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TRI-WEEiULY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. APRIL 19, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848
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Unianswered yetl the prayer your lips.have plea
ded
In agony of heart tI:ese.many years?
'Does faith begin to ftll, to hope departing,
And think you all in vain those f1l1ig tefrs I
Say not the Fither hath not heard your prayer,
You shall have y6ur desire, 6x:nOtiIen0owew4erq.
Unansweresd yet ? though when you first presented
This one petition at the Father'A thrqne,
It seemed you could not Wait the time o' askIng,
So urgent was your heart to make it known,
Though years. have passed since then, do not de
spair,
The Lord will a'nNfer you ronietfmo,' somewhere.
Unaiswered yet I nay, do not Pay ungranted,
Perhaps your part Is not yet wholly done.
The work began when first your prayer was ut
tered,
And Ood will nulai wiat he has begun,,
I I you will keep I he incuese burning there,
lils glory you will see, sometime, somewhere.
"Miss Tillie, Miss Tilliel"
"Yes."
"lHe's an old bachelor, SisaI Kit
Says."
"Mercy on us, Kizzy Jones. \VIo's
an old bachelor?"
Miss Tillie Bell, had been Inedi
tating deeply as to whether scarlet,
orange or green would be best to begin
with in working It motto, and evidently
not paid due heed to the opening re
marks of her hand-maid. .
.Kizzy gave hei broom a flourish, and
replied to the jnistress'gsfiestion.
"The fellet that's to'ok -the cottdge
back yonder on the hill. 1 don't reckon
-he is overly young.
".Ie's kinder grey, but not very, jest
a leetle grain, al' what do you think he's
been a-doin' all the mornin'?"
'Goodness mne, Kesiah, how 11should I
know?"
"Been a-plailtin' marigolds in his
front yard all the blessedi morning.'
Bought a whole lot bf packages of seed,
Susan said, every one marigolds."
"Dear me, what a funny man!" said
Miss Bell.
But as Kizzy hmig up the broom and
disappeared the large cardboard motto
slid on to the floor on one side of her
and the skeins of worsted silk on the
other, all in a tangle of viYid color, and
Miss Tillie forgot them, forgot the
prosent eetirely, and sat with her hlands
folded and her soft eyes looking out to
tle line of hills across the fields.
It was the word "narigoids" that
had sent her tholights wandering, so
often will one simple word waken a
whole train of recollections.
There was sadness mingled with
these freshly-stirred remembrances, a
Hadness that had come to hier through
her first and only romance.
She wIts young when that happened.
Even now she wa,s pretty aud plump
and Iiink.
Then sie was slender an( pale, and
Joe Gifford had seen the wide world in
l ir eyes and there had beien promises,
and an engagemnt-ring, and a little
brown cottage bought, back on the hill,
with a funny, straggly, red-bud tree in
a corner of a bit of front yard, and Til
lie, who had very little money of hier
own in those days' invested five cents in
a paper of marigol seed to heautify tile
yardl.
a."For," she said, "marigolds are such
* so much satisfaction in them-"'
But. just as they hlad conme upl and hue
gun to bloom In hunge brilliant masses
of golden-yellow and velv~et-soft, red
brown, thre Ie weeks before the. wedding
day, what waIs it-took aill tile light out
* of them-all t he suiggestive beanty and
sweetness ont of the brown cottage.
What but a hlorrible quarrel with Joe
-a quarrel ini which they had both act
edl with thle wisdlom and common sense
of a couple of belligerent children fight,
lng over something as imliortant as a rag
(loll, andl( breathling dleadly threats
against each other.
And Joe had wound, t all pip by re
p)airing to the brown. 'c'ottage in a, er
rible temper, amd pullig up every iiirl
gold by the roots throwing them spite
fully across the street, as necar Tillie's
home as possible, where they lay, a heaip
of bright color, fading and wilt ing in the
sun.
If a straight slijn little figure, in a
grey dress, trying to loo)c ah much lifke
a shadow as p)ossible,'had slippied ot/of
tile house8 in the faint light of a crescent
moon and gathered up one little velvet
red marlgoldl from thedenp moist with
dle)v, and if that marigold, all deadl and(
dry, wvas imn ,one of Miss Tillie's boxes
upstaIrs no0w, wvhy no one but Tullie had
any suspicioni of It.
}And Joe had sold the cottage amid
gone away.
"And hIe can istay, away (VilO the
world lasts, for all of me," Tullie had
said, remembering' how hue had called
h ier an obstinate little jade, thuough t'6 he
Isure she called him an ogre.
Tullie was a devout little woman, anud
was bent on walking in tile narroWest
ieavenward path she could ind) yetlher
besetting sin of temper woukl get li her
way somnetimes'anld trip her 1 p. '
"And as If," she had said, "there are
not huiher duties In life thuan thinkinlg
of an obstinate godse of a n\atn Wi1i1a
had temper,"
And yet how many, mnuy t'idira she
had shed over that little dead marigold
in the box.
Por- Tillie was not as unforgiving as
she had tried to be.
*And now a inan liad taken the brown
cottage on the hill-a bachelor, not
odverlyO yotfig, who had been planting
marigolds all the morning.
Well, Joe could not be overly young
now.
Suppose this nian should be Joe?
