Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DEVOTED TO FOLItI~C, ORAL11Y, IDUCITION AND TO TAE VENER iL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY. By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY. OCTOBWR 12 * NEWS GLEANINGSO. Jacksonville, Fla.,,has six papers. Texas has 187,00square miles desti tute of inhabitants. The richest county in North Carolina in gold is Montgomery. The largest single brick-yard in the United States Is at Atlanta. Tennessee, North Carolina and Vir ginia wiU all make good peanut crops. Corn is offered in Jackson county, Ala., at twenty cents per bushel, deliva ered." Pratt's coal mines at Birmingham Ale., are the most 'extensive in the South. Experiments have proven that the Japanese seedless persimmon will grow prolifically in Florida. It is estimated that over 1,000,000 or ange trees will come into bearing in Orange county, Fla., this year. It is satd that Ae first orange tree ever known to have been injured by lightning was struck at St. Augustine, Fla., recently. Ofithe immigrants arriving at Castle Garden during the lhut six months, Texas got 2,089 more than any other Southern State. Twenty more marriage and natal guilds filed articles of incorporation at Nashville Monday. The grand shaking up of dry bones will be a thing of the near future. The Concho floods caused the death of 149 persons and 15,000 sheep. In the past month, floods in Texas have de streyed 200 lives and $5,000,000 worth of property. The High Shoals factory recently sold to an Atlanta broker, for $650, Confed erate bonds to the amount of $100,000, which had been lying in the factory sfe for seventeen years. Griffin, Ga., has the largest peach or chard in the South, containing 50,000 trees and covering most of 600 acres. the same farm are 4,000 grafted ap ple trees and 5,000 pear trees. Numerous. petitions are being circu lated in Alabama asking the Legislature to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State. The petitions are being numerously signed. Gold has been discovered in the Organ Mountains, sixty miles north of El Paso, Tex. A piece of ore brought in, weighing two pounds, was covered with Pure gold and contained $150 worth of the metal. In the orchard of P'erry Howard, at Ebenezer, Miss., there is an apple tree from which the ripe fruit is just now . iisappearing. A second crop is upon th'e tree about half grown, and is still alooming for a third crop. Williamsburg, the oldest city in Vir tinia, is said to be one of the quaintest, ;uietest towns in the South, and or jrpat interest because of its many an tique and odd looking buildings. It was once the capital of the Stat. A New Orleans washerwoman has in the past fifteen years raised a family of fatherless children, given them all good educations, purchased a handsome house and has $10,000 laid away for a rainy day. Tier entire possessions were earned at the wash-tub. In Jackson county, Ga., two men, named respectively Hill and Goss, fought a duel with hugity whips to set tie a dispute. The fight continued for over three hours, and resulted in a draw. The metd Were one mass of welts at the close of the novel duel. Probably the youngest farmers in the country are two children living near Mhreveport, La., who have eight acres in cotton and ten acres in corn, and will make good crops.' The children are brother and sister, aged respectively thirteen and ten ye'ars, and have done most of their own wocrk. In Geneva county, Ala., a mill was blown down by a storm Tuesday, arnd ai woman and her child buried in the ruins. The next morning the debri' was cleared away, and, while the moth er was crushed by a heavy timber, the little child was uninjured and found be side her mother, sleeping qunietly. Dixie Wagoner, a smart Helen, Ark., nymph dui pave, has made the marriage .Ssociations sweat. After taking out a large number of policies she married her "friend," drew all her money andl then went to Illinois and procured a di vorce. The pair then divided the swag and are now laughing at the duped and Rome (Ga.) Bulletin: D. WV. Ford, of Cave Spring, brought into our office yesterday a perfect natural pitcher, which he had found in Texas a few monthsa ago growing as an excrescence on a red elm tree. Its proportions are ae curate, and It Is about twelve Inches high and six inches in diameter, is bob, low, and has a perfect handle and snout. At Wilmington, N. C., a party of gentlemen discovered'a large white crane on the edge of a small pond evidently trying to fly, but could not. They went to investigate the matter and ascertained that one of the bird's feet was held he a large snapping terrapin. The crane* ,~s lifted out of the water, but the ter rapin kept his hold. Both were caf tured alive. Henry Todd, who lives in Darien, is the wealthiest colored man in Georgia. When a youth his master died and left him his freedom. When the Confed--. ercy fell he lost twenty savm..a so. an