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S TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. NOVEMBER 3. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848. TIlE FAItallCi. A farmer ftrrowed his swarded field, And faltered not for the day; He felt from the north a frost-wind blow, And the path of the sun wan gray, And the wheat-bird's whistle he heal front the bough, And he knew that the weevil oft followt1 the plotgh. lie bent his lowly fortn to the task, Belteving his labor a.prayer; So he plodiled the pace of a cheerful man, Preparing his ground with care; Whistled and plodded then caswt amain For the harvest hour the seeding grain. A farmer sat in his cottage door, Nodding a noon-tido nap, And the whitened wheat across the way, Waved on t.he meadow's lap; With heavy heads, in a slumbering hazi The .talks bunt down in the August day As the faruer dozed, he dreamed au stiled, For his acres waved on his eye; And then the clink of the. reapers he hear< And his slacks and his mows swell. high; And over his cheek a soft tear crept, Feor the Joy he it as he nodded and slpel He woke; in the haze of the hot afternooti, In health was hlie ben1t to Ihe anatih, And over the field the gavels stretched, In many a winding path; The vision he saw had lightened his task, And he learned that to pray we h labr should ask. ACROSS Tilt, RlIlt. She was buying lilies when llalp Alverton first saw her in Italy. it w under a dust begrimed old pala wall at the corner of one of the streel in Florence. Ralph Alverton was ot early in search of a breath of fret morning air, before the glare of 11: June day began. A few Florentih women in lace veils, holding fans bi tween their laces and the sun's ray had passed and([ repassed him on the: way to church or market; but it wi an English face which arrested his al tention. 1uwle, Signorina, etole?" clamore all the flower venders together, whil each thrust liandfuls of dewy roses ( 'Virgiti lilies' toward the face of a gi with hair of the same golden color Carlo Dolce painted for his 'Angel the Annunciation.' Ralph Aivertoi the artist could not help thinking of L picture as lhe watched her, lilies in hati turn away from the long stone ledge t the Palazzo Strozz, which serves as tiower stall in the Via Toriabuonl The tall, slight figure, in her quali costume of sage green. went over oti of tile bridges to tile other side of ti Arno. And Ralph went home to 11 studio oi this side of the river. He had taken a fancy to the angi painted by Carlo Dolce, and a few da: later found him seated with canvas an: easel before it ill the gallery of tLi Pitti. Some copyist had already hee at work there; another easel, with half-flimshed sketch stood by the pt ture, and there was a high stool le: vacant. It was not long before it w, taken possession of by its owner-ti: girl with the hair and face like the ai gel of the picture, resemblance showin stronger with the removal of her hat Side by side worked the two Englib artists all the morhit with no exchiang of words. Tiie next day he cam.e with the flxe purpose of winning a word from hI grave lips. All opportunity wits easil lound in some appeal about their con imon work; it was followed by a mutui contemplation of each other's paintin Ralph considered his own inimeasir bly the superior of the two, but lie di not so, and talked becatuse lie liked h iistcner. Buit the conlversati oln wv brief; the artists were discreet, n lence resulted. "'Ah, Lilias, so we have found you last I" cried a grand looking miatroi lady, who, withl double eye glasses aun lBaedeker's guidle book, entered LlI Salle shortly belore Lihe hlour for closinj She was followed by a party of lier ow people, who camefl Up anid shot hands wvithl the girl artist. "Why, M A lvertoni, a re you here4?" e'xclaimeld chorus of surprised voices, and~ tile there was a repetitioti of greetinlg "'Really, ill traveling, one comles acro. friends in the most surpirismng waly] said the leader of tile party, whiomi tihe called "Mrs. Caivot' " I thought ye were still livinig A' 'on. Do yn know my frir 'ratne? Nt Lilis, may I int cc A' Aiverton you? What a stra .midenit, thI: I should find my two friends at wvor onl the samie picture, yet uttknown{ one anotheri" T1hen the whole group of Eniglisht vi itors suddlenly grew interested in tI ''Angel of the Annunclation,"~ andi * aniother. Mrs. Calvon putk upI hierglassa and gave her criticisms with all ii freedomn of an amateur who knows notI ing about art. "Will you conme an - see us this(eening at tile Hotel doeI li rope, Mr. Alverton?" she asked, as Liht left the gallery. Ralph accepted and caime. In Mr CJalvon's saloon lie learnled a little aboi Lilias Vane. 11er famni y, who wei very poor~ had coinsented to her wish come to I' onco to p~ainit. She liv at the pension--the Casa Chiara wich happenid exactly .to face tI studio occupied by Ralph onl the 0opp site of the Amrn. While they were3 tatl ing of her Lillas herself arrived wil some1 other people, whio had been invi ed. Rtalph Alvertonl made up his mit that evenling that lie llisi laer vel mnuch. Lilias didi not uiake up hi miind so qujickly. She was quiet at silent, with a graVe, sweet, look whhl somehow connected itself with the A1 gel and the Lily. But whien it wa time to go home Ralph offered