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% Sir iatnlet 3?ml YOL. XXXYII. CAMDEN, S. C., MAY 22, 1879. ' NO. 44. She Camden Sournat, PUBLISHED EVERY TUCBSDA V ? AT? CAMDEN, S. C., ? BT? G. G. ALEXANDER. Subscription Itates: (in advance.) One Year $2.00 8lx Months 1.00 May Baskets. Open the window, Margie, And draw the screen away; My lile is a dull December, But my heart's as young as May. Listen ! The laugh of children ! 'Tis a foolish thought, I know, But it minds mo ot ono -May morning Seventy years ago, When a merry troop oi childron Wakoned the quiet street With babble ol talk and laughter, And swinging, like censers sweet, The dear old-time May-baskets, Ribboned, and pink and white With the biassed bloom that gladdened The gloom of the Pilgrims' night. And I know by the robin's carol, And the tender green I see In the tops of tho dear old willows, That the May will come to mo. Margie, the scont of May-flowers ! I surely, surely know That one sweet breath! Conld the south wind Bring it so far ? They grow A mi'la ??rov nn * Viill airln Bat there's ?knock at the door; Oh lor an hour of quiet, To live my May-days o'er ! What's this? " From Karl and Cnrric." Oh, let my chair be rolled Just there?into the sunshine? And give me them to hold ! I knew their breath, dear Margie; Forgive these foolish tears, But God has sent these May-flowers Across the seventy years ! ?Mary A. Lalhbury. A Man Without Enthusiasms. i. I think that neither of us could have analyzed or satisfactorily explained our mutual attraction, but it is certain that my old class-mate Manson and I were fast friends, lie tvas a most lovable fellow, but had begun, long before outcollege course came to an end, to show that apparent lack of interest in life that distinguishes what we call a blase man; and this at times to a degree at once amusing and exasDerating. Not long ago a party of us, in the pleasant smoking-room of a Pacifitsteamer, were talking about one of our fellow-passengers?rather a poor specimen of this class?then of the class its-lf: and the oldest member of the little group, who had been lighting his cigar cry deliberately with the little wire which one dips in spirits of wine, resumed his seat with the remark, delivered with great emphasis: " Well, gentlemen, it's a dreadful tiling for a young man to have no enthusiasm. The expression brought Manson to my mind. I do not know why I had not thought of him before, but reminiscences now crowded in rapidly upon me and I sat for some moments looking out at the blue waves of the Pacific, and oblivious of the nice points of the discussion. Finally it seemed ormortune to me to narrate to the party some of the circumstances under which my friend and Iliad been thrown together. He was, as ourold schoolm astir once said. " fortunate in his choice ofa father," and I, feared th.it the tendency which I have mentioned would be developed by a life of virtual idleness: and when we had parted, and I only knew of his do- | ings through his letters, and those of mutual acquaintances, there was every reason to believe that my forebodings were correct. Tie made a short trip to Europe, a region which he described as "slow." and then nominally entered on | a business life. Ilis abilities were ox- | eellent, and his perceptions quick, but after lie had been for some time partner in a firm, a friend wrote me that when he met'him in the street, and asked him where his office was, lie received the reply: " J don't know. They've moved since I've been there." I was traveling some years later from India to Europe. We had a fine steamer from Calcutta, and some most agreeable people on board. It was just ? bout the time that some of the officers who had served in t'.ie mutiny were getting their furlough, and fine fellows they were. My room-mate, a stout, jolly-looking I man with red side-whiskers, was in the Residency at Luck now, and was suffer ingfrom a wasting disease, l)ut lie was a good shot and they could not spare him; and he used to tell me how. when they had loaded his rifle, they would prop him up on his mattress until he could sight a sepoy and then sink back again. All these men had been through terrible experiences, but they were dmighted at going home, and were generally in the highest spirits. I remember that they would not " turn in" at all the night that we ran up the Gulf of Suez, and they were eager to get ashore in the morning. We went up to the hotel built around a courtyard, and found a French woman singing "II Bacio" in the shrillest of voices to the accompaniment nf cnnHrv inctmmontfi tilnvpH Viv I It VII*. compatriots in fez caps. Even the squalid bazaar seemed preferable to this, and we were turning to go thither, when I saw, leaning against a pillar, my old friend Manson; and but that he had a "puggery" on his hat, he looked for all the world just as he had looked many times at a performance cf "Trovatore" or "Favorita" in the old days at Boston when the supernumeraries were all from our class. I was delighted to meet him, presented him at once to my party, and insisted on his going to Cairo with us. lie assented with the remark that he could not be more bored there than he had been at Suez. My companions appreciated his tine qualities, and, as they grew better acquainted, were disposed to ' chaff' iiirn a little about his eccentricities. Some time before we reached our destination he had been telling us his experiences on arrival in Egypt. He had intended to go to tiombay, but had I changed his mind at Suez the day before we arrived. "Fellows talked to me about grand