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-__E .Y EDITION. WINN.S... . mS. ..Um.. TI-ELYEDITION. WINNSBORO, S. (J., AUGUST 18, 1881. 'ESTABLISHED 1865. WIDE-AWAkE AND FART-ASLEEP. A bright summer day caneo out of the east, And a dear little lad was he, His lips were red from a strawberry feast, And his eyes were blue as the sea. His yellow hair was blown by the breeze, Like grass in a windy place, He had torn his jacket in climbing trees And he laughed all over his face. lie danced in the elm, on the leafy spray Whore the nest of the bluebird swings, Till the birdies had winked.the sleep away, All under their painted wings. He shook the stem of the lilies tall, While they nodded in high surprise, And rubbed, with their flugers white and small, The dreams from their golden eyes. The daisy hurried to wash her face In a drop of the silver dow, And every leaf in its lofty place * The kiss of the sunshine kn0w. The squirrel chattered and combed his tall, That curls up over his spine; And each red clover turned almost palo When thle village clock stiuok nine. For two little boys, in two little beds, Lay sleeping the morning long, Though the sun shone in on their tangled heads And the birds had ended their song. "Oh, dear, oh, dear " said the summer day, * What sleepy small boyp I see 1. I wish, I wish they would wake and play With a bright little day like me." t THAT LITTLE FRIGHT. "For my part," said Harry Sinton, "I'm not particular; a good little heart, fair sense and a sweet temper; after that, 'her hair shall be what color heaven pleases.' Not that I am afraid of beauty-I like a pretty girl as well as C anyone-but I don't insist on it as some thing I am entitled to." The elegant Bert Dean smiled a smile I of contempt. "My good fellow," said lie, "your I powers of comparison must be very limited if you propose exchanging your thousand bachelor privileges for such a I trifling consideration." " Well, what do you want? Let us C hear." "I don't know that I want anything; i I am very well contented as I am." 8 "But what would induce you to be- I come a Benedict ?" I "Let me see.; I don't wish to be un- I reasonable. Beauty is, of course, the t first requisite; wouldn't look at an heiress without it. Mere beauty, how ever, is a very slight matter. I must t not be afraid of my wife's opening her t lips. Of course she must sing, speak several languages. Given all these, and a suitable income-say twelve to fifteen t thousand a year-and I might think of it then." "What, nothing more ?" asked the other, ironically, "I am afraid you go too cheap." "Bert Dean," said Harry, solemnly, "you are a conceited fop I A good looking one, I admit, and not originally destitute of brains; but eaten up, de voured by inordinate vanity; and I firmly expect to see you knocked down, some day, to a girl with red'ringlets." Bert Dean shrugged his shoulders. "May will expect me early," he said, and retired to his dressing-room. He emerged from it an hour or so later, in the most scrupulously exquisite condition. He had some excuse for making extravagant demands about a wife. His Cousin May, called him when all things were considered the first young man in society, and wvas casting her eyes around for .a suitable match for him. When lie entered her well-lighted rooms, they were already quite full. He made a tour of the apartments, bestow ing a little-languid notice on two or three1 favored ones, and presently subsided into a chat with Mrs. Miller. This lady was neither very young nor particularly pretty, but he liked to talk to her, and so lie remained at her side. "Mr. Dean," sho said, when half an hour or more had elapsed, "I am afraid the young ladies will hardly forgive me for absorbing your attention so long. Seo-there is a young lady quite alone ; pray go and make yourself charming." Bert turned his head. "What I" lie exclaimed, ' "That little fright ? Mrs. Miller, do be merciful!" But Mrs. Miller did not smile. "I bog your pardon," he said, p~olitely. "It was very wrong to speak as I did." "It was indeed. I am afraid she heard you, too." "That is not possible I" he said, with real mortification. Mrs. Miller relented at the sight of his vexed countenance. "The only atonement you can off'er," she said, "is to seek an introduction and make yourself as agreeable as you can. Perhaps she will forgive you, or think she did not hear arighmt." "Must I? Will you pardon me on no other terms ?" "Certainly not. When I see the