Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Mr. Painoas T._Barnum, of 'Teznectient, has been known for fitty years er-morq as the Priuco of Uumbugs, he proba. bly,had an eye to busiuaos in allowing i t to be annonced-t,hat;he had sudderily died. It gaye opportuutty, at. all events, for,norre t ing.the tsbtaateent,.and. kept the.n amaof the'Veteranshowman before the pubit. JIiaraunm has been. wonderfully suces'iI and has never-pretended to arge th tho !oitune:whiol attended him was due to auy crnmarlable talent on hiepart .Iu the blog raphy which he published "beforetle war," and which was adorned witti an-olab' rato drawing ofthe palatlai-homnewhloh ha called "lranistan," be expored frankly his mothols 'of working, and, if there was any humrbur i a It all, it was simply because the pub'io 'tere unwilling to believe hitm when he told the truth. I heard 'Barnum lecture in London 'more than twenty-five -years ago, and re ,rpembter to this day one of .the aphoriams ,With, whicti his lecture was adorned. :.d 'vertielng as an art was then In its in. fancy and. 3arnum exhibited to the audf 4ence, as a-npecImen of Amerlean advertiniog, a broad s)eot of the Now York Berafd, the .Whole of which -was.taken by a single ad ver 4ser, who -blocked out the .page like a ehecker-board, and filled the alternate squares with the single line, repeated over and over again, 'Road the Now York Dredger." It was Suppnsed in England that, apy.one who. advertised at that rate would to>sure to. ruin hiniself. Hut Barnum ex Plained to his audience that the proprietor of the Dredper had boeomo.lvealthy by Just 'snoh.operatIons. The secrc, of it he gave Iin few words: By r:dvertitaing lborally and .pemeitelentty you can sell anything; but. it is mot worth while to advertise -an artti.ie Which is not as go-d as it purports to be, becanle the . persons who huy it neco Will rotbuy it sgein. In this, accordtug to earnum, lay the vihole liw of advertiau; and ho will-pre'end to say that he is not right. The big advottisers, who have a^ou mulatFd millions by apparently squanler ing hundreds of thousands of dollars, wa'e tauccEsaIul because the article that they foroad tipon the attention of the publio was well worth at least, the money that they asked for It, even if It was n ot everything that they sit d It was. Barnum himself, it should be rentem bered,has been faithful to his own maxim. It is true that there has been intnite dod,g tag end devising In attracting public atten .tlon. But whatever ,wav the particular made .by.wbich a person was induced to attend one of Barnum's exhibitions, he was always Satfa fled when he got there, because the ex bibition was Mheap at the pioen. So varnum undonbtedly deserves the large measure or enacces he has obtaine d, and is perti ap a not as Inuch of a humbug, aftet all, as many other persons who are not honored with much a title. Lesrops, the promoter of the Panama Usual, -18 B bum3bng of a totally ditferent variety. -Perhaps the differoee between the French ena and the ConneOctiont Yankee is that the lWPRchmnan believes in himself, while the a ohas fa'ih In his works. Lessepe trusts to national pride and aspiration, and torthe expectat ion of enormons profit on the part of stockholderu, While, Barnum's unt bug consists in givIng tihe people a full dollari's werth for a dollar, when possibly they have been lad tooxpect double the value Of their money. Lesseps is grand in his can coptionh, and, when he succeeds, his works have a vast effect upon the operations of the :Whole civilise d world. But t,here is less risk -undoubtedly, an d more amusement, in the Small Investmeents, en the part of the multi tulde, whIoh are everything that Barnum de aIres, I see that the Hion. yohn Rigelow, of New York, holds pretty innch the same opinion csoncerning the .Panma Canal that I ven tured to express .In these columns some 1weeks ago, .f r. Bigelow visited the.Iethmut at the request of-the New York-Ohamber of Commeroee,' in response to the invitation of M., de Lessep.. The result of his Inquiries is iembodied in a pamphlet whioh is no w in its elecond edition. 'Mr. igolow describes very carefully the character of the work acdo*mplishett and to be aceomaplished, together wIt,h the general ffatures of the canal, and, calls attention to Iho fact that it would be .very mtis -leading to infer the cost of the workr re miing to be done from the apparent cost of whamt has been done. Fumlly Lwothirds of the ex[enises already incurred are in the feonm of -plant, which wIll involve no future e*'pert-e, except for Interest and deteriora tion. yet after making every allowance far the light derived from pasl.experiencee, and froro lIhe progress of socionce, it sttil re ti'trres, toys Dr r, lilgelow, a very -robust faith to be lieve that, the Panama Canal cai be opene'd for na.vigation from sea to sea for an add lional sum no larger than the not proceoeds of ibo now loan ci' one hundred and 1,went,y ''.million dollars which M. do Lesseps is now soliciting. lirt. Itigelow says that it isi no longer a qumston, samong engineers who have vialied the work:s and have peen what,hn elrsmdy been aicomplishd, that with nl edent means the canal can be bailt, an-t that, wthen completed, It, can probably te Iept In order and operated for a err aller per centamge of .ita earnings than any otheor artificial waterway in the world. Mr. . Uigolow does not venture an opinion as to the lime 'when the canal will be completed, nor an; to its total oat, nor as to the total 76venue it can earn, but heo-zays emphati cally .tbat It is fairly to be prespmed that the canal Will imow bie .prosecuted to its iomt. pletion Without -any serious interruption, because too largp a proportion of its oost has alrea dy been Jnouxied to.lake a retreat as g000 .policy a an advance. Eveni if aban "-'d by ther .omnpany, Iay. ,Mr. tBigelow, she.Amtraotr->themselves,would sprobably fl)& -it "1or ittreir inltres to oombine.and finish-It. Theeo Opiniona, of-mAo at#0#./6 g0[Istn.t ""; e 1k7twntumyun yu -pt as-ogrn mo11re;. diffieult to lay When.t will be ttbed than to tellat ibti: aoZuent.