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York: ^ ? “V 7 rite for Illuminated Book. . ........... . f l t j c k : B y JOHN STRANGE WINTER, Mthor o f *^C<tvaXry Xiife^^ “RooCtes’ Ra&y,’ moup-La,» ‘U Man of Honor” Ete. turned away, having come to this conclu sion, and encountered Harkness, who had come in search o f her. “They are just tunin ring to the band. ing up,” ho Bald, refer- Exceeds man’s might; Foro t be wisendove a l “fjThe Rinoeaa I think every one knows who wants to know,” Olive answered. “Not many poo- :nire to dance in the afternoon, but there some who have driven a long way, andl will have to leave rather early, and so we always have it for them.” By this time they had reached the mar quee, the white lace curtains of which were looped up in festoons to admit of air andl light Over the boarded floo ftnm It was just four o’clock in the afternoon. The gardens at Copplethwaite were already very well filled with guests, and more coming with each moment. The party ning round, rove in the unwonted space and freedoml a jostle and crowd. Harkness put his I round Olive’s waist, and they slipped! toy and Miss Baumme came iming with each m^ Barnardwistle—that is wrights (husband, wife ai 5 party from say, the Ark- weral children), b dance had ended an eager lot like fire through Lucy’s wrights (husband, wife and several children), with the two Lancers, Harkness and Lucy— arrived, just as the hour struck. Lucy thought he had never seen Olive look half so lovely as she did that afternoon, in a gown of creamy muslin and lac», with a great cluster of crimson roses in her bosom, and with her mother’s bangle of rubies upon her arm. The fan which he had given as his birthday offering wai» in her hand, and ’ Is jealous eyes were quick to notice it; his ialous heart gave a great bound of exultant ride that his g ift had been singled out from ■hat he kue'W, by experience, had been a Dst of presents. Poor Lucy! he would have been less ex ultant, or, more truly, he would not have been exultant at all, had he known that at that very moment all her thoughts were oc cupied in thinking, as she had thought in the morning, that Capt. Harkness was. without exception, the handsomest man she had ever seen. Now. as a matter of fac\ try, was just about as idsome a fellow as you could wish to Jook ,n—lithe, gracefu', and very strong, Before that d thrill had shot 1 heart—a thrill which, expressed in words,, would have told that he felt his grandl scheme for the cultivation of jealousy wasi beginning to work. ForthYvlth he redoubled! his attentions to Miss Baumme. “Shall we go and look for an icef” he sug gested, as the music ceased. “I think we will,” said she, deliberately. “It works,” said Lucy to himself, “it works!” He had caught a half-puzeled expressioni upon Olive’s face as she and Miss Baumma left the marquee; whereupon he led her away with an air of devotion which de ceived everybody but Evelyn Baumme her- e found her a seat in a shady and re- bor, where a trnyfol of ices and w great flagon of champagne cup had been set on a little t-ible, in readiness for any thirsty p 'rsons who might happen to come that way. There were two comfortable garden chairs also; Miss Baumme took one, Lucy tha other. “This is a wreasonable way of entertain ment, don’t you think?” said Lucy, handing a glas.s of cup across the table. “None for me, thanks. I shall confine my attentions to coffee ices and sponge biscuits,”' she answered. “You may have aU the cup, t get into your head.” iad,” said Lucy, “is pwroof against mble of any kind; the fellows say 'VTCKSBTTRO XIC 1 8 8 6 . One s'ep from the busy street, and there, with the summer hUlg around, In the heart of a summer day it Ues— A battle without a sound. Whatever of battle the eyes may aee^ The sweep of men to death. The dash of horse, the rush of gun, The musket’s fiery breath; The massing clouds of the cannon smoke, Eighteen Eighty-Six “In Brief.” Hartford Courant. The story of 1886 is not a cheerful one. It has bean a year of disturba ces, outbreaks and disasters and 18 unquestionably comes in under a c loud whatever may be the views of local History is not found in the course of orderly events, but is traced in the w e a ther prophets. )ry is not foi exceptions, and so the great events of the year are supposed to be those that ccited the greatest interest. In e most noteworthy wa e of August 81sl Harkness in possession of the field. gayety as if he instead of Lucy was the ject of her liking. \ game of The uptossed arms and the ashen cheek, The droop of the shattered limb, The men hy the hlood-pools in the grass, quake effect has lause 11 lere. Nothing been kc noteworthy Charleston eartb- was most severe in die a knowndn this counI The cold wave that struck Florida i-purposes was played on and o u t Lucy, when the leave of the two soldiers was over, left Barnardwistle imalles soldiers was •without attemptii Lgh some i-iches shorter than Harkne. 5 s; I sunny, smooth hair and very blue eyes; with good, regular features and a particu larly pleasant voice. He was altogether beyond comparison with Harkness, as Hark- nsss himself would have been the first to de clare had the subject been put forward for his opinion. However, as Olive kept rather in the rear of her mother, that she might greet each newcomer, Lucy betook himself farther into the gardens with his sister, on the look out the while for the some one who was to be the means of bringing the wayward Sally into a fit and proper state of mind—that is, a state of mind which should make her adopt a manner which should encourage— or, at least, not discourage him from asking her to beco.me his wife, and should prompt a pretty “yes” in answer to that important He, therefore, being a man quick to de cide such matters, kept feis eyes open, and cast about, in his quiet way, to determine which of the maqy young ladies who were present he