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PM? AYaSSiEi^^S^BR^aaKa^rr.^r^aCTfrt^^i^MiiaaaMiapgMMBiiMBjaaB^pliaaitegaH^yj^^ Iiw ^ fligiijitfgB^ rfBjjffinijli^^ VOL. XLII WXNNSBORQ, S. C.s WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1885. NO. 12.; The Old Dinner Horn. I've heard ninny a strain that has thrilled mo with joy. But none, 1 will say, since the day I was born. Hits pluisod me so much as,when a small hoy, I heard, on the farm, the oid dinner iom. The i ruin net was tin, a yard or so long. ^ And was bloved for "the boys" at noon ana at morn. T'no monotone straiD was piercing1 and strong, ' But sweet, for all that, was the old dinner horn. Wii^n building the fence or tossing the hay. Or reaping the grain or plowing the corn, % -* ?? ikn ^OT? ~~w w itli appetire Keen, ax ine uwu ui mo , Ob, sweet to my soul was tbe old dinner horn! A mother's fond lips pressed tbe trumpet of ?*. tin. And blew her full soul through the barley and cornOb. 1 bear even yet the "Weloome, come in. Come in, my dear boys, to the sound of tbe hornI" Those lips are now still, and the bosom Is cold, f Which sent to us boys the blast of the horn; She is waiting: hi sleep, beneath the dark moid. The archangel's trump and eternity's morn. ^JoelSwartz, D. D. TU T? fMRI Y.RnY. * Ou ray way across the Sound 1 fell in with two old sea-captains?John Strcuter and Asa Morton?with whom 1 iiad sonic slight acquaintance. Streeter was about three-score, and had followed the sea during most of his life. Morton was considerably younger, but sti.i a seaman of much experience. * The subject of the abolition of flogging in our navy came up in course of conversation, and Captain Morton expressed himself very decidedly in favor of keeping up that time-honored institution, the cat-o'-ninw-tails. "1 am not prepared to say," remark* , ed Captain Streeter in reply, "that the r coudition of our men-o'-wars-men will be in every case benefited by the abo_ lition of Hogging, though I am sure p that it might be so. I mean that the officers have it within their power to do awav with nearly all kinds of punishment?that is, of course, for such ott'ensus as are usually punished on P shipboard." I "For my part," returned Morton, "I should not care to take command of a ship if the power to punish refractory seamen as I thought proper were taken from me." "Well," resumed Captain Streeter, 4,I used to think just so. In fact, there C " were few masters moro passionate or severe than I was. Men used to run away from me, and, on more than one occasion, zuy very life has been in danger from the vengeance of men whom i had abused. I used the cat and the rope's-eud almost as freely as 1 used vif funmio- ?iml T rvft-ori wnnHorfiH hnw ^ UMVt vwwfc .. ?? *" ^ it happened that 1 always had the luck lo get such bad men. "When I was about forty years of age I took command of the ship Petersham. She was au old craft, and had seen full as much servico as she was capable of seeiug with safety; but her owucrs were willing to trust a valuablo Cargo in her, so 1 would not refuse to trust myself. We were bound to Liverpool, and nothing unusual happened until about the eighth day out, when ?\afcraii foul of a srnali iceberg. It was jgL early in'he morning, before sunrise, and no' above six or eight feet of tko ice was out of the water, it having been nearly all melted away in the , wanner water of the Gulf-stream. I did not think that we had sustained any injury, for the shock was very slight; but I was angry, and gave the look-out a severe punishment, without stoppiug to inquire whether he could have seen the berg in season to escape it. "My cabin-boy was named Jack YVituers. He was fourteen years of L age, and this was his lirst royage. I r had taken him from a widowed mother, ami had promised her that I would him WflI Lrontuil?Lh:it W:ts. if ha behaved liimioif. He was a bright, quick, intelligent lad, but I soon made lny.-e.i u;i:eve that he had au awful ^ i:is? osiUuu. i iaucied that ho was the xv.wl sin born piece of youthful humanity tiiat 1 had ever come across. I made up my mind that he had never been properly governed, and I forthwith resolved to break him in. I told him I'd curb his temper for him before + I had done with him. In reply he told -me that I might kill him if I liked; and I flogged him with the end of the mizzen-topgallant halliards till ho could hardly stand. I asked him if he had had enough, and he told me that I might flog more if I wished it. I felt a strong temptation to throw the boy UhIi a f rvrr? rvn f Via U > ^ U, UUL aw bUUb LUUIU^UV uo staggered back against the mizzenf mast from absolute weakness, and I left him to himself. When 1 reasoned r calmly about that boy's disposition I was forced to acknowledge that he was one of the smartest and most faithful lads 1 had ever seen. When I asked him to do anything he would start off like a rocket; but when I roughly ordered him to do it, then came the dis0 position with which I found fault. " "One day, when it was very near noon, 1 spoke to him, and told him to go below and bring up my quadrant. He was looking over the quarter-rail, and I knew that he did not hear me, and the next time I spoke I ripped out am oath, and intimated that if he didn't * move I'd help him. 44 'I didn't hear ye,' he said, with rather an independent tone. 44 'No words,' said I. 41 'I s'noso I on.ii sne.ik-' he retorted. moving slowly towards the companionway. * "His look and liis worus, and the slow, careless manner in which he moved, fired me in a moment, and I grasped him by the collar. " 'Speak to me again like that,' said I, 'and I'll flog you within an inch of f vour life!' ( * -- 11 1 1 i:.J f " *xou can nog away, ue rupuuu, as firm and undaunted as a rock. I "And I did Hog hi in. I caught up the end of the first rope that came handy, and beat him till my arm fairly ached. But he never even ^ winced. " 'How's that?' said L ? " 'There's a little more life in me yet th&t you'd better llog out,' was his reply. "And 1 beat him again. i Deat mm tiil he sank from my hand against the rail; and then i seat one of tho men after my quadrant. When it came, and 1 had adjusted it for my observaf tion, I fouuu that the suu was already t>ast th?: meridian, and that I was too late. This added fuel to the lire of my madness, and quickly seizing the lad by the collar, 1 led him to the main hatchway and had the hatch taken oS. I then thrust him down, and swore that I would keep him there until his stubbornness was broken. The hatch was men put on, ana l went into me cabin. I suffered a good deal that afternoon?not with any compunctions for what I had done, but with my own temper and bitterness. It made me mad to think that I could not conquer that boy?that I could not break down his cool, stern opposition. 