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-I 4 1 TRI-W EEKLY EDITION. WINNSIIORO. S. C.. FEBRUARY 13. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 AN QLD GEMSIAN BAiLLAD. A shepherd naidoh lea her iambs With mild anti grateful air . To greener flelds of: olover'sweet Where daisies blosspin fair, Then heard sl,, In the twilight's fall, Clear and distinct ;ie, cuckoo calliT Cuokoo, ouckoo. She sat down on a grassy bank And to herself said alto "To pass the time, I'll count to know How long my life sitahL-Do. A )iundred-ten"-nor was that all, For still she heard the cuckoo call, Cuckoo. The Lihepird niaiden pDgrygrew; Up from tle girfs site sprtlg, Caught up her stff and ran yhth speed To wher the opkoo sg. lie saw,n :t to te wood he flew, While echoed back ils call-cuckoo I Cuckoo. Sie followed him with lifted staff Still In an angry, pood, And when site turnhd, alle still could hear His voice within the wood. She hunted him from tree to tree, Sel sIW he called out merrily, Cuckoo. Tired with her chase amoug tile trees, Impatiently cried she "Sing, if you like, your hateful song, 'Tie all the same to me I" Turning, she met her shepherl swal, N ho, laugfilng, echoed the refrainj Cuckoo, cuckoo. Tile meeting was a good one in spite of the intense heat, and there was more singing done by mosquitoes than by the human species. John Ulark sat by an open window, where what breeze there was came in and kept him comparhtively' comforta ble, and then he bad on a clean suit which his wife had washlik auct ironed that day, notwithstanding the mercury mounted high in the nineties, and its freshness was an additional comfort. His first crop of hay, much larger thai usual, had that day been put in his spacious barns without damage by so much as a drop of rain. He was well, strong, prosperous, and therefore happy. The ride home was charming, and as thc new horse took them through Uhiriley Woods, with sure, ileet feet, lie felt that life was very bright; and as It thought of Brother White's remarks about "we ary burdens," "feet tired with the march of fife," he concluded that the aforesaid brother was not in the enjoyment of religion. ,Tolin's wife sat back in the carriage, rusting her tired body and turning over in her n.ind the renarks her John had i1nade at thie meetig. "Bear yo one inothera ourdeus," had been the subject of the eveniug's talk, and John's speech had been listened to with ovident relish. "Your husband hlis the root of the matter in him," said the pastor, as she passed out. "I hope we shall all take liced to his well-titned words." "I think of hiring Tom .llirch as a sort of spare hand and call boy geno rally. 1 find this hot weather takes the starch out of me," John said, as the horse trotted through tho cool pine grove, amid llicuers of moonlight. "Will you board him?" asked Mary Clark, in a constrained voido, with the inemory of her husband's exhortations still ill mind. "Of course. I want him ovenings to take the horse when we come irom meeting, or if I have taken a friend ou.i 1L ie rather hard to. go to work directly one gets home." "You are to hire him to bear some of your burdens," said Mary, in the sitme hard voice. "Just so, wife. it stands me in hand to 1'ractice, if 1 .preatch; don't you say so? "I do. I am glad you are to hatve hell); ias you say, it is hard to go to work the minute you get home. 1 have been foolish enough to have this ride spoiled by thiinkcing of bread to mix, two baskets of cthes to fuld before 1 sleep, of the ironing to-morrowv, and dinner to get for four hungry men, and baby to care for." "'Don't crowd to-morrow's buirdens into this pleasant ride. And it seems to me that it would be bettor to get all your house-work (done before meeting time." "if I could, but that is Impossible; milk to Strini, dishes to wash, Bonny and baby to put to bed- all these duties v come together, aiid tlten I am tired enough to go to bed )n&Oclft * "Take it easy, Mary; keep cool, avoid all thei hot work you can." "I wisl' I could 4have a girlJ, John j" "Mother ulied to say girls were more hindrance than' hblp. I 'guiess' you would find them so, and then they waste and break more thandheir wages. I don't see how 1 can alford a6Rirl. Do what you can, and leave some things undone; that's the way to work it," and John sat back with a-satisfied air, and Mary thought of her husbands glowing wordis in the prayerrineeting, "I will do all 1 caln," said Mary, in a weary voice. "What 1 'am