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laid in the dining-room of

Veritas Villa waiting for the return ot j. Milly and her lover. I call it the dining--room, but it was also the breakfast-room, *the sitting-room, the day-nursery, the playjroom, the work-room, and my lady's bouf^doir not because there were not other rooms in this genteel villa, but because the .^drawing-room was wanted for Mr. Ambler's maps and books, and the breakfast ,room whioh opened conveniently upon the ^garden, for his observatory, his models, tihis Orrery, his telescope, and his scientific jj, instruments. If you belong to a great man you must be content to let him have the

comfort. There are so few great men that jthis law causes little hardship. Besides, who would not willingly give up two out Jjof three rooms for the pride of being an

Ambler! The boyB, this evening, were shaping fbows—that is to say, they were making •/things with knives—boys who never have pocket-money are greatly te be envied, because they learn to make-so many things for themselves and the girls were spinning. That is to say, Copernica Ambler, the only girl in the room, was finishing a frock for her sister Somerville, now in bed, jS and asleep, while her mother, with a great basket beside her, which never grew less in bulk, was looking after the stockings and $1 the socks, darning-needle in hand. Across her face lays the line of rare which marks »the face of the weraau §p every shilling do tl Hand contrives, mauav occupies her mind with i'h her children. Wb women by the s- ok life, this giving it aJ but perhaps it is tt up boi |§ar hereafter.

bo has to make half a crown, id continually maintenance of not know such 3eems a waste of 10 boys and girls,

When Milly.came home, followed by her li lover, there, was a general stir, with the sudden appea*«n3e of smiles and revival of cheerfulness, due partly to the Immediate a ^prospect of supper, and partly as the toll _*of affection exacted at all hours bjr this young person. For the mother looked up yand smiled over her pile of stockings and •tt^ ^Copernica, who was a sharp-featured, thin -jgirl of sixteen, who wore spectacles, held

I Cup her newly-flLniahed skirt for admiration gad the boys shouted and every one called

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Milly for Sympathy with his work ,.*ud everybody had something to tell her, which was always the way when she came home, whether she had been away for an

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"You must be hungry, George," said Mrs. Ambler. "Tycho, my dear, call your cf/* father."

Everybody, or nearly everybody, knowB

4f .Reginald Ambler by reputation a very 'large class of humanity, namely, the Edijtors, know his handwriting, and craelly /jf toss his communications into the basket, J|vlj unread few, comparatively, haw the adwvantage of his personal acquaintance^, He 4,1s a man now about fifty years of age ha 2is rather tall and thin, his hair, gone gray, j^lios over his forehead in a great mads, which he is always pushing back his eyes ^llNare large and full they are also of light K?f?'""''blue color, so that his face seems at first ifurnished with too much eya. When he is *o Jin repose, the eyes have a far-off look when lp Ihe is talking, they are quick and eager.

His lips are nervous and his fingers are i, '^"Jrestless. Columbus, one thinks, must have '^kbeen a good deal like Mr. Reginald Ambler. ^^spAs for his manner, it varies with every ilf

-%,3h°ur, ranging from the depth of despondj, r- ency—when an article has been rejected or

letter treated contemptuously—to the ^height of confidence, hope, and happiness 4—w^en be has begun another or has trapped Isome unfortunate into a controversy. And

^he has never been known to engage in any ^g°ther subject of conversation, or think •upon any other matter whatever, except his Great Discovery.

To-night he came to the supper table and down with a smile of welcome. "Milly, my child," he said, "take your wplace beside me. George, you next to her,

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course. Coperuica, my dear, this side of .tjine. Galileo, fill George's glass. Cut some ^bread, Tycho, my boy. Kepler, some cheese for Milly and your sister. So ,,He rubbed his hands and looked around I upon his boys with the simple pride of a a father, though he was so great a man. "Ptolemy and Mary Somerville have gone Hfto bed,

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Oh .'4-* I Autobiography. Children, 1 have -55if |now laid down the last of the great voyages ground the world completely on the map. i'« threatened to be troublesome at first, but j? it agrees, I find—of course I expected ^nothing less—with my anticipations in every jparticular!" "Oh, father 1" Copernica dapped her i_j ^«hands. The wife smiled, her mind being

\J "still full of the sofeks in the basket Milly (,'• •-^nodded and laughed. The boys alone said ,,/f ^^luothing. Boys, if you come to think of ^it, never understand a father's greatness.

