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-7 - - T1R iWEEKLY EDITION. WINNSIBORO. S. C.. FEB1RUARY 20. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 NOW. Iise I for the day is passing, Anti you lie tireauning oni; The others have buckled their armor, And forth to the Ilght have gone; A place In the ranks awaits you, Each man ias some part to play; The Past ant the Future are nothing, In tit face of the 4tern To-day. 1110 trom your dreams of the Future Of gaining soine hard-fought fieli; Of storming some airy fortress, Or bidding soine giant yield; Your fuiture ha <leeds of glory, Of honor (God grant it may !) BUtt your arian will novor be stronger Or the need so great as to-dlay. tlie I It the past detains you, 11cr suiriline alld storms forget; No cha ins so unworthy to hold you As tihose of a vain regret; Suel or bright, she is lifeless ever; Cast her phaintom armns away, Nor look back, save to learn the lesson of a nobler strife to-clay. itise or the day Is passing; Tihe sonuld that you scarculy iear Is the eneny inarcihing to battle: Arise I for the foe Is here I Stay not to sharpen your wealpins, Or tile hour will strike at la:mt, Wien from dreams of a coining battle, You may wake to Bnd it pass. A BOY'S 15LYNDEIt. Dick and I are going down to the May festivities, Miss Cholmsford; do you care to come?" Agatha Chelmsford, a large, fair, landsono ' woman, looked up from her cool corner in the morning-room. "The May febtivities here?" with a faint elevation of pale, arched brows. "Yes, did you not know? "Why, we are going to have a regn lar old-fashioned May-day-May queen, May polo, and all." "And you-you care for this sort of thing, Mr. (arringtoi "P/ardon me, bat I should judge the persons getting it np were-well, not exactly in our sot." "No," Wilbur Carrington said coldly. "It you mean on visiting terms here, iost of themn are not. But-" "But you just ought to seo the May Queen, Misa Agatha.," young Dck (har ntngton broko in entliusiastically, "hle's worth going purposely to see." "Indeedl Who is your rustic beauty, Dick?" -In the first place, a lady," Dick said ]stoutly. "But they're not well off, you know, and Shlt has a little brother-a cripple to she is obliged to teach in the village honchool. Do come." S "Dick," Wilbur Carrington said - sharply, "don't urge Miss Chelhnsford. I prestlmo she would not care about it." ''Oh, but I do." with a sudden drop ping of her languid t))e. leatain you just a few niOmontli4 k Aud, finging asilde the scrap of nc .1,d i o-work with which Sn h, been tril inWg she uIt thg''was visiting Wil a '. ,ton's mother, down in their P prttYJtrringtons wro tihe great people - place. Qud i tnor told a strange little romanco i tuis slightly palk'soo heiress, and rave, reserved Wilbur Carrington. It is said that years ago, wihen the calth and luxury he hold to-day wore iknown to him, before the world dis overed the force, the briliancy, the emnuis of hi Z pen, that he hati boon. id'ing to lay his h1e at Agatha Chlims rd's foot; that lightly she had poushed ido the boyish passion and gono oi to igher contluosta. Fow th tables had turned, and it as with a resomute deterlinintion to ndo the at that she had conmc dtown the hindtsomo country seat this bright pring weather. To-day she passed on to the morning g-roomn, her full, womanly figure eking ita beat in her hiandsomie cos me of cark blue velvet and brocade. "Rteady, Mr. Carrxngton?" with a iglit smile. "Yes, I hope you will enjoy it, Miss olmislord," lie said, a he handed her to the carriage. "I am sure I shall." The carriage soon stooped at a beau.. ul grove, and through the trees they ught sight of the bright dresses, and ard merry laughter. iek spratng from his seat, and tossed C rOus to his brother. "I shall be the first to groet her jesty. I[ see Atinio over there, and all bring her to yotu.'' "No," Wilbur sind, shortly, ''we will to her," Bomethmug in his voice mado Agatha ehlmsford look tip him at suddoniy. Then she took Is arm, and wont wd* tiown the ne *.-r "You see the young folks cmpos thispiwby,"i1 -ojiainied, "have a o social club inthe wmnter moDb'ae is is the tirst tune they have jlbae aLy-day.''." bu it," "They wvent a good/u hi oya ick hooked IJack too the prettiest anner, "T'Yf for their queen, r'l in the YEbuur? Wilbur kniows." von't tholobosed to beoenthusiastie," "You e, crtushing laugh. ".Is she th a'frotty, Wilbur?" aI)tA tuo tirst time she hand called so since the old days, but they cnear the Maying party, and it wasw o to play a trumip card. 