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ISSUED TWIOE-A-WEEK?WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY. i. m. grist 4 sons, Publishers. | % Uwspajer: |for $romotion of the political, ?ociat, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the jsouth. {TKKsisri.;':'oo?'vVTmiii: cek4^f" VOLUME 41. YORKVILLE, S. C., VEDXESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1895. NUMBER 84. FROM TH BY CAPTAIN C Copyright, 1894, by the J. B. Llpplncott Co. CHAFFER IX When Captain Armitage left the cottage that night, he did not go at once to his own room. Brief as was the conversation he had enjoyed with Miss Renwick, it was all that fate vouchsafed him for that date at least The i entire party went to tea together at the hotel, but immediately thereafter the nninnol oarricxl Armitacft awav. and for VUAUUU4 V?* * ?vv* ?- ?Q ? ~-w , two long hours they were closeted over some letters that had come from Sibley, and when the conference broke up and the wondering ladies saw the two men come forth it was late?almost 10 o'clock?and the captain did not venture beyond the threshold of the sitting room. He bowed and bade them a somewhat ceremonious good night. His eyes rested?lingered?on Miss Renwick's L uplifted face, and it was the picture he took with him into the stillness of the summer night. The colonel accompanied him to the steps and rested his hand upon the brood gray shoulder. "God only knows how I have needed you, Armitage. This trouble has nearly crushed me, and it seems as though I were utterly alone. I bad the haunting fear that it was only weakness on my part and my love for my wife that made me stand out against Chester's propositions. He can only see guilt and conviction in every new phase of the case, and though you see how he tries to spare me his letters give no hope of any other conclusion." Armitage pondered a moment before he answered; then he slowly spoke: "Chester has lived a lonely and an unhappy life. His first experience after graduation was that wretched affair of which you have told me. Of course I knew much of the par ticulars before, but not all. I respect Chester as a soldier and a gentleman, and I like him and trust him as a friend; but, Colonel Maynard, in a matter of such vital importance as this, and one of such deli* cacy, I distrust not his motives, but his judgment All his life, practically, *? '?" kt>AA^tnra fV?A CATfnnr liU liUlfi UCCli LUWUXXl^ XJVKJA. WHO OUX JL \J TV that came to him when your trouble came to you, and his mind is grooved. He believes he sees mystery and intrigue In matters that others might explain in an instant" "But think of all the array of evidence he has." "Enough and more than enough, I admit, to warrant everything he has thought or said of the man, but" ' "He simply puts it this way. If he be guilty, can she be less? Is it possible, Armitage, that you are unconvinced?" "Certainly I am unconvinced. The matter has not yet been sifted. As I understand it, you have forbidden his confronting Jerrold with the proofs of his rascality until I get there. Admitting the evidence of the ladder, the picture and the form at the window?aye, the letter, too?i am yet to De convinced ox one thing. Yon must remember that hid judgment is biased by his early experiences. He fancies that no woman proof against such fascinations as Jerrold's." "And your belief?" "Is that some women?many women ?are utterly above such a possibility." Old Maynard wrung his comrade's hand. "You make me hope in spite of myself, my past experiences, my very senses, Armitage. I have leaned on you so many years that I missed you sorely when this trial came. If voa had been there, things might not have taken this shape. He looks upon Chester?and it's one thing Chester hasnf forgiven in him?as a meddling old granny. You remember the time he so spoke of him last year, but he holds you in respect or is afraid of you, which in a man of his caliber is about the same thing. It may not be too late for you to act. Then, when he is disposed of once and for all, I can know what must be done, where she is concerned." "And under no circumstances can you questiota Mrs. Maynard?" "No, no! If she suspected anything of this, it would kill her. In any event, she must have no suspicion of it now." "But does she not ask? Has she no ^ theory about the missing photograph? Surely she must marvel over its disap pearanca " "She does, at least she did, but? I'm ashamed to own it, Armitage?we had to quiet her natural suspicions in