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Ttll:EK EDITION. WINNSBORtO, S. C., JULY 26, 1881.ETALSLD185 IN THE OLD CHURCH TOWEI. In the old churcht tower Hangs the bell; And above It on the vane, In the sunshine and the rain, Clt In gold St. Peter stands With the keys in his two liands, And all Is well. In the old church tower Hangs the bell. You can hear Its great heart heal, Alt I so loud and mild and sweet, As the parson says his prayer Over happy-lovers there, While all is well I In the old church tower Hangs the bell. Deep and solenut. Hark I again, Al I what lassion and what pain I With her hand tiplon her lreit, Holae poor soul has gone to rest Where all is well I In the (old church tower langs tie blil A quaint Irlend that seems to know, All our joys and all our woe; It is glad whenk we are wed, It is sai when we are lead, And all 18 well. A LOTUS DREAAL Sitting by the fire in dreamy lauguor on a dull October evening. Over against the window pasne on which the sleet is weaving fantastic figures, stands a girlish figure stamping her foot and looking out on the dull, leaden-colored sky. The' crispy logs burn brightly, and man as I am11 and thirty, I turn to watch the fair profile at the window. By and by she comes toward me, and stands by my sido, warming her fair hands at the fire. They are symmetrical hands, white and sisall; her bosom rises and falls, and a sigh as gentle as the zephyr wind in summer goes out and away. Before me is the picture of a fair lady of twenty three, and by my side on the table is a letter to her I have just finished. I show it to the little maiden and she reads and sighs again. Then she says: " You are going down there and you and Miss Lulie will marry sure enough, Mr. Walter. And you'll bring her back hero and keel) this room. And when you com, I would like to be a fly crawl ing around the ceiling." " Why, Pappoose ?" "To watch your happiness and tickle your noses, perhaps." And away she flew, to help her mninia about her ltousehold duties. The scene is in tie South laud, no matter where. I am a writer gathering up incidents for an article in a leading magazine, or at least I came here for that purpose, and have prolonged my stay indefinitely. I have stopped with a widow lady, Mrs. Mahonis, and Laura is her only child, whom I have nick namediti Pappoose. With Southern pro cocity, she is a wornan whilo yet a child. Fair complexion, with dark hair and passionate, dreamy eyes, she is a picture an artist would love for a model, and a picture I love for its own sake. Too young to understand such love, her mother said to me to-day. "I never intend Laura shall mary until she is twenty-two." And my heart sank, for I thought it should not be so. I have been carrying on a correspond ence with a friend in my native village, a widow, and I show all my letters to Pappoose. She is the Lulie I am soon to visit. Loved, practical winter, with the shadows of night about it; November with her sere leaves, and chill winds about us. Inside the rooms of a pleasanst mansion. Lulie is attired in a seal brown satin, with the glory of roses in her dress, the glory of lilies in her hair. I have just arrived, and go about the ball room with Lulie on miy arm. I am proud of her and she of me ; and though there are no weddedl vows between us, I wonider if miy little Pappoose shl ever be afly, and crawl around our rooms. No, I love the child with the dark hair and the dreamy eyes Jetter than I do Lulie. 'Out in the conservatory, with the perfume of exotic plants about us, the warm air of a hot-house to comfort us, I say: "Luio, you have been good to me, and I thought I loved you, hbut I don't, my friend. Yours is not the love that would make my restless life happy. I love a child-a child-woman, fair, dark eyed amnd dr'eaimy, better than I do you." " Oh, Walter, hushi My p)oor heart will break. Listen." AndI I heard the blood beat in 11cr heart like the echo of a tiny cataract. Sihe lays her, head upon my shoulder, she throws her fair arms abiout my neck, and I forget my child love. "Walter, you do not mean it 1 My dream has been1 such a happy one !" And her head nestled closer to my bosom -and tears hung like dew dropa on tle fringed eyelids. What can I do ? A fly crawling about the room changed into a black-eyed, (lark-haired little darling, and I put Lulie away from me gently. " Lulie, I mean it. Forget the past ; try to forget me." Site shtvcrs just a little. The tear drops dry up like an April shsower'. There is a tremulous motionm about the lips, and a softly' spoken "'good-by," and she is gone. February has come. I am again in my village retreat. Patppoose' is just fifteens. I am lounging on the gallery watching the fairy figure making snowballs in thes yardl. Thsis time siho is very shy of me. I have been here a week, and~ save a few hurried words, have not sp~oken to lher; and yet I camne solely on her account. I begin to wonider if I have made a fool of mtyself, and if sonic village boy has already won her heart. I am niervous, excitable andl passionate . and sitting here, watchimng the sweet pirofile, the studious birow, the long lashtes and the wealth of raven tresses covering her lihke a mantle, I got mad, tipi over my