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* r.MHS. r '*■» A. SHIT.M, Prwarsasar VOLUME I. BOIL IT AO W. rnw foUmrtn< nry ttwa HMWI U i print acm thrw «r fa&r yun ag*. TWj art >*■ pubttaWd for (M purpoae o* bring!** Warn to tto particular MUnUoc of oorrwpaftA«nto asd vriton forthaprwi) Whatarer you kava to my, my frtac4, * be that witty, frawa or gay, OoodooM m much m avar ycm ma. And my Ul* Um rmdlmt way ; And, vbotbor ytro write oa rural atfaim Or particular tolrtga la tow®, Jute a word at frtenrlfr Urto»- BadMdowa. For. If y<m gn ffiptattarlag ovar a paga, M hen a of Hum would do, Toor butter te aprmd ao much, you m, That tha hrmd took* plainly throagh. Bcs wbae JOO have a rtory to toil. And would Mia a UUte iwoown, TV amko quite war* of year wlah, my f Hand, Bou it down. When amttag an arttete for the pram. Whether prom or warm, jual try To utter your thought* in the fewest word*. And kt !t ba crtep and dry ; And when it la finlabed, and you cuppom It to dona exaoUy brown, J tut took it over again, and tber>— 801 l it down. For editors do not ilka to prtni Ad article hsi'y ton*. And the grneral reader Anew not care lor a oonpie of yards of song , Ho gather yonr wits In th* amaßeet •pace !t ) ou*d win the author a crown, And every time you write, my friaod Bell It down. THE HAUNTED ISLAND. Accepting an invitation from a yacht tug friend to go on a summer cruise, xmw years ago, we found ourselves, one balmy afternoon, aaihng along the iron bound coast of Maine, and enjoying the beauty of the aceucry, with the ocean on our right, and innumerable inlands, aome of them bold and rocky, others green and inviting, upon our left My friend, whom I shall call Dale ' Drummond, was a man of 35, and had l»een a sad wanderer since, at 15, he left home to go into the navy as a Midship man. Though all that knew him felt that he had a history of deep interest, there were none who cared to ask him of the just, and, excepting that he came of n good family, and st 25 had resigned from the navy to enjoy a fortune left to him, little was Known regarding him. “ You run in among these islands, Drummond, as though you were in oja n water," I said, seeing how, as I thought, ~ wcklessly be steered liia pretty schooner jacA urnobg the dangerous Miukea rocks Ind many islets that were now upon ivery side, for we had beaded in shore, t “J knop these waters as Ido my mother's face, and better, for I have never seen her since I was a wee child," be ansVercd, and after a moment con tinued, as he pointed to a lordly villa a _ league away: “Do you see that mansion yonder, looking out from that forest ? ” I answered in the affirmative, and then added: • “A second one, too, a league down the coast." “ Yes ; in the one I was born ; in the other I had my hope for the future dashed t»> the earth forever. ’’ He spoke bitterly, and I saw that he wan much moved, as he gazed upon the two old bouses, both of which, as we drew nearer, seemed crumbling to d<- cay. “ Colonel, well drop anchor under the lee of yonder wild-looking island, which I remember is said to be haunted, and, if you care to accompany me, we will go over and have a look at the old homo steada, for I have not been here for twelve years.” Os course, I was only too glad to go, pd, half an hour after, we landed on be main shore ; and, ascending to the iiff above, found ourselves in what had •nee been the handsome grounds of a inc old mansion, but which now was iasolate and time-worn. “ There is my home ; no one dwells here now, for my father cut mo off from my inheritance, and left the place to a distant relative in England ; and yet, strange to say, yonder other homestead is mine, for it was left mo by the only being I ever loved ; but I have not dared come here until to-day." Wo stood together, gazing upon the two old mansions whoae broad acres joined together about half way between the homesteads and, being in a oom muxiicßUve mood, Pmmmtgid went on, tn his easy way : •’ll! tell you the story, Oolooel, though I never apeak of the past, as it is sad to think of it, I can assure you. was bon in that old plao.