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1'. TRI&'WELEKLY EDITION- WINNSBORO. S. C.. MAY 31, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 Leail"! iother tenderly Do n'1 . ,tep decline; Once her aria 1N; thy support, Now she loais11tn" Se upon her loving fae, ?' Those deep lines of care; Think-it was her toil for thee Loft that record there. Ne'er forget her tireless watch Kept by day and night, Taking from her step the grace, From her eye the light. Cherish well her faithful heart W'hicl, t.hrougli weary years; Echoed with its-sympathiy All thy smiles and tears. Thank lod for thy muother's love, Guard the priceless boon; For the bitter parting hoar Conoth all too soon. When thy gratetil tenderness Loses power to save-, Earth will hold no dearer spot Than thy 'not.hor's grave. 111s RIVAL I It was the time when lilies blow. The pearl-grey clouds wore sailing and piling themselves lazily above, and behind these were "(leptlls beyond depths" of clearest azure. The crickets chirped drowsily among the drooping grasses, now and then a bird uttered a faint protest against the heat, and dropped into silence again. Dell Irving tripped down the garden path with its fringes of feathery ferns and pale, sweet-faced violets. She was looking as cool as if the day were filled with delicious sea breezes. Tle golden hair, piled on the dainty head in the indescribable manner fash ion dictates, was shaded by a lingo chip hat. What a picture she made, as, scissors in hand, she stood and contemplated the sweetly-blooming flower-beds before her, filled with their ol fashioned favorites, as well as newer, rarer flowers. A small, yet perfectly formed young girl her every action and gesture a poem in itself, so unconsciously graceful was it. But when you noticed the pretty arch mouth, you were somehow compelled to believe that Miss Dell,was not quite so innocent as she looked and that she had a will of her own, if she only chose, to use it. Another figure flitted up the gardent path--thlat of a young man, tall, dark stalwart and handsome. The "dark, dark eyes" lit upl) when he saw Dell, and he waved his hand gaily'to her. "Isn't it warm to-day?" Rick said this with a profoundly wise look, as if afraid Dell might not yet have discovered the fact. Then lie fanned himself vigorously with his straw hat., "Do you really think so?" with sar casm. "Why, I was laboring under the mistaken impression that it is rather cool. I'm glad you caine to undeceive me " gratefully. Don't be ridiculous!" said Rick An derton severely. Then-"Won't you give me a flower, Dell?" with an insinuating smile. "Here is the 'last rose of suniuer, '' said Dell, cutting the "last rose" off its stem with a vicious snip of the scissors. 'Its rather faded and ol, but, of course, you don't mil(l," iii a tone iipossible to translate. "No, indeed,'' said Rick provokingly, while Dell pinned it to the lapel of his coat. "Of course I don't mind if it is a trifle faded." le was lookinl straight into Dell's eyes as he said it, and as lie was her lover Dell took an unfair interpretation of thii last remark. "Dell, where did you get that ring?" Rick Ander~jton~ took DelPs snowflake of a hand ini his own great strong one, and gazedl at it, a frowvn, lbalf playful, half real, in his eyes. "Oh, somnewhierel'" said Dell, in a manner as exaspieratinig as it was vague. "But which 0one do you meian, Rick? This one? Why, you gave it to me. Don't you remember?" "I dlon't mean that one," said Rick the frown in his eyes growing more Omnously dlark, the p)layful expression "This one, then? Aunt Belle gave it to me on my last birthday. ''You've seen it ever~ so many times before, I'm qiuilte sure." "I don't mean that one!"' And Rick's voice was so harsh, and stern and( jealous that I)ell almost skipped out of here dainty slippers. Dell heaved a reluctant sigh. T1here was only one ring-left-a (deli cately-chased gold one-so she supj Posed she would have to tell hiim all about it. Sihe meant to teach him at lesson, though, for being so jealous without, a cause. "This,"' she began, with a charming, as wvell as exasp)erating, air of rehict ance, "er-Jim sent me yesterdlay. Isn't it too lovely?" gazing up at himi with those bewvitchinig blue eyes. Rick made no reply, but held( her hanid tightly crushed in his own, (displeasure and pain in his eyes. "You hurt me, Rick," said1 Dell plaintively, gently essay inig to withdraw her hand. Sihe was rather enjoying t:.o scene, but she had no intention of permitting her handl to be broken to bits. With an Inpatient gesture, Rick dropped it. "'Who is Jim?" lhe sid( abruptly. "A dear old friend of mine, Rick!'' with enthusiasm. "I only wish you 'p knew .Jim. You w~ouild be Perfectly (de lIghted wvith -" 7"I bog leave to (liffer with you,' "Haid Rick freezingly, "I would no(t lbe (de lighted wilth hinm.. Doll lookedl snubbedl. "lBut isn't the ring pretty?" she said at hast, holdIg it up tantalizingly. "And see what's engraved on It." "To Darling De)lh, from Jli." As Rick readl,.thie passioniato jealous pain at his heart became almiost uinen Hie daredl not trust himself to speak so lie ttirnied abrupjly on his heel,- 41m( strode rapidly (down the garden patth. Dell lighed, though just a little un - "He will come back to-night," she though~t, "to ask to be forgivoen for Dor dioibting mie, and then how he will laugh lwhen lie knows all about it." But tle-lovely blue eyes were a trifle clouded for all tU wnlu 1 ie " .