The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, October 26, 1882, Image 1
TO OLfT10ts XeRALITY, ECDIUAT19N AND TO THE VENERtL INITERE~r OF THE OQUNIty
Bly D. F.l B3RADLEY & co, PICKENS, S. C.,t TH URSDA Y, O(1 BER 2 82 O .XI O
Selma, Ala., has sixty artesian wells.
Nashville has a total indebtednes fo
6- ~ ~ (Atx* a4t(:he neo
Th. city tax in Tallahame, Florada,
s but seven mills on the $m0.
Gadsden, ' G"..a, has doubled its
population In the last twelve months.
Georgia's sirplus crop of sweet pota.
-", -0, bvshela thi year.
rHng ia Tin Sing, two China
, have embarked in the grocery bus,
iness at Nashville.
Florida Is making preparations to re
ceivg an unuquallZ-vlarge number of new
eettlers this winter.
The Georgia prohibitionists have
noMatCd. legislative candidates in
&wintylihie bountibs.
0 A meteor fell a few days ago near
Orange City, Florida killing a colored
women, whom it struck.
'he watierwerks at Hot Springs,
*ArkMnas, are completed, and are said
to be the best in the State.
Annie Hubbard, who murdered her
hild in Colbert county, Ala., goes to
the penitentiary for ten years.
Te Vrebsburg Commercial says la
borers were never in such denand in the
valley of the Lower Mississippi as now.
.A eomptlant comes from several por
tions of Florida that the orange crop is
turning out bad, and will be short about
one-third.
The ashes of a common weed, known
by some In Florida as sickle weed, are
almost pure potash, being as strong as
baking pods.
It is believed that the orange crop of
Florida will this year be worth nearly
-double thatkof 1880, which brought over
$672,000.
A West Indian has purchased ten
acres af ground near Tampa, Fla., which
he will.plant In mulberries for the pur.
pose of raising silk-worms.
The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers
complain that, with a ropulation of
from 15,000 to 18,000, they can count
Supon but one mail per week.
A cow fell into a pit near Cedar key,
Fla., and remained there forty'two days
without food or water. When discov
ered thec taimiaal presented a pitable pict
ure'of pelt and bones, but was still able
o waik.
Dr. W. H Bennett, an eccentric citi
eiltizen of Meridian, Miss., died a (day
or two ago, and his estate, valued at
*50,000- was left to a negro cook, cut
ting off his wife and heirs. Tihe will is
to be contested.
Georgia's cern crop is the largest
since 1859, and will reach 30,000,000
bushels. The oat crop reached 8,000,000
bushels, and the wheat crop 5,600,000
bushels. 1It is thought 1,000,000 bales of
cotton will be raised.
Mrs. Ann Talley, of iSpottsylvania
county, Va., aged seventy years and In
robust!. health, became impressed with
the idea that she would die at a certain
hour on a certain day. She prepared
for the anticipated event, and, true to
her prvemontion, her death came.
Uoldsboro, (N. C.,) Messenger : A pe..
culiar and frightful disease has appear
ed in Northampton and other counties
in the northeastern part of the State.
It is called yellow chills or hemorrhagic
*fever, and is generally fatal in its re
sults. Persons aff'ected turn yellow and
- vomit blood.
New Orleans will experiment with
mesquite wood 'for paving streets. It
-4 is a native of Texas, partakes almost of
the hardness of iron, is very durable,
and it is believed will make a better
street than granite. It grows abun
dantly in Texas, and can be easily and
cheaply transported.
Mrs. Lizzie Walley, convicted at
Nashville and sentenced to a term of
three years in the penitentiary for al
leged cohabitation with Owen Prentiss,
e x-city editor of the World, is said to
be a rnelce of the distinguished Codfed
erate General Bragg. It is hinted that
Prentiss will be released on bend, and
the case against him will never come to
a trial.
At Columbus, Texas, about twenty
boys, whose ages range from ten to six..
teen years, about six months ago organ
* led a band of robbers, and since tha
4time have been engaged in stealing.
They undertook to rob a freight car,
* which led to their discovery. They hadi
a cave abross the river where they'de
posited their plunder. These boys are
sons of 'respected citizens, and had no
object In theiving other than to gratify
a desire for adventure, which they had
formed from reading dime novels, a
number of which were found in their
headquarters-the cave.
Boston Culture.
The rapidity with which a crowd can
be gathered ori a public thoroughfare
wvas demnonstrated on Tuesday afternoon.
A couple of young women were passinig
the Revere Horise at the time mention-*
Sd, both dressed ira the height of fash
ion, one of them being arrayed in a
terra-cotta .suit, whjob set off her well
?eveloped form..to the best advantage.
Upon avri .'t thejnain entrance to
the ReVre ~ they espied a boot
black with the finplem~ents of his call
ing, whereupon the young female in
her.~~ stoppd drew up
shaery foortot"hnrs " pae box Te
. apy fnt otsbocaln anerxTh
) roceeded at oe to black up and polish
the WoQ.8 edal axtremit,. u are lie
a6 TOP108 OF TE DAY.
