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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14, 1885. NO. 29. VOLUME XXIX. Jjg
rENNYSON S "FREEDOM."
A NEW POEM BY THE POET LAUREATEOJf ENGLAND.
Oh, thou so fair in Summers gone,
While yet thy fresh ami virgin soul
Inform'd the eoluru'd Parthenon,
The glittering capitol:
So fair in southern sunshine bathed,
But scarce of such majestic mein
As here, with forehead vapor swathed
In meadows ever green;
For thou?when Athens reign'd and Rome?
Thy glorious eyes were dimm'd with pain
To mark in many a freeman's home
The slave, the scourge, the chain;
Oh, follower of the vision, still
In motion to the distant gleam,
Howe'er blind force and brainless will
May jar thy golden dream.
Who, like great nature, wouldst not mar
By changes all too fierce and fast
This order of our Human Star,
This heritage of the past:
Oh, scorner of the party cry
That wanders from the public good,
Thou?when the nations rear on high
i neir moi smearea wnn ojoou,
And when they roll their idol down?
Of saner "Worship sanely proud,
Thou loather of the lawless crown
As of the lawless crowd.
How long thine ever growing mind
Hath stilled tho Ma-t and strewn the ware,
Though some of lato would raise & wind
To sing thee to thy grave.
Men loud against all forms of power?
Unfurnished brows, tempestuous tongues,
Expecting all things in an hour?
Brass mouths and iron lungs!
?Sew York Independent.
A COW CHASE.
Jerusalem Valley, about twenty miles
long and five miles in width at its lower I
end, lies between two outlying spurs of
the Sierra La Sal. Near the upper end j
of it, where the concave of lofty bluffs
walla it rouud, our little party had made , a
permanent camp, intending to remain j.
for several weeks, since the locality fur- ; ,
uiauuu JU aiJuuuiuiLf luuat IUUI icvjuiaiiva i ;
of a camping-out excursion, namely,
grass for the horses, game, wood and ,
good water.
Three miles below us a party of cow- j j
boys were in quarters at a 41 dug-out," |
and another squad of the same " outfit," i:
had their camp at the lower end of the : 1
valley; while between them ranged ]
their eattle, some thousands in number.
"We had been living on a purely veni- \
son diet so long that it had quite lost its
relish, and had become distasteful, in ;
fact; such at least was the condition of 1
the writer's palate. So one morning, j .
after we were fairly settled here, I de- I,
termined to ride down to the camp of !
the cattle men, and see whether they j
could be induced to sell us a bit of fresh :
beef. Their dug-out was in the side of j
the bluff, and a few yards away were the j
corrals and branding-pens. Riding up '
to the door of the dm: out, I shouted: |
"Hullo!"
"Hullo yourself!" came promptly
from the interior; and immediately the
doorway was tilled by a stooping figure, |
* which, as it straightened itself to its full j
.CJ^UL, pi W > tU LU UU l/UU \J 1 Lilt iJULOf (
looking men I ever saw. lie was six :
feet four inches in stature, powerfully
built, with a frank, inauly face nnd clear i j
blue eye. This was William Little, or j
"Little Billy," as he was sportively;
called, "boss of the outfit" and part
owner of the cattle.
"Mornin', stranger!" he said, cheerily,
as he came into the light.
"Good-morning," I replied. "I rode
over to see if you could sell us some
beef."
"Sell you some beef? No, sir! you
can't buy no beef of this outfit."
The reply took me aback; but though ]
the refusal seemed abrupt and ungracious,
yet the tone in which it was de- I j
livcred was so hearty that I ventured to j 1
ask: I.
"Why not?" ?
"Well, we aiu't in the habit of sellin' :
beef to strangers. Thar's a two-yearold
hangin' up dowu thar at the corral.
Cut off what you want and take it along,
uui uvu v juttci vuvi iv Jr w vvn-iuau
for beef!" .
"But I would much rather pay you for .
it. There are half-a-dozen of us at the J
camp up there"? j
"IJon't care if there's two dozen of 1
you." *
"And we'll be here a mouth or j
more"? {
"Don't care if you stay six months." 1
"And we'd like to make regular arrangements"?
"Regilar fiddlesticks! Here,you wait
a minute," and striding off toward the
corral, he returned with a quarter of
tender young beef on his shoulder.
"There, tie that onto your horse, an'
when it's gone, come an' git some more.
We alius keep a critter hangin' up; an'
if we ain't here, just help yourself."
There was no resisting his blunt kind- |
ness, so I rode oil with the beef, but, to
be even with him, came back the next
day with a deer that I had shot. t
"Tankee!" said he, as I tumbled it *
from the saddle. "Ven'zun's raity good s
eatin', an' we don't git much of a chance j 1
to hunt. Ef you kin spare a little of '
that now and then, I'd like to buy some j1
from you." <
"Well w? ain't, in thfi lcihit. nf spllin'
venison to strangers. When that's {rone, <
come an' git some more. We alius keep ! I
a critter hanyin' up, an' ef we ain't |'
there, just he'p yourself. But don't offer j 1
to pay a hunter for deer-meat."
He laughed as I quoted his own words
ef the day before, and from that moment :
we were friends.
"Little," said I, one day. as we were 1
riding together, "I wonder that, with
all the cows you fellows have, you don't
corral them, and have fresh milk and i1
cream for your coffee.
"Too much trouble. Coffee straight's
good enough for me.But you fellows are
welcome to it if you want it. Milk the
JjuB-vacada if you wanter; I don't keer."
At camp that night I mentioned the
matter to the boys, and it struck them
favorably. The judge's mouth had been
watering for cream in his coffee ever
since he joined us; and he hailed the
i proposition with delight. So the next
morning we built a corral, or pen, of
Cottonwood logs, and in the afternoon
started out to catch some calves; '
for we surmised that if we had the youngsters
penned, the mothers would be sure
to stay around, and we could milk them
at our leisure. We soon had half-adozen
little fellows cut out from the I
drove, and started to drive them up the
valley; but I hope that I maybe pardoned
for the strength of my simile in saying
that it was like trying to drive so many I
streaks of lightning! I never saw such
active, mercurial, elusive little beggerg
as those calves?some of them not yet a
month o!d! They were as spry as squir- i
rels, as liuht-legged as deer, and as slippery
as eels.
They would gallop awkwardly on ahead
of us for a few yards, till one would get
the idea into his little pate that he was
too lar irosn ins oeioveu mamma, wncn
be would wheel as if on u pivot, and with
a plaintive "ya-a-a-a-p!" scud back like
a rabbit. Then away the rest would go,
zigzagging and twisting here and there,
worse than a jack snipe on a windy day.
If you were ahead of them, and tried to
cut them off, they would bolt and dodge
like a hare before the hounds. -But if i
you were behind, or at the side, and rode i
at them to turn them, they wouldn't tuin
a bit, but keep straight on. A steer will
sheer oft if you come thundering down
on his flank and he sees that there is dun- ,
ger of a collision; but these little racers
would send right along, head and tail up, :
Hnd if you didn't hold up, you'd catch a
somersault over them.
The judge, not suspecting the existence
of such idiotic perversity, fairly
rode down the first one he attempted to
overhaul, and calf, horse and
rider tumbled together in the
dirt. The calf was up and a hundred
yards away before the judge regained
his seat, and it cost him a scamper of a
mile before he could turn it.
At last, however, after infinite trouble,
we succeed in penning three of the.,
calves, and left them to be hunted up by j
their mothers. "These latter we Tound \
when we got up the next morning, vaine
ly trying to reach their imprisoned offspring
through the corral fence.
The next thing was to catch and milk
the anxious cows. The trees in the locality
were so close together that we
could not use a lasso, and the cows, as
if suspecting a trap,would not be driven
into that part of the corral which we had
left open for them. Finally, my brother
John took a lariat, and climbing a tree,
lay out on a limb about twenty feet from
the ground. The rest of us, on horseback,
then tried to drive the cows under
the limb. Two soon took fright and
broke away through the woods, but a
third, a beautiful black heifer, would not
leave her calf.
She was a very handsome animal, as
slender a3 a deer, and her horns, a yard
from tip to tip, curved up and out from
her forehead like Turkish scimitars,
tapering to points as line as a bayonet's.
She dodged us here and there like a
will-o'-the-wisp, now and then making a
quick dash at one of us, and necessitating
some abrupt movements on our part,
till, in one of her rushes, she passed" under
tbc limb where John lay, and the
laiso, dropped deftly from above,
brought her up, plunging and wild-eyed.