Kizzy's head was poked inside the
door.
"Miss Tillle," said she, "lie's a-goin'
to be married, the fellow with the mari
golds Is."
As the head disappeared, Miss Tillie
snapped the thread of her reverie, gave
her head im inpatl'ent little toss, and
picking up her motto and her wool, be
gan to work briskly:
"Well, well," shle half-sighed, "if
-people do their dluty, there is no doubt
that things will come out all right some
til~."
Ti zy caiine fly.ingn red and giggling,
with some 'i6 stfill ing solenly behhid
her.
"1ere he is, Miss Tillie, that's hlim."'
she said, clioking a titter, and pointing
to a0qijare-Miouldered man in the door
vay, whose' thick brown hair was
slightly tinged with g-ay.
It was Joe Gifford,- Aot; looking so
very different from what lie had in the
old (lays.
"Tillie," said he, without any preface
at all, "I've come back and bought the
cottage again, and planted the mari
golds.
"And now, don L you think we had
better. fulfil the conti-ct we broke so
long ago?"
"I thought," flittered Tillie, "Kizzy
said
"'Twasin't me, 'twas Susan 1fito said
it, wheni she fetched the milk tis eve
nin'- said her brother Jeff was in the
store and heered the men a axin.of him,"
pointing her elbow at'Joe, "if lie was a
goin to git married, and lie si---'You
better reckon I am."
"And so I am if she$llhave4he," an
swered Joe, coming fo,rward.
"Kizzy, you run and feed the chic
kens, or the cat, or something, my
dear."
And as she disappeared with an un
suppressed giggle, Joe went straight to
Tillie, and dropping down beside her
char, tangled her wools all up by catch
ing her hands as she was picking at a
knot.
"What impertinetce," said Tilfie.
"1)0 you suppose 1 have forgotten
what a scamp you were?
"Have you reformed?"
"I don't know,'' lie answered serious
ly.
"I have tried."
"And what does your motto say?
"' 'Charity suffereth long and is kind.
"I know that you are kind and sweet5
Tillie.
")earest Tillie, try Ime again.
"Ali, Joe," sighed Tillie, "we both
have need of heaven's help.
"If we go there for strength an( help,
we shall learn the lesson to be kind to
each other."
"And when shall we he married,
Tillie?" Joe asked.
"Oh, not till the ,marigolds bloom,"
Tillie answered.
"'That Duc,kln."
At a table in a Cornhili restaurant,
lBoston at dinne11r reenitly, sat a .man
from Cambridge, who was a native of
New I[amp5hire. Meeting a0n old ac
quanitimee thle conversat ion soon tuarned(
on family topics andl the pair began to
talk about their former neighbors in a
most familiar way. "Yes," remarked
tile CJambidge gentlenmn, "Siam was ini
many' respects dlifferenit.fromi the rest of
the bioys. You remembher who he mar
tied? Well, when thle old man, hjs
fatIher, folund that lie was shilnin' round
with hier, lie called him one day in the
barn and1( said: 'Sam d'ye, inltend to
isparry Iheckie? Sam never said a word,
so the ol moan saidl: 'Me boy, ye know
all about them. I cnn't tell ye nothiin'.
Ye know ho0w the sisteu:s hats turned out
and not one0 of' them is now livin' with
their hiusbamgls.' .pam in\'as pa mumu as a
plantomnme and1( julst aS'sooni as he was
'"They lived on a farm, and everything
wvent on simiooth for about a year, and it
camie to hion butchierin' ihue. Sam got
all ready to have the usual party for the
occasion, and1( just as he was shIarpeninl'
up1 the knives Rleckie camne out nd saidl:
'Sam, I'm goin' home.' Sam pirotested
in hilp quiet wa, but It was 110 use, so
lhe said hle'd get A man to row her across
the pond. It was'about half a mile over.
Shle said(: 'iNo ye won't: ye'll row me
over yerselfPl Sam told her lhe couldn't
and Beckle fired upl anidlsaid: 'Then 1I'11
dIrownl meself.' Sam said he'd go with
her if she wanted to do thit, so the boat
was got ready, she got In, and they
rowedh out till tewater was twenty feet
deep. Then Samn stopped amid salid:
'W~ell, heckle, thikl is a good place for
yo tp dIrownl yerselfl' Sheo di i't opOin
saidl: -'Conie Bechib, I'm hw a hurry tp
git back.' Shme never' looked up. Sami
pitt down the. oars, cauglht hold of- her
and( pitched' lier in. She grabbed for
the boat, but -lie wolIul't let her git
near It. 'Who) she was almostdone out
she said: 'Sahj, let mec in that boatand
ye'll not hear Anything more from me
out o' the wy'=
'""Mo-1 hspumlled -hlep,11,inmtl they went
:hme. -She dhmanged her clothes
anid entertaIned thld .gitees-s. They're
nov necarly eighty anid you 1mever saw a
hatppler 0old couple4-did ". ui? I don't
think they ever al1bke Qsat duckin'
nciexer flcday ~ ~'to. dmW
MOvid htudd Metmrioes
oOvhen-exio e, but coieOs had
beeni taken ,nds.
I -etrar o~~awere' flrA't foun
ded in Englan in thlih of putting
an And to the rVnaenof t i mmr.ain
Mexican Pecularitiev.
