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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., AUGUST 6, 1881. ESTABLISHtD 1865. TII VIOLET. hdil, dIelicious, springtime violet I ''hine odor, like a kdy, 'i'urns iioiselessly Iin memory's Wards to let A thought of sorrow free. T11w boreath of distant fields upon my brow tIlows through th)at open door, 'Ilie sotind of wind-borne fields, more sweet and low And sadder than of yore. It coies afar from that beloved place, And thai beloved iour, Wien life hung ripening in love's golden grace, Like grapes above a bower. A spring goes singing through its reedy grass; The lark sings o'er my head, D~rowned In the sky-O pass, ye visions, pass I I would that I were dead I w%'hy hast thou opened that forbidden door, From which I ever flee? 0 vaunihed joy 1 0 love, that art no more .et my vexed spirit le I o violet ! Ihy odor through my irain Ilath searcheil, and stung to grief '1his stinny day, as if a curse did stain 'i'hy velvet leaf. THE iVEAV t OF RAVELOE. It was fifteen years sin1ce Silas Marn er had first come to Raveloo, and at the end of fifteen years laveloe mien said the sanie thing about him as at the be ginning. Hie was Subject to catalepsy aid to the villagers. thero was something mlysteriols in these fits, as a fit was a stroke, and it was not in the nature of a stroke to let a ian stand on his legs like a horse in tile shaft and then walk off as t soon 11 you cal say 'Gee.' 'So had hisa way of life mysterious pe cnliarities. He invited no coier to stop I neross his door-sill,and lie never strolled into the yillage to drink a piit at the Rainbow, inld lie sought no man or t wonman, save for the pur)ose of his call- 1 ing, or to supply himliself with the neces saries of life. He had a knowledge of. herbs-and ehtris too, they thought-and perhaps he was possessed of ani evil spirit, so it wis partly to this vague fear that Mar nier was indebted for pIrotecting him from )o4ecution, and still more, that, as linen weaver, his handicraft made him a highly welcome settler to the rich housewives of the district. There was only one important addition which the years brought; it was that Master Mar ner had laid by a flue sum11 of iloley solewhlere. His life had reduced itsolf to the mere functions of weaving and boarding. But about Christmas of that fifteenth year a great change came over Marner's life aInd his history became blended in a sill gular manner with the life of his neigh hors. The greatest 111n ill Raveloc was 'oiuire ass. One of his two sols, Dustan, the second, the neighbors said it was no matter what became of him-a spiteful, jeering fellow, whose taste for drinking, betting and swopping might turi him1 out to be a sower of something worse than wild oats. - But it would be a pity that Godfrey, the eldest, a fine,woll-bred,good-natured yotlg mall, should take the same road as his brother,which lie seemed inclined to do of late, Godfrey was in Dustan's power, as lie had secretly married a coarse beauty, whose love of drink had made her an uni tit conpanion for any one, and lie lived in fear of his father learning the dread ful secret andl turninlg hiim adrift, so 'tuhtan m'aide constanlt demnandis oni him for hush51 mon01ey. Dr'iveni to despera'ftionl by lisa profigate brother, lie had given htiim permilssionl to sell his favorite horse if lie would mahko 110 more demnanids upon01 So D)umtan rode tile horse to the races andu before he had a chlance to soll,killed thet horse and wonit from the grounds inl a drunlkent, penniless state. As lie was plodding home through thme dar1k he saw a lighit ini Marnor's house. lHe knlocked, but no0 onec answered, and1( on1 stopp)jing it lie found it vacant. Where could hie be, leavin~g his sup pler cookinlg an~d the door unifastenled. It wals at dlark, rainy might, an~d per'haps lie had gone out for fuel and fallen into the stonoe pits, That was ian interestinlg idea to Dust an If the weaver was dead, who had a right to his mnoney? Who would know where his money wal) hiidden? W~hlo woulld knowv thai anlybody had come to take the mlonley away? ' He saw a place near the~ loomi where the sand1( hadi finger marks, Hie darted( to it, lifted the bricks, anid found two leather bags, lie immediately left the hiouse ith thle bags. 