should honor for the time by his attentions. There was no lack of damsels— damsels who were fair and young, rich and amusing. There was Margery Donni- thorne, one of the richest girls in that rich neighborhood; but Margery Donnithorne was intensely stupid, had a long neck like a swan, which, though lovely in that regal bird, and exquisite in a woman on p a p e r, is anything but attractive in flash and blood; and Margery, too. had a mouth so small that some people wondered if, as a baby, ■ 'ad been able to suck her thumb, r'\' went so far as to say it was a thous! He tested the quality looked around the arboi “' S ' 1 ^ ” a good many things the Weylandsi returned Miss Baumme, as she atei •without attempting to have the smallest ex planation with Olive, believing that when he should come again she would be all sweet ness and light Miss Baumme, having flirted quite as badly with Lucy as Lucy had- done with her, was decidedly relieved-when he departed without going through the form of propoa ing to her, although she vas intensely sur prised at the omission; for there was a cer tain “Jack\ in the background who pos sessed all the heart Miss Baumme had to bestow upon any one, though she was quite ready and willing at any time, when Jack was not on the same side of the globe ter restrial as herself, to go in heart and soul for amus^ements which are qualified in general society by the word passing. Harkness left Oliva with a very kindly and tender leave-taking, believing to the last In her wonderful pluck and power of self-control; and, as for Olive, she watched him go with a dull pain at her heart, tears in her eyes and a wild, mad, passionate longing tearing at ' him and cry; *'Etay, Yet she did not move from the spot upon which she stood to hear him say ‘'Fare well 1 ” No matter what women feel, they must ask no questions, make no protesta tions,\ show no emotion. Hearts may be breaking, but conventionalities must be ob served. It is a common soqial law, and, as a matter of course, Olive did not break it. And yet, during those few days of g ayety The bodies stur and grim. II; youl ion listen tor roar ana ooom. For the crack and ring of bullet’s thud ’T Is the stillness ot the tomb! No rattle to wheeli no clatter to hoof, Kobugle-caUorcry; Ko fierce hurrah along that line, Where the columns press to die, ■ Its “good-byo” reaches a thousand miles, And “you” eaten never a tone. A h ! If we “could\ add sound to sight, And then could paint the strain And the splendor In the soldier’s heart. Breasting death’s hurricane; And the flashing signals of his thought TO homes that signal hack, And the woman’s face, and cUmhli isastrouB January was exoeptionably dissstroi too. In March the great strike oh t Gould southwestern system of rail roads began and it did hot end until May. While it lasted there were dis graceful train wreckings and oilier dis turbances. In the end the company bsequently the Lake Shoi hard “tussel” with its emplov< had at Chicago and claimed t( ed them but the ten iployef to have defeat of Bettlement itriki itectives arm e d w ith r rifles were a feature of the indicated t h a t both s ides yielc What, During each of thej Pinkerton dete In Chicago, May 4th, occuj Haymarket riot—the est outbreak of the chists threw dynan: the police and killed or maimi six. In New York in April there Ana the breathless pause, each pulse-heat Of a wat And the sense ol a nation’s fate at stake In ths awful tournament! irred the worst and cruel- T h e anar- “S stay, stay; for I love :Iy to them on the still summer air;, but neither of them moved, except that Lucy filled up his goblet with cup, and Missi .mme helped herself to another ice. The* fiped hersellf ic ceased, but the cup ly consumed. After > to another ice. cup and the ices n After an interval of a lusic began again—“Liebi this pair, who were both of them playing a t love making. But presently,resently, whenhei the' p w slow, swinging, dreamy, seductive strainsi of Waldteufel’s “Manola” reached their r e - looked inquiringly at his com- , saying she thought It> —the world 1 treat, Lucy loi panion, and she rose, saying si was time they went back to—tl “Out of paradise!” ended Lucy, not minded to be outdone in insinuating pretty things. However, though they went back to the world, they went back to that part of It Where they could still botogother—that is to say, to the marquee. There they found threa yet, during those few days c _ . . Qusement, the fortress of Olive Wey- iand’s heart had struck its flag in complete surrender, without even waiting until the enemy demanded it. And then, oh the psin, the humiliation, the crush h g misery of seeing the enemy move quietly off, not apparently thinking the citadel was worth taking. Heigh-ho for the noble game of cross-pur- \_To le Oontinued-I « CHARCOAL. X lie P r o c e s s o f 00x001112108: W o od»O ri> g in o f U ie f nel. Charcoal is a compound of the Eus- eian a n d Anglo-Saxon tongues. “Char” they W( a remarkable political in October in the Henry candidacy when many votes for the York opment George polled BO of the me- opolis. George’s views as to le of land are widely known. He d e les private ownership of it as an ge. The George movement, in s to burn or reduce to coal or carbon, and “coal” is a term referable to all black substances. Charcoal means nounces outrage. The George movement, in its turn, has led to another curious af fair in the suspension of the Eev. Dr. McGlynn of the Eoman Catholic church from all work in its service be cause he took up George’s cause in an tagonism to the views of the Church of Rome. And, speaking of religious movements of the year, it is proper to the accusation of bei mention here 1 and breach of trust ai lozsn counties near it. But Lucy did not hink he liked bluestockings, and was quite sure he was afraid of them. Besides, Octa- via squinted horribly; and even with the hope of winning