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DEVOTED TO m0LITIi', NORALI'lY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERIL INTERET OP TIM COUT By D. F. BRADLEY & 00 PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1882. VOL. XTT wN ) TOPICS OF TiE DAt. A A nay the Pine of Wales I af0 edwith gout. T" . 1ROl0 qoest is lling up wit Italian Nung rant.u OOTODMM 5 i the fiftieth aiwaversar of the birth of President Arthur. Tu Star Bouts trial owoupled 108 day, and cost something like 00,000. ITs stated thata German has in vented a gunpowder that water will not affect, BaNrAKm H. HTTL expects to publish is father's speeches and letters, togeth er with a biographical sketch, shortly. danic New Orleans Tine-Democrat says the South will pay the Vest $100,000,. 000 less this yar for food than in 1881. AN Indiana schoolufa'am says it is not only less trouble to rule the boys by love but she thus manages to get the best ap ples and nicest bonnets. A ST. Lous paper remarks that the 4finauces of Canada must be in good con.. dition if the royal party can afford to visit Niagara Falls and Chicago in close Succession. TimE war in Egypt virtually ended when the British took possession of Cairo. E Urland has wanted Egypt for a 0century, and the coveted land has fallen Into br hands like a ripe apple. (1:onoE FRANOIS TWAIN still lives 'which we learn by the statement that seventeen boys were recently arrested in Now York for tormenting him while sit. ting in the park of evenings, - LORD DUFFmnIN, Admiral Seymour, Sir Garnet Wolseley and Lord Beres ford, who have distinguished themselves in tho lgyptian campaign, are all Kelts. Thus England is under renewed obliga tio to Ireland. A GENTLEMAN writing from Georgia to a friend in Washington, says that Gov ernor Colquitt will probably succeed the late Senator Hill to th6 United States Senate. The election of Senator will take place at the next session of the Legislaturo to be held this fall. A MAsSACnUSETra law makes the owner of a house liable for treble any loss that may bo sustained by gambling theroin with his consent. A saloon-keeper at Lowell has just been compelled to pay $1,800, the money going to a man who had lost only $600 in playing poker on thre premises. THIJuE is authority for each of the fol lowing methods of spelling anid pronun ciation :Mo-hiammn-ed (short a,) Ma homn-et (long a,) Ma-homn-et (short a.) 1'roperly sp~eaking, Mahomet is the name of the prop~het, and Mohammed that of his successors, and therefore the faith should only be known as Mahomotanism. Mn. LOT, who accompanies Herbert; Spencer on1 his~ visit to this country, told a Rfr'alo Courier reporter that instead of getting better Mr. Spencer has grown worse. His trouble is in the nature of insomnia. He is not able to sleep ex cept by fits and starts. Night after nigit he tosses about, and the day comes only to find him more fatigued than he retired. JUoE HILTON, who refused flanker Beigiman entertainment at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, because the lat ter wvas an Israelite, now offers to give $10,000 to exiles fund for the benefit of RIussian Hebrew refugees. Several gifts and subscriptions offered by Judge Hilton to different Jewish charities have already been refused. Dr. Brown, of the Jewish Herald, thinks that the so ciety for the relief of Hebrew exiles should accept the gift. Nsew YORK Herald: Cetewayo, says London Truth, objects to the barbarism of taking different kinds of food on the same p~late, and insists upon having his vegetables served separately. What wvould he think of a beauty at a cele b~ratedl watering p~lace hotel, who had on her plato a roast, twvo entrees, mashed potaitoes, succotash, and several sauces ua juices, and then, p)ointing her jew eled linger at a dish of wvine jelly, said to the waiter, "Bring mo sonmc of that liver?" A NonrTH CAIorLNA Correspondent of the Atlanta C(natitution wvrites :'" I sup 1)ose Morehead City is the only city in the world without a wvhool in it. I do not think there is a wagon or a buggy horse in the town, and yery few in the couty. Everything is dono in b)oats. There is not a house in the county that a boat can not get within a mile of. Not ar doctor or a lawvyer in the county owns a horse-they practice in boats. The people go to funerals in boats, and when they arrest a man they carry him to jail in a boat." A WAR which has probably cost Egypt the agricultural produtction of one year, and hundreds of millions besides, and has p~ut Great Britain to enormous ex piense to sendl 30,000 men to Egypt. and to gather transportaion from all the world for their campaign, ended at tire first real touch of arms, with a victory in which the heroic victorious army lost. thirty killed and 120 wounded. Eng land will mak~e much of it. And poor Egypt must pay for thre destruction of Alexandria, which was Uritish work, and for her conquest by theBritish; all this out of her destroyed crops, and her poor agricultural laborers. With the mili tary prestige gained by this war, will not;Great Britain be looking about for otaer countries to conquer? Will she not be arrogant and dangerous? But Great B~rita~in has had military success in several wars, in her recent pursuit of an imperial policy, which has not beenr .