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YI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., FEBRUARY 15, 1881. VOL. IV.-NO. 17 THREE OLD 8AWS, the world seems cold to you, Indl i fires to warnm it I t their oomfort hide from viow Winters that deform it. earts as frozen as your own To that radanoe gather; ori will soon forget to moan, 'Ah! the cheerless weathorl' Sf the world's a wilderness, Go, build houses in itI ill it help your loneliness On the iinds to (1n it? aiso a hut, however alight; Weeds and bramblea i,mother ' ud to root and weal invite t -omo forlorner brother. f the world's a valo of tearo, Smile. till rainbows span it I reathe the lovo that life endoars, Oar of oeouds to fan it. f your gladntes lend a gleam Unto souls that shiver I how them how dark Borrow's stream Blends with ilopb's brig;ht river. Perfectly Heartless. retty ? Yes, rather, but perfectly rtless I" said Mrs. Holmes to Dr. Stan , a young and talented physician, with om she was conversing at a large and flhant entertainment. "Heartless I with that sensitive mouth, a ,d those eyes so full of expression I" sali Qhe physician, musingly. -I don't adiuire her style of beauty at all. She looks like a wax dol), and tier heartlessness is proverbial. Since her uncle left her so wealthy she hms had suit ors by the score, and flirts with every one. Why, look at her now !" Dr. Stanley's eyes followed in the direce tion in which the lady waved hcr fan, and :ested on the central figure of a group round A the piano. It was a lady, young and fair, with a tall, exceedingly graceful fIgure, pur Greek feituics, and large blue eyes. ,l'lher h'lr was short, but the soft, full curls, made a lovely fraine for a fair face. Her dress was ef a dark lace; and twisted among the golden curls were deep -rnison lowers, wnh dark green leaves, and on the -sIowy threat and arms glittered blood-red rubles. She was converting gaily with a kn"1uot of gentlemen. and Dr. Stanley saun "'tered over to the group. bliss Ma-ston," said one gentleman, "what has become of Harold Graham, the rtist ?" T he tiny band swept over the ivory keys ;,bf the piano In the measure of a illiant ''iualtz; aid another of (he group, suppos ng Miss Marstou did not, hear the question "aid "Out at the .elbows and ca't ap pear." "lie was wretchedly poor," said a "Perhaps he ascommitted suicide. It ."s ti I- weeks since he disappeared," said uo!her. 0, 1 hope not I'' said Miss Marston; "we want his tenor in our next musical soiree. 1 would be too provoking for him to commit suicide I" "bIrs. Holmes was right," thought the dotr, "she perfcctly heartless. Poor flaroid I " Lie turned from the piano, but stopped i a full, rich voice broke out into sung va Marston was singing Shubert's Last recting; and into the mournful words she ured sach wailing energy and deep athe, that group alter group, in the large lms, ceased their gay conversation to lis en to the music. Can she sing so without heart or feel Ing ?1 muttered the doctor, again drawing !eur the plano. -,Eval, i" said a young lady, as the last otes of the song died away- "Eva, play Spolka, won't you ?" SA contemptuous smile quivered for a Znomnent on Eva Marston's lip; then nod intg good naturedly, she dshed off into a ~lvey polka, which melted the group ~ounmd the piano into merry diancers, andi SDr. Stan~ley wvithi the rest. TVhe next morning Miss Marston sat in ~er room, writing a letter. Let ius peep er~ her shouilder, at one sentence: V"All hollow, till heartless, Mariam1 ou bame mec for flirtig; yetu are niot, here to ~e how they follow mie merely for my oney; net one true heart among thenm all. 'here was one-liarold--" A knock at the door interrupted her. *"Comes in I" and a needlewomnan entered *thia basket of work. " 'Good morning," said Eva, pleasantly, owis Terrence thiis mnosnimigt" 'O01 miss, it'a beautilul he is today ~ue, marma. P'm sorry yo've hiud to wait along for tihe needlework." N''!'kever mind that. How could you ~Wrk with tire poor fellow so ill ?" "Sure, miss, it's many one expects their Srk, sick or well; and isun't Jerry sitting the dlay playing with the toys ye slt , an d Pat, that i kept home from school, "How much, Mary ?" said Eva, taking ~ tt her purse. .~"Oh, miss, you don't owe Mary Gennis arden. Ttore's tire dochter ye left the ~iney todcay-and tihe word ye slnt--arnd ao uoncy ye gave rue last week, sure, lss, it'. in your debt I. am for the rest of '.v$.r life." ,'4Whrat I gave Terrence has nothing to ~<4with my bill," said Eva, rapidly count ou;t the mouney. ~ ~~~ Ss Eva," said the poor Irish needle.. ~~ian-andl then stop~ped. W~/~ ell, Mary 't" 4 'Sure, miss, you do so much good with ~~r money, i'm ashamed to tell you-" Telme whart?" J~"?Weli, unrss, it's about a young gentle. that rinteid my room. Ye mind where Swidder died last autumn. Hie camne a 't~k l:aek, miss, and he niver caine down t1rs for threo days; so tis morning I t up, and hre was sick with a fever, out * is head entirely, ines. If yeou would 62e now." hWait, Mary; I'll go with you." H i"e's dreadfully poor, I think, miss ; it's preeious little furnituro-nothting a bed, and a table, andi a