FEGHT ladies have clerkships in tho
Oregon Legislature. T
OscAN WXi68 has cleared about *15,
000 ont of his lectures 'alone.
IT Is said that there are one million
more paupeis in England than voters. d
A CRAYON portrait of Garfiold - has o
been, by sugestion of the Queen, placed 51
in Westm ter Abbey. t
GEN. GRANT has given it out at ez
Philadelphia again that be has no inter- pl
est in politics or in the present cam. ht
paign.
IT is said that the tev. loseph Cook c<
is to be the editor of the new Congrega
tionalist paper which is to be started in I
Boston.
TaE engagement is announced of Miss
mabel Bayard, daughter of 'senator ai
Bayard, to Mr. Samuel D. Warren, of tc
Boston. hi
ci
Miss NORTON, the young American R
prima donna, is meeting with a great and tj
increasing success at the Grand Opera. c
house, Paris.
MATTHEw ARNOnD has discovered that m
the great want of the French is moral' u
Ity; of the Germans civil courage, and a
f the English lucidity. H
b,
IT ts said that the invention and sub- ;
sequent improvements of the American f
plow made a saving on last year's crop in c
this country of $90,000,000. ci
h4
BOMB one has suggested that Saturday a,
replace Thursday as Thanksgiving Day. tl
The idea is not a bad one, as the combi
nation of two holidays would be a satis
factory combination to most people.
MR. HENRY VILLARD, President of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, has of
fered to endow Oregon University -with
$50,000 if the State will increase its an
nual legislative allowance from $2,500 to I
$5,000. t<
a1 n
TE steam yacht for Jay Gould, to be ' c
completed by spring, will be constructed
of iron and steel, and have steel boilers.
It will be 210 feet long, 27 feet beam,
and 16 feet deep, and will have 1,500 in
dicated horse power.
TE fastest long run by railway ever (.
made west of Chicago was that by the "
Burlington special train which brought t
the Vanderbilt party from Burlington
207 miies-at the average rate of fity- n
nine miles per honr. 1
BY THE death of Sir George Gray, Mr. d
Gladstone now sits at the Privy Council 4
as the senior commoner, having " kissed H
hands on his appointment forty-one ti
years ago last September, when the a
queen had been only four years on the
throne.
1 11
THE late Daniel Cook, of San Fran- 9
cisco, left a fortune of about $1,500,000.
He was as poor as poverty itself in 1858, ~
but between that time and his death, at t
the age of forty-five years, acquired <1
from books an education, and from mines 1
piles of gold.
MR. TInDEN .is described by the
Yonkers Gazette as greatly enjoying the il
newspaper reports of his feebleness, c
while he takes two carriage drives a day, 1
usually an hour's walk, and frequently a
ride of some distance. His eye is bright,
and his mind clear and quick.
THE wampum belt which Win. Penn
gave the Indians in part payment for the
territory now known as Pennsylvania, E
afterward reclaimed and held as an heir
loom in the Penn family in England
until 1856, is in the museum of the His- ~
torical Society of Pennsylvania.t
ABDU KERII PASHA En-ZAHAR, who I
Is shortly coming to this country to
make arrangements for the emigration of e
certain of Arabi Bey's followers, is one '
of the most noted Oriental scholars. Hae 0
was graduated at Cambridge University,
England, and he has translated Homier
Into Arabic.
AN English artist has come over to 1
make studies for a painting of the battle t
In Mobile Bay, Angust 5, 1864-Far- t
ragut's great victory. The painting is a
private commission, but, when corn
Pleted, an engraving will be publishcd at
London, and the work itself may be ex- t
hibited in America.
EsTIMATre of the damage done at
Alexandria during and after the bombard
ment vary widely. Claims made by the
owners foot up to nearly $17,500,000;
but it is said that an eminent authority
has expressed a willingness to rebuild
and refurnish the entire property de
stroyed for $6,250,000.
A vnTrAIN. who claims to be an officer I
in the British army that invaded Egypt, I
made a cold-blooded confession to the
London Vanity Fair. " After somei
Egyptian wounded fired on our men,"
he says, "I ordered every wounded man
to be bayoneted. No end of officers and
snen were killed in that way."
Arar AwNIIB H. 8-rEPH ENS declared in
a recent speech at Macon, Ga., that the
rheumatisim which has disabled him
from walking for the past twelve years,
was contracted durang his imprisonmnent
.Q Warae itrthe war, J" was
Lt in a dtingeon to* down,') he says,
&, dkipping with water; walls five
a* tIdk. I was there three months.
iat"' h6 added, "is a part of my war
oord."
ANNA DIOKINso writes to the Phila
lphia Pres to say that she has been
indored by the report that she had
olared against woman's suffrage. "No
Le but .a fool would believe the story,"
Le adds. She'may have remarked that
ore was too much votin, but if venal
en have the right, venal women should
ijoy the same privilege. The life com
6Iious of male birutes "should have on
bud a rbtaff of pkotection and defense."
