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r 't '+' + i r ' 1 Y' a Y1 Q' 5 f ~ ' .\ O {MYI ' r^ .v , xt" .'t t t; .r,' Igo 71 Ali i " i i 'eK 1J" 111 . PICKL l I S9 S. V", r 1T l! D Y, 'El "I" r 1 l r1 J1 The C::T'ister. Bn n rho high-pitcled ininsftor root' and t31now on the bouplui of the lenfli ss linulen trees: Sno' on the slient sb.edts and equaros that freezo Under t.iKiht's wig do'wn-dropping nigh and - nliher. Insido the echuroh, wi' i,-.a thie 'shitdowy choir, )iin burns the l'ii,s Uili lightson vaporous Hens: Drownod are th a Yn. s of droned lit anics; illrred as inl druitin, ln- volco of priest ani chitir, Coldl hath munub,At senate to slunmber here! Blut hrk, Ont' swift soprt.s., sa, itig like a larg, Startles the stillness: throbs that soul of fire, Ileatwsarouud 4ch and Isle, louodS echoing dark vit I exicuL-sw ,Aepiration; higher and high Ycarns '1u ,nArp anguish of untold desire. -John Addington Synmonds. . Leaders. The ;M, ..ng as tho Moors drew near, irected ithat his tileers should lead is corpIso to battle inounted ont the steed io rodo through all tho stori of his career. They lid. whurever towered that ehioltaiti clear, For liotorr thore was no other need. The- foo'I 'prouhd front was broken liko a reed And ho w'shattoredl in a gale of lear. - 8o like that Arthur of romantic S pa't. 'Tihourh dead, the lofty ones of all the ages 81.111 lead us o'er the world's vast hatt lc-plin, U >on 4ho faith ful stods of history's pages; A n3 J1V,lir preseneo. rally and sustalth, wi'1it the groat war 'twixt 'iruth and Ehaor ragos. -Franklin E Dustin, in The Current. TiE BAItHCl[OLLDI STATUE. Fair Franco's Great Statue-Its IIIstory Other Statues. THlE STATUE'S IIISTORY. The history of the great undertakino which will give New York Harbor the largest statue in the world begins near ly ten years ago, when the first steps were taken iu the matter by a body of dist:nguishcd Frenchmen, enthusiatstie lovers;of liberty, wlhom its originator amsdjK.'ecator then interested in his no ble conception. These gentlemon form od themselvos into a society called the Union Franco Anioricaine do France, and held a banquet Nov. 13, 1875, to in augurato the project. M. 13artlholdi's design was onthusiastically approved, and a subscription for tho erection of thestatue be,iun. Thu City of Paris subseribecl $2,000, and in livo years Franco had subscribed, chiefly in small sums, th $250,000 necessary for this purposo. Another banquet was then lielh in the French Capital, at which A anl :, ,ress to tho peoplo of the United SStattes was adopted, recalling thu al liance of France with this Nation in the causo of liberty during the Reivo lutionary War, and omlodying senti Iments expressive of their nearty ac cord in the maintenance of democratic principles of government. \Vork on the colossal statue was promptly be gun undor the superintendence of its designer, who has witnessed its coi plotion. The United States Minister to France at that time, Mr. Morton, drove the first spike,t)c:t 24, 1881, rivot inY -ho first of the bolts which were to join the statue to the pedestal. Only the right aim, head, and shoulders were at that time ready, but all the plaster casts woro completed, and steady work was being dono with the bronze of which the statue is made. The hand and wrist holding the torch had already arrived in America in time to be exhibited at tho Centonnial Ex hibition, and were afterward tempor arily placed in Madison Square, New York. Meanwhile on this side of the Atlan tie icasur's of co-operation with the generous French nation were taken. Jan. 2, 1877, a meeting of citizens of Now York was hold for the purpose of *peseniting .the0 undertaking to tihe 'heirican people1, to prlomlote tiho leg islationl ne1cesary for the r'elption and inugura1tion Of the statue, andii to eirc ate unanuciat means for erectingr a suit ab1)le foundationi and podtIItl. Con gress passed a. resolution providing for the eat ion of theo statue on hiodioo's Islan3d, Neow-York Harbor, and for its tiainit.enan1ce in good order. More over, its formial reception by the Presi donut of the United Stat.e' on behalf of the governmeont w.~as secured, anid Proes idenit Griant, thanked thlo French peCo p)lo for the gift, by autograph loit. An add(ross to the poopl)1( of thi.g coun * ~try askinlg -sub.scriptionls was wvritten mOl circuIlatedl, bult :3unds have come mwith prlovoking slowness, and the statue has seen dark days when its fate treminbled in the halanice. ,. IT'S slTE. Spriingine up from flho waters of Now York i'ny, neatr the cuntor of tile hiar'bor', and comm33anid inrg an u nob strued '( view ouit thriough~1 the Narrows to thle oceani, Bedloc's Islanid is ani (s.. peially favorabul( site for tho tra'ction of aL beaconl-l ight thiat shall at on1ce gmldo tihe miari nor to a safei haven andl symiibolizo to the emiigr'ant wvhen lio first r'enehos our shle s Iho idIea of liberty whic has I been 1131 o largely ilnstrumenltOital iln binginig him hiither. The0 island it nelf is 1noich Ila rer thiian appoars~ cit heri