- - - -- toplt'jj cms cm JOB PmNriNfi THE PRISS JOB DtfRTMDfT L. V. & E. T: BLUM, - vrr.Lisnr.ns and pwpRi?.fous.' Ay Terms-: Cash in Advance. )ne Copy one year, . . . $2.00 " six months, I . . . .1.00 " " three months, . . . ,7." A-Iilberal Discount to Clubs. e EATJ1EJ5?, DIJ3PATCH, VERY LOWEST PRICES. 1-! VOL. XXVI. SALEM, N. C, JULY 18, 1878. XO. 29. - WW- if w fun f $ rHW4.w vita THE TWO ROSES. Two roses once In my garden grew : Tlie ne was brilliant and rich of hue ; l'rouil of tier beanty and perfume rare, ijhe Spread lier sweets to each passing air ; Tlif oilier, timid and chaste of mind, Shrank from the kiss of the fickle wind ; I'rittNl in the pride of her virtue meek, rshs veiled the blush on her modest cheek. 1 azed with the glare of her gaudy bloom, 1 trunk with the breath of her rich perfume, 1 tended the one with ceaseless care ; I marked the growth of each beauty rare, And dreamed that all on some future day Would own the power of her peerless sway. At length my flower, that I loved the lcst, 1 sought to take and wear on my breast. That won from her parent stem to part, Mie might rest awhile on .my lovlug heart. But flown was lure of her witching spell. As fluttering to earth her petals fell ; Her heart was rotten and dead at the core And I knew that my foolish dream was o'er. I saw how poor the full-blown blaze That bad charmed my senses and won my praise; And I thought at last of the timid flower Which had pined unheeded for cooling shower. ' But drought unslaked bad her life-spring dried ; . So, fadiiy; and faded, she drooped and died. I saw too now, with awakening eyes, How near I had been to my longed-for prize ; One half of the care 1 had spent iu vaiu ( are that had brought me but grief aud pain If sK!ut on the rojse that had pined away, , Would have reared a flower so chastely gay. That the joy of Its countless charms untold My care had repaid a thousand fold. Ah ! how oft in the toil and strife, The chances and Changes which we call life, Uy slight anil neglect in time of need. We kill the flower, and we rear the weed ; Then we see it, aud know too late. We blame not ourselves, but curse our fate. For no solace have we on which to lean. When we know w4tat we long for might have been. ' ' ' . Chamher Journal. "JUST SO." I hated Aunt. Margery's parrot. Its screaming, croaking voice, its gurgling asides crooned as-it sat on its perch, stirred up something in me evil and vindictive, perhaps. I h;ul ho natural inclination to pets. Often when I had been over wearied at .i 11 c l. : . till.: urn Kill in-m-Furte, , line isiiit Ol Si lu iis scratching for a living had irritated me with a sense of overwork. But they at least came honestly by their living. I resjected them; but this pampered, over fid thing made my flesh crawl as it clung ogling to its perch, or dropped lazily down to pick' up a bit of cracker, nibbling thereat with an uncanny chatter. No; I did not like pets. Aunt Margery did. This ugly foreign favorite had ab sorbed all her affections, I thought to my self bitterly, as I watched it that morning. She caressed the creature; she spoke to it endearingly; but for her own kith and kin she had nothing but everlasting fault-finding and ceaseless exactions. . A few tears dropped ;down upon my hands as I sat there.; The parrot, blink ing down upon me, drew up one skinny claw, scratched its emerald head, and screamed, "Just so!" pet phrase which served it to express the most subtle mean ings, apparently, and with which it seemed to jeer at my emotion. This was the third morning I had wait ed for Dick poor Dick, - light-hearted, high-spirited Dick! who had taken up his cap and left alter his last word-battle with Aunt Margery. . , This blow had taken the sunshine too utterly out of my life, and there, as I sat at the window, I mentally shook my fist at this gibbering thing, so sheltered and favored while he j was adrift where? What would become of Dick ? oh, what would become of Dick? The lad had always had some business in the city that sat lightly upon him, com ing and going at his leisure; but now for three whole days his face hail not light ened the gloomy house. The longing to know jot" his welfare, the yearning to see him, had grown intense and intolerable. . And now, rendered irritable and dis- tmn ir)it lr mv o itwi nt T liorl miAiinln.l 1,1 an v 'j 1 MJ uuAiuj j x uau iuaiicicu with Aunt Margery myself 1, to whom her invalid state had hitherto-excused, so much, who had been her patient nurse so long, and her acknowledged peace-maker iHJtwt en herself and the outspoken, impo lite Dick. I had fallen from my high estate; I Was an outcast from favor not worth so much in Aunt Margery's eyes as this leering old jtarrot. Well, I need sacrifice myself no longer. I was free, to go away. Oh, how useless, how mean and degrading, seemed all that I had subBiitted to and suffered! It could benefit Dick no more, and, in his absence, dropped its splendid apparel of self-sacrifice, and revealed i itself a beggarly and sordid tameness of spirit. Outside of this narrow groove where I had grubbed and vegetated there was a thrilling, splendid reality of existence. A sort of Winged feeling look possession of me us I contemplated the possibilities of the future. The