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- - -. - - - TR1EEL EDTWN WINNSBORO, S.CU., AUGUST 26,18.ESALHD 8. TIHE LULLABY OF THE FLOWERS. Wept the flowers sadly, For the day was dying, And'the fidkle sunbeams To the West were flying, In the arms of sunset Day its last was breathing, And its shroud, the twilight, Busily was weaving. Caine a zephyr sighing "Slumber sweet my ilowers 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 caine singing, Tlirll'd their soothing music O'er the meadows ringing. 0oon the weary flowers Blistilly were dreaming, 'Til the larks awoke then, When 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 coni 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 pure 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 boneath, the rounded chin was cleft with a roguish dimple. "Nip and Tuck seem in good spirits this morning, Annis," said May, as they flow away. "Have you thought that if I return home when papa wants me too, that this will be our last drive ?" - Annis enthoor1d tihe Vills in one hand. and quickly passed the other around her friend's slight waist, as she said : "I 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 ex claimed reproachfully: Why, May, can it be that you are engaged, and have never told in of it?" A bright flush suffused May's ex pressive face as she replied : "Yes, Annis, you have guessed rightly. I meant to tell you long ago but somehow it is hard 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 one thing-that the one who placed this upon my finger is the noblest and best of men, and you will agree with me when I tell you who be is--for you know him, Annis. One day, soon after our engagement, I was speaking to Mr. Coleridge of our visit I was going to make you at 'Greyhurst' this fall, and when I mentioned your name lhe said at once that lie know you well--had met you wvhen you wvere at your uncle's." As the girl's happy voico~ spoke these words a sudden pallor overspread her listener's features. But not noticing, May ivent onm: "I suppose you wvonder how I became acquainted with him. Well, it happened this way : Our minister wvas called away by his mother's illness, and Mir. Coleridge came to take his place, and papa invited him to make his home with us during his stay." As her friend shope) Annie's thoughts had flown back to the p~ast year. She remembered how her interest had been caught at her first sight of the young clergyman, whom her uncle had brought home with him one evening, and how the oftenor she saw him the deeper that -thterest grew, until suddenly she be came aware that unconsciously she had given away, unsought, her girlish heart. It was true that Italph Coleridge had never acted toward her in a lover-like way ; but Annis could not help the love which had so strongly entwined itself in her heart. Then had come the announcement of the death of her father's emily brother, and that lie had left her his sole heiress. Then she had been obliged to lease the quiet little home in which she had beenm so happy to enter upon her' duties as mistress of stately "Greyhurst." She had had many suit4gi-a since ; b~ut hier heart yet remained true to its first im pression. Now she sa* that the future to which she had looked with the hope. fulness of youth had held no bright possibiflties for her,. wt effort 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 face Annis suddenly exclaim ed, as she turned towards home : "WO must hasten, May, for the ponies are afraid of lightning." Rapidly onward came the ominsously threatening clohads, while now and then the thunder rolled its sonorous peals. Annia was a good horsewoman, and now with a steady hand she held the reins, while she 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 whicli endeavored to check their wild career. Standing erect, Annis retained her grasp upon the reins; but her eyes dilated with an agonized expression as she saw the 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 bowed her head upon her hands. "Ralph ! Ralph ! 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 -decd which at the time had filled her with marvel. Could she not do the same thing herself, and save her friend's life? 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 terrible speed ?" It seemed certainly morethan human power could do. "Now, May," cried Annis. With these word she had made a desperate spring, and the next moment she had landed squarely upon the back of one of the ponies, and had grasped the cheek-rein with all her force.. With a startled plunge the ponies stopped--then reared wildly and stood pawing the air with their hoofs. "Jump, May I jump for your life I" cried Annia ,- and May obeyed. A few wild phwges, and then with a snort and scream the two ponies dashed on, shaking from her insecure seat the brave girl.