'But I will do it,' I said to?myself. 'By the heav ens above me, I'll starve him into it, or he shall die under the operation!' "After supper I went to the hatchway and called out to him, but he returned me no answer. So I closed the hatch and went away. At ten o'clock I called ugaiu, and agaiu I got no answer. i might havo thought the flogging had taken away his senses had not some oi the meu assured mo that they had heard him, not an hour before, talkiug to himself. I did not trouble him agaiu uutil the next morning; but 1 went to the hatchway after breakfast and called out to mm once | more, i heard nothing from him, nor could 1 see him; 1 had not seen him since I put tiiui down there. I called out several times, but he would make mo no iin>wer; and yet the same men told me that they had heard him taik that very morning, lio seemed to be calling tor them to help him. He would ask them fur help, bill lie would not ask UK*, i mount to break him into it. 'He'll oeg be.ore he'll starvv,' I thought; aud so I determined taut he shoUid stay tnere. 1 supposed lie had crawled forward to the !'oreca?lie bui.%head in order to make tue saiiors hear him. Some of the men asked to be permitted to ?0 down and look after hiru, but I refused. I threatened to punish the tirst man who dared to go down. "At noon i went again, ana as no diil not answer mo this time, I rcsulvod that lie should come to the hatchway and ask for mo ere I went any more. The day passed away, and when evening came again I began to be startled. I thought of how many good qualities the boy had; and I thought of his widowod mother. He had been thirty six hours in the hold, and fully forty hours without food or drink. He must be too weak to cry out now. ,It was hard for mo to give up, but if the boy died there from absolute starvation, it might go harder with me still. So at leugth I made up my mind to go and see him. It was not quite sundown when I had the hatch taken of? and I jumped down upon the boxes alone. A little way foward I saw a space where Jack might have gone down, and to that Doint I crawled on my hands and knees. I called oat here, but could hoar no answer. A short distance farther was a wider space, which I had entiroly forgotten, but which I now remembered had been left open on account of a break in the flooring "of the hold, which would have let anything that might have been stowed there rost directly on the outer planking of the ship. "To tnis. place I made my way and looked down. I heard the splashing of water, and thought I could detect a Bnnnil likn the innomincr o? a tinv let " O V V or stream. At first I could see nothing, but as soon as 1 became used to the dim light I could distinguish the faint outlines of the boy at some distance below me. He seemed to be sitting upon the broken floor, with his feet stretched out against a cask. 1 called out to him, and I thought he looked up. " 'Jack,' I said, 'are you there?' "And he answered me, in a ?faint, weary tone: " *Yes; help me! For Heaven's sake, help me! Bring men, and bring a lantern; the ship has sprnnk a leak!' "I hesitated, and he added in a more eager tone: " 'Make haste; I can hold it till you come back.' "I waited to hear no more, but hurried on deck as soon as possible, and returned with a lantern,and three men. I leaped down beside the boy, and when I saw it all I could hardly believe the evidence of my own senses. Three of the timbers were completely worm-eaten to the very heart, and one of the outer planks had been broken, and would burst in at any moment the boy might leave it. He sat there, with his back upon it and his feet braced against the cask before him. Haifa dozen little jets of water were streaming in about him, and he was wet to the skin. I saw that the plank must burst in the mo ment the*strain was removed from it, so I bade my men brace themselves against before I lifted him up. Other men were called down with planks and spikes and adzes, and, with much care and more trouble, wo finally succeeded in stopping the leak and averting the danger. The plank which had been stove in was six feet long by eight inches wide and would have let in a stream of water of this capacity. It would have been beyond o&r reach long ere we could have discovered it, and would have sunk us ia a very snort time, i knew it must be where the iceberg had hit us. "Jack Withers was taken to the cabin, and there he managed to tell mo his story. Shortly after 1 put him in the hold he crawled forward, and when his eyes became used to tho dim glimmer that came through the dead-lights, he looked about for a snug place in which to lie, for his limbs were stiff and sore, lie went to sleep, and wlien be awoke he heard a faint sound, like water streaming through a small hole." He went to the Open space in the cargo and looked down, and he was sure that he saw a small jet of water spurting up from the ship's bottom. He leaped down, and in a fow moments found that the timbers had given wholly away, and that the stream was increasing in size. He placed his hand upon the plank and found it broken, and also discovered that the pressure of the wa - i- * *i. j TT. ler witnouc was iorcmg it mwaru. xie had sonse enough to see that if it gained an inch more it must all go, and the ship must be lost, and perhaps all hands perish! And he saw, too, that if he could keep the broken plank in its place he might stop the incoming flood. So he sat himself upon it and braced his feet against the cask;and then he called for help. "And there he had sat, with his feet thus braced, for four-and-twenty long, dreary hours, with the water spurting in tiny streams 3II over him, drenching him to th^ skin. He had thought scv erai tmi^ ot going to tne naicuway and ba&tng for help; but ho know that the broken plank would bo forccd in if he left it, for ho could feel it heave beneath him. His strength was failing him; his limbs wore racked with pain; but he would not give up. I asked him if he should not have jjiven up if i had not come as 1 did. He answered me + Ua Imvjk ilAnn rrlnln Ko had life in him. He said he thought not of himself?he was ready to die? but he would save the rest if he could; and he had saved us?surely saved us ?from a watery grave. "That boy lay sick in the cabin for many days?sick almost unto death; but I nursed him with my own hands? nursed him all through his delirium;. nrKnn raoenn rotnrn?