A CONNECTIOUT thread manufacturing
>mpany had planned to exhibit at the
aston fair the old fashioned way of
iinning and weaving cotton in the
>uth, but have struck an unlooked for
Lag. Their Georgia agent writes them:
[ had arranged with one negro man
id four negro women to go to the B)s
n fair to spin and weave, and should
kve been there now, but some fool
roulated a story that they would bw
ld when I got them to Boston, and all
iunder couldn't convince them to the
mirary."
IN SRVERAL provincial districts of Fin
ud a religious sect has appeared, based
on the fundamental principal of "fe
ale supremacy and male subjection."
usbands and lovers bind themselves
r oath to Wear whatever yoke their p5at
'rs choose to place upon them, and
xrthermore to make unrserved
mnfession once a week of all delinqueu
es. A woman who has been chosen by
3r sister rulers to exercise unlimited
ithority within the community, allots
te penalties, which are promptly in
icted by resolute matrons.
Thrifty Farming.
A great deal of the work in the newer
rimting districts of the State is done by
en .,t small neanis, who often have
)t fiiisheld pIaing for their land,
)netines they complain that it is hard
get ahead, and it is true indeed that
any drawbacks exist which it is hard
overcome No matter if the crop
ils the family must be supported, the
dinary expenses borne and the taxes
1(1 interest proviided for. All this,
:we'er, liing admitted, the agricult
rI t: uth re.. ains that. failure oftenest
"i es from want of care and economy,
atit of observation, and want of ener
y, or stated as a whole, thriftiness. Of
o industry oi earth (anl it be more
-Ill said that ''a penny saved is a
enM y gained Yet, there is no in
ust ryesu.'e to so much waste as this,
ethta' nemis more care to pr'event
'nks, and few thaot receix e less. A farm
ghtlyl considered is a netwvork of in
uist ries, .a vast cojnbination of ma
lines. Nothing must be allowedl to go
waMt e. Indueed, this seems a',solute
-unntecssary with the varied oppor.
mit'aes of d spo~sing Of all that is umso'u'l
ad utsing~ all refuse as a fertilizer. Btt
als is not half the story. It needs ev
vy energy to develop~ the capacity of
t(' soil to receive ftitilizers, to assinmi
t liete n and1 to give them forth again
hount iful craps. He' t uist learn howv
>cult ivate thle soil, how~ to drain it.
len the soil and hlimt wi l prouc
iirty huihe!i pl er* acr e wh r~aise half that
ur~nt it v ? WVheni sixty bushlIs of corn can
e~ rised~( .per aicre w i l t as only thirty?
an huitit that can be made to produco
so tons of hay whyi be content with
tie? If it be lack of fertilization apply
tat to be 0ob tied t) half the land. If
I c for lack of labor to give proper
uiltivation, fatr better to work half the
ui an : ftt et thle balance grow what it
:il, to be fed oif by the stock. Thle
ew fac ms muay not be fitted for high
irtn ing. butt g. od farm'ng cenn be every
here' applied. TIhere is no need of
aisinig two hetadl of tattle to p~roducet'
hie samne tn.eat that cenn easily be grown
i(one, nor of feeding twto sheep to4 pro0
nece woo l I hat tone cani easily growv.
Nr i s tis a (comptlet e statement of
lie muann ter int whtitch success is wrought
utt byv the toiler. TIhe farmer, all other
hings beinrg eqitul, who is most acus
amt(d(l 14 siuday intg crops elsewhiere, re
oris, st at istics, met htods of farmiing anti
1l I hat will gathter I he( great est proftt
rm his invest nmnts anti labor. When
veryb otly is planting a certaini crop he
eII not huastent to entlarge his acreage
f thI 1e1rop. WVhen an ty crop is a drug
n the market lie will nmot. hasten to ig
('te its cul Iitiitn the followving year.
l'arters miore thtan any other. class of
copie mtay live well at a little exlpend
Lure of cash. On a t hrifty farm near
y all that is eaten can be prodIuced on
lie farm. In consideration of the fact
hat a large p~roportiont of the gtod
hings of life in the food line can be and
,rc growvn on the soil of our owvn cli
nate, it is lamentahle to see how poorly
unopiied are~o mnuy farnmer's tables with
hose sanme article. 'There can he an
ndless roumd of fruits arid vegetables
or the whole three huindred and sixty
ve days of the year. The whole list of
~rains'and meat's cani be had, all of the
test quality anid at cost price, no mid
lie-man's commission or retailer's profit
dt(ded.
