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Tho stock, even in iX- wildest and least-populous re gions, form small herds of from 100 to 150 head, which are made up of steers, cows, calves and bulls, but are always composed of the same individuals, and always inhabit the same very limited re gion of the campo, ami the animals pass their lives within this region without being confined bv any inclosure. The distinctive clmract r of tho groups is especially curious in the more populous regions, as the southern part of Rio Grande or Montevideo, wlicfe herds may be seen almost in contact without mix ing, coming together and making them selves up gi ucrally without trouble, and they live thus side by side for years without becoming acquainted with each other. Ea h herd is so coherent that, when one of its members takes fright and turns away, all will follow it. In consequence of this habit, it is very dif ficult, when the cattle are sold, to sepa rate them from tho herds and to get them along for the first few leagues. If they arc not watched, they will escape, pass by thousands of other animals with out noticing them, and join their companions again. —Popular Science' Monthly. A Model Ice-Chest, During the month of March I built an ice-chcst for this summer. It was not handsome but it was roomy, and would be very nice for the season oi 1884, I thought. It worked pretty well through March and April, hut as the j weather begins to warm up that ice- ; chest is about the warmest place arouDd the house. There is actually a glow ol i heat around the ice-ehost that I don't ; notice elsewhere. I’ve shown it to sev- j eral personal friends. They seem to I think that it is not Guilt tightly enough for an ioe-chest. My brother looked at , it yesterday, and said that iiis idea of an ice-chest was that it ought to be tight . enough at least to hold the larger chunks I of ice so that they would not escape through the pores of the ice-box. He ] says he never built one, but it stood to j reason that a refrigerator like that ought to be constructed so that it would keep the cows out of it. You don’t want to have a refrigerator that tho cattle can get through the cracks of and eat up you strawberries on ice, he says. A neighbor of mine who once built a hen j re-sort of laths, and now wears a thick thumb-nail that looks like a Brazil nul as a memento of that pullet corral, says my ice-chest is all right enough, only that, it is not suited to this climate. Ho thinks that along Behring Strait, during the holidays, my ioe-chest would work like a charm. And even here, he thought, if I could keep the lever out of iny chest, there would be less pain. —Bill, Nye- SUMMKRVI I LK GKOHGI A, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY !), 1884. OLD ECHOES. You wonder that ray team should flow In listening to that simple attain; That those unskillful sounds should fill My soul with joy and pain— How eau you tell what thoughts it Btire Within my heart again? Yon wonder why that common phrase, So all unmeaning to your ear, | Should stay mo in my merriest mood, Ami thrill my soul to hear - llow can you tell what ancient charm Has made me hold it dear ? You smile to see me turn and speak With one whose converse you despise. Yon do not see the dreams of old That with Ins voice arise— i How can you tell what links have made linn sacred in my eyes? Oh. these are vouvs of the Past, Links of a broken chain, Wings that can hear me hack to times Which cannot come again; Yet God forbid that I should loso The echoes that remain. I TEN YEARS oFWAITINC.. A LOVE STORY. “Well, fifty years ago,” snid Aunt 8011, “I was a girl of sixteen and win, invited to spend tho summer months with my aunt, who then had one of the finest houses iu tho county of Kildare, Several regiments wero stationed at the camp and at a neighboring village, so you may imagine wo had a very merry time. The maddest, the merriest, tho handsomest of ail, was a young Scotch nontenant, Kinlooh Kinlooh. His mother was Irish, and had bequeathed tier good looks and propensity for jok ing. And now for Kitty, the heroine. She was the daughter of an old gardener who lived about a mile away from my aunt’s house, and of all the distracting ly pretty women that have made men do foolish things, I am sure Kilty was one of the prettiest. “One day, os a largo party of ns were standing chattering under the trees, Kitty passed us with a basket of fruit. "Kinlooh for tho