Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y ■ r . > $$ ~ <~V; TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. AN OLD GERMAN BAI.LAD. A itiephtrd ualden lea Her lamDe Wttk mild and graceful air To greener fields of clover sweet Where daisies blossom fair, Then beard she. In the twilight’* fall, Clear and distinct the cuckoo call-r Cuokoo, cuckoo. She eat down on a grassy bank And te berselt said aim— “ To pass the time, I’ll count to know How long my life shall-oe. A hundred—ten”—nor was that all, For still she heard the cuckoo call, Cuckoo. The shepherd maiden jingry grew; Up from the grass she sprang, Caught up her stall and ran With speed To wher| the epickoo sang. He saw, knd to Ae wood he flew, While echoed back his call—cuckoo I Cuckoo. „ She followed him with lifted staff Still in an angry mood, , And when she turned, sue still could hear His voice within the wood. She banted him from tree to tree, . 0 ,yet he called out merrily, r.v > cuckoo. Tired with her chase among the trees, Impatiently cned she— « Sing, If you like, your hateful song, Tls all the same to me 1” Turning, she met her shepherd swala, \\ ho, laugBlng, echoed the refram; Cuckoo, cuckoo. iL.r \ SBLF1SH JOHN CLARK. The meeting was a good one in spite of the intense heat, and there was more singing done by mosquitoes than by the human species. John (Jlark sat by an open window, where what breeee there was came in and kept him comparatively comforta ble, nod then he had on a clean suit which his ’rife had wflfchtSfi fintf ironed that day, notwithstanding the mercury monnted high in the nineties, and its freshness was an additional comfort. His first crop of hay, much larger thau usual, had that day been put in his spacious barms without damage by so much as a drop of rain. He was well, strong, prosperous, and therefore happy. The ride home was charming, and as the new horse took tb <n through (Jhiruley Woods, with sure, fleet feet, he felt that life was very bright; and as he thought of .Brother White’s remarks about “wtary burdens,” “feet tired with the march of life,” he concluded that the aforesaid brother was not in the enjoyment of religion. John’s wife sat back iu the carriage, resting her tired body and turning over in her mind the remarks he~ John had made at the ineetfcig. “B- sr ye one auothers ourdens,” had 1" tfu*: uVject of the eveniug’s talk, t .< £ >eech had been listened to wi.ii < •' relish. “Tour huso&nd hfcs i!'j r >f of the matter in him,” said tb'- -etor, as she passed out. “I hop.’ c shall all take heed to his well-tirueu words.” “I think of h> ing Tom Birch as a sort of spare hand and call boy gene rally. 1 hud this hot weather takes the starch out of me,” John said, as the horse trotted through the cool pine grove, amid flickers of moonlight. “Will you board him?” asked Mary Clark, in a constrained voide, with the memory of her husband’s exhortations still in mind. “Of course. I want him evenings to take the horse when we come irom meeting, or if I have taken a friend out It v rather hard to go to work directly one gets home. ” “Yon are to hire him to bear some of your burdens,” said Mary, in the same hard voice. J . •‘Just so, wife. It stands me in hand to practice, if I preach; don’t you say ■of** “I do. I am glad you are to have help; as yon say, it is hard to go to work the minute you get home. 1 have been foolish enough to have this ride spoiled by thinking of bread to mix, two baskets of clothes to fold before 1 sleep, of the ironing to-monow, and dinner to get for four hungry men, and baby to care for.” “Don’t crowd to-morrow’s burdens into this pleasant ride. And it seems to me that it would bo better to get all your bouse-work done before meeting time. “if I could, but that is Impossible; milk to strain, dishes to wash, Beany and baby to put to bed— all these duties come together, aud then I am tired enough to go to bed tnylelft “Take it easy, Mary; keep cool, avoid all the hot work you can.” “I wish I Could *have a girl, John]” “Mother uhedjto say girls were more hindrance than' help. I 'guess you would And them so, and then they great men of the town. At supper time he come home with the new reaper behind the wagon. “By takiug two we made a handsome saving; and, as I intended to bay one, I thought I might as well take it now,” he remarked, by way of explanation, “ft will save time aud strength aud pay for itself in a year." Muy made no comment, but set her teeth