It is true that the lack of ready mon
y~ often prevents farm improvements.
loney couild lbe usedl t o good advan tage,
tonly montey coutld be had. Labor is
ostly and on new farms it does not
ring ready returns, whfle most of it
LoCs into capital pnly in the way of per
nanent implrovements. Hand labor
specially is expensive andl slowv and the
airmer' must as soon as possible avail
timhelf of all the help attainable in the
vav of machines and mechanical helps.
n newver neighborhoods fame' can
lub together for purchase of stock or
mplements other wise quite beyond t heir
reach. T1hey can buy mowvers, harvest
ers, seed drills. ditchers. dredgers, levee
builders antd many other useful and la
bor saving implements; always remem
bering that. the occasions are few wher
it will pay to run in debt for any ol
the. l'a, dayt always comes and th(
extl ect ationts 4 t ten full short. -Ko
Pod.~ and Tribuni.
. roftable intestlethk
The safest and most profitable invest
ment that can anywhere be found at
this time for money, the use of which is
not needed for a few years, is in the
purchase of well selected real estate.
This general fact probably no intelligent
man would dispute, though some men
deny the application to particular cases
when it does not suit their interests. It
is well k'ecognised that real estate falls
faster, as a rule, and further when tuines
are good, than any other kind of prop
erty of real and solid value. The in
trinsic value changes on13 with the
grTowth of 0 6ohimiinity Ur State, or the
ibnpi'Vement of theans of cobimunication;
ho that for production or use in residence
Or in cointnerbe the value nay increase
rapidly aid giceatly, but can decrease
a'Owly and moderately. But the prioe,
on the contrary, depends upon a market
that is more variable than almost any
other. At times real estate is wholly
unsaleable, no matter what its real
value or its price may be. At other
times it is the object of the wildest
speculation, with a very little re-ference
to the present legitimat- deinaiid As a
consequence when real estatte is not
wanted, it sells for a song or nor at all:
but when it is wanted, tlre is scareeh
any limit to Its price. Hence, long.
headed mnh are ways on the ulert ti
get possession of real estate after <very
period of great depression: to *sucli
shrewd purchases the wM.(1 or grein t 1mu t
of almost every colossal for'tine maNy .e
traced. We are just emerging fjoin a
period of unekampled prostration. I he
jrico, of real estate has fallen, as it
tisually does at suli'tnies, iii greater
ratio than that of almo-t auiy () her class
of property ofsubstantial ehaarac; vr. Now,
if ever, the purchase of real i sutu. nmy
be considered certain 'o viald excep
tionally large profits, if tli property is
judiciously selected.
Another fact, which, as a geticral one
no intelligent man will dleny, isi that the
advance in the price, as a rule, is certain
to be greater in Western than in Easter-n
real estate. Western State inid citivs
are growing rapidly; Fastcrin lo wly.
Every man knows the faet, 91a imimniwise
volumes of statistics could he gi en to
prove or illustrate it; and yet t Iro are
some men who refuse to admit the
obvious consequence. Now York City is
growing in population at the rate of
seven per cent. in five years, and the
State at the rate of 7.2 per cent., whilo
Chicago or St. Louis gains 50 or 60 per
cent., and Kansas 100 per cent., and yet
some persons refuse to see that the
value of property in the Western city oz
State is certain to increase in the long
run, and, as a rule, more rapidly thar
the Eastern. New railroads and greatei
reduction in the rates of freight are con.
stantly adding enormously to the valu(
of Western property, and as yet so poteni
are interested motives in blinding men,
that there are some who still insist that
real estate loans in Western cities and
States, as a rule, are less safe than loan
on Eastern property, where multiplication
of roads is slow, and tends mainly tc
divert residents and industries from
cities that are already over-crowded.-.
Netw York Publio.
A Newport Romance.
The .Je wish cenmetery lies not far from
the synagogue in the~ sweep made b~y
Kay street where it joins rourio. In
this quiet spot twvelve Jewish famnilies
lie buried, and as we stood beneath the
trees that spread protecting arms overi
the graves. Longiellow's p)oem, written
after a visit to this cemetery, came most
vividly to mflind. One verse especially,
as we looked at the neatly kept flower
bed, the turf so soft and wvell cared for,
the buds that bloomed above the dead,
camne to our lips:
" Gone are the living, but the deadl( remain
And nmot noglected, for a hand unseen,
Scattering its bounty iUke summer rain,
Still keeps their graves andl :nemiory
gren."
In the inclosure are two graves sc
near each other that '.-:you stand by one~
your shadow falls upon the other; with
in them sleep two lovers, separated dlur
ing life, but united long since by dleath.
Judah Touro and Catherine Hays wert
cousins, and among the Jews'it is ai
crime for those so near of kin to marry.
TIrue to the religion and traidit ions o1
their race, they separated niever to meel
again, although they lived to be old p~eo
pie. Neither of them married, contenmi
with the memory of their love an d th<
hearing of each other's welfare fron
mutual friends. TIhey both died in .Jan
uary, 1754, when he was seventy-nim
years of awe andl Catherine wvas seventy
sevYen. if s name was the last word shi
uittered, andl in his delirium before deat I
called him he talked of walking in
beautiful garden withI Catherine Illays
his first and only love. JIudah Tlouro
howe ver, (lid not let disappointment cm
bitter his life, for he spent it. in activt
benevolence, and from a fund le-ft b)
him the means are provided to keep th<
cemetery in orde~r. It is told of hin
that he built churches in New Orlcan:
for all sects, even contributing towardl
the creetion of a Unitarian place of wor
shuip, On his mnonhumenit thme following
words are (cut: ''The last of his n-ume
he inscribed it in the book of philan
thropy to be remembered forever."
