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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1886. VOLUME XXX. NO. 51. ,|| A BOM FISHERMAN. SAMBO'S SUCCESS ON THE WHARVES ! OF SOUTHERN SEAPORTS. The Kewards of Patlcncc?The Favorite i firaziufi; Place of Catfish?A Willi Scram ble on the Wharf?The Xcgro as ail Angler?Green Turtle and Gophcn Success in fishing?star fishing, at least? : demands either patience or extreme lazi- | ness. The negro is highly accomplished in ! both. In them he lives and moves and hits j his being. '1 he n?-gro is more patient even I than the mule. It is the patience of ignor- | ance, or the ignorance of patience. Wit- I uess his long ye?trs of silence under slavery. J Had he not been so. the ian I would have j Leen red with blood long years before his- j torie '01. But the ne^ro then was usually j happy and contented. All his physical I wants were supplied. He had no carts, and | his mentality was so vague and undorined j that it did not bother him much. Lu;:iuess is the mother of patience, and the godmother of the negro. Hive Sambo a pole and line, a pocketful of worms or indisposed beef, a sunny nook along the river, or on the wharf, and for the time being he will thank the roo i Lord for nothing else. His favorite fishing place in Florida is from tho wharves that line tho tit John's river. FROM HIS COIGN OK VANTAGE. The wharf is Sambo's throne, and from this coign of vantage he hurls his well- i hooked line into the water. Tho rivor at Jacksonville is a universal cesspool. Here are thrown all tho garbage and otTal of the market, residuum of restaurant and saloon, clop of boarding house, and here is tho Javorite grazing place ol the catfish. Talk Hot of the pompano, the trout, or the bass. They are all unknown quantities to Sambo. His allections are centred on the cat The ' -c *u .%??W Kia mnntli rVtfMi I iugnt 01 one ui ujciu uiuaw ?.?. .,;? , to its fullest e .tent, and tku longing red | tongue reach nearly around to tbo back of his ears. It (.alls up toothsome dishes to his cxotic min i Cattish stew! Cut tho fisii in small pieces, plenty of water, a pinch of fait, some sweet potatoes from your neighbor's ' bant"?they are best gathered at iniinight?a pone of corn bread, and what ? J~>? rnlnrail pnicure ranilire' ' JUV'i u UWO buv V w?v> W.,J. 4 l!aked cattish! Tale a bull cat, the larger | the better, dress Lim carefully, stutf his i ample bosom with onions and corn meal I mixed with syrup, and rlank it with a side j dish of blue collards. When Sambo and his lamily sit down to this feast the door is J JoL-koJ and there is no admittance until the j postprandial pipe. The recipients ilaily of a varied and bountiful, if not dainty, supply of food, these cattish grow to immense size, and attain a ! weight of from ten to fifty pounds. The I avorajj? along the wharvas is about fifteen ! pounds. Afier .Sambo has caught one of ; these* largo dandies of the deep he is not i r.nrtir-nln > ns to whether he catches another ; one that day or not Sufficient uuto tbo day is the evil thereof, also the good?to him. The day's quota is provided The sua i< warm and inviting. Ho feels its genial rays penetrating all tho nerves and t.ssues -of his being. The monotonous lap of the waves against the piers invites to slumber. So, tying tho line to his big t03, which looks like tbe bead of a loggerhead turtle, ho falls over on his back and is soon fast asleep. J Gradually his slumber becomes more pro- j found His mouth open* and remains in ' that position. It is invaded by an army of ; of tlies, green, b:ue, and black Curious I Hies they are, too. They examine each sep- j nrato tooth careful"? and leisurely. Some take observations from tbo upper tongue, othors venture ns far as the palata One ! more reckless than his brethren becomes j entangled in the tonsils, an 1, wrapping the j drappery of his couch about him, lies down to p.easaut dreams. WILD SCRAMBLE OJf TIIE WHARF. Meantiraes under the turbid waves of tho mighty river a strange scone is being en- I acted, an immense cattish is out for a stroll j on the watery boulevard. He moves gen- j teelly along. His tail vibrates to and fro. | His lins make gentle ripples in tho deep I Suddenly he stops and backs water. There ! are traces of indecision ou his expressive i countenance. Kight before him is a curved 1 something whieh may or may not be good i to eat Curiosity gets the better of him. j He draws nenr. He touches it with his nose, j It smells good. He tastes it. It tastes good. ' He gulps it down, feels tho cruel barb and I away he goes. There is a wild scramb'o oil j tbo wharf, Overboard goes Sambo thus ' rudelv awakened from his slumber. He is a ! - . .. j i line swirumor, as nearly an negroes ure, uuu soon reaches tho wharf again. He hauls in his lino, and grins rapturously as he sees tho hu 'O fi>h. A half hour in the sun dries his ' clothes, and home bo goes with two days' ra- I tions dangling by his side. Sambo is a horn fisherman. Ho knows j the habits o:' the finny tribe as well as he knows the way to 'Squire Johnson's hen roost. Ho has ma le a study of piseis?although he don't call it that?from boyhood up. He knows where the bream lurk and grow fat in season. He can follow the j trout unerringly to its lair. The croaker i and the perch can not hide their trail from j him. The natures of all lish are more fa- j miii.'ir to him than his own. Tho mvsterv of the waters is to liim an open boot 1 le is not only a li>her of lish, but of turtle, tuo. He knows where the soft shell hides 111 the tangled roots and grass.-a The green turtle, dear to the palates of nil true J ?picures, belongs to him by right of con- | quest. The loggerhead is ltis sworn brother, ! consenting even to bo sold into bondage. ' 1 le knows where abides that hu^e land turtle, the goplier, and a long pole with ;i hook at the end < prickly brings it to tlie surface. Can there bo anything better than a bowl of gopher stew hoi, and steaming from the lire? 1 think not. llad Lueullus stuck to that he might have been alive now. If ! J-'anibo has a g<'Od domestic wit'o ho will deal very generously with her. lie will allow her to cultivate the little patch of garden, to furnish the bacon and the meal with tli shekels she ea:ns at. the wash tub, but he will always see that the table is sup- | ^ Willi tfJU 1IUVM iisu vutib snxui,?xitiuxiltoa Jay in New York 8un. Tim Son oT Kx-I'rcsiilpitt Tvlcr. Oue of tho most striking figures seen in Washington is the son of ox-1'resi.ient Juba 'iyli-r. iie is now an old man bent with weight of ye^rs. liis long, white, patriar> bat bcarcl sweeps down from bis vener able lace, lieu; ly covering his broad breast lie wears a soft hat, slouched well down over his deeply set eyes, ana is dressed gen- I erally in a > areless suit of badiy rut black. ' lie is rarely noticed, and walks the street to mo.