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41 :~ 441WWI mw,~ -~~T ----*I ?-- 4I - - T1I-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. i'. MARCH 6. 1883 - ES VANISHED HIOURS, Where are they gone, those dear dead days, Those sweet past days of long ago, Whope ghosts go floating to and- fro When evening leads us through her maze? Where are they gone? AhI who can tell? Who weave once nore that long-passed spell? 'They did exist when we were young, We met our life with strength and trust, We deemed all things were pure and just, Nor knew life had a double tongue We lightly sang a happy song, Nor dreaumed our way could o'er be wrong. And then all changed; as life went by, The friend deceived, or bitter death Sfmiled as hie dranig our dear one's breath, Ani would not let us als'o die, Day followed day; as on they went Each took some gift that life had sent. Yet it was ours, that perteot past ! Wo (lid nave days that knew no pain, We once had friends death had not taken, And flowers and songs that could not last Were ours in that most blessed time, When earth seemed Heaven's enchanted cllme. And so I think, when lights burn low And all the house Is fast asleep, From out a silence vast and deep Those dear dead days we worshiped so, Breathe on us from their hltden store Their long-lost peace, their faith once more. (lod keep those dear old times; all we Beyond our vision they may rest Till on some perfect day and blest Once more those dear dead days will be, For death, who took all, may restore The past we loved, to us once more. THE TWO WIVES. "Which shall it be?" The speaker was scarce more than thirty years old, full of health and vigor, the junior and working partner in an old establishl d business house in a-small city. It was Sabbath evening. His wife had been playing the piano, and he had been singing the Sunday-school hymns with their children of seven and live years old. They were pretty, affection ate, bright children, and the parents' hearts had been knit closer to them these last tew weeks, since the toddling wee one had.been laid, in a flower-filled casket, beneath the cold white snow, Sunday was not a (lay of sacred rest, but an off-day from business and care, and Mr. Brooks laying back in his loung ing-chair, put wide the magazine'he had bPeen reading, while his 'wife put the children to bed, and resumed the sub ject on which they had been talking the most of the day. "The Baldwin house," she answered, with awmile-just the smilea woman of I act wears wL en she wishes her husband's aflection to bias his judgment. Mr. Brooxas whistled a minute. "If we take the Elmore cottage, I can pay down for it. Our furniture will be eniough for it, and we can live nicely and plainly without going into debt one dol lar, and five years hence I can buy any .lace in town." People like Mr. Baldwin do not die every live years, and placea like his ire not thrown into the market once in twenty-live years. "I can bmuld a house." "But my dear husband, not at half cost. And it would take a lfetime'to grow such trees. It is a most beautiful place, and in most perfect repair." "I know all that. It is much better woi-th its price than the Elmore cottage a worth its price. But I do hate debt and mortgage. But pernaps, as you say, the reduced price ought to decide it." "I am' sure it ought, and we will make the old furniture do for a time." "The rooms are much larger, and our carpets are not .Idia-rubber!" "I have thought of that, 1 can make the best of the carpets into mats, and," with a playfuil smile, "imagine them Turkish rugs!" 'You are such a shrewed manager, I can pay for the house soon,'' he said. And the house was bought, one-third paid down, and two-thirds on a mort gage. Wise business men congratulated Mr. Brooks, as the place was sold below its value, for the heirs were not near of kin, and did not wish it, or the care of it. And now Mrs. Brooka was happy. Her early home had been one of large wealth, and she loved style, and was used to and fitted for gay society.- But her father speculated in stocks and went down. kLe moved to his native town and hired a cottage just out of the city, But the disappointed man's brain gave way, and the two lone women, in the new circumstances and surroundings, were so brave, and watched over the paralytic so unmurmurmngly, that all nears symipathIded with them, and Brooks, then only a trusted clerk, dared offer and was thanked for many athought iu) and delicate kindness. And when death relieved the watched-over and the watchers he had won the love he had craved. In that cottage they sat to-night. EIght years they had boon happy in'it, Turee lives had comte to it. The grand mother and the little one had gone out from It. Thus they had known joy and sorrow, but they had been content, as onte is content who feels that every to morrow will be brighter than to-day. 