some way, and I told her that it was my doing; that I took it to tease Alice, put the photograph in the drawer of my desk and hid the frame behind her 6ofa pillow. Chester knows of the arrangement, and we had settled that when the picture was recovered from Mr. Jerrold he would send it to ma " Armitage was silent. A frown settled on his forehead, and it was evident that the statement was far from welcome to him. Presently he held forth his hand. Well, good night, sir. I must go and have a quiet think over this. I hope you will rest well You need it, colonel." But Maynard only shook his head. His heart was too troubled for rest of any kind. He stood gazing out toward the park, where the tall figure of his ex-adjutant had disappeared among the trees. He heard the low toned, pleasant chat of the ladies in the sitting room, but he was in no mood to join them. He wished that Armitage had not gone, he felt such strength and comparative hope in his presence, but it was plain that ?; even Armitage was confounded by the array of facts and circumstances that he E RANKS.S ? . 6 HARLES KING. t c v had so painfully and slowly communi- ? cated to him. The colonel went drearily r back to the room in which they had had ^ their long conference. His wife and sister both hailed him as he passed the 6it- ^ UiJK ruum wuvx auu uuju, w u and join them?they wanted to ask abont ^ Captain Anuitage, with whom it was ^ evident they were much impressed?but f he answered that he had some letters to put away, and ho must attend .first to that. Among those that had been shown to B the captain, mainly letters from Chester s telling of the daily events at the fort and of his surveillance in the case of Jerrold, was one which Alice had v brought him two days before. This had v 6eemed to him of unusual importance, j as the others contained nothing that ^ tended to throw new light on the case, j It said: ^ "I am glad you have telegraphed for j Anuitage and heartily approve your decision to lay the whole case before him. I presume he csui reach you by Sunday, ' and that by Tuesday ho will be hero at t the fort and ready to act. This will be i a great relief to me, for, do what I could to allay it, there is no concealing the fact that much speculation and gos- * sip is afloat concerning the events of that unhappy night. Leary declared he * has been close mouthed. Tho other men on guard know absolutely nothing, and g Captain Wilton is the only officer to a whom in my distress of mind I betrayed that there was a mystery, and he has i pledged himself to mo to say nothing. I Sloat, too, has an inkling, and a big one, that Jerrold is the suspected party, but I never dreamed that anything had been seen or heard which in the faintest way connected your household with the matter until yesterday. Then Leary admitted to me that two women, Mrs. Clifford's cook and the doctor's nursery maid, had asked him whether it wasn't j Lieutenant Jerrold he fired at, and if it was true that he was trying to get in the ? colonel's back door. Twice Mrs. Clifford j has asked me very significant questions, . and three times today have officers made remarks to me that indicated their knowledge of the existence of some grave trouble. What makes matters . worse is that Jerrold, when twitted -1 i. I- - ~ _ 1 ? :11? 6 auuut iaib auscuuc liurn louiuo, xusco his temper and gets confused. There came near being a quarrel between him and Rollins at the mess a day or two since. He was saying that the reason he slept through roll call was the fact that he had been kept up very late at the doctor's party, and Rollins happened to come in at the moment and blurted out that if he was up at all it must have been after he left the party and reminded him that he had left before midnight with Miss Renwick. This completely staggered Jerrold, who grew confused and tried to cover it with a display of anger. Now, two weeks ago Rollins was most friendly to Jerrold and stood ?rv V?itnVioti T occoi 1 Kim Knf. U^/ tvi UlUi 1TUVU *. UOQU1AVU uaAAA| uuv ever since that night he has no word to * gay for him. When Jerrold played wrathful and accused Rollins of mixing in other men's business, Rollins bounced up to him like a young bull terrier, and I believe there would have been a ^ row had not Sloat and Hoyt promptly interfered. Jerrold apologized, and Rollins accepted the apology, but has avoid- j ed him ever since?won't speak of him to me now that I have reason to want to ^ draw him out. As soon as Armitage gets ^ here he can do what