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TRI-WIEKLY EDITION- W.INNSBORO. g C..APRIL 14, 1883. ED 184 THE AU PUMN S'ENE. The Indian summer's velt of blue Lies on the inountains far away; And from the east, forever new, Dawn ushers in the dleany day. The air is st ill, the rivulet gleams in silver flalies througir the vale The ailent mint above the stream's .air path shines like a glist'nIng sail. I see -the squirrel skip and dart* Among the raiDbow-tinted leaves, Tle glossy ohestnurs fire his heart But, as for him, he never grieves. Where red and russet orchards staud, Bowing their burdens to the' plain, The .lover takes his loved one's hand And saunters through the orchard lane. Tito clouds are soft that fleck the sky, The dry leaves rustle Oast their feet; But their unolow'letd reverie, Aud bliss*ut dreams and visions sweet, Ottdo the splendor of the day, Surpass t lie glory of the dawn: The world itself must pass away Ere such delights are dead and gone I 1 inark their measured step-and slow The cottage gate, the parting kiss, And think no summers vainly go That end in Nuect triumphant bliss I MAY'S MISSION. Pretty May Winsone sat in her own little room in her mother's cottage, with pen, paper and ink spread before her, and though her eyes were intently gaz ing through the open window, she saw neit:ier the bright flowers nor the fleeey clouds sailing in the blue sky on the distant horrizon, nor heard the low buzz of the be6 flitting from rose to rose, nor the loud song ot the robin to his mate. The sun glinted her hair with flecks of gold, the summer breeze caressed her, but for once the girl was deaf and blind to all save one great purpose, one absorbing thought. A week before she had met Vernon Rushton. Picnics were a favorite summer amuse ment in the quiet little country town where was May Winstone's home, and it was at one of these fate had thrown her and Vernon Rusliton together. He was a stranger, spending i9 few weeks at the small hotel in the village, which occasionally attracted summer guests. At first something in his light blue eyes had repelled rather than attracted her ; but as .. they wandered together through one of the leafty paths, and he had told her how as soon as he had 4een her he had wished and asked to be presented to her, and confided to her now low people in. tho world possessed for him this subtle chord of sympathy. i he began to believe she had done him groso injustice, aind was quite convinced 7he ueVer betoro bad met so charming a man. Of course this sweeping assertion did not include Dick Travers, for she and Dick were euguged to be married. Indeed, Dici talked of the autumn as the proper time for the wedding to take place, though as yet she had not given her consent to such speed. She know now that it was impossible, for in this one short week she and Mr. Ruhhtonii had held many long, confiden Tial talks. He had told her that he wrote, and wau a poet-that everyone in life should have a miisiou, and that he wts quite sure she could make her name famous by her pen-that he saw the inspiration of poetry in her eyes. It his words were true, she had won derful difficulty in getting the said in tpiration any further than her eyes, for it was at this task she was occupied on this lovely July day. "May 1,' called her mother's voice. "Will you come down, <tear, and help me shell the peas ? - "it is washing-day, you know, and MIary hats niot time."' Shell the peast I Oh, what a fall from the clouds. And Mas, usually so bright and ready, slowly p)ut away her writing mnaterials, and, with a dr eided pout on the sweet, red lips, slowly descended the stairs. 11er task finmshed, a sudden shadow fell athwart the window, though which was thrust a handsome closercropped head, and two laughing, brown eyes survey ed the interior, while a cheery voice broke the silence "1 ha~vo come to take you for a drive, * May. "it is really too lovely a day.for in doors. "Oome, g.ot your hat, dear, and let us lbe olf." "Not to-day, Dick I" she answered indifierently. "it was very kind of you to come, but I've something - I particularly. wish to do this afternoon." "Not drive, May I Why, what is to be done ? "I will wait for you a little while if it is important." "Don't wait, "I can't go I" "i've hardly seen anything of you for a week, May, ".boat night that Uushton fellow de liberately outstayed me. "He'd have had harder work, but that lie made me mad and jealous, How can you tolerate him, May ? "There isn't an inch of real manhood about him, yet y'ou smiled onthim, and encouraged him to stay until I could stand i" no longer, and left him a free "We saw yopr temper, Dick. "You need not recur to it. "Mr. iRush4on said it was greatly to. be regretted you wer.e so rash. and not headed.''" "Mr. Bushton j "Confound thim I "What right has he to express an opinion of m, to you?i "If you le' ed me, you wouldni't! have listened to it.