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TR-WEEKLY EDITION. WyINNSBRORO, S. C. FEBRUARY 17, 1880. VOL. I.-NO.21.
DEATH IN THE WOODS.
oath in the wood
th and a sont. of decay;
oath and a horror that oroopi with the
blood,
d stiffuns the limb to clay;
or the rains are heavy and slow,
dthe leaves are bhruuken and wan,
'nd the winds are sAbbmg weary and low,
d the life of the year is gono.
eath in the wood
th in its fold over old;
oath-that I shudder'd an.1 sank where I
stood,
the touoh of a ban-1 eo cold
t the touch of a hand so cold
d the sight of a olay-whito face.
or I saw the corao of the friend I loved.
d a hush fell over the place.
oath in the wood
th and a saont of decay.
oath and a h rror but half understood,
ore blank as the doa I I lay;
hat curse hung over the earth,
at woo to the tribes of mon,
hat we felt as a death what was mado Yor a
bir.h,
ha birth sinking death ward again!
-oath in the wood -
- he death-palo lips apart;
eath in a whitenus that ourdled the blood,
back to tho.very heart;
The woador by her was form'd
Who stands supreme in power,
To show that life by the spirit comes,
tihe gave us a soulless floweri
Rachel's Shadow.
Reuben Moffatt and Rezia, his wife, re
ceived a triplet of white wedding cards
from the hands of their daughter Rachel,
and fell into a scrious chat over the bits of
cardboard. George. Reynolds, the groom,
was. discussed with positive knowledge
gained by acquaintance with him from boy
hood. Katie Maurice' the bride, was dis
cussed with the speculative knowledge that
characterizes remarks concerning stranger
brides.
Rachel Moffatt had left the room while
George Reynolds was under discussion, and
her mother's careful eye had observed that
there was surprise, anger, almost tears in
the girl's face.
"I say, Reuben, " began the good man's
wife, after Rachel had gone.
"Yes," answered Reuben Moffatt, signi
fying his readiness to hear what his vife
had to say.
"4I want to call your attention to our
Rachel."
"You needn't call very loud," was Reu
ben Moffatt's answer. My attention goes a
good deal that way, naturally."
"To be sure, " answered Kezia Moffatt.
"How could it be otherwise, and the father
of such a girl as our iachel? 1 am sure I
wonder that. a young man like George Rey.
uolds should look farther than such a trim,
handsome girl as Rachel is, and he - knows
all about her housekeeping, too."
"'Look further and fare worse.' I an old
proverb, you know," said Reuben Moffatt,
with anger in his eyes and tones. "I am
sure I hope Rachel will get over it ind go
to the party."
"Get over it?" repented Reuben Moffatt.
"You don't mean that Rachel -?" The
old man paused and aurveyed'his wife criti
cally.
Kezia Moffatt nodded her head afllrma
tively.
"Oh, nonsense, Kezial" exclaimed the
old man. "You feel unpleasant like be
cause George Reynolds should prefer any
other woman to our Rachel it'sny opinion
that Rachel hadn't a thought of George
Reynolds, cxcc)t-."
A shadow fell on the porch, and the old
man suddenly changed the subject of his
remarks.
The shadow that had fallen on the perch
wvas Rachel Aloffatt's. It followed the
young girl across the green fields where she
*walked, magnifying hecr bonnet into an un
shapely thing, and lengthening her slight
figure Into exeedingly lank proportions.
"WIch way, Miss Rachel? Are you
- running away from your shadow?" asked a
yonng man, stepping out from undlei-an oak
tree that stood midway in the field.
Rachel Moffatt gave a sudden glance at
her shadow, and said wvith an effort, "We
can't escape them any more than we casi
our thoughts."
"It's lucky for us that, they are harmless,"
answered the young man, with a smile. "I
shouldn't think you would want to escape
your thoughts, Miss Riochel, I'm sure 1
shouldn't. And if you've no objection, 1
will walk in your shadow, as you seem to
be going my way."
* Rachel Moffatt bowed, but the young
man glancing into her face, saw that she
accepted his company with resignation.
* "I presume you have received George
Reynolds' gards?" said the young man, after
a pause.
"Yes," Rachel ariswdred gravely. "They
are very stylish," she added, with an effort.
"Miss Maurice Is said to be wealthy,"
the young man continued.
"Ah" Rachel exclaimed with a curl of
her lips that was full of scorn.
With a delicate, intuitive serLsO that
would have done honor to, men In finer
clothes and a loftier sphere, Walter Gilbbs
changed the subject with the remark: "I
have the book of yours that I borrowed, in
mny pocket, Miss Rachel. There were
scraps of paper in it, and some bits of faded
flowers. I have them all, and return them,
with the book."
"Thanpk you, it did not signify," Rachel
replied Indifferently.
Bhe turned the ktaves of the blue and
gilt volume with thle uneasy motion of rest
less hands, and there dropped from them
the gilded leaves and faded flowers. They.
* ,ere &ll alike, mere bits of pInk coloring
on a wooden stem-pink arot so deep as the
color that glowed on Rachel Mofrat t's cheeks
*at sight of the flowers. ..,
"It Is the Corls Canadenels. Judsa tree,
her companion remarked, pieking up one
of the fallen bits arnd pulling it to pieces.
