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Hiding from Papa.
Papa's lost his baby !
Searches everywhere,
Under chairs and tables,
With the greatest care!
Pulls aside the curtain,
Peeps behind the door!
Never sees the little heap
Curled np on the floor;
Never hears the whisper,
'Mamma, don't you tell!'
Nor the little laughter,
Muffled like a bell.
Off he scampers wildly,
Hunting here and there,
Overturning everything,
With the greatest care.
Canary has a visit,
Sitting on his perch,
Mamma's apron pocket
Suffers by the search.
Now I am so tired
Elephant at play
That I mi.st take a rest
A minute by the way.
I'll lay my weary head
On this little rug.'
Under mamma's towel
Lay her darling, snug!
Then the merry scrambling
Papa laughed to see!
'And you didn't fink, now,
That it could be me!'
A Hummer Morning's Song.
Up, sleeper! dreamer, up! for now
There's gold upon the mountain's brow;
There's light on forests, lakes, and meadows,
The dew-drops shine on flow'ret bells;
The Tillage clock of morning tells.
Up, men! out cattle! for the dells
And dingles teem with shadows.
The very beast that crops the flower
Hath welcome for the dawning hour.
Aurora smiles her beckoning claim thee.
Listen look round! The chirp, the hum,
Bong,low,and bleat there's nothing dumb;
All love, all life! Come, slnmberers, come !
The meanest thing shall shame thee.
THE PEACH PARTX.
luru. xoaiianaaine stands in tUe varan-
eta receiving her guests. She is a tall,
grave-eyea woman, tempered put not
soured by her twenty years of leolonial
lifo; self-possessed and ready-witted she
is, but never sharp or quLok in speech
or judgment. She is supremely indiffer
ent to all the luxuries she has learned to
do without, although now she has them,
in plenty; with an ever-deepening sense
of the insignificance of outward things,
and the transitoriness of all merely
earthly conditions, which makes herj
seem to be constantly looking above
every question, and deciding it from a
higher Btandpoint than others.
Standing to welcome her guests, she
looks, this summer day, a very comely
gentlewoman, in her soft, pearly cash
mere shawl and lace cap; and Molly,
looking as her mother must have looked
in her girlhood, flashes hither and
thither with cups of coffee and piles of
dainty cakes, and a jest and a smile for
all.
The rustle of freshly-starched skirts,
the waving of t ibbonB and feathers, the
babble of voices, varied by an occasional
roar from an aggrieved baby, become
confusing; and I am glad when the word
is given for the serious business of the
day to commence, and the company
move off in the direction of the orchard.
'Now, Mr. Cimpion, I expect vou to
-iok after my baby for me,' said little
Mrs. Aubrey, fastening on my arm, with
a merry smile in her dark eyes whioh no
poverty has been able to quench. Who,
to look at her, slim, graceful, becoming
ly dressed, would guess at the drudgery
of her daily life, or the shifts she has
recourse to to find bread and butter for
the six ) little ones at home ? But Mrs.
MaJlandaine knows the secrets of that
noosehold, as of many others, and her
eyes notice how thin the little woman
has become, and how the lines are deep
ening round eye and mouth.
I've got a snug corner for baby on
the sofaV she sayB, taking the little bun
dle into her kind arms. 'Hugh shall
pick for you to- day, while you come and
have a quiet chat with me in the cool
drawing-room. I want to consult you
about the girls' autumn dresses, and to
show you some beautiful serge I have
just had sent me from home. There is
far more than we shall
thought we might out out some little
frocks for your twins if you like the
color. Oome and look at it, my dear,
while baby's quiet.'
Hugh,' says Molly, coming up, 'ae
you going to pick for Mrs. Aubrey ? So
will I; I like picking for her, for I know
how the little ones enjoy the jam and
jelly she makes so well. Jack, run and
help Misa Crawley with that heavy tub,
and mind, you find her the finest
peaches; that's a good boy P
Molly and I pass through the gate
with Mrs. Aubrey's great basket swing
ing between us, and look round for a
tree where shall we begin ?
'This will do, I think," says Molly,
coming to a stand-still under a giant
whose spreading branches are weighted
with downy fruit; 'but while you begin
I must go round and see if every one is
sited.'
I begin as ordered, but soon leave off
to look down on the scene.
At last Molly flits back to my tree.
'Hugh 1 only three peaches 1 What have
you been doing up there all this time?'
Dreaming, Molly; you can't think
what a quaint picture the orchard makes
from this branch. But I'll pick in
earnest, now you are here to wake me
up. Halloa ! here's Meredyth I'
Mollv will not look ud. hnt t
the sudden flush whioh tineas AT An Haw
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round white throat at his name. Mere
dyth looks out of spirits and care-worn,
I fancy; he pauses at the gate to take a
prolonged survey, hesitates, and has al
most made np his mind to go over to old
Miss Crawley, when Jack spies him,
vnd shouts out: 'Molly, here's Mr.
i Wedvth at last I Mollv'
1 So Molly is obliged to look up and to
hhofc the late comer. Ah. if ah a wnnl.4
ry look at me with that shy gladness
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7 enr cyan, hw nim uiua quiver ui me
Ahieh tells to much! I look down
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from my perch among the leaves and
recognize, once more, how Molly has
given her heart, without reserve, to this
man. And Meredyth? He loves her,
too, unless I am much mistaken; and
yet to me, watching him with the jeal
ous eyes of a young and very ardent
rival, there is something strange in his
bearing toward Molly. Sometimes, for
weeks, he will not attempt to see her;
then he will spend a whole day at her
side, as if unable to tear himself away.
