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CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 8,1 w ; ??? : ^ . ? , ? j ti[ J . I ; ; GOD AND OUR NATIVE LAND, 3* SCHOOL fAL LESSON FOB 10, 1892. R *ail tbi? son g be sung in hav* a strong city; apc*.;nt Tor -^salis and EPt Hke chapter x<f . will be son^y >x?e the J*J Wfij t between . 13. and note it- eonnec 3 ot?erve xxiv.. 53; xxvii., fail to see the reference ?t>on ami glory in coating kJ* very nt?er "The name I that da y snail be the Lord ho* be plucked up. nor D? V-*1"" fotvver." The Lord i a Wall of ttr? round a boat. J tl4> jaaidst of her. He will Saivution (Er.*k. xhriiK^ Zech. i?., 5; Isa. xii.. I, 2). i gate-, tbai the righteous th the truth mav entsr i$hteous nation of Isx lx., . The nation shall be born }oity purged m on* day. ( upon th?*rr long rejected "" "is power and . '<*. xii., 10; stall be a city of truth, 1*4^1 shall be her King &o. Ixv.. 1*>. As to opening xxiv.. 7-10. cxviii.. 19. and ?tyr your own *oc.t the King of enter (Rev. in.. '3*. Jhjkeep him in psr/ect pe?ee, staid on Thee, because he .Thee." The -Scripture erery ?*jl?aeV* restoration and fu lfil jyece in. 1 by a time <?f great J*? verse^ *J0, 2 1 ; alto chapters tefccv.. &UAn. xn.. 1. 2. Matt. ,;JJ. mi. however great tb-i .dt&er th .in < r id*, the one who tT*ed never be disturbed, and tits staye.l on Hun wih hare fdfs. XIV' . 1, :>, Matt. xxiv.. tf; !$?*; xvi.. :u. , tin the f> i* i f?> rever, for la Vahis everlasting strength." ttiiw ''Lord Je*v>v?ib,'*or "Jah V. margin), t> found only I other millennia! song. Iw. foil stgnijicauce shaii bane^n in ^riwiting str.-ngth, or Rocko< makes me think of Moses in rock orered With. Oxfs and of IJ^e perfect fefcy of all whose lives are hid | Cod. Col. iii., ?. Therefore lim at all limes (Ps. Jxii., H). ^riugeth down thecu that lwN city. He layethxit to the gwamjt; fet." Here i$ ; the record ?applied We \yMm m, u? RSgodly miy prosper * \ righ tkous. though for faith and patience, j ?38" : n. 17, with the con- i ' of Haoah and Miry, I i i., 4C- j5. U tread it, down, even the I the ?tep? oi tne needy."1 ilted. 1 Slewed are the in kingdom of 1 Ye^?<tr4aiidown I; dor thsy shall be LO? your feet in the day *x^t I sa ti> the L >rd of SoBtsf ;3faJ shall , iv., lsc> Ps. Ixxii.. 4. 12, and fret not of evil doi-rs, bot be patient, the Lord and keep Uis way and He tihee to inherit the earth. <Ps? 1,7,^. 11, 54). :*fhe iray of tue just is uprightness piKMt ut>riAht dost weigh the path oi ? Him rishteou-j Loi*d loveth Cs>. His couuteuacce doth beaold bl x:.. 7?. Jfogood t'jiug will id^tifoai th?*tri toat. walk uprightly Jsxxit-, 11)- ^ut must retneuiber fie !iutouIy Weigfci our path, but also it*?, ami He triHth heart and reini k,. ;>; Jer. xvti , 10). If we are only before iiiai we shall sharo Hta **Yea, in the way of Thy judgments, havo we waited tor Thee; the desira $ to Ml i? to i'hy name, an?i to the rr-' fe of Tiw." in chapter xxv., 9, ^Anti it >r:air W said in that day, is our <.???.l ; \*e Iviv^ waited for iiias. Will u>; tiit^is the L^rd; W4 for ikm: *? shiM be glad aad hi His salvation Jacob, on his looking forward to the last days, have wa't^.1 for Thy salvation, (J a. x;ix.. I. 1*.. 5?one shall be t wait up'.wi Him and for Him. nd? u.' to wait upon Him. We do w.>rt t?i savi, " VI y soul, wait only uvoii ?'? >*" llja. zxx., IS; xdr.' ?h?" Hl. 5, i">- ixi?-. ??y soul hive 1 desired Thee in " |t; yea. witu my spirit within ma yyfc ihee early: for wnen Thy judg iu the earth the iuhahitants oi the _ learn rig'aieou.-. the lirsl part s?* remiuos us of Ps. lxdk, 1. xlii7 the oft re;H.?at-eil, "dui whom my th,\i?f Cant. iu., 1-4. God Siav r saivttti??n. >>y .ml strength now, iH be to Israel in tiiat day; th^re and W?ow "Jesus only.' lae last qftrh'j vers ? fxjints to the great gather Uo>i when H.e shall begin to pour |Bdguiettt.> m the la>t days, alter the a tran-iate^l , tu?iisuali be grathered i rftbe grent tr:i'tilati Mi th^ multitude of .^r., i>-17. t<w L?t ? r'?^r the honors of the nanv ??f translated ones foe K-?v. v.,-. at not t->?! late to be prt-se&ti ?t the of r,h- Lamb iRev., xi TtT. > 'UetjAivor b;- nuowlsI to the wicked 9 he oof tear. i ri^hteousne? ; in thr> ttut"i4hta;*>^ will h-> deil unjustlv, jWill not befcoki the majesty of the Some can ?>niy be humbled and led Ijtlto grace and love of Hot by afflic but (ro-i tries ev rv way t?> win men ' (Job. xxxm . 'Jf. ?'< ?; If Pet?r iii. re arf so;n^ wh(> wiii no5 submit., fetgoedlr, even in the UilienMm* (Ps. nargin). Th?se' shall jfoMo* Sat^a >end of the thousand year?, and being witb . him shill n?ycer see the of the l/*rd ;n rae nev Vth (,Rev. Ble?<9ci are all who yr receive (*od and walk hum* ' and sin Him. e need not wonder that ^preamt time manv followers of _.the lone sfeakfor their <^wn euds seek and i?otrancd into the nominal church. In ly - church there was a Judas, an aod Siipph'ra, a Lemas and many i who t&ou^h receiving favor would rights .msness. and it has beeu so e.? L*s*0'! llv'vzr^ I coin I bur CRANK I Into a Louisville Bank, ' at Wait for the Money. Ky.. [Special, j? The has struck Louisville The mam depicted by Chaunccy M. the sinusal dinner of the Xetv suddenly appeared iu was without dynamite, his demand. " About 10:30 tail, good V'>kini; stranger ftio' of President Veecb. of and Dtovcrs \Bink. The orator rctaarked that is ?he most proruinaot fcatur^ "on. and when this one over-gentle voice: '*1 to give mV >?|0D<ey, and that q-.jkk: ' I,- ^rs- decidedly prominent feature aNv.it the and Drovers' Bank. The hair Vef h stuod on ends, real kird of a man he had to deal b*nk-r said: "Very well, haven't nni' h on hand, but I can and get yo-.i me. " The bank send out. r.rt for a million or so but fot a policeman^ In the the ,-traager became tired of no one offering 1 after dinner PLANS OF VIRGINIA S CREDITORS. ! A Surrender of Defaulted Bondi \ Proposed in Place of a Cash Deposit. New York City. [Special.]