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TR I-WEEKLY EDITION. WLINNSBORO. S. C.. MARCH 16. 1883- ESTABLISHED 1848 GOING OUT AND JOMING IN. Going out to fame and triumph, Going out to love and light, Coming in to pain and sorrow, Coming In to gloom and flight, Going out with joy and gladness, oIuiug iII with woo atl Binl; Ceaseless at reams of r estless plIgrlis Gotifg out anid coning in. 'I'irough the portals ot the homnestead, From beneath the blooming vine; l'o the trumpet-tones of glory, Wtere the bayd and laurels twine; Froui tile loving home caresses, 'To the chill voice of the world, (iing out, with gallant canvas T.o tho .ummter breeze unfurled. Coming bacl all worn and weary, Weary with the world's cold breatit; Voining to tie dultr old tomestead, Coming lit to ago and e'ath, Weary of all empty flattery, Weary of all ceaseless dkii, Weary of its heartles sneering Cominig from the bleak world in. Going out witlh hopes of glory, Coming In with sorrow dark; Going out with sails all dying, Coining in with mastless bark, Hestless stream of pilgrims, striving Wreaths of fame or love to win, From the doorways of the Iouseholds Goiig out and coming in. A SHAL-SKIN COAT. I had always wanted one. I do not think I was more fond of dress than ordinary women, but I loved nice things. Real laces, vlelvets, and silks gave me positive enjoyment. Not that I might dress to outshine others; but I loved luxury; and, alas! we were poor-Loo and I. We were very young; I was eighteen, and my husband twenty-three. We had boon married six months, and were keeping house in a nice little cot tage, pluinly but comfortably furnished, and which I made beautiful by various little devices that cost nothing. Leo made a mistake, perhaps, in not tWlling me from the first just what he could afford, and what he. could not; but he was foolishly in love with his "little wife," and tried to gratify every wish of millme. I was selfish and exacting, utterly undisciplined; and the more I thought about the cloak, the more I coveted it. I had a neighbor, newly married, like myself, and site had a lovely cloak. I (lid not stop to consider that, al though Mrs. Aylmer's husbahd was only a clerk, like mine, that she was a wealthy man's daughter, who had given her an elaborate outfit. She %4 calling upon me one day, and wore tL ctant cloak. - "I do niii I had one!" I said, child iably pat ing the glossy fur as she was leaving. "Make your husband get you one!" mihe laughed; adding, "Fred would got me anything." "Leo, dear," I said after supper, as we sat in our little sitting-room, "won't you give me a seal-skin cloak like Mrs. Aylmer's for a Ohristmas present?" "But my darling," he expostulated "Mrs. Alymer's cloak cost four hundred dollars at least." " Wll,"L pouted, "four hundred isn't such a vast sum, is it?" "No, dear, butinfinitely more thanwe can afford. "You know my salary is small, and the furnishing of this house, with a year's rent in advance, took nearly all the money I had savcd before our mar rifaRe. "Since then, 1 have laid up only one hundred. "So, little bne"-smiling fondly down upon me-"where am I to get the re mamnder?" "Dear me, Leo," I replied, pettishly, "can't you .nako It some way-speculate or somethimg? "Other men make money faster than you do." My husband's face grew ery grave as he inquired, "Lulu, do you think 2 would deny you this if I could get it for yoa?" 1 know I was wrong, but I replied, sulkily, "If i had married Edwin Arm strong, he would have bought it for mec. I was frigutened at Leo's white fae as he rose to his feet, pushing me from him when I t led to detaim him. "Has it come to this," he said, hoarse ly, "that you regret having refused a iober man for me?" Without a word more he Ic-ft the room, and at moment later the house shook as tie slammed the front door after him. * The next morning he came and stood beside me. I thought he was going to put his arms around me, and take his good-bye kiss as usual, but he did niothing of the kind. lie only said, "Luiu, I have found a way to make some extra money, and you * shall have the cloak; but unless you want to drive me mad, never repeat what you said last night." He stooped, kissed my forehead, and left me; but somehow the prospects of obtaiming my wish failed to elate me." Christmas morning came. I went dow~n early to the dining-room. A large box stood on a chair., 1 opened it eagerly, and lited out the most b)rautiful seal-skin oloak I had ever seen; far surpassing 14rs. Ayhmer's. "1t must have cost five hundred," I said, under my breath. "It is super'b!" In the bottom of the box was a card, on whioh was written: "I have fulhlle my promise, N3t a word of love not a Christmas wish. With a heavy sigh I laid the cloak back in the box as my' husband entered. "Does It suit you?' he asked, quietly. "It is very beautiful 1" I said, "Where, did you get the money, Leo?" "Never mind where!" he said, more harshly than he had ever spoken to me. "You have the cloak; are you satisfied?" "Oh, yes, ' I replied lightly, driying back the tears that filled my eyes. "Only you are getting to be a regular ~Tat