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IL TI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. JANUARY 25. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1847 TiE GREAT LONC LAND. I wandered alone and afar ' On the plalu of the north, and my eye Waa.caught by the blase of a star That shot through the pitiless sky. The coldneMs of death was below, The stillness of death is the air, Save that over the wild wasto of snow. The wolf poured tile howl of despair. And strlclieu and weary I trkd, Searce daring to gao into. space Till tho.piful wercy of God, Came falling in tears on my face. But the meteor had passed anl was gone I Ah, whither? in vain shall i seek? I stand in the dread night alone, And the voice of my soul strives to speak; But it falters, and falls back unspoken, And dies like the wolf howl afar. Theo e.od-lights of life are all broken, And I am a wreck like the star I TIE 4AAMLICIL'S W EVE .. "Wlkat new beauty have we here Carl ?" I asked, taking a small colore< picture from among the massof papers yamphlets, wrapping-paper, etc., tha covered the table and 9loor of the libra ry, and which would have told plainl) enough to all acquaintances that Car was at home once more, arter this hiu longest remble in foreign lands, yit out the oorrbborating testimony of oigam smoko, or the lounging figure in the oh rooking-chair. Jiortiis brother of mino never spen over six months of the year in the beau tiful- country home of his. childhood giving tlio other six to whatever plac or people promised most entertainmen on sliort notice. Tbe last three monthi had been spent in Paris, so I coujeet ured the little gem of art I held in my hand was a French beauty; the purc outlines and exquisite complexion look. ing most lifelike as they smiled up a me from the tinted card. But notwitti standing the great beauty of contour nd feature, there was a trightonod, al most hunted look in the dark eyes that told of tragedy, or at least anticipated it. "Who is she, Carl? The eyos affeci me strangely, with their wild, frighten ed look. 'hore is a reig-a of terror in them equal to the one her ancestorn passed through. I almost see the shadow of the guillotine in their velvotj depths." "Let me see; ah, my littlo sister, may you never know so hard a fate as this poor girl encountered and succumbed to. No, she is not French-a Rustimn, but married to a Frenchman." And Carl took the picture froum my hand and placed is on a small easel above his desk. "I will tell you abouther, Louio, if you have an hour, and I will tell why I told you. "It was while Tom Barnes was with me last June, and when we left Versail les for Paris, that I first saw Madam Litterre-though 1 think the name an absumed one. We had to run to pre vent being left, I remember, and Bornea. out of humor because of it, plunged his face nto his book and left me to my own resources, "As soon as I was comfortably set tled 1, as usual, began smiutinizing my tra oiling companions, and trying te imagine who and what, they were. There were four besides ourselh es in the car riage. One a quiet, middle-aged Eng lishman, who was soon asleep in his corner. The two wno sat next, myself were <.vidently husband and wife, though he paid her none of the atten tion and politeness usually accorded in public, even it <tispesed with privately. He was a pale, quiet man of twenty live, perhaps, richly but quietly dress. -1 od. and seemingly taking nonotice. ol any one around him. T'he wife, too was pale, and much as she looks ther< in thatt little picture. "Shie seemed to be sufferineg, and fro quently put her hand to her forehead and I observed upon the delicately formed, ungloved baud a costly diamond, It was a eauty ; and 1 enjoyed looking at the flashing gem as she caressed small $nglishi dog thait often looked ur at heri wvith alfectionaite recognition. "The other passenger I could noi make out at all. He was elderly, comn monly dressed, and with scant gray ban and heavy wvhiskers. His piercing eyce were frequently placed on the silen young miarriedt couplle, and then he seetned ia utterly oblivious of them at they of him. What was his nationahityi Was ho with them, or a stranger like myself ? I could iiot toll. And the mort I looked the more uncertain I became 1 thought, too, there seemed ain effor' at disguise. He kept ins face' averte< all lie could, coi'sistenit wilth his watch fulness of tile quiet young husband tha lie at times eyed no very p)ersisteiutly. "We spedl along over the beautitul iroad, eachi absorbed in his own reflec tions, broken