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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. W INNSBORO, S. C., SEPTEMBER 3, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. THE DESERT OF THE HEART. 0% desert of the heart, in those long eves When autumn brings our flowerless winter on, What a bleak wind across thy wild waste grieves With hollow murmurs for the dead and gone I Oh, desert of the heart I in our fresh youth, when all things are new-born, Before we love, in our impatience, old, We mourn our fate as though we were forlorn; Then, also, how thou seemest vast and cold I Oh, desert of the heart ! We long for love, we think the heavens are rude, The future looks all cloud and storm and rain, And fierce against the barriers that exclude Our bliss we strike, but seem to strike in vain, Oh, desert of the heart I Illusions! Run, oh frank and bounding youth I. There at two paces is the bush in flower ; No more the desert. But for age, in sooth, Is there a white-rose ush, or jasmine bower, Oh, desert of the heart? Bitter delays and longings unattained I Oh I say, beyond the sands and frowning moun tains, Dlim In the distance to our weak eyes strained, Is there not hid some Vaucluse with its foun. talus, Oh, desert of the heart ? GRACE MORTIMElt. More than ifty years ago a farmer named Atwood, a widower and childless, resided on an extensive farm on the bor ders of Sherwood Forest,on the Notting ham road. His residence was isolated, being two miles distant from any human habitation; and he,though now on the verge of three score years, was as hale and hearty, to all appearances,as the generality of men at forty. He was reputed wealthy, having con stantly in his employ some three or four sturdy field laborers. At the time of his wife's death, and aiome two years preceding the incidents embodied in our story, he had taken home to reside with him an orphan niece from Shropshire, named Grace Morti ier. Grace was a young lady of handsome features and commanding figure, every expression of her face bespoke intelli gence, courage, and decision of charac ter; which last qualities were the adini ration and boast of the kind old uncle Farmer Atwood. The uncle was reputed wealthy, and a gang of thieves who had their headquar ters in the neighborhood,had more than once tried to rob him. On the last oc casion they had assaulted the house when the girl was alone, with some female servants, but had been repulsed, Grace who knew how to handle a gun,shooting one of them in the arm. From this time forward Farmer At wood never suffered her to remain be hind on occasions of his visiting the fairs,without leaving a sufficient number of his men to insure her protection; but oftener he took her with him, thereby rendering precaution doubly sure. On one of these oucasions at Notting ham, Grace made the acquaintance of a dashing young silversmith, who profess ed to be carrying on a large business in Manchester. He paid the most flattering attentions to her during the two days they remain ed at the fair, and finally asked perinis sion of the uncle to visit them at the farm, which proposition was the more readily acceded to on account of some hints thrown out by him in regard to his own~ personal wealth and family influ ence. Agreeable to arrangements, some two or three weeks after thib, Mr. Joseph Pennington. such was the niame given by the Manchester suitor made his ap p~earance-at the residence of Farmer At wvood, and was cordially received both by the old gentleman aind his niece. Duripg his stay he made ralpid adlvance ment in the confidence and esteem of the family, and used frequently to take long rambles with Grace through the adjacent country. On one of these occasions they had extendoed their wahlk to the v'ery bordera of Sherwood Forest, when he turned suddenly up~on her, and with a terrible meaning figahiing from his dark eyes, 8 poko as follows "Grace Mortimer, is it p~ossible that I anm so changed that you do not recognize me?" Grace gazed up into his face with a vague expression of alarm, but maitde no direct answer to his appeal. "Look at me wretched girl; look at me wvoll! Look at this mimed arm,the work of your handi" And rolling up his sloeve he displayed a frightful sear just above the wrist, whore she had shot him. In an instant the terrible truth flashed upon the poor girl's mind, and with a ery of helpless terror, such as mnighit have awakened the pity of a fiend, she ank swooing at the brigand's feet.. Without using the least effort to re tore her to consciousness, he caught har in his arms and bore her into the forest. When Grace reeovered from her swoon she found herself in the midst of a rough company, ini a low vaulted apartmnent, lighted by a miserable oil lamp and a single wax tapoer. The room was of ample dimensions, and scormed to have been p~artially dug fram the solid limestone rock. It was the shout of