to e cort the ladies back to the Caso Chiar This was the first but by no nmeanis tL last, time that he walked wIth L1ll1 along the river side where the ligh shone1, and across the bridge of the Ca raja to her home on the other side. They often met In the rooms of i tual friends, where thie evening woul be spent, and when, whatever else hai pelned, or did not happen, tile end we the samte always; Rtahlh Alverton t care of Lillas across the river, and le: her safely at the Casa Chiara. One day, by special arrangemenit 11i Caivons and .Lilias nald a visit 1 Ralph's studio on the Lung' Arno. v Some of the party lavished a good deal I of ecstatic admiration on his paintings, a which lie received for what they were a worth; but the few .words uttered in 8 d Lilias' low, steady tone, and the flush t of animation on her otherwise calm N d face, were things he treasured. i-us 8 studio was filled with original designs. c As a rule he looked down on copyists, I but lie had continied the copy of the 9 "Angel of the Amunciation," making I his work last just so long as the time ( Lilias took to finish hers. l "Meet us at the Certosa to-morrow," t said Air. Calvon to Ralph; "Lilias has c promied to accompany is oi a round ( of farewell visits we wish to make to t all the principal sights before leaving c Florence. For leave we must this week ( if Eustace does not appear. We havo c d waited long enough for him, the heat is becoming really inisupportable."' V "EUtce" Was a 8son of Mrs. Calvon and had been expected to join them, but whose bImsnme.ss appointments in I London had hitherto delayed him. t. Ralph Alverton felt sorry that the t Calvons were leaving, partly for their I own sake-they were pleasant friends- i but still 1mmore because it would mean a , cessation of those constant meetings with Lilias. or In the middle of thle cloister garden of the convent of the Certosa there stands an old well. "At what are you I looking?" asked Ralph, leaving the rest f to follow the monk who acted as show- I man, and coming across to where Lilias, stooping over the well's side was gaz s ing down earnestly into its dlark depths. 1 I "I was trying to think of a wish," I i she said, looking up 'with al smile. I "These old wells always give mue a 8 childish fancy to wish; they mnake one l think of the wishing-wells in which one & used, as a child, to believe." "1 know what I wish," said Ialph, with a fervor which was quite earmest. I ir Thero was nothing in the words; wheth er it was the tone, whether it was something she read in his eyes is they stayed fixed on hers, or whether it was some electric miessage in the air Lilias could not have told; but there, by the convent wall, she guessed for the first time that Ralph loved her. )f Together they leaned over the old I stone sides, and looked down into the deep, round abyss to where far, far be- t I low, the water reflected their faces )f against a background of blue sky, across which at that iimoment a fleecy cloud was sailing. Ralph's wish was that the I day might come when Florence's river' 0 should divide then no louuger. Lihas e wished that the miorrow bright might i bring Eustace Calvon to Florence. So, sil ently, the two contrary wishes were t 31 sent down the old well-Ralplih guessing IS nothing of how the other wish clashed d with his own, Lilias just conscious C that it was possible both should not n agree. at Then they recrossed the sunny garden to join l.he carriages waiting ini thi shade at the entrance gates, and they 6 all drove back to Florence. And the e solemn, silence-bonud monks, nmumind full of the world's love stories, came 9 out at sunset to draw water at the old L. well, wniich to them was nothing but a I source of common usefulnmess. 'e A few days afterwards, in the early morning, the artists were left standing ( on I lie station platform, from whence a -r pile of luggage from the hotel do 1' iu y rope had just cleared, waving adieux to - the express train going north. Both ii were sorry for the departure of tiir . mutual friends; both also had special - cause in their regret. Lilias would d have liked to have met Eustace Calvon is again; she would have described him as s '"an 01(d friend-nothing mocre;" aiid so i- when lie did not, conic she was not broken -hearted but bore the disappoint it mont very philosophically. Had they y met, that summer thme old friendship d might have ripened into someothidng e stronger, but b)usiniess claims dletained .* young C'alvon in England for three days a longer than tihe patienice of his relations k could endulmre, and when lie was free it r, was in Enigardinie--not, in Florence a that hie joined them. a Mr. Alverton sooni imade thme d'scovery s. that time old ladies-t4he chief occupants is of the penisioni where Lilias was liing " -were miost charming and delightful y peopile3. And so it, hiappendl that at, last, a his evening visits hec..me a semircely less u regular customi than .the appearam-ee of I the 8 o'clock tea tray with its two ,0 large teapots of watery tea. 1t waus it never a dimiiy, never a smoky place, k that salon,to Italphm,for thme girl wit'h the o golden glory hair of thme angel was there amnd her presenice made it seem to him s. an earthly paradise. And somiehiow, me even though thme sulrrouninmgs werei a a crowd of 01ld mnaids ini smart, eveninig as caps, bad tea, and~ a crackedl old pianmo. ~e illais learned better every eveing .