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5~ C * -.- -..- --n Y I- ' ||.'1 TB ELD TIRI-iWEEKLY"EITION.'.. WINNSBORO. SoAl'~ APRIL 28; 1883.6SALSaD14 WAITING. Waiting while the shadows gather, - And the sunlight fades away; While the tender gloaming deepens, And the golden turns to gray. Watching while the starlight quivers. Brightly in the heaven above: I am waiting for her coming, Waiting, watching for my love. Listening for the well-known footfall, And the voice whose-loving tone Sweetly bids me cease my waiting, Watching, listening for my own. Lingering still among the shadows, As they deepen on the beach, Hearts exchange in sacred stillness Thoughts that would be soiled by speech. Thus in perfect love and trusting, Winged moments pass away; 'T'ill the holy, star-crowned itight is Sweet to us as golden day. And as tenderly the gleaming. Gathered on the brow of day, God shall keep her, God shall bless her, When life's golden turns to gray. WHY ,HE LEFT THE STAGE. She was a charming lady of 27, fresh as a rose, bright as a sumnmer day, and just as full of' life and cheerfulness. There was a touch of matronliness in her manner as she sat at the head of the table when dinner was over, and helped her two'children, as bright as herself, to dessert. Her husband sat opposite and watched the little ones worry her by all sorts of affectionate appeals, while she looked up now and then and threw a lov ing expression across the table. The cigars were lit, and the children satisfied, the lady rose and said she must take the little torments to the nursery. As the door closed the husband spoke: " You told me I should not be happy because I married an actress. What do you think of this? " "It is perfectly charming. She seems to have forgotten the stage and every thing connected with it." " Oh, no, you were right there. She has never forgotten it. She is still proud of those old notices, but the glamour has fallen from her eyes, and she often says she owes her happiness, as I say I do, to you." " How so ?" " You wrote 'an adverse criticism of her once and I was on hand to take ad vantage of it." I don't understand you." "Here she comes. She will tell you the story herself. I wasjust saying that we owe all our happiness to him," said he as his wife entered. " Indeed we do. I've brought the book here to show you." The easy chairs were drawn up to the fire and the wife, seating herself on a low stool, opened the book and pointed to one of the last notices pasted there. "iThere it is. I have never acted since then. You would like to hear the story? I will tell it. When I was agirl Ihad a nice figure, nice voice and some thought, a pretty face. I had a wonderful com mand of spirits and was full of fun. Such a girl takes naturally to comic singing and dancing, and I used to amuse my playmates with all sorts of performances. Then I grow fond of private theatricals, and was considered quite an actress. The encouragement I received made me wild to go on the stage, and I used to studly all the soubrettes I could see. My great ambition w~as to p)lay a 'Prince' in a burlesque, but my friends would never permit me to do it. At last there was nothing for it but I must go on the stage, and I did. I did not play in my native placc, but I went to an adjoining city and w~as engaged on trial. Never mind what part I played first. It 'was 'Betsy Baler,' I think. At all events it was quite successful. The papers gave me fine notices, my engagement was con firmed and I was happy. I had a kind of a compact with this gentleman at the time, aind I need not tell you that he gave me very little encouragement on my suc cess. I played lots of parts and became a great favorite with the audienne. .But . strangely enouglhl began to grow tired of it. Even laudation and applause did not atisfy me. The real truth was that I did not find the life as easy and pleas ant as it looked to me from' the front. *It seormed as if those people had nothing to do but walk on tlie stage and act for a couple of hours and all their work was over. I found it very different. At fIrst as a stranger I was treated very kindly and courteously. With n)y suc cess I felt the spirit of jealousy all around me. The politeness soon began to wear off, the encouragement every body gave me as a beginner was withdrawn as soon as I proved that I was capable of acting myself. It was a new pait every night, and when I had, an unimportant one it -seemed to be the hardest work to learn and to net it. "'As the season wvent on andl the comx - pany began to grow familiar with one hy#5f 1'mother, I heard around me language I had never been accustomed to. -Men wvere rude, woman were coarse, the lift was mixed, and neither men nor women showed what I thought was a respect for one another or themselves. I sometimes look back with a shudder over what I escaped. The scan.dal, whichm I gave no heed to, was, I had to admit, based upon truth. Men talked like women about other men, and women talked like nien about other women. I was too youtig .on the ata'ge'to feel certain of my judg rspent Qut couk} go spp thp ppcessity fo the flirtgtie tht went on behind tlinp scenes, or thp fatmillai'ity with which the sexes treated one another. 