ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNERS
BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEB 24. 1884. NO. 13. VOLUME XXIXJB* I
THE WAYFARERS.
Young man with the keen blue eyes,
Clear and bold,
Why, as thou dust fare,
"With so searching air
Scannest thou each face thou dust behold,
Each small flower, faint-colered like the skies,
Growing by the way? Why gaiest thou
O'er the round hill's brow?
"Ah, in every bearded face,
Looking deep,
My heart's friend seek I;
In each maiden shy
My heart's dearest, dreamed upon in sleep;
And in each fair flower a hope I trace;
And the hill ma}' hide the flashing sea
That doth call to me!"
Old man with the pale blue eye?,
juuci aim ciear,
Why, as thou dost fare,
With that pondering air,
Into passing faces dost thou peer?
Why dost pause where dim, like autumn skies.
6tarry asters grow? Why gazest thou
O'er the round hill's brow?
"Ah, from each gray-bearded face
Would I know
What that heart hath found;
And in youths that bound
See a youth that vanished Ions ago;
* In etch flower a memory can I trace;
O'er the hill the green, still place may be
That doth wait for me."
?Helen Qray Cone, in Harper's Magazine.
"WHAT JOIIX FOUND.
Recess was nearly over. The boys
aad girls gathered m the playground
outside of the log schoolhouse. but no
play was going on. Most of the bovs
had their books in their hands, and were |
poring over them as if to make up for all
the idle time of their lives: the girls sat i
on the wood pile, whispering and lookingat
the girls with a kind of awe.
The school-house was built just outside
ot a mountain village in North
Carolina. The boys were dressed in
butternut, or blue cloth, the girls in a
kind of linsey, all of which their
mothers h:id sunn and woven.
Outside of the fence was a gang of
little negroes, whom the white children
ordered about with an air of authority;
for, poor as they were, their fathers all
were slave owners. There was a row of
ihiny black faces at the top of the fence.
"Gorry! Look at Mas'"Will! I tink ;
he get it!"
"Pshaw! G'long, you Victory! Our:
Mas' Bob 8 twict as good a scholar. See |
how he pokin' into dat book."
The others vo.uuteered no opinions, !
but shouted:
'Hooray! "Which of ye agwine to be |
de soier? Mas' Bi>b Sevier he grwine!!
Cunnel Bob Sevier! Hooray!"
Never had there been such a day j
known in Uncle Job's school.
Bob Sevier, a fair, thin boy, -with j
round blue eyes, sat on the steps,turning
over the leaves of his 44 Histora Sacre."
n._ He knew every word and line; but he !
turned leaf after leaf with his cold, !
shaking fingers.
When the little negroes shouted for
"Cunnel Bob!" he felt a lump in his
throat choking him. If he should not
win! Bob had always been head boy in
the school, but during the last month he
had worked harder than ever. The i
cause was this: Judge Peters, who was
now congressman irom mis district, nau
paid a visit to the village a few weeks I
before, and had dropped into the school i
one morning and made tht boys a little
speech.
" I was a pupil here,"he said. "There
is the very desk at which I sat. Uncle
Job taught me pretty much all I know.
My father could not afford to send me to
college, and I am sure neither can your
fathers afford to send you there. But I
want to give some boy here a chance
such as I aid not have. I have the aprintment
of a cadet to WeBt Point, and
propose instead of giving it to some !
ricn man's son, that the boy in this
bcxiuui wnu pact's uiu ucst eAuuiiuuuuii
a month from now shall have it."
This was the speech. It made the
boys as wild as if he had put fire into J
their brains. Not a boy there who did j
not see himself a colonel in full regiment-1
als, preceded by a brass band, riding up j
the streets of the village in triumph.
They fell to studying, most of them for |
the first time in their lives. They never j
had done anything but lounge about the .
sunny, chilly highland hamlet, listening
to the interminable stories of the hunters. |
who c^me in with peltry, or playing
#*>^ "sisty out" with the little negroes.
John Frernoy, the shabbiest of them
s' alL sat aoart from the other boys with
his sister Louise.
"Now, Lou, just hear me this page," |
and he began: "'Oharleraange, other-!
wise Charles the Great, was the son of
Pepin the Short, the first of the Carlovingian?Carlovingian'?oh,
what comes ,
next?"
44 'Dynasty.'" prompted Lou. .
"And what's the meaning of 'dynasty,' j
I'd like to know ? Such rubbish! I don't! ,
understand a word of it! There's no use ]
to try, Lou!" j
Lou's eyes filled, and the tears rolled j j
^ down hor Hushed cheeks; but John only !,
shut his jaws a little tirmer, and fixed his j
dark eyes on the ground. They were i?
honest, kind eyes, but dull: very differ- I
cnt from Bob Sevier's, which giowed i
iikc lamps. i ,
"I might as well give up, Lou. Uncle ,
Job says patience and hard work will
take any boys through. But there's a
difference in boys. "Now, Bob Sevier
don't work half as hard over his books
as I do; but just look at him. I reckon
he could go over the Carlovingians, or (
any other Vingiun, like a trottin'
horse." (
"Oh, yes, I reckon he could," groaned !
Lou. "But only think of West Point, j
Jack! You'd be a gentleman and a,"
soldier, and see the world. An' ef you j
you (ftn't get it, why, then?"
"Then Uncle Bill will set me to plow- j
ing in the Fall. He said only this j \
morning he'd wasted enough money on j j
our schooling and you and I be to go to J;
work to earn our salt." j,
John took up the book and went at I,
j the lesson with a desperate energy, while ; j
Lou sat crying silently. j j
fr The children were orphans and lived (
k with their uncle, a farmer, on Mount j ,
* ^ Craggy. He was wretchedly poor, like I j
all the other mountaineers, and was, be- 1
side, a coarse, hard-natured man. (
The school-bell rung. j (
"It's coming now," 9aid John, ashe),
got up and shut the book. |,
'You're powerful on 'rithmetic, John- j,
ny, mind that. Jest you keep up," ,
eagerly whispered Lou,running along be- !
side him. j
The boys crowded into the hot [
little school-room, and the girls, fol- |
lowed, excepting Lou, who hung back, 1
final I v went to the woodpile acrain. ; .
She knew she should not be missed, ' J
and she could not bear to hear John's ,
examination. ,
The poor little girl had but one friend ]
in the world, her brother. She sat down, ,
her hands shaking as is in a chill. 1
"He'll fail?I know he'll fail!" she ' j
said, looking up to the sky and talking .
out loud. j j
"I can't stand it! Oh, Heavenly i (
Father! I can't!" L
As with most Southern children, | j
" Heavenly Father" was v^ry real to j ,
Lou. Then she began to pray, fast and j .
hard, to this far-away Friend in the sky j,
to help John. 11
"Oh, dear, onlv get him over the j ]
Latin, and them Yingians! He'll man- j,
age the arithmetic himself." h
She sat there an hour or more, hearing j
only a droning voice now and then from ,
the open winaow. ,
At last there was a hush. Uncle Job
was going to give his decision. The
little negrees crowded up to the school- |
^ house steps.
B Lou stood up and threw her calico t
P* tun-bonnet off her head. She did not
know what she did, She was stifling j
with sudden, terrible heat. Her strained 1
eyes were on the door.
Presently she heard Uncle Job's voice
in a few brief words. But she did not ,
catch them. They sounded to her like
" John has won?John Fremoy."
Suddenly there was a cheer inside.
Then the negroes t<?pk it up.
"Bob Sevier 1 Gunnel Bob? Hooray
for Bob I"
Lou sat down aad covered her face
with her hands, iler brother came to
her in a moment.
"Get up, and come along home," he t
said roughly.
She caught his arm and patted it.
"Dott't you mind it, Johnny," she
said. "You kin do lots of things Bob
Sevier knows nothin' about," she cried, j
fiercely.
"No, Bob won it fair," he said, sturdily.
"I'm a duuce; I didn't deserve it;
that's the worst of it."
His face was colorless, even to hie .
lips, but he showed his disappointment
in no other way.
Judge Peters came to the village the
next day, heard the report of the examination,
sent for Sevier, and promised
him the appointment.
lie then went out to the farm which
he owned,near to Cabel Fremoys,Jonn'9 j
uncle. The boy crept over, toward
night, to catch a glimpse of the great )
man who might have made him happy j
for life, but had not done it.
He hung miserably about the
place until evening, and then set out j
homeward.
Coming to the edge of Craggy Creek, I
just where it turned from the mountain,
he sat down on the bank, and put his
hot feet into the water. To-morrow he |
was to be set plowing with the negroes. '
"It's all ver fit for," his uncle said.
"Ye'd a chance for West Point, an1 ye
didn't take it. St) ye ken kennel with the
darkeys for the rest of yer life. I'll 1
feed ye no more." . I
John sat moodily flinging pebbles ;
into the water, until dusk came on, and :
an owl began to hoot.