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^mai~kable day in my history. I have noted

Many great men have lamented this to me, Speaking confidentially. "Oh, father!" icried Copernica, "what will they say now!" "They will say, my daughter, what they always do say. The Fellows of the Geographical Society will sneer the editors fot scientific journals will refuse to listen ._ :,»niic writers will make jokes upon it map-makers and globe-makers will try to jhide the truth and the rest of the world, like George here, will pass it over without •paying any attention." "If it were something in the chemical 'dine," said George, "1 would listen as it is

Inot, I have not time for it." This he said out of subtlety and duplicity, because in his secrMVsoul he jeered at the Great Discover "No, no and thuii.s"*• aid thePhiloeo»pher, "that the great ?44 iscoveries steal upon the world, ai 1 who make them |ore unheeded. ho laid down upon the map the route otw -ry great voyager «j«ny distances, my uo, gree with his. eiShow me the globe-, eographer who ever attltempted the lik^ i"es, my work is done the chain of evidence is complete I can at «aany moment, if 1 should be called away, fileave the work of my life to the judgment -cof posterity. As for my contemporaries, •xtbey may, if they choose, oontinue to me with the crack-brained enthusiasts—" i* 4Oh, father," said Copernica. "—who think they can square the circle, find out the site of Paradise—" 1 «i wish I could go and loo^ in at th* ?,

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"—and transmute metals" "That would be only the-cnr-/pency," said George.

The boys were steadily eating. They **had heard this talk before. '•As for meeting me on a platform," Mr.

Ambler nefawii "Iter remember ths

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victory over Bagshott, and tremble." Bagahott was a Baptist minister who one* ventured on a public controversy with Mr. ft mUnr. and had his head knocked isto a oocftea nas, a wnng qun» improper rat a minister of the Gospel to wear, and itcanted, and was now a fervent disciple. "As for at once and peacefully that I am right, and they themselves, therefore, wrong, that is, I suppose, too much to expect of anyone, especially of men who live by the propagation of error." "A great deal too much," said George.

The boys went on with their supper and said nothing. The two eider lads, Tycho Brahe and Kepler, arrived at the dignity of derkery, had long since plainly understood, and now made no secret of their opinion, that a Great Discovery may be a most calamitous thing for a family. Palissy, himself, did not bring a more rooted antipathy to fame into his home circle than their father. Honor and glory are very fine tilings indeed meantime, when they are abstract qualities, and therefore unproductive, and ttie heeb of your boots are down, they might be sold, if there ware any purchaser, for whatever they would fetch injhe rough. "Better, far better," thought Tycho, "for my father to can nothing at all about honor, bat a good deal about making money, and saving tt or using it to posh his boyB."

Such a ftther he would have (desired, red of cheek, important in his bearing, pompons in his talk, as might be seen every Isy on Stamford Hill a father who could pot his sons into good houses, bay them partnerships, give them holidays at the Seaside, with—oh, all the things for which these lads vainly longed.

Reginald Ambler la nothing less, if yon please, than the Disooveror of the gnat truth that the world, so far from being a round ball, thoughtfully flattened at the north and south, so as to prevent the ice from slipping down and spoiling the equator, is really, as can be demonstrated with ease, a great flat circular diso of unknown thicknesa What we call the Arctic Pole, believing that the world twirls perpetually and lgnomihjondy roand it, like a fat gooee upon the spit» is in fact a central circle ot loe and snow, the origin and causa of which most be left tor the discovery of future philosophers round it is the temperate zone beyond this torrid seme beyond this again another great temperate circle, in which Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, and Naw Zealand are comfortably placed "neither bet nor oauld," as the Scot said. Outside this vase temperate zone the ocean lies, a tract of sea indeed, immeasurable, desolate, without land or sail. Spread round in another, and the last, great circle, beyond the oeaaa at the outer edge, is a Rim, edge, hedge, barrier, frontier-mark, boundary-wan, or whatever the inadequacy of language permits us to call it, of thick, solid, mountainous iccw Bow broad is this Rim, whether it stretches out forever into boundless spacer whether it is narrow, so that perhaps some day the voyager may hope to reach its limit and to peep over into infinity, no one can at present say. Worn time to time ships, which have sailed soath, ha*» reported oliffk, rocks, and mountains, ice-bound, covered with snow, inaccessible, inhospitable, without lifa Nothing ^ives in this boundary Bimeaoept, uponthe edga of it, ft few seals, walruses, narwhals, sword-fish, polar bean, whales, and such sea-monsters, who do not know how miserable they As for men there are none stall, andirill be-none tilltime shall be no more. *fWhat is beyotidthe Rim," said Reginald modestly, **I cannot say any more than the globe-professors can tell you what id beyond the futherest star."

