The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, April 10, 1883, Image 1
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■ WINNSBORO. S. (1. APRIL 10, 1883.
ESTABLISHED 1848
A CHILD ©F SEVEN,
All the bells of heaven may ring,
Ail the birds ef heaven may sing,
All the winds on earth may bring
All sweet sounds together;
Sweeter far than all things heard.
Hand of harper, t--ne of bird,
Sound of woods at sondown stirred.
Welling water's winsome word,
Wind in warm wan weather.
One thing yet there Is, that none
Hearing ere its chime be done,
Knows not well the sweetest one,
Heard of man beneatn the sot .
Hoped In heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong, and load and light,
Very round aud very Ught,
Heard from morning’s rosiest height.
When the soul of all delight,
Fills a child’s clear laughter.
Holden bells of welcome rolled
Never forth such notes, nor told
Hours so blithe in tones so bold,
Aud the radiant mouth of gold J
Here that rings forth heaven.
If the golden-crested wren
Were a ulghtingale—*hy, then,
Somethin j seen ami heard ot m^n
'Might be hilf * sWee4afrwben
laughs a onlia of seven.
THE LOVER*’ Q0ARKFL.
said Mias
live, will
A Aid 1»WU litCWdO
Lamed it$sy tot
grandma's parlor,:
more oflhe memi
‘•Never, while 1 live,”
Raahleign, “never while I
see your face a gain 1”
She meant it when she said it, and
aa she spoke, she threw her betrothal
ring towards her lover, who had offended
her.
It him, and rolled down upon
the floor, and over the sill oi an open
china-closet—one of thoee old fashioned
closets that used to stand on either side
of the mantlepieoe. , , , ,
She did not notice where it rolled; he
did though; and after she had left the
room, he turned to pick it np. The ring
she had wom would always be precious
to him.
Mina Kashleigh went straight to her
own room, as miserable a girl as ever
lived; and a moment later Grandmother
Rashleigh bustled into the drawing
room, pushed the open closet door to,
picked up the fallen magaone, set the
unntialu and books of poetry straight ®n
the table, pulled down the shades, ar
ranged the elixirs mathematically
against the wall, and bustled out again.
‘•I’ve had these things fifty years,”
she said to herself; “and there’s Corne
lia and her beau with no more respect
for them than if they were that much
lumber.” *
Then she-oloeed the door behind her,
and went away to her own room up
stairs, where a fine silk patchwork quilt
^as in the frame, a surprise for said
Cornelia.
Grandma Rashleigh gave every young
person of the family something of her
own manufacture on his or her wedding-
day.
isn’t true, is it? Orville did fed dread
fully. Won’t you see, mother?”
Bnt at this moment Sally, the little
servant girl from Grandma Rashleigh
came flying into the room, without any
more warning then if she had been shot
from a gun.
“The old missus says you are to come
over at once, both you ladies!'’ she
cried, standing before Mrs. Rashleigh,
and repeating her lesson like a parrot.
“There’s something of importance, and
you’re needed at wo wt.”
“Get your bonnet, Cornelia,’’ said her
mother. “I’ll jnst pat on this svi-hat.
What Vt. Idly, do W know?”/
“I knows it’s something dreadful.
Missus is almost wild, and there’s ¥*1
of folks there. Something about Mr.
Spear.”
The two ladies said no more. They
itffay together, and, entering
found there assembled
members of the Spear fam
ily, and a friend or two besides.
Orville Lad indeed disappeared. He
h«n never been seen home since his
visit to Cornelia; and now the alarmed
relatives were anxious to get all the
information they could
interview between Orville
“1 bad reason to be
Spear,” said Cornelia, prondly; “good
reason; and I took off mv ring, and gave
it back, and went, out of the roojn—
That is all I know. I don’t know when
he went or where. I—I thought he
wouldn’t mind so mnob. I believed he
had stopped oaring about me.”
“He ought to know, $t all events,”
said grandma.
“My boy is dead, Tm sure! I shall
have the pond dragred!” said Mrs.
Spear, amidst her tears. “He left all
his money at home. He wouldn’t have
gone traveling without a change of
olothee. Oh, you wicked girl!”
“J hope," cried the eldest Miss Spear;
“that he’ll hannt yptH”
founded foil all through!” cried Or- .
vilie. “I knew that closet had a spring
lock. No; don’t blame Cornelia.”
‘•I shall always blame myself!” sighed
Cornelia. “Oh, how pale yon are!”
“And how pale you are, Cornelia!”
sighed Orville. “Did you really care
when you thought I was dead!”
“Ladies” said Grandma Rashleigh,
“now that Orville has had his wine and
biscuit, and is getting on, let ns go into
the other room, and leave these two
young folks to talk things over to
gether.