->t people unknown. Yet in bis day be was coii.-idered one of the h:indsoin ss men who ever erared the society of Washington. ?Washington 1 otter, ?wfon ;iml tin* I":;lliin; Alipli1. A new nutlior has arise11 who attempts to prove that it is to \ oitaiio that we owo tho i lanious story of ?wt->n ai.d tho .ailing apple. He shows that the story is not fytiuu iu the ' Life ot Sir Isa&3 Newton,'' published in but that first appeal's in tho JJiements do la i'hilosophio do Newton,'' by \ oita ire, who quotes Newton's neice a< hn j authority. \ oltairo, however, ?!oes not say that Newton saw en apple fall, but '?3rjs : fruit of a tree,"?Eotioa Budget. THE INTEGRITY OF NATIONS. Countries "Which Show Development and < Which Hold Together?Kft'otenes*. Tiio reasoning and organizing principles in nations retain thorn in existence far 1)3- j yond the ordinary hazards of time. Tho ! Spanish nation and tha Portuguese, with a . certain original spirit and passion for their ; own country, have kept along and have never devoured each other. Prussia, from ; moderate beginnings, with thinking men L; | control of hor, has becoma ono of tho great j states of the earth. France has ni'ver lost i anything which she did not win unfairly, i Tha hnglisli lost in tho American colonies i much more than the French ever lost in i Louisiana and Canada, and yet have had ; i tho art to seek new places where tl<ny are ; I always in p*ril and sometimes seem to havo i risked their troops and treasure in vain. At ,: this moment iSunnah, their latest acquisi- ] tion, is giving them trouble, and Egypt and j tho adjacent Countries aro bringing them < probably no present profit, but th j integrity ! < of the Uritish possessions is suiliciently well j maintained for the most of their colonies to j 1 still rely upon tho present power as they | i .? .5. -e ,-k (v.rw.ej ii would never uu il iu ouvncu wuwwuvu.-. . . Austria, after the hard knocks she received i from the French in soveral -wars, is, per- i haps, a better concentrated and a more just j' nation to day than ever before, having im- 11 bibed reason from necessity. The Hungar- j: ians have uot lost their freedom, but are an j i integral portion of a great empire which can take care of them. Italy has shown ! I that tho genius she possessed in the lifteenth j 1 century had sulstantial <utilities on which i to reproduce it, and she now makes a king- I i dom which is at least removed from the j 1 dangers of predatory invasion. Russia, j i which has had a mighty part to play in tho j 1 general empire of C'hristianitj*. and inci- ' dentally of civilization, lms sustained her- I self and woull be missed from tho world if | she 6hould ever have to go, which is by no ; ] means probable, as she has undsrtakon to ! i play in Europj ana in jisia me roie o. i; iSorth America: and hjr railroad system j and inland navigation, white they inspire i ] some jealousy in ad acent powers, give tho j. promise ot popular development. I ] "Whenever tho rude, intolerant natures of j | mon shall submit to laws adapted to tho | > average good of the whole, small countries j; held together by soma art or l'act or sacri- [ j flee, like Holland an I lielgium and even j Denmark aud Switzerland, find tho prox- j ] imity of great kingdoms no mora prejudi-! 1 cial to them than that incites their good j 1 behavior and adroitness. Tho countries ] ( which failed to make an impression upon i, the world, and tho elements cf countries j | which are forever in turmoil and amount- j ] ing to nothing have tin.-illy tried t'ie United ; i states as a new Held for lolly.?" Gath " id | Cincinnati Enquirer. Position of t!ie .li:isiictic role. At tho Lotus club I mot Lieut. Frederick j Sclnvatka, tho Arctic explorer, who, j i among his scalps of victory, carries one j : lab-led "tilts longest sie'igo jou.ney on rec- , ord.'' He made it in IS.'.l?:i, I>] miles, from ! , Hudson's bay to tha neighborhood of t'ue i , magnetic po:e, for tho lmding of the ro | ; mains of Sir John Franklin's expedition, j j asking him what he thought of tho future, j ( he said: | t ' Most of ths polar research of tho future , is to be scientific?mainly geography, mote- ! , oro ogy, geology, ethnology, etc. "Most of tiie recent ex;.-editions have, I | < think, had too few Esquimaux and too j . many white men. Tho former are self-sup- |. porting?tho latt *r a burden and frequently ! ( a dead weight The most sue. ess; ul oi the i ] international meteorological stations have | averaged six or seven whites only. ThaOer- ! , mail expeuiiion ai> iuo vumucnauu , had five. The finest ami most compioUs j , auroral observations wore mule by Sophus Trombolt, a Norwegian, with live uiea. j Tho Finnish expedition, undor Lomstroiu, had only four or liva. In tact, Lemstroni . produced an artificial aurora i y winding j electric wire around a Lig hill and then i ( II It U , o ,!is. : givuuuiux IU 110 fcvu U. <uue.....^ , ! play. The bill seemed almost to be atii'J !, and the electric llamos streamed apparently | 1 to the zenith. . "The most important expedition of the J, future, 1 think, will be the 0:10 which do- j , termines anew the position of tho magnetic j j pole?tho point of vertical magnetic force. 1? i went to a point where the needle failed to work at all and was lifeless as a liaiL I ha.l ' , no instrument's to locale tli - exact pole. . When determined exactly, it itdilfers mticb from the location of Sir John Koss in 1*>1, it will be very important in showing the ( secular variation, or movement of tho mag- , netic pole."