{? nnd hfi could sit up and talk, I bowed myself before him, and humbly asked his pardon for all the wrong I had done him. He threw his arms about my neck, and told me if I would be good to him he would never give me cause for offence; and he added, as he sat up again, "1 am not a coward?I could not be a dog P "From that hour I never forgot those words;and irom mat hour l nave never struck a blow on board my ship. I make my men feel that they are men? that I so regard them, and that I wish to make them as com'ortablo and happy as possible; and I have not failed to gain their respect and confidence. I give no undue license, but make juy crew feel that they have a friend and a superior in the same person. For nine years I sailed in three different ships. and had the very sumo crew all itie while. A man could not be hired lo leave iue save for an nlHcer's berth. "And Jack Wither* remained with me thirteen years, lie wo* my cabin boy; ono of my loremast hands; my second ruate;aud the lasttimo he sailed witli me he refused the command of a new barque because he would not be separated from me. But he is a cap tarn now, ana one ox tue Dest mis country ever afforded. Such, gentlemen, is my experience in government and discipline on shipboard." An Afghan Care for Fever. Medicine among the Afghans is in a crude state. Jt is a jumble of superstition, with here and there a grain of sense intermixed. Even the well-to-do people of the peasantry livo in mud houses consisting of one room, windowless. aud with one small- door of exit Here the family, however large, livo and sleep. Chimneys are uuknown, or indeed any kind of smokohole or vontilator. Water for drinking purposes is often obtained from a small rivulet, a braueh of the canal, generally impure, muddy stuff. Yet when the people are srfck they ascribe it to the influence of malicious jinns who are alwavs wandering: about ready for any wicked mischiefr The people believe that if a man sick with sinall-pox hears thunder he becomes deaf, hcnco tom-toms (drums) are beaten round him during a thunderstorm that ho may not hoar the fatal sound. Incantations, jugglery, and charms arc popular remedies. If the patient recovers, well and good; if he dies, ho lack* faith. A favorite cure for jaundice is a twig taken from a lig-trce, cut into forty pieccs, breathed oil by the Koresh (wiso men), and the pieces strung and hung about the sick person's neck. A seveu to ten days' abstinence fro:u food is enjoined, and the patient gets well, or else he does not. Occasionally the treatment become? more practical, :is in the following ease of sweating a patient. An only son ol the better-class was taken ill. "I'm so cold, ami theu I'm so hot, and my head nuhes!" the lad complained, His mother, being anxious, went to the house of tho Moolah (learned doctor) to get a remedy for her sou. The good man prayod and <?ivo her an amulet with strange cabalis'.ic figures on it, and bade her go home and put it about tiic sick boy's neck, and it would drive away the wicked jinn that was troubling him. The woman did s<>. but the lad grow worse. Then the Koran and a sword wore laid on a quilt beside the boy, and another auiulct, with wonderiul excrciaiu<r power, was hung on the bed-post; and the poor distraught mother drove pegs into the grave oi a buried saint, hung rags on the tree above it, and prsyeu in vain. The jinn wouldn't go. but the sick man grew more feverish. Then the father?Continues tho writer in a contemporary?determined ?.- 4.? 4.1.- 4. T>...i.;?u IV uy LIXC giuai lauiau it'iuuu), nuiwu is practiscu all over Afghanistan, Ho bad a sheep slaughtered and skinned, and, after rubbing oil and turmeric upon the; skin, wrapped his son in it while it was hot. Then he laid the boy on the bed and shut the door, so that not a breath of air could come in, and covered him up with heavy-quilts. At the end of twenty-four hours the lad was no better, aud the skin was removed aud a fresh one substituted. This time it had liie desired efiVct, for before ten hours were passed the sick boj said, in a weak voice, "Father, 1 lmvM heeouit! watur." "Allah bo orais ed!" exclaimed t:.e parents. For several hours longer the lad wore the sheepskin, that the cure might be certain; and when at last it w:is removed, the poor boy had perspired so freely that he presented a general parboiled appearance, but the fever was conquered :?Uass&Ws Saturday Journal ^ ? IP Alaska's Groat Forests. Alaska forests contain enough timber to supply the world. The forests of pine^ spruce, fir and hemlock cover every island of the archipelago and a goodly portion of the mainland. The trees are straight and tall, and grow close together. The only sawmill at present in operation is at Douglas Island, and so far there h:is not been a cord of timber cut for shipment The trees, as a rule, do not always cut up into good-sized boards. For fuel, however, the wood is excel lent, and much of it is available for building purposes, There is little decorativo wood, although the yellow pine is richly colored and might be used to advantage in interior work. Alaska spruce is an excellent variety, and often measures five feet in diameter. It i3 considered the best spruce in the world, and the supply is very abundant In the interior of the country timber is of much heavier growth than on the coast and on the islands. Regarding the hemlock there is a large supply, and the bark compares favora* Dly witii that ol tiie eastern trees usea in tanning establishments. No one has yet attempted to compute the value of tho Alaska forests. It may be they will not bo necossary for years to come, but whenever wood grows scarce olsewhere or whenever civilization fastens itself upon Alaska, the timber of the region will be found ready at hand and existing in rich profusion. Calculating only approxim ately the value of our possessions to-day, the forests must bo considered. Practically jncxhaustible, they add most m.iterinT& to thu wealth of tho Terri to ry.?