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DEVOTED TO POLITI0.s, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERALITRSOFTEGURY By Do F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C., THURSD AYK, NOVME 11080 O.X-N,8 FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. THE date of the earliest eclipse of the sun, recorded in the annals of the Chi nose, when " on the first day of the last month of autumn, the sun and moon did not meet harmoniously in Fang," or in that ?art of the heavens defined by two stars in the constellation of the Scorpion has been determinpd by Prof. Von Op' polzer, of Vienna, to have been the morning of Oct. 28, 2187 B. 0. A CORRESPONDENT of the London Times gives the following singular but interesting information for the benefit of those wvho are interested in the study of the transmission of hereditary qual ities : The following cases are taken from a list of seventeen candidates for election to an institution for the instruc tion of deaf and dumb children : 1. A. B. has six brothers and one sister, two of the brothers and the sister being deaf and dumb. 2. 0. D. has four brothers and one sister, two of the brothers being also deaf and dumb. 3. E. F. has two brothers and one sister. Father, mother, two brothers, grandfather, two uncles and an aunt are deaf and dumb. A RAPID penman can write thirty words in a minute. To do this he must draw his pen through the space of a rod, sixteen and a half feet. forty min utes his pen travels a furlong. We make, on an average, sixteen curves or turns of the pen in writing each word. Writing thirty words in a minute, we must make 480 to each minute ; in an hour, 28,800 ; in a day of only five hours, 144,000; in a year of 300 days, 43,200,000. The man who made 1.000, 000 strokes with his pen was not at all remarkable. Many men newspaper writers, for instance, make 4,000,000. Here we have, in the aggregate, a mark of 300 miles long to be traced on paper by such a writer in a year. TiHE proportions of the human figure are six times the length of the feet. Whether the form is slender or phunp, the rule holds good. Any deviation from it is a departure from the highest beauty in proportion. The Greeks made all their statues according to this rule. The face, from the highest point of the forehead, where the hair begins, to the chin, is one-tenth of the stature. The hand, from the wrist to the middle of the forefinger, is the same. From the top of the chest to the highest point of the forehead is a seventh. If the face from the roots of the hair to the chin, is divided into three equal. parts, the first division determines the place where the eyebrows meet, and the second the place of the nostrils. The height from the feet to the top of the head is the distance from the extremity of the fing ers when the arms are extended. Happy Mothers. I may say, rather, cheerful mothers, but I do not, because there is no real sunshiny cheerfulness possiblo without happiness in the heart. And there may be happiness, if the heart be rightly placed and strong in love and faith, even when the outlook in life is dark, and the clouds upon the path are heavy. There may be little money ini the purse. Tniero may be a dear one lying pallid on the couch, and fading by degrees. There may be a narrow grave in the cemetery, and a vacant seat at the table. But yet, my sister, if Christ be your friend, ab~id ing with you and holding fast your hand, there may be a strange gladness mnn gled with your sorrowv. We all want our little children to be happy. Now the happiest children are those who have happy mothers. The young life, which grows up in the shadow of a discontented, repining and gloomy mother, is like a plant unwatered -by kindly dews. It is apt to be dwarfed and stunted. So, even when things are crooked, and temptations to ungentle ness come, let the mother, for her sons' and daughters' sake, try to be happy. Margiaree E. Sangst er. Sir William larcourt. Twelve gentlemen, whose spirits were high, once agreed to dine together hi Greenwich, England, on a fixed day, and, on the principle of " the more the merrier," it was arranged that the num ber of the party should be doubled b each bringing a friend. The "friend" in question was to be the man whom each of the original twelve severally and respectively disliketi the most heartily. When the guests arrived at the Trafal gar there proved to be but thirteen in all, everybody having invited Mr. Ver non-Harcourt. So runs the story, which is probably as true as most others. For some unexplained reason, Sir William Harcourt has never been a p~opular per son. Probably two reasons militate against his social success. He is ex tremely learned, and has a habit of dem onstrating to gentlemen who argue with him that they are proportionately igno rant of the subject under discussion. As was saidl of Macaulay, "he is so con foundedly cocksure about everything." By the State Comptroller's report of 1879, it appears