The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, June 28, 1883, Image 1
-LVO -IYI) TO POLII'Ucs, MORAI,YY, RDUCTION AND TO T'JE GENERI,L INTERtEST OF TilE COU'i.TY.
By D. F. BRADLEY & NO. PICKENS, S. C4, THURSDAY, .JUNE 2 Cl. X11. No
A CAIRO OfMIUH FARE.
Wit to The Breedng Baetluree Whieb
$tamd Beside the Virgas Tree.
In company with a crowd 'of dukes
and right honorables, who have lately
been visiting the scenes of Lord - Wol
seley's "latest and most glorious achieve
ments," a New York Herald correspond
ent says: I went to see the Cairo ostrich
farm. Everything in Egypt has an
arobological setting: 'he village of
Tel-el-Kebir-the Big Mound-is noth
ing less than the relies of the city called
Pi-tom in the Old Testament that was
built by the Jews with bricks without
itraw.
The Cairo ostrich farm is situated
within P pistol shot of the famous Vir
gin's tfee, which' i still sttuiding, and
under the shade of which tradition tells
us that the Virgin with the infant Jesus
and Joseph reposed when they fled into
Egypt from the wrath of Herod. Quito
netr the Virgin's treo and hidden among
ihick foliaged shrubs, is a French
restaurant, that has become the favorite
resort of princes and of golden youth, of
comedians and ladies of the corps do
ballet, and of the tourists who visit
Cairo. There are few indeed who do
not make an excursion to the sacred tree
4 and refresh their inner man at the con
vivial hostelry.
The ostrici farm extends from the
Virgin's tree to the desert, and com
prises several acres of land surrounded
by high mud walls. The greater part of
the farm is desert, not because it is iu
capable of cultivation, but because the
loose, pebbly sand is essential to the
we.ll-beng of the ostrich. There are at
present on the farm 120 birds of more
than a year's growth, and of these fifteen
are female and twelve are male adults
Ihat is to say, they are more than three
years old, the ago at which they com
mence to lay.
Twelve of the adults are now laying
,d three are engaged in hatching-one
being upon twenty-two, one upon four.
teen, and one upon eleven eggs.
Strange to say the male bird attends
more to the hatehing part of the busi
ness than the female, especially in cold
or rainy weather, and in fact often under
d. takes the whole of that tedious duty
himself, being only relieved byhis better
hlif at meal hours.
Mr. Wetter, the ostrich diecetor, has
t,=en very fortunate in his effor;s to
domesticate the ostrich in Egypt.. Out
of 108 birds hatched last set'on eighty
yearlings are now alive and healthy-a
very successful result when it is borno in
mind that during the late Arabi un
pleasantness the ostriches were much
neglected. After visiting the breeding
enclosures and those wherq the yearlings
were parked we were conducted to the
incubating house and to a wire cage
whero this season's birds were scauimper
i'g about full of health and vigor. By
applying one of the eggs to a hole cut in
ai Piece of blackened cardboard and plac
i"g it against the sun the ostrich farmer
showed us a young bird which had been
ii:eulated by artificial means and had
reached maturity, actually pecking at
the interior of the shell and struggling to
break out of prison.
The Wicked Boy.
"What ails your pa's teeth," asked the
grocerymian of the bad boy. "The hired
girl was over here to get some corn meal
for gruel, and she said your pa had lost
his teeth."
''01, about the teeth. That was too
b ad. You see, my chum h-is got a dog
Sthat is old, and his teeth have all come
(out in front, and this morning I borried
l'a's teeth before lie go.t uap, to see if we
couldn't fix them in the~ dog's mouth so
he could cat better. Pai says it is an
*evidence of a kind heart for a boy to be
good to dumb animials, lbut it's a dlarn
mean dog that will go back on a friend.
We tied the teeth in the dog's mouth
wtith a strinig that went around his upper
jaw and another around his under jaw,
and you'd a dide to see how funny lie
looked wvhen he la'T'ed. lHe looked just
like pa wiheni he tries to i-mile so as to
get me to come up to him so lhe can lick
ime. The dog paUwed his mouth a spell
to get the iethi out, andit then we gave
him a belle with some meat on, and he
buegan to gnaw the bone, and the teeth
come off the plate, and lie thought it
wals pieces of the bone~ andi he swallowed
the teeth. My chum noitced it first, and
lie said we hiad got to get in our wvorkh
pretty qick to save the plates, and I
tink we were in luck to i-ave thiem. I
e held the dog, and moy chnm, who was
better acquainted with im, untied the
. strings antd got the gl laies out, but
there were only two feethI left, and tihe
dog was happy. lie woggled his tail
for more teeth, but we hadn't aniy miore.
I am going to give him ma's teeth sonme
day. My chum says whien: a dog gets an
apipetite for anyth:ing you have got to
keep giving it to hinm or lhe goes back on
you. But I think my chum played dirt
(in me. We sohld the gold plates to a
jewelry manm, auid my chum kept the
t mhoney. "-Afiwaukee Sun.
The Light Went Out.
Not long ".;so I stood by the death-bed
of a l'tiAe girl. From her birth she hand
bieen atfrid of death. Every fiber of her
bodly andi soul recoiled from the thought
of it. "'Don't let mue (lie," shte said;
"'don't let me die. Hold me fast. Oh. I
catin't go." ''Jenny," I said, ''you have
t wo little brothers~ in the other world,
4 and there are thousands of tender-heart ed
people over there who will love vou and
take care of you." But she cried out
agaLin despairingly, "Don't let me go;
they are strangers over there." She was
9. little country girl, strong linmbed, S!et,
of foot, tanned in the face; she was raised
on the frontier; the fields were her home.
