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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MAY 19, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. THE ERRING. Think gently of the erring I Yo know not of the power With which the dark temptation came. In somo unguarded hour, Yo may not know how earnestly t TIhoy struggled, or how well, Until tbe hour of weakness came, And sadly thus they foll. Deal gently with the erring! Oh, do not thou forget, However darkly stained by slu, He is thy brtthor yc t. HeIr of the solf-same heritage I Child of the self-same God I Hle hath but stumbled in the path, Thou hast in weakness trod. Speak gently to tho erring I For is it not enough That Innoceneo and peaco havo gone, Without thy consuro rough ? It suro must be a weary lot That sin-orushod heart to bear, And they who share a happier fate Their chidings well may spare. 8peak gently to the erring I Thou yet may'st win them back, With holy words and tones of love, From mieory's thorny track. Forgot not thou hast often sinned, And sinful yet must be Deal gently with the erring one, As God has dealt with thoo! Miss LaWson' Mlt . 'Clark, there's been a robbery at 84 0-, street,' said my chief, one morning June, 1872, as I entered the office. "I want you to go there and see about it at 1 once. There's a reward of $1000 offered.' Of course I lost time in starting for 84 G - . street, whIch I found to be an un pretentious.looking little cottage, standing in the midst of quite a large and unculti vated garden. I was shown into the par lor, and a minute later was joined by a short, stout, elderly lady, who Introduced herself as follows: 'Mr. Clarke, the detective, I presume. I am Miss Harriet Lawson, the owner of the house, and the person who sent for you. Suppose we proceed to business at once., I signified that such was my desire, and the old lady proceeded in her abrupt man ner: 'Of course you want to know all I can tell you about the robbery. Well, it is not much that I know-it's all a mystery to me. Yesterday afternoon I drew the sum of six thousand dollars from the savings bank. I locked it up iii my safe, and when I went to get it this morning, for the pur pose of paying a note which fell due to.day, it was gone. That's all I know about it.' 'What sort of a safe have you got?' I asked. 'You can see for yourself,' replied the lady. 'Step this way.' I followed her to an apartment on the I floor above. 'That is my room,' she said, as she oponened the door, 'and there is my safe in the corner.' 'It has a patent combination lock,' I said, 'and bears no marks of violence.' 'Just so,' interposed Miss Lawson, 'and that's what puzzles me. Last uight I set the lock at a new combination, and I slept is that bed, right in sight of these all all night, with the key under my pillow. 1 am a very light sleeper, and I don't see how any one could have possibly removed the key and opened the safe without wakening me.' .'id any one beside yourself know the combination V' 'No; but-well, I hate to confess I was such a fool-but the truta is, I was afraid I might, forget the combination, and so 1 wrote it on a slip of paper, which I put in my top) bureau drawer.' 'Unfortunate. Well, Miss Lawson,who lives in .the house besides yourself ?' I The old lady looked me steadily in the '.Nobody in the house took the money. 'htis no nanswer to my question, 'Mr. Clark,' saidl the 01ld lady, ''but two persons besides myself slept in the house last niight. 'Ihey are my servant, Bar bara, aad my companion, Miss Alice T rafton. Neither of thienm knows anything of the matter.' '8till I would like to examlne both,' 1 peisisted. 'I will not allow It I' exelainedl the old lady, angrily. 'Barbara Iheath is an old, trusted servant, whom I have had for manny years, and Alice Trraflon Is the dla'.igliuer of a dear, deceased friend, has been my comp~anion for two years past, and wvili be my heiress. 'They are bo0th above suspicion. I wviil not pernnt you to ques tineither of them.' 'Then, madame, I throw up the case. I will bid you good morning.' Stop!l' she cried, as 1 was leaving the room, 'what do you meani' '1 '1 must conduct the case in my own way, or not at all.' Miss Lawson reflected. 'I suppose you must have your way,' she said, 'but (10 not lot either of them think they are suspected for a moment. If you will step down to the parlor I will call thoem.' 'Two minutes later Miss Alice Trafton and the servant, iarbara, stood in my pro sence. The former was without exception the imost beautiful girl I had ever seen-a blonde, with a wealth of shining, golden hair', and a pair of glorious blue cyes that sent an electric thrill through my frame as Ilooked into thienm, .11cr companien was tail angular, mIddle-aged woman, who ared at mec with manifest displeasure. cou I f',rst questioned the servant, who an ku swered my inquires with great proniptness. She heardl no noise (luring the night, and p know n~Jhing of time affair except what c Miss La~son told her that, mornmng. This was her (esthnony, after hearing which I dismissed her, and turned my attention to Miss Trafton, who semed to be laboring undler great embarrassment. The color \came and wvent on her beautiful face us I '%&estioned her, and several times she imned on thme point of bursting Into tears. 