obliged to do is much beyond my strength. The three meals come near together, washing and ironing must be done, baby shall not be nolected, and of course 1 must keep ahe ,olothes wvel. mended." "One thing at a time''is the way to *think of your duties. Pick up~ all the comf ort you can as you 'go along. -I have made up my mind to do so in the .future." "80 I see, by your thinking of having an extra hand." "Yes. 1 feel that I must take care of my health f or your sake and the chihdrons'. "Certainly," Mary answered ip a sar castic tone, ''how thoughltfuli you arie for us!" ,John made no further comment, but inwardly wished that prayer muetings (lid Mary the good they had once, and wondeored why his wife was so chlanged. "I am going with 'Squire Towne to see a reaper, he says ho hardly wants to buy without my opinion." This was next day. John loft his wire ironing, with the half-sick baby sitting by the table in the company of an army of flies; anld in spite of the home scene, enjoyed his ride along the pheasant road, well plased to be seen so muoh with ithe groat men of the town. At supper time he came home with the new reaper behind the wagon. "By taking two we made a handsome saving: anti, as I intended to buy one, I thought I might as well take it now," he remarked, by way of explanation. "It will save time and strength and pay for itself in a. year." Maty made no comment, but set her teeth tightly together wheni she remembered that she had asked in vain for something to make her work easier. A sewing machine had been pronounced "hurtful; better have fewer changes of clothing than run a machine," John had decided when the subject was dis cussed; "a gclothes wringer would be constantly getting out of order. To bring water into the house, would be just to spoil the wtter. Nothing, after all, liko the good old bucket. Mother would never have a pump In her dayl" "ly mothAr used to say all men are seltish, and I begin to think she was right," Mary muttered as she went to the kitchen for the 'plxte'of hot biscuit John was so fond of for his tea. . ier husband a appetite was good, but from fatigue and overheating herselr, Mary coula not eat. His ride and the society of the genial squiro had acted like a tonic, but there is no tonic in the air of a hot kitchen, "-A commonplace life," she said, and she jighed, as Phe cleared away the tea dished, while John tilted back in his arm chair on the cool, draughty porch and talked over things with neighbor Jones. "Why don't you buy Widder Patch's cranberry medder?" asked Mr. Jones; "it's going 4irt- cheap, and you can af ford it." .. The sum was named, figures that austomished Mairy, and she was more surprised when she heard her husband say: 'I've half a mind to do it. I've just had an old debt paid in, and, to tell tho truth, affairs in the money market are so squally, I don't know just where to salt it down." No tears came into Mary's tired eyes, but her heart went out in one mighty sob as she stood, dish-pan in hand, be fore the disordered table, and thought how cheaply she had sold herself, really for 12 a wveek and her board, to the man who had promised to love and cherish her until death. The beautiful piano she had brought to the farm was never opened, but looked like a gloomy casket in which was buried tho poetry of life. The closed "best parlor" had long since assumed the grimness and mustiness of country best parlors, of which in her girlhood she had made so much fun. John was a rich man, and in spite of his marriage vows and his glowing prayer-meeting talk, was allow ing burdens grievous to be borne, to press on her shoulders, in order to "salt down" his dollars. Had she not th' duty to perform? Ought she to allow him to preach and never to practice? Had she not rights to be respected? which were not by her husband; for, she reasoned. ifl he al lowed her to do what could be done by an ignorant Irish woman for $2 a week, then he rated her at that price. "Widdor l'atoh has had a tough time on't," said neighbor Jones; "she is goiug to the West'rd to Ton, if sho sells the med ler, and Jane is going out to work. "Sh's tried sewing, but it don't agree with her, and Dr. Snow recommends kousowork as healthy buiness." "'ITis healthy butbinoss," chimed in .Tohn "SNew my wif is a oUud deal better than when I married her. Why, she never did a washing in her lif until she came to the farm. I think wvashiing and general housework is much better than piano playing and reading." "So L say to the girls, who pester me to b~uy an organ; bettor play on the wvash board, enough sight, was the ele gant resp~onse. "Are you going to o..v the cranberry meadowv John?" Mary asked, as she saw her husband making preparations to go from home. "'Yes-why?" "Can~ you afford it?" "We shall have to figure a little closer in order to do it, but it is going cheap." "You will have to give up Tom Biroh, won't you and do the cho'res youraclf?" "I have thought of it, but Tom .is poor, aind to give him a home is a deed of charity. 