-Wl)otber4hearulerof braoe1wIUbamperonderlnee Qr FreLseut Whrn tbe.lt..voesel, the p1oaeer, OttApus, andu ,upon "ihouaanda shall,pierce the.bar. rier of ger, ar paa,asoaurSouth.,arollna oritr-is Wont to .phrase it,frorn.the ocean ihat resa to the ocean'that, sleeps. .It is Well known -that-the tpomte.doham bod,ceuiO, with 'little dlillaty, ihave ascenedW the throne of'Fanoe-in .1871.- 'Rho ,tlbho partyrdtspiayedigreat aoiivity,'aud th ere- rwere , numerous 'demobtrdtions 'in avdr (f "kenri Oluq." The aetton -of the *Otional Assembly, on'the proposition- to 'abroeato all laws of expotriation directed .g99r .t xnewbers of "tbe. house of France," showt d. w)ih Way. the Wnt,was blowing. Mt. 91ri+ t?oolatred,.in an,elaborate-speeoh, 11:.t ")e,.pprovc d ,hq repeal ot the-laws in -qreetion, end lihe rno6ton:,wasadopted"by a vote of'h4sraeinst 103. ,Atthe sametine tbe - lection of"+the 'luo d'Anmale"and the YTi>nce -do. Joinvillo to 'the A#itembly was tce)ared valild. Just when the sltuation wea ripe, the Comic de Chambrd issted hin fauiots manifesto, in wl ioh he announced Oba.t he Would coon leave the Chateau de Chembord, but, expoeted that the. people 'p ould.epeeqily calith ir'baok to the throne, in 'Which case,be promised ;to malntaln,uni oesal auirego, adminisir.ntlve docentralti.n tion and, local autonomy. At=the same:tlmo he drolared 'that be would -not abandon the "Whlito banner" of Henry IV, B'ranets I and the Maid of Orleans, which ba' established the Natlonal union and whl' would ro storo order and freedom to France. -t, was incompreher nible that Henri Ounq ahould be wiiling togo.so -far in"the direc. i.ion of Liberal government,. and, at the same time, mslo it a condition that Franca should surrorder th:t . magie trl-color u bich is the eymbol and the sign of the most glorilou events in her recent history. By his declaration concerning the White flag, the C mie do Chambid excluded himself, at once and ro ever, from the throno of Frrance. 'A as th at his object ? The common notion was that the Cimte de Chombord was deliberately sacrificing the throne foran idea, but the representa tive of one of the . oldest. and staunchest Legitimiat farmiliej in France tolls.ie that the int reason was wholly ditlereut. "kie ocr Clnq,".: said my -informant, "was childless, fled knew that-there was no possibillty;t.hat, he should have an heir. If, then, he accepted the throne, he w%uld occupy It for a few aears and then be succeeded bytheCornte de Paris, as the bead of the Orloanists. Henri Cinq, in plain words, was unwilling to be a wa,rming pan for pernone he despised, and was determninc.d ,tbat, if t.he Orleanists obtained the t.hrone, it should be by their own eflhrt end irerit, and not through his own lnconteotahle right. The provit, onoi corning the White flag wats morety a pre ience, tan excne, and it tnswured the pur pCEe." ]t will surprise , iany persons in the United F tctttin a now tha.t there is so bitter a feel ing beiwten the Legitimista and to Or leanuists. lint thete has been cold blood bs. tween the two families since the days of the Revolution. The dencendants of Louis XVI reever lo'get that the Cotute de Paris is the great-grandFon of the Philippe T.galtt6 who voted in the National Convention for the de. capitatlcn of his kinsman and King. Nor have iey torvotten that Louia Philippo sue ceECed to the tnrone frord' ehch Charles X, the i;rendfathol -of klenri Olnq, had bhen tbrust. "Le Rol- Bourgeois" and the eldest son of the Bourbons had nothing in common. Tho . Orleaniets are looked upr n by the Leghitnists as a .faintly of sElfih and cal.ulating politielaus, who have an eyo always to the main chance and care nothlg for t.he ties of blood and t,1eotion, The immense property of the Corte de Chambord, it will be-remembered, is bequcathed to his relatives in Italy, and not to any of his Orleantist cains in litanca. Thua',-indeed, has cauted some little stir, lad for a curious reason. The Ccmute do Chiambord wa,s born seven months alter the assassination or his father, the Due do lierri, the son of Ch arles X. SAo great was the desire.for l,he birth of an heir, and so little 'was so happy an event antiot patte, that the young Prince was spoken of popularly as-"the child of a miracle." La their enthusiasm, the Leg Ltimnists purchased -from Miarshal Berthior. to whom-it, had been prevented by Napoleon, the famous Chateau do 0 hambord, a magnificent- struct,ure wvaioh was c ommenced in the time of Francis I, and continued in subr:equent reigns. Diana do Poitiers resided there, and the letters HL and D, entwined with-the crescent, silU adorn the yaulted ceilings. Charles IX, Louis X[[I an d Louis XIV occasionally hold Court there, Moliero gave there the first representa tion of his 'Bourgeois deontilhommne." in 1745, Louis XV best.owed the Chateau upon bIarshal iBaxe, but It subsequently revot ted to the Crown. The prIce paid for -the Chateau by the Legitimise was 1,800,000 france. 