<S7tn Fra n c isco Chronicle. In Boston the chief of tLo Fire Department ridos in a red bug<*y when he hurries headlong to fires: l'he notion is that persons will break for the sidewalk and clear the track when they see a horse snorting flume, so to say, and wildly dragging a red chariot toward them. But some of the nowsDa per people in Boston are women, who wear dainty gowns of robin's egg blue, and those charming critics object to the startling redness of the red wagon as smacking too much of the 1 * J -1- -??I i! TU oiu reu-saint'u. urtajuu. iucy u*>o suggested that the color bo toned down, and plump upon the suggestion comes a scornful repiy from a champion of the red buggy. As it looks now there is going to be quite a controversy of sesthetic cut The amount annually paid to the teachers of the United States is $60,000,000, an average of about $400 apiece. , . ^ I MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Music is a oreat and beautiful art I am not musical mysolf, which has always been a source of great joy to my friends, but in the cour.se of many years of enforced association with musicians I have got to know something about the music Jbusiness. I did not voluntarily contaminate my young soul with the society of musicians. I have ever chcrished a deep distrust of the criminal classes; but fate orders a man's life for him. I can only say in extenuation of my sin ttiat I have never known a musician without being sincercly sorry for it, sooner or later?except in tho case of one man who had his trombone in pawn and couldn't gat it out to play to me. Musicians run in tho scale of morality from bass-drummers down to violinists. bass-drummers j toJfe^K|^^SHWtens, in good gen(^ HBflHHfehoiiuist redemption. I do not savtba^n!o violinist docs not do a groat work iu this world. I think he does. Ho inclines other men to load good and virtuous Jives, so that they may not meet him in tho hereafter. And there are, of course, exceptions to every rule. If the violinist calls himself a tiddler, and speaks of his instrument as a liddlo, thore is hope for him. He may bo lured from classical music and iuduced to play a plain and recognizable tune, and then there is a chance of reclamation. The inconsistency of musicians has often been noticed. I have known , pianists to dtjny their artistic kinship to organ-grinders. I have argued with theiu and tried to point out to them that the difference between the two styles of opurators is but a difference of degree and not of kind, and that it comes to much the same thing in the end whether pain is indicted by sheer manual -dexterity and the tips of the fingers or by the interposition of a j crank. But you can not roason with a musician. There is aaotuor peculiarity about musicians \vhieh everybody must observe who mingles with them for any' length of wasted time?there are no good musician's except the one who is. talking to you and a f?w who are doad. All others, you will lind in tho course, of the conversation, aro hopelessly on 1 the wrong track, as far as true art is concerned. Some of them may be well enough 'in their way, but their \ way is all wrong. When they aro dead, very dead, like Beethoven, and Handel, and Bach, they are frequently spokou of by other musicians in terms of high praise. I have heard Beethoven warmly commended by a man i who played tho cornet iu a picnic garden on the East river. Bach is an exceptional case. All' musicians like Bach. Ho is extremely dead, and the general souu-i sentiment of the people ^nay bo relied upon to keep him dead. The resurrection and revivification of liie late B .ca would be warmly opposed by any civilzed people, iiucu*s chief claim to respect; among musicians is ,.thaj*~hu much of ins music so tbaiTit caflDe played backward as well as forward. This kind of rthing he called a fugue. Fugues arc nsod for emptying concert halls and other places of public rosorL They arc even more sure and effective than an alarm of lire. *?M i:~ . i.: . /?: ?v uen a. liiujicuu Uica ma incuus cast a gloom over the joy that animates iho neighborhood by going to the house of the departed and playing dirges over him. They then send in their bill to the stricken widow lor their services as a baud. After that they pass resolutions testifying to their grief ut ihu loss of their colleague and their sympathy with his afflicted laiuily. The resolutions, however, are uot passo?i until the bill is paid. Yes, mu.->ie is a great and beautiful art, Alphcus. in; son; ami what there is about it i at iuuK.ea mjsi musicians mean un.i cti.t-.us ?n i cross-grained nuil cranky, i .imi'i know. But so they are, auU su t;iey will go ou, and the world will iot^ive tliem for music's sake. lcre is that long-haired wretch at piano over across the way. Ho is as narrow-minded and jealous aud wrong-headed a* tho rest of them, and he has been torturing me with symnhonies and sonata* all the evening. tut I forgive him now and forgot it all. for he is playing an old air that brings mo back to a summer evening of years ago, when all the stars wore out in tho heavens except two that shone in tho darkness as she walked by my side, when the hollyhocks waved pale and tall and ghostly in the moonlight, wbcG tho white bloom of the locust trees swayed in the breeze above our heads, and when I talked moro nonsense in fifteon minutes than a violin could express in a yoar.?II. C. Bunner. A Gently Moarnful Beggar. "I ran across a new-style beggar night before last," said Detective WU-. kinson yesterday. "It was a woman, and she had rather an attractive though not a prett^^?& She was pale, quie^^gdfMB^^Hjfeirnful. I was stanJ^B^^^f^H^H^Tbirtjr fourth stTOH^H8HHFue about 5 o'clock when^^^W^B5J8& her. She was dressed in black, with a neat white aproa, well mondcd cotton gloves, and a small black bonnet She w>? nxtrAm?lv rosnectible looking. and when she approached two ladies who were walking down Fifth avenue 1 supposed that She was inquiring her way. Then I saw ono of the ladies take out her purse and ^ivo the woman some money. After that 1 watched her for half an hour, and I saw her stop at least a dozen ladies, and every time she got money from them. Later on in the night, when I was walking 4.1 v 1??. I T Luruugu X U-TWJ"5UUUUU Stiuuby a. oivy|/vu to look at her again. She seemed to pick out her victims with great discrimination, for,;!$hey were ail apparently soft-hearted- Many of the women who gavo her money were loss expensively dressed than the woman herself. She did not accost men. I am told that she has been working at her little game steadily for some weeks now. I saw her again hist night, and I should judge from what I have seen of her operations that she can collect $4 or $5 an evening, without working very hard at that.?New Yorlc Hun. Visitors to Switzerland in the last twenty years have been disappointed to find the glaciers, whose greatness tradition has gloried in,dwindling toward the heads of the valleys, and by their shrinkage uncovcring fresh moraines and broad acros of baro rock and gray rubbish not attractive to the general visitor,however interesting to the geologist. Now, howevor, science is informed, the shrinkage has come to a halt, ana many glaciers seem to navo begun a forward advance again, and are likely to recover the ground lost through a series of w-^m years. ^^^TTrummer Among Mormons. On my arrival at the Lchl I was di rected, as usual, to the bishop's house for entertainment. Rapping at the door I was soon confronted by a large. neavy-ouut, Droaa-saouiaercu ieiiow, who asked me, in anything but polite language, what I wanted. I informed him that I desired entertainment for the night ^Wnere are you from?" 