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D reLmes, meRAnI, UDetIoA Axi To Tal xINxM&L INlTaIEST OF THE 001U TY.
By Do F, BRADLEY A 0. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY NOVMI P'.R 1TA ITT
N~ EWS GLrhkMes,
Cedar Key, Fla,, ships 40,000 ish per
week.
lhq Alabama Insane llu4' hox 417
inmales.
Florida will soon be a perfect network
of railroads.
Arkansas has a two years' supply of
corn, oats and wheat.
4tlanta clashn to have the finest
chatch bpidlig a~ the South.
Jacksonville, 'Fla., li to have a new
court house at a cost of $50,000.
A large bagging factory will soon be
added to the industries of ufaula, Ala
bama.
Out of the 1,243 convicts In the Geor
gla chain gang camps, only 113 are
wrhites. -
The graves of the 264 Federal soldiers
who were burne At Key .- West, Fla.,
have been marked by handsome head
stones.
A vast jtumount of cotton will go to
waste in Arkansas, Texas and other cot
ton States because of the scarcity of
pickers.
A bill will be introduced at the com-- I
ing session of the Alabama Legislature <
to exempt factory operatives from pay- I
ing poll tax..
Between fifty and aixty thousand dol
lars in Confederate bonds held by the I
city of Lynchburg, Va., have been or
dered to be sold.
The Chattanooga Times says large
numbers of farmers f rom Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois are settling in the section
contiguous to Chattanooga.
At Sarasat's, in Charlotte's harbor,
Fla., a Northern company is established
and engaged in catching fish, for the
purpose of extracting oil and manufac
uripg it into guano.
A Mississippi physician says the day
is not far distant when cotton-seed oil
will have taken the place of lard the
world over. He pronounces it much I
purer than lard and a great deal health.
ier. I
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times :The
deer on Cumberland mountain are dying
with the black-tongue. No less than
fifteen have been found dead within the e
last ten days. Some cattle are dying ,
with it-. a
A curious Indian relic was recently
found near Hartsville, Tenn. It is at
piece of stone about fifteen inches long, '
hollowed out in the shape of a police
man's billy. It can be blown like a
horn and evidently was used to summon ~
the warriors to assemble.
Moscow Lamar -co Ala N ov 1d 182
Please put this Item in the JOURNA L 1
Mr. Elia, Chaffin of this county & State <
Sayes he has made a close Astronomicle I
investigation of the commit in the East
and finds that there is a hole through
the stare & the blase is caused by the
rayes of the Sun shining through, like
shining thirough an Anger, hole, Sub.
scriber.
Near Chattanooga, Ten, are several c
Indian mounds which for years have at- a
tracted archreologists from many parts I
of the country. The largest mound in
tho group wvas opened a few days ago
and many akeletons, several pieces~ of
pottery and other interesting Indian j
relics found. The mound was dug mnto
but a short dlistance, and will be further ]
tunneled,
A meeting of the cotton plan ters fronm I
Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama met I
at Memphis Monday to find some mears
to successfully oppose the monopoly of
the cotton-seed oil men. An organiza
tion was effected under the name of the .d
"Planters' Co-operative Association." i
The planters allege* that the oil men I
have portioned off the cotton country I
and fixed prices for the seed, to the '
great detriment of the farmer.
IHeroism of Lighthouse Keepers.
Iti was a rand and heroic conceptiona I
to build a ighthouse on the Eddystone,
but what shall be said of the men whom
first of all fried the experiment of dwell- e
ing in the hlorrib~le isolation of that
storm-beaten ediace, cut off from the
rest of the world, uncertain whether the
building would stand the test of thef
storm, deafened by the roar of the a
waters which sometimes would shoot t
right over the hantern, or dash headlong
against the lighthouse with fearfuli vio- ~
ience3, causing every part to vibraite asa
though the whole fabrie wvere instan- 1a
taneously going to pieces ? It is re- c
norded that only two men attended the
lighthouse built by Rudyard, and that
one of them was seized with sudden ill
ness and died. It was In the roughlest a
time of year, and although the survivor
hoisted a signal Of distres-, 1no boat
.could reach the rock. What to do wit4i '
the dead body he did not know. At first
- he thought he would throw it into the r
sea, but he was hindered by the fear lest I
the friends of the deceased might charge .
him with the crime of murder. For a
whole month the weather continued t
boisteroita, and for that whole month i
the solitar-y survivor kept the light all
might now that his comnrado could no
longer share the duty, wvatch b~y watch,
with him, and for that whole month lhe
kept the body of the dead man, although
it had falleni into horrible corruption.
(Jan any more terrible strait be conceived,<
thaft that in which the brave fellow was |
placed ? Yet we do not even knowv his
)aame. All we know is that in adhuost,
every gre.gt work of public utility in
volvmng doe~s labor, if one or two'
men hat te to the front and leftI
their names for the admiration of pos.1
terity, there have always been a hundtred
obscure heroes who have lived and died
and left no sign, but without whose
strong d reat hearts those
ver iavo been liccom
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
A Paw in Dr. John Hall's Church,
New York, sold the other day for
12,600.