tightly together when she remembered that she had asked w vain for something to make her work easier. A sewing machine had been pronounced “hurtful; better have fewer changes of clothing than run a machine,” John had decided when the subject was dis cussed; “a clothes wringer would be constantly getting out of order. To bring water into the house, would be just to spoil the water. Nothing, after all, like the good old bucket. Mother would never have a pump in her dayl” “My mother used to say all men are selfish, and I begin to think she was right,” Mary muttered as she went to the kitchen for the plate of hot biscuit John was so fond of for his tea. Her husband s appetite was good, but from fatigue and overheating herself, Mary could not eat. His ride and the society of the genial squire had acted like a tonic, but there is no tonic in the air of a hot kitchen, “A commonplace life,” she said, and she sighed, as rhe cleared away the tea dished, while John tilted back in his arm chair on the cool, draughty porch and talked over things with neighbor Jones. “Why don't you buy Widder Patch’s cranberry medder?” asked Mr. Jones; “it’s going dirt cheap, and you can af ford it. ” Tpe sum was named, figures that astonished Mary, and she was more surprised when she heard her husband say: ‘T’ve half a mind to do it. I’ve just had an old debt paid m, and, to tell the truth, affairs in the money market are so squally, I don’t know just where to salt it down.” No tears came into Mary’s tired eyes, but her heart went out in one mighty sob as she stood, dish-pan in hand, be fore the disordered table, and thought how cheaply she had sold herself, really for $2 a week and her board, to the man who had promised to love and cherish her until death. The beautiful piano she had brought to the farm was never opened, but looked like a gloomy casket in which was buried the poetry of life. The closed “best parlor"’ had long siuce assumed the grim ness aud mustiuess of country best parlors, of which in her girlhood she had made so much fun. John was a rich man, and in spite of his marriage vows and bis glowing prayer-meeting talk, was allow ing burdens grievous to be borne, to press on her shoulders, jn order to “salt down” his dollars. Had she not the duly te perform? Ought she to allow him to preach and never to practice? Had she not rights to be respected? which were not by her hnsband; for, she reasoned, if he al lowed her to do what could be done by an ignorant Irish woman for 82 a week, then he rated her at that price. “Widder Patch has had a tough time on’t,” said neighbor Jones; “she is goiug to the West’rd to Tom, if she sells the medJer, and Jane is going out to work. “She’s tried sewing, but it don’t agree with her, and Dr. Snow recommends housework as healthy business.” “’Tis healthy business,” chimed in John. “Now my wife is a good deal better thau when I married her. Why, she never did a washing in her life until she came to the farm. I think washing and general housework is much better than piano playing and reading.” “So L say to the girls, who pester me to buy an organ; better play on the wash board, enough sight, was the ele gant response. Are you going to buy the cranberry meadow John?” Mary asked, as she saw her husband making preparations to go from home. “Yes—why?” “(Jan you afford it?” “We shall have to figure a little closer in order to do it, but it is going cheap. ” You will have to give up Tom Birah, won’t you and do the chores yourself?" “I have thought of it, but Tom is poor, and to give him a home is a deed of charity. No, we will save some other way." “How much do you pay Tom?” “Three dollars and his board. And, at once took upon Herself many of Mrs. Clark’s cares, and no one greeted her more aordially than the master of the house. Nothing was ever said about hex coming, aud Tom Birch did not go 'iary knew that her hnsband could well afford the expense. She told me how she helped to make one man thoughtful and unselfish, as we sat on her cool piazza one .hot August night; and I was glad that one woman had grit enough to demand her rights. If John Clark had been poor, his wife would have borne her burden iu patience, but she had no right to help make him selfish, and indifferent as to her health and comfort. Mr. Bauerott's Komi. waste and break more thanJUlfitf wages, by- the wav, be says you didn’t wash I don’t see how 1 can afford a^girl. Do his clothes. Washing and what you can, and leave some things undone; that’s the way to work it/’ and John sat back with a satfefled air, and Mary thought of her husbands glowing words in the prayetrmeeting. *T will do all I can,” said Mary, in a weary voice. “What 1 ’am obliged lo do is much beyond my strength. The three meals come near together, washing and ironing must be done, baby shall not be neglected, and of course 1 must keep thejolothes wel mended,” “One tiring at a time is the way to think of your duties. Pick up all the comf o.