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TR1-W EEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., AUGUST 26, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. THE LULLABY OF THE FLOWERS. Wept the flowers sadly, For the (lay was dying, And the fidkle sunbeams To the West were flying, In the arava of sunset Day its last was breathing, And its shroud, the twilight, BusIly was weaving. Caine a zephyr sighing "Slumber sweet my flowers I Night's dark sway is gruesome, Sleep the weary hours." Still the mournful blossoms For the day were weeping, And their tears, the dewdrops, 'Tween the leaves were peeping. 'Then, with gentle pity, Nightingales came singing, Tirlil'd their soothing music O'er the meadows ringIng. Soon the weary flowers 13lislly were dreaming, 'Till the larks awoke them, Wlen the sun was beaming. A GIRL'S HEROIC ACT. A quiet country road, and a carriage drawn by two spirited ponies, who tossed their heads and arched their graceful necks as if they were enjoying to the utmost their own rapid motion. Such was the scene. In the carriage were seated two young ladies. The older of the two was guiding, with a firm hand, the restless ponies. She was not a beautiful girl, you would think, at first sight ; but her refined face, with its broad, intellectual fore head, and'the proud poise of the small head set upon an erect, finely moulded figure, made a picture very attractive to the eye. Her companion was a perfect con trast. "Lovely I" was the adjective which would rise involontarily to the lips upon' seeing her. Great silky masses of golden hair swept back from a brow puro as alabaster, while the dark, lustrous eyes were in vivid contrast to the peachy fairness of her complexion ; her mouth was an incarnation of sweet ness with its delicious rose-red curves; while beneath, the rounded chin was cleft with a roguish dimple. "Nip and Tuck seem in good spirits this morning, Annis," said May, as they flew away. "Have you thought that if I return home when papa wants me too, that this will be our last drive ?" - Annis gatnvaod the reiins in one hand, and quickly passed the other around her friend's slight waist, as she said : ". do hate to think of your going, my darling I I have enjoyed these few weeks to the utmost. But I know your father needs you, and I must not be selfish." As she spoke thus lovingly, a sudden resolve came into May's face. She hesitated a moment, then drawing off her glove she held her small left hand up before.Annis's eyes. On the third finger in its enamel setting, gleamed a large solitaire pearl. After one surprised look, Annis Ax claimed reproachfully: Why, May, can it be that you are engaged, and have never told me of it?" A bright flush auffused May's ex pressive face as shlo replied : "Yes, Annis, yeou have guessed rightly. I meant to tell you long ago but somehow it is hlard for me to speak freely of my own feelings, and it is all so recent I hardly can believe it myself yet. 'But I do realize 0110 thing-that the one0 who placed this upon my finlger is the noblest and boat of men, and you will agree with me when I tell you who lhe is-for you knowv him, Annis. One day, soon after ouir engagement, I was speaking to Mr. Coleridge of our visit I was going to make you at 'Oreyhurst' this fall, and whlen I menltionled your name lie said at on1ce that 110 knew you well--had met you when you wvere at your uncle's." As the girl's happy voico spoke these words a sudden pallor overspread 11cr listener's features. Butt niot noticing, May ivent onl: "I suppose you wvonder ho0w I became acquainlted with him. Wecll, it happened thlis way : Our minister wvas called away by his mother's illnessH, and Mr. Coleridge came to tke his place, and papa invited hlim to make hmis hlome with us during his stay." As her friend sihope) Annis's thoughts had flown back to the past year. Shlo remembered how her interest had been caughlt at hecr first sighlt of the young clergyman, whom her uncle had brought home with him 0110 evening, anld ho0w the oftener she saw hlim the deeper that -ihterest grew, unltil suiddenly she be came aware thlat ulnconscioulsly she had given away, unlsoulght, her girlish heart. It wals truoe that Rlahlph Coleridge had never acted toward 11cr in a lover-like way ; but Annis could nlet 11elp the love which had so strongly entwined itself in her heart. Then had come the announcement of the death of her father's only brother, and that he had left her hlis sole heiress. Then she0 had been obliged to lease the quiiet little hlomo in wvhich she had been so