that the colored people of Georgia own 541,199 acres of land, which is equal to six and one-tenth acres I ~er poll. This is an increase in holing colored people from 338,769 acres in 1 73, and shows a rapid growth in their wealth. __ " I surPOsE " said apunning lady to a sailor whom she saw holding the rudder< of a boat, as she was sauntering on the seashore, " I upose that your favorite< tree is the 'elm. ' " Yes, madam," lie responded, "and I see that your favorite< is the beede." .ARsare said to have been invented in France in 1891, to amuse Charles IV. during the mntervals of a melancholy dis order. Piquet and all the early games aire French. OUR YOUNG FOLKS. Our Baby. Two little shoes, Out at the toes, Trotting about Where'er mother goes; Boiled gingham dross, Put on just now They do gt so dirty, No one knows how; Little black face, Black each weo hand Been imaking muI pies, And playing in sand. Dear, precious head, Touseled and rough; Bright laughing eyes, Can't see enough; This is our baby All day. Two little feet, Rosy and bare; Two chubby hands, Folded in prayer; Tred little head Dark-ringed with hair; Soft baby face, Dimpled and fair; ranay blue eyes, Heavy with sleep; Silv'ry sweet voice, Li-ping-"Father, us keep;" This is our baby At night. Old 11annibal. "No, mother," said Col. Dumway to his wife, at the breakfast table, " I shall ride the black colt on parade to-day. Hannibal is too fat and too old." " Too old? He and Barry are just of an age." " And Barry's only a little colt yet? Well, you may bring him and Prue out to the grand review in the afternoon, but I guess I'll ride the black this morning. You can put Hannibal in the carryall. Perhaps he'd like to take a look again at a regiment of troops in line." Barry and Prue listened with all their ears. 'they knew there was to be a grand parade of soldiers that day, and they were prouder than they knew how to tell of the fact that their father was to wear a uniform, and ride a horse, and give orders to some of the men. " Prue," said Barry, "father's going to 'speck them. " " In-speck them, " whispered Prue, correcting him. "Nobody else knows how." That might be, for Col. Dunway had been an officer of the regular army, and lie was now Colonel of a regiment of militia; but there was one thing lie had said that puzzled Barry and Prue dread fully. IBarry, " said Prue, after breakfast, "is Nibble old?" "Father says lie is." "And lie said lie was fat." "Dr. Barnes is old, and he's fat." "But his head's bare." "Nibble isn't bald, and he isn't gray, either." " He's brown." Mrs. Dunway had told the exact truth about Hannibal, or Nibble, as the eil dren called him. He and Barry were just of an age, and lie had been a mere 2-years-old colt when Prne was a baby in her cradle. IT was after that that Col. Dunway had taken Hannibal with him to the army and brought hun home again. He had been a war-horse, the. Colonel said, and so it would niot do to turn him into a plowv-horse, and the con sequence was that Nibble did not have enough work to do, and lie grew fat too fast. Yet lie and Barry were only 9 years old apiece. That made eighteen years b)etween them; and, if you adldedl seveni years for Prue, it would only have made twenty-five, and everybody 'knows that is not very old, if you had given thiem all to Hannibal. Barry and Prue would have given him almost anything they had, for lie was a great Lriend and crony of theirs. " Prue," said Barry, "let's go out to the barn. I've got an apple." " He can have my bun." What there was left of it, that meant, for Prue's little white teeth had been at work on the bun. That had been a troubled morning for Hannibal. Before lie had finished his breakfast a party of men rode by the house, and one of them wvas playing on a bugle. He had set Hannibal's mind at work upon army matters and wvar; so when Barry and Prue came to see him lie wouldl not oven nibble. He smelled of the ap)ple, and he looked M~ the bun, but that was all. " He's getting old," said Barry. " And fat," added Prue. " Tell you wvhat, Prume, let's take him out, io the lot. I know mother'd let us., That was likely, for Mrs. Dunway al ways kept safer about them if Nibble were keeping them company. " I'll get on his back." " And I'll lead him. Wait till I fix the halter." Prue climbed up on the side of the stall where Nibble wais, and ho stood perfectly still while she clambered over k> her place on his back. Barry knew 3xactly what to do, and the old war morse began to think he did himself. He nust have been thinking, for he half 31osed one eye as he was walking out, md opened the other very wide, with a wonderfully knowing look. He was ooking down the lane, and lie saw that hie front gate was open, and just at that noment there came up the road, very aint and sweet, the music of the cavalry mugle. " Nibble ! Nibble ! " exclaimed Barry, where are you going? " Hannibal did not answer a word, but valked on down the lane very fast in Iced, and Barry lost