evening there was a concert, iIITT tsTedTnear Mrs. Ayler(Le had been prevented from escorting me Dwing to business), I heard a conversa tion between two ladies, one of whom was relating same scandal about my husband; that it was whispered about lie bad taken to gambling. My heart stood still. Mrs, Aylmer was shocked. When I turned to her with, "Take me home," she arose, explaining to her misband that "Mrs. Ray is ill," and we passed out. She tried to say something to console me, but I stopped her, crying, vehe montly, "It is all my fault! "Let me alone!" They left me at my own door, and going in, I threw myself down on the floor in an agony of remorse and self ahasement. He came home at midnight; and, oh, he had been drinking! In the morning it was terrible-n, one can know what my husband's condition was exeept those who have seen a strong, upright man writhing under the lash of honest self-condemnation after having yielded to a great temptation. It was no time to speak of my peni tence. He was oyerwhelmed with his Own. At length he told me that he had gambled severa' times during the past month. "But, Lulu, my darling wife, I never drank a. drop of liquor till now. "Last night Mr. Allen told me that he could not retain a gambler in his em ploy. "Think of itl "Oh, Lulu, Leo Roy a gambler!" And he bowed his head in an agony of Shame. I said very little. What could I say, when I felt that all this was my doing? I took his hot head in my arms, tissed him tenderly, while the tears fell fast. "I love you, my husband-I love youI The fault is all mine?" lie was ill and worn out, and at length I left him sleeping. Now it was time to do something to prove my repentance. I dressed myself plainly, took the box containing the cloak in my arms and went with it to Lee's, the eminent cos tumer. My courage did not fail when I asked to see the senior partner, and was shown into his private office. "Mr. Lee," I began, "I am Mrs. Leo Roy. "A few days ago my husband bought this cloak. for which he paid flve hun dred dollars. "I wore it once only, a little while last night. "Will you take it back at any price?" The old gentleman looked at me, tht n said, very kindly, "Would you mind telling me why you do not wish towetair it?" "Because my husband has nearly ruined himself to purchase it, and he would not have done so had I not insis ted upon it." The tears were very near now, but I kept them back. 4 b"You are a brave little woman," Mr. Lee said. "I doubt not that you will make matters all right. "Under the circumstances, we will take back the cloak and give you five hundred dollars, which is the price at which we shall offer it again." I thanked him, and with the money safe in my purse, turned my steps to wards Allen and Gray's where my hus band had been employed. The clerks looked curiously at me as I asked to see IMr. Allen alone. Twenty-four hours before I would have thought it impossible to do what I had gone there to do; but suffering had made a woman of me. I would never again be a spoiled child. I opened the subjcot abruptly. "My husband told me, Mr. Allen, that you had discharged him because he was a gambler,." My lace flushed hotly at the disgrace ful word. "I atm very sorry," he replied, courte ously; "but it is an inviolable rule with us never to retain an employe after we know that lhe frequents such paces, and, unfortunately, we know this of your huts band." "Bitt, M,r. Allen," I said, "'it is all my fault. "lie has never denied me anything, and when lie refused me a seal-skin cloak I taunted him with the fact that I could have a richer man. "I drove him nearly mad. "I told him he might make the money some way if lie would-i never thought of this, "I came here without knowledge his to beg that you will take him back and give him a chance to regain what he has lost through my vanity and wicked ness." Mr. Allen was visibly moved and finally said, "Well, Mrs. Ray, it is an ancommon ease. "Your husband has been one of our -most trusted employes, and we have re gretted his downfall.greatly. "It is better that he should not know just now of your having been here. '"He may come to me voluntarily; if lie does, I will reconsider what 1 told him." I drew@ny veil downjto hide the blind. Ing tears that would come, and went home. Leo was up waiting for me. Hie sat by the fire, and I irnelt down beside him. "Oh, my husband!" I cried, "if you will forgive me for all that .1 have made you suffer, for all thes evil that I have led you into, and take me to your heart agamn, 1 will be a good, true wife-a helpmate, not a hindrance. "But love me as you used to, or 1 shahl dieS" I broke down and sobbed bitterly. He lifted me in his strong arms, and his lip trembled as he said, "Oh, my dear little wife, I have always loved you, "What about the disgrace I have brought upou you?. "if you forgve nye, do you suppose I can ever fogve myself.?" "Hush!" I replied. "Your great weakness has been that , . ) you could not bear to deny me anything, and upon me reuta the blame of this miserable affair." "Oh, my lovel" be said, "as If I did not know wherein I have sinned, and how low I