'here wits no chanago ini the grave, rdocd lae, to whion she looked up pleadinagly, .1:'rettyi" lhe repeated calmly, a trifle .ily. "1 hlardily knowif we womid o on that suibje. Miss Ohelmsford,. Id that iner like makes outer beau and Annme SLturt is a womanly an. But hero she Is," atia Chelmisiord looked with a now ous excitement in her light bluo at the girl whlo camne for ward with , laughing heartily at the boy's y words. d she saw a girl a little above the umn height, but locking tallr b~e of the soft wlito muslin robe she saw a face bright with health happiness, and koayon'a elixir floe -le .taaca o;ee tender, earnest; long black lashoe, and braided bronze-brown hair. "itegina, greeting," Wilbur Carring ton cried, and held out his hand. "We come too late for your majesty's coronation. Allow me, Miss Chelms ford-Miss Stuart." The ladies bowed, the former a trifk abstractedly. She was thinking with a curious pang, how well Wilbur Oarrington's wordi suited the girl before her-"a womani: woman." . .This is Miss Chelmsford's first visi to Silver Leafwood, is it not?" sh4 heard the happy girlish voice say "Would you like to come and see iti pleasant places? It has some." She hesitated a moment. Then a thou lit caine to her. "Thanks-yesl" she said. "I woul like to go." "Iayn't I go with you, Annie?" crie< Dick imploringly. But sho shook her flower-erowne< head laughingly. "No, you mayn't. Run away an( talk to Hattie Green. She's pining fo a sight of you. There's a good boy," Miss Chelmsford turned to Wilbu Carrington. "Would it be too much trouble to as] you to get my shawl from the carriage Thankal Wili you wait here with it We shall be back soon." He started as she spoke. He had been looking at Annie Stuart at the girlish figure in that soft whit dr, s, through which arms and bosoa faintly showed, at the tiraily-swee eyes, at the great clusters of Ma: tilowers glowing palely pink at throa and waist. Miss Ohelisford noticed his glance audlelt a sudden sharp contrast botwee herself and Annie Stuart. Tie girl looked almost childish in lie pure fresh dress, and simply braidei brown hair. She felt old and cumbrous now, in he cut velvet and diamonds. With the quick perception of a woma of the world, she saw evcu more tha Annie Stuart had seen. She would play her earns accordingly "You have known Wilbur a lon time? questioningly, as they turue away. A puzzled pained look came into th girl's eyes. "No. not a very long time. "Long enough to appreciate him ho-t ever. "My little brother was injnred by fall some time ago, and since the acio dent we have learned to value Mr. Oa rington's kindness and friendship." "Dear Wilbur!" "There was an unconcealed tenides nos in Miss Chielmaort's voice thl made her companion wh'-" - -xo was always good-hearted to ever One. "fle-I, that is, wo often talk of who we shall do when "But pardon me, I had forgotton thi subject holds no interest for yo-z. ''Wha1t lovely .spring daisios!" She knew by the girl's tense silene< that sho had taken all her implied con 1idence ats she had meant 9h should. She knelt down to gather a cluster o tho daisies, drawing o1r her gloves. As she <did so a great diamond on he loft hand sparklect in a slanting sun beam. "Oh'i" Amnne Rhnait oried involuntar ily. Miss Oholmsford held up a lonj slender hand. "You hke it?" she said. "Wilbur gavo it to mo" There wis a muallor, planr ring or her hand, that Ie had 6iVeU her as i schoolboy gift fifteou years before. 11 quqaQtioned, she could protest hei mistako in having imagined it the ontc referied to. If possible she would mislead her. Annie Stuart caught her hand againsi her bravo girlish heart, crushing the May flowers in bor belt. "Then- then it is an engagemen rmng?" "T1he diamonid?" "Yes." She told the lie with shiyly-drooping lids, but voice coql with deliberatt '.Is it, though, Agatha? and you nocvoi told us." Dick leaped lightLy over a lowv bus.l on the path beside thiem. "I say, Wilbur," raising his voice as only a boy can, "here's a gol "Agatha's engaged, thinik of it! "I caught her showing the ring t< Annie Btuart. "An~d Anie asked hor if it was an en gageent-ring, and she said 'Yes!' "To1'.trelhiumghanLti, "l've ipmig great one to keep things dark-" But Wilbur, coming down the path b~y holding out his hand and saying, pleasantly "Hearty congratulations, Misa Obolnmsford, from--Annie and mec.". lHe hesitated a little before tihe last words, then turning to Annie with sa naile, he olfercd her his arm. 