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the chamber over the gate. By HEMBY W. LONOEKI.I.OW. Is it eo far from the* Thou csnst no longer nee Tn the chamber over the gate That old man desolate, Weeping and wailing sore For his son, who is no morel Oh. Absalom, my son! In it so long ago That cry of human woe From the walled city came, Calling on his dear name, That it has died away tn the distance of to-day? Ob, Absalom, my son! There is no far nor near, There is neither there nor here, There is neither soon nor late, In that chamber over the gate, Nor any long ago To the cry of human woe, Oh, Absalom, my son I From the ares that are past The voice comes like a blast, <>ver seas that wreck and drown, Over tumuli of traffic and town; And from ages yet to be Come the echoes back to me. Oh, Absalom, my son! Somewhere at every hour 1 he watchman on the tower Looks forth, and sees the fleet Approach of the hurrying feet Of meseengers, that bear The tidings of despair. Oh, Absalom, my eon! He goes forth from the door, Who shall return no more. With him our joy departs; The light goei out in our hearts; In the chamber over the gate We sit disconsolate. Uh, Absalom, my son! That 'tis a common grief Bringetb but slight relief; Ours is the bitterest loss— Ours is the heaviest cross; And forever the cry will be, “ Would God I had died for thee, Oh. Absalom, my son 1 ” AllanHc Monthly Jur March.

THE YOUNG WIDOW.

“Is there uny danger?” “Any danger! Danger of what?” Mahlon is conscious of a breach of politeness in repeating her words rather sharply. This dainty little lady in silks and furbelows irritated him. To most men she would be a sunbeam, in that dingy doorway; to Mahlon she is a blot —something against nature. “Danger of contagion,” she explains. “Not if you keep out of the wav. You are safe here in the fresh air. If you nursed the patient—but that, I presume, is not your intention.” Delphine laughs. “I only came to see what is needed. You doctors are said to order impossibilities for the poor.” “Unfortunately, we find a cheap diet seldom nourishing,” said Mahlon, dryly. “Then I can help! I have some wine of fabulous age, which I would gladly give your patients. You must let me know their needs. And, Dr. Korr ” Delphine extends her hand—“if you would come to my house on Thursday evenings you would meet some pleasant people.” Mahlon shakes hands, thanking her for her offer, but purposely saying nothing of her invitation, which he has no idea of accepting. He does not watch her down the alley, but goes upstairs to his patient, thinking hardly of the distribution of the good things of life —for Delphine shows she gives merely of her superfluity. Delphine has her thoughts, also, as she slowly picks her way through the mud. “Will he come? It was an inspiration, that offer of wine. Will it bring him ? He certainly does not know how to receive a favor, and really I don’t care for his coming. Louis de Lille hinted, when I said I intended to have the new doctor at my house, that there were things even a pretty woman could not do. Yet I could., If I put on an ugly Sister-of-charity dress, and nursed patients, he would follow me like a dog. But then, I have no desire to catch a fever for a mere caprice.” Many Thursday evenings pass. “Where is the new doctor ?” asked Louis de Lille. Delphine only smiles. “He has not needed my wine; when he does, he will come,” she tells herself. She is right; just then she sees Mahlon in the doorway. A faint flush overspreads her face. She advances to welcome her guest. " Have you come for the wine? ” The sight of Delphine’s drawingroom makes him loth to ask for it. Could he require her to sell all and give to the poor? But the few bottles of wine, precious a while ago, seem now the mockery of an offering. “You must tell me of your patients,” says Delphine, promptly. “ But first let me introduce some friends.” Mahlon would have been incredulous had he been told he could talk so much common sense amidst the laughter and music at Mrs. Eliot’s, and even find opportunity to give his views on hospital wards. “ Then you put no faith in the beautiful, Dr. Kerr ?” says Mrs. Gordon, who is interested in the hospital just being built. “ Now, if you had Delphine’s taste to help you ” Mahlon glances coldly where she stands, the center of a gay young group. “ Delphine is liberal, and holds her own purse-strings. If there is one position perfect in this faulty life, it is hers.” “ Yet, to bring about this perfect state, there was a death to be witnessed,” he says, gravely. “Of course that was sad; but that Mr. Eliot was her father’s friend, the marriage made when she was very young. I don’t mean there was a shadow of unhappiness between them; only it was natural she should bear the old man’s death calmly.” “ And afterwards enjoy his money.” “ Why not? He wished it, for he left her all without one irritating or insulting proviso.” “If you allude to a second marriage, I should think common prudence would have, made him provide against it. Unless he wished another man to have his fortune,” added Mahlon, with a shrug. “But he knew Delphine was not a fool.” “You said she was not in love with her husband.” Mahlon avoids discussing Delphine’s intellectual status. “A man’s fallacy, that need we women have of being in love. Empty-headed girls agree with you. But Delphine’s head is well filled, after her own fashion.” “After rather a frivolous fashion,” Mahlon might have said, but for Delphine’s approach. Mahlon is soon among Delphine’s constant Thursday evening guests; running headlong into danger, every one predicts. Yet nothing could be less like his ideal of Adam’s helpmeet than this gay little woman. Mahlon hrs interested her in the hospital, however, the burden of which chiefly falls on him, no one else giving much concern to its completion. Delphine aids it liberally, and his poor patients, also; but for Delphine no one is anxious. A grave, literal man like Dr. Kerr is not one to in trap a bright, imaginative person like Delphine, who laughs at the idea of his being attentive, declaring that a woman must be ill unto death for that. A chance word overheard at her house reveals to Mahlon that people are coupling their names. Men less fastidious than he would have called it nonsense; he considers it wrong for a woman to have her name so mentioned, when he does not intend to marry her. He must silence the gossip by avoiding Delphine. JSve» trifles wear fa him the serious

