my y ..." ' --- - j . , j JF .... .A t i J- jF A ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON: FEBRUARY 23, 1883. - 4 " NO. 29. VOL. III. . JUL -JLi LL i . - ' TIIK MF.KTINV. WATKKS. Close besi-le the mooting waters Loiisj I stooi :ii in a tlream, Watehmg how the little river Fell into the broader stream. Calm and still the mingled eiirrent ilided to the waiting wa. On it hreat stretiely ietnrei KKmting clou J and skirting tree. And i thought, "Oh! human spirit, Stiiii and deep, and pure an, I Liet ! Let the stream tt my e'xislenoo liiead with thine, and tiud its rest." I would die as iliiM the river In that curt cut deep and wide; I would live a lives Us waters, ria.-d.iin:: from a stronger tide. FLOAT ON A FURNACE. "For nearly a week wo were on a float ing fnruaee," said (.'apt. Charles Nichols yesterday. "For nearly a week with the deck timbers scorching under our feet, and never a chance of popping below without suffocation." He sat in the cabin of the steamship Neckar, just arrived from Bremen by way of Southampton, with one of the men who had buffered with bioi along side. These two, with five other men, had been taken on board in mid-ocean from a burning vessel which was not ex pected to hold together for two hours after she was abandoned 'My craft was the barkentino Mary Lizzie.of St. John's, X. F.f" the captain continued. "She was owned by F. & L. Tessiei of that port, and -cm -the -3d TITuliryeelrfTt with a cargo of cod fish for Bahia. in the Brazils. The weather was fair. We had a fresh breeze from the northwest and made good headway till we were out of sight of land. At eight o'clock next morning the wind hauled around to the south west, and at four o'clock that afternoon it was blowing a gale. We took in double reefs and kept on till the follow ing day. At 8 o'clock I called all hands on deck to shorten sail. We clewed up the foretopaail anil hauled down the standing jib. The ship was brought lo the win J. It' was blowing, a heavy gale from the northwest und the sea was runnicer high. The men were busy balance-reefing the mainsail, when I chanced io look forward. A whiff of smoke caught my eye up toward the bow, and I sent one of the men to see what was the matter. He came running back with his face white as a ghost. The ship's afire!' he cried. 'The fore castle's all in a blaze! A lot of us went forward in a harry, lean tell you. There was a sight for us there. "The whole of the vessel below deck was in a blaze. The flames were rush ing np through the forescuttle, and the smoke was creeping up through the tim bers, i tried to go below, but was met with a blast that seemed to come from a furnace, and saw the forecastle under ine a mass of fire. We never found out how it occurred. I suppose the lamp . must have fallen down and the oil caught in the bogy. The whole place had sprung into flames in a twinkling. 1 "called all hands forward and wo tried to get at the fire. It was no use. Tho fore hatch was filled with flames, and no one could get down. We got sails and cau - vaa together and c6vered the forchatch and ventilating holes to keep the draught off. The siuoks vas coming up still, and we could hear the rour of the fire under- neath; but it seemed a bit stilled, and we cut small holes in the deck and kept Leaving buckets of waier on them. All hands worked with a will. The men knew their lives wore in peril and they worked in downright earnest. "The wind was still blowing, and it would go hard with us if it crept through any loop-hole. We used the canvas to cover everything and made every effort to prevent the fire going aft. We bat- tened down the after companion audsky light, and closed up all tho vents we onhi find. It -was of no avail. The smoke stil kept com in? up, und we - J w ioanl the rr:ickiin!? of the llnmes as thev worked deeper and deeperinto tLe heart of the vessel. There was no escaping the truth. We were aboard a burning vessel an actual floating furnace in mid ocean, and we could do nothing to help ourselres. Our lives depended on the spe;-dy appearance of a passing ship. We got out the boats and kept them ready for au emergency, but made up our -"miuds nottiiake to them till tho last moment, when every hope was gone. Our spirits were low enough, I can tell you. But 'there, wa little tima for re liction. Every man was busy. We " were safe while "the flames could be kept below, but we knew that at any moment they might burn up through the deck timbers, making a vest, and then all was over. It was this wo had to fight against, and we had to be at work incessantly to do it.