A mong all classes In Mexico there is
too much of the kile '"rest and be thank
fil" spirit. Nature has been bountiful;
the necesaries of life are easily secured;
the need of exertion Is mininized;a few
beans or a handiful of corn, a little fat,
and somie cillies will form the uNvary
Ing diet for weeks. But all are Inveter
ate galiblers. Althouigh sometimes too
lazy or inlprovidelit to provide even
comfortable food, they will sit forhouri;
over cards or dice, and ll their infatua
tionl. pawn anything on which they can
raiso money. In selling their chillies,
their eggs, poultry or other prodlce,
they seldomt have any ixed price; their
(eIMd0l ae m1ainly graduated by ti
apparent Capacity or genlerosity of the
purchaser. coi nracting to supply mi1k,
for example, to the railroad construction
gangs, after arranging for a a very amplo
remuneration, and going on for one,
perhaps twoN weeks, they will collain
their cows are doing badly, get a few
extra-1 cenitt per gallon, and perhaps a
week later make a similar stand for a
further advance. *'The imerchaitile
classes inl tle towns, although they sel
dom1 have much capital, are tolerably
straightforward, endeavor to meet thei r
engagements, aud have a wholesome
horror of a protested bill. Every village
celebrates, at. least once a year,"its flesta,
where dancing, an extra amount of
gambling, cock fighting, and sometimes
bull-baiting are the entertainments, and
where Uhe liberal conIsum)tion of cheap
intoxicants brings business into the
Court of the Elealdi or Justice of tle
Peace. The Mexicans are generally
more pusillanimous and superstitious
than the Indians. Secret societies, iuider
priestly control, exercise a good deal of
authority. Both in Old und New Mexico
tlt- Penitates coufK their iumbers by
thousands, anlid enjoin anong their vo
taries fasting and humiliation, from
vlich, however, exemption is freely ac
corded oil payinent of certain doles. On
OCCasionS, Self-ilag0llationl and 'stripes4
inflicted hy brother devotees are proceed
ed with until the infatuated victims are
covered with blood. For several h1m1
dred yards along a path thickly strewi;
with prickly eactus, others go on hands
and knees to prostrate themselves before
the Cross. Bearing a cross weighing
several hundreds pounds, with arm out
stretched and 'secired, others toil for
miles, usually to soine sacred chIapel or
amost inaccessible monttain top. When
the poor ent husiast, faint ing under his
burden, is about to drop, attendanis
place their shoulders under the arms of
the cross, and afford temporary support.
These senseless performances shatter
yearly the health of many weakly devo
tees, and kill some. The United States
Govermnent recently endeavored to put
down these Juggernaut superstitious in
New Mexco by introducing a bill pre
venting cruelty to men or the lower ini
mals, but, jealous of riiterference with
their power and profits, tihe priesthood
stenuously opposed it, and it was with
drawn. The habits and education of
the masses n ill obviously have to under
go much change before the country can
make imaterial progress.
Ole tilt.
The' lirst istructor Ill inusic of Ole
Bull was a Dane mnamed Paulsen, a man
thoroughly qualified inl IllIs profession,
but given to drink. At one of the week
ly quartettes Paulsen imbibed so freely
that lie was unable to play. In this tun
fortunate dilemma Ole was half-joking
ly told to take his place, and the violin
was placed in.his hand, with the promise
of a stick of candy after the perform
alnce. Ole accepted the command in
earnest. A qua rtette of Pleyel which
he had heard several times was chosen,
anmd his memory servedi him faithfully.
To (lie astonishmnent of all he played
each mtovemnent 'or'rectly. lie not only
executed thme d ificulIt passages, but
marked the rests. It was a wonderful
triumphl for the 8-year old1 boy. lie
wvas made at onice an active member of
the club. Soon after lhe became thme
owner of a little red violin, le slept
in (lie same r'oom with his par'ents, and
(lie night of its purchase lie could not
sleep for thinking of it. After all was
quiet in (lie house lie crept out of bed
and into the ntext room where the in
strumuent had been (deposited. But let
him tell his own story:
"W~hen I heard father and mother'
breathing (deel), I rose softly and lighted
a candle, and in my ntight clothes di
go onl tilt-toe to open1 the case and( take
one little peep. The violin was so red,
and( the pretty pearl screws did smile at
mne 5o! I p)inchled (lie string au little
wvith mty ihigers. It smalled at tme ever
more anid more. I took ump (lie bow and
looked at It. It said( to mec it wo'uld
be pleasant to try it, across the strings.
So 1 did( tr'y it., just a very, very little.
and It did sing to me'sweetlyl Then i
did( ereept farther awvay fromt (lie bed
room. At first I did( play13 very soft. .
madeo very~ very little noise. But prie
sently I (d1( begIn a captriccio which .1
like very nmuch, andt it (10 go ever louder
and1( louder; anid I forgot that it was
midnight and that everyb)ody wvas asleep.
Presently I h~ear somelhinig go crack I
and1( the next nimiute I feel miy father's
whip across may shoulders. My little
redi violin dropped on the floor tad was
brokeni. I. weep much for' it but it did(
ito goodl. They did have a (Ioctoir to it
next (lay, b)ut it miever' recoveredl its
htealth."'
