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VOL. XIV._ PICKENS, S. C. THUI jAY, APRIL30185 The First Cloud. They stood at their altar one short year ago; He vowed from the troubles of life to do fond her To have her ted hold her for weql or for woe, She spolie the responses in acce ts most ten der. To-night. in the gloom, they are sitting apart; Oh I has all her wifely devotion ben wasted? She mopes there in silence, a pain at her heart; The lamps are unlighted, his supper un tasted. Their sky, erst all cloudless, is now overcast; For joy there Is sorrow, for gladness deje Thtsron;t The serpent has entered their Eden at last And left its "tork trail on the flowers of af fectioi.l Oh, well may there be in her bosom a pain, A grief that she vainly endeavors to smoth er; To-night he has told her, in language quite plain, She can't cook his meals half as well as his mother. A SEA-SIDI ROMANCE. "But how can I help fooling neglect ed and miserable, Ned? You scarcely look at me when Miss Lovel is near, :and she is your preferred partner in all things now. You walk with her, you sing with her, you drive with her, you dance with l, and it makes Inc very wretched." "Now, Mollie, if you're going to ho jealous!" "I'm not jealous, Ned. If I thought you didn't care most for me; if I fan cied you cared at all for any one ls0, I don't think I'd rcimonstrato with you at all. I would just take off this," touching the diamond on herhand, "and hand it back to you. I'm not jealous, but you are not very kind to mc, Ned.'' "My little pot, you do not see things as I see them. One owes something to society, especially when one is at the seaside. If you would only remember that I love . u too well to find fault with anything you can do, and, if you would become a little more of a society character yourself, I would be perfect ly happy. Why, you scarcely take the least attention from any one but me, and so many are willing to ol'er atten tions to you. Now, dear, kiss me once; I must be off; I am to drive on the beach with Miss Lovel. Not jealous, my pet?" "Not jealous, Ned, no," and she turned from him, but without giving the kiss he had asked for. "She is jeal"is, though!" the young fellow thought, s:miling as he watch"d the pretty, straight figure going away from the nook in which he had found her out to the stretch of sand, against which the waves were rolling, reced ing, leaving now a mass of seaweed on it, now returning and bearing it away --a very coquette of an ocean, now kind and now cold, and always fair in the sunlight. Ned Tremaine hurried over the beach, whistling as he went, and he presently caught up with his allanued, wIo. in the pretty d's of cream and black, with her wide sunhat pushed a little back on her blonde head, was looking very beautiful and animated-and smiling in the face of Lee Stone, the "wost incorrigible male flirt at the beach. "Where now, Tremaine?" the latter called out, as, with a nod, he pursued his way. "For a drive on the beach; will see you later;" and Ned had gone by, re suming his whistle. Mr. Stone smiled a little and spoke a few words to Mollie. She colored slightly, followed the tall form of her lover a moment with her eyes, then gave a gracious answer, and half an hour later, v-hen Ned and Miss Lovel met the pretty light carriage on the beach, In which Lee Sone took his <daily drive, they received a p)leasant med from pretty Mollie, wvho was his comspanion, and who lookedl as though shte was thoroughly enjoying his so "Sho~ certainly lost no time in follow-. Ing my suggestion,'' Ned told himself, ~Jiailf in surprise; ''and she has evidlent Ay found the society of Stone anything ibut boring.'' '"What a handsome coup)le they make," Miss Level said, with a certain gleam in her steady gray Cyes. Ned colored suddenly; he (ldin't quite know why. -"Perhaps you didn't knowv that Miss Anes is my promised wife," ho said, a Lrlde coldly, "Oh, but so many engagements are brokom in a summer at the seaside, one never minds that very much," the lan guid belle said, indifY'orontly. That night there was a hop at the ho tel, andi Ned had m13do4 up1 his mind while dressing to be a little more at tentive to Mollie; but, to his surprise, he didn't find Mollie Annes shrinking under her mother's wing, as had been her custom. A number of lher old friends had arrivedi while they were at dinner, and they were about her; be sides, Lee stone was quite pronounced in his atteations to lher, nnd while she gave him (Ned) a smile from the die. tance he found it quite dliflicult to get ear her; then a light tap on his arm ~medi him that~ iiss Level was ask m why he was so preoccupied, Molhoe and Stone went circling e a the waltzers, lhe followed .Miss Lovel. b,pronouncedi flirtation,' ~r, when ho and Mollit errace watching th<t andl strand and '1 tg slowly along h knew wht; -nts befor< lace thai 'cress "hit 01 come from one who is said to count his conquests with a cruel pride, and to whom the world gives no higher aim than to fascinate, and-remain care less. Am I too plainP Forgive Inc." "I forgive you freely-as I would for