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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER: i # BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C;. WEDNESDAY; AtJGUST 16, 1882. FO. 11. VOLUME XXVII. After. After the shower, the tranquil sun; After the mow, the emerald leaves; Stiver stars, when the day is done ; Alter the harvest, golden sheaves. After the clouds, the violet sk/; After the storm, the lull of waves ; Quiet woods, when the winds go by; * After the battle, peaceful graves. After tne knWl, tbe wedding bells; After the bud, the radiant rose ; Joyful greetings from sad farewells; After our weeping, sweet repose. After the burden, the blissful meed: After the flight, the downy nest; After the furrow, the waking seed; After the shadowy river, rest. ?George Cooper. ROCK CREEK CHURCH. " It is the last girl I shall send to Europe," said Mr. Brancepeth. "Very likely," returned his wife, *as it i? the only girl you have." " She ha9 bccome thoroughly denationalized," continued the father. " She thinks American soil only fit to make mud on overshoes and American men nothing but clod-hoppers. Her bead is full of foreign notions, and she'll marry notlr- ? but a title. She'll have none of nr monej to carry to a tide, let me tell her," said Mr. Brancepeth, putting salt in his coffee. Where she came by such folly I don't know. There has never been anything like it on my side of the house. Your head, to be sure, was a little tu ned xvbcn you first came to Washington, and went to an executive dinner?" "Mr. Brnncepcth!" "Well, 1 must find fau't with somebody. To havo your only daughter oom? home a changeling, and not be ?bte to upbraid your wife about it, would be bard. This is the most ?hocking coffee!" " Salt doesn't improve coffee." . " Give mo a lieth cup. Wbat did you sand Thomas out cf the room for?" " Because 1 Lad something to say." Not 0t for his ears. They are long enough."' - iou con v ieej 8 3 very oamy, 11 you can be making jests." " Sorry jetting," said Mr. Brancepeth. "And when Jessie was such a fresh, ?a*ret, innccent beauty." " She is u fresh, Bweet, innocent beauty now," said her indignant mother. "And she will come out all right, if you only give her time. To go to Europe, and spend a year in a foreign fcaioisttr's famiJy, as she has done, retrying the attention belonging to such a position, and known to be an heiress?" "Known to be an heiress. By heaveDst -uho knowB her to be an heirew? I don't. If she carries sail this vnj, 1 won't leave her a penny." "It's no use to talk so, father. Everybody knows you are a rich man, and she's your only child. And there's no danger of any one marrying her for money merely, when there's everything to Jove in her." '""What do IVese foreigners hanging round her care for love? They think of nothing but money, and let her break htr t.eart afterward, for all they will do to binder. It makes my blood boil to look kt them? musicale here, and cotillon there, and morning calls, ?nd (trolls, and sending the coach back empty to walk home from church. JKnw, Louisa, I tell you plainly she must siop all this, or I'll take the whole kit away from town, and move out on the Colorado ranch, and stav there, and you may tell ber so." "Tell her yourself, father." " I can't?you know I can't." "As for your Colorado ranch, there are as many foreigners in Colorado as there are in Washington, And now do be sensible, and listen to reason a moment. You know Jessie will many H somebody?" V "1 kuowjepsie will marry somebody?" roared her father. "How do I know it? 1 <Aon't know it. No other man shall ever lord it over my child the way*?the way?" *'Tbe way you have lorded it over me." Then Mr. Brancepeth laughed. "Well, I have abused yon sometimes, Louisa" he said. 11 Ob, don't flatter yourself," replied hia wife ; " I have been a match for you. eo will Jessie be for as good a man, if you don't marry her to a foreigner by forbidding it." "Do you mean to say, Louisa?" "Yes, I mean to say. And now if you will listen to reason, as I spoke of your doing?" Mr. Brancepeth threw himself back in bia chair with an air of desperation, -ar.w can I help listening," said he, Mf you will talk? Although as for the | reason- " " And I will talk. Do you remember young Paul Despard, who came here for you to get his appointment in the trt asurj ?" 'Of course. Why phouidn't I? People don't forget their friends' children in a day. Acd I should never hare been senator of the United States if Paul Deepard's father had not stood roy friend. Besides, hasn't be been hero repeatedly f" "Well, then, you lemember that when he had been here six months, and seen what life in office was, and what it led to?" *'Ytncfn ft men'j cnnl rvnfl" " ? He went through tue law school, threw op his office without any ado, and vent West to practice law?" "Well, well, I don't know that I've the time or interest to follow that young man's career along this morning. What of it?" " This of it. He came back a month or two since to try a case before the supreme court, and is likely to be here f~r some time still, I suppose." ' And you want to ask him here to 9ta.> ? That is all right. Insist upon it. Bnt to retnrn to Jessie." 'Dear! dear! dear! was there ever anvthinc so stnnid as ft man V Vn? aa i was going to say, Paul Despard is a rising man ; he has become a leading lawyer, the soul of honor, noble, generous, tender an# trne. I've seen a good deal of him?" " 80 I should jndge," said her husband, dryly. "Oh, go on ! Heap it up, and don't mind me. A senator of the United States, with three committees and sub-committees waiting, has nothing else to do than to bear his wife paint the exoellencies of the first young man?" " My dear, are yon losing yonr mind?" said Mrs. Brancepeth, with dignity. "If you have no respect for yourself, have some for my gray hairs." And she arranged the pretty silver love-locks on her 6hite forehead, that made snch a contract with the infantile rose of her oomplexion and the dewy brightness o her eyes that people looked twice to see if they were mistaken in supposing her either an elderly lady or a you j * girl. Her husband gazed at her muob as ahe did twenty-five years ago. "To resume," said he. "This 1 t-rfect young fcan?" "Is here. And is as much in ove with Jessie?" "In love with Jessie!" cried Mr Brancepeth, starting to his feet. ' Paul Despard in love with Jessie ! The impudent?" "That's right, dear. That's exactly what I want you to do. Keep that up, and don't falter, if you love her yourself. Don't you pretend to consider for one moment that he is honest, virtuous, well-born, the son of a good husband, a man of intellect and promise?" "For heaven's sake, Louisa, what is * the end of all this?" "I am urging you to oppose Paul Deepard's suit for Jessie's hand, which he half confided to me. A6 for-me, I encourage Jessie in no such nonsense. I am bound that she shall marry Prinoe Vinca, of the Aretine legation." " Hang the Aretine legation! What do we want of foreign legations at all ? Commercial agents would do all the business America has with foreign countries, and rid us of this pest of lounging rascals preying on our daughters. "Veryabsurd in 70U, Mr. Brancepeth. Prinoe Vinoa is a gentleman to the tips of his fingers. Ton might know that by the way he followed Hfilen Manser horre, and into tho V'el'y vestibule, the otbor twilight, when he had navoi* Itati V-*<-?f wrt Ixw iV*a ?mav( U/\ UVIW1 utuu UCi UCJVi U, VI UJ WttJ JUO lay dcfrn along the floor at Mrs. Boteler's ball, w'len he thought every one worth while had gone down to the supper-room. It is a noble pleasantry which adds spice to society. As for the aflair with Miss Long, I uon't know how he could be cxpcoted to marry Miss Long when she hadn't a penny and he hadn't either. Miss Long needn't have sat round the parks uhde'r the same umbrella with him it she hadn't chosen. Because his people at home live on black bread and garlic in the ruined aroh of an old castle, it doesn't follow that Jessie will. She w ill bring the revenue aDd he will bring the rank. And just imagine, my dear, our Jessie a prinoew of the old Roman empire 1" "Is it possible," gasped Mr. Brance peth?"is it possible that my wife is talking this way ?" "Why? Don't you think it a nice way to talk ?" "Nice? Are you quite be ide yourself ? 