triumplh which greeted 1hcr entrance into the cave which first aroused her to conseiousness, and as she laid on the huge bundle of straw upon which the brigand chief had seeon proper to plnce her, she could not fail tn catch... -ai Woro tn co.v.raio which ensued between them. Grace cast her eyes around her for c moment, just long enough to take in tI surrounding objects,and behold on ever' hand a heterogeneous collection of stolea property scattered about her. In the centre of the room six men wer< sitting around a table playing at cards while her false lover, Penninigton, wa busily occupied in changing his fashion able garments for the coarser descrip tion worn by the robbers. None of them paid any attention ta her, and soon after they passed out o the room, leaving the taper burning oi the floor. Grace heard them lock and bar th< door, and soon after pass away. Then in the silence and solitude o her narrow prison she notea the swiftl) consuming taper grow fainter and fainte till it finally expired altogether, leaving her in total darkness. She raised herself to a sitting posture and at that moment she detected for th first time a minuto ray of light restinj on her hand. She removed .her hand and all was again in darkness; she re stored it again, and the welcome ray o light was still there. She now becane fully satisfied that the outer world wai not very far removed from her. On examination she discovered a sial opening in the rock overhead, of aboul a foot in diameter, 111)011 which rested a flat stone, placed there no doubt to con coal the aperture from observation. Sh< strove to remove it with her hands, but the stone seemed firmly planted. Finally, with one almost superhumar effort she succeeded in moving the bar rior so far aside that she found no fur ther obstacle to her escapo. Trembling with fright and exhaustion she crept through the open space, an< throwing herself on the bare rock above her beautiful face upturned in the clea: autumn moonlight, she fervently thank ed God for her timely and unexpecte( deliverance. She next looked about her, and per ceived that she now stood on the sumnmi of a vast ledge of limestone, with hug( forest trees around her springing out o the mossy fissures of the rook. In a moment she becane satisfied ir her own mind that the entrance of the cavern was just beneath her. Going th< other way she went through the fores till she came to a traveled road. It wa then in the gray of morning, and in t few minutes her attention was arreste& by the sound of approaching wheels,an< she made up her mind to appeal to th< person, whoever he might b for protec tion. At length the team came up, ani Grace accosted the driver. She state< in as few words as possible who she wat and what had happened to her, ana begged him to conceal her if possibl somewhere in his wagon, for fear tha Pennington and his associates migh follow and overtake her. No sooner di< the di'iver understand that she was i niece of Farmer Atwood's than he asked her if she did not remember him. "I do nowl" cried Grace, with a thril of pleasure. "You are one of those ver; persons who came to our relidf one tiim< they attempted to rob my uncle's house. "The name," answer~ed the driver; "sa you may as well clamber into tihe wehiei now as at another time and no give ni an hopportuvlity to conceal you fron hobservation." Grace thanked the loquacious bu kind-hearted driver, who now assiste< her ini mounting to the cart, the blody o which was filled with a great numb~er 0 boxes, baskets, and casks. A whisk' barrel, with one of the heads knockoi in, seemied the Only unioccupied thaing inl tile wagon; an~d Mr. Sharp, wvith ai aptness worthy of the name of Sharp hoisted it up with the remark that tin bunghole wais in the other end. "'Now, young omnan,if you don't mni it, I'll just cover you over with thin whisky barreh,so if any one comeIs thiey'h see the sound head with the bung out, an' they'll think I'm just taking it t< market to h)e filled. A pretty good idea young 'oman," lie said. Grace assented1, and suffered hemr pro. tector to place the empty barrel over heC2 head, thumping it two or three times t be sure that it gave forth the righlt sound after which 1h0 resuimedl his seat onlc( more and drove onm. He had not pro ceeded far, hiowpver, wh~en he apprised1 Grace through the bunghole that tw( men wore ini pulrsuit of them, and( thai she must keep up a good heart and ha) snug. In a few momonts the clatter of horses hoofs, was distinctly audible to hem above the heavy Sound of the rumb~ling vehicle. The next moment she heart the strong voice of Pennington com. mnandiing thec driver to halt. "By what right, an't p~lease you d< you delay an honest mani onl the kinmg' 'ighi-way?" demanded the (driver, in e querulous voice, as though nothing it: the wvorld had happened. "BJy thle common right," alnswerec Ponnington, "that one mani has to mak( inquiry