>rofltab~le in the outcome, and it may be auo in this instance. After all this mili tary glory, the thing passes to the realm of dinlomaev. anAl tha a, -. joint arrangement which will be humil intion to the conqueror, and will bo worso in the matters of national and commercial security than that which ex istod before the British dcstroyod it by making war. Old Strawberry Beds. Strawberry vines diat have been per mitted to eover the ground and have borino one good crop of fruit, will not pay the labor of weeding out, and. as ia rule should be plowed under as soon is thie crop has been gathered; but if one his neglected to set a now bed the past sing a1 desires to grow enough for fandly ulse, two or three rods of the old bed may be saved, and made to furnish auiotier year what fruit is wanted for lomel use. O-ne of the easiest and perhaps tho bet. way Vto clean out an old bed, is to Spade inl the vines, leaving rows about a foot im width and four feet apart. A good dressing of manure should be spaded in with the vines; and the rows of vines left standing should be vell cleaned out, leaviig neither weeds or grass. Some believe it best to mow oft the tops of the old vines, but as we have never tried this method we cannot speak of its advanta;;e from cx perience; but if the vines do just as well by so (10. ing, it would he an improvement, be catise it vould lessen the labor of weed migr out, which is the one reat draw biaek on continuing . [in ol( bed; not only is it a very tediouIs task to weed it out in the f'rst la)1ce, but the weedinlr miiust Colitillue until co!d weather, or the grass will become so thick that it will greatly lessen the crop the next season. If the hind be in good condi tion, tihe space spaded up will be well covered with vines before cold weatier sets in; if so, then next sprinr the old Vimes imlay be spaded ill to lace patls to stand im while picking-( the fruit. I ole has a strawberry bed away from tle garden, and it lis been kept clea-n of grass and wee(s, it may lie left over anot her season without cle:n imr out; aid it will perhaps furiiish half a crop alotiler se:son without expelse, except the use of the land; but if iin the garden, this should never be don1e, as it tills the ground with weed seeds, which will take jmany years to gret out. A strawbery bed in tile garden should under 110 circumstances be per nii!ted to stand over the secon(l year 'without, being kept as cleau of weeds as it is the hirst year. We know t hat the temptation is great to let it stand, hoping to have ti me to cleani it. olit, which in many eases nevr comes. The deelsion should he made within tvwo weeks after the erop is gathered: :id if it is deeided to let it stand another year the work of cleaning out, should be conimeniced at once. --- Mulssuchusctts Plouqhman. The Draft of a Plow Sulky. Why is the draft of a plow sulky less thlan that of a walking plow ? asks and answers a writer in the Oh o .Farmecr. Sinmply because the plo0w is carried through the soil instead oif being pulled though. In the common walking-plow time weight of the soil upon the mold1( board causes the plow to rest uplon the bottom of the furrowv, with so much ad ditional friction. With the 1)low sulky thuis weight is transferred from the bot tAom of the furrow, wvith its friction, to lie wheels, including thle weight, of the soil that is being overturned. With a common plo1 11w it will be noticedl that the under edlge of the landI-side makes a very smooth track in the furrow, which can only be produced by considerable pre~sure; but this disappears when the plowv is suspeonded1 upon an axle between two wheels. Th'len again, there is iio phouging of the plo0w, going deeper than 1s needed, or running to land and mnak ing a widler furrow, with increased dIraft:, or running out and taking off only a strip. At the ends of the furrow the pl1ow is hoisted and wheeled into its place, instead of being (tragged about; and in starting a firrowv or closing up) a launimg no walking plow can (10 as easy and as satisfactory work as can be ao c:>mplished by a sulky. Why lie Fainitedl. le was a tinig of beaulty, withI his sva xed noi stauch e, green kids, little canie and curly hair. Twoi old wVomien on the car wvere woderinig if lie wVou1ld mtelt in' a raini-stormi, when~l the cari stoppled and a stylish -looking hldy got in. Tlhie younig mani bowed, smlirkedI ali I rose up to take her far1'. Shie h:u tied him a siheor (dollar, wit h au gracious smile to back it, andi hie rushdi to t( ie- front aind shiovedl it (out to tile drivrr VVwith thle re mark: "I iha's to (ohi,"(.' repi ed' the dIriver, as lie retulrnled th oin 01. "' What- how?' "(Got aL hole ini it; no good.'' "It. had, for a facet, and thle bleautiful yoiung maiun grew white in a secomd. (oh h11(1ie take the dollar hack to t he la dy?' No; lie would suibst it ute one of his owni. le felt, in his piockets, tishedl upl ai penny and1 twoV( keys, anid, as the fact thalt he( was deadIL broi( ke rushed over him lie dIidn't drop the dloll[r (on the floor, or rush fromi thle car, or ret urnm it 'to the lady 0nd state that the Iinie was carrying dead-hioed- that dany. No, nma' am. ile just fainted deall away, ndhe never" ''ime to unt11ii only onie