Tiu late Daniel Murphy, the Nevada
"cattle king" left an estate worth about
;3,000,000.
A Mmsrsarirx man has a "mad-stone"
or which, it is said, he has refused a
ash off'er of $7,500.
Ricozmmy compiled statistics plae -
he death rate from the administiation
>f chloroform at one per 1,000.
IN France and Germany, respectively,
wo francs and two marks are the medical
sharges for single visits, except in the
ashionable watering places.
HON. JEWETT ADAMS, who is elected
3overnor of Nevada on the Democratic
icket, is a native of South Hero, Ver
nont, and resided there until he wa.
wenty-one years old.
THE story that Langtry, when a .girl,
ised to railk the family cow, is said to
,reate great excitemont among New
forkers who have gotten rich by milk
ng the lambs in Wall Street.
"SPINsTERn dinners " are given b)
)etrothed New York girls on the eve of
heir weddings to friends of their own sex
ixolusively, and they are chaperoned by
he mammas of the morrow's bride and
)ridegroom.
A YOUNG missionary visiting Thibet
or the first time, recently expressed hit,
torror at finding the practices of Mor
aonism reversed under the protection of
he King of Cashmere. The law allows
romen several living husbands.
MADAME PAj'r, who is nervous when
rossing the ocean, before stariing for
kmerica, made her will, in Which
he desires to be buried at Craig
y-nos, and leaves a sum of money
o be expended in instructing a nunber
I poor Welsh boys with good voice
rho may show a taste for music.
WE are progressing in the science of
pigrammatic signboard advcetising.
'Society for the Encouragement of
Vearing Clean Shirts," is the latest de
,elopment, as seen flauntingly displayed
ver a laundry establishment at Chat.
iam and Pearl streets, Now York City.
GENERAL GRANT'S new magnzine arti.
Ie, entitled "An Undeserved Stigma,"
oucisely reviews the case of General
'itz John Porter, giving grounds for his
ormer belief in Porter's guilt, and his
>resent conviction of his entire inno.
ence, and appeals to the Government
snd the country for prompt nction in
?orter's behalf.
. S . C. H~nn, a veterau name in
iterature, announces for publicationi in
Jarch next "A Retrospect of a Long
.Afe," In which he promises to givec es;
>ecial prominence to his recollections of
reland sixty years ago, when ho says
ie "frequently bought eggs eight tor a
enny and chickens for eight pence(~ a
ouple. There were no markets except
n large towns, and there was no mode
>f locomotion."
STAFF COMMANDEn JAMES CHIAI(LIS
LTKINdON, the oldest officer in the lBrit
sh navy, has just (died at the age of one
undred years. He commanded th~e
~enguii, and was captured and his
essel destroyed by the American
orvette Hornet in 1815. For the past
ifteen years he had been qite{ blina,
>nt otherwise retained all his facunltiesi
rmimpaired up to the very nuonment of
uis death.
MaI. OLIVER AMF's. Lieutenant Co'
rnor-elecjt of Massachu1setts, although
iow a man of great wealth, was trained1
o work, and did work for years in his
ather 's shops as a commoni journeyman
hlovel-maker. The proficienevy lie at
ained as a mechanio is shown by the
ict that for several years hie alone mnatte
11 the prize shovels and other toohs ex
ibited by the firm at fairs in this and
thter countries. His example is being
cllowed by his son, now twenty years
Id, who daily work's at the bench and
"vi'.
G1exanAr NcOAs n)a PIIsuoLA, ex
*resident of Peru, who is in Newv
{'ork, is described as a dapper little
aan, about five feet ive inches in
eight, with a clear complexion, laugh
ng brown eyes, dark wavy hair, mnous
ache with long curled ends and an im
>erial. His foot is as smiall and as
heatly booted as a woman's, andl he has
be grace of manner of a Frenchman.
A high, broad forehead alone distin
guishes him from the commonplace, and
few streaks of gray in his hair are the
>nly indications that he is forty-three
rears of age.
EOuE 1,atient German has collected
itatistics of the capacity of the world's
largest houses of worship. First on his
list, of course, appears St. Peter's, at,
Rome, which is capable of containing
%4,000 people. Next comes Milan Ca
bhedral, with 87,000; then St. Paul's, in
Rome, with 32,000; Colognie, with 30,
r)00 ; St. Paul's, in London, and the
Ohurolh of St. Petronius, in Bologna,
with 25,000 each ; the Sophia Mosque,
In Oobistantinople, with 28,000 ; St. John
Latera'n, at Rome, with 22,000; At.
Stephen's, in Viena, and the oathedc al
Ia Pisa M2,00 eabk BL Dominkt, in
,400; the Fraueakiroke, in
. 000, and San Marco, in Ven.
i0,7, St Patriaks Qathedral, in
We* Y~ Is given a capacity of 18,000.
A DzTnorr saloon-keeper advertises
that he has paid. 800 for a year's liaense
to sell liquors, but that he means to vol.
untarily trict his business within eer
taM mo boh4s. "To the wife who
has a drukard for a husband," he says
inn advertisement, "or a friend who is
dissipaeId, I say, emphatically, give. me
notice of such cases, and all such shall
be excluded from may place. Let fathers,
mothers, sisters, do likewise, and their
requests shall be regarded. I pay a
heavy tatffor the privilege of selling
whisky and other liquors, and I want it
distinctly. understood that I have no de
sire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to
the poor or destitute. I much priefer
that they save their money and put it
where it will do the most good to their
families.
