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TRI-W EEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. MARCH 28. 1882 - ESTABLISHED 1844. TRANSMIGIATIO. The tiny bud of spring Sweet blooms to summer bring, And fruit to autumn's store; And then their mission's o'er. The rills to streanleta go The streams to rivers now, ' And ever steadily They journey to the sea. Time glides swiftly by, Not heeding you or I Not pausing till It be Lost In eternity. The Infant, In lIt play, Soon reaches youth's hey-day; And manhood's sturdy prime. Bestrides the wave of time. Tnus, as the buds of spring Together harvest bring, And as the mninute rlls The mighty oceans 111 So human lives must tbend in some, great future end; And, oh I where shall It be That end for you and me I A Strange Story. In the winter of 1850 Congress for the first tine extended the matitimo and ad miralty jurisdiction over the lakes in the same manner and to tin same extent as on the high seas. Down %n this period of time the several States of whAIligan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, lying on the great I lakes, bounded the several border vnunties I by low-water mark, and thus left al 'hat portion of land covered with water . blichigan, Huron, Erie and St Clair lyingl within the limits of the several States, but outside of any of the counties, so that in case crimes were committed on the waters of the lakes they could not be punished, because not within the Locus in quo of any county. 'Tle act of Congre2s of 1850 it was supposed would correct this evil by giving jurisdiction to the Federal courts over all crimes committed on the lakes, in the same manner as upon the high seas. The result proved that this supposition was a mistaken one, but such was the popular opinion in the early spring of 1851. It was a very bright, beautiful morning about the last of Miay, 1851, the Detroit itiver harbor looked more lovely than ever, and the steamer Southerner, as she lay moored at the Central railroad dobk.looked like the yacht of the Sultan on the. Hos ph ,rue. But so'uething unusual seemed to haive occurred, and a mystery hung over this beautiful craft. Capt. Pierce, her dashing commander, moved'about as ele gaut and eailor-like as ever, but his brow was overcast, his form unusually upright and his step like that of a commodore on a ship-of.war going into action. Those dia mond studs glittered in his faultless bosom; his jaunty hat hung over his right ear, white his stun ug neck-tie and trim, white, roUd aibout (Wo1 or a resh water 0o 5a ilenpot anft Z iA full dres, and on God one by one to the captain's offce ihesi loced in, low mutterings were heard, and as each returned to duty looks dark and bloody were exchanged. The hurilcane (leek was carefully examined and a large spot of blood midships ou the port side examined by the microscope was studied from every possible standpoint. Finally a tall stranger, a passenger from Cleveland to Detroit, on the steamer which had ar rived just too late for the .Michigan Cen tral railway was spied on the dock and was carefully shadowed by Capt. Pierce and crew as he went into the Cass hotel and secured room No. 46 in the upper story; at d then Capt. Pierce ordering the entire crew to quarters, save one man to watch the stranger in 40, walked quickly, but very earnestly, to the United States Dis trict Attorney's office, then in the base ment of the old Farmers' & lechanics' bank of Jefferson avenue, just above the Michigan kxchange. The lon. Samuel L. Watson was then United States Com misioner, and occupied the front room, while the United States District Attorney had the back officee, and these two gentle. nion were then anid there pa. tuers in thei law. Ushered into the back room, the door lockedi to keep away cowens and eaves (droppers, Capt. Pierce made the following statement to the United States District At torney : "That abmiit 2 o'clock the -previous day at Cleveland,Ohio, a stranger catue on board the Southener and secured stateroom A, having two berths therein, for Detroit, saying that his companion * would came later in the day and pay for his berth in that room; that this man who took the state-rooim was apparently a Quiaker-dressed in a drab c othies, with a drab lhat and a drab satchel, which lie left in his berth. That some three hours ai terward another gen tleman, claiming to be lisa companion. came dressed in black with a black hat and black satchel, inquired for berth Nio. 2, state-room A, paid for that berth, and that about 9 o'clock that nIght the South erner left Cleveland en route for Detroit, that shte encountered a very heavy gale off the island, and that while rolling and pitching in the sea, with no one on (lock save the man at the wheel and the look outs clear forward, the two passoneers from state-room A were