'It was, after * all. I rasoned. nonbmsinean of mine All I had to do was to. keep clear of scandal, maintain my self-respect, and go on In my quiet way. But even that I was not permitted to do. The low comedian is always a popular member of a company, and Is generally supposed to be attached to the soubrette. That was enough. The female members of the company, or sole of them, envied me and every little conversation I held off the stage was re ported and retailed, with all the color ing neccessary to show me in a bad light. I loved my husband then although it took reams of paper and gallons of ink to per suade him of It. le came once or twice to see.me, and I think now he was un usually sensible because I knew if I had seen anybody hug him on the .stage, as he saw others hug me, I should not have believed his stories as lie did mine. But there was still some charm to be drawn from the applause and praise, and X held my peate. At last they put up a burles que and I was to play a prince. I was very much excited about it at first, but when I got my handsome dress on I felt a curious sensation that I did not like. What was it like? When I walked on the stage, in the first act, I felt impelled to put down the absent skirt. I was not cold; I was not hot, either, for tights let in no air. My figure did not appear to be so handsome as I thought it was. I began to think my limbs were not straight. My knees knocked together, and I could not walk even like a woman. I felt I was making a guy of myself, and as the audience applauded my entrance the sound conveyed to me a sensation no other applause ever did. It was not the applause of enjoyment of my acting. It was a tribute to my figure, an acknowl edgment of a kind of admiration I felt was not honorable, was not creditable. It caie from men who had no ladies with them, and my enjoyment of the burlesque was over. With a suddeness that took away my breath almost, I came to my senses. I was no longer a mollest woman. I was no longer an attraction save from my abandonment of all a woman's purity. I could not sing..*. I could not dance. I could not teak my lines. I could do nothing but think every man In the audieuce ~was looking upon me as somethingj did not wish to 1 be. Next morning 1iread that notice, and it clinched my mi.sery. All night long I had thought ab it the appearance I had ia In-to the thea but" 't, IiTi had Hucif before, but never so plain, never so degrading. I telegraphed to this gen tiemnan to come to me. le came. I did not show him the letters for a time. I was too bitterly ashamed to do it. Of course, you think lie advised me to quit the stage. Not a bit of it. He tortured 1 me for an hour by pretending to like it, until I declared that I would never again appear on the stage, and when lie felt quite sure I felt sufficiently mortified, he took the letters and put them in the fire, dictated a note of resignation, ahd lie went to the jeweler's, where my nger was measured for a wedding ring. I am proud of my success on the stage, but there Is no happiness like this in the reputation of ai actress." Dr. Jones' Mistake. Old Noron used to have a row with his wife about three times a week. Hie got cranky and made up h.is mind to shunfle off ; so he filled up with laudanum and wvent to bed. The old lady went to screaming, and as fast as thye neighbors came in sent them off after a doctor. Some of them wvent In one direction and some in another, andl it wasn't long be fore the doctors began to congregate. Smith got there first and looked the old man over. "Dead," says he, and he Went 'away. Then Brown came in. " Dead," says he. Jones was the third one in, and he rammed a stomachm-pumnp down thme old man's throat anid pumped up the drug store. Then he reversed the action of the pump and flooded the old man with water, andl, after sloshing him1 around for awhile-same as if he was4 rinsing out a cider barrel- he pumpnled out the water and then flooded him again. Noxon wasn't in the habit of taking so much water in his'n, anid pretty soon lie began to gasp and kick. Before morn ing JTones had him all right, and weint away feeling dead sure that there was but one first-class doctor In the world. A few days afterward lie presented his bill. -"What's this for?" says old Noxon. "For saving your life the othei'. night;" says Jones. " Well, I didn't ask' you. to. I never employed you, and I'll not pay it. You'd no business coming in here and jamming youmr old'pump~ d )" n my nieck. Brown is my family physician, and I'll not pay anybody else," says old1 Noxon. So away went Jones to Brown's office, and tried to get him to induce old Noxon to pay the bill. " Jones," says Brown, looking out over the top of his