'California, sir." "Where are you going?" "South," I answered.' After plying ] me with a few more questions of a similar nature, he invited me in. On entering the house, ho turned to me and said: ^ 'Do you see that rifle up there?" Looking up to the point indicated 1 kaw one of those long, murderous 1 rifles, resting snugly n^aMii^^titlers .of a Rocky. mountaBaMKHHteft^ 1 jrina T cT:i \y t lie-artistic manSMj |P S "Well, mister, " When anyone comcsamoug us and ( commits any dirt we do not hesitate to ipse it. . Now, listen to me. I am the ' Jbishop**! this settlement. I have two fives'and several daughters. Now, if '> ?ou can promise me not to speak to, or von look at any of my women folks, i you arc welcome to remain over night. 1 Keep your eye on that rifle and mind 3 what I told you. Can you do it?" ! It was a mighty hard job, but I lirst told him that I was at his command, 1 and if it was his honest desire why of 1 course I would obey him. At that 1 . II111C LLC UUUU UJU IKJ iUilUU lilLU lutu ULL adjoining room, where his family was assembled. I was dimly conscious that there were several females seated around tho fire. Ho drew up a chair and bade mo be seated. Turning to the women he gave them orders to 1 preparo supper, he himself taking my orders for what 1 wished. All this time I dared not turn my head nor look toward anyone but the bishop. I knew that his eyes were upon me, and that his two wives and daughters were studying mc closcly. I was greatly embarassed. but withal managed to dispose ot a Hearty supper, at the conclusion of which we again < returned to the sitting-room. It was I by this timo quite dark; and his son, a 3 large, athletic fellow, coming in, the i ' .bishop told him to entertain me, and j at the proper time to show me to bed. , Putting on his overcoat and fur cap, j for it was quite cold, he bade rnc good i night, saying that he was compelled to i attend a ward meeting. Before clos- < ing the door he pointed to the ritle ] Overhead and said: "Remember, < ? ?-1- _ i. T _ 11 tn , young mail, wuat 1 iuiu. yuu: It was positively unkind of liirn to ^remind me of it, lor tbc confounded old gun "was constantly on my mind. 1 had seen some of their treacherous work, and bad heard much more. I knew what they were capable oi doing1, add after the circumstances, dared not disobey his warning. The door closed and he was gone. The ladies were 1 seated on my right, the son on my left, i To make assurance doublv sure 1 turn "GTc^Tatfics, and", faci g j ^ the young man, entered into conversa- , tion with him. One of the ladies got up. several times and went to the door. 1 Finally she came up and bluntly asked me if I was a Mormon. I hardly knew what to do. I had been warned against speaking to or even looking at any of the women. Was she trying to draw me into trouble? She certainly knew "that I had been forbiddeu to address her under penalty r>f death. Yet there she stood, calmly inviting me to my Ir.te. The young man's eyes were upon me. Great beads of perspiration started out ou my forehead. "Do not fear to speak, young man; he has gone, and will not return before midnight," she said, and at that she laid her hand on my head. It's all rijrht. stranger," said the sod. "It's all right; speak up and ? look around you as much as you j please. I'll vouch for your safety." The ice was now broken and turning to the old lady I said that I was not a Mormon. '' "Thank God for that," she said, and : then the conversation became general. ] I was told all about the heartaches and ' sufferings of the original wife; how in ! almost every case they had been de- ' laded into joining the Mormon faith 1 under false pretenses; what siiaroe a.uu * mortification came over them when it was found out that a second or .third wife was to bo taken into the household. I was rather reticent, and did not express my opinion 011 tho subject as I otherwise would have dona The two daughters were comely and full of life. About 10 o'clock they bade me good night and retired. A lialfho'ur later 1 was conducted to mvroom by the young man.?Cincinnati Enquirer. Didn't Understand the Game. An amusing story is told of an American millionaire who recently houored London with a visit. As he was walking dnv-i uUe of the busiest streets 0110 ~un u.ng, his eye was at- ] tracted bv an organ-grinder who was solemnly and lugubri^dyphiying at : the corner of a ; organ was J green and cloth that at oucc a?ffij|SB^W?CiT?- ; tellect of the transatlantic CrcBsus. J For him the green cloth suggested ] only one thought, and that' thought i was ^aiublino:. He fancied himseif in _ the presence of some peripatetic roulct player, and ho could not resist the temptation of taking a turn. So he stopped opposite the musical Italian and tossed a gold coin cheerily on the green surface of the hurdy-gurdy. The astonished foreigner stopped playing, grasped the coin, pocketed it, removed his hat, grunted out some voluablc Tuscan thanks, and resumed his music. "Lost that time," the millionaire murmured to himself, and produced another coin. He tossed it again upon the board, irom which it was again no less promptly and no less gratefully removed by the delighted musician. The millionaire shook his head. "Ab. luck's against me," he remarked, as he sent a third gold coin to gleam for a moment upon the green surface before it rapidly disappeared in tho Italian's pocket. Another and another coin went the same way. without wearing out the patience ot the American. But at last, when some six sovereigns had transferred themselves from his keeping to that of the organ grinder, the American bent forward, and in a tone of the intensest curiosity, whispered in tho car of the amazed Italian, "Say, stranger, what do you call this game, anyhow?"