Olive ever before his eyes, Lucy did not feel it would ever bo possible for him to say tender things to one eye at a * r A tn o t h l n g ? a S L n i ; making Olive \Weyland jealous. No; Mar gery would not do, and Ociavla would not do, either. True, there was SybUla North, as pretty a girl as any man on earth need wLh to flirt with. Yet Sybilla would not better than either of the others; for ; rate floor, perfect music, room, and abundance of air. “Lovely!” said Lucy. Ho bad not askel her to dance, but some how his arm sbpped round her waist as if by instinct, and they made the trio of couples into a quartet; not, however, before Lucy bad had titne to notice the astonishment on Olive Weyland s face, to Harknes-. w.th whi -Gu' ill black substances, literally wood reduced bon by exi lharcoal to impuie isation of heresy ,inst Professors era of the An- means ju r car- thefa< volatile matter. bon by expelling t In the early history of the iron trade it wass ann ingredientngredie of the first impor- a i tanee. Our present name for coal is borrowed from this When made from beech lailed “beech c Carbonizing 3 mate] .ucy knew, and always felt a 1 f the knowledge, that Syb.ll aore than a partiality for■ hit Lucy knew, and always felt a little ashamed ■ ................................... \yb.lla had rather him, and wc ord he said t even go so fa; ,ht, a continge) as devoutly to be avoided as breaking gospel; and, indeed, might even go so far as to break her heart oua-ight, a contingenc very real one; so fi jeaic us, annoyed in 1 . attentions to Miss Baum ne, she was only a little surprised and very much amused; in fact, she was quite willing that he should dau'-e -11he t afternoon and aU the evening witliE .’elyn Baumme provided that he did not raise anv o'qec.iou to her doing the same with C pt. Harkness. if she so chose. Yet, though Harkness—^who knew what was what ia a woman as well as most men— wcu.d willingly have claimed Miss Weyland as his only p a r t n e .................. . - j .- j iug wood is very ancient, a it was described in detail in the works of a Greek author who wrote 300 Pliny reports that at e charcoal the wood stacked up in pyramids and < with clay or plaster, which was pi«rced in various places to allow the smoko to escape. The ancients evidently how to make charcoal, and years B. C. time to make 3d up in pyramids and covere clay or plaster, which was pi«rce riouB places to allow the smoko 1 e. The ancients w to make charcoi ailiar with its propei T h e Chinese, who have singularly fected many branches of industr bonized wood in a subtei The Chinese, who have singularl per- iry, car- furnace provided with two openings, one to serve as a chimney and the other for lilation. When the subterranean S ^ Q V o r m e W u tu laiEiSApt, itewatlai 171 r»'srr-ra EHdS’ja , N .Y a 8 C-it.* 3 ,an-‘ ij i ti-.nv of Hudson.cSiiap. duced Capt. Harkness to her, Lucy, after lifting his hat and making his bow, -with the addition of one or two polite common- p’ace remarks, sheered off aud made his way to a little group, consisting of an old lady, two young ones and a young gentleman who was so very young that he did not count for anyliiug at all. “Good morning, Lady Charlotte,” said L'jcy, pleasantly. “Fine day. is it not, Miss Baumme? How do you do?” to the boy. Then he drew a chair a trifle nearer to that of the young lady whom he had first ad dressed, and then sat himself down thereon with considerable care, testing Us weight- carrying powers very gingerly indeed; for it was a frail-looldng affair of wicker work, and seemed utterly unfit for the responsi bility of carrying his goodly allowance of bone and flesh and muscle. “It will smash, if you don’t mind,” said Miss Baumme, with a laugh; then added, mischievously, “How I wish id would I” his wisest air and ‘‘Miss Baumme,” he^sked, reproachfufly. lat can I ew-ah have done to you that should bo so—or—cwruel as to wish to me—er—spwrawling ignominiou pansy beds? I— er— wt ------ t ;f it does come d< ’a m you solemnl I shall clutch hoi .—er—you- shall come down California and return, good lor 3 months that ;f it does come of your chair and with me.’’ “Oh, I shall hear the warning groan of yours, and jump up in time,” she answered, with a laugh. 'Then asked, in quite a dif ferent tone, “Who is that with your sister?” “Oh, that is Capt. Harkness, one of our ofiicers,” Lucy answered. “Staying at Barnardwistle?” said the young lady, carelessly. “Yes; and one of the best fellows in the w o rll,” Lucy returned. A t that moment Olive came quickly along ho path tow ard the group of which Mrs. Lrkwright was ona Harkness 1 that O.ive was at home, and therefore could not go in for enjoyment as she might have done had she not been obliged to look after unfortun.ate people who did not know any one, and still more unfortunate people who did know others of their kind, but were troub ed by shyness and such like imcom- fortable traits of character. he week which foL arkness had such a Uucy’s attention! to Miss Baumme increased, so did Olive Weyland’s Yards Harkness become more and ust Harkness be in carryir -..V.................. -o ..