Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Southward. * Erds are flyingi' * Summer's dead, Overhead The leaves are dying, Vmanged from lii4 gWs 'usset red, - Westward, fad lights glowing , -Through the trees; And the breeze, O'er spice fields blowin, Prings a breath of tropas Over seas. Northward, Cloud banks flying Cold and gray. All the day The winds are sighing jgr the sunny soptbland Far away, ' Eastward, Wings of morning Freshness bear; And the air, the valleys scorning, Brings from dewy hill-tops Odors rare. -Louis Phillips, in Har er's Baur. AT ALFORYS CABL', MY J. L. IARBOUE. .. lford's Cabin 'was the name of a stage-coach eating station, half-way between two thriving Rocky Mountain mining towns. It was kept by Mrs. Nancy Alford, a small, cheery and ex ceedingly active woman who claimed fox herself the distinction of having crossed the plains with an ox team in '59, and the further honor of having been the first white woman to enter Fairplay Gulch, in which her cabin stood. Her husband's grave, over which the snows of three winters had dtted. was under a clump of stunted and gloomy pines up the rocky slope of the mount ain. There were two little grassless and sunken graves beside that of Aunt Nancy's husband. In one of them he little g'rl of five years had been laid, and in the other her boy of six. "I aint never been badk to the States since I came out here, and I never expect to go now; all that I care for in thir world is up there," Aunt Nancy would say, with a wave of her hand toward the pines under which were the three graves. . The cabin was a long and narrow one story atructure of three rooms. Its ex terior was dreary, and without the sug. gestion of the brightness and comfort vithin save from the turkey-red calico curtains with white lace boarders, and the Soiering plants at. the four front windows. . - The immediate surroundings of the cabin were dreary and cheerless; nothing could be done to make them less so Ir that rocky and barren region with iti early and late snows. e:-+ * : But within, things were very differ ent. "Aunt Nance Alford's cabin," "Aunt Nance's grub" and Aunt Nance herself, eore topics on which the stage dri'rr discoursed until.'Aunt Nance 's fame had spread far and wide. She was a short, slender and wiry little woman, about fifty years old. She always wore a plainly made starched calioo grown, with a'whiie apron tied1 around her waist, thie strings in a neat bow in front. * A snowy-white handkerchief was al ways'pinned around her throat, and no one ever saw her when her dark-bro wn hair, but little touched with gray, was snot brushed to a satiny smoothness. One day in the early spring, Jack Hughes, oine of the stage-drivers, broughat Aunt Nance a letter from the nearest postoface, eight 'miles distant. Letters came rarely to A'lut Nance, and they always Alled her with pleasurable excite ment.?-S- - :This was in a large browsi envelope, and 4unt Niance drew out a photo. grap with the letter. heglanced at It eagerly, and saw the face of a )'oung and delicate girl of per hsaps fifteen years. "'Who in the land can she be?" said Aunt Nance. She unfolded the letter, glanced at the signature and read it aloud, Ia 'Your affectionate niece, Marcia Merrick.'" - "I declare I'd most forgot I had such a niece," said Aunt Nance. ."But, of course; the'c my sIster Lucy's girl. Lucy's name is Merrick. I ain't heerd from her fo'r two years. It's time some She sat down and read the letter slowly, her eyes filling with tears as shei read. She wipod thema on a corner of her api-on when she had finished the letter, and said to Kate Dooley, her "help :' *"It's from my sister's girl. My sister Is'dead, and so is her husband. Theig girl, Marcia, seems to be all alone in the world, ansd not very strong. She wants' to come out and stay with me awhile, ad try this mountain climate for her health. ~"Well, she can come; I'll make her more than welcome. It's many a year since I see any of my own folks, and it'll do me good to see somebody right from New Hampshire, with the Doolittle blood in her veins. I was a Doolittle, She read the letter again. It was well written, and stated briefly in addition to the news which Aunt Nance had already communicated to Kate, that the writer was nearly sixteen years old, and that sne would have her own living to make, for her parents had left her little mnore than enough money to take her to Colorado. If her aunt was willing to receive her, she would come with some friends who were going as far as Denver in a few weeks; and if the climate proved help. ful, she would look around for some way of supporting herself as soon as she had grown a little stronger. "We'll talk about her supporting her self when there's occasion for her to do it," said Aunt Nance, as she folded the letter and restored it to its envelope. shie took