article on "Cotton Mills, North and South," says the Southern mills now boast 1,237,409 spindles, and that the consuption of cotton this year will reach 400,000 bales, or one quarter of the amount used North. This fact is the more natable because two years ago the amount of cotton manuractured in the South was scarce worthy of mention. The largest individual sheep owner in Texas is a woman, well known all over the State as the "Widow Callahan." Her sheep, more than 50,000 in number, wander over the ranges of Uvalde and Bandera counties, in the southwestern part of the State. Their grade is a cross between the hardy Mexican sheep and the Vermont merino. They are divided into flocks of 2,000 head each, with a "bossero" and two "pastoras" in charge of each flock. A North Carolina correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution writes: "I %uppose Morehead City in the only city in the world without a wheel in it. I do not think that there is a wagon or a buggy horse in town and very few in the country. Everything io done in boats. , There is not a house in the county that a boat cannot get within a milo of. Not a doctor or a lawyer 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 Prussian View of the English Army. The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette at Ramleh expresses surprise at the coolness of the British troops. .4 They show," he says, "none of the eixcitement and eagerness which dis linguish the Continental nations when they fight for existence, or at least for a national idea. This Egyptian war, like most wars in which England is en gaged, ia treated entirely as a matter of business; if the ob;eot of the under taking had been to make a railwav or a canal it could hurtUy hav, been entered upon more quietly. * * * Deeds of extraordinary energy and courage, as is to be expected in wars carried on in this way, are much more rare than in the national wars of Continental Eu rope. It is true that the feeling of national solidarity is as strono as. if not stronger, among the Englfsh, than among other nations, and there is no lack of manliness in a race of such consummate physical development; but the cause for which they fight does not elicit the enthusiasm which prompts men to do more than their duty. More over, the Englbsh, however practical, are deficient in foresight. It will scarcely be believed in Germany that there are not more than two or three trustworthy maps of Lower Egypit in the whole of t e E nglish camp. Even most of the aoffoticers have to uso maps which are not much better e' an those in Enedeker's Guide Book. And yet there would have been plenty of time to get a few hundreds of copies of the Arabian map of Mahmud Bey, with| the names of the p laces printed in Roman characters. At the same time, it is not to be denied that the Engl-ish army, notwithstanding its singular' and antintuated organization accordinig to Continental notions, is well atdaptedl for' a war of this kind. The adfmirable physique of the men, the wise and busi ness-like way in which they are ledi, and the strongly-developed love of sport, whether military or otherwise, which is the national characteristic, are immense adrantages in a struggle with a half-civilized adversary. The dis lnipline of the army, toc. seems ver strict; for I have not seen any drunken soldders since I arrived ' Lice on Cattle. The suggestion was recently made in this paper that our National and State ntmgiste ol o oabte thing than to investigate the sub'ect of the external parasites of cattle and to devise means that will insure their de struction. Every person is presumedl to know a louse when he sees it, but very fewv can idlentlfy the dif'erent varieties of this numerous family of Insects, or can tell whether thie kind that is found on one class of animals or fowls will live and thrive on another. Comparatisely fewv know how to destroy them without injuring the creature they mo!est. An Iowa farme'r t hinks t hat ho has found a remedy thait is at or ce harmless to the animal andl harmful to the parasites. In a comnmunication to The~ ,innestead he gives it: "Take common larkspur seed and steep it, and~ wash thoroughly every part of the body. I have known one appli.. cation t~o destroy every inacct and egg. Two will su'lice If done thoroughlv.I give in add tion two remedies that'Icon. sider more eflioneious than the other: mercurial o ntment, kerosene and lard. tobacco smoke. ai wash of tobacco orsul. phuri in salt. Thlese all will sometimos mnjure the stock. A good remied y is dry dust gathered from the ro-td, anlil siftedl and put in a box for winter, (nature's remedy); rub it well in, and as they hatch repeat. Also p~ulverized charcoal mixed wvith dust is still better. 