(' For all repl , the girl exasperatingly shrugged her -shoulders, and roso to put away the pas. ' Wheit she Ui*ied back,flie -f'aek at the window ha gone,. lls Fearful of gi ing er,another ils traton of .Ih much-to-be-regretted dispof'iion, he. hail sought refuge ini flight ; and she was once more free to seek the room ich, henceforth Vernozi Rushton had told her would appear in his eyes, though they never had beheld it, as the enshrined bower of a poetess. An hour passed, and only four lines was imprinted on the sheet but of those metre and rhythm were juite perfect, and her heart beat high with exultation. Then again her mother's voice re called her to this mundane sphere this time, however, to announce a visi tor-Mr. Rusht:n was below. Vtry, very pretty 'May looked, as, with flushed cheeks and bright eyes, she ran down to meet him. His light blue orbs dilated at the pic ture. "I have come to ask you to take a stroll with me," he said, in his weak, low voice. "Such days as this inspire one, and I am sure in every bush and tree you will find lurking some new and beauti ful thought." Ah, if Dick had but asked her to go out to seek inspiration, she might have responded with as much alacrity as now I So it happened that, returning from his lonely drive, a little repentant for his hastlnes3, and ready to blame his own jealous and impetuous temper for unjust suspicion,. he saw directly in front of him two figures, slowly stroll ing along. He was not long in recognizing them both, and a great, hot wave of indig nant anger surged up to his face. He was wonderfully tempted to leap out in front of them, and by a yigorous application of his whip, teach this miserable pretender a lesson he would not soon forget. But he resisted the temptation and drove on, deigning them, as he passed neitler word nor glance ; but May, catching a look of his face, felt a sud den fear. She had never seen Dick, dear old Dick, wear that look before, and Mr. Rushton, for the rest of their walk found her very silent, and it is to be feared that neither from tree, nor shrub, did May gather inspiration. And though Mrs. Winstone's delicious there were far more inviting that the repast spread at the hotel, he was not bidden to enter in and feast. Yet May had condemned herself thereby to a long, lonely evening. If Dick had come in, all might have been explained ; but Dick, white and miserable, was bending over his desk, writing a letter ; which though savoring nothing of poetry, cost him as infinite labor as all her inspirations. Many % sheet he begai. and never finished, before, at last, a few Curt lines, which almost hid the pain their birth had given him, were left to stay and reach their destination. Next morning May found them be - side her breakfast plate. These were air the words they con tained "I have been blind, May; but I see now. I know now why you could not drive with me yesterday, and 'why you let me go away the nght before. You'll forgive me that I didn't recognize the truth you have tried to toll me in every thing but speech, and so the sooner have given you back your freedom. If you'll keep the few things I have sent you, I should be very glad, for they are hateful enough in my sight, and the weather ie somewhat too warm to build a fire for a funeral pyre. 'ICK, This was all. But for the last phrase, born of the great bitterness of a young heart. May might have relented, and sent back a few lines which would have brought her lover to her feet; but these harden ed her. Within an hour she hadagathered to. gether every token of his love ; then slipping from her finger the pearl ring which had betoked their engagemnent, she put them with the rest, and' de spatohed them to him without a word. "Mr, Rushlton says every woman has a mission," she told herself, lest she should fancy her heart ached. "Nothing now need interfere with my work. "I shall writo a poem. "1 can make my owvh- experience its foundation, and so send it into the world to teach other women man's perfidy.' When Mr. Riisnton called that, even ing, she said "I have broken my engagement, Mr. Rusliton I" It was too dark for May to see the sudden flash of triumph in his light, steely eyes. It was strange, she thought, as the days wore on, but Vernon Rushton's attraction for her had fled, somehow he wearied her. She wished he would not come quite so of ten. S3he did not care to offend him, for he-was to give her the name of the edi tor to