'Thie rainl anld dlarkness had got thlicker, bunt le wais heartily glad of it. Silas camue soon after, amnd after get ting warml~ lie thoughlt lie would pult his bteloved guineas 01n the table before him, as it would be pleasant to see themn as lhe ate his uniwonted feast. For joy is the_ best of wine, anid Silas' guinecas were a goldlen wineO of that sort. The sight of the emplty hole made his heart leap), but the belief that his gold was gono cold inlot colmo at oncC. Nie hand put hlis gold somiewhtere else and then forgOttenl it. Hoe turined his bed over and looked in the brick oven. Hie felt oneoC more all around the hole, Hie coldl see every object In his cottage --and h is gold wasR not thiero. Hoe put his hainds to his head and gave a wvild, ringing sereamnj the ely of desolationl. The ecry hlad relieved him- from thle firat mnaddeninig pressure. lie tottered towvard his loom, and got in1t0 tile seat whiere lie worked, instinct ively . sooking this as the strongest as fiuranic of reality. Enl Ann~ of a thief began to nrenit tself. He started from the loom to the loor. He rushed out in the rain and nado his way to the inn. There Silas old his story under frequent question ng as the character of the robbery be me evident. The slight suspicion af his hearers helted away befoto the simplicity of his listress. Dustan Cass had never been heard rom and on Now Year's eve Squire Cass ave a largo party. That night Godfroy's vife was walking with slow, uncertain iteps through the snow-covered lanes of Raveloe, carrying her child in her arms. Soon she felt numb with cold and fa igue, and then nothing but a supreme. nmiediate longing to lie down and sleep. L'he complete torpor came at last; then ingers lost their tension, the arms un )ent; then the little head fell away from .he bosom, and the bluo eyes opened vido on the cold starlight. Suddenly ts eyes were caught by a bright gleam ug light on the white ground; in an in itant the child had slipped on all fours md held out one little hand to catch the leam. But the gleam could not be aught, and the head was held up to see vhero the cunning gleam came from. It !ame from a very bright place; and the ittle one rising on its legs went on to lie open door of Silas Marner's cottage, mad right up to the warn hearth where silas coat lay on the bricks to dry. The ittle one squatted down on the coat, >resently the warmth had a lulling offect md the little golden head sank down on he old coat asleep. But where was silas Marner? He was in the cottage, mit he did not see the child. He had one to the door to look out, and put iis right hand on the latch of the door o close it-but lie did not close it, h' vas arrested by the invisible hand of atalepsy,and stood with wide but sight ess eyes holding upon his door, power ess to resist the good or evil that might inter. When Marner's sensibility returned, ic closed the door, and turning towards he heialth, where, to his lurid vision, it coined as if there were gold oi the floor n front of the hearth. Gold! his own gold- -brought back as nysteriously as it had been taken away. He leaned forward at last and stretch 3d forth his hand, but instead of the iard coin, his fingers encountered soft, varm curls. Could this be his little uister come back to him in a dream? He iad a dreamy feeling that this child was iomehow a message come to him from *ar off life. But there was a cry on the eart.h and Silas fed and soothed it. He ound it had on wet shoes, -which sug Kested to him that she must have come 'rom out doors; so he raised the hild, and went to the door loor and the little one cried out mammy. Bending forward lie could just discern narks made by the liltle feet; and he ollowed their track to the furzo bush, md there lie found a human body, with hie head sunk low in the furze, and half overed with the shaken snow. Silas <new that all the town was at the grand )arty at the Squire's, so he carried the ittle one there in search of them. The loctor, Godfrey, and a few others go to tho stone pits, and there find that the woman is p~ast help--dead. They urge Silas to pard with the child, but lie p)resses it to him, and says; "'No, no! I can't part with it. It's omc to mec-I've a right to keep it." It was a bright autumn Sunday, six been years after Silas Marner had found his newv treasure on the hearth. The bells of the old Rlaveloc church were ringing the cheerful p)eal which told that the morning services were mnded. He called her Eppie for his sis tern, andl that morning, as they wlkedl home togethecr, in low, murmuring tones Fppie talked to him. "Father, if I was to be miarried,ought [ to 1be married with mother's ringT "Wh~ly, Eppie,havo you heeni thlinking rof it?" ''Only this last week, father," said Epplie, ingenuously, 'since Aaron talked to me about it." ''And what did lhe say?" said Silas. '"Hi said lhe should like to 1be mar ried, because lie was going on four and twenty, and had got a good dheal of gar alninig work, inow Mr. Mott's givenl '"And who is it as -he's wanting to