have fallen!" After awhile I told him about the cloak. It was bitter humiliation to both of us, but wo knew we wore right, He wrote a note to each, of the men of whom he had won, enclosing the amount. Doubtless he had only been permitted to win in order that they might ruin him afterwards. Then he said "Lulu, I am going down to the office to see Mr, Allen; I don't expect to be reinstated, but at least I can lot him know that I am fully sensible of my dia grr .e. -I never knew what passed between the two men, but Leo was given his former pFl e, and he told me that after that long interview in Mr. Allen's office tWe matter was never referred to again. It was not until long afterwa.ds that he learned that I had been there before him. It was a bitter lesson for us both. Leo never yielded to temptation again; and I was cured of my vanity, selfish ness, and temper. Tie Iltattlesnake Saved His [ife. Game there was none. We could not break camp now with our weak men upon our hands, and it only remained for some one to attempt the desperate journey ocross the San Juan range, by way of the Devil's Pass, to Animas, awd return with food or a rescuing party. Failing of that, spring time would find our cabin inhabited by corpses. We drew lots among ourselves, there fore, we well mien, to decide who should undertake this perilons trip, and the risk tell upon me. It was best, perhaps, that it should have been so, for of all the party I best knew the trail. Without waste of words or time, I prepared myself for the journey, and thoroughly armed, early one morning, before the pale moon had fallen behind the western mountains, I bade good-by to my comrades and started. Turning my back upon the camp, I settled my course by a star, and at a brisk pace steered southward. All day I continued on the trall, ever with a watchful eye for Indian signs-for I bcheved our old ene mies still in the vicinity-but all day un molested, and at last, weary and worn, as the chill shadows began to creep across the great white plain behind me, I saw looming up in frout the San Juan ranite, gashed with a narrow gorge-the Devil's Pass. Once through the horrible grave for it wits little else-and the road to Ani map would he comparatively ea sy, My spirits rose hopefully. ,, As darkness came fairly down, I found myself just at the month of the canyon which led up to the pass, and deeming it a most sheltered place for a camping spot, I soon gathered a heap of dead limbs be neath an overhanging rock where the snow had not yet come, built a roaring fire, which warmed and cheered ime, and pre pared far the night. I felt little fear, tor the narrow. frowning canyon would hide the light ot my fire from all the ploin country. The oniy disturbance which I might look for would be the howling of the wolves, who threatened, but dared not attack me; and I cared not for them. With these comiorting reftections, there fore, I ate a hearty supper, drank a little melted snow-water, lit my pipe, and rol ling myself in my blanket, crowded close to the rock wall behind me, now well warmed by my fire. And so, in the flick ering light, protected on all sides, I gave myself unhesitatingly up to slumiber. Hlow long I slept I cannot say. It was deep in the night when I woke with a uid.. den chill, it was as if seine one had touched me with a cold and clammy hand, but, even before I was well awake my frontiersman's caution returned, and I opeoned my eyes slowly and didn't move. The fire was all but out atnd the ghostly light from ils dying embers touched the snow and rocks and trees about with a strange color like thick blood. The e.r was growing chill and still, too. except for the cry of a coyote far up the canyon wall opposite, who whined and barked incess antly. . There was something almost oppressive about the silence to me, when suddenly from just beyond my smouldermag fire the sound of a step startled me, and before I had time even to move there was bending over n.e a hideous, painted face-the f ace ot a savage, and in his hand, airendy creeping toward my heart, was his heavy scalping knife ! Tro dlescribe my sensation is impossible. Some terrible spell seemed to bind me. Not only was 1 facing a dlanger which meant instant death, hut I was unable to move, even in the attempt to save myself. It was as if I were fascinated. I tried to reason with myself. Tis ie but a single enemy-if I should spring upon him I might kill him and so be free; but alt,hough the reasoniing was right, thme action I was ungble to bring about, and all the time the terrible knife dIrew nearer. TIhe redskia knew that I was awake, and that I saw him, but lie gloated over my helplossness and delayed his fatal blow. &t last, however, I saw the gleam of his eye, the tightenmng of his muscles, and knew that in am instant more all woutld be over, when a sudden harsh, mietalhie rattle sounded, as If it were in my very bosom I felt something glide from my aide-a long, scaly, snaky body shot out to meet the dusky en-coming arm. There was a blow then a cry of horror, andl as the knie fell ringing to the earth a rattlesnake crawled sl-wly