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Sie #r?ptatf g fines,:: -A_n Independent Paper Devoted to tlie Interests of the People. _;_:_'_;_ if tiL VOLUME III. ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLIN^, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1874. NUMBER 22? ? ? ' - _ THE BONG OF THE UNIVERSAL. BY WAI/T ?WHITMAK. - ? ? ?\ Comp, n&id tho MitBe, Sing me a sour no poet yet ban chantod: Slug mo the Universal. lu thin broad earth of ours, Amid tbe measureless grossuoes nud tho slag, EnoloBed and safe within Us central heart, Ncatlcss tbe seed Ferfoction? By every 1 ifo a sbaro, or more or loss, None born but it 1b born?couceal'd or uncoucoal'd, 1 tho seed is waiting. it. Lo J keeu-?ycd. towering Science 1 As from tall peaks tbe Modern overlooking, Successive, absolute flats issuing. Tot again, lo I tho Son 1?above all science; Vor it, has History gathor'd liko husks arouud tho globe;, For it, tbe entire star-myriads roll through tho Bky, In f piral roads, by long detour.', < Am a muoh-lacklng ship upon tho sea.) For it, tho partial to tho permanent flowing, or it, the.r.eal to tho Ideal tends. For it, tho mystic evolution ; Not tho right only justiflod?what wo call ovil also Justlfled. ? Forth from their masks, iio matter what, From tho huge, fostoring trunk?from craft and guilo nud tears, Health to omarge, and joy?Joy universal. Out of tbe bulk, tho morbid and tho shnllow, Out of tho bad majority?tho varied, countless frauds of men and StatcB, Klcctric, antiseptic yet?cleaving, suiTueiDg all, Only tho Oood io universal. OJ. Over tho mountain growths, disease and sorrow, Au uncaugbt bird 1b over hoverlug, hovering, High in tho purer, bappior air. From imperfection's murkiest cloud, Darts always forth one ray of perfect light, Ouo flash of Heaven's glory. Io fashion's custom'* diBcord, To tho mad Dabol-dln, tbe deafening orgies, Southing each lull, a strain is beard, just hoard, From some far shore, tho final chorus souudiug. IV. O tho blest eyes ! tho happy hearts! That i-oj.?that know tho guiding thread bo flue, Along tho mighty labyrinth ! v. Aud thou, America: For the Schemo's culmination - its Thought, nud Its Reality, For these, (not for thyuo'f,) Thou hast arrived. Thou too Kiirrnundent all; Embracing, carrying, welcoming all, Thou too, by pathways broad and new, To the Ideal loudest. Tho mrasur'cd faiths uf other lauds?the gran ilour* of the pabt, Are uot for Thee ? hut graudcurs of Thluo own ; Deitlo faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, compre hending all, All eligible to all. All, all for Immortality ! Love, like the light, silently wrapping all! Nature's amelioration blo-ising all! Tho bloB?om?t fruits of ages?orchards divine and certain ; Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to Spiritual Images ripening. Oive mo, O Uod, to sing that thought! Givo mo?givo him or her I lovo this iiuonchleBs faith, In Thy ensemble?whatever else withheld, withhold not from us, Dolief in plain of Thee enclosed lu Time nud Space. Health, peace, salvatioi. universal. Is it a dream 7 Nay, but the lack of It the dream, And, falling it, life's lore aud wealth'a dream, Aud all tho world a dream. MAGGIE AUD THE BURGLARS. "Yon are not afraid, Maggie?" ?* Me afraid ! " said Maggie, " I'd no fear born with mo= As for the house, it's the strongest fastened ever I was in. You say yourself there's no look a burglar could force, and I'm not the one to let tramps or tho like in of my free will. God knows tho plaoo will bo safe enough when yon o >mo back?as safe as though there were a regiment of soldiers in it; and I'll have all. bright for your new wife, Mr. Archibald." She oallcd her master Mr. Archibald still, this old woman ; but sho was the only one who ?tili usod his Christian name. Ho was an elderly man himself, and had few intimate friends, hospital ity not boihg one of his virtuos. He was rich, and there was much that was valuable in tho house; more ready money, too, than most men keep about them ; but then it was as sectiro as a bank vault?patent lock and regular I alarms that first sent a bullet into any one who sought to outer by stealth, and then rang a bell to wake tho household, were attached to every door, and a fu rious watch-dog, that lived on raw moat, was in tho back gardon. Tho Van Nott mansion could have withstood a siogo at a moment's notice. Mr. Van Nott was a monoy-dealor. He had ways of accumulating property which woto mysteries to his neighbors, and they were suspicions that the little back' parlor, sacred to