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* . .. ??M?i???? II I I ? !? T?? I II na???????????Ia????a?f???MM? . I ?Mi I . I ??t ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. BY HUGH WI] .SON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1877. * NO. 1. VOLUME XXY. "The Sunrise Never Failed Us Yet." I BY CKLIA TIIAXTEH. Upon the sadness of the sea The sunset broods regretfully ; From the far, lonely spaces, slow Withdraws the wistful afterglow. i So out of life the splendor dies ; So darken all the happy skies : So gathers twilight, CQld and stern : But overhead the planets burn. Aud up ih.' < :) t another day Shall chasv the bitter dark away ; | What th:<;io'h our eyes with tears be wet ? | The sunrise never failed us yet. The blush of dawn may yet restore Our light and hope and joy once more. Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That eunrise never failed us yet! iWITUrniT A PlfiTAII V! ! I [IUU n I lUiniba The Story of a Pleasant Love. CHAPTER I. "I have got some news for you. Maggie," j ho t?iid, one day, about eighteen months after ; lie had gained ins commission. " Guess what ] it is." They were walking along the green lanes of ; Pollock, listening to the ceaseless murmur of the sea. as at intervals they had walked and 1 listened ever i-ince they could remember, or j ever since Maggie could remember, at any rate, ! for she was six years younger than her former { playfellow. " You are going to be promoted," she said. "Promoted, you little goose! No ono ever | pets promoted in the British army. Guess . aS?>r-" . , *? on are going to mam* an heiress. There was a lump in h<*r throat as slie | said it. ; " Wrong again. No inestimable young per- j son with greeu eyes, a turn-up nose, suscepti- ! b!e heart, and fifty thousand a year, has turned | uj) yet. But it s something nearly as good. I I'm Ordered to China !" ' Oh, Alic! she gasped, and burst into tears, j It v.as very foolish of her, but then she was j only fixtcen, and had not yet acquired the I praiseworthy art of concealing her feelings. i Why. whatever are you crying for ?" he ' asked, and kissed away her tears. He'd kissed j I.,... bhi. fiv<> and thoilL'bt no more <>f it than if she had been his sister, or t ecat. excepting perhaps that it was nicer?' ?which it was, no doubt, " I shall only be' awav live years at most, and when I come back i I'll bring you a pigtail and an ivory toothpick, j ami a whole lot of things, and"? . Ves V" she said, listening attentively. " Bat then you'll-be a young woman?I forgot -nnd 'out,' and all that sort of thing, and . won't i-onuescend to speak to a poor lieutenant : vou will havo all the squires and foxhum* in about the placc at your feet." Oh, no, indeed I shan't, Alic," she Raid, j eagerly. But I tell you, you will. I believe yt u are j a burn little llirt, and I shall come back and ' find yon "? But she burst into tears again, and put up [ lier pretty little hand as if to stop his teasing, i which she could not bear just then. It seemed ; so cruel of him to laugh and joke when he was | going away for live years. He did not seem to care a bit, and she could have broken her heart on the spot, and would have gladly done so, and thrown the pieces away so as never to be bothered with it atjain. Then, seeing her mournful blue eyes, he was merciful. I believe I shall come back and find you just as great a little darling as you are now.! aud if we have got any money we'll get married j and live happy over after, and if we haven't i we'll get married and starve ever after?unless, I of course, the heiress turns up." ' Oh, I hope she won't!" said Maggie, like a j truthful little idiot. "Shall you ever write to j mo, Alic, dearV" "Ves, of course I shall, and I shall expect you to write back sis pages crossed, and all j that son of thing, youjuiow." So Alic Grander went to China, and Maggie j waited hopefully enough for a letter, but six months passed and none came. "Perhaps it i takes longer forji letter to get here from China," j nli3 thought, knowing as little about the meann i of transit and the time it took as if the Ctles- j ti?il city had been in the moon. but a \ ear | passed tnd no letter came. " Perhaps he's ill, or itis miscarried," she K*ud tearfully, half wondering if it could be j possible that a Chinese heiress had turned up, j and that was the real reason of Alic's silence. ; Two years passed, and never a word. "It's too j bad," she said bitterly, and wondered rueful)v I if he really had married a wife with a pigtail. And the days and the months went by, and Magtrie journeyed on into womanhood, but no word or sign caine from Alic Granger, and at liini till CHAPTER 11. Maggie was twenty years old when her father died, and tho creditors did pounce down, !. r.nd she and her mother were sold out. Mrs. Dunlop was offered a home in London by a sis- j ter who was well off and bad tempered, and it j was thankfully accepted. Maggie was informed that .die must get her own living, which being J precisely Maggie's own opinion as well as in- | tention, she advertised for a situation as gov- j erness. Now, Maggie had a very modest idea of her own merits, and.therefore only asked for I twenty-five pounds a year and a comfortable home,* so no less than five answers came to her [ announcement that she could teach English, French, music and tho rudiments of drawing, j O.ie of these answers came from Woolwich, and stated that Mrs. Marshall required a j governess for her three Utile girls. : Mr.>. Marshall was a stiffnocked sort of woman, j and stared at poor little Maggie (who looked al- i most as childlike and twice as pretty as ever) through double gold glasses. Colonel Mar- i shall, her husband, was a nice old man, with a j 'bald head and an iron gray mustache, and there I was a grown up ciaugnier, a aiiss rauerson, Mrs. Marshall's daughter by her lirst husband, who was really the mistress of the establishment, for Maria Patterson had a stiong will, i and slio was an heiress. " A very nasty | heiress too." jx>or Maggie thought, and she was , right, for Maria was skinny, and thought h?r- ! se!f sarcastic, and always sail nasty things to I people who did not dure say them back again. I One evening, when Maggie had been about a year at Woolwich, and she ivas sitting alone in her school-room as usual, J'or her pupils had just said good-night and been delivered up to ! | the tender mercies of their nurse. Miss Patter- ! ' .son walked i:i very much dressed, and lather flushed and excited. "Mis)$I)nnlop," sho said, "wo shall have a few friends this evening, and I know one or two of them like an impromptu dance; will you be ready ti> come into the drawing-room and plav. if wo should \svut yon ' I fear I cannot play dance music very well: I never keep time," said Maggie. "Yes, I feared so, and thought I would come ' and tell you, so that you might practice for an hour or two till after dinnerand she sailed out of the room, evidently considering the matter settled : and Maggie meekly proceeded to practice the Mabel Waltz and the Flick and Flock Galop. Then she put on her shabby 1 :???