8hall I answer a fool according to his folly?" Mrs. Branoepeth leaned back in her chair and laughed till the good man j tnaQ In'it Ar>/^ n/> ?Aollw 1 noo uiiguivuvut uuu DU juu ivonj i think it Billy 51 What do you suppose Jes&ie will think, then ? Now, Mr. Brancepeth, I never saw anybody whose ! perceptions were so Blow. Bat I hoped.j I could briDg you to aee that if you ! oppose Bespard and I Urge Vmca, b j what may be called a 'resolution o j forces1 we may bring about what we do ! desire. She won't do what I want her I to do, and she will do what you don't j want her to do." Mr. Brancepeth looked at his wife with a gleam of intelligence at last. " A pretty daughter you have, if that is tho vaT tr? tint" Via priori ' A nrflHv ; ~ ? way yon have brought up your daughter I" And then he banged from tho room like an angry hornet, leaving o)a the table Prince Vinca's note asking for , an interview that evening, just as Miss , Jessie came dancing in like a joyous butterfly, and of course found her! mother wiping her eves with her handkerchief. "Oh, what is it, mamma?" she cried. "Yourfather," said Mrs. Brancepeth, burying her face again in the cambric? "your father?he?he is so indignant to think of Paul Despard's presumption, he threatens to bury us alive on the Colorado ranch. He?he says I have brought you up in a pretty way, and he is?as mad as a March hare !" " Or a hatter," said Miss Jessie. "But that means midsummer madness, not papa's tempers. I declare I tbink papa might be satisfied with having arranged his own marriage and let mine alone.'* 'Ob, JessieI" "Well, this isa free country, mamma, ! and I am a grown woman, and I shall marry where I wish to, and shall not marry where I don't wish to, papa to the contrary notwithstanding." And the naughty-tempered Miss Jessie picked out her lace ruffles and smoothed out her pink bows, and looked at her | mother and laughed. "Would you, j mamma?" said she. "I don't know, Jessie," said Mrs. j Branoepeth, wiping her eyes so vigor-1 ously that they looked as if tears had been there. "You know I am old-fash- | ioned. I have beliefs, superstitions?I don't know what. I shouldn't dare disobey a parent in such a serious matter, i and expect anything but disaster to ' overtake me. And here?I can't say? perhaps your father is right. He knows i Panl is onlv makinc liis wry. and Prince Vinca?" "Well, what of Prince Vincar" 6aid the i impatient beauty. i "Well, he's a prince to be^in with." i "Yee, I know that," said Jessie, more quietly. "And I don't pretend to eay, i mamma, that the thought of being a princess hasn't attractions. But that < man?that man, mamma?he hasn't any attractions." "Prince Vinca!" said her mother, h 'Way , J m astonianed, Jessie. He looks :: ike a Roman emperor." "Yes, jast like one of those old beasts that exhausted the empire for 11 their pleasures. And I should be one ': of the things led captive in his triumph" "Or he in yours." "Ireally believe, mamma, you want j, me to sell myself for a title." "I want you to be happy, Jessie,"! flaid Mrs. Brancepeth, with dignity. " If Paul DeBpard were only a prince 1 in the Aretine legation?" "Dear me, Jessie, why will you mea-1 tion Paul Despard's name when you know your father would cut you off with a shilling?" "Paul Despard would be glad of me without a penny to my name," paid j Jessie. "Wouldn't Prince Yinca?" "iteajiy, mamma, 1 don't? Deneve? he would. With all his gasconade about adoration, I don't believe he would.'' " Are you certain, Jessie?" said the diplomatio lady, who was gradually working things in the cirection you wished. "You don't mean that she 1 think he is trying to marry you for j your money? I should hate to have : people say you had bought him." "People will say that anyway. It' isn't in human nature not to say spiteful j things That is the claw of the original j wild beast in us." "By the way, Jessie," eaid her mother, "1 have an appointment with Mrs. Lecpinards at 1, and I wish you would order your phaeton and drive down to the greenhouse. Durkee has I gone to market, and Mrs. Bunoe says we haven't half enough flowers for din uci? auu uci iiiubuui. oai iuiuaiu^ vi the lovely picture it would be when the child should come driving back in all her snowy laces and muslins, her hat wreathed with its apple blossoms, and the carriage heaped with the hothoase flowers. But Miss Jessie did not come home that way. I might, indeed, eay that Mies Jeesie never came home at all, but that wonld hardly be the exact statement. As she drove down the avenne, taking back the flowers, and making all the beautiful picture her mother's fancy had drawn, and morn, Miss Jessie descried, some way before her, a tall fignre with a book under the left arm. She was not ready for any definite parley, and shook her reins loose, and took the detour of a square, to came upon him face to face on the other and narrower street. "Are there two of you?'* she cried, before she thought; and then she had unavoidably drawn up to the sidewalk. " Isn't this royal summer?'* she said. "There is something delicious about this heat." "When you are not on foot," said Paul Despard, with the full look of a pair of brilliant hazel eyes at the lovely object half bnried in flowers. "To be sure. And the place is so full I cannot ask you to drive. Could you find a spot under all this blocm ?" " Could 1 find a spot in paradise ?" And the young man had presently found it, and had taken the reins and turned the horse's heads about. "Why, what are you doing? where are you going ?" she exclaimed. "Baok to the greenhouse to send all this fragrant truck up by messenger. And then into the air. I have won my case and*must get out upon the open somewhere.'' " You have won jour case 1" "Yes, one of them. The other I shall know about before long." " I didn't know you had two of them. In the supreme coort ?" "One of them. And one in Ihesupremest oourt of all." " There is no understanding legal lore. Some States have judges and jastices, and others have chancellors and surrogates. And there are courts of equity and admiralty, and superior courts and supreme courts, but 1 never heard of this one?" "Yet you are the jury who will bring in the verdict, the judge who may perhaps draw on the black cap?" "Why don't you say executioner and all? I can't have you talking so absurdly." " It makes^a man',talk?absnrdlj? ' "To be driving down Fourteenth street and out on the Rock Creek road on a summer morning ? Do you know, I think Washington is more delightful in summer than in the height of the i gay season. 1 am always rattier Riaa | when papa is kept here by the long j session Hot, to be sure?New Orleans | is a good deal cooler- but one feeis j alive in euch heat. I like it, and fancy 11 might grow a sotll in it; as a Sower J expands?'' "And you are not talking absurdly now ?" "No, indeed. Three months ago I hadn't any soul ; three weeks ago 1 was just beginning to be conscious of one ; I to-day?" " Well, to day V" "Oh, what magnificent woods! To think of such forest glades no near a great city I Just look down that dellit is dark and dewy still. Oh, see the checkered sunshine on the turf I Why afe yoti stopping here? fitit it is too lovely to go on.'' " I am stopping here for you to get through talking against time," said her companion. "Do you suppose I came out here to exclaim over the be&uties of nature ? I knoW the place is beautiful; f fpel it in th? nnrA nf mv hflinff. Nn one can take the sense of it away from toe. Bat"?as the flash moanted her darK cheek?'