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1111WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. MARCII 17. 1883. ESTAILISIIED 1848 ODD SAYING*. As bitint 8is a beetile, As sha1rp as a laCe, As grave as preactiltg, As gay as a dance, AN late as the gloaittti', - AA l1ke ts tWo peas, As crook'il as a ram s horii, As routlit as a cieeme. As flat as t flotider, As sticky as gitit, As wille ai a cotulonl, As fight as a tirtait, As white its a mIfiller, As black as a crow, As lean as a greyhiounti , As bett 118 a bow. As frail as a baudbox, As stollt as aij oak, As qt1eer as a Quaker, * As gaine as a cock, As ettle as a lawyer, As square as a (ie, As keeii as a raxor, As waitri as a pie. As drutink as a pipr, As sober as a judge, As clean as a shaviig, As 1tlihy as smitidge, As swIft as an arrow, As slow as a sitall, As blithe its it inet, As right as the imatt q SAVE!) IN SLEEP'. A clear, sweot voice was singing a senseless ditty, with many mocking variations, and operatic trills. A young man swinging indolently ii a hammock, underneath the - open win dow, laid asido his book and tossed away his unfinished cigar, as he listen. edito the merry trills and quavers. He has come down to posterity a model of wisdom; the curo was as suc cessful and completo as it was unique. "1," said he, "will arise and do like wise." He arose slowly; the voice and its lovely owner had uprooted settled pro judices, and overthrown firm convictions. Moreover, an underlying fear that lie was about to commit thle second great folly of his, life caused his heart to tremi ble and his feet to lag. Nevertheless, Straighit as thle needle to tho polo, tended his steps towards that upper room, and he musical dis turber of his vence. She was ~minlding Mrs. Latrobe's baby, as usual. Mrs. Latrobe was a presumably.yonug widow, somewhat wanl and faded as to beauty, which must once have been re markable--nomewhat scriumed a to worIdly possesions, yet strongly bent upon making the w:ost of her second chance in life. In pursuance of which design she displayed the vigor ai*t- tirelessness of sixteen leaving her inifant, meanwiuile, either locked up in the profound slum ber born of soothing syrups, or to the tender mercies of some obliging fellow boarder. It may have been the latent mother liness in hr nature, or something she saw in the pitiful drug-darkened eyes of the child, which ma-lo Marie Devoll often care for the neglected little one during the absence of its mother. Harry Raymond was not the man, having made up his mind, to brook any unnecessary delay. He went straight to tile side of the surprised singer, who had supposed hin a dozen miles distangt, and the, baby being somewhat in his way, caught it from the arms of its surprised foster mother, and, with a dexterous fling, sent it flying through the air into the very middle of a great, soft Persian rug, lying before the window. . Miss Devoll uittered a startled cry of S pro test. The child, contrary to all precedent, alighted from his airy flight, shrieking with laughter, and Jay clutching at the sunbeams, a jewel of it baby. in a golden "Miss Devoll," said Harry carnestly, S "you know, as do all my friencds, the story of my early folly. "Years ago, 1 loved aii unworthy object, and ever since I have walked the earth bind to all womanly goodness, purity and truth "Through a beautiful woman I lost S my ight; through a beautiful woman I S found it again. "Tell me, Marie," his voice' trem bling with earntettness, ''if this love is to be tI'o crowvn andi glor,y of my life, or its secont folly? "1 wish that I might bring you clean hanris1 and a pure heart. "I can only offer you an unworthy one, but full of a love that is true and abiding-that shall last for ever," Th'lere was no nteod of words; lie read his answer in her sweet, downcast lace, and tender eyes; lie sealed it on her quivering crimson lips, and wvas con tent. Thej1 baby laughed, and with a great crash of wheels, and flutter of silks, the baby's mother returned. So these twvo, as needs must, came back to an everyday world, that looked all the brighter and better to themi for their brief journecy into the beautiful land of love. Marie Devoll settled her lace in un breakable calm, and Harry lounged about with even more thtan his usual nonehalanice. Nevertheless, the widowv, who was wise in her dlay 1nd( generation, saw more than they supposed, and picking up her neglected oil-pring, left the room, with a sigh for the dreamns of a lost youth. She had returned from her drive be irothed but instead of the raptures and radiance of first love, her soul was filled with vague doubts-an uncertainty as to whether she might not, by loniger waiting, have donie even better for her self. But no such doubts disturbed the youthful lovers. * Their days passed as a happy dream; the course of true