Ini vain we tried to rec!oncile her to the
death that was inevitable. "Hold mne
fast," she cried, ''don't let me go." But
even as she was p)leadinug her lit,tle hands
relaxed their clinging hold from my
waist and lifted themselves eagerly aloft;
lifted themselves with such straining
effort that they lifted the wasted little
body from its reclining position among
the pillows. Her face was turned up
ward; but it was her eyes that told the
ittory. They were filled wvith the light of
Divmne recognition. They saw something
plainly that we coulil not see; and they
grew brighter anid brighter, and her
little hand quivered in eagerness to go
4 where strange portals had opened upon
her astonished vision. But even in that
supreme moment she did not forget to
*leave a word of comfort for these who
would gladly have died in her place:
'Mamma," she was saying, "mamma,
they are not atranugers. I'm not afraid."
A nd every instant the light burned more
gloniously in her blue eyes till at last it
si'emed as if her soul leaped forth upon
its radiant waves, and in that moment
her trembling form relapsed among its'
piullows and she was gone.
ALrs A La.--In the town of Came
rou, Steuben County, there reside ten
farmers whoue farins join etch other.
-They have ten babies and the rb is only
3ETTER DAYS.
Better to smell the violet cool, than sip the
glowing wino;
Better to hark a hidden brook, than watch a
diamond shine.
Better the love of a gentle heart, than beauty's
favors proud;
Better the rose's living, seed, than roses in a
crowd.
Better to live in loneliness, than to bask in love
all day;
Better the fountain in the heart, than the
fountain by the way.
Better be fed by mother's hand, than eat alone
at will;
Bettor to trust in good than say: "My goods
my storehouse fill "
Better to be a little wise, than in knowledge to
abound;
Better to teach a child, than toil to fill perfec.
tion's round.
Better to sit at a master's feet, than thrill a
listening state;
Better to suspect that thou art proud, than be
sure that thou art great.
Better to walk the real unseen, than watch the
hour's event:
Better the "Well done !" at the last, than the
air with shouting rent.
Better to havo a quiet grief, than a hurrying
delight;
Better the twiligat of the dawn, than the noon
day burning bright.
Better a death when work is done, than carth't
most favored birth;
Better a child in God's great house, than tlh
king of all the earth.
G1:0aol: M. cDoN ALn.
ilE 1 WAY P1E 10M1'OSlD,
Major (Hinton was one of the mlost
courageous fellows in the world, accord
ing to the men who knew him; bit
when the ladies of his aelluintance
heard this opinion, they laughed it ta
seorn, for they co1 sil:red li mi the ma,,st
timid creature they had ever seen. II,
was very fond of ladies' society, ther
said, or he would not spend all his evei
ings at parties or makihing calls; yet not
one lady, old or young, single or mar
ried, had ever known him to express his
regard in any way that was not extren
ly decorous and formal. Flirt? They
would as soon think of a tombstone or 'a
telegraph pole attempting to flirt. Most
of the MAljor's male acquaintances car
ried scars on their hearts, as results
either of attacks more honorable than
judic'ous, or of sudden surprises by fair
skirnishe 's; but no one could imagiie
the Major to have suflered any such mis
huap, for lie not only nade no recon:nois
sance, but he always retired precipitatelk
within himself at the first flash of ap.Ir
of eyes leveled directly at him.
The truth was that the brave Maj,.r
was not only as modest as a mlodl
mlaidenl, but he was painfully laslhtol
beside. The one desire of his 'life was i.
mlarry, which he was financially able t<
do, but the important prelimi1ary ste:
of proposing was one he had never' dur, el
to take. Until he reached adult yeaar
he had met scarcely any women but his
two orphaued sisters, to whoni lie h11
tried to be a father, and upon whose
rare purity and sweetness he had based
his ideas of womanhood. Roth marrit ,
and went far from their old home, so
they could not help him to gain a wi'
by disabusing him of his impression that
all women were too good for him. To
(linton nearly every woman appeared a
s:ilit. He worshiped one after another,
alt hough only one att tile, andc his
tastes were so correct that he was ollig< d
to change his divinity about once in
in three mionths, to nvoid -worshiping
another mnln's wife. Whenever ill old
sear healed and a delicions throl,ling of
the heart told of a new dart that had
found its way to his heart, lhe v'owed
solemnily to propose at on1ce, anid vary
the dlreadfui Olotoiny of having another
man st(ep ini befolre himl. AnId eaceh timle
he delayed, just for a day, or a week, or
b)ecaulse lhe feared too muchl, 01' hloped
too wildly, anId every time 11e waited it
little too lonlg--every Itimie lbuit one(.
For whi n the Major miet Alice Waller
son he felt that, to lose her, too, would
he nul(ra thlan his. life coldt endure.
Sile i as pretty, as all women seemied to
thle Major. She was good anid she was
sweet, the Major was surie, else wh'ly wiere
all other women uinusulally fond of heri?
Best of all, she seemetd the mo1st miodest
anid bashful maiden inl his whole circle
oft acqulain tanice, anld thr iouigh thlese <otia
ities would be able to offer' lhim sympl~athuy
wlithl feelings that all oItheri peopfel
regairded withi provlok ing sm1iles(.
