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TR-WEELY EDITION.WNSOO S.C. SEPTEBE Lb.881 WORDS OF STRENGTH. There are three lessons I would write, Three words as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light, Upon the hearts of men. Have hope. Though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Pout thou the shutdow frot thy brow No night but bath its morn. Have faith. Where'er thy bark li driven, The calm's disport, the tempest's inirti Know this-God rates the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth. Have love. Not love alone for one, But nan as man, thy brother call, And scatter, like the circling sutn, Thy charities on all. Thum grave these lessons on thy soul, Hops, Faith and Love, and thou shalt Lind Strength, when life's surges rutest'roll Light, when thou cise wort blind. FROZEN TO DEATH. "Will you be my wife, Bessie ?" It was Henry Bolton, a good-looking Nantucket mate, who put this important question one night to the captaii's niece, aboard the whalC-ship Wanderer, then in the Arctic Ocean. Bessie Baker, who was a pretty young woman, turned toward the speaker, her rosy face and black eyes lighted by the lantorn in the rigging, and answered with the frank spirit of a true Nantucket laud : "I will be your wife, Harry, but you may as well ask uncle if he is willing." "Of course you can have her," said the good-natured skipper, when the ilrst officer entered the cabin and told his errand ; "and if you like, you can be married aboard ship I" "I would like that, sir, if Bessio would I" "But how will Darkle feel ?" said the captain, alluding to his second oflicer, wito had also wanted Bessie, but whom she had refused. "He has a savage temper." "II care nothing for his temper," said Bolton, "He would not dare to inter fere." Soon after lie went on deck and spoke to Bessie about being married aboard the ship. She consented, and it was agreed that the wedding should take place a fort night thereafter. Mr. Gray, a mission ary, who had taken passage at the $andwich Islands aboard the Wanderer, for the benefit of his health, could per form the ceremony. On an, afternoon, about two days before the one fixed for the wedding, the man at the masthead gave -notice that he saw, far eastern through an opening amongst a field of floating ice bergA, something which looked like a wreck. "Take a boat, Mr. Darkle," he said to his second matto, "and find out what craft she is. Look about you, and see if any one of her crow are in sight," "Ay, ay, sir," answered Darkle. "1 hop it is not my brother's craft the Mt. Vernon," remarked Belton. "The last time I heard from him, he said he was going to cruise up here. I should like to go too, sir." "You may go," said the skipper. Throwing over his shoulders a com fortable cloak he usually wore when on duty, and which was neatly trinuned with black and white fur, Bolton sprang into the boat which was now down, with the second mate in the stern sheets. Darkle wore no cloak, but in other re apects his attire was like that of the first oficer, to whom in fact, in size and complexion, ho bore some resemblance, although the bearing and manner of the two were essentially different. Night had fallen by the time the boat reached the wreck, and in the fast gathering gloom Boelton, who had br1ought no lantern, had sonic trouble to discover the name of the craft. "It is not the Mt. Vernon," lie cried, finally making out "Laura," in gilt let ters, on the boy. He sprang aboard, followed by Darle. "Pull back to the ship," said the hat ter, 90011 after, to the crew, "and get in structionis. I see a light just beyonid that headland," he added, pointing to aln efevationi looking up about half a mile from the wreck. "Ask the captain if he will not send two or three boats that we may take off the crew of this craft, who are doubtless ashore there, with their effects." He gave the orders while Belton down in the forecastle, looking about him, could not hear what lhe said. The boat disappeared in the gathering shadows, and whlen Belton camne up lie was surprised to find it gone. Darkle explained wvhy lie had sent it away. There was, a fierce frown on his brew as lie spoke, and the first mate could see his eyes flashing like those of a wild beast throtugh the partial gloom. All at once lhe threw himself upon his companion, striking at him with a hand spiLke he had picked upl. "Rascal, you shall never marry her I" lie cried. "I will kill you first 1" "Hold there, D~arkle'-arc you out of your senses ? What is the use of being angry about it ?" cried Belton. Dodging the handspike, at the sanme time lie dealt the second ofhicer a blowv h~etween the eyes with his clinched fist. Darkle qijrang quickly back, and oe bia oppoenouit could avoid it brought the inmpleimont hie 1held( down upon hits headl. Half stunned, Bolton staggered towards the broken ice bulwvarks. With a cry of savage exultation, his rival followed him upl, anid seizing