I am certain he tried to avoid her just
now, and yet now she has spoken to him
and given him one of her wistful looks,
he stands looking down into her eyes,
and talking in that low melancholy voice
of his, as if he wanted to absorb her
whole attention.
By-and-by they stroll off to another
tree with one of Mrs. Aubrey's unfilled
baskets, and I feel as if the beauty of
the day had suddenly clouded over, and
the pretty idyllio scene beneath me had
turned into veriest prose. Grumbling
and caBtle-building by turns, I fill the
basket to the brim, and then betake my
self to a rustic seat close by to have a
smoke. To enjoy my well-earned pipe
more thoroughly, I lie down full length,
the overhanging boughs of a fuchsia
hide me from the public eye, and I drop
off presently into a consolatory nap.
When I wake again, all the gay com
pany seem to have melted away; only
Jack and little Daisy Harper are tug
ging at a kit which they have overfilled,
and which will not go through the gate.
Close by me I hear Molly speaking:
'Hugh must have gone in, I suppose; I
can't see him anywhere. Isn't he a dear,
good fellow, Mr. Meredyth ?'
Molly,' says Meredyth, in a voice
whioh he is evidently struggling to keep
calm and unexcited, I wonder, if you
would understand if I told you some
thingsomething which is a cruel
weight on me day and night, and yet 1
never thought much about it until lately.
Sometimes I think I must tell you, and
then, at other times, I think I would
die first. It is then I stav awav from
Baarcrof t for so long; and yet I always
come uacK with the same insane long
ing to speak.'
. Molly,' cries Jack, running back,
mother has sent me to look for von Tf
is time to see about sooner, sho rava
and she can't find Sib anywhere.'
-uorning, jacay answers Molly, in a
voice that will tremble a little and TVferA-
dyth's chance is gone for the present.
'Uieariy he was on the point of nrn.
posing,' I say, crossly, to myself, as I
yawn and stretch my arms, 'and I'm
very thankful Jack interrupted, for I've
no wish to hear him go through his
declaration. Bather an odd WAV nf ho.
ginning, though,' I decide, and then I
jump the fence, and by a short cut
through the shrubbery arrive at the
veranda five minutes before they appear
in sight.
Where is Molly?' screams Sibyl,
who is the first to catch sight of me as I
mingle with the crowd of 'pickers'
grouped round the veranda and the open
drawing-room windows.
There she is,' I answer, catching the
wave of her white gown against the vivid
scarlet blossoms of the rata which grows
at the bend of the drive.
Ah, yes, here she is,' echoes Mrs.
Aubrey, as Molly, Geof Meredyth and
Jack appear more fully in view. 'Now
let us Who on earth is that?'
The exclamation, and the altered tone
of Mrs. Aubrey's voice, make all within
ear-shot turn and look in the same di
rection, and there is a momentary lull in
the Babel of talk. Jack is a little in
advance of his sister, and is deeply in
terested, apparently, in cutting a whis
tle with his pooket-knife; but a few paces
behind Meredyth is a woman whom none
of us have observed before. Her ap
pearance is so strikingly unlike that of
any of Mrs. Mallandaine's guests, and
her evident concentration of interest and
intention on the pair before her is so
strange as to account for Mrs. Aubrey's
exclamation of extreme surprise.
She is a tall, powerful woman, of per
haps five and forty, stout and broad
shouldered; her face is coarsely hand
some; blaok eyes; strongly marked eye
brows; a quantity of black hair untidily
massed beneath her smart bonnet; her
skin, originally, perhaps, a clear red and
white, is now high colored and coarse.
Her walk is slightly unsteady, but she
is sober enough to have a purpose and
to stick to it; and that purpose evidently
is to follow Meredyth, on whom her
eyes are fixed with an expression of ma
licious hatred. Little Mrs. Aubrev looks
and then flashes a glance of intelligence
at me.
'Some drunken tramn.' nh a aafd m.
leesly, 'who has strayed off the road.
ouo mubi not ue aiiowea to startle Molly.
Hugh. VOU and I Will ffO and tnrn har
out quietly.'
Mrs. Aubrev denosits the hnhv nn f Via
veranda as she speaks, but we are too
late, for as we step on to the gravel of
the drive, Molly, by some 6vil chance.
turns her head. stoDs. and then am.
dyth turns his too, with a half uttered
WOrd on hl8 llPS. and with a smile wWr.
is meant for Molly; but it does not reach
1 . a m i .
uer; M ireezes into a ghastly look of hor
ror as he sees the woman behind him.
My Uod I have pity,' he mutters in
a curious, half-choked voice, as he re
treats a few steps, his face growing gray
io ine very lips.
