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n _ _ ' ' ' ' ??mm*mmmts\ -. V" ^-?1 ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER.! , * 1?> ~~ _ " ~ :-Z% BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WAKDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEE 27, 1880. NO. 21. VOLUME XXV. ;J ** *A . : . M \ ? ~.4&1 The MInistci's Daughter. In the minister's morning sermon He had told oi' the primal fall, And how thenceforth the wrath ol God Rested on each and all. And how, oi His will and pleasure, All flfmlQ- n r?hnonn four Were doomed to the quenchless burning And held in the way thereto Yet never by laith's unreason A saintlier soul was tried, And never the harsh old lesson A tenderer hcatt belied. And, after the painful service On thf.t pleasant Sabbath day, He walked with his little daughter Through the apple-bloom ot May. Svreet in the Ire-h pri< n meadows Sparrow and l)ii:(l*bird sung; ^ Above him t li eii tinted petals The blossoming orchards hung. A WAIMlnrlitl rtlAW The minister looked find smiled; *' How good is the Lord who gives us Tbese gilts lrom His hand, my child! " Behold in the bloom ol apples And the violets in the sward A hint ol the old, lost beauty Ot tho garden ol thfc Lord!" Then np spake the little maiden, Treading on snow and pink; "Oh, lather! these pretty blossoms Are very wicked, I think. " Had tbere been no garden ol Eden There never bad been a lall: And it never a treo had blossomed God would have loved us nil." " Hash, child!" the lather answered, " By llis decrce man tell; Hi3 ways are in clouds and darkness, But He doeth all thing9 well. ' And whether by Hi9 ordaining To us cometh good or ill, Joy or pain, or li?ht or shadow, Wemust tear and love Him still." "Oh, I tear Him!" said the daughter, "And I try to love Him, too; But I wish He was good and gentle, "Kind and loving as you." The minister groaned in spiiit As the tremulous lips of pain And wide, wet eyes uplilted Questioned his own iu vain. Bowing his head he pondered The words ol tlio little one; Had be erred in his l'lelong teaching Had he wrong to his Master done ? To what grim and droadiul idol Had he lent the holiest name ? Did bis own heart, loving and human, The God ol his worship shamo ? And lo! lrom the bloom and greenness, From the tender skies above, And the facc of his little daughter He read a lesson ol love. No more as the cloudy terror 01 Sinai's mount of law, lint as Christ in the Syrian lilies Tho vision oi God he saw. And as when, in the clclts of Horeb, Ot old was His presence known, TV** rlrfMirl inpfTUhta crlnrtf "4V" ?v?.v Was infinite goodness alone. Thereafter his hearers noted In Lis prayers a tenderer strain, And never the gospel of hatred Burned on his lips again. And the scofllng tongue was prayerlul, And the blinded eyes found sight, And hearts, as flint nlorotime, Grew solt in his warmth and light. ?John G. Whitticr, in Atlantic Monlkly. THE STORY OF A YEAE Very hand3ome looked Linda Brer on this briih'ant New Year's day, as sL moved like a queen through her aunt handsomely furnished drawing-room. Not one of all the throng whom sb welcomed so cordially and who wishe her a happy New Year could have ima^ ined the disquieting thoughts pressin on her mind, lor to-day she was to giv her linal answer to Denham Edward: and?she loved him. He was poor; she looked down tli room; it was a brilliant vista. Tb bright lights, the marbles, the mirrori the exquisite blue and silver furnishing: the waving lace curtains, with glimps< of the conservatory beyond?couid si give it ail up, although she was bi there on sufferance, and subside into life of poverty in narrow apartmeni with Denliam Edwards? The struggle was sharp and bitter, f( there was much that was noble in h< character, but ehe was poor and depen< ent, and ehe haled poverty, althoug one would think that the poverty i three thousand a year would not be tc hard to bear for the sake of the man si loved. The question had not yet bee decided in her mind when she heard low, musical voice at her side. "A very happy New Year, Mi Linda;" and raising her eyes, slie sa an earnest. loviDg look on Deuba: Edward's face; it" was gone in an ii stant, it was meant but for her. "A thousand ihanks! And shall wish you many in return, or is it on necessary to wish you one at a time, ar wait until next year for a repetition! she cayly replied. "If you were to make this one 'Happy New Year' for me, Linda, woula Jast for all time," he replied,: low, earnest tones. " Hush, Denham." And again there was a short, shai Btruggjp, which ho saw quite plainly c her face and was prepared for the a ?wer: " No, it can never, never be." Her voice sounded far away and di to herself; was she really speakim But looking up, she saw the prou pcornful look on her lover's face, as wi a profound bow he left her. Mechanically he lelt the house ai entered the carriage. The driver sai respectfully, "Where next, sir?" which he replied, fiercely: " Anywhei r and drive last." . " Fool that I was," he thought?"fn and thrice a fool to thhk that s would be different from the rest! I all money, l^oney, money. And yel * believe she has noble impulses and th she loved me, but not enough to mar on three thousand a year. Twen thousand?at, that would have made difference. In it or is it not a fortuns thing for me that no one knows tL Uncle Aleck's heirs cannot be found. But underneath his thoughts was bitter longing that she had not kno\ ?a wish that he had been deceived, a hat his eyes liari never been opened. Wrapped in his musings, he ne\ noticed where they were driving, b was disagreeably awakened by feelinj dull thud, then a shout and the ci riage suddenly stopping. Jumping hastily out, he found th his driver had run over a little bli coated messenger?that was all"He won't be missed; plenty mc left," some one said, heartlessly. Denham stopped not to answer, bi picking the little fellow up and aski him where he lived, bade the man dri quickly, and was off before the cro^ knew what had happened. It was a Ion? way they had to go, a Denham pitied the little fellow, w was trying to bear the pain so manful He had pale, thin face, with lar, earnest eyes and a confiding manner. wns not very difficult to get him to te his history. His name was Henry Winton. lli moiher had been dead :i long time; hi father died two years a?:o. His olde: sister, Emily, taught school, and thei were two little sisters, May and Edm who were going to school; and hew: a messenger-boV, and helped his sistei > And then his eye3 shut; but the teai wouid force their way through, an Denham knew that he was thinkingthr now he could not help. "Never mind. my little man. I wi see that you shall be no loser by thi accident. I will pay your wages jut the same." But the kind words were not hearc for the child had fainted. By this time they had arrived at th house the child had directed them tc Tenderly lifting the boy out, and senr1 inir the driver and carriage after his ol< friend. Dr. Black, Denham carried hie in, and. inquiring his way, was directei to the third tloor. The door was open, and thre frightened-looking faces were peerin out; reassuring them that the child wa not killed,but in a faint, he entered, and placing him on a bed, assisted the eldes sister in restoring him. Itwas not long til the doctor arrived, lie pronounced tli wound not at all dangerous; otic leg wa broken, but all lie needed was good car and attention. Denham's quick ear caught a sup pressed si<rh, and, turning quickly, sav a very thoughtful look come over tin elder sister's face; and, stepping bacl into the shadow unobserved, took j close survey of the room and its occu pants while the doctor was giving hi; directions. With the exquisite neatness and tin general air ol refinement which tin room possessed, he lmd not noticet the poverty; now, as lie looked closely he s:iw how threadbare and worn every thing was. * He was roused from his observation: by the doctor turning to him, as he hac given his final directions. Stepping up to the bedside, he said: "Now, my little man, you must nol allow this to worry you too much. ] will see that you do not lose anything, and if the situation be lost, why, we1]] try if abetter one cannot be found; so do not