wininiig St. Leg .ir maounta4 and1 bes5ides Atlantie ini 1874hli wVon th' 2,000 guineas with Charibert in 1879, whihli for the 1 ,000 guineas hie rode Sp)inalwaly anld Wheel of Fortune ini 1875 md 1879, all wVith the 0xcep)tion of ire :luo.s andl Bend Or beinig the property of IlJordl F5ahlouith. Five times il six years ~rchier has won the City and Su~r rbain, viz., on Thunder, ,Juliuts -COmsar, P arole, Ninatter Kildare andl Bend Or. With Painlo Archler also took tile Great Nbitropolitad Handicap in 1879. .Twice h~e'hals wVon the Doewburst Plate with Wheel of Fortune and B3a1 Gal, but inguilar as it may seem h10 has never beenlle( to rima ptllace for tile Midodle Park Plato. It is utterly implossib~le to 11no)ltioni all the implorttrut events Archer tias won, lie being alike at home in a lash of half a mile or at a distance, andl 5 110 is still able to ridoe ft 118 p)ound(1s ra trifle less, lie wmill no doubt 1)0 kept imsy in the saddle all the p~resenit season dthiough lie weiit in partnership with Nfatthew. Dawson last Jimnuary as a trainer. If h10 is as successful as a trainer is lie has been as ajockey he will coir Lainily hlave a wondet-ful career, lHe has ilroady built for himself a very hand 101m1 and~ comfortable reaidence in close p~roximity to the Heath House stablelcs, but is as yet aid to be0 unmarried. L'ETRnANGEa Bays:i "So long as we utanid boggling at imaginary evils let us lever blame a horse for starting at a ihadow." THEs young man WhD Wrote and1 asked bisgirl to accept a "bucket" of flowers be iame a lhttle pale when she said sho wood* 0100,000,000. For more than three hundred yearm 1the mines of Pachicia have beein worked by the Mexienms-first by the-Mexieans pure and simple, then by the Spaniards and now again by Moxicai n who would scorn the iame of Spaniard, though his blood mingles ill their veins. Here in this very town was ldiscovered the pro ces of 111m1algiaiation now in uime to-dty, by which ill the precioius ores Iug fro'm - the moutatiin aire made to yiekd their Hilver. Yes, llore, the very laciendia i still worked and profitably, inl whilhl, iln 1857, Senor Medinat made that discovery Ho valuable to Mexico. Senor Medin'a ham passed arwaty, it i.s pres'umied, but his memory still lives. Tho English colony comprites about 350 men, women anld clildren, from thei mining - district of Cornwall. The first Cornish minlers came hiere about fift.y yeairs ago, intro duefug Englisil machmlery and modes of working the mine1, 111111 to the beflllit of the owners. Some of the original number are still living, though very few, and atll Ilere now tgree a1s to the health fulness of the cliiate na It place of resi dence for English 1)eop)le. Though some1 of them have acquired wealth id 0111 have retired to old England with enough aind to spare, the majority have eitrned little more than it living. Pre cariouis property are theo mine, except inl exceptional cases4. The most note worthy of all the instances of poor men atriking it rich is that of the Sitt Ger trudis mine, which is now " inl bonantza. " It had been anceesmively worked and abandoned years and yeitis ago, and wia finally "pronounced"-or titken to work --by a Cornishilman, who 1111 just died. Foriii)g at 8mall com1pany ill 1877, he conmenced active work. After it waus proveln that the mine wis paying he sol * d out 1is shalire-nine twenty-fiftis-for $15,000. Sincee then, oneo tweity-fifth lia mold for $80,000, the present price per bana or share. Tlis would give at, that rate $720,000 for what he got bit $15,000 for. Tte mine 1has been "1 in bonanza" now for three years and is yielding about 3,000 cargas of 300 pounds each of iietal weekly, alid giving at clear profit of $1,000 per dity. From June, 1877, to March, 1881, the mine produced $2,800,000 and declared thirty two dividends of $20,000 each-$040, 000. In June, 1877, thero was but one shaft of sixty varams- vara is a little le8 thia a yard-now the deepest shatft is 170 vairs ; there is a powerf il puminng and hoisting engine, many