chair, arnd no ~tnk at all, not a bit of carpet bag." '~jhrowing off her rich silk wrapper, a put onl a dark grey dress and cloak, added a close silk bonnet and thick "Comne, Mary," and tk-e two left the so together. nm a low, close room, on a pallet bed, Mlary (lennis' lodger. The face, against coarse ticking pillow was such as one cies for that of his favorite poet. The was dark. wavim, one'= brad, white fot'ehead; and the deep set eyes were hazel, large and full ; and the features dlicate. Usually the face was pale, but now it was criiucn with fever. The eyes too, qerce and wild. But, even with all this, the face was beautiful with an almost unearthly beauty. In that poor, low r.)om, Eva, with her soinbre dress and radiant beauty, camo like a pitying angel. She gave one glance at the invalid's face, and then cr(osed in the room to his sidO "Eva," said the sick man; "Eva I" drawing back. But the young manuoaned her name again, and then broke forth in wild delirious ravings. "Mlary.' said Eva, "send Patrick to me. I will flud pencil and paper." Alary left the room and Eva turned to the table to find paper and penell. She wrote two hasty notes. One to her house keeper for pillows and sheets. The other to Dr. Stanley, who did not conjecture who was the friend that sent him so much practice among the poor patients and saw the young physlcian was well paid. hlaving dispat.ched Patrick with the notes, Eva tried to make the desolate room look more homelike. Lifting from the tuble a waistcoat, something dropped froin the pocket to the floor. She picked it up. It was a small miniature case, open; and painted on the ivory was Eva Mlaraton's face. A smile, gentle and pitying, came on her lip. H1e did love me, then-really love me and would not seek me with the herd of fortune hunters and that is the reason I have missed him so long. "Arrah, miss, here is the dochiter I" "Stop him, Alary. I will go in hero. Remember, Mary, you don't know my naime I' and Eva went into another rooni, vacaut, and adjoIning thsat of the invalid's. The door stood ajar,- and Mr. Stanley's first exclamation reaohee. her ears. "Harold I have I found you at last, and in such a place as this? ' 'Eva's eyes ranged over the capabilities of the room In which she stood, and she nodded. "It will do-larger and better than the other, but a poor place at best." 'I he next day when Dr. Stanley called to se his patient, Mary, with a pardonable pride, ushered him into the room that had been vacuint before. A soft carpet was on the ficor, and a tire In the grate. Soft niublin curtains, snowy white. draped the window. The bcd could scarcely be recog nized, with its pure white pillows, count erpane and slice a. A little table stood be side the bed, wit h the medicines t he doctor had ordered', and a decanter of cooling drink. "The lady, yo mind I told you of, that sint ye to Terry," said Mary. "Wo ar ranged the roon yesterday, and my good man and I moved him in today, so she'll find him hero when she comes. It's asleep he's been for better than four hours, sir." Two hours later Harold was asleep, but then lie opened his eyes. The cold, cheet less room was changed, as if by enchant ment; and (Harold thought he was dream ing) an angel face bent over him, with pitying eyes, and a tender smile, tender as a mother's over her child. "Eva I" he whispered, "ol, that I could (ie in such a dream, and never wake to the bitter, hopeless love I Let me die now I" Wis it a dream, that sweet, low voice answering him? "11Harold, you will not die I-you will live for me I Your genius shall be recog niried, your pictures sought. No nrre struggling for life, but only for fame!" And the tears fell as she spoke. Dr. Btanley stood in the Joorway, re cognized the ball room bello, and the ob ject of his friend's long, silent hopeless, love. Softly he glided down the stairs, for lie knew that a better medicine thamn Ie could p~rescribe was within the patient's grasp. And the world saidl, 'Junst thinik of Eva Marston, iich, and suich a belle, mariyint ilarold GIriham, the artist, who was as poor ais a church mouse I'' An La. ca~r. cati.. Prof. Maynard of Cmeiniinatl, it is al egedI, owns the most powerful electric Uat ery' in the world. lIe is also the fortunato prop~rtetor of a black tonm cat, unrivaled throughout the United States for beauty, size and intelligence. A few (days since, so the story goes, these two belongings of the learned professor, enci unique of its kind, camne by chance into contact, In such sort, that thme cat became the recipient of a stream of electric fluid, estinated at one thousantd horse-power. Fiorthwithi his hair stood erect, emitting a brilliant coruscation of sptarks. A series of heartrendering squalls, however, calling Ithe professor's attention to his favorite's perplexing situa tion, ho proniptly disconnected the cat fronm the battery; but to hIs stirprise, fouiid that it remained luminous, having taken into the system such a tremendous (loes ok electricity fluid that it had became a per mnanent generator of electricity, giving out. a light equal to that of eight hundred wax candies Th'is it has (omiinuled to do, andl it is nowy