Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 1 i .i i i M 'it in i??* *? r -i | llll"f" ?i , ?^ WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1884. ey Hear the Sirens for the Second Time. k.. Tbo weary sails a moment slept. The oars were silent for a space, As past Hesperian shores we swept, Teat were as a remembered face. Seen after lapse of hopeless years, In Hades, when the shadows meet, D.ira through the mist of many tears, 'And strang-e. and. though a shadow, sweet, i So seemed the half-remembered shore That slumbered, mirrored in the blue. With heavens where we touched of yore, And ports that over-weil we knew. Then broke the calm before a breeze x That sought the secret of tho West; And listless all we swept fhe seas Towards tho Islands of the blest. *. Beside a golden-sanded tiay We saw the Sirens, very fair: The flowery hill whereon they lay, The Sowers set upon their hair. Their old sweet son? came down tho wind Remembered music waxing strong? Ah! now no need of cords to bind, No need had we of Orphic song. It once had seemed a little thing * To lay our lives down at their feet. That dvinr we mlcht hear them sinir. And dying see tneir faces svreet. But now vre plan cod, find, passing by, No care bad we to utr~y long; Faint hope and rest and memory Wero more than any Siren's song-. # - ?Andrew Lung's Ballads. WORK AND PLAY. How the Colored People Enjoy Themselves Down South. The negro delights in his cotton-field. To him, "Dnrs nothin' like cotton, i ?i- >;rx7-:r- ?j ?U I Silii. ?? lit; iUlU UUiiUiVii tUL kWUV W | the field, and. after an extra hard daj's j labor, they invite their neighbor in to ; have a dance. An invitation came to m'o and from a small boy One evening "to tote ober to Brudder Sycamore's, case dey's gwine to hab a time." The boy had barely clothes enough on to cover his black skin, but he was an active, fine-looking little fellow, the grandson of Brudder Syca? more, who lived in a cabin two miles away." ? "What do they do when they have a-fcae?-'-2- -L.asked. I The boy gri3fcad, showing teetn as white as"cocoa-xnextras he gave tho universal answer: "Dunno." "Are they going to dance?" I asked. I "Yes; Unclc Juniper ho got a fiddle," was the reply. "Is there any Uncle Water Oak or j Spruce Pine in your family?" I in- j quired. "Dar's Uncle Jurea?dey calls him Water Oak," was the grinning reply. I "What other trees does your house hold represent?" I asked. "Bnnno," with a chuckle. That evening, in company with a friend, I went to Brudder Sycamore's ' log cabin. The usual tires were burning, ' . ' round which hovered coal-black imps, shouting and laughing, dancing first 1 on one leg, and then on the other. \ Inside the cabin chairs were brought in for the white party. The cabin had a yawning fireplace and a mud floor. Candles stuck in potatoes graced every corner and every spot where they could be made available. The company sat : 3 I on. ooarus raugeu. iuuiiu wv aiuwo ui the cabin while" the fiddle was being tuned up. At last it seemed to mo I ; had got into a prayer-meeting,. every- ; ' ~cos^ff^oklng yonnsfm^^^i^^^" : ^tock 01 hair, stood up and beckoned ' fewa girl oa the opposite side, who came ' JB over with much embarrassment, shak- ! KjUW ing her shoulders like a child, and { Hf stood up to dance. Then the fiddle ; Wf bagan with a wail of unspeakable des- \ KM pair, and presently another and then ; another couple joined in the dance. It was not till they were thoroughly ' n-orma^ nr\ +V>?t tflOTT KofT?lT> t.r? hojlt. 1'TlA n ? J & ; air and pound the rncd floor. By degrees the enthusiasm of the dance displayed itself. One commenced to shout I and sing, and another to use all kinds r cf ejaculations, till finally it looked like a. scene from pandemonium. I tried to get at the words, which ran like this: Joe, yon darky, take your turn. ' Oh, dar's aringin' cb de bells! Sue, dem pancakes is on de turn. Oh, dar's a ringin* ob de bells! | De sky Is clear an* de moon is bright, 1 An* de coon is a gwine fur to sleep to- : night, .IXlUi&lLULLLLy viiC ^/11X1U.a. uau CAUCiuporised s ball-room out of doors and tooted and screamed as they ran through ? the fire, danced over the flames, and shouted in ever-increasing 1 hilarity. Presently I saw an old graybeared man take a strong young girl by the shoulders and deliberately put . her outside the door. ' * "What has she done?" I asked, for . the black face was very sulky. "Done break de rules ob de dance, I reckon," was the reply. "What rules?" 'Laws, dar's hundreds of'em; Uncle Sycamore knows," was the answer. When we went away the girl still sat angrily biting &er fingers on the bench . outside the door, and in her eyes was : a dangerous light. ; "Wnat did you stop dancing for?" ] I asked her. She looked up, but an- 1 swerea never a word, and we went off, 1 wondering if she had flirted with some ' other girl's sweetheart?Florida Cor. ; s Sari, Francisco Chronicle. ? i m Phosphorescence of Diamonds. gv A curious point in diamond lore has just been established to the delight of < savants in-Paris, where the exhibition < of the crown jewels at^ the Louvre has 1 made the subject very'popular for the moment. It has long been laid down that the diamond has the power of re- ; taining light and of afterward emitting < it in the dark. The theory has been < well buttressed by reasons; but the ] IvAM ViAAr* aocw f/icf A ll or nearly all, of the great diamonds? j] such as the Kohinoor, the Regent, the ' 3 Grand Mogul?can . not, for public j ] reasons, be made the subject of expo- j e riment, and stones of lesser size do | < not always give satisfactory results. 11 Happily, a private individual, the own- ! ] er of a gem of 92 carats, and estimated j 1 at a value of 300,000 francs, has lent j < ' his diamond for scientific investijra- j < x ai T>!. ? 