? Frederic ! P. Olcott, Wiiliam L, Bull. Henry Budge, i Charles D. Dicker. Jr., Hugh RGarder, I and John Gill^ the committee of Virginia I bondholders, met here Saturdav. j Advisory Board, composed of Grover j Cleveland, Edward J. Phelps, Thomas i F- Bavard, George"^. Coe,' and George ; G. Williams, is associated wfth the bond- j holders' cjmmittee in^tfetf effort to bring about a settlement of the Virginia debt on toiwa^equiufele alike to the Old Do minion anlStpits creditors. Cables were received yesterday from the English cred.tors announcing their concurrence in the negotiations conduocd by the two committees with Gov. McKinney and his associates on theJVirginia Commission. The plan is that Virginia shall issue nineteen millions"*' of 100 year bonds to take up twenty-eight millions oi indebt edness, the new bugriis to pay two per cent, for ten years and three per cent, for the remaining ninetv years. In ap proving it the Advisory iSoard savs: *'We should con;ider it unfortunate for the creditors and ail .concerned, if the subject of this indebtedness and its set tlement should "be allowed to again fall into the vortex of popular political 'dis cussion ami dispute. ? * * * We are decided in our judgement that, if the terms of settlement now proposed are rejected, the prospect of an advant ageous agreement in the future is far from encouraging.*' Gov. Me Kinney has reminded the Ol cott and Cleveland commits es that un der the resolution of the \ irginia Legi-j , Utuic by which he and his Commission were appointed it is provided that "no proposition shall be entertained by the Commission which is not supported by a deposit in cash of not less than one mil lion dollars, to insure the faithful per formance of the proposals, if accepted and ratifk'd/^ Gov. McKinney adds, in a letter to tKe committees: "You make no mention of thi^/act, which the law makes a conditionj^rccedent to the con sideration of your important proposi tion.'' ,fT Mr. Olcott. replying, says that his committees represent 85 per cent, of the creditors, and are prepared to make de livery to the proper officers of Virginia ;of Ibejfr faulted bonds to that amount, "iua MrTOTWtt^adds : >This, we supp^^ is a far more com pKAe and satisfactory fcuSSSntec for per formance on our part than a deposit of one or even five million of dollars; The object of the act was evidently to insinsj the performance of the contract with the State, if made. A^d if, from the nature of the proposal w^sball make, a far bet ter guarantee is given, we presume that _its object will be *ubstantially accom plished, and that it . would- be liselesalo require us to tie up a million of dollars without practical benefit to any one/' Virginia, through Gov. McKinnev, is yet to Jeply to this. The Olcott Committee, it will be re membered, offend to accept $1$, 000, 000 of new three per cent, bonds, or $19,000,- ! COO of two per cent, bonds, rising to after five years, and three per cent, after { ten years. This offer was accepted. The bonds and interest coupons are to j be of the same character as the Riddie berger bonds, and not receivable - for taxes. It is stated in the agreement that f there are only $2$, 000,000 of the old bonds outstanding, but this, it has been added, is probably arrived at by ignor ing the coupons maturing on the bonds since the were deposited. The South'? Progress, While the low price of cotton and iron j naturally has a depressing influence upon i the general trade of the South and re- J stricts collections, there is no danger of i this section not sharing in the prosperity j and activity which promise to make 1892 j noted as . a year of great development j throughout tlje entire country. The | past week has shown considerable activi- | ty in the organization of new industrial enterpri-es in the South, notwithstand- i ingthe nearness of the holiday season. . There is seen a constant tendency towards j the diversification of industrial enter- ; prisej which promises well for the South s \ prosd^Uy. At Birmingham a $150,000 j corajMiy has been organized to establish ; large works <for manufacturing cotton handling machinery ; Augusta, Ga., will I manufacture heavy saw-mill and wood- j working machinery, which will be alrao-t a new iadus'ry for this section; at Mid- | dlesborough the contract has been let for j the foundations of the large buildings j of the South Boston Iron Works: at Abi- i lene, Texas, a $100,000 water works J company has been organized; in Ken- j tucky a $650. 000 coal mining compnay; j East Nashville, Tenu., is to have an ice j factory ; Central City, W. Va.. has a $30,0l0 milling company; a $100,000 lumber company has been organized in Hardeman coonty, Texas: $100,000 land improvement company at Walnut Grove. Ala. ; $200,000 cotton compress company at Norfolk; $50,000 water works com pany at Orange (i^v, Fla ; a saw mill ; with a daily capacity of 100,000 Xect near j Alexar.dria, La.; a $100,100 land im- 1 provement company at Alderson, W. Va ; J foundry arlcl msc'oine shop at Durham, N. C. ; a $350,000 laijd improvement company in North Carolina; a $100,000 coal company in West Virginia; a $100, 900 brick company at Wellaburg, W. Va. : $100,000 water works company at Harriman. Tenn. ; enlargement of steel works ^t. Wheeling, W. Va. ; $-250,000 water wdrks Construction company at } Dallas, Texas.; a $300,000 phosphate j i company in Florida, etc. New Uses for the Scrub Palm. ! Everybody who-fia^ been in Florida, j j and especially on the Sat lands along the j j St John's river, has learned that the j scrub palmetto, a stunted palm growth, j has been a poor, despised thinjjever since ; white meii trod Florida suit. It has been ; looked upon as worthless and cumbrous to the land, and th^c who have plough | ed it up and made every effort to kill it i out have congttiered it a curse. But it is ; now. more than likely that it will be look ? ed upon as an article of value to the | owner3 of the land where it grows. Its ; berries have been found to contain rare i medicinal qualities; the root is said to ; contain a large percentage of tannin, asd j some works have been started to con\ art ! the leaves into a* fibre. A factory has ; been put up at Jacksonville to work up t thes? leaves into fibre ^hicluit is claim | ed, wil^ make the best of rope and mat j ting, and is used for making hat? -jpat i tresses and upholstery.? Florida Corres j pondeat Ne]pYcrk.TriUme. FARMERS' ALHANCE. Something Interesting Abont the Co-Operative Stores. How the Plan is Successfully Carried Out in England, and Its Adapt ability to This Country. Senator Stanford, of California, intro duced a bill in the Senate lasffhtesday to provide for n ore money indrcul-.tion. **?