1Frnch -epublican len tinient wes ontraged at the idea that, this magniflcent (Jhateau, the homo of the Bourbons for generations, should be handed over to a foreigner, and some of the r.ewspapers went to the length of insisting that the Comite de:Chambord had no-right -to d o what. he pleased with his o wn. So the ill-feeling between the Orlosnists an.d the Legitimnista grows strongor andi deeper. The Comte de Paris is not aooeptea zdt thelheir ofthe-righis and hopes of Etenri CinQ. On the contrary, myJLegiti,1mlet. friends insist that the preront representatives of thle elder branch of the Boutrbons are the descend.. enlia of Philippe of Anjou, Pnilip V of Spain, the grandson of Louis X [V. 1t-is true that Philip V1 on ascending the throne, renounced for himself, and for , his posterity, all claim to the throne of France; but, it, is. contended that, while his renunciation was valid as ro gar ded himself, lhe could not make such a re. nunciation for hisi successors. Hie could die poseo of his own rights but not tihe rights of ihoio who who camne after him. of dib tis vie w, the prei ecnt,represen tat,ive ofthe Bourbons, the older branch, is a bro ther of i1on, Caries, the pretender to the throne of Epain. This, however, Is only a sentimnenital view, as there Is not the remrot eat probabilit y that one of the Spanish lhour bons w il ibe recalled an d invIted to accept, the F'renth Crown. T1ho French Legitisits usndcetand it, and, abandoning the hope of chitsining aBoujb.on King, are quite ready to join ihCir fortunes wit,h the ItopublIc. Retter by far, said one of my L.egititat irlen6p, a Conservative ieoptnblic, than a m-onarchy with the Comte do Paris as king. In this division, then, between the Legiti mistsenad the Orleoanists, lies a grand oppor tunity for lFranco. The Riepublicans can, uniqutestionably, by moderation and conser vat,ism, secure, lIret, the toleration and, allerward, the active support of the Legiti. mist famnilies; who will give to tho-IRepubilo the solidity that it needs, and who can read. ity bind its best elements together. This may be understood,-and acted upon, after a time, but there is little .chance of It ini these days. The,Radioals,,at present, are running the Goteinment,-and -the intenhity oftheir pdgttion to:extsting,customs,and,belief's ig.ainipfiport1in to -thie,ge and respetaiulity nt what is ballved-and.Praat.end- 1.n.D ^Wbtnse, aowntrdMhattog'to'the earlh, rligittray5t4iait OtoHeavenly birth Show ZWtureemflfug tbrotgberteare. .And where tbat. glory meste.thae east I' flucdO the Jand with gWu e sen; -n casle of lIta etwton The,daniess and dthe u>i'anety birth. Thus, through a darkling scArrow steal i- p'm ever-soott ip g ray a ernb en, ft,itng ltf t throttgh I ttmno, Make- pi noloude learn Wei t,y [eol. EWU er Jerrot, . .$e Iba f:Duatb. ('em .Belgravia.) . 'Tbreo-months -before I- was born my .fliber's boat- went down in a sudden squell within sight -of bone and of my miLthor, who, with the rest of tho fisher men's wives, awaited-the landing of the ,little fleet. Ire-rhaps-this was the reason I had such al linstinctive horror and dread of. the sea, evenwjilo it tasoinated and drew me to it in its stormiest moods. It was a-queer feolinlg tbatpofssessed Ime. When away from the sight and sound of the break'rs I was resttess 1uid unquiet, near them I was awed and enlanotatoly, but 'somo craving of my nature was satisfled, and I was comparatively calm. I-be)ievo many of our people, who are intensely superstitious, looked upon me aes- doomed in consequence of this. "The sea always swallows what it-gets a hold of," they said among thoinselves with sorrow fultitalism. We can hardly bolp 'being superstitious and glooity 'we,who are born and reared In Caller "flouth. Nature is b') stornt in her uiouds and so cruel in her way of oxprossing them. Callerinouth is only a cluster of cot, taqes aaround a little harbor with a pier and lifeboat house below. About a mil0 to Iho north is the ugly sharp ridge of rocks which bourn the signilicant name of the "Ribs of Death." Many a fino vessel has struck and ground her tim bois to matchwood, mtany a poor lig ing life has been washed' off thosb fatal ribs. They do say that in the old times many a ship was lured thoro to its dos truction, too; but I can scarce boliovothe grandfathers of our bravo fellows, who lived by and on the waters just as now, could be Inhuman enough to trade upon the-danger and deaths of fellow-marl 'er8.1Only I111ustsay that even yet, while any one of our mon would risk his life without thinkintfg twice about it, to save another, he wouldn't have any very do iinito ideas on the.laws of salvage. I was not a cotncoly lass in the esticma tion of the village critics. In fact, when I saw my little white face, with its big dark eyes, in the dimi old looking-glass which hnng over the ntttolploco in our front room, and eomparel it with tlait of, Bell Carr, our