"Soh, boss, soh!'' he remarked to her,
soothingly. But '"boss" wouldn't "soh;*'
a mighty plunse, a writhe of the body,
- ^ i ,1 ?,i
a ucaiciuus iisiUMiujivnu rtxvxv 11 viu uic
frco bind leg, and down she came with
a thump upon her side; while the campkettle
Hew from John's hands and he
danced wildly around on one leg, nursing
the barked ankle of the other. But in
a minute she was on her feet, and the
same performance, minus the barked
ankle, was gone through with again.
Finally, both legs of the cow were tied
fast. It was found, however, that even
then she. possessed the power to "hold
up" her milk. We could get very little
from her. About a pint was at last procured.
Then another lariat was passed around
her horns, and with John at one lariat,
myself at the other, and the judge acting
as a drag behind, we started to take her
to the corral, that the calf might have its
breakfast. "We intended to imprison her
there for another trial.
For about ten yards all went well,
then there came a sudden, violent bolt;
til'.* judge was ''jerked" from his feet
and landed, face-downward, among the
sage brush, losing his grasp on the"rope:
the lariat in John's hands snapped: and
I had "a vision of stidden death" in the
?hape of a black bovine virago with
blood shot eyes, and needle-pointed [
horns bearing straight down upon me.
Getting a rope around one of her hind j
leet we "stretched" her between two
trees, so that she was comparatively
helpless; and then John, with a campkettle,
proceeded to do the miiking.
All the cow's untamed Texas blood
was up. IIow I got over that corralfence,
ten feet high, I don't know to I
this day. When I could survey the j
scene from between the bars of my port- i
cullis, the furious heifer had changed j
her course, and vas precipitating herseLf j
upon the judge, who was energetically j
hoisting his two hundred pounds of flesh
up a cottonwood tree. Disappointed
there, she turned to John, who, cut off
from the corral, and having no friendly
tree in wtncti to taKe snelter, loutui tnat
he had urgent business in the direction
of the creek, which flowed between steep
banks, some twenty yards away. The
infuriated animal was between him and
the one path which led down to the water's
edge, and, with that thing of fire and i
fury close behind him. he had no time to
pick and choose. With one flying leap
he disappeared from view, and a dull
splash told that he had found refuge in
the turbid water below.
Checking herself on the brink, the
wrathful cow turned, and catching sight
of me as I peered through the poles of
the fence, charged with a vim that shooic
the whole corral. Then the judge, who
tiad taken advantage of this diversion,
ind had slipped down from his perch,
was discovered by the cow and forced to
scurry upward to a place of safety, like
i squirrel surprised by a dog.
John's head now appeared above the
janks of the gulch, but the enraged
aeifer dashed at him with a vehemence
:hat caused him to disappear with the
tuddeuness of a prairie dog diviDg into
ts hole.
Here was a pleasant state of affairs!
We had the milk?but the milkee had
is.
To a disinterested spectator it would
lave been very laughable, no doubt; the
judge's portly form perched twenty feet
from the ground, on a two-inch limb,
lis chubby legs and arms twined around
he body of the tree, and his mild blue
syes glaring from behind his spectacles
ike the lamps on a doctor's gig; .John's
lead, hatless and disheveled, his face
ind hair plastered with mud, popping
sp and down from behind the bank of
he arroyo, like an animated 'vlack-inhe
box;" myself peering through the
joles of the corral-fence, like a trapped
-1 i 1_ xi 1- ~ i..? ~r u:~
ivoou-cnucit uirougu me uars ui ms
:age; while in the center of the triangle
)f which we were the apices, with eyes
if fire, distended nostrils, and burnished
10ms raking the ground, lunged and
larted the vindictive beast who held us
n limbo.
The lariats, which were still attached
;o her.flcw out like Berenice's hair,as she
lushed hither and thither; and her angry
inorts of rage gave full token that her
jovinc gorge was up. She was bent on
nischief, and she attended to it strictly,
without allowing licr attention to be
listracted by trivial matters. She had
"treed," "corralled" and "holed" her
tormentors; and she seemed resolved
fully to satisfy her debt of vengence.
The slightest move on the part of any one
of us brought her in that direction with
the velocity of a huugry hawk.
Repeated failures, however, at last
mado her sullen, and she stopped for a
moment, so close to the corral, that the
end of the rope around her foot lay
temptingly near to the fence. Dropping
on my kuees, I reached my arm through to
secure it. Up to this time, the calves
had been huddiing together in a coiner
of the corral; but now?whether my position
was taken as a challenge, or whether
courage had suddenly returned to them,
I know not?there was a patter of feet
in my rear, a brave little bleat, like the
crow of the bantam rooster, and "spang!"
something struck me behind, as i groveled
on all-fours, and my head was
driven against the fence with a smart
thud.
Jumping to my feet, I faced this new
antagonist. There lie stood, as game
as a torn tit, his ridiculously thiu legs
stitlly outspread, his thread-paper tail
perked up with a comical twist at the
tip, his little bullet-head defiantly cocked
to one side, and his twinkling eyes
fixed upon me with a look compounded
of wonder at liis own audacity, fear of
the possible consequence, and a funny
determination to "do or die," in the defence
of his persecuted mother. Compared
to her, he might have been aptly
termed a duodecimo edition, bound in
full calf.
I had but time fully to take in the
grotesqueness of his appearance, when,
with another bleat ol defiance, the
doughty little hop o'-my-thuuib charged
me. Catching him by the ear and tail,
I ran him ingloriously back to his comer,
bumped his head against the fence, just
hard enough to give him a hint not to interfere
in the sports of his betters, and
turned again to watch the movements of
our besieger.
It had finally dawned upon the brain
ot our oocKnev cook, uancrs, mat sumething
was wrong; and he hud come
around in front of the lent, about forty
yards away, to see what was the matter.
Our wild-eyed foe caught sight of him
and incontinently charged.
Appalled at the sight of the infuriated
animal. Batters tumbled backward into
the tent, trusting thus to elude the assault.
It was a vain hope. The flap
was up, and the cow dashed straight at
the opening, struck the supporting pole,
and down in one billowy heap
came the white canvas, covering
pursuer and pursued. We ran to the
rescue. From under the wildly heaving
envelope came a dire discord of mingled
sounds - Hatters' voice calling lustily for
' 'Kip! 'elp!"the bellow of the frightened
tow, the breaking of things breakable,
and the "r r-r-ip!" of tearing cloth.
At last the exhausted animal became
quiet; and Batters crawled from the
fallen teut, pale and scared, but unhurt,
save a few slight scratch^
It took us fully an hour to free our late
antagonist, and -when this waB done she ,
limped off down the valley, her spirit i
cowed, for the time being at least, and |
her calf apparently wholly forgotten. j
The camp was in as demoralized a^ondition
as if a cyclone had struck it. The
tent was torn, the cords and stakes
broken, and the ground littered with a
chaos of splintered tent-pins, tangled
cordB, beut and broken cooking utensils
and table-ware, burst flour-sacks, j
torn blankets, dirtied food, and a mis- t
cellaneous heap of debris.
That evening, after the wreck was put
as nearly shipshape as possible, the judge
passed around a paper, which I copy:
JERUSALEM VALLEY DAIltY COMPANY. j
FIRST TRIAL BALANCE.
To 1 day's work, 5 men building
corral and catching calves.. $20 00 j
" catching one cow 100
" milking said cow 25
" 1 pair pantaloons torn climbing
tree 1 50
" 1 hat los* in cr^eek 2 00
" 1 broken lariat 1 75
" damage to tfc: it, bet'ding, food,
etc.! 25 00
" strain on temper, 3 men at $5
each 15 00
" resisting temptation to use bad
language, say 1,000 00
TOtai 5>l,uuu >nj
Contra by 1 pint milk 03>? ;
Dr. to profit and loss $1,006 :
"Gentlemen," said the judge, after j
the balance-sheet had been examined,
" I move you that in consideration of j
I the statement just submitted, the Jeru|
salem Valley Dairy Association do here- j
by suspend operations, and that the as- i
sets?one pint of milk?be divided >
among the stockholders."
Carried unanimously.?P. Ufford, I
in Youth's Companion.
For Want of a Latch.
An old step-ladder lesson, setting forth j
the Bad import of little neglects, is worth ;
a thousand repetitions:
"For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
For want of a shoe the horse was lost;
For want of a horse the rider was lost?
And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail"
This is said to be originally taken from j
actual history?of a certain aid-de-camp i
whose horse fell lame on a retreat and de- j
layed him until the enemy overtook him i
and killed him.
Another actual case, embodying the same
lesson against the lazy and shiftless habit
of "letting things go" is related by the
Jb'renca political economist, ai. say.
Once, at a farm in the country, there was
a gate epclosing the cattle and poultry, |
which was constantly swinging open for j
want of a proper latch. The expend!- |
ture of a penny or two, and a few* minutes'
time, would have made all right.