'The looked for to-morrow had now come. And the eorly days came back to Mrs. Brooks with a force she had thought all spent. - One parlor was closed. A now rich carpet was bought for the other, and the paintings, books, statuottes, and bric-a brac which the refineditastoof Mr.-King had selected when rich, and which pov erty could not take from him, bli which mn the small rooms of the cottage had needst been scattered, were brought to getjier ii it, and gave the elegant room a tone and air of retinem'ent which mere wealth had neve? given it. The first evening that they sat Iti it Mrs Brooicg, with a keen enjo~ymena of 'life's luxuries such as he had. never be lore known, said' "Z. din glad.[ boutght thie place. [did not know we had so many elegant things tantilr onfrartlisid faste bicauht thlii toether, This is the ginest roomniin~lh 1 aeio dotbt it Is.rhave tried to arreng0 it s.any father had his library, ~wish he Cotild see it," "Pehaps lie does, That cottage was -fioto mnA but boW tagret atist haVe been to you, and yet you never con plained,* And- a now apprecistion of and new love for her sprang up in his heart, and they talked on and on in their great con tent and happiness. Society swung operi its doors, and calls and invitations came .upon them. More dross was needed, taxes and in surance were high, Interest to be paid, and business everywhere depressed, and for two years the debt lay unchanged. There had been no loss as men count lovs, and yet there had been a great loss; that debt, which at first lay so heavy on Mr. Broogs, andowhich he intended to lift as soon as possible, he had grown used to, and did not longer feel to be a burden. And the dgbt to society troubled Mrs. Brooks, and the other parlors must be furnished, and royally, to match the Ii-, brary, and ther4 a grand reception was given. For these money had to be hired. Benevolent balls and quasi-literary so cieties, fashion's caprice mingled with the dancing parties, and Mrs. Brooks was worn and weary with the manifold duties of her position, and must be re lieved of some household duties, and another servant was indispensable. Mrf. Brooks confinement to his busi ness wore upon him, and he must have recreation, which means a fine horse and buggy. But it was so selfish for him and his wife to drive off every even ing and leave those dear girls at home after they had been shut up all day in school. So two horses and a carriage and hostler were needed. Thus little by little expenses increas ed, and his business, like ail men's of the time, was dull, but his was on a sound basis; -he was yet young and funl of energy, and no one feared the result, nor had he one thought of danger. A party was made up for the seashore. They joined it; it was their rst indul gence of the kind, and a sniff of the salt sea is a luxury that strengthens. One morning the bathers were very gay, and Mr. Brooks passed the safe. ty-line, and the sea never gave him back. I The estate paid twenty cents on the dollar. It was a town of hills and rocks, un disturbed by railroad or telegraph-wires. There was a bit of a village in it, and a "white sky-pointing spire," of course, for it was in New England, and equally, of courAe, and for the very same reason there must lie economy in all things, and the "first floor" of the spire-crown ed building was the Town hall, where in politicians fought and wandering minstrels amused, and stray lecturers edifled. But between the hall and spire lay the church, clean and bright, where the farmers napped, and their wives chewed caraway seed, while warned of sin and judgment in words as eloquent as could be hired for 4O a year and the parson age-a clean lttle white cottage. In that same parsonage a lad, bright and energetic-boys are like the moth ers, biologists tells us-was fitting for college, under his learned and lazy father. But "We are not wholly bratn Magnetlo inockeries." At least so Tennyson says. And Ed ward had an eye for rosy cheeks and bright eyes, as well for Greek roots. And the particular pair that sparkled back to his on Bunday, on week days helped her busy mother look weh to the ways of the household, in a white cot tage. that crowned a hill-top, the sides of which hill ivere intermixed with sheep and stones in such dire confusion that a little way off one could not tell the one from the other. One bright June morning Harriet had skimmed the milk, washed the bright pans, and made a pyramid in the sun that sparkled like stars. And humming a good old hymn of Watt's her deft hand was now smoothing and trying to polish the family linen for the coming Sunday, that dress-day of coun try towns, when bodies as well as souls put on their best. Harriet sung slower and slower, as she thought faster and faster, and she stepped carolling, to say: "Mother! when th~e summer work is over, couldn't you get along without my help?" "Wy Hai-riet! what do you want to 1o?" Harriet hesitated; it was a great thing she longed for, but at last she said: "You know moat of the girls around hero nave been to Dick Academy and boarded themselves; why can't I for a term