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* - P-IENs, S. C., THURSDAY N S , OCTOBER 16, 1884. ey Hear the Sirens for thoJsecond The 'voary sails a moiet slept, The oars were silent for a space, As past Hesporlan shores wo swept, That were as a remembered face. Seen after lapse of hopoloss years, In Hades, when the shadows meet, Dim through the mnist of mnany tears, And strange, and, though at shadow, owoet, So seemed the half-remembered shore That slumbered, mirrored in the blue, With heavens whero we touched of yore, And ports that over-well we knew, Then broke the calm before a breezo That sought the secret o1 the West; And listloss all we swopt the cons Towards the Islands of the blest. Beside a golden-sanded bay We saw the Sirens, very fair; The flowery hill whereon they lay, The flowers set upon their Iar. Their old sweet song came down the wind Romombered music waxing strong AhI now no need of cords to bind, No need had we of Orphio song. It once had seemed a little thing To lay our lives down at their foot, That dying we mig lt hear them sing, And dying see their faces sweet, But now we glanced, and, passing by, No care hn we to tarry long; Faint hppo and rest and memory Wore moro than any Siron's song. -Andrew Lang's Ballads. TIlE ASIATIC CIIOLERA. Whcro It Starts, How It. Travels, and by What Roads. There are comparatively few people now living in this country who have ever witnessed a case of Asiatic chol era, and there is probably no disease of which mankind in general stands in greater fear, and which is the object of more superstition. The fact of the dread malady spreading its contagion by personal contact, and following in its march the main roads of commerce induced Eugeno Suo to select Ahasuc rus as the personal propagator of chol era, especially as it formerly advanced with the slowness with which eastern caravans carried the tea across the As inttc prairies. In Asia, in the neighborhood-of Cal cutta; in Arabia, near Mecca, and in Egypt, n'ot farm from Cairo, are the breeding-places of cholera. There famino is a frequent occurrence. The peoulo grow up surrounded by .,filth such as an American citizen has not tho faintest idea of, and an Infectious disease linds the most favorable condi tions for its development in those un hmealthy districts. The pilgrims who in thousands yearly proceed from Egypt to Mecca, and who live ofl' the. poorest food and amid the greatest squalor, carry with them the seeds of cholera, and thus form the Connecting link in the transmission of the disease from Asia to Africa. If we consider the commercial importance of Alexandria we can not wonder that the cholera, once epidemic in Egypt, should swiftly travel to Europe. .rius far medical history has not recorded a single in stance of an original out-break of ohol or.a anywhere but at the places men tioned. Filth seems to be the sine qua non of its development and cleanliness the most powerful barrier to its march. Tho fact has been established that the human being alone acts as sthe car rier of the cholera poison. There is no well-authenticated case on record whore rags or clothing, as has been proven ofycllow fever, has transmitted the infectious material of the Asiatic dicase, In olden timos, when no rail roads, no steaniships, hastened the . travel, the march of cholera kept pace with the rapidity, respective slowness, of human intercourse. The disease either followed the road of the groat tea caravans, which brought the high . priced leaves from.Asia to Russia, or it traveled the usual ways of commerce - across the Mediterranean sea. Where ever a large belt of water separated two counies the epidemic diseaso marcheile . I,he 01n0 to the other in the samne length of timq that it took a ship to sil across the water. Sdch in stances wYe saw )n the spreading of the contagion from the continent of Europo across the. chaunpl' tos Fuglande and fronm Great Bdtgh to Amem.ic.. In the liEtter caso the mulections materIal is not wafted across the Atlantic ocean amnd carried the long dlistance by the air. F'rom the moment of the out ikeak of chlolera in England about seven days must at least elapse ere the first case of the (disonse can happen in our country, for tihe fastest steamer needls about that time to cross the ocean. We know, therefore, long since that neither in Europe nor America could Asiatic cholera develop Itself without its germ having first been introdueed into these countries. We also were aware of the fact that huinan inter Course alonle plropagates tihe contagion, and exp)erienco hats taulghIt us that filth favored and cleanliness p)revenltedl the sp)readi of the d1isease. In modern L :ies, where p)ublic hygiene had be comle sucta important factor in the govgrnin;,u, of nat,ions, whore the p)ublic saini gy matters aro genermally under stooa anid highly appireiated in civil ized coulntries, the facts just enumer ated have been muade sublservienlt to the general welfare of tihe p)eoh). The original breeding--places of tihe malady wVer() first dietermined; thien the luts precaut,ions were taken Onl the Iirst signs of the outbreak of thme (disease to confine it to its limits-to isolate the dlistrict attacked, Besidies every state, every city, every county established its own