She led tire way; the others followed.
When the tea-bell rang soon after, Or
ville <and Cornelia came ont of the draw
ing rdbik, arm in arm. and the. wedding
day was ^v
■" •' “ ‘ Ji Burying Jtiiirs.
>1 1 ' 'I
A Swim settled in Russia sends a strange
story of a man beibg honed alive, for Ue
accuracy of which, the writer says that ho
can personally vouch. Thft story, besides
the horror of it, shows how helpless the
Russian system of goverment renders the
people for whose benefit it i* designed and
how utterly bureaucracy has crushed in
them all spirit of initiative and lodepe n-
the account
ara. His*
been em
ployed as a writer in a machinery depot.
On the fete day Tichonoff drank heavily^
and had an epileplc fit For a long time,
thereafter bejf jsuulte (till »nd showed nr
sign oT file, wnicn led his wife and kins
folk to conclude that he was dead. Thu
yame— US Farming.
Probably some may stare at the idea of
neataess in farming, tad may conclude at
once that it is all a taiky, and might do
for the fancy r farmers to pursue. We
knbw-that_t^© dirty domes soiling work of
thq fanner mast be du>«e, and dirty clothes
well be av
1 while
performing
But this is
to explain, it
led hands and
slip shod man-
Wm the opera-
ca
some portions of farm
not the point that we \
Is not so much the
clothes, as the caretess
oer of planning and coi
Uons of the farm.
it is said, and we think in truth, that
“cleanliness is next to godliness. ’’ And it
surely indicates the mor4 worth, and the
good qualities of a mas to a great degree,
it shows that be has certainly been edu
cated either by nature on ■n——ion to
heblte p< neatness and Industr
fore it is not so much the dirt that every
‘farmer has to deal with. As the indifferent
way that he regards that dirt, and its pro
per place. A philosopher once described
“dirt” thus, “mat-ec out of place;” and it
Is having ‘ matter out of place that
makes the slack firmer.
if we. step upon the premises ot the
slovenly fapner, how quick we are to note
of the ©irroi
oita
Recently, while grading the side
> Preab;
the appearance
oundings; the
happenedx>n &. Silvester’s Day, and, to. .winds.
“Now,” the old lady had said, a dozen
times, to Tripheny King, who was help
ing ha; “I really think Cornelia will
have the beet thing I've done; and
there’s a bit in it of every handsome
silk there’s ever been in the family, and
of her father’s and grandfather's wed
ding vests. ”
“Yes’m; it’s a real memorial quilt,”
said Tripheny. “It takes you. mum,
to plan such things.”
The quilt was finished and bound
that afternoon; and Tripheny’s job of
quilting being over, she wait home; but
site carried about the village the news
that she “was sure all wee over between
M*— Rashleigh and Mr. Spear, bhe’d
heard Cornelia saying something to her
grandmother, and the old lady nas
furious.” -
“He would never have dime tb*< “
he had oared for me, you know, grand
ma,’’ Cornelia was saying at that mo
ment.
“Stuff and nonsense! He loves the
ground you walk onl" said the old lady.
“You’ll never get such another, Corne
lia!”
“I ghuii never marry at all; I hate
men I” Cornelia answered.
And then her grandmother made the
house too hot to hold her, and she went
over to her mother’s, her usual coarse
when she fell out with grandma.
1 Three days passed. At the end of the
third, Piety Pratt stepped in at Mrs.
Rsshleigh’s—young Mrs. Rashleigh
they called her, though she was nearly
T oould kill you, you hateful thing!
cried the youngest Miss Spear.
Cornelia had kept np bravely until
now; but when her two friends turned
upon her thus, she gave a little scream,
and fell over on the sofa. She was in a
dead swoon, and the water they sprink
led in her face did not bring her to.
Grandma grew frightened.
“I hope it isn’t an attack of heart
disease,” she said. “Poor child! she
looks as if (he were dead.”
“Oh, don’t say that!” cried the
mother.
They gathered around Cornelia, and
did all they could for her; and soon she
recovered, and sat up, but all her pride
was gone.
“Oh, dear!—oh, dear!” she sobbed.
“I wish I had died! 1 wish I had never
come to] Oh, Orville! Orville! what has
become of you?”
“Oh! Oh!” moaned the mother.
“On! Oh!" moaned tbe sisters. * H
And Cornelia’s head fell back again.
“Emma, get the lavender oaf of the
china-closet,” said granduui to hj?
daughter. Quick! It’s on the
shelf!” ’ /
Mrs, RasL leigh rushed t V 4 ® closet
“It won’t open!” she Wl d / ..
“If. ap«££loo£^“ jd fi^andma;
ere*s the key.’*
a new back to the
patent
“locks as it shut
And Mrs.
door, op
a shriek.