pa's senger wats left on thle car. Your real "piuirty" fellhows never resort to meani dordges to get aromtal a point. -/ I/roi/, A llardshell Parable. There are other kinds of liquors thin thioso (irank at lhars, as an old Hardlshell mfinister Onice alideo1d to in this mnannler "'There's the likker of mallis thaft manuly of you drinks to the drugs, but you' ro sure to sweeten it with the sugar of self justillcation. There's the likker of nvris that some keeps behind the culrtauin for constanit =sc, but they always has it well mixt with the sweeten' uv prudence and ekonimy. There's the likker of self-luv that sum men drink by the gallon, but they always puts in lots of the shug~ar of take-keer-of-number-.one. An' lastly, there's the lkker. uv oxtorshun, whicelI man swetn according to circumi stanam. . About two miles from toWn he sud d0nly checked his horse, gazed intently on the ground and said: ' Some fellow hams lost his saddle-horse herie this morn T vvto Was no advertisement on any of the trees ofifring a reward for a lost horse, and as there was no lost horse in sight we were at a loss to understand liow, if a horse was lost, our friend could know so Mhuch about it. The doctor inquired: "How de' you know that a horse has been lostP" "I see his tracks." Are there not hundreds of horses pasturing on the prairies, and how do you know that this is not the track of one of them?" "Because lie is shod, and the horses herding on the prairies do not wear shoes.'? " How do you know that he Is a saddle-horse and lost?" '.I see a rope track alongside his trail; the horse ias a saddle on. and the rope hangs from the horn of the saddle." " But why may he not ie a horse that some one has ridden over this way this miorniIg, aid why do you insist that it is lostP" " Because, if a man had been on his back lie would have ridden him on a straight course, Lut this horse has moved from side to side of the road as lie strolled ttlonr, ad that is a plain sign that he grazed as lie went and that he had no rider." " After that it woulk not surprise me,'" s:ad the doctor, "if vou were to tel us the :ge of the horse, and the name of the owner." " Well, that would not be very hard to do. There are signs that have told lme the owner's name, and there are other signs that, if I had time to exam ine, vould tell me his age. I know lie is one of old man Pendecgrast's horses. PeId(egrast has a largo bunch of horses down it the bottom, aml an old ni-rvr down ther does all his shioe.ig, alot shoes no other h orses except his. So we know his shoe track just the same as we know his hranmd." After this conviction on cireumstan tial evih n" it would not have seemed extraordi .y if the lemnant hal given its his opillion of the life anid character of our great-granldmi hers, drawing his conscusions from an examination of solue of (a. physical peculiarities. It is 1VoIder(1ul how expertt men become im reading what they call "signs"' on the prairie or in the woods. No sign escapes their practiced eye; all manintier of trac!s, trails :ni marks are to themii Lata1 on which to b-a-c conclu sions. lie T peuliar movelement of an anil vil ildicate the presence of some other animal in the neighbor hood. A broken limb of a tree, a cruh-lid weed, the debris arounti a canmp'-fire, the Iligh it of a buzzard, anld other such signs are to the cow-bo, and Ie frontiernsmamun what the sign-boards and advertisements are to people 0who lit in eit)ies. -'h:a main m. The Chtannmel Tunnmel. Some interesting observations on the Channel Tunnel11 have been comnnti.. caited to the French Academy of Sci enmees by M. Daub~ree. After referring to the three stamges of the work, thme set enti lic researches, the preparatory 01) Crations11, and( thle elxeutin of the pro0 .iect, he pioinits out, that wvhiile the Routeni chalk is watter-bearingr in its uipper strata it is onlyv slighltly so ini its lower beds1. Thle Frentch Associat ion have dugv two weclls at Sangatte, en hi ablout nine ty-five yards dleep, an ud htavei bOgun to run Iwo galleries fromi them toward Sha:kespe'are's C'liff tuder tihe sea. In one (of thmese galleries, at a depth oif sixty sevenm-tenthIs yardls belowv the Freinch hy drographie b.ench mark, thle lb'aumiiont p~erfoIrator will be at. wvork, and in thle ot her the ma uhine of Mr. Bruntoin will be empjloyed. On the Englikh side thle iender-cha~unne gallery begins at a depth of about thtir t y-twoya':rds belowv the French hyd ro. graphide b enich-mal:rk, thantmks to the'dtIrier niatuire of the c halik necar thle su rface, andl~ runis uinder thle sea at a desceindinig slope of one in eighty. This wa llerv is nlow nearly a mile long umerhih water matrk, and1( no water has enlteredl it as vet-. hie mass (of the rock thmroughi whmichi the tunnel i c is bored is q lit e dry*, but, from time to tme little tunniiels of water are~ mlet. with issuing~ fronm cracks in the ro)ek. Thme cyilindlrical form oif biore adopted by Col~onel Beaumont has an adlvanitage undtter these ci rcum st an ces, as it allows of the gallery being in suilated fromt these tricklings by means of an iron lining formed of rings having a dhiamete cri qal to that, of Ihle gallermy. Th'le-o rings are ini hive segments, bound together by ribs, I birouigh which i