The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, April 15, 1886, Image 1
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Downtheir brkeen arobards sing
Songs ofsnow and tempest-whining;
-Or I stand upon a rise *
Underneath the hurtled skies,
Hold 1k boaded gass by thee
That it mantle steadily?
Mayhap, Winter, It is thou
Makest rore' bad and blow;
Makest leafage and all shades
In the anioent chestnut glades;
Makest laughter on our lips
And the dew at croous tivs.
-m 'ONJY ONE'K*LED.
dre Warda sat on the tiuy
Porch of the gAdier s lodge, tranquil
ly knitting, with her spectacles, as usu
al, pushed h'gh under her cap. She
had eep it9ld tat it'.as a r9st to re
mQV Ithinfrd h6r' 4es 600asionally,
though whether the relief was to the
eyes or to the glasses she could not ex
47tlyOmember; inneither asel how
ever, @he felt it her manifest duty to
4"8I them ill sheco-uld.
. lt was a glorious summer afternoon,
ind from her wicker chair she fooda
out over a wide expanse of velvet lawn,
luxuriously shaded here and there with
clumps of venerable trees, in whose
branches the birds were holding high
carnival. But Nurse Edwards did not
hear the birds, fo, there was a picket
fst under theiedge of tiw ' verahda,
who had quite ps much to say as they,
and who had nb one but her to say it
t; nor did she need to look over the
lawna'orhiier sunlight, when'a beam bad
come purposely to seek her dut, and
was lying aqoss her lap, like a long.
needle, tre ulously waiting tobe takei
up and 6ttiA to some wonderful golden
work. It .'Is zonliscontented people
who mgetpe, rl a r for the r pleas
ures.' r4 . Niil$d4 ~otkail that
she required close to ber f t.
Preaently she put down'he'knitting,
and s&iatiffy .upright, kith'I look 'of
recognition on hdrplacid facd hat took
the place of a smile, idseenied to ex
press almost ore of 'pteasuie. She
so t mirnr
dY a .steIs, that
coii only belon ild, or to one
wh JadA uQt ri-sined obildish
gladzs~ dd ~ n'ugh, the slender
igure of a girl-, still! in her teens, soon
pYe4t0d arourid. the. dbtner, ond in a
moment more bad 'bounided breathless
ly to herd..
"Eh, Mis Anna, dear,"' said the old
wolMan, fon4iy, taking the young girl's
hand and' patting ItC' affectionately,
"what brings ye here in such haste the
"Oh! I couldn't come slowly," Annie
o?11ed,"with thit litti inconsieneat
,ajg, that 'indicates happiness rithr
than mirth. "i don't think "I could
walk to-day, if it were t save my lire.
My feet wouldn't let me if I asked it of
heh Nursie-" she suddenly stopped
and kissed the faded chebk-"Pi-ed is
coming to-day, and I've i'un down to
meet him. Be711'be'.at..the gate'in half
an hiour. 2The trai ~idsat five
e pretty face
F' 4~ Aye've so soon
man a lmekro6, ill I looked for ye
,Mnra t "wef 'twa's pnW $1s Rkeg
: aafilssisataoline;- 1but -I did hope to
1kethe 19t bqrgi fg th gi -ahi Eh!ieh I
.T teatural way,4% children. -lere's
y~~iturned a nin of a emden~ith
a home to keep me iri;'himr As I'dl held
~a lad till igwatno that-e~asy'to- Vagfaith
ng his beard ee~nwitli mny two eyes upori
it.' He'll be "getting himi & sWethearte
nest,.I tell hIm; but he.:Isyf iihy, he'
wapts 11o S*O6theaiff but*his -mother.
-My Jom's a gopd lad. God bless him I
Apso ye are looking for Mr. Fred, are
M ~ Ws Antiie 1? Anid it's for 4ini that
y re so gay in all your bravo ~'bbons?"
* ot course ~It's for lim," retiu~ned
Ahnis,joyo1'sig. "Aid an Iuite fine
enough, ay, Nursle deer ? Will ho say
11l4 ne'ver saw me look sy nide befoire ?'
. 'Ay, to be sure; that willsp 4w'? re
Plied the. old woman, fervently.
"5'houghi it'il no- be ribbons he'll
mark. He'll say as my Jemn says Wfhen
I.put on my smart gown of a Sunday:
legd ete and
si ownyeweasmoth.
or,' he says."
