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THE WEEKLY. CONYERS, - GEORGIA. WRITTEN IX BLOOD. NetrVmfefPs Letter to ilie Cz:.r-How n Prisoner Valued a Glimpse ot iLe >ky. A St. Petersburg dispatch Nihilist journal, of Oct. 22, says that the new the Messenger of the Will of the People. contains a letter from the Nihilist pris¬ oner Netchaieff to the Czar. The origin¬ al letter was written in blood. It says: “~ir: On taking Commandant charge of the fort¬ ress, the new Ganetsky addressed liis subordinate officers in the ravelin on the event of March 13. The character of the speech, and also the fact that, it was made in the hall not far from my cell, showed to me that it was intended for my ears. And, indeed, I heard every word of it. But this intimi¬ dation did "not reach its aim. The indi¬ rect threatening of Gen. Ganetsky did not frighten me. It showed me that, under the influence of the late events, even the highest representatives their heads of the Administration have lost and feeling of personal dignity. I would not mind the trick of His Excellency if, for no fault of mine, he did not aggravate my lot, which has already exhausted my endurance. “The Alexis ravelin is a secret prison. No supervision is allowed there. The late Commandant Baron Meidel, used to restrain to a certain degree, the thievish Warden Philimonoff. While fulfilling his hard duty, he did his persona’ not torture cruelty. the prisoners to gratify speech of Ganetsky, But after that the thief Philimonoff took from us the last crust of bread, order saying impudently Commandant. that such was the of the In order to get in favor with the new Commandant, the officers of the ravelin have tried their utmost to oppress politi¬ cal prisoners in all possible ways. For months they have kept me in my cell, without permitting me to see daylight. Ganetsky ordered that even the warm¬ ing-holes in my cell should be closed, on the pretence that I might there get soot and make ink of it. The upper pane of my window was clean, and through it I conld see a part of the sky. It is neo ■essary to experience the horrors of a long solitary confinement in order to un¬ derstand what relief a prisoner gets from the sight of passing clouds and sljining stars. Ganetsky closed that pane. The two Commandants, six of the chiefs of gendarmes, and even the chief of the Su¬ preme Commission, Gen. Melikoff, while visiting me, saw the clean pane and did not think the State was in danger on ac¬ count of it. [Here the letter was illegi¬ ble.! “Ten years already I have suffered here. The further aggravation of my lot cannot proceed from any political consideration, but only from the cruelty of the man to whom you have entrusted the fortress. General Mezentseff was my personal enemy. For two years he kept me in heavy chains, and yet he did not shut me np out of sight of the sky. I had another enemy, General Potapoff. He insulted me in words, and I slapped his face. Of course he hated me, yet he did not take revenge. He knew that to take revenge npon a man who is hound arms and legs would he an action fit only for a wild beast., and General Potapoff was a man anyhow. Genetsky enjoys the sight of suffering prisoners. Perhaps he exacts to bring me into and a the state of despair in order to madness, see tears and to listen pas¬ sion of helpless to insane shouts of rage from me like those I hear from a neighboring cell, where a comrade at the end of a long confinement has become a lunatic. Oh, no. I will not treat Ganetsky to such a pleasure. I hope he will preserve even a hundreth part of the calm and self control I possess when he shall be car¬ ried to n scaffold. “In 1R75 the Government requested me to express my views on the state of affairs in Russia. Tn mv memorial sent to your late father I explained that the time of absolute power was gone, that the unlimited monarchy was undermined, and that, a liberal Constitution might yet saw Russia from the horrors of revo¬ lution T insisted upon the need of lib¬ eral institutions which, and which only, con'd stop the scries of daring attempts. I said then thnt in few years even a Constitution v onld be too late. Snlose qnent events have justified mv views. The reaction which set. in after the catas¬ trophe of March 13 was a matter of cour-*\ It was in the nature of things. But, lieing carried too far. even the re¬ action will bring about qniteunexpected relief from results. I do