What is it ? asks Mollv. looking, he.
wildered, from one to the other.
jno need to trouble you. my pretty
vonnff lad V.' savs the stranger, in a
hip; h-Ditched, unrefined voice ? mv hnai.
ness is wim tne gentleman, and I needn t
-aji m v '-mm
aeep mm nve minutes not rive min
utes, she repeats, shifting her hard
black eyes from one face to another of
the croup.
Mrs. Aubrey links her arm in Molly's
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muix mes to araw ner toward the house.
oome, darling,' she says brightly, cwe
will leave Mr. Meredyth to see what
this person wants, while we go and
seme aoout the riding party for next
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But Molly has caught a vague alarm
from Meredyth s set face, and does not
listen. 'What does this woman want?'
she says, going close to his side and
looking wistfully up in his face. 'Send
her away, Geoffrey; she can have nothing
vu vivj wim you.
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j. ue worus reach the ear thov xaaro,
not intended for, and the woman bursts
into a coarse laugh. 'Nothing to do at
Diiu jiim, my aear. nothing at all,
except that T am hio u
naa muav D can s
Somehow, when the words are spoken,
WARRENTON,
I seem to have known this for ages, and
wjo mwjieace seems to repeat itself again
and again in the dead silence which fol-lows-
'His wife that's all ! his wife I'
Molly starts and utters a little moan, as
if some one had sudden! v struck her;
Meredyth turns away his head and says
not a word. Some of the people stroll
ing about the garden are coming toward
us, attracted by the sense that some
thing unexpected is happening. 'Who
is that woman V they are asking one an
other, while we can hear Sibyl's shrill
treble asking, 'Why are Mrs. Aubrey
and Molly standing about on the lawn,
instead of coming to help mother with
the supper ? Do tell them, somebody '
Meredyth l' I cry, hastily, shaking
his arm to jouse his attenton, 'do you
hear what this miserable creature is say
ing about you? Contradict her, and
send her off about her business.'
I caaiiot contradict her,' he answers
slowly, as if jthe words were wrung out
of him against his will; 'she has spoken
the truth. Yes,' he continues, raising
his voice and addressing the people who
are hurrying to the spot, 'that is my
wife, friends. Look well at her, and
listen to my story. Years ago, when I
was a lad at Oxford, I was entrapped by
her father and her brother and induced
to marry heri I have no one to thank
but myself for the misery of my life,
although she is twelve years my senior!
I was a foolish, weak, concsited boy'
and walked readily into the trap laid for
me. I belieted her to be a good and
pure woman, and I married her. When
I found out what she was I left her, and
sailed within a week from England, but
I ma.'e over my whole small fortune to
her on condition that I never saw her
again. Oat here I have tried to begin
a new and happier life; I have worked
hard and lited peaceably among you
let any man sav differentlv if
have tried to redeem the one fatal error
oi my life, with but one wish, one
prayer that I mifiht never heVmi.i tiM
cursed face again. Who bel ieveq that
a man is bound, by one rash word, to
such a woman as that ? TUfara Rm,
Tf w- w U T rf iJ.
I repudiate her I' He flung up his arms,
m " iwcio wurus, wim an inde
scribable gesture of despair, and turn
ing his back on us, walked ranidlv
toward the bush. He had Rnnken with
such concentration of passion that we
were all breathless and spell-bound, and
for a long minute no one stirred.
Then Molly turned to me and caught
at my hand. 'Hugh! come with me,
quick, to the Gum-tree Walk oh,
Hugh, help me V There was no with
standing her entreatinc eves? t.he Onm.
tree Walk was a short-cut to the point
ior wuicn aiereaym nad made, and we
should overtake him before he turned
into the main road. Had I been older
might have Questioned the nrndeneo
of such a step on my cousin's part; but
x was nineteen, and awfully sorry, I
must -confess, for Geoffrey Meredyth: so
T 1 3 n.r-n t . . '
a uiuspeu iuouy Rcoid nngers in mine,
and while everv one gathered rrmnd tho
loudly-discoursing strancrer. weslinned
into the shade of the gum-trees and ran
Bwutiy io me lower end, where a road
crossed ours.
Meredvth was comincr nnieVlv alnmr
with his head bent down, and till he
reached the turn he did not
when he looked np and saw Molly Mb
whole aspect changed. I suppose the
reaction frorn seeing himself arraigned
before a censuring crowd to reading his
misery in the tender sorrow of Molly's
eyes broke him down quite, for he
turned aside and covered his face with
his hands. Molly stepped up to him
and took his hand between hers
Geoffrey, she said, earnestlv. while the
big tears rolled down her faee d enr
Geoffrey, I wanted to tell you how I
pity and how I love von. T am nrt
afraid to tell you and Hugh hears me
x love you witn my whole heart.' Her
voice quivered, but the lovelv. tender
eyes still looked bravely up to his. I
may never see you again, (jrooffrey, but
that will make no differenoer and when
you feel that you can hope no longer,
you muse sun tase neart, remembering
that one woman loves and prays for
you.'
Ah. Mollv. I could bear no longer tn
listen to your clear tones, passing such
a uxuei sentence on your youth; i left
the dark avenue, and went out alone the
creek until you called me back, and I
found Meredyth gone. Molly looked in
my face with a Door attemnt. t a nmile
which made my heart ache, as she took
my arm ana we turned toward home.