-"1 am afraid Jemi is an arrant fiat.
erer'," laughed Annie. "You've pos.
aitively grown conceited since ou came
t~3 i ~ bi~q~better
h q on ia ouse."
"l~,there's nothing ab could keep
all I had, and my Iih )6 'o6ihim.
Ie little I can do for him now I'm old,
and any sight is ailing, and I'm no thiat
quick I was on.my feet; but It's all in
thas way of Nature. he says. Them a
- *Ilit the dptng shall reap in tI
and 'n to reap now, whilst he's
werk at the sowing. A el of trouble
Lve had in wy day, but- no finger's l
touch will be letf vinear me' in ay old I
a , he sayo.- I Ut he'! lad
lope ~ e yr'~~'?'
emaver 8oo3', ?Qte
A 0i, 6~si. rio'~~ hreI
is 4a 9loekuywtem fao ~~to WeilI
U?, t
hrowing
eaigerly,
mperious
mounds'.
ing;
ng, all
Edwards
liste gtoe nd the
chirp jF'f the cr t .he'
piazza ledge was th he
oaught"
T'gyg~hst 'a noiso. hegmayee? sheC
said4 admiringly, as Annie turne&1'b ok
with a gesture of disappolnt'mn. - "If
It's them as is happiest sings loufest,
yon fellow has-the best of usall.
"Oh.1 will It never be-lve. o'clock t"
cried Annie, inhylfuI'only of her im-.
patience. "This day has-been a hun
drd4 days long already."
"Now don't ye be, in haste with
Time, my dear." said the old ' woman,
reprovingly. "'e'll not; hurry it,
though ye fret it never so. We mqst
Just bide, the time', my Jem says, and
all things1lI- come in turn-first life,
then growth, then- death.. Things is
best taken natural as they come. The
rose that ye force'll only be sooner done
blowing,"
"But I can't wait,". the girl com
plained, childishly. "I always wa'nt
thingiZ'iumediately, and I want five
O'clock this .miuute. What time can it
be,- lNursie P -"Oh ' do say it's five
o'cloc1Wl
"I'll be nigh upon it, sure, by the
slant.oi the shadoWs," the old woman
answered, peering out across the lawn.
"Ye can look at the sun-dial yonder, if
ye will."
"NonsenseI" rejoined Annie, con
temptuously. "As-if a-stipid bit of
Wood -and a rusty ebadow ikept :any
count of the time the; train goes' by.
I'll lqolp.the.clock iuside."
(IV1 ,ap a erftelP the
tTO~~e~n~-'UGJTIi - 1iib hads
stopped utes to seven this
mornhng, e a~ g emit out
for the city; arid fle Kitbi seven
it'i bp till y Je ts. , which
mastbe thg ziight.6f 4 o row. And
I've been -thinkfri All'he day as I sat
here how.it's with iue dd with every
thing about -we Jus.4s it is with the
old clock inside. It'8.hlm that keeps
us going; and we're all ruh down and
stopped together when he's gone, biding
the time till he -comes back to right
us..'
"Then I wish be would come back
now and wake it five o'clock-," sighed
Annie. "Sirely it inuet'be five o'clock,
a.d the traid' has core in without my
hearing'the whistle. I'll run- down 'to
the gate and'wait there Fred can't'be
long now. Good-bye,.Nursie. In flye
minutes more I shall be the very hlip
pleat girl In the world 1'
And before she had finished aa~
she was off, disdaining the road an4,
making herself a pathless ,*ay across
the latwn; laughing, dancing, -bounding
along with many a light' apring 'and
'airy leap and merry twist,.like a meu it.
!am brook too' itpettious to'i'anuooth
ly. -The old nnise smiled ini~uugently.
anid, settling herself back in her -chair,
went eoltentedlyn with~lidr knittiiig,
whie the cricket again became the upi
permist, 'soffadhin ."het'*oi'd, like i
lionly 'accorkpaniment -tQ.'"thfNingle
music of her thoughts. .