/?...? o?wl u+vii*L- o enrnv f\f win! UKU'iV UXJIIIUj; niuvn ? ~ flowers iuto h r <-o!dcu Lair, and waited pi- j tientlv for a snnmious, hoping she would wait in vain. It very soon came, and with a roll of music under her arm, a flush 0:1 her innocent frightened face, and a scared, almost hunted, expression in her eyes, she descended, and timidly opened the drawing-room door, and there stood still for a moment staring in as- ; tonishment at the scene before her. There nat the heiress with an eager, pleaded expression 011 her face, and leaning over her, talking and j laughing, and more handsome than ever, and j sunburnt and soldierly looking, was Alic (! ranger. There was no mistaking him. The color rushed to Maggie's face, as if to say a : hurried good-bye, and then left it altogether, j She recovered her self-possession, however, I and walked with what she flattered herself was great dignity toward the piano. She felt rather than paw him raise his head and look at her, and 41. r. n/,vf *Y>Sl*Vt??t)4 lir. Il-ou lw 43u1q Maggie?my dear Maggie! Why, fancy ; von being hero ; where did you come from V I "hav6 been trying to find you out for month-;. | " I tliougHt you"? And then blie did not know how to go on, so added, almost piteously: ' " I am the governess here." " Are von V Oh, I nee, then, that is the rea T',.? "..r.f 1 T " BUU X UVI, WWI l/V&VUV, X 0?ipj/Vf.-?^. ' Do you really know Miss DunlopV" the heiress asked, coming up, and speaking in her coldest manner. Maggio wished sincerely Bhe could sink into her shoes and bury herself. "Why, of course I do ; we have been playfellows ever since we were born?haven't \te, M rgie ?" And Maggie, feeling she was being backed up, answered bravely? i " Yos. " " Oh, indeed ! how interesting!" Then, turning to Maggie: "Will you be so good an to bogin a waltz, Mi s Dunlop ? This was to be our dance*, I think," to Alic, and she nailed off with him triumphantly. He came up to her directly after the dance was over. " I went down to Porlock to try and find out where you had gone to," ho said, "but nobody knew." "It didn't matter," slie said, huskily, lotting her fingers wander vaguely over the keys to make believe she wasn't very interested in what he said. " Yes. it did?it mattered a great deal. Why, I've got a box full of curiosities for you ?chilis to fight with, and a little heathen god or two, and a statue of Buddha, and all sorts of things. I told you I fhould bring you them home. Do you live here -1 mean in this house ?" M>iwn Iniif wnrrJa lmdpr liin hrpilth. for the heiress came np, and the next minute ho wan carried off to dance with Mrs. Somebody at the other end of the loom, but not before Maggie had nodded a reply to him. Soon after this Mi?s Patterson came up to the piano, and, saying she wished to play herself, and that Maggie looked tired, dismissed her without her being able to get even another look at Alic. CHAPTER III. The next morning, to Maggie's very great surprise, Miss Patterson came into the schoolroom before the children had assembled. ' Miss Duulop," she said, stiffly, "I should like to know where yi u say you met Mr. Granger." " At Porlock. His uncle lived next door to my mother. He is a very old friend indeed "? "Thank you. I merely wished to inquire. because, of course, you must be aware tnat it is not usual for any one in your position to make herself remarkable by having long confidential talks with any gentlemen who may visit the house." "I don't know what you mean, Miss Patterson Maggie said, indignantly. But Miss Patterson had swept out of the room without deigning to reply. Then Maggie went into her own littlo room, the one plac; she had in the world entirely to herself, aud cried till her eyes were red and her head ached. The lessons did not progress that morning. Maggie was thinking of Alio, who was no doubt strolling about the common, listening to the band and making love to the heiress. The children were more than usually stupid, too, and all the world seemed upside down, and all its ways turned crooked. Suddenly, at about twelve o'clock, just when Maggie was in the middle of expounding as best sue could the eccentricities of the French grammar, there was a knock at the school-room door. " Come in," she said. The door opened, and there stood before her astonished eyes the form of Alic Granger, and behind him was a man?evidently his servant? with a box on his shoulders. "All right, Tim, put it down ; that's right: now be off. There. I've brought the curiosities round. Maggie ; I thought you'd like to see them." 4w*<. i ? !,( ? trill Mru "Urn-shall and Miss Pat terson say V" said Maggie, iu consternation. "Nothing to you for the next half hour or so, for I have just seen them safely on their v.av to Woolwich, and thought I should just got a quiet chat with you. >Iy dears," he B?id. turning to Maggie's wide-eyed, open-mouthed pupils, "I'm Hiiro you'd like to be let off your lessons, so I'll let you off for half an hour ; run along, my little dears," o:ul he open.d the door for them, and shut it after them. "Oh, A lie!" she said, in fear and trembling. "Oh, Maggie!" he answered, mimicking. " What did you mean by going away from Torlock, and not leaving any address "I couldn't help it. and you never wrote," she answered, helplessly. "No, I never write letters ; don't know how to spell wJ.l enough. But I have been hunting for you all over the place, and never dreamed c?f finding you here. Now we'll unpack the box: [ had it opened before I came, so it's only fastened by a lock." "But, Alic, they'll never forgive me." "Never mind, it doesn't matter, because if you are good I'll- take you away next week. Besides, they'll forgive me anything. I saved the colonel's life when ho was in Hong Kong? at least, so he says. There, now, what do you think of these for lighting with ? Got them at Java on purpose for you and he held up a pair of heathenish looking clubs and brandished them over her head, and then proceeded to pull out the rest of the contents of the box and :o_ decorate the school-room with them. "I litres Air. miuuna, anu wurus?? jjv, what's the matter, Maggie ?" 'Nothing; only you will get me into dreadful trouble?you will, indeed. Mi** Patterson came in this morning and scolded me for talking to you last night." "Never mind, she was only jealous," ho laughed. " Now tell mo how soon you can leave here." " What for V" she asked, innocently. " Why, you haveti't forgotten that we agreed to get married when I came back, have you, you littlo coquette?" and he put his arm round her waist ju-i as of old, and was not reproved. It was so very comfortable, she thought. " No, but you are engaged, are you not ?" " Yes. of course I am - to you." ''Oh ! but, Alic"? " Oh ! but, Maggie"? And then he stooped and kissed her, and nothing more could bo said, for the door opened, and there stood the colonel, and there stood Mrs. Marshall, and there stood Maria Patterson. " Miss Dunlop!" screamed Maria, horrorstruck. "Mr. Granger!" said Mrs. Marshall in astonishment. " Hoity-toity!" exclaimed the colonel. "What does all this mean V" " She must leave the houso at once," sai 1 the heiress. "Of con.so she must," Mrs. Marshall said. "I never heard of such a thing in my life "? "My dear Mrs. Marshall," said Aiic, looking