-I have something infinitely more beautiful and previous beside me, and it is _ perhaps in the power of some one I despise to take that away from me irrevocably. No; it is my tnvn now. and you must listen to me. Just n.w I have the advantage of all the world; I am beside you, I hear i our voice, I feel your presence, and I hesitate to break the spell. Yet I must; for to morrow, perhaps, Prince Vinca may ask you to be his wife; to day. I demand that you shall become mine." Then toere was siierice. There was the sunshine checkering the turf, the stream Warbling below, the leaves murmuring above, the birds replying to one another in broken phrases of song. And there was a whirl of broken thoughts sweeping through the young girl's brain and taking possession of her. The diadem of ft princess, the plain black silk of a lawyer's wife, the cheerless palace, the cottage with its wild-rose hedtres. and love. love. love. Why should papa want her to leave him for that fortune-hunting attache? That, if ehe understood her mother?and of conrse she did?was all that his opposition to Panl Deepard meant. And mamma trying to uphold him, thinking more of a title won by some old robber, centuries since, than of happiness today ! She would let them know she was not to be driven like kittle cattle. She should think, at any rate, that one's mother would sympathize with youth, and hope, and?she turned and looked calmly and gravely at Despaid, waiting and surveying her, and the color flashed all over her face, and the tears were ready to sparkle on the tips of her long lashes, as she finished the sentence in her mind?and love. " Are yon going to stay here all day ?" she asked presently, without looking up. "Till I have an answer to?" Your demand. Don't you think that is rather au autocratical beginning I" '"Low suing May bring wooing Into ita own undoing,'" eaid Despard. "Did I understand," she said, demurely, then, " that you demand I should become your wife today? Won't to-morrow do?'' " I was not bold enough to dream of Rnoh a rantnrons uossibilitv." he eaid. "But I was unwise. To-morrow will not do. Ton remember the little brown chapel, Rock Greek church, out here a mile or two? You shall give me your answer there." u Do you really think it will be best?" she said. "Are you willing to take a wife who, if Prince Vinca bad positively asked her first, might have been his wife instead of yours ?" As for the remainder of the drive that morning, from this delicious resting spot to the little brown chapel, where the minister happened to be at the door with a throng of pickaninnies at his heels, it may be best for us to remember that there are times and places where "two are oompany and . three are none." So you see after all- it wa3 not Miss Jessie that returned to the Brancepeth mansion that evening, where guests were assembled, dinner waiting her arrival, and her mother as vainly endeavoring to conceal her anxiety as a bird that twitters on the stem when her nestlings are threatened. Mrs. Brancepeth felt, and by no means vaguely, that something was on hand, but what .she knew not, although her keen woman's wit cravA Vi?r Rnsnininns and hotifls: Jessie not yet returned, but gone all day; Paul Despard not yet arrived, but invited to dinner; Mr Branoepeth still detained in his private room downstairs by a caller, Prince Yinca, as Durkee whispered to her; dinner spoiling, and Mrs. Branoepeth hot with rage in the background; and possibly the prinoe persuading her husband to his wishes as expressed in that morning's note I It was while she was in the worst of her worrying, smiling now at the secretary's jests, and trying not to smile at a foreign minister's English, that the daughter of the house was letting herself in, and, with Paul Despard beside her. was tannine? at her father's door. He opened it himself, looking flushed and angry. "Papa," she said, "I can't waste any time, you know, because I'm afraid dinner's waiting, and you ought to be upstairs too, you neglectful man ! Now, papa dear, I knew you never would give your consent, and so I have just taken it without asking, and you must forgive me and welcome me back, and him,too," said the breathless young woman, " for I don't see why you shouldn't love me just as much aa 'ever, just because he loves me too." "Jessie 1 What in the world are you talking about ? Why should I forgive you ? Wbat have you done?" cried her bewildered father. " Ohf I have married Paul Despard this morning!" Her father surveyed her one wild mo mcnt as she stood there with her white muslin and laces and apple blossoms and blushes and coming tears, while he rubbed hie hands through his hair till it stood on end. "Weill" he said. Then suddenly, with a total change of expression: 11 You have saved me a great deal of trouble. Here are dirmer and a dozen guests waiting, and I have been writhing my way like a bookworm through the history and genealogy of the Virica family since the dayB of the Pelasgi, and afraid of an Aretine dagger if I refused their alliance. Prince," he said, turning on his guest behind the soreen, " whatever my own wishes might have been in the matter of which we have been speaking, circumstances have given you yonr answer. Permit me to present Mr. Paul Despard, my son-inlaw. I trust this turn of sffaii's may not deprire us of the pleasure of your friendship. Good-evening?good-evening." " He has ordered the man to drive to G street," cried Jessie, in a moment after the door slammed. "I knew he would. That Palmer girl's? Well, she's welcome, and I dare say he will be when ho arrives." "Mrs. Despard," Baid her father, "you must go up to dinner as you are. I don't know what yonr mother will say. As well as I could make out this morning, she was bo bent on yonr marrying this princeling that for my part I am glad to be left off with Despard. It's all highly improper, though, Jessie," he said, trying to subdue too broad a smile?" improper and unfllial and? and expensive; for if I only had an other daughter, I should?" ?? Out me off with a"shilling ? You know better, papa. You know I am your only darling, and ' all of mine is thine,' " she sang. " And besides, if you did, I shouldn't mind, provided \ou loved me just the same, for my husband is a rising lawyer, who has just won his second case. And now you must come up and hide me from the day of mamma's wrath. I guess you had better tell her before all the people, and then she can't soold." Bat. I fanoy that when Mrs. Despard caught tho glance of intelligence that flashed between her mother'u eyes and her husband's, a little anger intruded on her joy, to thiok she had fulfilled, without intending it, the command, "Children, obey your parents."?Barper\i Bazari A Deed of Honor. | Our little brave army on tbo plains d | both an explorer of the wilderness an a guardian of the frontier. In order to uo its double work it requires the aid of men who know both t e country and the Indians. Some of these guides, such as "Old Bridger," Kit Cairson, Wild Bill and Buffalo Bill, have become famous. One of the best and bravest of these plains celebrities is Amos Ohapmctij who has been a government scotit for the last fifteen yeais. Eto is a eobei:, quiut sort of a man, and so heroifc that if he had lived in th<3 age of chivalry every true knight would have greeted Lim as a comrade. The lofty I manhood of the man is shown by one of [ his desperate adventures, narrated in Colorel Dodge's book on "Our Wild ' Indians." r? * nrr t n 1 in io(4 ueuerai .unes, wmio uncrating against the Indians, sent six men, Chapman being one, with dispatches to department headquarters. One morning as the party was riding along every man was wounded by a volley, and in an instant the Indians appeared on every side. Dismounting and abandoning their horses the band moved to a ''buffalo wallow," a shallow depression in the prairie. By working hard and fast the depression was so deepened as to afford cover. One of the men, Smith, bad fallen from his horse at the first fire and was supposed to bo dead, fleeing him move slightly, Chapman said; ?' Now, boys, keep those redskins off me and I Will run down and pick up J D " ? J Vvim Vvo nW fli AW I OUllbliy UUU Ul 1U^ uiiu uciuiu uuvj can get at me." Laying down his rifle he sprang out of the "wallow," ran with all speed to Smith, seized ahd attempted to shoulder him. " Did any of you ever try to shoulder a wounded man?" asked ChapmaD, when telling the story. "Smith was not a large maD, one hundred and sixty or seventy pounds, but I declare to you that he seemed to weigh a ton. Finally I laid down and got his chest across my back and his arms around my neck, and then got up with him. It was as much as I could do to stagger under him, for he couldn't help himself a bit. By the time I had got twenty or thirty yards about fifteen Indians came i for me at the fall speed of their ponies, i They all knew me, and yelled 'Amos I Amos 1 we've goi you now!' "I pulled my pistol, but I co ildn't hold Smith i.n my back with one hand, so I let him drop. The boys ia the J 'wallow' opened on the Indians just at the right time, and I opened on them with my pistol. There was a tumbling of ponies and a scattering of Indians, ; and in a minute they were gone. I got Smith up auain and made the beet possible time, bat before I could reach the 'wallow' another gang came for me. I had only one or two shots in my pistol, so I didn't stop to fight but ran for it. , When I was within twenty yards of the 'wallow,' a little old scoundrel that I i had fed fifty times rode almost on me ! and fired. I fell with Smith on top of j, me, but as I didn't feel pain, I thought I had stepped in a hole. The Indians 1 couldn't stay around here a minute, the ; boys iept it red hot; so I picked up \ Smith and got safe into the 'wallow.' !1 " 'Amos,' said Dixon, 'jon are badly i hurt.' " 'No, I am not," said I. " 'Why, look at yoar leg.' j, " Ana f.nr? enough, the leg was shot j off jast above the ankle joint, and I had ! been walking on the bone dragging the j1 foot behind me. In the excitement X never knew it, nor have I ever had any pain in my leg to this day." The surgeon at Camp Sapply nmputated Chapman'j leg below the knee, more than two weeks after the receipt of i the wound. In a week thereafter I had ' to take away his clothing to keep him j in bed. He is as still useful and as , ready to fight as any two-legged scout. 