him by the throat with one hand, hurled him overboard. IBelton fell upon an iceberg drifting p~ast the wreck. The next imont lie g'as out of D~arkle's sight in the gloom. "T lhere, I hope I atm rid of him .for ever. He nmttered. "I will brobably be ausp)cted, but nothinig can be prioved against me. I will say that Bolton slip ped ando fell overb~oardt accidentally I" Tfhe captain was surprised to see the 'oat's crowv conmc back without their of fieers. wnonl informed wvhy Darkle had sent them, the skipper shrugged his shoul.. ders. Sie had his own thoughts about it, but he didl not exproaas them, lest lie sbould alarmn Bessie. Ije at onco veered sbip, anil headed in the directioni of the wvreek, bu)ht, before lie could find it, anm uniexpectedl gale cmn howling and roaring unon0) them. Bessio was now alarmed. Pale with I anxiety on her lover's account, she t grasped her uncle's arm, saying she ( fere:1 he would now be lost, as the wreck would certainly go to pieces in such a blow I The captain endeavored to cheer her, telling her that there was a bare chance that Belton and Darkle might save themselves by getting on the ice. "They will freeze to death there," gasped the unhappy girl. To this her uncle made no reply. The dismal cracking of the ship's tim bers, and .the weird shriek of the gale in the shrouds, was the only response to the remark. As there would be danger of the vessel's going ashore, if he kept on his present course, the skipper was now obliged to head in another direc tion. The night and the next day passed, and the one which was to have seen Bessie a happy bride dawned .upon the sea. No sign of the wreck-no sign of either of the two young oflicers I The girl went down into her cabin and gave way to her grief. The gale still roared, and the ocean was white with foam and flying sprayr. Occasionally an iceberg was observed in the distance, and the captain scrutinized it with his glass, but lie saw no ono upon it. Hours passed; the gale abated, enab ling him to alter his course toward the land. Now a number of bergs were seen, far ahead. All at once she saw him start. "You see something ?" she gasped. "Yes, a human form on one of those bergs I" As the vessel drew near to it, the agi tated girl took the glass from her uncle's hand. He steadied it for her in the right direction. "It is he " she shrieked ; "but oli, uncle, is lie alive? Remember it is two days since Ie left us I" The -captain made no reply, but his hand trembled as lie again took the glass. Bessie know that he shared her fears. "It is really Belton," lie said, as if he had hoped he had been mistaken. "Oh, yes, uncle, I recognize his cloak -the o11 lined with white and black fur!" Nearer drew the ship to the berg. "He does not move 1" whispered the third mate to the skipper. "Bessie, I think you had better go below," said her uncle, in a faltering voice. She made no answer; she stood as if trantsfixed, her gaze riveted on the figure on the berg. The vessel was soon near enough for the form to be plainly seen with the naked eye. Seated in a niche near the sunimit of the berg, that form did not move a muscle I Straight and rigid it sat, propped against the crystal wall behind it, only the mustache, the ears, and the upper part of the head visible above the high collar, which was drawn well up over the face. The hair protected outward, stiffened with ice, tie coat was glazed with frosty particles as if sheathed in a thiin, scaly arior. "4I will go, too I" cried Bessi, when the captain backed the main yard and lowered a boat. He,objected but she insisted oi going, and he allowed her to have her way, thinking that after all it were best she should learn the worst as soon as pos sible, for the suspense she would suffer, if left aboard, would be terrible to bear. Tile b~oat approached the berg. "'Beltonl I" callet tihe cap~tall, whlen within speaking distance. There was no0 rep~ly.. "Harry, oh, Harry, speak to me I", shlrieked .Bessio. Still 110 response--still 1no mlovenment of the form. ''God help you, niece, it is as I thloughlt I", cried the cap~tainl. ''le is dead !" "Ay, ay, frozen to deatlf!I" murmured 01n0 of tihe crow. The girl uttered a ,despairing moan, and bowed her face on hler hands. S01bs of anguish escap~ed her--she shook like a leaf. Not a man w~as there in the boat whose eyes did not mfoistenl. Behiadl t~hemn the shipl's bell sounded four strokes. Dismal fell its clang upon01 tihe ears of all. It was the 1hour1 when Bessie and Beltoni wore to have been married!i Now it wvas a knell of deathl I At length the boat grated along side of the berg. The captainl, with his men, clanmbered to the side of the motionless form. Blessie stood belo0w, her dlespirinig gaze turned upi toward it. Slowly and sadly her unicle pulled the stiffened, cracking collar away from tile face. Thon01 there could be0 110 doubt that the unfortunate man was deald I The glazed eyes, the whlite and rigid features, anld