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(yt1 F r 1 trr 1\ J yl+ r' r T111-11'143?AKLY EDITION WINNSBOROi.$, \! rl JUNE 16, 1888 ThingeThat Never Die. The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth; The impulse 'to a woridless prayer. The dreams of love andi truth, e.loning after'stuething lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The striving after better hopes These things can never die. 4 ' 3 .The timid hand stretched forth to aid A brother in his -need, The kindly word in grief's dark hour That proves a frh.nd indeed; The plea of me)oy softly breatted W hen justice threatesic high, sIbe sorrow of a contrite herr. These things shall never die. The meuory of a'clasping band, The pressure of a kiss, Andi all the trifles sweet and frail, That make up life's first bliss; If with a firm, unchangitg faith, And holy trust, and to1gb, The sorrow of a contrite heart These things shall never die. The cruel and the bitter word, That wounded as it lull; The chilling want of sympathy, We feel but never tell; The hard repulse that hills the linart, Whose hopes were bounding high, In an unfailing record kept These things shall never die. Let nothing pass, for every hand Can find some work to do; Lose not a chance to awaken love, Be firm, and just and true; So shall a light that cannot lade, Beam on thee from on high, And angel voices say to thee These things shall never die. IOY CLAItA VERE. Morton Levyllian looked Inco i companion's face and wondered if she really possessed a heart or was she only -as had been said-a creature of in tellect--one who required not and wislh ed not-the most precious of all life's blessings-love, Rather a difficult ques tion, and her beautiful, queenly coun tenance, with its lustrous brown eyes and delicately chiseled features, did not serve to satisfy his doubts. --j. He had been accustomed to receiving homage from the gen ler sex. Wealthy, intellectual and handsome he was very naturally appreciated by the maneuver ing- mammas and marriageable daugh ters. Clara Vere was unlike the wo man with whom he had been thrown in contact. Although among, she was not of them, and her indiiferegce hurt him much more than he cared to con fess. So this evening, as they wander ed together through the brillantly ii luminated reception rooms of a fashion ob4lg94 tee, he asked, carelessly, albeit his eyes fested searchingly upon her ;love?" She laughed-and although her dusky cheek crimsoned a little displayed not the slightest discomposure as she an. swered: "No; at least, not as you do." "Indeed!" he commented, rather dry ly. "Would it be impertinent in me to inquire w,hat your belief really is?" She bit her lip. "I make no pretensions to under standing any one's idea 'tpon this or any other subject better than they themselves do. In only kpuow that my own opinion of love is very different from the latter-day sentiment now- dig nified by that name." He smiled provokingly. "So is mine. -We 'agree thus..far at any rate. Perhaps were we to compare notes, the similarity would exist still - further." "Scarcely probable," silo answered calmly. "Buat' it is not an interestmng * topic, and as it is of no consequence whether we consider it ini tile samte light or no, I propose we discuss some .other subject." Of course, after that, the conversa lion was changed. "Confound 1101 what's the usc!" he miyrmured, sadly, that nmght, or rather niorning, after returning home. HIe SI am, fairly bewitched after a woman who, if report speaks truly, is not on'p able of feeling a* particle of affection for any man, and who has demonstrat ed beyond a' peradventure her utter in difference to me. In love with an ice berg! That's what's the matter! But I swear I won't make a fool of myself any longer! She can go her way and I'll go mine!" Whether this resolution would have been kept or not Is a quest,ion tihat must forever remain unsettled, as the next day Miss Vere had left the oily--gone, no one knew where to remain, no one knew how long. But we, beig wiser thtan the major ity of folks, may follow her away f am the crowded city to a little white cot tage, way up among the Newv Hanp shire hills, where, disgusted alike with the world and herself, she hatd sought refuge for the suminor months with her young married frrend, May Thulrston. "Now, Clara," said this young lady, as they sat together some few evenings * ater Miss Yere's arrival, "of course ayou know how glad I am to have you here, and all that sort of thing; but what in the world possessed you to come') for, wyhen I saw you last, you gave me ino encouragement to hope for this visit.." "Well, Mary, to tell the truth, I hadn't the slightest idea of making it two weeks ago; but---" "But what.?" eagel ly questioned her opinpanion. "You were not involved lntany love affairs, were you? I heard aogewtibg of a serIous kind of firtation yai wer~ehaving with somebody. It "Yes, it did," answered her