fret, or I shall, too, and I know you would not like that." Then, turning, with his winning grace, he said: "Miss Winton?"an interrogation in his voice. She bowed. " I shall take the liberty of coming to bet' my iiiuu Jiienu n^;uu, auu jl urn I sorry indeed that I have been the means I of giving you such a bad beginning for ycur new year." What wa3 there in his voice that moved her so strangely to pity, not for herself, but for him? Raising her large brown eyes she attempted to say something commonplace; but, failing, she merely bowed, and.they parted. Decham and the doctor made their way downstairs, and gttting into the carriage, drove off together. " A rather nice family that, but pretty hard pushed to get along, I should think," said the doctor. ~ "Did you notice the table? Not much there for a festal repast. It will need all your tact to help them, too,; for, although .Mi?s Winton has a sweet face, there are some i. l.J ir i A. ii._i ii. very iiaugiuy nut's :iuoul iuju wouiu. Did you notice her?" "I!" scornfully replied Denham. "No. I have done with women forever. This day marks an epoch in my life. I won't conceal from you, my oldest and best friend, that Linda has rejected me, and for what??money! For 1 know she loves mo as she will never love another; and when a woman as noble, as truthful and as high-minded, wiii deliberately turn against her best affections and noblest impulses, what can you expect from the common lot of petty, gossiping women, whose mind3 are nothing but a reflection of the last fashion plate? The sweet-faced Miss Winton would do the same. 1 warn you, too, before you eret too deep, to beware of the charmin<r Miss Elsie, although I know you will not rest until you singe your wings, too. i But I must see about sending my little ' friend some delicacies. I have taken quite a fancy to him. IIow manfully he tore the pain! I wonder will he bear the wounds of the heart in future year, as well9 He little Knows, poor fellow, 's that this suffering is light to wbat lie will have to endure some day." c The doctor was pained to see his d friend in such a bitter mood. He hud ' known him ail his life; they were boys g together, were in college together, and e never had their friendship been broken. And knowing Denham's deeply-affectionate nature, he kr.ew not how to console liim. If it had been a more wildly '6 reckless mood he could have met it bet3. ter, but this despairing bitterness he 9. knew cot how to deal with. So they rode in silence till, reaching ic Broadway, Denham drove to fruiterers, it confectioners and florists, ordering the a mo3t delicious dainties to be sent to his ts little friend. This over, the doctor said: " Now, Denham, where next? Won't )r you come with rae to Mrs. Dale's? You T have a card, I know." i- "No," said Denham. "I have cut ;h ail that now. Prove to me that there is oi one woman who would net sell her soul >o for money, and perhaps you may restore .jr.y faith in woman nuturc. I shaii >u spend the evening iu another search a through Uncle Aleck's papers in ho >es of finding some clew to the name of tin ss msm Aunt Alice married. Plague tak( w it! I wish lie had not given me quite tn such a search, but had left the money tc a- some orphan asylum at once." 41 But perhaps, after all, you may be I the heir. Who knows what may be it; iy the will when opened?" said the doctor, id as he turned away. ?" A great chance came over Denhair Edwards after that New Year's day a He shunned all society; even his favorit ite operas gre w distasteful to him. as h< in constantly dreaded seeing Linda Brent the club-house became his only resort. He grew sarcastic in his remarks or rp women, and was altogether in dan get >n of growing into a bitter, misanthropica n- nld Knphplnr Ho hiinsr>lf w 11c rm aware of what had saved him. it wa: the influence of Emily Winton. m He had from the first taken a fanev t< ?? Henry, and, although he had repelle< d, the idea of Doctor Black's that he coul< til ever look at a woman again, yet he ha< observed Miss Wiuton, and took t< id making a study of her. d, He would go there at all hours, at od< to hours?early in the morning on his wa"e, to the office, with a basket of fruit, witl magazines, illustrated papers, alway ol something to cheer and brithten his lit he tie friend's imprisonment; and many ai t's evening he spent there in lively, brigl 11 talk, for thgy were all full of gayety am at fun, and, with his quick, observant eye ry there was little that escaped him. ty He saw how bravely the elder siste * a bore the burden of the weight and sup ite port of the family, the education of th tat two girls and the care of the boy, am how bright and happy she made thei a lives. Accustomed to wealth and t yn seeing women only in society, and sur nd rounded by luxuries, this was n nei phase of life to him, and he made it er study. ut In the meantime he made every effoi l a to discover his uncle's missing hein ir- His uncle ha<Wied, leaving hinra lette enjoining him to discover a sister wh iat had eloped when quite young with he ie- German music master, and had bee cast off by the family and never- hear >re of since. The will was not to.be opene until a year after his death. ut, The time was almost up now, an ng still Denham could come upon no tnacc ve of these Duveneck's, for such he finall vd discovered to be the name of the ma hia Aunt Alice had married, nd One evening, while at the Wintons ho he went up to their bookcase, and idl ly. picking up an old-looking volume an ge, opening it, he saw there the nam It " ^ lice Duveneck." Turning aroun 11 quickly, he inquired who that was, and was told that it was their mamma's and is grandmamma's name. Then, to his asis tonishment, he was told by Miss Win>t ton tbat she was but the half-sister to e these children?tbat her father, who i, was a clergyman, had married for his is second wile an orptian giri, a musicr. teaclicr, whose name was Alice Duve s neck. d Alter listening carefully to all they it could tell him of their mother and grandmother, he gained enough of a 11 clew to clearly establish the fact withi d s a short time that they were the heirs of it his Aunt Alice. Then he informed them of the rela1, tionship to himself, and their probable good fortune when the will should be e opened; and as ?10,000 had been left for ?. the beneiitofany heirs that should bedis! covered before the opening of the will, d he insisted upon their moving into u apartments in one of the best boardiugd houses in the city. Denham watched with curiosity this e change from poverty to wealth. The I .. MJaa Wit. I K lllliUlCU WCiC UUll^UtCU) UU'J ?? 11 I a son wag not so happy. Indeed, it was 1, only after long and serious talking with t Den ham that she consented to give up 1 her teaching and bccome dependent on e them. s He pointed out to her tbat they were e as much in need of her care now as ever they were in their poverty, and that if, - alter the will was opened and everyv thing was settled, she was unhappy, he c would assist her to a'new position. % And so the days flew quickly by to i the appointed time for the opening of - the will. Denham's time was very 3 fully occupied with his young cousins; they enjoyed keenly, and he did everyu thing to promote their enjoyment, j He h'ut gone with them to the seaside j during the summer, and had seen that t Miss Emily made many friends, and . that if she had desired to become independent by marriage she could have 5 done so. I It was a bleak November day when , they were assembled in the lawyer's oflice to hear the reading of the will. The property was something over a million, and was to be divided equally , between his nephew, Denham Edwards [ and his sister Alice, if living, or her , heirs. If she were dead an1 had no heirs, then it was all to go to his . nephew. As Denham was sitting before his enm firtrtahlo firo fhnt otromnrr fliinb-irxr VWUi.ViUiWIV "? ~ ^U4l,al"5 over his good fortune, and ol the difference it would have made in his life had , the will been opened a year before?then Linda would never have refused him? a great longing came over him to see her once more. While still musing, Doctor Black cime in. " I have come to congratulate you," said the doctor, cheerily. "I don't believe