N wnor (fR. I. ) CJor. Prot-irience Journal
An Affecting Incident.
In the hand of Madame Aubheri
when her body was taken out fr-om th
recent railroad wreck in the tunnel nenm
New York, was a note which she wva
writing at the time of the aez-idenmt, a
follows:
" My Dear Sister: Many th:inks f:
your kind letter received last nght
Moer seems very much weaken et
but she is a little bit better this morr
ing. When we will get to the city
do not know, nor what is the matti
Every few minutes we start, then haed
then we start again. It is all the. mor
annoying t hat I have lots of things t
attend to to-day. a'; we move in nr
Saturday, 30th instant. If I possibi
can I will run over to sea von to-da)
if not, on Monday We have coneic
a dead stop again shout One IHnredt
street. Hop n:g to reauh New York t<
dav, with lovE to all my 'family,i
SalP"
After writin theI1 word ''all'" Mi
AuMbrt was kild.N Y. T1ribunc.
fruit Juices.
There is often a decided objection to
the use of our coarsest fruits, especially
in sickness, or when the stomach or
bowels may be in a sensitive state, on
account of the irritation of the angular
and sharp seed, and peel or skin. Like
the hull of the wheat-or hulls, as
there are five different layers, wikch
should be removed, in most if not all
cases, from the flour-those seeds and
rinds are often sources of irritation to
the sensitive coats of the stomach, caus
ing many forms of disease, particularly
in the hot weather. It is exceedingly
fortunate that these juices do not re
quire digestion like the solids, but, like
gater, enter the system unchanged,
there to he assimilated, of course afford
ing nutrition, with no use of the digest
ive apparatus, or but slight effort, that
of absorption. (It desirable, these
juices may be prepared at this season,
thoroughly scalded, canned like fruit,
kept from the air and in a cool place,
and used in the following spring, when
such are exceedingly valuable, especially
for those having debilitated digestion.)
It is very plain that if they demand
no digestion, still containing all of the
nourishment of the berry, seenring rest
for the stomach, the dyspeptic, etc.,
may well use this juice as a substitute
for solids, for such a part of the time
as will allow rest, time for the digestive
organs to recuperate and become suffi
ciently strong to perform their usual
amount of labor.
I will here remark that their use all
the time, instead of at the last meal, or
when the appetite may be particularly
imperfect,would tend 'to debilitate the
stomach, since, like all unused organs,
the time would come when it would lose
the power of action. As a general
principle, the substitution of these for
solids for one or two meals at most,
using the Rimplest form of solids, as the
raw egg, or boiled rice, would be as
much as would be advisable, save in
extreme cases, when such nourishment
for a week or less would be a choice of
evils.
Milk should not be regarded as of this
class, since it is molidified before diges
tion. It is not a proper drink between
meals, since it requires digestion like
solids. When there is much feverish
ness, with some appetite, the more acid
juices, like that of the strawberry or the
currant, may prove of great value with
out sugar, for. that is a "heater." These
tend to reduce feverishness, though, i
too acid, they may irritate the stomach
producing the canker.
The fresh juice of the apple-not for
mented juice, or cider-is very appro
priate and useful, the apple containing
more nourishment than the potato
These juices may be used with grea
propriety when the appetite seems -wan
ing, or when but little food is indicated
for nourishment is obtained withou
labor.--Golden Rule.
Cash Arter ma;.rriage.
One freqjuent cauise of t r'ouble~ in mar
net.ss Il att ters. A\ lia l i marries 1
iSeti to takingE 1n0 miore thIouhi5t as to
how shte shiouli be clothled thban t.he~ lii
ies inl the liebi. ie begins by Riot lik
ing' to r'efuse iany of her'i r'erests. IIe
wviil n!ot hint, so long~ ais lhe enni help it,
at care in tritiling ceiinses - -he does
niot like to a'-sot'iate himsielf in biei
'ijais. And slie, wholit woni have heei
wvill inRg eniough, 'in the Ii 'swet e'agerne(ss
to phmese of laer girl'iish liIove, to give ti
any whims or faniets of her own what,
ever, t ails inlto hiabit s of eRi'eieMS er
travagance and~ feels herself inju11re<
lieni : at last, a remostranc ':lie comies
I low noch('l wiser'W) would have been per'
P(ecjt'lipe' in the beginning! ''\
:ave juist so- mucih mioniey to spend' t liE
(Ter thuos 01r thus'.'" was thle uiuestion11
still youn~ger bidei Riot long go, :am1
all thle womanhooi10d iln her aniiswer'ed t<
this demiad upon01 it, aloi her' help a
phoing and counse(l iung proved l1:t)i
hing to be dlespised,. lthogh hithlert<
slit hiad 'fUed upon1 thle rosesP, andt lail
:iinonig the lilies. of life."' I ami speak
inge not. of mr1ur'iages~ it are*( noi miar
('an1 hiee'aise Vulcan prs p-red at hi
forge- - ilt niriages w her'ie I wO14 1 l
he(arts have set. ouit togetie-r, for loveP'
sake, -to learil the he.son% of liie, alid t(
live together till deaith shall pan- themi
And one of the first. le .sons for themn t<
leal'fl Is to truit, ce oilier enitirelv
Thie mi st fri vololls gir of ali ''thet r' M
l ilt ga ten f il'I , if shie t riily lov(s
ne' juireS solliet liili of womaniline
Ironi li er love, alnd i' r'eatly to plani :an
Thei( (apli.