Butt how shuoulO lie priops 1 ? Beinig at
woman, her bashiful nature must lbe far
more senisitive thlan his owni, so, Oeen if
he were to ner'1ve hlimself to the (irdeal,
how could 110 lhe enough of a bute to
inflict greater tr'epidaItion 111)0n her, if
lie loved 11er? Even~ w~ere she favorably
disposed toward him, he was sure thuat
li steninlg to a pr'(ioosal would putt her
heart in a terr'ilhe tu mult; how mneh01
mor'e dreadful would it b,e, then, for her
to tistenl to him0 shld1( she not he favor'
ablydisosedlUeknow thait sheialways
had even been urateful' to hint one0 evenl
ing, when bothl, at a plarty anld both
thriouigh timidity, rectiired to thlo,same11
hltf-idden cornier of a drawinlg-roomn,
each innocent.of the atpp)'ach of the
other, and each anlxious, oln meetinlg, to
show thait tihe affair was a mere ac'cidenlt.
This won the only basie (If Glinton's
hope, and yet-he'hlad beer' disappo)(int
ed so manity times that lie could nlot heatr
to think of failure now.
Hie made several calls, with the inltenl
lion of proposing, but every timle his
courage failed him, bes'ides~ Mrs. Wailler
son1 or Alice's sister Nell, were always in
the p)arlor; of course lie could no't say
before two what he dreadcd to say even
with a single hlearer. Worse still, Miss
Nell, who was a b)rilliant brunette of the
irrepressibhe species, 0could not avoid
teasing hlim slyly at every potsible 0op
portunity, and( lie always lost his tongue
under her onslaughts.
Trheni he tried to propose in writinlg,
and for a week of evenings he wroteo
steaidily withl no more satisfacetory resuIlt
thlan a note0 to Mrs. WVallersoni, in which
lie mntended to incolose his proposal.
Ohance finially camne ini pity to hlis aid.
Miss Noll, as on-i of a trio of girls who
had10 devised a surnise party for a recenlt
ly miarried frienid,wrotei to the Major
abouzt ih3 nroeo ad e 4 th-- e.
vould call and give her some assistance
iunong their mutual acquaintances
smong gentlemen. As the Major read
i'"r note a brilliant thought occurred to
iu. While talking business Miss Nell
- rtainly would not endeavor to tease
sint; his bashfulnless never troubled him
while talking with iatics on any subjcect
ctuirimg common sense opinion and
'kecutive ability; he should therefore be
ble to feel at ease with' Miss Nell, and
Xhile in that. unusual condition ho would
nake a confidant of her and ask her ad
.ice and assistance. He would try to
:nlk to her as if she wore a man; it might.
e a rash experiment, but he felt equal
:o almost any degree of rashness when
be thought of how many times before he
had resolved and failed.
So the Major went to the Wallerson
home on the evening appointed by mis
'Iievous Miss Nell, with a stouter heart
than. lie had felt, outside of business
tours, since the war ended. He arranged
with the young lady to bring all his male
rim nd(s into the surprise party, and she,
rather confused by her new view of the
Major's character, was most effusive in
thanks, and being only twenty-three
years of age and no older than her years
signified, was completely astounded by
the Major's coolness. She could not
help betraying her curiosity; she looked
it the Major inquiringly, she dropped
into reveries, and she said to her mother,
who came to the d&'or of the parlor a mo
mnnt about. some affair stictly of a family
nature, thiat Mr. (linton was entirely
1iflerenlt to what she had imagined hiin
t o he.
Unt t the Major lid not know all this,
and nftler the business of the evening
ended he began to feel the old familiar
col sweat that had bee his torment in
the swamps of the Chicahominey, fif
teen years Iefore. Conversation had
dropped to the dead level of the National
Academy, the last new novel, and
Brown's last volume of poems, all of
which were very bad. Mi.:n Nell looked
interested, pretty and sentitmental until
the Major half wished she would i,e her
natural self, for he had .at last roused
himself to the combative state, and ho
wauted to talk with her in the most
seri-ms manner about her sister. At last
ie niade a desperate elfort and said:
''Miss Wallerson, I called this evening
only on business, but I have for a long
time wanted to say something to you
about a1 matter"
"Excuse me, just for an instant. Ma
jor,'' interrupted Miss Nell, ''the gas is
hissimg dreadfully. Won't you be good
enough to s;t which burner it is; I'm
just too short to reach any of them, I'm
sorry to say.''
'rhe Major hastened to the rescue.
lie heard a hissing noise, as of the escape
of too much gas, lie could not be sure
which of the six burners was at fault, so
he turned down one after another until
the noise stopped and the parlor was
almost dark.
"You are very kind," murmured Miss
Nell, a tshe Major resunmed his seat near
her, ''the blowing of gas is dreadfuljy
'imnoying to the ear. By the way, you
wtre saving that
The Major resisted a temptation to
say, "Oh, nothing of any consequence,"
and said:
"I have been long the most reverent
adorer of a certain young lady who"
"Oh, Major !" exclaimed Miss Nell;
"the idea of you being in love. Did
Vol'
"Excuse me, Miss Wallerson," said
the Major hastily, "but no one is compe
tent to pass an opinion on my condition
of mind but msinvlf. I fully know my
own feelings, and merely wish an oppor
litiy to t xplain thems in such manlier as
nay he most resic e"tfiul."
"I beg your pardon, Major,"said Miss
Nell, ntow en tirely on he'r guardI. "P'lease
cotumte, and believ'e ino one here c'ani
dloubht your sincer'tity."
''Te Major's hetiit gave a mighty'
b iiond; evidently t his misehie'vous giril
suisptecd somethting and was willinig to,
suppress herself.