marry?" said Silas: with rather a sad smile. "'Why, me, to be sure, daddy," said Eppie, with dimpling laughter, kissing her father's cheek; as if he'd wanted to nmarry anybody else." "Anid you mean to have him, do you?' said Silas. ''Yes, some timo," said Eppie, "'I don't knew when." "Evorybody'w married some time," Aaron says. "Ba~t I told him thait wasn't true, for I said; ''Look at father-ho's never been married." "'My child," said Silas, "your father was a louno man till you was sent him." ''But you w~ill never 1bo a lone man again, father,' said Eppie, tenderly; "that was what Aaron said." "I could never think of taking you away 'from'i Master Marner, Eppie." "And,'.' I said," "'it 'uid be of no use if you did, Aaron, and lie wants us all to live together,so as you needn't work, and he'd be as good as a son to you. But I don't want an. niane. Only Anronn does want a change, and he made mo cry a bit-because he said .1 didn't care for him, for if I cared for him I shouh1 want us to be married, as lie did." "Oh, my blessed child," said Silas. "You are o'er young to be married. But I shall get older and helpless, and I shoul like to have you marry somebody else besides ime--somebody young and strong, am 'ud take care o' you to the end." "Then you wou)l( like me to be mar ried, father?" "I'll not be the main to.may no, Eppie, but will ask your god-mother. She'd wish the right thing by you and her on too." And the god-mother wished it. In draining the lands the stone pits, were drained dry and the skeleton of Duston Cass was found and all of Silas Marner's gold, ?265. So Aaron and Eppie enlarged their garden, and made pretty their home, as they did not wish to leave the stone pits, and Eppie's own words tell the story of their united happy life. "Oh, father, what a happy home ours is! I think *nobody could be happier than we." how It Chilalmian Rlems as 11'os14to. When a Chinaman does most anything in his own peculiar Oriental style, it is pretty apt to attract attention; but when he gets on a bucking bronco with tile cheerful assurance of a man. who under stands his business, and has been con versant with the ways of the bronco for over two thousand years, the surging humanity ceases to surge, and stands with bated breath and watches the ex hibition with unflagging interest. A Chinaman does not, grabl the bit of the bronco and yank it around until the no ble steed can see thirteen new and pecu liar kinds of fireworks, or kick him into the stomach and knock his ribs loose or swear at him - till the firmament gets loose and begins to roll together like a scroll, but lie does his hair up in an Oriental wad behind and jabs a big hair pinl into it and smiles, and says some thing like what a (uinea hen would say if she got excited and tried to report one of Bjoernsjerne Bjoernson's poeis back ward in his native tongue. Then he gets on the wrong side and slides into the saddlemaking a remark as though some thing inside of him had broken loose, and the grand difficulty begins. At first the bronco Seems surprised and temporarily rattled intellectually, and lie stands idly in the glad sunlight and allows his mental equilibrium to wobble back into the place while the Chinaman makes some observations that sound like the distant melody of a sing ing club going home at 2 o'clock A. A., and- all talking at one and the same time. By-and-by the broneo shoots athwart the sunny sky like a thing of life, and comeS down with all his legs in a cluster like a bunch of asparagus, and with a great deal of force and expression. This movement throws the Chiinaman's liver into the northwest corner of the thorax anl his upper left hand denodessimo inito the smiddle of the subsequenit week, bmut lie (does niot complain1. lie opens his mouth ansd breathes ini all tlhe atmnos phere that the rest of the universe can5 spare, and11 readjusting his shirt tail so that it will have the correct iniclinationi toward the hodzAon,het gently tickles the bronco oii thme starboard quarter with the cork sol1e of his corpulent shoe. Th'lis mirth-provokinmg muov'ement throws the bronco into the wildest hysterics' and for twenty insutes tihe spectators dosn't see anythisng very distisictly. The Aut umn snli~ t seems11 to be niuxed up with blomle.1 bronico, and the softened hazew of October seems fraught with pale blue shirt tail and disturbed Chinamuan, mnovinig in) an irregular orbit, and( occal sionally throwisng off meteoric articles of wearinig apparel and prehistoric chiunks of ingneous profanity of the vinitage of Confucius, marked B. C. 1860. When the sky clears up a little the Chuinanan's hair has come downi anid hangs isn wild profusion