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ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1874.
VOLUME III.
NUMBER 20.
TWILIGHT DREAM8.
They como In (ho quiet twilight hour,
When tho tveary day i* done,
Au? tho quick light leaps from tho glowiog heapB
Of wood, ou tho warm hcarth-stouo.
When Uio household pound a have died away,
And tho rooma arc sllont alt,
Bavo tho clock'B brief tick, aud tho sudden click t
Of tho embers as they fall.
They come, those dreams of tho twilight hour,
To me, with their noiseless tread,
A tearful baud, by tho guiding hand
Of a grave-eyed spirit lod.
Thoro is no volco within tho hall,
No footstep on tue floor,
The children's laughter is hushed, thoro is
No hand at tho parlor door.
Llko flogers tapping eagerly
AgaiuBt the Hhattorod frame,
Whoro tho trailing roso its long branch throws,
Beat tho great drops of rail..
But my heart heeds cot tho rustling leaves
Nor tho ratu fall's fitful beat.
Now tho wind's low sigh, as it hurries by
On its paluclers path and fleet.
For now in tho dusk, they gathor round.
The visions of the paBt,
Arising slow, in tho dim red glow,
By. the burning pine brands caRt.
My brow is calmed as with tho touch
Of an angel'd passing wing ;
Thoy brcatho no word, yet my soul is stirred
By the messages they bring.
Homo in their grasp impalpable,
Bear Kdon-culturcd flowers,
That sprang in gloom, from tho tear-balhcd tomb
Of hope's long-buried hours.
Home from tho fount of memory,
Listing, aud pure, aud deep,
Bring waters clear, though many a year.
Hath saddened their first fresh sweep;
And somn in their hands of shadow bear,
rroni the shrlun of prayerful thought,
A fragrance blest, to tho stricken breast,
With balm and healiug fraught.
Tbn night wears on, tho hearth burns low,
Tho dreams have passed away ;
Hul heart and brow aro strcugtbeucd now
For the toll of coming day.
TONY HARDSORABBLE'S WIFE.
Tony Hardscrabble was carpenter,
blacksmith, mender of tubs and barrels,
and Jack-of-all-tradca for the rural
neighborhood in which he lived. His
little shop in which he made horse
shoes, shod tho farmers' horHCH, sharp
ened plowshares, mudo tables, doors,
. desks, cupboards, bureaus, and occa
sionally coflius ; ill which ho pounded
away at. wonderful pork and vinegar
barrels, and tightened up dilapidated
old tubs and casks ?this litt In shop was
situated at a point in the woods whero
an old road crosee.i a new one, and was
in itself a queer, patehed-up, now and
old building-. Tony owned no corner
lots, but no one intruded upon him.
His little house, tho gay, hewn lo -s
divided by seams of whito plastering,
seemed cosy and comfortable ; and
whilo tho shop opened on tho road the
. house stood back among the trees.
North, south, oast aud west were neigh
bors within a quarter or half mile range,
and tlio neighborhood was thickly Bet
tied. But no ono snw the advantages
of corner lots near Tony's shop, not
even tho speculators and wiso men of
the village three miles distant, nnd
Tony was sole resident at tho Corners,
where he had a garden patch that did not
flourish aud a family that increased rap
idly. Tony had a fair skin where it
bIio ved above his elbows and below the
collar band of bin shirt (collar ho dis
dained to wear\ but his face had a dark,
grimy look. Ho was strong without
being stout, and was fond of displaying
Iiis stro gth nnd prowess. Hit face was
that of a daring, resolute man, aud his
neighbors never took much comfort in
looking at it. Tony was a handy man
and, as tho country peoplo said, was
not afraid of work. Ho novor received
much ready money, but ho g.t his pay
in shape of corn or flour or pork, or
money in good time. The peoplo who
patronized him did not neighbor with
him, howevor. Thoy know little about
the family, but thoy inferred that Mrs.
Hardserabblo had a hard timo of it.
She was a good-naturod, round-faood
woman, who was always busy indoors,
and who seemed to take great comfort
with her children, all of which was a
mercy, the good old women of tho
neighborhood thought, as aho had little
comfort, in her husband.
Tony's wife in those days did not
make much of an impression. Peoplo
caught only glimpses of her, but thoy
know she was a comoly woman. While
other women of her ago in tho neigh
borhood were sallow and brokon down,
Mrs. Hardscrabble was fresh, plump
and strong. Tho faco was attractive,
but had little character; aud Tony's wifo
was classed among tho simple-minded
drudges, and was frequently referrod
to ns a woman who thought tho world
and all of her children, but who had
not an atom of spirit. And Tony was
good to her. That was all people could
say about Tony's wife.