you lojok much like a man who has just come into half a million. I am not any richer by a red cent, but I am a happier man than you, Denliam?Elsie is mine." The doctor's voice lowered and softened as he grasped hi3 friend's hand. " You said your faith in woman nature would he restored if you could see one woman raised in wealth marrying a poor man. Now you know of onp, Denham." '*! don't believe," said Denham, slowly, "that I ever lost faith but for one day; but I congratulate you most heartily. Your good fortune is better than mine, Arthur. Your Elsie is a winning little woman. I woufd like her to know Emily.'' The doctor looked at him quickly, but, seeing his saddened face, forebore to say what was in his thoughts, but merely said: "Yes, I shall take Elsie to call very soon- They would probably iike each other." " When is the wedding to be?" said Denham, finally rousing himself from a long reverie. "New Year's eve." said the doctor. " I am ns well off as I probably will be for some time to come, and we concluded i that there was no use for any longer en gagement." * m * + * And now the wedding night was at hand, and after the excitement of the ccremony "was over, and the happy couple were receiving the congratulations of their many friends, Denham, stepping aside to one of the windows, couid not help taking [a. retrospective j view of the past year?with what pain and suffering it had opened, and all that it had brought him. J ust then he saw Linda Brent, and? did his heart stand stillP No, not one throb ot leeling wakened at the sight of her. Beautifully and exquisitely dressed as ever, there she stood, and was powerless to affect him. Was love a delusion? he said to himself. Had he | never loved her. or what was it? : lie hud carefully avoided her for a ; year, and now discovered that he cared no more for her than for a waxen ; image. Then his eyes rested on Emily Winton standing near the bride, and J iike a lightning-flash it came over him : ?there was the woman he loved. And he smiled to think how, for a vpkv now. ftvprv rifiv ho. had llmiiaht. of i . her, of what she was doing, of what she | was thinking, and how she would act; I and that he had never guessed he was in [ ove with her, but had nursed the deluj sion that he could never mure love any woman but Linda Iirent. The next day, New Year's day, he went to see Emily Winton; not that he did not go every day, but to-day he | went with an especial purpose, to find if I he could ever hope to win her for his ) wife. , I So he began by telling the story of the * j year; of his love for Linda Brent, and how it had faded away before the bright1 nes^ of his true love for her. ! Emily listened to the outpouring of j his love, and for answer said, softly: ; I "1 loved you, Denham, from that i Nf>w Ypnr's rhiv " J ! ?????? ? ' "I thought so,"said the doctor, when j told the conclusion, " but I Ion? ago * , learned never to say all that 1 think to :t I man in love." t 3 Indian Shoppers. In her book on Manitoba, British 3 America, Miss Fitzgibbon says: I i watched some Indians shopping, and i was asiomsnca 10 see now mvarniDiy \ they waved aside inferior goods and 0 chose such materials as merinoes at $1.50 to $2 (7s. 6d. to 10s.) a yard. One 3 of the merchants told me it was useless v to oiler them anything but the best. An a Indian, who could riot speak English s or French and wanted five things, di vided his money according to his idea n of their relative cost in little piles on the 1 counter, and going through a pantod mime descriptive of his wants, was !, handed first some silk handkerchiefs. Taking one up he felt it, held it up to r the light, and, throwing it aside, shook - his head vigorously, uttering an " Ugh!" e ofdigust. When shown a better one he d was doubtful, but on a much superior r article being produced he took it and o willingly handed over one pile for it. - Thi3, however, was too much, and when v given the change he put it on one of a the other pile's, and proceeded in the same way to make the rest of his j>ur"t ohases. "How easily they could be J. cheated," I said to the clerk, after the ir Indian had left. " No,'" he replied, " not o so easily as would appear. They gener* ally come in from their camps in great n numbers once a year, to sell their furs d and make purchases. They go to differd ent shops, and on their return compare notes as to the cost and quality of their d goods. Then, if one has paid more than !s another, or has been cheated in qualitv, y he will never enter the shop again; and n the firm that gives the greatest bargains is most patronized on their re \ turn." y 1?1 d The amount of gold in the United ie States at the present ti me is in round ,d numbers $575,000,000, Superstitions or Childbirth, In Denmark children born on Sundays have characteristics by no means enviable. Mr. Thorpe, in his "Northern Mythology," tells us that in Fyen there was a woman who was born on a Sunday, and therefore had the faculty of seeing much that was hidden from others. Unfortunately, on this account, she could not pass by the church at night without seeing a hearse or spectre; hence this gift became a perfect burden to her. She therefore sought the advice of a man skilled in such matters, who directed licr, whenever she saw a spectre, to say, " Go to heaven," but when she met a hearse, "Hang on." Happening some time afterward to meet a w 1 - -l 1, r nearse, snc, mrougii iorgt-uuiuuss, uitu out, " Go to heaven," and straightway the liearse rose in the air and vanished. Soon after, meeting a spectre, she said to it, "Hang on," whereuron it clun/j round h<r neek, hung on her back, ftna drove her down into the earth before it. For three duys her shrieks were heard before the spectre would put an end to her wretched life. In some parts of Scotland the newlyborn child was bathed in salt water, and made to taste it three times. Baptism, too, has been supposed to be a good remedy; and Mr. Napier, in his "Folklore of West of Scotland." quotes an instance in wiiiob the baby was corn on a Saturday and carried two miles to a church the next day rather than a week's delay be risked. In the north of England, when a child pines or wastes away, the cause assigned is the "Evil Eve." In days gone coral beads were hung around the nccks of babies from an ancient superstitious notion that these would protect t horn from evil influences ot every description. In the north of England women still wear round their necks blue woolen threads, or small cords, till they wean their children, for the purpose of warding oil fevers, or, as they are nicknamed, " weeds and onnas." These threads are handed down from mother to child, and esteemed in proportion to their antiquity. According to a Yorkshire notion, a newborn infant should be laid first in the arms of a maiden before any one touches it; and in some places the infant's right hand is left unwashed in order that he may gather riches. It is, too, considered very important by many that an infant should go up in the world before it goes down. Thus, in Cleveland, says Mr. Henderson, " if a child should be born in the top story of a house, for want of a flight of stairs one of the gossips will take it in her arms and mount a table, chair or chest of drawers before she carries it downstairs." In tbo north of England, when an infant for the first time'goes out of the house, it is presented with an egg, smiip salt, a little Inaf nf bread and oc casionally with a small picce of money ?these gifts being supposed to insure that the child shall never stand in need of the common necessaries of life. In the East Riding of Yorkshire a few matchc3 are added, to light the child to heaven. It was,too, in foimer times customary and the practice is not yet obsolete of providing a large cheese and cake, and cutting them at the birth of a child. These were called the "Groaning Cake and Cheese," and were distributed among all the neighbors. In Yorkshire this cake is termed the " Pepper Cake," and in same localities the "Sickening Cake." It is the source of a species of devination, for being cut into small pieces by the medical man, it is divided among the unmarried of th3 female sex. under the name of " Dreaming Bread." Each one lakes a piece, places