"'I have long beent worshiping a lady
whom I would have been glad to nmake
my wife,'' contliued the Major, "'if 1
had not feared t hat my love anid what
o'lse I hadi to offer her'would not seemn
coimpensat ion for what she would be
obliged t, give up."
"Yor~ thought fulne'ss does you honor,
M:tjotr," said Miss Nell, in the kinidest
way in the wor'ld.
"Tlhanik you-thtank y')u,"' saidl the
Major, lustdi ly. '"Perh aps, then, yo u
will understand why I speak with more'
I lan nmy customary freetdom. Miss Watl
lersont, I was tratiined in my youthful
datys to such unquestioning reverene
for woman as womnan that I feel almost
like a thief when'u I thtink of asking anty
womnan for her Ital ad heart.''
"'Again, Major, I must say that your
thought fulntess andt delicac'y (10 you
h onor,'' said M'iiss Nell. as demurely nas
if shte had niever teased'( anty one in her
life.
''Thank -you.-thank you," said thle
Matjor again. "'I would like first to ex
plaini myself, if I may troublle you for a
miomienit. I am, I believe, an hionorale
man; I have a good busintess and( a goiod
bankml acteotunut. I wanit to devote bmoth,
and1( my life, beside, t.o the service of the
swetst 'woman that ever livetd. I enn
nott expect her to love me as I love lier,
for she is ain angel and I am only-well,
onily a mani."
''A true muan," said Miss Nell, stil as
deimure as a pa;rsont, ''is as good as any.
thiing else in the world-even as good its
a triue womtan.
"D1o yout really thtinh so?'' asked the
Major. "'I must believ'e you against m,v
will, but entirely according to my inich
nation. WVell, the woman whom I love
you know very wecll; no one can khiow
1er be'tt(er; shte is putre, good, sweet,
"'Major I Maijoir !" exclaimed Miss
Nell
"Phletse d,on't contradict mue on this
p.n tientlir point,'' sid the Major; "'1
reatlly Itink I know--I am sure I do."
Ilhen," taid Miss Nell, "'it would he
v' v impoli(ite in ime to contradict, but
ret hv"
"nleally," said the Major. "I am
weighmig" my words most carefully and
mean tall I say. I wtant to offer her all 1
am and have, utnder any c'onditions sht
roEv imOpEo. Don't imaigine me impul
siveEEl orrsht ini thlis matter," conttinuel
the M~aiori. extendjing both hit hands it
ilUa earneSLness. '1 hleaul -
What the Major meant was never
explained, for Miss Nell, entirely in
accordance with her own idea of what
the excited man was trying to say, mur
mured, "Enough I" fell upon the Major's
breast and threw her arms around the
Major's neck.
What could the astonished man dot. c
What would any gentleman do in such s
circumstances ? Miss Alice tripped inta e
the parlor, found it dark, turned up the R
gas, saw the couple and exclaimed:
"Oh, my !"
Her sister looked up into the Major's at
face for a second, then dropped her brow f'
on his shoulder, and said: t
"Oh, my !"
And the Major, looking down at the ia
face before him, now entirely empty of c
roguishness and everything else but ten- 3
derness, forgot all the past, placed his I
arms about the graceful figure that rest- 0
ed on him, and suid: t
''Oh, my I"
And although he has been married ten a
years he never h:Is had reason to regret r
his mistake.-Ncw York flour. C
CRIME IN THE BLOO).
Whole Fagilltes Who Have Been Ralsed In
Crime. t
"Is there such a thing as hereditary
criminal instinct ?" asked a St, Louis re
porter of the force of detectives who con
gregated at headquarters to ''sign u) for
t
the day," with a view of getting most in.
formation from their unanimous opinion.
"Such a thing as crime running in
families ?" repeated Detective Lawler.
"Yes, there is, and there is no better
proof of it than we can show right here
in St. Louis, where there are several
families, nearly every member of which
has becn convicted of crime. In one of
the murder eases now before the Criminal
Court a defense of hereditary love and
yearning for strong drink is to he intro
dtced as a defense, and on just as good
gro)unds sonme of the crimninals locked up
in our jail and in Jefferson City Peniten- t
tiary might set up a defense of heredi
tary inclination to be criminals. It is
not an extremely uncommon thing to find
whlole famniliet participating in and living
by crime. Only a few days ago we had a
case in the jail. The sheriff of St. Fran
cois County, Mo., on his way to the Peni
tentiary, had five prisoners in chargc"
'going up' on sentences of from two to
six years. They had been deteeted itn
burglary of a farm-house in St. Francois
County, and it was supposed that this
was not the first job of this description
it which they had taken a part. The
Principal prisoner was under a six-year
sentence. His wife was going to the pen
fir four years, and his brother and sis
ter for three and two years respectively.
The father and totherwere dead or they
would probably have had a place in this
family group. This however, is rather an
inist,nce of a family uniting efforts in the
perpetration of a single felony."
"Have we any families of this descrip
tion in St. Louis ?"
''Yes; only they are astronger proof of
the fact that a tendency to commit crime
is transmitted from father ;o son and per.
vades a whole family. There is one
family here named MeGuire. The old
man has been in the pen, and two of his
sons are making 11111 efforts to follow in
the fooi-prints of their respected father.
'T'here is another fanily here, all the
1ienbers of which are not critminals, and
is Ilie two respl'et:able persons ill it 1>ear
the faimily I:une, it would be wrong to
impllicate themli liy a publication. They
will be readily identitlied by any oflicer
on the force and Inauy of their victims
when you state that the most daring of
hie hateh are Tonimy M-s and hisi
-istir KatIe. There were live boys and
wvo girls. Three oIf the boys turnedt outi
to 1)e thieves, atnd the two girls as hadl.
