Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Too kind for a thought of evil, Wor willing my cares to share, The Q11c'en of my heart's deep centre Is she who is waiting there. So, whatever of ill befall ie 'Ihrotgh the weary and tedious day, As the evening shadows lengthen, And I homteward take my way, 3ly step anid iny heart grow lighter As I near to that, old oak I.ree. For I know amy uarling's watelting And wailling to welcome u'-. MiY LA DY COQUET. "Going abroad, Fred?" Why, what does that mean? When 1 last saw you such an idea was furthest from your thoughts, and here you give me twentty four hours' notice of your departure oil al ielouite tour." And the speaker, of tall, splenldid looking manl. opened his thark eyes in unfignhd wonder as they rested on the fae of his friend. "I've hardly given myself more than twentty-four hol.ur"'s notice, Max. Of courset. it'e a stukden notion, but to you, the oldest.andl best friend I have In the worl, I may as well own the truth, though you need imagine it no secret. A very large portion of the fashionable world thoroughly understands my mo tives. I'l hard hit, Max, and h've got to go away. 1 want to feel anl oenn rolls hetween m e and the woman who has jilted mtle."' r ~ "Jlilted you?" "Yes, jilted me. It's not a pretty word, butt I'm not in a frame of mind to look through the dictionary for ano liter that means the sate ting. nloved Nora IFieling with a love you calulot even dimly comprehlend-you, who have lived for more than thirty years un Inoved by any woman's beauty, un nhrilled by any womatn's voice. I had sollye reasonk, God knows, for deeming onttmy love returned. She smiled on me, . '. as only soulless women can smile; she heeemedcghed whenl gcame, sorry when I left her. Yet wheni,lmoved to mkad Sne :sa, I put liy love mnto words, she smiled still, and told me that miy love was folly. Of course, I should in that -s moment have scorned, despised her. So I did, perhaps; but it made my love none the less, my suffering no whit the easier. I can't describe her to you, Max. I think she might entrap you in her meshes." "A coquet, en trap lie? No, no, my C Iov' Forewarned, forearmed. Suppose we have a little trial of skill-I and this slayer of mken't hearts. You've left her at the beach, have you not? I was just contemplating a little trip seaward. What (o you say, old fellow? Suppose you put. your revenge in my hands?" "You may make the attempt, Max, right willingly; but don't let the flame scorch you, inl bre'astinkg it for miy sake. Make her suffer, but see to it that she fntails no Vain on, u." beque lloatathed tomiyu5son,btlcary yourd love;d wthe you. Buri ot which Fred, and start fres th or tide 'lltak caef-my ady exiler wo Th nx arton astaund anwth. pier Ma liaoverwalched diappemar, downthebaythe bravi hpon hiabci: ~' ~r of awomnan's ilIsa10111. Bte ha hd hd hoever lovetod womack - a wave, and who had been diriveni to other lands to find the cure of absence pterchlanice forgetfulness. Wients his broughtami stoppledl in front of his club, he glanced at huis watch. It was ia sultry afterniooni in July. The city was growing unenduriable, anl there would bo barely tinme to hastily palckt a v'alise and( catch the 61 o'clock boat which wvoul transport him to cool breezes, the promise of a sea-b)ath, and -his ievenigel Such a thought was worthy to lie actedl upon~ therefore, the next moirn= ing, Max IElliot's name appleared upon01 the Ocean IIouse register, to be greetedl by ani a iproving chorus of welcome from the den flIye hundred friends alreadly - gathered there. As by natural instinct, he found his way to Mirs. lledforn's side. Gi'eat - friends ats he andl George Rledferni wer*e, lhe and( George tedlforn's wife w~ere bet ~ : ter. - '~ "What has brought you here?" sihe asked, with a little qIuizicial smile. "la nsot your presemnce a snilleienmt magnet for ai less' attractive place'' lhe antsweted, gallanmtly. -' Shte shtook{ her head, . ~ "Of course; b)ut I've beeni mopling her'e for a fort.night, anu have semnt yoit which you have repudiated. Youdoni't dhmerv'e that I should o'Tr you anty kidmtess hn treturmn, anti I've ia great mind not to pre'tsenit you to Nora Field lng to-daiy. Ah, you see how basily I have guessed your' secret. [ sauw Fred. Itonald's namite, this moring, it thme list lie told you how badly he was cut up. It was a great shmamo. and I told Nora f)J so frankly but the gjrl Is so prietty anid so clever tiat I suppose she really Is not wholly to blame becauise meni choose to detach their scalps) htang them at their belt, and then go abouut the woril moon ing over their loss." Tust a wvotman to defend a woman., T when jealousy is not possible to either,'" answered Max. "For my part, I re gard Miss Fielding as utterly heartless and a flirt." "Judge not, that ye be not judged," replied the pretty little matron. " Yes, that Is she," she added noting how the man's eyes suddenly dillated, as a tall, slender figure, draped in close-clinging white swept out of the open door on to the