Maziy more minutes than five went by
uncounted, when, suddenly, froin the
dire'btion -bf thri gateway, Annie again
naine running,t but not as she had run
before. Very direct and" straight she
came. -Her-artnsa.were outstretched as
one who runs blindly; her face, that ~
yt d~et a l~42tfg 'ibs'elf
into the old woman's arms with a
great, sharp ery.e
"0, N4urse 1 0, N'urse. The train ls
not in. There has been an accident.. .A
man going by told me. And there has
bden one killed. Just a light accident I
But there was 'one 'killed. Only one
killed, the mnan said. 0, Nursle I it is
Fred. I knowi it is U'red I As ceitamnly
as that I am alive now, I know that it
is my darling who is dead I'"
And the girl burst into a passion of
stormy weeping, abd. would neiither be'~
.homforted, nor listen to'anykhing thatt
her old friend said.
"I tell you I know it' is hej" she
orild, with an agony Of con victiouiin
her voice that almost carried certainty
with it. "It was like a knife throukhi
my boar the moment 1e m spoke.
At iso4jtt Fred
wa t elffhsi ythnt
.ttl0deMie I" gled' t6.n otd nutrse,
olaspig the i4l to hqr a~t and rock
IVe back and. forth wias itLshs
were a babe, so quick!ly te fiabake
children of us all. "Hlowcan ye know ?
Whly borrow so sore a tronble as this 9
&mliti i p925g; Qrpl ngs Itt ye I
Flimself, and g of -it by I
ending 11s -own l1essehn4, iud o'tle
>urd0$Jyhet 4lguld start -before
isandto fearit ? 1
'Oh? don't yoi e d e ged.
;4Don'tryou'soee:? ISO a I
lappy t ri I di- a
I bavenever ai all
V4e, PIg. 4 h i rthing
[want. I hy ' 4 44toih
Ky llifd-l lglt'a e ar is long.
and the q d to stoI
sometime. -ri'e' we ala ye beinpe.'
old' we" Must :expect sorrow ?, Iat
svery one has to suffr?It isn't natural
to be so happy ab- X .. Sorrow has
f~k 6"VA8t, n*e,* too; Mid.' I ..*Uw i
16 g no*-tn this wnay- ,t.iost
terrible way of all. I am to lose myI
very dearest. I am to lose Fred for
sver. And we Vefe.so hAppy.together
oh sohappy U 1 loved him ob U, O;
N119756, Nurse I 'oa6Wbai' li#l
"Wilst, gllt, hij atn' ONn'tV
ye go to tinnk the Lord b3grudges ye
rot bappiness 'in the- blepsings Him
self has give ye to enjoy, Don'l ye go
to misjudge-Illm so."
"Ohl If He has taken Fred from me
-if Ie has-I shall hate Him, I shall
hate HimL'I oried Annie, wildly, clench
ing .ier slender hands. Oh I I God Is
so cruel, sa pitiless as that, I will never
love I1m, never pray to Hijn agaiin,
never,'while I live " I -
*unie, Annie I God liolp ye, ye
don't- know what ye are saying I" ex
Diaimed the poor old woman, with tears
dropping over her withered cheeks.
"flow dare ye call Him cruel. If He
pids ye let- go your heart's dearebt,
what right have ye even so td set your
will against Him as made ye, and'as
works all thinks together for your,
good? My. Jem says there's a reason
In all'the Lord's dotg's; it's only our
eyes as is weak and don't always see
plain. It's wicked of 'ye t0 talkc so,
Annie, and I couldn't a-bear it, only
Jem says he Is sure the Lord don't
listen when we speak that we don't
mean; and ye don't mean- what ye are
saying now. Why, ye've just said
there's no blessing in the world as has
been denied ye your life long, and yet
now ye couldn't take one sorrow from
Him even if He sent it ye 1"
"Only not this one ?" sobbed A noie,
her face hidden in the old woman's
dress.' "Only not' this I I could bear
agThijipp but only not thisri -1
. ", tnnie I iteWe:. fort usi . hay
what shall be of'the ,Lird's s'eing.
What ;e sends, good or bad, that mist
we take; and it's-no f6r,.us to choose
the what or the when. If one poor soul
lies dead yonder, then there's Borrow
come into the world some where by rea
son of it. It's so .that sowe one must
bear the grief ye say ye can not, nor
will not, bear. Is others stronger than
ye, then, that ye should be spared, and
your. pain put on' them ? What tght
havee, Annie, to claim to be spared,
arid take no part in the w6rld's troubleY
The very trees -has storms sent them,
and stands up againqt them whilst they
o in. So then tJAtQ Qd sends this sor
row to the'da3, whoe've they chancq to.
be, must e'en* submit their .wills to it,
and, as .ngy. Jem would say, may the
gracious Lord liahten it to the heart 1FX4
fixes it upon. . -
'. The old wotinan bowed her head rev
erently as she spoke,dnd .Annie looked
up at her, hmalf -awed, thongh " with
cheeks still wete with* rebellious tear,.