first time noticed tho girl, and seemed struck dumb with amazement. “He stood at a little distance and kept his eyes fixed on her. “It was love from that very moment, and every one noticed it. “Kinloeh’s regiment had been ordered away to another part of Ireland; and one morning, a few days before ho was to go, we begged for Ids company to a picnic, wo had arranged to have with one or two other families. Ho declined to go with us. “ ‘He has got his lady-love to bid good-by to, I daresay,’ suggested Philip Grant. “Kinlooh turned on him with blazing eyes. We all kept back. They wero like globes of fire. “ ‘Confound it, sir!’ ho cried, ‘and suppose I have I what is that to yon?' “We all looked at Philip; he was very white, but he shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and wisely forbore to answer. “Kinloeh’s temper cooled down as rapidly as it had arisen. “ ‘I am sorry to dissapoint you girls,’ lie said, gently, ‘but you will have to excuse me.’ And, bowing, ho walked off. “That evening Kinlooh made his way to the old gardener’s cottage. His face was pale, but he had a determined look in the corners of his mouth, and he car ried his head well thrown hack and stepped lightly along. “The girl had just set her father’s supper before him, and had gone out to rest In the garden and watoh the still beauties of the night, “The air was fresh, and in the heavens the full moon was hurrying through its star-spangled course. The reeds in a neighboring stream rustled and shivered in the breeze, and a large night-moth or two came sailing up aud bumped against Kitty’s white kerchief on their way to tho fatal candle shining iu the window. “The girl looked up to the sky nnV tears filled her eyes. “‘Why do you weep, Kitty?’said a voice at her side. “No need to turn to look for the speaker! The girl buried her face in her bands and sobbed afresh. “ ‘You are going away,’ sho said. “ ‘Yes, I am going away,’ said Kin loch; ‘but you will come with me, Kitty, for you love me. ’ “ ‘I love you, but I shall not accorr pany you.’ “ ‘But you must. I have spoken to the old priest and he is ready to marry us.’ “ ‘Kinlooh,’ she said, looking up into his face with a sweet, serious smile, ‘you have made mo love you, for I could not help it; but you cannnot make mo marry you. ’ “ ‘Ob, but you will, darling, won’t you, Kitty?’ he went on, eagerly. ‘You know I can marry now, because I camo of age the other day, and I have much more than my pay now. is that what you are thinking of ?’ “‘How could I think abont that? Why will you not understand, Kinlooh? Your proud old father and your silver haired stately mother, how could they bear for one of their sons to marry an Irish peasant girl ?’ “ ‘You have nothing to learn from the highest lady in the land, my darling, he said, fondJy; ‘and younger sons are not expected to marry heiresses.’ “But sho shook her head resolutely. “ ‘And this is how you lightly- fling away a man’s happiness for life ?’ “ ‘A few days’ pain now, to save you years of “egret in the future. ’ “The young man looked at tho girl perplexed. Where oould she have learned such sontimeuts ?—where had sho gained the strength to express them so freely ? “Ho then said, slowly and solemnly, as if taking an oath: ‘Look yonder, Kitty ! That is the evening star. Ho surely ns it will shine in tho heavens five, ton or twenty years, as surely will my love remain unchanged for you. Bid me come back when you will, Kitty, and if I liavo breath in my body and strength to do it, I will oomo.’ “ ‘Como back iu ten years, Kinlooh. T will be true to you, and wait till then, i will try and improve myself—make myself more worthy of your love.’ “ ‘Keep ns you are, Kitty—remain unchanged,’ snid the young man joal ously, ‘lest when I como again I shall not see in you tho last look I took away with me, my life, my lovo 1’ he mur mured, passionately; and kissing her sweet brow and month, folding her iu one last embrace, ho sighed ami left her, “SI 10 turned to go into the eot-tage. A largo downy moth which lmd been humping against tho little window sailed iu before her, circled thrice round Iho candle and flow up into its alluring brightness. The candle flickered and wont out; the moth dropped down with a thud upon the table, dead. “Kitty, with eyes blinded by tears and with shaking hands, relit, though some what tardily, the light. “ ‘Kitty, my girl,’ said tho old man, pointing significantly to the singed in sect, ‘don’t boas foolish na that silly thing. Its eyes were dazzled, and it had no strength to resist the fatal fasci nation.’ “ ‘Father,’ snid the girl, stooping down and kissing his gray locks, ‘you may trust me.’” Here Aunt Bell stopped. “Is it interesting. Shall Igo on?" “Oh, do I Did he come track ?” said her niece. “Well, tho years passed on, and tho girl was joked and tensed, and had many offers of marriage; but she was firm and would listen to none. “At last tho young fellows grow weary of their fruitless attempts at love-mak ing aud the greater part left her alone. “A few, more unkind, would ask when she expected her young gentleman home, and taunted her in cutting speeches and insinuations. “Nine years went by, and then there came the battle of Waterloo, when offi cers and men went down in hundreds tc getlier. "iStill no word from Kinlooh, and Kilty’s heart, which had never faileil in its lightness, nor her step in its speed, now sank and faltered for the first time. “Early in tho next year —In faot, on New Year’s night—the officers gavo a ball, and every girl aud young man for miles around was invited, “Girls were in great demand, and I went down to my aunt’s house especially for that night. “1 was anxious to seo Kitty myself, and to find out how the years had passed over her head. “You think, perhaps, twenty-six was rather old to be called a girl—do you, Kitty ? “Well, I felt almost tho same as I did when I was sixteen, and quite as ready to enjoy a dance or flirtation, I can as sure you. “Kate Daly-—that was her name— went to help the ladles unshawl them selves, and to he ready with needle and thread when an unhappy damsel with torn skirt or flounce should require her assistance. “Bhe was then twenty-eight, and the yonng girlish beauty had developed into the most lovely of women. Only when her face was at rest, and you caught the suspicion of an anxious heart upon it would you have guessed her age. “Bhe wore a pale tea-rose-tinted gown, with ruffles of lace of her own making at tho neck and sleeves. “It was a wild and stormy night with out, hut it only served to enhance the brightness and animation of the scone within. “Tho dancing of tho high-heeled shoes and the silvery laughter roso higher than tho wail of tho wind, and the tinkling wine-cups drowned all sound of rain. “Buddenly there was a lull; we stopped in our dances; a chill blast seemed to have entered the room; we turned and saw a silent, dark figure standing in tho doorway. “He was tall and handsome, but his large black cloak, carefully slung over his shoulder, was dripping with the rain and making large pools on the floor. His legs, hooted and spurred, were mne 1 up to the hips. “Just st that moment the clock struck 12, and tho year 1816 had broken. Borne of the more excitable girls screamed and ran behind their partners. “Was it an apparition? Was it an ill omen for the coming year ? “ ‘I seem to frighten you good people. Does nobody know me ?’ “Kitty at that moment was bringing in a jug of iced claret at another door. “She heard tho voice and turned I round, trembling, with a wild cry, ‘Kin ! loch, Kinlooh, I knew you would come j back 1’ And amid a crash of breaking glass—for sho lot tho vessel slip from her lninds--sho hounded to his side and then disappeared in the folds of the great oloak ” “How splendid, Aunt Belli” said her niece, drawing a deep breath; "but if she married him then, I do not see why she should not have done so before.” “Ah, but sho was a wise girl, little one; sho knew it would test his con stancy and provo if ho really loved her, A young man’s lovo at twenty-one (as she knew very well) wonld not he his choice at thirty-one. ” “What became of them, Aunt?” “Oh, they married aud traveled about a good deal, mid finally both died out iu India within a few months of each other. There was one son, and I believe ho is in (lie army also.” IT 11 KIIK IS Tine A IIIIK? Before tho French revolution there were many ecclesiastics known as tho ahhes. They were without office or duty, and picked up, as they were poor, a meal here and there, among the charit able. At the houses of tho principal liohlemuu there was usually a plate left for some chance abbo who might drop in at dinuer time. At that hour it was no uncommon sight to see the ahhes picking their way from one nobleman’s house to another. Rapping at the gate, the hungry eccle siastic would impure of the reporter, “Is there a vacant place?” If tho answer was " No, monsieur,” ho would walk onward. This custom will explain a story told by Rogers, the poet, which illustrates the horrors of tho French Revolution. Just after it, had broken out, a party was dining, one day, at a nobleman’s house, and among them an abbo. While at dinner, theoart carrying those condemned to tho guillotine went by. All the company ran to the windows to see flic horrid sight. Tho abbo, being a short man, tried iu vain to peep on tiptoe. Determined to see, he ran down to tho front door. His curiosity cost him his life, for, as the cart went by, one of the victims, knowing tho abbe, bowed to him. Tiio abbo returned the salu tation. “What! you are his friend ?” exclaimed one of tho guards. “Then yon, too, are an aristocrat. ” “Away with him I” shouted tho crowd, and tho poor abbo was seized, thrust into tho cart, and hurried to tho guillotine. The company, having satisfied their curiosity, returned to the table. “ Where is monsieur, tho abbe ?” asked a guest, seeing a vacant place. No ono could answer. Ho was already headless. Youth's Companion. THE MONITOR'S CREW. No Prisßo Money for T liriii lint Any Amount ol 4jJrtelul KecoMiiltlon. A sub-committee ot the House commit tee on Naval Affairs reported to tho full committee a bill providing for the appro priation of the Blbo,ooo for the relief of the officers and crows of tho United Btates sloop of war Cumberland and United Btates steamer Monitor, engaged in ac tion with the Confederate steamer Mor rimac, in Hampton Roads, on March 8 aud 9, 1862. Representative Harmer, of Pennsylvania, who prepared the bill, in his report accompanying it says: “The committee, aftercareful investi gation of tho law aud the facts in these cases, has been unable to find any au thority for the payment of prize money in either of them. * * The evi dence shows that the Merrimao was neither oaptured nor destroyed by either of these vessels and the claim to prize money must be rejected. But while this is true the evidence presented to the committee abundantly proves the most conspicuous gallantry and devoted pa triotism, as well as extraordinary ser vices rendered by the officers and crewß of these ships, which, in the opinion of your committee, entitles them to a gen erous and grateful recognition by the countrv.” Kate Fiend is very angry at Felt, a Mormon elder. He one© told her, in Boston, that no Mormon practiced polygamy without the consent of the first wife that women did not object to polygamy, and that polygamous families were filled with the spirit of peace. Bhe ; finds, on visiting Balt Lake City, that , his matrimonial career is not proof oi j happiness incidental to celestial marriage. Bhe declares that when ho said that j women never complained of polygamy j and lived harmoniously in it, he quite forgot his mother's experience, that of his father’s plural wives, and lost sight of his own second wifo’s broken spirit. Since the introduction of the lawn mower the lawn has come to ho regarded as the great feature of a garden. When it is well kept there is nothing more beautiful or pleasing than a broad open spaee of turf, and in the planting and arranging of trees it should be our en deavor to keep Iho lawn as open as pos sible. This can he accomplished by ar ranging the, trees and shrubs in borders or belts around the margin, with a line specimen tree occasionally standing alone in a prominent position, where its beauties can tie seen hi the best advan- NO. 25. A SUNDAY SERMON. URI.ATIYR YAI.rfC OF GHNKKOftITY AMI lil IIIUC AIjITY* A FtMV Htrlkln* Note* From Boechcr’a Unti dily Talk. “That was the Wall street of those days,” said Mr. Beecher as he read his text Sunday, commenting upon the passage, "And ho fell among thieves." Tho sermon treated of tho relative value of generosity and liberality. Mr. Beech er said in his sermon: “It is right lor ono to feel the influence of nation, of family, of profession and of j social circles, but it is wrong to neglect all outside of it, as if the claims of hu manity on ns wero oonflned in tho rath of the nearness of persons to us.” “Of all facile graces iu Christian expe— no, iu religious experience, there is no grace like that of hating. It is called justice sometimes —standing for the right; it is called a proper discrimi nation of character and conduct; it is called all sorts of things; but the Lord knows and the devil knows that it is right down good liatiug that is exorcised by onlling themselves