Cairo," said lie, "called it an epitome of the "Arabian Nights," "Portal of the Orient." and all that sort of thing. I began to think that I might amuse myself for a day there. Our steamer was ate; we were sent through bv express, remaining ten minutes in the Cairo station ; and all that I saw of the " Portal of the Orient." looking with sleepy eyes through the window of the railway carriage, was an Englishman in a tweed suit and a sun-hat, standing before a re\ *> freshment bar and calling out: 'Two and sixpence for a bottle of soda water? Gracious!'" Soon after that he went to sleep, and ; just as we rolled into the station I re: member that one of the party awakened j him by shouting in his ear: "Passen| gers for Sodom and Gomorrah will change cars!" We had hardly time to seethe mosque of Mehemet Ali and buy some attar of 1 roses, when we were hurried off to Alexandria, so that our only sight of the Pyramids was from the train. None of us were "griffins," but those majestio structures command interest at all times, and then we had borrowed that wonderful book, " Our Inheritance in- the Great Pyramid," from the captain oi the steamer, and read it carefully, so that we were as eager as schoolboys. I shall nerer forget the scene which ensued. We were craning our necks to get the first sight, and two or three of us cried out. "There they are!" Manson had been leaning back in his seat with an expression of weariness on his countenance, lie raised himself slightly with his hands, took one look, and sank back in his old place with the remark: "One more sensation gone!" ii. The summer of 186- was an unusually hot one in China. Residents of Shanghai passed their time in an artificial temperature produced by " punkahs" hung over desks, dining-tables and beds?indeed, in every practical situation. The despotic, implacable sun rose each morning as if invigorated for a new career of persecution, ann mocKeu at namuoo shades, blinds and even tiled roofs. Crews of vessels coining up the river were driven from aloft, and strong men, like thejShunamite boy in Scripture, cried out, "My head! my head!" In the latter part of September came the first re- , lief?cool niglits; then, at last, refreshing , days. I was dressing one morning, with a serene satisfaction in the thought that i I might put on a flannel instead of a linen coat, when my " boy" announced, "One piecee gentleman hab got down ( side; wantchee see you." Stretched out J on an extension-chair on the veranda I found, on descending, my friend Manson. Responding to my delighted and surprised . greetings, lie told me that lie had sudilenlx.made up his mind to visit the far East, and had started without reflecting that he would reach India and Southern ( China at just the wrong time. He had been nearly dead with heat, narrowly j escaped a sunstroke at Canton, and was J caught in a typhoon between Manilla and ] Ilong Kong. I had a room made ready ' for him, found him u good Canton servant and introduced him at the club. He was unanimously voted a success. To people as busy as we all were with \ the new season's teas, a perfectly lazy ' man was a refreshing spectacle; and his ' languid indifference and dry conversa- j tion were declared extremely " good ] form." In a few weeks I made up my mind to . take a two or three days' holiday and . carry out a cherished plan of a boat- ' trip on the Yangtsze, and Manson agreed ' to accompany me. We had a large " house-boat" of Chinese model and rig ' ?a fair sailer and very comfortable; and our two Canton boys?All Wing and Ah 1 How?and our cook were sure to give ' us good living. I was obliged, on ac- ! count of the illness of my " lowdah," or j captain, to engage a new one at short notice. I did not know much about him, ' and did not like his looks, but I never j dreamed of any trouble with him or the crew which he engaged. There was a ' gun-rack in the cabin, and I had put in ' :i couple of Epfield rifles belonging to the volunteers jind two Sharp's rifles from the hong, thinking that we might compare their performance at a target. Manson, to my amusement, added to the armory an elephant rifle, carrying a heavy ball, which he had brought from Ceylon, and his own old Kentucky hunting rifle, which he had been " backing," he said, against all others. I laughed at ' this battery (little thinking what I was ( to owe to it), and threw in a couple of revolvers to complete our assortment. ' I shall never forget the sail down the \ Wongpoo, or Shanghai river, that pleas- 1 ant afternoon. To appreciate the coo! 1 breeze from the southwest one must ' have endured the sufferings of the sum- ! raer, and it seemed to blow rather from ] some breezy upland " at home," than : from the low-lying, damp paddy-fields. 1 As we left the settlement behind I felt 1 like a boy having a first holiday, and ! even fancied that the ordinary sunset re- ' minded me of some of the gorgeous ones ! I had seen in more favored latitudes. We passed Woosung and the dilapidated 1 earth-works below, rounded Paoushan Point, and ran a long way before we an- i chored for the night. In the morning i we were under way in good season, and bore for the north shore. We had our coffee and toast, and were sitting aft, 1 when Ah Wing, my favorite servant, as i clever and " plucky " a boy :vs ever wore < a pigtail, came aft to 6peak to me. 44 Master," said lie, "jussee now mi see i two pieeee junk come. Mi thinke^ie no good junk. Mi fear he b'long lallee-loon i (they are ladrones or pirates). Mi askee that lowdah? he mouf no speakee ploppa (his mouth does not answer me prop- : erly). He