Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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By, A . BRADLEY & 00,PCESa C -THURSDAY JUNE 118 O .1XI. . ,. .N O.i37. DUOTED TO rOLITico, ZOALITY, BOUVT10N AND TO THE GENER L INTERES r OF TILE COU TIY. 0,00o b k maxsestate is S worth $190,M0. ' .f the par4oA of- Sergeaul nn A ggret of 550,00( rprm is operating in por. inaois doing serious damage 01nal opening of Garfield House, *Mking girls, in London, was a ADsoNj condemns the rQyied of the Niew Testament. He does 0"g ad everything. to make the Wdlike him. anWanno afraid or is the Commit on Foreign Relations afraid? The UAstigation into the Peruvian afair is ~Oagdrawn and decidedly dry. MMSin thirtoezJ, to which so much -il sVuperstition is attached, has been 0 limed to respectability by the sur 0va of thirteen of the crew of the Aonnette expedition. losPUs America must give place to Australia, whose colonies are the t#ohest, per capita, in theworld. Among *their possessions are 8o000, 000 sheep, to a pulation of only 8,000,000 souls. Tau Supreme Court of Indiana has aMdered a decision to the offect that railroaa ticket scalpers may sell special tickets whether they are half fare, or ex oursion r special in any other respect. . k.3 T=u .27th of - June is the day upon which the people of Iowa will vote on the amendment to their State Constitution forbidding -the sale of all intoxicants. The fight is said to be already waxing warm. IT DOES seem strange that the assas sins of Cavendish and Burke cannot be ferreted out. Perhaps England had better send for Pinkerton.. What they -need over there is a detective that can detect. _ _ _ _ OBroAGO has sent a petition containing over .1,500 names to Rev. Moody, now in England, begging himi to return to that city and hold a series of revival meetings. Mr. Moody can find no better field for - niissionary wvork. Tan~ is one thing about it, Ship herd is getting himself disliked by Re publicans, and we observe' that he is deronnced as a "lying old fraud" in m uarters. Some years ago Ship herd was a popular minister. Wu HEAR of a musical prodigy in Toronto--a girl, only fourteen years old, whose playing of the violin is regarded as wonderful, even by so accomplished a judge as Remenyl. Her name is Norah Clench, and she is the child of a violin 'maker.' Tu last .report of the Philadelphia gomo for Inebriates says that " the free Innch system is responsiblo for mnore drunkards than almost anything elso." Men will stand round and eat free lunch until they get so drunk they can't see. 4 Take out the free-lunch counter. A Nrws item says "a Burlington (Vt.), man who got a divorce from his wife, a - while-ago, employs her as his hired girl. She has more money ant1 better clothes Ahan when she was his wife." We do not doubt it at all. If you ever noticed it, airman invariably -gives the hired girl more money than he does his wife. Miss EMMA JANE IBONNEDR, only daugh ser of Robert Bonner, the great ad iirer of fine horses and proprietor of the oldest story paper in the world, the New York Ledger, was married a few days ago to Mr. Francis Forbes. Emma is a child of romance, and will doubtless now give us new editions in serial form. In A note to the Cincinnati Commner cial. under date of May 11. Professor Vennor predicted as follows: " I expect a sharp period,.wvith frosts, about the 7th or 8th of June, in Southern sections, and a second one during the last week of the month." Well, we shall see what we shall see; but we do hope the man is out of his head. IT rS remarked that President Arthur %is the first President since Buchanan to attend horse races. Goneral Grant, though very fond of horses, did not at tend the races, even at Long Branch, during his Presidency. Buchanan, z ~ Piere., Tyler and Van Buren were very fond ofehorse racing, and attended all the great races in Virginia and Maryland during their terms of office. A rLATU magazine article on dress re form says a good thing : "It is the women that the men admire, and the lothee for their sakes ; but never the women for the sake of their clothes. No one eme saw amen in rows in front of shop windows admiring the dresses on stands." ~usbands, show this paragraph to your wives, but at the same time, express * willingness to purchase an occasional ca1100 dress if it is really impossible to 4ewthout it, There are men mean * the execution of the Presi &SBeSa n private will be bad for the ofpbi decency. 