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YOL. ir. NO. 37. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1872. (SKS
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OCR SEW TOR* LETTER.
Bread upon the Watere-A Charity Girl in
After Years Supports her Benefactor?
A Sad Story, etc., etc.
BREAD UPON THE WATER.
One of those little episodes of life which
illostrate the generous returns of benevolence
that sometimes come back to us after
long years, like " bread upon the water,"
has found its way to the point of
ray pen, and I give it for the sake of the
beautiful moral that is so seldom developed
in similar cases ; for these visible returns
npon charity are, like angels' visits, "few
and far between."
Away back in the years that are gone,
a rich merchant of our city returning
to his home one cold, dreary, November
evening, -found a poor barefooted child of
poverty upon his door-step, shivering and
in tears from 'he most visible evidences of
suffering and want. The impulse of many
Tvrmlfl llQVLi })i<nn to V* O tro /I ri t?on Lam nn> av
r^_ ?f vu<u jjuiv l/vvu iu iiaf c uutrn uci an aj j
bat one glance at her face struck pity to
V his heart, and he took her into his house,
^ warmed her by the fire, fed her at hi<
table and clothed her in the warm, cast-off
garments of his own little girl. He listened
to her artless and unstudied tale of sorrow,
believed it, and with a basket of food and
an old though comfortable blanket, sent
her borne, telling her to come to his house
whenever they needed food, clothing or
fuel.
It seems that the poor family struggled
on as best they could, and whenever poverty
pinehed too bitterly the little girl came
to the merchant's house for the proffered
charity, until her little face became quite
familiar. One day she came in great sorrow
and hitter weeping. Her mother was
dead, and she had no one to tnrn to in the
bereavement of her little heart but our
kind merchant. He buried the poor, dead
woman and took the little girl to his home
until he could, Irom the dying direction>
of the mother, write to her relations, for. as
the story goes, the mother had married
* against the will of her parents, and had
been disinherited. During her life, she
had preferred to remain in poverty and
obscurity rather than appeal to her unnatural
parent*, hnl ?t lior nrl/lo tp?l? I
. 7 I" ?Vswallowed
up in anxiety for lier helpless
child. The relations came and took the
child away, and then her whereabouts
were lost to the merchant.
Tears rolled by, and misfortune overtook
our man of generous heart. Death of his
family and bankruptcy of his fortune lefr
him a wreck on the shore of impecuniosity.
Many were the ways he strove to rise
again,but each time he only fell back lower,
until a trembling, grey-haired old man, he
silently pleaded with passers-by for his
daily bread at a street 9tand until one day
a runaway team overturned his apples and
cakes, and injured him so severely that he
was taken to the hospital, and a paragragh
of the accident appeared in the papers,
with his name and a sketch of his lite and
failure.
This paragraph caught the eye of a
wealthy lady living in a neighboring city,
' and hastening to New York and to the
hospital, she stood by the bed of the poor
old man, and in her fine, generous face
and adornments of wealth lie could not
recognize the little girl he once befriended.
But such she was. She had been raised
by wealthy relations, bad married in prominence
and lived in luxury. She had never
forgotten her first benefactor, but bad lost
all traces of him until, lo her surprise, she
saw the paragraph in the papers. And
now the hre?<l rn?t 11mm tb? waters l.?o
been found,after many days,gloriously mult'plied,
like tlie Savior's loaves; and taken
to the generous home of the noble woman,
he is passing his last days in peace and
happiness, loved and honored as her own
father, and the children even call him
grandpa.
A SAD STORY.
Strolling down on the Battery a tew
days ago?and here let me preface this
incident by stating that since the commendable
improvements of the Park Commissioners,
the Battery again smiles in
beauty and invites the lover of fresh sea
bre. zetoa stroll over its fine walks, and
grassy plots, under its shady trees, and
around its splendid sea girt wall. Such a
stroll I was taking near old Castle Garden,
when one of the policemen,knowing my con
nectton with the press, said to me, " Come
and I'll show you a subject for a newspaper
paragraph," and following him lie
lei the way into Castle Garden and showe
1 m? an old man and woman apparently
war their three ?corc and ten, and this is
the story that makes up the la?t chapter
in their old weather beaten lives.