business, had oven scon snch lessor dealings as the loan of money on good watches, cash mere shawls, and diamonds of genteel distress. Two or three mortgages that ho had bought up had been rathor cru elly foreclosed ; and ho wbb a hard landlord, and a bad person to owe money to nltogetl? . On tLe wholo ho was^lisliked in the place, and, rich a? ho was, would havo found it hard to get a wifo to his liking among his neighbors at Oakham. However, having resolved to marry again?there had been a Mrs. Van Nott, who died years before?he had sought out a wealthy widow of a Baving disposition, who lived on a small farm somo miles out of town, and, hav ing already disinherited hor daughter for espousing an estimablo man of small moans, and turned her only son out of doors for equally prudent reasons, was not likely to bring any troublosome gen orosity into her houshold, and had offered himpolf to her, and had boon accepted. And now, though both thoir economical souls revolted against it, oustom decreed a wedding of romo sort, and a honeymoon trip somowhere, and they had decided to do it as cheaplv as possible. For this briof tinio Mr. Van Nott must leave his business and his house, and it was upon the evo of his departure that ho held tho above con versation with his old servant standing with his poit iia?jteaii in his hand, aud regarding her gravely. ** Yes, yes," he said, " I presume it is all Bate enough. And' I'll speak to the night-watchman, and give him a dol lar to take a particular look at this house. Well, good-by, Maggie, make things as neat as possible, for if they look dirty my wife may think the fur niture old, and waut something new for the parlor." And Mr. Van Nott de parted. '?Yes, yes," said old Maggie, "no donbt she 11 have fine, extravagant- ways. Poor master! What a pity he should marry, after all?but old fools are the worst fools. A young thing of eight and forty, too, when he has a sensible ser vant, sixty last January, that' known what belongs to good housekeepings. If ho wanted to marry why didn't he ask me? I'd not have gone gallivant ing and spending. Ab, well, Tie'll suf fer, not I!" And Maggie trotted away to begin her sweeping and dusting. SI 10 had said truly that there was no fear born with her, but as the night drew on she began to feel somewhat lonoly. Her master's presenoe was strangely missed out of the great house, and there wae something ghostly in tbe look of Iiis empty chair when ehe pooped into the little baok office. " If I was superstitious," she said to herself, " I should think something dreadful was going to happen. I feel chilly up and down my baok, and keep thinking of funerals. I'll make myself a cup of tea, and see if I oau't get over it." And accordingly old Maggie shut hor self into the snug kitchen, and lighting two oandles, drew a pot of the strongest young hyson, and patting her feet close to the cooking stove, began to feel much more comfortable. The old dock ticked away on tho mantel, the hands pointing to half-past eight. "I'm going to bed at nine," said Maggie. "Ive worked wtll to-day. Much thanks I'll get for it, I doubt. Hark! What's that?" It was a sound outbido tho door?a slow, solemn grating of wheels. Then feet trod the pavement and tbe bell raug faintly. "A narriago!'' cried Maggie; " bas he changed his mind and brought her home at once ? But that can't be, he's not married yet." And taking one of the oandles she trotted to the door, but not before tbe boll had rung again. " Who's that?" she cried, holding tho door slightly ajar. V. A stranger," said a voice, " ono who has Bomcthing particular to say to you." "You'll have to wait for to-morrow," said Maggie. "You can't oomo in to night." " My good woman," said the stranger, "you are Margaret Black?" "That's my name." "Mr. Van Nott's housekeeper for twonty years ?" ?> Yes." "My good womau, if you aro attached to your master, I liave very bad news for you." " GraoiouB Lord !" oriod Maggie, but did not open tbo door muoh wider?only enough to thrust her head out. " Don't scare mo, mister. What ie it?" "Tbo worst you cau tbink of," said the mnn. "Mr. Van Nott traveled on the-railroad. Tbere has been an acoulent." " PrescrvotiB!" cried Maggie, letting tbo door fall back, " and him on his way ?o his wedding. He's badly hurt then ?" " Ho's dead," said tho man. " Demi, and we've brought him home." Maggie sat down on a chair and began to cry. " We've done what we could," said tbo man. "Tbo lady bo was to marry nnd her friends will bo down to-morrow. Meanwhile my instructions aro that