'No, we will save some other way." "Hlow much do you pay Tom?" "'Three dollars and his board. And, by the way, hie says you (ldin't wash' his clothes. Washing and mending was in th~e bargain." "I think Tom will have to go, for I have hired ,Jano Patch, She wvill be here to-night. Two dollars a week -I am to give her. You want to practice Boar ye one anothier's burdens,' as well as preachl from the text, so 1 will give you a chance. I will take my turn in sitting on the cool pilazza after tna with a neighbor, wvhilo you do the chores. I think the timie has come for sonic of my burdens to be lifted. By exchaing. lng Tom for' Jane you will have $1 a week for the cranberry meadow, You say strong, active Tonm is in need of a home; lie can make one for himself anywhere. It is a deed of charity to give JTane a home, and an act of mercy to give your wife a little rest." Before John could recover from his astontishment, Mary walked out of his sight, and1( taking the children, wvent to the shut-up parlor, T1hrowmng op)en the~ windows to lot in the sof t summer air, with the baby in bor lap, sihe sat down a'. her piano and began to play "a song without words,'' at piece John had loved to hear whetn lie used to visit her in her home, where she was a petted girl, The song crept out through the open windowsa and around to John as lie sat on the porch, and memory conm pelhod him to give the song word. Not musical poetry, but rather sober prose, whereim washing, ironing, hard days .at the churn, hours of cooking for hun gry men, stoodo ut before his mind's eye ini contrAt to the fair promises he had made the pretty girl he had wron for his bride. aae Patch came that avaning, anc at once took upon herself many of Mrs. Clark's cares, and no one greeted her more cordiallvy than the master of the house. Nothing was ever said about her coming, aud Tom Birch did not go away; so Mary knew that her husband could well afford the expense. She told me how she helped to make one man thoughtful and unselfish, as we sat on her cool piazza one .hot August night; and I was glad that one woman had grit enough to demand her rights. If John Clark had been poor, his wife would have borne her burden in patience, but she had no right to help make him selfish, and indifferent as to her health and comfort. Mr. Banerolts ICoses. Mr. Bancroft the Historian, who resides In Washington has a hobby. It is rose culture. Fancy this ot a man who speuds his days in setting up the dry bones of facts, and breathing into them the life of history I His winter home is a double brown-stone, and had originally a small strip or ground on each side of the cntrance. There was one blaze of color from Febru ary to June. Such hyacinths surely never bloomed outside of a poem; and the tulips looked as if some tropical bird had been plucked near by, and its plumage scattered broadcast over the over the beds. Every shade and color in nature's paint-box was represented; and under the wooing sun and sott air of midwinter they thrust up from the iuold long before the leaves were out or the spring prince had kissed the sleeping world to life; and in the snows and storms that follow such a weather truce they would stand erect and giowing and hold their ground until the green was washed into the hilis, and the cat-tails be gan to frisk on the trees. But all of this was only a prelude to his rose garden. He bought a large lot which joined his property at right angles, lacing on Seventeenth street; of course he paid a fancy price for it., as it was in ti heart of the West End. Straightway he planted it all in roses. Such flowers I They ranged in color from the palest biooni of Provence to the passionate heart of the Jacqueminot; Marechal Niel bends in stately courtesy to Mtarie Gillot, and sighs in perfume for the Cloth-or-Ood and the memories of the Malmatson; Madame Malsh shakes her petals at the White Croquet, the Attar rose, the pale Safrona, and the