large., buildhigs, and all the appurtences of a mine in this section, all paid for. With all this pro fit, present and prospective, aill the ore obtained here'is sent to be reduced to Regla, a distance of seven leagues. This mi1e, which i located less thilli two miles from the center of Pachuea, i1 owned principally by men who were poor at the time they conuienecd to work it. Thero are, it is said, two dis tinct lodes, running parallel and at les than fifty yards from each other. At first the vein worked was only a valra wide, but as they went down they found a avern filled 'with 'metallic mush," twenty-four feet wide. They were at first compelled to timber arounil at great deal, for the sake of economy, taking out merely enough to meet current ex pen8es. What remained was "1 pure )lack suilpurets, which exhumed glob ules of native silver when exposed to fire." One can trace the silver lode as it crops out above tht surface and runs diagonally across the hills ; anl if appearances tire good for anything, the two new mines of Dr. Skilton, the Santo Tomas el Nuevo and the Santa Caitarini, to the west of Santa Gertrudis, are light ini the silver traek. We visoitedl thetse latter, whlich are' att present op)ieated by -the oht-fashioned Mexican~ miode, the meitall being broughlt up ini bulloc0k skin1s b)y 1mean1s of lon1g ropes of maigney fibre wound abou01t ia large drumuu operalted by~ mlaies or ho(rsies. Theli whole district. aboun111ds inl picturesque featturyes, bu1 t none11 more so thian these p~rimitive mlinles. One 1hndred millionl dollars tatkeni froma 010ne mine ill thirty years I This is tihe amoun111t (1eclared oni good authiori ty to have 1)een extracted1 from the Rosatrio inel 8ainee it wals $tarted in 1850, and the book1( showv that there has been1 pid~ $500,000 per share ini diviodends 1 A Knowing Hlorse. Water Superintendent Bush81,of Sprinug fieil, Malssachlusetts, has a horse ab ouit wich 80ome wonde1(rful stories are told. T1hie animal 1ha1 been1 inl the famlily for several years, and1( 81inc tihe wa'teri-works were0 biuilt, hats aidled its owner largely ini superintending them~il. Mr. Bush's headqpuarters are'o at L. R. Norton's store andio there Hlulodah standas most oaf the time ready for anay emiergeney. I t is said that she0 knows thet location of every hydrant anid .san scent a le'ak in tile watter pipes ini any paIrt of the town. If in doubt about it 51he will start al1on11 for tihe sus5pteted 8spot, and,(1 not Ilhiding anlythinlg the matter there, will sheepish ly return tom her p)ost. Buit, if there is a genuinie leak, thien she trots ,rap~idl~y 1back to get her master. Somletimnes it happ~lens5 that Mr. Bush nleeds naistan~ce iln reparing the b)reak, andl in such cases he simla)y says, "'Huldah, go amid get Pat and Mike, I want thema to 11011 me." Th'le animal trots off' to tile honses of the Colts, and1( they, unuderstanuding wvhat it meana1, jump11 in1 the carriage and are carried to tile 1plac. If, .while theo ldatk is being attendoed to, a tool is re quiredo that is not at hand, Mr. Bush ties a slip) of paper to tile whip, explainling wvhat is needed, tells the horse thle name of the implement 110 wanl~t4 and tihe inteligent anlimal11 goes straight to headquarters, ando when the need(ed tool is found starts baack with it. Sometimes tile wvrong tool has ibeeni in tontionually put-into thle b~uggy to odeceive, but she Is too smart for such tricks and refuses to start until 51h6 is givenl wvhat the note calls for. Innuhmerable stories of this sort are relat"'d o~f the animal's intllienmce which 01ne canI believe .or disbelievo na thley please. Certain it is that the iiora. ' mofe than ordinarily in-' telligenit, stad DP,,fa in that 1line, a well as8 inl geflenedf1 and affection for its ownof), tihe effect of k'nd treatmlenlt it geter having been1 struck ft blow or' e en struck a bloy or been sj ,oken eroaa5 ly to since comlin~g inlto lfr. B3uish's D)onnSaliOn. Ol Piinclieni sat in his priviato ofilee the othlr dtay figuring up his proflts for May, whelIi