ass bolts which connieet tihe segment to gether, andl enh in~ig to) the niex\t ones. Wh en a wvate(r issutre is encoun tered(, one or miore oIf these rings ar icuhicedl over it so as to m1 isk it comlet)11ely. At first fouir segimenits arie put11 into poionl and thmen the fifth or key is added. Theo last ,ointt is tighiteed by a band of tInm sheet ironi inserted int o it. When the sprig fronm the rock is toIleralyI strono it, is lut ed wvithI a cemenit continin ig red' lead btefore thv~ rings arn placed over it If time fissure is obhliqueP a sort of tube has to be built uip of the rings until it. is masked, butt hlfl ani hour serves to ilce ai ri ng inlto posit ion. O)wing to the slop~e of thbe gall ery- time horers recent ly at - tainmed at deptht of lift y-six yalrds below tihe Fienichi benchel-niutrk. At tiis poinut the dleplthI of low water is five and onie half yar'ds, so that tihe Ihiickne~s of strat a beCtw~een thle t unniiel a nd thle sea bott sm was there about. fifty yardls. Sciculi/ic tmerican. -- Ie pastors or Ifie iiletfnomsit m'pis ,'opal Chiuirchies of Yor~k, Pa. . piubl iih a (card giving thir reasons for re fusinlg to att en "il'so-cal ledt hcl od ist. camp11-nmoct inigs.' M\any oft these ent erp rises, they say, are n ot uinder the contrnol of any de partmnent of the chiurch, and1( are maunn aged by gro-sly iiimmoral menu, whoumse mmoney I ( bri be uineuenieted conseielnces, :ntui obtaiin this tmnev by collutsion wvith rail roado orporations. ' ' We are in fa vorI of camt -mnectinigs," t he cergymnii add , "whene)OVer it can be demonist rated thait their intluience is more helpful than hurtaul to the cause of Christ. 'C/dcrk (Io) Trilbun. --There arec four m'gkel mines in the Uriit.l taes, all ,Ahi,.a n,- --aod Why a Kerosene Lamp Bursts. Girls, as vell as boys, Mood to under stand itbolit kerosene ox losions. A great many fatal accilents iappen from trying to p111 a little keltrosene oil the fire to make it kindle bettcr, also by pouring oil into a lamp while it is light ed. Most persons suppose that it is the kerosene itself which explodes, and that if they are very careful to keep the oil itself from being touched b the fire or the light there will be no danger. But this is not so. If a can or a lamp Is loft about half full of kerosene oil the oil will dry up-that is, "evaporate"-a little and will form, by mingling with the air in the upper part, a very explo sive gas. You cannot see this gas any more than you can see airs But if it is disturbed and driven out, and a blaze reaches it, there will be a terrible explo sion, although the blaze did not touch the oil. There are several other liquids used i i houses and workshops which will produce an explosive vapor in this way. Benzine is one; burning fluid is another; and napi )htha, alcohol, ether, chloroform may do the same thing. In a New York workshop lately, there was a can of benzine, or gasolin, stand In g on the floor. A boy sixteen years 01( lighted a cigarette, and thirow the burningr match on the floor close to the Can. He did not dream there was any danger, be, ause the liquid was eorked ui) in the can. But there was a great explosion, and he was badly hurt. This seenis very mysterious. Tho probabil ity is that the can had been standing there a good while and a good deal of vapor had formed, some of which had leaked out around the stopper and was hanging in a sort of invisible cloud over and aroundl the can; and this cloud, when the match struck it, exploded. Suppose a girl tries to Jill a kerosene lamp withouit first blowing it out. Of course the lanp is nearly empty or she woulfd not care to fill it. This empty space is filled with a cloud of explosive vapor arising from tle oil in the lamp. When she pllshes the nozzle of the can into the lamp at the top, and begins to pour, the oil, running into the lamp, fills the elpty Space and puishes the cloud of explosive vapor ip); the vapor is obliged to hour out over the r(dges of the lanip, at the 101), into the room out side. Of course it strikes against tle blazin wick which the girl is holding down by one ,ide. The lilate of tie wick sets lie invisible cloud of vapor afire, and there is an explosion which inites the oil and s(atters it over her c othes and over the furnitr-e of the room. This is thic way in which a ker osene lamp hursts. The saine thin may happen when a girl pours the oi over tile fire in the range or stove, if there is a cloud of explosive vapor in the upper part, of the can, or if the stove is hot enough to vaporize qilickly sonei of the oil as it falls. Reieilber that it is net t he oil but the invisible vapor which explodes. Taking care of the oil will not. protect you. T1 here is no safety ex. cvpt, in the rule: Never pour oil on a lighted fire or into a lighted lamp. Chist~ianf Unio n. The Uest InnabItant. Willie*' Bassett, an aged negro living in Ci~sden, N.. J., last May celebrated his P6th birthday, andl is without dloubt the "oldest inhabitant'' of the new world. Basset~t was born in Declaware in 1'755, wvhere his parents wvere slaves, for many years owned by the Bayard family. During the Revolution Bassett, then a young man of twenty-one or twenty-two, was working for a farmer by the name of Wilson. While there he