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sy r. S. HOWARD.
VOLUME V.
Hold Fast to Faith.
I , lir :iey of life, outstretching before us,
■hi v the emblem of laith be fixed to our
H brea-W .
■ 10-dny hang pleasantly o’er
H u 5
I jj s _r bring with the morrow the biLterest
% test.
: ~,„th though to-day be a garden of roses,
may lie through hedges of brier,
I * whatever we plan fate often disposes,
I ipup in disaster our fondest desire.
R . T |j no w we may dwell iu the sunshine of
I gladness,
I Al i the hearthstone oi home be lighted
with joy; h
■ hann oi atlVction, unbroken by sadness;
■ ‘ An ,i the cup ot our pleasure untouched by
I y.• these may all flee like a mist of themom
■ ing, H
I tnl the warmest of friends grow cruel and
1 ;
|.j T ersity's ptdi may enshroud the bright
■ dawning,
■ And our happiness end, like a tale that is
I fold.
I i om life, that to-day is blooming with
I pleasure,
I fo morrow, perhaps, it may blossom with
I tram;
I p t r one whom we guard as earth’s richest
| treasure,
I May garnered by death in his harvest ot
I year?.
I (jar heart may be strong in its life-giving
I Junction,
I And suffuse our young brow with the mantle
I ol health;
I Battle destroyer thinks not of a soul’s denied
j unction
I |jke a thief in the night hecomethby stealth*
I Be this then our motto, lile’s journey pur.
suing,
Hold lust on to laith if we would to our
I God;
la believing alone is the way ol subduing
Ttio pain that is sufl'eied whilst under the
rod.
I And when at the end, the dark valley des
cending.
We shall not he lost in the depths ol de
spair;
And the light ol our laith, with radiance
blending,
Shall illume the brighter the crown we shall
wear.
Howard JV. Fuller.
THWARTED.
“ALiher!”
A look at tender expostulation; the
swill moving of aged lips to a smile.
Two laces almost touched as a pair of
strong arms relieved feeble ones of a
heavy package of books.
“ Weil, dear,” said the mellow old
voice ot Mrs. Maples, addressing tier
son, Lynn ; “ I thought you had enough
to carry.”
Lynn Maples’ arms might have been
said to be full, for he carried a dry
goods bundle, a valise, a weil-paekej
shawl-strap and an umbrella; but he
took quick-possession of the books, and
then, after an instant’s evident regret
that he had no arm to offer Ilia mother,
stepped from the store door, and turned
to had a horse-car.
A fair lace, that had been turned
steadily toward the two since they
emerged from the store, leaned forward
now into tire sunshine, as Annie Lor
aine, among the velvet cushions of her
phaeton, followed with her brown, at
‘•‘ntive eyes the movements of mother
mid son.
‘Amusing, watching the crowd some'
times,” remarked an elegant young man
at her side, reconciling himself with
"iiat grace lie could to Miss Loraine’s
inattention.
Yes,” she answered, almost inaudi
bly.
The next momont, with a sharp cry,
su ’ * ia( l sprung from the violet cushions
' ' was foremost in the gathering
crowd.
Bewildered, and for once shaken out
2. fi ' s boasted repose of manner, Percy
udley followed her.
An aged woman,her beautifully silvery
u ' disheveled, her black dress covered
"tli dust, had just been ifted from the
? r oun |by a burly policeman, and was
■Mantly claimed by a young man.
'Till someone call a carriage?”
Ull -d Lynn Maples, his mother lying
senseless across his breast.
mine! pray, take mine!”the
Monished Dudley heard Miss Loraine
saying.
ut before he could get his breath,
l ',' Nas shouldered one side by Lynn,
' v 10 had accepted Miss Loraine’s offer
. IQ uta thought, and was only anx
to get his mother to a place of
safety.
her in the deep seat, and sup
foitod her with one arm, while Miss
moraine put the lines into his other
hand.
r l urn down this side street—quick—
crowd,” she said; “ and leave
~l p Pbaeton at the St. James hotel lor
‘ bss Loraine.”
The burly policeman had finished
P aeing his packages and bundles about
bet, and mechanically Lynn Maples
obeyed the mandate given him by the
livery voioe and sweet brown eyes.