love ran smoothly towards the deiightful consummation *of an early marriage in the fall. One night Harry, grown strong in his new love, determinect to destroy every reminder, of that first mad passion of his youth, so letters burning with ar dent devotion, costly keepsakes- and trinkets wore r4thdessly destroyed. ~ Eaving once belonged to that falso wo. man, they were unworthy, and theii value could not save them. With a pleasant consciousness ol woll-doing, lie slept the sleep of the just, and wakened in tine for a long early walk with his betrothed, from which they returned, radiant and glow ing as the dawn, yet truth to tell, some what damp and draggled. In the doorway they met a woman, a now arrival, a gloriously beautiful woman, not an everyday pretty woman, but a livig, breathing dream of per fection. At sight of her Harry stopped, and grow white to the very lips, then quickly recovering himself, greeted her with manly dignity, presenting at the samec time his companion. "I must be a fond of sympathy bo tween you two," said he, with a sudden dash of bravado, "for this," with a courtly bow towards the fair wonderful woman. "is one of my earliest friends, and this is my betrothed." It would have been perfect, only he rather overdid the thing. However, the beautyi flushed with vexation. Site was not used to having her vic tims flaunt their freedom in her face, and to make it worse, Mario, who was only a woman. although an exceedingly nico one, could not help laughing a little as she sped away, and her laugh had in it more of malice than she was in any wise aware of. The days passed on. The beautiful woman. who, besides her natural charms. had the added grace of widowhood, trailed her sombre splen dor all over the great country house. making ;ther women look faded and common place by comparison. Mrs. Latrobe and her unpleasant baby were well-nigh anniihilatect. Even pretty Marie Devoll seemed like a wan field flower beside this gorgeous Eastern lily. Harry, to do him .juit-ice, shut, hit cyes persisteit.ly. Ie wats blind and deaf; butone night, when Mario was indibposed, the widow captured lImni. It wa4 in the great garden. Tho moonlight was entrancing, aiid the red-hearted rotes hung heavy with (low. Perfume, aid night, and the wonder ful woman held him spellbound, while the perfect lips told him a secret; a little story-a something that changed the current of his being. The mad love of his youth-fought against, dead, buried, was in that hour revived into a sudden and vigorous life. Tihe woman he had loved and hated stood before him-tearful spotless, a victim of nucontrollablo circumstances. A sufforer like himself-like himself, wronged, deceived, betrayed. ' P,r hiq sal 5hhd falrfe uncom plainly the burden of unloving wife hood. Reconciliation had been the dream of her widowhood, and lie had met her with scorn-almost insult. The man cried out against fate in) that hour. This woman, who had been all the world to him in the old days of his honest youth, was more than that now. In the flood of that terrible reaction lie would have sacrificed honor, truth, life itself, for her, but she would have naught of him. She had suffered, and in her heart and life suffering had wrought itv perfect work of patience and contentment. Now that she stood clean in his eyes her desire was accomplished. No other woman's heart should bleed as hers hnd dlone--no other womanm's life through her be blighted. Beautiful dissembler! Pe*rhaps t3 e sight of Marie might have been a safoguard to htim in those (lays, but she was quito ill, confined to her room, and with the perversity of fate, steadily refused to see him, and meanwhite the evil love grew and flour ished. One evening he and the widow were alone in the room that op)ened out of a tiny coniservatory. lie tI row honor to the winds, and the woman, wvhether she wvould or no, was fored to hear burning wvords of passion and mad love,. and in the midst of time resistless torrent of his woo the door opened and a nm' entered. He wvas tall, massive, amnd grandly bearded-a Sauxon giant, of horcumlcan moulId. He took in the scene ini a moment, and laughed. "0Oh Lura, Lural "'Will you never have done with your fOlgreat light flamed ito her face. A sudnen beauty flashed over it. A smile liko that might pave thme way to death for any man, and lie walk glad ly in it. "Oh, Roy, Roy!" she cried, and1 rush ing to thme straniger, flung hier perfect arms about his neck. ''This is my lusband," she cried, ''my dear husband I" She loved this man. You could not look in her radiant fauce and doubt it. "Mr. Raymond," said she, "I was only redressing old wrongs, and opening bliuded eyes. "lNever think agaih to fight a woman with her own weapons. ".My husband and I will leave you now, to make your peace with your betrothed. ''She is ini the conservatory. "I made