?Croil'ut in Kansas City Jour- , nnL , A Startling ArclunolMgicnl Dlscovcrj*. A startling and beastly archvoiogical dis- ' covery comes from Georgia. A mound was recently opened and tho skeleton of a recumbent inaivi.:uai 01 a premsiioric rauu i was found, 'iho mound was explored tiior- , ' oughly and the skeletons of many other I mound builders were found, as were also j discovered various specimens of cheap pot- i tory of the prehistoric period. Tho ex- 1 porers now became very enthusiastic and ! ' the search was renewed with vigor. Suddenly the spade <<f onoof tho laborers struck something hard r.nd metallic and tho others gathered around. In half a second a small object was thrown up which gleamed in the sunlight. There was a general uivo lor it, 1 and then a general feeling of consternation ' when it was found that it was a sardine box. 'Die incident will doubtless bo em- 1 barrassing to antiquarians, who will Unci it \ diilicult to explain. I'erhsps, however, tiie discovery may have so'ue bearing on tho J recent statement that Christopher Columbus was a l-'roncliman.?is'ew Orleans Tirnosbemocrat. IIo'.v to Di-snolish t!i? Waiter. ' While it is advisable in the highest sense ' never to be afraid ot tho waiter, one should by very careful al.out bullying liiiiL .An ' infallible recipe for destroying any tear you may Lave of tlie waiter is contained in lour 1 words?look at his feet I never saw a i waiter in my life that ha I a presentable j pair of pedal extremities. lie may be bland, suave, clean shaven, clear eyed, clad i in snowy linen, and i h master of supercilious manner. If you fool taut he is cowing j you at all, glance at his feet Vou will ! tind that his trous r.? are ra^ge.l ar.il rolled i up from tliw bottom; that he wears an enormous pair ol" rusty slices, und that they j are as hilly and rid^y as the boots of the j gouty old uncle in an old-Lima comedy, j Alter this you may loo:; him in the eye j with abso.utj fearlessness.Baltimore j American. A unityiny; tin A liii'i'icil'.t lleauty. Miss Jennie Chamberlain was very mu"b annoyed during lur last visit by the j curiosity of her country women, who I locked around her and scanned h;>r features, in a j store o;io day a worn ;u hail tho eitronu-ry to pi;s> u handkerchief across her cho.-k. Miss ; Chauilnriain, startled by iho action, drew i back in surprise. "1 wanted to scu if tho color was natural." was tho ijuiet remark. J'U," said tho beauly. "1 .-eo it is nat ural," the woman said, walking olF. ''Fancy now," ex< lairced tho Aweric.in beauty. "I am , sure my face got a;; rod as a beet"?.New York iloralu. Despite the increased patronage, tho j Brooklyn bridge was ran at a loss the fire* threo mouths of this year. mnwp?aHCTWonCTwaig to nBBW? 11 immmj MOST ASTOUNDING CADS. | I ENGLISHMEN WHO COME TO NEW YORK TO OUT A HOWLING DASH. Hie Secret of tlio \7!io'.c Matter?The Av? | cra^e ST-a-VVcck Dry-Goods Clerk on a j Vacation?The Duke of Sutherland? j Solecisms Committed. The continued popularity of Englishmen i in iVew York is almost inexplicable. Tuo )])Ocim'.'ii-i timt drift over hero from London j ire in most cast's tin most astounding ead-i imaginable. It makes 110 dill'orence whether j :hey are tailors, collectors, peers of the j ro.iim. bad actors, or adventurers pure ana simple, taei:- manners and iiabits are unpleasantly ami perpetually similar. It so.-ms to romo natural all the world ! jver for the resident of a big town to turn | L-ock-lofty and supercilious when bo visits a smaller place. The village bumpkin makes boisterous fun of tiio farm yo;:el; the eierk in the store o: a small town indulges in bucolic eil'ort at satire, directed at the villagor near by, wtiile be himself is liberally guyed liy a visitor from a larger town. The citizen o: a groat city goes out of town Tor his summer vacation and sneors with ill-bred brutal severity at everthing that is not up to the standard of bis own place. Kvorybody knows that London is bigger than .New York, and it is but natural that the men wiu> are accustomed to tiio fun and j vastness of t!io great Lnglisii metropolis i should feel a sense of disappointment when they come over here. That thoy show their ! contempt so openly and coarsely proves j them t> be almost as provincial as tho | riliago biiiup .iu v/bo maices lun iuo yoKtn. : SECRET OF THE WHOLE QL'ESTIO.W Men of the world who h:ivo gained the polish which is only imparted by position ind travel make the mistake that the majority of oar Knglish visitors do. And this is tho secret of thj whole questiop:at least line-tenths of tho Englishmen v'no come to N'ew York and cut such a bowling dash professionally, socially, nocturnaliy, or tinancialiy are utterly unknown in London, are even unfamiliar with the great town, xnd came from some of tho smaller manufacturing cities of the outlying counties. : Yet, once here tu<;y ran on as grandilo juentl}* about the prince of Wases' set, i the rawdy 'laws at tho C: i, the '"feeds" at i Lhe Savage, tho suppers at White's and their iaily canter down the mile, as though thoroughly in tho swim at home and moving i hand in glovo with royally ilself. Yet we | !.?..? .. iir.1 lmi? \irhr> is mora l.laeo. i superior, flamboyant, ami sereno than tho ' ivera,o ;>?'a week dry goods chrls of Now 1 i'qrk city when 0.? for his two weeks ia l summer. "Who wears a round-shoulUerod < and narrow-chested tennis jacket., an idiotic 1 [>olo cap, and knoo?c-knecd knickorbockjrs ; with moro grace than ho, and who is 0.1 moro familiar terms wi;n tiie Astors, tho lie I monti and tha Jays? Iso one, to hear him talk of "tooling a drag' down the avenun 'bands down," would imagim ho was on 1 anything but intimate terms with the manibers of the Coaching club, and his real po-si- 1 tion of slavery iu town is too ghastly tj be 1 thought of. The truth of the matter is, that Englisutnen in most instances don't caro a rajj svhetbor they are li.:ed in New York or not. l'hey look upon Americans us middle-class ' people of absolutely no social signilicau e, ' ind they feel entire indiflorei.ee as to what ' opinions they create. Everybody in society ! here is talking about tho duko of iSutherland, who attended a wedding bre ikfast at tired in a well-worn and ill-litting tweed shooting-jacket an.l calico s.iirt of red ami white stripes, made after the fashion adopted by negro song-and-d-mce artists. A.MAZKi) AT TilK KKKliU.VTERV. There wore other English noblemen besides ' tho duko of Sutherland at the breakfast, und it is only just to them to suy that they stood amazed at theodrontery oi! tho titled visitor, 1 find yet his grace mount to show 110 disrespect to his ho-t, extraordinary as his taste may seem. Ho regards his visit hero as ( more or less ot a mru, ana uo uiuu i put, uu a. black coat and choose a suitable