The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, September 30, 1885, Image 1
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VOL. XLII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1885. NO. 9.
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Carpe Diem,
I will be merry in my self-deceiving-;
Leave me to (lreams,thougta bitter be the waking:
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I know?I know the danger in the distance.
The clouds that gather now will soon be breaking.
1 wljfbe happy, though the far horizon
Be dart with clouds, while lightnings flash
.v tfcefr warning:
ft. Still will I love the summer sunshine better?
Remember more the brightness of the mornlag
.?/ 3 ir'i'Hi'
agk, Do roses grow less perfect in their beauty
Because their petals fall and fade to-morrow?
Strafl'l not smfie and sing to-day, forgetting,
Though smiles may turn to bitterest tears of
sorrow?
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^ Let me be happy, life is hart! and gloomy; |
Its sweetest pleasures grudgingly are given?
So stern, at kindest, that we needs must cherish
Each brief reminder of our ruined heaven.
?Helen Hawthorne, in The Cottage.Hecrtb. <
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Dead love, I leave thee In the morning gray.
Shunning the heavens, wan and misty smile:
Not e'en Its brighter coming can beguile
My lingering woe. Love turns to thee alway
In passionate hunger. Memory will not stray
From thee and all thy radiant loveliness.
Wilt thou not waken to one last caress
; That 1 may cease my sorrow to bewray?
Farewell, farewell, unheeded here I yearn
From thoughts ?f-eartivmy vision.to eet range.
God doth not hoed! Man mocks atrnrdespair.
And liower-flllc4 hands tenrprme away toturn,
Yet blindly weepingpi -cka n'cxer cfcaage? ?'
Love guards thy tomb and bids me worship
there.
?G. B. Burgin in Detroit Free Press.
^ f WlFEc.
"Mrs. Snath, I am"! astonished at
y?^ v TTX^ 3l .* !
Now, this was not by any means an
assertion sui generis. In fact, according
to his own statement, John Smith (;
was 4'astonished" at His wife at'least"
once a day on an average. Mrs. Smith
|r was used to it
She was a tall, slight woman, scarcely
more than a child in years, with
^ shining brown hair, large dark eyes,
and cheeks that had been as pink as
sea-shells in the days of her happy
maiden life. 4. They were white and
wasted now?a circumstance that might
. perhaps be easily accounted for by the
p* little babe oti her lap: $p?i the ^yearold
elf who was tottering about the
room in aimless pursuit of kittens, sunbeams.
and other baby - delights. "Things
are all at sixes and sevens,"
fent onJlr<-!Smith? tying- his cravat
before the mirror and* viciously twist*?
rroctofl
JUg lb illbU a
t?r-thrav?i into, ?ho soap-grease jar,.
clish-tr wels taken for stove-cloths, and
my" ifeitttbSst pants "sold to a dealer
in tinware for a funnel and two pieplatters!
I never heard anything so
outrageous in my life."
"But, my dear," meekly interposed
w* the much-enduring wife, "we needed
^ the tinware, and you had not worn the
garments for a year. They were full
?f moths."
"Thero it is again," said Mr..Smith.
"The moths would never have got into
'em if you had taken proper precautions.
I never heard of a moth in my
mother's time. And now you are actually
asking permission to visit your
brother ud the Hudson."
"I have not been away from home
before since-we were married, John,"
piteoasly pleaded Mrs. Smith. "Heel
almost worn out, and I think the
change wouUTjffb irfiS gc?>d.'' t
what $ to become of me!"
H scflforously demanded the husbands
Mrs^. John 4>mitk tBought of' the
day's masonic excursion last week, the
K trout-fishing expedition into the Catskills
a fortnight since, the, races at
Jerome Park, and the drives to High
Bridge with Parker, Betts^atid Frisbee
in an open barouche, all within the
except;..
"j?4oa t cost much go* Joha.
Aamm ii^n lj?ay-Xicay k.
lot me go! The "doctor says the fresh
air might help baby along with his
teeth, and little Johnny is drooping
this hot weather."
i4Well." said Mr. Smith, as ungraciously
as possible, "1 suppose you'il
f fcave^ogc^f i)ve dollars :at - least it'
wlH^cost me, and altogether our' expenses
are ruinous this year. Sec how
Georgiana Trotter manages for her
husband- I don't suppose It costs
them half to live that it docs us. I
might have married Georgiana Trotter
once. I almost wish I had."
It was on Mrs. Smith's lips to utter:
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tie children and was silout.
"Yes," went on Mr. Smith; "I ^sup-^
p6s??[&>9 WfoStitfa 'Q6ljjrt< ^fqr 5 pity's
sake, (Jonvt get mto tlio liaoifbr run?*
running all the time. I needn't send
up anything from the butGiier'srJLstt^^
pose? I shali dine down-town, and
P there'll be enough left on the cold
knuckle of yesterday's ham for you!"
Mrs. Smith abstained from remindW
ing her husband that he had himself
breakfasted on the remains of the ham.
She only sighed and was silent.
"It's his way," she thought "He
means well enough. And I suppose
all men are so. Only I wish he had
^ kissed mo good-by!"
Woman nature all over! She could
do without her dinner contented, oating
a crust of bread in steadr heart
yearned hungrily for the omitted
caress, the ignored word of tenderness.
Poor Mrs. ^John Smithi } How the.
. . strong-minded of her ?ex' wodld have :
w pitied and despised her!
^ So light! no fire! It was dreary
enough on that chiil August evening,
as Mr. Smith screwed tlie night-key
into tho latch and groped his way in
the halL He sat down in the bay-win^
dow and stared about the vacant room.