give you all things, Mis4 Annes; but neither you nor the world fully under stand me. I may seem a triller; but, were the woman I love to love me in return no smile would be to me so sweet as hers, no presence half so dear." Mollie had been watching the couple on the sands, going slowly back and forth in the moonlight; now she lifted her sweet young face and looked at him with a sort of wondering pity. "Do we all wrong you, then?" she asked, gently. "hlave you failed in your wooing? Can you not win where you love?" His face flushed a little at her words, and she, watching it, was struck by its strength and beauty. How did it chance that she had never noticed eith er before? "I am not left the chance to woo or win her," he said, slowly; "sho is an other's Vromised wife." "Ah,' she said,' pityingly; and she gave him her hand in a sweet, woman ly sympathy, never for an instant con nceting his words with herself. He lifted the small hand reverently to his lips, and, drawing it through his arm, turned toward the beach. As he did so lie found himself facing Ned Tremaine and Laura Lovel, who were coming in from the moonlight, and he noticed that the young man's face was quite white, while there was a half-scornful smile on the lips of the fair belle of the seaside. llut the two couples passed onech other in silence, the one going donl n to the stretch of glittering sand, the other going in to the dancers. A week later, and Mollie had just )ne in from a long hour, peaceful and calm, spent with Lee in a quiet nook among the rocks that overhung the ocean. He had been reading to her there some of the sweetest pooms given to the wold by genius. IIer leart had thrilled as lie read, and new, strange feelings had stirred it. When he clos ed the book he had looked up and found her eyes filled with tears. And now in her own room she was askinn herself how it was that what she hac but commenced for the purpose of an noying Ned had in one brief week slain all her old resentment against Miss Lovel and made her thoughts turn con stantly, not to Ne,d Tremaine. who was her allianced husband,but to Lee Stone, who was terued i the greatest male flirt at the beach. Wliat was changing in her life? \'hen she now met Ned and atu:tra it did not pain her as it used. Was it because a handsomer face, a stronger and nobler face then Ned's was constantly near, ready to turn to her with devotion, ready to light if she smliled? A rnnt henkn lir ponlerinrs by bringing her two messages--one a bou quet of white flowers, with a few feath cry sprays of fern among their white ness, and one crimson rose gleaming red from their center; and in it was a note from Lee, asking her to go for a drive with him by moonlight; the oth er was a few angry lines from Ned,ask ing if she remembered that she was be trothed to him while she allowed ev ery gossip at the hotel to chatter of her flirtation with Leo Stone. "I have been patient, waiting an op. portunity of speaking to you," he wrote, "but you will not give me one, so I write to ask you if you wish our en gagenent broken; to all it would seem so.,' She trembled a little as she read, and her sweet face changed color; but she wvent to her decsk, drewv from it every letter lhe had ever sent her, formed them and his ring in a p)ackage and wrote hiim the followving note: "It was 1 who was first taught p)a tience, while my existence was forgot ten for one who was what you bade me become - 'a society character.' Why should I fancy that you wished an in, terviewv with me of late!' It is not so long since you could not spare a me mi'nt for nme from Miss Level. D)o I wish our engagement b)rokeni? Perhaps we both wish it, Ned; at least let us break it, since I so displease you.I sendo you your lettems and ring." Thelin, although a chioking' sensation was in her throat, she penned a brief note to Lee:. "I1 will be lea~:sed( to go with you;'' that was all; and( in the starlight-the moon rose late-she wvent with him out over the b)eachl andt far along the couin try. Was it strange that he noticed she 110 lon ger wore Ned's ring? Was it st range t hat lie told her of his love, and that sh:e listened silently, believingly, wvith a strange flutter at her heartP Was it. strange that when they drove back, lingering besi :e the sobbing ocean, another rin r should deck her finger and another I>ond shiould lie uipen her life? WVell, twvo others walked upl oin the strand, twvo whomi the gossips cnlled lovers; arid yet when 'it was told thiat Mollie Annes wvas to place her hap piness in tho keeping of "'the flirt of the beach," ''ne1 man who heard it turned wvhit e as death and1( shiran k from the sight of the b)eauitiful womian beside him t, alIthoughi men cal led lier fair, and mlanyi saidl she had won him from his faithI; yet Mol lie was too happy to re gret, alhouigh shne still solmetimnes re0 Iill Nye c n lie Et iquehtto of' Whist. Thlere ar~e t wo k inds of brteI Verte brates. One wears~ hatir, and( has the decency to( stay out of doors; the othier wears clothes, and( makes nmoney, and insists 01n comuing irt.doors andl playinig wvhiist