'ick, take care of Miss Uhelmnsford awhile "We wvill be baici soon." And they wvalked away into tihe shadow of the trees. What did lhe say? Just such honest, tender words, sprung from an einnobliug al'ctiona, as uyoery man speaks and every woman hears once in their lives. But Aninie cried out in amazement: "'I thought Miss Olhehnsford w*as mnaaged Lo you!" "WVell, you thought a 'gigantic mis take,' my darling,'' ho said, laughinglmgy. Now lot us go back." Agatha Cholmsf'rd's face grew ghast ly under its faint rouge, ain't Wduur Darrington stood gravely neforo her. "WoV conigrataited you au hour tago, M[iss Ohohansford," ho said. "Won't you wish us joy now?" And the wvoman who had so narrowly iscaped detectioin and hu imiIlationi said shec convontionial words calmily, despite icr maddening dlesp~air. "What a haupy May-day!" Wilbur Jarrington cried, as lie eyes rested on inmoai Stuart's face, "Yonun o echoed n:,ck m..ly as h lung his hat into the air, with an Indian war-whoop. "Didn't I tell you, -Miss Agatha. Annie was a daisy? "Slang's excusable-all things are excusable to-day." n Little did the boy know how his blunder had saved the happiness of fa those lie loved. "Your majesty!" cried Dick the irre- fr pressible, "I particularly request per mission to inaugurate my relationship i with a May-day kiss. "In fact, I insist on enforcing my bro- b therly privilege. , W, "Mayn't -she, Wilbur?" N And Wilbur nodded and laughed, and b Annie blushed. But Dick got it. ci ForrsOn Gruff Tones. w -0E About twenty-five years ago. Edwin re Forrest, the aeor, did a very kind act. ' To-day, the daughter of a friend relates ( it here. One afternoon, as Edwin For- dI rest and my father and mother sat chat- 0 r ting together, Madame M- , who had tl but a short tune before buried her hus- i band, a celebrated magician, entered W the room. The necessary introduction having been performed, the conversa ? tion soon drifted around to Madame 8 i M --'s own affairs ; whereupon my ci father remarked : al "I Jnve been thinking that Madame M- migbt follow her husband's foot- di steps, She has been his confederate T. for years, alid she is quite cabable of 0 doing so." "Hum I not a bad idea, George," w t answered Forrest. Then, turning to Madame M -, he observed : "Why bi don't you adopt the plan, Madame ?" Madame M--hesitated a moment, b colored slightly, and then replied Irank- w r ly : I"I would be glad to do so, but un- 01 fortunately, all of Mr. M---'s appara- t r tus Is hold for debt,, and, I have not the R' money to redeem it." Ii **ion much would it take ?" came a the question, in Forrest's rather abrup't d way. n "About a thousand dollars," replied Madame Al.--, looking ra' iar sur 1 prised at the interrogation. "Hum I a thousand dollars. .'11 let W a you have it." T'he offer was so wholly unexpected, & and being rolled out in Forrest'sgruffest t tones, that Madamo M-, whose C nerves were very much unstrung from all that she had at that time gone a through, burst into tears, and hurried ri out of the room. "Go after her, George," cried Forrest to my father. "I was too rough with the littlo womian. Tell her it's all tj t right. I wii g1VU 1in'W cheek for ! "TIjo following day, true to his word, h Edwin Forrest handed my father a cheuk for a thousaud dollars, Madamne t Al--redeemed her husband's para pliernalia, and, as a magioian, earned a very goo living for herself and two children. I kunw nt if Madame AL still lives, but probably her childrear"0 cli if so, doubtless they have hen-, the c story of this kindly act doLI; to their motier in the hour of he,.areat, neod ; L and te name of E.1wi " orret must it have a warm place ill enoir hearts. tli dr Oil Caraal Donnet, who has recently ex- ce piIt )n Frauco at the age )f 87, was an in xcellent m)a, who won his wily to the st: hcight he attalued by activity, good works, su a tolerant spirit, and a natural eloquence wl enlarged by careul Btu(iy. iie was 41 to years old when, in 1831, Lonis Phdlippe's an Glovermnient made hun Archbishop of Bordeaux ; but he became a cardinal in fu 1852, when L~muis Napoleon neededl re- 6 spectabilities to , ill the l'aae. Alike(r under the eldler h.Sourbons, the house oh Orleans, and the third Bonaparte, Donnett Was popuilar and1( beloved. He also deserves somec rcncnembrance on account of a suilar adventure which be fell hhn when a young mnan. Diring anto illness his boudy assunted all the aspects of death. He was rigid, dl'd not breathe, tb and his heart ceased to beat. 