P There was his wife's work-basket on
the tabK?~ hfirl^dtockiagrc&arstandi'
ing vjjfiaat; fesside is* waile.Johnny's. forgotten
rattie lay on the floor cl?se
b7"It's
deuced lonely," muttered Mr.
^ Smith; with something of a shiver. "I
JF hopVJenny won't stay lon^."
And-as he lighted his cigar and
fe w&ified ai*av a guilty sense of his own
shortcomings came upon him.
"It must havo been rather a stupid ;
^ life for her here, poor little thing!" '
^ thajg^ti &0. ?I might have come
h^e. early to keea. her company a ;
rg$atin?jLtiffies?V I didn't She
tad to sew a great deul for the chil
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even. ^ i wis a x nsu wujnt uttc u sexinz
machine when she -asked for it.
Alason used to bring up fruits and
flqgwers for his wife every evening. I wonder
I never thought of it for Jenny. '
? . And, ncu^.-g<Mritt.>t^:jrefiec{ upon the ;
matter, Jenny has grown thin and pale 5
ofiafo."
He moved his chair uneasily and
emitted a thread of bluo; spicy smoke
from his" lips very^nneh as 'if he-were
not. en joying it particularly.
?. "I suppose they are at Bilberry farm
by this time," said he to himself. "I
suppd$6 Qfe Touakcrs 3rc in.\beS;. and/;
Jenfiy"is^itHn|roct*c?^^rc piazza, listcningto
the; ttfeippQOiWiJIs." I've almost
a mind-to-goout there to-morrow evening,
and take sonic peaches and bananas
and thinj^,. Xt_would be a, pleasfL
ant sarpri&e^frr ^e^^.iuid?heiloi, ;
WhatHsrthat! A ring at tiio bell?"
Fiinsring his ei?rar into the unusod
grate, John Smitn shuffled along to
the door in his slippers. ,
fc?
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"Oh?a telegram! Now, I wonder
who should telegraph to me!"
"Well," said the shivering :uid raindrenchcd
messenger, "p'raps you'd
better open it aud sec. Anyway, I've
no call lo hang around hero no longer!"
And off he went, whiie Mr. Smith
carried his buff envelope back to the
parlor light and somewhat nervously
tore it open.
Cowi>:iey, Ang. ?v To Joiix Smith:
Railroad accident. Yoar wife is killed ;tnd
your child dangerously hurt. Conie l>v the
next train. Jaued .Mekeditu, if. D.
Again and again -Mr. 5>m:lli's i;ewihlered
eyes roved over the contents
of this appalling missive before he
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could iuliv coniprouenu us ueauty
meaning.
"Dead! Kiiied!"' ho muttered to himsclf.
"My Jenny killed by a railroad
accident!1'
. And then, catching a railway guide
from the book-shelf, he whined over
its leaves with trembling hand. The
next traiu did not leave the terminus
under an hour and a half! To him the
time seemed almost like eternity, iluw
could ho endure this awful agony of
. soul for an hour and a half?
i "Perhaps they arc incorrect," he
muttered to himself, wiping the b'iads
of cold sweat from his brow. "People
can't always judge exactly in such a
moment of dismay. Perhaps she is
only badly hurt, and-1 can nurse her
through'it after ail. My Jenny! my
loving, patient, sweet-eyed wife!" A
strong sob rose up in his throat as if it
^wotrld strangle hnu. "2vo, no", she is
killed!" he gasped, as his eye fell once
more on the telegram. "l5ead! and I
nover can speak to her again or tell
her what a cruel, exacting1 brute I have
been! G-oil knows i didn't mean it,
and now it's too late to make any
amends. Why didn't tlio children go
too? How can I bring them up without
Jenny?"
His head drooped low on his quivering
hands; a low, spasmodic groan
burst from his pale lip.?. An hour
aud a half before he could go to Jen av;
half an hour then, before he could
look upon her dead face; for Cowdrcy
was an insignificant way station some
eight or ten miles up the road.
"If I could only live my life over
again!" he cried aloud to the bare
walls, while tight in his arms he clasped
Jenny's little wor?-basket, with its
strips of unfinished hemming?all that
"was left to him of the fair, departed
presence.s "If I' could only speak to
hor inst onfic. and ask her forgiveness
for a thousand things. But, no?it is
too late?too late. And "
He stopped abruptly. The sound of
a hack driving hastily up to the dooi\
the reiterated jerk of the bell-wire
roused him once more into reluctant
action.
"John! dear John!''
"Jenny, my wife!"
He stood, pale and stupefied, staring
at her as if she were actually a ghost
returned from the regions of space and
unreality.
"There has been a terrible railroad
accident!" said Jenny, her voice faltering,
as she laid the baby on a sofa and
took little Johnny lovingly on her lap
?"a few miles beyond Cowdrey. Three
or four people were killed, but, thank
"God* we escaped unhurt. Of course, I
kook the first train back that I could,
fori knew you would hear of it and be
"uneasy. And only to think, dear,
there was a poor mother killed, with
her little babe in her arms, and her
name was the same as mine?'Mrs. |
j oiin smitn.' "
He pointed one trembling finger to
the telegram, which lay open on the
'table. ' Airs. Smith read it with dilated
eyes and.pale face.
"Oh! ray love, what a fright you
have had!" she exclaimed. "And only
to reflect, it might have been me!"