?Whitehall Bevieto. The new paddle wheel built at Boston for the steamer Empire State con tains 444 pieces of white oak, mcasur- ? ing 5,640 feet and weighing 28,500 I pounds. Of bolts, straps aud other ] wrought iron fastenings there are, i 5,042 pieces, weighing a total of 11,- 1 912 pounds. i AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. The Calture of lied Oa :?j. A ? <UA 4 ' Ort A * r* A1 KAA /!?? I\AUA ^Alt Al 11s> Liic Liiiiu id anwuv ijvjiv; wtl icij iners to commence sowing small grain, I think it will be beneficial to those of us who follow that method of obtaining our subsistence, to have an exchange of views upon this important subject. I know there arc farmers who are well versed in this branch and I would like to get their ideas as a matter of improvement for myself. My experience has been limited, but I have made some observations and perhaps some of your readers might like to hear them. * There was a period of time when we were not dependent on the oat crop for stock feed, but that has longsince passed away, and we now consider the oat crop our only hope, as >AV? fo'eiiuf in flno nAn line r?nmA fc 11 1 41 WUMMJ *44*^ VVU'V to be but one of things of the past, a part of the agricultural history of the unti bettum regime. Just after the war closcd and cotton was selling all [he way up as high as 40 cents per pound, when everything was in an abnormal condition, when the commerce, the finances, and the agriculture of the whole country was on a boom, the.basis of which was an inflated currency, when money flowed like water, we could afford high stock feed, but in a few years when everything settled down "to a normal condition, the farmer began to look about for cheap food for the mules that worked the cotton crop and the result cv.is ! n-fMioral introduction of the amons red rnst proof oat. Some claimed that it was a God-send to this country, the only hope of the cotton planter, while I have* always been undecided whether it wasablessl ng or a curse, for this reason, if the ;otton planter had been unable to get b his oat some twelve or fourteen years ago, he would have been forced to adopt a different system of agriculture and he would have been unable lo raise cotton at the low price he received for it, without this cheap stock food, consequently he would have ?iven more of his time and attention to production of food crops, the rearing of cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, etc., together with sowing the various grasses and making fine pastures. Again he would never have known md suffered the evils of that vampire, the lien law, which, while it is gradually sucking his life blotid, cools him with the flap of its wing in the form of hope. The red oat, like whiskey, is jood in its place, but is and has been harmful as a basis for a cotton crop. As a leader there is no better crop for 3ur farmers, and we should give to it that intelligent study that it deserves; there is one serious draw-back, however, to our oat crop and only one which I have carefully studied to rem;dv so far as my own crop is concern iu aim inui is iuu iicu/>uig uui uiui,?3 kvhich has proven so disastroas of late rears. - RCfts?ii-I planted one Iiuwdmi icres in oats, and planted/ra. several ivays to satisfy myself which was the mrest way to get a good stand, and the safest way of protection from freezes. The first safe-gaurd is early sowing always, as late sowing is seventy-five per cent, more liable to EYeezeout than early sowing. I sowed my crop in various ways to find out :he best mothod of putting in a crop. ( Ihe largest part, I prepared it nicely, ;;otton seeded it, well, then sowed the seed and harrowed in the whole thing, md such a stand I never saw on ground. I next plowed in some very shallow ind then harrowed the ground, getling as fine a stand as the first. Next, L plowed in some as deep as mules :ould pull"the plows, (I mean oneiiorse plows), and harrowed the ground, also got a fine stand. All of :his done in due season, not later than 20th October. I then sowed some in latter part of November and December, all of which I plowed in about an xverage depth. Some I harrowed and , ome I left rough in order to find out if harrowing the ground Ind any effect 311 the stand, but being sowed late, uid the freezes commencing, not more ;nan inree per cent. 01 mem ever i-umu up at all, being killed in the process j'fgermination. Ninety acres out of the hundred were killed out, while the remaining ten acres were far from saving a full stand. Now the best , stand of the ten acres were those that [ plowed in deepest, and the next jest were those that I plowed in shallow, while th<5 poorest stand were :hose I harrowed in. I also took occasion lo notice the different styles of sowing adopted by nearest neighbors, and "found about she same results with them as in my 3wn fields. I claim if we will plow in the oats deep and then harrow the ground over that the freezes will not 2 fFcct the stand more than ten per' j :ent., which is a reasonable allowance for bad seed and weakly plants, where if we put them in shallow, the stand trill be injured fully fifty per cent. I jive as my reasons the following: My actual experiment for that purpose. ; [t is potent to all that where hats have jeen sown on cotton land, you can stand and trace the original water 1 furrows between the old cotton beds, by the regular stand of oats looking as ' if they had been sown in drills. Again [ can tell where the laps of two lands is by the oats being more regular ' iiOn?J l!lis uugc, ucuaii^v; in pivswiug ilong this lap the oat seed get twice as mich dirt thrown over them, by reason of the japping process, as any >ther part of the land. Yet again, I ;an trace out every water furrow between the lands where the oat crop simply been harrowed in and am unible to account for it in any other way :han by more of the soil being dragroi\ in this furrow bv Hie harrow. Another reason why I believe deep I slowing in of oats will save the stand ; s, that our freezes are seldom more < han two inches deep, and if the root )fthe oat is down deep in the warm ;arth below where the cold penetrates, 1 t certainly will live although the top ! nay be bitten off by cold. All vege- ! ation has a tendency to come out : igain when the top is taken off from ! my cause whatever but the red o;it : las a wonderful tenacity in this direc- i ion, even coining out and making two . 41S1111CC SCClUllgS. iUV uuuuuuu -was J jailed to this fact last year when I i vanfed to give mv mules some green 1 ood, and had half an acre of oats cut i while they were in the milk state, and < hey caine out and made another crop ' ilthough, not so good as the first, yet < ;hey were fairly good oats. I came to .he conclusion that any plant that 1 :ould come out and mature after being i ;ut at so late a stage of development, :onld never suffer from any cause, so 1 ong as the roots remained intact, and 1 [ believe if we will plow the oat deep i n the ground so its roots will be < jeyond the reach of cold that we will icvcr complain of freezing weather md bad stands. Before the"introduc tion of so mauy harrows in this State < we never heard so much complain of ] freezing out, and I regard the common i use of harrows for putting in the oat ] crop as the main canse of so much I trouble with bad stands. Of course 1 there are other causes, but I regard i harrowing in is the chief cause. There < is one more theory upon which I am < undecided, simolv because I have not < had an opportunity of testing it. I ] believe it has some "bearing, but dou't i know to what extent, and that theory j is, that our oats having become dimat- s ized, they have become more tender i from the effects of so much warm weather in the fall and spring, striking the young plant first and then coming ' again .on them nearer maturity. If < some farmer will procure seed from a ' colder latitude and publish his expe rifincc- hp will confer a srreat favor on the generally. No one need fear putting the oat seed too deep in the ground, as I have fully tested that and find I can get a good [stand at eight inchcs deep. I would like to 'hear from some of the older heads .