the terror of its feline colleaguesI as it perambulates the tiles by night blazing hiue a comet, but with insufferable radi ance. It appears that Prof. Maynard, d. eply imnpressedi by thle importance of has accidental discovery, has taken out a pa tent for lighting stree's and public build ings by means of luminous cats, and that a complany 15 bteimg formed, wIth a capital of $10,000,000O, for the purpose of intro ducIng the "FJellng Electric luin~ator'' to all the countries of the universe. A single radiant cat, suspended chandelier wise freim the ceiling of a theatre, would omit more light thiaii a hundred gas jets, or, enclosed whihini an ordinary street lamp would turn night into (lay for Eome five hmandred yards fronm it a crystal place of continemtent. It would be a proud day for cieuce when electric eats shall revolut on ao all the lightumg systems of creation. A scaract. Uimmtorm,. It has been found while firing at a run ning mian target, scarlet on one side and grey on the othier, tbat the imcarlot dazzica the eye, and is hience the most difficult to hit, trom leaving a iced atreak behind It, ha its adivance, which unsettlea the aim. 'The grey sidle was struck seventy-four times, and the red only forty-two tinos. It is a curious fact, too, it seems, that those with grey eyes lilt fairer than those with eyes of any other color. 11 we could see others as we see ouir s'ives,there would be more goad-took lne people in the world. A few evenings since an English gentle man, with all the beauties of his native "h" and "o" on the end of his tongue, and the writer stopped in at Mr. Ello's store, and called for a cigar each. Now, Mr. Ello is a Sicilian, and almost everybody knowing limii here believes his name to hn "Ilello," its did we before then. So says we, jokingly, as we entered: "liello, Air. Hello; they say you're a telephone. low is that?" "N-n--no siree; my name is not Tolly phone nor Iello, either, my friend ;" he replied. "Mostee every body they call me 'lello' when my name is 'Ella.' "Oh, yes; I see 'ow it hb," Joined in our English friend ; the haitch Is left hoff and the name is spelled siniply le--o, MIlo." "No, no, no; no-'Hello;' It Is alceo tinie 'Helo.' Don't I say it is'Ello?" "That's what I say; the haitch Is left hoff, which makes it 'Hello' instead of Elio.' " "No: no, no, no! You gitee do wrong cart before (Ie horse every time. My namio is 'Elio,' not. 'Hello.' " And the old iman got wi atby and said curse words. "Pardon me, my friend ; I don't wish to aggravate you ; but you don't seem to un dersta nd mne. I say that people pronounce yourWme as it it had a 'haitch' at the front iend instead of a 'lie,' thus making your name sound 'Ello' Instead of 'Hello." "'Thai-a-at's right; you got him right now. You the first man that got hint right. I treat you to a cigar. rake another," of. fering the man the box. "Y vP," said the lat ter, as he coo'y picked out a cigar, "I caught the gorrect pronun ciation of your name as soon as you ex plained the fact that it was spelled without it liatch. It must be very perplexing to be called 'Ello' when yaur name is 'lello.' " Here the old man spun out a string of prayer w ords about a foot in length, walked hastily to the tear room aud told his wife to go out and 'tend the store, while our kind English friend withdrew, wondering out loud "What the matter with the hold fellow, hany'ow ?' His wVife %%te Ahead. Some lew yearsoeince, in the country of Penobscot, there lived a man by the name of fl-, whose greatest pleasure was in tormnoting others. His own family were generally the butt of his sport. One cold and blustering night he rothed to bed at an early hpur, le wife being absent at a neighbor's. Some time alter, ste, on re turning, Iluding the door closed, demanded admittance. "Who are you'?" cried Mr. f- . "You know who I am ; let we in, it's very gold." "Begone, you strolling vagabond. I want nothing of you here." "But I must conic Iu. "What Is your name ?" "You know my name ; it is Mrs. "Begonel Mirs. -11--1s a very likely woman ; she nc ver keeps such late hours as ~his." Airs. fl-replied: "If you don't let me'i in I will drown my self in the well." "Do, if you please," he rephed. She then took a log and plunged it into the well and returned to the side of the door. Mr. H--, hearing the noise, rushied from the house to save, as lie sup posed, his drowning wife. She at the sane time slipped in and closed the door after her. Air. ii-, almost naked, in turn dienanded admittance. "Vito ate you?'" she demanded. "You know wno I an. Let me in, orf I shall freeze." "Ilegone, you thievish rogue! I want nothling of you here." ''Hut I must conic in." "WVhat is your name?" "You knowt my name ; it is Mr. "Mir. H- Is a very likely mimn; lie don't keep such late hours." Bufile it to say she, after keeping him n the cold until she was satistied, opened he doer and let him in. 5-onk,. the Big 8t. Hternard. Monk, said 10 be the largest .and mostI valuable St. Bernard dog In the country, (lied in New York recently of heinnnor rhage of the lungs. He was owned by D. P. Foster 291 Bouth Fifth avenue. "I brotught Monk," said1 Mr. Foster, "from