up the photograp~a and 1~oked at it long and lovingly. "She's a Doolittle, out and out," she said. "She has the reg'lar Doolittle nose, and her grandfather's chin right over agio. She's downright purty; she looks like her ma, and Lucy was the best lookin' one of our famiily. But sne! didn't write a word about her brother: I wonder how that is? Lucy had two children." The next stage coach going toward the east froin Aunt Nauce's cabin car-j ,.d a lmete oz Aunt Nance to her Taree weeks later the stage coach came whirling up to Aunt Nance's door, and Jack Hughes called out, when he saw Aunt Vance at the open door - sh "Light load to.day, Aunt Nance. ne On'ly one passenger, and I guess she's the one you're looking for." A young girl, her plain black dress T) and bat covered with dust, stepped to fI the ground, Aunt Nance embraced hex A, warmly. "You're sister Lucy's Marcia!" she exclaimed, excitedly. "I know without . l asking. You're a reg'lar Doolittle, and N you don't know how glad I am to see th you." of "You don't reely look right strong, en Aunt Nance said, while Marcia was eat ing the elaborate d;nner prepared ex- N preesly for her. "But, a! my dear, th, you'll look like another girl after a sum- I mer up here in the mountain air. i've he got a nice, gentle saddle horse that you - can'lide 'round the canons on, and I'll take you over to the hot springs for a di month, later in the summer. Oh, you'll he have roses enough in your cheeks, and to be so plump you won't know yourself in three months!" e y Then she suddenly asked in a softer tone, "Where is your brother David, A Marcia?" y0 Marcia's smile gave place to a pained dc and troubled look. - fg "I don't know, aunt," she said. H "Don't know? Why, how Is that?" th "It is more than a year since we have ha heard anything from David," said Mar. cia. Then she added, "That is one ei reason why I wanted to come West, o Aunt Nancy, besides what the doctor to told me about my health. I think David is out here. I did not write re anything about It. for I thought I would th rather tell you all about it myself. I thought you might understand the story better, and feel more kindly towards him if I told it to you." PIt' was a brief and sorrowful little h tory of a boy's waywardness that she of told, not an uncommon story of a natur- lei ally. welt'disposed boy being led into wrongdoing by evil companions, and finally running away 'after bringing dis. de grace upon his home.'- A & - b "All we have known for nearly two yars is that he ds out in the West. . We ag heard once of his being in this State. ' If I could only find him! I am sure he could yet be saved. He is so young, ro not yet twenty." 6'I'll help you find him," said Aunt Nance, earnestly. '"We'll begin at once. I know all about the stage- , drivers about here, and people in nearly of all the mountain towns. If he's any- th where in this part of the State, we'll find him, dear! Merrick ain't a common name." The mountain summer soon came on, th in allits soft and tender beauty. Mar cia lived out of doors much of the time. She rode on horseback down into the grassy gulches, or far up to the mount amn summits, where the snow lay in lit-, te patches throughout all the summer days. Sooni the color came to her checks, her thin sliape grew rounder and fuller. The night of the nineteenth of August was one long remembered by *h the dwellers on that mountain side, and by those in the gulch below. . They re erred to it long afterward as "the time e of the big storm. "-. "I never see such a stor'm as this in all the years I've lived in the iountains,"t said Aunt Nance, as the night came on h with a terrible roaring of the wind fr< through the canons. Few travellers spent the night at he~ cabin, and there was no one there that night'but Aunt Nauco, Marcia and Kate Dooley. c At nine o'clock the wind abated its - fury. At ten it had died avtay so that no sound was heard but the pouring of C the rain. Marcia and Kate Dooley went h to bed,.h It was eleven o'clock when Aunt t Nance, rising to go to bed, stopped sud denly, threw up her head and listened t intently. The rain was falling softly now, and hghabove its gentle sound she heard a ,th vice shriek out as it in mortal terror. t Then she heard men's voices shouting t widly. br "What in the name of wonder is go- th ing on up there on Taylor Mountain at this time of night?" she asked of herself. th a she hurried to a door and looked out into the darkness. - She heard the cries repeated, and they abe seemed nearer how. She had heard ries at midnight before in that wild h nd lawless region, and she knew whatth too often they foretold. - t "Dear, dear!" she said, with more of irritation than of fear in her voice, "1 wonder when this country's ever going to get so folks'll live as if they was civi lized! There's mischief going on up I