„ ..... „jder Lucy’s nose. He was a man whose judgmen singularly valued in the regiment Years tefore, Ferrers—better known to the world as B )otles—had taken his advice before aU others in the matter of providing for Miss Miguon; and since that officer’s marriage— when Luoy had, naturally enough, fallen a little away from him, or at least from the hourly intercourse with him—he had some what taken the place in Lucy’s daily life which aforetime Booties had occupied. Con- srquently, he knew something of his feelings with regard to Olive Weyland. Many and many an hour he had sat solemnly listening, pipe in mouth, while Lucy baboledon, pour- beeu Ignited the smoke com mences to clear up, and finally to be- transparent, ia proof istion of all the volatile ingredients 6f the wood is complete. When this point is reached r let is hermetically sealed, a; of six days more the contents furnace will be found to be bed, SIX. In New York in April there was Itching continent, the strike OH the Third avenue road New York which led to several tie- ups through the city but ended in the success of the company. The attempt at by the city street, ^^t to inaugurate the eight hour •g” would be! movement met only partial succe It led to serious agitation Is the song ol the war’s release, places the o u tcom e ! The silence and beauty are prophets there 0£ the hatlle’s after peace. G. —Chicago Evening Journal. Irrigation in Japan, lu all parts of the mountains and in the foothills, at the sources and alo! the line of the streams, there are ii mense reservoirs for the storage of water in the rainy season. By this means the overflow of the lower lands in the wet months is to some extent prevented, and the supply in the dry months is supplemented. The ditches for irrigation are always so constructed as to be a means of drainage when there is an excess of rain. By this means the supply of water to the farmer is equalized through the v/hole year. Another necessary result is accom plished—the health of the irrigated districts for plants and people is con served. Drainage for these purposes is just as important in any country irrigation. The Japanese system is water to the land, aud the drainage the irrigated lands. That irrigation has been proved there to be of incal culable benefit is shown by the enor mous crop rate through the whole Em pire. It is within bounds to say that Japanese farmer raises more from one acre of his land than a California farmer does from five acres. It is true that much of the land there has two crops a year-^one in the sum mer and one in winter. In many places in that island empire the soil has yielded two crops a year for 2,000 years, and the productive capacity of the soil is greater now than ever. That is in marked contrast to the re sult of land skinning in the United States. In the spring a piece of land will be sown to rice, which is the great staple crop. The rice is harvested in October, with an average crop rate of fifty bushels to the a c re; and right on SLEEP. The old saying, in regard to sleep “nine hours are enough for a fool,” has frightened m any people from tak ing a rest that was necessary to them. “Nature takes five, custom seven, lazi ness nine and w ickedness eleven,” is wrong in at least two of its assertions. There are veiy few instances in which nature does not demand more than five hours sleep. It is true that sleep ing, like eating, is very much a habit and you may train yourself to dispense with more than five hours’ sleep, as you may omit the third meal of the day. How long you will floupsh under such a regimen will^ depend upon the strength of your constitution. You may fare like the man’s horse, who when it had become reduced to a diet of one straw a day, in the most un grateful manner dm^ on bis bands. A person may need nine hours sleep out of twenty-four without being either foolish or lazy. Indeed he is a wise man if, feeling that he requires them, sensible enough to take them . Goethe, when performing his greatest literary feats, took nine hours’ sleep, A full-grown adult in a healthy condi tion will seldom require more than sight. If, however, he discovers that he is not sufficiently refreshed by eight hours he should take more. It is a pretty safe rule to sleep as long as you are sleepy. “There are people,” says N U M B E R 2 PEIRCE JOHN TAN BUBEN. B l t Z O a T P R O m S E OS’ HXS ’S’OTTSB l . H lk V ia it ^ t o E n K l u a —V lo t o r iK S i ten liy H ii Cbanu. T h e Magazine of American His tory foir January has an interesting opening chapter in the biography of John Van Buren, written by Charh H. Peck, of Syracuse. In the course of the article, M r. Peck refers to the prominent members of the Albany Regency, of which the elder Van Bu ren was the leader. After mention ing Silas W right, Croswell and Flagg, as leading memibers - o f that able and respectable “ ring,” the author adds : , “ T h e n came the noted firm of a writer, “who are wise when they are hungry, but who have never attained that higher degree to sleep when they are sleepy.” Unless you are a very lazy person indeed, you are not likely to take more than your constitution requires, for, of course, dawdling in bed is not sleeping. By shortening^ the necessary hours for sleep you may bring upon yourself “insomnia.” There are scientific writ ers on the subject who claim that the ig to let missionary Hume return to India because he is not ready to say that heathen who never heard of the Gospel are irrecov erably lost. New York city has been slightly purified during the year. The reve lation as3 too the purchase of a chartei foror thehe Broadwayroadway horseoi railroad bi t t f t B h direct buying of aldei followed by the i S at any time, has been sent to prison, o, and justice has been having an night or tw^ great virtue in naps, even short one.! and the art of napping in the daytime although I could never acquire it, is a desirable one, and, like most arts, is a matter of practice. Still, it is a bad practice to get into the habit of turning night into day, and if you are not kept awake, by care and illness, but merely have lain awake because you cannot sleep, I should recommend you to fight the conse quent drowsiness the next day, in or der that you might, if possible, resume your natural rest at night. Sleepless ness is generally the result of an un fortunate habit of “thinking,” gener ally on unpleasant subjects, after one has retired for the night. Dr. Frank Hamilton, a great physician and a wise man, said : “Gloomy thoughts prevent sleep. The poor and unfor tunate magnify and increase their mis fortune by too much thinking. ‘Blessed be he who invented sleep !’ but thrice blessed be he who shall in vent a cure for thinking!’ ”- JS'ews, —Chicago im p o rtant inning. The list of the dead includes Presi dent A rtt al Logar Davis, G( dent Arthur, General Hancock, Gener- iD, Horatio Seymoi lovernor Phelps of Missouri, David every out md in tbi the contents of the furnace will be found to sufficiently cool to admit o.' the the heels of the reaper follows the spade and mattock, preparing the land for a crop of wheat, barley iently co< loval of the charge. The Chinese method is treme simplicil srop of wheat, barle or rye. These latter crops are sown in October and November, and are harvested in jme simplicity and furnishes thirty thirty-five per cent, of hard, reson ant charcoal and is aI great improve- s followed in this April or May, with an average crop rate of forty bushels of barley to the acre. In order to maintain through hundreds of years such a crop rate, fertilization is of the utmost impor- Thacher and Treasurer Kingsley of Yale, Professor Stowe, Archbishop Trench, and Franz Liszt. General Terry succeeded to General Hancock’s position early in the year and Fitz John Porter was put on the retired list. President Cleveland was married June 2d in the W hite House to Mi Folsom of Buffalo. They escaped the dark to Deer park, Maryland, bi were pursued and captured by the re porters of the daily papers wl them under ing the honey moon. The President’s prejudice against the papers is not disguised. Passing Away. The frequent deaths of prominent leaders brings painfully to mind the fact that the men who carried on their shoulders and in their hearts the desti nies of the great Republic in its life and death struggle, are rapidly pass ing away. The physical and mental strain of those four terrible years made young men old, and those who were in robust middle life when the war came, and who to-day should be hale and hearty at three-score, are dropping off every year by scores. The over worked machine breaks dow n ,, when, with milder use, it should be good for years of valuable service. And what is true of the leaders ia no less :ess; had any time for had generally the matter Arkwright was ona Harkness turned aside and spoke to her. > Lucy envied him the bright smile and the upward glance she O.T -with one or two words of re- i on andI enteredtered thee hensouse. en th h she appeared again, lurse which led her .y some waltzes,” , . f anybody wants dance to them, anybody can go to the marquee and begin.” “How very nicel” Miss Banmme ex claimed. “I, for one, shall go as soon as anybody else asks me.” “May I have the pleasurer asked Luoy, promptly. He was undoubtedly a man of action, this if the Scarlet Lancers, who enjoyed rome people’s 1 o f being the officer of reputation o f being service, though as i fancy, unenviablo fool In the irvice, though as m any had the opposite .................... limply as olever as di opinion that light. But 1 at 5 per cent, on far time, and money wan ____ „ ________________ 6 and 0 per cent. Houses and lots to sell and exonange. Price romn,000 upwards. Lots according to size. JACOB P. MILLBK, Attorney and Counsellor a t Law’ OmoB.—No. in Warren atreot, Hudson, opposite he Reoublloan Office snty-elgbt years. Treated by specialists without benefit iree months,' and since thei ________________ PdU particulars gent on appll T. ti. PAGE, No. 41 West 3lst.. New-York City, nor 9. 12-w. 0 man, to represent qwBses. Goods eta ----- rtlculars fr* CO., B oston _ ly as olev this was perhaps the very record when he had not, at the very ntion of waltzing, sought to secure pipe in mouth, while Lucy baboledon, pour ing out the story of his love, his doubts and feai-s, his hopes and wishes, his admiration. After his first introduction, he had told Luoy she was the most charming young lady he had ever had the good fortune i meet; had wished him told him to commafed hi special duty of best man made himself as agreeah as was possible. Strangely enough, Luoy had not confided to his friend his little plan for assailing the hitherto impregnable fortress of Olive Wey- land’s heart. Perhaps it was because he did not wish even his friend to know that he had the need of resorting to stratagem ere tbati fortress would strike its flag to him; per haps it was because he thought it best toi keep his own counsel, lejs, in the event of defeat, Harkness should be tempted to laugh at him, if not openly, at least within him- gelf. It might have been because of either or both of these causes. Anyway, certain it. is that he did keep his own counsel, thereby causing immense surprise to Harkness when he perceived that his comrade had gone in fer a red hot, headlong, mad flirtation withi a young lady whom, to himself, he described os “a pretty little witch, who’ll nail poor old Luoy before he knows what he’s about” And ho was indignant, too; for he, being, as he imagined, behind the scenes, and Ileving Miss Weyland was destined to be th«i future Mrs. Lucy, thought Luoy was treat ing her rather shabbily. And then, utterly mistaking the encouragement in Olive’s eyesi and manner for wounded pride—pride which would rather die than show the white feather —and honoring her as strong men do boi ment on the proce country and Europe. In the Eastern States for more than a hundred years the forests on the hillsides have been despoiled of their trees, and great autities of charcoal bare been made • use in the manufacture of charcoal iron. So much injury has been done the ruthless manner : has been done that astion whether all the iron a crop rafe, various times on various pretexts seized American fishing schooners, holding that they were violating the fisheries laws and this matter is still lyard fertilizers. T h e ] to the country in which this work for use in the m a n u faett So c iohth anufactured can compensate for the image. . If the person who first in vented charcoal had dug down the bowels of the earth and brov to light the coal buried there, a n d __ never discovered how to carbonize the wood, it would have been an untold blessing to the beauty of our forests, the irrigation of our soil and to the many stories that have been woven around the charcoal camps~of mon- archs in disguise, seeking to escape pursuit; of outlaws fleeing from the myrmidons of the law j of lost hunts men, abducted ch ild ren ; of gnom es nd wood spirits and kobbolde; of id saim' pie eat neither beef, pork, mutton, but ter, milk nor cheese. Cattle and horses are used only for purposes of psfcking. With a population of 38,000,000, there are less than 1,000,000 head of horses, 1.000. 