'"The Judas trepl" echoed Rachel Moffatt
all her tenes full of scornful wonder,
"Ye," 'the .yoong man said, answering
the wonder in her tones. "In the spring it
is a tree of promise with its rugged branches
crowded full 'of, blossoms; but the blossoms
die, and there i, -never fruit or beauty in
fulfillment of its springtime promIse. There
is but ope0 In tl e tila eit I kinow of,
a t s a u de1ls den."
n ember tig W~r Gibbp biecame,
lyed her face with tell-tale blushes, and
he tale they told was about George Rey
iolds. Then he remembered how he had
'orced his company upon her, and his care
ess words might have added to the trouble
>f the girl he loved. At least she should be
celieved from the annoyance of society, and
wvith a sigh Ile remarked:
"It was uncivil of me to join you, Miss
iachel, when you came out to walk alone.
I beg your pardon. And as I have an er
and (own to the Widow Brown's, and am
roing around that way, I will leave you
tere."I
"I would be glad to have your company,"
Rachel Moffatt felt constrained to say.
"Thank you, but my errand is urgent,"
Walter Gibbs answtred. "Glad to have
your company!" he muttered, as lie walked
.way-"a pretty story that, and she wish
ing me ten miles away from the moment 1
joined her! What a poor blind fool I have
bedn. "
The woman whose happiness George
Rteynolds had trifled with so wantonly
walked slowly toward her home *and sat
down or- the little porch, watching the
noon conic up. She overheard her father's
words as lie talked to her mother.
"There's as good fish in the sea as was
aver caught. It's my opinion the man who
gets our Rachel will find there is better
than George Reynolds to be caught; and I
am sure Rachel will find better fish than
George Reynolds, if he (oes think lie is the
biggest toad in the puddle."
Over Rachel Moffatt's sad face flitted a
smile that was almost merry. To think of
oimparing Medbury to a puddle, and George
Rleynolds' to the biggest toadi Then her
thoughts wandered to herself. Did her
father and mother- suspect her liking for
George Reynolds? And Walter Gibbs
had her face tattled to him of secrets that
she fain would have kept? Henceforth she
would wear a mask, and hide her secret in
her heart.
She went into the house and sat down by
laip light. 11er mask was on, and she
wondered if Mrs. Reynolds had made the
fruit-cake for the reception, or whether
they bought it at the bakery at, Medbury.
Mrs. Moffatt thought that Mrs. Reynolds
would make i'. She was such a hand to
have everythin , done up in her kitchen.
"Maybe," he added, "irs. Roynolds
would like y.a r help in making lady cake,
you know, Rachel. Supposing she should
eixpress herself that way, what should I say
to her?"
Rachel's mask threatened to fall. To go
into George Reynolds' home and help to
prepare for the reception of his bride was a
blow for which she was not prepared. Only
a moment and the tottering mask was up.
Certainly, if Mrs. Reynolds should ask
my help I would go," Rachel answered.
"I would be glad to go," she added a mo
inent after, as If she was giving the mask a
[hual securing touch.
And so Rachel Moffatt found herself beat
ng eggs and stirring butter and sugar in
Mrs. Reynolds' kitchen, listening to the
woman's garrulous chat. 'Lady cake it
will be, I expect." she said, pausing in the
midst of her culinary operations to watch
the whites of eggs rising in a foam under
iachel Moffatt's dexterous manipulations.
"And I expect she's a very fine lady we're
making it for; but it's a matter that I would
like to go no further than between us two,
that I'd been satisfied if George had picked
mut a wife nearer home; 1 am sure I
wouldn't have said a word if she who is
making the cake and she who would eat
the cake had been the same identical indi
vidual."
Rachel's mask shook a little, but she was
a brave girl. "Oh, I'm sure George's wife
will be a nice lady, and. I dare say we will
all like her very much," she answered.
-Rachel Moffatt's words were fully verri
acd. George Reynolds' wife proved to be
a very nice lady-a little delicate creature,
all pink and white, whom It was lmp~ossible
not to like, because she wvas thoroughly'
amiable and lovely.
"Who is that lady in white, wIth the pink
[lowers in her hair?" asked the bride of the
bridegroom, the eveuing of their reception,
as Rachel Moffatt entered the room sonme
what late. "She looks very lovely, but I
shouldn't think she would like to wear
lowers of Judas tree. Don't you know?"
she asked, ainswerlng the Inquiring look of
her husband. "That's the name of the
tree that bears those pink flowers. I ami a
great, botaniist; don't you kiiow that, nmy
diarling?"
The darling colored, seeing Rachel Mof
ratt andI the pink flowers, and remembering
3ertain wordls uttered beneath the shadows
of the pink branches.
Rachel Moffatt was a study to another
man at George Reynioldls' reception. Wal
ter Gibbs' eyes followed her wherever she
inoved, and he wvent home thinking of the
mystery of womankood as it revealed It
self in'Rachel Moffatt and pink flowers.
The Judas tree had never bloomed bnt
once when George Reynolds and his wife
came to Mednury to live.
"Gecorge don't get along so well as I
could expset,"Squire Reynolds' said; and
Mrs. Reynolds hinted to half a dozen neigh
bors, hoping that it would go no further
than between herself and the one with whom
she talked, that George's wife was a well
meaning, good-hearted little creature, but
bless her hearti she didn't know the first
thing about hiousekeeping, and she hadn't
any knack at making the most of her moans.