his head clerk, looking us ple as at sheep and 1s red ai at cow by tunis, entered and began - "Mr. Pinehiem, I-L- " " Lavo you got. those goods off for Kalamazoo? interrupted th old man. Yes, sir, they are oil Mr. Pieliin, I have long-'" And about that order for starch ?" "That has been attended to, sir. MNr. Pinchei, I have ong wanted to speak to you." " Al ! speak to me. Why, I thought you apoke to ne fifty times a day." Yes ir, I know, but this is a private inatter. "Private? Oh! Ah! Wait till I see how imlucl we 11111d oi that hist 10,000 pounds of sioap. Six tiieis four ire twenity-four ; five tiles two Itre ten, and two to carry are twelve ; three times sevel are twenty-onxe and one--ah, well, go ahead ; I'll finish this afterwards.'' Mr. Pinchlei, I have beeni with you tenl long years." ' Ten, ei ? Long years eli ? Any longer than any other years ? Go ahea11d. " "1 And I have always tried to do imly duty." HaLv, ph ? (to onl." "1 And I now, make hold-" " Hold on! What is there bold about it? Bit nover tuind--'ll hear you out." "1 Mr. Pinem11 T want to ask--ask I wanlt to ask-", " Well, wily don't, you asIC then ? I don't s(e why you don't ask, if you want to." " Mr. Pinchemii, I want to ask you for -for-for--" " You wun't to ask me for the hand of my daughter. All ! Why didn't you sptak right out ? Sie's yours, my 1> ! Tako her and be happy. You night havo hand her two years ago if you had mentioned -it.. do 'long, now-- I'm busy." 11 Mr. 1In~leeln." V"What, ytYou here yet? \Vell, what is it ?" I wanted to ask you for, for--" Didn't I give her to you, you rascal 1' " Yes, but what. .I wanted to asiC you for wams, not the hand of your daughter, but for a raise of salary." SOl, that was it., ol ? Well, sir, that 1, an entirely difltent at.ter, and it requires tiuo for serious thought and earnest consultation. Returni to your work, and soni time next, fall T'll see about giving you a raise of a ddllar a weok. Six times four are twenty-four and two to carry ; and three tilles '' Sone Wonide-rful A rab HIomrss. Somrvwhore about 1.780, it appears.to 1110, the search after Easterni horses began to languish, and thon gradually. died oit. One reaison was that the aris tocratic importers found," let them work never Ho hard, Could not equal that "first regilleltIil charger" oil which Capt.. Byerly of the Boyne, otherwise obscure, has ridden into verlastilng re iowi, or the Paris cart-horse, or the Turkey merchant's unhoped-for treasure from Aleppo. I regrot this, because the very highe'st speciieis of Birb an1d Arah, like the very highest specimens of our English rae(-horse, must he few am( far htweeII. Had our weatlthy1 breedlers iersvered, other accidental wonders, ICO an11d again, might have fallen into tleir llilds, ald even short of that, V11111ble (inllhit it's would have kept iifuis ing thlemselv'e5 into horses of every"~ de0 4(ip1tion2, together wih anl ltlfailinlg flow of Eastern lhood. TIo show how much accImidenit 1has to (1( with such mat (ers ; Therel' wais 1an Eastern screw, b eilonginlg to the surgeon of tihe Ninetieth Re'gimient, at -Zate, ill 1828. H~e was a lien-b it.teni gray, stanlding somlewheire lrhoult 15 hanlda 2., iniee. Tu'irk, Barb, Arah, or1 at mlixture of all three, noboidy kno0w. He was nlot regularly trinelld, id far from being ini a racing conblditionl; hie was, therefore, nlaturlly thought nIothinig of at first. But to the as5ton1ish Inlent of tile military mnindo, whieni raLces wer*o e'Stalished'o th ere undoer 11igh INe~iw iniarket siupin itendenlce, ne(i ther0 thol roughbiredl 1 1harge'rs f roim hom. nlor lhIarbs and1 Arahn~--mlanly of themii horses )f merit belnginlg to the Greek genitle m101 of the laIce-had1( thle shad~tow of a )lhanlce with him ; he scuttled away front til compljetitors inl the mo1(st unlexpseted otyle, and1( may, for aught I know, have. been1 a second1( Godolphmin ildoisguise.