piazza. "There's no woman like her here. Of course she is conscious of her power, and uses it. But look in her eyes, Max and tell me, if you dare, that Nora iielding had no heart. Ni man has ever touched it, that is all." "The idea of a woman's eyes betok ening soul," was the cynical rejoinder. But there was no tim for more, for he and Mrs. Redfern had approached close to where the girl stood, and ere either of them was aware of her inten tion, they had been formally presented. He would carry on no slow warfare, determined Max; and in that momenit he began the canmpaign. "Beware Norai" whispered Mrs. Redfern, tutt evening, in the little, shell-tinted ear. "lIe is Fred Ronald's dearest friend, and be sure he knows all regarding that little episode there is to know.'' But the only answer the girl vouch safed this friendly piece of advice was a shrug of the white shoulders, gleaming through the black lace of her gown. A fortnight passed, and the hotel gos sips again found food in Miss Fielding's latest conuest, for, by this time, so Max Eliot was deemed. lie understood now the infatuation which had possessed his friend, not by experience-for he told himself that each day he learned to scorn this woman miore-but listening to the low musical inflections of her voice, amid lookinig into her eyes which somnetines softened to a marvelous softness, he acknowledged her acting perfect. Only to huim who knew it to be acting was there involved no daiger. But was lie, intrenched in his own fortress, imak ing the girl feel? Was lie gaining the power to make her suffer? Once his, he would employ it ruthlessly, but first lie must know that he possessed it. Sonie times lie turned in a moment from warmth into coldness. She made no coinment on his change of mood. Sonie times he feigned indifference to her presence-indifferent still, when the other moths, kept in abeyance by his superior stronghold, fluttered round the caidtle; but, save by a little, tired look, lie saw from his covert and distant ob servation in her eyes, she welcomed his return to her, all unquestioning his ab sguce. He found himself growing irri tated almost angry. "Will you drive with ine this after nooi?" she asked me, one morning. 'Yes," le answered. And at 5 o'clock, the perfect Jittle trap stood waiting its mistress' occu pancy-the, horses pawing impatieitly while the groom held their heads ani h elonging near, waiting MissFielding's advent. Fifteen, twenty minutes passed, and she did not come. The half-hour had struck before, with a hasty apology for her delay, she took her seat, and gather imig up the reins in her little gloved hand, gave the ponies an imupatient.touclh of the whip, which made the groom's scramble for his place behind almost a Waterloo. Max, quickly observing her, noted that her face was unusually pale, and although there was no redness about her eyes, he could have fancied there had been recent tears there. However, she talked merrily and brightly as was her wont, and soon the sea air brought back the color to her cheek, and chased the latent look of sad1ness from her eyes. ''What a lovely sky," she exclaimed, as a sudden turn in the road brought thiemi in full view of sky and ocean, and1( a1t that miomenit the suhnset gunm boomed from the fort. The horses imIade a sharp swerve. The road wa'ms very narrow, with large boul ders on either sidle. Alniost b)efore any onie coul realize how or when it wa~s done, the wheel of the phaeton had struick one of these, and the girl, totally iumplrepared to- resist thme shock was throwni heavily to the groundi(. Almiost as rap)idly, Max wvas beside her. For thme instant lie thought her dleadi. 11cr hieado had struck a sniall stone, and a tiny stream of blood was trickling fron' lier temiple, maukinig her pallor ni' ghastly. 'lhie thought that she " ' lbe (lead cameli to himu with a sicke. awfulness. Death andl this brig. b)eau tiful being seemed so wide asunder; anid yet ini a miomnent, perhiaps, they had1( been united; but almost with the dreadl fuli fear camne its relief. She opened the lovely eyes, aind the white lip,s quiiveredl, while she made a feeble miotionm to rise, iIe dreiv a branm dy-flask from his pocket, anti miade her dlrinik; then, wheni she had grown a litt,le stronger, he lifted her inito the carriage, and supportIg her with one arm, drove slowly home. As they approached the hotel, she called strength and wvill into actionm and gaiiiig the first entranice, escap)ed with brut little assistaince into the house. By mutuaul conusenit they made no0 montloln of the accident. For a day or two mghi was confined to her room; but whlien she reappeared save that she was a trifle paler, she had niever before looked more lovely. "'I thank you so much, Mr. h$lliot, for your kimid care of me," she said, as they stood together oni the moonlit p1 azza. "Do not mentlon it," lie answered, doldlly. These past three (days hiad been filled to him with a strange experience. Jhis revenuge had1( grownm distastefl to him lie told hinself. 