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:tnle'r zindizratax. g ta. C f~uus:i AmP ( laaty rapri S, ~OSGKtVe State. JAS 0. COSGROVE, - - EDIoTR. TIlE JIICAL BOY processic fffg Roostidsad arts 01n. a rIthless, toothless wight My sto Who dwells besideit a wall, dies. Il Ad splends hi. tlui in slnging songs tween th s iollad ai h feil liuwl, New Yo AId Cltin It"'ne at passenger bonn. I Who may neglect to ell. a brave le knilt " 1 t innltated corn bravely, iAn1 otlier guiltv things, pursuit .ballh anI l misellaneou' pies, tollt it iid ldoll.inuhts silllleld like rings; est in he hl' ';"anot lranh he also plied, certain i As ill day long he sings. the pers pnrhiiLn rude, of manners erud, tnt |fllll tllllX 'i( , ,c vo ice , r IVY tell nIII trLu1', ' 'olllg rufllan, do, wom?1 i lf thu you live from choice, eye rtt in yolur lIlnhfllolwe wy! I hayv you reaUlly dn't rejoice. story he The w Ior wnrle are injtl'lur ou lltrrs t Ter bold car.uerh is traillt with fear, diwnit your ufttl'I,'O~ of sham - lliifd Stark, n,1t.leri'ill, dreadful trade, tewless Adeed without a name. colors It ing dust eOy, ('leale d'oIr hIrmfuil, dreary notes, across 11 .nd flit' your gols jiwa:y shores o gt Vol t SNew Z;:,tlin'l, or wolkel Inasi iw' un' t 1,11 noi ri turn) tw o vselt will gitdly pay. town o a score Ite ronue Io,ks up with knowing leer, rich, el: .nt1, hi I' iln o I I', e, iZer'i: t'hlen I1111i4 It i.is-il,' at lly' h a , quickly With phr,' tlhat' not ,dle i ', lie inor lndt (ir''. k -till nllr't I aiiii song- nosis. ..Je, 1. Fields, ,in Ilarper's Magazine. lone, What r ZERVIAnH OPE. sought bravetd the rea: ittR:t.t . oin emr IN the month of A\lil~ust, in the year 1S7S, the p11 e Ate:nmer Mercy, of the New York and a- the sol unsah line, e:ast lanchor down the channel, tire, wi e a littl town in Miouth Carolina which 'I'he fet prs the name of Calhoun. It was not a to wre. IreUlar ptrt of her "run" for the Mercy . trawl Samke a landing at this place. She had over hi iLarted from her collrse by special pierlilt tion, at htloave three patsleners, two men and one killed I woman, who bad business of a grave nature more t in t!'ahnn. he slen A 'man. himself a: 1ia enger for Savan- sat upin bs, ImCe upon deck as the steamship hove tined, Ot, Isquire the reason of the delay. He examp weshort man, thin, with a nervous hand fails to l seek. ills eyes were black, his hair was possesi blast, and closely cut. lie had an inaeru- I ha hble mouth, ilid a forehead well-plowed people ther by experience than years. He was ate it ot an old man. lie was cleanly dressed in league maw, heap clothes. lie had been com- familk msted lupon as a reticent passenger. He intense tdnofriends on board the Mercy. This as he was the slt time upon the voyage that he to his Id been observed to speak. lie came for- withot ward sad stood among the others, and ab- hold I ntl.r said: took o " What's this for?" tion, t le addressed the Mate who answered choki with a sidelong look, and none too cordi- be kni "We land passengers by the Company's nur s dr".1 once a "Those three?" time i"Tes, the men and the lady." his wt "Who are theyv" genai "Physicians from New York." nance "AhLb!" said the man, slowly, making a "4 sighlg noise between his teeth. "That stood ai-n-that means-"- ey **Volunteers to the fever district," sadid y li Mate, shortly, "as you might have wit uown before now. You're not of a sooiable s It t1, I5." mone "I have made no acquaintanees " said the *:l d Ikt passenger. "I know nothing of the huMmt mawsof the ship. Is the lady a nurse?" triet *he'is a he-doctor. Doctors, the whole of to, , bEo There ain't a nurse aboard." liHe MPlenty to be found, I suppose, in this seem ,heryu nspetak o?" nerv "Ilow should I know?" replied the Mate, "T nilbanother sidelong look. urer. (Im eo the physicians, it seemed, over-. "' 6ie this last question and reply. It was lence Ieworan. She stepped forward without took hutsattea, and regarding the short passen- stree Setosely, sniti: On, re are not annes. This place is per- seek bL Savannah and the larger towns have and -alooked after first-as is natural and thirs ,added the physician in a business- were rmtou. She had a quei and elear-eut, phys ýqnot atutler voice. Ihe ta wodded at her curtly, as he would are t Wlothefr a; he made no answer; then and wit s "ub his_ eye returned to her sIaI dimse sl ; he lifted lrhis hat and stood and movltll she had passed and turned go Ietih Bisheeunder the induence of not I DI h oo ef color, changed exceedling- nigh gIbIIFO tl pfroporton as it changed. was i e abhot day, and the water seemed to 8be 1 lbltlg aibout the dory. So, too, who hts ethe n mad of the shore, as one oute Iey paatly against the direct brot S was as if it slaohed. The low, som Sleaves were enved and faint. eom epts of shade beneath sekly trees Hot mi to tasp upon the hot ground, like was metmre that had thrown themselves down owl meaol. TIlhe outlines of the town beyond " aj ertain horrible distinctness, as if of a bei that should but sould not be veiled, owl sm ad clean to the fat horizon, lag a ' of blue and blazing ire, rest h gers for Calhoun!" the :thel three physelans descended into the mat d-i. Th other passengers-what there and Ireoflthem--gathered tosee the little group The (~at. Dr. Friak offered Dr. Dare a band, ab wtlebashe accepted, like a lady, not needing ble' Iltb the least. She was a elimber, withlru, of I s " btdl'. o one spoke, as there people on 1 is with the negr, ami appeared to drift Wll the seomrebinl tide. The woman wit I frem the steamer to the shore, onc~e, wit k agai, northward. The men didno ia all.There was an oppression i loo 1e whish no one was ready to run the bhi e i reasing by the wrong word. at Lad an ere, too," said a low voce, llny. It was the glum passenger. No I " tlteend him. exeept perhaps, the Mate ha 'lt ¶ on with the air of a man who fa , l s landividual grievance in any. shi slge on would be likely to do) and tei sal Sis room for you," said Dr, Dare. an Dam let himself Into the boat at a light sel d thes neegro rowed them away. ha , beading outward, seemed to ha et r ashoulders, as If she had thrown ba 4 of. The strip of burning water . wi ithem and the town narrowed ptad , entoo thei frmDlyla * D !·aii ~t n *senee. I siemee nt ree nera o pulle d the hi s te o deeasetulo thes , hu ds, usyitow ai uae sanother, be* a blind mess of hue I Remains fonad him* I it. Dr. isk asked Dr. M rheolse.rvoe hr mLsyway; but at kdh, t n heW ist ougt he ir m, eae her slam a he untum s oo II tag She weald hre malned a bhswr gray dress ad white straw bat I to her was sdtietlead. I passager had len behlad I gpy boatman. wth whem he lashyos--" 1 helmpted Dr. DaIne, audla8y," Il pteme, t mam 1 hebstwa hewei Ither m V a aeveaurle wanttabbt way. Iast " semi, sodding; *"Itney t*l, .' ..KLa******** . Id the N h tdlt thi p , tmher pg mw s ehe ta physician's note-book, sad stood, pencil in 4ervlah II, band. never mint * "My name," he said, "is Hope-Zerviah lie stoot Hope." stark pall sr She wrote without comment, walking as road, acro she wrote; be made no other attempt to blinded at converse with her. The two physicians fol- " It wou I. lowed, exchanging now and then a sutldued said. - word. The negro dragged himself wearily mind!" over the scorching sand, and thus the little lie shoo procession of pity entered the town of Cal- been a chi noun. lie would My story does not deal with love and la- along, he 1 dies. I have to relate no tender passages be- "She d i tween the fever-physicians, volunteers from lady at the New York, for the afflicted region of Cal- good man; houn. Dr. Marian Dare came South to do a brave work, and I have no doubt she did it breaking bravely, as a woman should. She came in pr:ayers, v pursuit of science, and I have no doubt she it beaii , found it, as a woman will. Our chief inter- parent oat eat in her at this time lies in the fact that heaven at certain missing fragments in the history of Now, as the person known as Zerviabh ope we owe with bowl to, her. She hovers over the tale with a di.