happy to onter upon ber duties as mistress of stately "Greyhurst." She had hlad many suitqi's since ; but 11cr heart yet remained triue to its first im pression. Nowv she sail, that the futulre to whichi she had looked with the hope fulness of youth had held no brighit possibimties for her, -ii As Ilnr frindr nanue, w sn b~ng efobxt Annis regained her self-control and said, calmly, as she kissed the little ungloved hand which had nestled itself in her own : "Then Ralph Coleridge is the happy man? Indeed I do congratulate you, May; for he is, as you say, good and noble. As a wife you cannot help but' be happy." - When the girls had driven away from "Greyburst" the sun was shining brightly, but, though they had not notic. ed it, in the distance there had been a lit tle cloud "like a man's hand," and now all at once they became conscious of the storm gathering about them. With a frightened faco Annis suddenly exclaim ed, as she turned towards home : "We must. hasten, May, for the ponies are afraid of lightning." Rapidly onward came* the ominsously threatening clohds, while now and then the thunder rolled its sonorous peerls. Annis was a good horsewoman, and now with a steady hand she held the reins, while sho-urged Nip and Tuck to their fullest speed. Suddenly, as they were upon the brow of a long, steep hill, at the end of which the road turned abruptly to the right, a vivid flash of forked lightning shone be fore their eyes. With one terrified bound the ponies were off at a mad pace. Nothing could stop them. Of no avail were the girlish figures which endeavored to cheek their wild career. Standing erect, Annis retained her grasp upon the reins; but her eyes dilated with an agonized expression as she saw tho almost certain destruction which lay before them. At the foot of the hill which they were swiftly de scending was a high stone wall. "Annis," exclaimed May, "can you stop them before they get to the foot of the hill?" In low, intense tones came the hope less answer: "No, May ; I can do nothing with them. We are doomed !" With a sobbing cry May howed her head upon her hands. "Ralph I Ralph I Can it be that I shall never see you again? 0! it is so hard to die so young and so happy I" As Annis heard the piteous words a sudden determination flashed into her mind. She had once read of a brave -deed which at the time had filled her with marvol. Could she not do the same thing herself, and save her friend's lite? For herself it did not matter; she was alone in the world; but for May-should her life be spared-a future of happiness with him she loved so dearly stretched out before her. Stopping, she said quietly: ''May, listen; do not give way. I think that before long I can check this terrible speed, and in that instance do you jump from the carriage." May looked wonderingly into Annis's face, scarce comprehending her words. "Check that terriblo speed ?" It seemed certainly more, than human power could do. "Now, May," cried Annis. With these words she had made a desperate spring, and the next moment she had landed squarely upon the back of one of tile ponies, and had grasped the check-rein with all her force. With a startled plunge the ponies stopped--then reared willy and stood pawing the air with their hloofs. "Jump, May I jump for your life I" cried Annis ;' and May obeyed. A few wild phinges, and then with a snort and scream the two ponies dashed on, shaking from lher insecure seat the brave girl.' The storm was over. '.Uhe clouds had dispersed, and once more the sun came forthl in royal splendor. His rays fell upon a pitiful scene. Upon twvo girlish forms-one, yet living, but unconscious whlere she had fallen-the other, still and quiet, withl the uolemn seal of death set upon the white, bruised face. Annie had saved her friend's (and her unconscious rival's) life at the expense of hecr ownI. Another summer had come and gone and it was fall again. Inl one of Nature's loveliest spots, shadowed by a drooping elm, near whichl a limpid streamlet glided with a happy murmur on its way to the sea, a marble shaft reared its snowy head. The sunshine glancing through the leaves, dropped a gentle kiss upon the grave beneath, and fell upon the bowed hea~ds of two mourners. It was Ita1lh and his newly made wife, and in softly whispered tones they talked together of her who slep~t below, to whose heroic deed both owed tihe happiness which life had already given aiIft still hmeld for them in the years to come. Why Teoth IDoeay. One great cause of decayed teethi is drinking cold liquids immediately after hlaving had