big;;st and best-look ing ii, I used to feel very sitall and insipi,i ientit. She was a true fdshor 1 isa, tall and Ftron~gly made, with a swinging walk id sauwy smile, and a ready word for etry oucs, geontlo or simnple. Tuo artists who cameo hcre somUtios to paint us in our charactor!ltie blue ilau nels al)wajsselected her, and passo;l me over. I : an not a "typo" and sh was, tiy said ! Well, I a as glad of it., for Willie wouldn't have liked me to -aot as a modol! Spite of my want of beauty, I had two lads came courting me, and Willie Liase was the one I favored. Ediau (0-dam) Carr -was too much of my own temper for me, too gloomy; I was afraid of hin, hud the aine sort of mistrust of hi that I bad of tho sea. and porhaps a littlo of the salte.ideaof his.poasiole.pawor ovOr Me. But; Willie, with his bonnio yellow curls and his blue eyes, and his sunny smile, what girl could have rosistod b! m? ie brought his brightness into my life, and it seemed to go out like the sun be neath a cloud on the day he sail(d in the Rowena, bound for China and the East Indio., from the Tyne. A 11 our most energetic and enterpris ing young men become sailors, if they do not fel satisfied to be fiashermni as their fathera before ihen. it never sanms to enter into anly of their heads that theore are other means of livelihood than these two -cain gs. Thley cannot tear thema selves away from the sea altogether, however they may abuse it. They in hale its salt breeze xrith their earliest breast, its foam anid sral1y boat on them, until it becomes p,art of them, as it wore, anid they are an much Creatures of the waven as the nsbes that swim beneath or the -gulls that float above. So it was that when Willie grew discontented With hris earniings aso a fisherman hre wvent to sea to make mere money, in the hope of weddinog me the sooner. "I was not strong enough for a flaher mani's wife," lie said, "and 1h0 hoped to be able to koop mae like a lady I" Just as if I cared I Though I was small I was not dlelloate, and I could, and indeed didi, earry the creel as well as the best of' them. For my mother married again, and when sire died there were more lit,tle months to fill, and no one but me to do it,; for their father was a lazy, drunken good for-nothing, who fell over thle cilif one night when ho ws rel1in g home from the "Old -Ship Inn," and did no goodI after. Lucky for them and for me, though it sounds queer to say It, he did not live long to bie a burden; but we had some hard times now and then, wvhen tire weather was rough and there was no fish to soll. Only for tihe -balrns I would have beeni housemaid at ihe vicarage, for which Miss Ashfordl had had mao trained before mother dIed, but I could earn more money doing as the rest did, and look after the little ones at the same tlime. The men favored me in tihe matter of fish, bet anse they throughrt I hard a stlilIsh -hill to (climb, and I will say that nobody 'wis k inder than Edami Carr. I holievo he was really fond of me, and I often reproached myself' that I could rnot hellp abhrnking from him31. liut I was not alone0 in that dIreadI. They called him "Black Ef~lam" for a niokname,.beoanrso he look~ ci so grim andi dour. None of the men exchanged greetings with him when he stalked alone past threir frienrdly grou ps; nor d id any of the.girls laugh and joke with him. With one consenrt he was left alone. Well, you see, hero was a bond of unli)on biet.ween us in his eyes. They looked en noc as 0on one dlolOed, andi on him a.s eono unlucky or unhappy, whichr means the same t o themr. "It's 110 uso flghtin' fate, Elsie I" ho would stay, looking dlown at me with hIs great gloomy eyes; "we wero mande for one another, we two." But I msed to shake my head and run away, though I dared not offend him by contradietin'g him otherwise. 1ie got g rlmmer andi blacker as time went o, and I did not foraet my Willie, as per baOps Edam hoped I should. The)3 weather was ucertain that an. tumn , and there was little dependence on thme fish. Some (lays the boats were not off at all, some daysa they had no fish when they landed. I got work whoe I could, but, those three mouths at homne took a lot of satisfying, and I often went to bed hungry and cold along with thema. One afternoon I was wandering rallher disconsolately oni the beach, feeling low and hopeless, wishing for WVillio and1 better dlays, when Edam, who was busy in his boat, called to me as I.passed Dy. "ElsIe. como here and toil me what you t.hink o' my boat?" .he cried in a -mor cherv vicethan urnual,.and, glad torbe goeocaued when I could, I stopedandadmired the fino new boat hebhad just bought 'with 4he money an unolo had left him. nm o e, -shid-aL laat; "wi6 re you going to-call her ?" t That - 1 ed wo" d iuame Iher e Rountlleo ?'' That.would uever do I thought'it a minute, it would be all-over thc place at once that Edam Carr had called his boat after Elsie Wilson, and tbat she was "off with the old. love and on with the now." "You mustn't do that," ITd emurred- as gently as I could; "there's prettler naies and lasses, too, for that matter, in the place 1" Ilis face cbanged .for the worse in a moment, and an angry light blazed in his eyes. "I'm not to hove.yer namo, then, for bye yerself?" 