held of the hailter. a. for Prue, she was not scared a pasrti ~le, for she had ridden in that way many time, and her confidence in herself and >ld Nibble was unbounded. " Cluck, chuck, chuck-get-ap." " Stop, Prume, stop ! He's going aster." "(Get-ap I Come, Barry. Oh, there's nothier at the window I" Mrs. Dunway was not frightened any noro than Prue. for she aid to hersnef. "Too old, indeed I Well, they're more like three children, when thy're to gether, than anything else. I'm glad he is fat. He won't go too fast for Prue.". He was in the road now, and lie seemed disposed to keep Barry from again getting hold of that halter. " Oh, dear," said Barry, "the parade ground's down there." Hannibal know that, by the music, and lie was almost trotting now. In fact, he was looking younger and younger, somehow every minute, and Barry felt more and more as if he ought to have hold of the halter, instead of merely running alongside and shouting to Prue. The regiment was drawn up on the great bare field where the review was to be that afternoon, and they looked sp)lendidly. Col. Dunway was saying so, as he sat in front of them, on his handsome black colt, and a number of other officers who were riding with him said the same, and so did the ladies who were keeping them company. Just then the bugle sounded again, from the head of the column, and Prue had to hold on hard, for Hannibal sud denly began to canter, and he answered the music with a loud, clear whinny of delight. Barry was half out of breath with running, but he kept up with the other two, and in a moment more Han. nibal halted, proudly arching his neck, and treading daintily upon the grass, right in front of the regiment. "I declare." exclaimed Col Dunway, "the old fellow has come to review the "So has Prue," said one of the offi cers. Barry hardly knew whether to laugh or cry, but the soldiers suddenly broke out in a wild ''hurrah." They were cheering Prue and her war horse, and Col. Dunway himself was compelled to let the " three children " stay and keep the place Hannibal chose for them at the head of the regiment. There was plenty of apples for Nibble that day. Manners Two Hundred Years Ago. A curious little book, called "The Rules of Civility," which was published in 1675, throws amusing light on the manners of our ancestors two centuries ago. " Being in discourse with a man," we read on one page, "'tis no less than ridiculous to pull him by the buttons, to play with his band strings, belt or to punch him now and then on the stomach." Again, "It argues neglect, and to undervalue a man, to sleep when he is discoursing or reading. There fore, good manners command it to be forbid ; besides, something may happen in the act that may offend, as snoring, sweating, gaping or dribbling." More explicit are the rules for behavior at ta b)e. "In eating ol)serve to let your hands be clean. Feed not with both your hands, nor keep your knife in your hand. Dip not your lingers in the sauce, or lick them when you have done. If you have occasion to sneeze or cough, take orhat, or put your napkin before your face. Drink not with your mouth full nor unwiped, nor so long till you are forced to breathe in the glass."' There are rules also for the drawing room. " If a person of quality b)e in the company of ladies, 'tis too juvenile and light to p~lay with them, to toss or tumn ble0 them, to kiss them b~y surp~rise, to force away their hoods, their' fauns, or their ruffs. It is unhandsome among ladies, or' any other serious company, to throw off one's cloak, to pull off one's p~eruike, to ciit one's nails, to tie one's garter, to change shoes if thiey pinch, to call for one's slippers to be at ease, to sing b)etween the teeth, or to drum with one's fingers." Runaway Horses. The horse that has once acquired the habit of running awvay will bolt on the, first opportunity. If you suspect his in tention, the best p~lani is to chiek it the moment lhe begins to move, taking hold( of one rein with both hands, and giving it one or two such violent jerks that the iogue mumst pause or turn around. Then stop him, and, if you doubt your being alo to hold him, get off. Perhaps a too-vigorous " plug ' may make him cross his legs and fall-not a pleaant contingency, b~ut anythinig is better than being rn away with in a street. In open country you may compel the runa way to gallop with a loose rein until lhe1 is tired, or to move in a constantly niar rowing circle until he is glad to halt. A ten-acre field is big enough for this ex pedient. But the great point is to stop a rnaway becfore he gets into his stride ; after he is once away few bits will stop a real nmaway--a steady pull is a waste of exertion on the rider's part. Some horses may be0 stopped by sawing the mouth with the snafile, but nothing will1 check the old1 hand. Another expedient is to hold the reins very lightly, nnd or the first favorable opportunity, as a ris mng hill, for instance, to try a succession of jerks. But the