'/' But it is not. Oh! thank heaven,
my own darling wife, it is not!" gasped
the husband, holding his recovered
treasure close to his heart. "And I
have yet time to live my life over
again!"
And from that hoar John Smith was
a changed man. To Jenny it seemed
almost like millennium, but Mrs. Gcorgiana
Trotter turned up her nose and
said:
"John Smith.must be in his dotage,
spending ali his time and money in
carriage's to the park, extra help, and
fine clothes for that pale-faced wife of
,his. John Smith alwavs was a foolJ"
\?New York Daily'i\'eti's.
Money Better Than Titles.
Yes, it is money that commands respect
in this country, speaking generally,
writes a New York correspondent.
We realty care scarcely anything for
distinction of birth. Tho worship of
foreign aristocracy prostrates few of
us. Noblemen tourists command attention
from only an insignificant portion
of New York. The hotels are full
of titled travelers, and they are not
hunted much.
"The sallow man leaning against the
post," I heard a hotel clerk say to a
gaest, "is the-Marquis de Monclar, who
has crossed the Atlantic to be the
French consul at Quebec. Tho man
talking with him is the Viscount de
Thuiy,- on a trip around tho world.
Ho is a Paris notable. The Spaniard
over yonder, in the center of a group
of his couutrymen, is the Marquis de
C:istelfuertc. The chap who just asked
me to send a package to his room was
Lord Henry Paulet, of England."
The recipient of this information was
not deeply impressed. He scarcely
followed with his glanco the directions
indicated, -and <Utl not deigu a comment
on the accumulation of aristocracy.
_
l)o you seo the rcc^headed fellow
sitting- -on the- sofa?" said the clerk.
"He /wis- a bell boy in this hotel ten
years ago. He went west, pitched into
catSe ranching, and has already
made-his million."
?Be hearer was alert7.. His cars
OTonaed to quiver wrtfrthereception of
the-words,-and his eyeballs threatened
fc.qtfit. their sockets to'get a closer
vieW;o?t&e? self-enripiied mafridual.
"C&a'tc'jou^ -manage .'to introduce
me?". ho-asko&.eagerly. Ac hour later
I sawHni-stftTdeeply absorbed in conya?atida
with-'tho rcd-kaired mab,
wimo iw^doubtlcss could't have identified
dn&oTtho- noblemen who had been
We hear of ""a Bangor young man
lately married who went West on his
marriage tour and' by way of Niagara
Falls. The train stopped at the falls
and the newly-married couple both got
off the cars to get a better view of the
falls and they both lingered longer
than th estopping train allowed. 'Ihe
bell ^ang aud the young man, forgetting
ior the' time that he was married,
made a rush to get aboard and barely
reached the platform on the rear car.
He did not fully realize that he was
married aud had left his wife behind,
so he says, until he had got fifteen
miles away.?Bangor {Me.) Commercial.
A CURIOUS CALCULATION.
The End of the World K curvd Oaf, and
the IVriod Fix?mI at 1899.
The following singular and very curius
calculation, by which the approaching
end of the world is
mined, has never before been made
known to the public, writes a Waterloo,
Kan., correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, and may be of
very great into those who have
been studying the prophecies, or
watching t!i<* pr?igu*j3 oJ numau rv?-uts.
Believe the losuiis or not. :is we may.
nevertheless here arc the figures which
any reader can verify for him-Msif. if
these results arc liere correcth foretold,
then the .startling fact ?tar<\s us
in the face that the world is within
fifteen years of its close. In the fall of
1899 the linal whiding up is to take
place. Here are the calculations. Let
the reader caretuilv examine them:
To begin. There are several important
prophetic periods made known in
the script ures, and various dates, as
well as significant numbers, sucti as
the great period of 2,300 years men-*
tioned by Daniel, the period <?f 1.290
years, and the period ot 1,33-3 years.
Besides these lite re are in the book ot
lieveiatiou other periods an?i significant
numbers, sueli as the 1.200 years;
the period of the woman's sojourn in
the wilderness, 1,000 years tne period
of Satan's being bound, and GGG the
number of beasts. Enoch's a?c (3G5
years), who prophesied of the second
advent among the antediluvian sinners,
is also beyond all question a symbolic
number.
Perhaps, like the SGo days which
complete one revolution of tho earth
around the sun, making one year, so
his 365 years mav be symbolic of the
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grout propueuu pexiuus auuku aa
"days, one grand revolution of which
is to complete oue of time's great years
and finish earth's career. '-Seven" is
also one of the significant numbers of
scripture, aad a "week of seven," or 7
times 7, still more so. The student of
scripture will readily recall frequent
instances of this significant ligure 7,
and especially the more important one
of 7 times 7, or 49?the number of final
completion, the finishing of all mysteries,
the winding up of earth's affairs.
Very well. Now, take these figures,
add them together, and see what you
get:
2,300 years, Dan's great period for
the cleansing of the sanctuary.
1,290years, measuring the continuance
of the "abomination of desolation."
1,335 years, the period of "blessedness"
to the saints.
1,260 years, the duration of the woman's
sojourn in the wilderness.
1,000 years, the binding of Satan.
666 years, the number of the "boast"
who is to go into perdition.
365 years, the symbolic age of Enoch,
the great prophet of the advent.
49 years, the number of final completion.
Total 8,265 years.