the flesh as hlard as a stonoe told tihe fearful story. He was frozen to death For a muoment the spectators gazed upon01 the ghastly visage ; then a wild, simnultanleous cry broke from themll, for tile face, now so plainly revealed, was not Boelton's, but that of the secomnd of fleer, Darkloe! So in~tenlt had all been uipon their sad erranid that they hlad niot nioticed a iboat applroachling from shore. Bessie was tile first to notico it, and( amiongst the crCwV ill it she recognlized her lover, Henry B~eltonl I A mlomlent later lie was oult upon the ice and .tile girl wais clasp~ed to his b~reast. As thneTaptain and his 11on1 gathered round himl to shake hands, lhe exp~lainled how lie had been attacked and hlurled from the wvrcck by Darkle. When he fell, hins cloak cauight on a spike 01n tile schooner's sidle, and thus left behind Jhim, it must afterwards have been found by Darkle, and have beeni used b~y him ill vain to keep) himself from freezing to death. The berg on which Belton had fallen drifted to land1( before the gale came up, anld tile young mnan, shilveruig anid in a Pitiale p)lighit, made his way towards a ight he saw and which proved to be hat of a fire, round which were gather d the castaway crew of the wrecked ischooner. They received him kindly, and he re nained with them until his ship hove in ight, when, as shown, he came off with hem in the boat. As to Darkle, Belton and the casta vays, thinking he might possibly have 'eaclied the shore on the ice, after the vreck broke up, had looked for him, nit had seen nothing of )jim until to lay, when they started for the ship. It was evident that, when the wreck vas going to pieces, the unfortunate nan succeeded in getting on the iceberg, vhich the gale must have carried past lie headland, out to sea. Subsequently t had drifted with the current to its >resent locality, and thus it met the gaze of the watchful captain, too late or its occupant to be saved. The body was buried from the vessel lat same afternoon. . A week later Bessie and Belton were narried, and the crbw of the wrecked schooner added to the other witnesses of he ceremony. Although an ocean bridal, it proved o be a very pleasant wedding, and there wore many cheers for the happy young 3OUPle. Colic IIn nlorses. Attacks of colic most frequently are ho result -'arelessuess, and generally nay be tra .d to a horse having drank .old water when heated, or imme liatly after being fed, by being gorged vith food after long fasting, or be ng chilled by currents of cold air. 3ome horses sire constitutionally more iable to it than others. The first synip ,oms are a general fidgetiness accom ?anied by lifting of the feet very quickly, .ollowed by violent rolling. These symp :oms also indicate other disorders, re juiring very different treatment from 1olic. There are two that distinguish 3olic from inflammation of the bowels. [In the former, the horse will strike his bclly violently with feet between the ;he paroxams of pain; but in the latter, bhough lie may lift his feet. he will not strike, and the pain is continuous. When colic symptoms are accompanied by constipation, the first care must he to nmpty the bowels by "back raking" ind injections of warm water. Here, learly, the stimulating medicines prop r-to flatulent colic would be inappropri ite and most likely produce intlamation Af the bowels. Flatulent colic is the more frequent and sudden form, requir ing prompt treatment, and perhaps with what may be at hand in a country place. A horse got quickly well after the ad ininistration of one-(uarter pint of gin, ind two ounces of ground ginger mixed with water to fill a soda water bottle, rrom which it was poured down his throat. Equal parts of whiskey and milk, and from half a pint to a pint at a Lime has been useful. A veterinary prescription for lie, is: Spirits of tur pentine, four ounces; linseed oil, twelve nunces; laudanum, one and one-quarter ounce, to be mixed, and given every hour until the pain ceases. Bathing bhe belly with hor water, and friction, rire both useful. If a horse is led about cuietly, not galloped, as will be done by ignorant grooms, it will aid the action of tha medicmne, and prevent a horse from hurting him self by rolling as lhe will be ript to (10, during the paroxysms of p)ain., A Itoni ight. At the approach of feeding hour the animals, b~y their restlessness and roar ings, inform the public that something ixciting is in store for them. Men and boys, and even the fair sex, crowd close to the bars to see the ferocity of the lions, leopards, and tigers while devour ing their afternoon rep~ast of' raw meat. By some accident or carelessness the~ grating that separated two of these for est kings was left openi, aind quick as lightning the Asiatic lioni sprasng sit the throat of Isis African adverssary, who aimubly avoided this first onset, and held dff his assailant at a paw's lensgth, look ing the very picturne of savage rage and1 