I cannot?find out just what and who is suspected and j talked about. . "Mr. Jerrold, of course, avoids me. He has been attending strictly to his duty ? and is evidently confounded that I did t not press the matter of his going to ^ town as he did the day I forbade it Mr. Hoyt's being too late to see him personally gave me su'Ticientgrorvids on ? which to excuse it, but he seems to understand that somethiug is impending E and is looking nervous mid harassed, jj He has not reuewed his request for leave . of absence to run down to Sablon. I told him curtly it was out. of the question." f The colonel took a few strides up and i down the room. It had come then. The r good name of those he loved was already v besmirched by garrison gossip, and he t knew that nothing but heroic measures s could ever silence scandal. Impulse and 1 the innate sense of "fight" urged him r to go at once to the scene, leaving his b wife and her fair daughter here under b his sister's roof, but Armitage and com- n mon sense said 110. He had placed his 0 burden on those broad gray shoulders, f and though ill content to wait he felt that he was bound. Stowing away the letters, too nervous to sleep, too worried 61 to talk, he stole from the cottage, and, 6 with hands clasped behind his back, with low bowed head, he strolled forth h into the broad vista of moonlit road. v There were bright lights still burning ^ at the hotel, and gay voices came float- ^ ing through the summer air. The phuio, f] too, was tramming a waltz in the p:ir- h lor, and two or three couples were G throwing embracing, 6lowly twirling n shadows on the windows. Over in the n bar and billiard rooms the click of the D balls and the refreshing rattle of crack- ^ ed ice told suggestively of the occupa- " tion of the inmates. Keeping on beyond ^ these distracting sounds, he slowly a climbed a long, gradual ascent to the 51 "bench, "or plateau above the wooded d point on which were grouped the glis- ei teningwhite buildings of the pretty sum- c; mer resort, and having reached the n crest turned silently to gaze at the ? beauty of the scene?at the broad, flaw- ^ less bosom of a summer lake all sheen and silver from the unclouded .moon. I'ar to the southeast it wound among ho bold and rock ribbed bluffs rising rom the forest growth at their base to horn and rounded summits. Miles away to the southward twin:led the lights of one busy little town. )thers gleamed and sparkled over toward the northern shore, close under he pole star, whilo directly opposite rowned a massive wall of palisaded ock that threw, deep and heavy and far rom shore, its long reflection in the airror of water. There was not a reath of air stirring in the heavens, ot a ripple on t)ie face of the waters eneath, save where, close under the old headland down on the other side, he signal lights, white and crimson ud green, creeping slowly along in the hadows, revealed one of the packets ilowiug her steady way to the greet uarts below. Nearer at hand, just having the long strip of sandy, wooded oiut that jutted far out into the lake, , broad raft of timber, pushed by a hardForking, black funnc'ed stern wheeler, Fas slowly forging its way to the outet of the lake, its shadowy edge sprin:led here and there with little sparks of urid red?the pilot lights that gave Famine? of its slow and silent coming. rar clown along the southern shore, mder that black bluff line, close to the ilver water edge, a glowing meteor eemed whirling through the night, and he low, distant rumble told of the Atantic express thundering on its jourley. Here, along with him on the level ilateau, were other roomy cottages, 01110 dark, some still sending forth a priding ray, whilo long lines of whitevaslied fence gleamed ghostly in the uoonlight and were finally lost in the ihadow of the great bluff that abruptly ihut in the entire point and plateau and hut out all further sight of lake or o?wl in rlivnnfirm PTar hnnpnth hp iould hear the soft plash upon the sandy ihore of the little wavelets that came iweeping in the wake of the raftboat uid spending their tiny strength upou ho strand; far down on the hotel point le could still hear the soft melody of ho waltz. He remembered how the land used to play that same air and voudered why it was he used to like it :t jarred him now. Presently the distant crack of a whip ind the low rumble of wheels were ieard, the omnibus coming back from he station with passengers from the light train. Ho was in no mood to see iny one. He turned away