Tony had never been scon at church.
He hail certain loose ways and indepen
dent notions that tho peoplo did not
like. Ho considered that thero was no
harm in taking a mess of ronsting ears
from any man's corn-Hold whenever ho
wanted them. Ho thought tho carrying
oft* of fine watermelons from some old
farmer's carefully-guarded truck-patch
was good sport. * Ho would take a lino
walnut rail from a fence wbenevor ho
needed seasoned walnut for frame-work
in his shop. He shot game in season
and out of season, on Sundays as well
as work-days. Ho had been acoused of
shooting fat young hogs and wringing
the necks of other poople's ohiokons,
but only accused. Ho would take his
boys and go on nutting expeditions on
Sundays, and always had an abundant
supply of wild grapes, berries, nuts,
plums, eto. Ho was the freebooter as
well as the Jaok-of-nll trades of tho
neighboidiood, ami was considered a
suspicious character.
80,when it was announced thnt'Hquiro
Trim's house bad been broken into and
over a thousand dollars in money taken,
nnd that the smoko-honsf had been
brokon open tho samo night, and that
the hams and shoulders taken had been
found buried in tho woods near Tony's
house, no one was surprised. Tony was
arrested, had a preliminary examina
tion, was bound over to court, conld not
pro euro bail, and was sent to tho county
j ail. His trial oame off in dne time, he
was oonvioted, and sent to the peniten
tiary for five years. People were agreed
that he got what he deserved, bat they
were sorry for his wife. She was loft
with six ohildren, and it was too bad.
Many of the good women of the neigh
borhood could not find it in their hearts
to help her, as she persisted in asserting
her husband's innocence. Sbo olung to
tho man with what these practical wo-,
men considered a nonsensical, romantic
affeotion, and they had no patience with
her. Others honored her for her faith
in her hnsband and for her affeotion, al
though they doubted not for a moment
that Tony Hnrdsorabble was guilty as
charged. The wife and her boys and
girls kept olose to their home, grieving
as for a husband and father dead. After
a few weoks, Mrs. Hardsorabblo was
seen abroad,'.then at the county seat,
and then, wondor of wonders! this
woman, who had never been a mile from
her home since her marriage, went to
tho state capital. Few of the men would
underiake suoh a journey. Tony's wife
received tho compliment of being a
plnoky woman. In duo time a notice
appeared in the county paper that an
application would bo made for the par
don of Tony Hardserabble. This the
pooplo deliberately and emphatically
frowned upon, and comparatively few
signed tho potition, although it was
presented to every man in tho neighbor
hood by Mrs. H. herself.
Everybody wa8 now talking about
Tony's wife. Sbo wsb constantly going.
There were hints that she or nor lawyer
had found now points of evidence Dur
ing tho year she went to the governor
twelvo times with her plea for pardon,
and was met with refusal every time.
And yet she persisted. Sho went out
washing, wont out in butohering time,
workod ovon in tho Holds for money, and
spout it in going to and from tho state
capital. Feoplo roasoncd with her and
tried to convince hor that there was no
hopo ; that all this effort was worse than
useless. Sbo rarely made auy reply ex
cept to protest that hor husband was in
nocent and she would never rest until
she had proved that bo was not guilty
<??? nd until sho 'had secured* his release..
Tho oht ladies pronounced hor* crazy,
but their grandmotherly old oyes woro
tender as they said it, and tboy thought
it was a shame that snob a man as Tony
Hardserabble should havo snob a fine
woman for a wife. And whilo they
praised the wife thoy abused the hus
band.
Mrs. Hard scrabble had been to the
governor's oQice eighteen times, carry
ing each time some new atom of evi
dence, Homo new suggestion from her
lawyer, some fresh concession from tho
judge or proseontiug-attorney, an addi
tional name from the jury before whom
tho case was tried. Sho haunted the
governor's office and tho oflices of the
prison authorities. Sho always had a
personal interview, and aroused sympa
thy even while her facts were considered
unimportant. She went tho nineteenth
time with a sealed letter from the pros
eouting-attorney. Sho was received
with tho old smile at the governor's of
fice,, but waited patiently for her inter
view with tho governor himself, who
bad almost declined to see her. Her
letter produced astonishing results.