Hie pretty ponies bore him quickly
iro . m the scene, and through several
r iUitt streets to his home.
by this time Mrs. Maples had regained
| lj nsciousness, and could descend from
ie v ehicle with his assistance, though
shaken.
In stepping from the sidewalk to take
‘horse-car, she had been interrupted by
! Ie Posing of a carriage, and stepped
lU 'b beneath the horses of another,
hynn Maples was a blue-eyed, tender
parted fellow, with nothing remarka
' about him but his purity of char-
THE FOREST NEWS.
? nd Oomc.tlc testes, contrasting
S y tJt. , ’ leh, ‘ bitSOfthes ' o “”*
-Though six-and-twenty, his mother
had hitherto been the sole lady of his
ove, and she was a little surprised to
near him exclaim suddenly, out of a
reverie, the next day:
“ Wasn’t she beautiful?”
“ Who, Lynn?”
“ f he Y°ung lady who offered me her
carriage.”
“ You forget, dear,” placidly, over
her knitting, “I did not see her.”
“ I wonder who she is?”
And Lynn continued to wonder. He
had left the phaeton at the St. James
hotel, and thd proprietor had assured
hl “ U , iat a } ] would be right. Appar
ently me episode had closed.
On vhe contrary, Annie Loraine, a re
markably independent young lady for
one ot but twenty years of age, had
taken pains to inform herself that Mrs.
Maples was not seriously injured.
She asked a hundred questions of her
informant—who chanced to know the
Maples—and learned that they
moderate circumstances; perfectly re
spectable; that they lived in a flat in
Hotel Dighton; that Lynn was a dry
goods clerk, and supported his mother
and a young sister.
Percy Dudley stood by chafing.
It seems to me you are very much
interested in that fellow, Annie!” lie
exclaimed, at last.
‘‘ I am, I think,” she answered, care
lessly.
Dudley looked at her from under a
frowning brow. He, Percy Dudley, the
irresistible, the best match of the season,
had paid this girl the most unmistakable
attentions for four months without the
slightest sign of having made but the
most ordinary impression upon her.
Yet he continued his suit, since there
was not another girl worth one hundred
thousand dollars in his set, nor any
where that he knew of, to be had.
His jealous eyes observed that in
driving with Miss Loraine, they never
passed the store where Lynn was em
ployed without turning her glance
toward the entrance; and once, when
he chanced to be filling a lady’s car
riage with bundles, she bowed to him,
with a faint flush upon her lily face.
From that moment Dudley hated
Lynn. Though he did not for a moment
entertain the thought that Miss Loraine
gave him more than a passing approval,
and he could see that the young man
had something noble and attractive in
his air, he was jealous even of her mere
respect for him.
It was mere accident that the two
met again and again during the winter,
at church, at a fair, in a picture gallery,
where Miss Loraine offered Lynn the
sweetest courtesy, but it infuriated
Dudley.
. “Curse the fellow! I’ll make him
cut his own throat before long!” he mut
tered.
He caught Lynn out, and obtained
t introduction. It was in a concert
rour
“Good many ladies present. By the
way, there is Miss Annie Loraine in
front. Do you know her, Mr. Maples?”
“I have the pleasure—slightly,” re
plied Lynn, a flush coming into his
frank, blonde face.
“ Pretty, eh?”
“Very beautiful, I think. Do you
know where she resides, Mr. Dudley?”
“ What, don’t know? Oh, up town
somewhere!” answered the other, catch
ing at a sudden thought. “So you
don’t know mu h about her circum
stances?”
“No. Do you?”
“ Something,” carelessly. “ She’s an
orphan. Lives with an aunt. By the
way, my dear sir, she seems to know you
better than you do her.”
“She did me a favor last fall, on the
occasion of an accident.”
“Ah! Well, it seems that on that oc
casion you took the young lady’s fancy.
In short, she fell in love with you.”
“ With me?” stammered Lynn, blush
ing furiously. “lam not worthy the
honor.”
“ There is no accounting for women’s
fancy,” burst forth Dudley, savagely.