They are Svvis>, and passed the limiN
of thoT humble lives in the mountain
fa^tne^.es of the land ol Tell, and amid
its green valleys tended their little flocks,
nnd :d their little cot of moss covered
stone, one child bies^ed their lives and
grew np to manhood to lift toe burthen
of toil from their shouiders. They were
happy with only the care that "a lew
paternal acres bound." The same little
chapel, in which they stood and plighted
thjir faith in the morning of life, still
I reared its modest spire beneath the grandeur
of Switzerland^ mountains, its sweet
toned bell still called them to the simple
worship over green heather and through
worn paths in the rock that their parents
before them had trod, and the rotine of
their humble peasant lives wore smoothly
on. And then tears of sorrow came
^ through smiles of hope, like April showers |
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through the sunshine ot Spring. Tbeir
son was coining to America to gain wealth
and a home in the land of promise, and
then was going to send for his old parents
to give ease to their declining years.
They parted, and for years the old folks
struggled on alone, and the loneliness only
seemed lifted from the hearth when the
regular letter came from the son inform
ing them in glowing words how well bt
was succeeding and giving proof in the
remittance it contained.
Then came the long-looked for lettei
telling ihem to come on and he woulc
rnee*: them in New irork, and togethei
they would go to their future home in tb<
West. The little possession in fatberlanc
was sold and the sacred things?''the house
bold gods"?were packed in the old family
chests, and bidding farewell fo the onlj
scenes they had ever known, the two ok
people with their hearts all aflutter wit!
hope and expectation embarked for Neu
York, and landed, the day before I saw
them.
Kind reader, have you ever experiencec
all that warm glow of excitement anc
expectation at the meeting of some lovec
one after long absence, and all the sweel
charms of peace and rest that hop?
breathes from repose. Then your's will b(
heartfelt sympathy.
When the great steamship reached hei
dock, and relations and friends were greeting
each other, 1 he old father and inotbei
<tiained their eyes over the crowd but n<
familiar face met theirs, the greetings wer<
for others not for them. Shall I tell ! The
son was dead. lie had come to New York
bringing all his money with him, wa?
Jaken sick in some unprincipled boardinghouse
and died, and no one claimed tc
know where the money went, but in a
pauper grave the only son was laid and
that was all
The old couple sat upon one of theii
chest" with their arras locked about each
other, andonlv moaned low in their heartbroken
anguish. Oh, pitiful was the scene
No consolation could give relief. 11
would have been a blessing could death
have come to them and kissed away theii
agony with their lives; bet out of theii
little moans they will go back to theii
old and desolate home, childless, lielpksand
heart-broken, and wander aboji its
old scenes in a dreamy kind of way, and
then relief will come to them, and in the
little church-yard by the mou'ain side
the villagers will point to the rude stone
that rises above them, and tell their cbil
dren the same sad story I've told you.
A Touching Story,
A touching and beautiful story is told
of America's great tragedian, Edwin For
rest, and related by Stuart Kobson, in his
lecture on that eminent personage. The
lecturer says that a few summers ago he
had occasion to enter a street-car in
Philadelphia, which, among other passenners,
held au elderly, surly-looking gentleman,
whose head rested on a stout stick,
and a young and pretty lady who was accompanied
bv a little four-year-'-11 girl
who was skipping playfully about the car,
The little girl looked so bright, and lively,
and pretty, as she held in her hand a
hunch of loosely arranged flowers,that the
eyes of every passenger followed her, as
-he gamboled from one end of the car to
the other, with the single exception ol
the surly-looking gentleman, whose head
still rested on the stout stick. All at
once the little creature stopped, looked
timidly towards, him, then?as if hall
afraid of the liberty she was taking?
picked a rosebud from the flower bunch,
and trotting to his side, with some difficulty
plac. d it in an uninviting buttonhole
of the coat worn hy the surly-looking
gentleman, whosfc head still rested on the
stout stick. The movement roused him,
when he lifted his head, took in the situation
at a glance, bent bis eyes on the little
darling, who ran laughingly back to
her mother, and?never thanked her!
Said Mr. Robson<in teiling the story, "To
some, the man's conduct may have appeared
heartless and unfeeling; but I
watched him closely, and, though?he
scarcely changed his position, his eyes
never left her until, the cai stopping a few
paces off, he alighted, and, as he did so,
I discovered that they were filled with
tears. The car moved on. but until it was
lo-t to view be stood looking towards us.
This man was America's greatest tragedian.
Edwin Forrest, and we may rest
assured that -the unpremeditated act ol
this pretty little child affected liim more
than any ol the great honors which have
been showered on this lonely, childless
gentleman."