chair, and walk away to the stable to my dear old Dan, a gallant roadster, and am sooni sweeping away madly dowvn the rough village road. Man, and such a fool!i A pleasant ride changes my thoughts, and I come back to meet Pappooso on the gallery, with a tiny nosegay, which she oilors, and sas: " Let me pm this on your coat. It may keep you in a good huior." " How did you know I was angry, or in a bad humor ?" " Look at that chair ;" and she walks over, picks up my fallen chair, sets it down straight with a thud, and with an air of intonso anger, stamping her pretty foot, she says, "'There now I" Then, breaking intoja ringing laugh, she trips away.. After she loaves I am still standing on the gallery, leaning against a post, whil) ping myself with my riding whip, when out in the road in front of the house whom do I see but Pappooso on Dan, galloping Wildly down the road I If the horse is tired there is no danger what ever; but if ho is not, and gets the least bit excited, he will kick her. I start to stop her, but she has passed in a minuto. I go in to so her mother. She only says: " Don't fret yourself. If anybody on earth can ride him she can." An hour afterward she is brought in limp and helpless and bleeding from a wound in her forehead. A plain room, with plain paper decora tions. A cheerful fireside, ai old fashioned hearth, and a cozy arm-chair in which I im seated alone. No, not quite alone; for on a downy couch over against the window pane, where she first staiped her pretty feet, lies my little Pappoose, pale and thin and sad. She is sleeping now, her loose hair, like a shadowy covering, hidos tho fringed eyelids, and one fair arm is thrown over her head. Outside it is snowing, cold and bitter. Her mother has left me to watch her a moment. She has been very low, Dan having thrown her on a rock and almost crushed her tender skull. "Coneussion of the brain," the doctors said. Five days we have watched and waited and she is still uniicOliscious. The weary hours we watch over our loved ones, ill or dying, are the most miserable of our lives. How we tremble at the sensOless glance of the eye, the glow or pallor of the cheek, the wild nutterings of discontented dreams of delirium I But to-day the weariness passed away as I heard Pappoose turn oi her couch and say: " Mr. Walter !" Quick as thought I am by her side, and her hand is in mine. "Where is mamma?" "She is down stairs, little Pappooso." "Why are you watching me ?" "Because I love you, Pappoose." Won't mamma do it?" "Yes, she has just left you. You don't care for me staying with you, do you ?" "How long have you boon here ?" "Only a few muutes." "You had better go away. I am well." I go out in the cold. I can't under stand it. I believe Pappooso loves me, but she is so artless and childish in her manner, that I cannot tell. For some reason I dare not ask her. I feel hurt, and yet I know not why. Her mother asked me to reminn in the room a few minutes while she was sleeping. Was it niniden modesty, or does she dislike me? I walked up the street with the snow drifting in my face, a north wind twisting my hair into curls with itcold fierce ness. Two men in front of me, muflied up in warm ulsters, are talking rapidly as they hurry through the cold. One of them says : She's a good one. ~ That young 'fellow Bascom thinks lie has got it all his own way ; but wait till he goes and she'll come b~ack to mec quickly. Laura loves mnc better than anyb'ody else iii the My name is Walter Baecom, and Pap poose's name is Laura. My jealous fancy makes thme application immediately. I follow them up, anid stop the first ac quaintance I meet to ask the names of the two men. One is a gamibler, the other, who sp~oke of Laura, is the keeper of a variety theatre ini the town ; his name is Joyce. Maddenied with paini and anguish, I retrace my steps. I find Laura sitting uip in bied, much better. She is not un kind, lbut says: "Mr. Walter, I bog your p)ardoni ; I am very grateful for your kindness to "I am feeling mean, andl T say: "' I would be glad to see you looking so wvell, but it seems Mr. Joyce would be bietter pleased." How the dear, tender face, the piteous wail come back to me after the lapse of years. She dIroopis over like a flower cut down. Her breathing is faint, andl we can see the pulsations through the recent wound. .Poor little Pappoose! She never spoke again. Sho is dead now and T never know and never shall know whether my unkindness killed her or not. It seems like a dream from which I l:'mve awakened. The village is but a memory, the churchyard where Laura lies a myth ; . and Lulii, who is my wife now, kisses the sadness from my brow and says: "It was a dream, Walter-a lotus Served 11ilm IRighnt, A woman at Cape Girardeau, Mo., who had suffered from a husbnd's neglect, traced him In a barroom where lie was playing cardls withi several coinpanions. Setting a covered dish she held In her hands (town uipon the table, she said "'Pro sumning, husband, thi it you wore too busy to conme home to (dinner, 1 have brought yeu yours,"andl~ departed. With a forced laugh he Invited his frIends to (line with him, but on removing the cover fronm the dish1 found or ly a slip of paper on whIch was writen:"'l