board of health. TIhis boardl hand to, see thattegatsclnins OXitedinitslOaliy,andi that travel rsfrom tesuspectedi regions were frtquarantined crc they were per mitted to enter the proected district. That It is possi bse to I.mit the spread of Asiatic cholera, to le aen the num lher of its victims, 'tu' to dliminishi its . erity by the mecast res just described, . u, experiences of ti10 last tont years has proven. The la.st epidmic just reached our shore, be, fInding.s suitable soil for its development, it died out of its own account after hay ing attaohed a few victims in the filth iest quarters of the metropolis. The epidemics which Iast year raged in Egyp)t and Calcutta Were totally confined to their original starting point. Perhaps the best proof of the utility of strict sanitary measures wvas given by the epidoemic in Egypt. in time immfle4iato neighiborhood of the infected placo Some thousands of .English soldiers wore camping; manly foreignmers from all yarts of the civilized~ world were then living noi, fifty miles from tile dangeroup disatrict; a greatlf augnmenited intercours took place betwoon Egypt and Europenand stml th isa e ve spread ,outslclo of th sau.itay cotdon or befell but a to* ersona in the .ro tected quarter. a We need, therefore, have in our coun try but little fear of a visit by the As iatic cholora-if we but usso .te common precautions - which modern sanitary science has taught us. All vessels ar riving at ouy shores should be qarefully t inspected, all ships coDing from in- 1 footed ports should be forced to under- 1 go a strict quarantine, all emigrants t should be rigidly examined, and tho streets and alloys of our cities should i be kept as thoroughly clean as careful t and uninterrupted' attention can make them. Thus prepared we mgy have i rensonable hope of escaping the f dread visit. The united eertions of 1 the most enlightoned nations may suf ico to prevent the disease from s>read ing beyond its original limits; still we had better adopt the most eflicient means ourselves to kecp the destroyer from our boundaries. -- Philadelphia Times. Irrigation. West of the Missouri the majority of the surface of the carth is more or less neglected by the celestial sprinkling pot, and it behooves poor weak man to irrigate artiticially wherever he can. Now you can go into California, Utah and Colorado, and by irrigation raise garden sass that will make your eves b)ilge; but through Vyoming, especial ly on the Laramie plains, the g-rowing seasonl is confined to the time between July 31 and August 1. So that things don't have time to mature. I will ex cept promissory notes paying two per cent. per month, however. The season is so abrupt, and when it comies is gone again with that spoi taneity and forthwith immediate move ment peculiar to the flca, that before you can put car mlufl's on your corn, the ears are frozen and the season's work is nothing but frost bitten chaos and wilted wreck. Still with all this knowledge and in - the light of a fnll experience we hnd years ago a man on the plains named Hlayford, who had- been a fever and ague doctor a year or two in the South till people told him that they preferred the ague to the style of knowledge lie had. Then lie drifted West, worked on the night shift in a Colorado mine anld p)racticed law in a quiiet, shyster kind of a way till the vigiiantes got all his practice and threatened to get him. 'Iec" he came to Wyoming to grow up with the country, started a paper and printed it on one of those little ama tour card presses that sell for thre dollars. This paper lie published every day, and in the old flush times (uring the building of the Union Pacific rail wiay, sold it at twenty-five cents a 1 week. lie used it as a little pocket blackmailer and worried -himself into offiec by knowing things about promlti nent men and threatening to publish them. Well, lie was the chamlpion of irri gation in Wyoming, and he devoted a stickful a day to Wyoming agricultural possibilities. lie favored the organi zat.ion of a stock comptny for the pur pose of constructing a canal thirty miles lono to irrigate a dozen town ships. ife said we had heretofore raised nothing but hemp and hell, and he favored this great scheme. Finally lie got it to going and the Company was organized, and a civil engineer t from Missouri niamed Crout took a cast iron plow and a ''bull team'' and con structed the pioneer canal, as it was called. '1'he canal worked well enough where the euts were, but along the lill Mr. Crout found, when it was too late, that ho had forgotten to put 'on any sido boards, and therefore the water slopped over and wecnt down the gulch- I es and buffalo wvallows and alkali flats that didni't nieed aniy irrig(ation. Alto gethier the scheme was a failure. There is seome water back a mile from the river where it has run down (luring theo June freshiots when thai snow melts in the mountains, and there the Atntelopo comes to drink and wvrioglo his brief tall, but there are no ficnds of wvaver ing graini. Not a wave. Irrigation on the Laramie p)lains is still confined to j that class of agriculture whore twvo s men01 soak slices of pinie appi)o ini spirits e and( greet each other with the Indian r toast, "Hlow!"