-t you o&n as you go along, have made up my mind to do so in the future.” ‘ •Bo I sec, by your thinking of having an extra hand. “Yes. 1 feel that I most take care of my health for your sake and the childrens'/ “Certainly,” Mary answered ip a sar castic tone, “how thoughtful you are lor us!” Jonn made no farther comment, but inwardly wished that prayer meetings did Mary the good they had once, and wondered why his wife was so changed. “I am going with ’Squire Towne to see a reaper, he says he hardly wants to buy without my opinion." This Wats uv wi next day. John left his wife ironing, with the half-siek baby sitting by the table in the company of an army of flies; and in spite of the home soene, enjoyed his nde along the pleasant road, well pleased to be seen so much with the Washing and mending was in the bargain.” “I think Tom will have to go, for I have hired Jane Patch. She will be here to-n/ght. Two dollars a week I am to give her. You want to practice Bear yeoue another’s burdens/ as well as preach from the text, so 1 will give you a chance. I will take my turn iu sitting on the cool piazza after tea with a neighbor, while you do the chores. I think the time has come for some of my burdens to be lifted. By exchang ing Tom for Jaue you will have $1 a week for the orauberry meadow. You say strong, active Tom is iu need of a home; he can make one for himself anywhere. It is a deed of charity to give Jane a home, and an act of mercy to give your wife a little rest.” Before John could recover from his astonishment, Mary walked out of his sight, and taking the children, went to the shut-up parlor. Throwing open the windows to let in the soft summer air, with the baby iu her lap, she sat down at her piano and began to play “a song without words,’’ a piece John had loved to hear when he used to visit her in her home, where she was a petted girl. The song crept out through the open windows aqd around to John as he sat on the porch, and memory com pelled him to give the song word. Not musical poetry, but rather sober prose, wherein washing, ironing, hard days ,at the churn, hours of cooking for hun gry men, stoodo nt before his mind’s eye in contrast- to the fair promisee he had made the pretty girl he had won for his bride. Jans Patch came that evening, ant* Mr. Bancroft the Historian, who resides in Washington has a hobby. It is rose culture. Fancy this ot a man who spends bis days in setting up the dry bones of fsets, and breathing into them the life of history 1 His winter home is a double brown-stone, and had originally a small strip ot ground on each side of the entrance. There was one blaze of color from Febru ary to June, buck hyacinths surely never bloomed outside of a poem; and the tulips looked as if some tropical bird Lad been plucked near by, and its plumage scattered broadcast over the over the beds. Every shade aud color m nature’s paint-box was represented; and under the wooing sun and soft air of midwinter they thrust up from the mold long before the leaves were out or the spring prince had kissed the sleeping world to life; and in tbc snows and storms that follow such a weather- truce they would stand erect and glowing and hold their ground until the green was washed into the hills, and the cat-tails be gan to frisk on the trees. But all of this was only a prelude to his rose garden. He bought a large lot which joined his property at right angles, lacing on Seventeenth street; of course he paid a fancy price for it, as it was in 'he heart of the West End. Straightway he planted it ail in roses. Such flowers! They ranged in color from tbe palest bloom of Provence to the passionate heart of the Jacqueminot; M&rechal Niel bends in stately courtesy to Marie Gillot, and sighs in perfume for the GToth-oMJod and the memories of the Malmaison; Madame Melsh shakes her petals at tbe While Croquet, the Attar rose, the pale Safrona, and the Damask Blush, the Micratlila lifts up its