- The tleck had to be kept salt watered, and day and night through all that dreadful time ,the meu were- never sparcdVaGneiSv but went rushing about with -buckets, plashing the water over the tanVas and emptying it on the timbers. At tlfe start ve got some pro visions up on the deck from the cabin, and it was lucky we tiki, for before long would have been beyond our reach. The mate and I got what clothes we had out of the cabin, and they had to serve us all, for the crew hml their kits in the forecastle, and none of them were able to save a stitch. Poor fellows! they had to suffer a great deal. The weather was bitter cold, and sometimes the sea would splash over them, wetting them through .and through. Some-of them were cov . ereJ with ice as they handled thd . buck ets, and it - was hard.wprjbC for them to keep their feet- k No one daftl to go be low, and there -was no place to snatch a moment's resti Indeed, that could not be tbdught of anyway, for there were only eight iaen all told.ron board, and not a oul coulit te spared while the tire was liable to break out under us. For three days that unceasing st ruggle was kept tip without a change; no sail in sight, no hope of assistance! Nothing but the swashing of water about the deck, with the smoke steaming up and choking us, the wind and rain beating down a good part of the time. - j "On Saturday, the Cth of the mouth, I noticed signs of great j danger forward. Tho ship was getting very weak there. 1 supposed she was fairly gutted aod all the ceiling aud timbers were burned. There was no telling whether she would break or not. To guard against it wo had to cut the two anchors adrift from the bow and let them! go. This eased her for the time and we went ou with our work. We did notj hear the flames crackling any nioro, butj tho smoke still kept rising, sometimes jin a dense vol ume. It tilled our throats, but wo were too much occupied to mind it, and toiled ou without rest and with very little food. On Monday, the 8th, a strong gale blew from tho southwest. The rain came down in torrents and a heavy sea tossed U3 about and seemed j likaly to smash the vessel to pieces. To lighten her we cut away the foretopgallaut masts, the roj-al mast and jib boom. The Mary Lizzie was now little more thau a hulk, without anchor, with little timber stand ing, at the mercy of the winds and with a blazing fire shut up injher. It was no wonder somo of us began to sink under the excitement and suffering and came near losing our senses. The smoke, too, always coming up about us, always frightening us with a scare of fire here -or there, wherever it was thickest,seemed to have gone to our brains and crazed us. I- was the first to feel it. I had made shift to creep into the cabin on Sunday morning. It was thick with smoke and I could not endure it long. I tried to go ou deck, and was going up the hatch when the place, got dark and I fell down senseless. They carried me up on deck, but it wa$ a quarter of an hour before I recovered. From that the men were more or less prostrated iu the same way. I rememberrfour who had severe attacks. They were William Lis combVthe cook; the "mate, Daniel Kane, aud two seamen, John Thompson and John Adams. They were working on deck when it came upon them. Their faces would get as white as a sheet, and in a jiffy they would jbe down on the deck working in a fit. It was dreadful to see them rolling about there, raving like madmen, and looking the picture of death. It wa3 the smoke and the work and exhaustion did it. All we could do for them was to hold thom down aud keep putting cold w'tter in their mouths and rubbing their foreheads with it. I suppose that the thick! smoke was the chief cans- of the trouble, and we bat tened down the companion -and secured all the hatches for good, and from that time no one was allowed to leave the deck. "Our little provisions were going out now. We had been able to bring up only what we could readily look after in the'lirst instance, and it would not hold out long. The men looked . like ghosts, and were barely able to trudpre about and keep the decks wet. - jTwo of them Liiscomb and Thompson were frost bitten, and all were suffering severely from exposure. On the morning of Wednesday last the smoke was coming through the timbers from stern to stein. The water began to steam where it fell upon the decks. It was hot under foot, and we could feel that the fire had traversed the vessel, burned up all the inside and would soon break out. We looked at the boats and dreaded the mo ment wo would have to take to them on the opeu sea in such bitter weather. We were all exhausted. Some of the men, after their, hard fight, were forgiving up. It was" two hours after midday, and we all believed the vessel could not stand two hours