1 ? j ^7 . * \ UULLSu -I liCSC liat V iiiudb dAiixoiaw- | tor, and the "phosphorescence" of the 1 L , stone may be regarded as proved. The j diamond was exposed for an ho^r to 1 the direct action of the sun's rays and < JW afterward removed into a dark room, j For more than twenty minutes afterward it emitted a light, feeble, indeed, but still sufficiently' strong to make a sheet of white paper held near it quite visible in the dark. A similar result was arrived at by a very different experiment, and light was generated by rubbing the stone with a piece of hard flonrtp] Prill. Wall. Cfuv.pIL" They sat side by side on the car, j says tlie Detroit Free Press, talking ] politics, and presently fhe man, in tho I -white- plug hat inquired: "Colonel, whom do you consider the greatest living orator?" The colonel coughed, stroked his cbin whiskers, and made j no reply- At the end of the block he got off without a word, and a passen- j' Km- gei^on the opposite seat leaned forward i BjSi< ' and said to the white hat man: "That's ! Bjptefc^ a pretty blunder you made! Why he s ' the very man himself!" "Is that so?" gasped the other, and he ran to the. platform to watch him out of sight. P1PE-S3I OKI N G. The Pipe Superseding tlie Ci^ar? Fancies of the Smokers. "Pipes arc certainly being more com? monly smoked amon? the wealthier classes than formerly," said a tobacconist the other dav, "and they show .? - i J-J rpi__ tneir gooa sense oy so uuiag. -mere is no doubt that a smoker "gets more satisfaction out of a pipe than f.rcHn a cigar. Of course, in every article of which there is so largo a consumption as tobacco, there wilt be more or" less adulteration, but there is not likely to be as much in plain tobacco as in a manufactured article like a cigar or a cigarette." "What kind of a pipe do you recom menar" "That is a very difficult question to answer. There are so many different kinds, and every smoker has his fancy. To my mind, nothing is so sweet, nothing brings out the flavor of the tobacco so thoroughly as a clay pipe, with a mouth-piece of amber." "Why the amber mouthpiece?" "Only because it is pleasant to hold in the mouth; for no other reason. Yon spo thnre is no flavor of anv kind in either clav or amber pure and simple, but the clay, if good and soft, will absorb all the nicotine of the tobacco, and, as an old smoker once said to me, 'After you've seasoned your pipe well you may smoke hay or tea in it and never know you're not smoking tobacco.' Then there is that delight of all smokers, the meerschaum. But, to give complete satisfaction, that has to be seasoned well, for, when new, meerschaum has a peculiar flavor of its own, owing, I fancy, to the wax which is used to polish it" "Are there not different varieties of O^U?WUi "Y*s. Tho best, however, coines in a manufactured form from Vienna.? Many people are even now under the impression that meerschaum is, as its name expresses, the foam of the sea in a compressed form. It received its name because it was lirst found near the seashore and in its natural state looks something like lumps of hardened soapsuds. It is really a kind of clay, found in various parts of the world, especially in Russia and in South America, in regular quarries. The reason of its being so useful for pipes, cigars-holders, etc., is because it is soft, easily carved, and absorbs the oil of the toBacco well, at the same time, when polished, taking a very beautiful brown color. This color it is the pride and ambition of a pipeamoker to produce." "I have heard that that is a somewhat difficult operation. Is it so." "It only requires care. The wax, with which the polish is produced, very readily ourns, or more proneny is maae to boil, when it gathers in white spots all over the pip^ This spotting or burning is very diiacult to get rid of, and is very unsightly- It is caused by smoking too rapidly, smoking in a cold Wind, or refilling and smoking before the pipe has grown cold and the wax resumed ijs- firmness. A meersahaum pip? wmti--*.plug in it of the height required to be colored. There are many plugs used,. such as a common bone button, a meerschaum button; but best of all, in my opinion, is a plug of some strong tobacco "which cay be changed when it ^rows foul, and the pipe requires cleaning. Then a meerschaum should always be allowed to cool before it is smoked a second time, and should-not be smoked in a wind." "There are good wooden pipefe, are there not?" "Certainly. Briar-root pipes make an exceedingly pleasant smoke. They are apt to be ramer hot and burn tho I tongue when new, but they soon get seasoned aud the tobacco has a. very [air show." . "What are the best briar pipes?" "The best are made of the roots of the briar shrub, which grows iu abundance wild on the hilis around Leghorn, in Ttalv. Some, verv fine briars also come from France. But France is mostly famous for its cherry-wood pipes ^nd stems. The very best and straightest twigs and branches only are used, and they undoubtedly make very good pipes. But talking of cherry brings me to the porcelain bowls of the Germans and the terra eotta bowls of the Turks. These are both fixed to Long cherry stems. >JThe Turks especially are particular in the choice of Ck DIU-LLL JlKJL UAiCii. V/ILXUUUXIO. JLJO.^ ObULUO are sometimes a yard and a half long and require a boy to light the pipe." "I thought the Turks used an elastic tube to their pipes?" "That is to their narghiles or nubbly-bubblies. The tobacco is placed in a bowl and the smoke is inhaled into the lungs through rose-water in a bottle. A very mild kr _ of tobacco is used with these pipes and they very often have as many"as five or six tubes attached for as many smokers." "Is the narghile pleasant to smoke?" "I cannot say. I never tried. But the chibouk a very pleasant way of taking your weed. Only the very finest and best tobacco is smoked in a M J ?^ aIwtatta r\ ft A* Ji-liUUUlv, ftJJU Hi SUKIUIU uir*aj o uo avcompanied by a cup of very strong black coffee and a plate of bonbons. "Are they any improvement?" "Most decidedly. Do ^rou know that i big smoker with whom I am acquainted always carries a box of choc- \ ?late or Spanish licorice lozenges with aim. I have not yet told you of the jorn-cob pipe, the French clay, the innumerable variety of wooden pipes, aor the chamois-horn pipe of the Swiss. Kor have I mentioned* 'the thousand ind one materials used for making r 3ms ana cigar iuucs, iuu jjjajj.* intentions for mouthpieces or fancy bowls about which alone a book might be written. But I guess you've got enough for your purpose. I would 3nly like to say that in every country the greatest smokers, those who enjoy their tobaccc most, and who are most fastidious about getting the best, are those who use the much-abused though iecidedly most healthy and cleanly pipe."