guest, LnnQtuOnalY. startled out of her usual rgUeence by the strange longing for sympathy which sometimes seizes. the proudest of us. "I became acquainted with a man endowed witl extraordin ary gifts of mind and person-oue be fore whom women bowed subserviently -and undertook to teach him a lesson. But alas for human volition. I learned the lesson." ''Does he know it?" interrupted her ftlend, anxiously. "',Cnow it?" she repeated in scorn "No, nor never will I -And that Is the reason I have come to you so unoxpect edly. The conversation was here put an end to by the entrance of Mr. Thurs ton. "A letter for you, Mary. From Morton, I guess," he said, carelessly tossing it into her lap. The quick blood rushed into Ciara'a face. Even the name caused her heart to flutter strangely, but neither of her friends noticed her agitation-both be lug engrossed In their missives. "Oh, dear!" sighed Mrs. Mary, hall unconsciously. Clara and her husband looked up In surprise. Her face was glowing joyfully, albeit her eyes were full of tears. "What's the matter?" they asked. In a breath. "Oh, nothing much," she replied, "Only, I'm so glad Clara, I never knew that you were acquainted with my half brother, Morton Levyllian." Poor Claral her face, even to thi roots of her hair, was scarlet, but sh made no reply, and her friend contin ued remorselessly: "le is coming to make us a visit anc we may expect him every moment.?' All the color fled swiftly from Clara', cheek. "Now, don't be a goose,'? whisper ed Mary, softly. Just read this." So Clara read: "MY DEA R SIsTE:--I am just about sick of the 'great metropolis,' sicK o1 iife and sick of myself; am fast becom. ing, in fact, a mi a.thrope-sick 01 everything. S., to improve this woe ful condition of affairs, shall .,tart to night for your country home. For the last few months I have made a fool of myself by falling in love, and that is r very serious business for a man of my neculiar temperament, I can assur( you. "Did you. during your residence here, ever know a Clara Vere? I was in Eu. rope at the time, you remember. Well, we have been indul,,ing in what a tion,' and, for thie first time In his life, your brother must confess himself con. quered. "People say she has no heart. That I don't believe. I t is utterly impossi ble so glorious a womau should ba minus that most feminine appendage. But one thing is certain, she has ut heart for me; and that has left me with. out heart for anything else. (Please don't think this intended for a pun-I am in anything but a pnnning humor.) As you know, I'm not in the habit of proclaiming my miseries, and hate and pity above all things, so burn this as as soon as read, keep all the informa tion contained herein to yourself and don't say 'woman' to me while I re. main, "Lovingly, your brother, MORTON." Even as Clara read a tall figure dark ened the doorway,.c "Oh, Mortoni" shouted.his sister joy. fully, advancing with outstretched hands., After greeting the hiusd1and and wife, the newcomer glanced question ingl.y over at the silent ladly standing in the shiadow of the room. "Clara, here is my brother," said Mrs. Thurston, smiling. "I believe however, you are already acquainted with each other." Thus urged, Clara advanced. "Miss Verel anid herel" said the ganI them an, in amazement. Then, rqcover lng himself: "Excuse me, but thu meeting was so utterly unexpected thal I--" and here his glance fell upor the letter which shte still held.. "Mary gave it to me," she stain mered, explainingly, interpreting arighi hits mute, astonished look. iIe smiled. Some way her embar rassment put him very much more at ease. "She did? Well, what do you tinal of It?" She looked round for assistance frorr some quarter; biut hiusband and wif( had left the room. So vcry unwilling. ly, she answered: "1 don't know." \ "You don't? WVell," endeavoring to look into thq eyes which so pertinaclou ly sought the floor, "are you sorry foi me?" "No," very low; and tlie next ino ment "icy Clara Vera" was ceas.-edl in a pair of manly arms, from which shec mnade not tihe slightest movement to ex tricate herself. A Valuable Confederate Cent. lon. George II. Wright, of Chul uiota, Fla., has in his possession a cop per cent which Is worth several times Its weight in gold. ' It was coined by the Confederate States of America and is model.ed very mutek after the cent of the United States. It is claimed that but forty-twvo of the pieces were coined before the die was captured and the mimnufacture of the coin stopped. 