11 - i Rewarding a Brave Fireman. { Fireman Michael Commerford, of the : New York fire department, was pre-!' seated?at a fireman's parade and in j presenoe of thousands of spectators in I < Union square?with the Bennett medal for courage displayed in discharge of j his duty. The story of his brave deed ; ( is told as follows in the presentation j ( speech, made by Charles A Dana: jnicnaei uommenora; xuii great, throng of citizens and this assemblage ; of the fire department are gathered here j in recognition of a certain public service rendered by you on the fourth day | of January last. To you it is not neces- j' sary to recall the natnre of that service, !; but it is suitable that this audience ! should be told what it was. On that, day the tenement house standing in the j: rear of No. 85 Madison street was on 1 nn/1 in nrva r\t lfcj nnnor rnnina TZ7ATA ' I three children of Margaret Egaa. The room was filled with smoke, 11 so that it was impossible to tee and al- . most impossible to breathe in it. An J< attempt ?i- made by one of yonr comrades to save these ohildren, bnt the ( gallant fireman who nndertook this effort was driven back by the stifling smoke and the insupportable heat. ! Then a ladder was procured and placed i across over the alley which separated the house from the nearest building, so that one end was in the room and the other end in the building opposite, i This ladder was not strong enough to j bear much weight, but by lying down j upon it you were able .to crawl along t until your head and shoulders were in j tho fated room. Stretching yourself out from this ladder, and extending j forth your hands in the darkness, you ! first found William Egan, a boy of six years, already insensible, and passed him out over the ladder, so that he was recovered and brought away in safety. Then, venturing in again, you were enabled to lay j hold of John Egan, a boy of three years, likewise insensible, whom you j also rescued. For this heroic and' humane deed I am directed to present j to you this medal. It is a most beauti-1 ful and honorable token, and you and \ your friends may well be proud of it. It shows that at a critical moment, when the highest courage was called for?the courage to risk your own life for the sake of others?you performed that supreme duty with coolness, perseverance and success, It is a great thing when a man possesses the moral energy and the power to seize upon such an opportunity. It is a great thing, not merely for the hero himself, but for his friends, for tho community, for the whole people who can gather inspiration and support from such actions. " It is proper to say here that I take a peculiar pleasure iu being for this purpose the organ of the authorities who conferthis medal upon you. It is derived from a foundation of the late Mr. James Girdon Bennett, one of the moBt remarkable and original journalists who have appeared in rcoent times. Ho was a man who, amid every temptation and every difficulty, knew above all things else how to maintain those precious treasures of the mind, ontire independence of opinion and entire freedom of utterance. It adds to the value of this medai that it thus in some sort represents those great qualities. "You are the seventeenth member of the fire department to whom Mr. Bennett's medal has been given. I congratulate you, Michael Commerford, upon the addition of your nam-? to a list so noble and so certain to be long preserved in the memory of men; .and I am sure that, whenever the occasion arises, there will always be foun J among the firemen of New York men of heroism and of devotion who will emulate the lofty and affecting example set by you and by the other possessors of the Bennett medal.-' When the speaker, who was interrupted several times by applause, concluded the address, he presented the badge to Commerford, who nervously pinned it over his left breast, bowed and, amid prolonged cheering, made his way back to the ranks to becomo I simply one brave man among many. LADIES' .DEPARTMENT, Garibaldi's Mother. The chamber i i which were laid oat the remains of Guibaldi was filled with flowers, but othe rwise presented an ap pearance of great simplioity. His bod) rested on a narrow iron bed) with the head propped up with.pillows, and faced i window that looked seaward. There "W?n fVirt fnAA on AWtHABQ inn /\l yyao auuuv unci iauo au oApoooiwu calmness, but the hands were those of a mere skeleton. On the wall above h:is head hnng a portrait of his mother, an aged woman wrapped in a crimson 6hawl, with a oonntenance at once sweet and noble. Garibaldi's veneration fot her was something ont of the common. He felt remorse at having been a sonrce of afciiety to her in his adtenturdns life) and belieVed that het prayers hftd saved him ffom. iil-tJonsequenoes following his temerity on the field of battle and in storms at sea. Me ascribed his own tenderness for those who were in trouble and oppi-esned to her example. Woman In the Saddle. Th<> lady should so sit upon the horse that tier weight will fall perpendicularly i._ iL- 1 1- -M iL. U- 1 / ,3 * io lut uaun ui iut) uurse, uer mueuu wir ly to the front, her shoulders drawn back, and het elbows held to her rides. She will permit her body, from the hips upward, to bend with the notions of the horse, in order that she may preserve her balanoe. The reins are to be held in the manner prescribed for men, the hand in front of the body, and in a line with the elbow. The whip is to be carried in the right hand, with the point toward the ground. The horse Bhould never be struck with the whip upon the head, neok or shoulder. To apply the whip upon those parts will teach him to swerve, and render him nervous at the emotions of the rider, In a lady's hand the whip Bimply takes the place of a spur for tha'right side. The hornfi of the saddle, the superfluous one at the right being dispensed with, should bo of such length and curvatures as will suit the rider. The right leg will hold the upright horn close in the bend in the knee, by such a prensure as the action of the horse or other circumstances vrill dictate. The left foot will be thrust into the stirrup to the ball of the foot, and the heel will, as a rule, be carried down; but when the heel is elevated the upper part of the left knee should find support in the side horn, and for that end the stfrrnp-leather will be given such a length as will permit this. By the grasp given by the elevation of the left knee from the stirrup and the embrace upen the upright horn by the right leg the iider will have as stivug a seat as her strength can afford, and with a proper balance uhe will not be likely to find a horse that will unseat her. Fuanlon Note*. Ameiioan pongees are much worn. Alpacas and mobairs ore looking np. Gold brooade will again be in vogue. Jerseys have returned to popular favor. New evening taffeta silks show chine affects. jEnthetio styles seem to be gaining ground. Velvet is used for trimming taffeta silk dresses. Now are the days for wearing mitts iniitead o 1 gloves. Embroidered crepe is among the p< elties for mourning dress. Pink cambric dresses trimmed with lace are very fashionable. New French oapote bonnets are covw-Ult tttV* if a filz-lon tllnaonmo Dl DU nibU nuivu umu* U4VWVMI?I A now and very handsome shade of cardinal is much used for children's dresses. Checked taffeta silks, iu delicate tones of gray, blue and purple, are much worn. Several colors producing the effect of a mixture appear in many of the summer taffeta?. Clusters of large BtraWberries on a oream ground is one of the latest designs for painted muslin. Tailor out jaokets either like cr un> like the skirt are the most frequent corsages of walking suits. Incoming fabrics for fall wear are enriched With delicate metallio threads, forming mixtures, dots and stars. Linings for the handsomest silk and chenille mantles aro of satin, in