longer. The fire even then was rushing to. tho cabin, and it would soon be all over. It was just then, in our worst extremity, that help came. The Neckar hove in sight. We hoisted the ensign upside-down, and ran up underneath it the pennant and square Hag, C and E, to show wej were in dis tress and wantoi assistance. The steam er saw us and lay on our weather bow till we launched our boat'and went out to her. Wo were taken on board and treated by the Captain with the greatest kindness. The sinoko was rolling up from tho Mary Lizzie, and the fire was beginning to break out. pur rescue had been timely. In ten minutes we lost sight of her in the thick weather." N. Y. Herald, January 15th. i Tne Swiss Good-Night. .. Among the lofty mountains and ele vated valleys of Switzerland, the Alpine horn has another use beside that of sounding the far-famed j "Kanz des Vachez," or Cow Song; and this is of a very solemn and impressive nature. When the suu has set in the valley, and the snowy summits of the mountains gleam with golden light, the herdsman who dwells upon the highest inhabited spot takes his horn, and pronounces loudly and clearly through it.as through a sjieaking trumpet, "Praise the Lord God!" As soon as the sound is heard by tho neighboring herdsmen, they issue from their huts, take their Alpine horns, and repeat the same words. This fre quently lasts a quarter of ; an hour, and the call resounds from all the mountains and rocky cliffs around, i All the herds men kneel and pray with uncovered heads. Meantime it has i become quito dark. "Good-night!" atj last calls the highest herdsmen through his horn. "Good-tfightl" again resounds from all the mountains, the horns of tho herds men, and the rocky cliffs, j The moun taineers then retire to their dwellings and to rest. j If the price of beer goes ,up there won't be go much cf it going down. i Thoughts on Names. Mary is too universal to be distinctive, ner name is as wide as nature and as fertile as spring. All sorts of conditions of women are Maries, from tho best and noblest to tho basest and most degraded. Laura was once the sign-name of a lady, emphatically una bella donna, whom a turn of the wrist made into a Madonna. Tho aroma of Petrarch's un fading laurel hung round that name for centuries, and poetry powdered the imago with gold-dust that shone and sparkled in the sunlight of imagination and harmonions association. Lucy is always lovely. It would seem impossible for Lucy "to bo unworthy. She must of necessity he iunocent and pure, gentle and serene; and we should give her golden hair naturally breaking into curls about her pretty head, soft blue eyes and a wild rose face. Wo have never seen a Lucy who was a brunette. Some must exist, of course, but we our selves know them not, nor havo we ever known a Lucy who made us regret her name, enshrined as it is in one of the loveliest niches of memory and associa tion. Lucilla is another creature alto gether; so is Luciuda. These are doubt ful persons in point of wisdom; certain ly they lack simplicity; but Lucy may be wise as well as innocent, and she has no affinity with finery or folly.' Sophia" was once in the outer circles of romance. She and Matilda, she and Clarissa and Theresa, together with Julia and Arabella, Georgina," Wilhelmina,: Augusta, Thomasina and the like were of the same class as are now Hilda and Helen, Edith, Eva, Ella and Nina, Ada and Maud that is names of distinction falling short of startling originality hillocks of individuality, not mountains of notoriety. Sho was a personage .in her time our graceful Sophia; but So phy was a dwarf when compared to her. Sophy did not challenge respectful admi ration as did her- elder sister. Sophy was a plaything, but Sophia might have been something belonging to a court; and she h-id'a sweeping action with her skirts wlr.cn always suggesteu trains ot feathers. She lost ft little of her nrestii?e of late: but she is still djstin cruished. und not to be confounded with a Tilly, a Polly or a Clary. It is strange how tliminutives cnange the character of a name. Constance sug gests u grandeur of womanhood which might easily rise into sublimity; but Connie is a light-minded little puss, whose brains are no belter tfian feathers, and whose heart retains an impassion no- morn tb.au Joou the sea-sand below high water mark. Hester, like Esther, is beautiful ; she may be a little grave.almost Puritanical, indeed, in her sweet sev erity; or she may be simply gentle and womanly and charming all the way through. Be that as it may, she can never be aught than savors of meanness or smalluess. Hetty, on the contrary, may fling her cherry-iibboned cap over the m:.ll at her pleasure, and no one will think her conduct out of harmony with her name. Flossie and Florrie go hand in hand in frivolity with Cissy and Lottie aud all are of a kind of whom we would not predict the wearing of a crown won by merit. But Flora may be a coble, broad-shouldered queenly creature of the nature of a modern Ceres plentiful, wominly, superb; Cecilia has potentiali ties of nobleness within the circle of her fair existence; and Charlotte still justi fies Werther. For Carrie no man would commit suicide; but she lis an eminently correct and lady-like person, and one of ido the social team straight as a die, and .keep the domestic reins taut and firm.