The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, April 06, 1882, Image 1
- DEVOE OPLTC;MRLTWgqATIOj AND TO THE QGENERAL'INTRElT OF TRE COUT1Y
NS. S. c., TURDAY, APRL 6, 1882.V .. .
d ood pblio
-sgiving n monthly product of
SA theiisuan men are employed at
06, Cherokee iron works, St. Clair
K 9uty, Ala.
0&.,has 20,000 inhabitants,
the government to build a
' kl postoffice.
In a population of about 1,000, Dar:
Atonl$, 8 0., has fifteen barrooms and
no'tempeince organization.
fsissippi ranks first In the union as
a cotton growing State, third in the
South as to the entip product of her
eoil, Texas and Tennessee ohly out-rank
lng her.
The . Sumac trade of Virginia is in.
creasing. The Sumac maiufacturers
nQw have an organization with a presi
dent and other officers. The grinding
of 8,000 tons of leaf Sumac Is now the
annual busiess, representing about
$250,000.
The Alice blast furnace of Birming
bam, Ala., cleared $12,000 during the
month of January. The investment
cost $250,000, yielding a net income to
its proptietors of $144,000 per annifn.
Several bales of cotton were brought
to A ugusta last week from the estate of
a recently-deceased planter, which had
IV: Wen raised before the war. Some of it
was in good condition, but the bagging
had decayed and dropped from the bales.
A great deal of cotton which comes
into Rome, Ga., is damaged on account
of having been allowed to stand in the
rain by the planters after it is baled.
The outside layers have to be picked off,
and every bale which has gotten wet
loses from 50 to 175 pounds.
There alighted from the Piedmont
Air-Line railroad, at Gainesville, a few
days since, 300 people, who came to set
tle on 5,000 acres of land near there,
purchased by them through the influ
ence of Gen. Longstreet. They are
Germans and Swiss from New York su
burba.
The Columbus Inquirer says: A coun
try papa writes that his two daughters
have been spoiled by newspaper pufling
in the .town where they went to school.
"They bave come home," he says, "with
* three or four notices of the charming
Misses- in their scrap books, and
they hain't been worth a fo' penny bit
since."
In a neglected spot in Athens, Geor
which marks the location where once
existed the botanical garden of the
State university, stalid3 a weeping wil
low, grown from a sprout cut from the
famous - tree over Napoleon's grave In
" St. Helena, an elm frem the noted el e
in Boston common, and an oak which
grew from an acorn brought from Eng
land by Dr. Ward.
On Sunday night in the valley of the|
Tyron mountain, near the dividing line
between North and South Carolina,
Grace Mills went to the house of Janel
Jackson, a rival for the attentions of ai
young farmer of. the neighborhood, and
called her out in the road. The next
morning the body of the latter was
found, and indications showed that a1
desperate fight had taken place, in which
one had lost her life. It is supposed that
she was struck on the head by a male
assistant of her rival, who is unknown.
Varnish on the Church Pews.
The seaits had been newly varnished,
* and, somehow, the varmsh was not
right, as it was terrible sticky. You
* know when you pull anything off of
sticky varnish it cracks. Well, the au
dience had all got seated, when the min
later gt up to give out the hymn, and
as the basement of his trousers let loose1
of the varnish of his chair there was a
noise like killing a fyon the wall' with
a palm-leaf fan. Tn minister looked
around at the chair to see if he was all
p resent, and that no guilty man's pants
had escaped, and read the hymn. The
choir rose with a sound of revelry, and
after the tenor had swallowed a lozenge,
and the bass had coughed up a piece of
* frog, and the alto had hemmed and the
soprano had shook out her polonaise to
see if the varnish showed on the south i
side, the audience began to rise.]
One or two deacons got u >first, with 3
- sounds like picket firing in t to distance
on the eve of battle, and then a few
more got up, and, the rattling of the un
yeldig varnish sounded as though the
igh was becoming more animated, and *
thn the whole audience got on its feet <
at once with a sound of rattling musket- j
1. The choir sang " Hold te Fort."
en he choir had concluded the peo
ple sat down gingerly,; the services were
short, and all went home praying for the
man that painted the iseats .-Peck's
Where the Mormons are Recruited.