from-the New York shorje or' from thte lithographic plictulres of statuio and is land which11 have reconitly,bheen scatter 0(d oer the 'oun lt ry. .It hasb aun area *of follr or live acres, and wvill doutless be a doli ghtful breathinrg-pil ae for ihe city residI'onlt, and1 a Mecca to theo won dor-liunting coun try visitor, whien it has receivod the last, boauitifyingv touches of the Podostal Committee and return *ed to the Govelrnmentf,. * The foundation oni which the podles tal is to rest is a vast mallSs of gravel, and Hand, and3( limo1, nlinety-onio fet * Bsquaro at the base, 3'ixty-si-en feet square at the top), and fifty-two foot tonl inces; In height. It rests onh 1 bed of gravel some1 twenty feot below tho surface. This hugo mass15 of wvhat is for all practical purp')Ooss at solid block of granite r'eprtesenits the actual wyork, outsidlo of plans andl designs, whiol' has thus far boon (lone for the recop * ~ tion of tile statue. Upon this will be built the granite pedestal, 117 feet high, andl( twVonty feet square at the top. The facIg of tile pedestal is of Leotos Island (Conn.) granite, which is rieh purpie ini color and1( of great on3 durancer Thke staitue will be anchored to this piedostal by heavy iron rouds psng frOloech coner of th34 staltuoI throng h the pedestal to its base. - Tho3 statue Itself is 151 foot high, madei of copper and h'ron, and weighs nearly 2(0) tons. An elevatot' and a stairwry wvill ascondl from the basooa tepdsa up titro'igt the statuo to the head, whence the stairs will continue through the uplifted arm to the torch hold in tho hand. Upon the small balcony be neath the torch there is standing room for fifteen persons. The height of the entire afFair is reckoned as follows: 1leight of baso of foundation above high-wator mark, 8 fect; height of foun dation-mass, 53 foot; height of pedestal, 117 foot; height of statute, 151 feet. TOTAL 329 FEEr. This raises tho torch several feet nbovo the pinnaclo of Trinity church spire, the loftiest edifice in the city proper, and makos it'nearly as high as the water-tower on the bluff near High Bridge, which is the highest point above the sea-level in the city. An in comparably beautiful view will bo had of the harbor, tho city, and the sur rounding country from the apex of the statue. Asido from its value as an earnest of French good will, as an artistic tri utmph, and as an observatory, the statue will be useful as a lighthouse. A powerful cicetric light will illumin ate the world by night from the torch, while a coronet of lights will be placed on the spurs of the diadem. It is cal culated that these lights will be visible on a clear night at a distan. o of eighty eight miles at sea. This .will make the statue one of the most important light houses on the coast. The outer wall of the fort, which cov ers about half of the island, and comes down nearly to the vater's edge on the southern side of it, is to be left stand ing, andl will nake a very imaswsive and effectiv"e frame for the stat ne, which will be placed in it.; centre. From the inner or ptrale i of the fort a ter race will ra.e to the iase of th,e pedies tal-the snace beneath the terrace be ing utilized for the machinery for the electric lights and the elevator. TilE SCULTi'roic. The distinguished French sculptor, Frederic Auguste 1lartholdi, by whose hands the repousse'statue of "Liberty Enlightening thel World" has boen shaped, was horn at Colmar, in France, and is about 60 years of age. As a pupil of th famous Ary Schef for, his artistic ability was recognzed in the bas-relief of ''Francesca do lim ini," executed in 1852. His namue was first brought into pronlinenee. how ever, in the United States in 1872,when his well-known statue-of Lafayette was forwarded as a gift from the 'people of France and placed in Union Sinare, New York City. At the Centennial, whore lie was one of the French Commissioners, lie was avarded a medal for the oxhibition of the brionz,l :.tatues of ''Peace.'' ''The Young Vilno Grower," and "Gilllls in the Gr.tsp of Misery." lie is also a Chqyalier of the Legion of Honor in his native country. It was his wish that France should present to the people of the United States a suitable gift commemorative of the traditional feeling of good will existing between the two Nations. Iu thereforo volunteered his artistic ser vices for the construction of an onor mous figure representing "Liberty En lightening the World," to be placed on Bedloo's Island in New York Harbor, and he became so en ihusiastic in car rying on the project that when, sub scriptions lagged lie pledged hiis own private fortune to defray the rulning expenses of the work. Bartlholdi has made ' is mark in Pa risian art, and is at Itresent engaged In the sculpture of a nassivo lion out of the solid rock in t'.o side of a moun tain at Belford, wl"ch will be eighty feet long and thi-.,y feet high. Gen. Charles i'. Stone, formerly of the United States army, has beoen en mieer-in-chief of the undertaking, andl Richard M\. IIunt architect-in-chief. ANCiENT MONUMENTS. The conception of monumental work teems to b)0 characteristic of a certain legree in thio advancement in the civ lization of nations. Without, mention mcr monuments properly so-called 1o'lmmens, menthirs, col muns andl pyra-. midis-we generally dliscover in the history of all great nations mtenition of soni's one colossal statue. Its concop Lion of ten mars - the apogee of local progress. T1hio ancients orected miany immoinso works in honor of their dIi vin ities. With them the omntipotence fa god often appecared to dlepenld on thio miiagnitudle of hiis imiagei, whIiichi, liowever, they alwvays try to endow with all possiblo forco and majesty. 