spectacles, " I never thought you was a bad sort of a fellow, but you've (lone a very foolish thing, amid It serves ypu right to lose your bill, its a good .lesson to yoit, andl [hope you'll profit by it. DIdn't I say he -was dead ?" "'Yes " says Jdnmes. " Didn't .Smith say lie wvas dead ?" " Yes " dasys. JTones. " Well. that settled it i The matiins dead and you had no right to m&y he waIi~ 't 'leni tW&old, ekerienced doet ire,lik4 Smth 4 and I, say a man is dead, it's un >rofess lonal and discQuous for 9 yOt 4man ii]begInnor'n iradtise, to disp4i:e their Word. We'l forgive you this meni,bhe 'cause lotyent~ youth' and .inexpetence and will hmlsh the matter up too ut bi be very careful in thme future, fudmake Stanley In Africa. The fact has already been published that, while Stanley,. In the service of the African International Society, Was slow ly working his way up the Congo, build Ing commercial stations on the ;ight or torth bank, - signor De Brazza an Ital ian by birth, but a Frenchman by adop tion, pushed across the country north of the river from the coast, and, arriving lirst at Stanley pool, procured from the ntive chief, .Makoho, the cession to France of the territory on the north side f the pool. The south side still remain d free, and on it Stanley built his fourth station, Ledpoldville, and i his further progress kept on the same side of the river. However it is doubtful whether France will go further and insist upon the treaty of De Brazza's. Even if it is iccepted, it cannot control the naviga ion f the pool, which is an expansion f the river into a lake. The natives heinselves regard it of little conse Ilence, for they have driven off the Pere Angouard, a Frenlch priest, claiming that their arrangement was with De Brazza alone. The great river will re iain fiee to the navigation of the world. rhe organization under which Stanley las been working, and which has for its lead the King of Belgium, is philan ;hropic in its designs. Its purpose is to .arry civiliztion into the far interior of africa and develop legitimate commerce. [t aims to be self-suppotting, and to this mnd permanent stations have been built it Vivi, just below the Yellala falls, as he cataract nearest the mouth of the river is called ; at Isangila the second vataract, where the boat Lady Alice was eft on Stanley's trans-continental jour icy ; at Manyanga, seventy four miles lurther up; where the river again be oines impassable;at Leopoldville on the ;outh side of the pool, and at Malebu whnce the river, is navigable for 90 niles above. Therk are now seven Belgian fteaiers on the river, four on the lower part of the stream and three above Stan ey Pool. Already trade has been great y developed. When Vivi was establish d in 1879 there*were no commercial louses for fifteen miles above. Now there is a station-Dutch, English, French, Belgian, or Portuguese-every 'nile. Stanley has returned to Europe >y the advice of his physicians, who de 3lare that removal from Africa is neces iary to save his life,. lie has accom lished what lie was sent to perform, and ias done a wonderful work, as is fully fhown in a very detailed accouit in the [erald. le was sent back to Africa in 870 by King Leopold, of Belgium. Ile ;ook with him some whites and a large iumber of the Zanzibar men who had ,rossed the continent with him. On irriving on the coast lie found the white Aerchants and the natives' who traded with them opposed to a possible invasion )f the monopoly they enjoyed. Having letermined to plant his first station at Vivi, the only site obtainable for a sta ion with a hill 250 feet high, about 700 ,eet in length, and 200 feet wide, just oom enough to make a broad street with L line of houses on either side, and head luarters at the end. The task was a errible one, the tools were wretched, he men were new to the work, aid the in shone on the road party from the west tnd the reflection from the face of the ill exhausted and half baked the men. rle Europeans were quickly exhausted, ind the natives suffered greatly. The .rown of the hill was a soft rock, which ,vas excavated for a depth of about two 'eet. Two thousand tons of rich earth vere carried to the summit, and a gar len, now full of -flourishing fruit trees, was constructed. From Viva to Isan ,ila the mountains were steel) and ra ines and torrents were frequent. We luote Stanle'y's own account : " Finally at one place a large mount uin seemed to bar all further progress. [t presented an almost vertical fracture m one side, though the ascent from this side was easy and gentle. It was a nouintain topp)led over, as It were ; it was about ten miles in length, and at the 3xtreme corner of it was the river, to which it sloped rapidly dowvn to the fur ouis cataract, p)resentmg a face of bare rock. Across the corner wehad'to cut ur way, making a road of fifteen fcet vide, since the descent of the other slope wvould have been a matter of slheer im )ossibility. Ini several places wve