hope) you will enjoy your meal; it is the same your family have at hiome." No man is wvise or safe but lie that is honest. A personi, truly noble, cannot b)0 in suilted. A jewel is a jewel still though lying in the dust. .A great mani's foolish sayings pass for wise ones. .A jest driven too far brings home Tricks In Prison. One of the duties of Keeper J. 8. Brown, of Auburn, N. Y., State-prison, is to dress all convicts whose time has expired and while discharging his duty he has in tercepted a number of contraband articles. The .Aven iag A uburnian tells the latest *lodge attempted in the State boarding house. "Two 'zebras' who had served their tune were brought down to Mr. Brown's ollIce to receive theircitizen's out fit. They were itiven their clothing, and one of them was about to draw on his boots when Mr. Brown noticed that the stiching at the top of them was not uniform. lie asked the man for the boot, and taking his knife and cutting the stitches lie found a number of lette's secreted in the leg of his boot, intended for outside parties. The other man had donned his citizen's garb, and thinking lie might have some corres pondence secreted about him, Mr. Brown made him remove his boots, and upon ex ploring them he found wadded in the toes of the boots, between two layers of cotton, a number of letters also designed for the outside world. Both men were ordered to disrobe again and put on the striped uni form of the State. They were turned over I to Principal Keeper Boyle, who sent themI back to their shops. They have forfeited their commutation for good behavior, and will ienain in prison until the authorities feel disposed to release them, which may not be until after their sentences have ex pired. All convicts are allowed to write to their friends once a month. Their let ters pass through the chaplain's oice, wih re they are examined before passing out. to see if their contents are objectionable. When convicts desire to communicate with friends that they are in want of articles forbidden by the authorities, they general ly employ soime outgoing 'striped' to carry out their letters for them, which g'enerally contain directions where to send the con. truband articles, and by whom it will be brouahit inside. One of these letters once fell into the hands of the officials which contained an order for three itvolvers, ae companied by the request to go to a cer tain friend .n Buffalo, -who would furnish the inone1 to puichase them with, and after they were bought they were to be de livered to an ex-convict who was loitering about Auburn, and he would slip them under the niorth gate where the hostler, who went out early in the morning, would bring them to the writer, a twenty-years man, who, with some of his companions, proposed to use the weapons in making their emeipe from one of the wings in the night by shooting down the guard." Coney Island. Everybody has heard of this pu lar summer resort of the New ork era with its splendid hotols, tho Man hattan, the Brighton, and the Oriental. It lies directly on the Ocean, and the pure sa air, safe hathing, and excellent music, make one forget the h1onto of gmm oar. 1 'ia Po l . %II road Company, and the Iron Steamboat Company of New York,have entered into arrangemionts by which extra facilition are offered for reaching Coney Islaind,this popular summer resort. These palace steamers will connect with trains on the Pennsylvania luailroad at Jersey City, and land passengers at the Iron Pier, Conoy Island, direct, also at Bay Ridge, where connection is nnde with the Now York and Son Beach Railroad. Return trips will be mado at such hours na will afford satisfaction to all visitors to the island, and enable thein to make sure and closo connections with trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad hionieward hound. The time on this line betw eon Jersey City and Coney Island will be about forty minutes. This will be a safe speedy, and pleasant rome from all points to Coney Island. An Enigliih Heoronry. Surrounded for mIles by the spreading heath on three sides, and with a wide ex panse of water on the other, the clump of fir trees that is the home of the herons stands al'one. The best way to visit it is to go by punt across "the sea,'' and then, plunging knee-sleep through the heather, make your way toward the trees, which can be seent for miles. Landing at what is called Jack Sands', and where once stood three or four cottages, and where we can still see traces of the old gardlens, we walked through last year's fe.rn and heath until we came alnost within gunshot of the hieronry. Then we p~aused andl noticed how the trees were laden with the big flat nests, soe looking twloe the size of the rest, being evideintly built upon the site of old ones. As we approached nearer thme lien birds raised their long necks and listened, and as they (11( so they looked like patches of gray snow among the blue-green branches. Then fi-om behind a brown lill on the left rose a flock of male birds, where they had been sunning themselves in the "loo of the inountd." 