scetn on dock, seemIng fo be sea sick, and that while one of them, the drab itan, was votnitinig, the man in black struck him a very heavy blow and then pushed hnim overboard; that as lie sank in the lake the drab liat floated away, and the tman at the wheel and the lookouts on dleek hieard a cry for help and saw hun sink; but the sea was so heavy, the storm so fierce, that nothing could be thou done to save him; that a large spot of blood( on the deck showed where the blow was given and the mtirder commiencedI whtich endedu in the lake. . T1he Captain's statement was reduiced to writing by Comiiaoner Watson, sworn to by Capt. iP.erce, and then ihe Distrlct Attorney rep~aiired at once to the st'entnor, *still lying at the Ceitral Itailroad duck, and there took the depositions of nill the erew, who severally swore to their actual knowledge of these facts. 1'hie wheelsinen anid hokouts each swore that tey saw the drab man go over the ship's side, heard his cries for nelp, saw his liat floating on the waves and found in the nmng fresh blo.)d ont the vety spot whero lie stood erc lie wenit overboard in addition to all thi', it turned out thnt the nmurderer Ihent in 46i had wIth hinm the drab ratchtei, a new cine, breutvht on board by the man In drab, then suppcosed to be at the bottom of lake Erie. Here was a clear case of circumstsntial eyidence of murder on the high so us,ou side of any county, and the evidence was con olusive-apparently. TIhe United States I District Attorny annlied for a nimtedl 3tates war ant froma Commissioner Watson for murder on the high seas against John Doe, then in No. 46, Cass hotel-olitained it-and, taking a special deputy Umitea States Karsha], he went In person about 6 o'clock p. m., to the Cass hotel to arrest the murderer. By this time the various whisperings and movements attracted pub lie attention, and quite a crowd gathered in front of the Cass hotel, understanding that something important would occur. The United States District Attorney proceeded to room 40, knockea very per 3imptorily and demanded admission, which was at first refused, but the inmate being ssured that the door would be broken in, Spally partially opened it, when the Dis rict Attorney entered and at once ?erceived that the murderer had on as a fisguise a pair of blue spectacles and a wig, and that he had the drab satchel, in which he was evidently concealing some - hing. Locking the door on the inside, he it once read the United States warrant for As arrest. Told defendant he was arrested or murder on the high seas, and demand %d the opportunity to search his person and )aggage, which he peremptorily refused to erilt,' But finally it was done, and the latchel contained a beautiful set of den itt's tools,a letter addressed to de'endant's wife, at Cape Cod, and on his person was ound the sum of %884 in cold coin, all lupposed to the property of the murdered nan. During the examination and when inally charged with the murder, the pris ner, who was a Cape Cod man, said hrough his nose in a squaking voice: "Now, Squire, this is all a mistake t 9 is no man murdered, Squire. I am thle 1 missed." The District Attorney vgorousa enounced bli us a murderer. fie Ftlueaket.,,it , "Squire, thi;s 1 a mistake-I'm the mian. I have a w M Cape Cod, andi she gives me li-l, and Vo away to Califoray, and j4 going o run berths, on the Southerne k dress, went up on deck and P"ngld my kill myself." ' to At last the truth dashed upon the P. lie prosecutor, and he asked the prisone.. "if there was any one living in Michigan who could identify him as the supposed murdered man," to which he replied "that he had a brother living in Pontiac,a mason by trade, who had been here many years and could vouch for him as the identical murdered man." The United States Atarshal was now called up and ordered to take the prisoner to Col. Whistler, commanding the United States infantry in Detroit, to lock hi up in the guard-house, where no man could communicate with bim and keep him there until his examination the next day. Very early the next moring, and after hfl r ,jj~ion in the papers of a very Soed or IA,. m --- . at"amor Southerner, the clearness of the testimony to convict and very strong co'mmendations Pf the United States District Attorney for his zeal and skill in working up the case, the prisoner's brother, who happened to be in town from Pontiac and had read the account, called the District Attorney out of his bed and toid him "that the murdered man was his brother, from Cape Cod, and lie wanted to be present at 10 o'clock A. M. and attend the cxamination of the murder. er," and he was directed to be at the Uni ted States District Atorney's office, where he could see the murderer of his brother. At 10 o'clock, promptly, the United States Marshal, accompanied by a file of soldiers, marched