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5 TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. * ii ’j WINNSBORO. S.U. JANUARY 25. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1847 THE GREAT LONE LAMP. I wandered alone and rfar On the plain* of the north, and my eye Waa .caught by the blaze of a star That Bhot through the pttile&a iky. The coldneaa of death waa below. The stillness of death In the air, Save that over the wild waste of snow, The wolf poured his howl of despair. And stricken and weary I trod, Scarce daring to gdie into space; TUI the pitiful mercy of God, Came falling in tears on my face. But the meteor had passed and was gone! Ah, whither? in vain shall i seek? I stand in the dread night alone. And the voice of my soul strives to speak; But It falters, and falls back unspoken, And dies like the wolf howl afar. The Uod-Itghts of life are all broken, Aud I am a wreck tike the star 1 THE OAMItLEU’S VTIKE. “What new beauty have we here, Carl?” 1 asked, taking a small colored picture from among the mass of papers, pamphlets, wrapping-paper, etc., that covered the table and door of the libra ry, and which would have told plainly enough to all acquaintances that Carl was at home once more, after this his longest ramble ia foreign lands, yith-; out the oorrbborating testimony of cigar smoko, or the lounging ligure in the old rocking-chair. for^this brother of mine never spent over six months of the year in the beau tiful country home of bis childhood, giving the other six to whatever place or people premised most entertainment on short notice. Tbe last three months had been spent in Paris, so I conject ured the little gem of art I held in my hand was a French beauty; the pure outlines and exquisite complexion look ing most lifelike as they smiled up at me from the tinted card. Bnt notwith standing the great beauty of contour end feature, there was a irightened, al most hunted look in the dark eyes that told of tragedy, or at least anticipated & - “Who is she, Carl? The eyes affect me strangely, with their wiki, frighten ed look. lUere is a reign of terror m them equal to the one her ancestors passed through. I almost see the shadow of the guillotine in their velvety depths.” “Let me see ; ah, my little sister, may yon never know bo hard a fate as this poor girl encountered and succumbed to. No, she is not French—a Russian, but married to a Frenchman.” And Carl took the picture from my hand and placed u on a small easel above his desk. ‘ ‘I will tell you about her, Louie, if you have an hour, and I will tell why 1 tola you. “It was while Tom Barnes was with me last June, and when we left Versail les for Paris, that £ first saw Madam Litterre—though 1 think the name an assumed oue. We had to run to pre vent being left, I remember, and Barnes, out of humor because of it, plnnged his face into his book and left me to my own resources. “As soon as I was comfortably set tled I, as usual, began sciutiuizing my travelling companions, and trying to imagine who and what they were. There were tour besides ourselves in the car riage. One a quiet, middle-aged Eng lishman, who was soon asleep in ins comer. The two wno sat next myself were evidently husband and wife, though he paid her none of the atten tion and politeness usually accorded in public, even it dispensed with privately. ELe was a pale, quiet man of twenty- live, perhaps, richly bat quietly dress ed, aud seemingly tvkiag no notice of any one around him. The wife, too, was pale, and much as she looks there in that little picture. “She seemed to be suffering, and fre quently pnt her hand to her forehesd; and I observed upon the delicately- formed, unglovedhaud a costly diamond. It was a i euuty ; and i enjoyed looking at the Bushing gem as she caressed a small English dog that often looked up at her with affectionate recognition, “The other passenger 1 could not make out at alii He was elderly, com monly dressed, aud with scant gray hair and heavy whiskers. His pieremg eyes were frequently placed on the silent young married couple, and then he seemed as utterly oblivious of them as they of him. What was Ids nationality? Was he witn them, er a stranger like myself? I could hot tell. Aud the more I looked the more uncertain I became. 1 thought, too, there seemed au effort at disguise. He kept his face * averted all he could, consistent with his watch fulness of the quiet young husband that he at times ejed so very persistently! “We sped along over the beautiful road, each absorbed in his own reflec tions, broken only by an occasional low sign Irom the lady, and soon arrived at our destination. The train stopped, aud as none of my companions showed any disposition to move first, I aroused Barnes from the depths of hia romance, and we left the carriage. “Dinner over, we went to the theatre, and afterward, by the persuasion of a friend, to a private gambling-house. 