of another. We are ofllcers,anu ini search of a younag femal~o pickpockel who has just made her escapo from enis tody. flavo you seoon one "n the ronc amnwerinlg to that descriptioni? Remom, ber we are oflicers, and you must con. oal nothinig from us." "What have you got stowecd away ii your boxes there?" "0, you can examine 'ent!" said th< driver. "T donn't fancy you'l f.a1 'e contrabanded. There's heggs in some an' butter in others, fleece, and wegeta bles, an' hother similar truck in all the rest of 'ei. We'll look 'en over, an't t please you." "Oh, no!" returned Pennington, "there is too much work in that. But what have you got in that barrel?" lie added, giving it a smart tap on the head - with his riding whip. "An't please you," quickly returned the driver, "it's a whiskey barrel I am taking to market to be filled. If the f young 'oman be there, you are in search of, she must have got through the bung hole somehow!" "II think if she was in there she would find her way out," answered Penning ton, with a meaning laugh, "But evi dently she has taken the other road, and as time presses, we must bid you a very good morning, Mr. Driver." And with this, Pennington wheeled his horse, and drove on with his coi panion, well satisfied that they had sold the driver, instead of being sold them selves. The driver cracked upl) his horses, and began to whistle as though nothing had occurred. When the team reached the brow of the hiU, he stopped his horses with a sudden jerk, and clapping his hands to the barrel raised it up,and then pointing down into the valley, said "See, Miss Mortimer, there be a host of men there, and Farmer Atwood at their hekd!" With a thrill of joy she recognized her uncle, and springing to her feet be fore the driver could restrain her, waved her hand aloft, and shouted with all her strength. In a moment the people below saw and heard her,and a Bimultatneous shout went up from the valley. When they came together,she told him in a few words as possible, the story of her abduction and escape,and her friends eagerly forming themselves into a tri umphal procession, the cart beiig in the centre, marched to the office of the mag istrate at Nottingham. Again the story was repeated; and on being assured by her that she could guide them to the place, a young baro not, named Hopgood, who had taken much interest in the affair, as well as in the handsome vivacious face of our her oine, volunteered to lead a comnpaniy of cavalry to the spot, if Grace would ac company him on a palfry and point out ithe way. To this Grace assented, and about three hours litter the cavalry started on their expedition into the forest. They had but little difliculty in find ing the cave, and still less in forcing an entrance, and arresting four of the gang who chanced to be within. Among themi they found a constitution and by-la vs, with eight niames attached to the docu ment. A dot of blood was prefixed to one, signifying that the person had been murdered or dealt with foully. The four were immediately taken into custody and carried to Nottingham, while a guard was stationed around the cave to make prisoners of the others on their return-Pennington and two of their number not yet having been taken. They wore trappled, however,that very night, and returned to Nottingham with their fellows in the morning t~o await their examination. Sonme weeks after they were brought up b~efore the assizes, and on the testimony of Grace and others they wvere duly condemned1 to transp~or tation for life. From this moment Grace Mortimner become the rage and admiration of every one, eveni to the nobility. She was petted by the old men, and toasted and flattered1 by the young; andl if reports be true she became the inno-. eenit cause of more than one duel among the chivalrous young squires of the neighborhood. But when a few months liater it wa'ms prioclaimned she was to he the bride of thec yon g baronmet ,Sir Andrew Hfopgood they had no further occasioni to quarrel amon g themselves, and wvere rendlered but too hiapp~y by being present at the marriage fete, and witnessing thme handi somle dower which Farmer Atwood be stowed upon01 his becautiful niece. . WIaispring. Ask the offenders to go whispering for a half hour, or hour, amnd at the end of that ascertain who have succeeded, letting them raise their hamndis. Comn mendl their success ; give them a little rest and let them try another period. Have a p~eriod set apiart for speaking by having a large card marked, ''Study Hour," oin 0one side and "'Needful Speech" on the other. At the end of .each hour turn this card. Keep am eye on the nloisy onets, and give thenm a separate place to sit, niot so much as a pii~uihment as to prevent their troubl ing others. Kee) a record of those who whisper mmch, ando class themn as ''Disorderly," and lower their standing for goo'd be.. havior. T1his needis to be handled with