or two?" "Your father and I have been talkin', that John hadn't ought to come of age till he'd been to the Academy." "0, mother, let us both gol It is only four miles and a half, you know, from hero, and father or Jesse can come after us every i'riday night, and Saturday's I will cook up enough to last over the week, except meat and potatoes, and those 1 can cook there, so I can b~oard him and myself, and we can both,go as cheap as he coalJ go alone." "I'll talk with your father about it." And they went. The one term ran Into two years. Then 'Jesse, the bashful book-worm, was to go, and he wished sister Harriet to stay with him' and she did wish she could finish the full course, and had been -a - good scholar; and, good girl, had worked early and late and-willingly through the summ'er va cations, so that it .was not easy to refuse her. And, too, perchatee her futnre hiappi ness was more or less bound up In her books. F'or Edward, in .ia college va cation, had told his love, and the shrewd comnmoin sense of -the sturdy farmer knew his daughter must be fitted for the educated life she was to share, or Ed ward would forgot -his love: if not before marriage aind desert her, he woiuld after marriage and neglect her. And another thre4 years were added to her conise,, and she graduated, healthy, hop .aha atroug, the talediotorian of her oeaof tirty-nmne students, An in'u time' Edward 'and she garid he-pa oi@ a law t~ kigere4s -e hdsyla e de' ini ~t4e Wee roin of hei for ti stde nrdn n atswere one, and each made the other strong to labor and. to wait, and love made labor a pleasure, But he was young and i known, and people not so quarrelsome 1 as they might have been, so the money I they had saved from teaching grew less I daily. "It would hurt my reputation to have bills in the oity, and i hkave been think ing where 1 can hire a little money," he said one evening. "Don't hire mioney! I would rather 1 live on bread and water, potatoes and salt, any starvation diet than have a debt dragging you down. I will open a select school, until people grow to ap. praeciate you." "You have enough to do now." "I haven't half. enough. I shall rust out. And you give a free lecture, show your talent, get into the papers. We have been Micawbers long enough." "If I had your energy- " "If you haven't, who has? when I gave myself to you, do you think I re served my energy." "Xou have reserve energy enough for two." "Then let us call up our reserve forces and give battle to the worldl" "0, Harriet, you are a jewel." "I certainly do not propose to be a mill-stone." The lecture was given, the school was opened,. cases came to the lawyer and steadil but slowly at first, came money. They became leaders in ohurch work and literary circles, and positions of trust and honor were laid at their feet. And when the Brooks' mansion, its books, pictures and statuary were sold, Edward bought and paid for all Enornous Eaters. For many years there Uyed In Albany or Waterford a man named Peter Ellis, or Ellison. He died about three years 2 ago. At the time of his death he must ' have been near seventy years of age. ] The writer saw him at Saratoga Springs I in the summer of 1876. He was then a large, loose-made, big-boned man, not much under six feet in height. He was known as a most enormous eater. A 1 dressed turkey, weighing twenty-one < pounds, was roasted, and on a wager Ellison ate the whole of it at one sitting, or within about the usual time occupied at dinner, together with bread and some kind ox wine. A dozen years ago a New I York sporting man made an offer in the way of a bet to the late John Morrissey that he could produce a man who would eat a twenty- three pound dressed turkey roasted, and when he named Peter E lli son as his man, Mr. Morrissey said, "I know the man," and the offered bet was not accepted. At the time alluded to, when the writer m&t Peter .Ellison, the old man related the particulars of an eating match between another man and himself t which took place many years before at nediker's, on Long Islani, then a well known roadside inn much frequented by lovers of the horse. The dinner was to consist of broiled spring chickens, bread aud wine. The chickens were to be split open at the back, and broiled whole, or, Us Peter termed it, "in spread-eagle style," and each man to I take the half given him by the carver C and referee. Ellison ate' thirty-two halves, beingsixteen clckens, and won I the bet. In tue spring of 1845, at the season of t making maple sugar, a student of the t seminary at Manchester, Vt. Albert 0 Pettibone, then 19 years old, after eating t what he wanted of hot maple sugar at c the sugar house of his father, in that t towvn, finished up by eating twenty-fourC hard-boiled eggs. This was witnessed by a number of Pettibone's fellow stu dents, whom he had invited to thesugar house to eat maple sugar and see ther process of "sugarng off." . During the first cholera seasoi in this I country, that of 1839, two women