and walked lorthward along the edge of the bench, oward the deep shadow of the great ihoulder of the bluff, and presently he me to a long flight of wooden stairs, eading from the plateau down to the lotel, and here he stopped and seated limself awhile. He did not want to go lome yet He wanted to be by himself, ;o think and brood over his trouble He saw the omnibus go round the bend ind roll up to the hotel doorway with ts load of pleasure seekers and heard he joyous welcome with which some of heir number were received by waiting riends, but life had little of joy to him his night. He longed to go away, anyvhere, anywhere, could he only leave his haunting misery behind. He was so iroud of his regiment. He had been so lappy in bringing home to it his accoru* disked and gracious wife. He had been ;o joyous in planning for the lovely imcs Alice was to have, the social suc:esses, the girlish triumphs, the garri on guyeties, of which she was to be the lueeii, and now, so very, very soon, all lad turned to ashes and desolation I She vas so beautiful, so sweet, winning, graceful. Oh,God! could it be that one 10 gifted could possibly be so base? He ose in nervous misery and clinched his lands high in air, then sat down again vith hiding, hopeless face, rocking to ind fro as sways a man in mortal pain. It was long before he rallied, and again le wearily arose. Most of the lights were ;one. Silence had settled down upon the leeping point. He was chilled with he night air and the dew and stiff and leavy as be tried to walk. Down at the foot of the stairs he ould see the night watchman making lis rounds. He did not want to explain natters and talk with him. He would ;o around. There was a steep pathway InTi'n inf/i ?Via Toritio fViafr rroTra inf/i fVift ake just beyond his sister's cottage, nd this he sought and followed, movng slowly and painfully, but finally eachiug the grassy level of the pathray that connected the cottages with he wood road up the bluff. Trees and hrubbery were thick on both sides, and be path was shaded. He turned to his ight and came down until once more ie was in sight of the white walls of the otel standing out there on the point, ntil close at hand he could see the light f his own cottage glimmering like a aithful beacon through the trees, and hen he stopped short A tall, slender figure?a man in dark, uug fitting clothing?was creeping tealthily up to the cottage window. The colonel held his breath. His cart thumped violently. He waited? matched. He saw the dark figure reach ho blinds. He saw them slowly, softly umea, ana tne iaint lignt gleaming rom -within. . He saw the figure peertig in between the slats, and then? rod, was it possible??a low voice, a lan's voice, whispering or hoarsely lurmuring a name. He heard a sudden loveinent within the room, as though tie occupant had heard and were reply ig, "Coming." His blood froze. It ras not Alice's room. It was his?his ud hers?his wife's?and that was orely her step approaching the winow. Yes, tho blind was quickly openi. A white robed figure stood at the isement. He could see, hear, bear no lore. With one mad rush he sprang om his lair and hurled himself upon le shadowy stranger. "You hound 1 Who are you?" But 'twas no shadow that he grasped. He saw the figure peering in between the slats. A muscular arm was round him In a trice, a brawny hand at his throat, a twisting, sinewy leg was curled in his, and he went reeling back upon the springy turf, stunned and well nigh breathless. "When he could regain his feet and reach the casement, the stranger had vanished, but Mrs. Maynard lay there on the floor within, a white and senseless heap. TO HE CONTINUED. UWiscrltuncoua ftauUng. SOUTH CAROLINA DAY. A Notable Event at tlie Atlanta Exposition? Tillman and Evans. Last Thursday was South Carolina day at the Atlanta exposition. It was also Atlanta Day, Savannah Day and several ot her days. It had been previously designated as South Carolina Day, and the other days were afterward tacked on. It was by far the biggest day of the exposition and South Carolina has full credit for making it sueh. It is estimated that there were in the city between 10,000 and lo,000 Carolinians. They were from all parts of the State, and tbev gave the occasion an importance that it would not have otherwise have had. Among the distinguished visitors were a large number of the members of the constitutional convention, Senator Tillman, Governor Evans, and nearly all of the most prominent military men, together with