whom her precious poem, now rapidly approaching completion, was to be entrusted. At last-she had put to it the final correction, the last stop, signing hev initials with infinite precision and care. She had tasted some of the first fruits of future triumphs, when she had read it to him in its completed form, and he had listened with upturned eyes and batett breath. "Your mission soon will bie fulfilled," he s.aid to her ; "but, oh, what , might we not accomish together- wo 4uch poetic nmints I "I would not separate you from your mother, dear, if you would become my wife;, but here, in t,his pretty cottage we could be happy together. "May I hope, my love ? Will, you eget your ot Writh mine ?" -But Ma? had fled shuddering from his extenuted arms, and a few hours la ter there followed him to his hotel the hastily-scrawled note, which he read, cursing his fate, since the pretty nest he had so carefully Atriven for, he learn ed, all luxuriously 'feathered as it was, never might be his, . P'enniless. ahd love-lorn, he must again return to daily toil1for daily bread, too mubhn time having been squandlered in a vaini i,rsuit for food andl shelter, with iine noBesshrty accomp)anieint of a wife. There was now. .nothing left fbr May' but to find onsolation in her mission. With irembling hands, but hopeful heart, she despatched her poem to its destination. Days merged into weeks, and she heard nothing from it, until at last sek sent a tiny note asking for some news of it. The reply was brief. Her sacred wori had long since been consigned to the waste-paper basket, condemned as rubbish, and unreturned to her for want of return postage. The blow was terrible. She had not even kept a copy, and never could she gather up courage to make a second effort. With the heartless letter in her hand, she flew to the woods, where secure from interruption, she might fling her self face downwards upon the sward and sob out some of her he%rt's grief. Ho wrapped was ste in her own mis ery, that she heard no step approach ing, until some one called her name. It was Dick, her lover, who stood be side her. Alf, her lover now no longer I "May I" he said. "W$at is it, child ? "Will you not tell me ? 'Poor little girl I What is troubling you ?" The tender tone was more than she could b9ar. 0 How it happened she did not know, 3ut in a moment she found herself sob iug, not tears of wretchedness, but tears of joy ; for Dick's arms were about her and her head was on Dick's heart. She tried then to make him under stand some of her humiliating confes sion ; but he would not listen to it only, a few days later he came to her, with a roguih. snile on his face, and held up before her a little slip of paper. It was an advertisement, in doggerel verse, for some patent toot-powder. This is one of Mr. Rushton's poems," he told her. "Evidently not a very lucrative occu pation, since he has left the hotel a month in arrears for his board." But seeing the quick tears of mortifi cation start to May's eyes, he bent and kissed them away. But in long after years the girl learn ed that only her false mission in life had failed her, and her true mission the mission of a loving wife and tender mother-had met its richest and its fullest completion. Store vl ks III Mexico. Think of paving $5 a dozen for plaiu linen collars which in New Orleans would be considered high at $1, or of giving $6 for a pair uf shoes which t home dealer would bih to chtige $2 50 for, says a writer. The Americans in the City of Mexico look back to their own land as the paradise for people with thin purses, and sigh for the day when a commercial treaty between the United States and Mexico shall not only remove the duties on sugar and toacco, but bring down the comtorts of life to a reasonable rate. 8peaking of dry goods brings us back naturally to the stores, and these we cannot mention. without being painfully reminded of a subject to which it is difficult to refer without losing that equanimity essential to a Christian frame of mind, and this is-the clerks. When we reflect upon the amount of time and patience'expondci during our shopping expeditions and all charged to the account* of these aggravating specimens of humanity, to take an almost savage pleasure in saying that, according to our belief, no other city can compete with Mexico in regard to thai indolent, indill'erent, highly pro voking class, who are employed nomi nally to wait upon customiers Lntt who turn the tables by making customers wait upon them. The purchase of a dress in these stores implies the loss of nearly a whole dgty, and an amount of patience, wvhich, if properly exerted, would lead to canonization. Un enterimg a