*?* Spain is one step in advance of Ameri ca in the the use of electricity for agri cultural work. In some parts of that couutrv the farmer plows his fields with electricity as a motive power. ****** . The Alliance will hang out a little while longer down in Texas before- hand ing in its checks. Between November 1st and 15th there were fifty -two Sub- Al liances organized in that State. ****** A large Citizens' Alliance club has been organized at Indianapolis, Ind., and a People's Congress was also formed to discuss the economic questions of the day. ****** .CO-OPERATION AMOXG FARMERS. The political results growing out of the farnk*rs' convention at Ocala may or ( may not Vanish like smoke. But that assembly originated one movement which, if faithful ly\ followed up, will end in most substantial good to all the agricul turists eDgaged in it. This is the move ment toward co-operative stores. Qne state depot of ths National Union company has already been established at Louisville. Thirty-five branch stores are to be founded .elsewhere in Kentucky. The farmers' county organizations will* select agents and place them in charge of the branch stores. There will remain one thing to insure the success of the movement to enable farmers to control their own purchases and secure them on advantageous terms. Talk will be that the agents of their choosing must be both honest and shrewd business men. With the example of the great co oper ative store system before them in Eng land, the farmers cannot fail in their scheme if it is well managed. | 3Iemberg of the first English co operative socicty pnt their raeana together and formed a j int stock company-. At first thejNwi rined their work merely to buying articles at wholesale and distributing them among ..their members, adding to the price mere ly the expenses of distribution. Then a great ?ista opened before the co opera tioni>ts. They began a retail store of their own. They gave good, honest value in ail that was sold, buit the retail price was ptri eltghtlr abore 'the whole sale, though it vtas still below that charged by ordinary retail stores. Then at the cad of a given time thev divided the profits among the stockholders. Out siders were allowed purchase goods, but had no share in the profits, which were reserved for members of the co op erative concern. 'I he plan above outlined has been the one which seemed to wear the best fa Great Br'tian, where the system has now spread far and wide. With modifica tions such as the difference of country *nd people would '"demand, this appears to be the plan which would succeed best in America The old scheme of Grange stores was a failure naturally. But now the agriculturists have gained experience. They will be benefactors of their fellow man if they can inaugurate successfully the system of co-operative stores in the Unit d States, wh<re all attempts to make it work on a large scale have hith erto failed. The fact that ii??ias been so marvelous a success in England, how.ever, shows that it can be brought to perfec tion. Iloaesty, patience and business shrewdness will perfect the plan, and farmers witt have opportunity to show that they can manage their own bu-iness without ou'side assistance. THAT AWFUL WRECK. Heartrending Scenes at; the Wreck Tho^T^nfortunates Were Pinned Down and Scalded to Death. New Yot:k, [Special ] ? The accident which occurred on the New York Cen tral railroad at Hastings-on-thc-Hudsoc. has proven to be much greater than stat ed by reports receivtd. The official list of the dead, as given"but. numbers elevc 1 people. The accident was due to carelessness of a brakeman, Albert E. Herrick, of the .Buffalo express, which was lyisg still be low Hasting?. Herrick fled sad has not yet been found. He left his uniform in j the train and put on citizeu's do'hes. From an official report gi< en out by Third Vice President Webb, of the Cen tral road, train No. 93. which left New York at 6 .40 o'clock p. m., stopped at Dobb's Ferry to make some si ght repairs ? on the engine. A distant signal was thrown out and following th-i train, was the Buffalo and Niagara F ills special, which left here at 7 :30 o'clock p m. and was stopped about three qi.arters of a mile south of Dobb's Ferry station. The ! conductor cf No. 45 immediately sent Brak^nfH Herrick back tc signal the coming train. He proceeded as far as the station at Hastings. He went iodide and talked with the station naster. wait ing for the Cincinnati and ftt. Lou s ex press No. 7, which left '.his city at 8 o'clock. While Herrick ^as" standing near the d<k)r the St. Louis express whizzed past, running at the rate of for- ' ty miles an hour. " Engineer J. Donohue, of the St. Louis expres?, received no warning whatever of the presence of the Buffalo express on thi track ahead, until? he waa'filmost on the track. He reversed his engine, put [ on airbrakes and jumped for his life. The engine of No. 7 crashed into the rear sleeper. Gibraltar, of the Buffalo special, with terrific force. There were twenty-two people in the sleeping car at the time. V The remains of j\.W. White, porter, : i who died of his injurle*. were shipped to j j his home in Virginia. Rails Spread and 17 Persons Were j Injured. 