had to nake rude bridges suflciently strong mnough to bear six tons rolling over them. Funrther on the mountains were at tinmes 10.steep that it took 180 men to haul one >f the wvagons from the valley to the tolp. We had no animals. Nothing but men wyouk4 have (lone, for If we had had mnhmals wve should have hand to carry arge additional, stores of food, and( this sxtra burden wouldl have rendered our rogress still more hazardous and difhi milt. While making this road we passed brough a wilderness fifty miles long, with scarcely a village worthy of the ame, havig to supp)lly the men all the ime with provisions brought froln lRurope. The weight and labor of our ;ransport may he imiaglined when I say we had nio less thuanj 2,225 loads or p)ack iges, each weighing from sixty-flve to teventy plounds. We hadti seven large itore tents, and besides this we had mo0rmuus wagons, built on purpose in Belgium for us, whereon to transport the two steamers and two large steel boats, with boilers and machinery, which we ad brought with us to be0 put together n the Upper' Cohgo. 'To do all the haul ing we hiad only sixty-eight Zhnzibarls md a few west coast natives, so that our working number rangedl from ninety to ne hundred and forty. This number was niever long tihe same, for the natives would only wvork when they pleased, and )nly for a day or two at a time, and oth ing woutld induce them to assist us egularly. We had togo over theogroundl to less than thlrty-th ree tines and our 'ate of progress, calculating the number )f days We tiaveled was only a quarter >f a mile per dlay. hut thecre were places yhere it'took us twenty-six (lays to pass iust -400 yards, all of the available ;trength being plut to a single wagon At time. I neve'r could make the 1*opJe >f Eurqpw unPderctssi 6 wending psy a or band om hf6thohir coast, ltthe work had to be lone ot abandoned, and as we had no hougi of retiring from the fildk dis ~on e, we worked on1 apanting- and oimg, and, finally, afte* eleiven months f uheeasing labor, the two stenmers were put togethar at our endatatone At the Isangila cataal, the place where I left the Lady Alice after her 7,000 miles journey with ,pe on the Anglo American expdit1oA across the Dark Continent. The L,dy Alice was no mor6. She had beon'broken up by the natives for the sake of the copper nails in her shething." The third station seventy-four miles further on, was compl9ted after great la bor by May, 1881. Then Stanley fell sick >f fever and came very near dying. Now ,is troul with De Bi!azza began but he L-drcumvented the ItalU4n by plaling his statons oil the'south ide. The natives werb, very friendly, lypn at the place where they fought lim when lie came down the rvei hi it!?. He procured the cession of five ke of ground, and by the 3rd ol Dec-i 4".had launclM the - first- pteamor b the:Iat falls. The tatiqi, L)eopold , # a large one. The ptinebal house i two storled, ninety eet long twenty-six broad and twenty Cour high. There are -two other large dwellings, and a store-house sixty feet long and twenty wide, with 113 more umble cottages. The location is in the midst of a large pdpulation, and the lioises are surround-3 by fleids of grain nd fruit. When tli work was coin pleted Stanley restuned his old work of in explorer, and went up the Quango or Kwango river, the great affluent of the t Congo from the south,- a distance of 150 miles. It was navigable still further, ind on proceeding afew miles lie camte ipon a lake seventy miles long and from iix to thirty miles in '*readth. This he famed Lake Leopold The expedition iuffered a good deal from bilious attacks nd- rheumatism. Having established 4is fifth station at Malebu, he felt that is- work was done, and moved toward Ohe coast. At Manyanga he encountered bhe chiefs of the English l3aptist, mission who had been driven from Stanley's Pool. He gave them a good imanydirec bions as to the best points to occupy, and letters to chiefs- of- stotions bespeaking Cor them hospitality and assistance and hen took his leave, probably a final 0ne f Africa. A Drave Iho Ate a Heart. It is a custom prevailing among the Pottawattomie Indians, whio are quar tered on a reservation in Jackson county, tbout fifty miles west of here, that when )ne dies his property and widow shall 7o to his brother, if lie has ohe. This ( ustom is usually honored, but there t as just occurred a -case in which the vidow objected. N-Wahk-Tate, who is aot a dead Indian, but is nevertheless vouched for as a-good 'indian, happened bo be the surviving bnother and being without a wife dr. Ild he urged his mit, but was reft From that time 1e became a cha man and, follow Ing the eVil exam' J6f his white neigh borxri took to, qtrqng drink, persistin I .herein unti f becamiiideranged, al became such a terror to his tribe that lie was brought before the Probate Judge at Holton, adjudged insane and nlaced in the county jail until the au bhorities at the State Insane Asylum ,ould be