away, and'- the UJncom pahigre,' with hits now nerveless hiandi out strehedl andi the blood (drIpping down from his parted fingers, with a 1-mg, wild (leath shriek turned and dlisrippeared in the dabrkness. Trhe rattler which my fire had drawn from his winter quarters had saved my life and the lives of my com paions. A week later, wIth a party of thirty good fell.ows 1 recrossed the San Juan range and rescued my party from starva tion and the Indians; and it Is because of what that snaka did for me in Devil's Pass nIgh on to twenty years ago, that I let the critters live to-day. -The Rlight Rev. H, Churchill Bish op of Hoinolulu, arrived at Halifax; N. ki., yesterday from Liverpool. He will visit the Unit.cI ftates, Sw iniug f(rr Life. "No sign of a sail yet,Jiml "Nary one, Jack. I guess our time's come." ti Jim flacaett had indeed some dause for z saying so,and he said it in a dejected tone, y which was rare indhed with him. To be atloat on a boundless sea without knowing b where one is, or having any means of find ing ?ut, is an awkward matter at best; but t but to be afloat in the middle of the Pasific without food or water, in an open boat, under a scorching sun, with not a sail in a sight, might well make the bravest man despair. , Blowly and wearily ihe two worn out mep (s9le purp1vors of the fearful disaster whichhad delt,ied tiet4esel and all their shipmates) rose ti thair foot at" . strained thoir blood silat eyes over the 'bright% merciless soa. 'Not a sail, anywheres." repeated Hackett, despondently, ."and we can't catch one o' them fish that's a frohcki' ' around the boat by hunureds. God help "8o lie will, my boy, never fear. D'ye h remember how, when we two were at school together in the old Bay 8tate, our U old teacher used to be always spinning a b yarn about some captain who (when his g ship was aground and likely to go to pie ces any minute), after he'd given his or- tj ders and done all he could, said his pray- , era and ioy down to sleep;and the Admiral , when he heard of it, said he was the 1 bravest man he'd ever known? Now, 0 Jim. let's just say our prayers, and then have a nap, for I reckon we've done all we can, and the rest's in better hands than t ours. ih No ear but God's heard the short, sim- f ple prayer which the doomed men uttered, y In their extremist need, from the midst of the desolate sea. A few minutes later a both were sound asleep under the scanty u shelter which the rag of sail could give f against the life destroying heat of the sun. tj They slept for some time, but at length m the increasing coolness or the evening air r after the scorching Seat of the day began I to have its natural effect upon the 2 sleep- si era. They awoke almost at the same mo- f ment, rubbed their eyes, and then sat up a and looked around them. f, The sun was beginning to sink, but eve- tl rything was still as light as noonday, and j a fresh breeze had sprung up, ruttling the smooth surface into countless ripples. M "Jim," cried Jack, suddenly in tone of t great excitement. "your eyes are better'n I mine; lock Out there to the noi'west, and tl see if you make out anything." 1 "I guess I do," cried his companion, I joyfully. "Hold on a minute till 1 0 make sure. Yes, it is, sure enough-it's I a saill" V With clenched teeth and straining eyes 6 the 2 castaways stood 'twatching the dis- [ tant speck on which hInig their only chan, d ces of life. All at once a kind of spasm R shook their rugged faces as it became ter- F ribly evident that the course which she c was steering would not bring her anywhere n near the boat. They tried to signal with the remnant 9 of their sail, but it was heither large r enough nor high enough to be seen at suol V a distance. They made frantic efforts to y shott, but the feeble cry which their par ched throats could utter would not have d been heard 50 yards off. . Buddeult, just when all hope seemed gone, the wind shifted, and the vessel was seen to alter her course. The castaways raised a faint hurrab;but in another moment Jim's keen eye percei ved that although this new tack would v bring the ship much nearer to them than rl before, she would still pass at a considera- i bie distance from them, and might very easily miss seeing them altogether. C "There's one way now, mate,"4 said lie firmly, "and I'm a going to try it, for it's ~ neck or nothing with us now. Gott bless you, my boy!"t A Iwud splash followed the words, and Jim hackett, Jooking lip with a start, saw his companion's round black head already several yards away from the boat. But he saw something else, which startled himr even more, and that was a huge black ob ject. wnich rose sudde(lnly through the smooth, bright Water, and darted swiftly auu silenuy in pursuu of ma unconscious comrade. "Look out, Jack!'' shouted he, with all the power of his falling voice, "here's a shark!"' c "Scarcely had he sp'oken when a second shark appeared and the daring swImmer ~ found himself beset on both aides at once. Is only chance was to make as much stir t and spIa shing in the water as possible, g thus ktping the cowardly seapirates at bay ; bint the effort exhausted even more rapidi y hIs fait-failiung strength. What a terrible lorig way off the vessel seemed I and supposing she wore to Alter her course again, where wiould he be ? Instinctively t he glanced back toward the boat. 