about his olive features. Th'le hem of his shirt flap is seeni to be very much frayed, like an American flag that has snmapped in theo brceeze for thirteen weeks, lie finds also that lie has telescoped his spinal column anid jammed two rib~s through the right superior duplex,and lhe has two or three vertebrao floating through hsis system that lhe don't kno1w what to do with.The casual observer cani see that the China masn is a robust ruin, while the bronico is still in a good state of p~reservationi. But the closing scene is still to comae. Th'le brosnco summons all his -lateint energy, and humping his back up into the exhiliartinig atmosphere, ho shoots forward with groat earniestness,4 anth most reckless abandon, and1( whsen he once more bisects the earth's orbit and1( jab~s his feet into the tresmbling earths, a shapeless mass of birocaded silk asnd coarse black hair, and taper snis, asnd Celestial shirt tail, and Oolonsg p~rofanii ty and disorgassized Clin110e remnains and shattered Orienmtal shirt destsoyer,eomes10 dlowni app~arenitly from the Newv Jerussa loen, and the Coroner goes out in the street to get six good men amnd a chem ist, and they analyze the collection. IThey report that dceased came to Isis death by reason of concussion sulpposed to have been induced by his~ fall from tihe oter battlements of thle swveet bye' Prolongedt lorror. A promilent citizen of San Franiicisco was reading Macaulay onIe evening when it softly thumped, asn if it. had just come and wanited to let litiui know. lie said niothing, and it gave a rap that nearly broke his jaw-bone. Still he knit his Rtony brows and read on. Thei(- aie ia kick and a yell that no one but himself heard, aid it had fatirly begim. He said : "My prouid and noble spirit shall not he conquered by so slight a thing. Walter Scott wrote novels when he had it aind I will be as brave." But. his miserable soul eringed and gave up and it shrieked and writhed with delight. A long and leepless iight ensued, ulit the next imorning his manhood returned and he1 went down town as unual, but the whole world looked sad and melain Choly. His temper was out of joint, and he greeted his friends moodily and rebulked his clerks on the slightest pre text. This condition of afftirn lasted for threo days, and his friends learned to nros the street when they ,;aw him com ing, bowing at a safe distance, while the newmhoys dodged around corners at his approach. And still he locked his trou bles in his own bosom. His poor wife thought he was going erazy. "Are you sure there is nothing tho matter with you, John?" she would gen tly ask. "Confound you ! No ; what. makes you think so ?" If anyone had suggested toothache to him hie would have knocked them down. in fact, ho was waiting with malicious pleasure for the person who would first dare it. t "What's the matter wit~ yoir cheek?" asked an acquaintance. ''Mumps I" ~' And he shot dowin an alley. "John," said his wife, timidly, that. night, ''there surely is nomething the I matter with you, making up facen over j that beautiful honev---the first of the i 3eason-and you so fond of it." "Whlen a woman, without any selse ii her head, gives honey to a man with I ! ioney was not made for mani to eat.. Do the bees have-jaws ? Oh, 1lhe deuce take it I i'im a goner now, aind it gonie to sleep for the first lile since it came !" and lie rushed groaning into the street. Something must be done now, at oniee, I and with the words "Teeth extractel without pain" glaring thriugh his dark ened brain, he ran down the street, halt ing at the first shingle that bore them. t Up two tlights of ptairs he burst openi a door and cried : "'is the butcher iii?" "The what, Sir?" demanded an even I voice, and gazing into that calm, deter mined face, lie recoginized his maister, and sank into the chair of torture. "Give e some other, Mid take my picture-he quick !" "You have ai fever, sir. Ahi, I see, an ulerated tooth ; very badly deenyed am afraid it will uot, come out entire." "Ahi, perhaps i had better wait a few years for it to loosen. I doin't know lint I can stand it awhile longer, now I thiiki of it.." "'We will have it. out il lialf a miiuite, sir. Bring tile ether, ,Tames," to a sleek, demoniiac-looking assistant, who had posted himself where he cold watch I the victim's contort.ions. They next twisted a newspaper into the shape of a I horn, and tile assistant held one end to the patient's mouth. "What's that for? So I can yell louder ?" "That is for you to inhale the ether through." I "1Hn1ve you any objeetions, sir, to tell ing mec how many people you have killed with ether ? I do not ask an a represen tative of the