Thte girls are livintg with two moen enjoy
iing the reptati on of t hiieves, and dock
etedl in thme Roigues' O.dllery as 'halls' (If
their tree woIrthy birother s-itt-law. Tfhiis
ihatch has beeni reptI atedly e rrested, 1but
we have iiever suicceihed in get tinig more
than one (If t hem ou t oif harm's way.
Auitther famnily naal Blryland worked
St. Loutis for a long timite. Thlere weree
fs ar boys ini this gang, hut aill died oh
contsnmption1, b rouiight on by Ithe niight
dissipait ion."'
"T1hese aire notI loodedi (roos{ fronm
-their b irth, are iny ?"'
"W~Vell, youl wvouildthink the-y were iryvot
k neww te,fortihe.1 '' ave a regula r'groiw b.
'he little onie begiin atntet ty thefts firomu
h awkers' aiid fainmerls' watgonis, mare t1~
st alls and gr-ocery store exhtibits and r. i i -
road freight cars, for which, on accoutiti
oIf the smtallness of the oftTi'ese iand of
fetnder, they escape piitishmnenit. Th'le
next step is pulling daminpers; thait is,.
tainug tills of smallI shops. P'ickinig,
po~ cke'ts, which requ ires a little mnr |
Mciiince, is the next step, and about thiis
siige t lhey are t aken ini t ow by I heir ('hler
brot heirs and serve as 'kids,' to Ibe lifted
ini a winidow, to openl a (door1, 01' pterformti
siiiilar fuitctioiis. After this they are
fu ll-fledged anid capalel of performitng
jobts for themselves."
mtir,e lurie ''e- e'ld Feet.
Trhe followving remedy for ''old feet is
''e(i)mended by the F'ireman'o ,Journal
si'dent iary suifferer', ams well ais 1po11icetmen,
('ar divers, Lnd o'(thler's who ar e''(xpos~ed
to the eold' Aim tIat is nec'iessarv is to
stemdto erre. i and v'ery gratdually tot lift
nie's self upt uon the tilps of thei( toes,
so as to pitt all tendonIus of thle fiiot at
full strain. Tfhis is niot tot 1hop (or jumitp
ill and down, hut sitmply to risi the
slower the better-ulpon tipitoc, and to
mrenmait standing on the poinit of the toes
as lonug as posssiblIe, then graidunally
c'omitng to the natural position. Repetiat
this several times, and1(, hy thet amott i
of work the tilts of the toes are mt'le to
do ill stustainiing the b)ody's weig It, a
suflicit anid lively cirenlationt is set til.
A heavy ptair' of wooetn stoickinigs idrawtn
over tin i cot ton neaS is also it recomi
mendattionl for keintg the feet warmti,
and att the sameW tn preventing their
becoming tetndir atid sore.
WHAT WAS Fouu'w. - Recently an
augur at work oil anl airtesiain well about
three miles frotm Fre'sno, Cal., brotughit
to the surface fromt a depth oif 320) feet
particles of wooxd. charcoal and nutshell.
PROF. MOR1SE's SUCCESS.
ecollections of i lte nnrkuble nudl iliNtorI ,
Scene in te Unitol.
"Vhat is new to-ctay will be Ol to
orrow,"' re!nnarl.d ex-(7overnor Jamles
'olloek, Naval Ofliecr of this port, dur
ig a recent. conversat ion. "No in:tro i
iscovery will be ree6ived wilt the xanto ti
tubhorn incredulity that greeted the VC
lectric telegraph. Speain:ieg of the h'l- e'r
reph, I have always thloughlt that P'ro- f(e
ssor Joseph Henry laid tihe foundation 6
.)r Morse's wonderful triumph 11as early (
s 1832. Houry had et ''lched three or st
mar miles of wire, througi which lie ae- f"
ally sent signals. However, after t
forso had1 completed his expe'rim('nts ta
nd had demonstrated the p,r,acticatbility lii
f his invenltion, he applied to th'o w
Wellty-eightl Congress, of whiel'I was ti
meiher, for an l)Iprol)riationl of .::0,- Iu
U) to assist ill the erection of a line be. l
veen .saltimn >re and Washington. (fi!
''The bill was referred to the Wavs n:
lid Means committee, I think, lmit whenii kic
'portud back to the 1Io1.;c it was ridi- 11
uled by nIatuy l(mbers, especially by
r'_m: gentlemen from the West. To in- T
icate the absurdity with which he re- tt
ardled( the invention, one member 1'
,(ved to inerease the approlpri1tion to) hi
;100,000, in order to exteu(l the wires to fr
he lllO< 1, eiph)aSizing a 1 nmd pun by of
:tying tain! no one but t hinia-tic wou!d c
nolt to use neh a mediiium of c(n11uni,i- h
ation. A nother geinttl(-nm s11 gest. -d sht
l5l , inorder tE ct('tend til- lines to lii
I' North 'olc andu into 'S1i1m's il(ole so SI
lit the I pl (it the e hter (f tIw .it Ii i(
'uid 1)n comnntuhr al w\ith. Thei bi1ll tl
>ass,'d HIouse :ul(d Senate. 'The 1uO:,ey I)t
n",ts ll)rel)rinted. All of this is well- ti
uowil, Inl is only prefatory to what .1 W
ow say. 1)4
"Inl May, 1814, it. waS anlilouncel in hi
O:igress that oin the opening (f the of
)emocrat ie Nat iomil (onven ii (t ilti. tli
lore the now telegraph lines would 1O li
ealy 'or bu'lSilewss. The Wialhingtlo n 1lu
('rlninus," was in ole of the i ioms of the t;(
\apito!. When hitm d-ty ar'iv'.d a few of
he members of Cngr'ss assellhed in 01
hat. room,,I among the nmuher. After a(.