the monasiry of St. Gothard, in switzer land, last August. lie cost ime $5,00, butI I have refused $800 for him, and I valued him at $1,000. lie was with mc night and day while I owned him. He weighed abont 170L pounds, stood thirty-six Inches from the shoulder to the ground,and mecas ured( six feet nine inches from his nose to the tip of his tail, IIe wvas two years 01(1, of a tawny hon color, with large, lustrous kindly hazel eycs, a heavy drooping jaw, and huge Overlapping uipper lips. his frame wvas massive, and his face beamed with intelligence. When reared up ont his hind feet he looked eno'rmnous and fierce, yet, he hand such a gentle and kindly nature that children delhghted to play with him, and heo with thema. Every (lay I took hunt out into WVashiington Squiaru f r his airing, and lie was a great lavorite withi Ite nurses ando children, and would poke his nose io every baby carriage that camee necar. He wais a pmett, rough,-coated St. 13cr naod. Ilia father ando mother are yet em layed by the Monks of St. Gothard in huntIng the mountain passes In search of unfortuinato travelers. Thiey are named J ungfrs'u anid iuj, and they distInguished themuelves in 1871i by saving the lives of severat of a large party of .monks, guides and tinvelers who were biled in -an avalat'ehe. The breed has been kepi, dip imei, by dtistribution atmong the gentry hn the surrounding valleys, so that wheneve~r tne avalanche has buried an unusual zn ber, the stock has been relelnished. Th'lere are bioth rotugh and smooth-coated Si. lier nards, similar in all chaoracteristies excpt the hair. The prevailing colors are t awny end brindle. Th'ie dogs that are marked with a white line about the neck aind up the face are prized most, as their marks resemiblo the b:adge o1 the mtonks' order. Although Monk was only a year and a half old1, lie had been enlgaged in the work of saving traveler, and know nmany of the mountaIn paths. "lie was a dog of exemplary behavior," Mr. Foster continued. "No man could enter the house at night without his per mission, and none could go cut unless I was 'there to give my consent. He. was ihmilent. would fetch andi narry, shakm hands, lie down for the children a play with him, and give his old mountain howl of distress if he wanted help. lie would not go o it in the atreutuniiccoipanie(l, and then only after his toilet had been properly nade-ais face washed and his hair combed. lie understood Ebnple con wainds in three langiages-Latin, French and English. Ii there was a noise at the front door he would be the first ther-.. If the bell rang in the night he would come and wake me up by scratching at the door. ils first mate was luti, formerly the property of the Duchess of Oldenburg. Mlonk had one peculiarity; he did not like soldiers, and when he met oue he would step ba-, k and crouch as if ready for a spring. The reason of it was that he had been struck when young by a soldier. He always seened to rentember that blow, the monk said, and I found it true. "I have ownedother famous dogs," said Air. Foster, "but none like him. One was Lion, which took the first prize atbong tenity-threo 8t. Bernard dogs at the Gil nioro's Garden InternationalbShow in 1877. Another was Turk, which took the first prize in Philadelphla in 1870. Turk Is still living and in good health, and is the only dog in this country, I believe, with the famous white ring or collar about his ucck. Monk was fond of swimming, and would fetch and carry from the water. He would pick up a child by the clothing and be careful not to inflict the slightest injury. l'he climuatedid not agree with him. A short time ago he seemed to be better but tie had taken a bad cold, which he could not get rid of. We had three doctors to ittend him, and nursed him and dosed Aim as we would a sick child. Mrs. Fos. er was his special fricud and nurse. On Sunday about 2 A. M., when we retired, lie eeied to be unusually deinonstrative and difectionate. At about 5 A. M. Mis. Foi er was awakened by Monk's restlessness. L am satislied that he knew he was about .o (lie anid wanted us to be with him. We luried his body at my father's old home itead in New Jersey, but we have saved ils skin and head, and will have it nount !d. Ills picture has been painted life size, or he was a dog whose equal will not soon >c seen again in this country." All ExcituM Adventure. We were sailing down the Neckar on a aft. The sky became overcast, and the ,aptain came aft looking uneasy. lie cast iis eye aloft, then shook his head, and laid it was conming on to blow. My party vanted to land. I wanted to go on. The 'aptain said we ought to shorten sail, any vay, out of -common prudence. Couse Luently, the larboard watch was ordered o lay in his pole. It grew quite dark, iow, and the wind began to rise. It valied through the swaying branches of he trees, and swept our decks in fitful ;usta. Things were taking on an ugly look. [he Captain shouted to the steersman on lie forward log, "llow's she heading?" The answer came faint and hoarse froni ar forward. "Nor'-east.and-by-nor'-east ly cast, half east sir." "Let her go oli a point i" 'Aye, aye, sir n'' "What wate; have you got?" "Shoal, sir. Two foot large on the tarboard, two and a half scaut on the lar oard ' "Let her go off another point I" "Aye, aye, sir I" "Forward, men, all of youI Lively, Lw I Stand by to crowd her round the cather corner I" "Aye, aye, sir?" Then followed a wild running, tramp ing and hoarse shouting; but the foras of he in wene soon lost in the darkness, ind the sounds were distorted, and con. used by the roaring of the wind through lie shingle bundles. 