1 was greatly surprised on entering to see my elderly tiavelling companion seatea at the table, his eyes and man ner keen as ever, and 4ehP in » game of rovge-et nmr. It was 1 early yet, and very few people were present; but ev ery sound was hushed, and the game went ou in dead sii jnce, broken only by the voices of the dealers calling the re sult of the games, and the rutUiug of tne gold as it was raked from one to an other. The rid man seemed-m luck for the time being, and won every game, I thought a gleam of satisfatiou shone oyer hu face as the door opened and our other travelling acquaintance from Versailles—the quiet, careiass husband —entered and sat down to play. “I did hot play that night, and' my whole attention wag. given to those two. The young man lost from the first deal. Konieau after rouleau was swept from the table by his watchful old opponent;' 1 at still he played on. The large sums hi lost, and his pale, excited faoe,deei>- ly interested me, and I stayed on and watched him until late at night, when he left, his last Napoleon gone. “After supping at a coffee-house, 1 went back to my room at the hotel, but for some cause could not sleep. The heat was oppressive, and my room small; besides, the game I had been watching had excited me strangely, and 1 only fell into a troubled sleep near morning. “I was awakened about daylight by voices in the adjoining room—those of a man and woman, evidently. The man’s voire was low and pleading, and the wo men seemed to be crying, I could heat enough to understand tv at she was refusing him some request, for his tones became loud and threatening, and at last 1 heard him say : “ ‘If you refuse me, you seal my ruin and your own. I have no more gold— and I must have the diamonds to re - trieve myself.” “Hysterical sobs were the only an swer he received, and he continued : “Something tells mo I shall «iu to night, and I mnst have the ring.’ “Never, Charles 11 cannot give it up. It is all I have left. It was my mother’s, and I will not let it leave me. ” “The man’s voice was so choked with passion that his words were inarticulate, but with a burst of wild anger he left, slamming the door after him. The woman’s sobs became lower, her crying ceased, and I fell into another nap, not waking until near ten. “1 saw neither of my gambling ac quaintances that day, and the night found me again in Monsieur Carlo’s rooms. The old mau was again on hand—not satisfied, I thought, with his winnings of Ihe eight before—and again I saw u gleam of satisfaction cross fads face as his victim of the previous even-, ing came iu and got ready to play. ‘Make your game—the game is made up ]’ cried the dealer, and was about to deal the cards, when the young man who had just entered calltd out, in a laud voice : “ ‘Fifty Napoleons upon the red !’ “Seeing he placed no money upon the table, the croupier paused a moment, then said: “Sir, you must stake the money.’ The gambler started and turned paler than ever, a long, shuddering sigh broke from him as he felt first iu oue pocket, then in another, and finally grasped his hat and fled from the room. The playing went on fer a while longer, and then oue by one they went out. leaving only the attendants, the old, keen eyed gambler and myself present. Something—an indefinable feeling of interest in the unhappy young man who bad left the house in such despair a short time before—held me there. I must see if he returned. “Suddenly the door opened, and he ran in, as fleeing for his life, I shall never forget that sight, Louie. His face was ghastly, his dress disordered, aud he trembled as though with ague. As he rushed up to the table, in the strong glare of the lights, I saw great drops of perspiration standing on his brow. He thrust his hand in his pocket and tossed a ring down before his op ponent. “ ‘There ! it is worth ten thousand francs. Now cover my stakes,’he cried. “I instantly recognized the beautiful diamond as the one his wife had worn iu the cars, and the conversation I had hoard that morning came back to my memory, and I knew my fellow-travel lers were the man and woman I had heard disputing in the early morning hours. But he had succeeded m over coming her determination, for he had the rinjg, and my heart ached for the poor wife as I wondered how he had obtained it. “ ‘Red 11 bet on tne red 1’ again shouted the young man; and ’n a mo ment the croupier called ‘Black wins 1’ and the ring was no longer his. “With a wild cry the wretched loser fled from the hoase ; and, completely unmanned by what I had seen, I return ed to my hotel, hoping the young man would soon follow me. “I found them all—travellers, pro prietor and servanto—wild with excite ment over the murder of the beautiful Russian lady. An hour before her maid had gone to her room, and feund her deluged iu blood from a wound iu her head, aud dead. The husband had been in, snd left some few moments be fore. I went up to her apartment, and to the bed where she lay. Her exqui site face was fairer than in life, lor it had lost the unhappy look, and seemed at peace. As I turned to leave the room I saw this picture among a heap of things turned out of a man’s travel