young lady smiling upon you you shlall be restored to my esteom, and not till then." "Cruel1 I but I amn obedient. And ho1 wvent in search of an introduction. Mr. Sinton chanced to be near at hand, and opened his eyes slightly when he' learned his friend's desire. "Know her ?" he said. "Of course I do! Prophesied concerninlg her hefore we came, red ringlets and all. Didn't think, though, that your fate would be, dlown on you so soon," "Nonsense I Sinton, pray be serious." "Because it is such a serious matter with you.? Very thing I was saying ; how un~reasonlable you ai'e I But comei were presently exchanging opinions on lhe staplq party-going topics. To do Bert justico, lie sincerely ro gretted his thoughtless exclamation. Ue was igngentlemanly, he know, and he jad, besides so great a horror of female igliness as to regard all subjects to it with a painful compassion. The dread lhat Miss Pierce had overheard his ro nark gave him just that sting of self reproach that one would feel had lie illuded to the infirmity of a deformed merson in his presence. He determined * be so agreeable and deferential that ihe should imagine her ears had do seived her. Conversation progressed very pleas intly between the two. "Nice girl to talk to," Mr. Dean lecided. "Sweet voice, no giggle, no freotation." Just as he made this reflection, he on .ountered the eyes of Harry Sinton, and ancied he saw in them satirical amuse nent. Awakened by this glance to the onviction that lie was making himself he subject of mirth, he sought the side >f an acknowledged bello, and saw no nore of Irene Pierce until dancing >egan. She was standing opposite him, in a et where the fashionable Miss -Bently vas his partner. This young lady was obsidored a very elegant personage. he wore a Paris dress, and the costliest ornaments of any one in the room. Bert )ean's glance rested with satisfaction on Irono Pierce. Her face, undeniably >retty, her dress was a stranger to Paris, nd had, perhaps, been made at home; ut it was accompanied by a smooth vhito neck and'a pair of rounded arms. Ls Bert made these comments, and istened dissatisfied to his companion's ommon-place remarks, lie decided to angago his vis-a-vis for the next set. Io found himself repaid for his daring, or Irene Pierce could speak of her own ox without malice. Her conversation vas intelligent, which assured him she vas familiar with the best books, and ker choice language pleased him. All his he discovered in the pauses of the lance, and she pleased him so well that ie lingered at her side rather longer han mere politeness demanded when he set was over. On his homeward way, in company vith his friend Sinton, he had encoun cred some raillery. He announced iimself to have found in Miss Pierce the nost agreeable girl he had found in a ong time, truly ladylike and intelligent. "You can't deny that her hair is red," aughed Harry. "Certainly not ; but it was tastefully rranged," The next day, in the afternoon, found 3ert Dean standing on the steps of the ionso which bblonged to Miss Pierce's ather. He did not tell his friend that 10 had asked permission to call, but he lid. - He found Mrs. Pierce and her laughter sitting together in the back )arlor, with their work. Irene was >raiding a sacque for her little s.istcr; md hor mother employed on something nore practical. She had not been well chooled, as the idea' that she was to eave the room did not occur to her. :rone did not look as plain as she had lone last night, as her animated conver ation dazzled him. There was an bffectionato confidence between mother rnd daughter that lhe had not met in the >est society, and lhe found it, or some hing 01se, so pleasant that lie largely mtstayed the limits of a fashionable all. "I had better not call again," he bought as lie wvent home ; "but what a lelightful companion she would be 1" A week or two went by, and Bert idhored to his new resolution of not alling, but was unable to prevent him eolf from watching for her. "May," lhe asked carelessly of his sousin, one evening, "who are those Pierces ?"' "Old friends of mine," she answered ; "exellent, substantial people ; but why lo you ask ?" "I have met them but here, and that s the last time I have heard of thorm," me said. "Mrs. Pierce thinks home is the best lace for girls, so she does not go out nuch." If Irene Pierce went out so little, there was scarcely a chance that they should noot except at her own house, And did mo really care enough about the ac luaintance-was it valuable enough for him to take trouble to seek it ? Probably these questions -were mnswored in the affirmative, as thme next lay brought him to Miss Pierce's door ; cior was that the only occasion on w/hich thie neighbors opposite hand the privilege >f seeing him.