sure of that befort - played this lhttle farce." The stranger struck off the clinging arma of his wife, and step)ped to the side of the doa,d unhappy man. "'I will not offrer you my hand," said he, "because 1 know that you had much rather throttle me than grasp it. ''I canmnot ask you to forgive my wife, for I know that she must have done youm a great wrong. "It is not the first time, it will most likely not be thme last, and yet I love her. "Suffer as you mauy, young man, you do not suffer alone." Then he was gone, and his fair false wife followed. Mechanically Harry stepped through the half-onan dnorinoen com ornvatiry A bowed, crushed figur- leaned againt a half-opened window. A drooping goklen head, a covore face. That was the woman he ha promise to love and cherish until death. He could not speak. Softly, and as though he touched th dead, he stooped, and kissed her brigli hair and so lie left her. Early in the morning the inarrie widow and her husband went away. - He breathed more freely, feeling tha she was no longer under the same roof During the forenoon he received message from Mrs. Devoll. Mario desired to sco him. Like a culprit he went to the mecting He had no hop of a reconciliation. Mario was too much of a woman t ever overlook the utter humiliation int, which he had fallon. She reoived him with a wan smile. He hardly know her, crimson-noset watery-eyed, and swollon-faced. as sh appeared. "I told mamma this morning that i was my duty to see you," said sie, ij muffled tones. "You must know before it is too lit, what a hideous being even a slight col will make of me. "I went downstairs last night, think ing to give you a pleasant surpriso. "I went into the conservatory, an the heat and perfume so overpowere< me, that I opened a window, and like I caroless girl, fell fast asleep beside it. "Look at me, Harryl Look at in w(ll. "Do you think that your love couh survive many much attacks?" Mario had been asleep, actually asleep A great flood of gratitude rolled ove his soul, as, with a rapturous cry o "My darling!" he caught her mn hi arms. He covered her swollon I aco with pas sionate kisses of thankfulness and af fection. "What devotion" sighed Mrs. Devoll whose own married lile had been soei thing 01 a mistake. "Wats ever girl so blessed?" though Mario, little dreaming what that sleol had saved her, little knowing that thi cold which lio deplored was a blessitg i1 disguiso, for Harry, grateful and repent ant, yet I believed-" Iwhere ignorance i: blits, it is folly to be wiiso." I~ d Tm Yout.i rrom Yale. Was there ever, asks a writer a nort remarkable creature than the younp man of to-day? He is a study. I do nol wonder at him when he wears hats sc low as to be almost 1iat aind shoes sc sharp as to be simply t,ragic. but it iE when ho talks that i find. mysolf mos. amazed. I tad the pleasure of sitting a car on thz wct side elevated road in New York, recently, when a youth from Yale strode in and discovered an aquaintance in the persou of a young New Yorker %% ho sat opposito me, "Well, for charity's sake!" yelled the youth from Yale, "when d' you olow in?" He was tall, was the youth from Yale, with a sharp nosc, very tight trousers, a microscopic mu stahe, a'very short coat, and an Rmiglish hat. "One one's left the door ope ii," he continued looking around with at broad and com preliensive smile at the passengcrs, "and this curiosity has blown in." This brilliant sally was received by the New York young man with a grin of delight. He retorted with epigramma tic brilliancy: "Ai, go chase youraclf around your feetI" Upon this they shook hands warmly, made furti.yo blowvs at each other's ribi and sat down together. They both stared at the passengers for some timoe, expcctinig them to go nmto transports oi merriment, but somiehow the passengers did not look joyful, but gan'id at each other sadly and wvith app)rohiusion, "OQh, you coy dlarIlig!" piped the New Yorker in a voice supposed to mim ic femininity. "Why have you not written me? Morn, nc on, and eve have I longed ior a word f ronm thee, gentle Joe.", "'Yas, an' you got left Orlando." '"When d' yu cunm down?'' ''Last eve. ot on an awful bat with the boys, and went to bed at 14 o' clock A. M., with a head the size of a~ biallooni jib on a noblemnw's yacht. When I ioll ont of bed for breakfast this miorn ing what do you s'pose I got?' "Got left." "No, no deat soin; .1 got a iiote from a gay <teceiver asking me to call around an' take her un' her miammna to the polo ground to see the foot-ball miatch." '"D.' you taae her?" "Ict chier sweet life I didn't. Sont noto sayin' Tm'n no hog. I'll take you, but I draw the line at the old woman.' "'Nothui'mean about you, if you ai-e beautiful." "Weli, shte msu.:L think I'm a blcoom in' chump to lug thie entire dtomestie establishment to the game. ]3y the