'a atl.vsta, Ga , [special.] ? "Vestibule ? ; irain No 11 on East Tennessee railroad | going South ran off the track in a cut i near W illiama Station, seventeen persons j were injured, but none badly. The accident was caused ey the rails j ; spreading. Four c- achei were derailed. ? i Fifty feet beyond the cut was a trestle i The train was almost on the brink of ii | when it ran o5. SELECT SIFTIXGS. One -half of the people born die before the age of sixteen. There are 055 fire-alarm boxes ia Philadelphia, Penn. The Persians have a different name for every day in the month. T vro pouad3 of beet are consumed t? one of mutton in England. The Mohammedan year shorter tfaan ours by nearly eleven days. jf Only three golden eaglee were ever shot jn Maine, so far as known/ Tho Mexican orange trade with the United States is gradually increasing. Twelve oranges grown at De Land, Fia., completely filled a peck measure. It is said that Shakspeare prepetrated sixty-three puns in "Romeo and Juliet." In the New York State Library are twenty-six different portraits of C'ulutn j bus. The Digger Indians of California pre I fer insects to any other kind of aaimal j fool. A man in Missouri has tweaty-ieven : pet rattlesnakes which come when ho | calls them. The giant Galabra, brought ffom to Rome during the reiga 6t Claudiu^. Coesar, was ten feet high. * j The principal street of Rio Janeiro^ Brazil, 'is but thirty f^et wide, and no carriages are permittei to eater it. What is thought to be the largest flag j in tie United States floats over a factory in Chicopc?, Mass. It measures 41x71 feet. i t ! I Bakcrsfield, Cal., is to have a flour ing mill which will ba operated by water power derived from an irrigating canal. A Connecticut man has invented a machine which automatically feeds his chickens at night and morning.. It is run bv clock work. ** ' I L-ivi says of the native? of Brazil that they are subject to fewer diseases thai the Europeans, ani many reach an a^a of from 100 to 120 or even 140 years. A Portsmouth (N. H.) woman recently found a one cent p3ece io an which oue of her hens had laid, and later on the same hen laid an egg with a ten cent piece ia it. ? A tramp was arrested a few weeks ago in Parkersbnrg, XV. Va., who could by mean- of muscular contraction, to all appearances, slide his ribs around from place to placc in Iiis body and shift his heart about. Many Florida growers polish their oranges by passing them through patented brushing machines. The standard orange box measure* 12x12x27 inches. Strong Manilla paper is a favorUe sort -for tmcjjpfrng oranges. ' No animal has more than five toei, digits or claws to each foot or lin'>. The horse is one-toed, the ox tiro-topi, the rhinoceros is three- toe i, the hippo potamus is four- toe I and the jelephait aid hundrels of other animals are five toed. ^ J O l the disinterment recently of the reratias of Jam.*s CatrpTjell, who was buried in Riy County, Mo., thirteen years ago, it was found that his entire body was covere 1 with a luxuriant growth of glossy hair that filled all the vacant space in the coiiia. It is relate i that ivhcn a certain Chineso junk was attache! by a m&a-of-war, the cre.v threw cooaauts overboard into the sea and than jumped in among them. Nearly ali of the Ciinamen escape 1; for it was impossible to teil which were heads and which were nut4?. i ? The Japanese practice refine 1 cruelty to delight their palate?. They believe that the fish calle I the dii Is most de licious when eaten alive. An expert Japanese carver can dexterously re.71 >va five-sixth3 of the edible ur.tter from its bones without . touching" a vital p;rt. Daring this cruel operation the fish 13 kept alive by wet seaweed, which, beia\, place I over its gill?, enable? it to breathe. Oae of the greatest objection} to tho wooden du ne> commonly used iu tha rniuing districts of this country, and aioie lately for irrigations purpose?, is the alternate shrinking an t swelling of the wood, which causes warping and distortion. To avoid this galvanize 1 irou, the upper edge of which testified, is being used for flumes. Tnese mental flumes are nearly circular in section and are usually supported in cast iron brackets placed in timber supports. In Cape Colony, Svath A'rici, orange tree i on the estate of the late Mr. Ryk le Sueur, of Sea Point, were so badly in feite.i with and injure! bybuj* tint t ie owner cut the grov^do va to4he go in 1. As the sprouts gre.YJip the sous of Mr. le Sueur kept the fiugi off by liberal application, of waalu oil, an l no v th^ grove, which was far- famed ia Ctp3 Colony in forms: ti ne? for .its superior fruit, is once more heavily laden with luscious fruit. The sane ei:e!lent re?.nts hive followed the use of whale oil on ; lemon and naartje tree?. ? [ . 1 M Pcd^in^ Ballets. During a shooting match in presence of the Governor of Candahar the latter noticed to his astonishment that the heads sparrows were the favorite butt <>f the marksmen, who but seldom missed their aim. Whereupon he declared thac it was far more difficult to hit an egg. Sir Peter laughed at the supposi tion. but the Sirdar stood his ground and the matter was put to the test. Ac eg* ?w as suspended on a wsH and the soldiers fire i at it, but strange to say not one of them hit the egc. The Governor and his suit kept their countenances and excused the non-suc ccss of the firing party dn'the ground ol the difficulty of the thin:?. At last n ball happened to hit the thread to which the egg was fastened and it fell to the ground without breaking. Now the mystery was solved: the .cunning Afghan had used a blown egg, ;and tbe feather weight shell had been moved aside each time by the current of air in front of the ball and thu? e?capad being