white cups to the sun, and Maria Cook i&ints in the glow of a sisterhood whose very names 1 have forgotten. The garden is like a tem ple where a thousand spices are burning iu flames of as many colors, aud the venera ble historian is the worshipper. He is au early riser, and many a morn - ing 1 have been awakened by cries and comments, incoherent as to words, but ringing with pleasure! I would go to my window, and there,bending over rose after rose, would be the slight, elastic figure of their adorer—his wlute beard and liair sweeping the freshness from then chalices, and getting the first perlumes of the young day. He carried a book m one hand and “a three-legged stool” in the other, and spent two or three hours just wandering from bush to bush in an ecstacy of content —sometimes kissing the flowers,sometimes caressing them with his tinkers, and fre quently dropping on his stool under sofine specially odorous cluster to read his book to the accompaniment—sound sense and sweet scents! His bouse at Newport is surrounded by a sea »t bloom and fragrance,and be makes his roses the calendar by which he tells off bis seasons. He stays in Washington until June and tbe Jacqueminots die together; then he flies to his northern garden, where he lingers until the hardkest of its denizens are dead and the ghosts of their petals fall in snow from the clouds of November. His house in Washington is stored with inter esting things, the specialty being that there is one of everything and that one of the very best. His hospitality is lavish and elegant, and his library what Ruskin would call “A tomb of the kings.” in build the historian is, as I have said,shgh his hair and beard are like cream colored silk, his dark eyes tender with the fires of thirty, and his movements are quick and graceful. He rides every day on a fiery black hone, and can tire out his young companions in a hard trot every time. Cat Flailing. v Some years ago, says a writer I had a cat whose fishing proclivities and fondness for the water was, to say the leant of it, extraordinary. Her ecoen tHcities, so far as 1 know them, dated from the first moment I saw her. A friend and myself were fishing in aforty acre lake, in a large park, on s . itter November day, with the wind a dead nor’ easier. Just as we were thinking of desisting, about 4 o’clock ip the after noon, ray friend called my attention to a half-grown kitten which stood mewing bitterly on the bank some 80yards from us. We called it onoe or twice, and, to onr surprise, it took to the water without the slightest hesitation and swam to the boat. After drying it as well as we could, we wrapped it up in old rug, and gave it some of the bait from the punt’s well, which it devoured greedily. I took it home after its very Arthurian advent, but it never became a domestic animal. Tabby’s chief delight, on tho contrary, was to wander in and out the sedges of the stream, by which my nouse stands catching rats, moor hens, or sedge warblers, and in summer to pouch in the sh-ilows for small fish. I have frequently found her doing this, and my bait oau was never safe unless actually fastened, for even if the lid were down, somehow my lady Tabby would get it up aud be at tbe contents in a trice. 1 kept ber some four years, and at last was forced to shoot her, for she took to game poaching in right good earnest, and ended by living in a rabbit’s burrow, from which, after trying to coax without success, she was incontinently draws aud shot. 1 have often thought she was a forest-bom cat, of parents getting their sustenance in the coverts, and living there as cats will often do, after the first departure from virtue iu he direction of game poaching. Society may be considered with re gard to the joys and troubles of dining, as divided into three greet zones or sec tions, whereof one alone is for the most part greatly exercised with the daily prob lem :—“What shall we oat?” There is, on the one hand, a privileged and much- envied class that can eat pretty nearly whatever it chooses, and which leaves the task of selecting and providing the dishes for the chef meal of the day to some trusty subordinate. The unfortu nate persons who belong to thiaaection have usually a chief who .