--; -m Mncrrrin is of 'a nobler type, and Lizzie does not lend herself to levity. Maggie may be quite as grunti a creature as Margaret, who is queen by the royal right of nature. Maggie may also bo a winsome lassie of the buttercup type in any case she ought to be sweet jind dear and trustworthy, a girl to love, a woman to admire, a human being to respect and honor. Neither does Elizabeth mate herself well with ignobility. Eliza is a shade moro flashy, more approaching fastness and perhaps, frivolity; but Eliza beth should remember the traditions of her name. The high-flown days when reigned Ara minta and Amanda, Theodosia, Arethusa and Dolabella have gone, together with sacques and .farthingales, patches and high heads. Clorinda no longer suggests an acrostic beginning with "Come heavenly muse!" and ending with "Adieu, sweet maid!" Chloe in a Wat teau costume, leaning on a crook adorned with ribbons, has ceased to posturize be fore a couple of lambs washed in milk and fed on flowers. Sophonisba forgets to let uwn her back hair, while she inks her uu-vached fingers over epics empty of heroic . Lnd elegies void of pathos. Jacinta is k.rraid of damp dews and cold winds, and therefore remains comfort ab indoors working "crash" by the fireside, instead, . as of old, spouting sentiment under the moonlight. And the whole, large-eyed, languirl troop who once hung on the skirts of Ho3a Matilda have faded into nothiuguess.which is the inevitable end of folly and exaggeration. Home Journal. A Boy Murderer Ilatiged. Philip Matthews, a German boy of eighteen, was hanged at Belleville on January 12th, in the presence of a small gathering, He ascended tho scaffold dressed in broadcloth and slippers. He said: "I wish you good-by all," and then when the blackcap was adjusted he said to the jailor, "Good-by." In falling he struck against the side of tho pit dug under the scaffold and rebounded, but died game. Matthews murdered his sweet heart, Annie Gier, in May last, when she was at work arranging tables in the woods for a Sunday school picnic that was to take place the following day. He claimed to have held conjugal relations with the girl for a year befcre he murdered her. Just before the killing, stories of evil couduct on the part of her lover caae to the ears of Miss Gier, occasioning her great distress. ; He visited the house on one occasion while drunk, but the poor girl whose pride was thus outraged still allowed him to visit her after he had made a solemn pledge that he vould change his course for the better. He violated his pledge, and again called on Miss Gier while intoxicated, and on this occasion a quarrel ensued between thein. Matthews left Belleville, coming to St. Louis, where he secured occupation for six months. Ho seems then to have gone to the bad. Returning to Belle ville, he' called again ipon Miss Gier stupidly drunk, and this- time she finally and fully discarded him, requesting him not to visit tho house in future. Then Matthews left Belleville and went to New Orleans, returning, however, in the spring. From there he wrote her htters telling her he was coming back to kill or marry her. Agreeable to his promise, he returned and sought out his sweet heart, whom he found in tho woods. As soon as he saw her, he said to Miss Row, one of her. girl companions: "She will never leave this place alive. I loved her once, but I hate her now." Mat thews then drew his pistol and dis charged it into the breast of the helpless girl. She sank to the ground with tbnl let through her heart, and died in a few minutes. There was the greatest excite ment on tho picnic grounds, and only the firm attitude of tho officers after the ar rost of -Matthews saved him from the populace. The . murdered girl was uni versally loved and. the crime of her taking-off was so brutal and unprovoked, that it was resolved to . lynch her slayer, but better counsel prevailed, and punishment was left to the law. A Woman and Her Accounts. A student of human natnro who writes for the Atlanta Constitution, says