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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