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---*~ - " W S TRIWEEKLY EDITION. WINNiSBORO, S. C., AUGUST 16, 1881 ESTABLISHED 186~. TUE UNOUANGEABLE DEAIV. 'They change not, though the world is ever cliang Ing; In memory still'they live, the dear ones gone, Wile others flee, they seem to fondly linger, To cheer our pathway as we wander lone. They live to bless us ever, Disseveredi from us never. The world's great throng Is swiftly by us hasting, t Their eyes Intent on luring prizes sought, While our loved dead look kindly on us ever, With smiles more sweet than gold hats ever brought TIlr eyes look coldly never, Their love endures forever. Upon our minds, our looks, our senses falling, 'ime cltisels changes as tie years flit by, Still chisels none upon the features loving, Smiling upon us with an undlinmed eye They look and love forever, C Unkindly gazing never. Wlihen all our yeari bav 1ie, the last (lepartiug, When frienuds have changed, have beei and passed away, Unchanged our dead are near the only living Adown eternal years prolongingstay. Our dead desdrt usinover, Are with us now aid ever. . iJISENCHIANTED. ] Pretty little Mrs. Norton sitting be- I lind the urn was as fair and lovely a two year matron ta over smiled over a t table at her lord and master. He was a fine looking follow, too, that husband of hers, and it was very evident I that there was no lack of warm affection between them, for all the subject of con- s versation was one of very decided opin- t' i0n, at least upon Mrs. Norton's part. Just now she sugared and creamed a Mr. Norton's second cup of collec, and fl handed it towards him with a little in- 1 dignant remark: ' "'But it's too bad, Frank, and I be- i lieve you think so'too." . t4 And she looked suspiciously a if there were tears in her pretty eyes. a "'Indeed, I think it's just as bad it c can be-bad enough for us, but a ft thousand times worse for Uncle Toni.." "It is ridiculous I The idea of him' falling in love at this time of life, but k more than ridiculous in falling in love with such a creature as Aura Vane." | 01 Frank laughed at Lottie's emphatic remarks. F "We mustn't forget that of course the -ti gentleman has a perfect right to do as g he pleases with his own, dear. His be ing sixty years old does not- preclude 01 him from even marrying Miss Vane if he a chooses to." a] Lottio looked very earliest indeed as Y she answored ti "I know all that, but why can't Uncle Tom see her as le is, as everybody else a] Soen r'9 Rim is forty if sho's a day," V said Lottie. He interrupted her with a little tor- & nienting laugh. d '*A very suitable-age you must admit for him, Lotta." "Frink Norton I How can you, when hI you know just is w611 as I do that its ti only Uncle Tom's inoney she is after? a And to think h6 promised to leave it Il to baby if we'd name him after him, and wanted the little darling called Roland n so badly, instead of Tommy. 0 Frank I you never will know what a sacrifico I made. And I'll change baby's namO yes, I will-if Uncle Tom marries that A horrid old thing, who never hattd a beau, 1 nor an offer 'befoi-e in her life. How ever she coitrived to entrap himt I'd like to. knoW." . Twvo bright little red spots were ,fam- a ing in her -ohecks, and despite the-. p~assionafte bitternoss of he rott t4r Norton realized there was a great deal of righteouS truth in it, and lie wvas looking grave anid thoughtful pust as thet front doof was opened, and in a minute or two Un'ele Tomn himself came ii'. "I ant sorry to have been so late for ~ dinner, my clear," lie said briskly, witht a smile towvard Lottie, "lbut I have beent driving in the park with Miss Vane, and i really it was dusk before I knew it."~ "Arc you porsonally acquainted with ~ Miss Vane, my dour ?" he cotinuedi presently, . after dilating upon the ~ beauty of the p~ark ini its late autumn 1 diress. And then Lottie p)umposely avoided ~ her lord's eyes, where site knew, full ~ wvell would ho a cautionmary signal. "' Not at all intimiately, uncle To'm.i When I was a little ..girl she was a ' growni upi womnt, amnd, of course, I.1 never had occasion to associate with her. As a child I neover fancied lher, however." Hie laidi his knife downi ini the act of slicing off a delicious .piece of brownm meat.. "'You mean to insinuate that Aura is as old1 as-all that ?" Then Frank took up the cudgel in I his