* The storm was over. 'ho clouds had dispersed, and once more the sun came forth in royal splendor. His rays fell upon a pitiful scene. Upon twvo girlish forms-one, yet living, but unconscious where she had fallen-the other, still and quiet, with the uolemn seal of death set upon the white, bruised face. Annis had saved her friend's (and her lunconscious rival's) life at the, expense of her own. Another summer had come and gone and it was fall again. In one of Nature's loveliest spots, shadowed by a drooping olmn, near which a limpid stroamlet 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 hmeads of two mourners. It was Ralph and his newly made wife, and in softly whispered tones they talked together of her who slept below., to whose heroic deed both owed the happiness which life had already given ai1fi still held for them in the years to come. Whiy Teeth Deay. One great cause of decayed teethi is drinking cold liquids immediately after having had some hot article in the mouth. The heat expands the enamel covering of the teeth, and the cold contracting it suddenly causes it to crack, and thus exposing to the air the structure of the tooth proper, allows it to decay. Another prolific cause is want of cleanliness. Particles of food clinging to the crevices between the teeth cause them to decay. So you should always brush your teeth well after eating. Do not neglect this easily performed duty; it will not only serve to protect your teeth and keep them in good condition, but a nice, clean sweet mouth will have a great influence in making you feel well all over, while a mouth full of decayed food will give you a bad taste~ a foul breath and a rotten mouth, wich will tend to depress your system and make you feel nxot only im pure to yourself, but will render you I offensive to your companions. The DllI-lUnger and a Brave Boy. Aquasco is such an out-of-the-way town that no doubt many of the chil. dren never have heard of it before. It is in the State of Maryland and stands on a little hill near the snouth of Pa tuxont river. In the summer time no girl or boy of Aquasco ned 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 and down the Chesapeake bay blows in at the windows of the houses in Aquas co. The good people of Aquasco go to bed so soon after supper that the whip poor-will cries and complains without one person to pity him ; and the grunt of the bull-frog is the only voice that answers the whirr and ring of the clocks when they strike 12, midnight. So it was mnat when in the middle of the night of the 25th of last. Juine, Cy rus Wallace, an Aquasco boy, heard the church bell ringing, he sprang quickly out of bed and ran barefooted into the street. As he reached the gate he saw men running by at the top of their speed. " What's the matter ?" shouted Cyrus to one of the flying figures. "A fire, I guess," said the man. "Fire, fire, fire !" shrieked Cyrus, as he ran after the others. In a few minutes the whole town of Aquasco was arous ed. Everybody was in the street and everybody was hurrying towards the church. Women seized water buckets and children gathered up pails. Aquas co had been very still five minutes be fore, but now Aquasco was beside itself with excitement. But where was the fire? The first man who reached the church put his hands to his mouth and hallooed to the top of the bell tower, where the bell was still clanging away. The second man did the same and the third called aloud and so did the fourth. Not a word would the person in the bell-tower an swer, though lie rang and rang, until all Aquasco gathered oi the grass be low. "The door of the steeple is locked," said one of the men. 'Nobody under stands it." "Maybe sonic rascal got locked in there yesterday and fell asleep," said Mr. Rankin the constable. "No, no," replied Mr. Westeont, the sexton Af thn enmrmh. 