( to the 1,SOm hd wltlll1 1 ---lfiit Belle noticed the elo said "What is the matter with Rick And erton, Dell? le walked away as if rac ing for a wager.'' "Oh, he got mad!" said Dell, de lightfully vague, as was her wont. "'The mountain and the squirrel had a (uarreli' " laughed Aunt Belle, re suming her. book without giving further thought to the matter. She was quvtv accustomed to Rick's and Dell's little squabbles, and did not imagine that this was anything more serious than usual. But Rick did not come back that evening nor the next; and Dell become uneasy, illnd then righteously indignant. What a fuss Rick made about noth ing, on account of jealousy and ill-tem per. Why couldn't ho have waited for an explanation, instead of starting off in such a huff? Well, she was glad to get rid of him, and hope it was for good and all. But for all that, Dell did not feel quite happy. If only Rick were not so inclined- to misjudge her. Glad news! Jim Harper was coming on a visit that very afternoon, and 1)ell was to be at the station at two o'clock, with her pony phaeton. .She made herself look very bewitch ing in a light summer dress, with great goldenhearted pansies at her throat and in her belt. She was radiantly happy. How nice it would be to see dear old Jim again! After all, this world was t very glad world to live in, in spite of the jealous Ricks who tried to Imoke it, so unhappy. Rrick Anderton was at the station lounging about with a dissatislied and and not altogether happy look on his face. As the train came up, shrieking and puffing, Dell flitted past him without even a nod of recognition, and gazed delightedly at one of the windows. There were not many passengers bound for this sleepy village, but anong them was one dainty brunette, who threw herself rapturously into Dell's arms. Rick stare(1 in astonishment. IIe had heard, as naughty Dell well knew that a certain Jim Harper was about to pay a visit to Mrs. Belle Irving, and he had haunted the station in order to find out what sort of a looking fellow this Jim Harper was. IIe found out at last. "Jemima Iarper--dear old Jim-how delighted I am to see you again !" gushed Dell rapturously, taking good care to speak loud enough for Rick to hear every word. And then she and her old school friend drove away, while Rick Ander ton stood and started after them like one (lazed. I don't think Rick deserved .much mercy at Dell's liands, do yout? But when lie came to her that even ing, so repentant and humble, what could she do but "forgive and forget?" Rick promised never to be jealous again, and bids fair to keep his word. Dell was a little sorry, however, that she surrendered so soon, for, as her old schoolmate herself declared "Rick would never have found so ready a pardon from Jimi!" atecreation tor the Milliton. It is not given to every one to cross the ocean and make the tour of Europe; to revel In the halls of daz'aling light of New port or Baratoga; to repair to the sea-side or the mountain top, and there for five dol lars a (lay to (drink in tihe life-giving air. Thme spirit may be willing but the means are wanting. And yet the same need for recreation exists in the life or those of mo derate means as in those of the rIch. This largAer class, however, will be glad to know that the Pennsylvamia Railroad Coumpany nronoses to continun dsorang the season of 1883, Its popular dlaily excursions between Jersey City and Newburgh, a route furn ushmng many ob.jc.s of interest, and an infinite variety of scenery. The magnIti cent steamer, Richard Stockton, under the command of Uaptain Lawrence F. Frazee, will leave the .Pennsylvamia Railroad docks, Jersey City, every morning at 9 a. mn., (excepting Thursday at 0:30 a. mn.) and arrive at Jersey City on the return trip about 0:30 p. mn. ThIs steamer is sub stantilly built, fully equipped and with a capacity for 2500 passengere. On the ro)ute such points of interest as Weehaw ken, Ft. Lee, Yonkers, the Palisades, Tar rytown. Sing 8ing, Bleepy Hollow, 8tony Point, West Point, Iona Islanid and New burgh, with a privilege of remaining at the three last named for a time varyIng from one to two hours. The tickets are put at very reasonable rates, and we know of no way in which a day can be so pleasantly spent, with a trifling expense as on one of these trips up the Hudson on the Stockten. Trees in tihe Northnwest. Economy has led to tree planting on an extensive scale In the N4orth and Northwest. Belts of timber are taking the places of p)ine fences along the ex piosed p)ortioiis of the railroad where some barrier of necessity be maintained aigainist snow dirifts. Thme fences thalt have beeni relied upon01 have to be0 eight feet high, and1(, besides costling $800) a muilg, need coiistanit attention anid re pair'. Fuirtherinore, the farmers carry off the boards, anud the stoutest oak plosts 81nap1 like pipe stems in a thor oughgoing priairie gale. Tfrees ani swer all the requl iremnents iiuch better. The white willIowv, which