1 havn heard that fine Indian meal or shorts were good, used in the same way.I knowv they are good to apply inside. When an animal is affaeted it shouk1( be immediately removed from the other stock and thoroughly treated, and not allowed to run until the whole herd is covered. The old-fashioned Jarkspunr is the best, as it bears the most seed nnd is perennial. A small patch will supply all the seed you will or ought to need.-.. CJhicaao TYmer. --Hlerbs 'for winter use should be gathered when the plants are in flower; jutas the flowers begin to fade is con sidered to be the bgst time to harvest them. The herb garden was formerly of greater domsstfc importance than it is in these days of patent medicines, but whether this change is ani advantage to helthh may well be questioned. To dry 'ierbs it is best to tie them in smal bandles an tanhem ..p .- a.ar TOPICS OF THE DAL. OnNOON is now o.lled thb Webfoot EVANGELUir MOODr Is trying to 5r up 6 religious feeling In Paris. Paixca Blaxonax has beengin the Prns sian Ministry twenty years. Taz oorn aherage is greater this year than ever before owing to the tooth-piok toed boots. A TUNNEL is projected under the Bibe, between Hamburg and Steinwarder [sland, to cost 5,000,000. IT WILLr oot over $100,000 to replace the bridges swept away by the recent floods at Elizabeth, New Jersey. SZVEN citizens of Delaware were pub. tioly whipped a few days ago, and three more stood an hour in the pillory. A GENTLMAN who has - made recent abservations in Utah claims to have discovered internal dissensiona in the Mormon Church which may work its ruin. CINcINNATI is organizing a swell cav alry company, to be known as the Cin cinuati Horse Guards. It takes $300 and a "passable" moral character to become a member. THE great Newburgh poker game has at last been settled, by Hedges and Boott refunding to their victim, Weed, 120,000. This makes Weed's loss, in roun-d figures, $70,000. Ecu of Garibaldi's children is to got $2,000 a year, for life from the Italian Government. Yet their late father was I! 1831 -on lemned by grandfather of the present K.ng of Italy to be shot. Tia Queen of Madagasoar has ordered that a prohibitory law shall be framed, prohibiting the manufacture of brandy or its importation into her territories. The penalty is the forfeiture of te" oeon and a fine of $10. Tim fruit crop in Scotland has been a qomplete failure. It is the worst season for the last fifty years. At one well known orchard in the Cars of Gowrie, which is rented at ?200, the crop consists of one barrel of apples. Rumon has it that the wedding of Mr. Oliester A. Arthur, jr., and Mias Crow ley, has been appointed for the early part of October. The bride and groom' elect are extremely young, their orn bined ages not exceeding thirty-aix. Tmi London Trth says that a specu lator in New York has resolved to tempt Prof. Huxley to cross the Atlantic by the offer of ?100 per lecture for a series of 200 diseourses on popular science, to be delivered during 1883 and 1884. Mn. GLADS-rONE wears ready-made clothing, and while crossing a street always acts on the principle that the htypothenuse of a triangle is less than the two sides. in place of using the cross walk, he cuts off the corners, or crosses diagonally on the cobbles. THE Washington Critic says: 'Star Route jurymnan John B. McCarthy, who voted for conviction all the way through, has been appointed to a position at the Government Asylum for the Insane. Mr. Mc~arthy was simply an honest cobbler before he got on the jury." BACON that used to sell in the South for from five to eight cents per pound is now worth from fourteen to seventeen cents per pound. Cotton has depreciated largely, and it does not pay to rais, cot ton to buy pork with. The Southern farmers are beginning to find this out. Mn. J. 0. BroEtow, the counsel for Sergeant Mason, states that when he visited the Albany Penitentiary a few days ago, to obtain the execution of the petit ion of a writ of AMbeas corpuse, Mason was looking bad and felt quite disconir nged. They have him engaged in mak ing shoes. Tiie number of acres in rios in the Uniited States in 1880 was 114,113; num ber of pounds produced, 110,131,878 clean rice; an average product of 632 pounds per acre. Number of acres un der cultivation in 1881, nearly twenty thousamd less than in 1880, and product in 1881, cleven million pounds greater than that of the previous year. Tre~ London Truths ridicnles Gen. WXolseley's dispatches from Egypt as "'sentimental twaddle," and attention is ealled to his account of an engagement in which there was "heavy firing for several hlours," the troops "lbehaving adlmirably under a hail of bullets," and the result was one man killed andl twelve wounded. A wRAL-rnv h~achelor of Oregon, whose death lately occurred in the East, while on a visit, has given the most valuable farm in the cove to a school for young ladies. The buildings for the school will be ercted soon. This farm contains 34,000 pruak an plum trees, and the pro. ceeds from the sale of fruit are some 810,000 a year. Paor. Boss, of the Dudley Observa tory, at Albany, says the comet was 16,. 