1t couild nt mend [Fred's broken heart, and his own coul onmly harbor scorn1. The i next week lie saw~ but little of Miss Fielding, lIe avoIded her wher ever lie could o o5, although lhe nmoted that she was growing wan and p)ahe. "What are you doing, Max EllIot ?" asked Mrs. Recdfern, one hmrnig, as8 she caime upon0 huim seated by an open1 wlnow of the long drawing-room. "I told you once that Nora Fieldig's fault lay not In her nom-possession of a heart but that no0 man had touched it. i could not say that to-day. Have, you no seruplles, no remuorsel" "Nonme. If what you tell mec be true, I shonl only exnlt. wVhat culd I ee. but scorn for a woman who could lead! a man on to wrecking his life at her I feet? But you need have no fear. Miss Fielding is a capital actress, that is all. "Mark what I say-you will recall those words," prophesied the little mat ron,.sweeping angrily away. "Never" P'mentally ejaculated the man, vaulting through the low window to the piazza with a sudden feeling that the house stifled liim, but not prepared to find himself face to face with Miss Fielding's self. She had been sitting with an open book disregarded in her lap her- eyes gazing seaward, and she had heard of necessity every syllable which had been uttered. "Yes, I have hoard all," she said in reply-to his luestioning look, 'tou ! came here to revenge your friend, Mr. Elliot. Well, your revenge shall be c complete. You say he suffered. So you have made me suffer. Why should I seek to conceal what is acutest pain to confess? Was it my fault that I could i not love Fred Ronalds? Was it my fault that his own love made him blind? If I so, I have been punished, and my pun ishmient is your reward. To it I add the humiliation of this avowal.'' Never had she looked more lovely, never more proud, than when she stepped from the throne to the level of suffering womnihooi. Ilis scorn, his f triumiph-where were they? Swept away as by a mighty flood, amid revealing the naked truth, of all which yet might be, of all wvhich so nearly he hadl lost. before she had divined his purpose, I he had gathered her two hands in his t strong grasp. "Noral My darling, forgive me!" he murmured. "I love you and my love I has made me blind indeed! Oh, my dar ling, I caine to mock, and I stayed to worship! I give up my revenge to you. Will you, more generous than I have beei, refuse to take it?" "Not that!" she aiiswered; and now I the bright eyes were filled with dimning 1 tears. "But in taking it, it is to give in return my love, my heart, my life I t Ah, Max," she whispered, softly, a little later, "is it always the woman's fault that men say she has no soul? Shall we expose our one priceless jewell I to the gaze of every curious by-passer I on life's journey?" And he, with the jewel forever his, safe-locked in his stronghold, is fain to admit her words are true, even while he thanks God its radiance has never dazzled another's eyes-not even those of his dearest friend. Sunflowors. That the sunflower follows the sun in its westward journey is well known , but when doos it turn its face back again to the east to greet the morning stin?. Mr. C. A. White, of Washington, in a letter, relates an incident which throws some light uploni tihe subject. One evening, he says, during a short stay at a village in Colorado in the summer of 1881, I took a walk along the banks of a long irrigating ditch just as the sun was set ting. The wild variety of Ifelianthus anuus, Lin. (If. lenticularis, Douglass) grew abundantly there, and I observed that the broad face of all the flowers were, as is usual in the clear sunset, turned to the west. Returning by the same path less than an hour afterward, and immediately after the daylight was gone, I found, to my surprise, that much the greater part of those flowers had al ready turned their faces to the east In anticipation, as it were, of the sun's ris ing. They had in that short time re traced the semi-circle, in the traveresing of which with the sun they had spent the whole (lay. Both the (liy and niighmt were cloudless, and( ap)parenitly no n usual conditions existed that might have exeptionlally affected the mnovenients of the flowers. I doblt niot, adds Mr. W1,hie, that imny persons like myself have supposed that suniflowers remain all night with their faces to the west, as they are whenm the sunlight leaves them, and until they are constrained by the light of the rising suni, to turn 'to the east again. It is not my purpose to offer anmy explanation of the cause of the pheno(mmoni here re cordled, but it seems to me imp)rob)able that it could have been an excep,tional maitalnce; and I could only regret that iie 'nortunity hats sinice occurred to me to r4 'at theO observ'ation, 11ecre1tation t thillion. It is not given to every one to cress the ocean and make the tour of Europe; to revel In the halla of dazsling lhght of New port or Saratoga; to repair to the sea-bide or the mountain top, andi there for five dol. lars a day to drink In the lire-giving air. T'he spirit may h,e willing