Men of Brains. ? Wendell Paillips
says: ' The biggest brains don't go tr
Congress. The biggest brains in the coun
try control the industrial enterprises, the
railroad and the iion business and the
cottcn business; it takes a Napoleon tc
grasp it ?n his han 1. These are the great
men, these aie the big brains?the Stewarts,
the Yanderbilts, and the Scotts:
while in the second line of intellect come
tie editors, professional men, of vast
strength, a- a then out of the third average
come the Congressmen. And out ol
3b0 cf them you get. perhaps, 10 marked
men, but the average arc only third xate
men.
A Connecticut paper says : " At present
two thirds of the population of
Peduenoc pa*s Sundav fishing for muskrats
with snot-guns. This ib the way the
other third know when Sunday comes."
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| What Killed the Eagle.
At some distance off, 6ays Porte Crayon,
I in one of his letters, perched upon a dead f
tree which commanded a view of the pro- \
prietor's meadows and stack-yards, we ?
i observed a bald eagle sitting like a statne t
' of Liberty, his golden head shining in the ?
s sun. It was proposed that Adam should s
try the range of his long rifle upon him, {
> which he prepared to do: but ere a bead c
s could be drawn, the eagle swept from his r
perch and sailed grandly over the mead- (
r ows, and then poising himself, made a t
I swoop at something near the stack-yard, f
: 44 There goes a good hen, the thievin1 (
i devil 1" spitefully letting fly a wild shot j
i at the rising robber. t
The eagle evidently had something in t
r his claws as he rose; and, strangely t
r enough, after the shot, instead of sailing <
1 off to some comfortable mountain-top to i
? enjoy his dinner, he continued to rise 1
' perpendicularly, wheeling in rapid circles i
' upward and upward until he was lost to <
view. I
1 Old Adam chuckled as he observed, 441 <
I think that chance shot spiled his fun for t
1 him, I do." And so we all strained our J
t eyes into the blue firmament, endeavoring t
^ to see the eagle, instinctively the while ]
? rldinor tnwnrrla thp stnnk vflrd. But it is
useless; he's gone, and the shot only <
r frightened or crippled him. Then we
were astonished at hearing a rushing
p sound through the air, which rapidly
> neared us, and the eagle came down like
i a falling star, striking the earth a hundred
1 yards ahead, and about the same distance
: from the spot where he struck his quarry.
? We dismounted and rushed forward to
verify the marvelous shot, but found an>
other explanation still more curious. The
i eagle was stone-dead, without the mark
t of a bullet about him; but under his
thigh was a hole eaten into his very
' heart. A few yards off a weasel, torn
and bloody, but still alive, trailed its way
through the grass with a broken back.
" A quafrel among thieves," said old
' Adam, " and the chickens will git their
1 due now."
But some ot us, not so materialistic in
our views, pitied the weasel, and regretted
that, after his sublime ascent and
' heroic defence of his life, he had not es1
caped safe and sound.
Mr. Pitt in a Frolic.?Great men
1 need to unbend and have a good frolic,- as
t well as other people. The younger Wm.
Pitt was noted for dignity of person and
for power of overawing associates. But
lie could play as well as rule. One
day he was in a high frolic with Lady
Hester Stanhope, James Stanhope, and
' William Napier. They were struggling
to hold him down and blacken his face
mntif /*nrL* wlion o aprvfint ?n. I
( nounced Lords Ca9tlereagh and Liverpool,
' two of his associates in the Cabinet, had
1 called on business. lie said coolly, " Let
' them wait in the outer room," and went
" on with the sport. But Coding himself
overmatched, he said: "Stop, this won't
do; I could easily beat you all, but we
' musn't keep these grandees waiting any
longer." His associates washed his face,
' hid the basin behind the 6ofa, and the
1 grandees were ushered in. The manner
of Mr. Pitt suddenly changed. His tall,
' ungainly, bony figure seemed to grow up
' to the ceiling?his head thrown back, his t
eyes fixed immovably in one position, as (
if gazing into the heavens, and totally t
regardless of the two bending figures be
fore him. He was cold and haughty;
they, humble and suppliant. In a few e
minutes, Mr. Pitt bowed them out, and j
i then, turning round with a hearty laugh, 1
caught up a cushion and commenced the j
' battle again. <]
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Pkof. Mouse's Wii.l.?The will of the
late Prof. Morse provides for the payment j
of the following bequests and legacies out of j
the residuary fund: Home of the Friendless,
Poughkeepsie, S3,000; Nassau Hall, j
I Princeton, to found two* scholarships, to ^
be named Finley and Breese respectively, ^
S'2.000; Union Theological Seminary,
Hampden Sydney, Va., SI,000; Old La- t
dies Home, Poughkeepsie, Sl,000; Na,
tional Academy of Design, New York, }
"for procuring a suitable medal for the ^
encouragement of art," ?1,000; Araerican
Geographical Society, a medal for the j
, encouragement of geographical research, j
SI,000; New York City University Scholarship
Medal. SI,000. The cross of the
Knight Commander of the Order of the c
- Dannebroge, conferred on him by the \
King of Denmark, is to be returned to the j
Chancellor of the Order at Copenhagen.