companion for Lis visit, simply Localise h3 didn't 1 eonsider the visit, tho party, or tho place of ' tho slightest consequence. Another Knglishinan who came over hero ! as a representative of a London and (Jor- 1 man syndicate of capitalists, which is s-aid 1 Lo be associated in a mysterious way with \ iilard, of Northern Paciiic lame, remarked at a dinner that he believed, as far as Lis ' own experience went, that there only six 1 gentlemen in America. There were ten men [ tit the table at tho time, bus the remark w.is laughed at and passed by. Even such a 1 clever man as Lord Randolph Churchill, ! when he was hero three or four years ago, ! to visit his father-in-law, Mr. Leonard Jerome, allowed himself to > ommit a number ' of sole, isms, which are yet retailed about ' town with endless indignation. Many Americans "who have met him in London insist ! that Lord Randolph Churchill is a clever 1 and interesting man, and that he is ( o:irteems to American vi-itors. Very likely. Over hero ho simply doesn't care. These are few instances; I could record imdreds of them. Tho Englishmen con- | tinue to sn er and guy and grin, but wo ) keep on toadying to them anxiously. Tho | signs of "llabordashor" appear on Fifth av- 11 iinuj. si io by side with legends that read, || ' Milliner to the princess of Wales," "Wine- , grower to tho prince," "Carriage-builder to j his royal highness," and tao sentence ! | i', vift-rmi/<? 1 l?v rnvaltv" trrows mildlv ill ! favor day by day, liccauso it is English, 11 you know.? A'ew Vork Cor. Chicago Times. |; Tli? t.oMrr.v of Au^trln's C:i>iil:il. TIij Austrian capital is saddlo.l with an I, incubus that deiies exorcism. Tho Stout I, Lotto, or city lottery of \"i -una, is known 1 j to compass tne ruin of an average of eighty j families a year: but when the deputy krohu !, uracil a resolution for the suppression of tho | grievance a committee of ways and means ! experts threatened to resign at tho lirst attempt of killing their goidou goose. The ; j lotto, it seems, is paying a yearly city tax | varying from "i,0:w,0ui) to i;,u;w.!iiM florins, exclusive of bribes, and the ci>y treasury h is become so dependent on that tribute j, that its relinquishment would mean "ruin or i. revolution'?1. e., municipal bankruptcy or |, insupportable taxation. The sagacious lotto- j ( nion know now to recoup uio i ui L.amin.-m, ui . their profits. They havon printing house of ( thi ir own, turning out tous of ingenious ad- j, vortiseinents: their panders visit every place of puMic resort: their agents vie in propitiating tho good will of their losing as well as winning cu-itouv.Ts. Tho products of tho printing housj include Aegyptiselio Traum- 1 bucher?''Egyptian Dream hooks'?giving i a list oi' posMbie night visions and tli^ cor- : re-pon.ling number of tho troller, or auspicious lotto tickets.?I-*r. l'olix 1^. Oswald. j' Novel Way t?? Kill Crows. j In conversation with a prominent plantar ; of the Fourth district, wo learn of a now and novel way to kill cr nvs. Tho gentle- I man's plan is catchonuof tho hire's, tie it to your body and walk through the iield with i your gun cocked and linger on tho trigger. 'Ilia cries of tho bird will cause others of tho Irilie to iio -k aroniul you and they can then l? or.-ily shot This method of exterminating these posts is not patented, and thess who are so disposed are at liberty to try its. ?Daweon (Go./ Journal. 'V- - THE WEALTH 01- ARGENTINA. lias Boon Accomplished Sn Spite ol L)iscour:i<jemout.<?TIio Ouacho. Tho great wealth in south temperate America is to bo found in her soil. It offers : lis fortunes to plo.king industry, and; promises homes, coml orts, luxuries, ami | length of days. In riding over the pampas one can hardly convinco himself that ho i.s not on Ihu prairies of Illinois or Iowa of a quarter of a century ago, or on tho prairies of Kansas, Nebraska, w estern Minnesota, or western Dakota of to-day. Herds of fat cattle and herds of h ilf-wild hors.-s, numberoJ bj' the thousaca. and Hooks of sheep too largo to bo accurately f-stimated, aro1 encountered every wb .to. Tho possessions | of tho Agontino republic in herds and ilocks j show what is easily do 10 iu spito of the dis- j couragoments from insufficient protection. In 15S1 t;iere were 14, 1" 1,0JO cows, 4,18f.',0UU horses, and V0,'.l|iJ,00u sheep. Nature foods and cares for thc^o hcr-ds ot d llocks \?itb | but tho tni.iimuni of < mo from their proprietors. One extensive establishment is at Fray bent us, whei'o Lie; ig's extract of boot is manufactured in largo quantities. For -UL days in tho year an average of 1.000 cans n a ay is stoweu away in nuau jure uuu tana. Then the gnucho, with .upreme courage, skill, anrl faith in his l)?rs9, rides to the Load of tho running her.l, and, with his poncho waving before tho joremost animal, turns him so as to run him j'.rounl a circle to a point where they nr.t trant jd. Hometimes he throws his ]>otichi at the animal, which dodges along the desired direction, loading the herd back to on.er. Then, with wonderful skill, he dasiie.: by whero the poncho fell and recovers it without dismounting or slacking h;s sp ?eil. Once down in tho narrow quarter thee sttio are lassoed, drawn up by a capstan on ? > a cart. Then one blow from a friendiy knife instant'.y j kills him: tho carcass drops, is wheeled | away, and in eight minutes tho animal has j vanished on its way to th> condenser. Everything is utili cl. j-'wn the blood washed nway fattens the ii;h which cluster around the waste-pipe. 'Jho extract is shipp.