quiet, unimpassioned way. ' "'I don't think my wife would 'inmsinu ate' anything, Uncle Tom.' - he simply knows it to ho a fact, as I do, and any one else who cares to think at all about it, that Miss Vane is past forty yoars old. But tlien, of course, no~ one ev~er troubles onte's self abouit it.. CompleXIon and hair can both be 'iought nowva clays." "I ant perfectly ners of that fact. But I assure you I have satisfied myself that Anra is one sof those rarely pre served on wio' at tliirty-fJo' , have it front lher .Owp ~4s ,thp her last birth (lay was her thirtieth-are more charmt ing and mature, and every way suitable to a discerning ripii'a tato _thant wi .on. younlg antd girlish." And 1h0'ookhadtratightly, rloflhmutlf, ii Lottie's eyes.: "you'll find out somo dlay." ' "Yes," lhe answvered, "1 expect to flnd ' out thty~hmo woman who will honor mtc by being my wife is just what I have said site is ini all respects. Frank, don't you wnt tickets for the opera to-night ? ['ve a coiple to sitare if you want to take iottie to hear Patti. Miss Vane and I ire going." Of course, Frank accepted the tickets, md after dinner, when Lottie went. up o the nursery with him for their usual' ialf hour of baby-worship, she declared he never would call him by his odious iamo again. "He shall be mamma's darling little loland now," she said, holding him in ior arms and showering kisses oi his weet, laugliing face. Frank laughed. " You had better wait a little longer, lottio. Perhaps the old man's dison hantment will e na4 even yet." " It's disgusting," she said. And then she said good-night to her 'ear-old boy, with dozens of kisses and tugs, and gave him back to his nurse. I want you to go on ain errand, leaso, Frank," she -said suddenly as hoy went into their own room, "up to ilandford's for an invisible net and hair ins. Will -you, Frank ?" " An invisible not? What oi earth is hat? Can't you see it? How shall I now when I've got it? I'll enquire." She gave him a little push toward the oor. " Never mind, Mr. Impudenco I You niply ask for what I tell you, pay what licy chargo, and bring it home to me." So good natured Frank put on his hat nd started of' to Blandford's, the nious hairdresser's, where lie was to uy the invisible net, to meet Uncle loin oi the doorstep, iipationtly wait- I ig for the enrriage that was to take him his beloved. "There is plenty of timo," Frank said i 1 he stop)ed a minute. "Get your me, Uncle Tom, and walk up to Bland >rd's with nie." Uncle Tom looked at his watch. "$Well, I will. I shouldn't liko to i Dep Aura waiting, though." I "There is no need to," Frank answer- s 1. And they started off,. every bit of a rank's determination and tact kept con- a nuously on the alert to prevent the old 3 *intleman froin discussing Miss Vane. 11 However, by violent effort lie succeed 1 till they reached Blandford's, where (I i obliging shopman gave them seats, id begged theni to ivait Only one me- f ent, as they were so very busy just ion. And Frank and Uncle Tom sat down id waited, close by them being a tall enetian Hcreon, which neither partiu ,rly nouce un 1i, mn ab u yet, Uluiry stinet voice, they heard N, sentence or > that startled them.. "How- will that do, Miss Vano? I %ve applied nearly an entire bottle of. io enamel; but, pardon me, the hollows id wrinkles are so deep that it is-al*most apossiblo to obliterate them." "It -will have to do, I suppose. Fortu- 1 itely 'all my new costumes havo longer t coves than the old ones. Now, if you i ill make haste with my hair, I will r ear the. 'perfection' to-night, I think. t nd, oh I please remember the touch of i Encil on my eyebrows. They are -get- i ug so horribly thin and pale I" . Beyond doubt of mortal comprohon- 1 on it was Aura Vane's voice, and Frank 3 Itually pitied th look that was enl the ldt gentlemain's fa. And thon-no one in'all the world ever I new how much an linlieard of, awvkward i itastropho happened- -except Uncle 'J 'om, whose foot reached out and I mnched the door--the door in the screen< ow open, and revealed to both gentle- < men the startling sight of a woman with head almost as bare of hair as a pump- 1 i-only the nierest wisp of gray hair, wirled.in a little pig-tail on the crownii --and on the dressing-table besido her a Ofap of soft, rippling tresses, anid a ottle of belladonna, and of enamel, and arious sponges and b~rulshes, aiid other araiphornialia. T1here was a shriek of horror from the ald-foreheaded lady, a series of "Ohi-o -c-li's I" and then-it all seemied ini less hman a minuto--thme attondant threwv a hmawl over Miss Vane's pate. Uncle 20 gave a groan of utter horror as lie ~of upi and took Frank's arm. "'I am going home," lie said torsely. 