1sentiy I asked her: 'ou were In the house all night, wore e 'iot, Miss TIrafton t' 'er a moment'. hesitation, shean wered in an almost inaudible tone of '01ce : '1 was not, sir ' 'Why, Alice, exclaimed Sliss Lawson, tarting to her feet, what do you mean ?' '1 will not attempt to deceive you,' said he young girl: 'I was absent from the iouse between the hours of ten and twelve 'clock.' 'After I supposed you were abed and .eep I myself I' exclaimed the old lady. Where were you?' 'That,' said Miss Traf ton, 'I cannot toll ,ou, aunt.' 'Cannot tell me ' gasped Miss Lawson. 'And you willnot tell me I' I asked. No, sir:' was the gentle but firm re Ily. 'That will do, Miss Trafton,' 1 said 'You may go.' When she was gone, I turned to Miss vawson and asked: 'Was Miss Trafton aware of that mom trandum in your bureau drawer ' 'Yes, sir, she was,' replied the old lady; but do not, I beg of you, think of suspect ug her. 15he Is incapable of such a crime. ,est assured she has some good reason for efusing to tell me where she was last night -some reason which she will divulge to no when we are alone.I I made no reply, but as I arose to take ny leave I said: '1 will commence work at once, and vill communicate with you immediately vhen I succeed In making any discovery.' *No matter what your suspicious may )e, promise me that you will not let hilis 'rafton know them until you are abso. utely certain of her guilt,' pleaded Miss -awson. 'She shall suspect nothing if I can help t,' I said. All that day, while I was at work on he case, MIss Trafton's beautiful face kaunted me. Do what I would, I could tot drive the thought of her from my mind. ,n all my life I had never seen a woman to Yhom I felt so strongly attracted. But I csolutely steeled my heart against the of tening influence of her lovely face, and letermined not to let it stand between me nd the conscientious performance of my luty as anoilicer. Three days passed, and the afternoon of he third day, as I sat in my oflice sum ling up the results of my investigations, Yho should rush in but Miss Lawson. 'Mr. Clark,' she said, dropping into a -hair and beginning to fan herself violent y, 'I could not wait for you any longerso icre I am. llave you discovered any hing ?' 'Yes, madam,' 1 replied, 'I have dis .overed where Miss Trafton went between he hours of eleven and twelve that night. She has not told you yet, I presume ?' 'No, sir; deepite my pleading, nay, my :oinmands, she has refused to tell me. Yhere did she go?' 'She went to the corner of Broad way and Eighteenth street, where she met a man to bvhoin, under the light of a street lamp, dhe paid a sum of money.' 'Good heavens I are you certain of is?' 'I have it from the lips of an eye-wit less.' -And who was the man ' 'I don't know, Miss Lawson. That's rhat I am trying to find out.' 'Have you a description of him ' 'A rather vague one. lie was describecd o me as tall, slim, and wearing a black noustache. Have you any idea who it was ?' 'Not the slightest. Oh, this is terrible I ffr. Clark, I would have staked my life on he virtue and integrity of that girl. And ,von now I will not believe her guilty. Per laps she can explain it all. But, sir, I ave news Mr you. I've had more money tolen.' 'More, madam ? When ?' 'Two hundred dollars last night and he same amount the night before. loth sums were taken as before, from my afe. Nlow, Mr. Clark, I have a proposi ion to make to you. I want you to keep twatch on my house to-night. At eight clock thuis evening I will send both Alice nd Barbara out upon errands, and while ahey are gone you can como. I will con ceal you in the spare room, which is di ectly opposite my apartment. You can it there in the dark, unseen and unsus >ected, 'and watch, and I am confident that your vigilance will be rewarded by some iiscovery of importance.' At the appointed hour that evening ~. -esentedl myself at Miss Lawson's cottage. wasat once ushered into th< sparcroomi. At dine o'clock Miss Trrafton an I the servant eturned. Ilulf an hour latt '- the entire otusehokl was in bed. The place was still as do"' ias -I sai, nhere, a dark lantern by my side. watching mnd waiting. The c!ock struck ten, and . md soon or heard nothing to excite my uspicionis. At eleven my watch was still mrewarded. I had but little faith In any lesirablo result from my vigil, and looked orwardl to tile long, dreary nighlt which was before ine with anything but pheasur ~ble emotions. Blut 1 was destined to be happpiy disappointed. As the halt hour ifter eleven struck 1 heard a saight noise, nd a moment later Miss Lawson's door .pent d and the old lady appeared a loose wrapper thrown over her, a lamp in her [and. Hecr eyes w*" 3 a strange meaningless itare. 