and aibuising his plartner. One hangs by his tail to a forest tree, and bhlaves hfimself; the other hangs by his urse-string to dlecenit society, and ikes himself ob)noxious. Thne blood( tt one hjuman being is upon my s. It is the blood of a man who whtist against me one evening, Ided his partner until the tears o her beautiful eyes. iIe -had a right to de so because - 6 ,wife, hut that didn't make - a6 ,o with the eordhier's jury. no migh ty fine-looking wid .'t reg~ret the piart I took tl,th,of human life is THE AWFUL TORPI.DO. What the Naval Engagement of the Fu ture May lie-An Unc(rtoin Fight of One Againet a lfi,nired. The role of the torpedo-boat, reads a a translation from Firgaro in the- Now Orleans Tones-/kncrat, is terrible, and those who direct its movements are exposed to the greatest dangers. A single heavy shot may scatter it to atoms, and when it approaches the enemy a hail of balls from the n itrail leuses aId rifles will do terrible execu tion on board. Therefore, the mere fact of embarking on a torpedo-boat is a guaranty of bravery. Figure to your self the situation of the oflicer in com mand of such a torpedo-boat who is ordered to sink a ship of the enemy's squadron. All his surroundings con stitute one vast danger. The very sea that hides and protects him during the first part of his expedition may in an other moment to-s- his co:'pu hither and thither upon its wave. His ad versary will seek to r?Id!e the boat with a rain of steel, cast-iron and lead. The torpedo itself, which e::rrics such terror witi it, might he totuche,l with a missile and explode, bursting the tor pedo-boat into atoms. The combat commen',e. Th - ves sels of the fleet have penei fire. Shells rain in all directdins. One of our cruisers, cannon:adetl heavitv on the starboard side by a foul moaiting twelve Krupp guns, is "in ndme:u:ously attacked on the l:rho-trdl siie by one of the enemy's iron-elads. She 'has al ready suffered severely, and her posi tion becomes critical. A mast signal from the admiral's ship is given, and a torpedo-boat starts. The watchful en emy has observed the signal. le knows the danger, and at once concen trates his fire uiponi the lit tle gray speck which is shooting rapidly toward him. Three miles separate them, and the torpedo-boat must make that three miles in ten minutes. If it is not sunk before it has traversed that distance the iron-clad is lost. Therefore, the cannoneers point their guns with tho most scrupulous care. The first shells pass wide of their mark; but the aim is rectified, and soon the shells fall so near the torpedo-boat that they throw the water over it. Now one has fallen right at its prow, A geyser jet of wa ter thirty feet high conceals the tor pedo-boat; the enemy believe it has been sunk, and utter a tremendous cheer. But the projectile has only ri cochetted and passed over it. The wa ter falls back in rain, and the brave little vessel reappears all streaming with brine, as though it had emerged from the sea-deeps, and rushing on at full steam in the face of death. There are only nine men on the lit tle vessel, and they are going to attack a sort of leviathan carrying an immense crew. It is not the light of one againet toln but of one against a hundred. Not a single %yord is uttered bevond the necessary orders. Those men, whom death already touches with his fingers, are silent and grave. And do not suppose for a moment that they do not think of the danger. On the con trary, they think of nothing else. But it is not of their own danger they are thinking, but of tln danger of failure. It is not a question of their lives, but of the success of the enterprise. It is essential that the torpedo-boat shall reach the enemy's flank and rescue our cruiser. After that, if the torpedo boat sinks, so much the worse! Every nerve is strained, every eye is directed toward the object in view. Now the boat is only live hundred yards away from the iron-clad. The tire of the mitrailleusos mingles with the showers of shells and swveeps the deck; everything wvooden is sl;uintcred to atonms with graipe-shiot. Aln ines sant lire of repeating rilies from the mast tops of the ironi-clad plays over the torpedo-boat, and the balls, enter ing through thle few openlings in the decks, have already disabled three meni. They lie in a coner, to which they have been able to drag thiemseJves, for there is nio time now to attenid to them. They may be thought of in two minutes more-after thme fate of all shall have been dlecided. The torpedoe-boat, has almost reached its enieimy. Thle success of the exped(i tion is now assuredl, for the shell b)at teries are p)owerles~s to hiarnm the tor pedio boat at such short, range. T1he rifle fire, terrible as it is, can not sink her, it can only kill some of her crew; b)ut t hat is of no great conse( quenice. Nowv is the t imei whlen the capltain nleedls all hlis surety of eye and( coolness of v.ill; no0w is the time that his menCi nmust excentoelders with the rahpidity of l ightning. for if the torpedo he fired ai second too soonl it will fail to (1o its terrible dullty, andl