Christians.” “The good Samaritan is admired by all sects and races—and occasionally is imitated.” “A habit of generosity is like oil on machinery, and makes life smooth; and there is more in it to teach man to lovo man than in all the preaching in the world.” "There are a thousand things that might gradually lie better for tho inter pretation of truth iu its larger sphere; but, after all, an act of kindness brings God’s angels nearer to man than almost any other form of teaching.” "I recollect that the most painful times in my life, and tho least profitable, were when folks wero talking religion to mo. Oh I I did dread a pious man who was always talking religion, and I made up iny mind that if I ever got pious - which 1 never expected—that I would never bore people with religion. There isn’t a man, woman or child that can say J ever ‘talked shop' to them personally, of my own ncccrd, or that have ever found me unwilling to talk religion when they wanted to talk it. I never pnsh religion on anybody.” “Liberality endeavors to do more than a transient kindness. It is study ing how to do a kindness in suoli a way that it shall be a wholesale one and nol j a retail one. It looks along the line of probabilities and sees where mischiefs will ho likely to occur, or where benefits will be likely to ho appreciated or need ed, and undertakes, by organization, to extend a kindness down through tho gem-rations, ” “Generosity works by sight, liberality works by faith, and, like ourselves, they work better when they have both sight and faith.” "It is good to relieve one orphan, but it is hotter to establish an institution that will relieve ten thousand; it is a much higher manifestation of true love and beuevolonoe.” “Let not liberality oheat generosity; let not generosity scoff at liborality; let them go into an allianoe one with the other." “Don’t do your good through commit tees if you can do it personally; the face of tho giver is better than the thing given often; but if you can do some thing through a committee besides what you do personally do that.” "It is the selfishness of riches that is itH bane; it is the laying up for one’s self; but he that with constant, propel regard for his own household, yet has an ambition to go beyond that, and by his lifo and in it to make men on every side of him happy, how beroio is suoh a man and suoh a life 1” “The man who lives for himself will hove tho privilege of being his own mourner when he dies. ” “l hear men say, ‘Ah! yon are taking a collection to-day for foreign mission aries; what are yon church folks doing in such and suoh a neighborhood ?’ Now, I have taken notice that the man who won't give to foreign missions generally won’t give to home missions. They are tho men who are always quoting ‘Char ity begins at homo,’ and with them it always stavs at home.” The Beard as a Disguise. In reply to tho question whether there is such a thing in real lifo among crim inals ns tho wearing of false beards, and that kind of disguise, a detective is quoted as saying that tho mnko-np of the stage is not known to the police in their dealings with rascals. But there is a good doal of disguising, and it is generally done by letting the hair grow or cutting it off, and changing its color. There are barbers who do that kind of work at high prices. They got into It in the bounty-jumping days. A man with long black hair and whiskers would en list, get the bounty, and desert. Within a (lay or two ho wonld turn np again with red hair and whiskers a little ' shorter. Next time, the hair might bo yellow, and all of it gone from his chin. And so on, if he was provident with his stock of hair ho oould be a half dozen very different men before getting down I to a clean face and close-cropped head. None trifle with God and make sport of sin so much as those whose way of livings interfere with their prayers; who i pray perhaps for sobriety and wait daily | for an answer to that prayer at a merry • meeting or a tavern. THE HUMOROUS PAPERS. WHAT VVK FIND IN TIIBM TO NIWII.R OV KH AN ILLUSTRATION. Ono of tho I’rofesHors of tho Univer sity of Texas was engaged in explaining the Darwinian theory to his class, when lie observed that they wero not paying proper attention. "Gentlemen,” said tho professor, “when I am endeavoring to explain tho peculiarities of the monkey, I wish you would look right at me.”