000 head of cattle, and no sheep or swine. Under these circumstances the ques tion of fertilizers is of the first impor tance, Experience has taught these people that irrigation is an important means of fertilization. It has bi demonstrated that irrigated lands »ut two thirds as mi non-irrigated lands, an evidence of wbat thorough tilla^ combined with irrigation and\drainage has done there, it needs only to be stated that Japan has under tillage only 12.000. 000 acres; that from these 12,- 000,000 acres 30,000,Q0Q people arp olothed and fed. More than that is The Canadian government has at times on varic uerican fishing at they were kws and this matter i in an unsettled condition. Qur Ameri- in yacht Mayflower beat the British rtter Genesta and kept the American cup in th is country. Yale beat H a r vard at New LondoB on th^water-— as well as h e re a t base ball. nificent Cunard steamer On 18 true of the leaders is no less true of the rank and filo. The great majority of the survivors of the war, of those who for any length of time endured the hardships of active campaigning, will be numbered with the dead year fore the natural limit of life. Thi be- 'egon sank off F ire Island March 14th, striking a schooner which also sank. The elevated roads in New York have reduced fares to five cents. Be ginning January 1st the Oonsoiidated road will only charge two cents a mile. The New York & New England road has this month passed into new hands and its future is one of the railroad :oblems. Work has begun, to all ap- _ jarances in earnest, on the Pough keepsie bridge. Events abroad have been of an alarming sort. Bugland is in ferment a its home rule problem and has pension appropriations. Of the great Generals of the Union ■my nearly all are dead, the principal irvivors being Sherman and Sheridan. Among the dead are G rant, Meade, Thomas, McClellan, Hancock, McDow ell,ll. H o o k e r, B u rnside and Logan. e Hooker, Burnside and In the list is the name of every mander of the Army of the Pot( Logan. and Meade died soon after the ■ithin the past few othi lers Will them sii ince January 1st, Of the public men who were prom- in civil life during the war nearly hermits and ^saintly m ra^affrad^ w d krge quantil thed< llingB of men, 6ft I—affording confusion of history, superstition and religion, which lends to the d le forest a charm pecnliarly Charcoal-burners, as a rule, are a rude set everywhere, living, as they do, im the dwellings of men, often depths of charm pecnliarly its i n ^ o f tea, silk exported. Such resqltB done; 40,000,000 pour to the value of several million dolliollars, large quantities of tobacco d and rice InK, sought to sect Olive Weyland for the first dance—certainly it was the very first when hs had omitted even to ask her for ths second. He felt it was no use half doing things; he had made up bis mind that be wonld rouse her cold heart Into Jealousy, and thence into love; therefore he rose from his chair and offered Miss Baumme his arm,-without even sug gesting that Miss Weyland should give him a dance before the reguhu: prog;ramme of the evening. For a moment piive was sp astpnisbed fhat she pould sparpely beUeya the evidence loring her as strong men do honor . andnd pluckck inn anyny one, flung him- resolution a p u i a self ns resolutely into a flii I ever Lucy had flun^ hlmsc iion with Miss Evelyn Baui liaorninj^ come to .'comical idea flashed homes nob made with band^ and out of the reach of schools. In olden times charcoal-burners ____ , iimme. Her, Collyer and Oolyear. Some years It was a g ay week, The Arkwright* gavei ago it WaS discovered that WOOd nbaf. tea, when ono.or two a “levanted” from pc Harkness in possesslBn off to Lady Charlotte — He away,' where he and speak more than volumes of what thorough tillages supplemented by irri gation, can do even in a country with sixty to 100 inches of rainfall. — San Francisco Chronicle. istle; there were two; dinner parties, and tea and very afternoon at Copplethwai who were playing eo determinec at cross-purpoees were present at all theeei festivities, except the lees formed tennis and one.or t - ------- leyor he eonli get a few days’ leave. Why, hpw bUnd she had been not to aee it before! Of course it Evrtyuwbo WM the attrae^oa, auu ncu«i umS’s place, a mile away, where he and Miss Evelyn studied tennis in an arbor, m]jch *b‘e fashion lu which some luxurious gentlemen enjoy a battue—that is, with an af®5h«dr and a fpotstqpl. PartaMH t h o u f P le F a r u iv ir seen.a girl ■bow such pluok befora Be honored her fcf taking suph patae to hide her wound frwi kin, for fUrtlM wttk mtaheii ge extent; fresh char- removes offensive smells from ani mal substances, and couuteraots their putrefaction. This property has been largely used in dwellings,' hospitals, sewers and manufactories. Some, les are absorbed to a larg< example, one volume of ft coal will absorb ninety volumes of am monia, fifty-five volumes of sulphqret- ted hydrogen, thirty-flye volumes of carbonic acid, and volume o | hy drogen. Oliarcoal also absorbs a con- aiderhble quantity of iwtter from the atmoapbere. A Man Eight Feet Six Inches^High. A giant is coming to London. He is an Austrian. He calls himself Wiu- kelmeier. He is eight feet six inches in height, and is qge qf tlje ta^egt men who h a je liyefl gitice the days of the Analqn. is very much taHer than Maid Marian, under whose outstretch ed arms the ballet used to dance at the Albambr^. E.ut she died before abe had Mulshed gVUWing, and WbkeU ujier will never beany taller. H e i i said to have nothing to recommend him to notice except h it siie, being, like ............................ lar with its home rule problem and had in London several threatening socialistic meetings, not to say riots. France has undergone a change of ministry. The mad King of Bavaria drowned himself daring the year. ae writers to be ist to have de lirium tremens- Frinoe Alexander of Bonmania was abducted by a Russian force. He returned in triumph a few lavs later and took the throne again inly to abdicate. No one has yet ' who will take his place, socialistic outbreaks Belgium and there is imor of war all about, external and luent in civil life during the war nearly all are gone, the veteran Hannibal Hamlin being the only survivor of those immediately connected with the Lincoln administration. And with them are nearly all the old ^‘war gov ernors” and the Union leaders of the Senate and the House. youngate Ewart. T he QkW^Wton aai& Courier § g u r ^ oflt tl^at the total income of South Carolina is now fully 50 per cent, larger than it was in the ruoat. prosperous days, of slavery. The aver, age income of eack person in the state,^ iuclqdiiug the ek-slayes, is about aa large as before the war and is growing larger every year. The time is p ast for the^South to complain of the impover- A W onderftil Old Man. On the 29th day of December, 1809, a baby was born in th e city of L iver pool, England-^the fourth son of an opulent baronet who had made his money in the East India trade. The iter was christened William He lived to grow up, to enter parliament, to adopt liberal and still more liberal politics, to beoomo the leader of ft great pavtyi to again * and again ^ a s the queen’s hands as prime rniniBter of Great Britain, to disestab lish the Protestant Episcopal church of Ireland, to arm the Britiah democ racy with the ballot, to reform the constitution of the house of commons, to pi^as thclrisb land act, to propose the Irish home rule bill, and at 77 to find himself by common eonsent’the great est of living English men. All day last Wednesday Mr. Gladstone was kept busy reading the messages of congratulation and good will that ke roost giants, without any partiou^ r intelleotual energy. «T« experienced’ mtn»ind«*d.l HiH, Cagger & Porter’ partners both in politics and law.” T h e article evidently conveys the idea that this eminent law firm were members of the regency. This is a singular mis take. T h e s e gentlem e n w e re partners in law but not in politics, for but one name in that firm was ever prominent in the politics o f the State. M r. H ill and Judge P o r ter acquired their fame exclusively as law y e rs ; and “ 57 State street, up-stairs” became a noted place in the politics of the city and the state, solely because it was the office of that astute politician, Peter Cagger. A still more curious erior is the identification of this firm with the regency, the fact being that M r. Cagger was never a member of that body, but was one of the leaders of the faction known as “ barn-burners,” organized for the overthrow of the re gency, which was accomplished by the defeat of General Cass in 1848 . John Van Buren came to Albany at the age o f six years with his father, who had then been transferred from the office of surrogate of Columbia county to that of attorney general of the State. “It may well be doubted, however,” says the author, “ whether he profited to a very scholarly degree by his edu cational advantages. W e find him graduated from Yale at the age of eighteen, after a preparation at the Al bany Academy, where even then HIS BRILLIANCY AND ROMISE were equalled by his supply of cash. Deep scholarship is not acquired so soon, and especially in his case, when in his college days he could empty his bottle at dinner as quickly as the next man, was a crack at billiards, the centre of wit and gavety, and the willing target of beauty. But Martin Van Buren understood the social as well as the mechanical side of politics. He new the pclitical efficacy of the dinner table, to which John was ad mitted from youth, to spice the con claves of the regency; and it was doubtless his intimate contact with these rulers of New York politics that supplied the chief part of his practical education. And this Albany Regency, so called, was no pigmy in its day. It was the immediate pro genitor of the modern ring. It illus trated the more decent side o f political bossism, and, on the whole, its more vicious features were as yet rudimen- tal. ‘W hile still a young man, he was of the most familiar figures in the lobby of the State Legislature. He knew personally every one o f any con sequence that haunted the capitol, to gether with his political antecedents and affiliations. His knowledge of political minutiae was even then the marvel of all who had occasion to use it. His stories, often unprintable, cir culated in the corridors of the hotels, and his wit sparkled in the the draw ing-rooms of fashion. Upon leaving college, he had the office o f Benjamin F. Butler, at one time Attorney-Gen eral, his father’s law partner and one of the minor lights of the Regency. Here, for a year or so, he continued his legal studies with as much indus try and advantage as his social and political diversions would p erm it; but, possibly for the purpose of more reclu sive study, possessing indeed fine legal talents, he finished his preparation at Kinderhook, in the office o f Aaron Vanderpoel, and was admitted to the bar in July, 1831 . But instead of commencing his practice, in the fo lowing month, as already stated, he accompanied his