say junk b'long he flen (is his friend). Mi welly fear he no good man." T C. A 1 1 +1... | 1 rilll HH Wttlu cxuvi JWUavu ai cii*; l u u junks. We had changed our course and were running west, with the wind on i our beam. They were coming toward us, but both considerably to the north, and one more so than the other. Their character was unmistakable, as was the expression on the lowdah's face. He spoke a few words of pidgeon English, and on my telling him to turn, said with a grin; " No wantchee go back Shanghai." There was not a moment to lose. I had not even time to explain matters to Manson. It anything can make one think and act quickly, it is the approach of Chinese pirates. I jumped down the companion-ladder, seized a targe revolver, loaded and capped, concealed it under my coat, and told Ah Wing to come ; forward with me. As I passed Manson, who was coolly smoking, and asked no questions, I whispered: "Stand by the helm, and wait for the l _ L Y) Word, in caseui xirtru. I told All Wing, in as mild a tone as I could command, to toll the lowdah that ho had misunderstood me, and that I wanted him to turn around. lie was o(T his guard, and fen lied in a rapid Chinese sentence, and witn a chuckle. "He talkee 110 wanicnec, - sam aii Wing. The man was nothing to me at that moment hut a mad dog. Why I did not blow his brains out I do not know. I had hac ked up to the rail and could put my hand on a sort of belaying pin. I think I even calculated the force of the blow that laid him out on the deck, before the villainous grin w:is off his face. There were five men in the crew. One was steering, two I pitched down the little hatch, which I secured. The others, thoroughly frightened, did as Ah Wing, not a bad sailor himself, told them. Manson put the helm hard down, and in a moment we had come about, the sails were drawing, and we were well to windward, and under full headway. I gave my revolver to Ah Wing, with directions as to what he was to do; and no " Caucasian " could have obeyed more promptly and intelligently. We dragged the lowdah aft. and pinioned hands and feet, in anticipation of his coming to himself. Manson had the helm, and I asked him to give it to one of the crew. Ah Wing was then told (and to this day, I remember how curiously the pidgeon English contrasted with the grim nature of the communication) to make it clear to fln< hrOmsni.ui. that if tlifl boat went ono inch to leeward of her course, and to the two sailors that if they moved, except under orders, from the positions in which they were placed?covered by the revolver?they were dead men. " You sabe due?" (you perfectly understand) I asked Ah "\V ing. He was one of the few Chinamen who have what the plainsmen happily call sand, or dogged grit, and I saw it in his eye as he cocked the revolver and replied: "Alia lighter (all right)! Mi can do.'' " At your leisure," said a cool voice, "perhaps you will tell me what this is all about," and Hanson lighted a fresh cheroot. I explained to him that we had barely escaped destruction by treachery, and were even then in a dire strait. We could not expect to sail as fast as the pirates, and our only hope was in their being so far to leeward, and in range of our rifles. I was perfectly sure of my man, and there was positively none in my whole acquaintance whom I would so readily have with me as my old friend, the blase, indifferent, dilettante Hanson, lie shook me by the hand, and said in a cheery voice, wholly unlike his ordinary one: "All right, old fellow, we'll beat them." A more impetuous though equally brave man would have been lar less efficient. Indeed, nothing could have been Firing tlion hie hnhoTnnr TliP riflpc QlY in number, were brought up and laid side by side on the top of the cabin. All How told me that he "sabe loadee that gun,'' iml to my great surprise, our old fat cook ("Buddha," wc used to call him, as his countenance expressed the idea of eternal silence and rest) volunteered his services in this line as well. Then we settled down to our work, no old Paladin >r Viking ever more collected and deliberate, and at the same time showing more }f the gaudium certaminis than our old used-up, bored member of the class of 185-. Could we keep those junks out of iingal range until we reached a place of safety? Tliey had high sterns, and the iteersman could be plainly seen. Manion took his Kentucky rifle, knelt down iway aft and aimed slowly and carefully. Almost simultaneously I succeeded n " drawing a bead " on a large man in lie bow of the junk nearer to us. Just is the rifles cracked she fell off visibly md lost way before the dead steersman could be replaced, nor was the large man igain visible. " I am afraid I can't do as well with lie elephant rifle," said Manson, " but I an try. Let us both tire continually at the steersmen." We did so, with varying success. Ah How and the cook loaded rapidly and well, but the rifles wire soon somewhat heated, and the breech-loaders missed fire several times. The junks were heavily manned and ould- quickly fill the places of those whom we shot. They also arranged some kind of protection for the helmsmen, although we pierced it mora than ince. I began to feel terribly wolfish, ind so filled with rage at our antagonists that I could only with difficulty control myself sufficiently to aim deliberately ; but my friend never showed dgns of an acceleration of his pulse. As regular as clock-work he took the gun from the Chinamen, and never fired a ?ceond hefa% his aim was perfect. We i-ested a short time at last to take a mrvey of the situation, and