, fuddled up under
avoid keeping the supposed corpse in the
house three days (for on a Saturday pre
ceding 4 fckhval no bddy can be buried),
it was decided to lay him in the ground
that vkk mgkt alter vespers, anil aransre-'
ments J iferr numb 'accordmly. The body
was removed to the Cemetery church,
where the pope (priest) read the service
lor the dead.* While this was going on
(the coffin beirur uncovered) some of the
bystanders noticed what seemed to be
drops of awet on the dead man’s face; but'
this appearance being attributed to a few
snowflakes which had fallen during tb«
passage from Tichonohoff’s house to tbe
cemetery, be was laid in the grave with
out more ado, and the hour being late,
very little earth was thrown over him.
When the grave-digger went early next
morning to the cemetery to complete his
work, be heard a sound aa of groaning and
struggling in TichonolTs grave. Instead
of forthwith releasing the poor wretch, the
man ran to the priest to ask leave to disin
ter him. This request the priest refused,
on the ground that he dared not touch
body onee buried without the permission
of the police. On this the sexton informed
Tiofaonoff’s wife of what ha* come to {
and thev went.tpgetherlq.the ohief of tl
lock police. Thu gentleman arid it
qutttf Out of Us power ttFfive the requi
authorization, and refered them to
chimandrite, and the archlmandtl.
fessed to be equally powerie^^ tlie
them to the procarator. ifauthorizfttion
agonized wife act, and re-
without which u wa8 too
turned to^^had elapsed since the
late; five the groans, and
now dead beyond the poasi-
cloubt The poor fellow succum-
r a mortal struggle. He had
d in his soffin, and in bis
r buien h»s fingers, torn hu flesh and
rent his clothing. 1 This fatality,” says
the Viedomoatt, “is due to no other
cause then tbe senseless formalities which
prevail In every branch of Russian admin
utratioo. ’ Mme. Tichonoff u suing the
priest who refused to let the grave-digger
disinter her husband for damages, on the
ground that he caused the latter’s death by
to a slavishly dbeying the letter of his
instructions.
eye Is pained to see 'tils matter out of
place, In an hundred kays, such as his
fanning tools scattered broadcast over the
farm, where the same lave been left to
nut out la the storms; the dilapit&ted
condition of hu fencei, and l he bushes
growing up around every stump aud stone
heap that may be upon his fields. The
rough manner in whtth all hu farming
operations are conduced will be plainly
seen, the rough mowing fields, and all
kinds of rubbish scat(3fed to the four-
E very where oq our farms almost,
sfif-attention which
we see this lack of care!
u necessary to the coi
ability of the farmer.
Why u it that the
tbe fences, and tbe
neat fanner looks so in'
or the man who
In all things relating t
beemse the farmer '
habit and puts it into
studied his work,
forces and broughUJ
subject as one ot jm
that sticks to the
u worth doing, is
be has not learned
he has probably
practice by di
many who can l
more easily than
to the tarmer to
may become masi
We hope that
correct this habit
our tanners. W
and respect-
ngs. the f&rmi
fundings of the
ting to the refined,
order or neatness
farm ? . It u
is neatness of
lice. He has
hu mental
tb«m to bear on the
iportance. He u one
that anything that
doing welL But
lesson all m a day,
educated up to this
However, there are
the habits of neatness
yet it is necessary
t his labor that he
his trade,
farmer will labor to
the lax operations of
am aware that it will
need much labor!
writing upon tb**l
hav--"“^‘ 0, * # "
. the way of talking and
bject, tor generations
will be Lard to uproot,
w let us stnve to change this. Let an
air of neatness, order and comfort give tone
to the purposes, and aims ot the farmer ;
hu yards and fields surely give au indica
tion of the pleasures of bis employmet, if
kept In a neat and orderly manner; His
tools will be kept In erder, and housed;
his buildings and fences will look trim.
-The weeds will be kept down, the bushes
will cease to grow up in the fence corners;
the unsightly rubbish ws»! be disposed of,
and order will soon take the place of chaos,
in all of the farmer's surroundings.
Plain bur*.
of the
bill in front of tne Presbyterian Church in
Corpus Christ!, Itexas, there was brought
to the surface what appears to be the pjint
of an elephant’s tusk, about six inches m
length, and the horn of a rhinoceros, -.bout
the same length. On the latter, were tound
several etchings, representing. ; a Spanish
lady dancing tne fandango to the music
of a tamborine performed by a Portuguese
female, a ship at anchor, a rope entwined
anouor.and a female waving a flag on which
are 7 stars. Further excavations near the
same spot brought up the skulLseveral riba
and a portion of tie spine of a man, evi
dently of gigantic mold. > ;
The disco very of these relics of by gone
_ agts set speculation afloat as to how they
There- came to beta u* place wware they we
unearthed. After diligent pupping of o.
settlers, and minute research into the his
tory of the dark ages of southwestern Tex
as. we have built up the following as pro
bably the most lucid explanation of the
strange find.