ling, case, and appropriated it. Proba bly the hnsband had tossed it there in his search for some valuables to risk at the gambling-table. “The miserable man took his life be fore he was apprehended for his crime, ana the old gambler who, first in one disguise, then in,another, had followed the easily-duped victim from city to city and won many thousands from him, left Pans before the husband and wife were carried to their last resting- place iu the beautiful burying-ground where his forefathers slept. “Louie, this is why I refused to play, even with Howard, last eveniug. I have never touched cards since, and I never can again.” The Lake TraU*. While some steam cratl are yet in com mission, the carrying trade on the lakes for 1882 is practically ended. The num ber of lives lost and the list ot disasters, great and small, are less than in most pre vious years. Single instances of casualties attended with the loss of more than hah & dozen lives have been rare. The notable exceptions are the burning of the steamer Manitoulin and the foundering of the Asia bethjof which occurred in Georgian Bay. by the former on May 18ib between 3* aud 40 lives were lost, while by the latter over 100 persons are supposed to have per ished. Lesser noteworthy casualties oc curred on Thanksgiving day, when eight men perished on the Canadian shore of Lake Ontario near Picton, and on Lake Michigan, when the burning of the ateam- barge Peters occurred, caused the loss of 18 lives. The total number of accidents and disasters of ail classes is about 104 lor the season, with • loss of not far from l?i fives. t * I , Sllauo* on Tap. The latest wonder of the world has been discovered in the Yellowstone Park, by a person named James Carroll, who is said to be a reputable citizen of Helena, Montana Carroll says that he was m a deep gorge. Around him was a scene of grandenr, toweling cliffs and verdant vegetation. He sat down to wait for his friend-, who were to follow him into the gorge. Everything was qaiet. The stillness was oppressive. He determined to break the silence, but he soon found that he could not make even a crack in H. He called on his friends. He called again, and nearly shouted the top of his head off, bnt he cculd not hear the sound of his own voice. A panther was passing. Carroll seized his ride, and fired at the animal. Smoke came out of the rifle, and the panther crawled away wounded and bleeding, but no report came from the rifle; no sound reached Carroll’s ears. If Carrsli’s statement was not substan tiated by the evidence of others, we would believe that he was suffering from a temporary deafness, or whiskey, or that he had cotton in his ears, but that hypothesis won’t work, for his friends followed him into the gorge, aud there they all stood and became red in the face, aud got sore throats, in their efforts to have vocal ooramunication with each other. But not a sonnd could they hear. The place was so packed full of silence that they could not hear a pin drop, and they had to use signs and the deaf and dumb alphabet to express their astonishment, They explain that some peculiarity in the atmospheie there makes it a non-conductor of sound. If this is true, and we have no reason to doubt the statement of Carroll and his companions, a long-felt want will be supplied. Companies will be chartered to can this valuable atmospheie, or to saw it off in lengths, pack it m saw-dust and ship it to the busy haunts of men in the East. In families where there is a baby, a barrel of it can be kept iu the corner of the bedroom. By turning the faucet the wail of the infant will be heard no more. Think of the soothing effect of a keg of it turned loose in a ward meeting! A person might squirt a synnge full of Yellowstone Park at. mosphere ou an organ-grinder, and all his soothing strains in a moment would be but “a melancholy condensed to air,” or some bold maa might go to, say, Talmage’s church, with a can of silence, and a patent can-opener in his pocket, and the result would be that the sermon of the elegant contortionist would be a voiceless pantomime. We have ordered a keg of ii for own use, aud it makes us smile to think of the embarrassment that will clothe, as with a garment, the first man who comes into the office to read us “a little thing he dashed off last night,” and finds himself surrounded by the 'silence ot the tomb as he claws around in search of his voice. The Chestnut. A fine, stately tree is tbe chestnut, and long-lived; but its wood, unless it is cut in youth, is far inferior to oak. If it is cut before it han reached 40 or 50 years its timber is exceedingly sound, but after that period its heart becomes deceitful and brittle. ‘When it is let to stand beyond its full growth, ’ says a writer on trees, Tt is the worst ot all timber, being apt to crack and fly into splinters. ’ One variety of the chestnut produces sweet nuts: the French aud Italians roast and eat them. The trees which produce this sort of food are called sweet chestnuts. They do not yield fine nuts except they are