only by an occasional lov sigh from the lady, and soon arrived a our destimation. The train stopped and as none of my companions shouwe< any disposition ', move first, I1 aroutse< Barnes from the depths of his romance aiid we leit the carriage. '"Dinner over, we wvent to the theatre, and afterwa'rd, by the persuasion of a friend, to a private gambling-house. . was greatly surprised on entering t< see my eleriy tiavelling comipanlioi seatea at the tathe, his eyes and man. ner lieen as ever, andl eep in a gamie : iougc-e.neir. It wvas early yet, anI very tew people were present ; but cv cry souind was hushiod, and the gam< weht on in dead sjlenlce, brokoin onlly bj the veicos of the dealers onlhiing the re suIt oh the games, and the ratihing 0 tne gold as it was raked from one to an other. The old man seenmed, in luel for the time being, and won every game I thought a gleam of saisfation shone or his face as the door opened an< our other travelling acquaintance fron Versailles-the quiet, careless husban< -ntered and sic t down to play. "I did niot play that nighmt, and'-m whole attention wvay given to those two The young man lost from the first deal Rouleau after-rouleau was swept fron the table by his watchful old opponent but still he played on, The large suma he lost, and his pale, elx(ited face, deep ly iterested me, and.[ stayed cii an< watohed him until :late at mught, Whea he left, his last Napoleon gone, "Aftt Banpning 1 a Omealihaa went back to my room at the hotel, bu for some cause could not sleep. Th ):eat was oppressive, andnyroomsmall besides, the game I had been watchini had excited me strangely, and I onl fell into a troubled sleep near morning - "I was awakenect about daylight b: voices in the adjoining room-those o a man and woman, evidently. The man'i voice was low and pleading, and the we mani seemed to be crying. I coult heatr enough to understand t at she wai refusing him some request, for his tone became loud avd threatening, and a last I heard him say : " 'If you refuse me, you seal my ruia and your own. I have no more gold and I must have the diamonds to re tiove myself." "Hysterical sobs were the only an swer he received,- and he continued : "Something tells me I shall m in to night, and I must have the ring.' "Never, Charles I I cannot give it up It is all I have left. It was my mother's and I will not let it leave me." "The man's voice was so choked witl passion that his words were inarticulate but with a blirst of wild anger he left slamming the door after him, Thi woman's sobs became lower, her cryin ceased, and I fell into another nap, no waking until near ten. '.'I saw neither of my gambling ac quaintances that day, and the nigh found me again in Monsieur Carlo' rooms. The old man was again o hand-not satisfied, I thought, with ii winungsof the night before-and agala I saw a gleam of satisfaction cross hit face as his victim of the previous even ing came in and got ready to play. " 'Make your game -the game i made up I' cried the dealer, and wai about to deal the cards, when the young man who had just entered calkd out in a loud voice : " 'Fifty Napolcons upon the red I' "Seeing ho placed no money upon the table, the croupier paused a moment then said : "iir, you must stake the money. The gambler started and turned pale: than over, a long, shuddering sigh broke from him as he felt first in one pocket, then in another, and finally grasped his hat and fled from the room. The playing went on for a while longer, and then one by one they went out, leaving only the attendants, the old, keen eyed gambler and myself present Something-an indefinable feeling o: interest in the unhappy young mar who had left the house in such despaii a short time before-held me there. 1 must see if he returned. "Suddenly the door opened, and he ran in, as fleeing fov his life, I shal never forget that Right, Louie. Hie face was ghastly, his dress disordered, and he trembled as though with ague, As he rushed up to the table, in the strong glare of the lights, I saw great drops of perspiration standing on hiN brow. He thrust his hand in his pocket and tossed a ring down before his op. ponent. " 'There I it is worth ten thousand francs. Now cover my stakes,'lie cried. "I instantly recognized the beautiful diamond as the one his wife had worn in the cars, and the conversation I had beard that morning came back to my memory, and I know my fellow-travel lers were the man and woman I had heard disputing in the early morulni hours. But lie had succeeded in over coming her determination, for he