The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, April 26, 1882, Image 1
WEEKLY EDITION. WIXySBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APEIL 26, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844.
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Longfellow.
S^i- (Dead, March 21, 1882..
^ klcue, at night, he heard them sigh?
These wild March winds that beat his tomb?
L Alone, at night, from those that die,
s? He sought one ray, to light his gloom.
v And still he heard the night-winds moan,
Rfl And still the mystery closed him round,
rfiimrstiu tne darisness, cold and Ions,
Sent forth no ray, returned no sound.
But Time at last the answer brings,
And he, past all oar suns and snows,
At rest with peasants and with kings,
Like them the wondrous secret knows.
Alone, at night, we hear them sigh?
Those wild March winds that stir his paL;
And, helpless, wandering, lost, we cry
To his dim ghost, to ted us all.
He loved us, while he lingered here;
We loved him?never love more true !
He will not leave, in doubt and fear,
The human grief that once he knew.
For never yet was born the day,
When, faint of heart and weak of limb,
| One suffering creature turned away,
Unhelped, uasoothed, uncheered br him!
Bat still through darkness, dense and bleak,
The winds of March moan -wildly round,
And still we feel that all we seek
Ends in that sigh of vacant sound.
He cannot tell us?none can tell
What waits behind the mystic veil!
!Yet he who lived and died so well,
In that, perchance, has told the tale.
Not to the wastes of Nature drift Else
were this world an evil dream?
The crown and soul of Nature's gi:t.
By Avon or by Charles* stream.
His heart was pure, his purpose high,
His thought serene, his patience vast;
He put all strifes of passion by,
And lived to God, from first to last.
B|^H^^ethe pine tree's sigh,
PKg!
HRnng skies!
HPof spring
Mkto he lies;
Bffir purple flood,
myrtle shall sot lack,
the summer's blood,
HSes that he loved come back.
MBralliha* Nature gives of light,
To rift the gloom and point the -way,
Shsll sweetly pierce our mortal night,
And symbol his immortal day!
? William Winter.
\ A Dangerous Game.
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Kttvj5":.
It lias passed into a truism that it is
a dangerous thing to play with fire, and
Mrs. Richmond found it so, to her cost,
during the summer she spent at the
p Dovecote. Mr. Richmond had been a
model lover at the time of their marriage,
but, like many another, possession
had made him secure, and by al?
' most imperceptible degrees he had
abandoned those tender acts and assur- i
V ances which are the staff of life to some
k women, witnout 'which, existence is not
to be tolerated. He was neither nnlrmfl j
nor unmindful, but he was absorbed^.
?taad-baay^irg-tLxI a thuc&aml Ml&wggsTj
W on foot, and having married her for <
love, he took it for granted that she ]
knew the fact too well to doubt it or to
need to hear it repeated daily, not aware ;
k that there are some women who live in j
ft fear lest " love died in the last expres- <
Bion." He no longer told her she was ,
. the prettiest woman in the world, al- (
* though h<* still believed it j nor begged
her to wear his favorite flower; nor ;
chose her colors; in fact, he omitted
any comments on her appearance; she
was the same heroine to Him whether in :
velvet or homespun, whether rosy with j
vnnth or eshpn-hnftd with as?a. "FTa
rarely had time to go oit with her now
adays, and she missbd the attentions,
, the endearments, the flatteries, which ;
had sweetened her daily life, and began ;
& to question if he had outgrown her and
his love; if she had " gone off" in her
personal appearance; if her mind had
I gathered rust while his was sharpened
and brightened by friction with men
and affairs.
kShe began to tremble for her happiness,
to devise means for improving herself,
for preserving youth, or its semblance
; she once even went so far as to
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ILLJf a X1UUJ.O i-UUXC UU UC1 ttiiU WM
rewarded by Mr. Richmond asking if
she were ill. " You looked flushed," he
said, " and a high coJor doesn't become
L your style." She threw the rouge away,
and studied her style. She read tedious
books of travel, philosophy, and science,
that she might develop some mental
charm to hold him; she almost wished
she might have some serious illness,
something to startle him out of his inLj
difference. Of course Mr. Richmond
f never dreamed ot this silent tragedy go^
' ing on at his fireside?that fireside
which seemed to him like a little heaven
on earth?and when business obliged
to run over to London for some
months, and it was proposed that she
Pshould take rooms at the Dovecote, "by
the margen of the sea," it was the last
stew. "He would carry me abroad
pith him. if he still cared for me," she
thought, not understanding, with
'womanly lack of logic, that he was " not
oh pleasure bent," and would have no
spare moments for picture-gallery or
drawing-room. "Have I lost all afc
traction," she asked herself, " or was it
ha mistake to suppose I had any, a mistake
which ^he has been finding out ?
w ~ Would he fall in love with me, I wonder,
if we were both single ? Would anybody
T If she could only make him a
trifle jealous?ah! that was the touchstone
of love!
tha omoofa n.f. fit a voro all
k ladies, married and single, with the exE-**
ception of Roger Laurence, who had
comedown to fill his sketch-book, shoot
birds, and do a little loitering in a quiet
nook, he said. The time hung heavily
on Mrs. Richmond's hands; perhaps
she signified as much; perhaps Mr.
? Laurence divined it. "Do you row,
Mrs. Richmond?" he asked one day.
"No; Mr.Richmond wasalway going
to teach me when I was first married,
but he never had time." She spoke in
fVta cod imr>orfA/?f; f-onco " on<1 ci
without knowing it. " Let me teach
^von1^he begged; and so it happened
B that iHeother inmates of the Dovecote
used to laugh and call. Mrs. Richmond
the water-nymph and Mr. Laurence the
river-god. In accepting the invitation
Mrs. Richmond had no other thought
than to please her husband with a new
It > accomplishment on his return, hoping
that together they might explore all
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ice sinuous windings 01 ice river, aim
renew their days of love-ma's rag. The
idea of showing him that another man
valued her companionship, found a
spell in her society which he had overlooked,
arrived later. She had not
|. counted upon finding any pleasure in
||| x the presence of Mr. Laurence or his illy
concealed admiration. He was simply
a young mac who was inclined to be
obliging and courteous. But presently
oh A waft !rvVbinT frtfKaoo orrf*T\! _
sions, presently detected thci, the fact
of Mr. Laurence preferring hei compan[ w
ionship, when there were yonth and
'beauty to choose from, lent her a subtle
sense of power, restored the self-confi|f
dence she had lost, gave her a delicious
? :. sort of surprise, such as a girl who had
fel always believed herself plain might ex
! perience if some one should own she
j was bewitching.
Mrs. Richmond would have been wise
had she recognized the dangers of the
situation and avoided them. But who
of us is wise in season? In ihe first
place, she had committed herself to
these pleasuring, so to epeak ; it would
be embarrassing to withdraw, would
IrwlV OR if cVia Trsra nrn/^ioTi on/1 r-oiri T>o<3
| taken the affair au serieuz. At tho f,ame
time, she was grateful to him for convincing
her that her power to please
had not deserted her, and her long-repressed
vanity asserted itself. This delicious
flattery was too pleasant to be
given up all at once?to-morrow, maybe
; bat, to paraphrase an old poet,
" to-day itself s too late ;
The wise denied themselves yesterday."