as if he were beginning a speech, " it is all my fault. You tola me, ana so did the colonel, to v/\nr limi?p r?v hnnifv and I have done so. Miss Duulop hero was a playfellow of mine oace, and when I went away wo were engaged, hut somehow wo lost sight of each other when there were a few thousand miles between us, and it was the happiest moment of my lifo to meet her again last night; and so I took tho liberty of calling on her this morning, and we were just arranging to get married next week when you interrupted us." "Qiiite right, quite right, my dear Granger," said the old colonel, heartily, "you shall be married from here "? " Oh ! please let me go to mamma?do let me h'o at once," pleaded Meggie, finding her little tongue at last. "I think it would bo much more satisfactory if Miss Duulop went back to her relations," said the heiress, sourly. So they all finally agreed, and that very afternoon Maggie packed up her modest belongings and all the curiosities, and went to the well-off and bad-tempered aunt. The bad-tempered aunt received her niece very graciously when she found she was going to marry well the following week. It is amazing how fond people are of rich relations, even though the riches concern tin m little personally. As for poor Mrs. Dunlop, she could have jumped for joy, only she was too old for such violent exercise. " I'rav, miss, what arc you laughing to yourself about?" asked Alic the evening before their wecuung uay. " Nothing, Alic, only when you were away, I used to think sometimes -hat perhaps you'd marry a Chinese heiress wnh a pigtail.' "The sort of thing you would think," he said, grandly : " as it is. vo see, I am going to marry a little girl without.x>igtail; and I am very happy, my darling?ou?" " Very, very," she said; and s.ie was. (Jetting Even With an India Prince. A curious story, by the way, comes to us from India, says a correspondent. The viceroy had received some offense from Scindia, and could not avenge it openly; whereupon he meditated and took the following deeply deliberated wnfolrnfinn Wlinn ft lnrrrn JlltUJK'U Ui .. ?..0v number of native princes came up before him to make their obeisance, no sooner did the ofTou'ling Scimlin enter tlmu the viceroy sprang forward with unwonted effusiveness and kissod him on both cheeks. Such contact from an alien and a Christian is the extremist taint ana tive can receive, ijcinilir s own wives would not come near him ; in one moment he sank in the eyes of all India from a prince to a pariah, and ever since the poor man has been undergoing purifying ceremonials, costing a large part of his fortune to cleanse him from the viceregal kiss by which he was betrayed I I Dangers from the Dead. That the dead should kill the living Beems a paradox ; yet nothing is more true. Indeed we venture to sav that every year in our land corpses murder more people than assassins do. Not only have intramural interments poisoned whole blocks and quarters, not only has drinking water contaminated by grave yards yearly spread disease and death through country hamlets, but before the process of decomposition commences there is often a great and press- j ing danger from infectious disease. We j quote a recent instance : "Dr. Goldie, the medical officer of j health for Leeds, England, in his report I to the local authority, states that every * il-'-l- 1- ! out? ui iiiury puuuiu uu i>.uw wake of an Irish girl who recently (lied ill that town from typhus fever were attacked by the disease and no fewer than nine of the cases ended fatally." So strongly have the needless dangers of exposure at funerals impressed the medical mind, that the health board of New York have issued a circular recommending that no public or church funerals should be given to persons dying of either diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles or whooping cough. In Chicago nlso, where scarlet fever and diphtheria-have been severe this past winter, the recommendation of one hundred medical men in council was in these words: "There should be no public funerals of any patient who had died of any infectious or contagious disease. Remember that the separation of the sick person from the well is the most certain means of nreventincr the spread of the disease." A writer in the Baltimoro Physician and. Surgeon, last December, went so far as to advocate the passage of a law ou the subject (the1 averago American man looking upon a "law" as a cure-all on every occasion). He thought it should embody the following provisions: 1. Whenever any one dies of contagious disease, the publication announcing the death should state cause of death. 2. No person except the immediate family should be permitted to attend the funeral, and the handling and burying the body should be intrusted to persons who devote themselves to that business. 3. A sufficient number of carriages should be kept for the special purpose of attending these funerals, and the hiring them for other purposes should be prohibited, under the severest penal ties. k These are good suggestions, but people should learn and obey them out of a natural sense of sanitary propriety, not out of obligation to a statute.?Medical and Surgical Reporter. Cistern Water. In our climate, where rain is abundant during a considerable portion of the year, the water falling upon the roof of any house, if properly collected and stored, is ample for the whole supply of the family which that roof shelters. This water as it falls is ordinarily free from anv imrmritv that can affect its taste, and from every source of serious fouling, though after a long-continued drought it is well to divert and discharge upon the surface of the ground the first ten minutes' flow of a shower?so that the impurities of the air, and the dust of , the roof may be first removed. After this first dash, lead to the cistern all that follows. Ev<?n 'with this precaution the water will bo more agreeable for use if filtered There are numerous systems for makiug filters in cisterns, but no other is so simple, nor so durable ami satisfactory as the separation of that part of the cistern from which the suction pipe leads by a wall of brick and cement. It is simply necessary to build a wall of brick set ou edge (two and a half inches i thick), so as to include about one-quarter of the area of the bottom, sloping it back so as to terminate against the side j of the cistern at a height of from four to I six feet. This wall should be so well j I iln lll.if 11*11 f?,V rtOTl nilW I UtTIllUilLCU WU ltr> Ji/iiun umi hwvvi. v**y . , ]?ass through the material of brick, and for strengths it form should be slightly bulging. A wall of this sort, measuring say six feet nt its base and rising to a height of six feet at its highest point, will transmit an amount of water suf- ' iicient to supply the demand of the most constant pumping that any domestic use can require. Putting* his Horse to lied. Iu a book written by Major Charles Loftus, formerly of the royal navy j and late of the Coldstream guards, occurs the following passage: His i undo asks : " ' Where are you going ?' ' I am going to lay my horse,' I replied. ' Lay your horse !' he gaid, ' what do you ( mean ?' In two minutes I explained. , ' Oh !' said he, ' I should like to see that i j performance,' and, jumping up, he was , followed by all the gentlemen to the j ( stables. ' Now, how is this done ?' j j j The grooms were bedding up their j ! horses. I walked up to mine, and com- j , menced by patting him 011 the neck, and taking to him in soft, low tones. He ! ! began pawing first with one forefoot, j i then with the other, and evidently kuew j j me and my voice. Taking a snaffle I bride, I put it on, pulled him gently j1 back into the stall, rubbed my hand up ' 1 and down on his knees, and then, putI t-innr intr mnnfli fr? liin r>nr. wliisnfired 1 into it, as if talking to him. He began immediately to move, and, bending his knees, slowly let himself down ou his near side, I at the same time keeping ' well clear of him, while I still patted him * on the neck. When I took the bridle ' off. he settled for the night. 