way. Rosalind, get .onto this hat, will you?" Einlt, FoIiten. To think that the more a man eats the fatter and stronger lie will be come. T1o believe that thie more hours chil.. dreni study at school the fastor they illh learn. To conclude that if exercise is health ful, the more'yiolent and exhaustive it is the more good is done, To imagine that every heur taken from sleep is an hour gained. Tio act on the presusmption that thec smallest room in the house is large ensoughi to 8100op in. To argue that whatever remedy makes you feel immediately better is good for thielsystem, wvithiout regard to ulterior elrocLs. To commit an act which us felt in: itself to be prejudical hoping that some how or other 1t may be donse in your case with impunity. To eat a hearty supper for the pleas. uire experienced during the, brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbedl sleep and a weary Weking in the morn ing. A Doap trato Gamuir. An occurence Ias ltely transnpire< 1 at Nico, France, which is near Monaca the groat gambling centre of Europe 1 A notorious habituo of the Casino w<i had made his money principally there had set up an English vehiclo, a pair o 0 horses "tiger" iind all, and cut quito i t swelldriving through the neighboritiod One day he was ridirg in the ouvironu of town upon tho ftino roads, his serv ait sitting upt n the raised box bohind whoi has been fooling somewhat uneas, at not receiving his wages for som4 It time, seeing his master quito alom ventured to ask him througii the bac window if he would not make it colvo niiont to pay him. The ntister wais ii a good humor, and asked, 6 "How much is it, La Pf6ur?" 0 ''One hundred and twentlfy five livros may it please you, ionsicur." "-Verv well, boro it is, said the mias I tor, opreuding the sum in paper curren D cy uponl the seat of the vohiale. "Now, La Flour, have you a pack of cards wit) t you?" I "ertainly," answergd tho obsequi ous lackoy, "I always carry them, mon 3 sicur," produclug the cards at once. I "That is well. Now I will be bankoi and you shall play against ino. I will - take the front seat, the back one shall servo for our table, you can looh I through this back wiudow. 1 The lackoy assented to this, aniusei t at his master's condescenion. Luck was rather on the master's side, bu 3 both men becamo quito eager iln thc game thinking of that and that only. I Little by little the footman's moucy Wias going Until all that wIs left of Iun wagus was five hvres. He began tu r feel anxious when luck turned and he won the whole sum back with every sou his master Lad about him. Piqued at his loss thomastor wagered - a iorse, which the lackey won, then its - mate next the harness, and lastly the carriage itsolf. Luck ran all one way, and the servant, La Flour, won overy - thing. The master took out his watch and put it down against a given sum. The cards were 3huffied, the lackey Won. .l1 have nothing more, La Fleur; you have cleaned me out,' said the half.. - desporate gambler. The servant was ii high spirits at his strangeo run of luck. "Here are a hundred livres, monsieur, I etake them against your position, it you win they are yours. It you lose we chango seats." "Agreed." Then the cards wore shulled ind Lai Flour won. The vehicle returned tu Nice with his former master sitting in the servants box behind, La Flour in side. A Utirone rido, On ahghting from our carriage, says a correspondent who is writing of a v;sit to Cairo, we were hastily coin ducted across a large covered court, in which tabl(s were spread an' hired imiu sicians wcre perforn)ing, and were shown up to the women's apartments, passing through a nunher of narow, ,vnding pas sages-it was, I was told, a real oI. fash ioied Turkish interior-and traversing a number ot rooms furnished with a curious mixture of tle splendid and the tawdry, until we came to the room where the bride sat to receive the final compliments of her her friends. She was small-framed, deli cate-looking person, with fairly regular features and beautiful eyes and teeth, but the former, notwithstanding that her face was thickly painted white, sllowed traces of tears, and she looked and evidently was tiredt to death. "She lias been crying all day," whisperedi the French governess to us confidlentially; "she hias never seen him, of course, and hass got an idea that she shan't, hike him; the fact is, she aid not want to be married at ali,but of course her family wvould not refuse --- Pasha's alliance." Tlhie new bride's ap)artments have been returnished in her honor. and were bestrewn w'th yellow satin chairs andl fautemils, which most of thle women carefully avoided, prefering to sit coin fort ably on the carpet or on the lowest foot-stool they cold fInd. The b)ride Rat, like a little nmage on a chair raised on two steps in one corner of the room; her hands, mncased in tight