could not lisguise from ourselves that it was serious. The junks were nearer, and we ivere still quite a long way irora raoudian. There was nothing for it but to go to work again, and we did. For ten minutes or more we kept up an incessant fire, and, although we evidently did much damage, the distance between us and them had been perceptibly lessened. We must soon expect to hear the report ofjingals. It came in a moment more, and the clumsy ball fell but little short of us. Manson turned to me, still cheery and cool. "I believe there is a foreigner there," *aid he, "who is directing and inspiring them. He has escaped us thus far. If I can get a sight of him and can hit him, I believe we shall get rid of this junk. Since you picked off that last steersman of the hindmost one, she has fallen off decidedly. Well, that is not so had," he continued, as a jingal ball struck the mast, lie asked Ah How to let him load the Kentucky rifle hiirself, and measured out the powder, wrapped the k?11 i'n o uornn s\f kiiol'tftin nnil mm inpH it carefully home. Then he knelt down and watched his chance. All this time All Wing had kept his eyes and the revolver on the steersman, and our boat had done her best. Thejingal balls were getting uncomfortably frequent, and it was only a small satisfaction to me to have sent an Enfield bullet through the head of one gunner, just as he was getting his sight. All at once I heard the report of Manson's rifle and the quiet remark from him: " Ilabet!" I saw the junk fall off, saw manifest confusion on board, saw an opening for two or three good shots, and had seized a fresh gun, when I heard Ah How cry: " Master, liab got steamer, welly near." Hardly one of us had glanced ahead for half an hour. As for the steersman and the crew, they had clearly but one thought, and that was?to save their heads. It was with a strange feeling of relief and satisfaction that I saw II. M. gunboat Petulant pufling along toward us. In five minutes she was alongside, t silw rnv friend Lieutenant (ira ham's jolly face over her rail. "Whatthe deuce is the row, old fellow?''he asked in a perplexed way. I explained as briefly as possible, and told him that f thought we had almost finished the job, but lie was welcome to the rest of it. He could hardly wait for me to finish my story. "You won't come with us, then? Well, good-bye, old fellow. See you in Shanghai. Full speed ahead! Feat to quarters! Look sharp now, and clear away the bow-gun!1' In less than live minutes we heard its report, and the shot crash into the junk's side. We had had lighting enough for that day and concluded to push'on for home. The iunks had gone about, but we knew that they were doomed, and the roar of the broadside soon informed us that it would be quick work. Ah Wing never moved. He would have kept that revolver pointed at the Chinamen until doomsday, had I not t old him that he might put it away. AL. IIow and "Buddha" took the guns below, and made everything tidy, and we had hardly rounded Paoushan Point when Ah Wing came up and said: "That cook makee enquire what thing you likee chow chow " (eat). We had a jolly dinner the next night. Lieutenant Graham and a couple ofliis officers came just in time. They had handed the survivor of the junks' crews over to the Chinese authorities; in whose care our rascally lowdah also was. They had made short work of their fight, and had no casualties. When the cloth was removed, I tried to get Manson to make a speech, but the only thing I could get him to say was that he was never less bored in his life than during the skirmish. I have not seen him for years. He drifts between the Old and the New TVArM or?H titV*on T lnct wrntn tn liim T quoted Hawthorne's expression about tun danger of doing so until the only inheritance left him in either was the six feet for his final resting-place. But, as I had before insisted to my group in the smoking-room, it is a great mistake to judge by appearances, and I am surer of nothing than that I shall never see a finer fellow, on this side of Jordan, than my friend, the man witlTout enthusiasms. ?Scribncr. Slightly Sarcastic. The professor of geology and mineralogy came along after tne hard fisted miners had found a rich gold mine and said lie: "There is no doubt but that gold is here in large quantities. If you find it rich it will pay." . This was in California. A little before this some hardy prospec! ors loaded a little mule with flour, baoo:i and tools. They traveled many miles north and finally: found a rich mine in Cariboo. The professor of geology and mineralogy came along and said: " Everything hereabouts, judging from the formation of the country and the gangue rock indicates the existence of gold. .Then the miners forgot that they had discovered the gold themselves and they gave all the credit and bowed down before the professor. Then some miners wentsoutn to Arizona, and after starving for want of food and choking with thirst, and a few of their number being toasted head downward by the Apaches, they found a rich silver mine. Shortly afterward down came the professor, and said he: " The metamorphic and plutonic rocks hereabout certainly point to the existence of argentiferous ores." And as usual the miners and all around about forget, they had discovered the mine, and gave all the credit to the professor. Well, he followed those simple miners around- to Utal> New Mexico, Pike's Teak, Nevada and Fraser river, and everywhere they dug first he came afterward, looked down the hole, with a book under his arm, said some tinnl words and evcrvbodv straightwav