married, and became the father of a large family, each inember of whom ho has outlived. Upon the death of his wife Bassett married again. When the 1 war broke out in 1812 he became a body-1 servant to Col. Morris, of Jackson 's army, whom he accoimp anied to the] front at New Orleans. Hie married his1 third wife upon his return from the1 South, and had by her rquite a numerous family, all but one of w hom (died prior1 to the civil war. For the last eighteecn1 Iyears ho has been taken care of by his children and grandchildren, spendinig the time betwed n Camden andl Moores town, to) and from which places lie has traveled on foot many a time. The last trip) was made early in the fall of 188l. His death is now looked1 for daily. PredietIons Verified. Senator ,Jackson, of Tennessee,45e was reminded not long since by a friend who wias at the University of Virginia with him of the curious verifiention of p~red ic Itions made thirty years ago and hmore. Jackson, Thomas Mahone aund Charles E. Fennor occupied cointiguous rom in the University of Virginia. They were fast friends, conistant companions and the foremost men in their class. A b~rothier studecnt sketched the three in a group one day. " What shall I put un der each flgnre ?" he Raid, when lie had completed the drawing. " Put under mine," said Jackson, " Jackson address ing the Senate of the United States." " And under mine," said Mahone, "(1o livering a lecture to the students of the University of Tennessee." "' And unde~lr yours, Fennor ?" ''Oh, Fennor an nouncin ga decision from the Supreme bench of Louisiana." Th'le inscri >tions were ap~pended. Jackson is to-<day in the Senate of the United States, Mahono' is at Vanderbilt Universi&w Tennessee, and Fennor is a member of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Cneeas Printers. A Chinaman offers his services to the pubillisher of a monthly paper in this city, to set up all the forms of his paper, send him proofs of each article, and make the corrections mnarkedl in the proofs when returnied, and convey the forms to and from the press-rooml for seventy-fiye cents a column. 'I here ai e lot-it columns in the pner ('eh colmntwetyandl one half inches long, by two and one-quarter inches wide. The offer was declined, whereupon the Chinaman said lie was doing the samew work for two other periodical in the city. They learned the business in Hong Kong and Canton, where papers are publishecd in the English tongue, and where China men are drilled into the work on account of the scarcity of white labor. -&a Fbranlcisco Bulletin, A Four Hundred Miles Walk by Six To-day the party of six girls who I started about the first, of the month to t walk all over North Carolina arrived at i Laurenburg, wher, their walk ends. j They are all well and in good spirits, t and, though much sunbuned, are as comely a set of lady pedestrians as ever I undertook a long traip. They started , in the neighborlood of Hendersonville nearly a month ago upon what was re garded by their friends as a foolish t scheme to walk over North Carolina and see the principal points of interest in the State, and to pay special attention t to the mountains. Three of the girls t were at school when the project was first agreed upon, and the other three t who agreed to join them were friends. They made all their arrangements for the proposed journey as quietly as pos- t sible, for they knew attempts would be f made to dissuade them from the tinder taking. Their friends were taken coni pl tely by surprise when they were told bit a (lay or two before the commence ment of the walk of the intention to r tramp over the State without aty es cort. To the suggestions that going alone and with no one to protoct them t they would subject, themselves to insult, t they rel)lied that they were willing to make the attempt, and they averre( to day that from first to last they had never received( one rude word or rough lest from any one, their only grievances being tit4 once or twice some persons of their sex attempted to prevent them from continuing their walk by eliarac terizing such an undertaking as immod- I est am unladylike. One old lady of fered to be their chaperone if they per sisted im their purpose, but the would he chaperone wanted to go in a buggy, and when she learned that they expect ed to tranil) over mountains where there were no roads, she backed out, al Lhough they mischievously gave her [In invitation to join. Oin the first week of their trip they sufl'ered much a fronm exhaustion, and the yotingest antd 8 frailest of the party, hi's Murdock, 11b1 to stop an1(d rest by reason of ;everely-blistered[ feet. It, was feared that she wotild have to abandon tile tri p, bit she pushed on noblv ', aml after the ei(hth day she began to gain. strength, and is now one of the health iest of the fair tramps. Her weight when she started was but niIetyP-tWo f pounds, and she turned the seales to day it 103 pounids. All save two of t he walkers fattened after the first week, while two who were inelined to'obesity were pulled down twelve and eighteen pounds. Their record shows that they made 420 miles. They started out wit h the expectation of making between 500 and 600. Each walker wore a pair of F red-leather walking-shoes, 111 wore