-JJill Kye, in New York r Mercuryj.t Hair' Dressinmg in tho Soudan. The Blishareen are a fine, tall raceu slendor, but well p)rop)ortionied. 'They take especial care of their teeth, which are regular anid of lustrous wvhiteness, which is in p)art due to their siml< ~ diet, and1( in p)art (dum to a root (taki wvoodl) which they chiew perpetually. Their dIress is scanty but graceful. It consists of a piece of wvhito lumen wound aroundl the wvaist and thrown over the shoulder. E~achx man carries a lont straight sword and a shield of smalli ZI mensions, made of lihpopotamus ort rhinoceros hide. A spear is carriedI int the right .hand. TIho Bisharcen,i comimoim with the rest of the Arab tibes in time eastern Soud an, take greatn personal pride in their hair. A consid.. erable portion of their lives is sp)ent in its adoriimenit.. I doubt whother a Pa risian coiff'euir would care to take los sons1 in his miotior from these childrern of thme desert, but lie would be puzzled to imitate them.- 'Thie hair is jet black," coarse, wiry and( abundant. It is Pat ed ini a horizontal line round the head,r the p artinmg piassing close to the ears; the hair above this line is perpenidicu. lar andh books like a mop. lBelowv it is latedl and frizzed, andh sticks out over | the neck and shoulders Ii ko theo roof of a ponit-house, dhoubtless affordinr <rrent protetion to thme back of thec neck'fromv thoe rays of the guni. Th'lo whole is stiff cned-withm grease, and when the Bisha reed has newly performied his toilet and greaso is plontiftul, his sable jocks issuimme the snowy whiteness of thoso of I Jecnmes. Thel1 sun1 melts the grease, which drips on to the back and shioul. doers, foi-ming a dlepOsit b)y 11o mleans savory of the conventional e'y odors of ' Araby the blest." A long skowver u or hairpin transfixes this woniderful. coiffeur, and serves the double purpose ' of a cbmb) and a weaponi used in the chaspt, of thivferenaturac,wiche abound r, in its Ifimediato vicinity. --Corn/dili Magazine. 'The 0old-timoe ''pinking" with notched and scalloped cd oes is revived for lio e flounces of chamnoeon silks that chang Iih from onn cooto another. WORK ANDI PLAY. Tow the Colored People Enjoy Them. selves Dowd South. The negro delights in his cotton-field. L'o him, ''Dar's nothin' like cotton, ab."Wife and children all "tote" to ho field, and, after an extra hard dav's abor, they invite their neighbor in to tave a dance. An invitation Camo o mo and from a small boy one oven ng "to toto ober to Brudder Syca uore's, case dey's ;'vino to hab a inie." The boy had bar'Y clothes nough on to cover his black skin, but .o was an active, fine-looking little cllow, the grandson of Brudder Syca aore, who lived in-a cabin two miles ,way." "What do they do when they have time?" I asked. The boy grinned, showing tooth as vlite as cocoa-meat, as he gave the illiversal aiwer: "')nnlo." "Are they goin, to dance?" I asked. "Yes; Uncle Julnipcr he got a fiddle," V'as th( reply. "Is there any Uncle Water Oak or pruce Pine in your family?" I in uire(d. "Dar's Unc'.e Jured--dev calls him Valtr Oak," was the griniing reply. "'What other trees does your house old represent ?" I asked. ")unno,t" with a chuckle. That ( vening, in company with t riend, I wenit to IIrudder Sycamore's og cabin. The usual fires were burning, ound which hovered coal-black ill, houting and lau1jing, dancing first mI one leg, and tlhen on the o:1her. Inside the cabin claiis were brought n for the white party. The cabin had yawning fireplaco and a mud floor. Jandles stuck in potatoes graced every orner and every spot where they could )o made available. The company sat >n boards ranged round the sides of he cabin whilo the fiddle was being tined up. At last it seemed to me I iad got into a prayer-meeting, every )ody was so grave. Presently a dea onishl-looking young man, with a big hock of hair, stood up and beckoned girl on the opposite side, who came >ver with much embarrassment, slink ng her shoulders like a child, and tood up to dance. Then the fiddle egan with a wail of unspeakable dos )air, and presently another and then nother couple joined in the dance. It vas not till they wro thoroughly varmed up that they began to beat the (ir and pound the mud floor. By de recs the enthusiasm of the dance (is dayed itself. One commenced to shout nd singr, and another to use all kinds f ejaculations, till finally it looked like scene from pandemonium. I tried to ,et at the words, which ran like this: Joe, you darky, take your turn Oh, dar's a ringin' ob do belsl SIue, deni pancakes is on do turn, Oh, dlar's ia inlitt'u do bhells! De sky is clear an' de noon is bright, An' de cooi is a gwino flur to sloop to. night, Meantime the children had extem >orised a ball-room out of doors and tooted and screamed as they ran hrough the fire, danced over the lames, :n( shouted in ever-increasing tilarity. Presently I saw an old gray Ieared man take a strong young girl 1y the siioulders and deliberately pmt cr outside the door. "What has she done?" I asked, for lie black face was very sulky. ")one break do rules ob do dance, reckon," was the reply. "What rules?" ''Laws, dar's hundreds of'em; Uncle yeamore knows," was the answer. When we wvent away the girl still sat ngrily biting her fingers on the bench utsidei thle door, and in her eyes was dangerous light. "'Wha:t did you stop dancing for?',' asked her. Shle looked tap, but an wcred niever a word, and( wvo wvent off, rondering if she had flirted with seome ther girl's sweetheart. -Florida Cor. 