01 these it is believed that not more than twenty are now In existence. As a curiosity it would probably bring $100. Very beneficial results are reported from the use of nitrate of soda fertil ISTOIUOAL STUDY. The Spirit of. Hittory Rovealeo by Studying th9 Individual. "The men who have striven to get at the spirit of history have found it by studying the individual," This sen tence, called from the address of Prof. Oren Rooth of Hatmilton College, at the recent annual meeting of the Oneida. Historical Society at Utica, deserves to be recorded in golden letters. He fur ther said: "Until recently historians have dealt with that which was great rather than small. it is certainly true that there has been an awakening In historial research in this country. The antiquarian Is no longer an object of sneers. The world is learning to ap preciate the efforts of such men. The historians are striving to gather the facts concerning our early national life. The first incentive to this work Is the condition of general historical science. History was, not long ago, merely chronicle. We want, flesh and blood, and not the skeletpn alone. Local his torical reseaich enables us to get at the s'pirit of things. It is not the crest of the wave th'at has the tidal force. We must come down closer to the individ ual, closer to the heart of the people. We have had years enough In America to awaken that passion and pathos of which so much has been written In other countries. I should like to get down a little nearer to the homes and influences of the men whose names adorn history's pages." A knowledge of the principles of human actions ex ceeds in value all other learning, and its importance in adjusting the true na ture and measures of right and wrong can not be overestimated. Secret his tory is the supplement of hiatory itself and its great corrector. The combina tion of secret with public history re sults in a perfection which separately is possessed by noither. Secret history appears to deal exclusively with minute things; thus its connection with great results is too often overlooked. The study of human nature was what rendered Socrates the wisest of men. There is nothing which more thoroughly reveals the individual or unriddles a mysterious event than the trifling incidents that In themselves count as chaff. No pictures of human nature are more useful than those round in friendly correspondence. In readina.secret huistory we. a;e occupied in observing wha6.pasa:rather.i in: being told of it; that is,we are transform ed into the contemporaries of the writers and are enjoying their confidence. They mark the commencements and we the ends, and oftentimes what appears to them uncertain becomes to us un questionable. We recover what would otherwise be lost to us in the general views of history. The story of a per iod is never complete without particul. ars, any more than a dinner is complete without side dishes. The letters of Washington possess a charm that is foreign to stately history-they illum inate the pages of history. There are secrets.in the art of reading to which attention may be given with profit. It is not always necessary to read the whole of a book. It is often suml cient to seize the plan and examine some of its pages. The ravenous ap petite of Johnson for reading is thus expressed in strong metaphor by a cer tainu writer: "HIe knows how to read better- than any one; lhe gets at the substance of a book directly; he tears out tihe heart of it." The much-ne glected preface and index of a book are of more use to the reader than is gener ally'supp)osed. Sonme of our great geni uses are experts in th'o art of index reading. We venerate the inventor of the index. We often learn the char acter of a wvork through these sources. Rond both preface and Index, as the light thus obtained will help to regulate your course as to the amount of time to be devoted to the book. OREhmAT SINGERS. Rlecollections or Famous American Artists In the B3urnt Cork Line. The originals of the present style of quartette singing in ministrel perform ances and coincerts were the four Ilutchinson brothers. The most popu lar of their songs was "We Blelong to Gideon's Band." From '1815 to 1805 they wvere In the floodtkle of their suc cess, apd traveled throughout the whole of the states. This family were the pioneers also of glees such, as are sung nowv by college elubs. Their "We arc a Band of Brothers" is still a favorito song with young men at school. The .llutchinsons sang without accompani ment, another lnvention that has do scenided from them. . Possibly the greatest syrlter of hymns', and a first class singer, too, was Philip Pilips, a Yankee, who was famous before war times, and who was later In thme mu siceai field than Ira D. Sankey, the. evangelist. Tnis gentleman was a min istrel, and though born In England, was so clearly identified with the Amer ican lovers of music that he was classed as a Dative born. When they were behind the footlights David M. Wambold and John L,. Carn cross were two of the sweetest tenor singers on the stage. Who that has heard the former In "Aunt Dinah's Quilting rarty" will over forget the harmonny of his voice9 Than, too. his 4My Pretty. Jane": and "Molly Bawn" ,were marvels of. ballad-singing'efforts, Equally as celebrated was Carnoross's "Twickenhairi Fdrry" and "Blue Al eatian Mountain.", 'Sher Campbell was a minstrel bhritouo who forsook that department of music and adopted grand opera, winning fo e in it. In the tours of the Swiss boll rin ors Sol Smith Russel was a featur(, and1'at that time could not be excelled , a comio vocalist. The author of " Ixfe" and "When You Catch a Black Cat Shave 1lim," Dan Eminet, now a gray haired old man'in Chicago, was once the equal of any in his line. 