- Doctor Di tant and beautifltf influence. pCerading as upon a p womanlly eontlpaon saidoo alert as a woman's was rlinun eye. fronted h I have nothing further to say :abol,ut the i "Mfr. I story before I tell it, except that it is true. brought f The weather, soon after the arrival of the I gointt to t Mercy, took a terrible mood, and a prol.onrl -" drought settled upon Calhoun. The days " Wait dawned lurid and long. The nights fell both hang dewless and deadly. Fatal and beatitifll " It is colors lurked in the; swamps, and in the sift- viet." cem ing dust, fine and hardt, blown by sir,e,,o4 ' It is I acro)ss thei lare. of notn, like sands o, the voice. shores of the Like of Fire. The pe.Gt;lehl'e 'I he lD walked in darkne-s, and the destrtue.on "I may w:alted at niidl:av. Men diedt, in that little had. I town of a few thousand souls, at t el rate of Ioctor a score a day-black and white, poor and charged t rich, clean :and foul. paint and sinner. "' Wha Zervi:lh llope, volunteer nurse, became eyes to h illickly enough a marked man in Calhoun. "They lie more th111n vriitd lDoctor Dare's prog- years' in nosts. Where the deadliest work was to be said you I L done, this man, it was observed, asked to be somethin sent. Where no one else would go, he went. "Whal What no one else would do, he did. lie "I toll sought the neglected, and the negroes. lie it!" crie braved the unclean, and the unburied. With "Than the readiness of all incisive character acting after a s, on emnergincles, he stamped himself upon is true." 4', the place and time. lie went to his task as lie dr Sa- the soldier goes to the front under raking "She nel, tire, with gleaming eyes anti iron muscles. her; he Tich 'The fever of the tight was on him. lie seemed lie has ,t a to wrestle with disease for his patients, and to go on rcy to trample death beneath his feet. He glowed tend or hal over his cures with a positive physical dila- weak o 'tit tion, and writhed over his dead as if he had stand th one killed them. He seemed built of endurance self; in iure more than mortal. It was not known when woman, he slept. scarcely if he ate. His weariness enotch ran- sat upon him like a halo. lie grew thin, re- wanted love fined, radiant. In short, he presented an an! Oh He example of that rare spectacle which never sorry a and falls to command spectators-a common man his lips was possessed by an uncommon enthusiasm. ly; he c eu- I have been told that, to this day, many She w wed pople personally unknown to him whose woman: was ate it was to be imprisoned in that be- "Poo d in leaguered town at that time, and who were clear bit tom familiar with the nervous ti4ure and plain, hand, ii He intense countenance of the Northern nurse, softly as This as he passed, terrible day after terrible day, if he hi t he to his post, can not hear of him, even now, as he h for- without that suffusion of look by which we Scip. ab- hold back tears; and that, when his name Then took on, as it did, a more than local reputa- "I h tion, they were unable to speak it because of cried. ered choking voices. I have often wished that I ain't )rdi be knew this. wanted It was the custom in Calhoun to pay the "llui any's nurses at short, stated intervals-I think shall. once a week, on Saturday nights. The first "Ye! time that Hlope was summoned to receive dull ve his wages, he evinced marked emotion, too tell of genuine not to be one of surprise andrepug- Ili in. 1 anceod, ing a "I had not thought----" he began, and me th That stood, coloring violently. hadn't "You earn your five dollars adas. If any- sorry. said bold in Calhoun does," urged the official, Inut' - have with kindly brusqueness. like me Iable "It is not right; I do not wish to take the go on money," said the nurse with agitation. ought d the "eI do not wish to be paid for-saving- "- 4 I the human life. I did not come to the fever dis- the we " triet to make money: I came to save life- like ve ole of to sare life!" he added, in a quick whisper. and re IIe had not slept for four night, and back t a this seemed, they noticed, more than usually me no nervous in his manner. She Mate, "The money i y aours," sisted the Tress- sIoal urer. lashes over. '.Very well," said Hope, after a long si- to him t was lenee; and no more was siad about it. He away thout took his wages and walked away up the " issen- street, absorbed in thought. balf al One morning, he went to his lodgings to "She 1 per. seek a little rest. It was about six o'clock, Isho have and people were already moving in the hot He 1 i and thirsty streets. The spothecaries' doors onely: Iness were open, and their clerks were astir. The His me rCut, physicians drovo or walked hastily, with the as if b aggard look of men whose days and nights see be would are too short for their work, and whose hope, A: then and heart as well, have grown almost too paral! o her small. At the telegraph ofice, knots of men one is I stood and women gathered, dully inspiring the he- sitive urned oyoung operator--a slight girl-who had Zer ce of not left her post for now many davys and shrin ed- nights. Her chief had the fever last week- fate. Swas taken at the wires-lived to get home. peopl 8to Bhe was the only person alive in the town come Stoo, who knew how to communicate with the ways Sone outer world. She had begun toteacha little e direct brother of her s the Morse alphabet-"Tiat who e low, somebody may know, Bobby, if I--can't nurs lnt. some day" Shbe, too knew Zerviah dayv trees Heoe.and looked up; but her pretty face wonm d, LLie WaS clouded with the awful shadow of her and • adownown responsibility, or en eyond "We all have houo t s much as mwe nn : ma if ofa bear," thought Zerviab, as he went by. hl. thin. veiled own burden Was ightene ad iittlethatm lorn i wau uion, lag, s and he wa going home to get a real li rest. lie had Just saved his t patiment- ome the doctor gave him up. It was a young That ntot man, theth ferof five very little hildren, " Sthere iand their mother bad died the week before. we sgron Tlh nurse hd looked at the orphans, and ni rbm, said: "He'us got to live." This man had Ze leding blerssed i this morning, and cae thelove mu thlntof heaven on hb head and its tender mercy went people on his whole long life. lie o drit On this moraingu that I sperak of, standing woman with bbr hi ast lppy fise and liftede head, nev e, o with his foot upon the stairs he turned, for o, se did no reuson that he could have given, and to asion looked over hbi shoulder. A man behind n the him, stepping softly, stopped,ehangedeoor, lof. L and crossed tihe street. rer w voie, "I am followed," said the nurse. Ilkel r. Dro He spoke aloudr, but there was no tre to him hlieate hear him. A visible hange tame overdhis fa who face. He tood uncertain for a moment; then to h na- shut the door and crawled upstairs. At in- I do) nd tervals he stopped on the stair to rest, and lt sat with his head in his hands, thinking. By sp r ae. nd by he reached h room, and threw him- mo t a light sel heavily upon his bed. All the radiance lg naw d. had earted from his tired fsc, aels if alog med to bhad reptoverit. lie hid iti slongth , i itbrown h amane hads, ad tly ather or a ittle raer while. e was perplexed-not surped, el f He was not shoeked-enoly. dlsp~pointed. o"fi ad sve h Wti dthllot sle arta l to ave samin t uc tsNr bnap t hu cold t se r as Isd the nowa i tng dok ha epaa bi t n P-knees presently, in that place by the window he t, eliked to pr in, and said aloud: m brab. owLoard, Iedid oeptit; Idwsan'otr es. s of-I shold oike to sl oplo enouh to e o np. m what to do." a ay; but still a , ad II a little wll he trly hr Ura, .k4telong; but tothse who pelsihor of a momet of uneonsesoue5 may do w seh w entewodnI se p ld waterto s enlif C deiself of H t i started, strengthenie, wit. il upon lines of deciqion forming aboS t his month * iled and chin; and, having bathed and eleall a mmIttdresd, wea out. lmen up- He went at bsud the town to the hut alked f mw ersl th b oatman live, eirpweat " strawt borne lie Iived quit Ieme, liis.father, snthan. hi ohr and four brothers ba of the hbi, U l litual look of andeep- a ned to a enaen teror; ho euld rather u sa dowaby him on hot s, ides sdlafy"il spoke t very ently, le si m_ "Te Mercy cam In last nIghts .