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C.* TRI-WEEKLY EDITION- WINNSBORO. S. C.. MAY 3, 1883. ESTABLISHE 1848 WINBRO _______3 183 AVINT113t REVERIiE, Bee the fern leaves and foliago bright... Vhich in forms of fantastio.display Have covered the windows by night, Blit faddat the full dawn of day; So prospects and vision of hopI)e Wich ilit throtigh my wearisonie brain, DisaliII'ar when exI)08ed to the light, I havo dreamt many diy-dream so fair In i,niful scenes full of joy; I have pictured a future so rare O' bliss without tingo, of alloy; Bitt I wake to the steri world once inore, And I feel its broad glare once again, Aiid my tiuciful vision Is o'er. Like the beautiful frost on the p4ne. Will nothing that's lovely ore lost Save to m1look uH w-ith hopes and fears? 1 all that is titir to glide past, Like the swiftly aid ftst flying years? Wake, wake in the world there is light, Oh, sing not this doleful refrain, Or your hopes will soon fado out of sight Like the beautiful frost on the pano. TWO LOVE1RS. High time declared the gossips of Grayville, that Nannie Williams made a choice of a husband, and gave to the other girls, who doubtless would make better, wives, if they had not as much beauty, some chance. Utterly absurd that the men followed, one after or other, like sheep in a drove, wherever her caprices led. They were like a hive of bees con - tending for one flower, and blind to all the gardenful besides. But Nannie only smiled when some whisper of this reached her, and let the gossips talk. Full well she know her power, this simple country girl, who possessed no dower save her beauty, and right royally she used it. Besides, it was not quite as the gos sips declared. There was no such butter in all the county as that which name from Nannie Williams' farm, and Nannie's fingers, white and tapering as they were, moul ded; no creanf was so thick and yellow, and Nanny had sole charge of the dairy; no house was more neat and tidy, wilh a nameless air of feminine grace about it, and Nannie, since her mother's death, reigned sole mistress. No wonder the young men felt the race well run, with such a prize as its goal. True, she had a saucy word ever ready, but one readily f orgave i harm lessness for the sake of tho swAt brilli ant smile which lent her pretty face its rarest charm, and seemed to mutely plead her pardon. However, when it was least expected, Nannio made her choice, and it fell upon Sydney Richards. There was nothing to be said against He was a good-looking young follow, with a farm of his own. He and Nannie would make a hand some couple, and doubtless would suc ceed well in the wcrld. But for all that it was a surpi ise to many of them, and one or two of the more discerning ones said that she had flirted shamelessly with Dick Arm strong, and that quiet as he had ever been, he had grown more so since the betrothal was announced. Nannie did not hear this, however, nor had she seen Dick ,ince her engage ment, until one evening some three weeks after. She had wandered down to the little gate opening on to the road, and stood leaning listlessly against it, when a quick, firm tread broke the stillness. She knew the stop well. and a flush of crimson rose to her face, then receded, as a tall, stalwart figure came around a sharp turn in the road. He gave a quick start, too, as he per ceived her, and wouild have passed on, merely raising the straw hat from the * close-cropped blond head, but that her -voice, a hittle tremulous, detain,d him. DWicki" she said. * He halted then, but made no move ment to approach her, until she held out * towards him a small white hand. 'Wick,'' she repeated, "of all my friends you are the only one who has not congratulated me." "indeedlI" he answered, with a strange, hard smile. "I hope it is not too late." And touching the little fingers for an Instant only,' lhe turned away again as if he considered all his duty (lone. Hot tears rose to Naneseyes, though from whence they sprung none could have divined. "You are cruel, Dick," she said. "No," ho answered, "I am kind, but believe me, Nannic, I trust you may be happy. Good night!'' She spoke no iurthier word to detain him, but stood and watched him walk ..- away. Her eyes still followed the direction he had taken long after his figure was lost to her sight. "He never lovea met" she murmured to herself. "He would always have been exacting and jealous, and lie never asked me to be bis wife. 'What right has he to complain?" .But the girl knew that she silenced only her onscience, and no voice of his, when she thus spoke. He had uttered no reproach. Dared she to her own soul say he could hayc found no cause for doing so? e Sydney Richards found something *r '.amiss with his pretty betrothed that Snight. She shrank from his somewhat too demonstrative caress, and turned upon him almost-anrily when he asked her to name the day for their wedding-in fact to let the banns be read at once. "You see, it'll soon be harvesting time, Nannie, my lass," lie pleaded, by way of argument; "and there's no deny ing that the farmneedls a woman's hand Sand a woman's care. "it's all ready .for its mistress, and ,. why shouldn't its mistress be ready for it?" .