there! I saw them Taylor Mountain boys whispering together and looking savage when they were down hi crc to Co dinner to-day. i've a notion to-who's pr that?" - t The rear <door room had opened sud- r denly, and been closed in eager haste. ca Aunt Nance turned quickly. Before t her, his back to the door, his hands a spread out upon it as if he would holdki it against all resistance, stood a hatless shi and coatless young man, his clothes | drenched and tattered, his face ashen asi pale, his eyes wild and staring, while his th< slender form quivered with fear. en "nh, please come in and shut that door!" he cried, stretching out one hand imploringly. "They're after me-those men are! Can't y-ou hide me? I haven't done what they' sa I have. Hide mel hide meI" Aunt Nance slowly closed the door, but seemed to hesitate. "Ma'amn," said the young man, "i7~. been wild for a long time, but I am in nocent of this wrong, and if you'll help save me I'll live a right life from this moment. I'll go back home to-morrow -back to New Hlampshire I" "New Hampshire!" Aunt Nanoe caught eagerly at the words. She closed the door, walked across the room until she stood within a foot of the trembling fugitive, and looked up in into his face, her own heart beatingg widly. 'Are you from New Hampshire?" she s asked, slowly. c4I "Yes, yes-oh, are they coming?" Di "From what townC" she asked, an agerly. "The town of Rockingham." is "Now tell me your name, quick!" co "David-David Merrick1I" PC She took his wet cheeksu between heg hand? rand drew his face down to hers, tb whi'she kissed him soothingl y. ;c1 "I thought so-I thought so," sho e said jwta rarms around__his nec' . Eou-ve the Doolittle eyes, David, ynt be afraid." The door of larcia's room had opened ddenly, and she stuAl there with a awl thrown lightly around her. ThL xt mantant she cried out: "Oh, it's David-my brother David !" The tramp of feet was heard outside. ie look of amazement on the boy's ye gave place to one of terror, aul irt Nance said, quickly: '"Go in there with your sister, David!' A moment later six )r seven rough. >king men filed into the cabin. Auat Lncy knew them every one. She met am standing with her back to the dOOr the room David and his sister haJ tered. ''He come in here, didn't be, Aunt Lce?" said Joe Haskin, the lea ler of I e crowd. "We seen :-n, and we Int him. Now, didn't ue C, 4:ia rel" - Aunt Nance replied fearlessly, "I don't I lies, and I won't tell one now. He i come in here, Joe Haskin. Ee's in re now, and what's more, he's going stay in herei" 9'Do you know what him and another ler done?" "'I neither know nor care," replied tt Nance, boldly, ''but I know this u men aint his judges. Vengeance n't belong to you-it belongs to mV" She pointed upward as she spoke, and Dn she added, "You can't lay your nds on that boy to-night. He's in is room behind me, and you are six or ;ht taen to one woman, but there's not e of you that'll lay your bands on me move me from this door. ''You wouldn't, Joe Haskin, when you nember how I walked three miles in 3 worst snow-storm we had last winter nurse you back to life and strength, ien you was at death's door with pneu ny. "You wouldn't, Hi Sanders, when I d you brought right here and took care you myself when you had that broken ;last fall. "You wouldn't lay hands on the >man who closed your wife's eyes in ath less than a year ago, Tom Leesom. ery man of you has set at my table in and agin, with or witliut money made no difference. "Touch me? Why, I don't believe I, rself, could keep you from using that e you've got outside, on the mau o'd lay rough hands on Aunt Nance ford." "No, you couldn't," said Joe Haskin. 'ou're right-we'd make mince-meat him! An' if you're goin' to stand 'fore tt door and-" I am,'' interrupted Aunt Nance, "and re aint no other way Into the room." She waved her hand lightly toward e open door. "Good nightl" she d. They went out into the' darkness. Before noon the next day Joe Haskin le up to Aunt Nance's cabin. She nt to the door, and he did not dis >unt. Well," he said, ''if things don't turn t queer sometimes! Wre got after the ong fellow, sure enough, last night. >u see, there's been a garg of cut roats and hess-thieves lurkin' about on ylor Mountain. The boys got tired of n, an' last night they took after a uple of the sneaks. 'It seems that this young 'sllow told e truth when he said he didn't belong 'em. He was wandering along on way to Eagle Cliff, and took refuge m the storm with some o' the gang. 