not. expect any the new administration. I shall not be anri ri*ed if mv lot. becomes still harder on ecount of (lie present letter. Louis XV f. realized I lie horrors to which the prisoners of tbe Hostile were subjected onlv when he became himself a political prisoner. Sfroe Nktchaifff. “I write this with my nail in my blood. K. N." In Decern I >er, 1882. Netchaieff w tortured by the Warden, and soor after was found dead. ' A Stow ny. j’. The body of a young man, apparently Alxmt 20 years of - ge, a stranger both to the crew and the passengers, was din¬ ed rn 1 lie* bold of the steamer Pro ,-or Woermann, of Hamburg, ns the .lore wt-re unloading her Popo, on the 29th . July last, near Little The body on the western coast ot Africa. was found completely blocked in by huge bales njKin bales of merchandise, and otlier heavy goods, sufficient space, however, having lieen left for the unfor¬ tunate man to breathe, and even to move al-ont a little. It was supposed that ho had contrived to ensconce him self here when the vessel was about to sail Irani Hamburg, being under the im¬ pression thnt her destination was Kng land, and that he would therefore be re¬ leased before, the food with which he had provided bin-self would l>e * xh misted. By liis side was the bone of a leg of mutton, of which he Lad dev- urod si) tbe flesh. He had also found means of breaking op; n a case of Hollands, and had e mptied two bottles. His provisions having been consumed, and there being no means of escape, or even of making hif piesenec known, the unhappy stow¬ away hod appart tly died a lingering death from exhaustion. LIKE A LITTLE LIBERIA A COLONY OP COLORED PEOPLE JN TI1E METROPOLIS. Thrifty and Iiidu*triou* -and if» only Saloon kept by a White Man-The Grades of its .Society. In a large city like New York, says (be New York Times, it is customary tor tbe lower classes of each foreign race to dwell together in some particular portion of the town. In the principal American cities the colored people follow (his rule. More persons of that race are to he seen on Thompson and Bleecker streets and on Sixth avenue than in any other parts of New York. But the lo¬ cality which is most thoroughly given up to citizens of African descent here consists of the three little thoroughfares which are mentioned in the Street Directory as Minetta-street, Minetta lane, and Minetta-place, respectively. This locality which may properly he called Minetta, is a very peculiar place, one. it Though an extremely quiet links three busy thoroughfares, in which the street car bells keep up an unceasing jingle. Minetta-street begins at Bleecker street opposite the Universalist Church, and, turning at a slight angle about Minetta- half way uj> its length, empties into lane, which runs from the foot of Sixth avenue to No. 124 Macdougal street. The street and lane form a figure T, which, owing to the angle in the former, is a little shaky about the knees. The length of the street is about equal to that of the average block, while the lane is considerably shorter. A short open passage leads from Minetta-street, near its head, to Minetta-place, which runs parallel to the street, and is of miniature proportii Minetta ns. is old-fashioned lo¬ a very cality. The inhabitants have kept it in nearly the tame condition as they found it a number of years ago. The most notable exception to the rulo is a five story apartment house of fashionable build, which overlooks the rest of Minetta. Here dwell the aristocracy of the colony. But few white people live within the limits of Minetta, and they quite properly look upon themselves as belonging to an alien race. They con¬ sequently feel obliged to submit to the domination of the more powerful na¬ tives. On a when the pavements swarm with dusky skinned children at play, the white-faced little ones are obliged to keep their dis¬ tance, and when allowed to join in the sport they must subject themselves *o the discriminative rules laid down by the young lords of Minetta, Some of the young colored lads are provided with bicycles, out of the way of which it behooves the white child to keep it¬ self. Many of the youngsters are well dressed, and their clothes appear to have been mado for them. While occupied in manly sports they appear skin to advan¬ tage. The dark hues of their make the colorless faces of their humble white companions appear Many by contrast maidens tallowy and half-baked. of the