Now remember that before all the
catastrophes denounced on maukindjis.
the divine judijmien-tu against sni there
were'us'ually periods of "waiting" before
the judgment fell, so as to afford
opportunity of repentance and escape,
and these periods multiples of 40, as,
for example, before the llood, '120
years; before the conquest of Canaan,
40 years; and before ino fall of Nineveh,
40 days, denounced by the prophet
Jonah. Now add together 120
years of Noah's warning before the
flood came, 40 years of Israel's warning
before judgment fell on the guilty
Cauaanites, 3* years that the witnesses
laid uuburied preparatory to resurrection,
and three years during widen the
owner of the vineyard came seeking
fruit and finding none, at the expiration
of which period the lig tree was to
be cut down, and you h:ivo 166} as the
sum.
Now, to apply these mystic numbers
and learn tneir significance, imagine
your life divided into the four periods
of childhood, youth, manhood, and old
age, so as to get it in its completeness.
Take your age in years, leaving off
months and days, add it to itself threo
timo? Cnnfi for r>;ieh of these four
periods), add to it the mystic number
8,265 (the sum of the great prophetic
periods) in order to ascertain the full
sum of time's revolutions, and divide
the amount of four (the number of
universality, because theso calculations
apply equally 10 every human twiiig),
subtract from the quotient the other
mystic number 166? (periods of warning
given to man before the execution
of final doom), and from the remainder
deduct the number of years you have
lived in this sublunary world, and you
get the number 1,899?.
Now it matters not what :?e you
take, that of the little child or the old
man. the result is the same, the omnious
1,899J always remains as the one
fatal Deriod when everv human life is
to close. But the one year in which
every human career is to terminate
and every life close must bo the final
year, the winding up, the conclusion
of all sublunary things, the year of
doom.
A singular confirmation of this calculation
is to be found in the fact that,
according to an old Jewish tradition,
the world was created in the fall of the
year, of which the old feast of trumpets,
occurring in October, was supposed
to be the memorial. And it
would be natural to suppose that it
would bo very appropriate for it to
close its career on the completion of
one of its annual revolutions} in othe
words, in the fall of the year. And so
this remarkable calculation plainly indicates.
The three-fourths singularly
points out that fact. Hence, & these
conclusions are not erroneous, wc have
the startling prophccy before us that
when earth reaches one of her great
milestones on the highway of time in
October; 1899,. a mighty hand will be
laid upon her aud she will stop. Let I
the world look out for 1899.
In 1S74 Ciarencc A. Portley, who
had lately graduated from West Point,
married iUiss M:iggie Alexander,
daughter of Dr. Alexander, a New
York millionaire. When the wedding
ceremony was over he handed his sonin-law
an envelope containing $100,000
in go\eminent bonds. "Thankjyou,"
replied the gr::tilied son-in-law; and
then he asked, "But as we are going
away would it not be better that you
should keep the money till we return?"
"I'll do so," answered the delighted
father-in-law, and his half-choked
words, "God bless you, my children!"
were lost among the clatter of the departing
carriage and the valedictory
shouts. Not long ago Mr. Alexander !
died without a will, and no mention
was made of the $100,000. though his
property was left to his daughter. A j
f lly suit has now been instituted to j
determine the ownership of the $100,000,
the wife wanting her husband to j
have the money.
London is the headquarters of the
pet dog trade of the world. I
The Confederate Capital.
Contrary to the common belief, there
was no lack of provision? or delicacies
in Richmoud at any time during the
war, but the prices measured by al-1
leged dollars were simpiy stupendous. ;
I do not remember that there was any
actual sufierin<T among tho }>eople, although
foo?l :ui?l drink were of course
economically dealt with. 1 recollect
also that there was a bread riot of so
large proportions as to call for the intervention
of the military, hut the women,
black and white, who were the
chief participants, wore of the lowest
class, and wore instigated not by want j
so much as pure deviltry.
It is a curious fact that what arc call- j
ed the lower classes fared better, as far
as provisions wore concerned, than the
officeholders or wealthier citizens. The I
salaries of the ullice holders, both confederate
and stale, were grossly inadequate
to provide for their families, and
the wealthier citizens at the outset of
the war had invested, almost without
exception, all their available means in
the 8 per cent bonds of the confederate
government- Those who owned slaves,
i>y hiring tliem out obtained large returns,
for labor was in great demand;
but the trouble was that the confederate
authorities conscripted all ablebodied
negroes as drivers of mule
teams, laborers on the fortifications,
etc., just as they conscripted able-bodied
whites for service in the lield, and
the hire given to the masters was but a
tithe of what could have been procured
in open market.
Talk about Washington being a city
of boarding-houses and restaurants,
why it was not a circumstance to tho
coufedcrato capital. Nearly every
house, and especially of limited means,
was filled with lodgers, and nearly
every other house was an eating-house.
The poorer whites and blacks made
money hand over fist by cooking provisions
and selling them from stands
on the streets and at tho depots to the
huge swarms of hungry people who
were constantly coming and going.
The population proper of Richmond
was not a fourth of tho vast crovfd
that daily and nightly congregated
within its corporate limits. It
was the Mecca of tho confederacy, and
the pilsrrimasres made thereto were
constant in their coming. Officers and
soldiers, Jewish merchants, "exempts,"
blockade-runners, refugees
from Maryland and West Virginia and
from counties of the State held by the
federals poured in a steady stream into
the lap of the city, and the people of
the city made their living, and, indeed,
it may be said in many instances waxed
fat, in feeding and lodging the hungry
horde.
The homo guards, organized to defend
the capital, comprised all the
officials in the confederate and state
departments, and no man was exempt
who was able to lire a rille from behind
a breastwork. These held no
drills, but marched iu a body, with
regular order, to ii.e breastworks when
the alarm bell iu the capitol square
rang forth the warning peal of the
appjooch ?^?t^4"a?oonmy. <wv
"strokes, I think.?Murray, in Washington
Republican.