4o* ~f 1o from one section eete o setion is are noe&~b 00ple together, and thfrenit alw dentes miant be most 4uing in connection lith the futile and disastrous Jeannette Arctic Expedition. Ile has presented to Mrs. DeLong, the widow of Lieutenant Do Long, who lost his life in the expedi. tion, a check for $50,000. In this con nection a cotemporary fittingly remarks that "if the Lieutenant had died in the service of the Government his widow would have received a pension of about fifty dollars a month." AsTnONOMEMR in Egypt who viewed the orb of day during its total eclipse on the 17th. report a "fine comet "near that body. Its position was determined by photography. The spectroscopic and ocular observations just before and after the period of totality gave most valuable results. The darkoning of lines observed by the French astronomers indicated a lunar atmosphere. The spec. trum of corona was successfully photo graphed for the first time. ANOTHER electric railway, which is the second there, has just been constructed in Berlin, and formally opened. It has a grado of 1 in 30, which is, perhaps the steopest incline in the country. The motive power is led to the cars by two thin wiro ropes, about twenty-five. coen timetres apart, and attached to the telo. graph poles. These ,wires are capable of propelling ono small eight-wheeled carriage. Compared with the first line, tho system used in this, while more complex, secures greater economy in the use of the current. Trai locomotive and one car of a train on the Baltimoro and Ohio Railroad passed over a little child who was sitting between the rails a few days ago. Then the train was stopped, and the conductor crawled under the car to collect the frag ments. To the astonishment of every body, he presently emerged with the child in his arms tuijured, except for a slight bruise on the forehead, where the pilot of the locomotive had struck him. All the trainmen and passengers insisted dn hugging the little follow before surrendering him to his father who stood by. NEwS from Dallas, Texas, tells a story that runs up into millions. Two men have fallen heirs to a fortune of tidrty three million dollars, held in trust for them by the Gorman, Government, and oo of the lucky individuals is M. Bros nius, Superintendent of the Dallas Car Factory. The other is Samuel B. Ed mundson, of Pennsylvania. The latter is aiso heir to the property n which the navy-yard, in Washingtog City, is built. It was leased to the Government for ninety nine years by his great-grand father, and the lease has just expired. This is probably the last we shall ever hear of this fairy tale'. THEY1 have a peculiar kind of justice in Massachusetts. No sooner do we hear of the discharge of a ruffian who had carnally assaulted a defenseless woman whom he had chanced to meet, on the. highway, at 1 o'clock in the mnorning-the dismissal being upon thle ground that the wvoman had no business b~eing out at that hour of the night than we learn that a Justice fined a father $5 and costs for slapping his fifteen-year-old daughter. The charge was assault and battery. Although it does not appear that the girl sustained any injury, or anything more than felt the sting of the blow, it was held that tihe father overstepped the bounds of law and order. Thus it appears that in M~assachusetts it is a greater crime for a t'athet to correct his daughter than tor a ruffian to carnally iasault the same person. ________ A CORRESPONDENT in the St. Louis Republican gives the following explana tion of the betrayal of Jesse James by the Ford Brothers : One and a half miles gast of Richmond, Mo., is the house of the Ford boys. It is dif lioult of access ; deep ravines wind through and about the farm--just the location to hide away from the haunts of meon, and to plot deep and damning cons~piracy. For two years Mr. How ard (Jesso James) has come and gone at his own sweet will, and yet the neighbors dreamed not that the prince of brigands was so near. The Fords were not neighborly, but Bob would often be seen1 on the streets with stran ge. He was a quiet, genteel young man withI no habits that ccould be objectional o. Jim Onm mings was a cousin of the Fords, while Wood Hite was a relative of James. The taking off of Oumamings was the act of either Hite or Jcsse. Little and 3ob Ford, it is now almost fully es tablished, charged Hite with the deed. A quar rol ensued, and he shot Little through the leg in turn, Ford put a bullet through the brainof Hite. Knowing full well that Josse would re taliate for his cousin's deoath, Little lost no time in communicating with the Governor. A midnight raid on the Ford Mansion soeon after by officers of the law failed to bag tte game. The Fords complained at iKansas dity or the unwarrantable proceedings, but were quickly silenced when informed that they had slamn and buried Hite. The screts of the banditti were now no longer hidden, and so tihe Fords felt it was aauve qui peut. Then the sister, who was the sule woman of the househbld, hurried to Jefferson City and did a tale unfold, and the fate of Jesse James was sealed. The Fords, guaranteed immunity, went systematically to work the capture or death of their chief. With a plausible story of the treachery of Little, which had placed them in jeopardy at home, they were received into the family of James. Then the traitors waited and watched and struck down the man they dare-not capture. &Is. MAY bNANNON; who accompanied Xiv 8.eant Mason when she went to ohosof the incidents Wpdsr -alongasf sprit wasfar away in the prisonees cell and the burden of