Ini 1831, wh'len he wias '21 years old, hte
went .to Paris to. pursue ~his musIcal
stu(lles, hut his miontey soo1n gave out,
and lie had no means of replen IsIhing his
puruse. Hie wvas unknown ais a mtusician,
lie coul not even teach, and he was at
last reduced to the very ver'ge of star'
vation. The tide tumrnedl at last, how
ever, andtt by a series of curious accidents
he. was enabled, t.o gain. m hearing before
soine rich inid powerfu l cofmnoisseuurs in
music. After a successful concert tour
through Italy lie dlevotedi himnself to
study with an intensity whmich wrecked
lisa health. Visitintg ]lologna hue won in
.thp most exfhaoi4dhtry way (lie, great
celebrity which folloWed htimi ever after
ward. It seems that at (lie time of lisa
stauy in BiolognLu, Mfulibratt and DeBeriot
were both there, and were ad vertised to
appea'r. The two had a violdat quarrel,
however, ,nd refused to go tupon the
"Ole1 Bhull had now been a fortnight
in Bologna. lHe occuipki an upper
:oon in a poor hitel, a Sort of soldiers'
Jarracks, where he had been obliged to
:ake temporary refuge, because of the
ieglect of a friend to send himi a money
mler. Secluded from society, he pKint
te day3s in writing on his bicerto; and
wien evening came, and the wonderful
ones of his violinl 80oun(ded from the
)1)01e windows, the people would as
emble in the street below to listen.
,ie evening the celebrated Colbran
Rossini's first wife, and a native of 11o
logna) was passing Casa oldati and
eard those strains. She paused. The
;ounlds seelmieil to come from an instri
ment she had never hea,ro. before. 'It
uist be a violin,' she said, 'but a divline
me, which will be a substitute for Do
Beriot and Malibran. I toust go, anid
Lell Zampieri'
"On the nighit of the qVixcert, .Ole
Bull, haiving retired very ently on ac
,ount of weariness, had already been inl
1)ed two hours, wheni he was roused by
I rap oil the door and the ex6laimation,
Cspetto di 31acco! What stairs!' It
waw Za-inieri' tle 16st 61imnent musi
iai of th'o Italian nobility. lIe iisks
D1e Bull to improvise for him, and then
Mries, 'Malibnm mity now have her head
tehesi' He m1it off to the theatre at
miee with the young artist. There is
ito time even for chmge of dress, and
tie violinist is hurried before a disap
ploiited but. most distinguished audience.
]'he grand duke of Tuscany was there,
mId DeBeriot with his hand in a sling.
It. seemed to Ole Iull that he had been
Iransported by magic, and at lirst that
ie could not meet the cold, critical ex
lction.s of the people before him; for
ie knew his appearance was against
him, and his weariness had almost n
ierved him. Ie chose his own compo
3itioi, anl the very desperation of the
inoment, which compelled him to shut
his eyes and forget his surroundings,
ade him play with an abandon, ai
-cstacy of feeling, which charmed and
'apt ivated his audience. As time curtainl
"ell, and lie almost swooned from ex
iution, the house shook with reiter
ited applause.
"When, after taking food anl wine,
he appeared With renewed strength and
-ourage, lie asked three ladies, whose
coll, critical manuer had chilled hin on
his first entranme, for theies to impro
vise upon. The wife of Prince Ponia
lowsky gave him one -from 'Norma,'
mid the ladies at her side, one each from
lie 'Siege of Corinth' and '1oineo and
Juliet.' ils improvisation, in which it
occurred to him to unite all these me
loies, renewed the excitement. The
inal ipiece was to be a violin solo. The
director was doubtful of Ole Bull's
strength, but he stepped forth firmly,
saying, 'I will playI oh, you must let mue
play and again the samie unrestrained
enthusiasm followed. When lie finished
there was a rain of flowes, and he was
congratulated 'by ZaiAerl,' DeBeriot.
nd the piicipaI musicians present, lie
was at once engaged for the following
concert, and the -assistaice of time socie
ty was offered for a concert, of his own.
One gentleman asked for sixty tickets,
another for one hundred, and Emnile
Loup, the owner of a large theat re in
Bologna, OTereld -him his house and or
Chestra free of expenlse. The wheel of
fortine was turning inl his favor; the
Norns were now weaving bright threads
in the webl of his life. ie played at
1)oth concerts, was accompanied to his
hotel by a torchlight processioi, made
honorary member of the Philharmonic
society, and his carriage d rawn home by
the populace. This was Ole 1hull's real
[lebuit."
A Uo01 .uleC 41.,.
Captain John Iartley, late of the
Twenty-second Uiited States Infantry,
walked into the shooting gallery ati No.
iM6tth a venue, N Y. recen t ly. iIe appear
ed entirely coiol andl self-pos.sessed, lie.
talked with thme two yoiiitg meni whlo
had charge of tihe place about pistols
luul gus, and they noticed that his lanm
uiaige was that of an educated mani.
''People should be1 very carful,"' lhe
said, "ambout uisinig irearms11, e'speciallyv
whleun they have hiair triggers.
''Yes, that's so,"' repliied the at tend
[mts.
Then the party had a siuiet drink,
tid the stranger retutrned to the gal
hery) mid began again to talk about
"What. distaince is your' pistol range?"'
lie asked.