'The guilty ones was caught this rning down in Deer Gulch,and aey'd a grace to say that the young fellow th 'em didn't belong to their gang. If u're got him in your cabin yit, you t o' 'pologize to 'im for the little in venience we put 'im to last night,an' y that we'll do anythin' we can for n, now't he's out o' bad company." He was done with bad company from t day forth. The promise he had de in his terror he kept faithfully, al >ugh he did not l'-e to go back to n Hampshire to keep it. Invading lines M ikraad have driven a lumbering old stage-coimaI -a~nd nr jolly drivers to other parts of the untains, and there is now a little own railroad station on the spot where a cabii of Aunt Nance stood. It is a dinner station, famous all along line; and if you travel that way, you >uld be likely to be met at the door by tidy and talkative old lady,who would no other than Aunt Nunee herself, ile David and Marcia Merrick, in mes of their own, may be found in prosperous little town but a few les distant.-ot'somrpanion. ARCTIC APPL1ANCES. ENIOUS coOKING APPARATUS DEVISEB FOR DR. NANSEN'S EXPEDIIION. Ibe remarkably comprehensive oil king range here illustrated is A ominent feature in Dr. Nansen's out for his polar voyages. When it is :nembered that the range tn ques *n will be during that period practi ly the only means of cooking for entire party, it is evident that the pliance should be as perfect of its id as ingenuity and good workman ip can make it. olidly built in stout copper, with estus linings where necessary, range is so constracted as to a~ble .e processes of oast DR. NANSEN'S COOKING R&NGE. , baking, boiling and frying to on simultaneously, and although oc pying considerably less than a nare yard of room will cook suffi mt substantial food for 25 persons. -Nansen's party consists of himself d 12 men. The heat recessary for the cooking roduced by a comrn :' oil lamp so ntrived as to be & ani immense wer and inserted in 1:range under ca ingenious strue: conditions at the fumes of the~ . o under nc -cumstances touch the food whichx is ing prepared. Stoves similar to ose used in the range will be em oyod fr beating the ship. & Prm r>THE BU.Y WO AN. Ul. PACE MAY B3ECOME TOO it-PID yOR IIEn BEST GOOD AND DEVELOPEMENT. In a paper on "Vocaticns," a woman suggestively says: "Tue fashionable sin of to-day among woman, whatever it may be, is nU 'dleness. To a student from Norton or ,outh Hadley, Welles ley or Smith, idleness is simply an in poisibility. If years of tboronqh me - tnodical, intellectual training have n't forned hbits and tastes for work, they Li tve resuJted in nothing. "The lazy woman in a wrapper, yawning half a day over a noi, may still exist in stories; out of them she is not often foun. The reality and con I rst is a trimly-dremsed, quick-stepping ye 7, calling early at the buech r's and grocer's considering the cc n omies of beefsteak and strawberries, preparing th3 custard ard salad dres iig, enconraging Bridget to be neat and skillful by preceit and example and this only as a beginning to the busy [lay which she set for herself." It is due to the woman of to-day that lier all-round capability shouli be men tioned. There was a time when, If she were a good housekeener, she was nothing else, or, if she pinned her lIu - rels to charitable work, her family was slighted. The end-of-the-century wo man is skilled In many things and ex pert in at least one. The writer of the paper goes on to sound a note of warning against woman Lecoming "busy, bustling, anxious ereatures, whose live3 are marred if not wasted by a sort of overproduc'iveness. They, she says, ''shoull read the les on of the lotus tree; they should even stand beside the peaceful-eyed cow and mark how she chews the cud of gentle reflections"-and so on. In maay ways the hint of reaction is obvious In the magnificent spurt woman has taken; she is willing 0 listen, in the gospel of progress to which she hearkens diligently, to an occasional ermon on the text, "Make baste slowly." THE LEGEND OF THEARBUTUS. "Some time ago," says the Univer sity Review, "Congressman Belknap related, one nigut at the Washington osmos Club, the following legend of the trailing arbutus, which he bearl in tbe lodge of an aged Indian chief on the shore of Lalle Superior. "Here, in this couutry, grows to perfection th.tt deare.-t and sweetest of all wild-flcwers, the arbotus-the plant that the most skillful florist cannot oause to grow in hot-house or garden. "There are two aings the learned whito man does not know-the Indian and the arbutus. From time to time, sitting by the camp-fres In the evening i have been told of the creation of inimals and birds by the great Mtnna oosho and his captains, the Manitous. And this is the legend of the origin or creation of the arbutus: "Many, many moons ago there lived an cli man alone in his lodge beside a frozen stream in the forest. His locks and beard were long and white with age. He was heavily clad in fine fuis, for all the world was winter-snow and ice every where. "rhe ,smds went through the forest, earching every nook and tree for birds o chill, chasing evil spirits o'er hill and vale; and the old man went abcut, vainly tearching in the deep snow for iices of wood t' keep up the fire in his oge. "In despair, be returned to his lodge, and, siting down by the last few dying eoaIs, he cried to Mannaboosho that he mignt not reum'. And the wirds blew side the door of the lodge, and there amie in a most beautiful maiden. "iler cheeks were xed, as if made of wild-roses; her eyes were large, and gowed like the e ycs cf fawns at night; her hair was long and black as the raven's feathers, and it touched the grond as she walked; her l'ands were covered with willow buds; on her head was a wreath or wild-flowers; her slothing was of sweet grasses and ferns; hr moccasins we-re whate lil!