some hot article ill the mouth. Tile hleat expands tile enamel covering of the teeth, and thme col contracting it sulddenly causes it to crack, and thus exposing to tile air tile structure of tile tooth proper, allows it to decay. Another p~rolific cause is want of cleanliness. Particles of food clinging to tile crevices between the teeth cause them to decay. So you should always brush your teethl well after eating. Do not neglect this easily performedI duty; it will not only serve to protect your teeth and keep them in good condition, but a nice,cean sweet mnoulth will have a great infiluence inl making you feel wvell all over, wile a mouth full of decayed food will give you a bad taste~ a foul breath and a rotten mouth, whachl will tend to depress your system and make you feel not only im pure to yourself, but will render you ofnsive tn your companimms The Ilell-1Itnger and a Bravo Boy. Aquasco is such an out-of-the-way town that no doubt many of the chil Iren never have heard of it before. It is in the State of Maryland and stands :n a little hill near the -mouth of Pa tuxont river. In the summer time no girl or boy of Aquasco need go to the seashore, for salt water flows at their feet and the same salt breeze that sweeps fleet after fleet of white-sailed ships up %nd down the Chesapeake bay blows in t the windows of the houses in Aquas 30. The good people of Aquasco go .to bed so soon after supper that the whip poor-will cries and complains without )ne person to pity him ; and the grunt Af the bull-frog is the only voice that tnswers the whirr and ring of the clocks when they strike 12, midnight. So it was snat wien in the middle of Ahe night of the 25th of last. June, Cy rus Wallace, an Aquasco boy, heard the church bell ringing, he sprang juickly out of bed and ran barefooted uto the street. As lie reached the gate ie saw men running by at the top of hieir speed. " What's the matter ?" shouted Cyrus ,o one of the flying figures. "A fire, I guess," said the main. "Fire, fire, fire !" shrieked Cyrus, as 1 io ran after the others. In a few minutes lhe whole town of Aquasco was arous 3d. Everybody was in the street and verybody was hurrying towards the )hurch. Women seized water huckets md children gathered ulp pails. Aquas .o had been very still five minutes be ore, but now Aquasco was beside itself ,vith excitement. But where was the fire? The first nan who reached the church put his aauds to his mouth and hallooed to the ;op of the bell tower, where the bell was itill clanging away. The second man lid the same and the third called aloud mud so did the fourth. Not a word vould the person in the bell-tower an iwer, though lie rang and rang, until ill Aquasco gathered on the grass be ow. "The door of the steeple is locked," aid one of the men. 'Nobody under 1tands it." "Maybe some rascal got locked in ,here yesterday and fell asleep," said Ur. Rankin the constable. "No, no," replied Mr. Westcoat, the ;extoin of flhp elimhi. "IT was, nii- flhorn ink hie afternoon, and there wasn't anybody i the tower ; it's a spirit or a golin, ;hat's what it is I" and Mr. Wosteoat ihook his head, while some of the child en huddled together and held their ireath. "It's old Tappen's ghost," continued t fr. Westcoat. "Tappen was sexton I efore I was, and lie rang that bell up iere for twenty years. He's como I back." Cyrus laughed when lie heard the aexton say such things. Cyrus knew ery well that only cowards believed in Khosts. He was afraid of big dogs and Irunken men, but common sense told i .im that there is no sne thing as a lhost or creature of the dark of any dud. "Give me the keys," said a maun to ~he sexton, "I'll go up and stop that1 ringing." The sexton fumbled in his ocket only to find that lie had left the reys at home, a half mile away. Glad mnough to get away from the haunted 3hurch, the sexton started after the reys. Meanwhile the bell still rang. Dvery now and then the strokes would se faint, but the next 'instaint would ome a loud clang, as though the old jell didn't like such mysterious work a d't. The wind was blowiing stifily in theo tops of the tall oak tress, but all new that the wind could inot ring the bell because of the lattice work around she belfry. While the people wore whispering together arond the church Dyrus was busy looking for a way to get into the belfry before the sextoni uhould return with the keys. He knew Lhat there was a little round window, ust large enough for himn to crawl bhrough, some distance up the side of the tower, and when lie at last got a adder that reached to