white ki(t gloves, were crossed onlier lap, andl she never moved at all, except that she acknowledged our courtesies, as strangers, with a slight, grave incliation of the head. The other women kept uip a pretense that if was all very deClighitful, and occasionally stroked her dIress smileng in passig, or rearranged tile heavy gold fringes of the veil. bhie had put oif a magnifIcent brIdal diress of white satin Oil entering the house of this husband whom she "had never seeni," and was now arrayed in pink satin heavily em broidered with gol, having on her head a veil of tulle and gold ornamented with flowers and diamonds,whitle large diamond brooches and bracclets glittered on her diress and wrists. The long train of her (dresse, made in European fashion, was spreadl ostentatiously halt across the floor. Trhose of her relations who had come with her were also very smart and very modern, 11cr sister, In addition to a pair of high heeled slioes, had advanced to the civilized length of wearing tight stays. A Little More, One of the stockholders of a now Wes tetia railroad was a farmer who had ac cumulated his money by hard toll, and when lie had put In appearance at the meeting to elect a B3oardl of Directors lie felt It Is duty to remark: "Gent,lemen, as I uinderstand this thingl we elect the Board and the Board elects the ofice rs." $omno one said he was right, andi he con 1inuedl: "I[ don't go a cent on high salaries, and I want that understood, I am In favor of paying our President a good liviuig salary, and no more." ''How much do you call a good living sala.1yt"' asked one of the crowd. "Well, $2 a day is the going wage, but-" hlere the meeting began to roar, and it was two or three minutes before the orator had a chance to conclude: -"But of course we want a man who can run an engine, switchl a train, handle freight, keep books and lick ainybody who want pay fare, and so I shall not object to $,0a day." Protection r,c the Un1id. It is exocedingly disngro able to have the hands rough, swollen flI sor(, e8 pecially if one wishles to write or sow ; yet I never could wear gloves nucccs f fully about my house-work, as many -A,house-keelpor" do. Even when doing cold, rough work iu which mittens or gloves seem indispeisablo, I often find myself casting them impatiently aside as I murmur to myself the titne-worn proverb about a cat in gloyes. They scol clumsy and in the way. Neither can I spare my bands by use of the "'dish mop" so landed by an occassional ponj. It may possibly be owing to the force of lon1g-continued habit that I can not wash my dishes satisfactorily with other than a linen or other soft, easily-wrung and easily-kept clean dishi cloth. Thero are a few tasks in which I find mittens or gloves a veritablo necessity, and one of theso is the blacking of stoves. Not only is the blacking itself diflicult to remove, but it actually seent to poison the flesh. Old, easi.-off gloves will not answer, as they are always more or less out at the finger-ends, as well as short in the wrist. Gloves or mittens about as good as any for this purposed may be mado of coarse, thick cotton cloth ; or canton Ilannel uiy be used, but this does not wash so easily. They should be made to lit tue hanids comfortably, with long wrists, to conic well up over the sleeves. Thius pre ared, with a big apron from top to too, t thiuk turban over your hIir, a brush for puttig on the blacking, andanother long-handled one for polishing, tho blacking of stoves is not the most diua greebile work inl the world. Still, it is better to turn it over to the men cio your household if 3 ou can. 'hey will do it in half the time, and, the proba bilities are, with uore satisfactoiy re sults. Another thing for which mittens or gloves are important is the hanging out of clothes in cold or frosty weather, They will save much aching of lingers, if not, indeed, some cols and soro i throats also. A pair should be kept ex clusively lor this purpose, for if allowed to be used in other ways they are sure when wanted to be so soiled as to spot and blacken the clothes. If you cain knit or crochet, gloves or mittens of lino white yarn are very desirable, though a pair made either of fine canton or real flannel will answer every pur poso. The seams should be stitched on the machine; then pressed open, andI "cat-stitched" down by h.Lmd. But most important of all ire gloves or mittons for handliig wood and keep ing winter fires, and especially when stoves are used for burning chunks or , g wCot, which ofte;i has to go un at the toi. if the hands a'rd at all dOli-I cato or sensitive they will, unless pro tected, be continually rough and soro, not only from contact with the rough wood, but also from the action of the undue heat upon the flesh, Mittens of yarn, or any woolen materhi I, scorch too easily and not suitable. Mittens