psvrrot put up his elfin claw, blinked at'the from the corner of Ids eye,and cried, "Just so!" as he Hopped back into his open cage. From the window where that cage hung I could see the glowing gardens and pleas ant iawns stretching below, and in the . wistful hazy distance the city seemed to shadow through the bright busy city, where every one was astir and at work. Dick was there, too, somew here. Dick did "business" easily and irresponsibly as a bird. M Why should not I do business? I began to take account of Stock to make a mental estimate of myself. It is surprising, in this commercial valuation of ones self, .how iKjrcentages shrink. A little hazy knowledge of history, a little nebulous ncquaintance with general literature, a light touch upon the piano all these iliititm look nainfnllv threadbare on exani- p ... . " , ination, like stage properties seen uy uay light, I could not settle upon any specialty in which I was preeminent.' I must leave my future to fate, and I did so with the delightful insouicance of youth. So the early dawn found me at the gar den gate, face to face with the kindling morning, the garden quiet and odorous. 1 felt a sort of sinking at the heart not quite in -nrirrlnnf with mv entftrnrise. liut the bustle about the depot, and all the sights and sounds of travel, . speedily ' dispelled my grief, and once in the cars, my spirits rose to the occasion. Oh, I would do something, be some thing yet! and I nibbled a bit of cake, by way of breakfast, care -free and happy and confident. The city was quite inspiring as I entered it so delightfully active and bustling that it took my breath. People were coming and going purposeful and businessful; everybody seemed to have his eye on some goal ahead to be reached in a given time. I only walked leisurely along, enjoying the scene, and wondering to myself if I should know Dick should I meet him in the whirlpool, or would he know me. All these faces were strangers' faces. Of all these people not one had anv inter est for me. The gay scene dimmed for a moment, and for a moment I felt the chill of isolation, as the crowd swept by. I wondered was Dick as lonely, as wistful, as I. The question was answered by a sudden heart-thrill, for there, lusty and ruddy, stood Dick lefore me. I fear I clasped his hand with unneces sary fervor as I said : "Oh, Dick, where did you come from?" "Where did you come from?" respond ed Dicki sharply. ' "1 Well, Kichard, I can't stand Aunt Margery any longer I can't! no,and I've left, Richard." "Left!" echoed Dick, thrusting his hat back from his forehead, and plunging his two hands deep' down in his trousers pockets. -There wasuoBf of that cheery jingle of small change in them with which Dick was wont to playfully salute my ears. x ms silence was ominous. "Where to go to?" added Dick, after a long, portentous pause. "Going to look for business." "Ah!" "Dick, how you talk! Put your hat on straight, and walk along. Everybody's looking at us." : "My dear,'' says Dick, facetiously, and laughing now and showing his white teeth, "that remark of; mine to which you take exception was prompted by the fact that I'm out of a job myself. Suppose I was in a quarrelsome rnood after leaving the old lady's, for when Lawyer Gudge set upon me alout neglecting the correspondence, copying, and the like slavish business. I turned upon tlie old brute, and we had a blow-up. I'm out on the world, dear, with a capital of twenty-five cents to be gin on." For two homeless waifs that sum was not extensive. I took my purse out of my pocket, never a heavy one at any time; but now O fate! O evil, careless fate! a hole revealed itself in the silken tissue, through which had slipped noiselessly a nursling of a gold piece which I had cher ished there, wrapped in a bit of paper, for a whole twelvemonth. I looked in ni- friend's face blankly. I was no princess, it seemed, coming to his rescue with golden gifts, but an added weicht about his neck. "Dick," I faltered, meekly, "I'm in- my shoes, I slipped softly through the long, deserted jwissageway to my own room. The door ocned with a treacher ous creak that seemed bent to betray me. It appeared an age before I was fairly within. STANLEY THE EXPLORER. tending to work for a living." was the answer. at?" I can do 'most any Might thing, "Of course,"' I inquire what "You know 'Jenny, child," said my companion, looking down upon me benignantly, and stopping short in his walk (Dick always awed me when he assumed this elder- brother aspect )-!-"Jenny, child, it's a hard driven sort of a world you've put your tiny self into ra place where it's a very hard matter to get a footing, and where, if your foot slips, you're sure to be carried out into deep water." Dick's face darkened as he looked at the tide of people. "Whatever's a fellow to do?" , Winding up his discourse thus abruptly, my friend pulled his hat down over Ids eyes, and glowered from under it like a highwayman. 