of Minetta are comely, even if they can not be truthfully spoken of rule as bloom¬ ing. The men appear as a quite re¬ spectable. Very few negro loafers have homes in Minetta. The women are in¬ dustrious. Many who have time to spare after attending to their domestic duties earn considerable sums by taking Some in washing or going out to work. are cooks in restaurants, while their hus¬ bands are waiters, mechanics, washers in white, or laborers. Near the head of Minetta street is a neat, one-story gro¬ cery store, which is kept by a colored mail. There is but one bar-room to be found in Minetta, and this is a small one and difficult of access. To the credit of the neighborhood, be it said that this is not kept by a colored man. On pleasant d .ys the windows of the neighborhood are full of dark f«o< s, or¬ namented with white teeth and bright eyes. In cold weather, happy little “coons” flatten their noses against tlx well-cleaned window panes. Old women who have once been slaves and still cover their heads with bandana handker¬ chiefs are frequently seen at the win¬ dows. The wild whoop of the licen-ed vend r will bring them to tliedoors by tin score. Even among the best people o‘ Minetta the prejudice against poor foi • eigners is very strong. The most ue complisbed colored lady will not besifafi to leave her door and scold like a fish woman at the slovenly Italian garbagt • hunter who has the hardihood to dose crate her ash-barre» with his loatliaom hook. No hawker of razors would dm to enter the precincts of Minetta and to his presence remind the ordinarily quite matron of the weakness of the color--: man for secreting a razor in liis boot a a weapon of defense. Old-fashion cellar floors, openi g on to the highw abound along the str- et and lane. O!o fashioned stoops rise from one aide < the houses, instead of from th“ ,l ''. leaving the approach to the basement open. Old-foe’ ' hi knockers still hang on many <>*’ Moors. Their marks still on others, ahhough long low, ^nice removed. The houses arc many being not more tLan two storks arc ar< generally quite neat, but many of tin backs are rather shabby and are of wood. Lines ran out from the rear windows in •til directions, and on these art- dried the clothes which are brought there from all portions of the city to be cleansed. Even this little Libelia has its aristo¬ cratic and its low quarters. Minetta place may be described as the Fifth ave¬ nue of the colony, while the lane is the Bowery. Minetta place is very neat. The houses are of brick, with green blinds and clean steps. The walk in front of them is kept scrupulously place neat. Among the luxuries of the are a pump and a lamp-post. A neatly painted wooden fouee hides tho yards in the rear of the houses which front on Minetta street. But the view from the windows of the place is spoiled by the -hobby, in printed backs of the opt ositv houses and tin- long, heavily-loaded line* from which float hundreds of drying patrician undergarments. These look clean, but the fact that they are so -ptiilv exposed gives the scene a houses vulgar iir. The contrast lie tween tho fronting on the place and those belong tig to tlie street is v- vv striking. Mi uetta street is much more respectable in appearance than the lane. The latter a cheap look. Two or three rather uninviting-looking courts run out from it. One of these is so crowded with clothes-lines that it is almost impossible to see the sky from the ground. Signs in front of tho doors are quite common in the lane. One of them reads: “Mrs. Anthony, Washing and Ironing, Going out to Day’s Work.” Another is as fol¬ lows: “Fashionable Dress and Cloak Maker. Ladies’ Suits Made Over Equal to New.” Another announces the fact that “Cheap Dress-making and Famiiy Sewing” is done inside At the entrance of a basement is the sign: “Mason-work and Plastering Done,” with a slate over it for orders. “Lodging for Gentlemen” is on another sign. Other signs devoted an nonnee that artists who have themselves to cl limn cy - s wee pii u g and whitewashing respectively are to lie found within. Minetta has the appearance of having been a suburb many years before the surrounding streets were built up. The houses have an ancient look and their architecture is that of a past generation. doubtless Its former inhabitants were driven from their quiet retreat by the advance of business, the buildings of which sprang up around them on all sides. Something