The prosecutor withdrew tho charge.
The real thief bad been arrested, and
had submitted statements in regard to
the theft that showed that Tony Hard
serabble had not been concerned. The
affidavits and other documents wore in
olosed with the formal recommendation
for pardon by the judge, and prosecutor.
They joined heartily in tho praise of
Mrs. Hardserabble, ?ml hoped tho nrov
ernor, in view of tho persfstent efforts
of the woman, and in view of tho extra
ordinary circumstances of tho case,
would waive all formalities, grant an
immediate pnrdon, and allow tho woman
to take her hnsband home with her.
Tho proof of tho man's innocence was
so plain, tho statements were so clear,
that the governor hesitated not to join
in tho plan to surpriso tho woman who
had bo worked for her husband's re
loase. Sho was asked to wait a moment
in tho audience-room, and, sad and al
most disheartened, sho waited whilo
glad news flew in the other room. When
the governor came to her ho held in his
hand a parchment, and unbent to say :
'* Mrs. Hardserabble, tho documents
presented to-day establish your hus
band's innocence. I thought you might
like to carry tho pardon to him yourself.
Hera it is, and I only hopo ho is worthy
of his wifo."
Tho good woman's face trembled like
her own baby's when about to cry. She
dropped on her knees, caught tho gov
ernor's hand and oovored it with kisses,
as sho had ofton in her lonoliness kissed
her baby. Then camo an outpouring of
thanks.
'.' Your husband is innocent. I do my
simple duty. No thanks are duo to
me."
" But I must thank some one."
Thon, clutching the pardon, sho flow
tc tho penitentiary. In less than an
hour she was dragging her dazed and
awestrioken husband through tho capitol
corridors to the governor's ofliue, to pro
sont him to bhat oflicor.
Tony was overwhelmed by conflict,
ing and tremendous emotion''. He was
free. His wifo had done it. Ho knew
that. Sho had held the pardon under
his oyes, nnd he had taken her in his
arms and had given her tho first genu
ine, full-moaning kiss of his lifo. Ho
had always liked her and had always
been kind to hor, na ho understood
I kindness. But ho had novor known
her. She pulled him along as though
he were a boy. She, who had never
been a mile from home, knew the
governor. This, to Tony, with his
prison experience before him, was a
tremendous faot. What would happen ?
The governor took him by the hand :
" Now. my man, I am glad this is as
it is. And'I am glad that you have
such a wife. Try the world again, and
let me bear from you."
That night Tony Hardsorabble's
children clambered about him and
awoke in him a hundred new sensa
tions. He bad never seen snob a pretty
baby, such sweet little girls, such well
formed healthy boys. And they were
all his. He would try the world again,
and be laughed as he thought bow ho
would astonish the people.
The shop was open the next morning
and Tony was at work. How his veins
swelled over the motion of a free man !
The story had been told and retold, and
Tony was the her? > of the hour. Every
body bad something to say about his
wife. Sho was clearly (judging from
the evidence offered, which Tony accep
ted without question) tho best woman
in the neighborhood, and Tony was very
proud of her.
For a few weeks affairs moved in
tho old way at Tony's. Thea one Sab
bath, there was a departure. Tony and
his wife and children went to church,
this was their first appearance, and
Tony was complimented. He declared
they needn't make any fuss over him.
He didn't eare for ohuroh, but bis wife
did. Sho had romained at homo a good
many years to please him, and now he
was attending ohuroh to please ber. He
was a hard ease himself, but he wanted
his children to bo liko thsir mother,
and he guessed they woufd anyhow.
But he was going to help her now. And
then Tony would drop his voice :
" Just think of it! She made nine
teen trips to get me out of that scrape,
and spent ninety-five dollars, all of
whioh money sho raked together her
self. By jinks, I get to thinking about
it sometimes when I am at work, and I
pound n horse-shoo all to flinders before
I know what I am doing.. She's a won
dorful woman, sir, and?nnd she's my
wife. She ean run the boat to suit her
self now, sir."
Tony meant what he said. His wife's
individuality was the controling one at
the Corners. In time there was carpet
on the floors,.and then, wonder of won-,
dors to Tony !? a common but pretty
Eattorn of paper on the walls. Tony
ocimo Jaok-of-all-trades to his wife.
"Couldn't he make pioture-frames,
brackets, and other ornamental and use
ful articles for tho house ?" Of coureo
he could, and ho took great delight in it.