?Philadelphia Times. * p ? The Buffet Car. "I do declare, James," said the farmer's wife, as sh& walked about the wait.ng-room reading the railway advertisements, "here's something I j never heard tell on before. A buffet j car. What do you suppose that is, ' James?" '"Don't you know wliat a ! buffet car is, Sarah? Guess you ! haven't been reading much of laffe* have you? You ought to know that a ' * T^AnnnflTT fA UUJJL^V UUi ?T' .i-i-i. J WUIUU wv put on the end of the train. It is fixed i up with springs and things, and is de- | signed to act as a sort of Duffer for the rest of the train, in case of collisions, j They're making such improvements in ! railroading all the while, Sarah, I ! b'lieve, if it wern't for me to tell you j what is going on-in the world, you i wouldn'tlmow anything." The first copper cent was coined in Sew Haven in 1687. # 1 f. A No Longer a Desert. One more miracle, says the New j York Suh, has been wrought in the ! orient. The whole length and breadth ! of the great Algerian desert, arid and ! almost without vegetable life for years, i is now a mass of living green. Dry, I sandy Sahara is a luxuriant, grassy j garden, rich and refreshing as a New j Jtugland orchard. Notwithstanding the elaborately j formulated scientific theories, which j arranged for continued dryness in Al- ; geria, until the reluctant' inhabitants j were forced to leave the country or j die of thirst, so dismal an exodus is I not likelv to take place at present, j Last winter the rainfall was beyond ' precedent, so far as the memory of the | "oldest inhabitant" goes, and copious i thunderstorms continued all through ; the spring months and even into the j summer. Such a wet season' there j never was in Algeria before, and in j consequent- this season's crop3 will i constitute ; ?.::ful abundance personi- j fied. . The u::c foar of the farmers is ' tViot thn vii? iii-iv ]?< . tlnTcicrhnnt the ! summer and iuterfere with their : harvests. Rain in winter is frequent enough in I this naturally -dry climate, but it is ! seldom excessive. The only harm it ' has done is to dissolve the raw, sundried brick of which the houses aro built. Scores of families have seen their homes molt under their very. noses without any means of checking the destruction. Even the French i garrisons lost their barracks and were j compelled to accommodate themselves j to tent life. This soluble Algerian i Dric?, caned "auou, corresponus uxactly with the "adobe'' of the Mexicans and Spanish Americans. Philologists, in fact, pretend to trace both to a common Araoic origin. In support of the theory or fallacy that the desert is gradually creeping toward luc sea-coast is the fact that countless ruins exist in Tripoli and Tunis, marking the places where considerable vegetation once was but now is not. The" truth is, however, that their desertion is not due to any natj ural phenomena, but wholly and en j tirely to the depredative invasions of I nomadic Arabs, who finally killed off and drove away all of the unfortunate inhabitants of the present ruins. The wells with which the latter sustained vegetable growth iu their region are now filled with dry sand. They could easily be opened again and made just as serviceable as formerly. The taxes, too, were dreadful enough to discourage any race or people and probably had some influence upon the depopulation. The constant decrease of the wood land is dangerous to eveiy interest unu t should be legislated against. By pre- j serving the timber now standing, by planting more, and by taking advantage of the same opportunities that have so wonderfully increased the rain-fall in western North America, tho great desert of Sahara could be redeemed from its supposed perpetual aridity and become_o"g ^ ike?greeircstyrlca="" ~"3STTand grandest in all the earth. - Tightly-Fitting Gloves. ~ "T wont; ?> "Mrt fi Won h7a<V5r kid glove!" The speaker came into a ; Broadway glove store yesterday and seated herself before the tired-looking attendant* with an "and-don't-you-forget-it" sort of an air. "A 6! Are they for yourself?1' asked j an attendant, looking questioningly at j the customer's hand. "Why, of course they are for me. j Do you think I wear an 18?" "Excuse me. I thought that per- j haps you had made a mistake, and was j about to suggest measuring your hand.'' "1 guess"! know wliat size# glove I wear. They cost me enough goodness knows." No more was said. The customer selected a pair of sixes, paid her $3.25 for them and departed. "I)o you have many such customers?" asked a reporter who had been a witness of the scene. 'Very many. All are not so snappish, however. It is strange what an amount of torture ladies will undergo to wear a small glove. That lady ought never to wear a glove smaller than a seven. I do not wonder her gloves cost her a great deal. Gloves are the most costly items of a lady's dress. The most frequent complaint against gloves is that the fingers are fnn cVi/vrf Tho trnriHo rpnll-o- ic tTiA glove is too small everywhere. A lady who should take a six and three-quarter glove can get her hand into a six and one-quarter glove; but in doing so the length of the glove is taken up in the wfdth, consequently the lingers, instead of going well on, only go partly on. The thumb fares still worse, for it reaches, as a rule, only down to within a quarter of an inch of its proper termination. The end. of the glove which is made to go around the wrist has to be buttoned across the ball of the thumb." "What constitutes a well-fitting glove?" "One that conforms to the shape of i the hand. Some think a glove to fit well must fit tightly. Such is not the fact. A comparatively loose-fitting glove has a better appearance than one that is half a size too smalL Some women are not content unless their gloves are so tight that their lingers look lise sausages, and the back of the hand like parchment stretched over a drumhead. If ladies would wear their gloves so that they coulu put them on without the aid of powder or the trouble of working them on for an hour, tlini'r urnll!<1 nut tar ilrr?CSf?<l and their glove bills reduced twothirds. 1 should not complain, though, 1 suppose, for it mrikes business good, and that is the m:iia point with us after all."?-V. Y. Mail and Express. > The Origin of the Turnpike. An etymological crank has discovered that the name of turnpike come3 from having a pike hung across a roadway so that no one could pass without LUililii^ 11* JL Vii~i IT VIV illOVllUbVU about 500 years ago, the first one being built in England by a monk whose selfappointed work was to guard the shrine of St. Anthony, on Highgate Hill. Not having much to do he carted dirt from the top of the hill and filled up a deep hollow. In doin?: this he expended all his fortune, but the King came to the rescue, and published a decree addressed to our well-beloved William Philippi, in which, after approving the motives which induced him to benefit our people passing through the highway between Higbgato and Smithfield, in many places notoriously miry and deep, he authorized him to set up a bar and ^ ? - it ? 