care. Detain those wvho are noisy and try to influence them by a kind personaf talkc. Appoint some1 of these monitors. Give extra employment to those who seem to hjive time to whisper. Make a great distinction between those who whisper abont their lessons and those wvho wvhisper about mischief. Artifiieal Diaunonds-How they were Made. Mr. Hlannay, the Glasgow chemist, who succeeded in producing carbon crys tals which by careful exanination by experts, proved to be real diamonds, has at-last explained the method by which lie produced them. His experiments were bold, expensive and oft repeated. Out of eighty only three succeeded. Violent exl)losions were frequent, fur naceii were blown to pieces, steel tubes burst, and as a net result he produced a few small crystals of dianiond which would have but little monetary value. Furthermore, he confessed to having in duced in himself a very weak state of the nervous system caused by working under such dilieulties and dangers. The crys tals were itt last produced by a tube of coiled Loromoor iron twenty inches long, four inches in diameter, having an iiter ial bore of only half an inch. In it were placed a mixture of 90 per cent. bone oil, 10 per cent. pariline spirit and about 62 grains of metal lithiun. The open end of the tuhe was welded air-tight,and the whole was heated to redness for four teen hours, a, proessi which of course caused it tremeindous theniperature with in the tube, the sane process having ex ploded many tubes tried previously. Af ter allowing the tube to cool and open ing it, he found withml a small miss 1(1 liering to the sides which wai quite black. From this black inaiss he oliftin ed the crystalline carlion. Parailie spirit is made up of oarbon and hydro gen, and it is 11p1)0'd that the metal lithium went into union with the hydro gen leaving the gaseous earbonl which, under the intense heat and pressure, was crytallized into the solid forin which we call diamonds. If this experiment eaii be regarded as an indication of nature's proc'ess the temperature of the earth imust, have been at one tine munch higher tian anything we can now produce arti ficially, with a pressure sco enormi1ous Its to be alnoist beyond alcuilation. The earth which now affords habitation for man must have undergone wonderful changes since it was capable of prodiue ing the dianiond.-)r. ofc'.si //ru//h fonthly. The lilainciiatlots of reat41 Men1. In 1806 General Rapp, on his return from the siege of Danizi. having occa sion to speak to the Emperor, entered his study without. being announoed. lie found him so absorbed that his entry..,was unperceived. The General, seeing 'the Sauperor continue motionless, thought -he might he ill, and purposely umade a noise. Napoleon Ininethately arousnd hImself, and, without any preamble, scizing It pp by the arm, said to him, pointing to the sky: "Look there, up there " The Gen eral remained silent, but, on being asked a second tin:c, he answered that he per ceived nothing. " What," replied the Eniperor, "you do not see it? It Is my star, it is before you brilliant;" then, ani mating by degrees, he cried out : " It has never abandoned me, I see it on all great occasions, it commands ime to go forward, and it is a constant sign of good fortune to ie." It appeare that stars of this kind, so frequently spoken of In history, and so well known as a metaphor In language, arA a common hallucinaul m11 of tile in ine. Brierre de Boismnont has a chapter-oni the stars of great men. I cannot douibt that phantasies of this dlescriptioni were ini seome cases the basis of that firm belief In astrology which not, a few persons of emi nence entertained'. -rThe hltucmations of great mien may hie accounted for in part Iby their sham ing a toendency whicht we have seen to he not unommoni in the human race, ando wich, If It, happenis to lie natural to them, Is lia ble to be dlevehoped In their oveirwrought brains by thme isolation of their lives. A man ini t~me position of the fIrst Napoleon could have no liIimate associates; a great philosopher wvho explores ways of thought far ahead of his contemporaries must have an inner world in which lie passes long and solitary hours. Great men01 fre also apt to have touches of madness; the ideas bmy which they are hiaunmted, ando to whose purs~iuit they devote themselves, andio by wvhich they rise to eminence, have imuch in cominon with the monomanIa of Iisanity. St-.king instances of great via ioniarmes maty be mentioned, who had aml most be(yondh (doubt those veiry nervous seizures with wvhich tiio tendeney to haihi canations is Iiitimately connected. TJo take a single instance Socrates, whose daimn was an auibl~e not, a visual ap. pearanice, wats subjcet to wha~t admits of hardly any other interpretatoion than cata heptic aeizure, standing all night. throigh in a rigidl ttitudel. A prnoprietor ha s aii undoubted) c~ righmt to enigage at