aspect of right and wrong; so, though he is sorry, he will make his good-by tonight final, and part without any explanation. It is later; every one is leaving. “Wait a moment,” Delphine says. “I have news for your hospital” But he looks grave. “Old Mr. Gale promises £2OO for his subscription. I did my best to be charming, and he valued my effort .at just so much.” Another way for gossip to link their names I “I am sorry ” begins Mahlon, at last. "Oh, very well! If you dislike help “It is not that,” he answered, confused. “Only you dislike my help? ” “ For your sake. May Ibe frank? I 1 found it pleasant here; I never thcught j of doing you a wrong.” Delphine looks bewildered; then the i blood rushes into her face, gw, “Will you please explain wEat wrong you could possibly dp me? ” “It is certainly a wrong to allow any one to suppose I do net consider you in some measure sacred, set apart from other women.” “ I understand,” she interrupted, her I color dying out' “You mean as Mr. j Eliot’s widow.” i “ Yes; and I blame myself that our i friendship was misunderstood. I can | only promise not to intrude again.” Delphine gives a shrug of assumed indifference. “Of course, the less is all mine,” he says. “Of course. Very well. But, if we cannot be friends, at least your poor need not stiffer.” “ Thank you,” he says, “in the name of my sick. You will shake hands with me?” “ Why should I ? It is a mere form.” Yet she does not refuse when Mahlon holds out his hand; and, for an instant, wh le hers lies so passive in his grasp, he has an odd feeling that he may hold it or drop it as he pleases. He blushes a little at the conceit, and lets her go. “Good night! ” he says. “Good-by! ” Delphine turns away, busying herself in rearranging the flowers on the mantelpiece. Not until Mahlon shuts himself out of the drawing-room does he remember his hat is within there. These small absurdities will thrust themselves on us when we are acting the heroics. There is no help for it; he must go back. Delphine no longer stands before the mantel. Greatly relieved that she is gone, Mahlon steps softly to the table. Then he stops; there is a suspicious heap of silk and lace ©n the sofa. Resting? But just then, with a low, shivering sob, she sits up, pushing the hair from her flushed face; she sees Mahlon. Is she dreaming? One is never on one’s guard in dreams. Mahlon’s eye fell under her gaze. What has he seen in hers that he turns so pale ? “I thought you had gone,’’ she says, sharply. “Surely, with your ideas of strict propriety, you need not be reminded how late it is.” No answer; she goes on: “It was so tiresome to-night, a good cry is such a relief. Just what a cigar is to you men.” No answer still. “Is anything wrong? Any one ill, I mean? asks Delphine, growing frightened. “There is something wrong,” Mahlon says, slowly. “I was wrong when I said it was best for us to part. My love will be a better protection—” Delphine puts up her hand to check him. “Not to-night. To-morrow, if yon choose.”