- Again and again he mmie, but, as time was going on, ho gecw strangely diffident. Drawn day y day to Irene's side, happy nowhere alse, lie could affirm even to himself that ihe was more to him than a friend. Phere had been a time that, to declare himself a lover, involved some sacrifices n his part ; it seemed strange now that me should be anxious to make snulh i sacrifice, yet dloubt, with anxiety whether Irene would care to accept it. Some weeks of isuspenso went by, and me could wait no longer. One bright lay, when favoring fate had lefta them a Ittle while alone, lie spoke-not very loquoutly, but still sufficiently cho *ently to make his ineaning plain. At this he grow a little more solf-pos sessed, and begged to know her reasons. She declined to state them. Ho per sisted; was there a previous attachment. She blushed more vividly, and said no such thing existed. Was there not some hop for him, then? Might' not her resolution be overcome? Might not these resolutions cease to exist? Oh, no - Her resolution was unalter able. Then lie urged an explanation, and insisted on it as his right. His suit was pushed with-ardor, and Irene's agitation proved that she was not insensible. But with a great offort she commanded her self. "I should be most unjust to you and to myself," said she, "could I allow a transient feeling to set aside my judg ment." "Transient I 0 Irene I" But she silenced him. "Could I allow myself to give you a wife whom everybody-you, most of all -must consider disagreeable ?" She hesitated a moment. "What'do you mean ?" cried Bert, in Imazement. "You cannot have forgotten our first meeting," she said, more coiposedly; "do not oblige me to repeat your words that evening." The room swam around Bert Dean. "That little fright 1" Oh i the sacrilego, the horror, of that speech! Could he have made it-an' about that angel? Overwhelmed with mortification, lie strove to explain, to say how entirely his feelings were altered. "Enough, sir," said Miss Pierce, with lignity. "Spare yourself the trouble of ipologizing; it is quite unnecessary, and )ltogether useless." And so she loft hii. Surely this was an awkward situation for a lover, particularly for Bert, who had contemplated arranging matrimonial affairs in such a quiet, well-bred way. He went home in despair. Could any woman-oven Irene, gentlest, dearest of momen-forgivo such an insult to her vanity ? If she could only seo his heart, and know hlow long lie had ceased to regard her as plain, in how many ways she was even beautiful to him I But to explain this to her-it was impossible I He could never obtain her pardon. And her lovo? That was too far and dear to dream of. Private life has its Napoleons, how ever. They rout impossibilities, and prove them to be the merest shams. A week from this dreadful day, Bort was sitting-very much at home-in the same parlor whence lie had withdrawn so ignominiously, and Irene looked at him in a way that.clearly showed that she had relinquished her "resolution, and sacrificed her judgment." --Scoot. A Dotroiter who had business in a vil lage in Washtonaw county, Michigan, drove out there in a buggy, and, of course, went to the inn for his dinner. The landlord made no inquiries until af ter, the meal hlad been eatbn and paid for, and then lie found opportunity to inquire : "Were you going out to 'Squire Brown's place?" "No" "I didn't know but you were a light niing' rod man and I was going to say that tile 'Squire has thlreatened to shoot tile next one on sight. We don't go much on them fellers around here, and I'm right glad that you are somebody else. Maybe you are going over to Judge Hardy's to sell him some iruit trees for fall setting ?" "No." "WVell, that's lucky. Only recently the Judge was remarking to mc that tihe next fruit tree agent who entered his gate would want a coffin. The fact is, I myself have got to do some pretty hard kicking to pay for being swindled on grape vines. You are not a p~atenlt right manl, eli?" "WVell, that's a narrow escape for you. We've been swindled here on hay forks, cultivators, gates, pumps, churns, and1 a dozen other things, and I'm keeping six teen dozen bad eggs for