The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, February 24, 1883, Image 1
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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.
WINNSBORO. S. U. FEBRUARY 24. 1883.
ESTABLISHED 1848
BURDENED WITH SORROW.
Burdened witn sorrow,
Feariug tbe morrow.
My heart la sighing,
Jssos, tor Thee.
Errors confound me,
Terrors surround me,
Fainting and flying.
Succor Thou me.
neartslck and weary,
Tatb long and dreary,
Desolate, lonely.
Death-threatened now;
Waters high-swelling.
Succor compelling,
Refuge, Thou only:
Jesus, hear Thou.
Hated, forsaken.
From Judgment taken,
O Thou cross-bearer,
Mockingly crowned;
Bleeding and wounded,
By foes surrounded,
Still a Friend fairer
Mortal ne’er found.
Scoffed at, uplifted,
Thy flesh spear-rifted.
Thieves there beside Thee,
Dying for me 1
Crimson Thy raiment.
Making sin’s payment.
Sure, Thou wilt hide me ;
Refuge wilt be 1
THE TWO SHIPS.
Indeed am I sweetly blessed, Mis-
tiess MVra.
“I should not pause to reck how deep
my love, that I should dare—dare' and
win, ah, mel a jewel that I have no
right to wear.
“1 am but a lad with empty pockets;
only that Heaven has given me h'ealth
of iron and these strong arms, truly
were I poor ”
‘'Nay, Julian, and may not the kind
Heaven that has given thee these also
bless what they may do?”
"Gome—and the girlish voice was
bantering—"have you won my heart to
pine upon it and thrust it back again?”
"Heaven grant otherwise, my Myra!”
Happy lovers they, standing side by
side on tbe vessel’s clean deck, seeming
to gase on the dark ocean around them,
yet really looking inward at their own
true hopeful soms. *
Among the pions pilgrims who weigh
ed anchor from Cowes, in the Isle of
Wright, to plant the banner of religions
freedom in tbe wilderness of Maryland,
1633, there was one unlit for the pro
tection of that God to whom all prayed
us they faced the, perils of their histori
cal voyage.
fteja^r&puiiards or ©raising Turks
Sy greedily almost directly in the course
of the two staunch vessels, the "Ark*’
and the "Dove;” storms and privations
they could not avert, but heroically
anticipated.
Our interest lies in the "Ark”, the
better manned, better armed of the
two. ,
On board was a lovely orphan, follow
ing her guardians when they forsook
home and kindred to worship after the
oiotates of their own hearts—her name,
Myra.
She was loved by everyone, and worth
ily, for her purity was even lovelier
than her face.
Especially dear was she to Julian
Grange,
And when it was observed that Myra
regarded him favorably before all others,
they yielded the field to the handsome
youth. .
Only one demurred in his callous
heart and mentally vowed that Julian
and she should never wed,
Peter Hardy had been an open suitor
was promptly rejected by both guar
dians and maiden, for kis countenance
was verily that of a rogue,
Three days following St. Cecilia’s
Day a violent storm arose.
Jost how it happened none oonld tell
—but, above the roar of the tempest and
crush of waves, the shuddering cry went
up—
"Man overboard I"
At the same instant Myra was seen
running across the rolling deck and
shrieking piteously—
"Julian! Julian'”
It required strong arms to restrain
her from throwing herself into the rag
ing waters.
"I want my Julian!”
".Let me go with him!” she wailed, as
they forced her safely to the oabin.
"He is my Jolianl my love! Oh, he is
lost—lost!”
Onoe she saw a chalky-white face
with a pointed nose and baleful twink
ling eyes—the eyes of Peter Hardy;
and he grinned infernally at her, even
in her misery.
Taen ensued a blessed blank, and
she lay delirious on her couch.
History has recorded that terrible
tempest, the mad tossing of the "Ark,’
the pleading prayers preparatory to
the seeming inevitable shipwreck—
prayers that were answered Dy Heaven
*♦ last, still the deep, and giving joy to
every pions breast.
"But the "Dove,” their consort had
vanished.
She was given np as lost for ever.
While matters were righting on the
shipboard, Peter Hardy, in a myste
rious way, beckoned the captain aside.
‘A word with you. ’
"What have you to say, Master
Peter?”
Peter looked slyly from his little
twinaling eyes.
"I have heard it said that John, the
sailor, lost his cop and knife?”
"Yes.”
"And Rioh&rd, the cook, has l*>t
some silken hose?"
"True.”