1 iL. tajKe ion, so mat ne magrub tuo i road in order and himself in comfort ] and dignity. ? ^ " The letters "0. K" came from Anx j Cayes, the name of a fine tobacco. As j the name became a trade-mark, when i other things were excellent they were j said to be Aux Caves. HEXRY CLAY'S HORSE. Thp Nag the Greatest Statesman Won at a Game of Poker. A Washington letter in tho Houston Font says: "I recollect Henry Clay's turnout very well." said an ohl-timer; "he had one of the old style Concord bugfries, with a top that suggested, a Mother Hubbard bonnet It was evidently a second-hand affair that Mr. Clay had picked up "in a trade, and nowadays would do very well for a woman to hrul vegetables around town in. The cushions were stuffed with moss and were so well worn you could see the moss, sticking out at the sides. I'll bet Henrv Clay didn't know what ? J - - -C ? a lap-roce was, ana, as iur a nmp, no didn't have any. 'He used to slash his old sorrel stallion with the ends of the reins so loud you could hear it a block off. The steps to the buggy were gone and Mr. Clay used to jump over the wheels. When he vvauted to get in he put one foot over ih? '.ub and swung the other around over the wheel and dash-board. The wheels were so high he had to let the top down to get out. They had axle-grease in those days, but Mr. Clay had evidently never found it out Ee always drove his horse at n. Muter, vou eonld hear the front wheels of bis buggy squeaking as many notes as there are on a piccola "Ah, well do I remember that sorrel stallion," continued the old-timer. "Henry Clay won him' one night at poker in John Hancock's saloon, which is still running on the avenue, from Col. Jim Bright, who lived at Falls Church, Va. Bright used to come over every week and play with Clay, and he generally went back to Falls Church with a pocketful of money. But that" was Clay's lucky night He got away with $1,200 of Bright's money, his watch, saddle and bridle, overcoat, saddle bags, a new suit of clothes that were in the saddle-bags, three finger L iLl,^L1I1U. Gt UL v* Mia^w vi pgvvu and a bowic knife, and a pair of boots "Oh, you needn't laugh," said the old-timer, with great animation; "that's the way they played poker in them days. A man went the whole hog or nothing. Why, didn't you never hear of the time Henry Clay bet himself clean down to his undershirt, and he offered to pull that off but the other fellow didn't wear an undershirt to put up against it. Well, sir, it's so, any how, and the very table he played the game on is. now in the front room, up-stairs, in Hancock's saloon. It is an old pine I'lMn <tVinnf. tiltpn snnare. with a hole in the middle to drop the percentage through for threes, fulls, flushes, and jack-pots. Well, sir about that old stallion. He was well known around Washington for several years. He always nickered when Clay came near him. Clay carried a pocketful of shelled corn, and he gave the horse a handful every time he got into the buggy. The "boys knew the stallion well, and they used to give him pieces _of_bread. cakp. nuts, or anything sort. He'd eat watermelon and meat, and I've seen him eat wads of paper as though he was trying to make the boys laugh. Well, sir, Clay had a nigger named Sam. Une day ne loaned tne stallion to Sam to drive to Alexandria. Sam got drunk before he left town, and lie started out on a gallop. He didn't stop till lie got to Mount Vernon, twenty miles off. There lie turned around and galloped all the way back. The old stallion dropped dead at the edge of South Washington. There were over one hundred boys at the funeral. In revenge Clay sold the nigner to a Louisiana sugar-planter, with a proviso in the bill of sale that the planter should hitch Sam in shafts and work him in the cane-milL Fact, sir!" Irrigation. West of the Missouri the majority of + cnvfor>n fhn no-rtTi ic mata nr Ipcq neglected by the celestial sprinkling pot, and it behooves poor wealc man to irrigate artificially wherever ho can. Now you can go into California, Utah and Colorado, and by irrigation raise garden sass that will make your eyes bulge; but through Wyoming, especially on the Laramie plains, the growing season is confined to tho time between July 31 and August 1. So that things don't have time to mature. I will except promissory notes paying two per cent per month, however. jLne season is so aDrupt, ana wnea it comes is gone again with, that spontaneity and forthwith immediate movement peculiar to the flea, that before you can put ear muffs on your corn, the ears are frozen and the season's work is nothing but frost bitten chaos and : wilted wreck. i Still with ail this knowledge and in the light of a full experience we had I years ago a man on the plains named Hayford, who had been a fever and ague doctor a year or two in the South till people told him that they preferred the ague to the stylo of knowledge he had. Then he drifted West, worked on the night shift in a Colorado mine and practiced law in a quiet, shyster kind of a way till the vigilantes got all his practice and threatened to get him. Then ho came to Wyoming to grow up with the country, started a paper and printed it on one of those little amateur card presses that sell for three dollars. This paper he published every day, and in the old flush times during the building of the Union Pacific railway, sold it at twenty-five cents a week. He used it as a little pocket blackmailer and worried himself into office bv knowing things about promi nent men and threatening to publish them. Well, he was the champion of irrigation in Wyoming, and he devoted a stickfnl a day to Wyoming agricultural possibilities. He favored the organization of a stock company for the purpose of constructing a canal thirty miles long to irrigate a dozen townships. He said we had heretofore raised nothing but hemp and hc^ and uu iavuiuu tuid suutmu x iuo*??j he got it to going and the company was organized, and a civil engineer from Missouri named Crout took a castiron plow and a "bull team" and constructed the pioneer canal, as it was called. The canal worked well enough where the cuts were, but along the fill Mr. Crout found, when it was too late, that he had forgotten to put on any side boards, and therefore the water sloDped over and went down the gulch J 1 1 11^ - J ~ 1 1_ _ 1 : 13 _ i._ es ana uuuaiu wiuiuws uua iu.tv.aju tints that didn't need any irrigation. Altogether the scheme was a failure. There is some water back a mile from the river where it has run down during the June freshets when the snow melts in the mountains, and there the antelope comes to drink and wriggle his brief tail, but there are no fields of waver ULlg glUiLU HUb i* VYiVVC. JJLJLA?