father to England.” A f ter referring to the rejection o f Van Buren’s nomination as minister to England by the casting vote o f Cal houn, the author says; “ On the evening of the day, on the morning of which all the London newspapers heralded the rejection of the American minister, there was a great party at Prince Talleyrand’s— then the representative at the British court of the new king of the French, Louis Philippe. M r. Van Buren, al ways master o f himself and of all the proprieties of his position, was there as if nothing had happened, and receiv ed distinguished attention and compli mentary allusion.” During the few months, however, o f this rather un fortunate mission, John received some valuable and UNCOMMON EXPERIENCES. “ T h ey had arrived in England at about the time William the Fourth mounted the throne. And while the court of that elderly, easy and wife-guided monarch W«s not as resplendent as that o f many an English sovereign before. It was in the days o f Palmerston and Peel, and when Eng land was enjoying the prestige o f over throwing Napoleon the Frst. W e l lington was one of the sights to be seen; Brougham and Lyndhurst, O ’Connell and Shiel were to be both seen and heard. Van Buren had been received with uncommon distinction, but not with more cordialty and so cial attentions than was his son, for John combined all the finish of his father’s deportment with vastly more than his powers of conversation. T o his latest day he was one o f the most engaging of companions, and was not more fascinating and convivial as the toast-master of a political dinner than with those ladies who make the ball room a paradise and the social circle a duel-ground o f wit. And he was n o t for gotten at his next visit to Europe, six years later. In full conformity with the design of the Jackson element of his party, M artin Van Buren was elected successively vice-president and president. During this time John’s social opportunities were correspon dingly enlarged’ and the hospitalities of the W h ite House have never been dispensed with more dignity and grace —and upon occasion 'with more gusto —than when John was master o f cer emonies, But in 1838 he revisited Europe and met with a reception that could not have been expected even, by the son of a president unassisted by the rarest of mental and social qualities. H e was present at the cor onation o f Queen V ictoria, witnessing those gorgeous ceremonies in which the presence of Marshal Soult figured scarcely more than the diamonds of Prince Esterhazy, and spent a month as the guest of Lewis Cass, our resi dent m inister: and the rumor was that her majesty, then at the suscep tible age of eighteen, was somewhat more than attracted by John’s prepos sessing charms. Indeed, whether it was due to that rumored circumstance (an easy invention), or the grace of his manner, or the desire of his ene mies to produce the same effect that is now produced by the phrase “ Brit ish,” he was afterwards known by the title of “ p r i n c e JOHN.” During this visit he met most of the celebrities o f the continent, was dined by the merchants of Belfast, and en tertained by the Dutch of Holland, returning home in the year before M artin Van Buren sustained his W a terloo; for impolitic finance and factions but able opposition, united with Harrison’s military popularity and a canvas in v/hich log cabins, coan skins and hard cider were more potent than argument, retired him to the privacy and repose of LIndenwall un til he transiently emerged, in 1848 , as the Free Soil candidate of the Buffalo Convention. “Such were the surroundings and experiences of John Van Buren’s younger days. His preparation was now completed, and he was soon to attain leadership in one of the most spirited factional struggles the politics of New York state have ever known.” Short Sermons. A law y er will w o rk harder to break de law dan to enfo’ce it. One-half de great men expect deir speeches to be read by posterity, an’ deir debts to be paid by deir chill’cn. De man who gives you thirteen cents fur a shillin’ will borry yer tea an’ colTy an’ pay nuffin back. A photograph doan’ show de devil try in a man’s eye nor de pimples on a woman’s face. De mo’ good clothes you kin heap on yer back de less yer bad grammer will be commented on. De public nebber stop to queshun de troof o f a scandal, an’ de man who climbs above us am nebber quite for- De aim of de philanthropist am not to preserve de good eggs, but to work de bad ones over an’ palm ’em off De room which a man takes .upon de sidewalk am no criterion to judge of de amount of brains in his head. You can’t h’ar de jingle of gold pieces half as fur as you kin h’ar de rattle of tin pans. De man who announces his own honesty sometimes gets into Canada wid de boodle, an’ sometimes am caught in Detroit or Buffalo. W h e n a man sots out to be purty he mustn’t blame his hatter fur any shrinkage of his head. As de hoss- sense oozes out de cranium has got to contract. ( Doan’ worry ober de theory of transmigrashun. - When you am turned into an Old white boss an’ sot to work grindin’ bark in a tannery it will be tim e to com p la in bekase you wasn’t turned into a tanner instead. Luv am a beautiful sentiment, an’ de game of three-keerd monte am a swindle, but fifty people are downed by luv, fur ebery one swindled by Industry am a rock in which dar’ am always a peg to hang up one mo workin’-man’s coat. When you cum to let de gass out of a balloon you am surprised an’ dis gusted-at de shrinkage. Sift down’detalk o f de world’s great est men, an’ when you cum to extract de bigotry, egotism, prejudice an’ self- interest, you. will have to look fur de quotient wid a spy-glass. Let twS life-long frens begin a dis- cushun -as to de color of Adam’s hair or de size of Noah’s - head, an’ dc chances fur a row am fust-class. What men doan’ know am what dey refuse to l?t go uL