'T wnu np th. ink the afternoon, and there wasn't anybody in the tower ; it's a spirit or a goblin, that's what it is I" and Mr. Westcoat shook his head, while some of the child ren huddled together and held their breath. "It's old Tappen's ghost," continued Mr. Westcoat. "Tappen was sex'ton before I was, and lie rang that bell utp there for twenty years. He's come back." Cyrus laughed when lie heard the sexton say such things. Cyrus knew very well that only cowards believed in ghosts. He was afraid of big dogs and drunken men, but common sense told him that there is no such thing as a ghost or creature of the dark of any kind. "Give mA the keys," said a mpn to the sexton, "I'll go up) and stop) that ringing." Thme sexton fumbled in his pocket only to find that he had left the keys at home, a half mile away. Glad enough to get away from the haunted church, the sexton started after the keys. Meanwhile the bell still rang. Every now and then the strokes would be faint, but the next 'instant would come a loud clang, as though the old bell didn't like such mysterious work a bit. The wind was blowing stifily in the tops of the tall oak tress, but all know that the wind could not ring the bell because of the lattice work around the belfry. While thme people wore whispering together around thme church Cyrus was busy looking for a way to get into the belfry before the sexton should return with the keys. He knew that there was a little round window, just large enough for him to crawl through, sonic distance up the side of the tower, and when lie at last got a ladder that reached to this little window, lie stepped boldly up the rounds. "I'll bring down that ghost before Mr. Westcat gets back," laughed Cyrns, and the people could see him by the dim starlight as lhe put his head through the window and disappeared. Cyrus found himself in a queer place. It was so dark in the belfry that lie couldn't smee where to nmove. He groped from one step) to another, going up the belfry stairs slowly, while the sound from the bell above seemed to crash down with tenfold clangor, lie reached the crank which the sexton turnied when ringing the bell. No one was there. ''Hello I ho, there, lie I" shouted Cy rus directly into the bell's throat. But the bell's roar drowned his words. He climbed still higher and soon sat among the rafters ab~ove the b)el1. H~e reached dowvn and felt the air around the bell. His hand struck something. 0 ho!I thought Cyrus. lie 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 wvork. Every time the tall tree on the outside rocked this limb moved quickly forward and withdrewv again. Cyrus laughed. He had found the ghost, for he knew that the end of the lib had caught the clapper of the boll and so that every tima ti1.. t... w.. rocked~ 1. the wind the clapper struck. He caught the limb with both hands and gave a hard, strong pull. The 'limb bent and 1 the bell stopped ringing. t In the meantime the people were waiting anxiously below. As soon as the boll stopped Cyrus put his mouth t to the hole in the lattice; and called out a that it was all right. The sexton soon a arrived with the keys, and taking a t hatchet Cyrus chopped the bothersome t limb in two. The people of Aquasco 1) went to bed and imany laughed at the i sexton's ghost. On the following day s, a groat number visited the belfry to see 1i the curious bell-ringer. It was found 0 that an army of flying-squirrels had cut a the hole in the lattice work, and that I the wind had forced the limb of the ii neighboring oak through the opening. i A little prong near the end of the limb f had caught the clapper near its point, t and so the wind made its novel bell- y ringer. it a Driving Partridges. According to the modern system, half a a dozen guns and half a dozen beators, f, each with a retriever behind him, walk in line through the turnips, going from , one field to another, knocking over the N birds as they rise in front of then like t pigeons, never stopping to look for a 1) runner or caring to mark a covey. This a method of proceeding, in time, becomes a exceedingly monotonous, and it is no v wonder that mon have ceased to care 3 about a day's shooting as they used to n do. To leave the house about 11, after o a lounge in the stable-yard with a cigar, 11 to march through the turnips for two or '] three hours, and then to find a sumptu- n ous lunch laid out for them in a farm a house, with champagne, hot cutlets, b lobster salad, and what not, and to walk 13 again for two hours afterward, returning d home to finish the day with billiards be r( fore the late dinner, is now the regular y practice with many men who 80 years o ago would have- worked hard from 9 h o'clock to 6, and have taken more plea- o sure ii seeing their dogs work than in : making the largest hag. Another con- t: sequence of the want of cover which is d now experienced on most manors is that t the practice of driving birds has come 1 into fashion, not only late in the season & or among Frenchmen, but early in Sop- t tomber and where the birds are all Eng- n lish. There