Damask Blush, the Micratlia lifts up its white cups to the sun, and Maria Cook iaints in the glow of a sisterhood whose very nanes I have torgotten. The garden is like a tem ple where a thousanti spices are burning in flames of as many colors, and the venera ble historian is the worshipper. lie is an early riser, ani many a tnorn - ing I have been awakened by cries and comments, incoherent as to wordis, but ringing with pleasurel 1 woull go to my window, and there,bending over rose after rose, would be the slight, elastic figure of their adorer -his whute beard and hair sweeping the freshness from their chalices, and getting the first, perl umes of the young day. lie carried a book in one hand and "a three-legged stool" in the other, and spent two or three hours just wandering trom bush to bus-eh in an cestacy of content -sometlilines kising the flowers,soinetimes caressing them with his lin4ers, and fre quently dropping on his stool under sohie specially odorous cluster to read his book to the accompaniment-sound sense and sweet scentsl His house at Newport Is surrounded by a sea et bloom and fragrance,and lie makes his roses the calendar by which ho tells off his seasons. lie stays in Washmtgton until June and the Jacquenunots die together; then ho flica to lii3 imi Uzt a Mgartien, where he lingers until the hardiest of its denizens are dead and the ghosts of their ptala fall in snow fron thue clouds of November. hiss house m Washigton is stored with unter esting things. the specialty being that there is one of everythimig and iLhat one of the very best, llis hoiiptahy is -lavish and elegant, and his library what Rluskmn would call "A tomnb of the kitags." in bulkd the historian is, as I have said,shgh his hair and berd are like cream colore d silk, his dark eyes tender with the fires of thirty, and his movements arc quick and gracefuli. le rides every day on a firy black horne, and can tire out, his young companions ini a hartd trot every tine. Cut isinmg. .Some years ago, says a wvritor I had a cat whose fishing p~roelivities and fondnuess for the water wasw, to say the lenut of it, extraodinary. Her eccen tricities, so far s 1 know them, dated frem thme first moment I saw her. A friend aind myself were fishing in a forty acre lake, in a large p~ark, on a bitter November day, wyith the wind a dead nor' caster. Just as wve were thinking of desistimg, about 4 o'clock imu thme after noon, my friend called my attention to a half-grown kitten which stood mewing bitterly on the bank some 89yardls from us. \Ve called it one or twice, and, to our aurprise, it took to the wvater without the slightest licsitationm anid swam to ihe boat. Arter drying it as well as we could, weo wrapped it up in oltd rug, anid gave it some ot the bait from the punt's wvell, whichi it devoured greedily. I took it home after its very Arthurlian advent, but it neover becamne a domestic animal. Tabby's chief delight, ont the contrary, wvas to wvander inm anid out tho sedges of the stream, by which my nouse stands catching rats, moor hens. or sedge warblers, and ini suimmer to poach in the shallowvs for small fish.I have frequently fou.nd her doing tisi, and my bait can wvas never sale unless actuauliy insteoned, for even if tlhe lid wore down, somehow my latdy Tabby would get it up anid be at the contents ini a trico. I kept her some four years, and at last wasw forced to shoot her, for she took to game poaching in right good earnest, and ended by living in a rabbit's burrow, fronm wich, after trying to coax without success, she was incontinently drawu and shot. I have often t~hought she was a forest-born cat, of parents getting their sustenanco in the coverts, and liviing there as eats will often do, after the first departure from virtue in he direction of game poaching. We must learn to infuse sublimity into $rilles; that is poweor. Flattery is like false money, It Impov erishes those who receive It. It is a great point of wisdom to know how to estimata little things, "Ordering Dinuer." Society may be considered. with re gard to the joys and troubhes of dining, as diyided into three groAt zones or see tions, whereof one alone is for the most part greatly exeroisedwith tedailyprob lem:--"What shall we eas ?" There is, on the one hand, a privileged and much. envied class that can eat pretty nearly whatever it chooses, and which leaves the task of selecting and providing the dishes for the chef meal of the day to some trusty subordinate. The