dry goods emporium you will find a large number of clerks, entirely out of proportion to the size of the establishment, most of whom are busily employed In doing nothing. After wvaitia.g for ,some time one will approach you witb the most nonchalant air, and ask you what you want in a tone of voice, however, which implhes that he makes the inquiry merely out of consideration for you, and not be cause lie has any interest in the answer, When your want is made known--and you must ne asisured in your own mind as to the width, quality and color of the good~s req\tired-no will depart, appar ently in quiest of your material; Ihow sad is your nmistake, however, if you expet a speedy return, for on the way he will stop to slay with somebody's baby, or to hold a long conversation with one of. his follow-clerks, or to take half-an hour's puff at his beloved cigar, and sometimes daring an unusually lengthy period of suspense we have been tempt ed to beheve that he indulged in a siesta. At last, when bodjy and spirit are both nearly exhausted, you will perhaps succeed in finding the stull' for your dress; but this, you soon discover, is only the beginning of your troubles; you ask for buttons, and are told to seek them in a fancy store on the next block; for needles, pans, hock and eyes -they are to bie found in a hardware establishment around the corner; k thread- it is Itopt at another shop several squares off; for black sewing silk-that can be bought only where machines arc sold; for ribbon--and are answered with a look of surprise at your ignorance that such a thing is never to be met with in a dry goods store. By the time you -have bunted up'these articles in their various appro priate p)laces, and have been subjected to the same delays and annoyances on every side, you will be. ready to agree with us in saying that Mexican stores anid clerks arc institutions peculiarly obnoxious to Americans. "Human Languagce,'' says Julien Vmzon. "appear to have grown like trees mn a wood, which In the Diet stages arc as numerous as possible blin are'soon rteduced tb et few individuals,o( whicl4 a.very amal number attamn theIr f'ull teim 9f life. Nu miorous as wors at first the local maniteata tiene of human beings, the prhmordi lan 8uages were as Inatuorable. How He Cooked TOaew. Several years ago a genuine speimer of the genius Yankee emigrated froi the central part of Maine where he had spent the whole of his life, to a well. known town on the Eastern 8horo. He had never.seen an oyster except in its canned condition. and was naturally anxions to know what kind of an ant. inal or vegetable it was. One bright fall morning soon after he had arrived at his new home he was -leaning con. templatively over the front gate when a cart full of the bivalves drew near. "Oysters! Oysters! Any good oystern this morning, sir?" "How much are they? 'as ed the Ney Englander stepping, out ,o exaninc them. "Forty cents a bushels."A "Waal 1 guess I'll take a peok, ]Jul look a here stranger, how do you cool them things!" "Different ways, sir. Some people fries 'em; some roasts em; but they mostly stews 'em-cooks 'em in water awhile, puts a little milk ii, and season 'em with popper and salt. They're first-class this way." "All right, I guess we'll try 'em stewed. The oysters were duly delivered and paid for. This was early in the morning.- Late in the afternoon, about eight hours after the above, the spindle legs of the Yankee were seen rapidly measuring their longest strides down the street. Fire was in his eyes and madness in his mien. He soon reptohed the crowd as sembled on the street corner, and at once singled out the man from whom he had purchased the oysters. The vials of his wrath were immediately uncorked. Shaking his fist in the man's face he roared forth: "You're a gol darned humbug, you're a cheat, a vile swindler, an-" "Wnat d'ye mean?" growled the oys ter-man. "The oysters you sold me. You said they were good, You told me how to cook them. You told me to stew 'em, didn't you?" "Waal, we put the blamed things on the stove this morning, and they ain't soft yet; though they've been boiling hot for eight hours-" "You lank-sided, bald-faced idiot, why didn't you take the sheols off? The oyster's inside. "The thunder it is! Then why didn't you tbll me?" But nothing more need be added. it is only necessary to say that the Yankee now always shucks his oysters before he cook's them. A stuiendaus wor&L 6'r mature. Ages ago an arm of the Gulf of Mexi co extended northward probably to where Cairo now stands. This water varied in wiath from ten to sixteen miles. Stretehing for 1.000 miles north ward, and from the Alleglianies to the Hocky