'It was God's mercy that made me
think of the Gum-tree Walk,' she said,
softly; 'for think of it, Hugh he wae
going to kill himself when we met him.
rsow ne nas promised, and 1 know he
will keep hiis word.'
I did not ask her what he had prom
ised; the whole thing seemed to me too
miserable to be talked about; I cauld
only listen with fresh pain to Molly's
'He is Some to nhrintnViniwVi il-t
and then on to Melbourne he will write
10 lameriuuy from there. He doesn't
know vet where he will an tUn . K t
nave asked him once a vear rm "NTa.
Year's Eve to write to mc always to
say where he is, whether he is well, and
and content. It was a good thing I
came to the Gum-tree Walk, Hugh.'
What are we to do now ?' I ask, pres
ently, as we emerge on the lawn.
We must try and get through the
evening as if nothing had happened,'
answers Molly, wearily; 'it will be best
to make np difference, for every one's
sake.' "
I have been looking out for you, dear
Molly,' cries little Mrs. Aubrey, com
ing up to us, 'to tell you that that per
son nas been packed off at last. My
nusrjano got out our . buggy, and,
wuciorair oiic u&eu ls or no, we bustled
ner in, ana ne nas driven her to Ben
ton s station. Kenton's wife will keep
her there for a day or two, and then Tom
was to ask her to send the prafn M
, vtvmiuc JIA
to Port Lyttleton. I thought that was
aue ueet inmg w ao wim ner. Of course
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every oooy s cnauermg about all this
but they'll soon forget it. Sibyl and I
burned them in -doors to prepare for
supper, and fortnnatelv
baby swallowed a peach-stone, and that
kvo iuii a iresu corn so t neir thoughts.
we can sup no stairs tn vrmr
Molly, unseen, and you and I will come
down together, and no more need be
said.'
Poor, pretty Molly ! what a hard fight
she had all that weary evening to keep
the aching sorrow of her heart out of
N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879.
eves and vr.ino hk. nr. i i
too. till the Kct 1 r.TT Ul : '
' "JliggJ uou UlltCU UU ill
the clear moonlight, and she came to say
gOOd-UlCht t.r, mo T
of a broken heart as she leaned on my
m er ioT a momet. bd whispered :
Hugh 1 Hugh I how can I bear the long
vears to come ?
But sorrow has been merciful to Mol
ly Mallandaine as to all who bring a
stout heart to meet it; all the ten years
which have slipped by since that mo
mentous evening have found her even
tempered and cheerful. It is only the
night before the new year that she grows
restless and troubled, Sibyl and I have
noticed; and when we bring our chil
dren to Bearcroft to spend Christmas
she never takes them to play in the
Gum-tree Walk; she says the trees are
gloomy, and she does not like to see the
little ones under them.
, A waitoa youth, some would say; but
Molly does not think co, as year by year
her letter comes, bringing tidings of the
life she rescued from despair.
Is White Ice Impure?
Much of the prejudice that exists
against white ice is based on a want of
proper discrimination between ice that
is SUUDlv white and iee that io Ai-r
a VUXV T CUJV4
discolored. Professor Tvndall lavs it
down as a principle that whiteness al
ways results from the intimate and ir
regular mixture of air with a transpa
rent solid,' and illustrates it by referring
to ground glass, table salt and rvf Vi ay
articles, which become white when the
masses of glass in the one instance, and
of salt in the other, are severed and ai
admitted. Of course the salt is innt an
free from impurities in the opaque form
of flue white powder as in the transpa
rent form of saltpeter. It han fiimnlv
ceased to be transparent, and it ia hv
the operation of the same natural law of
light that clear, limpid water often makes
white ice. The color of ice thus de
pending on the expulsion of the air
from the water during orvafaliiVatirm it
follows : First, that when the weather is
intensely cold and the atmosphere fa
vorable to abundant nootn
the ice formed on sill water or sjuggieh
Bureams, containing more than the aver
age amount of air, is apt to be whiter
than usual ; and second, that the ice thus
formed is not the less pure because it is
wnne, as its color is due to the presence
of atmospheric air. whioh wan nntvAT.
pelleJ in the act of freezing. This air is
the same that we breathe and that all
pure water is known to contain. White
ness in ice being thus rather an index
of purity than otherwise, the only re
maining Question in whether -vViitA iw io
as valuable as the transparent product
m n economical point oi view f And on
this point scientists are tivery emphatic
Saying that it is nreferahle At Wat
for some purposes. Tyndall tells us that
he found among the glaciers of the Alps
ridges of this white ice, and that they
invariably stood three or four feet above
the general level of the blue ice. The
difference in their height, as compared
wiin ine latter, he ascribed to their
greater power of resistance to the onn'
rays, which are the only melting influ
ence to which they are subject in those
regions of eternal frost. In this infer ¬
ence he is supported by many practical
experiments not confined to scientists,
and showing that white ice exposed to
the sun's ravs will last longer than
transparent, bulk for bulk and weight
ior weignt, rnus it appears that its
color does not detract from, but rather
adds to its commercial value.
Arrival of the Larsrest ReaCow that
Ever was Caught.