In January, 1®85, La Salle, the French
discoverer, with a fleet ot three vessels,
having on board a colony intended tor the
mouth of the Mississippi river, driven from
bis course, landed at Padre Island. Be
coming satisfied that they had been driven
fa/ west of their destination, they re-em
barked and turned the prows of their ves
sels eastward. Several families destined
tor the new colony, heartily sick of their
sea experience, asked to be left here, were
granted permission, and put ashore with
provisions and forming implements.
. For peariy 300, years this little colony
struggled to maintain its foothold at the
upper end of Padre Island. Indians,
Mexicans, and want kept their number at a
low figure. In December, 1820, a terrible
gale visited tne remnant of the little colo
ny, during which a vessel was washed
ashore on tbe island. It proved to be a
felucca belonging to the squadron of Jean
Lafitte. The colonists secured three men
from the wreck, who proved to be, in
character, well fitted for the services of
the renowuea pirate. Their names were
Pierre Largosso, Paul Baptiste and Joseph
Arnoux; nicknamed Heccules on account
of his immense stature and prodigious
strength. From the timbers of the wreck
ed telucca they constructed a small vessel
and were for years after the disappearance
of Lafitte engaged in depredating on the
commerce of tbe gulf, leading many to be
lieve that Lafitte was sttll alive and at hu
old trade. So thorougidyacqurinted were
they with the shoals, channels and islands
of this part of the gulf tbnt it was Impos
sible to capture them. As a further pre
cautionary measure, they—in 1840—re
moved their headquarters to a point now
designated as McGloin’s bluff, and in those
turbulent days their retreat was as safe as
human foresight oould have selected. Dur-
-UuAure they amused
anri ailvAr nlates. «•»
Chinas* Traits.
There Is. . mistaken notion in the East
that the Ohineae are always bumble and
submlsidve, and much put upon and abused
by the whites of tne Padflo coast. There
wak a tune when the .hoodlums of Ban
Francisco maltreated tbe Asiatic immi
grants shamefully, but that time has gone
by. Now the Chinaman appears to be as
secure m his rignu of person and property
as anybody. Instead of being deferential
and timid he u often pushing and insolent
Ee does not give way m the street He
hustles you as rudely as an English navvy.
A body of Chinese lab jrera marching down
a narrow attest will crown ladies into the
gutter. The Chinese merchants, doctors,
and others belonging to the better classes,
are aa polite as Frenchmen, but the masses
of the Chinese population on the Pacific
xonibL are rude and brutal. ’The chief
thing in thlir favor il their habit of perso
nal cleanliness, The railroad laborers,
who are the poorest and most ignorant
class, wash themselves from head to foot
at the end of each day’s work. All classes
are frequent customers of the barber, who
gives minute attention to their heads, faces,
ears and necks.
Among the common laborers there is
Uttle sympathy for sick and injured com
rades. If a man is likely to become a
burden, the other members of his gang
want to get rid of him as soon as possible.
It Is commonly believed hy the white
bosses on the railways that the Chinese
doctors put sick men out of the way by
poison when they think they cannot be
speedily cured. A case was told me in
Oregon of a Coolie railway laborer who
had an arm broken. It was set by the
company’s dootor, and was doing well, but
the man’s comrades insisted ou bringing a
Chinese doctor to attend him. The doctor
came from a distant camp and gave tbe
patient a dose. In an hour the poor fel
low was dead. In such oases there Is no
investigation; nobody cares that there is
one Chinaman less. The death of a cart
horse is of much more consequence.
Hunting in Cninpanle*.
Squirrel hunts continue to be one of
the annual customs of Yemont accord
ing to the good old practice of dividing
the local Nimrods into two parties, each
side electing a captain and each endeav
oring to outatrip the other in the “count”
of game killed, the defeated side furn
ishing a supper to the visitore. There
were several of these hunts during the
past season, one of them being conduct
FOOD FOB THOUGHT.
Beautiful are the admonitions of him
whose life accords with his teachings.
Girls we love for what they are;
young men for what they prrcriae to be.
Truth is as impossible lobe soiled
by any outward touch as tbe sunbeam.
All the good maxims which are in the
world fall when applied to one’s self.
Hard workers are usually honest.
Industry lifts them above temptation.
To be reaDyand truly independent
is to support ourselves by our own ex
ertions.
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed
money, only show the poverty of the
borrower,
. Talking and eloquence are not the
Bamo; tosp&k, and to speak well, are
two things.