As he walks home, Mahlon is conscious of the same old tingling through his veins which set his heart beating so when Delphine, in her bewilderment, looked at him. For the first time, he has acted from impulse; the sensation is pleasurable. As for Delphine, love comes to her later in life than to many women, and she yields herself to it the more readily. Every one calls Mahlon’s influence unbounded. She gives up cards and dancing because he dislikes them; she tucks away her novel under the sofa cushion to escape a lecture on solid reading. “Your home must have been very nice,” she says, once when Mahlon descants on the days of his youth. “But what did you do on a rainy day or a winter evening? When I was a girl we would wheel back the tables and chairs, and dance; or have a round game of cards; even a romp. I was one of six girls,” she adds, apologetically. “We were poor before I married, and not intellectual, though we managed to make as much out of the shreds of life as some do out of a whole pattern.” As she says this they have reached the hospital, where they are come to see the effect of one of her designs for the decoration of the front. Mahlon chose the hour when the workmen go to dinner, so that the two are alone. Delphine mounts one of the granite blocks strewing the ground, her dress sweeping over the rough mass, while she shades her eyes with her dainty parasol, criticising the skill of the stone-cutters. Mahlon is struck by the contrast she makes—this dot of bright color—to the somber gray building. Of both he is to be master. In the hospital he will carry tlie hope or despair to many a poor soul, the verdict of life or death. But this little woman at his side, will he fail to influence? Delphine is radiant. Though the scaffolding partly hides the cornices over the windows, enough is seen to delight her, and she is full of fresh designs. Mahlon suddenly leaves her side. “I do not like that scaffolding. It is horrible 1 How careless men are of their lives! ” “You do not want the first man killed outside of your hospital,” laughs Delphine. She sees the disapproval in his face, which one of her flippant speeches always brings. But she has not time to notice it. “ Surely, Mahlon, you are not going up that ladder? ” “ Not the slightest danger,” he calls back. “ The scaffolding is built to bear five men besides the cornices, so it will bear me. lam not one to run foolish risks.” Delphine breathes more freely when he stands on the scaffolding. The ladder was to her the real danger. “ Oh, how high you are above me! ” she calls out, half sorrowfully, half laughingly. “ Shall I ever reach you? ” And she holds up her hands in supplication. He looks down on the smiling, upturned face, the pretty gesture of humility ; then turns to inspect the scaffolding. And there a low, cracking sound—he is falling. Falling so slowly, he thinks, while he computes the number of feet below—recalls the closesttPewn blocks of granite remembers Delphine's laughing face, upturned. By one of those escapes giving one faith in guardian angels, Mahlon falls not on the granite, but on mother earth. She takes all power from him, even that of speech; though he is conscious, and sees Delphine bending over him Delphine, earnest * and quiet enough now. Did that same white face, with the awe in it, bend over old Mr, Eliot's death-bed J Even that thought conges