living in the Mareley, or Knuiskerokorf neigh- I borhood, now in the town of Esperance, Sohoharie county, sat down by them- i selves to a dinner of boiled green corn. After eating awvhile they bantered onet another as to which could eat the most i of that succulent dish when green anda properly boiled. One of the women ate twenty-six ears of corn and the otherC twenty-nine. The latter felt no ill effectsC from her extraordinary meal. -Thie otltr was almost immediately taken aicir and t died within thirty-six hours. The doc- ( tor said she died of Asiatic cholera. The Great Mngul. .r The following good story comes from aC quarter where we are assured "its correct- .r ness can he vouched for." Many years ago,c at the time of a great ceremony, Windsor 4 Castle was honored with the presence ofC three sovereigns. After breakfast the c three potentates walked and talked en thec celebratedl "slopes," and were, of course, t in "mufti."''rhey were delighted witht the grounds, and entered presently' into con versationwith a gardener, who evIdently took them for a party of "gentlemen's gen tietaen" cut for a stroll. After some littlea affabhle talk he could not resist the quiery : "Now, who niay you gents bei" "Well," said the spokesman, "this gentleman here happen4 to be the King of Prussia; that one standing by your side Is the Emperor of Austria, and as for myself, 1 am the Emperor of Rtusi." T'.s was carrying the joke too far, thought the gardener. ~ "I've seen tlot of queer furrin gents bore lately, but this beats mne ;" so lhe burst, out I In a rather rude guitaw. "Well, my trice'I," said the Emperor Nicholas, "you seem airused ; perhaps you will tell us I who y ou arc." "Oh I certainly," so tak- I img up the skirt of hiis coat with the action of a great eagle spreading out his wings, and spinning round on his heels, he said :t "If you are all what you say 3 ou are, why, 4 I am the Great Mogul? " The three majes- - ties roared with laughter, and returning to 4 the castle, told the story at the iunoheo 3 tabje, to the Immense amusement of the I Queen and PrInce Aljert, -, The Hair.--T'o prevent the hanr fromn falling out, apply once 'a week a wash, vspade of one quart of boIling water,- oneo ounce of 'iuilverised borax, and half an ounce , opdoed Qafuphot', flubon -with 4 a sponie or piece of flannel,. M& ..gem6~,MMlaan, expects tioJ hadle 140,000 bales of ootton thiasea. 1 - Tne Prdunmery Traie. Some kinds of perfumery -are -worth their weight in gold. ' The eiport of. ano perfumery is principally from Itasie," Nice, Can6s and Bremen. 'he* bi'siness is divided iltio two parts. rhe manufacturer extracts from the lowers their essential oils.. The per. rumer, buys these oils,% pomades and 3xtracts, and eompounds them in seve 'al ways, Only about a dozen of al the fragrant Rowers in the world are tsed in the manufacture of perfumery ,viz,: the violet, rose, .orange Row,%r, jasmine, tuberose, cassie, lavender, thynle, rose-. mary, geraniums, jonquil and -fennel. The rose ant tihe orange ' % a mot valuable. Of the numer varieties f the rose, only'one is ui6d, the Prov ine rose, single, pale piili, the most sweet'smelkng of roses; nop hardy. Picking for perfumery occurs in al most every month of the year. It is i paradoxical fact-in the bisiness that &he bitter orange yields the best blos ioms for perfumery. One ton of blos soms yields two pounds eight ounces of Ail neruli. The fruit of the bitter )range yields a very hne essential oil. lAigarade. It is used in many scents. Rne orange tree, cultivated for its oil. lasts with care over 200 years. One ton of the distilled loaves of the icented verbena geranium yields from M. to 80 ounces of the essential oil. rhe flowers of the jasmine are picked Lst after sunset in July, and in the norning, as soon as the dew is oil, in August. The jasmine is a peculiarly' lelicate sower. Its essential oil is so volatile that it cannot be extracted by listillation, the heated water decompos ug it is so that only a faint tinge of ,he, perfume is left in the water that >asses through the refrigerant. Like the jasmine, the oil of the tube ,ose cannot be extracted by distillation. Pue perfume of the oassie is much used an compounds. The process of nianu racturing perfumes is in itself very interesting, especially to the ladies. A ton of robes yields only two ounces )f the attar. If kept at a temperature )elow 60 deg., attar crystalizes; if kept )pen to the air and light, it is easily rolatized. Perfumed oils are made by putting fresh quantities of flowers into die ilnest of virgin olive oil from 20 to 10 different times. Tie essential oil of owers has a strong affinity to lard or Ireaso. The latter, rendered as white is snow, is perfectly saturated with the lowers. Tre process is repeated many iures. In this way we have pomade >f rose, cassie and violet. The affinity > the perfume of flowers for alcohol is, towever, stronger than for grease. [*omades, immersed in cohol, are rendered- intoett "'t'- ao leav ng the perfume. It is safe to say that, unong the numerous articles of toilet, he manufacture of perfumed pomades, )>rfumed oil and high-priced periumery ;enerally is as a scaled book to many >ersons. Flooding the Sahara. The only important objection which ans tnus far been urged against the un lertaking has arisen in the apprehen ions expressed by a few scientists that he evaporation produced by so large aid so shallow a body of water, exposed o the tropical sun, would be suifinient o deluge northern Europe with mcess .nt rains, and to reduce materially the emperature in all the countries north if the Alps. it has even been feared hat winds freirhted with' moisture on rossing the coldI summits of the Alps, voul precipitate vast volumes of water aid produce a degree of cold which vould give Denmark and northern Ge6r arany a semi-Arctic climate and p roduce glacial epoch farther north, Is it not >robable that all such apprehensions .rise out of a misunderstanding as to he topography of the Sahara and North tirica? Tire entire region to be flooded a praetically shut in by mountain.-chains >n all sides. "The Atlas 'Mountains on he north, liting their snow-clad peaks Li some instances 19,000 feet, afford a uffleient bulwark for the protection of Europe from increased humidity, The inly possible northrernly outlet for air urrents frl ELJqf goa d be ticros uni1athirtsterly direction over he widest part of the Mediterranean. Jurrents moving in that direction, if hey reached Europe at all, would touch he shores of Greece after they had lost uost of their humidity. Mi. de Lesseps, .fter a careful examination .'of the Luestion, is convinced that it would esult in tire general improvemeut (of the imate of Europe rather than to its etriment, The advanrtage of the In areased evaporation to North Africa annnot be over-estimated. The snow 'lad cliffs of Aban, lying to the east of he proposed sea, and the Kong Mon aias to the south, would bring down ipon the parched desert grateful rains, vhrch, with the assistance of cultivation, vould in time no doubt redeem thous nids of square miles from the desolation f the sands. A Rlevolutltonary MBoro. In accordance with a .vote of the own .of Framingham last April, the ommittee mn charge of the matter has ilaced a neat granite memorial ever the crave of Peter Salem, bearing the fol owing inscription: "A'eter Sa em, a loldier of thre flovolution. Died Au gust 16, 1816. Concord, Bunker Bill, laraitoga. Erected by the town, 1882." ?eter Salem was the nesr man who aarticularly 'distingwshd himself in hre Revolutionary War by shooting lown Major P'itcairn at the battle of 3unker Bill, as he 'was mutn e loubt and shouting, "Tuntiay ia ure! ?itcairnr fell back into t arnms of his on. Peter Salem serve faith~fully-mn he war for soven years'i the oomnpa iies of minute men undeathe ommand if Oaptain John Nihon a Captain 5%mon Eagell, of ra sing .and ai. 11 of~o i unharurfeI. eow a Jave, and :was -owned onr a b Jaltamn Jeremiah Belkfi&b, Of .~Am ghrani, beidg sold by him to ~or -aVSrn ilnokeulnster,'of ~hI ovn5 Ire reooling free man wfhn i e piped nirlabt star of Morning. Venue is the morning star, the brighte and fairest of the throng that grace tli morning sky. She rtses now. three hour before the sun, shining with. the' serer radiance that distiguishes her, and cot tinues to be visible lonr after the less -stars have melted away. On the 10th i twe o'clock in the morning Venus reache her greatest western elongation. Hei her westward course ends. She is 46 di grees 52 minutes west of the sun and ce go no farther from him. The Inexorab laws that rule her movements Compel hi to retrace her steps. It Is easy to kee the run of their paths, especially In tl case pot Venus. 1o planet of the syate presents. -so many po!nts of interest or eo closely allied to the plauut 'n' whk we dwell as Venus, Bhe is our neare neighbor except the nloon, is nearly Il the earth in dimensions, in the. length c her day and night, in the possession of at mosphere and In the probable mountanot conditions of her surface. Besides al gratilles our issthetic perceptions by boin the most beautiful star the eye behold and she Is the only planet that is visibi ij the presence of the noonday sun. Bh is therefore a most interesting planetar itudy. Those who were eye-witnesse of her recent transit have a tangible poir from whichto commence observation. The saw for themselves the inferior conjune tion when 'Venus passed between t1 earth and the sun, the transit when pas sing over the sun's disc, she changed froi from an evening to a morning star, di serting the sun's easteri side and appeal ing upon his western side. Since th time she has been moving westward, rie ing earlier every morning, passing he p. riod of greatest brilliancy and turnin more of her illumined surface toward us. On the 16th a change occurs. She i stationary for a few dayR and then Com mences to make her way back toward the sun, for she has passed her