-I I.· I aat MnTelflme,S ;:' *spape "That desm Mat"' i. s abiltwsthstel Yes. . haldidhbe a tbaied s.i deull •p Iak fowed "I ne r told b ut Ir , -tlt Pi Dan, . si n't Dtel I never a S deneelievdltUWIr , a" - < t "It seemt to¶ iha d Zervlah Hope, patiently. "l' sorry, but ,citr teAm never mind."b lie stood for a moment looking across the dk gracet stark palmetto, over the duety stretch of , W t road, across the glare, to the town. Ills eyes the "'u blinded and tilled. search 'd "It wouldn't have been a great while," he found.' said. "1 wish you hadn't, Scip, but never *' WVb mind!" the exelt lie shook the negro gently off, as if he had fellow. I been a child. There was nothing more to say. of you tin lie would goback to his work. As he walked At this along, he suddenly said to himself: haggardl "She did not stmile this morning! Nor the "I am lady at the telegraph office, either. Nor-a is down v good many other folks. I remember now. . . . Lord!" he added aloud, thought It was breaking into one of hisial:f-unconsciotus --ittlay prayers, which had the ilure pathos el.eause dry, ( deia it be i .vith the rile aIipti.nlj. of an ap- b'"eLl to parentoath--"lordl. what in the name of bltn the heaven am I going to d,, albout it :" old plae, Now, as he was ,'otiuni into the little city, rled sun 6 with bowed head and b,ro,ken face, he inet slink aw Doctor Dare. ite '.t riding on her rounds prayed ft upon a patient, Sol tlllern tackey, and she ind aLt wa:r riling f tt. l;ut -hie reined up andcon- ,athl's wI fronted him. " Mr. Hop,e! There is a hateful rumor thrut ta Ibrought fron New Yrk aout you. I a I seemingll I goi'e_ to tell you inmmediately. It is said fright, r I -" pgeared. " Wait a minute !" he pleaded, holding out The ins both hands. "Now. ;o on." l(huti:,ti' I "it is said that vou are an escaped con- an spuce vict," continued the lady, distinctly. "ive ; " It is false!" cried the nurse, in a ringing Norr no I S'I he Doctor regarded him for a moment. ry I " I nmay be wron". Perhaps it was not so The sa e had. I was in a cruel hurry, and so was had risel If Doctor Frank. Pl'rhaps they said a di*- was no eI charged convict." dust cur " What else?" asked Zerviah, lifting his neath tl e eyes to hers. always "They said you were Just out of a seven- was life years' unprisonment formanslaughter. They of Scip' se aid yout killed a man--for jealousy, I believe; thing. esomething about a woman." to be bit t " What else?" repeated the nurse, steadily. The cvel e "I told them I did not believe one tord ,'f and the e it!" cried Marian Dare. around. h "Thank you, madam," said Zerviah Hlope, one pas g after a scarcely perceptible pause; "but it week. o0 n is trite." the d s lie drew one fierce breath. city. ig "She was beautiful," he said. "I loved him ai . her; he ruined her; I stabbed him!" felt less d lie had grown painfully pale. lie wanted now id to go on speaking to this woman, not to de- thought :d fend or excuse himself, not to say any thing for one a- weak or wrong, only to make her under- thought id stand that he did not want to excuse hinm- gave bit e self; in some way, just because she tees a tothink n woman, to make her feel that he was man Scip cal ss enontuh to hear the burden of his deed. lie was ver e- wanted to cry out to her, "You are a wom- She had an an! Oh, be gentle, and undterstand how left. T er sorry a man can be for a deadly sin!" but gro. S an his lips were parched. He moved them dri- Zervi ly; he could not talk. never 1 nv She was silent at tirst. She was a prudent llace f' se woman; she thought before she spoke. Zervi e- "Poor fellow I" she said, suddenl Hler up at ti Ire clear blue eyes overflowed. She held out her ' Lot in, hand, lifted his, wrung it, dropped it, and South 1 le, softly added, " WVell, never mind!" much as me, ha ry, if he had been a child or a patient-much lonesol w, as he himself had said, "Never mind!" to stand I we Scep. face be ae Then Zervinh Hope broke down. transti; a- " I haven't got a murderer's heart I" he Altnigi of cried. "It h:ts been taken away from me. have I at I ain't so bad-note. I meant to be-I You s wanted to do-" treater Lhe '.lush!" she said. "You have and you needn' Ink shall. God is fair." lie rst "Yes," said the penitent convict, in a and b lye dull voice, "God is fair, and so he let 'eni plagut too tell of me. I've got no fault to Aind with the mi g- Iliu,. So nigh as I can understand Almighty ro. God, lie means well. I guess He'll pull It w ad me through some way. But I wish Scip Tuesd hadn't told just now. I can't help being battler .V. sorrv. It wasn't that I wanted to cheat, viah's , but';-he eboked-'"the sick folks used to skill. like me. Now, do you think I'd ought to lie w the go on nursing, Doctor? Do you think I'd not cl It. ought to stop?" over t ig- "You are already an hour late," replied mothe 1s- the woman of science, in her usual business- But e- like voice. "Your substitute will be sleepy night, per. and restless; that affects the patient. Go bed, and back to your work as fast as you can. Ask "31 ally me no more foolish questions." mean She drew her veil; there was an unprofes- 6 T aa- sional moisture on her long, feminine viah, lashes. She held out her hearty hand-grasp but ni si- to him, touched the tackey, and galloped Sell He away. it: St the he is a g woman," said Zerviah, the n half aloud, looking down at his cold fingers. out; Sto "She touched me, and she knew! Lord, dappi ck, I should like to have you bless her!" Sud hotHe looked after her. She sat her horse hand oo finely; her gray veil drifted in the hot wind. The His sensitive color came. He watched her He the as it he had known that he should never him hts see her again on earth. digli Ope, A ruined character may be as callous as a deep too paralyzed limb. A ruined and repentant theec ea one is in itself an independent system of sen- ly we he- sitive and tortured nerves. sho hal Zerviah Hope returned to his work, night and shrinking undtler the foreknowledge of his dark ek- fate. Hlie felt as if he knew wvhat kind of dista me. people would remind him that they had be- Th town come acquainted with his history, and what Ther the ways they would select todo it. lonel litle ie was not taken by surprise when men whom That who had lilfted their hats to the popular fact can't nurse last week, passed him on the street to viah day with a cold nod or curious stare. When wall face wemenwho had reverenced the self-sacrifiee tene Sher and gentleness of his life as only women do be or can reverence the quality of tenderness i dow ean a man shrank from him as If he were some- blew lii thing nfectious, like the plagtue--he knew HeX orn it was Jpust, though he felt it hard. to gi real His patients heard of what had bappened, start int- sometimes, and indicated s feeling of reeoil. daw oug That was the worst. One said: his I dren, "I ma sorry to hear you are not the man com fore. we thought you," and died in his arm's that ther a ad niZenrvab remembered that these thin ugs *love must be. He reasoned with himself. He I mercy went into his attie, and prayed it all over. low lie said: thi ding "L ord, Ican't expect to be treated as if I'd b head, never been in urison. 