<?UIUU VLL the Laramie plains is still confined to that class of agriculture where two men soak slices of pine apple in spirits and greet each other with the Indian toast, "How!"?Bill Nye, in Now York Mcrcury. Rhymes in the Mails. Some very curious and funny letters are received at the Dead-Letter Office. The outside of some is more unique than the inside. The following are the addresses on the envelopes of several which have found their way to the Dead-Letter Office. They show the ( poetical bent of the writers:.. "Fly little messenger, quick and straight, i To Humboldt County of Iowa State: Fly, little messenger, and seek with care ' For Miss Annie Fahey, you'll find her ] there." j . Unfortunately there was no stamp on j it, and the matter-of-fact P. M. hnstled ] it off to the Dead-Letter Office. , . A trusting parent writes on the en- , relope of Ms letter: , + tn mv RATI. wllO i drives a.team of red oxon, and .the railroad :?unsthroi^h.fci6 place:" v *77 , ^Another envelops has: " ' 4 11 Bummer's letter, send it ahead, }. - Bead broke and nary a red; Postmaster, pat this letter through, : And when 1 Ret paid I'll pay you." . 'Another envelope has this address: j "'James Irwin. Try all over the State." 1 SfciH another brief address is: < ."E. A. Kenyon, P. M., EL" ) i A would-be housekeeper puts on the J envelope; "P. Si. Please forward to the physician ' who was looking for a housekeeper in St. j Louis last week; is a widower with two children; don't know his name." *. This is no doubt an answer to an ad- ! vertisement It is a pity the widow 1 did not get it. ; Another envelope has: i "To General W. Knowles this letter is sent, < To the town of Brighton where the other * one went. ? _ ?A U iU ?i L LCI Y/UKJ ?T tuio i L U. liituu Vi <? To the State of New Tork I hope it will go." But it went to the Dead-Letter Office * instead. 1 Another envelope has: ] "Hollo! Uncle Sam: let me go in your maiJ, 1 As I've taken a notion to ride on a rail . To:lHinois State, and there let me 6top, , And in McLean Co. Just please let me drop; 1 In LeKoy P. 0. there let me lay, ] Until Eeaaon K. Gay takes me away." 3 But the P.' M.'s reply just below i says? ] A'Tlayed out, my dear boy. 1 There is no use in talking, ... If you can't pay your way you'll have to try walking." ] One who was careful to pay postage 1 wrote? i "Notv haste' 'with this letter as fast as you " <Sant I've just paid your fare to good Uncle Sam; The case is quite urgent, so don't stop to thick, Don't tarry for lunches.or even a drink, Lyman street you will very soon find, Where the peoplo are honest, gocd-natured and kind, Frank Taylor, the man to "whom you must tro, Is 46 Lyman street, Cleveland, Ohio." ?Washington Capital. Girls at the Bat. * < "The great and oniy Young Ladies' : Base-Ball club" has resumed its play 1 for tho season at tho Elm avenue ] grounds, West Philadelphia, says the : Philadelphia Times of the 11th inst. : The girls wore jaunty red cap&rvery i shorty white skirtaf-^riramcdr^^vjpl: ] fcrald," black stockings, and the^^^ua- i tion base-ball shoes. The. entertain- J meat was moral in every sense, iree < from any objectionable features, aad i decidedly amusing. Seven charming < young ladies?for Lizzie Moore ana Mamie May were unavoidably absent ] ?ran lightly out of their dressing- , room on the stroke of the bell at 4:30. i The' spectators were reminded of the i descent of the silver amazons in "Ex- : celsior," and the blondes and brunettes < won all hearts. This was the first ap- j nearance of the team this season, i 5?heir little palms had not yet recover- s ed from the softening effect of the long t winter's enforced -"vacation. Their < eyes, too, were not in form for seeing < the ball. Why is it that girls always . < throw over the shoulder? Carrie Hart- j man, however, did her best to throw in i correct masculine manner, and once or i twice succeeded. Mollie Remington < with hor left hand. Sadie Earl ( developed an opinion, formed early in i the afternoon, that she was a "slider" ] to such an extent that after a while she j was saluted with a shout of "Sliding ( Sadie" when she deftly slid under the ( arms of a second baseman and cleverly e pulled up at the sand-bag. c ''The game of ball," said H. H. ^ Freeman, manager of the team, "was e not-, onlv fashirinahle amon? the vounsr e> ladies of England in the fourteentK f century, but it was encouraged in every E possible way by the nobility. Why shouldn't American girls play?" 0 Daisy Muir, a pretty little brunette, t was asked whether she liked the game. s 'Rather," she lisped. "But my! ? don't it make you hungry, just?" ij "And Mr. Freeman," put in Annie r Brown, a blonde, "won't let us have s anything to drink until we get home, j He said it'll make us sick and get us ^ ont of condition." i( "Well,.that's what's the matter with e Lizzie Moore and Mamie May. The a doctor says they've got a surfeit of j] something. I g^ess it's only a kind of t] beat," said Dairy. 3; "Do I like base-ball," said Polly e Elliott, the first base girl. "I should n snicker! Of course I like it, else why s, Would I play? Will I drink? Wait ^ till I get outside, when Freeman's a gone." t] I The young ladies piayea tnree inn- d ! ings with the Iontha club, scoring 5 to ^ the Iontha's 7. a The Pecan Tree. 5 The pecan tree is found in a wild ! state in the woods of the various sections of the South and West. It grows ? to a very lar^e size, and bears yearly I! many bushels of fine-flavored nuts. P Though little or 110 attention has been ? paid to these valuable trees, cultiva- F tion greatly improves them, the nut ^ growing much larger and improving in Savor. The pecan tree lives to a great 2 age, and continues long in beaiing. 8 There is no good reason why it should f not be grown extensively in all parts of the United States. It is well adapted ?: to almost any kind of soil, doing well even on rocky hills and waste land. * There is no nut or fruit tree more ? valuable and requiring so little atten- ri tion. Every fai'mer, in my opinion, r should have his nut orchard, and. cultirate especially the pecan for home use " or sale. The nuts always find ready ? sale at fancy prices. In planting the trees the only object is to obtain good fresh nuts, and of a good early variety, of largo size, from which to grow the j T trees. If it is preferred to set out the ! f, plants, get healthy trees of a good va- j s riety 1 to 2 years old. I j ? ^ ' a A little Common Sense and a worn- a out Joke met on the bank of the canal, p "Where have you been?" queried the ti Joke. "Beep having a mighty hard ^ time of it," said the little Common jj Sense. "I tried to get employment in n the coming convention at Chicago, but c - " . .. mi v?