'It wouldn't do 1,dtu; folks would talk, and--sud Willie .might be vexed," I went on besifatingly. What a coward I was to be sure i It was with the.groat est difileulty in the world I managed to bring out my real objection. And yet I was so proud of -being Willie's sweet bear t. "ile's not yer man yet that ho'should mind," Euami re plied sulkily; and thon under his breath, "May be he never will be either." I heard the-oud of.tho sentence, lo w ai it was muttered. "An' what's to hinder, if we're both of one mind about it?" [said sharply, losii my -tenptr a bit at lils obstiuacy. "Who knows? le might got, a wife t here le's gone, and he might mnover cc11o back at all ")'yo want. to quarrel wi' me, Ed m ?" "No, no, Elsie, we winna quarrel," lie said at once. "I'm a bit q ueer in the temper, but I wouldn't like to vox yoi.' "I'm goin' to try 'th' now boat, will y3 vt"nttire out wi' ie, lassio ?" he went on quiotly after a moment. I did1 not know what to say. It would not hi who to ofeol him more than I liad ti-en unlucky enough to do already. ''lhe 0 was do harm in sailing out a mile er to, p'roviding he would proultii to Irig ilio back then. But, could I trust him ? I1is mother, old Nanuio Carr, had come up while we wore speaking, and she took part with him' "Its not much to ask ye, Elsie, and it'll lear-e him over so ! lilo's goy queor to do wi' just now, lassie," she said aside to tie; "if yo can hunor him a bit, 30 uiight for ia sake." Hio was a kind neighbor, and often the bairns got at dinor from her whoc I was away, so 1 did not care to refuse her. If she saw no harm in it who. else would dare to talk? Stil I besitated. "D'ya think it's safe? The sea has bcei (allin' off and on all the day. i.istci 1" And in the hush which so often pro ecdcis a gale we could distictly hear that strange inlonnig, about which wo always say, "The sea is etilling." Edam throw a quick glauce along the horizon, "It'll blow hard aforo the morn, but there's time enough to be out and in tgain for All that." There was something in the totio which made we doubtful, but I lid not want to u.on a coward; so bof'oro long 'o %wVro out, on the open sea, tacking Mnd turning to catch the broezo. TLuro was inore of that further out th-mi on shot ', but still not mro than enom,lht to send us along merrily, although tuo n,ew boat va Ds liihit and swlf'taud (ueasy to nianago as ay boat could wall e, and skinned the wavos.liko a bird. "She's a honnie one to go, l.dlamu," I said after a litt.lo, but I got, no reply. Edai sat with his eves fixod upot the distant sky and I could soo lie was think irg sonething over very deeply. I fol lowed the direction of his eyes, and did not liko the prospect. Agloan of:sickly Sellow light lay low down to tht water, but above that woro piled massos of .heavy gray clouds without a break. save in cie place, whore it was as though a mighty haind had pushed then asido to make a spaee for the tempest to break through. All around this space was hurry and confusion, while the rest of the sky was sullen and quint. Far out the sickly gleam on the horizon was repeated on a gray green sea; .noaror, the dark waves wero beginning to,how tops of white. I did not. like the prospect, nor did. I liko the notion of being out there on that angry-looking wvasto of waters at the mercy of Edamti Carr and his oiil.ri.ts. "Don't you thin k we should go b ick niow, Edamui?" I asked timidly; 'it doesn't. look over well out yonder," and 1Ijoin ted to the far sea. '.Leave t.hat to me, Elsio, ma darlin' 1" Ieo had no right to call me his darling, but 1 was boginining to be very much afsnid, and so I said nothing about t,hat. But all at once a rush, a whirl, and a roar cauased me to scream out as a squall struck our little craft and made it heel over-, wutting me to the skin at the same time. As a miatter of fact, we 11sher hassies are not at all-bravo upon the sea, though it may be almnost our native ele men t. There 'are very fe w Grico D)ar hings among us. Indeed, we hardly ever ventgro into aboat atall. So it is not to be wondered at that my courage should Jail utterly when *we began to ship heavy seas._ ''Oh, take me home, Edam, or I know we'll never wvin back at all !" But he took no notice more than to put things right and tight in a skilful way I could not but admire, however angry I began to feel toward,him. "A 3 a you never going to turn, Edamn Carr ?'' I-broke out at.last. A rus'plion which I had often hoard breathed in te village camne back to mue then, and 1 trembled for our lIves. They said "Edam Carr was- gettin' the same queer leek his feythor had afore he went out of his hold and -dro wned hisrsolf!I" and remnembierinig this and the few words his mother had whispered, I in clined to think Ito was mad at times. When I spoke he laughed out loud. It was.'the first time that I had over hoard him laugh, and It gave me an odd foel ing. "So you're afraid, ma bonni1o1 Elsie? It's a long time since you and I were as m'uch alone together as we are nowv, nothing but, the boat that holds us two on all that world o' water! iEh, but It's fine to have you all to urtysel' like this!" "Are you mad?" 1 exclaimod, my thought taking .words till tiltconsciouslyv. .Edamn laughed again, thatt hiorrib)le, cruel laugh which haed no0 mirth in it. "May be. Sometimoes' I think I am my soli, but If T sam, it's for love o' yeou." lils eyes wore so bright and so wiild I 'ouldt not