1l'ho most imuposinig lige'res we recog.. iize as their imost powvorful andi miost venteratedl gods. In ancienit Egypt the .solossi formed ant CesentialI decora tion >f thle grand tompl)es and p)alaece. Bie ides its mnagificenlt py ranmids, its obo isks 11)) feet in hieight, its gigantic ~ombs1), its inntumor1 alhe and enormous 1ipntxes, Egypt wais covered wvith stat ics fifty and sixty feet high, cut from uingle blocks of stoneii. .(lrodtus metOions021 ie colossus of Jsairis, wvhichi was inetity- two) feet hiighi. Xt Memphis a few year is ago there was ixhiunmed theo st atuoc of Ramieses II., vhiich was forty-n no feet hiighi. lie.. ore the enttriance to the p)alace of LuAx. )r were sea ted tou r simlilar colo)ssi forty cot, high. Near GAournahi can still be ccei the fragmets of a gigantic seated tatue of ltt:uiesis the G reat, cut fronm single roed granite stone. Thli two :olosAi (of Memiin on measuiro more than \isty- twov feet each, anid withI their pieetl weigh miore titan I,-*t1% tons. Ii'ho four sea ted stau'.nes wh0ich dcc nrate the facadle of thet 'great temple of Isanihoul were :ix ty-one feet high. - Tlhe Gree! . ;so, erieted many sltat l(es to th'eii iii ti t he Iliy wort~ mtost ~ frequenO~tly of hionze Or coveredi wyith I plates of gobi an iory , . Thob Minorra of hiduias was thirty auto feet igh. In relity it was a woodeji stte n, suppori.ed on the ini sido by iron-work, andi covee with beaten and sculpltulred shei'ts of gold and latos of Ivory liiely carved. Tlhis was all amt together with so iiuch nicety - h"-ndling that it was imosi blo to dilscovor the joints. 'Thie cole brated Jupliter Olympu~ts, by the stam t sculptor, was also of gold and ivory. The god was represented seated, andI wasq forty- two feet high.''i Phidl'as muado several other colosqsal linorvas, one of wIlch, the "'Athena I romacthot, ' as entirnly of bronzo, lifty to sixty feet in hei,ht -Thme (;oim. uns of Rhoides, the work of Chur1es~ of 4Iidos, Wats erected 300 years 11. C., in honor of Apollo. 'o assure its st a bility it was filled with largo stone'. Nevertholess it was overthrown by an earthquako. Rome, especially under the Era pire, erected many colossal bronzo statties, most often representing Cousars deified during their lifetime. J.'hat of Nero, by Zenodorous, was 110 feet high. Ii Japan can be soon it bronze statuo of the great Buddha, seated, which is fifty feet high. In China and India the greater part of the gigantic idols are oft masonry or of wood roughly carved. Wood, except in rare n w,e.;, n< the Wooden horse of Troy. h h:t IIv over been employed inl colos.:al slat:ry, save in the interiors of tenples. ''The "C/+junt." Comuissioner Ilarris, of Louisiana, showed several pieces of homlesput cotton goods which ho says were mnado by the "Cajins." "Who are they?" I asked. 'lie word, ho repli-d. is a corruption of Arcadians, atndl is applied to the descendanIs of those p)oplo whose sottlemont in Louisiana was im mortalizod in Longfollow's "Evan,e line." Then, turning to the map, ho showed me where the "Cajuns" live, and gave an account . of their homes and their simplicity of life. In plain words he verified the words of Basil, the blacksmith, as to the beauty of the country and fertility of the soil and the case in which they lived. They are almost like the ''lilies of the field" In their freedom from toil. In a littlo patch around their housos they culti vate what cotton they need for their wearing apparel :nd such vegetables as they use. When the spring rains cease they go out upon-the prairie and examino the depressions, from one to live acres in extent, which are then ponds of water, and if found to bo not more than eigh teen inches deep they prepare to sow their rico. First they soak their seed throngbily then scatter it, broadcast over the pond from the backs of horses. the weight, of the soaked rico catse it to sink, and they have no further eare for their crop until the harvest timo comes. Shouid a drought provail in Spring they then rcatt('r the seed upon the dry ground. To prevent the birds of 1.io air from devourin it, the 'CajIun". looks out over the prairie where his herds are, anld ridiin to the nearest lie drives the cattle back and forth over the seed nuitil it has been trodden into the soil. Then pittting up the light fenco around his riec plantation he goes homo satis!: :d. In July his crop is ready for harvesting. For this he