Tirinn will be an effort during the
next session of Congress to reduce the
fee for patent rights from thirty dollars
to one dollar-the fee now charged for
copyrights. The thirty-dollar foe means
an exauminlaion, but it is no guaranty of
the value of a patent. neither is it a
guaranty that the patent does not in any
way infringe on other patents or inter
ests. The expenses of the Patent Office
will be redqced uander the new bill to
less than one-fiftieth what they now
are, and there will be more profit in con.
ducting it, for, while the charge for pat
ents is exorbitant, the expenses of run
ning the'offloe are extravagantly large.
The thousands of patents issued yearly
that are never heard of afterward mean
the support of a certain number of clerks
in the Patent Office and a certain numn
ber of patent attorneys who exist be
tween the inventor and the Patent Office.
It is claimed that there would be even
fewer patents issued under the provisions
of the proposed bill, and its effect would
be in the end to increase the value of a
patent-right.
Panana Hats.
Panania haits are principally manu
-factured in Veraquas and Western Pan
ama. Not all, however, known to comn
ience by that name are plaited in the
isthmus, by far a greatr portion being
made in Manta, Monte Christi and
other parts of Eeuador. The hats are
worn il aliost the whole Anieiican
continent and the West Indies, and
Would probably be equally msed in
Europeo did not their high p'icee (viary
ilg from 82 to $150) prevent ther im
.ortation. They are distinguishled
h-omallothers b~y consisting onuly of a
single lueen", and by their lightness
andii Ile'xiblity. Thiey may be rolled up
andk Put inito the poellket without injury.
In the rainy season they are ap1t to get
black, bunt by washing themi with hoap~
anld water, hwemring thlemi with limne
jime. (Jr aniy other kind of acid, anid ex
po4sm1g Ilth to the sun1, thieir whIit: neCS
is easily restored. S)o little is kniowni
abi out these hasts that it may no( t b e (out
ofi place to give an aLcounlt ofi their
manunfactuire. Thle "' straw " (paja ),pere
vious to plaitinlg, has to unidergo everai
p~rocesses. TheiC leaves are gathlere~d
before they unfold, all- their coarser
vemns removedl and the rest, without
h~eiig se.palrated froma the bease of thet
IQlves, is reduced to shred~S. After
having b~en e'xposed to the sun for a
daiy, and tied into a knot, the s'raLw is
immersed in boiling water until it be
comies white. .1 t is then hung up in a1
shatdy la~ce, anid subs ,equen~tlhy bleaichied
for two or three days. T1he straw is now
ready tor use, and' in' this 'state is sent
to dhilerent places, especially to Teru,
where the' Indiiants maxnfacture frv'm it
tho~se b eanatifiul cigar cases whe oe
timeis bring ars high as $30 each. Thle
plaliting of the hats is very trouble
som114. It collmmences atL the erown anid
finishies at the brim. The bats aire
made onl ai block, which is plau-ed on the
knees, andut requlired to b)Ceconsxtanitly
pressedl with thme breast. According to
their quality, more or less time is )ceu
p)ied in the cocmpletin--the cearser
onies may1 b~e finishI ed ini two or three
(ays, w~hileI the tiniest miay' take as many
mioniths. The best times for pl1aitinlg are'
thme monlinig hours and thea rainy' s'*ason,
wheni thet air is mioist. In.1 the middle
of thle day an id in dryli, clear weather, t he
straiw 5is apt to breakl, and this, when
the hat is linishetd, is betrayedl by knots,
1and( muchl imlinishIe' the vahte.-.Ja.r
Orighin of the Itursesh~oe Superstition.
In the very early times, says ai writer
in Iia/dwin'' Monw/h/.g, amnong the Celtic
rnace anf effigy of the patroni saint, so
commlnon in churches and temples, was
miuch used in thme dwellings and shiops
of the people, as a so-calledl " prote
Lion " against ill-fortune. The " glory "
above the head of these !lgurew-which
later was often rudely carved in
wood and painited--was represented by3
a circular piece of polished metai, to
convey the effi'et of the shining halo or
mmbuslt1 frequently seen in illustrations
of the Virgini andl other scriptiure subl
jects. Often this metal imtms was of
semi-circular form ; andl~ after the figure
itself had dlisappeared, iEy reason of de
eay, the ~nmbus remained anmd was sus~
penided inl some1 promhinent l~ae at the
entrance door or other point command
in view. Tile effigiea mn question were
not uncommningly seen by the side of theo
doorway. In course of time the nim
bus was much used as5 a subs5titute for
the latter, and was sold1 ini shops for this
pulrp)ose.