George Reynols' wife seat for Rachel
Moffatt one day. "I would have dome
down myself," she apologized, "but really
I was naot able;" and Rachel looking into
her fa'ce, saw that the pink had all faded
out, leaving only the whiteness of the pro
vlouis year. "You Bee, dear," she went
on with a winning franknes's, '.' wasn't
brought up to anything' useffil, and the
housekeepIng don't go right, and George
and I have moved out, thinking that we
wouild manage better, and ltwould be better
for the baby. I remember what beauti funl
lady cake you made for our reception, and
the praises that were in everybody's nmouth
about your cooking. And now, nmy dear
Miss Moffatt, would you mind sh'owing me
a little, and see if I can't learn to manage
better,. and make George's home more corp1
fortable? I thought I woald ratier ask a
young person like yon than Georg'e's niother
even.'
And so Rachel Moffatt found herself in
George Reynolds' kitchen, instructing the
child wife In the mystory of cooking, and
trying'to impart to her some of her "rare
knack," as the people, called it,
SOne day ae she cameo out of the little gate
and took her wa' tonard ther own home, a
gentleman p aedhom9 hiorseback. Look
ing up, she BsW " 'hlWm' h i full board
and good figure; .A .ittnger, she thbought
him, until henhoefid1tg azi.~oimed,
"You are not running from your shadow
again, Miss Rachel?' Aid tihe stranger
was no other than Walter Gibbs.
Rachel laughed this time wit hout effort. se
"They were harmles things, as you said," be
she replied; and then she inquired kindly tu
after his health and stay at Medlitry. cli
"I presume strangers occup'y the cottage ai
yonder?" Walter Gibbs remarked, pointing Mi
to the cottage Rachel h)ad just left. th
"George Reynolds lives there," Rachel anll
answered. ."1 have been up to assist Katq tir
-Mrs. Raynolds-in canning fruit. N
Rachel Molfatt's face did not color or a let
feature change. Either her mask was all
perfectly worn, or that look had ceased to i
be a mask. tih
Walter Gibbs, during his stay in Med- ra
bury fell into his old habit of walking in an
Rachel Moffatt's shadow. Looking into fr<
her faco as on that evening a year before, tai
lie missed the resignation it had worn then, h(
for it was real pleasure. he
One day lie sought her with a strange Pt
nervousness and abstraction in his manner. Al
Rachel was very grave, too, and Walter be
Gibbs saw that she h.d been weeping. lie hc
looked into her face with the tender solici- tri
tude that only men who love, and women G<
who have been loved know; and iachel ex- (il
plained hastily. Did lie not know? Had Im
lie not heard? George Reynolds' wife died se
suddenly that morning with heart disease. Ill
Walter Gibbs went home with the ner- Im
vous abstraction all gone from his manner, th
and a hard endurance in its stead. George NI
Reynolds was free now, free to win Rachel or
Moffatt if lie could, and she who loved him iii
once was free to accept him. "I couldn't hi
be satisfied with a doubtful love," he said; til
"I will wait." tht
He waited until the Judas tree was in ra
blossom again, and then ie. went to Med- th
bury. oil
"It's waiting on Rachel MOTatt, George Be
Reynolds is," one of the Mledburv gossips hc
told hm; "and his wife not under tle sod ru
a year yet! They were old schoolmates, in
and knew each other from childhood, and ik
we used to think it would make a match th
before lie married that little helpless city U:
girl, and I haven't any doubt i m y mind 1;
but It will make a match now. George i
Reynolds is going to have a party next -ta
week, and that lie will show what way the at
wind is blowing. all
Walter Gib's went to George Reynolds' Y,
tea-drinking. le said to his mother lie i;
would not miss it for a fortune. Rach lic
Moffatt was there, walking now and then thi
with George Reyr;olds, and talking with mi
him ever and anon, but then it was Rachel's w1
habit to be kind to every one who came in cl
her way. Late in the evening Walter Gibbs 81)
missed her froni the parlor. le looked Y,
around for George Reynolds, but he, too, i
was gone. "The M1edbury gossip was Y4
right," lie thought. 'The tea-party is show- ar
mag which way the wind is blowing." le an
walked to the window and looked 'out, de- Ci
scrying Rachel Moffatt's iluttering garments 1Il
down a winding path. George Reyinolks ev
was by her side, and the way they took was of
towards the south. Away off to the north in
the Judas-tree--stretched out its pink )1
branches in the mooe-light. "The winds cli
sets unfavorable," Walter Gibbs said, with be
a sigh. tm
Half an hour later George Reynolds Y,
passed Walter im.the hall. His brow was tN
clouded and his lips worked nervously. is:
"le looks like one on whom the north wind w
has blown," Walter Gibbs thought and went. inl
in pursuit of Rachel Mofratt. of
He found her standing in the moonlight, at
her long shadow reflecting from her figure 7.
the branch of a Judas tree she held in her ta
hand. Ile approached her and stood where h<
her shadow fell. lei:
"Rachel," lie said, with all his heart in
his voice, "I should like to walk in your
shadow kenceforth, if you are going that
way."
Rachel Moffatt looked up with startled
eyes into the face above her; the pink low-- is)
ers with their fatal significance fell from her lie
hand, and the irregular out linss of two con it
fused shadows, never henceforth to be parted thi
lay upon the green sward. In the frost~s of cC
the following winter the Judas tree died, tl
and the place thereof knew it no more.
Turtle and Elephant. l
One damp afternoon the turtle caine wad- 0
dling out into the big room to borrow a l
little sand to lay lisa eggs in. "'My friend," cC
the elephant said, "yours is a vecry hard- e
ac
"'Yes," the turtle rephedl, "but while tl
there's life there's soup." CS
Th'le elephant was greatly astonished, for ai
lie didnm't know the turtle was given to that Si
sort of things at all, and'all the other anl
male grinned, beccause, you see, it wasn'tf
often the elephant met anybody in the mc-m
nagerie wvho could talk to him,
"Well," said lie, after a pause5, "it's a h
good thing your back is so broad."