Lynn was too bewildered to notice
the sneer.
“ You are a Mend of hers?” lie asked.
“Oh, yes—an old, and intimate one.
She’s an odd girl—given to unaccounta
ble fancies, you know. Oh, yes, I know
her well! And my advice to you is to
strike while the iron is hot, and offer
yourself to Miss Loraine —that is, if so
inclined yourself.”
“I—l admire her very much!” stam
mered Lynn, trembling with agitation.
“Yes, certainly; I understand. Well,
she’s going South next week; but she’ll
be at the Parker Fraternity to-morrow
evening. You’d better see her there,
and make a sure thing of it. I’ll give
you my word she’ll accept you.”
“Thankyou! thank you!” murmured
Lynn, the lights swimming before his
eyes, and the music fading on his ears.
He cared no longer for the latter. He
got away out of the hall, and spent a
restless night, full of excitement and
the most exalted emotion. For the first
time he knew that he loved the lily
faced, brown-eyed girl.
The next night found him at the musi
cal enttrtainment of the Parker Fra
ternity. He was foolish, perhaps, but
not more so than a score of other young
fellows in love. But an ore honest,
fervent fellow never trembled at the
touch of a woman’s hand.
“ You are as fond of music as I am,
Mr. Maples,” she said, with a sweet
cordiality of manner which made her ir
resistible to all men who looked at her.
“ May I escort you home, Miss. Lor
raine? I—l have something to say to
you.”
She gave assent. Her brown eyes
JEFFERSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1880.
widened slightly with surprise, but she
chose to accept, and, for once, Percy
Dudley gracefully yielded his claims.
She came down into the moonlight,
her rich evening dress over her arm, her
face cool and sweet. Lynn had a mis
giving that he was mad, but he could
not help it. Before they had walked
six blocks and crossed the park he had
offered himself to Miss Loraine.
She did not speak—her face was quite
white. He felt the little hand on his
arm. tremble. But her voice was sil
very clear when she spoke at last:
“Mr. Maples, you have known me
but a comparatively short space of time.
What has caused you to address me like
this?”
My fervent love would not have
given me courage to do so, Miss Lor
aine; but an old friend of yours— one
who claimed to know you well- assured
me that you were not quite indiffer
ent—”
His voice failed him.
“ Who was this friend, Mr. Maples?”
“Mr. Dudley.”
He saw her eyes flash. She stopped
at the foot of a flight of marble steps.
lam at home now. Will you come
here to-morrow and get your answer,
Mr. Maples?”
Her face, gentle and downcast, did
not tell him enough to bid him hope,
but he could not forbear doing that in
the sight of her loveliness. He glanced
up at the wide portals, bronze lions and
arched casements, thinking, after he
had bowed and left her, that Annie Lor
aine’s aunt must be rich.
Another night of palpitating hope and
fear, yet he came with a manly face to
Annie Loraine to le°rn her answer.
He was a little surprised to find Dud
ley in the room into which he was
us ered. He sat lolling in an p asy-chair,
smiling, complaisant, yet with a flushed
face and covert sparkle in his eye.
Miss Loraine rose from the sofa, and
advanced cordially to her visitor, offer
ing her jeweled hand.
“You have come promptly for your
answer. Mr. Maples,” she said, “ and I
will be prompt with you. I accept your
offer of marriage, and give you, in the
very acceptance, my most sincere affec
tion. Yesterday was the first of April,
and I think it is Mr. Dudley who will
tell us who is the April fool.”
With a cry of rage, andalurious oath,
lie sprang to his feet; but Miss Loraine
turned her back on him, and walked
with Lynn into an adjoining parlor, and
he made his exit from the house with
out her adieux.
In scheming to make Lynn Maples
offend the heiress by an offer of mar
riage, he had shot beyond his mark,
and, losing nil hope of Annie Loraine
and her fortune, bitterly repented his
trick of the first of April.
Swifter Than the Telegraph.