unfortu nate persons who belong to thiAotion have usually a chief who :',4 found oaf, what are their favorite viands, and who with a moderate share of Ingenuity can compone each day a bill of faro with which the master or mistress of the house will be pleased, or at least conten ted. Very possibly this class may not be so large as the vulgar herd suppose, and a glance into the interior sanctum of some fine house might discover a Cabinet 1imister or the wife of a Knight of the Garter engaged in the undigni fled and unstatesmanlike proceeding of holding a morning colloquy with the cook. But the class, wehther large or small, undoubtedly exists, and one of the most notable specimens of it was the great Duke of Wellington, who was never observed either to know or care what he was eating, and would hayo found it far more difficult to draw up a menu than to win a pitched battle in the field. On the other hand, there is the class of unfortunates- -or fortu nates, as the philosophers call them whose fare is regulated by a very simple rule, for it consists of what they can get. Not only prisoners and pensioners, school-boys and lodgers in seaside boarding-houses, must put up with the food that is set before them by their Daterers, but a large number of per rectly independent subjects of her Ma jesty, living in their own dwellings, are reduced to a similar 4ecessity, and spared the difficulty of making a choice. rhe cottager who has inyested a suitable share of his Saturday wages in a joint is thereby oommitted to a diet which lie cannot vary for the next two or three dlays, or ut least can only vary, if he dines at home, by cutting a different vegetable from day to day from his garden. But between tlicso .two ex tromes lies the broad zone, including the whole of the middle classes, of tho!!e who have daily to answer, either personally or by deputy, the question, "What will you have for dinner to-day?" Now, to a great many managers of house-holds-young Wives, especially, and nervous widowers this question is fraught with untold terrors. It is the one great trial of the day, never fully provided against, ever new though al ways old, a perpitual anxiety and exer. cise for the mind, whose inventive powers seem somehow or other to be never in so slack a condition as at the moment when the inevitable house keeper appears with the well-known formula en her lips. No amount of experience or practice can overcome the absence of that originality which is es sential to a good domestic caterer, but which Nature has denied to so many wvorthy ladies capable of excelling in all other departments ef the housewife's Airt. For the epicure, or at least the female epicure, is born, not educated; and no amount of teaching in the most approved school of cookery will atone for the absence of that essential quahi tication that the orderer of a dinner should feel an interest in the work. Th'Ius it is that the wife who is deficient in this natural gift may be heard among her most intimate friends entreating to to be posted up in some nice now dishes which will serve to ornament and en liven her bill of fare for a month or so to come, Lists arc then made out, or pencil marks scored against the recom mended delicacies in that cookery book which the uninventive housewife never fails to have at'hand. But the entrees und entremets which looked and tasted so nice at the friend's house, present very often quite a different appearance and flavor at home ; and the expected successes are a often as not dismal fai lures, especially when any particular merit is expected in them. This sad result will some times follow even "in the best regulated households," and when the cook is not only competent but honestly desirous of giving the new sxperiment a fair trial. But how many cases are there whore this autocrat of thie lower rogions is either unable or unwmiillimg to achieve the proposed feat I Kleoptomnania. M. .Pierro G~iffard gives some inter Rating information about that fashiona 1le disease known as kloptomania, lie says that no less than 4000 women are annually caught stealing from Paris souniters, and the number of titled ladles seized with kleptomania while examining the fashions is almost in credible. Among recent ondprits were a Russian princess, a French countess, an English duchess, and the natural traughter of a reigning soyereign. Of course, people of this quality never appear in the police court, but arrange a quiet settlement with the