I short walking-dresses. atnd( carried I strong staffs in their hands and knap- I sacks upon their shouilders, in which were packed hammocks and other I ntecessary articles. They also wore very broad-brimmed hat s,' which, how- I over, do not seem to have protectedl tiheir complexions, for they are all burned browvn. Two of the parties I carried1 pistols to protect them fronm ac cidlental ineursions of wildl-eats and a bears. Much of the time they slept in a the openi air iln thteir hamimocks undioer i ezunivas coverlets, which wcere used to s shii(l t hem fr'om heavy dlews and rain. s Oine night, ten (lays ago, apprehe'nding 1 Il severe storm, they camfped inl aL rave- y gard and slept betwveen the graves. t Another night, in the mountains, they ~ Vie throwni inito consternation by the s 1JppeaancO of a bear, but tihe beast be- ~ n as frightened as they wvere, flied " vithout olering to molest them. f4 n the mtountaiins they were nt great terror of rattle-snakes, a >uit dlid not enceouinter any of i it he reptiles. Along their route theyi vere treated kinidly', many of the htos itable farmers (entertailnmg them, bitt f ~hey shunned notoriety and avoided all 0 ~he towns amii villages, fretjuenitly going s ome distance out of their way rat her q hlani meet crowds. A novel feature of al hteir uindertaking was the keeping of n ~.hat they cal led their log-book. In ti his the rocordl of t heir impressions andt d~ventuires were kep)t, each taking her il urn. The book cotains 1,246 clos.ely- - ~vritten pages Althtoughl freqtuentl I )feredl vehicles, they always dleciled1,n ay ing that they started wi'th the (let er-n nination of walking. .They spent thriee ' lays in exploring the (elebratedl Baldl n \louintains wvhose mysterious rumblings t1 tome years ago creaitedl so much excite ment. Tihey not onily made tihe dliflicutlt n Iseent to- the top), butt went inyto one of n the crevices, wvhich they examinedl mi- f noutely, with the aim of discovering~ a what caused tile strange soutnds inl tileu initerior. T1hte novel t rip of flhe si* young ladies has been mutch talked a ib~ouit, butt as they had aLvoidted they arowdedl thiorouighifares they were igno- s rant of the interest taken in them, and t were mnuich astontishedl and( slightly in- 0 mitedl whien they leanied that bets had been madie by certain sporting men IF Ltat. they wouild not make four hiundredl I miles in the month. JTe parties areo rnodest andl shun notoriety. They aver they end( the trip) now becauise three of ' their number will begi n their school a daiys early in Septembher, but they assert ~ their doetermination to walk over the ntnexploredl portion of the St ate next n~ sumnmer. T1hey leave to -morrow hy rail n~ for their homes, near Hendi~ersonville.-- h Monroc (N. U.) (Jor. Ch/ica'Lo Times. t Si Honest, liut not RelIable*.t Not lontg since a lady called on Moso e Behaumburg, to find out if a colored d woman, who had formerly been a servant at his house, was honest, she having given him as a reference. h "Site vas honest, too honest to suit me, put she vas not reliable." c " How in the world can thtat be?" "Vell, you (day I leaves a five tollar pill ont do floor, andl I dlells Matildy to ' sweep (lot room (out. I shoost vant to r Bco if she keep dot pill." " Well, did site keep the bill?" "No, she brings me dot pill pack." . " That looks very much as if she - reliable." "No sihe vas not reliable, for dot pill vast ry4unterfeit. I vas in hoe she( dakes dot pill, and den I would nevera have paidl her dot twenty dollars I owed her; put she's fooled me py bringing me dot pad pill pack, so I cannot say she vas reliable, but maybe she vas honest," ...Toag ARi flno. A Southern Case of Witcheraft. "If the town of Salem, in Maueachu Otte " said Bob Billin by, "thinks shi as had the onliest withes in this coun ry, all I got to say about it is that shi i simply mistaken. Now, there was oli Irother McGraw and old Sister Hut Bob's story, in short, was thus: 01 rother McGraw and old Sister Hutto) rere members of Philip's Bridge Church Irother McGraw was a consistent mem or, but old Sister Hutton, to say th< ruth, was regarded somewhat as i ,eathen and even addicted to witch raft. A calf of Brother McGraw's, o .ncommon promise, dwindled in spite o ncommon pains, and finally died, an< heood man, persuaded in his min< hat neighbor, although a spiritua rster, had bewitched it, set out in hii rrath for her huuse, and, taking her b, he hand, gave her a violent wrencli lister Hutton reported the case to th< :urch, and at the conference one Sat Lrday, Brother McGraw, being mildl' emonstrated with, went so far as to sa: hat he would have to think about it rhe moderator blandly suggested to hin o withdraw for a few moments, retir nto the woods, reflect and pray ove he matter. He did so. On returning he moderator and the brethren wer ratified to observe the calm regret tha vas visible upon his countenance. Thi aoderator was a man of power, both a o intellect and character. It was Sila fercer. Then this dialogue ensued: Mr. Mercer-" Well, Brother Mc traw, I see you've returned, and I thin ou've come to a just conclusion in th iatter about which you have been rE ecting." He looked inquiringly at the age rother, and the aged brother answere