of stout canton flannel will answer, though a pair of s-nall-sized men's gloves of some soft, stout leather, with dlcep gauntlet wrists, are best. The ex-I iJenso is not great, and they will more t,han pay for themselves in one beason, if you Ive many fires to build, in the greater comfortableness and smooth ness of your hands. The cattle i'angite comt. Until recently little has been postiveiy known of the origIn or true diagnosis of thic catt,le lahgue, iuch is necessary to its successfull treatmenit anti eradication. It appears from tihe recordsa of the Agricul tnrali)Depart,ment that attention was lirst, called to the existance of this disease in a dangerous or epidemic formu (luring 1869, and that dluring that ycar the danger t.o be apprehended from its spread from cont a glen was recogmized and mneabmnres adoeptced to meet the ctonmgency. Bly references to the rep)orts of the (Coinnmissioner of Agriculture it is foumnd that an appropria tion was recommended by the Con.imis sioner, andh adhopted by Congress. for theI expenditure of a sum that seemed adedluate for the occasion, and a commission, whose duly it was to report uipon its nature and extent, was appoitd to mnvestigate the, cause andl recomnmentd measures for its treatment. Dluring that and the suceced( lng years of l870 and 1871 t,he stun of $12.09b (60 wats expeid( in a careful zmanner in these investIgations with ro suits that are of great ir.iportance whien viewed in connection with the vast inter est involved m Its consideration. A recent estinate places thme losses occurring an nually from the ca*tle plague at from two to thiree milloiis of dollars at the p)resent tune, which, if estfiatedt at five per cent. imakes a total ot' from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000, which is itmperiled by the consequences, with a prospective inicrease of many ihens. E,mn,atect Tu'rkish WVe ue.x. One result of the British occupation of Cyprus, accordling to an American observer, has been to revolutionize the status of Turkish women in the island. The emancipated Turish woman, lie says, is niot only to be found in Cyprus, but she has been emancipated so rap)id Jy that, in his opinion, the hiaremi system will not. long survive in Egy pt or any other country whore a British garrison 1s stationed, In Cyprus, according to his account, the Moslem woman "has openly thrown off the y oke and claimed her indepenidence, and wibh a vengeance too. TurAish husbands, fathers, brothers and friends are frantic with despair at the turn affairs have taken, and should a Turk come here from any i other part of Island lie would not be- I hove his own eyes." The wvomen go about univeiled, walk arm-ini-arm with1 the infidel, give coffee parties to Eng lhen, attend cafes chantants, and ini some case h'ave oven taken to dIrinking, Thme Woman's Suffrage Society should lose no time i starting a branch in Cy- 1 prus, for mf drunkenness auf. the can can are the first fruits of female oman olpation in the island, thore is certainJ to be a severe reaction before long, in which the Turkish husband is likely to1 como to his own again unless due pro-4 cautioDs are taken by the liberators of the other sex iso inteed Upo lall 'rivilegoit. The other day a lank young man from the country, accomlianied by a good-ook. ing young woman, ariived in the ci,y and M'opped at our largest hotel. "I want you to do the best you ken for us," said the young man to the clerk. "'We've just. got mariie(l, and want. to splurge a little. Down ill my country I'm the bo.w. I ken lift afgi any uman in the community, and I ken qpll more rails inl aday thai any body sepenter knock-keed ihll, the ohl (Armen nigger what works on the Lime Stndets plaec. Tell us where our room is, please. But. I reckon we'll take the range of the big room whar all them big lookin' glasses il a shinia'.1, "LDo you mean the parlor ?" asked the clek, twisting one of his diamond shirt "Yes, the pcriir." "Certainly, sir. " The young mnan and his wife followed a grinning negro and ascended to the parlor. Shortly afterward the clerk, while passing the parlor door, saw lube throw his arms arottind his britle and kiss her. "11ere," said the ollicial, "none of that. If you stay i this roolil you'v got to be lihve yourselves." ''Ain't I got a right to kiss her ? ' asked the young ianl. 'Yes, bluit not here." "I've got a ri;ubt to kiss her here or any whar else. She's min, ain't you J tile ?" '"Yes, fiube." "Didi't the J ustice of the leace say that you iutst cling to me ?'' "Yes, Rube." "And you are gUi' to cling, aini't you ?' "Youknow I am It ibe." I hat settles it. 