communicated with. While )n the reservation N-Wahk-Tate did -mc curious things. Killing a cat, he [laced it within the skin of a wildcat ind carried it around in his breast until le met some one, when lie would shake he dead animal at the person which kould greatly frighten some of tile more inperstitious Indians. A number of vears ago a member of the tribe killed % man and preserved his heart. This irticle fell into the Iosseasion of N Vahk-Tate, who, after becoming insane, ite all of it. Meat Bread. M. Scheuror-Kestner hes discovered ~he remarkable fact that the ferme'nta ion of bread causes tihe comlplete diges ion of meat, HIe found that beefsteak ut into small pieces, and mixed withl hour and yeast, disappeared entirely luring the process of painification, its utritive principles becoming incorp)or ltedI with tile bread. Tile meat would iso appear capable of preservation for in indlefinite period in its now state, for oavos of meat bread made in 1873 were mubimitted to the French Academy of cience, when not a trace of worms or rlouldiniess was observable. At the )eginninlg of his experiments, M. ~cheurer-Kestner used raw meat, three )arts of wveich, finely muinced, lie mixed with five p)arts of flo'ur and the same unantity of yeast. Suihicient water wvas idded to make the dlough, which in duo uine beganl to ferment. After two or bhiree hours the meat disappeared, and ~he bread was baked in the ordinary nnor. Thus prepared, tile meat bread mad a, dilsagreoable taste, wvhich was Lvoidedl by cooking the mneat for an hour with sunhicient wvater to afterwvardis imoisten the flour. The~ meat must be 'arefully deprived of fat, and only have municient salt to bring out the flavor, as malt by absorbing moisture fgom the air would tenld to spoil the bread. A part f the beef may be rep)lacedl with adivan age by salt lard, which is found to im )rove the flavor. The proportion of neat to dlour shlould nbot exceed one-half, mo .as to insure complete digestion. 3lreadl made with a suitable propoi-tion )f veal Is said to furnish excellent. soup ~or thme sick and wounded. The Ranlroad station Loafer. Of all loafers thme railroad station loaf r1 is thme most loaferishmest. Hie is noisy, )btrusive, insolent. He sits down and~ 3ompels the passenger, the platronl of ~allroad to stand up. lie kicks your valise as lie passes it. 1-T is never sceen without a mouthful of tobacco, and( lhe ilays expectorates in- the dlirection mither of your valise or your feet. He itands in your way at the ticket omlie, lIthough ho is never known to go anly where, Hie looks over your shoulder it time telegrap)h wind(ow while yon write message. lie spars and "rastles4' 'with ther -hoodhiman. lie loudly calls the ittentlon of is fellow-loafers to your [ersonal appearance and miakes "stage side1" retrnarks for you to hear as you ass by himi, Hie Is utterly1 useless, in initely worthless and a wholesome nul ianoe. :When he is under. 14 y,ears of. ge lhe should be flogged.and compelled o go to school; between tile years-of I4 lid 21lhe should be sent .to the 1H0use )f COrteceIon pr a reform' -.School, and iftet reaching the ago of 21110 should ~e hanged, 'Off with Ils head. So muchi for the loafer, Pope Leo X11I. After his mass, which ho says early, eo X.IIL gives audience to Cardinal Iacobini, Secretary of State and former ly Nuncio at Vienna, whose political earning is rare, even in those of his oll. ial position. His place is then taken by the Cardinal Secretray of Ecolesias Ueal Affairs and by the congregation of Dardinals, e'aoh of which has its fixed lay. The several councils generally )ooupy the whole morning, until one iour after midday. The Pope's dinner: A potage, one dish of meat, and some 3heese, A few minutes suffice for its 3onsuinption. While he takes the air in the afternoon-generally in his car rage-he usually roads the bishops' re ports, aU of which comves direct into his Dwn hands, the ldispatches from the nunolatures, and espooially any news rrom Belgium. That little kingdom, which has broken its diplomatiO relat ons with the Holy See, is uartioularly iear his heart. For it is there that he iimelf was Nuncio from 1844 to 1846, md there that he studied, at close quar ;ers, a great politician, Leopold I. To. Nard 4 o'clack the Pope gives his pri. rate and public audiences, and the even ng hours are devoted to the recoption >f bishops. This long day over, Leo [11. regains the solitude of his own )loaet. Then, at last, he is able to be. 1in work. Tall, thin, spare, with his pale and leeply lined face. the Pope usually has lelicate health, of which he takes small )are. His austerity is extreme. The piritual sovereign of 2U0,000,000 Catho. ics does not spend 100 francs a month or his table. The eneigy of a strongly levelopod nervous system alone enables im to resist the fatigue of his labor and rust responsibilities. At times those 6bout him perceive a moment of exhaus ion and collapse; but a little happiness, piece of good