dreamily and painlessly. Then some one lifts him into unconsciousness black as the grave. Mahlon’s impression is that he has merely closed his eyes and opened them ; yet he is now indeed in a strange room, though his last recollection is of the hard ground, and the blue sky above. But here is Delphine bending over him the same white, earnest face. Yet she wears no colors brightening in the sunshine. But a soft, gray dress, on which his eyes like to rest. He lies pondering awhile, then asks, “Where am I?” “At my house.” There is something beseeching in her eyes. “ I could not nurse you so well elsewhere.” “ I have been ill how long? ” “ Ten days.” “And you have nursed me. It was a wonderful escape. Had the scaffolding fallen with the workmen, some must have been killed. But I shall get well now; you need not be much longer confined.” “Is this her reward?” Her face may ask the question; for he stretches out his hand feebly enough; and Delphine, laying hers in the open palm, bends her head on it to hide her tears. Mahlon’s recovery is slow, and he is ordered away for change. But it is not of the anticipated benefit he thinks; it is more of his return to Delphine and of the wedding-day following it, than of growing strong. Her face haunts him; that pale face, its beauty dimmed by anxiety, yet which has gained a hun-dred-fold in his eyes. It is this face he returns to; not that of the girl old Mr. Eliot married, nor of the woman who bought Mahlon’s first visit with a few bottles of wine. They are as unlike as his feelings the night he stood on the hearth-rug watching Delphine weeping, and the feverish impatience with which he stands in the same place now, waiting for her coming. Will she never come ? Then there is an ominous rustle of silk, a flutter of ribbons, and Delphine, the gay, saucy, bril iant Delphine of old, is before him. Ah, well, if the leopard cannot change his spots, neither can woman her nature! Delphine and Mahlon drift apart after their marriage; for Mahlon had learned to love the woman who nursed him, and he is jealous of the old Delphine who robs him of her, and whom he has given up in despair of improving. “I wonder if he makes much money, and what he does with it ? Spends it on his beloved hospital, perhaps. If he would buy me a ribbon—a ribbon? That he would not do—a bit of sackcloth I would wear for his sake. I would be ill just to see if I were as worth his trouble as his pauper patients.” Poor little Delphine laugh?, but she could cry much more easily, sitting there alone over the bright fire in her morning-room, her novel drooping idly from her hand. She puts it away rather hastily, as the door opens. “Is it you, Mahlon? Is it so late?” “It is early. I wish to see you particularly.” He is standing before the fire, looking at her. “You wished to speak to me?” she says, brightening; for any confidence has become a pleasure to her, anything hinting that she had some real part in his life. “But you look dreadfully tired, Mahlon; let me ring for some coffee.” When the servant brings it, Delphine sends him away, and herself carries Mahlon his cup; but he does not take it from her. “Have you read the papers this week, Delphine ?” “I! No; I seldom do.” She blushes, as for a fault. “Anything in them ?” “Has no one told you of Brewster’s failure ?” “Brewster!” her start doos not on danger the cup in her hand. “Have you lost by him, Mahlon - ?” “ You have, Delphine, and very heavily.” He intended to tell her guardedly, not to shock her. But he has lost his self-control; his hand trembles so that he cannot take the cup from her. “ Something is left of other stocks, Mahlon ?” “Nothing. I have been unpardonably careless. Your trust in me should have made me doubly watchful of your fortune.” He cannot look at her as he speaks. She pauses; then—“Do you care so very much, Mahlon ?” she asks. “ For your loss, my poor child.” “Only for me?” “I never touched a shilling of it,” Mahlon says, hastily, immediately regretting his words. ” %

“ I know. Will you mind very much having to take care of me, Mahlon ?” “ Mind it, Delphine! I think you have not been quite my wife, because I have not taken care of you. I should be glad to have you forced upon me. The whole blow falls on you, poor child, so used to all that money can buy.” Delphine turns to put the cup down. He sees a shiver run through her, as if the mere thought of povertv hurt her. His pretty Cinderella decked for the King’s bed, to shrink away in her tatters to her ash-heap! Are not these the shocks that make peevish, dissatisfied women? It is hard to fancy Delphine either, but— He is startled out of his moody thoughts by the gay, saucy face she turns on him. “ I must come to you for everything, and you’ll scold if the butcher’s bill is large, and forbid sweetmeats as expensive, just as papa used, when his daughters kept house by turns. You can t get rid of me by marrying me to a rich man. But lam sorry for the hospi'al, which I’ve been so jealous of.” Why?” asked Mahlon, rather absently. "Wnynotf wnen it iuun.au yuiu leisure. And nearly caused your death,” she ends, softly. Mahlon recalls the pale face bent him that day, the face he has mourned as lost. He is not sorry to miss it now. He can never find fault with the woman who takes all troubles lightly, so that he is spared to her, who inclines to bask in sunshine, rather than to mope in shadow. It is worth all old Mr. Eliot’s money, such a discovery. And Delphine always declares that the loss of her money was a great gain to her.