- what t ho wish wvas that Italpii had at ul heart; and her own wishl faded out of . unemory. Eustauce was far awvay, and y had never been miore thanm "anm old friendl;" Rlalph Alvertoni was close s. andul made her uniderstamnd thamt h~e woukd it, not be content until ho reached a high e, or stanmilmg thanm mer'e friemdshmip. o . ilian suirrend~eredh. Tihey settled it dI mi so imanmy wordls one (day at thme far ud of the Caseine where Lil.as had le been left to wait for a friend. The h- merind was late in keeping her appioint <- ment, and~ Mr. Aiverton hiapplened to hl arrive inistead. T1here oni a stone seat, t. just beyond time mionumnent of the Inidia prince, Lilias p~romnisedh everythinig re d quired of her, while some light liuffy y3 needs from a tree overhead fell, scatter :r inig at their feet, and eddIed lightly d around-niorth, south, east, west, like h emmibems of uncertaimty; buit words a- were said which sealen two fates, amid is ciose beside themll flowed the yellow s- Arno, which sooni should separate them s. no longer. w .l-appiy days were those which follow as edl; happier (lay was that to which they Is iooked forward ini June. Bumt before r. that day which was to give them to one another, came .Eustace (Calvoni to Fior- . ~- ence. And with him camil discomd be.. I dl tweeni thle ioves. How it beganm, how -. It continmued, who was most to be blam- I a ed, none but themselves could ever k guess; but Eustacee Calvoni was some t nmow (unintetionally) the center-chord which caused the jar. Ralph grew ec jealous, susiihous; showed heat ahd o hastiness. Lllas was proud. resentful. nd turned cold as ice. The whole Cal 'on lparty had returned to Felorence, nd1 Ralph Chose to disapprove of theii 11. ie complained that Lilias let her elf be mfonopolised by them; that Eats ice talked too much to her; that lie voil not endure it,; lie would not, tand it. Liliai, conscious that no ause for wrath existed, and finding ustace simply friendly and civil, re ented such injulstice, anil ailled* im atiently that "no one should nake her Last off old friends." Circumstances nid misunderstandings helped to wident he breach, uitil thu climax was reach- t d one day in high words on the Ponte i Carrajo, where, without farewell, hey parted-slie across the bridge to H ine side, he atross the bridge to the ther side. Dividedl yes, they' had f hosen division. A great crowd blocks the bridgeway C nd lines on either side the river's em iankents-a black, silent crowd, vlehi all the day long hangs over the arapets, watching the water below. "'A boat upset-two mien drowned lie bodies are being searchod for." So asses the iews through Floreice. Jilias learns it ol her way homeward ,t, midday. There-pissing along the iung' Arno-she learnis, too, the added unior, "Onei is ain E.nglish artist." "Let, inc take you homie," says lus ace Calvon, filding her with blanched . ips adrift in the crowd. He lads her urtlher up the river side, and guides ter faltering steps across one of the t igher bridges, which is deserted eitlier speak tlbe:r fears inl words, but lefore many hours have passed all lorence proclaims it for theta: '"Mr. talpli Aliverton is the alie of, the mis- t ing Eiglishiman."' Eustace hastens to is room only to find the report confirm d: "Mr. Alverton went out with a riend in an open boat; it was thought hey intended to sketch on the country lanks.'' All day the search is made; all the ay, fron early iorning to late night,, lie blackness of on-lookers is there. qighit comes, and still they hiaig over he bridge's parapet--a miotaonless, sad cned mass, .iiil-hbounlid to the spot. t But the pleasure and the business ontinue; strangers come and go floin alace to church to see the sights; car iages drive out to the Casino to listen 9 the band; pleasant imprompt t pairties aake the evening rouid of the cafes, ud afterward walk back to their hotels *r apartments by the side of the river, i leneath whose moonlit, waters the dead t ie.v Lilias stands oi her balcony alone in he moonlight. 'Iwo days have pa:sed- t lIe second day's search has been as ruitless as the first; the crowds have lispersed-the people have gone away oberly to their honies. She looks out. 1pon the cold, silver-radialiced water Lowimg ever onvard; the line of brigit I ights lings their reflection across tLhe iver as on other nights,but one wiudow >n the other side is darkened-4here hines no good-night signal there. Across-the bridge caine hurrying with t wift noiseless steps, a wierd procession. Xf those whose oflice it is to carry the lead-the secret confraternity of the liSericordi-disgmised g ures, robed n. black fromu head to foot, only the yes visible. Two and two they go, f arryimg lighted torches befor and. af er the corpse. Some amonig themi, it iay be-noble or cidzen-have jutst icen called from the dance or the feast o serve as they have bound themselves o serve, at all times of' necessity. An >thor minute they have lastenett away in their midnight mission; the flare of heir torches is seen no mone. Lilias, standing mute, unimovable in lie miooiinlit, rememibers how~ oni that iridlge two days before she hadt partedI vith him she