The largest Mexican manatee ever ex
hibited in this country, and one of the
largest ever seen by those familiar with
me naoits oi tms gigantic cetacean, ar-
river from Florida, where he was cap
tured in the St. Lucie river some four
months ago. From the tip of his nose
to the end Of his mil. whioh is similar
externally to the Uil of a fish, the ani
mal measures twelve feet, bsmg five feet
longer than the average of the mature
manatee in its natwe waters. The weight
of this huge sea monster is about 3,000
pounds, and his breadth across the
shoulders is three feet. A male, and
the largest one ever captured, the Styp
man brothers who are the hannv nrn-
prietors of the find had no easy task
before them to bring their captive home
after thev had secured him. Thev
finally hit upon the expedient of bind
ing him securely between two heavy
oaken planks, in which situation they
managed to prevent him from nnsettinzr
the boat. He was afterward transferred
to a large tank. The manatee is so rare
as to be an obieefc of interest, tn thnaA
well-versed in natural history, and there
are few comparative anatomists, proba
bly, who can describe its anatomical
structure. Externally a cetacean, it is
intemaUyallied the rodents, and has
Al . 1 . . . . .
me poweriui snoui oi tnat order, cut it
feeds on alese and f unei. and has the
long intestine of all vegetable eaters.
This specimen will be taken to the Roy
al aquarium at Westminster for exhibi
tion, and then to France. It is valued at
810,000.
Showing Him How.
It was on the lower deck of one nf the
harbor steamer: 'There, sit there,' said
the father, placing his little boy on a
- - m 1 " :
smoom cynnaer running across the
gangway; 'sit there a moment till I get
you some water.' No sooner had he
turned than down went the little one to
the deck. Picking him up: 'Seems to
me you might sit there without falling
off. Therj, now; juSt keep quiet and
youH be all right.' He turns, and drop
number two takes place. Getting a
little impatient: 'Well, you're clumsy
enough, I must say ! Why, I could sit
there all day and not fall off. See, just
sit this way,' And then he picked him
self up and began brushing his clothes,
while something strangely like a smile
took the place of the whimper that had
darkened the little fellow's face. Then
pouncing on his boy's hand, the fond
parent rushed up into the cabin in
double-quick time, but not quick
enough, probably, to entirely escape
the laughter which on the wind came
roaring after. 1 .
.
The people of the United States pay
over $700,000,000 a year for spirituous
and fermented liquors, and only $95.-
500,000 for education and $48,000,000
iur i eugion.
A Superstition Solved.
A strange story comes from St. Fran
cis county. Arkansis. In the St Vnn
cis river bottoms there lives a man named
George H. Toban. With him live a wife
ana a thirteen year old son. The family
has resided in a quiet way, so far as any
one knows, until recently. One morn
ing, just after the yellow fever excite
ment began to unread
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Mr. Toban, upon opening the door, found
a card lying on the doorstep. On the
card was written the words, 'yellow fe
ver, very little attention was paid to
ine matter, but when again and again,
oiuunir, caras were lound, Mr. Toban be
came concerned, and not being as clear
of superstition as might be, regarded the
uaruu as ominous, and as a warning of
an approach of the terrible disease. Ev
j i"6 wumu Riuu gioomy reports
from Memphis, nd,every morning found
ery night he would read gloomy reports
the card, 'yellow fever.' Finally, he de-
iciuuiieu iaj waicn ana satisfy himself,
ouu uU me aoorstep remained all night.
u one appeared, nut when the dark
ness was dispelled by the streaks of day
ugnt, ne saw a card lying on the step
'uu jauMu.iu ib up ana exam-
ining it, he saw the words 'yellow fever'
Written in Amnilv Vo nn l 3 xi i
woiuo juiui. Kjuwnma it no ann exam-
written m exactly the same hand that
naa marked the r.ards hAfnro TKr,
inere was indeed anxiety in the family.
" w. V. w.
auo icvoj reports grew gloomier, and
the faniilv settled infn tho Koir
Providence, by a handwriting on cards
uu auviuea nignr. ine husband did
not know what to do. the wife
ened into a terror that trembled at evnrv
anr.l 11 V 11 m -
duuuu 3 iuuuku vennw iever Ttn
with noisy footsteps, and the son was al
most dumb and sometime? deaf with
inght. It was at last decided that vaoa
tion of the place would be necessary.
sut a ohange came, and the mystery,
lima mist, ciearea nn. t n the mcrhr
fore the proposed departure, the hus
Dand, unable to sleep, sat on the bed
side, almost terrified and weak with
dread. Suddenly the door of the room
j 3i- . ....
upeneu, ana nis son, in 'night attire '
stood in the room. The father, in
fluenced by a sudden feelinc. did nnt.
epean. xne Doy aavanced to the man
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tel -piece, took down a pencil, went to
'the little table.' took out a oard. leaned
over, wrote something on it, and then
advancing to the door, supped it under.
xuo iaiuer waicnea ort athlessl v. anrl
when the bov started to leave th
ine man caught him. The boy strng
gied, gasped, and awoke. He did nnt
know, nor could he understand, why he
stood there grasped by his father. The
wne sprang out of bed. A few words
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tjipimnea an, ana wnen tne door was
opened, there was the card bear in cr
me woras -yeuow lever.' The young
man in his early youth had exhibited
signs of somnambulism, and reading
every day the yellow ftver reports to
the family no doubt influenced his ac
tion.