She satisfied her conscience, however,
by sending Mr. Richmond a faithful account
of their comings and goiogs, although,
with the best intentions in the
world, she naturally omitted something,
since there are a hundred delicate
shades of intonation and expression in
the daily intercourse of two people
which no letter can transcribe. If the
season had not been so fine, and the
scenery so enticing, Mrs. Richmond
would have wearied, perhaps, of rocking
forever on the tide by sunset, by moonrise,
of anchoring in some silent cove
where the wild flowers looked at their
~i. i?
in mo waici, wjuure cue otaro lay
like jewels, while Mr. Laurence lighted
his meerschaum, ana confided his loftiest
aspirations, his doubts, his beliefs
?it is so sweet to be confided in, so 1
flattering! To have heard him, one
would naturally suppose that Mrs. Rich- 1
mond was commissioned to write his
biography.
It must be confessed that there were :
times when his egotism rather bored J
her ; but when she hesitated about continuing
their recreations, a word to the
effect that no one else sympathized with
his moods, shared his sentiments, understood
him, carried the day.
Slipping home on the tide to the
l)ovecote landing one night, so dark
xhey could hardly see each other's faces,
after a silence in which they listened to
the whippoorwill's lonesome tune, the
soft sighing of the water washing against
the shore, he learned toward her, and
said, slowly:
" Do you know, I should like to drift
on so forever?with you. I love you."
At that instant it seemed to Mrs. Kichmond
as if the heavens had roiled together
like a scroll. She felt stunned
and faint. "?tow ash ore, Mr. .Laurence, 1
she gasped, but there was command in 3
her whisper. " I have been to blame.
I have been blind, but I love my hus- ?
band." I
Not a word was spoken as they shot through
the darkness of the landing. 1
Then, as he assisted her over the slip- T
pery stairs, "I thought," he said?"I *
thought you were a widow." 1
But Mrs. Richmond's cup was not yet *
L-4 rt* V>n l^rt /-* /~i?vi 1 /\ir> T
1uu. hci jll vav/xa ytad uuu wwulcbp
till she read the letter which arrived for
her a few days later.
"You are a cruel, wicked woman,
Mrs. Richmond" (it said) " Roger Laurence
was ray own, my lover, my all;
and you, you false wife," you have stolen
his heart a^ay from me?not because
you needed it?merely to gratify a relentless
varity. Waste makes want;
may you live to want such love as this
of which you have defrauded
" EBNTESTEvE SATKK.:}
The same mail brought a line, also,
!rom across she sea.
'i iilluu '
ihat young Mr. Laurence has been derotincr
hims elf to vou, to the grief of
his fiancce" (wrote Mr. Richmond). 1
'"'While I do not doubt yon, my darling ^
Rose, I begin to see that yon may have
felt the lack of attentions which a Ben- s
edict is so apt to omit or neglect, and I '(
shall take passage in the Comet, a month 1
earlier than I intended, in order to let *
the slanderous understand that you <
have a lover in ycur husband, 1
" John* Eicmiom" '
It was the next week that Mrs. Rich- '
mond went to town to see about open- '
Lng her houfe. It would seem like their J
honeymoon oyer again?no more mis- ?
cmderstandmgs, no more separation. ]
As she stepped npon the pavement the J
newsboys were crying themselves *
hoarse.
" What dc they say ?" she asked of a 3
passer?" wl&t do they say ?" ?
"Wreck of an ocean steamer, the '
Comit" <
After all, Roger Laurence was not
mistaken: iErs. Richmond must have
been a widow on that dark night before
he left the Dovecote.?Bazar. j
A Rogue's Device.
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A few davfi after the funeral a JNew i
York under ;aker met a wealthy n an ,
whose de.ugtter he had bnrled. ' 'I was ,
sorry and surprised on hearing of your !
embarrassment the other day, and I !
hope the money was enough to relieve :
you," said the old gentleman. "Money! :
embarrassed! relieve me," gasped the .
undertaker. " I haven't asked yon for '
any money, and didn't intend to for ,
some time." The gentleman, nettled,
tartly replied: "lou cmnnea me ior tae
expenses of my daughter's f aneral within
three days, and I paid the bill." "I
dunned yon! I never asked yon for a j
cent," exclaimed the undertaker. "Was
it a young man?" he continued.
"Yes," said the old gentleman,
"your son; and he said /ou wanted the
money immediately." " A few days
after the fnneral;" said the undertaker,
" a well-dressad young man came to my
store, representing himself as the betrothed
lever of your daughter, whom
he was to have married in a few days.
He wished, as a token of his affection
for her, to pay her funeral expenses.
I refused at first, telling him that her
family would not permit it. Bat he
urged it so strenuously that I finally
consented, and made out the bill. He
took it, and said that he would go down
to iiis father's office and make onS the
check. I have not heard or seen anything
of him since." And now the
question is, who will have to pay for
the little job which that very smart
x *1
young man put up uu mcao wuiouy
people?th9 father or the undertaker??
Detroit Free Press.
The Reason Snakes are Lonsr.
' Do yon see that fellow np there?"
said Mr. Rivers, pointing to a huge red
snake,some ten feet long and twoinches
thick, of the kind known as the gopher
snake. "I'd rather have thaL. fellow on
my farm?if I had a farm?than ten dollars.
Yoa would be astonished at the
amount of vermin of all kinds, they can
get away \mh?gophers, rabbits, squirrels,
birds?anything in fact, that he is
Dig enougu xo get mmseu outsiue 01,
J and that means a good deal, although
yon might not think it to look at him.
Ton are aware, I suppose,of the peculiar
construction of the lower jaw. It can be
unhinged, so to speak, ?nd then the
snake is nothing more than a long sack
with the mouth open. I have matched
one of them stow away a squirrel?long
tail and all?without making any bones
about it. He commenced at this head
anl slowly drew the squirrel in bit by
bit, his teeth and jaws working on the
animal somewhat as a man draws in a
rope hand over hand. Finally the body
was safely housed and then only the tail
remained; that slipped down in the
twinkling of an eye. I never realized
till then why snakes were made so long
-it is to make room for the inconvenient
i tails of other animals predestined to be
snake meat. In an improved state of
i existence, when the tails have beer, evoI
lutionized off the backs of the other ani
mals,probably snakes will be cut shorter.
A NIHILIST'S EXECUTION.
How Lfeatcnant SoukanoH Was Shot In the
Cronstadt Barracks.
Lieutenant Soukanoff, the Nihilist,
was shot at Cronstadt, Prussia. He
had written to the czar saving that
he would rather die than eridare the
life of a convict. He only begged that
he might be spared the shame of dj'ing
at the hands of the haDgman and be
allowed to fall like a soldier. His request
was granted. On a Thursday
evening he was told to prepare for execntioH.
He answered simply, "It is
well; I am ready." At 5 next morning
he left the fortress of St. Peter and
St. Panl whither he had been transported
after the trial with the nine
other Nihilists sentenced to death with
him and since reprieved. The day was
just dawning as he crossed the Neva ia
a closed ambulance carriage on his way
to the Peterhoff station, escorted by
tnree gensaarmes. irmng tne journey
he maintained absolute silence. He was
dressed in a prisoner's suit, wearing
gray trousers and jacket and a cap with
a sort of peak at the back, covering his
neck. A rough coat was thrown over
his shonlders. The city was quite
hushed at this early hour of the morning
and SoukanofPs passage was not remarked.
At the station a train composed
of two first class and two second
class carnages was waiting. Tne prisoner
got into a 3econd class carriage
with the gensdarmes. Major General
Jomaroff, chief of the gensdarmes brigade,
and several other officers or soldiers,
entered the other carriages, and
the train started cm its dismal journey.