Mr. Joseph Cooper, who is now work
ing a towboat line outside of the tow
boat association, and who has in conse
quence no rights and privileges with
regard to the telegraph line of the
association, has hit upon a novel method
of getting his dispatches transmitted
from his towboat to his office in this
city. Last year, when Captain Black
was outside this association, that enter
prising shipowner bought several dozen
Belgium carrier-pigeons, and was train
ing them for use, when he decided to enter
the association. Having no further use
for the birds, he did not know what to
do with them, until Mr. Cooper came
round, made inquiries and bought them.
Mr. Cooper constructed a cote back of
his office and therein put the pigeons.
In a day or two these latter became do
mesticated in their new quarters. For
some time past they have been regularly
employed in bringing messages from th
towboats at the pass, and Mr. Cooper is
delighted with his arrangement. The
carrier-pigeon in this service is swifter
than the telegraph. For example:
When a Cooper towboat takes charge of
a vessel, say at a distance off shore, a
pigeon is turned loose. The fleet bird
circles around a moment, and strikes a
bee line for home. The distance straight
is about 100 miles, which the pigeon
traverses in about one hour and a quar
ter. Should an association boat meet a
vessel so far from land a dispatch can
not be sent until thereafter, i. e., not
until the vessel is towed to the telegraph
station at Port Eads. Asa consequence
the carrier-pigeon line brings a message
to this city fully three hours ahead of
the telegraph line, and Mr. Cooper re
joices over this success.— New Orleans
Times.
Bearing Each Other’s Burdens.
Life teems with unnecessary pain. For
every living soul there is work to do,
effort to make, sorrow to alleviate. No
in the short time allotted to us
here should pass without some attempt,
however feeble, to lessen the load of
suffering pressing so unequally on the
lives of those around us. All can do
some little, and if each soul that has
suffered would take a share in removing
or lessening the burden of another, life
would be other than it is. An old writer
beautifully says: “All can give a
smile.” How few value a smile as they
should, yet who does not know the
brightness which some faces bring
whenever they appear? The smile of
kindly recognition, the acknowledgment
of existing suffering, the free masonry
of endurance, all are conveyed by a
glance, and none can tell how often the
effort to be cheerful has helped a weaker
sufferer to endure.— Social, Notes.
The first friction matches were six
inches long and five cents apiece. Con
siderable prejudice was raised against
their use by their occasional explosion.
FOR THE PEOPLE.
Hook’s Famous Hoax.
Theodore Hook was the prince of
practical jokers, and for years kept Ihe
people of England laughing at his cun
ning and his wit. The masterpiece in
this line was what is known as “The
Berners Street Hoax,” perpetrated in the
cjty oi London, in 1809. The hoax was
oonceived in malice, having been an out
growth of a grudge entertained against,
its victim, Mrs. Tottenham, a wealthy
lady living at No. 54 Berners street.
Hook’s accomplices were a certain “ Mr.
H —who had been also concerned in
many of Hook’s previous jokes, and a
celebrated actress oi the time. Together
they sent out 4,000 letters to persons in
every station in life, purporting to be
orders, appointments or invitations from
Mrs. Tottenham. They all named the
same day, and an hour was appointed
for each, appropriate to his calling.
Thus, at five in the morning, the streets
resounded with the peculiar cries of an
army of chimney-sweeps, who, with
their masters, thundered upon the
knocker of No. 54. Before they had
gone, the ponderous coal wagons from
the wharves were driven up to the
house, each with a load of coal to de
liver at the same house, blocking the
street, and causing a great noise of
wheels and clamor of blackened drivers.
Later a large number of cooks appeared,
every one carrying a huge wedding cake
for the festivities that were never to
take place. Then followed tailors with
suits of cloths; upholsterers with sam
ples; undertakers with coffins ready
made; barbers with wigs to fit; millin
ers with arms filled with bandboxes,
and dentists nerved to draw teeth. By
this time the family at No. 54 were
nearly beside themselves with distress
at their situation and fear from the rage
of the disappointed tradesmen.
But more was to come. Great furni
ture vans rolled up to the house with
contents to fill a hundred 2iouses, organs
and pianofortes came, each with a num
ber of men to carry them in; linen dra
pers brought large rolls of goods, and
jowelers produced their rarest gems at
the command of the wealthy and fash
ionable lady of Berners street. At noon
forty fishmongers appeared, all bring
ing “cod and lobsters;” and butchers
followed, every man with a leg of
mutton.