this little window, Lie step~ped boldly up the rounds. "I'll bring downi that ghost beofore Mir. Westcoat gets back," laughed Dyrtis, and the people could see him by the dim starlight as lie put his head through the window and disappeared. Cyrus found himself in a queer hplace. [t was so dark in the belfry that lie couldn't smee where to move. He grop)ed from one step to another, going up the belfry stairs slowly, wvhile the sound from the bell ab~ove seemed to crash Liown with tenfol clangor, Hie reaohed the crank which the sexton turned when ringing the bell. No one was there. "Hello I lio, there, ho I" shouted Cy rus directly into the bell's throat. But the bell's roar drowned his words. H~e climbed still higher ,and soon sat among the rafters above the bell, lie reached down and felt the air around the bell. Hims hand struck something. 0 ho I thought Cyrus. Heo felt the some thing and found that it was the limb of a tree. Following the limb with his hand lie found that the limb had thrust Itself through a big hole in the lattice work. Every time the tall tree on the outside reeked this limb moved quickly forward and withdrew again. Cyrus laughed. He had found the ghost, for he knew that the end of the limb liad caught the clapper of the bell and so that evary time t1.- t--n wa. rocked b. lie wind the clapper struck. He caught Jhe limb with both hands and gave a iard, strong pull. The 'limb bent and he boll stopped ringing. In the meantime the people were raiting anxiously below. As soon as he boll stopped Cyrus put his mouth o the hole in the lattice; and called out hat it was all right. The sexton soon trrived with the keys, and taking a aatchet Cyrus chopped the bothersome imb in two. The people of Aquasco vent to bed and many laughed at the iexton's ghost. On the following day 6 groat number visited the belfry to see he curious bell-ringer. It was found hat an army of flying-squirrels had out he hole in the lattieo work, and that he wind had forced the limb of the icighboring oak through the opening. L little prong near the end of the limb iad caught the clapper near its point, mid so the wind made its novel bell inger. Driving Partridges. According to the modern system, half dozen guns and half a dozen beaters, ach with a retriever behind him, walk n line through the turnips, going from Me field to another, knooking over the )irds as they rise in front of them like >igcons, never stopping to look for a unner or caring to mark a covey. This aethod of proceeding, in time, becomes xcecdingly monotonous, and it is no vonder that mon have ceased to care bout a day's shooting as they used to lo. To leave the house about 11, after loungo in the stable-yard with a cigar, o march through tihe turnips for two or hree hours, and then to find a sumptu >us lunch laid out for them in a farm WIuse, with champagne, hot cutlets, obster salad, and what not, and to walk gain for two hours afterward, returning iome to finish the day with billiards be ore the late dinner, is now the regular )ractioo with many men who 80 years go would lave- worked hard from 9 >'clock to 6, and have taken more plea urc in seeing their dogs work than in naking the largest bag. Another con equenee of the want of cover which is mow experienced onl most manors is that he practice of driving birds has como mto fashion, not only late in the scason )r aniong Frenchmen, but early in Sep ember and where tho birds are all Ena ish. There is no n to describe his branch of the sport at any length. [he shooters are either placed in little mits or behind screens of boughs set up or the occasion, or, when the sport is xtemporized, behind the tallest hedge hat can be found within the probable ange of flight, and the birds are then Irivon toward the guns by as large a >arty of mien as can be mustered. Skill and directions are required both in driv ng the birds and in sh oting them when triven. Partridges are no exception to vhat is the rule with almost all animals, vild or tame; they are very "orkard" to [rive. Try to drive sheep through a rateway, or oven cows or horses,and the hances arc that many of them head ack and give you a run round the field igain after them. And so it is with >irds. Unless the line of the beaters is 'ormed in a proper crescent, and the light af the birds has been very aceu ately studied, not one covey in half a lozemi will come the right way. When, iowever, it is properly managed, and thme runs are in good hands, the process is nurdorous. Almost every bird ini a iovey comes within shiot of sonme one, mad a party of five or six gus may kill heir 80 or 40 brace ini this manner, vhiere by the ordinary method they w ould not kill a quarter of the number. 