grown in a warmer climate than ours: they thrive best where grapes ripen out of doors. The country of Devon, however, does produce this fruit, fairly large in size and good in quality, Tbe finest chestnuts, it is said, arc imported from Spain. One favored spot, where the chestnut grows to perfection, is Valambrosa, in tbe Apennines Another spot where this tree flourishes is Etna: here is the world-famed ‘Chestnut of a Hundred Civaliers,’ so call ed, because that number of horsemen, who were escorting & high-born lady to Naples, took shelter under its canopy at one time. Its girtb in 1770 was 204 feet, but it seemed as if it were a clump of five trees all m one. The cheAnut seems to like a mountain side. Olympus was once nearly shaded by these trees, ‘it is a delicate tree, as was proved by the great frost of 1700. This severe weather following on heavy rains, destroyed whole groves of chestnut trees in France. We have already said the chestnut is most valuable for its timber in youth ‘Let no one be afraid of cutting it too young,’ savs a great authority on trees. Even at tbe age of 6G years it will be found ‘ring- shaky’ within. Bat it Is a very valuable tree when felled before its prime. It is much used for the manufacture of wine- casks. It is said that wine, in these bar rels, ferments slowly, and has no nnples- sant taste of wood, and the timber ra-ists the dry rot ao common in ccll&ra. Chest nut wood is al!0 very useful for post.* and fencing. The foreigners use tbe leaves for sniffing their beds and for littering cattle. We have no idea in our country of tba great use of chestnuts to tbe poor man in the south of France and the north of Italy. The nuts are ground, and from tbe flour are made thick flat cakes porrige, and sweetmeats. Chestnut flour will keep good tor many years If put in sound air tight casks, fcugar, too, is made from the cheainut fruit. The tiee is said to have come originally from Asia Minor, and its fruit wo* well-known as the ‘Sardis nut.’ The oldest and largest chestnut in our country is that on Lord Ducie’s estate at Tortworth. It ia supposed to have been planted by the Romans. It is cited as the Old Chestnut’ in writings made In the reign ot King John.. Louis Napoloon's Strategy. It was ono of the self-delusions of Napoleon III that he had inherited his uncle’s genius as a strategist, aud he had been guilty of the .extreme folly of drawing up at Paris a plan of tbs Crimean campaign, as imbecile in con ception ns it was impossible of cxeflh- tion. When it reached General Canro- bert he onmmuuioqted it to Lord Raglan, according to instructions received, and the disciple of Wellington found no difficulty iu pointing out its defects for tbe reconsifi ration of the Emperor. It was for the carrying out of this scheme that the concentration of the French troops were ordered. TL^ famous scheme was that 60,000 troops, half of them French and half Turkish under the com mand of General Borquet and Omer Pasha, should blockade Sebastopol, without attempting to press the siege any further; that 55,000 troops half of them English and half Sardinian and Turkish, under the command of Lord Ragian, should coyer the blockading force from the mouth of the Tobernaya to Balakiava, aud that 40,000 French troops, reinforced by 25,000 more French troops, then at Constantinople, under the command of General Canro- bert, should embark for Alutcha, and march to Simpheropcl, which town they 1‘ould easily seiae, by a conp de main, and hold as the French capital of the Crimea, whence the whole peainsula would be gradually taken possession of. Lord Ragian curtly remarked, after a perusal of the paper, that the blockad ing force would be driven into tbe sea by the sorties of a garrison twice as strong as itself; that the covering force could not hold a position whose flank was turned by the garrison ; and that the expeditionary force might take Simpberopol, but that a nearer base oi operations for Sebastopol would be formed at Baghtsheh Serai. He then politely handed back the precious docu ment to General Canrobert. and never alluded to the matter again. The stars mnst nave erred in determining the lot of Napoleon III, who had in reality none of those qualities which are usually re garded as the conditions of either mili tary or imperial greatness. He pos sessed a smattering of several branches of learning, and a thorough acquaintance with none, but he was so blinded by conoeit as to be incapable of ever per ceiving that he labored under an error, ana, even when his sagacity was most evidently at fault, his self-complacency remained unshaken. All that he looked lor in such a case was a convenient way out of the troubles which he had brought about for himself and others. In this instance the way out of them was found for him. A Tramp’s Fortune. Hereafter the thoughtful-minded citizen, in view of a recent occurrence, will give heed and ear to the merry, merry tramp who accosts him with the old story of “Just a little assistance until I hear from home, where I have considerable