It was on the swine every time a person
went out, and not being in a state to
shut readily, many of the poultry were
from time to time lost.
One day a line young porker made his
escape, and the whole family, with the |
gardeno*-, cook and milkmaid, turned ,
out in quest of the fugitive. The gardener
was the first to discover the pig, I
and in leaping a ditch to cut off his escape,
he got a sprain that laid him up
for a fortnight.
The cook on returning to the farm
house found the linen burned that she
had hung up before the fire to dry, and
the milkmaid having forgotten, in her
haste, to tie up the cattle in the cow
house, found that one of the loose cows
had broken the leg of a colt that happened
to be kept in the same shed.
The linen burned and the gardener's
work lost were worth fully 100 francs,
and the colt was worth nearly double
that money: so that here was a loss in a
few minutes of a large sum, purely for
want of a little latch which might have
been supplied for a few half-pence.?
Youth's Companoon.
Reading Backwards.
An interesting little volume entitled
"Shall we Read Backwards?" has recently
been published in London. The introduction
by Mr. R. B. Carter gives much
useful information on the subject of
training the eyes from infancy in order
to obtain the full benelit of perfectly-develojied
sight. This is only possible by
a judicious use of the eyes, which, however,
does not consist in abstaining from
wnrlr in which the eves are used, "idle- I
ness of the eyes," according to one of
Mr. Carter's former works, being "in
every wny hurtful to them." It is, therefore,
necessary to develop the vision by
that "proper and varied employment
which is eminently conducive to their
preservation in beauty and efficiency."
How, then, can we arrive at the highest
possible stage of development without
injuring the eyes? Reading is undoubtedly
one of the commonest means, and
"the most 'readable' print is that by
which we may obtain the maximum of
reading with the minimum of injury to
the sight." The experiments which
have been tried by many eminent authorities
to settle the question are very various.
Light and color are, of course, two
chief considerations, to which a good
deal of attention is paid in the little
book; another is the way in which the
type is set. European nations print,
as a rule, from left to right, but
whether this is the most readable style is
by no means certain. In ancient writings
there is much variety in the way of
writing. Among these, the Mongolian
columnar style is not suitable for European
languages, because of the varying
length of words, as may be seen in the
annexed illustration:
Commence here and
read backwards,
m I and The
perpendi-alar | Mongols Chinese,
lines. j write Japanese.
It would, however, be less difficult to
accustom the eyes to this system than to
that of the ancient European end Semites:
hgir morf nur sdrow eht rennam hcihw nl
ni dedeeccus noos saw hcihw redro na .tfel ot
.rehtona yb eporu E
This was the double mode called boustrophedon
("as the ox plows"), which
has the benefit of equalizing the muscular
action of the eyes:
"In it the alternate line follows an opposite
degru erofereht evah einos dna ,noitcerid a
return to this early Greek manner, eht yb
dedeecci\s yllanli saw. hcihw present system
of writing from the left
"thgir eht ot edis
Dyeing the Hair.
The lady of Queen Elizabeth's time
was an extremely complex aifair, and artificial
to the last degree. Few people
of fashion in those days possessed the
moral courage of Benedick, who de1
clared that his wife's "hair shall be of
| what coior it please God." Ked, yellow
I and black dyes were in common use, the
I first, perhaps, in compliment to the
I n.linM nititriil )mif uplrlnm Qppn
I .J.IWV.., ,
j was reddish in hue. She herself possessed
eighty wigs of various colors. The
demand for hair was so large that children
were often allured into corners and
sheared; even the sanctity of the grave
i was not respected, and the dead were
I robbed of their hair to adorn living
1 heads. This fashion of dyeing the hair
I was by no means conlincd to women;
| men commonly dyed their beards. Thus
| Bottom, whtn about to personate that
"most lovely gentlemanlike man," Pyramus,
asks: "What beard were 1 best to
play in?" and he concludes to do so in
"either your straw-color'd beard, your
orange-tawnv beard, your purple-ingrain
beard, or your French-crown-color
beard, your perfect yellow." lie does
not inform us what shape he would select,
but they were many and various.
Some were?
(,'ut and pruned like to a quick set hedge.
Some were rounded, and more peaked.
The calling of a person might often be
j.? thn fiit. of liis beard.
Insiciiuiiii u ijj - -
Military men and gallants wore it in
I spade, stiletto or dagger form; justices
landgrave men wore theirs in "formal
cut," while a rough, bushy beard was
tolerably indicative of a country clown
?or at least a very common man. In
the early part of Elizabeth's reign the
members of Lincoln's Inn were restricted
by act of Parliament to beards of a fortnight's
growth, but this ridiculous law
was repealed the following year.
Gloves do not appear to have been
worn in England before the end of the
tenth century, and their manvfacture was
at that time confined almost exclusively
to Germany.
The new American Episcopal church
in Pans cost $500,000.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Border Carnation**
J. Douglas, in the Garden, states that
this beautiful plant may be grown in any
garden in town or country without any
further preparation of the soil than digging
it well up and giving it a good
dressing of stable manure. All soils are
not, however, equally well adapted for
carnations. If they incline to be of a
clayey character, so much the better.
Light, sandy soils with a gravelly foundation,
are the least suited for carnation
culture. I have, however, grown them
well on such soil by digging or trenching
them and placing a good layer of
manure at the bottom of the trench.
When the plants were put out, they were
also placcd in a laver of loam about two
inches deep spread over the surface.
Soil from a melon bed just suits carnations;
in fact, we generally utilize the
6oil that has grown one class of plants
for the production of another class.
Thm vnnr ??<? wnritprl to imh nilt SftV
eral hundreds of seedling carnations,
and as the ground is of a clayey character,
the light, sandy soil from pots in
which hyacinths had grown was used to
place on the surface instead of melon
soil, which is heavy. Last year I
planted in an ordinary herbaceous border
some of our best carnations and
picotees, and they flowered remarkably
well without any attention, except that
of the most ordinary kind. Florists of
old could not grow their flowers so well
as we do now, although they took more
pains to make up their carnation beds
than some people do to make a vine border.
There are very few carnations or
picotees that require coddling up in the
greenhouse. We grow them in pots to
obtain purer and better flowers for exhibition
or to produce an effect in the
greenhonse, but in any good garden the
same plants flower freely and produce
useful flowers to cut for bouquets.
Feeding Young Stock.
Young animals require special care in
feeding. There are several things to be
tnougac 01 in regaru 10 uus part, 01 mrm
work. A young calf. colt, or lamb must
be enabled to build up a framework of
bone before it can put on flesh. Many
an animal is weakened before it has
matur^Uts growth, so that it can never
be hcanSFful. There are peculiar diseases
which affect young animals that are produced
by want of proper nutrition. "When
a full-grown animal has formed its frame
and clothed it with muscular tissue it
requires such food only that will restore
the waste of this tissue that is caused by
work or exertion, expended in tlie vital
functions, or in such labor as it may be
called upon to perform. Carbonaceous
food, as starch, oil, and cellular fibre, is
chiefly required, and when fat is desired
this same kind of food is given in increased
quantities. But young animals
cannot live healthfully or build up a robust
constitution upon this kind of food.
They require a large quantity of lime and
phosphoric acid for the bones and of
nitrogen for the flesh, while the carbonaceous
elements only arc required to sustain
the respiratory process and the animal
heat. A much less quantity of
starch and oil, then, is required, while a
larger supply of the phosphates and of
nitrogenous elements are needed in proportion
to the carbonaceous food.
uran. wuicii contains me lur^er portion
of the phosphates in grain; turnips:
clover hay, which contains more
nitrogen thai} any other fodder; peas,
oats, pea straw, linseed meal, and, were
it not too rich to be digestible and to be
a safe food, because it is so apt to be
given to excess, cottonseed meal; all
these form the best foods for young animals.
But few farmers can be induced to give
such foods as these to their young stock,
because they are the most costly of all
kinds of feeding substances; and in
general these young animals, which
really require the best, are given the
poorest. A calf fed upon straw and the
waste from the horse and cow stalls during
the winter is a pitiable object in the
spring; razor backed, hump backed, pot
bellied, big headed, big kneed, hide
bound, and in every way wretched. Many
such calves are to be seen here and there,
and but few comparatively of the fine,
well formed, sleek, thrifty young things
which have lived upon the "fat of the
farm." This poor economy is a great
waste. It is a waste because for all the
food consumed not one ounce of growth
is made, and a farmer mijrht iust as un
wisely burn all his domestic fuel out of
doors and waste the heat upon the wintry
winds and leave his household shivering
in a cold house as thus expend the
fodder given to his young animals. This
is a timely subject for consideration, and
affects one of those matters of farm work
upon which the farmer's profit and welfare
greatly depends.?Ncio York Times.