"Yes, it is," replied the turtle, "because pr
there is no telling what may comb) of it."
The animals cheered softly and the ele- "
plhant looked amaz/edl.p
"Well, old go-as-you-please," lie saidl fi
presently. "yeou pay1 as you go, don't you?"
"Oh, yes," the turtle saidl, "'I have to W
shell out every once in a wvhiile. How's
hides ?" he asked cheerfully.H
"Oh, they're easy," the elephant saidl,
"a little loose, maybe, but nlothing to worry l
over. "I louse-moving busines keeps upl,
I reckon ?" b
"Yes, yes," the turtle said, "nothing s
rushing particularly, biut I'm in and out all
day. Nothing unusual in shawl straps, Is t
there ?"
'rie animals cheered at this delicate allu- 01
slon to the trunk business, and for the first
time In his life the elephant looked as
though lie was going to lose his temper, but It
ho rallied and said: 1
"Oh, no, much the same as usual; 'just a
a kindi of hand-to-mouth business. By tile eli
way, didn't I see your father's old overcoat to
up in front of the restaurant, yesterday ?" 'A
"I guess you did," said thle turtle, ''le
wasn't the kind of a man to die and make tl
no sign. Going down into the billiard-.W
room pretty soon?" ii
The elephant said "no, thiey'd have t
excuse him, but If they'd wait till the hyena.
camne along he'd have some native wine
with them." And then the tiuftle said
"all right, he'd drop in about dusk." Anil)
the menagerie went to supper that nmght.
with the greatest enthusiasm. But the ole- bl1)
pliant, was very quiet, and only spoke once, of
a~ that was to ask the ost rich where he.s
suposed the-turtle grew to be so cute? el
An the foolhsh bird of the desert tossed an! a
iron hiolt-head down Its (broat anid replied:1 p~
"Picked it up, Z reckop."g
And then, childro .the'.elephant grfnned p
and said there seemned an epidemie In the .th
menagerie, and leaned up against the centred e
p*e eand weattobed.
Faset allroad 'I railn.
'e "ligitning train" on t Paris-Mar
lies L110 makes the distance of 539 miles
tweei the two cities in fifteen hours and
enty-one minutes, the averdge speed, in
iding stoppages, being thirty-flve miles
hour. 'Tie express train dn the Lelirter
iilwny runs from Berlin td Cologne at
rate of thirty-seven and ote-half miles
hour, including stops, making the en
e distance of 364 miles in nine hours and
enly-six minutes. The Seottish mail
ves Euston Square at 8.50 in the evening
d reaches Edinburg at 6.45 the next
)rning. The distance is 40t miles, the
ic In nine hours and fifty minutes, the
.c of speet, including stopi, forty-one
d one-forth-miles an hour. - The express
>m King's (toss runs to Edinburg, a dis
ice of 3971,miles, in nine I d one-nalf
urs, or at a rate of forty-two miles an
ur including stops. The fast train from
ddington to Plymouth, 'ind the Irish
til from London to Holyhead, average
tween forty-one and forty-two miles an
ur, or about the same a, tie Scottish
ims. The fastest short disance trains in
rmany are, that which runs from Span
i to Stendal, fifty-seven and one-half
les without stopping, in one hour and
veiteen minutes, sr at the rate of forty
e miles an hour, and theOexpress, which
ikes the distance of eighty-eight and
ree-tourth miles, between Berlin and
iidgeburg in two hours and seven minutes
at the rate of forty-two miles an hour,
cluding two stops. In England a much
ier rate of speed is attained on short dis.
ices. . The Great Western trains run
rough from London to Swindon at the
*e of fifty-three miles an hour, making
a entire distance of seventy-seven and
e-quarter miles in one hour and twenty
ven minutes, while nearly fifty miles anl
ir is made by the special express which
us from London to Watitham, 105 miles
two hours ind 11ive minutes. ThiS is
ubtless a much bigher rate o! speed than
a usual schedule time on roads in the
lited States. The Washington Limited
preqs leaves New York at 10 A. M. and
iches Washington at 4 P. AM. The (lie
ice, 2:30 miles, is made in six hours, or
a rate of thirty-eight and one-third miles
hour, including stops. Between New
)rk aind Philadelphia but two stops are
ide; the rate of speed Is forty mriles an
fir. The Boston express, which leaves
city at 11 A. M., runs to Boston, 233
les, in seven hours and eleven minutes,
uich is about thirty-two miles na hour, in
iding the six stops that are made. Tie
acial mail and express trai'n on the New
>rk Central and Hudson River Road
kkes the distance at night between New
>rk and Albany, 143 miles, in four hours
d five nunutes, or nearly thirty-six miles
hour. Only one stop is made. The
icinnati express on the Pennsylvania
iiiroad leaves New York at six in the
vining and reaches Pittsburg, a distance
444 miles, at 8.30 on the following morn
, and Cincinnati, 757 miles, at eight P.
. of the same day. " The rate of speed, In
iding stops, is about thirty miles ain hour
tween New York and Pittsbnrg, and
enty-niuc miles an hour between New
)rk and Cincinnati. The distance be
een Harrisburg and Pittsburg, 249 miles
'un in seven hours and thirty-five minitcs;
th three stops, or about thirty-three miles
hour. The fast line to Chicago by way
the Pennsylvania Road leaves New York
nine A. M., and reaches Chicago at
20 on the fo'lowing evening. The dis
ace is 912 miles, the time thirty-four
urs and twenty minutes, the rateof speed
is than twenty-seven miles an hour.