The proportions in which foreign
countries have contributed to Mormon
iam are shown in the following figures,
which are orn piled from the censuses
of 1870 atid 1880:
denl t En land............16073 1965
inWls-.............. 1,783 2,898
Cin Ia.n................ 502 1,821
- nhn ..k--.............4,57 7,791
.............. .......... ,0 ,5
- -...... .... 318 1,214
-.--........ 509 1,0W0
......... 858 885
~ng1d I ill be seen, makes the
chie t~b~alonto Mormno-nlm, and
nz o Otbne thi Joandina
'faR)etthe
TOPICS OF TE DAT.
TnE President has approved the Anti.
Polygamy bill.
CONGIEss will probably not adjourn
before the 1st of July.
CoNGRw has declffed that the China
man can be kicked out.
Ex-SNATOR CoNxNo is to retire
from politics for the present.
JAy GouLD is tired of business annoy
anoes, and is thinking seriously of re
tiring.
THE President is said to look favorably
upon the matter of pardoning Sergeant
Mason.
Now, then, if the President has no
objection, the Chinese will quit discov
ering us.
Tma first snow blockade of the winter,
in the Northwest, occurred on the 22d
of March.
GUrrEAu has refused $350 for the suit
of clothes he wore when he shot the
President.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR entertained Gen
eral and Mrs. Grant at a grand dinner a
fow days ago.
THE wheat crop in Indiana is reported
to be 20 per cent. above that of an
average year.
CADET WarrTAKER may go free, and
now perhaps he will make it a point to
take better care of his ears.
ENGLAND likes Moody and Sankey so
well that she has invited them to a year's
engagement in the evangelical work.
i
TE press of Chili thinks that country
could bounce the United States. Yes,
bounce like a rubber ball, just about.
FASHION is doing away with the long
string of bridesmaids at weddings, for
which many a fond papa will thank his
stars.
THE good people of Chicago are still
fighting thoogunday theatricals. Mean
while theatrical performances on Surday
move right along.
WE OBsERvE by our exchanges that
3ontributions for Sergeant Mason's
"Betty and the Baby " have become
genoral throughout the country.
BOTH the political parties in Cincin
2ati have nominated Judge Force for
Tudge of the Superior Court. This is
~orcing matters with a vengeance.
OINcINNATI carpenters have laid out
:o strike the 1st of May, if their de
nand for an increase of wages is not ac
leded to. The carpenters are a striking
set.
CARDINAL MANNING'S doctor OrderedJ
urn to drink wine, and the Cardinal re
uses to do so. It now stands the Cardi
al in hand to bounce the family
?hysician._________
STATISTICS show that Mormons increase
heir number;, annually by immigration,
~,000. Add to this the increase by births
mud you have something frightful to
~hink about.
THEi New York Sun says Sullivan has
rought the prize ring into disrepute.
Eood!i Will somebody now erect a
nomument to Sullivan ?' His act should
e ennobled.
FATHIIONABnE iiwells in the East now
year but one eye-glass, as do the snobs
>f London. Well, we are glad the idea
>f wearing eye-glasses is at least hal
liscarded, anyhow.
WarrrTAKER~'s ultimate aim is to be
ome an officer in the army, whether
permitted to finish his course at WeBt
?eint or not. He will apply for the
'osition of Second Lieutenant.
THE War Department has provided
or issuing 600,000 rations for the suff'er
rs from the Mississippi overflow. Aid
an not come too soon to the distressed
>eople of that desolated valley.
THEs House Appropriation Committee
ut the tail off of the Postoffice appro.
>riation bill-the franking privilege
nd it is now a question whether it will
~et back on again. The members of
he House must feel pretty bad about 'it.
THE remarkable feature of Nicodemus,
negro colony of 867 families, in Gra
~am County, Kansirs, is the entire ab
ence of money. There are churches,
chool-houses, and stores, but the trid
ng has to be done by bartering the pro
luce of the farms.
THE Louisville Courier-Jeurnal says
'an Ohio man died after drinking a glass
f water." We are glad to know he
Iidn't die before drinking the water, be
~ause in the latter case he'd failed to
arry out the tradition~al Ohio idea
IUeOessd Better always to drink before
rou die, _____
,1'* Pp9tlRUent biUl requires most
~i~t~$W ~4EsI!I6, and the thing
tobt political
Sitsis, how it
dtkal advant
outrageous a figure the redistrioting will
cut on the Congressional map.,
HAD Oscar Wilde come t6 this country
in ordinary citizen's clo , there are
very few people who wild have ever
heard of him. The secret of his fian
cial success has been in the extensive
advertisiig he received as a result of his
outlandish way of dressing. His ideas
while they are pronounced "fair to
good," are not new, and decidedly com
mon-place for the times.