Farm and Garden \otei.
One of the best coatings for tree wounds
is gum shellac and alcohol. It excludes
air, and the wound quickly heals over.
Old dead or decaying fruit trees should
be removed at once from your fields and
orchards, and burnt up without delay.
Many injurious insects will thereby be
destroyed.
A writer in the Home and Farm used
about a quart of sawdust in each hill of
one plot of potatoes and none in another
plot. The sawdust hills yielded nearly
twico as much as the others, and the potatoes
were larger and smoother.
Every henhouse should be provided
with one or more boxes of dry sand for
fowls to roll in during winter when they
cannot get at the ground. The boxes
should not be used as nests nor for any
other purpose than for fowls to dust
themselves with. Dry earth from road
beds is excellent for this use and some
should be saved every fall.
One of the most valuable uses of agricultural
colleges should be the collection
of insects, properly classified, where
practical farmers can learn more in a day
than most of them can gather from their
observations in the field through an entire
season. It requires time, patience and
knowledge to make such a collection,
but its value well repays its cost.
Gluten meal is one of. the by-products
in the manufacture of glucose from corn.
It consists of the outer shell of the grain
from which the starch has been extracted
by sulphuric acid. It is proportionably
much richer in glutnn or flesh-forming
food than the corn itself, but is not so
fattening. The best way to feed it is
with wheat bran or fine middlings, and
the stock which will give the best results
from its use is a cow giving milk.
To grow trees after the original plan,
as seedlings, and then top graft, even if
considered desirable, is impracticable
for general purposes of orcharding; but
if the principle, as generally admitted, is
the correct one, tlwn the preservation of
as much of a desirable hardy seedling
stock as is practicable on large nursery
grounds, is certainly the desideratum
sought after.
Most barnyards are larger than need to
be aud the consequent scattering of
manure make it much more difficult to
save. Early in the fall the entire yard
should be covered with straw to the
depth of a foot or more, to absorb the
solid and liquid excrement that would
be wasted. If the barnyard is too large
for this a portion should be fenced oil
and the stock kept out of if.
It is not enough that there be a large
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yieiu yi puiaiuc.s. i nu ijumnj is au important
consideration. Some of the
heaviest croppers are so rough, coarsegrained
and soggy that they are nearly
worthless. As n rule, large crops grown
by the aid of a large amount of stable
manure arc rough and poor in quality.
They are also more liable to disease than
moderate crops of medium-sized tubers.
A cow kept by herself will give better
results than the same cow in a herd with
others. The single cow will be better
fed, and a more important point, so far
as butter making is cqjicerned, will be
the fact that nearly all the butter will be
got from the cream, which is never the
case when the milk and cream from a
herd of cows are mixed before churning.
Owing to difference in size of the butter
globules the milk from cows varies
largely in the time required to bring the
butter.
It hardly ever pays to "fill in" vacant
spaces in old orchards with young trees.
These latter cannot receive the proper attention
and cultivation, struggle along
for a while under the disadvantages of
sod and shade, and at last succumb to '
the attacks of insects, which are always j
numerous in old orchards, and ready to
pounce upon everything young and ten- !
der. Bather select a piece of new ground,
prepare it well as you would for corn, :
and set out a new orchard. Proper cul- i
tivfition will then insure success.
Six Puddings
Indian Pudding.?One quart of sweet I
skimmed milk heated to a scald, and one j
cup of meal mixed with two-thirds of a
cup of molasses; then stir it into the j
boiliner milk; keep stirring until it thick- \
ens, one tcaspoonful of salt, pour it into
the baking dish, then pour over it one
pint of cold milk, and spice to taste.
Bake three hours.
Biikad Pudding.?Take a quart basin. !
ful of stale bread, and soak in two quarts j
of sweet milk two hours; then mash well i
with a spoon and take out all the hard
picccs. Beat light four eggs, and stir
into this, then add two teaspoonfuls of
salt; a little nutmeg, and one-fourth of a
cup of sugar. Bake three-quarters of an i
hour; serve with lemon sauce.
Cracker Pudding.?One and one-half
quarts of milk, one dozen crackers, one :
cup of raisins, two eggs well beaten, two j
spoonfuls of sugar, a little salt and nut- |
meg. To keep the raisins from settling \
to the bottom, put them in a tin dish, j
and pour on enough hot water to cover |
them, let them boil up once, then drain !
the water off, and put the raisins in the j
pudding. Serve with sweet sauce.
Rice Pudding.?Boil half a cup of I
rice in one pint of water thirty minutes, I
then add one quart of new milk, and
boil thirty minutes longer; then beat together
one cup of sugar, three eggs, two
teaspoonfuls of salt and a little lemon or
nutmeg; stir this into the rice and turn
the mixture into a buttered pudding dish.
Bake thirty minutes. To be eaten without
sauce.
Cottage Pudding.?One cup of sugar,
one spoonful of butter, one cup of milk,
one pint of flour, two eggs, one teaspoon- j
ful of saleratus, two teaspoonfuls of ;
cream of tartar. Soften the butter and J
then beat to a froth with the sugar and
eggs; then add the milk, and lastly the
flour, in which the saleratus and
cream tartar are thoroughly mixed.
Flavor with lemon, and bake in a shallow
tin half an hour. Serve with lemon
sance..
Chocolate Pudding.?One quart of
milk, four teaspoonfuls each of com
starch, sugar and scraped chocolate, two
tablespoonfuls of boiling water, two
eggs, one teaspoonful of salt. Reserve
cup of milk, and put the rest on to boil.
Put the sugar, chocolate and water in a
sauce pan, or smull frying pan, and stir
over a hot fire for about a minute, when
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the mixture snotua De smooiu auu
glossy. Stir this into the boiling milk. |
Alix the corn starch with cold milk. Beat j
the eggs, and add the corn starch and !
milk to it, also the salt. Stir this into !
the boiling milk, and beat well for |
about three minutes. Turn the mixture
into a mold that has been dipped into !
cold water. Let the pudding stand in j
the mold about fifteen minutes. Turn ;
the pudding into the pudding dish, and
heap whipped cream around it. Serve
with sugar and crcam. ? The Household.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR W03IEN. j
All brown furs are in high favor. ,
Large corsage bouquets arc not worn ,
so much as formerly.
Chenille trimmings are in favor both
for bonnets and dresses.
Porphyry is a new shade of red between
brick and garnet.
Tnati'iir.tinn in arivvinrr lias llPP.n lntrO- 1
duccd in the Philadelphia public schools, j
Mr. Burnand, the editor of London |
Punch, has eleven unmarried daughters. !
Black satin petticoats, quilted and j
plain, are still worn in place of white j
skirts.
Small ostrich tips are more fashionable j
than flowers for evening wear in the j
coiffure.
The newest skirts are perfectly plain, i
falling in straight lines from the waist
to the hem.
Little girls' evening dresses are beauti- I
fully trimmed with silver braid and
swan's down.
Woolen velvet is used to trim the felt
hats that are meant to endure every sort
of bad weather.
The majority of ball dresses for debut- I
antes are of tulle over satin. Some are
made of crepe.
Bows of ribbon -appear on many of the !
dresses, and there is a great deal that is !
new in ribbons.
Bonnets are worn with trained dresses |
at New York full-dress receptions and 1
church weddings.
All velvet dresses for evening wear are j
made of two kinds of the same color, a
brocaded and plain velvet.
Flat, stiff feathers, upon which birds
and insects are painted, are UBed by
some of the French milliners.
An old lady of eighty-six years, living
in Lewis county, Washington Territory,
cast her maiden vote at the last election.
Half-fledged ducklings take the place
of the halt'-fledged chickens used last
season for paper weights and similar
ornaments.
There is an effort to revive the use of
old Chantilly lacc, and new patterns are
shown, designed for trimmings for wraps
and bonnets.
Massachusetts has a rival in the number
of marriageable women. Paraguay j
has only 30,000 men to 270,000 women, ,
a veritable woman's kingdom.
Natural beaver fur is the trimming |
f,,K ViunHaomP KVvvmflrkftt '
UIVOl# UOLU AU1 UM?wwtzu.v .
coats. It is placed oa the neck and
sleeves and down the front.
There are 1,403 dust women in Eng- j
land and Wales who spend their lives in
raking over dust-heaps for what gain they
may lind. And they like the work.
The hair is generally worn this season
in loops on the top of the head, quite
far to the front. The style is to keep it
in place by means of long, fancy hairpins.
Very pretty mantles for young girls
are made of velvet or plush, with the cen- i
ter of the back of brocade, and also the
culls of the short sleeves added to the
fronts.