you shall watch with him, and allow no strangers to euter tho house. Thero aro valuables hero, I'm told, and Mr. Van Nott's lawyor must toko possessio? of them, and seal them up bofore strang er*, have nccesB to the rooms." "Oh ! dear, dear," cried old Maggie. "Thatit should oome to this. Yes, I'll watch alone. I'm not afraid, but?oh, dear 1" Then she shrauk back and lot two men oarry a horrible coffin into tho parlor. They camo out with their hats off, and tho other man held bis also iu his hand. " I regret to leave you all alono in the house," ho Haid. " I don't miud that," said old Mag gie, ;'but it's torriblo, terrible." "If you'd like me to stay," said tho man. " No," said Maggie. " I'vo no fear of living or dead folk. You can go." Then sho locked tho door nnd wont into tho parlor, and ptittiug tbo candle on the mantel, lookod nt tbe coftln through her tears. " He was good enough to me," she said ; " poor Mr. Archibald ! And this comes of wanting to marry at this time of life, and gallivnnting on railroads. I wonder whether ho is changed much. I'll take a look," and Maqgio crossed tho room and lifted tho lid over the faoe of tho inclosed body. " I'll take a look." sho said to hor self ncrain. "I'm not nfraid of dead folks." In a minute more Maggie dropped tbo lid again, and retreated, shaking from head to foot. Sho had seen within tbo ooflio n face with its eyes shut, and with bandages about the fcea'1, ond the ghastly fontnr s of a clown in a circus, minus tho red mouth. But it was a living faco, well chalked, and not her mastor'a, and Moggio know at onoe that sho had boon well hum bagged?that tho story of bor master's death was a lie, and that a burglar lay within tho coffin, ready to spring upon her and bind hor, or perhaps murder ber at any minute. She could of oeurse open the door and try to escape : bnt the accomplices of the man were doubtless outside. It was a long distance to the nearest house, and ovon if they did not kill her, they would execute their purpose and rob the place before she returned. *'Master looks natural," said Maggio aloud, nud tried to collect hor thoughts. Mr. Van Nott's revolvers were in the next room, she knew, loaded, six shots in eaoh. Maggio could use pistols. She had aimed at troublesome oats with great success more than once. If she could secure these she felt safe. " Poor, dear master," she sobbed, and edged toward the back room. "Poor, dear master;" she lifted tho desk-lid. She had them safe. She glided back to the front parlor and Bat down on a chair. She turned up her sleeves and grasped a pistol in each hand, and watched the coffin-lid quietly. In half an hour the lid stir red. A cautious hand crept up the side. A wiry eye peeped out. It fell upon the armed figure and closed again. " You'd better, said Maggie to hor selft Again the head lif tod np.. This time Maggie sprang to her feet. " You are fixed .quite handy," she said coolly. " No need of laying you out if I fire, and I can aim first-rate, especially when I'm afraid of ghosts, as I am now." Tho head bobbed down again. Mag gie re-seated herself. She knew this could not last long?that there must be a conflict before long. It was as she supposed. A moment more and the coffin was empty, and a ferocious young fellow sat on its edge, and thus ad dressed her: "Wo meant to do it all quiet," he su id, " and I don't want to frighten old women. Jnet put them down." " I'm not' frightened," said Maggie. "I'm coming to take them things away from you," said the man. " Come,", said Maggie. He advanced one step. She took aim, and he d >dged, but a bullet went through his loft arm, and it dropped by his side. Furious with pain, he dashed toward her. Sho fired again, and this time wounded him iu the right shoulder. Faint, and quite helpless, he staggered against tho wall. " There, you've done it, old woman," he said. "Open the door and lot me out. My game is up." " Mine isn't," said old Maggie. ?'