"Oh, about sixty' feet tfromn the coun
ter to the target-I wenty pa4'es,"' was
ithe reply'.
"'I pre'tfer fifteen paIcs for, -pistol prae
L,ice,'" said the stran ier, 'OCan 1 lire a
shot'' or two at' thit'di tandep?"
"Certainly.''
Ilartley got over the rajil and careful#
ly imeasured fifte,en paces from the tar'
get. Then lie took one of the p)istols,
which had been loaded for him with a
twenty-tIwo caliibre cartidoge. Iloolding
it in his hand lie tuirnedi and said:
"A friend of mine was so careless
on1ce as to shtoot himself in the foot just
is he was about to iraise the Ipistol, 1t.
Is really v'ery dlangerous to po)int the
p)istol towanl the floor unless one is very
carefuil." IIartley was still cool and
rollectedi when he saidl:
"Is the target all readyv'
''Yes; fire away."
"Well, here goes.''
Selberately raisiing his right hiand.
lIme star'tledl aittendanmts, whio were
awaiting time discharge, saw hmim press
the muzzle against' his right temple.
Ifn pulled the trigger, a mnuiled sound
followed, andl lartley fell to time floor
ileadl. After the usual excitenment at
tending suchi scees in a public place,
tihe body was takeni to thme police stationt
and thence to the Morgue. It. the poc0k
ots w~as found a card, on which was
written "'John lhartley,"' and a pawnm
ticket for' a watch, haindlkercief, and
gloves.
hlis suicide wals mily3 dlue to po)vetyt.
No money was formd on him after his
death, and in is 118ocket was a, pawn
ticket' for nine dollars, borrowed on a
silver watch. It is also thought that his
despondency was Alugmentedl by family
troules. ie was ma uried and was 44
years of age.
--Gustave Done has undertaken to
model the bronze statue of Alexandre
Dumas, which is to stand in thme Place
Maleshierbes. It will b~e thme 'great ar
tist's firljt attempt pt statuiary and( only
s singeaOanY of tnt work wi be east
ffank Monck.
The famous stage driver is dead. .le
lins been on the down grade a long Itime.
Recently his foot lost its final hold on
the brake and his coach could not be
itopped until, battered and broken on a
iharp turn, it went over Into that canon,
bilaek and deep, which we call. death.
in his way Hank Monk was a character.
[n the old days, before the leathers
under hIs - Coach were so soaked with
flcolol, there was no better balanced
liead than his. There was an air about
him which his closest friends couhl not
1ulerstand. There was something
which seemed to say that stage driving
was not his intended work; that, if he
pleased there were other things, even
more (iicult than handling six wild
hr 6 hieh he could d6 quite as well.
Generally, lie was reserved of speech,
sen1tenitious in his ways, but Often,
while battling with a high-struing teaii,
would pronounce an epigraim vorthy of
Ingersoll-or E'imerson. After his little
episole with (11reley, distiiguished
men passing over the Sierras, where
Monk drove, would plan to ride outside
with him. MaIny a one has ridden
twenty miles, trying in vain to call him
mit, and at last has settled back witlj
lie belief that he was but a stolid idiot,
when half a dozen words from Monk
ipoken with his pocilliar drawl showe(i
that when he (rove Greeley's coach
uver the mountains there was, perhaps,
it hig a mian outside as there .was inside
lie vehiele. As lie was iot like alNy
Ather man, so lie was not like any other
stage driver. In his prime he would
turn a six-horse conch in the street with
the team at a flill run, and wit h every
rein apparently loose. But the ecnaeli
wouhl always bring up in exactly the
spot that the minst careful driver would
have tried to bring it. Ji js eye never
jioceived him, and his estimation of
clistances was alhsolite; the result which
must he when leaders, swiigs and
wheelers all were playhing thelr rotes,
was with himii anl exact science. I is
ilriving was such a perfection of art
that it did not seem art at all, anid
manly anl envious whip, watohling him,
has turneId away saying, "lie is the lick
iest man that ever climbed on top of a
box."1 It was not lick at all, it was
simiply aln iittlifive, exact calculation
froi causes i effect, and his whole
1lh1ty 6ended when he lixed the cause.
The effeet had , to be. lie has oftei
dlriven from the sunmit of the Sierras
dlOwI into the valley, ten Miles, in forty
fIVe minutes. Other drivers have done
as well, the only difference, being that
with others it was a strain upon eye,
and hand, and arm, and foot; with
Monk it was a matter of course. He
Wast to stage driviig what the German
papeili :,ay Edwinl Booth was inl Haml>llt:
"It W1as not played, bit .lived." Or
course we' -speak' of him as he Was of
old, when the railroad was yet beyond
the Sierras, and when stagihg over the
Sierras was something finler than staging
ever wias before, or ever will be again.
Of late years Monk has been but a
gliost of himself. His physical .t rength
has beei so wvasted that no wild horses
have been given him; the grades up the
Imluitains have not been sprinkled; the
locomotive took away the glory of stag
ing. anl had whisky sapped the liner
sprmings of the ohl driver's life. A year
ago. for the llrst time, a coach capsized
ituder him, apid while the aceideit
seeMiied trival in itself, it was a notive
to hitli that. his hand had lost its emll
niing,.thp.t his lamps were going ouit,
that a dark canon was before him, 1111
there was no mioion to rise. When this
winter closed down he went into his
little teln of a house and knew that Ie
was going lE imre dlown in a few weeks.