Wheat Culture in the South.
T1Q Afainw 1V
for the first timo in the histrv nf
Georgia the local mills find wheat in
snfli nent abundance to run them without
drawing suDDlies of wheat, fmm t.h
North. There are undonhtedlv nsrts
n9 r l i ri - i .
vyuubrai vaeorsria wnera -wheat r.an he
grown to perfection, for there the soil is
a stiff clay-loam and is rich in the ele
ments that wheat requires. But even
upon the sandy soils of that State it ap
pears that good wheat crops can be
raised by the application of fertilizers.
ana ii care be taken in Ihe tilla0e. Tt
seems to be a remarkable thing that in
sucn bous wneat should be grown, as
the Telegraph states, as far south in
vjreoriria as tne r lorida line. This sne
cess has been achieved by the use of the
ariu. jNor is it only in Georgia that the
cultivation of wheat is extending. In
Northwestern Sen th Climlina the Clar.
mans have demonstrated that excellent
crops of both wheat and rye can be
raised by deep drilling and manuring
wim ine waste oi tne barnyard com
posted with muck and pine shatters.
The seed IS drilled in bnnohas. the
drills being snffioiently wide apart to
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tween. After a while the wheat tillers
and covers the wlole ground. Three
CTOP3 Of rye for forace are nnt, there hv
ii. 'rt - . " . J
me irannans in one season.
iriw flk. Tnn ti
How the Japanese Ho It.
The Japanese method of keenincmeat
fresh in hot weather is inst nnw atrraot.
ing a good deal of attention in European
flesh in noroelsin vessAla anil nnn-rirtrr
ixico. j.u ujiioinui in Diaciuc riiG raw
on it boiling water, whereby the albu-
men of the surface is quickly coagulated
aim lorms a proreetion against the fur
ther action of the water. Oil is then
poured on the surface of the water so as
io prevent tne access of air and conse
quent putrefaction of the meat. The
a T " - - auvnw l.
system of protecting animal substances
hv
by eecuring coagulation of the albumen
ana me exclusion ot air is no novelty;
and it can hardly be supposed that we
are indebted to the Japanese for its
original adoption. But undoubtedly
their method of applying it is far pref
erable to tnat practiced bv ourselves in
the process of Dreservine tinned meats
which appears to consist in boilinc them
for such a length of time that almost ai
their flavor is destroyed, and the nlti-
mate result is a mass of tasteless shreds
of muscular fiber.
Bondsmen Ruined.
Four vears aeo Josenhns Son v. Jr..
it. m iT. . rf
me otaie treasurer oi ew Jersey, de
faulted for $70,000. He was arrested.
tried, convicted and sent to the State
prison, and recently, having served out
his term, went West. Of the amount
he owed to the State 26 000 was made
up by his friends, leaving $44,000 to be
paid bv his bondsmen, eic h t in nnmher
Five of these are now bankrupt, and the
deficit must be paid by the other three,
Gen. John Irick, of Burlington; James
M. Durand, the Newark banker, and
father-in-law of Ex-Gov. Warmoth. of
Louisiana, the courts having so decided.
During the past fiscal year this coun
try imnorted from Sonth Ameriean nonn.
tries $157,016,316 worth of goods, while
we exported to them but $58,367,087
WJrtc.
Alfrarl TflnniraATl 4-V a uut kaa mill
C3lebrated his seventy-second birthday,
vine ui jLexasare oymg Dy nunareas
nf tViii-ot
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AT HISTORIC BUILDING.
Thr Famous Tn iIkiHa. . . .
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and the (. round Converted into a Pleaaare
Park lor the Parisian-History of the
Edifice.
The French chamher nf 7nnf;a u..
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decreed the demolition nf tho n.i
the Tuilenes, the ancient and modern
habitation of the monarch s of that coun
try, whioh was deatrnved all amant
walls, by the communists in Miy, 1871.
The Tuileries has a strange and not very
savory history. It was built or the
present building was begun, rather by
Catharine de Medici, the able and ven
omous wife of Henry IT., who so Inn a
ruled the destinies nf Fnmna f ol
Strong-minded woman as she was, the
crimes hatched and done in the Louvre
I , auumuuBie oi ins
P106 sickening to her. That old pal
Eeemea to make the atmosphere of that
ace was begun, according to Saint-Foix,
by Dagobert, who kept his horses and
hounds in it. It was made a Rtata -4a.
on by Phihp Augustus and a palace by
Charles V. and Francis I. It was from
one of the windows of the Louvre that
Charles IX , son of Catharine, fired upon
.1 ' ixic, ureu upon
the Huguenots. There are legends that
Charles V. hponn fVia Km'l.l.'nn
Charles V. began the building of the
Tuileries fwhich derives its nam A frrwm
the lot upon whioh it is limit hMinn
been originally a brick-yard or ttc-yard
tuilerie), but it seems certain that the
oldest part of the building whose ruins
still remain the central Pavilion de
Vhorlogewm erected by Catharine de
Medici in 1564. She also added th .i.
joining wings and their pavilions, and
iiveu m me new paiace until death put
an end to her clots and
Henry IV. next occupied the palace, and
emargea it by extending both wing.