paid fio had found the mine and That no mine could he a true vein until it had been scientifically dedicated by a professor.?New York Graphic. Human Thorns. Tlmre are certain disagreeable people in this world who seem to take a special delight in annoying others by reminding them of things they would willingly forget. They are human thorns, forever torturing their fellow-men for thesakeof torture. Has a man met with a misfortune in business, they are forever recalling the fact. Has a man in times that are gone wandered into devious paths, they are forever reminding him of it, often by congratulating him that that is past, lias a man blundered, they are forever telling him what "might have been." When the thorn is of the mascu| line gender, there is- one way of getting | roliei. He can be knocked down and taught manners. When the thorn is of the feminine gender, the case is different and not so easily disposed of. But Causeur lmmH! nf nnr> enoh acniircrp in npltieoats who got her deserts the other evening. It w:vs at a little party, where some seore of people where gathered together. The thorn sat near a youngman who, in days gone by, had been <?uilty of folii.es that eost him dearly. lie had put them all behind him. liut the thorn too!* occasion to recall them, in a subdued and confidential tone. The victim, who had been subjected to the same torture before, spoke up so that all could hear: 44 Madam," he said, 44 for five years I have been trying to forget all that. You have been trying to remember it. You have succeeded better than I. I congratulate you." The thorn subsided. Kessenger's Koniicalitics. A lover of a certain cut of beefsteak is like a plucky prize-fighter, always ready for another rdund. The most economical man is reported as | living in the second ward. He took a bung-hole to the cooper to have a barrel made around it. Ar exchange asks: " Why do the horns of a cow grow up and the tail down?" We suppise it is because the horns do not grow dowr. and the tail does not grow up. If this is not the answer we give it up. A Roman says he has figured out the cause of the failures that overtake business men. When he went to school he was taught that the world was the shape of an orange?round, but 3 little flattened at the poles, lie says that is where the trouble lies. If the world had not been flattened at the poles everything would have gone on all right. A painter, who had already put seven coatf of paint on the walls, remonstrated with the lady of the house because she wanted him to put on another coat, just to chanpe the tint a little. " Why not put on more?" she said. "What will he the harm?" "Well, madam, if you keep on, you will take up all the room with paint, and then you will have no space for your furniture." Uutshe insisted, and at last accounts he was still pafhtinR.?Borne Sentinel. ^ imnnc ? trr\ o *-* A frtV nii/vUf urn r\. ?.-?* juwa ?mu iui uu,,iil know to-day, a placard in the bedrooms of a large hotel at Prague stated that "Guests are requested to communicate to the landlord all complaints arising on thier sides." At Pesth to-day a placard in a much-frequented inn announces: " Gentlemen are requested not to flatter the female servants on the stairs, as many dishes have thus been broken." Eminent counsel?" Yes, gentlemen of the jury, you will?oh, I know you will restore niy persecuted client to the arms of his wife and little ones, who?" The court?" Your client is a bachelor." TIMELY TOPICS* Throe years ago an Englishman named Hebron was convicted of murder, and narrovrlv escaped the scaffold. The man Place, who \Pna hung recently, confessed that he had committed the murder for which Hebron was undergoing punishment ; and now the British government is taking steps to compensate Hebron for the wrong done to him by the law. When the Union forces were captured at Plymouth, N. C., during the war, the colors of the Sixteenth Connecticut regiment were torn up and distributed among the officers and men to save them from the Confederates. Many who had these relics were taken to Southern prisons, but they kept their trusts carefully. It is now proposed to gather as many oi tnese pieces as possiuie, arrange them in suitable form and place them among the other colors at the State House. The death of Mme. Bonaparte and the story of her marriage that it naturally revives brings to mind the French marriage laws. It will be remembered that the nearest she could come to getting her son legitimized was the official declaration that he was " a legitimate son of France." This was rather more vague than satisfactory; and the occasion is a lit one to call to mind the periis of marrying a Frenchman. No Frenchman can marry without the consent of his parents, or, if they are dead, of his grandparents. If he is over twenty-five, and tl-nv refuse lip mav send them. through a public notary, three respectfully-written requests two weeks apart, and then the mayor can authorize him to proceed. If, however, he is a person of political prominence, this publicity of family differences is tacitly forbidden by custom, and the scandal of such publicity must be avoided by the abandonment of the proposed marriage. That is, the greater man the son is, the greater is the hold of his parents upon him. In a memorial to Congress relative to the coming census of the United States, the superintendent of the census of 1860, Mr. Kennedy, gives the following statistics as air illustration of the stupendous results from a single hive of bees, transported to the Pacific coast less than thirty years ago. From the single county of