>11' this subject, men who have been long in the business, and who have made it a study. All we need in this country to make our agricultural interests a success, is to give it its dues in the way of braiuwork, get out of the old channels, stop planting' cotton only as a surplus and making every plantation self-sustaining, and last but not least, stop the negro from killing mules by starvation and other equally as barbarous methods. If we could and would devote all onr time and attention to our farming interests, it would bring about that grand agricultural revolution which I claim must come ere we will have any substantial progress or solid improvement in this* eountrv; then ami not until then, will we have that "2sew South" they are writing so much about. Let us not leave the whole rgricultnral department in the the hands of die old men, but let cur young men : lay hold and make it an honorable calling instead of a disgrace as many i of us consider it now. s. r. r. " Tobacco Cnltare.' 1 The following interesting letter, re- < ccived from Commissioner Butler, will ] also appear in the regort of the State agricultural department on the 15th : instant: Landsford Chester Co., S. C., i I September 21, 1885. ? ! Col. A. P. BnMer, Commissioner of < Agriculture, Columbia, S. C.?Dear Sir: Realizing, after eight years' ex- 1 pericncc, botli in planting and renting i out land for the cultivation of cotton 1 in this section, the necessity of nndinsr I another or rather additional money crop, I began two years ago to investigate and study the cultivation and curing of tobacco. I soon became convinced that a portion of my land was adapted to the growth of "bright yellow" tobacco, the production of which has done so much of late years to enrich certain sections of ^orth Carolina-and Virginia. "Whether our climate would prove equally suitable could be proven only by actual experiment. This experiment I decided to i make. 1 In November last I employed in 1 Vance county, N. C., a vonng1 man versed in tobacco culture and curing, f and on the tirst day of January, 1885, I began work to prepare for my first 1 crop. Desirous of giving- it a fair trial t I cleared out and prepared.for culti- '< vation seven acres of original forest i land of good quality and of (be proper ( kind for the growth of bright tobacco, i viz., of gray sandy top soil with po- s rous yellow sandy subsoil. I also 1 selected about ten acres in different ? lots ot old lands, part in small piucs or I second growth, part, in broom sedge, t and about two acres in a fine state of i cultivation, all of same character as i new ground already described. All of i this, by repeated plowings and harrow- i ing, I reduced to the fiuest tilth during i the months of March, April and May, i and in the latter month prepared them s all for the reception of my plants?first manuring them?the new ground with t 200 pounds of blood aramoniated sup- ) diphosphates, (manufactured by the "Domestic Fertilizer Company of Co- 1 lumbia,") and the old land with a com- i post of stable manure, cotton seed, 1 n f A of vflfrt I tiaujib auu awiu puuopuaig at iug taiv. * of a little more thau 1,000 pounds per 1 ccre, both applied in the drill and bed- i ded in as for cotton, and afterwards "hilled" by checking with a straight 1 shovel and drawing up with hand hoes s and "patting" to retain the moisture i and indicate the place for setting the t plant- All of this work I sound easv, t and by the 10th of May had all my ^ tobacco land ready with two horses c aud three extra hoe hands?two of i them boys under 15 years. In addi- 1 lion I had planted twelve acres in cot- r inn ohrtnf- s.amf> in r>nm_ f garden and patches. My plant beds were prepared in January and Febru- 1 arv, part on upland and part on branch i bottoms, the object being to provide for the extreme of wet or dry, and i with the hope of securing plants for * early setting from the warm upland J beds. The seed, all of best varaties t from yellow tobacco virgins of North j Carolina, came well and proved very \ hardy, some even standing the severe t fast of three or four inches of snow c without hurt in the middle of March, i From this date (March 17) to about a the 10th of June, however, we had i positively no rain, not even a shower J A M J L!^1 1 ...J 1 in April, proDeruiai 101 uui smues auu t tears. In the latter part of May we ( had two small showers, but not enough a to wet the ground halt an inch, so my \ upland beds did practically no good, t the dry cold did practically no good, ihe dry cold wind "blowing the plants c Dli'the'bed," as the saying goes, and the "flea beetle" and "fly" literally :*ating up what remainded. My bottom beds, however, -did their full duty ind furnished me all the plants I need- f -vA am U../1 4-*ma pAnPAn cof ju ui iiiiu. tiuLic auu. cgao-ju v\y ott. 5 The first shower in May (about the 20th) I set 15,000 plants, of which, L perhaps 10,000 lived. The second 0 shower, about the 28th, I set 24-,000, ? saving not more than 12,000, the hot ? sun and dry ground killing the halt. ^ [ then set about 10,000 with water, (a 1 slow, tedious and costly process:) s two-thirds of these lived and did well, e About the middle of June I suceecded in getting all my land once se.', and Jj perhaps, had -i0,000 plants then living, c but the terrible dry hot weather im- h mediately thereafter killed 10 or 12, MU oi mem, ana 11 was not umu um ith of July that we had a season suffi;ient to wet the ground, and, late as it was, I reset enough land to bring ray living plants uy to 50,000, or enough scattered over i7 acres of land to plant C 10 acres fully. From the 4th of July I to 2Diii August we had not a drop of 1 rain, and, of course the tobacco grew 1 slowly, but the ground having been c once wet it did not die, and I con- t tinned to work it, ploughing each way 1 (one harrow to the row, with 20 inch I