~' o"impl because she isn't your maid of-hralwork, Sydney Xichardd, to be hrend then the season is most convenl eneandthedemand for her mnost press ing," was the girl's hot reply. But her lover bore it good-.naturedly, jncd just as heowaleavingshe peitntAy let her arms steal softly about his neok, while she raised herself. Q. whisper in hio ear tU t h. her. But-W lk, 4& the butte 4ee1fnot come to-day, and so her femper had not borne the test. - Pardon thus sought might readily enou&h be won for harsher sin, but Sydney Richards imposed his penalty for all that; and so it happened that the next Sabbath morning witnessed the reading of his and Nannie Williams' banns. Poor little Nanniel She and her pride were waging a laid fight just then. It had been a lucky moment that Sydney Richards had chosen to ask her to become his wife. That very day she and Dick had had th,3ir first and only falling out. It had been such a foolish matter, and she had known herself quite wrong, but she had determined that Dick should yield, auct instead he had quietly walked away, saying "Nannie, when you acKnowledge -I am right, send for me. 'It is only your pride that now re fuses to acknowloge me so, and it is with your heart, not your pride, I wish to deal. Besides L iave something more I wish to say to you then." Something more[ Ah, how well she knew what this something more was! As if it necred to be put into words! As if she had not knbwn all her life that Dick, ear'nest and tender and true as he was strong, loved her, and one day would make her his wife, though he little liked and illy brooked her coquettish ways. Indeed, on this account had been their falling out, but she had deter mined this time not to yield. And so when, a few hours after Dick had left her, it chanced that Sydney Richmrds came to woo her, liis tender love phrases sounded very sweetly in .her ear, and she gave him her promise, scarce conscious'of all its import, but glad to inflict on Dick some of thq pain from whic4 her heart was suffering, "I'm going to try the new colt, father, this morninA," she said, when it wanted but two weeks for her wedding day. "Better not," said the farmer. "I doubt if he's ever had a woman on his back." "He would not be the first horse that I had broken to that," was her laughing retort, The farmer saili no moi-e. He had in-.)licit faith in Nannie's horsemanship. But when, a littlo later, she came down the stairs dressed in her. habit, she stwd.-to And -Dick A stranOz holding the colt by the rein "I had business with yonr father, Nannie," he said quietly, "and the man brought the colt round whilst we were talking together, so I stayed to tell you you must not ride him. "He has a dangerous eye." The girl smiled proudly. "Many thanks for your interest in my life, Mr, Armstrong; but since you have acquitted yourself of any responsi bihity in the matter, I feel doubly tempted to try the experiment." She stepped down beside the horse to pat him with one little gauntleted hand, a courtesy he acknowleaged by impa tiently pawing the ground with his fore feet. Dick Armstrong's face paled. Involuntarily he laid his hand on the girl's arm. "You must not, Nannie, it is absolute madness." "And if it is," she retorted hotly, "to forbid it is isydney Richards' province, n'ot yours." She could had used no better argu ment to silence him,,~ He had paled before, but now cheek and lips alike were -colorless, save for one drop of blood upon the latter, where his teeth had met. One-insttat, the small foot rested in his palm, in answer to her imperious gesture for assistance, the ndit, girl and horse. had vanished from his sight, the colt-with bit fairly between his teeth and running like mad-running as only a vicious horse can run, dieter mined to rid himself cf the human being he bears. Dick Armstrong forgot his anger, just though It was, forgqt all save the great, sickening dread at his heart-the dread which was so soon to prove so fatally well-founded-as, hastening down the road, a riderless horse first came dashi ing past him, and then, a fulh mile further on, lhe met a party of laborers, carrying in their midst a ghastly load. At first, poor fellow, he thought it that most ternible of all burdens-a dead body; but as he bent over the face, so deathly white but for the crimson stain upon the forehead, a faint murmur of agony escaped her lips. (lently these rough men bore. her home. Almost as seon Dick was there with the physician he had summoned;. but the latter, who had left him a full hour without the sick-room, could minister but little comfort on his return tog where we waited. The girl mighti,'ve, lie said, though only her wonderful health ,and youth would accomplish that; but she would be a cripple always. Nanr le Williams a cripple! No one. could reahlize it as the news spread. But as the slow weeks passed and life as slowly as, erted itself, the doubt be came certainty. Ah, well, thme gossips declared again it was sad enough; but better it hsa happene#. then than latpr, when Sydney Bichards swould haire been burdened with a crippled wife his life long. But Sydney himself, what did lie say?.. 