'The medli.. cal men ahirmed that the youth was J (lead, and, according to F~rench law, he ni was spect'ily placed in his coffin, and a < every preparation was miade for the fuan- m<i oral. Yet all the time lie was alive, hieardl *' what was said, knew tihe lay and cktrical pr fo'ks around hin ; but it was not, until th the very last moment, just as the lid was ce: about to be screwed down oni lis narrow bted, that, by a desperate etlort lhe broke ap the speil and sat up, tIa the horror of all ak who were near. Tlhus was he saved from ex iving entombment, It was iug t114 1jy gi: .when (LM EFviAdLrelated his own ex- an~ peorience to astonished hsteners. Fe w men as have had siinihir escapes. How many mi hitvo boion literaliy huried shvo. o 'rhe Yaniowntono Pa~rk. ye Thbe territory comphrises 3,410 square mi mhies, and is a veritable Wonderland. Uz Within its borders are mnountaim ranges gra wit,h dozens of pakis having an elevation iua of 9J,000 to 11,700 feet above soea .eve'l, mc and whose Satumits are crowned with ura perpetual sniows. In thei valleya and ani gorges that lie betweert these peaks and rei ranges there are probably over oue hun- era dred spouting geysers and springs, all of gri which belck torrents of boiling water.p. Besides these there arc numnerous springs re of sulphur, soda, maignesia, lime,, and en other nineral waiters, most, of which have its cauhedl beautif l staalagmiltic or crystalhzeat accreaiont, in the shape of cones and basins, to larmi about them. Still another lorir. of springs are the boiling wells ofbt delicate-hued mud, known as the '-Davyls l'lpoi~(ts."' The cnnons of the Yellow- an stone, three in numiber, are miarvehs of rocky grandeur anid beauty, a feature of ' one of them, anid uneqia:ieed in) tlhe world, cr laeing the inamous Gllass Mountamn, a lefty ou cil~f foamed of the rare and betuitiful main- PE eral known as obsidian. 'The lake, nearly ole 80 mniles long and 15 wide, and the rivers Ion andi streams abound in fhin, anid the forests cial mn elk, deer, antelope, blg-hline d sheep, rev feathered game, grizzly bears, panthers, Un and tbe like. In variotus parts ot the ( Parik there are natural bridges, caIVes, and alit other singular formations. T'he whole Smi region is a realm of marvels well worthy 11o of the patronage of the worldt's touriats, lor A Funeral in a Mining-CAmp. The more picturesque portion of the pulation of the camp was rady to say ?oor follow," in the general conscious as that the compassionate epithet ight eventually apply nearer home. such trail lay were they themselves shioned. A delay, inexpticable to Conrath's ends, in the reply to their telegram his fat her, roused a good deal of feel g among them. It was hastily as med that Conrath's family bad -gone Lek" on him. The facts of the case are, that when the telegram- reached ow York, his father was on OUAtV tiard 1tween that city and HavagO, a wife had been ordered by her Itys mit to spoid the winter. The slenace s certainly far from paternel. The mp was sonsitive on the point of its Iations with the east, especially in the ont of death. Whatever theirindifibr tco or faithlessness to their eastern ties iring life. the men of Conrath's rank the frontier confidentially expected oso ties to contract in the extremo oerit, and restore them to thoir early sociations. Without waiting for the ailence of mrath's father . to be explained, the idohone partisans rose in wrathful iampionship of their insulted :.omrado d said: "if they can't bury him decently, 6mn him, we'll bury him ouiselvesl" io case of the living sister coild wait L that of the deadt brother. It was on this honorable erraud Gash der had come, wben he encointered ilgard in the first strong agon. of his ,roavement. (Gashwiler did not see Miss Conrath, it he had a long and exciting aigument [th Molly, who protested that ior mis ess should not be disturbed 01 this or her business. She had met Geoil in 0o passage, after her parting frim Hil ard, and, with a sure instinct, ate girl td . known that the hour of he' 3 oung istress's extremity was come. She in gnantly repudiated, in her nistress's Lme, the off'red honors to the toad. "Wouldn't yo leave her evin the )dy? Sure, never she'll sit behud that -arse-trailin' through the strees along ith tile lot of 3011, al' your isio an' )ur mil't'ryl She's not prouc of his in', that she'd want the whob nainp be throopin' aftoe 'im. The h3ast ye all (o is to leave him to her nov!" But Molly could not prevai alono gainst the resolute sympathy if Con. tii's constituency. All she c-uld do as to soften the