loves; recalls the proud ard words which have been their last, nd tries-very hard she tries-to rca ri that between them now runs the. Liver of D~eathi, and that, before she can ' m'hisper thme word "F 1orgivel"' she miuast vait anitil she, too, shallI reach "'the oth r side." "O Ralph, if you1 were here but for no short mioimenit., I think l could make you undetrstandl"' Tlhaen, as if in nswer t~o her hiahi-uttored cry, some n o , motiimhii* htI rI with rapid ,u eitajin steps paissed twice or tlubrice ibe uw the balcoiiy, pauses and looks try) iid callIs her by her nanme. Down ini the front vestibule, still heft peni to the st~reet, with none near but,. lie old half-sleepiug conlcierge, she Larnis the glad news that all Florence e ans been atler a miistake, that, Itaiph e 1las coine home froum his prolonged stay i the cam pagna; that I lie river of (death, IS been but, the dlreaiin of' two sad 1 Lays; and that Italpli "uiiderstanids"'. .hready, and~ hms comae to make her uan erstapid. N o riv~er need longer dhivide hem. "W Ill you comle to ume Ithere oni the' ther side" I'Italph asks oncen ioe A nd l,ilias answers, "'tI will i Changes in th am sruer havo made(1 n island o1 Jamestown, completely oeparaing it from thet main 11and(, iand Ibout all that reminsli of thle first l!nglish settlencmht > Virgimia is the Iisnjalntled tower of tihe old ehurch. t was liero that t'ocabJoutas embraed t lhe Christian faith andit was bapitizedh by, lhe name of R abeca. The front used >n that occasion LOW stands in the hanoel of Chiristchiurch, Willamsburg, lore also Poeaboutas wams marriedt ain .618 to John Rtoiph. A low brick wa I noloses the ground occuapie.t b~y thet 'unmd toweor and1( foundation of the ihurch; and tomib-stonos, some brokcen lid scatered, some leaning against. the i vall, and all with inscriptionis nearly it e mot quite illegible, having long since t ieased to indicate whore lhes thme dust ( >f those whose names thbey bor'. Two e mundred yards below the ruins and 100 al rom the river batik is the sta'.ely o0d(1 nansion buit by John Ambler over 100 i rears ago. It is [he only residenceon Oi he island, is in line preservation, ai d icetipied by Colonel HI. D). B. Clay, e ormerly of 19ew York, who owns Jamies. t Own, which consists of 1,700 aores, I and as between two and three miles mn I ength and three qutarters of a mile in i vktib. Sorrowv Is the noblaat. of diseloiivo ( 1 aby Crlcie anid Jack Orled." it has bee 1 goingn for a year- past. ick is a carrier for one of the dailies, Lnd his circuit takes lin a house on Cott street. One day last spring a )aby crowed at him from an open door in that street., and Jack tossed an apple ito the hall. Tlhe next day the baby vas watching for him, aid after three or four days the boy made bold to slip 11) the steps and pa, tle little chap on lie bead and leave the stick of candy to had purchased two luiles away. As im went on Jack came to khow that hie baby was fathe' less, and that his Liother was pale-facfAAid hardly able o drag abilouit. it W' Weeks before he spoke to him, but the baby took to ack right. away aid *as always ready or his coming. Aflter the first week it Va always cleani-facOd, but it was a ood while before Jack roused up the ourlage to givo hliini a kiss and to ask or on1e inl return. A flter that it was lain sailing, and the neiglhbors became nIterested. It was queer enough that , boy Il((- Jack, having his own way to Iake amd roughing it tmitil he had be ome sispicious and hard- hearted, houll catch on to a little whitelead uld be more thant a big brother to hiimn It, that, was what happenM ed. And something inore. One day Ie roight ip) a tiuartei of a pound of tea m1d left it where the iliother would find L, an(1 this was followeei by other par els and articles. One day he missed it! baby and crept into the 11a1l to ind hat he had cried hiinself to sleep an1d hat the mother wis ill and lIelpleiss. ack roumsed lip tihe neighbors, alid vhaLever wao eaten inl that house for lie next two weeks wits pturchiased with ack's money. A fortnight ago Jack missed baby gain, and again lie found tihe mother l1. Friends were with ter this time mid she did not suiffer for care. A week go there was crape on the door as the arrier went his round, and baby had eein carried off by a ieighkbor. When ack came aroilud next lay, the moth r had been buried ui people were vatching to tell him that the inuse was o be vacated and bal)) was to go to al istlit city. lie had been brought ack to bid the carrier good-bye, aud he(1 pour and tie lowly people drew off vith tears ini their eyes, and Jack mat ii the door-steps an( took baby inl his ut) an([ smoothed his white head and issed his red cheeks. Baby cliing round his neck and seemetl t) realize hat 11 Was to lose a friemd, ain, as one Mto stood by expresseil it.: "Then baby cried alni Jack criedan1d he Wo101 IMt theOl ilIrolns upl) ald sob ied like children. Wmti they finally 0ok the child- awas 'ack's heart was uig enomigh to break, and throwing 1hi rums around lie little chap for tih last in11e he turnei and ran away and never Doked back I" A Mes Iitasn iataramst. Th - x 0lnlr11111070, 01- )rea1kfaist,, s served at noon, andl( corrospomids to lie French dejeuine. It is very hearty. nd (oes not ditfer from our regular linner As aii example of the best class If restaurants, I will cite the Cafe iglais, which is kept. by a most. amia oie Frenmchimianm, who, after lak ing a 0111une1 inl the same buisSH inl Peril, vent. lack to France to enjoy it, but L)St it through his sol; returning to "iui, lie m1ade1 another fortite, but vas ruined by time (Chilian war at the ine of the taking of Lima; tie hias ieen two years inl Moxica and is in a vav to make a third fortune. The 0st1M'alt oCcupieS what Was8 the patio, 1r couri't, of a hotel, and has been roof d over with glass. The lae 1 ilr meiited with a profuision of blooming >hants, f'or which Mexicanms have hiad a massioni frmom the days of1 tano Aztecs. 