'Now,' j ! caid I, ' he's safe, and will sleep all ' night. Come away!' They were as- ( tonished. 'Why,' said my uncle, 'I!* shall send you to Astley's amphitheater ! ' and make your fortune. Where did you j1 learn this?' 'From my own groom,'I ; replied." A Puzzled Letter-Carrier. i A letter-carrier had a missive to de-1 liver ou Mount Ida, Troy, N. Y. He rang the bell and waited for the door to j be opened, but no one came. He turned to go away, but hearing the word " letter-carrier " pronounced, went back and 1 rang the bell again. After gnzing at the | ! windows and exhausting his patience he | ! knocked at the basement door, and going 1 i around the house peeped through the ! | S windows, but the only response to his |, I appeal for admittance was, " letter-car-!; rier," " Jetter-carrier." At last lie espied a parrot hanging high in air and repeating the salutation, and he departed j with stealthy step?a wiser and more I contemplative letter-camsr. i | A good wtory i? told with regard to a " daft" j ] man and a somnolent congregation. When- i ever any of his hearers began to "nod," the minister observed that "daft Jamie" aroused 1 them somewhat sharply by shooting peas at 1 them. Catching the eye of the delinquent at last, he shook his .finger at him reprovingly ; J ( but "Jamie" responded, not a bit abashed : j " Just gang on wi'your sermon, minister, and I j I'll keep the beggars wakinV 11 FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD KecipcH. Lobster Bakkd.?Choose ft small bu heavy lobster, aiid after boiling it, tnk< the meat out of the shells,'leaving th< large body-shell whole, which was! nicely ; cut the meat in small (lice, witl a little parsley and shallot, a few dropi of tho essence of anchovies, a spoonful o vinegar, a little cayenne pepper and Halt 6ome melted butter, and the yolk of i hard-boiled egg, rubbed with the batter put a little melted butter in the shell sprinkle some bread crumbs over it; fil with the prepared lobster, and cover witl bread crumbs and small lumps of butter brown in the oven, and send to table hot, ^ trorrr UAlii ? JL^UlXT-i. O. IUUUIU T WJ iiiv* white tripe ; cut in small pieces ; seasor with suit and pepper ; stew slowly unti very tender ; it will take quite a lonf time. At the same time havo in a sepa rate saucepan eight white onions boilec soft and mashed; the water in whiet they were boiled pour off and flour, mill and butter added ; let all stew together when the tripe is tender dish on butterec toast with a squeezed lemon over it; tin onion sauce served in a gravy boat. Water-Melon* Cake.?White parttwo cupfuls white sugar, half a cupful oi butter, half a cupful sour milk, ono tea> spoonful soda, two of cream tartar, tli< whites of eight eggs and three cupfuls oi flour. Red part?half a pound of red sugar, half a cupful butter, half a cupful sweel milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two o1 cream tartar, the whites of six eggs ant two cupfuls flour. Put half the white part in the pan, then the red, with a few currants sprinkled in to have the ap pearance of seeds, then place the remain' ing white part 011 top. Sausages.?Grind your meat in a sausage-mill, and take ground black pepper, pulverized sage-leaves, and red peppei well powdered; mix a small quantity and cook to dry it, and then mix in the pepper auu sago to suit your taste. Chocolate Squares.?One cupfu] butter, two of sugar, one of milk, twe and a half of floor, one and one h df teaspoonful of baking powder ; bake in lay ers in a biscuit-pan; place between then: the following mixture, cut in squares Icing?Dissolve one sheet of isinglass it one cupful boiling water ; mix with il one cake of grated chocolate and one cupful powdered sugar, to the consistency oi cream; for the top, mix the remiiudei of the icing with a cupful sugar, flavored with lemon ; spread thin. Diiead.?Dissolve one cake of c an pressed yeast in one-half cupful tepi<j water; take thr- e quarts of flour, one table.-poonful salt, and warm suflicieul to m^ke a stiff batter, adding the jeasl last; beat all well together; cover tightly. Eariy in the morning a<kl a sma I lump of butter,two tablespoonfuls sugar, nnil niolil in flourRiiflfipifinf, to forma Koft (lough; must bo well kneaded, but nol too stiff and hard. Cover and set in v warm place where it will rise quickly. The quicker it rises the whiter it will be should be perfectly light in, at most,twc hours. Mold on a bread cloth, or folded table ploth, with a little flour dredged or it. I like narrow, long tins, with perpendicular sides, for baking in. Aftei putting in pain, li t rise about fifteen minutes. Just b-fore placing in the oven, wash the top of the loaves over with a little melted butter or milk with a paste brush or feather. Immediately on taking from the oven, roll each loaf separately in a bread towel. Notes for Farmer*. Arrowroot culture, which formerly was carried on quite extensively in Florida, is about to be revived by the new settlers in the land of flowers. The washing and shearing of sheep should be deferred until the weather is warm enough to insure them against taking cold after the fleece is removed. Filthy and wet poultry yards are likely to produce u disease known as scurfy leg, just as low, wet lands for pasture bring on foot rot in sheep and cattle. It is much easier to prevent such diseases than to cure them. The grasshopper commission, consisting of Profs, liiley, Thomas and Packard, are soon to leave for the Rocky mouutains, for the purpose of investigating the life history of this great pest of the Western States and Territories. The breeders of Angora goats must begin to get discouraged, inasmuch as the price of the animals has dropped to almost nothing, and the fleece, which we were assured would sell readily at ?5 or SG a pound, finds a slow market at thirty-five to fifty cents. Those who may desire to raise Ameri1 1-4. -1 ~-1 1.. i. San eim, scuri'.'t i*iiu huver mupie net's, should not forget that the seed ripens in the spring, anil should be sown as soon is gathered from the trees. The seeds )f all our other speeie3 of maples ripen in the fall, and may be kept over winter. For bee pasturage there are few plants that excel mignonette, as it grows readily au light soils and blooms