The tralditioni of good luck, as5 emi
b)odie'd ini the hors.eshoo theory, may
thus he easily traced, since it becameI- a
conmmoni occurrence, ini thme due (curse
of timel, for the faiithfuil aidherent in the
belief ini charml~s andl syimblols tdp
the horseshoe worr, to brightness, i h
aibsencee of any otheri, 'which lie nmailed
over his cottage-door. Hence a piece
of metal of this shape became associated
in the commflon inld with supernaturat
presentCte and care, ini keepitg with the
belief attaching to th orig izu Q reo
the patron saint,
A COUNTRY TA NEKBGIVING.
A closo the great barn door
Th mllw aret tm1 'erl
The earth has given her treasureemeet
Of golden corn and hardened wheat.
You anli your neighbors well have wrought,
And of the summer's bounty caught;
Won from her smiles and frm her tears
Much goods, Orhaps, tot many year.
You comn tribute now to pal
The bells proclaim Thanks vinR Day.
Well have you sown), well have you reapadz
Ani of.the riches you have heaped,
You think. perhaps, that you will give
A prt, that others, too, may tLve,
But If such argument you us,
Your niggard bounty I refuse.
No gits you on the altar lay
In any sense are given away.
. 'ings from Iaven a voice abromic
"Who helps God's poor doth lend the Lord."
What is your wealth? He'd have you know
To have it, you must let it go.
Th'nk you the hand by Hiowen struck cold
Will yet have power to clutch its goldt
Shrouds have no pockets, do they say?
lioloid, I show you then the way:
Wait not till death shall shut the door,
but send your curgue on beforo.
LoI he that givet'h of his hoard
To help God ' poor doth lend the Lort]L
ro-dty. my brethrer,-.o not waitg
Yonder standR Demo Kelly's Iate;
And would you build a mansion fair
in Ileaven, send your lumber therm.
Fach st!ckc that on her wood-prio lie
May raise a dome beyond the skiost
You stop the rents within her walls,
And yonder rise your marble halls;
For ev(ry patio that stops the wind
There shineth one with jasper HIned.
Your wealth is gone, your form lies cvl
But in the city paved with gold
Your board Is hold I v hands Divine;
It bears a namu that marks It thine.
Iehold tLe tbargain ye have nmado
With usury the debt is paid.
No moth doth eat, no thieves do steal,
No sullering boart doth envy fool.
ling out tho word.4: 'Who or h's hoa,1
loth help God's po'>r doth lend the Lord I
Go get your cargo-s under way:
The bAts riux out Thansgivinir DayI
A M MORABLE THiANKSGIiNG.
Thanks'ivin- week was always a
busy veek at tfe Gates homestead, bmt
it seemed to Dear that it was busier this
yeat- than ever. She couldn't q'ite un
derstand it, either, for as they were
coming home from church on hunday
she heard her mother say to Aunt Mar
garet, with a little break in her voice.
that .she had "no heart for Thanksgiv
ing this year." Dear knew why, and
she thought they Would have a sorrow
full '11Thankgiing, or, perhaps, no0
T'hanksgrivingr at all.
But 'Iuesday mo ning there conid b3
no do bt that they were to have 'Thanks
Pvmng th's year, for therd was what
.iptop called a "'bonf ire"' made in the
great brick oven in the kiteheni, which.
smnee D)ear's remenombrance, was opened
and hteatedl on ly durna Than kngi ving'
Wek. Tipfopi mountod'a cha.r so that
hie coul I se' into the ovwn, and shouted
"Fl:e!"' anid danced in ecstasy till, for
get ting t hat ho had only a chair-hottom
for a tioo:', h'e danced off, and bruisedl
his nose, aind had to be comnforte.t by
1 ear ju st when~j she wva- so buiy steei
raisins,.lo
Roundtop. anid Siuarotop e mnted it a
great privilege to) bring in the lo ng
sticks of hickor'y 'wood to heat the. oven,
each holding an end, tnyggng It along
with great gravity arnd an occas'onal
fall on their to)es, and. if ther wore al
lowved to) thust a small stici into t he
oven, their satisfac'tion was e mpllete.
1)ear p~aulsed, in hier huirrlied trips. ii brough
the kitchen, to loo'( into the 1 la e:ne
depths and think of Shadrach. MeshacS
anid A bed nego.
Theun they all stood around to see the
coals drawn out andl the oven swept- and
whenr their miother, holding her hand
far in to test the temuperatureo, )iofemnly
dechired it was "' just. rght,'' they
wat ched treathlessly while thre loaf-('a 0
andit spice-c.ake and cook 'es wer'e care
folly put in, and breat hed a1 deep sigh of
relief when the oven door closed upon
the g :Od thigscommnittedl to its keeping.
h ednesday~ morning th3 oven wvas
heated again, and filed wvith m'nce
Pies, which camoe out so delighitfuilly
brown and so delicisly fragrant that
tihe Gates children grew desperately
hutngry, and thou ght Than ksgivung
never would come. And then such
pumpkin -pies, and apple-pies, and
tarts, andl at last, as the evening drew
on, great batches of brown br'ead andt rye
bread aind wvheat bread filled the oven
to the door
WVhen the chicken-pie and1( turkey
'were ready for tile oven next day, the
tired mother dropped into the low
rocking chair, and .takin g Tiptop on
her tap, looked wearil - into the i re.