old gold, pale bine and terra cotta shades. Tarkish staffs of gauzy textnre looking as faded as possible are ont into bits to aid in decorating fashionable bonnets. Cream white and gray ficelle lace combinations appear to be the favorites for neck lingerie and also for dress trimmings. It iB at the most fashionable seaside resorts that the gayest dresses of veiling, silk, velvet and embroidered and bro caaea siuas are seen. A large proportion of the ball dresses aeen at Sua toga thin summer are of tulle or some soft gauey stuff with chenille dotii on the surface. The costliest costumes are invariably combinations of two or more materials, with lace, embroidery and > ther trimmings thrown in ad libitum. Almond tinted cashmere, adorned with embroideries of red carnations and ox-eyed daisies, forms one of a number of elegant French tea gowns jcist if ported. Large square neckerchiefs of fine silk muslin, wrought in delicate sprays cf apple and hawthorn blossoms, small blush roses or trailing vines of honeysuckle blossoms, are worn over sprigged or white muslin dresses with charming effeot. Bridal dresses are again being made of white gros-grain and repped silk mi -i-i i-i? -LLitry uiu eiuuufaicij iiiiumou wnu elegant white silk embroidery and lace, and the regulation orange bloBeom is now mingled with white roses, geraniams and lilies. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. The only animal now in existence having a hand similar to that of the fossil flving-reptile, the pterodactyl, is the bat. Skins of the prairie dog, an animal so abundant in Texas as to be a nusiance, are recommended as a material for the manufacture of gloves. Lunar rainbows are occaaionally seen, but as the light forming them is borrowed from the sun, they present the same features as do solar ones. The white, ehagffy hoise of the elevated plains of Pamir, in Central Asia, is by some regarded as the original stock of the many existing species. Milnes' tremor indicators, for the purpose of estimating the amount of motion in a mass, are so sensitive that they record a movement of 1-10,000 of an inch. According to the report of the Paris electrical exhibition judges, the greatest efficiency of incandescent electric lamps cannot be assumed to be more than 300 candle lights for eaoh horsepower of current. Straps made from various materials have been tested by Herr Weinlig, who finds that the straps of Russian hemp are about ten per cent, stronger that those of Italian hemp, and twice as strong as those of cotton. A rail for common roads has been introduced in France. It is imbedded in concrete and is flush at the edges with the roadway. From the Bides it slopes down to the center, so as to enable the wheels of vehioles to retain their plaoe apon it. The estimated cost is about two dollars a yard. Planters in Jamaica, encouraged fry the sucoeBB of the experiments oondncted at the Botanical gardens, Kingston, have in a measure ceased to devote theii wholo energies to the production of sugar. They have now begun to intro^ duce ahinchona with great profit, and they have lately done much to make vanilla, cocoa and other indigenom plants of commercial value. Besides oranges, bananas, pine-apples, limes, mangoes and other fruits, grapes ar< now grown for export. WITTY "BIIL" TRAVERS. AmcHlag Anecdote* of a Proralneut Ni York Broker Who Stnttera. I Mr. William R Travers is a brok< p banker, financier and capitalist. He , really interested in the development ; the horse, and to his eilergetio effoi i the establishment of the sport of nb'rt or onf 11? 1(K>U1^ 1U IIUD HUi VU ^QIUIHUVUHIJ , largely due These things would ha given him a prominence in the m tropolis unquestionably, bnt the reput tion and fame he enjoys are dne mo to his wit and humor than to anythii > else. This is all the more remarkab since he neither writes nor mak , speeches in public. His witticisms a Usually made in private circles and f currenoy muBt depend entirely upontl circulation given them by the listen or the viotim. His wit is kindly and b hutaor inellow. Sometimes it stings, j it is not malicious,though it often borde on truth too closely to always be coi fortable for the object of the barbt words. Mr. Travers is a native of B timore, and was a man grown and mi ried before he left Maryland for tl metropolis. Mr. Travers is now tone ing closely upon sixty, though he bea his years well. He is tall, slim an wiry. Perhaps apOn seeirig him for tl tlrst time the beholder would be su nrif??d. for bv some absurd process i reasoning which is never justified \ associate wit with shortness of statui and humor with rotundity of persoi However one needs but a glanceat M Travers' face to. perceive the hum< lurking in the lines of the mouth whiol ever in repose, seems always on th point of breaking into a laugh, thong it rarely reaches it. His eyes ai soft and kindly, withal sparklin with that mischief which is Irrepressibl Apart from his wit, Mr. Travers is most interesting man, and his talk graphic, incisive and epigrammatii and over it all fanoifully plays h humor, giving zest and point to all I says. Because he has gfeat reputatio for wit, humor and geniality it Will n< do to assume that his mental qualitu are summed up with that statement. E is a strong, wise and able man, well-ix formed and a thorough man of businei and affairs He has an obstruction c speech whioh has undoubtedly kept hii off the platform, for other qualiti< which he possesses would naturally lea him there but for this stammer. Ye so far from its being an affliction, in th senee of its being a bore and annoyanc to others, it seems to sharpen the poii 01 niS WIG ana 10 giva iu uia uaj tags. In fact, much of the spice woul be losi if the stammer were gone. Anything and anybody falls subjei to his wit and he does not spare hiraae of his stammer. Shortly after he ha removed from Baltimore to New Jfoi city he met npon Broadway an ol friend from the former city of his res dence. They were glad to meet eac other, and fell into an easy cha Daring the course of the conversatio his friend said: " Why, Bill, you stammer more sine yon have lived in New York?more tha you did in Baltimore." " B-b?bigger place," replied Traver This delightfully illogical reason su flced as an explanation. tJpon settling in New York he beoatr a member of the stock eJtchangi During the call of the list he essaye to bid upon one of the atooks and s the name time another broker bid tb same price. A dispute followed as t whom it should be awarded. His oppc nent set ud the claim that he ha named the price first. To this M Travers replied: "It m-may be-be, Mr. Ppresiden that M-mr. Jones g-Rot through b*b< fore I d-did, b-but I'll b-be hang id if d didn't b-begin b before he d'did." Amid the roar of the exchanger th stock was awarded to him. But Travers does not always com9 o first in his encounters. One day, aft< the close of the board, he was Roin uptown with several brokers. Whe opposite old St. Paul's he saw a ma offering for sale a number of parrots. "H-hold, b boys,'* he said to h companions, "we'll have same f-faa.' Then addressing tho man and pointin to one of the parrots, he asked i " 0 ca that pparrot t talk ?" " Talkf replied the man, in tones ( graafc contempt. "If he can't tal better than you can I'll wring his blatt neck." "O-ome on, boys. The fan is p po p-poned until until another d-day," sai Travers. And later, as his companiot were still roaring, he said: " There's r no n-necessity of saying anjthing al about this to "the b-boys, and I'll pay f< the b-bottle." Some time ago a young man made considerable sum of money in Wa street under Mr. Travers' advice "Whe the money was turned over, the brok< told him that he would be very foolis if he ventured his gains again and a< vised him not to imagine that he ha solved the problem of success in Wa street but to safely invest his mone; reserving a part to purchase a home f< his family. The advice wa? follwe and Travers assisted in the selection i the house, Some time after the yonn man was settled he met Travers and ws asked how the house suited. "The house Is all right, Mr. Tri v/rrvl rr H Rnf. T fllTI VA1 vciOj wan uud m. m-> > v much troubled with rats." " G-geta o cat," stuttered Travors. " I've had a dozen, but the ra uctunlly drive them out of the houre '' G-get a d- dog,'' urged Travere. 