<s an(', when she breathed, the air of the lodge became warm. "The old man said, 'My d tughter, I m glad to see you. My lodge is e >ld an cheerless; yet it will sh'eld you Irom the tempests of the night. Ent tell me who you are, that you dare to come to my lodge in such strange cloth ing. Come, sitLare and tell me of thy country and thy vict n'~~fd I wll] tell thee of my exploilts, zor 4.am a Maniton. I blow nry breath, anu'th waters of the river stand still.' "The maiden answered, 'I breathe, and the ICowers spring up on all the olants.' "The old man said, 'I shake my locks, and snow covers all the ground.' "'.z shake my curls,' rejoined the maiden, 'and warm rains fall from the "i h en I walk about, the leaves fall from the trees. At my command, the anima's hide In their holes in the ground, and the wild fowl get out of the v.ater and fly away, for I am Mnito.' . '-The maiden made answer, 'When]I walk about, the plants lift up their heads; the trees cover their nakednes1 with many leaves; the birds come back, a:.d all who see me sing. Music is sverywere.' "And thus they talked, and the aIr bec ine warm in the lodge. The ol1 ..an's heatd dropped upon his breast, and he slept. Then the sun came back, and the blul: b'rd came to the top of the lodge and c iled, 'Say-se, I am thirsty l' aud the river called back, 'I am free. ome and drink!' "As the cid man slept., the maiden ra-ed her hands above his head, and he began to grow small; streams of wvater ran out of his mouth,and soon he was a srrall mass upon the gzround, and his clothing tu:rned to green leaves. "Then the maiden,kneeli~g upon the ~rond, tcok from her bosom the most Precious white flowers and hid them abot under the leaves, and, breathing 'I give thee all my v~rtues and my swee:est breath, and all who shoul ' pc thee shalt do so upon bended knee' "Ten the maiden moved away hrouh n woods and over the plains, rd all the birds sang to her, and wherever she steppe'd, and nowhere else, grows the arbutus." There has nt been a total eclipse of :he sun at London s~nce 11-40, except t hat of 1715, arnd Professor Holden saa tzee n ill not be another until alter the pening or ihe twenty-first century. Puse a contemplates buildng what vifl be Lie krg st electric railway in t~e vzid; it will run from St. .Pet r. THE IDEAL HOSTE S. Some of us are fortunate enough tt have met and been entertained by thel Ideal Hostess in her own house. All of us would like to imitate her in oai own homes. Very few of us can do so, but in a sort of despairing admiration -se would like to make a little study of her methods. Yes, methods; for as surely as grape, do not grow upon thorns, the brilhani successes of our Mleal Hostess, are nol tb result of accident. An "evening' at her house is full of charm-not to one alone, or to some specially favored clique, but to all of her guests. Here are Greybead and Goldilooks; the debutante, and the still young woman who has begun to fear that she is get ting passce; the litterateur, the busi ness man, and men of the learned pro fessions; the college under-graduate, and the young man whose ambition never ran in that direction, and both single and married ladies of certain and uncertain ages and habits ol thought. There are perhaps between forty and fifty persons in all, and one might expect to find some discontented ones in the diversity. Not at all. Listen to them as they leave the house! The youngster who has never had an "evening out" before, is ravished be cause Mrs. Charming has invited him to come again. "How often do you think it would be proper for me to go next Winter?" he asks confidentially of the spinster aunt, whose escort he has been on this happy occasion. Yet he has not here met for the first time some "all enchanting fair." It is the only charm of the whole which has impressed him. The spinster is also treading upon air. She has met two persons whom she has long desired to know. She has not merely seen them at a distance; pains have been taken that she should have a few minutes converse with each. She, too, feels that she wishes it were "proper" to go every evening next I winter. A man whose presence is much sought for at social entertainments