1 listened to this talk of Dick's, humili ated and ill at ease. Was I, then, a mere aimless waif a mere bit of drift-wood afloat in this human torrent? Even Aunt Margery's chafing and chiding were better than this nothingness. I began to feel very weary. . A remem brance of my quiet room and of the bls soniing apple lough that hung over the window vame tome vision-like. "Dick," said I, abruptly, "I'm going back." "All right, little one," patting me pa tronizingly on the shoulder; "the very best thing you can do." "Not to stay. Dick," said I, vexed at the alacrity with which he accepted the proOhition. "No; I have an idea in my head." ."Look so,' responded Dick, senten tiously. "Dick, listen to me" authoritatively. "I shall sleep at Nurse Catterby's to night, aud if you meet me there I'll have some thing to help you " "My darling!" cried Dick: but I repelled this later exhibition of ailection. "Put me in the cars, my friend; I'm hungry, you know, but there's no time to lose." In my feminine fertility of resource I felt myself infinitely superior to this help less, good hearted lump of a Dick, and I nodded my head to him gayly at partisg, without thought of failure. In my, room at Aunt Margery's there hung a grand old-fashioned time-keeper with a gold coin attached to its heavy chain, and a big seal wherein glowed a ruby. Secretly I regarded this as my own, for it had once been my mother's, an heir loom of the family, the- source of endless disputes, as I had heard, .between the grasping elder sister and the younger. My mother was of a high spirit, and finally, in a fit of utter weariness and vexation, flung the watch, with all its glittering appendages, at her sister's feet. Aunt Margery had never returned it that was not her way but it had never leen wound up since that day, and long after my mother's death it hung silent and shining in the room devoted to my use perhaps a superstitious offering to the vexed spirit of the departed. I had determined to go back without being seen, if possible, and get this watch, appropriating it, as I felt sure my mother would approve, to aid myseii ana my friend in our sore need. The ride seemed a long one; the road wound about in a manner I had never ob served before, with a persistent dodging at the end. that gave me ample time for revolving ways and means for carrying out my scheme, till finally the moon shone out on the last evolution; anu leaving me cars I trudged on afoot until the sentinel poplars guarding Aunt Margery's gate with their long black shadows came in view. It was with a beating heart, notwith standing my bravery, that I took the key of the side door from my pocket, and entered the familiar domicle at night-fall like a shadow. It was easy enough to obtain access to the inner part of the house from here, for most of the doors were carelessly latched, and I was not likely to meet any servant at this time in the evening. I remem bered a certain wide window-sill in the hall. CToninrr toward which I sat down to rest myself, with a curiously scared and hunted feeling, which had not entered into my calculations' when I planned this audacious expedition. Then, removing . This was my own pretty, pleasant little room, the shelter where I had so often le taken myself from Aunt Margery's rasp ing voice and incessant fault-finding where I had dreamed day -dreams and re velled in mightly visions. This cherished and familiar little nook had chilled to me in one day's absence. It had given ps session to a horde of shadows that, mock ing and gesticulating, flitted to and fro in the uncertain light. Perhaps the breeze blown branches of the elm outside played me this trick ; but it confused me strangely, and rendered my search for the watch a long one, till it seemed as if some tricksome self had rllched it to dis tress me. At length, however, my hands touched and grasped the treasure ; the lieavy clialu ..glided, with, snaky coolness through my lingers, and I thrilled from head to foot with a new and strange sen sation. For at that very moment 1 heard the door shut witu a snap. This noise in itself was not startling ; no one was likely to hear it save myself; but it announced that I was trapjedt a prisoner, snared in my own net ; for the door closed with a spring, and I had lea the key oa the out side. I put my two hands to my head and thought desperately for a moment. There was no possible egress now except through Aunt Margery's room, with which mine was connected by a narrow passage. How could I "hope to puss through without waking her? For just one instant I felt like despair. How was I to help Dick now? It must be done, however. I gathered up my courage ; I remembered the indignities I had Urne, the need of my. friend, the absolute rightfulness of what I was doing, and, strong in resolu tion glided across the hall silently, slowly; lest the ghost of a foot-fall should rouse the vigilant sleepers within. There was something dreadful in this, after all. This strange advent among familiar things that look on the intruder with sinister eyes is -not a desirable experience. True, I was on a mission of mercy ; but this fact failed to supiwrt me as I stood poised on my aunt's door sill. A weak minded doubtfulness creeping in for a. moment paralyzed my activity. This bauble had been in Aunt Margery s pt session for years. Was it mine? was it hers? The "sacred rights of property" I had heard talked of to often : were my mother's sacred, or my aunt's t Ah 1 what would become of all the property in the world if rightfully divided ? Would then Dick go