it on the 4 m r? rtvtsl fhrAinQ 1 1UUI Ul IUC IIT1U 3bU\;iVlll?, auu viuuno 1U over the right shoulder. This being done, they must retire to bed backward, without uttering a word, and those who are lucky enough to fall asleep before midnight are favored with a sight of their future husbands in their dreams. He Conldn't Help It. There was another case yesterday of a boy who couldn't help it. A prominent and dignified citizen was looking througn the third-3tory window of a ? T./r D10CK Oil *) L'jUUiauu uvcuuc, miKu ut had thoughts of renting, when the idea suddenly struck him to look into the alley in the rear. He raised the sash of a window and peered out upon ash boxes, coal scuttles and barrels of straw without number, and was about to close his observations when the sash came down with a thud and struck him behind his shoulders. In his fright he fell to his knees, and while the solid half of his body was all right, the lighter was over the window-sill. In addition to the weight of the sash any movement of the body was accompanied by pain. The sash could not be reached with his hands freely enough to lift it, and it ?oon occurred to the prominent citizen that he ought to have helD. He could not expect it from behind, for lie was alone in the store, but as he looked down into the alley a boy came stumping alone to find something worth lugging away. "Hollo! boy, hello!" called the citizen. " Hello yourself!" replied the hoy as he looked up. " Say, boy, come under the window here: I want to speak to you." "Nnt mimli vsir Hnn'f. " Ctinnlded th<> gamin. " You can't drop no coal-scuttles on my head." " But I don't mean to." "Mebbe not, but you've got a bad face on you for all that. When did you get out of the jug?" "Boy, 1 want you're help." "So does yer aunt! Don't get me to stand in with no such duffer as you are!" "I am caught in this window and want to get out." "So would I! Been prospecting for old junk, eh! You'll get six months for that!" "If you'll come upstair3 and help me out I'll give vou a dollar!" " A dollar! You can't play no dollar store on me, old man! If you makeup another face like that at mc I'll hit you in the eye with this old lemon. I don't look starched up, but I don't let any man insult mc all the same." " Don't you know who I am P" softly asked the citizen. "Naw, I don't, but I'll bet the peripppp Ynn've irctt oneof the Hardest mugs on you I ever saw, and I've a goon miiie to give you one, just for luck! Look out, now!" lie made as if be would throw, and the citizen dodged. This was such fun for the boy that he kept it up three or four minutC3, and the offer ol two dollars hud no effect on him. Then he gathered six or eight old lemons and oranges together and said: " I believe you are the boss hyena who knocked dad down at the caucus, and I'm going to drive your nose back exactly an inch!" "If you throw at me I'll call the police!" exclaimed the citizen. "Thesooner ye call the sooner ye'll be jugged! Here's to hit you square on your nose!" The opening of the back door of a store and the Appearance of a man disconcerted the lad's aim and the lemon struck the citizen's hat instead of his nose. His yells brought a climax, but the air was full of tropical fruit even as the boy dusted down the alley and turned a corner. The boy couldn't help acting that way. He was born so. It wouldn't have been a bit like a boy to run up stairs and release the man. He didn't have a fair show with his spoiled lemons, but boy3 soon get over disappointments.? Detroit Free Press. Coffee-houses are gaining in favor in Europe, whatever their prospects maj be in this country. They have been welcomed in Sweden, where the temperance question is attracting increased attention. There was a very large attendance upon temperance meetings held in Jonkoping a few weeks ago. STRANGER THAN FIUTIOM. Sad Instances of Degradation to be Seen 1 Wash I nut on. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Times writes: One * name among the list of Territorial dele- ? gates I will not mention. He was in h the House for four years, and from the time he entered it until the expiration 0 ** 1 1-?J? ' hfl trrn a nrrflQ f"lU T*0- Ql UI 1113 M'tA'IlU kUiLU iiu ?? tvo W spected. He was an exceptionally able man, a profound thinker, a chaste logi- e cian and a brilliant speaker. He wag h college-bred, had spent years in foreign e' travel, was a lawyer and had been in 6 many responsible official positions. He had been in the legislature of one of the a' Western Slates, and had been receiver I of public moneys and surveyor general, o: While in Congress he lectured before church and scientific societies here, and no man in Congress whs more generally tl respected. Would the reader like to ai know where this great man is now? He . is still in Washington and about as low ir in the human scale as it is possible for w a man to be. He first becamc the vie- a tim of a gambler, who was himstlf at " one time a distinguished member of ?' Congress iron:-, a great Western State, Together they carried on what they * called private club rooms, and there they fleeced their victims as they could ai catcu mem. xney wure ucqueuuy | ? raided by the police, but they managed j P1 to pet off; but they sunk lower and A lower each year, until they Anally got down to the lowest game of " policy.' 3t The ex-Congressman from a Western ^ State died a few days ago. The ex-dele- N /zate i3 now keeping one of the iowest w dens in the city. His place is ostensi- ai bly a cigar store, but a thin partition Q1 separates it from a place of the lowest J*1 character. The man flaunts his shame 131 in the broad glare of day, and may be w seen at almost any time sitting in front ta of his disgraceful abode in his shirt u' sleeves, brazenly facing people who t? knew him in his better days. Here is another case that1 almost ^ makes one lose faith in human nature. E In 1844 there graduated from Harvard j5) university a young man of wonderful promise. He was twentv-two years old. and the world opened promising he fore him. He was, I believe, for a time a teacher in Harvard, and subsequently st he founded a very successful school in Massachusetts. Some time afterward he went South as principal of a State m normal school. The war coming on, he came North. At the close of the war he returned to the Southern States as col- J*! lector of internal revenue. When the T State was reconstructed he was elected sli to the United States Senate and servpd 'r with distinction for seven years. He j>? was chairman of the committee on education and labor, and a member of the fi<J appropriation and other important com- a' mittees. Ho was a very strong and pleasiug speaker, and stood very high !n among his colleagues. After his term 13 expired ne was appointed assistant sec- m retary of the treasury, and was at times acting secretary. It was here that he f" fell. He was courted and flattered and used. Wine, cards and women did er their part to accomplish his fall. There were some very crooked transactions Si while he was in office, and some way or , \ other the assistant secretary lost his A, office and was landed in jail, he was P1 speedily got out, however, but lie became wretchedly poor.andgot to borrow- w ing fifty-cent pieces of his old iriends. jj? It was a pitiful sight to see him about and know what he had been. Finally f.1 some one had him appointed to a 11 twelve-hundred-dolla? clerkship (he dl wrote a beautiful hand) and it was a! thought he might pick up and recover; J11 but he didn't. He had got a passion for ^ gambling, and whenever he could ob- J? tain the money he sought the tiger and j*3 of course lost it, and soon he lost his dl clerkship. I understand he now bor- ?] rows a dollar or two wherever he can 01 and goe3 into the lowest places and 91 plays until it is gone. If he has no *r IHUIiUJ t W1UUU 13 UUU1 iJ iVITYttJO bilVs ?.UOU} be will sit where the game is going on : nd keep the score for the low wretches j.fl that infest the dives he visits. He once had a charming family cf boys and girls. tE but the Lord only knows where they are now. If there is anything stranger or ei more revolting than this in fiction I w have never come across it. 0 V) Ice-Scooped Kocks In Lake Erie. j* .Pelee