We walk upon the verge of two
worlds; at our feet lies the very grave
that awaits us.
In character, m manrars, la style,
in all things, the supreme j*
simplicity.
Zeal without humility is like a ship
without a rudder, liable to be stranded
at any moment.
Though we travel the world over to
find beautiful, we must carry it with us,
or we find it not.
1 have sought repose everywhere,
and have only found it in a little corner
with a little book. x
We ought not to judge of man’s
merits by his qnalilications but by the
use he makes of them.
There ia no area in whirii vanity dis
plays itself under suoh a variety of
forma os in conversation.
That man comes off with honor who
governs his resentments instead of
being governed by them.
We are so used to disguise ourselves
to others, that at last we become dis*
guised even to ourselves.
Cares are often more difficult to throw
ed by the students of Middlebury College; ‘while they reveal hidden beauties.
poor Orville Spear,
d limp.
fifty,
for grandma was old Mrs. Rash
leigh.
“I expect you’ll feel upset when I tell
you the news, Cornelia,” she said—
“You’ve been too cruel this time—he.
he, hel Orville Spear hasn’t been heard
of since he was at your house. His
mother says he went over to explain am
make up, and he never came beck—he,
hel She thoughm aybe he’d stepped
overtohia brother’s, but he hadn’t-
hc, he! I reckon he’s drowned himself!
“I dont know why the whole town
should talk over my affair*, and every
meddling old maid giggle about'them!’
cried Cornelia.
Piety jumped to her leet. seized her
parasol, and turned towards the door.
•‘Good moxqjng, Mup Cornelia and.
Mrs. Rwhleigh,’’ she said, with a Con
temptuous courtesy. “I’ll remember
my manner " t if other folks forget theirs.
Only there’s other folks as likelf* V> be
old maids as me, and 1 fancy itl Mrs.
Spear's affair now if anything has hap-
, to her hoyl”
Away flounced Miss Pratt,
“You’ve put Piety into a rage, Corne
lia,’* said Mrs. Rashleigh. “That’s a
pity; she hss a long tongue.”
’ But Cornelia was crying.
“Oh, mother, dear,” she sobbed, “it
was white and limp.
Oomelia sat and stared at him, in the
most awful way. She thought him dead,
>ut the more experienced matron saw
hat he was yet living.
Sally was sent post-haste to the doc
tor; and, there, in Mrs. Rashleigh’s
drawing-room, he found Cornelia and
Orville lying quite tuioonsoious, like
Romeo and Juliet in the scene at the
tomb, and the rest of the party in a
state of bewilderment and terror, past
description. ^ .
At last, however, both were oonBoions,
and, seated inarm chairs, regarded each
other, While the obs^vers ftbfestlenoe,
and Mr* Orvihe SpMT utteriaFlhe first
words. '
“Of all confounded fools— ^
“Who, dear?” asked his mother.
“Me,” said Orville, regardless of
grammar. “Who shut me in?”
‘What were you in the cloeet
for?”
onsoieiioe.
rolled
frantife-
r. Spear,
inged the
and
asked grandma with a
“To piok i some
there,” said Orville.
“The ring?” asked 1
‘‘Yea, the ring,” said
“More fool II
door to. I si
kicked, and no
“Ohl oht oh! ohl” ehr
lia. “I beliere you hid
kill me, for no other purpose.th&n
°* “You*banged the dwff^on me,’A said
Mr, Spear. “A jealous woman will do
anything.*’ 1 \
j “I banged tt^door, Orville!” said old
Mrs. Rashlpigh;. “II, ty 0 # M 4
thinfc flying. %]ust‘primed 1*% I pass-
Railway Aooommoclatlons*
In these days when It is fashionable to
complain of corporations as purely selfish,
it is greatly to tie credit ot tie Pennaylva
uia Railroad Company, that it is constant
ly furnishing increased fttbilltiee for the
accommodation of tie traveling public.
Recently they have commenced running a
through Pullman Sleeping Coach from
Washington and Baltimore to Chicago on
their Pacific Express, which leaves Wash
ing every day in tie year at 9.60 p. m,,
'and Baltimore 11.16 p. m. The arriving
time at Chicago Is 8.00 o’clock tbe second
morning. Tbe portion of tie tram which
starts from Washington joins at Harris*
burg with the section from New York and
Philadelphia on which there is a hotel car.
This arrangement gives passengers from
Baltimore and Washington just the same
eating facilities as enjoyed by those from
New York, as tie first meal en route is
breakfast on tie first morning, after tie
two sections have become one train.
On their West Jersey connection, also,
they arrangAd far placing, since February
19th, a through passenger car between
New York and Jersey City as follows:
Leave Brooklyn 12:80 noon; New York,
1:00 p. m., and arrive at Atlantic City
(via Trenton and Camden) 6:47 p. m.