Antjmgst there.,some one stooped over
them and lifted the young girli to her.
feet, softly saying her name. Ah I what
voice of all living coddso say it save
tune ? 'It 'wa8 as -if her lover had been
giiven back to her from the.very regions
of the dead, and, after an almost fright
daee4 glande at him, Annis threw iberself
upon Jils breast, with an inarticulate
cry of relief and rapture, Perhaps
whjen;souls. first meet in Heaven, they
fael somewhAt as she' felt in that mo
ment,
But the young man gently unclasped
her clinging arms,' antd, holding her
hands in one of his, went nearer the
old nurse, .and stood looking at her.
without speaking,
:I0o'. Mr.' red l" thes old dornin
criled, catchinghis hand, while- a look
of such unselfish delight irradiated her'
wrinkled face as absolutely transfigured
It. ~"The Lord be thanked that is '45
not ye who have been taken!"0
"No, not I," Fred sai4 sldwlywhile
Bhe, in t.he rellef -that seemed to set all'
her senses free again, liearedthe cricket
chirp, and saw how the Nolden needle
of light had slipped away from her lap,
and felt it where it lay bright and warm
across her foot. "Not I," he said, "but.
another." And there he paused again;
1hnding, speech dililcult, and laid. his
lland 'on her shoulder as if to steady ~
her; and then, In despair at bis own'
odwardice in breaking the news 'to her,
he turned abruptly to Annie. "Help
her if youroan; Anny," 'he said. "TelL
her. Jem was on. thetrain, too. It I
her 3em who was killed."A
The old rise spoke rnovel a-word.
dild she rinderstand Y~ Slid felt a tfezli
blngt but she did' not weelp o016941 &
move.by a hair's breadth, only sat ifl
her hands dropped helple'ssly in her lap,'
looking unseeingly up at him who had
brought the news. It seemed as if the
silence couild be felt. 'Annie had fun~
heAif lton her,kue by the old 'oga
naside, again/ and 'Ias ooverings tbe
boW& old hand with vain ktisses and
vainer tears, Her heart was full of an
ntol~a~lhB iladlHR t
vho (
utot, ".W.
mos 0
rouipd1er e1C if
lnaidy bk l
Svin
Z 4et~. aa s
-0.%
lbag raso 1metW gzetis
l9ig :thb 4 ihyme ahet
will he..upon d e
hestrengI4thh
bst begu
lias'laid HLsWbir uiWine but ih
tand will be nix.%ny cldsteot
that fklnt, WanWs %inand -mo
Ment looking uncertailiy abot er,: as
if trylng to find 9iHs4Idit tbiss range
wotid she, *r& 1*0 t ly,
the chito t OJ6 her ear,
like a famIliarsoi from erlnly
Dld world of the pist linlthiibe then
ind the now'tdjeth0.-Tife conseloiig
dess came slowly backi nto 4e e'as
lier look wanderu, a
And the trees, be ,dned
to pass on toso oint ftheI'tle ,
perhaps befond .d thaltogether, be.
yond'death,- beyo4d-sbade' janje- beyond
time. She seemed quite to had forgot.
Len the presence of the others.
'Ay, ay I'$she mumred-apftly.. 'Wie
not so long to wait as some.. The Lord
Ls full of love and mercy. It's better I
than another. Aud.bette' Jean than
one, may be,.less reigo'."
And with.tbat sho..erned and went
into her little des.olito-hoie, and closed
the- dooi; and ,1k6.'two -left outside
looked at each t il nty, iny en
went Mutely,
through allr the, .piness of their rT
union; By*what inscrutable-justleq had
this sorrow passdd them - by'to fill on
lier? . Wit is the nfYstic sign that so
ften turni aside the angel of wob fr.m
the abode of the happy, to theathe ,bli
sword afresh in bearta .that have alread y
bad? is it because they who have suf.
fered most- ori atalnger to endure
igain. being the quickest -to discern the
dldden blessing in he stltg, and tho
i.irest of all making It their own ?
Who tan tell , LIf6 is full of prob.
ems more unreasona4je than this.
. ' Thi'own iuto'The oa.