■«<«* found out what are their favorite viands, and who with a moderate share of ingenuity can compose each day a bill of fare with which the master or mistress of the house will be pleased, or at least conten ted. Very possibly this class may not be so large as the vulgar herd suppose, and a glance into the interior sanctum of some fine house might discover a Cabinet Minister or the wife of a Knight of the Garter engaged in the undigni fied and nnstatesmanlike proceeding of holding a morning colloquy with the cook. But the class, wehther large or small, undoubtedly exists, and one of the most notable specimens of it was the great Duke of Wellington, who was never observed either to know or care what he was eating, and would haye found it far more difficult to draw up a menu than to win a pitched battle in tbe field. Ou the other hand, there is the class of unfortunates—or fortu- nates, as the philosophers call them— whose fare is regulated by a very simple rule, for it cousists of what they can get. Not only prisoners aud pensioners, school-boys and lodgers in seaside boarding-houses, must put up with tbe food that is set before them by their caterers, but a large member of per fectly independent subjects of her Ma jesty, living in their own dwellings, are reduced to a similar Necessity, and spared the difficulty of making a choice. The cottager who has invested a suitable share of his Saturday wages in a joint is thereby oommittod to a diet which he cannot vary for the next two or three days, or at least can only vary, if he dines at home, by cutting a different vegetable from day to day from his garden. But between these two ex tremes lies tbe broad zone, including the whole of the middle classes, of those who have daily to answer, either personally or by deputy, the question, “What will you havefor dinner to-day?” Now, to a great many managers of house-holds—young wives, especially, and nervous widowers this question is fraught with untold terrors. It is the one great trial of the day, never fully provided against, ever new though al ways old, a perpetual anxiety and exer. else for the mind, whose inventive powers seem somehow or other to be never in so slack a condition as at the moment when the inevitable house keeper appears with the well-known formula cn her lips. No amount of expenence or practice can overcome the absence of that originality which is es sential to a good domestic caterer, but which Nature has denied to so many worthy ladies capable of excelling in all other departments of the housewife’s krt For the epicure, or at least the female epicure, is bom, not educated ; and no amount of teaching in the most approved school of cookery will atone for the absence of that essential quali fication that the orderer of a dinner should feel an interest in the work. Thus it is that the wife who is deficient in this natural gift may be haard among her most intimate friends entreating to to be posted up in some nice new dishes which will serve to ornament aud en liven her bill of fare for a month or so to come. Lists are then made eat, or pencil marks scored against the recom mended delicacies in that cookery book which the uninventive housewife never fails to have at "hand. Bat the entrees and entremets which looked and tasted so nice at the friend’s house, present very often quite a different appearance and flavor at home ; and the expected successes are as often as not dismal fai lures, especially when any part'color merit is expected in them. This sad result will sometimes follow even “in the best regulated households,” and when the oook is not only competent but honestly desirous of giving the uew experiment a fair trial. But how many cases are there where this autocrat of the lower regions is either unable or unwilling to achieve the proposed feat I Kleptomuaia. We must learn te infuse sublimity into trifle*; that is power. Flattery is him false money, it impov erishes those who receive it. It is a great point of wisdom to know how to cstimat* little things. M.. Pierre Giflard gives some inter esting information about that fashiona ble disease known as kleptomania. He says tbat no less than 4000 women are annually caught stealing from Paris counters, and the number of titled ladies seized with kleptomania while examining the fashions is almost in credible. Among recent culprits were a Russian princess, a French countess, an English duchess, and the natural daughter of a reigning soveraign. Of course, people of this quality never appear in the police court, but arrange a quiet settlement with the proprietors, often making a round contribution, occasionally aa much ms 92,b0C, for the relief