This improved kind of earth requires an entirely new disposition of the heavens. Reginald, quite early in the history of his Disoovery, remembered this, and constructed with infinite pains, a beautiful Orrery. In this, the sun, no longer an immense globe of fire ninety millions of miles away, or thereabouts, but a comfortable little fireplace, so to speak, half-a-dozen mites above the world, went round and round above the great circle of the torrid zone, wobbling to north or south so as to produce summer and winter. He pullsd a string, and you saw the daily and the annual motion most clearly set forth. The moon and planets in the same way went on whatseemed to be recklessly independent and dangerous paths of their own, and the fixed stars want round the polar star continually. By an ingenious adjustment of bars, eccentrics and curves, he accounted for all the natural phenomena—except one. This exoeption came home to him sometimes in the dead of night, and took the conceit out of him. He had never been able to account for lunar eclipses. Why not lunar eclipses? It is too much to say that his faith ever wavered, but he war worried and rendered unhappy when la remembered that his Orrery would account for everything except a lunar^clipse. But those moments, happily, were rare. Mostly he was content to gaze upon his model with a perfect satisfaction, to show inquirers over and over again how. upon a flat and stationary earth, all the natural phenomena, morning, noon, and evening, with the foar seasons, the phases of the moon, the winter's downward slope, and tho suminert elevation of the sun. can all be explained and accounted for.

Naturally he became one of the bugbears—there are always half-a-dozen livat the same time—of the scientific world. He wrote to all the papers, journals, transactions, and reports of the learned bodies he offered to lecture, he asked for an hour*—only one short hour he sent his name with the offers of a paper, to the British Association, to the Social Science Congress, to the Balloon Society, to the Church Congress, to the Oriental Congress, to the Congress of Librarians, to the Congress of Hsadmasters, to the Geographical Society, the Geologists, the Society of Arts, the Physical Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Ycmng Mien's Christian Institute, the Sunday School Union, the Church Missionary Society, the Open-Air Mission, the Salvation Array, the Eleusis dub, the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, and the Congress of Cathedral Vergera, not once, but every year, offering to read a paper, show his maps and models, and reconstruct the geography and shape of the world. It is sad to relate that no one paid the least attention to these proposals, and, being now fifty years of age, and with many yean1 experience, he had oeased to expect a hearing from these learned bodies, any more than he expected admission into the Times, Stsndard, Daily News, Morning Post, Daily Telegraph, and Daily Chronicle, of the lettcss which he regularly sent them all ones every year, after six months of preparation. As for the monthly, weekly, and quarterly journals, he had tried them alL They would have none of him. And as for eminent men of sotanca, titers was not a single mathematician at Cambridge, or a professor of sdenos in any university or oollsce of t&e United Finwlnm to whom

he did not propose ft meeting, public or pdh vats, to discuss his theories. Ths signs! victory already alluded to, which he achieved over the Rev. Mr. Bagshott, Baptist minister of Hackney Wick, in a public discussion held at the chapel, was an abiding proof of his strength in advocacy aad the goodness ot his causa