000,000 miles from the sun September 17, and 20,000,000 on the 21st. On the former data it was 11030.0 ilna from the earth, and on the latter 107, 000,000. It is thus going away both from the sun and the earth. It is plainly visible In the early morning in the Eastorn sky, and is beautifully brilliant. Tir woman suffragist movement seems to be advancing in the East. Says the Massachusetts' Democratic platform: Equal rights, equal powers, equal bur dens, equal privileges and equal protection by law under the government for every cit izou of the republic, without limitation of race or sex, or property-qualinecation. whether it be by a tax en property or a poll tax on persons. Says the Republican platform of the same State: We invite intelligent and candid consid oration of all propositions in aid of tem perance and good order, for equal rights of butfrago irrespective of sex, and for the en oouragement of industry, frugality, con tontment, and prosperity among all the people of our honored State. Sonu one has found in one of Ecker mann's books a record of a conversation ho had in 1825 with Goethe on tho sub jct of ship canals. Goethe, he says, showed a speciaa interest in Humboldt's idea of piercing the Ishmus of Panama, Rud further said : " It is a necessity for the United States that American mer chautwon and men of war should he able to snt sail straight into the Pacific from the Bay of Mexico, and I feel sure that they will accomplish it. I should wish to live to see it; but that will not happen. Secondly, I should like navi gation from the Danube into the Rhine to be rendered feasible. And thirdly, I should like to see the English in posses. sion of a canal across the Isthmus of Suoz. To live long enough in order to witr ass three such great events it would be really worth while to put up with existence for some fifty years more." Goethe's fiity years, it will be observed, were completed in 1876. Causes of Tphold Fever. A severe outbreak of typhoid fever which occurred last year at Nahant, a rocky peninsula near Boston, inhabited during the summer by a small number of very rich cottage owners, was fol lowed by an investigation, of which the results are made public In an article by Mr. E. W. Bowditch, in the Poston Medial and Surgical Journal. In such cases contamination of drinking-watei is usually the principal cause of the spread of the disease, and the wells and cisterns which su pply the houses were first examined. Water was taken fror one hundred and ninety of these and analyzed. Eight of the samples were pronounced "excellen ," and seventy. one others "permissible," or "good.' One hundred and eleven were classed as "suspicious," "very suspicioUn4," or "bad." About eighty cases of fever occurred, nearly all of which could be acounted for by the actual condition of the drinking-water used in the houses inhabited by the patients. In a few others the filthy surroundings furnished a probable source of infection, although the water appeared pure, as, in one in stance, where analysis failed to detect any serious pollution in water taken from a well situated within ten feet of one leaching cesspool and fifteen feet of another, both overflowing, and of course ready to furnish an occasional supply to the well during dry seasons or under other circumstances. One or two more were probably explained by the fact that the ice used in the house hold was brought from a foul pond in the vicinity; and only one seemed quite inexplicable, unless perhaps the infec tion might have been brought by milk contained in cans which hall beeon rinsed in foul water. Mr. Bow ditch's suspi cion, that the infection was commnuni cated in certain caseA by contamhinatedl ice, Is strengthened by'the fact that a very severe and fatal epidemic of tv p hoid fever was unquestionably caused in this way not long ago at a seashore hotel in New England ; and it is worth asking whether the public auth'rity might not be employed with advantage In exercising some sort of surveillance over the collection and saloof an arttcle which may become, and perhaps already is, far more dangerous than the trichi nous pork or immature veal against which so many precautions are taken. In one place that we know of, says the A mecr .can Architect, thousandi of tons of ice are annually gathered at the very edge of an extensive and well-filed cenmetery, which slopes somewhat rapidly toward the water; and we have seen the winter product of a little pool formed by the overflow of what was practically the drain of a cluster of squalid houses regularly sold to customers.