yet if there be ai delay of a mIomenOlt the t orped(o b)oat must (hash itself to ieces. against the sides( of its miighity ad(versary. Ne,w the boat seemis almuost ready to touchI the ( l~l e my 's vessel. lInn td-grieti adles flu, upon01 her deek reb,oiund and burst; one mnan is killed; then captainl he eil a terrible wound( ini the Zace, bill, summninglil( all his streng(th, lie supplIorts hlimiself erect aginilst thle ironi wall by a subl)1imen effort (of will. Livid, d ren (lhed withb blood, but, ter3 rible in is calmIl resolve) and( biravery, lhe keeps his eye still upon01 thle enemi~y. '"lteady! Let her go!'' The awful miiissile is I2 lauhied. An enlormouIs su1rgei appea.;rs ill tihe water, andl a frighl e rankling nloise is heard n, fIoowed by a terribl cr(14'y o (list ress. 11he pigmly h'as coinq uered the giant. "'IIard a starboard!" And1( the little vessel, suiddenly wheel ing aroundi , ste:ilis away at fill IspeedI, wvhile the enemy's iron-clad silks to the hot tomi. TenI minifutes aLftel~rar the torpedlo boat has retulrned to its plost beOsideI the adlmiral's vessels. The adminiral senids for tIhe captaini in ordler to con gratui late him. Hie is carried to him up~on a hier. Mean1w hilhe tile light goes on. A neCw exp)edit ion may prove necessary. A provisory (calptain is at once appoint ed, ando four mien to complete the deci matedl crew; and the torpedo-boat is readly to fulfill another mission; it has aniothier band of heroes to direct it. Until lately it was the general belief that, chewuli the splinters; of a tree struck by light.ling wvould cure the toothache, and that such splinters would not burn when thrown into the fire. Tree-Pnting . In a recent address, l'rof. 13. G. Nor throp, of Connecticut, said: "A brief histocy of Arbor day will show its aitns and results. The plan originated with ex-Governor J. Sterling 'lortn., tio p1 oncor trec-planter of Nebraska. lie secured the eo-op'r.,t:l)n of tho state board of aigrliulire 5U111 IWeye years ago, when the governc r was thus in duced to appoint the areomld Wednes day in April as a lay to .he devoted to the economic tree-phantilng. The old theory that trees would Cot thrive in the "Great American Desert" had formerly discouraged tikre-planting. By pon and tongue, wit, :rgaluelits from theory and facts from his own practice, Mr. Morton suceeeded in creating great popular interest in this work, in which he was ably seconded by ex-Governor Furnas, who has long xe:v:l the United States department of triculure in the interest of forestry. 1 la tely eamin ied the groves on Mr. \lortonr 'st ate.in which black walnut abound,, growin.r from nuts planted by him in 1 ancY 1866. The circnmference of one of thoso planted twenty years ago, three feet above the ground, is four feet and three inches, and the girt of one eighteen years old is two feet and three inches four feet from the earth, and its height is twenty-live feet. As an experiment I have just planted personally and by proxy in Clinton and vicinity about 150 nuts grown on these trees this year. 'ho experience of tree planters in Nebraska favors planting the nuts and the seeds of all tap-root trees where they are to grow. For forest planting in that state, the black walnut takes the lead of all hard woods. A general and remarkable interest was awakened in Nebraska in the observ ance of her first Arbor day, and it is said that over 12,000,000 trees were planted on that day. '1'his enthusiasm was not a temporary eflervescence. Each successive governor has continued thus to recoginizo this day. 'T'hie inter est has been sustained and increased. The State board of agriculture annual ly awards liberal prizes for the greatest number of tre planted by any ot1o person on that day, as well as prizes to those who plant the lar rest number during the year. Hience, Nebraska is the banner state of America for ceo noinical tree-planting, having, accord ing to the reports from the several counties, as 1 ami informed by ex-Gov ernor Furnas, 244,351 acre: of culti vated woodland, or more than twice that of any other state. It is not strange that the originator of arbor day should be recognized as a public benefactor, nor that, during the last campaign, when party lines were so closely drawn, as a candidate for Governor he ran some three thousand ahead of his party ticket. Though at first aiming at economic tI'ee-plint in g, Nebraska now observes ''Arbor day in schools," and the schools were last Cear invited to 'iiont ""nemluorlai trees.'' 'l'e example if Nebraska was tioon followed by Kansas, which claims over 119,000 acres of planted woodland. The governors of t hat state issue annu al proelamatuomis for Arbor day, and it is now observed by teachers andl schol ars in adorning scheol-grounds and '110S. 