'By this time the sea vas running inches high, and threatened very monient to engulf the frail bark. Sow came the mate hurrying aft, and said, hlaxi to the captain's ear, in a low agitated "Pizepare for the worst, sir; we have prung a le'ak I" "iieavera! where?" "'iighat aft the secoiid row of logs..'' "Nothmig but a miraele cani save us I )on't let the mn knowv, or lere will be panic iind miutiy I Lay her inshore and tand by to jump with the stern hine the nioment she touches. Gentlemuen, I must ook to you to sceondl my endeavors in this iour of peril. You have hats-go forward ,nd bail for your lives '' Down swept another mighty blast of rinds, clothed in spray and~ tilck dlarkness. L.t such a amoment. as this, came from away orwardl that most ap~pinig of all cries hat are ever heard at sea, "'Man ever aoard ?" Tlhe caiptuan shouted, "'lard a port. 4ever mind the miani I Let him cimb ,boardi or wade ashore I" "Another cry came down the wind, 'Breakers aheadi I" "Where away 1" "Not a leg's length off her port fore oot." We had groped our slippery way for rard, and were now balinag with thme en rgy of despair, when we heard the mate's urrified cry from far afa.: "Stop that dashed bailing, or we shall ec aground. " But this was immediately followed by hie glad shout:. "Land aboard the starboard transom I" ''Saved I" cried the captain. "Jump sehore aind take a turn around a tree andi was thie.bighit ab)oard I" Theli next moment we were a!! on shore, veeping and embbracing icr joy, while the aa ipoured down in torrents. The cap. ain taid hie had been a mariner for forty rears on the Neckar, and in that time had eien storms to make a mamn' check blanch md1( his puise stop), but ho had never, never cea a stormi that even ap~proached1 this mae. A well-*known milhtary gentleman living mn Washington street, liartford, Conn., Nais conisidlerably frighitenone 031iaght last Areek by the apphearance of a mian carrying i lantlern, who walked into lis bedroom. I'he gentleman sprang from his bed, and :lemaumnden of the intruder what lie wanted. "I want you," was the rep)ly, "to be more mareful In closing your windows. I walked in through a bay window down stairs, and knmve been in nearly ievery room in the house in search of somnebody to lock theo window p~rop~emly after me when 1 go out." The intruder was a polhceman who had found the window open. The military man promised to be more careful In the future, ad begged of the officer not to speak o1 the affair, as It would certainly get into the papers, and that he wouldn't have It pub. imed imt aneything A Base Imipostor A farner from the vicinity of lieip stead sppeared in front of the Stock Ex. change, New York, and entered into con versation with a citizen who was waiting in the door by asking: "rh convention in there breaks up at three o'clock, don't It " "Yes, that's the hour," was the reply. "Do you know Jay Gould when you se hint m" "Oh, yes." "Is he in there ?" "I preimnm so." "Well, I wish you'd point h1itu out to me0 when he comes out. The citizen pronised to do this. and within a few minutes Ie kept his word. The farmer took a square look at the ral t road and telegraph prince, and then turned and asked: "Are you dead sure ?" "Oh, yes." "Can't be no mistake ?" "No." "Well, it's about as I suspected. A few days ago a great big slouch of a fellw halted at my gato and began meastunng my ground with a tape-line, and equining around in the most tnysterious nianner. I went out to see what was up. and, after beating around for awhile, he said lie was Jay Glould, but I didn't know what ho looked like." "It must have been a fraud ?" "I an sure of that now. I pumped 0 around to find what he was up to, and Ie finally said he wanted my place for an orphan asylum. lie was going to build one as big as a palace and take care of all the orphans in thu country." t "And of course you treated hhn well?" t "Didn't I1 Why, for three days lie lived ( on the fat of the land and Wlept in the par lor bedrooni. lie was gcing to give me $25,000 for iuy land. and the way we kill ed ci ickens and turned out s eet cake for him made the old woman sick. flintally junped the house and took my Sunday suit and fiddle worth $8." "I don't believe Gould would steal a fiddle." "That's what I thought, and so I came over to have a look at him. It wasn't b Gould at all, but some base impostor." "And you are so much out." "Well, it looks that way; but the exper lence is worth something. It may not be d a week before some one else will came along with a ten-foot pole in h1s haud andit theological seminary in his eye, and claim a to be a tussell Sage, and the way I will knock him down, and step on him, and walk