--Scicn/tific American. Driven From a Valutel Ihome. A will made in a mad-house, of which the testator has heen an inmate (luring the greater part of his life, is not a doc ument very likely, one would say, to pass muster in a court of law, hut: such a paper has just been declared valid in Dlmhlin. The testat or was a F'renchi gen tleman, who In his youth became insane from execssive (dissipat ion and( wa- (con. fined in an asyluim for two years before he recovered his ment al hecalthI. Being then at liberty to go, he refuised'to (d0 so, but having acquired a liking for the place, lhe remnained th erouuthil his death, tet-ight years later. Only an-ce ddhe go out into the wor'.d, andl on this occasion he returned to the asjylum so drunk that he dIcelaredl he would nev er run into temptation again, a resolu tion to which he always therea' ter adl hered, uintil finally he was told he could not remain any longer, wher-eup~on he went forth weeping and died in eighteen months from the day of his discharge. -A curious and serviceable device for the protectirm of the tobacco plant is a porcelain flower placed - icks thirouph the field, with a p~Joiomou substance mn side. The tobacco fly mistakes the flower for that of the jimson, or James. town weed, and dies almost immediately before it lays the egg which p~roducea the tobac~co warm. -,~ rw A Parisian Artist's Revenge. One of the niopt eminent painters of Paris was lItel', ominissioned to paiut the portrAit of a lady who was some years ago a famous beauty, but who is a now nearer her fiftieth than her fortieth year. She wished the portrait to be ex- 9 hibited in this ysar's Salon, anud gave V the artist endless trouble over Its de tails. When It was finished, however, she was. far from contented, and do clared that she could not recognize her own likeness in his conscientious piece of work. The painter said that she need not have the picture if she did not think it to be a faithful one, and it re maitned in ale atelier as his own unsold property. Meanwhile he was deter muined to have his revenge for the insult t lone to his pride as an artist and the 1 loss to his pocket as one *ho lived by . his art. In order that the picture shouldi not reinain a pioce of dead capital. he resolved to transform it from a portrait into a subject. A few days before the private exhibition the lady in question was informed by a well-instructed friend that the artist had introduced a number of accessories Into her portrait which w.re likely to compromise her reputa tion. She (rove otf In great haste to the painter's studio and asked to see the picture. The wish wis promptly grati- II fled. There sh11 stood upon the canvas, life-like and life-size; but the cruel artist had thinned her hair to scmi-baldness, t and in one of her hands she lield two lon r treeses of false hair. U'pon the table at her sido, which ho had changed It into at toiet-table, were ranged at nu'M ber of bottles, labeled respeotively with the words: " Milk of Lilies,' " Beauty Water," " Elixir against Wrinkles," "Golden-hair Dye." The lad.v cried out that such treatinent was intanous. I t "You have rea ly no complaint, madame," sa'd the artist. " You have t already declared that the picture is in i no sen-e a portrait of yourself. I accept your jp'nion. and, as I cannot afford to f ose so nm -h hard work, I have treated it as a fantasie p'ece. and as such Ishall introduce it to th1 public. I mean to call it 641 he ( qut te of Fifty Years.' " "N hat" exclaimed she. "You mean to exhibtitp'' The lady immediately beg: ed h'm to accept the silpulated sum for the portrait and, after she had seen the comoromising accessories ob literated in her presence, took out her check-book and bought the picture or the soot.-Londun Echo. Wetern Stories Outdose. Newspapers in the W"est and South have of late enjoyed a monopoly of re markable stories of snakes and other desirable specineils of natural history. That the North may not be left behind in this respect, let us consider the moral teachings which are prosented by the Sinmier Boarder and the Freshwater Clam. Three years ago the boarder in question, while stravingr a!ong the bed of a stream that hadl been lett partially bare by3 excessive drought, discoveredt, lyir'g uport the sand, a conchiferouis, bivalvular mnollusk-utdg. elam-whio~n seemed to be in tile last gasp from ex haustion and thirst. 'fhe kind- hearted stranger, pityinlg the sore strait or the unhappy bivalve, at once took it up and cast it into a deep part of t he stream and then went his way, spedily forget ting the incident, A wveek ago, how ever, as he was enjoying his vacation, andl sitting near the spot wvhere the above dIescribed event took plaice, lie perceived a clam laboriously climbin g out of the water and dragringr itself over the sand. Arrived, with muchl ox ertion, at the feet of tile amazedI oh server, the clam ope-nedI its shell and disclosed a pearl as large as a hazel nut, whichl the gentleman did not hesi tate to appropriate. Thereupon the clam, smiling clear way around to its back hinge, returned to the water aind disappeared with a gurgle of satisfac tioni. T1his affecting Incidlent, b~esideCs showing that even theO humbllest works of creation are cap)able of noble emo tions, teaches us the~~fine mnoral thlat w'e should always be kind 1to animLb4, in which respect it is much to be pre' ferr-ed to the Southern and11 Wester'n yains referred to, wrhich seemi de vi'ed simp)ly to entertain the minds of lhe frivolous, and convev no edifying lesson at all. -Bloston Jour'nal. Hogs. If you have hogs running in your pas turen, now~ is t he time, when the grass is low and the heat oppressive, to feed 1 generously, on(ce or twice a (lay with corn, wheat and~ oats screeniings; withI bran, shorts, rot ten or- fallen apples, and1 other fruits. jointly or separately made i by boiling into a nm'h, or even a swill. 