* Ill Cyprun,. Th'ie Cypriote muakes night hideous with is hlowlngs, ilboring uder the impr~)ession thalt lie is miuisicatl Th'e ume5( orn mu11sic to whiich he jumps) is dhiefcly pr1o duicedi by scrapbinlg one-thei treble-string of a little fiddle with great rapidity, and1( hia to all atppearl1 rnecas heen1 learn'ied from tihe miosquito, wvhiich it mlimies wtithi 'onlsiderable ac Luracy. 'Thelo fiddle is genoerally accomn panliedl by the bourdon of aL zitherl, which copines well tilt weaingll screech of the ceicala. When the nlative Greek breaks into song lio produlces a1 brie'f nasal drone, whiose melancholy sound1( i5 oftenl repeatedl. 'lThe boys neven whistle ; buit thie cuhlihldron, chiefly tihe girls, from timo to tilae, withl a voice from tihe head1( and( none produ1co a Sibort tunie, which neOver 'xeedos two or three bars. With all this they have wondrous lungs. The 1m101 wtill send their (clear voices rinlginig thritoughl the puron drly air' across tile counitry-sideo ; in the streets anld 0on the roads they converse, profer'ably it would atllmont 80eom1, froem ai dlitancO'e ini loud tonles. Wheni onl fine enling-anld all evelnings are 111u0 in Cyprus for' monthfiS togete-whlolo families sit in tihe 11an10 outside thleir door1s, they (do not take tihe trouble to' niove iln ordler to visit their neighbior's, but sl'ont to them with shrill distinctniess a tac~y sit. The result is a habel1 of noise5, for all shIout together'. Notwithstanudin.; that, they seem to make ,Stove lustr, when mnedco with turpen tine and applied im the usual mtanner, Is blacker.more glossy and durable than If put. on with any othpor lIquid. The turpentine provents rust,and when put on an old rusty stsoVe will make It look as well as new. The odor of the turpentine pnasses'nf 9ulckiy. A Sad Tale. A decently dressed, respectable looking German woman walking sorrowfully up and down the platforn at Camden Station, Baltimore, recently, leading three small children by the hand, causcd some coninent, and led one of the employes at the depot to ask her where she was going. She seemed strange to the surroundings, and the clangor around the depot, the hurrying passengers and the noise of the trains coming and going seemed to confuse her, and it was from a kindly motive that. the man questioned her. She was a German, and could scarcely speak a wordl of English, but she told, through a ccuntry man who acted as interpreter, a piteous tale. Her name was Moeglein, and slie, with her husband and three siall children, had come to this country and gone out to Missouri about six months ago, where her husband, who had about $1,200, had bought a tract of land for $10 per acre. lie was of a restless turn of mind and had hardly gotten settled in his new place, and In fact had not imade any improvements en it, before he heard that lie could buy land further out West for $J an acre. le became dissatistled, anti finally sold his tract and went out, with his wife and children, to buy and settle on the cheaper land. They traveled in a wagon, and one night, a considerable distance - fron ally civilized place, they stopped all night at a cabin, out on a prairle, owned and occupied by sonic cattle-herders. During the night her husband took it into his head that the nien wanted to rob hin, and began to behave in a manner thiat attracted the attention of the men who were i the cabin, and, taking him for one of the horse thieves so conimon in the neighborhood, they watched him closely. In this way, playing at cross purposes, each excited the suspicions of the other more and more, until the German, in a monient of terror, bolted out of the door and fled. This action seemned sillcient to confirm the suspicions of his host8, and one of them, picking up his rifle, stepped to the door and shot hii dead as he ran. The poor woman was thus left without any pro tector; friendless, and li ati utteily wild country. 