ateri elongation, one of the four prominen points in her path. She will move sion ly, retracirg her steps towards ttie sun until sle reaches superior con junction i Peptember and completes her course a morning star and cempletea also half lie synodie period. Observers, tollowing th path of the beautiful star, will see thu after elongation she rises later and that he bright face perceptibly pales until she a: proaches the sun so closely as to be loti to view in his bright beams. She is charming object in the telescope durin the miouth,, shining as a crescent tinti elongation, then taking on the lovely as pect of a half moon. The Eleibun and tie Joke. The Rev. Mr. Watson gives a ver curious story in illustration of this au mal's wonderful long memory of a wron suffered. One of those posts of society "a practical joker," visited a caravan i a West of England Fair and tried hli stupid tricks upon an elephant there. 11 first doled out to it. one by one, som gingerbread nuts, and when the gratef. uniumal was thrown off its guard he sud denly proffered it a large parce! wrappe in paper. The unsuspicious creature ac cepted and swallowed the lump, but im mediately began to exhibit signs of intens suffering, and snatching up a bucke handed it to te keeper for water. Thi being given to it, it eagerly swallowel quantities of the fluid. "Ha I" cried th delighted joker, "I guess those nuts wer a tride hot, old felow," "You had bette be off," exclaimed the keeper, "unles you wish the bucket at your head." ThI fool took the hint only ijust in time, fo the enraged animal, having finished th sixth buekettul, hurled the bucket afte Its tormentor witti suich force that had 1 lingered a moment longer his life migh have been forfeited. Tlhe affair had no however, yet concluded. The followini year the show revisited the same town and the foolish joker, like men of hi genus, unable to profit by experience thought to repeat his stupid trick on th elephant, Hie toojc two lots of ntst int< the show with hIm-sweet nuts in on. pocket and hot, in the other. The ele phant had not forgotten the jest piayes upon him and therefore accepted th cakes very cautiously. At last the joke proffered a hot one ; but no sooner ha thme injured creature discovered its puns ency than it seize(n hold of its persecutc by the coat-tails, hoisted him up by them and held him until t icy gave way, whe nie jell to the ground. The elephant nos inspected the severed coat-taije, wicd after he had discovered and eaten all th sweet inuts, hie tore to rags and flung aftc their discomfittedi owner. Icunslan Courage. I should rather incline to think the mere courage Is more general among Rus sians than among any other people news days. I mean the unreasonable, irrespoil sible readiness of a dog to risk life an liberty upon provocation. blot more vt lunteers rush out, when a desperate entel prise is mooted, than from our own ranki more than all is a mathematical absurdity But the Enghishman stakes his life another, a grander spirit. He feels an rackog~s with the perdl. Be'ore meetin it, so far as I have seen examples, he iquiet, thoughtful, contemplating the wore and making the arrangements. A Russial scorns all of that, does not even think o it. After assuring himself, rather roughly that the needful dispositions have bee, made, he becomes the lightest-hearted e the company to which he hastens, I d< not say affects to beconie, tor it miay wel be that deadly lager stirs him to mirth as it stirs another man equally as brave t4 self-commune. I cannot forget aitInstane on Radisovo Hidl the mornin, of the greal attack. An infantry regiment stood al ease In the rain, waiting the order to des cend into that valley bhind with amoki echoing with thud of guns and angrj crackle of mnusleetry. Tbhe colonel anda staff captain approached and asked us t< aceept charge of letters for their waves, ti 1i4 forwatded an case of accident. Tihei they stood chatting of .London and Parn with the trarmth of men whose hearts wern tjiere, thought the biattle raged oloser, am a bali now and then spun musically abou their heads. T.hey asked thie precise atori of a scandal half forgotten now, and thel *hroed comntnend old they were attendimi closely when 'an a do 6ame gallopinj through ther nilst, Three minhte. after W t4 the doome4 roginient 01*4 away dewi to~td the valley.of death. The Corporal and the vow. t When Lafayette visited Ameri1a- H e 1894, his route of travel broug4 bti t( a Concord in Nw H'uipshire Whence he o was to cross the country to turington, in i- Vermont and to Troy, N. r. Bradford at r .Iurhngton was astonished and dolightedby it a notice that the guest of America, w'th a his attending suite would pass a night at ,e the hotel, the same being now occupied by ). Mr. Gillis. Great preparation were all a made, and from the whole country round a the patriotic people poured Into the village ir and were received by Lafayette in the p large ball room of the hotel, For in the * north