Miss Kate Field, in her new lecture,
goes for the Salt Lake saints vigorously ,
thus: "The whole Mormon territory
might be fittingly roofed over as an j
insane asylum."
A pretty tea gown is of pale blue i
crepe draped rather loosely from the left |
shoulder, with the folds tied in at the !
waist with ribbons of blue and lemon ;
colored gauze.
There are now about 1,200,000 domestic
servants in this country, who annually
earn about $-10,000,000. In Eng
land tlie same numucr oi servants wouiu .
earn only $1)0,000,000.
The New York hairdressers think that j
curls, or rather tresses of hair curled at |
the end and falling 011 the shoulder, are
to be worn this season, and also fringes
of light curls falling 111 the neck.
There is a decided tendency to prefer
gros grain in satin in dresses. This is
especially marked in black. The silks
chosen are those with a surface like Irish
poplin--soft nnd yet with thick cords.
Canaries are the newest birds used to
ornament ladies' dresses. They are j
mounted on twisted wires, and either i
pcrched on the shoulder or so arranged
as to seem to hold folds of lace together.
Among newly imported jerseys is one
made of white silk and embroidered with
white silk and white crystal beads.
With the addition of some lace it would
make the prettiest of waists for a bridal
costume.
I Sm'r? Mra Tnrrfills at a woman's council
in Kansas City: "Woman is a silent!
power in the land." One who reads the
j daily papers thoroughly is bound to come '
I across some valuable information where
| least he expects it.
Marabout feather trimming continues
in favor for dresses and mantles, and has |
been so improved in the making that it |
will not rub off the foundation and will I
stand rain. It is now made up on a very I
wide foundation of muslin, marked out !
in inches, and can be torn down to any ;
width required, and is to be had in all j
colors. Ostrich feather and cock feathe" i
trimming are worn, but not so much
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Shirring is quite popular again.
Large patterned brocades are much
worn.
J ong evening gloves come with painted
backs.
Brown bids fair to be the favorite color
this winter.
Jetted braids appear among the new
dress trimmings.
Lace and small fichus are worn with
morning dresses.
Belts and sashes are lied at the side,
instead of the back.
Gold crowned bonnets are no longer
stylish, and aie but little worn.
Crazy patchwork is said to have been
suggested by certain Japanese patterns.
Ribbed silk jerseys are the latest form
of this most popular and comfortable
jacket.
Worsted lace is a pretty novelty and is
seen in all shades. It will be much worn
this season.
TVio Oranitfl National
br of Quincv, Massachusetts, is Miss
Flora Underwood.
It is predicted that full, gathered
skirts, and boots without heels, will be
the next fashionable cfprice.
Bombay husbands cut off their wives'
noses for punishment. In a single week
five such cases were lately reported.
As late as 1840 there were but seven
vocations into which New England women
had entered; in 1844 the number
was 317.
Miss Laura White, a sister of Congressman
J. D. White, of Kentucky, has been
admitted to the special school of architecture
in Paris.
Snakeskin belts are fashionable. The
skin is highly polished and mounted in
gold or silver. The rattlesnake skin is
most highly prized.
The old style English walking hat in
pale brown and gray shades is coming in
fashion, and will be worn in the street
during the comirg season.
Turbans made of marabout feathers
are coming in style again. They will be
worn down on the forehead, after the
i Id fashion, and not on the back of the
head, as they have recently been worn.
Bag vests are atill worn, especially on
the dresses made of soft, clinging materials.
On the new imported dresses,
the vests are invariably made of velvet
of a contrasting shade to the rest of the I
dress.
A Troy, N. Y., robin found three
pieces of costly lace lying on a lawn
bleaching, and carrying them off built
herself a very high toned nest of them.
She was allowed to bring up a family in
the nest.
Painted fans are losine their poDUlarity
in Europe. At a sale in Madrid a
Watteau fan, formerly belonging to the
Princess of Savoy, brought only $740.
In London, fifteen years ago, one of no
greater beauty sold fo: $2,550.
The latest novelty in bouquets was
carried by the Princess of Wales at a
ball after the races at Goodwood. It
was of roses, and in the middle of it was
concealed a miniature electric lamp, the
frnm nrViiph rmilri hf? turned On ftt.
A.-...
will by means of a little switch m the
form of a lady's brooch.
The hats and bonnets of the 'coming
season are contradictions of each other.
The hats are large, with tall, tapering
crowns, and narrow or medium width
brims. The bonnets, on the contrary,
are small, and there is a tendency to revive
the "gable roof" brim, a peak
above the forehead, introduced two years
ago.
Empress Eugenie's long black coat and
black cane, on which she leans constantly
attract the deepest sympathy
of the gay world at Carlsbad. She
lives at the chateau of Westmunster.near
the Schlossbrunnen, and is accompanied
by the wife of General Bourbaki and M.
Petre, formerly prefect of the police under
the empire.
Belts can be worn with all waists.
They are narrow or wide, according to
taste. Deep belts are not suitable for
women with short waists. Silver buckle*
?re much sought after when artistically
chased. Young ladies and misses wear
belts without buckles. These are closed
under a rosette or ribbon bow. The same
bows are on the Bhoulder, and at the
front of the neck. The directoire sash
is also worn. It is wide, of soft fabric,
and ifl loosely tied on the side.
A Norwegian Farmer's Vehicle.
The cariole is the Norwegian farmer's
gig, a very unpretending vehicle, consisting
of a narrow seat supported on a
wooden frame by two cross-bars of wood
which are fixed in the shafts and serve as
rude springs. On this tiny seat the solitary
traveler perches himself, his feet
stretched out in front of him on the floor
of the gig, or planted in two small rests
at some depth below the seat. Behind
the gig is a horizontal board, on which
the traveler's small box or portmanteau
is deposited, and where the post-boy
(Skydsgut) has to accommodate himself.
In addition to this cariole proper, or single
gig, there is a double one, (the Reisekjaerrc),
often used by traveling pairs.
But the cariole is the earlier and better
institution. Two persons with the necessary
(juantity of luggage are quite
weight enough to be behind one of the
small Norwegian horses on a road which
is pretty certain to be rough in places
and to have some sharp declivities. The
cariole seems, too, by far the more appropriate
vehicle for this wild and solitnrv
rotintrv. It is a kind of land canoe.
by means of which one may easily
part company with "the madding
crowd" and penetrate into the perfect
seclusion of primeval nature. For the
postooy is, as a rule, given to silence and
close attention to his horse, and, being
out of sight, is readily forgotten. To
one who finds a keen delight in now and
then getting rid of customary associations
and immersing his miud in wholly
new surroundings hardly anything can
be better than jogging along in a cariole
on a fine summer day. One soon gets used
to the odd bobbing movement of the little
vehicle.?The Saturday lleview.
HEALTH HINTS.
Half a teaspoonful of common salt,
dissolved in a little cold water and
draik, will instantly relieve heartburn. I
An old nurse says that rain water, if
heated very hot, is very soothing to
weak and tired eyes.
The fumc9 of burning coffee are a !
powerful disinfectant. Pound the coffec
in a mortar and then strew it on a hot
iron plate, which, however, must not be
red hot.
When putting glycerine on chapped
hands wash them thoroughly in soap and
water, and when not quite dry rub in
the glycerine. This process will be found
much better than the old ones.
If people were ns careful in avoiding
the habits which produce disease as they
arc persistent in seeking cures for their
ailments, the number of invalids in the!
world would be much reduced.
The sulpho-carbolate of sodium, in i
thirty-grain dose9 given after meals, is
recemmended in flatulent dyspepsia.
Also in ten-grain doses for nausea and
vomiting, particularly in pregnancy.
A nan of sliced raw onions placed in a
room where there is diphtheria will absorb j
the poison and prevent the disease from j
spreading, The onions should be buried
every morning and fresh ones cut up.
Caught Napping.
The following anecdote shows that if
the guid wife lacked grace, her husband :
did not make up the deficiency: A minister
of the "kirk" of Scotland once ;
.discovered his wife asleep in the midst
of his homily on the Sabbath. So, pausing
in the steady and possibly somewhat
monotonous How of his oratory, he broko
forth with this personal address, sharp
and clear, but very deliberate: "Susan!"'
Su9an woke up with a start, and opened
her eyes and cars in a twinkling, as did
all dreamers ^n the house, whether
asleep or awake. "Susan," he con- j
tinned, "I didna marry ye for yer beauty, |
that the hail congregation can see. And,
if ye hae not grace, I hae made but a sail'
bargain wi'ye!"
STEWS SUMMARY
Eaaiern and middle State*.