hit.? Taj' lische liuTt'hchau. The pioporhon of travelers killed in railroad accidents in the different conn tries is as follows: In France, cne to every 21,005.000; Englabd/one to evesy 21.000.000; Germany, cbe to every 000,000; Belgium, one to every 6,830, 0D0; "United States* one to e?ery 2, $00,000. EXPLOSIVES FOR THE NAVY. i . I ? ? !? j ' \ *"???? | i ; HOW THE AKHU MTCTION FOE OtTH WARSHIPS IS PEEP ABED. \ i v t ' : *? I ! Loading the 'Tanks" lor the Big Ten. j Inch Guus And the Eight-loch Rifles? Powder in Sack*. Inside the damp and gloomy casemates of the old water battery at Fort Wads worth a"force of experienced men has been kept hard at work the past few ifeeks preparing the animation for the wat ships fitting out at the various navy yards. These men are skilled in the handling oj explosives, and the officer in charge, Gunner John A. McDonald, has ' had long experience in this kind of work during the thirty years ho has been in the qaval service. i ? ? When a Recorder rej^rter killed upon -1 Hr. 3J[c Donald at the fort the officer had jast succeeded in getting the last of the Newark s ammunition transferred from the magazine down to the powder lijjht <r al the wharf. At the magazine the powder tanks or cases and the boxes of shell were loaded oa to a truck by a working party of thef blue jackets from the ship.! Arriving at the wharf th3 truck wai unloaded and the contents passed by pact of! jackets to others on the lighter, ?4fhefe it was carefully stowed below., A navj yard tug was lying at the wharf ready tq tow the lighter and its dangerous cargo up the bay- to where the Newark was anchored. oe> On eolering the fort one ascends <ev? eral flights of winding stone step3 bo $weea walls of gray stone and und<:r a stone ceiling. One could almost imagine himself in some historic fortress or prison fcullt during the medifeval ages. The very air smells of dafepness. The fort is shaped like the letter O and the in side is open and exposed to the elements. On the outside three rows of frowning gun ports face the Narrows, while the waters of the bay beat against the base of tbe raastive walls. The place has long been abandoned by the soldiers, who are now quarterel inside the big fortifications on the hill above. - On what corresponds to the third floor, one encounters long piles, of wooden boxes. These ore all empty, but when received here fro-ii Wilming-* ton, Del., they contained brown pris matic powder. Hundreds of tons have been used in the past four months. Tho. powder is manufactured according to! contract with the Navy Daparf mec.t by the Du Pont Mills on the Delaware. The powder tanks for the- ten-inch, guns of the new monitor Miantonomohj are cylindricQ^m.slmpe, the skltjs b3inb-, of copper and the ends of steel. Tliei tank is divided into two sections, each of which coataius a quantity of powder. MPwir of these sections, oc. solne 250 pounds, are used each time the gun is tired. The projectiles fired from the ten-inch guns weis>h over 503 puunis apiece. For the eight-inch rifle3 the tanks used, of course, are not so hrge, and the weight of the projectile is 250 pounds. Ouly a small quantity of this calibre h is been prepared at the fort, the only ship3 using them being the Baltimore, Chica-! i go, Atlanta and Boston; in all only twelve guas. Most of the work is for the six-inch , rides, with which every cruiser of our new navy is armed. Each ship has from one to twfW^of these, nnd the quantity of ammunition expended in >rget prac tice aod that needed by new ahips going into commission keeps the men at the magazine busy the year round, loading shell and weighing out powder. For this calibre the powder charges are of two kinds, the full weight being forty- six pounds, and what is called the reduced charge for use at target practice being thirty-three pounds. This powder is put into sacks ready for uso uad'iu closed in copper cylinders, which are then sealed to make them water tight. These cylinders are very easily stowed in a ship's magazines and being fitted-with rings at the ends, can readily' be hoisted to the guadecks when needed. The projectile maie for the six-inch guns weigh 107 pounds, and is of two kinds. The armor-piercing shell is longer and sharper pointe i than the common or iron kind, and the point is of heavy forged stee'. The burstiuj charge, Mhich i$ plarel inside, weighs several pounds, and is ignited by a timed fuse. A fixed ammunition for the rapid firing guns is also loaded here oinii ull j. this kind t lie projectile anl powdei charge are fixei together in the form'<>f a cartridge to expedite the loading ad;i firing of the gun*. T*ae projcctili weigh*1 | one, three or six pounds. The most' o '??thc ammunition for the Hotchkiss gun 1 ufgenerat use ia thy navy is furaishc now by the llotcukiss Company itielf, and is made in Connecticut. The car tridges are picked in specially designed boxes. Loading blank saluting charge for the guns of the secondary batterie of the ships ?ceps the men busy part o' the Time, but this work .h* be done on | shipboard. Then the old style somth i bore gun?, such as are ia use on the Lin | caster. Peasacola, Kearsarge and a few : other of the remaining relics of ou "woodejj w:\lls," raa'se a de:niad for an j other form of projectile an 1 size of pon der charge. ? The gunner and his assistants at Fjrt i Wads worth do not manufacture any or the powders, forge any of the shells or make any of the po.v.ler tar.!-? in I fu;es, but the work >f putting them together keeps them busily employe I. ilandlin ; powder may be a dangerous occupation," but great cire is exercise 1 thero and Ttr is not often that nn accident of any kin 1| | is reported. ? JV?c Ton Rtzn-der, The Coming B^yal "Wedding. London. [Cablegram.]