'ie ITook-Store" heeper. A book-store ough-lt, in :a sense to be a public library. It ought to he a stIL of intellectual headc;uarters and start ing point It shond h Istow its bene fits upon the coni)nuinity in which it stands, and that c'oll,niunity should re gard it as sotmething vorthy of pride as well as of supp ort. Its ploprietor is, of course a business man,who wants to miake2 money. lhut tihe higher' his ideat of hiis funct ions, thle more money he ought to niaki'. More intelligence is neetdedl ini the reaidimi'r of books( thian in cohhling shoes or' weighing sugar. He shoulId be thle righ t-haln' man to the minuister', thle edlitor', thle school-teacher, the laiwyer, the phlysiciatn. lie should tak e eouni sel of th edu '(lcatetd and1( well.. to-do ela sMes in ie coimn ii tity ; and shiould Ipu1it oin hiis shlv es thle books hey wanmt, aniid shouldi welcome t hem to hiis p)lac'e of businuese. lIeI is himnsel f a teacher and prieaicher, whose mor'al andi initelleetiual infltiiece makes his busminess an ethical as well as a com.. muert'ial onte, lie hias a "h ighm cal ling " anti oti' it to take a becoming p ride iin it. Ifilie sells ~pper-hanings.~ sta tioiie'ry. hronze)s amid kiek'-knmmacks lie shouhIt iremembn eri thiat these, however remunra tive i ', are but il sitde-shows. If he covers his wiundotws with fla:sh, il lus.'trated journals or staring I itho graph)ls hte shiows. that lie has ito confti dcet ini the initletual par't of the town aind no powier to mai:ke htimself attracitive to it. Is it all a mere mait ier of profit ? Ilyv no inoans; but if it were imore mioney' as well as tuo'e rtep utat i on is to be. got by workinug for the be'st amid wIsestd we ,ll'-tda claisscs thani tom' thei Sattily ogt ur chasers of t hit itory~ I'paprs Outdoor' Life. Man seems pl1aiined for1 ttdoor Ii fo in a mild climate, withI just a leaf or two of shelter' for a rainv' dayi. Hiis nature ill1 bentd for a t iinc to thle con ventional burdens of an art illiial eiv'ili zation, hut r'ephoat him on first pr'inei pIes in thle outtdoor' garden of life atid his recuplerat ivo forces will reboun d with the elastic energyv of steel spings rel ievedl. O urt fashi oniable fr'ien ds wvouldl lose caste wvere they to use t heir neighboi's set'ondt-hiartl clothing, bt they will daily try to purify tI Cli own blood with t hef'irti ne io's se5tcond hianad or ten-ti mes used breati . p joisonedt as it. always is, even "heun exhialetd by3 younig and htealt hy3 peIrsons. Mani, in coiuimio with other warmt blood.-d creatures, generaltes a surlus (if heat within Ihis body. Ottttoor sleepers f id thatt nto matter' how coIld the suriroundit ig air ma~y be, if drey, enough of the outilowing heat may be dlammed back atnd retained by suitable cltthinig to sims tain the vital functdions ini healith and comfor't. Unatil dlomest ic art. rin suipply our lungs with cooil, lirst-mortgaged air, mi warmi room)ts, its votar'ies will have an imnportant p IrolIem to solv'e. In the meantimte out-eamnper's andl hovel dIweller's will w~ear the best wrated bloodt in the land. .-AimeCrin IIoinc. A Beverely, Mass., man, tias a pomn pelian lamp alleged to be 3,000 years old. MAKING rYPI,. An Hour Amnong tho Skilled Woi-kman In a Type-Foundry. In a walk through a type-foundry yesterday morning by a L'inzc' reporter the following words from Motley's "Rise of the Dutch Republic" were quoted by the foundler, who acecompa nied the reporter through his establish ment, in referring to the art of print in g: "At the very epoch when the great ness of Burgundy was most swiftly ripening, another weapon was secretly forging, more potent in the great struggle for freedom than any which the wit or hand of man has ever de vised or wielded." "It may not be generally known," said the type-founder, ''that the first uarto bible printed in America was the work of Christopher Sauer, of Ger mantown, who there in 1735 estab lished a typo foundry, but it is to see how type is made that you come." '-Let uts begin with the metal room." About the place where the amalgam of which type is made were piled hun dreds of bar of the metal. At the fur ther end of tho room a master work man threw into the great kettle cor tainh proportions of copper, antimony, lead, and tin. lhis is the amalgam, the exact proportions of which produce the useful met al that must be hard without being brittle, dutlile but, tough, flowing freely and hardening rapidly. A bar was broken in two, and the beautiful, spark ling grain of the metal shown. About the apartment were casks of glittering antimony, bars of yellow copper, dull bricks of lead, and blocks of tin. As the composition melted the man at the kettle stirred the molten mass, and when the proper degree of heat was reached ladled it out on the molds that lay on the brick floor at his feet. Above the metal-room the hars were fitted for the printer's use. Before a machie known as a punch-cutter sat a man surrounded by a bewildering ar ray of delicate tools and guages. "There are very few men of note for this part of work in the United States," whispered the reporter's companion. "It requires a delicacy of touch and perception that is not easily acquired." On the end of a piece of steel the work man at the punch-cutter was forming a letter. lie worked rapidly yet with caution, frequently testing his gauges until the letter was complete. 