priess." "'I have adnministe'ed et.heinhun ii dreds of eases, with no fatal results." "'But--ahl-suppojn sing one's1 lungs were wealk ?" '"Have given it. to people with con sumption. Now brecathie deep and qjuick ;" and be thirunt a sp)onge at thme other' end of thme tubie. Th'le patient. in hledlc~ cautiously, just to see how the thing felt, and a ntrange senisationi swept over hin body, while bhis braiin became uinsually brilliant, and the thought flashed neroonn himi that p~eirhaps a fter all lie wvouldl rather Ihavel the tooth ach e thtan dlie. "'My heart in bieatinig very fast ; I am afraid it in diseased, and t)me ethier will surely kill me." ''Your hleart beats fast hieeausie you arc-excited. Breathe fast, and dleep)." 'L 1ne suliject vagumely wonidered what the man of deintistry started to say in stead of "e'xcited," lbut breathed fast and deep, deep) ando quick, dceep anid fast, quick and deep). Thrills of electricity shot thrloughi his nerves withu a pleasant, tinglinig sensation. His sp irits irose. Hi heart grew e'ahn. Hie was afraid imo more. ''A very'3 iic( subhjecit," imiiurmured theo dentist, whose fiuger' wasn ihin wrist. ''Pulso getting regular. IUeathi fasnt and deep--do not be afraid." A fraid ? Who wan afraid ? Of what ? The patienit, piiched one of lhis fingers and founid it inmb. lHe wvould no~t care'( if they cut his head off. .Yet, wan it niot reckless to thlroiw lhin life away in such a manner ?-for it was surely going. There was a buzziing in his earn. His spirit wvas floating away higher and higher. H~e called from a odizzy height dlown toi the dlentint: "'Are you sine there is .io danger ?" ''No more than if you were breathing no much air," caine faintly from below. Then lho gave himself up to it. If lhe were dying the dentist wouldl hang for it, meantime hec would float around aiwhmio ainulsee what filled the great stretches of spiace. Suoddenly lie began to whirl ai'ouind with fearful rapidity. lHe was traveling in a great circle whose center seieed to he the dentist. Oni, on, like one of the toy locusts lhe used to whirl when a hey, and where he would go if the string should bireak. Around and around~ I The whizzing was like thun der', and ought to be audible miles away. Suddenily a terriblhe thing happened. The dentist reached ont a pair of huge iroii forceps and caught him by the tooth. It was plain lie did not under stand the situation, and the victim t riedh to say :"Let go, for Gtod's sake, oir I shall be jerked to pieces. Do you not se 2C0thVomJQ ilYiible power is whmirliing lie around ?" But the instrument in him nuth smothered the words and the for 'ops bel onl. The Situation wvas thrill lg, for I Ith circles wvere growing larger Id larger, tItd Iiless the tooth gave vuy he must lie reit ssuider. Up he veit, then down, struggling with all his echle strength to wrest loose fromi the atal grip. He swept upi to greater ieights, but the ignorant. persecutor i(ld oni withi a grip like- death. A fear III struggle eisueld. With a crash like he report. of i caoitnili the tooth gave vay aid its owner shot ol'iinto eternity. Tle street-cars were rattling past upon he pavement. of Kearny street. lie was itting in tlt reception-room of a den ist, having coie up with a friend who vished to have a tooth extraeted. The lInoniac assistant stood iear with for eps in his hand, andIt as two or three adies came inl the door, politely asked iem to be seated. "Now open your mouth," he said. "What for?" "To havo your tooth out, of course." "I have no diseased tooth, you block tend I 1 came here with a friend." The fiend laughed idiotically : "Oh, LP, he, he ! Don't know a thing he's aying, ladies, he's beeni a - taking thler.'" ''he horrible truth flashed over his n1ind that his cowardly, miserable pirited friend had failed at the last inment. and told this fool he was the ictiim. "Get- away, you scoldrel 1" le cried. 'I tell you, a friend of mine just had ther administered to hii atd waits in lIe next room to have his tooth out." "le, lhe le !" laughed the idiot. "le lon't know a word he's saying, ladies. ley often act so. Open your mouth, I ny !" The ladies looked on curiously, and lie little villain seized him by the chin. Ie was ordinarily a strong man, but, as in a nightmare, lie yielded now to iuel fate, whel - He was in the sandhills playing with is old coimrade Tom. "Let's male the Desert of Smarah," Iid Tom. "see theso thirsty old ait. 'amiels ! We must dig a well for them." How the mill-dam roared and tihe birds auig I' "Coie., boys, dinner is ready," called is mother, tle sunshine in her 1blue yes, ats She stood in the door. * * * * * *4 *t Ano'ther whiz nd w-hirl ad he heard he sowing-iachine buzzing. "Do keep it still, lie said to his wife. 