vaiting a Considelhl'E t ime, nmid expres. (
ion1s of ho1pe or doul)t from the friels ill
>r crities of the invent(tr, all talk w:as
uiddolnly cle(1 'y the Clieking of the O
neluine. An impressive sil:ce of t
eveinteenl imite followed. Tm mI' 1a- S(
hine workel ! Finally the oe('r:,tor h<
'(':d 'with co,nsidlerab1lt'Solemnlity tht, lirt. t.l
nllss:Ige ever received: 'What ht It"
.1Od wroutighit ?' All were nwe.-stricen it
or a momlelt. It has alwvys beent a
1ea.sant iemnory that I was lre:nt. hl
iilencr wats follow.."d by exp,ressi('ns of .\
tlmllirat ion. 'I
"Thi a few gelth"1een hollly (1e. 11
ioimeed 1il' inessage as a it rick. Some il
warml w'ords were s1okenl. But in the It
'onrse of an hour Ithe proeedings from :s
fhe Natioial Con ventioll be.a to arrive,
the unhelievers45cOntinued1 it) dioub. No
leeision could be reacehedl until ti( he ,"n morn.h
nfg ipers wel'e 1ec'eived. it is ned 1'tiSS
o say 1hat the Ielegrlph1ie lessag(es ,)
wore fully substait iated. This w4ondler- I
Iul scene contilnued each da:y dunring thea
ession of the eonventionl at. Ba llii'ore, ti
'l. sing with the nol1mi1a1ti.>1 of ,lanes K. t
Polk. The result wasH so mi1e:<Iected as1,
0 carr1y conviet ion. Then t here were h.I
mnly forty lnih-s of telegrap,h; to-da:y r'
here Ire over 800,(O)0 nilesi ia operati<m . i II
Haw the begitling -it wa'is only thirty- o
line years a 'go."'-.I/ <le/>L TimeS. S
- h
':1
Two Romances in lienl Life.
Tlm 8(on of a leading lawyer im New
V(trk, some year1:s a't , ils alt racted1 ov
ho innovenlt fl.c :IE(I quick wit. of :I,
\'elsh ein:unborna:ti l in bi:, flit her's howee
and' dihird othae ofhle preftredih tof a11
11h1ei f.isinl :111 t VIliii who lul(lV tcourled
nake wAsto conet 1 to11 ot I-:uropeJ ftr
heI ml~)eanftime1, la11ing an11x ill p,''de4nt
at biit scTho : inNw ok
The gir was arlitiojusg :1111 dvtied In
hair iftionl t4o8' iI naml wInt h:al fo. n
(er. li 4SI returnd, folalhrmr lvl
adyix now one of thex le:Ilers o(1f Cn-i t'v
4in the uwhar twy live nblat e, Il i
ied1ll, fbarminit'' wou.xt~ Offi t11C
An lvemin,'nat Verst, 'eliknown in111 leni t
syNa in thin oarl it.liiI of thsenuury.
wasI 1011 "making th ircit" on horseba(k, r
mdecv splfor 'iniwr f ate thet hoI' of il
boen awi aotblmn It redlll th
T Rcertain of cadtring fac A)ftwiel
Maryg started~ tio t lonb whith yoa
ACROSS TilE PACIFIC.
riloun VoynMe of t /inflNo Man From
Mans Francisco t A strnlin.
The San Franicico ('hroniclc :4ay.s
1 the 19th of A ignst, 1882, Bernard
Ifoy, at native of lBuflalo, N. Y., left
e port of San I'raucisco, bound " on a
yage of pleasure" to Australia. The
tft in which he sailed was a dory 18
+t long, ti feet 1beam11, a depth of 2 feet
iehies, and a register of two tons.
Ifoy wais the only passenger, and
ilrted with the deternination of per
rining the utnpa:r1leled feat. of crossing
e Pacific single-handed ill a commnlon
iling-1oat. Tlhe entter, for she was
Ile m1ore, was named the Pacifie, al
is eov(re(1 in all over, with the excel)
)m1 Of a ctnoule of" litelhs, one amidshiip
id one aft. Tin'e tore part wan used
ostly for the water casks, which were
led with salt water as the fresh was
'd uip, :tnd the after part wansu(d as
te'hen, c:thin anrd septinig room. Noth
g was hward of (iilfoy intil the arrival
San1 Frptneitcco of the b arkentmo
Opi( Vance from 'ahiti, whose Calp
in reported thlit he 1111(1 sighted the
tcilie Nov. 10. le h-d given Clilfov
s correct lietriiigs and It (1itttntity of
ut, and uad Iearntd(1 that after at week
favorin g weather the Pacifie had in
unltered1 29 days of atlterntet cahns amtu
ad-winds, which had driven Gilfoy to
ortent his all''wani:e. IHe crossed the
le inl lonf uiile lsc de._. on 'riday
Pt. 29, tndl then nui with good*wind.1s,
ft)re whiebt he ran) sonth bt.w een1 lti
les 5 d ;. mind 1 deg. south. His
incipal disenmtiit, Ie satid, had been
(' too familiar habits of the sharks,
tieh eve-ry night tamo tlimping th<e
at with their ugly snouts. To rid
muself of them he aide aI harpoon out
at hurnt book, and siceedcied in ren
rin;Y I hem so Shy t1nat by proping upl
s sinrt lit ni';ht inl the lplaIe where he
ii:tlly s:t 1by day be was enabled to
he his rest etntiiittively in iiuiled.