use.; a sickle, tossing the sheaves as t'he fail into his cart. ''hi.s is a cumbrous clfair of wood, even to the wheels and axles. No iron is u1sed1 in its construction. Tie Oxcu are not yoked, but the toII!lnue is . made ^ast to loop.s fast eted it their horns. to sheaves are spread out tlpon the i:irie and tho grain is tramnpled out by the oxen, as it used to be when the edict went forth:- '-Thioi shalt not muz sle the ox that treadetlh out the corn." I'he grain is swept togetther, sacked, carted home, and emptied into a bitt. When any is needed for a leal the housewife takes a sullile'lcv, puts it into a wooden hanlnill of sinplo con stIuetion, rubs oIl the hils in a few minutes, winnows it inl a sieve, and soon has it cooking. Tihe cotinllssioner showed on a map a placo where. forsix miles, the chief crop of the "Cajuns" is gathered from the orange trees. In sclling this crop a sinular custom prevails. W1'hen the trees are bloomling, a buyer, the '"diego" (why so called no one seems to know) appears :unong them. After a week ot coinf erence, durin.g w hich le udit thet y have hiad repeat Ied whIIittiun matches, a bargain is struck for the :casotn's cr'op, onte-halif is paid down itt cash and( OCI teui ty give'n for the baalnce, mud then the ''(.itns"' enjov their h>lee far ntintt with frotm $1,500U to %'$,000( ill hantd for e very headl of thle family, atnd as mluch morec secutred for the ItLure. 13asi, 1.lic blacksmlit h, d id not err' whlen lie t(oh1 Evanigelinte of tihe wealth of these teeming lowlatiis. - New laven P'llUlijum. Sp>eclautstm in Medici1nt'. If specialists (lid not meet a dlistinIct vant they wVouh1l soon be driven oh' ihe icld. It is idle to inqluire whieteir in his inlsta nce thin demand-er(1'czea ted t ho utpply', 0or vice versa;i all Lthat we are oilncrne with hiet'e is the fact Lthat he publhIic voice decisively aipproves of he existence of specialists. This is ~onvinlcingly demonstrated as timlin ~ors on by the inicreasinlg conlidenice hiiich is pl aced in thir o'piniiion aind dvice. A strIik ingi conJirmlia tiotn of this saff'orded b)y the circnumstantco t hat hien medlical men01 hiavo sick ness in Ititr owin families they put pjudjl(ice sidet and invyoko the assistance of the lespised specialhist. Itn my own pro mnco it is my p)leasuro and( my pri vi ege to Ll'eat a lar'ge numifber of myl prlo Li iotnts or those of t heirt wives and blildretn I amt occuied durting a coln iderable por'tiotn or each working day. lany other specialists are dloubitless 'Ocipienits of the likeot indisputaboih sini oro formn of comp1l imenit. 'ITh grow ig favor' with which speciali.ni is coked on by the putblic is also fully| .coih',zed b)y younlg phlysicians, andl til mioro by successful genoral pract i-I loners amb.itioits of emerClging inito tile core rar'efied1 aitmosphiore of conisutiitig -ork. Thie press5 of comyctitIon is so erco inl thte present over-.crowded state f the meid ical priofessionl that unless a nn has some p)eculiar' and( dlecidled ad anitage overi the genieral r'n of his fel >ws lie stands no chianco of comling to lie front. Somethtingr mnore is -neces ai'y nlowadays~ for success iln the hiighi n' walks of muedicino than mer'e genier I aibility. Sutpr'eme talon t willI, of :>urise', ull tima tely finid its level, unless cpt dhowln by acidenl0It or' miisforttune; utl for' the alveragol clever mianI there is tL l'espect of briil lianlt success tun 0ss lie hias (or caii persulado thes wold( IC Ihae) thle power of dlointg somie pat' ieilai' itig l>etter' that' anty otto else, rc at anly rate prle-einenllit ly wvellI.-Dr. hIarell Alacixn:sic, in Nur1luigt;tly lic Victor 1111 o ah v ay w vrote ite ho0t of ilu;ie. PR AT ICA L iX-p,' Soino ne"ent, .acltiov -u ,,4t in ,Th:tl. Twenty miles is the distancpne trated by the improvei! fogt-.i; na in use. This pow(er, it appea';rs, i" gained by two slotI In , o fixed and the other rtvoling in it The slots, a4' they p:: s ol,t" utlher, stop or cut o:f the p -te t e cd air or steami, thlus (au.in2 aIl' series of vibrations, and, eon tiuert"ly, a Imu sical note, the pitch of which diepecnds upon the speed of the revolvin-- evlinl der. In order to vary thi, noe it is only nt cssary to cw:trol thi:; ';e:ocity. The doubie-note horn.1 it formed'c withl casing, wit hin w il are:; fixeul slotted cylinder and at revolving cyliditer iov ing upon a11, Spindle. '1'ITe silti11 are formed in each cylinder at oppo:;ite in Clined[ angles, so that thet motive Iluidi irpinging against a muntie 'r of inclin ed planes cause.; the iilne'r cylinder. to revolve with great, rapiditlv, c:a'ryintr two disks. Tiese are at tached to the coltuion spindle, and upon their peri pheries are pressed levers, under tie action of small pistons operated bydia phlragus, to the outer surfaceo of which comlhprc.;ed air is admiitted. One brake is put on for a high note, both brakes for at low note. Large quantities of titier are now creosoted at the West in a special man ner, for railroad purposes, the citect boing to increase the tenacity of the wood for hohling