'The boat was gone I Gone, as if it had never been-hiddlen behind the long simooth swells that rose high above his nead every moment. Ta'erc was no return for him now, for he knew not even which direction to take ; and on lie went, struggling for life with limbs that grew weaker at every stroke, while the cruel eyes and gaping jaws on either sie direw closer and closer, hungering for their prey. ''8am,'' said a keen-eyed sailor to his chum, glancing over the vessel'a port quarter, "aim't that mighty like a man, somehow ?'' "A man!I" echoed the passing captain, bringing his telescopejto his eye. "T[hun decr I so it is I Pat her head about, smart, and stand by to lower the boat ?" The help came none to soon, for Jack was so spent that he could only gasp out, '"My mate--yonder-boat." But it was quite enough. Half an hour later Jim Hackett was safe on board likewise ; and the two rescued men lived to tell their children and grandchildren the story of their ad Venture in the Pacitie. The practicability of milizing the varn- I eus kiiown coal deposits in Java continues to meet with attention at the hands of the D)utch Government, thus far, however, without substantial results. At present ] only one mine is in active operation, and I production during the year 1881 amounted to 1i845 tons of block, and 2881 tons of I small coaL. The quality of the coal is] similar to tl.at of fair Auistralian, and in working the mneos no more than the usualc precautions have to be taken against the 1 explosions of fire-damp knd othier acienta or a similar nature A Roaring Allizzard. A correspondent, travelling through )akota and that section, met a resident of [ie treeless plains, who told him this bliz ard experience : I came out here three ears ago last summer, bought a quarter Dction, sent to St. Paul for a bill of lum or and worked all summer putting up a ouse and barn. In the fall I bought liree horses and a sulky plow, and com lanced turning up the black praie soil. lefore the ground froze I had about thirty cres ready to sow with wheat in the pritg. Then I went east to see Mabel nd after the holidays brought her back with me. By the middle of January we iad got the furniture put to rights, and vere settled down to enjoy married hfe L few things were wanted for the house, towever, and one bright, sunshiny morn mg I hitched two of the horses to a bob leigh, and Mabel and I drove to the vil. tge due noith from my house six miles. L pleasanter morning I never saw. There ras snow enough to make excellent leighing, and the air was wartu and bal iy. It seemed as if spring was near at and, but a worse delusion never existed, "The village has but one street, being ierely a row of twenty or thirty wooden uildmgs Parallel to and about ten rods romi the railroad track. They are mainly sed for et 1res, and when we drove up iere were three or tour bob sleds or pungs i front of each store. Half the farming onmunity of th- township appeared to be i doing some shopping. About one 'clock, while we were in a (try goods tore, the merchant, who had stcpped out minute before, said to us: 'I don't like i drive away my customers, but a blizzard coming from the west, and it is coming tt, so you have got no time to spare if ou are gotig home t) (L V.' "le rolled up our purenases as lie spoke nd appeared to be in a hurry to get rid of a. When we got outside the store the ret thing that attracted my attention was ie fact that, of all the teanis in the street Fhen we arived, not one, excepting mine, amained. Everybody had scudded for omeo. Even then I did not hurry.. Tie in was shining brightly, with not the di)test suggestion of a storm apparent nywhere. Betore we had rot a mile om the town I had forgotten all about to coming storm, and the horses were >gging at their will. "We were still two miles froni home, hien suddenly the sun was obscured, and ic air grew c>kd and chill in a moment. darkness as of ,moke swept over every iing. Then I remember why we are go ig home, and I gave the horses the whip i earnest. lashing them into a run. Away ff in the west there appered to be a 3aden wall sweeping toward us. There mas a hum in the air. A light breeze prang up. grew stronger, and In one unute became a gale. 'T'lie wall came own with ratlroad speed, the roar of its pproach every Instant growing louder. 'rom the top of a roll in the prarle we ould see our house, and it came pretty ear being our last glimpse of it. "No words will ever convey an Intelli ent Idea of a blizzard; of the frightful :ar with which It rolls down upon you ; Lie howling and hissing of the wind. If ou try to speak the wind dashes the syl tbles from your lips so quickly that you o not bear your own words. In thirty econds from the time the first snow flake 3l I could not see my horses. The at i2sphere appeared to be of snow, and very flake of it was in a hurry to get Dmewhere before the rest should get lerd'. I use the word 'flake,' but that is rrong. No flakes could be distinguished. 