At ten minutes past 7 the train
reached Orianenbaum, where the party
Edighted and walked a few hundred
steps, starting from the steamboat pier, j
where two small s teamboats were waiting
to take them across the ice incumbered
river. In half an hour they
reached the custom house on the other
3ide. Soukanoff still made no sign,
ill was silent and the scene was very
3olemn. The sun began to rise over the
iistant Baltic. The gensdarmes gave
jrenerai J omaron a receipt ior me prisoner
and the general's mission terminated.
The deacon of Cronstadt
jhnrch was awaiting the prisoner on the
landing stage. Soukanoff, the priest
md two gensdarmes got into another
imbulance carriage and drove off, esjorted
by the rest of the gensdarmes.
it a quarter to 9 fchey arrived at the
"ortress barracks and were greeted by a
!oud flourish of trumpets.
An enormous crowd had collected to
;ee the execution. The roofs and ramDarts
were black with human beings.
Che military element, however, was
predominant. The place oE execution
yas occupied by detachments of naval
'orces, before whom the prisoner walked
with hands unfettered, accompanied by
;he priest. The attitude of the troops
vas respectful. Solemn silence prevailed.
The prisoner halted at a few
Daces distance from the black post to
vhich he was to be fastened and awaited
he platoon told off for the execution.
[t consisted of two non-commissioned
officers and ten marines. Behind these
vere stationed another marine and a
ion-commissioned office, who were to
rive the coup de grace should the first
uscnarge not iiii tne prisoner instantaneously.
_ Behind these again were
hree soldiers to receive the body, and
>ne non-commissionel officer, who was
rare also on the ground. The reading
if the sentence occupied twenty
ninutes. The priest was praying the
phole time.
When the reading was over Soukanoff
aid to the priest that he implored
Sod's pardon for his sins and twice deroucly
kissed the Bible and crucifix
:endered him. The priest then witnIrew.
The prisoner was bound to the
>ost. His eves were bandaged and a
sort of white chemise was thrown over
lim. Soukanoff calmly said, "Kaise
;he bandage; I can see." The twelve
nen then silently leveled their pieces
it him. The officer dropped a handkerchief
and twelve sharp reports followed
together and the unhappy man
ell. He was killed instantaneously.
Fhe body was thrown into a shallow
grave, dug in advance. The trumpets
sounded and the troops filed off to
;heir quarters, while the crowd quietly
Jispersed.
United States Gold Coins.
A 'perfect list of rare coins is almost
impossible to obtain, as there are quite
i number of coins which are considered
valuable by some collectors which
athers would not buy at a premium.
The following prices prill be paid by
any numismatic on receipt of coins in
good condition, and any other dates cannot
be relied on: The twenty-dollar
piece or donble eagle of 1849 is the
rarest coin of all. and is quoted at $500,
but as there seems to be only one in existence,
there is not much of a chance
fco speculate in this matter. Next
come ' he ten dollars or eagle,that of 1797
(small ea^'e), 1802, and 1838, SIX 50;
those of : 7^5, 1796,1797,1798, 1799,
1800,1801,. -03,1804, $10.50. Five-dolLar
pieces of a certain kind dated 1801,
S7.50; 1795, large eagle, 1798, small,
each, $6; 1795, 1800, 1802, 1803, 1804,
1805, 1806 (six small eagles), 1796,
1797, 1798, 1799 (large eagle), 1807,
1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, |
1814, each, $5.25. The five-dollar
piece of 1815 is worth 825 to any collector;
that of 1818 $5.25; those of
1819, 1820, 1821, $5.50; 1822, $6 50;
L-l 1QOQ -IQCM 1QQ" 189fi 1ft97
b.LLUS'O UX Jaw?
command a preminm; that o? 1828 is
worth $7; 1829, 1830, 1831,1832, 1833,
1S34, are worth $5.20, but must have
eagle holding two ariows in a certain
position, with " E Pluribus
Unum" in a quarter circle above the
eagle's head. The three-dollar pieces
of 1873 and 3878 are woith ?3.25 each,
and the three-dollar pieces of 1875
$3 50. The two and a half pieces of
1300 and 1801 are worth $4 each; the
? - -r irro? e+?ve\ ia of ?3 5ft
and 1796 (without stars) at S3.25; tk9
dates of 1804, 1805, 18U6, 1807, 1808,
1810 are valued at S3 each; those of
1821, 1824, 1825,1826, 1327,1829,1830,
1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 command about
ten cents premium. The one-dollar
(;?oId) pieces of 1872 are valued at
31.15, and that of 1875 $2.
Forestry in France.
One sixth of France, including Corsica,
is tinder wood, bnt notwithstanding
this an immense amount of timber
is annually imported into the conntry
trom the United State3 and the north
of Europe. In 1820 the Nancy School
of Forestry was instituted, and a new
code of laws was adopted in 1827. The
fact has of late years been recognized
that the floods which have proved so
terribly destructive in France have
been largely dne to the absence of trees
en mountain sides. A forest acts both
mechanically and and hydrographically;
in the former case by preventing any
large body of water from collecting,
and as a sort of permanent floodgate ;
in the latter by the trees themselves
absorbine a vast deal of moisture.
lhe professing Christians of Calcutta
number 30,400. Of these 11,095 ar<
Roman Catholics, 8,763 belong to th*
church of England, and 1,869 to th<
church of Scotland. The rest ar<
divided among numerous denomina
tions.
Baldwin county, Alabama, has n<
losicLent lawyer nor h&3 it a jail
The Poet.
Ore sultry summer day, when I was
overheated, nervous, in a hurry, and not
very well, an embryo poet, whom I had
the misfortune to know, accosted me on
the busy street of a large city, as I
stepped out of the postoffice, and told me
that he had "something to read to me."
"It won't take me a minute," he added,
as I glanced at my watch, and per
ceived that I had just five minutes in
which to meet a gentleman, by appointment,
at a place several squares distant.
"I'm not in a hnrrj?no great hurry,"
I said, concealing my vexation; for I
acquit him of the deliberate cruelty he
must have been guilty of had he realized
what torture he was about to subject
me to.
"Step over here," he said, leading the
way to one of the doors of the postoffice
rrr\i/tU a tfvflom nf rvfi/\rv1a /Wn,
vuivugu nuivu U? QVAWMU* V* ^VV^*W vvm
tinually Sowed, and placidly leaning
against a pillar, although I think he had
less need of support than I bad, for I
felt like swooning. "The fact, is," he
went on, taking a roll of manuscript
from his pocket, "I place a great deal
of reliance on your judgment in matters
of this kind, and would like your opinion
of my poem."
I should do no injustice did I fail to
state just once that this compliment did
not entirely reconcile me to my situa
tion.
He announced his subject as "The
Moonlit Valley," and began?
''Oh, pale moon, with thy gentle, silver light,
Thou?"
"Please, sir, give me a penny to buy
a loaf of bread ?" said a ragged girl at
this moment, holding out one hand in a
supplicating manner, while she nudged
the poet with the other.
"No, Fve no penny!" he replied
petnlantly, as the girl darted out to the
middle of the sidewalk, to intercept a
Vk-vv? 1/VAlrirt A> a! /3
UOAJO VUIClit-ll/U.O_L.U.g V/1U
"Confonnd the child ! I'll begin again,
so that yon won't lose the sense of it.'
I thought there was no danger of
that, and wiped the cold perspiration
from my brow, smiling in a sickly way,
while he proceeded:
"Ob, pale moon, with thy gentle, silver light,
Thou shinestin the valley wonderous bright!
Oh, valley?"
"Could you tell me, sir, where to find
the deaf and dumb asvlum ?" asked a
stranger, stepping up at this juncture
and addressing us both at once.
Thankful for the temporary relief, I
gay* him the desired information.