Food Medicine ? Dr. Hall advances
a theory that fcod can be used as a curative
remedy equally well with medicine.
t He relates a case where a man was cured
of biliousness by going without liis supper,
and free use ef lemonade. This paCent
rose, hesaya, after he began the use
( of this drink, refreshed, and with a feel.
ing as though his blood had 'iierally been
cleansed. Ho further says that be cures
; cases of spitting blood by using salt; epi(
lepsy and yellow fever by watermelons;
. kidney affections by celery; poison, olive
or sweet oil; erysipelas, pounded cran.
bcriies appplied to the part adiected; hy.
drophobia, onions. If this theory is correct,
drugs would soon become " drugs"
in the market, and people would soon learn
that the way to keep well was t.o eat certain
kinds of food. The world would thus
become healthier and happier.
Rev. Maxwell P. Gaddis died in St
J Joseph, Mo., of softening of the brain c
Small-pox on the Ocean.
With the bark Athena, which arrived
rom Bremen, comes a terrible tale of to
voe. To the dangers and perils of the ac
ea? were added the manifold terrors of ap
he malignant srnall-pox, scarlet fever, H
md measles, which chused the death of 1'
leveral of tfce crew and many of the pas- 1*
lengers. The vessel had been but two H
lays out of Bremen when one ot the sea- m
nen was taken ill, and in a short time his U1
lisease had so far developed that his ship- ^
nates were made aware that lie was suf- L
"ering from small-pox. Huddled together 31
>n the ship were 474 passengers, emi- ai
grants to this country. Precautions were
it once taken to prevent the spread of ,ri
lie disease, but others of tlie crew were tc
ilready infected, and forced to succumb. 111
^mong the passengers weremany women
ind children. Soon deaths began to be ^
requent. The sailor who was fiist taken *?
11, died, and was sewed up in a canvas and ^
;ast overboard. Already had the small- w
mix communicated itself to the passengers.
String men awoke in the morning unable w
:o leave their berths, and the tell-tale red
dotches that soon made their appearance ^
old all too plainly why they were weak. a;
" : i-i.j d<
rtapiaiy me aisease was muciuuieu imu
;he system of fellow passengers, and eacli ^
succeeding day brought fresh cases. w
As the bark was a sailing vessel the u
provisions of the law did not demand that ^
ts complement of officers should include ai
i physician. Captain Christopher, who P*
jomraanded, although an able sailor, was ~~
petter versed in navigation than medicine. ^
The only antidotes obtainable were those ts
vhich were in the medicine chest. These w
vere distributed as was thought best, and
ivery effort was made to prevent the gensral
spread of the disease. Hardly had ol
;he officers begun to hope for success P
vhen new horrors were added to the
neasure that seemed already to he overlowing.
Scarlet fever and measles be
jan to appear among the children. Moth- fi
irs were prostrated with the small pox, ^
ind the little ones in many instances suf- ^
ered for the care that might have saved C1
heir lives. Many of them were mere inants,
and their little frames withstood jj
he ravages of disease but a day or two ^
it most. Thus whole families perished, gt
ind one after the other were sunk into
he sea. The log of the ship tells a mourn- ()|
ul tale of mortality. Twenty children, a
lumber of them babes, who fell sick in
heir mother's arms, died before reaching jt
>andy Hook. The majority fell victims o)
o measles, but scarlet fever and small- tj
iox also did their work. Fire adult pas- w
lengers and one seaman died of small-por, tf
ind one seaman of scarlet fever, during
he voyage?twenty-seven deaths in all. cj
STo sooner had the Athena dropped her
inchor than she was quarantined, and or- ()(
lered fumigated and cleaned. Those who
vere still suffering with the disease were
emoved to the hospital. ^
Although the emigrant officers were in- pf
lined to lay the blame to inferior food,
he captain avers that the provisions were cj
>oth good and abundant, and seems to e,
liink that the disease was fostered ^y the ^
lirty habits of the emigrants, who were jj,
ihiefly Poles. Nothing, he declares, short j(
>f physical violence could induce them to .