three or four regiments of State troops. And South Carolina was given a royal welcome. As the long procession was on its way to the exposition grounds, the people cheered and cheer J TV n J T?.,.. Sr, *U. J. lJlLLlllli UUU uvauo taiuc IU 1VI their share, and in his speech, Governor Atkinson said the two South Carolinians had elicited more applause than had President Cleveland and bis cabinet. Governor Evans was the next speaker, and heguu with entertaining pleasantries about Georgia as the promisiug daughter of South Carolina whom the Palmetto State had nourished in infancy and protected from the Indians and the Spaniards. Very soon he got on to the line of State pride, saying that South Carolina had never had much brass. She had never ueeded it as she had alvVays had brains and integrity. He spoke of Georgia as if it were a part of the same State, quoting the words of Grady that the Savannah river was more a bond than a boundary. It was in this part of his speech that the governor exclaimed, "The Southern States are in the Union for good, and they are going to control it." Then he said: "And as for Democracy (we ought to be thankful for what is left of it) I want to say to you that the only Democracy in America is in the hearts of the agricultural population of the Southern States." Senator Tillman's speech was short and a little more conservative than that of the governor. He amused the audience very much by saying at the outset: "I did not come over here to brag. I will leave that to our young governor. He is young and green you know." After some pleasantries and witticisms for which the stern senator showed much aptitude, he began a comparison of Northern and Southern capital in the Southern States. Alluding to Governor Atkinson's statement that Southern development was the result of Southern capital almost entirely, he said that he was not prepared to say that this was wholly true, but the pension tribute which -,he South had paid to the North exceeded many times the amount received from the North. He said that in the past 30 years the United States government hnrl nairl in nensinns RfiO/flftO.OOO and of this he said $1,650,000,000 were paid to people in the Northern States. Of this $1,650,000,000, between a fourth and a third was contributed by people of the South. "I don't know," said he, "how much money they have invested with us; but I do know that it is not a tithe of the amount we have given them in pension tribute." Senator Tillman then went on to speak of the tariff tribute and the financial tribute paid by the South to the North, saying it was many times as great as the amount which the Southern States had contributed to the North in pension money. Here he remarked : "I know that the Southern States can never again control the Union ; but they can be the balance of power between the gigantic i West and the greedy North and East in i their great struggle over the financial i question, and if we weild this power I right, we can bring the agriculturists ' of this section to a better condition, i where they will have something more than a bare existence, and in this we ' should have the help of all the raer- ] chants and bankers who are not domi- I tinted by Eastern sentiment throtigli tl subsidized press. There are some so ti infatuated that they think all the fina eial wisdom of the country is monop lized by the East, and they say 'n too,' every time the New York Wor speaks or Clevelaud grunts. I won not have said anything about the pre ident, as I ercpect to get a bett chance at him with my pitchfork i Washington ; but it did my heart goc to hear the governor of Georgiu st that these two crank reformers fro South Carolina had evoked more a] plause than the president of theUnitt States." HOW THEY DIFFER. A mun is a creature of castiron ha its; woman adapts herself to circur stances; this is the foundation of tl moral difference between them. A man does not attempt to drive nail unless he has a hummer: a worn* does not hesitate to utilize anythin from the heel of a boot to the back a brush. A man considers a corkscrew abs lutely necessary to open a bottle; a woman attempts to extract the cot with the scissors; if she does not su ceed readily, she pushes the cork i the bottle since the esseutial thing to get at the fluid. Shaviug is the only use to which man puts a razor ; a woman emplo; it for chiropodist's purposes. When a man writes, everything mu be in applepie order; pen, paper ar ink must be just so, a profound silem must