the supposed muiderer down Jefferson avenue, accompanied by a mob of curious boys and men to the oflice. There sat Commissioner Samuel L. Wat son, very dignifiled, cold and stern, to hear the testimony and dispose of the first case under the act of Congress extending mari time and admiralty jurisdiction over the lakes. The supposed murderer, trembling with fright, was ushered into the back room 01 the District Attorney's oflicei,, and there putting on the blue spectacles andi the wig he was again disgutsed, as lie siipposed. The brother from Pontiac was soon ad mitted to see, as lhe supposed, the murder er of his brother, but instantly recognized him as the mnurered man, and leaping into his arms he exclaimed: "Why, S;uire, this Is my real brother; he ain't murdered at all.'' TIhis over, the parties went before Com missioner Watson in the front room, andl then the District Attorney stated to the Court: "That circumstantial evidence made a slear case of murder against the defendant on whict ihe couiia be hung; but fliat there seceied something strange about the case. and that as the body of time murdlered manm had not been found, and the defenidant laied to be that identical nmurdered man imself, lie might discharged dlefenidant if se chose so to do," on such terms as he thought best. Jud~ge Watson, with great dignmty and everity, said to defendant in the presence >f the crowd. "The circumstantial evi. decnce is clear enoughi to convict you of nurder. It appears that you and another nan took two berths on the steamer huttherner; that you were dressed in black -back hat-and had a black satchel; that e was dressed inm drg-drab hal-and maad a drab satchel; went on board, and you attempted to escape with the drab matchel, You say that you were about to .im away to California from your wife at jiape Co?, and that you assumed both haracters to deceive her and make her be love that you were (lead and that she was widoe, andl here, sir, is your letter in a Ligned hiandl to your wife, 'telling her of four pretended death, and that God gould be a husband to her and a father to ier children." This, sir, Is worse than nurder;but under all the circumstance the Jojurt will discharge you, on the so'e con htlon that you will go instantly back to tour wife ait Cape Cod, and tell her of this rile trick you have resortecd to, to ci'eat mnd desert hecr. I shall write your die hemge oii the warrant on the sole condi ion that you consent ini writing to so eturn. Thereupon he wrote on the warrant thle ~ondition andl lis acceptance of it, and then tanded the pen to thme prisoner to slgn his amne. '1 lie prisoner hadl on his blue spectacles nad wig ui awry, und looked the vcry ieture of dispair. Takin~g the pen in hIs ~renmbling hand lie looked at Commissioner Watson, then at his brother, then implor ngly at the Unsited States Imstrict Attor icy, and said in trembling 'acce~mts: "S84mre Ba #- I Oh God!i Mus:, I sign hat and go back to heri" lBrinst as5red that ther. wan no otern, alternative,: he took the pen, wrote lus me a and as he did so said in the agony of despair: "Squire, I'lh do it, but wen't she give me a look when I come back to her." Itailroad Coliasons. While every precaution which the block system or any other system can devise to prevent collision on our rail roads should be encouraged or adopted it nevertheless will be found impossible if constant human vigilance is a necos. sary factor in the means of safety em ployed, to entirely avoid the recurrence oL this class of accidents. The greater the increase of traffic, the greater the danger to which the traveling public is exposed from collisions, and year by year the travel on our railroads increases. Trains following one another in rapid succession, and running at high rates of speed on the same lines of rail, in the dark of night as well as in the light of day, and with the same disregard of fog as of alinding snowstorm,court danger and collisions similar to the late Spuy ten Duyvil disaster will continue to oc our. Uollisions in fact, like the assas sin's stab, are now more to be dreaded from the rear than from the front, and as human vigilance cannot be depended upon to avoid them, automatic means of securing safety controlled by the engine of a train in motion, or. operated only by the undue or improper stoppage of it, should be devised, and,if only as useful auxiliaries, be generally adopted. If, however, collisions cannot be alto gether prevented,there is one thing that can be done to make such accidents less destructive of human life than they usually are, and that is to construct railroad oars so that they will not to tor telescope. We have no desire all th Ifn trains which shut up with scope wheei a well constructed telo is brought tA little sudden resistance road cars mightk upon them. Rail they could not thusonstructed so that one within the other, d1. up and pack quency of these telescopiiom the fre we have no hesitation in agurrences either the style or construction7 that cars now in uso on our railroads i-i0O fective, so far as their liability and OW,. 