San Diego, California, in 1876 there was snipped the astonishing figure of 1,'250,000 pounds. In 1877 there were in that county ?3,000 colonics of bees, and in one day, September 6, 1878, there were shipped from that port 78 barrels, 1.053 cases and 18 tons; and that from and including July 17 to November 10, 1878, loss man. iour monuis, mat one county exported over 1,000 barrels, 14,544 cases and nearly 20 tons. lie who would strike out (from the census report) the item of honey, could not have known, so great has the interest in this product become, that many people in California have from 500 to 1,000 hives, and that over 100 people in one county have each more than 100 colonies of bees. According to the London Xcws of January 18, there arrived in November at Liverpool 80 tons of honey, the product of the bees of one individual, and that a Mr. Hodge, in the lirst week of January last, landed 100 tons at a London wharf, the product of California. The annual product of honey has grown to 35,000,000 pounds annually. A new experiment in surgery has been tried in the New York Charity Hospital, where two ounces of human milk were injected into the veins of a female patient suffering from several abscesses. At the conclusion of the operation the doctor in charge said: " The patient will suffer no harm from the operation, and possibly she may be benefited. However, I think that I have seen nnnnrrli tn convince nip that the trans fusion of milk should be abandoned as an unsuccessful operation. I tiling we will slick to blood hereafter." Awr patient , also a young woman, was Then subjected to the operation of blood transfusion. She was in the hist stage of consumption. The blood was furnished by a strong male attendant at the hospital, who had already been bled four times in the same cause. He warned the doctor that this was the last time that he would consent to the operation, saying lie was getting too old to he able to spare any blood. About three ounces of blood were drawn from his arm, and the operator delibrinated it by stirring it with a glass rod and straining it through a piece of linen. Ammonia was "then mixed with the blood to prevent it from coagulating, and care was taken to maintain the temperature at the normal standard. Then a vein was opened in the patient, and tne moon injected. A Bath in the Dead Sen. A correspondent, after bathing in the Dead Sea, describes his experience in the following words: The water, which is quite clear, and nearly the color of the Niagara river below the falls, seemed to me a little more bitter and salty than that of Salt lake, although brighter and more attractive to the eye when s en close at hand. Its supporting power struck me as a little greater, also, than that of Salt lake,"as the body floated more easily, and the difficulty of swimming was greater on account of the inability to keep one's feet under water. So large a quantity of salt is held in solution that the water has what is called, I believe, a "ropy" appearance, much like that of a plate of well-made tapioca soup. I observed, however, that when we came out of the water tljfre was not so large a deposit of salt crystals on the body as after a bath in Salt lake and the feeling of the skin, instead of being dry and prickly as I expected, was rather oily and sticky. Our dinner that night was seasoned with salt made from jJead sea water ov soiar evaporation* It was a little lighter in color than the be t article of brown sugar. Its crystals were large and hard, and, though foreign substances were evidently present in considerable quantity, it was not unpleasant to the taste. I was told that two quarts of water will produce one quart of salt, but this is probably an exaggeration. To complete the statistics of this remarkable boTly of water, I may add, what many of my readers may already know?that there is no living thing of any kind in it; that even the driftwood brought down by the Hoods in the Jordon is speerlly cast upon its shores; that its length is about forty-five and its greatest width about ten miles; that it is over 1,000 feet at its deepest point; and that the immense quantity of fresh water poured into it daily is undoubtedly taken up by evaporation, as its great depth below the basin of the Mediterranean must preclude the idea of a subterranean out lot. A paper looks well in a morning wrapper when it goes to the postollice. FIRM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Strawberry Reclpci. Strawberry Jelly.?Soak a box of gelatine in cold Water, say one pint. When thoroughly softened, add live ounces of white sugar, two quarts of strawberry syrup, and put over the fire until the gelatine is perfectly dissolved. Pour from the kettel into molds or small jars, and you have a most beautiful and pleasantly flavored jelly. This recipe is meant for cool weather; if used in summer, rediu'c the nuantitv of svrup by one-half. Strawberry Syrup.?Make a syrup in the proportion of tliree pounds of sugar to half a pint of water Boil and skim until clear. Have ready the strained juice of field strawberries. Allow two and a half pints of sti'awberry juice to the half pint of water. After you add this,* let it boil hard for not morethan five minutes. Take it-from the fire before it looses its fine color, and pour hot into self-sealing glass jars. This syrup preserves even the odor of the fresh strawberry when opened months afterward, and flavors ice-cream delightfully. With the addition of a little bit of pokeberi*y jelly, the delusion is perfect; you fancy that you are enjoying fresh strawberry cream. No