is no --naxen to describe this branch of the sport at any length. t The shooters are either placed in little n huts or behind screens of boughs set up t for the occasion, or, when the sport is e extemporized, behind the tallest hedge y that can he found within the probable t range of flight, and the birds are then m driven toward the guns by as large a r party of men as can be mustered. Skill 11 and directions aro required both in driv- - ing the birds and in shooting them when <d driven. Partridges are no exception to r what is the rule with almost all animals, a wild or tame; they are very "orkard" to ( drive. Try to drive sheep through a gateway, or even cows or horses,and the r chances are that many of them head back and give you a run round the field t again after them. And so it is with 1 birds. Unless the line of the beaters is i formed in a proper crescent, and the 14 flight af the birds has been very aceu rately studied, not one covey in half a dozen will come the right way. When, 1 however, it is propecrly managedl,and the e guns are in good hands, the process is a murderous. Almost every bird in a3 covey conies within shot of some one, I and a party of five or six guns may kill f their 80 or 40 brace in this manner,i where by the ordinary method they would not kill a quarter of the number. Something else, too, which we have as yet omitted to mention has had a good , deal to do with the change which has come over partridge-shooting during the last few years. As the early period was the flint period, so this third may be styled the breech-loading period. The quickness with which men ean now load makes them want to fire oftenor, and, as no one ever stands still to load his gun; the dogs, where they are still used,ceaseI to down charge and grow wild and wil futl. More birds are probably killed now in good seasons than our grandfathers ~ ever dreamed of. Still it can hardly bo called sport, and is certainly not com parable with the old style of shooting, which delighted our forefathers, and by wvhich in former times so many mcen of eminence have lightened the cares of state and refreshed tho overwrought? braini reeling uinder the weight of em Hydrophobia. Gottleib Elsasser, a Prussian doctor who (lied in Philadelphia some time since, I gave what he said to be a never-failing t cure for hydrophobia obtained from his I uncle who was p~ound-mnaster in Berlin. The following is Elsassor's remedy: 'Beneath the tongue of every human be ing there are two large veins, whose blackness renders them easily distini- " guishable. When any one is afilicted I with hydrophobia, cut those open1 with t a pair of small scissors or any usharp) In- t strument, and allow the blood to trickle out. This rids the p)atient of thme virus. Then make a tea of lupulin, the seeds of the hop vine, and gave the patient a oup- t ful. TIds will at once put him to sleep f without having the injurious effect that t would follow the administration of opium. . In four or five hours the patient will awake. Then give him another cupful of tea, and continue this treatment until lie S has slept for twenty-hours. Hie will then * be entirely enrodf Fights with whales. 'Yes, we did see something of a vehool f sperm whales," said Captain King, of lie steamer Tropic, but it was a good rays off' and we didn't take especial no Loe. We were bowling along at about m knots an hour with a light )reeze nd a fair Fea,iin latitude 34 dog. 28 min. nd longitude 74 deg. 24 min. I had rie wheel and was talking with one of le 11101, when all at once I saw as retty a sperm whale sl)out as I ever saw I my life. Am I sure about it? I should iy I was, for I am an ol whaleman, avilg started to follow the sea in an Id-time whaler. Tile whale was going bout south-southwest, I should think t was going slowly and evidently hav ig a good time. After awhile I saw nother one following and swinuning ist, as if to catch up with the first one. rext day Isaw another whale a great 'ays off, but I couldn't tell which way , was going. There may have been a shool of them, but I didn't see only iree. Sperm whales stray in that part the ocean only once ini a great while, id then they are probably chasing their ivorite food. "Sometimes they are dangerous to 'hale hunters, especially when a 'erank' hale is met.. I havo heard men say iat the sperm whale will not show fight, ut it struck me that they had never tiled iii a whaler. The first fight with sperm whale in which I took a hand 'as in 1869, when I was with the whaler [ary G. Currie. We sighted oie after oon a flue large whale, about five miles in, and when we were near enough we iffed up and lowered away the boats: 'he captain himself had one boat, the late had one and an old whaler had iother. I was with the mate. You ave heard about whales running from oats, but this one stood his ground and idn't seem to he afraid of us. Our boat sched him first, but as soon as the hale saw us coming he caie at us 'bows a.' We lost Io tnne in getting out of is way and it made us laugh to see the ther bontu dodge around. This made to men a trifle nervous and when we 'ied hii again they backed away for ear life, afraid to go near enough for te harpooner to throw his weapon. 