It was a favorite palace of the French
monarchs thenoeforwar.l nntil T.nn,a
XTV., piqued at the wars of the Fronde
ana me questionable obeisance which
the volatile Parisians paid to his maxim,
'L' Etat c'e&t moi' remnved th rtvrrVf
y -ww w w w J j VV Ul V
to Versailles. This was in 1672, and
after the Grande "Mor.arorn i
pleted the irallerv. beamn bv his father
connecting tlie palace with the Louvre.
xjouis A.iv.alsogot Mansard to improve
the dome of the Pavilion de I horloge
in his characteristic style, but he would
not live in ine place, and it was not
again occupied by a Frence king until
17oy, When the populace of Paris marnh-
ed ut to Versailles and
Louis XIV. and Marie Antoinette to re
move thither. On the memorahle An.
gust 10, 1792, this same populace, tired
UI tneir DUDOet feict? anil th haiaA
Austrian woman.' his wife, f termed the
buildinsr. massacred the Swiss omard
and removed 'Louis Capet' and his wife
to prison. Napoleon, as soon as he be
came first consul, moved into the Tuile
ries and made it his imperial nalace
He also began the north gallery, which
was completed in 1867 bv Nannlenn the
Third. This addition made a connected
pile of the Tuileries and the Louvre.
wim me x-iaoe ou carrousel fonts quad-
with the Place du Carrousel for its quad-
nificent palaces in Europe. Engravings
have made every one familiar with the
front of the Tuileries, facing the gar
dens. The interior was unrivaled in
elaboration, and the palace contained so
many rooms that it used to b9 said that
the attendants never could tell how
many persons were surreptitiously har-
uorea mere, ine old palace naa ever
been obnoxious to the French democra
cy, who sacked it in 1830, and again in
184, and burned it finally in 1871.
There were many ominous shaking of
the head when Louis Napoleon moved
thither from the palace of the Elysee,
in 1804. In 1871 the oetrolenrs thor
oughly saturated the buildine with co&l
oil, put explosives in its cellars, and
fired it in a luudred places. It was
burnt out effectively, and a part also of
the galleries connectincr it with the
Louvre. The crarde'n. which was de
stroyed at the same time, has been re
stored, but the populace would never
permit the restoration of the palace, the
waus and foundations of which are now
to be razed in order to increase the
breathing room of the Parisians.
The Mountains or Seashore!
As it is always a trying question with
invalids in summer to make up their
minds whether mountain or sea air
i.i i ii i i ii
wuuiu ue mosi oenenciai, me ionowmg
-U k Ja
Italian nhvsieian will he nf valne TTe
I Kavs- The marine air ri-fvlTiiHi tno nam a
benefit as that of the mountain, but each
I t'nrni r.w oiifa mnrn f vvi it anrl tnnFrrnf J
naa a ainereni rnnrfLX rmcis-nrii- rne
cally on the constitution which retains
some robustness and internal resources
to profit by it ; while the second acts
more gently, with slower efficacv. beine
thereby more suitable to the weaker
and. less excitable organizations. From
I vuxd uuAiuiuv ka IjLIULHUU IUU lAUOLlCU"
tious physician, who takes the safety of
this important distinction the conscien
his patient much to heart, ought to be
able to discriminate whether the alpine
or the marine attnosnhere is the better
suited to the case he has before him.
Swindling Horse Dealers.
This is the way swindling horse jock
eys operate in Pmladelphia: They
have a stable ostensibly fori the pur
chase and sale of horses. When a coun
tryman enters to look at the stock a prac-
a ,i i i i - . r L i i
ucauv vaiaeieEH xiore is onereu vo mm
for $150. A bystander offers l200. but
the dealer nntrrilv ravs that he will nnt
sell to this man at any price, having had
a previous quarrel with him. The by
stander draws the rtonntrvman aside and
says: Buy the horse for $150 and 1 11
take him off your hands at $200.' This
seems to offer a-chance to make $50
without risk, but the victim, after pay
ing the $150 for the beast, does not see
any more of the promised purchaser
with the $200.
Remedy for Summer Complaints.
Twentv vears ncm the New York Sun
gave publicity to a remedy for cholera,
-. . . . . - m
ayseniery ana uxe summer aisoraers,
which proved so efficacious as to merit
attention every season since, and ia now
known as the 'Sun -Cholera Remedy.'
It is as follows, and should be cut out
and kent bv the careful housewife Take
equal parte of tincture of Cayenne pep -
1 M 1" . .
per, tincture oi opium, tincture oi rnu-
a. a - a Urn -.
Din), essence oi peppermint ana spirits
of camphor. Mix well. Dose twelve
to thirty drops in a little water, accord
I mg to age and violence of symptoms,
repeated every mteen or twenty min-
I -.1:1 1- m 1 3
SUBSCRIPTION PHJCE-$2.00 per
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Mississippi is without a national hanir
James river is lower than it has been
in forty years.
A oot ton factory is soon to be built in
Summit, Mississippi It will be the
tenth in the State.
A law has been passed in Sweden giv
ing to married wtonen undivided control
of their property Jnd earnings.