but the means are wanting. And yet the same need for rcerention exists in the hife of those of mo deratte umeans as in those of the lob. This larger class, however, will be glad to know that the Pennsylvamia Rtilroad Company r'ronoses to continue (luring the season of 1883. its popuilar (tally excursions between Jersey City and Newbut gh, a route f urn is'ung many otbjee1s of interest, and an Iinimte variety of scenery. The magnifI cent steamer, Richard 8tockton, under the command of Uaptain Lawrence F. Frazee, will leave the Pennsylvanma Railroad docks, Jersey City, every morning at 9 a. mn., (eLcepting Thursday at 9:80) a. mn.) and arrive at Jersey Oily on the return trip about 6:80 p. in. This steamer is sub t'tantially built, fully equipped and with a capacity for 9500 passengers. On the ro)ute such points ot interest as Weehaw ken, Ft. Lee, Yonkers, the Paksades, Tar rytown. Sing Sing, Bleepy Hollow, Btony Point, West Point, lona Island and sew burgh, with a privilege of remaining at time three last namedi 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 (lay can be so pleasantly spent, with a trifling expense as on one of these trips up the Hludson on the Btockten. Dr,. &ecmene has expressed, the opi lon that in the near future steel will take the place of weed and iron in' the construetioni of buildings of' all kinds, where it can be used. Be claims that steel is without a rivai where strength anid magnitude are both required, be. sides giving more security than wood, and oosting less, A blind mani should not judge of col. era. AMtnuesota De .4?antya. A Western Editor w tes while hunt lug in the pineries of i fhnesota I onc< met an .old half-breed ;Who taught m more in a few days than. I e, r learne( before or since. It wasi =lieu I compar 3d my scanty superfiiakknowledge witl Us sound practical lore tlot I discover ad the lamentable exte4 of my ignor mice and how much .;liad 'to learn ]lhis old veteran was abditt. fifty yeai )f age and he had hunted deer for mor< than thirty-five years niaking it a. spec. alty.. It can be readily-ifderefood thai tis advice was worth tauing,. and I an )ily sorry I did- not pr og;tuy huni vith him as every d r-ught, oul mew str t}tgems -and' i anomm ,ru heckmned by tis une .di dyoll KTliirod. Ie 4vasa re i d1inud, and .duld find more game.: iIS 'three ordi tary hunters; but, what" in anomalyl he ould not shoot.. Acttially,. if. a deci noved, or even wagged')Jis ears, the old ollow vould quietly wait. till he wam tock still, and then blaze away. Some. imes 4e would kill, but that was by no neain "\.foregone conclusion; and as i Vould insist on using a single barrel nuzzle-loading rifle, of course the deer vas off before he could "do it some nore," To hiiss with hini seemed rath ir a matter to be expe4ed thai one to et mad about, so, nothing daunted he vould reload his rifle, sit on a log, light 1is pipe, soliloquize and ascribe reasons or his maladroitness and make wise esolutions for t'e future, and having >ut in about hlia an hour, go ahead, ake up the track of the doomed deer, nlld eight times out of ten get another hot, with varying results,,inside of an iour. How lie did it I could never tell! all lat I know is that I have followed hih or days from morn till dusk, and have cn him shoot three or four times at the ame deer in a day, and generally bag tin in the long run. When we became etter acquainted, it was mutually greed and understood that ho would do he fiding and I the shooting; and by hat means we generally had the pleas ire of hanging up a deer or two a day vithout his firing a shot. At first I ascribed his finding the deer merely to rood luck, but I soon got over that. he would follow a fresh track a short listance and without giving any reason, lnd guitled by an unerring judgment vhicht was simply supernatuiral, wouli cave it or strike out at right angles and hortly come upon the same track or ;Iso point out the deer, perhaps fifty or me hundred yards away, sniffing and vatching his back track whlile his 'foot vere either on his flanfc of rear. On inch an occasion it was met;ely a matter )f target shooting with me land not in ereatxng, being outiroly t-'4mneohalnicak, o that I frequently purposely made it ioise to start the unsuspecting stag e give himi a chance. This conduct on my part was sure to )e followed by a blessing from the vet. ran, who recognized n1o rules or lawr overning such shots, And as I seldon nlissed it was difficult to make him per .eive the difference, as in any case ti leer was "venison." One day I mtisse< ,lear and clean, and as the doe kept ou f miiy sight I could not shoot again, l'he old man, in a fit of rage at m3 )lundering in having made the deer rimr )efore I fired at hin, threw up his rifi tnd, without taking any aim, let fly Down came the (oe, all in a heap, shol through the neck, and (lead as a nail l'he funny part is that to this day th< >ld fellow thinks I did the killing ;where is I only fired one shot and that wa tway high. This mat's antipathy to a breech load. 