fierceness, his eyes darting fird, his rnane bristling, lashing his tail aibout, rid snapping his teeth for the fray. The kceper came, but his voice wsas not heed Lmd b~y the magnificent rep~resenltastive of thie Eastern jungle. A poke from a stout p)ole was administered to him, which ini Iteadl of hsaving the dlesired offet, only itarted sin uproarious andl deadly conflict bietweeni thme twio heasit'- '4h lions ivoiding each othmer', ritt4 at thme (len, springinsg alternsates the other's neck or shoulders. . un smerciful punching,poeundinlg,s . .Rmp ing with iron rods, in the hiandls of half ii dozen emnpiloyes of the -establishmnent, and to which both beasts seemed 'for FL long time insensible, they were p~artedl mid confined in different cages, the Afri man losing an eye, andl having a large piece of flesh torn from his shoulders. Re~iuied( by a D~og. As Stove H~owardl, who lives on the Cedsir Hill road near Dallas, T1exas, was goinmg home recently lie was overtaken by three tramps, who walked slonsg with him for a while, when one of them struck him over the head with a heavy walking stick, knocking him down. Steve's dog, whsieh had not been noticed upl to this time by the men, sprang at the man sand seized him by the throait. T1he other twvo men set about knocking the dog off their comrpanion, when the dhog sprang at one of them and bit him fearfully. Old Steve was now on his feet and withs a large club camne to the assistance of his trusty dog. A pretty lively knocking, biting, growling and cursing was kept up) for awhile, but the robbers finially boat an inglorious retreat, leaving 0old Steve and hsis faithful dog the victors. Garments of Spiders' Wbo "HIave you meen the dress of spui glass iaid to have been made in Pittburgh?" vas asked a Broadway dealer in cirioH ty recently. "No, I have not. I have tried to get me for my display, but failed. Sone (ears ago I learned of a dress that was nade in Brazil ont of spiders' web, and [ would have tried for that, but it8 prob ible price and its delicacy made the taak L foolish one to uidertake. I hadt kept nformed u1pon the use of the spider's vob, and had heard that all of the at 11pts to employ it in the minnufacturo lad failed. The Spaniards tried to nake gloves, stockings, and handker liefs of the thread simn by the sl)ider, >nt although fabilous sum11s were offered, hie articles proved so troublesonie to nanufacture that- they could not be mado at a profit. A traveler told me iat it required 700,000 spiders to imake t piece of silk. I have heard that in 1 some parts of South Amerion garments nado of spider's web are worn. It may ) true, becaise the spiders are larger .hore, but. I doubt the story." "What I the greatest ciriosity you ever saw?" "Thait, is a very broad question." "Woll, the most curious artielo of a ady's toilet." "It wat, i fain. It was in a collection of ans now famous. This particulur fan vas of fine yellow lace, and hail richly -arved wooden sticks, each stick inlaid ivith a crescent A clear shell-l ike sub itance. It was made by a lady of Nor nandy. The lace was miade wevllwhat lo you think it. was made of ?" ",Spider's, web ? "No said the collector, laughing. "It ,vas woven from her own goldn hair, m(d the tiny crescents, so highly 1)01 shed, were the tips of her finger nails. GrI1 Who Dip Snufl. A correspondent fromi Texas, says a row ,rees always grow on the banks of creeks i n Texas, even in the most interminable I >rairie, and on this occasion they were lUmerous enough to afford ample shade. I Dinner seeied to be the nai object of I weryone and all sat around in clusters I watching the peparations for that event as l hungry dog would watch a boy eating, mith the expectation of having a bonei hrown to him. A majority of the ladies tad a baby or a sniff-box, more frequently both, anmt nine-teltlls of the men were J whittling and chewing tobacco and endeav- 4 :ring to catch glimpses of the girls' feet. I After we had been only a short time seated And most of the crowd had expressed the usual wish that they had not come and a I deternmination never to be se foolish again, I I % o rather good-looking girls, with their at- J tendant beaux, seated themselves near us, i look out their snuff-boxes and prepared to bake a comfortable "dip." The men were, I From their dress, evidently cow-boys I E% cry one was well dressed, but the cow- I boys, on all lestives occasions, excel in < .hat rmepect. Their appearence was strik- I ing and I certainly thought them fine-look 4ig specimens of the Texas ranger, with Lheir broad-brinmed haits orsamaented with , A star, cord and tassel, long boots reacing I to the knee, worn outside of the pants, large jingling spurs, fancy striped shirts iud jackets. After chatting inarrily for a row minutes, the girls dipping furiously alli Lhe while, the gentlemen went in search of lemonade or some sort of compound made popular by that name. The girls took a I mouthful of it, aud, rinsing their inonths i with it, spit it, out and dlrank the rest, and with it, I suppose, a goodly portion of the snuff. My titter at the whole p~roceedinmg Lmergedl into a laugh, which I was piower less to suppress. Fortunately the objects1 >f lmy mirthi were Unconscious of doing snythmag rndiculous, andl probably thought, -if they thoughts anything about it at, ill-thlat the young Texan with whom I was conversing was peculiarly enltert alinling. After the lemnonade had been disnosedl of the mangers dlisappearedl again and present y returned with very large striped white ind( redt sticks of calndy, whi.ch the young,~ Ladies, wiho htad resined their dipping, .levoulred, snuir and~ all. 