"BETTY AND TiE BAnY " constitute,
Sergeant Mason's family, and in several
eastern cities contribution boxes with
these words upon them are located in
prominent thoroughfares for the recep
tion of nickels. Such a box in the
- Baltimore Ame-ican office received 450
nickels in one day. It seems that
" Betty and the Baby " will be taken
care of, whatever may be the fate of the
bad marksman.
ExcEssivE drink and malaria are said
to be very similar in their effects upon
the human system in Washington, and a
Congressman who does not have an oc
casional attack of malaria is looked upon
as a very fortunate person. If the
Potomac flats are drained as a means of
abating malarial influences, statesmen
who get sick from one cause,. and doctor
for the other, will have a delightfix- time
explaining matters.
"MONACO, whose 10,000 inhabitants
live entirely on the profits of the gaming
tables, has 164 priests to look after its
spiritual welfare." That statement sounds
unreasonable, and we should refuse to
believe it had it come from any other
source than the Cincinnati Gazette.
One hundred and sixty-four priests to
the 10,000 inhabitants is a fraction over
one priest to each sixty persons. And
yet all these people - excepting the
priests-are gamblers ! Impossible I
ANTHONY COMSTOCK is niaking a new
move against the lottery companies, and
lie says he will make a test case against
two Brooklyn men who have drawn the
$30,000 prize in the Louisiana lottery.
He is said to have discovered a section
of the New York revised statutes, pro
viding that all money so won shall be
forfeited to the poor in the county where
the money is deposited. The money was
in bank, but the lucky ones took fright,
drew it out, and one of them is already
on his way to Europe.
. SPEAK~En KEIFERn has removed Mr.
Elenry S. Hayes, one of the official sten..
ographers of the National House, and
appointed a Mr. Dawson, of Iowa. This
change has caused general eurprise, as
Mr. Hayes was one of the best steri
ographers in the country, and his work in
committees and els3where about the
Capitol for years past has always give~n
great satisfaction. Hiss synopses of de
bates in Congress were unequaled, and
his removal will prove a loss to Congress
and the pulhic.
TaE escape of Nihilists from Siberia
is becoming quito a common thing. The
telegraph announces that a fresh lot
have recently escaped. As the geog
raphy of the intervening country be
comes better understood, the number of
escapes will increase, and the alternative
left for the Russian Governnent, if it
desire to keep persons banished con
fined on a territ-y, will be to secure
some great island large enough for the
purpose and build a great wall around it,
upon which sentries may be placed.
Tmne Sanitary Engineer says the dan
ger that a midwife may carry contagious
disease from one bedside to another was
the subject recently of some remarks by
a physician to the Clevcland Board of
Health. He stated that recently, in his
pra~ico, a German wife had conveyed1
puerperal fever to three patients, all of
whom had died. The physician had
cautioned the women when she was at
tending the original case of tho fover,
telling her she might be the means of
conveying it to others, but hid word was
disregarded, and three lives, he believes,
sacrified in consequence. The Board of
Health were sufficiently impressed by
the statement to instruct the Health
officer to cause her arrest under a I w
governing the conveyance of contagious
diseases.
ThE "rush for Toxas" of a year ago
fns now merged itself into a "rush for
Dakota." This is doubtless owning to
climatic influences. The incessant warm
temperature of the Lone Star State uin
fits its water for drinking purp~oses-a
most important item to be considered by
the immigrant--while the soil is not uin
iversally good farming land by a long
shot. It is, in jroint of fact, a grazina
coumitry. On the other hand the climate
of Dakota is cool-decidedly cool usu
ally-but the winter just past it has been
unusually mild in that section of the
country. Farming there is prosecuted
with the greatest success, and taking all
things together, there is doubtless no
better section of country for general
purposes. Let the "rush" go on. Da
kota Is a vast Territory and there ia
plenty of room in it.