proprietors, of ten making a round contribution, occasionally as much as $2,000, for the relief of the poor, as a condition of being Jet off. The police authorities, it appears, cnsent to suah nettlements. GoodsDay Sir. There Is a young man In the county Wayne, State of Miohigan,who is going to be terribly astonished before the year 1888 Is more than a month old. The law will reach out and clasp his throat just above the Adam's apple, and he will get such a shaking up and mopping around that he will seem to feel his heels beating a tatoo on the back of his neck. They were In to see a iawyer-Mary Ann and her mother. Mary Ann was a little embarrassed, but the old woman was calmness itself. When they spoke about a breach of promise case the lawyer ask ed: "What evidence have you got?" .,"Mary Ann, produce the letters, "con manded the mother, and the girl took the cover off a willow hasket and remarked that she thought 927 letters would do to begiu on. The other 651 would be pro duced as soon as the case was fairly before "he court. "And outside of these letters?" queried the lawyer. "Mlary Ann produce your dilary, " said the inother. "Now turn to the heading Af "Promises," and tell him how many times this mairiage business was talked iver." "The looting is 214 times," auwered the girl. "Ncw turn to the heading of 'Darling, md give us the number of times lie has ap plied the tern to you." ''If I have figured right the total is 9264 times. "I guess you counted pretty straight, ror you are good in arithmetic. Now urn to the headime ot 'Woodhine Ct tage, ' and tell us how ninny times he ias talked of such a home for you after narriage.' "Tie footing is 1,395 times." "Very well. This lawyer wants to be rmre that we've got a case. Hcw maniny imes has Charles Henry said he would die or you?' "'Three hundred and fifty," answered ,he girl as she turned over a leaf. "t0ow many tittes has lie called you an ingol?" "Over 11,000, mainina." "low ahout, squeezing hand?" "Over 394,000 squeezes." "And kisses?" "Nearly 417,000. "There's our easel" said the mother, as he deposited li'askct and diary on the law ers table. "Look over the documents, mud if you 'want anything further, I can I )ring in i dozen neighbors to swear to the i acets. We sue for $10,000 damages, and Ne dont settle for less than an eighty acre aim, with builting in good repiir. We'll ,all again next week-good-day, sirl Cot oR itunimag cirue. Nvow York's total cnuirch expenses foot ip about six million live hundred thous Lud dollars each year. Tbc liguros in ludc the pay of pastors, the building mund, the cost of running the various hurches and the outlay for missions md aill benevolent purposes. Tie 1 auan Catholics lead the list. They hayo some severity-five churches, and their total annual out-lay is estimated at two inillions two hundred and fiity thousand ioflars, half ot which goes in charity. 'he Episcopalans come next. They liave seventy-nine churches and chapels, with twenty-livc thousand live hundred, 30mniunicants. Thoir outlay ii one LilliuL one hundred and lifty thousand I tiollars-six hundred thousand dollars Cor church expenses, and live hundred md fifty thousands dollars for bonovo lent purposes. After the Episcopalians Como the Presbytorians, with sixty hurches, having a membership of wenty-one thousand five hundred, and in expense of seven hundred arid ninety ive thousanid dollars something overJ lialf of wvhiich is for church purposes." < I'hc Methiodistsi havesixty-hive churches, but their membership is only thirteen< Lhous'mnd three hundred, anid their total 1 xpesons are set dlown att two hundred md forty-three thousand dollars-two hundred thousand dollars beiing for shurch purposes. The liaptists, with blhirty-mnx churchis and a meinbership o~f twelve thousand sovi hundred, ex pond nearly one hundred thousand dol lairs more than the Methodists, their en-i tire outlr ' g three himnd~red and twenty- u 'lsand~ dollars. T1hae Duteh ..