proposition hya little erciful decoption, and proscutit as a 1COUt, kindly offer to give the niof of mc 6hoshone approp te biu)qLatjja nas of g}JA - fa P0n1 t lo whiOU 3 had belonged. Cecil gave her help S consent, j4th the condition that all Ioxpew" be iuierred to her ther, Ale was too far prostrated in ,a, us well as in spirit, to know more - the last scene in the tragedy of her 1, than such dreary echoes as penoe. Lted the darkened seclusion of her amber. Courath's body was borne out of the uso and conveyed to the camp, where Itly in state in the unfinished hall of a new Masonic Temple, to b11 gazed on by the multitude. It was subse ently enshrined in a plumed hearse, Awn by eight, horses, fed on hay at o hundred dollars a ton.- it waas pro Led by the regiment of mihtia, keep. j- step through the miry snow of the 'out., with guns revorsed, to the iea res of the Dead March. Tile band iich furnished the music was attaciid one of the principal variety theatres, di, in the intervals of its regular per imance, was of ten required to asist at icorals, where the cip publicly bon ad some favored actor in its social amias, on is exit from the stage. The isonic society marched 'bohind the arse' in tull regalia, followed by the a compamoes anti the populace. The ter hau turned out p~ronhiscuiously, on >t, or monted on "livery horses" of cortain gait and temper, and might relied on to appear at any point in 3 procession, according to its caprice, simg the ranks .of the alasons, the litia, or the firemen, and keoping up turrent flow of conversation oa topics >ro or less relevant to the occasion, ace oroego moved on slowly along the Lncipa)l streets of the towin atud out rouigh its straggling suburbs to the netery. Ihe coemotory was a grim, untended ut, an acre of the primitive fir-forest, >pimg westward towvardl the valley, and p)osed to the wind861 gg e tfie axe had p:.sse~d over the fouest, di tile naukedness of the land was lef t the inheritance of that peaceful comn maity which had pitched its low tents the bleak slope. A few stumps and rk, blackened pine-trunks, a how ung, slight trues, the sole mourners the forest, su~pplemeited the scant imorials ralsona to the human dead. ipainted boards marked alike the aves of those who awaited at the mids of distant friends removal to a ire p~ermanuint restinig-pl ace, the ayes of the poor and the uniknow, 1 the graves of those whose place of t Was 'if less importance to the gen .1 public thtau its uinality. The camp ave-yardl, like the camp itself, was 'lpaatetic. .the city was at that time or vmg the money it might have spenit its adorma~lnt, in conitemplla.uin of remjoval to another sp<.t. lPhe heavy, soft sulow had suink and ited under the high glare of the Ann. I lay in patches, like linen spread to ach; ofloring a grotesque, irreverent (gestion that the dwellers ini those keu mounds might have risen in the at andl washed their earth-stained umienta in reaneus for the pending or to "iwovo camp1." The inneiral cession, invading this desolatd, in. ture, took nothing from its haggard illaess. It was impossible to asso 0 the place with human love imud arenc, or even with humanity's last, luring rest. Ionrath's body was lowered into the a l~oil. Ias dual allotment of it was ail, and was'gradged by none. H1ero~ locator encroachud fipon his neigh, s claim, and the original boundary liues were kept inviolate. A brief still nes fell upon the multitude, diverse and disunited as the stones of a river - bed, except in the wave of sentiment which had brought them there; and then the words were spoken, of a common humihty and a common hope. The militia company, drawn up by the side of the grave, fired a volley over it. The second volley scattered badly, and the crowd, recovering from its mo - mentary reflectiveness, echoed the fail ure with jeorsof derision. Themounted mournors had bacomo exalted, <luring the ceremonies, to a pitch of solemn enthusiasm which could only vent itself .n ,the racing of their horses back to the oamp; -ad -the mili ompany reported at. the captain's Teadquarti rs before nightfall, and drank to Courath's re poso, in a keg of whisky opened for the pjurpoise, Cnre of Olt Ildren'b Teti 1a. A mother of several children lately told us some of her exporience. A few years ago she thought that her oldest boy's teeth in the front of the lower iaw were decaying badly. This was a disappointment to the mother, who had fed her children carefully on nourishing and wholesome food, as a general rule keeping both pickles and