1 know where you ccan g-get a g goc d dog. Harry Jennings is m-my frier and he won't cheat you. I'll g go wil you " So thay set out together, aud read ing the dog fancier's place, examine the dogs for sale and one was selectei Harry then put a dozen rats or more : the pit and the dog was thrown in -i i Uo, Will fVior HUUW UUtt IIUIUMY UD uuuiu am >hv> The d og did dispatch them, one aft the'other, until only one was left. I was aD old gray beard?nearly as larj as the dog. As the terrier made for it, sat npon its hannches and caught the d( by the lower lip instead of being caugl by the dog. The terrier yelped an ran about the pit shaking and tremblin but Mr. Rat held on firmly, terrifyii the dog out of all hid canine senses. Traverses running around the p in great excitement, and finally shouts out: " B b-buy the?b-b-buy the r-rat!" " Larry" Jerome is celebrated as story-teller in New York circles. H presence is always welcome, for tie hi always a cood story to tell, a fresh or and he rarely repeats himself. F< this reason he is always considered good addition to every oircle. Oi ' day he had been entertaining a fe friends at the Manhattan clal), whe tl clique was joined by Travers. After while ''Larry'' exclaimed : " Oh, Bill, by George I've got a ne story. Something entirely fresh ! I tell it to you if you'll listen." "All right," said Travers, with an a and tone of great bravery and couragi Til stay if the r-rest will." The story was never told, but Jeron paid for the wine amid the laughter his friends. There is a gentleman, who is a ge tleman in the sense that he is a man 1 mild and gentle manners, always court ous and polite, but he has the wea ness of philosophizing on the commoi places of life. Standing at the club window wi' Travers a short time ago, he pointed i a man upon the opposite side of tl l street and said: i " The coincidences of life are sing i lar and frequent. Occult influeno i draw men together and into juxtapi . sition, when they are not acquainted all, have no knowledge of each other 110 connection. What is there betwei that man and myself? I don't knc him, his business or his ends ? Yet I have met him once this week I ha met him a dozen times. If I have m him onoe to-day I have met him fo1 times indifferent parts of the city, ai now I gaze out of the window und e him again." "Pp-perhaps he's a d-d-detectiv< practically observed Travers. ) The disgusted philosopher sought i freshmen* from the steward. The Ocean Pilot, A pilot is a man who has made himself thoroughly acquainted with certain waters where navigation is dangerous. }r and who directs vessels in safety jg through those bad places. A ship captain may understand perfectly the ^ proper course from one continent to |e_ another and how to handle hia vessel in tbe open sea, btit he is not expeeted to ve know every rook and sand bar tirottching 0. under the treacherous waves, .and all ^ the twistings and obstructions of the narrow entrance into a foreign harbor. re a. 1 ^11 ,p, JLUUCCU, mc Liuvai rc^uiatiuuo wn uut Iq permit captains to act, though they may e8 think they know the channel, since if re an accident happens when there is no or pilot on board" the insurance money ^ will not be paid. er Pilot?, then, are important men, and tj8 they know it so Well that they chaTge et fery high prices for their services (genra erally rated according to the draft of ni the vessel), and admit few young men 5(j to their ranks to be trained. al Their method of work is very excitir ing. A dozen or so together will form 1 ie the crew of a trim, stanch schooner, 1 jj. provisioned for a fortnight or more, : wViinh flan nnfaail unvfliinir hnfc a ramrur r8 M W " * vi*uw" 0 1(j yacht, and is built to ride safely through ie the highest seas. r. But these fine schooners and the 0f brave men they carry are rarely in port 1 7e Their time is spellt fbr in the offlng of ' re the harbor, cruising back and forth in a wait for incoming ships, and the New T' York pilots often ro two and three hunjj drpd miles oat to sea. There are other Ij( pilot-boats waiting, also, and the looke* out at the reeling mast-head mnst keep ^ the very keenest watoh upon the b orizon. [e Suddenly he catches sight of a white ? speck which his practiced eye tells him * is a ship's top-gallants, or a blur upon g the sky that advertises a steamer's apja proach. The schooner's head is instantc iy turned toward it, and all the canvas jg is crowded on that she will bear, for l0 away off at the right a second pilotQ boat, bull down, is also seen to be aiming at the same prize, and trying jg hard to win. The man whose turn it is [e to go on duty hurriep below and packs .. the little valise whioh holds the few j ja things he wants to take home, and the crew's letters ; if it is a steamer which m is lying there with slowly turning }8 wheels and Bignals flying, he shaves 3 himnfllf and rmtfl on a clean white shirt: t bat a common sailing vessel is not so < honored. 1 ,e The storm may be howling in the ! full force of winter's fnry, and the waves i p. "rnnning monntains high," as we say, 1 4 bat the pilot mast get aboard by some 1 means. It takes roagh weather to i ,(. make it impossible for his mates to 1 If launch their yawl and row him to where I d he can olamber up the stranger's side 1 with the aid of a friendly rope's end. i fiat often this is oat of the question. < j. Then a "whip" is rigged beyond the i b end of a lee-yard arm, carrying a rope < t drove through a snatch-block, and hav- i lD ing a bowline at its end. The steamer I slows her engines, or the ship heaves ] , to, and the pilot-schooner, under per- 1 ,e feet control, runs up under the lee of the big ship, as near as she dares in the gale. Then, just at the right instant, a j man on the ship's yard hurls the rope, ( it ifl caught by the schooner, the pilot j slips one leg through the bowling- < nnnflQ on/1 a sflcnnH t.hfl ^ schooner has swept on and he is being ,(J hoisted up to the yard-arm, but generally not in time to save himself a good !e ducking in the combing of some big 0 roller. ^ Now the pilot is master?stands ahead of the captain even?and his orders are r" absolute law. He inspects the vessel , to form his 6pinion of how she will be' have, and then goes to the wheel or stands where best he can give his orders to the steersman and to the men in the forechains who are heaving the lead. He must never abandon his post, he must ^ never lose his control of the ship, or make a mistake as to Its position in re!r spect to the lee-shore, or fail to be equal K I- ? Tf fcU OYOtjr omci^ouujf, JLi It 10 tw uma ? and foggy and stormy to see, he must feel, and if he cannot do this he most . hate the faoulty of going right by in,f tnition. To fail is to lose his reputation if not his life. This is what is expected 8 of a pilot, and this is what they actually do in a hundred cases, the full de. tails of any one of which would make a "L long and thrilling tale of adventurous fighting for life,-*-Ernest Inaersolf. in Wide Awahi. sd Saltan and Khedive. 18 The disturbances in Egypt bring into l~ conspicuous view the peculiar relations between the sultan of Turkey and the )r Egyptian khedive. For many oenturies Egypt wag a a subjeot province of Turkey. It was N ruled over by governors appointed by !n the sultan. In 1811, however, Mehe3r met Ali, who was at that time governor, !P rose in revolt against the sultan's : 3* authority, and made himself master of I, if Egypt. 11 Mehemet w&i thus the founder of the , f> dynasty r<hich now reigns at Cairo. The pwaent khedive, Tewfik Pasha, is Me- J ,(* hemet's great-grandson. In 1842 the ( suit n recognised this new dynasty, ( '8 and decreed that the Egyptian throne j 18 should deadend in Mehemet's family ( according to the jaw of hereditary , a" succession in Turkey. Still, Egypt did ( 7 not become wholly independent of the . sultan's rulo. It continued to be aub-- j ject to him, in so far as foreign affairs ~ and the army were concerned. The "Vi- < ceroy of Egypt," as he was then called, ] * could not send envoys to foreign , '4 courts, but was represented at them by | the Turkish envoys. Nor could the I j viceroy maintain a native army or navy of his jwn. Egypt was garrisoned and protected by Turkish troops. Egypt, j* moreover, was obliged to pay a large annual tribute to the sultan. Later on ( in larger liberties were conceded to Egypt fco by its Turkish suzerain. In 1866 the a- title of the Egyptian ruler was, by a er firman of the sultan, changod ^rom "Vififlrnv" I which meant simply the , ?e sultan's representative in Egypt) to ' " Khedive-el-Misr," usually called ' Khedivo," whioh, in the Arabio tongue, ^ moans "King." l<* At the same time Egypt was granted 8> the right to send envoys abroad and to !g maintain a native army and navy. Bat the tultan still remained the suzerain (or imperial ruler) of Egypt; and an annual tribute of $1,875,000 a year was paid (and still continues to be paid) into the sultan's treasury. This is .a practically the relation which exists ls today between the Bnltan and the as khedive. The sultan still exercises a 16 kind of exterior control over Egypt; 5r and olaims the right to enter Egypt 8 and quell revolt, and to depose or sus16 tain the reigning khedive. Meanwhile lW the interests of various European 10 powers - notably of England and France a ?have had a singular and complex influence on the destinies of Egypt; and these two powers by a system called " "Control," have been practically gov- . erning Egypt, over the khedive's head, lir for the past four or five years. England 0 insists on controlling Egyptian policy by reason of the facts 1 that she holds a predominant ?