' Bfcnk you," he said, turning away.
"Oh trnt'.-iv Vintc T IrvvA vrmr vprdnra preen-'
"Bay some matches, sir?" interrupted
a small boy, holding a box under the
poet's nose.
"No!"
"Oh, v'J:- how I love your verdure green,
Much?
"Here you are, now, nice gold-plated
chains for a quarter of a dollar 1" a
street merchant shouted in his ear, evidently
annoying the poet as much as
the poet annoyed me.
"J[n view of these frequent interruptions,"
said I, "wouldn't it be?"
"Oh, no ! I'll finish," he said, drowning
what I was about to say. "I want
your opinion of tbis poem before I offer
it ior pn on canon.
He was about to resume, amid the
general hubbub and confusion incident
to a city thoroughfare, heightened just
then by a "jam" of vehicles and 1;ha loud
criminations and recriminations of the
drivers, when a mutual acquaintance
joined us with a famiiar exclamation.
- surrejoinder.
"You are just in time. Listen
to this. I'll begin again:?
'Oh, pale moon, with thy gentle, silver light,
Thou fhinest in the valley wondroc.s bright!
Oh, valley, how I love your verdure green,
Much more than anything I've ever seen I
A Viatt? orlArnrvna are the rfLrllinit?"
"Black 'em, mister? Only five cents!"
I began to feel dizzy and faint. Just
then there was considerable excitement
on the strset near us, occasioned by inharmonious
elements in the respective
views of two boot blacks. They were
beginning open warfare, and when a
couple of policemen rashed up to quell
the disturbance, tne scene Decame bo
animated as to absord the poet's attention
for a moment, and thereupon I
plunged away through the crowd, wild
with joy, and made my escape.
The Removal of Scars and Cicatrices.
The cicatrices, scars or marks left by
various diseases, burns, or wounds of
divers kinds, are often less obstinately
permanent than is generally supposed,
and from some facts which have .lately
come under our notice, we are inclined
to think that their prevention or removal
in many cases may be accomplished
by some mild but effectual an
tiseptic.
Among the exemplifications of the
efficacy of the formula we are enabled
to lay before our readers, is the case of
a gentleman of our -acquaintance, whose
face was eo severe.! j burnt by the violent
spurting of a quantity of melted
lead (owing to a \7orkman having incautiously
dropped a wet pipe into it),
that his eyes were only saved by pebble
spectacles from ntter destruction.
At firt*t, of course, carron oil was the
sole application, and as for weeks afterwards
particles of the granulated metal
had literally to be dug out of the flesh,
I a deeply-ecarrcd countenance was
naturally predicted by aU] except the
patient himself. One mark of an almost
imperceptible character al one remained
after the expiration of six
months, owing, as our friend ?tays, to
the whole face being bathed twice or
three times a day, as soon as the oil
treatment could be discontinued, with
a lotion of the simplest character, as is
readily seen by glancing at its constituents
Lint soaked in the same solution and
allowed to remain o:a some little time
will frequently mitigate the visible result
o" smallpox, and we have known 1
one CZ-iQ of ringworm treated in this
way to leave no scar whatever, while a
sister of the latter patient, who had had
the same disease in a lesser degree, but
had not employed this lotion etill re
tains the evidences of the fact.
The following is a convenient formnk,:
Borax, half an ounce; salicylic
acid, twelve grains; glycerino, three
drachms; rose waier, six ounces. Make
a lotion.?Magazine of Pharmacy.
Sayings of Longfellow.
The sunshine of life is made up of
very few beams that are bright all the
time.
In character, in. manner, in style, in
cnriyflmA nTAol lorPA in
ttil IJLiJJJgOj mv ?
simplicity.
M'rn of genius are often dull in society;
as the blazing meteor when it descends
to earth is only a stone.
How Email a portion of our lives is
that we truly enjoy. In youth we are
looking forward for things thai are to
come. In old age we look backward to
things that are pastMany
readers judge of the power of a
book by the shock it gives their feel""mo
ciroora triVipq /^ehrPrrrnn a
UJg&y C-O OV4JUO W?r?6w v>
the power of muskets by their recoil,
that being considered best which fairly
prostrates the purchaser.
. Two Enemies of tbe FoxA
man in the neighborhood of Wali
Trtnio is tli6 r>KfTiPr nf aiennftt thaf, takps
| AVUi.* v~w
pari in every fox chase she can get to.
i She runs with the hounds and brajs
i lustily at every jump. When the fox
} hears her peculiar vocalism resounding
i in his rear he climbs the hills with an
3 earnestness that is astonishing.
There is v, blind man in Jessamine
who is one of the best fox hunters in
the country, and who can follow his
) dog3 safely on horseback either day 02
night,?Louisville [Ky.) Courier-xToumal
WORDS OF WISDOtf.
All men have their imprudent
days.
Nothing overcomes passion more
than silence.
About the only force some people
have is the force of habit.
The secret of felicity is a judicious
nf VATlflTi A
UiVUJk U^bAV/U VI A \S uu*fc?v>
The only really bitter tears are those
which are shed in solitude.
Services to be rendered reconcile
friends whom services rendered have
estranged.
All passions are good when one masters
them : all are bad when one is a
slave to them.
There is many a man whose tongue
might govern multitudes, if he could
only govern his tongue.
"We can no more have back old times
by gathering the same people in the
same place than we could have back a
dead friend by seating his skeleton in
his accustomed place.
"Whe:i a dark and afotrzaj crisis in
your life is reachedv-and destruction
seems to overwhelm yon?only remember
that the blackest, fiercest, storm
passes quickest, and the earth is always
the brighter after ifc. ^
Our lives shoald be like the days,
mere beautiful in the evening, or, like
the spring, aglow with promise, and
like autumn, rich with golden sheaves
when good works and deeds have
ripened on the field.
The early years of childhood are the
store-house in which are hoarded the
impressions that last through life ; in
them are gathered the influences that
are to be ineffaceable in the after career.
We never forget the feelings we then
experienced?the tones, the gestures,
the faces of those we loved, or from
whom we shrank, with the passionate
intensity of our fresh hearts.
T JJ i._ ^"l_* J 1 J.
JLH oruer ta love juuuuilluu, expect uui>
little from them : in order to view their
faults without bitterness, we must accustom
ourselves to pardon them, and
to perceive that indulgence is a justice
which frail humanity has a right to demand
from wisdom. Now nothing tends
more to dispose us to indulgence, to
close our hearts against hatred, to open
them to the principles of a humane and
soft molality, then a profound knowledge
of the human heart. Accordingly
the wisest men have always Deen the
most indulgent.
Suspected Cats.
The cat has always been looked upon
with suspicion by the masses. A Finisterre
cat which has served nine masters
in succession is believed to have
the right of carrying off the soul of the
ninth to hell. In Upper Brittany there
are sometimes seen enormous cats engaged
in holding a meeting. If any
one presumes to intrude upon their
presence, they surround and tease him
for a time. Then a long needle is
driven into his heart, and he is dis
missed, iiypocnonctm ensues, ana he
slowly wastes away. A black tomcat,
says a Russian proverb, at the end of
seven years becomes a dsvU. A Breton
farmer who neglected to take the usual
precantion of putting his tomcat to
death before it completed :'s seventh
year, was found dead in bed one morning
with his throat terribly, torn. SosTOfl"
ipsflffint persons, who
stantial evidence, ".Luckily;boyoD-served
that the cat of the house was
always watching the corpse with eyes
that blazed with rage. So he fastened
to the dead man's arm a siring, the end
of which he dropped through the window
into the yard. Then he told the
police to watch the body secretly, while
he pulled the string. They did so.