"Let me hold rIptop, mamma,"
said Dear, thinking how tired her moth
er' was; but her mothmer made answer
only by holding Tipto; with a closer
arm. The c'hih~fren gathered around as
the twilight onme on, and sitting there,
waited for their father to como. Grad
' ally silence fell upon them all, broken
only by the subdued roaring of the fire
In the stove, and the loud ticking of the
clocki on the mantel-shelf.
As Dear listened, how vividly came
back that sorrowful night when she
stood andi heard the clockc tiecking loud
or and louder, ns Tiny gently breathed
her life away; and it seemedl to Dear
that she would never aain hear the
clock ticking in the nlght without think
ing of that scene. She glanced at her
mother, and (did not wonder that she
had no heart for Thanksgiving this
year. Indeed, she thought they all had
more cause for complaint thari thanks
giving.
Half blinded by tears, she startd up,
andI, going to the window, looked out.
It was a frosty, starlight night. There
'was no snlow on the ground, hut here
and there patches of ic'e were forminvr
over the pools of still water leftby the
heavy fall rains.
"WThy don't papa co: P" said Tip
topm, fretrully..
" Ho will come soon," said the mueter.
soothingly, and, in obedience to an ohld
habit, began absrent-inindedly humming
Greenville, the 6ne tune she knew, and
by whose aid she had year after year
h 'mnmus thme Gates babies to sloew.
ithe first 1nli in thh knmmin..
Sover him with the lantern, saw his eves
i suddenly open. He looked about flim
in a bewildered way, and then clutehed
at the reins thAt were still in his han4s,
shouting: "Whoa, Fan. whoa!" ''hen
lie slowly raised himself on his elbow,
and seeing the planks scattered about
hilm muttered: "Why! she's got away."
" Are ye much hurted, sur?" asked
Biddy, coneeruedly, taking his arm ai
if ihe woild help him to hs feet.
"I don't know, I'm co!d," said he,
slowly.
" An' well ye mzight be, lyin' In all
that, wather," and she tolI him how
they had rbuod in lying in the gutter.
with the pl-tks 0,7"r him, but not on
him. and the water around h:..
" Is that you, le-trP and has the horse
gone home?" asked he after a moment,
the little, shak ng figure beside
Yes. oava." and all at once the
convulsive sob.i leaped Doyon(t her con
trol, and she fell on her knees, <puite
unable to say or do anything but sob.
The sght and the sound of her sobs
did more than anything else to restore
her father to himsolf. With Biddy's
heir lie slowly rose from the ground,
and , after standing a ruomen t, he said,
steadily: "I believe I am all right, only
cold -And a little confused. The fall
must have si1unnoil m1e, and but for your
help, my good woman, I should have
bjeen at dead man soon.
"Jt was ver littl0 gurl tould us. We
shouldn' t have known."
le held his hand to Dear, and 4he
ctaught it and he'd it under her chin,
still miable tb S peak.
Dl)o ye think ye could walk, sur?
Ye' ve no right to be standin' hero wid
yer wet clothes.'
'I hus ad monished t hey began to move.
Biddy and Mike and the "laulthern'
went with them to the t)op of the hill.
By that time Harvey Gates h:td obta'ned
full wossession of himself, and he bade
Biddy good night, te!ling her he would
see her on the morrow.
-Now, Dear," said he, '-run home
and tell your mother. quietly, that the t
wagon broke down. but that I am all
right, and will be in directly."
It was not until near noon the next
day, when Dear broke into an irrv'jres
ible fit of sobbintr. I hat her mother knew
how near death Tiad been to them that
night. She turned very white, and after
a moment said: ''Children, we have
great reason to be thankful today."
A little later Harvey Gate caie in.
He had been down with Luke to get
the planks out of the road and to see
Biddy McCoy. le told a pitiful story
of the poverty in the littlo shanty.
"o There will be no Thanksgi Ving supp'"
there to-day," he said. Mrs (Gates
winceo a little. She was a thriftv
woman, and it was not easy for her to
un(lerstand the blessedness of giving.
" And such a baby. such a little mite of
a baby!' continued Harvey Gates, as if
speak'ng to himself.
"A baby:'' repoated Mrs. Gates,
pauL1sm~g en1 her waly to the oven; "did
you sary lBiddy h~ad a baby 1"
"Yes, and the poor ht tle thing looks a
half starved.''
".\amma,' said D~ear, eagerly, t
"why~ can't we have themi all up here f
to Tlhanksgivlng suipper?~ We've got
enoughi for them.1'
iarey Gtesghtanie'd at his wife.