? The Duke of Cambridge is credited with endowing the Princess Victoria Mary with ?5, (GO yearly. It has be?n decide^ that tfie dresses to be worn -by the bridamaids >f the Princess will be of white and silver; tr'ramed tyith 3(Iay bloom. They will ?.?ear wreathe.", but their toilettes w If "tave no tra ns. The corporation of the ;.ity of London will present the Pf incest tvith a Mirer dinner service nnd a dia nood necklace, ?nd the Duke of Buc ; oiuugh will. give her a diamond brae let. j Members of the nobility ar$ vicing with each other ia the costliness of their gVft3 I c? jewelry and pl#te to :be youcgoouofle. 1;;L -f An Ahjfn Ptt?fktp. i Through their many biologifta! pecu liarities the family of the pompion has become known jto everybody. Cucum bers, melons and pumpkins belong to | the heaviest fruit* and yet they grow on | a very slender stalky But as a proUc ! '.ion against being torn by &e weight of fhe fruit the trnnk o< the plant either creeps along the grounder winda^afound other plants Or props tl$t happen in its ! w. Bearing this fict iar^mind, it is ail more surprisi^to know that ampng this genius of joints a specimen is found that deviates p^om the rule of beijag a creeper and fpow* like a tree. The home of the Qendrosicccjos is in the Dark Continent, ajld this is undoubt ecttjr the reason wht we have not been : made acquainted with it earlier. [ It grows <>a the fal&qd^of Socotra, where the plant is known by^the name of gam* hen. WeltStedt, who ^isited tbe island in 1834^ was th|e first tb mention it in; his "Mem<rfrsHon the Islqpd of Socotra.;,? In ISSflj Socotra was trained by Bailey Balfour; the Well-known botanist, and he described two kinds of gamhen. In THE eVUi'KTJi OF ROCOTR.A. the following year Profesfor Schwein furth made a trip from Cairo to Socotrst and to him we are indebted for the firs, pictorial view of the plant. The trunk is kooll-shaped and grows about four teen fret high, with a diameter of from three to six feet, ^he ripd is white as chalk apd perfectly smooth, and the clumsy trunks among the green shrub bery look more like msrble columns than anything else. Neai Tamarind, the largest village on the northern coast of Socotra, these plants grow in such large numbers that one's imagination need not stretch very greatly in-, comparing "the forest hills of Socotra with a graveyard full of marble mouuments." These plants attain a venerable age; J\Lellstedt .reports haviag found at Kad .kutynot far from Tamarid, in Jthe bark of n gamhen trunk an Arabian inscrip tion bearing the date 1640. The fact that this inscription has remained intact so long also demonstrates that the gam hcu does not shed its fcrk like our trees by the formation of safes. The wood is not solid and compact like that of the trees we know, but full of sap aud cuts like a turnip. A pen knife is sufficient to cut a stairway into the trunk of a gamhen, over which the flowers on the top c#n be reached. Aside from its tree shape the gamhen resembles the pompion in every detail, so lar as ;he formation of flowers, letves and roots is concerned. ? New York Re corder. s A JiemarkaUle Career. Robert Harvey, of England, is quite a remarkable man. One of thirtcau chil dren of an a&sisstant overseer of Truro, he started l;fe in au eagiuearing firm at thirty-five cents a week, and when he ! came of age was earning $i. A little tinn after, his firm built some uichmery f<jr South America, and young Harvey tODk 10 much interest in its conduction chat he attracted the attentiou-of the ova?rs, who took him out to superintend the fitting-up,uuder a three-years' agreement, at one hundred and fifty dollars a month salary. At the $id of this term he pickedj up bis traps and made for Peru, whert be cast about for a job, and got one al two hundred dollars a month.' Thcc came the "discovery" of the nitrat? fields, and young Harvey showed bii spirit by seeking aud obtaining the p03i- { tion of inspector-general of the nitrate fields for the Government of Peru, at-*i ^salary of fifteen thousand dollars a year. Then came the war. i He was taken pris oner, put on board one of the Cniliaa ironclads, and condemned to death ? no one knows what for. This did not prove a very great obstacle to Robert, for he argued th* Chilian Govern meni into be lie^ing him invaluable in the workiug ol the "fields," and they straightway par doned him aud installed him in hi* former position, under the new Govern ment, at an increased salary of twenty : five thousand dollars a year. Eatet j Colonel North, sent over by Fowler, of Leeds, to fit up engines. North atrf Harvey join forces, discover other nitrate fields unknown to the Peruvians and un captured by the Chilians, start large ni trate and iodine works, and prosper. Re turn to England, float their companie for the procuring and working, cto., o: . the Chilian properties,, become million aires, and, in Robert Harvey's case, pur chase a Huinptui?u3 mansion at Palac Gate, and "I)undridge,r in South Devon become a Justice of the Peace Jk*'* County, n Deputy-Lieutenant for of London, and an aspirant !or fame. Robert Harvey, in aUj^^^HB : mercial transacts*, 4 I the rivets 11 complished n .{jj children. ? Yankee B'a | A Nctt WaytoSwi Aa Eaglishrnaa has iarl to facilitate the operation of He attaches to a glass a snwil ! aa which rests th'j pill, aa.d ! jlass is tilted for war! the lic| ; dowa the pill. Just why ^ is an j easier than the old fasbioaed way of first puling the pill iu the mouth and tfcen taking a swallow of water the iuv^g ..fordoes aot think it neces3ir.7 to state, pbut I ,suppo3C he ^oe< oa ths sa-ne ciple the ingenious Frenchman did when i he "diseorered" a new insect poirfier. ! II?s modus operandi was to first citcbf his j flea aid then to a uninistcr to each a flose of his powder, which was warranted to | kill withous loss of tine. ? JVirv York l Journal. J i ?I, u r*. ; , ? : ? ; ' ? -? ! I i _? >' :r ,.V WAYS OP THE MPSKRAT. \ j ? Hr ' - THE IilTTLl ANIXAL THAT XI FDX7HD BVUBYWKEBE. ' j : ? "I Wiatwi jbom? of the Mmici^t-Iu ' Food? Trapping the Uaiknt for Its Far? The Best Trap. Of all oar wild fur-beari?g animals, the miisjkrAt seems to kold iu ground best agt^o^ adr.ioang cirilixitioa. It is to be 1 found ererywhere in North Americ^, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, nod fro the Rio Grande to the Barren Ground ?, swelling the animal kingdom by manfr millions. Bat Its pi^ence in many p laces k unsuspected by themijor ity of persons, sad Um m mStjf " with its habits; [ and appearance the mutkrat re .. an undersized bearerJ It 5s I wo feet in length, including the ' *i, like the bearer's, is fattened . illy, not horitcntally. In coloi; rk brown, occasionally almost black kbore and lighter' bcneatl The breeding season is in J April, sind thevoung appear in July. It has been seated thkt ' raises moro than one litter a On tb ? 