sweep,) following with hand hoes, I rawing dirt to the plant each time. [ found the cultivation very easy; rapidly done, and well suited to negro labor. Up to the 20th Jolv I had no trouble with the horn worm, butabont that time they appeared in vast and increasing quantities, and before I jould get my raw negro hands ^educated" up to*the point of catching all nf tham Hior and little as thev went. th* ones \oft behind, and growing rapidly to enormous size, had done me ^reat injury. As soon as: the worms appeard I also took measures to reduce their numbers by poisoning the moth, whose egg laid on the under side of the tobaoco leaf, produces the worm. To this end, in the cultivation of the crop, I had instructed my hoe hands to snare all nlants of "the JimDSon (.Jamestown) weed found growing in the tobacco hills, the seed going to the field with the compost, I suppose, and the eousequc-nce was that in each lot I had a few very flourishing stalks'of Jimpsou just "coming into bloom. Within these blooms, which are the favorite food of the "hawk moth," and which are open at night and closed in daylight, or, at least, sunlight, I each evening injected a few drops of sweetened water, pretty well colored with cobalt, using a small machine oil can with spring bottom as an injector. > I soon began to find the dead moths, and in less than a week's time had the satisfaction to note, first a decrease in the eg^s and young worms, and in two weeks' time a total disappearance of all except th j old worms neglected in previous worming ; uor have I been bothered with them sincc, except once, when my Jimpson weeds being nearly killed by the continned doses of cobalt I discontinued the use of ita few days, when I found the wormy again appearing and youn?.moths growing numerous in the fields. A few,- two or < three, does a week has kept them under ever since; and right here I will say that I believe if I had commenced the use of the cobalt as soon as the first Jimpson bloom appeared [ should have escaped the worms almost altogether. My tobacco * showing seed-bads first a bo dt loth July?the first planting?I topbed enough for one barn, abomt July 20. This tobacco was cut and put in barn August 25; cured out August 29, and the specimens' I send rou are from it. After the rain, 29th August, it all sp-etv rapidly, and for the first time ' rave me some trouble with the suckers, which have been or should be removed each week until ready for the knife. I find the additional difficulty, resulting from the rain of that date, ;bat all my bottom leaves on the older :obacco are ripe and all the tips or top eaves are green and growing. As, aowever, I must get through by frost, luring two barns a week, and having Darely time to do that, I am compelled ;o cut, and the result is that while I lave a fair show of bright tobacco, suitable for wrappers, I. nave a very anreasonable amount ot green tips tvhich no skill and care will make any:hing else of. For this the season is responsible. If we had had rains, ;ven an average amount of it in the spring and summer, all the tobacco svould have been ripe to the top and eady for the knife by this time. I built me two curing barns of most approved style; fitted them with dou)le return flues, costing barns compete, about $95 each, and find them A o/*f YMavfia/**ITT T Jioro olrfiO^TT .V UVt iWUJ X UMTV IM4 WWW md cured eight barns of from .400 to 509 pounds weight of cured leaf, and :xpect to cure six or, perhaps, seven norc. I have also built a most substantial packing- house, 40 by 20, t^) ioors, giving me capacity for storing iboot 35 boxes, besides room for stripping and handling. I will prepare my obacco for market during the warm vet spells in the winter months; will jack it in hogsheads and ship to some narket in North Caroliua or Virginia, md when I get returns will tell you xiore about it as a money crop. Thus ar I have demonstrated to my own :atisfaction: 1st. That oar soil and climate are o/lantPil nrivliiMinn f?f finft rellow tobacco. 2d. That the kind and abundance of abor we bare is (with good mauagenent, a good stock of patience, due alowance for ignorance and consequent nefficieucy, until taught,) peculiarly averablc to its production as an auxilary crop. 3d. That 1 shall enlarge my facilities :or curing and storing, and next year .hall extend the production on my own )lace by inducements held out to my .euants" to plant two to four acres to he family, to be worked by them, (In vhicli operation women and children ;an be most profitably employed durng the idle season of August and to oth September,) and aftewards, when eadv to cure, to be sold on hill or mred on shares, as agreed upon. 4th. That vou have not heard the ast of tobacco growing as an industry n this section. I send you a few bands of "bright," nuuing from first grade leaf to bright 'lug," which von can place with other south Carolina, products in Agricultural Hall, remembering that bright -ellow tobacco will stand neither ?audliug nor light, (excessive) and hat it should not be subjected to the extremes of wet and dry. These specmeus have never yet been bulked, and ire not at their best, but may at least auk as curiosities, coming, as they do "rom the first barn of flue cured obacco ever cured in the State, "August 29. I880,) so far as I know, tnd certaiuly the first cured in what rill one day be the celebrated yellow obacco region of Chester county. I am very respectfully, yours to ommand, * W. R. Davie. Burned to Death, and Restored to Life. I know of a man nearMaxey's, Ga., who or ten or twelve years was almost a solid ore from head to foot For three years,. his appearance being so lorribly repulsive, lie refused to letany ne see him. The disease after eating his lesh, commenced on his skull bone?. He ried all doctors and medicines without lenefit and no one thought he could pessiily recover. At last he began the use cf i. B. B., and after using six bottles, his ores were all healed ana he was a sound lan. 1 ^1.,. ~ 1 ' lit: iwm juab ntvc a mnu viiu ltaa uvca urned to death and then restored t? life, "he best men of the county know ?t tbi ase, and several doctors and ?ercb?n# iave spoken ol it as a most wonderful <ats?. JOHN CRAWFORD, Druggist, * Athens, Ga. Bucklen'* Arnica Salve. The Best Salve i? the world for ?uts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt iheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped T- OUt IKlrt t.-\o ( Vwno on/1 fill Sitr?n liiIIU>f V^viucj uuu WII kjntii Eruptions, and positively cares Piles, >r no pay required. It is guaranteed o give perfect satisfaction, or money efunded. Price 25 cents per box. ?or sale by McMaster, Brice & Ketchiu. *