After a mfoment's hes'tat ion she sa1 t
"'Yes, they~ can (come, 1 suppose0~&, if
there aLin't. more'n forty or fiftv of 'tem;"'
and she open'l-d t lie~ overi 'door and
basted the turkey with eergv. "' hIar
vey,'' she enlledl, as she lieard hin 1jjC
going toward the door, "'tell II ddv to
brn zj the babv; ande h'-re. You t ake 'that ~
thiiek shaLwh iri the entry 'to wrap) it. up
warm." t
And so thie Mc('ov' s had the gr~nand''st ~
Tfhianksgivinz supiper of their live4; t
and1 no morm thanikfl comp~any gat hered
in New England that day, the Gates
family feeling very tender ocer their a
eaca jc irom a ra ahmt.-J hn
Re. tak,. in , a. Taies. t-~"~in
By rnaans of a little instrment called ~
tesphiygnmogriaph, the pulse-beats may ~
he(ccurate'ly and pe'rmaneni.Itly record- ~
e-d. And now Dr. B. W. Richaardson, ~
LL.D., F. R. S., of Lodon~hf, by aiddig '
ai miicrophuone to a sphiygmnograph, hals I
constructed a sphygmophone, by wvhichi
th-plse-bet may be heard forty feet ~
away,
It seems that the sounids heard cor
re'spond to) those of the heart, and are
three in number, one long and two ~
*short, resemnbling the words "' bother it." ~
The three sounids areC caused(, tlie first by I
conatrav'tion (of the ventriele, as it throws
the bhxxd into the a4)rta, a'nd the other ~
t wo by the closing of the valve behuind
it aind the recoil of the arterial! column, i
asM thle conI1traIctionl (systole) is fijinihed.
t is found thiat theculiatr sounds of a
thehart,'hien disqcaud, and1( by which
thpyiian's~l earI iuseertaints its condli- C
thionhave their corresponding sounds at ~
the pulse. As, for instance, thiose heard C
whe~re there is aL de'fctive valve that a)- t
lows the blood, which shold1 be thrown
forward, to regurgitate into the chamber ~
bpehind.
Another interesting facet appears, viz.,
that IL per~son's pulse is qluicken'led I y his ~
highter-, the sound sometimes seeming
almost like an echo of the laug~h. Per
hap~js this may hal to exlaun the lhv- I
gieine value ofia hearty laugh to one Ini i
a de l~pressedl and mlanilchiolie cond~itionl.
Ini severe palp)itation the sounds are
Iall lost in ai sort of loud whirr as from a
revolving wheel.
When the pulse-beats are over ninety
a minute, there is, together with the or
dinary sounds, a continuous soiund re
sembling what is healrd when a shell is
held to the ear-po)ssibly caused by the
friction of the blood against the walls of
the artery.
It is thought that the sphygmnophone
may be very useful in detetmng minute
and( obscure p~ulaations in different pa~rts
*of the body- Youth's Companion.
I--A venerable darkey, seventy years
*old, had beena chaining r'elatilonship with
coataini Washington famiilies of color,
and by telling them that he was richi,
pronbis'n g that he would remembher
tloem in his will and exhibiting to them
rolls of bills, which he said were gen:- t
ine, so worked upon their sceptibii
ties that he borr owed money right and 5
loff,, nnd was entertained as a Mitscotte. y
One day hie was snissed,--uNs/fington i
Pos
"s No; he went down to the cotton
mull with a load of' bobbins, and he
ought to be here by this time."
"May I go a little way uad meet
him?" asked 1ear.
" Yes,"-remrrember;ng that Dear had
bon in the huuse all day--" only first
light a candle and make the tea, and
put more wood in the stove, and bring
me Tiptqp's night-dress, and untie the
boys' shoes, and woar your hood, and
don't e gonerlong.''
Dear had closed the outside door.
ready to start on a run, when she heard
old 1'an's whinny in the direction of the
barn. "Papa has come, and is unhar
nossing Fan," thought she, fiel~ug a
little dIsappointed that she could not
meet him and ride home. Instead, she
turned to the barn.
At the stable door stoud old ln,
steaming as if she were har n a vapor
bath. - Papa had a loau honie,"
thought Dear, as she went up to pat
Fan. But what was that she stopped
on? A thill? Yes, a broken thill. still
hanging to the harness. Startled,
Uear glanced around the yard. The
wagon was not there, and now she saw
that only a part of the harness was on
the horse, and that was trailing on the
gruun(L
Be:ore this in her heart had time to
take shape, Dear opeined the stable door
and let Fan in, and, carefully closino
the door, ran for the street. 'The roa3
over the top of the hill lay like three
narrow foot-paiths. with straight rAdges
of turf between, and alonz these narrow
paths )ear sped with ;ying feet. strain
ing hereyes to see she dared not think
whant.
At the brow of the hill she paused
and looked down. The road wound
like a brook down the long hill-side,
turning to the right and to the left,
with hero and there steel) pitches and
many bars, till it was lost'in the dark
ness far down toward the valley. As
far as her eyes could reach there was
noti ng unusual tq be seen; hut at her
feet lay a broken harness strap. Up
that road Fan had come, and down that
road I)ear mnust go.
( n and on. over bars and pitclies,
sal: e'y touching the ground, loose
stones hit by her feet flying beore her,
till, suddenly, halfway dowin the seep
est pitch, she caie to a place in the
road where the stones and the gravel
had been )lowod up as if by the plung
inr of a horse.
Here la - the wagon seat. A little
fart her on Lay two or t bree planks acro.s
the road, and at the foot, of the SteeP
pitch lay, on its side, a wrecked lumber
wagon, which had run backward till it
capsize 1; and across the steep gutter by
the road-side lay a loa' of plank n% hen
had slid from the wagon as it, vent
over. Here was a part of the bro' en
reins belonging to the harness, with th2
ends under the load of plank.