mantl conditionally, upon shaving. No man is forced to accept; it is solely a <piestionl between them, for them to settle, without the interfereunce of aniybodsy. Everythminig is caieid to ridhiciulous extremes. Oime well-knownm up1-toiwn house aituailtly r'eqiries their men to shave everything cleaui. Rt is said that a guest, to) whom natuire hadl denied ainy hirsuate appenduages wuha t ever', and whod conseuenitly lacked flint manly appearance wvh mich those ornai mets ahoine ennu give, wats waiiteds upon01 b~y a waiter whlo possessed at hanidsoine bieard. The customer, noticing the dlifference bietweeni the wvaiter andi imi self, annmouincedl his iintenition of not using the hioume ini future iunlessi the waiters shaved, which from thant time has been a rule .of the house, It may not he generally known, but the proprietor of one of our leadinig uptown restaurants invariably shaves when in the city. This is conhsistency. *This gentleman would, doubtless, scorn to ask a man to do0 what ho would not do hlm-el A Great Catch on Fish. A great catch of weak fish, was recent ly wade about two miles off Rockaway Beach by the steam snacks E. T. De Blois, Capt. J. A. Keene; Leonard Brightman, Capt. Elijah Powers, and J. W. Hawkins, Capt. J. Wawkins. These smacks are engaged in the menhaden or 'moss bunker" fish1 cry for the oil-rendering and fish-scrap works on Barren Island and were cruising off Rockaway in search of schools. About noon a vast school of ,what the fishermen supposed at first to be menhaden was discovered stretching along the coast for miles. To borrow their language, '"the water was red with fishi, but. they didn't break the surface, as menhaden always do." ile boats were lowered, the saines spread, and then it was discovered that the school was of weak-tish and not menhaden. "'I have been in the biiness for twenty years," said the mate of the Brightman. "aid I never saw anything like it before. The fish varied in length from one and a half to three feet, and in weight fi om three to seven poun(s. The De Blois eaight over 200 barrels, tihe Hawkins 150 barrels, 'and the Brightman 350 bar rels. The entire eatch was estimated at. comething over 200,000 pounds, which, at the ordinary market price for wenk fish Neveln Cents Ia l)ouild -- would am11On0t to $14,000. Blut, Of c011re, the imarkot price could not. no maintained in t-he presence of sich a catch as this, and it was smaid recently that a strong effort, was being made by the wholesale 1ish1 dealers of Fuliltoni market to prevent. the greater pirt, of the fish froni being put on sale. TVihe Captain of the Hawkins, which landed at Pier No. 22, E'ast river, foot of Fulton street, obtitinted ia promise from a Fultoni market. dealer to take part, of his eathl, and then made over tiures to Mr. Eugene G. Blackford, of E. (4. Blackford & Co., Beekman street., to sell theremainder. Assonhowever, as t he Fulton market. dealer learied of the offer to Mr. Blackford, he refused to take any of the fish. The captaill of the Bright man, however, had better lick. H. M. Rogers & Co., of No. 11 PILItOn iiimarket., engagled to take his entire catch of 350 barrels, and immediately pit two men in (charge of tle boat. The Du Blois, meanwhile, had made fast to the lmllk head at. the foot of Beckman street, and Captain Keene, failing to conme to t'rmns with the Fulton market dealers, engaged P. Owens, of No. 104 Soith street, who manages the peddling trade for the Fiul ton Market dealers,to dispose of his fish. A crowd speedily gathered aboitt his boat, and the fish sold almost as fast as they ('old be handled at twenty-five cents ia pair. The preisstire of the crowd became so great at One tilie that police assistance was invoked, and Officer Wil liam Brown, of the steamboat, sqaid, was detailed to stay onl the boat. Hir31s and tlie Lighthotues. 1t is a enriolus fact int 11111tural history that. ou 11migrating birds all (or nIearly all) perform theirlmigrations in the night. Su1sequent investigations have led to the acceptiaice of this habit, on the part of the blirdls by all scientists whlo hlave studied this subject. And Capt. Brooks, oIf tihe Faulkner's Islanid lighthlouse', says that every year great numibers oIf birds kill themi~selves by dash intg againtst the ( light. On1ce, in the topI of the lofty lighlthmonse oil' S1. Augustinle, Florida, I found tihe thick and( solid plate glass badly cracked, antd sotme p)1lts newly pult ill to replace others that had been wholly smashed bly tile impaflct of wild dlucks-and( thlis, too, b ear in mimd, in sp~ite oIf a strong wire netting placed around thme light for its p~rot(etiont I Sucht is tile forco with which they Ily. Faulkner's Island light is so sttrongly pr'otected by hieav~y plate4 glass thmat it is ilrrly, if ever, brooken. But ''thle slaughiter of the inocent "S' is cinormous011 in splrinig and( fall. Durmiing the pleriod of thme malin