Mountains, was, and still is, the land that drained its surplus waters into this arm of the sea. Nature sought to fill up this deep triangular trough, the aplex of which touched the present waters of the Ohio. The work was an extensive one. The granite flanks of the Rocky Mountains, the shales of the Alleghanies, the tertiary formation of the plains, were all plowed by rivers, and the material was pulverized by the action of strong waters, grouind in the batteries of nature, until they were an impalpable dust, capable of being held in susp)ension by flowing water. In the workshop of nature, on the plains and in the mountains, this process eniaseless ly continued. The melting snow and heavy rains, causing the rivers to riec, carried the pulp to Cairo. There the salt water of the Gulf was met; and the flow of the river checked, unable longer to hold the pulp in suspension, it was precipitated, forming a delta, Slowly this delta was pushed southward. Mountains were cut to the level of' the plains; the flanks of mighty ranges wvere deeply furrowed to supply the demand theriver made to fill tihe trough below (Jaiiro, and render it fit for 'the ha bitation of men. The north was de vastated to answer the call. For ages the waters of the north anid west poured into the trough. For ages the process of shoaling the salt waters slowly con.. tinued. After the land appeared above the surface of the river the annual over fibw added to its height. Mad.e mn Exception. A Beaten capitalist, who has just returned from a trip to the lumber re gions of Wisconsin, struck a country hotel one night during a blizzard. The landlord was doing his best to heat up and make everything comfortable, but after hris heels had been frost-bitten within six feet of the bar-room stoye, the Bostonian hinted that he would go to bed. "Stranger in those parts, aren't you?" whispered the host. "From Besting, ain't you?" "Well, i'll make an exception In your care' and give you your choice between a room where thre boys will likely sit up till 8 o'clock and play old sledge, or one next to where me and the old woman will begin jarnng and fighing about 10 and keep it up till square daylight, You look like a man of eulture, and I'll jriake it. ami comfortable as .? oan for you!" The Bostonian compronmised by tak ing a north room with seven panes of glass broken out of the window. Uarlyle's Home at Uralganputtoek. Fifty years have come and gone sin(c this lonely moorland farm-house wa tenanted by 'ihomas Carlylo and iii newly-wedded wife, Jane Welsh. Verj little changed is anything outward; quiet Oraigenputtock was then qiet, i is still. You hear the wind moaning among the trees, the leaves falling tI the ground, a distant murmur of water the bleat of some sheep on the uplands These are the sounds by night and b day; all else is silent. Very simpl were thi. "curious impertinent" once baffed, but now the door stands open and, though few Indeod venture near, i isi.tors'bpok lies on the lobby table where those who make a pilgriuge t4 the spot can register their names. Craiginputtook, meaning the woodei hill of the puttock, a kind of hawk, is I small estate on the borders of Dumfries shire and Galloway, some 1800 acres ic extent, mostly moorland, and lying 70C feet above sea-level. Its precise situa tion is on the valley, running from thE parish of Danscore in Glencairn to the river Urr-flowing from the adjaconi loch of the same name. Fully 17 milet from Dumfries, the nearest railwa3 station (save Auldgirth, which- may b( somewhat less) it will be seen to b suffioiently inaccessible. The nearesi village, Corsock, is between three and four miles away. The house itself ih not beautiful, not even what may b( called picturesque. Where it stands, .nevertheless, it looks far from amips, ar.d seems not out of keeping with it, barren surroundings. Still guarded 1>y fine old trees, and flanked by the orang( and purple moors and Galloway hills, there is about it a quiet dignity whiell does not jar with its associations. The front of the house, facing the north, commands no view whatever, and looks into a grassy bank, rising immediately towards a now spare plan. tation. To the back, where there mighl have been preserved a wide panorame of moorland and hills, all outlook i forbidden by the farm buildings. girdled again by trees. Indeed, so surrounded is the house, and so sheltered is the little hollow, that no sign of a habita. tion is visible from any distance, save from the moor above, where one may indeed see the roof and a window oi more. On entering we find ourselveE in a somewhat spacious lobby, hardly deserving the name of. halil. To the right is the former