When the boy gave the string a pull,
the corpse's arm jerked. The cat
imagined its master had revived. With
1 ? -3 -L aw IA Ihfl OTIil
OQ0 UU LIIILI lb uu uv uuo wuj hum
furiously tore away at the corpse's
wounded neck. Whereupon it was
condemned to be burned alive, and the
suspecljed persons were set free. It is
believed, we read, that a cat's viciousness
ciepends to a great degree upon
the length of his tail. If the end of his
tail be cut off, it is unable to take part
in the witches' sabbat. When a Walloon
Diaiden wishes to refuse a suitor
with contumely, she gives him a cat,
and tells him to couut its hairs. It is
generally believed in France that a
bachelor who treads on a cat's tail will
find no woman to marry him till a fnll
year has passed by.?Saturday Review.
A Tragic Tale.
All his life he had toiled and saved
and scraped, and pulled every string
that had a dollar at the end of it. And
now all fcis hard-earned wealth was gone
and a great hateful, interest-eating
mortgage spread its black wings over
all that he owned and loved on earth.
He sank into a chair, and, folding his
arm3 upon the table before him, bowed
his gray head upon them and groaned
great groans. Eis heart seemed breaking.
"Did you mortgage the farm ?" asked
his wife, anxiously, stealing softly to
T-lis
"Yes," he growled, "both farms, and
sold the wood lot over on Big Island."
"And did yon have to mortgage the
town house too ?" she asked, with quivering
lips and glistening eyes.
"Oh, yes," said the man in hollow
tones, "Oh, yes, and sold all my stock
in the Northern, and hypothecated
what 1 had in the Sixth street bridge."
"And was it enough?" she asked,
trembling with eagerness. "Was it
Anrvntrh ?"
"Not quite," he growled, and then,
&3 he saw the gaastly pallor oi deathly
disappointment spread over her face,
he added, "but the nnliinar let me have
it on ninety days' Lime for the balance
at eight per cent."
"And you've brought my new hat
home then," she caroled,joyously. "Oh,
Philip, you dear old duck 1"
"Wellj no, not all of it," he said. "I
brought the plumes And one of the
bows down with me in the express, but
the hat itself is coming down from
Chicago on a flat-car."
Ar>^ fho riAT* wpfik after that, eleven
dark-browed men, who sat behind
Philip's wife at the theater, waylaid the
wretched man on his way home, hauled
him off down Valley street, rolled him
up into a wad, and stopped up the new
sewer with him.?Burling to n hawkeys.
Borrowing an Umbrella.
The Boston Journal describes an interesting
incident which may afford a
hint to persons caught out without protection
from the rain. A gentleman,
who had no umbrella, and who had just
come into town on a local train, perceived
before him, as he stepped into
the street, a person whom he took to be
an acquaintance, and who had a fine
? ? ? rfvtrni* Viia
ntJW UlilUlCllO UUiOWVV4 VIWA UVWUI
Running up to him, therefore, he
clapped him on thG shoulder, saying, as
be did so, by way of a joke : "I'll take
that umbrella, if you please." The individual
thus addressed looked around
and disclosed a perfect stranger, but,
before the other could apologize, he
said, hurriedly: " Oh, it's yours, is it?
Well, I di3n't know that. Here, you
can have it," and broke away, leaving
ihe utensil in the hands of the first
party to the conversation.
| ?
i 'me iJiiizaoeiuLuwii^ news ie
i offered free to every citizen of HardiD
: county who pltmge3 into matrimonj
, this year.
' I .A../- ..
Attempt toBepair the Ruin of Americac
Forest?.
The very necessities of their situatioi
have aroused the people of some of om
Western States to action. In Kansas,
Nebraska, and other States, liberal pre miums
have been offered for the encouragement
of tree-planting, and already
in many portions of the prairie
n a n v\ V< * ? o IhT?aw
xogiv.u a tuau^ c nao ta&cii
place, and the eye no longer wanders
over great spaces without'sight of shrub
or tree. Minnesota has' her Forrestry
Association, and its secretary reports
that between seven and ten millions of
trees were planted in that State during
the year 1877, of which more than half
a million were planted in a single day,
"Arbor Day," as it is called, or treeplanting
day, the first Tuesday of May
having been fixed upon as the day, and
every owner of land invited to devote
the day especially to the planting of
trees. Similar efforts have been made
in other States which are similarly situated
in respect to a supply of forest.
Tlin orroof ik>iiO?qv Anmnonico Tjlinon
J>MU Aiuinuj nuuou
roads stretch across the treeless prairies,
have become in some instances large
planters of trees, feeling the need of
them both as screens from the fierce
storms that sweep down from the Rocky
Mountains, and as a source of supply
for the ties which are constantly needing
renewal.
Tree-planters' manuals are published
and distributed freely, with a view to
aid those who would nlant. bv eivins
them the experience already obtained
in regard to the most profitable trees
to plant and the best methods of planting.
Thns in some places there is
already quite a movement in the right
direction. In the reports of planting
the figures make an imposing aggregate.
Bat a liberal discount needs to be made
for the probable failure of a large percentage
of the trees planted. And even
with the mcst generous estimate in regard
to the work of planting, what is
accomplished as yet is but a fraction of
what needs to be done. It is but the
feeble beginning of a vast work. The
talk is of millions of trees planted.
This sounds well. But a good manv
trees can stand npon an acre, and the
latest estimates pnt the annual decrease
of onr forest area at seven million acres.
So that Minnesota, with all her ardor
in this work, has only planted one tree
for every acre of trees destroyed. An
area equal to that of the State of Maryland
is every year swept clean of its
trees. This is a large section to be
taken yearly out of onr forest resources.
With all that we are yet doing in the
way of tree-planting, the balance is
largely against us. With all the interest
and energy manifested by the young
West on this subject, stimulated by her
most pressing need, we are only planting
one acre while thirty-five are laid
bare bv the ax and bv fire. And we
must consider also that the work of
destruction goes on at an increasing rate
from year to year, as our population
and our industries increase, and that
the trees which are felled are the product,
on the average, of more than a
century's growth, while those we plant
must grow during a century before they
can fill their place.?Harper's Magazine.
Bananas and Plantains.
A pound of bananas contains moro
nutriment than three Bounds of meat or
many pounds of potatoes, while as a
AiinOagH ~rc giuwa?spontaneously^
throughout the tiopics, when cultivated
its yield is prodigious; for an acre of
ground planted "with bananas will return,
according to Humboldt,- as much
food material as thirty-three acres
of wheat, or over a hundred acres of
potatoes. The banana, then, is the
bread of millions who could not
well subsist without it. In Brazil
it is the principal food of the laboring
classes, while it is no less prized in
the island of Cuba. Indeed, in the latter
country the sugar planters grow
orchards of it expressly for the conenmntiftn
nf their slaves. Everv dav
each hand receives his rations of salt
fish or dried beef, as the case may be,
and four bananas and two plantains.
The banana?it should be called plantain,
for until lately there was no such
word as banana?is divided into several,
varieties, all of which are used for
food. The " platino manzinio" is a
small, delicate fruit, neither
longer nor stouter than a lady's
forefinger. It is the most delicious
and prized of all the varieties of the
plantain. "El Platino gwineo," called by
us the banana, is probably in demand
more than any other kind, It is subdivided
into different varieties, the
principal of which are the yellow and
purple bananas we see for sale in our
markets; but the latter is so little
esteemed by the natives of the tropics
that it is seldom eaten by them. "El
? 1 +A TTC QO flimnlv
pL&tUIU ^lauuo ?iiuvnu uv uw mw j
the plaatain--is also sub-divided into
varieties which are known by their savor
and their size. The kind that reaches
onr markets is nearly ten inches long,
yet on the Isthmns of Darien there are
plantains that grow from eighteen to
twenty-two inches. They are never
eaten raw, bnt are either boiled or
roasted or are prepared as preserves.?