"And, Mistress Myra—mind thee—
cannot find anywhere a golden bracelet
that was hers, a gift from her dying
mother.”
"Well, and what of all this, Master
Peter?”
Peter’s lean fingers beckoned towards
the cabin.
"Oh, come with me, that your own
eyes may discover what I but half sus
pected.”
Togethei they entered tiie cab’n.
By one of the berth’s was Julian's
chest fast locked.
"You are captain,” said Peter, point
ing.
"Julian Grange is dead; the key is
gone with him. Open that and see
what yon may find.”
The captain hesitated.
But at last the chest was forced, and
there amid Julitn’s tidy clothing lay
cup, knife, hose, ana Myra’s golden
bracelet.
Unfortunate Julian I
Soon afterwards, those who had
mourned his loss were angrily shaking
their heads.
Julian, then, was the thief; and even
to steal the bauble of his own true
lady-love—that seemed unmanliest of
all
# "It was not he,” aeciared Myra sadly.
"I do not—you must not believe it of
him, I pray.”
'‘My Julian was too good, too noble,
too God-fearing for any crime.”
When not quite two month later the
"Ark” arrived at Barbadoes, seeking
provisions, the people weie so inhos
pitable and extravagant in their oharges
that the captain himself, with three
others went ashore to negotiate.
One of thp three was Peter Hardy,
whose reputation for driving a good
bargain was well known.
Night came on before they oonld re
turn to their boat.
The captain urged haste, for in that
January of 1684 there was a pending
insurrection among the slaves for mur
der and pillage.
Their haste was. too late.
Even as they reached the shore a
horde of yelling, frenzied beings poured
out upon them.
There ensued a terrible fray.
Bravely they fought—fought until
every bandolier was emptied; but one
after an-dFor went down before the
bloodthirsty assailants.
In desperation the captain sprung
toward his moored boat.
"Save mel Save mel” screeched the
voice of Peter Hardy, directly beneath
his feet.
it was a hazardous task, but by
superhuman exertion the captain reach
ed his vessel, bringing with him Peter
Hardy.
Peter was badly wounded—dying,
pronounced the doctor.
When he realised that thare was no
hope, he summoned the captain .and a
holy man to his side.
"Let me confess,” he gasped, pain
fully.
"I cannot die with snob sin as mine
untold.” *„
"My own hands pushed Julian Grange
into the sea.”
"My own hands stole what was n
Julian Grange’s chest.”
"I had a key that fitted cleverly.”
"But forgive me now I implore.”
“I loved Myra.”
"When I saw that she was not for
me, 1 hated him who outranked me in
her heart.”
"At times I fear I dared to hats her
too."
"1 am dying.”
"Forgive —”
The wretch died while speaking.
The conspiracy of the slaves was dis
covered in time to utterly suppress it
and the “Ark” lay tranquilly in harbor
when one bright morning there was a
clangor of trumpets, and the air quav
ered with glad shouts from all oa board.
The “Dove”—thd' mourned vessel
that had vanished during the storm
some weeks before—sailed gladly into
view and anchored near.
First to gain the deck of the "Ark”
was Johan Grange,
A plank washed from the "Ark” on
that tempestuous night had saved him,
after an almost hopeless struggle the
"Dove” had rescued him.
How describe the emotions of the two
fond, re-united lovers I
They were at onoe married.
From the pair grew sons and daugh
ters to become a pride of Maryland—
the only state that was not wrested for
settlement over the bleeding corpses of
the unfortunate natives.
TSSC 1 35!Ot
During tbe French expedition to Mexico
General Martroy was informed by a native
ihat a plant grew la his district which was
largely used in the domestic surgery of
the Mexicans, and he advises the General
to lay in s stoex of it for use in the French
camp, it goes by the name ot "tbe blood
stanching weed ’—the exact native word
has been placed on record. This plant
has the property, when applied alter being
chewed or ertuhed, of almost instantly ar
resting the flow ot blood from a wound.
General Martroy btought home some
specimens of this plant to France, and cul
tivated it In his srarden at Vereaillea, where
it has thriven excellently ever since, blos
soms every yeai and produces a sort of
fruit. Meanwhile its transplantation to
European soil has not robbed it ot the
quality for which it was originally recom
mended to its introducer. ,
Bamboo and Paper In Japan.