Suddenly the boy stood up, trembling j
with excitement, holding a stone in his i
hand up to the fast-fading light. I) j
shone with a brilliant luster, like a great 1
drop of dew in the morning sun. As he |
mnt-arl if it flocVlorl n hlflflH-fpd atftr 111
liis dirty palm. John had heard of tha J
rubv which had once been found in the
next gorge.
"It was worth thousands of dollars!"
he sobbed, rather than spoke. "I heard
Judge Peters tell my uncle there was a
corundum on his farm, and a ruby is a
kind of corundum. I am rich for life."
He sat down breathless, carefully rubbing
the brilliant lump in his hand, as
Aladdin might have done his lamp.
"What was West Point to this? Money,
beautiful houses, a glimpse of the world,
an easy, happy life for himself and Lou.
"Poor Lou! I was so cross to her
to day! I'll go and tell her."
Then he stopped as if some one had
struck him. The ruby was not his. He
was on Judge Peters' land.
The boy sat down again, and for one
whole hour the tempter strove with him. |
If there was one quality strong and dominant
in John Fremoy, it was his hon- |
esty; but this was a temptation such as
seldom comes in the way of any man.
The next morning Judge Peters was
mounting his horse to go into the village, j
when a bov came across the yard. He ;
walked quickly, as if driven by some
force from behind.
The judge waited, one foot in the J
stirrup. As long as John Fremoy lived,
he remembered, like a sudden, terrible
^ ii-- ?i~4-1*~ k^IA I
picture, me glliriug ui LUC uuic I
muddy yard, the staring negro boy j
holding the horse, the portly, kindlooking
old man awaiting his approach.
When John reached the judge, he
stopped and was silent. He had his
little specch all ready, but his tongue !
was stilf and his throat parched.
"Well, my boy, what is it?" asked
the judge, kindly.
John thrust out his hand.
" A ruby, sir. It's worth a great many
thousand dollars. I found it on your
land."
Judge Peters took the stone and examined
it eagerly; then he turned to
John, and looked at him as curiously.
"Why didn't you keep it, if it is
worth so much ?"
"I had a mind to but it's yours."
He turned away.
" Stop, boy! Who are you?"
"John Freraoy, sir."
"Oho! Lncte jod spoKe 01 you to me.
Ycu are uncommonly quick at figures,
eh?"
"If I am, I'm a dunce at everything
else. If I had not been*, I might have
gone to West Point."
"Ye-es," looking very thoughtfully at
John. "Very well, Fremoy, I'm very
much pleased* with your honesty. Good
morning!" And the judge rode abruptly
away.
He rode directly to Uncle Job's house,
and was closeted with him for an hour.
The next day the village was electrified
by hearing that Judge Peters was going
to take John Fremoy to Annapolis to
pass an examination in the engineer's department,
at the Naval academy, and '
that Lou was to be put to school in
Kaleigh by the same kind friend.
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John Fremoy is now a middle-aged
man. ranking high in his profession.
He met Judge detersauout a year ago,
nt his sister's house, for Lou married a
planter in Virginia, and is a happy wife
md mother.
"I have often wondered, judge," he
said, ''why you befriended me as you did.
[ certainly was a dunce as far as Latin
ivas concerned, aud I am not at all sure
if I am accurate about the Carlovingian
dynasty yet."
"Honesty is a rarer quality than good
scholarship, and more useful in the
world, Frcmoy."
"And another question. Is not that
the ruby I found, which you wear on
eour watch-chain?"
"Yes."
'May I look closely at it?"
The judge hesitated, then laughed,
ind gave it to him.
"Why, it is only colored quartz!" exclaimed
Fremoy.
"Yes, but it is more valuable to me
than any jewel, for it gave me an honest
man for a friend."?Rebecca Harding
Davis.
A Fish Breeding Establishment.
A gentleman named Howeittoun has
:he largest lish breeding establishment
in Great Britain, if not in the world,
[t was commenced ten years ago with a
stock of about fifty breeding fish. It
contains more than 40.000 breeding,
300,000 small fry, and 0,000,000 eggs
in process of hatching. The breeding
establishment covers eleven acres. The
ponds are situated in an inclosure that
is very beautifully terraced, the turf between
the ponds being kept in the condition
of a lawn. Stock fish arc kept
autside this place in artificial ponds and
streams that are carefully guarded. From
?n elevated summer house, located in
the centre of the establishment, every
portion of it may be seen. It is planned
with an eye to beauty as well as to utility
and profit. Each pond is supplied with
spring water, and is so arranged that all
the water may be drawn from it at any
time it is desirable to do so. The large
fish are fed during a portion of the year
on a species of coarse fish that is of no
value as food for man. The food of
the little iish consists principally of
horse-flesh,which is cut into small pieces
ind pounded. One pound per day is re
quired for three hundred fish. All the
fish are very tame. The appearance of a
person on the bank causes them to come
iround the spot by thousands. A wave
denotes their advance. The fish will dart
it meat held in the hand, and will often
bite the fingers. The establishment provides
a market for all the old horses
within many miles. The cost of the establishment
was over $00,000, but it pays
ten per cent, on the investment. The
proprietor thinks he could row construct
in establishment equally good for half
the money this one cost. In that event
it would pay a dividend of twenty per
cent. The fish bred are different varities
> *?* -v? ???
Dt saimon ana iroui. num; aic laio^u |
for the table. They are solely for the
purpose of stocking ponds. Some have
been sent to Australia and New Zealand.
The demand is so good for the fish that
the pioprietor of this establishment proposes
to start another on a still more extensive
scale. Since the fisheries exhibition
in London, last season, there has
been great interest in fish-breeding, not
only in Great Britain, but in most of the
countries on the continent of Europe.?
Chicago Times.
A. Chicago lady who speeds much o
her time on horseback has had her hair
bleached to match the color of her sorrel
bone.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD, j
Quality in ICgr?"*
The Poultry World says that the differ-;
ence between an egg laid by a plump, i
healthy hen, fed with good, fresh food
daily, and an egg laid by a thin, poorly
fed hen is as great as the difference between
good beef and poor. A fowl fed
on garbage and weak slops, with very
little grain of anvkind, may lay egg?, to
be sure, but when these eggs are broken
to be used for cakes, pies, etc., they will
spread in a weak, watery way over yonr
dish or look a milky white, instead of,
having a rich, slightly yellow tinge. A
"rich egg" retains its shape as far as
possible, and yields to the beating of a
knife or spoon with more resistance, and 1
gives you the conviction, that you are
really beating something thicker than
water or diluted milk.
In the Orchard.
A. It. Whitney, the well known nil- ;
nois horticulturist and farmer, who isal- i
ways ready to give the benefit of his long i
experience to others, tells why he turns j
sheep into his orchards in preference to
swine. The latter root up the ground, j
taking the best apples and leaving the '
wormy ones; the sheep systematically go :
over the orchards and pick up the apples i
that drop early, thus destroying large I
quantities of worms; they do not root j
up the ground, but manage to destroy I
and clear out a great variety of weeds. |
Mr. "Whitney also makes a distinction in i
the sheep; the Merinos browse too much j
to suit the orchard?the lower branches
of the trees are not safe with them. Any
of the lono- wools are nreferable. two 1
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good Cotswolds to the acre, in his opin- ;
ion, are capable of keeping an orchard ,
free from wormy fruit or weeds.
Mr. "Whitney employs a strap of iron
curved like a shepherd's crook, and bolted ;
to the side of a pole, of sufficient length
at the end for gathering apples j
for the cider press. This hook is placed i
upon a branch aud the fruit broken off, j
a much better plan than the usual one of j
beating the tree-tops and battering the
fruit. Mr. Whitney has found refuse
mortar and lime spread about an apple !
tree of great benefit, prairie soils being !
deficient in lime for apple-growing.
Growing- Fanilea.
This is one of oar most popular flowers,
and though it is popular and to be
found in most gardens, comparatively i
few people understand its proper culti- I
vation with a view of obtaining the
finest flowers. They will go into the
grounds of the florist and express amazement
at the great size and beauty of
the pansies they see there, will forthwith
purchase a supply for their own planting,
and will be charmed with them, and be
determined to grow the same on their
own premises, though their previous
efforts have so signally failed. When
asked Low they had been growing them,
they often reply; "I got some from a
neighbor, who has large beds of them,
but they are all so small." When told
that they should sow the seed of the
finest of those obtained from the florist
as soon as the seed was matured?say,
some time in August?and that that was
the only way to nave nne, large nowers,
the idea was jumped at. That is the
way to get them. Every August the
seed of the largest and most desirable ;
should be sown, and the old ones dug
up and thrown away. And we should
say that this is easy enougli to do when
it is oncc known. In the winter the
plants should be lightly covered. There
are new pansies advertised every year, j
but any one, growing them carefully and ,
taking, as we say, the seed from the
bos', every year, will be as likely as any- {
body to have large new kinds, and will !
thus save the expense of purchasing I
them, which, at most, last only for a j
single blooming.?Germantown Telegraph.