It is a touching sight to tjee a woman make up her expanses, having firmly re solved tp put down every cent she spends, so as to find out where to economize, and were all the money goes. Procuring a small book, she makes a due entry, and on Monday after the first Saturday in which hor husband brings home his pay she carefully tears the margin off an newspaper, and with blunt pencil strikes a trial balance something in this v ; John brought mo home ifS y. uUa $1 at cents I had is $4i SI), and $1 0i cents I lent to Mrs. Dixon is $50 U3 but hold on, I ought not to enter that; because when sho returns it, it'll go down. That was $19 93, and what have J done with that? Then she puts down the figures, leav ing out the items to save time a process which enables her to leave out most of the items to whero a round sum is in volved, on the supposition that they have already been put down, as thus: Six dollars and fourteen cents for meat and ten cents for celery, and ten cents on the street cars, and a bal five cent piece I got in exchange, and $2 81 cants I paid the milkmanVwho.owes me 19 cents that's $3,- and fifteen cents at church, and the groceries they were either $15 GO or'SIC 50, and I don't re member, which they were, but I guess it must have becu $15 60, for the grocer said that if I would give hiui a dine he would give me half a dollar, which would make even change, and I couldn't, bo cause the smallest I had was a quarter and $2 75 for1 mending Katie's -shoes, whioh id the last money that shoemfcker ever get3 from me, and 10 cents f or cel ery no, I putthat down. - Finally she sums up the trial balance sheet, and finds that it foots up $54.28, which is about $15 more than she orig inally had. She goes over the list sev eral times and checks it carefully, but all the items are correct, and she is just about in despair when her good angel hints that there may be a possible mis take in the addition. Acting upon tho suggestion, she foots up the column and finds that tho total is $14.18, and that, according to the principles of arithmatic, she ought' to have $5.65. Then she counts her cash several times, the result varying from $1.10 to $1.17,but then she happily discovers that she has been mis taking a $2.50 gold piece for a cent, and that she gave the baby a trade dollar to cut its gums with. On the whole she came within 86 cents of a balance, and that, she says, is close enough, and she enters in one line of the account book: "Dr. By household expenses," so much;, and is very happy untill she remembers, just before going to bed, that sho has omitted $2.75 for her husband's hat. An Ungrateful Own". A well-known place of physical refreshment in Con cord, N. H., is presided over by John Adams, a man of such tender sensibili ties that when, the other night, just as he was shutting up shop, he discovered a half frozen owl on the doorstep, he took the bird in and made it comfortable. When he retired for tho night ho loft the owl perched upon tho safe, to which one of its lags was fastened by a stout cord, and blinking with extreme gratitude and devotion. As soon as he had gone the owl bit the cord in two, devoured every fragment of food on a well-stocked lunch counter, sampled every kind of liquor in the saloon, broke all the bottles and de canters within reach, and in the morning when the doors were opened, was stand ing solemnly behind the bar ready for business. Worcester Gazette. Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners. Set apple trees twenty-five feet apart each way. Perhaps thirty feet would be better. The Energy That' Succeeds. The energy that wins success .begins to develop very early in life. -The charac teristics of j the boy commonly prove those of the man, and the best character istics of young life should be encour aged and educated in the wisest possible manner. The following story, given by Judere P.. strongly illustrates this truth: Abont thirty years ago I stepped into a book store in Cincinnati in search of some books that I wanted. Whilo there a little ragged boy not over twelve years oi age came- in ana inquired ior a geog raphy. , "Plenty of them," was the salesman's reply. - . "How much do they cost?" "One dollar, my lad." "I did not know they were so much." He turned to go out, and even opened the door, but' closed it again and came back. I "I've got i sixty-one cents," said he. "Could you let me have: a geography and wait a little while for the rest of the money?" 