A collision occurrdd,on the 10t inst.,
betwedh twotrains on tus railway be.
bwveen Monte Utilg and *Mentone, in
France. The train Ifrom Menilogo wga
[illed with English vistr. A'nrnbdt;
)f carriages weore-smashe~d anid fell into
the sea. Three passengers, an engineer;
mnd 'a gua.rd were~ lnstantly2 killed,
rhirtyislx 4 the pOassenzers .were lid.
lnred, thirteen very dangegously. Thie
solhslon happened on a sfiarp ourve,
which the two trains, both filled with
passengers, tried to round at. the.-~same
time on'a singls tra'ek;. Th'e brins
were badiy (el~ospoped &n& .w6re yowa
from ijie tracts,
The point where the collision oodeurredy
is attat6fd'h a .cliff yerkdolng 'the
iea,.ad ot$2ffe abdyp the beach,'
f wo of the'carjijges whichyv,&thrqwn.
from the track andsfel ldown. the oliff
rolled a' conalderable distahoe i the'
5hallow watet t.the base aid tbedded
bheinelves 1h -the -s'and.Both: tlese
30aclies *e 'ul.f:ep6nd.h
bio'nt's Oarlo.
Kutd the wounded tire-Anierloans
nd- Eagdisliien, ;tune of the luled
siember .of al a r endlt ISm(1y
who' were atouiring loether had theIr
egs broken. ~The Ao dont was due t0
heo'aied et fthe treiblis atchets at
agend of thie ttrbk, whdfplied to
nquire whether tihefraolI o r o
AA Roman Wewr-Conese. '
Theqxroavations oarld on in the Ro
nan-arena at'farlskyov istibeen re
Warded 41th ery estin t is.
Au gttifaial tep re'd~ ezgent
eservfaticEN 31~Ji lieen *lif 4bre.
whieh evl40i41% gthe purpose of
lin at~ t9or on the
- j~oughi
ledbphi'doo 604 e~ronaryt
~ole 11l~. of i~& h elar
rirther'om po lg seats.
or the eottore, and f$Q9 some
ramnsof a slahb e
srbe 6f s
idh4l t~~lof
Lutet4 p gO aog
'.0'.',
-'t& NIORIA GOAN FAlm.
kA t4'kE' Voture ' h. has
ote Prt/le
,ok, New York,
4qar tto river, %s an Angora
0* wob frem its novelty at
totitefti liere bout. It.it
A IQk4 ol~ o itb ai tbq'nature
9e raisini of
oats browse an. goats prosper o
n i' e O ght 1 - boedq'
I.. ey d onr
Ydli apd ore
Le a to T e lerd
x ap 44 e ha noei fam j1sb skW
n Uoblwrs '75..Varythg In age from, th6e
b o of thfee -tanths which tool e
4.roA Ate & og rklbitand,
' p* ggqr' pull, g the fiengoine'
of thi: flock, ajpgagnficnet
speIme o the pure Angora breed,
*ltha Iiieise ourling horns. This
ol48-ebd fellow with'htibWfe Wero
lit W f Dr, Agin# the famous
oI i 6 N Yprk, from .Asia
inori and the inportation cost hupi a
heapot mozi6y as thk pridW ofodais
goes. - Theit preseiht 6o eie's the-gootd
wQmangho now runj .thos goat faio
and W1ho oever tires of disoan~ting ubon
the.good qualities'-of her pets. T4ie
know her voice, and and - answer' to
-their names when she alls'them. I9nd
and gentle they' apieai nwhen' visitors
rp abopt, but'the fondness for fighting
as characteristic .o goats as It Is of a
Inative of Tipperary, drops out .w ied
the herd is.t6gether and dppitgntly out
,of ight of man Ind.
A strange fact noticed I.nithie iUqed
t-ig of these animals is that thd iemiles
do not thrive ini this locality as wev as
tie maes. Tuh hardO female goat, 'f
the ordinary . species 'was .Intr6ddeed
into t~isa flgk for expprlmental bre
Ing purp.opes, and ,with-marked success.
Repeated crosisi'ngs with the conion
goat tnd- her fioring ha- producei
apliarently pure Angora- goats, the
tendenoy,4eing ira al. bases for the kids
to reverb in the, texture .of their wool.
toward the male side. As a consequence
the third:geieoratori has All the appear
;bco..I4 it 1#sti spe tn and
Cile t gur geogsgtio eyp
egptreoatrkot- tell the purotbrded
from the grade Angora. This-fact is a
matter of' considerable interest to
breeders of gdata, as an Angora buck
scosts $100 or over, while the common
goat can be had almost for the asking.