1 It costs something and it causes some labor and] troible, but a1 wvill he well r.-paidl inihn gun0(lla ity that before Christ mas wil go into the lard tu1 s and park barrels. I! is perect nons-n e to raise pork on the o d plan if you wish to raise it for le-s tha::n 'we ve r fift een cents a pound. It you :ollow the old plan, whIih w~as turin nii out shoats at '' kill ingr ti ni," a al st Irviung thorn all w;n ter u iil e''over 'omnes. and thlen say, "r 't ho or .1 e. ' until with dogs and i1 negr. e s v .11 'mnt :hemi <down and placei themi in a I en for ftiten inig, after theyi have wo nei I vou all the year as out laws, h ei k oig in the lielh of (-orn or other gr m af ight, and next (lay run almost to d a:hI and tor-n by dogs, uintil they es a'' i. through the-i r holes in the fence, and o 'amn or more has lost at half a day to drive them out and stop the hiol-, for t;a same thing to be re peatedi the next (lay- you will have p)ork at a cost far beyond what you can buy It for in the mar-ket. lint if you can get a goodl breed, keep the hogs dry and warm in winter, give a good pasture( in summer, plenty of water and food the yecar round, wth rotten wood, ashes, salt and sulphur, yo'i can raise pork costing not half wvha t youi should receive for it should you choose to sell. The hog is naturaily lazy, and if well sup p lied with food he will not wander far from thle swill-tub or food-trougrh. Like the poor, lazy drunkard he will'stick to the tavern that gives him his food an~d drink in the largest qnantity for the least exertion on his part. But sto p Iis meat and drink, and no idle v-agabonid or ruined roue will turn marauding roveor, or sneak-thief, bold highwavyman or -hicken-stealer as will the''hog, whether he be high-bred or coigmoni stoek.--Mrua0nd Farnr A Down-East Clam-Bake. To thoroughly appreciate a New Eng ind clam-bake one must eat it in Now ,ngland, and to make it entirely enjoy ble one must assist in preparing it, or t least be present at the oven when the rand funeral pile Is lighted. The writer ras present at a feast of this kind in the ttle town of Westport, Mass., last week, nd after partaking heartily of the clams nd the "fixins" is prepared to make eposition to the fact that the genuine lam-bake is a rare treat which it pays no to travel many miles to enjoy. Cadman's Neck, where the clam-bake ras prepared, is a small point of land utting out into the Westoort River, bout four miles from the town. Under he trees and near the long tables two arge "ovens" had been constructed by ixcavating two holes about fifteen feet ong by three broad and two deep, and n each a great fire of oak and pine vood was burning fiercely. A score of nen were seated on the ground near by arefully washing and sorting 200 bush Is of clams which had been dug the kight before on the shores of the Provi lence River. They were not the large, ep&Rive-looking clams which are so ,ften made to do service in bakes for Ign to New England, but small, luscious ooking bivalves, whose shells fairly hone as they came from the hands of he cleaners. Close by stood twelve ushol baskets full of lobsters, all greet ,nd shining as they came from the rater, and all wriggling about as thougb hey foresaw the fate in store for them, .nd were struggling to scmanO. Near by vas another gang of men dipping high y spicd dressing from two large, clean ubs aml nlacing it in tin pans just from he ,,ore, which were nicely covered vith :;m, white cloths securely fas oned ar nod the rims. Others were mi-4ki',t c rn for the grand bake, and till E - washing sweet potatoes mud - scourely in canvats bags. [ht ins were observed by the mi" -1, and appetites were vh v-1 i na sight. There was noth ng 1 i*re.l, but everything to attract to he foot tor which all were waiting. Finially the great mass of food was -eftdv for eCoking, and then the grand 3vent of I he day,the closing of the bake, beg-an. Aln with pitchforks cleared the vW8s of the blazing logs, and the stones, which haid been raised to a white heat, were carefully swept clean of ashes and smoers. These country folks are fas tidious in the -natter of cleanline-s, and object to eating clams garnished with ce.bon. The ovens once cleaned the work of filling them with the edibles to be cooked was quickly performed. Into each was first poured 100 bushels of clean, shining