throughout the hottest and dryest weather, when many of the more hardy perennials fail. If you keep bees, sow a bed of mignonette for bee pasturuge in times of Iroughts. InHcct Pests. Allow me to give to the suffering public a more effectual remedy than any I iiave seen recommended for the destruction of all those pests that feed upon the Foliage of our crops. Dissolve a dram if corrosive sublimate in a pail of water, sprinkle it upon the foliage with a fine sprinkler. It is not necessary that every leaf should be wet with it, as it is the mating of the leaf that destroys the worm ar bug, and not by its application to their bodies. I destroyed the whole crop of currant worms last year upon my bushes by one application. There being entire absence of taste to the arti cle, it is eaten readily." The rain washes it off, but it would not be safe to put it upon fruit nearly ripe. It is a most violent poison, to man or beast; therefore the utmost care should be exercised in cleansing "all vessels in which it has been placed ; thp water even in which Lhey are washed should not be poured upon the ground where fowls might pick up food. In the potato field there would be no danger in its use unless fowls were allowed to run in the field and should eat the worms. A farmer cau afford to use great caution in its use if lie can successfully destroy the worm of the Colorado beetle.?Mwwachwicttx Plo ugh v tan. A minute analysis of life at once destroys the splendor which dazzles the inifiaination. Whatsoever grandeur cau display or luxury enjoy is procured by offices from which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All tho delicacies of the table may bo traced back to the shambles and dunghill; all the inagnifi?ence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all pomp ornament dug from among the damps and daakneBH of the mine. . j Needed Information. At ten o'clock the other forenoon ft ; mftn wearing n, doubtful look appeared at vi t the stamp clerk's window in the post3 j office and asked for a postal card and 5 j facilities for writing. He was a long ! ^ i i time getting ready to put his pen to the j y 1 I card, nnd he had only made a stroke or j ' - two when he called out: f " How do you spell ' Jim ?' " , "Why, J-i-m, of course," answered ur i the clerk. I f? ; " Don't look as if it was right," said i e3 ? the man, he held up the card and scru- j I j tinized the word. "Sure you haven't: i-, i j made any mistake ?" I ? 5 " That's the way, of course," growled j ? . a by-stander. " How else can you spell ,v 3 the name ?" i "That's so?how could I ?" smiled the w I man, as he looked again. "I'll put , r J-i-m against any other Btyle of spelling - every time. Now, his other name is?is i ?well, knock me down if I haven't fori gotten ! Why, hang it, I have known * c liim for teii years, and now J. can t tiunu jj : of his name ! Jim?Jim?Jim?J-i-m . 1 yum / ^ ^ j He looked around in a helpless way, and one of the sme.ll crowd finally said : ^ "You can write the message, and i f think of the name afterward." " So I can. I want to say to him that v ; his wife is side abed, his landlord is ^ f howling around for rent, and that he'd better come home. How do you spell I it ?" p "I'll write it," answered the clerk. ' I "He couldn't read your shearogrnpy," , said tho stranger. " Jim isn't much on S 'T education, and I have to write just as poorly as I can or he couldn't make out j a word. Less see ! Do I want to start i , nff witli P K nr what,?" I ,, "I should 8nj: ' You ftre wanted to 1?r home to once,' if it wan me," suggested -A 1 a car driver, wlio was after a stamp. | , "'Twouldn't do," sighed the man, * [ sliaking liis head, "I wouldn't dare ^ 5 spring the thing on him suddenly, or he'd make for Canada. The plaoe to I tell him to come home is down here at > the bottom." " Where is he ?" some one asked. . "Whv, in?in?in?why, blister my ? ears?why !"? j aj : " I'll bet you've forgotten the place !" ; f ' shouted the car driver. 1 t " J-i-m, Jim?J-i-m, Jim, and he's in 01 ?in?J-i-m, Jim 1" gasped the man, as !1( f lie looked around with an appeal in his 1 ' eyes. I 1 Tlio crowd mentioned twentv different I places, but he shook his head at each Pj ' ouo- tl [ "If you can't think of his name, ami ,, ; can't remember his address, how are , k von coin" to send the card ?" asked the ?. : 'clerk P1 "That's so?how am I?" sighed the 1U [ man. "If you was me you wouldn't n , send .t would you ?" ' ; " I don't think I would." j? "Tlion T -won't Tf his wife can think ! l of his name and the place where he is she'd better write it." n.( ; When he walked away ho carried hiB B1 i lint in one hand and scratched his head I with the other, and muttered : C( i "J-i-m with a great big 'J,' and P blister my ears with a great big 'B.' ,c and I ought to have written his name i down on the door or somewhere. Less : J ! see ! J-i-m, and he's i-n in?in "? and he disappeared up Congress stree.? f1 i Detroit Free Press. ! m i ?????? Turkish Titles. cc Sultan?The sovereign of the Turkish la empire?the recognized organ of all ex- tli ecutive power in the State. His head- er quarters arc at Constantinople. b( i Porte?The government of the Turk- th ish empire. m Sublioje Porte?The official name of af the government, s -called from the gata ht of the sultan's palace. Ji Gran 1 Vizier?The chief minister of Cc the Turki-h empire. w Divan?The Turkish council of State : re i ?the "cabinet." j ae j Gr.md Mufti?Chief interpreter of the j tb | Mohammedan law and head of ?he "wise I 0r uieu"?jurists, tneoiogians aim uicrun \ m ?who assemble for c, nsu'tatidu on his j N order. He is mostly styled the cliief of | th the faithful. A writer say* a fctwa or : A; decree from him would summon iirouud J pf the standard of the prophet all the fa- i cl] natical hordes of Islam to fight to the i st death against the "infidels, in the firm j 01; | beli-.f that death on the battlefield is a |gt sure passport lo paradise." j qj Pasha?Governors, viceroj b, com-! fa manders, civil and military rulers of! f0 provinces. . : or Deys?About the same as pasln. i Pj Shfik?The name given the heads of m Arabian tribes or clans. It menus elder, i jn or eldest iu dignity and authority. ca Osmandi?Turkish official. of Islam?The religion of Mohammed. ra Islams?Mohammedans themselves. 8]) Mussulman?A follower of Moham- iir rued. gti Ottoman Empire?Another name for iie the Turkish empire, ani derives its wi name from Osman, its founder. I th Osmanlis?The Turks proper. j jn _ ? ' ioi Turkish Dcstructivencss. ! f0 A recent traveler in Asia writes: In tie I the latter days of the Greek domination, i H j Trebizond was the capital of an inde- i as j pendent empire. Since it wns taken by ou ; the Turks, notwithstanding the advan- 1 re j tages of its situation, its growth Ins i wl j been arrested, and it has sunk from tho af ! dignity of a political capital to a third- j in ! rate town. As Ion/? as it belongs to Tur- j re : key it will be the miserable, tumble-! vii : down place that it now is, without a ( he ; sheltered port, and with an open road-; od j stead only for anchorage, where vessels ! an j lie a league from shore, exposed to tho i tri I full power of tho land and sea gales, th .The Turks have a great power for de-, ga j struction and none for construction. Tut th I them down in any given place, and let it mi | l.e as rich ami prosperous as it may, and ve ; in a short time they will let it fall into at : decay. If it is a seaport, its harbor will i th be choked up with sand, its piers will ! mi crumble to pieces, its trade will dwindle nc ; away, and its population will thin off as to i if it had been swept b/ a pestilence. si> | ?