her he' song, like Grec6n's leemed to be, "My Peace Is gone, my heart Is sre, I And him never, never more." - Having sent in our cards, ire took a seat in the large anto-room by a good fire. Threaten. ing clouds obscured the sun and cast a gloom; all seemed dark and cheerless within. We were quietly waiting for the coming interview which would be the harbinger of good or evil to the sad heart. At the expiration of half an hour the messenger came in and announced that "The Preeident desired So see us." We *ere shown to his private parlor and ha'4 to wait but a few moments when he entered% from the opposite4oor. The American people can well be proud of their President for his gentle and courtly manners. I doubt if any present Monarch could enter the drawiug-room with uch unassuming gacoe as President Arthur did when he camo to take by the hand the wife of the poor soldier. I presented Mr. Mason to the President. He shock hands with her. The anxious moment had at list arrived her ent-up ling oculd no longer borestraed. he brokefortinsob; the Presidedt looked on with compassion. When she raised her eyes she had full faith in him for his coun tenance inspired confidence, 9he then made a pathetic appeal for her poor husband's release fronm -rison. The President told. her that he appreciated her feelings, that he knew all the details of the case that he would bring the muatter before the 6abinet, and that he would do all in his power. He said she need not dis tress herself to tell him any of the details, and she might feel assured that he deeplysym a thizod with her. He again shook hands with her, speaking in the kindest mannen Inventive Genius West and East. We have alwa s maintained the super iority of the West over the East in most of the essentials ; but there is one branch of progress wherein the East still takes the lead. In certain lines of invention the people of Massachusetts far outstrip the people of Michigan. Up to a very recent date it has been a sad drawback to the comfort of prison offi cials in punishing convicts that the latter could not be kept for any length of time on tiptoe. No matter how high their hands were fastened, the ungrateful wretches would manage somehow, by stretching their arms or some other por tions of their anatomy, to get their heels on the ground, and thereby defraud their torturers of lawful enjoyment and the leasant emotions Oxeited by the observ alice of liunan miser.. But the inventive geniub of the Yan kee has come to the rescue of the abused prison official. Some sharp-witted fel low in the Refoinm School at Westboro, Massachusetts, hit not long since upor the simple device of placing sharp pointed tacks under the heels of con victs when suspended by the wrists. They are quite willing now to stand on tiptoe instead of meanly settling back upon their heels ; and the keepers are eorrespodnigly happy A Michigan man would never have thought of this. The receut Investigation at Ionia showed that the authorities there were mere slavish imitators of the authorities in Eastern prisons. They had the strap and the "paddlo," and they fed their convicts upon rotton meat, just as the Eastern torturers of convicts have done for years. But they hadn't a spark of originality. -Detroit Frec Press. i'he Young Writer's First Production. Probably every one who has attempted authorship will confirm Longfellow's experiencS on the appearance of his first effusion in print. Nothing, he tells us, which he since published gave him such exquisite pleasure as he experienced on opening the paper to which he had timidly sent his manuscript, and to find it there in actual type, to be read by the multitude. This feeling comes but once, but the memory of it lasts a lifetime. It can never be forgotten. What anticipa tions it arouses--what a sense of im portance it gives!i How little does the young author suspe~ct the cold indiffer ence with which it is read, possibly not read, by those who take the paper ! As the song says, "It's all the world to him," and why not all to the world ? It would be and is cruel to spoil the delightful sensations of initial author ship. They may be false, they certainly are fleeting, but the enjoyment, while it lasts, is an intoxication of delight, as first pleasant sensations are apt to be. Thle hint comes soon enough to the writer to discover how really unimpor tant the event was. If he persists in writing he will come to be as indifferent to his appearance in type as the world is. If a newspaper writer, he will weary of the eternal grind, and forget what he has written the day before in studying what to write for the day after. But no success, either as a newspaper writer or book-maker, either as poet or essayist, however flattering, will ever g ivo to the author the sensation of his frst appearance in print. It is, after it passes, a lost sensation, no more to be repeated than love's young dream, with freshness and fervor. It is an illusion too exquisite to be duplicated in one's ex perience. Iti' our advice, then, to young writers, after tey hava suecceded in getting into print once, to stop then and there, and cherish the sensation as long as possible -that is to say, as long as they can help? it-and not repeat it to satiety, or until the spirit is jaded, and the writer ~ready to cry out, with the Preacher, " all is vanity and vexation of spirit."