news, or a pleasant tele Irarm restores the lite of his worn frame: suddenly well again, he takes up once nore his heavy burden, and betakes dimoelf to that work of reconciliation 6ad feace-making to which he has de roted himself. He is always grave, or, rather, solemn, ilways the Pope. The Italians call his nanners and surrounding ceremonious. Iravity is inherent in his nature, as hose aver who have known him from iis earliest youth. He never abandons imself, laughs rarely. He might be hougnt stern did he not temper his everity by the patient attention with hich lie stens-without interruption o all who speak to him. Ifis audiences ire far less frequent than wore those of Pius iX., but for that very reason they ake up more time. He has not the )riliiant aide so noticeable in his pre-. lecessor, the genial ease, the }ne good lumor which endured, notwithstanding ,he surprising vioissitudes of the last Pontiicate, nor the frank, bold and ;enial speech, full ot witty and happy Yords, thrown off in that sonorous voice riah Pins IX. retained in his extro'ue )ld agp. Leo XtI[. is as slow of speech s the Archbishop of Paris, But if ieither the kope nor the Cardinal has eceived the orator's gift each has been )ndowed with the author's. Perhaps his similarity explains the special sym >athy and esteem which the Pope on ertains toward Mgr. Guilbert. The pastorals in which the Archbis lop o Perugia (this was Oardinal Peccm's floe, before his election as Pope) was vont to demonstrate the hurnony of aith and reason, of rullgion and oivih ation, "growing like the flower and 2,it from the root of Christianity," rere much not,iced by Italian publicists. L'he priest loved to freat the questions f the day, and of modern society. The llustrious Boughi Paid os him, that ibis iras "one of the most finely balanced md vigorous,of charactera," thathe was 'a man who had realized the idea of a Jardinal such as St, Bernard conceived t." Since the eighteenth century, since ,he time of Benedict XIV. and Clement KIV., Rome has not seen a Pope of so sultivated a mind, so accomplished in latmn and Tuscan verse, so familiar at >noe with classic and conteibporary let era. At the presant time, the two inialities which Leo XIIL. moat prizes. md aims most constantly in securing in iis writings, are simplhcity and modra ion. His letters, his encyclicala, all wre submitted to the sacred college. .othung is more admirable than the ntanner in which h~eicits opinions and reighs ol.jections. He has been known ~o cempletely rewrit., after grave de ates, encyclicals which he had already ,ompleted. As he suffers from sleep essness, it is generally in -the night tours when he composes his most imn nortal work. Theo Cashier Systemn. An Ohio merchant, who kept three ilerks, each one of whom made his own 3hange and had free access to the money Irawers, was the other day asked by a iomnmercial traveler why he did not ieep a cashier to receive all moneys. "Cost too nmuoh," was the reply. "But are your clerks honest?" "Perfectly honest." 'H ave you any objection to my trying hem?" "Certainly not; go ahead in any way rou wish." ~'lhe traveler went away, but in about bree hours he returned andl said in a oud voice so that all might hear: "When I was Miere this forenoon I >aid you a bogus quarter by mistake. Cn case you find it in counting up to. dight, lay it aside and I'll redeem it." Then the traveler, accompanied by he merchant, took positIon iwhere the >ack door and the alley could be kej>t n view, and in less than ten minutes mut came the .head c'erk and 9miptied a iandfni of silve-: on the head of abar*el md pawed it over; The bogus quarter vas not there. He returned to t eo Itore and out came the second clerk aId vent through the same program. Hie was followed by the ind, and after he ha ppeared the m nerehant calmly ob "i've been waiting la years for trade, o pick up, and I rather thina* Z'll trj he cashier system," 1robing for the Pole. The situ tion of parties in the Arctic regions at the beginning of 1883 is about as follows, as far as known: Of the Jeannette expedition, the remainder of the Original party were about to begin their homeward journey, legether with Ensign Hunt, of the Rodgers. At last accounts they were en route from Ir kutsk to Orenburg. Messrs. Harbor and Schutze, of the navy, were expected at Irkutsk, in April, with the remains of Do Long and his party, intending to start for home as soon as the caskets Arrived. A bill has been intrqduoed into Uongress to pension Mrs. De Loirg; and another to indemnify those who lost personal effects on the Arctic expedition of the Rodgers, and to reward the friendly natives who preserved the lives of the party during the winter after the burning of the ship. Mr. Leigh Smith, of the Eira expedition, has presented the G3ographiosl Society of London with X1,000, in recognition of its inter eat in Arctic work. The Arctic exploring vessel Dimina, commanded by Lieuten ant Hovgaard, of Nordenskiold's