island, in Lake Erie, is about k. twenty-two mile3 north of the city of Sandusky, O. Of limestone formation. tj a series of- reef stretch ofi the south ana w east shores to a distance of from two to Dl four miles, making it a favorite resort ? for the black bass. jc An interesting feature of this island, on the south side, is the beach of lime- tj stone that in some places stretches along + in nnK*v\lr/m r>Anlinnlf.TT for . two or three hundred yards. This Bt beach, stretching back from the water's H] edge about norty yards, presents the ap- j pearance of having been submitted to o) the action of a gigantic plane that had done its work thoroughly, leaving no c< unevenness on its surface. An interesting peculiarity in regard to this lime- ^ stone beach is the fact that numerous tj grooves have been scooped out of the tj. solid rock, some from two to tifteon feet ^ wide and of an average depth of two ^ feet. These grooves, the sides and bottorn of which are as smooth as pavingstones, look as it they .had been scooped m out by ?in immense gouce. At other . mno ko /-iVloprTTlxl T1111T> Pmil <5 \jiav-io muj uv vi/uv& twm |r smaller grooves and lines; some mere -j. scratches. What is most astonishin? i about these grooves ana lines is that all .' are as oxactlv straight as if they had ,1 been ru ed, crossing, recrossing and intersecting each otlier and forming every possible angle. These lines trend from ihc northwest to the southeast, and ^ from the northeast to the southwest. I ? have never met with the like before, although, perhaps, it may be common g( enough; at any rate, it would be of con- gC siderable interest to a geologist. The 0] only theory that I can advance h that ?.( during that portion of geologic time a, called the glacial period, this limestone ' beach formed the bed of a sea higher m elevated than the surrounding bed. tr Immense iceberes that had formed part c] of enormous glaciers, had become de- gj tached from some mainland. To the base of these, masses of rock hart adher- ^ e.t'Jn the passage of the icebergs over the C( softer stone of this elevated bed, tnese grooves lmd been scooped out by the masses of rock adhering to the bas^s of y the bergs.?Cliicayo Field. _i ?? 0 Not L'p on Gloats. ;i The goat is an everyday sight, and A the man who does not study him and o learn his ways and habits has only him- ir self to blame. Saturday forenoon a c< "William" was quietly feeding on p< Columbia street when a load of house- la hold goods went pass. The owner kept oi pace with the wogon, carrying under ai his arm a tine mirror about hve feet st long. As he came opposite tbe goat he ai met a friend, and ol course he laid to cl stop and tell why he was changing lo- to j cations and how much he expected to sc ! be benefited. The glass was heavy, and tl he naturaily dropped one end to the walk ai to rest his arm. si Had this man been a close observer d he would have seen the goat and wished ii he had a brickbat. Ilnd he made goat nature a study he would have known f< better than to lower the glass. But he ii was a man wha'despised the trifles of ii i life, and he was telling how many tons v 1 of coal the new house would save him v this winter when the goat, who had ft been getting mad for two long minutes f< at sight of a rival in the mirror, went 'I throrjh the glass like a thunderbolt, |k and jumped into the street with the p l frame clinging to his shaggy sides. All s ' that ripping and raving?all the open- o i ing of front doors?all the inquiries by fi . an excited crowd could have been saved 1 I had the citizen but beckoned to the a . smallest boy on the street and asked him b i to give away a few points cn goats.? o Deroit Free Fress. I p IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS. ilrutenant Sclnvatkai Long Journey li Search of ltelica of Sir John Franklin. T Inxt-nnnmt Snhmotl'll lpOflor nf till lJlUULCllUlib Ui.unuvaur) jvituvi. v* imerican expedition in search of relic: fthe Artic;explorer, Sir John Franklin as eiven a New York reporter au in. 3resting account of his long journej ver snow and v?. Lieutenant Schwatkf lid: ' The records of Sir John Franklin's xpedition we have not found, but wc ave discovered, as I think, sufficient pidence of their destruction and of the nal fate of Franklin's men. We have iven a decent burial to their remains nd brought back a number of relics, can show you some of the smaller nes. picked up near Erebus bay." Rising, Lieutenant Sch.vatka unirewed a wooden box that stood upon ie table. It was filled with different rticles carefully labeled. " Here is a tourniquet," he said, h indig out a rust-eaten instrument. Thei e ere tarnished brass buttons, a piece ol measuring stick, the bit of an auger, le bowl of a spoon, and a uumber ol rokm and rusty pieces ot iron belongig to various implements used by ranklin's party. " Jiuese are oniya rew, saiu ijieuiunnt Schwatka; "the other relics will rive tc-morrow night, including the row of a boat found near Wilmot bay. 11 the things left by Franklin's men nve been broken up, and many of them olen by th Esquimaux. These relics ill be sent to the British admiralty, ow there is one thine about which I ant to speak. The London Standard id some other English papers have iiestioned the propriety of my bringing ome Lieutenant Irving's bones for urial. The advisability of doing tDis as the only point about which I hesi,ted during the journey. On my way p the coast I collected the bones for inirment where they lay. On my relrn, after a long consultation with my nnpanions, 1 decided to bring tnem to ngland. I was decided in doing this j my own feeling that I should like to ive any bone in my body brought Dme by any nation for interment in y native country. I am sorry to see tat a portion of a nation should take ich exceptions to what another nation )es conscientiously with their bravest :ad, for I believe Sir John Franklin's en were the bravest Englishmen that rer lived. " In my opinion, then, this expedition is settled the fate of Franklin's men. he journey has been carried out on sds, and we have gained subsistence om the country through which we issed. This is something new, I be;ve, in Arctic explorations, and by ime is held to have given a very valu)le precedent. For my part, I think rpcrience of comparatively little value Arctic traveling. What is valuable a man's own energy, determination id pluck. "Geographically, something hps been icomplished, as the admiralty charts ive been discovered to be widely in ror, sometimes being fifteen or twenty iles out of the way. It would be posble now to construct a correct chart o le coudtry through which we passed, his is what I think has been accomi3hed. Of course there were nuny jtails iu our sled journey of 3,000 miles hich are perliaps interesting in them Ives. There were three white men .'sides myself in the party and thirteen uiits in all, for when the Inuits travel ley always lake their women and chil en. Our journey was to be on sleds, id we followed the lmbit3of theEsquiaux as nearly as possible. In addition ? heavy underclothing, we wore what as practically t<vo complete suits of ir clotiiing. This was made of reinser skin, one suit having the hail turned at and the other thin. The inner pair : trousers is called 1 lwopals', and the liter ' kok lins.' We wore long stockigs, ' las lektls,' coming up above the nee. The cap is attached to the outside >at, the whole being called ' coute,ng.' The cup fits closely around the lcg. The shoes were made of the skin tken from the head of the reindeer. "The sleds wore perhaps fifteen or ahteen feet Jong. The iminers are of riialebone and the sides are inclined ut a little. This is done by the use of 'ha.e cask staves for cross pieces, and takes the sleds run more easily. On lese cross pieces the provisions and iggaee are carried wrapped up in deercin, and lashed in place by sealskin longs. I started from Depot island rith forty-two dogs. There would Jbe erhaps fifteen to a sled. They are riven by means of a whip with a very mg lash, always long enough to reach le leading dog, although he may be lirty teetaway from the sledge. "Our sled loads amounted to beveen 4,000 and 5,000 pounds when we arted. We were splendidly armed ad carried