'The accident -was fiye weeks old, and the ihna fixed for her wedding had' 16lag gonie by, when Nannte sent for him. The lovely fa&ie wvas as white as the pillows on which.it rested, and thQ great eyes looked larger than ever use they met his, - 'The farm has had to wrait for -its mistress after all, Sydney," she said, a sad smile; "but it won't have the OSa we had planned for it. .d a woman's hand, an nune are very useless hands now," and she hold them up-grown so white and thin. "It isi't necessary to give you your release from any pledge. perhaps; for of course you undorstand I couldn: t burden you this way. "But I thought you'd feel better, maybe, if you lot me tell you so my self." The man looked down embarrassed. He had meant to say something like this himself for he wished a helpmeet, not a drawback, in his wife. But, somehow, the words sounded differently from Nanmo's lips, and made him feel small and mean. Yut they were just enough, and when, with a few murmured regrots, -ie left her, the bond between them was forever severed. "Alone-honceforth alone and help less!" she whispered to herself, while the groat tears rolled silently down her checks. But afie was glad, too, that it was not Sydney Richards' wife that spoke. That evening Dick came in. ".ou can for.ivo me everything now, Dick," she said. "How good you have been to me all this time. ' Sydney was here this morning, Dick, and-all is over between us," "You mean he gave you up, because -becauso "The coward!" "Hush, dearl" she interrupted. "1 was I who released him. "Why, Dick, any man would be mad to take such a burden as -I am on his bands." "Then I am mad! "Oh, Naunie, give yourself to me, and I will be happier with my cross than any king that wears a crown." "You are a king, Dick," she answered. "Oh, my lovel would that I had proved worthy of you before it was too late; but now-now it can never bel" And plead as he might, he could not change ker purpose. "J love you--yes," she said, "too well to accept now what oue I threw away," For weeks lie pleaded, but Nannie was firm, until one day he biought to see her a young surgeon from the city -a man who had gained wonderful re pute, and who told her that by submit ting to a dangersus operation she might nfillm1 walk. "Is it death or entire recovery?" she asked. He answored "Yes." "Then let me be your wife, Dick," she Wimpar-64'. iA OVQX lvr'Onwf. :--" "I shall have that to give mc, strnuth to recover, or I shull sleep better with your name on the grave above my head." .But, the operation over, Nannie woke to life, not ouath, and strong and beau tiful as in the old days, wears only a tiny sear upon her brow to mark how near she missed hor life's happiness. The Great Russian Telescope. The great telescope for the Russian go7ernment has been completed by Alvan Ulark and sons of Cambridgeport, Massa., and is ready for shipment. . This instru ment has an aperture of thirty inches and a local length of forty-five feet. To test it the Clarks erected in their grounds a tem p3rary tube on a pier of brick twenty-seven teet, high. This mounting is in the open air. -A ftw days agn some of the astrono mers of the country were invited to view the heavens through this telescope before it.is sent to .Europe. It is now the largest telescope in the world and a number ac cepted the invitation and visited Cam bridgeport. Among these attracted by the great instrument was the astrono~mer of the Providence Journal, who describes what he saw in that paper. -The night was very 'cold, but still and~ clear. The objects viewed by the party were Saturn, Jupiter and the great nebula in Orion. Tihe view of Saturn revealed the most delicate markings on the rings and dise, and gave to the moon Titan, a perceptible (dise. The planet did not ap pear much larger than in telescopes of loes size, but the light was very birilliant, revealing features which are rarely seen. Owing to atmospheric or other causes, the dlefinition was not as good as in smaller instruments. Tlhe view of Jupiter was exceedmngly fine, the wonderful cloud coloring appearing in all its glory, 'The moons appeared like planets of consider able size. 'The definition was, however, far from perfect and it may be said hero that there arc but few nights in a year in which the air is in ench a condition as to give good definition in a great telescope. 'The loss of definItion from atmospheric causes increases very rapidly with increase of aperture, and the most perfect defintion is sectired in smnall instruments of good construction. 