1 How eager his little bright eyes looked for an auswer, and how h'e seemed to shrink within his ragged clothes when the man, not ' very kindly, old him he could not. The disappointed little fel low looked up at me with a very poor at tempt to smile, and left the store. I fol lowed and overtook him. "And what; now?" "Try another place, sir." "Shall I go, too, and see how yon suc ceed?" ! "O yes, if you like," said he in sur prise. - Four different stores I entered with him, and each time he was refused. "Will you try again?" I asked. "Yes, sir; I shall try them all, or I should not know whether I could get one." , We entered the fifth store, and the lit tle fellow walked up very manfully and told the gentleman just what he wanted and how muSh he had. . "You want the book very much?" asked the proprietor. "Yes; very much." "Why do 3011 want it so very much?" "To study, sir. I can't go to school. but study when I can at home. , All the boys havo got one, and they will go ahead of me. Besides, my father was a sailor, and I want to learn of the places where he used to go. "Well, my lad, I will toll you what I will do; I will let you have a new geog--onhv. and you may pay me the remain - tier oi luo money when joucsn, or will let you have one that is not quite new for fifty cents." "Are the leaves all in it, just like the other, only not new?" "Yes, just like the new one." "ft will do just as well, then, and I will have eleven cents left toward buy ing some other books. I am glad they did not let me havo one at the , other J Xlaces." ' . . Last year I went to Europe ou one of of the finest vessel that ever ploughed the waters of the Atlantic. We had very beautiful weather until very- near thd, end of the voyage; then came a most ter rible slorm that would have sunk all on board had it not been for the captain. Every spar was laid low, the rudder was almost useless, and a great leak had shown itself, threatening to fill the ship. Tho crew were all strong, willing men, and the mates were all practical seaman of the first class; but after pumping for one whole night, and, the water still gaining upon them all' the time, they gave up in despair, and prepared to take to the boats, though they might have known no small boat could live in such a sea. I The captain, who had been below with his chart, now came up. He saw how matters stood, and with a voice that I distinctly heard above the roar of the tempest, ordered every man to his post. "I. will land you safe at the dock in Liverpool," said he, "if you will be men." He did land us safely; but," the vessel sank moored to the dock. The captain stood on the deck of tho sinking vessel, receiving the thanks and blessings of the passengers as they passed down the gangplank. As I passed he grasped my hand rnd said:, Judge P- 7-, do you recognize me?" Jf. Id him I was not aware that I ever size him until j I stepped '.aboard of his vessel. - J "Do you remember that boy in Cin cinnati?" j "Very well, sir; William Haverly." I am he," he said. "God bless you!" ,vid God bless you, noble Captain ..fl." Youth's Companion. Dr. Tauncr'4 Oplulou or Dogs. It is my firm belief that pork eaters have, as a rule, no part or lot in that "inheritance that is incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away." Why? Because they are constantly pan dering to the animal, and the animal hounds out the seraph. We are told in the Soriptures that tho "legion of devils," when cast out cf the Gadarene, asked permission to enter into a herd of swine. They were permitted to do so, and find ing the boga congenial companions, and finding withal that they were left in peaceable possession, they have un doubtedly remained with them m to this day, finding them a very convenient ve hicle by which to find ingress into other animals of the : biped species. An hab itual pork eater, I fear, can never com prehend the sigoificauce of tne worus, "The kingdom of heaven is within you, for there can be no heaven where pork devils hold riot and high carnival con tinually, and the appetite calls throe times a- lav ifor pork,, more pork. whioh when interpreted aimply means reinforcements. All such would better comprehend " the great ' twin truth',' tho kingdom of hell is within you. The Jews have ever held pork as an article of food in the lowest-possible . esteem. On this question they are "level-headed" at least. I believe it was for this reason, and this only, that the Jews were called a "chosen, people," and were so much richer in "spiritual gifts" than the Gentile world. Now there are professing Christians who will get up front a breakfast table with, their stomachs filled to repletion witu "hog and hominy," and go at once to the "family altar" and on bended kneo3 cry;. "Lord! Lord!" Now I shall not assume" that God does not answer the prayers of a pork eater. There is no doubt a lit tie of the "grace of God" in their