To enumerate the various uses to which
the bamboo is put would be to furnish a
list altogether unreadable, for they seem
to make everything of bamboo and to treat
It m every imaginable manner. It must
be remembered that the bamboo is a tough
fibrous, giant grass, with hollow stem divi
ded horizontally at the roots. Thus it
consists of a aeries of cylindrical chambers
superposed one on the other, and separated
Irom each other by horizontal wooden di
visions, the knots or divisions being very
close to each other near the root of the
plant, and removed from each other by a
considerable distance in the higher parts of
the stem, it is from these knots that the
thin shoots on wich the foliage is borne are
protruded. Before me, as I write, are a
series of carved boxes, each made from a
section of tbe stem, with two of the trans
verse divisions, ihe one forming the top
and the other the bottom of the bex, ana
these bo^es vary in height according as the
joint has come from the center or lower
portion ot the stem. Here is a sachi bottle
formed of an elongated joint and with an
arched handle. On it is a beautiful spray
of the magnolia, carved in t h e manner cal
led cameo, and with a bud so arranged as
to become tee spout from which the sachi
is poured, a plugged hole at the top of the
vessel being filled with the exhilarating
fluid. Here is a spill bordered with a
Greek key pattern, and on one side ot
which a snake is carvel, while on the oth
er we have a flower,the surface being low
ered in both cases so that the figure stands
out in relief; but, besides the carving, this
beautiful spill is enriched with a little lac
quer work, in which gold, • oxidized silver
and a warm brown color prevail. Here is
another spill with flowers cut in iutagho,'
Here is a tea box or tea caddy formed out
of a root joint, with the spout carved in
tbe thickness of tbe side. A hole is made
mfthe top, to which a lid is fitted, and the
handle consists ot a tuft of lateral shoots.
Here is another made out of two cells, and
three of the dissepiments, tbe one being
used as the handle. But before me 1 see
scoops made of portions of the stem, bays
formed of the horizontal divisions, both
carved and plain; medicine boxes; portable
writing cases,--a box formed by splitting a
portion of the stem lengthwise; a nest of
boxes consisting of a number of superposed
joints; a censer m the torn of a tripod, and
many ether things. But, the Japanese at
tach handles to poations of the stem, and
thus make nseful ladles. They use large
joints tor the carrying of water as we use
pails. They make fences of a hundred
different kinds by plaiting and intertwin
ing the thin shoots in various ways* They
make sun blinds by threading little bits of
bamboo on strings,as we thread beads; they
split it into laths and form mats by attach
ing the strips together with threads; tdey
make the spokes of their fans of bamboo.
They split a stem throughout a.portion of
its length, and make a hand screen by
spreading the spill portion? ard pasting
paper over them. They make tLeir fishing
rods of bamboo, they convey water in
bamboo stems from which the transverse
members or dissepiments have been re
moved; and the gutters around their hous
es are formed of this material. The bas
kets arc of the bamboo (willow is not used
in Japan tor basket work), and by ham
mering it till it is reduced to a broken and
fibrous condition, they form a fuse used
for blasting operations, while the tooth
brush is a bit o/ bamboo stem, with the
end rendered fibrous by hammering. These
are some of the uses to which the bamboo
is put In Japan, but they are only a few
of a multitude. The Japanese paper is
tough and fibrous, and we have seen that
they treat it in various ways so as to give
it the appearance of other substances. Thue
they make from it a material clossly re
sembling leather, and also an imitation of
tortoise shell so ike the substance imitated
that it might readily be taken for the real
shell. They make a paper so gossamer
like that the air passes through it as it
would through a net, and which might al
most be used for ladies’ veils. In its leath
er hke form paper is used for making the
pocketbooks, tobacco pouches, pipe cases
satchels, and for most of the purposes to
which we would apply leather. In the
form of imitation tortoise shell it U inlaid
into cabinet? and trays. Japanese pocket
handkerchiefs are formed of paper, and
some of these may be rubbed up into a
ball without their tearing, when they be
come as soft as tbe finest cambric. Small
parcels are almost invariably tied with
string formed of twisted [taper. Water
proof coats are formed of paper, as well as
tbe aprons of the jinrikishas, and paper is
also put to all those uses to which we ap
ply it in England.
The SuccAMlol Farmer.
The Fish Exhibit.