'To him belongs the reputation of composing the words and music of "do walk toun's," with which it was customary ' many years to end minstrel entertainn!ents. Such finales were originated by 1 mmott. No better ballad singer could be found than Joe Murphy, of "Kerry Gow" fame, when i be was a minstrel. The same business,furnished Joa Em. met "Fritz," when-he gave some of his most delightful songs to the public. )is specialty was as a banjo player, though he occasionally sat on the "end." At rare intervals he would do what was known as a "Dutch turn," invariably giving a song he afterward made famous. "Sch.neider, Doan' You Vant to Py a Dorg?" Those were the nights Emmet could warble. He did comparatively little of it then, because Jim I3udworth, who Was a member o George Christie's minstrels, , had the laurels then for that.style of singing. A splendid singer and clever song writer was Charley 'ox, another min strel. The circus likewise furnished its quota of famous ballad singers in John Gossin, Arch Madd'eu and Tony Pastor. The era of the sawdust exper ience of this trinity was marked by the cleverness of the cumedians who weu' into the ring for the amusement of at diences. They used to have clown: whose voices were . s good as those heard in hall or on stage, in concert of minstrelsy. Preemtinently Gossin WaE the greatest of them all. Motto songs with a story or moral in them were all the rage, and after Uo4sin had sung one a single time it was sufflcient to make it popular. No temperance advocate ever, rost to the height3 of popularity John B. Gough attained, but it was after he had served a long ,citc singer. Nat Goodwin could. Ussome year ag2A~~nJR _L's ~ L pe t'ere have been ot n opera and out of it whose I tue will keep thel memory before the public, but the above are a few of the singers whose pleasing productions and artistic execu tion contributed to the happiness of a nation and who are consequently enti tled to the glory of history. The Glory of Woman i liar Hair. Young girls of the present day com. piletely destroy their hair by crimping it with irons, and.twisting it up tightl with thick, hard hair-pins. This treat ment may maie the hair look pretty fox the time being, but no thought is giver as to ultimate result and the appearance it will present a fewv years hence. The :hair should be well brushed every nighi and morning with a moderately hard brush-brushieq made with short, uin 'bleached bristles are the best-and or retiring to rest., the hair should be drawr back lightly over the ears, Plaited in one long plait,.- and allowecd to hans dlown the back; it should not bo.fasten. edi up with, hair-pins, nior should ani cap or coverlag be wvorn on the head, This method makes the hair bright and blossy, witho'ut the aid of oils em p)omades, whli3h are best avoided. The fewer hair-pins and ties used in dress lng the hamir the better; and twisted hmir-pins are Injurious. It is not wvelI to continue the same style of dressina the hair for a long period, as that ls apt to make it thin in some places; a litih change is a relief to the head and other. wise advisable. Cutting the hair occa. stonally is necessary, and should not be neglected. Hormseshaoes for bad Roads. The Germans have invented horse shoes for bad roads. This-is how thiiO do-it. The blacksmith, when fin'shini a horse's shoe, punche.s a hole in the two endsl. Wheni tihe shoce is cold he La :'s in a~ screw thread and screws int: t.he shoe, when on the horse's foot, i sharp p)ointed stud of ani inch in lengthn With shoes thus fItted the horse travel: securely over the worst possible roads, When the horse comes to the stable time groom unscrews the pointed stud and screws in a button, so thlat no damage can happen to the horse, and the screv holes are prevented from fillinig. "The Chautanqua'Salute." Reccently when Mr. Blurdick arose t begin his address, thme ladies, in accord. ance with . a preconcertd .plan, gave him a Chautauqua ealute. Every ladi in the hlouse waved her handkerchief and the effect was beautiful. W. didn't suppose there were so many clear white handkerchiefs In town. Fronr the parquet, the circle, the gallery atu tile stage fluttered the dainty fabrics giving ,eloquent though silent evidenc( of the warm place Mr. BJurdick has Wou in the hearts of the ladies of the vi! -ago. ABOUT BABIES. Romedies fur .Several Bvoryday All Monts. Not ubifrequently mothers complain that their children are naturally peevish and troublesome, "always fretty," as many say, sleeping but little and crying much. They