'Iic~klHng1uSakes. A corresponunmt, f romt Williamsport, Pa., writes when witin about a humndredi reet of the fence surrounding the pasture, heard a loud( hissmng sound, and tiurning to discover its origin, received a tremienid >us blow across the chest, andi ini an in ilant found mlyself encirecl by a huge rattlesnake, and lifted( to at least twenty Feet into the air, where I was hld. The] presmure roundi my waist b~y the coil of the snake was so groat that you could aleaily hear- the bones creak. Kate, wvithtout waiting for nme to scream and supplicate assistance, as I hi-id (1011 in her Llilcomna, puihl lp ai spear of herd-grass 11n( began to tickle the snake's belly as liei Lthus stoodl perpendicular, holding nie aloft.1 T'his waIs more thanit his majesty could itand, andi ho rapid~ly unwoundl himself 11nd dlroppoed me to the grounad, breaking iny arm in tihe fall. As; soon as I couildi get on my feet I madle the most of my freedom and~ startedl to run for home, for gettmng mall about Kate until I heard1 a clear, inusical laugh, which recalledl me1 again to my senses. 1 turned anid still foundI her tickling the snake, who had Ptretchied hiimself out at full lcngtlu on the groundl, and1( was receiving tihe operation with every manifestation of d(lighit. I forget tile ox. oruciatimg pain of my broken arm In the novelty of the scenie. Presently lhe gave a sort of p~rolongedI singing sound, an~l showed signs of being sleepy, gradually1 coiling himself up Into uttter insensibility,. Tickling had the effect of ani opiate. While we were nmeditating what course to pursue, our attenitiona wais directed to wardl the rock, and~ forth from every fissurea and hole camne a imultitudle of simnilair snakes, making dlirectly for the place where we were standing. Of course, we thiouight otir timne hadl come but11 were overjoyedl whteni we founid then? stretch themselves a on the groundl after the anner of theiri p~redeccessor, evliently im'viting us to tickle them. 'rThe singing sound 1had reached1 thlem as an utterance of joy. Knowing a refusal was positive death, we securedi moro straws andl comnmeniced business. SImilar restults followed the operationi, andl amid our terrible positloa we couldl not, help appreclatrig the rkdiculous side affah-s hiad taken. Int thn Coen ann hour we had them all asleep. We then oul. ofl their heads, throwing them into a pile by themselves. They numbere-i one liundred and seventy-one, besides the big mnc that attacked ine and which we did not injure. Kate and I thou got a rail from the fence and putting it through the aoil of the big snake carried1 him home, where I put him in a pen so securely that be could not get away when his nap was :ver. My arm by this time was troubling me itensely, but I wanted to collect the do capitated heads we had left in the field as in evidence of our combat, so we took thie team) and drove over to the spot. We found the heads justi as we left them, but the snakes had all crawled away. We Lr ught the heads home and preserved them n alcohol, and they can be seen by any mo desirous of proving the accuracy of the %bove statement. The live snake which 1 iecured I resolved to tame and put his im tieuse strength to a more useful purpose ,hau squeezing the breath out of i man's jody. I have vcry reason to be proud of ny experiment and its results. Our fa nily was large and the washings immense, )t my ingenuity has reduced the labor ane half. We don't ring the clothes any Luore. They are thoroughly washed. litid arefully in a pile and the snake coils imself around then and squeezes them ry in a jiffy. I have refused large of. ,era for the purchase of this snake from nany w'ho go hundreds of miles out of ,heir course to see this wonderful perform mce, cu. If we trace the history ot ice and snow is applied to the wants of mankind to -arly perods, we find that both were util zed in the East ut a very ancient (late. r'he manufacture of artificial ice was inown, we are told, to the Greeks and Ltomans. The custiom of cooling bever. iges with saltpetre was general in Italy in he sixicenth century. In the seventconth ,entury "ice cups " were introduced into France ilnd Spain. A method of produ ing ice by chemical means was invented )y a Mr. Walker in 