3acity to telescope is concerned, and .,that some radical ahaige . or improve tment in the const*action of them to avoid this danger is needed. Furthermore, as the running of one train into the rear of another is now of such frequent occurrence, and as in such case it is generally only the last car or two of the advance or stalled train which are so badly damaged as to occa sion any great sacrifice of life, why not make the last car of a train purely a safety one, a Port of buffer car to re coive the shock, and from which all passengers should be excluded? buch car need not necessarily be of a special construction, provided it and all the cars in the train are of a superior rigidity, and so l-uilt or framed that they cannot telescope, consequently the delay and inconveience which attaches to theuse of a roar car of different construotion from the rest when making up a train would be avoided. Possibly in an over crowdced train there would be a strong templtationl to use such car for other than its safety purpose but this could be strictly prohibited until it ceased to be a rear car by the adding o'f another. Possibly, also,railroad companies might obj]ect on the ground that it was merely hauling dead wveighmt for an emergency which might not occur, forgetful of the fact that in a single accident such pre caution would be the mean of saving many lives and economical ini a peenniIi ary point of viewv by reducing claims for damages sustained. Again, in viewv of the many burning accidents which have occurred, why should our railroad cars be made of the combustible material they nowv are, or be otherwise heated than they are? But we do not care to pursue this subject further, excepting the remark that if native ingenuity is not sufficient to dis cover a block systorv in which the loco motive is the active agent, or to devise a car that wvill not telescope aind when ignited furnish fuel for a fire to burn up humani bodies, then wve coinfess to hav ing greatly over estimated it, and shall be deceived if in the near future, the means of safety wve hayc suggested, or better ones, be not found, once the tide of invention sets in this humane di rection. Industry need not wish. Truth is the basis of every virtue. Ayarice is the mother of many vices. The path of truth is a plain and safe path. Many cranky persons suffer from aii insane liver. Old injuries are seldom canceled by new bouefits. Youth looks at the possible, age at the probable. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind. Falsehood sinks us into contempt with God and man. Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. It's easy finding reasons why other people should be patient, A N exchange usks: " What would a twenty-five cent cigar amount to if you had no atclh?'' Just-a quarter oh a dol lar brother. Give us another. A Cool Detective. As a rule highwaymen in the mining States seldom operate upon a stage coach with "U. S. M." on it. They know that these initials staud for the United States Mail, and are a pledge I at the whole power of the government will be used to capture them. The detectives in the governme't ser vice are quiet men,courteous in manner and gentle in speech. lMr.. Hays' tells, in his book on "New Onl ado," of one whom he met, who wore old spectacles and looked like a Germ&an professor. Yet this man alone took twi mail rob bers from the north to Te*,A, At one place their friends planneda rescue. He quietly informed his prisoners that, while their friends could undoubtedly kill him, they might be sure that the first motion would send both of them into eternity. Not a man in the crowd moved a finger. On one occasion, a celebrated deteo tive was on the stage which was attack ed by two masked men. The first he knew was that two revolvers were thrust in the coach's windows, with the com - mand "Hands up, gentlemen!" The highwaymen had "the drop" on the passengers,iu which their vocabulary meant the certainty of being able to kill before being harmed themselves. To his diszust the detective was com pelled to give up his watch and all his money. As the robber., left, he put his hand down in the "bot," and to his delight it touched a carbine. Aski'ig the driver to go on a little further and then stop and wait for himhe went back alone. The two men, unsuspicious of dan. ger were "divvying up" the spoils in the middle of the road. This was just what the detective had ealculated on. "Now, 3 ou scoundrels, it's my turn,' lie shouted, covering them with the re peating oarbiue. "Throw up your hands, or I'll shoot." Tue robbers at his command, stepped :ne side holding up their hands, while ie picked up their revolvers; It was 20t many minutes before the astonished asongers saw the two highwaymen ialking meekly down t#.road with the 'oel detective followii .. They were -An the ooach and fit 11 lodged in '' Adams, o subsequen . 