TIh ct (nclnsion of tho Paeitie's extra
dinary voyage is gatheid froml a long
c(nt. 1)111ished inl the lhrMalrvorough
l11eenslatnd) (Wroic/5 of Feh. a. It
>pears that afitr leaVin~ the T1rop)ie
aiec thingi went l.ally with Giilfoy.
n the 1Itlt of 1)-cetnl Itw, being then to
S=1itt h1 of" the Friendly Isles, a heavy
a lirtke over 1ii tlboa t and capsized
'r. lit wenti t hwwan into thi wvater,
dl1 it waS ontly by an hour's hard -work,
lith th' nil if a " lti ngt!. antehl>r''
iat he w;I 'ttbled to i'I'hit the dory.
o sooner W.I.. -:!w righiltdilumantother
1"nvyV seit capot.i :d her at second( timie.
gain he rihstml"II her lld iissed the
ght ill Itstiliig an;(d the day inl mattking
lin t;s as shlip-;huip" as t)n:sible. liy
wo +thi of cirt"nbltir he tad f;ot thtinigs
tildr way iagati ..1inn was enjoying pl'as
ut (,theJr, when the btoat was pierced
a.,word-fi,h.
(I h(trist1as Dav he fouild himself
t": r Iuniter Ishand, at I orre"n rock, with
lthi.; instrumnlits g,onet:md noilhing lef t
r his ptrovisionts except I welve paluus
I c;rnel 1mn nt, two ltlurts of aleolol,
ul iftel ga:lloni of tvater. le tlen
ied to lake finr New (":ltdonia2, but. the
ind andi entrcnt wen-re is him, andl
it the 1.4th of J:utiat;v in aft' the last of
is nte:dt. Two d1:y\s after he lost his
idtlr, and h:stl to ri'r up at lakeshift,
n(i fronm thstt tinw" on he luid to subsist
it whatev,er fish he c:tnght or birds ht
tot. (On thlt 20th of J:unary he ate
is lIst (ool~d mc:tl, a hii' sinigedl over
lwa of 1rke11 match(s, and after tait
e sa2ed(l the Im int enles. Then the
:tys e:t)(w, ill whiichl he knew nothitg
'ill cIne-1 notIing, ste(ring aimtltssly
i tIi then ,i2s (f14ihi last hpei,
ad Iled1 he i hd the the Alir."d Vllthrv
24 11'w n IInIle 121 2 '2 ( ;l un illav id. tIle
as11 tIlll 2,2l t I'i2 l ili l li Sll y 1' (i l e,
(r( ill (x' l'-riisr ('i''Cto 2( i l''yI
122 his'. 121; (val at Marybiourouh bul t ire t hS'
Ies i is 1 -}-1' limi 4 n2 as 1,(-' Sice('Slity,
lil Wil it i i lji f.WWl'2 E "l 12.lid lh
21jfa(il \222!:'i : ill f o li lit i e O}fa
wii2('i, I h2t 4ih:liill olay f1r iliocnty
'pit 121 Iiw b:42 tI I 1rts of110 eloipl reit,
ljjmit s 42 u-14 aiia*-lll'. I (lir 4'v(iin ally "lf
't is hlii'i'I 'Ill 2I Ie lt 'e 1ti.ti: Ilto
i41ion flow . heo aesodnd stre,ir
-ins wa th the1' cll clos. ei t ler
i i what'2 2 evidnce thooei )livers secured
ud tinIlh wlle inannr tano entne ito the
:2unblig p h(we ra er, eted Thisl they
(''I for iihituro ofy ' guardine inkh
2424e lagat4'lis1t iturpri by he pise.tl
12intly 211a faw sle imi sedinst1(2
amblIs n11 visirt tred iine onf ofthelo
,em shours b12(1 as theg iles, 11211
Iilid itl (isCiver th ftedu im n used
n the gae oe.ncotanindspehnabet
inke ith rebaiy to eviane amtohecurth
fello twicae the uieb.c u.oto
TRADES FOR AMECANS.
A *icW it TRE$$TING FAVT.
,.1 n Amerlean 1l.y Will N.t 1.esm "
Trndo-What he Does Seek.
[From the New York Tribune.)
Two or three weeks ago a careful in
quiry was instituted in Philadelphia, the
largest manufacturing oity in the eoun
try, as to the relative nmber of for.
eigners and native Americans engaged
in trades and as skilled handicraftsmen
of every kind. The result was startling.
Foreigners, especially the Germans and
Scotch-Irishmlen, had shr ldered our
own people altogether oi of almost
every such oceupation. The American
boys could be counlted en the fingers
who were learning the trade of weaving
in the great woolen ain carpet factories.