'I've seen oniough. What an escape I ['o think-to think I was so near marry ng-that" I think the story is told. Miss Aura (ane didl not secure her rich husband. knd the baby's niame was iiot exactly ~hanged, lbut Lottie inserted "'Roland" or his middle name, anid ais once in a while they call him, in jest, of course, 'IT. Roland," I shouldn't wonder if, mfter all, the little fellow has his pretty! ne aiid the fortune too. More cornfIwone(rs. Colonel Stephenson, of the United states geograp~hical survey, has -turnied unrthier page in the long-sealed volume f Andricani antiquities. A large village >f d'liff dwellers has been discoveredl bo [weeni thle J'omei 'aomntains and the Rio Grande river, in New Mexico. The iliffs rise to a heiget of from fifty to flye hiunate6d feet. -Somoc of them contain two, Aome three and others as many as Ihe linesm of 'dwellings, rising line above line, andi, baQJ( toward the mountain, tieir abovo-tier. Tholi houses cii the top of the cliff in thep abantioned city are cirdul&r; being t'en or fifteen foot in sliinotol', With arched roofs. Within tlke oicavatiis 'are numerous small r~ots. BeoforQ each line of 'dwelling, there appelid -to hato been paomonits sometimes four'-o fivd 'foet in width. !on the broadest of which Colon'el Stephbin son found imprints of feet. Many pic tures and hieroglyphics adorn the face of timn rook. Gough and the Harber. The first day of my first visit to Eng. 1 land I was in Liverpool. I had spoken I the evening before, and was to give my I farewell speech that evening. In the n course of the day I went into a barber's ia shop. While the "professor of tonsure," A tas I saw announced the other day, was a pracicing on my hair, he began to t ipeak of the plentiful harvest in Aneri- jj L'a. I said: 11 "I sail for America to-morrow." "Ali, indeed, air I You will have as a b Eelow-passenger John B. Gough." f4 "Does he stail to-morrow ?" 1 "Yes; and I have a ticket to hear him t] ,)--night.' "Have you heard him lecturo?" 0 "No, sir: have you?" a ''Yes." "How do you like him ?" "I do not think much of him ?" 'Then you are not a teetotaler ?" a "Yes, I am." U "I wonder you do not like Mr. 1 .4ough." 13 "I said I did not think much of him, 11 iot that I did not like him." 0 "Ah, that's.very much the same thing I ci Yhat sort of an appearing person is lie?" I "A very ordinary-looking person." V, "It is plain to see you do not like b kim. What might be his size, sir ?" "About my size, I judge." "Have you heard him more than nce ?" "Yes, many times." "I beg your pardon, sir, but do you Is :now him ?" a "Tolerably well." "Shall you hear him speak this even ug ?"0 "Yes, I expect to do so." "Did you hear him last evening ?" "Yes." "I have been quite desirous of hear ag him, and I have secured my ticket. )oes you'r air suit you, sir? Shall I put ome hoil on it ?" "No, thank you, it will do very well; nd you will have an opportunity to T tudy your work on the platform. for ou have been cutting Mr. Gough's air." "Bless my soul, sir I I beg your par- b on, I 'ope I 'ave not said anything b1 m'r'mg, or been in hanny way disrespect -'Oh, no; on the contrary," you have d cen quite complimentary." "So you are Mr. Gough. I shall 'ear on to-night. Enory, sweep up all this in ir and take care of it. Good-bye, sir. I 5AaI'vo 'ad the oyortunity and " A Wonderful Window. The stained glass windows so much n sod in churches, and representing flow fr rs, or foliage, or pictures from the f criptures, are usually made of colored lass put together in lead sashes and minted. The glass gives the color, awd w lie painting gives the drawing and shiad-- a ug. Some of our native artists have eontly tried to make improvements in his beautiful art, and now the most del- it ,ate and complicated pictures are made b a this country entirely out of glass and rithout the use of paint. To under- t1 tand this some account of a wonderful C (indow made in New York may be iven. It is for . a church, and is in thren arts, and represents a view of the sea at a unset as if seen through the window. .'hree