1872. Leslie intro .luced tihe employment of Sulphuric acid ,or the same purpose in 1810. Harrison >atented an ice-making machine in which .ther and salt were used in 1857. The cc trade of this country was first intro luced by Mr. Tudor, in Boston, in 1806. It is said that in many portions of Asia he snow was, in early thues, gathcred in iacks, far up in the mountains, Diul trans Ported to the principal cities on the backs )f mules, and there preserved i cavities imink in Ilie ground, carefully packed lay irs of straw. Frederick Tudor, a wealthy citizen of [lostoni, largely engaged in salt works at Sahant. about the beginning of the pres. mt century, conceived the project of the ihipient of ice to the West Indies, in 1805, at which time the yellow-fever was >revalent there; and his scheme was con ndered about as ludicrous, by his towns )eople, as was that of Lord Timothy Dexter, who shipped to the same locality cargo of warming pans. As to the sue ess of both of these ventures, history ias chronicled the happy results which at iended the enterprises, and Tudor is ered ted with the pioncership of an important mlnmiercial industry to tie country. In ,ie witer of 1805 Tudor harvested a crop )f ice from a small pond near Boston, imounting to about three hundred tons, whicli lie conveyed by teams to Charles. .own, where he loaded the brig Favorite with his novel freight, and sailed with it ,o the island of Martinique, where the ar-. icle was received with manifestations of murprise antd incredulity by the inhabitants. Its beneflcial advantages, however, were oon demonstrated, and in due time addli ,ional shipments amply paid the enterpris ng merson, who became to be regarded as benefactor, while proilling largely by liis ipeculation. The British Government was the first to ippreciate the adivantages likely to accrue .o colonists from the. introduction of Ice, md ten years after Mr. Tudor's first shipl nent, or shortly after the close of thme war 1 >f 1812, lie received overtures that were very favorable towardl the dhevehlpmenit of .he inalnstry. Th'le first, was the grant of monopoly of the trade upon conditions which lie at once embraed. Theli secondl was the release oif certain port (ducs (then very hieavy) to all ships) bringing ice. The first reguilar cargo was shiipped~ to Dhiarleston, 8. C., in thme summer o' 1817. That city was then the most in.. 'ortant nommercial port in the Southern States. In 1818, Mr. Tudor estabilished a branchi f tne trade in Saivannalh, a rival at that time of Charleston ; andl, In 1820, lie es tablished ice houses in .New Orleans, which nity, thirty years later, became the greatest 3onsuminig city in thme United Slates, south 'f Philadclphia. It Is a remarkable fact htat at this time, and for some little tine1 ater, thme ice trade was confined mainly to roremgn export and( the supply of the ~uthiern States, while the localities in thme vicinity of tihe sources of supply in the ~orthiern States were slow to adopt, thme] icw commodity. At thme present time ice a regardled more as {an article of staple iso throughout the year than one of mere uxury. There are dleliveredl and~ consumed1 n New York city alone, (hiring the winter nonths, more tons of ice than were cut, ibipped andl comlned in thme United Slates I an entire thirty years ago. Squirroin. lHounlcel a Moorpilon. A gentleman residling ini Virginia, fevada, wvho has as pets a p~air of the ittle cotton-tailed ground squirrels that ,bounld everywvhere on the hills, recently ried an experimenit with them. He >rocuired1 a live soorpioni from some boys vho had caught it in thc. hiills and throw he reptile iinto thec cage~ cointaining the ittle rodents. On seeing tho scorpion >othi squirrels uittered their shrill cry of larmn, a sounld much the~ same as that niado by thme kingfisher when startled. ['lie pair circled rounid the repytile,whiichi tood1 with tail erected over its b~ack anid tiing vibrating viciously. Finally, quick s a flash, one of the squirrels darted orward. WVithi its paw a it brought thme ail of the scorpion to thle floor and in tanitly hit ofif the joint containing the iting. T1his (doin the srguirrels dragmed is disarmned scorpionship into their ini iermost dcen to feast upon his carcass at eisuro. NnvxmR feed (decayed roots of any kind to cows giving mulk. One decayced turnip fed to a cow would effect the milk 01 fifty cows if mixed together. D~ON''r judge a man's character by the umbrella he carries, It may not be big. Chostp Food. It la's been quite pertinently remarked im regard to cook-books genorally, that when the cooks took their pens in hand they rather had in their mindn the prep aration of a dinner-party than the daily fare of an ordinary household. Such criticisms, directed toward modern wolka on the culinary art, are hardly just, as both in England and this coun try many liand'y books have been com piled, whose chief end is to teach the ignorant how to prepare food