The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, September 28, 1882, Image 1
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