'his made the whale raving mad, and, 4 a consequence, we went so near noxt mec that the whale ) opened his caver ous .jaws and bit the boat in two. 'After the mon had been fished out of .10 water )y the old whaler's hoat the late got into the captain's boat aind ied the whale again. When they start EI the ImIate Stood ul inl the how anid elled: "Tile first ian who looks out of Ii boat at that whale will get stabbed 'ith this harpoon." Away they 'went glit up to the spl)outer's head. The arpoion was driven home and the ioat -as backed away. The cold steel had o011 its work well, for soon the sea was ad with blood and the monster whale, fter thrashing the water into foam, lay ead. "I wis in another fight with a whale ear the same place, the Connell grounds, 1 1871. We came out of the fight with wo smashed )oats and two or three dis bled men, but we killed the whale. The late I was with in the first fight was illed two years ago ini a fIght with an gly whale. I understand they fought or three hours, but the whale got the best of them. Hie w~as one of thecargest ver seen and had a half dozen harpoons icking in his hack. The mate was al rays game and would never give upl,buit .o met his matcli that time, It was a ght to) the death and the mate went ito one fight too many. Hutman EfnuanIce in the Water. M~en and animals are able to sustain hemselves for long distances in the rater, andl would do0 s0 much of tener rere they niot incapacitated, in regard f tho former at least, by sheer terror, s well as complete ignorance of their eal powers. Webb's wonderful endur lice will never h)e forgotten. B3ut there re other instances only less remarkable. 01110 years since, the secondc mate of a hip fell overboard while in the act of noisting a Hail, It was blowing fresh: lhe time was night, andl the pla1ce soe miles out in tihe stormy Gernman oceani. 'hie hardy fellowv, nevertheless, muan ged to gain the English coast. Brock, rith a dozeni other pilotf, wa'is plying for rres by Yarmouth, and, as the main heet was helayed, asuddeni pull'of wind pse(t the boat, when presently all per shed excep1t Brock himself, who, from our in the afternoon of ani October even rig to one the next morning, swam thiir een miles before lie was able to) bail a essel at anchor ini the offIng. Animals lhemselves are capable of swimming im uooine distances, although unable to rest y the way. A (dog recently swam hirty miles in America in order to rejoin is master. A mule and a dog washed verb)oard dutrinig a gale in the B~ay of liscay have been known to make their 'ay to shore. A dog swam ashore with letter in his mnllth at the Cape of Good [ope. The crew of the ship to which lie (log belonged all p~erished, which icy need not have done had they only entured to tread water as the dog did. .s a certaini ship was laboring heavily in lie trough of the sea, it was found neced il, In order to lighten the vessel, to lirow some troop-horses overboard, rhtich had been taken in at Corunna, 'lie poo things, my informant, a staff4 lrgeon, told me,whuen they found them. elYoB abandoned,faced round and swvam wr mil ln after tlha ymrti Chuiia Food. It has been (uito pertinently remarke( in regard to cook-books generally, that when the cooks took their pos in lani they rather had in their inds 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 Eingland and this coli try many handy books have been com piled, whose chief end is to teach the ignorant how to prepare food in the most economical manner. Perhaps, what is not so fully explained as it should be il many of these books, is what might bt called the rationale of food values. The most inquiring of housewives, thnunbing her cook-book, when she comes across some page or two devoted to the chemi cal composition of food, generally skips it, as she is only intent on finding out how a charlotte russe is to be compound ed. Still, these rather dry pages have their use, and by no means diilicult