curtainis are represented as if aniging up before the wiuidow. The enter curtain has fallen down, but those a n the side shut out the view save at the" 01), where the .rosy sky and the clouds nay be seen. The, colors of the curtains are madc by ~ ho bits of colored glass, and the figured ' >atterni is marked by the leads or sash. Ii Lt the bottom is a heavy friezestudded 0 vith precious stones. In the centre, where the curtain is 0 Lown, is the picture. In the foreground d ~ro flowvers in bloom. Then comes thme ~ a en with a distant hill and over it the ky with a white dove flying upwvard and a he silver bowed moon. All this is done i ni colored glass anid without any paint. r The water is a sheet of glass marked 13 with wavy lines or ripples; the flowers ire pieces of white glass stamped wvhen met in the shape of flowers, the clouds tre made of white or colored glass thai , .s of very uneven thickness. The light comes through the thin places, and is kept out or shaded, b)y blie thick parts,anid it is these differences in the thickness of the glass that make1 theo waves, the leaves, the fringes on the curtains, the clouds, amnd, in fact, the lights and shades of the picture. The. precious stones are bits of thick colored glass chipped and cut into diamondIs of many faces. Stand necar the window and it looks like a confused mass of glass of every degree of thickness. Stand at a distanco 1 when thme sun is shining on the window, and it is a wonderful and beautiful pie ture made without paint. This is the beginning of a now art, and it is thought that it will lead to still more remarkable windowsa in the future.1 The Rate of Women. ft still appearA to b)0 holieved in the wilder regions 6f Eastern Europe, that a man's wife is a marketable commnodity, o(vhich lie is at liberty to -dispose by sale whenever it may please him so to do. Thefothier daiy, at the ahinual fair of Papoea, a large village in the Eisen burg Comitat, two peasants from different hamlets in thme neighborhood had sat' drinking together, for ,some , hours, wvhen tihe wife of one of them-a remarkably pretty young woman-came! to the wineshon to look for lher lord and1 inster. The other ratic struck by her eauty, asked his felow-oper whether ,o would sell her te hin), and this the usband promptly agreed to do for the ioderate. price of one silver florin bout two shillings of English currency. Ls soon as the money had been paid, nd the contract ratified 'by a libation, hie purclasdr rose from his seat to take ossession of hi- beauteous bargain; ut, seeing that wiat she had until then igarded as a conival jest threatened to ecomie grim earnest, sho took to flight, >llowed by the cltiniant to her charms. 'wo gendarmes, however, appearing on ic scene, she appaled to them for pro -etion, and not in vain. Failing to btain delivery of his goods, the diK ppointed peasant demauded his florin ick, with another for interest, in which (juisition lie was stoutly sup)orted by number of his fellow-villagers, who, 1)on1 the husband's absoluto refusal to ay up, seized him and beat him sound F. Ho contrived, however, to cxtricate imself from their clutches, and made l at the top of his speed, but was mught by the peasant whose money lie rd pocketed. Turning uponI his arsuer, lie drew a hatchet from his Alt, and with one savage blow split the ifortunate man's head in twain, killing imi upon the spot. Sinx G ravo,. The smartest Texan, atid in f!et. the nartest farmer, I ever met: says Eli erkins, is old Sim Graves who lives on 1.000 acre farm west of Waxahatehie, Central Texas. Aftdr Mr. Graves had iown me his cattle and cotton, 10 took c over to his woods. "Woll, what of it?" I said, as lie >intcd to a ton-acre forost. "'What of it?" Why, them's black alnuts, sir. Ten acres of 'em. Plant I 'em myself ten years ago. See, they're ne inches through. Good trees, el ?" And sure enough there were ten acres hand-planted blac-walnut trees. hey stood about twelve feet apart, 200 the acro-in all 2,000 trees. "Well, how (10 you get your money ick ?" I asked. "Black-wahints are worth -$2.50 a shel, ain't they ? I'll get 400 bushels is year. That's $1,000. A hundred >llars an acre is a good rent for land orth $15 an acre, 'aint it ?" "Well, what else ?" I inquired, grow g interested. "The trees," continued Mr. Graves. e g9y.i.1 an inch a -y wil-;io noteen inches through. A black-wal