29th of June last I pushed a skiff up a i haHow tidal crpakin the District of Cp nmhia, and discovered a 'breeding; nest < f tnerauikrat. Built oajthe bank' just-s bore high tide, it was composed of drift nibb$s|t, mixed with freshly cut grass and ^ticks: and lamps of i|iQd. The pares t rats bad found s cotton tobacco sack,; and built this iirit with 'the other debri^. I V }? ? , Carefully remorih^tne material orer the centre of the nest to a depth of six inchep, the young rati were to; be seen. They] were four in number, blind, nearly bairlta. and evidently only a ifew days old. ! The nest in which th#y lay was mad^of dry grass, a foot in diameter, well hollowed out ; From this centra three passages led outjOns Was risible in th 3 side of the creek bank at low wate (, and the othprt went t4 compose the i etwork of holes with which the bank wm ioney combed. During iay eiamt nati< n an occasional muffled splash in thesi : subterranean channels tfld of the aniiimi mother's presence. Though the | disturbed mfterial was carefully replaced, tB^naoUMir rat f bad made exte asire repairs be! ore mj next risit a vreec later, when, to ay disappointment, I procured only the empty nest. The youbg had doubtless been led away on my {approach. 4s cold weather approaches, tho musk rat, if in a favorable locality, builds a winter bom*. This ia usually located ia a c&arsh, and contains fully a cariload of material, principally rushes, and stickr. The inside chamber, ab4ut the size of a bushel basket, has a plaitforra raised just above the water, intb which the rats piling* at any dis turbance fw>m without. Usually there' are two orlhore holes under the surface of the water, which job befcre they enter the interior. In maoy places, however, the rats seen to, live in their burrows in the banks the^fear round. The food of the rauskratts principally grilses and roots, varied with fresh-' water mussels in cold breather, when other food is difficult to procure. They dejftly oj>tn these mussals, but how they( do it wa mystery to me, although I have seen them perform the feat a number of tidies. Some of their tastes brings them infto conflict with the farmer, whose /m/eadows they also undermine. Green corq is frequently cat by them for the ^ j^icy stalk, and in the autumn I have Vtfen several bushels of eir corn piled in deep water for future use. They also make themselves obnoxious to millers and canal companies, because of the frequent apd destructive leaks in the banks oc casioned by their borrowing habits. Although they are poisoned aad iipped by persons with whose business ' ey interfere, aad are de3ttoyed by hawks, owls, foxe3, and minks, their principal enemy is the pelt-hunter or professional fur-gatherer. The muskrat's Skin "is hia worst enemy.1' About 4,' 000,000 of these skins are taken annually on this continent. The akin is used in a variety of way3. Sometime?, when plucked aad dyed, it initiates the costly sea!, but it is oftener used In its natural state f<* mu tfrycaps and clothing. The :muskrat's prelude breeding ha3 so far preserved it lrointh^^?tR of its cousin, ttie baajer, aad unless some great change takes place, it3 extinction is . many years off. It Is usually the ftrit victim ot the amateur fur trappe't, anl it? skin ia found iu the pac? of\neatly every tiaveling buyer. Ia the Eait*tru States the muskrat is found mo3t abundantly in the rnar3he3 of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Vir ginia; and here thrive the professional "ratter?," as they are called. From the 15th of NiKembec until the same time in April, thes^jnen reap their furry har vest. Some ra& are taken by shotting by moonlight or jack-light, and atso by spearing when the marshes are fr >z^a. methods, however, damage the skins', \and the great majority are trapped. The steH trap H used with success every where but>*a the tidal marshes, where another trap more destructive is employ, ed. This is nothing m >re than a leugth of stovepipe or a wooden box of tii? same size, with a wire gi'e in each end, which yields to pressure frotn the out* side, but which th? r it's efforts to escape on'v serve to clo^e the tighter. At low ti le ths "raHpr" sets these trais in the hole ("leal" is the professional terra), ^and^st low tide next clay he visits the u. as six rats have b-?? > in these simple traps ia a single *t, and, of course, urowuel by the T,>. The mos? common method in trapping Eh c:n is to set a No. 0 or 1 steel trap at ??oaje place along a stream where the rat I lands t > feed. The trap must be ar ! .ranged to :hrow thy trapped animal into deep water and drowu it, or, on the . approacif of daylight and its accompany ing dangers, it will amputate its foot and [ ao escape. Many three-legged rats are taken in the trap-. These traps are lt2ht and cheap, aad one mac can >?>r.t?e times set and tend 150 of them. The meat or the musk rat is sometimes u->? i as iood, but principally by Indians. ? -Ytfir York-Prcu. .? j. Em j eror Wilheim s latest project 3? ?or a grand CKtlierlnl in Berlin to cost ?5:500.000. It is to b? fc-r the State Jt'igiou. He is also bent cu establish* ic2 an "imnenal cooking school. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRUl u j . - ? 1 ! 11 ? | j I Tbe hearieit guaV made for tbe i try ire tw^re-inch, f<kij-flve-toa brettb* loaders. ^ ^ M T\ For^juch * small country, Belgium hasjr . made great progress fie! the | adoj tioa of electric lights. |\ |j' % Illuminated walking sticks are au^ong the latest applications t of electricyi. A small iocande6ccnt lamp. is^conoealt d la the head. [ Hi**!, the magoitaenfc star t>f tb< first magnitude in tbe constellation ot C rion, , ? has j-ecentl y been discovered by asi oiior men to be oaeof the n^st distant starii | in the celestial Vault.' A new invention is an elastic r lbber ? cushion for tfr'toikj .. al&tfce the j special j object being relief to thesewfco are stand all day oo wooden or ecmrbls The new Italian rifle i* a is will penetrate planks five I at a distance of 4000 feet :JjA smc powder is used tviih it, thus i the soldier to carry 'greater cartridges. Miss Annie L Oppenheim has bet* , Awarded the diploma the British Phrenological Association . "honoris caufa,' in recognition of her studios of th i aaat omy of the brain and her inte-eat in, phrenology. . . . Ac Russian electrician has ii rented a process of etching on metal' by meant - of electricity, thy?hy diapensio ; with * use of acidajor this purpose. Th iatqgw is first {raosfered to tbe plate bj photo graphic methods. The method of determining speojflq heats by the use of Joale'i law ii only been spccessful in liquids wW h Were |. good conductors. A j new> met 10I hat been adopted foe such measure neat ! m means of a glass spiral flBed wi ;h mec cury j; ? i ;\' h" An automatic [ new fuse whe introduced by" rotating drum.' its surface is so around > and insert burn-out occurs. . A maritime laboratory of bt xoology will be opened next gea, Norway. , Situated in where the marline fauna is ps rich and interesting; it j is d? rendered great service; to set has been decided to allow the the establishment to foreign A new life?belt!hay: fceen iatentel Ut , ia Germsoy. It is la tfio ordihar y form, ; bat is made from reindeer h^r COVtrtdt with canvas^ and It much the belt of cork, Jts Weight pounds, while it *111 support pounds of ironin Che water. is noty affected by prolonged kmi A oflw idea to give an ordlnt tbe appearance of a| parquetry) cover the floor witu wall-pap ?r, forming a design representing woo< parquetry. This is afterward tarnished a id ttto fi<?or will then so closely resemble ola{4 wood that only a connoijUQur wilf detect tbr difference. An oriental rug threw ia the centcr of the door will cpmplfcte the floor decoration. The magaiflbent glacial scratches and grooving in the limestone fat ^Celley'a Island, nxir Ssndusky, Oicioj have beea ' preserved from destruction ajrl perpetu ally dedicated to the public jby the or-!f poration owning the quitry. These > markings are unique of thei^ kind, and the finest itv^fro worldSfbnl their de struction would have been ai irreparable loss to geological icience. J In the neighborhood of Sbhaifnauien*.|j Close by the three rocks ^now as the : j "Schwceersbild," Dr. Uucich has dti* . ] covered an extensive human settlement j belonging to the S&one Ag*. It.isina, rocky niche about thirteen metres "high and thirty-seven metres loig, and is the T first of that period whichjhaa been dis hoovered in Switzerland and/which is uot t Id connection wijh.ai civernf ' Dr. Mitchetlich fhai invented a made from the- fibers of jwooi. Ttiin boards; with the knots taken out, are i , treated with a solution of ^ilphuric acid - in a hollow boiler. Not jonly the hard mittor, which il-tbexausc bf the brittle* ness of wood filers, is eliminated bf ttm treatment, but .'the fiber i(selt it chemi-" cally transformed. It is bleached, and becomes silky as well as strcjng and elastic.' It is then treated in the iame manner at - any other goods/ that is, combined, sphq, and finally woven into stu(|? of exceeding; fineness aud different varieties. It is put srouad around the fide. A Shrewd Trick or Letter Thieves, j Do you see this letter, torn here in the middle of this side? Wnat do you sup pose did it? Done by the string that is used to tie up the bundle of letters Lnthk mail bag? That is what i Iraost every o* thinks, but it isu't the fhct. It is 'done bv poitoffice thieve j. I got that straight from the postmaster of u Urge ciry not very far from j here. It is; t shrewd tiick to deceive the man who re ceives the letter. ll&tiows that after the letters have be&t Collected at the office they are put thnjtfeh the stamping machine, which tanceU the stamp and prints the iK)stmark at :ho same time. Then they arc sorted ofot according to their destination, and a l these going to the same place are tied jp in one bundle. Tli try have a pccullai way ' of tying them, used | at all postolice*. They" u?f ratber tine. string, and the bundfe twice, once and once around the cad. Toe letters are not all of tike isamc size. Sxne arf longer than 'other*, and some ar* i'j square errrelopfa, whilf others are i& thai old-fashioned Idng envelopes. Thii be* ing so, it follow* that if tbe string it tight, as it in<|tt be to h->ld the fcttfts together, some! of tbe larger let ten will be cut 0*1 thu bide or eid by th* string. The jwstofiioj tacives know thi* as well a* auy one so when they wish to bnd out :f tiieie is acv money ia an envelope tjey nimj^y tear i. a lit ie or. the side or "the jmi. Alm^t a iv postmaster considers if a favor if n mi n Citing such i letter fill tike it to him. They always rn*ke nri endeavor to Iraoat stich letters, Hud thenj wa?.ch if other let tors come over the sitn* route are torn in the same way. V ia ctn usually tell whether the letter vvajs renlly torn by th?? ?t ri n or by iittndj ?<ir the ftrmij will wear aa-l friy the ejgeJ before it cut* into th* letter itscifj? GM* /.y i