money due me.” Some such yarn as this always accompanied the frequent demands a tramp named J«hn Whalen made upon District Attorney-elect J. D. Sullivan, of San Franciaco. Tramp Whalen generally “struck” for two bits at a time and was both consistent and persistent in his story which was this: He claimed to have a small fortune awaiting him in England, which could be secured by any one know ing how to legally claim it for him. The lellow stuck to it with such earnestness that Mr. SulHvan at last concluded that it was worth the time and postage of one letter to England. This he wroe, and while he waited an answer Tramp Whalen met the tale common to city tramps—he was arrested as a vagrant. A letter was received by Mr. Sullivan containing the surprising information that the described Whalen was entitled to £5,000, or, in tbe denomination Mr. Sullivan is accustomed to inchide in his own accounts, $24,COO. This, of course, placed Tramp Whalen in the light of a citizen whose whereabouts it was desirable to learn. The letter con tained an earnest request that Mr. Sullivan should forward his peculiar client to Eng land at once. The attorney set about hunting up the peripatetic Whalen and was not much surprised to leem that ho was m the gloomy shades of the Central Police Station, awaiting sentence as a “vag.” The plot worked admirably. Just as the attorney, as he would in a play, was preparing to rush to his distressed client, with the $26,000 information, enter a messenger with a prepaid cablegram transferring $600 for Whalen’s expenses to England. Armed with this, enter Sulli van ia Police Court No. 2. Whalen, ragged, dirty, dejected, but calm, sat in the prisoner’s dock. Judge Rosenbaum had just fixed liis judicial eye upon the “vag,” in mental debate whether to give him twenty days in the County Jail, or three months in the House of Correction, where his abilities could be turned to tne making of country roads. The attorney, with proper dramatic effects, explained the situation to the Court The Court reflected, and the poetry or dramatic unities oi souiclmug occurring to him, the Court ordered the “vag’s” discharge on condition that he leave the city and county of San Francisco witnin 24 houis. Agreed. Exit attorney and tramp Whalen was fitted out with an entire suit of new clolhee, gave himself a sur prise with a bath and a shave, and, as Mr. Sullivan rxpresses it, “He actually did not know himself.’' He visited several of hL old haunts, restaurants where he had begged meals, eta, and was locked upon as a thief in his ne a He left for England on the overland train via New York. —Tbe Mint officers note an almost unprecedented and praaistent demand for ailver dimes. Dimes ere now made only from 8,1 and 30 sent atlas and mntilsted quarters and halvas. A caterer on Meat. Fresh meat of every description should be hung up in a dry, cool place, and carefully wiped every day. It ought never to lay long in a dish. The time it should be kept varies with the weather —in cold, dry weather it will keep fresh much longer than in moist, warm weather. Game will keep longer than butcher meat—say, two weeks—birds being kept with the feathers on, but not drawn, and venison and rabbits paunched, but not skinned. Beef will require from four to ten days’ keeping, or even longer in cold weather; and mutton, if well managed, will sometimes hong a fortnight or three weeks without spoiling—the longer the better. As young meat, however—veal, lamb and mutton—spoils very quickly, one, two or three days at the utmost suffices for it. Fowls will keep for a week and turkeys a fortnight, but a goose not above nine or ten days. In plucking birds which have been kept some time, care should be taken not to break the skin, which will have become rather tender. As all animal food, however good the quality and however well it may be cooked, is uneatable stale, and. except fish, will certainly prove tough if cooked too fresh, it becomes matter of consider able difficulty, particularly during summer, to fix upon the right day for cooking a piece of meat which has been kept. It is only by daily examination and narrowly watching the change which meat undergoes tint the house wife will be able to make use of it at that stage, just short of being tainted, which is the proper oue at wliioh to cook it. This is an art wliioh can only be learned by experi nee and its successful practice evinces considerable skill, in household management. Thus, should unlooked for cold weather have pre vented the meat reaching the proper cooking state upon the day calculated on, the prudent aud active housewife will have to provide some other dinner for that day and keep the meat till next day or the next again. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon housekeepers that even the best meat, if cooked too soon, will not be nearly so tender and palatable as meat much inferior which has been kept the proper time. There are various ways of keeping meat sweet and of removing the bad smell after it has become slightly tainted, One mode is to rub it over with coarsely-pounded charcoal, which has the property of ab sorbing the putrescent gases, and thus prevents the bad smell. The charcoal must, of course, be washed off before cooking. Another way is to paint the meat all over with a solution of salicylic acid, or rubbing the meat with the dry acid is the simplest method, and will do for all household purposes. Food and Shelter on the Range*. There are in the far Western States and Territories wide areas with a pecu liarly mild c’imate. For several years in succession, both cattle and sheep are able to find their own food, and are in fairly good condition iu spring. If the climate were always like this, nothing better could be wished. But there is occasional ly a severe winter; the snow covers the grass, and the cold piercing winds drive the animals before them. Unfortunately there are no belts o timber, or brush, or even ravines in which the animals may find shelter and rest and theyjoften become exhausted and perish. Provident shepherds aud herders find that this is one of those oases iu which it is best to not “take the chances/' but to provide a store of food each autumn, as if they were sure that a hard winter would follow. In supply ing food a shelter may be provided and a double object gained. The natural grass of the ranges, though coarse, is sufficiently nutritious to keep the animals during the winter, even when allowed to die and dry where it stands. If it can be out and cured while yet parf tially green, the hay is of far better quality. The simplest way to keep the hay is to set up a row of posts, about 12 feet apart; these are to be couneoted by other sticks running along and spiked to their tops. Lighter poles are then laid from the cross-beam to the ground, towards the north side, and near enongh together to sustain the hay that may be piled upon them. This will make a lean-to shed, which, when thickly covered with hay, will afford abundant shelter, and at the same time food within reach. After a severe storm the hay may be re-adjusted, aud more, if need be, added. A more complete shelter may be made by setting up two rows of uprights 12 or 14 feet apart, using the sloping poles as before. The two rows of horizmtal cross-beams, should be connected by light polei. Tins will allow a larger amount of hay to be stored out of reach of tbe animals, and which may be used to keep the sloping portion of the shed in repair. Shelter of this kind may be made tf any needed length, and should always be so placed as to afford protection irom the severest winds. —The New Yale catalogue shows a total of 1096 students coming from sll parts of the country. All the depart ments are now equipped in an excellent manner and are in the beet working 1 order, Tbe Dead Home Festival. This amusing ceremony often takes place on board of EnKlish ships sailing to Australia. On joining a ship the sailors are advanced a month’s wages, with which they are supposed to have bought a horse, which dies at the end of four weeks. A dummy steed Is prepared in the forecastle, tbe body being an old flour barrel, the neck and head of canvas, stuffed with straw and painted. In place of a saddle, a hole is cut through the body, large enough to admit the legs of the rider. About half-past seven in the evening a small procession, headed by a man who carries a baton, furnished with a rude imi tation of a human face, issues from the forecastle. Following him is a sailor with long white whiskers, who holds a can fur penny contributions. He is protected by a number of policemen, armed with canvas dubs like those used in pantomimes, with which they lay about them as freely as a New York policeman, but with no other effect than eliciting shouts of laugh ter. The procession is closed by a number of aailors who sing jolly sea songs during the march. After the collection has been taken up, the party returns to ihe fore castle. Shortly afterward a larger procession issues from the forecastle, with a number of comic characters in addition to those just mentioned, among them the auc tioneer, in frock coat and tall hat, with a roll of papers iu his hands, and atten ded by a clerk. Immediately after the auctioneer comes the horse, ridden, or rathar carried, by a sailor dressed as a Jockey, and led by a groom. The proofs sion parades about the deck, the rider making the horse prance iu the most lively and amusing manner. The auctioneer them mounts a barrel on the quarter-deck, and after a long and laughable harangue on the merits »f the horse, puts up the animal for sale. Pre vious to all this the hat has been passed round among the passengers and officers, and ten to fifteen pounds have been col lected for the beneflt of the sailors. The bidding is spirited and amusing, and ceases when it reaches the amount collec ted, which is then handed to the sailors by one of the lady passengers. After the auction, the leading charac ters move off to the lee side, near tbe mainsail, aud a solemn dirge is chanted about the poor animal dying suddenly, each verse ending with “Poor old Horse! ’’ t he horse and rider are then hoisted to tba end of the mainyard over the ship’s side, blue-lights are let off, giving a ghastly as pect to the scene, and at a given signal the rope is cut, and the horse falls into the sea, leaving the rider suspended in the air, and floats astern in the darkness. The procession again forms and marches around the deck, the sailors singing “Rule Britannia ” ••sorry r’r Poor Folks.