- ftfi f Energy and Humanity.?A widow H I about, forty years of age, living on High be ' street, and having the reputation of mi being one of the meekest anil humblest N< ladies in Detroit, pulled hair with the ! wl ' servant girl before breakfast the other 1 te morning, clubbed two boys from the 1 on gate before eight o'clock, and had a fuss sp with a neighbor about a parrot ere the j hn clock struck nine, run a peddler out of ! tli lliH varil nt tail. " sussed" two of the fo ! sanitary police at eleven, and at high al; 110011 she throw nshes over the valley nn fence < ;i a man who was swearing at a la balky horse. During the afternoon she ;/J, wns e ipjftgocl in working the motto: "Le.tt'iy light shine."?Detroit Free Pre#*. i he A lady in Covington, Ivy., held ft rftbid black in; ftti'i tan dug do*.vu by tho throat for more than of I two bourn, until bar bnnb.-uid camo hornn and do I dispatched him. I hy AN ADVENTUROUS CAREER. 'bat IJcfcl a Delaware i)Ian by l^nnd and Hca?Perils in Varlona Hliupcx. There was lately lost at sea off Hatsras, a coasting vessel bound from New ork to a port off Texas, the captain of hich, John Williams by name, had a >mewhat remarkable career. He was a itive of Sussex county, Del., and first iw light about sixty years ago, near the inks Of Indian river. Following the cjimnle of t.he mnle nomilation of that igicm from time immemorial, he early in fe became a fisherman and spent the renter portion of his working hours in is boat dredging for oysters or hauling ie seine for fish. Of Williams' haps id mishaps at this period of his career e have no record, but if they were ; all in proportion to what befel him i subsequent years they were very any. When he was about twenty years old 3 had grown tired of his quiet fishing fe and hired as a hand on a schooner ading with New York. He made sev:al trips, and his first glimpse of the itside world was obtained as the vessel liled up the East river among the forest ; masts. The only accideht tliat hap3ned him while in the service of the In' ; 1.: i?: I l ,1 LtUl river Hiuppei- wus mo ueJiiy a.iiui;o.eu per one day in New York harbor, but a jpe being thrown him he was speedily i deck again. His first extended voyage as to the West Indies, and ono day bile in the tropics he, with two coinanions, went in to bathe. A school of larks happened in the neighborhood, id one of Williams' companions was iten, while our hero himself lost a part : his foot. His escape from the jaws of le fish was so narrow that he never venired to bathe in that latitude again, lis next adventure was in South merica. While the vessel on which he tiled was in port undergoing repairs Williams, with two other ccmpanions, jt leave to make an excursion inland, s the three men were winding their ay slowly down a mountain slope, beriding the mules used in such counies, Williams, being some distance in Ivance, wa3 startled by the sudden lying of his mule. At the same instant e heard a horrible hissing sound, and 1 looking in the direction whence the disc proceeded was terror-stnciien to eholtl ft huge serpent in the net of :>uncing upou him. He instantly sprang om the saddle anil bounded up the ith. A moment later the poor mule ttered an almost human cry of fright as ic serpent sprang upon it a^d bore it to ic earth. When Williams came in sight : his companions they asked for an exlauation of his strange conduct, declarig that he looked i\s though lie had seen ghost. He could only point down the ountain where the seipent and the ule, coiled together, were rolling in ie thicket below. The sailors lost no we in departing-from the dangerous jighborliood, and mode no more excurons into the country*. On the home voyage the vessel enmntered a terrible storm and went to Will in ma nrwl ft p.nlnrp/1 man mud themselves clinging to a spar, half jad. They both managed to bestride , and by constant watchfulness managed ' avoid being rolled under the -waves by icir unsteady raft. After they had been mating for twenty hours the colored an complained that his strength was st leaving him, and feared that he uld not hold out much longer. Wilims endeavored to cheer him by saying iat as they were in the track of f-outhn bound vessels they must surely soon i seen and picked up. But exhaustion, lirst and hunger proved too much for the an's endurance, and on the second dav ter the shipwreck he suddenly fell ickward with a sharp cry of despair and sappeared under the sea. Williams mtinued to float for another half day, ' lien he was seen by a passing ship and scued, more dead than alive. The ves1 proved to be an American bark for ic West Indies, thence to Spain, and 1 reaching the former islands, Wilims, finding no vessel ready to sail for , ew York, and being offered a berth by ( e captain who rescued him, accepted. : i the vessel lay in a Spanish port a irty of the sailors went ashore on mis- j lief bent. While strolling along the J reets they heard strains of music, and, j itering a house, found a dance in pro-!: ess. " Half-seas over," and conselently reckless, they entered into the j . ndango with great zest. All went well ; r ft time, ami tlie inmates Beennngiy ( ijoyed the vivacity of the intruders. L-csently Williams began paying very arked attention to a fair senorita, -who j turn seemed charmed -with the Ameri- I n?too much so, indeed, for the peace j1 mind of her jealous cavalier, -who in a ge drew an ugly looking knife from its : eath, and, making a lunge at Wil- I ims,_ stabbed him in the side.* He j I aggered, and would havfl fallen, had j i s not been caught by his comrades, : ] 10, after demolishing the furniture of, i e place and wounding several of the { 1 mates, removed their injured compan-1 ] n on board ship. Williams' wound was j und to be a dangerous one, and it was < lemed advisable to sail without him. i e was accordingly placed in a hospital < hore, and the captain sailed home with- i it him. In a few months, however, he < covered and shipped for New York, at j lich port he arrived without accident, i i ter an absence of several years. Find- ; ] g a vessel irora iimmn nver auoiu iu ( , turn, ho embraced the opportunity of 11 siting his> early home. While there j ] ! was offered the position of first mate f l a ship engaged iu the Southern trade, ! .