out starving and houseless from Aunt Margery's surplus of luxury? Dan gerous speculations, but brief. I swept them all aside like cobwetm. Never should I desert Dick in his time of ne.tl. Stepping on ' tiptoe in my unshod feet, I essayed to convoy my beating heart as lar as possible from the higholdfashioneil bed stead. It almost seemed Aunt Margery might hear it in her sleep. The low night la nip sent a thin thread of light across the floor ; it rested on the heavy drapery f-s tooned to the ceiling, which gnve this couch an awful dignity in my old childish days. And there, just opposite it, I stno.1 transfixed. There lav Aunt Mar gery, with eyes wide open, looking out at me. I returned the gaze steadily, fro zenly. I know not how long we might have regarded each other thus, but the parrot, in his covered cage within, eroaked uneasily. Aunt Margery turned sleepily on her pillow. " You are late, .Tennj-" she said querulously. "What kept you so, ; child? Hand me the cam phor yonder,' my head aches dreadfully." I handed the camphor silently, and of habit proceeded to bathe her hands ami forehead as Usual, and then came the usual innumerable orders. A little warm water from the lath room, and a little mixture from the medicine chest. Her pillows needed adjusting, her lamp needed trimming," and thus was I chained to her side a prisoner, with that doubtful time piece in my pocket, and my brain dizzy with schemes for escape. Oh, what would Dick think of me, recreant, that I was in his time of trial? rtoor Dick, watching vainly all this time at Kate Cat terby's cabin, or wandering on the road, mayhap, all the long nightfall, meditat ing on the faithlessness of woman ; then in the morning, discouraged and hopeless, he would drift away somewhere out of my reach. I hardly dared think of this contingency, lo let go my hold on lick was to give up my hold on life. Utterly exhausted with the long watching, I fell asleep at lstst, the heavy sleep of youth and weariness. I was aroused from this dreamless slum ber by a sudden loud crash, a rapping and tearing at the window.- Aunt Marsery started up aghast. "Robbers IV she exclaimed, clutching my arm. But there never could have been so bungling a roblteras this. I stood up and faced the intruder with wide-staring eyes. "All right 1" said a loud, cheery voice. "The confounded sash I" And there stood Dick. j "Why, bless my heart, auntid, I beg your pardon. But, Jenny girl, I've ln-en walking the road till I couldn't stand it any longer.: Thought you'd been robbed, or waylaid, or something " Propped up on her elbow among the pillows. Aunt Margery looked out ma jestically and interrupted this tirade. "Richard," said she, "are you a fool?" : " Couldn't exactly state to-night auntie. Ilaven't time to analyze. I only came to look after i Jenny. She's all right, it seems, so 111 bid you good-night." "Dick,": said theTnvalid, shaking her long forefinger at him authoritatively, ' you'll stay just where you are. I can't do without A LOVE STORY KUXNIXQ FROM NKVT YORK THROUGH THE HEART OK AFRICA. The New York GmjJiic kits: There are few men to whom life should apparently be so pleasant as Mr. Henry Stanley; there are fewer, however, to whom it seems to lie so bitter. All English is ready todo him honor; he lias been overwelnied with praise and con- fr.itulation;the Queen has received him, arliament has thanked him; the two great journals for which he has made his explorations have amply rewarded him. But he is sullen, morose, dis contt ntcd and savage. Mr. Stanley has had a romance; it ended unhappily lor him, and this has soured him to the heart. Before he went ujon his second expedition to Africa, hie met and fell madly in love with the charm ing daughter of a weirfthi-citizen of Jew ish extraction, whose name is perhaps best known in connection with the erec tion of an extensive but unfortunate opera house. Mr. Stanley's passiou was deep and violent, but tie was told that he must wait, and ' that an im mediate marriage was out of the ques tion. He was anxious to win -even greater lame and misfortune and lay them at the feet of his beloved. It was at this moment that the second African expedition was proposed to him; in it he saw the coveted opportu nity for distinction and reward, and he eagerly embraced the perilous commis sion. Throughout the whole of that terrible journey through the jungles of Africa, amid all his : toils, dangers, sickness, and disappointments, he was sustained by the thought of his love, and by the confident hope of receiving the reward which was dearer to him than the ap plause of the world or the riches of Golconda. lie gave the name of the young lady to the most beautiful lake which he discovered, as he gave it after ward to the handsome loat in which he made a part of his exploration the Lady Alice. At length tlie source of the Congo was found; the great deed was accomplished; and Stanley returned with a proud and happy heart to the coast. At Zanzibar a packet of letters was awaiting him, and he hastened to opeu them, hoping to find some mes sage of love and affection from the mistress of his soul. A fatal blow struck him. One of the letters con tained the intelligence that Miss Alice had been married several months. From. that