spikes, etc., as well as its density and ability to resist m1e chanical wear. This is don by means of an apparatus consisting of a boiler plate cylinder, of a siza adapted to tho timber; this cylinder is of 2a strengtl sullicient to resist 300 poutind pressuo' per square inch, and has a track cx tonding for its wholo length along the bottom, the cylinder's ends being'elo od by strong iron doors, air and water tight. When timber has been run into the cylinder and the doors cl.otd, steam at about 100 pounds presure i.I ejected into thin cylinder, the supecy continuing as regluired by the iiatilro and dryness of the wood; the steam is then shut oil, and vacuum pun>; worked as long as any liquids or vapors are obtained, the hot preserving liquid being now run into the cy linier iroml the reservoir until full. The force Pumps are againl operated until the in terior pressure is solme 100 pounds per iueh, and kept thus until sullicientt prc servativo fluid is forced into the pores of the wood; the foreo punl)s are now shut oh, and the creosote oil or ote . liquid contained in the cylinder is dis. charged in t suitablo cistern, after which the doors at the ends of the eyl inder are opened and the car carry:) the timber or tic. run out. A great many napkins and otherl atr ticles of usefulncs:; are now muade in Europe from the bark of the paler mulberry. Tho bark for these piir poses is first dried in the air for 1wo or three days, then p1unged for twelnt four hour.; in a current of fresh Water, after which, with the aid 'of a par - lar kimIn oi cord, tile two splIecisof li bres of which it is Cotllpoupod are sel arated. The interior i;brcs are those from which fine paper is made; lhey tire rolled into I all- wt':Ihing; :)ount thirty-fi"o poun.ds each, n. hicu are washed anew in running wafte', in which they are allowed to soak a shorter time thanl previt,lsly, aid are then dried; finally th'Ye :re b hoil("d ml lye made fro.u the ashes of bucl;k h;eat foulr, constant, stirriig heing kept lp; another washing in Iure Water carries away the last imnputrities, and the Iibres are next pounded with h:nmilncrs of wood for about twenty minites; after this they are a second tiint: rolledl into bails, and finally tranisformud 1into lip, rice- water1 beinzg mixed witIh it. Theo1 sbi)en elt treatment21 of thie pulp is identical with tha:t oIf tile ordlinary manuifactture (If paper. "'LeathIer pa per" is obtalinedu by, the stuerposition of miany sh eets of thle inaterial precvi ously stt'ele inl 'yonoko," p4lressed, anld glazed1 with "'shebllas. The operi'ationl hias been1 suiccessftlly accomlishedlcl by a Germanil chlemiist of se)plaating rag1's of cttLon andt -wool mixed by) subjecting themil to the aictioii of a jet of Superhleatedb steam1. Und2l'r a pressure of live atmospheres the1 wool melts and sinks to till b)ottoml of tile r'eceptaclo, whlilo cotton, linen, and1( otherl vegeta ibe !libres st andt, thus r'e mlaining suitable for'1:1)1 paperllanufnle tile wool plreciplit atedl by thbis mle:n i then deosicented ; the r'esidlie, 'to w.I hih f is given the namiile of azot inle, is (om--1 piletely solubleo itn watc:u, and( is v'alua-i Ibeo(ol alc(oun lt of its n1itrlogen). Thel~ in creasedl valuell of the11)1 plp free fro 'il wool is sIuflicienlt to c'over' tile co).t of I the proess.-Ne--Ww York unO. In the dboorwvayfo a Aliad isoni~ sirtet sigar stor'e a bright litt,le p ug dlog 'its. ill (lay 011 hiis haunches(110. lie .(is chil .'t to tile cigar1-l ighiter ilnsideI, not4 b cautse tile pr'oprietor fears h1( migit es' eape, bu1t, becautso th1ey know tile 1hi ts and1( pralctices oIf the0 gaiis whob fre ruien t tile ne igihborhlood . Last Cen ing a pleasant-looking youing mantn tered tile stor'e and( ~ puchlased a pack age of cigarettes. 11(1 looked tired and) his Oyes w0oro filled( with a very vact.t itare. It, was evidentL to thle miost ( as nal observer thlat till yotn2g ma a 11001n drinking. iIe carefully icke hthe tinfoil off' the package of cigalrottes and( tr'iedt for 30om1 timec to pick ouIt )ano of them. Finally he Lor'e one side af the package andt tucked all but one :> tihe liung-dlestroyers inut o his coat-h all lighting it lie eaughIt sight of t he dog's~ shainl. Withl uniecrtainl gaze lie fol low ad it, along unt1 il it r'eaedt tile dog. 11'hn lie rubbedi is.Cyes, looked againi, Id applearedi prettLy sure that, thereO was a (dOg inl the dloorway. Still, lie was not convinced, lio glaniced rroundl c'autioubsly, sawV thalt rno (on1 wvas looking, aind then h10 whistledl soft- 1 y. The1l dog did nIot, resp)ond andt tile f votung man turn'ted palei. lie whisittld f ouder, still 21o responsels. Then1 hie reaIchedl out his cane andl cautiously p)oked1 the dlog. Ii is pokeI gauvce' k a~ iollow meetall ie sound alid his hiat '.>o ,are tte, irulsh dct ouit , hat thle T..)e t, bIoardIedl an O)gdenl avee ar il an)l .1id, 'nt on' Hlomle. 