'm sorry I mind it Wh d, for so. Perhap I'd ought not to. Ill try notho and to care too much." Hd More than once he was sure of being fol. glai olor, lowed again, suspiciously or curiously. It 1 occurred to him at last that this was most bac to likely to happen on pav-day. Tht puzzled mo him. But when he turned, it was usually fir r his some Idler, and the fellow shrank and took then to his beels as if the aurse had the fever. thr t ln* In point of fact, even in that death-strick- lie t, and e town, to be alive was to be as able to gos- 'I I sip as well ieoplehadrlwmorWeariedofthe ell * monotonous fever smpta found a divert- s I dane Ing zest in this shattered reputation. w a fog Zervlah Hope was very much talked about bu in Calhoun; so much, that the Relief Comin- s l ie milttee heard, questioned, and experienced lted: ofcial anxiety. It seemed a mistake to lose hit atdso valuable a ma. It seemed a severity to t mnt dlsturb so noble a career. yet who knew tu n is what sinalister, conntesnanee the murderer av a dow lmight be eapable of shaleidlng beneath a ls mask of pity! The olicial mind was per- * plexed. Va It humane to trust the lives of at our ershlng citizens to the ministations of en a felo who had so skillfully deceived the th mee intelligent guardians of the publie weal? There was, in partieuar, a ecairman am tb of a mb-eommittee Ion the watr supply) I who was burdened with uneasiness. Its lear enough what brought him to th Calhoun," sad thsman. "What doronu yuth suPoe the fellow doeee with hbi e dollars lealy Committee oa the Water Supply a mptly divided into a Snb-Vigilace, and ti h t the Sub-Vigilanee Committee Zervi ah fats Hope's ease was referred. The result was, d that he was followed on pay-day. One Saturday night, jnstas the .ld~hot mdep- was goig down, the sut-omm itt.e re dturher rucitothe Re!ief Oflee m • astateof hi aqg aeseen ofeial exeltement, nd reported to the chie l Zervbas follows: beside a "We've daoe it. We've gothim. We've u read foaund out what the fellow does with his i-~ ell pn forthoSunbeoUDttne hesitated. p c "Into the reliet contributon-boxes on the I1 ard the corners of the astreet",n ** WIat!" 'wth a "Every dollar. We stood sad wathed bhim coaunt it oap t-his week's e veryI mortal cent that Ytakee's tnover to the I hfund forthe audmers. He aever kept hmek I atdlhe •red. Hepore italln." t Followhim next waee. Report agal." ,d S.ip, They followed, and reported still again. i vrtue. They eomsuted, an accpted the atorund -- g t rth Thm m urdeor, the cotiet, th I -_-,, shemi,, the myter, e rvh Hopeo I Tnteesr sm.eu peer, at f,.m l ho. i- that dered in the purblic cariti of Calhoun. --ellr, whhlt I .hademb the The Commiet te oln atr Suplyt w nd 1 i" ~Lg ajustmanrhihsdred with a noble f-, I In Tho man should be st for. Ho should r.e.ev t he t nhank o the pomm.tte!. He "aelbd should receive the acnowledgments .1 the city. And we've set on him like detectives! them a h t utted him down! Zounds! The city b that we e dk graced. Find him for me!" "No, Swet have already done our best," replied A frost the sub-committee, sadiy. We have coin. II sethrek d for the man. lie can not be be I've e r od.' glad tc SfoVbd. e is the woman-doctor?" persisted You foi the exited chief. 'She recommended the " Lot d fellow. , 'd ie apt to know. Can't some made tl Y" of you find 11,'r'" and dc• . of yoAt this ,, n 't young Dr. Frank looked and the hagardtlt in•o tn Relief Office. sinners ie ha'Iam taking k "r cases," he said. "She to You, -a is down with theft ver. menthbe It was the mor-infl after his last pay-day hellish i u y mornin,- the tinrst in October; a frost, s I-ry, d ally, glittering day. Zerviab had it that i.e'.'i to his attic to test find bathe: he had Ilmt'Ieit' Sheen there some hours sint'e sunrise, in the enouglh old place bv the window, s'd watc'ed the that i' 1, red sun kitndle, and watc:hed tW.e dead-e:arts glad ti ,.t slink away into the color, and kneeled and holy fr II prayed for frost. Now, liing st.engthld in white. e uiti and andspirt, he was descending to his WSa h:ve isI n- bath's work, when a me sage met hit at the At in door. The llesenger was a negro boy, who an dri or thrust a slip of paper into his hand, anti, though II seeming to be elzied with suptrstitious like, to id fright, ran rapidly up the street and disap* of h-lh pearced. men - it T'he anes.age was a triumphal result of the "Im eltedutctin of the freedmen a evening school, Hope; n- il a ,uccinctly said: tried t( "ive tut Il. Nolcuddy Want Nuse me. h ng Norr no Doeter ,ne:ther. itifll " I'. r. Joo,)iter thle Iurn liee sed he'd ker- ittle h ry This i dutllt serpose youd kum. Seiu." Yet no so The sun went down that night as red as it come I aui had risen. There were no clouds. There Who iý- was no wind. There was no frost. The hot Whosi dust curdled in the shadow that coiled be- to him 1is neath the stark palmetto. That palmetto arms b always looked like a corpse, though there those n- was life in it yet. Zerviah camne to the door shrink I(Y of Seip's hovel for air, and looked at the i d lc; thing. It seemed like something that ought di tii to bte buried. There were no other trees. giues: ly. The everglades were miles away. 'Thesand you. "f and the scant. starved grass stretched all Iliu I around. Seip's hut stood quite by itself. No I, pe, one passed by. Often no one passed for a cltie I it week. or even more. Zerviah looked from Yo' rI the door of the hut to the little Ile. city. The red light lay between red him and it, like a great pool. He a pri felt less lonely to seethe town, and the smoke did. ted now and then from ehinmneys. He l didYe de- thought how many people loved and cared tire lig for one another in the suffering place. le never er- thought how much love and care sufferini forget Im- gave birth to, in human hearts, lie began - s a tothink a little of his own suffering; then Han Seip called him, sobbing wretchedly. Scip ?sati lie was very sick. Hope had sent for Dr. Dare. wa mi*- She hadl not come. Sci was too sick to be a:t'1e. iow left. The nurse found hls duty with the ne- lt t but gro. Seip was growing worse. i Yet ri- Zerviah thought of these things. IHe had ifti never felt so lonely before. It seemed a hard Aftt lent place for a man to die in. Poor Seip! "unut Zerviah clasped his thin hands and looked It Her up at the purple sky. as It i her " Lord,' he said, "it is my duty. I came in all and South to do my duty. Because he told of Ithall h as me, had I ought to turn against him? It is a thair ueh lonesome place; he's got it hard, but 1'l thir " to stand by him. . . . Lord !"mhis worn loed face became suddenly suffused, and flushed, them transfigured, as he lifted it-" Lord God the d he Almighty ! You stood by me! I couldn't d1'1 me. have been a pleasant fellow to look after. ant e-I You stood by me in my scrape! I hadn't the treated Y'o any too well. . . You T you needn't be afraid I'll leave the ereetur." sick lie went back into the hut. Seip called, le in a and he hurried in. The nurse and the they ';et plague, like two living combatants, met in th with the miserable place and battled for the ne- toble ghtI gro. t ole l t was Monday, but no one came. It was Nort Scip Tuesday, but the nurse and the plague still cent binR battled alone together over the negro. Zer- gIp heat, viah's stock of remedies was as ample as his her. d to skill, le had thought he should save Seip. wire it to lIe worked without sleep, and the food was the k I'd not clean. He lavished himself like a lover over this black boatman; he leaned like a and plied mother over this man who had betihyed him. wit ness- IBut on Tuesday night, a little before mid- bit eepy night, Sell) rose, struggling on hbis wretched abt O - bed, and held iup s h ands and cried out: dari Ask " Mr. Hlope! Mr. Hope! I never done mean to harm ye!" yha ofes- "You have not harmed me," said Zer- ad Inine vib, solemnly. 