-Cin cinnati Commercat. Vrcor Huoo was a fair child. At one year of age he could hardly raise his head unalded, and it was1 as lie assures us, thankrs to his mother s untiring care that lie became at last a child as healthy as most. Since then he has never known a day's illness. How few of up can say as much ! But, then, how few of us re sign ourselves to such a life of austere regularity. His has been divided into two parts-one of literary labor for the maintenance of a numerous family, the other of corporal exercise, which is the true secret of his remarkable health. Heeats regularly, and drinks little wine withmuchwater; never anything stronger. Naturally he is an early riser, and goes to bed early. By his bedside is a table upon which there is always pen, ink, and paper, and often in the middel of the night, a thought having surprised a waking moment, he consigns it to p'.per, in the d'ark. He has always writ, ten witlhiwonzderful facility, and tie man uscripts (all of which he has kept) bear so few corrections, that they aeem alya to be oopies.-PAara Lce, English and American Ladies' Dress. .Mrs. Scott-Siddons is quotted as hav. ig said: "An American servant will tie on her voil in a natty, graceful way that an English duchess knows nothing about." Mrs. Siddons will not be charged with an over-atrained regard for the Yankee, or a wish to favor them at the expense of her own countrywomen. hi thus placing the servant and the duchess in contrast she was simply emphasizing a truism which was less a fact at that tipe than it is at the present hour. For among all civilized'people the English women are 'the most ill-dressed, and seem to lack the natural gifts, the self reliance and ability of choice and selec-' tion which are the inborn attributed of American women. An English nursery set off against a nursery in-this country may be taken as a type in miniature of the taste in dress and all that the term invblves'of the differences which charac terizes the women of the two nations. In this country little girls find constant satisfaction and congenial employment m arranging and adorning their doll's apparel. Left to their own intuitions and hampered by little cr no pupilage from their elders, it must be owned that the taste and ingenuity which they dis play are often simply wonderful. An Euglish lady who passed thirty years of her life in her native land, and who has lived in this city-half of that time, once said:-" The homes of American girls, so far as I am familiar with them, are schools of art in dress adornment, and whether their taste and skill are natural gifta, or acquired by observation, I do not pretend to say, but there is nothing to compare with it in our homes in Eng land." Consistent with this admission is the almost universal tone of the English press and of most travelers who visit.onr shores from other lands. That English women study comfort and provide themselves with rich fabrics and costly adornment in dress is past dis pute. A dowager or duchess arrayed in gorgeous silk, satin or velvet attire, with the complement of green gloves and yellow ribbons, and shod with broad, heavy, loose-fitting boots, is hardly a pleasant, though it is a con stantly renurring, picture of taste in dress among the wealthy clapses in Eng lish life. If the wearer has any idea of the contrast of colors, any perception of the shocking incongruities which the tout ensemble of her costume presents to a cultivated eye, nothing is seen of it in the ease and self-satisfaction of her demeanor. While the fact remains that American women are the best dressed ladies in the world, it is also to be re membered that while they, with,a vast imajority of their sex, yield to the cur rent of prevalent fashion, it is not a blind or slavish submision ; they think for themselves, and stoulty, on occa sion, assert their own individuality, and refuse to succumb to the dictates of fashion, modiste or milliner. Their natural or cultivated good taste, which includes the lines of beauty, which Mr. Beecher made himself merry over re cently, is generally all-sufflcient in doubt and emergency. Their "glory'"'is to dress tastefully and becomingly. Their "hallejuah" is the acclaim of a suc cessfully consummated purpose. -New York Evening Post. Human Endurance In the Water. Man and animals are able to sustain themselves for long distances, in the water, and would do so oftener were they. not incapacitated, in regard to the former at least, by sheer terror, as well as complete ignorance of their real pow ers. Webb's wonderful endurance will never be forgotten. But there are other instancell only less remarkable. Some years since, the second mate