The suoce-sful farmer thinks and plans
not only how such and such work can be
easiest done, but to do it in such a manner
as to render any subsequent^work connec
ted therewith the easier. For example,
preparing his corn ground be is careful to
leave it as smooth and as well pulverized
as possible, so that there will be no clods
to cover up the tender plants in plowing,
and m so far interfere with the progress of
the work. He lays off his corn row straight
so that the plow can run dose to every
bill! His wheat land is brokon up in time
and so "fined'’ as to enable it the better to
conserve moisture as well as drink in the
fertilizing gases of the atmosphere. He
furnishes plant food to hfccrap* In rts most
available form. While bis more negligent
neighbor plows under bis 'naani”' in a half
rotted condition, he spread! it, well rotted
and finely pijlverised, o*! ‘the ■urfftof*. in
stead of applying it on his corn ground he
uses it on his wheat, where it will be of
more service in helping along his clover.
He not only sows clover on all his small
grain, but knows that to get the most ben
efit from it, it must be allowed to develop
itself, and thus keep the soil shaded to in
sure its nitrification. In order to accom
plish this he never pastures it the first sea
son, or not until the second year, and not
even until it is in bloom—having provided
a permanent pasture for his stock. Real
izing that underdratniug warms a naturally
cold soil ar 1 fits it for earlier cultivation
in the spring, he prefers to invest his capi
tal in draining all such, rather than in the
purchase of additional land. Instead of
investing his means in railroad or other
stocks, he is always looking for a proper
investment in tne hne of his business,eith
er to improve the productive capacity of
his fields or the quality of his Hve stock.
He knows, too, that life is too short to en
able him to master the whole business of
farming without availing himself of the
experience of others, as found in the agri
cultural literature of the'day. He also
makes the surroundings of huhome attrac
tive and pleasant, and fosters in his sons a
love for the farm. He lightens the labor
of nis wife and contrives an occasional
holiday for all his family. In short, he
aims at thoroughness in ell he undertakes,
and finds his farm improving from year to
year as well as his own information. Fol
lowing a regular plan of work, he hits the
market, and often finds his profits greater
in years that prove disastrous to hU more
negligent neighbor.
The United Btates is to be well repre
sented at the London Fish exhibit which
opens next May. The fish industry is
one of great importance, and of late years
has received most intelligent encourage
ment and direction from the Govern
ment. The exhibit gathered together
by the United Btates Fish Commission
is apparently complete in every depart
ment It is of scientific as well as prac
tical interest, because it embraces
colored casts and photographs of all the
important food fishes captured in our
sea and inland waters. For the practi
cal people there is a wonderful exhibit
of fishing apparatus, from the boats,
harpoons, gnus, Ac., used in whaling to
the nets employed In mackerel fishing.
The methods of packing and canning
fish and oysters are fully illustrated, and
the processes of fish culture will be shown
on a large scale. Even the angler has
his department, and a very beautiful
exhibit is made of rods, reels, files, Ac.
This is the kind of specialty exhibition,
complete in every way, and arranged to
impart information that is of the great
est possible educational value, and of
much more use in that way than an in
complete general exhibition,
U.rtM au<t Anlmsia.
Reicho, the Bird and Animal Importer
of New York, has a lot of some 800 Eng
lish pheasants coming from Europe, of
which number 100 have been engaged
by Pierre LorUlard for the preserve on
his estate. Three prominent shooting
olubs will take most of the remainder
for the purpose of distributing them
widely, and giving them a chance to be
come common in American forests.
The quality and jnioes of meats are
far bettor preserved if the meat is wiped
with a towel instead of washed.
The Rush of an Eagtmto a Fire,
You are sitting at tea when the alarr,
rings. You don’t know the box, but you
rush out on the street sad stare around
you. In a moment the ominous rush comes
on the ear. The horses carter out of their
stables, the firemen, nn^bleas cats, leap to
their stations, the wide dotts are thrown
open, three policemen dash out of No. 1
to see the start, and bangl ding! whishl
rush 1 G’lang ! crack 1 look out 1 ding,
dong I ding ! away they go like a tor
nado.
Crash ! a baby may be burning. Bangl
sleeping children may be smothering. Ding
dong, ding 1 An old man, feeble and
rheumatic, may be staggering in smoke
nook out! tbe strong man, blistered with
flames, is yelling for his babies 1 Look
out, then! look outl stand aside and let
them pass. Here they come; like a storm.
The driver, stooping down with slacked
rein, speaking to the intent steeds that, big
eyed, wide nostrilled and strained go thun
dering on.
The foreman sitting by his side, erect
and defiant with arms folded, looks lion
faced at the sky.searching for the ominous
glare. The firemen behind him clinging
like cats to a ladder, dressing themselves
as the machine thunders on.