< id accepted the place. On the second i ip from New York, when off the capes, f e schooner was wrecked in a terrible j i .le, and Williams, the only survivor of i r e ship's crew, was found lashed to the \ ainmast and taken off by a passing | ( ssel after the storm had in a measure 1 ir.ted. It would naturally be supposed ' < at this narrow escape woulcfr deter the i t uriner from further risk by sea, but j it so; there was a fascination iu the ! mpestuous life which lie could not re- j it, and accordingly we find him sailing i ;ain as soon as he could find a berth, j ] e continued a seafaring man for a uum- t t of years, "and finally obtained com- j iind of a schooner trading between j sw York aiul Galveston, Texas. It was 1 rile sailing from the former to the lat- j r port that his vessel went down during [ le of the terrible gales of the early i ring, and all on board are supposed to ( ive perished. Thus ended the life of , t is intrepid mariner,who for forty years ] (lowed the sea, in that time visiting , moHt every part of the civilized globe, j id braving dangers both on sea and on j ad to find at last a watery grave.? ( hiladclphia Press. t ? 1 Mrs. Bezwaoks in .something of a joker. When I r husband came home at noon and fell over a i litewash pail, barking bis shin and fractnr- j ; 0'ic of the commandments, to nay nothing ^ spoiling his clothcH, his wife told the next or neighbor, jftcr dinner, that sho had jUBt 1 ard the latent snore news. i) Fashion Notes. Sleeveless sacks and jackets aro still j worn. 1 Light-colored shoes will be worn this ! j season. The Tally-ho hat is a broad brimmed I Panama. There is an effort to revive the pagoda sleeve. The modestie is the new name for { chemisette. j 1 Japanese designs on note paper are j , very iasnionauie. , , Small sized Charlotte Corday shawls j ' are worn in Paris. ) . Bonncrs composed entirely of flowers | ] are worn with very dressy toilets. |3 New garnitures of roses and leaves ! have tiny shells hanging amid the foliage. j Black or white straws are prettier, in j i better taste and more ladylike than those < in colors. The edges of the newest linen collars j and cuffs are needle worked with red, blue or gray. . Elderly ladies are adopting the long, j ] loose paletot of black silk, trimmed with j j passementeries and lace. Draperies are not tied back so tight, ( but skirts are made narrower, so as to i produce as.close an effect as ever.. ; Rubber grasses are mingled with the , violets, roses, mignonette and forget-me- 1 nots of corsage bouquets. Large cravats of white muslin, trimmed with fine lace, are worn knotted low ! 1 in the throat of summer toilets. 11 New linen collars are cut low in the j ' throat, but they have revers that fold 11 closely so as to conceal the throat. < The fjatemcH, or dust cloaks, of this | < season are long, loose princess paletots, I j with two large back and two front I pockets. i j Princess dresses are not appropriate I for confirmation toilets. They are un becoming to youthful figures, and rc- j quire more garnitures than the occasion demands or permits. %) For Breton costumes our large houses i sell along with the material for the dress ' all the trimming necessary for it; that j s, the embroidered bands and the j equisite number of buttons. |, White dotted, barred or plain Swiss j < dresses are to be worn this summer over 1 slips of pale blue or rose-colored lawn, j The dress is then trimmed with bows, , jabots, and " panel " trimmings of rib- < bons to match the color of the slip, or I < of contrasting color. ? ? !- ? ?. I UOUnrmiHlUU iuiiui? uru uiuou uisroiui : when made up with rigid simplicity. A ! plaited corsage, a skirt trimmed with j' simple folds or scant bias volantes,-the j neck and wrists finished with a simple ' ruche, and round the waist a white rib- * bon sash tied at the back, is the correct ' style. ' Parisian toilets of white muslin and ( lace show several contrasting and har- , monizing "colors in the ribbons with j which they are trimmed; for example, one has ribbon bows, cascades and " lad- ] ders " of straw color, olive, brown and ] pale blue ; another of pink, pale blue , and tilleul; another, olive green, brown . and cream color ; aud a fourth of Maza- j riu blue, canary color and opaline gray. ( A Brooklyn Man's Mineral Spring. A Brooklyn paper reports 'that one j Mr. R , while excavating on the 1 shore of Newtown creek, struck a spring < of mineral water. He took a bottleful 1 of it to a German chemist for analysis, i telling him he should advertise the re- , suit, and convert the place into a regular | Baden-Baden. The chemist, having been i * 1 ?:j.I. - ?< . Iftvoreu W1U1 U U1 IW iwuirivu the spring, remarked, dryly, that he would send his analysis written out in mmmon language, which people would understand bettor than such scientific terms as chloride of sodium, oxide of iron, etc. Mr. R soon received the following : ANALYSIS OF TIIE NEWLY DISCOVERED NEWTOWN CHEEK MINERAL SPRING WATEB. Salt water 750 Coal oil 34 Extract of dead dog 13 Precipitate of cat 24 Oxido of hoopskirt 17 I Sesqnioxidfi of barrel hoops 10 | Quintessence of gl le 14 Decomposed bone 56 [nfnsion of soot 8 rritnrated paint screenings 11 Boardinghouse butter 9 Pish residuum 19 Conglomerated sediments 23 Othor nasty things 12 1,0C0 H. K , analytical chemist. Mr. R has concluded to postpone | idfprt;?inrr the snriner. I ' "" * O ~l w ?i?? c The Cossack. t The Cossack is a little Russian, about * Sve feet five, even on his high heels, but r it once sturdy and wiry. His weather- 8 beateu face is shrewd, knowing and 0 merry. His eyes are small, but Keen; 11 [lis mouth large, and between it and his 0 pug nose?rather redder than the rest of [lis face?is a tuft or wisp of straw col- v sred mustache. His long, thick, 1,' straight hair, matches his mustache in ^ jolor, and is cut sheer rouud by the J nape of his neck. Below the neck the j * Cossack is all boots and great coat. He , 11 is more armed than any man of his i ^ inches in Europe, and could afford to ! ^ oso a weapon or two and yet be an j P iverage dangerous customer. "Weapon k lumber one is the long, black, flagless ; P auce, with its venomous head that *eems itching to make daylight through I somebody. He carries a carbine, slung ; t< u an oilcloth cover, on his back, the itoek downward. In his belt is a long ^ ind well made revolver in a leather case, ' e ------ , ? 4.1 md from the belt iiaugs a cnrveu sworu 11 vitli no guard over its hilt. His whip v :ompletes his personal appurtenances; 11 le wears no spurs. He rides, cocked up d jn a high saddle with a leathern band 0 itrapped over it, a wiry little rat of a 0 )ouy. The Family. The family is the educator of the race, i Here men and women are made. What -hey are in the world, that they were in 0 lie family as children. The family is the c ilace where first the lessons of law are a received, and where the whole character, ti n vit w of law lias a direction given it. li rhe citizen is made in the family long p ififore. tha time for votincr or activity has h :omo. When Napoleon said, in answer 1> 0 Madam do Stael's question about b Prance's greatest noeil, Mothers," lio v inserted the all-potent influence of a true f' ife. The family is the greatest means tl 'or the development of diameter. What ft 1 world doe3 it present for the affections v :o abide in ! Where in all the earth tl reside are sympat'ue* so warm, love so tl lure and fervent as here ? All that gives h raluo or beauty t) human diameter finds p n the family at once an atmosphere in ti vhich to expand and develop the elo- tl nents