An Old M96uonm'.
They had a church fair down at Span
itown near San Francisco,. which was
1(1 in a large grain warehouse just oppos
the r-esidence of a cross old bacheclor,
e irichest man in the plaice. As the re
ipts were irather thin, on the secondi night
a management secured the services of the
ra1 amateur band to liven up matters.
mis band consisted of two ilutes, a fiddle,
aor-net, an accordeon and a brass driumi,
a latter instr-ument being hammered with
tra vigor- whencver- one of the other per
emers went out for beer-. Trhey had suc
aded in making about half the night hid
us when a fear-fuli outci-y was heard
ross the way, and, on the participanta
rowing up the windows, they behckt the
pit abst aforementioned in his night-gown,
d swearing In a manner that miade the
imday school teachcers shudder to hear.
"What (do you people men by this in
rni racket?" r-onared thle exasperated
"WVhy-this--this is a fair," said thie
ly wuho( ran the grab..bag.
"Oh! it is, Is It ?" sneered the distuirbed
riy.
'"You call it fair to roh people0 of thehm
tural rest b~y this sort of second..hand
nd~emonium, do you? Well, what's tic
i-i--c, oh ?"
'"What's the what ?" asked the mana.
r of Rebecca's weil -
"Why, the fare-the admission fceel
ow much to conic in and 1)0 swindled ?"
"'The tickets are two bits," replied th<
13-, i-athe- shortly.
'"Very well ; now talk quick, for this It
siness. Ilow much have you taken Ir
far?"
"Nine dollais andl six hits," said th<
~asurncr.
"And how munch longer doees your fi nud
the public run?"'
'Thre-e nights."
"Very well, that makes about $40-ca11
$50 In round numbel~rs. Bend round to,
orrow and( I'll give you a check for thai
noumt. WIll make it $75 I(.youshut ur
op in ten minutes," and the old objecto
innocent amusement slammed down th(
Indcow and returned to bed.
A fter wich the congregation corkeod uj
e orchestra and dispersed. But they ar<
>lng to give a musicale in the same build
g next week. They say they've struell
bonanza in that old party andl mean t<
ork it to the b~edrock
Advioo ithout Charge.
WVhen you write er speak, do not use
ushel of wor-ds to express a table spooufu
thought. Better think twice before yet
eak once. After; expressinmg a though
early stop), even though 1t090'6e you a
ighty effort to do so. It VW04hrgh accom
ishiment to lodril how to atp when you
mt through, 'I'he eftect; ontJ ltstener il
e'asant, atid ytou illi gain fmore cre'di
an by speaking longer, H thaut is ciea
b afford to be short. He thM is not, ealm
rdly affordt peakat lL.
Ol'd Horweshoues.
"I saw a funny sight in the street just
now," said Mr. Patterson to his friend, Mr.
Johnson, in the Fifth avenue hotel barber
shop, New York, recently. "I met an
elegantly dressed lady carrying in her hand
an old horseshoe covered with mud. I pro
sume she had just found it and was
carrying it home for good luck." "Good
luok'i" replied Mr. Johnson; "don't talk to
me about old horseshoes and good luck.
About a month ago, ily wife and I were
returning from church one Sunday, when,
in front of the new Roman Catholic church
in Fiftieth street, a horse which was being
driven at a lively gait, threw a shoe, and it
went ringing along the pavement. 'Go
get that shoe,' said my wife, 'and we will
keep it for good luck.' I picked it up, ut
terly ruining one of my gloves in doing so,
as it was covered with mud. This I was
going to wipe off on the curb, but my wife
cried out; 'Oh, don't do that, for if you do
you will wipe out all our luck.' So I lugged
the old thing all the way home, and over
the door we hung it, mud and all. In the
morning I went (town to the store wonder
ing what my first streak of good luck would
be. Before night I hati a misunilerstand
ing withl my employer-with whom I have
been for several years-we both got hot,
and the resilt was that ho gave me notice
that, after the 1st of January, he would dis
pense withl my services. - A few days after
ward my wife went to do at little shopping,
and lost her pocket-book containing all the
money we had been saving for a long tine
to spend for holiday presents and amuse
ments. In fact, for about two weeks,
everything seened to go against me, and I
was in hot water all the time. Finally, I
said to my wife one day, that I believed
it was that confounded old horeshoe that
was to blame for it all, and that I was
bound to take it down and put it back in
the street just where I found it, and so I
did. The very next morning my employer
sent for me to come and see him in his pri
vate office. Ile said Ie hald been mistaken
in the matiter about which we differed,
Apologized for wliat lie had sald, hoped
there would ble no lhard feelings about it
and wound up by engaging me for another
year at an increased salary. I went home
that night feeling better natured than I had
for weeks. I told my wife of my good
luck, and then she took from her pocket a
letter which she had that day received from
her father, notifying her that he was going
to send her a check for $500 for a Christ
mas present. In fact, I havo have had
only good luck since I threw away that old
horseshoe. They may bring luck to some
folks, but ily wife and I doii't want any
more horseshoes in ours, you bet."
Allonso's B1ridal sted.