Celery Culture.
First?Send where you will be sure to
get good seed.
Second?Prepare a seed bed out of
doors in a sheltered situation. You will
get your plants early enough by so doing,
tor they giu.v much faster and are
much stronger than when grown in a
hotbed.
Third?Sprinkle the bed often to keep
it moist, and when the young plants are
about three inches high transplant them
into rows, putting them about three inches
apart in the rows, and the rows about one
foot apart.
Fourth?When the plants have become
stocky have a trench dug about one foot
dee >, put into it equal parts of wood i
ashes and good rich dressing and rich, j
black soil, and work all tocrether with a I
hoe.
Fifth?Set the plants about five
inches apart, and be sure to straighten
out the roots and press the soil firmly
about them.
Sixth?Sprinkle them enough to keep
them fresh until they are firm in their
placcs, and then give them all the j
water you liave a mind to?the more the j
better.
Seventh?When they have made I
growth enough to cause the branches to ,
lie over, hill up enough to hold the stalks
erect. Continue the hilling process at
intervals of two weeks, all summer, being
careful to do it when the weather is :
dry and in the afternoon when the dew j
is off. Be sure when hilling to hold 1
the stalks together, to prevent the 1
soil from getting into the heart of the 1
plants,
VinrVi+Vi r^nrfinn oa vrtti -UMaVi fnr
early celery bank to the top by Septem- :
ber 1; for winter use bank to the top from
the 1st to the middle of October.?New
York Herald. :
i
Important Facts in Peacli Culture.
The peach affords a striking example !
of the benefits derived from careful, ays- j 1
tematic culture. To a neglect of the j;
few essential rules which in every case j j
should govern peach growing, may be ;'
attributed the large percentages of fail- j1
ures in peac h culture. Josiah Hoopes, j1
West Chester, Ponn., writing to the \
American Penological society on this j1
subject presented some important facts ;1
for consideration.
The pcach is especially partial to a j'
loose, rich soil well drained and with j1
suitable protection from destructive j'
northwest winds. Mr. Hoopes has ob- j
served for many years that "excessive !
high winds from the above quarter will j 1
invariably affect trees disastrously, which j 1
coming from other points of the com- i 1
pass even at a lower temperature, would IJ
not seriously affect vegetation. Kxcess- ! j
ive dryness in conjunction with high ' '
winds and very cold weather is what af- j j
fects vitality, and moisture proves a !
safeguard."
To produce a vigorous, healthy growth !
in a young peach orchard it is necessary \ !
to stir the soil deeply in advance of
planting, at the same time enriching the '
soil, but not with a superabundance of i 1
stimulating organic manures. Trimming, j
especially when young, Mr. lloopes re- |.
gards favorable to the healthy growth
nnd perfect form of a tree. He also em- j
pha<dzes the importance of thinning out
peaches at an early stage of growth. ! '
This latter opinion is substantiated by '
best orchardists, who have proven that 1
when properly thinned the remaining '
specimens more than compensate in 1
quajity and size for the loss in quantity
and labor expended.
In regard to the "yellows" Mr. Hoopes
says: "The very small fungoid plant,
that is undoubtedly the author of ail the
mischief, may be defeated to a certain '
extent,if not entirely eradicated." There
are three inveterate enemies of the fungi,
viz.: potash, lime and sulphur. The
Srst of these is undoubtedly the most
effective and available for ihe peach
orchard, and its use, even in the form of
unleachea wooa ashes, has proved a val
uable aid in destroying the germs of disease
as well as imparting n renewed vigor
and health to the tree itself. The weight
of proof is in favor of the general belief
that a vigorous tree is less liable to contract
the yellows then a sickly one.?
jVcw York World.
Can Hor?c* Travel I'nshod?
Whether shoeing is necessary or not
remains to be tested to the satisfaction
of the majority. Some believe that shoes
cannot be dispensed with on cobble ,
stones of the cities, but are inclined to
the opinion that shoes are not altogether j
necessary on soft, sandy, or light, grav- ,
ellv roads. In Chicago a gentleman neglected
to shoe his horse, and allowed
it to work on the cobble stones. At *
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first the feet became somewhat sore, and j
the hoofs cracked and seemed very brit- j
tic. In time, however, the hoofs began .
to harden in texture, became callous to
the hard usage, nntil now the owner de- j
clares he would not use shoes again un- |
der any circumstances. Just here we
desire to call attention to the subject, j
If the feet, by direct contact with the ,
earth, improve, and the tenderness and !
brittlcuess of the hoof is changed, it j
may be possible that those who have
attempted to work their horses unshod
have become alarmed at what !
they supposed lameness, when a little
patience would have demonstrated :
the method as feasible. Any one who .
is accustomed to wearing shoes finds it j
very inconvenient to walk barefooted for :
a few days; but after a short time the '
feet become insensible to substances with j
which tney come in contact, auu uuc j
then easily manages to walk on stones, |
gravel, in the sand, water, or even upon |
sharp substances, without the least diffi- j
culty. Thus it may be with horses when !
the shoes are removed. They will lind
walking awkward, and the feet may become
sore, but after u lapse of time they
will be able to pull over the worst kind
of roads.
So far as our own opinions are concerned,
we have not given the matter a
test; but the experience those who have
tried working horses without shoes cannot
be ignored. It will be hard to'convince
most persons that shoeless horses J
are able to endure the hard cobble j
stones, but that horses may work upon i
good country roads is within the limit of
possibility. It would not be a troublesome
experiment if farmers should put
the matter to a test by leaving the shoes
off one or two for comparison. If we
could work our horses anywhere without
snoes, it woiua oe a great saving in me
course of a year, pot only financially, but
from the inconviences so often experienced
when horses are to be shod during
a busy time.?Field and Fireside.
Facts Worth Knowing Around th?
Laundry.
That by adding two parts of cream of
tartar to one part of oxalic acid ground
fine and kept dry, in a bottle, you will
find, by applying a little of the powder
to rust stains while the article is wet,
that the result is much quicker and better.
"Wash out in clear warm water to
prevent injury to the goods.
That cold rain water and soap will
take out inn chine grease, where other
means would not be advisable on account
of colors running, etc.
That turpentine in small quantities
may be used in boiling white goods to
great advantage, as it improves the
color, and the boiling drives off all odor.
Resin in soap is quite another thing; it
injures and discolors some goods, and
shrinks woolens. Soap men argue that
on account of the turpentine in the resin
it assists in the washing. It is a fraud
on the consumer.
That kerosene will soften leather belts
or boots that have become hard from exposure
or use around the wash-room.
Good for the harness when hard from
rain or dampness. Wash with warm
water, then grease with eood animal oil
or dressing like the following.
That the government harness dressing I
is as follows: One gallon of ueatsfoot j
oil, two pounds of Bayberry tallow, two j
pounds beeswax, two pounds of beef tallow.
Put the above in a pan over a !
moderate tire. wnen tnorougmy aissolved
add two quarts of castor oil,then
while on the fire stir in one ounce of
lampblack. Mix well and strain through
a line cloth to remove sediment, let cool,
and you have as line a dressing forharnces
or leather of any kind as can be
had.
That baking soda gives instant relief
to a burn or a scald. Apply either
dry or wet to the burned part immediately,
the sense of relief is magical. It
seems to withdraw the heat and with
it the pain. Keep it in the ironingroom.
That Javelle water, often met with
in works or articles or cleaning and dyeing,
is made of one gallon of water and
four ponnds of ordinary washing soda, i
Boil for live or ten minutes, then odd
oue pound of chloride of lime. Let
cool, and keep corked in a jug or tight
vesiel.
That when acid has been dropped on
any article of clothing liquid ammonia
will kill the acid, and then by applying
chloroform you will restore tne color in I
most cases.
That "cyanide of potassium" will re- i
move all indelible inks whose base is
nitrate of silver. Being a deadly poison,
it will be hard to get from the druggist
in most cities. Turpentine or alcohol
rubbed in hot removes the new inks,using
soda and soap freely in hot wat?r
afterward.?Nuiional Laundry Journal.
How Imitation Pearls are Made.
''You would hardly think," said a
dealer in fancy goods, holding up a j
string of glass beads as big as a cherry, |
made in imitation of pearls, "that to get j
the pearl tint on each one of those little '
globes that the lives of at least fifteen
beautiful fish had to be sacrificed, would
you! But they do, though, and altnougti
they are made in Venice, and that string
represents a catch of nearly five hundred
fish and the exhaustion of a good many
cubic inches of aglassblower's breath. I
cm sell it to you for a quarter and make
a fair profit.
''They've been turning out beads like
these in Venice ever since 1656. There
is a fish in the Adriatic they call the
iilenk fish, but why bleak I can't say.
There is nothing bleak about its appearance.