drawing-room, and entering from it is the old study, a very tiny room which looks into the yard. On the left of the lobby is an apartment used by the Carlyles as the dining-room, and behind it is a bed-room. The kitchen, a large, cheerful place, now the pleasantest room in the house, is built out at the back. Ascending a narrow stair from the hall, we find ourselves on a small landing, whence four doors open into four several bed-rooms, which com plete the modest accommodations of Craigenpi*. The Canmer Ahead. A new bank_ which had been estab lished in a town in Indiana had engaged the services of a watchman who came well recommended, but who did nol seem over-experienced. The Presideni therefore sent for him to post him up a bit, and began: "James, this is your first job of th kind, isn't it?" "Yes, sir." "Your first dutty must be to exercisc vigilance." "Yes, sir." "Be careful how strangeis approach you.1' "I will, sir." "No strangor mnud. be permitted te enter the bank at night under any p)re text whatever," "No, sir." "And our .cashier-lhe ir a good man, honest, reliable and thoroughly trust. worthy, but it will be your duty to keel an eye on him." "But *MiwilI he hard to watch two men and the bank at the same time, sir." "T wo :nen-how?" "Why, sir, it wvas only yesterday that the cashier called me in for a talk, and he said you were the squarest man in Indiana: but that it would b>e just as well to keep both eyes on you, and( let the directors know.if you hung around after hours!" oow Thlnogy. "Now, deacon, I've just one word to say. I can't bear our preaching! .L get no good There's so much in It I don't want that 1 grow lean on it. I lose my time) and pains." "Brother Bunnell, come here. ThterS's my cow 'Thankful'-sheo can teach you theology." "A cow teach theo'logy! What do you mean?" "Now see, I have just thrown her a forkful of hey. Just watch her. There now! She has found a stick-you know sticks will get into tJie hay-and see how she tosses it to one side and goes on to eat what is good. There again! She has found a burdqock, and she throws it to one side and goes on eating. Be fore miorning she will have, cleared the manger of all save a few' sticks and weeds, and she will give milk. There's milk in that hat4 and site ,knows how to get it out, albeit there may be now and then a stick or weed which she leaves." Pets of rIsoners. It Is somewhat surprising to what an extent men confined in a prison will succeed in domesticating different kinds of animals. This practice has never been more successfully developed than at the State Prison at Concord, where there are men who, in a number of in stances, derive great comfort from the companionship of dilLfreut species of animals an who while away many a lonely hour by training them, while in their cells, to perform different tricks. At the present time one of the most noted convicts in the institution has a pot mouse which he has caught and trained to whirl a small wheel ararnged on tpO same priniple as a guirral,cage Is. Anothek has two whart rats which he has tolled into his cell, fed and so ogmpletely domesticated that they will go through a tight-ropo performanod in his cell when they are bidden to do so. Others have traiiod rats and mice, which they carry to and from the work shaps, and become greatly attached to them. The trained pet canary of Jesse Pomeroy, the boy fiend, h%s just died. He was a very fine singer, and Jesse grieves very much on account of the bird's death, for, in solitary confine mont, he hae been much cheored by the singing. 1 He now expects his mother will bring or send him another soon. The steward in the hospital depart ment has several pot canaries, and one of them has been trained to a remark aba degree. A colored convict, formoly a well-known waitor in one of the lead ing Boton hotels, who occupies a strong cell, has succeeded in propa gazing pigeons in a peculiar manner. The window of his cell opns into the prison yard, and on this window he pjaced bread crums until ho trapped a pair of pigeons. He aiterwards caught three more in the same way, clipped their wings, and they have become so thoroughly domesticated that they have built a nest underneath his bed, nd at present have three young(doves which they have roared. OWo of the old pig cons is coal black, and this on the darkoy has named after his wife, an<I all the rest have names. IIa regularly feeds his flock from his own allowance. The other convicts felt very much disa pointed because the large number of doves formerly kept at the prison. wore killed and the thatohed dovocote ro moved. At one iimo a numbor of do mosticated skunkim were kept in the prison yard, and they were