* financial interest in the great Suez canal; that that canal is the nearest n' military way between Europe and the ?* British empire of India; and that eight per cent of the mercantile tonnage which passes annually through the canal goes under the British flag. Besides, Englishmen hold a large quantity of the Egyptian bonded debt, and wish to to protect the payment of its interest by managing Egypt's financial affairs. The interest of Prance in sharing the a" English control in Egypt is two fold. 68 France, too, holds a large portion of the Egyptian bonds. Besides this, a^' France has recently undertaken to or annex Tunis, a neighbor of Egypt, and en a Mohammedan state ; and is anxious to limit as fir as possible the sultan's " influence in North Africa. Both Eng70 land and France have appealed to the efc sultan to use his authority to put down Arabi Bey's revolt, and have thus once more acknowledged the sultan's ri^ht ee to interfere in Eurypt. They both also M wish to sustain Tewfik on the Egyptian throne, for he has proved a willing instrument in their hands, allowing their r0 commissioners to praotically role the oountry.?Youth's Companion* FACtS AND COMMENTS Captain 0. W. Williams, of the Uni'ed States, army, has invented an apparatus for establishing telegraphic communication between railway trains moviDg on the same line of road trom any point and at any time. It is claimed that once perfected the eyetem will prove an effectual preventive of collisions, and among railroad men as well as the people at large wlli be hailed as a great scientific triumph in the interest of human life and safety. The census returns of manufactures in twenty cities give the following figures in regard to the employment of children in factories: Philadelphia, 14.850; New York, 8,928; Cincinnati, 5 024; Chicago, 4,799; Baltimore, 4,111; Brooklyn, 8,423; Boston, 1,228, Cleveland, 1,885; Detroit, 1,220; Newark, 2.596; Jersey City, 750; Pittsburg, 3,235; Providence, 1,510; Milwaukee, 965; San Francisco, 1,081; St. Louis, 2 942; Washington, 257; New Orleans, 552; Louisville, 1,025. This is a considerable army of infantry growing up in factories to be future citizens. A report on agriculture in Italy by Secretary of Legation Beauclerk has lately been presented to the British parliament. Beal agricultural progress has been made in some parts of the jountry, but a sad amount of misery exists among the rural laborers. The land is burdened with an overpowering taxation, and, while the main remedy talked of is education, the demands are for relief from moral and physical suffering. "Knowledge without means," says Mr. Beauolerk, "is of little use. When the great mass of land owners have hardly enough to live on, how can bhey lay out money in improvements ? For small proprietors and renters it is imnonsihlft. while them are few larcre estates, and even these are gradually being split np by the abolition of entail ind the constant subdivision of property jonsequent thereupon. Leonard Henkle, of Bochester, who conceived the scheme of supplying Dlectrio light from Niagara Falls, has published a tabular statement of the rank, population, number and cost of publio lights, and yearly cost of domestic lights, for the sixty-five principal sities of the country. New Orleans, with a census population of 216.000, has 3,622 gas lamps, which cost $63,943.20, ind 1,574 kerosene lamps, costing $15,779.80?total, $79,723 per year. Cleveland, population 160,146, has 3,729 gas lamps, costing $71,084.05, and 1,265 kerosene lamps, costing $14,231 25 ? total, $85,315.31, Pittsburg, population 156.389, has 1,315 gas lamps, costing $22 865, and 2,200 kerosene lamps, josting $37,158?total, $60,083. Washington, D. O., population 147.293, has 1 OKfi rtna lomnfl nrtofinff ftlDA OKO Rnf K,4U\S\J gOD VVWVtug yAVU. M>/VI ui falo, census population 155.134, has >,253 gas lamps, costing $148,559 90. Electric lights have reduced the cost a ?ery little. Not many people attaoh much current interest to the Tonga islands, or think )f them, save as having given a same ;o the perfume of snuff. Yet King Gteorge, monarch of the 150 islets ind their 25,000 inhabitants, is second :o nono in royal dignity. He has a parliament, containing a treasury bench and an opposition, and in 1870, when the Franco-German war broke, rot, he issued a solemn proclamation of "strict neutrality." His son, David CJnga, is equally ambitious, and aspires bo nothing less than a marriage with some royal princess enrolled in the Almanach de Gotha. But royal sire and royal son together do not surpass in splendor one of their own subordinates, the governor of Varari, who sways delegated authority over some 2,000 persons. He lives in a gorgeous palace, has his table furnished with gold and silver plate, is attended by liveried retainers, and wears a resplendent court costume that cost $1,000. The census statistics relating to American fisheries are interesting read* ing. These figures show fisheries to have been worth in the value of products the very handsome sum of $45,300,000 in the year 1880. This was the price, moreover, that was paid* to the producers simply. At wholesale prices the pecuniary return for the same prodacts reached the neat little fortune of ;90,000,000. The products included 3ried cod and pollock, smoked herring, balibut and mullet, pickled and spiced fish, salt mackerel, canned salmon, lobsters, clams, oysters, crabs, [shrimps, sod and sardines. The consumption of these is constantly increasing abroad, and teTy profitable sale for them has i i?Mi i- n "ci_ j Deeu UUUC up .'li rioglHuu, r ruiiue, uuu Germany. As yet it appears, however, the pickled fisli of American waters are bnt seldom sent abroad, altbongh great quantities of pickled fish are consumed in Europe. It is recarded that 6ince the Berlin exhibition of 1880 American flsh have become populr on the continent,and agencies for their sale have been established in very many of the leading oities of Europe. Another fact of interest ia that the boneless American codfish has been adopted as a standard ktf trtonv raoimontfl f\t CftrbiUAU VI AUUU %JJ u?wwj W the German army. Proof of this growing popularity of onr ilsh is afforded in the statistics of exports to Europe. In 1889 the exports of fish reached only 5134,783, according to a local comraersial journal. Last year there was shipped abroad 81,902,100 worth of finery goods. Of this amount $403,629 was received from the exports of oj6ters to England alone. Although almost an infant compared with the original States of the Union, California must be accorded the van as ?n industrial. monev-making State. Beginning its caieer by gold mining, the development of silver-mining, which soon followed, proved almost as remunerative. Then wheat-raisiug became a most flourishing industry, and now we are told that the yield of the vineyards and orchards promises to become even moro important than the cereal harvest. Nearly 10,000,00-') gallons of wino aro produced in the State annually. No trustworthy statistics can be obtained as to the total quantity of fruit grown, but the report says that 2,000,00) pounds of dried, 4,086,430 pounds of canned aud over 7,0^0,000 pounds of green fruit came eastward by raii last year. These exports obtained very remunerative prices, the grapes, plume, pears, apricots anl peaches being in especial request, and the California cran'ge is also said to be cominp into vogue. Only four or five years ego the yrice of grapes on the spot ranges from 88 to $9 per ton for ordinary sort, to $15 or $20 lor tho choice varieties. These