A Daux manufactory in Massachusetts,
established in 1858, has converted dur
ing that time 80,000 sheep skins into
drumnbds
BILIs BLOOMS.
Mr. Arp Lament the Frost Nipping
of His Peaches.
HE ALSO 0ONTINtES HIS LAMENTA
TIONS AND TALKS WISEE THAN USUAL
-HE TELLS SOME GOOD STORIES,
TOO, ABOUT JUDGE LOOHRANE,
TEXAS RANGER AND THE
INDEPENDENTS.
[From the Atlanta Constitution.]
. Nipped in the bud. It looks like there
1s no security fromanything. Ours was
no second-hand orchard: we planted it
and the blooms for three years have
looked so sweet and promising, and now
this is the third year the fruit has been
killed. I suppose we could have built
little fires all about, but who knows
when to build 'em ? It is poor comfort
to build 'em when there is no danger.
Reckon we will just have to keep the
orchard for the flowers, like we do a
crab-apple tree, for they are mighty
pretty. One of my neighbors lives un
der the western slope of a mountain and
his fruit is never killed. He had plenty
last year, but the sun don't rise at his
house till it's about two hours high and
that wouldn't suit my folks at all. Well
it might suit the folks but it wouldn't
suit my business. It would be dinner
time before breakfast. The peach crop
is very uncertain among these Cherokeo
hills but most everybody can have a few
trees around the house where they are
protected. We can't expect to have all
the good things in our p lace. My Irish
potatoes were killed down the other
morning, and that hurt my feelings, for
I was a little proud that I was ahead of
my nabors. But they will come out
again, and so there is some comfort left
and a good deal of hope. Hope says
the peaches are not all killed, for a man
can't examine all the blooms, and may
be there will be enough for the children.
That is the main thing after all ; enough
for the children is what the world is
working for; enough money, or land, or
food and clothing; enough pleasure and
happiness. How we do 'love 'em and
worry over 'em. by night and by day.
If we had no children f think I would
just quit work and toil right suddenly
and-go a fishing. But there is not
much time to frolic on a farm at this
seasov of the year, for my almanac says,
"About this time plant corn," and we
are doing it all around these parts. I
can sit on my piazzer and look into five
farnis and see the darkies and the mules
and hear 'em, too, and its gee and haw,
and git along Pete, and whar you gwine,
Nell, come round dar, I tell you; and
there's no end to this kind of affection
ate, one-sided discourse until the horn
blows for dinner, and then the most
knowing mules give a bray all round
Its astonishing how much they do know
and can be made to understand. I had
a big mule who would never give but
one pull at a root unless the darkey who
plowed him hollered out " Rotten root,
I tell you!" and then he would breaki
that root or something else, for lhe had
confidence in the nigger. It always did
seem like there was a kind of confiden
tial relation between niggers and mules
a sort of' treaty of peace anti equality,
for there Is no other animal can stand
the darkey, and there's no other human
can get along in peace with a mule.
When they are alone together in a big
field with long rows, the darkey talks to
hun~ all along the line, and the mule
listens in respectful silence, but if two
darkies are plowing together they talk
to one another, and the mules are
snubbed. There is a power of corn be
ing plauted this sprmng and not much
more than half a crop of cotton so far
as my observation goes. I hope we can
make enough food for the country, for
ive can do with less clothing better than
be stinted in vittels. There is a power
of folks dependent upon the farmers and
a great responsibility upon us. Politics
raises a mighty rumpus and takes up a
sight of room in the newspapers, but
when you cornp are it with farming, it all
seems sorter like a monkey show that is
going on for amusement, and the farmers
feel like doing like Stewart's Texan Ran,~
ger, who went to see an amateur musical
performance in Rome one night during
the war. He was a rough specimen,
six feet and two inches, and ai hat like
an umbrella and boots like stove-pipe*
and spurs that jingled like trace chai
a couple of navy pistols to set off his
beard, and he paid his half a dollar and
tooka stand behind an empty bench in the
rear, and looked on with a lofty con
tempt, and . whenever the performers
closed a piece and the cheering began
the ranger rattled the bench most alarm
mngly and exclaimed, "souy, souy, souy,"
lIke he was driving bogs, and he kept it
up until he monopolized the show and
had it all to himself. These premature
candidates for governor, and so forth,
reminded me of Judge Lochrane's story
rof the Irishman who thought he had a
fast horse, and so he put him in the.