-, aa I tntd you, my father and mother coming theca a year before my birth, and they *w» Engtfoh. ‘’Of his pest, or my mother's, my Uthur mw spoke, sad. 1 retasmwr him (Ttiluntlna rm - - r ■*» <A dsrk-faced. stern of go, | double the a«» of hm wife. “He never went from home, lived in luxury, M~tned to posses, unlimited means, and was a very stem, Mien: man, while my mother was a sad-fared wom an : and. up to mv 17th year, when she bed, I remember she often wept, and pemed ever to have some deep grief si teart. " Procuring a tutor for ms. my father kit that he had done his duty by me, UiJ I was allowed to do just aa I pleased, »nd I hunted or fished more than I •tidied. “ One day I went, from o’motive~of ■lare-deriitry, alone to yonder island, which every one shunned on account of ito being said to be haunted by the •h.etsof aerew lured to wreck there by u falna Iwwoin. . ■■y , ’ n there; but I did a j- ifgtf little fairy, a maiden of W ' ears of age, and five yean my junior, father had lately moved to the '“’’tot homestead, you ace there ; av. l Saving dwelt or. the sea ahorv in En daod the hide Fidels VM a perfect sailor , and alone, in her light had fearlessly paddled over to Haunted atoud, which, aa you ace, to a mile from Um lUKiniAnd. J I at once made her BoquaintAno* sailudher back k><«u>, with her canj in tow, and from that day,- children i though we were, we ware lovers, and to getiier we hunted, fiahed, aailed and read books; for wnen away from her studies «hv was as wild aa a young Indian. '‘ A few months after our meeting I received my Midahipman's warrant, and left home ti enter the navy; but each year I got a abort leave ; for there was not a naval academy in those days , aid my every visit but ixffatuaUxl me mcsv with the little Fidels Claire-—fur such was her name. “ At length I came home when m my 22d year, and then it was I asked Fidele to be my wife; for she had grown to be a beau til nl min Jen ! of 17, and under a akilled governess ! was accomp'.iidied and refined, tie ugh her untamed spirit would often break out at restraint “ Like me she had no mother, and her father, like mine, was a hermit in Ins own house, .nd I had never met him, until .together we sought him in his li brary, and I boldly told who I »u, how I had met his daughteXand a--ked for her hand. J “ His brow grew black as iQp. >ke, and I noticed that he trembled ; but he said, in lbw, st« rn tones : “ ‘ Young man, your father has, doubtless, hidden from yon what he ia, or has bees, or you would iw>*«* coms here to ask for my child to be your wife.’ " I stood in amazement, and thwn asked: “ ‘ What do you mean, air 7’ “‘First, years ago I knew your fa ther; we both loved the same maiden, and be turned her againa* me, and she ix-came his wife, to die soon after. “‘That I never forgave him, for I knew that ho won her from me by fak-x --hood, and then broke her heart. “ ‘After tliat he left England, and un til I met him here, some months ago, I knew not what hod liecome of him ; but ! now I know that be bought yonder bouse, and lives there in luxury, upon ! the gold bo gained by piracy.’ “ I wifi not attempt to dear.ii<e what passed, Colonel, for I gave hnu the lie direct, and he and his servants drove me from hu house; but 1 sought my father, and from his stern Ups learned i that he had gained his money as a Cap- 1 tain m the that he bad woe Col. Claire’s intended bnde from him, | and that abs had died of a broken heart when abo knew that be was a alaver ; but he had again married, and my moth er’s life also had been made wrote bed by what she '.disc vered of her bus band’s P“ ! k “So indignant eras I toward him that he drove me from his house, and swore that not a dollar should I ever have of his. and he kept his word ; far, at his death, with the exrepbou of the mansion, it went to charity as an atone ment for his auia “ Whan I next came home, after hu death, both. bosi«te*ie were deserted, for CoL Claire sad FideAe had goo-, ibe s-TVMte kx4T« not where, and 1 then became wntobed indied; bug aUa! two years al W I reortved, wbtn my Wiu Ln the Me. .:*rranean, a letu-r fro:.', a lawyer, ufomg me that th. Cei toH had died and itdt to vast ery to hu daughter, and she. too, dy-1 iag. had made ma bar heir. -1 was astounded, I can assure yw<. | Devoted to tha Intereau of Columbia Cdunty and the State of Qoorgia. Harlem. Georgia, Tuesday, march 