of all sorts, and who is correspondingly difficult to secure for them, remarks to his wife as he mounts the stairs of the L. on his homeward way, "I haven't had such a delightful evening for years. If we're in the city next winter, do let us come as often as possible;" while the wife re plies, just as they reach the platform, "Oh, if everybody's evenings were like this one, how delightful society would be!" "As well try to dissect a soap bubble as to look for the cause of all this charm," says another, still under the influence of the spell. Perhaps so, but it helps the would be blower of soap bubbles to know that a certain combination of soap, water and air is necessary before he can mare his bubbles; so we shall try to find out what are the materials used by our Ideal Hostess to make her "evenings' so universally enjoyed. Fxr.sT. -We judge, she has carefully studied the little material things which go to making physical comfort and dis. comfort. Of a hot night her rooms are as cool as they can be made, yet no di3agreeable draughts are felt, becaue it is the upper sashes which are shoved down, and not the lower which are up, and the gas, iostead of being at highest flare, is turned low and shaded. Thid thoughtfulness pervades all the minoi arrangements.pesn Knowing that she cannot be pro ally ubiquitous, our ideal Hostess all most seems so by reason of the abk(V coadjutors whom her tact enlists help her carry out her intentions o3 "giving every one a good time.' Three or four of these scattered about,' keeping the ball rolling, are of im mense advantage, as everybody knows, but only an Ideal Hostess would know how to select them, and, having selected, to keep them well in hand, like so many talented young Brig adiers carrying out the wishes of the Coin mander-in-Chief. Perhaps the greatest secret of all is the self-forgetfulness of this charming Commander. tier "evenings" are noE hers, but those of her guests, to such a degree that all feel under obligations to perform the duties of hosts to all their neighbors in the same way that the privates in an army feel that upon each individually devolves a degree of responsibility for the success of the whole. HELN EVEBTSON SurmH. IGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEIN IN LOUISIAjN3A. - Judge E. T. Merrick, of New (.a leans in a letter to Myra Bradwell, edi tor of the Chicago Legal News, in re feringto heproperty rights of mar ridwmn in Louisiana, says: "Th orgi of the right is curious Ito trace. The community of 'acquets and gain' did not exist in the Roman law, and not prevail generally in France. it was introduced by the Franks,a German people who conquer ed certain Erench provinces, and who possessed Paris and established it there as well as -at other places conquered. by them. Hence it was called the 'Custom of Paris.' About the 5th cen tury A. 1D. the Visigoths, snot-her German race, extended their conquests into Spamn, especially into the northern provinces, and established themselves there and finally became. blended with the people of the country, speaking their language, after having established as a part of the laws of those provinces the ancient German institution 'acquets and gains' in favor of their wives. This provision of certain of the Spanish provinces settled by the Visi goths was carried into the laws pro mugated by the Spanish rulers for the government of the Indiae, the countries discovered by Columbus. Louisiana was first, as you know, settled by the French, andI its laws were French, until 1769, when it was taken possession of by the Spamasrds, under O'Reily. The treaty of transfer had been signed in 1762. In 1769 the French laws were abrol gated and the Spanish laws of the In dians substituted and promulgated. The Span laws were the laws of the territory when Louisiana-was acquired in 1803, and they are the basis of the' Louisiana code, and our judges are bound to take judicial notice of them, while the French laws require to bq proven. Hence Mrs. 31errick, youi fast friend, becomes entitled to one half of all we have made during the marriage, by virtue of the settlemeni of some rude warlike Visigoths in Spain 1400 years ago, who had given equal rights to their wives, who worked in the fields and went to battle with them. it is but just to say that for many years the Louisiana law has given the usufruct of all the commumit; Iproperty to the surviving spouse, while e or she remairs single. The preced ing is for year' consideration as a law Ser. ftcS A4D THIFTri o fault-fcin d et can be happy, T IETY is re ligion with its coat off. BATTLE* a r e thoughts in sisted upon, EvNxy lie has a truth on its track, WHEN the Lord borrows He pays good interest. Wx are not pleaslug God when we are unhappy, Tgiu more God'4 truth is opposed the more it spreads, * W9=n1 the morals are wrong the