races and bet on him. He run pretty
well, but seemed to run better behind
than before, and the Irishman clapped
his hands with delight a'nd exclaimed,
" Faith and St, Patri" 'a look how
he drives 'em." isut its all rir,. I'm
glad to see the independents warkib~g up.
tts all for the good of the people .nd
will keep the old democracy on its goodl
behavior. There's nothing like having
sentmnels on the watchtowerp. Some--.
times the party goes too fast, and these
mndependents act like a balance wheei, a
regulator, a brake-sorter like Tinny
Rucker's yearling, for they say when
i'mny was aboy he tried for an hour to
drive a yearling out of the pasture, and
flnally he got him by the tail and they
run and run and bellowed and run until
somebody hollowed to him and said:
"i You can't hold that yearling, Tinny;
what are you trying ..o do ?" " I know
[ can't ho ldh hin," said Tinny, "but I can
make him go slow."
Jesso. That is all these Independents
are after. They don't expect ofhee, but
they have more abounding patriotism
than anybody, and are holding on to
the tail of the concern just to make it g
bloiw. Some of 'em, I reckon, are a little
disappointed because the train went off
and left. 'em, and it don't do any good
to laugh at 'em no matter whether they
didn't run fast enough or started too
late. Let's be tender with 'em. for may
be their turn will come after while, and
they will be tender with us. There are
a power of ups and downs in his world,
and in lities they are mostry downs
especiay down south. BILL ARP.
The Duke's Death.
"Kneel here by my side, Lurline,"
and in obedience to the summons, a
beautiful girl flung herself in an aban
don of' grief near the bed on which lay
the eighth Duke of Twenty-second street,
Rupert Bollingstone. Rupert was dying
--ig away out on the West Side. A
cold had developed into a quick con
sumption. The dreaded disease had
made known its piesence while Rupert
was at the house of a friend on Laflin
street. " You can not live more than a
week," the doctor had said. "But my
people," cried the sick man, in an agony
of fear; "they are on Twenty-second
street, and too poor to hire a carriage.
How shall I see them?" and he wrung
his hands in an agony of despair.
* * * *
"It can not be done, my lass," said
the street-railway superintendent, look
ing down kindly into Lurline's face.
"I would gladly do aught that might
ease the last moments of a dying man,
but I can not accomplish impossibilities.
A car from Twentysecond street to the
corner of Laflin and Van Buren in five
day? By my halidom, you jest brave
ly,".and, picking up a pair of shears, he
again resumed his occupation of cutting
cou ns from government bonds. When
Lur line had knelt-by the dying man, he
turned to her and spoke: "Lurline, my
darling," he said, "I am dying down.
I shall soon be in the sweet pretty quick.
But ere I start, I want you to make me
one promise-a sacred one, that you
will keep forever." " Name it," maid
the girl, in a sob-choked voice. "When
ever you are in a hurry, avoid the street
car." "I promise," was the reply.
Rupert's face lit up with a sweet, peace
ful smile. "Good-bye, my angel."
" Bung soir," was the faint response, as
the girl's head fell on his breast amid a
storm of sobs. "I see heaven," mur
mured the dying man. "I know it is
heaven, because there are lots of street
cars, and they run every three minutes."
Rupert was dead.-Chicago Tribune.
A New Church Beneficiary.
A new scheme has broken out among
the Eastern churches to provide for
" God's poor." Each church is buying
a farm, to which poor people are sent to
work out their salvation in fear and tur
nip patches. This combination of re
ligion and ruta bagas is certainly a happy
one,- and ought to come into general
practice. Steady work on a farm cannot
but be far more preferable to the poor
of a church than good advice and fine
conversation, that is now lavished upon
them regardless of cost. There is
always something on a farm that any
body can do, and do well, and that will
be worth good wages, if the laborer is
fairly remunerated, and a church society
would be sure to do this. Then, in the
fall, when the golden harvest was gath
ered, the church members would of
course give their patronage to their own
farm and Jay in their winter supply of
potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, etc.,
from their own vines and figtrees, so to
speak. The report of the Superintend
ent would show whither the farm was
drifting financially, and if it needed any
fertilizing top-dressing in the way of a
mortgage. Ministers whose health is
poor, from hard study and overwork,
instead of being sent on an expensive
tour to the Holy Land, could be trans
planted from the stifling atmosphere of
the study to the beautiful air of the
balmy, breezy country, and set to rais
ing cucumbers on the farm. The exer
cise would do them good, even if they
did not raise enough cucumbers for a
mess, and what the church lost on cu
cumnbers it would more than save on
traveling expenses. It seems to us as
though the true plan of salvation has
been struck at last. It is not through
any of the five hundred different plans
advocated by the five hundred different
churches, but through the modest cauli
flower, the lowly onion and the golden
crookneck summer squash.- Peck's
~Sun. _______ __
A Romance of British High Lire.