At a fashionable hour the carriages of
many persons who moved in the best
circles began to arrive, and while they
were still there several “coaches and
four,” gayly decorated for a bridal jour
ney, wheeled into the street. Noblemen
princes and persons in high station came
to pay their respects. Lawyers, sum
moned to consult on important matters,
clergymen, to administer to the dying;
artists, eager for the patronage of the
great, came in numbers together. Sur
geons, too, came in hot haste, and, find
ing that their carriages could not pass
for the crowd, and seeing the multitude
apparently drtwn by some accident in
the house, they descended and forced
their way on foot through the throng.
And Anally, when the crowd was at its
greatest, fittingly to crown the joke, the
lord mayor himself, in his robe of state
and seated in his official chariot, was
driven to the door.
London was excited for many days
over this affair. Hook avoided trouble
by leaving the country for a while. The
tradesmen were eager to recover dam
ages for their losses, and others to ob
tain revenge for their annoyances.
Words of Wisdom.
A year of pleasuie passes like a float
ing breeze, but a moment of misfortune
seems an age of pain.
Many men claim to be firm in their
principles, when really they are only
obstinate in their prejudices.
If a man have love in his heart, he
may talk in broken language, but it will
be eloquence to those who listen.
It is well worth remembering that the
whole world will breathe a little freer
if you will only resolve to be an honest
and upright man.
He who indulges his sense in any ex
cesses, renders himself obnoxious to his
own reason; and to gratify the brute in
him, displeases the man, and sets his
two natures at variance. >
To commit the execution of a purpose
to one who disapproves of the plan of it,
is to employ but one-third of the man;
his heart and his head are against you,
you have commanded only his hands.
Duty itself is supreme delight when
love is the inducement and labor. By
such a principle the ignorant are en
lightened, the hard-hearted softened,
the disobedient reformed and the faith
ful encouraged.
Brown Paper Against the Cold.
The old woman’s remedy for a cold in
the chest, a sore throat or a bruise,
which consisted in an application of
brown paper steeped in beer or vinegar
owed its efficiency to the heat-retaining
properties of the paper. A wet pad of
this material, as far as the surface next
the skin was concerned, acted almost as
well as a layer of wet linen rag protected
with a thick covering of flannel; in
short, stout paper of the commonest
sort is an effective non-conductor, and
may be advantageously employed as a
covering for beds or to eke out scanty
clothing. A piece of thick paper in
serted between the lining and the cloth
of a waistcoat, or in the back of a thin
coat will render it warm as well as
light. The suggestion is a small one,
but it is simple to carry into effect, and
will be found effective.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Italian emigration to the United
States has increased so rapidly as to at
tract the attention of the Italian govern
ment, and it is said that measures will
be taken to prevent the exodus of the
people, which now amounts to a drain
of 135,000 a year. Italy is not over
populated and it ought to be so happy
and prosperous that emigration Would
have no temptation for its inhabitants.
But its recent political advancement lias
not been gained without cost; and the
national debt is large and the annual
taxation heavy. Italy is a poor country
compared to the United States, and yet
its debt is $1.977,117,345, and its yearly
expenditure per capita, $10,12, while
oursisonly $6.13.
The refuse of oats, it is found, may
be advantageously utilized as material
for paper manufacture, the object being
effected by first immersing the oat husks
in water in a tank, so as to float off all
foreign seeds, etc., which would ma
terially deteriorate the quality of the
paper. The oat husks are then allowed
to settle, and thn surface scum and
floating seeds are drawn off by an over
flow pipe at the top of the tank, or other
wise removed; after which the water
is completely drained from the husks by
a waste-water pipe at the bottom of the
tank and beneath a perforated false bot
tom, or filled with a strainer which re
tains the oat husks. The latter may be
left to steep in the water for from five
to ten hours after or during the removal
of the scum, as the steeping, by soften
ing them and helping to loosen the silica
from the fiber, facilitates the subsequent
boiling process.