cunning, practiced i rnaway is not so much to be feared as; the mad, frightened horse. The mad horsewl dashm against a brick wall, or j atspiked railings of impossile height. I once 'saw a runaway horse, a~fter getting rid of his rider, charge and burst open his locked stal)edoor. A RECENT observing tourist in Portu gal says that he has never b~een ini a Roman Catholic country where there airo so few outward signs of religious feelin g, or even of worship. It is rare lo find a service of any kind being cele b~rated in the churches, which are nearly a ilwvays shut. A light is seldom burning [ before the altar, the few shrines and(I images by the road are neglected and. ften in runs, and the monasteries havej ill been supnm-s. I f SOUTHERN NEWS, Selma, Ala., is growing rapidly. Tomato cider is a new drink in Texas. A negro woman 103 years old died near Fort Valley, Ga. Nashville ships fifteen car loads of lumber northward every day. Five negroes were elected to the Geor gia Legislature at the recent election. The ladies : Macon propose to make a vigorous winter campaign in the tem perance cause. The people of Clarendon, Texas, are building abode houses. They are made of sun-dried bricks. A colored couple were married in the poor-house at Barnesville, Ga., the groom 110 years old and the bride only forty. The three richest men in Georgia are Josepl E. Brown, of Atlanta, and Fer dinand Phinizy and John A. White, of Athens. Barnum is having bad luck in Texas. An elephant, two tigers, a giraffe, a train. ed oxen and a number of smaller animals in his show have died. The tobacco outlook has increased the value of timbered land in Buncombe county, N. C., at least fifty per cent. within the last three years. In Schiley county, Ga., a freedman, with one mule, this year made twenty three bales of cotton, weighing over 500 pounds each, and 200 bushels of corn. A young man died at Sen Antonio, Texas, after 1 icking cotton from the ef rect o' poison put on th'v cotton to kill insect!4. His brother is ill from the same cause. A colored girl named Lizzie Hampton, in Union county, S. C., has given birth to twin children, which are joined to gether by a union of the breast bone, having but one naval, but supposed to have two sets of intestines conined in one cavity. R. A. Hyslop, a gentleman living in Norfolk county, Va., recently captured an ordinary live turtle possessed of two well-formed heads. The turtle was brought to bay in the woods by a (log, and is considered such .a curiosity that Mr. Hyslop has decided to send it on to the Smi thonian Institution at Washling ton. Leprosy exists to a considerable extent in the parish of Lafourche, La. An at tempt to make .n offieial investigation was lately resisted with arms, the lepers and their friends believing that the suf ferers were to be isolatedl on an island~ in1 the ocean. Thlie report of the p'ysicians is that the disease is not gaining ground. Thaton Rouge, La., has no pul~lic wchools open. The same is true of St. L~andrey, and the Democrat, of the latter parish, says: " We have school oflicials, State andl parochial, all the time, but no schiools. What is the use of having an arganization that accomplishes nothing ? T'he puIblic school system of this State is L (delusion andl a snare." Samuel Hawthorne, who killed McGee ft Vicksburg in September, has been sen tenced to the penitentiary for life by a ury of twelve colored men. This is the irst cose in Mississippi in which a white nan has been convicted by negroes. The ury is salid to have exibited every evi lence of marked attention, and brought n their verdict intelligently. The Vallambrosa Place, near Dublin, ha., once the home of Gov. George M. ['roup, but recently the residence of Col. iTobert Wayne, who married a grand laughter of Gov. Troup, was destroyed >y fire. The family pictures and fine >ld silverware were all lost, andl many of he historic oaks were killed by the fire. mol. Wayne has suffered losses from fire our times within eleven years. In Tennessee, under the law o' 1874, o liquor can be sold within four miles fan incorporated school of learning, miness located in an incorporated town r city. The friends of temperance are aking adlvantage of the enactment in ome portions of Shelby county by secur ng charters of incorporation for schools n their neighborhood, in all cases near ome little village where the incb iating iiuid is (dispensed. The King's Mountain Centennial As ociation reports a surplus of funds re naiing after defraying the expenses of lie recent celebration. It has deter ninedl to build an iron railing around the rionument and construct a dwelling ouse on the mountain near by for the :eeper of the monument, who is to be elected hereafter. The Association is a erpetual organhation and it has been etcermined to maintain it, holding meet. ngs from time to time as may be required or this purpnse. Singular Climatic Effects. Says the Denver (Col.) Ureat Wc8t: It is a singular fact that almost