Many years ago a young man made his
appearance in Stratford, and passed a
few weeks at the tavern which then
existed to afford shelter to stage-coach
travelers. Whence he came, and what
was his business, none could guess.
Directly opposite the tavern stood tho
small cottage and forgo of a blacksmith
named Folsom. .He had a daughter
who was the beauty of the village, and
it was her fortune to captivate the heart
of the young stranger. He told his love,
said he was traveling incogq.; but, in con
fidence, gave her his real name, saying
that he was heir to a large fortune. She
returned his love, and they were married
a few weeks after. The stranger told his
wife that ho must visit New Orleans.
He did so, and the gossips of the town
made the young wife unhappy by dis
agreeable hints and jeers. In a few
months the husband returned; but before
a week had elapsed he received a large
budget of letters, and told his wife that
he must at once return to England, and
must go alone. He took his departure,
and the gossips had another glorious op
portunity to make a confidmng woman
wretches. To all but herself it was a
clear case of desertion. The wife be
came a mother, and for two years lived
on in silence and hope. By the end of
that time a letter was received by the
Stratford beauty from her husb~and,
directing her to go at once to New York
with her child, taking nothing with her
but the clothes she wore, and embark in
a ship for home in England. On her ar
rival in New York she found a vessel
splendidly furnished with every con
venience and luxury for her comfort, and
two servants ready to obey every wish
that she might express. The ship duly
arrived in England, and the Stratford
girl became mistress of a mansion, and,
as the wife of a baronet, was saluted by
the aristocracy as Lady Samuel Stirling.
On the death of her husband, many
years ago, the Stratford boy succeeded
to the title and wealth of his father; and
in the last edition of "Peerage and
Baronetage," ha is spoken of aeitha issue
of "MinaoElaom.o ti aerda Nrth
The British Soldier.
The British soldier always presents
the appearance of scrupulous oleanliness.
He is scoured, brushed and scrubbed
beyond reproach. His hair is enriched
with pomatum and his shoes are radiantly
polished. His little cap is worn in a
manner determined by considerations
purely mathetic. He carries a little cane
inone hand and a pair of white gloves in
the other. He holds up his head and
expands his chest portentously, and
bears himself generally like a person
who has reason to invite rather than to
evade the fierce light of modern criticism.
He is the darling of the appreciating
housemaids of the West End, and on
this ground considerable ill-feeling exists
between him and his rival, " the bobby,"
or policeman, Susan sometimes favoring
the one, sometimes the other, and some
times-horrible dictul--both. On the
other hand, when on parade, the extreme
perfection of his. appointments makes
him look very well, and anyone who sees
the big parade for the Queen's birthday
or a general review at Alderahot, will
have no hesitation in saying to himself
that these are the handsomest troops in
the world. The long squadrons of
cavalry and horse artillery shining and
shifting, the dragoons, hussars and
lancers, the beautiful horses and ac
coutrements, the capital riders, the
handsome faces, the wonderful wagons
and guns, seem even more theatrical
than military. But the interior aspect
of one of these brilliant regiments is
quite a different thing. To see the man
carrying their coal, cleaning their bar
rack rooms and breakfasting on dry
bread, is not suggestivo of heroism or
romance. It is distressing to see a
splendid life guardsman, in shining
cuirass and plumed helm, jack boots,
long spurs and clanking sword, carrying
a basin of weak tea and a piece of broad,
which he is about to consume, with the
aid of a savelogy or a pennyworth of
butter from the canteen, for his evening
meal. He ought, according to his ap
pearance, to sup on a chine of beef and
a flagon of nut brown ale, as in days
of yor when a soldier was not such a
mere gulated part of ra machine, and
was I tter paid in proportion to the
earnin ;s of the community. There is
one word which affords a kind of magic
key to the whole existence of the soldiers
of the British army. That word is re
gulations. Whether on or off duty,
whether on parade or in his barrack
room, whether sick in hospital or taking
his walks abroad, the soldier must be
have according to regulation. The guide
to his daily course of life is to be found
in a red book entitled, " The Queen's
Regulations and Orders for the Army."