19ue atuong the Utes and secured a lease of the woman captives from e ,White River Agency. The Lo Irds. Among the many bi of beautiful plumage found in Aust inais one called the Love Bird, It Is >at the size of the sparrow, with a par shaped beak and covered with a pli .go of green and izold. There are m y other birds in that country with a re gaudy, or gay, plumage, but non in which the two most beautiful rs, gold and green, are so artisticail -blended as in the Love Bird. The aglish Lark is noted for its song; th Eagle for its keenness of sight and a ngth of pin ion; tho Dove for its h i tlessuess; the Parriot for its marvolouu~power of Imi tating cercain sounds m ~finig certain words; the Magpie for ita raft and cun ning; the Sparrow for it tyomon cry of "Cheer up." The Love ~i:~ is noted for the intensity of its afreonid s. There are otheir birds of the parr4 species that have a good amount of i's same feeling of attachment, but none in whom it is so marvolously str ng as in the Love Buid. It is an establkhed fact that they cannot exist singly Where they are kept as pets they mu be kept in pairs They can be kept n large numbers, but not less than o wil live. It there are two in s, cag nd one dies or gets killed, the other pi s away and dies. If one hops down om its1 perch,the other quickly follows nd the same in eating and drinking. 'l ey can not sing, and if in pairs and un sturb ed, do not make much noise. They might be termed mute matj Their loye is stronger than death. - Just lingb INis Pipe. Tne brighter hours of good ilsho p 2 Corbet have been very graphic ly de- I scribed by one who knew him w411. His Lordship's favorite companion ~as his 1 chiaplm, Dr. Lushington. Wh$ the business of the day was over, the ishop delighted to descernd with this 'ithful henchman into the collar of the episco pal palace. Corbot would thot dol' his hood, saying, "There lies theDootor;' The glasses wore filled and the \ast was drunk. "Here's to thee, Lushilngton " I "Hero's to thee, Corbot.'' The celebrated Dean Aldirick wasw the slave of his pipe. There is 4 story in the biography of John Philips,thie poet, which not only amusingly illustrates this weakness on the part of the Dean, 1 but gives a curious glimpse of the free and easy way in which the dons and un.. 1 dorgraduates. of those days usedi to live, A senior student laid a wager with one of his college chums that the Dean was at that moment smoking ihis pipo, that instant being about 10 o'clock in the morning. Away, therefore, he went to the deanery~where having made his way into the Dean's study, lho explained the reason of his appearance at so early an hour. "Ab," replied the Dean, with the utmost oolness, "you have lost your wager, for I am not smoking but filling my pipe," Why They Daserted, Not long ago seventy-five boys, traning for sailors in the United States navy, were transferred from the naval training squad. ron at Newport to the Tennessee, now high and dry on a dry-dock in the Brook lyn navy-yard. Many of the boys were companions of the thirty lads who have deserted from the flagship Now Hamp shire of the training squadron at Newport in the last few days. The offcer in charge of the Tennessee readily permitted a reporter to see the boys alone, and twenty bright and intelligent lads in the uniforms of the training school gathered around the reporter between decks. "Were there any New York boys among the deserters ?" was the first ques tion. A black-eyed boy replied: "I knew a good many of 'em, sir. There was Henry W. Eagles, Max Beck, Herbert A. Stryker, James A. McGinley, James F. Cady, Daniel J. Foley, Gustav E. Maschke, William H. Mclellon, Ber nard J. McKenn and Arthur Van Ette." Other boys knew Stephen H. Miller ot Careyville, New York; William spencer of Kingston and John J. Black of Stony Point. "How did they come to desert I" "The boys had a short furlough on shoro and they did not come back, that is all. They were on three ships-the Ports mouth, the saratoga and the Constitution -and they had seperately decided to leave when they got a chance without Conspiring together at all. Nobody com plains against Commodore Lewis of the New Hampshire. He was a regular father to us all. But we who were on a cruise off the coast of Maine on the Ports mouth last summer had a tough time of it under Capt. Faunt and Lieut. Selfridge. At anchor off one of the ports in Maine the captain had some high-toned visitors, and when they came to see us and asked who we were he said: 'Oh, they're wharf. rats,' and