is inquiring look with meek silence. "I think you feel sorry, Brother Mc [raw," suggested Mr. M., in a kindly )ading tone. "Yes, Brer Moderator," answered thi ged brother, "wery sorry; I'm wer' :>rry." Yet there was some gruffness in hii ne which led the moderator to doub ie nature of his regret. "Brother McGraw " said he "wil ou let the church know what sort o orrow it is you feel ? Is it a godly sor ow, Brother McGraw ?" Then the aged brother lifted high hii Lead, looked the moderator full in thi ace, and answered: "Brer Moderator 'm sorry-I'm sorry-that I didn' )reak her neck. "-Editor's Drawer, ii Varper's Afagazine. What is Solling1 The soiling system is that by whic tock of various kinds are exclided froi mture tields, and the food prepare Lid fed to them regularly. The soilin ystem is always associated with what nown as " high farming," which hi or its rule "the largest return from ti mallest available space," and it is i his point we are journeying on our roa o perfection in agriculture. It is ystem, however, that demands exts ahlOr and close atiention, and one tht ntails great expense. It calls for cor tant examination of the condition < toek in order to prevent injury to thter ronm confinement; but usually cat tL coin to thrive well under the soilin ystem wherever practiced As nion uit the most progressive farmers hav enturedl on the plan, it is safe to sa iat success is due more to good judg tent andl enre tihan to the system itselIf > far as the health of the animalsi >ncernedl, bu~it that it is the only trui ay of kee ping farmts in a high state o rilty cannot be deniced. But fev miees are reqjuired in soiling. This i. sorc f considerable saving. Th<1 >0(d can be of a variable character, am imdergoes careful preparation, in ac >rdance withI the capacitv of the ani mal, and whether the desire of th< wnuer be for milk, beef or butter. Ti Estemn takes inlto consideriationi th< uest ion of shelter, l ikewise, and thi nimnals are as tenderely treated as the2 re weoll fed. It enlls for' the selectIon o te best stock, of the breeds sutitedl fo: to puriposes~ deOsired, and no0 ot her; am te improvement of the stock every yea: a paramnount object, no expetnse being. >ar'ed to accomlish41 it; nor is thq :inure overlookedl, fotr every' ounce iu nt *only saved but well p'reserved heret' mu tst not he any loss of anmmoniat ) Ieachting' from rainis nior e!xposulre t< c sutn. It is tr'eated1 as an article o ie grecatest value, andI itted( forpre simtilationt by the crops which tt is t nirish. Great as the interest of th rm'ner may be in his stock, yet, wit' I his care, he does not cease utntil thI ltitmate oblject is att ainied, whichl is t.( crease the produ1ictivenmess of the soil nid every year the stock becomes mior aluiale, thie d ivide'nds larger, and th >iI richter. Less land is req1uired uinde ie systemt, and no eniergies are waste< ver broadl Iields, but~ time, labor anj ioney are concentrated on the smialles ossible spae that enn be mnade to siup ort thle amount of stock reqitired manure is spread thickly, and wheni all taken from the barnyard no not hter aLcre is touched outside of th rea th(, manure covetrs except for gree1 u~nuiring. ''Te crops are putt in jits 'htetre thtey (10 best, and no land re tains idle, for green cirops are turne< t, a prtoper system of irotation is fol iwed, and the best manual skill an to best machinery are called to the as stance of the fatmer in making ever3 ug pay. In fact, soiling, pro per'l mnducted, is scientific farmmng. --Philk -Fannie C'ornan, fourteen years 014 as rivaled the famous daughter of ti ght-house keeper, by the bold resci f her drowning complanion, .Jessieo11e on. Trho latter, eighty years old, ft rito Iharlem Rtiver the other afternoo: 7here was a light tide and strong e ent, but Fannme sprang in without x novrmg an article of her clothing ai uicceeded In bringing the child ashor --N. Y. Times. --The value of property in the Unit< itates is held to be fully $50,000,00( K)0, makiuo it the richest country in ti vorld. Enland, the next richest, ha 1p44, 100,000,000, and France comes no. Writh $37,200,000,000. The averagei svery inhabitant, In England Is aboi 51,300 and in the United Stgtes i1,i B1.00...Chicago Herakd. -Love ,eekSb@s~ days for, years/sadm is an age.--Dvyden. -:-The Popr way t#*ee Is to despie t; attempt toovertak refute it, and it *'louttuaymo.-Geos 2 Eliot. -A thick corn-husk Is not a hard winter, as some folksI. A makes no difference to corn-hu* WMW the weather is.-Detd Free IJW7 -A man has been arrested in New' York for counterfeiting theater tioketa, His villainy has put him in "a box," but he sighs for tire family oirole.