in the mont ecOliOnmical manner. Perhaps, what in not so fully explained an it should be in many of these books, is what might he called the rationale of food values. The most inquiring of housewives, thumbing her cook-book, when she comes across somi page or two devoted to the cheni eail coipusition of food, generally skips it, as she is only intent on finding out how a charlotte russe is to be compouid d. Still, these rather dry pages have their use, taid by no means difficult to understand. It is by no mneans necessary thlit the exact chemical composition of food, its carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, [ixygen, sulphur, phlosphlates and other mineral salts should lie memorized, but the three specific characteristics of the things we eat bught to be remembered. [i the briefest manier, then, food may I)e separated into three classes, the il biuminoids, the hydro-carbons, and the inti-scorbutties. TheI fist are enseitially te builders-up and restorers of the body lhe second are substances which tend to keep us warm; they are essentially the 0oals which keep the engine going, and the third are the preventives which keep AT disease and more especially scurvy. AN egg is aun albuminoid, butter is at biydro-carbon, and cabbage an anti corbutic. An al buminoid makes tissue. What men call "the strength" in food is aid to be derived from albuminoids, mit thin term is an erroneous one. Men 311 and do grow strong and husty when ?artaking of the albuminoids in the most tparing way. The rice feeders of Hin lustan are a notable example of this. 'ho hydro-carbons exist in all the itarchens which are found in the corealu, i sugars and in the fats. The anti icorbutics, found inl certain vegetables, re as valuable as aiy other edible sub tanices, though thoir food valuo may ot be very great. Now, what is notice Ible in all these characteristics of food .s that many single things may possess 11 themselves some of theso qualities. For instance, miieat has in the lean the dbuminoid, in its fat the hydro-carbon; .t has even, whon fresh, a certain anti ucorbutic power. In milk, too, we have Ihe all bumneii, and most particularly an uiti-seorbutic power. We seo, thei, Jut inl a certain way nature has givei is in a ningle substance more than one )f those things nlecessary for life,but the erifeet. unit, conitaining all inl proler roportiois, dove" not exint. Henee the Inturl inclination we have to mix our od. The dish of meat cooked with ogetables as a coipound given in the mriety pleasurable to tie palate and de irable for our health. Thn' human oi dino not, only witits fuel and witer, but in its grade 1barK are worn out it must. ossess1. te magi cail poIwers of self-re itrationi. .Just an in the repairs of a1 oromnotive, thet htiad of the macline hop01 looks out where he can Iln~d the uaet andl cheapest coal and oil or materi iln, always having the cost iln view; no iant we learni how t~o feed ourselves, by3 ;he study of food values, at the smallest mutlaiy of money. Now, in3 England at Iresenlt, where3( ftood( is searc~ and3( muoneyW i(ot palenty, it become1s1( qite implortanit lint lessons of econiomy should lie talught ~o all clanses. If the bare chance of life s not alone thought of, the reqijuireimnts >f the wvorkinigmien-those whollo w or0W03 lig or spin--are also anI oblject of solici uide. What in the food, the cheapest, ablorers can huqve, Ho that their thewvs, heir ninewy and muscle, shall be forth o~minlg? It is curious [to 1111d that a re urn lhas 1been1 nado, by the analysis of he108( allimeintarny sub~stan ces, the hydro ein, oxygeni, initrogen and14 carbon01 to ani >1(d Eniglishi (lish. Posnily the classic )ork( and beons was brought overn from Enmglanmd to Plymouth Rock. English A'riters on3 the econiomy of food, Sir henry Thompson)501 anid Dr. Paxy espe ially, direct working people to the eIx 3ellenace of beans, pens and14 lenitihs, when 'ook3ed1 with fat mleats auch as bacon, ;ions. Now, why? TIhie beans contain hle stareh, the sugar-making propoerties, hou fat the hiydro-carbons. These are dbuminoids and hlydro-carbons,b~ut your miti-scorbuiItic is not present. TIhis wvant 14 supplied bly the aiddition of a vegeta >l(3 suchil as' an orin 01r a carrot. Th'1e ~alue of anti-scorbnutics in our food can ot 1)0 overlooked(. If the poorer classes 34n1 not iniduilge in salad1s, the uine of whlichi entails more or less expenisivo iressings, resource can be had to sour krauit, the excellence of wvhich has of tenl been31 stated in these columns. Th'iceo lessus~ as to the destruction (of food .)ight to be of uine to even those who know nothing oIf want, and whose tables uaa be always luxuriously furnished. At ~no time we Americans woere horrily3 3arnivorous. Meat three times a day wvas (quiite common. Stunonuduous roasts are still very much in vogue, an excess oIf the albuminoid and h ydlro-carbon, while quite often the vegetable adjuncts aro in too diminished quantity. Such Titanlesqule pieces of beef miighit be very much pared down, and in the general menui recourso had to a more legiuminous mid vnegtable diet, FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Our taste declines with our merit. Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. Men with missions do not disappear till they have fulfilled them. Our own hearts, and not other men's opinions, form our true honor. I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place. . The sympatiy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity. There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers. Gratitude is the music of the heart when its chords are swept by kindness. Never excuse a wrovg action by say ing some one else does the same thing. Before you set about asking God's blessing, make sure that you have earned it. Ho that has -tio inclination to learn more, will be very apt to think Ie knows enough. The beam of the benevolent eye giv eth value to the bounty which the hand disperses. Be brief; for it is as with sunbeams the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. The charities that soothe, heal, and bless, lie scattered at the feet of men like flowers. Always there is life while life lasts, whieb, rightly divined, implies a divine satisfaction. Had we not faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure to note theni in others. If you would be capable, cultivate your mind; if you would be loved, culti vate your heart. Never show that you suspect, nor ac e'use till you are sure that your suspicion was well founded. No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Self-proservation is the first law of nature, but too niany in thi-i world act as if it was the only one. As an archor makes straight his arrow, so a wise man makes straight his thought, which is difficult to turn. If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whoi you ought never to speak. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. A man who is 9ways sneering at wo man, is geonerallya coarse 1aufligate, or a coarse bigot, no matter which. Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which lie has, and that which lie thinks he has. It is always better to keep out of a quarrel than to make it up ever so au cably after you have gone into one. Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while ad versity is often as the rain of Spring. The bread of life is love ; the salt of life is work ; the sweetness of life is poetry, aid the water of life is faith. No man has ever yet reached to per fection ; but io man has ever been ren dered any the worse by striving after it. Beware of him that is slow to anger; anger, when it is long in coming, is stronger when it comnea, and longer kept. If the ages of human beings were to 1h0 recko.ned only by hours and (lays wvell spont, most of us would be in our in fancy. Men are guided less by conscience than by glory ; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by con ienmce. An Easterni proverb) says, " Hie is miserable once who meets with ill fortune buit twie who fears it before it comes." The happiest lot for man, as far as birth is conlcerneod, is thait it should give him but little occasion to thinik much about it. The ronjir the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it; skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and temnpests. Use anmd asoert your own reason, re flect, examine and analyze every thing, mi order to form a sound and mature j udgmient. It is nto great thing to be humble when you are brought low ; but to bie humble when you are praised is a great and rare aittaianent. The excessive pleasure we find ini talking of ourse3lves ought to make us apprehensive that it gives but little to our auditors. To pronounce a man happy merely becauso ho is rich, is just as absurd as to call a man healthy merely because ho has enough to eat. A blemish may be taken out of a dia maond by careful polishing ; but, if your wvords have the least blemish, therp is no way to efface it. Never adopt the opinions of any books you may roadl, nor of any compiany you may keep, without examining whether they are just or not. If we couldl read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrowv and suffering enough to disairm all hostility. It (lees not matter much from what round of the ladder a man starts because if he keeps a good look-out, and his feet ready, he is sure to rise. ft was Johnson who said; " The, diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt until they are too strong to 1)0 broken" The sweetest life is to be ever making sacrifices ; the hardest life a man can lead on earth, the most full of misery, Is to be alwvays doing his own will and seekig to please himself. Truth is the bond of union and the basis of human happiness. Wilthout this virtue there Is no reliance on lan guage, no confidence in friendship, m.0 security in promises and oaths,