8lhe (1k( not, as I at first expected, enter my room, but proceeded with noise. less tread along the passage-way. In itantly, a suspicion of the truth entered ny mind, and I arose and followed her. She went down to the lower floor, then urned into a passage-way, walked the wholhe length of that, opened a door and lescend a ilight of stairs into the e1lar. &rrived at this apartment, she proceeded to onei corner where a number of boxe nd barrels were stored, and knelt upon Lhe ground. She then drew from her pocket roll of bills, which she placed in one o1 he boxes. Then rising to her feet, sue began to retraice her steps. Of course the reader understands by this imo as clearly as I then understood, that Miss Lawson was a somnambulisy. As sihe reached the foot of the cellar utairs, I stepp~ed forward and awoke her. For a few moments she seemed at a loss to comprehend her position, then. as she radually recovered the uso of her facul tes, she said: 'Why!I have I been, walking in niy sleep: ugain ? I thought I was cured of that trick Long agorg' 'That's just what you've been doing, adam,' I said. 'But don't go up stairs et. Look here,' and I stepped to the orner, where she had knelt, direv'dlortil the box and displayed the contents before her. 'Why here Is every penny of the missing money I' she exclaimed. 'How came it here ?' 'You put it there, Miss Lawson. You have been robbing yourself all this !line.' For a moment the old lady stood trans fixed, then she cried : 'Exactly I I see It all n'w I' I have been so worried about the safety of my money, that the idea has preyedupon my mind while I slept, and this is the result. Well, thank heaven it is all explained now. I knew Alice could not have had anythmng to do with it. And now she must explain about that man. I'll have her up at once and make her tell me all about it. I cannot sleep until 1 know all.' Despite my remonustrances, Miss Lawson rushed up stairs and knocked at Miss Trafton's door crying: 'Alice-Alice, put on your wrapper and conic out here at once. I want to see you.' 'In a moment, aunt,' said the wonderful voice of the young girl. I would have withdrawn, but Miss Law son bade me remain. 'I want you to be convinced, as I am cer tain you will be when the truth is known, of my poor Alice's innocence," she said. In less than a minute Miss Trafton emer ged from her room, wearing a loose cash mere wrapper, and looking more beautiful than ever. In a few moments Miss Lawson expla'n ed the situation to her, and then asked. 'Now, Alice, who was that man you met that night 1' 'I would giadly have kept the truth from you, dear aunt,' said the young girl, her voice trembling with emotion; 'but as you know so much now, it Is better I should tell you all. When, at the death of my mother, you rescued me from pQverty and misery, and gave me a home in your house, I did not tell you that I had a brother who had gone astray- who was even then an inmate of the state prison. You were so good yourself,and your ideas on such mat ters were so strict, that I thought it best to keep this a secret. But I have from time to time secretly communicated with my brother, and last week, upon his release from prison, I had an interview with him, at which he told me, to my horror, that an other warrant was out for his arrest on a charge of which he swore was innocept. lie begged ot me to raise him some money so that lie could leave the eountry, and be gin life anew in a foreign land. I had saved nearly three hundred dollars from your generous allcwance, dear aunt aunt, and this I promised to give to him on the night that your money disappeared. lie was the man that I met on the corner of Eighteenti street and Broadway. l1e is now far away from New 1 ork. Now you know my secret. Can you forgive me?' For answer, the old lady clasped Alicc to her breast, flow I envied her I I now took my departure, first receiving a cordial invitation from the old lady to call again. I did call again, and-well, Alice and I were married six months from that night, CoaL Fioiia of the world. The coal fields of the world, so far from being in danger of exhaustion, as alarmists are fond of asserting, have in fact as yet barely been touched. The South Waice coal field is, after that of the Clyde Basin, the largest field in Britain, and conl4ins almost as great a vertical thickness of strata as any coal field in the world.amount Ing to upwards of 10,000 feet. Of this to tal depth only 120 feet are pure coal. As the lowest coal bed must have at one time been exposed to air or water for the growth of the plants which formed the coal in their decay, the South Wales coal field testifies to a subsidence of the earth sufficient tc have brought rome of the highest of the Alps to the sea level. The time required for so great a transformation is estimated as 040,000 years. It is only, however, to a depth of 4,000 feet that, having regard tc the Increased heat of the earth as we de scend, coal can be obtaIned; but, even with: this limitation, the supp~ly left in the veins of the district is suicienit to sulpply con sumption at its p~resent rate for 1,800 yeare. Great Briain will mioro and more cease tc supp~ly an extraneous demand in addition to that of her own manufactuses. Not only has the splendid mining region of Pennsyl. vanma been developecd, but in India, in Cai. na, in Australasia, and at the Cape vast supplies of fossil fuel have. been dliscover. edl. Economics in manufacture or dimin. ishing the rate of growth in coal consump. tion, and any Increased use of electricity as a motive force tends to make the same quantity of carbon go much further in ef fecting mechanical results. Steam coal set to drive an engine which produces the electrIc light will result In illuminating power wvhich exceeds a hundred fold that p~roducedl by a line amount of gas coal heated in retorts. The thickest ned of mineral fuel is In Russian Poland, and coal of various qualities-black, brown, anthra cite, etc.