'ut her thar, " a1d ptckering up his mouth lie receivcd a lond resounding smack. "'he law of Arkan saw says 3ou can put her tiat, and put her thar agin, Jule. Xw lmister man-" Aut the clerk hat vanished, and itube, turning to his wife, sai:' "Arter a while you'll lird out that I i a hero and a bJoss. l'ut her tWar ogin, Jule," Ilow Appio. Aro Suad I tirgland. There are five auctioneers in the buhi aciis inl Liverpool, and all the apples re. 3eived aro sold by them. Tho tale is blohl in a largo amphitheatre, in the 'ontre of which is a largo table, on wiiich i barrel of itch mark is poured >it as a sample. Each auctioneer sells ror three.piuarters of au hour at a time, And the sales contine, if necossary, till 10 o'clock att night. Apples tre sold in lots of twenty barrels each. The un lerstanding is thatt the appies shall be :ourfectly tight in the barrel, whenl such .ring 23 shillings per barrel . "shakers" ,r tliome not tightly packed, will bring I shillings less. The noxt grade im "wet ud wiasted," which brings only haltf "ie prico of the bwst, The Baldwin is Aho only variety sold to any amount ; it is tho only one which can b obtained En Blicot quaty to Bell by tho shousand barrels. Retail lots and odtids tnd ends are not wanted. ides are lid three days in a week. The trado iates from about ten years ago. When L became apparent that New England .o1ld raiso apples enough for its own ,onsuipt ion, the New York growers egan to ship. .ll packiig, a basket of ugh-colored and Imedimiii-sizod si. anmus are placed in the Iottom1 of the jairrei its close its possible, with tho items till down, and the barrel is sloken is often as a basketl is pit in. It is illed half an inch above the chimes, ,he head is pressed in by means of a icrow, and([ the barrel is then turned >ver and mtrked on the fitce head, so hatt, whenl Opetied it ilovs tin Iveni Itil iniform surface. Apples thus laced vill Iltring from twenty-live to fifty cents nore itan thiose not facedl. T1ho is rery litt,le dlemand for sweet tipples. Spples tire somet imaes slhip)ped success uilly In warm weather, when later ship nenuts, m cooler wetather, will decay. A book aIccoiunt ctan be assigned so hat t he assignee cain sue thereon in his A master maiy recover the value of lie aprienItrce's service for the unex djieti tertm froini o.e wvho abhiicts him. 'The ownier of landls is responsible for laimages arising froni an tares unipro e'fted opetnmg into a putbl ic footway. TIearimg off the seals of a mortgage >r even its entire tdtstruction, by tin intuthoizetd prsonI will not cancel it. An tassignmient of' rent after it is dhue vill not convey any rIght of suit to the ssigniec, nor dhivest the lessor of his right. Untying and removing a horse from a tublic hitchinig post, whiein (lone b)y any )fe without atnthority amounts to Itrcspass. If a persBon intoxicated felh asleep mn his ,vagon andl hIs horse ran away, he would >C lhable to till dhamatges arising terefromi. 1t is a tdebatable pomlt of law, whether inking a horse attachedh to a carriage in Nhtich ia person is sitting is tin assault, on ,bo person. A female canniot be0 arrestedh in a civil mnt im this Stte for fraud, hut she may be attached for contempt for nion-payment if costs. A p)erson whose goods are unlawfully listrained for rent dio0s not forfeit or taive tiny legal right by not, claimIng tho foods when the aistress is made. Trho owner of a steatm boiler, which he ias in use on hIs 0oun property, Ip not re ponsible in the absence of negligence for he damaltge (lone by its burstIng. A bank Is not liable for loss by the bun ~lary of valuables dleposited In the vault, If the ba'ik, anid nto compensation iti heeoe when the effects of the bank r0 IC0I pin tao same valilt,. Traa is,roai'An Age. Dunring the oxcavations in tho .Piazza littorio Emanmuell, in Rorme, the work non hava foiud a nepulohro of Ihe >ronz'io ago. It is a hole (lug in the tufa ma( lined with rough stonos, tl'o wholo )ting six feet long anti three foot wide, so ashecs wvoro found, and the other 'nmins proved it to bolong to the ransition period between the stone age ndl t,he bronizo age. The whole space >etween the Via Merulana and the ailway station is oyered with similar traves lying deep under the ancient ~sq uilno. 0 onsidering the number of omamns discoveredt (uring the last welvo years, and those recorded by mla writers, it is prob)ablo that a town vas founded ont the site in the bronize age, NE NWS IN BRIEF, --Her husband and ba)y traveled with Madamo Albani. -Missouri is sending acorns to Europe to improve I he forests. --A negro who is alleged to be 138 cari old lives i: Warren county, Miss. -Tho ialaries of t'e oflicials of all the bouaina mines have beei reduced. --Nearly 46,000 immigrants came to tile Unifed States in the month of Oe tober -pFeng Ying Wang was the namo of the person who introduced printing-mn 1A, China. -The total cost of the new capitol of the Btato of New York to diato has belln $14., "222,993. The nuliber of suall pox pitivits under treatment at Baltimore is 163, in a