hearts,' but if they have indulged in a pork "diet every day for a number of years it will, I think, bo safe to assume that they havo at least seven devils secretely intrenched in their livers. The house is thus divid-' ed against itself. The spirit of God in the man's or woman's heart prompts him or her to cry, "Lord! Lord!" The Beven devils in the livor prompt continually to an indulgence of their swinish propensi ties. "Of such is the kingdom of Heav en nas no reference to those wno trans form the earthly tabernacle (designed for a temple of the living God) into a hog pen. Letter in Cleveland Herald. They Can't be Beat. At Charleston I mot a man from Bing : . & hampton, N. Y.. who was agent for some sort of cotton machinery, and almost tho" first thing he asked me was: ' -' "How do you manage with the hotei , waiters?" "Why, I have to fee them, of course." "That shows how green you art.. I- am going to stop here four days, and I won't pay 'em a cent." . .. . i . "Then you won t get mucn service. ri , "I won't, eh? Well, you just watch 4 1 A. f J '. . me ana learn a tuing .or iwo. no that?" ... - It was a lead half-dollar, neatlj- cov- . ered with gold foil, and at first glanco it seemed to bo a $20 gold piece. When the New Yorker's trunk came vp stairs. ; and the two darkies lingeredaround for a quarter apiece that "twenty" appeared to view, anil ne said: "Smallest I've got to-day. . ill see-. you before I go." The same thing was worked on the; : . table-waiter, on the waiter wLo brpught , , up ice-water, and on several other col ored individuals, and when we were all ready to take the train for Savannah tha. trunks went down on the wagon and we ,Mr1lcnl to If h a 'VTrnt.. Two nii nut ps bo fore the train pulled out the New Yorker- i turned trf'the African with his gripsack and said: "James, will you take this coin and; square up with the boys for me?" - -t ' . "Yes, sah." "Place it carefully in your pocket and don't lose it." - - . - "She' -dar, sah, and Ize millynns o times obleeged to you." "Never mind that. Well, we are off." - All the way down to Savannah that evening my companion chuckled over his1 keenness in beating the colored pop ulation, but when we reached the latter , city his chin took a drop. We were not, clear of the depot when we were arrested' for passing counterfeit rnoney andll hisrJ explanations did, not prevent his return to Charleston by the next train. I'met him afterwards in Alabama and ho told. ' me the affair rcost him $65. r ' Flirtiu; With Strangers. ' "By George! there's tho girl J told , you about, who flirted with me the other" day-the one with a sky-blue necktie and hat with a feather. Good afternoon, Jacki; . I'm after her." "No, you're not!" said tho other S9iz -ing him roughly by the shoulder; "that girl is my sister." "Whew! Beg pardon, Jack, but that must teach your sister not to flirt'with strangers if you want her spoken of, with respect." " " " The' practice of' flirting with strangers on the street, in the horse cars, in restau rants. etc.. "iust for fun," without the shadow of an introduction, at best under cover of some flimsy pretext which is at . once understood by the opposito party, has grown , very prevalent. Don't do it, girls. You may have as niuch pride of character aod self-respect as the moat punctillious well -bred lady who stands upon strict etiquette, but you won't get credit for it. "But it's such fun to lead them ou a while and then make fools of them." ' Don't delude yourselves. They don't see the matter from your standpoint. In nine cases out of ten, you make your selves ridiculous in their eyes, and pam per their self-conceit, which is too well fed before. We know innocent pure-minded girls do such things thoughtlessly for love of mischief one leading on the other. But if they could hear the sly innendoos and covert insinuations with which their acts are coupled aftowards, their slum bering, womanly instinct would bo aroused, and thev would blush with mor-. tified shame at tho motives imputed to them. Tub Tomato. English travelers, who write about this country, are usually surprised because the tomato is used i almost as generalbVas the potato. Thomas Jefferson brought tomato seed from France, whero he saw that that ' vegetable was ' exclusively used as food for swine. Dr. Dio Lewis used to say. that the" too frequent eating of it by hu man beings produced salivation. The I Italians have-taught Americans that fine e tomato sauce makes macaroni more palatable. But there are many poor cooks who liido their shortcomings by , putting the 'tomato in every dish; so that one chief recently said of another! "Oh, ' he'd put it into a church plate." :!.; -1 rsx 7