party, bound for Cape Cheliuskin or Franz Josef Land, was beset in the Kara Boa, near Kara Strait. in tWe latter part of August. Several propositions have been made to organize an expedition for the purpose of communicating with her and with the Dutch international party on the Varna, also impeded by ice in the same vicinity. As nearly can be judged from rather confused telegrams which have been received, no relief party has actually been organized, though cor respondonce between the Danish and tha Dutch authorities has,taken place, and the Danish Captain Normann has visited St. Petersburg on that business. It has been reported that Larswen, one of the Jeannette survivors, had been engaged to make the attempt, and the last news appears to be that nomads from the Petschora riyer mouth report that the vessel was in good order, and had arrived from the coast of Novaia Zemlia to remain for the winter. The situation at the international polar stations for simultaneous meteoro logical and maguetic observations was favorable when last heard from, except in the case of the Novaia Zomlia parties. The American station at Lady Franklin Bay, the most northern and the first established of all, has not been "rWiam nicated with, owing to ice in the northern part of Smith Sound; but being fully provisioned and equipped ior three years, the party are believed to be in good condition. The German station at Kingava, Cumborland Inlet, was suocessfully established in the autumn of 1F82, under Dr. William (fose. Obse vations are in progretis at Godhaab, in West Greenland, under Lieut. Paulsen's direction. Dr. Snellen in the Varna, with the Dutch expedition which aimed at reaching Dickson Haven )ioar the mouth of the Yenisei, reported beset in the K %ra Saa, near Kira 8trait, in the last week in August, will doubt less have established a station on the land of Novaia Z )mlia If not released by the end of the season. With or near them was the Danish Arctic expedition, on the Steamer Dimnina commanded by Liout. Andreas Hovgaard, mentioned above. The Aus trian expedition, comt mnandod by E. v. Wohigenmuth, sucoeot ed In establishing its station by August 15, on the island of Jan Miyen, in a ravine on the southern slope of the Vogolberg, named Wilezek valley, after the promoter of the expedition. The latest data from the Russian expedition. to make a station at the mouth of the Lena was, that all was r- aing favor abuly, and that the p)art u '' 'he command of Lieut. Ju. ., h d reached its destination. O. s v diary station, projected by the imperial geographical society at Moller B ty, under the direction of Lieut. Anidreloff, no positive news has been received here; but it is asserted that they had reached and wonuld winter in 'Novaia Zomhia. The Finnish station on the shores of the White Sea began operations August 15. Mahlenberg, with the Swedish expedition, were safely established at Wydo Bay, sipitzbergen; while the ob servations of Steen, at .Bosekop, near the North Cape of Norway, have been going on qulitly for.some time. Uapt. Dawson with his party were well on their way toward Fort Rae, in the Hud son Bay territory, when last heard from. The exact locality finally decided upon by the Auglo-Canadian party is not yet known. The United States party at Ugla-ami, near Point Barrow, Alaska, were visited and. recruited during the summer, and the first year's observa tions are already in the computer's hands; while simultaneous observations by self-registering Instruments under the direction of Mr. Marcus Baker of the United States ooast-survey, at Ins Angelos, California, are progressing favorably, and will be steadily main tained. Of the proposed su,bordinate stations at York Factory and in Labra dor, ne recent sinformation is at hand, though Dr. Koch, charged with organ izing t4he latter, ia stated to have reached Labrador in .August.' Thle reseateohes of Mesers. Bilohet and PRondeau indicate that artioiai' respira tion may be a yablable' aghdft in tho're stsisetation of persons who. have been epod to cold until life in nearly ezm Thonau Jefferson. The typical Roman character, ear nest serious, analytic, and resolute, deliberate in council and in action, has not, in modern ages, been more sym metrically incarnated than in the person of the author of the Declaration of American Independence. In that, the most notable public document standing in the political history of the human nice, Mr. Jefferson, in a few well chosen words, embodied, as no one be fore him had ever done, the fundamental principles of human liberty-making, at once, them indelible and his own fame immortal. More fortunate than inany eminent lawgivers in, their lays, who had ancient errors ,'rejt1dce, and abuses embodied in customs and ordinances and perhaps sanctioned by superstition, against which to contend, the lot of Mr. ,Jef ferson was cast in that which was strictly a formative period-a time when the organic basis of a nationality was to be