'rho matter of definition did not affect the seeing in the view of the great nebula in Orion and this splendid object came out in all its wonderful pro portions. Thins nebula has pi-obably re ceived more attention from astronomers than any ether object in the heavens. The naval observatory at W ashington has recently issued a large volume on it, giving drawings by the earliest astronomers, Tlho' great telescope' objective will now go to Russia whore it will be mounted by the governmeni, for the use of O'to tStruvo in the observatory of Pulkowa, nine miles south of 8t. Petersburg. -There will soon be a larger telescope In this country, as one of thirt,y-six inuhes aperture, is being constructed for the Lick observatory on Mtt. Hamilton, Califormia. Mr, George Clark while in this city last hall mouanting Dr. Swift's telescope iu the Warner on servatory,expressed the opimion that thirty six inches was the limit for the present. Be believed that a second refracting teles cope of that size would not be madeo, but the tendency would be to the use of simaller linstruiments that could be used to, gregt9r advantage and on 'inore niitnerous occaslons.' There is reason to bielieve that the thirty-aix inch telescope will be some what,dlsap1 ointing, howcvr perfect it may be optically. *The Ar of ,vanity,is f4qa by the f ue of fia ttery. During a lecture course by professors who have at their disposal a complete do set* of physicial apparatus, tijere are o some experiments perfo,med by them PC which at first sight seem,very coMplicat- su or ed but which nevertheless may be re- py peated by means of very simple objects. ti There is, for instance, the interesting th Lissajous experiment, Which consists, W as the reader is perhaps 4ware, in throw- i ing on a screen, by means of the oxyhy- TI drogen lamp, the curves traced by one ad of the arms ,f a tuning fork in sonor- al ous vibration. An anilogous experi- th ment may be exhibited by means of a mw common kniting needle.:. Fix ou of the r( extremities of the needle ' in a' cork to h( serve as a base; then'to t1;. Ippok free ci extremity attach a ball *pealing wax, at and on this gum a small circle of paper at about the diameter of .a pean, Now, ro holding the cork firmly between the fo finger of the-left hand, cause the needle lit to sharply vibrate, either by bending it th far to one side and then suddenly releas- n iug it, or by striking it imartly with a, no wooden ruler. The little ball of wax lif surmounted by paper will be seen to des- fit cribo a morejor less elongated ellipse, or co a circle, according to tho intensity or ki the number of vibrations. The phenorn- is enon is very perceptible when care is th taken to cause the needle to vibrate G4 under a strong light from a lamp; and, Of in such a -case the persistonco of the im- to pression on the retina causes the vibra- I'1 ting wire to form an image which has of the appearance of a long and graceful c bouquet holder, or a champagne glass. B1 Among the experiments sometimes ar performed to demonstrate molecular at- C tractions, there is one which is execit- 18 ed by means of an apparatus of a peul- th iar structure but the same phenomenon tal may be shown in a much more simple ro manner, as follows: Having out two small h sphores out of a bottle cork, place thpm cu on the surface of water. If one of thed bails now be carefully pushed along un- v til it is in quite close proximity to the v other, the two will be seen to quickly to rush towards each other, just as a bit of iron flies to a wagnet when the latter is th brought near it. PC A writer has pointed out a neat moth- fu od of obtaining an electric spark by tu means of a simple apparatus which he de calls the "tea-tray electrophorus." A ur qpmmon metallic tea-tray is supported am on two dry glass goblets. A piece of th common brown paper, cut so as to be a th, little smaller than the tray, and with th round corners is warmed, laid on the sh table and rubbed briskly with a piece roi of India-rubber, or with a clothes brush ; an It is then laid down for an instant on vii the tray. If at this juncture some per- a son presents his knuckle to the tray lie in W il a bri ht spat-k"" of be favara bla,awil, %.U4n lid.a e"jo& of inches long. By simply putting the fol paper down, touching the tray, and B3, again lifting up the paper, the tray is lY again charged, and a large number of ne sparks may be thus drawn one after the PC other in rapid succession, The paper h may be lifted by the hands. but it will ch be found better if a couple of strips of be paper be fixed on with wax to serve as handles The sparks obtained by the tea-tray electrophorus may produce a slight in pricking sensation, but to give a regular be electric shook will obligo us to store u- hi a charge in. a Leyden jar. This import- of ant piece of apparatna may be improvis - th ed as follows: A round-bottomed glass tumbler is procured-thin glass is pre- le ferable-and is filled about three-quart- go ers full of small leaden shqt. If shot is not at hand dry coal aust will answer, br though not so well, and great care must ar, be taken to wipe clean the upper part of ov the tumbler, Everything must be warm ch ana sovupulously dry. Into the shiot is inserted a silver spoonl to serve the "] place of a rod and knob. The tumbler ov is held by grasping it well in the bottom of the haed, so that the palm may cover ii the whole of the rounded bottom. Hay- sh ing thus prepared and grasped the im- w provised Leyden Jar, it is to be charged so with sparks from the tea tray elootrop- ci horns. It shouid be held