Ho couldn't sit down nnd tell his wife,
in words, how much ho was surprised
at her better self, nor how grateful ho
felt, nor how much he loved her, but
he could work it out, and all his spare
time has devoted to doing things that
ho imagined she wanted done. He was
simple and awkward in springing his
surprises on her, or in discovering what
she desired, but the very simplicity of
his action made his nets tho moro pleas
ant and touching to his wife.
Tony became proud of his house. Ho
would shoe a horse with the old skill
aud carefulness ns to dot ils, and wonld
talk as much while doing it, but now
nil the talk was about his own homo;
and when the work was done he would
maneuver to h .vo his customer go in
aud look r und, as he expressed it;
would take him in to show him a now
flour-barrel ho hod made, or a new
rat-trap, when all the time he meant to
show him the paper on tho walls, the
carpet on the floors, aud tho goneral
features of his oozy little homo. He
was always inviting people to dinner
now, too. Ho made a childish parade
of his wife and her accomplishments.
This beeame a habit with him, and,
unconsciously, people encouraged him
in it.
Tony was no longer a froebooter, and
made no moro raids on Sunday. He
"hooked" .o more roasting ears or
watermelons. He carried off no more
rails, and was never aconeed of shooting
other people's ohickens or hogs.
As the improvements at tho house as
sumed definite shape, imp ovements
were inaugurated at the shop. The
rambling old building was straightened
up nnd brightened up. tho fences wore
mado new, tho garden flourished in
propor season, and an air of com for*
pervaded Tony's corners.
Tony went to church regularly and
always took tho whole family ; and at
ohuroh ho mado much of little things.
He devoted moro attention to keeping
his children quiet than to tho sermon.
Tho children always had their pennies
to put in tho contribution box, and tho
day the baby accomplished tho feat of
dropping a bright five-cent coin in the
box without grabbing for tho other
coins already in was an hour of triumph
for Tony. There was something pathetic
about these little oddities that appealed
to all the tondemess tin re was in peo
ple's hearts.
In time, Tony wonld have been indig
nant had any one asserted that he was
not a member of the church. He
wasn't dear in his mind as to when ho
"joined," bnt new customs had crept
into his home, new thoughts into his
mind, and new sentiments into his
heart. People said there was a great
change of heart, aud, as Tony was
proud of the evidences of such a change,
the people were probably right. The
movement with Tony was steadily pro
gressive. He groped blindly nt first,
but in time the resolution of tho man
and his versatility of talont showed in
good works.
Ho was now spoken of ns Mr. Hard
scrabble, and be neighbored with all the
Eeoplo. Ho didn't get above his work,
ut bo took his work up to-a higher
plana. Mothers nevor objeotecf now to
their sons lounging about Tony's shop.
Tho boys liked to bo with Tony, und
oven ? tho men wore rather glad when
oiroumstances made it necessary to go
to too shop.
The great change in Tony's life wan at
first attrihnted to the reformatory in
fluence of prison discipline. Bat, in
good time, people saw with clearer oyos.
Ho commenced living a better life, not
so much as a matter of conviction as to
Eles^ehis wife. Under this influence
is convictions were reached and the
man^was aroused. He liked the better
lifo and clang to it. The people now un
derstand that the instrument used to
worJa' the great change in Tony Hard
serabble was his wife, and they speak
tondexly of her, remembering what she
was and what she is.
The Jews as Merchants and Money
Lenders.
Li one instance only have the Jews
contented to obange their habits of life,
and in that we discover Anew the marks
of their perpetual suffering. From ac
tive ?od successfnl husbandmen and til
lorn of tho soil they have been trans
formed into merchants and money-lend
ers.- They seem to have wholly lost
that love lor nature and that agricultu
ral skill that made Palestine a land of
plenty. In Babylon and Persia, under
a comparatively gentle rule, they were
rather farmers than traders. Even late
in. the Roman period, and probably un
til near tho sixth century, they were
chiefly an agricultural people. Tho
Talmud abounds in allusions to the cul
tivation of fields and gardens, of oil,
witto, and wheat, fruit and flowers. Its
nice and varied rules of conduct relate
chiefly to the peoplo of rural districts
rather than of cities. When the great
schools of Babylon and Pambeditha
were flourishing, and the vivid intellect
of the Israelites was expanding into a
literature of commentators and profes
sors, the race was marked by an intense
love for the Oriental lands they 'culti
vated. Bat when the universal perse
cution |ell upon them, when they were
huted from Babylonia and Persia, and
began that remarkable series of wander
ings from city to oity, and from realm
to realm, that has lasted for more
than a thousand years, the. manners of
the race changed. They became a na
tion of traders. Industry, thrift, Lam
ing, and rate aonteness they never lost,
but tney were never again to become
tillors of the soil. They were forced
to snatch opportunities of gain from
the midst of their wanderings. They
became tho most acute and untiring of
traders. Their wares and their profits
were such as could be easily handled
and secured. They supplied the barbar
ons princes of Germany with the most
costly drugs and spices of the east.