It is a graceful fish, with a glittering
armor of silver scales. They are more
prolific and swarm in larger schools than
herring. One day in 1U50, a resident
of Venice, Salvator Jacquin by
name, placed several of these fish
in a small aquarium to observe their
tiabits. After they had been confined in
the acquarian for some time, he noticed
that the water took on a pearly hue.
Believing that this was communicated by
the scalcs of she bleak fish, Jacquin
tried some experiments with them. He
round that water could be so densely
sharped with the tint from these scales
that glass on being dipped in it and then
illowed to dry had every appearance of
i pearl. He coaled glass beads with the
liquid, and they were readily taken for
large pearls. The coating would not
resist much friction, however, aud soon
rubbed off the surface. Finding that a
*reat sale could be had for beads made
in imitation of pearls if the coating could
? v j
UU lillUlU jJUI IllUIlUUl, ItlV/I.J U1U V.UiiVUiVCU I
the idea of having the globes blown j
hollow and theu fixing the fish-scala
licjuid to the inner surface. This was a I
success from the start, and the glass |
pearl bead business got its first boom.
It requires the scales of four thousand
bleak fish to make half a pint of the
pearl liquid. They are simply removed
from the fish, which are cheap as mossbunkers
and soaked in tepid water.
Nowadays a very small quantity of sal
Ammonia and isinglass is added to the
licjuid. It is introduced inside the bead
by a small tube, and when it is dry a
coating of wax is run over it. Fortunately
for the fish, the trade in these
beads, pretty and cheap as they are, is
not alarmingly lurge."
How the Chinese Get Rid of Lepers.
The Chinese leper that temporarily escaped
from custody while his nineteen
companions were being shipped aboard
the Oceanic on Thursday was observed
hidden under a building and placed on
board the steamer before she sailed. It
is-anticipated that this last band of
twenty pests will meet the sr.me fate as
the lepers shipped to China about two
years ago. These latter unfortunates
were placed on a barge to be conveyed to
the Inner rnlnnv in f'nnton hut. nnpmnrn
;? i? j ~ ? *
injr they were all found to be dead. The
Chinese government reported that the
food served them had been poisoned by
being cooked in u copper kettle, but
others openly expressed a belief that the
lepers had been intentionally poisoned to
relieve them of their misery.?San Francisco
Call.
Physicians and dealers in dyestufFs in
London are trying to drive aniline colors
out of use and restore vegetable dyes.
They assert that aniline dyes produce
painful and dangerous eruptions of the
skin.
The cost of the public printing now
amounts to $8,000,000 annually.
;
Valley of the yosemite.
A PLACE WHEBE JTATtTBBfl GBA9D*
EBT BCBHEB ABE USVBILED.
Guarded by Lofty Granite Walls and
Gemmed with Sparkling Waterfall*?A
Californlan faradltte.
When Doctor Johnsou wrote of that
Happy Valley of Amhara, in which Rassdas,
the Prince of Abyssinia, and his
sister, Nekayah "lived only to know the
soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose,"
he must have been granted a mental vision
of the great Yosemite of California.
The pellucid lake, teeming with aquatic
life, and the silvery stream which
coursed through the valley, could not
have been more enchanting than the
watery mirror which mingles the reflected
pictures of the fleecy clouds
floating above and the towering rocky
domes about which they hover, or the
dashing Merced, bearing to the ocean
the icy waters from the eternal glaciers
of the mountain summits: nor did they,
in their efforts to escape from this pleasure
prison to search the world for the
true source of happiness, encounter more
unscaleable cliffs or loftier walls of rock
than those which encircle this valley in
the heart of the Sierras. The Indians,
whose depredations upon the miners in
181V) lprl tr> t.h<> rlisrnverv of*the vallev.
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whither they had fled from the wrath
of the avenging Americans, called themselves
"Yo-Semite," and this name was
bestowed upon the valley, though it was
afterward learned that the proper Indian
name was "Ah-wa-ne." As the
natives speak the word it is "Yo-ham-ite,"
but the accepted pronounciation
among the people of California is Yosem-i-te."
The Yosemite Valley lies on the headwaters
of the Merced river, in the very
heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
It is eight miles long, and varies from
one-half to a mile in width, containing
about 8,480 acres of ground. It is 3,950
feet above the level of the sea, and is
surrounded by an almost unbroken wall
of granite rock rising above it to a height
varying from 2,500 to 3,300 feet, and
overlooked by mountain peaks which
pierce the clouds 10,000 feet above the
sea level. The scene which opens out
before the traveler's eye at many points,
while descending the tortuous trail, is
one whose reflection can never grow dim
on the glass of memory. Though not as
grand a view as is offered from many
points in the valley itself, yet being the
first revelation of the wonders Nature
has hidden in those mountain wilds, the
impression made is the most vivid and
enduring. In one sweep the eye encompasses
a large portion of the valley,
taking in the lofty granite walls, the
guardian domes of rock, and the numerous
waterfalls pouring over the canyon's
edge and plunging down hundreds, and
even thousands, of feet to form tne Merced
river, the crystal stream which meanders
so peacefully through its entire
length. There are many scenes of beauty
and nbiecta of wonder in Yosemite.
enough to require a week of diligent exertion
to see them properly, while even
months could be spent there with pleasure
to the mind and profit to the body.
There are waterfalls to visit and many a
dome and spire to ascend before the valley
has been seen in all its varied aspects;
and when the visitor has accomplished
all the feats of climbing required,
and seen everything that challenges his
admiration, he can depnrt with the quiet
satisfaction of having beheld more grand
and beautiful sights than can be found
associated together in any other spot
in the universe.?From the Portland^Or.)
West Shore.
WISE WORDS.
The beggar is the only man in the universe
who is not obliged to study appearances.
There cannot be a greater rudeness
than to interrupt another in the current
of his discourse.
Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it
treats littlejthings as little things, and is
not hurt by them.
The sting of every reproachful speech
is the truth of it; and to be conscious is
that which gives keenness to the invective.
Let grace> and goodness be the principal
lodestone of thy affections, for love
which hath ends will have an end;
?* - i _ a _ r j _ j a.
wnereas, inai wiuuu is luuuueu uu true
virtue will always continue.
People do not care to give alms without
some security for their money; and a
wooden leg or a wounded arm is a sort
of draftment upon heaven for those who
choose to have their money placed to account
there.
Whenever the desire of durability is
woven in human endeavor it ennobles
the character as well as the work. How
estimable is the labor in any sphere who
tries to make his work stable and enduring
1 Whatever be the labor he undertakes,
we give him our unqualified
respect.
We talk much of duty, of morality, of
self-denial, of laws and rules for selfgovernment;
we impress their necessity
upon others, and. if conscientious, we
bind them upon ourselves. All this is
right; but, so long as we leave out the
joy of well-doing, we leave out the soul
of which all these are covering.
Au Oriental Dainty.
The beche-de mer, ortrepang, is found
amoner the Polynesian islands and in th(
Pacific seas generally, being prepared
and sold in Chinese and Japanese markets.
The creatures exist on coral reefs
and have bodies from six to fifteen inches
long. The sltin is sometimes, as here,
covered with spicules or pickles, and is
sometimes quite smooth, and with or
without feet. Five varieties are recognized
in the commerce of the Pacific
islands, the finest of which is "brown,
with teats or feet," which are worth, at
the place of their preparation, ?30 per
ton." The large bJack, which come next
in value, so sayB the authority to which
we have referred, bring . 25 per ton; the
small black, ?20; ;ed-bellied, ?15, and
white, ?12. The finest of these sell for
as much as ?100 per ton in China. After
they are caught they are boiled for about
twenty minutes and then split up and
gutted, when they are ready for drying,
an operation which is conducted in large
sheds on hurdles placed above a brisk
fire. Thus dried they are packed up
and shipped off.?Pall Mall Budget.
A Monster Cook Book for Kings.
One of the most sumptuous and expensive
books on the culinary art that
the world has even seen is the work of a
French artist, named Emile Bernard.
So large is this volume that it will cover,
even when closed, a moderately sized
table. The illustrations which adorn it.
throughout, are excellent representations
of the various dishes treated of, each
ovnpnci'ro I
yuvH'S.uimv-i "J " * ~"I' ? ' ~
apparatus constructed especially for the
purpose. The letter-press, the binding,
the gilding?indeed, everything in connection
with this huge tome?are most
elaborate, and nothing that money can
purchase seems to have been stinted.
Only a hundred copies were printed, and
these are in the exclusive possession of
crowned heads and their immediate relatives
and friends, by whom tney were subscribed.
The total cost of producing this
magnificent work was 300,000 marks, or
?15,000, thus bringing the price of each ,
book to ?150.
A Curious Puzzle.
The following curious puzzle is said :
to beat the celebrated "13-14-15," and i
!s well worth investigating: Take a '
strip of paper or cardboard thirteen <
inches long, and five wide, thus giving a j
surface of sixty-five inches. Now, cut i
this strip diagonally as true as you can,
giving two pieces in the shape of a triangle,
and mensure exactly five inches
from the larger end of each strip and
cut in two pieces; take these strips, and ;
put them into the shape of an exact
square, and it will appear to be jusl
eight inches each way, or sixty-foui
square inches, a loss of one square incb
of superficial measurement with no diminuatlon
of surface. The question is,
what becomes of that inch?