General W. T. Sherman, A. J. Droxel
and Georgo W. Childs held a conference in
Philadelphia to discuss the best methods
of relieving General U. S. Grant from his
embarrassing financial situation. As
is known, the general has confessed
judgment to William H. Vauderbilt 1
for notes amounting to $l*)0,00u,and the latter
has issued an execution against him and attached
every piece of property belonging to 1
the ex-President. It was stated that Air.
Vanderbilt was willing to accept $100,000 in
full payment of his judgment, and it was
determined to raise that sum for the general's
relief immediately.
At tho New York Academy of music there
was held tho other evening a "Grand Lodge
of Sorrow, Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite of Free Masonry." The ceremonies consisted
of unique funeral services held in
memory of seventy Freemasons who had
died within the last six years.
f Emauel Breist, a wealthy fanner, was
shot and killed by his son Henry, aged
twenty-one, in a tavern near Klingerstown,
Penn. Mr. Breist reproved and struck his
son. when the drunken boy drew a revolver
and shot his father dead.
There were 34,977 deaths, including 205
suicides, 30,2-44 births and 11,1)30 marriages in
New York city during 1884.
The turmoil in New York city local politics
culminated on New Year's day, when Mayor
Edson, whose first appointments of commissioner
of public works and corporation
counsel the board of aldermen refused to confirm.
Mayor Edson gave up the keys of his
office at midnight, and Alderman Kirk, president
of the old board of aldermen, and
Sanger, the newly elected president of that
body, both entered upon the duties of mayor,
each claiming to hold that office until noon,
when Mayor Grace was sworn in. Thus the
city had three mayors in one day.
President-elect Cleveland held a public
reception lasting two hours at the Executive
mansion in Albany on New Year's day.
He was surrounded by his military stair in
full uniform, and shook hands with a large
number of visitors.
South and West*
Three men wrecked a train near Purvis>
Miss. The engineer and fireman of the train
were killed. The three men confessed their
crime, and were taken out of jail by a band
of fifty railroad employees, including conductors,
engineers, firemen and brakemen,
and hanged to trees.
C. B. Simmons, treasurer of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad at Louisville, Ky., has
decamped for parts unknown after leaving a
letter stating that he is ?34,000 short in his
accounts.
Mrs. Williams, residing near Dahlgren,
111., during a flt of insanity, killed two of
her children by throwing them down a well
and then committed suicide.
A FIR2 at Racine, Wis., burned the Blake
Onera-house block. There was a hotel con
nected wi'.h the theatre, and three personaMr.
and Mrs. Russe.lS. Glover, of New York,
members of a theatrical troupe, and a chambermaid?were
burned to death. The total
pecuniary loss exceeds $200,000.
Brigands took possession of the village of
Cortelos in Galicia, and burned the priest to
death because he refused to give up the
money collected by him for the poor of the
parish.
Congressman Samuel J. Randall made
a Southern trip during the holiday recess of
Congress. At Louisville, Ky., his firetstopEing
place, he was given a reception by the
usiness men of the city in the board of trade,
and in a speech stated that tho object of his
visit was to study in detail the business interests
of the South. Mr. Randall was accompanied
by Congressman McAdoo, of New
Jersey.
The sum of $20,000 was paid at Lexington,
Ky., by a Lee (Mass.,) gentleman for the
trotting stallion Alcyone.
Sheriff Terry, of Karnes county, Texas,
was shot and killed by Emmitt Butler. While
attempting to escape Butler was< killed by an
unknown person in the crowd.
A fire has destroyed the greater part of
Pierre, Dakota. A fierce wind prevailed
during the fire, and as the thermometer was
at twenty-five degrees below zero, the pumps
were frozen solid and it was impossible to odtain
water.
Pleasant Anderson was hanged by eight
masked men after a mock trial near Blakesburg,
Iowa. Anderson had been tried a year
mm for murder and acuuitted. The acauittal
resulted in bad feeling among thoio who believed
him guilty, and ended in his lj*nching.
He protested his innocence to the last.
A body of United States soldiers attempted
to arrest a number of men who- had invaded
the Indian Territory for the purpose of seizing
the land. Not wishing to resort to firearms,
the soldiers used their fists and clubs, but
were badly thrashed by the would-be colonists.
A train was thrown from .the rail near
Grafton, W. Va., aruUbe engineer and fireman
were mstautlyll^ffled, and several other
[>erson3 were injured. The accident was
caused by some one who intended to wreck
the entire tram.
Eight persons were lost and two saved by
the stranding of the Norwegian bark Lena,
loaded with sugar, on Hog Island bar, Virginia.
Vessel and cargo were a total loss.
Heavy rains followed by floods have done
much damage in portions of Texas and Arkansas.
c
The German bark Lili, with five of her
crew, was lost off the California coast.
Washington.
General Hancock has been invited by
the committee to act as grand marshal of the
of + nlnnf ( 'l/Mmlnnil'o innilfT.
pLU U'.IU ai iicoiuuubTiCVi \.?;*uuuua IUUU^uration.
*
Sergeant Holtnorth, of the signal service
at Washington, is to be tried by court
martial on the cliurgo of conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman in having tampered
with the private mail of Lieutenant
Greely.
Of forty-two retired officers of the navy
now living in Washington, twenty-four, or
more than one-half are rear admirals. This
number is just one-half the total number o?
retired rear admirals, and almost four times
the number of rear admirals on the active
list.
The last cotton report ot the department
of agriculture indicates the aggregate of yield
for 1834 to be 5,580,003 bales. The rate of
yield is much below the average.
President Arthur's New Year's reception
at the White House was a brilliant affair,
the ladies' toilets elegant and tasteful,
and the attendance large. The President was
assisted in receiving the guests in the blue
room by his sister, Mrs. McElroy, Mrs. Frelinghuysen,
Mrs. Senator Edmunds, Mrs. McCulloch,
Mrs. Chandler. Mrs. Brewster, Mrs.
Matt on, Mrs. Teller ana tne wives 01 some oi
the justices of the supreme court.
Forel|rn>
Increased excitement is roported in Germany
on account of the recent refusal of the
German reichstag to grant Prince Bismarck's
request to create an office?that of a second
director in the ministry of foreign affairs.
The request was refused by a vote of 141 to
ll'J, notwithstanding Bismarck's personal explanation
that the office was necessary. The
German women have taken the matter up.
They have formed clubs in every hamlet and
town throughout Germany for the purpose
of''rebuking the majority in the reichstag
and making plain to the emperor and the chancellor
the sentiments of the people. Already
many hundred thousand signatures have
been obtained to a memorial to be pre
seated to Bismarck. The signers place opposite
their names the sunu they pledge themselves
to contribute to a colossal fund which
the women propose to present to Bismarck,
in uiu siiupe 01 an investment cupauie uj.
yielding interest sufficient to defray all the
expenses lie may need in enlarging the sphere
of tlio German foreign affairs department.
Passengers from Havana report the successful
landing of another filibustering: exDOdition
to Cuba in the immediate vicinity of
Matanzas. it is under the command of
Maximo Gomez, accompanied by his staff.
Later reports put the loss of life throughout
Spain by the earthquake shocks at more
than 1,000. Many persons died of fright.
Severe shocks havo also been felt in Austria
and Wales.
Important discoveries of fraud have been
made in tho Russian treasury at St. Petersburg.and
some of the otliciuls have committed
suicide to escape disgrace and punishment
Advices from Tonquin report that daily
encounters occur between the French and
Chinese outposts. China continues to pour
troops into Tonquin and Formosa.
During an election riot in a Hungarian
town six persons were killed.
A Cairo (Egypt) dispatch savs that General
Wolselay reviewed the British expedition
to Gordon's relief as it marched out
of Korti. The column presented an imposing
sight, being nearly 100 yards wide
and a mile long.
A portion of the roof of a theatre at Cholet,
a town in France, fell during the performance.
There were about 1.000 persons
in the audience nnd more than 1.x) were
wounded, somo fatally.
germany and France are not particularly
pleased at the treaty between Snain and this
country, now before the United States Senate
for ratification or rejection.
while six little children were playing on
the ico in Ti ironto Bay, tho ico gave way and
tLree were drowned.
frrther earthquake shocks have resulted
in continued disaster and death throughout
Spain. Velez Malaga, a town of HS.OUO inhabitants,
was | ar.tly laid in ruins and abandoned
by the terror-stricken residents. A
thousand houses in Alhama are in ruins. The
town of Albuquerque was completely destoyed.
The total number of deaths in Spain
is estimated at more than 2,000.
They had been quarreling about his
next summer clothcs. She wanted to
have his light suit cleaned up for 188.).
and he wanted a heavier suit. "What's
the use of fighting about this?" he said,
finally. "I maybe in the cemetery next
summer." "I think," she replied, "you
will need your summer clothes wherever
you may be."?Graphic.