New Orleans Democrat.
A Garfield Clock.
Mr. S, Holtor, a jeweler and watchmaker
of Hiddlebury, Yfc., has recently
constructed a curious clock, which acts
out the assassination of President Garfield.
The machine is a common
cuckoo clock, under whioh is a miniature
depot. At one window is a ticket
agent dealing oufc tickets, while at an
other a telegraph operator is seen busy
j at his work, and truckmen, porters,
train dispatchers, etc., are all flying
around as natural as life. Ail ox these
figures are of wood, about two inches
long. At the end of each hour the
cuckoo announces the fact, and
immediately a figure of President
Garfield appears on the platform on
WJLUCU LiiD OUtUD XO MWWV**
panied by Mr. Blaino. Gniteau is seen
to follow him, having just alighted from
a truck wagon, and as he fires at the
President the latter falls. Just then a
train of cars comes dashing in, and in
the confnsion all the principal actors
are carried into the depot ont of sight.
After the train dispatcher has given
the signal and the train has gone, a
small door at the left opens ana a priest
appears, book in hand, in the act of
reading a funeral service, while at the
same time another door at the right
opens and Guiteau appears on the gallows.
The priest retires, and shortly
after the gallows disappears with Gaiteau,
and the doors close. This ij
acted out at the end of each hour, and
J:akes about three minutes. Mr. Hoi
ton is quite a noted invenior, but this
seems to be his masterpiece.?Boston
Journal.
There are now in the European r aviei
102 monitors with revolving turrets
and they are distributed as follows
England, 24; France, 11; Germany, 3
Holland, 24; Italy, 5; Sweden and Nor
way, 9; Russia, 19; Spain, 1; Denmark
? * OT??O TfTTAT^f TT_C?k"lTGY\ r\f +Vli
Ot xuxneji u.
above vessels are of the American type
Many of the vailing suits are mad
with a gracefully draped tablier over i
kiited skirt, and for back drapery :
large doubl<*-!ooped bow of moire
i lined with taffeta silk. The ends c
l the bow are square, and reach onl;
' three-quarters down the length c
the skirt.
i POPULAR SCIENCE.
The sea urchin is remarkable as be|
ing the only animal below mollusks and
articulates, possessing organs for mastication.
A shower of fine dust which fell in
France in 1846 was found by analvsis to
, be composed of the fice sands of Guiana
and to contain the characteristic mi
| croscopie shells of South America.
Snch showers originate in volcanic
emotions.
A scientist who has been exf ^rimenting
for twenty-five years on the variations
of plants admits that he has gradually
lost the idea of species, inclining ;
to the opinion that variation takes place
in definite directions, and that its cause
is internal.
From some experiments made by M.
Felix Masnre, it appears tbas when
arable soil is very wet it throws off
more watery vapor than a sheet of free
water. Tf IVia lftnrt is rvnlv mnrtarftt.Alv
moist the quantities are about equal,
and if the soil is dry its evaporation is
less.
No remains of the bison have been
found among the bones of the shellheaps
along the Atlantic coast, and
there is no evidence, among the early
lists of the natural products of the
country, of its occurrence anywhere on
the seaboard for a long period before
fchA rtisrwrers of fha cnntfnAnf;.
Attention has been called to some
new facts in relation to c^lor-blindness.
Careful investigations have showed the
Chinese and the Nubians to be practically
free from the defect. Dr. Eoberts
h-i8 observed that color-blindness is
most common among persons of reddish
or red hair, and it is very prevalent
among the Jews, who are the most decidedly
red-haired of all known races.
It is thought probable, therefore, that
there may be some correlation of colorblindness
with pigmentation, and indirectly
with racial ueculiarities.
American Nerves.
Men prematurely bald, old, unable
to carry their liquor," and anxious
beyond their iaie years, are getting
conspicuously common in America.
The slow sententious Yankee of the
stage is becoming rare in the cities,
and the cool individual who offers
the suspicious stranger a cigar-light
stuck in the muzzle of a revolver is
nappny connnea to ueaawooa creex
or Gouge Eye Gulch. The women are
more lovely than ever. Their faces are
the face3 of angels chiseled in marble;
bnt the pallor is unhealthy, and the
liveliness of the American girl is, to a
great extent, incipient^disease. It is,
like their beauty, part of that nervousness
which is afflicting their race. Their
minds are untroubled by the cares of
housekeeping, for most of them live in
hotels or in boarding-houses. In Europe ,
they contract dazzling marriages. But
they soon fade; and while the English ,
matron, and even her sister of Canada,
who leads much the same kind of life, ,
is still in her prime, the once beantifnl
American is often a lean hysterical ,
hannter of health resorts. The future j
is not a pleasant prospect. As men of (
leisure depart from the busy maltitude, t
it is difficult to see what they are to do (
with their money. There is a limit to
the number of greenbacks which people
can spend on a house, and even a modest
fortune is cumbersome to carry
about ju
brid Gaul used to be called in Napo* 1
leonic days, ceases to be an American,
while, if be stays at home, it is bard to ;
see bow tbe rich average republican is
to spend bis money in any other way !
than that which has produced,
and is producing, the nervousness 1
of his race. Competitive exam- ,
inations, which will, in time !
add their worry to the endless voting
and electing of tbe present time, are :
calculated to intensify the trouble.
iiut ior long tne evil win not ue muuu
noticed. The country will be fertilized
by a continuous stream of fresh-faced,
simple-lived emigrants from "used-up
Europe." These will mingle with the
humbler natives, and, since the trueborn
Yankee of New England and the
"fust family" Americans of the South
are notorious for the fewness of their
children, will keep up the population
of the United States. Meantime, the
learned folks, without the fear of
patriotic papers before their eyes, will
affirm that the Eoropean is not naturalized
in the New World. At best he
is a nervous edition of the gallant from
whence he sprang, and were it not for
the new blood that is eyer recruiting
his jaded life, would dwindle away and
become extinct.?London World.
Fees for Executioners.
The official tariff of fees allowed by
the municipalities of Darmstadt and
Beesungen in the latter part of the
fourteenth century to the executioners
of those towns for the performance of
their functions has lately been found
in the state archives of Hesse-Darmstadt.
The more appalling the punishment
the higher, as a rule, seems to
hotra Viooti +T10 r?Tmr<r?. wif.hnnfc reference
to the physical exertion required on the
part of the executioner. Thus his fee
for boiling a criminal in oil was twentyfour
florins; for decapitating with the
sword, fifteen florins and a half ; for
quartering, the same; for breaking on
the wheel, five florins thirty kreuzers;
for "tearing a man to pieces," eighteen
florins. Ten florins per head was the
charge for hanging; and he burnt delinnnprtfccj
alive at the rate of fourteen
florins apiece. For applying the
"Spanish Boot" his fee was only two
florins. Five florins were paid to him
every time he subjected a refractory
witness to the torture of the rack. The
same amount was his due for "branding
the sign of the gallows with a red-hot
iron upon the back, forehead, or cheek
of a thief," as well as for "cutting of a
slanderer or blasphemer." Flogging
with rod3 was a cheap punishment, its
remuneration being fixed at three florins
thirty kreuzers.