?Oet back into your coffin again, or this time I'll shoot yon through the heart." The burglar looked piteously at her, but he saw no mercv in her face. He went baok to the coffin and lay down in it. Blood dropped from his wounds, and he was growing pale. Maggio did not want to see him die before her eyes, but sho did not dare go for aid. To leave the house beforo daybreak would be to meet this man's companions, and risk her own life. There was nothing for it but to play the surgeon herself, and in a little while she had stopped the blood and saved the burglar's lifo. More than this?she brought him a oup of tea, and fed him with it as if he had been a baby. Nothing, ho wovor, could induce her to let him out of his coffin. About ono or two o'clock she hoard steps ontside, and knew that the other burglars were near, but her stout heart never quailed. She trusted in the bnrs and bolts, and they did not betray her. Tho daylight found her sitting quiet ly beside'her wounded burglar, nud the milkman, bright and early, was tho am bassador who summoned the officers of justice. When the bridal party roturnod next day the house wa9 neat and tidy, and Maggie, in her best alpaca, told the news in laconic fashiou. " Frightened 1" sho siid-, iu answer to the sympathetic ojuoulations of hor now mistress. " Frightened ! Oh, no ! Foar wasn't born in mo." Great Gun. Some progress has already been made in the royal English gun faotoriea at Woolwich arsonal in the manufacture of tho experimental 80-ton gun, which is intended to furnish data lor the con struction of tho guns of the Inflexible Tho length of tho gun over all will be 27 foot, tho boro being 21 feet long. Tho calibro will bo 11 inches, 15 inchos, and 10 inches successively, the gun be ing bored up after each series of experi ments. Tho 14-inch oilibre will take a projootilo of 1,100 US*, firing n maxi mum charge of about 190 lbs of special ly manufactured powder ; the 15 inoh will take a 1,100 lb shot and about 245 lb* of powder ; tho 10 inch will throw a 1,650-lb shot, with about 300 lbs of pow der. Tho heaviest gun now in the ser vice, 12.85 tons (Woolwioh Infant), can pierce 15 inches of iron at tho muzzle ; the ranges at whioh the projootiloB for the 80 ton guu will perform the same feet will be?for the 14-inch shot, 3,300 yards ; for the 15 inch shot, 5.200 yards; aud for the 16-inolr ?h?t, G.500?iioarly four miles. At a fighting range of 500 yards the Woolwioh Infant will pene trate 14 inohos of iron ; but the 80-ton gttn, with a 14 inch calibre, will pierce about 17 inches; with tho 15 inoh, about 18J. inches ; and with tho 10 inoh, about 20 inohos. Tho maximum range at whioli shells could bo thrown into a fortress will be?for tho 12-inoh, about 9,000 vards ; 14 inoh, 10,003 yards; 15 inch, 10,200 yards ; 16 inch, 10,300 yardp, or closo upon sii mile*._ ?Mrs. Wynkoop, a strong-minded woman, has opened n real estate office in Chicago, and not ono of tho Chicago papers has dar d to call it a hen-coop. ?A Baltimore bride, according to a reporter, wore cnlla lilies in her hair. Sevan catla lilies in a neat duster on tho tap of a lady's head would look woll. THE FEET. All About Pedal Decoration In tnc Good Old Day* B. C. At a very early date tbe art of decora ting the covering for the feet begaa to dovelpn ; and the pretty feet of the fair seemed to have betrayed the earliest susceptibility to pedal ornaments, al though the use of these embellishments was by no means confined to them, as we shall presently see. Some of the earliest and most distinctive examples we lind in Jewish records. Thus, in Solomon's song (7 ohap., iv), the bride is thus- addressed : " How beautiful are thy feet with shoes (sandals), O prince's daughter!" In the case of Judith of the Apocrypha, although her personal attractions, the splendor of her attire, and other ornaments, may have attracted the attention of the fierce Holofernes, the Assyrian general, it was her sandals that '.\ravished his eyes." (Judith, xvi ohap., 9 v.) A passage in Isaiah gives us an idea of the character of some of the ornaments employed. "Haughty daughters of Zion walking and minoing as they go, and making a tinkling with their, fleet. The Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about thoir feet." Isaiah, ohap. iii, 16 18.) Tho first approaoh to a boot?and thero was probably nothing of tbo kind ? prior'to 500 B. O.?was-in the shape of a high stocking or groove, a piece of leather affixed to the front of the shins as a protection from injury in war, by meon't of leathern thongs or interlaced bands of leather. This protection doubt less ovontuated in the elaborate feetal greaves which formed an important part of til i armor of a later period. The transition of the sandal to the shoo is perhaps more evident in the sculptured remains of Persia than in any other of tho dumb yet eloquent witnesses of an tiquity. The bas-reliefs of Persopolis give many illustrations of tho style of boots and shoes worn by tho Persians in the time .of DariuB and Xerxes?between 521 B; 0. and 475 B. C. One of these is a sort of ankle boot, half shoe, half sandal ; for what is termed the " upper leather