had the ring, and my heart ached for the poor wife as I wondered how he had obtained it. " 'Red I bet on the red 1' agai shouted the young man; and in a mo ment the croupier called 'Black wins 1' and the ring was no honiger his. "With a wild cry the wretched loser fled from the house ; and, completely unmanned by what I had seen, I return ed to my hotel, hoping the young mail would soon follow me. "I found them all--travellers, pro. prictor and servants-wild withi excite ment over the murder of the beautifu: Russian lady. An hour before he2 mid had gone to her room, and Icuni her deluged in blood from a wound is her head, and dead. T1he husband hai been in, and left some few moments be fore. I went up to her apartment, anc to the bed where she lay. Her exqui site face wvas fairer than in life, for it had lost the uuhappy look, and seemet at pecace. As I turned to leave th< room I saw this picture among a heal of things turned out of a man's travel t ling,ocase, and appropriated it. Pr'oba bly the husbaud had tossed it there ir his search for some valuablos to risk at the gamnling-table. "T1he miserablo man took his life be fore lhe was apprehended for his crime and the old gambler who, firat in oni disguise, then in another, had followe< the easily-duped victim from city t< t city and won many thousands fron t him, left Paris before the bus band and wife were carried to their last restir~g place in the beantiful burying.-grount where his forefathers slept. "Ljouie, this is why I refitsed to play even with Howard, last evening.. have never touched eards since, and: never can again." The Lakeo Trade. While some steam craft are yet in comn mission, the carrying trad~e en the lake -for 1882 Is practically ended, The num bor of lives lost and the list of dIsasters great and smnail, are less than in nmost pre vius years. Bingle instances of casuaultiec attendurt with the loss of more than hal i dozen lives have been rare. 'The notabl< exceptions are the burnmng of the steame: Mainitoulini and the foundering of the Ash both .of which occurred in Georgian Bay 13y the former on May 18ih between 34 and 40 lhves were lost, while by the latte over 100 persons arc supposed to have per. ished. Lesser noteworthy casualties oc curred on Thanksgiving day, when eigh men perished on the Canadian shore o Lake Ontario near Picton, andl on Laki Michigan, when the burning of the steam *barge Peters occurred, caused the loss o 18 hives. The total number of aceidednt and disasters of all classes is about 101 he the season, with a loss of not far fron1 17, Silenc, n Tap. The latest wonder of the world b been discovered in the Yellowsto Park, by a porson named James Caro who is said to be a reputable citizen r Holona, Montana Oarroll says that was in a deep gorge. Around him w a scone of grandeur, towetiug cliffs ai verdant vegetation. le sAt down wait for his friend,, wlio were to folk him into the gorgo, Everything w quiet. The stillness was oppressi He dotormined to break the silence, b - le soon found that hie could not ma] oven a crack in it. He called on I friends. He called again, and neal shouted the top of his head off, but : ceu!d not hear the sound of his ol voice. A panther was passing. Carr seized his rifle, and fired at the animi Smoke came out of the rifle, and t panther crawled away wounded ai bleed.ag, but no report.came from ti rifle; no sound reached Carroll's eai If Carroll's statement was not substa tiated by the evidence of others, i would believe that lie was sufferi -from a temporary deafness, or whiske or that lie had cotton in his ears, b) that hypothesis won't work, for 1: friends followed him into the gorge, a: there they all stood and became red the face, and got sore throats, in th< effortN to have vocal communicati< with each other. But not a sound cou they hear. The place was so pack full of siloee that they could not heni pin drop, and they had to use signs a] the dea; and dumb alphabot to expre their astonishment, They explain tb some peculiarity in the atmosphe there makes it anon-contluctorof soun If this is true, and we have no reason doubt the statement of Carroll and I companions, a long-felt want will 1 supplied. Companies will be charteri to can this valuable atmosphere, or saw it off in lougtbs, pack it in saw-di and ship it to the busy haunts of men the East. In families whore there is baby, a barrel of it can be kept in t] corner of the bodroomi. By turning t faucet the wail of the infant will I heard no more. Think of the soothbi effect of a keg of it turned loose in ward