'an Francisco C.hroniclc. Phiosph orescen ce of' Iamonds. A cutrious ploinit inl diamlonld lore has ist been established to the dhelight of iv ants in Paris, where the exhibition f the crown jewels at the Louvre has. tnde the subject very piopular for the oioment. It has long been laid dlown :iat the diamond has the powerY of ie lininlg light and of afterward emuittinw -in the (dark. The theory has beent rell btuttressedh by reasons; btit the 'roof ha:s not beeni easy of test. All, r nearly all, of the great dliamionds uchi as the K(ohinioor, the Riegent., the grand Mogutl-ca:n not, for public easons, be madie the subjec t of exple inient, anud stones of lesser' size (10 ot always give saitisfactory results. Iappily, ai private individual, the own r of a genm of 92 carats, and estimated t a value of 300,000 francs, has lent is diamoand for scientific investiga ois. These 1have been most satisfac :>r, and( the "plhiosphiorescence" of the tone may be regarded as proved. Tho iamIiond( was explosed for an hour to to (direCt action of the sun's rays and fterwvard removed iaito a (lark room. or more thani twenty minutes after 'ard it emitted a light, feeble, indeed, ut st,ill sufliciently sttong to make a iet of white paper held near it qttito sible in the dark. A similar result 'as arrivedt at by a very dlifferent cx crinient, andl light was generated by ibbing tihe stone with a p)icco of hard annelc. -Pall Mall GJazclte. Tfhe Buaft'et CJar. "I (10 declare, James," said the trmer's wife, as she walkedl about the aitmlg-roomt reading the railway ad 2rtisemlents, "here's somethingI ver heardh tell on bofore. A buffot ir. What di~oU 5o suj>poso that ii. ames?'' ")oni t you -now wvhat a uffet. car is, SarahP Guess yor. avren t been reading much of late, ave youi? You ought to know that a iffet car is a ear recently invented to at on the endi of the train. It Is fixed pI withi springs and things, andl is dc gned to :act as a sort of buffer for the 2st of the train In ease of collisions, hicy're making stuch improvements in rilrolading all the while I, Sarah, I 'lieve, if it wern't for me to tell yout ha! is going onl in the world, you otildni't know anythling."' A !l Iel onaiti c detachmnen t of engini. 2rs hias haonm formed in Berlin, and is ard at work leatrniing the art anid prac co of imilitiary ballooning.1 No Longer a Desert. One more miracle, says the Now York Sun, has boon wrought in the orient. The whole length and breadth of the groat Algerian desert, arid and almost without vegetablo life for years, is now a mass of living' green. Dry, sandy Sahara is a luxuriant., grassy "rarden, rich and refreshing as a Now E ngland orchard. Notwithstanding the elaborately formulated scientific theories, which arranged for continued dryness iu Al geria, until the reluctant inhabitants were forced to leave the country or die of thirst. so dismal an exodus is not likely to take plac at present. Last, winter the rainfall was beyond precedent, so far as the memory of the "oldest inhabitant" goes, and copious thunderstorms continued all through the spring months and even into tio summer. Such a wet season there never was in Algeria before, and in consequencea this season's crops will constitute p itiful abundance personi fied. The one fear of the farmers is that the rain may last throughout the summer and interfere wit,h their harvests. Rain in winter is frequent enough in this naturally dry climate, but it is seldom excessive. The only harm it ': done is to dissolve the raw, sun 'tried brick of which the houses are built. Scores of families have seen their homes melt under their very noses without any means of chocking the destruction. Even the French garrisons lost their barracks and were compelled to accominodato themselves to tent life. 'This soluble Algerian brick, called '"attob," corresponds ex actly with the '"adobe" of the Mexi cans and Spanish Americans. Phi lologists, in fact, pretend to trace both to a common Arabic origin. In support of the theory or fallacy that the desert is gradually creeping toward the sea-coast is the fact that countless ruins exist in 'ripoli and Tunis, marking the places where con siderable vegetation once was but now is not. 'The truth is, however, that their desertion is not duo to any nat ural phenomena, but wholly and en tirely to the depredative invasions of nomadic Arabs, who finally killed off and drove away all of the unfortunate inhabitants of the present ruins. The wells with which the latter sustained vegetable growth in their region are now filled with dry sand. They could easily be opened again and made just as serviceable as formerly. ''he taxes, too, were dreadful enough to discour ago ny race or people and probably had some influence upon the depopu lation. 