assume that the irritable quality is inborn and an essential part of the baby's composition, and more often do they fail to recognize it as an evidence of disease. The Journal of Health 'call attention to this. and adds, along with various help:ul suggestions to mothers, the following: A troublesome, crying child cannot be healthy, and rothers should be as sured of this fact and endeavor to determine the cause; if they fail to dis cover and remove it, then it is clearly their duty to seek the advico of a phy sician. If a woman is naturally fretful and irritable, and possesses an uncontroll able temper, the artificial means of feeding is the best for her child. The same may be said if these faults do not exist, but if her home's surroundings are unhappy, and she is likely to suffer from grief and despondency, has a drunken husband, or some other like misfortune weighing upon her. If the mother is poor in health, both herself and her child will suffer if she attempts to nurse it. The question of inherit ance must be considered. Any disease like consumption, scrofula, etc., exist ing in her family, and to which she shows a tendency, should debar her from nourishing her offsprijig. An absurd habit, by no means un common among mothers, is the so-call ed "trotting on the knee." The abom inable "churning process" Is unfortun ately an inheritance transmitted wit h many other antiqua'ed customs, and is a potent cause of indigestion and kin dred ailments. When the baby must be held to quiet it, if you hold it in one position and keep quiet yourself, it will be more quickly pacided. Rare roast beef, steak and other kinds of meat are often given children by their mothers early in the second year, a common custom being to cut the same into long narrow pieces, fron which they are allowe:l to suck the juice. There is nothing particularly objectionable to this; still, it ought not to be indulged in too early. As a ruk, .At.er ik sl ..nwnA 91 t.lavjl bu time enough to give it meat in this form. Javanose Princess at her ToIler. In stature Mattah-Djarri was some what above the ordinary Javanese woman, who cannot be called tall, but in symmetry and delicacy of figure and grace of limb she had no compeer. Both were full and exquisitely round ed, as those of her country women are in general, which is imputed to the sup pressed action of the water in bathing twice daily, by pouring or throwing it on top of the head in the eastern fasli ion, from whence it flows down in trickling streams all over the body, and as the years go on, gradually causing the limbs and skin to becomoe round, firm, smooth and p)olished. In Mattahi Djarri's case this effect was dloubtless aided in no small degree by long fric tion with delicate oils, and the palms of'Djoolo's hands. The faithful babu had bathed her every morning and eve ning since she was born), in soft, pe~r fumed water; after which she annoint ed her body and limbs with the highly scented lang-a-chandana (oil of sandal wood), rubbing it into the pores of the skin till the latter was smooth and dry, then polishing it with the light and delicate bore kuning, a yellow, perfum ed rice powder, used by people of rank. E~very motion of the beautifut girl was the expression of grace and harmony, to which wa~s added a tranquil ease and dignity, that impressed every one wvith a sense of her extreme loveliness of character and person, combined with the pure oriental beauty of her face, to gaii for her, among her own people, t,he rare honor of being likeneil to the Widadaris (children of neaven). The Lioni-Tamer's uertship. Circus-goers of twventy-five years ago will remember Herr Driesbach, the celebrated lion-tamer, but p)robaibly have nuever in their minids connected him with a romance; aiid yet he not only had a veritable romnanco in hIs life, but one that blossomed out of a dish of onions; and it was through the medium of that most p)lebeiln vegetablle that he won his lovely wife. Persons who knew Mrs. Driesbach before her marriage rde call her as the belle of Worcester, Ohio, of which place her father wvas a wvealthy resident. Accomplished as she was beautifuli, witty and full of pranks-to meet her was never to forget her. Hap ptening' to b)e.placed with a party of young people at a hotel table where Driesbach was sitting, some one dared her to pass him a dish ot onions. Im. mediately seilting the dish she not oilly passed it, but inquired if he would have an onion, Hie said he would, and took one; and from'so small a beginning sprung an acquaintance that;in three months pnded in marriage. It was a singular match, 'and people long won dered whether the dauntless lion-tamer would. Me a4ul success.ini testing his wife SOMETHING NEW IN B&IlELS A Deoidea Departure in the Man. ufaoture ot a Very Useful Artlole. You wouldln't think that anything now could be written about such a homely subject as a barrel, but a decid edly now departure is to be chronicled. The