the next patent lighter who shows his face in this town. Perhaps you are a lecturer ?" ''Oh, no." "Weoll, youhlaven't lost anything. We never turn out very strong here to a lec turo. The last man who struck us lee tiured onl 'Our Currency,' but didn't take in enough of it to pay for his suppor. You arc not a book canvasser ?" "'No." "That's amc,ther escape. We've been laid out here so often that if an agent should offer to sell a $20 Bible for fifty cents, we'd suspect a trick to beat us. Strikes me now that you may he a lawyer ?" "Good 'nnfi. Last one who settled here had to leave town at midnight; and we don't want one any way ?" Say, what are you, any way? " "A politician," replied the Detroiter. "A politician I Then git I For heaven's sake, don't stand around hlere if you value your life ! We've just impeached our poundmaster for embezzling thme publiq money; and the excitement is so intense that the Democrato will ride you on a rail or the Republicans duck you in thle water trongh, Git up and s.oo I Artiflelal Refrigeration. The production of cold and oven ice by artificial means is now a necessity i1 many industrial procesies. According to the continental systemas of brewing, groat cold is required not only during the actual brewing process, but also foi months afterward while the beers are maturing in the cellars. In this coun try the natural production of ice is very uncertain, and some winters may pass without sufficiont being formed to be worth collection, and even when ice iN plentiful here we have no suitable ar rangements at hand for storing and pro. serving it for use in warmer weather. For these reasons many ingenious con trivances have been devised for the arti ficial production of ice, and it may nol be uninteresting to give some explana tion of the theories on which these ma chines are founded. When a volatile liquid evaporates, a large amount of heat is necessarily absorbed by the re sulting vapor, and is rendered latent or imperceptible to the senses and the thermometer. This heat is taken either froni some of the remaining liquid or else from the mQdium in which the liquid is in contact. The cold produced by evaporation is very evident with a volatile fluid like ether; when a little of this liquid is placed in the palm of the hand an intense feeling of cold is ob served; the other, in evaporating, must absorb heat, and therefore takes it from the nearest body, which is the hand,and thus produces a corresponding redaction of temperature. The evaporation of volatile liquids is greatly assisted by a reduction of pressure; and, thus, if P little other be placed in a shallow dishb floating on a thin layer of water,and thc whole be placed under the receiver of at air-pump, there is not much difficulty in freezing the water by a rapid exhaust ion of the air; in this case the vapor o j ether is renewed almost as fast as it ih formed, and fresh quantities of liquii other are thus volatilized. Tho variou ice-making and refrigerating machinem arc constructed so as to utilize this property possessed by all volatilo fluids. If the other he placed in a metallic ves sel exposing a large surface to water oi any other fluid which requires to b cooled, all the heat necessary for th< volatilization of the et ier must be takei from the water; the vlatilization of thc ether is assisted by mieans of an air pump, antd the ether vapor is then con. veyed through pipes to another vesse] also surrounded by cold water, wher< it gives up the same a-iount of heal again, and is thim converted back into r liquid In this way a comparatively small quantity of ether will cool or over freeze an indefinite quantity of water, and the whole of the ether can be con. densed again into the liquid state. In. stead of other, liquid ammonia, sul. phurous acid, or other very volatile sub. stances may be used, and a variety o complicated meohanical arrangemcnt aro introduced to assist in the volatili zation, condensation and preservatior of the volatile agent used. These ine chanical arrangements have been so fai perfected that even wanter itself has beer used as the evaporating agent, and ic4 has b~een suceessfully produced by suel means. Great cold and even ice has als< been produced by the expansion and eon traction of atmospheric air by machine: constructed on a similar principle t< those we have just referred to. "Here's YouP I'as." He told the Superintendent he wantot a pass to Chicago. "Ahm, you're a worthy citizen