of an ancient air of respectability still seems to linger there, and it is still comparatively free from the bustle which surrounds it. A few steps will suffice to take one of its in¬ habitants from his home to he noisy outside world. The Opium Curse. The latest case of the terrible work of opium that is, the most notable that has come to light recently, is that of a mid¬ dle aged woman who, born iu affluence, wealtn and refinement, becomes a slave to the opium demon, and sinks in the lowest walks of life. The woman went from a home in the State of New York, with her two children, to Denver, Co!. When she had arrived in that city a year ago she had forty thousand dollars in money, many valuable diamonds and a large number of rich and costly dresses. She took rooms at tho Windsor Hotel, the most fashionable and costly- in the city, and soon began to indulge her false and unnatural appetite for opium. She went from tho Windsor lower and lower for her place of living until now her money and jewels are all gone, her honor fled and she and her little ones, for whose sake a natural mothers’ heart would have kept her irom her degrada¬ tion, are objects of charity. The case iu all its details is indeed one that ex¬ cites sympathy as the woman ia the daughter of a prominent army officer and has been sent by the \Voxnau’a Humane Society to her fathers’ home. She could not be trusted with a cent of money or be sent alone, so great was her determination to get the drug which had wrought her ruin as she would pawn anything and everything to her ob¬ tain it, so a lady was sent east with to see that she and her children were again in the keeping olher relatives and friends. A movement to abofish the im¬ portation of opium should be inaugu¬ rated and a severe punishment inflicted on those who deni in tho drug for other than medicinal purposes. Tms drug is on tho list of secret sins, it is taken on the sly at first, but in a sfiort time it gets a fiold on its victim only to expose and degrade. For tills, if tor no beside other reason it is worse than tvnisky, and that it leaves its mark on the children of its victims and brings into the world a class of physically and menially weak human beings. There is no argument iu favor ot, but thousands ol reasons against tho use ot opium and tne strict¬ est legislation with tho severest punish¬ ments should be promulgated against it, How Soldiers are Swindled. CLAIM AGENTS EXACTING FEES FOR WORK THAT IS NEVER DONE. Judge Ferris, the Second Auditor of flic Treasury, has submitted to tho Secretary his annual report, in which he say 8 that on July 1, 1882, he had 38,440 accounts and claims on hand; that27,- 592 wore received during the fiscal year 1883, that 24.104 were disposed of, leav¬ ing 41,928 unsettled on June 80. The net amount drawn from the Treasury in payment of claims and in advances to dis¬ bursing officers was $23,878,043.49. The Auditor states at some length the condi¬ tion of the public business intrusted to liis charge and asks for fifty additional clerks to enable him to dispose of ac¬ cumulated work, there being more un¬ settled claims on hand than at any time since 1872. Judge Ferris says that not one in twenty of all the pending claims w r as filed npon the suggestion or by the voluntary adion of the claimant. The ordinaiy causes th t establish the rela¬ tion of attorney and client do not exist. The attorney seeks the client. An agent is employed to solicit business in a "cer¬ tain sect, on and liis advent is announced by advertist meut. He is armed with blanks ready to be filled np, and repre¬ sents to the uni formed, more generally the colored soldiers or tlieir heirs, that they have not been paid ail that is justly due them ; that some new law or new construction of existing law entitles them to more bounty or further pay. A small fee in advance is required, general¬ ly $2 or $3 sometimes more, in fact all that can he got, with the promise that no more will he demanded mile s the claim lio allowed. The teo is paid, the application filled, and thing in theend rejected. It is a very common to receive in claims. one package fifty or a hundred such The att rney rarely looks after tin m. as it does not pay. lie lias re¬ ceived his lit tie advance fee and it, pays better to hunt up more victims. Judge Ferris says that another class of ourworthiess clnrus is constant)',' increas¬ ing—claims for bounties already paid— and renews his former recommendation for the passage ot a law of limitation. A Warm Reception. —Two Mormon missionaries recently presented them¬ selves at the door of Farmer de Armoud iti Franklin County, Indiana, told and asked to stay over night. He them they conld not Vie entertained. They insisted hi rein a mug. He went out to the barn ami brought in a corn-knife. “If yon day I’ll cut your beads off,” said he, riiey left .