3onmething else, too, which we have as ret omitted to mention has had a good heal to do with the change which has some over p~artridgo-shooting during the ast few years. As the early p~eriodl was thme flint period, so this third may be tyled the breech-loading period. The iuickness with which meni ean nowv load nakes them want to fire oftenor, aiid, as to one ever utands8 still to load his gun; the dogs, where they are still used,cease o downm charge and grow wild and wil ~uh. Moro birds are probably killed now n good seasonsa than our grandfathers tver dreamed of. Still it can hardly'he tailed sport, and is certainly not comn parable with the old style of shooting, which delighted our forefathers, and by which in former times so many men of uminence have lightenied the cares of itate and refreshed the overwrought b~rain reeling under the weight of em plires,. Hlydrophmobia. Gottleib Elseassor, a Prusian doctor who (lied ini Philadelphia some time since, gave what lie said to b~e a never-failing euro for hydrophobia obtained from his mmli who was p)oud-mfaster in Berlin. rThe following is Elsaser's remedy: 'IBoncathi the tongue of every human be ing there are two large veins, whlose blhackness rondlers them easily distin guilhable. Whoen any one is afflicted with hydrophobia, cut these open with a pair of small scissors or any sharrp in itrument, and allow the bllood to trickle cmt. This rids the p~atient of the virus. T'hen mnal-o a tea of lupuhin, the seeds of thie hop vine, and give thme patient a 01up ful. This will at once put him to sleep) without having the Injurious effect that would follow the administration of opium. En four or five hours .the patient will rwake. Then give him another cupful of Lea, and continue this treatment until lie has slept for twontv-hours. He will then be antfrely 4uran ' Fights with Whales. 'Yes, we did se sonething of a chool of sperm whales," said Captain King, of the steamer Tropic, but it was a good ways off and we didn't take especial no tice. We were bowling along at about ten knots an hour with a light breeze and a fair sea,in latitude 34 deg. 28 main. and longitude 74 dog. 24 mini. I had the wheel and was talking with one of the 11mn, when all at once I Raw as pretty a sperni whale spout as I ever saw in my life. Am I sure about it? I should say I was, for I amt an old whaleman, having started to follow the sea in an old-time whaler. The whale was going about Roulth-southwest, I should think It was going slowly and evidently hav ing a good time. After awhile I saw another one following and swimming fast, as if to catch up with tile first one. Next day I"saw another whale a great ways off, but I couldn't tell which way it was going. There imay have beeni a school of themi, but I didn't see only three. Spermi whales stray in that part of the ocean only once ill a great while, and then they are probably chasing their favorite food. "SonetineM they are dangerous to whale hunters, especially when a 'erauk' whale is met. T have heard men say that the sperm whale will notshow fight, but it struck me that they had never sailed ii a whaler. The first fight with a sperm whale in which I took a hand was in 1869, when I was with the whaler Mary G. Currie. We sighted o11 after noon a fine large whale, about five miles off, and when we were near enough we luffed up and lowered away the boats. The captain himself had one boat, the mate had one and an old whaler had another. I was with the mate. You have heard about whales running from boats, but this one stood his ground and didn't seem to )e afraid of us. Our boat reached him first, but as soon as the whale saw us coming lie camte at us 'hOws on.' We lost 11o time in getting out of his way and it made us laugh to see the other boats dodge around. This made the men a trifle nervous and wheu we tried him again they backed away for dear life, afraid to go near enough for the harpooner to throw his weapon. This mado the whale raving mad, and, as a consequence, we went so near next time that the whale opened his caver nous jaws and bit the boat in two. "After the m1en had been f1shed out of the water by the old whaler's boat the mate got into the captain's boat and tried the whale again. When they start Cd the mate stood upl) in the bow and yelled: 'The first muan who looks out of this boat at that whale will get stabbed with this harpoon." Away they 'went right up to the spouter's head. The