They dealt in jewels that they could
easilv cone aal or swallow, and in Orien
tal oioths that wore of priceless value.
They were tho most active slave-trad
ers of tho middle ages, and tho ohuroh
vainly heaped its maledictions on the
Jew who should dare to purchase Chris
tian slaves. Their capital in money
probably grow from age to age. They
were the common money-lenders of the
early period. . The Jews seem to have
concentrated the wealth of the middle
ages among themselves; they lent their
money at an enormous interest, and np
onjnmple security; they accumulated im
mense fortunes, which they were obliged
to hide from tlieir persecutors in an as
pect of extromo poverty. But . their
homo was nover again to be amid tho
soft landscapes of Babylonia and Per
sia ; and crowded togethor in a misera
ble Ghetto, living apart acoursed and
forsakon in the walled, fortified, and se
onro cities of westorn Europe, they
counted their secret gains, and some
times displayed in thuir obscure dwell
ings n suspicions and Oriental splendor.
Their daughters were clad in the rich
silks of Persia, and shone with tho
gold and gems of tho east.
Down South.
Southern towns thero are in existence
that are untouched by the hand of to
day as though they wore buried deeper'
than Pompeii of old. Thoy arc buried
to all modern interests and purposes.
Not a breath of air breathed by live,
active men and women ever readies
them ; not a ripple of tho great wave
called progress ever touches their
shores ; they have few books, and any
thing they seo in the newspapers be
yond the market, the crops and their
sido in politios has no meaning for
them Yot thoy have gentlomen and
gentlowomon in their midst, full of a
quaint, old-fashioned dignity, and sur
rounded by an aroma of good breeding
not unlike in quality to the odor of
dried rose leaves ; they have a fow
young men and girls growing up in
their mother's footsteps, young people
lacking the full measure of what sooi
ety to-day reckon as thoroughbred, as
sured beau or belle; but ofton thoir
youths aro honoBt and simple hearted
even at twenty-five, and the girls, why,
they grow np, and bud and blossom in
to a modest, sweet beauty, bavo their
day of triumph and conquest, and set
tie down to be the wife of some country
squire, and mother of children, whom
they will train to grow up exactly as
they were trained.
?The Saturday Review yearns for a
novel, the hero of whioh will be left in
the sequel to make his living by his wits
or his muscles, instead of being inevi
tably well set up in tho roal estate busi
ness.
?A hen at Carlisle, Pa., has laid nine
eggs with shells that are pe-feotlv
black, tho hen boing of tho Dark
Brahma variety. Evidently a civil
rights fowl.
An Armenian Bride.
Oliver Harper writes from Constanti
nople of an Armenian bride as follows :
" She was covered with a most curious
veil made of long slips of gold tinsel,
which reached to her feet. Through
this yon could not see, except the bot
tom of her dress. The Armenian wo
men are generally very pretty, but per
fect fools in manners and expression;
so much so that when one man wishes
to offend another be says " Pretty Ar
menian !" which reahy means a fool.
Tho women dress like Europeans in
general. The women, after I had twice
made the oirouit of the veil, lifted it in
front and separated the long strings of
tinsel, till I could see that the bride
was dressed in white silk, brocaded with
silver and pearls, and that around her
waists was a wide belt containing a for
tune in precious stones. Her cheeks
were painted a deep crimson, laid on in
a he urt shape, and another heart was ar
tistically put on the chin, while the rest
of the face was as white .as the lumin
ous cosmetic could bring it. Tho eye
brows met, and also stretched to the
hair on osoh side her templos, and
were as blank as they could be painted.