piigion is not right, 1y will not give us any favor with to play at religion. No AX can tell how much it would :ake to maike him rich, 74M right kind of a smile never JurtN a prayer meeting, Tyx Christian who winks at sin Vil soon be atone blind, - Izjou want the Lord to use you, stop wearing along face. Fxovz who are always giving ad. vice seldom like to take ft, BTorTta the preacher will notI pnako hell any the less real, deo waUt every man to live his sermoo before b6 preachtes It. i is not tho biggest pipes in the organ that are used the most. YoU know the character of a man fihlen you know what he lovea, The only way to , plow a straight farrow is, to stop looking back. Where the giants are the biggest the grapes of Canaan are the sweetes, Tim3 man who runs from trouble will never find time to stop and rest, ' Gge can do great things with any man who will always do his prayerful best To yona=T God's goodness is as wickesd as to break His command. ments, NO MAN will ever lose his soul be cause God did not give him light enough, W1ESEVER the gospel is faithfully preached, somebody is going to be ieve It, A RANwDw Bible on the parlor table will not keep the devil out of the house, TAM Lord is never able to do much Svith a preacher who is proud of his own head, THE troubles we talk about to' one another grow. Those we talk about to God die, TnM most dangerous thing you can do is to decide to live another day without Christ. No 3!AN who faithfully fc.ows Crist will go to heaven alone. Others will follow him Uaughs Two Whales anid a Wifb. 3 One of the whalemnen on the schoner La Ninfa has a little ro. mance, flis name is Willman Stevens and he has been a sailor on coasting yesls for several years. Ten months ago he fell in love with a pretty and etimable young lady at Yaquina By, Stpvens wanted to get married, but his fgnds were low, so it was ab ranged between the two lovers that William should go on a whaling cruise and on bi~ recurn the nuptial knot should be tied. William came down on the next steamer, but found that sailors who had never been on a ~whaling voyage were regarded as green hands; arnd tat when old-timers were clamoring for a chance io shil, a new man had very little ehow. However, Stevens prsverod, and persuaded Capt. Worth to take hira on Whitelaw's whaler, tpeo schooner La Ninfa. The green hand proved the mascot of the trip, and he killed the only two whales taken on the voyage. They wre big follows and produced 3,500 pounds of booe, -Stevens has consequently come into fiunds, and 1morG funds than usually fall to the lay gf a whaleman. To. morrow he leaves on the steamer Willamette Valley for Yaquina Bay to get married. -San Francisco Chronicle.. A small Order, ,T. L. Nole's fondness for practical 1kng Is wei'i idown. Not very long ago the celebratsd. actor entered a dairy shop in London, and anming a somn demeanor addressed huaself to the man behind the counter: "I will take a boy," said Mfr. Topole, ~ravely looking round at the shelves. 'A boy, sir?" asked the daliryman in a puzzled tone. "And a girl," added Mr. Toole. The man gase4 open mothed at his guitomer, evidently under the impression a lnatic was adressijig him. "This is a milk sigo," said the dairyman in an em phatic tone. 'Come outside," an swred Mr. Toole in a sepulchral voice, and taking the man by the arm he led him to tohe door and pointed upward to the sign. "I'll take a boy and girl," repeated the humorist, with not a ghost of a smile. "Read what your notice states, 'Families supplied in any qfiantity.' "-London Titits, solnd uelage. Muci'age, in convenient solid form, nd which will readily dissolve in water, for fastening papers together, may be made as follows: Boi! one pound of 'obe best white glue, and stramn very cocar; boil also four ounces o isinglass, and mix the two to gether; place them in a water hath glue kettle-with half a pound of white sugar and evaporate till the liquid is quite thick, when it is to be poured into moulds, driea, and cat into pieces of conrenlent alz. A en~uma armet 4 l&aug isi ig miedl enmi a ummen m i pm s ILL.4%D feen aue Ulhe Bsend niie sm A Smng d sur irdno amR sti'stE iing nuac Eimmad. .,, haraa. camln nia~li weigha. ef Npudes' i You can sometimcs tell when a san eins tobhachsllmde yhlbreath. NEWS IN BRIEF.. .