3r amounted to actual hatred, and ii was onily after repeatedly showning hin its adlvanitages that lie so far condescend Md as to allow me to liunt with hin while carrying my repecater. I shual uever forget the queer expressioni on hi: bough , weather beateni countenanci when at hist L convinuced him of th4 mpeXriority of the repeating rifle. Home of tihe tihe Bluen Orauno. Mr. Dunlap has returned from 1 imnting expeditioni in Spencer Co,, Ky l'ho oinly trophy he brought back with liim was a gigantic blue crane, whicl mneasured flye feet from tip to tip, ai was exactly six feet in height. Mr Duinlap tells a very curious story of resort of ,these cranes. About tw< miiles from Taylorsville is ani island bi Sayre's creek wheNie area is perhaps tei Lueres. The island is a favorite hauni [)f these p)eciuliar birds, who annuiially resort there for the purpose of roaring their young. Notwitstafidig the fact that the crane Is a wvading bird I1 builds it nest in the tallest tree It cam hid. Tihe islandl is inot clearedl upl, bu1 is covered with gigantic sycamores tow Brinig eighty or ninety feet in height md the loftiest of these are selected by them for their nests. One of the treel has twenty-eight nests upon Its topmRosi branches and ainother hums twelve. Thu nests are rude, ugly structures, built ih mm slovenly manner of sticks, leaves a twigs, and( are guarded jealously by thu birds throughout the breeding season. The cranes have been In the habit o resorting to this Island for a term o: years beyond the memory of the oldes inhabitant. fIer .thuey have been lef unudisturbed, until it has become a roya diomiain on which nothing else of the feathered trl1at are initrud(e. The si hence of c4f thi broods over' the pr/ moeval fore We Wkenu save by thme flag ping of the Yth js, or It may be th: chance shot ie wvandering sports man. Tile strin' four miles around il frequented by flocks of the -birds wh<u hero seem to hose, at least for a time their solitary instincts, and becom sociable and gregarious. They leav annually about the 1st of Sgptember returinlg the 1st of April, and hiavi been doing so for years and years Their number upon the island is al hnost incredible, and old citizens of thil oountry say it must be fully 10,000 perhaps mutch more. A Wandering Jew. For a number of years past the people ) in the southwestern portion Qf Con 3 neoticut.have been mystified by a man, l clothed in tattered leather, who appears - at regular - intervals, something like 1 Scott's "Old Mortality,", and passes on - without divulging his origin or destini - tion.- Our Orange correspondent writes as follows: "That strange char i acter, the 'Leather -Man,' takes in the towns of Woodbridge and Orange in the regular course of his travels, and was last seen passing through here March 9. IIe has been over the sale route for many years, appearing reg ularly after an absence of about six r week, alwayN going south In the direc tion of Bridgeport. When In this vic inity he'spends the night in an old barn standihg alone by the roadside. It has been his habit since the beginning of his travels through this region to stop for breakfast at the house of the writer, who had become accustomed to his reg ular comings as to recognise his pecu liar rap on the door, even when it was not known that he was near. Several times attempts to enter into conversa tion with him were made, but with in different succesm, and on one Occasion when we told him that "they had been writing about him in the newspapers,. the information did not seem to interest him very much. However, since we have been the owner of a large (log who soietihes.greets his appearance with a lusty bark, he no longer stops at our door, btut coolly trudges by on the other side, without even deigning a glance. Notwithstanding the little 'nterest he evinces in the world and its goings on he has been seen seated by the roadside with a newspaper in his hands, appa rently deeply absorbed in its contents and at another time near a brook, wash ing some article of-we will not say underclothing, for that would spoil the tradition, but something that closely resembled it. Without his wonderful suit of leather he would be an object of curiosity, appearing as lie does at regu lar intervals and always traveling in one direction. Whatever his aini or purpose, lhe trudges along as if he had the most important business in the world to per form, and if it was a matter of life and death that he should reach a certain destination at an appointe4 time. This strange creature's life in its unbroken silencu and stated goings and comings closely resembles that of the veritable 'Wandering Jew." Pulling his M1Iumtaeho. "There he sleeps as peacefully as an infant," said an old man pointing to the sleeping figure of a slendAr-uilt. henvv niustaced' young man across the aisle of the train, "and no doubt lie dreams of the innocent days of childhood, be fore he had fallen into the depths of crime.'' "What's the matter with him ? Who is he ?" asked several passengers