moment Stanley was a changed mah. His delight in life was wholly lost. His natural good humor and buoyancy of spirit gave place to long fits of melancholy, alternated with violent outbursts of petulauce and an ger. This, however, was Mr. Stanley's second love affair. He had experienced a previous disappointment, but it had not deeply wounded him. Chancing to be on the islaud of Crete, he saw from his window a (irevk maiden in the gar den of the opposite house, aud at once felt that his fate was sealed. She was about fifteen years old, and Mr. Stanley has since declared that never lefore nor smce has he beheld so sweet and lieautiful a creature. Heatouce sought out the American Consul and revealed to him the state of his heart. The Consul, who had himself married a Greek lady, bade him not despair, took him forthwith to the house of his cost too much and take too lonr to pre pare separate steel-en craved dice for every stamp; so a case-hardened steel die is made, down at the Continental Bank Note Company's, all carefully en graved and cut away to perfection, and then a steel plate softened for tlie pur pose, is by machinery rolled over lite die which leaves its impress every time. soft voice attuned to her , aroratioh, would excite the envy of many city belles, and charm the eye of a connot vur in -arrh of a wnitive rose to complete the latct work of his earL Sme days since, while looking after her woolly wards hc di.covtrrela full grown wolf of the carole tprcies. and an uncommonly lare rie. tU-alihilr until the entire plate U hardened and U approaching the flork, whenhe put her ready for use one for eycry printing press in the room. These are hand presses, and the cylinder that makes the impression is merely turned by a single whirl of the wheel, obtained by the leverage afforded by the projecting spokes or handles. It is all done in a supnsingly quick way ; and there horn, to his sped, and the wolf, feeling that his sanitary condition in that locality was very unsatisfactory, the race and chase commenced, over the hills and prairie, neillier showing any indication of fatigue, until finally le was comp iled to condrr him-tf "run down." Now came the "tuir of war Is no 'lst motion" of wheel, cylinder or I and any one who has ever seen a cavote elbows. I at bay wiannin ami tnarlin?. holding .:. ' " The ink varies according to the kind of stamp. Some of the praises are printing the red 2 cent stamps, some tbu 3 cent groen oae, and others dif ferent colors. Two-thirds of all tlie stamps, says the superintendent, are the 3 cent green ones. The "ink," a queer substance in bulk and qut-crer still when seen on the ink table and roller, is made by the note company, and its secret is theirs. All they know at the printing room is Uiat some kinds have "laundry blue" in them, and that all kinds are made with reference to canceling to the effect of the dauby canceling- tamp used in the pt-oth-e. For the orange-toned 90 cent stamps (these are the highest denominations 1 saw), and also for oue of the vermilion stamps, a peg or two below that, the materials are imported from F.urojc, and mixed in New York. All the others are wholly made here. The dif ferent colore 1 inks are apparently about the consistency of ometyle of news pajicr ink; but not by a'll means so sticky. Tlie "printerrwho brushes off the plate the moment before it goes into the press, does it all in six swift mo tionsthree with a sort of cloth, and three to (conclude) with his bare hand. The operation, for deftness and celerity, is like one of Heller's, the inaztcian. The ink is rolled over the plate with a roller made of Canton tlanncL The printers are paid by the hundred. Precisely how much they earn I could not find out, but it ought to be good wages, for they "worked like leavers. There is no idling or play in that room nor anywhere else in this busy estab lishment. The blink paper, all num bered, is charged to the printers to whom it is delivered, and the plate? are also numbeied and charged to them. When not in actual u.e the plates are kept carefully locked up in the safe a little room in itself. OVER TWt MILLION STAMPS A DAY. Each of these eleven presses turns out 1,200 sheets a day, or 7,2u0a week. Each sheet contains 2i0, and as they are delivered to the postmasters only in sheets or 100 it follows that each sheet must be cut right through the middle. This is done by hand. A girl, with a long air of shears, cuts them as accurately as a ruled line, showing what a good eye and rapid hand can do. There is no room in tlie crowkd sheet for any error, and the girls make nraie. One girl whom I watched for a while, cut "0 sheets a minute 11,000 a day I It was a silent cut, cut, cut from morning to night working as if her life depended upon it. She sits at her work. The girls are all busy at a va riety of process's in the preparation of the stamps, all of which require a deli- ins poiuoa airaini a a oxen tiova. can realuue her situation as the aggressor. Nothing daunu-d, however, she un buckled her bridW ruin, and with the ring at the end, and this only, made good her position, anil, without alight ing from her saddle, she had soon dis abled her foe, saved her lambs, and deprived him of at least one toothsome morse L. Then