When frienils tied to have hin !onis#t
to he'reniovedl to tihe hospital, where' lie
(couE ldihvE' mo re conmforts, lie refuisedl
andio wilteEd wVhierE hie was, uiit il Wt(Ed
niesEhay last, when lie dirove intoi the
homlie stat ion. iIe dicEd simly a dissip-.
alt(ed iiol stage Elriver; but if ini thle hlng
ago, when life was bright ando hopE)l wais
exumltanit, his heart (lid niot receive a
woundE which chtangedl his who(le life,
anid all its purposes, thani a man's face,
andl acts, and1( molods, and mnodels oif
thought are no iniEnit inn of whait lie has
dlEIEIE alul( stiler'ed.
''Te "knot" and( thme "mile"'are terms
oiftein usedl iinterchmangeably, but errEon
ously so. T1hie fact. is that a mile is less
than eigh ty-seven per cent., of a knuot.
Three and one-half miles are equial,
within a very smnall fraction to three
knots. Th'le knot is 6,082.60 feet ini
length. 'Thle statute mile Is 5,280 feet.
Theli result (if the differenice is that thme
speced in miles per hour is always coni
sideratbly larger thani when stated in
knots, and if at person forgets this ando
states a spled att so mnany knots, whenm it
is really so many miles, lhe may be giviug
figures verging on the Incredible. When
we hear parties say that such a vessel is
caplable of umakinig twenty knots per
hour, we usually take then statement
with a very large graini of salt, for
twenty kniots Is 23.01 midles per hour, ai
speed which v'ery few vessels have mnade
and it douibtedl by somle who have the
best oppIortumit,y for making actual
mneasumrements whether aniy vessel hits
miadle twenity-flye miles ini sixty minuites.
It hats been said that seine of tihe Eng
lissi torpedo boats have made as high
as twenty-four or twenty-five 1knots.
Twen ty-fou r knots are over twenty
seveni andi a half miles pet hour, andi(
twenty-five knots are uipward of tweye
eight amid three-quarter miles pet'ih~
dlisttances that are incredible.
Lesat An InaCh.
The following curioums puzzle Ix said
to beat. t he celebraited "'13-15-14," a,ind
15 we'll worth havestgation. 'Take a
stmrip of papeir or eardbhoard 13lh,m es
long and 5 wide, thius giving a trface
of 65 inches. Now cut this strip d(ia
gonally, as triue as you can, givig two
pileces in thme shape of a triangle.llc
meistire exactly 5 inchies from th )arger
end of each strip and cut in two iecces.
T1ake those slips and putt them iht the
shape of ant exact square,, and it will
appear to be Just 8 inichies eachi way, or
64 square inicheg, a loss of 1 square inch
Qf superficial measurement, :with'n
dImimition of surface, The qum'estion itt
what livanmn of that. innh.:
A Crowning Danger.
Much hals beent writtenl and said conl
cerning the benefits and dangers that
attend the use of the electric light. No
tice has beei taken of the annoyance
and danger to life froni the placing of
the electric light wires on poles and
buildings in proximity to other wires,
noticeably those of telephonle compat
nies, contact with which may result dis
astrolily to persons using 'phones on
the circuit thus affected. It has becoie
an almost unwritten law that to avoid
such contengencies as far as po'sible all
wires uIse for electric light circuits
shall be placed below all other wires on
the samle poles, with a view to avoiding
possible danger in case of breakage of
those conveying the current from the
dylamuo.goeator., Although atteitioI
has been called in emphalic nmnner T
the obstacle which wires in general,
whether on poles or buildings, itare to
firemen in raising ladders and -inl the
performance of thieir llany dillielt til
ties in extinguishing fires, hut little
lmkelitiol has beel nIilde of Ile extia
danger to which they aie liable when
workhig lin the vicinity of wires carry
Ing the h powr(.Iful lcrrent.s needed for
the elect ric light. The rapidly incireau;ing
deiatid for the light is so well known
that the mlost su1perdleill exaiinationl
cannot fail to convince that danger to
tle tiv Ihilivs from i his source is conl
stantly growilig.
Conversationl with Iocal firi ollicials
shows that they are keenly alive t he
situation and anxious that the possibility
of serious results lie speedily reduced to
the millinIunIII. Very fortuiate it is
that since the introdulictioin of the Ove
tric light ii Buffalo serious fires have
been few, and in no ease has the prox
imlity of tihe wires caused aeideit to
the lire-fighiters. As inistaicing the
vigor with which these wires make their
presence known, it is related that at
the ('ommervic l fire whm the new I layes
truck was oi Washington Street, the
extension ladder was at one time resting
across the btundles of wires strung on
poles through that thoroughfare. A
mentber of the company was leaning oi
the craik used to turn the elevating
screw. Suddenly lie Jumped as if shot
ald began rubbing his hands, which had
been behind his back resting on the
eiaik. Asked what was the matter,
the astonished Iire laddie Ielied ltat
the thing was hot. Exainiation so far
proved the t ruth of the assertion that no
one cared to) bother the crank. In raising
the extension ladder there is used a
stout clain p-assing over lpulleys at the
top and bottom of the main ladder. This
'hinti0, it appeared, was pressing against
ai electric light wire, and though the
latter was insulated, enough of the
powerful current escaped to nake the
electricity felt. Though the iron ibouit
lie ladders and truck together with
tle irion tires, seemingly imiade it comk
pleto "ground," there wias till plentv
of lightning left. While this incident
serves to convey some idea of the im
portance of these wires its a flictor in
fire fighting, there yet reilninis to be
considered tle danlger on the inlside of a
building Which is lighted by eltricity,
as is the case in Inly buildings occupied
for business purposes on Main Street
and elsewhere, and in large'illualifae
tories wlere the light Is now inl constant
Is'. Inall 1 of these IcS at all tiimes
during the night the powerful vurren1t.