'The constant decrease of the wood land is dangerous to every interest and should be legislated against. By pro serving the timber now standing, by planting more, and by taking advant age of the same opportunities that have so wonderfully increased the rain-fall in western North America, tho great desert of Sahara could be redeemed from its supposed perpetual aridity and become one of the greenest, rich est and grandest in all the earth. -- - 0--0 Tightly-Fitting Gloves. "I want a No. 6, ten-button black kid glove!" The speaker camo into a Broadwav glove store yesterday and seated herself before the tired-looking attendant, with an "and-don't-you-for get-it" sort, of an air. "A 6! Are they for yourself?" asked an attendant, looking questioningly at the customer's hand. ''Why, of course they are for me. 1)o you think I wear an 18?" '"Excuse me. I thought~ t hat lper 11a11s you llad mlade a mistake, and was about, to suggest measuring your hand.' "I guess I know wihat size glove I wvear. '[hey cost me enough goodness knowvs." No more was said. 'The customer selected a pair of sixes, plaid her $3.23 for them and departed. "'l)0 you have many such custom ers?'' askedl a replorter who had been a witness of the sceno. "Very many. All are not so snap ish, however. It is strange what an a.nlount of torture ladies wvill undergo to wear a small glove. 'That lally ought never to wvear a glove smaller than a seven. I (10 not woender her gloves cost her a great deal. Gloves are the most costly items of a lady's dress. The most frequent complaint against gloves is that the fingers are too short. 'The trouble really is. the glove is too smnall cyerywhere. A lady wvho should take a six and three-quar ter glove can get her hand into a six and one-quarter glove; but in (doing so the length of the glove is takenx up in the width, e-msequenitly the fingers, imste al of going wvell on, only go partly on. 'I 'he thumb fares still wvorse, for it. reaches, as a rule, only down to within a quarter of an inch of its prop er termination. The end of the glove which is made to go around the wrist has to be buttoned across the ball of the thlumb.'' "WVhat constitutes a wvell-fitting ulove P" "'One that conforms to the shap1) of the hand. Some think a glove to fit wvell must fit tightly. Such is not the fact. A comp)aratively loose-fittin' glove has a better app)earance than one that is ha:lf a size too small. Seome wo men are not content unless their "loves are so tight that their fingers loo1 like sausages, andi the back of the h andl like p)archment stretched over a drum head. If ladi1 os wvould wea:r their01 II.oves so that they couh(f put t hem on without the ai(l of powder or the troub I lo of wvork ing thenm on for an h our, ~hor hands would be better dressed 'nd their glove hills reduced two hir ds. I should not conmplauini, thou gh, ''uPpose, for it makeus business good, antd that Is the matin: point wvith us fter all."---N Y. Mad awlI Expiress. Tihey sat sido by side on the car, lays the Dletroit Frec P'ress, talking >Olitics, and presently tihe man(1 in the vhite plug ha t i nqired: " Colonel, vhiom do you consider thlo greatest iying oratorP" TIhie colonel coughed, ltrokedl his chin whliskers, andl nmado 10 reply. At thle end( of thle block hoe got off without a wordI, and a passen ger on thle op)posite seat hlanedi forwvard umd said to the white hat miani: "That,'s pretty blunder youi niadec! Why lie's he very manl himIself!"' "Is thant so?'' asp)ed the othuer, aiid ho ran to tho )latform to waltch hiimi out of sio-ht HENRY CLAY'S IIOItSE. The Nag the Greatest Statesman Won at a Gamo of Poker. A Washington letter in the Ilouston Post Says:"-I recollect Henry Clay's turn out very well.'' said an old-tinier; "he had one of the old style Concord bug gies, with a to) that suggested Ia Mlother Hubbard bonnet. IL was cvi dontiy a second-hand aiair that Mr. Clay had picked up in i trade, and nowadays would do very well for a voman to haul vegetables around town in. The cushions were stuffed with moss and were so well worn you could see the moss, sticking out at the sides. I'll bet Henry Clay didn't know what a lap-robe was, and, as for a whip, ho didn't have any. IIe used to slash his old sorrel stallion with the ends of the reins so loud you could hear it a block oil'. The steps to the buggy were gcio and Mr. Clay used to jump over the wheels. When he wanted to get in he put one foot over the hub and swunwr the other around over the wheel andl dash-board. The wheels were so high he had to let the top down to get out. Th<y had axle-grease in those days, but Mr. Clay had evidently never found it out. lio always drove his horse at a canter, you could hear the front wheels of his buggy squeaking as iany notes as there are on a piccolo. "Alh, well do I remienher that sorrel stallion," eontinuecd the old-timer. "Henry Clay won him one night at poker in John 1Iancock's saloon, which is still running on the avenue, from Col. Jim Bright, who lived at Falls Church, Va. Bright used to come over every week and play with Clay, and ho generally went back to Falls Church with a pocketful of money. But that was Clay's lucky night. lie got away with $1,200 of Bright's motey, his watch, saddlo and bridle, overcoat, saddle bags, -t new suit. of clothes that were in the saddle-bags, three linger rings and a breastpin, a brace of pistols and a bowie knife, and a pair of boots "Oh, you nee(ln't laugh,'' said the old-timor, with great animation; ''that's the way they played poker in them days. A man went tho whole hog or nothini. Why, didn't you never hear of the time henry Clay bet himself clean down to his undershirt, and he offered to pull that ofn, but the other fellow didn't wear an undershirt to put up against it.