vash. On their arrival, they were told
f they did not wash they would be sent
o prison. Men and women then washed rt
>n the deck, and did so with great earn- cj
jstness. c:
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Popular Orators.?Who are the speak:rs
that move the crowd?men after the ^
lattern of Whitefield, what are they? ^
They are almost always men of very large t|
)hysical development, men of very strong ^
ligestive powers, and whose 'ungs have tj
;reat aerating capacity. They are men ^
vho, while they have sufficient thought- ^
>ower to create all the material needed. t|
lave preeminently the exclusive power by 9{
rhich they can thrust their materials out f|1
it men. They are catapults, and men go j
lown before tliein. Of course you will
iud men now and then, thin and shrill- ^
oiced, who are popular speakers. Someimes
men are organized with a compact a,
lervous temperament and are slender ()1
rained, while they have a certain concen- t(
rated earnestness, and, in narrow lines, M]
hey move with great intensity. John
Randolph was such a man-?Henry W. j
'frecher. j
An Army STORY.-Tbe boastful talk about ^
\v
onversions, which we hear on all sides,
swell hit ofTby an army story. Chap- w.
ain X. called at Col. Z's headquarters, and el
urning the conversation on revivals, told
vhat an inteiest was excited in his own
egiment. " What do yo mean ?" asked w
3ol. Z., puzzled at his language. TLe p(
haplain replied that a revival was then g,
;oing on, and he had baptized thirty-four ()I
nen in the river that very week. Col. Z., ar
urning to an orderly, "Orderly! Tell nj
dajor to order out one hundred p(|
nen for instant baptism. If that, Sir'? f
urning to the chaplain, "is to be the test ar
>f regimental standing, this regiment shall cc
lot be outdone by yours ci any other in
he scjvice."
An Introduction.?There is nothing
r> ?flTprh'nf* in a child as a certain sweet re
nborn spirit of self-abnegation. Sammy L
cas a little boy, at school in a village far w
rom his home. One day his father came vi
o see him, and they took a walk together, a
leeting the principal of the school, Sam- qi
ny performed the ceremony ot introduc- or
ion. "Mr. S.," said he, "this is a father lo
?f mine.". tc
An Irish Lord.
A curious piece of personal history comes
' us from England in reference to the
icestry of Col. White, "who has just been
pointed Lord Liutenant of County Clare,
eland. It appears that about the year
75, his grandfather, Luke White, was
iddling old books in the North of Ireland,
aving by this means scraped up a little
oney, be instituted book auctions, and
tiroately started a shop in Dawson street,
ublin, near the official residence of the
ord Mayor, where he published books
id pamphlets. By selling lottery tickets,
id various other devices, be amassed a
>od deal of money, and, being in a most
apecunious country, was able to turn it
) excellent account. He advanced on
lortgage, forclosed, and became rich. In
i"93, when the rebellion broke out. the
:ish Government was in desperate straits
ir money. It advertised lor a loan, and
ie best terms which could be obtained
ere Luke White's proposal to take a milon
of Government bonds at sixty-five,
ith interest at five per cent.! At such
ites it does not take long to grow richrhite
became a member oi Parliament,
ad had a son also in the House, and exended
as much as $500,000 on elections,
t his death he left an immense fortune,
bich he divided between his sons, but
ltirnately the whole of it passed to one.
Ie married a clever, ambitious woman,
id she "egged him on" in search o( a
eerage. Nothing "Irish or pinchbeck"
-as Lord Wellesley wrote in chagrin to
itt, when be received his double gilt poito,
as he called his Irish Marquisate?
ould Mrs. White have, but a " peerage
f the United Kingdom." So one day her
usband became a member of the House
f Lords, as Lord Annaly, without even
issing through the mid channel of the
aronetage.
The Tariff.
The Senate Finnnce Committee have
nished their labors on the Tariff and Tax
ill and reported it to the Senate. The
ill makes gome radical changes, and in'eases
the amount of taxes removed from
irty-three millions, as provided in the
ouse bill, to fully fifty millions. This is
lainly accomplished by abolishing all
amp dories in schedules B and C, which
imprise about all that are left. The
ther important changes are in tobacco,
hich is fixed uniform at twenty-four
?nts, instead of twenty, as the House had
. Whiskey is fixed in a consolidated tax
f seventy cents, and all licenses and rentiers'
taxes abolished. Tobacco bonded
arehouses remain as in the House bill.