harpoon was driven home and the boat was backed away. The cold steel had done its work well, for oon thke sea was red with blood and the monster whale, after thrashing the water into foam, lay dead. "I wis in another fight with ia whale near the same l)lace,tle ConIel grounds, in 1871. We came out of the fight with two smashed boats and two or three dis abled men, but we killed the whale. Thle mate I was with in the first fight wvas killed two years ago in a fight with an ugly whale. I unlderstand they fought for three hours, but the whale got the best of them. He was one of the~argest ever seen and had a half dozen harpoons sticking in his back. The mate waa al ways game anid would nlever give upl,bult lie met his mateli that time. It was a fight to thio death and the mate went into one fight too many. Hluman Endurlance ini the Wat ert. Men and animals are able to sustain themselves for long distanoes in the water, and would do so much oftcner wereO they noet incapaScitatcd, in regard of the former at least, b~y slheer terror, as well as complete ignorance of their real p~owers. Webb's 'wonderful enidur anice will never be forgotten. Bunt there are othier instances only less remarkable. Seime years since, the second mate of a shlip fell overboard while in the act of hoisting a sail, It was blowing fresh: the timle was night, and the place some miles out in thme stormy Glermian ocean. The hardy fellow, nevertheless, mani aged to gain the English coast. Brook, with a dozen othier pilots, was plying for fares b~y Yarmouth, and, as the main sheet was h~elayed, a sudden puff of wind upset the boat, when presently all pecr ished excep~t Brock himself, who, from four iln tihe afternoon of an October ('een ing to 01ne the unext mornling, swami thir teeni miles before lie was able to hail a vessel at anchor in the ofling. Animals themselves are capabhle of swimming im1 menlso distances, al though unable to rest by the way. A dog recently .swam thirty miles in America in order to rojoin his master. A mule and a dog washed overboard durming a gale in the Bay of Biscaty have beenm knowni to make their way to shore. A dog swam ashore with a letter ini his month at the Cape of (Good Hope). The crew of the ship to which the dlog belonged all p~erished, which they need not have done had they only ventured to tread water as the dog did. As a certain ship was laboring heavily in the trough of the sea, it was found need ful, in order to lighten the vessel, to throwv some troop-horses overboard, which had been taken In at Corunna, The poor things, my informant, a staffy surgeon, told me, when thecy found them selves abandoned, faced round and swam for miona aftnr 1ha vnai, Cheap Food. It has been (uite portinently remarked i regard to cook-books generally, that when the cooks took their pens in hand they rather had in their minds the prep aration of a dinner-party than the daily fare of an ordinary household. Such criticisms, directed toward modern works on the culinary art, are hardly just, as both in England and this coii try many handy books have been con piled, whose chief end in to teach the ignorant how to prepare food in the most economical manner. Perhaps, what is not so fully explained as it should be in many of these books, is what might bo called the rationale of food values. Tle most inquiring of housewives, thumbing her cook-book, when she comes across sonme page or two devoted to the chemi 3al composition of food, generally skips it, as she is only intent on finding out how a charlotte russe is to be compound d. Still, these rather dry pages have their use, and by no means difficult to anderstand. It. is by no means necessary that the exact chemical composition of rood, its earhon, hydrogen, nitrogen, I)Xygen, suulphiur, )hiosphiatcs an11d other mineral salts should be memorized, but the three specific characteristics of the things we (at ought to be remembered. in the briefest miaer, then, food may be separated into three classes, tihe al hi umninoids, the hydro-carbons, and the aiti-scorbutics. The first are essentially the builders-up and restorers of the body the secondt are substances which tend to keep its warm; thoy are essentially the coals which keop the engine going, and the third are the preventives which keep off disease and more esp1ecially scurvy. An egg is an albumninoid, butter is a hydro-carbon, and eabbage an anti scorbutic. An albuminoid makes tissue. Wihat muen call "the strength" in food is said to be derived from albuminoids, but this term is an eironeous one. Men can and do