with the gi spoon handle near to, but not touching mi the edge of the tea tray, while another of person performs the operations of lifting we the paper up and putting it down, then w< touching the tray, then lifting up again th and so on until a dozen arm ' have at been sent into the jar. (N touching. the "knob" a smart little d -ock is ox- lii porienced in the wrists an/, elbows, -and fr. a short, bright, snapping siparkc aninoun- ci ces the discharge of the jar, at wi ti Tihe application ot gold leaf to china- wj warn, is done either by adhesive varnmsh uj or by heat. Trhe varnish Is prepared by c( dissolving in hot boiled linseed oil anm equal weight of eIther amber or copal. TVhis Is diluted with a proper quantity of oil of turpentine so as to be applied as thin as possible to the parts to be glt. Let 1it stand after varnishina about twenty-four ae hours, then heat in an oven untIl so warmn as almost to burn the fIngers when handled.W The. heat softens the varnish, which to then r .dy to receive the gold leaf, whichA may be applied with a brush or pledget ot cotton, and the superfluous portions gi brushed off. Burnish when cold, inter- it, posIng a piece of thin paper between the u] gold and burnisher, Where burning in is m practiced, the gold reduced to powder is -ar nmixed with powdered borax glass (anhy (drous borax\, moistenied with a little gum water, and applied to the clean surface with a camel hair pencil. When quite dry the article is put into a stove heated to about the temperature ot an annealing oven. The gum burns off, .and the borax,t by vitrifying, cements the gold with great ~ firmness to the surface. t Polished steel may be beautifully gilded, by means of the ethereal solution at gold.a D)ssolve pure gold In aqua regla, ovapor-b ate gently to dryness, so as to drive off the St superfluous acidi, redissolvo in.water, and P1 add three times its bulk of bulphurlo ether. W Allow to stand for twenty-rqur hourS in a al stoppered bottle, and the thereal solution i and gold will float at top. .. Polihe.od steel i dipped in this is at once beautifully gilded y and by tracing patterne on;thie surface of at the iibetaI ,With any kind of varnish, beau- ti tiful devices In- plain metal and gilt' will ft be piodnced. For ottierrmet#1s the eloctro it process is best. 0 Life.in a Lirathouse. There are horTible stories told of former ys. when a couple of men being on duty some isolated rock, one of them hap ned to die in rough weather; when the rvivor, fearful of being charged with a nao, remained shut up in the closest oximity to the corpse of his comrade i the lull of the storm brought relief and r opportuL%y of explanation. Recently D heard of a case which might well seem Dredible wore it not amply authenticated. io watolmen on the Wolf Rock, oppo e the Cornish coast, were cut off from I communication with their kind through e drearlest months of the winter; and it 'i nearly the middle of January when 11of reached them at last. Nowadays, >wever, the light-warders in similiar rounistauces Invariably consist of thi ce the least; and both on the light-towers d in the light ships the men are sur unded by all manner of material coin rLs. They have rooms as snug as the nited structural arrangements will admit ay have ample rations of excellent food, r are the needn of their minds by any glected. Still it must be an unnatural e at the best. and one that is perilously Led to nourish sombre fancies. We may neeive that in the men who take most udly to the occupation, the imagination seldom strongly developed; but never oless they must be quick and intelligent. moral speaking, soni moderate amount exercise Is believed to be indispensable preserving the balance of the bodily and mntal powers; rud in the dullest routine ordinary drudgery there are usually oc. sional changes of scene and company. it in nMany a lighthouse the occupants 3 hold fast by the legs, for exercise be mes something more than effort when it reduced to practicing the treadmill upon D steps of a corkscrew staircase, or to ing half a drzen steps upon a slimy ,k at low water. The crews of the light ips are somewhat more favorably cir instanced in this respect, since they can their walking on a more or less roomy ck, and they enjoy, besides, a gienter riety of company. But the lite in both ics must be intolerably monotonous; and a landsman there would be little to oose between the terrois of the one and a other, when the sea is wrapped in in notrable fogs or is being lashed into ry by howling temposts. In a storin, a lighthouse is in reality the safer resi nec of our modern engineers, it is most likely that another Eddystone will be ep, away. Yet as the waves rush up o sloping sides of the tower, and toss air tons of seething gk,cn water against 3 lower courses of nasoi,y, seeming to ake the massive struc'ure fr'n, the light >i to the foundation, it m,st i1Qd ierve d long habit to resist the belief tiat the >lence of the elements may bring v;bout ,atastropho. As for th light ships. be g moored in shallower water, they iay less exposed to the extreme fury of tho bAllrll thWrj ef