The ubiquitous reporter taking notes on
the boomplate of tbe lefty ladder. Bang,
boom, bangl look outl They pass a cros
sing like an earthquake on wheels. The
horses, alive and stung with the same en
thusiaem which fills tbe firemen,spurn the
rough stree* and dash along as If a prairie
on fire was chasing them. They need no
Whip, they need no lash: their big arteries
are churning with hot blood; their big mus
cles are strung to the task they love. The
wild horse, followed fast by rea fire, never
sped like they. With ears laid pack, with
eyes standing out from the bony face, with
nostrils red as if with blood, they gallop
on untiring.
The branchman gets cut his key, the
foreman is all ready. Ding, dong, swushl
The fireman gather themselves for tbe final
jump. £*ngl "We’re near the fire,lads”
—look out. Crash! All right. Bang t
Here’s tbe box. Jump for your lives. Bangl
bang! bangl They jump.
The horses’ sides heave like big bellows.
Their noble Mads fall between trembling
knees- the sunk tails quiver, the [minted
ears droop like limp leather, and the fire
men, eloquent with enthusiasm, dash into
the street, and an old woman, wiping her
hands on her apron,comes out on the steps
and says—"the Lord bless you, gentlemen
but it was only our chimney; and the Lord
bless you, I—” and the gang go home and
play dominoes. The horses stand waiting
for tbe next, and just as willing to jump
as the man who has been waiting an hour
for a shave.
Bridal Customs.
The exhibition of bridal gifts has
been sanctioned by royalty. On the
marriage of the Prinoees Royal in Eng
land. in 1858, the tributes to the bndo,
amounting in value to a fabulous sum,
were displayed, not only before the
eyes of the Court, but also for the bene
fit of the general public. After the
marriage of the Prince of Wales, in
1868, the bridal presents werealso pub
licly exhibited in Kensington Palace.
Reporters and newspaper artists were
expressly admitted, that they might, in
type and picture, reproduce for the
curie os public the wonders of the mag
nificent profusion with which the youth-
ful princess of Denmark had been en
dowed by the crowned heads and weal
thy magnates.
The Bose berry Rothschild presents
were unusually superb. They werse
exhibited in throe rooms of the Roths
child mansion in Piccadilly, the tables
on which they lay being magnificently
adorned with expensive ffowenr.
On the principal table were the carl’s
sifts to his Dride, enclosed in a border
of tea-roses and orchids.
Among these were the Rose berry
family jewels, consisting of a, tiara,
comb, necklace, earrings, and cross, all
of magnificent diamonds.
There were also presents from the
bridegroom of a diamond diadem, with
seven large centre stones of the purest
water ; a bracelet of doable hearts, tied
with a lover’s knot, a copy from one
worn by Mary Queen of Scots; a suit
of pearls, a large spray brcoch of bril
Hants in the form of a roseberry with a
matchless pendant pearl, and anotner
■pendant of immense and faultless sap
phires setAn brilliants. There were al
so some presents of interesting histori
cal memories.
The bridegroom presented the bride
with a beautiful painted fan which
formerly belong to , Marie Antoinette,
and an exquisite gold box with an
enameled portrait of some unfortunate
queen.
The prince of Wales gave Lend Rose-
berry a beautiful and ourions dressing-
case of silverwork of the period of
Louis Seize. The Sykes club presented
a silver punch-bowl of the period of Dr.
Johnson. Earl Beaconsfieid’s offering
to the bride was a ring of turquoises
and diamonds arranged oheokerwise.
The presents ot the Rothschild family,
in aU parts of the world, m might be
expected, were snob as one might hope
to see only in dreams—gold and jewels
of the most sumptuous and priceless
kind.
Among American gifts were a silver
coffee service from August Belmont, and
a picture of the earl and his bride in a
gondola, which the bridegroom is steer
ing, and which is drawn by six swans,
from Mr. Beard.
The bnde cake is no less sanctified
by antiquity than is the ring. It is the
symbol of "plenty," and is intended to
express the hop© that the newly-mar
ried couple may alnays be supplied
with an abundance of tne good things
of this life.
Passing pieces of the cake through
the wedding-ring nine times, and put
ting them under the pillow to dream
upon, was a practice in vogue long be
fore our great-grandmothers lived and
loved, and the custom is not yet obso
lete.
A pleasant onstom formerly prevailed,
after the ceremony had been concluded,
of handing round to each guest a ring
bearing the names of the newly married
couple, after which the latter received
the leiioitatioos of their friends.