grew strong and'lusty when partaking of the albuminoids in the most sparing way. The rice feeders of Hin dustan are a notable example of this. The hydro-carbons exist. in all the starches which are found in tle cevreas, inl sugars and in the fats. The anti scorbuties, found in certain vegetables, are as valuable as any other edible sub stances, though their food value may not be very great. Now, whiat is notice leh min al thosemnnrrt~ -.f roa,' is that many single things nn1y possess inl themselves soie of these qualities. For instance, meat has in the Itlai the albuminoid, in its fat the hydro-carbon; it has even, wheni fresh, a certain anti scorbutie power. In milk, too, we have the albumen, and most particularly an anti-scorbutie power. We see, then, that in a certain way nature has given um in a single substaince more than one of those things necessary for life,but tihe perfect unit, containing all in proper proportions, does not exist. Hence the natural inclination we have to mix-our food. The dish of meat cooked with vegetables as a compound gives us the variety pleasurable to the palate and de sirable for our health. The hmnan en gine iiot only wants fuel and water, but as its grate bars are wiorn out it must p)ossess thme magical powers of self-re storation. Just as in the repairs of a locomotive, the head of the machine shop looks out where lie canm 11nd the best and cheapest coal and oil or materi als, always having thme cost in view; so must we learn how to feed ourselves, lby the study of food values, at the snmallest outlay of money. Now, in England at present, where food is scarce and money not plenty, it beconmes quite important that lessons of economy should be taught to all classes. If the bare chancee of life is not alone thought of,the requirements of thme workingmn-.those who p)10w dig or spin1--are also an object f tuide. What is thme food, tlf ~*, laborers can have, so tha2/ their sinew and1 muscle,' coming? It is curious/ turn has been made, by -. these alimentary substances, tz , co gen, oxygen, nitrogen and carbion to an 01(1 English dish. Possibly the classic pork and beans was biroughit over from England to Plymouth Rock. Englislh wvritcrs on thme economy of food, Sir Henury Thompson and( D)r. Paxy espe cially, dlireet working peop~le to the ex cellence of beans, peas and lentils, when cooked with fat meats such as bacon b ut wisely require certain simple addiL tions. Now, why? The beans contain thme starch, the sugar-making properties, the fat thme hydro-carbons. These are albuminoids and( hydro-carbons, but your anti-scorbutic is not present. This want is supplied b~y thme addition of a vegeta 1)l0 such as an onion or a carrot. The value of anti-scorbutics in our food can not 1)e overlooked, If the poorer classes can not indulge in salads, thle use of which entails more or loss expensivo dressings, resource can be had to sour kraut, the excellence of which has often been stated in these columns. These lessons as to the destrucetion of food ought to be of use to oven those wvho kniow nothing of wanmt, and whose tables can bo alwvays luxuriously furnished. At one time we Americans wvere horribly carnivorous. Meat three times a day was quite common, Stunenduous roasta are still very much in vogue, an excess of the albuminoid and .1yd re-ca rboni whijlo quite often the vegetable adjuncts are in too diminished quantity. Such Titanesque pieces of beef might h)e very mnuch pared dowu, and in the general menu recourse had to a miore leguminous and vegetable diet, Can't Stop a Minute. Recently Mr. Sarsaper told his wife one morning that he had got about tir~d of buttering his bread with a spoon, and so that day he sent home a refrigerator. It was a beauty, and he felt proud of it, so mnch so that he had a good deal to say about it at the store. "I suppose you have to put ice in it, don't you?" said one of the clerks. "Certainly," said Mr. Sarsaper; "but then it takes very little. It's an im provemient oil all others ever made. Full of little boxes and places for all sorts of things. Keeps everything separate-. meat, vegetables, iilk and so on, with out any mixing up.It makes ho* --atler so much more comfortable, B up to the tablo and find ( Iieo, cool and crisp, instead sour and slushy. We wouldn't be with out it again for any money. I wish you'd run in and look at it, Bob, the first timo you're goitig by. It's a curiosity, and I know you'll get one as soon as you see it. Don't you bother about ceremony-. run in at any time." About 2 o'clock one morning, Mr. Sar saper was awakened out--of his slumber that always keeps company with an easy, coslicience, by his wife poking him in the ribs, and calling on him to hustle out., and see what the matter was. The door was jingling like all possessed. Mr. Sarsaper crawled out of bed, and after banging his nose on the door post till the blood started, giving himself a black eye against the corner of the man tel, and falling down over pretty much everything in the room, he finally made his way to the front part of the house, threw II) a window and peered out into the wet and nrky gloom. '"Who's there ?" he demanded, looking down at the top of an umbrella. '"Me !" caie in a thick voice from the under side of it. 