passes int1o the builiing until it reaches
the iml moist remote irom its point of
('entralce and then passes oti. Whether
the lights are in use, does not affect the
(Ilestionl. While the generatol is in mllo
tion the cirellit is complete within the
building, for if the lamps are not inl the
use they are "switchied out " by a sitinple
lover overhead, andt the currett, thIouigh
it dIoes not paiss thlrouigh thIe eiu-boti aire,
maikinug its presenice knownt by the light
thus fornied, iti silentlyv circiin
juist ats piowertful as if een. Suispeinded
to I he ceiliig, ats t hese ilhins utsuailly
aire, it is easy tol see thant evein 21.51ight
Iirei in store ri faict ory mayi udetach hothI
keep t hem out ot harm wa ~ y. A break -
age of this sort. and the rouuin nmiy hbe
Comle a matiinottth ~uvLede jart, miore es
li4cilly if thle place is well hloodled , for
water is one iof the 1best coniduictor's.
T1hue end(s of ani elect lie light wire on a
floor covered withI t wo our three inches
of watet- is not0 a state of things in whtich
thie fire ladd ies 11hul much colinfort . Yet
thet hiremen aire by lio meaniis eemiies of
the electric Ilighit,2and ontly ausk thait rea
sonaibtle precation htlSle taken for I heir
prottect ionl fromi thiis sour ce of danger
while. at work.
each cuistoinel(r's pir(ises5(, by which such
lalce cantl be "uit out"' of thie circuit
and the current, kopt out of the building
when the lampis are not ini use, is sug
gested hy local lremuen as probaibly the
most practicable r,afeguard that can be
putt i oplerat ion wvihout expeinse or de
lay. In factories or tother places where
the light Is uised all such "'eut outs'' cani
be operaltedl by the firenmen onl their
arrival at tile premises, while conistiners
using [hue light a shlorter thnte clan operate
tile switch with but little mnore trouble
than in simply switchig out the lamps,
as8 Is now the custom. T1hie subject in
creases it lhnportance ats thle use of the
light extend(s, iand it will probabhly ie
eive local attention erc lon1g.
Sat-..natera.
The suiperstitin of [lie sinu-eater in
WVales is sai to linger oven now ini the
seclulded vale ol' (wm--Amnan, int Cir..
irthenishire. T1hae mteaninig of this
ast Isinguilar institution of superstition
a 1uthiat when a person died the friends
Mnlt for thie sin-eater of thte dhistriet,
whto, on is arrival, placed aI plate( of
salt and breadl Oin [lie breast of the die
ceased person; hie thenu uttered an incan
tat ioi~ over [lie ibread, after whlichl d:ie
'procelkded to) eat it-tereby eating the
shiis of tile dleadt person; thuis (101e, hie
lteceivedl ai fe of two-and-sixpenice,
whtich, we su11pos, was5 muich more [than1
many a preacher received for a lonIg and11
painful ser'vicp. Having receiyed1 this
'he: vanished as quickly as possible, all
[lie friends and relatives of [hue depairte'd
aidig his exit with blows and kicks andi
other indications of thteir faith in the
service lie had rendered. A hundred
years since, andh through the ages bbs
yond that time, we suppose tis curious
superstitln' was evetywhero prevalent.
NEWS IN BRTEF
--The independence aid rosperity of
No% gorod were (lest royed by Tvanu Vasi
livitch I.
-- 1e 11ice of Wales has acecepted
the (1aIrmans1118hip of tihe Longfellow
Memorial Committee.
---A resident of Woodbury,- Tenn.,
but thirty years of age, hasjust married
Alr the fourti time.
- The pt-trifaction called agate was
lmted from the river Achates, lin Sivily,
where it was i'll-.t found.
-- Rich gold iles have beenll discover
ell in Guattimala, Central Amria,
cliuAhig mucht excitement.
-Tle Paris Academy of Medi;ine
ofers a prize of S5,Q00-for th n
of a remedy for diphtherila.
--Valuable coal (IsCOveries contime
to b me t hel 4111 d eaotl'clst of Vancot
ver's Ishll, i-it i-sh Columbill.
- difft4.iln leagu,es of Germanx
il es wvere tiited into one(! by the treaty
of I Ieidelherg, sigit'd in 1384.
---in, the grelater part of the East
whistImg is loli'*pll with ill-favol.
ats, it prae-Liee hull of' evil omen.