> wit, abolished. Coal and salt are agreed
> as passed by the House. Lumber is
targeJ from ad valorem reduction, as
rovided by the House, to a specified duty
f $2 on pine. Books are changed from
>ecifio duty, as provided by the House,
id put*under the ten per cent. Yeduction
ction, which will make the ad valorem
ite twenty-two and a half per cent. The
ee list provision in regard to books was
langed so as to restoie the old language
icept allowing the importation of text
uoks for the use of schools, and to be
mited to two copies for each school,
ute was taken out of the free list, as
ere guupowder and saltpetre.
Fishixo ix Japax.?The Japanese have
ire sport at certain seasons of the year,
itching fish by the bushel, as fast as they
m gather them in. In the spring, when
ie fish are in the rivers and making their
ay down to the sea. the young men and
oys throw into the water the pulverized
ark ol a certain tree which lias much of
ie spicy qualities of pepper. The poor
sh take it in greedily, and then to cool
leir turning mouths they drink such
uantities of water, which is now imregnated
with the bark, as to prevent
leir swimming to purer places in the
ream. They drink and drink, making
latters worse and worse with every
rauglit, till they die, and are picked up
r hauled in by the boys to land. The
ark has no injurious qualities, so that the
sh thus taken are as nice for the table
i if taken with the hook or net. Anther
way to entrap the unwary tribes is
? gather a certain kind of green persiinton,
which is the strongest possible asingent,
and cast them into the river,
he fish swallow them, and are instantly
fleeted as if by paralysis. The fins drop
nwn powerless at their sides, as if they
ere dead; and then the young Japs
ade into the streatn and help themselves,
ther by picking up their floating victns
or by nets.
A Counterfkiter Drowned.-G. Tyler,
ith another notorious counterfeiter of
ort Wayne, was discovered by t wo Unitcd
tares detectives near Wellsville, Ohio,
1 the river bank. Tyler drew a revolver
id fired a ball through the eoat ot one
the officer*. The officer returned the
:e, sh Kiting ?>ne man through the hand,
yler then made for the river, jumped in
id was drowned, leaving on the bank his
lat, which contained ?1 100 counterfeit
ventics, legal tenders The other man
d to the hills.
A Pertinent Question.?During a rent
trial at Rockport, Indiana, Judge
aird interrupted the testimony of a lady
itness, remarking that it was not releint.
The lady raised her head, and with
look made up of injured innocence, inlired,
"Well, sir, am I tellingthia story,
are you?" The Judge wilted, and alwed
her to talk as long as she wanted
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Brevitia?.
Rye came originally from Siberia.
Confidence contributes more to conrcrition
than wit or talent.
In 1702 was built the first Episcopal
burch in North Carolina.
A man at Council Bluffs, Iowa, got
ngry at his horse the other day, and
terally beat him to death.
In the U. S. Senate, the Ku-Klux,
upplementary Civil Rights, and the
Ltnnesty bills, were passed.
Be thou what thou singularly art, and
>ersonate only thyself. Swim smoothly
a the stream of thy nature and live but
ne man.
An inventive Kentucky freed woman
ias done away with hen monopolies forver
by hatcliiog a brood of live chickens
mder a stove.
The strawberry season in Southern
llinois has opened finely, and apples,
teaches, pears, cherries and grapes never
tromised better.
In Tuftonborough, N. H., there is a
at which appears to be half rabbit. It '
s destitute of a tail, and its habits are
omewhat like those of a rabbit. 11 is an
xcellent mouser
A soldier who stole chickens when at
?ort Scott, during the war, has just sent
tight dollars "conscience money" to the
>wner of one of the chicKen roosts that
lad suffered by him.
A Missouri legislator clinched an argnnent
against dogs the other day, by
iu-pnrinor thnt, tho nionev exneuded in
The Old Home.
Jfes, still the same, the Bame old spot;
The years may go, the years may come,
Yet through them all there changeth not S(
The old familiar home.
The poplars by the old mill stream C.
A trifle taller may have grown ;
The ivies round the turret green a
Perchance more thickly thrown. li
Yet still the same gr;en lanes are here
That brought their violet scents in spring, ^
And heard through many a golden year ^
The winsome echoes ring.
Of children in the A^Hl morn,
Knee deep in yellow cowslip bloomj; 0
Of lovers' whispers lightly borne
Through sultry twilight glooms. ? v
And out upon the red-bricked town, e
The quaint o d houses stand the same ; u
The same old sign swings at the Crown.