of the poor, as a condition of being let oft The police authorities, it appears, oonseni to such settlements. Wayne, State of Michigan,who is going be terribly astonished before the year 1888 is more than a month old. The law will reach out and clasp his throat just above the Adam’s apple, and he will get such a stoking up and mopping around that he will seem to feel his heels beating a tatoo on the back of his neck. They were in to see a lawyer -Mary Ann and her mother. Mary Ann was a little embarrassed, but the old woman waa calmness itself. When they spoke about a breach of promise case tbe lawyer ask ed: “What evidence have you got?” “Mary Ann, produce tbe letters, ’’com manded the mother, and the girl took the cover off a willow basket and remarked that she thought 927 letters would do to begin ou. The other 651 would be pro duced as eoan as the case was fairly before the court. “And outside of these letters? ’’ queried the lawyer. “Mary Ann produce your diary, ” said the mother. • ‘Now turn to the heading of “Promises,” and tell him how many times this marriage business was talked over. n “The tooting is 214 times,” answered the girl “New turn to the heading of ‘Darling, ’ and give us the number of times he has ap plied the term to you. ” “If I have figured right the total is 9254 times.” “1 guess you counted pretty straight, for you are good iu arithmetic. Now turn to the beading ot ‘Woodbine Cot tage, ’ and tell us how many times he has talked of such a home for you after marriage/ “The footing is 1,395 times.” “Very welL This lawyer wants to be sure that we’ve got a case. Hew many times has Charles Henry said he would die tor you? ” “Three hundred and fifty,” answered the girl as she turned over a leaf. “How many times has he called you an angel?” “Over 11,000, mamma.” “How about squeezing hand? ” “Over 384,000 squeezes. ” “And kisses?” “Nearly 417,000. “There's our easel” said the mother, as she deposited basket and diary on the law yers table. “Look over the documents, and if you want anything further, i can bring in a dozen neighbors to swear to the facets. We sue for 810,000 damages, and we dont settle for less than an eighty acre faun, with building in good repair. We’ll call agaiu next week—good-day, sir!” Co« at HuuniuK Cliurolie*. New York’s total church expenses foot up about six million live hundred thous and dollars each year. Tbe figures in clude the pay of pastors, the building fund, the cost of running the various churches and the outlay for missions and all benevolent purposes. The Ro man Catholics lead the list. They haye some seventy-five churches, and their total annual out-lay xs estimated at two millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, half of which goes in charity. The Episcopalians come next. They have seventy-nine churches and chapels, with twenty-five thousand five hundred communicants. Their outlay is oue million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars—six hundred thousand dollars for church expenses, aud five hundred and fifty thousands dollars for benevo lent purposes. Alter the Episcopalians come the Presbyterians, with sixty churches, having a membership of twenty-one thousand five hundred, and an expense of seven hundred and ninety- five thousand dollars something over half of which is for church purposes.” The Methodists have sixty-five churches, but their membership is only thirteen thousand three hundred, and their total expenses are set down at two hundred and forty-three thousand dollars—two hundred thousand dollars being for church purposes. The Baptists, with thirty-six churchs and a membership of twelve thousand seven hundred, ex< pend nearly one hundred thousand dol lars more than the Methodists, their en tire outlay being three iranurod and twenty-eight thousand dollars. The Dutch Relormed aud the Lutheran com bined have forty-one churches, with a membership of sixteen thousand, and their expenses foot up three hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars. The Con- gregationallsts have only six churches, with two thousand four hundred mem bers, aud a total expense list of ninety- six thousand dollars. Next come the Jews, and they make a very good show ing. They have nineteen tabernacles, with a declared membership of three thousand (the regular attendance, though, is at least four times that num ber) aud an expense of over three bundled thousand dollars. Sympathetic jiutiee. A gentleman