1ach sideC of1 the long enitranice is lined1 vi th rows of plants, forming ai leasanmt Pp1roachm, and11 in thme ceniteir of thme iroom 5 a1 large group, whliile the auir-plant s tang ini baskets all arond~ time sides. V itli 0111' sottp we take aguiecate, a k id 'f fruit wIth 11 black skini and abou)it, the hiape of a large 1ig. l.t, contain11s a lige, nutmeg-shiapell seed, and1( is of a oftt and1 somewhiat. pasty greenish sub tance. It is calkhd a niatura'l butter, ud the poor1 peopile spr'ead~ it on their ireaid, but it has no resemblance to uittor iniIIVI l am uid is not, in the least. reasy; to mec it, seems inmoro egg-like udi cireamiy nii tasto. It is cut, upi and1 umt, inut.o Isoip, fomin lg a1 ver'y hplelaimi ddcitioni, or' is eaten as a veget able withb allt and1( pepperU1. Next, to soup coimes ggs, sem'ved as 01n0 maly prefer. A avoite way~'l3 is a 1la plate, or xlir iredl, as tmier'icans5 woul call them, beiig rioken iinto a heated little dish of' silvei' iid briouight, to thie glish cooking. A ipami shi omelett1e, or tor'tilla, is lsop 'ery imice, being served ini laige, r'outul hape1), like a Ger'im pancake, and Ilvor)eiCl w i th leeks ciut up ini it. TJhe 110ent.5 andl veg tallhes are' miost ly c3iiommo I) time Fruenich tinsine, and1( nieud no escr'iption, ('eet to say the salhis .i' exclleiit., with the best, of lettuce, r'esh tomat oes, aind other conuomitanits. Sis niot, imiomonilii for' the guests to imke1( thei r ownm salad, 011llin g lon thet (eParatel m3uateiis, iniclidig col hickein, and11 mixinig Map their own iniegar ml (111 priop)ortionis. Th'lere aire biree re~gulalr mneaC courses, and a laruge iiimbcir of dlishesi to select fr'om. Th'Ie eser)mt, 01' postr'es conlsists of1 fruiit anud iices, the latteor comnsistimng olthbi' oh' 'mddlinrgs 01' custard 01r of' presmerve mrmmts. 'This nieal cost-s 02 cents of' lexicani mloney, wiihih is equliiialenlt, to boult 5.5 ~cnts n i Amricani~~ money, It, al mudes also ethber tea, coffee, or1 hbocohtte. Thme latteru is usumally takeni lhe last, thimig at, the eveninig meail, or' oimida, thme dimnner', which is pr'ecisehy lie same as tihe bieaklast inm gemneral haracter, the menu, however, be ig hamged. Tihe Mexican chioolote has3 peculiar flavor, amid seems a (quitoe liflerenmt beverage f'ronm what A mier'icanms re accustomed to. It is Ilavored with 'oth vanilila amid cinamion,anid is Very) ich. It is served bii small cusps, amid achm clip Is pi'epaired separa'ltely, thme onttents being beaten to a froth with aI ittle wooden chmocolate beater of 1)ecu at' comstruction, amid twirled -around etween the two hamnds. Thme cost to lie regular boarder Is $1 a daly for these we meals, and one gets a good deal of xenelent fare for thme mnmv. A Ureat fanch In Vailfornia. "'10 South California sitatistIes of fruits, grain, wool, honey. etc., read more like fanlcy than like fact, aud are not readily believed by one acquainted with the country. The only way to get a real comprehension and intelli gent acceptance of them Is to study then on the graund. By a single visit to a great ranch, one is more enlighten ed than lhe would be be connnitting to memory scores of Equalization Board Rteports. One tf the very best, If not the best., for this purpose Is Baldwin's ranch, In the San Gabriel valley. It In, eludes a large part of the old lands of the San Gabriel Mission, and Is a priu cipality in itself. "There are over a hundred imen on its pay-roll, which averages $1000 a nonth. Another $4000 does not more than ineet its run.iniing expeilsos. It has $13, 000 worth of machinery for its grain harvests'alone. It ias a dairy of forty cows, Jersey and Dutrbamn one hund red and twenty work-horses and n inules, and lifty thoroughbreds. "It is divided into four distinct es tates: the Santo Anita, of 16,000 acres; Pucnte, 18,0O; Merced, 20,000; and the Potrero, 25,000. The 'll cPuento anmid Merced are sheep ranches, and have 20 U000 sheep on them. The Potrero i rented out to siall fariners. The, Santo Anita is the homne estate. Oi it are the honues of the family and of tIhe laborers. 