of a ship fell overboard while in the act of hoist ing a sail. It was- blowing fresh ; the time was night, and the place some miles out on the stormy German ocean. The hardy fellow, nevertheless, managed to gain the English coast. Brock, with a dozen other pilots, was plying for fares by Yarmouth ; and as the main sheet was belayed, a sudden puff of 'wind up set the boat, when presently all perished except Brock himself, who from four in the afternoon of an October evening to one the next morning, swam thirteen miles before he was able to hail a vessel at anchor in the offing. Animals them selves are capable of swimming immense distances, although unable to rest by the way. A dog recently swam thirty rniles in America to rejoin his master. A mule and a dog, waahed overboard in the Bay of Biscay, have been known to make their way to shore. A dog swam ashore ait the Cape of Good Hope with a letter in its mouth. The crow of the ship to which the dog belonged all perished, which they need not have done had they only ventured to tread water as the dog did. As a certain ship was labhoring heavily in the trough of the sea, it~ was found needful in order'- to lighten the vessel, to throw some troop horses over board. The poor things, my informant, a staff surgeon told me, when they found themselves abandoned, faced round and swam for miles after the veisel. The New Schoolmaster. The old man approached the new schoolmaster with a bull-dog glare in his eye. " You got after my boy yesterday be-. cause he' left a live hornet glued to your chair ?" " I did." " You licked him~ so he thought the world was coming to an end ?" " That was the impression I intended to convey to him." " I am his father, nrid I've come to let you know what I think of your proceed ings. Then they clinched. Hair and blood flew in the air, likewise the dust and fragments of garmente. Then it quieted down a little, pnd the old man implored him to let him up,.stop choking and take his teeth from that ear. " tdo you think about my warm ing your boy ? " asked the teacher. "I think you did just right, and when I go home I'll give him a tanning that'll teach him to come to me with his com plaints, and stories that the schoolmaster can't fight." They parted and the schoolmaster mnur miured, "I did rightL to tackle the son of the worst fighting man in the district first. None of the others will pester mze." Why People Are so Short-Lived. The Concord School of Philosoph having requested the assistance of ti Lime Kiln Club in solving the conut drum of why the people of this d not live as long as those of earllyday the matter was ven to the Committe on Judiciary toinvestigate. They no express a readiness to report, as follow, " Dis committee had no trouble to fin plenty of -reasons b'arin' on the inqu In de fust place, do taxes am so high d no man kin afford to lib over a hundre y'ar. In olden days a man could to is wife to git 'long away if she didn please him. In dis age he has to stic by her 'an fight it out. Dis has an indt ence to make him sigh for a change I do evergreen shores. None ob doso o] chaps had a second shirt to his back, ai none dreamed of puttin' on style. Loo about you in dis aige an' see do coat-taili sleeve buttons, diamond pins, an' odde gewgaws which bow down a man's hea in sorrow to de grave I In de time of d prophets dar was no means of scootli aroun' do kentry an' takin' in de sight In dis aige, arter a man has bin to N, York, Washington, Ohicago, an' a fe, odder places, ne am up a stump for i change of scenery, an' he natterly want to be pushin' on to'rds de pearly gateE Dig committee am ob do opimyun dat d modern man who reaches de aige of on, hundred y'ars ought to be perfectly satiq flied to hand up his ticket to do conduc tor. He gits more trottin' horse-nor store clothes-more alligator butes more picnics- more ice cream an' oys ters, an' whateber else goes to mak< human natur' smile all ober in a gloon day in dat little time dan Methusal er go in all his nine hundred y'ars ob life. An we'll ober pray."' The Secretary was instructed to prc pare a verbatim report and forward th< same to Concord, together with the hop< that the school and the club would worl together in the greatest harmoniy during the long evening period. -Dctroit Prc< Press. The Muse of Heirich Heine. When the exhibition of the works o the painter Maguas took place at Berli a great number of admirers crowded be fore a beautiful portrait of a woman. I blue velvet dress surrounded her figure while transparent sleeves only half cov Bred a marble-like arm. A golden chain passing through the smooth hair, wa fastened on the forehead by a jewel nrmingy an old-fashioned but pretty ox nament. This was called formerly ~"Re gardez moi." The graceful head, th small ears, dark hair and softly-rounde< cheeks, formed a charm which cannot b described, and which could only b painted by such a skillful hand as thu of Maguas. " Who is that beautiful woman? asked all the people present. "Fred erike Robert," was the answer