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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
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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