_: __ w tue aemocrats say mey wju nave uv j ^ use for me. What are you doing nowa- i _ days?" "Me? oh, I have plenty of i work," responded the Joke, cheerfully. e "When the evening papers drop me I k go the rounds of the New York City | ^ police justices."?Troy Telegram. 9 THE ASIATIC CHOLERA. Where It Starts, How It Travels, and by "What Roads. There are comparatively few people" now living in this country who> have ever witnessed a case of Asiatic cholera. and there is probably no disease oi which mankind in general stands in greater fear, ::nd which is the object of more superstition. The fact of the Iread malady spreading its contagion by personal contact, and following in its march the main roads of commerce induced Eugene Sue to select Ahasuerjs as the personal propagator of cholera, especially as it formerly advanced with thft slowness with which eastern caravans carried the tea across the Asiatic prairies. ? In Asia, in thee neighborhood c?: - ab>. 3nita; in Arabia, near'Mecca, and in Egypt, not farm, from Cairo, are" the breeding-places of cholera. There famine is a frequent occurrence. The people grow up surrounded by filth such as an American citizen has not the faintest idea of, an'd an infectious disease finds the most favorable conditions for its development in those un' *' rTM ; 1. > ueauny ciisincis. jme pngrims wuojh thousands yearly proceed from Egypt to Mecca, and who live off the poorest food and amid the greatest squalor, ;arry with them the seeds of cholera, ind thus form the connecting link in the transmission of the disease from &sia to Africa. If we consider the commercial importance of Alexandria tve can not wonder that the cholera, ?!j T? 4. JHUK epiuuunu iu suuuiu owu.LIJ travel to Europe. Thus far medical aistory has not recorded a single instance of an original out-break of cholera anywhere but at the places mentioned. Filth seems to be the sine qua ion of its development and cleanliness the most powerful barrier to its march. The fact has been established that the human being alone acts as the carrier of the cholera poison. There is ao well-authenticated case on record ivhere rags or clothing, as has been proven or yeiiow iever, nas transmitted the infectious material of the Asiatic iisease. In olden times, when no railroads, no steamships, hastened the ;ravel, the march of cholera kept pace tvith the rapidity, respective slowness, 3f human intercourse. The disease either followed the road of the great ;ea caravans, which brought the highpriced leaves from Asia to Russia, or it traveled the usual ways of commerce lcross the Mediterranean sea. Whereiver a large belt of water separated ;wo countries the epidemic disease marched from the one to the othej in Ike same length of time that it took a ship to sail across the water. Such instances we saw in the spreading of the contagion from the continent of Europe icross the channel to England and trom Great Britain to America. In the latter case the infectious material is lot wafted across the Atlantic ocean md carried the long distance by the iir. -From th* moment of the outireaJc-" ro? : cholora-' in-. -England about 3&vea.tfca?s must at least-elapse ere the SLrst case of the disease can happen in iur country, for the fastest steamer aeeds about that timo to cross the jcean. We knew, therefore, loner since that aeither in Europe nor America could Asiatic cholera develop itself without .ts germ having first been introduced nto these countries. We also were xware of the fact that -human intercourse alone propagates the contagion, ind experience has taught us that filth 'avored and cleanliness prevented the spread of the disease. In modern limes, where public hygiene had become such an important factor in the governing of nations, wnere tne puonc sanitary matters are generally understood and highly appreciated in civilzed countries, the facts just enumerited have been made subservient to the general welfare of the people. The jriginal breeding-places of the malady ,vere first determined; then the utmost jrecautions were taken on the first' iio-ns of the outbreak of the disease to X>nnnc lC to lis iimus?iu isolate mtj listricl attacked. Besides every state, very city, every county established its. iwn board of health. This board had o see that the greatest cleanliness xisted in its locality, and that travelrs from the suspected regions were irst quarantined ere they were peraitted to enter the protected district. That it is possible to limit the spread f Asiatic cholera, to lessen the number of its victims, and to diminish its ftveritv bv the measures iust described. tie experiences of the last ten years as proven. The last epidemic just eaclied our shore, but, finding no uitable soil for its development, it led out of its own account after havag attached a few victims in the filth;st quarters of the metropolis. TThe pidemics which last year raged in Egypt nd Calcutta were totally confined to heir original starting point Perhaps tie best proof of the utility of strict' anitary measures "was given by the pidemic in Egypt In the immediate ome thousands of English soldiers rere camping; many foreigners from 11 parts of the civiiized world were hen living not fifty miles from the angerous district; a greatly augmonted itercourse took place between Egypt nd Europe, and still the disease never pread outside of the sanitary cordon r befell but a few persons in the pro2cted. quarter. We need, therefore, have in our counrrr Vmt little of a visit hv the A5 itic cholera if we but use the common recautions which modern sanitary cience has taught us. All vessels ariving at our shores should be carefully aspected, all ships coming from inscted ports should be forced to undero a strict quarantine, all emigrants hould be rigidly examined, and the treets and alleys of our cities should e kept as thoroughly clean as careful nd uninterrupted attention' can mako hem. Thus prepared wo may have easonable hopo of escaping the read visit The united exertions of he most enlightened nations may sufce to prevent the disease from spread3g beyond its original limits; still we ad better adopt the most efficient leans ourselves to keep the destroyer rom our boundaries.?rnuaaecpnur nimes. "I like your imported Havana cigars ery much, but I can't pay your price >r tliem. You must come down coniderabiy before we trade," said an Lustin tobacconist to the drummer for New York tobacco firm. "But, man live, you can't get the genuine imorted Havana cigar for less. Connecicut tobacco is higher now than it was rhen wc bought the stuff that went ito these Havana cigars. You could ot possibly get imported Havana igars for less, if you were to grow the >bacco yourself right hereinTexas." -Texas'Siflings. An aeronautic detachment of engin:ers has been formed in Berlin, and is iard at work learning the art andj>racice of military ballooning. E " A Famous Tree. \ 1 About a munth ago a history "was i J>t}blished of a huge old cottonwood ; tree, a. landmark in Harlem, which had | stood on the Clay county side of the ' river opposite the foot of Main street J ?1. *4 i OIUW-& pcuv/u. rrncjLt uig uxvu*vijr .vi. i ; that mysterious character,. the oldest 1 inhabitant, runneth not to the contrary. In those days, when the great west ! was an unsolved mystery, when Kansas ' City had never been dreamed of, .the old tree was a landmark for wander: ing Indian traders; or adventurous f AtmlAravc froOAllorAITC [ KJ?