'lie whole atmosphere was one big flake list hemmed us in on all sides, Although label's head wasn't over a foot from mine could not see her features, and could Oy dimly see her form. I tried to peer ownwards beside the sleigh and see the rack, hnt I might as well have tried to a see the earth beneath a snow bank. I ould feel a motion to the sleigh, so that I new the horses were still moving. Trho 01(d was intense. I tried to ask my wife 'she was suffering, but I could not hear ty own words. "During the two i.or three mmnutes that ntervened between the time I saw the orm approaching and the moment it struck Sthe hcrzzz had run at tes i,op of theor peed, so we were not much over a mile rom home, It di(t not seenm possible for he horses to keep the trac~k. No one ould live an hour in that storm. The uly hope lay in the horses being able to :eep to a track that was being burled lceper and deeper every instant. It isn'i leasant to sit still and freeze to (leath. I1n on minutes I was chiled through, and I alt that I was freezing. The horses were till imoviiig, an(l, .although I could not ee them, I lashed them with the whip. t seemed hours since the storm shut us in, iid I was just liecomning convinced that be horses had got out of the path and hat we were lest on the prarie, when hero came a sudden lull of the fierce wind. "The air was still full of whirling snow, mut I could see objects about me, and it lidn't take long for me to ascertain that ye were in the barn and were safe. I hat eft the barn doors open in the morningr ,d the horses had found their way back; think by instinct, but my neighbori hink It was slicer accident, and declart hat it wouldn't happen again in a thou andi years. Although we had reached th< arn, we were not in the house yet. Frorm he barn to the house Is about twenty ardls, but, as far as seeing was concerned, he house might as welt have been in the soon. The little woman helped me tc mnbarness the horses and put them intc heir stalls. Then I told her to remain: vhere she was, and made a break icr the ouse. It is deliclult for any one to be' leve that in a blinding storm he cannot ;o twenty yards in a lint sufficiently traight to find a house, but try it soam ine I "Do you see that pump ? I stuml'ledl ver it. It is twenty feet to the right o1 lie path from the barn to the houise. If it adn't a been for that pump I woul lever again have found either house oi aurn. I knew that the handle ot that toited directly toward the house, anm hat it was not over ten yards away.] aised the handle and felt for my bearingsa let go the pump-handle and plunge& oward the house. When 1 tell you tihat ] an 'smack' agamnst it you will understant hat seeing was out of the question. Aftel got into the house I took a ball of twine ted one end to the 'door-knob, and sue eeded in getting back to the barn, anid, y following the string, we reached thi ouse again. For three days and nighth hereafter neither of us even opened tht outer door. When the -storm ceased we could not see the tarn, tor the snow had piled in between the house and barn so deep that it covered the windows on that side of the house. On the east ide of the house, however, there was very little snow. 'I he shovel happened to be in the house, and the little woman and I ,ucceed. ed in tunneling through to the barn, but we had to carry every shovelful of the snow taken out ot the tunnel through the house ind throw It on the cast side." "Were the horses all right when you got to them ?" "You can safely bet they were glad to see me. They were about halt buried in snow, and had eaten the bedding from their stalls. It took me nearly all the res of the winter to shovel the sow out of L,ht barn." "Do people out on the prarles ever get lost in these storis fI "To be caught out on the prairie by a blizzard means death, and nothing can avert it. After a settler has been here one winter it's a sly ol blizzard that catches him. Not so the new coners. They can not Imagine. there is danger at all times. Three people wera lost that (lay in this vicinity, one of theni a woman who had been over across the prarie abont a imile tV see a ilck neighbor." Liz mrds anuti Mumic. Lizards certainly betray a senso oj musical vibrations. Little geckos and other house-lizrards. if tlicy do not ex actly "como out to liston," as they aro reputed to do, will stop instantly in their lignt over walls tnd hoors when a note is struck, an(t remain motionlos for Molie seconds, as though actually listen. ing for its repotition, and I have soon taranguras in a gardon 'mesminerized" by a guitar in the annie way. But it is to be observed that in neither instance is the niesmerisin completo enough to prevont their eluding captni c, and that if the music be continued tuoy soon be come habituated to it and resume their wonted movements. I am inclined to attribute the effect to the reception of the air wavos by the general sensibility of the cutaneous surface, the foelig of what is most likely a diStgrooable thrill, rathor than to any improssion