'Nobodv ever harmed me grasp but myself. Don't mind me, Seil." asi loped Seip put up his feeble hand; Zerviah took the it: Seip spoke no more. The nurse held the viah, the negro's hand a lone time: the lamp went I gers out; they sat on in the dark. Through the ord, flapping wooden shutter the stars looked in. doo Suddlenly, Zeriahi perceived that Scip's sai horse hand wvas lquite cold. thr d her e carried him out by starlight, and buried be never him under the palmetto. It was hard work is digging alone. He could not make a very kn Is as a deep grave, and he had no coffin. When S Intant the earth was stamped down, he felt extreme- but f sen ly weary and weak. lie fell down beside hisall shovel and pick to rest, and lay there in the work, night till he felt stronger. It was damp and anli of his dark. 'Shadown like clouds hung over the thl in d of distant outline of the swamp. t d be The Sunday bells in the town had ceased. a what There were no sounds but the cries of a few ree lonely birds and wild cereatures of the night, h Smen whose names he did not know. This little I pular fact added to his sense of solitude. r•e eet to lie thought at first he would get up and on When walk back to the city in the dark. An in icrilce tense and passionate longing seized him to fal en do be among living men. He took a few steps dec nessin down the road. The unwholesome dust we some- blew utip through the tlark against his face. ] knew He found himself so tiredti that he concluded of to go back to the hut. lIe would sleep, and h pened, start in the morning with the break of the a ecol dawn. He should bie glad to see the faese of t his kind again, even though the stir of wel- Ii ie man come and the light of trust were gone out of bi as that them for him. They lived, they breathed, pi they spoke. He was tired of death and sol Liei groped back into the hut. The oilwas I1 over, low, andhe could not relight the lamp. He threw himself in the dark upon the bed. Hlt I'd He slept until late in the morning, heavily. mind it When he waked, the birds were shrill in the i try not hot air, and the sun glaredl in. "I will go now," he said, aloud. "I atn lig fol- glad I can go," and ereptto his feet. l ily. It He took two steps--staggered--.ud ell is most back. lie lay for some moments, stricken d puzzled more withl astonishment than alarm. His a utuiahl first words were: w ad "Lord God i After all-after all I've gone ver. through--Lord God Almighty, if You'll be .atrick- lieve it--l've lgot it !" to os* This was on Wednesday morning. Night dolfthe fell, but no one came. 'Thursday--but out- h ivert- side the hut no step stirred the parched, white dust. Friday--Saturday--no voice I about but his own moaning broke upon the sick If r man's straining ear. arieneed As the days dpassed and no on me ato e tloe h he dwas aware of his not being able to ii rrit reason with himelf clearly aouthis soll- 1 oke tude. Growing weak, he remembered the mderer aveted frae ofte people for whom he and ah labored, Tad whom elbd loved. In them stress of his pain their estranged ey gued I aivs t him. He felt that he was deserted he aof cause he was distrusted. Patiet as h e wa, e tethis seemed hard l. a blt r "They did not ears eno.h ll me rmi hairmr me," he said, aloud, gently., "a lm ai W uppl) not worth I I had bnecn m prl. II was awleked man. I mst not blame ihimto them. " d you And agali: udollars "They would hays ome if th w known. They would not have letme die Suppli done. I don't think se would have dome nc, and that. Iwonder whereshels? Nobody ha ervish mised me--that s all. 1 must not mind." l was rowinh wealker, he thought esss and ..red more. l e rnaed, at last, almost ail red-hot it.e.' When hIe did not prav, he slept. nitte c When he coufldnot srleep, he pdved, ie st b iak baddressedGd o with that sublime familiarity telef ohis, whieh fell from his lips with no more irreveretneo than the kiss ofa child falling e've upon its mother's hand or nc. with his The murderer, the felo, the out talked with the Almighty t ioiness, as a man hesitted. talketh with his friends. The deserted, dis Senthe t ertd,dying retW ture believed himself to be tarited by the Being who had bestowed oa hidn the awtil gift of life, I wated He thought, while his thulghts remained s Everyhis 0inrmow t tenderly and longingly of those fetthe for whom he had given his life, lie remem kept bered bow m any keem cares o their own they bad to carry,hew any ghstly deds itt i and sights to do ad bam, Itwas notiag tllaan t he should not missed. Who washe? eren- them. lie wised hi livingo his dying Ceahnuld hell them anY. ThnSthathipa e In tlhe 11mb had saidto him,100k5 thathlingycs hd tr ed cm him, littlesignof huana nr Re, Imthe darkhlint. ha nobl "Thou lottd ,se," bemal;"Loadatfle n em ~a1ve, ti.ydidt I'm gad Ihived beg Ink Hope? enoghtosveeifsto w lfe! I'm much He should obliged to You for th I wish themr wa mitte. He smething else I ould do for them. ... nts f th lord! I'ibe 'nm l todle if It woudM help them any. I thoeoMI could doanything that way, toward sending them a frost "No," he added, " that ain't reasonable. A CO A frost and a human life ain't convertible ,os'tts, t coin. lie don't do unreasonable things. Mav- phylloxi be I've lo.t my head already. But I'd he glad to. That's all. I suppose I can ask You for a frost. That's reason. cently "Lord Go I of earth and heaven! that once of made the South and North, the pestilence of anint and destruction, the sick and well, the living delop and the dead, have mercy on us miserable sinners! Have mercy on the folks that lpr Illue ra to You, and on the folks that don't! lie- by the member the old graves, and the new ones. rays act and the graves that are to be opened if this dtiy. hellish heat goes on, and send us a llessed frost, O I.ord, as an act of hutmtoit'i! And N. l if that ain't the way to speak to You, re- plored 1 nmimbior I haven't been a pr.yinrg tman long in1n(L. enough to learn the latgluage very elI-aT t a!li that I'm pretty sick-hut that I would be i glad to die-to give thmn-a great, white. , utt holy frost. Lord, a frost! LordI, a cool, .,rks white. clean frost, for these )poor det it that 'i ýlli have horne so mlutch!" .t, At inidniErht of that Sat.urdayv lie dozed the sl wt dreamed. lie dreamted of whvlat he had til. slot I thought while Seip was sick; of what it was CaNl like, to be holy; and sadly waking, thought three t of htlyV people-good winen and hoinet been d men who had never done a deadly deed. "I' ean not be holy," thought Zerviahl with san Hope; "but I can pray for frost." So Ie pItrts o tried