Not only must a private soldier be dressed
and accoutred exactly according to rule
when he appears on parado, but even
when he walks out of barracks in pursuit
of recreation. He may or may not have
a chilly habit of body, or be partial or
not to carrying a slender cane in his
hand; but the wearing of a great coat or
the carrying of a crne will depend, not
upon his own notions, but upon The re
gulations issued by his commanding
officer. ______ ___
The Spartan Law-G~Iver, Lycurgus.
The history and legislation of Lycur
gus are involved in considerable obscur
ity ; indeed, to such an extent that many
of the leading scholars of modern times
have viewed them with no little sus
picion. The generally accepted account
of the celebrated Spartan lawv-giver is to
the aff'ect that Lycurgus lived about 880
years before our era, or, according to
others, about the year 1100 B. C., and
was descended from the D)oric family of
the Proclidae. Polydectes, his brother,
King of Sparta, died, and to his widow
was born a posthumous son. The widow
and mother proposed to Lycurgus to
destroy the unborn babe if he mar
rica her. Lycurgus was shocked,
but pretended partially to consent
by saying it was as easy to make
way with an infant after as before it
came into the world. When the child
was born Lycurgus at. once p~roclaimned
him King, and his uncle became his
guardian. Then it is recorded that Ly
curgus traveled in many lands in Asia
Minor, Crete, Egypt, and even India, but
as to the latter it is decidedly uncertain
and unlikely. He studied the constitu
tions of the nations lie traveled among,
and finally, after many long journieyings,
he returned to Sparta. Duiring his ab
sence affairs had become disordered in
Sparta, and on his arrival almost the en
tire community requested him to draw
up a constitution for them, to which lie
consented. Then lie induced them to
solemnly swear that they would make no
change in the laws till he came back,
and lie left Sparta, and it wvas never
known exactly whither he went or where
he died. By his departure rand failure to
return lhe had hoped to make the Spartan
Constitution eternal ; and the people
saw he was a god, and worshipped him.
Probably such a person as Lycuirgus ex
isted, who, at some remote time and
critical juncture in Spartan affairs, may
have been selected, perhaps, on account
of his wisdom and reputation, to prepare
a code of laws for the better govern
ment of the State. It can not hn imn
agined that the entire legislation of
Sparta was first invented by Lycurgus
and imposed upon the people all at
once ; it is reasonable to suppose, how
ever, that he collected, moditied, and en
larged the previously existing institu
tions of Sparta. It is related by Plu
tarch that Lycursrus " commanded that
all gold and silver coin should be called
in, and that only a sort of money made
of iron should be current, a great weight
and quantity of which was of but very
little worth ; so that to lay up twenty or
thirty pounds there was required a
pretty large closet, and, to remove it,
nothing less than a yoko of oxen. With
the diffusion of this money, at once a
number of vices were banished from
Lacedaemon ; for who would rob another
of such a coin ? Who would unjnstly
detain or take by force, or accept as a
bribe, a thing which is not easy to hide
nor a credit to have, nor, indeed, of any
use to cut in pieces ? For when it was
just red hot, they quenched it in vinegar,
and by that means spoiled it, and made
it almost incapable of,.being worked.
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"Is scold day when t1",
tipne remarked when Soora t
to the circus without her.
Hawkeye.
A Dmnwr doctor killed a foAr aM
Derby .'ranecript sardonically
"The doctor means business when6 e
gets after 'em."
"My daughter," exclaimed a fashins
able mother, "is mnnooenoe itself. Tot
can't say anything in her presenos that
will make her blush."
SOLOMON is said to have had some zilue
hundred wives of all sorts. What it
must have cost him for fries in boxes
when he stayed out late.
HENs scratch up flower beds only wheh
they are barefooted. That's why women
run out and "shoo" the hens to keep
them from doing damage.