every body loses flesh on coming here from the East. The average loss in weight sustained is about one-eighth. For in stance, in the course of two or three mouths a 200-pound man loses twenty five poiuids and becomes a 175-pounder. This is due to the high altitude of Den ver-a mile above the sea to the dry and light atmosphere, to the scarcity of vegi tation and the comparative abiudance of oxygen, which consumes the tissues and taxes the vital functions to a greater extent than on lower altitudes. Higher ul> it is much worse than here. At Lead vi le, for instance, 'which is two miles above the sea level, the diminution in weight does not generally fall short of a sixth or seventh, and it takes place much more rapidly than here. In that high altitude, too, lung diseases, such as pneumonia, very frequently set in, and iey prove fatal in about 30 per cent. of the cases attacked. But very tew dogs, except hounds, can live in Leadville, and no cats survive there. In Denver, however, we have a multitude of both dogs and cats, and they appear to ex perience no special difficulty about liv ing and getting fat. Yet it is a noticeable fact that animals and men lose a share of their strength after coming here. After being here two or three months their muscular power is not near so great as in the East. Eight hours of continuous labor does more to exhaust and prCstrate a man here than ten hours in Illinois or Wiscousin. And when worn out and prostrated a feeling of las situde and drowsiness that it is very dif. ficult to dispel comes over one. In such instances many hours of rest are requi site to repair and rebuild the wasted on ergies. Mental labor is even more ex hausting than physical. A healthy man may do manual labor for eight or ten hours a day and experience therefrom no special evil effects ; but let mental labor be pursued with like assiduity and the nervous system becomes weakened and irritable. In time the physical powers become disordered and weakened by sympathy and by the strain upon them to supply the brain waste. These facts are more predicable of new-comers than of those who have resided for a ya or more at high altitudes. Persons aMdn imals thoroughly acclimated do not ex. p&ience these drawbacks. Indeet0these could not look better anywhere than they appear here. The great difficulty is in getting acclimated. Rewarded for Sinking His Ship. A remarkable instance of presence of mind on the part of the Captain o man-of-war is related by the St. Pete hurg papers. TheI Russian war friga Olaf, which had accompanied the yacht of the Czarowich to Copenhagen, was lying at anchor among hundreds of other ships in the harbor, wlen a fire was dis covered in the coal bunker below, which was only a few feet from the powder magazine. There was no time to put out the liro before it couldl reach the maga zmne, and an exllosion of the large stores of eartridg~es and gunpowder contained mi it would~ probabLly have destroyed not only the Olaf, andl thei surrounding ships, but part of Copenhagen itself. Capt. Rehbinder, the commuander of the Olaf, saw at once that the only thing to be done to prevent a catastrophe wvas to sink the ship. After sending away the crew with the ship's papers, cash boxes and valuable instruments in boats, he ordlered the carpenters and engineers to make a leak in the vessel, and half an hour afterward she sank in not very deep water. Next day she was raise'd again, andi after some p~rovisional repairs was taken to Cronstadt. The damage done is stated to be comparatively tri fling, and a court martial held on the officers of the vessel unanimously ex pressed the highest praise of the conduct of the Captain and muen. The Emperor has appointed hinm his aide-de-camp, which is one of the highest honors con ferred on Russian naval officers, and men under him have received gratuities from the Emperor's privy purse. The Small Days of Chicago. New York and Boston, about 250 years old, have respectively 1,000,000 and 350,000 inhabitants. Chicago made upl her half million in little over forty years. In New York and Boston one sees the graves of eight generations, and the relics of colonial times. In Chicago Mr. Gurdon 8. H~ubbard is now living an active main, 78 years of age (and looking 60), who came to the spot when there were but two houses there. The site of this great city, a favorite one with the Indians, wvas early visited by some of those e >lendid old "pioneers of France in the N ow World," who have been made famous in this generation by the pen of that accomplished and genial historian, Mr. Parkmnan. 