meeting I A person might squi a syringe full of Yellowstone Park i mosphere on aii organ-grinder, and : his soothing strains in a moment won be but "a melancholy o6ndonsed to ait or some bold man might go to, an Talinage's church, with a can of silone and a patent can-opener in lus pock( and the result would be that the scrm< of the elegant contortionist 'would be voiceless pantomime. We have order a keg of ir, for own use, and it makes 1 smile to think of the embarrassmei that will clothe, as with a garment. til first man who comes into the offico read us "a little thing lie dashed off Ina night," and finds himself surrounded I the 'silence of the tomb as lie cla% around in search of his voioa. Tiho Cheasinua. A flne. stately tree is the cbeutnut, at long-lived; but its wood, unless it is cut youth, is tar inferIor to oak. if it is ci before it baa reached 40 or 50 years timber is exceedingly sotund, but, after thi period its heart, becomes deceitful at brittle. 'When it is let to stand beyor its full growth,' says a writer on treeP, is the worst of all timber, being apt crack and fly ito splhnters.' One variel ,of the chestnut produces swee', nuts : LI1 French and Itahtabs roast and eat thier Tihe trees wvhich produce this sort of fot are called sweet chestnuts. They do0 n< yield line nuts except they are grown in warmer climate than ours: they thri' best where grapes ripen ouit of doors. TI country of Devon, however, does produ< this fruit, fairly large in size and good quality. The finest chestnuts, it is saic arc Imported from Spain. One favored spot, where the chestmi grows to perfection, is Valamubrosa, In i1 Apenmnines. Another spot where this tra flourishes is Etna: here is the world-famm 'Chestnut of a, Hlindred UCavalers,' so l ed, because that, number of hiorse'meni, wI were escorting a high-born lady to Naple took shelter under its canopy at one tint Its girth in 1770 was 204 feet, bitt eetemd as If It wvere a clump of five tre all in one. The chositnuit seemns t alike Inmountain aide. Olympus was once near shaded by theae trees, 'it Is a delIcate tre as was provedl by the great frost of 170 This severe weather followtng on lien' rains, destroyed whole groves of chestnt trecs in F~rance. We have already said the chestntut most valuable for its timber in youth 'L no one be afraid of cutting it too 3oung says a great authority on trees. Even the age of 50 years It will be found 'rmnj shaky' within. liut it, is a very valuall tree 'when felled before its prime. It much used for the manufacture of wi casks. It is said that wIne, In these ha . rels, ferments slowly, and bais no unpic sant taste of wood, and the timber re-i, the dry rot so common in celiars. Ulici nut wood is also very useful for posts a: fencing. The foreigners use the leaves for sttufill their beds and for littering cattle. We have no idea in our country of ti great use of chedttuts to the poor man the south of France and the north of Ital Trho nuts are ground, and from the fib arc made thick fiat cakes, paOrrlge, ai *sweetmeats. Uhestnut flour will ke good for many years if put in sond a tight casks. Bugar, too, is made from 11 chestnut fruit. The ti eo is saidi to ha come originally from Asia Minor, andi fruit waa well,-known its the 'Sardis nut. .. The oldest ana largest chestnut in a 'country is that on Liord Ducie's estate Tortworth. It is supposed to have be r nlanted by the -lRomane. It is cited I 'the Old Chestnut' in writings made ''m t lreign ot King John., Lous Napolnoofs Strategy. a It was A02 of th6 eelt.delu'sions of Ie Napoleon III that he.had inherited his li, uncle's genius as a strategist, and he had of been guilty of the ,extreme folly of he drawing up at Paris a plan of the as Crimean campaign, as imbecile in con id coption as it was impossible of exe6t to tion, When it reached Ooneral Canro ow bort he communice1td it to Lord Raglan, as according to instructions recoived, and e. the disciple of Wellington found no ut difficulty in pointing out its defeels for te the reconsid:ration of the Emperor. It is was for the catrrying out of tbis schome ly that the concentration of the French 10 troops were ordered. TL: famousse eme rn was that 60,000 troops, half of them >11 French and half Turkish under the com j.