From the Council Chamber in tile Palace
at Madrid, we pass into the King's bed
clianber, which is simply but richly furni
shed. The walls ire hung with beautiful
specimens of the Gobelin tapestry, but. the
carpets ire of Spanish manufacture. An
ex(iisitely carved walnut bedstead occu
bies the centre of this room, which, like
the royal household, is principally remark
able for its elegant simplicity. Adjoining is
a clambre (10 toilette with marble bath,
washstiand, etc. A short corridor separates
the apartments of the Queen from those of
her royal spouse. Passing ilrough we en
ter the cliamber a coucher, where is tile
nupt ial couch, a gem of the Parisian up
holsterer's art, richly carved and delight
fully upliolstered in silk. It cost 50,000
francs. The interior of the domelike can
opy is richly rplholstered in rose-colored
siik, on which cunning hands have wrought
flowers and devices with golden threads.
The headboard is surmounted by an em
broidered sh1ield, on vhich the initials of
the spouse are wrought in gold. The shield
is supported b~y two reclinng hlymphis, nude
as8 Mother Eve in Paradise. As the work
men had1( just unpackedl tis jewvel of a bed,
It is imipossib~le at this present writing to
give any furthler descrilition of its beauties.
In addition, there is a ehambre (10 toilette,
a declighltful salle de lecture, wvithl windIows
opening on the Plaza do Oriente aiid on thle
splendid terrace, whichl affords a -fine
promienade, with a magificent view of this
city and the mountains.- At present it is
merely a stone roof, buit, under thle care of
the Queen, will no doubt soon be turned
into a lovely hanging garden, alI' Arabe. A
private rccep~tion-room for ladies only, com
p)'eCe the i oyatl apartimnt.
A Queer Dinner Parlty.
Michael Dunnn, a reformed conv.ct hias
openedl aI iodginig house in New York and
aI cueer partyslately took dinner at his board.
Seatedi next to Mr. D~unn was Michael Mc
Cann, aged twenty-one years, having no
failher or mother, whlo broke into and r'd
bed( Brown's shoe store in Rosevelt street,
and served two years in State Prison for
dloing so. lie is now employed as assis
tant janitor in the Five Points House of
Industry. In addition to serving a termh
in State Prison lie gradulated from the
Ihouse of Refuge and was in the Peniten
tiary. Patrick Clarke, the second guest,
hiad served a term of two years for burglary,
raid is now employed in making woolen
shalwls. James II. White, of Pittsburg,
who. has spent seventeen years in prisons in
.N4efvYork and Pennsylvania, was the fourth
guest. lie was a burglar by profssion, but
is now selling tweaty-five cent braces in thle
streets. A German cooper, named William
Vincent served seven years in. Sing Sing
for stealinga watch from a drumaken man;
a crime of whlich he declares himself inno.
cent. H~e is now employed in a cooperage
at Rted Rock Point and pays $8 board to
the House of Industry every week. The
youngest of the convicts was Josep~h Banker,
aged seventeen years, who served two terms
on Blackwell's Island for petty larcency,
and ia noiv working hard in a Catherine
street dry goods store for seventy-five cents
a day. James Wilson, who is but, twenty
six years old, has served one term of seven
years in Bing Sing fo: burglary and has been
in the penitentiary, He ls now~ engaged in
knitting woolen shawls. Martin S. HIarris,
forty-four years, who re-ved thlree years
in Sing Sing for robbery, sat next in order.
H~e will go to sea, a berth having been se
cured for him by Mr. Dunn on an East In
Idia ship. Charles Mcermott, a gray hair
ed man, thirty-nine years old, sat next, lie
served four terms in Sing Sing for burglary,
his last term being two years. Hie will go
to sea wvith Hartii. 'William'Todd, aged
forty-four years, comnpleted the party. He
has served terfli in Sing Sing, at Crow Hill
and on Blackwell's f~an or larceney. At
ptresent hes seliig6 comamitslon for a
B46kmuian street bhiedh 'Xii 4dior roceed
ed with the greatM 4qokruti an as.t
close Mr. D)unit said to a reporter: "If you
give an ex-convict a fair show in nine cases
out of ten he will reform for no man who
has ever been in a State Prison cares to go U
there again. When a man comes here I
teach him to knit woo!en shawls. They b
sell for $5 each, but there is not any pro- I
fit on them. They serve one purpose, to ot
show whether or not the man wiants to b
work. If he is lazy, good-for-nothing fel
low I do not keep hun, but if he wants to
work I try and procure employment for
him. During the past year I have given
shelter to 287 men and turned out twent- a
eight because they were idle and lazy. 3
Places for sixteen men were obtained on the
elevated railroad, twenty in different mer- 81
chants' oflices in 1hie city, fifteen in laundry s
at Helieville, N. J., fifty were sent to sea
and seventeen enlisted in the army. On
an average the'support of each man costs
$1,27 per week. They have clean beds, a
hooks and papers to read and are kept out
of bad comn y and harm's way. Captain
Tynan and Detectives Titus and Carr oc
casruinally coimie into and see us and leave
something behind them. During the day- t
tme I go through the city trying to sell
shawls or get work for them. We hold no
public services, for nothing so humiliates
and renders desperate a man who has been. f
in prison as to be exhibited to people whom
he does not know. A
a'
An Aeronitit's Terrible Fnre.