bear to leek at thorn, anld his had, as he took hold of mine, burned with fever. "For' mercy's sake, Edamt, take careo! If yo don't mind we'll be both in the water." "An' whtat o' that? At any rate we'll drown together, anud yoe'll nuever belong to another man." I clar.:ped my htandu In an agony of ter r'or. 0Oh, ii hat, a fool I had boon Riot to htavo guossed what might, .hippon I I thought,of the poeor balrns at homno waiting for me now to give thorm their ,utppers and heoar their prayers and tuck them up In their beds, and the tears rolled downV myt3 chteeks at te thought of howv long they might have to wall, "Oh, Edam, I didn't think ye could beo ao cruel I" I saEidl, botwvoon my sobs. Bunt evon to tears failed to move him. "You have been crtel enough to me it's my turn now I" ho answered sul leinly, as he altered the sail. By. this time the lurid gleam had almiost died out from the sky and all was darik around us. The wind was blowing strongly anad' hurrying the masses of clouds .across the -heavens at headlong speed. and toaring at the water unti.the air and the waves mingled in one 'wild fray. Hlow our little boat lived at all in such a storm is more than X can understand. In the hands of a leess 4xpeee .boatman we should hav ben lst n o time. "Ay, its djoar-Edam now, youre i power, baitlhow long woti W -last ify let you win safe to Inla4d ::1 tfyou'll say you'll be my wifo I'll iako foi hore tis minute-if not...-" "What then?" I faltered. "I'll run us straight on to the 'Ribs o' ]Death,' and there'll be an end on't 1" What was I to do? I tried to be false to Willie for-the sake of dear life, but it -was-no use. I ooul.u'tget out the words which would make,we so i If I must die, Imust,-end there was no help for it, bat oh I it was-hard- while the youug blood flowed quick and warm. In my veins, to to be plunged-headlong.Into eternity. J gave one loud despairlog-ory. "Oh, Willie Willio can you not hear me,,my sweetheart,-my darling? If you were only by I know..you oould -sa,ro me. It's for your sako I dlo, Willie; but i love you so, I love you so 1" "Then dio, Elsie, for yo shall never be his wito!" I sank lown in the bottom of tho-boat snd closed my eyes. I could not look at my death,-though I know -now it must (o.e. A dull stUporcorept over me, and the agony of fear which hold me before was gone. Wats it my disordored imag iimation which made No think smo thing.hed.happened which sounds per feetly incredible? It was 1otting too dark to distin guish plainly, but, surely, that v'as lamati Cvrr's -big form I saw at the other end of the bot atooping over a coil of rop 0? Then who was the man busied with the sail in the contro of it? . Wo woro shut off from all hlunat holp theye in the midst of a howling tom peit, an d yot momo on0 had ananaged to como onl board, and vidently to givo us his tiIstance. No other vossol could po4si bly have ippront-ied its while my eves wero shut, Vertat>ly not without My beairing it. Whore, twln, had thid st aingt r como from ? . All these thoughts flatthed through my m11in1d, but at tho timo 1 was too stuipo fied to wonder much. My facultios F-e iu d dulled, and I could neithersullor nor lear any more. I sinply waited for tlho end. 1 could veo dimly. tho sharp ridgze of rocks wo were nearing, amt :fromn which nothing short of a iira.lo ,Could k eep ut. But this iliraolo did tako placo. All at ulce our course changed, and the boat turned from its dangerous way. 'Theion, and( vot 1.111 tiho, did Edam seom to awaken to the knowledge that ho was 1o longer managing atlhirs. With a suddon oath he .itarted up and crept forward. Whelln ho not to the figuro stnding with its back toward him I saw him 1-s6o him arn to thrnsit it asldo. 'IThoin slowly, slowly, it turneod und looked him straight In the face. Ito cried out wildly, '"(-iod help mo, for I'm id now, anyway !" and, throwing up his arms, ho leapod over board into the suethIng wavos. I watched himl striko out when ho rot e, but I wts too paralyzod to t3oroamti even. lIe had not a (hanco in that tor rible vm, but was thrown liko a bit of floatting N1cetl itpon the very rocks lie bd 11)1 Steoring for, aluig Lhoro a mio nient, only to be mwept ba k by the ro t.urnl o1f the waves. 1 saw th's in the last imi( id treak of light which ilhd acerogs tl:e "fter befor0 the night cato, and la it wert hown at last th0 featuros of my ftrangj1 ) companion. Was it all a dream? I did not know even thon, nor did I fool afraid, but as those eyes mot minio a thrill ran through me, and I sank into un1ContCiouunless. Late t'1.t night, whonl someio of tho men wont (own to son that their boats were securo. thoy found Edam Carr's now boat safely drawn ip on the beach and me lying in it in a dead faint. Aftcr that camo A thmo of dull, stupid misery to m.e. I coultl never answer questions,. nor give any account of that dreadful ovoning, save that EdaIn Carr had Polo mand l id iijmpod overboard, and had boon dashed against the "Riis of Death," and that I fainted when this lappened, and know no more. But, then, how had the boat beon brought into lort? thoy asked. My story was I'roved tiu by poor Edam's body being washl d ashore two days after. For long tihe peoe looked at mue strangely. Thoir Sl)rst ition made them regard mec no.w as "uiicanny"' an~d shun mo1 as something they could nIot accounit