* mand of General Borquot and Omer ic Pasha, should blockade Sebastopol, id without attempting to press the siege i any further; that 55,000 troops half of *. them English and half Sardinian and . Turkish, under the command of Lord ve Ragian, should cover the blockading ig force from the mouth of the Tobernaya Y to Balakiava, and that 40,000 French ut troops, reinforced by 25,000 more i French troops, then at Constanlinople, I under 'he command of General (anro in bert, etould embark for Alutcha, and ir march to Simpheropcl, which town they M 'ould easily seize, by a coup do main, Id and hold as the French capital of the d Crimea, whence the whole peainsula a would be gradually taken possession of. id Lord Ragian curtly remarked, after a 9s perusal of the paper, that the blockad at ing force would be driven int.o the sea re by the sorties of a garrison twice as t, strong as itself ; that the covering force to could not hold a position whose flank is was turned by the garrisoa ; and that >e tho expeditionary force might tako rd Simpheropol, but that a nearer base of to operations for Sebastopol would be at formed at Baghtsheh Serai. He then in politely handed back the precious docu a ment to General Canrobort, and never 1 alluded to the matter again. The stars 1 must nave erred in determining the lot 3 of Napoleon III, who had in reauty none of those qualities which are usually ro a garded as the conditions of either mili rt tary or imperial greatness. He pos t- sessed a smattering of several branches ill of learning, and a thorough acquaintance with none, but he was so blinded by conceit as to be incapable of ever per ceiving that he labored ander an error, Sant, even when his sagacity wais most t' evidently at fault, his self-complacency )n remained unshaken. All that ho looked a for in such a case was a convenient way ? out of the troubles which he had brought about for himelf and others. t In this instance the way out of tlieni was found for him, 10 to A 'ra st y Iereatter the thoughtfu-min-led CiiZfn. V in view of a recent ocuirience, will give heed and car to the merry. inerry tramnp who acc'osts him with the lcI story of "Just a little assistance until I hear from home, where I have considerablo money due me." some such Yarn as this always accompanied the frequent demandis a tramp (named Jahn Whalen n.ado upon DistrictL Attorney-elect J. D. Sullhvan, of San Ft~ranciaco. Tramp Whalen generally ts"struck" for two bits at a tIme and waus it both consibtent and persistent ia his story (Iwhichi was this: He claimed to ihave a ismnal fortune awaiting him in Englaud, itwhich could be secured by any one knowi. :~ lng how to legally claim it for him. The 'f ellow stuck to it with such earnestness 0that Mr. Sullivan at last conclued that it was worth the time and psaeof n letter to England. This lhe wroe. and awhile he waited an answer Tramp WhalenI amet the tate conmmon to city trampa-he was arrested as a vagrant. A letter was ereceived by Mr. Sulbivan containing the surprising information that the described SWhalen was entitled to ?5,000, or, in the ' denomination Mr. Sullivan is accustomed to includle in his own accounts, $25,000. t This, of course, placed Tramp Whalen eC in the light of a citizen whose whereabouts e it was~ desirable to learn. The letter con '( tined an eaurnest request that Mr. Sullivan lshould forward his peculiar client to Eng o0 land int once. The attorney set about s, hunting up the peripatetic Whalen and e- was not mutch surprised to Iern that hie i.was in the gloomy shades of the Central Us Police Station, awaiting sentence as a a "vyg.,' The plot worked admirably, Just ly as the attorney, as lie would in a play, e, was preparing to rush to his distressed P- client, with the $25,000 information, enter 'y a messenger with a prepaid cablegram it transferring $500 for Whalen's expenses to England. Armed with this, enter Sulli is van in P'olice Court No, 2. Whalen, eit rcgged, dirty, dejected, but calm, sat In ,' the prisoner's dock. Judge Rtosenbaum lit had just fixed his judicial eye upon the -- "vag,'' in montal debate whether to give le hinm twenty days in the County Jil, or is three months in the House of Correction, 0- where his abihities could bo0 turned to tno *r- making of country roads, 'The attorney, a- with proper dramatic effects, explained its the situation to the Court. The Court t- reoliected, and the poetry or dramatic d( unities or something occurring to him, the Court ordered the "vag's" discharge on )g condition that he leave the city and county of San Francisco witnin 24 houms. Agreed, me Exit attorney and tramp. in Whalen was fitted out with an entire y. suit of new clothes, gave himself a sumr ur p risc with a bath and a shave, and, as Mr. id Sullivan rxpresses it, "Hie actually did. ip not know himself.'' lHe visited several ir- of