'Who's me". 'Bob." "Oh I it's you, is it? What's the mmd ter, Bob ? anybody sick ?" '"Oh, no. You see I've been out to Sodamsville with somoe of the boys to help institute a lodge, and I'm just get ting back. I happened to think about that refrigerator of yours as I was going by, and so I thought I'd stop in and se it, without cerenony, as you said. Come down and let me in. I'm in a hurry to get home, and can't atol but a minute." A.1r. iunarn.m. anid numiething thut would bend the types double if we should undertake to print it, and slam Ied down the window. He remarked to Bob the next day that for downright coolness his refrigerator was a bake-oven compared to the prank praotised on him. A 'eoullar People. The people of Hatteras Banks are of an anbitious nature and live so much on and in the water that most of them I am sure are web-footed. They live mainly on fish, clams, oysters, crabs, terrapims and wild fowl. When they leave home they go in a boat, and whether they go to court or go courting, or to trade, or to mill, or to a funeral, they always go by sail. Their corn mills are rnn by sails, and some of them pump their water with windmills. They dlon't go up stairs, but "go aloft ;" and when they go to bed they "turn in ;" when they are ill they "are under the weather," and when in robust~ health they say they are .'bung up and bilge free." They speak of a trimbuilt sweet heart as "clipper. built." If she is a liitle stout they say ahe is "broad in the becamn," or she is "wide across the tran solm." ,Many ,of them have ships' cabin door~s in their houses, that slide on grooves, and to their buildings they give a coat of tar insteiad of painting them. Tihe 'ol woman' blows a conch shell when dinner is ready, and they measure time by 'boP " T1heir babies are not rocked m g/ ,, but swung in hammock's. 'R 'w blck)ig-tail tobacco, and U>, .vild tea called "Yeopon." '1Phey their land with sea grass and their yam potatoes ini the sand .Wheni they want the doctor they iig a red flag agairrst a hill side as a .ignal of distress. If lie don't come, because the -'wind ain't fair,'" they take a diram of ,whisky and copporas, soak their feet in sea water, "turn in," and trust to luck. If they (lie they will be buriedl on the top of a sand rid'ge ; and when you see several sail boats on the water in procession, with a flag at half mast, you fire looking at a funeral. They ornament their houses with whales' ribs and jaws, sharks' teeth, swordfish snoots, devilfish arms, sawfisi swords (six feet long), miniature ships, c'amp~hor-woodl chests, Honduras gourds, sp)y-glafses, South Americani lariats, war clubs from the Mozambique Islands, T1urkishi pipes, WVest India shells, sandal wood boxes, Chinese chessmen, Japa nese faces, Madagascar idols, Australhan b ioomeranigs, aund other strange outland ish things. Their hogs are raised on clams, mussels, offal of fish and garbage, and their cattle wado out on the shoals for miles, where the water covers their backs, to feed on sea-grass, and if they ar~e carried up-pountry and fed on coru and fodder, they will not line. Every man is captain of some kind of a boat, and "she" is always better than any other boat in sonmc way. "She is hard to boat in a gale of wind," or."be fore the wind,' or "beating to wvind ward," or "with the wind on the beam," or "she can sail closer to the wind," o>r 'will carry sail longest,' or is hard to beat in a light wind," or "totes more stock," or is "stronger," or "dryer," or "big ger," or "she is a big little boat," or "draws the least water," or "needs less ballast," or "has the best timbers,'' or "steers the best," or "she is a lucky beat," or "stands up better," or "needs. les.s sail than any other boat," or "she is best for' fig g" &c. Pe'rhaps shq "comes about; :etter than any other, boat."- Shii ' bta to have soinething about her het hlan any body else'd bot.