Solidified Stimulants.
The many people who frequently want
i ii
a drop of sometmng to maie inem ieei
right when they are too cold or too
hot, or too wet or too dry, or something,
will rejoice to here that foreign
chemists have discovered how to solidify
wine and spirts* Hereafter a man
; should be able to carry some crumbs of
the precioas stnfF in his vest pocket
instead of going about with a co:k pro1
trading from a pocket of his coat, and
instead of his inviting his boon comDanioris
to the nearest bar he can offer
them a bracer from a neat box no larger
' than a cigar case. Better yet, it is said
: that in the process of solidification the
' liquor lose3 its smell, eo no man after
5 refreshing himself need rack his brain
1 for plausible explanations to make his
wife about the aroma of cloves or coffee
that he exhales. Under the new and
3 solid dispensation, the corkscrew will
? not, as heretofore, ba the most import
ant portion d a traveler's baggage, and
' even in Boston the wayfaring man will
" be able to stimulate in full sight with'
out being arrested. When election day
0 is about due, a candidate will not need
to keep "open house" at every rum
shop in his district; he need only carry
.? . # e
e a pOCSGCIUi OI neat in tie uyi.cs ui ouiiuia
fied patriotic inspiration and distribute
a them freely.
f
f The city of Boston contains 41,926
7 dwelling houses, valued at $4,013,000.
?f There are, besides, 73 hotels, andl47
amily hotels in the city.
POTTER OF THE MOON.
Sundry Superstitions of Current Folk Lore.
A Louisville (Ky.) reporter had a
long conversation with a well-known
scientific man of that city, and during
the ccnveraation the subject of superstitious
beliefs in the changes of the
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weabuei auu ouc euro;uo ui ma? uiuv/u uu
everything 011 the earth was brought
up, and the scientist remarked:
"The people of this country, and especially
of this State, may sneer as
much as they like at the superstitious
beleifs of other countries. They may
laugh at the goblin and fairy stories of
the Irish and the 'harpies' of the
Scotch, but as widespread as these
superstitions are, they are not so general
as the superstitions as to the
power of the moon. I took occasion to
[ investigate this matter some time since,
and was astonished at the extremes to I
which it was carried, especially by the
country people, who put implicit faith '
in its powers, and watch its every
change with a watchful eye as a guiding
star to their prosperity They only ;
regard it in two stages, 'the light and <
the dark of the moonthe one they '<
regard as a signal to commence work, 1
and the other to continue it. A large <
number believe that any article sown in j
the dark of the moon will not attain the I
strength and fullness that it would i
have if planted in the light of the '
moon. They always plant their corn 1
and other grains in the light of the 3
moon, and if they do not finish they <
will it it go until the moon changes <
again. I questioned an old farmer 1
abont the matter, and he seemed sur- <
prised that I should doubt the effects 4
of the moon in the slightest. Here- j
marked that ho had tried the experi- ?
ment on several occasions, especially i
with potatoes., and those planted in the J
dark of the moon never amounted to t
anything, while the others grew large t
1- - - Txl T\^ iL.i. /
nu iieajiiiiv, uu vuu &ec i/uuo icuuc i *
out there ?' he said, pointing to a fence |'
tinder every corner of which a large t
stone had been placed, bnt the stones ?
had stink until the tops were even with t
the surface of the land. 'WelL that is <
an example. I put those stones under <
the fence in the dark of the moon, and f
you see how they have sunk. I built t
another fence durinpr the next change t
of the moon, and the corners never c
sunk a particle. Then, again, I have i
tried the effect that it would have on e
meat, and it was wonderful. I killed t
several hogs once while the moon was s
dark, ana was luiiy satisnea. witn me i
resnlt. The meat diminished greatly t
in size, and it was almost impossible to t
keep it from spoiling. When it was !3
fried it all dwindled away into greas e (
and drew np to a very small size.' I t
was astonished and amused at this, and t
found that nearly all the rest of the i
people around were equally eupersti- r
tious, and thought tliat everything t
earthly and unearthly, real anducrea], e
was guided by its influence. JLJut tins v
superstition in regard to the effects of t
the moon is not confined to Kentucky t
or to the United States. In Ireland i
bhe same opinion in regard to the i
planting of vegetables is held, and, if c
the potatoes are planted during the s
3ark of the moon, some of them are I
said to predict an entire failure of the a
;rop. p
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Fist-Fights of Statesmen,
A Washington letter to the Augv
'Ga.) Chronicle says: Senator LaSH^jCi
: 555) /?nfim?nn 'w\ta a CgEHflMBTo
aorseTTSeiEenaterBaysnis me bwuuu j u
ime be was ever knocked down: The a
first event is thus narrated. Years ago, t
when he had iust begun the political j i
career that has become so glorious, e
Lamar had a dispute with a local celeb* f
rity at Covington, named Zacharie, c
familiarly called "Uncle Jemmy." This s
man was very powerful. "When the war of p
words came on he was sitting in a' chair,
and Lamar confronted him erect, a
Knowing well enough that his only i
safety was in intimidating his gigantic fc
antagonist, Lamar drew a pistol, pointed (
it at the sitting man and calmly said : g
"Uncle Jemmy, if you attempt to rise t
from that chair I will kill you!" Uncle i
Jemmy concluded to obey, tnougn witn ^
ill-suppressed wrath and profuse prom- t
ises of future settlement. c
Not long afterward, when Lamar was i
treating some Democratic feliow-citi- f
zens at a corner grocery to benzine or t
wine, he heard an exultant voice cry $
out behind him: "Lucius, I have got \
you now!'' Suiting the action to the 1
word, Uncle Jemmy let drive his mus- {
cular arm and fist, which, coming in ]
t-i, T.nmoii'a Viaa/^ s?aiiraA the 1
CUXLUH/U WlCJLL jjauttw a aavmv.} _ #
body to stagger and fall. Lamar arose i
and Uncle Jemmy precipitated Ms huge j
bulk against him like a catapult. Then j
the Democratic party present thought j
the time had come to interfere, any j
Uncle Jemmy was seized by sinewed j
arms and told to release his hold. Not <
satisfied with his method of doing so he ^
bad a second peremptory admonition. ]
At this juncture he plaintively <
squealed: "I ain't holding him, he's j
holding me." Sure enough, on ezami- {
nation it was found that Lamar had
rT--1" fln/r/sr in fiis month and 1
C JUCJ.U typili mj a MA ,
would not let it go. During the melee <
Lamar had seized a skillett and made 1
quite a mess of his burly foeman's face
and head. But this was the first time i
he had ever been knocked do n, and ,
the last time until Thursday afternoon. <
General Wade Hampton says he never
had but one fist-fight, and that was with
a Columbia bully, who attempted to
add him to the number cf his conquests.
"I was a good boxer," said the South
Carolina senator, "and every time the
fellow rushed at me I floored him. The
'"c> T cr?.T7A him broke hia thumb.
A policeman came up and arrested me.
When I was pinioned the man rose np,
drew a knife, and was about to rush
upon me. I asked the officer to let me
go and give me his club. Qe did so.
Armed with that weapon, I faced the
desperado, and warned him that though
I did not wish to kill him, I would
surely do so if he advanced a step further.
He took counsel of his fears, and
prudently retired. I had not a scratch,
but the other man was laid up for three
| weeks."
| A Lonsr-Lived Family.
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A Pensacola, Jb'Jonda, correspondent
cf the Louisville Courier-Journal alleges
that Robert A. Wright, of Santa Rose
comity, Florida, is seventy-one years of
age, bat in appearance, speech and action,
he would pass anywhere for a
well-preserved man of less than fifty.