P. T. Barnum began his show life as
an advertising agent for Turner's circus.
21EWS SUMMARY.
tiulern and Middle Statoii
A hundred acres of land over a mine near
Wilkesbarrro, Penn., suddenly caved in,
doing great damage. The financial loss is estimated
at $500,000.
The sudden death of Charles S. Hill, cashier
of the National Bank of New Jersey, at
New Brunswick, one of the city's most prominent
citizens, was found after investigation
to bo undoubtedly a case of suicide
brought about by the threatened exposure
of large peculations on his part
from the institution's funds. Examination
immediately aftor his death disciosed a deficiency
of $235,'J30.31, of which amount Hill
was responsible for $190,820.(54: Speculation
in Wall street led to Hill's downfall
The funeral of Senator Anthony at Providence,
R I., was attended by President Arthur,
Attorney-General Brewster, fifteen
United States Senators, ex-Senator David
Davis, distinguished representatives of the
United States government, every officer of
the city and State, and hundreds of friends
and representatives of every branch of trade
in the United States.
Mahlon Runyon, president of the National
Bank of New Jersey at New Brunswick, followed
the example of Cashier Hill and committed
suicide. The examination which
followed Cashier Hill's suicide showed that he
was a defaulter and that President Runyon
was also indebted to the bank for a much larger
amount than he could possibly make
up. The president and cashier had
been speculating in Wall street. They
were not in partnership, but each evidently
knew what the other was doing and both
used the bank's money to the extent of wiping
away its surplus if not seriously impairitie
it* rnnital. President Runvon. an aeed
man. appeared at a director's meeting in the
bank utterly prostrated. Finally ho went to
a closet, and after a while he was found there
with his throat cut and gashes in his arms,all
inflicted with a penknife. The bank was closed
pending the examination by the examiner.
First returns from Maine showed the success
of the Republican State ticket by a majority
variously estimated at from 12,0C0 to
10,000 votes. The election was for a governor,
four members of Congress, members
of both houses of the legislature
and county officers; and a proposed
amendment to the State constitution forever
prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors, except for medicinal and
mechanical purposes and the arts, was voted
upon. Governor Robie and other State officers
were re-elected and four Republican members
of Congress were chosen. The legislature
will be largely Republican in both branches,
and the constitutional amendment wai
carried.
Governor Cleveland was present at the
8tate fair in Elmira. N. Y., and his appear
ance was made the occasion for a demonstration
in his honor by Democratic clubs from
Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania.
There was a parade and torch-light procession,
and Governor Cleveland addressed
the large assemblage.
Mahlon Runyon, the self-s]ain president
of the New Brunswick National bank, left a
note declaring that he had not robbed the
institution.
Further figures put the Republican plu
rality in Maine at about 17,000. The Stat*
senate will stand thirty-one Republicans and
no Democrats. The house will have 117 Republicans
and thirty-four Democrats, a Republican
gain of seven.
There was an immense attendance at the
late Secrelary Folger's funeral in Geneva, N.
Y. President Arthur, Governor Cleveland
and staff, members of the cabinet and other
prominent government officials and distinguished
friends of the deceased were present.
Much suffering has been caused in New
York by the torrid heat, and numerous cases
of sunstroke and prostration occurred, many
of them resulting in death.
Two more tragedies nearly resulted from
the double suicide of President Runyon and
Cashier Hill, of the New Brunswick (N. J.)
National bank. A daughter of the former at.
tempted to throw herself down a well, and
the wife of the latter tried to shoot herself
with a pistol; but both were frustrated by
relatives in their attempt to kill themselves.
Another banking institution has gone to
the wall, the State bank at Fort Edward, N.
Y., closing its doors. The cashier stated depositors
would be paid in fulL
The New Hampshire Prohibitionists have
nominated Larkin D. Mason for governor, together
with an electoral ticket
The Massachusetts Prohibition State convention
at Boston put a full ticke, in the field,
headed by President Julius H. Seelye, of Amherst
college, for governor.
New Hampshire Democrats, at their State
convention in Concord, placed John M. Hill
for governor at the head of their ticket, nominated
presidential electors and endorsed
Cleveland and Hendricks.
At the Connecticut Greenback State convention
in Meriden, James L. Curtis was
nominated for governor, together with a full
ticket and presidential electors who are
Dlodeed for Butler.
South find West.
The Georgia cotton crop has been severely
injured, suffering at least twenty per cent,
in .iamage by reccnt heavy raina
Many Eastern parties have "been involved
more or less heavily by the failure of the
Mezeppa Mill company, of Redwing, Minn.,
with liabilities of $140,000.
A disastrous drought is prevailing in the
eastern part of Ohio and western part of
West Virginia. Crops are perishing and
stock is being sold at almost any sacrifice for
lack of feed.
A great fire has destroyed an immense
amount of property in a section of Cleveland,
Ohio, known as the Cuyahoga flats. These
flats separate the east and west portions
or the city, and aro covered
with hundreds of lumber yards, factories
and foundries. The flames swept over the
dry, seasoned lumber and ignited a dozen
large lumber piles in as many minutes. Telegrams
were sent to Toledo, Columbus, Gainesville,
Delaware, Youngstown and Akron asking
for engines. The nre was witnessed by
100,000 people, and the military wore called
out to aid the nolice in Dreservine order.
About ten acres of frame buildings and lumber
yards were aflame at one time. The origin
of the fire is generally ascribed to incenttiaries.
The burned district embraces about
aighty acres, and the lumber interest of the
city is almost paralyzed. The loss by stoppage
of business and the destruction of property
was put at between two and three millions.
A New Orleans dispatch says that the
total cotton crop this year is 5,713,200 bales,
against 0,949,750 bales the previous year.
The Lincoln Savings bank at Fayetteville,
Tenn., has suspended.
Later returns put the losses by the fire in
Cleveland, Ohio, at $1,025,000.
A desperado named Orton was discovered
at Little Rock, Ark., in the act of setting fire
to a building with the intention of burning the
town. Ho was arrested and lodged in iiaL A
crowd of men took hira out of jail and hanged
him to a tree.
Ge.ver.al Butler made a political specch
at the Nebraska State fair in Onmha.
The Missouri Republican State convention
at Jefferson City, endorsed the nomination
of Nicholas Ford, Greenback candidate for
governor, and divided with the Greenbackers
on the remainder of the ticket.
Two convicts at work on the watocwork
reservoir near Lexington, Ky., became rebellious,
and were horribly beaten to death
by the guards.
An important gold discover}' is reported to
have been made in the Little Kockv Moun
tains, 100 miles nortlu-nst of Denton, Montana,
and a regular stampede for the nurii'eroui
region is going 011 from various points in the
surrounding country.
Portions of Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Iowa have been ravaged by terrific tornadoes,
resulting in severe Ijss of life and great
destruction of property. The town of Cleui
Lake, Wis., was laid in ruins, and three jier
sons killed. Many houses in Clayton, \\ is.,
were demolished iti a few minutes.
TnE town of Mitchell, Dakota, has been
swept by a Are. Tho losses will aggregate
1200,000.
A sudden' explosion resulting from some
defect in the apparatus blew up the Enterprise
distillery at Pekin, 111. The building
iell to pieties and several persons were killed.
The Wisconsin Democratic State convention
at Madison nominated W. D. Fratt for
governor.
A Cincinnati paper has been investigating
the country's corn crop, and finds the yield
will be about 1,810,000,000 bushels. This estimate
implies an average increase of seventeen
per cent, over last year and a crop larger
than any previous one.
Kuhin^oni
Upon reception of the news of Secretary
Folger's death the treasury department was
closed and the immense building heavily
draped in black. An order was also issued to
close all custom houses and sub-treasuries
throughout the country during the hours of
the funeral ceremonies.
Upon order of the President the following
nrlili-nsuvl In- Aetiiifr-Hecretiirv of
State Davis to tho members of the cabinet:
"With deep regret I announce to you that the
Hon. Charles J. Folger, secretary of the treasury
of the United States, died yesterday at
his home in Geneva, N. Y. Thus has closed
the life of a distinguished and respected
citizen, who by his services as an executive
officer >of the United States, and
as a legislator and judge of his own State won
the esteem and regard of his fellow countrymen.
'1 !io President directs that all departments
of the executive branch of the government,
and the ofllces subordinate to them,
shall manifest due honor for the memory of
tLis eminent citizen in a manner consonant
with the dignity of the office thus made vacant,
and with the upright character of him
who held it. To this end, the President directs
that tho treasury department and its
dependencies in this capital shall be draped in
m uining for a period of thirty days; the
several executive departments shall be" closed
on the day of the funeral of the deceased,
and that on all public buildings of the government
throughout the I'liited States the
national flag shall be drape' in mourning and
displayed at half mast."