is little more than the straps of tho saudals left much broader than usu al, ami fastened by buttons along tho top oft the foot. This kind of shoe in represented as having been worn by sol diel;?, the upper classes, and attend ants around the throne of the king. Other V specimens are completely and unequivocally shoes, tho characteris tics of tho sandal boiug apparently en tirely absent. There are also amon? thoso sculptures several kinds of boots, one of them being similar to t'-e three quarter Wellington of the present time. A highly ornamental dress boot adorned the legs of a gaily-dressed youth de picted on a Thoban painting, and sup posed to have belonged to a conntry adjacent to Egypt. It is similar in form to tho dress of Wellington of tho present contury, and is a sample of the boot decoration then prevailing. Ing hirami, in his Monumcnti Etrwchi, gives an engraving of a heathen pries?, taken from an anoient Etruscan sculp ture, the figure wearing a pair of top boots exceedingly like those worn by the ditchers and fishermen of to-day. Tho Etruscans were antecedent to the Greoks and Bomans in civilization, so that this mu?t be very old, although not so anoient ns tbo Thoban painting just noticed. It is tolerably oloar that tho shoo de veloped into tho boot, and that Orator Honsloy's colobrated method of making shoes had not boon thought of at this early stage of the world's history. Many of our readers will rcoolloot the aneo doto of tho great mob orator, who once, by a clovor strategy, is said to have at tracted "tho greatest multitude of shoe makers ever known to havo been assem bled on ono occasion" at his oratory near Lincoln's Inn Fields ne had an nounced a special discourse to shoemak ers, and in order to "draw" an audionco, with tho true genius of sensationalism, he declare 1 that ho could teach them a most expeditious way of making shoos. His method was simple but conclusive, viz.: to cut off the tops of their Iroots. The ticket of admission on that occasion bore the appropriate but mooklng motto ?Onme majus continet in sc tninua (tho greater contains the less). It is also sufficiently clear that in a great degree modern fashion is but an imitation?a more or less refined ono it may be?of the other forms and fashions whose re oords are to bo found on those ancient mounments. "History repeats itself" in the way of boots and shoes as with everything olso, and tho boots of mod ern day .4 find their earliest exemplars on these striking sculptured memorials of nations whose sun of prosperity has gone down forever, but who onoo occu pied tho proud place in the world of "first in arts as in arms." The great Persian monarch, Cyrus, was not only a warlike soldier, but a connoisseur in the art of dross. Ho was accustomed to wear purple and white robes, and to encase his feet and legs in yellow buskins. If a man was unfortunnte enough to possess tho dignity of high stature, he recom mended that he should wear a suit of buskin or stocking, betweon tho boIo of whioh and' the bottom of tho foot somo substnnoe. might be inserted to give an inoreased bight to the wearer. A simi lar method of increasing their bight appears to have obtained among women ttiBo, for Xenophon, in his (Economic*, mentions tho wife of Isohomaohus as wearing high shoes for that purpose. In the ton bs of anoient Egypt, women's shoes have boon discovered that dis tinctly havo this object in viow, for they aro formed of a stout solo of wood, to which is affixed four round props? roally a sort of foot-stool, only flxod to tho foot, raining tho wearer a foot in bight. The Phrygian bounot, which the goddess Minerva is sometimes rep resented as wearing, is a oharaoteristio head-dress which finds a fitting coun terpart in tho Phrygian boot. This article was worn v*ry high, had four long flaps or streamers at the top (con sisting of the leg-skins of animals whose skins had been used lor body clothing), and were laced up in front. "DE PERVISIONS, JOSIAR." A Couple of Darkles Kzpreaa Their Ideas Almut Civil Itignt*. A sapient-looking Fayetteville darkey, ose ill 11 ting between twenty and twenty - five summers, overtook an old negro on the street the other day, ond wedging .him in a fence corner, pro ceeded to acquaint him with all the gorgeous provisions of the civil lights ill. Young Africa imparted to old Africa a fund of valuable information, "thuBly:" " Well, Undo Billy, Snmner's swivel rights bill has passed the senate ob de United States widout a murmur." "Is dat so, Jo si ar ?" "Jess so, Uncle Billy. And