it tree nineteen inches through is orth $25. My 2,000 trees ten years om now will be worth $50,000. If I mU't want to cut them all, I can cut ilf of them, and then raise a buahel of alnuts to the tree-that is, get $2,500 year for the crop. Two hundred and ty dollars an acre is a fair rent for $15 nd, ain't it ?" The more I examine into the possibil ies and probabilities of ten acres of ack-walnut trees, the more astounded become. There -is no crop on earth iat will conic within fifty miles of it. alculate it any way you may, ten acres black-walnut trees will pay $250 an ally an acre for the forty years. Ten 3res of black..walnut trees fifty years .d, be worth* $100,000. There is no uiit that will pay $250 a bushel, the arket prico of black-walnuts. Ten 3res of black-walnut trees, at any age, ould always finid a miarket, like a masr he quarry or cool wine. It conkl( al ays be sold. Mr. Graves says he hias ever seen a time since his black-walnut >rst was two years old1 thathle couhin't ave sold it for more than as many crops wheat. Now, aniy farmer whou has ten acres ol verflow land on the Illinois Bottom cn o just what this smart Texan has done. [e can make it worth more than toul eres ini the suburbs of Chicago insidc( f ten yearsi. Any Chicago man can buy fty acres of low, black prairie within fty miles of Chicago at $25 an acre, lant it to a black-walnut, and make ii ay him $15,000) a year. Softening of the Bain. Thllere was a man itting in one of tht aratoga hotel ofice chairs 0on0 nighi ist sunmmer apparently asleep, whaiel: ras5 doubtless the reason a coup~le o; lerks b)ehind the counter began to con erse confidentially. ''I '5pose you 'vi iear~t the 'boss new rulle ?" inquired th< ashier of the room-clerk. ''You meam hat we are not to charge guests al hey've got hereafter ?" ''Exactly. Thi lea of allowing boarders to leave wvil ,t least tenl dollars in their p)ockets Thy, the old man must be getting th oftenling ofstheu brain. At Long Branch mid Newport thley unlderstandl the hote miniless better. If a guest gets awa; vith his life and baggage, lhe consiider iimself in big luck I can tell youl. 'Wecll, the Governor explainedl his ide 0 me," hie said thoughtfully, "'and nust say it sounds reasonable, Hie say hat when you clean out a man comn >letely lhe generally takes to drinkini md brings up in the poorhouse, and il hat way a cuhstomer is lost. By leavini em just a little corn for seed, as it were hey have a chance to get started agai md ready 'for a new assessment, so t peak." '-May lbe something in it, bu --s-lh." For the guest in thle chai typomaled to groan anid shiver in hi mleep, and for ftear lie should wake ui blh4 clerks (lexterously turned the convei lation to the subject of a boarder wh tiad that (lay clhoked to death oni a hiail in in the hash. "To lie Shut tit Six." A terrible example has been made in Tunis. One of the special correspond- w ents attached to the expedition now in il the field against the Khrounirs was 81 Camille Farcy, well known as a brilliant A writer. He had long been connected rf with La France, one of the leading tl journals. The army which he was do tailed to accompany was that of General Forgeiol. This officer is a martinet, and entertains the most rigid ideas re- p garding discipline. Before the expedi- m tion left Algiers, he, in codjunction with ti General Vincendon, concocted the fol lowing pledge, which ill the journalists p were obliged to sign: "1 , --- ---, promnise upon muy honor to tranmlit no infornuation witatiever, either by tele grapit or by mailt, or by any other niesu, without In lirt. having tubinititel ny inatntiscript to the ex- el atinnatioii of the officer cointimatlinsg the exiivill- at tion, or I o uch oli cer or officers as he muay d 'elegate that power to. I further agree that tiny faiulure to f keel, this pleige will expose inc to tite rigora of eI uartlial laiw. (Sigied) ---. - . 