ex citedly, eying the sleeper with suspi cion. "lIe sleeps as calmly,'' continuled the old man abstractedly to himself, ''as though lhe had never murdered his part ner, forged his name to a check for $50,000 and skipped to Mexico. IIe thinks, probably, that no man can pen1e trate his disguise, but I should know him in the (lark with a mask on. Ah, Miles Gashiwell, now I can confront you with proofs of your villainy!" Quite a crowd had collected around the two by this time. "Thie idea," col tilnued the old man, turning to the awe struck bystanders," of his trying to disguise himself by a false moustache and wig. One of you fellows jerk that moustache off and1( see how it changes lis exp)ression." Nobody seemed disposed to nmask the villain until a strappinig six--footer plushed his way into the mid(st of the giouip, and taking the miustache by both enids, gave it-a yank that fairly lifted thme slendler young man to his feet. The latter let off a yell that would have p)aralyzed a Comanche Inadiani and struck out wildly in the air with his fists. ''Great Scott!" lie shrieked, "are you trying to jerk the top of my lheadl off? Let go of that, will you,'' and lie kicked the six-footer vigorously ini tile pit of the stomiach. "What tihe d~uice (10 you want of me, anyway ?'' "Why, we thought you had on a false imstache,'' ventured one of the crowd Ithimdly. "This old man said so." They all tuirnedl around to see what the 0old man wvouldl say, bJut lie didn't say. lie had gotteni off wheni the trin i slowed up at the hist crossing. What Ia thei use of SnlakoR? Personsa who dlislike snakes cont.inu ally ask, "What is tile usO of them?" That they are not without a use, w~ill, I hope, appear ini the course of this niote, wvere it necessary to preach that all things haLve their uise. But inl one habit that offenmded Lord Bacon, niamely of "going oni their belly," lies one of their greatest uses, because that, to gether with their internal formation, andio external covering, enables thenm to Ipenletrate where no larger carnilvorous animal could venture, inito dark and nois'jme morasses bog jungles, swvamps amnong tihe. tangledl vegetation of the tropics, where swarms of the lesser re?i tiks, 01n which so many of them feeds woukd otherwise out-balance the harmo ny of nature, die, ando produce p)esti lence. I Wonldrouslyamnd exquisitely construe ted1 fdr their habitat, they are able to exist where the higher animals could . ot; anid while they help to clear' those inaccessib)le p)laces of the lesser vermin, they themselcves suplply food'for a numu her of the smaller muammnalia, whlichi with many carnivoroius birds, devour Ivast numbers of youn~g snakes. The hedgeltog weasel,' ichneumon, rat, peccary, 1adger, hog, goat, and an im mense nuimber of birds, keep) snakes within due limits, while the latter p)er form their part among the grain-de vouring and herbivorous lesser creat uires. Thus beautifully is the balance of Nature maintained. --Canning oranges is the latest Fior ida idea. -A Denver Imlhian hias been convict ed of forging n. nh ':. Itare fun In uourt. The present Judge Hutchins, of t Superior Court of - the northeaste judicial circuit of Georgia is the son Nathaniel Hutchins, so well known-1 iany of the older citizens of Elbert one of the cleverest men and abic jurists In Georgia. IIe was the pi decessor of his son on the saune benw now occupied by Colonel Hutchins, Gwinnett and was popularly known a through the ulpper portlon of the Stat During the progress of the Superii Court at Carnesville last week 'ti amusing incident occurred which w related to a New Saut& scribe by Sen torj?hil Davis: Cokolel Thuriond, Athens, at attorney had an instrumn; of writing in cour1, the validity which needed to be proven and whi< could only be done by the owner of tl signature found thereon swearing to ti Mime. The witness was called and a old gray-haired man, who had liv( over his three score and ten, took tl stald and Colonel Thurmond hand him the paper and asked: "Is that your signature, sir?" The old gentleman looked at the ip per closely, and said; "Wa'al, I'll. tell yer, Ize gitting oh and my eyesight are not so good as wunst was, but if somebody will loa mne a pair of specks, praps I kin ciplhc it out." A pair of glasses were furnished binl ad he scrutinizingly gazed at ti sloctuent again. "'Well?" said the lawyer. '1'he witness conti nilld to peer at ti plaper. "Very well,"Colonel Th'Iurmon 4aid againl, waiting for the witness I lecide. " Wat'al," said the old man, 'that s my list." on can coie downi, sir,'' said ti awyer. But instead of "comhig down," tl: Ad man turned his eyes on the Cour md after gazing at him for some timl 'e said: "Jedge, is you old man Natth Hutcl i 's boy?" "IIe wats my father," answered til Jou.it. "Wa'ad, give me yer hand, Jedgi aze I loved yer daldy, and I. is awfi lad to see his boy followin, in his fos narks.'' The Court gave the old mnanll his ham itd affer siaking it heartily, the wi ess stepped fromn the stand and startc it of the court