--Seuben ville Herald. -It is said that the debt of the world is over $23,000,000, but so long as it is not in shape of a contested will the law. yers may gnash their teeth in vain. Detroit Free Press. -" Yes, sir," says the oldest resident, "the first trip I made from Lowell to Boston was over the old canal, and [ worked my passage on the canal beat." "Worked your passareP HowP" in quired his audience. " led the horse," solemnly remarked the ancient mariner. -Fogg has got an idea at last, and he , says there's millions in it, as it meets a a long-felt want. It is nothing less than a revolving house, which is to turn upon a pivot, so that the best rooms shall al ways face the sun in winter and be in the shade in summer Fogg has a great head. -New Haven Register. -A student of human nature was the Yankee schoolm'am who undertook the care of a school out West, where her predecessor, a man, had been tossed through the window by the rebellioum - pupils. She got along splendidly; and, when asked how she managed it, re plied: " Oh, easily enough. I thrashed the little boys and mashed the big ones." -A coachman calls upon the doctor to ask what can be the matter with him. " My good man," said the prince of science, " you've got dropsy-that'r what ails you." "1 Dropsyl Wha' s that?" " It's a morbid collection of f fluid in the serous cavities within th body--in your case, I take it hydroperi toneuni caused by cirrhosis of the liver. - but curable by paracentesis." " I C know, but what is it in English?" "You are all full of water inside." "Water? Oh, that's nonsense." (Re. flects a moment.) " That scoundrel of a saloon-keeper must have watered his liquor, and yet he swore to mo he didn't."--Chicago Times. RELIGIObS AND EDUCATIONAL. -The oldest Presbyterian Church in the world, the Valdensian, sends out more missionaries from her hiwhland valleys than all her ministers at'liome. -Three thousnd~ five hundred church Ies have beenr built in this country dur.. ing the past fift een years, and more than one for every (lay in the year during the last twvelve months. ---A candlidate for a teacher's certifi cate in the recejnt examination at El Do .radlo, rave as a reasoni for the length ened ltays (of summner that they wvere ex pan~dedl by the heat. Of course they contract in the winter. -Lavenworth& Times. -Rev. Miss Anna Oliver says that the Sideal Christian woman its the salvation of the Church, andi expresses the belief if womenC~ 1lose faith in the 'Chuirch and (Christian religrion ini its general outlines the whole fabric of modern theology will fall apart. e -A Hlindoo mother, after listeninv o hour after hour to the lady mhissionarr d as she explained the way of free salva a tion, exclaimued: "' T1ell me more.'' At -a last when the long talk must close the Lt old mother dIrew from~ under her veil i- the thin, gray hairs, saying: '"These >f hairs have grown white waiting for n such words as these." " -The indlustrial schools are having San appiarently goodi ellect upon the In a' dians. The r'ed men have begun to a work well andI to take a pride mn their Swork. General Armistrono believes that within live years, with tho 100 In dians at Hampton, Va., and the 300 at C (arlisle, Pa., and others under intruc t ion elsewhere, all the shoes and lhar Aess neeed on the plains can be made by the young men at home. ---hicago Journa(. - -Mr. Spurgeon, while in Scotland, recently preached in the grounds of - Ilenmore. A temporary pulpit was a erected on the lawn, .and Mr. Spurgeon a addressed an open-air congregation of a nearly 5,000 people, who had come in from "all the country side," many per sons having walked over ten miles ex pressly to be piresent, for the austere l I'uiritans of this part of Scotlandl would r'egard( di'n~;g on such an occasion as aL "'Sabibath deseciration"' of the most heinous nature. -- N. Y. IPost. Flora and Fauna of the Desert. Bunch grass, as gray as the sand it self, dwarf evergreens, nearly black in a color, andi cactus with a few wild flow, Sers, are almost tile only botanical con r trihution to the changing picture. No a trees grow on the desert. The cactus (e family, the most eccentric of plants, ' makes this region its home. The first 0 to be seen coming from the East is of the variety most familiar to Eastern hot 'houses, shaped like mittens upon ex a' tendled human hands, thumbless, and a bordered with sharp spines. A com moner variety in the desert is of a vine Slike character, clinging somewhat closely t to the ground and putting forth branches at angles as eccentric as those of the let ters of the Chinese alphabet. East of Tucson this variety takes to itself a t trunk or stem as odd in appearance as' Sitself, black, leafless, branching much ' . like a stag-horn, and bearing Its vine like burden upon each terminal point. SThe most singular variety of the cactus grows near Tucson, where a grove num bering several hundred individual plants -is seen upon a barren, stony hillside. It shoots up round and straight like a telegraph pole, the largest specimens attauuing nearly two feet in circumfer ence, by twelve to eighteen feet in height, often without branches, but generally putting forth two shoots like the elbows and connecting links of a stove-pipe It bears upon its upper end ea smal tuft or flower. S0 great a dis e proportion between stem and flower is ' probably found in no other plant, The trunk is covered with regul'ar rows of 'warts and spines. r-The Spanish bayonet occupies thou O'- sands of acres and4 has its share of ec centricities. When young its long e. tough bayonets point in every direction aif guarding some precious fruit with in its worthless stump. Later all but sd jthose pointing upward and downward "'' fall off, leaving a band in its middle, ie -iving it the apperace of a small bun ~la in o straw tie un and radv fartha