TM fecundity of the Angora is not so
grtat as that of the common goat, the
Angora ewe giving birth to but one kid
yearly.
As a source of profit the goats have
turned out well. The wool is from 4 to
0 inches in length, silky, and of beauti
ful t6xture. A full grown animal will
yield 4 pounds or wool, which will
readily'sell at $1 per pound. Just now
the demand for this wool Is not parti
cularly lively, as - the lustrous dress
fabric Into which it was at..ono time
largely converted 18. out of- vogue with
fashionable ladies. It ls-therefore used
'almost exclusively in the manufaceture
.of plush for upholstery purposes. When
the kid is siz -months old its hide,: un
dressedy is worth $3, and Will sell
readily to glove .manufacturers. 'Kids
on the far'd in question mect with sud
den death on that account at about that
age with considerable regularity. Whie
tit te necessary to. kill, them the good
lady has themn obloroformed 80 that she
may not hear the death cries ot her
little pets, The milk of the goat Is
much, sought af ter. by; dyspeptics, by
persons ,suffering frotn bulmonary
troubles,, and2 by otherwise delicate
*pgrsons, and it. brings a much greater
price than cows' milk. *As to their
ase for food little can be said,= because'
the goat'does not flesh up well, but the
~kld Whe~n killed yon furnishes a fair
uount of -tender 'moat which some~
People like, -It will never become. ai
great delicacy In thei -market or be In
sufiflciept demand, to become a s autcb
ofiicome to the, goat raiser. There is.
nothling in the world so cbeA'p,to raise
asgoats; because They will find ample
food -in lots up 'here where -other snt
mials would starve to death. Acorns
4re a nfavorable article of food witih
-them, anid Z\these abo4ne )n.Lhe woods
.ther hiost for *iter. fodder is mainly
confined to tihe trouble of gathering the
acorbs.
kWTZNG INSTA1RANTS.
E4phemnes 6y Whioh Itogues Get Good
A nnohns Ver'y.Cpxh .
,7"~. chipf 36ue tronuneicjr ~Is
li996est,t '$ean Itidiscriminate 14dra7
tioa for wealth ;'an adiniration avhicl
'dces not :takat Iitd oisideratio~n 'tha
character 'ft the pbssessor." A i'ake
quranteteepet In Uhicago was asked.
by ja reporter in searrch of signs .of the'
spproacliIng millenium if he-attrjbuted
the 'lessening of the troubleaccaused by
his customers endeavorind to be~L'their
lunCh bilto:haiewaning of snab hu a4
miratiggor the ennobling of charaote
"Not 'by a J'ugful ; don't tool yorhZ
agle byagpy uoh idlg" he said. "The
simpe reasofii thib'tthose of my pat
ig; (M ~tp~e4to lheat know,
tlbat ' AIX Oh't th'eir trickB .rd that
it 'is an exceedingly hard rdtte4 to bea
me, so they'doii'Otr( o1i ve' rmuch.
I had one nia fry to get ahead of me
last week, *Whihis the only 'case I have
bad for ove' a nnth. It was by an
ohtrick, thoiughmrow, perhaps, to him.
He came in one noon, ordejed-.a Oifteen
cerit lunohi which as g.veti him, and
kt it a, eo Ife tihgi ered ten
if and 0. k1 - . .
waiter asked for he rt oc, t the
man denied baving rec'eiv6d AtWY and ae
iiave in's¬ed iiwi-whterN1to die
Pei ' innk, g h.
fig tc arbitu d ere' affi I
4 od )golc 4 h "Segp lIN inI
mp tAemry, 8 $19469; apoi te ofP
days aftrWard'he canedu,1 ngqegeiel
enogh to amo'unt to-tchirtyellkvee its.
on, nW a y h
eyprg. 916teO yea chell abiunt-,
Ing to over WenLy 9 is vtohedi~o
when this indidlaiparclies up fe tie
counter I as ready-for him. -.He did'
as , sp ppose'd'lie 'Vould, and tistea oi
ha6ndig oer 1fi ri'ht cWl pi h'e gve
me_ tiqifteen-cent 'one j6 yole te
lqt(timq,,he vas in. I accused dlin
point bidnk. and -demanded the right
check. He objected 'atfirst, lAt upon
Upy threatening to -cqll ad fil'ber,' he.
gave in and paid both."