The expense of President Gambetta's
recent fete in Paris is put at $32,008,
wi-ich was defrayed by two patriotic
lady admirers.
The debt of California in four years
has been reduced $356,214, and is now
less than $3,500,000, while there is $1,
498,450 in the treasury.
The International and Great Northern
railroad of Texas was sold for $1,000,000.
It was bid in by George Sealey, of Gal
veston, representing Kennedy and Sloan,
the New York trustees for the bond
holders. 4
Theo. R. Davis, the artist, is design
ing a handsome dinner set for the White
House. The etchings are sent to a fa
mous china-making firm of Frar.ce to bo
burned in the dishes. They will repre
sent exclusively American scenes.
The treasury department has received
advices that the Japanese government
has removed the export duties from
many articles, including silk and cotton
goods. This is considered as of consid
erable importance, in view of the present
demand in this country for Japanese
manufactures.
Lieutenant Gorringe, of the navy, has
been granted leave of absence, at the
request of the state department, tor the
purpose of supervising and perfecting
the necessary arrangements for bringing
to this country the obelisk so gener
ously presented to New York city by
the khedive of Egypt.
Captain Sampson, of the schoone
Lonisa Montgomery, at Pictou, Nova
Scotia, reports that about ten miles
eastward of Pictou island he saw an
enormous sea serpent which appeared
to oe aoout one nundred feet long and
about the size of a barrel. It was coina-
straight alone at the rate of seven knots
an hour.
Mrs. John Howe, the wife of a promi
nent business man of Cincinnati, and a
servant fell through the floor of a vault
at their summer residence in Covinoinn
and before they could be rescued both
were suffocated. Mr. Howe hearing the
cries, ran out. jumped icto the vault to
attempt their rescue, but was overcome.
ana only by vigorous measures was he
restored to consciousness.
A peculiar and fatal accident occurred
at Grafton, N. Y. As William Jacobs
was mowing in a meadow he suddenly
distnrbed a nest of hornets. As he turned
to mu from their attack bis foot was
caught in the grass and ho fell across
the sharp edge of the scythe, receiving
such a terrible cut in the right leg that
he bled to death before medical assist
ance could be summoned. He leaves a
wife and two children.
Queensland, the youngest of the Aus
tralian trronp. occames the northeaaiern
quarter of the Australian continent, and
stretches from the northern boundary of
"VT n 11 rrr 1 . , , . m - , -
new Doum waies to tne uu f of Carpen
taria." It is twelve times the size of
Eagland, twice the size of Canada, and
half as laree aarain as Eaeland. Ireland
Scotland, Wales, France and Spain com-
mned. it is rich in gold. Tbe aurif-
erous count rv now worked is less than
4,000 miles in area.
While William Casher. an iron worker
at Lawrenceviile, Pa., was lving asleep
a mischievous boy put a live toad in his
mouth. The reptile slipped down his
throat, and Caghey awoke suddenly and
' . . a - a a
ran into me mui uae a wild man, caus
ing intense excitement. All efforts to
remove the reptile were in vain, and the
poor man suffered intense agony' of
mind. At last accounts he said the toad
was still alive, and the idea that the rep
tile would grow to a large size was a
horrible one.
The last notable application of papier
mache was in the manufacture of a re
volving dome for the astronomical ob
servatory of the Polytechnic institute,
Troy. It only weighs a ton and three-
quarters, and cm be revolved without 1
the assistance of any apparatus. The
paper is on a light framing of wood, and
is fu'ly as hard and rigid. The dome
has an internal diameter of twenty-nine
feet, and, if constructed in the usual
manner, would h&ve weighed five or six
tons, and required powerful machinery
to move it.
Two of the crew of the schooner Bas
sie W. Somes, of Gloucester, Mass.,
were recently attacked on the banks,
while out in a dory attending trawls, by
an immense fish, which grasped the bow
of their boat with its teeth, several of
which were left imbed led in the wood
when its hold was detached. The fish
pursued "them, biting several places in
the bottom of the dory. The teeth are
about an inch to an inch and a half long,
edged with saw-like incisions, and do
not resemble the teeth of any fish with
which the fishermen are acquainted.
The Canadian postoffioe savings bank
system has achived a very decided suc
cess. The books show thai there are no
less than 27,445 accounts now opes,
amounting in the aggregate to nearly
three millions of dollars, and on this
'the total coat, including interest, main
tenance and management, is only four
and one-half per cent.' The average
amount of each account is only about
$113, and this, taken in connection with
the large number of accounts, shows
how large a number of people are bene
fited by the operations of the system.
The Fernandina (Florida) Mirror re
ports that the machinery lately brought
to that place by Professor Loomis for
the preparation of palmetto fiber is
working satisfactorily, and that the
ex-
penmen; is an assured success.
Tha
stalks of the scrub palmetto are used.
It is said that the fiber is likely to prove
useful for cordage, paper, tubs, pails,
flour barrels, boats, powder kegs, and
no end to the other articles of general
use. A portion of the fiber shi nrMtd in
paper mills is intended for the manuf a
tare of a high grade of paper to b-.
ing of bank notes. paper noet
p, v T vt B1IMVU W '
sad, the various uip in Florida,
will be mad
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w
nd
a.r
car
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