'rhe nearer we came the greater seemed to be time agitation among tYhe deizens of the heronry; and presently, with a great clatter of wings and scicamii g of voices, thme lien birds rose from their nests anid chir clod -ro'id andl round, watching our adlvancinig figures keenly. The heronry'Is surrounded by a turf banik thrown up), but it, ms otherwise unprotected, and we were very soon inside It, looking up at the nests through the branches. The trees are very thick together, and have also nests of the crows close beside the herons', and much Is t~he dlamnage (lone to them by the crows. They not only ilght, for favoritoe sites, bit watch their opportunity and destroy the eggs and nests whenever thidy get a chance to do so. There was a strong wind, andl the branches swayed hecayily to and fro, cracking and groaning like the nmsts of a ship In a storm ; and as the herons flew to and fro shrieking, a most weirdl effect was1 produced. And soon we could hear the1 feebler cry of the newly hatched little ones that told tus that the families were alreadly out, of the shell. The ground Is deeply coveredl wIth brown pmnencedles, fir conies, and softly powdered mould, lnto which we sank as we walked ; and under the trees were numberless blue egg-shehls, gray feathers, and morsels of fish and fishmbones. We came, too, upon the debris of the old nests, either torn out by theo birds or blown out by the temupests of last winter. From the centre of the heronry, which slopes up and dlown and has sheltered hol lows, we watchecd the herons fishing on the mud that stretches for miles from the mouth of the river to beyond Poole, and saw also the curious black shags standmng like Sen tinels with their 'wings outspread In tihe sun to diry ; andi on Ihe mud1 inst by thma dge of the heath and among the spear we !ould see the busy little water-rails collect ng the "rag worm," as a sort of centipede a called by the lerioen in these parts. ['he water-rail has his local title, too, and u known as the "skitty-cock"-" 'cause hey skitter along," our man said ; and hen we watched an energetic mother of a amily that she kept hidden in the spear, intil she carries them out one 'by one. The is.oment she seized a rag-worm she gave a eculiar little sharp cry, and out popped a ledgling who was -fed and then promptly ,etired into shelter; and then the perform. umce was repeated until all were satisfied, when she too ran Into the spear and was oeemi no more. By the time we had 'watched this the ierons had settled down quietly on their tests again, and the wind rocked the trees md bent them backwards and forwards in regular see-saw, serving admirably as a -radtle-rocker ; and then we enideavored to ice If, as reported, the birds hang their cgs over the edges of the nests, as they ire popuh irly supposed never to bend thim; )ut we found it impossible to ascertain if his were true. At the ihoment we began ,0 clin up the rough red otem of the tree ,he bir >se from the nest and flew about ;creaming, with her neck doubled down >n her breast and her long legs straight >ut behind her. One of our number man iged to scale a tree, with much snapping )f dead branches; but in the first nest were nly four eggs and no young, and the second was too high in construction for iim to see into; and although he could icar the little ones "seraking,'' he could iot, bring us one down to see. After a rreat deal of bother he managed to find an asier nest, and then we were shown the 'rightful little creature, who seemed to be tbout a week old. He certainly made noise enough for his ige ; and at present possessed an enor mous tomach, and very short legs, with large knee joints, and had the long gray tuft on ,he head well developed; the neck also was is long in proportion as tnat belonging to te grown bird-so the legs, when they grow, must grow all at once. lie had the soft underbill and big mouth of the fish 3ater, and altogether was most hideous. When lie was restored to his home we dis 3overed another nest that was small, and different in every way from the others; and this turned out to belong to a pair of horned owls, for the old birds tumbled away at our approach, winking and blink ing at the light, leaving us the proud Poe sessors of live of their white nearly round eggs, that are about the size of a pigeon's; wc noticed, too, a squirrel's nest, but we did not attempt to disturb that. The bracken was just beginning to uncurl, but otherwise there were no signs of spring, as there were no gorse bushes there, and no thing save the heath Itself in the way of verdure; but the lichens on the heath are out-n curious, fleshy specimen, like the stag-horn fern, a red-pointed one, and many of the gray, yellow and green sorts that are in full beauty just now Theway oft It. A fariner once .was told that his turnil field had been robbed, and that the rob bery had been committed by a poor, inof fensive man, of the name of Palmer, who, many people or the vilage said, had taket away a wagon-load of turnips. Farmci Brown, much exasperated at the loss ol his turnips, determined to prosecute pooi Palmer with all'the severity of the law, With this intention he went to Molly San ders, the washer-woman, who had beer busy in spreading the report, to know the whole truth; but Molly denied ever bavinx said anything about a wagon-load o. tur nips. It was but a ci.rt-load that had