-crops up not only in Belgimm and the north of France, and along the Prussian Rhine, but In Saxony, where it Is the foundation of the wealth of Chemnitz, in Westphalia, Hanover, Bohemia, Siles, Moravia, in the Asturias and elsewhere in: Spain, in several governments of Russia, andl in Nova Scotia, Brazil and Chihi,while native anthracite Is worked as railway fuel in Swiitzerland, Savoy anid Italy. 'rho an nual produce of the world Is 289,000,000 tons, of which the British Isles furnish 184,000,000, the United States and Ger. many coming next with 50,000,000 tonE apiece. The production of Benigal In 187l0 was 623,097, that of I'ow South Walge was 1,444,271 In 1877; but, in each cast the merest, fringe of the coal district hs been reached; vast accumulations, readily accessible, remain behind. Ga'eek 0ievornessg. When Demades, the orator, remarked] that the swordls of the Spartans were ac short that they could be swallowed by oon jurors, Agis, the young king of that name, replied: "We find them quite long enough to reach the enemy." Th'iis Is attributed by him to Leotychidas, son of Aristo: "A snake having twined Itself around a key, which was declared by the years to be u portent, Leotychidas remarked: 'It would have been more of a potent If the key had twined itself round a snake.''" In passing sentence on two rogues, Philip of Mace. don ordered one to leave Macedonia with~ all speed, and the other to try to catch him. No less astute was his query as to a strong position he wished to occupy, which was reported by the scouts to be almost impreg. nable. 4.Is there not," lie asied, "ev n a pathway to it wIde otough for a ass lades with gal d?& THE QOLEEN LINING. Lite to-day Is dark and draary, Badly we sit repining, But the clouds will roll away And show a golden lining. Though they now obscure the sky And sadly drops the rain, If our faith is placod on high The sun will shino again. lad misfortunes and great losses Hido the sun, behind them shining, But oro long they'll roll away And show a glorious, golden lining. They are for the best, you'll find ; God has caused them for a warning; They make up the nights in life Every night must have its morning. Itich For One Day. Charles Jones lived in Bunkersville. lie was strictly honest, and lie was poor. Jones had, s many poor men have, a large fam ily, and when winter arrived it found him out of employment and almost out of bread. By doing odd jobs, however, lie managed to keep body and soul together. One morning he arose in very low spirits ;' he was to eat his last crumb of bread for breakfast, "What must I do ?" lie cried. "Trust in Providence," answered his faithful wile, breaking in upon his solilo quy. "Well, I will. I'll go down the street and see if I can get an odd job or two " He had scarcely gone a square when an acquaintance coming toward himl said: "Ilallo I Jones, Inoking better than usual this morning ; no wonder, though ; I believe I would feel jolly, too, were I in your place. Allow me to congratulate you, sir." Poor Jones was completely staggered. Formerly lie had received only a cool nod of recognition from Mr. Williams; now it was a kind word and a hand offered to shake, and congratulated, too I And for what? Ile could only stanner; "Mr. Williams, I-1-really--what do you mean ?" "Oh, of course I Expected you would be proud and stuck up," explained Mr. William; adding, "Give you two weeks to get over that." And with this lucid explanation of his conduct, Mr. Williams passed on. "le is crazy I" exclaimed Jones. While looking in amazement at the re treating form of the supposed maniac, a hand lightly touched his shoulder which caused him to turn and face Mr. Graball. 'llow are you, Jones? Glad to see you,' said Graball ex'ending his hand. 'I-am pret-pretty we-well,' essayed the astonished Jones. 'Of course you are,' continued Uraball. 'And how modestly you assume your rew role I I'll tell you, Jones, you know you wanted to borrow (wenty-five dollars of me the other day: L didn't happen to have it just then, but yesterday I collected my rents; so this morning, when I sat down to make out, your cheek, I thought I might as well make it fifty instead of twenty five.' Thrusting the check into Jones' hand,he was about to depart, when he added. 