who hai been robbed and whlio wants to get home, said the Superintendent. "I see sucl every day" "No air, I'm not," said the petitioner "You're dying of a wound received ii the war, maybe, and want to see hem once mor'e." "Nary a wound; I played sick an4 stayed in the hospital while in th army." "Did, oh ? Well maybe you've got child dying you want to seeo?" "Not a bit of it." "Nowv, well I reckon I can guess you yarn pirotty soon. You once saved train on this read from being wrecked. ''No, I didn't." "'Well,what in thuneter is your excus for asking a pass5 ?" "Just this. I'm a beat andl a bum. want to got to Chicago and don't wan to hoof it. I conmo to ask a pass on eca cheek." "Well, bless your impudence, I lik it. Here'a your pass." A Hallway Tiunnel tharough a Volcano. The rocks which constitute the south orn island of New Zealand are for th greatest part of the archaic type, con sisting p)rincipally of gnoiss, granitc mica-schist, phyllito, quartzite, andl fe] sitic rocks. They are partly covered b; pahocozoic strata, whiclh are folded u) into innumerable troughs and saddle backs throughout the province of Caun terbury, and which partly belong to th< carboniferous p~eriod, so that there ar p)rospects for a future discovery of cot beds. By far the greatest interesi however, is offered by the extensive vol canic phenomena of the island, an< among thoen the extinct volcanoes upo: the Banks peninsula, east of the tow> 'cf Christnhureh are prominent, !Fh peninsula, now only connected by band of low and recent deposits with the main land, was once a complete island, only formed by volcanoes,which roso up fron the bottom of the sea. The special con struction of such an extinct volcaW hal been made visible by a tunnel of 2,62( meters' length upon the railway betweer Christchurch and Littleton which hai pierced through the walls of a volcani< cone and thus has laid bare its structur< of successive streams of lava and bedf of scorito, ashes, and tufe, which ar< again intersected by dikes of youngoi volcanic rocks. This is perhaps th< first volcano through which a railway has ben constructed. Another peculiarity of New Zealand is the extremely frequent occurrence ol bones of those largo wingless birds which by the aborigines were called "imoa," and which belong to the family of the Dinornithidw, of whom the larg est representative has reached the con siderable height of ten and a half foot the largest deposits of these bones wer found in the Point cavern and th< marshes of Gronmark. There is now n< doubt that those gigantic birds wer< contemporaneous with man, and that at early human race were mnaa hunters in these islands, who lived upon the flesl of these birds at a time when the glacier extended still very much below theil prcsont boundaries, for bonos,tools, ani other romnants of these early ioa hun ters are frequently met intorininglei with bones of the now extinct Dinor nithidro. Patches of Red Soaow. Prospectors returning from the Holy Cross country, Colorado, and especially from the head of Cross Creek, repor that the ground is covered with rei snow. In the almost inaccessible defile. of Mount Shasta, in California, is t.hl( only other known place in the United States where this is seen. In Polar ro gions it is a familiar sight, and no ex tonsive traveler there returns without r description of it. The broad fields o everlasting snow that flank the northeri coast of Greenland are flaked with th< strange red blood, and further towar< the poles miles of it stretch as far as tha naked eye can reach. The phenomeni is due to the presence of minute ree anamalcuho in the snow. A microscop, detects its presence, but how it go there is a difficult queslion. and on( that has never been quito satisfactori; answered. The red snow in this regioi is first seen at the head of Cross Creek where it may be observod in patches o intenso carmine, varying in area from a large as a muan's hat to twenty feet i1 diamnter. Taken in the hand and closol examined, nothing can be detected tha gives it color, and it molts into clear re water, leaving no stain. Further on, il some of the steel) gulches with whic the country abounds, the bottois ar entirely covered with the strange sub stance. In soie places the color is vivii in the extreme, whilo in others it fade to a faint pink, producing an effect no readily described in words. Old pros pectors, who p~enetrated the region tw< years ago, say that thiere was no anoi of this