Ablaze in sunset flame. I
Yet still 'tis not the same old spot?
The old familiar friends aro gone. I
I afk of those who know them not *
All strangers every one. c
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The morning brooks may sing the same; 8
The whitethorns blossom in the May; c
But each long-loved, remembered name
Has passed in turn away. ^ j
Farmhouse Notes.
Cream Tie.?To make cream pie, beat
two eggs well, in a coffee cup of sugar
and one of thick, sour cream. Stir till 1
thoroughly mixed. Add a tea^poonful 8
of extract of lemon or vanilla. This
quantity given will make two pies. Bake .
with two crusts.
Floor Cleaning.?"When a carpet is ]
taken up to be cleaned, the floor beneath j
it is generally very much covered with {
dust. This dust is very fine and dry, (
and poisonous to the Jungs. Sprinkle ,
the floor with very dilute carbolic acid s
to kill any poisonous germs that may be \
present, and so thoroughly disinfect the |
floor and render it sweet.
Ducks in Vineyards ?It is mentioned (
in The Grape Culturist that a large vine- t
yardist in Illiuois keeps each season not t
less than 100 ducks constantly among 1
his vines. He says it it wonderful with ]
what diligence they dar; after all kinds i
of bugs, t.hrips, flies, and small snails, <
and he considers them among the best (
of inseot exterminators. They lay a good
many eggs, too, and are not bad to take ,
when roasted. . t
Apple Jam.?In making apple jam, 1
the apples should be ripe, and of the 1
best eating sort, and being pared and 1
quartered are put into a pan with just 1
water enough to cover them, and boiled 1
until they can be reduced to a mash. $
Tlieu for each pound of pared apples, a I
pound of sifted sugar isadded, sprinkled <
over the boiling mixture. Boil and stir f
it well uutil reduced to a jam. Then t
put it into pots. The above is the most
simple way of making it, but to have it
of the best possible clearness, make a
at.: _i_ ?* 4. i. i.i ji_
iuick. syrup wim uiree pounas 01 sugar
to each pi it of water and clarify it with
an egg. Then add one pint of this syrup '
for every three pounds ol apples, and c
boil the jam to a proper thickness. g
Wax Bean.1?This snap bean, but re* c
cently introduced and not yet generally t
known, is one of the very best for gur- ]
den culture. When planted and cared
for in the same way. the wax is 10 or 12
days later than the Early Valentiue ; but c
in every other respect it is superior to s
either this or that other excellent variety, the
Refugee. Ihe vines grow longer j
than other kinds of the snap beans, pro-1
duce more beans of larger siz?, more |s
brittle, and of better quality. Those i
who are fond of young snap beans plant j
sepd three or four times during the
Spring?say two weeks apart?so as to
get a succession for table use. Where it
will take four plantings with other kinds, i
two plantings of the Wax will be found >,
quite enough, because this variety will t
keep tender just twice as long as the
sorts commonly grown for home con- 1
sumption. The pods of the Wax grow '
long, thick, tender, aud*of a waxy yellow <
color. 1
Natural Curiosities.?Carter county, ,
Ky., appears to be rich in natural curio?i- ,
ties. Among them is a natural bridge t
which is 210 feet in the span, 19G feet high, ,
and 12 fact wide, being arched under- (
ncath and level on the top. One hundred j
feet below it there is a cascade with a fall
of 75 feet, and^two miles distant there is ,
another with a fall of 200 feet. Near by j
are two streams known as Big Sinkey
and Little Sinkey, which emerge from the ,
ground good-sized streams, and after a s
course of about two miles suddenly disappear.
There is also in the same neighborbood
a natural artesian well which
formerly threw up a jet about four feet
high, of the size of a common barrel; but t
having been obstructed by stones and ]
trunks of trees thrown Into it. by persons ]
desirous of finding out its depth, it now (
only plays to the height of a foot above [
the level of the pool. r
Sad Disaster. ? Buildings belonging 15
to W. G. Johnson, on Fall Creek, near '
Ithaca, were set on fire by an incendiary.
One of the steamers cf the city was
stationed on the high bridge over Fall
Creek, just below the foot of the main fall.
"When the (ire was nearly out, the bridge,
without any warning by cracking fell,
carrying with it the engine and the people
who had gathered there, to the number of
about two hundred. The bridge wa?
twenty feet above the water, and the whole
of it went down together. Fifteen persons
wereseverly injured, including a number
ot the students of Cornell Ui%ersity, some
so badly that they are not expected to recover.