Imovemenclt, for aL weeko orl so inl sprinlg and ini September, (Capt. Br'ooks says hunl~dreds (of dea'Jd birds arie pi(ked upl. On the' morn'ling (If May l16, 1878, he plidked up1 ( o wer thain 210 dead1 birds at the foot oIf the lighthouse tower, 110ne of thiem larger thani a enIthir'd, and1( heo says thtetr tmumst have bleen thlree 0or fourt times that nii~hob' ti-htt woro0 So disabled that they could niot get oflf the island(. lie tinks 1,000 birds at least were killed or~ wound11ed in that one nigh t againlst his light alone ;anid heo took mecasurles to alscetain ho(w it was with othler lighthouse118 k(eeers. Most (If themll r'eporIted1 (lpite as4 larlge, anld 5(ome1 evenI a larger' destruc'tion thanl Faulknier's is land hadio witnessed Take oven twenty of the eighty or (on1e hu~ndred lighthouses (at a guess) beitw oen the New Jerisey coast. and1 the shores (If Maine, and if anything like this rtek of orit hological faitaiity prIevailed. whalIt must lbe tihe ammttal destruction of birds 0on ouri nior'thern Atlantic. coast alone ? Mr's. Celia Tihmaxterm, in her' rem'Iiniseenees of tihe Isles oIf Shoals, tolls o~f a similar state oIf things at that light. Doubltless the kceeper' (of almo(st, any high , could tell a simuiar story. No wonderI our1 New Enigland birds do( not incr'ease- --that many kindll seem to be falling off. That with thte wantoni destrucmtioni wroumghmt b y long-legged 1m1en and boys with gunis, and thtis work of the lighthlouses, there is danger that tihe n~umber of our small birds will tend, notwithstanding their fecundity, to diminish rathler thanl in nrae, A ioy'si Grip for Life. Wilham Stonestreet, a twelve year old lad, had a narrow escape from a sudden and terrible death recently, im Louisville, Kentucky. The boy says he was throw ing a base ball up against the side of his father's house, near Hancock and Lamp. ton streets, when the ball lodged in the gutter at the top of the house. lie imine diately started tip to got it. getting out on th 'oof through a hatchway. The house has taree storics and an attic, tlie roof Is rather steep, and as the boy slowly edged over toward the gutter he felt a sinking at the heart, Ills little sister Mary was stand. ing in the yard eyeing her- brother, and calling out to him every instant to come down. lie made some boastful answer, and continued his dangerous journey. lie reached the edge of the roof, caught a firm hold of some projecting shingles, and lean ing over seized the ball. Beforo lie could a ise from his stooping position. he felt the shingles to which he was clinging giving way with him. lie chitched them nerv ously and began to draw himself up slow ly. Suddenly the shingles gave way, and in an instant the boy seemed to be hurrying to Instamt death. The pavement was fully thirty feet below, and there seemed nothing to prevent his being dashed to pileces on the br:cks. Just its lie was rolliLn over the gutter lie involuntarily seized hold of it and cing there desperately. The gut ter was tin orlinary tin affair, not very strong; nor was it bound to the roof very tightly. The sudden weight of the boy made the tin sag down, and a few of the fastenings gave way, leaving the boy hang ing down over the abyss, with only a bro ken rotten piece of tin between him and eternity. William wias now thoroughly aroused to his danger, and cried out for help. His sister ran into the house and happening to fInd a colored man there tol him of her brother's danigcr. The man ran out and gettin a long ladder which was lying in the yard put it up against the house. The boy was now almost exhaust etl. The perspirition was running down his ilce in streams. ilis eyes were dilated with terror and exhaustion, ail it seeied impossible for him to hohd on till the as sistance came. The colored man ran up the laler nimbly. Scarcely had lie reached the top when the boy, who could hold on no longer, dropped into his arms. The colored man took him down and when t'- boy reached the ground lie fainted. lie was taken into the house mnd physicians were siinhiiotned. A Womans with i Histiory. Mrs. Beatty passed through Nashville, 'enn., recently, en route'for Blue Ridge 6prings VII., her accustomed ):LacC for spending the simmer, to Cr.iggie [lope, where site will spend some tune with her iece, Mrs. Alurray, and family, of Alem. phis. Mrs. Beatty is a remarkable wonuin. Site is a daughter of Uovernor John Adai", of Kentucky. At the age of 18 she mar ried Joseph M1. White, of Faorida, who was ciected to Congress from that State, and continued to represent it at Washing ton for twelve years, witnout ever going to the Slate or even asking the suffrayes of his constituency. lie declined to servo longer before each election, and finally was i'llowed to retire on the pretext th.at his wife's health required a cntiige. lie then went on an important foreign mission ail remained abrand many years, whereby