description there, and its fall cai scarcely hlave antedated this year. Stil higher, and at the very foot of th mountain, the red snow disappears ani nothing save the pure white coverle greets the eye. How the same tiny iit sects that Hent the Bloreal can find thoi way to the-inaccessiblo Holy Cross, is thing beyond human ken, and wvill be problem for the scientists of the futur to p~onder over. A Remtarkable Counterfeit. Thle counterfeit twenty-dollar silv< certificate, pen made, recently receive by tile secrot service of the treasury, hai been examined by very many export. and is considered a remarkable picce ( penmanship. There are many defeci in the note, but the most interesting r< lates to thle manner in which the secr< Sservice ofice came to suspect tihe prob. ble designer. Shortly after the unol was discovered by thle treasury depari r mont it was discovered that the wordiri a, on the back was grossly defective in tli 'manner of spelling. For instance tl: word "customs" was spelled "costumes, y and the word ''tender" was spelle "tendre." This gave rise to the boli. [ that the counterfeit was executed by t noted German forger who has figured i r some extent in thle West, and at times Cincinnati. His ponmanshlip, especial) in the execution of counterfeib, bar noftes, has on more than one occasic attracted the attention of governmoim oflgers, and in each instance the wvoi -was marked by faulty spelling. Ti s, uspected forger was rep~orted to ha, -been in Cincinnati at the time the noi was received in the treastiry, and i -chief of the. serat service division; once telegraphed to an agenlt in th city to keep theo'man under survoillanc For several days nothing more was'heai of the matter. A special agent was sci to Cincinnati to look further into tI affair. This oficer, upon arriving: SCincinnati, discovered that the bird hr flown, and that the officer original] instructed to shadow him had been on 1protracted spree. ''"Pmsnoian, have you over been conPlctA S" No, yodr Honor; I have always am~ploya s first clan awerar.. h1oW to Live In Summer, Clothing must be considered, for it has much to do with our elasticity of movement. It is as yet a point of dis puto whether cotton stuffs are the best wear, many approving of light woolens. For women nothing is sweter in sum mor than a linen dress; it is a pity we do not patronize linen more for adults; for children, cottons; for workingmen, worsteds. The heavy suits of men are weighing them down in summer, and clothes of serge are far preferable to those of thick woolen cloth. Very thin silk is a cool wear. The heavily-laden skirts of women impede the free action of movement much, and should b sim plified as much as possible for summer. So also the headgear. Infants, if at all delicate, should not be allowed to go with bare feet; it often produces diarrhoa, and they should al ways wear a flannel band around the stomach. Another important matter is the changing of night and day linen among the poorer classes. It is terrible to think that a workingman should lie down in the shirt in which ho has per spired all day at his hot work. Let men accustom themselves to good washes every evening before they sit down to their meals, and to changes at night, tlt they may take up a dry shirt when going to their hard day's work. Frequent change of linen is abso lutely necessary-anyhow, a night and a day change, . This change alone would help to stay the mortality amoug the children, if accompanied with other healthy measures, such as sponging the body with a little salt and water. Where tenements are very close, wet shets placed against walls will aid to revivfy the air and absorb bad vapor in rooms. All children's hair should be cut short; boy's hair may be cropped and girls' hair so arranged by nets or plaits that air passes freely around the neck. Light head coverings are essential in summer, for the head must be kept cool. The most serviceablo dress is that which allows air to pass freely around ydur limbs and stops neither evaporation of the body nor the circulation of the re. freshing atmosphere, In summer you may breathe freely and lightly, you can not do so with your stomach full of un digested food, your blood .full of over heated alcohol, your lungs full of vitiat ed air, your smell disgusted with nau sous Scents, your system unable to carry out the natural piocess of diges tion. All the sanitary arrangements in the world will do no good if we eat and drink