- Well, sir, it's so, any how, and the very table he played tho gamo on is now in the front room, up-stairs, in Iiancock's saloon. It is an old pine table about three feet square, with a hole in the middlo to drop the percent age through for threes, fulls, flushes, and jack-pots. Well, sir about that old stallion. 1le was well known around Washington for several years. He always nickered when Clay camne near him. Clay carried a ipocketful of shelled corn, and he gave the horse a handful every time he got into the buggy. The boys know the stallion w7ll, and they used to givo him pieces of bread, cake, nuts, or anything of the sort. He'd cat watermelon and mieat, and I've seen him eat wads of paper as though he was trying to make the boys laugh. Well, sir, Clay had a nigger named Sam. One day he loaned the stallion to Sam to drive to Alexandria. Sam got drunk before lie left, town, and lie started out on a gallop. lie didn't stop till lie got to Mount Vernon, twenty miles off. There he turned around and galloped all the way back. The old stallion dropped dead at the edge of South \Vashington. There were over one hundred boys at the funeral. In revencu Clay sold the nigner to a Louisiana sugar-planter, with a proviso in the bill of sale that the planxiter shiould hiitch Sam in shiaf ts and1( work him in the cane-mill. Fact, Making Secews. Th'le process of miak ing screws is aL very interesting one. Th'le rough, large wire m big coils is, by drawing thiroug'h a holo of less diamieter than itself, made the necededl size. Th'len it goes into a macline that at one miotioni cuts it a proper length and makes a head on it. Then it, is p)ut into sawdutst and ''rattled,'' and thus brighteiied. Thien the head is shaved (down smo-othly to the proper size and the niek put in at the same time. After;"4rattli,'g"' again in the sawdust, the th~~i2 '. 1s (alt by another macline, and after another "'rattliing"' and a thorough diying, the screwvs are assorte-d t>y hand (the fingers of those who do this move aul most liko lightning), grossed by wveighit and packed for shlipment. That wvhich reiiders it possible for machines to do0 all this is a little contrivance that looks and opents like [a goose' 2!i. which p)icks upl a single scrowv at a tiimi, c,o ries it where needed, holds it, unztil grasped by something else, and rot urniis for another. This is on10 of the most wonderful pieces of autoiiatie mta chiinory ever seeni, and( it does its dis tinctive wvork at the rate of thiirty-ono screws a imite, although this rate is only exp)erimienitah as yet. Ninety three gross a (lay, hiow"ver, ha:s been the regular wvork of 0on( iiachine. Ph.ilad!cLphLia Imquirer. TIhio Origin of I lie Turnpike. An etymnohogical cran k ha:s diiscover edi that the name114 of tuirniki i IIconies fromi having a pzike lhung ' across a road way so that 1no 0one coub'l pass wvithiouit turning it. loll-roads were instituted abiout, 500( years ago, thle fir1st one l>eingr buIilt. in England by a mionik whose self appoinitedl work was t o guard ii hes0l of St. Anthony, en liighigate 11hill. n ot having imuchi to do he ea rted dirt from the C top of thle hill an id lil led up a (deel) hiol low. In doina r this lie expen11ded all his fortune, but the King came to tho rescue, andi pub I lied a dere ( addiuhhress ed to ouir wellI-beloved WVilI:ani il'hilip pi, in whiich, after approvinag the mo tives wvhiclihi need him i to beoi t our p)eoll passing through thle hiighway b)etwoonli highgatoe and Sichii ield, in many places niotorionisiy mi ry and deep, lie authlorized him i to set tip a bar and take toll, so that h.le miighit keep the road in order and himiself in comfort and dignity. Marriages in Glermany are rapidly dhiimishiing in numb1)er. Increasing luxury in ways oif living and1( increasing ill health of women are said to bo the nhinf reonsn. Rhymes in the Mails. Some very curious and funny letters arc received at tho Dead-Letter Office. The outside of somo is more unique than the inside. 'T'ho followino' are the addresses on the onvelopes o? several which have found their way to the Dead-Letter 0111co. They show the a pootical bent of the writers: at "Fly little messenver. quick an. -*raight, lTo 1l tinnhohi t County of lowa State: Fiy, lit ito iesseiiger, and seek with caro a For D1iss Annie Falicy, you'll find her a there." h Unfortunately there was no stamp on it, ait the matter-of-fact P'. M. hustled it olf to the Dead-Letter Oflive. CO A trusting parentt writes onl the on velope of his letter: "I':ee Fend this letter to tny son, who < r i v e s a I (e a n ( f r e d o xn , te a n d t h e r a i l r o a d b E runs tiu-ougli 11is5 place.'' E Another envelopo has: -Ic '"ntuniter's lettI', Fend it ahead, llend broke id inary a re<d ' Postmnt;ster, plli this litte r throtugh, st An it wherI j .et patil I'll pay you." ti Another envelope has this address: k ".1aines Irvin. Try till over the State." Still another brief address is: "It. A. Ketyon, I'. M., Ill." li A would-bo housekeeper pults on the a envelope: tt "P. Ni. I'leaste forwatard to the physician P who wits looking for i housekeeper in St. Lou is Ist week; is a widower with two cbil (ireni; don't know Iis name.'' I This is no doubt. an answer to an ad- le vortisenent. It is a pity the widow ti did not get it. J Another envelope has: '"To Genernl W. Knowles this letter is sent, 02 'lo tie town of lirighton where the other II utn, went. 1 No inutter who wrote it-it frientd or n foe 'lo the State of New York I hope it will go." l But it wvent to the Dead-Lettor Ollico instead. C Anothier envelope has: Ai "(iollol Uncle -aun; let te go in your mntil, to As I 'vo takenl it notion to ride onit a rail o 'Jo Illinois State, nn-i I hro lot tie stop. An int lii el.eaia ('o. Jutst pienso let ine drop; in Leltoy I'. (). t h-re let the l -3, Untif JIentson K. (lay tikes mte iway." r But the P. Al.'s reply just below h says- of "Pinyel out, may dear boy. There is no i it talking, Ii t tt cnt't pay your way re You'll have to try walkinig." to One twho was careful to pay postage wrote "Now haste with this letter its fast as you g( 1'vo Just pai< your fare to good Uncle Sam; Thbe et'e is (1u1e tir geint, Fo don't stop to thinkc, IDon't irry for lIunches or even a drink, ll( L>un tireet y1Ot Ivill very Roon find, I w1hero the >eole tre honest, good-natured and kIndl, Fraulk Taylor. the man to whom you must w( Is 4 L.yntan street, Clevelatd, Ohio." - ll'ashington Capital. t How Cotmuo(lore Garrisoi Fell in e Love. th bt "How did the aged commodore get his young wifo?" I asked of an ac- cl quamtitance. Ii "She whistled and ho camo to hor, ko my lad,'' was the reply, "but she didn't a do it in the spirit of thi girl in the bal- at lad. It happene(d six years ago this P smtnmetr, and in tho very hotel in which we are sitting. ('arrison had beon for a forty years a widowt"er. lie was a tasty n old fellow and had not been suspected hi of caring a rap for women. 'I'ho pos session of somewhere front $10,000,000 ki to $15,000,000, mtuclh of it in compli cated use for the promotion of railroad and steamship schetmes, had larassed( hiim all winter and spring, and ho had y 'omio dotwni here for rest and qutiet. lie took a suito of the( best, rooms iln the row of cottages which are an annex of the main establishment, calculatin O that, lhe would there ho a little retmovell fromi' the buisitle of a puic house, andl t it w,~as for' a fewv days as lie hatd fondly an ticipI ated . TIhten the family of John d M'S. lRandall, of St. Louis, took p1ossos- tC sion of adjoin ing a partmen ts. Tihey a numbnehtredl a half dozen ptersons, includ- Y~ ing a whistler. T1hrourh thio thin par. t it ion theo commodore jaard andi was i annoyed b)y thte wvhistll'g. Hoe disliked V it exceeingly. lie was driven by it to ~ exasperation. T1hero wvas a boy in the lRandall ptarty, and to him the veteran b attributed th.e noise. lie would not at a that timo hear the soft mtelodhy of the a whistle, ntor its elever fidelity to the music which it interpreted, but simply ir kept his ears 01pen to it as a torture. s Riand all was an acquiaintanco of his,t and( one day lie said to Ihimo, as they sat i chaitti ing on the ve'randa: 'UTat boy of , y(ours will ho the death of me, .John. 0m' t yotu plug his mtoiuth, just toj "'Oh, it ain't the boy,' repI liedi Ran dlall, 'butt my daughter. Helre, Loti tia! 0 '"It wa:s a lovely girl of '20 whio re- P s pori ed to thle calilI, aniid was p)resetd 8 to I th etomnilorl(le. SIte whistled for n himii tlht, eveing to at piiano acc(omtpaini- A" iuot , aind ii was not longer ir'ritatLing li to him a. 'lThey 'no oi.arriedi in the en suinig ( Otol-er. I his wedding gift was ct a inill ion ollar s ini soun d secur tities, w Ini no seasoin since that has any I bel1lo att I ontg Bratnchi been d ressed or pi diverted in a more costly manner than is the fair whIistler."t---/hdtimore~ Ameri- fo can. bI IThe PetSian T1ree. bc 'Ilhe pee:m t Iroe is found in a wild st ate in the woodIs of thto various soc t.ons of ithe South anid WVest. IL grows to a very lairge siz', antd hears yearly b mait, huisheo1 of lie-lavoredt nuts. Io 'lou bit lii tle0 or no a titnLion has boon ig p:udl to Itse va:luia ble trees, cultiva- Qi tioni great ly iiproves them, the tnt P( growmiig iiuith larger and improving In B ilauvor. lilt nopetta tree lives to a groat P age, anrd conitin e ii lon- g in boarin ,*b~ ]lhere 2 it) no(iood reason why it shoutd b ntot lbe grown i ex tensively in all parts of the Umtted S;tates. It is well adapted nu toi ahnitost anty kmiid of soll, doing well at eveni on rocky hills aid waste land, in lherti is nio ntut ori fruit tree moro fe valuab)le and requtirinl( so little aitton- of tion. Ewery farmer, it my opinion, al shouhl have his nut orchard, anti culti- h< vaLe especially the pecan for htomo u.se th or sale. lho nuits always fid readly be salo t fancy Arices. In planting thto Ino trees theo ontly object is to obtain good iIn fresh nuts, and of a good early variety, hri of large size, front w,hichi to grow the bil trees. If it is preferred to set out the stf plants, get healthy troes of a good va- ho riet-y 1 to 2 years old. rct A Shiabutai, Miss., hen laid two eggs a day three successIvo days. MN WIT AND HUMOR. You may talk of your dainty daisies That make your heart pit-a-pat, You may gieefully sing sweetpIe Of the maids both loan and 'a But of all tho lassos on land or sea, The jolliest, giddlost girl for we Is the girl with a "haystack' hat, The wages of sin nowadays depend groat deal on the wealth of the bank, ld the chance the cashier has. A revenuo officer entered the store of merchant who never advertised and rested him because he kept a still )Use. "Five thousand molecules can sit mfortably on tho point of a pin." oroin the molecule diffbrs from man. Noristown Herald. An exchange says "a Short-horn ought over a thousand guineas in igland." Great ScottE What must's ng drink cost thereP "Our cook ought to be burned at the oak!" exclaimed Popinjay, as a par ularly nice cut came in from the itchen burned to a crisp.