"Are there any new sche~yes that
you have come . across lately, by which
they try to overreach you?" .
4-'o I don't thnk there are; at leasi
I have foind none. Occasionally when
there, Ina cowd in he're the'boats man
age to.0llp out .of the door nnoberyed,
but noe often. There is one trick-au
old-ole-which they work and wlich
ist-1p dnly o'ne fiave been dnsticqess
'(1d Iii copibating. Two friends, thougfl
appvrxegtjy strangers, come in an' sl
together.' One orders a big lun ithe
other 6 -rbalLone,- each-receiving his
respective cleck. The one Odering
the lairger weal leaves4 first, 'after ex
changing checks with, his cdmpanion,
who, -when he Is ready to leave, informs
the waiter that the-check at his phite is
tbo much, has.it exchangedi and .de
camps. The next tlmeihey change off,
tbe one who' had the light lundh first
tlking a .big one in, order to equalize
their appetites. But even by this way
they slip up after a feW- attempts, for
0h .bh austoniers. prptty cWa -
Treading .the Vine-Press in Italy..
Something has already, been said
about the vineyard of the Scala Bros.
on Vesuvius. The vintage was in pro
gress when I visited it, and I saw the
treading of - the grapes and the frst
stages of wine-making. The room
used for the crushing was a part of'the
family mansion and was. scarcely mqore
than fifteen or twenty feet square. The
platform for the treading was perhaps
three feet high, four or Llve wide, and
built entirely across one end of the
room.,. The front of it was raised a-few
inches to prevent the escape . of the
grape-juice, and it was carefully ce
mented in every part. -
There was a sinigle person treading, a
stalwart peasant, whioostent, atiously
washed his feet before beginning iha a
small tub of water standing near ; as
he afterward explained, out of defer
ence to the strant er. His' feet were
uncommonly broad at the base of the
toes. His dress was a calico shirt and
short trousers, which he rolled; up a
little,- probably because he wished 1o
keep them dry, and not "out of respt
for the wine. Half a ton of grapes
were put on the platform, and the
treadinpg began about the ediges and
then systematically all over the .pile,
which kept as well as possible togethery
The juice soon began tQ flow freely
acrops the platform and out at a spont
made in the little barrier of cement in,
to a large tub.. It was intended - for
champagne, being the first. It is the
usual .arrangement for treading where
wine is made in large Qizantities;
. The Coldest Plaoe on Ettr
Many feel -iin these latitudes quite
comfottable on isending df the bold reg.
istered at Werkhofansk, in Siberia. At
*th6 late meeting of the St. Petersburg
Academy of defence; it was stated that
the mean temperature, of - Werkhc
Jansk', during January, 1885, was 62.90
Fahrenheit below zero and the lowest
reading of the thermometer was 90.4
below zero. This is tehe lowest mini.
mum temperature ever rego~d on the
globe, under circumstances which make
the record entirely relfable,-and-is prd.
babiloylwei- than'wouilil eveu'be record.
ed at the north pole itself. .The Werk-.
hojanslrr sobservations also show 'lhat
the' great cause of refrigeratoi oa the
~M~his is not dite td the fnovemnent
bir air over th~3,' but to the radi'
ndloss of heat by the soil itself
under an atnmosphiere - extremnely low
0peolute humidity. -~ inense cold
registered? by. thie Ru$ a, meteorolo.
gisls at Werkhojaiak was evidently, niot
imported4 thither efroisp the ArctiV
Ocean,; but was generatedion the spot.
.' OQnu~ed6wu2m adgises laying out
ti~emydenin'o og shape, with per
matent fences ~ ie endl and movable
ones t the aidso ,that nohn the garb
de jg~.he'scultIvated thi ide panels
cau, poved, the latn ,d by e
Sthe ltside ot '- a~ pn-.
audW f et r eyed,
ie
B3O1VAMNWAL' GARbfiNS'OVV ltx
The Wonderi-otii$ioafivogttion-w
eVivid Desoription othe otnery.