reign while he accomplishes th important function. A woman ge any sheet of paper, tears it perhaj from a hook or portfolio, sharpens pencil with the scissors, puts the pap on an old atlas, crosses her feet, ha auces herself on the chair, and coufid her thoughts to paper, changing fro pencil IU jit-u auu vice veiao v... v.u to time, nor does she care if the chil ren romp or the cook comes to spet to her. A man storms if the blotting pap is not conveniently near, a worm dries the ink by blowing it, wavii the paper in the air, or holding it ne; the lamp or fire. A man drops a letter unhesitating in the box; a woman rereads tbe ai dress, assures herself that the enveloj is sealed, the stamp secure, and th< throws it violently into the box. A man can cut a book only with tl paper cutter; a. woman deftly inser a hairpin, and the book is cut. For a man "goodbye" signifies tl end of a conversation and the mome of bis departure ; for a woman it is tl beginning of a new chapter, for it just when they are taking leave of eai other that women think of the mo imDortaut topics of conversation. A woman ransacks her brain tryii to mend a broken object; a man pu it aside and forgets that for which the is no remedy. Which is the superioi ?Minnie J. Conrad in Lippencott's. WHY THE NEGRO'S HAIR CURLS. The flat nose of the African and h large nostrils result from the necessil of inhaling larger draughts of tropic air to produce the same degree of \ tality, because of its greater expansiot thus the increased exercise produc< increased expansion of the nostrils < a larger nose. The curling of the African's hai while universal on his continent, common in every country of the glob Perhaps this ha3 its scientiflc solutic in the fact that the curls deflect tl rays of the tropical sun, thus preveu ing their more severe penetration in the brain. In the transmission light it is a law that every intervenir object with which a ray comes in co tact bends and diverts it another dire tion. Heat curls every kind of hair, ar that which is provided in natu: for the protection of the brain fro injury by the rays of a tropical sun a created endowment, which bv d< grees is becoming naturally transmi sible and inherited. The skull of the African with its p culiar thickness, affords another fea ure of protection to the brain. It is evident that it is the outdo< exposure of the working classes thi makes their skin so black. It mu also be remembered that it is not tl skin alone of the men of Africa whit manifests deep color, but this cbara teristic is noticed in all the birds, fisl beasts, reptiles and plants. Another fact in relation to this ph* nomenon is, that everything grov less deeply colored as we approach tl polar regions. There the white bet is found, and nowhere else; while tl black bear lives aud is now native t almost every other climate. Money in Celery.?The latest ho ticultural report of the goveruraei states that the largest celery farm i the United States, if not in the worl< is at Greentown, O. The place is hamlet 15 miles south of Akroi The farm is owned by the Borst heii and managed by C. H. Borst, one < them. Under cultivation and devote A.; 1 A? n MA 1 Oft noma \f euureiy iu ucici^ aic auw, .wx, Borst employs the members of seve families, all of whom reside on th farm, in operating the place. Much ( the celery produced is shipped to Ch cago. The value of the annual produt is about ?20,000, but this year it wi fall some ?8,000 short of this. Th very dry weather and frosts in Octobe are responsible for this. The fari 12 years ago was a worthless swamj roday it is valued at ?75,000. Mi Borst is authority for the statemec ihat six acres devoted to celery cultur ip will net a farmer as great an income as sir be would derive from 125 acres of ordin nary farm land. The New Constitution.?When Id tlie constitutional convention adjourns Id we think there will be a long, unanimous sigh of relief in every part of ??r South Carolina. Everybody is tired of it, the delegates worst of all, and >d everybody will be glad to know that ?.v it is at an end. Best of all no serious m barm has been done and some distinct [> improvements have been accomplished. 