at another time he called us 'beggars.' and 'thieves.' At Portsmouth four of us broke our liberty aid stayed twelve hours over time; some others who were refused permission togo ashore jump ed off and stayed as long as they pleased. &ll these were punished just alike. We had to take two hours on and two hours off all aight on deck, and it was freezing cold. Llmost all of the oficers like to show their muthority before us, and we ire ordered rhout as though we were cat'tle. If we iad more privileges we would be encourag. .d, but we've only the position of a war ant officer to look forward to as the verv )est thing to be obtained, and to be a ioatswain or a sail maker is not the most wonderful thing in the world to a live )oy."1 " Well, you knew about what you were indertaking when you shipped, did you he boys,\a fine, athletic fellow, with lashing eyes. "There is the yacht Wave, which sails up the Hudson or some other iver, drops anchor, and lies there for )oys to admire her. Then the officers alk so sweetly about some of us coming ome day to be a commander of such a )eautiful craft, and it makes us wild to go o sea. We've got a nickname for the Nave-we call her the Uoaxer, or the Boy Jatcher. It is supposed, too, that boys iot under 18 years old are taken on, but iome of us are only 15. Almost all the )oys who ran away at Newpoit were un ler 15." The reporter asked if the boys had any )rutal treatment to complain of. "Well," iaid the leader, "there was a smart young ellow named Ike Mason, from Pough ceepsie, on the cruise with us twn -,ears ago from Fayal to Halifax on the train ng ship, and he was taken sick. He went to the doctor three times, and was !efused medicine. A lay or two afterward ie died of typhoid fever, and was buried at sea." "Is your food satisfactory ?" "Satisfactory I" exclaimed a boy who .ooked as though he might be a good rencherman. "I haveii't had enough to mat since i've been here. What's mush and milk, hominy and salt pork, pacaed .n 18600? You can smell it half a mile when it is unpacked. i've lost fifteen pounds since I left the Minnesota." "What do you consider your greatest lardship ?" "Our debts, sir," instantly answered ialf a dozen voices. "Our uniforms lsot us $2t 50 when we go on board he training ship. Our pay is small, and what through fines and cutting off our noney for little offences, some of us who iave been two years in training haven't a :ent coming to us on the ship's books. A soy gets discouraged when he gets so nuch in debt. Hie becomes reckless, and ye don't blame the fellows for deserting." Ohinese Printing. The blocks are all of the same size, hbout efglifinxohes by twelve inches, and shout half an inch thick. Eaeh block epresents two leaves of four pages of he book, being engraved on both sides. rue blocks for a complete work ean thus >e stowed away in a very small compass. rho cost of engraving a page of the vooden blocks is said to be but little nore than the expense ..of setting up a >age of Chinese type and preparing it or the press. Au edition of one copy ann be printed if no more are required. and thus the expense of keeping a large took of printed books on hand, some of vhiceh eventually have been sold as waste paper when they grew out of date >r revisions had been made, as is the mae among ourselves, is entirely avoid id. Any errors or misprints that may ye discovered can as a rule,bo corrected mn the blocks with but very little trou >le. A skillful printer can print by .iand 5000 leaves of two pages each in a lay, using no press or machinery what iver. .He supplies his own tools and re seives as wages about twenty .five cents a day. The paper ordinarily used is white and of the best quality, although a yellowish kind is also made use of at a reduction of twenty per cent, on the selling price. The books arc bound in the usual Chinese style and fastened with white silk thread. They present an appearance which satisfies theo taste id the most faatidlinn- native. Personal Manners It is sometimes objected to books upon etiquette that they cause those who consult them to act with mechanical re straint, and to show in society that they are governed by arbitrary rules, rather than by an intuitive perception of what is graceful and polite. This objection is unsound, because it supposes that people who study the theory of etiquette do not exeroidb their powers of observation in society,and ob tain, by their intercourse with others that freedom and ease of deportment which society alone can impart. Books upon etiquette are useful, inas much as that they expound the laws of polite society. Experience alone, how ever, can give effect to the precise man ner in which those laws are required to be observed. Whatever objections may be raised to the teachings of works upon etiquette, there can be no sound argument