'Theq other letters of the alphabet were formed tinishing the series. One by one the dies were placed in a stamping-machine, an oblong piece of copper put under them, and then the great lever was brought down. '1'he impression was left deep in the copper. This oblong bit of copper is termed the matrix. From the punch-cutter the matrices were carried to an adjoining room, their fitting up for the mold. The slighte:t variation or irregularity was said to be fatal to the appearance of the typo cast in them. Perhaps the most interesting things about the foundry are the tiny castiug machies that pour out an endless stream of type as long as they work. ''These snug little fellows" said thO type-founder, patting with his hand the odd little mass of machinery before which he stood, ''can throw out more type in one day than a man, working tell hours a day, can count in a mhonth.'' Thle casting-machino is the invention of David Bruce, .Jr., of New York. Tie metalI is kept fluid by a little furnace hpnderneath the machilne and is projectedI into the mold by a pumlp. lhe mold is mlovable, and1( at every revolution of the crank is brought to tile spout, wh ere it receires a fresh chatrge of the mietal. A spring ill front of t.hu mold holds close to it a copper Imatrix, and1( the stallnp of tile letter 0on ibe matrix is dIirICelly oppjosit0 tile aplert.ure of tile mlohl whichl mee('ts the1( spoult of the pump111. Ini boxes the niew-miadle type0 is car ried to. the driessinlg-rooml1, whlere aroulnd large stonles the b)oys' ar1o kept busy rubbing away the roulgh edlges on the typ)e. Thei l:uls; wear leathler glove finlgers for proltec'tionl. As the typoe is ru bbed smiooth II(aebl letter is sot up ill long lines. Friomn flhe nlimble-fing~ered boys tile lines of typ' e paiss intol thle hands of the dresser, who h0Ias bedsideI im a powerful mlagnifyinge-glass. 'The diressi'r deftly slipis a line of type into a long stick similar inl shape to that used b)y pirint er's, face dIownwlardi, screws thenm upj tighlt, and1( withI two r'apid mlovements of planing-tool cuts tile grove in thle bo0ttom1 of t he typec. Th'iis operation is known as givinlg the type legs. '"They must have something to stanld onl,"' said theo goodt-naturled lookingr ti resser. After thI at, withI the( magnlify mIar glass, the face oif tihe line is criti ca71y inlspectedl andl imperfect onies thirowni aside to lie returned to tho mleltin - . "T er'atloll p ract icaily ends(1 tile maug of type,"' said the founder, "M'At 'rward thle diifl'en t letters are put upl in what we call 'pages,' and are~ ready to be senlt out.'' 'The ma tr'iecs and1( mohl, oif wh iichl tihe found1(1ry has1 a colle(tionl numbiiering mlanly thlois.. andl(s, are' keipt , wh len nIrot ill use, inl ai fireproof vaul t. Thley are very valu1 abile, r'epriesenlt inlg, as they do, t haeel IEletoll (If mllany' years oif habor11. A comlplete font of type miay be0 com1 pIrisedl under(1 nin1 hlead(s, as follows: case e, figur(es, poin11ts, spaces, etn and1( en quadr'atces, two and1( threeC em1 (fliad ratef s, 'ill accets . l'm ~eirs (div ide a foilt of let ter's into two classes-uppjer--case anId low.er case sort s. 1( The upper1-(ase are capi tal s, simai en('pitIal let telrs, and rflefer enees; the low.er-e:ase conMists of small let ters', (101uble leftterus, figures, points, Toe re hia; been dI(Iiscoveredf near Yu ha I )ao: a 'uiie sep hc ,i sw''a1nnu11 I though the~ muddOfy water, h:i) becom:e thborouugh ly coveredi with "'sliekijns,"' in which mluch grass seed had b)1(n mixed. A thick crop of green grassM a nlow loa .1 :l upon theO sheep's back. 11o)th t he shee 1an gr'ass are being fare Iully ;:,ar'ded, and1( whlen the latter' h~a reached10 its f1ull growth it will LW harvested converted into hay and( p:'eserv.ed as one of the California curiositit's How SStud-Poker Is Played. As numerous references have been made lately to stud-horse poker, the following description of the fascinating game, taken from an exchange, Is re produced. It was evidently written by some fellow who had run up pretty hard against the buried card. Stud-horse pokor is dangerous, be cause it has the air of innocence and fair play. Five cards are dealt, the same as in other poker, with this ex ception--that all but one card are ex posed, and it Is upon the strength or weakness of this hidden card that the players win or lose their money, as the case may be. For instance, one player may have an ace in sight, another a king, and so on. Should any one of these pair the "down card" it would constitute the strongest hand. The players can only judge from the cards thrown around by the dealer as to what pairs are out. The highest card or pair in sight must do the betting. This gives the player holding a strong pair, one of the cards of which Is ex posed, the other hidden, a decided ad vantage, as the others may not be play ing him for a pair. The tables form a semi-circle, and are so arranged that ten or a dozen men can play at one time. The dealer, with his chips, sits in the center, and requires each man to "ante" one chip, which entitles him to draw two cards, the first