for. IBesides, in stead of the sea claiming it.s victIm, as they expected it to do, I had boon ml raculously saved from It! I often wonder I (lid not go mad my self during that dreary time. F'or I settled in my own mind clearly Enough how it was I sthould never see miy boiOIi sweetheart more. 1 had( not a doubt thlat lhe was dead and that my ory for* 1101p had brought him ini the spirIt to my assistance. F"or a while I nursed my sullen grIef in aleone; but at last Mimis Ashiord's kindness broke down the barrier and I told her every thing. Only for that and because 81he did not laugh at 111, but believed that I spoke the truth, I should have lost my senso0s or my life, for the scret was kcilling "Truly there are strange mysteries we cannot hop1) to he revealed In t,his life," she said solemnly. "'1-ast thou, which art but air, a touch a feeling of their afillitions?' I would try not to think too much about it, Elsie; and don't give way .to despair, abovo all. Think now tho little ones nooed you." It wtas all very well to talk, and( 1 dId try honestly; but I couldn't hiel p think ing of my boy d uring the long dreary winter nights, after the children hi'ad gone to bed, and I was left alone by the glimmering firelight. Then the tears would conic, an d, oh I it felt so lonely, and life so sad wanting him. I was sitting thus one nIght, leanIng my 01heek upon) m1y band, and the stock inig I was knitting for one of the bairns had fallen upon the floor, while I gazed Into the dying em bers. H-ow long I sat I know nlot, lbut suiddOnly the coals fol together and flared up inIto a bulazo, and thore, on the other sid10 of the hearth, stood Willie, my Willie, laughing dlown) at me. I screamed and covered my eyes. I dared not look at what seemed con firma tion of my worst fears; but In a moment warm, living armsa were round my neck, and( 1 was clasipedl to a st,rongly beating hoart. "Why, what ails thee, sweetheart? One wouldl say you'dl seen a ghost I'" I did nlot tell him thon that I haed taken him for one, The tears were changed into tears of joy at oncee, and the world seemed bright and gay, now Willlio was sa fe at hom1o)! Whewn 1 did( tell him at last what had caullsed 13 me ni uch misery lhe only laughed, and said I must hove iot may imagination run away with me. Blut ho aeknowledged to hayvin ghad a troubled dlreami, inl whlich I called on hisi for ho01p, I hIough1 he always declares hie cannlot ro. member anything more ablout it. I never look at the "Ribs of D)eathi" wit.hout, a shudd(lr anId a sigh for poor Edam's terrible death, and nothiug will persuaido me3 thlat I was not saved from shafrinig his fate by asuperinatural assist an1Co. Ilut I (do not ins!iat ub~on it wIth Willio, for lie does not liko me to talk about It. H.e wants my life to 1)0 sunny and( full of hope and joy and( love, and( does his best to x1:,ko it so no0w that I am his wife, Not sre of IImelf. (hiomn the Pladephias Press.) Old gentleman (to tramp): "Now, if I should11 gIve you a -niekelg- my frienid, would you upend that meoyas itoughtto be ipent, or would -you squander -i6 for sintozlosling Tramp: "Hew-mneb did youMsy ?" Old gentleman: "A niokel." Tramp.(sadly): "Well, I d;nno, wouldn't k t ma Q a @rse$ ryg y., ,s -iWith - A keeilookont througtt the d tho$wind of the autumn blowing free, You,lean 1Yom yonropnn wiadow down. Anad I taseny fae toyour own obrlel I press myy lips to the rose in your hair, Aid we it wae'oneoftbe two on your If I were up in the window tbere, Would you give ie a last e0mbraoe? I bave-been-rather sad. I dreamed of a day (How the wind of the autumn le'blowing When the rattle of mabres wotid put a way, and the winds would whisper to you and ine That love is the beat, whatever betide. And the journey of life, made hand in habd, Is a path of flowers; but the dream soon died In the air of this war-cret land. This very moment I catch the boat, On the wind of the autumn blowing free Of asquadron pasning with mnflncl feet By the mill, who'kre huntiug meo. If they find me-a shot!- aa w3Anded, sweet t One touclh of the rosen so fair to see; If t.hey drar we in to die at your feet, You must kiss me attain, ohOrie t [J. I':cten fbokv, L.a .Tty Rivow,so. SOCIETY AT THE CAPITAL. ea1. Jr.rY DR.1oarr, POINr3 1.V tOCIAL FORMMM. Tite Itittt.te of larde at the White lie-u'-TSo Iadies or Washington Ptar.itag their heads over Qiuestleaa of Precedence. W1'A811INoroN, Juno 21.-A subject Involving somo very delicato points in the socl forms of the capital is the ott quetto of cards. The installation of Frances Folsomi, an att.raotivo guest, into the high relations of Mrs. Grover Cloveland nvolves 50m changes in the card literaturoof t,e txecutivo Manalon, which is now puzzling the brains of the ladies. In ofliclial 1and social life at the Capital the use of cards is indisi)ensable as a medium cf intercourso betwoon persons of rank. In official and sooial noirs cards are grouped into two clniaca: 1, cards of otltiuetto, uso; in omrllinl or social calls; 2, cards of coro mony, applicable to invitations to oil clal or socolal ceromonials. The styles of cards In use in otlicial or sooal otiquott at the Capital vary according to the tastes or whims of t,ho season. Ia all aes a lady'n oard is larger than a gon tleinan's. Plain engraved cards indl cate taste. Cards printed from movable