tc understand. It is by no means necessary that the exact chemical coimosition of food, its carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, phospalites and othei mineral salts should be memorized, but the three specific characteristics of the things we eat ought to be remembered. In the briefest manner, then, food may be separated into three classes, the al buminoids, the hydro-carbons, and the anti-scorbutics. The first are essentiallb the builders-up and restorers of the body the second are substances which tend tc keep us warm; they are essentially the coals which keop the engine going, and the third are the preventives which keel off disease and more especially scurvy. An egg is an albuiminoid, butter is it hydro-carbon, und cabbage an anti scorbutic. An albuminoid makes tissue. What men call "the strength" in food is said to be derived from albuminoids, but. this term is an eironeous one. Men can nid do grew strong and'lusty when partaking of the albumioids in the most sparing way. The rice feeders of Hin dustan are a notable example of this, The hydro-earbons exist in all lithe starches which are found in the cereals, in sugars and in the fats. The anti scorbuttics4, found in certain vegetables, are as valuable as any other edible sub stances, though their food value ma3 not be very great. Now, what.is notice nll,' inl nll fh m ahrdo,''iiii m, o ro I n in that many single things Iay posses in themselves soie of these qualities, For instance, meat has in the lean the albuminoid, in its fat the hydro-carbon; it has even, when fresh, a certain anti scorbutic power. In milk, too, we hav. the albimen, and most particularly an anti-scorbutie power. We see, then, that in a certain way nature hats giver us in a single substance moore than oml of those things necessary for life,hmt the perfect unit, containing all in ipropm proportions, doe, not exist. Hence th( natural inclination we have to mnixowui food. The dish of meat cooked witl vegetables as a compound gives uin the variety pleasurable to the palate and doe sirable for our health. The human en gine not only wants fuel and water, bi as its grate bars are worn out it inns possess5 the magical powers of self-re storation. Just as in the rep~airs of locomotive, thme head of the machine shop looks out where he can tinid tlu bmest and cheapest coal anod oil or mnateri als, always having the cost in view; s< muist we learn how to feed outrselves, ha the study of food values, at the smualles outlay of money. Now, in England a present, where food is scare and monea not plenty, it b~ecomles quite imuportan that lessons of economy should be taugh to all classes. If the b)are chance of lift is not alone thought of, thourequirementi of the workingmen-..hlose who plhow o: dig or spin-are also an object of solici tutde. What is the food, the cheapest laborers can have, so that their thews their sinew and nmuscle, shall be forth coming? 1t. is curious to find that a re tuirn has been made, by the analysis of these alimentary substances, the h ydlro gen, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon to at old1 English dish. Possibly the c'lassi< pork andi beans was brought over froni England to Plymouth Rock. English writers on the economy of food, Si: Henry TIhompsn~i and1( Dr. Paxy espe cially, direct working people to the ex cellence of beans, pens and lentils, whom cooked with fat mecati such as bacon buit wisely reqnire certain simple addi tions, Now, why? Tihme beans conutah the starch, the sugar-making properties the fat the hydro-carbons. These ar< albumninods and hydro-carblons, buit you: anti-scorbutie is not present. TIhis wan is suipplied by the addition of a vegeta bl1e such as ant oione or a carrot. Tihu value of anti-scorhutics in our food cai not be overlooked. If the poorer classe: can not indulge in salads, thme use e which entails more or less exponsiyv d oressinmgs, resource can b)0 had to soutr kraut, the excellence of which has oftei bee sttedin thtese columns. Then< lessons as to the destruction of foo< ought to be of tuse to oven those whi know nothinig of want, and whose table can be alwvays luxuriously futrnished. A one time we Americans were horribl' carnivorous. Meat three times a da: .was quito common. Htunenduouis roast are still very much in vogiue, an exces of the albuminoid and tydro-carbon while qutito often the vegetable tudjuinct are in too diminished quanmtty. Such I Titanesquec pieces of beef might bo vor' Imuch pared down, and in the genera menu retouurse _had to a more legumnou Can't Stop a Minute. Recently Mr. Sarsaper