over him, and drive him into the sile will pay me a profit of fifty per cent. on q the investment. WAnted a Ciange. cl A New York firm dealing in pictures, mottoes, etc., was visited last fall by a U small dealer from a village over in Jersey, and the man was greatly struck with the r, motto: "God Bless Our Home." 3' "Now. that's ionLethlug original and " unique," lie said, as lie held one at aIii's it length. "Down inour town we just hanker I after original designs, and unique litera- ' ture, and I believe I can sell a hundred (1 of these. You may make my order an P even hundred." ie went away well pleased, ant his a goods were duly shipped, and nothing tl further was heard from ilm until the other day. Then lie entered the store to nake E soie new purchases, and lie was asked to look at a new style ('It ottoes just out. t "I hain't no more interest in mottoos," lie sighed, as Ie glai ce I at "What is home t( without a niother?" p "You remecmiber I bought a hundred of w you last fall I" "Yes; and how (lid they sell ?" "Well, everybody seemed to hanker af- 11 ter 'em, and they went o f like hot-cakes. I e sold1 the whlole lot out iu two weeks, and~ 4 ini less than a month there were three ei siander suits, tw~o applications for divorce, and a dlozen assault and battery cases in the P courts." I "But you doen't lay it to the mottoes, do s' 3'Oui i'' "Well, I (dunno. I've lived in Jeraey tweuty- seven years, and been in this busi. ness over twenty years, and I think a dol- P bar chromno, showing a pretty fair lill, a a glorious sunset, and a decenit sort of ponad wvith a duck in It, hits our case a little hi b~etter than anything else. P'ye got to get ci somiething for a change, and if you haven't ru anything good in refined scenery I guess I'll 8, try 'emi on Wainiigtoin crossing the lDel. awvare andi a few D~aniels in the 140n 's DenL" ti repOi Lieo. A recent visitor to Rtome wrItes, "at fi last all the o:hers were gone, and we knelt C at, the feet of the Pope while a miona~lgnore al in violet silk leaned over and read lhim our al names. I was surprised at tho genIal cx.. a pression of his face, the kindliness of his a: keen black eyes, so poorly portrayed in lis al phiotograp~hs. Ills robe was of white cash- F muore, a gold chain hung arouind his iieck, cl andi on his head was a white skull cap, al fringed with bis silvery hair. bi Ills feet in their criamson slippers rested ii upon a cushion, and people kissed the gold cross that was embroidered upon them, Hie I] sat in an arm chair, upon which was (i thrown a scarh~t cloth, and an attendant in V' the back ground~ waited with his white tl matntlo and crimson velvet hat cordecd with wu gold. Th'Ie miarchesa held his hand and hi spoke with him for several miiinutes, and( ft then he turned andi exteiided it to me, andi I kissed the large amethyst of his ring, and looked up into his kindly eyes. Th'le iaarchiesa having repeated that I was an American, andl that, I desired His b blesslig for myself and all the famrily, lie ii 1,aid Is band upon my hoad, and, turnliig i to her, satid : "An American, and how t then did youi come to kiiow her 1" '"11o1y tt !'ather, she lives in my house," was the dI reply. "She Is good," added his Holiness, h with a merry smnile in hit eyes, and I, not, wishing to rest under false pretenses, said1: t "lecatissitno Padre sono Protestana," tl whereupon he made a little wry face, t latughed, shook lisa head at mne, andl laid lis hand in blessing upon nmy head a second time. I took courage, rised tho rosaries, and a ho covered them with his hand. Then ho I went away, and 1 saw him heave a tigh ofh weariness. It must Indeed be very fatigu- hi lug to see so many people. I have been in formed since that 200 persons were pre sented that day, and P'ope Leo Is far from strong. Hie has recently been ill and his a voice trembles from weakness, ble hands are unsteady, and altogether his extreme 0 Leableneas is apnaront to every ona.n 2 Ilriawls In Congresa. Oin the 29th of January, 183b an at emnpt was made to assasinate General luckson on the portico of the Capitol, at funeral ceremony, by Richard Lawrence, L painter by trade, and resident ot Wash ngton. lie exploded two Caps on the >iHtols in the attempt. The pistols were Sterwards fotnad to be weil loaded, and lackson's ccapo was considered iniracu mis. The would-be assassin was knocked lowni and taken hnto custody. Gen. Jack on always beliuved that this act was per Ietrated at the instigation of sonic of the riends of the Bank. Prior to this, in 1883, Gen. Jackson waq asaulted while sitting down reading a Itiwspaper on the boat at Alexandria, but he friends of the assailant succeeded is getting him out of the way in good mie. It was in these days that Henry A.Wise inde an ugly face at speaker Polk on tile treet and spat ait him11. In February, 1838, Mr. Chley of Maine harged in his speech In the House that atmes Watson Webb. editor of tlii New ork Courier and Enquircr, had recelv i i bribe of $62.000 from the Bank of the Inited States. Graves of Kentucky took ) Webb's quarrel. and hlenry A. Wise ore his challenge to Cilley. General eorge W. Jones was Cilley's