room. When lie ha otten oit of the Iar, and( wats abor nidwaty the hall, he turned abruptl thout, atnd said in rather a loud toil >f voice: "Here-hero's .hen a sauik. if sil youll tils'n. The court r1Oln wis ill 1ti uproar laughter, but the obl mnan nev niled, as he returned the glasses an eft the house. Thfe tllnko eano. A. man who thinks thatt, without an falniliarity with tthe swindle that si( lenly confronts him1, he (nn cope wit its operators who have devoted muc tudy an d practice to perfect ing it, foc1 ishly overrates his own sihrewdne:s. 3truck me, for instance, that if I shoul be taken into at btunko den, and t1 t;aublers should accept, iny ciheck f the atmount of my loss, I would not I At all concerned about it, because I (o(1l go straight to the bank and 1 stop pa; mient. When I said this to at deteetiv he replied, "You Woulchn't do any sutc thing. Whiy not? Sitmply hean: that inilportanlt poinit ill the swind(le i been looked aflter by3 thle bunko mei I ha2ve nlever seeni tis feature of the work dlescribled in print, and1( y'ou nui1 care t.o use it. When the rascals get subject ~i( who 1 hasn bank account, all lead( 11im1 into mIakinIg at checkI, ti< knowv very w~ell that lhe will lose 110 t in manage by' some clever (device to 1r venmt ii Tis is tile way13 thley d(1i A newvspaper lies folded on1 the table, thlough carelessly thlrown diowni. Wi< the ch eck has1 been 1made1 oult amd signe< tIhe opera'ltor who receives it place's betwveen the fols of the plapier, andi that wayi3 blots it. Then lie seem1 take it out and1( hold( it up~ before hI (3yes to examuine it, but the real clhe has beent left conlcaled in1 tile paper), at he hais taiken out a blank onie, previouls p)laced1 thlere. .ALthis inIstat tile sto pigeonl, whlo is sti iWig urinlg a1s the inn cent friend of tile victiml, e3xclaiml "Tis is a swVinle, and( we wvon't stal it.." lie snatches the sh1am check fro: his8 confederate's hand1(, tears it into vei smll bilts hmd scatters them 011 the floo "Nowv let us8 go out," hte says'. Thlei is a pretence of barring the wa'2y, b)1 lie and the victim ale 80011 ill thel strei -tle latter pIrofuse ill his thanks f< hlavinIg been rescedt. Of cour'se, I dloesni't go near11 the ban11k to stop) pa2 mlenIt on the check which lie believesi haveYt been dlestroy'ed, for 110 is not an1 bous to expose0 his ver'dantcy needlessh and1( thle swindl(ers thus gain timle to and1( get it caishied. Tho End of a Heormits Uareer. 'Tie remainls of Jesse E. Wiliamtls,ti '"hermit of Chester c'ounIty Pa. " i been recenatly in terred( in P'1il adelpi Hielived in mll 1111shanilty onl land( knowi a8 '"TJhet ])arrnls,"' ill Weti Nottingha townIshlip int the counIty whose title wi a palrt of 'is surname1[1. Hie was genle ailly thloughlt demenOtted, but it is knlow thait yeairs ago lhe was2l 01n of Phila~d plhit's miost prospousl and1( honor01 merelhnt,s. iIe is said to hlave of t( enltertal inedl H enry Clay,Daniel I Websti anItherli)l einenICt,menI of their ine ait sumlptuouls hlomeI. lie formierly owmI a farm naear Conshocken, but lhe pr1efe redi polities to bin1ess and1( failed 111121 cilly. W ith ils fort,unei wenitis friend his w~ife became dlivorcedl from him at he was dlesertedi by his children. Fi years he waindleredl ov'er the State at fhially settled on the spot,where he die<4 which 1s oni tile edge of a large pine1( fo est. Poultry was his 1hobby3 aind 1111 1 eared for In life wvas 2an imIproved bret of chickens, about whlicih, it is sai(d, I at oine tinme or other wrote a boo0k. A LAWYrn is not anything like great a onriosity as the champion thi man.W but it costa moro to saa him. Live-Stook i) Midsune,r. Ie The latter part of summer is often rn very trylig to live-stock. Pastures are of short, old grain is high, the new not yet y fit to feed. Milk may be in great do s miand and the farmer loath- to cut in st upon his corn-fodder, interaded for cur e- iug to feed off the aftermath; he is h lucky who can turn his young stock of If cattle and horses into mountain or high 11 wooded pastures, where they will have e. water and may make at least half a >r living upon underbrush, etc. Early is sown fodder corn conies in well now ty for milk cows, andcl there is really no - other good use for it. If cut for curing >f it is hard to dry without . molding and it decaying, and If left to stand until after of the middle of September, when It will h cure well, It will be as woody and tough lo as "corn stalks. " When fed to much lo cows, fodder corl ought to be cut short nt and sprinkled with two to four quarts c of corn-meal per cow each day. There e will then be no complaint of the quali d ty or the quantity of the milk. If these 3Ue fted withoiut the meal, the milk will surely be thin, and the cows are ex - iansted by the increased flow, and soonl fall oil' i yield. Iorses in pasture are often extreme i, ly annoye(l by flies. If they can stand n when not In use in (arkl sweet stables;, r by all means turn them into the pasture only at night. Gnats and mosquitoes are of