country every inn has a ball room, * which In winter is used by bielging"par is ties, and balls are an established ew h Englaud country custoin from old post it Puritan times, 1e The room, which might hold 200 people of In a standing position, was densely packed - and a crowd who had passed in and out a were around the house and in the halls, e and among them an old revolutionary i soldier, silent and altogether neglected. a One may well imagine the solitary man, e looking into the crowd with the glitter of a uniforms and hearing the Dillol of voices y honoring the stranger whom he had a honored in very much darker places. And a now it occurred to some of the turbulent y people to obtain a little fun out of the old - soldier. e "Here's the corporal who says lie knows - Lafayette, let's take him to the general.1 a And they pressed in with him through - the crowd, and pushed hini into the door - of the large room, and the people inside ,t. thinking it a new arrival of Importance, - parted a little opening of a lane to where r Lafayette stood with a group or officers. 4 Two or three led the gray-hidred veteran, a shrinking at first, but suddenly straighten - inr up In his tall form and sud : a "General, here's an old man who says - that he knows you." a Whether Lafayette heard or understood m the %ords o1 this rude presentation is not t known, but lie fixed his eyes an Instant on - the soldier, stepped forward with both hands outstretched and exclaimed: ' "it is Corporal Blood I" 1 Then the old soldier broke down and the r general comforted him with kindly worde, o and the American and French party gath L ered around the two. and then and there r Lalayette told the samine story that Corporal - Blood had told so often to incredulous t people, how la the most trying times of a those memorable days of soul and body K trial, when food was very scarce, and ofR. I cers and men were starvimg, the orders sternly forbade taking any provisions from the inhabitants without payment, and all supplies for love or money were exhausted. The general had accidentally overhard a soldier saying, he knew where there was a cow concealed, and but for the orders he could get it. The general sent for the soldier, who was Corporal lood. and q osacuoned him, and as the case was -one of starvation, gave a the order to seize the cow and the money to pay for it. The relief, small as it was, when the corporal brought in the boeE, a was so sensible that the gen6ral thanked I him and often afterwards recognized and thanked him. Forty years later he had not forgotten the corporal or the cow. It is needless to add that Corporal Blood went-out of the ball room that night, a mighty mnan of valor and veracity. It is not stated that he over presumed on this triumphant vindication of his word. But if he had chosen to say that he han dined with George Washington, George of Cap padocia and Georire, king of England, r while Iskander Bay served wine for the 3 three, lie may have been beheved in his native town. Wit ielm e. The principal app~lication of whalebone now is that in making whips and corsets. Steel has mostly displaced whalebone In umbrellas and parasols. Some years ago umbrella ribs were made in France of an excellent imitation of whalebone (not dis tinguishab~le, indeed, till fractured): but It is no longer heard of. GenuIne whalebone is often made white and used with grarments or muslin or tihe like, not heing seen through these so easily as the d (ark sort. The newest applieation of Swhalebone is that to hats: It is cut Into rfine strips and iiterlaced with straw. 3 Such hats are very dear. Another novel. .ty is " whalebone ribbon." For this white r whalebone is generally used, and the a sh~aving is so thin that ordinary print can h e read through it. It is elten colored blue, red, or green, andl used by saddlers in making rosettes, Walking sticks of Swhalebone are also in good demand. The r exceptiohally thick strips cut for this put pose are rounded by beingt drawn through holes in a steel rSlate. Billiard pads of whialebono mutst be very smooth and cut of a certain exact thickness. Fishing rods are mane of two carefully workedi strips Sof whalebone with thick silk thread wound -around them. .Penhiolders and other small ai t:eles are made of whalebone at the lathe. ' l'he hair out off the raw whalebone was Sformerly used for brushes, but It is now mostly replaced by other materials, 1t Is - largely crisped and used as a filling for matiteesa. This list by no means ex *hausts the uses of whalebono, wIch is continually being applied in new ways. Needed more Land, L While seine fishermen in the A dlirondlack i region were diggIng worms one day last f fall, on a piece of cleared land, the owner, suddenly appeared and demanded five del. i ars damsges. f"Damages !" echoed one of the fisher men, "why, there are no crops here." "I knew it-no crop but worms. You don't suppose I i d be foolish enough to try to raise wheat or corn lhere, do you?'" "And