I)Opultiol of 400,000. --Wm. PF. Cody, hetter known as lIufililo Bill,"1 is sIfflinitig fr.om penu llollia at Newburg, N. Y. -The Young Ment's Christi m Assoca tion of New Jersey gained 2226 new miemrs during tho iast year. --There are 69,000 colored Baptists in Tcmie-ssee, with 150 churches. --There have been 2,100 divorces deareced in Maino durmg livo yearii, aking at ratmi of one separahon ini teii malrriaiges. -Mr. Stephlen A. D-ng!as, soil of the "Little Giant., ham been an invalid iml Chicago soveral IlontimIs, but is now able to ride out. --Lieutenant Colonel AleDougall, of (Weliph, hatts beenft elected to command the Canadian artillery team at Shoebury Iss during the coming Beason01. - British architecti appear to concedu that plumbhiig and other sanitary ar rangements o Amerietan houses arc far better than those of the English. --Mrs. Johl Jacib Astor is sail to lie the only lady in New York, or anly other city, wl:)so cartily possessioes inelude i tdinmer servico of solid gold. --One of t.he passengers on the trial trip f .F'1ulton' stoariboat, Mr.. Sally Sniithi, died not long mincai at Edgar town, Mamssacllusetts, agod linety-two. .- Out of nearly 37,000,000 of people . in the Unik.ed StL-tes atbovo teln years of age, 5,000,000 nro reported unable to reaid, anld over 6,000,000 1unable to write. -A Marino and MeIbauical Exhibi tioi will be opened in London next July, and it will contain practical Ox ml)ies of gas, hydraulic and electric engiueering. --The Princess Louise hts sent to Ridean ull, Ottawa, a large number of Lduan and Chineso vuro.ities pur ubased by her during her tour through British Columbia. -'rofessor Robinson, whose alleged icresios ma.11do 111Ch conunotion in MiC 3cclesiastical circles of Scotland, has ecepted the professorship of Arabic in aibridge, jnglaniid. --The yield of wheat, for the year [879, 1881 and 1882 m t.h United States a given as follows : 1879, 450, .170, 503 musliels ; 1881, 380, 280, 000 busels [882, 502, 798, (it'll bushels. -A bounfire, which hascommunicated with a bed of coal beneath, is said to )e ftill burning oi a hill nealr Troy, New York, having I)eln lighted to cele )rate Gen1erILl (lirlield's election. --Nancy McCoib, at very aged col >red Wonnin, who died, at week or two ince, in Millcdgeydle, Georgia, was .he conk wvho pn Intreil General Lafa ,'otte's dinner when h'e visited that city. -LJouis 13hmo left :20,000 franmes to Larisian childreni whoi ha ve, beenl doser edl by the:ir pairenits, Theli deserving~ >f each year' are to receive savings bank )ooks with l1t) lrimes ret down to their ~redit, --Ini thle K hoy ra district, Inidia, whIich iomprises a considerable p)ortioni of theo umtoiIr bunds, lnore than11 litty p)eople ~imiber-cuttmug and collecting in the unilgle-woro killed by tigers during the anst official year. -Water for dlomeistic uses is so scarce in Augusta, Me., that many famiIilioni ire having iec in large blocks hauled t'rom thle river to t.heir doors iad melt inIg the ice for drininiig, wasing anld nm1umry purposes. -The Londoni Fire Brigade has but fifty steamn engines and 500 firemen. Thle estimaiite<d valuei of the property to be p)rotected in $6,000,000,000, and Londono,rs 11ay ani insurance premliiumli >f 120th partI of 1 per cent, - The I>rlgh 1, yellow tint of mnany [apaneso vases has never been suicess uily imlitated( by EulOanl artisanis. Its pop)ulaLrity in Japan is no doubt owinig to the fact that irom timo immnemorial milIroni tint hasl been considered lucky. --John (I. Whittier recently received rrom a Chicago lady 200 engraved yisi hmg cards ith a request to write his illustrious name on each of them, as lie writer was to givo a rocop)tionl to ier friends aind desired to presunt them w'ih somne memento of the onit. -A pice of Plymiouth Rloek, eight nchlos long, three inches wide and1( four hick, has been forwarded to the Rev. Lb.ory Allen, of Mission Chapel, Isling on, Leaden, to be 1,uilt into the front >f then chapel pulpit, b)y the Pilgrim ocety of gl1ymnouth, Massachusetts. -According to the Journal de F"ab r'icants do ~Sucre, tihe p)roduction of >oeteroot sugar in Europe this year umounits to 1,920,000 tons, an increase >f 137,500 tons over last year. Germany .s still Lhe greatest producer, hading he list with 075,000 tons ; Austrian [lungary ranks next with 450,000 tons ; h'rance third, with 410.000 tons; Polish LRussia fourth, 275,000 tons. -Krupp's works, at Essen, now eom. >loy seome 432 steam boilers :456 steain mngmes, with an aggregate horse power A 18,500; 81 steam hammers, .varying n1 weight from 200 pounds to 50 tons ; 11 rolling mills ; maehiites for making ~ools, 1,622; furnaces, 1,550. of wich [ourteen are high furnaces; 25 locomo- , ' bives, and five.propellers, with a tonnage :>f ab~outi 8,000,. Antiual productiov, 300,000 tons steel and 20,000 tone lron,