•• Gazing into the show-windows of a store recently was an individual wi» was considerably “corned,” and as he was attempting to balance on his heals I aud take iu the show at the same time along came a woman and child and hal ted beside him. Both were poorly dressed and evidently hard up, and the child's exclamations of delight soon at tracted the attention of the befuddled individual. “Shoyou wan’ one ’er ’em dolls in yer Chrismns stocking, eh?” he queried as he patted the child ou the head. “Oh, yes, sir, but we are poor,” she replied. “Poor, he? Too baz—too baz. Sho you want doll, he?” “Yes, sir, but I oau’t have one. Can I, ma? “No, indeed,” answered the woman, “We have hard work even to get bread.” “is that so? Tims too baz—too baz. Jus’ hoi’ on lizzie while,” He begau feeling in bis pockets for money, but the search revealed only a piece of tobacco, a bottle with a little whisky ia it, aud a pawn ticket for a watch. “Want ’er doll, eh ? Waut it pur ay bad?” “Yes, sir, but —— “You nezzer mind ’bout that! Poor, eh? Sorry f’r poor folks., No Chris- mus preseus, eh? Sorry ’bout that. Shay 1” -“Yes, air.” “You waiz righthere till I eumbaek.” He at onee pushed his way into the store, was absent about five minutes, and then returned, carrying a doll by the leg. Handing it over to tbe girl hs said : “Thas dolly f’r yon, Sony f’r poor folks—very sorry. Thas my Chrismus presens. Bun now, hard as you ean I” The woman and child hurried away, and they were only well out of sight when the man was arrested and walked off for stealing the doll. He went will ingly, calling back to the crowd : “You bez I’ll make somebody glad on Chrumus I Sorry f’r poor folks—very sorry !’’ A Cnrloas CalealaMea. Did yon ever think, asks a Paris paper, how many male and female ancestors were required to bring you into the world? First, it was necessary that yon abould have a father and mother—that makes two tinman beings. Each of them most also have had a father and mother—that mokes four human beings Each of those four must have had a father and mother—that makes eight human beiugs, Aud so we must go back for forty-six generations, which brings ua only to the time of Jesus Christ The calculation thus resulting sbows<> that 139,246,017,489,534,976 'births must have taken place in order to bring you into tbe world—yon who read these lines. But remember we are only taking the case of yourself—one human being—and there are 1,000,000, 000 of human beings In the world with the same history, and we have only car ried back the calculation to the time of Chiist How monstrous the balonlation becomes if we osrry it back 6,000 yean! How ghastly it becomes if we push it back 250,000 years, wjiioh De Mortillet and others give ss the age of the human race! Joat count three generations to a century, or thirty to ever 1.00Q yean and reckon up the history of one iudiv* idnal Imagine the number of births necessary to bring iqto existence ene member of the 7,500th generation! 1876. 1882. F. W. HABENICHT, Proprietor of the / I respectfully call the attention of the public to my superior facilities for sup plying everything U my line, of superior q'—lity. Starting business In WLms- boro in 1876, I have in all this time given tbe closet attention to my busi ness and endeavored to make my estab lishment FIRST-CLASS in every par ticular. I shall in the future, as in the past, hold myself ready to serve my customers with the best articles that cau be procured in any market I shall stand ready, also, to guarantee every article I sell. I invite an inspection of my stock of Wines, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, etc. F. W. HABENICHT. IMPORTED. Scotch Whiskey (Ramsey’s). A. Bin Lanbert and Marat Cognat Brandy. Jamaica Rum. Rotterdam Fish Gin. 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Madeline Cigar—All Havan*—10 cents. Don Carlos (Nab)—all Havana—10 cents Minerva Cigar—Havana filler—5 oents. Cheek Cigar—Havana filler—6 cents. Our Boast Cigar—Havana filler—5 oents * Lnoky Hit Cigar—Havana filler—5 cents. The Unicom Self-Lighting Cigarette, (Amber mouth-piece to every ten packages.) * The Piokwiok Club Cigarette, (Shook mouth-nieces. > .a. liiclunoudGem Cigarette, (Light smoking.) Tie oily Billiard and Pool Par- . lor in Tom. ICE! ICE! ICE! An abundance always on hand for tho use of my customers. I wil also keep a supply of FISH, OYSTERS, &G., lor my Restaurant, which is always open from the first cf September to the first of April, I shall endeavor to please all who give me acsll. Yery respectfully, F. W. HABENICHT. OPPOSITE POSTOFFO*. S|