The school is small—it consists really of two, the Prophet himself and Bagshott, bat it is fun of seaL They have aa office^ and an office boy, in Chiswell stiust TH offloe is a second pair bsck ths oflloe bay# whose hoars are from nine to six, spends hi* time chiefly in the street surveying mankind the publications tracts and maps—of the society are on sale there, but no one has ever bought ft copy except a journalist, who once saw his way to ft scoffing article on the subject, and so boaght everything there was, and pat the things in his pocket-book and went away, and presently forgot all about it In fact, there exists a general oonspiracy against the Truth. "Astronomers^" said Mt AmUer, "trro* bleat mention of my name for fear, but pretend to smile in scorn. They hope their system will last at least their own time, forgetting that to ba found out after death will be more fatal to their reputation than to yield in lifa In my autobiography will be found not only the 'Short Reasons' but also the 'Argument at Length,' and the 'Questions' which I have sent to every one of them demanding a reply, a platform, a public discussion, or an opportunity to state my views. Not one of them has given me either. It will, indeed," he added with a lofty sneer, "be greatly to the credit of the Universities, in the next century, that they refused even to let me

It was in this house that Hilly was placed when the death of her mother left her alone at ten years of ag& The reasons why Mr. Reginald Ambler was ohosen for her guardian were unusual, bat not without precedent. He had a oousin—many people have couslna this cousin, Richard Ambler, a practical Ambler, an unimaginative Ambler, was a solicitor. Richard Ambler, therefore, on being asked by the child's relations—they were unnatural relations, descended by the parentis side from a certain illustrious ancle or two— who wanted to put the burden of the littl# girl on somebody else's shoulders, and to find a home and guardian for ft ehild whom nobody wanted, naturally considered first of all which of his own friend^ would flwd the money most useful, and seeing that among all his friends and. cousins no one was so perfectly hopeless, unpecunious, and unpractical aa Reg^ nald the Discoverer, and few so poor,, sent iher to him not for anyr fltntts or special aptitude which Reginald possrased for the task of guardian, bat wholly and solely that the child's money*' which now amounted to hundred and eighty pounds a year-house property hav-i ing gone up—might be paid yearly to Reg4 n»M for the good of and housed hold. They were ft kind-hearted peopleJ and aa Milly was a willing, chMr kind of child, they were easily, though gradually, persuaded to let her become governess^ nurse, assistant-housekeeper, maker of puddings and piea, milliner, dressmaker, chap* lain, adviser, counselor, and eldest lister to the family. "And, oh, my dear," said Mrs Ambler, when MfllyS engagMimnt began, "what we should hawedoas without yod nobody knows, and what we are going tQ do without you nobody can tell*

Milly's life was so busy that she never understood how dull it would seem to any one outside the hous^ for there were in it no amusementB, no sights, no theater, no concerts, no opera, no pictures, and evqn very tew novels nor perceived that she ought to have been treated differently nor comprehended that her guardian was regarded by everybody as a lunatic with a harmless erase nor knew or suspected that there were any enjoyments to be had in life other than those within her reach, namely, the children in good temper and looking nice, the Sunday church, a summer evening walk, and the daily cap of tea. She was, however, distinguished above alt contemporaries of Clapton Common by ths possession of a romantic history. She was the daughter of a man who had made ft mdst Glorious Fortune. Everybody knew so much. Nobody knew what the Fortune actually was* either in amount or In form, whether it silver, oil, hogs, or railways whether it had been acquired by rings and corners, by bulling and bearing, by lying, treachery, and deceit, by contracts, by plunder and pillage of the public money, or in any of the many ways In which many tempt fortune and a few succeed, winning thereby the universal respect of their fellow-sreatures. Mr. Montoro—no one ever spoke of him without the honorable prefix—had been once a cleric in the city. Somewhere about twenty years ago he threw up his place and went "away to seek his Fortune. And he found it. Matter of common knowledge that he found it that he bad sent none of it home was also known and that for four or five years his daughter had heard nothing from him, whence it might be concluded that he was dead. And the great Fortune—where was that? Why, the United States of America being so big, one might as well look for a lost needle iii Hyde Park as for a lost fortune in a country popularly believed to consist entirely of man who have made enormous fortunes. No doubt tt was lying somewhere packed up, and would be lost for some one to -claim it. 8o that Milly was not regarded as an heiress so much as the daughter of a man who had distinguished himself- But still there was always the chance that her father might turn up, his Fortune in his hand. The thought that her father might be still alive and might yet return never left the girL She had his letters in her desk, which she read until she knew them by heart, both those to her mother and those to herself. The former were curiously oold and constrained. He was prospering exceedingly, bat he did not yrpinin bow. He was richer already than any of the people they had known at home he was waiting an opportunity to realize some of his gains and enabling her to keep her carriage and so on. To hnrself the letters were full of affection and tenderness, speaking of a time when he would either go home or have his daughter with him He •poke of his continue*! success, but without the least hint of his occupation, and his a&> dram was always changing so that his work took htm from one State to snother.