sweetening is needed for the cream but what is supplied by the syrup. Strawberry Tapioca.?This makes a most delightful dessert. Soak over niglit a large teaeuplul 01 tapioca in cold water; in the morning put half of it in a yellow-ware baking-dish, or in the porcelain one of a silver pudding-dish. Sprinkle sugar over the tapioca; then on this put a quart of berries, sugar, and the rest of the tapioca. Fill the dish with water, which should cover tli'' tapioca about a quarter of an inch. Bake in a moderately hot oven until it looks clear. Eat cold, with cream or custard. If not sweet enough, add more sugar at table, and in baking, if it seems to dry, more water is needed. A similar dish may be made, using peaches, pared and sliced, instead of strawberries. Pineapples, pared and grated, are also excellent witn tapioca. Strawberry SnoRTCAKE.--This makes a very nice addition to the teatable, or can be used as a dessert Take one quart of sifted flour, stir very thoroughly into it half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda; then one teaspoonful of cream of tartar must be well mixed into it, a tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of salt, about a coffee-cupful of water. It is best mixed with a knife, cutting it through and through, and if possible do not put your hands into it except in rolling it out. The mass should be as moist as you ean well manage. Roll it smoothly out, making two round cakes of about half an inch in thickness. Bake in a quick oven. When done, split the cake open: put the slices in a large *-1?aw nnoli clino witli UIMI , IIUUl'l llll'lll, Wltl iiji.il berries and sugar; finally making the berries the top layer. Pour cream over all. Failure* Green. The practice is f:ist gaining ground all over the country of seeding' down for permanent pastures a variety of grasses instead of heavily sowing one or two favorite sorts only. Grasses are selected which possess the property of springing up rapidly after having been bitten down and resisting the tramping of cattle. The selection is also made with a view to a succession of ripening crops rather than of varieties which blossom fogether, as in fields to be mown, that the stock may be supplied throughout the year with such grasses as will be young, tender and succulent. This arrangement is quite practicable, inasmuch as there is no month of spring or summer in which some of the grasses do not attain perfection?the month of March excepted. Again, care is obsei-ved that the varieties are suitable to the land for which they arc designed. Ac in nir>firlrtw?_ sn in n.'LStures. clovCl" should he a constituent. It will, it is true, disappear in two or three years, leaving other grosses in possession of the ground, but not until it has accomplished incalculable benefit. Blue ?rass, especially on light, dry soils, is highly recommended for pasture; meadow foxtail, early and rapid in growth, is otherwise desirable. Orchard grass is one of the most valuable of all grasses, coming earlier in spring and remaining later in autumn tlian^ any other. Red-top grass is an excellent permanent grass, :is is crested dog's tail. The grasses recommended for lawns add further desirable varieties for pastures. A mixture for permanent pasture advised by Flint as certain to repay in the additional yield for the greater original outlay for the seetls, consists of yellow oat grass, one pound; meadow foxtail, hard fescue, tall fescue, meadow fescue, red top, June <n-ass, wood meadow grass and rough-stalked meadow grass, two pounds each; timothy,three pounds: I fnnv nnnnrlc* U'llifp ull'jlitlu ?l?ioo, ivul j/wu..x.o, clover, five pounds; Italian rye grass, six, and perennial rye grass, eight pounds. Co<&nissioner KiHebrew, in his book on " The Grasses of Tennessee," furnishes the following list of long-tried pasture grasses as an aid to inexperienced farmers: Kentucky blue grass, wire grass, spear grass, rough-stalked meadow, orchard grass, meadow fescue, meadow foxtail, sweet-scented vernal grass and white clover. The importance of having the ground well tilled and thoroughly prepared by liberal manuring before seeding down is too evident to need remark. Ilulcs pertaining to the time and manner of sowing meadows are equally applicable to pasture, with the exceptions already made apparent.?Xciv York World. Kohc Culture. | One of the first secrets of success with tin* rose m guaruing against us several persistent insect enemies, such as the rose-bug, green-fly, rose-slug, etc., is to keep the plant healthy and in vigorous growth. To insure this, a rich soil is indispensable. Let it be composed ot old decomposed sods or thoroughly rotted manure. This earth shoulcl never be permitted to bake; but should be kept triable by frequent stirring. The aphis, or green-fly, first attacks the young, tender shoots, feeding upon their juices. The pests may be killed by placing a barrel over the infested plant and bufning tobacco in a flower-pot or other vessel underneath. The rose-slug, that green-bodied, jelly-like pest that feeds upon the surface of the leaves, leaving only the veins and ribs, may be kept in severe check, if not destroyed, by dusting the plant with fine coal ashes. The rose-bugs may be brushed off into a pail of water, or picked off separately by i i 1 i .a 1 At? iimii.1i nc line 11.11111 Jin 11 tlCMIU,) I'll. .. boon written about th? culture of the rose nnd about the insect enemies and their destruction, the above, in our experience, embodies the whole story.? liuml New Yorker. 0 ADVERTISING RATESt Tikx. 1 In. }{ ool. K *>' 1 ?