1' vo go 'emi aig:. C/ eagn J/cnrnh/. "Well, well, here is a volumo that Is )ceoming quito rare these days," ex lailucd a book-worm il'a second-hand )>lok store the other day as his eye fell t mu a worn and lmusty tome. "What 1 nowv About arming." "Well ovory oly knows this is tlhh book written by (orne wGrcoley way back in the '60's. -'hapIs the rising generation may be xol)tel, as the book is now out of I >rint and will be a curiosity in a half t Core years hence. At one time it was wetty extensively read. It is dilliicult f (1 say, however, that much or any )o('it was derived from its perusal.l' retorted the party addressed, Ioraco was a great man in his time. t is not so very long, since he has ei t'red eternity, yet his name is now ardly over lentioned. it was over hus. Man's deeds, ha they good or )nd, they do not remain long fresh aft 'r the atthor is -one. Occasionally i [lash of his wit is repeated, a line from 1 his sayings is borrowed, but it does iot iiduco posterity in the least in re lmbering, much less in reverenciug hils memory. During the forty odd years that Ilorace (ditet the Tribune every editorial, every farm articlo, every news itel, every commercial p:ragraph, and every advertisement which nppcare(d in the palper was cred ited to him by many of his readers and admliirers. People forgot, or did not take the time to think, that it was a pylSical impossibility for the prolific alntd versatiio llorace to write even half of the editorials that ap eared, while his disiquisitions onl 'I1ow to Plant Siluashies,' 'IIow to Raise Cu .uhers,' or '1llow to Destroy the 1 FtVe B1,tle,i.' were not so very~ni1nn !!',l.. G reliey, W hIen writing" a)ollt a,;lnel:tit'tre, always gave the 'IIow' pa::t muiht] prominenCeO. "You eel to be well posted on I l :ace," remardl cd the book-worm by way of (iem'leti1 to the second gentle :. "\\'. ye h Inu.it confess that 1nh 'Iiloso t llice w1a? ( liT"elt. J> 111 s a Nis aS . the right part\. lIn the ec good old Limnes we dhi not. have sio mnyn rail ir:lor f:st-luil trains iond the like, ut a main coulld mai:il a lettfer withiout .1 s:tampij and lput only four letters on the ( enveliopo anid it wolh reach its .1es tinaltion. Trvy this ex per imnit nowI rind your let ter will go direct to the lead-let ter ofile. Too 1 much red tape," sighed the typo as hie reached for a oitance on the high shelf bearing the ille: "Is Life Werthi Livin g For?'' St. Lou is lepub"lican a. \\hen Gen. Shermiain wvas in Ed!- k vardrsvillc, Ill., the other dayv, several ittleC: ciumlst an ces occurried which <lrt not 'down oin the bills antd would ithe muentionied were it not for the y nit that ftie y(lmli ladies recenitly vis,.. edi by the oeut'tory hero have been ierailded far andl neair as mnakinig such avorable' imreiIons5 upon01 the general 5 to renldcr i rresistileI the iminpul so to i i-s them. Thie youing ladies of Ed-. a n:iiLllo care just as5 attractive as a of any ofther city, nnd the gener I, wvih M i ejeienco, wats cfpiiek to mte tis fact. After the G. A. RI. ox.. wis, theii thter niighit , the stage of the li peeruo wasi invadIed b)y a bevy of C 'oting lad2ies, who were to rehearse a att. The gray-b)eardted veteran *s truyghcd manfuilly to mtainltaini his C iardt-trnedrc ullutationx 0f kissingo each dI rltt f ieels, but found himrelf crv . . y kisingt livery ladty intro :e,as there werre no0 except ionls tod b.e genteral 's rulk-, inlutd inzg oinly pretty '1 pris. llis wel l-f-kniiown p)enchiant had t I uieceed him, ni one y'oung lady Ii 'jusl't vowed she wvonin'tI lot im kiss ii icr,"' buut before she knew it the wily miteran11 gras 1ed b othI her lhandt andl Iauted si)nrcly on hier muouith a kiss, miiki the H eniry V. kiss inl that, it was tot ligrn inischaracter, but Oundedi lihjke a plan h1 1 )ad crackedrl. Thoe f'air was: evidently relished by all b)ut lie youn;'i gen temen who c witnessed, lit werie niof a!llowed1 to participate, ndi regretted that the iiy Iiad not10 come ic ito the wvorld early enough to have c~ Iou famte anld b)ecomo vetoerans~ in th~ U ito unl)iatanltneis. L Jouisville C'om. ir 'iercial. . Li SNime rnt mos(s9 which was recently tc xhumlited niear D umnfries, ScotlandI, was mui d tI o ontaini seceds of pl ats dating , orom priistoriic ilmes. '[hey wero lnted andli at 01nCC hegan to germinate S fior a sheep of ages. a The lsea(1 otter catch of Alaska IsV ,'orth more thin iihalf that of all other ills111 pt. ogi'tnere (the fur senls being ulhid), after that I lie otlhors comlingI n1 ther order of valuie of catch, being oartenu(rble), black fox, beaver,re ninlk, lynx, white fox, brown boar, nuRkra.. lack boar amti olf. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. acts of Interest, Gathered from Various Quarters. -''he smallpox is on the increase in lonltreal and is spreading to adjacent OwI)S. -Queen Victoria and the Princess leatrice and her husband have gone o Ihmuloral. -The King of Bavaria is to be laced under guardianship, as he is ndoubtedlly ilisance. -An expulsion of Polish subjects rom Austria has been begun. All lasses alike are expelled. ---EX-Governor Reuben E. Fenton, f New York, died suddenly at his lesk ill l;ullido, on Tuesday. -Many houses and other buildings At Boston were damage(d badly by igltning and rain on Tuesday. -An carthquake shock was felt hrougl tho Canary Islands on Thurs lay, but no damage was reported. --There has been a remarkable fall ng off in the ilpot-tatirin of diamonds nto the United States within the past ear. -After losing 80 of their 120 men he Portuguese African exploring cx pedition found the sources of the Lualaba River. -All the emblems of mourning for Gencral (rant have been removed Irom the public buildings in New York Ind Washington. --Mr. Alex. Vogelsan>g, of Philadel )Ma, is about. to astonish the world vith a flying machine with fans two cet long instead of wings. --'resi(lent Cleveland has not vet cturned from his summer vacatil. [lhe report that his health was filling t1uris out to be groulndless. --The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ndignlantly (enies the report that he lever pays his bills and that his con regation are trying to get rid of liml. --Tflhe 'ennsy ]vania Prohibitionists I a conventioll of three hulldred and fly delegates, lolinate(d a straightout rohibitionl candidates for State treas rer. -The people of Ohio vote at the ext election for an anclldiment to the -late constiLilt ion changing the time F State elections from October to Covemlber. --There is no falling off in the rav "es of the cholera in Spain. The hIily average of deaths is nearly liif ren hundred, and of new cases nearly ite thousand. -Col. John S. Mosby, lato United tates consul to Ilong Kong, has been )resented witIi a silver cup and an aldre.,s by the Chinese merchants of an Francisco. -lThe Washington correspondent of he New Orleans Times-Democrat says hat the correspondence of President :levelan(d in reference to the unfit udge is bogus. -Floral oilerings are being sent to he tomnb of General Grant in such irofusion that it. is thonght that it will 'ecomo llecessary to provide a place of leposit for then. -Ther seels to be something in roiltreal that favors the propagation ' smallpox. In 1872 it broke ont here, and in the following nine ycars ,000 people (lied of It. -IH. I. )ay, a Chippewa chief, vhiile cn route to St. Paul last week, t'as taken from a train at a wav sta ioll, and so brutally beaten that lie is ot expec.ed to recover. --The commnissionier in lunacy ri ors that McCullough, thle actor, is a cercp)it o1 liani, ini a coulit ion of opelessI luuacy, andl( that his death is lily ai <uest ion of a fewv monti1hs. -The g-ranid jury of B3ulncbe oun ty, Nort h Carolina, have returned ue b)ills agaiinst William 1I. and 10. P'. onles, father and1( son, for the mulrder I the .Joyce family of four in April ist. --A dlisp)atch firom Jackson, Miss., 1ports that six passengers were fatally ijulredl ni ani accidlent, on Friday liiormug, .01n Iiayou Pierrc. The lIgo1cr, nremeian and a brakeman were illed. -A IPhiladelphiia maln asserts t hat lie iw Prellecr in, that city ill May, ali iough lie dented(5 his idenltity. Max '(ell's claiim that the so-calle'd mrurder ait aii imsuranlce dodge may yet be erdiied. --John Ilghes, a New York ped( Icir, w ho w ishied to Commit suicide, dopited the novel plan11 of thlro)winga onue in the air and letting it fall oil is bare head. Th'le pl)Oice stopped himii efore lie succedled. ---Secretarly lilaard wvan ts a conisul >r St. P'aul de Loaiido, oin thme we'-t rast A frica, at a sahary of $1,t000. Ir. C. ii. Da~vis, thle conisul, hats ic uigedI and( returnPied hiome. lie patid ver $2,000t for travelinlg epese and1( octors' bills last year. -ig.ht frosts have fallen at various oinits mi Wisconsini and1( Iowa. The image It lie crops is inconlsiderale. he weather is exceeptionially coldl for eC sc On throughout the Weost. Frosts ave also fallen at Stamiltoni, Va., and1( d (iftlerent parts of Penn usylvania. -he rush for vaccinIationi at Mon cal is so great that policemenl are deC ledl to keep hack the canldidates. It rep)ortedl thlat small pox hlas brokena it at Richielieui, som1e miles f'rom ontreQal. The proposed1 excurlsionl New York has been postl)oned. --iliss McLeodl has arrived in Amne a to lay the claims of the Scotch ofters before her country men in the ied States, and to mrak e arrange.. emits, if possible, for thle tranisporta iin of several hundred families to this mnttry. Tile ilmmigration Is expected be very large. --The New York Republican State onivention wili be held at Saratoga onl ep)tember 22. The State committee lopted resolutions declaring thlat all aters whose general intention is to at with the,- party anid to p)romote its ccca at the next election be invited, 'thout regard to any so-called "funil amrenital tests," to take part in the rimary elections for the dehlagates. -Mrs. Strother, of Dantcsburg, has at anana tree bearing fruit. TUE NEWS OX THE STAT. Some of the Latst SayInge and Dolgs .ha South Carolina. -Drought in the Upoer part of Edgefield is materially aftecitig crops, principally cotton. -The Abbeville Medium says this is a most suitable year in which - to repeal tho Lien Law. -Milledge Harris the negro for whom the Governor offered