The girl constructed her Ideal father from fha letters. He must be a gentle and quiet creature because her mother had always spoken of him as a peaceful-man who gave no offense to any, and loved tranquillity yet he must be a man of great courage thuq to have forced his way to the front, In a oountry, with no friends to help

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and noble mind, because his toll of the most admirable ssntimenta, and hs mnst l*j£ather whom any gid would t»taore"^^b tore. «f tanderasM

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THE TERRE HAUTE EYEHlfN} GAZETTE,

waghe upsalf. Tks letters whkh this poor BngUsh waif and straerwrotetwto or three timea every year to hisi daughter were in Met to him, though they were loaded with falsehoods, the one thing which kept np his soak Ha aonsorted with gangB of the roaghept, Ui wot* the lowest yet he had to consols him the lettsrs of hit chfld, fresh, Innocent, confiding and ha had, to lift himself oat of the mire, to make up to vep|y. some

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should make the girl happy about him and to order to do that h§ mm forced to imagine himfrff back in ctvfliaed life) a gentleman. If you coma tolhiak of it there tu^anoddeal of tmagjnallisiCm an unsuccessful 'emigrant, sajfcas low as can well he, to make people at home believe that ha is rotttpg in "prospsrity. ft

baftstn hs persevered, with hisjgreat stroke of a landowner to Oregon. Then, Us life being now eaqr, and even assured, and the whlsky-bottto alwayr handy, he began to deteriorate, and he wrote no more letteia. While he was* vagrant Jonmayman, ready to do anything he would imagine, cooorfvey aad describa Ths mcniwnt he became settled, too Coantoln of fenogr drisd up, spd he could picture no 'mora Therefore, the drop being teo great from a millionaire to a settler to a half-cleared plot with a log-hut and a 1 to send any more letters. He was one of those who have been rained by psosperity. Had he of aalow-i

still continued plow-gang, or herdsman, or a hand on ft steamer, or a plcker-up of odd jods, his daughter woold have continued to receive those letters which for so many years had been the chief happiness of her life.

But he would come homsaome day, aha mid—he would came hornet (ft to fturtwesil

THE THREE EMPEROR4.

V-L-.,.,, 54 An Awflilly ially Tlnei SKIMNIVICS, Sept. 16,—After greeting at the railway station yesterday afternoon, Emperor William drave to the pslace with the Czarins. They were followed by the Cz*r and Emperor Frauds Joseph. The right hand side of tbe palace was assigned to the Emperors of Aufttclaand Germany tae other side Is occupied by tbe Czar and Czariba. Prince Bismarck, Count Kalno. y, M. Degiers and other diplomats of the Em« pei or lodge In the wing of the palace. The only persons vi.iole from the rail* way train which bore thu Emperors from Warsaw te Skieinlvioe were soliers. Nobody w«» allowed oh the platforms at the stations And railway officials wtre ordered to close tbe windows of theirshoases. Polish pendarmes are guarding Skiernivice. Nobody Is allowed to remain here without' a permit signed fey Gen. Gourks.