APolitic-il Ec>?<>inist.
The racy American irreverence is
stealing into England. There they are
beginning to guy the sacred professors
of philosophy and the great minds who
try' to fit life and its eccentricities and
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ViV WIV|/1UVUM IV HlWilWO Wimv VMA J pV |
a little way ami harmonize beautifully
with small" things. The studies aud
principals of lleruert Speucer have already
beeu gently chaffed, and before
many years they will be coming to the
conclusion that.the hateful agnosticism
is a philosophical nolle prosequi. The
political economists have got all mixed
up long ago. i was once a dilligent
student of John Stuart Mill. I went
through his political economy three or
four times, ex mined his principles of
logic rigorously iwice or three times.
I investigated A-lam Smith and Ricardo,
and all sorts of political economists.
I have reached now but one
conclusion with regard to capital and
1-ihor f lint1, f lir> wnrtii is nil iinhnlfinnmL
and that the slate of your finances, the
only subject political economists can
not reason upon, is the point upon
which all philosophy of a practical
kind turns. Tnero are two kinds of
people in the world generally speaking,
people who have money and people
wno haven't, and the weak point in
political economy lies right here: that
the first class has all the credit as welL
You can live on a c.ish basis or on a
credit basis. Those who have all the
cash have all the credit, aud there will
never be peace ou earth or good will
toward men until wo arrange matters
so that those who have the money
must pay, and those who haven't can
live on tick. This would appear to be
a very simple arrangement, but we
have not struck the philosopher or po
litical economist who can overcome
the objections to it on the part of the
partios of the lirst part?the people
who own what every bod}- else wants.
?San Francisco Chronicle.
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Obnoxious Enthusiasm.
Says Kate Field, in her piquant way:
It drives me wild to see grown-up
people, accused of possessing common
sense, touching a subject with kid
gloves when they ought to roll up their
sleeves and go in for hard work. This
supineness brings many good ideas to
naught. They are fed on promises and
o o'clock teas. 4I dare not 'waits upon'
I would' in a manner to make Lady
Macbeth use worse language that sht;
did formerly. Want of earnestness is
the cause of this tepidity. Society
means chaff. Enthusiasm is as obnoxious
as the plague. To be possessed
of an idea which you are ready to defend
with blood and treasure is to be a
nuisance. You aro worse than a criminal;
you are a bore. To bore is to commit
unpardonable sin. Let Stanley
cross Africa and James Gordon Bennet
tie the American Hag to the North
Pole, and both will be feted after
they've accomplished their self ap
pointed tasKs, oecause society patronizes
success in any form?but Equator
and North Pole must-not be mentioned
in advance. Columbus may discover
America, but be won't be invited
to dine out or to sjt for his photograph
until he returns home alivo. if he
doesn't return it serves him right.
Why wasn't he content with one hemisphere?
Why not let well enough
alone? In my private opinion content
ment is a swinish sentiment. To be
satisfied is to wallow in stagnation.
But I keep this belief to myself because
I desire to live peaceably with my
neighbors. Mind you, this criticism
applies to what is called "society."
The largest apple tree in the United
States is growing at Cheshire, Conn.
It is 60 feet high, spreads 100 feet, and
yields from 75 to 110 bushels of apples
per year on alternate sides of the
tree.
THE TURCAKOKAS.
The story of the Tuscaroras is a
chcckercd one. They were adopted
into the Iroquois in 1712. They came
from North C:iroliun in 170-S. where
they had 15 towus and 1,500 warriors.
Their existence there was liie .same as
all other tribes, the same oid story?
encroachments by the whites, who
roUbed them of their lands, and when
resistance followed long and bloody
border wars ensued. They burnt one
Lawson, the surveyor general of North
Carolina, who had marked some of
their territory into lots for settlers.
They captured the German Baron de
Graffenried, but released him after live
weeks on his promise that he would
occupy none of their lands without
their consent. In 1713 invaders of their
territory captured 800 Tuscaroras in a
fort on the Ncusc river. Those were
killed and sold as slaves into ooutn
Carolina. The remnant migrated to
Ne^ York as others had previously
done. Previous to this Tuscaroras, on
the 22 of September, 1711, had filled
130 Whites on Albemarle sound.
la the war of the Revolution most of
the Iroquois adhered to the English,
buianany of the Tuscaroras andOaeidas
were friendly to the colonists. When
Gei? Sullivan and Co!. Gausevoort
made their destructive campaign against
the Indians on the route to the
lower Mohawk castle they were treated
with every mark of friendship and hospitality
in passing through the Tuscarora
and Oneida castles. These officers
luid been ordered to spare the Tuscaroras
and Oneidas. Such portions of
these tribes as had been English allies
escaped in cunoes on Oneida lake, ,
thence down the Oswego river, and
coasted along Lake Ontario to the British
garrison at Fort Niagara. In 1730
the luscaroras camped on a mile square
given them by the Scnecas, which is a
part of tlieir present reservation, ine
Holland company subsequently gave
lucm two square miles, of which in
1804 they added by purchase 4,329
acres, making the total of their reservation
6.249 acres. The United States
government paid for the purchase $13,722,
being part of tho trust funds held
by the United States on final adjustment
of the claims of the Tuscaroras
upon North Carolina. Thus the Tuscaroras
commenced their settlement in
the town of Lewis ton 17 years previous
to the advent of the Holland Land company
and 19 or 20. years before the
commencement of settlements there by
whites. . Tho Tuscaroras .were-thus the
pioneer settlers in this region, and the
most kindly relations have existed between
them and the whites.ever since.