29. isbi. • but with the lawyer’s letter came one ipdosed from Fidete, saying that aha had always iovwd saa, and, dying, bad | toft nsa war wwaith teal 1 mugftt tea hap py with tha wife I tend obenan, and, if I oved her iMimvry, to aonept fcniahertV • -a. i torn In'-svr. tM-uA i ught urn lawyuna. and foiuai tha i:.btotawa wan a vary larf* cats ;'T ato atsamns teaopas wtoanapaaa btoaea waa buried, and erected above her a mous ment, and now, after long years cf wan derings, I have gotten ep oonrage to come here, and in ywnder bcnMstead, left me by the one woaaan I ever loved, I will live until L too, die. But come— tot us go acroM to Haunted taiand, and I will aliow you tha vary spot where I urst met her." It was just sunset as ws landed at the Haunted island, and. making our way aanocig the bnabea, ws suddasdy came to . dead stand-still, for there, not fiftem (laces awsy, stood a woman clad in snow white. Her auburn hair hung in wavy masses adowr. her Lack, her face was darkly bronzed, but beautiful, and her glonona lark eyes were turned upon us with a look I shall never forget, while her slen der, graceful form was swaying aa th< agh the were aliout to fall. "Oh I Heaven have mercy | It is Pi dele's spirit f* Ttie cry came in mortal agony from the lipa of Dale Drummond, and his face was aa pallid aa the dead, for he was a skeptic in all superstitious dog ma-, and yet I before him, as I did also, beheld the one he deemed deaiL “ No, Dade, I am not a spirit, but Fi dale Claire in fieeh and blood," and, speaking in low, musical tones, she cam toward us, evidently deeply moved “Not dead I Thank (bid !“ Asd he tottered forward and held forth Li atUM. But sue drew back, saying, sadly : “ No, Dale, that is not my place, but han." “ Fidels, what do you mean ? ' And, •-c-emiiigly forgetting my preserve, he -c: t-.nned: "None but your image Las . v<-.- I ecu in my heart, " And your wife 7" “ I liava no wife, Fidele ; nor ever did have. ” “Do you mean this, Da’e Dr.im nsoikl ?" " Upon my honor, yea.” “Ah! Low I have been deceived I My father told me he was married, and, loving him still, I gave up all for hun, aial camo here to this lonely placo to live, letting the world believe me dead." &hu spoke more to herself than to him, ami, with her hands clashed, iicr ry<to tiow ocast; but st her words be sprung toward her, and I turned away anti went on an exploration of the island, wring the two togr ther. Darkness came on, and at las*. I ro trwwd my way, bnt, hearing my name ■ailed, went in the direction of the trail, and found the two seated before the -ting little cottage that had been the v If-sacnfieing and , l-wutiful exile's tiome. an i which was moat comforts l ie. Only one, then I heard, waa in her aecrvt, and that one was the faiil.ful riant who had charge of het old homestead, and each week he brought her f od and all she needed, and nobly kept her secret. But my rc.matxc-' h-is cruL-l. kind tetader, for, one mouth after the strange ' meeting on Haunted udaa l. Dale Drum mood and Fidele w«w married, ami, the : old mansion having been entirely repaired and n furniahed. they went there to dwell as aooii as they had returned from their bndal tour; and often have I viaited them, ami, in my wamieru.g» around | the place, have passed many a thought : ful hour tn the fair exile's cottage on Hatinttd island. Wheat ami pork may be good for •‘siiie s|weulaiiona," aa Bellers says, but if * man wants nkmey by tha ton he should go into ustnebes. Here are the ilgnrta : An ostrich ben will lay eighty • gg» per annum, frtan which can be Uatobad eighty young oelnebea Os three fully seventy will be bens, ami each one of them will in turn prodtme eighty ostnch chickeas annually. Ir two yean the ostrich breeder will have A.312 ostnebee—or, aay, 6,300, for per haps the cat will succeed in killing s ioxrn. Three birds will be worth UJ>7S.<MI To thia mae* be added the value of a veer's crop of feathers, which, Moordmg to the €bi</orwto«. wiliamownt to 3630,000 more. Al the sod of two >vsut the oetriob tenter will thus be worth 32,206,000. after 3*l acting, as has .