grows to a height of twvelve feet ini four years5, has beeii found to be the cheapest and( best though the box elder, cotton wood, anid green ash wIll seirve. Tfh.e soil must be prepamred iby harr'iow Ing, however, andi(. prairie soil is oft en so poor as to reqhuire two or three years' work. Even then it is said that It is cheaper to use live fences than dead ones. These tree fen-. ces aro constructed by p)lanting two parallel lines of trees oni the sIde of the tracks exposed to the strongest 'vinds Bologneso customs. In the Bolognese territory some curi ous customs prevail. A young man i have courted a young wolrn for vwalki I with her home m11 i,m'd' listing her in field labors; but he is never allowed to enter her house until he comies for betrothal before the priest.. Even after this the girl's father is not supposed to be ofli cially informed of the affair until a week before the marriage is to take place, the bridegroom's father or soie one in his stead, goes to ask for the hand of the bride. 11er father "plays the Indian," is astonished and reluctant, but at length bestows his conset and they all set out together to buy the marriage gifts, which consist of as nuch garnet jewelry as the bridegroom can afford, besides several rings. The buying of these things is a fete to thefanily-thieamuount of bargainng for theni and discussion afterward as to whether they could have been got better and cheaper elsewhere, is sonething incredible to those who have not heard it. When the bride is dressed for the marriage ceremony,' wearing her maiden necklace of coral, the bridegroom is introduced with the arnets in his hand, and asks her whether she will exchange her coral for what he brings. 11er new ornaniets add the filislling strokes to her attire, which is usually a gay flowered dress and em broidered silk or muslin apron, tied with at broad sash, and -t white veil. After the ceromiony the husband takes her honie, and at the door she finds a broom. Her mother-in-law has designedly left the dust thick on a table or on the floor, if the bride does not notice it, it is a sign that she is a bal housekeeper; but she is usually warned of this trap, and falls to sweepmng with the convenient broon. It is very necessary that she should ap pease the presiding genius of the house, for no matter how old the sons may be, when they marry, the parents still hold undisputed sway, and as they usually all live together under one roof and at one table, a daughter-ii-law's position is by no means an easy one if she is iisliked by the heads of the family. She is greatly separated from her own lamily, in a ceremonial point of view; eight days after narriage site plays then a visit; and then and henceforward she is addressed by them with the formal "you" instead of the tender "thou" to which she has been accustomed. One Lunar )ay. Let us, in fancy, take such a journey as perhaps the eiancipated soul May Lake, across the abysses of space. We must leave our bodies behind us,- and go on the voyage as unclothed spirits go. We swiftly traverse the void, and take our place in the center of the moon's visible hemisphere in the depth of the lunar midnight. We are~ not wrapped in1 complete darkness; ia sil very earth-light illuminates such a landscape as Dante might have added to his pictures of the Inferno. We are camped upon a rugged plain of glassy basalt alla scoria. To the westward, the prodigious volcanic masses of Copernicus rise twelve thousand feet above us, and to the northward the view is bounded by the great wall of the Apennines, rising to Andeani heights. They are not forest-clothed or snow crowned. We see only basaltic needles and colulnnis, and enormous vertical precipices of glassy obsidian, stan(ding unchanged and innnovable from age to age-for here is no wind nor rain, nor ny active agency capable of disturbing the deathly stillness and repose. No stream gnaws at the base of the tre inendlous precipices; no cloud rests upon their sunnits; no sound ever rover berates from mont aiti to mountain. Under our feet the floor of lava seems to rest upon01 insecure founidations. Vast chaismis and crevices, of inconceiv Ible dlepths and filled wvith a mysterious dlarkness, traverse the plain. We seem to be0 lost spirits-sole survivors of sonme awful (loom, dw~elling uponi t,he burnt-out cindters of a floatitng p)lanetary biell, now (lead antd frozeni to its heart. We look upwvard and see a fairer vision -one of p)lanletary life. .in the center f the black (domie ab~ove us, unchiangitng L1 ;ts lace~i tAceptL un it aiways imiper Ueeptibly northwvard anad south ward iti a dlight vibration,,-we see, as vast and bright as its eqluator the great cloud ring is revealedl as a zone of dhazzlinig whiiteniess; andl( (loud-mtasses areO float inogeveryw~vhere,yetntot whollyconceal ing lifteen full moons1), our famniliar earth. Aroun d are the wvell-known outlines of the,continents. The earth hazs lnsecret,to hide from us, as the mooin hides one of its hemispheres from the eart,h. As we look uplward we p)erceive a steadly rotation, the continments marching past in panoramic succession. As Asia vanishes upon01 the easterni rim, America rises upon01 the wvestern; the polar ice capms