eadil? it, on the other hand, in even moderate bad weet.her they must always be emi ntly disagreeable places of abode. The cuhar jerking motion, when the natural aving of the ship is being perpetually acked by the stralning cables, is said to trying to the iost seasoned of mariners. - 4 11'm NotvAfrawt. Mrs. Helen Williams tells the follow :: Not long ago I stood by the death d of a little girl, From her birth she d been afraid of death. Every fibre her body and soul recoiled from the ought of it. "Don't lot me die." she said, "don't me die. Hold me fast. Oh, I can't "Jenny," I said, "you have two little others in the other world, and there 3 thlousaII(Is of tenler-hearted 1)e11 or thoroavhio will love you alat take re of you." But she cried out again despairingly, )on't lot, me go; they are strangers or there." Shle was a little country girl, strong. abed, iloot of foot, tanned ini the face; e was raised on the frontier, the fields re her home; she shunned the pre ne of strangers with that childish abarrassment born of a beautiful ima nation aiid faith in the ponsibility of mknowni manhood and womanhood in hers, based doubtless upon the coming rth of her own wvomanhood. In vain a tried to reconcile her to the denth at was inevitable. "Hold me fast," .0 cried, "don't let me go." B3ut even as she was pleading, her 5tle handat relaxed their clinging hol am my waist and lifted themselves gorly aloft; lifted themselves with Oic straining effort that they lifted the risted little body from its reclining sition among tne pillowe. 1Her face ss turned upward; but it was her eyes at told the story. They were filled ith the light of divine recognition, imey saw plainly something that we uid not -see; and they growv brighter id brighter, and her little hand iivered in cagorness to go where range portals had opened upon her tonished vision. But oven in that promo moment she did not forger .to ave a word of comfort for those who ould gladly have died in her place. "Mamma," she was say, "mamma, oy are not strangers. I'm not afraid." ad every instant the light burned more oriously in her blue eyes until at last seemed as if her soul losped' forth >on its radiant wvav0s, and in that olnont her trembling form roeapsed aong its pillows and she was gone. Nerve Stretcing. The subject of norve stretching was cpntly brought before the Harveian miety, of London, by Mr. ['ye. In is case a patient had suffered for ara from seiatica, and had been lated with huge doses of mor phia thout relief. The nerve was laid bare, Ld pulled backward and forward forei y, with from eight to ten pounds pres re. The wound healed well, and the Lmn was lost, but some paresis followed bichl soon wore off. . The~ latient w9.e >le to resume work. 'In redakd to tis atter r,e may add to the aibeie that te list of eases of nervo stretching as at performed is not large enough to ittle the question of justifiableness of te operation.. It has boon les success. Li in tetanus than neuralgia, and promises best Wehere the udrv. is mnranged by an inflammatory area GIANDMAM MA. Ini her old arin chair sle'H sitting, As in days of long ago. And Hho'8 kult ting, kiiltting, kuit 1 ing, (lentlv rocking to aind 6ro. And a Aarkening thought steilim over me, Like lite shalttows on the ilawn, O11 lie lonely days before m1e0 Atter gralnmamm11a is gole. Oh,' wheln grandi.una1. is gone, When grandinumia is gole. Att her pray'rs and tears anl toil for n a re o'er, Who will lcer Its day by day, All aloig the pIlgrini way, To the beititifitl, the ever-Mliniig shoro Years ago, i dear couilpaiMon, , 'roilnisud her(, it blushling bride, To protect, to lovo ait cherish, Even till death shioitl thonli livide, O'er.a low imotind 'IlVath the WilloW, 811n1n1er roses long have blown, ThIey will bloom above another, Ater granldinalilni is gone. 'Neath 1h4 hill the mmin is setting, A nld Ih twilight shallows collie; Still she's wailing, walling, waiting, Till her Master 'alls her hoine. Atid I weep 6or 'riends dep-artei, While they're going, one by one, We shall hav onie. nlorn ill heave-i A kl*' grandt1i1it ini 1m I goie. Tiho Art of Lyliig in lid. One of the most useful, yet neglected f all the arts Is that of lying in bed. Thc lamage that is done by persons getting up a past. all reckoning. All the mischile Lnd crinn, the counterfeiting and forgery ,he murder and thelt, are prepetrated by )artids who persist in gettlig tip. Nol mly individuals do wrong by leaving thoi )cds, but rivers as well (o an imuens imount of damlago. Witness the Ohik [liver, which left its bed a few weeki ince. How much damuago has its diver ion wrought I What an immense, ieal. .ulable amount ot work, labor and expense as not its early rising caused? What mat, mas ever dunned by a creditor, had his 3ye put in mourning by a too close proxim. ty with some ono's list, broke his leg on a ;hppery pavement, was run over by at, miubtis, who lay in bed ? What great achievements have been a1 lomplished in war, in Poetry, i hterature )y genius abed I What noble thoughts lave been born between the sheetp, and, ).ice delivered froni their authors' brahs, ;one, Jehu-lhke, whistling down the race :ourse of time I "Coining events cast thei ihadows bolore" -one ot the nost, meli. )rable lines in the English langiagC-oig. nated with the gin-loving poet, Toni Jamp,)bell, one morning buiore be had risen. Longfellow thought out that ox. Iuisite poem, "The Wreck of the tiesper. 