«en already aatd, twehjs birds as a pos sible result cd cet depqtodtoons. As nz sked m teat, en to tbs boy ts aimed; as the slipper falto, so to be asade i to auad. «a noMM e». A ourreepaadent of theDwdee A'ven bsg TwiaprepA tells the foUcwjbf extow nerimary story : _> i A gentteeaaa, whose ■■■<. ier obfoua reewma, teu«t reania,» «*d4l reaidetat with hi* wile in a large taaak North |of Lugtead, and a firm Laving beam<we eo:itoaou«MiMr*h Beot ian!. had bee* sent Mt through < Hrrtoaud-tas-teiafkee Like a faithful husband, ho made bis wife aware of hto movements, and while Ln the Scotch metropolis, about Christmas, bo wrote telling hex when she might expect him home. In his letter he mentioned that, to get fimalted with his bus in res and return to England aa speedily st possible, he intended to make the most of the re maixung days of the year, and had ar ranged to go to Dundee via the Toy 1 nidge, on the evening of Bumlay, the 2Bth of De>vml>er. When the aimouncesneut was made tn the ’ivwsjwpens on the morning cf the 29th that the bridge had fallen, carrying with ft an express train and many paa eungvre, it did not escape the eye of thia gentleman’s wife, who naturally feareil that her husband was one of the victims. In thia impression she was oonfirmed by the fact that she received no letters fntan him and could find no trace of him in jitecee where his whereabouts were likely to be known. Hastening to Dundee, -us was ax* anii-'U» spectator for several days of the operatioiMi for the recovery of the Imkllm of the missing pasaeugcra Ultimately she returnd home, and the firm (or whom Lor husband ha>l lieen collecting accounts gave up the money as lost. As nothing further axdd be done, matters were allowed to rest till the b.aiy of the suppoeed victim was found; but aa time wore on tha prov ]*ct ut ite r.-covery I--came iesaand lees, and all interested jarsons reluctantly hea-ame r-eigned to their fate. Some time afterward a gentleman who knew the " missing passenger ’’ well liappeucd to lie in London on business, and while entering a tramway oar one day be was surprised to ace his " de evaaed" friend snugly ensconced m a corner ol tbv vehicle. Explanations were asked, but were not forthcoming, and all who had previously manifested an interest in this person's fata were ni.ute aware ol the disco\cry, with the result tliat his new home was quickly fonud out From uiquines made, it appeared tliat he hail not gone aa he had intended with the train which want down with the Tav bridge, but that after the fall of the structure, knowing his fnendv would be lieve he was drowned, he went to Lon don, where he squandered his employ ers’ money, married a young woman, and was enjoying his temporary seclu si j-.i when by accidect he was found out. He afterward sppeared before a enmitaal court, and for embexxlament was sen tenced to undergo twelve mouths' im prisonment with hard labor. torsKtocro.vs c.tdjtji oxocro. It is stated in the fAsrtenjtora, a Ger man horticultural publication, that the Persians, who extensively cultivate mel ons, cover the fruits with earth at a cer tain stage. Thia method is practiced by the Persians in the neighborhood of Tiflis, in the Caucasus Only the choicest and best-keeping variety, the true Dutma, ia grown. It is a long, smooth kind, which attains a weight of fifteen to twenty pounds, and will keep until Christmas. The deeply-tille<l ground is thrown op into beds a foot wide in spruig, and the seed sown in a drill along the renter. Finally the plant/ are left at a great distance apart, an*l imgatfon to effected through the ehannela between the beds, an that no water touches the plants. The frutt seta in June, and only one or two are left on each ahenc. When the fruit has reached the sine of a man's fist the earth ia hob towed out and the shoot—with the ex ception of the tip—together with its fruit, is bvrieri therssn to a depth of one to one and a half inches, where it re ■aaua until the fruit is almost npa Oon-tderaUe practical axpenence is Srrnaaary to bo obio to determine the exact moment when they should be un earthed. When the cultivator thinks the time has arrived, he withdraws the shoot and its fruit from the ground. This is done toward the evoaing, and the frutt to krft on the aurfaee of the ground, aitacbo l to the shoe*, and ex posed to the dew of one night ; but care » taken to ont ths