-d everywhere. "Wliilo wo write a bowl of excellent beef lea, made from a toaspoonful of the oxtr.ict, is ci olin^ before us. We are glad Liebig taught t ie South Amcri cans bow to drive their wil l oattlo into such small corrals as tlio litt le ja rs. Tho greatest enemy ;liat the es :ancicro or stock farinor has in nhe&i lands is the unsteady government ant. its remorseless representatives. It is a matter so common that it surprise no one and harlly excites comment- lor a recruiting 1 and, eitlier of a proposed revolution or of a struggling government, to visit an estaiicia and tako all the liorsus, leaving throe Jor the house and >ne for each station or cabin round wliish th.? flocks are herded. Thuy also take cattle ?r sheep from 100 to 50 J, according to their needs The mon aru also conscripted. It is ^o or did.?i!Lshop Fowior's Argentina Letter. -r-? ?a. ?i?? Y>~ I.rp|mtf1ie JV 1 ili. lii.T ? In tho menagerie th;ro are six as litho md brigutly marked ti gel-sag any body over jaw. <.lfle morning, at d lylight, tho keepers wera surprised by ac utiu-sual coin maLion among tho cat aui'nais. Tho men got jut strong ropes, lassoes, ;tud nets, believing that some of the more :*i rmidal lo of tho iviid boasts wero oat of tLn-ir den*. They approached the "wic.o fctairs with caution and entered tho room. The tigar ion was a s-cno of lierco cc illusion, and tho Jtiior animals shared tho excitement. The oien advanced to the front of tho den, an 1 were met; with demoastra. ions of anger. Lying close to tbo wall in om corner was a juge Bengal tigor, and at her side a pair of ueautit'iiiiy marked cubs, wit.h eyes closed like a young kitten's. With c.riesof wonuer t!ja men gazed at t.jo troasu:.';* which had man born during the night. Still they jould not understand wny all t ie wild Leasts iliould st em so restless. One of tho keepers, following tho eyo of a huge j anther, snouted: ' iioys, look! One has got out and is on tho tloor!" Une cub had crept through the :-age and tumbled out and wandered around until it had tired o at and jjono to sleep. U'hon one of tho men carefully picked i; up it uttered a feeble cry. The scene that followed made those men used to danger as they aro, white with fear. Tho tigers beat Lhe bars of their cages, and t ho lions roared in unison with tho shrieks of tbo other animal* It was a little pandemonium. 'io attempt to put liio cub through the liars into the ca^e from which it had fallen was certain death to whoever undertook it, tor with Iboir long forearms und their curved :laws tiie tigers would have torn to shreds whatever had been in reach. Finally one of the cool (a*-headed keepers look too little speckled, sightless boast aul, climbing up i ho end of the den, opuued the small hole left for ventilation and dropped the cause ?f all til-." trouble at the feet of its mother. She tenderly placed it beside her other olf pring, lay down herself, and in two minutes the cunning-looking kitten was taking ts nourishment and everything saon (iUietaJ iovva.?I'hiladoiphia Times. Coo-iii'ss of an <>'! Willi Shooter. K;s had lowered ashjll containing twenty ;uarts of nitro-glj'cerlne to the de,>th of feet in tha well, when, he discovered, that ;he we!l was a:>out to make a liow. ilo iii'iw that the force of the oil would carry ;he torjwdo out at the top. und if it were dirowu upward with the How ic would be j\p':oded in contact with a derrick beam. If u asivijicu iroin uie voiumo oi u.i il ivuuiu Call ba *k to tlio ground ana explode. In dthur i>aiil:soii know that certain destruction awaited him and the property of his . mjiloyers unlesi tho torpedo could be tenured. "With remarkable presence of mind li?s placed liimsoH' r.L tlio mouth of the well. an.l as I ho shell shot up on tho stream >f oil he threw his arm about it und jold it. Kvon then unduo haste and laolc of jmlgunlit might have proved fatal, tut Bankson 10hi the torpedo until tho spurt of oil had . oasv'd before ho removed it Iron tho well, il though lie Knew that only a f-.;w seconds ivouM u!::p3} before the oil would ho l'oiowed by a volume of gas and a miss of rooics ironi iiu uepius. j./jo msium iuu uu oiis.mI lio lifted tho shell from tl:.o well and iva.ked curol'uily and steadily, carrying' , the torpedo in bis nrnu. lio had scarcely turned liis back when tho gas and ro -ks . iuno out of the well with a lo.ir and a rush. When ail was ovor liankson replaced tho torpedo in the well, lowered it to tho bot Loin, and lini-ii.'d his work.?Oloan (X. V.) Letter. Take Conru^o :;ml <;?> Al:ea<l. Tho avorhi will rauom'oor of you jus" ivhat yon remember of yourself. There is ! nothing l>ut evil gained in remembering til.- 1 >vil iu yourself of liv? or ten j'oars ng . I'hnt is not your present self at all That is i il ad ami buried individual. A man or hvoniau who lias any "go'' in them change:} into i|iiite anulher self every ten or twelve jrears. They grow into improved individuals with all t ho addition: and variations Tliey repented ouco of t'fir wickedness and then set to work making themselves over again. There is 110 so use in a iif tinio of 1'epeiitenro or a lifetime of reeuor.-e. Tho surest proof of real reponteiic-a ;s getting uj> ns <piickiy as possible to maki _\ ourself into tho otli-sr fellow. Tho world ia:ts every man an t no man c.t their o(Vil valuation and for what they a e to day.? Vivutice ilaiiord. THE HOWLING OF A DOG. A SUPERSTITION DEMOLISHED BV THE LOGIC OF COLD FACTS. I'ijjttros Given 1>y a Gentleman Who Hai Kept a Tab of Ills Experiences'?Cases j "Which (iavo tho I,io to tho Popular ! I<l?a Tliut It Foretell* Death. mi.?_ : ?-ii l ??> ' AilUIU 13 U) >YUJI*nUUHlI ICOIUCUU Ul UUU TTC3W | cido who has a hobby l'or combating popu- I lar superstitions an I demolishing them with the logic of cold, storn facts. Tho other night ho was visiting a friend wuen the conversation turned on tho notion which is entertained by a great many peo;>io that iha howling or moaning of a dog locacwi in or near a house where thero is a se.iotn ca.e ot sickness means death to the sullerer. The gentleman contended that tho idoi was sheer nonsense, arid proceeded to t.<li why: ' Some years ago," he taid, "in." lather was taken dangerously ill, and l'.^r s-o\ eral days his life was despaired of. Finally Dr. ( taming a prominent physician) told us ono morning that tho crisis v. ouia come at a -sei'tai.t hour the no::t night, un 1 that either immediate death or slow recovery would ei.sue. In the yard of the bouja adjoining there was a Newfoundland dog of a very quiet and peaceable disposition, so quiet, in fact, that we Koidom heard him. i was detained downtow 11 rather late on tho night in question, and when 1 reached noma it was near the OOUr mat iau puysifian imu iiumi-u. .ivs ? turned tho corner I board a succession of mo<t unearthly howls, and when I got iusido tho houso 1 found all tbo women members of tua liunily in spasms, llio howls proceeded from tho dog next door, and nothing could convince them but that tho animal was a foreteller of death. "Well, tbe critical moment came and passed. An hour later tho doctor had announced that father would live. About tho .same time tho dog ceased its bowlings, ami all was <;uiefc for tho rest of ttio night. Sinco then 1 have mado this superstition a stuiiy and kept tab of my experiences and t'jo.