shine wvithm a splendid white lighit. The earth remnains fIxed in our1 zentith, but the stars march past it iti an end( less flow. The milky way, the constel lationts of thme zodiac, the planets ini their order, all swveep by or are hidden l'or a little while behind the gireat white L)rb, which seemns to taLkeJ no0 part in the tndless priocessioni of the universe; it whirls swvif'tly and( visIbly on its axis, lbnt ntever chanitges its place. But for its slight pendlnuhn swing, it is fixed itmmovably in miid-heaven. It was wvell that we left our' bodies idden under01 Uhe wairm, white atmuosphero of tihe ~arthm; thte great phlintet above us haus n)1mplleted mtore thian seveni revolutionis since thme sunlight shione upon01 our rest Iig-llace, and1( aroundl( us is deCadly, terrible col, almost the inconceivable, ibsohnte zero of the literp)lanietar'y ipaices. The long night slowly wanmes is we keel) our stranLtge wvatcht. It was ighitest at the lunmar mtlidightt, for a blauck shmadlow is slowly creepmtg across shie earth's splendid wh'lite dis5k. It was ' perfect sp)here when we first looked 11)01n It? butt now it hmaus completed seven revoht onts, and is but a hemisphere; half of it hils been swallowed by (lark ness. It is darkest jest biefore dawvn; Im1t nmow a chanmge is comning. There Is rio dlawn light in the sky, but the tre Inenousloi spires of the Apeunines6begin to glitter with an Intense blujsh-whuite iplendor. The moon's morinIig Is at land. There Is no0 1)0mp1 of prIepara LIon, such as we saiw on earth; no shariot of Apollo wit1pped In gold amnd 3rimnson clouds. no Aurora onnhu thne gates of day; the glaring blue light is strangely contrasted. with the utter blackness of the shadow. Slowly the day gains upon the night, as the illum illation cfeeps downward toward the mountain bases. Suddenly the rim of the sun rises above the eastern horizon; without a moment's preparation, or an gradual transition, we pass from the (epths of midnight to the light of the lunar day. The deadly desolation of the landscape is now fully revealed. We see only volcanic ruins, ashes, scoria, hardened lava-alows the chim neys of burnt-out craters. kot a cloud floats in the heavens; n1ot a water-drop or blade of grass exists upon the plain. Tlhere is no atmospheric perspective, n blue veil of air hiding and softening the listant outlines; the hollow vones upion the farthest horizon reveal feittures as sharp and clear as tho u of the great nountain at whose feet we stand. '1'le sun shines with a destroying brightness, and the rocks beneath us begin to feel its powcr, and glow with fervent .heat. We look upward, not ,upon a vault of tender blue, but upon a black abyss, crowded with stars, as in the lunar nidnight. The earth still hangs from the center of its black dome, but it has wated to a hollow cadent, and as the suni glides past the' light for a little .vhile utterly goes out, but soon begins to kindle again and grow, as the sun sinks toward the west. The earth has nade fourteen revolutions since the long (lay began, and now the sun seems to rest upon the southern 101)e of Copernicus. The valley is at furnace, seven times heated; the rocks are luni nous with a dull red glow. Bit now the sull goes (lowln suddenly, without, a twilight, the earth, illlnlovable in mid heaven, is now a hemisphere of soft, splendid whiteness; the fiery light climbs the slopes of the Apennines; and dies upon their highest crest; the glowing heat of the rocks swiftly radiates into space; as the col gains ill intensity the eartl-light brightens, till our home orb is once more the perfect sphere of the lunar midnight. Since we pitched our camp it period equal to twenty-niie and a half earthly days has passed, and the evening and morning are one day of the 1ead world. Big Dlning Boons. Speaking of stomachs that are palpa ble, they have become a feature in New York architecture. A walk up Fifth avenue reveals the fact that new houses have had to bend to the require nents of the era that Carlyle called the age of the belly,. Dining rooms may have always had conspicuous attention in the plans for rich men's residences, but never before were they made to i trude upon observation, and to disten the wall lines of otherwise rectangular buildings, exactly after the fashion of that human proof or high regard for good living as is typified in the alder men of tradition. The famed mansions that have lately arisen along the fash ionable thoroughfare seem all to be alike in that one respect. So much extra space has been required for ample and luxurious dinitg halls that the houses seem to present fat paunlches to the mublic gaze. Starting down from the Central Park, the first new mansion is that of Mr. Frederick W. Stevens, the millionaire lawyer, on the corner of Forty-seventh street. The dining-room extends beyond the great brown-stone >alace in anl anniex almost ats long and tall as the main building. It is equip ped with a rarc treasury of heavy iate, delicate china and filmy glass, and the carved hardwood furniture and row of (dd candelabra are not surpassed else where, but the main feature of the 'ooml Is the collection of Moorish ;addle-bags of emnbossedl leather that, mad the walls. T1hey aure