Foreign.
Brigands have been committing great
ravages in Macedonia, Greece. During
August they killed forty-five persons.
i ?
Fierce riots have occurred at Brussels and
Antwerp, Belgium, brought about by political
differences. A large procession in Brussels
was attacked by the dense crowds of
spectators,and many persons, including several
policemen, were injured, three fatally.
Troops were called out and one hundred and
eighty-five arrests were made.
Fully one hundred persons were wounded
in the Brussels political riots.
Fifty thousand troops were reviewed by
the czar of Russia in Warsaw.
The Chinese government is reported to
have made a declaration of war against
France in the form of a manifesto from the
emperor to the people.
Cholera ravages has caused an entire ce?
[ 6ation of business in Naples.
| Two schooners have been lost with all on
board during a hurricane off St. John's, N. F. j
More than three hundred deaths by cholera
took place in Naples in one day.
Hon. John A. Kasson, the new United :
States minister to Germany, presented his
credentials to the emperor at Berlin.
Great crowds of Europeans and natives
welcomed General Wolseley upon his arrival j
at Cairo, Egypt, from England, to take charge
of the military operations against the Falsa
Prophet.
A Naples dispatch says there is a com- !
plete breakdown there on the part of the authorities
in relation to help for the chclara I
victims, owing to the want of medical comforts
and stretchers. The sick are left abandoned
in the streets, and no measures are
taken to remove the dead
Lord Dufferin, at present British am"
bassador at Constantinople, has been appointed
viceroy of India.
A freight train 011 the Mexican Central
railroad was wrecked near Calara on account
of a washout. The engineer and firemen,
both Americans, and seven other persons
w^re killed. ^
.iMtrajse rropners reoeis nave own defeated
with heavy lo s in an attack on Kas?ala
in the Soudan.
Extraordinary precautions were taken for
Ihe safety of the emperors of Russia.Germany
and Austria during their contemplated meet- j
ing in Warsaw, Poland. Military patrols i
were stationed all along the railroad line by ;
which the royal visitors expected to travel
Sixty-four persons, including several ;
women, suspected of conspiring against the .
'zur'n life, were arrested in Waq?w.
LATER NEWS.
Sitting Bull, the renowned Indian chiof,
accompanied by his niece and eight of th?
principal chiefs of the Sioux Indians located
at the Standing Rock agency in Dakota, arrived
in New York a few days since. They
have been brought East for purposes of education
and exhibition, and after a tour
through the Atlantic States will go to Europe.
A dispatch from Augusta, Me., says that \
the total vote of the State reaches 142,410, j
and that the majority of Robie for governor .
over Redman is 20,tilo.
J. H. Barry, a promising young Phfla-!
delphian, accidentally hung himself while |
trying to illustrate the method by which "Bill j
Sykes," the villain of Dickens' "Oliver Twist" j
became his own executioner in attempting to I
escape from the police.
An unprecedented rise of rivers in Wisconsin
succeeded the tornadoes, and wrought a j
heavy loss in property. At Chippewa Falls.
the river rose twenty feet and swept every- I
thing before it. At Eau Claire ten bridges i
and 200 houses were swept away. In and be"
tween Eau Clairo and Chippewa Falls the 1
total loss was estimated at $1,500,000.
J. H. Squier, the so-called Washington
banker and petroleum dealer, who paid ten j
per cent interest on deposits and failed two
months ago, has committed suicide by cutting
his throat. The result of his oixrationi
had been the complete ruin of a number of
innocent and worthy families. He had been
sueu anu wua uesperaw;.
Four college students,all residents of Cana- [
da, while rowing on the Welland canal at
Niagara Falls, Ontario, were run down by a
ferryboat and drowned. A companion was
rescued.
Fully a thousand arrests of suspected persons
were made in Warsaw during the czar'8
visit Notwithstanding these precautions
thousands of copies of a threatening circular |
issued by the nihil!-its were distributed i
throughout the city.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Providence club has made $20,00(1
this season.
All the Eastern American teams now finish
up in the West.
Titwtie liavo hw>n Ava fames t.Ma
season in which the score wasl?0.?
General W. T. Sherman recently served
for two mortal hours as umpire of a basebal
game.
Boston is credited with the largest receipts
this season from ball games of any city In
the country.
Carpenter, of the Cincinnati Americans,
is organizing a team to take to New Orleans
next fall ana winter, with the idea of giving
exhibitions of baseball i
Baseball is " the" sport at the Sandwich
Islands. The Hawaii Gazelle of recent
date contains this paragraph: The baseball
clubs Oceanic and Honolulu met on the diamond
at the Recreation grounds on the af-1
ternoon of the l'Jth inst., and there before an
audience that completely tilled the pavilion
tried conclusions with bat and ball for the
championship of the islands. After a rather
poorly contested game, numerous errors
being made by the fielders on both sides, the
Oceanics obtained the victory and the championship
by a score of 10 to 9. Vale, HonoluIn
St Paul recently, in a game between St.
Paul and Milwaukee' a large crowd hod assembled
to see Foster pitch. As he pitched
the first boll a sharp crack was heard distinctly
all over the ground, and the sphere
rolled ten feet to the right or the batter. Foster
staggered and turned pale, and it vkz
afterward became known that he had snapped !
tlio bone of his right arm just above the elbow.
He was soon in the hands of a doctor j
and the bone properly set, while George
Allen nnd George Walsh volunteered to take j
up a collection lor the sufferer, $172 Deing
contributed in a few minutes, whereupon the
spectators settled down in tueir seats to see
the game.
THE UMPIRE.
Who is it now pets all the blame,
"When the pet club hus lost a game,
And from the cops protection claim.
The Umpire.
Whe is it stand each jibe and jeer,
Who gives decision with great fear,
With many missiles falling near?
The Umpire.
Who is it, when the game is done,
Will surely try the crowd to shun,
And thinks it time for a home run?
The Umpire.
-Call
At the end of the nineteenth week the record
of the League clubs in the championship
race was: ?
Clubs. IVon. Lost. | Clubs. Won. Lost.
1'rovldence i>9 20 | Chicago .....45 48
Boston 62 27 Cleveland 31 60
lilifTalo 51 37 | I'littiululphia 31 60
New York 50 40 | Uetroit 21 70
The record of the twelve American Associ
!> - 1 -f 4.1. ,,r<volr .
anon ciuosatuiu enu ui mouwo nw? i
was as follows:
Cl'ibx. Won. Lout. | Club*. Won. Lott.
Metropolitan.61 231 Baltimore....45 34
Columbus....59 27 i B:ooklyn 34 60
St. Louis 51 34 I Toledo 31 65 I
I ouifvllle....54 29 I Pittsburgh....25 62 1
Cincinnati....52 35 I Indianapolis..25 60 j
Athletic 51 34 I Virginia 7 13
A PLAGUE-STRICKEN CITY, j
Harrowing Scenes in ^'aiiicit-T'irec
Hundred Heaths in One Day.
A Naples (Italy) dispatch says: The condition
of affairs here is most harrowing. Scenes
of misery and wretchedness of the most pitia- ,
ble character occur on every side. King Hum- i
bert has l>een profoundly affected by the suf - j
ferings he has witnessed. He has made a first
donation to the relief fund.
King Humbert gave audience last evening j
to the municipal authorities. Orders have j
been issued for the troops to leave tho Maddalena
barracks end encamp outside. The
barracks will lie converted into a cholera
hospital, 'lhe royal party is visiting the
poorer quarters of the c ity to day. There j
was a riot yesterday among the sellers of;
mineral waters because their trallic was r<>itrict.d.
The epidemic continues to make
great ravages.
During the last twenty-four hours then;
have been over GOO fresh cases of cholera and !
about aOO deaths in this city. The town pren
OOru>/>t. TmO(TA? t\f vjlilltv 1
WJIUJ O UO|/VV?< .t....v
with acolytes bearing tapers have l>een borne
at the head of processions of women through
the principal streets, who invoked the help of1
the Virgin.
j King Humbert paid a visit late in the day
to the Conocchia hospital. An immense
crowd attended upon the king, paying him
an ovation as he proceeded through ihe
streets. Bonfires have lieen lighted throughout
the city, and disinfectants arc freely
used- King Humbert declined the us-.- ?>f disinfectants
while making a tour of the wards
in the hospital The king was ac 'omj anied
by his brother, the duke of Aosta. Signor
Depretis, minister of the interior, and Signor
Mancini, minister of foreign affairs.
The burial of the victims of the cholera is
found to be very difficult, owing to the unusual
large number so suddenly needing interment
A soldier who was suffering from a
violent attack of cholera was taken to the |
hospital, and in his delirium threw himeelf :
from a window, dying instantly upon the 1
D&vement
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SWEPT BY TORNADOES.
Death-Dealing Storms in Western
States.