to pray for frost. But by that timune le This it had grown confused, and his will wandered that si pitifully, and he saw strange sights in the little hut. It was as it he were not lon'. r r Yet no one had come in. She could not I etelx t come at midnight. Strange-how strange! btcomt Who was that who walked about the hut? Who stood and looked at himn Who leaned to him? Who brooded over him? Who put the re arms beneath him? Who looked at himn, :s araine tho,se look who love the sick too much to inisects r shrink fromt them? " I don't know Yot'," said Zerviab,. in a distinct voice. Presenutly he smiled. "Yes, cn 1 guess I do. I see nw. I'm not used to found You. I never saw You before. You :re consid' I Himi I've heered about--God's Son. God's causti o Son, You've taken a great deal of trouble to acome here after lme. Nobody else ce. pored, a You're the only one that has remembered seed lI cti. THIn e . . Yes, I remember. They made which a prisoner of ,You. Why, yes! They deserted SIol. They let ),u die by Yourself. What corned did You do it for? I don't know much about eases, d theology. I am not an educated man. 1 someti e never prayed till I come South. I peciall Sforget - I' 117(t did ollm do it f,,r " he n A profound and solemn silence replied. y "Well," said the sick mant, breaking it in former a satisfied tone, as if he had been answered, among P "I wasn't worth it . .. but 'm glad You sink b came. I wish they had a frost, poor things! to ad You, won't go away ? Well, I'm glad. PoorThe d things! Poor things! I'll take Your hand, dl if You've no objections." er 1 .d After a little time, he added, in a tone of eight) unutterable tenderness and content: Colori ,"Dear Lord!" and said no more. It was a quiet night. The stars rode on gl as if there were no task but the tasksof stars tge i ofn all the universe, and no sorrow keener SH than their sorrow and no care other than rinoi ' their motion and their shining. The web of P rn cloud floated like exhaling breath between ed on Sthem and the earth. It grew cooler before eggs, d the dawn. The leaves of the palmetto over the de SSci 's grave seemed to uncurl, and grow lax, and e ,and soften. Tile dust still flew heavily, but factus the wind rose. l The Sunday-bells rang peacefully. The Depai sick heard them, and the convalescent and cover the well. The dying listened to them before differ he they left. On the faces of the dead, too, trees there came the look of those who hear. The bells tolled, too, that Sunday. They tolled almost all the afternoon. The young creas ras Northerner, Dr. Remane, was gone-a reti- The I till cent, brave young man--and the herole tele- India or- graph operator. Saturday night they buried wort] his her. Sunday "Bobby" took her place at the ip. wires, and spelled out, with shaking fingers The i the cries of Calhoun to the wide, well yearl se world. sterli By sunset, all the bells had done ringing . and done tolling. There was a clear sky i. with cool colors. It seemed almost cold ed about Scip's ut. The palmetto lifted its faint head. The dust slept. It was not yet dark when a little party from the city rode are up. searching for the dreary place. They upon had ridden fast. Dr. Frank was with them, The eand the lady, Marian Dare. She rode at h their head. She hurried nervously on. She y was pale, and still weak. The chairman of so W meld the Relief Committee was with her, and the conv sub-commit tee and others. need t Dr. Dare pushed on through the swinng cien e door of the hut. Shte entered alone. Theyv saw the backward motion of her gray-sleevel out wrist, and came no further, hut removed for their hate and stood. She knelt beside the she ed bed, and put her hand upon his eyes. God this ork is good, after all. Let us hope that they ssi ,erv knew her before they closed. he She ca ot, and tried to tell about it, dies m but broke down, and sobbed before them bool his all. brem the "It is a martyr's death," said tile chief; the and anadded, solemnly, "Let us pray.n hlie knelt, and theothers withhim, between the buried negro and the unburled nurse, lett4 sed. and thanked God for the knowledge and the "Fr ew recollection of the holy life which this man turi ht, had lived among them in their hour of need. bou ittle They buried him, as they must, and hur- wt ried homeward to their living, comforting ing nd one another for his memorS as they could. l n- As for him, he rested, after her hand had ito fallen on his eyes. He who had known so do ep deeply the starvation of sleeplessness, slept so I dast well/that night. ce. In the morning, whenthey all awoke, these led of the sorrowing city here, and those of the and happycity vonder; when they took up life iOs tapin with returning sunrise-the sick and sla o twell,the free and the fettered, thle liv* pr cl- ing and the dead-the frost lay, cool, white, at of blessed, on his grave.--Eizabeth iStuart e md, PhAlps, its Bcribaer's Mo athtlv. The Beaety of Baldes. of 1 was for He A OtrDT change has taken place of tn ilate years with regard to the estimation col the in which baldness is held. Fifty years ago it was viewed ass serious inlbiction, by 'Ia misfortune tobe concealed by a wig do or velvet skull cap. In some cases, no it cken doubt, the wig was intended to deceive, de His and to give a juvenile appearance to its thi wearer. In the majority of cases, how- or one ever, the covering was so plainly arti- by 'ibe- ficial that it was clearly adopted not sa ight from a motive of vanity, but simply to ,t out- hide an unpleasant object from the eyes ce hed, of the world. Of late years, however, at oe partly, it would appear, from the habit b kof wearing beards havingeomeinto fash- th me to ion, baldness is far more common than h bleto it used to be. It may be that nature fe soll- furnishes to each human being a sutmi- is edthe ietcy of what may be called hair oint- re ment to anpport an average quantity of e hair, and that when men allow their w edbe- beardsto Glrow they do sotothe detri- w wai mentof th~ natural covering of the sealp. Certain it is that a large proportion of t t. men with beards begin to grow bald at p Sa abnormally er'y age. Hitherto, l ame however, they have, when questioned, tl been willing to allow that they regarded h the lack of hair as a drawback to their n me sl appearance. They will now v m dneIlined to take higher ground, for ,d the Britisk Medical Journal tells us that ind." in a lecture on Baldness, Professor s, ad Fournier says: "There is nothing rid at ilous or malformed about it, and it h s tc confers upon the physeognomy an ex- i iiarity preuson of wisdom, experienee, and mo le venerability. It adapts itself marvel- c flling ously to certain heads which would be < deformed y awtg, a nd is the severe i mtensbeatys reetp d insaulpture bythe I ea i clasi beadof Eschlns." This isen amllto solation indeead. Henceftorth let man to wed bow before the severely beautiful; let there be an end of the muse of uaguents and oils, and let dplatorle tae teir rem- plaee upon the toilet table.. et the sir own thoughtless and Ikeep the hair on 7 deed5 their heads, but "let aliwho value the t psg e sion of the severe beauty of aher hyls get their heads as bald s a bfy bl;Jdba without an instant's delay. .