Leave Atianuc City at 7:26 a. m., arrive
at New York, 11«40 poon; Brooxlyn 12:80
noon. The car will not be ruu in either
direction on Sundays.
When Potts began bis married life, the
watchword engraved on htt memory was,
“Beware of tie plumber.” The awful
deetmlw of numbers of friends, who had
foolishly been inveigled into poverty and
distress by this fiend, loomed np before his
eyes, continually reminding him of his
motto, until he grew to consider himself a
public benefactor in endeavoring to sup
press this inhuman monster.
But in an evil hour, during tie family’s
absence in the ocuntry, tie wash boiler
began to leak and the plumber glided in
through tie basement door. From that
time the houre seemed bewitched.
Two days afterward the hoi water pipe
blew his range to atoms, and tie servant to
glory, the boiler began to leak at every
conceivable point; and, after tie eenonc
story basin bad been overflowed twe days
In succession, tie parlor ceiling reminded
one of a colander, with ancient frescoinf;
between the holes. These repans had
Scarcely been completed when tie tank
on tie roof began to fill and resisted all
Potts’ efforts to turn off tie wit ;r, and six
hours’ steady running very materially in
creased the damage. The plumber
then engaged regularly for tires days in
tie week, and the adjoining house hired
to be used for tie storage of lead pipe,
tools, etc,, which were bought by tie
cargo. During tic first week ot tie plum
ber's engagement, every faucet m both
houses began leaking badly, and all the
basins were stopped up twice a day, act
the third week Potts was compelled to put
wild screens In alt tie windows of his bed
rooms to prevent tie occupants floating out
during tie uigbt.
In tie midst of these entertainments the
plumber reminded him that lead was rising
owing to so much belqg ised for counter
feit money pn-poees. And three months
after tie* plumber’s first appearance he
owned and resided In tie nonse, while
Potts lived in tie garret and worked
helper to him, half his wages each week
and silver plates, ivoi
their many depredations on tie
of tie gulf.
Early m 1846 tils portion of tie gulf
was visited by a cyclone and tidal wave
such as no man bed ever before witnessed
or will witness unless our March tornado
should prove true. When tie water had
risen so nigh as to menace their safety the
party tore down their house, constructed
from it a raft, and placing women and
uidldreu lu m boat the men lock to tie raft-
on which was loaded their valuables, and
were rapidly driven to the Corpus Christ!
bluff. The boat upset before reaching tie
land, and all oh board were drowned. The
raft »truck tie hill near tie present resi
dence of Mr. Uussett, and so fierce were
tie waves that in a few moments It was
dssheJ in pieces. Two men reached tie
ia safety. The balance, with tie
acoumulrted spoils of 20 years, went to
the bottom. No sign of tie treasure ur of
tie unfortunate men was ever found. It
was supposed that a portion of tie hill had
caved in and buned them,a theory that tie
late excavations may partially prove.
bnt tie scores m these days are very
small compared with what they used to
be in the good old times. A curious
memorandum, or game record, belong
ing to one James Warden, of Peaoh&m,
a mighty banter, has jnst been discov
ered, and extracts from it have been
printed in some of the State papers. In
the days of James Warden—1832 and
thereabouts—the annual squirrel hunt
Nimrods of all ages^from^Sii _
haired grandsire, with his long-barrelod,
flint-look Queen Anne arm, to the youth
of ten or twelve, with a musket sawed
off at breech and muzzle to accommodate
the arm to his slender strength. It
was no small matter to oonut the heads
and tail* of the slain in those days, so
numerous were they, and the judges,
too, had to be men oi a good deal oi
keenness, for the rival hunters would do
their best to cheat, often presenting
chiokem’ heads for partridges’ and
sqnirreis’ tuila that were by no means
fresh for tie occasion. According to
an old memorandum, James Warden,
in the year 1882, killed 4,649 animals
and 3,176 birds. Of tie former,, 2,860
were squirrels, and of the birds, 1,000
were owls.
An old Church lu Anson*.
off than sorrows; tie latter die with
time, tne former grow upon it.
Bashfnines* may sometimes ATnimfo
pleasure, but seldom or ever opens any
avenne for sorrow or remorse.
Attrition is to the stone what good
inhuenoes are to tie man; both polish
The parent who wonid train np a
child in tie way he Mould go, must go
the way he would train up his ehiid in.
Relations are people who imagine
they have a right to rob you if you are
rich, and to insult yon if you are poor.
Of all amusements that can possible
be imagined for a working man^ after
daily toil, there is nothing like reading.
Is Fnd..y *u Unlucky Day.
Perhaps tie world will never get over
the idea that Friday » an unlucky day.