—Kt ntucky Journal. A Muskfgon young man has married liis aunt. Now let some paragraph' rbe in calling the man uncle to liimself, brother-in-law to bis own mother, and son i*-l aw to his own grandmother. IF. If you your lips Would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; Of whom you speak, To whom you speak, And how, and when, and where. If you your ears Would save from jeers, These things keep meekly hid; Myseif and I. And mine and my, And how I do or did. — Christian Advocate. WIT AND WISDOM. Our content is our best having. Keep potatoes in a cool, dark place. Apples keep best oil shelves. Lesion-juice will usually remove mil¬ dew; place the fabric in the sun. A handsome woman pleases the eye. but a good woman charms the heart. Stay not until you are told of oppor¬ tunities to do good; inquire after them. Love without esteem eaunot reach far, nor rise very high; it is an angel with but one wing. “Yes,” said the merchant, “I’m in a great hurry. I’ve got to go and wait an hour in a barber’s shop.” A Little Rock man found a cake of soap and nobody for days carried it as a curi¬ osity, as could tell what it was. “It’s a weigh I have,” remarked the butcher as he let his hand rest on the scales while weighing the meat. He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent production, is to under¬ value it, will never have one of his own to show. “The dog has queer taste in matters of dress; he wears his pants in his mouth.” Yes, and the man’s pants, too, sometimes. It is said that a hot shovel held over furniture removes white spots. It will also remove young gentlemen callers when they stay too late. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none. If you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. When you ask the old gentleman how his daughter is coming on, and he iras¬ cibly snaps back at you, ‘' V\ ell enough, take our advice and let well enough alone. Profane swearing is a voluntary sin. Most erring people, when they do wrong, count upon some good to be derived from tlieir conduct, but for profanity there is no excuse. Old Gent— “Ah, MrB. B., did you keep a diary during your visit to the country ?” Mrs. B., indignantly— “No, sir, I didn’t. The family bought milk from the neighbors. ” At the roadmaster’s office a few days since a report of material used was re¬ ceived wi h this indorsement: “Charge to Mrs. Lane’s account. ” Investigation roved that miscellaneous account was tended. Pat was quite right when he said th t it is a great blessing that night never omes on in the middle of the day to in¬ terfere - ith an honest man’s work, but always when the day’s work is over and fellow is all tired out Howells and Mark Twain are to com¬ bine and write a book on American humor. We shall get out of the busi¬ ness right away, while we are yet safe. American humor won’t stand much more writing about. r—Lowell Citizen. “Handsome is that handsome does,” quoted a Madison avenue man to his wife. “Yes,” replied she, iu winning tones. “For instance, the man who is always ready to hand some money to his wife for fall clothes.” She won. It must be admitted—and tbe fact is greatly to Coleridge our credit—that Lord Chief Justice is being lionized al¬ most as much in this country as the English prize fighters and pedestrians who preceded him .—Norristown Her¬ ald. t A Little Coal Mine, —DickLuke is the owner of a whole coal mine in Michigan, and yet ho is not much of a capitalist, for it is a very small prop¬ erty. He personally works the only tun¬ nel, into which he crawls in the morn¬ ing, to before get night. out an average of a ton of coal Writing Under Difficulties. Wilkie Collins writes most of his Aoveis wild ilia own Land, nut now and Uien lkeumuuc fcoul goes Inin suoU pain linil so uau-ot neia a pen, and men at) i in ploys unamaLUeLsus. Aire greater part ea “ilie lUiAiaoiune Was metaled, unu lVir. (JoliLio s-o a H is tlie only one of ms Wwills wnieii lie Uaa not read. The recollection ol Hie agony hesuneled wliile