The inside of her fingers' ends and
finger-nails were stained a deep crim
son. Her hair, which was long and
thick though coarse, was braided full of
little jingling coins. The outlines of
her form were, as usual, totally hidden
by the olnmsy-made clothes. I admired
her to her heart's content, and even
went so far as to take np a fold of hor
dress to Bee if the pearls sown on so
lavishly were real ones, to the evident
pleasure of all present; for what
would bo tho height of ill-breeding
among us is considered a delicate flatte
ry among theso women. I forgot to
look at her feet, and was about to go
and sit down, when she struck out first
one and then the oi her, that I must see
that they were shod with velvet slip
pers, embroidered with pearls, and then
showed me her ear-rings, which were
largo solitaii o diamonds. She had on
no brooch nor necklace, and one of the
women interpreted for me, and told me
the bridegroom was to give them after
the ceremony,":, _
Home-Sickness.
Thero are conditions in which home*
sickness assumes tho form of the disease
known as " nostalgia. Many opportu
nities for observation have enabled
pathologists and other scientific men to
trace the causes and effects of this dis
ease ; but its seat has been nought for
in vain. Some fatal terminations have
been credited to the disorder, but we
incline to the opinion that it never
killed any one directly, only through
diseases superinduced by the depres
sion of spirits which is occasioned.
The French medical academy thought
the subjeot worthy of a prize essay,
which, when produced, threw much
useful light upon it. The French,
Swiss and Italians are among the na
tions most subject to the affection, and
that will account for the comparatively
small emigration of those people. The
Germans are less liable to home-sick
ness ; while the English are free from
it in the superlative degree?hence the
cosmopolitan character of these people,
and their presonce and conquests in ev
3ery uarter of the habitalbe globe. The
isease was very marked among the
French troops during the lato war, not
only impairing their efficiency as sol
diers, but actually killing them out
right by the pining for home and famil
iar scenes. Tho Italian army is hardly
less distinguished by the malady than
the French. The phrenologist would
out this Gordian knot with the greatest
easo by referring tho whole trouble to
tho organ of inhabitiveness. Na
tions may as reasonably be expeoted to
differ in this respect as speoies. If you
ohango yonr domicile, your dog goes
along with yen, his 41 adhesiveness"
ranking his "inhabitiveness ;" but your
oat will stay behind?caring greatly
more for the habitat than for you. Ap
plying a varying propensity of this kind
tovarions nations?in the same manner as
we are forced to accredit them with facul
ties which make them variously martial,
aesthetic, intellectual, humane or Buper
stitiouH?and the problem is solved at
once : tho Frenchman has simply lar
ger inhabitiveness and tho Briton less?
and there's an end on't.
A Child's Plaything over One Thou
sand Years Old.
Of ovon greater interest are the house
hold artioles, implements of trade,
food, otc, which, liko tho spoils of
Pompoii, restoro for us tho domestic
life of the people. Here, for instance,
are stools, oane-boltomod ohairs and
work-boxes, 4,000 years old, yet no moro
dilapidated than if they came out of a
garret of the last century ; nets, knives,
needles and toilet ornaments; glass
bottles and drinking cups, as dear as if
just blown; earthenware, glazed in
blue and yellow patterns, tho vory coun
terpart of old Majolica; seeds, eggs
and broad ; Btraw baskets and a child's
ball for playing ; paint boxes with col
ors and brushes, and boards for games
of draughts?in short, a collection al
most as variod and complete as the
ashes of Vesuvius preserved for us of
the Grreco Roman life of the year 79 of
our era. But these Egyptian relics date
from 1,000 to 8,000 years before onr eia
began.?Bayard Taylor, in N. Y. Tri
bune. _
?Borne one says if wo wonld show
ourselves really good to our daughters
?'wo must be generous to them in a
truer Bense than that of hanging trink
ets on their necks." No wo da could
be moro aensible. Nine girls out of
ten would rather havo n camel's hair
shawl than a necklace. Parents should
remomber this,
PACTS AND_ PAtf?IBS.
?Why is tho letter Y like a "young
lady ? Because it makes-pa pay.
?A Delaware obituary : "His bat
wasn't always cooked over the left ear,
but he didn't owe a butcher intown,^
?A costly monument has been placed '
by the widow of James Fiak,7Jr;,:oV&
has remains at BratUehoro. Yermon^j,
?A mother advised, her, .daughter to
oil her hair, and fainted flat away>heh
that damsel replied,.,'.' Ohj no, ma ; it
spoils the gentlemen's vests." *"f >
?A young lady wants to know whether
a girl may be sure a man loves, her un
utterably when ho sit3 in her presence
for ah Hour without speaking.': a&inh i?