That tie crucifixion occur ed on a Friday
is more than can be proved, for even
tie year of that event is by no means
determined, to say nothing of tie
widespread opinion that there never was
suoh an event. Bnt admitting all that
is claimed, there have been many events
occurring on this unlucky day that were
decidedly tie reverse of unlucky. Of
course, a long list might be given, but
a few connected chiefly with American
history will do. On .Friday, August 3,
1492, Columbus sailed from Palos of
hu memorable voyage of discovery,
«md on Friday, October 12, he discov
ered tie first land, tie island which he
^ii*rfa*n Salvador. On Friday, March
6, 1496, Henry YIIL oommusioned
latter will furnish not only desirable . - • , - - . . . n .
ties fpr the citizens of New York and \ befog forfeited to pay off the balance
ew Jersey, but Will enable tum-
tpep yfoitors to N«w York city on businees
’to take a run down to, the “City by the
Se*’' conveniently and m a few hourA
.* O IT flrMfcMrimor*.
Among tie superstitions about pins
is that tier barite ia removing her bridal
tdbes anff* Chaplet at tie completion of
tie marriage ceremony must take espe
cial care to t)foow away every pin wom
on this eventful day. Evil fortune, it
is affirmtd, will sooner or later inevi
tably overtake the bride who keepaeven
tie bilL m >
The Clothing ot jttenend Woman.
The funny people of the newspapers
into the drawing-room, aometimos for a ^ 0 j u their chances of
fortnight, in.thls i^all family. We use
marriage
—..-a XT,
will thereby be materially
ft i lessened, and anyhow, they must give
ib* *nd yon might I no all hope of befog married before the
the parlor much more; and Pm deaf, j lessened.
hi™
killed him, Oomelia,” added the old
lady, “throwing his pretty diamond
ring on the floor.”
“Ohl” mooned Comelk. “Ohl”
. “It wasn’t her fault, I was a con-
following Whitsuntide. Un the other
hand, in some parts,.a bride dll her
return home from chore his of ten robbed
of all the pins about her dress by her
single' friends present, frdtt the belief
that whoever possesses one of them will
hi married in the course of a year.
are v taking merry over tome returns of
tie census which show that there are in
the United States 6,000 establish menu for
the manufacture of aaen’e clothing, tie
annual product befog valued at $200,000,-
000. and there are only 690 manufacturer*
of women’s clothing, the products of thoee
works befog valued at only $80,000,000
annually. This is but another example ot
the delusive manner in which the census
*re being put before tie public.
It is not surprising that newspaper Writ
ers are mjkHhtffUB of them. The explan
ations that should go with the census fig
ures ere tieie:
First, that i forge proportion of tie
women of tie United Steles make their
own garments, aim, iuetofore, have no
need for “ establishment ” to make
them.
Second, another large proportion have
their garmente made by needlewomen and
dressmakers in a small way, and these do
not count as “estebiiahmeats.’,
John Cabot, end this commission is
the first English Btate paper on record
concerning America. On Friday, Sep
tember 7, 1605, St. Augustine, Fla.,
was found—the oldest town in the
United States. On Friday, November
10,1620, tie Mayflower made land at
Prinoetown, and on tie same day the
Pilgrims signed tie compact which was
tie forerunner of our Constitution. On
Friday, December22. 1620, the Pilgrims
iaTiHftd St Plymouth Rook. On Friday*
February 22, 1732, Washington was
born. On Friday, June 16 1775, Bun
ker Hill was seized and fortified. On
Friday, October 8, 1777, occurred tie
surrender at Saratoga. On Friday,
September 26, 1780. Armld’* treason
was discovered. On Friday, October
19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered at
Yorktowu, and the war for independence
ended in complete victory. Other
events might he named. In the war
with Monaco tie battle of Palo Alto
began on Friday. The northwestern
boundary questions, which threatened
war with England, was settled on Fri
day of the same year. On Friday, the
Confederates captured Fort Sumter,
and precipitated the war for the Union.
Tbe Port Royal forts were taken by the
Union forces on Friday; the battle of
Pea Bufoe closed ou Friday: slavery
was abolished in the District of Colum
bia on Friday; Fort Pulaski was token,
Memphis was taken, Fredericksburg
bombarded, the battle of Gettysburg
was ended, Lee defeated at Five Forks,
the Union flag restored to Fort Sumter,
alio&Fridaya.