say, Undo Billy, we oolored pnssons is gwine to see whoBO pervisions is in tho pot. We's gwine to be allowed to ride free on de railroad, smoke in de ladies' oar, and pnt our feet on de peroussions of de seats wheneber we please 1" " Is dat bo, Josiar ?" " Jess so, Unole Billy. And Bay, Unole Billy, we's gwine to be allowed to stop at do hotels and set at the head ob de table, and hab de biggest slices ob de chicken, and lay around, in de parlor and spit on de carpets, and make the white trash hustle demselves and wait; on us without grumbling ; and wheneber de boss of de concern shoves a bill at us, we'll hab him sent to Washington and obscured in de pleni potentiary." " Is dat so, Josiar ?" "Jess so, Unole Billy. And say, Unole Billy, we's gwine to be allowed to go to de white schools, and set.up on de platform wid de teachers and learn gehography, triggormanometry, gehom iny, Dutch, French, Ohootaw, algebray, rheumatics, de rule ob trioo and do diarrhea," " Good God I is dat no, Josiar ?'' "Jess bo, Unole Billy. And say, Unole Billy, we's gwine to be allowed to be buried in italic coffins wid lookin' glasses on de top ob dem, and dey will hab to carry us on a hearse to de grabe yard and bury ns on top ob do white folks, so when de day ob resurrection am arrived and de angel Gabriel come tootin' along, he'll sing ont troo his trumpet, 'All ob yon oolored gommen rise fust I' And say, Unole Billy, de pervisions ob dat bill?" " What's dat you say 'bout pervis ions, Josiar ?" " Well, Unole Billy, as I was gwine on to state, do pervisions of dat bill?" "Stop right dar, Josiar. You say dar's pervisions in dat bill ?" " Jess bo, Unole Billy. De pervis ions ob do bill?" "Stop right dar, Josiar. Ef dar'p. pervisions in dat bill, I want n Back ob flour dis berry minit. Dam de smokin' in de ladies' ear, and de gehography,: and do Latin, and de italic colli us ! 1 want do pervision. Josiar. Day's all dore ia in do bill wuff a oont.?Fayetteville (Jcnn.) Exprcxx. A Chicago Hotel. Tho following is a translation of nn articlo in a Berlin paper, which will convoy an idea of the German estimates of tho coming American hotel: " Tho latest American progress in building will be the ' mammoth hotel,' soon to be erected in Chicago. This enormous hotel is to have a frontage of three English miles long, nnd a depth of six miles ; the height of seventy-seven stories, will measure 3,480 feet from the ground-floor to the roof. Tho hotel will have no stairs, but five hundred balloons will always be ready to take visitors up to their rooms. No room waiters are te be employed, but visitors will be served by a nowly patented au tomatic, pnt up in every bed-room, who will do all shaving, shampooing, etc., to the guests by a very simple and in genious meohanitm. Supposing tho guest requires hot water, the automatic will be able to call down stairs : "A bucket of water up to room number ono million three thousand one hun dred and sovon." and the water will be up in s<wen seoondsby a patented eleva tor. Half an hour before table d'hote, instead of the ringing of bells, a enn (24-pounder) will bo fired on eaoh floor to call tho guests to get ready for their meals. Tbe tables in the dining-rooms will measure four miles each, attend ance tc be performed by twelve waiters on horsebaok on either side of the table Music during table d'hote will be played ?gratia-by eight bands of seventy-seven men oaoh. For tho convenience of vis itors a railway will be built on eaoh floor as well as telegraph offices. The prioe for ono bed-room will bo from $1 to $10. Tho cost of this building is estimated to bo $080,000,000. Tho billard room will contain 000 American, 99 French, and 1 English table, aud, most of tho visitors ezpeoted to bo Americans, the billiard room will be fitted out with a spittoon of 100 feet in oironmforonoe." ?A Now Yorker tells of some ni>'o grass for front yards. Ho says: "Couch, or kutoh, grass takes posses sion of the superficial Stratum aud ever lastingly splices and plaits its roots into indistructibie sinnet. It can not bo rooted ou'i. In India and Persia, where every blade is scorched by tho blazing sun nnd hot winds of the dry season, horses and cattle are fod on tho succu lent roots. Ono rain shower covers tho arid, baked, fissured plains with emer ald verdure." FAOTS AND FANCIES. ?Pi!henco and gentleness are power. ?Leigh Hunt. ? ?Dollars and sonso do not necessari ly travel together. J > x r. . ?There is not a daily newspaper in the state of Florida, . ?Epitaph for a caimibal?Ohe0 wHo loved his fellow-men. lu z-tf ?A Minnesota granger has .three thousand acres of beans. ' '; fV* ?Tho best refrain fox drinking bongo ?refrain from them altogether. ?Dr. HayeB measured au iceborg that got aground in water nearly half a mile in depth. . ?"Taxes," said Dean Swift, "'are the inevitable consequences of, being too fond of g.orr." ?He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other orimeB may pass for virtues in him.?Young. ?A Brooklyn gill has jafst rejected a suitor because his nrrrowasn't long enough to go round her. ?fei' ?All the difference?