* idthie Lutheran comn binedi hi 'oit: ic ch urches, with a miiielborhq u,. sixteen thousand, arndI their expenses foot ump th ree hundred rand sixty-hiroo thiousramt dollars. Tihe Con gregationalists have only' six churches, with two Lhousand four hundr-ed momn Ijers, and at total expense list of uipoty nix thousand dollars. Next conic tire Jews, and they make a very good show nug. Tihey have nineteen tabernacles, *vithi a declared membership of $hree ~houmsand (the regular attondnco, ~houghi,,is at least four times that numi bor) and an expense of over three hundred Lhousand dollars. aymnpaumene .tsiuan A gentleman was arraigned before an arknansaw justlee on a charge of obtain rng money pinuder failso pretenses. Ho had mntered a store, pretending to be a curs omner, but proving to be a thief. ''Your minme is Jim Lickmiore," said iho justice. "Yes, sir." "Auid you are charged with t crime that merits a long term In the pen tentlary?' "Yes, sir." "And you aire zuilty of the crime?" "I am." "And yo'i ask for no mercy?" "No, sir.", "You have had a great (heal of trouble within the last two years?" "Yes, sir, I have.'' "You hravoeolten wished~ thatj you were decadl" "1 have, please your hionor." "You wanted to steal money enough to take you away from Arkan naw?" "You are right, Judge." "If a iran had stepped up and shot you just is you enteredh tihe store you would bhave said: "'hank you, sir.'" "Yes, sir, I woubtL lnt, Judge, how did you find yur so umuch about me?" "Bomie time igo," said the Judge with a solemn air, "I was divorced from my wife. Shortly ifter you married her. 'rho result Is con 3husive, I dischargo you. Hlero, take his $50 bill. You have suffered enough." A cheerful face is nearly as good for min valid as healthy weather. The greatest evidence of demor-aliza ion is the respoot paid to wealth. - All the scholastic scaffolding falls as m ruined edifice before one single word. The T.umber Region on the Bussian taver. The mouth of the river, when we had gone near enough to have a good view of it from a headland, made a very noble picture. The green hills on the south slope gradually to a well-turfed base, hiding the beach, but showing a long sand-spit running out almost across the very entrance of the little bay, be hind which are calm shadows. The northern headland, on the other hand, stands in bold outline-a point of sheer oliff jutting between the ocean and the river. Yet the charge of those waves rolling from the spicy archipelagoes of the great Houth Sea, or from the bleak coast of Tartary, is met, not by this mole, but by an outer row of gigantic, isolated rocks, overtopping the tide as the stones of Oarnao rear their hea ds above the 1evel. plain, And thi imdgina tion can easily -believe some gitnnt 'of old, more powerful thani the Druidsp'.t havo piahted 'them as a breakwater. guarding the .harbor. Around their baso curls the angry foam of swift 3harging,.impotent breakers, and they glory in the snowy clouds of spray that. muvelop their ilanks, for thus the rage of the mightiest of oceans, is proved inoffectual, and the tanid wave' sink bohind them into sullen peaco upon the weody shore. Such was the broad landscapo of the region whero we cast our lot those lleasaut June days, and waiech.,d the mtting of the big trees. Tradition says that credit for the rery first attempt to make lumber with i saw in this region (for the Russians lewed all their beams and planks) be ong to John Dawson and Bodega. Dawson was one of throo sailors who %bandoned their ship at San Francisco, ts early as 1830, preferrimg the free m(d easy life of the Calfornians. ID wo or three years they became citizens inder the Msexican government, and ook up granted ranchles hernawiay, Lawson marrying the (aighler of a lpaiiah dragoon officer. She was only ourteen when she went to live as mis ress of the Canada de Pogolomo, and mly seventeen when she found horself he richest widow in Northern Califor lia. Dawson's lumber wias cut over nits by means of a rip saw, which he inIdled without help. Not half a entury later, steam mills in this dis riot are turning out two hundred thou and foot of lumber daily. The deft.ruction of tress and shrubs md consequent bare, bleak, dry, nit )roductive and unhealthy present con lition of the islands and districts 01 Arocco and the regions around, once amous for their charms and shade, vOr lire, fortility and populonaness is 4harged to the browzing of goats. The lew governmont of (ypruss is consider ng how these animals can best be re luced or confined. Goats woro intro luced into another Enghsh island Saint Helena, within a century, and he troos and shrubbory suddenly and apidly died off so soon as they began o be numerous. Tilei same obstacle in difforont and loss degree is a rock of tumbling in our attompta at forestry. I chief itom of expense inl many situa. ions is that of fencing in the ground >lanted, until the trees attain ~a sizo mnattackable by cattle. For best re iults, close planting and