prepared, the foundations of its civil polity laid, and the'elements of its political future determined. It was here that the intellectual forces of a master spirit could be brought to bear more immediately upon the integers of the situation and -a more distinct imi pression .of them produced. Probably no other man saw with the prophetic clearness of Mr. Jeffersan the great civil, political and material future in store for the Caucasian race upon this continent, or was more impressed with the importance of so adapting the in stitutions of the coming great common wealth as to allow the fullest freedom to the mental and physical powers and faculties of its constituents. Thu.4 it is that we not only owe a debt to Mr. Jefferson, but owe It in such a mann11er that some mental esti mate of its nattire and extent may be obtained. The ideas of Mr. Jefferson, as embodied in the Declaration .of Inde peuleneo and elsewhere, were to the American what Mtagna. Charta, at its period, was to the English people-a revelation. At th\eir utterance, as at a totich from the wand of a magican, the inner consciousness of man becamino pregnant and new thoughts were born. Moreover, as these grew older, errors, fallacies and illusions, the relics of past misrule, passed out of their memories, and, like persons suddenly awakened, they cast their eyes around, first with inquiry and then with Intelligence. To the ieople of the emancipated colonies, Mr. Jefferson was the apostle of liber! ty; and if his convictions had been al lowed to prevail umnixed and unadul terated, our institutions would have been more symmetrical, and the future of the American people better assured. Mr. Jefferson was a man eminently adapted to the thne ih which he lived; but bwondor and mora loaxiblo. tha others, he was one capable of respond ing to the demands of all times and cir cumnstances. A patriot and a statesnman, resolute to resist encroachment and combat error; a philosopher sagacious to comprehend the profoundest of hu m1an nture, and a politician equally wise in cotusel and in action, to for iulate an11d to execute, there is 110 pet - sonage known to American history to whom the title pater patrio more prop erly belongs. H1unman liberty was the object of his unmixed devotion and of his untiring exertions; liberty pure and unadilterated-liberty without licen tioisniess; perfect freedom of thought and action, subject only to such res trints ats are in, all countries, civilized and enlightened, demanded by consid erat ions of public poliy, morals, and -eligion. Huilhuir Fumes. Certain paragraphs are now being freely copied in the New York preCss in regard to the health-giving properties of sulphur fumes emanating from manu factories where particular chemical pro dlucts are made. It is quite dlesirable, wve are told, "to have sulphur fumes ini the neighborhood," and that such vapors ought to be regarded as blessings in disguise. According to the testimony' of unbiased persons, ever since they have been living in tihe p)roximity of the es tal i shment from wvhich tihe fumes arise they have niever suffered from coughs or coldls. Some of these disinterested wi tnesse~s, persons suffering from pul mon1 ary diseases, we are I nformed, have mhovedl to the sulphurous regions and have beeni benefOitedl by the change, lBut alli this proves niotihing, savd that suil phur1, whienm absorb)ed into tile hluman system, shows certain effects. It is all very well, whienm a person has a cold in the head, to snuff sulur fumes, and thereby receive some relief, for the pro.. porties of this substance are quite well knowmn. It is quite p)rob)able, too, that if a mnan subject to a peculiar skin dis ease were to work In a sulphur factory his cure would be rapid. But it Is a case where the cure might in time be worse tihan tile disease. It is not a question of quality but of quantity. Sulphunrous acid in tihe air-for in that cond(ition it is always produced in quani tity wvhen suliphur is burn.ed-is, not an innocuous substance, but very danger ous and corrosive, and is quite as dhe structive of animal tissue as sulphuric acid. Thereareinnumorablesubstances which, if taken occasionally or in small dIose#, can do no harm, but When: ab sorbedl In a wholesale way, 4nd for ja long time, they simply kill. One Button. Tile Emperor William invariab)ly wears his military .uniform when at home. His study overlooks the Unter den Lindben. While at his writing table he loosens the upper buttons of his dou ble-breastod coat and throws back the lapels, but every day .heni the.troopa march paist he batily b\ntt9ns his qoat iud stands in the window, in; gl yleJw at the soldiers. A visitor, nQtigg /the brouble he took, akedt him why he naiu uo partioular to button even the tok iut ton of his coat. "Wyoldiers," said: the Ernpeter, "have never ueen me with any coat unbattoned, And I dotnot itend bhey evershall, F'or, let e tell yt,i is the one buttorhilet uh$ntto d~h. lherum ofaaimmy.".