1 This doctimient. was signed by aill the correspondeits attached to the expedi- c< tion. When Farcy's turn caine, he took I. the pen, but it was with evident reluc tance that he signed. When he had tl done no, lie turned to Forgemol and n said : "General, I sign this document only ti because I an forced to do so ; because c' without doing so I could not fulfil my ih( duty as a correspondent ; because with- TY out doing so I could not accompany the expedition. But I warn you, sir, that I a shall speak the truth, the whole truth, antd nothiig but the truth, touchiig tl such matters as may come under my T observation." And with a defiant glaine thi at the General, Camille withdrew. el, The old general gnawed his grizzled tih nmistache to conceal his wrath. He did Va what perhiaps most men wouldL have done-he set- a spy to dog the footsteps of Farcy. The expedient was successful. Two ro evenings after, the spy detected the is journalist, under disigise, quitting the U camp. He followed, and saw him de- M posit a large envelope in one of the 0N minor post-offices upon the Algerian thi frontier. He was at once arrested, se and conducted to Forgemol's head- thi quarters. "Aha!" said the general, "at it al- I ready, my fine fellow. Well, what have a we here ?" and he sized and broke open st the envelope. "'Hum-addressed to La France. Evidently sone correslpond- <v jA1 e uwere sen'ding without "'Yes, general," said Farcy, cahnly. "Let us see what it is," said Forgemol, 1 as he began to peruse the letter. "General," said Farcy, coldly, "per i mit me to remind you that you are h violating private correspondence." a "Private correspondence I Bah I" retorted Forgemol. "1 Very pri ito, Ac indeed ; all Paris would know it ii an other dity," and he resumed his read- l ing. li There were some tsevere strictures in l the letter upon the conduct of the cam- a paign. Forgemol's reading was inter- d rupted by oaths, and when he fluished " he was purple with wrath. ci "So," said he grimly, "you consider VI yourself competent to judge of the IT operations of a general in the field, do jt you ? WVell, sir, you shall have a taste ri of martial law to addl to your knowledge w oif military affaiirs."'' Farecy tisliiwd to defeind himself. A court-martial w~as imimed iately convenmed. Its pro'(ceedinigs were sumaraty -its semi tencee short: "C' amille Flarey is eon- ha demined to lbe shtot at six ini the morn- 01 ing." '' It was thmen midmghit. Th'le doomied a nman was placedi in charge of a lieuteiiantt tl aind a squad of soldier's, p)ut upon01 a special train, and he was bornte swviftly g. to the caipitail city, Algiers, where the ('eeutioni wats to take place..li At halt-past. live o'clock the train t dashed into the city. It piassed under the walls oif the palace where Allbiert Grevy, the goivernior-genieral, lives in lighted, and the strains of a wvaltz were borne to the ears of the prisoner. The'lc govenior wits givinig a 1ball.1 '"You have half an hour in which to 5 prepare for death,'' said thte lieutenant,h comp~iassionately ; "' would you like to have mec send for a priest ?" " 'I sutppose,"' sid Farey, ."' you will grant my last requemst ?" ''Yes.'' I'"Thien let mne go to the ball. I would a like to have a waltz biefore I die." The omfcer ho0wed, and repairedh to 11 Monsieur Girevy's palace. I* "'His request shall be granted," said the president's hrother. "'Who could refuse a dyiing man's request ? Bring him here ; he shall dancte with mtyi daughter." And it was donte. The11 last moments C of his life were sp)ent upon a ball-room' At~' six o'cloick the offcer spoke: '"Thle file is waiting,'' said lie. "Let us go," said Farey. Ho saluted the dancers, and withidrew. When he reached the ground where the file was awaiting him, he refused to allow hisI eyes to be hanidaged, and demndetd per'missiomn to give the wordl of coin ) mand.a t "May all journalists do as I havei r (lone," said lhe; "' it is their duty." Then, folding his arms, he cried: ''Fire I" The crash of the muskets rang out Qnt the morniing air. Caille Farey fell o dead, pierced with b~al. t -. The vengeance of General Forgemol was accomplished. Strategy of the Weasel. W. The remarkabie sagacity of the weasel us well illustrated the other day by an cident which actually occurred in the iburbs of Santa Barbara, California. gentleman's barn was infested with ta, and lie was greatly annoyed by eir depredations. They have been adually disappearing, however, during 0 liast few, weeks. The gentleman ially discovered the cause of their -obale disappearance in a very wide vake weasel, which was engaged at the nemin a vigorous combat with an un mually large-sized rat. The latter oved too much for his adversary, and tally ch1ased his weaselship out of the in. A few mornings later ,the gentle an again found the same141 animals gaged in