ihoiatiug ii vitlei’o mm. “P ur a long time, wmie tuai Dvok w as Willing,’ he aa^s, ‘I hau lue ulmuol mlkeuny in getting an aniaLUencio who numu go oil witu Lis Worn, vvituout Intel rap ting mm seif to Kympauiize WiiU me. T aui much like a heast in many w.»ys—if I am in pain, 1 must huwi; and, ao I lay in the ned iu tuo cornel yonucr, I wouid otten bleak lurlu in a yml of anguish. T'neU my amanuensis w ould urge me to 'compose my sod and not to write any more. Between lUe paragraphs i woUid go along nicely enuugu, Having in my mind just wUat 1 Wanted Vo say, and tUeseinterruptions wouid drive me mad. Finally a young gut, not more than seventeen, ottered to Ueip me, and I consented that she shouiu, in case she was sure she could let me howl and cry out in my pain wmie she kept her place at the table. bhe did it, loo, and ’luo Moonstone’ finally came to an end. But I never read it—nover.” Planting Fruit Tkeis. — Sufficient ccs been said on autumn planting in for¬ mer months. How long it may be eon tinnod Wherever will depend soil is iu npon the season. the good condition trees may still be planted, but by no means should they be set if the ground is partly frozen and unfit to comein con¬ tact with the roots. In such condition of the soil it will be better to heel-in the trees until spring. Postal. —'l'he estimated postal reve¬ nue for the next fiscal year is $47.1< 4 078, and the expenditure $50,062,189, a of $2,958,111. JOHNSON, THE PACER. Only 82,000 Commissi on for a Ilorf Sale. [From the Denver Tribune.] Some men are unfitted by nature to be the owner of a fast horse, and Mr. Mather, who recently sold the pacei Johnson to Commodore Kittson, is one of them. Mr. Mather is a banker of Berlin, Wis., and discovered the now famous pacer in that sylvan nook some three years ago. At that time Mr. Mather was the owner of a pair of gray driving horses, whose speed he rated at about a mile in three minutes. It was while driving road these moderately day rapid steeds up tbe one that he first saw Johnson. The owner of the pacer, a man of moderate means, conveyed to Mr. Mather the information that the bay gelding could go along pretty well, and suggested that the would ownership of a half interest in him be a good thing, even for a banker. Mr. Mather, judg¬ ing everything in the way of horse flesh from the standard of the gray team, told his neighbor to start (Mather) up the road with the pacer while he kept along¬ side with the grays, and noted how the horse went. It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. Mather viewed the per¬ formance from a considerable distance in the rear, but this fact so impressed him that he became a half owner in the pacer, paying less than $500 for his share of the animal. Later he secured the other half, and in the summer of 1882 found himself the owner of a horse that could go a mile in about 2:15. Last spring the animal was placed in Peter Johnston’s hands for training, and soon after that Mr. E. H. Smith secured a controlling half in the horse for $5,000. When the trotters and pacers began op¬ erations in Michigan, Mr. Mather con¬ cluded to go across the lake and see how his horse would perform. He reached Detroit in time to see Johnson win his race with ease. At the Chicago races Mr. Mather again had the pleasure of beholding Johnson win, and at the end of the second heat the entire field that started against bim had been distanced. Then came a cloud ou the hitherto rose tinted horizon of Mr. Mather’s turf ex¬ perience. At Pittsburgh the horse was taken sick. Mr. Smith, the other part¬ ner, wanted to buy or sell. Mr. Mather reflected—and bought out Smith. At Chicago, this fall, Johnson paced a mile in 2:10. In the mean time Mr. Smith had secured an agreement from Mr. Mather, which was to the effect that in case Smith could sell the horse for over $18,000 the surplus was to be his com¬ mission on the transaction. Kittson Negotiations with Commodore were opened, the price of Johnson being placed at $20,000. These figures were satisfac¬ tory, provided the horse could show three good heats. He did that, and then nothing remained but to pay the money. Dan Woodmansee was the pay¬ master. Mr. Mather suggested that the entire $20,000 be handed over to him and he would settle with Smith. Mr. Smith objected gently, Mr. but Mather firmly. could He would take $2,000 and have $18,000. At this juncture Mr. Mather sought consolation and advice from John Splan, who was one of the party. me,” he said, “that I “It seems to am paying an awful commission.” “Does it?” replied Splan. “I think you are getting off remarkably cheap. As a rule, when the boys sell a horse for a man, they just split the amount in two with the owner.” “What! Is that really the custom?’ “Certainly. When Rarus was sold tor $36,000, I got $17,500 for my part.” Mr. Mather wanted to hear no more, but went across to the Palmer House rotunda at a 2:20 gait in order to sign the bill of sale. After the sale had been concluded and the draft for tbe money handed over and vouched for by a bank, the party again fell to chatting. “Don’t you think,” said Mr. Smith to Mr. Mather, “that now you have got all that money you could afford to buy me a nice cigar ?” to,” the reply, “I should like was “but I have only just time to catch my train,” and a grab was made for his satchel. ‘ You’d better look out,” said John Splan. “Every sand bagger iti Chicago has been waiting for you lining to get road that money, and they are now.” t-lie from here to the depot the money,” “Oil, l haven’t got re¬ plied Mr. Mather, earnestly. “I put it all in the bank except $15. Good day, geiitl- men.” “Good day,” replied Mr. Smith, “and God bless you.” A Little Change. A wealthy man from the old German Country of P-imsylvauia said to me, says Gatli: “You would not th uk that iu our legion it is hard to get domestic servants, where we have so many strong, farm-raised native girls to whom work is the chief education. Yet it is true, and I attribute it to the radical change money lias effected to the real injury of the well-to-do pi-ople; f -r of what use is our money if we cannot get reliable cooks, nurses and maids ? Not many years ago wc raised the best household servants in the country and there were plenty of them at easy wages. Then wo were not so puffed up with money and our girls had a pleasant- relation with the family and when their work was done would come upstairs and hear what was being talked about. Now, since some of us have become rich, they are no longer invited upstairs and must sit in tho kitchen, and as they are social animals they will have tln-ir company. They say, ‘they don’t care anything about ns. We owe them nothing.’ And,” said my friend, “it is rapidly com¬ ing down to a s rt of eight or ten hour law among servants. certain They will get your breakfast at a hour and stay with you till evening, and then they are going np in the village to have recreation. The fact is,” said my acquaintance, “that they are Americans like ourselves, and if we want to draw the live on them they mean to draw it on n~. There are disadvantages about dividing our repub¬ lican neoole into two classes.” A fragment of conversation between yonng gills: “Do you know what a preface is? ’ “No, do yon ?_’ “Not ex¬ actly; only I know that it is at the be¬ ginning of books.” “Oh, well; then it must be the same as when we are courted before entering on marriage.” chopping DOWN A TREE. Description of ,he I’rocess Praciic as i , the Maine W ools. [From the Boston Transcript. J knee.® looked before S" P ? ° lle b ^ed to see clmed. For this he steps fee back f distance If he is to m where doubt he he can lifts his its veryIn n iVo?’ si end of tho helve av f',3 e suspended. and lets it hang 1 lme by which This he gives him , if ,, f f ? b of the measures the ion tree. But it is not to determine m what direction eno fi nill fall most readily. It the £ large trees are standing may if therZ be ot its tailing that right these the tree will on be lodged. side, and It^ust aeainaf be and earned herein to consists the one side of the or the off one mysteries gieatest ease. Having decided where lie wants it to go to avoid the risk edging against other trees, beini of broken by falling or of on uneven ground to have it he so that the logs will’be aKff.aw&trsj upon the side toward which he will it fall, and in such h ave line of the kerf shall a be manner that the angles tree is to with lie. the If line the tree along standsffrlv w'hicV'the perpendicular, and has no inclination to fall as he wishes, the chopper cuts a little beyond the heart on that side. By do¬ ing this he removes the base when the tree is ready to fall, and rests upon a base of hut an inch or two in breadth so much from the center of the stumn The effect of this will be very great in moving the base so that the center of gravity