>L 1 Week. | LOO f 8.00 # 9.00 $15.00 2 ' 1.76 7.50 12 25 20.00 3 " 2.50 9.00 15.25 24.00 4 " 8 00 10.50 18.00 27.50 6 " 8.60 11.75 20.50 31 00 6 ? 4.00 1 2 60 22.75 84.00 7 ? 4 50 18.25 24 75 37.n0 8 " 5.00 14.00 26.00 40 00 8 months...... 6.50 17.00 82.00 50.00 4 ? 7.50 19.00 89 60 69 00 6 ? 8.50 24.00 48.00 84.00 g " " 9 60 80.00 69 00 105.00 12 " 10 25 85.00 68 00 120.00 O" Transient advertisements mnst be aocom panied with the cash to insure insertion. Chelidonisma. Chelidonisma is the swallow song, an old popular song of the return of th swallows, which the boyB of Rhodes went about singing, of which the refrain meant, "He has come, has come the wallow !" It is reported by Athensous about A. I). 200.] ? Hark ! Hark to hear The burst of cheer That brings again the budding year ! Through air, through earth, Resounds the mirth, And hills rine with the merry birth; The swallow chirps his twittering tone, And the Rhodian lads prolong With minstrel strain their jocund song? Helth', helthe, chelidon. Adown the vales, , The dingles, dales, The breath of melody exhales; And happy lanes and proud-pied plains Swell out the pomp of glad refrains ; And hark ! above the swallows' tone? Helth', belthe, chelidon. Glad chanticleer Chants out his cheer, His paen piping to the year; The boys' blithe voice Makes mirth its choice, And all the happy hills rejoice. Hark ! Listen to the swallows' tone? Helth', helthe, chelidon. The earth's great heart, With throb and start, In universal joy takes part; And clouds that fly Athwart the sky Couching in fleecy clusters lie; | And oh ! how sweet the swallows* tune? Ilclth', heltlie, cncuaon. The spring, the spring Makes Nature sing, And life and love arc on the wing, And lads and lasses caroling; Soft in mid-air the swallows' tone? On earth? IT?HV>' KolfVio rhfilidon. ?Harper's Magaziic. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Prime butter?A billy goat. The combing man?The hairdresser. It is better to give than to receive?a bill. It is the duty of gate posts to stand by each other. The train of night is stopped by the break of day. A rule of arnica comes in with the base ball season. Gauze derives its name from Gaza, where it was made. In a circus procession the man in the van may be in the rear. Thirty-six different kinds of fish are caught at Muscatine, iowa. There is talk in England of a company for insurance against blindness. The way to n:akc potatoes come up is to take them by the tops and pull them up. Ruling passions are strong in death. The last movement a mule makes is a kick. The Legislature of Delaware divorced thirty-four married couples at its recent session. "I wonder what^'makes my eyes so weak," said a fop to a gentleman. "They are in a weak place," responded the latter. Mistletoe bough?The involuntary bow a young man makes when obliged to mizzle in advance of the toe of her angry parent's boot. The New York Herald says: "Since the wealthy young lady fell in love with and married the driver of a Sixth avenue ear, all the drivers on the various lines go to work in the morning with a clean shave and with shining boots." Men are capable of taking a peculiar kind of revenge against the women who are weak enough to believe them perfect. For a few months before marriage they sue for the lady's hand, but for all the years after marriage she is compelled to sew for them. The people of Petrolia, Pa., recently witnessed the unusual spectacle 01 sewing an oil train shoot through the town with the rapidity of lightning and a number of the ears "on fire. With considerable difficulty the balance of the train was saved just beyond the town. The man who eats goose eggs for the championship of America lives in Indiana, where human industry is more than ordinarily diversified. This man devoured twenty-four consecutive softboiled goose eggs in twenty-four consecu tive minutes, and at the conclusion of this genteel entertainment he offered to cat a goose also. Unfortunately, nature has made no arrangement l-y which this champion could eat himself, and his last proposition couldn't be entertained. ?Pliiladclphid Times. During the prevalence of a gale in - - ? -v A,_. ^..1, Virginia Uity, j>ev., recenuv, uui of sand were to be sn?-n waltzing about on the deserts far to the eastward, showing that things were also rather wild that way. At times such clouds of dust rose above the desert tlyit the Humboldt range and other high mountains in that direction were hidden from view. No doubt any one who might have happened to be out 011 these deserts would have found the entertainment but ittle infeior to that afforded by the salnd storms of the great desert of Sahara. Slipper-Throwing. The ancient custom of throwing an old slipper after the bride as she leaves her home is still in many places believed to bring luck to the happy couple. Rut it may be a question whether the old shoe was thrown for luck only. It is stated in Iloly Writ that "the receiving of a shoe was an evidence and symbol of rejecting or resigning it." The latter is evidence in Deuteronomy, twenty-fifth chapter, where the ceremony of a widow rejecting her husband's brother in marriage is by loosing I his shoe from off his footT And in Ruth we arc told that " it was the custom in Israel concerning chancing that a man plucked oft'hi#shoe and delivered it to Ills neighbor." Iience the throwing of a shoe after a bride was a symbol of renunciation of dominion and authority over her by her father or guardian, and the receipt of the shoe by the bride- * groom, even if accidental, was an omen that the authority was transferred to him.