a similar battle. The weasel last ran away as before, and the rat Rowed in hot pursuit. This time how er, the weasel ran into a hole it had trrowed through a pile of hardened mnpost. This hole was quite large at o entrance, but the outlet was scarce largo enough to admit the passage of e weasol's body. The weasel darted to the hole, with the rat at its'heels. moment later the weasel emerged from e other side, ran quickly around the mlpost pile, and again entered the >le, this time in the enemy's rear. 1o gentleman, interested in the pro edings, watched the place some time, A found that only the weasel caimo t. Digging into tho compost he found o rat quito dead, and partly oiton. mn weasel had arranged his trap so at. the rat (ould enter, but becom1ing >sely wedged in the narrow portion of e hole, could be attacked at a disaid ntage aind easily killed. -rhe K(angaerou. Lamb like as is the face of the kanga-I c, tender and soft as are his eyes, he by no means so gentle as lie looks. ke the heathen Chtinee, his counte nec belies himand there are few more citing and withal dangerous sports an kangaroo chasing. To the liuter [king for some new sensation a visit to e wilds of Australia in search of kan roos can be recommended.. It requires leot horse to run an "old man" down he gets a fair chance toshow tail; and :ong, well trained dogs to tackle him ten brought to bay. Inside his 'soft, wy lips aro strong formidal teeth, NJ-1t9u~rex im hweqpomyp. the air and crush him to death; whilo ien lying down,. his favorite fighting titude, lie can kick with his powerful ud legs in a manner that rapidly clears Arcle round him; and woo. betide the in or dog that comes within recwlh,)i os huge claws, which can make .t Ah wound deep enough to maim the e and kill the other. Of course we rec speak of the great kangaroo, tho >omner'or old nut of the colonista. As mimatter of fact, there aro sonic thirty flerent kinds of kangaroos inhabiting riouts parts of Australia, and one spo ps peciliar to New Guinoa. They .ry in size, from the tiny haro kanga o of South Australia, the most agile of kind, which is but little larger than a bhit, t the several gianit species, tieth er blacok, red, brown or, gray,somie which stanid nearly six feet haigh. IDr. Sim. ''You see," observed Dr. Slim, as lie mnged the patient across the back of .0 neck with a club, ''you see plainly, mitlemont, that there is nto organic dif umty. T1hie functions are natural and is is a plain case of hysteria." "'I dlon't know about that," sid D)r. .eut, kicking the woman a fearful kick ader the car. ''She may not nianifost bct there . is certainly sensation "'If you lation,"' chirped in Dr. Green, 'oppling a hod full of bricks on the sub ct's head, ''she doe.. not act as though to were conscious, thonga. that may re alt aus much from hysteria as tTom spin dleralngemfenit." "This test," remarked Dri. Sapp,-as he ,arted ai chatrcoal fire oni the wo~mani's end, '"has been found infallible. If nder this treatment she kicks, it is hy eria. If she don't kick, we find that ten mor'e potent tests must be appli 1." "Ini that case my 9ystem is the one to inploy," said D~r. Fist, running a .light ing rod through theo patient. "^Under s treatment we invariably arrive at asults."' "'I am not sure but what we will'have > resort to the heroic remedies," sug ested D~r. Gruel, emptying ai gallon of itriol down the. woman's throat.''.These dIid tests d'i not appear' to conduce to ronolusions."' '"Have you nioticed aniy peculiar symyi tims ?'' asked the faculty in co rus of lie weeping husband. "Only-one-gentlemen," sob~bed the pouse. "What wvas that ?" "She-died abogt-twonty-fuer honrs -ago" . " And the qhestion now. is Whether she ied of hysteria oi' spine,'With a pinepionJ Lorance of evideoncy'ubdn't 1li sides.' They who forgive most. shel o most orgiven. . -t '.. Lived hl-.hoW loug om<ho % perin it o heav'en.' " .* - -*~, Sin may he clasped so close we cannot cn its lace. ' FOOD F01b THOUG'iT. The height of m ianness is to eoxlt in its sfuccess. The duty of religionl ilows rom a spirit of religion.. Happiness is just as Chea) a conmo rlity as misery. The greatest rogues complain most of Ibeing slandered. Children havo more nced of modols than of critics. .S It costs more to avenge wrongs than Lo bear them. Fortune doe,not change men, it only tlimaSk them. Virtue offends itself when coupled with rorbidding manners. An obstinate main does not hold opin is, they hold him. -.).