In the war of 1812 the Tuscaroras were
the allies of the Americans against the
English.
The Mount Pleasant family, of whom
John is now the chief of the Tuscaroras,1have
a prominent history in the
border wars of the old time. His grandfather
was a "bio; Indian,." having been
a captain in the British army, and at
one time commandant of Fort Niagara.
His son John was the father of the present
chief. He was 68_jears-?ld in 1849,
"una fiastetc.eeorus of his early experience
"in this region. He states , therewere
no crows in the Niagara region
until after the war of 1812. Deer were
not plenty, and the wolves haunted
them, driving them into the lake, and
waiting until they, wearied witb swimruing,
came on shore and were caught
and devoured. When the wolves were
.hunted ont deer-became plenty. Beare
were plenty in some localities, and
panthers were occasionally killed hereabouts.
Bittern's white owls, and flocks
of swan were seen about Niagara falls
and on the islands aud in the marshes.
Wild cranberries abounded, and theire
were a great number of beaver dams.
Salmon three, feet long were often
taken in Eighteen Mile creek, near
Lockport, and below the falls of the
Oak orchard. The "woods are full" of
Indian stories and romances throughout
all this region of Niagara county.
The lands hereabout belonged to the
original Holland purchase. The first
white child born on the great Holland
purchase was on the 19th of June,
1801? "a fine boy," as the records
state. He was subsequently Col. Henry
B. Ransom, of Clarence. In October,
1798, which was before tho Holland land
purchase, on the present site of Buffalo,
there wore but eight buildings, all
I linncrto \x/Vt?r?Vi Aun RnnflATTI fW
copied one. He subsequently removed
to Pino grove, and was the father of the
"fine boy." As late as 1806 there were
only 19 dwellings in Buffalo.?
vilte (N. Y.) Cor. Troy Budget.
Oregon Gold.
The gold fever is breaking out again
in Idaho, Montana, and Oregon, It is
in the air and must have a run. Men
are at work along the Snake river for
350 miles, ana every day new fields arc
opened. Last week a deposit was found
in a clay bank at the mouth of Billingsley
creek that is turning out from $40
to $100 a day per man with the most
primitive form ui rocker-apparatus.
While this is ;i singularly rich streak,
the ground for some miles back from
the liver prospects well! At Silver
City, Idaho territory, one of the oldest
camps on the Pacific coast, mines
abandoned. years' ago arc being reopened
with good results. Out of
twenty-five mines and prospects in that
locality there is not one but that will
pay largely. The old Oro Fino is be
ing put m snape ior wording, anu it. is
estimated that the, yield this se^sofl
from the extension of that mine alone
will be $100,000. It is worked by three
men with picks only. Largo nuggets
of free gold are daily taken out or the
War Eagle and Florida mountains
from the pay streaks. The ledges also
average well in gold and silver sulphurets,
aside from the free gold. In Wagontown,
nine miles from Silver Q}ty,
there is a Jow-grade quartz ledgo forty
feet wide, running from $12 to ?20 per
ton. The building of the Oregon Short
line has afforded a means of reaching
the Idaho and Oregon mountains, and
the development from this time on will
be rapid. The recent find near Huntington
is a legitimate one. This field
is called Pine Creek, and is in the
southeast portion of Union county,
Oregon. It was disepvered about thirty
days ago by placer prospectors, and ig
now a camp of over two hnmifed peo?
TV*ie Avfnocit'A Tvunn?#?>l
U1W? 44 yVi-i ? V/ wbelt,
40 by 180 miles, stretching away
into eastern Oregon, north and south
along the Snake river, and from this
belt $50,000,000 in gold has been taken
by placer miners alone in the past 20
years. This fine gold is supposed to be
washed from the ledges in the mountains
whero the new quartz fields have
been located.?Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Boston statistician says that $1 will
buy as much of the necessaries of life
to-day as $1.50 in 1875, $1.32 in 1855,
91 cents in 1845, and $1.19 in 1825. In
other words the purchasing power of
$1 is 19 per cent greater than it was in
1855. A dollar wi'l buy more to-day
than in most previous'periods in the
history of the nation.
/ .
How a Great Military History Was
Written.
One day early in 1S23 he went for a
walk with Lord Langdale, one of his
intimate friends, ovorsomu fields which
are now covered by the mansions of
Beleravia. The conversation turned
on Sou they's recently published narrative
of the Peninsular war. LordLang.dalo
was greatly struck by Napier's remarks
on . the events of the struggle
and the characters of tho principal actors.
Suddenly he asked him. what ho
was thinking of duing. "Do you
mean," replied Napier, where :?m I
going to dine?" No," said Lord
. Langdale; "what are you thinking of
. ?... .... ?
turning oo an ULLU^UUUU IUWU
lie urged him to turn to literature.
The article on Jomiiii proved that ho
could write. He must uot waste his
:lifo in more amusement. Why should
he not write a history of the war himself?
On returning homo Napier told
his wife what Lord Langdale had said,
and added that ho himself felt doubtful
;whether ho was clever enough to write
properly such a book as a history of
the war. But she, believing firmly in
her husband, encouraged him to try.