against a series of- simple and brief hints, which shall operate as precautions against mis takes in personal conduct. Avoid intermeddling with the affairs of others. This is a most common fault. A, number of people seldom meet but they begin discussing the affairs of some one absent. This is not only uncharita ble, but positively unjust. It is equiva lent to trying a cause in the absence of the person implicated. Even in the criminal code, a prisoner is presumed to be innocent until he is found guilty, Society, however, is less justand passes judgment without hearing the de fense. Depend upon it, as a certain rule, that the people who unite with you in discussing the affairs of others will proceed to scandalize you the mo ment you depart. Be consistent in the avowal of princi ples. Do not deny to-day that which you asse;ted yesterday. If you do, you will stultify yourself, and your opinions will soon be found to have no weight. You may fancy that you gain favor by subserviency; but so far from gaining favor, you lose respect. Avoid falsehood. There can be found no higher virtue than the love of truth, The man who deceives others must him. self become the victim of morbid dis trust. Knowing the deceit of his own heart, and the falsehood of his own greates of all hapiness -confidence in those who surround him. Veils and Oraugo Blossoms. It is a common superstition,especially in Ireland, that a marriage lacks validity unless solemnized with a gold ring. At a town at the southeast of Ireland, a person long kept a few gold wedding rings for hire, and when parties who were too poor to purchase a ring of the necessary precion metal were about to be married, they obtained the loan of one, and paid a small fee for the same, the ring being returned to the owner im mediately after the ceremony. In some places it is still customary for the same riuig to be used for many mar riages, for which purpose it remains in the custody of the priest. The brido's veil originated in the An glo-Saxon custom of performing the marriage ceremony under a square piece of cloth, held at each corner by a tall1 man over the bridegroom and bride to conceal her maiden blushes. Something like this care-cloth, we are told, is used by the modern Jews, from whom it has probably been derived into the Christian Church. There is a square vestment called Taleth, with pendants about it, put over the head of the bridegroom and bride together. The reason why the orange blossoms are worn by the bride is not satisfactori ly known. The general opinion seems to be that it was originally adopted as an emblem of fruitfulnes. it has been suggested that this custom was intro duced by French miliners, and that thei flower in question was selected for ita beauty rather than for any symbolical reason. One writer tells us thigt thce practice has been derived from thd Sara cons, among whom the orjpngo blossoms was regarded as a symbol of prosperous life. This is pirtly to be accounted for by the fact that in the East the orange tree bears ripe fruit and bloesoms at the same time. Too old a Daird for That, A few days ago, a man might have been seen hurrying along West Temple street, Detroit, with two small suipe and a teal duck in his hand. "Been hunting #" asked a friend. "Yes, tcok a little jatint up to the slough." Don't you think that game comes dear when you go so far for It ?" "Oh, you don't get on to my racket. I aim't such a blank fool as some people think. kiere's the idea : I go out in t be marshes and kill a fe w snipe. 1 take one to somne frIend's house aind present it with a great flourish, I dwell on the trouble 1 took to shoot it, describe a few narrow escapes from drowning, and lay the trophy of the chase at the feet of the lady of the house, with a studlied Oriental salaam. Next day I am invited to dinner. F~or a ten.cent snipe I get a royal lay-out. Thea I give the other snipe to the next unsuspec ting family with a similar result. The other day I sent two old, emaciated snipe to Glovernor Mlurray; told him the night before I was going efter 'em, but they had been lying in my room for two days. Glot invited to an elegant dinner with wine. But ot course I dli't eat the snmpe. Too old a bl'rd for that--then the snipe were also too old. I'mB going to tak* Liuese bimbhd to bhaughnessy and get a $40 dinner. Oh, 1 ain't such 'an awful fooi as I look. W'ens I can't get birds at the marshes I get em at the standL ' FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Success makes us soon forget the fight we made to attain it. The road to home and happiness is over small stepping stones. The waves of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. Knowledge of the world is dearly bought at the price of moral purity. Genius at first is nothing more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. If