1,i has fifteen liundred acres ol oak grove, four thousanld acres inl grain, live huiindred in grass for hay, one hundred and fifty in orange or chards, fifty of alhnond trees, sixty of walliuts, twenty-live of pears, fifty of peaches, twenty of lemons, anmd five hundred i vines; uiso sminall orchards of chiestnumts, hazel-maints, dmi apricots; and thtousands of acres of good pastur age. "Fromli whate'rer side one a)proachAeW Santa Anita in May', lie will drive thbroligh a wild garde-I-asters, yellow and white; scarlet, pentsteinons, blut larkspur, nionk's-hood, Ilupines, wlite and blue; gorgeous golden eselischolt zia alder, wild lilac, white sage-all in rio tous flowering. "10interiiig the ranch by one of the north gates, he will look southward dtown gentle slopes of orchards and vine) ards far across the valley, the tints growing softer and softer, and blending more and nore with each mile, till all inelt into a blue or purple haze. Driv ins from orchard to orchard, down half mile avenues through orchards skirting ,seeningly endless stretchesoC vineyard, lie begins to realize what coiues of planthig trees and vines by liundred4 and tens of itundrIeds of acres, and the E1qualization Board Statistics no longer appear Lo him even la.rge. It does not seem wonderfil that, Los Angeles County should be reported as having sixt~y-two hiindred acres in vines, whlen here on on man's ranch are flve hun dred acres. The last E10qualization Board Report said the coiity had 25(3, 135 orange ati 41,250 lemnon trees. It wotild hiardly have surprised him to be told thiat there were as many as that in the Santa Anita groves alone. The effect on the eye of such huge tracts, planted wit.h a single sort of tree, is to increase enorinously the apparent size of the tract; the nind stumbles oi the very threshold of the attempt to reckon its distances and nuinihers, and they be coime vaster and vaster as they grow vague."' A M111mleadisng Symptuom A not oriois-utimck found his businesm increasing to such an extent that h( was obliged to take an assistant. Ht did not, however, attenhlpt to illlposet upon01 his j unior- a5 h1e did upon03 the pub lie, very candidly aidinittinmg that htis relittation rested on a series of foriu nate guesses and1( luacky accidents. "'Y ou coine0 with 11ne and paty a few visits, Y oun will very suon get the hang of the thing.'' The first, house they called at they found the tnaster in bed. Quack Senior, the nmoneint lhe set, eyes on the plaiit, said: "Tihere, niowv how meon of youtr t imie of IifCe can hie Inmprudent enough to inidulge ini a surfeit of water.. uicin, I can't. see, Hlow mnany inelojis didl vou eat this iniorniing? The best pairt, of three, Ill lie bound "' The old1 1inan, wondiiering4 at. the aeiteniess of his mntilimeal ad viser-, adiunittedl that lie wa~s right, in every par-ticilar. Th'ie dloctori pi.ecribed sonite simple1k reintedy, and1( took his~ fee and his leave. No soonier were0 they outside thani the enibryo( qliuackl, buirninig to acequire suich aui iuinportant. priofessioial secret,, comnenced: "'how did you kntow that thme ima had lbteen eatinlg wvatermeloni? Yu Oln ever looked ait his tonmgue, or--"' "Tonguei~i be hamnge,"' said thbe elder; "I looked ini thle woodhed as I cainie in anid saw the rinds of three water mneiins. Youii must, misc your eyes, my boy.'' T1he( less~on sanki1 deepi into the younmg mian's mind, and lie endeavored to lirolit by it on the very first occasion that be madin~e ani tidependenut, visit. "No woinder 3 ou are feeling badly,"i said lie to his patient, "wheni you have bjeeni eating horse -- that's enoiugh to sicken a Jerseymian."~ "liorsel'" said time smiffer-er faintly, yet wonderinigly. 'Yes, horse,'' said IAsciulapius J unior. "'Now tell moe how muich y ou have eateun."' "'llorse," r'epeiated thle hpatient, indig nauntly. "'I ntevem (did such a thing. I wouldin 't- -"i *'ere lie got iniaddei- as the idea was miomre fulily borne ini upon0 hmim. "Geht out of herec, you iinfernail qulack," and witm the assistanmce of a coumple of thme pamtient's stalwart sonis, the pretender to inedicaf sciemmce was "'And yet,'" w-hen he explaimed his adventur-e to his menitor,'" whmo had lost, a patienit, by his assisant's injdi elouis diagntosis; "andit yet I sa1w a saddl~le lit time wvoodslied as plinmly as yomm saw the watermoelon rinids" Quack Senior is nOW advertising for another assistant, and Qumack Junior Is diving an Ice wagon. -TIexas has 6,139 mIles of railroad. -Salt Lake City, Utah, Is overrun withl vagramnts and tramps. Varloum Thluga. The coldest thing lin the world-The I kitchen oil-cloth to yoar bare feet on a I cold winter's night. The hottest thing--A raish, lying m anbush in a mouthful of hot plum pud ding. The dullest thing-A funny news- I paper. The longest tling-Your friends funny story. The shortest thing-The memory of the professional borrower. The biggest thing-The fortune you expect to make by speculation. | he smallest thing--The fortune which you do mauike. TIhe toughest thiig-Tlie young wife's pie crust. The softest thing---The conversation which passos between a duck and a dearie. The highest thing---The mercury in the thermometer about this time. The hardest thiig--The bit of bone that you "come right, down oi" when eating chops. The Easiest thing---Lving. Tie tighest thing-The imirriajke tJie; that is to say, it Itsed to be, bil now it is the loosest. The prettiest thing--Look in the mirror and you will see it. The brightest thing 1-Th s 1's light. shot into your eyes as it com,-s rlleted from the pece of hookin g-gass in tihe hands of the mischievo-i smiall b:y. Thie silliest thing--Tinking .hal wealth produces happiue-s (Wouldn't. you like to be knocked silly provided the money came?) Tite freshest tinIIg-You k noV hiim; he is everywhere. However, he will get salted