Prof Atchison, made an ascention from 0
Elwood, Illinois, on J uly 20. 1879. 1
When the balloon wias inflated the Profes- CC
son gave the word, and it was let loose rc
from the earth, Dressed in pink tights,
with green figured jacket covered with in
spangles, bare arms and bare head, the hair el
on the latter beingt black and curly, the ner- P
onaut ascended, holding on with one hand, h1
and with the other waved an adieu to the
crowd below. "It's the poorest ascension d
that I ever made," said lie; "I can't do b
much but I'll do the best 1 can." So say- fc
ig, lie threw II his legs over the bar, and, t
letting go his hands, hung downward,
hanging by the kice-joint. The interest f
and anxiety of the mulitude were next I
heightenedi as lie hooked on a foot right I
and left at. tie junction of the ropes with C
the bar. and hung suis)eIded at full lentgth.
The balloon ascension itself was as good as w
could be desired, and so far the people had v
all the sensation they could well stand. ti
The poor, slender figure posturing thus in b
mid air to amuse them, who shall say how tI
it was with him mentally and bodily at this
time? Catching again at tie bar, lie drop- hi
ped his feet and hung for a second or two 1
by the right hand. The balloon was still go. 0
iug ill), and the Interest was painful to qi
manny. The height attained at this time 0(
was variously estimated at from 150 to 500
feet; 200 is perhaps a fair guess. The bal- g
ldon Wis slowly drifting to tire southeast, tI
and the aerounaut, while holding otn by one aR
hand, made no further attempt to continue b
the performance, but apparently opening i
the hand that held the bar, with not the
least attempt, to clutch with the other, he do
immediately commenced to fall over the w
railroad trackl For about thirty feet of de- r
scent lie held his armas up 1s when lie let go, b
and then lie conmienced to struggle with t
his hands and feet. This was a mero in-.
stinctive motion. Nothing that lie could do I
would avert the terrible death await ing hin, I
and with a violent thiumi) which could le s
heard at the distance of the Catholic i
church, two blocks off, lie struck the eart 1
north of the railroad track, just outside the
ties, abouta yard from the rails. le ap
pears to have struck on his right side, for, t
on being taken u1p, his right thigh was i
broken above the knee, and all thatt aide ex
U
tending back was bruised and blackened,
but no blood came from the body. This w
appalling death had a iaost painful effect
upou the multitude of- spectators. Womie
screamed and fainted. Children crled at the ti
uinwonted spectable of a rmin falling head- P
long through the air, and1( all we're struck ~
with a feeling of awe that anr event gotten 0
uph for p~ulic anunsemienit should end soe
dhisasitrously.
T
Along The Rio Grandlo.b
Coming south from Santa F e on the Rio U
Gr~ande, writes a traveler, for the first 200) L
iles one is never ouit of eight of towns
andl villages. Tire system of Irrigation is hb
thre most compllete and extensive ha c
the United States, east of the Rocky Mouna- t ]
taing, although half thre landl is not culti- dI
vatedl. The larger portion of these towns n
are of the ancienit iunhabitanits, or as we call c
thiem Pueblo hIdians. Sonme are0 called
Spanish or Mexican towns, and some arc r
mrixedt. In every one of thema, small and p
great, there is a Catholic church. Like the Li
othrer edlices, It is of adlobe, anrd is marked 0
b~y Its larger size, and biy havinig a tower ni
aind ono or more bells. Marny of tire fields P
are fenced by hIgh wvalls of ablbe brick,
arid sometimes of sod, somne of them ap- o
parentl of great age. The whole valley n
is line(I with irrigating ditches, and some
times three of themn are found along side of 8
each other. These are under tihe control tl
of Jocal ofilcers, who keep themn in repair, C
and~ allot tire p)Ortion of water (1ue to each b
when waster is searce, TJhe oldest Indian
towins have a very efficient system of water S
governmrent and tire SpanIard andl Anmeri- P
can borrowed It from them. Tire people P
cultivate wheat, oats, b~arley; Indian corn P
Is extensively cultivated, lint, I should say. 2
not very suiccessfully, although I saw somet
fine fiel of corn. They have patches of a
potatoies, cabbages, breanis, onions, and, in
fact most of tire vegetables usually culti- C
vated, large patches of red pepper includied. I
Vineyards are found all alotng thre valley, ~
and this is destined to be thre gr at wine '
producing region of thre United 8tates.
a
Tire Voutilaton Fionid. y
E~ver sInce fresh air was invented hias thre
earth been cursed with peeple who fancied ji
themselves appoi nted to ladle out vast vol
umnes, aerial cataracts, chilling torrents of j
fresh air to nervous, timid, delicate peope, r
who don't .want a pint or it. Thre ventiha- r
tion idiot, whno has nrot seen him? Who has ~
net suffered at his ptiless hands? Who y
has not longed to kill him? IIe haunts the e
railway train, and makes hisi dwelling in la
the church; hie goes to the theatre; lhe In
vades your offiees; he tramples on the j
sanctity of your home; anid5 wheiever lhe r
goes and wherever he come., lhe brings t
with him blast, from Greenland and theo- a
rios from the storm caves of .Aolus. And t
he sweeps down upon you, and your pee,
and gottr tranquil home )ilse a tornado, and
140 ovrwhebs~s you with fresh ar uwtil yu a
wap* toa~~ , flow you -o hn t
tho a b*iesp hobby Is ventihl~~
NEWS IN BMUEM.
-Stockings worth $70 are sliown Ill
Uicago.
--Thie Frankstown Iron mill at Pitts
Irg, Pa., which was idle for a year or
ore, resuined work on full time re
nitly.
-A hundred years ago the Moravlans
Ii)tlzcd the first negro convert inDutch
ulana. Now the mission has 23,301
embers.