One Wisconsin Town Almost Entirely
Destroyed,
Details of the terrific tornadoes which
ravaged portions of the West are given in
dispatch?s from various points as follows:
From Clear Lake, Wis.: A tornado struck \
this place yesterday afternoon, and devasta- j
tion was tho result Three lives were lost j
and the greater portion of the town is in j
ruins. After the storm had passed men,women j
and children were running about in a perfect
frenzy of excitement Here and there people
could 1)0 seen coming out of their collars almost
paralyzed with fear. A house was i
taken from its foundation and turned com- I
pletely around. A barn was blown away, I
leaving the floor and mangers with the i
horses peacefully eating then* supper. A j
child was taken up by the tempest and j
landed in the branches cf a tree
only slightly injured. A large frame house
was blown completely out of sight, and not
one particle of the house or contents could be
found, although search for a mile was made
in the track of the storm. The family had
fortunately taken refuge in the cellar. Many
families are left destitute.
One-half of the lighter structures in the village
of Clayton, Wis., were blown down by
the storm. The tornado struck there about 6
p. m., doing nearly all the damage in fifteen
minutes.
From Stillwater, Minn.: The tornado struck
about five miles north of here between 5 and
Clast evening. At Marine ten or twelve
buildings were destroyed. The Swedish
church, five miles northwest of Marine, was
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burn iujJitK.es. auuiuci uuuicu m me vuiogo i
bad the front part of the steeple blown
away. The front of Charles Weistengen's
houso was damaged, and his barn
rolled down the . hill. Part of
Mr. Root's house was blown down. The
whola family were in the house, and his
daughter, who was in her chamber, was
blown away with that portion of the house
and rolled down an adjaceut hill. The house
of Frank Nelson, on the main road, was
blown in Page's slough. His wife, who was
alone, took to the cellar. In the town of
Grant, Judd Smith, A1 Foss. and the owner
of the old Carnman farm, had whole rows of
fruit trees snatched up by the roots
and carried away. The barns and granaries
of the farmers were destroyed in many cases,
and stacks of wheat were lifted up and borne
away. The path of the storm was about five
miles wide, blowing from west to east In a
small settlement of the town of Grant fully
twenty-five buildings were more or less damaged
Some of theni were twisted, others
unroofed, some partially destroyed, and many
wholly so. John ilorrissey's house was
thrown into Long lake, 150 feet distant.
A tornado struck White Bear Lake, Minn,
at about 5 p. M. Its track was less than a
mile and a half wide. There was the usual
funnel-shaped conformation of the clouds,
slightly green in color. Mrs. Drake's fine
large house to the west of the town suffered
seriously. Most of the windows were blown
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m, auu uuicr uaujugc wua uuuc.
The sheds of the uuiuth railroad were demolished,
and hundreds of trees were blown
across the track between White Bear station
and Dellwood. Some people assert that there
were two storms, one from the southwest and
the other from the northwest, and that they
met at White Bear.
From St. Paul, Minn., the Omaha officials
report severe storms on the eastern and
northern divisions of their road. From all
points reports come of houses being blown
down, trees torn up by the roots, washouts
on the roads, bridges washed away,
and rivers from ten to fifteen feet
higher than usual. The bridge
north of Bloomer is washed out. Duncan
creek bri Igo is also washed out, and is expected
o go soon. The telegraph office at
Clayton was struck by a tornado, and was
gutted out and flooded by water. The n,w
iron bridge being built over the river St.
Croix, a mile this side of Marine mills, was
taken up by the storm.
MUSICAL AND DBAMATIG
It ^figured that $115,000,000 is the amount
invested in theatres in the United States.
The reigning prima donna in Paris at
present is Mile. Marie Van Zandt, an American
girL
Clara. Morris -will be seen oftener this
leason than she was last, her health being
much better,
W. D. Howells lias sold a play to the Madison
Square (New York) management. It
will follow "May Blossom."
Mme. Nilsson has signed a contract with
Colonel Mapleeou to sing in England and
America for $2,400 per night.
There is not a single prima donna or tenor
of any marked merit in Italy,and the musical
[ critics of Rome deplore the fact.
The Abbe Liszt, who was reported to have
become totally blind, has come out in a letter
denying this statement. The famous pianist
can work without difficulty.
Miss Banks, the daughter of General N. P.
Banks, who is soon to appear on the stage, Is,
according to the Boston Post, "not a blonde,
quite good looking, and is over twenty."
It fa gratifying to know that Mr. Daly has
been playing a successful engagement in London,
as lie is the first manager who ever played
an entire American dramatic company in
England.
A new comedy from the pen of Frod.Marsden
is named "Humbug," and is written for
Roland Reed, the young actor, who has
gained a prominent position among leading
comedians in his play, " Cheek."
Another young American has attained a
place of prominence in the musical world of
France, Master Michael Banner was awarded
the first prize at a recent examination of
violinists mthe Paris conservatory.
Mart Anderson is in her twenty-Birth
year, one was ooni <jui,v zo, iow, ana urns
acted in Louisville, November 27,1875, and
has been on the stage eight years. Sarah
Bernhardt is forty years ola, and has been on
the stage twenty-four years
Mr. H. E. "Walton, an English-Australian ,
actor of extended reputation, has been engaged
by Dion Boucicnult as his leading man
during this season. Mr. Walton bas never
before played on an American stage or been
before an American audience.
The mu-ic*l composition known as an oratorio
gets its nan.<5 from St. Philip NerL He,
a devout priest, in the full tide of the Renaissance
period, with the aim of attracting
young people and keeping them out of mi?
chief, more especially on Sunday, gave at his
oratory performances of original sacred music,
to wldch he gave the name of oratorios.
Many of thesa early oratorios still exist.
CANNIBALISM AT SEA.
A. Dyin; Hoy Killed and liix Fle?h
l.'aten by Shipwrecked .Men.
A case of frightful suffering at sea has been
n^nrriit tn li>hfc hv til*? nj-rival at Falmouth.
IS* V?vx ~0 ,
England, of tho Gorman bark Montezuma
from Rangoon, having on board the survivors
of the wreck of the yacht Mignonette. The
yacht, which was of only thirty-three tons
burden, sailed from Southampton for
Australia on the 19th of May. On tho 11th
of June, when near the equator, in the Indian
ocean, she encountered a storm whicli
sent her to tho bottom. Four of her coinpany
escaped in a dingey. They were the
commander, Captain Dudley, two seamen
and a bov named Parker. All the provisions
they were able to throw into
the boat before the vessel sank consisted
of a few tins of turnips. They were
absolutely without water. They subsisted
for five days 011 the canned turnips, and on
tho fifth day they caught a small turtle.
They were terribly tortured by thirst By
tho twelfth day the turtle, including its skin,
had been consumed, and there was absolutely
nothing left to eat in the little boat. The
?.,,o T.n.L-nuK nf I
VVJ J irnagj, T1IW
the four sufferers, and it was
evident that he was slowly dying. The others
hungrily watched his symptoms of dissolution.
On the twentieth day, after the entire party
had been without a particle of food for eight
days, tho captain hast-med young Parker's
death by opening a vein in his arm. The
three survivors eagerly drank of the
boy's blood, and cut his flesh from
his bones anil ate it, uncooked, the
Captain keeping possession of tho body
and serving out to himself and the two
sailors only such daily rations as were necessary
to preserve their lives. They prolonged
their existence in this way until July 5, when
they were seen and rescued by the Montezuma.
I mring the twenty-four days that had
elapsed since the sinking of tho yacht, the
dingey had drifted '.ISO miles.
The three survivors have been placed under
arrest, and the death of the boy will be
investigated.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
At Shubuta, Miss,, the boys take Che girlj
out riding in Implies drawn by oxen.
Out of the :?(>,o iO,iiOJ comprising the ]>opulation
<>f Japan there are but 10,000 paujiers.
A jj^tion.vl convention of cattle men has
been announced to meet in St. Louis, Mo.,
November 17.
The Chesapeake frog-hunters send $100,000
worth of their commodity to Northern markets
every year.
The coming corn crop is estimated at 1,21)7,000,000
bushels, against JS62,0(56,000 hist
year, and Sl-J,,771,000 in 18S'2.
The once famous Hudson river tunnel, upon
which $1,000,000 has been expended, lias been
abandoned, it would seem, forever.
The sum of $2,500,000,000 is required to
furnish the British |>eople with the common
articles of food and drink for a year.
The State experiment farm of Ohio wil*
have an exhibit at the New Orleans exposition,
one item of which will bo 100 varieties
of wheat.
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DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS.
Tornadoes Followed by Rising
Rivers in Wisconsin, ' ~ Jfl
Hundreds of Houses and ManvHlSH
Bridges Swept Away. -'HJjjBj
The destructive tornadoes in the Northwest
were followed by floods which caused an im- wfllfH
mense loss of property, particularly in Wis* KwBH
consin. Early accounts of the havoc wrought H
were given as follows in a dispatch dated Eau B H
Claire, Wis.: jHB
Both the Chippewa and Eau Claire riven jHHjH
began falling at noon, after reaching the> <a
precedented neignc 01 twenty-six loe^ iun
feet higher than the great flood of 18>0 Every
bridge on the Chippewa river has gone down;
fiVe railroad bridges and live wagou bridges.