The fees which physicians may
charge in Prussia for their services is
regulated by law, and according to the
most recent ordinance, the charge lor
the first visit to a sick person is fixed
at two marks (twenty-five cents stand
ing for a mark), and one mark for each
subsequent visit; where, however,
several persons belonging to the same
family and dwelling in the same house
have to be treated at the same time, then,
for the second and each succeeding per
son, only the half of these lees respec
tively is to be charged—the same rule
is to apply to boarding schools and
similar institutions, also to prisons.
When there is a consultation of several
physicians about the treatment of a sick
person, including then' personal visits,
each physician is to receive for the first
consultation five marks, and three
marks for each subsequent similar con
sultation. On the occasion of the first
.visit to the physician’s residence for his
medical advice, one mark and a half.
For the administration ot chloroform,
etc., when necessary for the treatment
of the patient, three marks.
About four years ago a novel plan for
instructing the children of the poor in
the art of housekeeping was put into
operation at the Wilson industrial
school for girls in New York. The
little girls were taught in an attractive
manner, and with the aid of toy im
plements, to wash, sweep, dust, sot the
table, make beds, and a variety of other
things, in a neat and thorough way.
The system was known by the name of
the “ Kitchen Garden.” It has gradu
ally extended, until there are now ten
or a dozen classes in New York, and
others have been formed in Hoboken,
Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia and
Chicago. Plans have also been made
for establishing kitchen gardens in
many other cities. A short time ago
a meeting was held at a private resi
dence in New York for the purpose of
organizing a “ Kitchen Garden Associ
ation,” so that the principles upon
which this system are founded may be
improved as much as possible, and that
there may be uniformity of action
among those interested in it. Chil
dren seem to be deeply interested in
this novel method of learning house
work, and last winter a class was formed
in Boston from the children of prosper
ous families.
The observations of statisticians have
been of late directed to the serious but
steady decrease in the population of
France, as evinced by the gradual les
sening of the birth rate. In 1878 the
number of births was 927,211, a lower
average than that of the last four years.
In 1861 the average was 2.69 per cent.,
in 1862 it was 2.65, in 1863 it rose again
to 2.69, but between 1864 and 1868 it
sank t 02.63. From 1874t0 1878 it further
declined to 2.56, and in the latter year it
was only 2 53. There are two causes for
this decrease, viz., the fewer number of
marriages, and, what is far more im
portant, a great decline in the number
of children resulting from these mar
riages. In the period between 1864 and
1868 the average of marriages was 0.79
per cent., which declined in the corres
ponding years of the next decade to 0.78
and is now only at the rate of 0.75. The
proportion of children to each marriage
is dwindling more and more, with the
exception of Brittany and some of the
departments in the center and south,
where the agricultural population is
under the system of co-operative farm
ing. In the class composed of petty
tradesmen or the well-to-do peasants
there is seldom more than one child per
marriage, and M. Baudrillart has stated
that in one of the rural communes in
Picardy he ascertained the number of
children among the best of the peasants
to be thirty-seven for thirty-five fami
lies. The illegitimate births in 1878
numbered 67,912, being 1,000 over and
above that of the preceding year.
A Leader of the Gauchos.
The north Atlantic coast is not the
only region whose inhabitants are de
moralized by the northeast wind. Gov
ernor Rosas, of Buenos Ayres, who was
successful in subduing the Indians of
the pampas, never treated with them
when the wind blew from the north
east. He found from experience that
during such periods the savages were
morose and indisposed to submit to
reason or force. When, however, the
wind came from the southwest they be
came reasonable, and then the governor
found little difficulty in making honor
able arrangements with them.
This Rosas was a remarkable man.
He was a splendid horseman, and even
the gauclios, the modern representatives
of the centaurs, admitted that he ex
celled them in riding and throwing the
lisso. Once, at a public celebration in
the city of Buenos Ayres, he gave an
exhibition of his skill. Stationing a
gaucho, with a lasso, at a corner of the
public square, Rosas rode at full speed
down the street. As he entered the
square the gaucho threw his lasso and
caught Rosas’ horse by the foreleg. The
animal fell headlong and broke its neck.
But Rosas leaped from the saddle,
alighted on his feet, and walked off,
raising his hat in acknowledgment of
the cheers of the people.