The sami story was told in the cotton
mills, at the stocking looms. Yet the
wages paid to these skilled workmen are
high and steady. The Scotohman or
North Irishraan earns from $18 to $20
per week in 'hiladelplhia, owns his com
fortable dwelling, and brings up his son
to the same trade which his own father,
most probably, followed in Glasgow or
Londonderry. The American boy has
not learned this sure, Alow road to com
fort from his father. There was the
same report from manufacturers of pa.
per, soap, shoes, clothes, furniture, ship
hilders, cutl'-re-every industry, in
short,.but two. The American boy of
the class which does not enter the pro
fesions is not found in the trades ; part
ly because he is larred out by the trades
unions, but more h'eeause he does not
choose to go into th('t. To this general
rule there are, howevet, two notable ex
pIi,'ns: printing nad machine shops,
:'. i of these tral (s is crowded with
lntive Ameri,-n tuappreitices. "We turn
.aiy,"said th ' suletrintetdent of a great
'Inline v.%:. " hutidreds of applicants
: : year, for whom we can find no
Now hero is signiticant hint of na
ii: .d charaute r. We are perpetually
tol.l that th Anei:can lad of the par
ti1ly edaetd class refuses to learn a
trade and becoines a salesman or clerk
on a nise'ral e s:ry, from the snobbish,
vulgar desire to li considered a gentle
mai. Yet the anwno v,mur fellow in :
printin,g-otline or minrltirto-foundry worl;s
narder uitd Coin~s ott of his daily
drudgery more griny and shabby than
any other mechanic.
It is no ambition for gentility that
moves him to these pursuits. But they
open to him possible short roads to sue
cess; they give his inventive faculties
some play, It is only one man in a hun
dred who out of the composing or press
room becomes l odtor or publisher; or
nho turns out to be a lucky Harrison or
Wins ilt thle nehite-sltop.
l.ut each boy is coifident that lie will
be tiut mau. When he "goes into busi
les" as salesmutn at $3 per week, he
kaows he will some day be an Astor or a
Stewart. When he goes out to Colorado
as a cow-boy he sees in a vision his own
cattlc grazing on a thousand hills.
Hence he turns his hack on the trades
in which there is no chance for sudden
success, and by which the plodding
'erman or Irishman, generation after
.,eneration, secures a steid\ limited com
potency. Our lad must put ,oi seven
league boots to go to his fortune, or lie
will not go at all. In a certain sens,
towrefore, there appears to be' nto renwdy'(I
*r this p)res(nt coinditioni of affaiirs. Tliet
h- 'pard cnmot chan,ge his spots nor the
Ethiopian his siin, andi( the v'ividl, iinven
tiue, sharp-c3rdo A merican, fonid of earnm
in-' and sqtumuldering money in bulk, will
never be brought to plod and save and4
enjoy life a pentnyworth at a time like
his Eturopeatn neighblor, who was not
h orni prosp1ective hir to a great estat e.
A certain grtade of our skilled trades will
always remitn, it is probable, in the
haintis oif foreigners.
Uutit onte lesson our American lad me ''
learn b efo re lhe su cceeds, .d~ as heo is ex~ -
eeptionalt~ ly sharp he generally does letarn'
it when hU fhis lie (lees not snteceoid
withuit it. Thtat is steaidintess of aim.
Intstability is our national defect. The
.\ meorican of twenty- four who has made
uip hIts miind ats to is b usine'ss, his pol i
ties and his religion, whto abides by thecm
for the next teni years, is at marked and
weighity man. Tatke the crtowds of for
ttuie-seeker.s 1-ourintg now into Colorado
u: D)akot a and1( you will find thtat each of
thni ha.s trtied two or twenty methods of
e umig a livig before lhe fell htmek, liko
Atttiw, on thte bosom of M%other Earth
1. ;' rathe-t sItrength. 'Twuo or thI ree na mes
ini ealth professioni, in htIrad andl inv*en t ion
wouild complete the list of living Amieri
tants' who haive made a great mid signal
suc cess; and( thety nro invariably men of
iuillexibtle sitigleiness of purpose. Thi
Anlitrtcatn lad, educated or hitl feducnted,
is too ap1t to scatter his shot anmd hit
not iniig. Hie wVouild be suddenly rich, lie
would be kniowni as a piolit ici an, he would
Ibe a matn of society. Hlence, withl a heri
t age otf ntaturttl abilit ies above mediocrity,
with loent pierct) ins, fie tastes anmd a
linmitless estate waiting for him to claim,
lie fails. It is a story as old1 as the world.
"Ii uhen,"' said theit seer thousands of
li-rs ago,' "is the first-born the excel
htty oft digity and the excellency of
poweri. Unmstab,le as water, lie shall
noti exce."
Warmier thtan the Country.
Thtose wuho happen to live at a little
distance from the heart of a city, says
A"-i ne", must frequettly htave nioticed at
Ilack of ac(co,rd be'twee'n the readlings of
the* pul ishted observat ioiis of the Signal
Sirvice obisorver of their locality. T'he
reaisont of the dliscoird is plauin; viz., the
peorlurbing action of thte heat wviihi the
city emits; and, however gratifying it
mnay be0 to the o'itsider to find himself
superior to the Government observers
it is very little to the credit of the
Weather Blureau that thtis particular
soure of error wvas not long since recog
'iized and avoidled. The remarks of
P rofessor Whitney on this' subj~ect, as
aplied to observations made at London,
arie p)ertinent and convincing. He says:
"It is a well known fact, that cities are
on isiderably warmer than the more
thintly inhabtited country, otherwiso
und ter similtar climatic conditions.
St itisties prove tis to be true; anid
there couldl ho no doubt thiat auch wou1ld
lbe the effect of an immense aggrega -
l ion of population within a limitet space,
evon if there were no statistics bearing
in this qluestion. Many millions of tons
"i coal are burned ini and about London
during every year; and the whole mass
f birick of which the city is built is
leated during the entire winter, and
moore or less in the summer, many de
r ees above the natural temperature.
'There can be 1no questioni that conditions
-such as are here iudicated vitiate all ohb
seevations made ini or near large cities,
with a view to the determination of any
\ h asible secular variation of the temn
p rature.
UsCA are in the habit of slurring
A oantn-btthev all unakwell of