5d The more we see and the longer we live the more implicitly we trust the mercy of the Almighty and the common sense of the people. By methods b- and developments and conditions i- which no mortal could or did foresee >e and which disappointed the expectations of everybody, the State of South a Carolina has heen brought from the in very vortex of confusion and wrath g, and desperate danger to a good hope of for peace and safety. The convention has defeated all the plaus of all the o- leaders and factions and done well, a generally speaking. There are flaws k in its work, but they will be lost sight c- of in the general excellence. We bein licve the new constitution ought to is be submitted to the people. We believe the people can be trusted and a that they would vote for it. It would be ten thousand times stronger than it is with the votes of the majority of the st people behind it.?Greenville News. id t | What Watkr Can Do.?The effect l!^ of the hydraulic motor, which is now used for the purpose of removing mas sesof earth, well-nigh passes belief. u A stream of water issuing from u pipe cj' six inches in diameter, with a fall beL" hind it of 375 feet, will carry away a es solid rock weighing a ton or more to a 111 distance ot 50 or a 100 feet. le The velocity of the stream is terrific, and the column of water projected is so 1 solid that if a crowbar or other heavy object he thrust against it, the impingei ing object will be hurled a considerable 111 distance. By this stream of water a man would a r be instantly killed if he came into con. tact with it, eveu at a distance of a ? couple of hundred feet. At 200 feet from the nozzle of a 6inch stream, with 375 feet fall, projected momentarily against the trunk of a tree will in a second denude it of the heaviest bark as cleanly as if it had 8 been cut with an axe. Whenever such a stream is turned against a bank, it cuts aud burrows it in every direction, hollowing out great . caves, and causiug tons of earth to , melt and fall and be washed away in ". the sluices, st jg How to Cure Meat.?Dr. Irby, of jg Laurens, cures the fiuest hams we re have ever tasted, and they have a State-wide reputation. They are cured after the old ante-bellum Virginia fashion. The doctor says to save meat you must use coarse Liverpool salt, for the American salt won't answer if 1S the weather turns warm. Dr. Irby ky trims his hams and joints close, when they are thoroughly salted. About 'l~ March, he covers with a thin coating 15 of molasses, and then sprinkles black es pepper over them. When smoked, 5r the molasses and pepper seem to enter *.1 ? * ~ ?J n /lali/itAiia Ho it. Uie -LUeUL, iiuu lliipui t a uciitiuno unt f? or. Besides, they exclude all insects. 1S Do not cover the skin ; but ouly the e- portions of the ham that have been >n cut. If you try this recipe, you willie find the uicest and sweetest hams you ever tasted. Dr. Irby says if you will follow his directions, and use coarse Liverpool salt, you will never loose your meat, unless the weather turns. n" off warm and rainy after killing.? c* Piedmout Headlight. The "State of Franklin."?The ie "State of Franklin" was born 110 years ago, but died after a life of two ls and a half years. The residents of B" what is now East Tennessee, but which s" formed in 1785 a part of North Carolina, whose western boundary was the Mississippi, were told by the North Carolina legislature that they could be )r independent if they wanted to. Alt most impassable mountains separated gt them from the regions to the east, and Je they fancied that the people living . there were regardless of their interests. ' So they formed a government for k" themselves, and named their Stafte ' after Ben Franklin. Then they ape plied to the congress of the Confederation for recognition ; but it was slow Je to act, and North Carolina took back her consent to the separation, and suppressed the State of Franklin by ' force of arms. Nine Figures for 111 Years?The ? figure 9, which came into the calendar ou January 1, 1889, will stay with us 111 years from that date, or uutil I)en cember 31, 1999. No other figure has ever had such a long consecutive run. n ine y lisen nas oniy once oeiore ueeu in a race which lasted over a century? rs that in which it continuously figured from January 1, 889, until December d 999, a period of 111 years. The figr ures 3 and 7 occasionally fall into odd n combinations; but neither of them has lP ever yet served for a longer period than 100 consecutive years in our cal'* endar since the present mode of calculating time was established. It is also M clear that from their relative position e among the numerals, it is an impossi!r bility for either of them to appear in n reckonings continuously for a longer > period than a century. it Cultivation to the mind is as e necessary as food to the body.