'EThe carlin is ai small fish, of the sal
- mon species, abt )0t hei size/ of tl he smelt i
andl ver'y like it. ilnil apa ranRce. ft n)ev'.e
,varies more than I 1w) or' thlree daysi
- the time of its 'omin~g to) the Newfouint
- land shor'es, w.her '. Ihate inl.i ,IC, it, Sld
-(enly thlronigs a lli ie haysV ini prod igliu
numbier's. A single boy withi a smali
dip net can eaitch .s.eeral tonis a day
and a few mni (enl r'eadily securie
schooner 1load. Th'le waves (dash thi
'caplin on the shores ini grealt nRumbers
o and thle r'esidtl~is o teni ear't them awa
r for mianurie. Alt houigh a udelicious fishi
9 much like thle t rout in flavor, thle capli
is rar'ely eaten. Inideed, for a fishiin
polthese islands are amazing]
r backwar'd in the use of their' food fisl
-Few of them even knowv how t~o con
'the codi so ais to be eatable; they rarel
eat the tr'out w.ith which their inlan
waters are fill; and though thev i'ai
the best potatoes in the world, the
'seem profoundly igenorant of that del
e cious product of i anikeo-Iand, the ('0t
0 fish-hall. After' the caplin go away,i
t July, the squid come in, and after thei
Y the herring, so that Providence has pr<
', vided a triple series of cod baits, wit1
4 out any one of which a third of the se
h sn wuldbe lost. --Newfoundland Co
.Y.Post. _________
-, -Ahundred mien imake an encamn
4.9 Jmbnt -iial onle womRan nmak' ., hi'nli.
The Sultan's Title.
The idea of a united Islam under the
rule of a single Caliph being a funda
mental conception of the Museulman
religioil, is as old as that religion itself,
and was, duriner aitore than a century,
practically readized. Under the early
Caliphs Islam was not merely an ab'
stract religious system but a highly or'
ganized social and political community,
with a monarchical fbrm of government
which rapidly developed into an unlim
ited despotism. The known world was
divided into two parts, the Daru '1 Is
lam and the Daru 'I Harb-the land of
the faithful and the land of the infidel
Und throughout the whole extent of the
former the Caliph exercised uncontrolled
temporal and spiritual authority. Such
was the caliphate of the Ommayades,
with Damacus as its capital. With the
fall of that dynasty, about 120 years after
the death of the prophet,, the political
tunity of Islam came to an end. When
the Abbassides seized the supreme pow
er and removed the seat of govern
ment to Bagdad, the Moors of Spain,
refusing to recornize the usurpation,
elected a Calipni of their own from
among the survivors of the dethroned
dynasty, and at a later period a third
I Independent caliphate wa.s formed in
Egypt by the so-called Fatimite dynasty.
TIus the Mussulman world was split
into three parts. and since that moment
it has never been politically reunited.
The Western and Egyptian caliphates
passed through many crises and finally
perished, but, the Eastern Caliphs could
not prolit by the weakness andd isasters
of their rivals. They were in fact no
longer Caliphs in the old sense of the
term. Ambitious provincial govern.
ments and insubordinate Tartar chief
tains had created for themselves and
their descendants semi-independent
sovereignties, itid the little central
authority that remained was wield
ed by a band of - Prxetorians, or
by a Vizier resembling the Mayor of the
palace in the Frankisi monarchv. As
successors of the prophet, the Caliphs
continued to enjoy popular veneration,
and their names were regularly recited
every Friday in the mosques; but they
had lost all real power, and their cief
political functions consistedt inlegalizing
successful usurpation by performing thc
ceremony of investiture for those whc
had made themselves practically inde
pendent rulers. The caliphate had be
come, in fact, a loose confederation ol
practically independent States undei
the nominal sovereignty of a spiritua
head, and might be compared in som<
resl)ets to medioeval Christendom un
der the spiritual sovereignty of th
Pope. In this etherealized form it ha
continued to survive to the presen
t (lay. Extinguished in Bagdad by th
. great Tartar invasion of the thirteent
century, it was revived immediatel'
t afterward in Egypt. A mysterious in
dividual, professing to bo an Abbassid
who had escaped the massacre of hi
family in Bagdad, appeared in Cair
and declared hiimself to be the legiti
mate representative of the venerate<
dynasty. The Mameluke Sultan of thi
time, perceiving the advantages of hav
ing a Caliph of his own, caused thi
stranger to be recognized by the Ulema
andl~ thius began~ a new series of puppe
Caliphs, calling themselves Abbassides
which lasted for more than two centu
ries and a half (1250-1517). Whei
Egypt was conqueredI by the Turks ir
I117, the Sultan Selim mnade the p upp e
ICaliph of the moment cedle to him hi:~
caliphate rights, and ever since tha
time the Ottoman Sultans, who have D(
p retensions to being descendants of thi
Pro pheCt, have hiad the title of Caliph.