'it is too late to SNew. Conie to the vinidow ani1d see the lovely sunset. over he (olden Gate." "Yes, said she, "it makes me think ,f that other (olden (ale, with the ,lory beyond wc camilot. look itto." Music soft aid low--a band playing n the distance. It. miust be Fourth of litly morning. le raised his head and elt. sick. "Drink some warm water," said his vife, who Stood at his bedside. "It Vill relieve you and make you feel bet er." "Oh, bother your warm water," lie aid, beside lhimself with the dreadful insea : "mother used to niake us put. mr thigers down our throats-sIe knew!" Aid lie t:hrust his great list ini his nouth and was Speedily relieved. "What, is it that smells so queer here, nyhow ?" "The othler, probably. We had to rive you considerable, you fought us o," said a strange voice, anid to his tinitzement lie found himself in a den ist's ollice. "'Where in thunder have 1 heen aill of his time? It was year's ago 1 eaime icre." "YXou hiave b seen in nmy otlice just teni niiumites, sir'." ''What did I comeiU for'? A tooth ? (Oh, ami sorry *yout ldin't. get. it." "I took out. a large molar for yon, sir, 1lso a stump that. c'ame in five pieces, mui a bicuspid too badly decayed for illing." Th'lrust ing his tongue iuito several v'awninig catvit ies lhe missed1 some old rfoes andi felt, both1 lonely and relieved without themi. Thleni the mists begana to Aear away, and( lie said: ''No wonder I fought. You dlidn't know I was whirling around you, and it's i wonder you didn't kill mec." "'Yon were not fully unider thue influn enece, then, if yeu felt anay pain.' ''And ,you," said the victim, turning to the grmnning assistant, ''made a terri ble hhunder. I have a mind to proseento you for taking oiut that tooth. Didni't. you know it wasn't mo at all who wanted it dlone ?'' "I auin't upl to pullinig teeth yet.,'' said het, "'and( never' techied you. But-he, lie, lie-how funny you (lid act.'' "'You had better walk out into the fresh air, sit' ; that will make you all right. Two dollars, if you please." As hie left the oile lie wonde(redl it' lie actually stuck his fist diowa his throat b efot re that gentlemanly dentist.. Whein he reached home it seemed as if lae had been away a week, Hie kissed his .wife, called for somne honey anid asked hier if she really said that sweet thing about, the sunset.. 'An African KI ng'si Crown, Adornments for African potentates are an item of some little importance in the Birminghamu jewvelry trade, whlich emb~races both real and sham jewelry. A firm of what ai'e known as ''floral jewelers'' has jutt comp~ leted a crowin foi' Kinug -Eyo, of Greek town, Africa. It is a copy of thtat of William the Con quieror. The cap is of blue velvet., the linding of er'tminle, andt the circle andl spikes ar'e of semai-dead( gol, deor'at ed with th irty-two real stonies, con~isistinig of amethyst, topaz., crystal and1 emecrald1. Two scepters have also been supplied- - one of gold andi the othetr of silver-for Duke Ephiraimi E yamosa T X., (If D1 uke Town, Old1 Ctalaa. These enisigns of royalty are flye feet six inches long, one being suruteutd by a Maltese cros aind the other by' a dove. 'Thiey are both made to uniscrewv at the end for the in sert ion of a peacoIck's feather, which is used in some portion of the state cere monien of Ol1 Valahav.r Neitiwr (An'rlas nor Humn.1i~ Can it he snppos'ed that when Dean Swift libeled huanity by degrading it below the level of the brutes in his dreadful fletion of the Yahoos he ever imagined that there existed aught that approxiainted toward the odious pic ture? Yet such is the case. There are, undoubtedly, races4 whose attributes do, in various degrees, suggest, if they do not realize, tie misanlthropic fables of the me1-heaSts of Honyhluhms Land. The Niamnnins of Africa, who live be tween the Oulf of Benin and Abyssinda, Iare said to have tails, a statement conl firimed boy Dr. Hbsh1, of Constantinopl. in 1851. The 'hairy people" mentioned of old by Hlanmo seem to have a real existence, apart from the gorilla, judging from Miss Bird's tceount, of the Ainos f Japan, ia strange, savage, and little known race, supposed to be the abori gines of that country, but, now only to be foutid on the Island of Yezo. They atre, she says, of a most ferocioIs aspect, uiwing to the profusion of their thick, soft black hair and beards, and to the .ingular fact. that their bodies ire com m1only covered wit-h a vigorous growth f black hair or fur, upward (if an inch inl length, and incrusted with dirt, for the AMios never wash. Their food is a "stew of albominable things," and a "4 thick u0111) mado of pitty-elay, which is boiled with the hul4i of a white lily." Ticy believe themselves to ie deseended from dogs, but other characteristics of this strange peoplo are not unamiable. Beyond these instances, and presenting it far umore striking reseiblanee to the Yahoo t.ype, there are the Veddas or WVeodahs or Ceylon, their duplieates in Borneo or New Guinea, and kindred varides discovered in tie Philipoine Islanlds, Terra del Fu1ego, and Souith America. Only imne of these are 8o hatefiul as the creatures of Swift's ilven lion. It needed that. lierce indignation igaiimst his kind, which lie has recorded in his epitlph, to depiet them. The Veddas and siiilar races on the- islands of the Asiati IarChipielago are described as the aloriginies of their respective coinlitries, who have shrunk 11it(o the jun1gle and forest t4o ellpe from civiliza tioni, and have lived there for upwards of 2,000 years. They consriet n1( alibitatioms, Imt lodge ill eaves or trees or under overhangiig rocks. They arc situnted ill size, seldom exceeding four feet eight inches inl stiatune, 1and11 but feebly built, except as regards their s11-11, whieh the constanit ulse of the bow reniders very imluscuilar, notwitihstandin1g their siort, ape-like thimulibs. Wihli t his weaponl they kill animals for food ; devouring, bssides, snakes, r1ptiles, wild honey, aits, eggs, and carrion of all kiids. They laek iboth miemiory and foresight, cannot count, or discriminate between Colors, are filthy inl their halits, and inl everything savo ia rudimentary language of uneouith guttural sounds, and som1 dim vei.igen of religion and1 social order, aire the beas1ts of the tiel. Saddest perhaps of all, they never laugh. When I dihey (lie tiey believo they become devils. Yet this benighted and 1 outCsi race, so low in organization, habits and chiaracter as scarcely to be dlist.ingished( from the mlonlkeys oif the jun11gle amnong wh om thI ey hive, priact iCe b y iinntincl virtuecs, which are 1no1 so1 connnon01 ir civiliziiion. Thiey . never lie, steal noi qularre'l. Some of these unfortunatto creatulres have been half-tamed by tclu Cingalese and sent to out.-(oor work like the Yaho(os of thme Hlouyhinhms. When the Prline of W \ales visited th< island ini 1876, certaini 'of the julngh( Veddas were actually caughit ini snarei anid traps5 to be0 e'xhibited to1 himi ; an10 one of the uimaher--a female- --positivela dlied of fright ini bein~g seenIred. Jt wa: not a hiuane tranisaction)1, the Vedda: are regarded muerely as aniimals. Finally it may be remarked, ill connection witll Swift's curious antic.ipation, that ho placed Hlouyhnhmsl) LanId ne(ar the( greni island 'ont inen'lt (If Australia. It appear: in the map of the first e'ditionl o "Gulliv'er " as due10 soiuth of Nuv'st' Land, iin about3:8 degre'es south latituide and 155 degrees east longitude. Now Ceylon is bult 55 dlegrees west of ti locality, though abiove, as New Ghuinea is juist below, thle cquator. Thet Yahoo: 001u1d not Ilave been bett.er accoIflnio damted. "I iilavenm'. Any N~iol." Th~e following pointed aniecoto is tokl of Dr. Lynian Bececher andi theu nearl; equally famouois Dr. Strong, of Eais Hartford: A plainm country minister called on1 day, just l evenling, 1upon1 Dr. Strong. Thme (1<'etor was very~ b~usy propinfl for his evening service, and 110 said t< his wife, "Yoil uimust entertain him fori little while." lie soon camii out of hi study and( invit ed the stranger to accom pany1.~ hminm to1 meeting. Oin the way lhe tuirnod and said to hi (count1ry brother :"I will depenid upol you1 to1 offer thle openling pIrayer." At thme close of thme prayer lie whijspei 'd, "yo m11st0 preach." "I haven't any nlotes." "D1oun't you1 ever! preach withou nlotes5?" "'I haer' (1one suc(h a thing." "Well, you muist preach." Dr. Strong listened with the most al: sorbled attention, till at the close hx spoke out so loud as to be hoard all ove the house, "Who aro you? Ain't you ths Beeher who has lately conmo to Litel1 fielad?" " My nlamn is Tayman Bneahor." NEWS IN BRIEF. --Key West, Florida, shipped 90,000 cigars in one week recently. -Tle emigration from Sweden in 1881 is expected to reach 70,000. -There are 585 Chinese children in the San Francisco public schools. -The Comitesse do Chambord ha' just presented $2,000 to the Pope. -Princess Louise has $500,000 invest ed in a new hotel in Quebec. --Queen Victoria will occupy a villa on the lako of Como this summer, -The mikado of Japan has determined to become a patron of horse racing. -Tio shah of Persia has sent the czar of Russia a gilt sword worth $8,000. -The rumor is revived that Prince Am adeus, of Italy, intonds