barrel of commerce is made by splitting the log into bolts about thirty inches long. The bolts are placed in a large vat, subjected to an intense steam heat for twelve hours, and then, while hot, are cut up into staves. After five or six months of air drying the stave, are ready for the listing (or jointing) machine. This process completed, the staves are in proper condition for the cooper, who trusses them (arranges them in barrel form) and cuts the chine and croze, after which they are ready for heads and hoops. Shaving, planing and crozing machines are used in the manufacture of common barrels, and in each barrel there are sixteen staves. The new barrel is made of two staves. In an establishment Wtiero they are manufactured I saw an elm log thirty one inches long and twenty-four inches in diameter, resting in a steam vat. A crane, operated by steam power, grap pled t'e log and swung it into position in the niachine. This wonderful piece of mechanis,n clamps the log exactly in the center and immediately begins a motion of fifty revolutions to the min ute. When the log commences to re volve in the embrace of the machine a knife is fed directly on the outside of the log, cutting off a continuous sheet the proper length and thickness of a stave. In this way the eiitire log is utilized as stave material except about six inches of the core or heart, which is practically worthless. On the opposite side of the cutting knife, and revolving upon the surface of the log, are two cylinders, being held theron by the same mechauisn which feeds the knife to the log. One revolution of these cylinders measures a half barrel of con tinuous and solid stave material. In the surface of those cylinders is a knife, which is forced into the solid log, cut ting off a sheet, which falls on to a con veyor in the perfect form of a half bar rel. This half barrel, which has just dropped from the log, is completely chined crozed and equalized. Its exter nal form is superior to any worl[ which tll.no_.exp.et. coopox cai.execuLe... It is mathematically "true." The chin ing, crozing and equalizing have all been done by the same knife, and the perfected half barrel is the resuft of the single mechanical revolution. The elm log referred to remained in the machine fifty seconds, at the expira tion of which time it had been converted into thirty-four staves or material for seventeen barrels. The staves ar) dried, listed (jointed) and then receivd head and hoops, Two hundred. and twenty barrels are made from 1,000 feet of log measure. By the old style of manufacture the maximum product i3 about fifty barrels less. On the old barrel, with sixteen staves, thirty-two listings are made. The saving in this dhetail alone Is great. As a labor sav ing invention it represents an advaned of 630 per cent, on the 01(d method of manufacture. Barrels, nail kegs, but ter tubs and nails are turlnedl out at wvii with this wonderful machine. The inventor, a Michigan man, has had the idea germinating in his- brain for over twenty years, but it wvas only dur ing the present year that the mechan ism was p)erfected.. An Intdlan's lBattle ithL a Pan ther. A special from Moscow, a little town eighty-six miles northeast of hero, says that yesterday afternoon a blooly fight occurred between an Indian and a pan tiher, twenty miles south of that place. A p)arty of Indians from a neighboring Indian village wvere out hunting wild turkeys. One of time party who had strayed awvay from his companmons met a large panther and shot at it, wound ing the boast and greatly infuriating it. The panther was in close quarters and rushed upon the Indian before lhe could reload and a bloody fight ensued. The Indian drew his knife and when tihe p)anthecr sprang upon him cut the beast's throat from ear to ear, but at the same time the mad animal fastenmed its fangs in the throat of thielndiah, andl a deaith struugle conmmenced. When time other Inians reached the combat ants both the Indian and the panther were (load. The Vortex or Cit.y Lifo. A Boston NewVspape)r man says that, the reckless and ignoranit Wvay in wvhich country gitis fling themselves into the vortex of city life is remarkable and startling. One girl wvho reached Boes ton without a cent, being asked what she hadexpectedl to do, said: "I don't know; but I suppose there might be fiomo hotel near the :station where I1 could go, and they woul take me in and lot me work for my board 6snt.i1 I got a place." Another, showing fifty cents, all the money she had, said: "There, that's all the money I have got, do you suppose there is aniy house in Bostonm where I can stay the night for that? I suppose I am sure to get work to-morrow." Others have said: "Oh, we are going to ask some ones at the station what we had better (1." It is proposed to establish a society to protecft attah fnniah vyo,ng wo,nnn. THE VALUE OF CORAL. Whore it is Found. The value of coral depends on its color and its