(Confstanltinlo)le Cor. London Times.
Domnne Sills~ona's Wit.
Yest erday' s mieeting of the Haptisl
ministers waar opened1 with prayer b)3
Fat her St imson, of Kansas. Fathlii
Sftmsoni is eighty years old1. andl hi
preached for lifty years. . Stories an~
told of himii ini which thiose whoi( expecWt
ed to raise a laugh at thle old D om'.nih
found the talesC turnied against them
uselves ini thle miost. un~expectedl ma~une r
One 1runs as follows:
l'ather Stimson owned a good horse
- but. the keeping of thle beast wvas some
.. What of a drain on the l)ominie's5 pock
.. et, andl he wa's in the habit~ of dropping
a hint to his parishlioner'Is oncP in;
while that a lit:tle luty wvould be accept
able. Onie day a chu'rch mnembier askt't
limn to bring .\lrs. Stimison to iinner.
" '('prtainly," sa'dIl-':the'r Stims~on
"and , as i t's haying t ime, I gues.s I'I
{ult somre liar oti lhe wagoli whieil I gi
baZck homne."
"'All rght, Fathier,'' replied thi
r Fathei~r Stimisoni took his wi'e to sup
pe" in~ a wagon)I w Ih an amle hiay'-riel
''.-' here1,' N.iil the p)ar shioner, a
lie hi'el Alls. S'tini:-oii olut oIf the lilay
ri- k. ouI sad youi were going ti
mIH'n a olle-h,-Pit wi'n a" i
r ''lil, 1 Ve bioligh t I lie one hors
hav-ik---t ha~t's a Iwohos hav--rick.
-5 tw'.eet y-I wo I undrl ed poumIIIS of h iy.
71 im; himself~. A tellow who p~assedl hii
0 oin' mornlii ng as lie waIa hard at work (i
,his tint. iinlleli to him11 ini a lou I voice:
y 1"1i lo t here' Arec you go;'.ng to hasI'
n Y Yes," said tie pre(a(cher, cor~tinuin
g his wor-k wit hout looking up, "' and l'
y loo. ng for a h> ihoon. 1)0n' t vou wal
1. itore Vour-elf 'or 0o0.?"
kc h~ preaichie. was C'haplain in ti
y Notfh .rew York (':aare im the wa
di Thei ('oloneil w:'s fond( of lead ing ti
e soiliers through deep pinddles at il
y regular drill, and1( the ( 'haplain oneC di
1- rodehi :rouinl the putddleC, and t heret
1- felt out of the regia" order. Tfhe (c
n oniel nloticedl it, and at. the close o: ti
rn drtill, whlen the oflicers e..ime togethe
r>- said, with a sneer:
li- " If Canta' Stimson is alfraid to ridi
a- thluough mullddy water for fear of s0i
r. ing his clot hin'g, I will carry him acro.
the puddle myself."
"Thianlk vou," the Chapla~in saic
"hut as tlie Government p)rovidt
- horse's, I don't see any13 reaisonl wvhy
abould ride on a jakais,"-N, V. &
W AM~
-An exohaags 0akM: Whal it P
troleum?" It Is a very easy method ef
ttin rid of fire-kindling servant.
MaatoJIdedent.
-A Baltimore belle has mardued a
policeman. His beat was in front of
or house for over a year, and she no
ced that he never snored. -Jllael
phia Nw& -v
-In 1869 eleven cars managed to
ship all the poach crop of Delaware that
was sent outside of the State by rail.
To-day it takes sixteen engines, 400 cars
and ninety-six men.
-A correspondent wants to know
**how we pronounce Rae-el-Tin?" We
don'tpronounce is at all; we only write
it. Do you suppose we read the
papers to the suboribers?--Courier
d'ourna.
-The Egyptian war will give about a
hundred paragraphers the opportunity
to say that the Bedouins are no great
sheiks, and that no matter how they are
treated they will always Be-do-in some
thing atrocious and inexcusable. War
is, indeed, a great evil.-- Texas Sfftings.