which ai old gray-haired man gave. She was th muse of Heinrich Heine, whom he one wanted to carry to the banks of th Ganges "on the wings of songs.' H dedicated to her that beautiful poem, hi called her his "idol," or the cousin c Venus of Milo, and he sang about he "sweet face." She was also stung b, several other German poets, Fouque Chanmisso, Karl; Schall, Holtei, etc. Sh< was admired by W. Hensel, the famou "albumist," as he used to style himself because ho would carry his album every where, in every society, and malb4 sketches of the famous people. Tbc beautiful Frederike possessed muel talent; sho composed verses in th< Swvabian dialect, but printed nothing She was sister-in-law to the famous an thoress, Rachel Varuikagen, to whomr she was much attached. A Terrible Crime. A servant girl of Stargard, in Germa-. nly, had in course of several years saveti a handsome sum of money, which she deposited in a savings bank. One day she drew the morey and took the trair for the town of Schneidemuhl, a fey miles from home. She visited an oli acquaintance, a butcher, and told hinr in course of the conversation of the money she had in her pocket. Tin butcher advised her to wrap up the money and fasten it on her head, buriet in the hair. The girl followed his ad. vice and left for home, the way taking her over a deserted heath. Meeting policeman, she begged him to accompa ny her on account of her money. Th< policeman complied, and accomnpanie< her the greater part of the way. Hard. ly, however, had he left her and turne< back when he heard a piercing shriek Hastening back, he found the girl lyinj dead in the street without her head which had been carried off. As the gir had told the policeman of the butche: whom she had visited, his suspicion were at once aroused, and lie hastened to the butcher's house. After waiting half an hiou~r the butcher came in with bag under his arm. To the question o what was in it he replied that it was sheep's head, and threw it under thi bed. The policeman left, and returne< in a few minutes with some colleagues The sack was demarnled, and on beinj opened was found to contain the murt dered girl's head. American Coin in Foreign Oountries The American $1 is worth five franc (95 cents) and a trifle over 30 centime in the coin of France. One Austria florin is equal to two English shillings or about 46 cents, and the rix dollar t $1 American. In regard 'to Germal coin, there are about as many differen kinds as there are different kingdoms i the Empire. The crown of Baden valued at $1.10, the thaler of Saxony e $1, the thaler of Prussia at 70 cents, th thaler of Brunswick and Hanover at 8 cents, and so on ; the 20-mark (gold) equal to an English sovereign, whichi equal to $4.83 American money. Th Swedish cronor, or crown7 is equal t 26 4-5 cents, and the Danmsh rix dolls is about 60 cents. EVEnY man'knows that one-half th stocks in the hands of speculators ai bubbles, which will collapse with axm sudden disaster, Suppose Gould < Vanderbilt should die, or either one < both should attempt to uniload, whe1 would be the thousands of others wi: arerisin thirall upoft margins?: is hehase o et ic wich endangea all interest. by heedless neoulation. Illustrated Blackguardism. Y Caricature has always been one of the e sharpest wea)ons of political warfare. - Travesty, burlesquo and all the changes D of the farcical have been used 'pitilessly I, and mercilessly from time immemori li 0 both in the interest of political parties w and poliical blackguards. When party 1: lines could not be broken by the heavy d guns of argument or the fierce musketry - fire of attack in front, the caricaturist has 6t been sent, likea cavalry rider to the rear d or like a spy in the garb of a buffoon, 11 into the enemy's camp. ,t Sometimes the work of men like Leech k and Nast has been more effective than ar L- gument, and has been employed in as 0 legitimate a way. But the sonse of irre e sponsibility, the license given to purely 1' personal spites and prejudices, and the k feeling of reckless jollity that at timoe in 1, fluence the artist, make the work of even r the best caricaturists uneven. d The temptation of the ordinary scandal e monger to go to extremes is limited by I the thought that he will be held responsi - ble for every word he utters. But the v caricaturist labors under no such re straint. He works in the dark or be hind a veil, with all the materials at hand to besmirch and degiado. If he be a small man his powers of ridicule and a his sense of humor are given free rein on the downward scale. Hoi knows little - about men, less about underlying prin - ciples, but, guided by superficial ob 3 servation and popular clamor, he puts his own littleness or meanness into his conceits, and is satisfied if the black 3 guards and unscrupulous applaud. There is no heart in burlesque, and no conscience in travesty. Unbounded license is the rule, and things held most sacred are turned into ridicule without compunction. The lowest instincts and the vilest