1s," after he had retired. Ben Franklir ;aid: "Early to bed and early to rise nakeR a man healthy, wealthy and wise.' Now, Franklin ptarted out all right, but 4ot mixed when he said "early to rie.' yhere is the fatal pistake. People who rise early are euro to catch the malaria )us gerns; suYii &1iii96 1l(&'"i warmed them Into life, giving them wings iad set them adrift. Poor, iisguidec nan, ho arises, Inhales them all ; they ructify and poison his entire system; ionce chills, fever, malaria and half the lis that human itesh Is heir to.' lise iefore the sin, And nike a breakfast of the morning tew, Served up by nature onl smio grass liai y. You'li 1Iid it nectar. Was ever more arrant nonsense writteh ?aucy a man getting up on a cold, rainy norning and climbing one of the high hills ibout Cincinnati on an empty stomach, ad leaving tile French coffee and hot rolls )oached eggs and oyster stew, to eat What I Why, (low. How long would that 'ellow last ? Wouldn't he be a fit candi. Inte for Longviow, and no questions askedi 3ut, the early bird catches the worm. Yes, )ut that sharp boy knocked that do. usion in the head forever and1( eternaitlly rhen he saidl: "Fathier, there's the point; vhiat in thunder did( the wormi get up so arly for I'' He trifled with destiny; he empted fate ; he should not, have done t. That boy was a benefactor to the umian race, iIe was sound( on the lic bed question. The French proverb says, Do lit a las able, do la table au lit-"lrom bed to grub, from grub to bed," That's some lhng like it. Get up and cat, eat and go o bed again. Why not?9 All the animals ho it. All nature, the grandmother of uc ill, teaches it,. Every animal in the world pats and seeks repose. The coW cats, and ytng down, placidly chews hier cud ; th< mnaconda swallows an ox, horns and al, tndi goes to sleep-"seep that knits ul ho raveled sleeve of ca e ; the birth ol >ach day's life, sore labor's bath, balm o: flirt mhindls; great iiature's second course: 3hief nourisher in life's feast." And ye this is what they would dleprive us of wh<c say get uip and who oppose the art of lyini ibed. ~ A Spamish Minister, suddenly raised t< :>ower, signalhzed the event by going t< )eci and staying there for fear lie might uave something to do. it was in bed, at ~he little inn at W aterloo, that the Duke 01 Wellington received the list of the terrib< casualties of the fatal 18th of Juno. GIray' "Ode to Music" was written in bed, ant Barn Johnson's "Lobo's Voyage to Abys smia" was dictated to the printers befor< the great author of the "Lives of the Po ata" and lexicographer had arisen. Pete Pmndar (Dr. Wolcott) was ao fond of lying abed that lie received his visitors lying be neath spreads and counterpanes. Rtossin wrote one of his finest operrs in bed, an was too lazy to pick up a sheet that hiad fallen away, George NV lay in bed t< read the newspapers and Macaulay reat twonty pages of S3chiiler before gettIng up, John Foster thought out his sermons ii bed and the methodteal Anthony Trollopt tieed to read an hour before getting up Jynical Pope wrote: I Wake at night Bools come into niy head and so I wrIte. sirs. Macbeth strikes the keynote whiei the shouts . "To bed I, to bed I" Peopli iunt, the world over for pleasures, indulgt Li all sorts of mad pranks in their searol for recreation and repose; roam from thi Notth Pole to the S3outhern Cross, penes rate African junglils and freeze with' Si btirians and L&plandeo's, clinib the Alps iwelter at Sarafoga and1 Long Branch It pursuit of pleasuve. Alas 3 -they,seek hap piness whore it is not and neglect It Wher4 it is--in bed. ovver get apt) 'Tis the scretof story ; Notbtin so true can htilofoph) preach; rhlnk of the namecs th ft are famous In glory Never got up ts the lesson they teachi. Ho0w ha'e meEt com ''mriaedtatrtachiol@ieente 1iow have molde the -W9rid to their will? 'Tim that taid sorrows ad threats and bereave ments 'Never get .m" was theitr principle sti4. A ATnin1 RWoma1ea. Bpencer & Hiner, of Fon Duc Lac are the attorneys for the saloon keeper, Alex. ander -cKaue, who is one of the heire to mines i New Atexico valued at over $1,000,000. The circumstances are as follows: About the year 1871 Frank Mc. Kane went from Indiana to New Alexico, and, like nearly all men who go into a uning country, he located a number of claims. He was a bachelor, and livp4 the life of a thriftless vaLrarondi for several years, when he opened a saloon. He maintained himself in the busi. ess, not keeping a very elaborate place, until 1880, when he died of smallpox, poverty-strick en and deserttd. ie had not even a friend left to communicate the intelligence'of his death to his E tstern relative', it it was ktLown there he had any. Hjs ff%mlly, con. sisting of three brothers, did not leain of his death until a short tino