clams. Very gently they were deposited in the glowing fur nace that their shelils might not be broken, and, as they struck the stones, a sizzing- noise was heard, as the thous andy of clams apparently breathed out loud sighs of agony, and a dense cloud of salt-smelling steam arose, which tickled the nostrils and served to whet appetites which had already been sharp ened by rides of from five to twenty miles in the fresh morning air of the Doiutry The lobsters wore next sent to bear the clams company, and as they struck the bed they wriggled an d squirmed ini a manner which would have orn the heartstrings of tihe good Mr. Blergrh. Next came the corn, with pans >f dressing judiciously distributed from rme end of the great bake to the ot her, mnd tihe npe~x was crowned' with a score >f long and shallowv baLskets, in which were layers of bluetish and tripe, and the bags of sweet potatoes garnishing Lbe outer edges of the great pile. A heavy canvas wais drawn over tile whole, Lnd1 on this was thrown a moss of wet r.nd dry seaweed, until every crevice [rom which steam could p~ossible escape was closed, and tho bake was thben left to cook itself in the steam of tile clamms Lndl the heat of the fiery furnace. It takes a hake thu-i judiciously pre paredl about half an hour to 'be ready ~or the table, and at the end of tha~t| ime the Nognachuok bake was readly to. >e1 eaten. I'he sea weed was to.ssed Lsidle, the canvas raised from one end, md the hake opened by degrees. A imnd redl fleet-footed waiters dip lped heir pans in the mass of steaming food ird placed upon tile tables befor-e the ringry crowd the results of the experi-| nlnt. Everybody set to work with a .vill. onenmr the clam-s and nickinD hem out with their fingers. The erroun6 )Olneath the tables afforded a conrenient' )lace, for depositing the shells, and( little rnound4 of these 500on appe(aredl by the ue of each eateor. Tlhe 'lams were onderO and luscious, andl large pans of hiemi di-appealred in a twinrkling. Float. nilE ia multedI but ter-hultter churned the 1av- berore on thc farms of Westport pmen olted an appetizing appear. - - ii c-6ould not be -esistod. Tfhe - -.a sort ers had1 done their wvor-k a E adl grit or sand entered the ii twl hI to il the taste oif the delicione >i %:e4. The lobster's vore warm and ii.- a I i mpregniated just enough with lhe labimr of the steam in which they ,. led to make them a delicate I - '. The fish, too, was marvelously m - din flavor by this same steam, j, w Whd it had b)en confined for halt miia, while the potatoes and corn m El as potatoes and corn never I a'ted )ofore, to one individllll who was en oyinig his irst New England clam -bake. ,ne seems never to tire of eating at a able srerud with such luxuries as these, mud, as there was plenty for all, every. >Ody ate until forced to desist from pure ~xhiauustion .-Westpor-t ( Mass.) Cor. N. r. Tin.cs. -The Indiana Bur-eau of Statistics, estimlatinlg the I enefits to be dlerived ronh tile drainnge. shiow that land whuichm fielded an aver'ag e of nine and au half mushels of wheat per- acr-e for live Oears 3elre- dr-ainage, yielded nineteen ndl :mle-half bushels for five y ears aftr -r ing dirained. With corn) the increl-ase was from thirty-one to seventy four bushels per acre. 1)uring the same period the numi er of cases" of nmlara sickness was8 diminished fl-on) 1,810 cases to 400 cases after diraiage. Indiana State Rentinel -A thirteen-year-old girl, living near Hlonma, La., has a light-brown heard wo inolhe. long.-. 0. Pica uwse. 1 I I I t i -q . I P1,5 AND'~ --If ou can't trust ? saa enisg ' him skip; this trying to gt n avermg on honesty has always .b a fa fa. Josh Billings. -It is said a cornet layer InBerbn burst a blood-vessel byi .f#tp04 Wagnerian double note. I ing to know that Wagues s to be the music of the future.-,owell Ciu. -Professor Huxley estimates the take of herring in the North S-a at $,000, 000,000. Before relying on Huxley's es timate we would like to know whether he saw the fish or took the statement of the fishermen.-Boston Post. -Douglass Autz, of Norwich, feli i. der a moving train he was tryIy - board. When the train passed Dotr_,,ae, arose, uninjured, with his cigar ini h.4 mouth. And yet there ire people n claim smoking to be Injurious.-. A bury News. -A new nurse-maid had been enga ed for the family of John Leech. Ot her appearing in the nursery she was thus add ressed by Master Leech: "Nr ae, papa says I am one of those chidron that can be managed by kindness, and I'll trouble you to fetch some spongi cakes and oranges at once."-Chica o Tribune. -A salt mine has ju t been disobvered in Australia which is believed to be more than two thousand years old. It's a good thing it was a salt mine, or it would'nt have kept half so long. Now, there are some silver mines in America, for instance, that haven't lasted more than three months after the assessknents gave out.