she started out for the nearest neighbor to the battle ground, nearly two mile distant, for assistance, but found no one at borne who could assist her save another girl, who mounted another pony, and, armed only with a dull knile, these two young eirl were son galloping over the prairie to save the scalp fur which the county pays a "royalty" when pre sented to the proper oCktr. When they returned the principal of this Red Riding Ilond ecapade had partially rvcovi-red from the effects of the "lU unpleasantness," and was moving off. At Ui'ts juncture he was azain invited to remain, while one girl threw him down and .he other proceeded to ad minister Western justice by st-arching for his jugular vein with the knife. Such instances of feminine bravery as this are rarely met with, even cm the frontier, and when a young? girl per forms such an act as this it is certainly worthy of commendation, as it was regarded as only a simple duty by her, and as a prou-ctioo due to the dock of mutton and beauty she had cared for so zealously. A scientist says an?U ,wonas do not sufier wlen put oa tlli.k; It is said that an rucalyptnj In ll lM w ill rid it of mntuiti. Ofinratlng t-am power It tlie rays of th sun has lcn sucrtvsfoHy trie! in India. j Qiaracter give srlara In youth and awe to wnnklM skin ' and jny hairs. . ' . Knnui U a malady for which the only rvmedy Is work; pleasure is only a ilLutiou. Fare lard and work hard hm you are young, and you will have a cliance to rrt when you an old. ftrn tle haU4-4 w alM cottf ains i ie ino-4 money. rrver Juigv a iu-in by tin? shine on bis naU j Iali-tir U rnlua. Iticace U rwwer. With time and pat Urncr llir muIU-rry leaf l-rcorops Mtiu j Heavy clouds oft en brinjr softening and fructif)iug ah-imt-r. wlen light ones are empty and pa over. j When men crow virtuous in thHr old a thy are merely making a mctI- liow CATCHING LIONS. FIVE WERE CAITl'RKD FOR A PARI THEATRE. A corTvspomlent writing from Tar is says. Macomo, a large, powerful negro of Central Africa, had been informed of the nightly presence of a lion in his neighhofhood. He lost no time In arming himself with a long cutlaM, and, dragging a young ox after him, arrived at the ajiintcd place. At the usual hour his majesty appeared. The moon was at Its lull and the strange trio saw one another as iu broad day. The lion gave utterance to a deep, Mgnilicant growl, hmked from the man to the ox ami rlourUht-d bis great tail. Macomo remained -rfrctly quiet for an instant, then suddenly plunging hU cutlass into the ox, he rabnl him in his vigorous arms and threw him at the lion's fret. Tlie wild lat made a bound, sprang upon the LU-eding body, caressing it for a moment as a cat due a mouse, anu then, irtvlng exnreaniou inamorata and nresented him to her mother, who was a widow. Stanley cacy of touch as well as swiftness, and could speak no Greek; the mother no their wages average 8 a week, or a lit- Knglish;the Consul was the interpreter. He did his work so well that at the end of an hour the maiden was sent for. Stanley was forbidden even to touch her hand; but he conversed with her with his eyes, and they soon understood each other well. At the end of a week he was an excepted lover. At the end of a fortnight the day for the wedding arrived. All this while he had seen the young lady once a day, always in the presence of her mother. On the day before the wedding he had been permitted for the first time to take her hand and to im print upon it a chaste salute. ; The morning of the wedding arrived; Stanley was dressed for the ceremony and was awaiting the happy, moment. There entered to him three (i reeks, whom he had not seen before, and an interpreter. They were introduced as the brothers of the bride, and they pro duced a paj-chraent which the intrc prcter explained. It was a deed of settlement, binding Stanley to pay so much a year to the mother, so much to each brother, and so much to his wife, and to plank down the first instalments on the spot. In vain Stanley explained that he was worth nothing and could not pay; the brothers looked daggers, the interpreter frowned, and the scene closed by the arrival of the Cousul, who with difficulty got Stanley out of the clutches of his tormentors and shipped him off to Athens. He did not see his beautiful (ireecian maiden again. POSTAGE STAMPS. THE PROCESS OF MAK1XC1 THEM AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION. The process of making postage stamps for the government, as seen at an es tablishment in New York city, is thus described by a recent visitor. After the paper.is "wet down," as the printers say evtry hundred sheets being Jenny I find ; she can't do counted, and the number marked by a tie over. From the printing room and the dry ing room (the latter an insufferably hot laee when the sheets are placed in rames on drying racks! they go to tlie gumming room which is abo a drying room; but not hot the drying being aided by revolving fans affixed to a shall, which send their influence through lofty piles of the gummed sheets in frames. The gum used is not gum arable that would in drying cause the sheets to curl and crack but is simply a kind of potato starch. It is made 1 believe in Providence. A girl swiftly adjusts the edge of a heap