cared for by the convicts. There are now numerous cats in dilerent parts of the pni0ion and if a person wishe to got the ill, will of a convict he only needs to mo lest "his cat. Theso animals always dissappear from view when viisitors come to the prison, for they always know a strangor. E~xereuo. Take plenty of exercise, and you can use your broin as much as you pleaso. Lawyers and clergymen, who use their brains much, are the longest-lived men in the country, showing planly that regular brain work is good for the gon oral health as well as for the efficiency of tihe nervous system in particular. The muscular system must be treated in a similar manner 1f you do not wish it to become subject to fatty degenora tion. An unusett muscle s~brinlis andj becomes soft and flabby, presenting an appearance of marked contrast to the brawny arm of the blacksmith. In stances of the feebleness of tissues thus preserved t requently present themselves to the notic of tihe surgeon. A muscle is called upon to pQrform a vigorous contractioni. but it snaps) ill the effort. TLhc heart itself is sometimes torn asun der in attempting to send an extra sup. p y of blood to some needy limb. No man can afford to lower is general vitality for the sake o,f mere idle grati floation. H e never knows when ho may require all the energy which can be stored up in his tissues. A railway ac o:dent, a runaway hlorso, a run to catch a train, a fall on the ice, or even a fit of coughling, may bring a life of misery or an early dealth to) one wile would have passed unscathed throngh them all had ho allowed his nerves and muscles to wear away in vigorous activity, lpt,aking of locks, says a New York letter, one is led to notice tihe improve mont in these methods of protection. one of which is the "time lock." This is so constructed thlat an automatic action is obtailled. Thle interior of the look contains a spring and wheel like a watch movemenlt, and It is wound up in the same manner anti1 set so as to open at a regular time. There are sev eral patents of this kind of look, which I is so popular. that two thousand are in use. They cost $400 apico, but are cheap even at that, whlen one consiers< the vast amount of money thus pro tooed. Formerly cashiers have been 1 seized, bound and compelled by burglars to unlock tihe safe under fear of death< but these timo looks cannot be opened I untill the fixed moment arrnves. E~ach manufacturer has a number of expert workmen traveling for t,he purpuso of examning and cleaning locks, whicha should be done annually. TheO fee for thuis service is $10. One. o1 thoseoex amners informs me that ho has been thus employed three years and he re- a cemltly visited some of thec mosut impor- .i tant bapks of this city, He Is a watch- t maker by trade, and considerg these a locss merely large watohes. H-e also informs me that thlere are a dozen I other men li the same Itierancy, eitch 2 of whom averages 150 exanawstions ae year. The range of travel to whtonli they are subjected inchider~ the 9atire< area of the Union, with ulhost of its ter ritories, and hence this forms i& pecullar< featere in the traveling commtity. OpIum and Mf,rplita. "Is opium used in Philadelphia?" was asked of a druggist recently. I'Yes," was the reply, "and It is not coDfinQd to the Chinamen either. Do you know what opium is? Wel, it Is a juice obtained from the unrIpe. capsules of the poppy, extensively cultivated in Asiatio Turkey, E;ypt and India. Uhina has of late years (despite the heavy penalty for its use) cultivated,the-plant to a great ex tent, but its quality Is said to bo greatly inferior to the Indian and, is chiely used for the purpose of adulteration. This juice is evaporated ad finally ' makes its appearance here in the shape of fiat cakes, about five inchep.. square, covered with leaves. The miu(acturer, fully under stands his business, as 9tones, illets, buckshot, pieces of scrap iron frequently ate siugly imbedded in the centre of the opium cake and volhen you sonaider4hat it Is purctised hy w Ihtthat it Is worth $5 . and' often through monopohes $19, per pound,the scrap iron assumes considerable importance. , "it is from opium that laudanum and its principt1 alkaloid, morphia, ts Irepar cd. its uses are indicated by its naie to act as an opiate anI the general relief from pain from any causes whatsoevtir. Is is the favorite poison- for suicides, from the fact, perhaps, that it is the easiest ob. tainable. Where almost every respectable druggist would hesitate to sell prusee acid arsenic, strychnia,.or morphia t9 an adult nine out of ten will dispense laudanum with a free and easy way, even to children as though it were as 