a reward has been lodged In Edgefiold jail. -Tho joint council of the Lutherans of Lexington have extended a call to lev. Mr. Rahn, formerly of Augusta. -The Teachers' Institute of Lex inmgton county closed on Friday last, after ai highly successful session of two weeks. -Mrs. Claudia M. Fishburne has been ap pointed postmistress at Sum merville, vice Ahrens, an obnoxious Radical. -Adam Williams, the fifth victim of the female poisoner in York, is recov cri-g. Ile did not eat so much cake as the others. -Lucien Douglas, of Abbeville, has ono stalk of cotton containing 438 blooms and bolls. It. covers 36 square feet of ground. -Collector Bradley has removed a lot of Revenue officials of the old Republican crew and appointed good men in their places. --Mr. Jacob Keist ler, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Lexington, died on the 13th. Ilis age was nearly ilincty. -Mrs. Martha Gable, or Lexington, has a curiosity in the way of a double egg--two perfect hen eggs joined to gether at their euds. -The first bale of new co'ton in Sumter was bought on Thursday '20th ilt., by O'Donnell & Co., from }. sex 'T aylor, for 101 cents. -Tbc su,pposed inurderer ofLomax, in Union, for whom a reward is of fered by the Governor, has been lodged in jail for identification. -B. F. Welsh, who killed W. C. Moore at Lancaster on Saturday be fore last, applied to Judge Wlthcrspoon for bail last week, but it was refused. -A partridge in York has taken charge of two young chickens, and wien an att - npt was made to capture the chicks the usually wily bird-lhow ed light. -An itinerant, sleight-of-hand per former has been imposing o* the people of Marion. Ills so-called eu tertainments were ''thin," and the auditors were wroth. --liickson Jackson, a colored man, injured by a locomotive during the stormn in Charicston, died on Thursday. Joseph Grant, colored, was struck in the head by a flying brick and badly Iurt. -A large water moccasin was killed about ten feet from a pond near Bates burg. It was attemptng to swallow a trout weighing a pouindl, and the fish wriggled and squirmed after the snako was killed. -Mrs. Clara S. Cook, of Aiken, last week attempted to jump from a buggy,. which the frightened horse was backing into a ditch, whien she-fell between- the wheels and was Periously injured by being kicked in the head. -1)ave Abuey, colored, who lived on Mr. Mat Colemian's place, in the Saluda section of E"dgefield, was bitten by a dog last May. On the 14th ult., he was atttacked by hydrophobia, and after suflering great agony died the 16th. --A negr'o girl employed by Mr. Monr'oe Shealy, of Langley, to look after his infant (daughter, becoming angi' at Mirs. Shcaly, took the child in the woods and beat it terribly with a stick. The brute was lodged in jail. -Mr. M. C. Lonlgsh1ore, of Silver Street, wvho is in his sIxtieth year and is the fathnri of about a dozen~ children and1( of sevenlteen gr'andchildiren, was made happy last Thursday by the ari'ivatl of t wins at his house-a boy and a girl. -The widowv of Col. Jack Burr'iss, of Edgefleld, diiedl recently, under mys ter'ious C'cicumstanlces. A bottle con strychxuninte was found( neat' her house which sIle is supposedC( to have tastel withl fatal r'esutlts. -A (log took a fit in an Edgefield Biapitist chturchi a few (lays ago, and the congr'egationl, mist aking it for hydro p)hobia, were' ini a state of conlserna tion. Or'der' was fInally r'estoi'ed, the (dog was removed, atnd the iermonx was counchuded b)etfore a dlemoralized audi ence.e -'The 13-year-old son of Jesse Johu son, living about six miles easst of Urconville, was killed by a tr'ain on the Air-Line railr'oad on Thursday last. The young man and his .two br'othiers wer'e walking on the track, when't the tri'nit up~on them unaware. Phe two brothers cscaped by jumpinig from the track. -An Egyptian mummy has been received at LDue West, which is a >r'csont from tile R1ev. John GrihIn to ICrskineo College. This mummy was the (daughiter of a p)riest and is r'ecord ad to be between three and four thou iland years old. It has cr'eated some sensation in this vacation village. It will.not be opened entirely before the session begins. A mummy Is rather a curiosity in the South. -A handsome mfonumenlCIt has been erected in the Spartanurg cemetery, to the memnory of' tile late Congressman Jno. Ii. Evins. It is mnade of A berdeen gr'ay Scotchl ganite, hlighly polished, while tile baso is of Winnsboro gr-anite. The weight is 12,500 pounds. The designi of' the mnulIment i sin good taste . and( in keeping with the charactesr of the mail to whIom ;t is erected. The workmansifhipii is excel lent. -.-Mr'. Trhomas Fitzpatrick, a umer obiant of Lanceaster-, is on a business tripj to Newy Yor-k, with his wifle, Puesday afternoon lie went dows ownx alone, stopped in a saloon, toot dinlk, was drugged, robbed of hIg vatcht and $30, thrown in the stret s,en tile police gobbled him up and io was surprised next morning to An~ iimself in limbo. After an explana -1~ ionl of the circumtaes, he was we eased.