of frin ted sheets so as to slide them all nto place while she deftly daubs them at a single stroke with the mucilaginous substance, which she applies with a single motion of a wide brush. This is the substance you lick tomake it stick" on the letter you drop in the poat-oflk-e. The sheets are dried in woodeu frames. SMOOTHED AND COUNTED. After the gumming and drying, the stamp, in sheets, are flattened out and made smooth by ttcicg subjected to the persuasive power of a hydraulic press, the force being tons. They are put 'in thin boards, which divide the several packages. And after they come out they are taken out and counted again by girls seated at tables, who also swiftly adjust them in even hcape while counting. I jet one of the damsels make a mistake, even of a single sheet, and she necessarily discovers it on the final footings and adjustments. Then there is a careful going over all these weary piles thousand of sheets till that lost sheen is found. IfhedoesuH turn up then the piles are turned around, and gone through with from the edge on the side, not the opposite edge and lo, the delinquent is prolathly found lo have got turned under, and so did not report at muster, for the count is done at the edges. without you. it appears.' "Of course not," said Dick, deliber ately taking a chair. "I always was an appendage of Jnny's you know, and shall be for the rest of my natural life, I'm afraid." "Just, so!" screamed the parrot, one bright sunny morning, as I stepped down stairs in a floating bridal veil, and with my mother's watch in my girdle, Aunt Margery s wedding gin, Dick was wait ing for me below, with teaming face and arms outstretched. Sir Henry Thompson, the famous surgeon and artist, will probably lie brought forward as a candidate for the University of London at the next elec tion. If I he standi, it will be at the special instance of the medical profes sion and as representative ol their claims. projecting tag it is taken up to the printers. Each sheet is of the right size for making 200 stamps, of the ordi nary size. Curiously enough, none of the gentlemen of whom I inquired seemed to know what paper mill makes the paper ; but it is made especially for the purpose. The printing-room is crowded with hand S presses used for printing the stamps ; no fewer than eleven presses being in operation. JLach press lias three persons in attendance one to "tend press," one to ink the plate, and one the 'printer" to brush on an the ink (in a wonderiuily swift and dextrous way), from the sur face aa soon as it is put on. The reason of this, which would oth erwise be a piece of self-etultificalion, i that tlie stamps ate "counter-sunk " or cut in, and the ink is not wanted above them, on the plane surface. It would A GALLANT HUNTRESS. HOW A KANSAS SHEPHERD OIRL DI--AULED A CAYOTE AND D1PATCIIED HIM. A correspondent writing from Eureka Kansas, says: Five miles from this city lives a pros perous farmer named llobert Iy, who is engaged in raising sneep, navtng a large flock, which range at large over the hills and prairie, where their white forms may be seen dotting the surface and rendering it the beautiful scene which nature with her lavish hand has intended. His "boys are all girls," and one of his daughters, Mary Belle Loy, barely fourteen years of age, is the shepherdess, whose rosy cheeks, sun burnt face and craceful form, as she mounts her to stifled growls of joy. he drank the blood and enwhed the Uwes. And Macomo what was he doing all thh time? Seated quietly a few tes from hi guest, he opened a little sack from which he took a bit of corn-bread and dry figs, aud began his own frugal re past. When his hunger tecan to be satis fied the lion raised lit head and looked at the man. Their e)es met. Those of the lion were filled with surprise. Those of tlie man were calm and smil ing. The lion returned to hU supr. When lie was completely satKfk-d he roe. Macomo did likewise. Tlie lion made three or four steps toward Ma como, who remained motionless, and looking once more at his ox, which was but irtiai!y devoured, his eyes seemed to say: This belongs to we." Macomo bowed. A last glance, friend ly this time, and tlc lion quietly went his way, leaving Macomo to return to his home. On the following evening, at the same hour, the African returned to the place of meeting, where the lialf-devoured carcass still lay, and shortly afterward the lion made his apivaranre, but not alone this time. As the hunter had foreseen, he came accompanied ly family and friends. They were four in numU-r 1 lions, a lioness and liou's whelps. The repast was serve" I, lit not as on the. previous netting, in the oten air. Macomo had built an arbor, covered with vines, Utnana and uhn leaves, and into this pretty dining-room his guest entered fearlessly. Then crawl ing noiselessly within reach of a hidden spring, Macomo touched it, and his four lions suddenly found themselves imprisoned in a strong iron cage, whose lars luul l"en hidden beneath green leaves. Friends were near at liand to aid in- removing the four lions upon a cart, and they were about to commence their work when. they perceived a new lioness, crouched down upon tlie sand licking her whelps between the iron Urn. When the men raised the