In this city the loss of pn.pjrty is appal- *B|
ling. No satisfactory estimate* can be made
at this time. In and between Chippewa Palls <
and Eau Claire, the loss will not fall short of
SI,500,000, and may greatly exceed that sum, 9
The Eau Claire lias company lost 350 tons of -^frnjU
coal and all their buildings, valued at ?4$,- 000."
The business houses on all sides 1
of the two rivers are submerged,
and great apprehension
is felt le.st when tha water recedes ihe founda- tions
may be so mach impaired as to cause a
the walLs to crumble. In this city over two
hundred houses have been swept away, but^
only one life has been lost, so far as hearufroitt^
Three buildings on Bridge street, West^Me, * , 'fl
have fallen. / "B
From Chippewa Falls, Wiprj came
the followmg tale of > disaster: IjH
Tie Chippewa river rose st^tdily until 5
o'clock this morning, when ip reached thirty
feet, being the highest stage of water ever
known at this point, dr feet liigher thanjmM
in 1880. At 1 o'clocjj^ifcis morning-ti)e earth-SJlj#8M
work at Poir.t Creek dam gave ^?b?yieH^nH
booms broke, and at 1:30 the logs ltinSIBiflHpw^H
ttt; .u f>w~l
iropci II .N-UUSlll unum UJ 1U^,T?^tafxag^m
Cuippewa, carrying it over ^2?M
and on to the wagon bridge, takin^e^fcjjl^m^Mj
two spans of this bridge. It swepHjpBto; jvSg^Q
the lower central and St. Paul
it entirely demolished. The
bridges, together with a full rivefc* Iqgjfc '^^99
swept the two bridges of tho
between this place and Eau ClajBHS'TW
Omaha bridze, being above the upriftflftipM{|Wfit|aB
bridges, stood the testwand to-day fnjjHH
means of crossing the rirM-. ]
Frenchtowh, on the s( uth side ofp^'Mjalfl WHM
is fearfully devastated. AJ1 but K(i?M|
twenty-five houses along the bankMjBMM 0?|gHf
carried away. One or tw > million
have run by. It is just. iported mCsMBB jBreSjaW
Falls has gone out. The loss will rfMflKjHH MtaW
$1,000,000. Reports from up the TOMr/^H H**SW
that there is more watar to comet5flH ^ j^JSSH
bridges across the smaller fitreai*?UxroSljH
Lsection of the country have beencWMI $|lSH
away. Business here is practically suspended
prominenFpeoplr m 1
I * .9
Will Carleton is rambling through Sorope,
seeking fresh poetical inspirations. ; fl
I ^-President Gonzaxes, of Mexico, haP
been elected governor of Guanajuato, Mexico- . ;9fl
President Jules Grew, of the French
republic, was seventy-seven years old on the
Kino Alfonso, of Spain, has consumption "
and is not expected to live long. Ex-Qomo . '21
Isabella is suspected to be plotting to socoeod
Bishop Brondel, of Montana, has exoommunicated
John Magensie, a theatrical man- ' J?
ager, from the Roman Catholic Church tor
bringing Robert G. Ingersoll into Montana IS
A 80s of Henry Ward Beecher, captain of :VsB
a steamboat plying along the Pacinc coast ;
resides in Olympia, Oregon, and is described
man wifh a Qiin.hmWnM
fta U WCOIUC* - imw ?y iiawwwwM wrm w> ? straw
hat, ''looking like a mechanic." : -/jaaM
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, who i? "'fl
slightly deaf, says he would not be cored of v'v&j&H
hin deafness for $10,000, because it prevents
his hearing many things which he does not ^9|
wish to hear, such at cars, carte, licensed 9
venders in the morning, bores, telephone
calls, political speeches and cata ?
General Beaobeoabd is daily seen o? - .;%? J
Canal street in New Orleans. He ia of short >'-M
stature, the Boston TraTwcripi says, with
white hair, mustache, and imperial, and notwithstanding
his advanced years, he is C- vSi fl
nimble and cheerful as many men years hi?
W. w. Corcorait, the aged millionaire '3
hanker and nhilanthroDist. of Washinjfton, is
| said to be exceedingly proud of his ancestry..
I He glories in the fact that his father was only
a poor, honest shoemaker, and ha treasures 39|
the old cobbler's shop sign-board among his
choicest possessions. X
THE TOBACCO CROP. - "JS
The B?st In Growth and Quality' for
IVanjr Years.
Exhaustive reports on the tobacco crop
from 500 correspondents of the Springfield
(Mass.) New Englan>i Homestead, covering
all tho seed leaf tobacco-growing sections of
the United States, indicate that the crop, '
now nearly harvested, is the beat in growth
and quality that has been raised for years. :.&*M
The total acreage may be slightly less than r rjSB
in 1883, but the proportion of Havana seed
leaf has greatly increased. Fully tw?? \$A
thirds of the entire seed leaf crop is of . ,<?
the Havana varietv, the balance being
common seed leaf. The tobacco counties of. *
Ohio, Dlinois, and Indiana, are the only sections
reporting unfavorably. There drought
and grasshoppers have done more or less,
damage. In New England, New York, Penn-' '
sylvania and Wisconsin there has been an al- '
most entire absence of hail. Only in a few
limited localities has it been destructive.
Wind, rust and fleas have done comparatively '-V1
little damage. Very slight harm was dons 5^3
by the li^ht frost of Aupust25, principally
(.hemun?; count)-, New York. Green worn^ftvi^jjw
have been phenomin&lly scarce, and the leafgj^HB|
is R'markauly sound, while its good size
make it a good wrapper crop. Buyers genergfl 99
ally inspected the crop as it was about bein^y yffyW
harvested .
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUS TRIAL, j ' '$%&
An engraver at Versailles, whose name^j^Jggj
is not given, is said to affirm that he
discovered a method for taking photographs
in colors, being able thus to
produce the colors of the individual or ?t?|s|S
landscape photographed. / Jsjffl
Paper barometers were first introduced
from Paris, and can be made by soaking fl
the paper in a solution of chloride of co- lyjjrag
bait. It then becomes hygroscopic. If
it is now exposed to a current of air it I
will change from blue to pink, according B
as the air becomes moist, regaining the jy9|j?
blue as the moisture decreases. ' ggj
The amount of carbonic acid generated
by lights is thus represented: electric
lights, none; argand gas-burner, .46;
flat-flame netroleum. .95: colza-oil lieht, 2$
1; paraffine candle, 1.22; and taflow ''ffifjffjS
canale, 1.45. It has been remarked that vSSf
the tallow candle, the oldest artificial AfJia
light, is not only the hottest but the
most unhealthy.
The bog peat of Mexico is now being fjjfl
used on a considerable scale as fuel foi
locomotives, stationary engines, smelting
purposes, smiths' fires and household .
use. The peat is mixed with a proper
proportion of bitumen, and is said not
only to burn freely and without smoke 'p.
in much quantity, but to give a higher M
dynamic equivalent of heat than the same J.
amount of wood.
The plan of using the enormous water
power of the Alps for working electric .>??S
_?:i ?Cwif'/arlan/l ta fthflllfc
UU lWtt)3 lit ^ ?? * ^Vl 4UUV*
to take a definite shape, the idea being ^sj
to connect the towns of St. Moritz ana
Pontresina by an electric railway fout
and three-quarter miles long, the motive
power to be supplied by the mountain f
streams; the line, in case the plan proves
a success, to be extended a considerable | |9
While the eucalyptus or Australian ?H ;|3
blue-gum tree destroys malaria and keep* gafl /
off mosquitoes in marshy soil, it has no
such effec t upon dry soils. The differ- il&CT
ence is ascribed by a German scientist to
the fact that the tree is constructed to &$hB j
act as an evaporating machine, and-only f:w ;X'-'
does its work in marshy land. A featuro '
of the tree is its adaptability to different
climates, it being now grown in almost f^SjSP
every civilized country where frosts do ^
Watermelon Logic. -ijJj
' How to tell a ripe watermelon," is
the heading of a learned article that it
now going the rounds of our exchanges.
We have nothing to tell a ripe watermelon.
All wc want to do with a ripe
watermelon is to take it out under the
shade of a tree or behind the corn crib
and there linger with it a little while in
silence.?Free Press.
The last legislature of New York
amended the penal code by holding any
person guilty of a misdemeanor who shall
sell, give away, exhibit or otler for sale
to any minor child any book, pamphlet,
magazine, newspaper or other printed
paper devoted to the publication of or >72
pr.ncipally made up of criminal news, .
police reports or accounts of criminal ???
deeds; or who shaltexhibit on any street
or highway within the view of any minot