Warsaw, S»pt 16.—At the grand banquet lt4t night ninety persons participated'. Emperor William conducted the Czarina tb tbe table. The Czar and Emperor Frat&is Joseph followed next. Tbe Czirina was seated at tbe center table, witb the Austrian Emperor on her ripht end the German Emperor on her left bfehd. The Cssr sat on the op poslte side of the table. Ot his right hand sat the grand Duchess Maria Past ovna, and next her Prince ^smarck. On the Czsr's leit hand sat Prineess Kotscbubb, and rext ber Count Kalnokv. There were no toasts, but at theinstance of Elnperor William the three monarcbs drank wine together:

WAR ON THE WABASH,

The Bridge Policeman Defuses te Let p: Kidder Bros- Have Water Out of the County Welh

The monotony of Water and Main streets was broken at trequeat intervals yesterday by a succession of quarrels between James Shoemaker, the bridge policeman, sbly assisted by bis wife, and the employees of Kidder liro's mill Mr.Sboemaker refused to let Kidder Bros, have water out of the oouaty well, which is bsck of the county house in which they reside. Tbe county ohmmissiot ers were sent, for and tbe matter was satisfactorily arranged.

Watermelon Boon.

The hot weather Jast' week made a greatly increased demand sfor watermelons. This was Indicated in the Ua zettk's report at tbe time of iacreaoed shipments via the C. A G. 1. to Chicago, which is the leading watermelon market of this setction.

Mr. Littleton, the well known grower, whose experience with boys in bis patch was reported in tbe Gazkttk some time ago, was in to-day with a load of melons. He says tbe boys have let his patoh and those of bis neighbors alone since the bird shot episode. A small bov when it comes to bird «hot is no pig—he knowa when he has had enough.

Mr. Littleton reports tbe yield this year almost unprecedented. He has SOM 4,000 melons off of a five aore patoh and bas lot* left. Ths price now averages (to. each wholesale.

NEARLY EVEN.

The Society Only a Few Hundred Dollars Behind on the Fair—Notes. The sooiety will some out a little less behind than at first supposed. In tact, the two ends of tbe horn will be pretty nearly the same size. -^The dettcet will be somewhere inside of five hundred dollars. Premiums are being paid in full which will entail an increase of expenditures over former years. However, the experiment is entirely a suooess, as it resulted in making a muoh better fair than ever before.

Thk coaniy commissioners have leen etitioned to bnild a bridge acrow rairie Creek in the Wabash bottoms on the ooonty line between Bullivsn and Vigo counties. If it is built it will be a joint affair.

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St, Mary'e Institute has already 91 pnpils and the Sisters report arrivals on nearly every train.' They are greatly enoonraged at the owtleok.

Spkikofikij, Mass^ Sept. 16.—About 5,000 persons were present at the (•peeing of the grand bieyole tournament today. The first race, of one mile professional handleap for a parse oi flto was -won by C. W. Ashiager, of Eaatern Ohio, in 3:45. Young, of Boston, wae aeoond Howell, of Maaohester, England, third. .j

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[Mrs. I. V. FtankMn of Augusta, Ck, Charleston News and Cornier.] Well do I remember, though bat a littls slip of a girl, the wild excitement over don, when all fierce, rebel maidens wore the badge of sympathy. My school books were never taken unless the badge adorned the left shoulder for the street. On all nothing was discussed but tbe subject of secession. Hiere was a feverish excitement pervading the atmosphere of the school rooms, and I remember a rebel concert given in which every pupil wore a distinctive coa tame of Confederate colore, songs of southern seal and full of battle spirit ware song to roll of a drum, which was child which was draped In a wildest enthusiasm prevaOsd when the 300 girls sang In chorus of their lots fprthe southern land, for her brave soldiers, and for their valor, yet to be proven.

By this the Confederacy was filled with battle songs, breathing tiie very spirit of music, and overflowing with sentiments and pathos. "We'll conquer or well die," "When this cruel war is over" and "My Maryland' were the familiar household songs, and Father Ryan's poems, and those ot many others scarcely lese gifted In this lins, received with a depth of feeling unknown, save' In days of warfare. Soon "The vacant chair" and songs in the minor key prevailed, for sorrow enveloped the land as a veiL Literary cultivation was almost classical,, for few novelists existed then In our borders, and ancient works were re-read and borrowed freely. Tbe texture of Confederate newspapers was something marvellous, and the columnM ware filled only with war and rumors of war.