one of which is dealt face down, the second being exposed. The betting then begins and continues until the cards are all drawn out. This looks like a very fair game, and probably would be were it not for the "rake-of ," or percentage. and oth er little points which are kept a secret among the favorites of the green-cloth circle. The percentage taken by the house absorbs at least one-half, and is so great that old and experienced gam blers will not play their money against the game. Where the greatest evil ex ists is the cheapness of the game. The chips in the majority of the houses are sold at the rate of two for 6 cents, the player being required to buy 50 cents' worth at a time, or as many more as he desires. Should luck run in his favor he may mako a good winning off a half dollar. In nine cases out of ten it goes the other way. This, then, is where the fascination comes in. Each player imagines that ho can play the game better than some one else, and that there is a fortune in store for him if he only has nerve and follows it up. Young men who could not be induced to play their money against other games of chance are daily being caught in the meshes at ''stud-poker,'' and once in, they find it hard to extricate themselves. "Fifty cents' worth, just for amuse. ment," says the smiling tempter; and the half-dollar is exchanged for a small stack of ivories. The cards are dealt, and the leinor, at the end of several (reased fourfold. "Great game!" cries the novice. "No good," growls the capper, who has been losing. "Try again," suggests the dealer; ''perhaps you will have better luck next time.'' IIe (toes try again, and the rule invari ably is that either ho or the dealer has all the chips when the game closes. These, then, are the recruiting-posts for the gambling-houses. Let a man once become a victim to ''stud-poker,'' and it will cinch him like the Old Man of the Sen. 'l'ie best friend that comes to the rescue of these poor fellows is the law. It is the only thing that can save them from utter ruin.-Virginia Enterprise. A Thousand P'ounds to One. Nearly every one who has played whiist, much must have had at times a Yarborough hand --that is, a hand in which there is no card above a nine. Pembridge says lie has held three of these hands in the course of two hours; but this Is, of course, altogether unus ual. T1he name given to a~hand of this sort is dherived from a certain Lord Yar, borough, wvho( used to offer the attrac tive but reahy very safe wager of ?1,000 to El that a hand of this sort would not be dealt. If Lord Yar borough h ad not calculated the chances, (or had themn calculated for him,) he acted with little wisdiom in betting at all on such a matter; but if ho knew thieim lie acted with little fairness in ofTering the odds lie (lid. It will be fohund that one hand in about 1,828 is a Yarborough, so that Lord Yarborou gh ought, to have wagered ?1,827 to El instead of ?1,000 to E1. It is said that lie laid this wager nmany thousands of times. Supposing lie offered ?1,000 to ?1 to each mnember of a whist party, for 10 deals, oii about 91 or 92 nights, in each of 1') years, making in all about 3,56 waer i. c., 20 times 1,828 lie would have lost ab)out 20 times, or ?20,000, andi woni abhout E36,500O, mak ing a clear p)rofit of about ?16,500, or E1,650( petr anniuim, b)y this seemingly reckless systemi of wagering. An in stance, lastly, is on record of a hand containing( four twos, four threes, four fours, and- one five. Any one holding such a hand might well believe himself especially selected for pulnishment by thme dleities or denmns, whoever they may be, who preside over the fortunes of whist players. Yet such a hand Is bound to occur froii time to time,when so many play whiist. The chance of holding such a hand is, in fact, exactly the same as the chance of holding all the trump)s, Viz., onei in 158,768,889,000, For thece arc only four possible ways in which such a hand can be made up. It miust hold the 12 lowest cards in the pack, andl one live, which may be of any of the four suits; hence there are four hands having no card higher than a live ouit of 635,013,559,600, or one chance of such a hand in 158,753,889. 000. Yet I have no manner of doubt so foolish are men in regard to betting1 -that if a Lard YarboroughI of to-day wvoro to offer ?10,000 to E?t (instead of ?158,768,389,000 to ?1) against the occurrence of such a hand lie would find many takers. RIichaard A. Proctor, in Longm?an's Mag(azine. TJhie De ulsche Medizinat Zcitung gives tsr account of a series of careful ex periments made in the Prussian army as to the utility of serving schnaps to soldiers In active service. After pro longedb trials the army surgeons aban doned the use of spirits and give tea or coffee in place of it. Keeping 'heir ostus es 7e "Actors and actresses are migbtfl distressed when they appear la a new role," said a dramatic manager ex. perlence, "lest some other actor or so tress should manage to see or get a d scription of their costume, and eithes reproduce it first or else make it a sub., ect of gossip in professional