the million lire's pride. He collected them ini long iourneyinlgs thtrough Spain and1( Moroe :o. Thte dining-room in thte new hioutse >f Mr. Kemp)1, thte manll whoe nm1d(1 i lions in Florida water, is an excep)tiont .o the rulle as far as thte manner of its :onstruction goes, for it, is like ordinary mnes- a mere room int the hiouse. But t is thte costliest and biggest of all the rooms. Its ceiling is malIde of shteets of ustrous stamped brass. All three of. hie new Vanderbilt htouses expose their [lininlg-roomus aIfter the aIbdiomIinal fash - on. It will not be dlemed( anl over :ighlt if thme opp~ortutnity for the thtou ;and1(th1 descripltionl of these gorgeous .lpartments is niot htete emtbraced. Per halps the best examp)les of thle newv pro trberant order of dininlg-roomi 001n trutctionl are seen1 in the grand houses that the sons of the old HIugutenot land nYonlopolist, Peter Goclet, halve just nloved into 0on thlecorner of Forty-ninth treet and1( the corner of F.~orty-.eighith .treet. Thtese houses are exceedilngly luiet in oiutwardl effect, but as marked ly rich within. In each the dlinting room is extended into a contservaltory irojection beyond the house. TIhle ditn ng-rooms proper are flutished In thte Frencht style, in white, paneled with ilt molding, imnclosintg oil paintings on anvas, ordered fronm the most con..* Spiculous artists In Paris aInd int London. L'he effect of leaving one0 end( of these toomns open so as to antllow thte trop)ical Lisplay of huge-leaved planits and gaud(y howuers in the glass-roofed conservator es to form an indleflnite foutrth wall, nd1( pernitting then contcealent of nat ~rchestra on great occasions, is exceedi ntgly pleasing. AInCIe,nt D)limhes. The British mIftSeumIl has julst aqrulir= di an initeresting collection of thirty dine silver objects which gives an in ight Into the dalily life of the Baby onians, and remnd(s us of the dliscov ry of thte bird dealer's shlop at.Pompeii. ihese objects, whichh were aill found to ethier on the site of lBabylotn consists )f fragments of silver dishles, tlhe broken tandle of a vase and1( coins most of the atter being defacedl and chipped. It Is masy to see that all have been brokeur lurposoly by ai practiced hand, with the low~ of using thte metal again, and we nay fairly conlclud(e that thet colleetin Is thte remalits of a sIlversmith's or oier's shop. .Amnong thte coins Is a ~yianl one in good p)reservationj. So lar as cant be judged from the vase tandle and dishes, thlme art Is distinctly Babylonian -under Persian influtence, ~nd tile workshop may date from tile ~onquest of Alexanlder, A New Form of MAutinevs. '1'he men who patrol the cemeteries after the sun has gone (lown are armed with pistols and clubs and are generally accompanied by trained and savage bloodhounds. In addition to these ex ternal and tangible means of defense they must be gifted with rare and pe cluhar mental organization. So many men have lost their reason through watching graves at night that persons In that position have come to believe that they risk Tpsing into a state of melancholia perfectly distinct from any other form of insanity. Sextons and grave diggers call the affection "tomb stone tadnes1s." A startling realization of this fact wan tcl. raphed throughout the coun try reZ tly. It was announced that several of the soldiers who do sentry diuty (lay and night at the tomb of Garfiold, amid the dreary solitmulc of Lake View Cemetery, iea1 Clevelamd, have be.come insane. Anything or any device is used by the mnen to get away from the ghostly muster of tombstones or the dark arraty of miounds. An old watchman at Glenwood Cemeterv ex phlined this to a reporter recently by saying that in all probability th'e soldiers detailed at the grave were not picked. "Take half a dozen men from any walk of life,'' he continued, "and place them at. night, to watch grave yards, and the chiales are that in a short time five of the six will feel like retiring perianvitly to a liutie asy luun."1 "If a m1an wints to enter this pro Iossion and be a success at, it he iumst, he abottt as impressionable as brick iml(1 mortar. If he has the least hit of im agination lie had better abandon the hbusiness, for wlen ithe noon is obscured by clouds and he is walking about a cemetery, shivering fromt his heels upward, lie will listake touhlstones for ghosts. lie will think that. the owls, as they wliz past. his ear wit Ii their mlloul'inful hoot, are m1u1(luiet spirits come to h aunt the reecl tnebles of the bodies which they once perineated. When the noise of his footsteps makes the rats disappear with a rustling soinl into little thickets of evergreens Ie will start and grasp his weaponl. The very whine of his (log will nmake him feel nervousI and bit by bit his reason will become impaired.'' "I coul give you some1 sad remi niscnses of people who watched grave yardis," said one of the olest watclineil at Laurel lill Cemnetery, ini a strange, solemn tone. Then, hal' jest.ingly, lie added: ''But they're buried ini tihe past, and it's may business to let what.'s buried remain so." lie did not mind telling one story, however. "I used to work iln a Brooklyn celetery before I cae1110 to this city, he begail. "It was