11er husband had about $200 on h.s person, but the proceeds of the sale of his farm lie had put in bank, and sihe was unable to recover more than the wife's third of a deceased husband's property. With this, in all amounting to very Ittle over $300. she starte.1 back to her relatives im Geriany, and was on her way there to take a steamer from Niew Yoi k having just come in by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road. Her piteous tale excited the greatest commiseration among those who heard it, and she was put aboard the right car and directed on her way with all possible kind ness. I1er former home was one of the German provinces. . Forms.4 of Food. Let us considei the smecial forms of food. Beef, mutton, venison, poultry, birds, gamxe and fish have all the nleeded ingre lents. They have albumen. fibrin, casein, fat, etc. The value of these in gredients depends somewhat. on the way they are prepared for consumption. Bak ing or roasting retains more nourishment than boiling. Stewing relains muore nour ishiinent than frying. Heat suddenly ap plied coagulates the albumen, and when gradually applied softens the mxuseles and renders them more tender and easily di gested. The heat applied dnyuolps in the meat a flavor peciliat it each kind and diff'ring from what it is when raw. This peculiar flavor usually pleases the sense of taste and promotes digestion and so i creases its amiount of nutrition. Properly cooking meat is thenl of vast importance. Each kind needs a special amount of heat in order to develop Its p~ecuxharly agreeable Ihavor and its nutritious p)ower. A large amount of heat not ofily burns it, but destroys its proper flavor and lessens its power of buildiing upi the body. Mleat rarely cooked contains more nuitritin thaun the well and dleeply dlone. T1hxe art of cooking uncat consists in knowig in whlat waxy amid how long it may lbe exposed to a given amiouint of heat. Eggs are nutritious and contain all the iingredients necessary to promote anmnoi growth. A few days of very moderate heat changes contents of aix egg to a bird. Its white is nearly all albumeu and minieral or inorgranic ingredients. Its yolk is coin posed of oily matter mingled with albu men. Applying heat in any 'way changes Its consistency and flavor. The latter morethan Is generally supiposed is mod0(i fled by the food on which the bird may live, as is the meat animals may ylekil. liens fed with decaying meat yIeld ogga that haive a putrid taste. Cows and suieepi fed on impilroper food betray in their milk and meat the kind of food on which they have lived. Atilk is an emulsion and like the egg contains all the ingredients of animal growth. It contains in nearly fixed aand dlefinite proportions, water, lime, salt, casein, albumen, sugar and fat. The vegetals used ror human food as beans, peas, turnipr, and potatoes, also contain starch, albunmen, sugar, wvater and the miineral ingredlits-cooking thiem softens thenm and so renders theii dhlresith ble. TheIr value as means of nourmssh ment dependls upona the way they are pre pared. Roast or baked potatoes are more dilgestible aiid nutritious thman boiled or fried ones. Their value ais articles of food depend also upon the soil in which they grow. hecalth deplends uponi proper food well cooked. Bad cookinug vitiates thme nutritiotus quialities of the best kinds of food. An Enomiy to Singinug UJirds. Thue crow Is oxtermin'ating the singIng birds of this comiLtry. FLew are the nests that escape lis vigilant search and fewer still the yonig birds,that (do not go to sat Isfy lia ravenous appetite and fill his ca pacious maw. I have watched andl cursed thenm Ior years. I have seen them pounce upon the nest of the lark and of the plover; I have seen thoem leaving the nest of the robIn with the young In their beaks. For several years I have watched the return of a pair of robins to an old apple tree inar my house, where they had built their nest and( roared their young. Onre morning [1 heard the piercing cry of the old birds, foreboding danger and distress I ran toa the window just in tinme to see a crow fly froni the tree with a young rqlbin In his mouth. In less than flyo .gid~utos the crow returned, dited Into thintfee, and this timne the last of my feur half-grow pet robins was borne away.