confectionery from them. Studying the matter over, she jumped to the conclusion that what she had read coneining the mis ohief-making properties of the tomato must be true. espemially as her hus aSid, who was very free in the use of tomatoes in their seasmon, had a p(0ecu liar trouble wilh his teeth. S-10 hhd observed that the childrons (espoenilly the boys') teeth grew white antd clean when there was a plenty of ripe toma toes, and she thought the acid of tho vegetable probably went too far and aotod'upon the enamel of 'Alto teeth. But when the boy, then fourteen years old, went to the dentist tot havo his teeth filled, lul there was nothing to be done. "Your boy has a splendid sot of teeth," the dentist told his mother. "'There is not a cavity in thenm. Unu. sually good teeth for a boy of hua ago." And the dentist had no doubt that the teeth were better than they would have been if the owner of them had munched candy and pickles as children usually do. "They must be cleaned, and that without delay," he said. So the tar tar which had gathered and crusted was removed by the deit and wi i~4, all appearances of decayed teeth. Now the boy has nothing to do but to kee, his teeth in order to avoid dentistry bills in the future, The younger child ren are warned to avoid the older brother's trouble by the daily usc of tooth brushes. From their father's case they learn to avoid the opposite extreme. His teeth aire hopolossly disculored, and a fow are habitually loose, but. the useful tomato Is no lon ger suspected as the cause. He had an opportunity to read some in a work on dentistry, a:ed came to the conclu sion that hard e couring" of his teeth with gritty substances, when he was a young man, had worn away the hard enamel of his teeth so that the strong coffee ho drank (during his soldier life especially) penetratod and permanently colored his teeth. I dislike to hear of scouring the teeth. When they have been negleeted, this may be necessary to get them onice elean. The dentist has peculiar tools for removing tartar erust, but the yellow deposit on child ren's teeth can be cleaned away as the dentist does it, by any one. Take finely powdered pumice stone and a lhttle clean soft pine stick to rub them. Dip then pine stick into water and then in p)owdered pumice and rub the teeth geutly. Afterward wash them with soap, and water, using a tooth b)rush. It is well to use a little fine clean soap occasionally for cleaning the teeth, but plenty of pure water will usually suflco for oleansing the teeth of persons of good dietetic habits, To makce good teeth in the first plaee, beginning when we can, and allowing for "ancestry," us~5'dv'rff~cte' wll supplid wihbone material, as the gratas are when it is not bolted or sifted out, and lean meat. For young children milk should be freely used, and Graham oatmeal also. White Me AItd Iudiana lrides. Among the Northwestern tribes of Indians innocence is as marked among the girls as their color. Educated ini the faith that she was ordained t. work, she trains horses to hard labor, and at sixteen years of age is sturdy and strong, brave against fatigue, and a perfect housewife. She may not possess New England notions of cleanliness, but she takes not a little pride in' personal ap peara'cc, and in arrangements. of her lodge. She displayd some crude ideas of taste and a certain amount of neat ness. It' she marries a white man she makes him a good wife as long as she lives with him. 1Hcr home is her sole comfort and his comnfort her sole am bition. She thinks of him and ior him, and makes it her study to lelase hira and make him respect and love her. She recognizes in him one of a superior race, and by her dignity and devotion endears herself to hum and struggles to make him- happy. At tahe agencies of the upper frontier thousands of men are employed, and it is not an exag.. geration to say that the majority of them have Indian wivos .and live hap nily. A Ghastly Vance. Recently the Persian . residents of Constantiuoplo oclebrated their annual expiatory festival in commemoration of the death of the great Imans Hussan and Hussein, the sons of the Prophet Ali. It was about the most extraordinary speotacle that human eye could behold In the immense circular court of the Valide caravausary at Stamboul adozen altars, madesplendid with blazing lights had been erected. Chairs placed all around this enclosure had been reserved for the Persian Ambessador and various 'orsian, Tarkish and 3uropean digni taries. The solemnity began at