The wagron was her father's, Dear
knew that; but Where was her father?
She stood and looked on either' side. up
the hill and down into the valley.
Nothing mo bd; there wats not oven
wind enoug-h to bend the tall dead1
grasses by fthe road-side, and nlo sound(
was to be heard in all the still night but
the purling and babblino of the little
brooks that had gullied fleep ohantnels
in the wvater-wvays on either sido'of the
road. D~our could bear this silence no
longer.
"Papapaa where aid vou?"' and
the wild cr-y wvent up the hbll-side and
down into the valley, bringing no an
swer
'0 papa, papal what shall 1 (10?'
she cal led again, and as she listened
withI str-amnmg earis, she heard, or
thought she heatrd, a low mo) 13 near her.
She dropped on her knees. "PapIa,
pala, are you here?" It wvas a praye r
now. Surely she Iheard a sound as if in
'inswer, and it seemed to come fronm
the plank that had slid over the gutter.
In an instant D~ear was over there
pe'e ing' among~ t h planks. She could
see' nothing. but she cotuld heir a soui
p'.inly now. She troed withj frantic
hiaste to raise the planks. but there was
not strength enioughi in her small arms
for that, and almost without thought
she dlarted, not uip the hill to her
mother, hut down into the black valle y
at the foot of the hill. wvhere a car-path
leading from the woods imetrsected the
road. Along this (lark path, overgrown
with atlders, she went till she cnme to a
lowi shanty built between two trees,
and, bursting open the door, she ero I:
"0 Biddy McCoy! come qunick: some
thino dreadful has happened on the
hill.Y'
"What ls't ye r sayin'?'' said the
startled Bididy, starting fronm her seat;
but as D~ear was already out of door-s,
sihe added, suiting t he action to the
words: "' iere, Bridget, tak the babby,
and yotu Mike,'' to a stup1id1 boy by the
fire, " get yer lauthern and come
a long;," and withbout waiting to put any
thing on her head she followed lDear.
T1hie child was already' out of saght,
but Biddy wont on at a sounding- gallop
till sho came to the foot of the hiill.
Thereo '-he saw the smial ligture flying
before her and bee'<ouing her on.
"'Shume, an' somethin' dreadiul hazs
happened,"' said the breathl.*s h~ddy,
crossing- herself as she camo up1 to thIo
wrecked~ wagon. " Is any one hurtodi'"
as. 1ear- e lied her to help.
"' a't afraid-'m airaid there's some
one under the pianks," gasped D~ear,
trying singlehanded to lift the load.
hlere. gurl, that's no way to warruk,
tak' the top one first. Mike, yo lazy
sowl, get along wid yer lantherun!"' iind
her voice wvent down the hillside like
the blast of a trumpet, starting even the
slow Mike into a run,.
" There hould that,"' said she.hand
ing the lantern to D~ear, andI wit hi Bid
dy's stout arms at one end aid Mike's
at~ the other, the planks were Ilunag over
into the r-oad. Decar hel her breath,
and before the planks wer-e all oti' they
couldl see thait a man lay' there stroe~tehed
in the bedi of the guatter. TIhe planks
were over~ himn like a r-oof, or the cover'
of a box, and, when the last one wats o!T',
Pear saw her21 fat her's fa e, still and
whi to, but she Cold niot it ter' a1 sound(.
H lowl r Mother, hlp uts?' ea neuhated
Rld1iv. "Take his feet, Mike, andh: itllp
get hiim out of tie wather. lIe'll be
or-owned intirely if he's no kilt alreadly."'
For as hie lay (lamming up the nalot'-w
channel, tihe choked watter' had( r.'en~
and spread around him in an ever-rising
pool.
As thev took hira tp antd la'd hunt
down in 'te road, the motion seemed ;o
rouae him~ to life. for liddy, stannnm
NUMOROUU.
-L1 is with some nsothera in the treat
anent of their children as with fire.
work& Frst the rock it and then th
stick. -oston Transcript.
--"Johnne," said mamma to her lit.
tle son, " didn't I tell you not to eat
that candy until after dinnerP" John.
Wie, who lisp.: ",I- A:,t eating the
candy, I'm' only thucking the julthe."
-Lawrrnce American.
-" Did you see the moon over your
right shoulder, my dear?" -aid she to
him as they roamed down the walk.
"N-n-no, not exnctly; but I just saw
the old wan over ay left shoulder, and
I'll bid you good-night."
-An oil producer was requested to
give a judgment note for a dcbt he
owed, but firmly refused, saying: "No,
sir. I will itever elgn a judgment note.
I did It once, and 1 come very near hav
ing to pay it."--i Cit y Dorrik.
--A vague but liorr'blo rumor is be
Lng handed around with blanched lips
Ihat Oscar Wilde will marry and sett e
In America. Just a few more stravs on
tbe dromedary's back and the war with
the mother country will be inevitable.
EVa3ville /trgue.'
-Two of a kind:
An anxions-ta-marrv young mtin,
Gettig-dolliara-duy young man,
w hasn't iteny
Never learned to wave any,
DepeniUing-un pi yOug mai.