was arraigned before an Arkansaw justice on a charge of obtain ing money yinder false pretenses. He had entered a store, pretending to be a cus tomer, but proving to be a thief. “Your name is Jim Lickmore,” said (he justice “Yes, sir.” “And you are charged with a crime that merits a long term in tbe pen itentiary? ’ “Yes, sir.” “And you are guilty of the crime?” “I am.” “And you ask for no mercy?” “No, sir.” •You have had a great deal of trouble within the last two years?” “Yes, sir, I have.” “You have olten wished that you were dead?” “I have, please your Honor.” “You wanted to steal money enough to take you away from Arkan saw?” “You are right, Judge.” “If a man had step A up and shot you just as you entered tbe store you would ha . e said: ‘Thank you, sir/” “Yes, sir, I would. But, Judge, how did you find out so much about me?” “Borne time ago,” said the Judge with a solemn air, “I was divorced from my wife. Bhcrtly after you married her. Tho result is con clusive. 1 discharge you. Here, take this $50 bill. You have suffered enough.” A cheerful face Is near.y as good for an invalid aa healthy weather. The greatest evidence ol demoraliza tion is the respect paid to wealth. ' All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a rained edifies before one single word. The mouth of the river, when we had gone near enough to have a good view of it from a headland, made a very noble picture. The green hills on the south slope gradually to a well-turfed base, hiding the beach, but rbowing a long sand-spit running out almost across the very entrance of the little bay, be hind wliloh are calm shadows. The northern headland, on the other hand, stands iu bold outline—a point of sheer cliff jutting between the ocean and the river. Yet the charge of those waves rolliug from the spicy archipelagoes of the great Bouth Sea, or from the bleak coast of Tartarv, is met, not by this mole, but by au outer row of gigantic, isolated rooks, overtopping the tide as the stones of Oarnao rear their heads above the level plain, and the imagina tion can easily -believe some giant of old, more powerful than the Druids,tei have planted' them as a breakwater guarding the harbor? Around their base curls the angry foam of swift- oharging/.impotent breakers, and they glory in the snowy clouds of spray that envelop their flanks, for thus the rage of the mightiest of oceans, is proved ineffectual, aud the tamed waves sink behind them into sullen peace upon the weedy shore. Such was the broad landscape of the region where we cast our lot these pleasant June days, and watched the cutting of the big trees. Tradition says that credit for the very first attempt to make lumber with a saw in this region (for the Russians hewed all their iieams and planks) be long to John Dawson and Bodega. Dawson was one of three sailors who abandoned their ship at San Francisco, as early as 1880, preferring ihe free aud easy life of the Calfornians. In two or three years they became citizens under the Mexican government, aud took up granted ranches hereaway, Dawson marrying the daughter of a Spanish dragoon officer. She was only fourteen when she went to live as mis tress of the Canada de Pogoloine, and only seventeen when she found herself the richest widow in Northern Califor nia. Dawson’s lumber was cut over pits by means of a rip saw, winch he handled without help. Not half a century later, steam mills iu this dis trict are turning out two hundred thou sand feet of lumber daily. Animal* Aifamai Foreau, The destruction of tress and shrubs aud consequent bare, bleak, dry, un productive aud unhealthy present con dition of the islands and districts oi Greece and the regions around, onoe famous for their charms and shade, ver dure, fertility and popuiouunees is charged to the browzrag of goats. Tho new government of Cypruss is consider ing bow these animals can best be re duced or eonfinod. Goats were intro duced into another English island— Saint Helena, within a century, and the trees and shrubbery suddenly and rapidly died off so soon as they began to be numerous. The same obstacle in a different and less degree is a rock of stumbling in our attempts at forestry. A ciiief item of expense iu many situa tions is that of fencing in the ground planted, until the trees attain a size unattackable by cattle. For best re sults, close planting and entire exclu sion of animals are preferable. On most forms pasture is at times an ut most