He Didn’t Pass.

Last week was examination week in most of the schools, and the boy who “ passed” can easily be selected from the boy who didn’t. One of those who didn’t was on Saturday intrenching himself on Ledyard street behind a snowbank, seemingly waiting some one’s arrival, and a man who had observed his preparation inquired: “ Making ready to have some fun, bub?” “ Well, it may be fun for me, but it’ll be tough on the other fellow,” was the reply, “ Then you are expecting to have a fight ?” “ I just am that 1 The school teacher marked me down to fifty-seven because I said Russia bound Lake Erie on the west, and now when her brother comes along I’m going to bound him on all sides with the biggest licking a whiteheaded boy ever got.”— Free Preus. The Japanese house, which was a great attraction at the Exhibition, was knocked down at $l5O. The duties paid on the material of which it composed amounted to SI,OOO, L • •*■ '

FARM NOTES.

A while ago, a hired man was smoking a pipe while standing near the door of the stable. The door was suddenly blown back, knocking the pipe out of his mouth and scattering the fire in every direction. The sparks were put out—but we were reminded that pipesmoking, even by the most careful men, ought never to be tolerated about the barn— Rural New Yorker. Chicken Cholera.—lt was very bad here last spring, and I will tell your readers how we cured it For every forty fowls we took a piece of assafeetida the size of a hickory-nut, broke it in small pieces and mixed it in about a pint of corn meal, wet it thoroughly with boiling water, and placed it near the roosting place, so that the chickens could eat of it the first thing in the morning. If they were not too near dead to eat, a cure was certain.— Letter to Ohio Farmer. ■ Saddle-Galls.—To prevent saddlegalls the saddle should be lined with some smooth, hard substance. Flannel or woolen cloth is bad. A hard-finished, smooth rawhide lining, similar to those of the military saddles, is preferable. Then, if the saddle is properly fitted to the horse’s back, there will be no galls unless the horse is very hardly used. Galls should be washed with soap and wat.-r, and then with a solution of three grains of copperas or blue vitriol to one table-spoonful of water, which will harden the surface and help to restore the growth of the skin. White hairs growing upon galled spots cannot be prevented. — Nebraska Farmer. Few of us are sufficiently aware of the true value of our insectivorous birds. From early spring until late autumn these restless visitors haunt the fields and gardens in quest of food, prying into every nook and crevice where the destroyers of our crops lie concealed, a countless host of which falls a prey to their busy search during the seasons of planting and harvest. Every bird that frequents a farm—if we except the hen-hawk and crow—comes to offer us an unpaid service whose importance we can hardly overestimate. Let anyone, who doubts this watch a phoebebird or a sparrow for half an hour, and see how, with scarcely a moment’s intermission, our little insect-hunter pursues his eager task; and then let him reflect upon the necessity, the duty, of afford ing the birds every possible protection. —Exchange. Feed for Chicks.—Fill a bin with com meal, oat meal and middlings, each fifty pounds, and bran ten pounds; add and thoroughly incorporate with the lot three ounces bone meal and one ounce best Cayenne pepper. Put a pan of thick milk on the stove till the whey is formed and it is scalding hot; add meal to make a stiff batter, salt a little, and bake in a slow oven four hours. If in setting nests you find clear eggs, add two or three of them to the mixture before baking. If you can afford it, add eggs any way. This cake, wet with either milk or water, or crumbled dry, is the most economical feed that can be given—economical not for price, but because it gives the birds growth material in perfection and in a shape that permits waste from neither loss nor fomentation. Enough can be made at once to last a week. If sour milk is not obtainable, make a soup of a few scraps of meat boiled to rags; add potato parings, then add meal and bake as before. Western Rural. Fertility of Dairy Farms.—Much nonsense is circulated in regard to the rapid loss of fertility of dairy farms, by reason of the carrying away of the phosphates in the milk. Now 1,000 pounds of milk contain about three to four pounds of phosphates, of whioh nearly the whole is phosphate of lime. Of this less than half is phosphoric acid. Five thousand pounds of milk, therefore, contain but seven and onehalf pounds of phosphoric acid, which may be taken as the yearly consumption, in this way, of each cow. As : ■wheat bran contains 2.9 per centum of phosphoric acid, it needs only that about 250 pounds of bran be fed to each cow, yearly, to replace the draught upon the soil. There are few dairy cows that are fed less than this quantity of either bran or some fbod equivalent to it, and it is pretty certain that very little, if any, phosphoric acid is really taken from the soil of dairy farms. On the contrary, to say nothing of the natural supply in the soil, which slowly becomes soluble, t here is good reason to believe, > that every well-kept dairy farm becomes gradually richer in phosphates every year.— American Agriculturist.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY

Cbeam Cabbage.—Wash, cut fine, boil until tender, and drain the water from it. Brown two table-spoonfuls of butter in a saucepan; put in the cabbage and pour over it a teacupful of good cream; season, and let simmer for half an hour. To Cook Salsify.—Wash the roots, and as the outer skin is scraped off throw the roots into cold water. ITiey require nearly an hour’s boiling in plenty of water; throw in with them a little salt, a small piece of butter, and the juice of half a lemon. Serve with rich gravy or melted butter. Washing Flannels.—The one thing for which the best servant preserves an animosity is flannels. She will soak them in warm water, and drench them with soda, and reduce them to the condition of boards. To wash flannels nicely, take warm soapsuds, use two waters, and soak the flannels in hot water for a few minutes. Frost Bitten.—Frost-bitten plants mav be revive -* The proper way is, when the frost has been partially drawn out of them, naturally, to drench them with cold water from a fine-nosed watering pot, and immediately cover again and let them so remain until they regain their natural color. When they are removed, clip off all such parts as are blackened. As soon as it is discovered that a plant has been touched by frost, remove it to a cool, dark room, and on no account suffer the sun to shine upon it. If they can be covered so as to exclude air as well as light, it is better still. Dahlias and the like need not be removed until the frosts are severe enough to blacken the leaves. To Stew Carrots.—Half boil, then scrape and slice thekn into a stew-pan. Add to them half a teacupful of any weak broth, pepper and salt to taste, half a teacupful of cream, and a saltspoonful of sugar; simmer until tender, but not broken; before serving, thicken with bit of butter rubbed smooth in flour. If liked, chopped parsley may be added ten minutes before dishing. Mince Pies.—Boil a fresh tongue ; chop it very fine, after removing the skin and roots; ■when cold add one pound of chopped suet, two pounds stoned raisins, two pounds currants, two pounds citron cut in fine pieces, six cloves, powdered; two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, half teaspoonful mace, one pint brandy, one pint wine or cider, two pounds sugar; put this all in a stone jar and cover well; in making pies chop some apples very fine, and to one bowl of the prepared meat take two of apples ; add more sugar, according to taste, and sweet cider enough to make the pies juicy, but not thin; mix and warm the ingredients before putting into your pie plates; always bake with an upper Mid under cruet, made with

one cup of lard, one of butter, one of water and four of flour. Cleanins the Scalp. —A teaspoonful of powdered borax, and a teaspoonful of spirits of hartshorn, dissolved in a quart of soft water, and applied to the head with a soft sponge, ana then rubbed dry with a towel, is an excellent wash for cleaning the scalp. Once a week is often enough to use it. If there is any vitality left in the hair follicles or roots, the following is said to be a very excellent wash for restoring the hair: Scald black tea, two ounces, with a gallon of boiling water; then strain, and add three ounces of glycerine, half an ounce of tincture of cantharides, and one quart of bay rum. This may be perfumed to suit the taste, and should be well rubbed into the hair, after a warm glow has been produced on the scalp by the brush. The following is a very good pomatum: One pound of castor oil and four ounces of white wax are melted together; then stir in while cooling two and a half drachms of oil of burgamont, half a drachm of oil of lavender, and ten or twelve drops of essence of royale.

PRIVATE WM. RISES.