-The contiet Air the Yorktown
lmominent hts beii awarded to the
lloilvw0l Gnulite Co., l,or'$;,000.
--Tle l-rese (Switzerhind) Govern
Illoint ma Ahiou-e L. meeting of the
81a1vitionl Arlity wVithinl the canitonl.
--A rosidet 11 lolland, who died
i.l 1872. was said to have smoked over
I'miur tonls of tolm1'4 inl hisli of eighty
yea's.
-lloiM nit ihe artist, hts secured, aM
ite price of $2400, a beatitiful portrit
1f Enasimis, drawin by Albert )t'er ill
-he hiuidred and f'oulrteell thoulsanil
siall trout have been recently distribil
ted ilm tll. st valis of, Emsterni P1enn1syl
vI' ula.
-l'orlpoisvs are ofteli kinown to forin
a ring aboiit shoal (of 81m1all ish, and
by driving thetil inito i Ilmss o)tainl a
hearty mlleal.
-The hirgeost circular saw inl thel
world is at. Blakely, Washington tetrri
tory. It cut4 200.000 flet inl I w(vt v
f'our houirs.
--On hearing of his having wonl 100,.
000 florils in olie of, tihe natiolial lottery
drawiings, a poor. starvilg devil wVa',s
strucek deatd.
-Tie ice hitivest fron t1he Kemulibee
river is now estlimated at 1174,00M tons,
and there were 200,000 tons left over
from last year.
-Thtere are now only thirty-six es,
tablislilments in Cologne that profess to
sell the tie anld only gemline eau. Inl
1829 there were sixty.
-A method halts been discovered hy
wi111 t4'he- pinle lleedles of the silesia
forests canl be cured, felted and woven
into serviceable cloth.
-The Mobile and141 Ohio riailroad, 490
miiles longr, hais heell inl operaft ion t went103
.w"e years, and not i singlfk passenge'
halts ever been killed oll it'
TJIhe l.er-uvians buried all thle veaxlth
of t their Ill-as with theiml, and So great
was ie al oilnit (ilts hetrd that tll
spanhia41 look '.3"31,000 froml at sinlgle.
tombli.
- ,-- T h'l e r v a s o nl w h y t h e t o m bll s o f' t h el
IEgyptian11 n1inarchs1 were built. in the'
dtesert wis that inl this plaeo they occu
pied 1n4) hitd wich0 inight hiave been
11841 filr ag rililt u1 re.
-Diulring the t welve 11oiths which
enlded on .Illianuary 31st, 1883, ouri im
port 4 o ier'chanise amounted in Value
to $72,727, 37, an li1,A d 1u exp1ots f r
t he 8same4 per1ilcllwr )1'i 783,298j,400.
-TheI A'iary,lIis ofiig14' Lr e(wil inS
Ca11lini 18ul N everal oen<ils4' ship-.
ipid trontog 1hat t1t1 to the hweakd keeper'4'
on 1the4 invetr It'ticrs, wihIIsaIy vient
1--T4heI podlnetion of ix okst' ap
-in Gernnut'sy,4 ''inludl 1i ne xei''tios
day iri w88itache li 4,794,it as agaOinst. 4)
15,l~11x n 18( aitral 21 science, law,
iul otito8lo arIal meeaklyre.v
setd. ' Mathematics,4.' p 'hilosophy,o indt
the unios o thePreiden's1Ariage,
solict<x'to be diheinedini of mat J011 rimo'
--r.I''rederick A(v. reer whoil iinge
j)'iast 1 year hasi won gre ,500tx raes,
andvt who wasibe marri.1 ask fonh ao,
osssu a11' 1)121( fortt imaglthe. be con
bidirable l wl over $5(',00lMr. rcer.
hi thelet o dang. teobM'iJohn Daw
ito,t sif Warren Hrouse Nwaret.Lhc
k oisvm inle,it K I is buiry fmakhIg
priepatlinfor' t tat barea ndusoria ex
have brisred 25i00,ty foo beoun
tide tru, nk.dtI are vu.tigup the a
bildn, thc illsspp cove th'te
aresI'.) 000 showiwill open 11ugstle,
adwiit conim 100(1oti day. 20,0
-(IinC theltown ofibi x Woodbridge, t.,
abst hid mires Ifrome NwltxIIven ther
i'se'aloks wtree aidto of from .'o000lto
dor0 consiss ofth noldetstlofis trand
lanown InAerle. Ir stianr fei
ircimi hcummc t e are,atdsmeo
ats "branchs ofprcd woxry foeet beyn
txhrmk. t iobyect viofrous.wat
ueyhaoniid he iissippkimier therei
mnalsw iemen, have ofhiso aret 240,00
csuareill, teacing mchldrf te
rservatknes t hie muh cftereain,
Tde rnist of fbmryuntou tractea,
ofeosawhich ant berigaed
Eng4ld thetm oect of. which wastoo
Pnuabo airtndlovotknns mto ai
tmals. Toe have achmieve algeat su
cess, eoospelldlynte'aching childrenoto
*'~otsc~show inss t ther uub re tatn
Thne Earld ShaftJesbury~ :s tith head
$toi the gafzti h3(on i5~epse
the ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Y' yert4a2 on hba 1000
It asno pevde fortholtrisa and **4
laboingclas 6,00roins-excusie o