-o of my lriends in this connection. This is the result to dr.to: Hid T.VLB THE KIGLHK8 T'JLU. "When the howling of dogs was followed by re ovory of patient, seventeen cases." "When howling was followed by death, two." It so happened that in tho next house to tho ono in which thi-s conversation took nlace a littlo baby was lying seriously ill, anil only two hours before the doctor had given it up. In tn<3 yard of the house first referred to was an English setter, one of the good-tempered kin 1 that are strangers to a whine. Just as the visitor had given the result of his investigation the animal suddenly broke the silence with the most pitiful liowis. Its owb'.t and his wife, both adherents to the superstition, glanced simultaneously at the clock it marked the hour of "The babv's dead." thev ejaculated in one breath. The visitor looked across the room inquiringly, cud explanations were in order. All eil'orts to quiet the animal were fruitless, and the howling continued for some time. Then thoy as suddenly ceased The visitor was positive that the babe was now on the road to recovery, while his host and fho good wifo wore equally certain that it had passed the boundaries of a better world. All was anxious, but delicacay forbade their trespassing at that hour on what at ieast two wero certain was a uereavt-d family. Early next morning both families were astir, and bearing his neighbor moving in the garden the gentleman threw up tno window and called out: IIow is tho Laby:" ' iJead was the reply bo ojpectod. Jnitca 1 of that tho father looked up smilingly aud shouted: "Ever so much better. Decided change for the best sot in last night." "Wha? time?" ' Abouto'clock. Just when your dog was making such a frightful noise." Another stroke has been added on a cer tain page in tho diary of tbo tabkeepcr on the dog superstition, and at the bottom of Ibe loaf is the legend, "is to '2. Tho baby is > uow out of danger."?Chicago Herald. Why an Avtor Quit Drlnkint;. "One afternoon," said tho actor, "I was on iho stage at rohearsul. Tho play was 'King Lear,' the lines of which I am as familiar with as you are with the Lord's prayer. I; catuo on, but, judge of my dismay and | astonishment when I found that I could not j remember a single phra^o or speech in the | part. I sent the call boy for a bottle of j brandy, took a couplo of drinks, and tried it: agairi. The result was the same. My j aiejiorv was a blank. Than I slipped back i co my dressing-room, took down a book of ! familiar recitations, and tried ono which I < aad known lor years and declaimed, I might j say, without exaggeration, not less than a ! hundred times. iSot a lino of it could 1 ro- ! member. I "tried more brandy, but my memory continue. I a blanlc. "I was terribly shocked. It seemed to mo 1 that I was forever ruined, and that my pro- ' fession had slipped out of my grasp; that | this was the beginning of imbecility, and.' that I should wind up in a lunatic asylum. | I rushed from tho theatre, jumped into a j hack, and directed the driver to take me to thj o;!ice of a doctor in whom I bad tho ' utmost confident*!, and who had often j braced 1110 up when enervated from tho ellects of a prolonged spree. Tho fa t that I could renu mber the number of his : room idled me with inexpressible delight. I felt that all was not lost. He lold me not j to lio alarmed, tfcut my brain was uut >eri- j ouslo a "eeted. and promised that 1 sliouid ' be all right within a month. iJut only 0:1 j one condition, and that was ahs lute a:ul rigid abstinence. I l'ollowe.I his advko, : though it was a linrd j>u!l at the beginning, uud yoa see me now bettor tii::n 1 have been for many a day."?Co:*. Sacramento Dee. 3I:is<filitocs oil tl?? I.iiwor Yukon. I know that tho native dogs cro killed by j the mas (Uitoes under certain circumstances, 1 an ! 1 heard reports which I believed to be well fouuded, both from Indians and 'trust- [ worthy white persons, that the great brown j bear?erroneously buc commonly < ailed the i gri of these regions is at times com jkjIIoiI to succumb to tiieso insects i no sttttjiuent m*c:iis almost preposterous but j tho explanation is comparatively simple, j liruin, having exhausted nil the roots and berrios of one mountain, or liuding them scarce, thinks ho will cross tiw vailey to another range, or perhaps it ss tho odor of salmon washed up nlong the river's banks that attracts him. Covered with a heavy fur on bis body, his eyes, noso and ears are the vulnerable points for lsius'iuiloes, and here, of course, tiioy eoti^re^ato in tlio greatest numliers. At last whoa ho r. a In s a swampy stretch, they ri-o in myriads, j until Ids ioropaw is kejit so busy, as ho strives to keep his eyes clear of them, that he cannot walk, whereupon ho becomes enraged, and, boar-li!:e. rises upon his uaunches to light. It is now a mere question of timo until tho boar's eyes become so swollen from innumerable bites as to muter j him perfectly blind, when he wanders help- i lessly about until he gets mired in tho mud and stapvea to death.? LleuU Stivratiia. AN OLD HAND. Blue-veined and wrinkled, knuckly an<3 brou-n, This good old hand is clasping mine; I bend abovo it, and, looking down, I study its aspojt, line by line. 'Illis band has clasped a thousand hands That long have known no answering ! thrill: Some lmvj molderod in foreign lands? homo in the graveyard on the hilL Clasped a mother's hand, in tho day When it was little and soft and whiteMother, who kissed it and weut away To rest till the waking in Uo-Ts good j light! Clasped a lover's hand, years agone, Who sai ed away and left her in tears; Under Sahara's torrid zor.e His bones lia\o whitened years and yeara | Clasped the hand of a gool mm true, Who held it softly and fell asleep, An I woke no more, and never know How long that impress this would keejx Clasped so many, so many! so few That still respond to the living will, Or can answer this pressure so kiud and ! true; So many that lio unmoved and stilL Clasped at last this hand, my own; And mine will mold 'r, too, in turn, Will any clasp it when I am gone/ In vain I study this hand to learn. -3C THE DOGS OF MADISON SQUARE. Ono of the I lite res li iijf Features of tlie ; Metropolis?'Children and Sparrows. j Tho children, the riurs3s, tho sparrows j and the dogs?thoso aro tlio features in j Madison s iiiure. And