second. ladeinsburg was; the place and tile wea). as were rifles. The rifles rang out. andI oth missed. The challenare was with rawn to give opportiuity for reconcilia on. The attempt failed and the princi als again took position, Wise remarking int if the matter wais not terminated by us shot lie would propose to shorten the istance. The rifles rang again and Cilley .11 dead. Henry A Wise, tihe Ajax in these sceles, rt.ck Stanley, froim North Urolina, a ow at the race course. Staitmoy demand 1 thlie usual satistac tion. The (eall1d ,as withdrawn for explanation. W ise rjplalled that "1 understanding Stanley ine in collision with hit unintentionally ear the raec course, he deemed it to be is duty, as a gentlemen, to say that the low, inflicted boy him (n Stanley through sudden impuise produced by erroneous ipressions, d-manded his profound re ret." Stanle. 's friends told him lie was 411(d to ICCept the explanation, which h.e id. In 1812, Joshua 1t Giddings of Ohio, ter having been expelled from the House or aan expression of lis views on tUe sub et of savery, wits promptly returned to 9 seat by his conistuents. In a subse. lent specel Ie said : "I will not speak ' the tile wIhei Diwsoni Of Lomsi1181tna, rew a bowie-knife cr miy assinslation. was afterward speaking with regard to a ititin tranisaetion in which negroes were mcerned in Georgia, whi en Mr. Black of coigia, raising his bludgeon, aind stand ig in front of amy seat, siid to ile, 'If you peit that language again, I will knock >u down.' It was a solena moment for 0. I a.i ,,.r i..j, .m 4... "Od jow,, id having somte curiosity oin the subject, repeated tihe lanagie. Then Mr. Daw iln of Louli.ianit, the samei one who had -awn tie howie.knife, put his hand on8 his ,eket. and sait, iithi an oath wich I ill not repent, that lie would shoot iie, the Saine tilie cocktiig the pistol, so at all around ile c, luli hear the cliek. " It wias in April, 18-50, vlaen the coil omlise ieasures were undeiir daseuission, at the scene between Foo:e and BIenton ok place in he Senate. Footo was mak g a speecl and making allusion to Ben a. Benton rose liaitily fr-na his seat, ishing his ichair vio lently from him, iad ithout remark or gesitare moved tip the sie tOWarId Foote, N no1 Was. aboult twentlyI et, distant. Benton had no weapon lln a hand or upon his person. Foote, per iving Benton's novemnent, advanced to I et him drawing and cocking a live. ad order was restoredl. Benton said a stol had been brought to assaissinaate hhn. note replied lhe hadi~ only bro ughit it for lf.dcfensae. Helnton replied that was al ays the pretext o.f ani alsasin~i. In 1854d, Chaurchiwell aii~ Cullumi had( teir "'set-to'' In the I louse. Church well roiIunced laingage u~sedi by Culhuim ini imiously flseJ. (huliumi, wh'o sat, about [teen feet fromi Cliuirchwell, sprang fronm is seat with both fists upiriased, and1( ex adiminig, "'(-d1 d-in you, youi d---n tacal," triedi to "'get at'" hlim. Cullumn tid CIhurchwehl ldrew a pistol on him. The peatker poundi~ed; the Sergeant-at'-Armas I unfedi and~-hield up his mace l lBut lti suWCLcee 1as it aliwatys does-after au mle. It was the 22d of May, 1856, that P'res mn 8. Blrooks, a membnler of the llouse em South Carolina, camie inito tile Senate I hiambher and~ knlocked do'wn1 and heat Sen-. or Sumner, from Mascutchlusett. Brooks terwardls chalhlengedl Sentator llenry Wil- a in, who waIs opposed to the code. lie 1 so chalIlngedi Burli ngaame, whlo accepted, 1(d nanmed the Canada sidle at Niagara 4 tills, andi proceeded there. Brooks d~e inied to meet Burlingamo at that polnt, leging that the place of meeting had eni expressly na~imd because it would beJ plosilhe fcr himu to be present. In the same year a see occured in the I ouse between Mr. Sherman of 01h14 tow Secretrary Sherman), and Mr. frighit of T1ennecssez. Sherman tried to row a hiaadflhtof wafers in Wright's face, hen Wright, made aan attemptli to strike I mn. Contusion aand Ceitemient prevaiilAd r at ioineint, hilt wasR soon allayed. A MnT lauaitto&. All Armenians have the same strong, avy build, the same thick, beetle eye -ows, the same full, aquiline nose, sprinig g diretty, and wvathot, tho initervetin anly appreciab~le depresisioni fromi tinder ae forehead; the same dairk,hiisterless eye, te same mass18 of clothes on1 clothes, all ingy andl baggy, thec 8samo large brown :1nd(, and written in chcl curvedl finger. p, in every line of the capacious paln, to same: "'It is more blessed to receive man to give." A race more retentive thani ac Je .'e themselves of t heir natilonailty; ore retentive of their money, to'), and ore acqtmsitivo. "Shut tip all the Jews id all the Armemans of the world to .ther In one exchange," 0old RIthscild Is ipotted to hatve sa~id, "'andi withinm half an ciar the total wealth of the former will (ye passsed muto the hands of the latter." Ic believe it. -Murphy inUUee.i oue peopio to gn tie temperance pledge in htidlana. -Datbuque's school eenIsus shiows 4761 ohiadron between tho ages G and FOOD FOR THOUGHT. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength Is small. When reason I# against a mana man will be against reason. It pays better not to do a wrong than to do it and then repent. We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions. Bash fulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. All philosophy lies in two words "sustiadn" and "abstain." The scales of justlee are for the weight of the transgressor. The higher up the mountain you climb tue higher you can see. Sickness may be waiting you because you are not active while in health. Characters never change; opinions alter, characters are only developed. For blessedness, commeuil me to in. dustry and divorce tue from idleness. The best armor against tempzatiou Is to ke'ip out of the range of its guns. You may be brottght to poverly be eause you do not make a right uss of riehes If you propose to serve God at all, invo the manliness to begin li ser vice now. Strength of mind depends upon so riety, for this keeps reason unclouded )y passion. The necessIties that exist are in gen. 3ril created by the superluities th4t ire enjoyed. When a young man has learned to valt, he has mastered one of the hard .s, lessons in life. llumnI things must be known to be oved, batt divine things need to be oved to be known. Unhappy is the man for whom his )wn mother has not m.ide all other not I ro vener 0b e. No iiitulgence of passion destroys he spiritual nature so muaih as res to 'table sellishness. ilumnau lile delined by a line i1 as iiomnfortable as would be the hutant lglire defined by a wire. I a man desires many thlgs lie is xaltol by hopo, but if he fears many hiogs he becomesa knave. Pleasure, like quicksilver, Is bright Lnld shy. If we strive to grasp I still t eludes un and still glitters. Ono of the greatest wonders In this vorld is, what becomes of all the smart iildren when they grow up. Every man, coming to An obscure lid age, thinks lie would have achoieved venilui and distinction if--, Tlie proper way of increasing the ove we boar our native country is to *oside soen time in a foreign one. It takes one less time to got over me 0's own misfortune than to be ro omcelled to a neighbor's goad forL.. In thn Amint nieit- QC%&i, &UUL lAic ve should laden our hearts with kind less tauu good will, for use during the alty. If you would be known and not n1ow, Vegetitlo in a VIllage; if you vouild know and not be knowa, live In city. Lnt young men be pitient in their Voolng, for a idtlaen's love may be Old onl her 1ips, yet warin in heor Loart. There is a great deal of unna>ped Ounitry w 1hIn us whioh would have o be taken into ace >ut in an expla ation ofoir gusts and storms. Hem who bears failure with patience P as umuoh of a philosopher as he who uceoeds; for to put up with the world ieds as much wisdom as to control L Keep the head cool by the temper .nce In ail things, alid the feet wa rm my actal oxcerulse in tile discharge >I impojirtantg diuties--,eeds of kind it ia only impe-.fcctioni that comnp aimis of' what is imperfect. Tihe mo1010 >ci fooct we ate, the miore genale and tuit we becomje towards the dlefects of 1If you have a friend who loves youl. vho htas stuc aed your Interest and hap ,inoisa, dielet~ded you whlen prosecuted sud aroubled, be sure to sustain him ini .dversmty. There ia no action so slight, nor so tnean, but it many be (dono to a great mri)ose-and oibled therefore,; nor is niy purpose so great but that slight .1.ns1 may help it It is not worth while to think too nuL'h about being good. Doing thle must we know, minute by :minuto hour my hour, we Insensibly grow au gooJ ess as fruit gro ws to ripeness. Firmness of purp~ose Is one of the~ no0s1Inecessaary sinewes of chlaracter, uid onie of tile best instruments ou' ucess. Without it geniuis wastes lts 'horts in a maze o1 lnconsistencies. Men of high or mean birth may be >oasessed of good qualities; but failing alto bad company they become vicious. byvers flow with sweet waters; but Il aig joined the ocean they become imndrinkable. Whelther perfeot happiness would be >rocuirel by pereces goodness this orld wial never afford an opportunity ml decidinlg. But tis, at least, may be natuftaied, that we do notaLwayS AiL risible -virtue. Th'lce is noe part of a plant wailh nay no0t becomie a ton Jril. Th'er1 is io part of the character Whlieh may lob, by excess or weakness, lose Its in lepuedece and boome a burddn or a nlaret to the rest. L~vo 0on0 human being purely and *vaiy anld you will love all. Tau acart ini 1h1s heaven, like the wander ng~ sunl, sees nothling, fromi the dew lrop) to the ocean, bue a mirror Which I warmis anu ails.. Thlere is so nmuch mallee In the heart. >f most menl, that they are chiefly Jeal ms1 01' the praise thlat can give the rteatost pleasure, and are theIr most iberal of Oulogauni when it can noc onger be enjoyeod. Thil aim o1 education should be rath rn to teach1 us how to think thlan What' .0 11h11k-rather to improye our minds o as to enable us to thank for our mlves, than to load the memory WithI hie thoughts of other men, N(ot only is kindness due to every >ne, but a spoolal kindness is due to ivery 0on0. Kindness Ia not kindness imiess it be special. 1t is la its fitness seasonableness and Individual applieaq Lion that its charm oousiste,