his old haunts, restaurants wl'ere lhe: to had begged meals, etc., and was lookod re upon as a thief in his new outfit. He left ti for England on the overland train 'via New *York. ur. at --The Mint officers note an almost en unprecedented and' presistent demand as for silver dimes. D~mes aro now made he only from 8, 5 and 20 *ent ecies and rnblatei quaatora. a I,. s, A Waterer on Meat. Fresh meat of overy description shouh be hung up in a dry, cool place, aln; carefully wipod every day. It ough never to lay long in a dish. The tim, it should be kept varies with the weatho -in cold, dry weathor it will keep frohl much longer than in moist, warn weather. Game will keep longer tha butcher meat-say, two weeks-bird being kept with the feathers on, but no drawn, and venison and rabbit paunehed, but not skinned. Beef wil require from four to ton days' keping or even longer in cold weather; an mutton, if well managed, will sometime hang a fortnight or three weeks withou spoiling-the longer the better. . A young meat, howeirer-veal, lamb an( mutton-spoils very quickly, one, tw< or three days at the utmost suffices fo; it. Fowls will keep for a we-k an< turkeys a fortnight, but a goose no above nine or ten days. In pluakinf birds which have been kept some time, care should be taken not to break the skin, which will have beeme rathe: tender. As all animal food, however good ti quality and however well it may bo cooked, is uneatAble stale, and. oxcepl fish, will certainly prove tough if cooket. too fresh, it becomes matter of consider, able difficulty, particularly durinf summer, to fix upon the right day foi cooking a piece of ment which has beei kept. It is only by daily exatinatiin and narrowly watching the cliango which meat undergoes thAt the house. wife will be able to make uso of it al that stage, just. short of boing tainted, which is the proper one at whili tio cool it. This is an art which can only x learned by experi necanl its successful practice evinces considorablo skill, it household maungomont. Thus, shoui unlooked for cold weather have pro vented tihe moat reaching the propoi cooking state upon the day Oalculates on, the prudent and activo housewit< will havo to provide some other dinnei for that day and keep the moat till nexi day or the inext again. It cannot he to( strongly impressed upon housekeeper, that even the best moat, if cookted tor soon, will not be nearly go tender an. palataible as meat much inferior whiel: has been kept the proper time. Thert are various ways of keeping meat swee and of removing the bad smell after it has becomo slightly tainted, One mod< is to rub it over with coarsely-pounded aharcoal, which has the property of ab. sorbing the putroscont gases, and thus prevents the bad smell. Tle charcoal mnust, of course, ho washed off befort cooking. Another way is to paint the moat all over with a solution of salicylic acid, or rubbing the moat with the dry acid is the simplest method, anid will dc for all household purposes. Food land Shelter on he Btnge'm. There are in the far Western States and Territories wide areas with a pecu liarly mild o'imate. For several years in succession, both cattle and shop are able to find tiheir own food, and are in fairly good condition in spring. If the clhmate wore always like this, nothing better could be wished. But there is acasional ly a severe winter ; the snow ovors the grass, and the cold piercing wiudas drive the animals before them. Unfortunately there are no belts o bimber, or brush, or even ravines in which tihe animftl may.find shelter and rest and thieyof ten become exhausted and permss. Provident shepherds and herders anid that this is one of those cases in which it is best to not "take the 3hancos" but to provide a store of food ach autumn, as if they were sure that i hard winter would follow. In supply ng food a shelter may be provided amid i double object gained. The natural grass of the ranges, though coarse, is mfilently nutritious to keep the mimals during the winter, even when illowed to die and dry where it stands. [f it can be cut and cured while yet parf .ially green, the hay is of far better tuality. The simplest way to keep the 'tay is to set up a row of posts, about 12 reet apart ; those are to be connected by thor stioxs running along and spiked bo their tops. Lighter poles are then laid from the cross-boam to the ground, towards the north side, and near enough bogethier to sustain the hay that nay be piled upon them. This will make ai tan-to shed, which, when thickly overed with hay, will affora