to become .a monk]. -Prince Leopold took his seat in the House of Lords on the 20th, as Duke of Albany. -The Irish consus shows a population of 5,159,849, a decrease in ten years of 252,538. -Govornor Wiltz, of Louisiana, wvho has long been ill, is slowly recovering his health. -Princeo Leopold, Duke of Albany, is reported to ho about to take unto him sielf. a wife. -The Cuban sugar crop of 1881, is estimated at 464,000 tons, against 529, 500 tons in 1880. -The fish commissioners have spent $99,000 in stocking the rivers of Penn sylvania with fish. -Minnllo Palmor, the actress, is under $5,000 bonds to her manager not to marry for five years. -Hon. Francis Eppes died in Florida recently, aged 80 years. He was a grand son of 'hoinas Jefferson. -The monoy owed in the shape of foreign loans in default to England aiounts to $1,050,000,000. -At Cornell University all the stu dents have voluntarily signed a pledge of abstinence from tob)acco. -Tio only daughter of the King of South Ahyssinia is to ho married to the son of the King of Abyssinia. -Of the total production of steel rails made miring the year 1880, Pennsylva ia contrihuited forty per cent. -rihe Italian Parliament, by a vote of 220 to 10.1, fefused to confer the right to vote on all who can read aid writo. -San Francisco's new directory con fiainus 1.11,000 names, 10,000 more than the directory of tie previous year. -Tt is estimated that 500,000 copies of the revised version of the Now Testa mient have been sold in Philadelphia. -During the past year 1,500,000 bar rels of apples wore shipped from one county alone in Now York to Europe. -The British House of Commons re eently rejected the bill to abolish capi tal pluis hment by a vote of 175 to 189. --M. Alexandre Dumas has become a grandfather. His little decendant is the son of his daughter, Mmo. Colette Lipmnanun. -Tho net earnings of the Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison for May were $4,054.20; total earnings, $20,888.32; expenditures, $16,334.12. -A bronze door, to cost $15,000,whiel is being mado in Italy, is to ornament a new residence near the Central Park, New York. -Under the present arrangements breakfast is served in the White House, Washington, at 8:30, dinner at 2. and supper at 7. --There are 6300 building associations in P.hiladelphia, and 1,800 elsewhere ini P ennsylvania, with an aggregate capital of $150,000,000. -President Grevy has selected Comn mandant Lichenstoin, of his military household, to represent France .at the Yorktown centennial. -- General F. A. Walker, superintendent ofthe census, estimates the p~opulationi ini 1890 at about 65,000,000 and in 1900 at possibly 85,000,000. *-Sani Francisco hats niow about half a dozen kindergarton schools, several of them be'ing free schools, snpported by vohunmuary contributions. - Since the eloso of the winter season Chicago packers disposed of 1',085,000 hogs. During the same period in 1877 the number was 705,000. -Thelm agricultural college land grants to the several States aggregate 9,600, 000 acres, of which 1,770,000 was taken ini place, and 7,880,000 by scrip.. -New South WVales has 750,000 popu lation-240, 000 increase in 10,000. New Zealand has 489,591; Tasmania, 116,000; Adelaide, 277,000; Hobart, 21,000. --Mlle. .Alice Grevy, the daughter of the French President, is said to have nice eyes and a Velasquez faco,and looks chuarminigly when dressed in white. '-The existing cedars of Lebanon are only 900 years old. The cypress trees at Montezulma, Mexico, according to a French botanist, are 6,000 years old. -Each of the 50,000,000 people of the United States, discards an average of five pounds(1 of clothing yearly, which makes 250,000,000 pounds for the whole. C -The Duke of St. Albans the Marquis of Bath, Lordl Carlingford and Lord a Derby are the noblemen considered to a have the best claims on Mr. Gladstone .. for Lord Beaconsfield's garter. -Rlocent figures by Edward Atkinson i put 350,000,000 inhabitants to 't,549,802 Ssquare miles of territory in Europe. In the United States there are 40,000,000 p leople and 8,034,890 square .giiles of -territory. -Theopresent value ofvineyards in Cal ifornla is reputedl by President Rarasst t ing, of the State Board of Vinitbultural Commissioners, to be about 685 000,000 the income of which amounted fast year to $8.500,000. - -Out or 101'Derbys, aPrince of Wales has won onee, in 1l788- a royal duke, York, In 1816 and 182k;- othei' dukes, r ten times; lords, twenty-two times; a foreign count once, 188; a , oreign t baron twice, 1871 .nd 1q79; ai foreign - prince in 1875, and an American sover eign In 1881, Other wihmera have been. Engliah commonors,