For several nights he lay awake thinking
over the matter. At last his scruples
were overcome by the thought
that ho might be able at least to vindi-i
cate the calumniated memory of
Moore; and ho resolved to make the
attempt. Those of his acquaintances
who did not really know him were surprised
to hear of his intention, and remarked
that being comparatively a
young man, he was presumptuous to
think that he could write such a history.
Having formed his resolve he
lost no time in proceeding to execute
it First of alJ, ho called upon the
Duke of Wellington and asked him for
the loan of his papers. The Duke replied
that he had himself thought of
writing a plain, didactic history of the
war, which should be published after
his death. Till then it would be impossible
to make known the whole
truth without giving pain to many
worthy officers, whoso only fault had
been dullness. For these reasons he
told Napier that ho could not lend him
his private papers; but ho intrusted
him with a number of important documents,
and gave him authority to obtain
from the Qaartermaster-GCneral,
Sir George Murray, all his orders of
movements. Of his own accord he
promised to answer any questions as to
matters of fact which Napier might
wish to ask him in the course of his
work. Murray, however, refused to
let Napier have the orders of movements,
stating that he. reserved them
for a history which he himself intended
to write. After taking these preliminary
steps Napier went to Paris to collect
materials for the French side. He
walked about the streets, exploring the
contents of the bookstalls, and bought
every book that seemed likely to be of
any use to him. He also went regularly
to the Depot de la Guerre and made
copious extracts from the documents
which were stored on its shelves. On
returning to England ho took up his
abode Tora time at Strathtieldsaje ^P|'
-:tIio'piTrppsc"of consulting the Dui^S
Marshal- Soult, witH-'^wbofn wheh$Sr
Paris he had struck up an acquaintance,
lent him valuable papers; hccor!
responded with Marshal Jourdan, and
received information from officers who
had served on the staff of Ney and
\t ? L-cAn N.i mIca on
AAV U*OV WA*W M44 iUiLuuuso
mass of letters and journals
from British officers.?%'lic tfuliotuU
lie view.
Ah American Marrijigf.
Among the various tribes 'of Asia
none aro so rich or well dressed as the
Armenians, says the Glasgow Iicrald.
To them belongs chiefly the merchandise
of precious stones, which they export
to Constantinople. The Armenian
girl whose marriage is to be described
had delicate flowers of celestial blue
painted all over her ncck and breast;
her eyebrows were dyed black, and the
tips of her fingers and nails of a bright
orange. Sho woro on each hand valu-.
able rings .set with precious stones,
and round her neck a siring of very
fine turquoises; her skirt was one of
the finest spun silk, her jacket and
trousers of cashmcro of a bright color.
The priest anij hi? dpagon arrived, the
latter bringing a bag coutaiuiug the
sacerdotal garments, in which thy
priest arrayed himself, placing a miter
ornamented with prficious stones on
his head, and a collar of metal, on
which the twelve apostlos were represented
in bas-relief, round his ncck.
He began by blessing a sort of temporary
altar iu the middle Qf the yoom;
the mother of t^o bride hc?" by li'u
hand, and, leading her forward, she
bowed at the feet of her future bus
band to show that sue acknowledged
him as lord and master. The priest,
placing their hands in each other, pronounced
a prayer and then drew their
heads together until they touched thrct?
times, while with his right hand he
made a motion as if blessing ti.cm- A
second time their hands were joined,
and the bridegroo{n\yaa askedj "Will
yoq be her ^sbandB" *'I will," lie
answered, raising at the same time the
veil of the bride, in token that she was
now his, and letting it fall again. The
priest then took two wreaths of flowers,
ornamented with a quantity of
hanging gold threads, from the hands
of the deacoD, put them on the l\ouds
of the married couple, changing them
three time? from-ono no:id to the other,
lu^joubiug vauu iiuiu, x uuuu j vu uiiu
bind you one to another ? live in
peace."
A Liberty-Loving Italian.
Ceracchi was an Italian sculptor,
who came to the United States to perpetuate
the likeness of our Revolutionary
chiefs and sages, and thus to identify
his own name with the infant republic.
His busts of Washington, Jay,
Alexander Hamilton, George Clinton,
and others, are now, as mere portraits,
above all priee to this nation, and they
have besides a classic grace about tliein
which entitles the artist to no contemptible
rank as a statuary. Ke had
a grand design of a national monument
which he used to sho\y to his visitors,
and which ho wished congress to employ
him to execute in marblo or
bronze. Of course they did not do so,
and, as it happened, ho was much
more usefully employed fcr the nation
in modeling the busts of onr great
men. But the nation was not ripo for
siaiuar)?u uuzeu UUSUJ eiuuusveu. IUC
patronage of the country?and congress
was too busy with dollars and
cents, fixing the revenue laws and
funding the debt, to think of his grand
allegorical monument Ceracchi could
notlive upon liberty alone, much as he
loved :it, and when the French revolution
took a very decided character he
went to France and plunged into politics
Some years, after ho returned to
Rome, where he was unfortunately
killed in an insurrection or popular
tumult, growing out of the universal
revolutionary spirit of those times.?
Ben: 1'trley Foore.
Decaying Wood.
It is generally admitted that the vicinity
of large quantities of decaying
wood is dangerous to health, but the
evidence as to this is scanty, and by no
means definite, nor have wo anything
but more or less probable theories as
to hr w disease is produced in this way. .
Yellow fever, typhoid fever, and various
forms of malarial fever have been
attributed to this cause?not that rot- .
ting wood is supposed to be alone sufficient
to-produce them, but that their
specific cause seem to flourish and increase
when introduced where it is pres- .
ent in large quantities.