In A short time we arrivad at the en
trance to 'the bMtai Ard eome.
body , gkdwons
~We gr. , . soon
. Gfwi9,W 1f ijd 1PygselZgg it.
ulvsa -r
frr
C are
oluter as I h,
Ar 1d99 ,, or four
4 8 a~ta atort'ist
it
b a ma
rustio' eure
ca ~ aJupp and
the suirice 0of" ' 40 with
Illies 'nd .9iequ * Here
the path pirn'da atiwen
ere a -i b-tee gh un
-Th6 foliage 4s so thick If ias iIM
possible to tell 'where th6i blll'bgan,
and whether the bigtrees 'e e uunsu
'ally high or whether they grew oh the
-mountain Sie. ,Wherever theygrew,
they. were of immrense height. There
were. scores. of royal palms, running
.such a.-distancei',Into the air that it
made one's neck ache to look up at the
toPs of them; fnd .genprally their
attaight round trunks were festooned
wth Tparasitical plaiith, iht ran from
'thegrothid all 'th6 way'up "$nto their
ranoief. Wherveur thei any
possible place on the tr&il dt a tree
for one to stick, a -hugeair plant was
growing. Tliere were bamboos with
iout -*uMberg ahi *hi ds* df thick
.,tropical plints that f had Veger seen or
iheard'bf before. The road wound here
,and there through the rqVine,.and led
,us to an 'elevated spot on Which, there
pvas a smsll lake, its edgeh.bordered
,with queh.tropical plaRja as one usually
-sees in petures but seldom in reality.
*There was.a. grotto cnt ot, of the rock
4n the mountain side, where the water
gushed through holes out for. it in the
back, dashed'itself ovefa sloping bed
of rocks) aid 'as cauig' in a basin of
'tdne "tje foot; iin this. basin was
half-covered wit learei and
growing wate
fi le and more
trottoes tiid r'atuiral discade. where
the *ater fell froni catisidelRble heights
and broke itself 'ito foa' if' tearing
'over the rooks. Near the eioret'of the
largesb lake Was a 'small cottage, with
chairs and tables in its 'single open
room--no -doubt a favorite resort for
picnicking parties. There were more
high trees In that one little spot than I
ever saw 'gathered together before, It
fairly makes the back of my neck ache
now to think of trying to look up at
tliem. And. isuch vegetation every.
where I Jpst such plants and trees as
you see in the pictures of tropical coun
tries, and such as you generally don't
'see when you visit' those coultries In
person, uthere they were, all gather
ed together in this botanical garden,
-the whole garden 'covering a space, at
a rough guess, of a hundred acres. I
remember seeing a gaudy lithograph
once in an atlas in the public libeary in
Bermuda of; a "scene in South Amer- -
ica." The leaves' were the deepest and
brightest greens, the trees were pre
.ternatural,1y tall, the imountains were
high,.. the foliage .was thick 'enopigh to
cut withea knife, and-birds of bfihllsant
plumage sat,, in "tple braiches. I
thought at the .thp that thst picture
must have beentna~ie by sonmebody who
had never been in a tropical country ;
but here was just, such a sqenevacolors,
trees, shrubbery, birds~ and afl. 'There
was nothing lacking.
The Jersey
How the popular "Jersey," the close
fitting sacik now scunhiversally worn by
Womnan,: camie to recemfe 'its name, is
thus told by a lea~ing Londdn and Now
York draper : "Thb princess of Wales
has an exceedingly good figure. She
wants. novelties, of course, like other
ladies, and, enqspring 'we made her a
jacket of Ilnely-ktiitted sills, (regged or
braided with gold Acress the frpnt. It
made a sensatio'n. None of the other
ladies ,knew -whtat 1.t was, nor could ex
aet, iak'e .u. .,Shie said' sheliked it
very much, a$ she .received from me a
profnise ngt' t6' tiak*aothNi lt a year
like It. Very well'. In a dii ntli or two
~I was over on' the priofu' -yacht at
Oawes, {ktd lhe came and sat dIown by
ul'o and turmied -thie titik to 'ladies'
'kownAt - sa* aozhetbi~ w as on-ihs
wind anid i16ndsfed tvhd lie was going
to say. -"The'orose jdelet fits the prin
cesb beatteifai1y to what 4tras. Of
c9.urse It.e~ressed ny gi-eat pleasure,
ad. I' .w,ishv' .9ou1wqgWv gnalke one
myref .Ap pg $gamsr told
hi PW9)igeqpss "Yes,'"
po , qud gwul make
a9 f (99 Mrs.
m al on its
fa ta we Oa
the Waf On $1 e uI~ts.
bien belie to b4.9iwioz '