beet taken, and Dame Hodson, the huckster, had told her so, over and over again. Tht farmer hearing this, went to Dame ilod son. who said that Molly Saunders was al ways naking things worse than they real ly w re; that Palmer had taken only a wheelbarrow full of turnips, and that sh< had her account from Jenkins, the tailor. Away went the farmer to Jenkins, tI tailor, who stoutly denied the account al together. Hie had only told D~ame liodsor that Pahmer had pulled up several turips, but how many he couh' not tell, for thal lie did not see hImself, but was told b3 Tonm Black, the plowman. ffarmer Browr next questioned Toni Slack,. who in hm turn dleclaredl he had never said a wtorl about seeing Palmer pull up several tur nips; hie only said lie had heard ray that, Barnes, the barber, was the person whc~ had told him about it,. The farmer, al most out of patience at this account, hur ried off to Barnes, the barber, whc wondered much that the people shioui lind p'easulre in spreading idle tales which1 had no truth in them. lie assurelt tht rarmer sall lie had said about, the matter, while lbe took off the beard of Tlom Black, was that, for all lie knew, Palmer was ais likely to pull up a turnip as his neighbor, heloctinmg H118usans. A Turkish slave-ship was captured thi thecr (lay by an English vessel, and the slaves It containedl, consisting of eevent.) women andl ten men, were liberated. The nuen volunteered Into the Egyptian army, but it was more diflcult to dispose of th<n women. Under the treaty concluded be .ween the English Government and th Khmedive the importation and exportation o slaves are forbidden ; but the detention am snale of slaves in thme country are permiittet ror about six years longer in Egypt am loeven years In the Soudan. Several ofliceri ccerdingly caine to the Psasha of thme die Lrict wvithi offers to buy somne of the femaks slaves, but the Pashia declared that he would not part with theni unless they goi narriedl. le then announced that any soldier er civilian wishing to marry one o1 he slaves would have to pay six thialers fot icr dowry,but that the women would be al owedn to choose'their husnds fromamn hlose who should p~resent themeolves foi heo purpose. A great number of men, hmefly soldiers, assembled on the day ap. )olnted for the selection. The woeri were so shy that they "huddled togethes ike a flock of sheep," and could nost be In iuced to move. At inst onme of therns, tak nig courage, advanced slowly to a black E'py ptian Sergeant, who was anything but roumng or handsome, and put her hand or as sloulder as a sign that he was the mar he wIshed to marry. Hecr example was nstantly followed by the otlher women, who rushed forward to choose their hus uands as if they feared to be too late. 11 was now the men's turn to say whethe ~hey accepted the selection. All wer< satisfied but, five', and even the five womerm who were conseqtiently obliged to choost igaina were ultimately provided with hm. uands. A Norwegian Village. 0 Vossovangen is a little farming hamlet %)n th, west shore of a beautiful lake. ihe region is one of the best agricultural dis tricts in Western Norway; the 'Vos" farmers are held to be fortunate and well to do, and their butter and cheese always bring high prices in market. As we drove Into the village we met the peasants going home from church, the wo men in short green or black gowns, with gay jackets and while handkerchiefs made into a hying-buttress sort of head-diess on their heads; the men with knee-breech es, short vests, and jackets thick trimmed with silver buttons. l.very man bowed and every woman courtesied as we passed. To pass any human being on the highway without a sign or token of greeting would be considered in Norway the lie gut of Ill manners: any child seen to do it would be sharply reproved. Probably few things would astonish the rural Norwegian more than to be told that ani-mg the highly civ ilize I It is considered a mark of good breed ing, if you chance to neet a cllow-man on the highway, to go by him with no more recognition of his presence than you would give to a tree or a stone wall.. It is an odd thing that a man should be keep ng the Vossevangen Hotel to-day who served in America's civil war, was for two years in one of the New York regiments and saw a good (eal of active service. lie was called back to Norway by the death of his father, which made it necessary for him to take charge of the fanily estate in Vossevangen. le has married a Vossevangen woman and is like ly to ond his days there, but he hankers, for Chicago, and always will. le keeps a fairly good little hotel, ou the shores of the lake, with a row of willow-trees In front; dwarf apple-trees, gooseberry and currant bushes, and thickets of rhubarb in his yard. roses, too, besides larkspur and phlox, but the rhubarb hana the plaec of honor. The dining-room and the parlor were like those at 1ide, adorned with ivies a-.d flowering plants; oleanders in the win dows, and potted carnations on the table. In one corner of the dining-rooi was a large round table covered with old silver for sale: tankards, chains, belts, buttons, colis, rings, buckles, brooches, ornaments of all kinds,- hundreds of dollars' worth of