H AIL to the thief who in triumph advances,
The more he steals the more renown,
Tho bigger his pile the more he prances,
And caah keeps him up, while others go down.
IF some religious peop I w6 know
would prey on their neighbors less and
their knees more, the world would be
better off.--Bbtimore Every Saturday.
".MAmM," said he, and his voice was
singularly low, "will you be my wife t
Will you cling to me as the tender vine
clings to the-" "Yes, I catch on,"
said she.
A NEw OrK tourist who ate an alli
gator for a beefsteak in Florida didn't
get the taste out of his mouth until he
had eaten half a peck of onions and four
dozen herrings.
A PREAoEIR who had turned speou
lator and bought a lot of hogs on a rs
ing market, telegraphed his agent :
" Hold the pork, for I am coming."
~Steubenville Heratd.
SHXAKEsPEARE asks, "-'What's in a
name ?" Well, it is a good thing, some
times. Not necessarily for publica
tion, but merely as a guarantee of good
faith. -Detroit Free Press.
" I call that very rare," said Jones to
a workman who had done some work for
him. " Ah ?" answered the workman,
highly tickled. " Yes," went on yones,
"rare, very rare-not half done." That
cooked the workman, and he retired
Stcubenvitic Herald.
A FAsHIONABLE! lady witness falntedi
dead away while giving her testimony
and the doctor who was summoned sakA
it resulted from her corset being too
tight. The incident was vy properly
entered upon the minutes of te case as
"a stay in the proceedings."
A RoMINENT citizen, whose idlogyn~' -
crasy is that of becoming intoxicated and
going. to bed with his clothes on, was
surpried with the following the other
morming, from his wife : " You were not
as drunk as usual last night, Henry
dear, wore you ?" " Well, I don'I.
know," said he ; " what makes you think
so ?" " Why," she replied, "I see you
took your overshoes off before you went
to bed." _________
The Cannibals' Good Points.
Since everybody, including Judas and
Nero, have their apologists, the Feejee
cannibals are now declared not to be so
black as they are painted. In the fhst
place, they had, in the way of flesh
nothing but each other to eat. Excep6
flying foxes and rats, there were no four
footed animals on the islands. The pres
ent names of their domestic animals be.
tray a European origin, collie, for dog ;
PU88i, for cat ; 08C, for horse ; e~eps, for
mutton; qoti, for goat ; and bullama
kow, for beef. The wooden spoons for
human broth, and cannibal forks,.elght.
een inches long, with four or five prongs,
are still in existence. A berry, resem
bling a tomato in shape and color, was
the special and proper vegetable to be
eaten with "long pig." One of the
chieftains lately said he would like to
see a woman who would not eat her full
share, and declared that human flesh
was over so much better than pork
" Long pig" was sometimes made into
puddings. When a friendly neighbor.
ing tribe visited another, the chief of
the latter would make a raid among his
enemies, and bring back women enough
to make a feast for his visitors. Fifty
and eighty people were served at some
of these feasts. Formerlyl, when onie
sneezed, they sejid, " May you club
somebody." Now they say, "Bless
you," or " May you live long 1" Chief
tains were distinguished by the numbet
of persons they had eaten. Before he
was converted to Christianity, one ol
these had devoured forty-three of his
follows._____
Tattooing Confined Criminals.
A correspoudent of the Chicago IW
hune proposes that confined burglars,
highwayrmen, thieves and rogues for a
first offense should be imprisoned for a
short time and tatooed, say, on the fore
arm. For the second offensm of the
same kind lot him undergo longer im-.
prisonment and be tattooed on the hand.
Vor the third offense longer or life im
prisonment and be tattooed on the cheek
or the exposed part of the neck. This
would be the brand of Cain. Recording
these tattoo-marks would facilitate the
identification of criminals, as the body
marks cannot be erased except by surg.
cal operation at the expense of a perma
nent scar. The fear of tattoomng would
act as a powerful deterrent to those'
about to commit crimes, and also take
away the motive to escape from those,
who had merited and received the third.
penialty or open tattoo and were sen-.
tenced to long periods of imprisonment.
Tmtv stood at the gate beneath the
starlight. In a few hours he would be
whirled away across the prairies, and
she would return alone to wander wearily
and sadly amid scenes endesed by a
thousand tender recollections-f it
hnan't bnnn that she wnan't that sat of