I received once a collection of papers and illustrated monthlies from Virginia, cent me by an officer whose command had suprissd the enemy's encampment and routed them to take possession of all they precipitately left The valuables were prized very highly, and what made them especially valuable was

Ions in regard to fashion. ,e most Ingenious dress I remember dor ing the war was a black silk, made from th« covers of wore parasols, the umbrella form being preserved. It was regarded as being very stylish, and was lined with mosquitt netting, which had been presented the young lady by an officer who had been stationed on James island. The buttons on the dress had been in battle^ and were much valued by the owner. ,1

Bonnets of palmetto were mribh in vogae, as were those of ornainental gourds. The extreme weltrht rendered these dressy articles more beautiful than comfortable. Yet, for summer wear the palmettos were oool in appearance, A friend of mine possessed a tarlatan bonnet made of six yards of the cloth, with W0 wdrth of goose topthei* flowera adorning the inside. Once, by soms Odd chance, a young lady of my acquaintance was so fortunate as to have sent her a hat and a pair of balmoral boots, with a skiit to correspond. These treasures were sent by blockade runner and a reception was held to display them and to allow others the privilege of trying them on. I afterwards often saw tbe balmoral skirt, worn very gnlleleiaty, with Bimply an antique velvet jacket

In those days of self-denial there were wonderful things in the cuisine departments— much that was njysterious. Raspberrv leavss were used for. tea. Persimmons and black pepper formed favorite ingredients for fruit cake, blended with hickory nuta and walnnta Or and nuts and, arched c-kr« made coffee, and sometimes sweet potatoes. Innumerable delicacies were originated. Persimmons dried in brown sugar replaced dates and figs. A young friend of mine informed me that in her home dessert was much enjoyed in thl manner: After dining she would takedown from its place their cookery book end read aloud some choice selectiona It wa^ customary at entertainments for the ladles to enjoy the repast first: very often the gentlemen left the room until their enjoyment was over. Ones an entertainment I attended was elegant in all arrangements for the feast, and it was whispered around that chicken salad in profusion would be given. The ladles were first served, and, the hostess said, when the less favored ones entered tbe room for refreshments, a tall, ungainly soldier-boy commenced looking anxiously over tbe board, and finally, In a disgusted manner, said: "I believe, in my heart, the blamed women have eaten all the salad I" He was only appeased by Confederate fruit oake—strong of molasses and pepper.

Our town was filled with refugees from all points, and their*socfety was highly appreciated in Our midst As a rule, they were cultivated and charming additions to any society, and represented the best phase of home life from their respective cities.

Among our refugees was a bright young woman from New Orleans, who was so enraged by all her belongings being inspected as she was leaving the city to join ho- Mends outside of Gen. Butler's rule, she exclaimed to an officer: "You havent insnected that trunk, and it contains both powder and caps." This announcement caused much excitement, and the officer was much chagrined to discover at the bottom of the trunk in question a box containing an old lady's supply of caps and innocent face powder.

Every southern woman became interested in sewing societies,- and knitting was the fashionable fancy work. I invariably hritM tba first sock of a pair a stas smaller than toe second, and was thus compelled to always give in two pair to other's one In order to secure matches. The military ardor of aneo* centric woman known to me her to sand to a certain regiment in Virginia a kind of helmet for each soldier, made of the gayest kinds of figured cloth. She was a year manufacturing there fantastic disguises, and was informed after sending thsm that they and perfectly unnsceamry.

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At tke First Baptist Church A Thonyhtfbl Address

Rev. J. K. Wbetler preaehed the second of his sermons on Daniel, ttunday night, the aatyeot being, "The forgotten dream." The following is an abstract:

Daniel's account of the greatness ot Nebnchsdntssar has abundant corrt bor. ative evidence not oaly in the writing ot Heroditus and Josephos, but also in the inscriptions and rains ot Babylon which remain to this day. These deciphered inscriptions, bearing the King's own name speak of the great city, "the Babylon which ho had Vtiilded" and on the sncient site are found to*day, huge pilee of indeetructlble fire-bricks, each one bearing that mighty name, "Kobocbadnezsar."