-Burlington Ilawkeyc. -Some men have tact. Said the bridegroom who didn't wish either to offend his bride or die of internal disturbance: "My dear, this bread looks delicious; but it is the first you have ever made. I can not think of eating it, but will preserve it to show to our children in after years as a sample of their mother's skill and deftness."-Bos ton Post. -Plantation philosophy-Remember, young man, dat do best frien' yer's got on dis earth is a better frien' ter himself den he is ter you. Pay no attention ter a man by de boasts what he makes. Thunder doan all de time tell ob a com in' rain. . . Doan turn a man onten de ranks of spectability case he's a cow ard. A hound dog ain't much on do fight, but he's a mighty useful animal. . . . While Nature was a foolin' away her time paintin' different colors an' stripes on de horns ob de Jack snappers an' odder bugs, I doan see why she didn't contrive some easier way fur a chile to cut teeth.-Arkansas Trareler. - rTe Koran, Perhaps the chief distinctive mark to he noted in comlparlng the Moslem's eoran with the Christian's Holy .Bible iM that the Koran is believed to have nc human element at all. Nor is it even held to be a record of what Mohammed s-aid or did: tor that is recorded in the t raditions. Thle Koran was a wholly objective, not a subjective revelation. It was renaled to one man only. It did not pats throusch many men's minds during ueiC'ssiveC geneirations for nearly 2,u00 years like the Chr'istian revelation. The comilnuotus subjectivity of our sacred scriptures, protracte.l thri ugh so long a period, andl the fact of ouv acknowledg ing a human clement in t.iemn, causes the MusH-'man to place '.'em in the~ samne category with his Sunnah or tra dition. According to his view oven our Gospels are not a direct revelation, but only a record of Christ's words and ac tions~ comnpiled lby his followers ae' hand~ed down to others. T1h:migh aa : ted to be inspired, the inspirat ion i -r a very different kind from that 'of n Koran. It. is an imparting of i e-. . 'i ' of words. Tlhie very words of t he Ka.ra', on thle other hand1, and indeed the w~'hole comp Jlete book, not a mere pori Io of ' i'., desc'~endedC from God in a fixed a .f on alterable formn on one particu'ar ni rht called "the night of power," iho it hatppily for Mohammed's purpowvs i s ule cent was arrested at the lowedt of 'he seven heavens. Thlere It remainedl ias utred uip, or, so to speak, stored a-.var i re'serv(, portion after portion bein'e de livered as successive declarations c f die trine, law, or state policy bwra-nvo nleedled. TIhen an audiible voice comin u niicatedl each word in a low tone to Mo hammed, or, as some say, whispered every sentence into his ear. This ac counta for the constant rep~etition of the word "say" hefore each revelation. A very important factor In the success of this wonderful honk, which, notwith standing its unequal merit, utter waznt of system, and the adlulteration of its sub lime ideas hy a frequent admixture of puerile and false teaching, is still revered as a direct emanation from God by about 150O,000,000 of human beings, was without doubt this (disjointedl andi frag mentary delivery. It was never In fact either written or composed like any other hook. It grew like patchwork, little by little, piece after piece, patch added~ to patch. Even t he Koran's warmest admirers must admit that it has ofien the appearance of being clum sily botched. TPhe Koran's own account of itself is that it descended in a suceces sion of parcels. 'Somne of these parcels were dlelivered at Meeca, some at Me dina, during a period of twenty-three years, the angel Gabriel being the sup p)osed mledium of dlelivery. A bout ninety of the I114 chap~ters, or more than two thirds of the whole, are thought to have, been Ithe proportion assignable to the Meeca pwrlod; and of these' the earlier p)ortions, delivered at a time when Mo hmmwed really believed himself to be stirredl by (divi ne impullses, though spek en ini plain prose, are full of poetic fire. They are the utterances of an on thusiast wrought up by an intense con seiOnlsn ess of the truth of his prophetic mesage, and often rise to groat sublim itv. -Nineteenth Centur?,. Fascinatedi by an Ailligator. I was at the Zoo yesterdIay and sauw somethingi whiebi is worthy- of being mentioned. One of the gulls eniteredl tn h e)on d where t lhe :t.liga tor was Jlazily' 1propelling hiims'l f about and proceeded t) enijoy itself in ii s native (lemelnts. I it the me of lhe sealv monster was upon it and the mesmnerie in tlw-ence of its grlanice was5 soon felt. It was iml 1 O?ible for the git'1 to resist the bale ul g~are of the saurian: inch by inch it was attracted to the alligator, p~owerlecss to resist the fascination, until it came closeo enough for the reptile to (opun its manmmo: b ja~ws and gulp down the luckless bird. After having devoured its 1'rey the ar'-L'ytor sank to theh a) tn dios1 :ts meal.- -'%on/n Mai.