typo are not in good taste. Autograph or written cards are allowablo amotng friendu or on business calls. A call not of eorom)ony upon the President adiits of the use of a written card. The probloi to be settled anoig tho social aiuthoritics is as to the form of the cards of invitation to coromonial ontor tainiomnts at the Exooutivo Mansion now that a wife sharos the honors ani prorogativos of the Executivo houso hold. The form depends entirely upon the character of the entertainmont. If it be of a purely ollilal coro;nl)niail chtracter, oven it lailles bo present, Ihe namne of the wife of the President should not appear, its it is in honor of the ollco mand not of the individual. A Now Year's recept lon at the l.ontivo Man slon is by announcomont, in the publio prints, giving the hour and order of re "eeption of tebnors of the diff'rant branclies of the government, aftor the special autdionco givou to the members of tho diplomatic corps. The repre sentatives of the rulers of f'oroign States nro larncnt by special invitation of the hcmelnory of Stato in the following forim, taking tho minlistor of the Gorman Emr pil o as the party addressed: I)uPA uRTMN r Off SrIrT, W Aaac rN, --- -, 18-. 'rho Hinretlnry f H-tato presents his conipi mrn1R ro toe Gernan minister.and has the honor to inforn him that the President would be plesad to see the meotbora of the Ge naan Legation at, a reception, to bo given to tho members of tbo diptomatto ores at th Exeontivo l Mansion at 11 o100a on 1 v Ytar's day. The form of Invitation used for a ro coption at the Exocuttvo Mansion in honor of the diplomatic corps, as those are of' a social ceremonial naturo. in clutlcs the namo of tho wifo of the Pre Ident, if he have one, but not the namio of the presiding lady If she be not his wifo: '1 be P'resident. and Mrs Cleveland req,test 1). pleaosure of theocomtpanyot Mr. lic r-ri d fdies of his family on Wednos ayoeven. hug. Jun.e -, I h$e, from 13 unt,il I1 e'leck, to lmoot the metmbers of' the diplomttoe corrs. This form is used for all card roep. I ions of a opoolal character, the occasion being stated. A gain, in the recoption of a royal guoest cfmluially, although ladles are prosont. tile name of the wifo of the PrOsidett does not appear, al thongh participating on the occasion. The f'orm then used is : The President, of tlhe United States re quests the company of Admiral Porter at, the reception in honor (of his Majesty the lCinig of Ilawaii, en Wednesday evenling, Janoe-, 18-, at 8 o'clock. On the other hand, an invitation to a state dinner reads: The President, and Mrs. Oloveland request the pleasure of tthief Justio and Mrs. Waite a con pay at, dinner on Thursday, Junoe -- 1880, at, 8 o'clock. An ans wer Is desired. Thereobas beeni some controversy over the use of the woerds "honor," "favor," or "pleasure." The first President used the word "pleasure," wideh is more in harmony with the rank of one whose in vitations -must alwa.vs be obeyed, ox copt, for reasons of d1ath1 In the famiuly, Illnoss or absouco from the city. A dec lination for any other reason would cause the p arty to be oittedl from future occasions. It was the custom of Washilngton to use the full title of ,the efilo, ais the President of the United States. It is now customary to use the simple words The President, as there is but One office of that rank know to the/ whole peopl1e. As to individual cards the Presideont never uses a card, nor does the wife of the Prealdent or thue presiding lady of tho Executive Mansion, in a strict construe tien of etiquette. The President never roturns a call offleally, except in ease of a visiting ruler of a foreign country! or member of a royal famnil y. Then hliy p)resenco is annonled( b)y the secroary of State. On other occasions tihe Pros dent, calling seolally as anl individuc on amember of hIs Cabinot, or other po0 son whom hie might elect to see, - usually accompanied by his private se rotary, or even going ulnaccompIanod(i enters without the ceremony of a oar, and sends tile announcomnont of his pros 01nc0 by wordl of mouth through the ser yent at the (hoer. There is a custom among ladles in ofli cmal s-ociety to use thle titles of their huts bsands on their cards of ceremonial calls. 'Thore is no warrant of ancient unage for this, and1( these m1-ost familiar with such mailtters havo never adlmittedi that it wva right. In nil her cahis of etir uette uat t he Executive MansIon or returning theO calla of had ios in good sooteiy Mrs. Ifon dIricks always left two cards-4he first bearing the words, "The Vice Presi dent;" the other tile words, "Mrs. TI. A. Ilendricks." This rule ap)plies to every gtrado.'The cards used by officials ma1k in flilcalls of etiquette simpoly give thle title of the omieo, as the Chiof J us tice, the General of the army, tho Ad miral of tile navy, Senator Shoranm. Mr. IHopkins, Iouse of Representatives, Jn social calls these cardsa sometimes vary, as Geon. Sherman, Admiral P'ortor, Gettineg Ready fer the home hdxamination (IV0m fte Chicago Nd'Ws.) Maud: "Well, commencement is ovef. thank goodness, and te seminary is olosed for the summer. 'hen do you start for home?" 'Nulie I.the espress sto.morrow .moorai ha: "hay. you n.V#thing to rest 0u the journey?" M.llie: r Wes Itanngolug-to -leek- over -my pooolbodks: Dapa masy be inulttive."~