He is able to, and does, more and
better work than at any period of his
life. He has not lost a day from labor
" " -rr - it.
for thirteen monins. xie is me iawu
of five children. of whom his sens
Bnrrell, Amos and Aibab, are triplets,
all now living and fifty-two years of
age. He is the son of John Wright,
who is now living in Canada, and is
one hundred and sixteen years of age;
is the nephew of the late Davis Eaton,
who lived and died in Giles county,
Virginia, at the advanced age of ( as
near as it could be computed) one hundred
and thirtv-eight years, and who had
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been one hundred and two years a member
of the Masonic order. Differing
from the conventional young-old man
he eats heartily at all times; formerly
he was an inveterate consumer of coffee
and tobacco, but has eschewed both
for the past five years.
Of the 108 dead bodies picked upiik
the Biver Thames last year,
males and 14 females,
oaaes they were not r^^fl
long after death^^
tion was difM^fl
THE LIULE BUITEB COW.
Fact* Abont the " Jtrwy" and Their Island
Home.
'The Island of Jersey is small; ififc
was square it would be six and three*
quarter miles on each side. However,
this little piece of land suffices to keep _
12,000 head of cattle; that is to say, in ' '?m
round numbers, supports one aaunal
t XMAO nf iffl tavnnisyrrr fVlin
lijl ctttu iytu oviw v4 avu . i
including rocks, road8, barren lands and
the building lots necessary to the hous- |3lH
ing of 60,000 inhabitants. And it has
been thus for the last twenty years, at
least. Indeed the census of 1861 gives
12,037 as the number of cattle on the
island of Jersey. What is still mere
remarkable it exports each year a Done
2,000 head of cattle (the average exportation^
according to the customhouse
reports, being 2,049 for the last eighteen
years) nearly one head for each
ten acre s, Now the total number of
cattle in England gives only one for
ten acres; it follows then that in proportion
to its extent the island of Jersey
exports each year more than England
contains. In other words, if Eogiand
nhrmM ATnnrfc at her same raie. all hoy
cattle would be gone in a single year,
and she wo aid not have left a single
hoof. The system which permits the
island of Jersey to attain this result deserves
to be studied above all at this
time, when the Eaglish farmer knows
sot what to do, his sheet anchors, the
rnltnre of wheat, leaving him to drift
dq the rocks. Bat another reshlt not
less striking tian tne Keeping ox we
kittle at the Jersey is the race of cattle
:hat it has produced. At present it is -
she custom in England to consider the Fersey
as the pampered favorites of Fortune,
playthings for the rich, dia- 9
nonds to ornament the lawn, giving a - ,ji
small quantity of very rich milk, creaat^^^^j
md butter for those who
enough to afford this extravag^H
Chat they are small, admitted; beautifaltH B
76 concede; but why should they not be
mall? And why not beautiful? Is 1H
ha oVionTior^ less bold, less useful
>r less suited to its special work, be:anso
it is not a mastiff? The ability
;o do the work required is the thing - '3aH
lought for; the rest is only fashion and
insel. The work of the Jersey is to
convert grass and roots into butter and
lot into beet She is not raised to be :J|
:aten; she has more value as a machine ^1I?H
o produce butter. Then why should x ; cIsS
lie be larger? Ana iar iiom oeixtg a
uxury for the rich man, she is, more
han any other race, the dependence of
he poor, the best aid of small farming.
["his is very easily and simply proved
in a general way) by the experience of
he island of Jersey. We have seen
hat they keep their 12,000 head of catle
on six miles square, there where the
ent averages ?9 per acre; there where
he farms are smaller than anywhere
Ise; there where each farmer works
Tith his hands and is face to face with ''M
he wolf that he needs must' keep from
ne aoor. auu wuati uu wo bcc>
bland eaten Tip by ^cattle and the faraers
begging. On the oontrary, all the
onntry is like a garden, everywhere
own with improvements and comforfcaile
houses and of which the aspect
hows the well being. One finds everyrhere
comfort and plenty, and nowhere -OBM
iDverty, misery or beggars.
I do not claim that all this is the
rork of the cows, but I say that these 5
utoptr xrho have so serious a straggle
fcaloss. If the Jerseys are profits!^ If
here, with the land at ?9 per acre, will
hey not give a profit in England, and
verywhere else where there is a market
or butter ? But we will go farther; we
laira that the Jersey cow is the handomest
of all cows, as well as the most
ttt :11 in an fav words
XV WIU 6U?vu vucu* m* wv ? .
s possible. We claim that the Jersey
9 the moet profitable of all cows for
ratter, that she will give more butter
relatively to her weight and the feed
ihe eats) than any other race whatever;
hat a good Jersey will give half her
yeight in butter per year. She rarely /
weighs more than eight hundred pounds,
he average weight being seven hunIred
pounds, and cows giving half that JeS
n butter per year are found in every
food herd; that the milk is richer than
hat of any other race, six pints often
Hvincr a Doucd of butter, giving less
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rater to milk, cany and set; that the
ratter is of better color, of better tex- \
.Tire, of better flavor and of higher
price; that she becomes profitable earier,
usually liaving her first calf at two X"*g|
fears acd often sooner; that she is genie
and docile, easily cared for {in the
island of Jersey,at least) by the women
md children of the house, who lead her
;o the field, tie her, take lier Dacs to
the barn, milk her and leave the whole
jare of her, without help from the men teho
are occupied with other work.
Finally, she is equally at home in the
sold climate of the Canadian winters jjgB
ind the tropical heat of the Gulf
I hare now before me letters from
the secretary of the exhibition of Jersey
cattle at Mobile, where they succeed
perfectly, and from Mr. Burnham (who .
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O&S DOHgUIj ime lamuuo uuvuuKMAvyj w*
Connecticut, who finds that they succeed
equally well in the Northern States,
and there are several large herds of ygja
them in Canada, to which Mr. Cochrane
(celebrated owner of Dnrhams) is going
to add another. May we rightly defy
the world to produce a breed having ,^|||
more merit T?Le Journal Df Agriculture
lUustre. ? "
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The heat of lava at the bottom of the
o nnn a*.
craier may ue eBbuuuM*** < ?
grees for refractory metalr melt in oontact
with burning lava.
An ardent lady ornithologist in India
learned of an nndescribed species of
pheasant in a region overran by hostile
natives. She secured an escort of 600 ?<;|g
soldiers and plunged with them into *
the jungle. They faltered from fear,
but she obtained the service of sixty
natives, and succeeded in getting two
?'?fV?Q nTo^inns bird. It bag
PpQUililCiiO VI bu\< _ _ _^
been named in her honor Callophasis
Hnmii.
As an insect destroyer the juice of the
tomato plant is said to be of great .'-t
valne: the leaves and stems are well
boiled in water and when the liquid is
cold it is sprinkled ovez plants attacked
with insects, when it at once destroys j|?
caterpillars, black and green flies, gnats -3a
and otter enemies to vegetables, aau m
no way impairs the growth of the plants. -:
A peculiar odor remains and prevents
insects from coming again for a long time.
Remove ink stains from carpets with
milk, and afterward wash with fine
soap, a clean brush and warm water.
For grease spots use powdered magnesia,
fuller's earth or buckwheat
Sprinkle on the spot and let lie until
the grease is absorbed; renew the earth,
maftneeift or hTTfikt-iieat TlTltft all the
grease is removed. Time and petienc^^
will in this way remove the wo^h
grease spots.
Experienced pork-rayg
have determinedoj^
as the reiati^i^tf
Whei^M^