'I forgot, Jones; my wife says you must dine with us next Sunday. Be sure to come and bring your wife and children.' As Graball whisked out of sight, Jones tried to collect his thoughts. After a mis erable attempt, he determined to go home and consult his wife; she might solve the riddle that puzzled him. Arriving at home, amazement was only to be suceeeded by wonder and surprisc, for, in passing through the hall into the kitchen, he found his wife unheading a barrel of flour, and his daughter putting away a lot of beef. 'Is it you Charles?' said his wvite. '1 don't know, Mary; just stick me with a pin, till I see.' 'No, indeed, 1 shall noti But just think of it, Charles! The grocer sent up this barrel of flour this morning that, he refused to trust you for last weeKc,and the butcher's boy stopped with some meat, when you know lie has refused us all along. When 1 asked him what was the matter, lie only winked and said we could settle at tbe end of the month. AMrs. Stingy, our neighbor, sent in two pounds of butter, saying she was sorry she didn't have it yesterday when we wanted to borrow a cupful, but as her butter man had just come, she could spare us two pounds.' 'And I've got a check for fifty dollars!' And Jones, overcome by such muni ficence, sat down and gasped for breath. 'I wonder what it means?' faintly in quired Mrs. Jones. 'Give it up!' shouted Jones, despairing of ever solving the riuidhe. Suddenly a 10ou( knock was heard at the front door. 'If that is any person with a corner house and lot, refuse intl Tell them we won't have it!' yelled Mr. Jones at his wife, as she rushed to see who it was. 'Oh, it is you, Is it?' lie said, in a relieved tone, as Miss Tellall, the village gossip, was ushered in, 'Of course it is! But, law mel I won't get mnadh at that, I toldi brother James that I expected you would be kind of fussy like and excited; almost every one is that has a fortune left them.' 'What fortune, madam?' demanded Jones. 'Yes, what fortune?' added Mrs. Jones. 'You don't mean to tell me you don't know that a fortune has been left you? Well, I'll read it to you." Miss Tlellall then pulled out the "Bunk ersville iBcacon," andl read sq follows : "We are glad to know that our friend, Charles Jones, has come into a handsome fortune, left him by an uncle who recently died In England. Good luck could not have fallen upon a more worthier man. We congratulate him." "That 'was what Williams wanted to do, but I thought he wos crazy," moaned Jo'hes. "ThIs accounts for It all, then," exclaim ed the practical Mrs. Jone. "Miss Trellali this is a great mistake ; I have had no fortune left me," sald Jones. "And further, I never had an uncle in England ; it's some other Jones." "Law me I do tell I Well, I'll go home and tell the folks, so they won't worry about you. You see they thought you might be sick, and would need careful nursir~g. But if you haven't got a fortune -you are not sick, are you? I'o? Well, then, good-by !" "I knew it," Isoonloally exclaimed Jones, as Mliss Tellall departed. "Know what ?" asked his wife. "That there was a power behind the throne." "Charles," said Mrs. Jones, "badu't you better go down and see tae editor of that paper? Perhaps lie can explain." -A wise suggestion, ny dear, and one which I will immediately improve." The next morning the Bunkersville lkucon contained the following correc tion : "In yesterday's issue, we said Charles Jones had coie into a fortune. That gen dleman called upon us and wanted to know when it was. We told him it was a mis take-a typographical error-that was all. It should have been Jancs. We appeased Ar. Jones' disappointment by giving him the paper free for one year, but would say this is the only case inl which we shall (e viate from our rule of two dollars a year in advance." "Ile needn't have spoken of his charity so prominently," commented Jones, after reading the paragraph. "Certaily he shouldn't," replied Mrs. -Jones. "But then we can't help It now. Well, I'll send that batter of Mrs. 8tingy's home." "Yes; and you had better tell her that we appreciate- " "What I The butter? No, Charles, its altogether too strong." "If you would have allowed me to finish, I would Iave added that we appreciated the motive which prompted her to be so kind---'" "Law me I" interrupted Mrs. Jones. "You can take it yourself If you want a person to be so very line." "Never mind ; we won't qurrel about it."' Jmnes, after he found out the reason of all his excessive kindness, went to Graball and offered up the check 'which had been given him. But Graball saw that lie had been caught by his own cupidity, and thought. the best way to get out of it with grace to himself was to make a present of tihe money to Jones. But Jones wouldn't listen to that; fo it was settled that the money wias to be loaned, and Jes was to take his own time to pay it. After paying the butcher and grccer, lie had a neat sum left which served for all present necessi ties; and Eoon after business picked up, and Jones obtained a permanent situation. lie and his wife often laugh over the time when lie was rich for a day. Ionaeo and the Baby.I 'It seems to me,' said Jones to his wife, who was walking around the room, with the baby in her arms, 'that woman makes a great deal of unnecessary fuss about put ting a child to sleep. Now, I would chuck hin into bed, and let him squall it out.' It seems to me,'said Mrs. Jones, quietly, 'that all men are born idiots.' Jones couldn't, for the life of him, see what the fact had to do with putting the baby to sleep, but he wisely held his peace. The next evening, Mrs. Jones camie Into the sitting-room, where Jones was reading the market reports, and said: '1 am going down to mother's after that recipe for yeast. Baby Is asleep, but, If lie should wake, I presume you could put hint to sleep again-nen are so handy with babies.' 