FATAL EARTHQUAKES.
Hundreds of Lives Lost Throughout
Spain.
Entire Towns Swallowed Up and
Provinces Eavaged.
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A Madrid dispatch says that the details of
the disastrous earthquake throughout Spain
are arriving slowly, and are being gradually
1 published by order of the government, as tho
1 accounts which are now being received conj
tinually increase the number of fatalities and
the damages incurred. The excitement in
, Madrid over the news from the south
! of Spain is intense, as the
latest reports from Andalusia give
harrowing details of suffering and death in
i that division of Spain. No less than forty
towns and villages in Andalusia were vio
lently she1 ?n o.nd badly damaged by tho pro
; longer <hocu, winch lastea nny seconus. m#
| town of /elez Malaga, population about flfj
teen thousand, was half destroyed and many
i of the inhabitants killed. The work of recovj
ering the bodies proceeds slowly on account
j of the scare produced by slight shocks which
! occurred at intervals, and which causes the
i workmen to move slowly in their undertak|
inc.
| The village of Albuquero. near Granada,
was also half demolished, and two hundred
j persons were killed by the first shock, which
' caused a number of buildings to fall in before
i the occupants bad time to escape.
Arenus del Rey was nearly destroyed. The
j number of killed is yet unknown, but forty
I bod:es have since been recovered from the
j ruins. ?
, Kafarranja was completely wrecked and
but few of ttie villagers escaped unhurt. Al|
ready the bodies of twelve meu have been re!
covered from the ruins. The town of Canilj
las was also destroyed, and the number of
| persons killed is as yet unknown, but is supposed
to be large. Several bodies were taken
i from the ruins. The town of Estepona also
| suffered severely. The dispatches from there
| mention the fact that the handsome church
I and municipal and other buildings have
| been destroyed, but say that the number of
deaths cannot as yet be ascertained, but it is
feared will bo heavy, as many persons are
missing. Eight bodies have been recovered
from the ruins.
Dispatches from the different towns
state that the rescuing parties are very
timid, and each recurring shock, caused
them to desist from the work and
seek open places, hence the work of recovering
the bodies proceeds slowly. The people
all over Andalusia are terribly alarmed and
are afraid to return to the houses left standing,
preferring to camp out in the fields and
open squares.
So for as known 200 persons were killed in
Andalusia The Alhambra, the famous
palace near Granada, was not damaged.
A "A/iAn/1 s1ioi>afs?V? COTTO*
reports show that 250 persons were kilicd in
the provinces of Malaga and Granada by the
recent earthquake. The population of Gra
nada are still encamped 111 the squares, and
the richer classes are lodging in carriages
along tfie promenade. Tiiu facade of the caiiedral
was seriously damaged by the shock.
Many houses were destroyed Jimena, and
a whole family was killed in the
villago of Cajar by the falling
cf a chirruiey. Over half of the inhabitant?
of Albunuelai were killed. Albania is mostly
in ruins. The province of Malaga offered
equally as much damage as did GrJma
da. Commerce is paralyzed. Two hundred
nouses at Alfarnetejo were damaged. Tb<
panic is subsiding. The shock was not felt in
the northern and northwest provinces. Th?
government has granted $5,000 from the
tional L'alamnity fund for the relief of the
sufferers in the province of Granada.
Later advices show that 300 lives were lost
at Aihama. Seven hundred and fifty houses
and a church were^destroyed and thirtj
persons killed at Penana. The Town Hal
and many houses were damaged at Torrox.
where the inhabitants fled from the towi
panic stricken. It is now estimated that COt4
I persons wore lolled in tne rrovince 01 maiaga.
I including those killed at Aihama.
CLEVELAND'S POSITION.
Letter from Hie President-Elect In
Regard to Civil Service Reform.
The following correspondence has passed
between representatives of the National Civi
Service Reform league and President-Elect
Cleveland:
National Civil Service Reform )
League, Office No. 4 Pike striet, >
New York, Dec. 20,1684. )
The Hon. Orover Cleveland:
Sir: We have the honor to address you on
behalf of the National Civil Service Reform
league, an association composed of citizens of
all parties, whose sole purpose is indicated by
| its name, and which takes no part whatever
in party controversy.
'1 he vast increase in the number of persons
j engaged in the civil service and the grave
I mischief ana dangers arising from the ^en
j eral proscription in tne service wmca iui
half a century has followed a change of party
control of the national administration have
I produced so profound an impression upon
j the public mind that the first effective steps
| toward reform were taken with the co-operaI
tion of both parties in the passage of the
reform act of January 16, 1883.
The abuses which that act seeks to correct,
however, are so strongly intrenched in the
traditions and usages of both parties that
there is naturally widespread anxiety lest the
j party change in the national executive ef|
fected by the late election should show them
! to be insuperable. But, believing as we
: do that the reformed system cannot
j bo held to be securely established
. until it has safely passed the ordeal
j of such a party change, and recalling with
j satisfaction and confidence your public exI
pressions favorable to reform, and your
i oflicial acts as the chief executive of tlie
I State of New York, we confidently commend
! this cause to your patriotic care in the exerI
cise of the great power with which the Amer!
icau people have intrusted you Respectfully
j yours,
George William Curtis, President.
William Potts, .Secretary.
John Jay, M. Wyman, Jr.,
Moorfield Storey, Carl Schurz,
J. H. Pleasants, Silas W. Burt,
W. W. Montuomfry, A. R. Macdonough,
E. P. Wheeler, W. C. Sanger,
F. Cromwell, Wm. W. Aiken,
Executive Committee.
governor cleveland's reply.
Albany, Dec 25,1884.
The Hon. George W. Curtis, President, dtc.:
Dear Sir: Your communication dated
! December 20, addressed to me on behalf of
1 ? - ? !? t
j tbo national wivn oervicn iwiunu u?.6uv,
1 has been received.
That a practical reform in the civil service
! is demanded is abundantly established by the
fact that a statute, referred to in your communication,
to secure such a result has been
passed in Congress with the assent of both
political parties; and by the further
[ fact that a sentiment is generally
prevalent among patriotic people calling
for the fair and honest enforcement of
the law which has been thus enacted. I regard
myself pledged to this because my conj
ception of true Democratic faith and public
duty requires that this and all other statutes
I should be in good faith and without evasion
enforced, and beeauso in many utterances
i made prior to my election as President, apj
proved by the party to which I belong, and
| which I have no disposition to disclaim, I
I have in effect promised the people that this
I should be done.
1 am not unmindful of the fact to which
I you refer, that many of our citizens fear that
| the recent partv change in the national executive
may demonstrate that the abuses
I which have grown up in the civil service are
i ineradicable. I know that they are deeply
J rooted, and that the spoils system has been
i supposed to be intimately related to success
in the maintenance of party
I ninl 1 am not sure that all those
| who profess to l>e the friends of this reform
will stand lirmly among its advocates when
they find it obstructing their way to pat|
ron ftp; and place.
But fully appreciating the trust committed
I to my charge, no such consideration shall
cause a relaxation on my part of an earnest
effort to enforce this law.
j There is a class of government j>ositions
which are not within the letter of the civil
service statute, but which are so disconnected
with the policy of an administration
that the removal therefrom of present incumbents,
in my opinion, should not be made
during the terms for which they were appointed
solely on partisan grounds and for
the purpose of putting in their places those
who are in political accord with the appointing
power.
lint many now holding such positions have
forfeited ail just claim to retention, because
they have used their places for party purposes
in disregard of their duty to the people,
anil because, instead of being decent public
servants, they have proved themseives offensive
partisans and unscrupulous manipulators
of local party management.
The lessons of the past should bo unlearned,
an-1 such officials, as well as their successors,
should be taught that efficiency., fitness, anil
.I.tr. nnhlir, rlntv nrn thA conditions of
their continuance in public place, and that
tlio quiet anil unobtrusive exercise of individual
political rights is the reasonable measure
of their party service.
If I were addressing none but party friends
I should deem it entirely proper to remind
thom that though the coming administration
is to bo Democratic, a due regard for
the people's interest does not permit faithful
party work to bo always rewarded
by appointment to office; and to say to
them that whilo Democrats may expect
all proper consideration, selections "for office
not embraced within the civil service rules
will be based upon sufficient inquiry as to Utiles-;,
instituted by those charged with that
duty^jather than upon persistent importunity
of uelf-solicited recommendations on behalf
of candidates for appointment Yours very
truly, Gkover Cleveland.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC- J
"Hugh Conway" is making $750 in royal- ^
Ses per week on "Called Back."
The theatre business was never at a lower 3
abb in the West than at present . }**(.
Mary Anderson begins lier season In this '-j
country in New York October 12, 18?.