sunset with an allegorical procession. A child five or six years old led the van on horse back; he was entirely clad in black and upheld a bronze cup in him right hand. Then came some twenty young beys on foot. They were also clad In black and also carried bronzed cups. They walked two by two. Then came two horses led by the bride--and bearing a tro)hy composed of antique weapons, together with two scimetars disposed in the form of a crescent; while the other was cov ered with a white cloth all bespattered with blood. The procession moved to the sound of a sobbing music, uttered by fifes, clar ionettes, tambourines and cymbals; and was marshalled by the bearers of sacred F tandards. After it had na-le tee turn of enclos uro, another procession of sonic sixty Believers, all clad in whito and brand ishing naked scimetars and eutlasses, joined it. Fmally a third procession from a neighboring car avansary ontered to take its place at the head of the first two. First of these came a number of persons naked to the waist, all whipping them selves with scourges formed of small iron chains; next appeared, carried 6y four Persians, a small tabernacle cov cred with wovon stuff of gaudy colors, in which a small child was borne; and lastly about a hundred persons all strik ing their naked breasts with their clonchaed flats. All theso people circled about the comit, all the whilo invoking the names of Hassan and Hussein; but at once the scone chaugod from a merely curious improvisations or lamentations -whtch were recited in a lugubrious tono by certain inspired brethren, and which form a portion of the richest Persian literaturo-'kil the ponitents began to redouble th eit.blows. Then a few mon began to strike' themsolyes upon the head and shoulders with the edge cf their stool weapons; the chani-scourges tore the naked shoulders of others; and blood flowing on all sides commenced to dye the white robes crimson. Soon the excitement reaihod its climax: the moving circlo changed to a furious whirlwind. Then tie scimotars rose and fell with frightful rapidly, each timo gashing a skull or a shoulder: the iron disoinlinea fell with a deal and sickoning sound upon torn flesh; several penitents rolled dying upon the ground. They wore carried out cf the circle; and tihe whirl continues its savago way. 11. luminated by the wind-shaken altar lights, and ruddy glare of the many blatz ing fagots placed around the inclosure the scene was hideously impressive. It might have been taken for an orgie of furious demons, red with blood, yelling, leaping, rising, and still turning, turn ig, turning in the ghastly dance hand soon1 enough; and I fled, sick at heart with horror and disgust. The Evals of Hnreu a There is no law in this country to prevent the consumption of hot bread but the law of common sense, and un fortunately that Is a dead letter as a governing principle in the lives of a of ma neople. This hot brand Jn nine eases out of ten will produce dys pepsia is no newly disoovered fact, and especially is tIs terrible result sure to follow persistenit indulgence on the part of those whose pursuits are quiet, in doors and sedentary. And yet the reformers, or those who call themselves such,--- the meon and wonmen who work themselvos into a white heat over the sale of a glass of eider-will go on year aftor year, not only making no outcry against this pernicions indul gence, but actually filling themselves up .lay by day with the hot and po0i sonous gases of the oven. This sorvant of the honsowifo call be made as terri ble a stoimch-destroyer as the distil lery, and the sworn fose of the lattet are lale to be itus biest p~atron~s. Dys popsia paints the nose and sours the temper as surely as dlram drinking, anid many suffers, from the former, though by their own wilful acts, in veigh the most loudly against the lat ter. A woll-dofined case of jim-jams is the clinjax to a course of inltemporanlce, and warns the victim that his alterna tive Is death or immediate reformation. But the dyspepsia that hot b~read, mince-pie and kindred abominations cause, has no sudden warnings. The man who mses thema goes on making himself and those .round him wretohed, and refuses to acknowledge that hie isi a sinner above those whose lighter faults he freqjuently condemns fiercely. The Old conduoor. 