cage utmn tlie cart she looked at them be seechingly, and when they all marched on she followed at a short distance with drooping head and tearful eyes And thus it is that we have five lions instead of four at the Theatre Forte Saint Martin, five terrible, ferocious beasts, ready to revolt at any moment, and, although Macomo enters their cage and dominates thcra to a certain extent, they have not forgiven him for taking advantage of their confidence in him, and would ask nothing better than to treat him as Lucas was treated tiy his seven lions in the last days of the old Hippodrome aim ply tear him to pieces. ucc (o iicni oi toe tievti a leaving Ixok will Into thjwlf ; their Is a sourre which will always spring up if tltou will always search there, j If at any time you are pred to do a thing hastily, l careful ; fraud and deit are always in haste;) diH3 denre Is tlie right eycjjf prudence. i James I.mlrt, the brave Scotch man Cliarh- TUade'a 'Hero and Martyr" died iu liLguw asliort time ago. j B i ween novels and Wks of devo tion is this d iff t-renre; thai more read the former than buy them, and. more buy the latter titan read tl em. No man should be punished for his crimes 1m was trained to crime from his rhildhooiL As well blame tlt young jockey for hi lwleg-i. J There is no merit where there Is no trial; and, till exjrrience tamj the mark of strength, coward! may I has for heroes, faith for fabH-lKL Sorrows gather around oul as storms do around mountain; bat, like them, tley break tlie atonu and purify tlie air of tlie plains lneath them. , Alas! if the principles are it within us, the height of stalkm and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his lajv pines. J In a recent trial in England it. came out (liat economical band -leaders were In the habit tf lmjing " dummy violins" upon the managers w intra they had contracted to furnish with musicians at so much a head. Th dummy violin is played with a grased how by a man who knows nothing of musk, and renders no audible sound. An extremely simple inethM of testing tlie genuineness of diamonds it given in a letter to the I,ondon , TWa : If tliespecimeu is immersed in water, should it t a diamond it will sparkle with aUuol undiminbdied light and brilliancy of color; but if it 1 "purl oin, whether iste or r-k crystal, tlie "lire of the jewel will W completely quenched. j Edelweiss, the precious J Alpine UoKSom. for which every tourist in SviiUerland strains his eyes and sjTains his knee. Is not ao seusitlvo a plant but tliat it can le transplanted to Eng land and forced to bloom. In 1?70 a young lady carried a plant fmm tlie iligi to the Ldaud and confided it to a gardener in Cranford, who lias suc ceeded in making it Uootn this spring. In a Pennsylvania towa an owl tfiok pns!esjion ol a box in which a lair of martins were buildisg their nest. and. when Uey returned at night- would not let them enter. The martins flew away and soon returned with a whole armv of companions, who went to work and plastered tin entrance to tlie box tightly with rand. When tlie box was ci-ned, a few days later, the owl was found dfad. j Wlien Waterloo bridge was lnlt over the Thames, Uty year ago, tlie masonry was taken only two feel below 11m: bed of the river, and started on piles. The river is now efcht f-t dei j-r than it was then, and tle wooden Upward of 4tM,391 persons were employed in English coal mines in 177. 30,141 less than in 176. and pony, who kno wswdl the 1 1 or 1 in 4U0 died by accident. crulclies appear to have safTered froni undermining, and are now considered unequal to Mipijrt the suj-rMruelure aboe. The engineers reeorornent! that tlie wooden pier 1 fenced round . with wrought iron caissons !Cld with concrete till the whole is a solid mass, which, it is stated, will render the bridge perfectly aaf Titer died a few days aco at Hart ford, CJoun., a man of mmc means lit clouded Intellect, who fori the last thirty years bad done nothing hi considerable mean allowing him to live In leisure but walk up and dawn the streets, removing carefully from the sidewalks all stray pieces of orange neel and banana skin. Ia early life his lady love broke Iter leg by slipping on a piece of orange I el. and eventually died from the effects of the accident. This affected his mind and j led to hl unwlhsh occupation for the rest of his life. There is a field In Cleveland for some one with a similar life-purpose. Some years ago, Sir ioha Hersehel made the following calculation : " For the benefit of those wIkj discuss the subjects of population, war, stilenee, famine, Ac, it may l as well to men tion that the number of human br ines living at the end of the ld th cenera- tluD. commencing with a single pair, doubling It at each generation (say in thirty years), and allowing for each man, woman and child an average smce of four feet in height and one foot square, would form a vertical col umn, having for its base the whole sur face of the earth and sea jspread out into a plane, and for its height 3,I74 times the sun's distance from tlie earth." Tlie column of human strata thus piled one on the otlier would amount to 4Ca,7tO,(M),000,aX - y ': 'ii i i i : . k .1 -. 1 ; .!- , i i t i I. 9

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