impulses find expression in the name of burlesque, and thopeople are ex poected to forget the rankness of the of fense against decency in their laughs over absurdities. The people have excused so many of fenses of this kind that the blackguardi of caricature have found encouragement for their most disreputable work. Many foreign artists, without a spark of pa triotism, without any sense of loyalty to America or Americans, without any re spect for American ideas, with a con tempt and hatred even for th country and its people, are employed on our it lustrated papors. It is the delight of these fellows to indulge ' such vile con ceits as will give Ameri aus Most annoy . ance and must pain, and little wonder is it that journals which make a specialty 1 of such work have gone down by dozens, B or have been sustained at great outlay of E money. Little wonder is it that under t such circunstances the art that Nast made respectable has degenorated into a trade little abovo that of the blackguard. - icagqo Intcr-Ocean The Timber Question. a It is not at all strange that considera B ble anxiety should be manifested as to where the future sup~ply of lumb~er shall be obtained, when the great forests of r Michigan, from whence at present the bulk of the timber is brought, shall have been depleted. Many experienced deal ora think that this will occur within ten or fifteen years, and are already casting about for a new field whence to draw their stock. . Canada is coming into the market somewhat, at present mostly with sycanmore lumber, which is made into packing boxes for plug tobacco, and also Swith excellent ship plank. But Canada has immense forests of pino, spruce, and hemlock, and the Ottawa, Saguenay, and other rivers, are the channels b~y which large amounts of lumber annually aro broughit to market. Quebec, Toronto, and Montreal are large dopots for lum ber from the forests of theD Dominion, and some of the stock is sent by water or rail even to the ship-yards of Maine, itself a great lumber State. Buffalo is one of the chiefs of the lum ber markets of our country, its water communication with the Michigan and ing its development in this direction. There are upwards of sixty-five firms, wvholesale and retail, engaged in the lum ber business in that city. Planing mills and box factories are becoming very numerous, owing to the increased de mand for manufactured lumber. That this trade is in a most healthy condition islroved by the rapidity with which stock is turned over, as well as thn fro quent advance in prices. IIn the manufacturing districts of Michigan heavy advances have taken p~lace in almost all the gradles of lumber. SIn the vicinity of almost all navigable streams in that section of country all the best trees have been utilized, conse e quently lumbermen are now compllhed to go farther back for a sup)ply, and the cost of the pine log from the stump to I the mill has, therefore, beeni materially increased. To look at the immense rafts which Sannually make their way down the Pe n iobscot, the J~ennebec, the Merrimac, the Connecticut, the Hudson, and the 'other principal rivers which drawv their i supplies from the New England States, a ~ tyro would say that the Eastern States alone can furnish all the lumber needed for this continent; but the fact that the *- center of the chief supply has gradually a moved west to the lakes, and that a a scarcity is already predicted there, indi a cates that in the near future all these , sources will be exhausted, and that we must draw our supply of this great ar i ricle of commerce from still more distant t parts.-New York R~eporter'. s t Grass Bouquet. e Perhaps you think you krtow how to 0 make these, but few people make them a with any taste, and I want to tell you a~ how. Fill your vase to the top) with e clean, fine sand ; take your grasses one o by one, stand them up in the sand, * keeping each one distinct from its neigh bor, and using very few. Then you will have a light and graceful affair, in a stead of a clumsy bunch which hides all e the delicate beauty of the griussos, and y reminds one of a load of hay. A fern or >r two, but no more, adds to its beauty, >r and a spray of autumn leaves, half hid se den among the grasses, gives it color. Lo One of the prettiest grass bouqueta Iever [t saw had no more thian a dozen deicIae e's grass stoms, It looked like a fairy thing. pad esperleenee as a l he ristoa4l suspeioa eatythe means of Iheumatetndny Tax GoverAn o-f hi Ioned a law nedicine, and 08 he dissection of ".4 i1 desires that thes state should get their md experience elsewh Da. UNNA, of 2aM igmentary mater )looks up the pores of ngblac points or " ioluble in acids, and he thete nends the free use of vinegar an& uice as a local application to 0afte emove them. THE use of, the eyes in 2rasdfng whl iding in oars or wagons has been weU -ompared to the effort a pron *0 walk a slack rope; the strain on 60t ascles t.at assist in vision being 04 treat during the jolting of a oar, s vould be the strain