/i"LilOU> V '* UUV WVWVMW4VU^ and muddy Missouri. The traditions of a centuiy had woven themselves about the <marled branches of the old [tree, ail'Harlemturnedauttowitr hess its demise. The tree was cut down May 7th by Capt Gilkerson and a parly of his men. The gradual encroachments of | the river had undermined its roots, and | it was decided that it was not safe to allow it to stand longer in that situa- 1 tion. Among the old traditions which lingered about the tree was one to the effect that a krge amount of treasure had been buried under its roots. In 1841, when the old Santa Fe trail was the great artery of trade between the rich Mexican country and the United States, a train commanded by Capt. Chavez, still remembered as a trader auu IT O-O UbUUVAV/U WJ JLVWWld beyond the present site of Westport, and over $500,000 in gold and silver bullion stolen and carried away. This treasure, tradition says, was carred across the river and buried underneath the roots of the old cottonwood tree. The robbers were pursued and killed, and with them died the secret of the exact location of the hidden treasure. Tho <rrnnrw? was turned over for vards and about the roots of the tree a few broad pieces of yellow' Mexican gold turned up in the loose earth, but the main boay of the treasure was never found. Yesterday evening Capt Gilkerson, with a party of men, was ripping theriver where the old tree stood, when suddenly a quantity of Mexican silver dollars rolled out of the bank and fell at their feet The dollars are in a good state of preservation, bearing the stamp of the Mexican republic, dated 1841, and were evidently quite new when they were deposited in their mysterious resting-place. The discovery caused great excitement in Harlem; and the digging was coatinuted with freat energy, but no trace of the main odv of the treasure could be found. The search will be continued, as it is now considered that the whole treasure must be buried in the immediate vicinity. The old tree was carried away, piece by piece, by relic-hunters, and no fo/?a r%? if -mn'no ta mQrlr + 1"?a crwvf. where the treasure of the Chavez train was buried.?Kansas City Star. Hair Dressing in the Soudan. . The Bishareen are a fine, tall raceslender, but well proportioned. They take especial care of their teeth, which are regular and of lustrous whiteness, which is in part due to their simple diet; and in part due to a root (tafci wood) which they chew perpetually. Their dress is scanty but CTacefuL It consists of a piece of whitelinen wound around the waist and thrown over the shoulder. Each man carries a long, straight sword and a shield of small dimensions, made of hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide. A spear is carried in the right hand. The Bishareen, in common with the rest of the Arab tribes in the eastern Soudan, take great personal pride in their hair. A considerable portion of their lives is spent in its adornment. I doubt whether a Parisian coiffeur would care to take lessons in his metier from these children *vf tVio ^ocnrt Tint. trruVM Ita to imitate tliem. The hair is iet black, coarse, wiry and abundant. It is parted in a horizontal line round the head, the parting passing close to the ears; the hair above this line is perpendicular and looks like a mop. Below it is plated and frizzed, and sticks out over the neck and shoulders like the roof of a pent-house, doubtless affording great protection to the back of the neck from the rays of the sun. The whole is stiffened with grease, and when the Bishareen has newly performed his toilet and grease is plentiful, his sable locks assume the snowy whiteness of those of Jeames. The sun melts the grease, which drips on to the back and shoulders, forming a deposit by no means savory of the conventional spicy odors of "Araby the blest" Along skewer or hairpin transfixes this wonderful coiffeur, and serves the double purpose of a comb and a weapon used in the chase of the ferce naturae, which aoouna in its immediate vicinity.?ComhiU Magazine. An Intelligent Goat. The San Diego (CaL) Eerald relates an incident displaying remarkabltfintelligence on the part of a goat A citizen of the place has two goats, and to prevent their aoin<r injury to the gardens of the neighborhood one is usually picketed out tho other never leaving its mate. The other day one was picketed some distance from home, and at evening the loose goat came running to the house, making a bleat ing noise ot distress ana scratcning against the gate, and after drawing attention would ran off in the direction where the other one was picketed. This operation was repeated three times, when the owner concluded that something was the matter, and started in the direction indicated. Nothing could exceed the joy of the goat, manifested by jumping and frisking about, and it led the way to the spot where the other one was. Here the picketed animal was found to be in a precarious position. It had climbed a tree stump, and the picket rope was caught in a 11TV1 Vv onr? 4-Wi/s /yAO f' o fAVA U1UA.VU 11UJ.U, *U.SX kUV iv.?u * n-^. were held entirely off the ground. He was quickly released, when the goat that gave the alarm repeated its demonstrations of joy, and showed its affection for its mate by rubbing against it and licking it. "Women." savs Miss Howe, in her new novel, "arc neither angels who stand immeasurably above men, nor inferior beings whose place is at their feet; but human like themselves, full of good and faulty instincts, and, with all their imperfections, the God-given helpmates of man. Thus justly should they be judged; and if a little mercy be claimed for them, generosity should not deny it, so few are their chances in life compared with those of their brothers A woman has but one possi biiity of happiness in this world. The stakes are hicrh on which she risks her all, and she may lose it by one unredeemable throw." A Shabuta, Miss., hen laid two eggs a day three successive days. f TYIT AND HUMOR. Yon may talk of your dainty daisies, That make your heart pit-a-pat, . Yon may gleefully Eing sweetpraisea 5 01 the maids both lean and fat. But of al] the lasses on land or sea, ! The jolliest, giddiest girl for me Is the girl with a "haystack" hat i ins wages 01 sin nowadays depend. a great deal on the wealth of the bank, and the chance the cashier has. A revenue officer entered the store of a merchant who never advertised and arrested him because he kept & still ' _ 5 house. r "Five thousand molecules can sit comfortably on the poin?of a pin." Herein the molecule differs from mfim ?Nonstovm Eerald. An1 exi&ahge says., "a Short-horn .