'All right ! I'll put him to sleep in less than no time; run along, my dear,' said Jones,chbeerfully. Mrs. .Jones vanished, and Joncg resumed his paper. Soon after his wife's departure, Jones heard a little premonitory grunt from the vicinty of the bedroom. 'llullo I what's that ?' exclaimed, Jones, as lie assumed a listening attitude. Ile soon found out,for the juvenile mem ber of the Joncs family set up a series of yells that would have done credit to a prima donna. Jones dIroppe~d his paper, rushed Into the bedioomn, seized his offspring, and car il him wrong end up iback into the sit ting-roomn. Theli suddenness of the attack, and the unusual position, so astonisheod his baby ship that lie forgot to scream for a few seconds, but when Jones righted him up, and1 offered him a pair of sleeve-buttons for playthings, .J'hnny shut his eyes, opened his mouth, and began again with renewed vigor and dletcrinnation. Jones abaiadoned the sleeve-buttons, and tridl to "'cudle" the baby uip after the maternal fashion, buat baby sternly re fused to "cuiddle;'' andl, with a degree of energy for which Jones was wholly uin prepared, and~ which ovinced a, total lack of respect for the "'author of hIs being" Johnny grabbed the paternal whiskers wvith both hanads and how led loudeir thart ever. Jones released himself, smoothed his cherished whiskers, deposited his heir on the sofa, retreated to a safe dlistanice. rub bed his face carefully, smiled In a vague kind of a way, as If he dlidn't kitow ex actly where the fun caime in, andl wonder edl "what the dickens Alaria would (10 tin der similar circumstances.' Baby put his flst into his mouth, and looked as If lie wondered what his paternal ancestor would (do next. Theare, niow,' exclaimed Jones, Im miensely relieved, 'lie is papa's pitty ittle sonny, so lbe Is.' 'So)nny,'pr)omptly resented this by a long drawn yell that struck terror to the soul of lis dismayed parenit. Jones was at lisa wit's end; ie grow reckless, lie whistled to that baby; Ite sang; he matude faces; lie cut a series of an tics that would have driven a bahlet-dancer mad withenvy; but all tono purpose.Baby had eyidently taken a contract to furnlssh so mucb yell ini a givent tinme, and( was bound to do the square thling. When Mrs. Jones returned, she found a demoralized-looking iauan wandering around thie house. with a baby On oneo arm, while wIth his disaengatged htand lie wVipd the perspiration from his manly brow with the tall end of thme baby's night dress. 'It seems to me.' remarked Mis. Jones, as shec took the baby, 'that muon make a great deail of unnecessary fuss about put ting a baby to sleep. Now, I--' 'ThIe front dloor closed with a bang ,Jones was on lis way down the street to 'see a man.' Thec amount of Iosse.s irn the UnIted Stastes by lire duinug 1879 as reported to litsurancee Comptales, was $77 703,. 709; add to thmis the untnsured josses that are rep~orte.1, and it will fall but littleo short of the $100,000,000 claImed as the ananual loss lb this country. Canada is Dot Included in3 these renort.. Nortona Duel. 1"our years ago, said Henry Norton, I was in Deadwood. I had returned from an expedition up the Yellowstone river and published a book on my research. Dead wood was at that (lay what Leadville is at the present time-all life and fire, glitter and riches. There were no beggars in the streets and every man was the possessor of gold, mining stock or unlimited credit. I was at the Dakota House and passed my evenings, in the main, at the theatres. At one of the theatres a woman whom I had known in Detroit three years hefore was singing ballads. Shte was too noble a woman to tread the boards of any stage, but, like many others, gifted with a sweet mezzo-soprano voice, she found in the variety stage an easy avenue to a livelihood. She was a woman, every inch, and was always accompanied by a young sister to and from cities and their Michigon home. Being an old friend, she felt perfectly at home m my company, and we were to ,ether much- of the time. No man in Deadwood, except myself, would she per aiit to act as her escort, and the conse ,iuence was that it was not many weeks until I was envied by half the men in the "amp. On one night I refer to, after the hicatre, I went down to the barroom of my tiotel for the purpose of taking a drink be fore retiring. While pouring out a glass of whisky