plenty of ammunition, hen we took' a good deal in the way f provisions, such as hard bread, pork, impressed corn bd f, oleomargarine, jffee and tea, and other articles. We nd also some walrus meat; but we ere determined to depend chiefly on ic same in the country that we passed irough. This is where the expedition iffered from most Arctic explorations. Then we left Camp Daly, April 1, J79, we had a pretty fair idea of the tperience we would" have, for we bad in.de some preliminary sled journeys, id had habituated ourselves to Jiving i Esquimaux 'igloos' or snow huts, here was considerable risk when (ging overland of finding hills so igh that it would be impossible to get le sleds over them; and then there as some danger of not finding sufiienc game. Our first day's journey was nly ten miles, and for the first montli e averaged about eight miles daily, lithe distances are in my note book. " We were encouraged," Lieutenant chwatka continued, " by coming across >me reindeer At-ril 5, and Iaolooah. ne of our Esquimaux, killed two white Des; another killed one. This was reisuring as to the prospect for food, and ) long as we could get plenty of fresh leat there was no danger of ecurvy. In aveling everything was taken on the eds instead of using portage; that is, tuding a part of the load ahead with ic men and following with the rest, nd I forbade riding on the sleds exo lia !) SrtmD ;pt WllUll W TT*A 4* 1U4>. wu?v. ills that we came to were so steep that e were obliged to lower the sleds, fhen the temperature was low these ads run very easily. We threw water ver the tunners, which froze, and made surfaco of ice over the whalebone, .t night we built little huts, or ' ifiloes' [ ice, banked up with snow, the openig or door being very smali. In onr srner was our lire, which was a rather Eculiar one. A hemispherical stone imp was used, containing oil and bits t moss, and little tires were built round and on the sides. If it became > warm in the hut that the snow melted od dripped, and the air became too lose, we made a small hole through the >p. Thi3 hole was also convenient >metimes to tire the Coston signals lrough when'the wolves came around tnight. Wc used deerskins and seal sins f'-r protection at night. Some had eerskin bags tiiat they could crawl lto, aud be perfectly snug. " The nights as a rule were very comjrtable, but it was unpleasant on wakig in the morning to find one's stocklgs, that had become wet on the preious day, frozen hard and still'. The rolvc3 annoyed us somewhat, both om their noise and on account of our jars that they would attack the dogs, 'he Esquimaux have a pleasant way of iliing them. They take a sharp-pointed icce of whalebone, tic it up with inews and smear the whole with oil, r put blubber around it and let it rec'/e. The wolf swallows the lump, 'nc sinews gradually bccome relaxed nd partially digested, and the whaleone, springing out, t>icrce3 the entrails f the animal. The lnuits who accomanied us viffc of the greatest value in hunting. In all we s'lot 511 reindeer, four musk-oxen and innumerable seals, ! walruses and other animals In walrus hunting it is impossible to get the ani mals when the wind is blowing the ice 1 off shore. But when the wind brings ' the ice in shore the walruses come in, ? and climb up on cakes of ice. Then the " Esquimaux crawl over the hummocks 1 until they get near enough to throw the 1 Harpoon. This coil 01 line lies on the arm, and they let it out through their ' hands?usually bare?when the animal plunges into the water. It may take two or three thrusts, but at last ttie gnme is hauled on the ice, and the hunter rewards himself with a drink of 1 warm blood. " When an Esquimau finds a slight, rounded elevation in the ice, with a little opening, he knows it to be a seal hole, and lie stations himself beside it 1 with his harpoon ready in one hand and ' his coil of line around his neck. After a time lie hears a ' whew-w whew-w' ' underneath the ice. When this is re peated he plunges down the harpoon, which usually strikes the seal's head. l Tim Esquimnu being stronger than the : seal the unfortunate brute, after run1 ning with the line for a while, is pulled up Lhrough a hole cut in the ice. Every part of the reindeer, walrus and seal is, used by the Esquimaux. They even eat the contents of the reindeer's stomach, and the entrails of all are utilized. The flesh and blubber are sometimes eaten raw and sometimes cooked. The Esquimaux with us killed a great deal of game, and the very dogs helped us by hurrying forward when there was a prospect of getting any, for they are alwavs hunrrrv." A Blind Man Climbs Monnt Blanc. F. J. Campbell, a blind man, gives in the Jxmdon Times the following description of his ascent of Mount Blanc: My ascent of Mount B lane was not a sudden, reckless undertaking. It was the result of a fixed purpose, and only under* taken alter a long and careful preparation. In order to carry on my work on behalf of the blind, it was necessary to keep up my pluck, energy and determination. Skating, swimming, rowing, riding, have all contributed their share to this end, but last year I went to Switzerland to try mountain climbing. The experiment was highly successful This year 1 went a^ain, accompanied by my wife, son, and his highness Prince Alexander George of Hesse. After four weeks' continuous work on the orlftmers and in the various mountain ascents, I went to Chamounix, and without difficulty achieved the object of my summer's excursion. In company wi^h my son, with Benoit as my leading guide, I attacked Mount Blanc. At first the guides expected to drag me up, but I gave them their choice to leave me to climb in my own way or give up the undertaking. I was resolved to make an honest climb or give up the ascent. I took my place on the rope in the ordinary way, except that the distance between my son and myself was only a few feet. This enabled me to follow his footsteps closely, and in such places as tbe very dangerous crevasse near the grand plateau we moved in immediate succession. For instance, before he would take the fingers of his right hand out of the hole which had been cut in the ice wall for the purpose, my left hand would touch his right hand and be ready to occupy the hole as soon as he relinquished it. With the exception of cutting very excellent steps for me, the guides during the ascent did not assist me in any way. I was glad to find that the ascent of such steep places as the Bosse was much easier than I had anticipated. The cuttine of steps required considerable time, and allowed me at my leisure to prepare for each difficult and dangerous step. Besides carrying a strong alpenstock, I always take with me in difficult climb3 a short walking-stick, which I often use in my right hand as an indicator, and to show the skill which it is possible to attain in this way, I may mention that I did not miss a single step in the entire ascent. When I reached the summit, Benoit exclaimed: " Welcome to the summit of Mount Blanc. You are the first and last blind gentleman who will ever stand upon this the highest point in Europe." But my mind was busy. Passing from peak to peak, I went round the entire circle, dwelling on many favorite summits. They had all been carefully studied; and each in its turn brought some new winged hope for the future. It was very cold, and the guides soon reminded us that we must begin the descent. Before doinj; so, however, I consecrated my liie anew to the blind, and have now returned to England to prosecute this one purpose of my life. In difficult climbs I rely entirely upon my own careful steps and the strength of my own arm, but in making descents it is otherwise, especially oyer snow slopes. Hero I take the guide's arm and the alpenstock in the otlier hand and bound down with great rapidity. We made the descent from the summit to tlie Grands Mulets in three bours and thirty minutes. A Gigantic Marine Fight. Lord Archibald Campbell sends to the Scots',nan the following account of a battle, of which he was a witness, between a thresher, sword fish and a whale, oil' Helleisle. His lordship, who wj.s a passenger on the Peruvian, writes: win>n fuirlv outside Belleisie island. with icebergs of no great size on either