How true it is that in all tbe excavations and discoveries of ancients sites—not the least evidence has been found which could throw suspicion on any statement of the Bible—whether historical, geographical or of whatever kind—while on the other hand theee ancient cites have surrendered up time and time ai(aia—evidence corroborating the scripture accounts. Surely the word of God standeth sure. The Lord hath spoken it he will bring it to pass,

SXBOOBADRUIiB'S MtBAtit. The King had a dream, which although forgotten, had made so deep an impression on his mind thu he was anxious to recall it. tk he demanded ot his wise men—magicians, astrologers, that they should not only recall tbe dream bat interpret it, and this on the peualty of their Hyss.

They could not meet tbe demand. Tbe angry King commanded their execution and among them Daniel was sought to be slain. This seemed to bo his flr*l knowledge of the King's demand and of Ins party dtcree.

Daniel assured the captai.i oi the King —that if be would give him time—he woulu tell Nebuohadnexzar both his dream and the interpretation Daniel has now given his pledge, bis promise to the Kinir There is now no possible escape tor~him his life is at stake. There is only one possible issue—the dream or death!

DAHIKL'S B0U»MS AMD ASBUftAKCB Had Daniel any ground tor such boldness? Was he reeklese, or rational? In answering this question we mnst remember his was a devoted lite, he belonged to Gad He. was living to honor God. Wo may expect consecrated holy men to be bold before God. We look for boldness in such men as Daniel, Paul, Luther, Wesley. Ton and I dare not pledge God for anything because we do not belong to him. We aie not living for him, bnt tor ourselves. We setve God when it is expedient. Some men wish only enough religion to enable them "to squeenc thrryish" at the last. The* only reason why iome men obey God at all, is their fear of the devil. Multitudes are anxious to enter Heaven, not because the good are there, not because God is there, but because they do not wish to be uncomfortable in the other place. No hall arted soul ever lilts op a great bold cry to Go«(. "Daniel's boldness was but rational. Again Dauicl had ground for his boldness hfe had received help ftom God before. had heard him iu the past. Daniel bad a rich experience-'-an evideuce that never lorsaltes a man.

Daniel's first step was (o seek out his three Hebrew friends, men of prayer, men ol God.

In times of trouble, danger, sickness, death, we wish the help ot those who pray—we wish near as men who do business with God. We never send for the profane, the ungodly, tbe infidel, tbe atheist, tbe agnostic. When we are in some awful crisis ot life and death we call to our side men who believe some-* tiling, who know something—who know God

His prayt was not presumptive. Dan-iel-acted in the most natural and rational way. What wonld save his lite? Nothing but the dream of the King! This was his' great need tor tale he prayed—ss we would do to-day. If we were starving we would pray tor bread if lost, we would pray tor the home path. So Daniel prayed for. the "secret." It was the only natural, intelligent rational prayer he could make at this* time. £o every soul in times of .great distress cries out to God for help. Such prayer at such a time is instinctive. This instinct—this belief is universalit is common to every breast. There must be then some ground for it. We are not mistaken, mankind cannot be so deceived in regard to the deepest impulses of the soul! We a*e not created a deception and a lie with respect to the highest laws ot our being. The flowera crow snd untold towards the sunlight— Man reaches out after God he finds God to hear and help.

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The King's dresm came to Daniel in "Visions ot the night.'' Daniel had taiih in God, he could sleep. And while he slept he dreamed. His dream was the King's dresm. His dresm was the answer to his prayer. Any objection to be raised here. Was not this the most nstural way in whioh tLe answer could be 'van? Anything supernatural that ebochadnessar should have such a dream, and that the dream should be prophedc as it was, a forecast of the future? Mind impresses itself upon mind in wakefulness. Why not in sleep. Why not Daniel dream as well as the Kr The answer came in tbe moot natural of any way you can think.

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In tlus sciipture lesson we have been seeking to Impress this thought. That prayer is a natural, a universal impulse of the soul. No use to mystify it. No use to obscure God's plain way. The only ihilosoph} of prayer that we neec to mow any thing about Is simply—to pray.

It is this philosophy, these dessetlng analysing torturing questions which rob prayer ot its sweetness snd naturalness and power and life.

The best philosophy of prayer is the wrrds of Jesus, tbe world's Ask and ye shall receive."