The moat interesting of all sight* is tie
grand old mission church of Ban Xavier,
nine miles from Tucson, on tbe Papsgo
reservation. This mission was founded in
1664, when tie Papago (or Pima) Indiana
were supposed to have accepted the Christ
ian religion. The church ot Ban Xavier
was begun about the year 1790 and fin
ished In 1798, excepting one of tie towers,
which is yet unf ushed. The style of ar
chitecture is Moorish. • The lines ara won
derfully perfect. It Is In tie form of
cross, 70 by 116 feet, and has a well-
formed dome. A balustrade surmounts all
tie walla The front Is covered with
scroll-work, intricate, interesting and
partly decayed. Over the front ia a life
size bust of Bt. Xavier. Thu interior is
literally covered with fres-'oes. The altar
is adorned with gilded scroi, work. The
statues are as numerous as the paintings
The tiling on the floor is much defaced,
very little being left. That of tie root is
nearly all as perfect as whim laid. Its
manufacture is one c r the loss arte. There
is a online ot tour good-shred bells u the
tower, that have a soft, awuet round. As
cending to the roof, you walk up long
narrow stairs in solid walls. But one can
go at a time. The same is true in going
to the gallery of tbe church. It is marvel
ous that so long ago, and m such a place,
such i.chltecture, ornaments, paintings
qnd sculpture were so well executed.
m
P*f rborough . totUrdr*!.
The recent failure ot the central tower
of tie Peterborough Cathedral, England,
has brought out a series of reminiscences.
It Is said that in 1107 Bishop Walkelyn’s
huge tower at Winchester fell, in horror
at haring tie foul'Oorpse of the detested
Rufus buried beneath it; and how, two
centuries later, that of Ely came crashing
down as the startled monks were going
up to their dormitory oa tie ove of Bt.
ErmfoiW.a; how in 1286 the preacher’s
denunciation of tie cruel persecutions of
himself and his brother cai cns by Bishop
Grosteete was credited with tne ruin of
tbe predecessor of the exquisite “Broad
Tower” which crowns that “sovereign
hill” of Lincoln, how the “New Tower”
fell at Worcester in 1176, and the central
tower at Evesham about 1218, aud the
two upper stones of tie iower of Bt.
Kbadegund, now Jesus Chapel, Cam
bridge. fell and crushed the choir in
1270; and how the central tower of
Betby come down is 1690, and in 17b* tie
weet tower ot Hereford was quietly al
lowed by tbe Chapter to tumble down,
and was never rebuilt at all; and how,
just two and twenty yean.ago, Feb. >1,
1861, In spite of all remedial measure
the tower aud spue ot Chichester in
few seconds became a heap of ruins.
own.
We often excuse our own want of phi-
lantirophy by giving the name of fa
naticism to the more ardent zeal of
others.
Ask often, in your hours of bustle,
where is tie heart now? They only
arc toe busy whs forget God in then:
main ess.
The more we have to read tie more
we have learned, tie more we have
meditated tie better conditioned we
are to affirm that we know nothing.
It is every man’s duty to labor ia his
calling, and not to despond tor any
miscarriage or disappointments that
were not m his own power to prevent.
Our lives are like some complicated
machine, working on one side of a wall
and delivering tie finished fabric on
the other. The work is in our hands—
the completion is not.
Man is, beyond dispute, the most
excellent of creature beings, and the
vilest animal is a dog; but the sages
agree that a grateful dog is better than
an ungrateful man.
False happiness renders men stem
and proud, and that happiness is never
oommnnioated. True happiness ren
ders them kind and sensible, and that
happiness is always shared.
Our life experiences, whether sad or
joyful, should be fertilizers to a larger
aud stronger growth of character, as
tie dead leaves of trees stimulates them
from year to year to higher and nobler
proportions.
He who is great when he falls is great
in his prostration, and is no more an
object of contempt than when men
tread on tie rains of sacred boildings.
which men of piety venerate no te**
than if they stood.
It is foolish to strive with what we
cannot avoid; we are bom subjects,
and to obey God is perfect liberty; he
that does this shall be free, safe and
quiet; all his actions shall succeed to
his wishes,
God planted fear in the soul as truly
as he planted hope and courage. Fear
is a kind of bell or gong wnioh rings
the mind into quick life and avoidance
upon tie approach of danger. It is the
soul’s signal for rallying.
J'he scorn which is really kindly and
appreciative, tells much more effectively
than tie scorn which is purely con
temptuous. Who you can afford frankly
iu piftisw- ■** you prase * euiiu—uiwe
h no danger of returning to adore.
The wise man has his follies, no leas
than tie fool; but it has been said that
herein lies tie difference —the Routes at
the fool see known to the wprld, but
ate hidden from himself; the follies of
tie wise man arc known to himself; but
are hidden from the world.
The less yon leave your children
when you die, the more they will have
twenty afterwards. Wealth in
herited should be the incentive to ex
ertion. Instead of that “it is tie title-
deed to slotb.” The only money that
does a man good is what he earns
it A ready-made fortune, like
teadj made dothca, seldom fits the
man who comes into possession. Am-
bilion stimulated by hope am a half-
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