frutt the following morning befoee the res can reach it It m ttosn bung ia a cool, dark, dry piece, until ready for eetiqg- Bau» seen are <hs xafset baadsd mao ia the worid. «&• tauretatt MMxrhmi Bteaiplino ia the aid English schools »wrt here tae«* axtreaaely HWfr evi tn amah Mgh terns d iaStfoutoo* as Etas, Harrow and Bagby. Very little was left to ths honor «r good sense of pupils, but Meh to the fear of oheatisement. Hence the exprepeirsi—now almost obso lete—" under the ferule" of a certain master need to bo synonymous with re ceiving so edneatioa. Ad English clergyman. Archdeacon Denison, writing about his school days, notes two curious bits of discipline to which the boys were subjected. Ono was that every boy of the school was made a party to an offense committed by any boy. Ths other bit oootoated in a penitantial letter written home by every boy in psumaely the same terms The olergymaa gives an inataume. O*e night as we followed the oaner, two and two, down a passage from the school-room to our bedrooms, William seed to me: “ George, I hate that usher fallow." “BodoVlaAid- “I shall spiton hia back* said he. ** Please don’t," Staid I; “we shall both be strapped." Strapping was administered with a gtece off earriage trace wsh Jbeftipokir holee in it, through which the air nuha.l as the strap deecended on the band. "I shall spit on his* back," aaid he ; and as I expected the uaher, having, I suppoee, heard whtopenug, turned round, and William was caught ia the act The next morning, after the due per sonal treatment of the leading culprit by a process more painful than straji ping, we were all drawn np in single file in the school-room, and every boy, older and younger, had to write from dictation, and than to oopy from his alate on a sheet of letter-paper, the letter fol lowing. (Leiters than oust 8 penre each:) Mi Daaa PxaxvTv i We have oomsuttal » grstt un. y<x WQlsm Denison •{«! on the tuber’s back as ws west to bed. I remain, y<xir affectionate son, Aarstm Hatav There were four Shirt brothers in the school, Arthur, Frederick and Augustus Shirk I draw a veil owes the ftelings and expressions of the Bhitt parents up<e opening the four letters, pnee 2 shtllinge 8 pence. The like thing happened again when I was there, upon the occasion of buy ing eppie>tarta from an old woman ovex the play-ground wall. In thia case the ein was of a more general oharncter, but, aa in the other osae, was made uni vernal Mr Dsaa Paaxrrs i We hare oommlttW a frast sla. for we here booght sppie-terte without the ieare of too matter, wtisu wo have plenty to sat, and tost of the best quality. 1 remain, etc. The other point of discipline was that every boy who had not oondunted him self well during the week had no mut toa-pw on Saturday. Now thia gave the mutton-pie a moral elevation which, ta in its own nature, it did not deserve, be ing compoeed of what was left an the plates in tha preceding days of the weak. William had been at school at Esher, with our elder brothers Evelyn and Ed ward, before Sunbury. There, one Hun day morning, having lost hie bat, be was made to walk to school in a straw ooel ecuttle bonnet of one of tha daughters of the bouse. The ways of diampiine are various. KoofA's Cbmpanton. ' tt ca vtx or Dtucottrottr. The habit of remarking upon the look* of relatives and friends when we meet them is a very uncomfcrtabte <ma It is not only contrary to good sense, but a due regard for politeness and the ob servaace of good manners demand that it shall not be indulged. It ia bad enough in the family, where the ques tions and the searching giancaa are the expression of kind feetiag, unless indeed the apparently anxious inquiries aa to how yon have slept and bow yon are feeling thia mocning are about as mean - ingtees aa the remark upon th* tempera ture, but it is absolutely insupportable from any one but a very dear friend, who has not had the experience of going out for a walk, er into a neighber'a bouse, and being greeted with the as asrtfon that she must be HL In many cases yon are anr-med of not looking well whan tn reality yon mgy be in better health than usual. It ia a great coufos aaon of weakness, but I have gone home from a walk out of which the aanahtas baa all been taken by