there that the terrible scene whiclh 1 shall speak of ocurred. We wanted an assistant night watehnlmnlli very badly but none of the persons who pre sentedI themselves could endure staying up with the graves for more than two or three nights each. At last there came an uunfortuinate man whose health scem'd shattered by overwork and privation. It was his hist vent ire. 110 had tried to get e'u)iloylent everywhere without, re:sult, and his wife and child ren were sulifering. We took himn on. I don't think I shall ever forget his face the morning after his lirst night in tle gnaveyand. Ile said Ie had alIduIred unheald-of' agony, but was hopetfll of getting over it ill time. The following n1ight, was d:h1rk anld witnly. Rlain camte down inl torlrents and there were Ilash es of lightning every few iniutes. At abouit 1 o'clock the head waltlan heanl a low cry; there wats ia sound of runiniIg fa2t , followed by thie r'eporIt of at pistol. A searich wasi in1ad(1 and thie uinforttunate mani wa:s found ly'ing Oil ius baick acr'ioss a gr'ave dead(. TIhere was a small 12010 in his temple, and11 his owni r'evolverl, one( baruirel (if which waus (emlpty, 1lay thrieet feet auway, where lie hadl lung it, iinbeded in thle ground. It wats certaini that1, SOine( learfuli cr'eaitin of thle ilmaginlatio had111( so terifie hm11112 thlat lie took hlis lifeo to es0cape f'rom it.'' When the (o(1ld an had finished this nlarratlive lie wais silent for111I many mill iites. .liJo sat, pierfectly still, with a vatcanlt hook, anud aillowed brigiht team's to chas1e 02ach oither down his cheek. Suddeni3li e madi(e a brisk mnol.ion ma11( foircily) forgot the( subl ject ofi hiis narraI'2 tive. "T'lhere arie aimusinug thinhgs som11 inies," h'le 52aid, spieakinmg ait lirst withi an1 elf'ort. ''A short, timime ago4( a 1man1 was put to( work at. niighmt ini a (''eeery not farm from here. Ile strolledl ar1oundl in an2 all'ected indi Iferent, way, whuistliing tunues dlear t.o his counitrymen10. Iln 'the courlse of his r'amblinmg lie (umbled bodily into a newly-imade grave' anmd a lot of loose cart.h feel on hium wlien1 he reatchecd the bottom. Ile stiruggled wik(lly, and( inl about an hiour' and1 three (quart.ers lmanauIgedl to get (ou1, sc ream inig Iust ily that the devil hatd dlug a grave anud tr'ied to bury him ini it. With a in1gle bound lie cleared at four'-foot fenmce, roll dIown It for'ty-folot hill, and1( that's time haist of himt, for 1no one( about, here ever set eyes (on him algaini, dbead or atlive. lie must haIve gone back to 11relalnd, for lhe waisn't hiurit at al11. Somne pra2ct Ial Jokers 01100 tr'ied to scare' a waItchman,tu aL frienmd of ine1(. It was inmmense fun-for' the w~atch 1man1. Thmey got, llnto the ceimeter'y dhis giiised as body-snatchecrs; and1( pre(t.1ede to lbe openming graIves. 'I hiere wvere three(3 ind(ivils1. One got seven buc'kshot, inl im, the second( recCeived five ini his leg, 1a1n( 1 fiot whamut lhppened( to tihe t.hirmd. The only thing thmat is more'( daungerous thani watcehin ig gr'aves Is robbing them.'' "'What is it prod uces this d1readlful me1(lanichliia?"' asked the r'epiorterI. Th'ie ('ld man11 lookedl around11 him my13s teioushy and( add(edl,Ias he( mloved awaly: "'I'm not at doctor 1101 aL scholamr, but I hmave my belief thait it's the miasma111 finom the graves that pioisonsH the blood andI( warps'l the braIhIi. Jumst se(e, ctool as It Is this evenming, tihe vapior Is iing rising.'' And the old watchmnan pointed toward thle setting sunli aginst which blazinig background a fIlmy muist could be seeni ascending from the grounid like tIme genii firom tIhe fishernman'si box in thme ArabIan tale. -Matthlew IIamilton, a minmer of West Lafatyett, 0., claims to be a sur' vivor of tIhe Light Bigade, whilch charg nd at lRa1aklava. A Ship-lonad of Monkoys. An American consular ofllcer relates a very funny occurrenceI which camue u 1nder his observation during his official residence in Liverpool. . A wealthy ship owner, who was better at making money than at spelling, sent an order to Bom1 bay, and iamong other things wrote for two monkeys, which he wanted to pre sent to friends; but departing from the usual nite of spelling the word two, he put it too. Perhaps the handwritig was not very legible, as is often the case with other than illiterate ship-owners. At any rate, the master of the ship read it 100 instead of too, and so did the agents at Bombay. There was much astonish ment at so strange an order, but the niaster was boimd to obey instruetions, Accordingly the service of a number of natives were secured, the country round about was scoured, aid inI a few (lys a htuldred nwlkeys, of all colors anld pre v101u. conlditions, were secured. There were little black imlonkeys, with eyes like hteadIs, bigger monkeys with whiskers, aind babboons wltose grave expression of cotuntemnue presented at ridiculous con trast to their undlignifled anties. h'11e whole crowd chattered, screamed, and fought in the cige which had beenl pro vided for then in the ship, in spite of all efforts to keep them qtiet. In a few days the homueward voyage was b)egun, and with it the troubles of the crew. As soon as the motion of the ship was felt, the monkeys redoubled