-LandO Stndard. Isd y x the town of Portage, N. Y., • m hlp s was oat hunting squirrels, recently, and S* hee shotatwhathe suppoed to be a red la squrel lying on al:mbin•chestnut speople tree. The squirrel did not girop, but *Lei uae trigd and astun,o toea irLa Or taking a plant fro a lower pot mr w as at Columbus, Ga.. a lady found nine mid elp I snaltes st the bottom of the pot. IENCE AND INDU1STIY*. * cigars, a to have n A CONGR5ss is to be held at Sara- friends fo s' ,sa, to discuss matters relating to the small cha phylloxera. class of b SoME Interesting experiments, re- lend, one cently made in Paris to test the influ- they neve ence of the various colors on the eggs and you of animn:s, showed that the eggs were without i developed most by the violet and the A Trib blue rays, while vitality was retarded moderate by the red and the green rays. Yellow your art ra'ys acted as the ordinary white light of lHome,'3 d:1y. ' doubtle! M. 1ItVETT CARNAC, who has ex- she miih pl'ord ma'ny of the harrows and burial- bors whia in.nond4 of "India, has found in them physiciai nu evidences of the resemblance of the me tell y In ,ldls and their contents to similar papers ..rks in Europe. The shape of the borrowei 'l.lotl is tlhe same in the Fast and the man \\' e,t. :and they are always placed on oti 1i the slope of a hill facing the south. scarcely are gone CiixNEsE v:wnish is made by mixing riages bt three parts of fresh bhlod, which has afford a been deprived e1 its fibrin by heating of them with small twige or broom straVys, four as you t Sprts of slaked lime and a little alum. "exchat This may be used at once. It is said occasion t hat straw baskets coated with it are come to renldered water and oil tight, and that omit to i e.eteboard to which it has been applied of them becomes as hard as wood. your on j M. BoUTInt has called attention to teaching the remarkable powers of resistance qwid pr against chemical agents possessed by lents-si Sinsects. lavitng put a common fly into not son a the lye of potash, he found it in the best of books condition on the next day. lie also those wi o found that weevils, imprisoned for a. rowed 1 considerable time in a flask containing quire vo ' caustic stone and coriander-seed, pros- If one pered, multiplied and lived as long as the books j d seed lasted. great i THE minute organisms of microbes, Way,. le which M. Pasteur has shown to be con- what corned in epidemics and contagious dis- not abh it eases, are so very minute that they may their I sometimes easily escape detection, es- tioens. pecially in pure water. In such case they may be killed, without being de- of then n formed, by certain chemical aecnts, feed th I. among which is osmic acid, and will starvi 'U sink to the bottom in such quantities as Not to admit of microscopic examination. to thoe The deposit may be examined after sev- ighKm eral hours (twenty-four or even forty of eight) if the water has been very pure. and ha Coloring re-agents mixed with dilute and bet n glycerine may also be used with advant ,age in the work. er SHELLAC, the product of an insect, WHI ) principally obtained in India, is deposit- darkey en ed on the twigs of trees to protect.its ped int re eggs, and, later, to feed the larrae. From a day er the deposit (known as laIsseed) shellac age,he and coloring matter (lacdye) are manu- " factured. The officers of the Forest nigh se he Department of India have recently dis- 'em." Id covered that by applying the lao-seed to "If I 'm different trees, or by transplanting the how ca 'O' trees bearing the deposit, the insect can " I's ey be farmed, and the supply thereby inm an' if nn creased indefinitely in a given locality. age in ti The lae industry is thus being spread in One le- India. A few years since £200,000 with p Ie worth of lao was annually exported. ben pr e The amount sent abroad now amounts "N1 rel yearly to three-quarters of a+ million bus d ing sterling. Berrowl. and Berrowers. W SAmert yet In almost every community there severe de are to be found those who depend a It hey upon borrowing for daily maintenance. to git in, They do not borrow everything, but take d She they are not careful to keep themselves down Sof so well supplied with the necessaries and "Y the conveniences of life that they do not "N need to borrow tb make up their defi- shuns tg ciencies. The borrowing woman gets " i out of flour, and sends to her neighbor E ed for a quart or two; her sugar fails, and itlea the she borrows some until she can buy; "JI os this act extends to every namable pos- * hey session; scissors, flat-irons, thread, nee- ght t, dles, ink, pens, stamps, note-paper, i i Sbooks, furniture, horses, carriages, make bread, butter, tea, sugar, cloth, wood, and r lef; the use of machinery. reen Many good people, interpreting the as he letter of te law rather than its sprit- In wt the "From him that would borrow of thee land man turn not thou away"-feel in duty a y ed. bound to lend whenever called on and know ur- whatever called for. But, as when giv- Th ing ing in charity we are careful that our lokE ad anms are worthily bestowed, so that we so do not, in giving, increase pauperism, comE sleptso in lending we should take care that Al h by "obliging' the borrower we do not and ~onfrm imn his vicious habit. We comi th read " He that will not work neither and shall he eat," and in applying this to mig liv* profesesional tramps and refusing to give ole a bite,at their askling, we feelthatwe eeot se t uart ing rightly and for the interest of sooiety. take The ihabitual borroweris in the nature chee of a tramp; he proposestoliveonthe kille forethought of others, and like the wn of tramp he ought to be suppressed a a you don common nuisance. re 'ears Even when the borrower paysswhich s ion, by no means tobedepended on, heis sel- P wig dom careful to return m quantity or qual ,no ity what he receives. So well is this un ive, derstood by some discerning people that C t its they keep on hand goods of an iferior roul how- order to lend to those who persistently lg arti- borrow, and in this they illustrate the thet Snot saying that "the children of this world the alyto are wiser in their generation than the the eyes children of light." If lending really did easi ever, any good to such people, the case would rre habit be d'ifferent, but lending only whets We ish- their appetite for further favors and con- and than firms them in the habitual neglect of to 1 sature forethought as to their own supplies. It tail sui- is dillicult to see how the habitual boer- ina oint- rower differs essentially from the thief. Thi ity of Ie takes your time in getting for him pre teir what he asks for and in putting it away C deti- when returned; he wears out your tha calp. books, your tools, and often breaks bes ion of them and dulisthem and makesno com- rat id at pensation for the injury they sustain; loo herto, he consumes your strength and en- so oned, thusiam in acceding to his requests, and wit arded he often eauses you to waste enough pre their mental force to do a day's work in pure prt Snow vexation st being so annoyed; for all wit 4,for which you get back absolutel nothing. ext i thatWe know a kind-hearted famy $great kil fessor part of whose time was occupied by dy g rid- their neighbors in lending and receiviang th ad it back what was lent. The good wife m an ex- finally refused to learn to use the sew- . , and ing machine her husband provided, be- an arvel- cause she said all her neighbors would " ld be come in to get her to do a little stitch- a e vereing for them. These worthy people by the really thought they were doing god by l sen- being so obliging. They would have pi Sman done vastly more good by refusing to ye u; let lend to those who were as welt able to d iuents buy as they were. As an illustration of pi teir ir spirit of habitual borrowers we give ml etthe this: Years ago we lent a table for w hir on which we had no use to a neighbor, and B noe the when