bow, and fairly in the Arctic current, and the Teutonia on our starboard bow, the lirst officer told me he had seen twice a laree "thresher" fish leap clean out of the water, not far from our bows. We kept a close watch near about where lie had last seen the lish; nor had we long to wait, and for the next ten minutes to a quarter of an hour wc watched a most tremendous figiit between this fish and a large whale, which, evi lentlv attacked also from below by a swordfish, was ineffectually trying to "sound" and do all in its mighty power to get away, but there was no escape. The thresher, an enormous fish?reckoned by the first officer and head engineer to be thirty feet in length?kept continually lashing the whale with its powerful tail, and, as if not satisfied that these stunning blows had "told." threw itself in the air with enormous leaps, landing on the whale with the most resounding "whacks." The sublime and the ridiculous were strangely blended in these attacks; the passengers and crew were all gathered at the bulwarks, fascinated by the gigantic fight. The whale turned in its agony almost belly uppermost, casting itself about in all directions, but there was no escape. It never got deep below the surface, which was churned by its mighty efforts into a seething mass of foam. The combatants went right in the teeth of the wind and sea then run i ning. We saw the whale in a regular i " flurry" often, and when our straining , eyes last saw them they were as liarci at i it as ever, and it was the opinion of most on board that the whale was fast sickening. The whole of the under part of the whale was white, and I hope some one will give rne some intorma tion as to its species. From the tips of the tail to its jaw it was as if painted . pure white, a leaden color above. . There were many on board who had sailed the Atlantic for upward of thirty years, but had never seen such a fight. It took place, so to speak, close to both vessels, the tight raging between our ship and the Teutonia. After considerable investigation, Dr. Frankland c\ acludes that the persistence of fogs in large cities is due to the , fact that the minute particles of vapor become covered with an oily coating from the smoke of the towns, evapora tion of the fog being thus greatly rei tarded. This is considered a satisfactory explanation of the nature of "dry fog," i so often observed. TALMAGE 05 MARRIAGE. The Brooklyn Divine Fires a Shot ai Polygamy?The Sad Condition of film whohaii More than One Wife? Women Helping to Fill Club It dolus, The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmagc, during a recent sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, said: Away with the gross notion that marriage 13 a merely civil contract; it is a paradisiacal six-thousand-years-old divine institution. All the laws since Blackstone or befor Blackstone can't properly marry *o hearts unless the Lord Almiytl: lias first married them. What are the foes, the bitter enemies, of the marriage relation? The first foe I discern is polygamy. There are now', in this country more people than ever who believe in polygamy. Some believe in it under another name; some practice it under no name. When it is asserted that the Bible sanctions polygamy or plurality of wives, there is not one Christian in five hundred thousand who cannot refute the slander. The Bible recognizes polygamy just as it recognizes all other styles of sin, but in no case sanctions it. Wherever in the Bible you find a man who Has more than one wile you find him up to his neck in trouble. Solomon says: "There is no good thine under the sun. Vanity of vanities; all is vanity." Good for him! If he had had 999 wives less he would have taken a more cheerful view of things. God said: "I will make a helpmeet" for man. He did not say helpmeets. If God had intended a plurality of wives, instead of takine one rib from Adam's side He would have taken more, uotil Adam would not have had a rib left. Then, how was it at the delugeP How many of each kind were there? Each man had one wife. If polygamy had been right they would have had twenty wives eacu, and thus h*ve saved a multitude from drowning. 'The history of ?ho urnrld ohnws t.njit. thp men and women have almost always been equal in number. Where there has been any exception the women have been in the majority. The Bible is not more thoroughly against theft, blasphemy and murder than it is against polygamy. Where polygamy exists there may be a large house, a eplendid house, but no home. Suppose twenty women tried to occupy the throne of Victoria, how much prosperity would there be in England P Just as much as in any home where more man one wne cries to oe queen. God intended woman to be man's equal. But in polygamy that is impossible, because iL presumes that it takes ten, twenty or tnirty women to equal one man. All that poetry about man being the oak and woman the vine is flat, and stale, and untrue. In tens of tnousand3 of eases, men who have met commercial disaster, who have gone home discouraged, ready to give up the struggle, -wishing they were dead, have found sympathy and encouragement in wives who have cheered ana lea mem up to uummciuiai piusperity. Who now the oak and who the ivy? I like the ring of that New York merchant who, after declining a subscription to a project he disapproved, said to the applicant: " You may call upon my wife; perhaps she may take a different view of the subject." Such a Beautiful thing as that could not have occurred in polygamy. Again, all those entertainments which take men a majority of evenings I from home are enemies of the domestic I relations. I make "no indiscriminate assault on clubs, indeed, it i i:aa no home, I should seek out the best club I could find and join it. But when a man likes any place better than his home, look out for breake?. You can tell whether a man likes his home by noting whether he stays there. But the average club house is the foe to domestic life in New York and Brooklyn. Who people the clubhouses? I answer, in many cases, women. A woman is surprised that she has not so much attention paid to her now as before marriage. Perhaps it would be different ifsne would take as much pains to make herself attractive as she did before marriage. That is where women make a mistake, when, because they are married, they give up all those little arts which, though indescribable, go to make up womanly attractiveness. Too many women make their charms a net for making one haul. After they have made one haul they throw the net away. Before marriage you played like Thalbergor'Gottschalk; now you cannot play at aii. How do you spend your evenings? Is it complaining about the servants? Do you put your husband in an infant i'class of which you are the professor? You ought to make home a small heaven for your husband's perturbed spirit. Unwise, fretful, jealous women have filled one-half of the club houses of America. Let the women of this country read newspapers and books, if only ten minutes .a day. Let them study the questions of the hour, and be able to holH a good stout political argument Then liomp will be the club house to which many more will flock. One intelligent woman has more attractiveness than twenty intelligent men. Another great Joe of domestic iiie is easy divorce. How many enter the marriage relation recklessly ? In France the laws were made easy for divorce, and there were *20.000 divorces in a year in Paris. There were 48,000 children carried into the foundling hospital and kindred institutions?48,000 foundlings in a year! When law lets down the bars, all the cattle of beastliness break into the garden ot home. When Rome was moral there was only one case o! divorce reported in 500 jears. She changed the law; then the deluge. Divorce is too easy in tuis country. In La Crosse, Wis., there were in one year seventy-six divorces; in Philadelphia there were 284. It has been announced that divorces have increased largely in New York lately?at least 500 per cent. Now, all this is right if marriage be merely a civil contract. Then you may dispose of a conjugal relation as you would of a house, or a bara, or a horse. But if it be a divine institution, then no other ground than that announced by