-A Chicago lady who had gone into
the country at the invitation of some
relatives, wroto to her husband: "Dear
Charley-When I left home I forgot to
bring m7 slippers with me. Send them
at once. She recelveda telegram the
next day to the following effect: "Ex
press companies can't spare the room
to transport them. Buy a now pair."
Brooklyn Bagle.
-Courage.-"Suffering sisters," ex
claimed the speaker, energetically
shaking the hair pins from her head in
her excitement, "women will never ob
tain their rights until they display more
courage. Let me say to you, in the
words of a famous French orator,
'Courage! courage! courage!' " At this
stage of the proceedings somebody
threw a box of caterpillars upon the
platform and the meeting broke up in
great terror and confusion.-N. Y. Post.
-A nouveau riche had his house
robbed of several valuable pictures. He
appreciated them because they cost him
a great deal of money, and when he
made his appearance in an art-shop he
was in a very excited state. "I want
you to get my pictures for me," he
said. "What do you mean?" replied
the polite attendant. "Why, I was
robbed of them the other nlght, and 1
corpe to you for satisfaction, ' was the
answer. "But, my dear sir, we are not
receivers of stolen goods, nor are we
detective officers," said the dealer.
" Then," shouted the indignant million
aire, "you had better take in your
sign', 'Oil-paintings restored.' "-Bostors
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
-Prof. Storer, a blind musician of
North Adams, Mass., has been appoint
ed a teacher in the Royal College for
the Blind at London.
-Wilkie Collins is paying the pen.
alty for trespassing upon the capaoity
of that most abused organ of the hut
man anatomy--the eye. His sight is
failing, and he can no longer read or
write. He is dependent upon an aman
uensis.-N. Y. Jndipendent.
-Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour. of
New York, insists that he is an old man,
andl it is true that he suff'ers from physi
cal weakness in his logs, which disables
him seriously in walking; but he retains
a his old simplicity of manner and con
i versation, as well as vigor of mind.
Chicago Jousrnal.
--Mr. and Mrs. Squibbs, of Sullivan
SCounty, Tennessee, were married about
Stwo years ago, and now seven little
' Squibbses make it interesting for the
fond parents. Three of them were
bonaout a year ago, and the quar
tets are but a week or two old. This
squib) is the eighth.
-William S. Jett, the man who led
the soldiers to the hiding place of
Wilkes Booth after the assassination of
President Lincoln, and who, for his
connection with the capture of Booth
andl Harold, has been immortalized in
history, was a few days ago sent to the
Maryland State Insane Asylum a raving
lunatic-N. Y. Herald.
-- One of the most noted women in
New York journalism is Miss Middy
Morgan, who does the cattle reports for
four New York papers, among them the
Tlrib~une and Times. She has acquired
a fund of knowledge of cattle and
horses, both on the farm and turf, which
mnay be envied by the most experienced
mnale sportsmen.
-Mr. Mudford, who controls the Lon-.
don Standlard, Is sometimes called the
"irresponsible editor." Though he
owns no share in the paper, thie late
proprietor's confidence in him was so
great that he provided in his will that
Mr. Mudford should have sole control
of the paper while he lived, or as long
as he might see fit to retain It.
-It is not generally known, says the
Philadelphia Press, that Mr. Joseph
- Sailer, who has recently retired from
Sthe financial editorship of the Phila
' delphia Ledger, was not only the oldest
-editor In that position in this country,
I but the first to write a regular money
article for any, daily paper, as' the
Ledger was the first In this country to
Sprint a money article.
-In a little red cottage on the shore
of a lake called the Bowl, near Lenox,
3 Mass., Hawthorne wrote "The House
- of the Seven Gables." Mr. J. T. Fields
used~ to tell of carrying out to him there
one hundred dollars in advance of work,
C but after accepting, Hawthorne's sensi
tiveness foun dthe obligation Irksome,
4 andl he handed It back. " Take It,
- Fields." said he; "the house isn't big
'enough to hold It."
- Locat'ng a Fault In an Ocean Cable.
re The work of locating a break or flaw
e in the (ah)!c a process seem rin'rly so ab
'stru'e is, wit hi t he pre'sent improved
h~ in't. iuent s. compauratively (jptick and
e.;sy. J )isearding t&IIechniaities', we may
o sav bretly thaiUt lhe w hole electric po
n tency of the (able when fully charged
n~ is knowvn, aLnd the saime can be quickly
n ascertained of the two pairts created by
*a break. A deliente machine adjusted
e to the nicest fractions discloses the elec
tric units or 'ohims"' In each part, and
g as the number of ohms to the mile is
known, the miles and fractions of miles
it in bo0th parts canj be found out at each
end' of the encble. In the case of a clean
,e break the locating of it takes about fifteen
. m'nues. But a ver~y angular break, or
te a law, makes perturbations of the
e measurement which it now and then
y takes s<,me hours to rectify. The usual
cause of breaks or Ilaws is attrition on
. rocks 01r sand; and sometimes a brealk
Sin ery denn water Indicaten that sa