The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, October 16, 1884, Image 1
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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.