We are told that Edward Kelly, a
famous philosopher in Queen Elizabeth’s
days, was openly profuse in giving
away rings, twisted with thiee gold
wires, at the marriage of one of his
houshold, to the value of $20,600.
Though wedding o us toms differ in
different countries, yet they are all
designed to express certain ideas, more
or less correct, upon whicn marriage is
founded.
The ancients considered certain days
in the calendar as unlucky for matri
mony. Lovers were told to beware of
the entire month of May, and especially
warned off irom February 11th, June 2d,
November 2d, aid December 1st, And
it was particularly desirable that the
weather should be clear, and that the
ceremony should take place in the day
time, for
“Bleat la the bride on whom the son doth ahihe.”
Nottuac More To Say.
I had often read of the slow speed
made by southern railroad trains, but
noticed nothing unusual until reaching
Macon, says a writer. The train puffed
oat at about fifteen miles an hour,
slowed down to twelve, and the waits
were long and tedious. Borne of the
crowd didn’t seem to care if we never
got there, but the drummer for a Phila
delphia house took on terribly. He
was blasting away when the oondnetor
came along and inquired what ailed
him,
"Why, 1’U be left !” hotly exclaimed
the drummer.
“Let’s see ? You go to Thomasville ?”
"Yes, sir.”
"You change cars at Smithville ?”
"I ought to, but the train will be
gone.”
"Not a bit of it. That train is two
hours behind time.”
"Well, I’d rather wait in Smithville.”
"You oonldn’t wait in that town two
hoars without being asked to drink
some of the worst whisky ever made,
and if yon refused you’d have to fight.’’
"I could go to the hotel.”
"Then yon’d have to walk a mile in
the sand. No ’bus comes down until
our train wills ties,”
"1 might drum up a ostomar. ”
"You couldn't drum nothing. The
last Northern drummer in Smithville
had to fiy for his life.”
"Couldn’t I wait on the platform?”
"No, sir. There is no platform to
wait on, and if there was, you d be
suspected of wanting to start a turpen
tine fire.”
"Well, it’s awful slow/’
"What of it ? The other train is still
slower; no dinner can be had until we
get there ; there is nothing to see ; the
depot won’t be open ; you ean" sell a
paper of pins in the town; yea can’t
get on to Thomasville ; no one in the
town plays poker ; yon can’t find a de
cent cigar there, and from what I know
of Bmlthville I can assure you that it
has at least thirty citizens who would
take a pop at you on general principles
within six minutes of your landing
there.”
Tfee tri Far!;
Utah’; Ba*a Ora;.;
The wonderful value of the base ores of
Otah la made strikingly apparent by the
carefully-prepared table made by Mr. J.
E. Dooly, agent for Wells, Fargo A Co.,
in this city, at the cloee of last year. By
that table it is seen that there was pro
duced last year of copper $75,785; of lead
refined, $410,690, and of unrefined lead,
$1,361,096; or altogether more than 20
per cent, of the value of ail tbs money
from the mines. But the table further
show? that of tbe silver produced 47 3 10
per cent, was obtained from base ores and
56 5-10 of the gold was produced from
base ores. This fact shows how inextric
ably mingled are the lead and silver inter
ests of Utah. From what-is known of the
districts which areliable in, future to pro
duce most, this iiercentage will be in
creased ra her than diminished in future.
One important district which is liable to
become largely prodnotive is the opening
of the Denver-aad Rio Grande road has
many base metal mines, and. tbe indica
tions are that the districts immediately
surrounding Milford—Cave, Star and Lin
coln—will within the next year add heav
ily to the same quality of ores. We ex
pect, also, a much heavier yield of tbe
same metals from Tintic before the close
of the year. It seems, too, that of all the
precious metals produced in the United
States west of the Mississippi River, 35
per cent, is produced from base ores, in
Utah for the past six years the average of
silver obtained from lead ores, that is of
ail the silver produced, 46} per cent, has
been from base ores, and of the gold 51
2-10 per cent, has been produced from
the same source. These figures show how
important the lead interest is, and what a
blow to mining a serious blow to the lead
interest would be. It also makes clear
how safe a business extensive works for
producing manufactured lead ia ill its
forms must be. Nature has drawn around
Utah a protective tariff in the form of
mountains and deserts which no legisla
tion can repeal, and though by special
rate? the railroads may modify it some
what, they cannot overcome it. Utah
mine?, only scratched as they have been
so far, produce 10 per cent, of the gold,
silver and lead of the West, which shows
what kind of a mining country it is.