his gl ted and beautifu i wife possessed extra ordiniiry advantages in sharing the honors of digitaries in Church and State. Site was honored by a private interview with the Pope of Rome fifty years ago without paying the usual homage of kissing his toe, and not only did lie pledge ever to receive whoinsoever she might see proper to coai mend and to remembe her in his prayeri, but lie sent her some valuable presents, atmiig Which was anl elegant dhimoind cross, wvitha an exqtnsite axpresentation of the Saviour in amethyst. Mr. White was a successful lawyer, and! at. his dIeath left an estate of a hail iioni~ dollars. Five years isud miore had ehlpsed after his death when Mrs. " Florida" White, as she was known hn Washi ngton, mlarr'ied D~r. Heatty, of New Orleans. lie died in about live years, wvheni she retirecd to the privacey of her estate ini Florida. Th'lero she remainied alone with her two hundred slaves unhtil the results of tihe war madhcechinges neces sialy. Whenm Mr. Lincoln issued the eman.. cipaltion proclamnat ion she cailledl them to gether andi~ explainied to them its isiport. They readily uinderstood, for Bile had, with diligence. taught thenm to readl and write. Although past 80 yeairs of age site poises ses her faculties quite perfectly. 11er memory is excellent. When younger she and Mrs. P'resident Folk were special friends. After the~ war she busied herself in the buiding of ai Southiern Prmesb~yterinl Church at Wiishington, iand front one of her own sacrifices site gave a couple oh thiousand~ d(llars reaized~u onl the saile of her dhiamondyl cross. It was a relic that she greatly prized, timd she would not have parted with it, but,, althoughm she had edu catcd seVrc'Ienl cih'iln, she was niever a mlothier ;hence there 'was ito personi On whomt she could so saitisfacorily bestow it as In giving it to her chumrch. A Noted Statt:0 l3eaiconslieldl's slttie il to stanid in the. norith trantsept of Westminiister' Ahh)ey'* that which is entered from the church *ymd of St. Mairgar'et upon)1 thle Thlamnes sido, andh ini which stanids thme well-re membe iredl101 monuments of Lord oha~thamii, P' nhterston, iMafield, Cainig and1( Peel. iBeatCnhsield1's sitaltue will lbe placed ntext to that of his old antagonist, Sir Robert Peel. It will p~robabhly take thme place of Chiaiitroy's mloilnent to Sir John Malcolm, flth ip~lmatist of East Inudia fame, to whlose memory an oilier mromiimenit in thte forml of an obelis5k 100 feet high stands at Eskdalo,in Dum friesshiire,Seotland. TPhe (Chantrey moit mont will ho removed to anothier portion of the A bbey, as it wvas the intontion of the late Deoan Stanley to have the north trantsept dlevoted ini the future to Prime Ministers. Th'le seectionu of the pla1co for' the Beac1lonsfloldl statue, and the setr mton upon thic late Ptemier, wore amontg the very latest official acts of the Dean of Westrinistor. -Thfle offieial list of property in Ver mont shows a total value of $168,891, 898. Lastvnear it wa $109,2r0,000. Poisonling. We all have a great horror of being pois oned, without exactly Understanding why It is. Poison is a disorganization of flesh or blood, or both. Poisons are of two kinds; one the result of medicinal agents taken in to the stomach or circulation, the other the resuilt of bites or stings of living creatures. I will now state two ideas which, if gener ally known and remembered, would save thousands of lives every year. If you have swallowed a poison, whether lauda num, arsenic, or other thing poisonous. put a tablespoon of ground mustard in a glass of water, cold or warm, stir and swallow quickly, and hislantaneously the contents of the stonuch will he thrown up, not al lowing the poisonous substance time to be absorbed and taken into the blood; and as soon as the vomiting ceases, swallow the white of 'ne or two new eggs, for the pur pose of antagonizing any small portions of the poison which have been left behind. Let the reader remember the principle. which is, to get the poison out of you as soon as possible; There are other things which will have a speedy emetic effect, but the advantage of mustard is, it Is al ways at hand, it acts instantaneously, without any alter medicinal effects. The use of the white of an egg Is, that although it does not nullify all poisons, it antagonizes a larger number than any other agent so readily attainable. But while taking the mustard or egg, send for a physician; these are advised in order to save time, as the difference of twenty minutes Is often deatlh. Cure of bites and stings. Almost all these are destructive fro a their acid nature; conscquently the cairo is an alkali. Spirits of hartahorn is one of the strongest, and in almost every house, and you have only to pour out some into a teacup, and dabble it on t lie wound with a coinion rag; re lief is almost instantaneous. Buht suppose you have no hartshorn ; well, then, sale