which shall bring it. to the highest w lerfection, - . e< Items of Interest. There are nix different ways of spelling the iame Batoum, the Turkish port, bat there i? jnly one way of capturing it, and that w by ighting. Rata are so thick around Bloomington, HI., :bat the weary tramp who lieu down in a fence jorner is soon made to feel what a poor, misjrable creature he is! The bey of Tunis is hard up, the khedive of Egypt can't pay his bills, and Kiug Dahomey is standing off his wash bills for sixty days. Lot laboring men be consoled. The uncalled for baggage at a hotel would , jtrike one as being full of lonely romance if Dne didn't see tho porter take out so many brickbats and old boots. When you "pop the question" to a lady, do t with a kind of laugh, as if you Wore jokirg. [f she accepts you, very well; if she dees not, rou can say you were '* only in fun." "Gone?faded into the dim mist which hides the sunshine of life from the black pall of death," said an orator, when speaking of the first two captains who sailed on the Erie ;anal. A man at a restaurant bad called for the bill, paid it, and was leaving, when tbe waiter suggested that the amount did not include the ivaiter. "Ah," said tbe man, " but I didn't eat the waiter." Deacon Jon es, juat deceased, had a very red ioso. His widow thought it rather personal in ihe minister to begin his funeral discourse : " Another shining light has been ta kcu from jur congregation. A fashion report says that gentlemen's hats' ire provided with a .new kind of ventilator .vhich will last much longer than the bole style. Anything that will outlast a hole must be & paluable addition to the resources of a people. Comparisons are odious. The major, rockng Nelly on bis knee for Aunt Mary's sake ?" I suppose tnat is what you like ?" Nelly? "Yes, it's very nicc. But I rode on a real dori* *ey yesterday?I mean one with four legs, you inow." Charles, playfully?''How much, really, did ;hat hat cost, Jennie?" Jennie, archly? "If you really want to inspect the bills for my Iry goods, Charles, there is a way to do it. \ud what else could Charles do but propose on . tbe spot? "Boys," said the teacher, holding up her right fore finger to make the scholars attentive, "what is Indian meal composed of?" And a little boy in the Jjack seat, who wore' patched trousers, got up *nd said: "i'lease, ma'am, roast missionaries." A correspondent writes to ask why newly * married men are called Benedicts. The reason, we believe, is that in entering on their new state of life they are supposed to give up ill the bad bachelor habits to which they have been bejiedicted.?San Francisco'News Letter. After seeing two doctors hang around over a man for four hours and use a gallon of mixed chloroform aud ether,' trying to get him to deep that they may saw - his leg off, it grows more and more a mystery to us now a robber :an couie in, and slap a little two-by-four (ponce saturated with chloroform over a jlerk s nose and steal a whole bank slick and :lcan in less than seven minutes. A Young Lawyer's Downfall. The New York Express lias an account )f the downward career of a young lawyer of New York, who created a pensa;ion recently by sending a challenge to Eight a duel to Mr. Anthony Comstock, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. The young lawyer was nakiug a disturbance in Mr. Comstock's jliice, and was ejected by that gentlenan; hence the challenge. The story of lis early life is as follows: About twelve years ago the'New York bar was greatly surprised at the wit, brilliancy and learning of a young barrister tvho had just been admitted to the legal profession, having taken the highest lionors in college. A bright future was expected by every one for the man, whose jovial habits and high standing ind social attainments warranted his triends in calling him "Henry." But is time passed, it could easily be observed that Henry was not the same as before. At times his wit was dull, his roice husky, and his eye lacking in the quickness that bad formerly sparkled * ;here, and it began to be said that he tvas too fond of the cup; and that bis lights were often spent in dissipation vnd debauch. He was seen hanging iround Delmonico's, waiting for his riends to come and ask him to drink, ind people made up their minds that he iVrts fast drifting away, to utter ruin. But the gossips seemed to be mistaken, ill at once Henry seemed to gain new .'itality and anowar and better life began a open before him, his glad laugh and learty voice were heard again in the ;ourt rooms, his clients multiplied, and nen of double his years preferred to be issociated with him than to be opposed o his dashing eloquence and brilliant iatire. Rumor of course was not long in findng out the cause, and it was said that lis affections had been placed upon a roung and charming lady, and that for ler sake he was endeavoring to become vortliy of her love. His family were lelighted, and his friends gathered iround him cheering him back into the urifVl TLVMvlct ^Ublio %Jk yiivuc mvu nvmu v* ^ ? neut and hope. The reformation seemed :omplete, the engagement was made and he wedding day was fixed. It is said, towever, that on the morning when the utptials were to take place Henry met everal of his friends and, elated by the iccnsion, adjourned with them to a leighboring bar-room, and his fall was omplete. The beautiful bride, dressed in her redding attire, waited long and patientv, but the groom did not come. He /as, it is said, in the room of a hotel opelessly intoxicated and cared for by lie gentlemen whom he had asked to act s his friends upon his wedding day. .'he next morning, sober and repentant, e sought his bride that was to be, imlored her forgiveness and one more rial. The latter was given, but a long robatiou was imposed. He sold the house aud furniture which te had bought, and voluntarily retired ) a private inebriate asylum, hoping hereby to eradicate the fatal tendencies rhich hejielieved to be a curable disase. It is alleged that he remained twn xrooi*H "Fill* a VfrtT rtr SO 1)0 'tis sober, but at last, cither from a atural weakness or from a feeling of espair at having heard that the woman f his choice was to be married to anther, ho resumed his old habits, and ritli a few occasional periods of sobriety lecame a hopeless drunkard. ~o ? A Pleasant Custom. Cameron's "Across Africa" says that n tho death of a Urua chief, it is the ustom to divert the course of a stream, nd in its bed to dig an enormous pit, lie bottom of which is thou covered with iviug women. At one end a woman is ilaced on her hands and knees, and upon er back the dead chief, covered with is beads and treasure, is seated, being upported on either side by one of his rives, while his second wife sits at his ?et. Tho earth is then shoveled in on hem, ami all the women are buried live, with tho exception of the second rife. To her custom is more merciful lian to her companions, and grants her ae privilege of being killed before the uge grave is filled in. This being comleted, a number of male slaves?somemos forty or fifty?are slaughtered, and loir blood poured over the grave, after 'liich tlm rivfr in allowed to resume its ourpe,