do you call two dozen worms worth five dollars ?" "I shalt have to. That wllbe my only income this whole ,soas8on from .eighty acres, and you see I must have sonie little return or move off. ' l ie was given lis chioice between ac. ceptung halt a dollar or licking the crowd' and he pocketed the coin with the mourn ful observation: "This will never, never do. I see PIl have to buy in at least 50,000 acres to get Income enough teq keep patches on mny I keNs" a eftpl: Myh alse ~ I t s FOOD 1O THOtUaT. That which Is bitter to be endured may be sweet. tq be remembered. Who Is lavi with promises is apt to e pornurtous n erformanoes. Don't belieye hialfyou hear, but make sure that you belevq all you say. Imptations, however unjust, sully, if they do not stain, a charaoter. The cheapest advlce is that' whish costs nothing, and is worth nothing. A Christian should shoir his religion over a conter as well as at an altar. %:Love mooks all sorrows but its own, and damps each joy he does not yield. There are no oaths that mike so Wmn .ekjiroe*A thevtowa ordloyie & Why are women like churches? Be. cause there's no living without tliem. What piece of carpentry becomes a gem as soon As it is finished? A-gate. An apt quotation is like a map which flings its light over the whole sentence. All men are liberal, some to those wlf o are in need, and others to them - seives. With patience, sour grapes become swootmeats,.and mulberry loavos turn to satin. What we charitably forgive will be recompensed as well as what we char itably give. Many a man has no genuine faith who never in his life denied or doubted the gospel. "Raindrops on the roof." Of course it drops on the roof. That's what the roof is for, Inquirer:-What is the extreme pen alky for bigamy? Two mothers-in-law. Why is a pig with a twisted tail like the ghost in Hamlet? Because it could a tail unfold. Latin is a dead language, and that is why doctors use it for writing out their prescriptions. To eduote the mind and let manners and heart run wild, curses humanity with mildew. "The parting gives me pain," as the man said when he had a troublesome tooth extracted. The Spartan mother when she gave her son his shield said, "With it my son or upon it." Cut the most agreeable acquaintance you possess when he convinco you that he lacks principle. In pocket-pioking, as in almost every thing else, a man never suceeds until he gets his hand in. A wit being asked, on the failure of a bank, "Were you not upset?" replied, "No; I only lost my balance." A law student once defined libel as 'something a man says and afterwards wishes to goodness he hadn't." Do you believe in ghoste? "asked a lady of Uoieridge," "No, madam," he replied, "I have seen too many." Language is the amber in which a thousand precious thoughts have been safely imbedded and preserved. There are lying looks as well as lying words, dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence. Exaggerated language. noisy protes. totions, violent censure, all betray an element of weakness somewhere. A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It is a seed which, even when dropped by chance, springs up a flower There is no singular to the werd ahns, to show a single aot of money givmng does not merit the name of charity. The man who enslaves himself to his money, is proclaimed in our very lan guage to be a miser, or a miserable mnan. The more an idea is developed the more concise becomes Its expression; the more a tree Is pruned, the better the fruit. By holding a very little misery quite close to our eyes, we entirely lose sight of a great deal of comfort beyond which might be taken. -Midas }bhged fori gold. Jje got gold so1 that whatever he touched became gold, and he with his long ears was lhttle the better for it. There are still a few persons at large who will invest their money in mining stock In preference to Investing in a clog and shooting the dog. It is sald ninety million of postage stamps are dhinually sold in this country, amit all of them nave to be licked before they will do their duty. Five of. the sweetest words In the English language begin with h--which is only a breath; heart, hope, home, happiness and heaven. It we could get together all the tomb stones we have set up over broken resolutions we should have material iinough to set up a marble palace. The man who worships the fortuito he has mrade; is no more intellgeut than the heathen who pyays to the hitte wooden god he hia whittled into shape. The devil tempts mon through their - ambition, their cupidity, or their appe tite, until he comes to the profane swearer whom he catches without any oard., that a great silent moving misery puts a new stamp on us is an hour or a moment, as sharp an linpres slon as if It had taken half a lifetime to engrave it. iFadladeen's political onduct and opinion, were founded upon that flie of Sadi', "Should the Prind gbdomlda say, '% is right,' declare that you b. holdl the snoon And star's," 6As itt na he to