The leader of the aristocratic party
was Lavalle. Rosas shut him up in
Buenos Ayres and then besieged the
city. The war was a shocking one, no.
quarter being given on either side. La
valle’s supplies giving out, he deter
mined to come to terms with Rosas. One
day he rode out to the gauchos’ camp,
under a flag of truce, and asked to see
General Rosas. As he was absent, La
valle accepted an invitation to enter the
general’s tent, remarking that he had
had but little rest for a long time, and
would, if there was no objection, sleep
until Rosas’ return. Stretching him
self on the ground, he fell asleep in a
few minutes. When Rosas entered the
camp he was informed that Lavelle was
in his tent.
“ To what good fortune am I indebted
for this news?” asked Rosas.
*‘ He came under a flag of truce,” re
plied the offie.r, “and asked permission
to repose until your return.”
“ Do not allow him to be disturbed,”
said Rosas. “Any one who can sleep
in the tent of his most deadly enemy
must be a brave man. Let his fate be
what it may, he shall have a peaceful
sleep to prepare for it.”
When Lavalle awoke he and Rosas had
a conference. It resulted in the ter
mination of the civil war, and both
sides welcomed peace.
Two Terrible Duels.
The London Telegraph prints the fol
lowing: A horrible story of a duel be
tween two inhabitants of Morocco is
reported from Oran. The two principals,
both occupying a good position, were
enamored of the same beauty, and agreed
to fight for her possession. The com
batants met at a short distance from
Mequinez, each being armed with a car
bine, a revolver and a hunting-knife,
and mounted on horseback. The duel
ists rushed at one another at full speed,
which resulted in one of the horses being
killed, and the fight was continued on
foot. After the two men had received
several bullets in different parts of their
bodies, they closed, and commenced a
violent and horrible struggle with their
knives. One of the men thrust his knife
into the other’s throat, and received a cut
from his enemy which opened the whole
of his chest. Too weak to their arms,
the dying men took to biting one an
other, and expired, the one with his
teeth closing on the other’s cheek, who
gave Up his last breath in endeavoring
to rip open his adversary’s body. The
object of the encounter was thus gained,
as each prevented the other from ob
taining the hand of the girl, who must
in future endeavor only to captivate one
admiier at a time if she wishes to secure
a husband.
After all, this is child’s play com
pared with a desperate encounter de
cribed by the Impartial , of Madrid, as
taking place at Valparaiso, A quarrel
between two rival professors of music
led to a challenge, the instrument se
lected being neither pen nor sword, but
the piano. The conditions of the “ en
counter ” were that neither party should
eat or drink until honor had been de
clared duly satisfied, and that no waltzes
or other lively airs should be indulged
in. Seconds were appointed* and the
duel proceeded without intermission for
forty-eight hours, at the end of which
time one of the musicians, after playing
a “Miserere” for the one hundred and
fiftieth time, fell forward, and sank ex
hausted on the floor. He was taken up
a corpse. His adversary had been lit
erally transformed into an “enranged
musician,” and was in that state re
moved to the hospital. The seconds
themselves gave signs of being seriously
“ touched,” and each of the pianos was
found to be in a hopelessly crazy condi
tion. Such, at least, is the result of the
medical examination.
A small boy, whose deportment at
school had always ranked 100 per
centum, came home one night with his
standing reduced to ninety-eight.
“ What have you been doing, my son?”
asked the mother. “Been doing,”re
plied the young hopeful; “been doing
just as I have all along, only the teacher
caught me this time.” —American Punch.
Astronomy was first studied by the
Moors, and was introduced by them into
Europe in 1201. The rapid progress of
modern astronomy dates from the time
of Copernicus. It was known to the
Chinese about 1100 B. C.
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NUMBER 50.
Kiss Me Before Ton do.
Your way lies over the hillside,
Out in*tho rain and sleet,
Ont in tne world’s wild turmoil,
Where the bustle and business meet;
But mine by the noiseless fireside,
Where the lanciiul embers glow
With a changeful lite-like motion—
Kiss me before you go.