in such a fashion that we are con stantly putting on fuel where it is not needed, and tufling up our bodily draught, as we would that of a heating i appliance. Our ignorance and our bad habits spoil the summer, that delightful season of the year-nothing else. 1Hov Much to Eat. Having tested a number' of meals in a general way, eating more or less each time, find out as near as may be what is the proper amount for a meal. Begin with a very light breakfast of ordinary food, such as you have been accustomed to, and note the number of liours You can go without feeling a want of more food. For a very light breakfast, say one roll, a cup of coffee and a very small piece of moat, three hours or less will be found the limit. This is not offered as a rule but as a suggestion, for it makes a vast difference what you do daring those throo hours. A given amount of food will go further in manual labor than in mnital labor, as brain work is more exhausting than hand avork. The next time try a little more, and in tfo course of a dozen breakfasts youu will Ilearn to judge p)retty closely whant you require to carry on your wvork till the hour of the next meal. Having found out just what you need, never, on any -consideration, take more. Never mind how nice steak, how tempting any food may be, shut right dowvn on the whole Seating business the instant you have had 1enough. Too little can be repaired by eating a light lunch before the next meal. Too muclh can not be repaired, and you must pay for indiscretion. In rall this there must be plain common r sense. Do not imitate the invalid who 1kept a pair of scales on the breakfast a table to weigh his daily bread, Eat and 'be satisfied, and then stop. Church~ Manners. Be on time. No one has a right to rt disturb a coingregation or a preacher by ~-being tardy. e Never look around to see who is comn -ing in when thme door opens. It diverts g your own and other's attention from the e exercises, and is discourteous to the o eador, oNever talk or whisper in church, a especially after tigio exercises are open ,g ed. tduring the sermon. Better to feed o'in a sermon than to time it. Never leani your head on thme p)ow rail kbefore you, as thongh indifferent to the n preacher. tConform, if possiblc, in conscience, k to thme usages of the chuuch in which Le you worship-kneel, stand, how accord. eO iNev manifest your disapprob~ation .0 of wvhat is being 1maId, by unpleasant it sounds, or signs, or by hastily leaving. t Do not fidget, as though the servioc 3. were a weariness. Be quiet and decor.. ous to the very end. it Do not put on your overcoat or adjusi e your wrappings till aftelr the benedic. n' tion. d No gentleman over defiles a place ol y worship with tobacco. Never be one of a 'staring crowd about the door or in the vestibule, before em after service, d Do nothing out of keeping with the d time, place and purpose of a religione .assamhlv. The Younger and Elder Booth. Booth is now forty-eight. He was only nineteen when his fatljer died, but ho had sCen the latter in some of his best characters, and always considered him one of the greatest tragedians of the day. This is no doubt the case, but the unfortunate man vas so utterly destroy ed by strong drink that he never could take that position to which lie was naturally entitled. No engagement could be relied on unless the manager locked him up for the occasion, and hence lie only found employment at the cheap theatres, where people took their chance. How strange to think of Booth playing Richard III, in the Chatham theatre to an audience made up of news boys and other plebeians, who beheld his grandest flights at twenty-five cents; pit half-price. I have often paid my old fashioned shilling for a seat in the latter in order to see Booth thupder in the crooked-baek tyrant, which was his greatest role. Although deficient in point of stature, his appearance was very impressive, this being chiefly due to his countenance, which was one of tremendous power. His eyes wore very large and rapidly expressive of the varied passions which are represented on the stage. They were finely set off by a Grecian noso, but the latter was when I saw it, marred by d blow which lie had received from a fellow-actor in self defense, and which may be thus ex plained : Booth never played except when under the influenco of brandy, and hence lie was often dangerous. His imaginary foes became real and his sham fight sometimes had a murderous appearance. On