ratus is an alkali, every trilling lazy cook in thg land has it, we ure daily eating our selves into the grave by its extravagant use, and the use of half a thinibleiul in a week hi extravagant. Moisten it with water and use as the hartahorn. If you have no saleratus or soda, pour a teac ip of boiling water ol its much wood ashes, stir it, and i a few noinents you will have an alkali. The lye of ashes will answer a good pur pose while the physician is coming. Re inember the principle: the bite is an acid, the cure is an alkali. Have we not before now looked with wonder on the old negro, who ran out when the wasp's sting made us " holler," caught tip "'three kinds" of wecd, rubbed the part well, and in five minutes we were happy in complete relief? But why '"three" kinds of weed f Why, in the first place, you know " three" and all its multiples are mysterious numbers ; aid then again you caii scarcely gather up three kinds of plants anywhere, one of which will not have more or less of alkali in it. If men were only to gather up prin- . ciples Instead of spt cifications, how much easier it would be to know a great deal, and to apply our knowledge successfully to the practic d purposes of life. h'im Catim Hierarchy. An official list., lately puulished at Rome under the direction of the pope, inlustrates in a striking manner the great extent and elaborate organization of the Roman Church throughout the world The enumeration of hierarchical titles throughout the east and west together includes a total of 1135 ofices, all of which except about one hun dred, are at the present moment occupied. Of the dignitaries w*ho rank below the su preme pontiff thern are 63, and of patri archs, conipriking both the western and the eastern rites, there are 11. The archbish opa of the Latin rite are no less than 187, with 6o bishops, sho wing that in the coun tries professing ecclesiastic i allegiance to the pope, the higher dignity bears a much larger proportioin to the lower than in our own. TIhe 10nmglish and Welsh bishops are 28 in number, as c >mipared with ounly 2 airchbishops, whlereas in the, Roman Chuch there is an average of less than 5 blsh oips to each suplerior prelate. The Oriental rite is administered by only 51 archblshops and bishops together. Of ofhiclals bearing the title of apostolic <teleantes there are 6, of apostolic vicars 26, and of apostolic prefects 10)2. lBut of LI" bi'shons aint arch-. bishops as many as 291) arc appointed to ltles catled in partibus~ inldcliutm; anoi thuis prop~ortioni 1at cf course been consider ably auigmlentedi of late. in the College of Citrdinals there are four mnenjbers who have not exceeded the age of 80, and only three who have not yet reached their 50th year. A contingent of 29, or nearly half of the Sacered College, is included in the decade exten ding fromn '70 to' 80; there are 15 who arc between 61) and 710 ; aind 12 who are between 50 and 60. In Gre'at Biritajin the ltomanltl Caithohe bishoprics are 12 in num ber, with one arcjibishopric ; and in Ireland the numbers are 24 anud 4. in Scotland there are three apostolic vicarma, and in the lBritishi dependencies in Europe theme are three Itomnan Catholic Bishops. Fmally, in the whole of the Brz itish domlimonis the nunmber of prelates of the samen religion was lately estimated at a total of 116. Sparei the Carpt. As it is hanrd worki to sweep) a carpet, even with a sweeper, save them from un nece(ssary litter by care about scattering flne chips or crumbs) of woood, cloth, paper or food. Eating should be done1 in rooms easily cheammed, with carpets of cih cloth, or similar material, or with bare floors, or with a linen crunmb-clotht spre~ad upon the carpet uinderneatht the tab~le. Children should not lie allowed to runi about the house with pi~ces of foo m01i their hands. If their rood is not all takeni at the table, the child should be obliged to fit stil somie where. ca'ching his crumnbs upon a napkin, bib, or aproni, instead~ of rIroppi~ng themii upon the floor. Tlaught hmabisof nteatneassa, ordeor soon, becomeis second natture. and they do not make themselves obnoxious to orderly peo,,le. If they wish to whittle or to cut, ipaper, or dolly things in your best rooms, you nieedl not necessarily refuse them. Spread a large cloth or newspaper (downi to catch the chips or clippings, and see that it is safely emptied as soon as the child's work is done. G)rowni up people are sonmetimeos very trying, because of their lack of thuis kind of traning. They pull flowers to pieces in your parlors, whittle onm your smoothly shaven lawn, scatter fruit peelings and segar stumps about your yard, scribble on the covers of your magarsines and margins of newspapers, and scratch matches on the wall of the house, or leave disagreable marmktr of Rome kind in every possIble place. H ad they been well trained in youth, these offences would be inpossi.. ble to thon.