things. There they lay, dayand nght, open to all who came; and they had done this, the landlady said, for years, and not a single article had ever beea stolen: from which it is plain.that not only is the .Nor wegian honest himself, there must be a contagion in his honesty, which spreads it to all traveiers in his country. A Gigantlc Iron Pier P1ound-Not. The Long Island fish company proposes to engage in pound fishing on a stale hith erto undreamed of. Already a large tract of land has been purchased at, the eastern end of Long ]eUa, ,- - - along the coast. At this point, which 'is eminently favorable for pound pound fish ings since fish that run along the coast here always come very close to the shore, the company propose to erect a gigautic ploIr supported by iron piles, forming an iron pier 700 feet long and ten feet wide, with bents or sections Lwenty feet long. At the outer end of the pier, in thirty feet of wa ter, will be a heart-shaped pound, the large end of the heart in shore. This heart will be about seventy feet across, and outside of it is to be a box of Iron piers and netting about seventy-fIve feet square. The fish conting from either direction and striking the pier netting will run out scaward to the heart, and passing out at the lower end will find themselves in the other recepta cle. In the sections of the iron pier stor age for thousands of tons of fish can be providled, where they will keep alive in their native element, for a month or longer, and need not be uinmedhiately brought, to market when the price is low. The great advantage of aii iron pIer lies in its stabil ity and freedom from attacks by worms. I'he netting fence runs down to the bottom of the water so as to stop grrounid swim ng fish. Tlhe pound las a net bottom, and when filled with lish is lifted and the fish diiped out with hand nets..-. Oil Reghin Duntgers. *The season of thunder storms always brings with a feeling ot great, uneasiness in the oil regions. Scatteredl about, the gre, p~etroleuim..produtcing hleldI thaeie are prob) ably 1,000 iron ta:. ks, ini each one of wich are stored froni 10,000 to 40,000 barrels of crude oil. Most of them are situatedI in the inidti, of p)opulous5 towns and cities. 11, is not, in the fact that, the tanks are miade of iron that, the danger of lbghtning strokes arises. Evaporation of the oil contatinedI in them produces a vapor that arises and hovers above them, and becomes a p~erpet, nal attractioii to4he electric fuid. The protection of tanks against lIghtning is a problem that, scieiitifc ineii have been for years laborIng to solve. A fortune awaits the man who shall dievise a plan to pre vent or leesen the damage that is annually causetd by ilghtiniig in tLhe oil regi ins. The United Pipe Line Company which owns nearly all the iron tanks in the odl country, is attaching to a number of is tanks an appliance by which chemical action may be Instantly brought to hear on the cloud of smoke which forms between the surface of the oil and the root of a tank when It Is set on fire. This, it, Is claImed, will reiide r the presence of Iladne Impossi ble, and will lessen the nmber of' oil fires. No dentonstratin ol' the value of the extmiguiisher has beeni made, lbut, if its action is satisfactory, in will be ai GIod-seind to the oil country. Last season, dum ing the great oil lure it T1itusville, Va., when tanik aiter Lank was beichiing Its volumes of flame, a spectator suiggestedt that by firing a cannion ball through the side of a tank near the bottom before the oil boIled over the top. the oil imght be drawnt out, aind the spread of the conflagration topphed. . A piece of ord nance~f wis ait Once pr >cuired and the exper imnt triedl. it was successful. S3everal tanks were drawii off in tiis way and the destructIon of a great part of Thtusville was preventeid. Now the iple Linie Coin pany fhas a large cannon ready f or use at an Instant's notice, fixed In position at all tanks where a fire would jeopardize con tiguous property. --* The experimenyofplacing lhghtning rods above the hihka is beIng trIed this year. One indred antd fity mien have been putti up rods, seventy feet above 9ihn tanksa Mutilatedl Colin. The resumption of specie payment by the government is again followed by the mutilation o' coins, and the ingenious and fraudulent practice, which prevails in all countries, of punching, filing and "'sweat. Ing" coins. A numier of silver coins, with holes thorcin,have attracted the attention of olilcers of the government, and there is a lurking suspicion that many of those coins have been punclied for purposes of gain by persons engaged in that sort of small, fraudulent business. On the otlier hand, many of the circulation so defaced, are of old date, and have probably been kept as pocket pieces, and perforated so as to run a string through, The pubic should adopt the remedy of refusing to take punched or defaced COWnS, and this would soon stop the practice of those engaged in violating the laW. The most dangerous of all practices, which is confined to a skilful few, is the ancient one of "sweating" gold coins. This Was done by dipping coins in a strong so lution of acid, which will disolve the copper on the face,anud leave