some eucii thougtot teaa rma art, and footed in tbs glace to see if I eoald follow tbs sign of scene total dtanvAer- Boeh reasartei are not k»d, end oertaialy prodne* anything but pleasant faabags. Would it not be well to Ao away with them farwver ! Ttata— gieryew Anastas I lisavTifa NUMBER 15. Ttah lion to not the king of batata • manta. A nm aoee to a thing that goes with out saying. It to a terrible odd wave when «h* swings her handkerehlaf at your rival Warn a padaatrian reeliace oat a par tor lounge ho to on tha hnaa* atretoh- Bibwm should make good Arotio diaooverera. They frequently gel taaar the pole. It to a difficult thing far a (fog with out a tail to show his master btawbnnoh ho thinks of him. <»M To tamtovta superfluous haar—Send your well-filled mattress to beuM* ov« by a cheap upbolatecer. ||< r lunanui men think the battens an tlie neck-bauds of their shirts should bo property oaUed ohobr buttons Lav «eu Ml ftw vteiM. Mr, “ v Btttowa »• taiterV ln4e tail, a* akttl Um mH te fcroutbi to her. To naw «Vr bar bstaaSV taka v Ax attempted autoide in Liverpool, when arraigned far hto raeh act on the ground had got wet and waa hanging himaeU to “ Knttv • riestt ter res." Jsvts Msm, awtt, asß MV tars Ws awtot Whr ta res has rear totarM sum I <Mv«n«*T ysele asta hta tai' " Wrr do you build such a Art roof to your house F* asked a man of taViend. “Beceuae," whtopaaud the ottrer, “I want to put a mortgage on it aa mpn aa it ia finished."— Ualvetlon N’twt. A Gxi.vnerox darky rushed ipte a doctor's office, and breathlessly sx claimad: “Ooms on, doctor, right off. Dar is somebody in my hottoe Who is in an awful fix—laid up Ln bed a-groenfn’ and sgroanin." "Who ia itt" “It's ms. Yer sos, boss, I didn’t hah nobody to send, oo I coms myself."— OxStfUnt Newt. Tnpolitenass of the fast Gaipsten young man to almoet piumomacuu. Hs was driving a fast team, and a man who was standing on the corn ax. The man wsa not hurt much, bttt bn at tempting to get np the fast young num cslfod back to him: "Don't ntmrs <m my account. You are not a fefodn my way."— (Jalvutox Newt. (( Yotxo Hopeful (age fl, who mg a viaiter his drawing-book, contain ing alleged rspreoenteiidns Os a " bird ” and a “borne," mindicated to words un derneath tha drawings)—" Tbetaif are my worst drawings, Mr. Smith." «■ Indeed, Tommy I and where are your nthsr Luas F* Young Hopsful—“ Ob, I haven't drawed them yet." ( DaxtaVST'a grateful policeman was at breakfast, wrestling with a piece of re markably-tough veal Bls wife mid to him: "You always aay thartfrsome thing to be thankful for to everything. I guess you'd be pneaied to fltffi any thing to be thankful lor in tbefryeal” “Notat all," bo cheerfully lugppniiaii, stopping to brsethe, “I waa just think ing how grateful we should bo tnet wo met it when it was young." BFttXMM 9TOMXCKW AXD C Ogn J AL. The well-known fragrant garden fs varit, the sweet-soented or lemon'verliens, seems to have other qualities than’ those of beauty and odor, for which it is usually cultivated. Ths eulhor of a recent work, “Among the Spanish People,” describes it ss being sysfomsL toelly gstheied tn Spein, whereto to re garded so a fins stemaehfo and oordial. It iv either used in the form of a cold decoction, sweetened, or five or tax leaves srs put into a teacup and bo* tea poured spoil Mum. The sntbor says that not only to the flavor Aeiictoue, bo* that if it bo used one need never suffer from fefotenoe, ttavoußMOs, dirarbos, pr tons of appetite w nnxe mt*b wxxxrrttrß/w merx*. The idea has recently bean sAvsnccd khat Bright's disease to atenbutebte to the immoderate use of foe water and cold drinks, the tact being tated that the people of this country um 90 per cent, more toe in theta drinks than tbe people of any other country, tbe inhabitants of Orme las rl no* aaeepfod, and that ws have 76 per cant more of Hngfe) ■ <*** sass Tbe wino-drinking countries of Europe ar* aaid to be comparatively free from the malefly, while in tbe progress of the Atoeeoe, it is afoerted, baakeptpac* with ths taorseoofl oon anmptton of tee Tna Emory City (Brtttob Columbia) SenUnel says to to read in every bouse m that town; but there ar* only two bousee, and one of theta to the dfltoo of ths Si'H’Wl nr ii'ipiQ II-