f rices have already doubled, and, as viniculture presents few difficulties in California, thosa engaged in it are reported to be making splendid profits. Unfortunately, the phylloxera has made its unwelcome appearance in several places, and the California farmers may possibly disoover, therefore, that wheat-growing pays best, after all, A Wealthy Sexton. Probably the wealthiest sextou in the world is the one who, every Sunday, ushers to their seats the congregation of St. James' chapel, Elberou, N. J. He is a rather short, stout man, with a round, full face, beaming with contentment and benevolence. He lives neir by in a $70,000 cottage, has a bank account of several millions, and is known to the world as G. W. Childs, proprietor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Never, it is said, has his obliging courtesy to strangers failed, except on a single occasion. A fussy old lady wanted a front seat, and he gave her one, close to the chanoel rail. Then she wanted a prayer-book, and he hunted up one for her. ,lWill you pleaso hand me that fan?" was her next request, pointing to one in an adjoining pew, aud the aecommodatiug usher complied. "Now, won't you move that footstool for me?" But, with patience exhausted, Mr. Childs was half-way down the aisle, attending to the wants of some less exacting vi?itor#< In Sanctuary.^ While pale with rago the wild aurf apriiiga Athwart the harbor bar, The safe ships fold their snowy wings Beneath the evening star. In this calm haven rocked to sleep All night they swing and sway, Till mantles o'er the lhorning deep The golden blush of day. Ilero, safe from all the slorms of fate, From worldly rage and scorn, Thus let mo fold my ha.nda and wait The coming of the morn ; While all night long o'er mooD-lit tart - Tho wind bring* in from far The moaning of the baffled surf Athwart tbe harbor bar. ? William Winter, in Harper'* HUMOR OF THE IUY. A Philadelphia mnle has killed a mad dog, but it is still a matter of doubt whether a mule or a mad dog i? the safest thing to have around. " Confound it, you've shot the dog. I thought you told ma you could hold a gun." Pat?"Sure, and so I can, your honor. It's the shot, sir, I couldn't hotild." Ssveet girl?"Is it wicked to sing that song on Sundays ?" Brother Jack? "Yes, it is wicked to sing it any day." "Why?" Because it makes people r BWCttJ. An Ohio man unpinned a tidy from a obair asd wiped his nose upon it. It takes an Ohio man to solve mysteries. Now we know what a tidy is for.?New Haven Register, He: " My darling, I really believe my rhenm-itism has wholly disappeared." 8he: " Ob, I'm so sorry I Now we shall never know when the weathei is going to change." We are glad to learn by a late piece of sheet music th.t "The Moonlight Soft ia Falling." In these times of high prioes it is giatifying to learn that even moonlight is falling, . A Pittsburg private watchman fell from a second-story window while asleep, and did not awake until somebody stepped on him. Such zeal will certainly be rewarded.?Free Press. A toIia annaam Via tra a. juu,ug mau ttuw op^/oiuo w uhtv investigated tbe subject a9aerts with every appearance of candor tbat hummocks are always found under hammooks. This is reliable if true. We don't see why people should think tbat women can't succeed in fishing, They're quite equal lo flirting with three fellows and telling eaoh one stories to make him think that he alone is loved.?Boston Post. "Pause," said the highly cultivated Boston girl to her lover, who was about to kill a mosquito. "Pause: In the balanced and admirably adapted economy of nature man cannot interfere without disarranging the whole order of things." And he paused.? Boston Advirtiser. "But why did you leave her so hastily ?" asked a sympathizing friend who was trying to console a lover for his separation from the object ot ms idolatry. " Ob, it was a sadden impulse." "What sort of an impulse?'' "I don't know exactly," retnrned the snfferer, thonghtfall7, " but it must have been at least a No. 12.''?Brooklyn Euglg. A * Trade" In Alexandria, He bought a carpet in Alexandria, and \ the purchase took him three months. \ One morning, so runs Dr. Sullivan's \ narrative, he was passiag by one of the bazaars where tapestries and snob things are sold, when a particularly handsome and rioh fabric caught his eye. He went in, and, after pretending to look over a lot of things whioh in reality he did not want, he said to the man who solemnly presided over this place, "And what is the price of that carpet?'' "That," responded the dealer, "is not for sale. I purchased that particular c irpet at a great cost, to feast my own eygh upon. It is magnificent? superb. I could not part with that. Mo, by Allah 1" or words to that effect. "Will the English gentleman have a cup of coffee?" The English gentleman would. He wonld also have a cigarette. After that he went away. In a day or two he came around again, and once more made the pretense of looking through Macdallah's stock. He had obviously failed to fool the ply Egyptian before as to the article he really wanted, so he touk more time to it upon this occasion. As he expected, the sedate owner of the bazaar finally approaohed him. ' I have concluded, after several . sleepless nights," said the merchant, "to part with that carpet. It grieves me very much to do so, for I have become very fond of it. I had hoped that it would be the light of my ejes in my old ape. But the prophet has counseled unselfishness among his people, and I \ ^ nrill noli tn fchfl Encrliah centleman." "How muoh?" " One hundred pounds." " Nonsense. I'll give yon ?5." The Egyptian's dignity was obviously wonnded. An expression of absolute pain crossed his face. Bat he forgave Dr. Sullivan, and they bad another cup of cc ffee and a cigarette together. Then Dr. Sullivan went away, as before. In a Week or so he dropped around again. After going through the regular business of looking over the stoat, ho waa again approached by Macdalluh. "I have concluded, after ranch thought," said that worthy, "that I asked you too much for the carpet the other day. When Macdallah feels he is in the wrong he is quick to acknowledge it. The English gentleman can have the beautiful carpet for ?90." " Now you acknowleiga yonr error," replied Mr. Sallivan, "I will confess that I was wrong in offering you only ?5 for your carpet the other day. 1 did that in a joke, of course. I didn't mean it. Bless you, no, and since you are prepared to make concessions I will do the same. Instead of ?3 I will give you ?6." iUUrU uukco 1u1u uuuiut! ... u. The next timo Dr. Sullivan went around the merchant took ont ?5 more and the purchaser added ?1. So it went on, with haggling and coffee until Dr. Sullivan had finally agreed to give ?12, at which price he took away the carpet. It would Lave cost ?250 in London. He eays that the kind of business mentioned is considered the strictly proper thhig in E-,ypt and Turkey. Bnt Americans, lie adds, are spoiling the trade in this direction. While lie whs in Alexandria, a gentleman named Morgan, from ? New York, came along and visited the bazaar of Macdallah. Three carpets struck his fancy and ho pr:c9d them. "Three fcnndred pounds," paid Macdallah. * Well," replied Mr. Morgan, "that seems a fair price, and 'I'll take them. Here'fl your money." The next time Dr. Sullivan saw the merchant he wa^ almost tearing his hair with rage against the " dog of a Christian." He explained the matter in an injured tone to the sympathizing Englishman, adding that Mr. Morgan's method was not 'business."?Boston Htrald. An Armless Horse Thief, Dallas, Texas, has had a visit from a singular character?Jack Hall, alias No Arm Jack?en route to Stephensville jail, from which institution the prisoner escaped six months ago after receiving a sentence of ten years in the penitentiary for horse-stealing. Both his arms are off abovo the elbow, having been crushed in a sugar mill when ho was a child, but the bones grow out several inches from the flesh, and their snrfaces are rough like corncobs, aud Jack writes a beautiful hand by holding a pen besido his chin and pressing the protruding bone against it. He shoots a pistol or firearms expertly, and manages a horse as well as the average twohanded man. The height of his ambition appears to havo been stealing horses successfully. He is about thirty years of age. He was arrested in the Ohoctaw Nation. Mississippi has 427,Mi) children between the ages of six and twenty years. There are 76,187 more black* than white*.