the 1lno gold in a lioney.coued condition very susceptible of abrasion. In this state the coins are placed in a flannel bag, and shaken violent ly together. TChe small particle of line gold is detached from the c.in and adheres to the flannel bag. The rubbing of the coin together, in a measure, restores the natural appearance of the piece. The bag ie then carefully washed out, to be again used, or burned, and the ashes carefully preservod and separated from the gold, To an ex pert the process is appareit by a look at the coin ; but the only mode the general public lihs of testing the quesLion is by weighing the piece. All coins falling below two or three grains or thiereabouts should be re fused, and this refusal whould throw the loss upon the holder, who would have to deposit tWeni at the mint for recomage. If care of this kind is taken but ittle danger need be apprehended from scratchei coin. The great preventive against "sweating" plieces is that the man who deals with the has to operate on a large number of coins. To carry oin a profitable business he would have to exchange a large amount of noies for coi), ani exchange abraded coin for paper money. Thesi operations would arouse suspicion, and ultimately lead te arrest and conviction. bilver change it the most natural and proper currency to be used among the people, and no piece shautid be received which it is manifest on its tace has been tampered with. Gold coin is but little used it general circulation, and it should never be accepted by trads peo. ple and others, if from its rubbed and in distinct impression it is evident, it has been subjected to unlawful practices. If thiE course Is taken generally by the public, in m short time there will be but titile punclied and defaced si.ver and no light weight gol in circulation. The greatest danger to b apprehended li either paper or metitilh currency is not from abrasure, "sweating' and other unlawful practices, but, from tic paper currency, there is no protection ex cept in the education of tie eye, while II metallic currency there is the eye, touch, weight, thickness, acid tests and sound of piece to assist the judgment. I)ogm inI(ormany. Dogs are valued highly in (ermany. I, Vienna an enterprising man has establislietI a bath house exclusively for dogs, which, after being thoroughly washed in large tubs, are phiced in cages to dry. Dogs 01 all sizes and breeds and of every socida position are admitted and charged only with reference to their size. No one ap. prec.ates the spirit of the phrase "to worh like a dog," until lie hais been in (lermany. The Arickaree Indians call a horse "a be dog." In .erimiy a log might well b called a horse. About, half of the drafi power is furnished by dogs andi women; and thbey are freqjuently hitched up together. It is nimt, unicommiion to see a (log (rag teli or twvelve hunired weight. I have seen mian and a woman get into a cart drawnm by two large nmastiffs, and then drive dow, the street, at, a rate of wich JoImt migh1 hatve been proud. Sixteen dollars will pur. chase a (log for thia purpose---a trilling sun conm'iderinig his usefulness. A dog tean hasi one ad(1vantage over a horse team ; Il gnards the property as well a drags It. hi Winter they are otten allowed when reste ing or waniting to jainI) inito the cart, am cuddle down ini the straw. Ini Vienna ther< is an immense hospItal andc veterbaiar) college where horses, degs anid cats, am all qutadrupeds arc received. Farriers 01 bioss blacksmiths are reqluiredl to spend sE months at this IastItution anid to receive certiticate of gradluation before setting ul in business for themselvcs. in thIs as ui all other matters, the (Germans bellove il thioroughneiss. I Ntever l)mtmnk. On t~ue sleeper of an up train from Cat son City, recently, a traveler noticed a old, white bearded izentlean trying to ge in an overcoat. The young and sp~ry t ravel er rushied-o his assistance, and m i hlIpin him with the garment, noticed a goo sized biottlo of whisky protruding from on of the Inside pockets of thi3 eoat. IBei of a waggishi turn, lie appropriated the boi tile, got the coat on the stranger and the p~iuig out, the flask said: "'Wll yon take a drink sir I" The old man did not, recognize the bot tIe, and drawing himiself up, remnarkel rather sevueoy : ''No dir, 1 never (drink." "It w on't hurt, you," insuited the wai ''it' t hu best." "'Yonlag man," said thio old genlc:mar in a toine intmede for the whole car, ''1 you insist, on drinking whisky you will b a ruinedl mani at, forty. It is the curse c the land. When I was a boy my tmothe died~and the last thIng that, sainted won,am did( was to call me to her dying bedsie ani saidl, "John, swear to tmo that, you wi] never touch a drop) of liquor-" lIchre thme old man clapped his hand to hi side pocket, foutnd It empty, andi recognizei the bottle in the hands of the othie contm ued, "Except, my dear boy, an occasiona snifter while traveling," and reaching fo the flask lie prossed It to his lips, amid howl of laughter which shook the cat. Obstinate peoplo, who are perfectla suro that they are right and equally sur< that every one else is wrong, rommdi( i of the man who soarched for his drowniec wvife b~y going upi the stream, because, as hue said, she was a womann who novel woiit with the current. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. If you act with a View to praise only you doservo none. Allow people to think as well of each other as they can. An uiruly tongue is harder to control than a vicious horse. Character would be impossible wero tlere no temptation. The strongest natures are the tender est. and most pitiful. We must learn to infuse, sublimity into trilles. That is, power. PIt no faith in the remorso of a wo 111111 who talks about it. Evon the weakest man is strong enough to enforce his conviction. A friend should bear with a friend's inlfirmllities but not hi ViCes. A character which will not defend it self is rarely worth defending. Great works arc performed, loot by strength, but by )perseverance. Poverty Imiay eXc14s a shidby coat but it 14 110 t)Xecuse for shabby morals. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. A person often repents of talking too much, bitt seldom of saying too little. Strength with men is insensibility, greatness is pride, and calmness indiffer ()11(C0. If you would never have an evil de'd spokeni of inl colilectioll with you, (ol't do one. In ourselves rather than in material ature, lie the trite source and life of the beautiful. A mn who caiot mind his own busi ness is not to be trnsted with the king's. --Nun iil/e. 1est, that. is permnanent, is not, toho b -- expeted on Iil- road; but at the end of Ihe journey. MIking ia joke is like throwing a top. If it. doesn't colie down oil its poiit. it will not spin. (3ra,11i1 griiously what, you cannot re fiso safely, aid concviliato those you iannot conliuer. We polish marble, not clay. If ono would lie a polishied goilt-leImanl 1io must have solidity. Live oii what you have; live if you ctn oil less: do not borrow, for vianity will cnd in shmIue. When on man las a prejudice against allother suspiciol is very busy ilk coinI ing resemblances. . The most delicato, the most sensiblo of ll pleasures c)olsists inl promoting th pleasures of others. Air and scandal are much alike ; the oftener they are breathed the mor poisonous they become. Life is a short dity; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to ivil, but in A mnu is mnde rich by what he lose's, just as it tree is fertilized by its own dead leaves and broken branches. Some coniceited folk think they fill a large space in the public eyo 'lel in reality it is all in their own. To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with tine sense is like atteImp1tiig to how a block of mthle with a razor. iappiness is like a sunbeam, which the least sltdow intercepts, while adver sity is often ats the rain of spring. )o tat which is right. The respect Of man111lkidil(L will follow; or, if it do not, you will be able to do wit-hout it. It is foolish to grievo over what can't be hiped and abill more foolish, becauso needless, to grieve over what can be. llow independent of money peace of consc(1ince iS, anid how nimeh hapineiss ennl he conldenhsed ill the humblest home. If your wife is small of stature you have this pdhsophic consola1tion1, viz., that of all the evils you have chosen the least. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the 1001p and will find the thaw - when he may have forgotten its A wise man ought to hope for thme best, 1)0 prepared for th~e worst, aind be~iar with eqw im1ity whatever may happen. If it be true that " a mlid Atuite va canht is ai mhind distre(ssed,'" there aire a - greait mantiy pleople ill the world w~ho suffer terribly. tihit we may be3 l)' m ore ectually bam boo)izled anud decei veid. Wheni a man5t produc11es a thousand and one vehiement arguments to prove that lie is inniocent, your v9rdict ought to be "' Not guilty; but lhe mustn't (10 it - again." Of all tue actions of man's life, his Lmasrriage does least concern other 1poo p)1e, yet of all the actions of our lives it is the most meddled with b~y other T here are three kind(s of pecople in the world1-the will's the wont's andl eant's. TIhe first aceomplishI everything; the se cond op)poso ever'ything, the third fail in everything. -Poets and~ p)hilosophlers have tried to I dlefino halppiness5, but whoen yion get dowun to the founudationi of things it conl sists of a fino houso and an abundance ;of six per centa. If you have made a miistake don't think ,it a codsoso to apoloigize. The f trute genItlemanI~ is always ready to rectify e a blunder. Only the imule bites with fone end and kicks with thle other. r The deadliest foe to man's longevity is an umiaturial and~ lunreaue(naible excite m on f Evcry mnis born with acertain ecasedl, but wvhichi may lbe husbanded or exp~ended1 rapidly, as he deems best. r Within cedrtalin limits, lie has his chioie to live fast or slow, to Jive abste miotusly or intensely; to draw his little .amount of life ever a large space, or to condense it into a narrow onte; but when his stock is expended lie can have no more. As the next thing to having wisdom 2ouirselves is to p)rofit by that of others, so the next thing to having mer it our selves is to take care that the meritori ouis p roflt by us5 ; for he that rewards the deserving, makes himself one of the numhnr.