circles. If fsn't easy to understand their feelings when a costly costume has been bougbt to find some one elso reproducing it on the stage. The dress of the actor and actress is part of their capital. It is not thought to be stealing. In the pro fession, however, if an actress can get the best of her sister actress by appro. priating her ideas. The argument Used is that if one cannot guard her profle sional secrets, then gh. he hgtter sot go into the business. The stories of the pains that actresses havq taken to learn what a popular rivl Intends to wear would fill a book. To be outwit. ted in this way Is a dlsgrae, and new a-days it is rarely done. Iadeed, it is not so attractive an amusement as It used to be, for in first-class theaters actors haven't a word to say about what they shall wear. The manager dictates every garment to be worn, both in design and color. The reason is that the picturesque, effects of stage grouping are closely studied, and an effort is made to present at every new situation a new picture to the eye-a picture that might be a model in every way for a painting. In the matter of color the tone is carefully studied, and all the tints in walls, carpets, furniture, and dress are selected according to the laws of harmony or of contrast. "In minstrel or variety perform ances, however, such nicety cannot be of use, and 1 erformers select w1 at they please for a costume. Wh, get their clothing made is a--.. If by accident you should dress, and should ask i, dressmaker, or tailor T L A If whom the bonnet shoes are being - S- . met by the polite 26 tg the gentleman der reqis t' DitvIe R R secret. A formners propose actresss tilme, plausil the 0) and n'GER DEPARTMENT, are i the after April 6h, 1884, PaH ma'n Service on the Atlanta and Toir Line Division will be asfol. dre nT.awftrcx. haveR.se VU 61, DAILY. for b ' 600 p m the nrille 8 08 p m if they 8 v8 p ii the uuJuoniinq n Fruit-growing an a Business. Fruit-growing, as a business, is espe cially adapted to some regions, and to some restricted localities. This truth, in relation to certain kinds of fruits, is well comprehended, but, regarding others, less attention is given to it than good judgment demands. Outside of certain well-defined areas no one would think of planting peach orchards and vineyards for profit; and more than this within the past fifty years the adapta bility of certain localities for the profit able production of these fruits has greatly changed, in many cases the re sult, probably, of deforesting large tracts of country. There is too much indiscriminate ad.. vice given by the press in regard to fruit raising. Again, tree dealers and nur sery agents, seeking a market for their wares, circulate wild statements about the profits of the industry, and at a time like the present, when the p rices of grain are low, it is not difficult for them to induce numerous persons In almost every commnunity, who have not special fitness or experience for the work, to undertake, at least in a small way, the planting of orchards or small fruits. It requires no highly gifte. seer to perceive that most of these eff'orts will be abortive. Theb fact is, the wrecks of ill-conceived fruit plantations are strewn over the whole country. We have no desire to say a word that may discourage any one from engaging in fruit culture who will attoxopt it in a rational and business-like manner; but we would warn the InexperIenced to look on both sides of the subject, and it has two sides, one of which is not the rose-colored one that is usually painted by nuwspaper~ writer3. The fruit-grower needs to have a irageous heart, and an abounding Lith in his pursuit. He has numerous enemies with which to contend and to conquer; unfavorable seasons are not infrequient; numerous Insects and para sitic fungi are constantly disputing pos. session of his plants, trees and fruit; a general business depression, or an ex svesuply of fruit often deprive. i fall or nearly all profits. But those difficulties are probably not greater than those attending many other pursuits.- Vck's Magazine. The Comte d' Hoerisson, in his re cently published "Recollections of the Siege of Paris," relates that Eugenie was compelled to leave the Tuileries In such haste that she could only carry away a small traveling bag containing her purse and somne pocket han dker chiefs. These Dr. Rrans, who accom panied her in her flight, washed In a streara when they became soiled. As Sir Waiter Raleigh acquired much xe nown in history for throwing his cloak upon the ground that the fest ofh Queen miight not touch the mire, Dr. Evans is certainly entitled to equal honor for his gallantry. Gustave Petlipiorro, who died ent~ y at Geneva, desired to Invent a em of writing equally *niteble for an guages. Un igraphy was his md his dream; he saw in it the top toward the establishment. of i versal lanoguage foretold b 3rophets. He had accumulata he subjects a great variety of which his friends who shared l deas often urged him to pub~1f ie was never sufficiently satse lhe completeness of his work 1# ivith their request.