The RoMuchlld’a 1’alaoei.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
The princely ohate&u of Ferriers, where
Baron’s Alphonse de Rothschild has been
given a series of entertainments in honor
of the Comtesse de Paris, bids fair, to
outdo Beauregard for the magnlflcenoe
of its fetes. The Rothschilds possess
upon F’renoli soil as many fine mansions
as were formerly possessed by the mon-
arobs whose veins were coursed by the
blood of the Valois. Saying nothing of
the houses of tbe family in Paris, the
more prominent of these residences may
lie mentioned. There is, to begin wits,
the splendid Abbey of Cernay, which has
been transformed into a modern castell&re
by tbe Baroness Nathaniel. Then there
1? the mansion of Chantilly, which the
unfortunate Baron James Edward was
having erected in the shadow of the
house of the Condss at the time of bis
sudden and tragic death, and which has
since bet n completed by hm widow.
Next comes the chateau of Boulogne,
bought by the Dowager Baronness de
Rothschild, and to which she has impart
ed a magnificence which ia only equalled
by that of her own villa at Cannes. The
Baroness Adolphe holds a plenary court in
the early day? of autumn at the charming
little villa of Fregny, on the shore of the
blue Like of Geneva.. Lastely, there is
Femores, tbe residence destined to pass
from generation to generation to the
eldest son of the house of Rothschild in
France, in order that he may there main
tain a sovereign pomp as chief of the
dynasty.
Unarm Bird*.
When Michigan was invaded by the
army worm, the blackbirds did excellent
work for the suffering tarmers. On the
prairie myriads of these birds, yellow birds
and robins were hovering over the place
most invested, evidently maxing a meal
ot the worms. Just In front of the right
flank of the army of worms is a cornfield,
all along the east fence, which seperates
it from the meadow, a line of blackbirds
were stationed in as good order as if mar
shaled for a fight under a military leader.
They would fly in a solid mosa to me
ground as if attacking something, and
fall back to the position on the fence,
from which they repeatedly advanced in a
body. "Those birds,” said a gentleman,
"are protecting that corn.” Surely enough
examination showed that the pestiferous
insects had come up to the fence, hut had
uot gone an inch beyond, and none could
be seen on the corn. But a large number
jf dead worms could be seen on the ground
where the birds had been east of the feace.
it is certain that the birds nad made havoc
with the worms, and it really looked as if
they had a design in it to keep them out
of the cornfield.
The Streets of Paris are lighted by 48,
000 gaa lamps, and 429 lamps which burn
petroleum and colza oil. There are in ad
dition 25,000 jets of gas In tbe buildings
which belong to the municipality, and the
total ooet for lighting them is estimated
for the current year at 6,500,000 francs
An ordinary gas lamp burns about six gal
lons of gas an hour, and the cost for a
year, supposing the gas to be burning for
about ten hours every night, is almost ex
actly 105 francs. The petroleum and oil
lamps cost about 50 per cent. more. The
gas company employ seventy-six men
looking after the lamps and the mates,
many af them being told off to inspect the
meter? and the pipes in private houses and
see there ia no escape. The lighting power
of the gas supphed by the company is
tested every evening at eleven laboratories,
situated in different parts ot Iht city.
The Hangbly Porter.
The porter of the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
New York, is. perhaps, the most aristo
cratic and haughty porter the world has
ever seen. His business is handling
trunks, but he would no more touch a
trunk than he would touch a red hot coal.
He commands a small army of under
porters, who wear check jackets and
really move the trunks of guests. The
head porter seldom speaks, but contents
bimaelf with posing in elegant attitudes
about the corridor of the hole!, smoking
fragrant cigars and gazing with immense
condescension upon the Legislators and
bankers who thiong the hotel. His attire
is fashionable in the extreme. It is not
gaudy, but it is rich, lie wears & ilia
hat, a blonde beard parted in the middle
and light glevea. 1 am told by a man
that kaowa him that he talks with great
gravity and weight upon politics' affairs,
and has a fondness for things 7 oropeea,
but that he never talks of the hotel and
becomes magnificently silent when tranks
are mentioned, even in an indirect and
casual manner, It must be a great thing
to be the greatest porter in t^e world.
uiuneJieas.
The Government of India did a capi
tal stroke of bnainesa when it estab
lished ohinobona plantations. The cash
profit on the Bengal plantations alone
the peat year was $40,700, besides
$10,100 saved on the quinine furnished
to the troops—that sum representing
the difference between tbe cost of pro
duction and the market price.