Louis James and Marie Wainwrlght will
iccompany Mr. Lawrence Barrett to Auatra- * ^
Bartley Campbell in five years has made . ,7-'|
a profit of $250,000 out of his plays. Ho began . . ^
life as a newspaper reporter. - ?. .??
"Victor D.urand," the play just produced
at Wallack'8, in New York, is by Henry Gfay
Carlton, a journalist, and is a great succe*. ?
Sarah Bernhardt made her first appear- >jg|
ance in this country at Booth's theatre, New -y$M
York November 8, 1880, in "Adrienne
couveur."
, Alexandre Dumas has presented the .--^W
Comedie Francaise with a valuable gift, tha
only guaranteed example of an autograph
I play by Moliere.
Mr. Boucicault says one of the two new
plays he is writing will be called "Faugh-*13
alia eh" (clear the way, in English). It wiU ,:vai|-g
| be a glimpse of English sporting life. - .jjsm
Ponchielli's new ODera, "Aldona," recently
produced in St Petersburg, is crititised
in Le Menestrel as effective, out with- . -J9B
out inspiration, and frequently vulgar.
In view of the approaching bi-centenary at .
the birth of Bach, the town of Cothsu, tn
which he was organist from 1717 to 1728, to .' '/SM
about to erect a monument to the composer.
Orders have been issued forbidding tha v;*?
managers of theatres in Germany to produce Jgugk
any plays in which ancestors or collateral n- .?
lations of the Prussian royal family are rep- ; .
resented.
Hugh Anoeer, whom J. H. Haverly to- ~&3
gaged in 1882 to sing in "Patience," has won
his suit against Mr. Haverly for breach of :~^S
contract. An Atlanta, Ga., jury gave An- '^a
gier a verdict for $1,900.
Howard Carroll, the New Yorkjournal1st,
has written a play for Mile. Ithea, an*
titled. "The African Countess." It will prob- -.igH
ably be produced in Washington when ah*
plays her engagement there. .
Mart Anderson wears, as "Juliet." five ''-'S3
elegant costumes?a very pale blue brocade,
with a large pattern, yellow and gold satin, '," 4
sea-green ana pink, pure white and silver '
tissue garment, in which she is carried to her
Miss Marie Van Zandt, the American j
singer, has won the hearts of the cold-blooded
Russians by her sweet warbling. At a re* '
cent performance in St. Petersburg she wm . I
recalled before the curtain forty times. Mia ' VanZandt
will not accept another engagement
in Paris at any pries. The blackguardism of .
a certain set of critics has disgusted her with
that centre of civilization ana courtesy, ,
PROMINENT PEOPLE
k The empress of Austria is in very pool '
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, is u sM
enthusiast over baseball
M Pasteur, the noted French scientist
is going to Rio Janeiro to study yellow frrar i /Kino
Humbert, of Italy, lo3t twenty
pounds in weight by his labors in behalf of
the cholera sufferers.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, wH
preach twice next spring before the university SK
of Cambridge, England.
Speaker Carrisle is said to receive a .
heavier mail than any other member of Congress,
and Senator Logan's stands next. . .3
Rev. W. H. H Murray, the well-known .
American minister, is running an oyster saloon
and restaurant in Montreal, and does his -<?g
own cooking.
Mr. B. F. Jones, chairman of the National
Republican committee, is to be Mr. If. X
Morrill's successor as president of the American
Iron and Steel association.
Genkrat Hazen, Chief of the Signal Service
Bureau, has in preparation, "A Personal
Narrative of Battles,'' in which he describe! .
in events of the late war, in which he partid- '-\j
Mrs. Abram Garfield, the venertbls -- '*^8
mother of the late President, is in very feeble
health. She is reported to be brooding over
her son's death, and not caring to talk of anything
else. ' .
Men with reputations make good wagea as - ^9
lecturers. Ineersoll is reported to have at '. '.358
ready cleared $28,000 this season. Mark ' vjj
Twain and G. W. Cable are each pocketing "-??
about $1,000 a week. '. Sj?
Judge David Davis has succeeded In re* ;
ducing his weight from 384 to 375 pounds.
He says he feels as if he could fly. He feels
: so airy that he fears he will have to weight ' ?3
himself with lead to keep him on the grorinA '
H. T. Price, a farmer of Wolsely college,
! in Green County, Tenn., owns a coat madein '
I 1838 by Andrew Johnson, who was afterward
President of the United States. The coat is rajj
I to be on exhibition at the New Orleans Expo- .
1 sition. ,-s
Mr. Moody has been holding a Ave dayrf ' a
Christian convention in Cincinnati, and the
Enquirer says: "The Lord knows he's need- ^
ed." It was his first visit to the city, and ha V?
j was attracted thither by the riots of the Ootober
election.
The richest man in Colorado is Governor
Evans, worth $3,000,000. David Moffat is
worth $1,500,003. Joseph Chaffee took him "f'2
out of a stationery store and put him in a
bank. Senator Tabor is slipping back from '
! his large fortune.
{ Joaquin Miller is an intimate friend of r?S
Buffalo Bill, and the two rode together in the ."-5j
tame carriage on the opening day of the New ;
Orleans Exposition, affording the delighted
populace the chance to see the two lions in
one show, and for nothing.
xtdtxtott n t t K "MTMYia
nxivvox ITJ itjaiij-Liuvj.
A sixteen-year old boy in Troy, N. H., 41
recently hanged himself in his sleep.
The emperor of Austria is noted for having
the largest collection of pipes in Europe.
The German reichstag will discuss this
! winter the abolition of capital punishment^ '.^55
A game of baseball was played in Boston "
! on a recent Monday night by electric lights.
All the Atlantic cable companies have reJ
duced their charges for messages to forty
| cents a word.
The rate of mortality in the United States .
I navy is much less than among the dweller*
i upon the land.
The recently-elected new mayors of Camj
bridge, Chelsea and Lynn, Mass., are all
j under thirty years of age.
The French government is having thirty -i - -S
i vessels built, half of them in private docks <
i Fourteen will be iron-clad and cost $26,000,000.
Young banana trees are growing finely a*
Los Angeles, Cal., and in some of the shel~
tered valleys there will be quite a large crop
of fruit this year.
The spot where, according to the latest
accounts, William Tell didn't shoot the apple Xl
- 1 * 1 1 Kv ft hitr mnnil.
I on Ilia SOUS ueuu, la aiaiaiu Uj V. W.0 ?
ment sixty feet in height.
In Prussia, during 1883, no fewer than 1,628
marriages between first cousins were record- ^
ed, 147 Between uncles and nieces, and twenty- . ?jgjH
six between nephews and aunts.
Numbers of sheep and pigs are being
I killed in sections of Dakota by wolves, packs
I of which have been prowling about in the
j vicinity of Bismarck, particularly in the
i mountains. 1
A sturgeon weighing COO pounds was re- ,
, cently caught on the Pacific coast Its head
; weighed ninety-four pounds and its mouth
j was twenty-two inches across. It could al\
most have swallowed a man ^838
A Nevada miner and capitalist recently
; returned from Alaska, reports the finding j
. there of a remarkably rich marble quarry, in
j which, strange to say, were both red and
j white marble of the finest quality. i
TJie Over-Entin;,' Cold.
j Experienced physicians couut with en
! tire confidence upon a great run of calls *
immediately after the holiday feast.
I And the frank and communicative among ?
them say to their patients, as ttiey come .^a
| coughing and blowing into their offices,
! or are found shivering and burning in
| their homes: "Oh! I know all about it
j without any examination. '"It's the reg[
ular turkey and mince pie 'cold.'And
such it commonly is?the protest of the
stomach against abuse, and the sympathetic
and resultant rebellion of other
organs or functions. "I never take cold,"
said a little ladv, very watchful of her
physical condition, "except when my
[ stomach gets upset." It is a common
experience, although few are thoughttul
or intelligent enough to take note of
cause and elTect in these matters. "Big
dinners" and intemperate eating generally
are responsible for more of "the sicknesses
that start with so-called "colds"
than all the sweet, cool airs of heaven,
blow they never so fiercely.?Boston Herall.
A Cartons Will.
A French lady recently died at the
advanced ajje of ninety years. Her will
contained the following provision: "I
leave to mv nhvsician. whose enlightened
care and wise prescriptions have made
me live so long, all that is contained in
the old oaken chest in my boadoir. The
key of the chest will be found under the
mattress of my bed." The heirs were x
much disturbed, for they foresaw a material
diminution in their share of the
property. The fortunate and expectant
physician at length arrived. The notary
| delivered to him the key of the chest.
It was opened and found to contain solely
all the drugs and poisons, still intact,
which the worthy physician had given
his patient for twenty years bark.?Herald
of Health.
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