size. Tile white or rose tinted variety stands in highest popular esteem, perhaps chiefly because it israr est. It is mostly found in the Straits of Messina, and on some parts of the African and Sardinian coasts. The bright red coral, in which polps are still living, when fished 'up, stands next in value. Dead coral has a duller tint, and is consequently sold at a lower price. Two entirely different substan ces bear the name of black coral. One of them is not, properly speaking, coral at all and is commercially worthless, as it breaks into flakes instead of yielding to the knife, although it is often sold as a costly curiosity to foreigners. The other is the common red coral, which has undergone a sea change, prob ibly through the decompositi9n of the living beings that once built and inhabited it. It is not much admired in Europe but in India it commands high prices, so that large quantities of it are exported every year. These are the four import ant distinctions of color, though they, of course, include intermediate tints which rank, according to theirclearness and brilliancy. The size is a still more important matter. The thickness of them of the coral plant, to use the com mercial and entirely uns.ientific expres ion, determines its price, and many a branch of red coral is valued more high. ly on account of its thickness than a smaller piece of the choicest rose color. The reason for this is clear. A large straight piece of material can be worked to advantage by the artificer; a crooked one, if it be bulky enough, can at least be turned into large beads; mere points and fragments can only be used for smaller ones, or made into those thorns which are said to be invaluabloagainst the evil eye, but m hich do not coin ma n I a high price in the market, perhaps be cause it is over stocked. Despotic Power in Russia. There was a theatre in St. Petersburg which was paying its proprietor a profit of two thousand roubles a month. The in,pectors decided that it was not safe from fire, and dii'ected some improve ments. The proprietor made them in a slipshod sort of way, without regard to the directions of the oticers, trusting to the popularity he enjoyed to carry him through. When the inspectors saw how he had evaded their orders, and tried to circumvent them, they simply closed up the establishment and took the proprietor to prison, where he spent several months reflecting upon the dan ger of playing with an autocrat. On one of the islands of the Neva is a summer garden, with a magnificent Lafe, and open air theatre, and a fiue collection of wild animals, a mixture of restaurant, circus and park. It was fitted up at an enormous expense, was the most popular place,in Russia, and the owner was a Prince, who was coin ing money out of the enterprize, which he ran under the name of his active manager. A guest at the place was as saulted by a Waiter and complained to 1the polhce. They investigated the case, or attempted to do so, but found them selves thwarted at every turn by the manager, wvho thought a man with a Prince behind him, could do what he pleased. The police directed that the man who committed the assault should report at their headquarters the next morning, lHe did not come. An ofi1 cr came to the garden and asked why. The manager told him that he thought enough fuss had been made about a lit tIe affair already. His opinions chang od, however, for lie was at once arrest ed, sent to prison, and the place was closed for the rest of the season, despite the efforts of the Prince, whose money was invested, to have it reopened. A little autocracy of this sort keeps a high state of discipline in St. Peters. burg, Value or Social IdC\joymuent. Social enjoyment is another factot that enters into long life. I do not be lieve in ultra fashionable society, and care nothing for . it. The late hours, the dissipation, the dreary formalities, the shallow minded talk and the goner al air of hypocrisy make it very dis tasteful to me. 'There are a great many among the rich peoll in New Yoric at the present time who lose redl social enjoyment, Having suddenly acquired wealth, they have become sop arated from their old frinds and ac q aintancos with whom, in earlier days, they spent many a sociable and sensible evening. T1hey give big din ners to a lot of brainless snobs, syc ophants and parasites- who ill eat their food and laugh at themi behind their backs. T1heir honest friendships of poorer days have ber broken, for their acquaintances, not being able to give big dihners, do not accept ihavita tions to them provided they are sent, and so the spirit of true, wholesome eni joyments is soon lost, Sleep Impairs the action of drugs and poison'. Persons in a state of "melancholia" are lees susceptible to the action of poisons than others. The National Telephone Company, of Scotland, has several submarine cables of seven, eight ansd dline males In length, whicb give perfect satisfap. tin