-Burlington ree l'ress. A Kentucky man was recently killed a duel, and it is thought that this cident will have the effect of putting damper on dueling in that state. oston Post. "An American lady married to an alian Prince a year ago has already ft him." The Prince must have gone rough her fortune quite rapidly. rsey City Journal. Never speculate with your own men my son, or very soon you may have money with which to speculate. Dn't be selfish. Give your friends' oncy the first chance. A Fargo young lady named Rouse, tught a glimpse of a poor little mouse, ad the scream that she scromo, Shat rod heaven's blue domo, And bulged it the walls of the house. If the faults of man were turned to rtues, and his virtues to faults, he uld he so nearly perfect that-well, couldn't stay hero, that's the truth the inatter.-Arkansaw Traveler. In Whitechapol Church, London, cently, an infant was actually chris ned Osman Digma Smith. If that iid does not grow up a rebellious >ungster it will not be the fault of its >(parents. A southern judge lately decided that husband "can strike his wife three :ks with a switch and escape punish ent," and the Boston Post says His' onor is evidently unmarried or he Duld know better. An exchange says: A miss inGaddes wn, Ga., has hair that sweeps the )or. Now if this miss had hair that ild cook, wash and iron and milk o cows, what a bonanza she would as a wife.-Brooklyn Times. A man's honesty should be consid ed in connection with the opportunt" 3s he has had to steal. There are ts of pious young men who have sver been whore they could reach iy big sum of monoy.-New Orleans icayune. "I'm glad Billy had the sense 'o arry a settled old maid," said Grand a Winkum at the wedding. "Gals is ty-tity, and widders is kinder over lin' and upsettin'; but old maids is nder thankful and will"' to please." Middleton Press. "What are you slowing up for?" lled a freight conductor to an on neer on one of our Vermont roads. Nhy, we've run over a book agent." ?rat it all, then, why don't you keep ? We can't kill him unless the hole train runis over him."-Burling n (V"t.) Free Press.g Th le chief diliculty about a woman >ctor is that if she was suddenly called attend a man who had fallen down shaft, and they told her he was a mugi man anmd unmarried, she would op so long to fix her crimps that the an would be liable to die from thme olonce of his contusions. -Rockland ourner. "Look here, waiter!" cried Crimson enk, who wvas stop ping for a few days Concy Island, "this ham Is not as r)od ars wha:t I got here last summer!" I donr't see why,'' rep)liedl the waiter, I somne surprise; "it's the same hame.~ r!" Criunsonbeak leaves without par Ikinig, andi( wvonderinmg wvhy ho didn't uink of that bofor.-Yonkers States "What arc the chief elements of rosperity?" asked tire professor. Mfoney," promptly replied tire smart Li boy at tihe foot of thme class. "Mon .No truly prosperous man is very >or. If ho has-" But the profes r sat dlown eon him as usual and arked hlim "4 ofT" although tire boy, COrdling to his custom, had made a me shot. T1hoe boy wvho lies ini bed until he is lied six times will got up at 5 o'clock thiout being calledi at all to fire off pistol runder tiio window of his com .muon to wake him up. But before he out of bed Iris companion has per rmiedi a like duty for him, and at the wing of the 6 o'clock factory whistle a.y have fired off a pound of powder tween them, and are as black as ricans and as happy as kings. "And so now they're engaged? Well, asic, to think of you, with your aurty and accomplishments, ann your rely voice, being cut out by suc'h a'z miokan litefright as that Maggie uko!You sang to him, I sup se?" "Yes, mamma, by the hour! it she made him sing, you know, an4 rrycd his accom paninments for him I' YVhy, cani lie sing?" "No, mamma; t sire madoe him believe he could!" "Women," says Miss Howe, in her w novel, "are neither angels who indl Immeasurably above men, nor ferior beings whose place is at their it; but human like themselves, full good and faulty Instincts, and, with their 1wmporfectionis, tire God-given lpmates of man. Thus j ustly shiould Dy be judge(d; and if a little mercy claimed for them, generosity should I deny it, so few are their chanoes life compared with those of their >thoers. A woman has but one possi, Ity of happiness in this world. The kes are high on which she risks all, and shre may lose it by oan - Leemablo throw." l'ho first copper cent was coined lu I. w Haven in 1687.