their noise, Iaking a regular pandelnnitui11n of tile ship. Relays of themi shook the bars of lie cage without U IhllnOmet's cessat ion for twenty-tlree hours out of ach twen ty-four, ulntil Iheeagc vas literally shaik eni to pie'es, and 11 the astonisled sailors beheld i celoudc of imonkeVs issuing froml the 14hl scralnlling, light ing, and tum big over eaeh other as if their lives (lepein(1 1po11 g('t (ing into lhe rigging iml the shortest possible tiime The milonl keys,with lisrhievonsness unpralleled, wou(hl steal every thing they col1 lay t heir banls on. It, clothes were hiung up to dIry they Wouhl carry Ihem up1 to the highest point atiainable and pick 1theln to pieces. It was Iecessary to set a guard over every thing tlint was wash (d 0' (lried. WIhen the eabin bh y s"wept the deck lie had to lock upl) the broom, for it' he Iiil it ever so senrely, his back would s(';arcely be turned before an old ape, half' as big as a m1an, wouhl have it, going throlugh the mot ion of sweeping lie deck w'ith an air of indescrilable gria v'ity. So great. wvas,the:1 aloyance lint. it, was with great difliculty that, the offi cers could keep the nen froim shoot.ing their tornlutois, and when the Ship touc('hed at Aden half' of the crev desert ed, preferrilg to take their chances at (his inhospitable phaee than to elnduly furtiher persecut ioll. Finally the ship reached hoie. She had been signaled at Landi' Eid, and the owner was at the dock when she ar rive(l, Shipowners generally pride ihet selves o11 the t'iim appearunce of their ships, and our friemd was weak in this respieet, if' in no other. What then was his astonishinet, to see t he ship's rigging c'1rowd(ledl with knots or blnlliches, with here and there a festoOn where several liIikeys had suspended tlemuselves from a spar inl a string, holding each other by t1h4 taill Everybody about the docks Viewed with wonder the approaching si'ctiale. The ship inove(d slowly to her berth, and presently her yard aris neared those of several other vessels lying at dolck. Inl an instant, the iuon keys leaped from one to the other, a1 begn a tour among the forests of masts that fringed the harbor of Liverpool. All the boys and1 illers around the dock were engaged, and a grand Ithunt, eisue(1, ip an(1 down the rigging Iroml ship to Th'le owner wvas furious, but, wa's, af'ter' aL while, mnollilfled by3 anl exlanaIiIt lin, and1 the iilt~hy saltisf'actorily adjusted. real1izinjg a prIofit. of abl out, lifty3 1 dol lars ablove what they had1( cost. "Uivwe ile youir oiniom1 of' these, youitg 1n111n,"'said( thle east side grocer', as he~ spea bi(l ef'or'e thle reporter a handiofuhl of' thiem with these, and4 fell mte which you1 TJhie gr'oceri' placed( a second(11 ohnfil alongside of' the otfhers. T1hte two hots were'( of the samei( darLik coloir, and( at. a littfle distancI(e awavy pri('eented 114 v'ery mai'ked di fferenceWI. CloserPI inIsp4ct ion showed that whliile t.he coffee 1en f4lir st, shiown were no4t all of' th same11 sizeQ, mnarIy regularifty, thle beans being ver'iy phnny111 and large." "'i know what you are going to tell me, and1( at fr'st glance aniy one1 woul say so. Your op)hIIon is that the last lot Is the b,est, isni't~ it'? Well, the odif ferece ht et. ween the two batches is thl at those w~hiich I. showed you fir'st 1ar0 IL fair hot of coffee beans, while the others ar'eni't. coffeE) at all1, and1( neOver grew On a 'offeeO bush." "'What kiind oif a bush did they gr'ow "No buish at al. They are'4 aI manull factur'ed article. You need not looik as if y'ioulidn't believe it;, for' It's at facet on which you may13 safely risk your last, dimle. TIhey are noit hing more or less than imitat,iouis, nuade out of dlough, and14 browned uip to resemnble the tr'ue coffee. TIhiey ar' mladIe in moulds atnd baked after'ward'o. Each one0 is almlost per,lfect in shape, and1( 1all alike. You w1onl't, 1ib1d gemnuimie coffee beansIi to have Mmclh regularity."' ''They 1look 1al1 right, but It sti'ikes mne that no 0one wouk(1 mistake the bov (Irage madtoe fr'om thiem for coffee.'' "You1 are' wrong agaIn, yo1ug man. No respectable grocer woiuld lie foolish enlouigh to give any cust omer w~hio buys IL 1pound( of coffee a pound of the huita tIon. No, indeedl. They mix It in the pr'oportin of four or ive of coffee to onec of the Imitation. Nobodly examInes each bean. You hear per'sonis comn p)lainling of bad coffee all the -time. 'I'm sure I can't tell how It is, says theo houtsekeeper; 'I-buy the coffee .In the beau and grind it myself. I am1 sure0 ft Is not adulterated.' "You see, the grocer, can mix chicory with grounmd coffee, but when coffee Is b9mught; in the bean something 's got to' be done. Some billlant mind got over thie dlificulty by making coffee beans to order,n NEWS IN BRIEF --During the past six months Texas has sold 2,185,000 acres of school land. -Some of the farmers in San Bernar dino county, Cal., are killing birds by placing poisoned apples on tree:s. -An Ashland, Ohio, wife recently hecamte thme mother of a perfectly healthy babe weighing less than one pound. --Ex-Secretary Columbus Delano is spending his old age in luxury on his large sheep farm inl Knox county, 0. -Internal revenue collections for the