It is a fact that, in a number of in- .
stances, the prevalence of yellow fever *
in epidemic form has been connected
with the presence of decaying timber
in or beneath piers and wharves, or of
mnscAs nf rnf-.tina sli?vinors_ china, saw- '
dust, etc. This was the case in Provi- (
dence; Baltimore, New York City, and 1
Norfolk, and the presence of rotten .
timbers or planking in yellow-fever ships
has been noted so often that by
many it is thought to be something
more than a mere coincideuce.
Collections of damp and decaying
sawdust have been in a number of instances
charged with the production of
malarial disease, and in some of the (
northwestern states, and especially in
Michigan,the evils from this cause have
been the subject of discussion by sanitary
officials. ,
Decaying wood pavements or sidewalks
have been suspectcd ef causing
malarial affections in Memphis,, in {
Washington, and elsewhere, although
the relation between causc aud effect
does not appear to have been clearly
established.
We do know, however, that green
wood contains a very considerable
amount of albuminoid matter, which
affords food to micro organisms which
decompose it, producing phenomena of <
putrefaction and giving rise to more or
less offensive odors.
Prof. Brewer, of New Haven, has re- ^
ported tho results of a number of experiments
on tho results of soaking green
woods of various kinds in cold water,
and thns removing the albuminoid mat- <
tore Tltaf; orrivn lnmhpr/xinl'.n.jns unmo.
O ?
thing which greatly favors its decay,
and which way be removed by long- ,
continued soaking in water, was well
known many years ago, and gave rise
to the process' of water seasoning, in
which the planks were sunk in large
bodies of water and kept immersed for
from six months to a year, when they
were raised, piled in the air, and thoroughly
dried. Flooring lumber thus
treated is a little liable to decay, ior
the simple reason that it contains little ]
or nothing that is lit for the micro organisms
and fungi that cause decay.
The albuminoid material which may be
thus extracted from wood appears to ^
support the life of various micro organisms
which, so far as wo ktiow. are
not directly or indirectly iujurous to ]
health. We can only infer that it will
also support the life of other organisms
which may be injurious?the germs of
specific disease?and conclude that it '
^ sufficient ptobabie that this is the
/case,--to-warrast the giving of special
attention to this subject in investiga- <
tions as to the cause of the local prevalenee
of certaiu disease.?Saniiary Engineer.
? ]
The Unlucky OpaL
"The prejudice against opals may ,
bo dying out, but a great many people
stilf hold to the belief that thev brino1
bad lock," said a jeweler the other
da}*. "I could tell you of a little inci- I
dent that occurred here that way make
you wonder whether some people do
not manago to got themselves bom
three centuries too late. A man came
here with a ring that had a beautiful
opal set in it, and told mo to take oat
the stone and let him see some other S
gem to put in its place. I asked him
if he was goin?r to get rid of the opal
altogether, anu he said ho was going ^
to destroy it. I was rather surprised,
and said:
44 4Don't do that; I'll gi?o you $50
for it'
4'He c[e?l$rod that he didn't want
moi\cy for it; that it had brought him
nothing but bad luck sinco he bought 1
it; that he had failed in business and
lost two of "his children, and all, of 3
course, on account of a little piece of
stone. I went over to that bench and
took the opal out of its setting, and
while looking at the ring X laid the
gem on the bench beside me. As quick .
as a iiash that man picked up a ham- '
lner that was lying among the tools a
and hit the stone a whack that smashed
it into a thousand pieces. There 1;
was nothing left. Then he said
4Tiiere!' in a satisfied manner Tt.'a t
too bad, for the opal is one of tho prettiest
gems in the world."?New York
Sun.
Leg Before "Wicket, I
Very young ladies, who enjoyed the f
doubtful privilege of having schoolboy
brothers, were sometimes permitted or a
compelled to join in their games of
cricket. So long as they reveled in
the short skirts of infancy tho experiment
was fairly successful, but tho
crinoline of maturer years interposed
an impenetrable screen between the .
ball and tho wickets, to the cxaspera- I
tiou and despair of the bowler. Gal- .
lantry no less than decorum forbade ?
the perpetual verdict of "leg before,"
which, in strict justice, should often
have cut short the fair cricketer's inning.
This seriously interfered with
the success of feminine cricket, and
occasionally-^aqoh is tho frank brutality
of toyhood?with harmonious relations
between tho players. With
the dcclinc of this special branch of C
sport the question has really lost its 2
practical interest But it is to be fear- j
od that the difficulty, so far as it survives,
must remain insuperable until a c
rcgenerato Europe shall rise to the
idea of that "bifurcation of aether 11
garmenture" in the opposite sex which
was the dream of a fair reformer across a
the Atlantic,? London Socuty.
A correspondent asks where the saj'- 1
iugs "A nine days' wonder" and "Of
two cviis cJioosc the least" originated, d
It is supposed that they were common <j
stock iu conversation long before they
got into print The first trace of the p
phrase "A nine days' wonder" is said
to be found in "Caaucer." The adage
"Of the two evils choose the least," is ^
found in a Latin form in the writings
of Cicero. Thomas a'Kempis, who fi
wrote iu the fifteenth century, says: $
"Of two evils the less is always to be
choseu."
There are probably 2,500,000 sweatglands
belonging to each human being,
the object of tbe existence of this per- ?
spiratory system being to remove the
excess of water and noxious gases, and ^
to regulate the temperature of the
bodv. PersDiration is always <roin<r on
j- - n o ~
and under normal conditions it .
amounts to about two pints a day for
each person.
1876. 1885.;
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