The dry details of Congressional routine are occasionally enlivened byan inspiration. Here is a recent sample: Private Wm. Hines, Company F, Eighteenth United States Infantry, while serving with his command in South Carolina, suffered the loss of a pair of trousers and a blanket by fire on or about Oct. 11, 1876. This act authorizes the Secretary of War to credit $8.65 to the soldier’s account, which now stands charged with the same, because a Board of Survey directed a gratuitous issue of a pair of trousers and. blanket, valued at $8.65, to replace the articles lost; which gratuitous issue, it appears, was not authorized by law. The Secretary of War, on the 25th of February, 1878, transmitted to the House of Representatives copies of the papers in this case, respectfully requesting the sanction of Congress for the issue of said clothing. The letter of the Secretary of War having been referred to the House Committee on Military Affairs, Mr. McCook, from said committee, submitted the following exhaustive report thereupon: The evidence is conclusive that Hines was a member of the company and regiment referred to, and that he lost his trousers and blanket by fire on or abort the 11th day of October, A. D. 1876, while serving with his command at Aiken, 8. 0.

The time, place and circumstances under which this loss occurred deserve much more than a mere passing notice, it was the year of the Presidential election, and but one brief month prior to the time when the freemen of the republic were called upon to cast their ballots for the men, or rather the electors, of their choice. The air was filled with the eloquence of orators both North and South, who spoke and labored for the sue less of their candidates. The propriety, not to say the constitutionality, of the presence of Federal troops in the Southern section of our beloved country was a question that entered laagely into the discussions of the day. Upon this subject there was then as now a great difference of opinion; and without committing themselves upon this disputed point your committee find unanimously that Hines was there by order of the legally-consti-tuted authorities; that he wore the usual and ordinary uniform of the private soldier; that he lost his trousers and blanket as set forth in the bill for his relief; that the loss occurred by fire; that a Board of Survey was called upon them, and that, in the language of that tribunal, “they were damaged to their full value,” amounting to $8.65. Your committee also find that this board expressed the opinion that the fire was accidental; “ that it originated at the top of the tent,” and “ that no one was to blame.’ There is no direct testimony upon this point, but it is fair to assume that Hines was lying down in Ins tent enjoying needed repose after a day’s labor in asserting and maintaining the sovereignty of the General Government It is true that those who seek to hold him responsible refer to the general and careless use of the pipe by our weary warriors; and others have attempted to account for the catastrophe by calling attention to the dangerous habit of soldiers carrying matches in their trousers’ pockets. Both of these theories, although plausible, are rejected by your committee; and, after patient investigation, they are of the opinion that the fire origlualcd iu oumo unaccountable manner. If, as is altogether probable, Hines was recumbent in his tent, the conclusion is almost irresistible that he ha d disrobed and "placed his blouse and trousers on the convenient and useful cracker-box; the progress of the flam s from the top of the tent, where they originated, to his soldierly couch, doubtless aroused him from his reverie or sleep; and, while the evidence is not entirely satisfactory on this point, your committee are of the opinion that Hines, in his zeal to fight the fire and save Government property, lost both trousers and blanket

With this view of the case your committee accept the finding of the Board of Survey and discharge him from responsibility. No specific recommendations appear in their report, but, through some misapprehension, a gratuitous issue of trousers and blanket was made to him. As events proved, this was a fatal mistake. His commanding officer, misconstruing a mere suggestion, and perhaps unwilling that Hines should appear before the people of Aiken trouserless, or concluding that the honor and dignity of the United States would be put in jeopardy by his appearing on du y in a pair damaged to their full value,'' made proper haste to rehabilitate him. From this Hines vanishes from the scene. How he disported himself in his new trousers nowhere appears. Unconsciously he had performed a great service to the army and the country by causing an authoritative decision on a matter that had been involved in doubt The question of a gratuitous issue of clothing is now settled, and, while Hines may be indifferent to the trouble he has given Captains, Colonels, Major Generals, a Secretary of War, and a Congressional committee, he can content himself with the reflection that he has neither worn nor lost his trousers in vain.