Raisins-.?The finest raisins are grapes
merely dried in the sun. The Mnscatel
raisins have the stalk of tire bunch partly
cot through and dried upon the vine, the li
leavg^being removed to allow of full ex- ?
posure. Commoner kinds are dried upon ?
lines, and afterwards dipped into a lye to a
which salt and oil ore added. e
iupporting 21 .(K'0,0<0 flogs in the Unied
States would buy 1,314,000,000 whiskey
cocktails every ye.y.
A lady belonging in Oxford County,
\Ie., sixty year8 of age, has been workDg
in one of the mills the past Winler
o earn money to keep the stock through
:old weather. L ist Fall the stock could
jot be sold, and rather than see them
itarve the energetic lady weDt to work
n the milk, and earned enough to save
lie stock.
In the Insane Asylum at Stockton,
Dal., there is a female patient whose
iberrahon of mind was produced by
;ight lacing. In mentioning this fact a
leathenish California editor gives the
philosophy of the cause as follows: All
vomen who lace tightly are ins inc?the
inly difference is that one was found
>ut. The others will be in good time."
Au Indianapolis man writes to his favorite
papci: "Please say to the party
hat made an attempt to burgle No. 363
tforth Mississippi street, between the
lours of 2 and 3 o'clock this morning,
hat if his present infirmity does not in
erfere with him doing so, to make one
nore trial at his earliest convenience,
tnd bring his winding sheet and coffin
ilate with him. I have his burial eer iflrate
ready, and signed l?.v Smith & Wesion
in six volumes. Death to sneak
hieves." ?
Weather Eeports.
The great success that Las attended
;hc efforts of tbe United States Signal
Sureau, in furnishing the public with ac:urate
summaries of the weather in evety
ection of the country, has encouraged tl e
ifticers in charge to still further extend
;he field of tbeir work and usefulness,
hitherto the wants of commerce have been
nainly considered, and therefore existing
>r approaching storms on the lakes or the
iea-coast hive bcen^ioticed or predicted.
I'he marine interests of the country have
seen greatly benefited; wrecks have been
tverted, and many human iives saved. It
s now felt, however, that the agricultural
nterest of the whole country should rereive
its share of the benefits aeeuring
rom these accurate weather bulletins, and
in appropriation has been a?ked of Confess
to defray the necessary exuens"8 in
hat direction. It h proposed to establish
i series of signal stations tn the rural di3ricts
in eveiy State thrpughout the Union,
'o that the daily report may be moro
rhorcughly circulited among the farmers..
Phis is a step in the right direction; for
:herc can be nodoubt that agriculturists
Aoultl soon learn to rely upon these weaih;r
forecasts, and cultivate crops with great
tdvantage and increased protits. Under
he new system, the reports may easily
je made useful to farmers, for a citcful
>erusal of them would save them labor
ind enable them to plant more intelligenty.
Work would not be delated, and
:rops need not be leaped when storms
tre imminent. Plowing and Rowing scions
could be calulated, and the results
jf the year largely increased to individuals
md the nation at large. #
The Kixo of Smokers.?A Dutch genletnan,
who enjoyed the sobriquet of
ving ot the Smokers, has lately died at
Rotterdam, Holland, in the neighborhood
>f which city he had erected a mansion
n which he had a collection of pipes nr anged
according to their nationality and
chronological order. Mr. Ivlaes, who had
icquired a large fortune in the linen trade,
las made a most whimsical will. Ten
jounds of tobacco and two Dutch pipes,
?f the newest fashion, me to he presented
o all smokers who attend his funeral.
Te further desired that his coffin should
>e lined w ith tlio cedar of old Havana
* b " - ? '1 lv?^i Aihahi f a r>ir\A 1 , a lni/1
'Igar 1>UAC?, uiiu jiij iaiuiuc l"l'?
>y lii9 side, with matches and tinder, as
here was no knowing what might happen,
t has been calculated that during his life
>f eighty years lie had drunk about fire
mndred thousand quarts of beer, and
moked more than four tons of tobacco,
brewers and tobacconists should surely
aise a monument to such a pear> of parons,
whose career is calculated to throw
he anti-stimnlaDt and narcotic school
nto a paroxysm of despair.
Says the Washington Star: "The
atest thing in spring hats for yonng la
lies is to have the rim so bent and
rumpled as to be suggestive of a late
upper, an over-portion of champagne
nd a general mussiness. Jaunty, but
tot judicious.
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