--An ordinary sized man, supposing
s surface to be fourteenl square feet,
Mtains the enormois pressure of 30,
[0 pounds.
-The city of London has the exelu
ve right of loldiig a market within
won miles of St. Pai's and of'collect
Ig tolls for the same.
-The extensive ironoore mines at
mnielstown, Dauphin county, Pa.,
le soon to be put in running order,
ter a long suspension.
-At Millville, N. J., the factories
'e hampered for lack of glass blowers.
t the window-glass factories the do
and Is loud for more help.
-Iron ore in the Ottawa district i
sing taken to Ohio to be smelted, the
!%y cents per toil duty on coal being
tal to smelting in Canada.
-The ofllcers of Christ Church
lexandria, Va., are endeavoring to
11 the bible used by George Washi ng
n. They want to pay it church debt.
-The total number of recruits of the
erman army for the year 1878-79 was
3,111), of whon 2,574, or 14 per cent.
m1k neither write their names nor
ad.
-'The Franklin Woollen Mlls at Wil
ington, Del., are very busy. The
nyloyes are working overtime to sup
ly the demands for their warps and
Dslery.
--Tito estimated receipts for the pro
ace of the coal, metallic and salt mines
3longing to tihe Prussiani 1 overnment
or the next fiscal year are rather more
ain $12,000,000.
-Mr. George F. Jenner, who was
Ir sOie years an attachu of the British
egation it Washington under Lord
yons hIas been appolited English
onstul-Guierxai to Cuba.
-In Uper Alsace the cold has made
olves and boars issue from their co
rs. Tle former are prowling round
ke villages near Mulhouse and several
ars have been run over by railway
ains.
-Alore tian 20,000,000 of people in
ibit the river system tributary to the
.lsissippi Valley. 'ihe total producet
r this huimse population, which re
tires cheap transportation, is $1,500,
10 annually.
-Ryc straw Is as valuable as the
*'aini ill Pennsylvania int the maluf'ac
ire of paper. With tho Increased
,reage of the season closed (3,500,000
ishels) the yield is not equal to the de
and.
-'The Eniylish Grenadier Guards are
scribed its ordinary-sized young men
iih light hair, blue eyes and very
sy cheeks. They are said to resem
Le young curatcs dressed ip in bob
iled red coats.
--It Is stated in a French paper that
osa Bonheur has bouKit a magniflcent
on from the Zoological Garden at Mar
.llics for 5,000 francs, and Is painting
s portrait in a picture intended for
xt year's 81a1011.
-Not only silk spinners from Mac
esileld, Coventry, and other English
owns have emigrated to Paterson, N.
., lately, but there are large additions
om the French and Swiss silk centres.
ver 1,000 operativeS have been added
i1in tile year Just closing.
-The receit pulbuhlsled - records of
ork Castle, England, formerly a for
ess, but now for a long timle tsedi as a
rison, show that in 1019 Isabella 1B11
ngton, 32, was sentenlced to death for
'Lucifying her mother and otferi'ng a
)ck and1( calf as a burnt sacrlice.
-Th'le lhat factories ini Adamstown,
a., are busier' nowv than they have
een for yea~ts. Woolen goods have
ivanced in price, and four factories
ro kept running day anid nigilt to fill
IC orders oil hand. About 59O opera
>rs are employed in these factories.
--The winter palace at St. Peters
nirg has been recently protccd by a
>ntinuous change of poilcemnen. Upon
te rare occasions wh'len thle Emperor
rives out lie islaIuroundled by a nu
terous escort, aind the 11110 of route ia
eared of' carriages anid horsemen.
-The Carbon Iron Company at Per
rville, Carbon county, Pa., are so
ushed wvith work that they have got
build another foundry, so as to turn
Lit tihe work that is required at shlort
otice. About 500 hlands wvill be em
loyed whlen the foundry is complete.
-Leo XIII has ordered the removal
r the seats and screens of tihe 4ecu
monical Conncil llall In St. Peter's.
'isitors wvill be ablA once more to see
t. Peter's in Its ent ire vastness, for
1e screeninlg off' tile transep,.for the
ouinell HallI detracted much from the
eauty of thme .Basilloa.*
-It is stated that inl the {Jnited
tates on tihe simple ar..lele ot shoe
egs and shoo-peggers thlere are 5761
atents, and there aro 2,000 of these
atents oil machinery. One class of
achines last year sewed, it is estima
id, 45,000,000 pairs of shoes, and ano
ber olass pegged 55,000,000 pairs.
-The production of steel elteeted by
treat Blritain last .year was 807,597 tolns.
nI tihe same year the United States
lade 732,228 tons of steel; Germany
10,000 tons; France, 140',000 tony;,
elgium, 75,000 tons' bweden, 2000
>ns5, and Austria, 2b,000 tone. l'he
ggregate stool producition of the world .'>
ras thus someting over 2,000,000 tons
inst year. *
--A plan has been invented bye men
or of the commissioners to let she ocean "~
ito Wesley Lake,'at Ocean Grbve N. '
,,changing theo water att overystkte if
ccessary. Hie claims the. Wp k will
ot cost mere than $8,000 dc If the.
Ian proves suecebeful, Oan G ove to}
ay one-halt; if the 1la4i :W4ii Esun. i
essful, he will bgar all itigd.;ponse *
--Th'e fitjadelin Pennsyyae
ast opened a yry dul d .
rioes quot ,'a re iWith4
hose or teii. ~a'
on about~eQ~ilaea' ,
aoooieonaas o

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