you wish to be really happy take a good deal of outdoor exercise, and nee r run in debt. There is nothing more necessary th an to know how to bear the tedious mo ments of life, If you assume the garb of a fool, aro you very sure that you have not a natur al right to it? It is one thing to have a house to live In, and quite another thing to have a home to live in. We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Nature never sends a great man into the world without confiding the secret Lo another soul. The light of true friendship is like the light of phosphorus-seen plainent when all around is dark. Many persons entertain false views of real life, who yet have the justest per >eptions of human nature. Stillest streams oft water fairest neadows, and the bird that flutters east is longest on the wing. As sad dreams betoken a glad future, ;o may it be with the so often torment Lug dream of life when it is over. A writer who attemps to live on tlbo nanufacture of his imagination is con inuously coquetting with starvation. In life it is dilicult to say who do you he most mischief-enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the )est. Good breeding is benevolence in orfles, or the preference of others to >urselves in the little daily occurrences f life. Knowledge is said to be sorrow. If ;his be true there are some men in the .ommunity who must be supremely nappy. It is a currious fact that no man in ,he world wants to be rich; he only asks ror enough, and surely that is a reason %ble request. It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bot Lony nature will always be endeavoring There is no brighter moment in the life of a young lady of ton than when the nappy discovery is made that she 3an at last balance a pair of eye glasses :n her nose without squinting. It has been well said that no man 3ver sank under the burden of the day. [t is when to-morrow's burden is added a the burden of to-day that the weight ,e more than a man can bear. In the last article penned by Dr. Hol and he said he believed it to be de nonstrably true that of all the advan ages which come to any young man ;hat of poverty is the greatest. The soul knows what justice is; and n those who approve, and in those who resist, truth creates consbience. Those who resist, are irritated; those who )bey, grow strong within themselves. If you want knowledge, you must toil or it. if food, you must toil for it Toil s the law. Pleasure comes through oil, and not by self-indulgence and in lolence. When one gets to Iove work, iis life is a happy one. Too many arc in the habit of looking iway from the blessings they have to ~hink of those they have not. They mgravo their deprivations and sorrows mi the rook, but write their blessings on he sand or the waves. ''The virtue of Paganism was strength; he virtue of Christianity is obedience." La obediende is simply conformity to ~he law of life, it is the condition of in ~reasing strength, while strength, un ionsecrated to service soon turns to weakness. The man who by the force of his ability and character acquires material ossessions has wealth in its two-fold iense. If he also employs that which uo gains for purposes of good and not .. uvil for himself and for others, he re alises the true union between wealth and well-being. A German told the truth by accident an a certain occasion, and it is barely possible that we might repeat his words. "You go right ailong," 'he said, "until you come to a fence with a hole in it. shen after a while you will come to a mouse with a great pig in the yard. Dot's me." For a writer or speaker who desires to Influence others there is no better rule than--"Know what you want to say, and say it." One whose own thoughats are misty can only,bofog others. hion of wide influence are always sirm plo and clear in their thinking, and tireot in their speaking. There is no more absurd cant thani bhat the culture of the mindl favors the milsure~ of the heart. What do operas md~ theatres for the moral elevation of society? Does a sentimental novel prompt to duty? Education seldom reeps people from folly when the will is mt influenced by yirtue. Examining the world in order to find ,onsolation, is very much like looking sarefully over the pages of a great boo0k Ln order to find our own) bame, if not in the text, at least in a laudatory note: whether we find what we want or not, ur pre-ocupation has hindered us fromi a true knowledge of its contents. Whoever, by word of mouth, or by shrug af eyebrow, or by by expressive silence, or by stroke of peu, endeavorsi ao give a false and injurious iaupression 'especting another-hils character, hia >pions, or his actions-violates the hinth princip~le. It is this which intro lucos all heart-burning into society, and all bitterness into rohious and pnlitical controversy.