San Francisco district for the yearend ing February 28th, aggregate $3,802, 500. --Light-weight hulsbags, are wonder ig how Davl Davis will ,'et to his room at 2 A. M. without making the stairs creak. -A granite mlonimnent is to be erect ed at Andersonville, Ga., in memory of the 1F'edet-ral soldiers who are buried there. -There were twenty-two contested seats in the Forty-seventh Congress and it cost the c'Osllltry $100,000 to settle them. -IF ranice in 1873 produced 17,000,00t1 )lulln(s of cocoons; in 1979 only 11,00(j, )00 pounds, andl(1 in 1880 14,000 00 poimnds. -Alexanlder '1f. Stephens was nrth about $50,000-$30,000 of which he i lade out of his book, "The War a1oi the States. -Il the United States there is alout $4I,00,00() of capital invested in palper. iills, the :innual product being 70,000 - 000 pnunds. il' --x-Secretary Kirkwood has rec" v ered fully fronm the effects of his recei, t aceidelit, and is lecturing inl I Ow1a on\ "E'ducationl.' -'1'exas 11w leds the soutlierni states "'- ' inl the prodluction of cotton. The crop of hast year will aggregate 1,500,000 bales, worth $75,0o0,ooo. --Gen. l" nmieis A. Walker will deliver the oration at the opening of the Mani11 fact ureris and Mechanics' Institute Fair, ill lts(on, next Septeniber. -A recent letter from Ilonolulbi, IIawaii, says that King Kalakan's "Aramy" consists of 41) soldiers, exclu sive of hands and attendants. -'1'he proprietorsof the muarble (uarry inl llawIkins, Telni., have for the last year been realizing $300 por foot for their mnarble delivered on the cars. -The luunler of hogs packed in Chi cago for the year ending Mfareh 1, 1883, was 44,22:3,000, a decrease of 878,000 con parel w1itli the preceding year. -One hundred and sixty active sinl gers al(1 two hundred associate members belong to the Alozairt Sisiety and Con servatory of Music of Memphis, Teni. --T''he state of Nevada has for the past sixteen years been collecting a cabinet of ninnerals, and now has at magnificent collection, over two thousand specimens im all. -'he total amount of 3.1 per cent. huinds exchanged into 3 per cents. to date is $200 (1000, 40 Of this amiolunt, $8,1;50,050 hiave been exchanged since February 1. -1t is asserted that Minnesota coil taius 11 less thma 10,000 lakes, with an average extent of :300 acres each. These hikes, it is said, cover one-twentieth of the slrface of the state. . -The curlew is still rung at many towns in .Englauid, and at lipon a horn is blowu at ti p. im. in memory of the presentat ionl to the city of a horn, still extant, by Kmg Alfred. -Th'le 84and( business ini All>any, N. Y. amoun)Iits5 to) quite an1 indulistry. Miolding sand~ is shuippied in lar'ge <1uaniitities fromi that, (city to CJalif'orniia. On)ue man ships aibout 25,000) tonls yearily. --It, is said thIat, the liniest.sleepinig cars ini thle counitry are'i thlose which run into NeCw Orleans, and( that fully four-fIfths of' thieiin are' (<iIipped1 with paper01 wh'1eels, costiti $90 ('ach, or' $1080 aL car'. -It. is found by 1t. Schneider thait (dis 1hiit tees ofi silver' are' obtainab,le In mian y of the c'onnneI(rcial pr1eparuIations of bisintih. Pure oxide of' bismuth, when free fromi silver, is not afected by light. - -A yolimg man(1 (lIed in Rome, Ga. ,a few days ago, after' an illness of forty eight hours, anud his phmysiianm said his dheafth wasl dlte Itconigestioni of the lunugs, caused(5 by Smlokinug cigarettes. -A dly ing ief ICwas comp)assionately r'eleased fromi the 111hode1 Islan<1( Stalte Pi'ison iid senit to pass8 his remninig daIys at hlomie inl Pr'ovidence; blit before his (denih 1( he rawledl out and1 r'obbed -Rmains of a masitodlomi and( a numII bor' of cuirius bones belonging to vari oux1 otheri aimaiiuls have been foundI( near' a salIt min1e( at New 1Iberia, Lam. Among themi were some11 fossil teeth of horses, and1( they ha~ve been01 preCsen1ted to thei Yale College Museumii. --Th Treasur'y dlepar'tmenIt hats (de (3ided( that onl y$42,000 of te $72,000 appr )1oprinatedl by congress to reimbnrse Or'egon f'or ex penses incurred by it in thei Modoe war shall be paid over, because Oregon still owes taxes to the United States amiounitinig to $30,000. -he quinllt oldl townl of IBoscawenm N. II. is to celebrate the one hiundred am11( fiI tiethi aniniversary of Its existence dlur'ing the comning summelur. Th'Iis towni ha1(3 given to the worb(I Daniel and Eze kiel WVebster', Gen. Johni A. D)ix, Will Iim Pitt Feeden NalthIe'Il andl Chiarles U. Greeni, and( other dlistinlguishl eid men1. --Of 302 houses inspected by the Lon (loln Sanitary Protection Society last yoar, six per' cent, were found to have dIrains completely chioked up, preventing mall comnmuication with a sewer. In 117 houses the soil pipes leaked, allowving sower gas to enter the house. P1erhlaps it is no better here. -Statstics of suicides in Rlussia that inIclude0 every Province ekeept three or four, give a totail of 2000 . persons who dlestroyed thIemselvea lask yeai', and 7718 for a period of vIWo years, 'The greatest inunbers of cases are cr'edited to thodis~ triots of Moscow, St. Peteburg,'Wtr saw and Irkutsk, Ei the'Ruissian a1r3 the number of cases has alnb in~es~ <'~~" This is likeowise trtue o00the a u~,m Germany