ago, a gentle nian appeared who was desirous of pur chasing their rights in the mines alluded to above. Alckane's family consists of Alexander McKane, of this city; James alKane, of Clay county, Indiana, where lie is a col lier; and Samuel AlcK-ne, now co fined in the Indiana ptnitentlary at h1 chigan City. The last was iucaro rated tor bur glary, but prolonged his term of I prison nent by attoip,ing to how a le off one of the prison guards. There w also an other meuber of the fannly, wl ,it was reporte(,died of yellow fever in t e Suth. le was a fugitive Irom justice, id there $10,000 reward on his head for murder comnitted in Texas some years s ce. Shortly after b1cKane's death I trans pired that soni c.t the mines whic he 10 cated were exceedingly valuab and Brown & Young of St. Louis, set t getting possession of thein. The I ro of the firm is B. Gratz .rown, who was a candidate for the Vice Presidency with Orecicy. They sent out Daniel Murphy to Dunt uIp the AlcKano heirs and huy them o1r. Murpny obtained a quit clain deed from Jies McKano. in Indtaia, for $1,000. le imade the saie kind of a trade also with Sanucl, in the poiteti ary at 1lichigan Oit.y. Ile w aVome time accomphishing his object with Alexander AcKane. of this city, on account of- the peculiarities of the person with whom he had to deal. Alurphy represented that the mines were of little value, that they were undcvcloped and involvei in litigation, that McKane's claim had been sold out, and that lie simply wa'ted to perfect his title to the property. Alexander Is some what eccentric and rather superstitious. lie was, it seems, a little suspicious, and employed Spence & liller as lils lawyers. ''hey wanted to look up the mines to as certain their real value, but McKano was unmanageable by lawyers and obstinate. R-irphy offored him $5,000, and, despite the auvice of Ilis counsel, lie took it, giv ag a quit-clani deed of his interosi h --A brothcr's itining olali. tpepvo and made inquiries by telegraph, learning enough to warrant beginning suit against Murphy, before Doi left tie city, to set aside his convoyanco on tbn grout. d that It was obtained by false reprentations. blc Kane repunte(d of his rashness in giving the dced. h1r. Iliner afterward spent soue time III hunting up James AlcKan, taking Alex anuder along to assist him. James retained the firm to ight his case also. Mr. Spen. cer has just returned iroin a two weeks' trip to Mexico, looking up the legal points in the case. .11 found that McKauc died possessed of a cl-ar thic to a one-half in terest in io less L1ihani live mines viz: the Viola. the Penelope, the Windward, the .lver Bell, and the Webster.. Murphy had been interested in securing tittes to the first three are worth over $1,000,000, and have been imiproved to soine extent.. Alur phiy transferre(i his tittlo by a trust deed to B. Gratz Brown, o'f St. Louis, and John E. Price, ot Grant county, New Mlexico. Suilts were therefore begun there t.o set asitie their title antx the wihole matter is naw In the courts. "Wool, Bridget,"' said Margery, "how did yeu got along with the doe thmur?" Bridget-". Says I, "Och Doothur, dear its my tooth that aches entirely, and I have a nmindt to have it drawn oot, and it plaizo yel" Says he til me, 'Och, murther, can ye ask me that now?' Says I, 'Sure haye I slept day or night these three days?' So thin the doethur took his iron instriunont in a hurry, with as little con. arnmont as Barney would swanpe the knives anid forks from the tables. 'lie aisy, Doethur, sa.ys I, 'there's tinto enough-you'll not be an such a hurrY when your thurn comes, I'm thimking." '0, well, says the Doe thur, 'and yor no ready now you ma.y come the morrow.' 'Indade Doetliur, I'll not stir from this sate wid this auld tooth alive in umy jaw,' says I; 'chip on yor pinchers and miind ye get hoult of the right one-ye may tuizily see it by its aching and j Lmping.' "With that ho (labs a razor looking weapon intil the miouth, and outs up the gums, as if it were natught but cowid mate for hash for breakfast. Says I, 'Doothur, what are you afther? .D'ye want to make an anatomy of a living creather?' 'Sit still,' says lie, jamming somethmig like a corksow into my jaw, and twistimg the very sowi ,out of me, I sat still, because the murdgring thiafo hell me down with his knoes and the grip of his iron in my lug, Ho then gave an awvful pull, bard enough tco wring a wet blanket as dry as gunpow der. Didn't I thiink the day of judgnient was come till mo? Didn't I see the red fire of the pit? "I felt any head fly off mxy.shoulders, and, looking up, saw sootjing nu the doothur's wroeng-Iron. 'Is that my head you'yo.got'thofe?' %gus I. q4, it's your only tootli'bomalleinawor 'Maybe iis,,' says 1, asmy 43os began toon, andI by pimt4ngzmy-.hand ispIfound the outside of mny face op, *oighJfelt as if all the ir side :hade becai ha 1 out A I 'h a takentia dolar1 for' the opasration, but l' thought'd~r. j is g3un the: prie, so I 'sayan 'Doethur, 4ow much:~ may 9~ i~ xeside tt*igie?' says.I. 'Bare J've not b~sbi~h threeddays to thd tigit' IO %o fty-ens,2 rot - ulin1 t act~