In conclusion, your committee desire to call attention to the fact that they have devoted much time and thought to this case. The papers are voluminous, containing no less than seven distinct indorsements, commencing with a Captain and concluding with the Secretary of War, who, in a communication to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, asks for the relief of Hines; or, to use his own well-chosen words, “ R the sanction of Congress for the issue of said clothing t® said Hines.” It is in no va nglorious spirit that your committee state that whatever delay there has been in this matter the blame does not attach to them. The trouble with Hines began nearly eighteen months since, and the papers only reached the handa of your committee a few days ago; and placing the final determination of the question with the representatives of the people, they feel that they are discharged from further responsibility. They cannot, however, dismiss the subject without calling attention to the almost perfect system of checks and guards thrown around the issuing of Government property. The cuSiom i>ut, without it, Hines* to-day would be in undisputed possession of a pair of trousers and a blanket to which he had no legal title. As it is, the system has been vindicated, the right of the United States to Hines’ trousers fully established, and his personal and pecuniary responsibility determined. Under all the circumstances yeur committee recommend the passage of the bill.

What a Shark Swallowed.

The following letter, written by one of the officers on the British bark Lutterworth, has been handed us with the request to publish it: “ While the Lutterworth was laying becalmed in the tropics, a large shark was observed swimming around the ship. A large hook with a chain attached was baited with a foui-pound piece of pork. The shark made for it and bolted it. In hauling him up the chain parted, and he coolly swallowed the hook, chain and pork. Another hook was then baited, which he instantly seized, biting a three-inch rope in twain and also swallowing it with another four-pound piece of pork. Another hook was then baited with a similar piece of pork, and with this the shark was caught and landed on our main deck. All hands cleared from him, for he was in a terrible flutter. His tail was cut off with the carpenter’s ax, which quieted him a little. Some said it was not the same shark we had hooked before. He was cut open, when we found the two large sharkhooks and chain and rope snugly coiled away, with eight pounds of pork, in his locker. It seems almost incredible, but 'all hands are witnesses to it.”—Portland Oregonian. The Maine Beet-Sugar Company at Portland have decided to increase their capital for another year. Farmers in the vicinity are going into beet-raising more extensively, and the industry promises to become esteblisW

The True Way to Invigorate.

The true way to invigorate a feeble system is to infuse activity into the operations of the stomach, that wondrous alembic in which the food is transmuted into the constituents of blood, the chief element of our vitality. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, because it accomplishes this end. is greatly to be preferred to many so-called tames, useful, indeed, as appetizers, but inoperative as aids to digestion and assimilation. This sterling cordial, while it invigorates the stomach, healthfully stimulates the liver, bowels and kidneys, insuring the escape through the regular channels of effete and useless matter thrown off by the system, which is thus purified as well as invigorated by it Its tonic influence is soon made manifest by an increase of vital energy and a more active and regular discharge of every physical function, and it has the further effect of rendering the system unassailable by malarial epidemica.

The Crowning Discovery. All the “ phones ” of this phonetic age are surpassed in practical benefit to mankind by the discovery of Allan's Anti-Fat, the groat and only known remedy for obesity, or corpulency. It produces no weakness or other unpleasant or injurious effect, its action being simply confined to regulating digestion, and preventing an undue assimilation of the carbonaceous, or fleshproducing elements of the food. Sold by druggists. Ellsworth, Kan., July 13,1878. Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.: Gentlemen: Allan’s Anti-Fat reduced me seven pounds in one week. Yours respectfully, Mr& Tat lob. Children do not die of the croup to whom Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam foe the Lungs is administered. Parents will do well to remember this fact and keep a medicine, which saved so many lives, in the house, ready for an emergency. Tne Balsam overcomes a tendency to consumption, strengthens weak and heals sore lungs, remedies painful and asthmatic breathing, banishes hoarseness and cures all bronchial aud tracheal inflammation. If you have a cough, use it “early and often.” All druggists sell it _ CHEW The Celebrated “ Matchless ” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York. Boston and Chicago. Tested by Time — For Throat Diseases, Colds, and Coughs, “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” have proved their efficacy by a test of many years. 25 cents a box. Among American manufactures few have done our country as much credit as the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs, which have been acknowlelged best at all great world’s exhibitions for many years. bee advertisement Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

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