?" What kind of sausages is them,?.'
queried an old lady of the young man
of literature and peanuts, ns ho passed
through Uie train, selling bananas.
?There is one good thing about
those white gauze vei.s?a woman who
powders looks as respectable behind
one of them as a woman who doesn't.
?A teacher asked an advanood eohool
Sirl why beer in French was feminine,
he replied that it was probably owing
to the fact that the boys liked it so
well.
?In Switzerland there is a law which
compels every newly-married couple to
plant six trees immediately after 1 the
ceremony, and two on tho birth of every
child. Birch?
?Dried tongue, is the'answer which
a minister, just going out to exchange;
gave some one who asked him what he
had in his cat pet-bag?whioh'contained
seven sermons. bus ,'?tK?.ftt*V.
?Elder sister?" Mamma, do come
hero and Ree to Alfred. He's got the'
urn off the mantel, and spilled some of
grandmamma on the rug. and is mixing
the rest of her up with ink." .'
?A curiosity is shortly, to be placed
in the ordnance museum at Washington,
consisting of a federal and confederate
ballet impacted in tho air, which was
picked up before Peteistiu^m'1864. ~
?A western editor 'thinks that. the
habit of carrying tobacco in the piatp^
pocket is a bad one. " To meet ? man on
a lonely'road and see him reach -for his
tobacco box suggests unpleasant possi
bilities, tw/m no
?The time has come when tho wear-;
er of the at arched linen coat rises' from
his chair and goes forth, unconscious of
the fact that the lower portion of his
garment retains the position which it
acquired while he was seated.. ^r.
?A little boy of five years, dressed
in his first sack coat, stood leaning
against his mother's knee. " Mamma,"
said he, after a pause, " I wish you had'
put tails to this coat; I have wanted a
tail coat these good many years." There
was silence for a space.
?"My dear boy," said a fond aunt
to a very fast-living nephew, "don't you
know that in leading tlrs irregular lifa
you are shortening your days ? ' " It is
quite possible that I may be shorten
ing my days, but then look how I
lengthen my nights," was the cool reply.
?A Yale student has written a twelve
vorso poem entitled : " We kissed each
other by the sea." " Well, what of it ?"
asks a western journalist; " the seaside
is no better for such practice than any
other locality. In faofc, we have put in
some sweet work of that kind on the.
towpath of a canal in our time, but did
not siy anything about it in print."
?No French or English woman of
cultivation nowadays wears her garters
below her knees. The principal vein
of the leg sinks there beneath the mus
cles ; and varicose veins, cold feet, and
even palpitation of the heart may be
brought on by a tight garter in tho
wrong pla e. When it is fastened
above the knee all this pain and de
formity may be avoided.
?A Dreuden paper says that seven
teen experimei ts have been made dur
ing the previous year, with invariable
success, in the hospitals of that city, to
infuse lan.'o's blood into the human
subject. In the first case tried the pa
tient had long suffered from pulmonary
?diseases, and tho immediate effect of
tho operation was to raise the pulse
and impart a sense of greater strength.
?A correspondent wants to know if it
is true that tho human body has seven
million pores. The Brooklyn Argus,
after poring over the question, says :
" Tho last time we counted them there
were seven million and nino; but we
have always had an idea that those nine
wero nothing', but extras, spontane or sly
generate 1 for the purpose of misleading
us."
?A new lino of steamers is just ready
to commence its trips between New York
and "Venezuela. The vessels are all
American-built, and American-manned.
They will stop at St. Thomas, Laguayra,
Porto Cabello, Ouracoa, and Maracaibo.
Such a communication has long been
needed, the trade of that rich section of
the world having been nearly monopo
lized by England.. Except a monthly
steamer to Brazil, no other American
i steamers sail to South America upon
either coast.
?From Mr. Oodman's book on Utah:
"I was astonished to hear polygamy
advocated by ladies of education and
refinement; among them a sohool
teaoher who strongly favored it, per
haps because she was no longer young.
j At a hotel where I was staying, I met a
young married lady of one of the first
families of Salt Lake. Two of her inti
mate friends were with hor. One day,
when they were out of the room, she
asked mo, 1 What do yon think of A??'
?She is a charming girl,' I replied. 'In
deed she is,* exclaimed Mrr. B---. 'I
do Wish B? (her husband) would mar
ry her; I should so like to have her
with mo all the time I'"