on the special sense of hearing. Sitting at an open grand piano one dty, Jooking at some manuscript, but not touching tIh keys, a 'logatitia," making hin way down the wall againat which the inst.ru ment stood, by a series of running crooked jerks, caught my eye, his little fprawling hands and irridescent. body sharply deflned against the w1hite back ground. On the further end of the piano lay a paper of "1dulcs;" this had attracted a swarm of flies, and the flick in their curn attrucLed thn Ingat.iti. Down lie caine, with abrupt suspicious darts and turns -to this side and that, until lie stood on ihe level ground of the piano top, paused, flilted half across it, and paused again. just as lie began to run onc more, having cautiously brought my hands and feet into position, I struck a tremendous double cord with the podal down. Poor little chap! I thought I had killed him. HTo was ab solutely knocked oil'his legs, and turned over on his back, whero ho lay feebly kicking. Before I could reach him, however, lie had recovered, regained hit feet flashed up the wall, and disappeared into a orevico, I expect that that,lizard at any rate, had a very low opinion of mnsic aftorward. Hostou swolls Agatated. There is really a very genuine agita tion in the breast of the masenline por tion of society, including our very sen sible men as well as our gilded youth, on the subject of kneo-breeches and hose, of starched lina~n and sundry otheri matters of male ap)parel. It is not only~ a fact that the abbreviated garment for the nether limbs has nctually boen adop ted for evening attire by some of omu very swell young men, but that many others, not so advanced as to aotually adopt the altered si,yio of dress, are talking about it aind scriously contem plating so doing. I have heard mosi sober conversation on the subject b3 very quiet and sensi ble gentlemen lately, and even the pater familias at home. wvhose linen has always boon irreproaeha bly white and( stiff, remarked recently that lhe wished he miighit be relioved from the thraldom of starched collara and substitute soft- ruffles or a silk hand kerchief I Now, isn't it strange that when meni have such a particularly sensible and desirable style o1 dress that certainj women are yearning anxiously to adopt it for themselves, that they cannot be satisfied with it1? Just think to what wve aeem to be coming I Here are oui dress-reform wvomen eagerly trying t( Introduce something as unoar akin as maa be to the presnt masculine attire, be cause it is "so comfortable an<t sensi. ble," and here are our dress- reform mci urging the abandonment of many o. the sensible features of that attiro, and the mntroduction of others as being more in aecordance with rules of beaut3 and of art. Are thme two sexes likely t4 exchange attire within the coming fow~ years ? A Liatkt.house Lant.orn. A remarkable lighthouse lantern wai placed in position at the national oxhi bition in Dublin, but owing to its size it had to be removed into the open air. It is intended for Mow Island, an im portant point near jielfast, and at its lull capacity is expected to give a lighi equal to 2,500,000 candles, visible at c distane of forty miles il placed at th< proper elevation. The illuminatzus agent Is gas, consumed in specially constructed ring burners (without glaea ehinmneys), which are said to be so ar. ranged that by the aid of lenses the power can be Increased In murky oi foggy weather from an ordinary highi of the first class to the most penetrat mng beam that has ever been throwi from a lighthouse tower. The lighi requ'res no attention, and the ohange In It. intensity with the character o the weather are made in the Simlples manner, without labor or trouble on th part of the lighathouse keepers, The Empross of Austria. Towards the end of the year 1867 tLe nasie Godollo fleiv for the first time along the Hungarian telegraph wires. This Magyar nation-till 1848 consisting In law, as in fact it consists almost to this day, of 3,000,000 of nobles-had acquired the castle of Godollo, with extensive ter ritories belonging to the townships of Go. dollo, Kerepes, Dany, and lszasseg, as well us the p;ains of Rgerszeg, Beasenyo, Babot, Szeat Gyorgy, Nylregyhaz%, Szent kiraly, and Ki-Bag, and presented the same to the Orown as a perpetual possas slon. On ths 29th of April, 180, the law was promulgated in both Houses of the Diet. The name of the estate was at that time almost unknown not only a'-istd, but even to the younger generation In Pesth, although the railway from Pesth to Losonos, which was just then bought by the State, passes near the uaitle anid mar ket town of Godollo. Older people re called the fact that iu the spring of 1819 they had beeu the scene of several episodes of the Revolution, and persons familiar with the details of Eungarlan history were aware that "the King" (the Hungarian I ov lo!s not recognize female succession), M.Ill'aneresa, had once favored the hand some young peasant UrassalKovich, had raised him to the dignity of Count, then of Primce, and had endowed hlui with th3se extensive estates ; that the first 'rince