will fall on the side desired Though he works in so cramped a pos¬ ture, the chopper cuts the stump so level and so smooth he thinks his little boy could spin his top upon it. J Having undercut the tree with the greatest care, the woodman now changes his position a little, but remains on the same side, rests on his other knee ax’ and shifts hands, that is, wields the with the other hand forward. He now cuts upon the other side, leaving the stump two or three inches higher according as lie wishes to gain advantage for the last few strokes. The work goes on with little concern until the base is no thicker than a plank and quite as even then and the a blow chopper is aimed looks full quickly at the at the center’, to note the effect. If he perceives top in the a tremor trunk, or if a bit of bark or moss is loosened from its hold, he knows now every stroke will tell, and he aims these with the greatest precision. Soon as ever the top bows to its fall he marks the direction to which it is mov¬ ing. If he wishes to bring it more to¬ ward him he strikes a blow upon the further edge; if to carry it further from him, the blow is given upon the side that is nearer. These last strokes need to be given with great nicety. If fee¬ ble, they will fail to effect their purpose; if ot too great force, the tree will be sev¬ ered from the stump upon that side, and then all control of it is lost at once, and it plunges blindly forward. A tall tree like the pine is broken differently from tlie stump by a force acting quite from that which is applied in the case of shorter trees. In its descent the pine acquires at its top a centrifugal force so powerful and as to lift it the forward tree five from the stump carry or six feet before it reaches the ground. When it does come to the earth the top and the butt strike at the same time, and the tree lies half buried in the snow. Beauty and the Beast. A king had a son named Kusa, who was beroical y strong, but who, unfor¬ tunately, ugliness, and “possessed face like the that 18 ox signs a lion.” °? a In order that the youth might not know how hideous he was, he was brought mirror up without ever having standing seen, a water. And or even the surface of when he married, he was ordered never to show himself to his wife in the day¬ time, or by artificial light, lest she should find that she was wedded to a monster. After a time, however, the curiosity of the Tibetan Psyche was aroused. One night she lighted a lamp and covered it up with a bowl. When her husband arrived she lifted the bowl, and then for the first time she saw that he had “the eighteen marks of unsight¬ liness and a face like a lion’s jowl, so she exclaimed: fled “A demon ! a demon !” and away to her father’s house. husband Sorrowfully did her deserted seek to recover her. Several timr-s he, unrecognized, won her heart by bis ad¬ dress. But whenever she saw lus lace she always uttered tho same cry and fled. At last he displayed ain-h heroic qualities in fighting against In r fathers foes, that the Princess thought: excellently “As this youth Kusa is endowed with boldness and courage, wliv should I dislike him ■ and liking for him, . So “she took a Ail went returned to live with him. well for a time. But at length Kusa w.-ut down to a pool one day to batne. Catching sight of the reflection of Ins face iu the water, he said to himself, “As I have the 18 signs of nncomelmess and a face like a lion, and as on that ac¬ count the Princess takes no pleasure m use, it is needless that such a one and as should remain alive. I will go pu - tnvsolf to death.” Thereupon he en¬ tered into a copse and was about to hang himself, when ludra interfered and pre¬ sented him with a jewel which when upon his forehead endowed hun worn After which be with personal happily beauty. with lus admui.-g ) • lived considerably d Tho story has been mythological torted in "its change from originally a belong^ to a moral tale. It ot li’Gm^ no doubt, to the large described group the 1 legends in which arc generally Div-iie tunes of a brilliant and nsromeJ * being, who is forced to time a sombre or even repulsive ^ mice, and to live on earth, at * during even the as so day-time, inferior as a a ere 1**^ aS y a or until last th nig or a frog, a. usual!] _ which binds him is broken, b ^ consequence of something d °^ -, , and the long-degraded husbm^ a wife, bright and g ‘ ^ <>nmos once more Reviei. The London Quart* rly