My quiet way will be haunted
With visions none others can see,
Glancei More precious than diamonds,
§miles full of meaning to me;
The sound of a welcome footstep,
A whisper thrillingly low;
Ah, thought will clasp memory closely
Kiss me belore yon go.
For this world is full of mischances,
And one of those may lall;
. That we two ne’er again in the firelight,
Make one shadow upon the wall.
Ob, then, once more in the parting—
Alas ! that it must be so—
Leave me a fond benediction;
Kiss me before you go.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Archery is becoming fashionable in
the South.
Bound East—The books published in
Boston. — New York News.
The Chicago Journal says that a hop
ping branch of industry in Illinois is
frog culture.
The successful growing of the coffee
plant in Florida is now established be
yond question.
Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, intends
it is said, to become a lecturer when
his congressional term expires.
The mayor of Leavenworth said he
liked to see boys enjoy themselves, and
then turned about and arrested a lad
who gave him a volley from a bean
shooter.
Trout, the'most beautiful of fish, are
deceived by the flies that are most arti
ficially made; but there is no reason
why a girl should fall in love with a
mere mustache.
De Lesseps estimates that the Brook
lyn bridge will last for six centuries.
We shall watch that bridge with some
curiosity to see ju3t how near he hits.—
Boston Transcript.
They are actually building a railway
uptothesumml of Mount Vesuvius.
It must be pleasant to ride on a road
that has to build lava sheds along every
section.— Hawkey e.
It is said that 4,300,300 head of cattle
now roam the Texan ranches. New
York follows, in point of numbers, with
a bovine population of 2,100,400. Cali
fornia leads in sheep, with 6,670,600.
In his article on the “Orchestra of
To-day,” in Scribner , Mr. Sidney Lanier
laments the neglect of the flute, and
hopes to see the time “when the twenty
violins of an orchestra will be balanced
by twenty flutes.”
The library of an lowa clergyman, at
Waterloo, contains the largest collection
of works on hymnology in America, if
not in the world. Three thousand vol
umes of hymnals and illustrated works
make up this unique collection.
“ Will you please pass the milk, Miss
Brown ?” asked a young man of a fid
gety old maid at the supper table.
“Doyou take me for a waiter, sir?” she
answered. “ Well,” he added, “as no
one has taken you thus far, and you’ve
waited so very long, I should think
that you were on e."—Lowell Sun.
The first coal fields worked in America
were the bituminous fields of Rich
mond, Va., discovered in 1750. The
first use of anthracite coal was in 1768-9,
first used to burn in common grates in
1808. The first successful use of an
thracite coal for smelting iron was in
1839, at the Pioneer Furnace at Potts
ville, Pa.
Weary of submission to her despotic
will, he resolved to see her for the last
time and break with her forever. “Be
have yourself like a man,” said his sym
pathizing friend to him as they parted
at the door of her boudoir. They met
an hour later. “How is it?” said the
friend. “ Did you behave like a man?”
“ Very like a man,” said the unhappy
slave; “ I made an ass of myself. ”
Safety of Nihilists in the Great Cities
of Germany.
It is by no means necessary, writes
a correspondent of the Cologne Gazette.
that a Nihilist should bury himself in
the interior of the country to evade de
tection, for he can reside with much
greater safety to himself in St. Peters
burg or Moscow than in any obscure
village of some remote province. In
the new capital, for instance, many
thousands of persons of both sexes are
resident who possess no permit or pass,
as prescribed by law, and get on per
fectly well without any justificatory
document whatsoever. There are peo
ple in this town who have lived here
for dozens of years without permits,
although everybody is required upon
changing his or her lodgings to produce
an official passport at the district police
office, and to have it stamped by the
competent authority, and although
houseowners, dvomiks (porters) and
police officers expose themselves to
heavy penalties if any one for whom
they can be held responsible be found
not to possess a pass. Do you wish to
know how this is managed ? It is sim
ple enough. Ail you have to do is to
make the acquaintance of the police
officer in whose beat your domicile is
situated, to ask him to lunch, and slip
a banknote of from ten to twenty-five
rubles under his napkin. That piece
of paper will serve you in every respe*
as efficienctly as an imperial pj*'’