the dogs are good ! dugs. Dogs can bo bought. Money will i bring tho iinest strain that Europe can pro- i duce; an.1 what are a few hundred or a 1'ot> J thousand dollars to Mr. Levant, who has j just robbed this or that corporation of a j million< He wants the linost sDociiuen of1 the linest breed. Mr. Levant always wants ! tho best. It redoun is to his glory, it Hat- j te: s bis vanity. A check for a few hnndrod i and be gets it. And there it is in Madison ' square. Jsot that all tbe dogs in Madison ! square belong to Mr. Levant. JN'o; there are ' some true lovers of dogs, and as money i: i abundant among a few and dogs are not so costly after all, they get the best of thoir ; kind and wo see them well represented in j this parterre of the haut ton There are dogs like mulls, with threo black dots at! one end. two of which ro present tho eyes J and the third the nose. Tuere are the Skye i terriers. They look not unlike hairy caterpillars and scuttle along over the surface of ; the cart'u without any apparent means of is omolio.i. There aro the black-and-tan terriors, sc j naked they make you shiver, so frail they . seem as though they would break. Thera | are big dogs sni.ling inquisitively along the ground, su'ulimoly indifferent to all around ; them, and ignoring all advances with that utter unconsciousnesi with which a Wall street banker might ignore the gambler with whom ho had played over-nigut, or a dude, the barkeeper he had called "Charley, ' old fel," at '> o'clock that very morning. I There aro great, big-limbed fellows, whose muscles you seo working under their supple skins and silky coats?follows who give you su. h a respectful sense of power, not altogether unmixed with nervous tremors. There are the light-hearted and light- J headed auburn setters, with their loving eyes, tearing about and always losing their masters, and then, with heads erect, looking round like fools to seo if they can detect from which direction comes the well-known rohistln Thera are DU2;S. va'JU0U3. S0UlltS3 i creatures, tho veriest pigs of caninity. i There are white French poodles and black I Spanish poodles, shorn into caricature sera- 1 bhuices of heraldic lions. Thore are dogs with long legs like herons, there are dogs with short legs resembling worms, that 8?>cm to crawl rather than run, and there are dogs beyond the power of classi-kation or description. So with the children, tho nurses, the policemen, the dogs and the sparrows, overtopped by the trees, and underlaid by tho grass, we ha\ e as bright a picture as this broad land can show.?New York j World. The Alligator Down in Florida. Tn nolitirs the Jacksonv:llian3 nre sinru larly independent, having no distinct purties corresponding to those of tho country at large. In business they are mildly modified Yankees. In social lifo, hours for meals, and tho like, they are thoroughly western, und in mythology tuey have gone Lack to , tho old Egyptian an I the worship of tho alligator, or, at least, it would seom so, 1 from tho display of images. A heathon stranger would certainly say that tho alligator was the totem of tho tribe and the presiding genius of tho place, for it is no exaggeration to say that one may see that reptile here in a thousand appearances? 1 dried or stufl'ed in fJie shops, highly orna- , mei ted in the stores, alive in the tanks, big aliig itors in pens, imitation wooden alligators on the streets, alligators in tubs, alligators of assorted sizes in tho museum, skeletons c? alligators in tho drug stores, alligator skins tanned in the leather stores, and hundreds of different articles of jewelry of aliigacor teeth mounted on gold, silver, or nickel. You can buy a livo alii- j gator from six inches to two feet long, or a dead, drk'd, and stufl'ed one fourteen feet lo:ig. A favorito device is thus manufactured: ; Tai e an alligator two five Ion.;, the tail as much longer, split it down the front and take out tiio entrails; then Leu 1 tho tail up so tho creature can ho put in a sitting post UI'O, S.!W 11(1 luo li ojit ui:u lu.'ji 11/ lu iviiuxii tlio opening, and dry tlio thing to S'jli bty. | '1 hen, with open mour.ii au>t ^listouiu^ tojtli, llw cadaver is set uj.cn a stand at the door and smiles a saurian welcome on tlio customers, 'i'iio forelegs aro often bent around a card-basket or Jnp m saucer; and if for salo, a placard held in its mouth announces, ' I want to {,'0 north," or "I i.inile to i-eo a customer/' cr th-j li .a Ono is surprised to lind the u;ly reptile the source of so much art and wit, \Vh?n the basket is made o: souse sea creature's anatomy ami is II.led with assorted ?heils. the richness of tho design is complete --".Parke" in Chicago Times. The llano CaM Cra'/o in (icnrcll. The L aso la.ll crn/o has reached its highest point o;' development in t!:e south. Vi'lieii the At aula chu> is playing in other cities tho Atlanta people, nun and v.mieu, | rush to the opera h >u-.:' at the hour set for I ih.? game, where there i-. an actual diamon 1 j on tno stage, ato;:n I whi.li uro stitione.! ! 1 oys in uniforni, t) represent the real players. They run the la^es by telegraph as it |! is being done in the :;.imo at the oJiur end 1 of tho wire.?L'hicigj Herald. , i Tll? Wli ?!<? <*:iiv>?;r of S!":iron?ri('lil. i Tin) fntnoiH jest prafixo I to iScacoiisfioli1.'* ; life shims up his wluilo career: "Says lie, 1 What air your principles;' Hays I, '1;1 hain't got nnry onn; I'm in the show busi* 1 uess.':'?Kow Vor!c Times. j; Mr. Gladstone's buttonhole posey, vrcra i when he mado his great speech, was a ros? j 1 with shamrocks, the gift of Mr. PuruelL < SECOND-HAND BOOKS. | '? A BIG BUSINESS DONE BY THE DEALERS AT THE CAPITAL. A Cnrlous Feature of Washington? Hooks from All Quarters of the Country?Chat with an Antiquarian? Boohs ou Special Subjects. l'Lo second-hand boo'c stores of Washing ton arc a curious teature oc tne cuy. i u?io are a number of them, some of which do a . /gz business of tens of thousands of dollars yearly smaller ones you vfrill find in out-ofthe-way places scattered hero and there, and in any one of these you may buy many, ; valuable and ran* hooks. One near tho treasury has tho rooms of a four-story brick ' building lined with books. Entering it* ground floor is like goinj; into a large pub?" lie library, where the Looks are classified bv sub.ects, and where you ask for a sot of tfcscongressioual debates, from the beginning* >?