*"* brought over a thousand guineas in EJigiana. ^reat scout yynai musi a long drink cost there? "Our cook ought to be burned at the steak!" exclaimed Popinjay, as a particularly nice cut came in from the kitchen" burned to a crisp.?Burlington Free Press. A Kentucky man was recently killed in a duel, and it is thought that this accident will have the effect of patting' a damper on dueling in that state.?. Boston Post. , , % "An American lady married to an Italian Prince 3 year ago has already. # left him." The Prince must have gone through her fortune quite rapidly.?I Jersey City Journal. Never speculate with your own money, my son, or very soon you may have no money with which -to speculate. Don't be selfish. Give your friends* money the first chance. > * A Fargo young, lady named Eonae,! Caught a glimpse of a poor little mouse,] And the scream that she serome, Shat- . tered heaven's blue dome," And bulged1 out the walls of the house. If the faults of man were turned to, ; virtues, and his virtues 'to faults, ho would be so nearly perfect that?well,! ; he'couldn't stay here, that's the truth. of the matter. ?Arkansaw Travdsr. * In Whitechapel Church, London, recently, an infant -was actually chris-: tened Osxnan Digma Smith. If that* child does not ctgw up a rebellious' youngster it wilTnot be the fanlt o< its' godparents. A southern judge lately decided that \ ~ , a husband "can strike rns wife three. licks with a switch and escape punish-! ment," and the Boston Post says His1 Honor is evidently' unmarried or he would know better. An exchange says: A miss inGaddestown, Ga., has hair that sweeps the floor. Now if this miss had hair that could cook, wash and iron and milk .1 -I,-* ? luc tv w Of njiav Of uvuamMi cuo tr viuu be as a wife.?Brooklyn Times. A man's honesty should be considered in connection with the opportunities he has had to steaL There are, lots of pious young men who have! never been where they, could reach: any big sum of money.?New Orlcans^ja^BttHSBM Picayune. "Fm glad Billy had the sense to marry a settled old maid," said Grandma Winkum at the wedding. "Gals is' hity-tity, and widders is kinder overmlm* and tmsettin': but old maids is kinder thankful and will in7 to please." , ?? ?Middleton Press. "What are you slowing up for?" yelled a freight conductor to an engineer on one of our Vermont roads. - ' >? "Why, we've run over a book a^ent." "Drat it all, then, why don't you keep on? We can't kill him unless the whole train runs over him.-*'?Burling- . .. ton (VL) Free Press. The cnicf difficulty about a woman doctor is that if she was suddenly called to attend a man who had fallen down a shaft, and they told her he was a young man and unmarried, she would. e+An ca 1/vn cr fir fKflf. t)ia OIVJJ |3V ivu- fcV UA 1AVJI v* vuwv ?MV man would be liable to die from the violence of his contusions.?BocJdand Courier. "Look here, waiter!".cried Crimsonbeak, who was stopping for a few days at Coney Island, 'this ham is not as good as what 1 got here last summer!" "I don't see why," replied the waiter,, in some surprise; "it's the same ham, sir!" Crimsonbeak leaves without partaking, and wondering why he didn't , think of that before.?Tonkers Slatesman. "What are the chief elements of nrosneritv?" asked the professor. "Money," promptly replied the smart i bad boy at the foot of the class. "Money. No truly prosperous man is very poor. If he "has " But the professor sat down on Mm as usual and marked him "4 of?" although the boy, according to his custom, had made a line shot The boy who lies la bed until he is called six times will get up at 5 o'clock without being called at all to fire off ^ ?is pistol under the window of his companion to wa?e him up. But before he is out of bed his companion has performed a like duty for him, and at the blowing of the 6 o'clock factory whistle 'H: they have fired off a pound of powder . ??ii1 nM o c WonV M uv li Yf cuu buuuj( muu mo wamvm mx Africans and as happy as kings. "And so now they're engaged! Well, Jessie, to think of you, with your beauty and accomplishments, and your lovely voice, being cut out by such an ignorant little fright as that Maggie Qaickson! You sang to him, I supDose?11 "Yes, mamma, by the hour! But she made him sing, you knaw, and played bis accompaniments for him!" "Why, can he sing?" "No, mamma; but she made him believe be could!" A coroncr's jury in McLean county had occasion to render a verdict in the case of a lynched horse-thief. They reported that the man had committed suicide by riding under & telegraph pole, throwing the rope over the crosspiece and fastening it about his neck, tVion <mnrriT?<r Ma h/vrsA nnnntwl him "with nothing under him and looking up the rope?' Truly, tie facetiousness of a McLean county jury issomething wonderful. , Two bank presidents, two receiving * tellers, four'bank cashiers, a county treasurer and a city auditor constitute the aristocracy of the state's prison at Trenton, N. J. And the bank presidents, each of whom has got away with his million, just tolerate the receiving tellers, who were moderate in their appropriations, and look with ill-disguised disdain on the city auditor, who was n<trrrtw.TninH(>rf and small in his deal ings, only managing to corral some * $10,000 or so.?Puck. A woman hastily entered a Harlem lager beer saloon and demanded of the proprietor: "Has my husband been in here?" "I don't know him. Is he a tall man?" "Yes." "Red headed?" "Yes, and red complected." "Fall beard?" "Yes." "Wear a slouch hat?" "Yes." "He was here not five minutes ago. He came in, drank a glass of . 3H lemonade and then walked down tne 1> i.T* 1 ?T 11 scretju uiwuau "Wrong man!" she said, shooting herself out of the door.?N. J. Sun>