0Old Pere Marquette was there in 1673, and re turned in the winter of 1674-75. It was also known to Jobet (for whom a town not far off is now named), Hennepin, and La Salle. The name is of Indian origin, checca qua meaning "strong," and be-i ing also the term for a kind of wilY onmon found on the shore of the lake ini old days. The place is first known to geography as the "Fort Checcagou",at at F~rench map p~ulished towardl the end of the seventeenth centary ~'Dear-v born was built ur(2ivnent in 1804, and teo John I.Kinzle, an eminent pioneer aitizepi of Ciao celebrated the anniversary of his birthdlay on it his faither hading arrived three beore, in mpi with Maj .Wl1 er and his o The Fort Dol pmessacr trated by the Inains, was in 181 the bones of the soldiers were lying un buried near the shore when yong Kin zie returned from Detroit in 1816. Harper', Mannzinw Golden Words. The following extracts are culled from an address by Hon. Horatio Seymour to the young-lady students of Wells Fe male College, Aurora, N. Y.: Youth is beautiful in the eyes of ae, and it looks with admiration upon tho courage with which the young confront the uncertainties of the future, and the faith that leadsi them to look forward to haibppiness and succes. Self-cheating is the most common kind of fraud. It is a good rule, when you find that subjects of importance or objects of value are matters of indiffer ence, to conclude that there are some things which you do not, but which you ought to, know. Thereisnothing you can learn about any subject which will not give it new inter est In your eyes. The deeper your learn ing the better, but the quality of knowl edge is like that of oldwhich, although it is reduced to the thunest leaf, yet makes all the things glitter that it touches. Surface knowledge is lightly spokenof by the learned, but it is information worked out in the past by toil and study until it is brought within the reach of all. In the course of my life I have studied all classes of men with care, and, a0 a nile, I have found those to be the most cheerful and wise whose habits and ob servations have given the widest range to their mental action, and have brought within the scope of their thoughts the most varied topics, although they may not have been learned with regard to any of them. Men do not live in the same world. When we look around us we see that they live in very different houses; some are humble houses, but poorly finished ; others are costly residences, adorned with paintings and statuary, and every thing that art can do to gratify the t4aste. We make the world in which we live. It is more disreputable to live in one that is dull and barren thani it is to make our home in poor and dilapidated houses. Intelligence will enable us to cope with the problem of life, to endure its misfortunes with fortitude, and to bear it with moderation and wis was syib i to give fAWt to the w ate not seen in a true sense y because they are brcught within the range of the vision but when they have stirred the mind and thoughts' have-been evolved. So strong aae the enjoyments of look ing upon famous objects, or of treading upon ground made sacred by events, that men cross broad oceans to visit them. And through after life they are wiser and happier for the knowledge thus gained. It may be that some are gifted with aptitudes in certain directions beyond others; that some have faculties for learning, for arts, or for science, that gives them peculiar advantages in their purstits. When I am visited at my farm by those who feel no sympathy with nat uire, and say they have no taste for country life, I make up my mind they do not like it because they do not kno'w 'nough albout the world around them to enjoy its beauties. No one who has reached the age of three-score years and ten would, upon01 reflection, be willing to rub out from the experience in life the sorrows which havwe softened his character, the mis takes which have taught him wisdom, or wrong-doings which he has ever re gretted, and widchl, lby their influences, have made the golden threads which may be0 formed in the texture of his moral characterf. Weather Wisdom. "Gem'len," said the President, "I fink dlat de Inhab~itants of dis kontry am payin' altogethier too much 'tenshun to dIis weddecr queshun. Dar's a groan o' dispair when it's hot an' a growl o' dis - pleashur when it's cold. If it rains somebody raises a row, an' if it's dry someb~ody else has a bone to pick wid de powers above. Ebery red-headed, one hoss white man-ebery broken-down old two-cent darky, has got do ideah in his head dat do Lawd am boun' to send him long jist do sort o' wedder he wants, no matter 'bout do rest of do kontry. De ole man Riubottom, libin' up dar by my cabimn, has got about fifteen cents worf o' gcarden truck back of his house, an' when it's hot or cold or wet or dry, he am so agitated dat he forgita dat any odder soul in dis kentry has sot out ain onion or planfted a 'tater. Mo' dan fifty y'ars ago I come to de conclusion dat I mus' put up wid sich wedder as de Lawd gim me, no matter whedder it brought on chilblains or rheumatics, an' It was a. great burden off my mind. I take it jist as it comes, keepin' de ole umbrella in good repair, an~' doen' know ufn' 'bout al SUZ' t doan' want to. " Lime- ,roceedings, .DetroiE on York, #4Ia an uip-stafrs thiind c looks o th aaambenad?"