one occasion, when 'Pon Flyn was his antagonist, Booth drove hin into the corner and was about to run iiii through, but Tom warded off the thrust and then knocked him down with his fist. The play was at once stopped, and Booth's ndse thenceforth hore witness of this strange affray. Eating With a Knife. A subscriber says we have many authorities on the subject, but I would like to sco a sensible, intelligent opin.. ion as to how far the knife can be made use of in eating, without one's being considered ill-mannered." The short est answer is best-not at all, in polite society. But what our correspondent perhaps means is : What sense or rea son is there in the prohibition, by so ciety, of the use of the kinfe in eating? Thath, is a harder question ; but the sufficient fact is that society doesn't ineed to furnish reasonas In the realm of etiquotte, whatever is, is right. As a. matter of fact, it is doubtless alarm ing or unpleasant to many people to see a knife put to the mouth ; it sug gests a p0ossible eut, and too nearly re smelmble shoveling in the food. A man may know that he will not cut him solf, and delaire that lie lifts no more food than his neighbor does on a fork, bu t society says that it is ill bred, and until the custom changes, people had best conform, unless it is a matter of collscielleo with them. As Hamerton says, in a parallel caso, you may see no reason why. you cannot come to the dinner-table with your shooting boota and jacket on, and bring your dog with you, if you are clean and your dog well bred. Very well. Society. will not argue the point, nmuch less cotieedo it. It will mply drop or taboo you. If it is essential that a man shall cat with a knife, or in his shooting jacket, or that lie shall take up his plate in his hands, or drink out of the bottle, or discard both knife and fork on the plea that "fingers were made before forks," he hlad bettor (dine alone. That is tihe way it. seems to us. Conformity is the best wvisdom ml mimor uinessential matters of custom and fasliion. W1ild Sheep of the Sierra. .In the months of Ma~y 'and June the wild sheep of tile Sierra'bring forth their lambs, im thme most solitary anid inaceess 11b10 crags, far above the nesting-rocks of the eagle. I have frequently come upon tile beds of the ewes and lambs at an elevation of from twelve to thlirteen thousand feet above sea level. These beds are simply oval-shmapedi hollows, pawed out among loose, disintegrating rock-chips and sand, upon some sunny sp~ot commanding a good outlook, anU p~artially sheltered from the winds that sweep those lofty peaks almost without intermission. Such is the cradle of the little mountaineer, aloft in the very sky: reeked ini storms, curtained in clouds sleeping in thin, icy air ; but wrapped in his hlairy coat, and nourished by a strong, warm mother, defended, from thme talons of the eagle and teeth of the sly coyote, tihe bonnmo lamb grows apace. He soon learns to nibble time tufted rock-grasses and leaves of thle white spirmna; his hlorns begin to shoot, and before summer is done lie is strong and agile, aind goes forth with the flock, wateihed b~y the same divine love thlat tends tile mlor~o helpless human iamb in its warm cradle by the fireside." To K~eep Shaded Places Gr'een. Especially in the front yards of dwell ings, both im town and country, which are much- shaded, we often see the ground complletely bare, not a living thing bomig perceptible. Sometimes thlere are many nearly nude, straggling. limbs lymm upon the ground or very near it, which are unsightly and every way worthless, that ought to be out away. ThIns would give room for the growing .liero of some plant or vine that would be adapted to it, and which would not only recover thme nakced spot and make it a "living green," but would be adding very much to tile general ap pearance of the premises, The best vine for thlis purpose is undoubtedly the per.. iwinkle. It wi~ll grow almost anywere in tihe shlade if tho proper attenton is given to it, but not otherwise. It Is a beautiful vine and will densely cover the ground, p~roducing nearly the whole season a prett'y. blue .flower, Weeds, however, are its deadly onciules. It oak not fight them. Steadily they will on. eroach until they drive away ou~r favorito and occupy the field of battle. A little help now and then, however, will defeat the common enemy and allow us to eai joy tile cool-looking, popular evergreen fo~r many yearswithout rnawat