the Almighty himself can dissolve that relation. Anywhere to Get Away. Mr. Greeley had been invited to deliver a lecture at a village a few miles from Chicago. He appointed the time for Saturday evening, but was dismayed at finding when there that there was no train to tike him back to Chicago before Monday. His first question of the gentleman who was awaiting him was if there was no way in which he could get out of town the next day. "Not by a public conveyance," he was to'.d. "No boats?" "Not at this season of the year." (December.) A sharp cross-questioning elicted the information that an occasional propeller stopped at one of the piers during the winter months, but there was no certainty of such an event occurring. Sunday morning Mr Greeley was seen j down at the shore looking as longingly j as a shipwreeked sailor for a sail. No boat appearing, his host prevailed on hiiu to go to church with him. "We bad in our little church," says the J writer, " that day a clergyman to whom I even Mr. Greeley might have listened ! with profit if not with pleasure. Listen: iag, however, w.is not Mr. Greeley's intention. Settling himself in a corner ol the pew, he went to sleep, and slept on until near the close of the sermon. Sud denly the whistle of a propeller sounded through the air. The great editor started, pricked up his ears, then jumped up, without a giance even at bis host, walked down tlie aisle and out of the church, and wa3 seen no more by the inhabitants. Afterward it was learned tliat the propeller was on its way to j Milwaukee, not Chicago, 'But anvJ where to get away,1 said Mr. Greeley. ? - - - - - Look Up, Not Down. * ? . . Lile to some is lull ol sorrow? -* i Hall is real, hall they boirow: 1 Fall of rocks and lull of ledges, Corners sharp and catting edges. Thongh tho joy bells may be ringing, Not a song yonH hear them singing; Seeing never makes them wise, '* r Looking ont from downcast eyes. All in vain the san is shining, Waters sparkling, blossoms twining; They bat see through these same sorro*^-~ Sad to-days and worse to-morrowi; flV ' * See the clonds that must pass over; ? See the weeds among the ilover? Everything and anything car tne goia tne sunoeams unrig. Drinking from the bitter fountain, Lo! your mole- hill seems a monntai - . * " Drops ol dew and drops of rain Swell into the mighty main. All in vaia the blessings shower, <?> And the mercies fall with power. Gathering chaff, ye tread the wheat,. ? Rioh and royal, 'neath your feet. Let it not be bo, my neighbor; , . Look np, as yon love and labor* Not for one alone woe's viala; * Every one has cares and trials. Joy and pain are linked together, Like the fair and clondy weather. . May we have, oh, lot us pray, > Faith and patience for to-day, ?Advance, ? HUMOROUS. Blood relations?War 8torie3. . V A grate singer?The teakettle. The fat of the land?Petroleum. You can tell dogwood by its bark_ A grave error?Burying a man alive. A joiner's bench?The hymenial altar. * i The Yonkers Siaiesvt'in calls falling .* downstairs an extended trip. Any old bachelor will shriek for a better half when a counterfeit fifty.cent piece is shoved on him. A Kansas paper cuds a marrriage notice: "Thecouple left for the East on the night train where thev will i reside." When a Cincinnati man speaks of the productions of his pen, you never know* whether he is a literary feller or a hograiser.? Boston Transcript. ' . Dogs lose all consciousness at 12,000 feet anove the level of the sea, bat a shotgun produces the same effect in one-dfth the time.?Detroit Free Cress. '* The following sentiment was given at a centennial celebration: The women?in the Revolution they freely gave up- . their tea?now they shall not go without their toast. "Teach your boy to think for him- ' self!" exclaims Bob Ingersoll. Don't you do it, bub. The minute you differ with the old man he'll bootjack you.? . Detroit Free Press. " Is your cough any easier?" said oneof poor Hood's acquaintances, on calling to see how he was. "It should be," said the wit, from his pillow; "I've been practicing all night." Women have cheek enough to wear men's hats on their heads, but there is one thing they do n^t do. Not one of them dares remove their hats in public ' . and dust off the bald spot. " Under the laws of IUinoi3 what if per- :tl son sees through a keyhole cannot be-'- accepted as evidence in court. But no :i sewing society in the country would reject such testimony.?Boston Post. _ . 4, A boy who won't take as big a.)?te as . he can from auothcr boy's apple is diseasing his real feelings and should be narrowly watched, less he might make a sudden grab ana run on wnu ine ffhole. A South Hill debating club is wrest- * ling with, "Can a community exist.' without women?" We ihinkit miph exist for a while, but then it wouldn't ? know what was going on.?Burlington Hawkeye. An English servant girl w^o had returned from the United States to visit her home was told that she "looked really aristocratic," to which she responded: "Yes; in America all of us domestics belong to the hire class." Purchaser?"You arc a fraud, sir! When I bought this horse from you you assured me that he hadn't a fault; why. sir, he's stone blind!" Vendor?**I know he is, but I don't consider that a fault; I call that a misfortune."?2bronto Grip. .. ~T.__ 3 J ? m*lA " wny ao you aigu, ucuii ou? wuuouj As they sat in the glow ot a chcorfol grate Are, (They were married ten years); And he nodded his head Toward eight of their progeny, ready for bed, And replied: " Because, dear, I'm so much of a sire." The meanest man on record is the one who saw an archer? club out practicing and sent and got seven arrows and stuck them into a cow in the next field. No amount of protestation could induce her owner to acquit the archers. Two workmen were heard disputing about a new cemetery, near which they were standing. One of them, evidently disliking the fashion in which it was 1-.2J ??- A /liortiiaf . ** TM ratKov 1211U UUUj SaiU) 1XX UlOgUSb* jl. VI AMbuv* die than be buried in such a plaqfr' " Well," said tbe other, " I'll be buried anewhere else if I'm spared." We have revenged ourselves on the man who let his hens into our garden last year. We hf.ve presented his wife with a lot of plants which he will have the felicity of lugging down cellar every nigbt while frosc lasts, and they, will be sure to die about spring time.?Boston Posl. The meanest woman on record is the one who ran up to a lady friend ou the street and said: "Of course you've heard of the scandal in the church! Awful* isn't it? Oh, here's my car," and then jumped into a horse-car and , was gone without explaining the scandal to the friend who didn't know about it.?Boston Post. One night we were sitting out in the moonlight, unusually silent, almost sad.. Suddenly some one?a poetic-looking man with a gentle, lovely face-said in a ,>w tone: "Did you ever think of the oeautiful lesson the stars teach us*" We gave a vague, appreciative muimur, but some souless clod said: "No; , what is it?" "How to wink," he answered, with a sad, sweet voice. A backwoods preacher once elucidated as follows in connection with the parable of the virgins: " In ancient times, my beloved hearers, it was the custom, altera couple had been married, for t n virgins to go out with lighted lamps and meet 'em on the way home, live of hese virgins being males and tivo emales." Fasting Horses. To determine the capacity of horses to undergo the privations incident to a state of siege, a series of experiments were made with these animais in Paris, some years ago. The experiments proved (1) that a horse can hold out for twenty-tive days without any solid . nourishment, provided it is supplied with sufficient and good driu ing water. ; f2) A horse can barely hold out for tive f aays without water. (3) It a horse is well fed for ten days, but insufficiently provided with water throughout the same period, it will not outlive the ' eleventh day. One horse, from which water had been entirely withheld for hree days, dHnk on the fourth day ixty liters of water within t'iree minutes. A horse which received no solid nourishment for twelve days was nevertheless in a condition, on tlie twelfth day of its fa^t, to draw a load of 7*79 kilos.