A dt-hinir-n nj-gay younx girl,
A m.t-ug .t-night young girl,
It hoei mi does the work
lke th- Wlave of a Turk.
An lntertutighrbe:n y,'tu ).r gin.
--The follow;ng conversation between
wo hiLrd-looking cases, was overheard
n the alloy in the rear of the Texta
flinq/s olice: " What are you goin V
o do for a living this winter.," ''I'l
have to break into some house or other,
I reckon." '- Then you "'ill be locked
Lup in jail." "In.that case 1l have to
break out. I am bound to m:ike a
break of some kind or other."
--A worldly fater, a'ter the style of
l.ord Chesterfield, is giving good ad- ice
to his son, who is about to enter socie
ty: '-And. above all, avoid flirtations.
But if you uitst flirt, or fall ia love, sir,
be sure that it is witli a I re ty woman.
It Is always sa'er." "Why?' '"Be.
rause some other fellow will be sure to
ot attracted an I to ut you ut befor(:
m?4trim has been (ione. arIs lid.
Teaching the Colt.
Every farmer shoufd be as warm an
Rdvocate and steadfast practicer of hu
nanity toward arinials as Mr. Bergh
ould desire. '1ak( it, indeed, entirely
in the basis of profit and loss, and ien
leness aid thorough kndness are bet
er than any harshness. T1he farmer
tns so much to do with animals that pa
ience is an Indispensable virtue. All
nimals are easily confused and terri
led by irritability andl ill usage. Colts
are extremely sensitive to any change
n the feeling of the dIriver. A nervous
:olt will be rendered almost unmnanage
Lble by a fretful manner displayed to it;
md not on that occasion alone, but ev
ary time the person app~roaches it, it is
ill nervousness and confusion. A cole
>i such a nature never forgetsQ and sel
lom forgives. A pet otre of mine was
bree years in part ally forgivinug a man
who threw her when about three
nonths old. Ho could not catch her in
lie lot, aud she would keep as far away
Ls p)ossible when he fed her'. His en
rance to tihe stable was a signal for a
ialf nervous, half spiteful display of
em per. She was not vicious, but it
wvoul d have required but little to make
ier so. Half the staky, balky, wicked
iorses are madle so by some mismanagre
nent of the breaker. Farmers desire,
r should diesire', gentle, tractable
orso4, such that the ladies will not be
mfraid to drive, or on occasion to catch
Lfnd harness.
The colt should be handled andl hal
cr-broken as soon as p~ossibile after
oaling. If this is (lone in the pre~sence.
I the mothcr, a little care should be
sken not to irritate her, or a seat on
be fence may be both convenient and
esirable. It Is a general belief that
lie colt is sightless until ten days old;
so, It does not interfere at ali in
andling or petting It. The best time
o halter-break is at about three weeks
f age. For breaking to the harness,
f course each one has his own peeuliar
otion, and each way its own peculiar
divantages. But really t he proper way
a break is lirst to the saddle and thou
o the sulky. Iut when it seems a lit
le excited and stUpid, or as some per
ist in dleclarink, ugly, a little coaxing
uid pettin g will do more good than any
mount of whipping.
A measure of oats is a very good aId
> voice and caress, to impr1ess ulpon
bie animal that whatsoever is d'one
rl Is commendable and worthy of
ontinuing to do. Nothing is so dif
cult but that such an incentive, under
patient, withI gentle guidance, it
vill Iattemp~t. When the colt is
onfused, triedf and over-excited,
o amount of impatient reitera
ion or harsh measures can make
t und(erstand any commiandl; but
twill become more and more excited
md loss able to do or understand any
hing. To make the colt step) over~ the
hafts is anm act re 1uiring much patience
~nd forbearaunce, and is generally at
ended by, on1 the part of the colt, a
ervous fear and dIread, which brings
im on the opposite s'de, andl by pro
anlity, anger and brutality on the part
f the man, which only renders the colt
'adly to shy and balk at everything, and
nally, perhaps with a soliced shaft,
tartedl on the projected rid'e; wvhen with
oolness and calmness he might he
oaxed into the shafts and sooni made to
ndlerstand, anid willing to do what was
xpected of him. A wvhy should be a
hmng only used on occaslion, and then
ever more than one or two strokes.
'he common hired man should never
e trusted with it. To have the colt do
roll from a desire of com mendaition and
eward is as well as for children. Peot
*nd love the colt and have patience with
b, and It will repay all the care ex
iended, in a thousand ways. Patience,
atience, pat'ence. should( he0 writ ten
ver every barn door in the land.
firror and Farmer.
--A few da1ys ago a youngi~ lady and a
oung man of 1adsden, Ara., were so
:aretly married. It wats considered hest
to keep the ma:'riage a secret for a few
days, and accordingly the youmg lady
returned to the house of her father and
the young manIU retuirned to hs batch
,ior lodgings. Tlhe next day his heart
Iearned after his~ bride, and he wvent to
ier father's anid demanded hier. 'rho
p)arents refused to give her up, as she
was on1ly sixteen years old. In the
neantinme the ardor of the young lady's
tilection hiaud cooled and she declined to
ro with her husband. Th'lo vounn man