-Taper is made fromern hu*L -One-seventh of the land owners in 3reat Britian are women, -June is the favorite month for sul ddes. --The Salvation Army has Invaded Lirty-five countries. -The first American ship was laun ,hed at New York in 1616. -Lions, bears, 'goats and other an, nais take to the tobacco habit. -The shrinkage in trust values dur bg the year Is estimated at S1D5,833,003. -Behring sea and Cook's inlet are onsidered to be the future field for the ?almon industry. -Twelve years ago one sailor In eve ry 106 who went to sea lost hislife; now >nly one In 256 is lost. -In 1620 the first large copper coins ere minte.J In England, putting an end o private leaden tokeus. -In Norway persons who have not been vaccinated are not allowed to ote at any election. -It is an article of faith among th 5ohammedans that a grave sball never be opened on any pretext. -Twelve dfferent kinds of theology are preached in four languagesin the eight churches at Wahoo, Neb. -The new postmaster at Dundee, Mich., among his other qualiflcations bas a mustache 321 Inches from tip to ip. -Among the wedlinz presents re eived by a Green County, Ark., bride ere four oiickens, two geese and a Ag. -The English languge is spoken and written and read by 100,000,J0. It Is intelligible to at least 50,000,000 nore. -Massachusetts has 579 Congrega !ionl churches and 105,943 members. adiang all her sister Statesin this re ID et. -The first magazine gun was made Dy John Cuckson, London, 15-6. A spe stmen is In the Hartford Museum of A. S. Brooks. -In the twenty years that haveelap sed since the close of the Frarnco-Pros 3,an war Europe has double her mi ary strength. -In Middle Smntthfield, Penn., there a a chestnut tree the trunk of which n asures nineteen feet in circam 'rence, breast high. -In some parts of France where the -oil is poor, many acres are given up to lilac bushes and their blossoms are .ent to Paris by the cartload. -Whaling in the Antarctic seas this eason is re ported to be a Parmpuses, seals and sea lions are merous, i Is further stated. -The largest stationary engine ;he world is used to pump out the .uines at Friedenville, Penn. Itsdri ing wheels are thirty-five feet In ner. -The electric railway haspeote iven the fabtuess of the Tryolese Mo ians, a read twenty-seven miles bing projected between Riva Pilnz-lo -A radish, about a footin with a complete knot tied in re, is a vegetable monstrosi :laimed, grown on the farmn of Wiliams, near Pawnee, Kan. -A parrect face should be to three equal parts-from t )fte har to therootof nence to the tip and from ttie tip he nose, to the tip of the ohin.. -It is sail that April, May'and even une and J'ily are remarkatie for the revalence or white flowers; 'July, and specially August, of yellow and Sep enber and October of pure and blue. -Thie authorities of Franff rt-on-the Hain, Germany, have 'i ed to- nuam roos petitions signed by-fkpety ho! ers, an.! have omittL the n mber airteen In renumbTin several treets. -The day of the dismond Is always, jt the opal is eviderilily about to have ittle run or its own. The store once hought unluoky Is now very fashion ble, and perfect specimens are advan ing in price. -The hiz~helt waves ever met with n the oosan are said to be those off the .ape o: Good Hope. Under the In luence of a northwesterly gale they ave been known to exceed forty fleet n height. -The officers of the German army re to have~ a new cloak, the novelty of which lhes In the fact that by an ingen - ous devlce the cloack may be made ieit or thin. It is adopted for winter or summer use. -Every Eastern potentate of ancient ~imes was so accustomed to the Idea of -eng poisoned that the most Impor ~ant functionary about- the court was a aster, who tasted every dish before it a set before the King. --Dring a large part of the Seven eas ~ e...Xrederick the Great car :edan ounce oiav.~.. s imate in us pocket to use In cane of euss lisaster. One or two occasions he -ear swallowing it. --A. W. Glover, of Windsor Looks, is., claims to have discoverel in the oundations of an old foundry a stone :oered with hieroglyphics, supposed to be of Indian origin, though no ene 'ersel In indian lore can decripher -hem. --Swans keep water free from weeds. . lake in Bnrghley, Eng'and, which cave constant occupation to three men, ax monthis In each year, to keep it com oarartvely clean, Is now kept compie elyclean by two pairs of swans. -L->ng-legged birds have short tails. . bird's tail acts as a rudder daming the t of flignt. When birns are provided .vith long legs, these are stretched di - ecly leiud when the bird Is flying, ad so act as a rudder. -In the days of Charles the First the nglish Parliament used to as imble 7 o'clock in the m >ruing and the erge ants-at-arms was sent around the wn to roule trembers who wore not o their places in p;oper season. The motto-E Pluribus Unum" wa ; Aken from the title page of the Gen l~man's Magazine, at the time of til) evolutn, having a large circulatk a a the colonies. The arcbitects of the Jew sh taber aci In si e wilderness we.e Bezaleel -ad Ahollab. The Mazarin Bible, one of the fin t tintei In mesai type, has just been so4d or t24'O. "The freedom or the city "Is a phrase rhich bas lost Its mea:'ing. In anek alt ms it confer--d particular privile, e. 'hich are now common to all the inha' tants. But the ceremonial is stil rsey as- mnens of paymng a co