little annoyance to horses, but a the larger day flies and the (Estrus or Bet-fly, set then almost crazy. Ewes and lambs are usually separated ini August, and while none of our domes tic animals is more often used as a typo of maternal affection than the ewe, yet o the agony of separation will be of short. duration, and not especially painful if' r the two flocks, dulls and lambs, can b;' )ast.red so far apart as not to hear eneai e other's calls. It is well to put with th lambs a few wethers as flock-leaders, or e a ram or two if there is danger of an 1., noyance by passing dogs. The ewes should be penneand their milk drawn enough to relieve their udders several i evenings in succession after taking thy ambs away. Wounds on any kind. ' e aninuals are liable to be fly-blown arii very annoying. The best treatmer.t that we know of is an application 1l strong carbolic soap. That which is t sold as sheep (lip is very good; but be careful not to use the arsenical sheep , dips or anything of that kind. Soft soap 1 or semi-solid soap, strongly impregnated d with crude carlbolic acid, is good and 1 anyone can make it. It will be found t goo(d for all kinds of raw sores, galls, y bites, scratches and the like on man or e beast. The place for pigs at this season is in y then irchard: ilml sln nrlni ;+ th,,g wormy, unless, indeed, a gale shakes off )f sotnld fruit, and the pigs unconsciously r slay thotisands of injurious insects. liow to Broatho In Reading. M. Legouve tells the anecdote of 'I'alma watching the actor Dorival from the prompter's box until he had dis y covered his secret, wihich consisted in I- always taking a fresh breath before the h last one was quite exhausted, and in h doing his best to oonceal the beginning I- of each phrase by starting whenever he t could on au a. e, or an o,-"that is to I say, at the point where the fact of the ,(; mouth being already open makes it w poi,ible to take breath lightly, without e the action being perceived," Again, l I)elle Seie, the celebrated singer, could ran up and down the scale in front of a lighted candle without the flame waver I ing. "How is this done? It is because se he employs exactly the quantity of ts b.c th needed to carry the sound of the a.. notts, If you or I were to try it we ir should simply waste our breath."' in y thbe chapter on "Pronunciatien" MI. a Legouvo insists, and the paint can d hardly be too much pressed, on the y value, the absolute need, in fact, of clear e articulation as opposed to more exertion y of voico. This he illustrates by a story of Bouffo, when he was playing Pere G (randot in the ".Fille de l'Avare." is When ha came to the most touchino 'i scene of the piece, when the old miser I, flLds that lie is robbed, the actor began it to scream out the words as he. was ac ii customed to. At the end of a fewv min o0 utes the sound died away' on his lips. IS and he was compelled to continue in a k murmur. What happeneu? That he (was a thousand times more true and ymore touching than before, because he was obliged to make up for weakness of Svoice by force of articulation. It is true that omne cannot speak without a dvoice, but voice alone has so litt,e to do n with diction that there are readers, Yorators and actors to whom the very -extent of thecir voice is a drawback, SUnless they arc skilleai in articulation tthe volume of sound devours the sense, Roadwvay CIonstructiona. In a paper recenuy comlmunicmatedl to the o Society of Engineers, hondon, Mr. (Oop. .. !anud described the principal systems of Sroadway construction nOW In vogue anad a pointed out the extent to whieh he conald credl they met, or failed to meet, the re qmnremntos of a .well-adapte.t roadway namely, safety, eaisy traction, noiselesses freedom from dust and( mud, durabilit, iti facility and cheapness of construiction, is maitnance andI repairs to itself andI to t. the gas and water mains,' etc. in le also explaine(d the principles upon n whIch with a view to avoiding the defects is of other systems, lie hlad dlesgnedl the aimi r- phaltic wood pavement, the use of whaeh ni Is now increasing. Tihis pavement con l- sjti of a bed of concrete, with a layer of d asphalt ever it, and upon this are laId ni transverse courad, of remd g..o bliocks with 3r intermediate spaces ithe latter are iled a in partly with heated martlc asphak, andi d then with coarse hmei and gravel grout, ,~'* r- flushed with hot air, to the surface of the i- roadway ; about ani inch of coarse gravel m; is then spread ini a uniiform manner over dthe whole surface of the roadlway thuq w prepared, and loft to be worked In by the d traflic, I, in regalrd to thie expense of toinstructicu r- amid maintenance of the various systems or ic roadway, the author coacludies that thouigL d for town roadp, mnacadlain Is the cheapest ic in original c st, it is by far tile moat ex pensive over a ti-rm of years-whereas, although the asph'altac wood pavement coots is more at first, it Is cheaper, over a length n cned period, than macadam, or most other roadwayn.