-.0 A court without- ladies would )e a year without a spring. What maintains one vice, Would bring itp two children. Want of care does us more damuage han want of knowledge. Religion is the best armor in the bvorld, but the worst cloak. Remembrance is the only paradise out >f which we cannot be driven. If slander be a snake it is a winged )me; it flies as well as it creeps. Frowirs blight young children as rosty ighta blight young planta. The norality of domestic life is the very corner stone ,of civilization. .ro twit a muan of his faults, is to ex. [lowe i greater failt of our own. Half the ills we hoard in our hearta iro ills because we hoard them. A man of integrity will never listen to my reitaon against conscience. People never attiek religion but when :hey have an interest 'to attack it. Grief ennolles. lie who lias not m1ilrered cali nevei have thought it. To break a bad habit requires'moro flort than to contract a good one. At a great poimvyworth pause awhile; nany are ruined by buying bargains. For want of a nail the shoe was lost. or want of a shoo the horsewaa lost. ' There are m1en whose friends are more o he pitied than their worst eneinies. Many objects appear of 'value to us mly while they are beyond our reach. Many a man has measured his farm in i glass goblet, and found room to Apare. Gold is in its last 'analysis, thii.sweat A the poor, and the blood 'of the biavo. We carry our neighbor's crimes in uight, but ttirow our own over our Shoul lers. All real life is cheerful, nudl the.only proper place tor croakors is the grave yard. - - A weak man 'will say 1mor.' thum lie It costs more to avenge than to for (ive. Extraordinary virthes are defamed by those who want the courage to, initato them. Let tho slanderer take comfort it is miily at fruit trees that thieves throw 4toniem. If you would never have an ell'deed poken of ill connection -with you don't lo olle. It often happens that those whom we ipeak least o( on earth are best kiiown in heaven. Lif'e is not so shrt but that there is lways time enough for cburtesy. Self cIommnanid is the main elegalcoe. . Blessed is lie who gives to' the poor, rIlbeit oii!y a penny ; dopbly .hlessed he le wvho addls kind words to his gift.* Bad temper is its OWnr scourgo. Few thigs are. bitterer than to feel bitter. A mail's venom poisois, hijnmilf .mnore than his victim. TIhe cheerfIUl arrf usually" thie huay. When trouble ku, dks at yotir dobr, or rings -the bell, lhe will generally retire if you 50end him wvord you are ,engaged. Whenever you find a ,poor man who is truly, grateful for tlie pittance you give him, you may he sure thet he would himself be generdmu-if lie hadl money to give. - Tihere is only now anid' then~ iml oppor tutnity of displaying great courage, or eveu great wisdom ; but ory hour in the day off'ers a chango to shiow our goodl nature. All tio good things of this World are no further good to us than as they are of use; and whatever we mayi heap 'up to give to Others, we enjoy only as much as we can 11se, and nio more.1 . A swimnier beer'ues strong to ati the tide only by frequenitly breasting, te big waves. TIf yoY pi'actide alwitys in 'shallow water, your heart will' assur'edly'fail in the hour of high flood. ~ To~ think we are .ahle is almost to be so---to) deterin~e upon attainent is frequently attainment itselC. Thus ear nest resolution has of ten seemied to have about it almnost a 'savor of omunipo tence. We canadai~ly manage if we will only taike each (lay the hurdeii appol~inted for it. -Aut the load will be too heavy for ns if wve add to its wp~'ighit the, burden of to-mnorroyv beforeo.we are .called to bear it. Somel clocks do not Htrikd. Yoi must look at them if yo'n would'kmow' the time. But a clock he'ed, not' heu:hto~f'i~t be eiause it attikes; a man nreed'notehe in consistent becauseO hje sp.eake 4gflell as The Tman whlo can d? ali hn eiluly ye is nrer , rtgii w11pr it is a fpmtflah er anV u1hfortiM circum statice 'irf 1i& life. V'ristility, Idie re inemibora,: may, preent coteentration, (ind LIhrs scatter .the .torea~ of~jjfq. If yi .desire 4tQeinj1y liZe, 'avoid upun pe , iic buai hensa 1 gn a~utg a our litlslieotbih .Sheh aIbit abnres al~i0mere11Ahiolivik 'essentlal tobhappi.. homage to genius, however bright, when it is deteatable.