upon the musclas et te limbs when trying to maintain one's lalance on a slack or even a tight rope, Dn. J. V. Qunmy, of Jersey ' , has lemonstrated by three cases tha it is possible to chloroform a rson in sleep without first awakening e sleeper. He, blierefore, concludes that, in the hands A a skillful criminal, it might become in effective instrument in the acoom plishment of his nefarious designs. PROFEssoR JARGun, a German physIol ?gist, advises the wearing of undercloth ing made from sheep's wool. He under takes to show that in our-organism there are certain gaseous volatile. substanoes which are continually being liberated in the acts of breathing and perspiring and that one kind arouses feeligs pleasure, and the other sensations of dislike. Wool he says attracts the sub stance of pleasure, -while clothing made of plant fiber favors the accumulation of [he offensive substances of dislike. Tim British Medical Journal asserts bhat the local effect of tobacoo on the mucous membrane of the nose, throat md ears is as predisposing to catarrhal liseases as is ineffloient and insufficient 3lothing in the case of women-the fact b~eng that such effect on the mucous nembrane of the superior portion ok the resiratory tract causes a more perma ient relaxation and oongestion than any Ather known agent. Terefore, as to bacco depresses the system while It Is producing its pleasurable sensation, and ais it prepares the mucous membrane ttli Lake on catarrhal inflammation from even Blight exposure to cold, the Journal thinks it should require no further evi dence to show that its use ought to be discontinued by every catarrh a patent. Tniu Royal College of Physicians (England) ha "resolruted" to the ffrect htits members may hold any theory they choose in regard to the action of remedies, and practice as they prefer, if they 'will only refrai4 froni using any special designation or class name, such as homecopathist or electrician. The Med ical Record (New York) regards this as a direct invitation to all dissenters to drop their special designations and join the Royal College. A CoRONExR's jury in Philadelphiaat tributes the cause of death of Fred. Miller to imagination and fear. He had been bitten by a srgall dog, and thoug presenting nosymptoms of hydrophobi ho died of fear in the belief that he ha that much dreaded disease. This is the first case we remember to have seen of such a verdict, but don't doubt that a sinmilar verdict ought to have been ren dlered in many cases which have been certified as true hydrophobia. OF MR. LONGFELLOw's method when Professor of Modern Literature at Har vard, Dr. Edwvard E. Hale, one of his pupils, has given this account: "AS It happened, the regular recitation rooms of the college were all in use, and we met him in a sort of parlor, carpeted, hung with pictures, and otherwise hand somiely furnished, which was, I believe, called the "corporation room." We at round a mahogany table, which was re ported to be meant for thle dinners of the trustees, and the whole affair had the as pect of a friendly gathering in a private house, in which the study of German was the amusement of the occasion. He began with familiar ballads, read them to us, and made us read them to him. Of conrse we soon committed themn to memory without meaning to, and I think this was probably part of his theory. At the same time we were learning the paradigms by rojte. His regular duty was the oversight of fl~s or more instructors who were teaching French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese to two or three hundred un der- graduates. We never knew when he might look in on a recitation and vir, tually conduct It. We were delighted to have him come. We all knew he was e poet, and were proud to have him In the college, but at the same time we re. epected him as a man of affars." A (Georgia Dog With the Toothache. Whoever heard of a dog with the toothaclie? Well, Augusta can boast of the novelty. The poor old fellow has been howling for a week with neuralgia of the jaw, and when his master, who is a thoughtful and considerate surgeon as well as an artist, discovered the cause of the canine's grief, he set to work to er tract a whole row of deoayed teeth In the dog's mouth. Now, this may seem - absurd to some veyinrn people, but it is all true, and the poose dog held his mouth open'and sat perfectly quiet while the teeth 'were being drawn. And yet some people think a dog has no sense or appreciation.--..Augusta News, iN 1878 the importation of ostrich feathers into New York amounted in value to $2,475,464. in 1879 to #2,796, 454 ;in 88Oto $4, 54,547, andin 1881 to $5,493,024. " SHArLrI go West ?" is the heading of an article in a leading Eastern jour nat. The answer is clear. (eI1lI~ you have the "sand "-that is, the brin and muscle and skill. The West Is not in need of drones. It isno place to live easy. A man not willing to roll ip hia sleeves and sweat had better not come West. Every-ody sweats out Wes4; they don't siply "perspire."---O r~J~ ~