'Hey, thar, go ahead, will youl" yelled the Old Driver on the front plat form to the conductor of a street car just ahead. "Do yer tlink I can stand here all day ? Go on, now, or I'll run the pole through yer." "Hey, thar, start up that hearse, will yor?'' chimed in the Old Conductor, leaning out from the lower step of the back platform; I'm two minutes behind now, and if yer don't hurry up thar thar'll be troublo when you get back ter the deepot." Then the Old Conduotoi reauftibd his usual attitude on the platform and said that that thar feller ahead thar were a green 'un. "Five on 'em went on this mornin' and they don't know no more about hoess keyars nor a cat." "What became of the old ones?" asked a young man from his perch on the rail ing. "What became on 'em? Why, they retired with fortunes, they did," said the Old Conductor. "They wau't no railroad men, they wau't and they didn't have no intention of bein', neither. They jest started out in these koyars for a snap, just so as ter get a little capital tj start business on their own hook. H1oaps on 'em does that," and the Old On ductor romarked to an old woman that if she wanted ter get out at Wino street she had better hurry up about it, for he was a-runnin on short time and couldn't wait all (lay. "Thom fellers warn't on but six months," contintied the Old Uonouctor; "an' it's durned funny how they got their wealth. Thy witas busted wheu they started out, but three on 'em is agoin to buy out saloons and the others is agoin to start a bank-a faro bank.- I rockon," and the Old Conductjr smiled a sitanic sort of at smile and went on; perhaps they foil heirs to fortunes, but I never hoord on it. The only way I can accouptfor it is that they livel on a dollar a week. dined at the frao-lunch counters and saved up all they made. Now, I've been a conductor for a long time an' I'm worse off to day noi' I was when I started," aud the Old Conduc tor rang the punch three times for six fares, and said he had an awfal funny f :cling about the eyes this mornin'. He vaiw everything double; one man looked u1s1ti O noa 11ave uC imua, tended to. Bshiley crola.. It takes about four years to turn a rural man into a presentable social personage. At first he has no society exoopt that of his boarding-house or hotel. It he is asked out to dinner, which lie may be for political or busineen reasons, he goes in a stick coat and -a colored necktie. He finds other men present in dress coats etc., and this makces him angry at what lie calls the fashionable vanities of the world. The more prominent he grows, however, the more uneasy lie becomes at finding himself drnAo d differently fron other poople, until he finally blossoms out in all the vanities, even to an opera hat. But he reaches the brilliant result by easy stages and through a series of ro markable compromises. Ho first shoves his hands into purple gloves, and adopts a Prince Albert Coat. When he does thus he undertakes to declare himself aihcad of the fashion and as havinf adopted a new device of the Prince 0v Wales of which he had road in some journal of alleged fashion. This shows lie ia slowly coming to his fate. Then, lie probably adopts a dress coat, a high vest and a lilac tie, thea lis vest grows lower and his necktie lighter, until thme end heo sneered at is reached at last," There had been delivered a certain large package to the Royali Victoria Hospital at Notley, addressed by Her Majohty the Queen to the lady super intendant of nurses there, it contained ilve large Berlin wool quilts for the use of the wounded soldiers who are recovering in that institute from hurts received mn the Egyptian campaign. One of the quilts had boeen eutirchy worked by the Queen herself, and theo second by the Prmncess Beatrice, The former bears in one corner Her Ma jesty's cipher of a crown, V. R, L, 'and the date 1882; the latter the initial let ter of "Beatrice." The othier quilts have been worked by ladies of tihe court, but the Queen hats added a border to each. T1he quilts are desoriba as being made of the softest wool, of rich though phaini pattern. and colors, aiid peorfect inm all respects as warm bed ovyerings. Mormantli FalItres. The mercantile failures of the year. - 1882, aroffor the United States 6788 in number, as against 5582 In 1881. The liabilities in the United Staite are for the last year $101,000,000 as compared with 681,1)00,000 in 1881. TLhe number of failures In 1882 is estimated at 1 in avery 122 persons, while the failures in. 1878 showed 1 in every (34 persons. In view of the increased numnber in trade* bhe failures proportionately are not ano-half as great as they were in'1878. ,. -Montgomery, Alabama' expects to handle 140,000 bales of oottQIn tahis sea. ion.