'harmless as Water. Alany begin its use, likely, beoaus- in sull doses it produces excitement apd ox hilaration and a general feoling of 'A owe the whole world.' The Iesire to'experience iiese resuls,flnaIly leads to a consumption frlrhtful to consider, although its chief at traction has vanisied, I doubt that when liquor ceases to be strong enough the toper resolts to laudanuni. It is only when that dread sleeplessness seizes on 'him, when visidnary reptiles fantastically wind and dance about him, that he sceka to banish them and find 'nature's restorer' in opimini. Paregoric and the many soithing and cough syrups have for their bases morphia anid opiiml. When the baby is fretfull has the colic, is teething, keeps the family awake it Is (osed with paregoric or s'oine other preparation. Thus the desire is instilled very young. I know of a boy and a, girl, [iged respectively twelve and six years, who began in this way untiliInally the boy received a tablespoon and the girl a teaspoonful oi laudanuni three tines daily -why? I don't know, but I do know, wtienever the boy visited the store ipstead of asking for licorsce, a pictuto card or other trifles used by energetic druggists to pander to the unsophisticated youthful mind, this boy invariably asked for a'dose of laudalun' (znd his doses were no small ones) as a bribe lor the retoution of his mother's custom. "On one occasion during rny temporary iLbsene fnom the prescription countor he selzed the opportunity to swallow two ounces, or four tablespoonfuls at a single Jiraught. He refused and laughed at all mietics. I anxiously awaited the result; but no alaring effects- followed. Tne isual doso for An adult is about 40 drops; ror a imy of twelve, 15-25 drops, con "aining one grain of opium, and fo ir grains Frequently preving fatal. A tablespoon -onia ns about 400 drops, so thit boy ac Lially drank 1,100 drops, or torty tinies the regular (lose for an adult,and suflloront to kill twenty.Ove boys unaccustomed to its use. His sister, 0 years ala, received 900 drops dtaly, and her, brother 1.200 laly, probably as negative fo:d, for no boy can eat and sleep at the same time. Aiull its effects are not always bo frightful ts is generally imagined. I know of at >1d woman aged 70 years who takes~ about bhree ci.nees-six tabiespo,atuls-daily, ,3 400 dropis). She has been indulging or the past 45 years and still pursues her rocation, which is scrubbing from morn ug till night, with no apparent diminution i s.rength, "The sulphate of morphia is the more ;enteel way of using is, principally on ac :ount of being less nauseous and more iasily administered, the hypodermic syr ngo being the favorite way, as on account >f dlirect contact with the circulation it iets more quickly. B3ociety girls, cravmgi ~oa rest, use iorpia, and whelionce mur phia or opitim comes home to rde~st it generally reinains and it. takes a ilrm, strong will to banish it. In experimenting began with one eighth ot a grain, the regular dose, and in six weeks took one gzaini (enough' to kill one unaccustomed) with impunity. I amn acquamitedi with a nan who consumes fteen grains of imor phiia daily. or ehough to k.i1 fiftieei .mcn. iqually disetribuIted and taked ast a single [108c.) One-eighth grain m,r phia equals bhree-quarter grain of opium; one grain quahs six grains; six grains of opiumn re resent .15') drops of laudanum, or 2,250 irops daily, or nearly sixty times the -egnlar adult dose. This simply demon ri.rates tn what angven h its pnann a ,,1nis. rated.. All question of exhilaration.now yenaes; the man under its use becomes a iere automaton: his brain is in a com pletely fuddled state, incapacitating himn from any busineass--andl, strange as It may rem, physicians and women are opium's principal votaries. htatistics do not show nany deaths from excess of opium- Un ike liquor, it destroys no organic miteri imd no leelons are found alter death. .It pbrates principally upon the brain and . iervous systemr, wlidoh accounts for the eeling of excitement it, produces in io lerate dloses. -Th$ro is probably not a iruggist in the city but thht has ia regu ar opium and mnorphlia customecrs--averag ng at least five eachi-.'and as there are ihout eight hundred druggists the number >f consumers can safely be quoted at. four houssa. 'Thle use, ont an average one ad a:half; ounces. per. day,.i at a. cost of bout twenty cbt.per -one. and la halt unc. representing an 'aggregate' of$800 day, or '$290,000 per! year-anidltis mount ia mostly expoiddy' those in aumble circumistancesj m~~ t ilfterbs our crealn o uro,il ith if giger', ~d WlI,!P:5~I ~atter, afiake an ZolhttekaV. ako, This is bestw a , te oodlohn ookso