in time. Thie stalest thing-Cominun sense. Thit qjuickest. thing-The Ilca. Theo slowest thing-An amateur drama by amateur perfornmers. The heaviest tlimng--A long sermon on a hot Sunday afternoon. The lightest thing-A lover's vow. The thickest thiig---Your tongU when coming home from 'lodge.'' Tihe thinnfist thing-The story you tell your wife naext mnenammg. Tihe wettest thing-The foot of tie simiall boy with a new pair of ruIer boots. The dryest thing--You have just been reading it. A illacking MinAe. It will be strange if Nevada does not yet turn out to be the boss producer. She has already show that her mines are numerous and rich, and almost every kind of metal has been discovered with in her boundaries. Sulphur mines, mica deposits, salt and borax manslies have also beemi discovered, but the latest discovery, and the one which will throw all others in the shade, is a blacm ing nine. In time lower part of Mason valley there is a small lake, known as Mud lake. Tihe reason the lake was given this name is because there is hardly ever any water in it, and the bottoi is soft aini iuuddy. When there is any water in the pond, which is in the early spring of the year, it has been noticed that it was very black-about the color of black mk-and the people have often wondered what was time rea son of this. Last week Albert Thomp son, who has been a resident of the val ley for some years, was passing the pond, and noticed that it was dry, the warm weather having evaporateti all the water. Ie noticed thL the ground I that had beeii covered by water was very black, and thought it a goodi time to exaaimine into thme matter and see 'what colored the water. Taking his< shovel lhe broke the crust that had I f'ormned on top, and found boeneatlh a xtoft, jet black, doughy substanice. Hie I dug a hole a few feet dleepi, and was 4 conivincedi the stuff went downa. Upon leaving lie took with hinm a chunk of the clay to experinment with anid nuold ing it into small cakes set It in the sun to dIry, thminkinug it, would make a sort of' black chalk. Wheni dry the cakes very much resemble those small cakes of' stove blacking tiha, are soid in tihe i stores. In fact they reseumbled thme< blackiuia so strongly that tihe man wet, one of thme little bricks, and rubbing it t on tihe stove, applied tihe brush. TIhe 1 effect, was marvelous; anid with a slight,4 anmouant of labor the old stove was made I to look like a new piece or furniture. Mr'. Th'lompjson has made a location of the lake, and is making preparations to put up a snmahlldry kiln. Thie manner of pr'eparinig this blacking wvill be simi.- a larm to thamt, of brick-amaking. t 1'airry's snging nutrau. Perry was a rich planlter in the iPatmuxent valley, with a broad veini of humor. The broad, del) Patuxent, af forded excellent cruising ground to thme r 13ritish doeet after it had landed the 13ritish troops. Qo day while the E 13ritish sh ips wvere lying in thme river Perry got, a well 1111led hornets' nest, plugg~ed 1 upi its openings, put oii his ol clothbes ( andit rowedl upj to the Ilag-ship). in the ~ unicouth local dialect lie o1fered the i, gray ball to the youmr olnlcers as a nesti ? full of rare singmng birds of remarkable I voice, of unusual intelligenco andi warm attachments. Thu officers clubbed to- ~ gether and offered hiim a guinea for his U birds. This lie gratefully accepted and r then handed the necst to the unsuspect- I hag youm amen. lie suggested to them U that it. would be well not to open the ~ thei sa till lie got to shore, inasmuch as the affectionmate little thuings might ~ follow their old friemnd. TLhils was am excellenut suggestiona. To make sure the officers took the nest iunto the cabia ~ ad shut the doors, leaving a marineon U deck to catch Perry's signal. As soone as Perry felt sure of his retreat on the U shore he gave time marine the signal. ~ A t the word time officers opened thle uiest, anmd, without any unniecessary delay, 4 thme cabin door also. With somewhat C undignilled haste oficers, marines and 0 seanmen swarmned to the bulwarks, and then over the side, in comical confuision, ( closely followed b.I Perry's affectionmate e little singing birds. Perry laughed till C he cried, as one by one the Biltishers sought the cool shelter of thme placid ~ P'atuxent. '. "KralliungElophtant. "Kraaling" elephants in India, says iunter, is done for the purpose of ob. aining recruits for the public work's Lepartment, temple elephants for service n the temples, and now and then for ircuses, elephants to be trIned to stand in their heads and take coppers in (not iolicemen) with their trunks. The way hey are caught is In this wise: The toad man of the village receives a notice rom the government that they requiri, o many elephants. Then the temple riesta and .he circus people, if any, want so maty more, and they come in iecond-hand.' The position of the "kraal" I determined on, and then the wholt rillage, man, woman and child, turn oi. is beaters. A radius of say ten miles is aken In, and they "spot" the herd anti ben begin to drive them towards te 'kraal." By day it is all done by shoot. og, but at night large fires are lighted in 6 circle, and, as a rule, the herd nevt r ittempt to break through, but now atel hen they do, and then the whole perfortia ince has to start again. It takes vet / ittle to frighten a "herd" of elephant-i Uto going the way you want them-quit ifierent from the solitary rogue. Half i lozen men with white wands will keep i vholo herd together like a flock of sheep. l'he "kraal" is about 200 yards In dliam - tter, and is formed by making a strou4 took alley, with a narrow entranc-, nwo whiui the elephants are drivet. Jice there, tame elephants, generally eiales, aro Introduced with mahouts, vito nake friends with the wild oies, oid two tame ones will sidle up to K Vild Oe, one on each side, aradually :losing up on him until 11o is j untued 1o ight, that he cannot move. Thaien natives reep in underneath and nake ropes fast ill round his leas, tying tihe end of onie to strong tree. This is grtadiuall y shorten .