Urassalkovich had built the present castle, and repeatedly received the visits of his sovereign there. The family became extinct in tMe thir generation ; anh( the estates foil into the possession of iaron Sina, in Vienna, a Willachian master builider (like all Tirace. Walluciuans. lie considered himself a (reec, having even sacrificed enornnmi mnis for the building of the University in Atheus), and were then acquired by one of the Ina'ly share compantts which the (elgian swiiiler, L-ingrand-Dimonceau, had promoLed. I'lho purchase of Gidollo by the Hungarian State prevented the naeni of the castle being mentioued on the eventual bankruptoy of Laugrand Dainon coai. The natne has figured much mori frequently, however, in latter years in p litical reports. Pesth h1cR in a broad, partially cultivated plain, aluost devoid of trees, ailled the iakos, in which, up to the conqiest.ot the country by the Turks, the Reichstag had held its sittings, all the nobles appear Ing on horseback, and, like the Kinge, camping under tents. This 1lam-In um iner tilled with dust and scorched with the heat of the sun, af ter every rain a sea of mud-la not suitable for a royal residence for any length of time, but on the edge of the district, thirty or forty kilometrei froi Pesth, there extends thickly-woode I downs, the former shores of the Danube, among which lies the market town of Ga dollo, with a population of about 3,OJO. The beautiful and extensivq woo Is, witt their aDunut game, ana the eircuaiiao that the neighborhood is chiefly ha1gyar, renders Gadollo a fitting gift to the Crown. One room repeatedly served as the bed chamber of the inpress Maria Theresa. whose bed is still preserved in the castle. Thence stairs conduct to the ground floor, which likewise contains ro.>aji for the Queen's use. To the loft of the drawing. room are the apartments of the King, all very simple; indeed, the bedroom and the study are Spartan in their shimpicity. ivery merchant in the city of London af iects more splendor and comfort !n his dwelling-house than are to be found in this royal castle. 'rho reit of the building is occupied by the apartments of the Urown Prince, and by several spare rooms. Besides the above-mentioned bed of Maria Theresi, the great stables were shown us as curiosi ties, with their mangers of red marble, such as is often used for stairs in Poeth, and the kitchen, with the spit, on wujici a whole ox can be roasted. At every popu lar festival in Hungary an ox is roasted, whoa the mob tight tor theonalicooked bits of meat. They showed us the fur coat of the por - ter, which, though ostensIbly 150 years old, is not yet eaten by the moths ; aind, finally, an earthen pot, out of which the future Prince Grassoikovich was accus tomned to eat his dinner in his youth, after having begged it in a Captuchin convent. N'ear the castle nods of roses and other flowers were laid out. On a slopo a Chii nese pavilion had been constructed, in which were hung portraits of all the tHin garian Kings, .the work of artists of thu lowest rank. Beyond this I was obliged to wadie in sand up to my knees. Beernil miagniticenit old trees and a view of thi. richly wooded bills, however, rocampensed me for the trouble. Market_Mardening. - Every season furnishes its crop of uni successful merchants, or mechanics, who ask our agricultural editors if market-gar dening does nlot pay large profits, and if there is not a goou chance in this buuinema for an industrious man to better his con diLlon. Judged by the high prices tin average citizen pays for his vegetables hn the large cities, it seems to him there munt be nioney in raising vegetables. If he could remove to the country, say within an hour's ride, lie could attend to his city business without loss of time, and by hir nvg a good uardencr, he could have cheap a vegetables and fruits, and add someting to his income by sending the surplus to market. Ilothing looks more feasible on paper ; nothing is more daclusive in .prac treo. EyLry business, to be successful, - requires a responsible head,- - thorough1f' acquainted with all its details, and giving it his personal attention. T'here are many points in market-gardening that can only be learned by experience, and If a stran -ger to the business undertakes it, he will pay dearly for,his education. Some three hundre fiollars to the acre are needed ais capital tcarry on the business to advaiat age, eveWn hes a man is practically a' quanted '*I. ~it, and kno ws how and where to in*Ot every dollar. The ques tions to be'solved, are location in reference to learket ; soil, what kind and h>w muen; what crops to grow; what kinds of ma nure to apply to a given crop, and the quanity; what tools 'are wanted; what seeds to plant ; what teasare needed and what labor to oarz'y O'i .the business sue oessfully, and have io wasted The oulti vation of a few square'roda for e family i supply of small fruits and ,? 'e t l might prove profitable anid heathf'h market-gardeig on'thie amie lqrius~ ' prove.disatrouse Marke i1~ " remunerative busuies u stands it, but it as far A- - road to wealth fQlb6 ;hl 0 0t -~ etil to ear