abundant ihelter, and at the same time food within reach. After a severe rstorm the hay may be re-adjusted, and more, if need be, added. A more complete sheltor may be made by setting up two rows of ruprights 12 or 14 feot apart, using the sloping poles as before. The two rowt of hiorizm)tal oross-beams, should be conneoted by light p0los. Thmis wil] allow a larger amount of hay to be stored out of reach of the animals, and which may be used to keep the sloping portioni of the shied in repair. Sielter of thit kind mty be made bf any needed length, and should always be so placed as tc afford protection from the severest winds. --The New Yale catalogue showasa total of 1098 students ooming from all parts of the country. All the depart~ mionts are now equipped in an excellent manner and are in the best working 'be Dead Hons Feshivai. This amusing ceremony often takes place on board of English ships sailing to Austr-1lla. On joining a ship the sailors are advanced a month's wages, with whict 3 they are supposed to have lbught a horse, r which dies at the end of four weeks. A , dummy steed Is prepared in the forecastle, the body being an old flour barrel, the neck and head of canvas, stuffed with straw and painted. In place of a saddle, 3 a hole is cut through the body, large enougl b to admit the legs of the rider. About half-past seven in the evening a small procession, headed by a man who carries a baton, farmshed with a rude mui tation of a huian face, issues from th< forecastle. Following him is a sailor witl B long white whiskers, who holds a can fo: t penny contributions. Ile Is protected by a number of policemen, armed with canva clubs like those, used in pantoninies, with which they lay about them as frcely > as a New York policeman, but with nc other effect than eliciini shouts of laugh ter. The procession is closed by a nuimie of sailois who sing J'4ly sea songs (luring the maich. After the collection has been taken up, [lie party returns to the fore. castle. Shortly afterward a larger procession Issues from the forecastle, with a nunber of comic characters in addition to those just mentionedi, amrong them the auc tioneer, in frock coat and tall hat, with a roll of papers in his hands, and atten dod by a clerk. Immediately after the auctioneer ctes the horse, riddert, or rather carried, by a sailor (tressed as a jockey, and led by a groom. The procca sion parades about the (leek, the rider making the horse prance in the most lively and amusing manner. The auctioneer then mounts a barrel on the quarter-deck, and aft-r a long and laughable harangni on the merits of the horse, puts up the animal tor sale. Pre vious to all this the hat has been passed round among the passengers and ollicers, and tea to fifteen pounds have been capl. lected for tbe benefit of the sailora. rhe bidding is spirited and amusing, and ceases when it. reaches thie amount collec ted, which is then handed to the sallors by one of the lady passengers. Atter tho auction, the leading charac toes move OR to the leoe side, near the mainsail, and a solemn dirge is chanted about the poor animial dlying suddenly, each verse end:ng with "Poor old florsel" The horse and rider are then hoisted to the end of the mainyard over the ship's side, blue-lights are lot off, giving a ghastly as. pect to tihe scene, and at a given signal the rope is cut, and the horse falls into the sea, leaving the rider suspended in the air, and floats astern in the darkness. The proccssion again forms and marettes around the (leek, lie sailors singing "hule Britauna" "surry kf'r Poot Folks." (lazing mito (ho slow-windiows of a storo recontly was ani individual whoo was considerably "corned," and as lie wasn attemptiug to balance on his hools and take in the show at the saind time along camne a woman n'id child and hal ted besido him. Buth were poorly (<rcssed and evidently hard up, and the child's exclaiations of dehght soon at tracted the attention of the befuddled individual. "Shmo you wan' ono'or 'um dolls in yer Chrismus stocking, el?" he queried sa he patted thochild ou tho head. "Oh, yos, sir, bat we are poor," she replied. "Poor, lie? Too baz--too baz. Sho you want (oll, he?" "Yes, sir, but I can't have one. Can I, ma? "No, inleod," anaworod the woman, "We have~ hard work even to get bread." ".Is that so ? Th'iaa too baz-too baz, Jus' hol' on lizzIe whido," He began feeling~ in his pocketa for money, but tihe search revealed only~ a piece of tobacco, a bottle with a lhttle wvhisky in it, and ai pawn ticket f'or a watch. "Want 'or doll, ohi ? Want it pursy bad?'' "Yes, sir, but . 