|H of the government until to-day, and it will be furnished you- It will compromise several hundred volumes, and its price will be jv-Od. \ou tako your purchase to your homo and look over it, and your mind goes' /"SajH back to the times of the past a? you read the curious marginal notes which you may find in some of the volumes, and look at the various autographs inscribed on the flyleaves of others. Theso books have been gathered Irom all parts of the country. One 'Ujlj volume may bave belonged to Andrew Jackson, and you see his dashing autograph on- vf-jj tho title page. Another may have coma from Stephen A. Douglas's library, and is , ,'^S many cases you will find books from-, thtft collections of Carroll, of Carrollton, an<f ' jnaj other men whose autographs have now a mercantile valua * :yS A HIGIJ-PRICED ALMANAC. The state department paid $22.50 at a book auction, not long ago, for an almanac, and it would Lave readily given $l(HJ for it .ffig It was one that Jefferson bad used, and it contained many notes in Jefferson's hand writing upon its pages. This almanac was. a part of a Virginia collection made by Mr. ' fcjliouey, one or sue ssenograpaers or iub senate, and the second hand book man of. whom Sbouey bought the almanac tells me he so d it to him fur $1. This man has a shop' % near tbo postoilice department, and while I. was buying a book or him I talked with him ''5 about li s trade, Said he: "Second-hand Look selling is a curious business, and to th? ' 9 careful dealer there is money in it Books fluctuate in value according to the demand*: of the tiiiiej, and one to-day which will not, bring 10 cents may to-morrow be worth as many dollars Anything rare comes high,' VgH and the springing up of interest in the old congressional questions brings the literature"; of tho times when they were formerly cus-ed into the market Just before the.' Garfield campaign began a book collector-;. named Parish bad a room full of Credit \ Aiobilier reports which he was thinking of selling to the waste-paper men. Garfield was nominated, the question was brought; into the canvas3, and be sold them for several dollars apiece. Just now all reports* aud speeches relating to the silver question are of value, and some old reports which we invoiced at nothing, bring i?everal dol- -1 lars a copy. "Here, ior instance, is a valuable bScH^" continued the antiquarian, as he picked up a volumo of about JOU pages bound ja leather, "It is worth $">0 at auction, and la', a government document, too It is a report!' ? A I n_cL-a n lamU hv HfilirV W. Elliott. an>l it contains many tna sketches Only seventy-live of these boo!;a were printed, en<l it is almost impossible to procure '";'3j them." "What class, of p?ople collect books?" I asked, "and what are their hobbies'" They are mostly scholars and readers,' though, indeed, now and then you will And . some ignorant feilow who cares for tho v$ binding more than the contents, and not a * lew people buy Loo'is for the pictures that. are in them rather than tho reading. Thero are many picture collectors in Washington, ? Js and in some ea-es 1 find that it pays better to tear a boo!; to piec js and sell its engrar- . ings by the pieces, Peoplo who would not; give 50 cents for tho \ oiume will pay 5 cents apiece for the twenty or more engravings which it contains. MAGAZINE PICTURES FOB lIOUXTETa "A great many mon buy old magazines for the pictures, and I have a large sale of iriarper s and Scribners on this account.. They take the full-page pictures from these maga-iucs and cut olf the white margin to where the engraving begins. They then, mount this engraving upon cardboard aa carefully as the mounting oY a photograph,' and at a very small expense procure choictf i collections of ongraviujs. The world ha*., never surpassed the magazine illustrations of to-day, and you may find genius lurking in many of the pictures of an oift-of-the-' way periodical . . "ilany men collect hook3 on special subjects. 'i here are a number of epicures in Washington, wno want everyiuiug we i?u find on wines nnd gastronomy. The man to ; whom I ;o:d Jeu'erson's almanac took, for, one year, everything on Virginia, and at' another time ho made a specialty of wbist < collections, and bought every book that re-; lated to whist or whist players. Oldj county histories sell well here at Washing-, ington, and state historical collections bring more than when they wer<j first printed. All branches of Americana sell well, and, indeed, if you keep any kind ot a book for a number of years you are sure to find a buyer in the end." ... fcjieaking or second-ban l book store?, Washington has tnanv book auctions every winter, oinl a very vuluablo collection is to' Le sold during the present season in tho shape of tin Looks of tlu la to e.\-Govornor TLoiu..s i artlcy, of Ohio. Hartley w;is a" great collector, and ho had a library ofciiokv volumes running into tho thousands. Sucii b..o.< auctions are always held in the evening, and you may iind supreme court ? .fjudges, senators, congressmen, and literatuurs mi.ed up in too crowds which attend them. The Looks are sold by catalogue and *r each man a catalogue in his hand as tho' sale goes oil The bidding is always spirited, and standard wonvs bring their full' value. There are a number of collectors who send to such auctions orders for books, giving the limit of their bids, and in certain cases the auctioneer is authorized to bid ?iv?.a!..0 r?'V f/s tlium nt. nnv nrire. Ut'i UlUI ""*** **"J I? Juugo Bradley buys books at these auctions Justice Woods ii often attendant upon them,and the uu tiouoer Las sometimes order* from tiio historian, Bancroft?"Carp" inCleveland Leader. The Kntl of tl?e AVorl<l. So nir.ny prophecies of tho world's end have failed of l.nu that it would Le supposed t>:Ut tho prophets would be discouraged, but aero is another ao old as Mother tjhipton's. The following prophecy concerning tho Ivsi ru tioa of the world was made, it is sjii l I y .Nostra !oi:au, the celobr.itcd 1>rench astr<'ln;.?r, who died in J-AVi: "Quand n'eur^e Lieu crueifiera, Que liarc le ren' nisei tarn, ct que Kiaint Jean lc portera: La:? du niende arrivera." Which means that' the world wiil come to r.n end when the "oust of St. George fails on Good Friday, the feast of St Mark on Easter, and Corpui1 Uhristi day on St John's day. Such is thrf case this year.?Phrenological Journal