told his wife one morning that he had got about tircd of battering 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 provement on all others ever made. Full of little boxes and places for all sorts of things. Keeps everything separate meat., vegetables, milk and so on, with out any mixing up.It makes hot weather so nmch more comfortable, Bob, to pull up to the table and find everything nice, cool and crisp, instead of limp, 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-time you're goitng 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 an.y time." About 2 o'clock one morning, Mr. Bar saper was awakened out- of his slumber that always keeps companlly with an easy co118cience, by his wife poking him in the ribs, and calling on him to huutle out, and see what the matter was. The door wa.s jingling like all possessed. Mir. Sarmaper crawled out of bed, and after hanging 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 pl) a window and pecred out into the wet and murky gloom. 'Who's there ?" he demanded, looking dow-n at the top of an umbrella. "Mle !" came in a thick voice from the under side of it. "Who's Ine." "Bob." "Oh I it's you, is it? What's the mni ter, Bob ? anybody sick ?" "Oh, no. You see I've been out to Sodalmsville with sonme of the boys to help institute ia 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 see it, without .cerelmony, as you said. Come down and let me in. I'm in a hurry to get home, and can't stop but a minute." Mr. Oari..my'j,- iid nuAeLhaig that would bend the types double if we should undertake to print it, and slam mned down the window. He remarked to Bob the next day that for downright coolness his refrigerator was a hake-oven compared to the prank praotised on him. A Pecunllr Peopl1e. Thle 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 livo mainly oil fish, clams, oysters, crabs, terrapins 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 iml s are rn by sails, and some of them pump. their water with windmills. They don't go up stairs, but "go aloft ;" and when they go to bed they "turn in ;" whlen1 they are ill they "are under thie weather," and when in robust health they say they are ''bung up and bilge free." They spmeak of a trimbuilti sweet heart as "clipper' built." If she ia a liitle stout they say she is "broad in the b 1eam," or she is "wide across the tran 8som." .Many ,of .them have ships' cabin doors in their houses that slide on grooves, and to their buiidings they give a coat of tar instead of painting thorm. Tho'old woman' blows a conoh shell when dinner is ready, and they measure time b~y '-bells." 'l'hoir babies are not rocked im cradles, but swung in hammock's. They chow~ black pig-tail tobacco, and dirink a wild tea called "Yeopon." 'hey manure their land with sea grass and bury their yam potatoes in the sand hills. When they want the doctor they hang a red flag against a hill side as a signal of distress. If he don't come, because the '"wind ain't fair,"' they take a drinm of ,whisky an~d copperas, soak their feet in sea water, "turn in," and trust to luck. If they die they will be buried on the top of a sand rid'ge ; and when you see several sail boats on 6he water in procession, with a flag at half mast, you are looking at a funeral. Tihey ornament their houses with whales' ribs and jaws, sharks' teeth, swordlish snoots, devilfish arms, sawfishi swords (six feet long), miniature ships, camph or-wood chests, Honduras gourds, spy-glasses, South American lariats, war clubs from the Mozambique Islands, Turkish pipes, West India shells, sandal-. wood boxes, Chinese chesemmi, Japa neso faces, Madagascar idols, Australian boomerangs, and other strange outland ish things. Their hogs are raised on clams, mussels, offal of fish and garbage, and their cattle wade out on the shos for miles, where the water covers their backs, to feed on sea-grass, andl if they are carried up)-pountry and fed on corna and fodder, they will not line. Every muan Is cat~tain of some kind of a boat, and "she" is always better than any other beat in some way. "She is hard to beat in a gale of wind," or "be fore the wind,' or "beating to wind 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. m i a light wind," or "totes more stock," o (r is ''stronger," or "diryer " 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 hueoky Ibeat," or "stands up better," or "need lessi sail than any other boat 9' or "she iIs best for' fisly g," &. Perbaps 4 "comes alfont better. than any other lboat"- She is d(ito have somtethig about her be itan any body else e