— Texas Sift ings. A REMEMRRANOW. "Remember tho poor,” says an ex change. Wo will. Wo do. We can’t forget him. Hooluirged ns #2 a cord for sawing wood and cut every last stick of it four inches too long ior any stovo iu the house. Wo remember him. And lie’ll remember us, if we oan ever find him, and hire a man to hold him while wo starve him to death.— Burlington Hawkey e, A GOOD REASON. “If you will give mo tho reason why you should go to Congress,” said a voter to an aspirant, “I will use my iutluenco for you.” “Why, my dear sir,” replied the aspirant, “my law practice amounts to nothing. I want the salary.” Tho constituent gave him his influence.— A rkansaw Travcler. JUVENILE STUDIES. Little Nell—“ Why, mamma, the sky is just as blue to-day as it was yester day.” “Mamma—"Well, why shouldn’t it ne, pet?” "It rained last night.” “What of that ?” “You said blue wouldn’t wash.”— Philadelphia Eve. Call. COT IS VARIOUS PINOS? In the pathetic language of Hans Breitman, many are now inclined to ex claim : Oh vot is all thin earthly plisH, Anil vot in man'll nooceews ; Anil vot is various oiler thugs, And vot is habbiuoss? We rnako deposits in a bank, SI might way dor pank is preak ; Wo fail anil smash onr outsides in Vero rvo a den sdrike make. Boston A dverlisrr, ONE BIRTHDAY. Two brothers in Connecticut married sisters, and the first soil of each couple was born on the 29th of February. Tho moral of this incident seems to bo that if two brothers don’t want their first sou to have only ono birthday in four years, they shouldn't marry sisters.— Norris■ town Herald. A rUMFYINa PROCESS. “Yon mustn't he alarmed, Mr. Lamb,” remarked a Wall-street broker, "onr recent panio has been simply a purifying process; 51 attera will bo all the better for it.” “So you call it a purifying process, do you ?” “Yea; simply that.” “Well, I gnoss you are right,” Mr. Lamb sadly acknowledged as ho turned to go, "it certainly cleaned me out ef fectually.”—Philadelphia Call. HOW A GIRL SHAKES HANDS. I saw a young lady just now shako nands with a yonng man. She gave him that flippant member in a perfectly limp way. He squeezed it and shook it from the shoulder down, without its giving any evidence of feeling. Thon she let it flop by lior side. Now, it isn’t fair. If you are going to shake hands, shake. It iB an almost certain sign that a girl is an Amerioan if sho puts her hand ii: yours quite impnssivo and leaves it there till you have done with it. A man natu rally squeezes it. His first grasp does not fully ealculnto its limpness, and ho thinks she may be offended. He gives it another gentler pressure. He feels the rings sink into the fingers. He tries a third time to get some response. She does not return the squeeze. Bhe docs hot move it. She does not take it away. Sho simply does noth ing at all. Sho looks as if she had for gotten he had hold of it. It breaks the man all up, and he drops it in dUgnst, —San Francisco Chronlole, BASE-BALL AS SEEN BY 4 OIRL. A girl’s notion of the national game is called oft pretty accurately by tho letter of a young oity lady to her girl chum in the country. "You must visit me,” she wrote, “when the base-ball Beasou opens. There is so much skill and grace dis played. The pitcher, I think—hut, my I you never saw a game. I will explain it to you. The pitcher—a dear little thing—stands in the middle and throws a hall at another, who stands in front with a long stick in his hand. Tho thrower tries to hit his stick, and the other young man, who is called tho knocker, tries to so swing the club that it will bo impossible for the thrower to hit tho stick with tho ball. Some of the knockers become very good at this, and some of the darlings could stand there and never have their clubs hit once, The catcher stands behind the knocker, and is just too bravo for anything. We girls think he is tho nicest one in every clnb. I think the catchers are very cute and her olo.”—Merchant Traveler. A Look Ahead.—Everything, says a foreign journal, looks cheering for the Universal Peace Society. The Italian Government has just ordered ten more sixteen-inch Krupp guns that can send a solid shot weighing 20,000 pounds through any plate armor that lias yet been made. A friend of a merchant, whoso son lias recently returned from his studies at a New York business college, was asking the old man if the boy had improved his opportunities. “I should say that he had. He can imitate anybody’s hand writing, and he is so expert at figures that I am afraid to let him touch the books. ”