'X ou nezzer mind 'bout that I Poor, oh ? Borry f'r poor folka. No Chris mus presons, eli? Sorry 'bout that. Shay I" ." Yes, sir.'' "You waiz, right hero till I eum back." lie at once pushed his way inito the store, was absent about 'five minutes, and then returned, carrying a doll by the leg. Handing it over to the girl he said: "Thas dolly f': you. Sorry i'r poor folks---very sorry. Thias my Chrismus presens. Ann now, hard as you cau I" Tho woman and child hurried away, and they were only well out of sight when the man was arrested and walked off for stealing the doll. He wont will ingly, callhng back to the crow-d: --You bez I'll make somebody glad on Chrismus I Sorry f'r poor folks-very sorry I" A Cnrious Vaiemiatie.. Did you over think, asks a Paris papor, how many male and female ancestors were requiredt to bring you into the world? First, it was necessary that you should have a father and mother-that makes two human beings. Each of them most also have hall a father and mothr-that makes four human beings Each of those four must have had a father and mother-that makes eight human beinigs, And so we must go bactk for forty-six generations, wpich brings us only to the time of Jesus Christ. The oalculation thus resulting shows-- that 130,245,017,d89,684,976 births must have taketi place in order to bring yo'u into the world-you who read these lines, But remember we are only taking the case of yourself-one human being-auid there hre 1,000,000, 000) of human beings In the worig with the same history and we have only car ried back the caloulation to the time of Chfist. How 9onstrois the calouito becmesit e ory t pack 6,000 year.! How ghatly it bopdiue if we push it back 25~0, 000 yers wagioI De Mortillet and othieri gtve as t1ie age of the human raco!l3fnst count three generations to a oenthury or thirty to ever 1 00Q. ecars and racion up tho history 01 one adiv. idual. Imtagune -the number .of births neeeusary. to bring itito existenac gon. member of the 7,500th gemnentio. 1876. 1882. F. W. HABENICHT, Proprietor of the MORNING STAR SALOON I respectfully call the attention of the public to my superior facilities for sup plying everything iA my line, of superior quality. Starting business In Wbans boro in 1876, I have in all this time given the 0loet attention to my byxsi neas and endeavored to make my estab lishment FIRST-CLASS in every par ticular. I shall in the future, as in the past. hold myself ready to serve my customers with the best artioles that can be procured in any market. I shall stand ready, also, to guarantee every article I sell. I invite an Inspection of my stock of Wines, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, etc. F. W. HABENICHT. IMPORTED. Scotch Whiskey (Ramsey's). A. Bin Laubort and Marat Cognac Brandy. Jamaica Rum. Rotterdam Fish Gin. Ro'ss's Royal Ginger Ale, Jules Mummn & Co.'s Champagne. Cantrel & Cochran's Ginger Ale. Apollinaris Mineral Water. Angustora Bitters. Old Sherry Wine. Old Port Wine. DOMESTIC. Ginger Ale. Soda Water. Sarsaparilla. Old Cabinet Rye Whiskey. Old Schuylkill Ryn Whiskey. The Honorable Rye Whiskey. Old Golden Grain Rye Whiskey. Renowned btandard Rye Whiskey. Jesse Moors VlImr Rye Whisey, Old N. 0. Sweet Mash Corn Whiskey. Old Stone Mountain Corn Whiskey. Western Corn Whiskey. Virginia Mountain Peach Brandy. Now England (Frenoh's) Ram. North Carolina Apple Brandy. Pure Blackberry Brandy. Pure Cherry Brandy. Pure Ginger Rrandy. Boston Swan Gil. SUNDRIES. Rook and Rye. Osceola Bitters. Hlostetter's Bitters. Beorgner & Engel's Lager Beer, in patent stopper bottles and on draught. New Jersey Sweet, Sparkling Cider. Tolu, Rock & Rye, Lawrence & Martin. Stoughton Bitters. Rock and Corn. Cigars and Tobacco Syndicate Cigar, 5 cents. The Huntress Cigar, 2} cent. ?Madeline Ulgar-All Havana-10 cent. Don Carlos (Nub)-allavana-...10 cents lMinerva Cigar-Havana filler -- cents. Cheek Cigar-Havana filler-S cents. Our Boast Cigar-Havana flier-.. cents Lucky Hit Cigar-Havana filler--S cents. The Unicumn Self-Lighting Cigarette, (Amber month-piece to every ten packages.) The Plckwlck Club Cigarette, * Shuck mouth-Dieces.) . ? !ih mionl (Gom Cigaret re, Tli8 ORil Billiarul 8il POOl Par lor in Ton' ICE! ICE!'ICE! An abundance always on hand for the use of my customers. I wil also keep a supply of FISH, OYSTE~RS, &O., for my Restaurant, whieh is always open from the first of kieptember to the first of April I shall endestor to please all who give me a call. Very respectfully, F. W. HIABENICHT. OPPOSITE POS(VTOU.