necessity. Every rod of ground that will yield any at all must be util ized. If there is no grass the foliage and even the stems of trees must serve. Henoe, with the best of intentions for conservation, some uuluoky day or pinching season occurs, when the hith erto well nursed plantation is browsed, broken aud greatly injured, if not ruined. Venus iu janimry. Venus is morning star throughout the mouth. Though she has had to descend from the proud position she occupied at tbe time of the transit, she is still the fairest and brightest of the starry throng that makes the morning sky tremulous with brightness. Venus makes a superb appearance now in the easthern sky in the morning. Every lover of the stars who beholds her beaming faoe about the 9th of the month will be fully repaid for the trouble of getting up early, the prioe demanded for exhibition. She then reaches her period of greatest brilliancy on the western side of the sun. She has two of those periods, oda thirty-six days before inferior conjunction, when she is evening etar, and the other thirty-six days after inferior conjunction, when she is morning star. In the former case seen in the telescope, she appears as a waning orescent, like the old moon. In the latter she appears as a waxing crescent, like the new moon. On the 19th Venus is in oonjnnotoin with Eta Ophiuchi, a star in the constellation of the Serpent Bearer, being two degraes north. The planet and star will be at their nearest point at 11 o’clock in the evening, when they are below the hori zon. They will be sufficiently near to be worth getting up to see on the morn ing of the 20th, when Venus rises not far from 4 o’clock. Venus rises about a quarter before 5 o’clock in the morning; at the end of the mouth she rises a few uiutes after 4 o’clock. Shark Jewelry. Industrial art now emp'^ya the skins of certain sharks for sleev. outtons and the like—these, when dried and polish ed, almost equalling the choicest stones, and greatly resembling the fossil coral poritas. Toe vertebra of the shark are always in demand for canes. The open ing filled with marrow during life is for this purpose fitted with a steel or iron rod, the aide openings are filled with mother-of pearl, and, when polished, the cane is decidedly ornamental, I respectfully call the attention of the public to my superior facilities for sup plying everything lx my line, of superior quality. Starting business In "Winns- boro in 1876, I have in all this time given the 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 beet articles that can 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. P. W. HABENICHT. IMPORTED. Scotch Whiskey (Ramsey’s). A. Bin Laubert and Marat Cognas Brandy. Jamaica Rum. Rotterdam Pish Gin. Ross’s Royal Ginger Ale, Jules Munun A Co.’s Champagne, Control A Cochran’s Ginger Ale, Apollinaris Mineral Water. Angustora Bitters. Old Sherry Wine. Old Port Wine. DOMESTIC. Ginger Ale. Soda Water. Sarsaparilla. Old Cabinet Rye Whiskey. Old Schuylkill Rye Whiskey. The Honorable Rye Whiskey. Old Golden Grain Rye Whiskey. Renowned Standard Rye Whiskey. Jesse Moore Vollmer Rye Whiakey, Old N. 0. Sweet Mash Com Whiskey. Old Stone Mountain Corn Whiskey. Western Corn Whiskey. Virginia Mountain Peaeh Brandy. New England (French’s) Rum. North Carolina Apple Brandy. Pure Blackberry Brandy. Pure Cherry Brandy. Pure Qingsr Brsndy. Boston Swan Gin. SUNDRIES. Book and Bye. Osceola Bitters. Ho#tetter’s Bitters. Bergner A Engel’s Lager Beer, in patent stopper bottles and on draught. New Jersey Sweet, Sparkling Cider. Tolu, Bock A Bye, Lawrence A Martin. Stoughton Bitters. Bock and Corn. Cigars and Tobacco Syndicate Cigar, 5 cents. The Huntress Cigar, 2| cents. Madeline Cigar—All Havana—10 cents. Don Carlos (Nub)—all Havana—10 cents Minerva Cigar—Havana filler—5 cents. Cheek Cigar—Havana filler—5 cents. Our Boast Cigar—Havana filler—5 cents* Lucky Hit Cigar—Havana filler—6 cents. Ihe Unicam Self-Lighting Cigarette, (Amber month-piece to every • ten packages.) -a The Pickwick dob Cigarette, iflhr.ck mouthpieces.) The Richmond Gem Cigarette, (Light smoking.) ft only BillM ail Pool Par lor i Ton Li ii ICE! ICE! ICE! An abundance always on hand for tho use of my customers. I wil also keep a supply of FISH, OYSTERS, &G, for my Restaurant, which is always open from the first of September to the first of April I shall endeavor to please all who give me a call. Very respectfully, F. W. HABENICHT. 1 OPPOSITE POSTOFKHS.