The gratitude of place-expectants is
a lively sense of future favors.
Trust that man in nothing who has
not a conscience In everything.
The manners of nature make & man;
the manners of art unmake Mm.
There’s not a string attuned to mirth,
but hath its cord in melancholy.
The current may be strong,- but that
which defies the current is stronger.
Religion oar capture a heart easier
than it can overthrow the pocket-book.
Much of the charity that begins at
dome is too feeble to get out of doors.
• ^ The shame of being thought poor,
leads to worse eyils than poverty itself.
None are so desolate bnt something
dear, dearer than self possesses or pos
sessed.
Who wonld venture on the journey
of life, if compeUed to begin it at the
end?
Character gives splendor to youth,
and awe to wrinkled skin and gray
hairs. «
If you would not have affliction visit
yon twice, listen at onco to what it
teaches.
Devote each day to the subject than
in time, and the evening will find some
thing done.
Comparisons, whether os to sense,
courage, beauty or rank, are always
offensiye.
Nothing from man’s hands, nor law
nor oonstitntion, can be final Truth
alone is final.
Law and equity are two things which
God hath joined, but which man hath
put asunder.
The charity of the rich is much to bo
oommended, but how beautiful is the
charity of the poor.
Slumber not in the tents of your
fathers. The world is advancing.
Advance with it.
It is from out tbe depths of our hu
mility that the height of our destiny
looks grandest.
When slander and falsehood aro
hitched to a person’s tongue, the devil
acts as coachman.
Matrimony is a great blessing, be
cause even a blind man has his eyes
opened after a little while.
A wise and good man does nothing
for appearanoo, but everything for the
sake of having acted well.
Wait for others to advance yonr in
terests, and you will wait until tfey are
not worth advancing. JL- -
It ia true wisdom to ipaak bokmtie •
of the injuries yon have received, or
the good deeds yon have done.
Imitation causes us to leave natural
ways to enter into artificial ones; it
therefore makes slaves.
Few, with the hope of another life,
would think it worth their while to live
above the allnrements of sense.
It is better to be thonght a fool than
a knave, says the saw; but it ia better
still to be known to be neither.
A man’s first; care should be to avoid
the reproaches of his own heart, his
next, to escape the censures of the
world.
May I tell you why it seems to me a
good thing for us.to remember wrong
that has been done oa? That we may
forgive it.
Nothing, indeed, bnt the possesaion
of some power ©an with any certainty
discover what at the bottom ia the
true character of any man.
A man has bo more right to say an
uncivil thing than to act one; no more
right to aay a rude thing to another
than to knock him down.
Discover the opinion of your enemies,
which is commonly the truest; for they
will give yon no quarter, and allow
nothing to oomplaisanoe.
A word, a look wliieh at one tim«
makes no impression, at another time
wonnds the heart, and like a shaft flying
with the wind, pierces deep.
Employment, which Galen calls ‘ -na
ture’s physician,’' is so essential to hu
man happiness that indolence is justly
considered the mother of misery.
The talent of streeess is nothing
more than doing what yon can do well,
and doing well whatever you do, with
out a thought of fame.
We cannot too strongly attack super
stition, which is the disturber of society;
nor too highly respect genome religion;
which is the support of it.
The lightsome countenance of a
friend giveth such au inward decking
to the house where it lodgeth, as proud
palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
Many persons, after onoe they be
come learned, cease to be good. All
other knowledge is hurtful to him who
has not the science of honesty and
good nature.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the
health of the body, the peace of the
city, the scrutiny of the State. As the
beams to a bouse, as the bones to the
microcosm of man, so is order to all
things,
They teach ns to remember; why do
not they teach ns to forget? There is
not a man living who has not, some
time in his life, admitted that memory
was as much of » oarei? sa a blessing.
The way to subject all things to thy-
seif is to subject thyself to reason.
Thou shalt govern many if reason gov
ern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned
tbe monarch of a little world? Com
mand thyself.
Sk Paul gave the palm to the women
who were stayers and workers at home;
for he recognized that home is the
crystal of society, and that domestic
love and dnty are the beet security for
all that is moat dear to us on earth.
It waa a very proper answer to him
who asked vny any man should be de
lighted with beaaty,|that it was a ques
tion none bat a blind man oonld ask;
since any beautiful object doth so much
attract the sight of all men that it is
in no man’s power not to be pleased
with it.
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