-A wnef running away is a scamp, bat the policeman's ohaso after him is a scamper. ?He who saddens at thought of idle* nosB cannot be idle, and he's awake who thinks himself asleep.?Keats. ?To make a dog add, multiply, or subtract, tie up one of his paws and ho will put down three and carry one. ?Men spend their lives in tho service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. ??Our thoughts aro epochs in our lives ; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are bore? Thorcau. ?As an excuse for rejecting a widow er, a fair young damsel informed a friend that she did not want a "warmed over" man. ?In this country there is a doctor to every 618 of tho population, while in Franco and England there is only one to every 2,000. ?Inviolable fidelity, good humor, and complacency of temper outlive all the charms of a flne face, and make the decay of it invisible. ?A Sunday-school scholar being ask ed what became-of men who deceive their fellow-men, promptly exclaimed, " They go to Europe." ?"For a young woman to begin ?o pick lint off a young man's coat collar" is said to be the first symptom that the young man is in peril. ?Ono thing is clour to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spirit ual nature so much as respectable self ishness.?George McDonald. ?An Illinois boy rubbed arsenic on his teeth so that he could bite his fa* thor in the leg and dose him when the old man hauled him over his knee. ?"If a naughty girl should hurt you, like a good girl, yon would forgive her, wouldn't you?" "Yob, marm," she replied, "if I couldn't catch her." ?A Maud Mailer laughed heartily at a young haymaker when the yellow jackets got up his nankeen trousers, but when they got up her'n it wasn't so funny. ?" Please, sir," said a little girl who was sweoping a crossing for a living, " you have given me a bad penny." " Never mind, little girl, you may keep it for your honesty." ?Honest, thinkers are always stealing from each other. Our minds are full of wnifs and esttays whioh we think are our own. Innocent plagit rism turns up everywhere?Holmes. ?It is a law of nature that faint hearted men should be tho fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that tho same soil produces delicacies and heroes.?Herodotus. ?Tho amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in oursolves is that whioh ex cites it in others ; or tbo art of pleasing is to seem pleased.?Hazlitt. ?A New York state editor, who has been on an excursion to Alabama, with a company of journalists, puts "Lou* isville against the world for tobacco, whiaky and pretty womon." ?Public opinion cannot do for virtue what it does for vice. It is the essence of virtue to look nb ve opinion. Vice is consistent with, and very often strength ened by, entiro subservienoy to it. ?All my own experience of lifo teach es me the contempt of ounning, not the fear. The phrase "profound ounning" has always seemed to me a contradiction iu terms. I never knew a ounning mind whioh was not either shallow, or, on some points, diseased.?Mrs. Jameson. ?A man who was seen coming out of a Texas newspaper office with a split nose, with ono eye and with one ear, explained to a policeman that ho ?ui?r ed the office simply to inquire if the editor was in. "And he was in," the viotim mournfully added. ?Tho intellect has only one failing, whioh, to be sure, is a very considerable one,?it has no conscience. Napoleon is tho readiest instanco of this. If his heart bad. borne any proportion to his brain, he had been one of tho greatest mon in all history.?Lowell. ?The fashionable girl of the period now takes her Bewing machino with her when sho goes to the watering-places, for there she will get " ideas" which the machino will work out. Tho wise vir gin keeps her dress goods in the piece until she sees how the rival McFhmsy has her summer toilet made ; and this makes tho rival MoFlimsy "awfully mad," for if there is ono thing sho hates more than another, it i? to havo her clothes copied.