a stranger walked up and acco3ted m1e, saying: " You arc Mr. Norton, I believe?' "I answered him in the afllrmative and .uvited him to drink. le hesitated a muoment and then called for a lemonade with 'a light stick,' and asked me to iccomnpany him out to the street. " 'You are a man and a gentleman and I amn the same. I love .lis - (men .ioning the name of my actress friend) and ihe could love me, I am certain, were it lot for you.' " I raised my hand to strike him down, >ut the muzzle of a revolver, the butt of wich was in his hand, deterred me. I itepped back a couple of paces. " 'I have thought this matter over,' lie iontiiiucd, lowering the revolver, 'and have letermined that one of us must die. I 3ould have shot you down any night and mone would have been the wiser, but I am Crank encugh to make you a proposition.' " But I shall oiler no objection to your narrying Miss --," I said hurriedly. "6he is nothing more than a dear friend to ,1o. Go ahead and win her, man.' I .iought him crazy and believe to this day hat he was not in his right mind. "'No,' said he slowly, with determi ation, 'this world is not large enough for is two men. I will kill you before this aight Is over, or you will have done me the iame favor. You are armed and shall have in equal chance for your life; we will go uip the valley a little ways and there settle )ur quarrel like men. If I kill you, none shall ever know whether the cases were right or wrong, and if I fall it will be with ao malice toward you.' " lie took my armi and we walked up lie street together. It seemed like a duel W> me, and yet there was the man anxious o murder me at my side. I began to grow mttled and was suflicintly reckless before we reached the Bismarck stage road to have rought him with bowie knives had lie de nanded it. Then, too, I was angry at the iree manner in which he had spoken of ffiss - . Up the valley we strode. Presently my strange guide and enemy alted and said: "' You will stand here and I will step ,en paces further on.' "I obeyed the directions "IIe paced off ten strides and, removing ils hat, faced me, revolver in hand. " old on," said 1. " If your mind is illy made ip to shoot me, at least let me vow your name. "I'hat makes no difference to you,' said 1e. 'it's as goodl a one as you can boast >f. Please be ready to fire when 1 count ,o three." "I am a clever shot with thme pistol and man shoot the spots from the cards at ,wenty yardls, and felt perfectly confident, 2o matter how good a shot was my an agonist, that I could kill him at ten paces. [ drew umy derringer andl cocked it care ~ully. I was standing with my back to he moon and he was a little abmove me, and he moon shone full oii his broad brow. lie leveled his weapon and began to cunt, a the fatal words were slowly pronounced Iraised my revolver and at the word 'three' )resse:i tihe trigger. We fired at thme same netant and I felt the wind of his bullet by ny head, lie sank to his knees without a nruggle and fell up-mn his face in time snow. ily being in the shadow a little below himn md1( the moon's rays on his pistol barrel mad, even at so short a dist ance, disturbed is ahn. I walked forward, turnedl over ,he body, which was still warm, and looked Iowa into his face. My bullet had sped ,rue. T1here was a small, bluish-looking mole, from which the blood had not yet Iprung, ini the centre of his forehead. If my one0 heard the pistol shots they paid no ied, andl, not wiimug to be arrestedi andi :harged with murder, I walked dlown the ralley over the hard beaten snow and ro ,urnmed to my hotel. After a minute's pause liarry Norton re ighted his cigar, emitting a cloud of smoke ,broughm lis nostrils and continued: " The following afternoon I saw quite a 3rowd assembled at the city undertaker 's. [ elbowed my way through the crowd and isked an acquaintance standinug near what mausedl the commotion.. "'Some cuss got sick of thme camp, went up the valley last night and committed sum nide. The wolves were hovering about mnd picked hIs bones pretty clean before me of tihe men from the Ilomesmako mine :amne down town and found him. "lie might have been inmurdered?" I an iwered in a questioning tone. ".No, he committed suicide,' was the reply. Ills revolver was found in time road and one chamber had been emptied, i~e just got homesick and went, up there and ' called' himself and the wolves had a good meal and he can't be Identified, lie was not murdered, for over $200 in bills were found scattered around.' "I walked away and shed no light en the mystery. In D)eadwood where people caine In and deparled by hundreds every dlay, mysterious disappearances were rarely reported. I aim in Ignorance as to the name of the man whom I shot down in that strange duel, and though I remained in the Black hIllis for some time afterward, I never paid another visit to the theatre where my lady acquaintance was playing. That is all.'' --There are only three tre engines In all Paris,. NEWS IN BRIEF. -There are in Great Britain and Ire. land 22.936 doctors. -Gold in the Bank of England amounts to ?15,500,000. -Bottles or glass were first made in England about the year 1658. -The first United States.Congress net in New York, March 4, 1789. -The New York street cars carry annually a hundied million passenger. -Shoe pegs require annually for their manufacture 100,000 cords of tim ber. -It Is said that Col. Thomr.s A. Scott of Philadelphia Is worth about twenty millions. -The celebrated Italian embalmer, Paolo Gorini, lately ded at Lodi, aged sixty-eight. , -Canada haq 8,459 sailing vessels and 918 ateamers,with a gross tonuage of 190,159 tones. -About 100,000 bushels of hemp reed are annually consumed for bird food In the United States. -George Aldridge, one of the sur vivors of the "Light Brigade," is now running an omnibus. -St. Louis acknowledes a little municipal debt of $15.607,000. It was $12,379,000 In 1874. -i'le destruction by fires In the city of -New York last year averaged about $265,786 per month. -The first tame sheep in the United Vtates were brought from England to Virginia In 1600. -There was in Germany In 1878 510 paper mills which Ot-ogedier produced 3,600,000 cwt. of paper. -The number of Roman Vatholies in England is estimated at one million in Scotland, at 320,000. -Thle butter, cheese, egg, and milk business of this country are estimated to be worth $840,000,000. --A city of Lon ldon offlcial estimates the gross annual income of thatocty's charities at$22,500,000. -The paper wheels ou the new cars of the New York, New I aven and Hartford Railroad cost $110. -The Presbyterian church in Canada las a mfiembership of 107,971. 'ere are 1,350 churches and stations. -According to the late census California, with a PoPulation o 86u, 680, has only 75,025 Cninee. -hie Lodo Sunday School Union liae iStued at call for Iinlver.al prayer for Sunday schools Oo. 17th and yh. -The British Governinent spends $700,000 annually On Its 00 sular ser vce and the United Statsa only $3e0P 000. -S witzerland was visited, according to statistics collected by the Alpine Club of Italy, by 1,400,0)0 tourists III 1870. -The o'ject of King l alakauaps visit to Japan is said to be to propose a scheme of emigration of nasives to -The total value of metals and min orals lproducod inI Great Britain and Ireland in 1870 was slightly over 406, 000,000. -The salt used by tle packers and butchers of San Franlsco is obtained by solar evaporation from the waters of the ocean. -Te annual number of deaths throughout the wotid is at the rate of 07,700 a day; that of births Is at the rate of 104,800. There is a tax uII wedding rings In England of 17 BihIllings an ounce, and the revenue therefrom Is about per year $100,000. --The National debt reduction dur ing March was $6,102 819, and the mm. tage or metal $13,058,161 n.ry i, 000,f00 of which was gold.nay$1, -rThe tonnage of EnglIsh saIling yes eels has d4ereased b'y about 500,000 tons since 1870, but steam tonnage has in creased by about 1,400,000 tons. -Vinton County, Ohio, has a family named Reynolds, whose combined ages amount to 979 Fears. The father is ninety-one, the mother eighty-eight. -The nammer with which John1 Paul Jones uniled the historic flag to themast of his ship is owned by a gentleman in Indhiana, Pennsylvania. -In Thu ngary it Is said fully 000,000 children of school ago do not go to school at all, while those who do go frequently stay only three or four years. -The English gold coin the guinea, was so called from the fact that it was made from gold brought from the coast of GAuinoa, In 1678, It was then worth thirty shillings. -President Elliot. of Harvard Col lege, is about to buld a suimmer resi dlence at Northeast Harbor, Mt. Desert. Bishtop Doane, of Philadelphia will also build in the same locality, -In the last agricultural returns of Great Britain the growth of woods and forests is shown to he going on very fast, and in the last five years has in-. creased by half a million acres. -In 1871 the census gave Great Britain 31,806,083. An estimate based on births and deaths last June gave a population of a million more. The pe sent census will, it Is estimated, give Great Britain 36,000,000. -There are now in use in New Zea land alone over 5,000 reapingmachinas, from about 40 to 50 steam ploughs, 80 steam-harrows, together with over 1,000 thirashiing-mahine, of which 874 are worked by steam-power, -Mr. G. Phillips Bevan estimate the grandl total of gold produced during the historto ages to be ?3.517,093,o00, and that of silver, ?2,820,250,000, mak ing the produce of both the preoious metals to be worth 20.843,318,500. -The last religious census in France shows that there are 85,887,703 Rotaan Catholics, 467,531 Calvinists, 80,117 Lutherans, and 33,113 of other P~ro-. testant denominations. The Je ws num ber about 50,000, and 90,000 are attach ed to no church. --The ifth Annual German Turner-, festival, held at Frankfort on the Main, from July 25th to 29th, is stated to have been a great success. Of the principal prizes, of which there were twenty-two, eight were carried of by G*erman-Atnerlean citIzens,. whso crossed the Atlantlo to participate t the fete,