entire oxclu lion of animals are preferable, On nost farms pawture is at times an ut nost necessity. Every rod of ground hat will yield any at all must be util zed. If there is no grass the foliage and even thme stems of trees must serve. fence, with the best of intentions for lonservation, sonmc unlucky day or >inchhmg season occurs, when the hith ~rto wveli nursed plantation is browsed, 1 rokenm and greatly injured, if not uinied. venus' an uaauaruy. Venus is morning star throughout the nonth, Though she has inad to descend reom the proud position she occupied at ho time of the transit, she is still the airest and brightest of tihe starry throng hat makes the morning sky tremulous with brightness. Venus makesa a superb ipplearanco now in the easthern sky in ,hae morninig, E~very lover of the stars w~ho beholds her beaming face about the )th of the month wvill be fully repaid for ~he troubleoof getting upj early, the price .Teman~ded for (exlib itjin. She then caches 1hcr period of greatest brilliutney mi the western sido0 of the sun. Shte has I wo of those periodts, one thirty-six days] oeforo inferior co)njunction, when she is ~vening star, and the other thirty-six lays aifter inferior conjunction, when he is morning star. In the former ease soon in the telescope, she appears as a waning crescent, like the old moon, [n the latter she appears as k waxing 3rescent, like the new moon. Oni the 19th Venus is in conjnntoin with Eta )phiuci, a star in the constellation of hoe Serpent Bearer, being two degrees iorth. The planet and star will be at heir nearest point at 11. o'clock in the >voning, when they arc bolowv the hori ~on. They will b)0 suficIently near to >o worth getting up) to see on the morn nag of the 20th, whlen Venus rises not ar from 4 o'clook. Venus rises about a luarter before 5 o'clock In the morning; it the end of the mouth she risos a few nintes after 4 o'clock. Shark~ Jewelry. Industrial art now employs the skins >f certain sharks for sleeve buttons and he Uke-those, when dried and polish ~d, almnost equalling the choicest stones, mud greatly resembling' the fossil coral )orites. Tne yerteobres of the shark are miways in demand for canes. The open ng filled with marrow during life is for this purpose fitted with a steel or iron rod, the side openings are tilled with nother-of pearl, anmd, when polished, he cano is deoidodly ornamental, 1876. 1882. F. W. HABENICHT, Proprietor of the 1ORNING gTAR 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 Wians. boro in 1876, I have in al this time given the closet attention to my busi aess and endeavored to make my estab lishrent FI1rST-oLASS in every par. Alcular. I shall in the future, as in the past. hold myself ready to serve my 3ui towers with the beat articles 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 Laubert and Marat Cognaq Brandy. Jamaica Rum. Rotterdam Fish Gin. RoSs's Royal Ginger Ale. Jules Mumm & Co.'s Champagne. Cautrol & 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 Rye Whiskey. The Honorable Rye Whiskey. Old Golden Grain Rye Whiskey. Renowned btaudard Rye Whiskey. lease Moore Vollmer Rye Whiskey, )1d N. 0. Sweet Mash Corn Whiskey. Old Stone Mountain Corn Whiskey. Western Corn Whiskey. Virginia Mountain Peach Brandy. Now England (French's) Ram. North Carolina Apple Brandy. Pure Blackberry Brandy. Pure Cherry Brandy. Pure Ginger Brandy. Boston Swan Gin. SUNDRIES. Rock and Rye. Oscola Bitters. flostetter's Bitters. 3ergner & Engel's Lager Beer, in patent stopper bottles and on draught. few Jersey Sweet, Sparkling Cider. P~olu, Rook & Rye, Lawrence k Martin. Stoughton Bitters. Rock and Corn. Cigars and Tobacco Syndicate Cigar, 5 cents. The Huntress Cigar, 2j cents, ifadoline Ulgar-All Havana--1 cents. Don Carlos (Nub)--all Havana-10 cents ~inerva Cigar--Havana filler-- cents. Jheek Cigar--Havana Aller-5 cents. )urr Boast Cigar-Havana filer--o cen ts' iucky Hit Oigar--Havana fller--.5 cents. he Unlen Self-Lighting Cigarette, (Amber month-piece to every ten packages.) . The Plokwlek Club Cigarette, (Shuck mnouth-xmiooes.) The Richmond Gem Cigarette, (Light smokhng.) rh Dilly Billiaril ali Fool Par lor in Towni. ICE! ICE! ICE! An abundance always on hand for the inc of my customerq. Z wil also keep a Iupplly of FISH, OYSTERS, &O., or my Restaurant, which is always >pen from-the first of September to the irst of April I shall endsaTrOr to please all who glie noeacall. Very respectfually, F. W. HlABE~NICllT OPPOSitid OSTf0 Ol