we needed it and intimated this ti isty of to her, she coolly replhed, "it could be ol ild a a sent for at any time," and we actually ta delay. had to sendfor it and have it repaired am before we could ume it. h If there is one class of borrowers more t a vexations than another it is that class b , ad who spend their little surplus in per- o a red sonal luxurles and borrow of their neigh- tl ,estnut bors the small necessaries of life. There I p , butare women who will buy ribbons and a tbe a laces, and perfumes and cosmeties and e keep their work-boxes so ill-farnished , wthat they are always borrowing pins, a d me needles, tapes, dress lining, buttons, thread. There are men who smoke fine I i cigars, and manage by hook or by crook to have nice clothes, who forage on their friends for writing materials, umbrellas, small change, shoe-blacking. If this class of borrowers ever had any thingto lend, one might get even with them, but they never have any thing you want, an you can not come into their vicinage without losing something. A Tribune reader, a person in very moderate circumstances, writes: "In your article recently on 'Studies at Home,' you say to a correspondent that ' doubtless were she diligently to inquire, she might borrow books from her neigh bors who do not read them, from her physician and from her pastor.' Let me tell you we have had our books and paplers destroyed to such an extent by borrowers that I hate to ask for books. A man who owns two farms borrows oug papers every week, and we can scarcely read them ourselves until they are gone. P'eople that ride in their car riages borrow papers of us that can not afford a carriage." Very well; borrow of them something they value as highly as you value your books and papers; "exchange is no robbery;" choose the occasion to borrow of them when they come to borrow of you; by no means omit to do so, and get all you can out of them, for their sakes as well as for your own. There is no other way of teaching such people the doctrine of quid pro quo-the doctrine of equiva lents--something for something, and not something for nothing. Exchange t of books is perfectly legitimate, and of those who are careless in the use of bor . rowed books it is perfectly right to re quire voluntary or involuntary hostages. If one is so disposed, it is well to keep e lnoks juast to lend. We have had a great muany volumes worn out in this way,. lent to those who did not know what they should buy or those who were not able to buy or to those who needed their tastes cultivated in certain direc tions. The money thus invested is 'reckoned as spent in charity,, and in one of the-noblest of charities. It is more to feed the starving soul than to feed the u starving body. Nothg said here is intended to apply to those exchanges of friendly and neighborly courtesy upon which we are all more or less dependent for comfort and happiness; but they are exchanges, and benefit is mutual.-N. Y. Tribune. I s Exact Ag!. t Wnax Uncle Reuben Clay, an old t- darkey of about seventy winters, drop ts ped into a Griswold Street tobacco store I a day or two ago, and was asked his i age, he promptly replied: .- Wal, sah,. I reckon I'se about as st nigh seventy y'ars ole as dey can make 13 'em." to "If you cant read, or write or cypher ie how can you tell?" in " I'zo kept do dates in my head, sah, n- an' if you'll take a pencil I an prove my y. age in no time 'tall." in One of the loungers prepared himself 00 with peneil and paper, and Uncle Reu d. ben proceeded' its "Now, sah, in what y'ar did Colum on bus diskiver AmericaP' "Dorsot dat down." " Why, what has the discoverer of America to do with your age!" asked WO several voices. "d "It makes no diffunce, eah. Ize got co. to git some pint to reckon rdrom, an' I tut take dat one kase it's do handiest. Put eg down 1492." "d Yes." iot "Now, den, when was de Revolu efi- shunary wa' fit?" "ets In 1776." bor Exactly. Take dat from 1492 and md it leaves how many?" y; "Just 284 years." - *Dat's k'rect. Now, when did dey Le* fight de next wa'P' er, " In 1812-14. Take that out and it , makes a difference of thirty-six years, Sand reduces the figures to 248." " Dat's all right," said Uncle Reuben he as he bent over the figuret. "Now, den, it n what y'ar did my greatgrandlather hee land in ole Virginnv?" L i "Why, how do know? • You must a know if any one." gv- The old man serathea d his head, or I looked over the figures and said: we "Dat's kinder eurns. De ole man mm, comes in dar sum wharP" hat All the men began to laugh at him, not and the old man got up and tied on his We comforter and said: ther -You white folks needn't feel so Sto mighty peoart kase you finrkpu've got an give ole nigger in a box. Iso gsdne ober to see my son George, an("eorge he'll et* take a piece o' chalk an's de'bottom ot a tare cheer an' begin wid de day dat Cain the killed Abel a' r my age down to die the worry mawsin' quieker'r 4,smartest o' as a o kin rub a so' heelF"--efroit Free Press. sel i Pllae Where Weod i lSeIa Cord and al- Water Five Ceats a Gallon. that CANDELARIA is without' doubt the trior roughest and most uncomfohtable min stly ing camp in Nevada. The houses, what the there are of them, are poorly built, and orld the cold wind that has been blowing for n the the past few days goes through theni as ydid easily as it would through a steve. A rould reat many people still five in tents. Whets Wood costs $20 a cord ruid is scarce con- and poor at that. It takes a capitalist et of to keep a fire going here. Water re 3. It tails at five cents a gallon and is hnauled i bor- in wagons from Oolumbus--4ight miles. thief. This water is not very good, being im rhim pregnated with alkali, but the average w ay ndelarian doesn't care, much for your that, the majority of them preferring reaks beer, which, by the way, is sold at the om- rate of a bit a drink in marhy of the sa stain; loonas. The whisky is of good quality, d en- so yn esan see we arp eot altogether a, and witout the blessings of pivilization. At ough present the camp is enlivened by the pure presence of a lot of Belleville people, for all who are here attending the preliminary hing. examination of Chid Brumtnett, who rat killed Billy Bell in Belleville last Thurs Sby day. The killing occurred in front of Sthe Belleville Hotel on Thursday even toig. Bell went to the faro game where sew- COid was dealing, Wednesday night, d, be- and put $6 on the lay-bOut. Chid said: ronld "1 don't want to play for you." Bell stitch- said: "I have been after you for three eople years, and I will get younyet, I would dby like to have six bits a dozen for whip 4 have ping such men as you. :ou think ing to you are a fighter because you licked a able to drunk in Austin." The laflxt day they ition of passed each other and didn't speak. At re give six o'clock in the evening Chid was he for walking up to the hotel from Jackson's. r, and Bell eame upfrom the ether corner of ed this the street. Chid got to the Vorch four old be or fve feet ahead of Billy. Chid had ctually taken two or three steps on the sidewalk, p aire and Billy had one bot on the' sidewalk in the act of stepphid k 'iphe'n Chid a more turned and shot hiui . a'ink. The tclass ball went through th~ OoalaIutton hole n per- of his shirt, and was takep out from rneigh thekphoblder blade at the back. Pick There Handle Gulch is the name of the real ma and mining townof the section, being locate is and ed in the ravine directly below the rnished mines.- Virginia (,ity(Nev.) Eterprise. u ttons -A cow witha trunk likl ai elephant ae fine is reported in iohigat,. -