*t intil, front sheer fatiguo, he lien dowi, md trien good-bye to tree(lom. lM. itarved t t until lie either rises "ele)hant, No. 99 of the pHille wo lepartmne'it," or as "the great mud o lunibo.' of the "greatest show in eac When a herd is driven in tliere is gee illy a big bull elephant along with it, " - las to be shot before anything can tone in capturing the females. te is rue gentleman, and goes rampaging a,, >ver the "kraal," trumpeting and tryiL' o protect his "lady friends" from the an. nal nian. When the Duke of Editburgh risited Ceylon a great "krall" was gotten ip for his benellt, which I attended. Ho Nas due at a certain date, but he was wo (lays behind, and when he did arrivo to entered the te.nporary village of huta tuder as utique a triunphal arch as I ixpect lie had over gonn under. It wa.s 'omlposed of all tite empty be:-r, chain 3agne, soda-water, whisky ant brandy tiottles that had been.drank while awan - ng his overdue arrival, and, I tell yon, he arch wai a prety big one, as th.. :hmate is very "tli rat provocative." 1t the sinme "kraal" he had a very narrow queak for his life. 'wo goad shots, blosrs. Fisher and Varian, were put ilongride of hun, and a big bull elephiut was to be the subject of slangliter. When ho bull charged the duke tired and mIssed, and, strange to say, both Fishor and Va 'ian did the same. -The elephant was al nost on the duke ,when the sound ot a ile shot rung out, and the great beast Iropped almost at his feet. No one knew where the shot had come from until atten Ion wai directed to a small cloud of blue moke floating from a tree-top, and it'was lscovered that a "Cingalee" stilkaree had hot the elephant when the others hd nissed with an old flint lock musket. bo lie mourning warehouses in ICagland lost 6 big trade. When the elephant is caught and tame I here is no animal under the sun that e. eceds him in sagacity, and, in many re. tects, lhe is far superior to man. The ouch of his trunk is as gentle as the tonen tf a woman's htandt, andl the stamp of h': oo, or a blow from that samte gent:. runk, is as powem ful as tnat from a steani ammner. TIhe government uses the hliefiy in the pubilo works departmerm rhere they are employed in moving lair, ilocks of stone, where it, would be expo' live, and, in fact, impossible to use stes' muginos. They have been known to dn ip huge blocks of stone, shove thoem 1n tosition and then sway slowly backwar, and if the stone was not porfectly right niaceti, give it a push either to the rig >r to the left, until it was. A pubbc works department man on old me that lie was supermntendig t; mnloading of a lot of stool tuhimr, at whhe h-phtants were engaged. 'ro tubing h teen oiled-to prevent rust, and when t' ilophant took the first pilece up in I runkc it, sllpped, on account of the co Jo took It, uip agaim wIth the same rosn. ,d finally ho seemned to understandi nd, pushing it wIth his foot to wher tioro was some1T sand, h rolled it ovos ud over until the sand stuck to it amt rovonted It, fronm slipping, when ho tou up and triumphantly carried it.. Sutptinou~us 11air. 'Te stron~gest tand most relhable prep atomn of tIs kind is, perhaps, the h. rated calcium sulphido obtamned b upersattarating a thmn paste of freshl3 iaked lime and w ater with sulphiurete ydrogen) gast. i'or thIs purpos~ie, sprmak ver .100 parts of go >td <1 dekllime abou 0 parts of hot water, andu wvhenm 'ak rituirate wvith 200 parts of cld wate (ow place Into a smntalo flask and pa, fto it the htydrogent suiphklo gener itt rom 800 parts oh sulphido of iron an 00 parts of dilute salphurIc acid grade Ily introcaicedl into theu genecrato~r. l'To reparation mist he iminudiatoly places Ssmall vials amd accurely sealed; be von then it wihll b-se its virtues in sw weeks. Tlisa preparationi wast orig: ally recommlheuded by 11w tger, bit i tmetimes knowvn as M1arltin a t~iiatory ho paste is to bun spread ove~r the halr, un to the thIckness of a sixteenth of at ich anid allowedl to reataim for ten mn tee, when It is reurtoved with. a wi onge. If allowed to remain too lont gly sover are apt to fallow.. Anoilhe spiatory, knto vin by the T'urkislt nan. hbusma (being emp'oyed liy the beauthe the harems, whlere etiquette dieannd mplete nudeness of the body with tha Iception of the hiead, fromt wich the air is not, removed), is composed of: pulime..................50 parts taroh..... ................80 parte. Irpiment................... 5 perte.. 'rTs is converted into a paste withs rter, and employed lika the former